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Speaker 1: Celebrating twenty five years of Jaguars football nine yards, it's
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Speaker 1: thirty enough. He just made eight people miss Ryan Jaguars.
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Speaker 1: Time starts right now. Good morning, and welcome Jaguars Drive
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Speaker 1: Time Monday Morning, presented by Jet Homones. It's the last
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Speaker 1: week of the preseason Thursday Night against the Atlanta Falcons. Bryan,
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Speaker 1: you and I were just talking at the beginning of
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Speaker 1: the show. I can't believe this program. Next week we're
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Speaker 1: talking regular season. It's about time I see those sides.
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Speaker 1: It's taken a while to get there, but it is
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Speaker 1: crazy that we're almost there. Well, and this will be
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Speaker 1: the third game Thursday Night against the Falcons out of
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Speaker 1: four preseason games where it's anticlimactic. We can talk about
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Speaker 1: all the matter chumps and the spots that are open
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Speaker 1: and the drama that's there. And there is some drama
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Speaker 1: there for those guys involved, but most of the viewers
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Speaker 1: don't care. They're thinking Chiefs already, and Doug Morone alluded
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Speaker 1: to yesterday John that this week is about balancing both
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Speaker 1: the need to get the roster set and next week
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Speaker 1: get ahead for Kansas City, because that's a toll order. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's balancing, it's tough, and I'm sure we'll talk about
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Speaker 1: later in the show. It's an emotional time for Doug.
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Speaker 1: I've never been around a coach where this week isn't
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Speaker 1: emotional because the coach knows how much these guys give,
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Speaker 1: so he wants to make and the team wants to
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Speaker 1: make the right decisions on that. At the same time,
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Speaker 1: let's be realistic, it's the bottom of the roster, it's
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Speaker 1: the last four or five guys. They want to be
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Speaker 1: as ill as they as they can on that. But
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Speaker 1: even the players, they stay in the locker room, we're
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Speaker 1: talking a little bit about we need to get into
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Speaker 1: the playbook. We need to get these reps for Kansas City.
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Speaker 1: So you're really talk about almost two different organizations this week.
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Speaker 1: It's it's one that's already preparing for the future, and
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Speaker 1: then there are the guys who are desperately fighting for
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Speaker 1: their jobs or their professional lives. It's coaching and scouting,
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Speaker 1: and you know they'll touch in certain places as they
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Speaker 1: go for evaluations from you know, the tight ends. Coach
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Speaker 1: or the offensive line coach on this guy or that.
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Speaker 1: But you know the football coaches are onto Kansas City, right.
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Speaker 1: But you can't help but think too many watching that
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Speaker 1: this week really doesn't matter preseason. Why But to those
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Speaker 1: four or five guys fighting for that spot, this is
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Speaker 1: the biggest week of their career so far, and I
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Speaker 1: think it'll be interesting to see who they played. Doug
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Speaker 1: sort of hitted yesterday that he wouldn't play the right
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Speaker 1: guards Will Richardson and a j Can, thinking that they've
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Speaker 1: done enough practice. But he also alluded last week that
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Speaker 1: Tavin Bryan probably will play. So the guys that they
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Speaker 1: feel like still need work. I don't think they feel like,
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Speaker 1: well Richard and a j Can need work to be ready.
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Speaker 1: It's more who's gonna start. I think they can figure
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Speaker 1: that out. But there are guys who they still feel
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Speaker 1: like need work for the regular season. I don't think
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen's anymore. No, I think we've seen enough of
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Speaker 1: them all right. That leads us right into big things.
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Speaker 1: Big thing one is how many how many jobs are
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Speaker 1: realistically open this week for guys to fight for a
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Speaker 1: practice squad and on the final fifty three man roster,
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Speaker 1: we know one thing, This is a very tough week
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Speaker 1: for head coach Doug Marron. And I'm not an emotional
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Speaker 1: person up or down, but this week is probably you know,
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Speaker 1: outside of anything happening in my family or things like that,
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Speaker 1: this is by far the toughest week. I hate it.
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Speaker 1: Big Thing too is the a f C South. What
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Speaker 1: a weekend full of drama. Lamar Mill Houston Texans running
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Speaker 1: back ters a c L. We now know about Andrew Lack,
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Speaker 1: Colts quarterback retiring from the game. We went into the
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Speaker 1: locker room yesterday and everyone had great things to say
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Speaker 1: about Luck, especially Calais Campbell. This game is very demanding
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Speaker 1: on you, both physically and mentally, so you know, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I get it. It's tough, you know. I mean you're
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Speaker 1: gonna go like Telvin Smith. You know, it's the same
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Speaker 1: kind of concept, you know. I mean, if you're not,
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Speaker 1: if you have something going on or something that's you know,
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Speaker 1: you just can't give your awn to it. You know,
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Speaker 1: I make sense, you know, because it's just too hard
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Speaker 1: to do it when you're really all the way Luck too.
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Speaker 1: And finally, Big Thing three is Evil Genius. We've seen
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Speaker 1: the impact Dom Capers has on this defense, and we
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Speaker 1: see it when we see josh Allen, Unique and Gockway
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Speaker 1: and Kalius Campbell on the field. Taking away from that
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Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins third preseason game, that was the biggest standout
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Speaker 1: was when you saw Josh Allen on the field with
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Speaker 1: the defense. Well, and remember, I mean this is Todd
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Speaker 1: Washers defense, no doubt. But this is where your Dom Capers,
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Speaker 1: for people who are too young to remember, was the
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Speaker 1: innovator who came up with a zone blitz scheme in Pittsburgh.
