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Ep. 15: A Week 1 Look at the AFC South | Jags A.M. Podcast · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Now it's Labor Day. That's the unofficial end of the summer.
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Speaker 1: Now that it's football season, gentlemen, what is your favorite
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Speaker 1: part of football season?
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Speaker 2: Fall? I love the fall end of summer. Same answer.
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Speaker 1: Welcome into jags Am presented by car Shield or here
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Speaker 1: in Hyundai Studios, our new studios. This is going to
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Speaker 1: be our new home from now on for jags Am.
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Speaker 1: So we're really excited to kick off the season here
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Speaker 1: and get to talk a little bit of football. Finally, guys,
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Speaker 1: I know I don't know what fall actually means. The
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Speaker 1: terms weather wisier, but I am excited.
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Speaker 2: For football to start.
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Speaker 3: Fall shows up about November okay here, which is great.
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Speaker 3: You get that little kool breeze in the morning, but
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Speaker 3: you've got two months of summer still, which is what
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Speaker 3: Southern football fans like because it's an advantage for them
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Speaker 3: when teams come down from the norths.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, once October hits, it's not quite as bad.
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Speaker 4: You'll get a little more fall. And answered up your question.
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Speaker 4: I had a hard time answering a football season fall
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Speaker 4: except for when you were a kid and it meant
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Speaker 4: the start of school.
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Speaker 2: What's bad about it?
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Speaker 1: It's the best time of year.
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Speaker 4: To me, it's always been the default best season, maybe
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Speaker 4: because probably because it's football season.
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Speaker 3: Well, and you know it starts on Friday morning around here.
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Speaker 3: There's a really intense vibe all the way through, and
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Speaker 3: Friday morning seems to have a little different feel and
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Speaker 3: NFL Friday, and then it continues through high school football,
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Speaker 3: right because I've got one playing and people who love
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Speaker 3: high school football, and then Saturday you've got college, and
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Speaker 3: then Sunday you got It's three days of this feeling
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Speaker 3: of football that makes it so much fun.
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Speaker 1: It's certainly a turn in the calendar. And we love
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Speaker 1: it of course here because now we get to finally
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Speaker 1: talk about some actual football games. Are we're gonna start
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Speaker 1: with our big things for our first week of the
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Speaker 1: regular season. So the first thing that is our big
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Speaker 1: thing is the Hunted. Now that they won division, they've
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Speaker 1: proven themselves to a certain degree by the way they
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Speaker 1: finished last season, jack Wards are gonna be hunted this year.
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Speaker 1: They're not sneaking up on anybody, So, Brian, when you
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Speaker 1: look at the team this year in terms of expectations,
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Speaker 1: or not necessarily that, but just when they go out
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Speaker 1: and face these games and their opponents are ready for them.
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Speaker 1: What's the difference when you face teams that way.
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Speaker 3: Well, there's two guys in particular that I'm looking for, right,
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Speaker 3: because last year this team was all about that upstart
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Speaker 3: energy and you know, they were all new and together.
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Speaker 3: But this year, Brandon Scherff on the offensive line and
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Speaker 3: Roy Robertson Harris on the defensive line to me, epitomize
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Speaker 3: what you're looking for, which is that mentality of I'm
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Speaker 3: a badass, You're gonna line up against me and I'm
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Speaker 3: gonna win, right, And that's the mentality whether you're playing
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Speaker 3: the Chiefs in Week two or whether you're playing the
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Speaker 3: Ravens or Bengals, you know, on prime time in Jacksonville,
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Speaker 3: you've got to have that mentality when you line up
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Speaker 3: that you were equal to them. And those two guys
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Speaker 3: sort of personify that because no matter who they line
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Speaker 3: up against, their equal to the task.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna go a little bit of a different direction,
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Speaker 4: and I get that they're the Hut, but my senses
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Speaker 4: that there's still a little bit of a thought around
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Speaker 4: the league of are.
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Speaker 2: They for real yet?
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Speaker 4: And talking to my friend Mike Chapl who's covered.
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Speaker 2: The Colts for forty years.
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Speaker 4: When he was listing off the top of the Colts schedule,
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Speaker 4: he mentioned Jacksonville, but then as a whole, he said
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Speaker 4: the schedule, if the Colts are okay, they can get
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Speaker 4: through it.
