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Jags Drive Time: Friday, November 16 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Jeffuars did you don't check what Jack Warris did you?
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Drive Time Bryan Sex steps that, John Oh says
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Speaker 1: it Ashley Jaguars Drive Time starts right now. All right,
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Friday Drive Time, brought to you by Jed
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Speaker 1: Home Loans, Brian Ashland, John here with big things for
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Speaker 1: the first ten minutes and then coffee with the coach.
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Speaker 1: Head coach Doug Marron joins us every Friday morning. How
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Speaker 1: about this before we get in, if you've wondered what
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Speaker 1: it's like to be a coach and if you don't know.
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Speaker 1: With his joining us every Friday morning, Maxwell House, he
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Speaker 1: was giving five lucky Jags fans the chance to attend
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Speaker 1: a closed Jaguars practice and to have coffee and say
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Speaker 1: hi to the Coach's a Jaguars dot com slash Coffee
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Speaker 1: with the coach before November thirteen two enter and there
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Speaker 1: you have it. Clarification on this content. Are you wondering
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Speaker 1: whether you can actually enter? Oh? I would love to um.
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Speaker 1: Is it coffee with the coach or coffee with Assume
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Speaker 1: it's with Doug? Right? It is? Because the way it's worded,
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Speaker 1: you didn't maybe have a you could have an argument
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Speaker 1: grad assistant or just like a guy like Tyler Wolf.
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Speaker 1: Well that was the fact that he's in the photo
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Speaker 1: tells me that it's the coach. But for whatever reason,
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Speaker 1: coffee with the coach must have been taken. So coffee
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Speaker 1: with a coaches what they're calling it taking like a patent? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I would figure. Do you feel better now that you done?
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Speaker 1: Why aren't you in every meeting in this building because
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Speaker 1: you bring sense clear? The reason is a nobody wants
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Speaker 1: me there, and a nobody wants me there. No one
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Speaker 1: invites you a lot of things like that's okay, well
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Speaker 1: we'll change that, John, that's a good team, awesome running
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Speaker 1: the show here today. Don't even ask what that means, folks.
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Speaker 1: All right, time for big things. Let's get him in
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Speaker 1: before the head coach a ride. All right, big thing
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Speaker 1: one is, Folcus. We know that the entire season this
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Speaker 1: team has said one game at a time, one play
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Speaker 1: at a time. But it's human nature to look forward
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Speaker 1: when you thought this team was going to make the playoffs. Now,
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Speaker 1: with the playoffs and very very high hopes, you truly
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Speaker 1: can now focus on one time I look forward. You
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Speaker 1: really don't need to, uh. The key here though, is
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Speaker 1: the dug set on Monday that they had a great
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Speaker 1: week on the practice field last week and it didn't translate,
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Speaker 1: and this week they needed to translate against Pittsburgh. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah,
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Speaker 1: And I don't see why you wouldn't be focused. The
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Speaker 1: only concern about focus now is are you distracted by oh,
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Speaker 1: my goodness, the playoffs look bleak, all the stuff with
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Speaker 1: the Mrs Simon said, are you distracted by the wrong things?
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Speaker 1: I don't anticipate this team will be that. Uh So,
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Speaker 1: if the Steelers can't get your attention after what happened
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Speaker 1: last week, especially in the defensive backfield, I don't know
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Speaker 1: what will well. And I didn't, be honest, it really
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Speaker 1: wasn't paying that much attention to their focus. Um. But
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Speaker 1: this week talking to guys, whether it was Jalen yesterday
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Speaker 1: who seemed really dialed in, uh or Tyler Shatley, you
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Speaker 1: know who's now the starting center? Um? Who is not
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Speaker 1: a man of elongated sentences and of an elongated beera
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Speaker 1: does it's trimmed up? Um? I mean he stayed well.
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Speaker 1: I think he uses that wax on it. I mean thing,
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Speaker 1: he's got a shape, just the best beard in the
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Speaker 1: locker room. Wow, it's a bold statement. I think he's
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Speaker 1: probably right better than mine. That's fair. There aren't too
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Speaker 1: many that are worse than yours. I see myself. Um,
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Speaker 1: they seem like the Steelers have their attention. Yes, I agree.
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Speaker 1: It seemed even though a lot of guys didn't want
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Speaker 1: to talk in the locker room at the beginning of
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Speaker 1: the week, you saw more guys taking advantage of the
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Speaker 1: opportunity later in the week. No joking aside straight football,
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Speaker 1: but seem dialed in, especially when Doug said on Monday
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Speaker 1: that the walk thor went well and they seemed focused
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Speaker 1: on Monday. The better be doubted and this is a
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Speaker 1: good team. Uh, it's gonna have fans here, and they're
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Speaker 1: a team capable of kicking your butt. So if you're
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Speaker 1: not dialing in, you get embarrassed at home, especially the
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Speaker 1: way that they're running the ball right now. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you would think if we had said before the season began,
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Speaker 1: leving On Bell will not be here, you think, all right,
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Speaker 1: great advantage because he's a guy who had a big
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Speaker 1: game in the divisional playoffs last year. However, Uh, this
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Speaker 1: guy about that guy? He has ten touchdowns, averaging more
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Speaker 1: than four yards to carry, and he has become a
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Speaker 1: factor in the passing game, which he was not last year.
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Speaker 1: He has not been in his young career. Yeah, Todd
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Speaker 1: Wash said, Obviously, lady On Bell is a great player,
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Speaker 1: and they solved him last year. But James Conner, they said,
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Speaker 1: was not much more of a drop off running behind
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Speaker 1: that line. Yeah, you you better be dialed in. But
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Speaker 1: there's no reason he wouldn't be. It's a great offensive
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Speaker 1: line there is. There are so many weapons around him
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Speaker 1: that you can't just focus on stopping Connor. Again, I
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Speaker 1: think it's a huge game for the defensive X to
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Speaker 1: not do what they did last week. All right, big
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Speaker 1: thing too, Big thing too is fortune. When you're playing
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Speaker 1: a team like the Pittsburgh Steelers, you almost have to
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Speaker 1: create your own fortune, and with that comes creating turnovers.
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Speaker 1: You guys both said yester day we were shooting Jaguars weekend.
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Speaker 1: Then that is the key to winning this game is
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Speaker 1: creating turnovers and also offensively not turning the ball over.
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Speaker 1: I used the difference in the ball game last year.
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Speaker 1: You look five takeaways and to win up there in
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Speaker 1: October two takeaways, one that led directly to a lendar
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Speaker 1: for that touchdown. The other that Telvin smith scooped and
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Speaker 1: scored on turnovers. The key on Sunday. If you want
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Speaker 1: to beat the Steelers, especially as hit and misses the
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Speaker 1: offense around here has been recently, the defense has to
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Speaker 1: give them the ball and the offense has to protect.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, right, the Jaguars and their fans correctly, I
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Speaker 1: believe that they were significantly better than the Steelers last
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Speaker 1: year and they didn't get credit for it. They should
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Speaker 1: have because they were significantly better. They beat him by
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Speaker 1: twenty one, and they beat him in a situation where
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Speaker 1: the game was never really in doubt after the first
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Speaker 1: quarter in the playoffs. But the reason they were so
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Speaker 1: much better takeaways turning into points. As you said, directly
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Speaker 1: got fourteen. I'm sorry, and I'm messing with your little
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Speaker 1: sheet here. Directly got four to bring you from behind
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Speaker 1: to a head in the regular season, which is rare.
