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Fred Taylor: Run game is crucial in slowing down Chargers Defense | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Time for a weekly visit with pride of the Jaguars,
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  Speaker 1: running back Fred Taylor. The Jacksonville Jaguars are in first
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  Speaker 1: place in the A F C south. Friend is that? Man?
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  Speaker 1: I wanted it the echo throughout Jacksonville. Right, at least
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  Speaker 1: that's where it starts. But we haven't said that in
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  Speaker 1: quite some time. But it feels good. I know it's only, uh,
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  Speaker 1: week three now, but you gotta celebrate your Wins Right.
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  Speaker 1: That builds confidence and that allows you to believe in
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  Speaker 1: yourself and what you're capable of. So it's a good start.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good start. I really believe they should be
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  Speaker 1: two or oh, but it's the NFL. The other teams
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  Speaker 1: should be something and something. Uh, everyone believes they should
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  Speaker 1: win every week. But man, JP, those guys look great
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  Speaker 1: on defense. A week ago the offense was steady. Again,
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  Speaker 1: big saluted trevor. I really think that. You know, if
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  Speaker 1: the defense didn't play so well, he would have gotten
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  Speaker 1: player of the game, but he was deservingly uh, he
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  Speaker 1: was deserving of a nod since because, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: it was his best game as a pro. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the driver's seat, guys, long season. Got Another what
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  Speaker 1: do we have left another fifteen, including today. Right. So Um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: long season still left. A couple of years ago, I
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  Speaker 1: mean we would only be in week two with fifteen
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  Speaker 1: games remaining. But a salute to those guys man. Job
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  Speaker 1: Well done. Got To get this one a day. So,
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  Speaker 1: week to week league and Doug Peterson earlier this week
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  Speaker 1: was asked about running the ball not as much last
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  Speaker 1: week and the way they threw it around in the
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  Speaker 1: short yardage stuff. He said you do what it takes
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  Speaker 1: to win the game. Games every week. They might run
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  Speaker 1: it forty times one week if they have to, and
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  Speaker 1: they might throw it forty times the next. That's just
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  Speaker 1: the way this offense is going to run and that
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  Speaker 1: just feels a little different around here. Listen, that's just
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  Speaker 1: the way the NFL is now, you know, prior to
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and eleven, when they switched up to C
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  Speaker 1: B A and uh, you know, a lot of rules
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  Speaker 1: have followed, you know, building up to that. And now
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  Speaker 1: we're in the past league. We're in the past league.
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  Speaker 1: Back in the day it was a run first league
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  Speaker 1: and you can ask those questions. Why didn't we run
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  Speaker 1: in twenty five plus? You know, and I agree with
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  Speaker 1: coach Peterson, you do what it takes to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: You know, point blank, period simple trending around the league.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm into fantasy football here lately and I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at these running backs in their six carries, seven carries,
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  Speaker 1: nine carries. I mean superstar running back, the Derrick Henry's
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  Speaker 1: of the world. Look at what Jonathan Taylor left last
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  Speaker 1: week's game. I don't know if he had got double
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  Speaker 1: digit carries. I know in the first half it was
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  Speaker 1: only like five carries for four yards and that wasn't
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  Speaker 1: gonna work for them to win their games. So their
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  Speaker 1: coaches said, we have to abort and give it to
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  Speaker 1: Mike Matt Ryan Fifty Times to let him try to
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  Speaker 1: bring us back. So whatever it takes to win the game,
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  Speaker 1: that's what you do. Coach Peterson is a super bowl
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  Speaker 1: winning head coach. You'RE gonna question him? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, script it up, you know study it,
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  Speaker 1: scripted up, whatever it takes to getting sometimes the course
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  Speaker 1: of the game changes, D Pete, you never know what
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  Speaker 1: you're in you know. You see somethingone take, if that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't work. What makes you a great coach and a
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  Speaker 1: great team is you're able to make those adjustments and
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  Speaker 1: uh make the most of it and uh come away
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  Speaker 1: with victories. Pride of the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor
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  Speaker 1: is with us. Let's move it ahead now to the
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  Speaker 1: game today against the L A chargers. It's a chargers
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  Speaker 1: team that many picked to win the A F C West.
