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Countdown to Kickoff | Fred Taylor on Matchups to Watch vs. Lions in Week 11 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Time for our weekly conversation with Pride of the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: running back Fred Taylor, And all right, Fred, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Week eleven Jaguars headed to Detroit. But let's briefly look
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  Speaker 1: back to last week. The defense held the Vikings to
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  Speaker 1: four field goals. They were on the field forever. They
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  Speaker 1: hit three takeaways with some good things on defense, but
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  Speaker 1: the offense was just awful. That's absolutely awful. Fifth worst
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  Speaker 1: day in the history of the franchise. How do they
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  Speaker 1: work themselves out of this? Are they cooked? Can they
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  Speaker 1: get anything done on offense?
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  Speaker 2: I like that question. Are they cooked? That's what the
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  Speaker 2: young kids are saying these days.
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  Speaker 3: Right, everything's cooked, and it seems in the most inopportune time.
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  Speaker 2: They are cooked.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we've seen and we've mentioned this before JP
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  Speaker 3: many games this year. Let's just focus on his six
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  Speaker 3: losses or seven losses, but six of them? No, actually, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: eight losses. Where is my brain today? But I'm focusing
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  Speaker 3: on his six losses by just a little over four
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  Speaker 3: points twenty five point total, and that was six losses.
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  Speaker 3: If we can just look at the errors that they
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  Speaker 3: made in those moments, it's a sign of a team
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  Speaker 3: that's been slowly boiling. I think they're now officially cooked
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  Speaker 3: because they just can't seem to function. There's a hump
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  Speaker 3: that they can't get over. There are so many opportunities
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  Speaker 3: out there that they just seem to not be able
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  Speaker 3: to grasp, and it continues to slip through the cracks.
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  Speaker 3: And at this point in the season, you know you
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  Speaker 3: are who you are. There's no one out there to
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  Speaker 3: save you. We have backup linemen in there are no
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  Speaker 3: other prospects out there. We have injuries that have mounted.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the starting quarterback he's suffering the shoulder, missed
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  Speaker 3: last week or miss last week's game.
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  Speaker 2: So there's so much out there.
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  Speaker 3: But the one thing that I do want to give
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  Speaker 3: them credit for, on top of being cooked, they still
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  Speaker 3: don't believe.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they're competitive, man. You got to give them
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  Speaker 2: credit for that.
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  Speaker 3: These aren't just you know, you're not the brown paper
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  Speaker 3: bag type team, the old Saints where your fans are
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  Speaker 3: coming to the stadium bags over their head expecting a blowout.
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  Speaker 2: You know you're gonna go.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna say, all right, I still believe in my team,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, hopefully they can get it done today.
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  Speaker 2: And they keep people coming back somehow. But those are
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  Speaker 2: the real fans, right, So.
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  Speaker 3: I'm encouraged to see that they're competitive and maybe we've
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  Speaker 3: gotten our expectations high based on a year ago and
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  Speaker 3: a year before that when they made that playoff run
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  Speaker 3: two years ago. Then last year we said, well, Trevor's
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  Speaker 3: injury and some other things kind of you know, got
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  Speaker 3: in their way and they had that bad part of
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  Speaker 3: the second half.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same team.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they hadn't got they hadn't improved from a
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  Speaker 3: year ago, quite honestly, and.
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  Speaker 4: Taylor with us.
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  Speaker 1: This is really where the fall line of the season
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  Speaker 1: because if they lose this week in Detroit, they are
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  Speaker 1: guaranteed a losing record, no matter if they went out
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  Speaker 1: after the bye week.
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  Speaker 4: And then the bye week's coming.
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  Speaker 1: Up, so there's a lot of you know, long term
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  Speaker 1: questions to be answered. We'll see what happened, and this
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  Speaker 1: is like, this is a very important game certainly for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of reasons, and you know, they just need
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  Speaker 1: to find a win somehow. It is tough though against
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  Speaker 1: this Detroit team. Yeah, pound for pound, there they're right
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  Speaker 1: there is.
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  Speaker 4: The best team in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: They've got a lot of things going and let's start
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  Speaker 1: an offense. Fred It's it's a resurgent Jared Goff. They've
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  Speaker 1: got a running attack with two running backs. They've got
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  Speaker 1: wide receivers that can burn the field. They've got a
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  Speaker 1: tight end, a good play, they got an offensive line.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, this is like the complete offense.
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  Speaker 3: It feels like, yeah, no doubt, and I believe they
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  Speaker 3: are the best team in the NFL. You look at
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  Speaker 3: if a team can go into your stadium throw five interceptions, uh,
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  Speaker 3: and somehow still find a way to come away with
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  Speaker 3: a win. Those are signs of resilient, very good, capable
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  Speaker 3: football team.
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  Speaker 2: And they're just coach well, you know, top down, they
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  Speaker 2: coach very well.
