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Fred Taylor On Jaguars Keys To Defeating Packers In Week 8 | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Time for a week. In conversation with Pride of the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars running back Fred Taylor ahead of the Packers Jaguars matchup, Fred,
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  Speaker 1: let's rewind quickly to the Jaguars Patriots matchup at Wimbley
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  Speaker 1: and the best performance overall of the year for this team.
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  Speaker 1: All three phases got the job done last week in London.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all three phases executed on a high level. Started
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  Speaker 2: out a little slow, but that's okay. They finished strong,
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  Speaker 2: walked away with a thirty two to sixteen victory. I
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  Speaker 2: believe it was the most point sport this season by
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  Speaker 2: our offense, and they did it in a different sort
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  Speaker 2: of type fashion. Thirty nine times they ran the ball
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  Speaker 2: I believe it was eighteen in a row consecutive runs
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  Speaker 2: and only attempted twenty passes, in which Trevor was pretty
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  Speaker 2: effective on that. They asked some deep shots to Brian
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  Speaker 2: Thomas Junior. The biggest play of the game obviously the
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  Speaker 2: ninety six yard point return that almost gave everybody a
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  Speaker 2: heart attack before he brought it in.
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  Speaker 3: The PJ.
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  Speaker 2: Washington ninety six yard point return the eleventh longest return
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  Speaker 2: in the history of the NFL, the longest in the
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  Speaker 2: history of the Jags and the London game was a
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  Speaker 2: huge play, and I think that just gave the guys
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  Speaker 2: the confidence and the momentum boost that they needed to
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  Speaker 2: propel themselves, you know, ahead of the Patriots to get
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  Speaker 2: the win. So much needed win, especially looking ahead at
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  Speaker 2: the next four games.
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  Speaker 3: Needed to bring that one home, no doubt about that.
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  Speaker 1: Fred, you mentioned the next five games in factor against
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  Speaker 1: teams with winning records the next four or against NFC contenders.
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  Speaker 1: The next one is against the Green Bay Packers and
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  Speaker 1: a team that's playing really well right now. Jordan Love,
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  Speaker 1: big contract guy. He's throwing it all over the field.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a long streak of games with two or
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  Speaker 1: more passing touchdowns. So you know what they're going to do.
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  Speaker 1: They want to move this and spread this football around
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  Speaker 1: against the Jaguars defense. Let's be honest, before last week
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  Speaker 1: wasn't played well at all in the passing game. They're
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  Speaker 1: still thirty first in the league in past defense, so
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  Speaker 1: they might have some.
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  Speaker 3: Guys back this week.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's a boost of the defense as well, Luikan,
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  Speaker 1: maybe wingers, But how do you slow down Jordan Love
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  Speaker 1: and the way they're throwing this football round?
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  Speaker 3: Just to answer to those guys that might be back.
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  Speaker 2: It was good seeing Tyson Campbell in some spot duty
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  Speaker 2: last week there and in London, so he's sort of
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  Speaker 2: working his way back in the lineup. It's gonna be tough,
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  Speaker 2: you know. Obviously the Packers are five and two ball club.
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  Speaker 2: They play some close games and went to played a
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  Speaker 2: thrilling matchup against the Texans last week. But it's not impossible.
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  Speaker 2: The Texans were able to get after Love. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they got two interceptions off of them, they sacked him
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  Speaker 2: I think three or four times, and that those picks
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  Speaker 2: came by way of pressure and good secondary play. So Jacks,
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  Speaker 2: if they can continue Trayvonon Walker what he's been doing
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  Speaker 2: in these last three games, but he's been a se machine.
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  Speaker 2: He's actually coming into his own and just sort of
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  Speaker 2: he has a sack streak going here. So and he's
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  Speaker 2: also playing well against the run, So they're going to
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  Speaker 2: have to continue to be very disciplined against the run
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  Speaker 2: and managing not allowing Josh Jacobs to get going because
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  Speaker 2: if he gets going then it makes it an easier
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  Speaker 2: job for Jordan Love. So Jay and j Josh and
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  Speaker 2: Jordan will definitely be on the hunt but if you
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  Speaker 2: can maintain the run game, which I think the Jags
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  Speaker 2: have done a tremendous job of this year, you'll give
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  Speaker 2: yourself an opportunity to get the packs into third and
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  Speaker 2: manageable or third and long, which will then give you
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to rush the passer and potentially create turnovers
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  Speaker 2: on the back end for your secondary.
