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Jags Broadcast Week in Review: October 8 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Jaguars Broadcast Weekend Review podcast presented by
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Speaker 1: Today is Friday, October eight, a strange and important week
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Speaker 1: around t I a a. Bank Field this week, and
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Speaker 1: we have the best of the week around Jaguars Broadcasting
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Speaker 1: and Jaguars dot Com, including head coach Urban Meyer's initial
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Speaker 1: response to shot con statement and reaction to the week
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Speaker 1: from Trevor Lawrence and Josh Allen. Remember to subscribe to
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Speaker 1: around the Jags this week, the reaction to the viral
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Speaker 1: videos and photos of head coach Urban Meyer from last weekend.
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Speaker 1: Jaguars owners shot Con released a statement midday Tuesday, saying
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Speaker 1: in part that the conduct from the last weekend was
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Speaker 1: inexcusable and that Meyer must regain trust and respect, requiring
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Speaker 1: a personal commitment. Just over five hours after that statement
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Speaker 1: was released, Meyer responded for the first time on the
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Speaker 1: Urban Meyer Show on the Jaguars Radio Network along with
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Speaker 1: Jaguars head coach Urban Meyer. Coach how how difficult were
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Speaker 1: the conversations the last couple of days and what is
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Speaker 1: your reaction initially to Mr Kahn's statement, The conversations have
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Speaker 1: been horrible. It's UH. I owned the mistake that I
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Speaker 1: made was a UH. I've always looked at the job
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Speaker 1: of a coach for thirty plus years that I've done
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Speaker 1: this is to you know everything you can possibly do
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Speaker 1: to make your players comfortable play the game that sports performance.
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Speaker 1: I give everybody the best possible situation. You put him
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Speaker 1: in a good scheme, he put a good group of
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Speaker 1: assistant coaches around him in a safe environment, and then
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Speaker 1: get out of the way. And I didn't do that.
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Speaker 1: I became a distraction, made a stupid decision, and I
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Speaker 1: apologize to it. I certainly understand our owner Mr. Kahn
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Speaker 1: has been fantastic since the day I met him, and
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Speaker 1: I apologize them as well. And and UH have to
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Speaker 1: move forward and regained the trust and and uh are
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Speaker 1: our players. I had conversation with our players. They were
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Speaker 1: good with their leaders and UM so very good. But
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Speaker 1: and our staff has been UH. Just moving forward. We
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Speaker 1: got a big game to play and and UH, I
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Speaker 1: apologize to being distraction urban the locker room is a
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Speaker 1: very unique place, one that that I was in for
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Speaker 1: quite some time, and it can be tough to regain
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Speaker 1: respect and trust in that locker room. How do you
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Speaker 1: go about that, Jeff? The locker room has been my
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Speaker 1: entire life. That's all I've ever looked at. I've always
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Speaker 1: you know, some even other coaches. When I was a
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Speaker 1: young coach, I said, you know, when I'd hear conversations
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Speaker 1: among coaching staff, and I would always say that there's
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Speaker 1: only one thing that matters in this whole facility organization,
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Speaker 1: and that's the locker room. You know, how we build it,
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Speaker 1: how we treat it, how we earn their trust, how
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Speaker 1: we you know, that goes back to the culture of
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Speaker 1: excellence I called around here, is how do we make
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Speaker 1: sure we give them everything possible. You know, I made
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Speaker 1: the comments, but I don't think are when I hear
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Speaker 1: our players would have to go out and get sports
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Speaker 1: performance and you know, we should do this all right
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Speaker 1: here for them. So we've earned their trust in that respect.
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Speaker 1: I know that for a fact. Now, the fact that
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Speaker 1: I became a distraction, I've got to earn their trust
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Speaker 1: back from that, and that that's not an easy thing.
