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Jaguars Reporters: September 10 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome into another edition of Jaguar's Reporters. My name is J. P. Shadrick.
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Speaker 1: His name is Brian sex Site. So it's just two.
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Speaker 1: It's just the two ri John. He's doing doing normal
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Speaker 1: human things. Ashlan Sullivan is on assignment again, as is
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Speaker 1: a lot of times the case on Tuesdays. Here we are,
0:23
Speaker 1: so here we are. And it was an ugly you know.
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Speaker 1: I told somebody's I walked out of the stadium on Sunday. Uh,
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Speaker 1: And you know I'm from Kansas City, so I had
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Speaker 1: a lot of friends. There are a lot of friends
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Speaker 1: who were down here, and I said, look, I can
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Speaker 1: handle losing to KMPS City and rather not right, but
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Speaker 1: it is Kansas City. And that that quarterback is, I
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Speaker 1: mean he is. He is Brady and Breeze right now,
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Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned, he is the best in
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Speaker 1: the league. Right. M v P says it. But you
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Speaker 1: watched it yourself. You know what you saw on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: But when you leave in your quarterback is essentially on
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Speaker 1: injured reserve and you're highly touted, highly paid defense is
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Speaker 1: left in the locker room looking at each other like
1:06
Speaker 1: what hit us? Uh. The only thing you can surmise
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Speaker 1: on Sunday night is Houston. We have a problem as
1:13
Speaker 1: we get set to go to Houston and take on
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Speaker 1: a team that look pretty darn good on Monday Night football.
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Speaker 1: It was. It was an eventful quarter and a half,
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Speaker 1: I'll say that with with the quarterback going down the
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Speaker 1: defense it could have been twenty eight The first four
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Speaker 1: drives for Kansas City easy and then Miles Jackets run
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Speaker 1: from the game and dragged off the field and the
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Speaker 1: whole thing that was in the first half, and like,
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Speaker 1: what is gonna happen in the second half here? This
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Speaker 1: was an amazing opening day with all that happening. Didn't
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Speaker 1: go the right way here, and I think the shocking part, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the quarterback stuff is just a horrible story. And you
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Speaker 1: don't want to see that after all the hope and
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Speaker 1: the build up to see what it felt like he
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Speaker 1: had been here for a year, Aldy and his you know,
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Speaker 1: second drive of the season. He's done for a long
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Speaker 1: time here. But the defensive stuff is the scary. I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's if they're if they're not gonna figure that out,
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Speaker 1: it's going to be a long season. So let's start
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Speaker 1: with the the river of slime to go to Ghostbusters too, right,
2:05
Speaker 1: right to go back in time? You know, the undercurrent
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Speaker 1: of of slime, if you will, metaphor that it is
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Speaker 1: what's wrong with the defense? What is it? Uh? They
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Speaker 1: don't play disciplined football, at least they didn't last year,
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Speaker 1: and I didn't see a lot of discipline from them
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Speaker 1: this week. Let's define discipline. Is it staying in the
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Speaker 1: right scheme and not going rogue? Is it going up
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Speaker 1: and making proper tackles? Is it all of that? It's
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Speaker 1: all of that, JP, It's all of that. Your eyes
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Speaker 1: tell you what discipline football is. Um, they looked lost
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Speaker 1: out there, and you know as well as I do. Look,
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Speaker 1: the coaching staff isn't perfect, but it isn't as if
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Speaker 1: they don't prepare them. Now they may have been out
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Speaker 1: scheme to some degree. I mean that's what Andy Reid
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Speaker 1: is known for. However, Uh, Todd Washing has made plenty
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Speaker 1: of adjustments on the fly, and we didn't. We just
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Speaker 1: didn't see it. So lack of discipline could be Miles
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Speaker 1: Jack losing his wools shoving people around. It could be
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Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey getting into the fray. And Ramsey said after
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Speaker 1: practice or after the game on Sunday. Hey, you know,
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Speaker 1: I should have stayed away from that thing too. So
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Speaker 1: there's a lack of discipline. And then you know, the
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Speaker 1: jack thing kind of portends back to last year. Remember,
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Speaker 1: I mean Jalen had the bad day in Indianapolis. He
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Speaker 1: lost his cool in the first quarter, sat off to
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Speaker 1: the side, kind of sulking. There's a mental toughness that
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Speaker 1: a great defense the Bears defense seems to play with.
