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Jags A.M. Podcast Ep. 249 | How Will Jags' Respond in Week 3 vs. Patriots? · Jags A.M.

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into Jags AM. It's week three of the NFL season.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Kainani Stephens, Brian Sexton, John Ogier with me. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to look back at that loss at Denver. Also
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  Speaker 1: try to look forward a little bit to the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: game this upcoming week. But first, let's start off with
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  Speaker 1: our big things brought to you by GEHA, Government Employees
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  Speaker 1: Health Association. So playing time is big thing number one.
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  Speaker 1: The talk of the town right now, Travis Hunter and
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  Speaker 1: his playing time. Not really showing much playing time on
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  Speaker 1: offense and only playing 60% of snaps on defense. Liam
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  Speaker 1: Cohen addressed the rotation with the cornerbacks in his media
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  Speaker 1: availability earlier this week.
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  Speaker 2: With those guys rotating in. You know, with Buster, Travis, Jari,
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  Speaker 2: and then obviously J. Lou specifically and some of the
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  Speaker 2: nickel stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, we did it for.
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  Speaker 2: The most part of the last season as well before
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  Speaker 2: Travis got hurt. And it's something that we've got to
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  Speaker 2: continue to do. We have corners that we have confidence in.
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  Speaker 2: Those guys can all make plays for us. They can
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  Speaker 2: all communicate for us. They've been in the system now.
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  Speaker 2: We got to play it better for sure, but we
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  Speaker 2: also got to get to the quarterback to help those
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  Speaker 2: guys out.
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  Speaker 1: Brian, understandably, when you lose, there's always a lot of questions.
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  Speaker 1: Travis Hunter is always being brought up in relation to
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  Speaker 1: this team. Do you think we'll see more play from
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  Speaker 1: him going forward? Do you think this will develop by
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  Speaker 1: the week?
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's going to develop by the week. Everything
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  Speaker 4: with Travis has so far, how much he's going to
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  Speaker 4: play on offense or how much he's going to play
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  Speaker 4: on defense or how much he's going to play total.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I started listening to a podcast in the offseason, Kai,
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  Speaker 4: and it's a national podcast and The hosts use a
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  Speaker 4: lot of the next-gen stats, which I've really never paid
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  Speaker 4: attention to. But just for fun, because I like the show,
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  Speaker 4: I've dived into that pool. And one of the things, John,
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  Speaker 4: that I have figured out in listening to it is
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  Speaker 4: they're more about success rate and quality over quantity. So
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  Speaker 4: if he gives me 27 or 37 or 47 really
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  Speaker 4: good stats, I'll take it. I just want more from
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  Speaker 4: Travis in terms of, more time on the field, more
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  Speaker 4: plays made, because I haven't seen enough plays made yet.
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  Speaker 4: So in a next-gen spirit, give me whatever amount of
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  Speaker 4: plays that you want to give.
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  Speaker 3: Me, but make them good.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think it's a fair topic because
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  Speaker 5: this is a kid who was drafted number two overall,
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  Speaker 5: and a starting corner is what was projected going into
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  Speaker 5: the season. He's starting, uh, It's unusual that he's not
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  Speaker 5: playing 100% of the snaps, but this team is going
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  Speaker 5: to put the guys on the field in situations that
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  Speaker 5: they feel like gives them the best.
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  Speaker 3: Chance, regardless of draft position.
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  Speaker 5: So I think there is a day going forward that
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  Speaker 5: Travis is playing most or all of the snaps at cornerback.
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  Speaker 5: That day's not here yet, and I think it's up
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  Speaker 5: to him to earn his way into that spot over
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  Speaker 5: the course of time.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Our second big thing today is going to
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  Speaker 1: be turning the page, a frustrating loss in Denver, but
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  Speaker 1: they can't carry it over into this week. John, we've
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  Speaker 1: talked a ton about how this team responded last year
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  Speaker 1: to adversity. How do they address that, but not let
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  Speaker 1: it linger this week?
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  Speaker 5: Well, look, I thought all off season that the reason
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  Speaker 5: that I've had faith in this team to contend over
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  Speaker 5: the long run was that it listened to Liam Cohen.
