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AFC South Champions & looking forward | Jags Drive Time: Monday, January 9 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

0:07
Speaker 1: Welcome to Jags Drive Time with John Oshan Hurst and
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Speaker 1: Bryan Sexty Sexton James Drive. John starts right now, We're
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Speaker 1: about to go to SAP. What a help to st Hell,
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Speaker 1: let's go many shot one the time, Hurt Hurt. Honestly,
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Speaker 1: I think we could just keep rolling that for the
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Speaker 1: next twenty minutes and the numbers would could be the same.
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Speaker 1: It's a it's phenomenal and you know Brian Section, by
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Speaker 1: the way, along with John Osire here for Jack's Drive
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Speaker 1: Time on a Monday morning playoff week. We've got lots
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Speaker 1: to talk about John over the last when that's five
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Speaker 1: straight wins, but over the last month we've seen a
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Speaker 1: lot of celebration and enjoyment of the moments with this team,
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Speaker 1: you know, the late season surge and the success. But
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Speaker 1: that video right there tells you the difference between a
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Speaker 1: regular season win and essentially a playoff win, which was
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Speaker 1: what Saturday night was well and it shows you the
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Speaker 1: h everything, the buy in, the enthusiasm, the love of
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson, the love of these guys have of each other,
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Speaker 1: and it's been a real thing this year throughout um
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Speaker 1: though it was cool Ray Sean Jenkins and Josh Allen
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Speaker 1: hugging Dug and you just thought what these guys went through,
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Speaker 1: you know, only way we went through. And that's an
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Speaker 1: old storyline now, but for those guys, that's really not
3:04
Speaker 1: an old story you know, it's they went through a
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Speaker 1: lot veteran guys. Ray Sean Jenkins comes in here last
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Speaker 1: year under a completely different circumstance, and I keep talking
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Speaker 1: about these veterans, these free agent veterans who all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden it become leaders. And then I think you
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Speaker 1: also saw the youthful enthusiasm around this the freshness, the
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Speaker 1: newness that I talked about last week. As a player
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Speaker 1: and as a team, you only get this feeling once.
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Speaker 1: I think this team is gonna be good for a
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Speaker 1: long time. But you only get this feeling of wow,
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Speaker 1: we've arrived. You only get to be young ones. And
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Speaker 1: that's what that felt like. And uh, you know for
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Speaker 1: two old men, which we are now Ryan, when we
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Speaker 1: experienced the word, I liked it. Yeah, well it makes
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Speaker 1: Sason's nice old real. So for a couple of guys
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Speaker 1: who experience this, is that again. And I think what's cool.
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Speaker 1: I mentioned this a couple times last week. There's a
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Speaker 1: lot of Jaguars fans now who were young and are
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Speaker 1: probably now mid forties, who have kids who are Jaguars
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Speaker 1: fans who they who are probably sick of their dad
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Speaker 1: talking about how great ninety six was. Kids. This is it.
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Speaker 1: So now we fast forward, uh to Saturday night, and
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Speaker 1: just a quick thought before we get two big things.
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Speaker 1: This team last week I felt like they were relaxed,
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Speaker 1: like they were ready for it. I didn't. I didn't
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Speaker 1: sense attention in the locker room or on the practice field.
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Speaker 1: And yet, how could you How could you not walk
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Speaker 1: out into that Bowl with the towels twirling and seventy
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Speaker 1: thousand plus fans who were there to see you and
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Speaker 1: not to see you play the game, but win the
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Speaker 1: game because the expectations the Jags were gonna win. There's
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Speaker 1: no way. I don't care who you are, there's no way.
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Speaker 1: You don't feel that for at least some period of time.
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Speaker 1: And I thought, I thought, Doug Um, and this is
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Speaker 1: not remotely criticism a criticism, I think it was the
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Speaker 1: right thing to do. I thought he coached to that
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Speaker 1: a little bit, not manage yeah, not well, and in
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Speaker 1: the game, not wanting to have the team make a
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Speaker 1: fatal mistake in the first half. Uh, that sort of
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Speaker 1: exacerbated that feeling of pressure, if you will, because I
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Speaker 1: think it was real thing. It was a young team.
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Speaker 1: He's trying to get him through that game as best
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Speaker 1: he could. Um, you know, I didn't want to put
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence in a situation where he threw a pick
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Speaker 1: to the side and it goes for pick six and
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you're down seventeen. Oh no, here
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Speaker 1: we go, you know the So I think that was there.
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Speaker 1: I didn't expect it to be there. Everything it was there. Uh,
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Speaker 1: that's said. I don't think it's going to be there
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Speaker 1: at all this week, And that's my heart takes. I'll
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Speaker 1: let you hold off on that one. So let's roll
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Speaker 1: writ into big things and we'll start with five and five,
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Speaker 1: five wins and five losses. The Jaguars experienced that five
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Speaker 1: game losing streak in October had all of us either
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Speaker 1: scratching our heads, are pulling our hair out, depending on
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Speaker 1: who you are, And now they end the season on
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Speaker 1: a five game winning streak. It's the highs, it's the lows.
