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Speaker 1: Welcome to The dun Peterson Show, brought to you by
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Speaker 1: Fresh from Florida. JP Shadwick and former Jaguar Jeff Logoman
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Speaker 1: discuss the latest Jaguars news with the head coach. The
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Speaker 1: dun Peterson Show starts right now.
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Speaker 2: And Welcome in The Doug Peterson Show, presented by Fresh
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Speaker 2: from Florida from the Hyundai Studios at the Miller Electric Center. J. P. Shadrick,
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Speaker 2: Jeff Logoman and Jaguars head coach Doug Peterson. It's week eighteen.
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Speaker 2: You know, they send this email out in December. The
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Speaker 2: league does earlier in the week playoff scenarios for each team.
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Speaker 3: This is the month builds, it grows and grows well.
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Speaker 2: This week is the longest one yet because almost every
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Speaker 2: team's on there with all these permutations and combinations of
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Speaker 2: playoff ideas. The simplest way, though, is Number one by
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Speaker 2: Jacksonville is a Jacks win.
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Speaker 3: And that's as good as it gets.
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Speaker 4: A year, one hundred percent correct. And it's been this
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Speaker 4: way for the last month of football. You know, if
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Speaker 4: we just take care of business and handle our you know, responsibilities,
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Speaker 4: and do our jobs. You know, we we listen. It
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Speaker 4: could have been wrapped up a couple of weeks ago.
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Speaker 4: But it isn't it is what it is.
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Speaker 3: We've had.
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Speaker 4: They say, we've made our bed and now we're gonna
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Speaker 4: lie in it, and we've got to come out swing
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Speaker 4: and this could be a good aggressive Tennessee team on
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Speaker 4: the road, you know, much like Week eighteen was last year.
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Speaker 3: All Right, I'll put my fan hat on for a
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Speaker 3: minute here, because you know, for for so long the
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Speaker 3: league never had this last week of the season schedule
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Speaker 3: to be determined. And I know, as a coach, you
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Speaker 3: probably love that the league has so much suspense the
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Speaker 3: last week with the way that they've created a schedule.
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Speaker 3: I know that you, as a coach, don't want to
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Speaker 3: have suspense. But as a fan, is this not tremendous
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Speaker 3: having the last week of the season have so much
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Speaker 3: excitement to it.
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Speaker 4: You're right, as a fan of our league and really
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Speaker 4: seeing it from big picture, it is. It's exciting to
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Speaker 4: see the different matchups, the different scenarios. You know, they're
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Speaker 4: they're they're they're they're putting teams on Saturday, who have
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Speaker 4: you know, implications on the Sunday game and vice versa.
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Speaker 4: Or they're playing at one o'clock at the same time,
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Speaker 4: head to head things of that nature. So you can't
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Speaker 4: really get a gauge for for you know, what's happening
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Speaker 4: in another game. And and I think as a fan
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Speaker 4: that's that's, uh, that's what the NFL wants, you know,
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Speaker 4: from a coaching perspective. Now, we like we like routine,
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Speaker 4: we like schedule, we like things in their boxes, and
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Speaker 4: uh so we can check them off.
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Speaker 5: But yeah, you're right as a fan, it's it's pretty exciting.
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Speaker 3: And the other thing that they've done is to move
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Speaker 3: a larger number of division games right to the end,
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Speaker 3: just like this for you guys, and it makes it
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Speaker 3: to where, look, this game is important for you guys,
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Speaker 3: and Tennessee not so much. But look, it's important to
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Speaker 3: them because here's their opportunity to knock you guys out
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Speaker 3: because you knocked them out last.
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Speaker 5: Year, exactly right.
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Speaker 4: And and I know some of the faces are different,
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Speaker 4: you know, on their team with injury and whatnot, but
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Speaker 4: coach Rabel and his staff are going to have this
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Speaker 4: team ready to go and prepared. And they remember, I
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Speaker 4: mean they're talking about last year and what happened here
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Speaker 4: in week eighteen. But you know, again that's in the
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Speaker 4: past and and we got to focus on this game.
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Speaker 4: But but you know, our guys will be excited and
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Speaker 4: energized and ready to go for this one as well.
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Speaker 2: Head coach Doug Peterson with us. All right, let's get
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Speaker 2: the weekly update on Trevor Lawrence so far heading into
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Speaker 2: this Thursday.
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Speaker 3: Where does he stand?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's uh, well, he stands on his two feet,
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Speaker 4: but uh no, he I couldn't resist he you know,
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Speaker 4: he started throwing this week, you know, and and there's
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Speaker 4: some soreness still, he's day to day. I would anticipate him,
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Speaker 4: you know, progressing more with his throwing, you know, today,
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Speaker 4: tomorrow and on into Saturday, and we'll see where he's at.
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Speaker 4: But you know, obviously we're comfortable again with CJ if
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Speaker 4: he had to go and in with with Matt Barkley
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Speaker 4: second second week in our system. But but Trevor's progressing,
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Speaker 4: progressing well and and he's on track.
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Speaker 3: So after last week's game against Carolina Panthers, as a
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Speaker 3: coaching staff, do you learn anything from that regardless of
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Speaker 3: who you're quarter is this week?
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Speaker 4: Yes, and what is well? I think we went into
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Speaker 4: that game committed to the run. I think that's something
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Speaker 4: that we can learn as play callers and decision makers.
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Speaker 4: We talked a little bit about that last week, how
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Speaker 4: we were going to you know, go into last week's game,
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Speaker 4: and I think some of your second and seven plus scenarios,
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Speaker 4: which are typically passing scenarios, we were effective running the ball.
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Speaker 4: We stayed out of third and eights and nines and tens,
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Speaker 4: and we were in those third and fours because of
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Speaker 4: the run. And so those are all things that help
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Speaker 4: our offense. They help our offensive line. Our quarterback doesn't
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Speaker 4: have to go back there on third down and hold
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Speaker 4: the football on seven step drops in deeper routes, and
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Speaker 4: we were a lot more efficient, you know, on third
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Speaker 4: down because of that.
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Speaker 3: I think it's amazing that some people think that an
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Speaker 3: effective running game has to be five or six yards
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Speaker 3: per game, But it's not sometimes, is it? Sometimes it's
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Speaker 3: two and a half.
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Speaker 4: Well, look at the first half compared to the second half.
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Speaker 4: I mean, we were, you know, twenty seven or twenty
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Speaker 4: eight yards. I think on what sixteen something carries in
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Speaker 4: the first half, it's not very good. But obviously we
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Speaker 4: had the explosive run there in the third quarter for
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Speaker 4: the touchdown. That helps your your yards per per carry.
