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Jags Drive Time: Wednesday, September 8 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Jacks Drive John with Ashlyn Sello tells John Oshans,
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Speaker 1: Bryan Sexton, Janks right, John starts right now? Fourth fun
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Speaker 1: What are you talking about? No, I'm just kidding. No,
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Speaker 1: I'm not there yet. I mean I will get there.
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Speaker 1: All coaches get there, and if they tell you they're not,
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Speaker 1: they'll probably not be a truthful with you. If yeah,
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Speaker 1: you get I'm one of those people if you remember,
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Speaker 1: just it's every tea cross and every I got it
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Speaker 1: and every tip sheet? Why is this? You know? Why
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Speaker 1: don't we got the im this tip sheet? So I
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Speaker 1: drive you know, instead of players, I drive coaches crazy.
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Speaker 1: I just want to make sure those players have a shot.
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Speaker 1: I love the honesty from head coach Urban Meyer. Of course,
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Speaker 1: he is nervous for his first game in the NFL
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Speaker 1: regular season, but the Jaguars have prepared for months for
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Speaker 1: this moment and expected a lot from that coaching staff,
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Speaker 1: like we've seen throughout the whole offseason. Welcome to Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Drive Time Thursday morning to you by Jet Home Loans,
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Speaker 1: Ashton Sullivan, Brian Sexton, John Osier. Gearing up for Week
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Speaker 1: one of the regular season, heading to Houston on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: he didn't look nervous there, I didn't look No, No,
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Speaker 1: he didn't, he didn't, he didn't. He's not nervous. He
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Speaker 1: said he was horrified, not horrified. And I know I've
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Speaker 1: seen the highlight clips of his time at Florida and
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Speaker 1: Ohio State, where you know, he was very animated on
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Speaker 1: the sideline, and I don't. Everyone wants to read his
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Speaker 1: body language, but to me, he seems pretty relaxed. He'll
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Speaker 1: be at a peak, he'll be ready, He'll be emotionally taught.
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Speaker 1: If you will, it's t A U T, thank you.
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Speaker 1: But he won't be nervous. No, and not for long.
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Speaker 1: Once that quarterback gets into a groove at some point
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Speaker 1: in his young career, you stopped worrying as much and
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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, the nerves will go away.
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Speaker 1: Funny how that happens. Yeah, let's go in two big things,
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Speaker 1: shall we. Big thing one is a healthy team, we
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Speaker 1: think and we hope. We thought at this point of
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Speaker 1: the season that we really want to be talking much
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Speaker 1: about COVID anymore tears testing. Well it's not the case.
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Speaker 1: It's very much still present, and we're seeing what's going
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Speaker 1: on with the Dallas Cowboys and the Miami Dolphins losing
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Speaker 1: players Week one of the regular seasons, so we're gonna
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Speaker 1: have to pay attention to this until Sunday, hoping the
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Speaker 1: roster stays intact. For now, the offensive line is intact,
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Speaker 1: and that's a big deal. Obviously, they were off three
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Speaker 1: days and they came back with great energy. We're really
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Speaker 1: proud of them. Uh. And then we have another off
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Speaker 1: day tomorrow, but really good work today. It helps when
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Speaker 1: you have either lineman back. You know, we have word
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Speaker 1: that everybody should be ready to play Sunday, so that
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Speaker 1: really lifts up practice right there. Big things to a
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Speaker 1: line in the turf. The Texans have won six in
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Speaker 1: a row against the Jaguars. They've won ten of the
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Speaker 1: past twelve games. Well why because they've owned the line
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Speaker 1: of scrimmage and they just have had better players who
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Speaker 1: have played better. Jaguars have the chance to reset the
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Speaker 1: score with the Houston Texans, and it begins upfront for
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars. Big thing three is fifteen in a row. Oh, no,
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Speaker 1: fifteen losses in a row last season. I do not
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Speaker 1: have to remind you, even though I just did. We
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Speaker 1: talk about own it right, and we hear Coach Meyer
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Speaker 1: talk about this all the time. What you don't want
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Speaker 1: to own is this losing streak and extending to sixteen
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Speaker 1: in a row, because we know everyone will connect this
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Speaker 1: roster to last year. If you lose this game all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, a sixteen losses in a row for
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars and Brian this is their chance. Stop it.
