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Arik Armstead, My First Game & Jags Go To Vegas · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: It's twenty four degrees in Jacksonville. It's a twenty four
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Speaker 1: degrees in Jacksonville, eleven in Derby, twelve in Inverness. Actually
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Speaker 1: it's surprisingly mildn't it. This is Till Talk. I'm Jay Lawrence,
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Speaker 1: no relation, He's Key ram Surer and this is the
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Speaker 1: official Jacksonville Jaguars Podcast the UK and Ireland, presented by
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Speaker 1: Gallagher Key.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Do you know what in the summer, when we were
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Speaker 3: saying it's twenty four degrees in Jacksonville, it was fine,
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Speaker 3: wasn't it. Now it's horrible?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, horrible. Now I'm reading it and I'm just feeling
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Speaker 1: ever so more slightly depressed. But hey, Christmas is coming up.
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Speaker 1: We gotta embrace Christmas. And we also have to embrace
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Speaker 1: the fact that Eric Armstead is coming up on the
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Speaker 1: show today, which is very exciting. Our Walter Peyton Man
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Speaker 1: of the Year Award nominee.
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Speaker 3: Key, how special is that?
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Speaker 2: Man?
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Speaker 3: I love to read that. I love to read that
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Speaker 3: and really nice addition to our defensive line this season. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: looking forward to hearing from Eric.
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Speaker 1: I think I'll be absolutely And if you don't know
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Speaker 1: anything about the water Payton, Man of the year. We
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Speaker 1: will be speaking about it of course with Eric, but
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Speaker 1: it recognizes an NFL player for his excellence on and
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Speaker 1: off the field, the player's commitment to philanthropy. Key, So
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Speaker 1: you know, it's quite a big thing, and some people
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Speaker 1: have said some NFL players have said that this is,
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Speaker 1: you know, the biggest award that they've ever received. So
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Speaker 1: it really does mean a lot to NFL players, and
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Speaker 1: he's our nominee going forward. So anyway, we'll talk to
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Speaker 1: Eric a little bit later on about that. Carly is
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Speaker 1: on she's going to be giving us the big question
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Speaker 1: our Fan of the Week from the UK and Ireland.
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Speaker 1: But first, before we get into it, Key, you have
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Speaker 1: to talk about another loss for the Jacksonville Jaguars and
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Speaker 1: fan I know, I know we're getting towards the end
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Speaker 1: of the season, but this is a different sort of
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Speaker 1: feeling for me, actually, Key, you know, losing to the
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Speaker 1: New York Jets. We all said, all of us, me,
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Speaker 1: you we had Sarah our fan of the Week on
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Speaker 1: last week, who actually wasn't that sure of a Jags win.
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Speaker 1: We all basically thought it would be a low scoring game. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and it wasn't particularly was it.
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Speaker 3: It wasn't low scoring. It was a high scoring affair.
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Speaker 3: I really relative like, yeah, oh sure, I mean for
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Speaker 3: this season for the Jags, it was remarkably high scoring.
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Speaker 3: Let's say it felt like at one point I was like, yep,
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Speaker 3: we've really got this, and then blown coverage at the
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Speaker 3: end of the game. It's just like, uh yeah, I
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Speaker 3: actually found Sunday a really really frustrating one because I
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Speaker 3: think we're better than the Jets. Man, we should be
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Speaker 3: winning that game. That's what I felt, like, What did
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Speaker 3: you think?
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Speaker 1: I think it's interesting. It's a really interesting matchup actually,
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Speaker 1: when you think about it, both teams going into the
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Speaker 1: season with high expectations. Objectively, you know, an entertaining game,
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Speaker 1: Jags in it throughout, yet again losing in the last
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Speaker 1: couple minutes. But you know, what do we have in
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Speaker 1: that game? In a season where there isn't going to
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Speaker 1: be a postseason. We have some players, some rookie, some
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Speaker 1: young players, some big players for the future. They're at
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Speaker 1: least making themselves known. Yes, of course it was blowing coverage. Yes,
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Speaker 1: of course there was difficulties defensively as well. But we've
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Speaker 1: got to say congratulations to Brian Thomas Junior friend of
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Speaker 1: the show. Brian Thomas Junior yet again making his mark
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Speaker 1: yet again, proving that he is the best young wide
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Speaker 1: receiver in the NFL. Rookie wide receiver for sure. Breaking
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Speaker 1: the franchise record for touchdowns and receiving yards as a
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Speaker 1: rookie A massive thing. I mean, we spoke about this
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Speaker 1: last week. A massive thing to think that he is
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Speaker 1: going to be with the franchise and it's only his
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Speaker 1: first year, and it's only his first year and he's
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Speaker 1: had to play many games without Trevor Lawrence. Credit to
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Speaker 1: Mac Jones to an extent. You know, there were faults
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Speaker 1: with Mac Jones obviously more interceptions as you mentioned towards
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Speaker 1: the end of the game, but you saw that even
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Speaker 1: they had a bit of a relationship. You could see that,
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Speaker 1: you know, just through the touchdowns and the over one
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Speaker 1: hundred you're receiving yards of Brian Thomas Jr.
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Speaker 3: He is a powerful weapon, no denying it, and he
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Speaker 3: is the future of this franchise. And there's been a
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Speaker 3: lot of talk this week, people saying that regardless of
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Speaker 3: the Jacksonville Jaguars, not only will he be a star
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Speaker 3: at the Jacksonville Jaguars, he's going to be a star
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Speaker 3: in the NFL all around, because he is an exceptional talent.
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Speaker 3: Seeing that, and like you say, with Mac Jones as well,
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Speaker 3: when Trevor's healthy, when those two can get a rhythm going,
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Speaker 3: I think that's going to be something to behold. So
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Speaker 3: that is absolutely fantastic. Also really fantastic. Right was last
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Speaker 3: week's podcast. We're talking to Brian Thomas Junior and we say,
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Speaker 3: you know, there's that rookie record within side, and he's going, yeah,
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Speaker 3: you know, that's sort of on my mind, and then
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Speaker 3: he goes and does it in the next game. I
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Speaker 3: absolutely loved that.
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Speaker 1: And you know he was thinking of us when he
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Speaker 1: did it.
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Speaker 3: Of course he was Oh Jay, did he not message
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Speaker 3: you after?
