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Countdown to Kickoff | Chris Myers of FOX Previews Jets vs. Jaguars · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Gunning down to kickoff continues the Jaguars and the New
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  Speaker 1: York Jets coming up getting late in the season, both
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  Speaker 1: teams at three and ten. Chris Myers has the call
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  Speaker 1: on Fox Sports, and it's great to see you again.
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  Speaker 1: Here we are. You know, it's a tough time of
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  Speaker 1: year because both teams are out of the mix, you know,
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  Speaker 1: four games to go. Trying to find some kind of
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  Speaker 1: motivation down the stretch here has got to be tough
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  Speaker 1: for both of these teams.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, I have I have analysts who
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  Speaker 2: played the game, and you still have a job to do, right,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, whether you're a coach or player, you're still
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  Speaker 2: getting paid and you're still you have fans watching your
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  Speaker 2: a TV audience. You have a responsibility just like we
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  Speaker 2: do to call it and you can have a competitive,
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  Speaker 2: exciting game, and this one I think will be I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to stay there. You know, they're equally disappointing
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  Speaker 2: teams for what I know we all expected coming into
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  Speaker 2: the year. But I saw some flight for both of
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  Speaker 2: them last week and just doing it a little early,
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  Speaker 2: you know, scouting. Obviously, the Jets let one slip away
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  Speaker 2: against the rival Dolphins, who they can't seem to be
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  Speaker 2: done in Miami, and they do have Aaron Rodgers who
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  Speaker 2: was moving a little bit better than I think he
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  Speaker 2: had earlier in the in the year. And for the Jags,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the defensive effort was outstanding to be able
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  Speaker 2: to pull that off on the road against the team
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  Speaker 2: in the division and against the team again they're trying
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  Speaker 2: to find their way. But I do think Max, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Max got to play better, right Max Jow's got to
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  Speaker 2: you know, thrust into that position. He's had some time
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  Speaker 2: in different places he gets to win, but didn't do
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  Speaker 2: enough I think really from from his side of things.
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  Speaker 2: So thankfully the defense was able to pull them out
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  Speaker 2: the big run by by Bigsby. So what will we
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  Speaker 2: get this week? Well, at the Jags defense, they have
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  Speaker 2: to be on their game against a guy like Rogers
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  Speaker 2: who always gets people that jump off side. He does
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  Speaker 2: have his array of receivers when you think of you know,
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  Speaker 2: Wilson and DeVonta Adams and Mazard is one of his favorites.
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  Speaker 2: Who's who's back, So that makes him always always difficult.
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  Speaker 2: And again, as I said, he's moving around a little
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  Speaker 2: bit better, and all it takes is one big play
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  Speaker 2: from from him and the offense. And if your offense,
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  Speaker 2: meaning the Jags can't can't put up points, then you're trouble.
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  Speaker 2: So that to be is a key this week. I
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  Speaker 2: think the defense will be fine, improving and at home.
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  Speaker 2: That's the plus. The offense has to have some drives,
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  Speaker 2: but get touchdowns at the end of my field.
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  Speaker 1: Goals, Chris. You know, there's a lot of big picture
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  Speaker 1: talk around the Jaguars these days. It's year three for
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  Speaker 1: head coach Doug Peterson, it's year four for Trevor Lawrence.