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Speaker 1: To do. How long do you expect something like that
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Speaker 1: to take. I mean, the locker room is certainly one
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Speaker 1: that can be very forgiving at times and at other
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Speaker 1: times they can be not. Every locker room is different,
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Speaker 1: Every team is different. I've told people with teams of
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Speaker 1: living organisms, and it's UH driven obviously by a culture
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Speaker 1: and driven by leaders. I believe we have a very
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Speaker 1: strong culture. I know we have incredible leaders, but this
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Speaker 1: one's on me UH to go out and coach my
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Speaker 1: very best, give them everything possible that I could do
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Speaker 1: to help them have success. Coach. During that statement, Mr
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Speaker 1: Khan said, the personal commitment to everyone who supports, represents,
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Speaker 1: or plays for the Jaguars. What does that mean to
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Speaker 1: you personally? Well, it means you know. I made a
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Speaker 1: comment when I got here about the logo about an
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Speaker 1: owner who UH wants to win in the worst way.
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Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons I came here. I just
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Speaker 1: I admire the guys so much and his his UH
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Speaker 1: drive is is in the purest form and it's for Jacksonville.
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Speaker 1: And so that's what makes me so angry at myself
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Speaker 1: that I've lived that. I believe that, and I failed,
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Speaker 1: and I got to get it back, and I will
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Speaker 1: irvan with this distraction trying to get the team refocused
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Speaker 1: on a game in Tennessee. The players are going to
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Speaker 1: get questions throughout the week, I'm sure, not only from
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Speaker 1: local media, but national media and also the visiting teams media.
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Speaker 1: How do you try to attempt to kind of focus
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Speaker 1: away from the distraction to get a team ready to
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Speaker 1: play football game? Uh? Once again, I I don't believe
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Speaker 1: that's in my court and we're going to do the best.
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Speaker 1: But you know this, Jeff, as well as anyone, that
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Speaker 1: the leaders on their team are gonna make that decision um,
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Speaker 1: and it depends how much trust you have built up
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Speaker 1: with them. How we structure everything this week and and
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Speaker 1: focus on winning that game. So I'm gonna be as
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Speaker 1: extremely clear as I can. Our staff is working their
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Speaker 1: tails off, but you know as well as I do
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Speaker 1: that the owner, the ownership of this team is with
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Speaker 1: the players. The Fuller been Meyer Show, available on the
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Speaker 1: Official Jaguars podcast network onto Wednesday, and the reaction from
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Speaker 1: quarterback Trevor Lawrence as the team tried to turn the
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Speaker 1: focus to football. I feel like the team has been
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Speaker 1: the exact same we've had. We had like a half
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Speaker 1: day Monday. We were off yesterday and then obviously today
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Speaker 1: we were kind of back full speed. So, um, I
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Speaker 1: think everything's been right on schedule, like like normal. I
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Speaker 1: think we've operated well. Um at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: I can speak for myself for sure, and I think
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Speaker 1: or I know most of the team feels this way.
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Speaker 1: He's still he's still my head coach. I still respect
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Speaker 1: him regardless of what happens. Like I said, we're a
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Speaker 1: team and we're figuring it out. So UM, yeah, we're all.
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Speaker 1: We're all good. We had a great day of practice
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Speaker 1: today and we're all still working. Lot of distractions this
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Speaker 1: week and off the field conversation. How focused for you
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Speaker 1: guys on the Titans. We're focused like that. That hasn't changed. Um,
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Speaker 1: when we get out there, it's it's time to work.
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Speaker 1: Our meetings have been great, communication has been really good. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: we're coming off a tough one in Cincinnati. Again, we
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Speaker 1: felt like we should have won that we had. You know,
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Speaker 1: we were in at the whole game, and um, I
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Speaker 1: just gotta get better at finishing. And that's where you know,
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Speaker 1: we're looking to make an improvement this week. And I
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Speaker 1: feel like every week, we've gotten better. So I'm just
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Speaker 1: excited to put another full game together and go finish it.
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Speaker 1: A similar response from defensive end in linebacker Josh Allen.
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Speaker 1: We're locked in. Uh. You know. Once as soon as
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Speaker 1: we step in the building, menis football. You know, I
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Speaker 1: saw all the distractions that everybody's dealing with at home whatever.