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  Speaker 3: They got all of the weapons at every position offensively, defense.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they they take chances. You know, they're gonna
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  Speaker 3: come in and say, hey, we're gonna play man, We're
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  Speaker 3: gonna throw some blitzes at you, We're gonna pass rush you.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. You know what what's.
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  Speaker 3: Slowing him down a bit is you know, the injury
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  Speaker 3: to Aiden Hutcheson. I Mean, he's just phenomenal in every
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  Speaker 3: every sort of the way and the run.
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  Speaker 2: In the past, but he's not here, uh.
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  Speaker 3: And that helps the Jaguars a bit, but focusing on
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  Speaker 3: the guys that are out there, they still have a
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  Speaker 3: unit on both sides that are very much capable.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you got our old buddy over there, Mark Brunell.
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  Speaker 3: Who those guys that we visited two camps ago last
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  Speaker 3: year's training camp just to be re see their operation.
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  Speaker 3: Talk to coach Campbell, talk to the staff. They got
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  Speaker 3: a staff full of former players, so they know the game.
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  Speaker 3: I mean every position group has a former player coaching them,
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  Speaker 3: so they kind of know what it takes to have
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  Speaker 3: that hard to have that leadership, which is what's lacking
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of locker rooms around the NFL because
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  Speaker 3: all of the players are competitive, But how do you
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  Speaker 3: get them to study more? How do you get them
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  Speaker 3: in the building, how do you get them to focus
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  Speaker 3: on what really matters? And those are usually that's the
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  Speaker 3: small margin of error that you have to try to.
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  Speaker 2: Avoid.
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  Speaker 3: So those teams, I mean, they're very well coaching. They
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  Speaker 3: get it done.
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  Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with US, Saverie Gibbs, David Montgomery have an
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  Speaker 1: identical amount of carries this year. Yeah, it stands out
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  Speaker 1: about their game. How are they different? And it seems
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  Speaker 1: they're in lockstep.
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  Speaker 2: This is a real one two punch.
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  Speaker 3: You got David Montgomery who runs like Markshawn Lynch. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he has his own beast mode like running style and
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  Speaker 3: he can get get it done in the past game
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 2: You know, vig checkdowns.
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  Speaker 3: He can run some routes, but he's not as dynamic
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  Speaker 3: as Jamier Gibb because Gibbs he's the speaks. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he's more of the I'm just gonna he's like the
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  Speaker 3: Hussin boat in football. I mean he is lightning fast,
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  Speaker 3: lightning quick. He has the moves, jump cut ability, he
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  Speaker 3: catches the ball, he can run routes, run real will routes.
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  Speaker 2: So you're gonna see different matchups. If you think last week.
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  Speaker 3: The Vikings schemes up their tight ends versus Foyer Lukan,
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  Speaker 3: I expect the Vikings to create some sort of matchups
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  Speaker 3: in their running backs versus you know linebackers who has
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  Speaker 3: decent speed but not great speed. So I expect to
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  Speaker 3: see some matchups in the in the past game for forget.
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  Speaker 3: But on the ground, they're both just amazing backs. I'm
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  Speaker 3: a fan of both of them. I like Montgomery when
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  Speaker 3: he was in Chicago even some years Ago. I like
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  Speaker 3: Gibbs coming out of college. You know it was between
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  Speaker 3: him and Bijon, and I like Gibbs when he was
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  Speaker 3: coming out of Bama.
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  Speaker 2: So but I love Bijon too. I can love both
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  Speaker 2: of them. I think it's okay.
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  Speaker 3: But hopefully for this particular game, the Jaguars, they've done
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  Speaker 3: a really good job versus running backs, allowing guys under
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  Speaker 3: one hundred yards for the most part. I think Saquon
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  Speaker 3: if I'm charting it right, maybe the only one yard
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  Speaker 3: rusher against right, Yeah, as a single back, the only
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  Speaker 3: one yard rusher against. There have been other teams that
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  Speaker 3: have gone over a hundred, but from a single back standpoint,
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  Speaker 3: I believe say one. But the defense is done pretty
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  Speaker 3: decent versus the run, and hopefully they can do that
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  Speaker 3: which will help contribute to a win win possibility.
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  Speaker 1: Pret Taylor with US Jaguars secondary last week free takeaways,
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  Speaker 1: they really shut down Justin Jefferson in that game.
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  Speaker 4: They made that a priority. No big plays. You know
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  Speaker 4: they're on the field forever.
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  Speaker 1: But this week they've got the challenge again on the
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  Speaker 1: outside with Jamison Williams who can burn it. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: on Ross Saint Brown, who boy look out this this
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  Speaker 1: is this duo is tough to tangle with. And what'd
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  Speaker 1: you make of the secondary last week? It's a group
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  Speaker 1: that's really struggled a lot this year.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I thought collectively as a unit, you know,
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  Speaker 3: when you go back and look at the Buffalow game,
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  Speaker 3: look at a few other games, namely the Buffalo game
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  Speaker 3: went they tried to play more zone and they got
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  Speaker 3: picked apart. You look at how well they played last
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  Speaker 3: week and their their zones zone scheme. They didn't allow
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  Speaker 3: the big, big play. You know, they sacrificed big plays
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  Speaker 3: to the tight end. But you know that's I think
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  Speaker 3: they had a twenty eight yarded by Hocketson.