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Speaker 1: I haven't seen a lot of the mental toughness that's
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Speaker 1: required when things are really going bad. Right. This defense
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Speaker 1: has not shown the ability to plant a foot in
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Speaker 1: the ground and turn it around. Great defenses do that.
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Speaker 1: They haven't done that in a while. They did it
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Speaker 1: in they really haven't done it in and they didn't
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Speaker 1: do it in twenty nine. So I need to see
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Speaker 1: them play more disciplined and I want to see them
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Speaker 1: play with more mental toughness. And the reason why I
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Speaker 1: say I want to see those things, it's because they're
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Speaker 1: capable of it. They're capable of playing with all of
4:01
Speaker 1: those attributes in spades. It's all there for them, um,
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Speaker 1: but we haven't seen it. It's easy to to be
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Speaker 1: a brash, emotional defense when things going well, and you're
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Speaker 1: shutting down the other side. But when you get punched
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Speaker 1: in the mouth and all of a sudden you're down
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Speaker 1: twenty one and oh wait a minute, we got a
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Speaker 1: rookie quarterback on the field, gonna help this guy too.
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Speaker 1: Then that's the last thing on their mind. And it's
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Speaker 1: it kind of tells you if they if they can't
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Speaker 1: figure that out. Like I said at the start of this,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a long, long year. Well and Jalen
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Speaker 1: said that they stood on the sideline looking at each
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Speaker 1: other like what you know, what? What is going on?
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Speaker 1: All right? That's where mental toughness because like rally after
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Speaker 1: that after the quarterback goes down, Hey, guess what, guys.
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Speaker 1: And Tony made this point Monday night, Tony Boselli, where
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Speaker 1: the where the part of this team is supposed to
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Speaker 1: leave this group, Let's put our foot down make a
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Speaker 1: play here on defense. And if you're Jalen Ramsey and
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Speaker 1: you show up in a brainstruck because you expect to
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Speaker 1: be the highest paid player on defense, and I think
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Speaker 1: both of us expect that will be the case next year,
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Speaker 1: and and deservedly so. He is a tremendous player. It's
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Speaker 1: more than just what you do. You know from the
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Speaker 1: neck down, it's the neck up, it's that mental toughness side.
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Speaker 1: He's got to and I and I heard it in
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Speaker 1: his voice post game. He's got to pull his team
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Speaker 1: out of it. He knows that he didn't do it
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Speaker 1: on Sunday. He's got to do it now. This team,
5:17
Speaker 1: I get big, strong, fast, athletic, right, you want those,
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Speaker 1: You'd rather have those attributes than not. But I would
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Speaker 1: rather have a blend of those in mental toughness right
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Speaker 1: than all brash, athlete fast and now no mental toughness.
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Speaker 1: Give me that. I think they're capable of it. I
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Speaker 1: need to see it the rest of the way because
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Speaker 1: you know I both know it's a hard mountain to
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Speaker 1: climb with a rookie quarterback, a sixth round pick, no less.
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Speaker 1: It's one thing if you draft Carson Wentz and you say, okay,
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Speaker 1: here's the ball, let's go, because we think you can
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Speaker 1: do it. But Gardener Minshew was a project from the start.
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Speaker 1: You bring him in sixth round pick, not as tall,
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Speaker 1: not as strong in the arm. Your plan for him
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Speaker 1: is to bring him along and create for him over
6:00
Speaker 1: the next couple of years, an opportunity not to do
6:03
Speaker 1: it eleven snaps into the new seasons. No way. The
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Speaker 1: defense has to be strong mentally, they've got to be
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Speaker 1: disciplined because they've got to give this kid a chance.
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Speaker 1: You can't count twenty two of twenty five every week
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Speaker 1: out of Minshew as a rookie in this least. It's
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Speaker 1: just not gonna happen like that. No, it's very rare.
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Speaker 1: And that was a near perfect second half of this
6:22
Speaker 1: offense really in last week's game. So j P. Shadwick,
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Speaker 1: Bryan Sexton. Um, you know, the Minshu story is just
6:30
Speaker 1: so fascinating because he came from a community college, went
6:33
Speaker 1: to East Carolina, didn't play a lot there, was about
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Speaker 1: to go to Alabama, and don't forget he was a
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Speaker 1: walk on a Troy with an academic scholars so and
6:40
Speaker 1: then he was gonna be at Alabama as a glorified
6:43
Speaker 1: grad assistant. And then Mike Leach calls him up and says, hey,
6:47
Speaker 1: do you want to lead the country in passing? And
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Speaker 1: he goes and basically does that last year Washington State.