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Speaker 1: As soon as you step into the facility, man, it's
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Speaker 1: all about football. It's all about it's all about the team,
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Speaker 1: and it's all about winning preparation. So as soon as
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Speaker 1: you stepp in this buildings, since we all step into building,
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Speaker 1: you know, our our main focus is Titans. And uh
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Speaker 1: we've kept that and that's where our mind's at and
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Speaker 1: that's what we had and that's what we're gonna be
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Speaker 1: the Sunday. What happened and you no, like I said, man,
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Speaker 1: as soon as you step in the building, man, we
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Speaker 1: talked about what's about football? Yeah? He yes, he apologized
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Speaker 1: today again, you know what I mean. Uh, you know
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Speaker 1: we all have really appreciate him, but we all know
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Speaker 1: we all got a job to do. You know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. He is owned it, you know what I mean,
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Speaker 1: And just like we all do. You know what I mean,
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Speaker 1: so he's a great coach, he's a great man, and
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Speaker 1: he's gonna bounce back, and we're all gonna bounce back.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna play even harder for him, you know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. So you know, we're ready to play man,
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Speaker 1: and he got our back and we're gonna have his back.
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Speaker 1: So that's how we're going. NFL Network analyst Bucky Brooks
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Speaker 1: joins John Osan and me each Wednesday afternoon for huddle
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Speaker 1: up with Bucky Brooks. It was our first conversation with
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Speaker 1: Bucky since the score boards showing phone calls after the game. Bucky, Good, afternoon.
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Speaker 1: It's been an eventful few days since we've last spoken,
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Speaker 1: and that now it's it's onto Tennessee. Yeah, it's on
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Speaker 1: the Tennessee. Look, it's been a very eventful a few days.
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Speaker 1: A lot of things going on around Jacksonville. But I
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Speaker 1: think right now when you get the Wednesday, uh, it's
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Speaker 1: the heavy work day when it comes to the team,
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Speaker 1: I think what you're trying to do is get all
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Speaker 1: odds ready for Sunday, getting ready for the Tennessee Titans,
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Speaker 1: and you put everything that's into rear view, you leave
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Speaker 1: it in the rear view, you move forward. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: all about moving ahead, John, getting getting onto Tennessee and
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Speaker 1: trying to put this thing behind them. It hasn't been
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Speaker 1: as easy the last couple of days to do that,
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Speaker 1: but now it's it's focused time what it is and
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Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll get into some of the details later.
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Speaker 1: But you know, I have a statement in a question
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Speaker 1: for the scout. You know, we're not actually for the scout.
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Speaker 1: This is for the former player. From a media standpoint,
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Speaker 1: In twenty seven years doing this, I've never gotten a
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Speaker 1: huge impression that off field distractions are as big a
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Speaker 1: deal as we like to talk about. That players typically
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Speaker 1: come in, they do their job, they're going to practice,
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Speaker 1: and there's not a whole lot on the practice field
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Speaker 1: or in the meeting room except for concentrating on the game.
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Speaker 1: Am I No, I think that is it? UM. I
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Speaker 1: think the story is I'm gonna try and see it
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Speaker 1: in in terms that won't necessarily get me in trouble,
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Speaker 1: but I think the story is a little overblown for
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Speaker 1: what it really is. UM. I think people can have
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Speaker 1: different opinions on where the coaches um in line when
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Speaker 1: it comes to them his morals and all the other stuff,
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Speaker 1: that's one thing. But when it comes to coaching the team,
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Speaker 1: I think, depending on how he addressed the team when
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Speaker 1: he returned, I think this is something that they can
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Speaker 1: move on for and maybe even be galvanized um by
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Speaker 1: the actions because look the the fallout and all of
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Speaker 1: the other stuff that has come out. Um, I don't
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Speaker 1: know if if the punishment necessarily meets the crime when
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Speaker 1: it comes to the level of criticism and all of
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Speaker 1: this other stuff. And so I think, depending upon how
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Speaker 1: vulnerable coaches with the team, I think this could be
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Speaker 1: a moment where look, man, they kind of pull it
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Speaker 1: together and maybe just maybe with the concert traded effort
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Speaker 1: on the practice field and then the way they played
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Speaker 1: the game, maybe you end up seeing the Jaguars playing
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Speaker 1: really really well because prior to the stuff that happened
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Speaker 1: over the weekend. On Thursday night, the team played fairly well.