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Speaker 1: The head coach immediately after the game was able to
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Speaker 1: put some perspective on what this team went through and
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Speaker 1: how it helped them get to where they are at
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Speaker 1: this moment. I think it means everything, you know, to
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Speaker 1: these guys that have been here. You know, they were
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Speaker 1: at an ultimate low coming off the last season obviously,
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Speaker 1: and and um, now they're they're right now, they're an
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Speaker 1: ultimate high with with more football to play. And so
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Speaker 1: it's you know, and that's really the the roller coaster
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Speaker 1: ever emotions that a football season can can bring. But
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Speaker 1: you know, these guys, the guys that have been here, Um,
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Speaker 1: you can see it in their faces just how how
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Speaker 1: excited and proud and and um, it's not relief, but
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Speaker 1: it's it's um, it's enthusiasm, and it's it's it means
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Speaker 1: everything to them. They take it to heart and and um,
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Speaker 1: it's something that we can we can continue to build upon.
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Speaker 1: By by any we're not where we need to be
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Speaker 1: or want to be. But at the same time, you know,
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Speaker 1: we're building it, and we're building it one you know,
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Speaker 1: kind of one piece, one player, one game at a time.
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Speaker 1: And this was a really good start for us this year.
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Speaker 1: Big thing too good enough and the Jaguars defense has
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Speaker 1: been you know, during that five game losing stretch, the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars languished statistically speaking, in the bottom of the league.
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Speaker 1: They were just giving up too many yards and too
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Speaker 1: many points, and they gave up some fourth quarter leads
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Speaker 1: that had us wondering where this defense would be. However,
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Speaker 1: as we have seen in recent weeks, as the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: surged in takeaways and they finished the season with twenty seven.
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Speaker 1: A year ago they had nine seven, this defense pushed
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Speaker 1: a little bit here and there, yet when they have to,
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Speaker 1: they make the play. Good enough is good enough. I
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Speaker 1: think the biggest thing, uh, we can take away just
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Speaker 1: from those two moments is the sense of urgency. We
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Speaker 1: kind of knew how the game was going. You know,
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Speaker 1: they was running the ball and then they was given
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Speaker 1: that there was going the ball quick. So if he
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Speaker 1: was going to draw back past, he gonna get it
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Speaker 1: all quick. So since the urgency had to be there,
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Speaker 1: so Harden to go out there and make a play
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Speaker 1: with He's been getting pressure with again, pressure all game,
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Speaker 1: and you know that one a little second when he
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Speaker 1: held it just a little bit longer, we made a
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Speaker 1: play making a play. Since the urgency, man, I gotta
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Speaker 1: watch that tape. Man, he cut that corner, so clean.
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Speaker 1: I've just seen it too, brother, it was clean. Uh,
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Speaker 1: but again, since the urgency, it's the it's the it's
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Speaker 1: the plan for one another is to know if he
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Speaker 1: do his part, I'm gonna do my part and we're
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Speaker 1: gonna win this game. Hold onto that last part because
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Speaker 1: it's my hot take and I want to tie you
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Speaker 1: into it. Finally better than ever. Hey, look, John said,
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Speaker 1: we're old. We're certainly seasoned. We've been here. Both of
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Speaker 1: us were here during that run in nine and in
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Speaker 1: ninety nine. We've seen the stadium when it hasn't been
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Speaker 1: at its best and when it's been really good. On
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Speaker 1: Saturday it was as good it's just ever been. It
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Speaker 1: says a lot just you know, just how the fans
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Speaker 1: have rallied around us this year as this season has
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Speaker 1: gone on, and you know, obviously late in the year
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Speaker 1: like like we've been playing and to see the stadium
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Speaker 1: pat tonight was was awesome. One of the best game
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Speaker 1: environments I've I've been in, honestly, So it was it
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Speaker 1: was special. They were loud all game. Um, it's really
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Speaker 1: really cool. It's a cool experience that I always remember that.
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Speaker 1: So hopefully we'll do the same thing next week. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna need it, so it'll be fun. And speaking of
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Speaker 1: next week, UF again prime time Saturday night for the
9:36
Speaker 1: second consecutive week. Obviously, that's the first time that's happened
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Speaker 1: in franchise history. And I'm told that the game is
9:43
Speaker 1: very close to being sold out on a Monday, And
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Speaker 1: that doesn't always happen with playoff tickets, right because people
9:48
Speaker 1: don't necessarily budget that, and it's just after Christmas, so
9:51
Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta work to get the playoff tickets sold.
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Speaker 1: And that's not the case. People are snatching them up
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Speaker 1: left and right. You know, there's so much to talk
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Speaker 1: about that we won't get to everything today. But something interesting,
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Speaker 1: and it maybe interests me because I was here in
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Speaker 1: nineties six, and I was and I was here as
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Speaker 1: a kid when you know, the whole trying to get
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Speaker 1: the franchise thing. And then I've gotten to know a
10:14
Speaker 1: lot of Jaguars fans through social media, through the Bold
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Speaker 1: City regade, through through the people that I like and
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Speaker 1: respect and I feel like I care about at this point, Um,
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Speaker 1: here's what's interesting, Brian. When they won in nineties six,
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Speaker 1: when they got good in the nineties, Um, nobody knew
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Speaker 1: how hard it was because it happened so fast. Well,
10:34
Speaker 1: guess what, Jaguars fans know how hard it is now
10:37
Speaker 1: so um and and I'm making light of a little bit.