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  Speaker 1: It's a tough division, obviously, with all those teams there.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody upgraded, it felt like, in the offseason at least,
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  Speaker 1: either with a pass rusher or a quarterback or some
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  Speaker 1: kind of skill player. But Hey, let's start at the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert's not he has a rib issue and you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you're a quarterback with a RIB issue, if you're
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  Speaker 1: a broadcaster with a rib issue, that's not a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: So h what's what's the plan against the guy like
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  Speaker 1: Herbert today who might be limited in the in his
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  Speaker 1: mobility and his pain threshold? Well, the plan for for me,
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  Speaker 1: first and foremost, JP, it's the trip. I'm an old
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  Speaker 1: school guy, right. I mean I played thirteen years and
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  Speaker 1: throughout my career it was the uh San Diego chargers
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  Speaker 1: and the Washington redskins. So two out of the first
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  Speaker 1: three games, I gotta remind myself we got different team names. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: that's where it starts with me. But to answer your question,
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  Speaker 1: the chargers tall task with a very tall quarterback who
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  Speaker 1: has some very long and tall I would assume he
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  Speaker 1: has tall ribs, which might mean they might hurt a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more with this fracture, cartilage fracture, that he's
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  Speaker 1: dealing with. I don't know. I alluded to on the
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  Speaker 1: post game show. I had some I had to my
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  Speaker 1: injury back in the past, some years ago, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't feel great. You know, it does, whether you're
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  Speaker 1: you're twisting, you're turning. You know, I I alluded to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, using the restroom, at whatever points in time
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  Speaker 1: you use the restroom, that it also hurts when you're
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  Speaker 1: on the toilet. Uh. So I believe that if the
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  Speaker 1: guys get a good shot on him, which I think
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  Speaker 1: they will, because they've been playing great defense, uh, in
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  Speaker 1: the first two weeks they've gotten a lot of pressure
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  Speaker 1: on the opposing quarterbacks. Um. But this guy is different,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's taller, he gets the ball out quicker,
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  Speaker 1: he has pretty good receivers. Um. Uh, he has a
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  Speaker 1: nice core receivers, some running backs that are capable and
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  Speaker 1: they don't have to just depend on him the entire game.
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  Speaker 1: You know they're gonna do something fancy where they're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna allow him to hold the ball. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you will see a lot of play action passes
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  Speaker 1: out of them, because that requires holding the ball, letting
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  Speaker 1: the play develop a bit more, which gives the defensive
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  Speaker 1: front a little bit more time to get to him.
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  Speaker 1: But again, he came back in after he heard his
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  Speaker 1: uh ribs against the chiefs. He came back in and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, try to close out the game for him.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately didn't happen, but he's a tough guy. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we have to worry about ourselves. We have to be
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  Speaker 1: on point, we have to cover when it's time to cover.
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  Speaker 1: You know, stop the run when it's time to stop run.
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  Speaker 1: And on the flip side, Um, the offense is going
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  Speaker 1: up against a great defensive front, you know, and Bossa
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  Speaker 1: Khalil Mack. You know, they had some additions on the
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  Speaker 1: back end with J C Jackson. Uh Derham James just
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  Speaker 1: got the big mega deal, the highest pace safety in
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  Speaker 1: the game. So the offense has a lot on their
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  Speaker 1: play too. But still, at the end of the day
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  Speaker 1: it comes down to uh, executing, making the plays that
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  Speaker 1: are there to be made, and whatever happens is gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: And hopefully what happens is the Jag will be successful
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  Speaker 1: on the West Coast and they come back on there's
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  Speaker 1: all smiles on their faces. Fred Taylor with us? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you about Botha and Mac, and
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  Speaker 1: those I mean. Mac is a large human being to
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  Speaker 1: begin with, long arms and just a different kind of
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  Speaker 1: setup than Bosa, it feels like, to Florida Boys. Right, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's right. Um. So how do you slow these guys down?
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  Speaker 1: Run the football, right, you do want to run the football.