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Speaker 2: Jackson in Jacksonville sort of still had to prove itself.
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Speaker 4: They went nine and eight, and I think they'll be hunted,
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Speaker 4: but there's still a feeling on this team, and I
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Speaker 4: think it's what'll protect them from feeling hunted. They went
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Speaker 4: nine and eight last year. Guys, they were one game
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Speaker 4: from not being in the playoffs. They still have to
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Speaker 4: prove themselves and I think that'll work to their advantage.
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Speaker 3: Sure, but I do think when you pick up an
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Speaker 3: article right the Athletic this morning has the top twenty
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Speaker 3: three most intriguing players, and you've got two of them
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Speaker 3: on there, and the quarterback happened to be listed very highly.
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Speaker 3: Calvin Ridley's there as well. I get that they went
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Speaker 3: nine to eight last year, but no one's going to
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Speaker 3: overlook them like some teams probably do. I mean Dallas
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Speaker 3: in here last year, they were not thinking they were
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Speaker 3: going to have a fight on their hands. They thought
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Speaker 3: they put up thirty five points, they'd put a little
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Speaker 3: pressure with their top rated defense on Trevor and everything
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Speaker 3: would collapse. So I do get it, John, I mean
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Speaker 3: nine to eight is not world beaters. You haven't won
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Speaker 3: a trophy yet. But this team has enough traction. It's
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Speaker 3: probably the best word kind to describe it.
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Speaker 2: It's got enough.
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Speaker 3: Traction in the media and thus in the football world
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Speaker 3: to make people stand up and take notice of them.
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Speaker 1: We cover this team every day, so obviously we have
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Speaker 1: high expectations. That's our second big thing, just from what
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Speaker 1: we've seen. If everyone stays healthy and they, you know,
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Speaker 1: accomplish what we think they can accomplish. What are realistic
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Speaker 1: expectations for this team this year? John, I want to
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Speaker 1: start with you, what's the ceiling for them? If they
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Speaker 1: play to their highest capability.
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Speaker 4: Well, if the offense is what it looked like in
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Speaker 4: the first quarter of the third preseason game, which to
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Speaker 4: me felt like an offense that was flexing its muscles,
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Speaker 4: and you know, it was almost like at started the
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Speaker 4: Kentucky Derby when the horses are kicking.
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Speaker 2: At the gate to get out.
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Speaker 4: It felt like that if this offense is that high powered,
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Speaker 4: if it's top three, then I think AFC Championship Game
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Speaker 4: two or three seed, and you're in that group. I
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Speaker 4: think of the Bills and the Bengals and the Chiefs
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Speaker 4: as sort of the group in the AFC. If they're
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Speaker 4: what we think they could be offensively, then they're in
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Speaker 4: that group.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how you tell the difference in that
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Speaker 2: group right now.
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Speaker 4: I don't know that I can put them with Patrick
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Speaker 4: Mahomes and Burrow and Josh Allen on those teams. I
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Speaker 4: can't see the Jags being above that group automatically going
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Speaker 4: to the playoffs, but they should be in it.
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Speaker 3: I would think they're in it. You know, last year
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Speaker 3: the Jaguars had that five game streak where they were
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Speaker 3: losing games by a field goal or a touchdown at
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Speaker 3: the end of the ball game when they gave up
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Speaker 3: the lead in the final two minutes. So I asked
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Speaker 3: the head coach after the season, did you think nine
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Speaker 3: wins was achievable? And I'm not gonna tell you the
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Speaker 3: number he told me, but he thought more than nine
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Speaker 3: wins was achievable last year. So with an improved roster
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Speaker 3: this year, with a quarterback who's got another year in
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Speaker 3: the system, you know, eleven twelve wins seems to be
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Speaker 3: something that you can look at now, you got to
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Speaker 3: stay healthy, and they stayed healthy last year. I'm with
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Speaker 3: John And when you look at the best teams, you
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Speaker 3: look at those three teams that he mentioned, and you
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Speaker 3: throw the Eagles in the in the NFC, and you know,
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Speaker 3: maybe San Francisco out there as well. But you know,
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Speaker 3: I think the Jaguars are in that next group of
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Speaker 3: teams that if they have a good year and if
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Speaker 3: the quarterback takes the step the next year, we're talking
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Speaker 3: about them in in this way.