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Speaker 1: But if you're a fan, you have seen for ten
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Speaker 1: years how hard it is and how rare it can be,
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Speaker 1: and you've suffered within the context of what football means
10:53
Speaker 1: for suffering. But as a fan, you've suffered, You've cried,
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Speaker 1: you've been lampooned by the national media, you've been told
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Speaker 1: you're not a good fan. Um. So, I think in
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Speaker 1: that sense for a lot of fans, for a huge
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Speaker 1: core of this that Saturday Night was special in a
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Speaker 1: way that the nineties couldn't have been. Because the nineties
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Speaker 1: they got good so fast. I'm not taking down what
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Speaker 1: they did. It was a great era, but they got
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Speaker 1: good so fast that even me, as a reporter covered
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Speaker 1: in the league, I didn't realize how hard it was
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Speaker 1: to get good. And then I go to Indy and
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Speaker 1: you know they're good every year. Well, the last ten
11:26
Speaker 1: years have taught me that. You know, as hard as
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Speaker 1: I knew it was, it's really hard. So all the
11:32
Speaker 1: fans watching, all the fans have watched this on the podcast,
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Speaker 1: whatever enjoy it. I know you are, and you've earned
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Speaker 1: these moments and it's about to get fun again. So this,
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Speaker 1: this first block of of our shoulder this morning, is
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Speaker 1: about perspective. So before we take a break and come
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Speaker 1: back with highlights, here's the perspective for you. If you
11:49
Speaker 1: were to put a symbol next to January nine two,
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Speaker 1: which is the day that the Jaguars beat the Colts
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Speaker 1: and knocked them out of the playoffs, it still would
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Speaker 1: have been a question mark, Right, what did one cost
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence in this team in terms of progress and
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Speaker 1: what was going to happen in terms of who they
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Speaker 1: were going to hire and what they were going to
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Speaker 1: get done in year two with Trevor. Well, here we
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Speaker 1: are one year later. That was st five days ago
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Speaker 1: today and the gesture is exclamation point, right, So with
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Speaker 1: a bullet what they've done in one year from that
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Speaker 1: void to this mountaintop, it can't go unnoticed or unspoken.
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Speaker 1: It's epically, unbelievably, dramatically an incredible turnaround. Yeah, and again,
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Speaker 1: fancy get tired of comparison, but it's sort of a
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Speaker 1: benchmarkt And I'm not finding that people like to be
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Speaker 1: able to tie into the history of this team. Um,
12:47
Speaker 1: but in a way it was and again taking nothing
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Speaker 1: away from those guys because what they did was hard
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Speaker 1: and what they did was incredible, and they went and
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Speaker 1: one in the postseason. But in a way, Doug had
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Speaker 1: even a higher or a a a a more difficult
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Speaker 1: bar or uh not bar, but uh, I guess journey
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Speaker 1: because he had to erase a lot first, like he
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Speaker 1: had to. He talked about it in the spring. Yeah,
13:16
Speaker 1: he had to build that trust and he had to
13:18
Speaker 1: get that thing gone. Um. You know, Tom sort of
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Speaker 1: had a clean slate. So whatever culture was here, you
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Speaker 1: saw the man was in the walls. I mean he was.
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Speaker 1: He was the culture and always was. And so it's
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Speaker 1: it's a phenomenal job. You know. People always say, well,
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Speaker 1: did you know, because I knew when Doug got here
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Speaker 1: that at some point given time, he was gonna win.
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Speaker 1: He was the guy because he's too stable, et cetera.
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Speaker 1: And you say, you know, I don't know if you knew,
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Speaker 1: but I said, boy, if anybody has a shot to
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Speaker 1: do this, it's him. He was the right guy. I
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Speaker 1: didn't think be this quick. It felt good when he
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Speaker 1: showed up. Yeah, and there's coaches who talk about being
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Speaker 1: the right head coach for a situation, and you talk
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Speaker 1: about being consistent, and you talk about talking about being
14:11
Speaker 1: able to weather storms, and then there's coaches who are
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Speaker 1: really built to do that. This guy is built to
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Speaker 1: do that. And the job that he did during October,
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Speaker 1: when I know he knew they should have been winning,
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Speaker 1: just to be calm the whole thing. Uh, It last
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Speaker 1: a lasting impression on those players, and not all coaches
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Speaker 1: can do that. And this organization now feels like by
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Speaker 1: the way that he's in the walls, that this place
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Speaker 1: has adopted or at least it's gone a long way
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Speaker 1: towards taking his personality. You're not scared of the walls
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Speaker 1: jumping out and not yelling. Actually, it feels pretty good.
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Speaker 1: All right, We'll take a break when we come back.
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Speaker 1: Some highlights in commentary from Saturday night's big win over
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Speaker 1: the Titans, giving the Jaguars a f C South championship
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Speaker 1: feels good to say it. We'll say it a lot
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Speaker 1: this week as we roll on with Judge Drive Time.