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Speaker 1: Then he's a draft pick and all of a sudden
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Speaker 1: he's starting, and he's gonna be starting the better part
6:56
Speaker 1: of this season. It sounds like for the Jacks. That's
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Speaker 1: an incredible story from a guy who was basically gonna
7:01
Speaker 1: go coach football somewhere. But I want to know is
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Speaker 1: when Leech called him and convinced him not to go
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Speaker 1: to Alabama, did he send him a text of a
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Speaker 1: photo with that cougar suit that we now have all seen,
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Speaker 1: the red suit and say, look, this is what this
7:15
Speaker 1: is what we represent, this is how we roll up here.
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Speaker 1: We need you to bring the funky mustache and let's
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Speaker 1: make this thing happen. Um. I did. Look, he went
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Speaker 1: to a brand new system and I think everyone would
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Speaker 1: agree maybe the most complex system in terms of passing
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Speaker 1: that exists in college football today. And yeah, and he
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Speaker 1: goes to the Pac twelve wait other side of the country,
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Speaker 1: which is not easy to do, and is the offensive
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Speaker 1: player of the year, leads the country in passing. UM.
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Speaker 1: A couple of things that stand out. One we were
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Speaker 1: told to day they drafted him. This is a guy
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Speaker 1: who takes the lesson from the classroom to the practice
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Speaker 1: field and at the end of the week takes it
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Speaker 1: to the game field. UH number two forty two on
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Speaker 1: the Wonderlick. Incredibly smart guy. UH number three. If you
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Speaker 1: read the story about him at Washington State doing the
8:04
Speaker 1: jockstrap Olympics, right, Um, he's got that personality. This teammates
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Speaker 1: just love. They were having a swimming and diving sort
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Speaker 1: of day in the pool, and you know, he shows
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Speaker 1: up and goes right down to the jockstrap, which I
8:16
Speaker 1: don't even know if guys wear those anymore, right, and
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Speaker 1: he goes off the diving board wearing nothing but a
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Speaker 1: jog strap. And I look, yes, it's sophomore. It's it's
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Speaker 1: a fraternity boy kind of thing. But that's, by the way,
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Speaker 1: what that locker room can be at times. And yeah, exactly,
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Speaker 1: let's not overcomplicate this, but that's how he ingratiated himself
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Speaker 1: and became the leader of a team. He and I
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Speaker 1: told the players this when I taught them. I did
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Speaker 1: a media training class for the rookies this year, and
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Speaker 1: I said, you'll be your most successful when you're yourself.
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Speaker 1: And the only way that you can be yourself with
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Speaker 1: the media, with teammates, with fans is if you make
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Speaker 1: yourself vulnerable and they all look at you like vulnerable.
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Speaker 1: I'm a big tough guy. I'm not vulnerable. No, you
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Speaker 1: open yourself up and say here I am. When you
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Speaker 1: do that, some people will naturally not like you, and
9:02
Speaker 1: they will tell you they don't like you. And then
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Speaker 1: there will be people who will come to you and
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Speaker 1: say that they do like you. Minshew made himself vulnerable.
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Speaker 1: The Washington State Cougars football team gravitated towards that guy,
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Speaker 1: and you saw what he did. Very impressed that he
9:18
Speaker 1: was able to do that in one year's time. And
9:21
Speaker 1: by the way, those principles now are all over the
9:24
Speaker 1: National Football League, which maybe why we saw him go
9:28
Speaker 1: out there. And I know Jeff Loghaman told you this,
9:31
Speaker 1: and maybe we're standing next to each other. There were
9:32
Speaker 1: a couple of times where he double clutched and Jeff
9:35
Speaker 1: said he made the right read, and it was almost
9:38
Speaker 1: if he was saying, you're a rookie, are you sure right? Am?
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Speaker 1: I too smart for the But he made the right
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Speaker 1: reading right And I think that that what we're seeing
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Speaker 1: is a really smart guy who loves the game of football,
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Speaker 1: who who intrinsically understands it, and who has natural leadership characteristics.