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Speaker 1: If I if I'm him, I'm mad at you for
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Speaker 1: putting my picture underneath that, right because I don't want
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Speaker 1: to be associated with what it was. Now it's his job,
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Speaker 1: which is why you did put the picture there, to
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Speaker 1: push it forward and get him get this thing a win.
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Speaker 1: If they win on Sunday, obviously no more talk of it.
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Speaker 1: But if they lose on Sunday, then it's now it's
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Speaker 1: sixteen in a row, and then if you don't beat
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Speaker 1: the Broncos, then it's seventeen in a row, and then
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Speaker 1: it's connected. The past and and and the present are connected.
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Speaker 1: But you eliminate that right now, new era begins with
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Speaker 1: a win. Everything is good, and then you get yourself
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Speaker 1: off all the graphics, all the longest winning streak in
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Speaker 1: the league, where you're up there and again you're all right,
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Speaker 1: this is not urban Meyers losing stream, but that's not
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Speaker 1: how it'll get place, and no one will No one
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Speaker 1: will go, hey, it's his first game. They'll just say, hey,
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Speaker 1: well they've lost six sev eighteen in a row, whatever
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Speaker 1: the number is. So they have to not to put
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Speaker 1: more pressure on them, but they have to eliminate that
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Speaker 1: to really move forward. And they need to reset it.
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Speaker 1: They need to know it's the right word. It needs
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Speaker 1: to feel different, uh, And you don't want players feeling
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Speaker 1: like it's the same because it's been different for what
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Speaker 1: four months, five months, six months since he got here.
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Speaker 1: There is another one all of a sudden it feels
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Speaker 1: like the same thing, and you don't want that. And
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Speaker 1: we talk about big thing too, which is winning up front,
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Speaker 1: and you no longer have J. J. Watt and that
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Speaker 1: was always dominating this week's talk as well. If you
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Speaker 1: go back and look, I mean, I had forgotten, quite honestly,
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Speaker 1: how desperate the series had become. The Jaguars won both
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Speaker 1: games in two thousand and seventeen, but since they wanted
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Speaker 1: two thou in thirteen, that's all they want, right fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, eighteen,
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Speaker 1: nineteen twenty, they've been swept by these guys. So they're
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Speaker 1: two and ten in the last twelve games against these guys.
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Speaker 1: Um if you look even more particular at the series,
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Speaker 1: just the last six games since that guy got into
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Speaker 1: the lineup, because I don't he got hurt. The Jaguar
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Speaker 1: was only son once opening day seventeen, there oh and
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Speaker 1: six against that guy, and they have been out rushed
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Speaker 1: a hundred and forty two yards a game to seventy eight.
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Speaker 1: They've turned the bowl over thirteen times and our minus seven. Right,
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Speaker 1: that guy has been their nemesis. He has allowed the
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Speaker 1: Texans to control the line of scrimmage because even when
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars didn't, he found a way to escape like
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Speaker 1: he did just there, and like he did last year
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Speaker 1: in the game here which was close, and he converted
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Speaker 1: third down after third down after third down. Jaguars have
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Speaker 1: to control the line of scrimmage because they haven't in
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Speaker 1: this series. Well, what's amazing is, how do you know,
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Speaker 1: I get we're talking about that guy, that guys a
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Speaker 1: San Watts, and that guy never playing for this franchise again,
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Speaker 1: so that guy we can put them up there. But
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Speaker 1: in that sense, it is remarkable. I forget the last
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Speaker 1: time they played the Texans. I've sort of blacked out
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Speaker 1: they lost last year. Yeah, and I sort of blanked
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Speaker 1: out the specifics of last year's losing streak. I'm assuming
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Speaker 1: they lost to the Texans twice twice um. But it
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Speaker 1: is a it's almost not even when I talked to
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Speaker 1: John mcclan in the Houston Chronicle this week about the Texans,
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Speaker 1: we didn't even talk about last year's game. Because both
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Speaker 1: teams have new coaches, new quarterbacks, new approaches. Because Deshaun
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Speaker 1: Watson's not there, it doesn't even feel like you're playing
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Speaker 1: the same team you played last year. In the jaguarstern
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Speaker 1: that same team, because if it had been last year,
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Speaker 1: there had been this feeling the Jaguars, no way they
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Speaker 1: can win this game. Now observers are going in thinking
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars should win this game. That's dangerous, all right.