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  Speaker 3: It responds to Liam Cohen.
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  Speaker 5: And I, I don't think that it's going to allow
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  Speaker 5: a short stumble to turn into falling on their face
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  Speaker 5: over the long term. That doesn't make this game easy.
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  Speaker 5: But I think we saw last year it responds well
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  Speaker 5: to Liam Cohen when there's a crisis. And a loss
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  Speaker 5: in the NFL, crisis is too strong. But a loss
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  Speaker 5: in the NFL from outside acts like a crisis. So
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  Speaker 5: I think they're going to respond. But, Brian, I think
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  Speaker 5: this is a tough game. matchup to respond to it is.
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  Speaker 4: And I'll go back to the the controlled burn right
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  Speaker 4: I mean this is a week where you're going to
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  Speaker 4: burn some things down figuratively obviously in the meeting room
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  Speaker 4: you're going to try to break some habits you heard
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  Speaker 4: the players John after the game talk about all the
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  Speaker 4: details and dialing in on the details well maybe they
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  Speaker 4: lost them over the course of the way maybe maybe
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  Speaker 4: there was too much and The head coach said as
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  Speaker 4: much yesterday that they were looking at all of their
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  Speaker 4: plans to make sure they weren't putting too much on
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  Speaker 4: these guys' plate. But this is about a week about
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  Speaker 4: clearing away all the undergrowth, all the brush, and getting
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  Speaker 4: to the important things. And if they have the important
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  Speaker 4: things mastered, the play style, the mindset, the physicality, the
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  Speaker 4: things that the head coach talks all the time about
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  Speaker 4: being important for Jaguars' DNA, then they'll be fine. And
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  Speaker 4: I expect that to happen this week. I heard some
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  Speaker 4: humility in some players voices they were embarrassed by the
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  Speaker 4: way that they played and they expect to win these
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  Speaker 4: games they want to be talked about amongst the big
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  Speaker 4: teams right you want to be talked about with denver
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  Speaker 4: kansas city new england well you lost to denver okay
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  Speaker 4: fine now go beat new england and and we'll talk
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  Speaker 4: about what it means later on down the road.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's go to our final big thing, which is must-win.
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  Speaker 1: Every week is important, of course, but when you look
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  Speaker 1: at the schedule, Brian, going forward, it doesn't get any easier.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like it might be a must-win this week.
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  Speaker 4: And we're getting down the road right now, it appears. Yeah, listen,
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  Speaker 4: it's not a must-win in terms of making the playoffs
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  Speaker 4: because you have to win your division. But it is
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  Speaker 4: going to be one of those interesting little tiebreakers.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we talked all offseason.
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  Speaker 4: If the Jaguars had won in week two last year
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  Speaker 4: and beaten the Bengals, and a lot of us thought
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  Speaker 4: that they should have, that that was an erroneous call
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  Speaker 4: by the official on Travis Hunter there on fourth down
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  Speaker 4: and 18, then the Jaguars are the number one seed
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  Speaker 4: in hosting, have a bye week in hosting. the AFC playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: So it's a must win in terms of if you
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  Speaker 4: want to keep pace with the big boys and the
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  Speaker 4: prominent teams in the AFC, if you want to be
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  Speaker 4: in a position for tiebreakers to fall your way when
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  Speaker 4: we get to January, then yes, then it becomes a
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  Speaker 4: must win. But in terms of making the playoffs, which
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  Speaker 4: is the most important goal in front of this team,
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  Speaker 4: winning the division, which is the most important goal in
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  Speaker 4: front of this team, then it is a must win
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  Speaker 4: in week three.
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  Speaker 1: John loves a must win. You're welcome. You're welcome.
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  Speaker 4: Look, you did this for him.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I did.
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  Speaker 1: I did.
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  Speaker 3: Are we not playing?
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  Speaker 5: If we lose Sunday, do I get not to come
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  Speaker 5: in next week?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you get a paid week off.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I get it.
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  Speaker 5: Every game in the NFL, the beauty of this league,
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  Speaker 5: the reason everybody loves it is because every game feels
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  Speaker 5: like a must-win.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a must-win.