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  Speaker 1: He had a loss season in his rookie year in
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, he was injured a lot last year and
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  Speaker 1: obviously he's done for the year now. Moving ahead, there's
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  Speaker 1: there's all these question marks about how this will look
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  Speaker 1: in the coming years, but you know, one constant will
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  Speaker 1: be Trevor Lawrence at some point. At some point this
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  Speaker 1: the injury bug has to be a concern when you've
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  Speaker 1: already paid a guy two hundred and fifty million dollars
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  Speaker 1: in a contract. You know, I know you're not a doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you are, we haven't really talked that much, but
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  Speaker 1: how concerning is that when your franchise guy just continues
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  Speaker 1: to get injured year after year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you could ask the doll it's about that
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  Speaker 2: as well, right just now. And then you look at
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  Speaker 2: guys like Baker Mayfield that are running and jumping and
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  Speaker 2: falling and playing hurt. So sometimes it's just unfortunate. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think it's a lack of Having covered
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  Speaker 2: some of the Jag games in the past, have been
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  Speaker 2: around Trevor Wilson, his his commitment and what he does
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  Speaker 2: to prepare physically. I have and this is what coaches
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  Speaker 2: have told me in the past or those that who
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  Speaker 2: played in the game, that the taller, more angular quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 2: you know the frame that the big the taller you Again,
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  Speaker 2: you have to be a certain size obviously to be
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  Speaker 2: able to throw over people. But they they do seem
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  Speaker 2: more susceptible to some injuries, whether it's you know, the
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  Speaker 2: bigger wind up or when they slide or a bigger target.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure about that, and no I'm not a doctor,
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  Speaker 2: but it is a concern, especially when the organization, the
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  Speaker 2: franchise has committed so much to Trevor Lawrence. But you
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  Speaker 2: talk to him, Uh, you like the guy he prepares,
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  Speaker 2: You believe in him. His teammates do and again early
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  Speaker 2: and I've been playing well even before the injury, or
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  Speaker 2: is he the offense wasn't in fairness to him, but
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  Speaker 2: you lose Gabe Davis and Christian Kirk and they're going,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's starting receivers. So some other teams can
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  Speaker 2: adapt a little bit easier. The Jags didn't. And and
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  Speaker 2: I really, in the bigger picture of things, I expected,
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  Speaker 2: having been around Doug Peterson covered some of those successful
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  Speaker 2: years with the Eagles, I expected big things here and
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure why it hasn't worked. Obviously, the health
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  Speaker 2: of the quarterback is one thing, but I'm just I
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  Speaker 2: can't seem to figure that out, and that's up to
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  Speaker 2: ownership and the front office and if there's needs to
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  Speaker 2: be changes there when they review things and they know
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  Speaker 2: better than I they've been watching on a daily basis,
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  Speaker 2: then I think that's what around the league. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's what's anticipated. And I hate to speak like that
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  Speaker 2: for coach Peterson or Trent Balke, who you know have
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  Speaker 2: their current jobs, but ultimately that's what's out there. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what ownership is thinking, but ultimately we'll
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  Speaker 2: we'll find out. But a strong finish and a team
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  Speaker 2: fighting hard like we saw in Tennessee last week. In
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  Speaker 2: this game, I think will go a long way.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Meyers, Fox Sports with us just reflecting back to
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  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia time with Doug Peterson. Why did it go
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  Speaker 1: so bad so fast in Philly?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wasn't as closely involved when there were quarterback
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  Speaker 2: issues with you know, you win a Super Bowl with
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  Speaker 2: a backup, and then your star guy who was having
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  Speaker 2: a great season, right and Carson Wentz gets hurt, and
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  Speaker 2: then you try to work him back in and you
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  Speaker 2: see that Carson Wentz it didn't pan out for him either,
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  Speaker 2: and I think they were trying to force something there
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  Speaker 2: and maybe he disagreed with the front office at least
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  Speaker 2: that's some of the fallout that I remember back then.
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  Speaker 2: But I do think and some players had some issues
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  Speaker 2: with Douglas. Sometimes those things happened with coaches. But when
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  Speaker 2: I was around and watching his interaction with his assistant
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  Speaker 2: coaches and his teams, and when I went in and
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  Speaker 2: saw him in the few games that I've done when
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  Speaker 2: he's been in in Jacksonville, I haven't seen any kind
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  Speaker 2: of disconnect. You know, I see the same kind of
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  Speaker 2: guy who played the game, who really was And this
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  Speaker 2: is why I thought it would work much better than
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  Speaker 2: it has in Jacksonville. Connected to his quarterback, I thought
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  Speaker 2: that was a real city play the position. He backed
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  Speaker 2: up some good wins. He you know, he's had some
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  Speaker 2: success in that area in the play design, play calling,
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  Speaker 2: which is another sensitive topic there. That and I've asked
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  Speaker 2: him about in the past. Not to knock the OC,
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  Speaker 2: but that's something if things are on the line, I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Doug would want him to make those calls,
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  Speaker 2: and Liat maybe he would, but he's been loyal to
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  Speaker 2: his staff, sometimes to a fault, I think in that regard.
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  Speaker 2: But didn't notice anything that I could see that that
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  Speaker 2: was a problem there. I think coaches at a certain
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  Speaker 2: point after success, whether it was John Bruden down in
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  Speaker 2: Tampa or what he did in Philadelphia, the ownership says, hey,
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  Speaker 2: it's just not working with this group. We need to
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  Speaker 2: make a change.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Meyrons Fox Sports with us on the other side,
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  Speaker 1: where did things go so wrong for the New York Jets.
