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Parker Washington, Louis Rees-Zammit & Cheeky Nandos · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: It's twenty eight degrees in Jacksonville, Florida. It's fifteen in Oldham, England,
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Speaker 1: fourteen in Galway in Ireland. This is Teal Talk. I'm
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Speaker 1: Jay Lawrence as far as I know, still no relation.
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Speaker 1: He's Key Ram Surin and this is Teal Talk, the
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Speaker 1: official podcast for the UK and Ireland for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Speaker 2: Key, how are you? Are you all right?
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Speaker 3: I'm fine whatever, move on? No, how are you mate?
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Speaker 1: I was like, I'm missing something. No, I'm fine, I'm
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Speaker 1: actually it's going to be this is a bumper episode.
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Speaker 1: I thought that for the last couple weeks would be
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Speaker 1: considered bumper episodes because obviously, you know, we've been in
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Speaker 1: Tottenham Hotspur and then we've been at Wembley Stadium as well.
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Speaker 1: But this is a bumper episode because we are joined
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Speaker 1: from Duval County by Jaquins wide receiver Parker Washington, who's
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Speaker 1: suddenly a very important member of the Jancuars squad. Actually,
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Speaker 1: and as you know, at Wembley Stadium had a ridiculously
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Speaker 1: memorable moment, if not the moment of the entire maybe
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Speaker 1: even the moment of the entire London Games. Attentionally, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: not just him. Lewis Rezamit, the former Welsh rugby international,
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Speaker 1: also joins us to talk about his progress with the Jaguars.
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Speaker 1: Since you know, switching sports, It's been massive news here
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Speaker 1: in the UK, hasn't it. Yeah, Lewis Roe samit is
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Speaker 1: it a big rugby star, was a big rugby star
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Speaker 1: taking that leap to American football. We have our fan
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Speaker 1: of the week with the big question and looking ahead
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Speaker 1: to the trip to Philadelphia as well this weekend. We
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Speaker 1: do need to talk about the game at the weekend,
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Speaker 1: of course that has just passed, the Green Bay Packers
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Speaker 1: game Jaggs lose thirty twenty seven. I think that this
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Speaker 1: is a really weird game to look at, and if
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Speaker 1: it was earlier in the season, I would be saying
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of positives to take from this adversity.
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Speaker 2: Coming out of it looking like.
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Speaker 1: It was going to be a you know, with all
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Speaker 1: these you know, receivers that go down, We'll get onto
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Speaker 1: that in a second. Looks like it's going to be
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Speaker 1: bad victory getting back into it. But then you know,
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Speaker 1: almost almost a case of this in this game. Who
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Speaker 1: had the ball art However, there's also the other side
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Speaker 1: of me that says it is all about It's literally
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Speaker 1: just about wins and losses right now.
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Speaker 3: Key, Yeah, it's about finishing and at the moment, they're
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Speaker 3: not finishing, and you know that is tough. But like
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Speaker 3: you say, dude, do you know what, I've got to
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Speaker 3: a point in this season where I think losses are tough.
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Speaker 3: Of course, losses are tough, but I'm not gonna think
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Speaker 3: about that. I'm going to look at the fact that
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Speaker 3: this team is doing some really good stuff. I think
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Speaker 3: there's one big problem that I'm very happy to talk about.
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Speaker 3: But overall, I saw a lot of positive stuff on
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Speaker 3: Sunday that I didn't necessarily see against the Bears, and
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Speaker 3: I didn't necessarily see against the Bills. This loss was
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Speaker 3: not the same as those other losses because there was
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Speaker 3: a lot more positive stuff. If you can keep that
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Speaker 3: positive stuff coming and then fix the other negative stuff
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Speaker 3: that's happening, there's a lot more to look forward to.
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Speaker 3: It wasn't as bad as the Bills and the Bears,
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Speaker 3: and that's what I'm taking from it.
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Speaker 2: Mate.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm I mentioned the injuries there to the
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Speaker 1: receivers and Arson. We'll get onto it with Parker Washington
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Speaker 1: in a little bit. Brian Thomas Junior went out with
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Speaker 1: a rib issue, Gabe Davis shoulder issue. Christian Kirk is
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Speaker 1: now out for the season with a I think it's
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Speaker 1: a broken I believe, you know, just from from the
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Speaker 1: in the receiving core, we're going to have to see
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Speaker 1: so many Jags players step up.
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Speaker 3: Which they did though, Jay, they did that was incredible.
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Speaker 3: I'm like, I want to talk about head coach Doug
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Speaker 3: Peterson's comments in a second, right, but that that drive
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Speaker 3: where Trevor took him however many yards it was eighty
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Speaker 3: seven yards or whatever, with without his main receivers in
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Speaker 3: the game. Everyone stepping up, O line stepping up, receiver
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Speaker 3: stepping up, Trevor stepping up. It can be done. The
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Speaker 3: talent is there, the attitude is there. For me, what's
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Speaker 3: been lacking is and I'm not a professional sports psychologist,
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Speaker 3: as you know, Jay, but what it's been lacking is
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Speaker 3: positive attitude clicking at all times in all three phases.
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Speaker 3: Special teams have been performing really well at times this season.
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Speaker 3: The defense has performed really well and they've had a
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Speaker 3: positive attitude at times. The offense has performed well and
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Speaker 3: had a positive attitude all three phases haven't clicked at
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Speaker 3: the same time, and adversity has been the thing for
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Speaker 3: me when the defense has been playing well, it's only
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Speaker 3: taken a small thing and it crumbles. I think, if
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Speaker 3: you can address that and fix that and stop. Like
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Speaker 3: I watch a lot of snooker, right and they call
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Speaker 3: it peacocking when a snooker player walks around the table
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Speaker 3: with their chest out and they're owning the table. Sometimes
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Speaker 3: you see that with the Jacksonville Jaguars, but you don't see.
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Speaker 1: More peacocking peck. You want to see Tylor Lawrence peacock.
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Speaker 3: I want to more pea cocking mate. Whether they're playing
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Speaker 3: peacocking all over the field, peacocking everywhere everywhere, I think
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Speaker 3: it makes a massive difference. Like the psychological and emotional
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Speaker 3: element of the game is for me when I watch
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Speaker 3: this team, that's where it's falling down, and I think,
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Speaker 3: if they can address that, which they have at times
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Speaker 3: they've addressed it. It's certain times of the offense at
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Speaker 3: certain times of the defense. If all three phases get that,
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Speaker 3: I think the talent's there, man, the talent's there.
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Speaker 1: Think, in a weird way, this is a I don't
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Speaker 1: know if devastating is the right word. But it would
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Speaker 1: almost be easy in a way if they if it
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Speaker 1: was just a really bad performance like in all three phases,
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Speaker 1: as you say, for the entire game. But because it wasn't,
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Speaker 1: because they battled twice really to get back into the game.
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Speaker 3: Ten down twice in the game, I think, well, yeah.
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Speaker 1: And to get back into it, you know, it's I mean,
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Speaker 1: it kind of feels like not the world's against you
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Speaker 1: a little bit, but it's just like you just can't
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Speaker 1: doesn't seem to quite get there.
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Speaker 3: I get that, and I get that a lot of
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Speaker 3: fans are frustrated and all of that, but I personally
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Speaker 3: think watching the performance against the Bears, or watching the
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Speaker 3: performance against the Bills where nothing happened, that for me
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Speaker 3: is worse this week. I can take that.
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Speaker 4: Man.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's slightly frustrating. They didn't finish that came down
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Speaker 3: to the wire, they could have won it, but there
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Speaker 3: was stuff there to take from it that for me
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Speaker 3: is more uplifting than just getting trounced by the Bears.
