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GUS BRADLEY BACK IN THE AFC SOUTH · Duval Daily: A Jacksonville Jaguars Podcast

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jacksonville Jaguar's fans welcome in to do ball daily presented by jingyag.com.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Jordan Aluga, thanks so much for being here Tuesday, February 3rd, and right now we're talking about the Tennessee Titans coaching staff, particularly the fact that Gus Bradley is back in the AFC South.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, former Jacksonville Jaguar's head coach Gus Bradley, who led the team to, I mean legitimately the worst stretch in franchise history, not the most
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  [SPEAKER_00]: hard to argue that, but Gus Bradley is back as the Tennessee Titans defense of coordinator.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's just, it's a lot to get into.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So we're gonna break it down, talk about the Tennessee Titans a little bit here today, as a fan of the Jaguars, which I assume all of you are.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's good to know about your rivals.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Go behind in to me lines a little bit and take a look at what they've got going on.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So Gus Bradley will be the the tendency Titans defensive coordinator.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Joining Robert Sala as the Titans had coach and then Brian
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  [SPEAKER_00]: kind of a fascinating group there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We know about the Robert Solo Liam Cohen situation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Robert Solo thought he had a chance to be the Jaguar's head coach last year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That didn't happen because the Jags fell in love with Liam Cohen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then you fast forward to the week before the Jaguar is playing the 49ers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Who, by the way, Gus Bradley was on that staff, too.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Fast forward to that and Robert Solo,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: saying that Liam Cohen's crew steals signs.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Liam Cohen takes offense to it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jack Roy's got a San Francisco beat the 49ers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Liam Cohen says, keep my name out of your mouth.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Robert Solas says, I'll kill you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So this is going to be fun.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's going to be fun right there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Plus, you have a defensive.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Minded Head Coach and the Titans, Robert Salaverse is an offensive minded head coach and the Jaguar's Liam Cone.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So you've got that going for this rivalry as well and then Gus Bradley who again was the Jaguar's head coach during the worst run in franchise history by far.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Like by far.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's built, that was this thing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So me all might not remember the Gus Bradley days too much but goodness gracious.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One of the nicest guys you'll ever mean.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I can say that, you know, just like 100% one of the nicest people.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 14 and 48 for the Jacksonville Jaguars is their head coach, Gus Bradley, 14 and 48.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, Robert Sala was here in Jacksonville as linebackers coach.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Don't remember if he was here the entire run with guns or if he got hired away at some point, but he was here and they both came from the Seattle Seahawks, you know,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: as Bradley Gus Bradley would call him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, 14 and 48 best season was 5 and 11.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 2013 went 4 and 12, 2014 went 3 and 13, 2015, 5 and 11.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You're like, oh, then they pulled a rug out from under you 2 and 12 in 2016.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Just brutal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely brutal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What a time to be alive.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You also have the fact that Gus Bradley's son, Carter Bradley, is a member of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Believe they signed him to a reserve future contract.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So there's just all sorts of connections here between the Titans and the Jaguars.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Not to mention just about 30 years of bad blood between the two teams.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: so it's really funny now when it comes to actually like what does this mean for this rivalry for the Titans moving forward, you know, Gus Bradley,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: is going to be their defensive coordinator, but in reality, yeah, Carter Bradley's on the reserve slash future contracts, so he's back with the checks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In reality, he's not calling plays, I mean, he will be integral in the coaching and the teaching and the game plans and all that, but he's not calling plays if he was calling plays, like he did with the Indianapolis Colts.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, maybe one day he'll end up with the Texans as well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You could do the entire AFC South.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But Gus Bradley is not going to be play calling.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Robert Solomon mentioned already that he's going to be calling defensive plays for the Titans.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He's head coach and defensive play caller.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But Gus, his fingerprints will be all over that defense.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And Trevor Lawrence has had his way with Gus Bradley defenses.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, it's not going to be the same.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: because Robert Sala, I think, has modernized his defense a little bit more than Gus Bradley had with Andy, but Trevor Lawrence has roasted.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely roasted.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Gus Bradley defense, and I think, honestly, Trevor Lawrence, with Liam Cohen dialing it up, Wichick Obey Myers, with Britain Strange, with Parker Washington, Brian Thomas Jr., Travis Eugene, if he's back.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: has the ability to roast pretty much any defense.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I really do think that, but I don't think that this direction will prove fruitful for the Titans when it comes to beating the Jaguars.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Just don't see it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of that has to do with
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  [SPEAKER_00]: they're, they've got a lot of work to do, roster wise.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then you've also got Brian Debel on the offensive side of the ball.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll get to all that stuff after the break.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So Brian Dayball on the offensive side.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that could be a good pairing with cam ward