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  Speaker 5: I think the Patriots are 1-2 last year, and... and
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  Speaker 5: they wound up being the number one seed. But I
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  Speaker 5: will say it's important for the psyche of this team,
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  Speaker 5: and it's really important in terms of matchups. Maybe it's
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  Speaker 5: a must-win if you want home field at the end,
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  Speaker 5: close to it.
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  Speaker 1: That would be nice.
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  Speaker 3: It's important, but.
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  Speaker 4: It's not a must-win.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a must-win. You've heard it here first. John
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  Speaker 1: weighs in. Stay with us here on DAGZAM after the break.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to do a little this or that.
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  Speaker 3: This or that. This or that.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back into Jags AM. We're going to do a
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  Speaker 1: little this or that this morning. We touched on the
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  Speaker 1: topic of the week right now, which is Travis Hunter.
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  Speaker 1: Going forward, we don't know what they're going to do,
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  Speaker 1: but we're going to talk about what we might like
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  Speaker 1: to see. Would you like to see him more on
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  Speaker 1: offense in some sort of role, or would you just
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  Speaker 1: like to see him 100% on defense?
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  Speaker 4: I think defense is probably where I want to see him.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, I don't think they need him in offense
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  Speaker 4: as much.
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  Speaker 3: But also because his.
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  Speaker 4: Footwork and his ball skills are things that are touted
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  Speaker 4: by people who know football and people who I trust.
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  Speaker 4: So I would like to see him focused on the
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  Speaker 4: defensive side of the ball because shutdown corners... are difficult
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  Speaker 4: to find. Okay, shutdown's probably not the right word. You've
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  Speaker 4: talked about Bucky's comments on that. But really, good corners, right?
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  Speaker 4: Corners who are impact players, let's put it that way,
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  Speaker 4: are difficult to find. And the Jaguars don't have one
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  Speaker 4: right now. I mean, the hope is he is that guy.
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  Speaker 4: Monteric Bryant is a good corner, but he's not a
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  Speaker 4: shutdown and impact corner, I don't think. So I would
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  Speaker 4: rather see Travis focus on cornerback players. if it was
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  Speaker 4: my choice.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it was pretty clear during training camp that they
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  Speaker 5: realized a little bit in, we need to get him
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  Speaker 5: reps on defense. They limited a lot what he was
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  Speaker 5: doing on offense late in training camp, and he just
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  Speaker 5: focused on defense. Feels like they're still working toward that
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  Speaker 5: of getting him up to speed where he's ready to
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  Speaker 5: play an entire game defensively. So I think first you
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  Speaker 5: want to see him master that. there's always the old
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  Speaker 5: adage in the NFL, let's get a guy going in
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  Speaker 5: an area before you have him do more things. So
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  Speaker 5: I think get him up to speed completely where he's comfortable,
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  Speaker 5: where he absolutely is at a high level defensively, and
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  Speaker 5: then worry about mixing him into more packages on offense because,
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  Speaker 5: as Brian said, I'm not sure this offense needs Travis Hunter.
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  Speaker 3: I think he is a terrific supplement.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: When used correctly on offense.
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  Speaker 4: And I do think it's important to point out, and
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  Speaker 4: maybe you have, he won't play his 17th NFL game
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  Speaker 4: until the week before Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's only played, what, nine games at this point?
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  Speaker 3: He's still a rookie.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: He missed 10 games last year. So it won't be
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  Speaker 4: until right before Thanksgiving that he's got a full season
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  Speaker 4: of experience under his belt.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm willing to be patient.
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  Speaker 4: And obviously, they have a plan to work him in.
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  Speaker 4: And these guys have won more than they've lost. So
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  Speaker 4: I trust them with their plan. I would like to
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  Speaker 4: see more from him, though, in terms of production when
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  Speaker 4: he's on the field. I'd like to see an interception.
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  Speaker 1: I think we all would like to see that. I
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  Speaker 1: think that would be good. We talked about the O-line
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  Speaker 1: being problematic against Denver. Is this a long-term issue, John,
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  Speaker 1: or do you think this was kind of a one-off
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  Speaker 1: against a really great defensive team in Denver?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's more the latter. I kind of go
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  Speaker 3: back to last season. Overall, when you took a.