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Speaker 1: Couldn't finish the deal, but it was probably the best
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Speaker 1: effort that we've seen from the Jaguars. And so if
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Speaker 1: you look at the way the team has progressed over
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Speaker 1: the four weeks, each and every week they've gotten better.
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Speaker 1: So the anticipation would be a they would continue to
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Speaker 1: get better with a mini bye week in between, huddle
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Speaker 1: Pete Prisco, Tony Boselli and I got into a discussion
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Speaker 1: of some former Jags playing big and the current state
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Speaker 1: of the wide receiver room. I think when you're things
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Speaker 1: are going your way, you look for every little thing.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's like the Quincy Williams this weekend for
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Speaker 1: the Jets playing like he's you know, he was incredible yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Well he was also what they do a lot better.
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Speaker 1: He's flashing all over the field. Fifty six and Green
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Speaker 1: is like flying everywhere. Doesn't running around hitting people and
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Speaker 1: getting sacks. I think you can do it pretty much
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Speaker 1: any defense. Okay, but let's you say, let's just say
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Speaker 1: he was on this team, where would you play him?
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Speaker 1: I didn't play him in the middle, right, he's not
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Speaker 1: that big. He's not that big. Yeah, you could. I mean,
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Speaker 1: why couldn't you play with Nickel? Why couldn't you play
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Speaker 1: him in Miles, Zack and Nicole? You could, so he'd
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Speaker 1: be the nickel linebacker then, I mean, look, I would.
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Speaker 1: Here's the thing. This was a team that talked about
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Speaker 1: doing nothing but trying to get faster. And they kind
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Speaker 1: of fast, speady linebacker and a fast speadi receiver who
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Speaker 1: had three catches for ninety yards the average thirty yards
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Speaker 1: and catch yesterday. You know that was JP. Yeah, big
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Speaker 1: catching overtime they put them but they left. But still,
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Speaker 1: why don't you keep him? Colin Johnson had five catches
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Speaker 1: for the Giants. He's not a fast guy. He wasn't
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Speaker 1: a fast guy. He was a tall guy. He's not
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Speaker 1: a fast guy. But okay, trot out, and who's gonna
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Speaker 1: start up wide receiver this week? That's a good question.
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Speaker 1: There's two. There's two that could be on the field.
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Speaker 1: That's really all right now because DJ Shark's on injured
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Speaker 1: reserve of the fractured ankle and a state of affairs
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Speaker 1: roll on offense. One thing that shows up weekend in
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Speaker 1: week out. No matter what is the lack of speed outside,
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Speaker 1: it shows up in the way everybody plays them, and
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a season long problem. You can't fix it.
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Speaker 1: Can't fix that now. You gotta fix that in the
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Speaker 1: draft and free agency. You can't fix that right now,
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Speaker 1: no way. Even the kid we got from the Chargers, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he could run. Why don't they? Why doesn't he play?
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Speaker 1: He got a couple of snaps? Yeah, Tyron Johnson got
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Speaker 1: some snaps the other day. Tara Johnson got a couple
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Speaker 1: of steps. Where do you get like ten parl snaps
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Speaker 1: going through it? Yeah? Johnson got nine snap sixteen for
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Speaker 1: s of the snaps nine out offty six. Okay, But
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Speaker 1: if d J. Chark doesn't get hurt, how many snaps
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Speaker 1: does he get? Probably not nine? Yeah, what what's the
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Speaker 1: problem with him? Why aren't they getting him on the field? Well,
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Speaker 1: I mean, people, we're not a practice. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: mean we're all practice is closed. Who knows? And I
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Speaker 1: mean Tavon Austin got a bunch. Tavon Austin got forty
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Speaker 1: one of fifty six snaps. Okay, So Tavon Austin will
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Speaker 1: be on the field along with Jones and those are
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Speaker 1: your three, yeah, right there, and then the others there
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Speaker 1: Johnson Agney nows you think about the receivers right now,
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Speaker 1: trying them out for Sunday's game. Yeah, and aging Marvin Jones.