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Speaker 1: Kelvin smith pick six from behind put them ahead, and
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Speaker 1: then they sort of sealed with the buried Church. They
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Speaker 1: have to turn the ball over and they have to
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Speaker 1: get points out of it to win this game. After
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Speaker 1: a long drought where it seemed like they couldn't get
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Speaker 1: a turn over. The last two games against the Eagles
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Speaker 1: and last week against the Colts, they've created three. It's
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Speaker 1: not an overwhelming amount for a team that last year
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Speaker 1: had thirty three. I get it, but at least there's been,
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Speaker 1: you know, a break in that log gym where they
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Speaker 1: just couldn't make anything happen. Now, the problem is, and
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Speaker 1: it probably cost them in both situations. You know, the
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Speaker 1: offense turned it over Healing Coal had that inexcusable fumble
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Speaker 1: at the end of the first half, and then last
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Speaker 1: week we shot green same thing at the end of
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Speaker 1: the game and it killed them. You. So the flip
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Speaker 1: side is get the takeaways, right, but you you gotta
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Speaker 1: be better with the ball. I would argue that the
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Speaker 1: turnovers last couple of weeks have been very, very impressive
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Speaker 1: because they've come when the team or when the game
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Speaker 1: has been in doubt. Obviously they didn't win, so there
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Speaker 1: was in doubt. They got a turnover trailing against Andy. Uh,
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Speaker 1: they got two turnovers early against the Eagles when they
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Speaker 1: were trying to get the advantage. You know, me, I'm
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Speaker 1: a big believer. They usually come when you're at ten
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Speaker 1: points ahead. That's when you get your avalanche of turnovers.
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Speaker 1: So to get three in those situations to me is
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Speaker 1: like getting five when you're ahead. Oppressive stuff, agree completely
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Speaker 1: turnovers the key on Sunday, final big thing and then
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Speaker 1: we'll take a break and bring coffee with the coach
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Speaker 1: into play. Big thing three is feeling it will be
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Speaker 1: a completely different week this week if the Jaguars can
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Speaker 1: get it done on Sunday, very Jaguars of them to
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Speaker 1: come out and just completely dominate the Steelers. You could
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Speaker 1: see it happening, you saw it last year, but it
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Speaker 1: would just be a completely different show for us next week. Well,
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Speaker 1: to talk about a win, I mean winning does that obviously,
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Speaker 1: and it's been since the end of September since this
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Speaker 1: team has won a football game, and that it's just
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Speaker 1: it's mind boggedly to think about that. But in terms
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Speaker 1: of just the beating the Steelers, right and what that
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Speaker 1: does for the fan base and how it re engages
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Speaker 1: people on a day to day basis, When you have
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Speaker 1: this losing street, people tend to kind of tune in
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Speaker 1: and out what's going on, and their their attention level drops, well,
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Speaker 1: it picks right back up with a win over the Steelers.
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Speaker 1: Nothing against the Colts or the Eagles or anyone else
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Speaker 1: that's on your schedule. But when it's the Steelers, especially
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Speaker 1: with the Jaguars history with that franchise, when it's the Steelers,
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, people get fired up. It gets
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Speaker 1: you to four and six, and it gets your game
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Speaker 1: against Buffalo that uh, you can start talking a smidge
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Speaker 1: more about Hope by the Apple every week, so obviously
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Speaker 1: you know it's uh, it would be a dramatically different feeling.
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Speaker 1: They would still have to earn a lot more to
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Speaker 1: maintain that feeling, but for a week it it would
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Speaker 1: be terrific, alright, And that'll do it for big things.
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Speaker 1: enter that we bring in the head coach. Whose uh
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Speaker 1: a weekend going all of a sudden with a big
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Speaker 1: win last night for your son's high school football team
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Speaker 1: in Tallahassee. It was a big win. Uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: are able to get home and um catch some of it,
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Speaker 1: I guess on one of those apps that have the
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Speaker 1: high school football games around the country, and um, it
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Speaker 1: was exciting because you know, obviously there's a delay, you
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Speaker 1: know in the apps, and obviously my wife is at
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Speaker 1: the game and so, you know what, I'm trying to
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Speaker 1: watch it. She's texting me, so she's ahead of me
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Speaker 1: on it, and that's frustrating. And then you know, I
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Speaker 1: just said, hey, listen, just face time the game and
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Speaker 1: so you know, second watch it, you know as as
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Speaker 1: it's occurring, So your nerves like in that situation, dougu
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Speaker 1: so that's fascinating because you deal with this, you coach.
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Speaker 1: But I know from watching the Sun play a sport,
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Speaker 1: get eating never side, are you nervous when what's going on? Oh? Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: you know, I mean absolutely, you know, you you get
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Speaker 1: an there and just like any dad, you know, you're
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm texting them, Um, you know I talked
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Speaker 1: to him the night before, but then the day of
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Speaker 1: the game, you know, you make sure you text them,
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Speaker 1: try to you know, motivate them and you know, tell
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Speaker 1: him hom which I love him, and trust them, and
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Speaker 1: you know, and and go out there and play for
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Speaker 1: your teammates, you know, play for play, you know, play
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Speaker 1: for everyone else, you know, and you know, try to
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Speaker 1: try to get that instilled at a good age. And
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Speaker 1: you know, I think they do a good job there.
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Speaker 1: I think you know a lot of the high school
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Speaker 1: programs here to do an excellent job. And it was
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Speaker 1: a big win, and you know it's good for the community.
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Speaker 1: And and now that you know, now they'll they'll they
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Speaker 1: get to play again. Is your son the type of
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Speaker 1: Sun where he asked for advice because I know when
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Speaker 1: I played a sport, I was like, Dad, leave me alone,
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Speaker 1: let me do it. Myself. Yeah, I think you know, Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, my wife is a heck of a coach.
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Speaker 1: I know that. I mean, she's coaching the kids more
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Speaker 1: than I have. And uh, you know, but you know,
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Speaker 1: one day we were talking about coverage and I was
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Speaker 1: asking what his responsibilities were and he's like, Dad, look,
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Speaker 1: it's it's not as easy as you think, you know.
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Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, I get it, you know. So
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Speaker 1: it's funny, uh, to your team, we talked early in
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Speaker 1: the week about translating practice to the game field and
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Speaker 1: focus being a big part of that. How's this week
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Speaker 1: been and have you done anything different to try to
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Speaker 1: get that result that you've had out there to the
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Speaker 1: field behind you? I mean, really, it's just tough to me.