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  Speaker 1: That's the best neutral neutralizer for some great pass rushers
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  Speaker 1: is to run the ball. Throw them off and their
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  Speaker 1: first instinct isn't just gonna be let's go get the quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be hold up, we gotta stop this run,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta brace down and stop the run so that
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  Speaker 1: split second can be key and and and neutralizing them,
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  Speaker 1: or at least slowing them down. And on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of it, when you are in the past game
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  Speaker 1: and pass mode, what you want to do, J P,
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  Speaker 1: when you're in past mode is, uh, half the backs
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  Speaker 1: released chip, quick release chip. Or maybe, if the those
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  Speaker 1: guys are really a huge threat, which they can be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you instead of chipping them, you could take
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  Speaker 1: a bigger piece out of them, and we like to
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  Speaker 1: call those chunks. Uh, you know, like the cookies, right,
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  Speaker 1: you have chips and you have chunks. For the people
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  Speaker 1: that are slow in the back that didn't understand the terminology. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you can take a chunk out of them and you
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  Speaker 1: really slow them down. Uh. In that case you could
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  Speaker 1: really take some real strong rib shots uh, and that
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  Speaker 1: will help buy the quarterback sometime, which allowed the guys
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  Speaker 1: get opened out Phil and allowed for the offense a
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  Speaker 1: better opportunity to execute. All Right, Fred Finals thought. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's all this talk about all this personnel in L
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  Speaker 1: A and we just mentioned a lot of the names there.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what, though, there's there's good players on
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  Speaker 1: this Jaguars team too. They stepped up well last week.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's it's a there's some confidence in this
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  Speaker 1: building over here too. They can go to the west coast.
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  Speaker 1: They're not worried about the past record on the West Coast.
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  Speaker 1: None of these guys were here for a lot of
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  Speaker 1: those games up against the chargers this week and there's
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  Speaker 1: there's confidence they can do that. Look, I think we
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  Speaker 1: get carried away with we meaning fans. I'm a fan,
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  Speaker 1: you're a fan. You know, fans listening to the pregame show, uh,
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  Speaker 1: we you know. We we hear about these free agents
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  Speaker 1: and the moves and these superstar guys. We know what
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  Speaker 1: Khalil Mac you know what he did prior to uh
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  Speaker 1: going up to Chicago, and then he hadn't done a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot in the past couple of years. Um. We
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  Speaker 1: know Bosa. He's a great young talent. We know if
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  Speaker 1: his brother and we we know of all these. You
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  Speaker 1: know these names. But again, there was quite some time jp,
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  Speaker 1: and I know you recalled this, the New England patriots.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't care what the names were on back of
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  Speaker 1: their jerseys. They inserted guys and those guys went out
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  Speaker 1: to play and they became superstars in the process. No
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  Speaker 1: one knew who Julian Leddelman was, you know, before he
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  Speaker 1: took off, because Wes Welker, he's a good player, but
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't just a household superstar name. And here we
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  Speaker 1: had have the Christian Kirk a guy who is an
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  Speaker 1: amazing playmaker. You have a James Robinson, a guy who
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  Speaker 1: was undrafted, uh, fighting through an Achilles injury. He's back
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  Speaker 1: now and he's looking amazing. You know, we have a
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  Speaker 1: young running back in travis e t N. he's capable.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you have zay Jones talking to their receivers,
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  Speaker 1: receivers coach, last week before the start of the last game.
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  Speaker 1: He's like people hadn't seen everything that's that is capable of,
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  Speaker 1: and he's not even the number two, one or two guy.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Marvin Jones, the consummate pro, just an amazing veteran,
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  Speaker 1: consistent vet uh, and that's just on the offense. And
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  Speaker 1: then on the defense you have some good, you know,
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  Speaker 1: very good players, not big names, but all of that
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  Speaker 1: is it makes for the matchup. You know, once that
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  Speaker 1: clock strikes uh, when the ball is kicked off and
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  Speaker 1: and it's time to go, all of that goes out
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  Speaker 1: the window. You know, players aren't saying, Oh, I'm starstruck,
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  Speaker 1: this is you know, such and such. It's gonna make
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  Speaker 1: me play there for no, I want to give you
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  Speaker 1: my best. If you're considered the best, I want to
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  Speaker 1: give you my best. I'M gonna be a name at
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  Speaker 1: the end of this game. And that's what it's about.
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  Speaker 1: Winning the game is really what it's truly about and uh,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully those guys can come back home with a victory today,
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  Speaker 1: because we're gonna need it, you know. We want to
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  Speaker 1: continue to stay in first place. You gotta Win the
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  Speaker 1: Games that your your schedule, and hopefully this will be
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  Speaker 1: the will be one of them. Bred always great to
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  Speaker 1: visit with you. Thanks for the inside as always, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk to you in the post game a little
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  Speaker 1: bit later. JP. Always a pleasure, man. I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 1: I see you in a few