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Speaker 1: He's a good player, but he doesn't he doesn't run
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Speaker 1: by anybody. Was a physical player who doesn't run by anybody.
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Speaker 1: Austin who's tiny and can run a little bit, but
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Speaker 1: he's been cast off at different spots. Agg Knew, who's
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Speaker 1: a converted defensive back and a great return man, but
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Speaker 1: he's not. He's just it's I feel sorry sometimes with
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Speaker 1: Trevor Large when he goes back in the pocket to
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Speaker 1: throw to that group. I wouldn't go that far. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if I feel sorry for him. You know,
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Speaker 1: I don't feel sorry making a lot of money playing
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Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL, so I don't feel sorry. Let
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Speaker 1: let me tell you who did look fast and quick
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Speaker 1: on Thursday night, Dan Arnold, the tight end got up
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Speaker 1: field quick after the catch, turn up field, get a
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Speaker 1: little burst. We need to get We need to get
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Speaker 1: my man and more play. Let's get him going at
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Speaker 1: that might be that might be our kind of hidden
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Speaker 1: hidden weapon. Jaguars happy our radio on Monday airs on
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Speaker 1: tinton x l a M and Jaguars social media channels.
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Speaker 1: Staying at wide receiver with offensive coordinator Darryl Bevil, and
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Speaker 1: it sounds like Jamal Agnew could get a bigger role
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Speaker 1: moving ahead. Yeah, it's it's still developmental, you know, um
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Speaker 1: a young player as as the wide receiver position. And
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Speaker 1: again we've you know, trying to find the best way
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Speaker 1: to implement all these guys. They all have great skill sets,
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Speaker 1: and you know what's the best way to with the
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Speaker 1: you know, put their skill sets to use. So we've
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Speaker 1: got got him a couple of touches last week, and
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Speaker 1: you know he'll be even more involved now that we
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Speaker 1: lost j and uh, you know, trying to get the
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Speaker 1: ball to really all those guys the best way that
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Speaker 1: we can. What do you need to see from you? Oh?
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know he takes a bigger role. You know,
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Speaker 1: he steps up and you know when we have two
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Speaker 1: wide receivers out there, he'll be out there. So he's
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Speaker 1: just he's just gonna have more opportunities that way. Did
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Speaker 1: he show you like our growth in this game on
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Speaker 1: Thursday night? Well? He, I mean I really like what
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Speaker 1: he's done. Since he's been here, you know, since I've
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Speaker 1: been here, and you know, he showed he showed us
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Speaker 1: some versatility. Um, he can do a lot of things,
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Speaker 1: you know, just getting the ball in his hands, like
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Speaker 1: the first play of the game and what goes for
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Speaker 1: eleven yards on you know, on a minus two yard pass,
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Speaker 1: you know, and so um those things are um, you
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Speaker 1: know a ways We're just trying to get him the
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Speaker 1: ball in his hands, just like the other guys. You know,
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Speaker 1: how can we get it to him, um in the
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Speaker 1: best places for them to make place. On the defensive side,
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Speaker 1: priority number one is slowing down the Titans running game.
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Speaker 1: With the league's leading running back, Derrick Henry, he leads
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Speaker 1: the league in russia tips rushing yardage and tied for
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Speaker 1: the league leading rushing touchdowns. Defensive coordinator Joe Colin knows
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Speaker 1: what kind of challenge lies ahead. You don't want to
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Speaker 1: be the b and uh, they do a great job
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Speaker 1: at it. They're gonna they're gonna run stretched, they're gonna
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Speaker 1: run zone, they're gonna run into the coust come home
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Speaker 1: until you stop it. And and it's physicality and you
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Speaker 1: gotta match it. And and it's a great, great point
17:18
Speaker 1: you're making. Yeah, that's what it is, especially when you
17:20
Speaker 1: get twenty two back there. I think he's the last
17:23
Speaker 1: back and correct me if I'm wrong, But two straight
17:25
Speaker 1: years of two thousand yards. Maybe you old Campbell did it.
17:27
Speaker 1: I can't remember the last back to do it in
17:29
Speaker 1: a row. And they're gonna feed him to you stop him.