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Speaker 1: So the series they played thirty eight times. Right, this
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Speaker 1: is the twentieth season of the Texans and the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: have been in the same division with them since two
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Speaker 1: thousand and two, and they've played thirty eight times and
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Speaker 1: the Texans have won five. I mean, it's domination on
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Speaker 1: their part. There are three players to whom you can
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Speaker 1: attribute that one is Andre Johnson, so one of the
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Speaker 1: great receivers to play in this game. A thousand sixty
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Speaker 1: two catches almost fifteen thousand yards, and the guy just
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Speaker 1: owned the Jaguars. And then as he tailed down there
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Speaker 1: here comes J. J. Watt. Seventeen sacks in sixteen games,
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Speaker 1: but more pressures, you know, more deflected passes, you know,
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Speaker 1: more quarterback kids. He just he wrecked the game plan
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Speaker 1: that the Jaguars had. And then it was DeShawn Watson
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Speaker 1: who the Jaguars there own six against Watson since opening
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Speaker 1: day eighteen, and I know he's not playing. That's the
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Speaker 1: point is that for the first time in I don't
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Speaker 1: know since Andre Johnson came on the scene in two
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Speaker 1: thousand three, the Texans don't have a player that the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars can't match up for him. They couldn't match up
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Speaker 1: with Johnson. They just couldn't do it. Couldn't do it
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Speaker 1: with what very few people could and couldn't against Watson,
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Speaker 1: which is why he was considered one of the best
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Speaker 1: young quarterbacks in the game. The Texans don't have that
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Speaker 1: player on the roster right now. You know, again, the
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Speaker 1: Texans didn't win the hem Man that's a good call.
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Speaker 1: Thanks you play, I do. I just wasn't expect Okay,
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Speaker 1: let me ask you this. The Texans have just added
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Speaker 1: Danny Amundola to their roster. Now he has to clear
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Speaker 1: COVID protocols to play on Sunday. One year deal. I'm
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Speaker 1: not I'm not nervous about this. Danni Amundola, I think
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Speaker 1: is in the later part of his career. Just does
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Speaker 1: that change how we look at this game? I mean
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Speaker 1: it's uh, yes, he's a fine player. I don't know that.
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Speaker 1: You know, in order to get the ball to the
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Speaker 1: two at Danny Amendola, they have to be able to
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Speaker 1: run first, which they want to do, and then protect
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Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor and Tyro Taylor shud be able to get
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Speaker 1: in the ball. I'm more concerned frankly, with how they
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Speaker 1: stopped the run and then how they pressure Tyrod Taylor.
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Speaker 1: If they can't do those two things, then yes, Amadel
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Speaker 1: becomes a factor, because then all of a sudden, entire
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Speaker 1: Taylor has time. It's all that they've got to get
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Speaker 1: through the first two things in order to worry about Amundola,
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Speaker 1: and I don't think he would be a factor. You know,
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Speaker 1: four days in right, I mean maybe the second time
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Speaker 1: they played down the road. Here's the only thing that
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Speaker 1: Ammandla really gives them. You've got a veteran quarterback, he's
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Speaker 1: been around eleven seasons now, that's a veteran receiver. He
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Speaker 1: helps move the chains. You know. He's a guy that
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Speaker 1: that David Coley knows that they're comfortable with. But I
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Speaker 1: don't think he's a factor this week. And you talked
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Speaker 1: about run the ball or stop the run and rush
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Speaker 1: the passer. And on the Jaguars side, if they can
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Speaker 1: run the ball, boy, they give themselves a great chance.