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Speaker 1: You just got to emphasize it, you know. And and
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Speaker 1: at the same point, you gotta emphasize, you know, the
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Speaker 1: physicality of the of the game. I think anytime, you know,
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Speaker 1: I told the team that's just now before I walked
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Speaker 1: in here that, um, you know, wherever you've been, if
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Speaker 1: you ever played the Pittsburgh Steelers and if you ever
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Speaker 1: have beaten them, Uh, the reason why I always goes
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Speaker 1: back to because you were able to play more physical
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Speaker 1: than they have. And you know, they take a lot
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Speaker 1: of pride in that, and we take a lot of
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Speaker 1: pride in that, and you know, those are the things
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Speaker 1: that you're gonna have to be able to do, uh,
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Speaker 1: to win the game. And I go back to my
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Speaker 1: first time in the league in two thousand and two,
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Speaker 1: we had a pretty good team. We're playing them in
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Speaker 1: the playoffs and playing them during the season. Um, that's
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Speaker 1: pretty much the team that you know, it was the
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Speaker 1: most physical team won those games. And I think that
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Speaker 1: was that's what happened last year and I think it's
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Speaker 1: not gonna be any different comes Sunday. You also talked
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Speaker 1: immediately after the game Sunday about hey, pride and being
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Speaker 1: a pro. I mean, it was an emphasis for you
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Speaker 1: get on Monday. I assume you've seen that from you guys. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know it's you know, that's what the expection,
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Speaker 1: you know, expectation is. I think that you know, a
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Speaker 1: lot of times when when you're losing like this, there's
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Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of questions and there and there
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Speaker 1: should be, but they're gonna start questioning things of you know,
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Speaker 1: is there enough effort or they tuning you off? Or
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Speaker 1: things of that nature. And you know, I learned a
14:37
Speaker 1: long time ago, you know, going through this is that
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Speaker 1: um you know, when I was with HERMD was he
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Speaker 1: had the same questions and and the way he answered
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Speaker 1: it was that you know, he says, hey, listen, there
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Speaker 1: their pros. This is their job, this is what they
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Speaker 1: have to do, this is what they need to understand,
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Speaker 1: and and this is what we expect from And I think,
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Speaker 1: you know, I pretty much have had the same philosophy
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Speaker 1: from a standpoint of coaches, players, support staff, whatever it
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Speaker 1: may be. You know, it's our job and and and
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Speaker 1: then we and we have to do our job to
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Speaker 1: the best of our ability. You know, it's such a
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Speaker 1: year to year league and you don't look backwards. Your
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Speaker 1: players don't either. But it was funny Calais Campbell was
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Speaker 1: asked in the locker room, do you think there's they're
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Speaker 1: coming in with an edge based on the results from
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Speaker 1: last year, you know, two losses at home one of
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Speaker 1: those playoffs. And Calais has kind of talked about year
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Speaker 1: to year, different different players, But then he said, you
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Speaker 1: know I would though, he said, I'd have something for it. Sure, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think it's more you know, edge. Um, I don't
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Speaker 1: know if edges there right right term, but if if
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Speaker 1: it's talking about more motivation and there are more things
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Speaker 1: that you can you know, motivate the team from, you know,
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Speaker 1: then obviously, um yes, you know, I mean if you're
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs, no different than anywhere I've been. When
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Speaker 1: we're in and a team you know, were able to
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Speaker 1: knock you out or a team you know, beat you
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Speaker 1: twice at home or things of that nature, you know,
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Speaker 1: that's something that, um for the players that are still there,
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Speaker 1: they still have a bad taste in their mouth and
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Speaker 1: that's something that you want to get out. And um,
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Speaker 1: so from that standpoint, they do. And you know, for us,
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Speaker 1: you know, I look added as you know, we're not
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Speaker 1: playing well. You know, we've got to play well and
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Speaker 1: we've got to go against a very good football team
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Speaker 1: and this is a great opportunity for us to get
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Speaker 1: back on track. Obviously, this game was flexed. How do
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Speaker 1: you think that's going to affect the locker roomhere? Do
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Speaker 1: you think there past that, past the announcement, Just focus
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Speaker 1: on the game. I think the past the announcement, I
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Speaker 1: think I think we all know in this league is
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Speaker 1: that you know, when you get, you know, flexed into
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Speaker 1: prime time. You know, it means you know, you're playing well.
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Speaker 1: People people want to see teams that are playing well
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Speaker 1: and two good football teams. And you know, when you
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Speaker 1: get flexed out of the prime time, you know, then
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's for a reason. And I think that
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Speaker 1: you know, we understand that we've got flexed out because
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Speaker 1: we're not we're not playing well. You know, it's not
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Speaker 1: um the matchup that they expected it to be. And
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Speaker 1: and a lot of that is because of where we are.
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Speaker 1: So you get one of the best quarterbacks in the
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Speaker 1: league obviously, you know, big arm, great leader. Results across
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Speaker 1: the breath of his career, Jack Dearreel used to keep
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Speaker 1: a stat on him, and that was that he got
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Speaker 1: more accurate. Jack used to say, there where you hit him.
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Speaker 1: He was a guy that would stand back there and
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Speaker 1: you think you could hit him and bother him and
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Speaker 1: and make him throw the ball quicker or less accurate.
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Speaker 1: But when they tracked it back in the mid two thousand's,
17:11
Speaker 1: he said, the more the guy gets hit, the better
17:13
Speaker 1: he gets well. I think I think when he was younger,
17:16
Speaker 1: you know, we had some some of the same stats
17:18
Speaker 1: when we went against him, meaning that you know, if
17:20
Speaker 1: he was forced out of the pocket to his right,
17:22
Speaker 1: it was you know, the completion percentage was off the
17:24
Speaker 1: charge and if he was forced out going to his left,
17:26
Speaker 1: they were very low. So we tried to, you know,
17:28
Speaker 1: scheme things from that that standpoint. And I think that, um,
17:32
Speaker 1: you know, when you're young and and and and you
17:35
Speaker 1: know younger, and Ben was a guy that I mean
17:37
Speaker 1: you you really truly had a it's a different type
17:40
Speaker 1: of tackle on him. I mean, you know, you're tackling
17:43
Speaker 1: like a big tight end or a big running back
17:45
Speaker 1: back there. And you've seen it many times where you know,
17:48
Speaker 1: he would be hit in his career and he would
17:50
Speaker 1: just shake people off and be able to stand back there.
17:53
Speaker 1: I think now he's done such some really an outstanding
17:57
Speaker 1: job of really getting rid of the ball. You don't
17:58
Speaker 1: see him taking the same type of of hits. Maybe
18:01
Speaker 1: that he was younger. I think that, you know, when
18:04
Speaker 1: you know, when he was younger in his career, and
18:06
Speaker 1: I think he's playing at a very high efficient level.