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Speaker 1: Uh and and how great those Pittsburgh defenses were, and
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Speaker 1: how far and wide that scheme reached throughout the National
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Speaker 1: Football League. So when you see Unique and Gockway and
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Speaker 1: Josh Allan and Kleis Campbell, when you see them all
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Speaker 1: on the field together, that's really the that's where Dom
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Speaker 1: Caper's influences felt He's going to help Todd wash find
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Speaker 1: new and innovative ways to deploy these guys. On this
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Speaker 1: particular play, Alan did it in god way for a
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Speaker 1: pass rush off the other side, a move off the
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Speaker 1: other side, or at least just the Dolphins being so
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Speaker 1: concerned about him on the other side that he was
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Speaker 1: single covered and able to get back and make a
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Speaker 1: play happen. Um, I think it's gonna be really interesting
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Speaker 1: to see this year how many different wrinkles can be
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Speaker 1: created with Josh Allen Unique and got Quay, Calais Campbell,
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Speaker 1: and let's not forget the back and when you've got
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Speaker 1: a J boy A and Jalen Ramsey back there, it
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Speaker 1: allows you the ability to try new and sometimes crazy things.
5:33
Speaker 1: Because their coverage skills are so good and you haven't
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Speaker 1: even mentioned Miles Jack and Marcel Darius. You're starting to
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Speaker 1: talk about an incredible amount of talent that certainly rivals
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Speaker 1: what they had in two thousands seventeen. I said, how
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Speaker 1: long I think this defense has a chance to be
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Speaker 1: better than that year's defense. I don't think they're gonna
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Speaker 1: miss Tellvin Smith as long as Quincy Williams gets back. Um.
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Speaker 1: I hope I don't see a whole lot of the
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Speaker 1: pure zone blitz because I'm not a big fan of
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Speaker 1: dropping defensive line right. You do not want to Calais
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Speaker 1: Campbell back and forward, and it's becomes sort of a
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Speaker 1: thing where people talk about a three or four defense
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Speaker 1: and zone blitz sort of interchangeably. I'd be fine with
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Speaker 1: seeing a lot of A three four as long as
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Speaker 1: it's Alan and got Way and Campbell going after the
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Speaker 1: past or most of the time. And not to get
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Speaker 1: what you're gonna say, and not to get too deep
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Speaker 1: into the weeds here, but there are some circumstances where
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Speaker 1: you might see Marcel Darius drop off the line of
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Speaker 1: scrimmage into a short zone so that Myles jack and
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Speaker 1: blitz from behind him. But that's not going to be there.
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Speaker 1: Their bread and butter, they're they're calling card, however you
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Speaker 1: want to term it. I just I'm very interested. The
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Speaker 1: addition of Josh Allen got a lot of attention for
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Speaker 1: obvious reasons. We've seen it. He's a tremendous athlete, um
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Speaker 1: dom coming back because he was here last year in
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Speaker 1: sort of an advisory role. It was just kind of, oh, yeah,
6:47
Speaker 1: well so we're gonna pay them a little bit more
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Speaker 1: and he'll travel with the team. I don't know. I mean, no,
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Speaker 1: that's no, no, that's not no. He's here for very
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Speaker 1: specific reasons, um, not the least of which is he
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Speaker 1: was here twenty years a go. When the Jaguars put
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Speaker 1: a defense out on the field. It was very very innovative. Uh,
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Speaker 1: attacked with Bryce Pop and Tony Brackens and Kevin Hardy
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Speaker 1: and those guys. So I think it's gonna be interesting
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Speaker 1: to see the little wrinkles, and they might go miss John.
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Speaker 1: The average fan might not see the little wrinkles you see,
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Speaker 1: if Jeff Loghaman pointed out, Um, but those little wrinkles
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Speaker 1: could go a long way towards tip ball sack, interception touchdown,
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Speaker 1: which we all agree this defense needs to provide produce.
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Speaker 1: I think what's interesting is you might have a kid
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Speaker 1: and Josh Allen who forces them to innovate in ways
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Speaker 1: they have him before. I mean this guy. Uh, it's
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Speaker 1: been funny as Doug has talk, he's gotten bigger and
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Speaker 1: bigger and bigger offseason. You know, say he came in
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Speaker 1: at two fifty and I Doug had him at two
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Speaker 1: seventy five the other night. Um, and he sure looks
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Speaker 1: like he's playing it that way. Uh. He reminds me
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Speaker 1: of Jalen Ramsey in this sense. When you looked at
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Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey when he first came in, you almost couldn't
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Speaker 1: figure out how this guy physically could play corner because
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Speaker 1: he was too big for the position. Uh. When Josh
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Speaker 1: Allen drops and is playing off the ball. It's it's
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Speaker 1: hard to come to grips with the fact that he's
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Speaker 1: six seven two seven six he right, well, he plays
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Speaker 1: and he's bigger two s five right now. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he is an unbelievably large human being to be playing
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Speaker 1: that position, and it's going to be interesting to see
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Speaker 1: if he is a position defining player, which he sure
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Speaker 1: looked the part. The look that isn't every down defensive, right,
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Speaker 1: They're hard to find, right. I mean you look at
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Speaker 1: Unique and Goa and Vic Beasley, two of the best
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Speaker 1: pass rushers in the draft over the last couple of years,
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Speaker 1: guys who have been near the top of their game.
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Speaker 1: Neither one of them plays the game and they're both
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Speaker 1: exceptional pass rushers, neither one of them plays that game
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Speaker 1: right Physically, those two guys are a different planet, right.
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Speaker 1: They don't play the game the way this guy does
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Speaker 1: running down on the line, getting into the backfield, I mean,
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Speaker 1: getting into the flat and making the play that that
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen made, uh seventh pick of the draft probably
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Speaker 1: could have been the second or third player of the
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Speaker 1: draft and no one would have blinked on at it. Uh.