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  Speaker 5: 30,000-foot view of 2025 of the offensive line, it's a
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  Speaker 5: pretty good year. And obviously, you don't have a pretty
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  Speaker 5: good year or a very good year offensively without solid,
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  Speaker 5: for the most part, offensive line play.
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  Speaker 3: But there were some clunkers, obviously.
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  Speaker 5: As there usually are with an offensive line, feels like
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  Speaker 5: Sunday was more of a clunker. Not that you can
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  Speaker 5: ignore it, but the body of work showed me last year,
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  Speaker 5: and it's still relatively the same bunch personnel-wise, I expect
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  Speaker 5: them to respond on the offensive line when they feel
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  Speaker 5: like they didn't play great.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, I don't know what the grades are from this week.
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  Speaker 4: You guys probably don't either. But I can tell you
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  Speaker 4: what my eyes told me is that Anton Harrison played
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  Speaker 4: really well against the Browns, did not play well against
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  Speaker 4: the Broncos. Amanda Pregnan is a rookie. He played very
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  Speaker 4: well against the Browns, not as well against the Broncos.
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  Speaker 4: Robert Hainsey got hurt. Ezra Cleveland played very well against
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  Speaker 4: the Browns, not so well against the Broncos. And Colvin
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  Speaker 4: Landon is still obviously working his way back. Thought he
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  Speaker 4: played okay. The issue then is consistency. Can you play
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  Speaker 4: at a consistent level week in and week out? If
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  Speaker 4: this team can play consistently at the Browns level, they'll
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  Speaker 4: be fine. No problem at all.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I also think.
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  Speaker 5: Most, quote, bad offensive line games fit into this category,
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  Speaker 5: and this one certainly did. Every guy had a play
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  Speaker 5: or two they went back. If every guy on the
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  Speaker 5: defensive line has a play or two they went back,
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  Speaker 5: nobody notices. If every guy on the offensive line has
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  Speaker 5: a play or two they went back, it's a tragedy
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  Speaker 5: because it's the nature of offensive lines. So that was
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  Speaker 5: very much the case the other day where most of
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  Speaker 5: them played okay, but moments.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: When you multiply two bad moments a player times five,
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  Speaker 5: you have 10, and that.
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  Speaker 3: Ruins the game.
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  Speaker 4: You know who you sound like right there?
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  Speaker 1: Me.
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  Speaker 3: Tony DeSalle.
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  Speaker 4: You said just like I heard Tony ringing in my ears.
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  Speaker 1: Hang out with the EVP too much. No, I'm just kidding.
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  Speaker 1: We can never hang out with Tony enough. Our final
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  Speaker 1: this or that is going to be bigger surprise to you.
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  Speaker 1: Stole this from a fan question yesterday. Were you surprised
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  Speaker 1: more that they couldn't get anything going when they scored
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  Speaker 1: 13 points, including one touchdown, or were you more surprised
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  Speaker 1: that the pass rush couldn't get home?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, this guy's been all over the place because he
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  Speaker 5: actually emailed me.
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  Speaker 3: This question too.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he's getting a lot of play then with all
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  Speaker 1: the answers.
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  Speaker 5: I would say that I was more surprised only because
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  Speaker 5: of the nature of the league. There are games where
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  Speaker 5: the other team can get the ball out, can scheme you,
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  Speaker 5: and make you struggle with pressure, which happens time to time.
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  Speaker 3: So if I had to pick, Brian, I.
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  Speaker 5: Would be more surprised that a team that I had
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  Speaker 5: watched score, what, 24, 11 straight times, couldn't get that
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  Speaker 5: number Again, neither.
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  Speaker 3: One's shocking because you have bad games.
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  Speaker 5: But I was a little more surprised that they stalled
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  Speaker 5: offensively after scoring 13 in the first half.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Early.
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  Speaker 4: I would say points as well because, you know, over
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  Speaker 4: that stretch of success last year, they had 11 straight
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  Speaker 4: games of at least 23 points.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: But they also were scoring 33 points a game when
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  Speaker 4: last season ended. including a couple of 40-point efforts out here.