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  Speaker 1: I guess you could ask that every year. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they haven't been the playoffs in like fourteen years, but
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  Speaker 1: this was the year I mean, they had Rogers coming
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  Speaker 1: back healthy, they had all these weapons, and it's just
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  Speaker 1: been a meltdown for Gang Green.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what you point? You know, you can blame players
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  Speaker 2: to a certain point, and there are some and I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to name him here from what I've observed,
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  Speaker 2: but you see already what ownership has done there. And
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  Speaker 2: I thought they fired Robert Sala too early. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if ultimately he was the right coacher or not,
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  Speaker 2: but a defensive minded coach and their defense hasn't gotten
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  Speaker 2: any better since he's been gone. And again Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 2: and him is he is he running the offense? Who's
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  Speaker 2: really calling the plays? Yes, you want to use his experience,
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  Speaker 2: but that's that has been a mess and a healthier
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers. We're seeing a little more of it now
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  Speaker 2: and it still isn't It still isn't clicking. And I
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  Speaker 2: think you hit on it. It's an organizational thing. And
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  Speaker 2: that's why I already in the front office move along
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  Speaker 2: with the coach, which I think did need to be
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  Speaker 2: done because of the some of the moves that they've
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  Speaker 2: made and the direction. But it looked like coming into
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  Speaker 2: the year that they had the right kinds of players
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  Speaker 2: to at least contend to at least have a better
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  Speaker 2: record than this. I mean, this is a major, major falloff.
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  Speaker 2: And now the questions we're hearing around the league, and
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  Speaker 2: you know Aaron Rodgers himself, you know he'll he'll be
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  Speaker 2: coy about it, but he's you know, what he wants
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  Speaker 2: to do it. And whether there's a new coach, new
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  Speaker 2: general manage that was still want Aaron Rodgers around him
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  Speaker 2: and they are somewhat committed to him, or is it
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  Speaker 2: time to move on from him. I think Rodgers will
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  Speaker 2: play again next year, is just my opinion because I
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  Speaker 2: don't think he's done yet at his terms, whatever that
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  Speaker 2: may be. And I'm sure we'll hear about those over time.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's been a It's been a bad thing
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  Speaker 2: for the Jets for a long time. I mean, this
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  Speaker 2: this string of missing the playoffs, but this one, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm tired of seeing him in prime time because they
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  Speaker 2: really have been a mess. I mean, even their game
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  Speaker 2: will ask they had it in the bag. It's simple things,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you know, not going out of bounds late
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  Speaker 2: when a catch is made, to run the clock down
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  Speaker 2: so you can kick the field goals, so the Dolphins
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  Speaker 2: don't have a chance to get the ball and tie
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  Speaker 2: the game and then march right down the field and
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  Speaker 2: overtime and win, especially when your defense couldn't couldn't stop
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  Speaker 2: any but he through the course of the game, I
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  Speaker 2: thought Rogers and the numbers show he played a very
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  Speaker 2: good game without their their star running back. But I
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  Speaker 2: don't see it had any better real soon for And
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  Speaker 2: that's the thing that would concern me if I was
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  Speaker 2: a Jet fan here, what kind of hope is there
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  Speaker 2: really based on what you've seen this year and what
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  Speaker 2: you've seen over the last decade or so.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have to watch a Pat McAfee show, I guess
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  Speaker 1: to get the Aaron Rodgers cider things. It's usually how
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  Speaker 1: that goes. Each week. You've got a new book out
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  Speaker 1: that deserves a wow, great title. Why now for the
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  Speaker 1: book for you? Chris Well.
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  Speaker 2: I was asked a while ago, they said, you know
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  Speaker 2: you've covered you had decade at ESPN, twenty plus years
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  Speaker 2: at Fox, a lot of different things. You've worked in
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  Speaker 2: a lot of different areas of broadcasting and radio roots
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  Speaker 2: locally and TV into the networks. But some of the
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  Speaker 2: events you've covered have been outstanding. Super Bowl World's in
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  Speaker 2: some special you know, the Brady comeback of the Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl against Atlanta, Mahomes first Super Bowl with Andy Reid
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  Speaker 2: with the Chiefs when they defeated the forty nine ers
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  Speaker 2: to be the network reporter. But then there were other
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  Speaker 2: moments that kind of went beyond the wow moments of
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  Speaker 2: being at the A's Giants World Series, earthquake happens, being
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  Speaker 2: at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta and a bomb goes
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  Speaker 2: off the Daytona five hundred, Fox calling the NASCAR the
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  Speaker 2: post race show, Dale Earnhard dies in the Great American Race,
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  Speaker 2: the face of the sport at the time, and not
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  Speaker 2: just being there, but being there with a broadcast ability
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  Speaker 2: to go on the air alive and report on these
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  Speaker 2: things right away to an audience. So somebody said, boy,
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  Speaker 2: you get asked about these a lot. And then there's
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  Speaker 2: some fun moments that I wrote about in the book,
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  Speaker 2: but compiling them and putting them all together was a
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  Speaker 2: challenge over the years because I wanted to make sure
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  Speaker 2: there were things that people would be interested the events
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  Speaker 2: and also the kinds of people. Some moments with Mike
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  Speaker 2: Tyson and Muhammad Ali and Charles Parkley, some lighter moments.