17:32
Speaker 1: Every team has a good back and they run the football.
17:34
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's it's it's man on man. You're gonna
17:36
Speaker 1: win one on one battles. It takes all eleven to
17:39
Speaker 1: stop the run. And and I think, al right, guys
17:42
Speaker 1: do a great job up front, but also in the
17:43
Speaker 1: secondary because if a run breaks, you know, the longest
17:47
Speaker 1: run the other night was eleven yards, So I mean
17:48
Speaker 1: we're tackling and and and getting them down. So you
17:51
Speaker 1: gotta have run fits. You gotta have the edge set
17:54
Speaker 1: against this team. And then when he cuts back, he
17:56
Speaker 1: can't be over pursuing. So it takes all eleven to
17:59
Speaker 1: stop them, like it takes all eleven to stop the past.
18:01
Speaker 1: Russian coverage going hand in hand the press conferences from
18:04
Speaker 1: the week available on Jaguars dot Com. The a f
18:07
Speaker 1: C South is within reach. Yeah I said it Tennessee
18:11
Speaker 1: leads the way at two and to Houston and India
18:13
Speaker 1: both one and three, and the Jaguars at oh and
18:16
Speaker 1: four are in last place. A win over Tennessee for
18:19
Speaker 1: the Jags this week would continue the carnage in the South.
18:23
Speaker 1: We broke it down on Thursday mornings Jags Drive Time
18:26
Speaker 1: on the Jaguars Digital Network. Let's take a look at
18:28
Speaker 1: the a f C South standings through week four and
18:32
Speaker 1: it's ugly. Oh boy, Tennessee at two and two, Houston
18:36
Speaker 1: and India at one and three each. Houston as a
18:38
Speaker 1: tiebreaker there with a division win. Jacksonville at the bottom
18:42
Speaker 1: oh and four. But as we said earlier, John, a
18:47
Speaker 1: win for the Jaguars over in Tennessee, the Jags would
18:50
Speaker 1: be a game behind what would then be first place
18:54
Speaker 1: at two and three. Um, there are better divisions in
18:58
Speaker 1: football right now, but this is the day to the South,
19:00
Speaker 1: John Well, and you take what you can get. I mean,
19:03
Speaker 1: there's been plenty of opportunities right now for the Jaguars.
19:07
Speaker 1: They have to look at it like the first four
19:08
Speaker 1: games don't exist. It's the thirteen game season. It's strange
19:11
Speaker 1: that sounds to say, but it's a you know, there
19:14
Speaker 1: are plenty of cases. If you look at it at
19:17
Speaker 1: thirteen games, you figure eight and five over those games.
19:22
Speaker 1: I think it gets you in nine and four maybe,
19:26
Speaker 1: and nine and four is a normal playoff season for
19:29
Speaker 1: a lot of teams, you know. So yeah, they should
19:33
Speaker 1: reset this and say, you know what, the first four
19:35
Speaker 1: don't matter. If we play well, we gotta shot at
19:38
Speaker 1: this thing. Uh, it's a gift from above. I guess
19:41
Speaker 1: you know. What stands out to me, JP is that
19:43
Speaker 1: the Titans and to the Colts to some extent, have
19:46
Speaker 1: been vulnerable through the first month of the season because
19:49
Speaker 1: of injuries. I mean, the Colts have been well documented
19:52
Speaker 1: along their offensive line, and when you look last week,
19:55
Speaker 1: the Titans lost their left tackle, their center, and their
19:59
Speaker 1: right guard for a portion of the game, and all
20:02
Speaker 1: have suffered through injuries, which has allowed Ryan Tannehill to
20:06
Speaker 1: be sacked. He was like seven times against the Jets,
20:09
Speaker 1: five times, probably six times against the Cardinals, and Chamber
20:12
Speaker 1: Jones got five of those. So he's been hit a lot.
