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Coach Pederson on the Halfway Point of the Season | The Doug Pederson Show · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Doug Peterson Show, brought you by Fresh
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  Speaker 1: from Florida. JP Shadwick and former Jaguar Jeff Logoman discuss
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  Speaker 1: the latest Jaguars news with the head coach. That Doug
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  Speaker 1: Peterson Show starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: And welcome in.
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  Speaker 3: It is the Doug Peterson Show for a sentate by
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  Speaker 3: Fresh from Florida from the Hyundai Studios at the Miller
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  Speaker 3: Electric Center. JP Shadrick with Jeff Logoman and head coach
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  Speaker 3: Doug Peterson. Fresh off the mini bye week eight coming
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  Speaker 3: up in Pittsburgh, then the full bye week after that,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll coach. There's a balance, right of getting guys
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  Speaker 3: ready off the mini by to play this week against Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 3: but there's a lot of football ahead and important stretch
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  Speaker 3: run games after the bye week as well, So the
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  Speaker 3: balance of getting guys back and then resting guys for
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  Speaker 3: the stretch run here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and on top of that, the importance of playing
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  Speaker 4: AFC opponents, and Pittsburgh is one of those teams and
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  Speaker 4: they're four and two, you know, we're five and two.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, when you look at the end of
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  Speaker 4: the year seedings and things like that, these become these
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  Speaker 4: become important games, and but you know, yeah, it was
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  Speaker 4: good to get to buy we you know, mini by
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  Speaker 4: to get some guys healthy. You know, going into this week,
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  Speaker 4: may not have everybody back, but but uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we'll get some bodies and and then get the full
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  Speaker 4: buy and hopefully after after that we we we should
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  Speaker 4: be back to full strength, you know, heading into the
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  Speaker 4: last eight games or something.
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  Speaker 2: I was looking at the records. You know, you guys
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  Speaker 2: have obviously won four games in a row. Pittsburgh has
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  Speaker 2: won four out of the last five. The last time
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  Speaker 2: these two teams met with winning records was back in
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  Speaker 2: two thousand and seven, which was Tomlin's first year. And
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  Speaker 2: you were a high school coach at Calvary Baptist High
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  Speaker 2: School in West by God, Virginia.
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  Speaker 4: UH, Louisiana, Louisiana, Louisiana, Shreveport, Louisiana. Yeah, two thousand and seven,
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  Speaker 4: I had just retired.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 4: Four took the job and five eight was my last
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  Speaker 4: year there. So that's a long long time ago, long
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  Speaker 4: time ago. You know, were you guys any good? By
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  Speaker 4: the way, we were actually pretty good my last two years.
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  Speaker 4: We made it to the state semifinals. My last two
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  Speaker 4: years just couldn't get over the hump. So the one
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  Speaker 4: thing that eluded me even when I played high school
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  Speaker 4: ball was a state championship. So I got a I
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  Speaker 4: got a one double, a national championship in college, and
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  Speaker 4: I got obviously a Super Bowl trophy. The high school
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  Speaker 4: one just eluded me. So maybe after retiring back go
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  Speaker 4: back to high school.
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  Speaker 3: So all right, one constant in Pittsburgh obviously has been
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  Speaker 3: over the years head coaching, and it's three head coaches
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  Speaker 3: in with the last fifty years. Mike Tomlin has been
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  Speaker 3: there now seemingly forever. What are some some constants of
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  Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin football teams?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think that's the reason why this this
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  Speaker 4: organization and franchises had the stability and sustainability and the
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  Speaker 4: success that they've had over the the history of the
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  Speaker 4: Pittsburgh Steelers, you know. And they've they've obviously selected great
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  Speaker 4: head coaches, you know, and Mike is one of those guys.
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  Speaker 4: He you know, he's he's a players type coach, but
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  Speaker 4: he's firm with them. He demands excellence and greatness from
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  Speaker 4: him and the guys respond and and that's and he's
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  Speaker 4: always had a good coaching staff, you know, whether it's
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  Speaker 4: offensively or defensively, and they draft well, you know, they've
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  Speaker 4: had a quarterback usually, you know, on this football team.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, there's a lot of things that they
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  Speaker 4: do well and and it's been it's been real impressive
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  Speaker 4: for me as as a head coach to really watch
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  Speaker 4: a guy like coach Tomlin and how he operates in
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  Speaker 4: the success he's had there in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 2: Now you say they they had a quarterback, Okay, Ben
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  Speaker 2: Roethlisberger forever. Okay, Kenny Pickett's quarterback. Now, he's a young player,
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  Speaker 2: and young players typically have growing pains. He's in year two.
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  Speaker 2: What does he look like?
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  Speaker 4: You know, he he's doing some really good things. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he's getting a nice little relationship there with with George
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  Speaker 4: Pickens number fourteen, and and really you know, leaning on
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  Speaker 4: the run game a little bit. But but you're seeing maturity.
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  Speaker 4: You're seeing you know, some things. He is still going
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  Speaker 4: to maybe put the ball in harm's way at time
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  Speaker 4: at times, but you know, you're starting to see the
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  Speaker 4: growth in this quarterback. And that's that's the I think
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  Speaker 4: for them that that's what they want to see, right
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  Speaker 4: and they want to see each week just him taking
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  Speaker 4: another step in that direction. And and you know, I
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  Speaker 4: liked him coming out of college, still like him as
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  Speaker 4: a quarterback. I think he moves well, he does some things,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I think he throws a deep ball really well.
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  Speaker 4: He sees the field. That's the one thing too, is
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  Speaker 4: he's he's seeing the field a little bit better this year.
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  Speaker 4: And and you know, the guys around him are playing extremely,
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  Speaker 4: extremely hard.