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Drive Time on a Monday morning, presented by our
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Speaker 1: friends at car Shield and time for some highlights to
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Speaker 1: relive Saturday night. Now, reliving it means we've got to
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Speaker 1: go through the rough spots to get to the great moment.
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Speaker 1: And we'll start with the fumble in the first half,
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Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people had their heart
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Speaker 1: in their throat at that moment. Seven straight completions by
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Speaker 1: the way, now for Trevor Lawrence after his first pass
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Speaker 1: because any complaint and this calls on the ground and
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Speaker 1: recovered by Tennessee Henry the crush wegs tags calls. That's
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Speaker 1: on shot pass thoughts touchdown and at that point the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars are down tend to nothing, and all you can
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Speaker 1: think of is what are you doing? Well? Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: I heard that a lot from people in twenty one
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Speaker 1: almost house that, Um, but I know what Doug was doing. Uh.
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Speaker 1: He wanted to have some Yeah, I'm saying misdirection. I'm
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Speaker 1: not looking for the other word. He wanted to have
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Speaker 1: some creativity and some things to make the Titans think
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Speaker 1: without taking huge risk. Well, they fumble. It was a
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Speaker 1: huge risk. As a play caller, your feel for that
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Speaker 1: kind of a play is it's really shouldn't be a
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Speaker 1: huge risk. So he was trying to strain the defense.
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Speaker 1: I think without putting undue pressure or risks on himself
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Speaker 1: meeting as a play caller, as an offense. And when
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Speaker 1: you fumble, well, when you're drawing that up, I don't
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Speaker 1: think you predict the fumble, uh, or you wouldn't do
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Speaker 1: it obviously, But when you're drawing that up, that seems
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Speaker 1: safer than it looks in retrospect. Uh. And you know,
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Speaker 1: again one difference in this team, you're downten nothing. Uh.
16:55
Speaker 1: I'll admit I. You know I started writing a little
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Speaker 1: bit the other way because you can here we go again. Uh,
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Speaker 1: but this is not here we go again, Team no.
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Speaker 1: And they proved it with the next kickoff and the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars offensive drive two thursdays ago, and it's tend nothing Tennessee.
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Speaker 1: Dagner brings it up. Look it up, Jagner down there
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Speaker 1: and make fair and making some making some good decision
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Speaker 1: under three to go in the first time Lawrence came
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Speaker 1: down Jack Wars and that was an absolute laser. I mean, look,
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Speaker 1: all three phases. You wanna talk about complimentary football at times,
17:43
Speaker 1: they did play that on Saturday Night and to have
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Speaker 1: that fifty four yard return to set up this laser
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Speaker 1: of a pass from Trevor to Christian Kirk, all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden everything felt better. Yeah, And I think I've
17:56
Speaker 1: gotten some emails in the last few days or since
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Speaker 1: game of people very worried about the offense. Well, they
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Speaker 1: only scored this, only scored that. Yeah, they didn't produce
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Speaker 1: other way they wanted to, and they all said that
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Speaker 1: after the game. I think if if you look at
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Speaker 1: it from a are you worried about the production standpoint? Though, Um,
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Speaker 1: they gave away eleven points in the first half with
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Speaker 1: the fumble and then when Trevor miss a in the
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Speaker 1: end zone, so yeah, you should have gotten the points
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Speaker 1: and its open the scoreboard. But in terms of how
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Speaker 1: the offense is functioning, um, you know, I don't think
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Speaker 1: it was a broken offense the other night by any stretch.
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Speaker 1: I think just the circumstances kept them from sort of
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Speaker 1: getting the scoreboard lead, the scoreboard edge they wanted. Uh,
18:41
Speaker 1: and of course you got a close I mean, the
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Speaker 1: fumble didn't count as a red zone failure because I
18:49
Speaker 1: think it was at the twenty one or something, but
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Speaker 1: it was it felt like a red zone and that's
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Speaker 1: put a storyline we followed all season long. Yeah, so
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Speaker 1: in that game, they gave away eleven possible red zone
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Speaker 1: pin points early. If you look at it that way,
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Speaker 1: it hasn't been there m O late. I don't think
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Speaker 1: the EMO going four, but it hurt him on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: all right. So the Jaguars drive down, get a field
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Speaker 1: goal to start the third quarter, and then the Titans
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Speaker 1: get a field goal on their ensuing drive. So you're
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Speaker 1: down sixteen ten and wondering what's it gonna take. Maybe
19:15
Speaker 1: a takeaway is all they needed in this possession. Jobs
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Speaker 1: airs it out, Berks, let's talk get his TA intercepted
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Speaker 1: dot Campbell great returned about at twenty five time throughout
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Speaker 1: the night and when it mattered most sements was there
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Speaker 1: to make the play thirty six yarder by Patterson and
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Speaker 1: that's three points off the turnover. So there you are
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Speaker 1: down sixteen thirteen, John and now feeling like it might
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Speaker 1: be the team that has the ball last. Yeah, different,
19:50
Speaker 1: a little different circumstance, but didn't feel like you could
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Speaker 1: have superimposed a j boy onto that play. And you know,
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Speaker 1: against the Chargers back in two thousand seven team and
20:01
Speaker 1: again we make these comparisons right down that same sideline,
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Speaker 1: not taking anyway away them players who do it. But
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Speaker 1: it just seemed like that and I feel like, oh,
20:08
Speaker 1: that's the kind of play they need. Uh and and
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Speaker 1: uh again, we talked a lot credit to Tyson campbell
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Speaker 1: um probably wasn't the hardest interception he's ever made in
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Speaker 1: his life, but turned back to the ball, got eyes
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Speaker 1: on it. Uh. And a big play that even though
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Speaker 1: they didn't get seven out of it in a game
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Speaker 1: like that, three points momentum swayings. Huge play. So now
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Speaker 1: you're down to sixteen thirteen heading into the fourth quarter.