18:08
Speaker 1: And um, you know, so you don't you don't really
18:11
Speaker 1: have that type of statistics anymore. You just know this
18:14
Speaker 1: that you know, if he does have time back there, Uh,
18:18
Speaker 1: he'll he'll pick you apart. You know, you can just
18:20
Speaker 1: only cover guys for so long. So you know, being
18:23
Speaker 1: able to get to him and get the ball out,
18:24
Speaker 1: making him feel the pressure, you know, or actually getting
18:27
Speaker 1: to him and putting them down or forcing them to
18:29
Speaker 1: make some some tough or bad decisions. That that's that's
18:33
Speaker 1: the challenge that we have to do. I'm sorry. Have
18:36
Speaker 1: you liked what you've seen from Leonard this week? And
18:38
Speaker 1: do you think he's gaining confidence on that hamstring? Well,
18:41
Speaker 1: I would hope after the last game, you know that
18:43
Speaker 1: he came out and he was fine, so I would
18:45
Speaker 1: feel that you know, uh, you know, you would have
18:47
Speaker 1: that confidence when you play that game. And I just
18:50
Speaker 1: think it's now, you know, first game coming back. You know,
18:53
Speaker 1: we want to see um, you know, the player that
18:55
Speaker 1: that we had before. And it was interesting when you
18:57
Speaker 1: go back and you watch the two uh Spur games,
19:00
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying from from last year, you know,
19:02
Speaker 1: and you see the physicality of of the team, our team,
19:06
Speaker 1: you know, the way we were able to move the ball,
19:09
Speaker 1: knock him off and and really Leonard you know, played
19:11
Speaker 1: extremely well. He was able to uh you know, make
19:14
Speaker 1: the first guy miss or run the first guy over
19:16
Speaker 1: and get those tough downs and um, you know, get
19:19
Speaker 1: the team sparked um to a certain extent with the
19:23
Speaker 1: physicality of the way he ran the football. So you know,
19:26
Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna need for him this week. You
19:28
Speaker 1: want in Pittsburgh last year without Brandon Lender, Tyler Shatley
19:31
Speaker 1: stepped in and I thought it was very impressive performance,
19:34
Speaker 1: especially against that defense where you've got to know who's
19:36
Speaker 1: coming and where and make those calls. What is it
19:38
Speaker 1: about Chatley? Coach? A guy comes into an undrafted guy
19:41
Speaker 1: and just he can play guard, he can play center,
19:44
Speaker 1: he can do so many things, and the team has
19:45
Speaker 1: so much confidence in him. What is it about Tyler
19:47
Speaker 1: specifically that makes him that kind of a guy? I
19:49
Speaker 1: think early on on on this show today and John
19:52
Speaker 1: brought up we talked about being a pro, and I
19:54
Speaker 1: think that you know, granted that you have to have
19:57
Speaker 1: the physical traits, you know, in the talent to be
20:00
Speaker 1: a good player. Um, but when you get the trust
20:04
Speaker 1: and the confidence and the performance, it comes from really
20:07
Speaker 1: being a pro. And you know, Tyler since he's been here,
20:10
Speaker 1: has really has done everything that we asked, Um, you
20:12
Speaker 1: know he's a tireless worker. I mean, he's uh excellent
20:16
Speaker 1: in the weight room, takes a lot of pride and
20:19
Speaker 1: in his performance, takes a lot of pride in his preparation.
20:23
Speaker 1: So when you see someone that has talent like he
20:25
Speaker 1: has and you see the way they prepare and they
20:27
Speaker 1: get ready, you know, obviously you feel very confident that
20:31
Speaker 1: that player has the ability to go out there and
20:32
Speaker 1: and and perform at a high level. Get a thought
20:35
Speaker 1: from you on the Steelers defense? Uh, you think a
20:37
Speaker 1: Cameron Hayward's defind to it upfront? Outside of them, Bud
20:41
Speaker 1: Dupree and T. J. Watt, I mean, it just seems
20:44
Speaker 1: like it's hard to know where they're coming from. Well,
20:47
Speaker 1: Hayward and to It are a real big, strong guys
20:49
Speaker 1: and and you know, you know with Hayward be in
20:52
Speaker 1: a more of a three down player and he's been
20:54
Speaker 1: a heck of a player for a long period of time. Um,
20:56
Speaker 1: you know, he's physical, he's tough, he can push the pocket,
21:00
Speaker 1: he can get off blocks. You know, he may not
21:02
Speaker 1: get a lot of the uh sack numbers, but he
21:05
Speaker 1: he does force a lot of problems. You know, he
21:07
Speaker 1: gets a lot of quarterback hits and to it's obviously
21:10
Speaker 1: a run stopper, you know that that has some ability
21:13
Speaker 1: to pass rush. But these guys on the outside, you know,
21:15
Speaker 1: they they've really done a good job. You know what
21:17
Speaker 1: is very technical. He can break down you know, uh,
21:21
Speaker 1: the protection meaning that you know, he can break down blockers.
21:24
Speaker 1: He can you know, swap their hands. He has a
21:27
Speaker 1: lot of moves, a lot of counters. Obviously, as you know,
21:30
Speaker 1: both all these players have great effort and our physical
21:33
Speaker 1: and then dupri is really a heck of an athlete
21:34
Speaker 1: on the outside that you know has strength and power.
21:37
Speaker 1: So you have to be obviously aware of where those
21:40
Speaker 1: guys are. But I think you know what's difficult and
21:42
Speaker 1: it's always been difficult when when you're playing Pittsburgh is
21:45
Speaker 1: that you know, it's it's a it's a chess game.
21:48
Speaker 1: When it comes to protections. You know, they're gonna study
21:50
Speaker 1: your protections, they're gonna know where you go, they're gonna
21:53
Speaker 1: know um, you know, and they're gonna try to get
21:56
Speaker 1: the quarterback to throw hot or get a free hitter.
21:59
Speaker 1: And it comes out of you know, normal down and distance.
22:02
Speaker 1: You see a lot of the run stopping pressures you know,
22:04
Speaker 1: so they pressure more than most teams, and then third
22:07
Speaker 1: down you're gonna see them where they try to scheme
22:08
Speaker 1: it up and try to get you to go to
22:10
Speaker 1: one side and kind of bait you into it, and
22:13
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you know, here comes to
22:15
Speaker 1: pressure from the other side. So you know, we're gonna
22:17
Speaker 1: have to do a good job of getting on the ball.
22:19
Speaker 1: Um and and and I D and things the right way,
22:22
Speaker 1: and and then and that's just really what I say.
22:24
Speaker 1: I've always said that that's just half the battle. You know.
22:27
Speaker 1: The other battle is now you gotta stop them. Anything else?
22:32
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Jack's Drive time Friday morning. We just
24:35
Speaker 1: had coffee with the coach. Sun coming up on a
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Speaker 1: crisp morning here Chili. I don't know if I like
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Speaker 1: it very much. Great start to the week before Thanksgiving,
24:43
Speaker 1: the weekend before Thanksgiving, to be specific with you Jaguars
24:47
Speaker 1: looking to end that five game losing skid against the
24:50
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. Kick off one o'clock. Go for you. It
24:53
Speaker 1: was supposed to be a twenty. Now it's one o'clock
24:55
Speaker 1: and uh time for he will, he won't, he might?
25:00
Speaker 1: He might? John take it away? Okay to see who
25:05
Speaker 1: I picked you? Yeah, unique and got way um. He
25:11
Speaker 1: will be very important to this game because of the
25:16
Speaker 1: presidence of Ben Roethlisberger, and I think he will get
25:19
Speaker 1: opportunities to sack Ben Roethlisberger because of what she said.
25:24
Speaker 1: This is not a team that plays a lot of
25:27
Speaker 1: run pass options. It's not a team that emphasizes getting
25:30
Speaker 1: the ball out quick. It's it's a team, because of Ben,
25:33
Speaker 1: that likes to hold the ball often. That creates huge
25:37
Speaker 1: opportunities for the Steelers. It also created last year opportunities
25:41
Speaker 1: for the Jaguars to sack him. If you recall the
25:44
Speaker 1: Telvin Smith fumble recovery was off of sacked by Unique,
25:46
Speaker 1: which he got so many of last year. Um, that
25:50
Speaker 1: is a key for them this week. Obviously, you know
25:52
Speaker 1: their offensive line is a bit beat up. Remote Foster
25:56
Speaker 1: has in practice the left guard and the right tackle.