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  Speaker 2: And the one part about his game that's been really
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  Speaker 2: good has been the end of games. Pittsburgh has had
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  Speaker 2: to climb back laton ball games, and his performance has
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  Speaker 2: been able to elevate. That's the part that I think
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  Speaker 2: has been the most impressive.
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  Speaker 4: It really has. And in this team, I think the
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  Speaker 4: last five consecutive when they've been in one score games,
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  Speaker 4: you know, they've they've either come back and won those
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  Speaker 4: games and and and have won those games. And so
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  Speaker 4: you know, and he's led those those comebacks or at
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  Speaker 4: least got him in position to win those games. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, that's impressive. His his QB rating in the
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  Speaker 4: fourth quarter is off the charts, you know, completing over
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  Speaker 4: seventy percent of his throws in the fourth quarter. And again,
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  Speaker 4: that's to me, that's a that's a sign of a
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  Speaker 4: guy that's heading in the right direction, a guy that
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  Speaker 4: they can put the offense on his shoulders and and
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  Speaker 4: and say, hey, go win the football game. And and
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  Speaker 4: he's done that.
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  Speaker 3: Head coach Doug Peterson with us on the Doug Peterson Show.
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  Speaker 3: Let's flip it around now. Coach to the Jaguars offense
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  Speaker 3: and quarterback Trevor Lawrence, of course, Thursday night in the Superdome,
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  Speaker 3: battled through the left knee injury, wore the brace, was
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  Speaker 3: the leading rusher in the game, somehow got the job
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  Speaker 3: done again though when it mattered on offense and just
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  Speaker 3: the mindset of the quarterback to play through an injury
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  Speaker 3: like that. And then what is the latest with Trevor
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  Speaker 3: and the left knee this week?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, the mindset is how how how well
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  Speaker 4: can he block out the subtle pain, you know, And
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  Speaker 4: and he did that extremely well and it didn't bother him,
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  Speaker 4: and and you know, then he had the couple of
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  Speaker 4: days off there, and you know, he's feeling better and
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  Speaker 4: and you know he's still been wearing the brace and
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  Speaker 4: practice and just protecting that knee a little bit. But
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  Speaker 4: he's getting stronger and healthier every every day. And and
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  Speaker 4: you know, I'll say this, I credit the offense the
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  Speaker 4: line for keeping them up right in New Orleans. And
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  Speaker 4: other than him scrambling and getting hit that way, you know,
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  Speaker 4: when he was in the pocket, you know he was
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  Speaker 4: able to stay clean. And we've got to do that
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  Speaker 4: again this week because this is a really good front.
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  Speaker 4: They got two of the top edge pressures probably that
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  Speaker 4: we'll see all season for for a combo of guys,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, high Smith and Wat and and and
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  Speaker 4: quite frankly, the strength of this defense is the is
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  Speaker 4: the front. So our offensive line has their work cut
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  Speaker 4: out for him. But Trevor's in a good place, and
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  Speaker 4: you know we've got to make sure we do do
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  Speaker 4: the right thing, get the ball out of his hand
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  Speaker 4: and lean on the run game if the weather's going
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  Speaker 4: to be bad.
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  Speaker 2: Now you talk about those edge guys, Watt and high Smith,
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  Speaker 2: and I would put her big into that category of
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  Speaker 2: rookie that they've got that's been giving them some pretty
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  Speaker 2: good quality snaps. And that defense that Pittsburgh has, much
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  Speaker 2: like yours, opportunistic, doing a good job taking that ball
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  Speaker 2: away exactly right.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Wat, I think he's at eight sacks, and
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  Speaker 4: Josh our Josh is at seven, you know, and there's
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  Speaker 4: a there's a nice little little battle going on right there.
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  Speaker 2: But you're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 4: Both defenses are opportunistic. You know, they they've done. You know,
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  Speaker 4: Watt had the interception to start the third quarter last
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  Speaker 4: week in LA and they score, you know, first play
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  Speaker 4: at the Cleveland game, you know, way back week one,
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  Speaker 4: they had the tip pass for a pick six. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's just a defense that's creating takeaways and and creating
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  Speaker 4: short field and our defense is doing the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: So I think whoever hangs on to the football and
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  Speaker 4: wins the turnover battle could potentially win this football game.
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  Speaker 2: Watching TJ. Watt in that game against the Rams that
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  Speaker 2: you're referring to where he had the interceptions, the amount
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  Speaker 2: of attention that Sean McVay paid TJ. Watt was like wow,
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  Speaker 2: I mean you got to pay that respect, right. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's a great player, and putting two or three or
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  Speaker 2: sometimes maybe six hands on a guy sometimes you got
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  Speaker 2: to do it right.
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  Speaker 4: You have to and flip it the other way. Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, gave Aaron Donald a lot of respect on
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  Speaker 4: the other side of the ball. Two great defensive players.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, you have to. You have to, you know,
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  Speaker 4: maybe spend some resources knowing where number ninety is going
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  Speaker 4: to line up. But at the same time, as you mentioned,
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  Speaker 4: they've got two other guys that can rush the passer
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  Speaker 4: as well. So it's gonna take a full effort our
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  Speaker 4: backs that have to be on point. Tight end's got
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  Speaker 4: to be on point, and we're gonna have to help
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  Speaker 4: our quarterback get the ball out of his hand.
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  Speaker 3: Coach, you talked about the weather in Pittsburgh. It's getting
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  Speaker 3: that time of year. It's Halloween weekend coming up, and
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  Speaker 3: we know how it can get later in the year
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  Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh, that playing surface there, they have college games
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  Speaker 3: there as well.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot that can happen.
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  Speaker 3: What do you expect with the weather this week and
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  Speaker 3: how can that change really both teams plans.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I mean we're expecting rain. Obviously, it's
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  Speaker 4: in the eighty percentile right now as far as rain goes.
