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Discussing player mindset for Texans game | Huddle Up: Wednesday, December 28 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: The fields on the group proudly presents Huddle Up with
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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks. J P Shacker, John Ojan and NFL Network
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Speaker 1: analyst and former Jaguar Bucky Brooks bring you the latest one.
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Speaker 1: George Jackson Hill Jack wars, everything's got to be about
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Speaker 1: the future. It's gotta be about tomorrow and bringing all
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Speaker 1: that into focus as we, you know, attack the season.
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Speaker 1: Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks starts right now and welcome in.
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Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, Week seventeen. This is Huddle Up Without Bucky
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Speaker 1: Brooks today. J P. Shadrick with John Osan. We got
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Speaker 1: a busy show ahead and getting ready for the Houston
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Speaker 1: Texans as the Jaguars had to NRG Stadium in Houston
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Speaker 1: this week to face the division rival. John Oser coming up,
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Speaker 1: we'll get his thoughts. We just got out of the
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Speaker 1: locker room. We'll hear from Doug Peterson coming up. And
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Speaker 1: plenty of buzz on social media today after the playoff
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Speaker 1: ticket announcement went out about one o'clock today, So a
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Speaker 1: lot going on. Let's hear from the Jaguars head coach
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Speaker 1: earlier today, asked if he was going to sit players
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Speaker 1: this week. In week seventeen. It's damn the torpedoes, full
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Speaker 1: speed ahead. Ever a meaningless game, never ever, ever ever. Um,
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Speaker 1: you play, you played win every game. Um and and um,
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Speaker 1: you know the only way I rest players as if
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Speaker 1: they're hurt and can't go. It's an a f C
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Speaker 1: South opponent, you know. And they beat this in week five.
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Speaker 1: So you know, we've got to have a great week
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Speaker 1: of preparation. And we understand that. And and um, you
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Speaker 1: know still got still got some unfinished business. There you
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Speaker 1: have it, the comments of Doug Peterson. You can catch
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Speaker 1: the full press conference on Jaguars dot Comment Jaguars social media.
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence spoke just after practice today and John Osan're
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Speaker 1: joining us now Jaguars dot Com senior writer, and here
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Speaker 1: we go, Johnny into week seventeen. I'm surprised that Doug
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Speaker 1: didn't drop a cuss word in there too and just
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Speaker 1: said no, right, I mean the whole approach and attitude
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Speaker 1: and mentality. It's, hey, we're here to play every game. Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I I'm a believer in some situations
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Speaker 1: that arrest in week eighteen is fine if you are
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Uh. Doug said this did in factor
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Speaker 1: in his decision, and I believe them. But I think
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Speaker 1: if you're if you're a more experienced team sort of
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Speaker 1: used to turning it off and turning it on UH,
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Speaker 1: then it's fine. I don't believe you really lose momentum
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Speaker 1: by doing it. I think most of the time that
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Speaker 1: that lost momentum factor is more about you're playing good
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Speaker 1: teams in the playoffs, so it's good teams you're gonna
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Speaker 1: up and beat you. But with this team, you guess what, JP,
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Speaker 1: it's only been good for about three weeks. So I
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Speaker 1: think definitely with this team there is something to Let's
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Speaker 1: not confuse the issue. We're winning, we're going after it.
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Speaker 1: We're approaching it the same way every week. Go after
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Speaker 1: it and keep them amentum strong. Beyond all that, there's
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Speaker 1: something to play for this week on on two fronts
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Speaker 1: when this UH and then a tie gets in next week,
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Speaker 1: which scoff fall you want until you're tied and overtime,
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Speaker 1: until something happens late in the game and you realize
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Speaker 1: that there's six minutes to go in overtime, you've got
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Speaker 1: the ball. Ye know. There are decisions that come down
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Speaker 1: where if you're playing for a tie. It's easier. I
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Speaker 1: don't think it will happen, but you don't want to
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Speaker 1: be that. I don't think Doug wants to be sitting
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Speaker 1: there at three minutes to go in that game with
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Speaker 1: an easy way to play for overtime and going I
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Speaker 1: should have you know, same deal with the wild card.
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Speaker 1: The wild card exists and the scenarios are out there. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Week a teen can get crazy. We've all seen it
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Speaker 1: if you follow the NFL. Weird things happen in week eighteen.