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Speaker 1: And it's nice to be at a point where you
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Speaker 1: could maybe say super Bowl and it's not completely out
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Speaker 1: of the realm of possibility, because certainly, if you're talking
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Speaker 1: AFC Championship game, anything can happen at that point. And
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Speaker 1: while we like to make fun of some of those
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Speaker 1: lists where Trevor Lawrence doesn't get as much credit as
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Speaker 1: we think he is due, they have been giving him
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Speaker 1: some praise nationally at least the last couple of months.
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Speaker 1: I feel like people have taken notice and people do
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Speaker 1: expect that jump from him this year, as we do
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Speaker 1: as he hits the field, and hopefully we see that
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Speaker 1: in Week one against the Colts on the road, our
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Speaker 1: final big thing this week is our new digs because
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Speaker 1: we want to show you show off our new studio.
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Speaker 1: We finally we're in the Miller Electric Center. We have
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Speaker 1: our new home out here. John's a little upset we
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Speaker 1: didn't let them wear shorts and flip flops today.
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Speaker 2: I'm not a flip flop guy.
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Speaker 4: But I do have socks because Dave, you can't just
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Speaker 4: told me towhere socks all right?
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Speaker 3: And I like my seat here because I may or
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Speaker 3: mind I have socks on.
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Speaker 1: We'll never know. Anyway. We love our new studio. We
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Speaker 1: got a lot of new technology in here. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: be doing film room, touchscreen, a lot of fun stuff
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Speaker 1: we can bring to you here with our new resources.
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Speaker 1: So we love our new digs and just want to
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Speaker 1: show them off a little bit. Stay with us. Coming up,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna go over the AFC South, what we have
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Speaker 1: we're back here. We're going to talk a little bit
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Speaker 1: about the AFC South because while the Jaguars won the
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Speaker 1: division last year, there are high expectations and what are
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Speaker 1: they facing off, what are they looking at across the
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Speaker 1: rest of the division. We'll start off with the Colts
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Speaker 1: because that's who they're playing first, and not a great
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Speaker 1: year last year, they're definitely in rebuild mode. We look
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Speaker 1: at their new head coach there, of John What stands
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Speaker 1: out to you as the biggest change for them this year?
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Speaker 2: Well, I think everything you know.
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Speaker 4: It's again I spoke with Mike Chappell, who's been around
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Speaker 4: that team for forty years. Not having Jonathan Taylor in
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Speaker 4: this league right now, a running back typically isn't seen
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Speaker 4: as the Bellweather at most franchises.
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Speaker 2: He's the guy at that franchise.
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Speaker 4: As recently as two or three months ago, they were
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Speaker 4: talking about needing him on the field to compliment Anthony
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Speaker 4: richardson that with that sort of dynamic, and now all
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Speaker 4: of a sudden and they don't have that they're going
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Speaker 4: into the season with a rookie quarterback. I expect them
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Speaker 4: to challenge the Jaguars on Sunday, because Week one can
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Speaker 4: be weird. I don't expect them to be consistent enough
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Speaker 4: all through the season to contend anything close to the
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Speaker 4: division title.
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Speaker 2: But it's a franchise.
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Speaker 4: That oddly seemed very very close until by midway through
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Speaker 4: last season, and then all of a sudden they sort
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Speaker 4: of fell off the map, and now they feel like
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Speaker 4: it's sort of in shambles a little bit, and they're
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Speaker 4: trying to put it back together.
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Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be a long year for them.
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Speaker 3: Oh it's gonna be a really long year for them.
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Speaker 3: Maybe they win five games this year. But to me,
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Speaker 3: the biggest issue is that they are completely retooling John
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Speaker 3: the way that they played football. This was always a
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Speaker 3: team that was built on the passing game with Peyton
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Speaker 3: and Andrew Luck and of course you know they tried
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Speaker 3: with Philip Rivers through Matt Ryan, and they never got
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Speaker 3: it the way that they wanted to get it. Well,
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Speaker 3: now you're radically overhauling because you're going to that Philadelphia
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Speaker 3: style that was so effective with Jalen Hurts in that
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Speaker 3: running game, and of course they had that number one receiver,
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Speaker 3: that guy that they brought in they traded for aj
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Speaker 3: from the Titans, and it opened everything up. Well, I
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Speaker 3: don't see them having that over the top receiver. They've
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Speaker 3: got a quarterback who never really threw much in college
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Speaker 3: and now he's coming into the NFL. What he does,
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Speaker 3: I mean, he does really, really well. It's just not
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Speaker 3: a very big body of work. So I think this
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Speaker 3: is a team in transition this year, and it's probably
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Speaker 3: two maybe three years away in terms of being completely
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Speaker 3: effective like the Eagles system is.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they're dangerous because this kid once a
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Speaker 4: half can do something like this.