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  Speaker 4: But temperatures are going to be mild. They'll be in
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  Speaker 4: the probably mid mid sixties and and you know, listen,
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  Speaker 4: we can't worry about that. We got to kind of
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  Speaker 4: block that out. We had a rain game last year
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  Speaker 4: and we didn't do so well. We didn't take care
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  Speaker 4: of the football, and we need to learn from that
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  Speaker 4: obviously this year and and you know, do a better
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  Speaker 4: job of securing the football. But hopefully we can create
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  Speaker 4: some takeaways, you know, defensively and create some short fields
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  Speaker 4: for our offense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, earlier in the week you talked about improving taking
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  Speaker 2: care of the football is an offense. As a head coach,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're always looking for improvement in all facets
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  Speaker 2: of the game. What are some of the things besides
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  Speaker 2: protecting the football that you want to see your team
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  Speaker 2: improve on? Because right now they're doing a really good
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  Speaker 2: job with the takeaways, the penalties are low, But what
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  Speaker 2: do you want to see better?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think we're still having those lulls in
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  Speaker 4: the football game, right and and maybe it's middle of
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  Speaker 4: the second quarter or second half where offensively or and defensively,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we're just not getting off the field or
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  Speaker 4: sustaining drives offensively, and there's those lulls in there, and
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  Speaker 4: and so we've got to execute a little bit better there.
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  Speaker 4: And and especially if our defense is on the field
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  Speaker 4: for eight or nine ten plays, you know, we offensively,
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  Speaker 4: we've got to make sure that that we can kind
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  Speaker 4: of counteract that, and whether you score or not, it's
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  Speaker 4: a matter of just keeping our defense fresh. But those
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  Speaker 4: those moments there, we've got to execute better in those situations,
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  Speaker 4: and I want to see that, you know, improve. I
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  Speaker 4: also want to see our special teams like punt return.
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  Speaker 4: I want to see Ags get going a little bit
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  Speaker 4: and hold up in some block situations. We had the
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  Speaker 4: one miss cue against the Saints. It was loud, missed
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  Speaker 4: the communication there, so we got it. It's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: loud again in Pittsburgh and you know, so we got
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  Speaker 4: to have great communication there. But get get Aggs going,
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  Speaker 4: you know, special teams wise, and and try to create
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  Speaker 4: some short fields.
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  Speaker 2: Your punter can throw too. Apparently we saw that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that was at job. That was that was interesting. That
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  Speaker 2: was interesting play and uh didn't.
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  Speaker 4: Quite It was executed great, but it wasn't the play
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  Speaker 4: we had actually drawn up. So credit the guys for
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  Speaker 4: making it work. It worked out a first down for sure.
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  Speaker 3: What would six and two do for the Jaguars coming
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  Speaker 3: out of the bye week with a win this week
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  Speaker 3: if they could get that.
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  Speaker 4: Done, it still tells me that we haven't done anything,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we're we're heading in the right direction. Obviously
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  Speaker 4: six and two would be nice, But you know, again,
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  Speaker 4: this is we're playing a great, great team. I think
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  Speaker 4: this team is much like us. You know, you're kind
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  Speaker 4: of looking at yourself in the mirror quite honestly. And
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  Speaker 4: and but you know, it give us a lot of
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  Speaker 4: confidence going going into the back half of the season
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  Speaker 4: and and going into the bye with that good feeling.
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  Speaker 4: You know, But like I said, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 4: football ahead of us, and you know, we've got to
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  Speaker 4: make sure that we stay kind of grounded, kind of
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  Speaker 4: focused in one week at a time.
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  Speaker 2: Coach, great stuff, Good luck to you. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 2: you next, all right, Thank you, Head coach.
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  Speaker 3: Doug Peterson with us in twenty minutes, Charles Davis of
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  Speaker 3: on the Jaguars Radio Network.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
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  Speaker 2: The Jaguars and the Steelers coming up. JP Shadwick, Jeff Logoman,
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  Speaker 2: Oh thanks to head coach Doug Peterson joining us in
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  Speaker 2: the opening segment. Each and every week it is his show,
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  Speaker 2: The Doug Peterson Show. Week eight.
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  Speaker 3: The Jaguars at five and two, they've won four consecutive
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  Speaker 3: games coming off the many bye week, headed to Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 3: to face the Steelers, who are four and two. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, there's a lot of things that stand out
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  Speaker 3: from what coach Peterson just talked about. But let's start
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  Speaker 3: on defense for both sides. I mean, both of these
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  Speaker 3: defenses take the ball away well, especially the Jaguars number
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  Speaker 3: one in the NFL sixteen takeaways. But the Steelers are
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  Speaker 3: no slouch either.
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  Speaker 2: No, They've got twelve and I think that's like fourth
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  Speaker 2: in the National Football League or fifth somewhere in that range.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a great number, and that's one of
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  Speaker 2: the reasons why that they have been winning football games.
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  Speaker 2: I Mean, if you look at the Pittsburgh Steelers, their
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  Speaker 2: offense is still a major work in progress with a
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  Speaker 2: young quarterback, you know, much like the Jaguars were in
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  Speaker 2: the first half of the season last year with a
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  Speaker 2: second year quarterback in Trevor Lawrence. And if you look
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  Speaker 2: at it from a number standpoint, you know, the bottom
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  Speaker 2: line is is that you can look at at one
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  Speaker 2: statistic to determine outcomes of games, and that's the turnover
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  Speaker 2: differential in every game as the single most determining factor
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  Speaker 2: of winning and losing in the National Football League. The
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  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers have lost two games, and in both of
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  Speaker 2: those those games, they lost the turnover battle minus one,
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  Speaker 2: and the games that they have won, they have won
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  Speaker 2: the turnover battle in every one of those games as well.