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Speaker 1: Oh? Never mind?
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Speaker 2: Moving on.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we can feel negative about it. It
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Speaker 1: is another last there are as you say, it was
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Speaker 1: very frustrating at points, especially right at the tail end
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Speaker 1: of the game.
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Speaker 3: But to go to you're absolutely right. A couple of
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Speaker 3: the first and second year players like really making strides
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Speaker 3: in their game, really positive stuff. Parker Washington, Cam little
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Speaker 3: Tank Bigsby is having got much better season than he
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Speaker 3: did last season. Like I feel like he's earned the
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Speaker 3: trust of the coaches back because there were a couple
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Speaker 3: of silly mistakes last season with you know, the ball
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Speaker 3: being on the ground, not realizing that it was the
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Speaker 3: end of a play, et cetera, et cetera. So for
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Speaker 3: him to be doing so much better this season, I
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Speaker 3: also think there's a lot of positives to take man
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Speaker 3: disappointing season, yes, but lots of positives.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: What I said earlier on in the season as well,
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Speaker 1: is that this is the point where it is, you know,
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Speaker 1: the season is done. Essentially, the season is done. There
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Speaker 1: isn't going to be a postseason, so you need to
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Speaker 1: look at what you've got and need to figure out,
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Speaker 1: you know, which of these players are going to be
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Speaker 1: staples going forward. And you know you've mentioned a few
6:23
Speaker 1: then you mentioned cam Litton, obviously, your best mate, Parker,
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Speaker 1: Brenton Strange as well, He's had you know, good points,
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Speaker 1: Jarry and Jones as well. I know that he didn't
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Speaker 1: have a perfect game in the last game, but these
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Speaker 1: are players that they're either rookies or they're early on
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Speaker 1: in their careers. And then combined with you know the
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Speaker 1: likes of Josh Heinzellen, likes of Trevor Lawrence, the people
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Speaker 1: that you know are going to be here for a
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Speaker 1: long time. You got to feel, Okay, we do have
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Speaker 1: players here. We do have good players here. We just
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Speaker 1: need to be able to, you know, play like it essentially.
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Speaker 1: I know that's such an easy thing to say and
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Speaker 1: is a hard thing to do, but you know, credit
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Speaker 1: to them anyway, Jags fall to three and eleven, now
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Speaker 1: have eight losses by seven points or less. We could
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Speaker 1: easily say, oh, well, you know, if they just won
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Speaker 1: a few of them, this season will be different. Where
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Speaker 1: they haven't. Yeah, they haven't.
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Speaker 3: Source Gardener right at the end of that game, getting
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Speaker 3: that interception, But I'm going to do one of your
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Speaker 3: magical segues here. There is a secret sauce that is
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Speaker 3: currently missing from the Jags because the talent is there
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Speaker 3: that like all the ingredients are there. Next season some
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Speaker 3: kind of secret sauce and we turn it around. That's
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Speaker 3: what's going to happen.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well, we'll get into the upcoming game
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Speaker 1: against the Las Vegas Raiders a little bit later on
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Speaker 1: as well. We'll be giving our predictions. We'll be seen
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Speaker 1: seeing where the standings are as well, and how close
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Speaker 1: I am to winning Some Jags merch that Key owns. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and it might be that I am mathematically there. I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure. Actually, we're going to find out. We'll find out. Okay, first,
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Speaker 1: so let's hear it from the Jaguar's nominee for the
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Speaker 1: Walter Payton Man of the Year. It's my conversation with
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Speaker 1: Eric Hmstead. Eric, thank you so much for joining us.
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Speaker 1: How are you today?
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Speaker 2: Good? Appreciate you having me first.
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Speaker 1: Year in Jacksonville. How have you found it? You know,
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Speaker 1: I think you know, considering that a little wikipediaing tells
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Speaker 1: me that is this the first time that you've lived
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Speaker 1: anywhere not on the West coast?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this has been the first time.
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Speaker 1: The look on your face makes me think that that
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Speaker 1: was the first time that you've realized that this is
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Speaker 1: that this is the case.
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Speaker 4: I mean I've been I've been on the west on
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Speaker 4: the East coast for like a month or so, maybe
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Speaker 4: two months, but like having a residence in living full
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Speaker 4: time all year around.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this's my first time on the East coast.
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Speaker 1: How have you found it?
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Speaker 4: It's been great, love Florida. My family loves it here.
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Speaker 4: We've adjusted well. Jacksonville is a great city, great community,
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Speaker 4: especially to raise a family.
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Speaker 2: I feel like, and so yeah, we're loving it here
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Speaker 2: in Florida.
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Speaker 1: And of course, you know, your time living out in
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville heavily dictated by what you do for a living
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Speaker 1: of causing the people that you spend time with. Can
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Speaker 1: you tell me a little bit about your relationship with
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Speaker 1: you know, the rest of the day line. I saw
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Speaker 1: somewhere the traveon in particular has been calling you the
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Speaker 1: old man of the line.
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Speaker 4: Has he been? He said, it's a young man's game. Well,
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Speaker 4: I think he'll learn. He'll learn pretty quickly that you
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Speaker 4: know what what the game is really truly about. You know,
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Speaker 4: he picks on me sometimes, but we have a great relationship.
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Speaker 4: Me and all other d linemen spend real refreshing, you know,
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Speaker 4: joining the group and getting to know everybody and you know,
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Speaker 4: building informed relationships throughout the season. We have a lot
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Speaker 4: of fun together and you know, real, real close knit groups.
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Speaker 4: So it's been fun being a part of the guys.
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Speaker 1: Do you guys go out for dinner regularly or or
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Speaker 1: anything like that?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we do dinners sometimes, we do.
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Speaker 4: We get together watch film on Fridays at Josh Allen's house.
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Speaker 4: He hosts us and we have food and we watched
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Speaker 4: the film and talk about, you know, what we need
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Speaker 4: to do in the game.
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Speaker 1: How would you write him as a host?
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Speaker 2: He's a great host man, you know, definitely a great host.
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Speaker 4: Appreciate him opening up his home to us, you know,
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Speaker 4: to have those to have that time to bond together.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk water play and manner of the Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, can you just tell tell us what it
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Speaker 1: means to be nominated for something like that?
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Speaker 2: That's amazing.