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Speaker 4: But at the same time, we kept chipping away and
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Speaker 4: then you get into you get that lead, and you
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Speaker 4: start getting into that four minute mode when you need
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Speaker 4: to run the football to win the game, and that's
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Speaker 4: where things begin to kind of take off, and you know, you.
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Speaker 5: Just got to stick with it.
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Speaker 4: You got to be committed to your run game, and
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Speaker 4: like we say, it's it's not going to be pretty early,
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Speaker 4: but it'll be very effective late in the game.
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Speaker 2: Coach Christian Kirk back on the practice field this week,
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Speaker 2: and you know, that's that's a quick turn from what
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Speaker 2: he went through. And he explained a lot of it
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Speaker 2: in the locker room on Wednesday. The idea that he's
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Speaker 2: even running around on the practice field right now is
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Speaker 2: pretty amazing. But how likely is it?
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Speaker 6: Does?
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Speaker 2: It just depend on how he you know, recovers from practice.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, how he feels, how he recovers. You know,
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Speaker 4: in his mind, he had targeted this week as a return,
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Speaker 4: you know, and the doctors have given him the okay
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Speaker 4: to get back to practice. You know, we so we
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Speaker 4: opened his window on Wednesday and and you know, did
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Speaker 4: did a few things on a limited basis and and
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Speaker 4: we'll ramp him up today on Thursday and then again
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Speaker 4: on Friday, and just see where he's at. And it's
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Speaker 4: really up to Christian to see just if he can uh,
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Speaker 4: if he can go And I think, uh, I think
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Speaker 4: uh seventy five eighty percent Christian kirk is is pretty
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Speaker 4: good in our offense. And uh, but but again I
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Speaker 4: don't I don't want to risk the chance of him
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Speaker 4: being injured and missing say the postseason, if we.
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Speaker 5: Have the opportunity to get there.
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Speaker 3: But this is the week, This is the gotta have
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Speaker 3: it week.
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Speaker 2: So if guys are you're gonna see a lot of
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Speaker 2: guys if they're kind of you know, borderline, maybe probably
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Speaker 2: go for it. Right, you want to play in a
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Speaker 2: game like this, right.
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Speaker 5: You do?
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Speaker 4: And Christian's gonna want to play, and and you know,
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Speaker 4: you can't.
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Speaker 5: Fault him for doing that.
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Speaker 4: Trevor's gonna want to play and you can't fault him
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Speaker 4: for doing that, you know. But but again, we got
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Speaker 4: to look at a big picture and and see, you know,
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Speaker 4: where we are and if we can you know, do
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Speaker 4: some good things and and really kind of continue I
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Speaker 4: think from from last week and kind of build up.
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Speaker 4: We didn't turn the ball over last week, and so
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Speaker 4: that that's a difference of that, you know. And then
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Speaker 4: defensively coming out and controlling the line of scrimmage like
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Speaker 4: we did, and and sort of you know, getting after
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Speaker 4: their quarterback.
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Speaker 5: It was six sacks last week.
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Speaker 4: And you know those are all part of the plan, right,
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Speaker 4: That's what you hope to get out of any kind
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Speaker 4: of football game. But if these guys want to play,
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Speaker 4: you know, and and and health is not a not
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Speaker 4: a factor, then and we cut them loose and go play.
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Speaker 3: I think what you just brought up there was the
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Speaker 3: biggest difference in the game, besides not turning the ball over,
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Speaker 3: was the battle in the trenches. I thought your offensive
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Speaker 3: line played so much better, your defensive line played better.
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Speaker 3: You go back to the week before at Tampa might
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Speaker 3: have been I thought one of the worst games in
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Speaker 3: the pits trenches for you guys. Big improvement last week,
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Speaker 3: big improvement.
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Speaker 5: And and I thought Carolina's front was a good front.
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Speaker 5: They they they.
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Speaker 4: Showed us a lot of five man fronts, which is
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Speaker 4: unusual Tennessee has In the last two years, they've given
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Speaker 4: us the most five man fronts then any other opponent
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Speaker 4: they face, So you know we're going to see it.
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Speaker 4: They like the one on one matchups and and yet
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Speaker 4: our guys bounced back last week did a nice job
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Speaker 4: on both sides of the ball.
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Speaker 3: For you guys this week on defense. Okay, the Titans
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Speaker 3: offensive line has been struggling a little bit, but one
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Speaker 3: way an offensive line gets better is by running the
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Speaker 3: football with King Henry behind that group. And do you
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Speaker 3: expect a lot of that?
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Speaker 5: I do?
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Speaker 4: I do, And you know, I go back and watch
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Speaker 4: the Seattle game just a couple of weeks ago, and
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Speaker 4: Derrick Henry and Ryan Tannehill, you know who played in
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Speaker 4: that game.
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Speaker 5: I mean they they did some good things.
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Speaker 4: They ran the ball efficiently and effectively in that football game,
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Speaker 4: which opened up the play action pass. And if it's
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Speaker 4: Ryan Tannehill that's playing on Sunday, here's a quarterback, a
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Speaker 4: veteran guy that knows this system and you know he's
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Speaker 4: going to put the ball in play and he does
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Speaker 4: a nice job.
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Speaker 5: Plus he can extend plays.
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Speaker 4: He's a really good athlete who can run and he
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Speaker 4: did that in that Seattle game. You know, and then
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Speaker 4: you got to expect the trick play right half back
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Speaker 4: Derek Henry threw a touchdown pass in that game, and
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Speaker 4: they tried the flea flickers in the rounds and all
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Speaker 4: these types of things here late in the season to
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Speaker 4: try to spark their offense. So you're right. You know,
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Speaker 4: Derrick Henry, it kind of runs through him. He's a
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Speaker 4: thousand yard back. He's got eleven eleven or so touchdowns
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Speaker 4: this year, and you know it's going to start right there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, when you bring up Tanny Hill and his mobility,
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Speaker 3: I mean some of the big plays that I remember
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Speaker 3: him having against the Jaguars in history has been with
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Speaker 3: his legs. And you also mentioned this, which I think
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Speaker 3: is important because it goes more than just the offense
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Speaker 3: about trick plays. You could see it on offense, you
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Speaker 3: could see it on defense, you can see it on
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Speaker 3: special teams because what do they have to lose?
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Speaker 4: It's right, that's right, and sometimes the most dangerous teams
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Speaker 4: are those types of teams, the ones that aren't playing
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Speaker 4: for anything. They're kind of playing for pride. They want
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Speaker 4: to win in front of their fans. You know, I'm
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Speaker 4: at home there in Nissan Stadium, So you're absolutely right.