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  Speaker 2: So much like Doug talked about and the question I
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  Speaker 2: asked them about protecting the football and looking for improvement,
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  Speaker 2: this is going to be ultra important this week against
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  Speaker 2: a Pittsburgh Steelers team that has been living off of
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  Speaker 2: the takeaway to get the wins. The Jaguars have been
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  Speaker 2: able to win without having won the turnover battle all
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  Speaker 2: the time, much like they did this past game against
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  Speaker 2: the Saints, where they were actually minus one in turnover differentially,
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  Speaker 2: I believe. So they've got to do a good job,
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  Speaker 2: especially if the weather conditions are going to be what
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  Speaker 2: they could be. Jaguars have ten giveaways this year, seven
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  Speaker 2: of those fumbles this season. Need to make that number better,
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  Speaker 2: and that's one of the things that Doug had talked
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  Speaker 2: about earlier in the year, and much like the emphasis
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  Speaker 2: that you put on it from a defensive standpoint about game,
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  Speaker 2: and it's the same thing you put the emphasis on
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  Speaker 2: it on an offensive side. It's just to make the
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  Speaker 2: emphasis there to make sure that they're protecting the football
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  Speaker 2: and everything like that. You know, I'm sure that when
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  Speaker 2: if you think about it, when the last time this
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  Speaker 2: Jaguars team played in an inclement weather game, That's what's
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  Speaker 2: the game that comes from game. That's what Doug just said. So,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't remember any other one that bad,
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  Speaker 2: and that's that's the game, you know, So you want
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  Speaker 2: to make sure you protect the ball, especially if the
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  Speaker 2: conditions are what they could be. I don't remember one
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  Speaker 2: like that late in the year last year, some cold games,
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  Speaker 2: but I think so yeah, I think that really really
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  Speaker 2: the only game that that had really kind of iffy
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  Speaker 2: weather conditions, And it looks like it could be that
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  Speaker 2: way in Pittsburgh, you know, with rain put in the
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  Speaker 2: eighty to ninety percent range for for kickoff or throughout
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  Speaker 2: the day on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: You know what that's for both teams though, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's not just the Jaguars having to deal with it.
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  Speaker 2: I believe the Jaguars have an advantage in bad weather
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  Speaker 2: this week. Why is that, Well, first of all, the
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers are not running the ball very well. Okay,
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: that's they're ranked very low in that category. They're throwing
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: the ball at a much higher percentage than they are
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: running the ball, which is kind of anti Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: And defensively, the calling card to the Pittsburgh Steelers has
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: always been dominant against the run. Still hurting right Well,
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that they can't be good, because they
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: can be good in any particular game, but right now
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: they're ranking against the run is not great. I mean
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: it's like, you know, bottom bottom four teams in the
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: National Football League. So I mean, right now, I would say,
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: and I think the Jaguars run the ball way better
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: than the Pittsburgh Steels. The Jaguars run defense is stifling. Yes,
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: So in inclement my other you'd like to run the ball,
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: protect the ball, I think the advantage would go to
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: the Jaguars.
• 15:53
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• 16:00
  Speaker 3: Cheer furniture for fans, and we will get into this
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: Jaguars defense in the matchup against the Steelers' offense and.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: What they have to offer for the Steelers. A lot
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: of new personnel over the last couple of years at
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: different world now in Pittsburgh.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: We'll get to that coming up. This is the Doug
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: Peterson Show on Jaguars Radio.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: The Doug Peterson Show presented by Fresh from Florida, J P. Shadrick,
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Jeff Lagman, Jaguars Steelers coming up Sunday at the Confluence.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: And Pittsburgh Akroscher Stadium. It's not called Heinz Field anymore.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: No, it's Akroscher Stadium. Heinz backed out again. Three rivers No, No, well,
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: the three rivers converge, yeah.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Confluence, that's right. Yeah, it's a little different. Can you
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: name the rivers? No? I cannot. No. All I know
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: is that there's three Monongahela which comes together to join
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Alleghany Okay, which forms the Ohio exactly. So he's really
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: not three rivers. Well, those are literally three rivers. It's
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: two that are making one. Well, if it was three rivers,
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: like it would just make a big lake if they
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: were all flowing to the same place. Right, Okay, I
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: mean I was a geography miner. Okay, it's been a
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: long time at Alabama. Yeah, that should tell you something
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: about it. Hey, Jaguars defense, I mean they've really played
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: well this year overall. They have kept this team in
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: some of these games and in big moments, made plays
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: that we talked about, the takeaways. Yes, they're stopping the run. Yes,
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: what's the matchup with the Steelers offense? Let's start in
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: the trenches because we're used to the Steelers pounding the ball,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: big offensive line, guys that can really move it. What's
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: up on the offensive line in Pittsburgh. They're they're not
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: They're not at the standard that they had for for
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: a number of years where they were pretty good. I
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: think it's an offensive line that's still trying to be
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: built and they put some draft capital into that this
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: past year with Spencer Anderson, a seventh round pick, and
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: then the first round pick, tackle Broderick Jones from Georgia,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: who has I think he's got one start this year,
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: but they have been keeping him as a backup so far.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: But it's it's an Okay, group. The one thing I
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: think that look, if you're if you have been listening
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: and following the Pittsburgh Steelers this year, the Pittsburgh Steelers
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: fans are not non enthralled with the offensive coordinator and
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: they're they're just not. I mean, Matt Canada has been
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: under a lot of duress, a lot of criticism all
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: year long, and for a lot of different reasons. The
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers under his guidance haven't really had a dynamic offense.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: And part of that, I think it's personnel. And part
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: of that is, look, there's no more Ben Roethlisberger and
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Hines Ward and all these other great players. It's it's
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: it's kind of an offense in transition. But nonetheless, he's
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: been receiving a lot of criticism. The offensive line is,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: like I said, is not great. The running back Nause Harris,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: I liked him coming out. Yeah, but JP, who would
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: you rather have Nase Harris or etn ll? Right now?