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And we saw Cam Ward first drive the last game of the regular season.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He was getting some things done against our Jaguar as defense, unfortunately.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But you look at the Titans roster.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They've got a lot of work to do, they've got a lot of work to do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The one thing you can say for them right now, and I would be absolutely shocked if this regime wants to move on from a Jeffrey Simmons.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think you just keep him, you build around him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If I'm advising the Titans, I'm saying there's no way you're getting rid of Jeffersonments.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: No way.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They do have a ton of cap space.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They have the most cap space in football.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So they can absolutely be big spenders.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You look at team cap space.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And if you haven't been paying attention, the Jaguar's cap table was updated on
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  [SPEAKER_00]: over the cap since they've announced some new things about the 2026 cap.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The Jack Wars actually have.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: about $10 million over the cap right now, which is a much better spot than they were initially listed at, and they'll have plenty of flexibility to get whatever they want done for the most part.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, nothing insane like they're not going to have a stacked free agency class, but they can do some different things to try to push this team into a evolved state in 2026.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: million dollars in cap space, you know.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They've got a lot.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Over a hundred million in cap space.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So, that will be one of the biggest spenders in free agency this year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They need to be, because their team is just not very good right now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that Brian Dayball can elevate what they were doing offensively a little bit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's unfortunate, really, that Cam Ward has to go into a new system, but I think, dayball can design a system around Cam Ward skill set that will be good, but their offensive line was not very good this past year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think there's some reason that you can believe it can be better, but JC Latham was not very good.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You have a good interior group on the, you just don't have a very good tackle situation at this point.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: is what it looks like, unfortunately for them, unfortunately for the Jaguars.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then when it comes to your receivers, you got some guys, but it doesn't feel like a receiving group that is really built to be an elevated passing game.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It feels like, you know, Cam Ward's going to be having to do a lot of the work.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then you've got good running backs for sure.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Tony Pollard and Taijai Spears are good players.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jamera decays an explosive player.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We all know about Calvin Ridley.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Don't know what's going to be happening with him moving forward.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: L.I.O.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Manor has some talent, but just one of those things where it doesn't feel like a cohesive well put together offense.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then defensively, you've got some guys.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The secondary feels like it needs a lot of work.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Second level, could you some work?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Edge could use some work.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You really feel like your pillar of your team right now is cam ward, building around him, and Jeffrey Simmons and Tehranjry Sweat.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's what it's looking like right now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And can this free agency period and coaching staff do enough
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  [SPEAKER_00]: to make them a team that can threaten the Jaguars in 2026.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That would honestly surprise me quite a bit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It really would.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying they can't be more competitive.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the Jaguars beat them down in 2025.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely beat them down.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But I don't think that their defense is going to be built
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  [SPEAKER_00]: really be super successful against travel limits in the Jaguar's offense.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think their offense has a long way to go.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll see we can revisit them after for aid in seeing the draft, but it's just not looking super promising for 2026.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And for 2027, I mean,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If they have a good year in 2026, Brian Dayball could be a head coach again.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then you're back at square one offensively and that could be a whole problem.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So even if they don't have a great year, but like Kim Ward just takes steps forward.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Brian Dayball could be back in the head coaching cycle for sure.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He was this year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be fascinating to see how they handle this free agency period.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: because a lot of teams, they go out and they sign the most expensive players at the most important positions and it doesn't end up working out.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we've seen that in Jacksonville a million times, but then the Jaguars have a free agency period like they did last year where they signed good players that fit their system, that fit their culture.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Like one thing we don't talk about enough is the Jaguars are going to bring in players that they feel fit their culture naturally,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: assimilate and not being yourself like James Latson has said it a million times he wants players to elevate their roster, to elevate their team by being nothing more than themselves.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So that means players that are naturally team-first hardworking, love ball.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Can the Titans employ that same strategy, which I think that's what strategy every team should have.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and trying to really upgrade this roster.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if they will.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know exactly how it's gonna go.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I know that Robert Sala, I think he can coach some defense, but I don't know that that's the type of defense that's gonna really do super well against the jacks in their offense.
• 15:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: And again, Brian Dable has got a lot of work to do to get that offense up to snuff.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm not shaking in my boots about the Titans being being a big, big threat in the FC in 2026.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: FC South and 2026 may be 2027.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of the offseason remains to be seen how it'll play out, but I mean, I guess they could fill a lot of holes in free agency, but you
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  [SPEAKER_00]: operating at a high level surrounding with more talent, protect him, get the run game going, shore up the past defense, shore up the, I mean, they got a lot of work to do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And again, the big news goes Bradley back in the AFC.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He will be coaching against his son.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It looks like.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And obviously against his former team that he led to a 14 and 48 record while on the job.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's a good one.