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Speaker 4: It's my message this week to the team is you
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Speaker 4: you've got to be intentional with your preparation.
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Speaker 5: You've got to study the film.
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Speaker 4: You got to understand situationally when the team likes to
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Speaker 4: throw a flee flicker in there or a half back pass,
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Speaker 4: what area of the field, and just you got to
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Speaker 4: play the game mentally just a little bit this week,
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Speaker 4: and and you know limit if not sort of shut
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Speaker 4: down some of these explosives that could be good. You
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Speaker 4: go back to our first game, the flea flicker right
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Speaker 4: there before halftime that that you know, got them on
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Speaker 4: the board and and kind of got them back into
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Speaker 4: that football game just a little bit.
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Speaker 5: Those are things that spark an offense.
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Speaker 2: Derek Henry seven of nine passing in his career, by
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Speaker 2: the way, four touchdowns.
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Speaker 4: That's pretty impressive, it is for a running back running back,
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Speaker 4: uh coach.
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Speaker 2: Final thought here, you know, the result in big games
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Speaker 2: this year has not been great, but this is the
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Speaker 2: biggest of them all right now. It's winning in situation.
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Speaker 2: So the ultimate back against the wall moment. How does
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Speaker 2: your team respond this week?
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Speaker 4: You know, it's it's it's interesting how the season just
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Speaker 4: kind of boils down to one one game. And something
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Speaker 4: that you try to tell your team every week that
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Speaker 4: a game comes down to two or three plays, right,
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Speaker 4: and that can determine the outcome of your that game
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Speaker 4: and ultimately your season.
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Speaker 5: And so here we are Week eighteen.
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Speaker 4: You know, win and you're in type type scenario or
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Speaker 4: is the scenario basically? And you know our team, Uh,
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Speaker 4: if you go back a year ago, which I mean,
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Speaker 4: we're in that situation again, our team responded extremely well
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Speaker 4: and I expect the same thing. Uh this year with
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Speaker 4: this group of guys. They're saying and doing the right things.
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Speaker 5: We've had.
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Speaker 4: We've had a good couple weeks of preparation here on
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Speaker 4: the field, and that's what it's going to take. And
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Speaker 4: that's what you want to be able to do now
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Speaker 4: here at the end of the season, giving yourself these opportunities. Again,
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Speaker 4: it is part of our culture now is being here
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Speaker 4: at the end of the year, being in the conversation
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Speaker 4: of the AFC South, competing for a for a title,
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Speaker 4: and and then putting yourself in postseason contention, because once
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Speaker 4: you're in the tournament, anything is possible.
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Speaker 5: You know, as you move forward.
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Speaker 3: As a player, you love these moments. As a coach,
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Speaker 3: I'm sure you love these moments. And I'm a big
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Speaker 3: NFL films fan junkie. Go back to the old days.
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Speaker 3: And in a moment like this, I always think back
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Speaker 3: to that that Bill Parcells and he's on the sideline
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Speaker 3: and he's telling the players, Hey, look, this is why
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Speaker 3: he lifted all those gd weights in the offseason. This
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Speaker 3: is why you sweat all that because this is what
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Speaker 3: it's all about right here.
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Speaker 5: Exactly right, exactly right.
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Speaker 4: It boils down to three hours on Sunday, and who
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Speaker 4: who's going to be the best football team you know
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Speaker 4: in that in that window? And and h who's gonna
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Speaker 4: make the most of their opportunities.
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Speaker 2: Thanks to the time, coach, Good luck to you, Thank
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Speaker 2: you very much, Head coach Doug Peterson with us. In
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Speaker 3: There's a lot to go.
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Speaker 2: Through this week, and you know the quarterbacks on the
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Speaker 2: list again, you got some receivers that could be coming back.
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Speaker 2: The defense is pretty healthy, they're coming off a win. Finally,
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Speaker 2: the snapped the four games. Get that's all fine and dandy.
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Speaker 2: It's all about this game against the Titans the week eighteen.
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Speaker 2: A win, the Jags will be Division champs. That's as
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Speaker 2: simple as it gets.
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Speaker 3: I really one of the most quite the questions that
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Speaker 3: I are the question that I was looking the most
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Speaker 3: forward to asking was about as a coach, what did
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Speaker 3: you learn from last week? And and because I thought
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Speaker 3: it was very telling what he said there, because I
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Speaker 3: was figuring that he would go there and that how
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Speaker 3: committed they were to the running game? Because regardless of
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Speaker 3: who plays quarterback this week, Let's say CJ. Bethett again,
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Speaker 3: are you gonna have the same kind of mindset in
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Speaker 3: case they committed to the running game, making sure you're
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Speaker 3: playing a clean football game, protect the ball. Well, let's
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Speaker 3: say it's different. Let's say Trevor's plan. Let's say he's okay,
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Speaker 3: But don't you really want to have the same mindset
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Speaker 3: of relying and leaning on the running game again, even
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Speaker 3: though you don't end up having you know, one hundred
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Speaker 3: and fifty yards rushing by etn, but just that it
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Speaker 3: contributes to the game and it makes downs more manageable.
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Speaker 3: And so I think that that's got to be the
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Speaker 3: mindset for this football team in this ballgame, regardless of
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Speaker 3: who's playing quarterback. And so I think that this offense
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Speaker 3: offensive game plan this week will be very, very similar
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Speaker 3: to what it was last week.
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Speaker 2: And usually when you go into the Tennessee game, you
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Speaker 2: know what it is. On the defensive side for the Jags,
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Speaker 2: it's stopped to run and then see what happens with
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Speaker 2: the rest of it.
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Speaker 3: Gotta stop Henry.
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Speaker 2: Henry's kind of there. It could be his last gasp
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Speaker 2: in Nashville. The contract's up.
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Speaker 3: Well. Well, the reason why that, again when I mentioned
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Speaker 3: this to Doug and he commented on it too, is
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Speaker 3: that if you're looking to help an offensive line that's
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Speaker 3: struggling in a quarterback position that may have or have
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Speaker 3: undergone some change now, you want to rely on that
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Speaker 3: running game. Derrick Henry has been the best component of
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Speaker 3: their offense all year long. Will Levis is young, he's inexperienced,
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Speaker 3: Tanny Hill has been in and out of the lineup.