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  Speaker 3: That's the formula from a defensive standpoint.
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  Speaker 2: I love the formula in which the Jags used a
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  Speaker 2: week ago to beat the Patriots by running the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Tank had tremendous output his career highs across the board
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  Speaker 2: and carries and yards and potential I think touchdowns as well.
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  Speaker 2: So Tank had a tremendous day, and they took pressure
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  Speaker 2: off of Trevor. You know, they took their shots and
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  Speaker 2: those shots were let mean, they took their shots, and
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  Speaker 2: those shots were orchestrated, I think, manufactured perfectly for the
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  Speaker 2: players to go in and make the play. So I
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  Speaker 2: like to see more of that play action off the
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  Speaker 2: run game. Take your shot, throw it to mister Baccherode
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  Speaker 2: I like to call them nowadays. Brian Thomas Baccarade is
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  Speaker 2: fifty fifty, so it's a fifty to fifty ball. So
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  Speaker 2: my nickname for him is mister Baccarat because we gotta
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  Speaker 2: take shots and give them a chance to bring it home.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what I believe the formula is for success
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  Speaker 2: for the offense.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, I've never played baccarat in my life, but.
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  Speaker 2: From what I hear, wink wink. From what I hear,
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  Speaker 2: it's the best odds.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: If I could say to work on this show, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. Yes, I don't want the league to start crazy,
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  Speaker 2: you know how it goes. But Rocker Ride is like
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  Speaker 2: fifty fifty his heads and tails, yes or no. Du
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  Speaker 2: a little player, so you know he's the player and
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback is the dealer's a It's a fifty to
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  Speaker 2: fifty shot. So just throwing the deep ball is what
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to say. Give him a chance, give them good.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good way to say it. Fred Taylor with us.
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  Speaker 2: If you're Travis et and Jr.
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  Speaker 1: And you saw what happened last week and you're off
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  Speaker 1: on the side with what a hamstring injury? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean obviously you're motivated to get back anyway.
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  Speaker 3: You want to get back on the field sooner. Take's
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  Speaker 3: gonna run away with this thing, right, Well, you got
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  Speaker 3: to continue to root your guys on.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I spoke on the show with with with
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  Speaker 2: the Guys earlier and we talked about you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think competition. I think winning is a byproduct of competing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you want to win, and how do you
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  Speaker 2: do that? You have to compete, Like we all want
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  Speaker 2: to win, but the competition, like what do they say,
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  Speaker 2: the cream rises to the top, right, I've always wanted
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  Speaker 2: to compete. I've been in this situation many many times
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  Speaker 2: where I was the starter and then I get injured,
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  Speaker 2: and then guys go out there and they have these
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  Speaker 2: sort of performances and you go, okay, But what usually
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  Speaker 2: the league or the team rules are. You're not going
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  Speaker 2: to lose your job to injury. You still get an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to go out there and compete. And I believe
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  Speaker 2: Travis is in position where he has a strong mindset,
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  Speaker 2: he's strong will, he'll continue, He'll return from his injury
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  Speaker 2: and go out there and compete and let the coaches
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  Speaker 2: make the decision and who gets the reps, who gets
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  Speaker 2: the carries, because they're doing that anyway, right. The beauty
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  Speaker 2: of it all is being able to have a two
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  Speaker 2: headed monster and Travis and Tank let's call them TNT.
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  Speaker 2: That's dynamite, right. So I like my TNT and my
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  Speaker 2: Jay and J's I'm working this morning, JP, what we got,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what that is.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, man, well I do, but I.
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  Speaker 2: Can tell you off air because you know so. So
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  Speaker 2: I like the fact that they do have a dual threat.