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Speaker 1: I would be more worried about Brandon Cooks out of
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Speaker 1: the guys on the Texans roster, or he can fly. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know you mentioned matchups. If there's one guy that
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Speaker 1: is a huge matchup, uh issue. I'm not gonna say
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Speaker 1: a problem because C J. Henderson, these corners can match
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Speaker 1: up with him. But if there's one guy they need
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Speaker 1: to stop who can break you, it's Brandon Cooks, all right?
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Speaker 1: trice dot Com to scenarios, which one do we choose?
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Speaker 1: All right? What would you rather have as the outcome
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Speaker 1: on Sunday? A one yard rusher probably James Robinson? Or
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Speaker 1: would you rather have the rookie quarterback throw up for
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Speaker 1: three hundred yards? Tam I? But do you want me
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Speaker 1: to you guys go first, I mean, not a good
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Speaker 1: problem to have. I'd rather have the hundred the hundred
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Speaker 1: yard rusher all day long, because it means that the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars and controlling the Tampa and they're helping the young quarterback. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they get hundred yard rush, they probably win. If they
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Speaker 1: get the three yard pass or I would say this,
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Speaker 1: they lose. It means they're throwing the ball a lot.
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Speaker 1: And we think with this Texas the worst run defense
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Speaker 1: in the league last season. You don't know how much
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Speaker 1: they've improved on it. It would seem like a good game.
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Speaker 1: And the reason I bring it up, obviously this is
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Speaker 1: to spark conversation, is because a lot of people are
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Speaker 1: looking at the Jaguars and saying, there's Trevor Lawrence, the
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Speaker 1: passing quarterback. He's going to throw up for three hundred
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Speaker 1: every week and again, maybe at some point in the
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Speaker 1: future he's throwing at forty times a game for seven
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Speaker 1: yards like a Peyton Manning once did. But right now,
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Speaker 1: the best strategy, at least in my humble opinion, run
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Speaker 1: the ball, play action. Let's go. I'll tell you the
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Speaker 1: ideal scenario. Hey, Mary, Now, the ideal scenario on on
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Speaker 1: on Halloween if that's what it takes. Yes, on opening
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Speaker 1: Day in Houston, please know. For the Jaguars on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: James Robinson twenty yards, Trevor Lawrence about to forty, and
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Speaker 1: he's on Sports Center one time with one big play,
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Speaker 1: one play action and he's two twenty yards receiving two touchdowns,
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Speaker 1: maybe one inter steps that the reception. Did you get it?
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Speaker 1: That sort of number with a big play, with a
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Speaker 1: special play, that's what you went out of him early.
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Speaker 1: He might be a revelation. I mean, he might be
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Speaker 1: completely different than other young quarterbacks we talked about them
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Speaker 1: on Monday. UM, and he may finish with just dramatic
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Speaker 1: numbers like um Justin Herbert did. Who knows where it finishes,
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Speaker 1: but where it starts. If you go back and look
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Speaker 1: at um Justin Herbert's first game against Kansas City when
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Speaker 1: he went into the lineup instead of Tyrod Taylor. UM,
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Speaker 1: maybe it was rugged at times. John's right on two
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Speaker 1: or forty yards. A couple of highlights great and truthfully,
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Speaker 1: it would kind of fit the theme we've we've seen
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Speaker 1: in training camp as you you have the steady pace
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Speaker 1: and then you have that one throw, we go, wow,
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Speaker 1: that was an awesome throw and then you move on.
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Speaker 1: That's the moment every practice there seeing me that one
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Speaker 1: highlight play. But don't forget that rookie quarterbacks are also
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Speaker 1: capable of that moment in the fourth quarter where the
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Speaker 1: game is in doubt and you're driving and you throw
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Speaker 1: the bad pass and it gets intercepted. It happens to
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Speaker 1: rookie's more often than not. Very true, John, what you
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Speaker 1: got for us? Well, I fe a little salty today,
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Speaker 1: So I changed this segment to this or that or
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Speaker 1: these plural slam plural Shark DJ Shark with Viscachal or
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Speaker 1: Marvin Jones, this, that or these to lead receiving this season.