25:59
Speaker 1: Marcus Gilbert is not a big factor at all last
26:01
Speaker 1: year if he missed the game in October and left
26:03
Speaker 1: the game in January. So they're gonna be spread a
26:06
Speaker 1: bit thin, which again you're looking for any little advantage
26:09
Speaker 1: you can get. It would seem like this would be
26:11
Speaker 1: one for reading hit. Um, he won't quit, you know,
26:15
Speaker 1: And I'm personally not a big believer that guys in
26:21
Speaker 1: the NFL truly quit. I think usually what fancy is
26:24
Speaker 1: quitting is miscommunication. It's people getting off the same page,
26:28
Speaker 1: trying to make plays as things getting sort of out
26:30
Speaker 1: of whack. But fans a lot to talk about guys quitting,
26:32
Speaker 1: so we'll talk about it. This kid ain't gonna quit ever,
26:35
Speaker 1: so UM, I think you will continue to see the
26:40
Speaker 1: same amount of effort. I know he hasn't had the
26:41
Speaker 1: sacks that he had last year for him. I think
26:44
Speaker 1: particularly it's about the fact that Wars haven't had a
26:47
Speaker 1: whole lot of leads. I think he's rushing the pastor well,
26:50
Speaker 1: so he's not gonna quit um and he might be
26:52
Speaker 1: the difference in the game. You know. It's I know
26:54
Speaker 1: we've said this about him several times this year. Um,
26:59
Speaker 1: his opportunit unities to make that sack fumble that he
27:02
Speaker 1: was known for. I'm not sure he's had one this year. Um,
27:05
Speaker 1: he's not, so you know, he's capable of it. You
27:10
Speaker 1: know that when a guy who you know is good
27:12
Speaker 1: at something doesn't get a chance to do it, you know.
27:16
Speaker 1: As a reason why, I think, I think it's the
27:18
Speaker 1: fact that he hasn't had a whole lot of leads
27:20
Speaker 1: and as many pass rushing opportunities. But against Ben he
27:24
Speaker 1: might get it and he might be the difference in
27:25
Speaker 1: the game. It just seems like he's the kind of
27:26
Speaker 1: guy right now when we all thought he was set
27:30
Speaker 1: for an epic to watch him in training camp in
27:33
Speaker 1: the preseason was to watch a guy who was completely
27:36
Speaker 1: dialed and and just looked like he was ready to go.
27:39
Speaker 1: And if they had had as many leads as last year,
27:41
Speaker 1: I think you would not have been. But he's also
27:42
Speaker 1: the guy I think who could go like that and
27:45
Speaker 1: go from five to twelve sacks over the next seven
27:48
Speaker 1: games without a problem. Even more potentially depending on how
27:50
Speaker 1: the offense helps him out. Absolutely, Unike and Mike, he
27:57
Speaker 1: will he won't. He Mike his Bury Church. He will
28:00
Speaker 1: bounce back. We know he did not play well against
28:02
Speaker 1: the Colts last week. Eric Ebron exposed him. I can't
28:05
Speaker 1: imagine him playing another game like that. I know he
28:08
Speaker 1: puts it on himself that that was not a very
28:09
Speaker 1: good game for himself. He won't be the star player
28:13
Speaker 1: on defense when we look back on this season. I
28:14
Speaker 1: don't think he's going to be that flash out guy.
28:16
Speaker 1: But like Todd Wash and Doug Moron always said, he
28:18
Speaker 1: just needs to do his job and stick to the
28:20
Speaker 1: coverage and just be a good player. He might, though,
28:23
Speaker 1: get an interception this week. We saw it last year
28:25
Speaker 1: against the Steelers. That interception came back for a touchdown.
28:29
Speaker 1: He might make a big play this week. Hometown guy,
28:31
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh is his hometown. He had that big game. Let
28:33
Speaker 1: me ask you, John, your thoughts on it's Barry Church
28:36
Speaker 1: being pushed by Ronnie Harrison in other words, the Jaguars,
28:39
Speaker 1: and if you talk to the coaches, they love the
28:41
Speaker 1: rookie from Alabama. He's a guy that I see you
28:45
Speaker 1: in that starting role. Maybe he's release next year. I'd
28:48
Speaker 1: be shocked if he wasn't. Absolutely, yeah, Barry won't be back.
28:51
Speaker 1: But he didn't play particularly well in London, and he
28:55
Speaker 1: didn't play particularly well in Indianapolis. If he doesn't play
28:58
Speaker 1: particularly well, do you see Ronnie get a shot to
29:00
Speaker 1: take that job earlier? I don't think it'll happen as
29:03
Speaker 1: long as they're in it only because of this their
29:06
Speaker 1: big nickel package is Ronnie Harrison. Now, that didn't get
29:09
Speaker 1: in the game a whole lot last week because you
29:11
Speaker 1: were playing the Colts and you use use DJ Head
29:17
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, DJ Hayden and the nickel more than you
29:19
Speaker 1: did Ronnie Harrison. Um, you don't necessarily want to take
29:25
Speaker 1: that big nickel package away from yourself. And if and
29:29
Speaker 1: if you have Ronnie Harrison playing the starting strong side,
29:32
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you're giving him a whole
29:34
Speaker 1: lot to also go play big nickel. And and remember
29:37
Speaker 1: two sorts of roles. Now, I think if they're eliminated
29:40
Speaker 1: from the postseason and you and you're looking for guys
29:44
Speaker 1: who you would say, Okay, we're going to get them
29:47
Speaker 1: in the roles that we think they might play in
29:49
Speaker 1: the future. Then you might see Ronnie Harrison moving to
29:53
Speaker 1: that strong side. You might see Tavin Bryan get a
29:55
Speaker 1: lot more reps. DJ Chark moved up there. If you
29:57
Speaker 1: guys who make sense with that. I don't think you'll
29:59
Speaker 1: see him start over Church until that happens, but again,
30:03
Speaker 1: that would be my thought. Church isn't injured. I mean,
30:05
Speaker 1: he's not an injury report. It's so he can snap
30:07
Speaker 1: out of this and this would be a good week
30:08
Speaker 1: for him to do it, especially with as much as
30:10
Speaker 1: they played for him, and goes back further. You're right, Bryan,
30:13
Speaker 1: it goes back further than just last week. He struggled later,
30:15
Speaker 1: he's not played all that well. All right, Uh, time
30:18
Speaker 1: for mine, I'm going on the defensive side with Miles Jack.
30:22
Speaker 1: I think he will be that key cog in the
30:24
Speaker 1: game because the Steelers love the middle of the field,
30:27
Speaker 1: whether it's James Conner running or receiving, or whether those
30:30
Speaker 1: tight ends right coming across the middle and advance. McDonald
30:33
Speaker 1: is a guy who can make a lot of things happen.
30:35
Speaker 1: Jesse James a big guy, so the middle of the
30:37
Speaker 1: field is going to be key against the Steelers. Miles
30:40
Speaker 1: did not play all that well last week, but he's
30:42
Speaker 1: a guy who runs and hits, and that's what a
30:46
Speaker 1: Steelers game is all about. Having an impact guy in
30:49
Speaker 1: the middle of the field that will run and tackle.
