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Great Coaching and Hungry Players | Jaguars Reporters · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into another edition of the Jaguars Reporters podcast. Heading
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  Speaker 1: into the Week nine by JP Shadwick, Brian Sexton, John Ozier,
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  Speaker 1: Kay Stevens. The Jags are on a five game winning streak,
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  Speaker 1: five different stadiums, four different cities, six and two record
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  Speaker 1: their best start since nineteen ninety nine, when they started
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  Speaker 1: seven and one, tied for the second best started franchise history.
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  Speaker 1: And Brian will start with the history of that because
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  Speaker 1: it's certainly noteworthy, and it's somewhere this team hasn't been
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  Speaker 1: since the nineteen nineties.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, as I look at it, you know, and John
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  Speaker 2: can confirm this. Those were very talented teams. They had depth,
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  Speaker 2: they had young players behind veteran players, They were very
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  Speaker 2: well coached. This team reminds me of that knowledgeable Jags
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  Speaker 2: fans can go back and look at seven and five
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  Speaker 2: and say, hey, they got off the great starts early too,
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  Speaker 2: But those teams weren't as good as the ninety eight
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  Speaker 2: to ninety nine Jags, by the way, the last and
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  Speaker 2: only teams to win back to back division titles, which
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  Speaker 2: is in this team's winshield, right, So talented, well coached,
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  Speaker 2: and just seem absolutely unfazed by anything that comes their way.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously, John, when you have a quarterback like Trevor Lawrence,
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  Speaker 2: it's tough to get down.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's there's another difference five and seven that you
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  Speaker 3: have to good starts. And they were two games behind already. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: because you had a behemoth in the division and the
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  Speaker 3: Colts that was going to be very hard to catch.
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  Speaker 3: Now you're six and two, start your two and a
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  Speaker 3: half games up, so you feel like you're in control
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  Speaker 3: of the division, which mentally in confidence wise. Look, they're
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  Speaker 3: tied for the best record in the AFC right now,
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  Speaker 3: they're one of teams that are in it. They got
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  Speaker 3: to keep getting better. But I kept saying last week,
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  Speaker 3: this is how division titles are built, and this is
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  Speaker 3: how the playoff pushes winning games late, doing it with defense,
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  Speaker 3: doing however you have to do it. This is what
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  Speaker 3: contending and being good is. This is what it looks like.
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  Speaker 3: This team hasn't seen it in a while, but.
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  Speaker 4: This is what it looks like it does and it's
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  Speaker 4: finding a way to win. Right. We talk about that
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  Speaker 4: all the time. People right into you, John, I'm shore
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  Speaker 4: complaining about the offense. Oh I think a few might
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  Speaker 4: because we hear it as well just from people around
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  Speaker 4: and you know, the offense isn't doing this and they're
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  Speaker 4: not doing that, and they can't keep doing that. They
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  Speaker 4: can't keep doing this. But they're still finding a way
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  Speaker 4: to win at the end of the day and they're
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  Speaker 4: not trailing as well. And that's a huge point. We
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  Speaker 4: talked about it on jag Zam earlier this week that
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  Speaker 4: this team is not making the best decisions sometimes, but
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  Speaker 4: it's not necessarily costing them. They're making turnovers and only
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  Speaker 4: three points off those three turnovers in the game against
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  Speaker 4: the Steelers. So yes, I would appreciate Trevor not throwing
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  Speaker 4: into triple coverage against the Steelers in a game, but
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  Speaker 4: it didn't end up hurting them as much as it
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  Speaker 4: could have. And then rebounding from that, not letting that
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  Speaker 4: break you is a huge point that they've mentally turned
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  Speaker 4: that corner where they're not letting little mistakes get to
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  Speaker 4: them in that way.
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  Speaker 1: I think they have trailed for seven minutes ten seconds
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  Speaker 1: in this five game win streak, and that it was
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  Speaker 1: in the Colts game when they trailed at three to nothing.
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  Speaker 3: And they had the ball the entire time and hadn't
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  Speaker 3: had the ball yet and we're trailing.
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  Speaker 4: We just had the ball first.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so they basically haven't trailed and they've been in
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  Speaker 3: control of every game for five straight weeks. And look,
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  Speaker 3: this team can be really good for a long time
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  Speaker 3: and never.