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Speaker 1: I can I say as well, And to be honest,
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Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not sick of it, but like I
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Speaker 1: do feel I heard the phrase National tight End Day
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Speaker 1: an awful lot on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: It was just like it was always. Everyone was going
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Speaker 2: on about it anyway. But I do have to mention.
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Speaker 3: You're watching red Zone, because if you're watching red Zone,
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Speaker 3: it was literally every game we'd mention.
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Speaker 1: But I do have to mention, well, actually two Titans
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Speaker 1: actually for the Jankue is Brent and Strange is someone
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Speaker 1: that I do think has stepped up and I have
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Speaker 1: been enjoying watching him play blocking as well and Ingram.
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Speaker 1: He's returned, and yes, there wasn't a win today. We
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Speaker 1: did get a very good touchdown though, that.
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Speaker 3: Trip or coverage catch that was But I mean all,
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Speaker 3: let's Evan all the way this week and in the
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Speaker 3: Wembley game as well. He's been I'm so glad he's
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Speaker 3: back and come back strong as well, because boy do
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Speaker 3: we need him right now.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of past catchers, let's head over to Duval County,
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Speaker 1: shall we, where I caught up with Jacksonville Jaguary's wide
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Speaker 1: receiver Parker Washington. Parker Washington, thank you so much for
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Speaker 1: joining till Talk. How's it going, Hey, go, I'm good.
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Speaker 1: I got to talk.
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Speaker 2: About the loss to the Packers. Going to touch on that.
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Speaker 1: This one more than most seemed like it was a
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Speaker 1: tough battle that you might you might have come out
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Speaker 1: of it thinking we usually could have done that.
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Speaker 5: Definitely, definitely, it's any given Sunday in the NFL. We
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Speaker 5: definitely wanted to get that win. It was definitely an
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Speaker 5: opportunity for us top loss, but we gotta keep going.
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Speaker 5: Like I said, we can't get it back, but we
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Speaker 5: definitely want it back.
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Speaker 1: From like a receiving call perspective as well, I mean,
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Speaker 1: it was tough, wasn't it. Gabe Davis goes out Brian
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Speaker 1: Thomas Junior having an MRI, Christian kirkout for the season
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Speaker 1: with a broken collar bone. Have you had a chance
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Speaker 1: to speak to any of those guys.
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Speaker 5: I haven't got a chance to talk to Kirk yet,
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Speaker 5: but definitely saw Gabe and BT so got a chance
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Speaker 5: to just catch up with those guys, see how they
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Speaker 5: were doing. Looking good. You know, it's tough being in
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Speaker 5: an NFL because you don't know when your number may
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Speaker 5: be called or when someone may go down. But that's
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Speaker 5: just why you have to continue to prepare and practice
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Speaker 5: like a starter and be ready. Because we were down
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Speaker 5: to two receivers in the fourth quarter. And that's tough.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that is tough, isn't it. I mean
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Speaker 1: from your perspective as well, you know, going into you know,
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Speaker 1: when you've got these players out injured, next man up
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Speaker 1: scenario for you, you know, I mean, it's it's even
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Speaker 1: more potential targets for you, isn't it.
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Speaker 5: Oh definitely, that's why you continue to prepare so your
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Speaker 5: teammates trust you, your coaches trust you to be able
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Speaker 5: to run those routes that you may have not gotten
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Speaker 5: in practice. So it was a big time to be
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Speaker 5: able to make a couple of plays. But like I said,
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Speaker 5: we still wanted to get that win at the end.
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Speaker 2: Of the day. Look, obviously we got to talk. We've
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Speaker 2: got to talk London.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you can tell from my accent, I'm still
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Speaker 1: I'm still at Wembley Stadium in my mind, man, I'm
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Speaker 1: still at Wembley Stadium. But actually, you know what, let's
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Speaker 1: talk Bears game first, because you weren't just playing Chicago.
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Speaker 1: You were playing you were playing your sister, weren't you,
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Speaker 1: Ashton Washington. She works for the Chicago Bears, doesn't she
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Speaker 1: The player personnel coordinator I believe for the Bears, Oh
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Speaker 1: no doubt. Yeah, tell me what it was like, Tell
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Speaker 1: me what you were like texting each other like before
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Speaker 1: and after the game.
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Speaker 5: And you know, I'm real close with my sister. We
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Speaker 5: talk a lot, you know, before every game, but you know,
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Speaker 5: to like we definitely want to win, but I want
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Speaker 5: you to do your thing. So she always rooted me,
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Speaker 5: all supported me. Real thankful and grateful to have her
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Speaker 5: as my sister. She does a good job. She works
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Speaker 5: hard without an exciting moment to be able to play
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Speaker 5: against her and have that experience.
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Speaker 1: Did you speak much after it? Did she did she
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Speaker 1: give you any like, you know, rub it in a
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Speaker 1: little bit or anything.
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Speaker 5: That nothing crazy? He was a big sister at that
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Speaker 5: point when to make sure it's all good.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that's nice, man, that is nice. And then obviously
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Speaker 1: the next game was that Wembley game. I mean, are
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Speaker 1: you still on a high from that huge ninety seven
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Speaker 1: yard punt return touchdown?
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Speaker 5: I mean, just I feel like the confidence my confidence
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Speaker 5: went up just as a returner and still have a
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Speaker 5: lot of learning to do, but you know, that was
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Speaker 5: a great experience. I'll never forget that moment, and you know,
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Speaker 5: I just want to continue to chase the moment like that,
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Speaker 5: and yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, one.
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Speaker 1: I mean, talk to me about that celebration as well,
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Speaker 1: because you know, I'm there in the stands.
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Speaker 2: I'm watching it.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm hyped that you're about to score a
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Speaker 1: touchdown and then I'm almost like cracking up watching that
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Speaker 1: celebration as well.
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Speaker 2: What was it just in the moment.
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Speaker 5: It was definitely in the moment I thought about doing
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Speaker 5: something like that, but it's like you have to have
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Speaker 5: the perfect scenarios and.
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Speaker 2: Room to be.
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Speaker 5: Able to do it. So I was It's just it's
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Speaker 5: just instinct at that point when it was just like, oh,
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Speaker 5: this is this the perfect time, And when I was
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Speaker 5: able to do it, I was like, Okay, that's pretty cool.
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Speaker 1: I heard you kind of predicted it as well, like
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Speaker 1: in the days before you were saying, you know what
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Speaker 1: I got to feel and I'm going to get this,
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Speaker 1: you know, this touchdown, this punt return touchdown.
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Speaker 5: Definitely, just talking with my teammates and coaches, I was
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Speaker 5: just like, I feel like just my only like dream,
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Speaker 5: like my goal is just just a score of returning touchdown. Really,
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Speaker 5: it's just like a punt return touchdown and for that
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Speaker 5: to happening it was just an amazing moment. And it
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Speaker 5: just goes to say that and just continue to work team,
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Speaker 5: to learn and grow and stay ready for the opportunity
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Speaker 5: when it presents itself.
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Speaker 1: I'm presuming you've heard about this already, but it's the
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Speaker 1: record for the longest touchdown in London history as well
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Speaker 1: as the longest punt return touchdown in JAG's history. I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's that's gonna be an incredible feeling, man.
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Speaker 5: Amazing And just like I said, I just asked for
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Speaker 5: a punt return touchdown. Let's have any records too, So
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Speaker 5: just seeing that, I'm just humble, humble and just grateful
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Speaker 5: for that opportunity, special moment.
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Speaker 6: Won't forget it.
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Speaker 5: But like I said, I want to. I want to
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Speaker 5: get another moment like that and maybe get another punt
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Speaker 5: return touchdown and just make plays for our team.
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Speaker 1: Now, talk to me about what you felt it was
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Speaker 1: like then playing you know, playing in London over the
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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. But did you will you you know,
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Speaker 1: please with the reaction from the Jags fans throughout that time.