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  Speaker 4: So I was more surprised that the offense couldn't get going.
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  Speaker 1: I get it.
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  Speaker 4: And again, listening to a lot of national podcasts where
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  Speaker 4: they focused on the Broncos' side of things, that was
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  Speaker 4: one of the best games the Broncos' defense has played,
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  Speaker 4: according to people who follow them, in quite a while. Clearly,
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  Speaker 4: they had a burr under their saddle to get them
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  Speaker 4: fired for that game, get them fired up and ready
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  Speaker 4: to go. And you got the best of the Broncos
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  Speaker 4: on a day, as we talked about, where you didn't
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  Speaker 4: get the best of your offensive line, Quarterback had a
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  Speaker 4: couple of throws that he'd like to have back. The
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  Speaker 4: running game was okay, right? You didn't perform near your best,
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  Speaker 4: and they performed their best. That's what happens in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: You lose.
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  Speaker 4: So I would say points.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Kai and I talked about this a little bit
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  Speaker 5: on a different show, too. Because they finished so hot
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  Speaker 5: last year and because they looked so good against Cleveland,
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  Speaker 5: it's easy to forget that for every team, the first
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  Speaker 5: four or five weeks– the cliche that you're working stuff
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  Speaker 5: out in the first four or five weeks to get
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  Speaker 5: to the rest of the season, it's a cliche for
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  Speaker 5: a reason. And it sort of feels like there was
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  Speaker 5: an element of that against a very good Broncos defense
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  Speaker 5: that sort of conspired to make a very clunky game.
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  Speaker 1: It was tough, but we are turning the page. Stay
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  Speaker 1: with us on JAGZAM. Coming back, we will talk a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about what's going on elsewhere around the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back. We're going to check in. There was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of crazy going on around the NFL, so we
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  Speaker 1: want to keep you up to date on everything. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars are taking on the Patriots this weekend. The Patriots,
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  Speaker 1: who in the very first game in the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: rematch did not look great, were able to get their
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  Speaker 1: first win. They beat the Steelers this week, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: get fully into game planning in the Thursday show, but
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  Speaker 1: The Patriots' defense is no slouch either. They are going
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  Speaker 1: to be tough.
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  Speaker 4: Their defensive line really took apart the Steelers' offensive line.
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  Speaker 4: And that's not something I've said a lot in 32
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  Speaker 4: years of covering this league. The Steelers are always good
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  Speaker 4: up front. But you know Mike Vrabel, he's a terrific
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  Speaker 4: defensive coach, so it's not a surprise that he's got
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  Speaker 4: these guys tuned up and playing well. Second straight week,
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  Speaker 4: the Jaguars' offensive line is going to face a very
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: talented group.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like the Patriots are giving up weight.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: It was 13 in the opener it's 13 or fewer
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: in four consecutive regular season games and going back to
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: last year the last four regular season games an average
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: of nine points per game.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah this to me for the Jags this way I
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: mean we've got a lot of a long way to
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: go to analyze feels like a game much like the
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: other day where when you have the ball on their
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: 25 you better score touchdowns yeah because you're probably not
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: going to have it eight times there you know so
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: It's a moment league, and Sunday, the Jerseys didn't take
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: advantage of their moments.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: I think on Sunday, they'll have to do against the Patriots.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: Because on the backside of that, you have a corner
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: in Christian Gonzalez, who is rapidly ascending and is being
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: talked about in the same rare air as Pat Sertan,
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: as maybe the best in football. So when you have
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: that kind of guy on the back end of it,
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: it makes everybody's job up front easier.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Let's look around the division because the good thing in
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: terms of Jaguars losing, they're still in first place in
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: the NFC South. No one else has gotten a win yet.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: And that is because the Texans have fallen to Owen too.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: They fell to the Bengals this week. And, um, what's
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: up with the defense? I thought all we hear is
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: about the Texans defense, but.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: I think what was up on Sunday is they played
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: maybe the best receiver in football.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Oh yes. That Jamar chase catch.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: So excellent.