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Speaker 4: This is my fifth nomination, but first time obviously in
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Speaker 4: New City with the Jags. And you know, I've always
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Speaker 4: feel a sense of responsibility to give back to my
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Speaker 4: community and support the people around me. I'm no, you know,
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Speaker 4: not by any means where I'm at in life because
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Speaker 4: of solely what I've done. I've been super blessed to
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Speaker 4: have supportive people and being you know, the right situations
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Speaker 4: a lot of times, and you know, healthy environments, and so,
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Speaker 4: you know, I believe that it takes a village to
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Speaker 4: raise young people. And so that's what we try to
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Speaker 4: do with the ARMS Academic Project. And you know, I
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Speaker 4: hope to represent you know, our organization well for that
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Speaker 4: sense of responsibility to do that and inspire you know,
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Speaker 4: other people to give back in ways they find important
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Speaker 4: as well too.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, some people I've heard players before
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Speaker 1: talk about how this is, you know, an honor that
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Speaker 1: is comparable to be an MVP or you know, Defensive
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Speaker 1: Player of the Year or even win in the Super Bowl. Really,
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Speaker 1: you know, recipients of that award for sure.
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Speaker 4: You know, the the NFL does a great job really
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Speaker 4: making the award really meaningful and prestigious, I would say,
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Speaker 4: and the type of onus and importance that they put.
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Speaker 2: On the award that they're a great job.
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Speaker 4: You know, meeting the Peyton family and Commissioner Goodell throughout
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Speaker 4: the years in the NFL being a part of the
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Speaker 4: events and the experience has been you know, amazing, and
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Speaker 4: they do a great job of really making it something
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Speaker 4: that's really powerful and really meaningful.
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Speaker 1: Can you talk a little bit about what you've been
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Speaker 1: doing in the Jacksonville community.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so here in Jacksonville where you know, when I signed,
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Speaker 4: I wanted to continue do what we have been doing
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Speaker 4: in other areas and bring that here to Jacksonville, which
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Speaker 4: is support disadvantaged youth and their education and ensure that
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Speaker 4: you know, a zip code doesn't define a kid's future.
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Speaker 4: And so here in Jacksonville, my initial goal was to
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Speaker 4: meet with community members and really find out what's needed
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Speaker 4: here and so and where the areas that we wanted
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Speaker 4: to have impact. And so we've been doing story times,
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Speaker 4: which has been great. I've read the kids all over
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Speaker 4: the world throughout the years. So going into schools teaching
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Speaker 4: the importance of literacy and showing that kids that is
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Speaker 4: fun to read and fun to be smart, really is
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Speaker 4: that initiative with that, And then we also just had
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Speaker 4: our Blessings in the Backpack event, which my wife, who
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Speaker 4: we both run our organization together, really was the brain
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Speaker 4: behind that, in which, you know, we believe that a
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Speaker 4: student can't focus in school if they don't have the
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Speaker 4: basic necessities that they need, and food scarcity here in
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Speaker 4: Jacksonville and all over the country really is is an issue.
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Speaker 4: And so providing kids with the food that they need
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Speaker 4: and also other resources that they need to be successful
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Speaker 4: in school and just in life in general. And that's
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Speaker 4: one of our kind of social emotional wellness kind of initiatives.
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Speaker 4: And so we also held a luncheon for local community
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Speaker 4: members to really learn and understand. So we had another
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Speaker 4: of organizations come and met with them. The Boys and
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Speaker 4: Girls Club locally here North Florida, Elevate Jacksonville.
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Speaker 2: I know I might.
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Speaker 4: Forget some organizations, but there was a number of organizations
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Speaker 4: there who are already doing work. And we don't believe
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Speaker 4: in reinventing the will. We want to partner with people
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Speaker 4: who have similar missions and core values and even broaden
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Speaker 4: you know, broad in there, you know, broad in their
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Speaker 4: platform and and you know, so that's that's what we've
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Speaker 4: been doing this far in Jacksonville. We're excited to continue
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Speaker 4: it going and and you know, build upon that more
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Speaker 4: and more.
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Speaker 1: That's amazing man. And you know, congratulations on being the nominee.
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Speaker 1: Good luck of course, you know, for the for in
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks time. Look, first time playing in London?
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Speaker 1: I think am I right in saying that it was
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Speaker 1: your first time playing.
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Speaker 2: In London the first time this past year? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, How how was it? Considering that you're talking to
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Speaker 1: someone that you know lives in London, Essentially you've got
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Speaker 1: to say something good?
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Speaker 2: I hope.
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 4: I definitely had a great experience. It was it was great.
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Speaker 4: It's kind of my first international game. It was a
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Speaker 4: great experience being there in London, having two games, being
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Speaker 4: able to have experience two different stadiums was great. You know,
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Speaker 4: I'm a little bit not the hugest but a little
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Speaker 4: bit of a soccer or football as well too, so
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Speaker 4: being being able to play in those stadiums and fill
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Speaker 4: that kind of energy from the fans there in the
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Speaker 4: UK was amazing. I love London as a city. It's
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Speaker 4: definitely my type of vibe.
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Speaker 1: And do you have a sucker team that you support
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Speaker 1: it kind of.
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Speaker 4: It kind of has changed throughout the years, I would say, definitely,
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Speaker 4: Like when I I gott into soccer just by playing
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Speaker 4: FIFA a lot.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, there was.
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Speaker 4: A time where I was using England's national team a
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Speaker 4: lot on FIFA back in the day when they had
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Speaker 4: Sterling and I think his name was like Sturridge.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, done storage, Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Daniel Sturrige obviously had Rooney and so yeah, that was
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Speaker 4: that was like my team I was using.
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Speaker 1: So essentially, you're an England fan, that's what you're saying.
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Speaker 2: A little bit. I like Rashford too, yeah, and I
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Speaker 2: like some other players.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, but you're doing You're doing well.
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Speaker 2: You're doing well.
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Speaker 1: You're doing. Your knowledge is good, Eric, thank you so
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Speaker 1: much for joining until talk today. I have a good Christmas.
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Speaker 2: Thank you appreciating Merry Christmas.
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Speaker 1: That was my conversation with Jaggs Eric Armstead. JAG's not
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Speaker 1: mainly for the water Paton Man of the Year, of course.