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Speaker 5: Oh, it's great, It's wonderful. I enjoy my this is
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Speaker 5: my second year going. I enjoyed it and it's a
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Speaker 5: great experience. Nothing like it. Like I said, I love
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Speaker 5: going to Wimbley especially, that's my favorite. It was just fun.
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Speaker 5: And then being able to make a play this year
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Speaker 5: as well, it's just special to me. And they're having
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Speaker 5: my family there as well. That was a big time.
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Speaker 5: So it's just a special experience that the only it
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Speaker 5: is like living. That is just amazing and I just
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Speaker 5: want to I'm excited to go back as long as
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Speaker 5: I'm here with the Jack.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I like, you know, that's such a big moment,
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Speaker 1: and I know I keep going on about it, but
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Speaker 1: it was such a big moment in that game, and
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Speaker 1: for so many people, you know, in this country who
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Speaker 1: maybe are just getting into the sport, that's the moment
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Speaker 1: that they're going to remember that, that's the moment that
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Speaker 1: they became fans of the NFL, that they became Jacks fans.
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Speaker 1: So I know I keep going on about it, but
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Speaker 1: there's a reason, man, because these are the moments which
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Speaker 1: sticking people's heads in a country that obviously where soccer
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Speaker 1: is king, you know, so they get into the sport
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Speaker 1: and it's moments like that to do it.
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Speaker 2: So I think that's kind of cool.
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Speaker 1: You know, so while you're in London park, because just
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Speaker 1: tell me, you know what you got up to you
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Speaker 1: I mean, presuming you got to see the city a.
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Speaker 5: Bit, definitely, and then before that, I mean I was
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Speaker 5: trying to work on my golf game as well. Nice
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Speaker 5: I had to see times throughout the time I was there.
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Speaker 5: And then on the flip side, I was with my mom.
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Speaker 5: My family got a chance to experience London and it
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Speaker 5: was amazing. Shopped a little bit, had some great food
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Speaker 5: and I enjoyed it. I mean, they love it. My family,
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Speaker 5: they make it like a family trip each year. Well
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Speaker 5: this is their second time and they love it and
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Speaker 5: they want to move there.
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean. I said this.
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Speaker 1: I've had conversations with you know, a bunch of your
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Speaker 1: teammates over the last couple of weeks, and you know,
14:54
Speaker 1: I always say, I don't know why this is an
14:56
Speaker 1: NFL podcast, but we always seem to talk about food.
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Speaker 1: But I need to ask you what your favorite did
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Speaker 1: you try, like particular British food when you're over here,
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Speaker 1: Not like.
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Speaker 5: I don't see it. This is where it's gonna be
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Speaker 5: tough because I don't know exactly what I was having
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Speaker 5: but I just know it was good.
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Speaker 2: It was good.
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Speaker 5: And then if if I said my mom was on
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Speaker 5: here with me, she would be able to tell you exactly.
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Speaker 5: But I usually just follow with my mom whatever she tries.
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Speaker 5: We pretty much eat the same food. So so whatever
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Speaker 5: she orders for us.
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Speaker 2: You just go with it.
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Speaker 5: I go with it.
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Speaker 2: You just go with that.
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Speaker 1: Just one more question, because we're gonna look ahead to
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Speaker 1: the Eagles next. You know, we've spoken about the injuries,
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Speaker 1: uh to you know, the receiving calls.
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Speaker 2: What do the Jags need to do to get that
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Speaker 2: win in Philly?
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Speaker 5: We just had to put put together another good week.
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Speaker 5: We had a pretty good We had it. Honestly, we
15:50
Speaker 5: had a great week going into the Packers. You know,
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Speaker 5: we fell short, but I feel like we're not losing
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Speaker 5: our confidence through this a loss that we just had
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Speaker 5: and and we leave. I feel like we came together
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Speaker 5: well in London as well, and like I said, we
16:05
Speaker 5: just got to keep building on that and keep believing
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Speaker 5: in each other to go out there and execute. And
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Speaker 5: you know, it was another tough game and we're going away,
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Speaker 5: but I feel like we're ready for it, and like
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Speaker 5: I said, we just gotta not hurt ourselves in the game,
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Speaker 5: have fun, and I feel like we'll get the side
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Speaker 5: that we want to get on Washington.
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Speaker 1: There the man of the moment, I suppose for the
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars, at least here in the UK and Island.
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Speaker 1: And I do kind of you know, I do stand
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Speaker 1: by my point there that he first of all, very
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Speaker 1: nice man. Second of all, that punt return touchdown that
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Speaker 1: will be etched into the brains of so many people,
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Speaker 1: so many new NFL fans here in the UK and Island.
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Speaker 1: I honestly do think that that's going to be in
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Speaker 1: five years, ten years time, people are going to look
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Speaker 1: back and be like, yeah, I support the Jaguars because
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Speaker 1: I saw this key.
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Speaker 3: It was the second greatest moment of that Wembley game. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: it was really, really great.
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Speaker 2: It was the first greatest moment.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if you knew there was a guy
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Speaker 3: at the beginning that did the duval. It was just
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Speaker 3: it was so moving and emotion and brought a tear
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Speaker 3: to wherever it would bring a tea.
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Speaker 1: Do you know what, Let's see if I can let's
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Speaker 1: get this on the podcast. I'll send I'll send the
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Speaker 1: audio over to our producer and hopefully I can put
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Speaker 1: a video on there and we can we can get
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Speaker 1: it on and we can listen to it. And also
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Speaker 1: I want to point out as well that I didn't
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Speaker 1: bring this up this week.
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Speaker 2: It was Key. It was Key that brought it up
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Speaker 2: this week.
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Speaker 3: You can pay me that ten later.
17:29
Speaker 2: Mate.
17:31
Speaker 1: Amazing moment though, I mean, we spoke about it last week,
17:33
Speaker 1: so I can't keep going on about it, but you know,
17:35
Speaker 1: amazing moment.
17:36
Speaker 2: I did love it.
17:37
Speaker 1: And I did get someone from from school messaging me
17:39
Speaker 1: that I've not seen him fifteen years, who was at
17:41
Speaker 1: the game anyway.
17:43
Speaker 3: It's so fun it Yeah, it was.
17:45
Speaker 1: It was a nice moment. We've spoken to a Parker Washington.
17:48
Speaker 1: But let's move on to someone who was I suppose
17:50
Speaker 1: in demand actually when he when the Jaggers came over
17:53
Speaker 1: here to the UK and Ireland. A Welsh rugby star
17:57
Speaker 1: played in the World Cup, played for the line as well,
18:00
Speaker 1: but gave it all up to chase his American football dream.
18:05
Speaker 1: Let's hear my conversation with Jaggs receiver Lewis free Zammit.
18:10
Speaker 1: Let's welcome Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Lewis freet Zamit to
18:13
Speaker 1: the podcast. Let's just actually really quickly start. Let's look
18:16
Speaker 1: back like two years ago. How weird is that sentence?
18:20
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Janger's wide receiver Lewis Free Sammon.
18:23
Speaker 3: I mean, never in a million years I think I'd
18:26
Speaker 3: be saying that. But now we're here, you know, I'm
18:30
Speaker 3: rolling with it, and I'm absolutely buzzing to be here.
18:32
Speaker 2: Was this like the plan for like a long time?
18:34
Speaker 1: And was it like you know, when you're a kid,
18:35
Speaker 1: I know your dad he was massively into American football.
18:38
Speaker 1: Was it just always in the back of mind you
18:40
Speaker 1: wanted to be I was always in the back of
18:41
Speaker 1: my mind, you know, I try and watch as many
18:44
Speaker 1: games as possible and all that kind of stuff over here.