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Speaker 1: He sure looks like that. Yeah, let's go back to
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Speaker 1: big thing to Johnny, especially covering the Colts for so
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Speaker 1: many years, surprising, definitely, But how this affects the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: is huge. Well. I never recovered Andrew Luck. I missed him.
9:27
Speaker 1: I was there for the last year the Peyton actually played,
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Speaker 1: and then Peyton the year that I left, UH was
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Speaker 1: heard it was sort of his lost year. What's interesting
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Speaker 1: is in two thousand eleven, Bran remember at the end
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Speaker 1: of the season, the fan base here was, oh my goodness,
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Speaker 1: we can't let the Colts have the number one overall pick.
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Speaker 1: And that was the theme going into the last game
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Speaker 1: of the season. And I get that thinking. I also
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Speaker 1: know that what Luck shows, as much as anything, is
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Speaker 1: just because you get that number one hick, so much
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Speaker 1: else has to go right. That's definitely the benchmark. He
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Speaker 1: gives you a chance to win. But just having a
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Speaker 1: franchise quarterback, just having an elite quarterback, it opens your window.
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Speaker 1: But the Colt showed over these last seven or eight years,
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Speaker 1: you still need to put things with uh that window.
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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay showing the same thing right now,
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Speaker 1: elite quarterback, not enough around him right now, to get
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Speaker 1: over the top. Uh makes you respect maybe a little
10:30
Speaker 1: more what New England and Tom Brady have done. Yes,
10:33
Speaker 1: Brady is the best of all time. They've also done
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Speaker 1: a great job of having the whole package around him. Um,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry for a lot. I mean, I know, are
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Speaker 1: some of Jaguars fans like, oh oh this is great.
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Speaker 1: It opens up the door. Sure it makes the Jaguars
10:48
Speaker 1: life easier. But I've always taken the approach, and I'm
10:51
Speaker 1: sure the Jaguars took the approach and Manning was here.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't here. Who cares what they have on the
10:56
Speaker 1: other side, be a good enough team to go beat him?
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Speaker 1: Own't a relish another team not having a guy did
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Speaker 1: Wars really haven't matched up that poor against the Colts
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Speaker 1: with luck. Luck wasn't a guy who's owned this team
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Speaker 1: the way some quarters shut out here last. So I
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Speaker 1: didn't really think about that when I first saw the news.
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Speaker 1: I just thought, you know, here's a guy who, Um,
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Speaker 1: it's odd that he's walking away, and I'm sorry that
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Speaker 1: he's walking away, because you hate to see a guy
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Speaker 1: have to walk away in his prime. Well, the game
11:29
Speaker 1: is not better for having lost one of its defining
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Speaker 1: quarterback because even though he has lost time to injury,
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Speaker 1: massive time to injury. You're talking about a guy who
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Speaker 1: was a top five quarterback. It's the little things that
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Speaker 1: he did well, but his size, speed, strength, smarts. Um,
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Speaker 1: the game is not better without him in any respect.
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Speaker 1: So I hate the same. I'm sorry. Give the guy
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Speaker 1: credit to remember, Um, he came in and was good immediately,
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Speaker 1: which is sort of rare. Even the great ones come
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Speaker 1: in and it usually takes them a year. Everybody's talking
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Speaker 1: about the year that Baker Mayfield had last year and
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Speaker 1: it was impressive. It wasn't but um, it wasn't Luck impressive.
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Speaker 1: He's not Luck good. No, but Luck came in and
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Speaker 1: immediately that next year was making plays, had the field vision.
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Speaker 1: I don't think he ever quite fulfilled all the heights expected,
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Speaker 1: but if you can look at his numbers, he he
12:27
Speaker 1: put up some really, really good seasons. When he was
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Speaker 1: talking about the number one overall pick, Baker Mayfield was
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Speaker 1: the number one overall pick, Andrew Luck was the number
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Speaker 1: one overall pick. To me, there's a world of difference
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Speaker 1: between those two guys. Luck was a guy who could
12:39
Speaker 1: compete without a great offensive line until last year, without
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Speaker 1: talent all over the defensive line. You look at what
12:45
Speaker 1: the Browns have built around Baker Mayfield. They've been able
12:48
Speaker 1: to use the salary cap and wisely in many cases,
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Speaker 1: put a lot of talent around him. Luck superseded that.
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Speaker 1: Look at t Y Hilton. Name another receiver of his
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Speaker 1: that was was worth I don't want to say worth
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Speaker 1: of darn, but you've got you get my point. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he had ready early in his career. But yeah, but
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Speaker 1: that's that he didn't have a lot. But Luck is
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Speaker 1: a guy who defined the team. Mayfield may need the
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Speaker 1: team to define him. The other thing that stands out
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Speaker 1: you mentioned Tom Brady. I saw a photo somewhere on
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Speaker 1: the web this morning of Brady and Luck standing talking
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Speaker 1: to one another after a game and thinking about lux
13:21
Speaker 1: comments about being tired, about being heard about being mentally exhausted.
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Speaker 1: And then you look at Brady, who you know, just
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Speaker 1: has that eye of the tiger, I mean, just wants
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Speaker 1: to keep going. At your twenty what do you say
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Speaker 1: this weekend? If you think last year was good, what
13:33
Speaker 1: do you see what I have planned for this year?
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Speaker 1: Totally different? At twenty years There is nothing exhausted about
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Speaker 1: that guy. So and there is interesting respect here with
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Speaker 1: luck of uh, he caught some criticism to day. I
13:44
Speaker 1: was interested to see what Steve Burlin had to say
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Speaker 1: about it being odd the luck walked away. Um. You
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Speaker 1: do wonder how this will effect his legacy in terms
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Speaker 1: of not really fighting through it at the end. There's
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Speaker 1: a little bit of out out there. And I also
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Speaker 1: wonder if, after six months away, if this might be
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Speaker 1: a case where he wants to come back at some point.