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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you're watching Sunday night game with
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Speaker 1: the new graphics, and it's not what you expected that
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Speaker 1: morning because two plays happened simultaneously that flipped two teams around.
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Speaker 1: And Doug's been around. Doug's been doing this a long time.
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Speaker 1: Remember his second playoff team number two and number three
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Speaker 1: in Philly came back late in the season, was scrapping
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Speaker 1: it out to get there. So he's been involved with this. Uh,
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Speaker 1: he knows. Weird things happen in week eighteen. You happen
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Speaker 1: to lose the Titans if there's another way to get in. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you don't want to be walking down the hallway to
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Speaker 1: the owner's office on Monday, saying, well, we really didn't
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Speaker 1: think it was gonna come anything. It was gonna come
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Speaker 1: to that. Well came to that. Yeah, So going forward
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Speaker 1: in this situation, absolutely right. Trevor Lawrence spoke today as well,
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Speaker 1: and he has the largest increase in passer rating from
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Speaker 1: his first season to the second season in NFL history
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Speaker 1: of any quarterback, and that passes the eye test twenty
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Speaker 1: four point one point increase from last season to this
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Speaker 1: year so far. Second place was Carson Wentz from sixteen
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Speaker 1: to seventeen under, of course, Doug Peterson, who had twenty
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Speaker 1: two point six increase. And you're right, it does pass it.
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Speaker 1: I mean even in a game like last week, he
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Speaker 1: executed what was called It wasn't a down the field attack,
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Speaker 1: you know, facing off against corners one on one all
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Speaker 1: that stuff. It's let's hit the tight end, throw it
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Speaker 1: out short to the running back, uh, and manage this game.
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Speaker 1: And he did that as well. So he's done in
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Speaker 1: a bunch of different ways this year and it just
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Speaker 1: continues to grow and get better for the quarterback. How
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Speaker 1: I know you were in there with him today, So
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Speaker 1: how's he feeling about the whole situation? The rally in
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Speaker 1: the division and his play being a big part of that. Um.
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Speaker 1: I think he has the right approach to it, meaning uh,
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Speaker 1: he was asked uh second or third question, and uh,
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Speaker 1: we're talking about playing better and talking about very positive things,
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Speaker 1: and in the middle of it, he he sort of
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Speaker 1: stopped himself and made very clear, Look, we haven't done anything.
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Speaker 1: And he's well aware that it's great to have played
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Speaker 1: four or five good games in a row, which I
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Speaker 1: think he has. Uh. He also is smart enough to
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Speaker 1: know if he plays bad Sunday, then the same people
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Speaker 1: are gonna say, well, he only did five games in
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Speaker 1: a row. So uh, he hasn't awareness of how important
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Speaker 1: his improved play is. You can tell from his body
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Speaker 1: language and the way he's answering it, in the way
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Speaker 1: he's uh playing JP what he's done. You can't fluke
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Speaker 1: your way into playing as well as he's playing. He's good.
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Speaker 1: He is going to be good for a long time.
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Speaker 1: This is what Trevor Lawrence is. There's no more situation
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Speaker 1: where defenses are are are fulling. They're in a full
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Speaker 1: of some things. But he's not on a learning curve
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Speaker 1: right now. He's good and going to get better. But
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Speaker 1: he also knows every week you've got to play, You've
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Speaker 1: got to play well, and he knows these last two
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Speaker 1: games you gotta finish this off. Now is not the
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Speaker 1: time him for a hiccup, and he's very well aware
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Speaker 1: of that. And I think he that's an experienced thing too. Uh.
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Speaker 1: He now knows from experience and is beaten into him.
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Speaker 1: He's got what thirty two games in in the league. Well,
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Speaker 1: that's getting fairly close to how many games you play
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Speaker 1: at Clemson, you know, in the range, you know, so
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Speaker 1: so he now knows, I'm sure Clemson play well one week.
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Speaker 1: You can walk around campus pretty sure you're gonna play
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Speaker 1: well the next week because you Trevor Lawrence, he knows
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Speaker 1: that's not how it works in this league, and it
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Speaker 1: is very well aware that. And he's I never played
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Speaker 1: great against the Texas, So I think there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of motivation for him. I can play well, I can
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Speaker 1: play well against this defense. I cannot do what I
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Speaker 1: did in the first meeting, which is though a bad interception.