18:47
Speaker 1: And I knew that, you know, the sport I was
18:51
Speaker 1: best at over here was rugby. You know, there wasn't
18:55
Speaker 1: back when you know, I started playing rugby and the
18:58
Speaker 1: junior I was on, there wasn't really too much unity
19:00
Speaker 1: to play American football. You know, now there is, which
19:03
Speaker 1: is amazing for everyone that can do that. But you know,
19:07
Speaker 1: I thought the time in this year too, you know,
19:10
Speaker 1: kind of kick on and try and make this dream
19:13
Speaker 1: of reality was the perfect time. And since then I mean,
19:17
Speaker 1: to be fair, I think the weirdest thing I think
19:18
Speaker 1: I've seen over the last week, to be fair, is
19:20
Speaker 1: you meeting Prince William. I mean you had you had that.
19:23
Speaker 1: You met NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. That's cool, but like
19:27
Speaker 1: it's a bit weird in it, Like Prince William throwing
19:28
Speaker 1: an American football. With Prince William, you have to look around
19:31
Speaker 1: and be like what.
19:33
Speaker 3: I mean, it was pretty cool. I've met him a
19:36
Speaker 3: couple of times after a few rugby games, so I
19:40
Speaker 3: know he's a massive rugby fan and he's a big
19:42
Speaker 3: Welsh fan. So after a few games, after one of
19:45
Speaker 3: the Rugby World Cup games last year, he turned up
19:47
Speaker 3: to a changing room and congratulated us and stuff like that.
19:50
Speaker 3: So I kind of met him a couple of times
19:52
Speaker 3: before that. But yeah, it was crazy to see him
19:54
Speaker 3: trying to throw an American football and stuff.
19:57
Speaker 2: He was good. I mean he looked I had a
19:59
Speaker 2: look like through it.
20:00
Speaker 1: It looked to me like a like a wily veteran quarterback,
20:04
Speaker 1: like just waiting for that one last run.
20:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, make it, he said. He said to me that
20:09
Speaker 3: he played water pol or something when he was younger,
20:11
Speaker 3: So he said the spiral was was pretty natural to it.
20:16
Speaker 2: So I don't know how that that logice.
20:19
Speaker 6: That he could throw a ball, but yeah, he had
20:23
Speaker 6: a pretty good armor.
20:24
Speaker 3: Did you teach him? I didn't teach him TV Phoebe talking, Yeah,
20:27
Speaker 3: I mean said a couple of things and then he
20:29
Speaker 3: just did the first time and it was like, Wow,
20:31
Speaker 3: he's pretty good.
20:32
Speaker 2: Credit to him.
20:33
Speaker 1: Credit to him, and talk to me about what it's
20:35
Speaker 1: like being in a in that wide receiver room at
20:38
Speaker 1: the moment. Then you've got You've got Christian Kirk, You've
20:40
Speaker 1: got Gabe Davis, you know, Brian Thomas, jen obviously coming
20:43
Speaker 1: in for the first time this year.
20:44
Speaker 2: How is it for you and how.
20:46
Speaker 1: Is it you know, just being around all these people
20:48
Speaker 1: that have obviously been you know, playing the sport a
20:50
Speaker 1: lot longer than you have.
20:51
Speaker 3: I mean it's great for me because I get to,
20:53
Speaker 3: you know, lean on their shoulders and ask questions. Just
20:57
Speaker 3: watch them day in day out, and you know how
21:00
Speaker 3: they how they you know, approach the game, you know
21:02
Speaker 3: how they train, how they run routes, how just there's
21:06
Speaker 3: so much I can learn from them.
21:08
Speaker 1: Is it like, is it completely different to what you
21:10
Speaker 1: were used to? Is anything that like shocked you going
21:12
Speaker 1: into your first practice.
21:15
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, anything.
21:18
Speaker 3: I've never really played wide receivers, so pretty much everything.
21:21
Speaker 3: But you know, those players are unbelievable. And you know,
21:26
Speaker 3: Brion Thomas Jr. Is obviously just starting his career and
21:29
Speaker 3: he's got three touchdowns of Idea in the NFL, so
21:32
Speaker 3: that's that's pretty crazy. But being able to, you know,
21:34
Speaker 3: see those boys train day and day out and just
21:37
Speaker 3: be able to pick a bit of detail from all
21:39
Speaker 3: of their all of their games, it's just, you know,
21:42
Speaker 3: it's just helps me learn so much quicker.
21:44
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean I'll pick up on actually because
21:46
Speaker 1: you are not only six six weeks into your Jaguars
21:50
Speaker 1: career or six weeks into your career as.
21:52
Speaker 2: A wide receiver.
21:54
Speaker 1: So I mean the goal few I imagine, is to
21:56
Speaker 1: learn everything as soon as possible. If you look back
21:58
Speaker 1: to like week one, Yeah, can you see that jump
22:01
Speaker 1: for you personally? Like how much you've learned and how
22:05
Speaker 1: much you can see that on the on the field.
22:06
Speaker 3: Definitely, even like releases off the line and just route running.
22:14
Speaker 3: There's so much difference you can see from week one
22:16
Speaker 3: to week six. But I just kind of keep I
22:18
Speaker 3: just got to keep going and keep learning every day
22:20
Speaker 3: and and keep getting better. And that's the main thing.
22:22
Speaker 3: If I keep getting better every day, then you know
22:24
Speaker 3: I'll be able to you know, progress nicely. And you know,
22:28
Speaker 3: the more I can pick the brains and my teammates
22:30
Speaker 3: and coaches, then the better I'm going to get.
22:32
Speaker 1: Obviously, the Jacksonville Jague is over in the UK for
22:34
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. Were you excited to come back
22:38
Speaker 1: or were you like, I've literally just left.
22:41
Speaker 2: Why I'm literally just left. I'm moving to the US.
22:45
Speaker 3: I mean I was excited to come back to be
22:47
Speaker 3: able to see family and friends.
22:50
Speaker 2: I mean the weather.
22:53
Speaker 3: There's not great over here, but the past couple of
22:55
Speaker 3: days is actually I think I might.
22:56
Speaker 6: Have brought the weather with me.
22:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean I know it was raining when
23:01
Speaker 3: I was speaking to my family that were here the
23:04
Speaker 3: week before we flew out, but it's quite a nice data.
23:07
Speaker 2: So what have you been up to them?
23:08
Speaker 1: Like, have you i mean obviously got practice, You've got
23:10
Speaker 1: everything Jaggers related.
23:11
Speaker 2: Have you been able to do anything, you know, you know,
23:14
Speaker 2: anything fun here?
23:16
Speaker 3: Not that this isn't fun, but you know, yeah, yeah,
23:18
Speaker 3: we've gone shopping into into central London all the boys
23:22
Speaker 3: that have been doing that. We've we've had lunch there,
23:26
Speaker 3: you know, they've kind of gone on the tour and
23:28
Speaker 3: just explored the city. And because some of these boys
23:30
Speaker 3: have you know, never been outside the US, so it's
23:32
Speaker 3: great to it's great for them to be able to
23:35
Speaker 3: come over here and you know, see what the culture's like,
23:38
Speaker 3: see what the food's like, the shopping and I know
23:43
Speaker 3: the boys love shopping, so you.
23:45
Speaker 1: Had to tell them, no, no, Wales is is not
23:48
Speaker 1: We're not in Wales right now.
23:49
Speaker 3: I think they know that now. I think they know that. Yes,
23:54
Speaker 3: it's about two and a half hours.
23:56
Speaker 1: We spoke to Cam Little on the podcast a few
23:58
Speaker 1: weeks ago, and he was so excited to come out here.
24:02
Speaker 1: Obviously he's a big You probably bonded I imagine over
24:04
Speaker 1: man so like. And he said that you've been telling
24:08
Speaker 1: him places to go and to go get like a
24:10
Speaker 1: good like fish and chip like supper as it were
24:16
Speaker 1: calling the chipper on podcast. That was my reaction as well.