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Etn is playing much better. He's got home run speed absolutely, Okay,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Harris does not. Harris is what six one forty big guy. Yeah,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: He's a big, kind of physical back and.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: When he came out he was that type of if
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: he's in space, he can jump over you or go
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: around or over you like there's there was all that coming.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Out of here. No, But I think the one thing
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: that was that's always was a question on him was
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: his speed. There was never a debate on Etn speed.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: I mean ETN. Everybody knew that each had the speed
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: to go the distance every time he touches the ball.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Harris doesn't have that. When you watch him, he's physical,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: but he doesn't scare me. He doesn't make me hold
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: my breath. I don't see a guy that can hit
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: a crease like Travis can and then all of a
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: sudden be sixty yards down the field Danson in the
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: end zone. I don't see that out of Najie Harris.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: They're tight end again, as Freimuth has been injured, so
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: that takes away from it. So I don't worry about
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers running game against this Jaguars defense. I
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: feel very confident in that matchup. The matchup that I
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: worry about is those two wide receivers Deontay Johnson and
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: George Pickens. Those are the guys that with the Jaguars
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: cornerback situation with Tyson Campbell still a question mark. Could
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: he play? Could he not play? Still got a young
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: player in Monterrey Brown out there. How do they handle.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: That Najie Harris twenty fourth overall pick in the twenty
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: twenty one NFL draft of the Steamers twenty fifth overall
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: pick to the Jaguars, Travis Etnjr.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: You think that Travis etn might might have made a
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: note of that Steelers passed me up for nauj Harris
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: note to self, win plane, Steelers show them what they
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: are missing.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Exclamation point back in a moment, we'll flip it around. Jaguars' offense.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: What can they get done against the Steelers group? Especially TJ.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Watt at outside linebacker. And a little bit later, about
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: ten minutes away from Charles Davis of CBS Sports, This
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: is Doug Peterson Show on the Jaguars Radio Network.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: The Doug Peterson Show presented by Fresh from Florida, thanks
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: to the Jaguars head coach in studio with us in
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: the opening segment.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Tonight.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: We're on at five o'clock on the Jaguars Radio Network.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Each and every Thursday, at least when there's a game.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: We will not have one next week. It's the bye
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: week next week. Fantastic about that. I'm looking forward to it.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: I have a feeling you'll be in a deer stand.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: I might be. I might be I will be enjoying
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: the great outdoors somewhere.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: I think so. Hey, the Jaguar is offense. Trevor Lawrence
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: playing through the knee issue. He still has the brace
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: on the left knee. He said he's gonna wear it
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: for a little while, which I think is smart.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: By the way, just a quick comment on that a quarterback,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: a right handed quarterback's left knee is typically the one
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: that's exposed the most, so and I don't think it's
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: necessarily a bad idea for him to always wear a
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: knee brace on that left knee going forward, just to
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: help add protection to that leg that when you are
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: transferring your weight, okay, in a throwing motion, that front leg,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: that's the one that's susceptible to getting hit a lot
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: of times. And so if you go back and you
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: look at some of the quarterbacks in the past, a
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: lot of them have worn any brace to help protect
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: that forward leg.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: That's one item to keep an eye on. Of course,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Travis Etn has three straight games with two rushing touchdowns.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: First Jaguar to ever do that, and if he does
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: it again, I think the last player to do it
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: in four straight games was Ladani and Tomlinson.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Number of years ago. That was pretty good, by the way. Yeah,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: so Etn is reaching some milestones and playing really well overall.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Do you think that Pittsburgh Steels would like to redraft file?
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: That's we've We've gone through that. I just wanted to
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: bring it up again because you're mentioning numbers Jay just
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: saying Jay Jones is not practiced this week. That's not
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: a good trend.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: So the story kind of last week was where's Calvin Ridley?
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: What's up with Calvin Ridley? How did they cover ridley
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: last catch?
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: And is that something they can grow out of continue
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: to build upon. Well, he had one catch, okay, And
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: if you look at the numbers Kirk had, you know,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: the six touches for ninety Evan Ingram, five for forty five.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Tim Jones even had more than Calvin Ridley. He had
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: two catches for seventeen yards. But I will say that
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: the Saints were given plenty of attention to Calvin Ridley,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: and so some of the other guys were able to
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: benefit from that attention. They were doubling them a little bit.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: And that's gonna happen. I mean, when you've got a
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: top receiver, teams were gonna look at trying to find
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: a way to limit his effectiveness. And that's what teams
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: are doing. Are they looking at doubling Zay Jones when
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: he's out there, not necessarily. Are they looking at doubling
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Evan Ingram not necessarily, But they're playing some bracket stuff
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: on Calvin. They're playing some occasional bracket stuff on Christian
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Kirk as well, and that's just part of it. I
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: think part of it also is that when the more
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: that Calvin is in this offense and the more opportunities
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: he gets to continue to build the relationship with Trevor,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: the better that's gonna get, you know. And this week,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: who knows. I mean, just like last year, Calvin would
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: have Calvin Kirk would have a big game, and then
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Zay would have a big game, and then Evan would
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: have a big game. You know what, maybe this week
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be Calvin's turn, you know. So I mean,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: you just don't know. And that's the beauty I think
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: of a Press Taylor Doug Peterson offense is that they
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: don't have to necessarily depend on one guy to get
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: the production. They depend on the system to dictate which
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: guy is gonna get the production. And that's sometimes the
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: best system to have is one that allows the quarterback
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: to throw the ball to the open guy instead of going, Okay,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: there's my guy, and I got to force it to him.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: So Doug Peterson, show j P.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Shadwick, Jeff Logoman, and Jeff we're gonna have you design
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: the offensive plan for TJ. On the other side, how
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: do you handle one of the best defenders in the
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: National Football League this week?