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Speaker 1: And I brought this up because I think this answer
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Speaker 1: is different depending on what you mean by receiving. I
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Speaker 1: expect DJ Shark to lead team in receiving yards. I
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Speaker 1: expect Leaviscus Chandal could lead it in receptions because then
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Speaker 1: they go to him a lot. But I think Marvin
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Speaker 1: Jones will lead it in receiving touchdowns. And I think
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Speaker 1: there could be and I'm exaggerating that it won't work
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Speaker 1: out that way, but if it is really good, But
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Speaker 1: if it, the point is I think these receivers are
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Speaker 1: balanced enough with enough diversity in the way they play
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Speaker 1: to have that sort of scenario each week where one
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Speaker 1: guy has a couple of touchdowns, the other guy has
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Speaker 1: eighty five yards, and you really poured the ball into
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Speaker 1: the seven receptions for seventy moved the chain's yards. You
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Speaker 1: know what, I'll focus on Jones because it's it seems
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Speaker 1: to me that he's that guy who is going to
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Speaker 1: read the defense and find the place to be and
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Speaker 1: then be there for the quarterback every single time. You
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Speaker 1: always should talk about young quarterbacks have to have a
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Speaker 1: guy like um like Reggie Wayne that they know that
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Speaker 1: they know, they know where they're going to be. And
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Speaker 1: so it strikes me you look at his numbers over
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Speaker 1: the last three years, He's had nine touchdowns three the
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Speaker 1: last four years. I think last year he had a
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Speaker 1: career best seventy two catches. So I think he's a
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Speaker 1: guy who's going to end up with the sixty eight catches,
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Speaker 1: seven yard and nine touchdowns, right, But I think lead
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars in my senses, he's going to lead that
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Speaker 1: young quarterback and help him along and open things up
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Speaker 1: for everyone else. He's the leader in my book. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you need that connection going forward. All right, I'm looking
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Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball, this or that Andrew wing
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Speaker 1: Guard or Andre Cisco to be the other starting safety
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Speaker 1: alongside ray Sean Jenkins. We spoke to coach Meyer and
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Speaker 1: and he said it in his press conferences. Between these guys,
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Speaker 1: we don't have a decision right now. I give Andrew
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Speaker 1: Wingard credit for this, because, truthfully, last season I saw
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Speaker 1: him as a special team's contributor and helping out at safety.
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Speaker 1: I never really thought, Okay, this guy has a solid
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Speaker 1: shot to start at safety next year. I didn't even
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Speaker 1: know if he'd make the roster this year. So I
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Speaker 1: give him credit. It's clear he's one over this coaching staff.
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Speaker 1: But on Dre Cisco just seems like the correct answer
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Speaker 1: for me. Third round draft pick. And we had the
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Speaker 1: chance to speak to him virtually at a season ticket
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Speaker 1: member event last night, and just such a likable guy.
17:08
Speaker 1: And he was talking about rehabbing from that injury and
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Speaker 1: how tough it was for him, that there was moments
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Speaker 1: of doubt where he didn't think he'd be ready for
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Speaker 1: this season, and he said, this week is truth me
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Speaker 1: when I feel like I am ready to go. Really,
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Speaker 1: this is a toss up. I'm going Andre Cisco. I
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Speaker 1: think it'll be wind guard because coaches like veterans and
17:26
Speaker 1: he's a little bit more of a veteran. I don't
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Speaker 1: think it'll be wind guard for very long. Uh. And
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Speaker 1: you could be right. It could be sis right now,
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Speaker 1: it's or so or that this, or go ahead, Uh,
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Speaker 1: Winders special teams player in my book, Um, they played
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Speaker 1: him out of necessity. He played well in the preseason.