20:16
Speaker 1: When the passing game isn't working, teams normally have been
20:18
Speaker 1: able to slow down the run. Derrick Henry has been
20:21
Speaker 1: off to a ferocious pace. I think the Titans are
20:23
Speaker 1: the most talented team in this division, but right now
20:26
Speaker 1: they and the Colts have been battling some injuries in
20:28
Speaker 1: a very difficult early starting schedule to put themselves in
20:32
Speaker 1: a position where the Jaguars could strike. All right, you
20:34
Speaker 1: mentioned this early schedule. Let's look ahead to the next
20:37
Speaker 1: five weeks for all the teams in the division and
20:41
Speaker 1: pain all throughout for all four it looks like there's
20:45
Speaker 1: a lot of Buffalo on the schedule. Of course, the
20:49
Speaker 1: Jaguars have Tennessee this week in London, next to bye
20:52
Speaker 1: week at Seattle and then Buffalo week nine. That's tough.
20:56
Speaker 1: The Texans have the Patriots, they're at in the at
20:59
Speaker 1: Arizona home against the Rams, and then at Miami, Colts
21:03
Speaker 1: at Baltimore, Houston at San fran Tennessee and the Jets
21:07
Speaker 1: that might be the easiest. And then the Titans have
21:10
Speaker 1: the Jags Buffalo, Casey Indian at the Rams. A lot
21:13
Speaker 1: of Buffalo and Rams. That's not a good combo for
21:16
Speaker 1: the South Bran No. And in the a f C
21:19
Speaker 1: West JP Party, the NFC West is so very talented
21:22
Speaker 1: and it's part of the the a f C sound
21:24
Speaker 1: rotation this year, and the way that this thing falls out. Again,
21:28
Speaker 1: if the Jaguars can get a win on Sunday, when
21:31
Speaker 1: you look at the way that the schedule falls, they
21:33
Speaker 1: could stay in this thing because you've got trips by
21:35
Speaker 1: the Titans to San Francisco or Los Angeles for the Colts.
21:40
Speaker 1: I mean, there's just opportunities because of a very difficult
21:42
Speaker 1: schedule for this division this year. Then if the Jaguars
21:45
Speaker 1: can send how you know, find subtraction, they can stay
21:48
Speaker 1: in it. And look, look, this is not a playoff team.
21:50
Speaker 1: I think we've been talking about that since Urban Marble
21:53
Speaker 1: has got here, since Trevor Lawrence was drafted. But what
21:56
Speaker 1: we hoped was that this year, at some point in
21:58
Speaker 1: octob not October, November or December, we could say, hey,
22:02
Speaker 1: they're still in it if because we haven't been able
22:03
Speaker 1: to do that since around here. So if you could
22:06
Speaker 1: have a team that a win here and the Titans
22:10
Speaker 1: lose and the Colts win, kind of thing, that would
22:12
Speaker 1: be great for it won't it won't subsist beyond that
22:16
Speaker 1: because the expectations are going to jump exponentially, John, But
22:20
Speaker 1: if the Jagons can find a little bit of tracks
22:21
Speaker 1: and just to make it interesting, I think the fans
22:24
Speaker 1: would really enjoy that. Yeah, no question. It's fascinating to
22:28
Speaker 1: look at the graphic we just showed up because I
22:31
Speaker 1: do still believe that the Titans, when healthy, are a
22:36
Speaker 1: team that can start running off games. Um. At the
22:39
Speaker 1: same time, I don't know that they're going to run
22:41
Speaker 1: off games against this schedule, So they're a team that
22:45
Speaker 1: I think is going to play better as the season
22:46
Speaker 1: goes on. I always say about the Titans, they know
22:50
Speaker 1: how they want to play, and they play their strength,
22:53
Speaker 1: which in the NFL is a is a big deal
22:54
Speaker 1: because there are some teams that don't have an identity,
22:57
Speaker 1: but they could play better. But if they lose this week,
23:01
Speaker 1: the Titans all of a sudden two and three and
23:04
Speaker 1: then it's hard to see a four and one stretch
23:09
Speaker 1: here for them. So beating the Titans keeps them in
23:12
Speaker 1: range I think for the next six weeks or so.
23:16
Speaker 1: Lose to them, Uh, you think a three game gap?