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Speaker 1: I'd be a little surprised if that's not the case,
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Speaker 1: because it still feels odd that he's walking away over this.
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Speaker 1: I kind of hope he doesn't care about legacy. From
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Speaker 1: what I know of him, having read of him and
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Speaker 1: from people around him, he's not concerned about it. He's
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Speaker 1: got a hundred million buck. Who cares what people think?
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Speaker 1: If if we gave you money, a hundred million dollars,
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Speaker 1: you wouldn't come back. The answer, you wouldn't care about
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Speaker 1: the legacy if you if John was done working, John's
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Speaker 1: done working, and John is out the door. So why why? Right?
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Speaker 1: Why do? Why? Why do people? I get it, he's
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Speaker 1: a public figure, that's part of the deal. But um,
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Speaker 1: I I don't think anybody has the right to criticize
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Speaker 1: him in this case, and we would. Truly, everyone has
14:48
Speaker 1: the right to criticize. I just don't. I don't think
14:50
Speaker 1: it should. I don't think it would. You know, no,
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't listen at all. I know for sure we
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Speaker 1: would not see John again. Yeah. Here's the other thing.
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Speaker 1: He seems like and I don't know him personally, but
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Speaker 1: he seems to be a genuine guy. Can you pick
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Speaker 1: out a guy who's genuine versus the guy who's not? Uh,
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Speaker 1: you like to think you can. Yeah, I don't think
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Speaker 1: you really can. But he's certainly seen heem that way.
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Speaker 1: If he says he's tired, he's injured, and he's doing
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Speaker 1: this because he doesn't want to hang around and have
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Speaker 1: Is he going to be back? I believe him. They
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Speaker 1: can't really move on until the injury stopped, and they
15:28
Speaker 1: don't seem to be stopping. And again he has a
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Speaker 1: likely to play in this game, even if he does
18:21
Speaker 1: end up staying UH in Houston. So I think the
18:25
Speaker 1: Jaguars have an opportunity there. And I watched the Titans
18:28
Speaker 1: last night. UM, I know they've won four in a
18:30
Speaker 1: row against this team, so this seems ridiculous to say.
18:33
Speaker 1: I wasn't impressed. They're gonna play without Taylor Lawan and
18:35
Speaker 1: their quarterback situation is unsettled. I think if the Jaguars
18:38
Speaker 1: can get off to a two and one start, uh,
18:41
Speaker 1: and both of those wins are against those division rivals, man,
18:45
Speaker 1: they're in the kawbird seat. They're in a good position.
18:49
Speaker 1: That's way too early to say you'll know they're gonna
18:50
Speaker 1: win the division because you don't know what injuries come
18:52
Speaker 1: into you don't have things roll out. But we could
18:54
Speaker 1: have a good sense of where they sit and if
18:57
Speaker 1: they can get through these first three weeks with wins
18:59
Speaker 1: against the Texans and Titans, and I think those are doable. Yeah,
19:02
Speaker 1: you gotta think that. You gotta take advantage of the
19:04
Speaker 1: opportunities right there for you go if you if you
19:07
Speaker 1: ever needed the motivation, the fact that Luck and the
19:11
Speaker 1: Colts who were thought to be I didn't necessarily think,
19:14
Speaker 1: but we're thought to be so much further ahead than
19:16
Speaker 1: the rest of the division. Well here's your shot right now.
19:18
Speaker 1: Go take those two wins and have good situation before
19:21
Speaker 1: you head into the month of October. Yeah, I think
19:24
Speaker 1: I think they can be the division favorite if they
19:25
Speaker 1: come out of that stretch one and two. I think
19:27
Speaker 1: got Kansas City. Most people will favor them the lout that.
19:32
Speaker 1: I think the defense, the way it's I expected to
19:34
Speaker 1: play will make that a much different game. And he
19:37
Speaker 1: don't remember, don't don't remember. Don't forget. The Steelers came
19:40
Speaker 1: in here in ninety six after playing in the Super Bowl,
19:42
Speaker 1: and no one thought that the Jaguars, who were coming
19:44
Speaker 1: off of four and twelve would compete with that team,
19:46
Speaker 1: and the heat was a huge factor. I just think
19:51
Speaker 1: they have a tough stretch off, you know, the bad
19:54
Speaker 1: early going to Texan, I mean, not going to the
19:57
Speaker 1: Houston Texans, I think is the difficult but if they
20:01
Speaker 1: can get out of that one and two and still
20:03
Speaker 1: and if they happen to lose the first two, which
20:06
Speaker 1: I don't think they will, but it's any possibility if
20:09
Speaker 1: they can maintain it as long as you're one and
20:11
Speaker 1: one the division coming at Coming out of that, I
20:14
Speaker 1: think it's okay, But I worry about that first stretch
20:17
Speaker 1: of three games. It's really tricky. Here's something else to consider.
20:20
Speaker 1: This team played in seven team with the front runnersman
20:23
Speaker 1: tallet last year. They were chasing the whole year. I'm
20:26
Speaker 1: interested to see what their mentality is. Uh, if they're
20:30
Speaker 1: two and one headed to Denver with division wins, two
20:34
Speaker 1: wins against the Texans, I think if they're two and one,
20:37
Speaker 1: they will feel like they're undefeated three and no going out.