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Speaker 1: I spent a lot of time with him in the
9:55
Speaker 1: preseason as I was getting ready for the preseason. The
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Speaker 1: telecasts and it's all real and it is awesome. Gardner
10:03
Speaker 1: the person, it is awesome. I walked by his car
10:06
Speaker 1: every day in the parking lot. He's not parking the
10:07
Speaker 1: player's corral. He has got a fishing pole, he has
10:11
Speaker 1: got his um, his golf clubs, and a straw cowboy
10:15
Speaker 1: had in the back with the Mississippi license played on it. Now,
10:18
Speaker 1: if that doesn't tell you who the guy is, man,
10:20
Speaker 1: I don't know. Sound out, and while I'm at it,
10:25
Speaker 1: let me go out on the limb. Okay, I'll see
10:28
Speaker 1: if it'll bear my weight. Here of this another Mississippi guy,
10:32
Speaker 1: Mississippi State guy in particular, is a parallel, not a
10:36
Speaker 1: direct comparison, but a parallel to what we're seeing here. Right, Um,
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Speaker 1: I know where you're going. Dak Prescott was drafted in
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Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen not to be a starter. He
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Speaker 1: came to Mississippi State and didn't really run a pro
10:51
Speaker 1: style set, right. He ran Dan Mullins offense, and we've
10:54
Speaker 1: seen that in at the University of Florida. It's not
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Speaker 1: a pro style offense. He was brought in because he
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Speaker 1: has a strong arm, because he's a really mobile guy.
11:02
Speaker 1: Turns out he's a pretty smart guy too, but at
11:04
Speaker 1: the time he didn't know anything about this. About the
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Speaker 1: Cowboys offense, Tony Romo and team was coming off of
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Speaker 1: a year in which he had broken his classical Cowboys
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Speaker 1: lost ten of eleven games without him, and so the
11:15
Speaker 1: Cowboys were looking to have a strong young quarterback, not
11:20
Speaker 1: someone to come into play right away. Strong young quarterback.
11:23
Speaker 1: They looked at Carson Wentz, they looked at Jared Goff,
11:25
Speaker 1: They looked at the kid from from the land, Paxton Lynch.
11:29
Speaker 1: They tried to trade up into the bottom of the
11:31
Speaker 1: first round to get Lynch. It didn't work out. So
11:33
Speaker 1: they got to the fourth round, the bottom of the
11:34
Speaker 1: fourth round of compensatory pick, and they took that Prescott.
11:38
Speaker 1: Now you can't say, well, we know he's gonna be
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Speaker 1: our guy if and when our quarterback Romo can't play
11:43
Speaker 1: the fourth there's no way you can say that none
11:47
Speaker 1: um well roll more injuries is back in the preseason.
11:50
Speaker 1: He's gone for an extended period of time. You know
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Speaker 1: the story. Now Prescott goes in, they go thirteen and three,
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Speaker 1: he leads him in an eight game winning streak, and
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Speaker 1: when Romo comes back, he doesn't regain his job. He
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Speaker 1: retires the next year. Okay, Now, he had a couple
12:06
Speaker 1: of things going for him. Ze Gillian that helps ran
12:09
Speaker 1: for hu eight yards and game scored sixteen touchdowns. Great
12:11
Speaker 1: offensive line. Witten and des Bryant were still there. They
12:15
Speaker 1: were not they were all star, right, but they were
12:19
Speaker 1: still there. So on offense he had a lot to
12:20
Speaker 1: work with. On defense, they were just average, below average
12:23
Speaker 1: in many respects. So here you've got Gardner Minshew. It's
12:27
Speaker 1: not the same on offense. You've got a lot of
12:29
Speaker 1: guys that have shown a little right, what we saw
12:32
Speaker 1: from d J Jargon the other day, Okay, like that, right,
12:35
Speaker 1: what we've seen over time from Mark Easley, what you
12:37
Speaker 1: think you'll get from Chris Connolly, there's really not the
12:39
Speaker 1: tight end there on the offensive line is capable of
12:41
Speaker 1: being better than they were last year. They're not in
12:43
Speaker 1: the Cowboys class. Okay, so that's why you're not making parallels.
