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Kenny Albert On NFL Being A Week To Week League And QB Comparison In Week 8 | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: With the call the Packers Jaguars matchup the NFL on Fox.
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  Speaker 1: Kenny Albert the Great joining us again. Nice to see it, Kenny,
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  Speaker 1: and here we are with gotta have it games for
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars moving ahead here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, great to be with you, JP. Welcome back from London.
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  Speaker 2: Excited to head down to Jacksonville. It's been a couple
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  Speaker 2: of years and should be a good one against the
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  Speaker 2: Packers this Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Packers five and two, Jaguars on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of it, two and five. But let's start off with
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars road ahead here. The next five opponents are
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  Speaker 1: against teams with winning records. For of those are NFC contenders.
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  Speaker 1: Three of those are in the NFC North. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is a gauntlet of sorts for the Jaguars here.
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  Speaker 1: How do they manage that and still kind of maintain
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  Speaker 1: the week to week presence. You've got to get a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these games to even have a chance.
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  Speaker 2: Right, you know the old adage you have to only
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  Speaker 2: look out at one game at a time. And the
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  Speaker 2: NFC North has been terrific so far this season. Our
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  Speaker 2: crew had the Vikings Week one and they were very
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  Speaker 2: impressive against the Giants, and obviously went on a roll
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  Speaker 2: from there. We were in Chicago a couple of weeks ago,
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  Speaker 2: I saw Caleb Williams in person for the first time,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bears off to a terrific start. Obviously Detroit
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  Speaker 2: and the Packers. So it's the best division in football record.
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  Speaker 3: Why so far?
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  Speaker 2: But again from a Jaguar standpoint, you just have to
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  Speaker 2: take it one game at a time. We happened to
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  Speaker 2: work the Atlanta Seattle game last Sunday. Going into that game,
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  Speaker 2: the Falcons had won three straight, they were on a roll.
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  Speaker 2: The Seahawks had lost three in a row. And Seattle
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  Speaker 2: goes into Atlanta on the road and wins the game
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  Speaker 2: pretty handily. So, as you know, in the NFL, you
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  Speaker 2: just never know on a week to week basis.
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  Speaker 1: You never know week to week league for sure, Kenny.
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  Speaker 1: You know there's two fifty five million dollars a year
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks going at it, and Jordan Love is the only
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  Speaker 1: one of like the top five or six highest big
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks with a winning record this year. So a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these guys around the league are struggling. Why is
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Love the one? And especially since coming off the
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  Speaker 1: knee injury, it seems like he's taking a step up.
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  Speaker 2: He certainly has, and you have to be impressed with
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  Speaker 2: what Love was able to do last season, coming in
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  Speaker 2: after sitting for a couple of years, which isn't necessarily
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  Speaker 2: a bad thing. Jonathan Fillman and I were just talking
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  Speaker 2: about this last week. Yes, there were many quarterbacks we've
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  Speaker 2: seen over the last ten or fifteen years who have
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  Speaker 2: stepped in right away and had success. But when you
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  Speaker 2: think back to some of the others, with Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 2: sitting behind Brett Faarr for three years and watching and learning,
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  Speaker 2: and then the same thing in Green Bay a decade
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  Speaker 2: and a half later with Love sitting behind Rogers. Drew
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  Speaker 2: Brees did not start his first year in San Diego,
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  Speaker 2: sat behind Doug Flutie. Eli Manning did not start until
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  Speaker 2: midway through his rookie season, sat behind Kurt Warner. There
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  Speaker 2: are several other examples. You know, you don't see it
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  Speaker 2: as much these days. A lot of the young quarterbacks
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  Speaker 2: do start right away. But Love coming in last year,
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  Speaker 2: did a terrific job. This season, suffered the injury early,
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  Speaker 2: Malik Willis comes in and wins two games, so they
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  Speaker 2: go to and Ozero with him, and like you said,
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  Speaker 2: Love does have a winning record. He's thrown fifteen touchdowns
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  Speaker 2: despite missing the two games, which is among the league leaders.
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  Speaker 2: Has also thrown some interceptions. But the Packers off to
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  Speaker 2: a five and two start, and.
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  Speaker 3: They spread it around too.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's not just one or two guys getting
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  Speaker 1: the football from Jordan, right, I mean they get it
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  Speaker 1: all over the field.
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  Speaker 3: It feels like, no, they really have.
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  Speaker 2: You know, their coaching staff does a terrific job. They
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  Speaker 2: have so many offensive weapons, and then defensively they've forced
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  Speaker 2: the most takeaways. They have seventeen over the first seven games.
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  Speaker 2: Xavier McKinney coming over from the Giants five interceptions, had
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  Speaker 2: at least one at each of the first five games.
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  Speaker 2: So they're getting it done on both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jyre, Alexander, he'll tell you about it after he
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  Speaker 1: does it to you and then tell you about it again.