24:19
Speaker 1: That was exactly my reaction. What did have you been
24:22
Speaker 1: able to like go and you know, go to the football. Well,
24:24
Speaker 1: have you been able to experience some moments with him?
24:26
Speaker 3: I think some of the boys are going to I
24:28
Speaker 3: think that. I think Fulham are playing Villa this weekend,
24:31
Speaker 3: so some of the boys are going to go to
24:32
Speaker 3: that game. They came some of the boys also came
24:35
Speaker 3: out here last year and I think they went to
24:37
Speaker 3: like an Aston Villa training session or something like that.
24:40
Speaker 3: So some of them all be able to go to
24:43
Speaker 3: their first Premier League match this weekend and they're really
24:44
Speaker 3: excited about that.
24:45
Speaker 2: Whereas you're just old hand of this.
24:47
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean big deal.
24:48
Speaker 3: I've been to about a hundred manunit games, so yeah,
24:52
Speaker 3: I mean I wish I could. I could go to
24:54
Speaker 3: another one, but I don't think I only be able
24:56
Speaker 3: to make it this weekend unfortunately.
24:58
Speaker 2: I also just want to touch quickly upon.
25:00
Speaker 1: I spoke to NFL UK general manager Henry Hodson over
25:05
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks and we're talking about, you know,
25:07
Speaker 1: the expansion of the international game, not just in the
25:11
Speaker 1: UK but around the world. And one thing that he
25:13
Speaker 1: said he would personally laugh, not that it's imminent, is
25:15
Speaker 1: for there to be more NFL games around the country.
25:18
Speaker 1: I mean, like, from from your perspective, what would it
25:20
Speaker 1: mean to you if there was an NFL game in
25:22
Speaker 1: Wales at one point.
25:23
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean that would be unbelievable.
25:25
Speaker 3: Having one in the Principali Stadium where you know I
25:28
Speaker 3: kind of grew up around the corner and played there
25:31
Speaker 3: a few times. That would that would mean a lot.
25:34
Speaker 3: I think. You know, it's great to have games here
25:37
Speaker 3: in London. You know, it's it's a big attraction. It's
25:39
Speaker 3: a big place for attraction and you know everyone can
25:42
Speaker 3: kind of come to the city and watch games. But
25:44
Speaker 3: I mean, why not have one in in Wales and
25:47
Speaker 3: have one in Ireland and you know, kind of just
25:50
Speaker 3: expand it a little bit more. It just allows the
25:52
Speaker 3: fans in the UK, you know, wherever they live. You know,
25:55
Speaker 3: there's a lot of Irish fans. I know that, so
25:57
Speaker 3: being able to have a game over there would be
25:59
Speaker 3: would be great. But yeah, as you said, I mean
26:01
Speaker 3: it would be great to be able to you know,
26:03
Speaker 3: expand the games, you know, outside of London.
26:07
Speaker 2: Okay, one last question. We uh for.
26:10
Speaker 1: An NFL podcast, we speak a lot about food and
26:12
Speaker 1: I don't really know why. I think it's because we
26:13
Speaker 1: speak to you know, we speak to lots of Jaguars
26:16
Speaker 1: players and we speak to about like, you know, what
26:18
Speaker 1: food would they like to you know, bring over to
26:20
Speaker 1: the UK that you're going to miss and a lot
26:22
Speaker 1: of it's like, I mean, we've had chicken and waffles,
26:24
Speaker 1: We've had.
26:25
Speaker 2: Like ranch and stuff like that.
26:26
Speaker 1: Has there been anything that you are food wise you
26:30
Speaker 1: are in love with with the US that you'd like
26:32
Speaker 1: to introduce to the UK.
26:36
Speaker 2: Or that you miss from the UK.
26:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely say I've missed Nando's from the UK.
26:41
Speaker 3: I mean, I know, check Fla. I'm pretty sure it
26:43
Speaker 3: is open. There's a there's one opening over in the
26:45
Speaker 3: UK here, so that would be nice. I mean, I
26:48
Speaker 3: like Chick fil A, but Nando's is daffy the one
26:50
Speaker 3: that I need to have. In Florida, that's fine.
26:52
Speaker 2: I think there's a couple.
26:53
Speaker 3: There's one in like Chicago, There's there's a couple around America,
26:56
Speaker 3: but I think there's only like four. There's a couple
26:58
Speaker 3: in Atlanta, I think. But there needs to be way
27:00
Speaker 3: more Nando's in the US because that is my favorite
27:02
Speaker 3: restaurant by far.
27:04
Speaker 2: If you're not sponsored by Nando's, it's going to be
27:10
Speaker 2: Lewis Riezamit who.
27:12
Speaker 1: I think it's fair to say had a heck of
27:14
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks been in the UK key. Really
27:17
Speaker 1: nice bloke, actually really enjoyed having a conversation with him,
27:20
Speaker 1: with his brother as well, who lives with them out
27:23
Speaker 1: in Florida, And it's fair to say they're a loving
27:26
Speaker 1: life in Jacksonville. And I also I know that he
27:29
Speaker 1: mentioned their key that he'd casually, you know, met the
27:33
Speaker 1: future King of England more than once because of his
27:36
Speaker 1: rugby connection as well. But just the idea of like
27:41
Speaker 1: being involved teaching teaching, sorry, teaching friends William how to
27:47
Speaker 1: throw a ball, I mean that must have been just
27:50
Speaker 1: I can't even think about what that would be like.
27:52
Speaker 3: And apparently he's seventy fifth in line to the throne
27:55
Speaker 3: now yeah.
27:56
Speaker 1: Because of that, Because of that, did he get given
28:00
Speaker 1: a Jankuars jersey as well?
28:02
Speaker 2: Prince William? Did he give him a Yankuars jurseys?
28:04
Speaker 3: So we can now claim Prince William as one of
28:08
Speaker 3: our own, which I think he'd be proud of too.
28:11
Speaker 1: Every Sunday Prince William Buckingham Palace sitting down.
28:17
Speaker 3: The other day.
28:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure he did. I'm sure he did. Really
28:22
Speaker 1: nice guy though. Wish him the best of luck because
28:24
Speaker 1: and I think that's fair to say on behalf of
28:25
Speaker 1: everybody from the UK in Ireland, especially Wales as well,
28:30
Speaker 1: that it is never going to be an easy transition
28:33
Speaker 1: to move from one sport to the next. Key So
28:35
Speaker 1: that means that even if he is such a talent
28:38
Speaker 1: as he is, it means that he's essentially got the
28:41
Speaker 1: whole country behind him, which is kind of incredible when
28:43
Speaker 1: you think about it.
28:43
Speaker 3: I mean, getting this far alone absolutely incredible and we're
28:47
Speaker 3: all rooting for the next step.
28:49
Speaker 6: Man.
28:50
Speaker 1: Okay, let's move on to the Duval dispatches. The NFL
28:55
Speaker 1: is launching his International Fan of the Year competition this week,
28:58
Speaker 1: So if you think that you qualify, make sure you
29:01
Speaker 1: get yourself onto NFL dot com to register and you know,
29:05
Speaker 1: let them know what makes you that well, I don't
29:07
Speaker 1: know about you, to be honest, I don't know about
29:08
Speaker 1: you too, honest NFL dot com to register and let
29:12
Speaker 1: them know, you know what makes you the best international
29:14
Speaker 1: Jags fan.
29:15
Speaker 2: This is a big deal as well.