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Speaker 3: He had an ankle I believe it was earlier in
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Speaker 3: the year. But if they're going to be able to
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Speaker 3: function and to compete in this game, I really believe
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Speaker 3: this that the Tennessee Titans are going to have to
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Speaker 3: find a way to take the ball away a couple
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Speaker 3: times and then have Derrick Henry have one of his
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Speaker 3: best games of the year, if not the best game
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Speaker 3: of the year. That's what they have to have. I
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Speaker 3: believe to win this game. I don't believe that it's
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Speaker 3: going to happen. I believe that the Jaguars defense is
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Speaker 3: going to play well. I believe that they're going to
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Speaker 3: play their brand of bullet ball. Hopefully they're back on
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Speaker 3: track because the four games prior to Carolina they weren't
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Speaker 3: so good defensively. But they know what's in front of them.
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Speaker 3: And I love I love Derrick Henry, love everything he
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Speaker 3: stands for. Amazing player, been great to watch, you know,
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Speaker 3: and over the years, some of the stiff farms that
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Speaker 3: he has put on Jaguar defenders has been amazing. It's
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Speaker 3: been kind of crazy to watch some of those games,
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Speaker 3: and I don't want to watch another one. Yeah, let's
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Speaker 3: not have another one of those highlight games either. No,
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Speaker 3: I'm not ready for that. Enough of this, but their
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Speaker 3: offensive line again, their offensive line is struggling. They've there's
16:39
Speaker 3: been so much change with his Titans football team from
16:42
Speaker 3: the last matchup. And the other reason that I'm excited
16:46
Speaker 3: is like, look, if Trevor does play, I think Trevor
16:49
Speaker 3: had arguably his best game this year against Tennessee the
16:52
Speaker 3: last time. If you go back, Calvin Ridley had over
16:56
Speaker 3: one hundred yards receiving two touchdown catches in that ball game.
17:00
Speaker 3: Trevor had two rushing touchdowns in that ball game himself.
17:04
Speaker 3: So go back to last year, the game in Tennessee
17:10
Speaker 3: arguably one of the best games he's ever played. Trevor has.
17:14
Speaker 3: So he's had, He's had excellent games against Tennessee, And
17:18
Speaker 3: if he plays, I would expect nothing less, but I
17:22
Speaker 3: would expect maybe a lower number count as far as
17:26
Speaker 3: the attempts go. As as a passer, it makes sense.
17:30
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're gonna run it, the clock's gonna run,
17:33
Speaker 2: and you got the lead, Okay, don't be hope.
17:36
Speaker 3: You hope you got the lead. But the one thing
17:38
Speaker 3: I would worry about in this game if if you've
17:43
Speaker 3: turned the ball over, and the longer the game goes,
17:48
Speaker 3: and the longer that the game is tight, the more
17:54
Speaker 3: I call this pucker factor. Ah Okay, the more tense
17:59
Speaker 3: a Jaguars foot ball team may get attention builds. And
18:04
Speaker 3: unfortunately I've experienced that. And you'll go back to the
18:07
Speaker 3: ninety six when we needed to win that game against
18:09
Speaker 3: the Atlanta Falcons and we didn't play our best football.
18:12
Speaker 3: We were a very tense, tight football team needing to
18:16
Speaker 3: win that game to get in the playoffs, and then
18:18
Speaker 3: we had to end up having Morton Anderson miss to
18:21
Speaker 3: be able to get our football team into the playoffs,
18:24
Speaker 3: which was fine. We got in, but and we played
18:27
Speaker 3: much better the following week, but we got a little
18:29
Speaker 3: tight in that ball game. And the Jaguars need to
18:31
Speaker 3: make sure that an early le would be nice so
18:34
Speaker 3: that there's no tense tightness for that pucker.
18:38
Speaker 2: No pucker, pucker, no puckering. Don't need that around here. Yeah,
18:42
Speaker 2: we're back in a moment. We'll get into the quarterback discussion.
18:46
Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence, CJ. Bethard, who goes I don't know injury
18:51
Speaker 2: reports out we'll get to that coming up a little
18:53
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Speaker 2: Jeff Logman, Jaguars Titans coming up one o'clock Sunday, Nissan
19:31
Speaker 2: Stadium on the banks of the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee,
19:35
Speaker 2: and Music City, USA, and then that Stadium Nissandi and
19:42
Speaker 2: you know, I don't know if you've heard of them.
19:45
Speaker 3: Well, what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to
19:46
Speaker 3: get directions here. Okay, see what do you I'm thinking
19:50
Speaker 3: road trip for our Jaguar fan base.
19:52
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, because it's you know, it's not a it
19:56
Speaker 2: can be now this time. You know, two days out
19:59
Speaker 2: the flights might be so.
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Speaker 3: But I'm trying to figure out to get people an
20:04
Speaker 3: idea very nice here, how long of a road trip.
20:07
Speaker 6: This is.
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Speaker 3: I bet you it's eleven hour drive, nine hours, nine
20:12
Speaker 3: nine hours, nine hours.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I gets through Atlanta and over to Chattanooga and
20:18
Speaker 2: up through Ye that makes.
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Speaker 3: Sense, saying, uh, just just a bit over nine hours,
20:23
Speaker 3: that's doable. Road trip on Friday or Saturday, get to Nashville,
20:30
Speaker 3: have a have a party, and then go to the game,
20:34
Speaker 3: and then after the game, have a party in Nashville,
20:38
Speaker 3: and then road trip on back on Monday. Sounds pretty
20:41
Speaker 3: good to me. Yeah, film sick. Oh, I was gonna
20:46
Speaker 3: make it sick. You can't get to work on Monday.
20:50
Speaker 2: Wool sit Daisy went Todayshville again. How funny that works.
20:55
Speaker 3: Let's till that joint out.
20:56
Speaker 6: Uh.
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Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence on the injury report, of course, with the
21:00
Speaker 2: ac joint sprain and is throwing shoulder yesterday, did not
21:04
Speaker 2: throw any footballs during the open media period of practice
21:07
Speaker 2: about twenty minutes the start of practice. That was notable
21:10
Speaker 2: because we were all staring at him and he didn't
21:12
Speaker 2: do anything, just held out to the football. Today we
21:15
Speaker 2: saw him actually throw the football a little.
21:19
Speaker 3: Bit, not every time. So I guess that's the question,
21:24
Speaker 3: is JP, what did he do when you left. I
21:28
Speaker 3: don't know.
21:28
Speaker 2: That's a great question. That's a great question, and that's
21:31
Speaker 2: nobody knows. We've talked about it for weeks now, you know,
21:34
Speaker 2: if he's not practicing, then all of a sudden he
21:36
Speaker 2: shows up on Sunday, it hasn't really gone especially well,
21:41
Speaker 2: not just for him but for the team as a whole.