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  Speaker 5: Match that stat.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so enjoy it, folks, because you're not gonna lead
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  Speaker 3: every game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. All these games are back and forth, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: changing leads and dramatic things in the end. Not the
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  Speaker 1: last month. Yeah, Jaguars has been in control at least
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  Speaker 1: so far, and the defense obviously has a big piece
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  Speaker 1: of that. Kay Yesterday coming into the game, obviously the
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  Speaker 1: Steelers were not running the ball at that well. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: coming in it's still priority number one for the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: to set up everything else. They had some pieces missing
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  Speaker 1: on the back end yesterday. Of course, Andrew Winger comes
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  Speaker 1: in with the interception, Monterrek Brown steps in three more
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  Speaker 1: passes defense for Darius Williams on the back end in
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  Speaker 1: the passing game, and now you're getting that little bit
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  Speaker 1: of swagger to go with the performance. We saw a
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  Speaker 1: lot of swagger in twenty seventeen. That was a different
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  Speaker 1: level altogether. We're not quite there yet however, to see
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  Speaker 1: them grow into this chatty group and confident group is
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  Speaker 1: a good thing to see.
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  Speaker 4: It's cool to see also that if you don't have
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  Speaker 4: your top guys, you can still play well. Right when
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  Speaker 4: the pregame report comes out inactives, you see Andre Cisco
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  Speaker 4: and Tyson Campbell aren't playing like that doesn't feel good, right,
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  Speaker 4: That would be concerning for most people. But to see
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  Speaker 4: the backups to them come in and play well. See
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  Speaker 4: Andrew Winger doing what he did out there. Buster Brown
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  Speaker 4: is improving every single time, and even when they're getting
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  Speaker 4: thrown at in succession, they don't let that break them.
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  Speaker 4: And they were able to kind of maintain and they
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  Speaker 4: did the seasons score touchdown until the waning seconds of
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  Speaker 4: the third quarter. It's not like I mean, yes, it
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  Speaker 4: was an ugly game overall, but like the defense has
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  Speaker 4: been impressive in ways that I didn't know they were
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  Speaker 4: able to do.
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  Speaker 2: This group won't match twenty seventeen in terms of scoring
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  Speaker 2: touchdowns and sacks things like that, but overall I have
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  Speaker 2: a stronger sense of who they are and the way
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  Speaker 2: they play the run. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe the numbers
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  Speaker 2: are identical, but that team was the one that got
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  Speaker 2: after the quarterback. The forest turnovers and they had six touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: This team just they fill every gap. They're more physical,
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  Speaker 2: I think upfront, and I thought Devon Hamilton added an
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  Speaker 2: element in whatever limited capacity he was in on Sunday
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  Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh, pushing the pocket and bringing Trayvon Walker and
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  Speaker 2: Josh Allen more into the equation because you could see
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  Speaker 2: Kenny Pickett was trying to slide and get out of
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  Speaker 2: the pocket right and after him, Trubisky was trying to
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  Speaker 2: get out of the way. So not that explosive, flamboyant defense,
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  Speaker 2: but really really good.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's much more solid against the run. If
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  Speaker 3: you recall in seventeen they had to go ahead and
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  Speaker 3: get Marcel Darius to fix the run, and even after that,
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  Speaker 3: there were times where the run would get them and
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  Speaker 3: then it would be hard for them to get what
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  Speaker 3: they wanted to do because they wanted to be the
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  Speaker 3: attack on third down defense and it was sometimes shaky
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  Speaker 3: getting there. With this defense, aside from a couple of
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  Speaker 3: communication eras against Houston, you've never felt like there was
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  Speaker 3: a shaky moment and had been perfect. And I don't
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  Speaker 3: know that they're the high impact like you say, Brian,
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  Speaker 3: they're not gonna score points that often. But I think
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  Speaker 3: the stat yesterday was in the first half of games
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  Speaker 3: they've allowed seven points or few or seven of eight games.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that means.
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  Speaker 3: You're always in the game, and sometimes you're ahead because
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  Speaker 3: you're not going to have any points. So I think
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  Speaker 3: this defense, the way it plays solid overall, feels sustainable
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  Speaker 3: and on days where the offense gets motoring, I don't
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  Speaker 3: think you're gonna see forty five forty two in Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 3: like you did in seventeen.
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  Speaker 5: I this defense is going to be consistent.