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  Speaker 2: Bill Murray wrote, wrote the forward who I've gotten over years,
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  Speaker 2: have known him from the ESPIS in the early years,
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  Speaker 2: and a stute sports fan, So I hope people are entertained.
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  Speaker 2: It's a perfect if you're a sports fan. But it
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  Speaker 2: does go beyond sports too. It's not all about me.
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  Speaker 2: It's more like Rli's through sports, and they do mirror
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  Speaker 2: a lot of our lives, ups and downs, overcoming things
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  Speaker 2: and adversity. And yeah, so wow that was an old
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  Speaker 2: Sports center expression instead of just saying wow, wht I
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  Speaker 2: catch it? That deserves it while And so that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of where that the title of the book came from.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we use the word more often than
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  Speaker 2: we realize, and hopefully everybody has a lot of wow
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  Speaker 2: moments in their life.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a chapter on the dog Show version? Would
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  Speaker 1: you ever imagined hosting the dog show? And you got
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  Speaker 1: into this business?
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  Speaker 2: By the way, there's the I could see the cover
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  Speaker 2: or not, but anyway, no, the dog Show was you know,
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  Speaker 2: bested show was really my first introduction, which the movie
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  Speaker 2: is is there is some reality connected to the actual
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  Speaker 2: Westminster Cattle Club Bested Show, but I never showed dogs
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  Speaker 2: or was a judge or anything like that, but always
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  Speaker 2: had it in my family. My family does a lot
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  Speaker 2: with animal rescue for dogs, and so when the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: came up, I was like, hey, to call them play
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  Speaker 2: by play. I'll have a little fun with it. And
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  Speaker 2: they say, well, you know the foxway. You can have fun,
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  Speaker 2: but as long as you don't cross that line. And
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  Speaker 2: so it's like having an ex player as an analyst.
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  Speaker 2: I have a judge, someone who's judged or are shown
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  Speaker 2: dogs themselves. And yes, the longest running you know, a
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  Speaker 2: competition sporting event if you want to call it that
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  Speaker 2: with dogs in the US other than the Kentucky Derby,
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  Speaker 2: and this year it happens right after the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 2: on Monday and Tuesday night at Madison Square guard So
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  Speaker 2: I always have fun with that and the dogs of
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  Speaker 2: the show, that's the easy part. If we just put
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  Speaker 2: a camera on the dogs and let them go through
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  Speaker 2: and parade around, we don't really have to say that much.
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  Speaker 2: They're entertaining themselves and striking to watch on television. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's something that Bill Murray teases me about in the book,
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  Speaker 2: but I didn't have time to put a lot of
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  Speaker 2: that in about Bested Show.
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  Speaker 1: I got to tell you, that's a hell of a week.
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl, dog Show, speed weeks, stay toning.
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  Speaker 2: You're right that we're yeah, we got we got the
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  Speaker 2: clash which is at Bowman Gray the Stadium in Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully the there's good. That's the week before the super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl and then the day tell you yeah, so that is.
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  Speaker 2: There's there's a lot going on on Fox and FS
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  Speaker 2: one who will be in the super Bowl will be
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  Speaker 2: will be interesting to watch, and that's that'll get fans
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  Speaker 2: a lot to talk about. And there's some good playoff
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  Speaker 2: races going on right now.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Myers, one of the best in the business, NFL, NASCAR,
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, boxing, Westminster Kennel Club, Dog Show, all
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  Speaker 1: the above. Thanks for the time, man.
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  Speaker 2: Great to see the Jags of the Jets forget all right,
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  Speaker 2: let's kick it off, make some noise out there and
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  Speaker 2: do ball, all right. Thanks for chatting, all right, enjoy
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  Speaker 2: the game. We'll talk to it soon.