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Speaker 3: You can keep it close for sure.
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Speaker 4: Can he do it enough in pressure situations you would think,
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Speaker 4: not being a rookie quarterback.
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Speaker 3: One other thing to note on them is that, you know,
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Speaker 3: last year, their offensive line, which I think we would
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Speaker 3: all agree was one of the best in the NFL
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Speaker 3: for a number of years, it really fell off sharply.
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Speaker 3: I mean, even Quentin Nelson, they're all pro left guard,
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Speaker 3: fell off sharply. They've dropped did a young tackle. They're
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Speaker 3: excited about him, Ryan Kelly in the middle of that
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Speaker 3: offensive line, when he's playing well, is one of the
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Speaker 3: best centers in football. They could see more success running
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Speaker 3: the ball if that offensive line is what it was
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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty twenty twenty one as opposed to what
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Speaker 3: it was in twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 1: I know we mentioned that. Obviously, Jonathan Taylor is the
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Speaker 1: big story of him not being there. It's gonna affect
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Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson a lot because when you don't have that
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Speaker 1: safety valve of a very talented running back to help
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Speaker 1: distract a little bit of the attention, all the focus
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Speaker 1: is going to be on the rookie QB. So definitely
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Speaker 1: could be a long year. Now we're gonna look at
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Speaker 1: Houston because they've had a lot of change as well.
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Speaker 1: But I feel like the upside for them is huge, right,
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Speaker 1: There's a lot more positive, you know things coming out
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Speaker 1: of that camp. Everybody loves Jamiko. Ryan's over there. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: they're enamored with CJ. Stroud what they think he can be,
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Speaker 1: and I feel like the vibe Brian is different for them.
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Speaker 1: They were in a not great place. I think it's
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Speaker 1: a little bit wells.
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Speaker 3: You the one thing that they did, John was they
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Speaker 3: went out and they spent a ton of money, kind
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Speaker 3: of like the Draguars did, but on mid level guys,
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Speaker 3: just guys that would allow them to line up and compete.
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Speaker 3: They still lack that explosiveness down the field that Brandon
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Speaker 3: Cooks gave them. The young running back from Florida last
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Speaker 3: year who had what four or five hundred yard games,
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Speaker 3: is a guy that I think they have a lot
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Speaker 3: of upside for. It's just you've got a rookie quarterback
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Speaker 3: and a defensive minded head coach who doesn't have the
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Speaker 3: players that he had in San Francisco. Here's the one
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Speaker 3: thing they do have. They have lots of draft capital
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Speaker 3: and lots of cap room. So if Stroud can play,
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Speaker 3: they can turn this thing around quickly. Because unlike Richardson,
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Speaker 3: he threw the ball all over the field at Ohio State.
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Speaker 3: Remember all the great receivers that he had in Columbus.
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Speaker 3: So if they can get that defense going and find
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Speaker 3: a couple of guys in free agency in the draft,
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Speaker 3: it shouldn't take them long.
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Speaker 4: It's interesting this division right now has two teams in
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Speaker 4: very similar spots. When you've sort of torn it down
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Speaker 4: and now you have rookie quarterbacks who are going to start.
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Speaker 4: I think the phrase you would use is both of
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Speaker 4: these franchises. Probably with the Colts for years obviously they
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Speaker 4: were sort of piece me on the quarterback position, trying
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Speaker 4: to get there that year.
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Speaker 2: Well, now they.
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Speaker 4: At least have hope for the future. If this kid's okay,
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Speaker 4: then you've got a Trevor Lawrence situation, you know, or
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Speaker 4: a Josh Allen situation, any of those guys.
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Speaker 2: Same story with the Texans. So you would think.
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Speaker 4: The Jaguars have a little window Jaguars and Titans, I
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Speaker 4: would where they're gonna be the two teams in the division.