12:46
Speaker 1: Of course, the defense here is capable, as we've seen,
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Speaker 1: of playing at a very high level, and when they are,
12:52
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew, what we saw in the field the other day,
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Speaker 1: could be the kind of guy who can take advantage
12:57
Speaker 1: of a short field, of a quick turnover. If he
12:59
Speaker 1: plays smart football, maybe he can keep you. I'm not
13:02
Speaker 1: saying go eight, No, but what if he could get
13:04
Speaker 1: get a four and four? If this seems four and
13:07
Speaker 1: five and then and then comes folds like he came
13:11
Speaker 1: in into the games in Philly season. If you're looking
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Speaker 1: for a reason to believe, if you're just looking for
13:18
Speaker 1: a comparison, j P, there's one and I and I
13:22
Speaker 1: go people. Tom Brady was a six round pick. Okay,
13:24
Speaker 1: we're talking about the gatest quarterback of all time, who
13:26
Speaker 1: could win a seventh Super Bowl this year and maybe
13:29
Speaker 1: never be equalled. Throw that one out. But the Dak
13:32
Speaker 1: Prescott thing, I think it's a valid comparison, not a
13:35
Speaker 1: complete entire parallel, but a reason why people might go,
13:39
Speaker 1: you know what, let's give him a chance. You know
13:42
Speaker 1: this is uh, this as silly and as weird as
13:45
Speaker 1: this sounds early in the season, this feels like almost
13:49
Speaker 1: a must win week for the ho You think it is, well,
13:53
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty darn close as close as you
13:54
Speaker 1: can get with that. But I don't believe in that
13:56
Speaker 1: this early. But if this team goes over too and
13:59
Speaker 1: if I go in two in a in an ugly fashion,
14:03
Speaker 1: like last week. Let's say, then, who knows what's gonna
14:07
Speaker 1: happen after that point? Well, because you get Tennessee on
14:08
Speaker 1: a short week, and we saw what Tennessee did last week,
14:13
Speaker 1: and we saw what they did to a Cleveland team
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Speaker 1: that that was very highly touted coming in. So you're
14:17
Speaker 1: old enough to remember the year that Emmett Smith held
14:19
Speaker 1: out uh and the Cowboys went on to win the
14:22
Speaker 1: Super Bowl after starting oh and two And it was
14:25
Speaker 1: big to do because team before, yeah, oh and two
14:29
Speaker 1: teams did not go to the Super Bowl, right, hadn't
14:33
Speaker 1: hadn't happened but one or two times since the merger.
14:36
Speaker 1: Tony brought this up last night, but go ahead, okay,
14:38
Speaker 1: But so now look sent two thousand two when they
14:42
Speaker 1: realigned the divisions, fourteen out of a hundred and thirty
14:46
Speaker 1: three teams that have started in two or eleven percent
14:49
Speaker 1: of the O and two teams sent two thousand two
14:52
Speaker 1: have made the playoffs. It doesn't happen very often. That's
14:56
Speaker 1: why you're feeling the need to get a win because
15:00
Speaker 1: oh and two is a bad thing at the time. However,
15:04
Speaker 1: let me give you this a little tidbit. In every
15:06
Speaker 1: season since two thousand and thirteen and oh and two
15:09
Speaker 1: team has made the playoffs every season. Every season thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,
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Speaker 1: seventeen and eighteen, a team that began oh and two
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Speaker 1: has made the playoffs. So while the odds are overwhelmingly
15:20
Speaker 1: stacked against teams that lose their first two games like
15:25
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew, it is possible that they could start o
15:29
Speaker 1: in too and still find their way into the postseason dance.
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Speaker 1: So it's an overwhelming feeling of a must win, but
15:37
Speaker 1: it's not a certainty that it must win. I UM
15:40
Speaker 1: I didn't quite mock Tony Bosell when he brought up
15:42
Speaker 1: the ninety four Cowboys, But let's listen to some of
15:46
Speaker 1: those names on this team. Smith of course, Troy Aikman,
15:49
Speaker 1: uh J Nova Check, Michael irv and Alvin Harper that's
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Speaker 1: on offense. Offensive line is of course fantastic on that team.
15:57
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Charles Hayley, Russell Maryland, uh Jim Jeff Conant,
16:02
Speaker 1: Bill Bates. You're making an unbelievable and you're making the point,
16:06
Speaker 1: which is it rarely happened and only in the case
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Speaker 1: of an lastly talented football team did those Cowboys go
16:14
Speaker 1: on to make the playoffs and do what they did.
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Speaker 1: That was greatness. It doesn't happen often, but as I
16:22
Speaker 1: just said, it has happened. In each of the last
16:26
Speaker 1: sent six seasons at least one team has made the
16:30
Speaker 1: playoffs after starting going too So of the money says
16:34
Speaker 1: you better win on Sunday, and eleven percent says it's
16:38
Speaker 1: not done if you don't. You know, I follow the
16:40
Speaker 1: ninety four Cowboys because I mentioned Kenneth Ghant. He was
16:42
Speaker 1: a special teams guy and he was called the shark.