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: You want to know? I do want them. That's why. Okay, Okay,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Number one, okay, etn Okay, Number four Tank Biggs be okay,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: and number twenty five Darros Johnson. Okay. Those have been
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: three running backs that have been active lately. Okay to
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Michael Hasty has been a hot minute. Okay, when when
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: they are in the backfield on their way out, Okay,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: because Anton Harrison is going to get the primary assignment
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: of blocking ninety, they've got to put a helmet right
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: in a ribcage of ninety Okay, the tight end's got
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: to chip him on the way out. You've got to
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: put some attention on him, okay. And I mean when
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: you put attention on him, make him feel it so
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: that the next time when he sees a flash of
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: white or teal, whichever jersey we're wearing. I haven't seen
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: that yet, Okay, whatever color that is going to be,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: that the first thing that he's thinking about is is
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: that I'm going to get a helmet in my ribs
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: again white jersey'steal pants? Cool? But I want him to
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: think that, and so you try to establish that early
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: by cutting him by putting a running back into his
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: rib cages, which is called a chip, and in some
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: cases it's called a chunk, which means that you're not
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: just trying to get a chip, you're trying to get
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: a chunk of him on the way out. Okay, I
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: think you've got to do that. Be something to watch
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: for sure, because he can run a game for you.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: The other guy's pretty good too, now, high Smith. Yeah,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: So which side do you you focus on? Water? You
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: focus on the other side. Well, if you're if you're
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: chunking on one side, you're sliding to the other side. Okay,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: so that helps Cam a little bit. But high Smith
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: is a good football player too. I mean, the guy
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: had fourteen and a half sacks last year. He's good.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: And it's interesting too. Like I said earlier, they take
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: they've been flopping the lane imbackers actually while the offense
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: is getting lined up, so that it's hard for the
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: offense to get a bead on on where ninety is
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: gonna be at. And they did that against the Rams.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Will will that continue this week against the Jaguars? I
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: don't know, but I will say that the Pittsburgh Steelers,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: I'm sure went and watched the film of the Kansas
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: City Chiefs game and saw that they didn't provide any
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: help to Anton Harrison when Chris Jones was lined up
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: out there. And I'm sure that they're going to sit
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: there and go, oh, we hope we get that.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: You know what helps running the football too, Let those
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: guys get always always. I mean, it's you know, it's
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: a lot better and a lot easier to protect the
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: passer when it's third and two or three as opposed
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: to third and eight, third and seven, third and eleven
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: and that obviously plays a big part in it, and
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: consistency on offense, you know, not having negative plays, not
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: having mistakes, penalties or whatever. Which, by the way, the
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Jaguars have been doing a great job with the penalty situation.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: I think they're the number one team in the league
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: at penalties per game.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: With the fewest, which is awesome. They're like third in
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: the league and total penalties, fewest penalties, like they're they're
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: really really strong. Yeah, but perals are too. By the way,
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Steelers that have a penalized much. Yeah, I wrote it
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: down because the fewest penalties in the National Football League
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: per game, Yeah, the Jaguars number one because some teams
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: have had some bye weeks, et cetera. So that's a
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: that's a great number. And the fewest yards per game
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: the average per game is four point seven. The yards
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: on the penalties thirty six yards per game. That I mean,
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: that's how you play winning football.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: We'll turning a moment and Charles Davis, analysts for CBS Sports,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: as the call this week and the Jaguars Steelers matchup.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: We'll hear from him next to the Doug Peterson Show
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: on Jaguars Radio.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. The dub Peterson Show continues right now.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: Doug Peterson Show presented by Fresh from Florida, J P. Shadwick,
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: with you more Jeff Logman coming up shortly. Charles Davis
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: is the analyst for CBS Sports this week, working with
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Iron Eagle caught up with Davis earlier in the week
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: and plenty to discuss about the Jaguars in twenty twenty three,
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: including quarterback Trevor Lawrence's performance on one good knee last
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: Thursday night.
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: Quarterbacks, just by being quarterbacks sometimes get that, oh, how
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: tough are they type of a deal. I'm old enough
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: to remember when quarterbacks were a lot tougher than people
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: ever gave them credit for. Because you and I both know.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: If we punch up the NFL films on YouTube or
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: whatever right now, and watch what a quarterback at quarterback
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: went through getting hit in the pocket in the nineteen
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: eighties and the nineties versus now, and there are no flags.
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: A referee would come by and go, okay, you getting up,
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: that was it? I mean, and you, darnie took a
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: two by four and hit those guys. And back then,
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: those quarterbacks were of a certain size right of a
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: certain dimension. Think about those quarterbacks of those days, Marina,
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: Jim Kelly, Boomer, Siasin, Phil Simms, Jim McMahon now McMahon.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: He took a lot of hits, but he always he
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: would play through when he could, but he ended up
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: missing it. A lot of those guys didn't miss games.
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: They dragged themselves back out. Steve McNair's toughness is legendary.
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: Now what those hits are now flags, suspensions, findes, all
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: those things.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: So it's a little bit different.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: As we're going.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: Trevor Lawrence looks like an old school quarterback in dimensions,
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: he looks like a new school quarterback when the hair
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: flows out of the helmet and he takes his helmet
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: off and everybody goes, my god, look at him. You know,
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: he looks he looks like your next door pretty guy.