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Speaker 4: That window doesn't all always last this time last year,
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Speaker 4: teams thought they had a long window waiting for the
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Speaker 4: Jaguars and then a sudden Jaguars took it.
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Speaker 2: So it's not.
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Speaker 4: Guaranteed, but those two situations should give the Jaguars and
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Speaker 4: Titans a window where it's just each other well.
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Speaker 3: And both of those franchises are willing to be patient,
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Speaker 3: right because both of them weren't in recent years. Now
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Speaker 3: they're all in on the rebuild and they understand that
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Speaker 3: sometimes in the NFL, being patient and accepting where you
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Speaker 3: are puts you in a position to improve dramatically. In
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Speaker 3: the draft, right if you're picking in the top ten
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Speaker 3: of the draft. The next two years, these two teams
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Speaker 3: have a chance to really restock.
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Speaker 4: And it'll be interesting to see how patient the Colt
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Speaker 4: Stata because since.
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Speaker 2: Jim's been the owner there, they have not had to
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Speaker 2: be patient.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they got Peyton and the next year they were good.
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Speaker 4: They got Andrew Luck, the next year they were good.
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Speaker 4: He's not that known to be patient, so be It'll
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Speaker 4: be interesting to see how they play that out. I
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Speaker 4: think the Texans will be patient.
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Speaker 3: But that's such a huge decision to take Anthony richardson
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Speaker 3: because we all know what we do, especially because we
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Speaker 3: saw him in games. But we all know that he's
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Speaker 3: gonna take time. He is a legitimate project. Peyton wasn't
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Speaker 3: that much of a project, and neither was Andrew Luck.
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Speaker 3: So you just wonder if you're making that institutional decision
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Speaker 3: if the owner doesn't know that he has to be
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Speaker 3: but you know him better than.
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Speaker 1: Most And as we have seen here, once you have
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Speaker 1: the quarterback or what you think will be the future
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Speaker 1: of your franchise, you can rebuild around them very quickly,
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Speaker 1: as we've seen the Jaguars do in the last two seasons.
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson, All right, let's check out the Titans because
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Speaker 1: that's gonna be the real threat within the division. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: so they were seven and ten last year, they did
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Speaker 1: not finish very well. Jaguars finished very well and ended
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Speaker 1: up winning the division. Mike Rable's been around for this
15:01
Speaker 1: will be his sixth season, so he's had tons of
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Speaker 1: success since he's been there. DeAndre Hopkins is added to
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Speaker 1: that offense. Ryan Tannehill, Derrick Henry is amazing as always. Uh,
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Speaker 1: what is it gonna be for them? Is it just
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Speaker 1: staying healthy?
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Speaker 2: John?
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Speaker 1: What are you looking at in terms of them being successful?
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Speaker 4: Well, I think they're dangerous because they know exactly what
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Speaker 4: they are and who they want to be, and they
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Speaker 4: know how Mike Rabel wants them to play. So when
15:31
Speaker 4: you have that and you've got some experienced guys, meaning
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Speaker 4: you have Derrick Henry that you know that that's your guy.
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Speaker 4: I anticipate the last three weeks of the season, the
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Speaker 4: Jaguars and Titans will be close enough to each other
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Speaker 4: with this team's.
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Speaker 2: Gonna be a factor.
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Speaker 4: There's a lot of fans and a lot of Jaguars
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Speaker 4: fans saw the Titans lose what's seven in a row
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Speaker 4: at the end of last year and think, well, the
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Speaker 4: JAG's gonna run away for the division. I don't think
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Speaker 4: they're running away from the Titans. I think this team
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Speaker 4: knows how to play to what it is, and I
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Speaker 4: think they're dangerous. I think those I think the two
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Speaker 4: teams will split this year and it's gonna be interesting
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Speaker 4: going into the second half the season.