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Speaker 1: Want to show you a couple of defensive plays. Don't
20:36
Speaker 1: lead to scores or anything like that, but just to
20:38
Speaker 1: show you how the Jaguars defense boat up. We'll start
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Speaker 1: with Trayvon Walker had a big one wiped out because
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Speaker 1: of a penalty. Second and five. Here is a game,
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Speaker 1: and now that play was made out on the end
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Speaker 1: dobs is by time by Robertson Harris and the play
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Speaker 1: by Trayvon Walker. How many people can do this to
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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry right, Derek's trying to stiff arm him and
21:05
Speaker 1: that is not happening. Yeah, and I get what the
21:08
Speaker 1: storyline is gonna be. Eight and Hudginson headed had a
21:11
Speaker 1: nice game last night. Okay, this this wasn't a sack.
21:15
Speaker 1: So in the dialogue in the off season, nobody's gonna
21:18
Speaker 1: talk about that play because all the matters of sacks anymore. Um.
21:22
Speaker 1: But Trayvon forced a big play in the first half
21:26
Speaker 1: on on Saturday by drawing a hold that took away
21:30
Speaker 1: a by Josh um So making an impact. Um. You know,
21:38
Speaker 1: I can't control offseason narratives. But Traymont Walker played really
21:41
Speaker 1: well the other night. I think if you were a
21:42
Speaker 1: fan of this football team, when you watch forty four
21:45
Speaker 1: on the Roy Robertson Harris sack, he forced it. He
21:48
Speaker 1: forced Dobbs to shoot up the middle and Roy just
21:50
Speaker 1: dumped him. He was pushing the pocket and h his
21:54
Speaker 1: his presence was dictating what the Titans were doing at
21:59
Speaker 1: times the other night, and they were dictating the Titan
22:02
Speaker 1: And I know we're you know, I'm short in time.
22:06
Speaker 1: I thought they did a great job defensively, young quarterback,
22:10
Speaker 1: pushing him back, pushing him back towards his own goal line. Pressure,
22:14
Speaker 1: pressure all through the second half, and it finally broke them.
22:17
Speaker 1: And so I have to set this up. Seven left
22:20
Speaker 1: to play. I get on the elevator with Fred Taylor
22:22
Speaker 1: to go to the field to host post game, and
22:25
Speaker 1: I closed my laptop and I had just written quick
22:27
Speaker 1: thoughts and it was tough way to end the season
22:30
Speaker 1: because Derrick Henry was running for first downs and it
22:33
Speaker 1: felt like they were gonna be able to run the
22:34
Speaker 1: clock out on the Jaguars. Between the time that the
22:37
Speaker 1: doors closed at the top and the doors opened at
22:39
Speaker 1: the bottom, this happened. Dobbs is hit from behind, the
22:47
Speaker 1: balls out. They're calling us a flock at the moment,
22:50
Speaker 1: and they returned by Allen for the touch stock Jenkins
22:58
Speaker 1: hit Tobbs from now it's a touchdown. So the elevator
23:05
Speaker 1: doors open, and I'd say to Fred, it seems things
23:08
Speaker 1: might have changed, and we raced to the field. Yeah,
23:11
Speaker 1: and again some mus talking about this game, but it Uh,
23:16
Speaker 1: I kind of laughed when Jeane fre Nett Aulorida Times
23:18
Speaker 1: even a few weeks ago, was writing the Team of
23:20
Speaker 1: Destiny story. But when you basically bounced past a perfect
23:25
Speaker 1: bounce past thirty yards of bumble, this couldn't have gone
23:30
Speaker 1: better into Josh Allen's hands. Uh, what a moment. And
23:35
Speaker 1: you know, Uh, they worked their butts off for the
23:39
Speaker 1: entire second half the defense, grinding, grinding, grinding, trying to
23:43
Speaker 1: get that play, and credit to him, they got it.