29:17
Speaker 1: I want to be clear, this is a big deal,
29:19
Speaker 1: and it's such a you know, massive like pat on
29:22
Speaker 1: the back, it's such a massive like you know, I
29:25
Speaker 1: think you can get like people can get and like
29:28
Speaker 1: you know, stitched onto their jersey as well, saying that
29:30
Speaker 1: they're like international fan of the Year.
29:31
Speaker 2: So this is a really cool thing to do.
29:32
Speaker 1: So if you think you register, if you think you
29:35
Speaker 1: you know, qualify, if you consider yourself up there, head
29:38
Speaker 1: on over to NFL dot com. Key, we have a
29:41
Speaker 1: TV show, don't we.
29:43
Speaker 3: We do have a TV show hosted by Reese Parkinson
29:45
Speaker 3: and what was on it this week? This week all
29:48
Speaker 3: the usual stuff. So we're gonna have highlights of the
29:51
Speaker 3: Packers game, analysis from JP and Reese, Tony Baseli looking
29:56
Speaker 3: forward to the Eagles game, but highlight of the episode
30:00
Speaker 3: for me, and honestly, tune in for this. Tank Bigsby
30:04
Speaker 3: miked up at Wembley. He had like one hundred and
30:07
Speaker 3: seventy yard ground game. Him talking about and reacting to
30:11
Speaker 3: that is absolutely fantastic. Well worth tuning in for a loan.
30:16
Speaker 2: And when and when when? When and when?
30:17
Speaker 3: We are on this Wednesday nine pm Sky Sports NFL
30:21
Speaker 3: and then repeated throughout the week, and then after that
30:23
Speaker 3: all of the bits will be up on the Jaguars
30:25
Speaker 3: UK YouTube channel.
30:27
Speaker 2: Okay, let's move on to the big question.
30:31
Speaker 1: Okay, Every week on to Talk we get a fan
30:33
Speaker 1: of the Jacksonville Jaguars on from the UK and Ireland
30:36
Speaker 1: to give us other big question this time around. Hello,
30:39
Speaker 1: Christoph Capello, Christoph, what is your big question?
30:43
Speaker 6: Hello?
30:44
Speaker 4: Why does this team constantly kick us in the nuts
30:46
Speaker 4: every single week?
30:50
Speaker 3: I'm sorry I had to answer that. I had to
30:55
Speaker 3: answer that I've been a fan since twenty thirteen. Did
30:58
Speaker 3: I get it? I get it. Yeah, it feels it
31:01
Speaker 3: feels like that. I think it's because they know how
31:05
Speaker 3: hardy we are and they know that we like an adventure.
31:08
Speaker 3: That's what I'm going to say.
31:10
Speaker 1: It's the beauty of the NFO. And actually, and do
31:12
Speaker 1: you know what it's It's the beauty of.
31:16
Speaker 2: A team. Wouldn't it be boring? Let's be honest.
31:19
Speaker 1: I mean, it'd be great if it was a super
31:20
Speaker 1: Bowl every year, But wouldn't it be boring if it
31:22
Speaker 1: was you know, thirty to ah in every single week.
31:24
Speaker 1: You need a little bit of drama in your life,
31:25
Speaker 1: Chris stuff, and this is supplying the drama.
31:28
Speaker 7: Well, the drama is you know, the w at the end,
31:31
Speaker 7: not the big for l we always Yeah, if you're
31:36
Speaker 7: like myself who's been a fan since the beginning, you know,
31:39
Speaker 7: the long lolls of heartbreak and depression.
31:42
Speaker 6: They're hard to get over, you know. It's just like, oh,
31:44
Speaker 6: come on, can we be competitive?
31:46
Speaker 4: Oh we used to beg for competitive now and now
31:50
Speaker 4: it's just like, please just win, just win.
31:54
Speaker 1: You know, like the New England Patriots, they obviously were
31:57
Speaker 1: weren't on a super Bowl streak or a couple of
32:00
Speaker 1: from super Bowl streaks, I suppose, But do you genuinely
32:02
Speaker 1: believe that you know, their fifth super Bowl meant as
32:05
Speaker 1: much as the first. You know that first super Bowl
32:09
Speaker 1: will always be the special one.
32:11
Speaker 2: So you've got to go through as much as I'm
32:13
Speaker 2: trying to, like.
32:13
Speaker 3: Look like, I don't know Jay, but I'd like to
32:15
Speaker 3: find out.
32:17
Speaker 1: All right, I think that's fair enough. That's a fair
32:20
Speaker 1: enough response there. I think Christalph tell us about how
32:22
Speaker 1: you became a Jags fan.
32:24
Speaker 4: Well, I used to live in the States when I
32:26
Speaker 4: was a little kid or whatever, and I moved up
32:30
Speaker 4: to Jacksonville and I had just started getting into American
32:34
Speaker 4: football and the kids in the neighborhood. Obviously, you move
32:37
Speaker 4: into a neighborhood and the local kids all show up
32:39
Speaker 4: and they're like, you know, want to know about you
32:41
Speaker 4: and stuff like that, and they were like, are you
32:43
Speaker 4: into football, and I was like yeah, and they're like,
32:46
Speaker 4: do you have a team yet? And I was like, no,
32:48
Speaker 4: not really, and they're like, well, our city, Jacksonville, has
32:51
Speaker 4: just gotten a new team and we start up in
32:53
Speaker 4: like a year or two. And I was like, oh wow,
32:55
Speaker 4: And they were all wearing their Jags gear and stuff
32:58
Speaker 4: like that already.
32:59
Speaker 6: So I got to be there for like the.
33:00
Speaker 4: Whole build up of the city getting that team that
33:05
Speaker 4: first year, and then like the first couple of years
33:08
Speaker 4: of them playing and stuff like that, and obviously it
33:10
Speaker 4: was just I was a fan ever since. And then
33:13
Speaker 4: when I moved here Easter of ninety seven, you very
33:16
Speaker 4: rarely saw anyone wearing American football gear.
33:19
Speaker 6: It was hard to find it on TV and stuff
33:21
Speaker 6: like that.
33:22
Speaker 4: So I had to do like the whole scratch and
33:24
Speaker 4: claw for any information about the NFL like whatsoever, like
33:28
Speaker 4: finding it on the like on the internet. At school,
33:32
Speaker 4: I remember there used to be an NFL magazine newspaper
33:35
Speaker 4: that they used to do. Neil Reynolds used to write
33:37
Speaker 4: for and Mike Carlson used to write for.
33:40
Speaker 6: I think it was like an actual newspaper. I used
33:42
Speaker 6: to get that every week.
33:43
Speaker 1: What's like what's it been like for you then, mate,
33:45
Speaker 1: like over the last decade or so, then to see
33:47
Speaker 1: the Jaguars make such an effort in the UK.
33:50
Speaker 6: Oh it was. It was amazing last night.
33:53
Speaker 4: Oh yes, I think it's today actually the eleventh year
33:57
Speaker 4: anniversary of the first ever Jags fan party before the game,
34:01
Speaker 4: the first one that did.
34:02
Speaker 6: They did outside the hard Rock Cafe.
34:04
Speaker 4: At the bar, yeah, the bar behind the hard Rock
34:07
Speaker 4: where we took over the entire street and stuff like
34:10
Speaker 4: that stuff.
34:11
Speaker 3: I was there. I wasn't a Jags fan yet, but
34:14
Speaker 3: so I was. I've been a fan of the NFL
34:16
Speaker 3: since two thousand and one, two thousand and two, so
34:19
Speaker 3: when they started playing games over here, I would go
34:21
Speaker 3: to everything. I would go to all the games. I
34:23
Speaker 3: would go to all the parties, everything that I could
34:25
Speaker 3: get to. And I was at that that Jags party
34:28
Speaker 3: that you're talking about there, that's so fun.
34:30
Speaker 6: I was.
34:31
Speaker 3: I was there.
34:32
Speaker 6: I was wearing a white Blaine Gabbert jersey at the time.