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  Speaker 1: This is kind of have that swagger on defense that
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  Speaker 1: you like to see if it's on your side, but
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  Speaker 1: not on the others. So let's now go to the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars offense against this group this week, and they ran
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  Speaker 1: the football. They ran the daylights out of it at
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  Speaker 1: Wimbley last week. I guess the question is that sustainable.
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  Speaker 1: Can they Is the Jags offensive line ready for this matchup,
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  Speaker 1: and can they do this week over week? They only
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  Speaker 1: have I mean, they may not have ETN this week,
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  Speaker 1: but Tank Bisby seems to be taking a step in
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  Speaker 1: the right direction right.
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  Speaker 2: He certainly does. And this will be the first time
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  Speaker 2: that I'll get to see the Jacks in person. You're
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  Speaker 2: a lot closer to the situation, but from a Jaguar standpoint,
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  Speaker 2: you hope that you can keep that up.
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  Speaker 3: You hope that you get ETN back soon.
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  Speaker 2: I've always been an Evan Ingram fan when he was
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  Speaker 2: in New York, both his receiving and blocking skills. Excited
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  Speaker 2: to see Trevor Lawrence in person for the first time
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  Speaker 2: this year, so it should be a fun game.
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  Speaker 1: They've got young guys that are making big plays. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Brian Thomas junior down the field three plus three catches
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  Speaker 1: of fifty plus yards this year, and Tank, who we
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  Speaker 1: talked about, Vintrel Miller, young linebacker's been playing well. When
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  Speaker 1: you have young guys stepping up in a role and
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  Speaker 1: playing big, certainly good for this year, but for the
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  Speaker 1: future ahead. To have those cornerstone guys that doesn't happen
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  Speaker 1: a lot. So they have multiple guys, three guys, four
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  Speaker 1: guys doing that as big for this team.
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  Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, that's exciting to see when you watch the
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  Speaker 2: development of a franchise with draft picks, homegrown talent. And
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  Speaker 2: I know in speaking with my partner Jonathan Vilma, he's
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  Speaker 2: certainly excited to see some of those young guys, especially
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  Speaker 2: on the defensive side. And you know, we're about halfway
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  Speaker 2: through the preparation now as we speak, but we had
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  Speaker 2: a conference call with our crew yesterday and we'll speak
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  Speaker 2: to players and coaches on both teams.
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  Speaker 3: So really excited to see some of those young guys.
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  Speaker 3: This Sunday, Kenny.
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  Speaker 1: Albert with US Fox Sports Final Moments with You here.
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  Speaker 1: Doug Peterson's perspective on a start like this, they've done
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  Speaker 1: this before. I mean two years ago they were awful
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  Speaker 1: and then they started reeling off games the Titans came
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  Speaker 1: back down to him. So his approach is, hey, just
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  Speaker 1: look at two years ago, guys, we can do this thing.
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  Speaker 1: So to have that experience has to be valuable for
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  Speaker 1: head coach Doug Peterson going into this setup.
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  Speaker 3: Doug is so.
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  Speaker 2: Even keeled and he has a championship pedigree, obviously, having
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  Speaker 2: won a Super Bowl with Philadelphia, it was on some
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  Speaker 2: terrific teams in Green Bay coaching against his former one
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  Speaker 2: of his former teams this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Long time back up to Brett Favre.
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  Speaker 2: Not only within a season, JP, but you know, you
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  Speaker 2: look at that playoff game a couple of years ago,
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  Speaker 2: the twenty seven point come back against the Charges, right,
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  Speaker 2: So they've done it in a season, They've done it
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  Speaker 2: in a game. This team isn't far removed from playing
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  Speaker 2: in the Divisional round and keeping it close against Kansas City.
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  Speaker 2: So you know you mentioned the schedule. When you look
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  Speaker 2: at it in that perspective, playing against all these NFC
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  Speaker 2: Nord teams, it could be a daunting task. But when
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  Speaker 2: they focus on the task at hand, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I know it's been a long trip obviously the two
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  Speaker 2: games in London.
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  Speaker 3: Now back home to face the Packers this Sunday, but.
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  Speaker 2: You know who knows win this week against Green Bay
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  Speaker 2: that could springboard them to some of the similar success
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  Speaker 2: that they had a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Four first half interceptions in the playoff game. That's bad
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  Speaker 1: for everybody's health. I mean mine included yours, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's not something you want to see, but they somehow
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  Speaker 1: overcame that and got the win that day. Keetty, great
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  Speaker 1: to see. I know it's kind of mixed seasons for
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  Speaker 1: you right now. Hockey's starting up, right you get a
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  Speaker 1: lot going on.
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  Speaker 2: It is that time of the year, fun time of
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  Speaker 2: the year, with a bit of a jigsaw puzzle of
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  Speaker 2: a schedule and a lot of travel. But can't wait
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  Speaker 2: to get down to Jacksonville thanks to the time Man.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks JP, appreciate it.