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Speaker 1: But Cisco, who is a guy who many thought was
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Speaker 1: a Day one or early day to draft pick, and
17:52
Speaker 1: if not for the a c L probably would have
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Speaker 1: been thirteen takeaways. He's a ball hawk. He's bigger, stronger, faster,
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Speaker 1: and moves more fluidly through this. If you just watch him,
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Speaker 1: it's just clear when you watch one guy, there's more
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Speaker 1: effort than the other. Cisco is a guy who will
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Speaker 1: not only be the starter here before long, but a
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Speaker 1: long term starter. And I think a player who has
18:11
Speaker 1: great upside, so Cisco. And maybe, like John's point, maybe
18:16
Speaker 1: it's not week one because the veteran, maybe the knee,
18:19
Speaker 1: if they're not having huge confidence with that, maybe it's
18:21
Speaker 1: not right away. But sometimes you see guys if you
18:24
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18:28
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18:31
Speaker 1: the first two and they've played a lot as a backup,
18:33
Speaker 1: and then they come in and play. That will be
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Speaker 1: the scenario at some point with Cisco if he stays healthy.
18:38
Speaker 1: I don't have a good feel for it's this week
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Speaker 1: that he may be the guy for a week or two.
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Speaker 1: You know, if they were opening up against uh, Tom
18:49
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18:53
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Speaker 1: I think I'm going to go first, and I think
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Speaker 1: this running back room is a work in progress and
21:35
Speaker 1: we're going to see a lot of changes this season.
21:38
Speaker 1: You saw saw that the Texans released running back Duke Johnson.
21:42
Speaker 1: The Jaguars added him to the practice squad this week,
21:44
Speaker 1: and Coach Meyer said, this is a work in progress.
21:46
Speaker 1: We're gonna keep looking at these spots at running back
21:48
Speaker 1: on the practice squad. I think they want to take
21:51
Speaker 1: the load off James Robinson. I think they're attempting to
21:54
Speaker 1: fill that hole with travesty ten and get creative. I
21:58
Speaker 1: see someone like Latavius Murray, for example, of that was
22:00
Speaker 1: released from the Saints probably have their eyes on him. Possibly.
22:04
Speaker 1: I don't think this is fixed this week, and I
22:06
Speaker 1: think this will somewhat be a carousel of the last
22:09
Speaker 1: running back running back spots on the practice squad, something
22:12
Speaker 1: we're gonna pay attention to all year. I think they're
22:14
Speaker 1: said at one and two I mean Robinson and Hide.
22:17
Speaker 1: I don't think that will change and and so I
22:19
Speaker 1: think the the fluidity comes in that spot right and
22:23
Speaker 1: then if there are any injuries. So I mean the
22:26
Speaker 1: hide relationship with urban Meyer has not really been a
22:32
Speaker 1: story out front. But I talked to him the day
22:34
Speaker 1: the training camp opened, or the day before training camp
22:36
Speaker 1: opened it and we talked for about fifteen minutes, and
22:38
Speaker 1: all he talked about, and all he wanted to talk
22:41
Speaker 1: about was his relationship to the coach coaches. The reason
22:44
Speaker 1: he's here. He believes in the coach, the coach, the coach.
22:46
Speaker 1: I think the coach believes in him too, So I
22:49
Speaker 1: actually think you might see hy to have a big
22:50
Speaker 1: game on Sunday. Remember he had a big game against
22:52
Speaker 1: the Jaguars in twenty nineteen, fifty eight yard run, six
22:56
Speaker 1: yard day. I would I would think that he would
22:58
Speaker 1: be a key contributor. I actually think there's some stability
23:01
Speaker 1: in this room except for that one spot. Yeah, I agree.
23:04
Speaker 1: I think they'll rotate in the last spot trying to
23:07
Speaker 1: find an answer, and uh, I don't know that they'll
23:09
Speaker 1: find it, but I think they'll keep trying. We're not
23:12
Speaker 1: gonna find the speeding explosive. This chance. Those guys are
23:15
Speaker 1: on the street, well, I think I think that Damien
23:18
Speaker 1: Wilson inside linebacker and Devon Hamilton's no tackle Brian's guy
23:24
Speaker 1: could be two overlooked reasons the Jaguars will improve defensively.
23:27
Speaker 1: And I say overlook not that we really overlooked them.