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Speaker 1: Eric Armstead, all right, let's move on, shall we to
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Speaker 1: do vile dispatches? Okay, I'm going into this blind. I've
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Speaker 1: been doing that the last few weeks, haven't we key
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Speaker 1: when we're reading what's going on in the Jags World
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Speaker 1: UK and Ireland. But our producer Simon has just absolutely
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Speaker 1: flooded it with dreadful Christmas puns. So let's see how
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Speaker 1: this goes.
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Speaker 3: Like walking through a jungle that has quicksand in it,
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Speaker 3: let's just get through it.
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Speaker 1: Jay, Yeah, exactly, a candy cane jungle of quickstand. It's
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Speaker 1: do vile dispatches with me. Yes, Jingle Jay Lawrence. Jingle
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Speaker 1: all the Jay Lawrence would have been better. Yeah that's
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Speaker 1: not even a pun. It's in yeah, jingle all the
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Speaker 1: Jay Lawrence and him, Chris, Christmas Tree, Ram Suran. I
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Speaker 1: like it enough and this one doesn't make sense and
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Speaker 1: a re reindeer. I think this is meant to say, reminder,
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Speaker 1: a reminder, a reminder of our twelve days of jagsmus
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Speaker 1: competition and Jags fans, you'll love this. Please don't miss
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Speaker 1: ale Tooe the chance to win. We might have done
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Speaker 1: that one already.
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Speaker 3: We've done all of these already, and I certainly shouldn't
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Speaker 3: have twelve days of Christmas, twelve competitions, twelve amazing prizes
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Speaker 3: and Instagram.
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Speaker 1: Can we even talk about all these prizes are on offer? Key?
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Speaker 1: Because these prizes are actually mad.
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Speaker 3: There's some amazing ones you should definitely be talking about.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I want to be really clear on this. Okay,
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Speaker 1: if you are a fan of the Jacksonville Jaguars, and
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Speaker 1: I assume that you are, this is like integral you
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Speaker 1: go over to Jaguar's UK and I on X, Facebook
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Speaker 1: and Instagram. Because these prizes are crazy. I'm actually slightly
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Speaker 1: annoyed that I.
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Speaker 3: Don't even believe can be a real prize. There's no
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Speaker 3: way this is actually being given away.
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Speaker 1: I'll pull back the curtain. And I texted back being
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Speaker 1: like I was annoyed because I was like, I want
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Speaker 1: to do this anyway, these are the prizes that are
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Speaker 1: still on offer. We're not going to denigrate these with
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Speaker 1: some awful Christmas puns from the bottom of Simon's pun barrel.
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Speaker 1: So this is what we still have to unwrap under
18:33
Speaker 1: the Christmas tree. So the nineteenth of December, signed Trevor
18:38
Speaker 1: Lawrence Jersey. That's good, isn't it.
18:41
Speaker 3: That's good, right, fantastic, absolutely fantastic, worth it alone, and
18:45
Speaker 3: that must be the best.
18:46
Speaker 1: One, Jay, absolutely not. The twenty first of December. Two
18:50
Speaker 1: tickets to the twenty twenty five Wembley Stadium game. Again incredible.
18:57
Speaker 3: Surely that's the best.
18:58
Speaker 1: One, jayly not. This is the crazy one. This is
19:03
Speaker 1: this is so good. This one a real Christmas treet.
19:06
Speaker 1: I suppose for one of you twenty third of December,
19:10
Speaker 1: kissing Me in Florida, a trip over there, two flights,
19:15
Speaker 1: four nights of accommodation, two spots in the twenty twenty
19:19
Speaker 1: five Kissing Me Golf Classic.
19:23
Speaker 3: I mean, that is such a good prize, so I
19:28
Speaker 3: have to like contribute seventy five percent of the cost
19:31
Speaker 3: towards that trip.
19:34
Speaker 1: It is absolutely not. I mean, this is an incredible prize,
19:36
Speaker 1: isn't it. And it is all on the Twelve Days
19:40
Speaker 1: of jagsmus to go over to janku as UK and
19:44
Speaker 1: I on x Facebook and Instagram because those are some
19:46
Speaker 1: amazing prizes and all right, it is getting towards Christmas obviously,
19:50
Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean we're slowing down. With the show
19:52
Speaker 1: that's on Sky Sports NFL with Rhys Parkinson. What's going
19:56
Speaker 1: on this week Key.
19:58
Speaker 3: So we have JP and Reese looking at the highlights
20:03
Speaker 3: of the game, breaking it down for us, talking about
20:05
Speaker 3: what's remaining for the rest of the season. JP and
20:09
Speaker 3: Tony are previewing the Raiders game this coming Sunday, and
20:14
Speaker 3: favorite bit for me is Reese getting a tour of
20:18
Speaker 3: the athletic training facilities with the VP of Health, which
20:23
Speaker 3: is Jeff Ferguson known as Fergie to his mates, who
20:28
Speaker 3: actually earlier this year won the Memorial Award for I'm
20:34
Speaker 3: going to get this wrong, but it's something like Outstanding
20:37
Speaker 3: Athletic Trainer of the Year, so pretty big deal. But honestly,
20:43
Speaker 3: Fergie is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet
20:47
Speaker 3: in your life. And he gives Reese a tour of
20:49
Speaker 3: the facilities, like tapes him up, puts him in a
20:53
Speaker 3: hyperbolic chamber it's really good fun. Yeah, it's really good fun.
20:56
Speaker 3: And like all of their spa pools and stuff like that,
21:00
Speaker 3: it's really great.
21:00
Speaker 2: Man.
21:01
Speaker 1: That sounds luxurious.
21:02
Speaker 3: Oh yeah it is. I actually forgot to direct because
21:07
Speaker 3: I was too busy enjoying. It's basically a spa day.
21:10
Speaker 1: You were just having a nice spa time, weren't you.
21:12
Speaker 3: It was wonderful.
21:13
Speaker 1: What are you doing?
21:14
Speaker 3: It is available on sky Sports NFL every Wednesday at
21:19
Speaker 3: nine pm, and then it is repeated on sky Sports
21:22
Speaker 3: NFL throughout the week and then all of the bits
21:24
Speaker 3: will get put up on the Jaguar's UK YouTube channel
21:27
Speaker 3: after that. But I probably should mention that over Christmas
21:30
Speaker 3: period we're going to be airing on Thursdays. It is
21:33
Speaker 3: Wednesday this week, but from Christmas and New Year Week
21:37
Speaker 3: it will be on Thursdays instead, So you.