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  Speaker 2: And I do think we should point out as we
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  Speaker 2: say this, they lead the league with eighteen takeaways, right,
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  Speaker 2: so they may not have that all pro strike score
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  Speaker 2: kind of thing put up two or three pick sixes
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  Speaker 2: like that group was capable of doing. But they are
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  Speaker 2: a group that takes the ball away and plays really
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  Speaker 2: good defense. Oh and by the way, as we've talked about,
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  Speaker 2: you take a couple of starters out of the equation,
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  Speaker 2: you plug a couple guys in, they still play well
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  Speaker 2: and they've got a great rotation going up front.
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  Speaker 5: They don't have.
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  Speaker 2: The Darius Kalais, Campbell, Malik Jackson sort of big name,
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  Speaker 2: high profile guys, doesn't seem to matter.
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  Speaker 5: What they've got is.
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  Speaker 3: After seven weeks, I think we can decide they are
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  Speaker 3: eight weeks and that they are really hard to run against.
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  Speaker 5: A pot of.
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  Speaker 3: Cossi's playing really well. Hamilton only makes that group better.
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  Speaker 3: It's really hard to run at Trayvon Walker's side. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot where you're game planning for this team.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of things where the coaches and say, what,
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna be hard to do this, It's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: hard to do this. Well, what can we do? What
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  Speaker 3: we've got to go to this side? Well, that makes
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  Speaker 3: it easier for the Jaguars, and now they're going to
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  Speaker 3: that side. So so far they except Atlanta for one quarter,
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  Speaker 3: there's been no time where you felt like got teams
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  Speaker 3: were getting control of the game running the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars fourth in the league in rush defense overall seventy
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  Speaker 1: nine yards per game and fourth in rush yards per
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  Speaker 1: play allowed three point six. And there was a lot
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  Speaker 1: of talk going into the Pittsburgh game about the pass defense. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: George Pickens did not really delve into it too far. However,
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars are thirty first in pass defense, but twelfth
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  Speaker 1: in the league and passing yards per play, and that's
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  Speaker 1: where it matters. They come up, they tackle after the catch,
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  Speaker 1: nothing over the top. That's the real big stat on
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  Speaker 1: the pass case.
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  Speaker 3: Plus when you're ahead all the time, yes, which they
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  Speaker 3: had been for five weeks. That's right, yesterday for example.
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  Speaker 3: You know Steelers are a capable offense. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what would have happened, but clearly at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the game, when you're up by ten points points, there
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  Speaker 3: was a drive where the Jaguars were very willing to
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  Speaker 3: let them complete eight yard passes and come up and stop. Well,
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  Speaker 3: all of a sudden, that's fifty yards of passing offense.
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  Speaker 5: Josh Allen did the same thing in London. Yeah you're here.
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  Speaker 3: So one of the most overrated stats, and a stat
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  Speaker 3: that good teams often have is they are low in
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  Speaker 3: the league and pass defense, meaning.
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  Speaker 5: Low in the twenties or thirties.
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  Speaker 3: If you're playing good defense everywhere else, that stats almost
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  Speaker 3: meaning all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, we'll come back in a moment. Little offensive talking
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  Speaker 1: in the bye week is ahead and plenty more to come.
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  Speaker 6: It's Jaguars reporters, welcome back to the Jaguars Reporters Podcast,
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  Speaker 6: Jap Shadwick, Kai Stevens, Brian Sexiston, John Oser, The Jaguars
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  Speaker 6: and the forty nine Ers coming up in week ten,
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  Speaker 6: standing room tickets being.
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  Speaker 1: Sold already six Street three two thousand or of his
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  Speaker 1: at Jaguars dot com slash tickets, and we'll see what
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  Speaker 1: time that game actually is. There are rumblings that maybe
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  Speaker 1: it could be a candidate to be flexed in week ten.
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  Speaker 1: They have to announce it by Tuesday after. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to do it either at four or at the primetime game.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see. We'll see what happens with that one. That
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  Speaker 1: would be quite a change, a sea change in the franchise.
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  Speaker 1: If you can get that flexed from one o'clock to
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  Speaker 1: a primetime bay, well.
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  Speaker 2: It's it might not be the marquee matchup that gets
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  Speaker 2: moved god, but it might be a monster matchup because
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about a San Francisco team that has, even
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  Speaker 2: though they've lost three in a row, that has as
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  Speaker 2: good a defense as there is in the NFL, from
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  Speaker 2: the left end all the way to the backup cornerback.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're really really talented, and you got an
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  Speaker 2: offense that's capable of matching up and lining up and
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  Speaker 2: playing with almost anybody.