16:47
Speaker 1: You know you grew up going to watch the Cowboys practice. Yes,
16:52
Speaker 1: that's where we are. And and it's people that go, oh,
16:54
Speaker 1: you're all reaching hey, look, I'll be honest, Well that's
16:58
Speaker 1: what you do when when in the quarterbacks called when
17:02
Speaker 1: when false? Through the past, I went, oh, my gosh,
17:05
Speaker 1: I don't remember even seeing Mark Brunell throw that pretty
17:07
Speaker 1: of a of a pass into the back. It was
17:10
Speaker 1: a rainbow, okay. And I remember turning to to Fred.
17:13
Speaker 1: He was sitting up there and saying, goodness, he was patient.
17:16
Speaker 1: And then Fred said, but look what he just paid.
17:18
Speaker 1: You know what the cost of it was. And that's
17:20
Speaker 1: when I looked at my wits. He hurt. Now. I
17:22
Speaker 1: looked at the replay and I saw Chris Jones falling
17:24
Speaker 1: on him, and we've had this conversation. Hey, I hope
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Speaker 1: he gets I hope he gets a pink slip in
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Speaker 1: his you know, an envelope in his locker, because that's
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Speaker 1: a penalty. That's a fine. You're not supposed to land
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Speaker 1: and drive your weight through the quarterback to the ground.
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Speaker 1: But he did that. That doesn't change what happened. No,
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Speaker 1: the colarbone still broken. Whether it's penalized, I'm not still
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Speaker 1: mad about it. Just pointing out that they, you know,
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Speaker 1: that's something they're trying to avoid doing for this very reason,
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Speaker 1: because Jacksonville was excited about their quarterback and all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, the quarterbacks out of the game, and you're thinking,
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Speaker 1: oh my, what do we do now? We choose why
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Speaker 1: they protect the quarterbacks. So when you get there here
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Speaker 1: these people, oh, they can't get hit. Put a skirt
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Speaker 1: on the quarterback. That's why. Because the game is driven
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Speaker 1: by the quarterback, and if you don't have the quarterback,
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Speaker 1: well we know what happens. That's why right now people
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Speaker 1: are like, oh, what are we gonna do? You know
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Speaker 1: what you're gonna do. You're gonna watch and see if
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Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew can play like Dak Prescott did. Alright, Fun
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Speaker 1: week ahead, Houston Texans on the road, almost a must
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Speaker 1: win feel around here, and the Texans team going back
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Speaker 1: home after a tough loss in New Orleans on O.
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Speaker 1: There's one way I know for sure that they win
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Speaker 1: that ball game. There may be more than one way.
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Speaker 1: I know one way I think the Jaguars can do it,
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Speaker 1: and that is take DeAndre Hopkins out of the game.
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Speaker 1: Now easier said than done, but last night or Monday night,
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Speaker 1: he was targeted thirteen times. Kenny Stills and will follow.
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Speaker 1: The other two receivers were targeted a total of six.
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Speaker 1: He caught eight eleven and two touchdowns and he dropped
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Speaker 1: like three, which is uncharacteristic. If Jalen Ramsey a k A.
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Speaker 1: Mr brinkstruck right once, that kind of a payday. This
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Speaker 1: is the this is the game to show it. If
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Speaker 1: he goes out there and keeps DeAndre Hopkins from moving
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Speaker 1: the chains and getting into the end zone, the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: can win that ballgame and write the check and pay him.
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Speaker 1: And that's why you're paying it. This is the chance
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Speaker 1: he can show the greatest amount of mental toughness and
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Speaker 1: discipline on Sunday by taking him up. And the first
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Speaker 1: thing we went to here was defense, not the offense.
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Speaker 1: The offense is gonna whatever, but the defense I think
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Speaker 1: is the key for this whole thing. And we haven't
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Speaker 1: even mentioned Leonard for net and in quiet obscurity he
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Speaker 1: can hopefully pound out yards. All right, Fun week ahead,
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Speaker 1: I think so fun podcast to enjoyed it. Brian Sexton,
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Speaker 1: I'm J. P. Shadrick. Thank you for listening to Jaguars Reporters.
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