23:29
Speaker 1: But every time I write about the Jaguars changes on defense,
23:34
Speaker 1: I write about bringing in Malcolm Brown. I write about
23:36
Speaker 1: jahad Ward and Roy Robinson Harris and maybe a little
23:39
Speaker 1: bit of Damian Wilson. But I don't write about Hamleton
23:41
Speaker 1: that much because he would you should. He was here
23:43
Speaker 1: last year. But uh so. But if you're not thinking
23:50
Speaker 1: about these guys as a big reason this team could
23:52
Speaker 1: be better, then you're missing it. Because these guys may
23:56
Speaker 1: not be Pro Bowl guys this year because are not
24:00
Speaker 1: going to be every down guys. But if you were
24:02
Speaker 1: picking reasons why this team can be good on first
24:05
Speaker 1: and second down, which they have to be better at,
24:07
Speaker 1: these two guys might be the main reasons that they're better.
24:10
Speaker 1: I think Devon Hamilton's can play at a Pro Bowl level.
24:13
Speaker 1: I don't know that that he gets there this year,
24:17
Speaker 1: I totally get. But he is a run stuffing nose tackle.
24:21
Speaker 1: And you don't have to have any particular NFL pro
24:25
Speaker 1: football college football knowledge at all. Just look and see
24:28
Speaker 1: who's making plays, who's disrupting. And all we saw in
24:31
Speaker 1: the preseason was fifty two. And all we saw last
24:34
Speaker 1: season when he was on the field was this this
24:36
Speaker 1: curb arrow straight up he is. Yeah, graph, there's the
24:39
Speaker 1: right term. Um. When you watch it, you see fifty
24:43
Speaker 1: two making play after play after play. I think he's
24:45
Speaker 1: a terrific player. And Damian Wilson sdarn smart. People may
24:48
Speaker 1: not know he was with the Chiefs the last two years.
24:50
Speaker 1: One one Super Bowl. Obviously, they came in second last year,
24:54
Speaker 1: so he brings a different element that may be missing
24:57
Speaker 1: to that front. And that's a guy that knows how
24:58
Speaker 1: to win championships. Yes, he is a winner, and truthfully,
25:01
Speaker 1: I forget about him. You're right, Damian Wilson is a
25:03
Speaker 1: guy we do not. That's why I think. I think,
25:06
Speaker 1: I think you forget about good players. Um, I think
25:10
Speaker 1: that the Jaguars special teams. I think I think the
25:12
Speaker 1: Jaggar special teams will be a strength and I think
25:15
Speaker 1: they have the chance to be really, really good. First
25:18
Speaker 1: of all, I loved Lambo the spiciness in his conversation
25:20
Speaker 1: the other day. When you look at his numbers, he's
25:22
Speaker 1: been a really good kicker. Here he was injured last
25:25
Speaker 1: year and now he appears to be piste off that
25:27
Speaker 1: people are questioning him. Fine, let's bring it. I think
25:30
Speaker 1: I think I think Logan Cook is one of the
25:32
Speaker 1: better punters. You know, you just look at how tall
25:36
Speaker 1: he is in that length that he gets with that
25:38
Speaker 1: long leg, and he drives the ball high and down
25:41
Speaker 1: the field. But listen to these names. Rudy Ford, the coach,
25:44
Speaker 1: told us, was one of the better gunners he had
25:46
Speaker 1: ever seen in his football career. He sided Dakota Allen,
25:50
Speaker 1: Wingered Jack Quarterman, uh, Daniel Thomas, Chris Claybrooks, Starry Gunba Wally.
25:56
Speaker 1: I mean there's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven
25:58
Speaker 1: guys that he names specifically as being standouts on special teams.