23:44
Speaker 1: And isn't there some iron new the fact that that
23:46
Speaker 1: wouldn't have happened if Josh Allen had been rushing the
23:49
Speaker 1: past or instead he was back in coverage. And we've
23:51
Speaker 1: talked about that, you know a lot this year about
23:54
Speaker 1: Alan and coverage maybe not being the best situation. It
23:57
Speaker 1: certainly was, and that, of course leads to this leading
24:02
Speaker 1: to ten points off the turnovers and they allowed just
24:06
Speaker 1: three second half points. Lawrence takes a knee and the
24:14
Speaker 1: Titans look like they're gonna let it go, a team
24:20
Speaker 1: that had won four games total over the last two years,
24:25
Speaker 1: and Duck Peterson told us, I want to win this
24:27
Speaker 1: for shod shot con and is eleventh year is owner
24:32
Speaker 1: here with the Jaguars, beloved, willing to spend, dying to win,
24:38
Speaker 1: and nine of the previous ten years he had had
24:42
Speaker 1: losing seasons, just the one winning year in seventeen when
24:45
Speaker 1: they went to the a f C champ game. And
24:47
Speaker 1: they have done it. Jaguars had won the a f
24:50
Speaker 1: C South fifth straight win and it was the first
24:55
Speaker 1: time they have swept the Titans. It's two thousand and
24:58
Speaker 1: six and did that feel good? Yeah, and only the
25:03
Speaker 1: second time in franchise history they've done it. Um all
25:05
Speaker 1: the things we talked about last week, Brian that are significant.
25:09
Speaker 1: One the South and beat every team in the South
25:12
Speaker 1: for the first time. So you you can sort of
25:15
Speaker 1: walk around with your chest out that you really want
25:17
Speaker 1: it and and you you earned this. And as arden
25:22
Speaker 1: Key said, they they run the South and U for
25:28
Speaker 1: fans who have waited for this, what a cool feeling
25:31
Speaker 1: and what a cool night. And interesting to me that
25:36
Speaker 1: you've had two winner take all games in this franchise's history.
25:41
Speaker 1: And you could argue that out of those two games
25:44
Speaker 1: came to plays that are among the top what two
25:47
Speaker 1: or three of all time and maybe the most unlikely.
25:51
Speaker 1: I mean Morten Anderson missing happens one out of a
25:53
Speaker 1: hundred times, he had fifty nine consecutive That ball bouncing
25:58
Speaker 1: that way to Josh Allen. The if you went out
26:01
Speaker 1: and through that to Josh Allen a hundred times, it
26:05
Speaker 1: would go a million different ways before it bounced right
26:07
Speaker 1: into his hands. Dead run picks it up. Uh, maybe
26:11
Speaker 1: it's fate, but it's pretty cool. All Right, We'll take
26:14
Speaker 1: a break when we come back. Hot takes from Saturday
26:17
Speaker 1: night's victory and looking ahead to this Saturday night's playoff
26:20
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Speaker 1: Claws up. Okay, I thank you. Obviously, it's a feeling
26:54
Speaker 1: hard to describe. I'm speechless. But Doug Tramp their staff obviously,
27:01
Speaker 1: the players, um, you know what are difference they've made.
27:04
Speaker 1: And really people showing up the fourteen and man and
27:09
Speaker 1: woman in the stands that got us over the edge.
27:15
Speaker 1: You could just see the look in his eyes as
27:16
Speaker 1: you stood outside the locker room in the early morning
27:19
Speaker 1: hours of Sunday mornings, and how much he enjoyed that.
27:22
Speaker 1: And and good for Shot, I mean, uh, last year's
27:27
Speaker 1: time everybody knows all all all the Christians and all
27:29
Speaker 1: the fans stuff after Urban Meyer uh and and shot
27:33
Speaker 1: famously with that, Hire said I got it right this time.
27:35
Speaker 1: Well a year later he hit it out of the park. Um.
27:39
Speaker 1: And as much as people when teams lose ownership is
27:43
Speaker 1: always gonna get criticized, uh wrongly in this case, in
27:48
Speaker 1: a lot of ways. Um, But since he has been here,
27:52
Speaker 1: Shot has spent and spent and spent and tried to
27:55
Speaker 1: win and wanted to win. It sometimes takes time as
27:57
Speaker 1: an owner to figure out everything and to get it right.
28:01
Speaker 1: And there can be an element of good fortune that
28:05
Speaker 1: you need as an owner because you are hiring people
28:08
Speaker 1: that you've done the betting work on. But you still
28:10
Speaker 1: need luck. You still need things to happen. Right. Uh,
28:13
Speaker 1: it's happening right now. Things are going in the right direction.
28:15
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna enjoy a lot of years of
28:17
Speaker 1: success now. Good for him, good man, I'm so happy
28:20
Speaker 1: for him. Alright, time for hot takes here on Jack's
28:22
Speaker 1: Drive time on a Monday morning, and we'll start with you. Uh,
28:27
Speaker 1: I was, I was still wallowing in my shod take. Um.
28:31
Speaker 1: The Jaguars offense must be bolder on Saturday to win.
28:34
Speaker 1: I know we're gonna have more time this week to
28:36
Speaker 1: talk about next week's game. Uh, they must be bolder.
28:40
Speaker 1: I had said last week a lot that I thought
28:43
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence in order from them to beat the Titans,
28:45
Speaker 1: I thought he needed to play though he needed to
28:47
Speaker 1: be special Trevor, which he had been against the Titans
28:51
Speaker 1: before and against Dallas, and hadn't been in the two
28:53
Speaker 1: weeks leading up to it. He had a couple of
28:55
Speaker 1: moments where you have special Trevor um. But I think
28:59
Speaker 1: they need that back on Saturday, and I think Doug
29:02
Speaker 1: Peterson and the offenses of approach will be far more aggressive.