20:40
Speaker 1: I mean, two and one through that early schedule would
20:42
Speaker 1: be a big accomplishment. Containing the history and starting the
20:45
Speaker 1: stuff involved with each of those games. Remember you're starting
20:48
Speaker 1: off against three teams that you were what oh and
20:50
Speaker 1: five against last year. Uh, that is sort of an
20:54
Speaker 1: outlier because last year doesn't really matter, but it's still
20:57
Speaker 1: you get through that and then you believe. If they're
21:00
Speaker 1: two and one, then they believe they're good and so
21:02
Speaker 1: it's key. It's a key strap. But you also can't
21:04
Speaker 1: help but go back to last year Week two against
21:06
Speaker 1: the Patriots, huge win, thinking, wow, things are good, the
21:11
Speaker 1: team is sitting up really high right now, and then
21:12
Speaker 1: everything so it really does it matters, But well that
21:15
Speaker 1: was Remember that was week three because they lost the
21:17
Speaker 1: Titans before when they had the lead, so uh there, Yeah,
21:21
Speaker 1: there was a little bit of concern, but at three
21:24
Speaker 1: and one you felt like they could stay in front
21:25
Speaker 1: of things before the injury started to pile up. Again,
21:29
Speaker 1: take the injuries out because we don't know. You can't
21:31
Speaker 1: forecast this is what that's going to happen with an injury.
21:33
Speaker 1: But if you're two and one and two of those
21:36
Speaker 1: winds or division winds and the winds, that your sale
21:38
Speaker 1: because you're going to get the the Colts and the
21:41
Speaker 1: Texans at home later in the season. Um, I just
21:46
Speaker 1: I'm interested in that. Now that it appears that they're
21:50
Speaker 1: going to have Jacoby Brissett as their starting quarterback, uh,
21:53
Speaker 1: they will have Jacoby Precett as their starting quarterback. I
21:56
Speaker 1: think it gives the jag where something really to focus
21:58
Speaker 1: on really be dialed in height on this first month
22:00
Speaker 1: of the season because he can put them in a
22:02
Speaker 1: good position. Right, my Bernie woodfire girl hot take is
22:06
Speaker 1: he won't tell you, but Jalen Ramsey has changed. And
22:09
Speaker 1: I say this because of his leadership style and what
22:11
Speaker 1: we saw Thursday night against the Dolphins. I go back
22:14
Speaker 1: to last February. Was it when I asked, Jalen, you
22:18
Speaker 1: know what is going to happen with your leadership style?
22:20
Speaker 1: He goes, well, I'm I'm not a raw, raw leader
22:22
Speaker 1: type of guy. I don't give the pregame speeches. I'm
22:25
Speaker 1: not a big high five guy. I lead by example
22:27
Speaker 1: and that's it. But then we saw something, Brian, you
22:30
Speaker 1: were standing right next to me when the Jaguars played
22:32
Speaker 1: the Dolphins last week. As they were leaving the field
22:34
Speaker 1: after warmups, Jalen stayed on the field and the entirety
22:38
Speaker 1: of this team walking off and gave every single person
22:42
Speaker 1: a high five. He's never done that. No. And what's interesting,
22:45
Speaker 1: and I don't know whether people notice, is but when
22:46
Speaker 1: groups run out different position groups run out of the
22:49
Speaker 1: tunnel for warmups, the dvs all run together, and then
22:53
Speaker 1: Jalen comes out a minute later. He's always the last
22:57
Speaker 1: there was the last one, always on his own. Uh.
23:00
Speaker 1: He always had been that way. So hear him doing
23:03
Speaker 1: this struck me because I'm down there and I see
23:05
Speaker 1: it all the time as him taking Remember that clip
23:09
Speaker 1: that we showed from last year from the Titans game
23:11
Speaker 1: with Todd Wash saying, hey, this is your team. Okay.
23:14
Speaker 1: That's one way he showed it. Another was he normally
23:17
Speaker 1: sits back on the bench and just you know, focuses
23:20
Speaker 1: on what he's doing. But he and A. J. Boyer
23:22
Speaker 1: were up on the sidelines standing behind um H. John D. Philippo,
23:28
Speaker 1: who was calling flip wasn't down there. The quarterbacks coach
23:30
Speaker 1: was down there, but they were calling plays and he
23:33
Speaker 1: was out there. They were talking, they were engaged, they
23:36
Speaker 1: were interested in what was going on in the field
23:38
Speaker 1: in a preseason game. Well, I mean, no, I've never
23:41
Speaker 1: seen that before. So make what you want out of that.
23:45
Speaker 1: And Jalen might dismiss it if he were sitting here
23:47
Speaker 1: right now. That's why I'm saying, he's not going to
23:48
Speaker 1: tell again, make what you want out of it. But
23:51
Speaker 1: there is you can see something different in Jalen's approach
23:55
Speaker 1: this year. Now. Maybe it's just motivated by the money, right,
23:59
Speaker 1: I mean, the brink strong. He wants to get paid,
24:01
Speaker 1: but I think he knows that if he wants to
24:04
Speaker 1: get paid at the top of the market, he has
24:06
Speaker 1: to perform on and off the field. At the top
24:08
Speaker 1: of the market. It's more than just hey, you're the
24:10
Speaker 1: best corner in the league. Here's the check. It's hey,
24:12
Speaker 1: you're the best corner of the league, and you're vital
24:14
Speaker 1: to our franchise. Play the part counting on you to
24:16
Speaker 1: be this guy. Um. And it felt that way in Miami.
24:20
Speaker 1: Whether Jalen would agree with it or not, we thought
24:23
Speaker 1: it was on Thursday night. Well, and I think that
24:26
Speaker 1: it is to his credit because and sometimes meant to credit. Yeah, right,
24:32
Speaker 1: When people talk about Jalon who have never met Jalen,
24:36
Speaker 1: there's sometimes this implication because you haven't met him, that
24:42
Speaker 1: the fact that he's sometimes to himself, uh and walks
24:46
Speaker 1: to a different beat is a bad thing. And for him.