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Speaker 1: I think I think focus is high for Trevor Lawrence,
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Speaker 1: and I think he has learned it's not just lip service.
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Speaker 1: You have to be focused every week at that position
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Speaker 1: in this league to play well. Forty games at Clemson,
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Speaker 1: thirty two now going in thirty three for the Jacks.
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Speaker 1: Right there, all that stuff you talk about, you gotta
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Speaker 1: have so many reps at a certain he now knows
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Speaker 1: what the NFL is, and when he says things like
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Speaker 1: you gotta prepare and play well every week, everybody says that.
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Speaker 1: Great quarterbacks know it. He's got the big three receivers,
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Speaker 1: while two receivers on a tight end that are obviously
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Speaker 1: playing very well this year for him, and all three
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Speaker 1: have career highs in yardage so far, and all three
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Speaker 1: will likely have career highs and completions by the end
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Speaker 1: of the regular season, as you see on your screen there.
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Speaker 1: And Christian Kirk's right on the doorstep of one thousand
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Speaker 1: Za Jones with a couple of good days that the
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Speaker 1: office could get there as well, and then having Ingram
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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks has been possessed. He's been fantastic,
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Speaker 1: and having that trio and all three being free agent
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Speaker 1: additions this past year, growing with the quarterback altogether, it
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Speaker 1: all kind of works together, I think in this offense,
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Speaker 1: and it's a different guy every week. We've heard about
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Speaker 1: that all season long. But this trio of We've talked
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Speaker 1: about this before in past years, how difficult and how
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Speaker 1: rare it is to really be this successful in free
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Speaker 1: agency and have those guys actually hit and all be
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Speaker 1: really good guys in the locker room and all be
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Speaker 1: productive on the field, and they're all doing it. They're
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Speaker 1: all having career seasons. Did a remarkable job with it.
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Speaker 1: I would not have told you that all three would
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Speaker 1: have big seasons, because usually one there's a fall off.
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Speaker 1: It just doesn't click. Um. I wrote a story this
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Speaker 1: week for Jaguars dot Com, which, unfortunate for you, JP,
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Speaker 1: you had read free website. UM that I think there's
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Speaker 1: an element too that they legitimately all root for each other,
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Speaker 1: and you can feel it on the field. You can
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Speaker 1: see it in the way they play. Uh. It's hard
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Speaker 1: to put that into words because all receivers are gonna
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Speaker 1: say they root for the other guy. But when I
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Speaker 1: asked you A Jones about the camaraderie in the room
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Speaker 1: and about I'm really rooting for each other, and I
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Speaker 1: kind of couched. I said, my senses, that's probably not
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Speaker 1: the way it is in every receiver room, and he
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Speaker 1: kind of laughed, and he was like right, and Zay
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Speaker 1: said something very interesting that about that story about there
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Speaker 1: being a maturity factor in that too. All three of
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Speaker 1: these guys are in their sixth year. All three a Christian,
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Speaker 1: I don't think, really has experienced a whole lot of
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Speaker 1: failure struggling, but he had to wait for this opportunity. Um,
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Speaker 1: all three of them have been through times where they've
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Speaker 1: had to wait and they've seen how it cannot be good. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Evan had his troubles in New York. Zay has sort
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Speaker 1: of gone up and down in terms of production, you know,
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Speaker 1: like moved around the loop too. So I think there
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Speaker 1: is a feeling on these three of they've learned from
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Speaker 1: their experience of how it can you know, it can
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Speaker 1: be bad, and they have all arrived at good points
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Speaker 1: in their career where they're not selfish guys at all.