34:36
Speaker 6: I spoke to J. P.
34:37
Speaker 4: Shadwick and John Oser and they were completely blown away,
34:40
Speaker 4: like there's like this guy who lives in England who's
34:42
Speaker 4: a Jaguar fan. My first NFL game in London was
34:45
Speaker 4: the Broncos forty nine Ers game. I think it was
34:48
Speaker 4: like two thousand and nine or twenty ten or something
34:51
Speaker 4: like that.
34:51
Speaker 6: I can't remember the year it was, but my god,
34:53
Speaker 6: that was an awful game.
34:55
Speaker 1: Right, But now you get to see the Jaguars, you know,
34:58
Speaker 1: multiple times, multiple times a year of the couple of years.
35:00
Speaker 1: So I mean, it's been quite fortunate for you.
35:03
Speaker 2: I suppose.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been a lot of fun.
35:05
Speaker 1: You don't sound sure when you say that. It's like
35:08
Speaker 1: you're trying to convince yourself some of the.
35:11
Speaker 4: Well, obviously some of the early games, you know, like
35:13
Speaker 4: that forty nine er game and that Cowboy game, where
35:17
Speaker 4: you know, similar feelings to now. But obviously like the
35:21
Speaker 4: win obviously last week was nice to see that.
35:25
Speaker 6: The two wins in last year, I didn't get to
35:27
Speaker 6: watch one of them.
35:28
Speaker 4: I was driving a monster trucktor in the Buffalo Bills games.
35:32
Speaker 6: It was a birthday president.
35:33
Speaker 4: Fortunate enough to get a ticket to the twenty twenty
35:36
Speaker 4: one game at Tottenham because obviously that was like reduced.
35:39
Speaker 6: Capacity or whatever because of COVID. That was crazy hard
35:43
Speaker 6: to get like a ticket for it.
35:44
Speaker 4: But obviously that was Trevor's first win as well. One
35:47
Speaker 4: of my friends in the States was like super jealous
35:49
Speaker 4: because he spent like a whole bunch of money to
35:51
Speaker 4: go to Houston watch Trevor's first game as a Jaguar
35:55
Speaker 4: and obviously they got blown out.
35:56
Speaker 6: And he's like, I hate you. You got to see
35:58
Speaker 6: the win and stuff.
35:59
Speaker 1: So I'm going to ask you in a second about
36:01
Speaker 1: your prediction for the next game that the Jagers played
36:04
Speaker 1: before that I want to know about. I mean, you
36:05
Speaker 1: mentioned before that you were in like a Blaine Gabbett,
36:08
Speaker 1: you know, Jersey to the event and all those years ago.
36:11
Speaker 1: Tell us about the other stuff you've got even behind
36:14
Speaker 1: you because I can see, well, Fred Taylor, I don't
36:15
Speaker 1: know what it is behind you?
36:17
Speaker 2: Is it signed? Any of this?
36:18
Speaker 6: All of them are signed.
36:21
Speaker 4: That's Fred Taylor, Mitchell and ness that I bought recently. Actually,
36:27
Speaker 4: last did you get that signed?
36:28
Speaker 2: That?
36:28
Speaker 3: It was that last week you got that signed?
36:30
Speaker 6: No, it was last year.
36:31
Speaker 4: I got it signed, Okay, last year and signed and
36:33
Speaker 4: framed up. That's the Selly one that he signed at
36:37
Speaker 4: last year's party as well, that I got framed up.
36:40
Speaker 6: And this one here is probably the pride and joy
36:43
Speaker 6: of the collection.
36:44
Speaker 2: It's a.
36:46
Speaker 4: Game worn inaugural season Jimmy Smith jersey and the story
36:50
Speaker 4: behind them, and it's all signed up on the chests
36:53
Speaker 4: and stuff like that. The story behind that was crazy
36:57
Speaker 4: because obviously Jimmy Smith.
36:59
Speaker 6: Had his legal issues. This is way back, like I've
37:04
Speaker 6: had that like ten years now.
37:06
Speaker 4: And some guy on Twitter posted like like an eBay
37:11
Speaker 4: link or whatever saying, oh, this would be like really
37:13
Speaker 4: cool to own, and it was like.
37:15
Speaker 6: Game Warn and Aull Girl season jersey.
37:17
Speaker 4: And then Jimmy Smith actually like retweeted the tweet saying,
37:21
Speaker 4: whoever gets this, let me know. There's a tag on
37:24
Speaker 4: the inside, and I can tell you what game it
37:26
Speaker 4: was Warning or what games it was from, because they
37:28
Speaker 4: apparently they didn't have a lot of spare jerseys, if
37:31
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. But I literally had it
37:34
Speaker 4: for like ten minutes and then I instantly packaged it
37:37
Speaker 4: back up and I sent it to Jimmy Smith's home
37:39
Speaker 4: addressed in Mississippi because I said.
37:41
Speaker 6: Would you sign it? And he was like of course,
37:43
Speaker 6: So I was like, I've got it.
37:46
Speaker 4: He sent me his personal address on DM message on
37:50
Speaker 4: Twitter and stuff. The cool thing was is that when
37:52
Speaker 4: he sent it back he written a handwritten No. It
37:55
Speaker 4: was when they did that Football Life episode where Jimmy
37:58
Speaker 4: Smith it was Jimmy Smith and Keen of mccartter well,
38:00
Speaker 4: and he said, like the fans helped with his rehab,
38:04
Speaker 4: like his rehab at the time, and and he said
38:06
Speaker 4: that it meant a lot that a guy who lived
38:08
Speaker 4: in England wants a jersey of mine.
38:10
Speaker 6: And so he.
38:11
Speaker 4: Signed it and then sent it back and then obviously
38:15
Speaker 4: I finally got it framed up and it's.
38:16
Speaker 6: It's all up on my Instagram page. It takes private
38:19
Speaker 6: place in the in the center of my living.
38:21
Speaker 1: Room as it should as it should was it was
38:24
Speaker 1: it washed before you got it?
38:26
Speaker 6: Oh? Yeah, it was clean and stuff like that. I
38:29
Speaker 6: was kind of disappointed, you know. I was hoping for
38:32
Speaker 6: it to like have all the grass stains on it
38:33
Speaker 6: and stuff.
38:34
Speaker 3: But they think of sweat from a long lounge every day.
38:39
Speaker 1: Yeahs coming in being like what is that smell?
38:46
Speaker 3: Look?
38:47
Speaker 2: Okay, last question for you the Jankuers.
38:49
Speaker 1: They go to Philadelphia this weekend to face the Eagles.
38:53
Speaker 1: Me and K are going to give our predictions in
38:55
Speaker 1: a little bit, but we have a fand of it
38:57
Speaker 1: every single week.
38:58
Speaker 2: What is your prediction a score, please.
39:01
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, I think it's going to be a loss, and
39:03
Speaker 4: I think it's going to be something like twenty eight
39:06
Speaker 4: to fourteen something like that.
39:08
Speaker 2: The Eagles and.
39:09
Speaker 6: Saquon Barkley are going to run it down our throats.
39:12
Speaker 6: I'm not confident at all.
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Speaker 2: Well, at least we're ending with a bit of optimism.
39:16
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Thank you so much for joining us
39:19
Speaker 2: today until to appreciated it. Stuff.
39:21
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're welcome.
39:22
Speaker 2: Cheers of stuff, cheers and stuff. For being so blunt
39:25
Speaker 2: with his question.
39:26
Speaker 3: I mean, stuff's been around since day one, so I
39:29
Speaker 3: see stuff all the time, all the He's what would
39:32
Speaker 3: be referred to as a hardcore fan, so he's he's
39:35
Speaker 3: seeing it all high as and he's actually and I
39:37
Speaker 3: get it, man.