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Speaker 3: I'm not as high on them because I think they
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Speaker 3: realized they're at the end of the run. Tannehill and
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Speaker 3: Henry are both still there. DeAndre Hopkins feels to me
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Speaker 3: like that receiver you know, everyone grabs one. We grab
16:20
Speaker 3: Tory Holt here in the you know, two thousand and
16:22
Speaker 3: eight and bring him in. Oh, we've got Tory hold
16:24
Speaker 3: here we go. Right, it's gonna change everything. Their offensive
16:28
Speaker 3: line is being entirely rebuilt. You saw they brought in
16:30
Speaker 3: Andre Dillard, who was a bust in Philadelphia. Their defense
16:34
Speaker 3: is very talented. That was their downfall last year. All
16:37
Speaker 3: those guys got hurt and the offense couldn't score enough
16:40
Speaker 3: points to overcome a defense that couldn't keep other teams
16:42
Speaker 3: out of the end zone. But I just they feel
16:45
Speaker 3: like a team to me, that's holding on and it's
16:48
Speaker 3: because of Tannehill and because of Derrick Henry. And you
16:51
Speaker 3: know Derrick Henry at some moment he's just and it
16:54
Speaker 3: may even be now he's not the same Derrick Henry
16:57
Speaker 3: right where he can just take over a game and
16:59
Speaker 3: just run the roost. Maybe maybe I'm wrong. It just
17:03
Speaker 3: seems to me like this is a team. I do
17:06
Speaker 3: think that they are going to be dangerous, but I
17:08
Speaker 3: am not as convinced. Here's what I do like about them.
17:12
Speaker 3: I think Mike Vrabel is a tremendous coach. You saw
17:15
Speaker 3: his record fifty and thirty seven, and he's got a
17:18
Speaker 3: couple of AFC South titles to his name, so they
17:21
Speaker 3: can get something done. I just they seem to need
17:24
Speaker 3: to be like that team like the Colts the last
17:25
Speaker 3: couple of years, unwilling to just move on.
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Speaker 1: They're definitely gonna work with what they have there. And
17:30
Speaker 1: as we mentioned, Rabel finds a way usually, so we'll
17:32
Speaker 1: see what he rolls out this season and see how
17:35
Speaker 1: things fare coming up. We're gonna do some hot takes
17:38
Speaker 1: for Week one and for this season, so stay with us.
17:43
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17:52
Speaker 1: Welcome back into Jags am here in Hyundai Studios, and
17:55
Speaker 1: we're doing hot takes because why not. We've won, you know,
17:58
Speaker 1: less than a week away, so now they we're finally
18:00
Speaker 1: talking football. Brian, you got a wider.
18:02
Speaker 2: Team, eleven friend, let's swing right, yes, let's bring it
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Speaker 2: to it.
18:06
Speaker 3: I just couldn't wait to go. Jags go undefeated in
18:09
Speaker 3: the division, which they've never done. And here's why I
18:11
Speaker 3: say that. I think they're too much for the Colts
18:14
Speaker 3: and the Texans. A high powered offense like John talked
18:16
Speaker 3: about against Miami. I think these guys are going to
18:19
Speaker 3: put up a lot of points, and I just don't
18:20
Speaker 3: know what rookie quarterbacks that you're going to be able
18:22
Speaker 3: to overcome the points the Jaguars are going to score.
18:24
Speaker 3: I think the Jaguars beat the Titans here in November,
18:27
Speaker 3: and then it all comes down to the final Saturday
18:30
Speaker 3: night or Sunday. That game has not been officially scheduled yet,
18:33
Speaker 3: and I think the Jaguars overcome and I beat the
18:36
Speaker 3: Titans and take their second consecutive division crown will be
18:39
Speaker 3: the first time since the ninety eight ninety nine seasons
18:42
Speaker 3: that they've won back to back division titles. And I
18:44
Speaker 3: think they do that this year with a dramatic win
18:47
Speaker 3: in Nashville to go six and zero in the division.
18:49
Speaker 3: And we're talking, by the way, about a team the Jaguars,
18:51
Speaker 3: who've never posted very good records in the AFC South, Right,
18:55
Speaker 3: they did in two thousand and seven, twenty seventeen, and
18:58
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two. I think this year they post the
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Speaker 3: best record possible in the AFC South.
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Speaker 4: It would be impressive because it's hard to win six
19:07
Speaker 4: division games, even if you're really really good, because your
19:10
Speaker 4: division and that's know you so well and just think
19:15
Speaker 4: about you know, as much as teams may think the
19:18
Speaker 4: Jaguars are favored this weekend, all of a sudden, you're
19:23
Speaker 4: going up there a second time when you play them
19:25
Speaker 4: and say, it's just hard.
19:26
Speaker 2: So if they do that, Ryan, well, I think they're
19:29
Speaker 2: going to the super Bowl.