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Speaker 1: You do see them route for each other. I would
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Speaker 1: even put Marvin Jones into this, who is very He's
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Speaker 1: not having the year these guys are. But you don't
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Speaker 1: get any sense from Marvin that he's graping about not
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Speaker 1: getting the ops. Uh, He's had eleven years of ops,
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Speaker 1: you know. I think they're enjoying being a part of
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Speaker 1: something successful. Uh, and it's it's a striking thing to
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Speaker 1: watch because it doesn't always happen this way. One point
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Speaker 1: on the graphic you threw up there, the numbers, they've
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Speaker 1: got Christians about to hit a thousand. The other two
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Speaker 1: probably have to really go in the last two games
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Speaker 1: to get probably close. But they feel like thousand yard
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Speaker 1: receivers because in the second half of the season they've
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Speaker 1: all played like thousand yard receivers. Those numbers are remarkable
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Speaker 1: because they for eight games they're trying to figure each
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Speaker 1: other out and trying to figure the offense out to
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Speaker 1: get to these numbers with some struggles early, they all
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Speaker 1: feel like thousand yard guys in all liken it to
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Speaker 1: ninety six a little bit. Jimmy Smith finished with likes
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Speaker 1: eleven hundred yards that year, but in the second half
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Speaker 1: the season he was on like you could tell where
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Speaker 1: this thing was going with Jimmy sort of feels that
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Speaker 1: way this year if they get Evan back, they're going
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Speaker 1: somewhere where. If Evans back, I would expect all three
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Speaker 1: of those guys be over thousand next year. And you've
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Speaker 1: got Travis e t n at a thousand on the
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Speaker 1: nose rushing. So that's why this offense feel like thousand
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Speaker 1: yard players. That's why it's ranked sixth in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: Right now, they're all they're throwing it all over the place,
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Speaker 1: running the bowl well, and it's all going very well
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Speaker 1: down in the second half of the season. We'll come
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Speaker 1: back in a moment defensive talk. When we return, we'll
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Speaker 1: take a look at the Houston Texans as well. That's
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Speaker 1: a banged up football team down in Houston, but they're
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Speaker 1: playing hard down the stretch. They've got a big win
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Speaker 1: of course on Christmas Eve over the Tennessee Titans. Tickets
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Speaker 1: are on sale of course for that Titans Jaguars matchup
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Speaker 1: Week eight team they're going fast for the winner take
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Speaker 1: all AFC South battle in the final week of the
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Speaker 1: regular season. Could be Saturday or Sunday, we'll find out
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Speaker 1: late probably Monday. Visit Jaguars dot com or call six
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Speaker 1: three three. This is huddled up with Bucky Brooks, but
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Speaker 1: without him on the Jaguars digital network. You want to
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Speaker 1: continue to play well, you want to continue to improve,
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Speaker 1: you know, each week, and um you know, that's that's
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Speaker 1: where I think the leadership of your football team needs
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Speaker 1: to step up. And really, uh, you know, keep you
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Speaker 1: guys focused and grounded there. There are a lot of
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Speaker 1: distractions around this week, you know, um, you know with
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Speaker 1: the with the bowl game and traveling a little bit
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Speaker 1: to practice, and you know of course the holiday weekend
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Speaker 1: coming up and stuff like that. But just staying focused
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Speaker 1: and locked in on on you know, on their job,
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Speaker 1: you know, this time of year, and and um, they
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Speaker 1: keep doing that, then we keep keep showing improvement and
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Speaker 1: we'll be okay. That's the head coach of course. Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson earlier today, welcome back. It's huddle up notebook he
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Speaker 1: Brooks today j P. Shadrick with John Osier. It's week seventeen,
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars in the Houston Texans coming up in in
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Speaker 1: RG Stadium, Houston this Sunday, one o'clock eastern kickoff time.
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Speaker 1: And the Jaguars have a windstreak going and they've played
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Speaker 1: better football as of late four the last five have
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Speaker 1: been wins. Meanwhile, Tennessee have lost five in a row now,
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Speaker 1: so the Jaguars are in first place in the a
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Speaker 1: f C South with two weeks to play in this season.