21:40
Speaker 1: Mean Wednesday, eighteenth of December, and then it will be
21:42
Speaker 1: on Boxing Day, next episode of Boxing Day, it's a.
21:44
Speaker 3: Boxing Day, and then January two for the following episodes.
21:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, lovely. So last week Key, we decided we were
21:51
Speaker 1: going to give away another signed rookie poster. So this
21:57
Speaker 1: is signed from every single player that was after by
22:00
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars in twenty twenty four. A really pristine poster,
22:06
Speaker 1: isn't it.
22:06
Speaker 2: Key.
22:06
Speaker 1: It's not got any crumples or anything like that.
22:10
Speaker 3: No, it hasn't iqed for twenty four hours to get
22:13
Speaker 3: it signed by all of the rookies, and then Sarah
22:16
Speaker 3: from the Jags UK team spent twenty five hours ironing it.
22:21
Speaker 1: It's definitely a crumpled poster. But it doesn't matter because you
22:24
Speaker 1: still got these great players that, of course are with
22:28
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, like Brian Thomas Junior, like Cam Little, two
22:32
Speaker 1: of Key's favorite players of all time. They have signed
22:35
Speaker 1: it at Jarry Jones.
22:37
Speaker 3: I was just going to add Jarion Jones to that list.
22:39
Speaker 3: I think he's had such a good season and I
22:41
Speaker 3: like him man.
22:42
Speaker 1: So last week we launched the competition and we said
22:45
Speaker 1: that you needed to do what Key to win it.
22:48
Speaker 3: We said that people needed to comment with the incredibly
22:52
Speaker 3: creative phrase keep me in the frame on the YouTube's
22:56
Speaker 3: and on the cast yes, on the podcast the YouTube's
23:01
Speaker 3: and we had a lot of lovely comments, all of
23:04
Speaker 3: them the same.
23:05
Speaker 1: And I have.
23:06
Speaker 3: Read how you enter the competition because that's how competitions were. Oay,
23:13
Speaker 3: I have randomly chosen at Leon hds one as the
23:17
Speaker 3: winner this week, who commented on the YouTube video? So,
23:21
Speaker 3: Leon hds one, huge congratulations winning our not so crumpled poster.
23:27
Speaker 1: But still probably quite crop, still crumpled. Do they get
23:31
Speaker 1: in touch with us? Do we get in touch with them?
23:33
Speaker 3: So, Leon hds one, I will comment on your comment
23:38
Speaker 3: on the YouTube's telling you how to collect your prize.
23:41
Speaker 3: Huge congratulations.
23:42
Speaker 1: All right, then should we get to it. It's time
23:45
Speaker 1: for the big a question. All right, it's time for
23:49
Speaker 1: the big question on til Talk. This is where we
23:52
Speaker 1: get a Jacksonville Jaguar fan from the UK or Ireland
23:56
Speaker 1: to give us the big question. This time around, Carl
24:00
Speaker 1: the answer, what's the big question?
24:02
Speaker 5: My big question is when was your first Jags game?
24:05
Speaker 5: When did you first see them live?
24:07
Speaker 1: That is a really good question. Now, my first Jags
24:09
Speaker 1: game would definitely be an international game, and I think
24:12
Speaker 1: it would have been around two thousand and fourteen or
24:16
Speaker 1: twenty and fifteen, something like that. Let me just have
24:19
Speaker 1: a quick okay, So the twenty and fourteen game was
24:22
Speaker 1: against the Dallas Cowboys, and I don't think I went
24:25
Speaker 1: to that one. You know, when you go look, you know,
24:27
Speaker 1: when you go to so many different Jaguars games in London,
24:30
Speaker 1: you forget which years, do you know what I mean? Yeah,
24:34
Speaker 1: so I think that it was twenty fifteen it was
24:38
Speaker 1: the Bills Jaguars. I may I may have been to
24:41
Speaker 1: that one. I definitely was at twenty sixteen Colts Jags
24:46
Speaker 1: as well, so it's one of those. I think it
24:50
Speaker 1: might have been the twenty fifteen one thirty four thirty
24:53
Speaker 1: one Jags wins win against the Bills. I got into
24:57
Speaker 1: the NFL in twenty twelve, so it was still like,
25:01
Speaker 1: you know, because I'm sure that everyone can empathize with this.
25:06
Speaker 1: When you don't grow up surrounded by American football like
25:09
Speaker 1: people do in the US. You know, when you do
25:12
Speaker 1: get into it, you don't understand everything immediately, do you.
25:15
Speaker 1: It takes a lot while. So at that point, you know,
25:19
Speaker 1: that was my It was still grasping onto every single
25:23
Speaker 1: rule and you know, and all of that. What about yours?
25:27
Speaker 5: So the first game I went to, annoyingly actually was
25:31
Speaker 5: not until in the twenty twenty one. I'd been promised
25:35
Speaker 5: a ticket from my dad for the twenty twenty games,
25:37
Speaker 5: but of course they all called off for COVID. So
25:41
Speaker 5: the first game I actually saw was the twenty twenty
25:46
Speaker 5: one Jags versus the Dolphins, and my dad is the
25:49
Speaker 5: Dolphins fan, so it was pretty interesting obviously to go
25:53
Speaker 5: and see that together. That was really quite cool. And
25:56
Speaker 5: we've been every year since to every Jags game, So we.
25:59
Speaker 1: Need to need to remember what happened in twenty twenty one.
26:02
Speaker 1: The Jags one a walk off field goal if I'm correct, the.
26:08
Speaker 5: Last few seconds it was Oh it was. And again
26:12
Speaker 5: for my first game, it was just unbelievable. So how
26:15
Speaker 5: did dad react In the nicest way? I think because
26:20
Speaker 5: again sort of our love of American football is certainly
26:22
Speaker 5: a family affair sort of thing. I think it was
26:26
Speaker 5: just so special to be a game together. So actually
26:29
Speaker 5: neither of us really cared who was going to win.