26:02
Speaker 1: And he's got a very strong as jamal An told us,
26:06
Speaker 1: bend towards special teams. Agnew by the way, the other guy,
26:09
Speaker 1: former All Pro kick returner Um who they brought in
26:13
Speaker 1: from Detroit, and Agnes said, the reason I came here
26:15
Speaker 1: is because the coach said, I'm going to make it
26:16
Speaker 1: a priority. Every coach says that he's a but I
26:19
Speaker 1: believe in what urban Meyer said to me about it,
26:21
Speaker 1: and I've watched the way that he's gotten involved in
26:23
Speaker 1: drills and instructing the gunners and then coming over and
26:27
Speaker 1: talking to the kicker. Um, I think the sun is
26:29
Speaker 1: gonna shine this year on special teams. Obviously, that's play
26:33
Speaker 1: on Nick Strenson, who neither one of you guys know
26:35
Speaker 1: right he was. He was gone by the time you
26:37
Speaker 1: got here. Couldn't pick him out of the line up. Um. Well,
26:40
Speaker 1: he came into two thousand and three, they had a
26:42
Speaker 1: terrible day in Carolina and Jack Dorio's first game, and
26:45
Speaker 1: they went out and signed him immediately and he was
26:48
Speaker 1: here for four years. Was terrific on special teams. Obviously,
26:51
Speaker 1: he came late in the summer when the Jaguars had
26:53
Speaker 1: to make a special teams coordinator approach. His Nicknami had
26:55
Speaker 1: the long hair. That was when we remember the Titans
26:58
Speaker 1: was out. He became Sunshine. Um. And now there's another
27:01
Speaker 1: and I wish, yeah, I wish there was no Now
27:03
Speaker 1: this covid in tears stuff because he's a great guy,
27:05
Speaker 1: a terrific interview, and I'm excited to see what he
27:09
Speaker 1: does with it. I like it. That was the I
27:11
Speaker 1: just realized that I said the joke. They're not going
27:13
Speaker 1: to get it because they weren't here. Yeah, I get
27:16
Speaker 1: it now, good one. Um. I do think the Jaguars
27:19
Speaker 1: special teams will be you know, you think you think
27:24
Speaker 1: they're going to be good. Well, considering the amount of
27:26
Speaker 1: equity they've put in. Yes, So it is a big
27:31
Speaker 1: it's a big commitment on urban Meyer's part. It's a
27:34
Speaker 1: big calling card that he wants. Uh, it's a little
27:36
Speaker 1: bit of a risk, I'll be honest with you, because
27:40
Speaker 1: kickoff returns because of the rule change, are not quite
27:42
Speaker 1: as important as they were ten years ago. So that's
27:45
Speaker 1: the one area where I've heard people say, well, why
27:48
Speaker 1: would you do that. I've gotten questions about that. I
27:50
Speaker 1: think it's still smart because this is a team. When
27:53
Speaker 1: you are a team trying to get back up, you
27:56
Speaker 1: need you need strength somewhere. This can be a strength
27:59
Speaker 1: of their well uh, and they've made a remarkably strong
28:02
Speaker 1: commitment to it. Hidden yardage, right, the yardage that's lost
28:05
Speaker 1: in field position is such a big part of the game.
28:08
Speaker 1: Even if they're diminishing kickoffs, there's still the opportunity to
28:11
Speaker 1: pin someone deep with a good mortar kick or with
28:14
Speaker 1: a great punt. Those yards help a team that's trying
28:17
Speaker 1: to get their way back up the ladder. On my
28:19
Speaker 1: thought on kickoffs is, you know, if you get to
28:24
Speaker 1: the flipped fields for you during the season, then it's
28:26
Speaker 1: all worth because that can change to yeast. Very true.
28:29
Speaker 1: You mentioned that that the pressure and the involvement of
28:31
Speaker 1: coach Meyer and special teams, drills and anyone else. Think
28:34
Speaker 1: it was humorous when Josh Lambo said, okay, we might
28:37
Speaker 1: have had a conversation about him standing so close to
28:39
Speaker 1: me during practice and the conversation went like this. I
28:42
Speaker 1: would have loved have been in that conversation. Why are
28:44
Speaker 1: you standing so close? Because I'm the head coach. Okay, coach, Okay,
28:47
Speaker 1: got it. That's how I keep doing it. I would
28:50
Speaker 1: have loved known how that conversation went. But but if
28:52
Speaker 1: I'm the head coach, I want a spicy kicker. I
28:55
Speaker 1: want a guy who's got a little edge to him
28:56
Speaker 1: because I need him to have that edge when the
28:58
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