21:43
Speaker 2: Are you better off if Bethard is practicing all week,
21:47
Speaker 2: putting bether out there and having a similar performance to
21:49
Speaker 2: what he had last week?
21:52
Speaker 3: If Trevor can throw the ball, ye, Trevor's your starting quarterback. Yes,
21:57
Speaker 3: and a conversation correct. If Trevor can and take reps
22:00
Speaker 3: in practice on a Thursday and on a Friday, Trevor's
22:04
Speaker 3: your guy. He's the starting quarterback for a reason. He's
22:08
Speaker 3: the best quarterback easy temple. Yeah, But it's up to Trevor, right.
22:15
Speaker 2: I mean, he's got to be able to feel it
22:18
Speaker 2: and grip the ball and follow through and do it
22:21
Speaker 2: again and again and again exactly.
22:23
Speaker 3: And he's got to be able to also to protect
22:27
Speaker 3: himself and to withstand. I don't want to say some
22:31
Speaker 3: hits because I'm hoping that he doesn't get hit. If
22:34
Speaker 3: he plays guess what. He runs a lot too, but
22:36
Speaker 3: that's part of the job description last time I checked.
22:41
Speaker 3: So arden Key is going to be there, Okay. Denico
22:46
Speaker 3: Autry another guy that might want to introduce himself to Trevor.
22:51
Speaker 3: Harold Landry another guy that's a pretty good pass rusher.
22:56
Speaker 3: The Jaguars tackles Anton Harrison and Cam Robinson are gonna
23:01
Speaker 3: have to play well because that's the talent right now
23:05
Speaker 3: of the front of the Tennessee Titans. With Jeffrey Simmons
23:08
Speaker 3: out of the lineup, those guys on the outside. Now,
23:11
Speaker 3: arden Key will kick down into the middle as we
23:14
Speaker 3: saw when he was here, and he will rush from
23:17
Speaker 3: the inside. But on regular bass downs, those are your
23:21
Speaker 3: outside rushers.
23:23
Speaker 2: Back in a moment, we'll get back to the Jags
23:25
Speaker 2: defense and the defensive line and the pass rushing duo
23:29
Speaker 2: Trayvon Walker and Josh Allen trying to finish the regular
23:34
Speaker 2: season strong. That's next on The Doug Peterson Show on
23:37
Speaker 2: the Jaguars Radio Network.
23:47
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. The Dog Peterson Show continues right now.
23:52
Speaker 2: The Doug Peterson Show, presented by Fresh from Florida. Food
23:55
Speaker 2: tastes better when it's grown closer to home. JP Shadrick,
23:58
Speaker 2: Jeff Logman, head coach Doug Peterson joining us in the
24:02
Speaker 2: opening segment of the show each and every Thursday, and
24:07
Speaker 2: coming up in just a few moments, Evan Ingram caught
24:10
Speaker 2: up with the jag Site end in the locker room yesterday.
24:12
Speaker 2: We'll hear that conversation in just a few minutes. But
24:15
Speaker 2: Jaguars Defense and for those on our network, in the
24:19
Speaker 2: hour preceding this Doug Peterson show, each and every Thursday,
24:22
Speaker 2: we have Jaguars Happy Hour on our flagship station, Tenton
24:25
Speaker 2: XL here in Jacksonville. We had a special guest pop
24:28
Speaker 2: in today. Josh Allen was walking through the hall going
24:32
Speaker 2: somewhere else and decided to stop in and say hi
24:35
Speaker 2: to us and off a three sack game where he
24:37
Speaker 2: has sixteen and a half for the season and now
24:40
Speaker 2: the franchise single season sack record, and he's a half
24:43
Speaker 2: sack off the pace for the NFL lead in that department.
24:47
Speaker 2: And as he said to us Logs, it's not just him.
24:52
Speaker 2: Trayvon Walker all of a sudden's putting up some numbers
24:54
Speaker 2: as well, and they've as a duo really started to
24:57
Speaker 2: make some waves here at the end of the season.
24:59
Speaker 2: And it's not really all the time from the traditional
25:03
Speaker 2: outside position either, which is a development.
25:06
Speaker 3: And that's kind of a recent change. And going into
25:10
Speaker 3: that game, you remember what we were having a conversation
25:13
Speaker 3: in the week leading up to the game against Carolina,
25:16
Speaker 3: and I'd said that the tackles are pretty good and
25:19
Speaker 3: the center and the two guards were not very good. Well,
25:22
Speaker 3: Mike Caldwell and the coaching staff came up with a
25:25
Speaker 3: great plan and they kicked Trayvon and Josh down on
25:29
Speaker 3: the guards and they rushed straight. Trayvon got his sack
25:33
Speaker 3: when they just rushed it straight. And then the next
25:36
Speaker 3: time they were down in there, they ran what is
25:40
Speaker 3: called a te game. So Josh at the defensive tackle
25:43
Speaker 3: spot immediately gets up the field on the outside shoulder
25:47
Speaker 3: of the guard, and he's trying to get inside and
25:50
Speaker 3: past the inside shoulder of the tackle so that the
25:54
Speaker 3: guard has to eventually turn Josh loose because Roy Robertson
25:57
Speaker 3: Harris is looping underneath. What he's trying to do is
26:01
Speaker 3: to beat that right shoulder of the tackle so that
26:04
Speaker 3: when the guard comes off of him to block Roy,
26:07
Speaker 3: the tackle can't slow him down or stop him. And
26:11
Speaker 3: Josh did it perfectly and it helped that the rush
26:13
Speaker 3: that he had before on Trayvon sack, he actually went
26:16
Speaker 3: up the field on the guard and then powered back,
26:19
Speaker 3: so the guard believed he was once again going to
26:22
Speaker 3: power up the field on him. So it was an
26:25
Speaker 3: excellent move by a defensive coordinator Mike Caldwell. And then
26:29
Speaker 3: the other sack that he had with the double a
26:31
Speaker 3: gap blitz that Josh talked about and they really sold it,
26:35
Speaker 3: really did a good job of selling it. Josh had
26:38
Speaker 3: a free run at the quarterback tackle turned out the
26:40
Speaker 3: last minute, but it was too late, too little, too late,
26:43
Speaker 3: and then the last one just being relentless. Josh uses
26:46
Speaker 3: that term a lot, and that's the way he plays
26:49
Speaker 3: the game. And you know, JP, I'm a big fan
26:52
Speaker 3: of Josh. I'm a big fan of Josh as a player.