29:07
Speaker 1: Uh And I think they will be bolder, and I
29:10
Speaker 1: think that's why they will win. I expect him to
29:12
Speaker 1: win on on Saturday because of that. I don't think
29:15
Speaker 1: they can win playing the way they did on Saturday
29:20
Speaker 1: against the Charge. But at the same time, as Doug
29:23
Speaker 1: has said often this year, the circumstances of a game
29:27
Speaker 1: dictate to how you play. I don't think they'll play
29:29
Speaker 1: the same way as they did against Tennessee. I think
29:31
Speaker 1: they'll be bold against the Chargers, and I expect him
29:35
Speaker 1: to be much freer going after it. I don't say
29:38
Speaker 1: nothing to lose, because he always has something to lose.
29:41
Speaker 1: It will be a looser team on well, because they
29:43
Speaker 1: look they're playing with house money. This year, they have
29:45
Speaker 1: exceeded the expectation. They have won the division. They have
29:49
Speaker 1: won nine games, and we spent the entire summer talking
29:52
Speaker 1: about six seven probably seemed right for this team. So
29:54
Speaker 1: I think you can come out and play loose because
29:57
Speaker 1: you are now playing with house money. My take on
29:59
Speaker 1: your take if they're gonna do that and be bold
30:01
Speaker 1: and go and score thirty points, which I think you
30:04
Speaker 1: need to beat Los Angeles. Travis E t N has
30:06
Speaker 1: to have a big game and and and obviously the
30:10
Speaker 1: Titans are one of the best run defenses in football,
30:13
Speaker 1: and for the second consecutive matchup with E t N
30:15
Speaker 1: they took him out of the game. You need him.
30:17
Speaker 1: I think he opens everything up for Ingram coming across
30:20
Speaker 1: the middle and Zay Jones down the field. I think
30:23
Speaker 1: the threat of E. T N is critical this week.
30:25
Speaker 1: I also think too again, we've got so much time
30:27
Speaker 1: to dig into the manager the matchup. One reason that
30:31
Speaker 1: the offense against Tennessee didn't really get that smooth feeling
30:38
Speaker 1: is the Titans did the same thing the Texans did
30:42
Speaker 1: to him in week five. Shorten the game. You know,
30:45
Speaker 1: I had a nine minute drive in the first half.
30:48
Speaker 1: They're running play Cock down to two. When you're doing that,
30:51
Speaker 1: you get out of rhythm offensively, and every time every
30:53
Speaker 1: time you have the ball, you feel like it's almost
30:57
Speaker 1: like a home run hitter. When he's hitting against a
30:59
Speaker 1: guy who's pitching no no hitter, your hands get tight
31:02
Speaker 1: and you're swinging for the fences every time, and it
31:04
Speaker 1: reduces your chance of success. I don't think this game
31:08
Speaker 1: Saturday will have that We've got to score now feeling
31:12
Speaker 1: because we're not getting the ball back for an hour
31:13
Speaker 1: and a half. All right, here's mine and I'll say
31:16
Speaker 1: that number two, rays Sean Jenkins is the Jaguars defense.
31:19
Speaker 1: Now you're thinking, of course, he's got the two biggest
31:21
Speaker 1: plays of the year, the interception returned against Dallas that
31:24
Speaker 1: won the game in overtime, and to play on Saturday night.
31:27
Speaker 1: But it's more to the point that ray Sean Jenkins
31:30
Speaker 1: was the target of the Titans offensive game plan. They
31:33
Speaker 1: ran everything to the sidelines. They tried to get matchups
31:36
Speaker 1: with him because he's not a coverage safety and he
31:40
Speaker 1: was chasing left and right, and he's aggressive, and they
31:42
Speaker 1: were trying to take advantage of his aggressiveness, and so
31:45
Speaker 1: he gave up a couple of third down and fourth
31:47
Speaker 1: down conversions. However, when the game was on the line,
31:50
Speaker 1: when they needed to play the most, he comes up
31:53
Speaker 1: with the biggest play of the season. And that's really
31:56
Speaker 1: the personality of this Jags defense. I talked to earlier
31:59
Speaker 1: John that there are statistically challenged in terms of their rankings. Right,
32:04
Speaker 1: They're not a team that's gonna rank in the top ten.
32:06
Speaker 1: They're not a team that's gonna shut everybody down and
32:08
Speaker 1: keep people off the scoreboard. Yeah. I mean, they did
32:10
Speaker 1: it against the Jets and against the Texans, but they
32:12
Speaker 1: didn't do it against the Cowboys, and they didn't do
32:14
Speaker 1: it against the Lions, and they didn't do it against
32:16
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. However, when the time comes they need to
32:21
Speaker 1: make a play. In the last five weeks, they've made
32:23
Speaker 1: huge plays. Twenty seven takeaway twenties, increase from a year ago.