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Speaker 1: Let's touch on the defense now, Johnny, And you know
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Speaker 1: last week obviously they were up against it. The opening
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Speaker 1: drive the Trevor Lawrence fumble, UM set him up in
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Speaker 1: the red zone and then they held him to a
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Speaker 1: field goal. They got a big blitz call Andre Cisco
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Speaker 1: with the sack to force the field goal, and then
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Speaker 1: it was shut down mode after that the rest of
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Speaker 1: the night. And um, good for this defense to go
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Speaker 1: out and do it against that Jets team when they
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Speaker 1: needed to do it and the conditions warranted that type
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Speaker 1: of performance, I think. And you know, when when the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars are having to settle for field goals and it's
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Speaker 1: a sloppy night and all that, they and of course
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Speaker 1: they've apparently shut down Zack Wilson, so um and that
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Speaker 1: that could be for a long time and it looks
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Speaker 1: like so we'll see, that's that's their issue. But this
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Speaker 1: defense stepping up in a big way on Thursday night. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and you know, uh, I don't know that there are
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Speaker 1: a three point defense against a high functioning offense right now,
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Speaker 1: but given the opportunity to play a struggling offense, uh,
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Speaker 1: they took advantage of that and they did the things
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Speaker 1: they had to do. I thought they also did a
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Speaker 1: nice job at at the one. There were two crisis
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Speaker 1: points in the game. One was the early fumble, where
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Speaker 1: in those conditions you can say, oh, you want where
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Speaker 1: they got nineteen points, but having to play uphill from
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Speaker 1: seven points down early, it is different than three. Uh
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Speaker 1: that was a big him and getting that stop. And
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Speaker 1: then late in the game, uh fourth quarter when they
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Speaker 1: the Jets drove and I'm drawing a blank on the
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Speaker 1: quarterback's name, I think, yeah so, but it was a
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Speaker 1: new thing that they were facing all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: a different thing than you had game plan for. And
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Speaker 1: you've got a running quarterback. It threw him off a
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Speaker 1: little bit, and the kid made some plays. The Jets
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Speaker 1: got down to about the fifteen yard line of the
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Speaker 1: Jags early in the fourth quarter. If the Jets score there,
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Speaker 1: I think it would have been sixteen to ten at
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Speaker 1: that point. Um, that becomes a different animal because you're
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Speaker 1: playing on a wet field than the Jets have a
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Speaker 1: good defense, wouldn't be inconceivable a quick touchdown, quick stop,
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you're holding your breath. Uh
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Speaker 1: do we made a nice play on an on a
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Speaker 1: run to get him back into down and distance difficulty.
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Speaker 1: Uh So I thought that moment, even though people naysayers
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Speaker 1: who like to say nay uh i would say, well,
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Speaker 1: the Jets were struggling offense with the backup quarterback and
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Speaker 1: the struggling quarterback, no big deal at the moments that
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Speaker 1: were key in that game. The Jaguars did a nice
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Speaker 1: job of making plays to lock down a game. Plus
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Speaker 1: the defense also had to play under pressure the whole
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Speaker 1: game because the offense never really pulled away enough to
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Speaker 1: make it feel really breathing easy. So nice job by
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Speaker 1: the defense. I think most of the season they will
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Speaker 1: still be a we need to get turnovers and break
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Speaker 1: serve type defense, but they showed that they could shut
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Speaker 1: down an offense that that was shut downable. Chris Traveler
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Speaker 1: was that qubo. It's pretty much what that was. So
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Speaker 1: I'll see if they can equal that type of performance
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Speaker 1: this week against the Houston Texans. Will take a time
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Speaker 1: out and get into this Houston team to twelve and one.
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Speaker 1: They're playing hard lately, though, well, they gotta win. Obviously
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Speaker 1: this past week in Tennessee that put the Jaguars in
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Speaker 1: want it. You want to see how we're gonna respond. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, coaches and players and and um, you know,
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Speaker 1: it just starts, It starts in practice, starts today. But
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Speaker 1: you you know, you worked hard to get in this
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Speaker 1: position and and a lot of ups and downs, but
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Speaker 1: you know, you guys have seen the sort of the
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Speaker 1: incremental progress throughout the course of the year, and you
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Speaker 1: know that's why you that's why you play these games
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Speaker 1: and each each game matters, and so um, yeah, you
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Speaker 1: want to see, you know, how the guys will respond
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19:52
Speaker 1: but a big, really good ball game to eight and
19:54
Speaker 1: four football teams this year. John, Yeah, very good. My
19:56
Speaker 1: son is a big, big South Carolina fan for some reason.
20:00
Speaker 1: So no, I mean, uh, no real connection to it,
20:03
Speaker 1: but he loves that. He's fired up, so he's go.