26:56
Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of Josh as the man that
26:58
Speaker 3: he is. Have a lot of respect for him and
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Speaker 3: his game. And so in the booth, I'm celebrating in
27:05
Speaker 3: the booth because I'm excited for Josh and him breaking
27:08
Speaker 3: the record that Kalais Campbell has had, which Kalais Campbell,
27:13
Speaker 3: top notch guy, you know, raised Josh in this league
27:17
Speaker 3: and I give Kalayis a lot of credit for the
27:21
Speaker 3: person and that the player that Josh has become, because
27:24
Speaker 3: you got to have mentors in this game and in life,
27:29
Speaker 3: and Josh had one of the best.
27:30
Speaker 2: And Kalaius was going to see on social media congratulated
27:34
Speaker 2: him as well because he did Kalais's sack dance with
27:36
Speaker 2: the second one wing in the home run and all
27:39
Speaker 2: that stuff. It's really cool to see and just need
27:41
Speaker 2: a little bit more of that, one more week of
27:43
Speaker 2: that to get this team across the finish line and
27:46
Speaker 2: into the postseason as the AFC South Champions. We're back
27:49
Speaker 2: in a moment and we'll hear from Jaggs tight end
27:52
Speaker 2: Evan ingram I caught up with him in the locker
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Speaker 2: room yesterday. Only the second Jaguars player ever to go
27:58
Speaker 2: over one hundred catches in a season. Jimmy Smith did
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Speaker 2: it twice. Now Evan ingram Is at one oh four
28:04
Speaker 2: for the season. That's next is the Doug Peterson Show
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Speaker 1: Welcome Back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
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Speaker 2: The Doug Peterson Show, presented by Fresh from Florida. Food
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Speaker 2: tastes better when it's grown closer to home.
28:23
Speaker 6: J P.
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Speaker 2: Shadwick, Jeff Logman back in a moment. Tight end Evan
28:27
Speaker 2: Ingram over one hundred receptions for the season and closing
28:30
Speaker 2: in on one thousand receiving yards for the season as well.
28:34
Speaker 2: A big game and he could be hitting some big
28:37
Speaker 2: time NFL history numbers in terms of tight ends in
28:41
Speaker 2: a single season. If he has a twelve catch game,
28:43
Speaker 2: it would tie the NFL record for tight end receptions
28:47
Speaker 2: in a season. Zach Ertz in twenty eighteen of Philly
28:50
Speaker 2: had one hundred and sixteen catches. Well, that would be
28:53
Speaker 2: a career high game for Evan Ingram if he could
28:55
Speaker 2: do it. He's had three different eleven catch games in
28:58
Speaker 2: his career. But he's a team guy. He's not worried
29:01
Speaker 2: a lot about the numbers. He had caught up with
29:03
Speaker 2: him in the locker room this week and asked him
29:06
Speaker 2: about last week's win.
29:07
Speaker 3: Was it a relief or just the team getting back
29:10
Speaker 3: on track?
29:11
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, you know, you lose fourth straight, you
29:15
Speaker 7: know it has to end at some point, So that's
29:18
Speaker 7: something we were working for. It was definitely along four weeks,
29:20
Speaker 7: but we went out there on Sunday with a fresh mind.
29:23
Speaker 6: Hungry mind. We knew what we had to do.
29:26
Speaker 7: And you know it's put us you know, the win
29:27
Speaker 7: put us in position to close everything out this Sunday.
29:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that now it's up against a must win
29:32
Speaker 2: scenario this Sunday for the Jags. And how has the
29:36
Speaker 2: response been so far in the meetings in the locker.
29:38
Speaker 3: Room this week?
29:39
Speaker 6: I mean's championship week?
29:41
Speaker 7: You know it can't you know, obviously that's a goal
29:44
Speaker 7: of ours since the beginning of the years. Won the
29:46
Speaker 7: division And honestly, if you said, if you told us
29:49
Speaker 7: that it'd come down to the last week again, I mean,
29:52
Speaker 7: you know, where else will we want to be?
29:54
Speaker 6: So we're pumped about it. We're excited.
29:56
Speaker 7: Like I said, the win that you know this past
29:58
Speaker 7: Sunday was big for us, and you know, definitely looking
30:01
Speaker 7: forward to moving forward, going to win in Nashville and
30:04
Speaker 7: you come home with a division.
30:06
Speaker 2: I know you're a team guy, but you went over
30:08
Speaker 2: one hundred receptions last week. Second player ever in Jaguars
30:10
Speaker 2: history to do that. Jimmy Smith did it twice in
30:13
Speaker 2: his career. What does that mean to you? The history
30:16
Speaker 2: part of some of the stats you're starting to hit now.
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Speaker 7: It means a lot. You know, I'm in this game
30:21
Speaker 7: to win. Definitely want to win championships and contribute to that.
30:25
Speaker 7: Also leave a legacy, and I think you know, the
30:29
Speaker 7: numbers and the stats and the accolades.
30:31
Speaker 6: You know, that's part of it.
30:32
Speaker 7: And obviously I'm very very excited to you know, leave
30:36
Speaker 7: my mark on the game definitely as long as winning
30:39
Speaker 7: is along with it too. So you know we've been
30:41
Speaker 7: doing that here. Obviously you have our adversities, but just
30:44
Speaker 7: being a part of a winning culture, you know, making
30:46
Speaker 7: a you know, leaving a mark on the league and
30:48
Speaker 7: my team and history definitely means a lot.
30:51
Speaker 2: I don't know where you were in nineteen ninety eight
30:53
Speaker 2: or nineteen ninety nine, Probably a little guy, right, So.
30:55
Speaker 7: I'll still run around catching balls. I was, I was
30:58
Speaker 7: running around somewhere.
30:59
Speaker 3: He was only beginning.
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Speaker 2: That was the last time the Jaguar and the only
31:01
Speaker 2: time the Jaguars won back to back division titles. That
31:05
Speaker 2: would mean something, certainly for this franchise in this division
31:08
Speaker 2: to get that done in back to back years, right.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, we came here with a goal to
31:13
Speaker 7: obviously change things around here, and you know we're on
31:17
Speaker 7: our way, and Sundays another big step in that and
31:20
Speaker 7: definitely definitely gotta get this one. This one means a
31:23
Speaker 7: lot for us, our team and obviously this organization.
31:26
Speaker 2: That is Evan Ingram Jaguars tied end in the locker
31:29
Speaker 2: room yesterday and Jeff Flogamen back with us.
31:32
Speaker 3: Now.