24:51
Speaker 1: I never got the impression when he would come out
24:54
Speaker 1: later with his teammates that it was I'm separating myself
24:57
Speaker 1: because I think I'm better. It's more this is how
25:00
Speaker 1: he prepares. He's always felt like he's sort of out
25:03
Speaker 1: on an island and looked at and it's how he
25:07
Speaker 1: prepares himself, and I'm not sure he ever gave that
25:10
Speaker 1: much thought too. Well, how are people perceiving this? It's more,
25:14
Speaker 1: this is how I prepare. Uh, this is how I've
25:17
Speaker 1: always done it. And my guess is, I know you
25:22
Speaker 1: guys have talked to him that when he thinks about it,
25:25
Speaker 1: well people are perceiving that that way, then maybe I
25:30
Speaker 1: can change. He's smart enough to do that, But I've
25:33
Speaker 1: never got the impression that he purposely tried to put
25:36
Speaker 1: himself above his teammate. As much as it is, that's
25:39
Speaker 1: just sort of how he is, and he thinks that
25:42
Speaker 1: a corner is this way, and he's off to himself.
25:44
Speaker 1: But um, I do think it's it's a tough change
25:48
Speaker 1: for him to see something like that because he's always
25:52
Speaker 1: prepared acted a certain ways. So I definitely give him
25:55
Speaker 1: credit for making the effort on that front. And I
25:57
Speaker 1: wouldn't discount that in some way, shape or for Nick
25:59
Speaker 1: Fools has influenced him, because Fowles has come on and
26:03
Speaker 1: Jalen talked about him in the off season and what
26:05
Speaker 1: it means to have a Super Bowl m v P
26:07
Speaker 1: and how the respect factor is already there and you
26:10
Speaker 1: see the way that Nick interacts with the offense and
26:13
Speaker 1: the way he talks about wanting to make everyone around
26:15
Speaker 1: him better. Well, if Jalen is really respectful of Nick,
26:21
Speaker 1: as he said that he was, that could be a
26:24
Speaker 1: subtle influence from the quarterback to the cornerback. I also
26:29
Speaker 1: think it just gives them something to be excited about.
26:31
Speaker 1: This off wants to win too. I mean, let's not
26:33
Speaker 1: forget how miserable he was here in because he had
26:37
Speaker 1: never lost during his college career, not like this. Um,
26:42
Speaker 1: So you know, he sees all the factors lining up
26:45
Speaker 1: right his team, Nick's influence, the opportunity to get paid
26:50
Speaker 1: and to win. Why wouldn't you do whatever it takes.
26:53
Speaker 1: We're just postulating here because he's not going to tell us.
26:56
Speaker 1: But when you see those moves, which were decidedly different
26:59
Speaker 1: than Jalen in years past, it's hard not to see
27:02
Speaker 1: and be excited about what is possible with him in
27:05
Speaker 1: this defense this year. All right, John, you're my hot taken.
27:10
Speaker 1: I'm stealing from Ashton a little bit. I mean, she
27:12
Speaker 1: went this direction last week and I wasn't sure I
27:15
Speaker 1: bought it, But I think Leonard fo Nett his approach
27:19
Speaker 1: and how he's approaching training camp. I think he really
27:23
Speaker 1: is for real now. I don't know what injuries will
27:25
Speaker 1: bring with this kid this year. There's no way to
27:27
Speaker 1: predict that. But I think the people watching, and again
27:32
Speaker 1: Slynn touched on this last week, there's an assumption with
27:35
Speaker 1: for Nette, because we've seen what he has been off
27:37
Speaker 1: the field and the incidents on the field, that he's
27:42
Speaker 1: a bad kid and can't change and all that. And
27:44
Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of kid he really is,
27:46
Speaker 1: but I know that around the Jaguars this year he
27:51
Speaker 1: has a different feel to him than he did in
27:53
Speaker 1: the past. And after the game last week of the
27:57
Speaker 1: preseason game, he stayed in the locker room and was
28:01
Speaker 1: talking two different people in the media that he had
28:04
Speaker 1: no idea who they were. It wasn't a set up
28:07
Speaker 1: situation with the PR. Usually with for Net after games,
28:13
Speaker 1: the PR staff goes to him and says, Okay, you're
28:15
Speaker 1: gonna do this time. There's gonna be a mob around
28:17
Speaker 1: you and it's a bunch of cameras and when it's done,
28:19
Speaker 1: it's done. He was talking to people from Miami that
28:21
Speaker 1: there's no way he had any idea who they were.
28:24
Speaker 1: Usually he would have been turned around as his locker
28:26
Speaker 1: not doing that. I went up. He knows me, so
28:29
Speaker 1: when I went up and talk to him, it was
28:31
Speaker 1: a little more casual. Not surprised, Not that it's a
28:33
Speaker 1: great relationship with him, but he knew who I was. Um,
28:36
Speaker 1: he's more relaxed in that environment than he was. I
28:39
Speaker 1: don't know what that has to do within the hell
28:41
Speaker 1: of play on the field, but he seems calmer in
28:45
Speaker 1: that environment and seems to be making an effort on
28:47
Speaker 1: that front. I think also what we talked about earlier
28:51
Speaker 1: with Nick Foles's influence on Jalen Ramsey, I think he's
28:55
Speaker 1: had a big influence on Leonard for Nett and in
28:57
Speaker 1: Minnesota and Minnesota ball to more this year, I was
29:01
Speaker 1: interviewing DJ Chart and out of the blue, Leonard comes up,
29:06
Speaker 1: which he likes to do. He likes to cut off
29:07
Speaker 1: interviews and be funny. Um. But I was talking to DJ,
29:12
Speaker 1: and when Leonard interrupted the interview nicely, he uh on
29:18
Speaker 1: his own. He started talking about nick Fole, just the
29:21
Speaker 1: influence he was going to have. UM. It wasn't a
29:25
Speaker 1: canned response. It wasn't me sitting there saying what do
29:29
Speaker 1: you think of Nick Foles? That was on his mind,
29:32
Speaker 1: and he said it again the other night. I think
29:35
Speaker 1: the respect that he has for Folds and some of
29:37
Speaker 1: their leaders has for Foals is influencing the team. It'll
29:41
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how that plays out and if
29:43
Speaker 1: the locker room holds together and doesn't feel as uh
29:48
Speaker 1: weird when adversity hits um. That could be the part
29:53
Speaker 1: about Nick Foles that has the biggest influence. Totally agree.