30:51
Speaker 1: And six ft one two and thirty pound running back
30:54
Speaker 1: who is averaging more than four yards a carry, has
30:56
Speaker 1: scored ten touchdowns. You can bet number forty four is
30:59
Speaker 1: going to have his eyes all over him. He won't
31:03
Speaker 1: leave the stadium immediately after the game. He will be
31:06
Speaker 1: in the cold tub. When you play Pittsburgh, you play
31:09
Speaker 1: incredibly physical style inside in the interior linement that will
31:14
Speaker 1: be looking for him, the full back or the tight
31:16
Speaker 1: end that they'll throw up in front of him. And
31:18
Speaker 1: then obviously Connor, he's gonna feel this game on Monday.
31:21
Speaker 1: He won't be able to avoid the cold tub and
31:24
Speaker 1: he might make that interception like he did. And whether
31:27
Speaker 1: he scores or not, I'm talking about the playoff game.
31:29
Speaker 1: Whether he scores or not, it doesn't matter. But we
31:32
Speaker 1: talked about turnovers and setting the offense up with short
31:34
Speaker 1: fields and making it easy for them against the good
31:37
Speaker 1: Steelers defense. Jack's going to be the guy to get
31:40
Speaker 1: this done. He might be the guy who gets that done,
31:41
Speaker 1: I should say. And his biggest play in the post
31:44
Speaker 1: the biggest play in the postseason last year might have
31:47
Speaker 1: been his early interception against Pittsburgh. It's one that doesn't
31:50
Speaker 1: get talked about it because there's so many big plays,
31:52
Speaker 1: but that broke the serve early and got them up fourteen.
31:56
Speaker 1: Nothing set the tone for the whole game, and it
31:58
Speaker 1: was the throw to Jesse James in the flat. That's identity.
32:00
Speaker 1: He got out there and did a great job showing
32:02
Speaker 1: his athleticism, getting the bowl, keeping his feet in and
32:06
Speaker 1: of course the next play for that scores the touchdown.
32:09
Speaker 1: All right, So there's he will he won't, he might,
32:11
Speaker 1: Unique and Gockway, Barry Church, Miles Jack All on the
32:14
Speaker 1: defensive side, tells you what we think of Ben Roethlisberger
32:17
Speaker 1: in the offense. Rolling in time for pick one game
32:19
Speaker 1: and then pick it and John, we will start with you.
32:27
Speaker 1: You're going with the Titans and the Colts because I
32:29
Speaker 1: gave you guys the option and nobody really got back
32:31
Speaker 1: to me. So Titans and Colts was um I wish
32:37
Speaker 1: we weren't looking up at this game. It makes sense
32:41
Speaker 1: because it's a game in the division that you thought
32:44
Speaker 1: would matter very much for the Jaguars. It's still might,
32:48
Speaker 1: but if it feels more like it's a couple of
32:51
Speaker 1: teams getting away from the Jaguars right now, unfortunately, UM,
32:55
Speaker 1: I don't. I like what the culture doing. I like
32:58
Speaker 1: where they're going. If you're a Colts fan, you should
33:01
Speaker 1: be optimistic. But right now it feels like the Titans
33:05
Speaker 1: are a team that are building more for right now.
33:10
Speaker 1: They know how to win right now, they're on a roll.
33:13
Speaker 1: They're impressive against Alas has to beat in New England.
33:15
Speaker 1: Um I think out of those two, it's the Titans
33:18
Speaker 1: that can get away from these bottom two teams and
33:20
Speaker 1: go chase the Texas. But if Jaguars fans are watching
33:23
Speaker 1: this game, they want the Colts to win because that
33:25
Speaker 1: would lift the Colts to five and five, drop the
33:28
Speaker 1: Titans to five and five, And of course you need
33:30
Speaker 1: the Jaguars to win because that would get the Jaguars
33:32
Speaker 1: to four and six and be within a game of
33:35
Speaker 1: these teams for that final wild card spot I would get.
33:37
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that no one's gonna catch Houston, although it's
33:41
Speaker 1: not as if Houston has an insurmountable lead on either
33:43
Speaker 1: Tennessee or Indianapolis. You're gonna need help, see Andy, if
33:46
Speaker 1: you're gonna Houston. Yeah, and if you're if Andy's gonna win,
33:49
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to run the ball. They're going to
33:52
Speaker 1: have to set up some things with the run because
33:54
Speaker 1: I think the Titans have played really well on defense
33:56
Speaker 1: this year. It just seems like the Titans have figured
33:58
Speaker 1: out why they want to be. Yeah, they're starting with
34:02
Speaker 1: that a little bit early. Uh. I don't necessarily like
34:05
Speaker 1: the Titans to go make the playoffs, uh, but I
34:09
Speaker 1: like him to win this game. Okay, Ashlyn, your game
34:12
Speaker 1: is the big game this weekend, big big game Kansas
34:15
Speaker 1: City in Los Angeles. We know the drama that then
34:18
Speaker 1: playing in Mexico City field congestants have brought them back
34:21
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles. This is a close one. I think
34:23
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a really, really exciting game. Most likely
34:26
Speaker 1: could be a Super Bowl preview even but I have
34:28
Speaker 1: Kansas City winning this one, you know. And I I
34:31
Speaker 1: thought the Rams defense uh was a bit better than
34:36
Speaker 1: what I saw against the Saints. Not granted, I mean
34:38
Speaker 1: the Saints are the hottest offense in football, which they
34:41
Speaker 1: were playing in the super Dome that day. But you know,
34:43
Speaker 1: you've got some really good players on that side of
34:46
Speaker 1: the ball. They've struggled obviously without a key to leave,
34:48
Speaker 1: and Marcus Peters hasn't played well and hasn't been healthy,
34:51
Speaker 1: which is not a good formula for facing Patrick Mahomes.
34:54
Speaker 1: He has thirty one touchdowns in ten games, which has
34:58
Speaker 1: already surpass Lan Dawson's record for the Chiefs. He's within
35:03
Speaker 1: sight at the pace he's going of Peyton Manning's NFL
35:07
Speaker 1: record of fifty. UM. I don't know why. I mean
35:11
Speaker 1: the Rams at home and they played so well there
35:13
Speaker 1: last week, and they had it all going and girly
35:15
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs defenses and all that great, But I
35:17
Speaker 1: just think Kansas City is Um. They're playing at a
35:21
Speaker 1: different level, a little bit better than the Ram zone.