31:34
Speaker 2: You know, we've had the good fortune actually over the
31:37
Speaker 2: last little while here. You know, even going back to
31:39
Speaker 2: the twenty seventeen days of having some free agent hits,
31:44
Speaker 2: it's not often you have that many hits. Like in
31:47
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen. Kalais was great, Believe Jackson was really good.
31:51
Speaker 2: The back end of the defense had moments where they
31:53
Speaker 2: were really good. Just to name a few of those guys. Well,
31:57
Speaker 2: in this regard, I mean, Evan Inger is right up
32:01
Speaker 2: there has to be close to one of the top
32:04
Speaker 2: free agent signings in JAG's history. Kalais is probably the
32:06
Speaker 2: number one in my opinion, but Evan is trending the
32:09
Speaker 2: right way to go, maybe overtake him with some of
32:11
Speaker 2: the numbers he's putting up. I think you could argue
32:14
Speaker 2: that that class, that year's free agent class as a whole,
32:19
Speaker 2: is the best in Jaguars history ever. Right you're talking
32:23
Speaker 2: to Evan Ingram's a Jones, Christian Kirk that you all
32:26
Speaker 2: brought in and credit to Trent Balky because that was
32:30
Speaker 2: the year that you said, Okay, we have a rookie
32:33
Speaker 2: quarterback and we need to make sure that we surround
32:35
Speaker 2: him with people that are willing to work. Because with
32:39
Speaker 2: a young quarterback, if you have veteran guys that are
32:43
Speaker 2: not willing to put the work in the time in,
32:45
Speaker 2: it's hard for a quarterback to generate a rapport.
32:48
Speaker 3: With people that are not about practicing, you know what
32:53
Speaker 3: I mean. Iverson, Yes, yeah, so, but definitely Evan's watching
32:59
Speaker 3: him in practice is amazing. I mean literally you can
33:03
Speaker 3: watch him in practice. Calvin Ridley practices unbelievably hard. Christian Kirk,
33:10
Speaker 3: I mean, these guys are some of the hardest working
33:13
Speaker 3: guys that you watch him practice, and it's just like
33:16
Speaker 3: I wish I had some of that work ethic, the
33:18
Speaker 3: practice work ethic that they had when I played, because
33:22
Speaker 3: it's it's impressive to watch every day. The attention to detail,
33:25
Speaker 3: the attention to detail on every rep is fun to watch.
33:30
Speaker 2: Let's say you in training camp, the first guy out
33:33
Speaker 2: on the field is usually him and or Ross mattisk
33:37
Speaker 2: The long snapper. By the way, congratulations to Ross who's
33:41
Speaker 2: a Pro Bowl long snapper. Heck of a player now.
33:44
Speaker 2: But Evan is out there early. He has his pre
33:49
Speaker 2: practice routine. He goes involves it to a t every
33:52
Speaker 2: single time out.
33:53
Speaker 3: Have you watched him in pregame? I have not, because
33:56
Speaker 3: you're you're usually on the air, on the air in
33:59
Speaker 3: the studio. Evan Ingram has a routine that he goes
34:02
Speaker 3: through every game. He goes out there, he catches tennis balls.
34:06
Speaker 3: He puts on these it's like goggles that have these
34:11
Speaker 3: flashing lights. And so the whole idea is that you
34:16
Speaker 3: it makes you focus on catching the ball with all
34:19
Speaker 3: these distractions. I guess that could that happen while you're
34:24
Speaker 3: wearing these goggles. And but it's not just that. I
34:28
Speaker 3: mean his his preparation and pregame it's very similar to
34:33
Speaker 3: Paul Puslesni. So his pregame workout routine was exhaust I
34:37
Speaker 3: got tired watching medicine balls. Like medicine balls. I mean,
34:43
Speaker 3: he's got a full blown sweat and I'm just going,
34:44
Speaker 3: wait a minute, okay, that's that's like, okay, I'm done
34:47
Speaker 3: for the day. Go hit the shower and Paul's going
34:51
Speaker 3: in to put on his game uniform. How does he
34:53
Speaker 3: do that? Evan doesn't have to that extent as far
34:57
Speaker 3: as the physical stuff, but the methodical way that he
35:02
Speaker 3: goes about preparing for a game is consistent week in
35:05
Speaker 3: and week out, and it's impressive to watch. And let
35:08
Speaker 3: me go back to Mattisik. Yes, real quick, yes, congratulations
35:12
Speaker 3: to Ross. He and I brought this up a couple
35:15
Speaker 3: of weeks ago. The highest rated special teams player in
35:20
Speaker 3: the National Football League according to Pro Football Focus PFF,
35:25
Speaker 3: and he's been there for weeks, weeks, weeks literally, I
35:29
Speaker 3: think it was like a since week. The first time
35:33
Speaker 3: I really looked was like week eight or nine, and
35:36
Speaker 3: he was the number one special teams player from that
35:39
Speaker 3: point on all the way through the end of the season.
35:42
Speaker 3: So kudos to him. Kudos to him because he's an
35:48
Speaker 3: excellent coverage guy and a lot of times, the only
35:52
Speaker 3: time you notice the snappers when they have an errant
35:54
Speaker 3: snap or a bad snap that ends up in some
35:57
Speaker 3: kind of turnover or a bad hold or whatever. None
36:02
Speaker 3: of that happened, but we've noticed Ross because of his
36:05
Speaker 3: exceptional play, caused a fumbile recovered to Fumbill got the
36:08
Speaker 3: trifecta on that one particular play, but week in and
36:12
Speaker 3: week out, he is a guy that draws extra attention
36:16
Speaker 3: from the opponents. Their effort to block him is there's
36:20
Speaker 3: a lot of respect there and he still wins and
36:23
Speaker 3: he still makes tackles. Kudos to him.
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Speaker 2: Food tastes better when it's grown closer to home. JP, Shadwick,
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Speaker 2: Jeff Logoman, the Jaguars and the Titans coming up Nissan Stadium,
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Speaker 2: Nashville to site one o'clock Sunday, Week eighteen, and I'll
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Speaker 2: win for the Jaguars would secure the AFC South title
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Speaker 2: for the second year in a row, and just talking
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Speaker 2: to Evian Ingram last segment about that, you know it
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Speaker 2: wouldn't mean something to this franchise in a big way.
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Speaker 2: It's only happened one other time in franchise history in
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Speaker 2: the late nineties to win it back to back. And
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Speaker 2: if you want to stake your claim as of ownership
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Speaker 2: in this division, that's a way to do it, is
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Speaker 2: to win year over year consistently and continue to grow
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Speaker 2: that long streak. And they have a chance to do
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Speaker 2: that Sunday.