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Speaker 1: imagine how unbearable would be? Uh, he would be if
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Speaker 1: of it from him. We already have to deal with
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Speaker 1: it now. The Alright, So I knew this one was coming.
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Speaker 1: Steve from Nashville, Tennessee. I don't think this team has
32:35
Speaker 1: ruminates roster for Taven Brian. Well, um, it's all Taven
32:41
Speaker 1: Brian all the time and the other zone right now,
32:43
Speaker 1: and he's become the target for fans to really focus
32:49
Speaker 1: on the preseason, and everything he does wrong has become
32:52
Speaker 1: sort of a lightning rode. He's very inconsistent. Um, he's
32:57
Speaker 1: he's not playing the level of a starter at this point,
32:59
Speaker 1: which is disappointing, But he's not one. He's not outside
33:05
Speaker 1: the top ten in terms of the defensive lineman he
33:07
Speaker 1: should be on this team. So disappointing so far in
33:10
Speaker 1: terms of what you expected. Yes, a guy who should
33:13
Speaker 1: be cutting up and even if all that wasn't true,
33:16
Speaker 1: his first round pick last year, so they wouldn't give
33:17
Speaker 1: up on this quick anyway. But he should probably be
33:21
Speaker 1: the third maybe fourth defensive end, but he definitely deserves
33:25
Speaker 1: to be back. Well, he's he's just big, strong, physical,
33:28
Speaker 1: he's just talented physically. Um as any defensive lineman, interior
33:33
Speaker 1: defensive lineman you've got up there, with the exception of
33:36
Speaker 1: Marcel Darius obviously. Um, he's got a long way to
33:39
Speaker 1: go in terms of understanding. There was a moment on
33:42
Speaker 1: the first drive where he he did the wrong thing.
33:46
Speaker 1: I don't want to. Awareness was not there and Todd
33:49
Speaker 1: wash lost his mind. You know what is he doing?
33:53
Speaker 1: It's like they said to him, no, remember you did this,
33:56
Speaker 1: and he then did that drove him crazy. Um. But
34:00
Speaker 1: I've had coaches tell me that the kid really wants
34:03
Speaker 1: to This is not a case of he's just okay,
34:06
Speaker 1: which if you hang around him he get sentence Oh yeah, okay, right, Um,
34:11
Speaker 1: that he really does want to learn to be able
34:14
Speaker 1: to be his best. You don't you don't discard him
34:17
Speaker 1: because he's a first round pick, but also because he's
34:19
Speaker 1: big strong, I mean really big and really strong. If
34:23
Speaker 1: you're walking down the street and you see him, you
34:25
Speaker 1: go that guy plays professional football, right, I Mean, there's
34:28
Speaker 1: just no doubt he's made to do this. They've just
34:30
Speaker 1: got to figure out a way and bring dom Capers
34:32
Speaker 1: in now. And you know, they've got to find a
34:34
Speaker 1: role for him until he figures it all out that
34:36
Speaker 1: he can contribute. He's also in a massive spotlight. If
34:40
Speaker 1: he had been taken four picks later, at the top
34:42
Speaker 1: of the second he would be much less of a topic.
34:45
Speaker 1: He would still be overdrafted the way he's playing right now.
34:49
Speaker 1: But that first round, he wasn't a top ten pick.
34:52
Speaker 1: He was bottom of the first round. There's gonna be
34:54
Speaker 1: some issues. If he had been a couple of picks later,
34:57
Speaker 1: we'd be talking about a lot less. But he's got
34:59
Speaker 1: that air because the first round pick. Keep in mind
35:01
Speaker 1: also that some guys need development time. Does Dwan Smoot
35:05
Speaker 1: come to mind anybody, right? He was a third round pick,
35:07
Speaker 1: not a first round pick. What difference does it make? Honestly, he's,
35:12
Speaker 1: you know, a young football player who needs time to develop.
35:14
Speaker 1: Smoot needed the time. We'll be talking about Smooth here
35:17
Speaker 1: in a couple of minutes. If you are patient, and
35:21
Speaker 1: too many people aren't anymore. If you're patient, you're sometimes rewarded.
35:25
Speaker 1: Well they have been with Smoot. Be patient with this big, strong,
35:28
Speaker 1: physical guy. But you can't help but understand the fans
35:31
Speaker 1: frustration when you group in first round draft picks together.
35:34
Speaker 1: You see Josh Allen this year, you see Taven Brian
35:37
Speaker 1: last year. It's night and day. It's a completely different
35:41
Speaker 1: Here's a kid who should have been picked in the
35:42
Speaker 1: top three versus Taven Bryan's pick at the end of
35:45
Speaker 1: the first round. It's a it's a mammoth difference top
35:49
Speaker 1: ten pick and end of the first round. But I
35:51
Speaker 1: get it's so first round picks. It could be the glare.