35:23
Speaker 1: I like that one, and the Rams went well. They're
35:26
Speaker 1: at home and it's a big game at home. UM,
35:28
Speaker 1: it was moved there obviously. The air quality is kind
35:32
Speaker 1: of an issue this week. I wonder how that will
35:34
Speaker 1: impact the game at all. Now. They've been practicing in Colorado,
35:38
Speaker 1: they were there, they were scheduled to be there anyway,
35:41
Speaker 1: because they wanted the elevation that Mexico City sits at
35:43
Speaker 1: to sort of simulate that. I think. I think the
35:45
Speaker 1: Chiefs were planning on doing something similar. I don't know
35:47
Speaker 1: that they did, um, but the game got switched. They
35:50
Speaker 1: decided to stay in Colorado, so it's probably felt like
35:52
Speaker 1: a road game for them all week long. Interesting dynamic,
35:55
Speaker 1: but a terrific, terrific matchup, and this lateness epically terrific
36:00
Speaker 1: matchup in terms of you don't usually get one lost
36:04
Speaker 1: teams playing not this late in the season. I don't
36:06
Speaker 1: know the stat but it's only happened a few times
36:08
Speaker 1: this it's late, so it could be a memorable regular
36:12
Speaker 1: season matchup and good for them for getting it on
36:14
Speaker 1: Monday night. I UM, I went with another game that
36:18
Speaker 1: has playoff implications in the a f C and and
36:23
Speaker 1: games and teams that the Jaguars should be looking at
36:25
Speaker 1: if they can get a win this week. The Ravens
36:28
Speaker 1: are four and five, the Bengals five and four. You know,
36:33
Speaker 1: the Bengals just they've had some injuries, they've had some
36:36
Speaker 1: coaching issues. They Terrell Austin was fired this week. The
36:39
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator for the Bengals. After the Bengals gave up
36:42
Speaker 1: five hundred or more yards in three consecutive games and
36:46
Speaker 1: they had that really bad day against the Saints. UM,
36:50
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the Bengals in this one because
36:53
Speaker 1: I just think even without a j Green, that they've
36:56
Speaker 1: got a little bit more going for them. The coach
36:58
Speaker 1: in Baltimore is under fire. Flacco hasn't practiced all week.
37:02
Speaker 1: Even Lamar Jackson, the backup quarterback, the rookie from Louisville,
37:05
Speaker 1: hasn't practiced much this week. Um, But the Bengals are
37:07
Speaker 1: five and four and the Ravens are four and five.
37:10
Speaker 1: It's just the same situation. You got the Bengals, the Titans,
37:13
Speaker 1: the Colts, and the Ravens all sitting there between five
37:17
Speaker 1: and four and four and five in in that sixth
37:20
Speaker 1: spot right now. The Bengals are in the sixth spot
37:22
Speaker 1: in the a f C. So this feels like a
37:25
Speaker 1: really important game in the conference to see which one
37:28
Speaker 1: of those is going to stay in the race. And
37:31
Speaker 1: you know, can the Jaguars do it this week? Find
37:34
Speaker 1: a way to stay in the rent. The Ravens have
37:35
Speaker 1: had so many distractions and drama to speak, it seems
37:37
Speaker 1: like it'd be tough to get it done against the Bengals. Yeah,
37:40
Speaker 1: and the Ravens win this one because of that. And
37:42
Speaker 1: I think John Harbow is the heck of a coach
37:44
Speaker 1: and he keeps them together and this is usually the
37:47
Speaker 1: time that they always seem lately to be five and six,
37:50
Speaker 1: six and five around that point, and usually they figure
37:55
Speaker 1: out a way to be playing for something in week seventeen.
37:59
Speaker 1: You know, the Bengals are an interesting team though, because
38:00
Speaker 1: there's they've got a lot of young talent. I mean,
38:03
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon, where's he been all season, all off season
38:07
Speaker 1: and into the start of the season, we heard about
38:08
Speaker 1: here comes Joe Mixon. He's going to give him a
38:10
Speaker 1: different dimension. Help Andy Dalton find a j green Um.
38:14
Speaker 1: I don't know why his name is escaped me. Is
38:15
Speaker 1: it Ross the receiver from Washington? Uh? That was top
38:20
Speaker 1: twenty pick and but we've seen nothing from him. He
38:23
Speaker 1: suffered through injuries. They have that explosive ability, and you
38:27
Speaker 1: would think that the Bengals are a team that could
38:29
Speaker 1: make some noise. They could get on a run, they
38:31
Speaker 1: could keep up with teams scoring, but their defense has
38:33
Speaker 1: just been abismo. I like the Ravens. All right, for
38:37
Speaker 1: some reason, I'm going with the Bengals. I'm not that
38:39
Speaker 1: I can explain it anymore. Okay, So there's he will,
38:41
Speaker 1: he won't, he might and pick one game and pick it.
38:44
Speaker 1: We'll take a break. When we come back, we'll turn
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Speaker 1: her attention to fantasy football and wrap up the broadcast
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Speaker 1: what's that you've been? And I say this without any
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Speaker 1: kidding at all. You've been one of the top fantasy
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Speaker 1: radio hosts in the country for a long time. It
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Speaker 1: was a set up. How many shows have you done
41:19
Speaker 1: where that song has been the intro? Oh, I don't know, Um,
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Speaker 1: just about all of them? No, not really most it's
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Speaker 1: it's no maybe you know a time of times, so
41:31
Speaker 1: I think maybe you know, Oh Joe and apology is
41:33
Speaker 1: what you were setting up is that Joe was not
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Speaker 1: doing his job. What I was gonna say if I
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Speaker 1: was not being nice was that we most people, uh
41:41
Speaker 1: feel it's too obvious, so wo yikes. But I didn't
41:47
Speaker 1: bring it up Joe. I didn't either. Before we get
41:51
Speaker 1: into the ugly truth of last week, how about your
41:55
Speaker 1: he will he won't? He might? All right, I will
41:57
Speaker 1: go with Eric Flowers. We all took defense, um, and
42:02
Speaker 1: I will say no, I don't know this for a fact,
42:04
Speaker 1: but I'll say he will start for the Jaguars this week.
42:07
Speaker 1: Right with johsh Walker missing all this practice, so I
42:10
Speaker 1: think he'll get his first start as the Jaguars left tackle. Uh.
42:13
Speaker 1: He won't get an easy initiation into it, obviously, as
42:17
Speaker 1: the Steelers are tied for the league leading sacks and
42:19
Speaker 1: they looked dominant against Carolina about what ten days ago
42:24
Speaker 1: or whatever it's been. And uh, he might need help
42:28
Speaker 1: getting chips coming off the edge with Bud Dupree and J. J.
42:31
Speaker 1: Watt whoever they line up at any given time on
42:34
Speaker 1: that side. I mean, they just came at Cam Newton
42:36
Speaker 1: and waves, and I have a feeling if they're able
42:39
Speaker 1: to slow the Jaguar running game, get him into some
42:41
Speaker 1: obvious passing situations. Eric Flowers in for a busy afternoon. Yeah,
42:45
Speaker 1: it sounds like the Steelers the older here. There you go,
42:49
Speaker 1: time for fantasy football, which I thought John was gonna ask, Honestly,
42:54
Speaker 1: have you ever seen someone have as good a week
42:56
Speaker 1: as I've had in all the years you've done this.
42:59
Speaker 1: I really thought that's where that was going. I mean,
43:01
Speaker 1: I might you need me to you me to come on,
43:05
Speaker 1: you need I might just take the afternoon off if
43:07
Speaker 1: you've got a few hours to fill in. He got.