20:07
Speaker 1: They've painted the field. The end zones are painted in
20:09
Speaker 1: the team's colors now, so that's why the Jaguars have
20:12
Speaker 1: had to move their practice. They decided they wanted to
20:16
Speaker 1: practice on grass outside, so that's why they're going to
20:19
Speaker 1: Episcopal today and tomorrow. They could have gone inside of
20:22
Speaker 1: the facility, but I think Doug wants to go over there,
20:24
Speaker 1: so they've done that today. Um, just like they were
20:27
Speaker 1: in training camp. So same set up, easy bust, ride
20:30
Speaker 1: back and forth, no big deal. Yeah, and I think
20:33
Speaker 1: that becomes People always ask when that happens, Well, is
20:37
Speaker 1: it gonna affect him as a distraction for a regular
20:41
Speaker 1: season practice. I think it's even less of a problem
20:46
Speaker 1: then for a training camp practice, because basically a regular
20:49
Speaker 1: season you're very into your routine. Uh, You you tend
20:54
Speaker 1: to go shorter and a little lighter because it's so
20:56
Speaker 1: much prep and install Uh. If he is going to
21:00
Speaker 1: be sort of a factor in preparation, I think it'd
21:02
Speaker 1: been more of a factor during training camp. I don't
21:04
Speaker 1: I don't see it being remotely a problem or probably
21:09
Speaker 1: something even players are thinking very much about this week.
21:11
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a look at the Houston Texans
21:14
Speaker 1: this week. The Jaguar is facing Houston at two twelve
21:18
Speaker 1: and one, but that they banged up football team. They
21:20
Speaker 1: have a lot of guys and a lot of key
21:22
Speaker 1: players on injured reserve at this point. Starting running back
21:26
Speaker 1: is on their stingley, the cornerback is on injured reserve,
21:29
Speaker 1: just to name a couple of guys. One of the
21:31
Speaker 1: big receivers, Nico Collins is on there as well. And
21:37
Speaker 1: so that that's that's what they're battling through at this
21:39
Speaker 1: point in the season, mid late December, and there's the
21:43
Speaker 1: list of guys that are on the injury report. Damian
21:46
Speaker 1: Pierce was the leading Rusher by a long way everybody
21:48
Speaker 1: else I thinks under a hundred yards for the season.
21:50
Speaker 1: So they've got to figure out running the football down
21:53
Speaker 1: the stretch and they're using a couple of different quarterbacks
21:55
Speaker 1: at this point. There's a lot going on in Houston. Yeah,
21:58
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say their personnel doesn't matter, because I
22:02
Speaker 1: damn Pierce Stanley Nico Collins are big contributing players for them. Uh.
22:08
Speaker 1: What I look for with a team that's that's out
22:11
Speaker 1: of it at the end of the season is more,
22:14
Speaker 1: are they still listening to the coach and are you're
22:16
Speaker 1: still seeing effort, because then they're dangerous. Uh. This team
22:20
Speaker 1: is clearly doing that and they're forcing turnovers. Uh. Levy Smith,
22:25
Speaker 1: it appears the defense of the Texans is still playing
22:29
Speaker 1: for him and doing what he wants, which makes him dangerous.
22:32
Speaker 1: Because Trevor has never had a great game against the Texans.
22:36
Speaker 1: He struggled against them earlier. I think he will play
22:39
Speaker 1: much better than he ever has against them because he's
22:41
Speaker 1: raising his He hadn't played that well against anybody during
22:44
Speaker 1: the time that he played poorly against the Texans. But
22:48
Speaker 1: they keep it, they keep it in front of you.
22:50
Speaker 1: They want to force turnovers. Uh. The danger of this
22:53
Speaker 1: for the Jaguars is in the first half of this game,
22:56
Speaker 1: if they have some drives that they don't finish. Uh.
23:00
Speaker 1: If it's ten three at halftime one way or the other,
23:03
Speaker 1: and it's a tight game, then the game short. That
23:08
Speaker 1: was a big part of what the Texans did out
23:09
Speaker 1: here in October when they played. Not only did they
23:13
Speaker 1: get the the weird turnovers, but they had a couple
23:15
Speaker 1: of drives that really shortened that game. And all of
23:17
Speaker 1: a sudden, you looked up and it was five minutes
23:19
Speaker 1: to go and it was tight, and then the Texans
23:22
Speaker 1: got to stop in a touchdown and boom, you're up
23:24
Speaker 1: against it. That's the kind of game you want to avoid.