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  Speaker 2: They have a two headed monster. Two guys are very
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  Speaker 2: much capable of getting it done as well as the
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  Speaker 2: team now has an insurance blanket, and that Tank is
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  Speaker 2: a younger player. Tank will not be asking for a
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  Speaker 2: contract in a couple of years, whereas on the flip side, Travis,
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  Speaker 2: he potentially could have been, you know, in position to
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  Speaker 2: go in there and say, hey, I saw what you
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  Speaker 2: paid my college teammates. You got a little left for me. So,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this slows that down a bit. But still
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  Speaker 2: it's not in his control. It's never in his control.
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  Speaker 2: Still got to leave that up to the team in
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  Speaker 2: the front office. But these are the things that you know.
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  Speaker 2: Now management gets an opportunity to kind of use his
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  Speaker 2: leveraging kind of player around with as they look at
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  Speaker 2: their roster or the roster of a two and five
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  Speaker 2: ball club.
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  Speaker 1: Bred Taylor with his final thought here, the Packers lead
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  Speaker 1: the league in takeaways, so you know what they're going
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  Speaker 1: to be about. I mean, they do a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things defensively. They have great personnel all over the field.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, how do you approach this defense? Is
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  Speaker 1: it like you just said, right, run the ball, hang
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  Speaker 1: on to the football, or do you take some chances
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  Speaker 1: down the field. Because there have been some opportunities for Trevor.
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  Speaker 2: Lawrence, I mean I think you you stand a better
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  Speaker 2: chance possibly JP of of of of running the football.
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  Speaker 2: Here you have Xavier McKinney who they got over from
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  Speaker 2: the Giants a year ago and he's leading the league
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  Speaker 2: in interception and takeaways. A guy who is more athletic
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  Speaker 2: and his defending more so than I believe. Being a
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  Speaker 2: strong hackler, get the running backs an opportunity to set
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  Speaker 2: your offense up, and then you have have to pick
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  Speaker 2: your part point when you want to take your shots.
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  Speaker 2: H So the ball and if the defense, if the
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  Speaker 2: defense can play as well as they played a week
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  Speaker 2: ago where they went out there and they forced some
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  Speaker 2: third downs, they were able to maintain and not let
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  Speaker 2: the Patriots get too far away, so the Jaguars could
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  Speaker 2: run the ball and that all worked out. You know,
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  Speaker 2: So stop the run, try and get you know, three
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  Speaker 2: and out situations, or manage the scoring opportunities for the Packers,
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  Speaker 2: and then on the flip side through out there and
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  Speaker 2: run the ball, set up a deep shot, be a
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  Speaker 2: play action, and you got to score. The guys got
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  Speaker 2: to catch the ball this week and and and score,
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  Speaker 2: because that's sort of been a theme when they make
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  Speaker 2: the mistakes.
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  Speaker 3: The Jacks play bad.
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  Speaker 2: When they go out there and execute the place that
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  Speaker 2: they are simply supposed to execute, they're actually a really
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  Speaker 2: good team and they could be a better team if
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  Speaker 2: they just do that and.
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  Speaker 3: Don't get behind ten nothing. That's hard to make a
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  Speaker 3: living in this league. Yeah, they did it last.
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  Speaker 2: Week, and you can't get behind ten Packers. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: got to come out, you got to try to play faster,
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  Speaker 2: but went in doubt though, however, you still got to
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  Speaker 2: play hard for sixty minutes. You got to go out
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  Speaker 2: there and not show any quit down. They could have
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  Speaker 2: easily took their tests, you know, especially after hearing the
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  Speaker 2: whole quit message a week the week prior to versus
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  Speaker 2: the Bears. They could have said, here we go again,
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  Speaker 2: we're down, that's quit, be ready to go back to
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  Speaker 2: the States.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't do that.
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  Speaker 2: They continue to fight through, they continue to find a way,
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  Speaker 2: they build some momentum.
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  Speaker 3: They only allowed another touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: After that, and they found a way to win thirty
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  Speaker 2: two to sixteen in a much needed win, and they
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  Speaker 2: have an opportunity to do that back in Jacksonville in
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  Speaker 2: front of the own fans.
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  Speaker 1: Well done as always, and we'll talk to you in
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  Speaker 1: the post game. Hopefully the momentum carries back over the Atlantic.
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk to you a little bit later.
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  Speaker 2: We certainly that momentum. We'll see. I'll be on a
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  Speaker 2: standby