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  Speaker 4: Look at us, guys. I came here in April and
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  Speaker 4: I said something to someone about, oh, what do we
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  Speaker 4: do on Monday night football? And they were like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: we haven't had Monday night football? And however next twenty
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  Speaker 4: eleven X many years and I was like, oh, and
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  Speaker 4: look at us Thursday night primetime, Sunday night primetime, Monday
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  Speaker 4: night football this year talking about flexing us into prime.
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  Speaker 4: It's isn't it nice?
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  Speaker 2: It's Oh listen, I mean John's home games art are
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  Speaker 2: something that those of us who work in the business.
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  Speaker 5: Don't mind it.
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  Speaker 4: I said, John's still mad. He doesn't want to talk
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  Speaker 4: about it.
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  Speaker 2: But the fan based the fan bases. They proved last
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  Speaker 2: year in the games against the Titans, and the Chargers
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  Speaker 2: love it. And it's great for the city. It's high
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  Speaker 2: profile and last year I know you weren't here yet
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  Speaker 2: the stadium felt like it was going to shake itself
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  Speaker 2: to pieces at times for those two games. And and
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  Speaker 2: there are a lot of fun and people love it.
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  Speaker 2: So if they do it, I understand why. If they don't,
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  Speaker 2: won't bother me.
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  Speaker 5: I want I want to set you up for that.
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  Speaker 3: We are now at the point where that's not gonna
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  Speaker 3: happen anymore.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And I said last year people were getting angry because
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  Speaker 3: this game wasn't primetime and that game wasn't primetime. Look,
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  Speaker 3: if they're good because of the kid with the hair
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  Speaker 3: and I don't mean Dewey, they're gonna be on TV
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  Speaker 3: a lot. Yeah, they are a primetime matchup because people
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  Speaker 3: want to be able to you know, in a couple
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  Speaker 3: of weeks, the TV can't wait to throw Joe Burrow
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  Speaker 3: and Trevor Lawrence up next to you esther. He's a
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  Speaker 3: rock star, and the team is now playing well enough
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  Speaker 3: to get that rockstar on TV.
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  Speaker 2: You look at the matchup they've got coming up in Frankfort,
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  Speaker 2: right where they've got Miami and Kansas City. Now, they
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  Speaker 2: may have lucked into that a little bit, however, that
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  Speaker 2: shows that those nine to thirty slots are primetime as well.
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  Speaker 2: And so from that perspective, the Jaguars have already played twice.
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  Speaker 3: And my guess is, if the league thought Miami was
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  Speaker 3: gonna be this, there's no way that game would be
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  Speaker 3: over there.
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  Speaker 5: I think it'd be here. But anytime you have good
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  Speaker 5: for Frankfurt.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, anytime you have Kansas City in the only game
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  Speaker 2: on TV that has to be considered primetime, no matter
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  Speaker 2: who they're playing against because it's Pat Mahomes. So Jaguars
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  Speaker 2: have already played too in prime time. They've got two
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  Speaker 2: ahead of them in prime time and third.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I told you guys the story before.
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  Speaker 3: When I first got to Indianapolis, Peyton was in his
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  Speaker 3: fourth year and they were not every week on prime time.
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  Speaker 3: Yet it felt like in my last eight or nine
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  Speaker 3: years there it was four or five times a year.
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  Speaker 3: India the time was not considered a prime market. They
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  Speaker 3: had one Monday night game there I think in their
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  Speaker 3: entire franchise history when I first got there.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe they had had one when the Jags went up there.
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  Speaker 5: You played there in September two thousand so.
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  Speaker 3: Two, and then all of a sudden they couldn't be
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  Speaker 3: on TV. It the market size, perception, whatever, will not
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  Speaker 3: hold this team back from being in prime time.
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  Speaker 5: They're going to be there a lot now.
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  Speaker 1: Guy. The Patriots were always prime time. One o'clock was
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  Speaker 1: a weird time for New England.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well we'd have a couple, but then it was
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  Speaker 4: always Yeah, there's lots of time time teams.
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  Speaker 5: It's a good thing.
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  Speaker 4: We're getting there here.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: It's coming quick. We'll see what happens in the week ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Bye week. Everybody rested up. Let's come back for the stretch.
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  Speaker 1: Run strong, John, You actually.
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  Speaker 5: All right, coach, Here we go, ready break.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of he was Brian Sexton, Tinos, m J P.
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  Speaker 1: Shadrick and this is Jaguars, reported H