43:11
Speaker 1: Zach Ertz got us because tight end is a really
43:14
Speaker 1: up and down position, as my guy zach Ertz. Zach
43:16
Speaker 1: ERTs called fourteen passes for over a hundred and forty
43:19
Speaker 1: yards with two touchdowns last week. That was good for
43:21
Speaker 1: forty points. That was almost what I scored last week,
43:24
Speaker 1: and to go with Patrick Mahomes, Alan Camara and Odell
43:27
Speaker 1: Beckham Jr. John emptied the bench pretty well last week
43:31
Speaker 1: and a good way to do it. He got a
43:33
Speaker 1: hundred and ten. Ashland had fifty seven, Brian had fifty
43:37
Speaker 1: five and I was in last place last week with
43:39
Speaker 1: forty seven. But the overall standings, Ashland is still with
43:44
Speaker 1: the first pick. You see it there, Brian's got is
43:50
Speaker 1: John has leapt up in the second place with my
43:53
Speaker 1: old street address growing up five thirty six East Kentucky Avenue,
43:56
Speaker 1: you haven't and I've got six fifteen. But it does
43:59
Speaker 1: speak to Mike's first nine week dominance. Yeah, that I
44:03
Speaker 1: could win by what sixty three points and he's still
44:06
Speaker 1: have by No. John killed it. And honestly, I mean,
44:11
Speaker 1: if you can make up sixty three in a week,
44:13
Speaker 1: you know there you're like eighty behind. I'm not gonna
44:16
Speaker 1: be able to pick my homes art no, But you
44:18
Speaker 1: know that's the kind of the nature of this draft.
44:21
Speaker 1: So to remind folks weed it's called a one and done.
44:23
Speaker 1: Use a player once, you can't use him again the
44:25
Speaker 1: rest of the season, and if anyone takes him in
44:27
Speaker 1: today's draft. No one else can use that player. And
44:30
Speaker 1: with that, Ashland, you've got the first pick. Give me
44:33
Speaker 1: Jared Goff. Taken Jared Goff. Brian, I'll go with Andrew
44:39
Speaker 1: Luck and Drew Luck. That's an interesting matchup versus Tennessee there,
44:44
Speaker 1: all right, John, I'm not used to waiting this long day.
44:48
Speaker 1: It's kind of a new thing for me. You know,
44:50
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna overthink it. I'm going with Cam Newton,
44:54
Speaker 1: Cam Newton, all right? Every that means I know I
44:56
Speaker 1: can take my quarterback last because everyone else has used
44:59
Speaker 1: to one this week. All right, let's see. You know,
45:02
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Leonard four Nett Oh get him
45:06
Speaker 1: in this. I don't think anyone's used him this year
45:08
Speaker 1: or so. I'll take four Net off the list and
45:11
Speaker 1: I will go with Greg Olsen at tight end this week.
45:16
Speaker 1: And now back to John has got Cam Newton, I
45:21
Speaker 1: am taking Did you say you took Olson? I did?
45:25
Speaker 1: I'm sorry? Oh? J Howard O. J Howard let me
45:29
Speaker 1: down big time last week. Let me he won't. Brian,
45:34
Speaker 1: you've got Andrew Luck. I'm going with Melvin Gordon. Gordon
45:38
Speaker 1: has been red hot. Ashlyn, you've got back to back
45:41
Speaker 1: picks here with Jared Goff through what I saw last week.
45:44
Speaker 1: Give me Abron and Alex Collins. That's in fantasy we
45:49
Speaker 1: call that chasing the points there with Brian, you got luck,
45:55
Speaker 1: you got Gordon. Need a wide receiver in the tight end,
45:57
Speaker 1: I'll take zach Ertz zach ERTs hoping for a back
45:59
Speaker 1: to back forty. I'm hoping for a point from last one. John,
46:04
Speaker 1: you need a running back or a wide receiver here, Um,
46:07
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go David Johnson. David Johnson, I think is
46:11
Speaker 1: good spot this week obviously versus the Oakland Raiders. All right,
46:15
Speaker 1: So I've got back to backers here. I'm gonna finally
46:18
Speaker 1: fire that Patrick Mahomes bullet on Monday Night football versus
46:23
Speaker 1: the Rams. And then at wide receiver, I'm gonna go
46:25
Speaker 1: with DeAndre Hopkins this week, so that brings us back
46:29
Speaker 1: to John. Wide receiver picks are all we have left.
46:32
Speaker 1: I want Tyreek Hill Hill, Brian. I'll take Brandon Cooks.
46:37
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks another Monday Night special in Ashland. I'll take
46:41
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton, t Y Hilton loading up on those Colts.
46:45
Speaker 1: Are we all right? We've got Jared Goff Alex Collins,
46:49
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton and Eric Ebron for Ashland. Brian's got
46:51
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck, Melvin Gordon, Brandon Cooks and Zach Hurts, John
46:55
Speaker 1: Want with Cam Newton, David Johnson, Tyreek Hill and O J. Howard.
46:58
Speaker 1: And I've got Patrick Mahomes, Wondard for Net, DeAndre Hopkins
47:01
Speaker 1: and Greg Olsen. And I can promise you what's gonna happen.
47:04
Speaker 1: The last two weeks I went which is the biggest name,
47:07
Speaker 1: the most obvious choice at every position, and I won.
47:10
Speaker 1: I actually put some thought into it. This week, I'll
47:12
Speaker 1: get you have good guys though, I mean Howard honestly
47:16
Speaker 1: was let down last week, but there probably aren't five
47:18
Speaker 1: tight ends. You'd rather have the O J. Howard in
47:20
Speaker 1: any given a week right now. This week he will
47:23
Speaker 1: get none. You'll get none. I can promise you. I've
47:26
Speaker 1: won two weeks in a row by not thinking about it.
47:29
Speaker 1: This week I actually put some thought into it, Like
47:31
Speaker 1: I didn't just go with so it'll be Michael get
47:35
Speaker 1: like a hundred and seventy. You got a great thing
47:38
Speaker 1: with four players? Is a really good week? Tough, the tough,
47:41
Speaker 1: the match at how about a final thought on our show?
47:45
Speaker 1: Sure for this weekend's game against this I just right now,
47:48
Speaker 1: I think that the Steelers are so good offensively, so
47:52
Speaker 1: many different ways they can go. I think they're going
47:54
Speaker 1: to get their points in this game. I think they're
47:56
Speaker 1: going over thirty. Honestly, I think it's a relatively high
47:59
Speaker 1: scoring game. I don't know if the Jags are gonna
48:01
Speaker 1: be able to match scores with them. Uh. Kind of
48:04
Speaker 1: my gut instinct score at the beginning of the week
48:07
Speaker 1: was like thirty seven to twenty four Pittsburgh, and that's
48:10
Speaker 1: you know, it may not be exactly that, but I
48:12
Speaker 1: don't really have any reason to come off that kind
48:14
Speaker 1: of feeling game, kind of high scoring, but Pittsburgh probably
48:17
Speaker 1: in the end by a couple of scores. Well, we've
48:19
Speaker 1: been talking all morning about it's got to be the takeaways.
48:21
Speaker 1: Maybe they've got They had what seven last year, uh,
48:24
Speaker 1: and two of them were for scores, one of them
48:27
Speaker 1: set up a score. No, three of them were for scores,
48:29
Speaker 1: and one of them set up a score. See, that's
48:31
Speaker 1: the way they beat the Steelers last year. They put
48:33
Speaker 1: them on their heels and then push them over. That
48:35
Speaker 1: has not been their formula for winning this year. They've
48:38
Speaker 1: got to get turnovers. If Wonder four Net's got a
48:40
Speaker 1: ninety yard runner two and them, that would be good.
48:42
Speaker 1: All yeah, but no, I mean that turnovers over the
48:45
Speaker 1: top would be not He'll try it. He'll try he'll
48:49
Speaker 1: waunch himself from lay out there, confident man. All right, Mike,
48:52
Speaker 1: thanks so much. We appreciate it. That'll wrap up our
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