26:31
Speaker 5: We were just tough to be there supporting together. So actually,
26:35
Speaker 5: like you said, I'm just thrilled that you've had that experience. So,
26:38
Speaker 5: I mean, there's been a couple of losses since I've
26:41
Speaker 5: experienced both.
26:42
Speaker 1: Then, if you say it's a family affair your dad
26:45
Speaker 1: was a Dolphins fan, does that mean that your first
26:48
Speaker 1: NFL game, as in like watching one on the TV,
26:51
Speaker 1: would have been you know, before that growing up.
26:53
Speaker 5: So the irony is is that I actually don't remember
26:56
Speaker 5: my very first game because growing up, before I was
27:00
Speaker 5: even born, both my dad and my uncle played for
27:03
Speaker 5: local American football teams, so I have been literally born
27:07
Speaker 5: into it. So I don't remember my first NFL game
27:11
Speaker 5: because I don't remember a time where it wasn't on.
27:13
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
27:15
Speaker 5: I always my husband hates it because I call football soccer,
27:18
Speaker 5: and he hoped it because for me, I've grown up
27:20
Speaker 5: with American football. My childhood, I was on the sidelines
27:24
Speaker 5: watching my dad and uncle play for our local team
27:26
Speaker 5: that now my son plays flag for.
27:28
Speaker 1: So it's do you give a shout out to that team?
27:31
Speaker 5: Yes, it's the the Exiles.
27:34
Speaker 1: Les Exiles. Yes, okay, so.
27:37
Speaker 5: My dad and my uncle actually played with Neil Reynolds
27:40
Speaker 5: when he was playing two. It's so cool. I mean,
27:43
Speaker 5: when we see him at events, it's so great to
27:45
Speaker 5: give him a give him away and everything. So so yeah,
27:48
Speaker 5: I don't remember a time before before the American football.
27:51
Speaker 1: Actually there was no time before American football in your life.
27:56
Speaker 1: That's kind of amazing. So actually yours is a bit
27:58
Speaker 1: interesting really because you know, I moment ago I said
28:01
Speaker 1: that you a UK NFL fan, you know, doesn't tend
28:04
Speaker 1: to grow up, you know, in following the NFL or
28:08
Speaker 1: watching American football, because it's it's not quite the same
28:12
Speaker 1: as obviously soccer, as you say, which you know permeates
28:16
Speaker 1: every part of you know, society. So you're the You're
28:21
Speaker 1: the difference the difference here, aren't you. Really? That's that's
28:23
Speaker 1: kind of interesting because for me and I went on
28:29
Speaker 1: a year abroad to the US when in twenty twelve,
28:34
Speaker 1: and I basically lived with people that played for the
28:39
Speaker 1: university that I was at, played for the college, so
28:42
Speaker 1: I didn't really have So it's a bit like you,
28:44
Speaker 1: but slightly different. You didn't have a choice. I didn't
28:46
Speaker 1: have a choice. It was always on Telly, always on Telly.
28:51
Speaker 1: I went to go watch them play, obviously because you know,
28:54
Speaker 1: I'm a supportive roommate. And then subsequently, you know, you're
28:58
Speaker 1: getting to the NFL as well, So we both basically
29:01
Speaker 1: didn't have a choice to get into the NFL but
29:03
Speaker 1: fell in love with it. It's quite like that in
29:06
Speaker 1: a way. I quite like that. It's quite funny.
29:08
Speaker 5: It's cool, as I say, I just don't remember a
29:10
Speaker 5: time before it. And interestingly, we all sort of all
29:15
Speaker 5: of my family we also also port somebody different, so
29:18
Speaker 5: it's wild when it comes to game days, we're all
29:20
Speaker 5: supporting somebody else. My dad, as I say, he is
29:23
Speaker 5: a Dolphins fan. I'm a Jags. My my husband was
29:27
Speaker 5: introduced to the game through us. He's a Steelers fan.
29:31
Speaker 5: My uncle's a Bears fan, my aunt's a Pathas fan.
29:33
Speaker 5: Cousins a Jets fan, is a Chiefs fan. So it's
29:37
Speaker 5: always wild in this house.
29:38
Speaker 1: Do you have any other Jags fans in the So.
29:41
Speaker 5: My my son, he's a Jags fan, and he I
29:46
Speaker 5: mean again, I sort of didn't give him a choice,
29:48
Speaker 5: Like you are, you would follow, you will follow with me.
29:51
Speaker 5: But he loves game days. As I say, his aim
29:53
Speaker 5: is always to be head to toe jagged to the max.
29:57
Speaker 5: So that's that's always his his memo. And he's already
30:02
Speaker 5: saying about the Pathway program, he'd love to look at. Wow,
30:05
Speaker 5: he's old enough. And as I say, he plays flag
30:08
Speaker 5: for the Kent Exiles now, so yeah, and here at
30:12
Speaker 5: the end of the season he got MVP Offensive Player
30:14
Speaker 5: of the Year, so he's thrill.
30:17
Speaker 1: Wow, congratulations to him, that's massive, that's massive. Congratulations to him.
30:22
Speaker 1: Why did you choose the Jags then?
30:24
Speaker 5: So it's I say, a funny story. And we'd gone
30:28
Speaker 5: to on a family holiday to Florida in nineteen ninety
30:31
Speaker 5: seven and we were shopping around in the malls and
30:34
Speaker 5: my dad said, I really want some merch and the
30:37
Speaker 5: first thing I saw was a Jags jumper and I
30:40
Speaker 5: was like, I love this. So my dad, as I say,
30:43
Speaker 5: as a Dolphins fan, was like, oh, I don't really
30:46
Speaker 5: want that. I don't know, it's so cool. So he
30:49
Speaker 5: bought the jumper, which ironically now belongs to me. I
30:52
Speaker 5: still have. So from then he was like, well, you've
30:54
Speaker 5: just picked your team and from them, you know, I
30:57
Speaker 5: haven't looked back. That is literally the reason that I'm
31:00
Speaker 5: a tax fan.
31:01
Speaker 1: That's amazing. And you do hear stories like that though,
31:02
Speaker 1: because people like are into, you know, certain bits and
31:05
Speaker 1: bobs of merch and they subsequently become their team. And
31:08
Speaker 1: I've got to say that late nineties Jaguars stuff, I
31:13
Speaker 1: love it. Yeah, it's particularly good. That's obviously what you know.