39:38
Speaker 1: He's not been there since day one. He's been there
39:40
Speaker 1: before day one. Yeah, true, you know, as you just
39:43
Speaker 1: told us the story, he was a Jags fan before
39:44
Speaker 1: the Jags had even played a first game.
39:46
Speaker 2: So that's kind of impressive, isn't it. Key.
39:49
Speaker 1: Let's move on to this weekend. The Jacksonville Jaguars have it.
39:52
Speaker 1: In fact, they've got a real tough few games coming up.
39:54
Speaker 1: To be honest with you the Philadelphia Eagles, the Minnesota
39:58
Speaker 1: Vikings are Detroit Lions, and then the Houston Texans will
40:01
Speaker 1: focus on obviously the next game in Philadelphia, the Eagles,
40:06
Speaker 1: who are coming off of a win against the Bengals.
40:10
Speaker 2: This is going to be no bones about it. This
40:12
Speaker 2: is going to be a tough game.
40:13
Speaker 3: It's going to be a tough game.
40:14
Speaker 2: It's a tough game.
40:15
Speaker 3: It's going to be a tough game. I think it's
40:17
Speaker 3: going to be super high scoring. I think unless things
40:21
Speaker 3: change massively, I think our defense is going to struggle
40:24
Speaker 3: with particularly for my money, with Jayalen Hurts. But I
40:28
Speaker 3: also think if our offense is clicking, that this could
40:31
Speaker 3: be an absolute barn burner. It could be real high scoring.
40:36
Speaker 4: A J.
40:36
Speaker 1: Brown, Devonte Smith. It's a it's a it's a decent offense,
40:41
Speaker 1: to say the least of the Philadelphia Eagles. My concern is,
40:44
Speaker 1: and we won't, you know, touch on it too much
40:45
Speaker 1: because we've spoken about it before, but you know, we
40:48
Speaker 1: don't really know as it stands what.
40:50
Speaker 2: The offense is. We're gonna look like this weekend literally.
40:57
Speaker 3: Like one thing. One is out for the season. Yeah,
41:01
Speaker 3: that much, we know. Here's the other thing. We know, Jay,
41:04
Speaker 3: we know that next man up works well.
41:08
Speaker 1: It did at the end of the last game against
41:09
Speaker 1: the Packers, that's for sure, you know, and you know
41:12
Speaker 1: we know spoke to Parker Washington a bit about that
41:15
Speaker 1: as well. Travis Etn coming back quite like the idea.
41:19
Speaker 1: I mean, I always liked it from the first game
41:21
Speaker 1: of the season, but we've seen more of Tank Bigsby now,
41:24
Speaker 1: but Travis Etn he comes back, There's no way that
41:28
Speaker 1: Tank is not being incorporated in a big way in
41:31
Speaker 1: some way. You want to have this double headed monster
41:34
Speaker 1: in the backfield, and you want to be able to
41:36
Speaker 1: look at what the Lions did against Minnesota. Against against
41:41
Speaker 1: Minnesota is actually a good example. Really, I suppose you
41:44
Speaker 1: know what the Lions do, which is have Jamier Gibbs,
41:47
Speaker 1: they have David Montgomery as well, and they give them
41:50
Speaker 1: like a fifty to fifty split a lot of the time.
41:53
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if that's going to happen
41:54
Speaker 1: with the Jaguars, but I am confident in saying that
41:57
Speaker 1: we're going to see more of Tank Bigsby than we
41:58
Speaker 1: did maybe in the first weeks of the season.
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Speaker 3: As we should be. That is a double threat and
42:03
Speaker 3: we should be using it more as simple as that.
42:06
Speaker 3: For me, those are two talented running backs. We should
42:09
Speaker 3: be utilizing both of them all the time.
42:11
Speaker 1: And this is the big the big one. Then we've
42:13
Speaker 1: already heard from staff with his prediction, and we've got
42:17
Speaker 1: to give ours.
42:18
Speaker 2: The scores are.
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Speaker 1: I'm I've got three points, you've got two points, and
42:24
Speaker 1: fans have got two points as well.
42:26
Speaker 3: Okay, so so far me and the fans is if
42:31
Speaker 3: the Jags win, then we get a point.
42:35
Speaker 2: What are you saying this week?
42:36
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go thirty four thirty one Cam littlefield goal
42:42
Speaker 3: to win it. But I'm also going to throw a
42:45
Speaker 3: wrinkle in there for you, mate. Yeah, three hundred plus
42:49
Speaker 3: combined yards on the ground between the two teams.
42:53
Speaker 1: I've literally thought you were going to say between Tank,
42:55
Speaker 1: Bigsby and and Travis et And I was like, come on,
42:59
Speaker 1: you're getting.
43:00
Speaker 3: Ridiculous, more and more ridiculous combined between the two teams.
43:04
Speaker 3: Three hundred plus yards on the ground. That's what I'm
43:06
Speaker 3: going with.
43:08
Speaker 2: I'm really not sure about my prediction, to be honest
43:10
Speaker 2: with you, because I feel.
43:11
Speaker 3: Like this is, Oh, You're going to do it, aren't you?
43:13
Speaker 1: You're going to go I might it's really tough to
43:17
Speaker 1: see how the Eagles. The Eagles aren't favorites in this game.
43:22
Speaker 1: And do you know what, I feel like, one drive,
43:27
Speaker 1: that last drive isn't enough. Isn't enough at the moment.
43:31
Speaker 1: Is it to be able to? You know, I do
43:33
Speaker 1: really want to see a really, you know, highly high
43:36
Speaker 1: scoring game, and I feel like it kind of is
43:38
Speaker 1: going to have to be to be honest, And that's
43:40
Speaker 1: what makes me slightly concerned, because it could be that
43:43
Speaker 1: the Eagles are you know that they dominate, their offense dominate.
43:49
Speaker 1: Let's go with a it might be it might be
43:54
Speaker 1: another case of whoever has the ball last wins. We've
43:57
Speaker 1: seen that multiple times already this season.
43:59
Speaker 3: I think it happened to in the Browns Game two,
44:02
Speaker 3: whoever has the ball last.
44:03
Speaker 1: So it could be another one. It could be Eagles
44:05
Speaker 1: twenty four, Jags twenty one. Okay, mane no devastating.
44:09
Speaker 2: I don't want it. I feel like that coming out
44:12
Speaker 2: of my.
44:12
Speaker 1: Mouth is slightly sick.
44:14
Speaker 3: Can we get a new host? Okay, hope before we go,
44:20
Speaker 3: before we go, right, yes, one thing? One thing. Twenty
44:25
Speaker 3: twenty two. The Jags left the UK losing to the Broncos.
44:31
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty two, they were two and six, and it
44:34
Speaker 3: was all of the fans saying this is the end
44:37
Speaker 3: of the season. I am no by no means saying
44:41
Speaker 3: the Jags now turn this round and make a playoff run.
44:43
Speaker 3: I'm not. All I'm saying is there is hope, There
44:47
Speaker 3: is positivity there because it can happen, and not only
44:50
Speaker 3: can it happen, this team can do it. So let's
44:54
Speaker 3: not all be down about it all the time.
44:58
Speaker 2: Can I get that?
45:00
Speaker 1: I can MP three and I can just put that
45:01
Speaker 1: in my ears every time I'm feeling a bit down
45:03
Speaker 1: because that was that was good. You should be in
45:05
Speaker 1: that locker.
45:06
Speaker 3: Room from the Gladiator exactly exactly.
45:10
Speaker 1: You make a good point, though, and it's the NFL
45:13
Speaker 1: and you never know what can happen. So I think
45:16
Speaker 1: that we've ended that in a nice way.
45:18
Speaker 2: Cheers, Key, appreciate that. We'll be back next week.
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