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Speaker 3: She asked me for a hot take, not a mile take,
19:32
Speaker 3: so I figured I'd swing for it. But here's what
19:35
Speaker 3: I think. I think, John, that it's gonna come down
19:37
Speaker 3: to the Titans and the Jaguars, right, obviously, if the
19:40
Speaker 3: Jaguars don't beat them here in November, well then that
19:43
Speaker 3: take is out right, and then it all comes down
19:46
Speaker 3: to that final Sunday of the or Saturday night of
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Speaker 3: the regular season, which is kind of what we've been
19:51
Speaker 3: seeing that the league try to do with the Jaguars
19:53
Speaker 3: and Titans recently. So at least they'll be fun in
19:55
Speaker 3: some drama to see if they can get there.
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Speaker 1: Pretty good, John, your hot takes a little more specific
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Speaker 1: to our game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I don't know if mine's hot.
20:03
Speaker 4: It's maybe it's mild, maybe there's some heat. But I
20:08
Speaker 4: think this game, it's been amazing how this fan base,
20:15
Speaker 4: after years of feeling sort of like the underdog, all
20:19
Speaker 4: of a sudden it's flexing its muscles, and boy we
20:22
Speaker 4: should many fans are just looking past the Colts and
20:27
Speaker 4: and they're actually asking me, are you worried that they'll
20:30
Speaker 4: look past the Colts to the Chiefs. I don't think
20:33
Speaker 4: a team that made the playoffs last year in the
20:35
Speaker 4: last three minutes of the season and we're nine and eight,
20:38
Speaker 4: is gonna overlook anybody.
20:41
Speaker 2: This game.
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Speaker 4: I would be decided in the last five minutes, not
20:44
Speaker 4: necessarily because the Jaguars are bad or the Colts are good,
20:47
Speaker 4: but because Week one is so weird and you see
20:51
Speaker 4: the weirdest scores. Sometimes it results in a blowout if
20:55
Speaker 4: a team's just not ready. I think what you're gonna
20:57
Speaker 4: see is Anthony Richardson have a couple of weird plays
21:00
Speaker 4: that go for touchdowns.
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Speaker 2: I think it'll be a fight into the last.
21:04
Speaker 4: I think the Jaguars a winning at the end, but
21:06
Speaker 4: I think I'll be getting a lot of emails on Monday, guys.
21:09
Speaker 2: Of what's wrong with the Jags?
21:10
Speaker 4: They're one and oh, well, you know, okay, take one
21:14
Speaker 4: and oh out of this game because if you win
21:16
Speaker 4: Week one, right, take that and go home because it's
21:19
Speaker 4: such a weird week, don't.
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Speaker 3: I don't disagree with any of that. The one thing
21:22
Speaker 3: I'll accept, well, okay, except now you know, you and
21:25
Speaker 3: I talked for years about the Jaguars, and when you
21:26
Speaker 3: looked at the Jaguars roster, you know, from an objective
21:30
Speaker 3: third party perspective, right, who really did you worry about?
21:33
Speaker 3: Who made you work harder on Wednesday and Thursday and
21:37
Speaker 3: sleep a little less secure on Saturday night? And they
21:40
Speaker 3: really there wasn't anyone, right, Jack Wars didn't have that. Well,
21:43
Speaker 3: now they've got players all over the roster that you
21:45
Speaker 3: have to worry about. But here's my question, who is
21:48
Speaker 3: it in Indianapolis that you're staying awake?
21:50
Speaker 4: Probably only a quarterback and if they had Jonathan Taylor,
21:53
Speaker 4: you've got two.
21:54
Speaker 2: It's a much different dynamic.
21:55
Speaker 3: Forest Buckner, but he's an interior defensive lineman, right, he's
22:00
Speaker 3: the only other guy. They just don't have it. And
22:03
Speaker 3: I'll say, as I went through my exercise of hot take,
22:06
Speaker 3: there's nobody really in Houston.
22:08
Speaker 2: That makes you do the same thing.
22:09
Speaker 3: You know. JJ Watt isn't there anywhere. Whitney Merciless isn't
22:13
Speaker 3: there anymore. The Colts just don't have those those players
22:17
Speaker 3: that make you do that. Now, Richardson make any that
22:20
Speaker 3: in time, but I just don't see it yet.