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Speaker 3: But it's never been done in AFC South correct history
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Speaker 3: for this team, no, So it kind of makes it
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Speaker 3: a special opportunity for this football team to be the
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Speaker 3: first team to ever do that in back to back
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Speaker 3: since you had the relignment of the divisions and all
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Speaker 3: of that. I think this football team is ready for
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Speaker 3: the challenge, and I think they're going to take great
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Speaker 3: pride and in this ball game and Tennessee. If things
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Speaker 3: can go well for them early, I think it will
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Speaker 3: be a very tight game. If the Jaguars are able
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Speaker 3: to have some success early in this ball game, it's
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Speaker 3: easy to pack your bags. JP ken Kuhn's just a
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Speaker 3: day away. In some cases, the bags are already packed,
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Speaker 3: so to speak, for teams that are in the position
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Speaker 3: that the Tennessee Titans are in. And unfortunately, I've been
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Speaker 3: in that position a few times, and so there's plenty
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Speaker 3: of guys on those teams that I played on that
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Speaker 3: we're looking out for Numero uno in that game. Don't
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Speaker 3: let me get hurt business decisions. I'm not going to
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Speaker 3: be jumping into that fray over there because I don't
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Speaker 3: want to risk injury because this game doesn't mean anything
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Speaker 3: for us, So they choose not to stick their nose
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Speaker 3: in certain things. Could that be the case for the
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Speaker 3: Tennessee Titans, as much as people want to talk about
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Speaker 3: this football team, would love nothing better than to spoil
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Speaker 3: the opportunity in the day for the Jacksonville Jaguars. I
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Speaker 3: will counter with this, there's a lot of guys that
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Speaker 3: are on that football team of the Tennessee Titans that
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Speaker 3: don't have any clue about the history between these two teams, correct,
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Speaker 3: and all they're worried about is making sure that they
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Speaker 3: get through the day kind of feeling good and healthy.
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Speaker 2: You know what, They started the season with half the
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Speaker 2: roster overturned at the start of the year, so a
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Speaker 2: lot of those players weren't even involved in.
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Speaker 3: Last year's meltdown, and the number of players that they
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Speaker 3: have on injured reserve this year meaningful players is pretty dramatic.
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Speaker 3: But you have to be prepared as if they are
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Speaker 3: coming ready to play, they are going to be out
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Speaker 3: there the best. Their head coach is going to have
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Speaker 3: him ready to play.
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Speaker 2: Which he'll Yeah, he'll do as much as he can.
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Speaker 2: You know, like Mike Raple, he's funny.
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Speaker 3: He was asked a question about something about what's the
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Speaker 3: motivation of playing well in this last game and he
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Speaker 3: gave uh, he gave a pretty good answer, and it
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Speaker 3: was very colorful. It was to say the least had
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Speaker 3: a little bit of language that was involved in it.
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Speaker 3: But I like Mike Rabel. I think he's a good
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Speaker 3: football coach and he's spot on. When you watch his
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Speaker 3: press conferences. He can be very entertaining. At the same time,
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Speaker 3: he can be a little Belichick esque. I think it
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Speaker 3: would be a good way to describe it. A little
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Speaker 3: salty but entertaining. It would be entertaining to uh. He
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Speaker 3: fired his special teams coordinator this year season. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 3: And Craig Auckerman, who I like Ackerman. He was around here.
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Speaker 3: Mike fired him. He was around here. He's a he's
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Speaker 3: been around here. He was a coach here with the Jaguars.
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Speaker 3: Super nice guy, super nice guy, and a good football coach.
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Speaker 3: Very surprised at Mike Rabel let him go.
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Speaker 3: Already? Well, I'm glad to hear that.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. The Doug Peterson Show continues right now.
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Speaker 2: Jeff Logoman, the Jaguars and the Tennessee Titans coming up
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Speaker 2: in Week eighteen in Nashville a one o'clock kickoff time.
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Speaker 2: The Jaguars, of course, won against Tennessee last year in
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Speaker 2: the final week of the season here in Jacksonville to
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Speaker 2: win the AFC South, and the South has had a
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Speaker 2: team clinch a playoff berth in the final week of
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Speaker 2: a season now in six of the last seven years,
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Speaker 2: including this season, and that dates back to twenty seventeen.
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Speaker 3: The most of any division in the National Football League.
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Speaker 2: So people can fire off jokes about the AFC South
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Speaker 2: nationally and all that, but when it comes down to it,
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Speaker 2: there's some competitive ball at the end of the season,
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Speaker 2: and I believe.
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Speaker 3: That this division is going to be one of the
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Speaker 3: best in football in the future. With Trevor Lawrence c J. Stroud,
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Speaker 3: Levis possibly Indianapolis, who knows a little bit of a
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Speaker 3: wild card there, Yeah, if he gets back and healthy
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Speaker 3: and right, but yeah, I mean, just right now, looking
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Speaker 3: at Trevor and CJ. Stroud, I think is this is
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Speaker 3: going to be a tough division every year, battling with
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Speaker 3: the top quarterbacks. Two of the top quarterbacks in the
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Speaker 3: National Football League. Who do you like in the Texans
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Speaker 3: Colts game? By the way, Texans? I think so. You know,
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Speaker 3: I watched the Texans play Tennessee this past week and Houston.
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Speaker 3: They just had no problem. And Houston right now is
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Speaker 3: playing with a lot of confidence, i'd say, with their
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Speaker 3: quarterback is playing and again he throws the ball so effortless,
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Speaker 3: it's amazing. It's just a flick of the wrist and
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Speaker 3: he's hitting a twenty yard out that's just effortless. And
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Speaker 3: this past game you watch Bryce Young to try to
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Speaker 3: throw a twenty yard out. It's everything he takes to
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Speaker 3: do that. And I don't know what the future holds
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Speaker 3: for both of these quarterbacks, but with the eye test,
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Speaker 3: that would have been an easy decision for me to make.
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Speaker 3: It would have been c J.
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Speaker 2: Stroud Sunday ten am in Jacksonville for the public's tailgate
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Speaker 2: Jaguars Radio Network coverage of Countdown to Kickoff ahead of
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Speaker 2: week eighteen one o'clock kickoff time in Nashville. Or thanks
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Speaker 2: to Joe Fortunato, Brent Reever, or thanks to Evan Ingram
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Speaker 2: head coach Doug Peterson for Jeff Logoman, I'm JP Shadwick.
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