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  Speaker 2: And another twenty six yarder by Oliver.
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  Speaker 3: But from the receiver standpoint, you minimize the scoring our
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  Speaker 3: opportunities by keeping those guys in front of you, but
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna be vulnerable in other places. So I'll be like,
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  Speaker 3: I like to see what the strategy is this week
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  Speaker 3: versus a very great passing team in Detroit. Tyson Campbell
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  Speaker 3: has to come and play montage. You know, he has
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  Speaker 3: to make plays like he made in the end zone there,
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  Speaker 3: Ben don't break. I don't mind that style. If you
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  Speaker 3: can slow down this team and keep them to three
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  Speaker 3: points here there, get a few turnovers. You should get
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  Speaker 3: excited after seeing the five turnovers golf throw last week
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  Speaker 3: versus detection.
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  Speaker 2: So but pass rush.
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  Speaker 3: Is gonna be key again, and it's not going to
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  Speaker 3: be easy because the Lions have they have a really
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  Speaker 3: solid offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Fred, final thought with you here Jaguars offense.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you mentioned Trevor Lawrence's left shoulder issue.
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  Speaker 4: No word, who knows what's going to happen this week?
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  Speaker 1: If mac Jones is out there again, you know, how
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  Speaker 1: does he take a step forward?
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  Speaker 4: And then big picture for Trevor, do you try.
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  Speaker 1: To fight back and get on the field this season
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  Speaker 1: or at some point do you shut it down? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: these are big questions moving ahead, not just for this season,
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  Speaker 1: but for the next offseason to come.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think from a competitive standpoint, what we
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  Speaker 3: saw from Trevor a year ago with all of the injuries,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we know he's a guy who wants to
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  Speaker 3: be out there. You know, we know he wants to
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  Speaker 3: lead the team and be that example of not quitting
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  Speaker 3: so and he's always been that way. So from that standpoint,
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  Speaker 3: I would expect Trevor to consider playing the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the season as much as he can, you know, as
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  Speaker 3: long as he doesn't set him back. I think from
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  Speaker 3: a business standpoint, you know, you look at the record,
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  Speaker 3: you look at where they are in the potential draft
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  Speaker 3: standing and now which you know they're in the lead
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  Speaker 3: to get the number one pick as of today. The upfront,
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  Speaker 3: the front office have to make a decision. I know,
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  Speaker 3: no one believes in taking the season, but from a
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  Speaker 3: money standpoint, they just invested two hundred and fifty million
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  Speaker 3: in his quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want to go out there and get him injured,
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  Speaker 2: you know, worse.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know the severity of the injury now as
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  Speaker 3: we speak, but you know, there's a lot of questions
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  Speaker 3: that you are, a lot of conversations that we're not
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  Speaker 3: privy too that are probably going on. So who knows
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  Speaker 3: from that standpoint, But I know Trevor. He's gutsy, he's competitive,
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  Speaker 3: He's a true champion at heart from his days at
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  Speaker 3: Clemson and all that stuff. So I'm sure he wants
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  Speaker 3: to play. It'd be hard to keep him out. Matt
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  Speaker 3: Jones Mac Jones, he just got to keep getting reps,
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  Speaker 3: you know, last week wasn't pretty at all. He had
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  Speaker 3: some moments, but he had a lot of really bad moments.
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  Speaker 3: More up the pressured situations late in the game, and
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  Speaker 3: to hit Max's credit, the protection wasn't great at several
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  Speaker 3: moments throughout the course of the game. Doug talked about sack,
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  Speaker 3: the amount of sacking and longs they had to endure
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  Speaker 3: that ended up being.
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  Speaker 2: Third and very long.
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  Speaker 3: So repetitions give you the confidence to go out there
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  Speaker 3: and play lights out Mac first game in quite some time.
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  Speaker 3: I just think he was a bit rusty, and then
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  Speaker 3: the past protection didn't help that. Perhaps breakdowns all over
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  Speaker 3: the field, and then that very interceptions or the interceptions
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  Speaker 3: late in the game didn't help either. So I just
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  Speaker 3: got to keep practicing and see how it works out.
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  Speaker 1: Hostile environment this week Ford Field against one of the
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  Speaker 1: top teams in the NFL, the Detroit Lions. Will talk
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  Speaker 1: to you after Fred, Thanks as always.
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  Speaker 3: You know where I'll be at ready right here, ready
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  Speaker 3: to go with a win. I'm calling it all that
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  Speaker 3: in a while, JP, you feel the win for the win, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna find a way. Duval in Detroit, we'll be
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  Speaker 3: screaming duvall all the way back, and how about that