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: Look, uh, In this day and age, you can be
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: the best defense in football, which I think the Texans are,
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: and still get torched at times because it's so geared
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: toward offense. I think over a 17-game period, I think
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: the Texans are going to have fewer bad games defensively
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: than most teams. And if we know anything about the
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: Texans around here, 0-2, 0-3 starts.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Doesn't seem to stop them.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: They're a team that this won't.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: Ruin them the way it might ruin other teams because
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: they're confident they can come back.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: From this listen when last season ended for the Texans
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: there was talk about how that defense could keep them
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: in games where a quarterback had five turnovers and that
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: was true although the rest of the league catches up
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: they watch tape and figure things out as well that
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: defense is very very very good but that offense is
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: not now they didn't have Nico Collins he's got a
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: hamstring they'll get him back at some point that will
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: certainly help and then Jalen Knoll was it Jalen Knoll
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: one of their star young receivers towards ACL, I think
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: it was Jalen Knoll, and their running game is so
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: completely inefficient. I mean, they are among the least efficient
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: running teams in football, least dependable running teams in football,
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: and what you know with C.J. Stroud is two years
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: ago when he had that big back running behind him,
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: he was really on target. He was tough to beat.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: Last year, not so much because they didn't have a
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: running game, and David Montgomery was there on opening day,
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: but he wasn't there last week. So, The Texans' biggest
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: issue isn't the defense. It's the running game.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: We'll play the Colts next, who also are 0-2, so
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: one of them will get a win, but just keeping
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: an eye within the division. Another divisional game I've had
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: my eye on, Titans and Eagles. Eagles eking out the win,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: but are the Titans getting better? The Eagles just not
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: play that well? It might be a combination of both.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Jalen Hurts threw a 90-yard, 97-yard interception in the end
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: zone that was returned all the way down to their three.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: Their passing game is not all that effective right now.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Late in the game, he found Devonta Smith, which turned
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: it on. The Titans are going to play hard, but
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: the Eagles were going to win this one because they
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: were just superior.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the Titans.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: Have played better early without winning, and they talked about
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: there being no moral victories and all that.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: I get that.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: It's still week two, so them playing a contender at
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: home Not completely shocking they would stick close with them.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: I think they're still.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: A ways away from being able to have this kind
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: of an effort, which it took against the Eagles, consistently
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: to start getting wins that are going to take you
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: to the.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Top of the division.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: We'll see, although this was an impressive game on their part.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: And they've got a young quarterback who's inconsistent. Cam Ward
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: played better against the Eagles than he did against the Jets,
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: and that had them in the game to a degree.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: I thought the story of this game was the turf
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: irradiated 150 degrees.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Cleats were melting.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Melting shoes.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: And coaches had to have IVs after the game.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: That's a tough one.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Those coaches work, man.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Sounds like some Jacksonville heat.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Never heard about that, though. Never heard of guys dehydrating
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: working the sidelines.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Interesting. Stay with us, we'll tell you what's coming up
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: the rest of the week. Welcome back to Jags AM,
• 20:43
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• 20:46
  Speaker 1: of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Welcome back. We have turned the page.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: We're talking Patriots this week. We'll get into that full
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: game plan going forward. What's one area that absolutely has
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: to be better if they're going to get a win
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: in week three?
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: They've got to be more physical up front on the
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: offensive side of the ball, right? Whether that's holding up
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: against the pass or whether that's creating second-level opportunities for
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: the running backs, they have got to slow down the
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: pass rush, and you do that by running the ball well.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll agree with that. You've got to score, give
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: them the opportunity. I go to a pass rush.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: The readers that have written me saying that it's hard
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: to win in the NFL against good teams if you
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: can't affect the quarterback in big moments, hard to argue
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: with that.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Well, inconsistency has been a word we've used a lot here,
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: or at least I have. You have Josh and Trayvon,
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: three sacks total. and eight or nine pressures in week one,
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: and then one pressure in week... They've got to play
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: more consistently, too. If we're going to point at the
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: offensive line or the quarterback or anybody, those two guys
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: are your star players, and you need them to show
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: up every Sunday.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: There'll be a lot to it. We'll hear from coaches
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: and players this week, and we'll be back tomorrow to
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: discuss exactly what you can expect in week three. See
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: you soon.