32:30
Speaker 1: And there's no no player that personifies this defense better
32:33
Speaker 1: than ray Sion Jenkins. Think about this, if you're I
32:36
Speaker 1: don't know where ray Sean Jenkins will finish his career
32:39
Speaker 1: here ranked among the all time Jaguars defensive players. I
32:42
Speaker 1: do know that if you're you know, if you walk
32:45
Speaker 1: the hallways inside this office, there are pictures of some
32:49
Speaker 1: of the biggest plays in Jaguars history. He has two
32:52
Speaker 1: of them. Um, if if if you took a picture
32:56
Speaker 1: of the moment that he hit Josh Dobbs the other
32:59
Speaker 1: night and the moment that he broke free against Dallas,
33:03
Speaker 1: you would have two of what the biggest six seven
33:08
Speaker 1: defensive plays in this franchise is history defensive plays maybe
33:12
Speaker 1: higher than that. I mean, yeah, it just um a
33:16
Speaker 1: remarkable run again for a month for a guy who
33:22
Speaker 1: again I can't tell you how unusual it is for
33:26
Speaker 1: a free agent to come in and the circumstances he
33:28
Speaker 1: came in, navigate that and then turn into sort of
33:33
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of guys go in the tank,
33:36
Speaker 1: they want out even when they're still around. They just
33:41
Speaker 1: just don't quite fit into it. You've seen it a
33:43
Speaker 1: million times. Um, none of the freedoms have done that,
33:46
Speaker 1: but ray Sean, you know, seems in a way to
33:50
Speaker 1: personify that. I'm hoping to get him on as the
33:51
Speaker 1: ozone podcast. I love talking to him and thought, you know, uh,
33:56
Speaker 1: what a cool story he has become this year. Alright, Folks,
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars is Devon Hamilton John who was seemingly all
34:25
Speaker 1: over the interior of the line against Derrick Henry on
34:29
Speaker 1: Saturday night. Yeah, this, if Trayvon Walker was a true
34:33
Speaker 1: defensive lineman, maybe we go to that direction because Trayvon,
34:36
Speaker 1: again I was outstanding. And Josh Allen, if he was
34:39
Speaker 1: a true defensive lineman three or four. Maybe they are,
34:41
Speaker 1: maybe they aren't, But I don't know the stats, and
34:44
Speaker 1: I haven't talked to anybody on the on the defensive
34:46
Speaker 1: line staff about this, but it seemed like every time
34:48
Speaker 1: you looked up he was making a play. He was
34:51
Speaker 1: making a play. And I guess you could say, well,
34:53
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry's still got yards or whatever. But I thought
34:56
Speaker 1: what they did well okay. And I think most NFL
35:01
Speaker 1: people would tell you, if you can make Derrick Hennry
35:03
Speaker 1: work that hard for his hundred yards, then you're putting
35:08
Speaker 1: over the course of the game, which they did. I think. Yes,
35:12
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry got eight and then seven a couple of
35:14
Speaker 1: times and got them out of situations. But then there
35:17
Speaker 1: were also a lot of times where they got him
35:20
Speaker 1: and then they're facing third and twelve or third and eight,
35:23
Speaker 1: and I thought that's what they had to do, and
35:25
Speaker 1: that's what they did. Late in the game. They got
35:27
Speaker 1: better at that, and all of a sudden, the Titans
35:31
Speaker 1: were trying to come out of their own end zone
35:34
Speaker 1: facing bad down in distance, and the Jaguars got him
35:38
Speaker 1: a couple of times on that took advantage of the
35:40
Speaker 1: young quarterback. Uh So, I think you play sixty minutes
35:46
Speaker 1: and you grind against the Titans, you wait for those
35:48
Speaker 1: big plays. They earned the chances to make their big
35:52
Speaker 1: plays at the end of the game by limiting Henry,
35:54
Speaker 1: and Devon was a big part of that. All right.
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Speaker 1: good to see all right? Um, just quickly, another prime
37:18
Speaker 1: time game Saturday night. Um, we talked ad nauseum and
37:22
Speaker 1: we will about this team. But just a quick thought
37:25
Speaker 1: on the Los Angeles Chargers who come in on the
37:29
Speaker 1: the loss in Denver, but they didn't need to win
37:32
Speaker 1: because their playoff they found for the game. Did the
37:37
Speaker 1: playoff issue was seated? I haven't really checked on it,
37:40
Speaker 1: but it seems like they played their guys and the
37:42
Speaker 1: two injuries and had a couple of injuries. It could
37:44
Speaker 1: be major. They'll be storylines all week. Um, Joey Bosa, Yeah,
37:48
Speaker 1: and um Mike wams And I said, so two key guys.
37:53
Speaker 1: They were beat up when the Jags went out there.
37:55
Speaker 1: I don't really take much uh so long ago. Yeah,
37:59
Speaker 1: there's not much to be had. It was, you know,
38:03
Speaker 1: it was where the Jaguars knew what they were. I'm
38:05
Speaker 1: sure the Chargers are different. Um, but one factor here
38:09
Speaker 1: that that does play in. Chargers played Sunday, Jaguars played Saturday,
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Speaker 1: and the Chargers are to go to Denver. Had to
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Speaker 1: go home and that week that can matter. So we'll see.
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