23:27
Speaker 1: It sounds stupid, of course you want to get ahead
23:29
Speaker 1: in this game. You really would love to see a
23:32
Speaker 1: four teen three jag Wars lead in the first half
23:34
Speaker 1: for you could say, Okay, now we're getting we don't
23:38
Speaker 1: have to think about all that bs and we can
23:43
Speaker 1: just go play. We're okay against him. I don't want
23:46
Speaker 1: to see a couple of takeaways for the Texans earlier,
23:48
Speaker 1: because that turns into that kind of a game and
23:51
Speaker 1: there and they're good enough to win that kind of
23:54
Speaker 1: a game. It's it's what they have gotten themselves into
23:56
Speaker 1: the last three weeks. It's no fluke when you played Dallas, uff,
24:00
Speaker 1: when you play the Chief stuff and you beat the Titans.
24:03
Speaker 1: This is not a team to be taken lightly. Yeah,
24:05
Speaker 1: teams in playoffs spots each of the last three weeks,
24:08
Speaker 1: as you mentioned there, and they lost the Dallas in
24:10
Speaker 1: Kansas City by combined ten points. So they were in
24:13
Speaker 1: absolutely and for people haven't followed it over time against
24:17
Speaker 1: Casey and against Dallas. Uh, they had Dallas backed up
24:22
Speaker 1: and now the Cowboys needed nine yard drive and or
24:26
Speaker 1: plus drive in the last sery mins of the game. Uh,
24:31
Speaker 1: get ahead of them and take that sort of thing
24:33
Speaker 1: out and then big picture moving ahead for Houston this
24:36
Speaker 1: offseason is excuse me, obviously big for them. They have
24:39
Speaker 1: two first round picks. They're currently projected to have the
24:42
Speaker 1: number one overall pick in the draft. They'll also get
24:45
Speaker 1: Cleveland's first round pick, it's currently the eleventh pick. They've
24:49
Speaker 1: got six picks in the first three rounds. In three
24:53
Speaker 1: they also have two first round picks four with the
24:55
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson trade, So you know they may be down
24:59
Speaker 1: right now. But if they drafted properly, obviously we know
25:02
Speaker 1: how that goes. Um you know, in projecting a few
25:05
Speaker 1: years out, if they get a lot of those picks
25:07
Speaker 1: to hit, they could be right back in this thing.
25:09
Speaker 1: You know a few years did they have the ability
25:11
Speaker 1: to get themselves right in a hurry like any franchise
25:15
Speaker 1: in their situation, they clearly along with the rest of
25:19
Speaker 1: the a f C South the FC South South challenge
25:22
Speaker 1: now fundamentally is finding a quarterback so you can start
25:26
Speaker 1: catching up with the Jaguars quarterback. I'm not saying the
25:28
Speaker 1: Jaguars are clear they had the rest of the division
25:30
Speaker 1: right now because they're tied, But over time it appears
25:34
Speaker 1: that the Jaguars have that spot fixed. That puts you
25:37
Speaker 1: on more solid ground than a team that doesn't have
25:39
Speaker 1: that spot fixed. So the Texans, if they can get
25:42
Speaker 1: the quarterback right all of a sudden, they've got a
25:45
Speaker 1: lot to build around that guy. We'll come back in
25:47
Speaker 1: a moment our final thoughts about this matchup, the playoff
25:51
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25:54
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Speaker 1: Up on the Jaguars Digital Network. Welcome back and huddle
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Speaker 1: up on a Wednesday. No Bucky Brooks JP Shadrick john
26:34
Speaker 1: O's are alive. Look outside at the Miller Electric Center
26:36
Speaker 1: under construction, starting to clear the fields. It looks like
26:41
Speaker 1: a little the construction rolling along. Course, this will be
26:44
Speaker 1: ready for business next summer, sometime before training camp. Maybe
26:48
Speaker 1: a little earlier than that, we'll see. But it's moving
26:51
Speaker 1: along nicely. Had it had a chance to walk through
26:53
Speaker 1: the yet, I need to get in there. I assume
26:56
Speaker 1: I'll do that after the season. Yeah, all right, after
26:58
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, right right. I code probably didn't work there.