35:54
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Johnny from Jacksonville. Dug Moro
35:57
Speaker 1: mentioned being concerned about depth or the options to help
36:01
Speaker 1: with that. Well, the Jags closely watched the waiver wire
36:03
Speaker 1: cut down day. Do you suppose they'll look to bring
36:06
Speaker 1: new guys in? Now, yeah, they'll look, but you're not
36:09
Speaker 1: gonna find depth of significant cross the roster. After cutdown day,
36:15
Speaker 1: they'll look like every team does, uh know. And Tom
36:17
Speaker 1: Coughlin he likes to turn the bottom of the roster.
36:19
Speaker 1: They'll bring guys in. You might find Brian Um a linebacker,
36:25
Speaker 1: uh perhaps an offensive lineman that it's better than what's
36:30
Speaker 1: on your roster. But but you're talking about finding somebody
36:33
Speaker 1: who's better than your eighth guy and your sixth linebacker.
36:36
Speaker 1: You're not talking about somebody who who is significant. And
36:39
Speaker 1: you're also not talking about bringing in ten guys who
36:42
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you go from being what they
36:45
Speaker 1: fear as a shallow team all of a sudden being
36:47
Speaker 1: really deep. It just doesn't happen. You don't claim depth,
36:50
Speaker 1: you develop it. That's where Dwance Smoot comes back in
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Speaker 1: how many people raise your hand? If you thought Dwance
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Speaker 1: Smoot was going to be a positive story at the
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Speaker 1: end of time, I think most people thought, well, he
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Speaker 1: doesn't spot here in Jacksonville. You develop depth. Josh Wells,
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Speaker 1: who hasn't been able to stay healthy. Tyler Shatley, a
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Speaker 1: guy that I think we all would agree is a
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Speaker 1: valuable piece of the puzzle. Will Richardson great story. Fourth
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Speaker 1: round pick, and people want to throw him out because
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Speaker 1: he was injured last year. Fourth round. You don't expect
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Speaker 1: those guys to come in and be stars. And now
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Speaker 1: it looks like he's going to win a starting job,
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Speaker 1: which creates depth. Because you have a j can you
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Speaker 1: don't claim it, you develop it, and they're really deep
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Speaker 1: on the defensive line, by the way, and I think
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Speaker 1: there pushing being deep at corner. I'm not quite sure
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Speaker 1: they're as deep as they are intriguing at corner um,
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Speaker 1: but they're deep in some key places. They might even
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Speaker 1: be in better shaving back up quarterback. They originally thought
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Speaker 1: you can't be deep enough to absorb the kind of
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Speaker 1: losses they did last year, and no you can't. In
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Speaker 1: this league. The offensive line nobody has the depth that
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Speaker 1: fan base is want. It doesn't exist in the NFL anymore.
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Speaker 1: The the top line starters are so good, there's so
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Speaker 1: much better than the guys that you can afford that wise,
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Speaker 1: behind them, you gotta develop, draft and develop Smoot and
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Speaker 1: richardson our guys. That are great examples of the way
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Speaker 1: that you create depth. You do not go and go, oh,
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Speaker 1: casht off tight end, cashed off linebacker. Come on, hey,
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Speaker 1: we're better like that. There's your depth, Johnny. Six team
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Speaker 1: players on injury reserve at the end of last season.
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Speaker 1: No one surviving that with depth. All right, let's wrap
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Speaker 1: it up with Paul from Jacksonville. The reason I think
38:32
Speaker 1: this team has a shot to be good this season
38:34
Speaker 1: is that is the preseason we looked awful in the
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Speaker 1: preseason before well, if you think back just that two
38:39
Speaker 1: years ago, it was you felt like the ship was
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Speaker 1: sinking in preseason has seventeen, Uh, the quarterback had been benched,
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Speaker 1: the offensive line was in in this week on the
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Speaker 1: offensive line. If memory serves, they played starters in week
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Speaker 1: four on the offensive line to try to figure out
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Speaker 1: who should be who should be starting. Doug Maron was
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Speaker 1: that transparent about being worried about it. And they led
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Speaker 1: the league in Russian and the elements of line that year.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it was as good as that ranking
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Speaker 1: might have indicated. But there was a lot of concern
39:14
Speaker 1: about that team basically until the lights went on in
39:19
Speaker 1: Houston and you saw the pass rush, and then all
39:21
Speaker 1: of a sudden, after a couple of weeks of that,
39:23
Speaker 1: you started thinking was might be okay. So uh, I
39:27
Speaker 1: don't know how this team will fair this year, Brian,
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Speaker 1: But what I've seen in the preseason doesn't influence how
39:34
Speaker 1: I think about it. I don't think we've seen anything yet.
39:36
Speaker 1: I think this team has a shot to be good
39:38
Speaker 1: this season because they've got talent. You go back to
39:41
Speaker 1: two remember Lakes five interception day, how you felt about
39:45
Speaker 1: that team after that day wasn't good. They're better at quarterback,
39:49
Speaker 1: they should be more efficient on offense. They're better on defense.
39:52
Speaker 1: If they just help the defense. Uh, you would think
39:55
Speaker 1: they would be better. Now they have a chance to
39:57
Speaker 1: take advantage and work, you know, hand in hand, turnover
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Speaker 1: short field score touchdowns instead of field goals. We gave
40:03
Speaker 1: the example last week about the about the first punt
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Speaker 1: in the ball game against the Texans, and the Texans
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Speaker 1: fumbled and the Jaguars head in point blank range and
40:12
Speaker 1: we just we all knew when this is a field goal,
40:14
Speaker 1: they're not going to get a touchdown, right, That's not
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Speaker 1: the case. And if this defense gets to play with
40:20
Speaker 1: the lead this year, watch out. Here's different. Watch out
40:23
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