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: But his ability to play through things and toughness, what
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: he did Thursday night in New Orleans, that's where all
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: the memes of that's my quarterback actually apply in a
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: positive manner because now you can rally around that quarterback,
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: Your team will rally around you, your defense will go,
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: look at our quarterback. We can play for him, not
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: just your offense. The rest of the team just goes,
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: my goodness, we got a tough guy quarterback and JP,
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: you know you've been around this league. Any team that
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: has a tough guy quarterback is well ahead of the
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: game because the rest of the team will buy in
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: on you.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Now, Charles Davis with the CBS Sports, you know, this
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: offense really hasn't had its full arsenal a lot this season.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Ay Jones has missed four games and he's had to
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: come out of two others with his knee issues, so
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: he's really only finished one game this year. When he's
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: out there, that kind of changes the whole coverage idea
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: for defenses, and then the running game can get involved.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: Travis Etn stepped in and scored two touchdowns and now
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: three straight games, the first Jaguar.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: To ever do that. But when they're at full strength
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: and you've seen them this year, what can they be?
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: And they I don't think they've touched that ultimate Jaguar
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: of defense production that they're hoping for this year.
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  Speaker 5: No, I think that they can be the type of
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  Speaker 5: team that has answers for whatever you throw at them. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: you want a pressure Trevor Lawrence, I think he handles
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  Speaker 5: blitz as well and will step up in the pressure
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  Speaker 5: and can get rid of it quickly to people. Right,
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  Speaker 5: he has people to do that. You want to give
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  Speaker 5: him time and drop back. He'll survey the field and
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  Speaker 5: have the patience and take the checkdowns when necessary to
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: keep it going. What's the expression all the quarterbacks do use?
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: You never go broke taking a profit?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: Okay, so I can speak a little quarterback myself.
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  Speaker 4: All right?
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  Speaker 5: The running game with ETN. I think the offensive line
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  Speaker 5: is starting to really develop their own identity because last
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: time we saw you, JP, you're getting ready for a
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: game with Kansas City and you had offensive linemen who
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: were really dinged up and we weren't sure they could go.
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: Every one of them went in that game. So that
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  Speaker 5: tells me something about that offensive line. Now you got
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: Cam Robinson back, didn't have him last time we saw you.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not sure about Walker Little and his ability to
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  Speaker 5: play left guard yet we shall see. But Tyler athlete.
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  Speaker 5: He's like, Hey, anytime you want me to play, I'm
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: here for it. Fortner Sheriff, and I really think Antwine
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  Speaker 5: Harrison's coming along nicely as a rookie at right tackle.
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: I think they're starting to take on some tough guy,
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: you know, vibes of their own. But I do think
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  Speaker 5: that they have the mobility to move into run game
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  Speaker 5: when you want them to. They will take care of
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  Speaker 5: their quarterback. As I said before, whatever you want to
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  Speaker 5: throw out them. I feel like this offense is starting
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  Speaker 5: to develop the idea that we've got answers for it.
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  Speaker 5: You want to let us run it, we'll run it.
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  Speaker 5: You want to let us throw it, We'll throw it,
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  Speaker 5: whatever fashion that that may be.
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  Speaker 3: The Pitsburg Steelers have won two in a row. Now
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: are they back? Are they on track? Are they they
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: were a little underachieving early in the season.
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  Speaker 2: What are they now?
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: I think back is too strong? Are they on better course? Absolutely?
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Their issue to.
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: Me is nothing that's new, Nothing that I'm going to identify.
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  Speaker 4: That you have neither read scene heard.
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  Speaker 5: Their ability, their inability to start faster on offense is
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: the puzzle for them. Canny Pickett does a wonderful job
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  Speaker 5: as their quarterback down the stretch, and he's won some
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  Speaker 5: big games in.
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  Speaker 2: The fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 5: Going back to Baltimore on a Sunday night as a rookie,
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: going back to Baltimore this year earlier this season, going
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  Speaker 5: back last week to Los Angeles and taking on the
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: Rams on the road. I think it the first time
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  Speaker 5: they went out on the West Coast in ten to
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  Speaker 5: ten tries or something like that. But you can't live
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  Speaker 5: like that. That is not a seventeen game winning formula.
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  Speaker 5: Tim Tebow did that well for the Broncos and went
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: to the playoffs, even throw a touchdown pass to Baybay
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: right to Damarius Thomas on a beautiful throw against Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 5: in the playoffs. But is that sustainable where your defense
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: has to hang in there every week you can be
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: five of seventeen going into the fourth quarter and snap
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: it together and win. It is not sustainable. Can he
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: Pickett knows it? Pittsburgh knows it. I think they asked
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: Mike Tomlin about, Hey, do you ever dream about him
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: in consistency? Said every day? But he loves Kenny Pickett.
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: He knows that he can get there. Getting the Johnson
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: back of receiver will help them do that. But they've
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: got to find a way to play better earlier and
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: take someone the pressure off of their defense, which continues
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: to be what Pittsburgh always has. An excellent defense.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Is Charles Davis of CBS Sports.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: He'll have the call as the analyst on Sunday in Pittsburgh.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: The full conversation available coming up this weekend on the
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Official Jaguars Podcast Network and Jaguars dot Com. Well return
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: with sound from George Pickens to the locker room, throwing
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: shade to the Jags defense. Hot off the presses. It's
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: the Doug Peterson Show on the Jaguars Radio Network.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: No personal tation, George.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Why has Jacksonville been susceptible for the past? I mean,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: I think they have one of the worst pass defense,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: especially last three games. I think their last Yeah, I
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: think their D line.
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  Speaker 2: They depend on their with their team, you know, having
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: a lot of first round guys on that D line.
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  Speaker 4: That's they depend on the lot and they kind of,
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: you know, hope, you know what I mean, Hope the
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: guys hold out long enough. Hope.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: It's kind of a hope defense, all right.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: George Pickens jack the Steelers wide receiver in the locker
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  Speaker 3: room today. That courtesy of Brian Batco of the Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 3: Post Gazette on x earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Doug.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Peterson Show, presented by Fresh from Florida, well, the Jaguars
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: do have the thirty first ranked passing defense by yardage
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: per game in the NFL, seventeenth and yards per play,
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: but that's not quite I don't I don't think what
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: they need the Jaguars defense to have on their bulletin
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  Speaker 3: board down series here at the miller of Electric Center
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: right now, any kind of chip on those guys shoulders
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: look out.