31:17
Speaker 1: That's why the throwbacks are so loved as well.
31:20
Speaker 5: And the throwbacks were released. I'm in commitment to the
31:22
Speaker 5: sport for sure. I was on holiday in Turkey, and
31:26
Speaker 5: I was like, I am not leaving this room. I
31:28
Speaker 5: am not leaving my room until I have bought this shirt.
31:31
Speaker 5: Literally the day they dropped, I was right in there too, ordered.
31:37
Speaker 1: Okay, don't blame you whatsoever. I've got two more questions
31:40
Speaker 1: for you. Okay, So first of all, I want your
31:44
Speaker 1: opinion on the season, please.
31:48
Speaker 5: I mean, sadly obviously not our best. It is such
31:52
Speaker 5: a shame in the you know, the previous couple of years,
31:54
Speaker 5: how well we've done and how far we've come, you know,
31:57
Speaker 5: in the last few years. I mean, this one has
31:58
Speaker 5: been such a so frustrating more than anything, I mean,
32:02
Speaker 5: I'm sure for the players just as much as the fans.
32:06
Speaker 5: Just sad we've been sort of plagged by injuries. I mean,
32:09
Speaker 5: I just hope that everyone obviously gets well enough and
32:11
Speaker 5: that next season we have a much better one and
32:13
Speaker 5: we get back to the playoffs and start shining again.
32:15
Speaker 5: Because again, as I said, the last couple of years
32:17
Speaker 5: have been really quite but again for a Jacks fan
32:20
Speaker 5: who hasn't seen them very much, it's really nice to
32:24
Speaker 5: see them really really come up a lot. So I
32:27
Speaker 5: hope that next season it can continue.
32:29
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely my last question for you, Carly, and this
32:33
Speaker 1: is an important one, okay, because we do a standings
32:38
Speaker 1: of predictions here until Talk, myself, Key and the guest
32:43
Speaker 1: or you know, the fan every week. So it is
32:46
Speaker 1: the battle of the two win team and the three
32:48
Speaker 1: win team this weekend, the Las Vegas Raiders versus the
32:52
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars. I would like to know your score prediction. Please.
32:58
Speaker 4: Oh.
33:00
Speaker 5: I would love us to wipe the floor with them,
33:02
Speaker 5: but I don't know if we will. So maybe a
33:04
Speaker 5: twenty three twenty but to us.
33:06
Speaker 1: Twenty three twenty one James versus the Raiders. Yeah.
33:10
Speaker 5: I want it to be a good scoring one, not
33:13
Speaker 5: a low scoring hopefully. So yeah, hopefully to us.
33:17
Speaker 1: All right, thank you so much, Carly, that was a
33:19
Speaker 1: good prediction. Thank you so much for joining TiAl Talk today.
33:21
Speaker 5: No, thank you for having me on.
33:23
Speaker 1: Thank you very much to Carli for the big question.
33:26
Speaker 1: At Key, you couldn't be around for that conversation, but
33:29
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean you're getting away with it. I'm still
33:30
Speaker 1: going to ask you those questions. We'll start with the
33:34
Speaker 1: first NFL game that you ever watched, like on Telly
33:39
Speaker 1: or whatever.
33:39
Speaker 3: Oh on Telly, Oh, I can't do it. I can't
33:42
Speaker 3: remember that it was. It was in two thousand and one,
33:45
Speaker 3: I'll tell you that much. And it would have been
33:48
Speaker 3: back when it was on either Channel four or Channel five,
33:51
Speaker 3: and it was like it was the Mark and Mike Show,
33:54
Speaker 3: whatever it was called, and I would have stayed up
33:56
Speaker 3: super late to watch something. I can tell you about.
33:59
Speaker 3: The first game I ever saw.
34:00
Speaker 1: Live, Yes, do that next.
34:02
Speaker 3: Okay, that was in two thousand and seven. It was
34:04
Speaker 3: Monday Night Football at Paul Brown Stadium, and I saw
34:07
Speaker 3: the Bengals absolutely destroy the Baltimore Ravens. It was absolutely fantastic.
34:13
Speaker 3: All of my family are from Cincinnati, so they're all
34:15
Speaker 3: Bengals fans. That was really cool. And then the first
34:18
Speaker 3: Jags game I ever saw live was the first one
34:21
Speaker 3: over here against the forty nine ers. If we don't
34:24
Speaker 3: talk about that because nothing of interest happened, move on, Jay.
34:27
Speaker 1: Do we not want to talk about that game?
34:29
Speaker 3: Then?
34:29
Speaker 1: Are we just not talking about that San Francisco?
34:32
Speaker 3: It's not even written down in the history books.
34:34
Speaker 1: Okay, alright, we'll just move on and we'll move on
34:39
Speaker 1: to the Raiders game, which is, of course the next
34:43
Speaker 1: game that the Jacksonville Jaguars headed West for the Raiders.
34:47
Speaker 3: I don't like that, Jay. I don't like saying the
34:49
Speaker 3: Jaguars are heading west more often than because more often
34:53
Speaker 3: than headed west, they struggle out on the West coast.
34:57
Speaker 1: You know where they're going to Las Vegas regard they're
35:00
Speaker 1: going somewhere. They're going to the desert. A battle of
35:03
Speaker 1: the two and twelve team and a three and eleven team,
35:08
Speaker 1: two teams that you know haven't necessarily had the season
35:10
Speaker 1: that they wanted to have. They have not been great,
35:12
Speaker 1: of course, and the Las Vegas Raiders with multiple injuries
35:17
Speaker 1: at quarterback.
35:17
Speaker 3: Ye sixteenth quarterback this season, I think, I think so.