22:22
Speaker 1: My hot takes for Week one as well, because I'm
22:24
Speaker 1: expecting our defense to do a little bit of something
22:26
Speaker 1: that we're hoping is a trend for the rest of
22:28
Speaker 1: the season. I think they will sack Anthony Richardson on Sunday.
22:30
Speaker 1: I think they'll probably get more than one, and that's
22:33
Speaker 1: based off I know that Anthony Richardson is elusive. I
22:36
Speaker 1: know that he can do some crazy things and get
22:38
Speaker 1: his way out of certain things. We've seeing that in
22:40
Speaker 1: the preseason already. But you don't have Jonathan Taylor out there.
22:43
Speaker 1: You don't have anybody to bail you out. And I
22:45
Speaker 1: think being a rookie quarterback in the NFL we overlook
22:48
Speaker 1: at maybe because of what Trevor. You know, Trevor had
22:49
Speaker 1: his growing pains as well, but like it's not easy.
22:52
Speaker 1: This is a huge transition for him and what we're
22:54
Speaker 1: actually going to see out there. As we mentioned John,
22:56
Speaker 1: Week ones a little weird, but Anthony Richardson's in for
22:59
Speaker 1: a big dose real check. I think when Week one starts.
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Speaker 2: I think they'll get a couple of sacks.
23:03
Speaker 4: I think they'll get him late because I do think
23:05
Speaker 4: by the last drive, the Jaguars will have the lead.
23:10
Speaker 2: And Anthony Richardson will be going against the defense that
23:12
Speaker 2: knows he's coming.
23:13
Speaker 4: I think they'll get a couple of sacks to end it,
23:16
Speaker 4: but I think he'll be dangerous early.
23:19
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, the size Steed ratio with that guy. Jack
23:21
Speaker 3: Derrio always just talked about Ben Roethlisberger and say his accuracy,
23:26
Speaker 3: his passing, completion percentage went up on plays where you
23:29
Speaker 3: hit him. And this guy looks to be someone who
23:31
Speaker 3: can stand in the pocket. He's six four, two fifty
23:34
Speaker 3: and maybe as muscular quarterback as we've seen since Cam Newton. Right,
23:39
Speaker 3: big strong guy who'll stand in the pocket. It's early
23:42
Speaker 3: in his career. He's obviously going to get a little
23:44
Speaker 3: bit flushed. He's gonna see jerseys across his face and
23:47
Speaker 3: just decide it's time to run. So I'm interested to see,
23:50
Speaker 3: you know, how long it takes him to stand in
23:52
Speaker 3: the pocket, because he.
23:52
Speaker 2: Can do it.
23:53
Speaker 1: We'll definitely see some flashes, but excited to see him
23:55
Speaker 1: in game action on Sunday as JAG's head to Indianapolis.
23:58
Speaker 2: All right, stay with us.
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24:16
Speaker 1: So we want to preview the week a little bit
24:18
Speaker 1: because now that week one we are back in action,
24:19
Speaker 1: we have our full shows. We'll be here on the
24:21
Speaker 1: new set for jag Zam on Wednesday and Thursday, we'll
24:24
Speaker 1: be previewing that matchup against the Colts, and then we
24:26
Speaker 1: have our full slate of shows as well. Brian, what
24:28
Speaker 1: are you working on?
24:29
Speaker 2: Jack's Wired obviously comes up on Wednesday night.
24:31
Speaker 3: Excited to you know, kind of recap the preseason and
24:33
Speaker 3: get her and focused forward. Really, I mean it's the
24:38
Speaker 3: energy level around the first week is a lot of
24:39
Speaker 3: fun because you get in the locker room for the
24:41
Speaker 3: first time. Now get guys in their own setting, John
24:44
Speaker 3: get talked as many guys as you can, and I'm
24:47
Speaker 3: excited about the regular season start.
24:49
Speaker 4: Week one's great the ozone podcast or either be Christian
24:53
Speaker 4: kirkers A Jones not sure yet, looking forward to that as.
24:56
Speaker 2: Always very good.
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Speaker 1: We have All Access on Thursday. That's me on Fox
25:00
Speaker 1: and that Evan Ingram is our guest this week, so
25:03
Speaker 1: you definitely want to check that out. And of course
25:04
Speaker 1: Jaguars Weekend will be out on Sunday on Fox as well.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. We'll be back on Wednesday
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