23:20
Speaker 1: This team is not going to a wild card. I
23:22
Speaker 1: think three games down the division. Uh. It sounds stupid
23:25
Speaker 1: for an OH and four team to be talking about
23:28
Speaker 1: it must win this. This sort of feels like that.
23:32
Speaker 1: Within the context of our conversation, today, no doubt, because
23:36
Speaker 1: if you let that horse get loose, you won't be
23:38
Speaker 1: able to catch him. And that that horses the Tennessee Titans.
23:41
Speaker 1: So I gotta get something done this week. Drivetime here
23:44
Speaker 1: is Monday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings at ten on Jaguars
23:47
Speaker 1: dot Com and the Jags social channels. Let's wrap the
23:50
Speaker 1: week with head coach Urban Myers. Friday media availability, the
23:54
Speaker 1: Jags head coach was asked about the plan to win
23:57
Speaker 1: this week against the division rival Tennessee Titans. The plan
24:00
Speaker 1: to win is this is this is time test that
24:03
Speaker 1: it's infallible and when talents equated, it works. And that
24:06
Speaker 1: is the first half of the Cincinnati game was it's
24:08
Speaker 1: followed to a t and it's played great defense. When
24:11
Speaker 1: you say played great defense, it's not turning the ball over,
24:14
Speaker 1: it's not putting defense in the harm's way, and it's
24:16
Speaker 1: obviously playing great defense. We held excellent running back to
24:20
Speaker 1: eighteen yards rushing. We controlled the line of scrimmage, We
24:23
Speaker 1: did not turn the ball over, and our special teams
24:25
Speaker 1: had a plus tenor plus twelve field position advantage. And
24:29
Speaker 1: that's a plus. That's winning or playing great defense. Number
24:33
Speaker 1: two is turnover margin. That's something we were horrific in
24:36
Speaker 1: the first three games and we have not got any
24:41
Speaker 1: We've foreseen we've got one turnover, so the turnover ratio,
24:44
Speaker 1: and that's time tested thirty years ago to now. It's
24:49
Speaker 1: amazing how the style of football has changed. But you
24:52
Speaker 1: get one turnover, you plus one year sixty seven percent
24:54
Speaker 1: chance winning that game. And that was thirty years ago
24:57
Speaker 1: when it was three yards clouded dust to the spreads,
25:00
Speaker 1: dolls and open formations, and interesting enough, it's the same
25:03
Speaker 1: in college, so the game of football. The third one
25:06
Speaker 1: is red zone production, and we've been decent there. We
25:10
Speaker 1: don't get paid to kick field goals, we get paid
25:11
Speaker 1: score touchdowns, and our defense you have to stop them.
25:14
Speaker 1: We've need to continue to improve there. And the last
25:17
Speaker 1: one is kicking game. That's the most consistent part of
25:19
Speaker 1: our team right now. I think Nick and the crew
25:23
Speaker 1: have done a heck of a job. I mean, we've
25:26
Speaker 1: you know, obviously, have two explosive touchdowns, and our coverage
25:30
Speaker 1: units have been really good. And a part return we
25:33
Speaker 1: haven't got loose yet and we've wanted a twenty yard
25:37
Speaker 1: part return, but it was on a sixty five yard punt,
25:40
Speaker 1: so forty yard net. So that's the plan to win.
25:43
Speaker 1: You we went out four, you win the game. And
25:45
Speaker 1: the second half was not that we had a field position.
25:49
Speaker 1: I couldn't get off the field, and we didn't have
25:53
Speaker 1: the fuel position advantage of possession time advantage that we
25:55
Speaker 1: had at the first. So that's the plan to win
25:57
Speaker 1: that I used to talk about planned too soon. I
26:00
Speaker 1: coming up Sunday the Public's Tailgate Show. Here's at ten
26:03
Speaker 1: o'clock on Tin Tin XL radio in Jacksonville. Then at
26:06
Speaker 1: noon it's Countdown to Kickoff on the Jaguars Radio Network
26:09
Speaker 1: with Pete Frisco, the Boys in the Booth upstairs, Fred Taylor,
26:12
Speaker 1: and the final Word before kickoff with head coach Irvian Meyer.
26:15
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26:29
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