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27:11
Speaker 1: a look at the a f C playoff picture as
27:14
Speaker 1: it stands today. If the season ended right now, which
27:17
Speaker 1: it never does, the Jaguars would be the number four
27:21
Speaker 1: seed and the a f C South champs. Of course,
27:26
Speaker 1: the Bills are in. Chiefs are in, Bengals are in,
27:29
Speaker 1: the Ravens have clinched the spot. The Chargers where there
27:32
Speaker 1: went on Monday night, are in the playoffs. So there's
27:35
Speaker 1: only two spots remaining, the a f C South champion
27:38
Speaker 1: and then a wild card spot. Currently Miami is in
27:41
Speaker 1: control at the seven seed, but two is out this
27:46
Speaker 1: week with a concussion. Teddy Bridgewater will get the start.
27:49
Speaker 1: The Patriots and the Jets are on their schedule down
27:52
Speaker 1: the stretch. There's a lot to be decided there, and
27:54
Speaker 1: of course there's still an outside shot of the Jaguars
27:58
Speaker 1: backing in as a wild card. Are a lot of
28:00
Speaker 1: things would have to happen. It's so convoluted that it's
28:03
Speaker 1: even difficult to discuss. It's convoluted, but uh, it's not
28:09
Speaker 1: really that out of the question. There's like three things.
28:12
Speaker 1: Miami losing it is part of it. It's a difficult part,
28:15
Speaker 1: but with two out, that's not that difficult. I keep
28:19
Speaker 1: going back, remember last week green Bay went in with
28:23
Speaker 1: like this four percent chance. However, you figure that out
28:26
Speaker 1: a four percent chance, and by the end of the night,
28:29
Speaker 1: I'm not sure they can trow their destiny. But it's
28:31
Speaker 1: club not yet, not yet. But because everybody had four
28:34
Speaker 1: teams on Christmas Eve lost that they needed to lose
28:37
Speaker 1: before their games Sunday in Miami. UM. So again that's why,
28:46
Speaker 1: if you're Doug, you play these guys, because the Titans
28:51
Speaker 1: are resting all their guys this week, so it could
28:54
Speaker 1: get that game in the last game of the season
28:58
Speaker 1: is no guarantee. So if you can enhance your wild
29:01
Speaker 1: card chances, enhance your wild card chances, go play this
29:04
Speaker 1: week and in this nine game skit against the Texans too.
29:08
Speaker 1: By the way, they've won twenty of the last twenty
29:10
Speaker 1: four meetings, and that you've got a chance. And I
29:13
Speaker 1: haven't looked it up, but it's been a long time
29:16
Speaker 1: around here since you've beaten all the teams in your
29:19
Speaker 1: division in the same year. They didn't do it in seventeen.
29:23
Speaker 1: They haven't done it since, so and you can look
29:26
Speaker 1: it up, but that's been a minute. So go into
29:29
Speaker 1: next season without any of those things and feeling like
29:33
Speaker 1: you're the best team win the Division B nine and eight,
29:35
Speaker 1: feel like you're a good team. Uh at this point,
29:39
Speaker 1: this team hasn't the outher side of it too, seem
29:41
Speaker 1: hasn't done enough to not want to keep winning. That's right.
29:45
Speaker 1: And just listening to Josh Allen in the locker room,
29:47
Speaker 1: you and I were standing with him right before the show.
29:49
Speaker 1: He's never had a winning record here, like they would
29:52
Speaker 1: like to have a winning record nine and eight at
29:54
Speaker 1: the end of the regular season. So it's I mean,
29:57
Speaker 1: those are all the reasons that you don't rest guys,
29:59
Speaker 1: and they won't guy. Isn't good for them feeling good
30:01
Speaker 1: about it? Yeah, I mean it's uh as good as
30:07
Speaker 1: you can. You always know in the NFL things can
30:09
Speaker 1: happen that you don't win. But they're the better team,
30:12
Speaker 1: they're playing better, they're motivated, they're focused. Uh, they should
30:16
Speaker 1: go win. I think the formula for them not going
30:19
Speaker 1: and winning is turnovers for the Texans and the Jagger
30:23
Speaker 1: is not playing well. Well, that's the formula in every game.
30:26
Speaker 1: So uh, if you don't do the things that the
30:30
Speaker 1: better team can do to lose games, then I think
30:32
Speaker 1: you go win the game. We'll see if they can
30:34
Speaker 1: get it done this Sunday at NRG Stadium in Houston.
30:37
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Speaker 1: to David Choe, Brent Reaver, our entire crew for John Osier.
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Speaker 1: I'm j P. Shadrick, Jaguars, Texans one o'clock this Sunday.
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