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  Speaker 2: That's a that's that's great. I mean, love it. It's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: A hope defense. What do you think it means? I
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: love it? I mean, that's exactly what you want to
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: have if if you're wearing the teal, give me, give
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: me extra motivation. He already motivated. But okay, all right,
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: their best player right now, which is him. He's averaging
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: over eighteen yards a catch. He's a second year receiver
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  Speaker 2: out of Georgia. That's gonna be super good when the
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: quarterback even gets better. But for him to say that
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: is extra motivation for every Jaguar defender. Every Jaguar player
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: is going to be talking smack to him now when
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: he starts getting beat up, or when he goes across
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: the middle in his arms don't quite extend out like
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: they should a hope defense. I've never heard that term before.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: It's interesting. I've never heard that term either. But I
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: can guarantee you one thing. There's a lot of creative
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: minds that play on this Jaguars defense, and they will
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: find a way to use the word hope and some
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: kind of dig at him as they're beating him up.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: I like that a little salty here. Heck yeah, bring
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: it on, man, you want to talk a little smack
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: for the game about hope. Okay, come on, I hope
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: you can make it through the game. Wow, Okay, I
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: hope you don't get smashed when you go across the middle.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: You know, I mean, it's beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 3: If if I seriously that that's that's like awesome. The
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Jaguars are a hope defense.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Things happen. They hope they hold up. They hope they
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: I hope Cisco's got something for him. I hope Ray
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Shawn's got something for him. Sure he probably will, knowing Ray.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: I hope Darius has got a little something for him.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: I think all the above. I hope Montera's got a
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: little little little buster for him. Buster gonna bust them up.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: I hope to go in the locker room tomorrow and
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: ask about it about that.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: I think that they will give you the the company like, hey,
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: look we're just we're just gonna play hard, you know,
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: we're not worrying about that. And then after the game,
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: you'll get the truth. So works always. After the game
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: you win, you'll get the truth. I love it though.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: It's like the old days, man, the old rivalry stuff.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: It's what you call keeping receipts.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: Then Trevor Lawrence talked about that this week with a
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: hashtag analyst thing that he tweeted out or put out
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: on X posted the other day.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Why not you know what? Yeah, he said, Yeah, I
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: do keep receipts, not as many as some others, but
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: we remember some of this stuff. We read all this thing.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: You know, we are all on the internet. So yeah,
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: we're keeping track. All going right, don't come back in
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: December when we're winning games. Now there's there's the old
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: saying that you just you don't let the week leading
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: up to the game give the opponent anything that is
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: bulletin board worthy material. Okay, and George Pickens just violated that.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: He violated it. And it's a very parent that he
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: doesn't know anything about the Jaguars defense because he's saying
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: it's it's it's based on hope, like the front is
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: the only thing that's good. Look, I'm here to tell you, okay,
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: mister George Pickens. Okay, and this is not my ranking,
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: but there are quite a few Jaguar defensive backs that
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: are considered Pro Bowl caliber worthy players right now. That's
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: not hope, Okay, that's fact. Okay. Cisco three interceptions, second
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: in the National Football League, Darius Williams number three rated
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: corner by PFF, number three rated corner by PFF. Tyson
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: Campbell when he's healthy, one of the best corners in
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: the league. Okay, what do you and one of the
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: most physical safeties in Rayshawn Jenkins. Yep, I hope you
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: don't get into Rayshaw's neighborhood. Number two is gonna light
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: him up. Bootleggers, get ready.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: Luke Combs is bringing two nights to the Growing Up
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: and Getting Old Tour to EverBank Stadium May third and fourth,
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: with different special guests each night. Tickets on sale now.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: For more infro, visit EverBank Stadium dot com. Our final
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: thoughts and a preview of Jaguars All Access TV Coming
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: up next this the Doug Peterson Show on Jaguars Radio.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: The Doug Peterson Show, presented by Fresh from Florida. Final
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Moments the.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: Jaguars and the Steelers coming up Sunday, one o'clock kickoff time.
• 42:28
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• 42:35
  Speaker 2: That's at ten am.
• 42:37
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• 42:47
  Speaker 3: And Hey, it's a big ballgame for this Jaguars team
• 42:50
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  Speaker 2: Who you got, I gottavn Ingram, Martin O and Kai.
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  Speaker 2: Should be a good showing tonight, Jaguars on a roll
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: four games in a row, and looking forward to seeing
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: seeing all the fans turn out tonight and looking forward
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: to filling that energy.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: Evan's really good man, really good at that stuff, and
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: obviously is signed back with the Jags this season and
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: extended and a great addition to this organization last year,
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: played big obviously career year, and he's a big piece
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: of what they're doing right now. Certainly, he is a
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: first of all, a really good football player, which okay,
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: already number one, number one, Okay, good football player, and
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: he is is a really good fit for this offense.
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: And from talking to multiple defensive coordinators this year, when
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: they start talking about the Jaguars offense, he's one of
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: the first things that comes up, just because he presents
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: a lot of matchup issues for defensive coordinators. Do you
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: play him with a linebacker? Do you playing with a corner?
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: Are you playing with a fat and teams have tried
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: all of the above, but yet Evan still continues to
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: be a major factor. And what else also impressive is
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: how unselfish he is as a player, total team player.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: Logs have a string music for me over there at
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: Strengths today. Thank you. That's Jeff Logoman.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Thanks to our entire crew, Joe Fortunato, Brent Reever, Andrea Curry,
• 44:21
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  Speaker 2: Thanks to you for listening and watching.
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