35:21
Speaker 1: I think they've changed them. They've changed their mind. I
35:23
Speaker 1: think about sixteen times between Aidan O'Connell, a Gardner Minshee
35:28
Speaker 1: of course. Who I don't think is going to be
35:30
Speaker 1: playing against his former team likely to be Desmond Ridder,
35:35
Speaker 1: who used to play with the Falcons. Of course. I
35:38
Speaker 1: think he was with the Cardinals briefly. Maybe I'm lying,
35:41
Speaker 1: and now he's with the Las Vegas Raiders. Interesting enough, actually,
35:45
Speaker 1: there is quite an interesting parallel I think between the
35:47
Speaker 1: Raiders and the Jaguars in that Brian Thomas Junior, of course,
35:51
Speaker 1: we speak about him all the time here until talk
35:54
Speaker 1: about being the highlight, you know, arguably the star of
35:57
Speaker 1: the Jags offense. Well, in last vegue, they've got somebody
36:00
Speaker 1: else called Brock Bowers, a rookie tight end who has
36:04
Speaker 1: been the highlight of their offense. And it's somebody that
36:07
Speaker 1: they're going to be looking towards to be the star
36:10
Speaker 1: for years to come. So two and twelve team versus
36:12
Speaker 1: a three and eleven team. Max Crosby, of course their
36:15
Speaker 1: star on the defensive side of things, he's not going
36:18
Speaker 1: to be playing. This is a game that is ultimately
36:21
Speaker 1: and I said this against the New York Jets, but
36:22
Speaker 1: I mean even more against the Raiders, this is an
36:26
Speaker 1: extremely winnable game for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
36:30
Speaker 3: Key, it definitely is. I think I think you are
36:35
Speaker 3: going to get a team that are going to go
36:37
Speaker 3: out there to win. Like the Jaguars aren't giving up.
36:41
Speaker 3: They are still playing as hard as they can play,
36:44
Speaker 3: and I think they will continue to do that. And
36:47
Speaker 3: I think this Sunday, we said it last week, and
36:50
Speaker 3: if it's not for that incredible connection between Aaron Rodgers
36:55
Speaker 3: and DeVante Adams, there's all the chances of winning that
36:59
Speaker 3: game last Sunday, and I'm going to say the same
37:02
Speaker 3: for this Sunday. Very very winnable, and I think they'll
37:06
Speaker 3: be absolutely going for it.
37:09
Speaker 1: I think it's a.
37:10
Speaker 3: Difficult travel it's a difficult road game going out west,
37:15
Speaker 3: and traditionally the Jaggs have struggled with that. So hopefully
37:20
Speaker 3: that won't be an issue this week and we can
37:22
Speaker 3: come back with a wh What.
37:24
Speaker 1: I also want to say is that because Desmond Ridd
37:26
Speaker 1: has come in, Desmond Ridd has not He's not been
37:31
Speaker 1: a reliable quarterback for any team that he's played for.
37:35
Speaker 1: If you've got Josh Heines Allen, if you've got Eric
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Speaker 1: Aham said, if you've got Trayvon, if you've got these players,
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Speaker 1: they're able to make him uncomfortable. In my mind, this
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Speaker 1: is a W. This should be a W. Anyway, even
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Speaker 1: though Mac Jones your second quarterback, he's playing Trevor's not.
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Speaker 1: I still think that this should be a win for
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Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaggers. I'm more confident in this game than
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Speaker 1: I have any other game this season.
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Speaker 3: Do you know what, Jay, It's the age old thing.
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Speaker 3: Like if you look at the Jets game, the offense
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Speaker 3: managed to do some stuff and it was the defense
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Speaker 3: that arguably let the side down. It's the age old
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Speaker 3: thing that we've been saying a lot this season is
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Speaker 3: if all three phases come together, the Jaguars are a
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Speaker 3: good team, they can Yeah, they absolutely should be winning
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Speaker 3: this game against the Raiders in my view. And like
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Speaker 3: you say, if the defense can step up in a
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Speaker 3: way that they didn't last week, maybe then yeah, we
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Speaker 3: should have it.
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Speaker 1: And Brock Bowers I think is going to be tough
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Speaker 1: to go against as well, a lot of targets, a
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Speaker 1: big frame as well, but they'll know that, they'll know that,
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Speaker 1: they'll know that he's the main target for the Raiders.
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Speaker 1: And we'll just mention briefly. We don't have to go
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Speaker 1: into it, but because this is a two and a
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Speaker 1: two and a twelve team versus a three and eleven team,
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Speaker 1: there are ramifications for the draft as well. But we'll
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Speaker 1: go into that in the offseason.
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Speaker 3: Key yeah, a jab would say, we can talk about
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Speaker 3: that in April.
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Speaker 1: Let's get your prediction.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going with high scoring affair. I'm going thirty
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Speaker 3: five thirty three to the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going absolutely not absolutely not I'm going twenty
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Speaker 1: one ten to the Jaguars.
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Speaker 3: My argument would be, Jay, none of us have been
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Speaker 3: close to anything, so it's a fair point.
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Speaker 1: I do have to bring up the standings. Of course,
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Speaker 1: have you heard the prediction earlier on of course by
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Speaker 1: Carly R Fan. We get the fan to do a
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Speaker 1: prediction every week. We do have the standings. Sarah the
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Speaker 1: fan last week was not convinced of a Jaguars win,
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Speaker 1: yet predicted them to win anyway, which I'm quite thankful
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Speaker 1: for because if she had said that the Jaguars were
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Speaker 1: going to lose, it would have meant that the fans
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Speaker 1: and me were on the same level.
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Speaker 3: Oh is there only one in it at the time.
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Speaker 1: There's only one in it, so this is really going
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Speaker 1: to be coming down to the wire. The current score
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Speaker 1: is J six the fan pick five, and Key is
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Speaker 1: on three correct throughout the whole season as well.
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Speaker 3: Jay, Mathematically, you haven't won because I can still draw
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Speaker 3: with you. Although if you predict the same as me
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Speaker 3: this week, then ah, dude, tactically you should just predict
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Speaker 3: the same as me this week.
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Speaker 1: I feel like there's a flaw in this game. I'm
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Speaker 1: okay with it, though it does mean though that I
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Speaker 1: can still lose the whole thing because the fans, the predictions,
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Speaker 1: they're only one behind. There's only one behind, so we're
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Speaker 1: gonna I'm still confident that I'm gonna be able to
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Speaker 1: win some sort of JAG's memorabilia from you, though, still confident.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but like I've said before, Ja, I am in
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Speaker 3: charge of postage and I have a terrible memory for
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Speaker 3: posting things.
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Speaker 1: That's good to know. I also know where you live,
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Speaker 1: could just kind of collect it, so there's always that
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Speaker 1: to be honest with you. Back next week of course
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Speaker 1: to talk about that inevitable Jags win. Just confident. I'm
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Speaker 1: just confident this week, Key, have a good week buying
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