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Ep. 40: Potential Game Changers in Week 10 | Jags A.M. Podcast · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome into jags AM On Thursday, November ninth, Pennie Stephens,
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Speaker 1: fran Sexton, John Osier with me today this week ten.
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Speaker 1: We're talking forty nine ers. We've been excited for this game,
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Speaker 1: definitely one you circled on the calendar early on when
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Speaker 1: you saw some of the marquee matchups for this team,
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Speaker 1: and seems like Fortinitars are getting healthy too, so it
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Speaker 1: should be a good kind of marker game, kind of
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Speaker 1: see where they're at their start study team.
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Speaker 2: I mean when you look at the roster and the names,
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Speaker 2: whether it's George Pittle, CMC right we just three initials, right,
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Speaker 2: or whin knows, Christian McCaffrey, and of course of the defense.
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Speaker 2: So it's no surprise that tickets are hard to come
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Speaker 2: by and they're selling stating room only. People know the
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Speaker 2: forty nine ers, and it brings out a lot of
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Speaker 2: folks who may be casual things.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I know, Doug talked this week about it not
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Speaker 3: being a quote statement game, and I kind of like
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Speaker 3: the message because I think he's tired of talking about
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Speaker 3: a statement game. They've won what eleven out of thirteen games,
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Speaker 3: they've beaten the Bills, they've beaten the Steelers, They've beaten
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Speaker 3: the Cowboys during that I mean, how many statements do
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Speaker 3: you need to make before you sit? They're are making
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Speaker 3: a statement game and nobody hears you. So I think
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Speaker 3: to him, this is Look, we're a good team. They're
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Speaker 3: a good team. But I think not only from a
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Speaker 3: national perspective, which I'm kind of worn out on trying
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Speaker 3: to talk that national perspective, but from a showing you
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Speaker 3: what they are in the locker room. San Francisco can
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Speaker 3: really run. They're a powerful team. The Jaguars have spent
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Speaker 3: the last what sixteen games ish being a stout defense,
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Speaker 3: being a physical team, but they don't quite have that
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Speaker 3: reputation you since you go Mano Amano and stuff this
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Speaker 3: team out physical them, then you do have that reputation.
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Speaker 3: So and I think they can prove that to themselves,
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Speaker 3: not that they are have it already, but maybe they
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Speaker 3: can say something to themselves about that. Improve that once
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Speaker 3: and for all.
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Speaker 1: Let's go over some of our big things this week.
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Speaker 1: Big thing number one, thrush is going to be understand
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Speaker 1: the assignment. As we mentioned, there's a lot of big
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Speaker 1: names on the forty nine ers, a lot of star players,
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Speaker 1: but a lot of this is gonna come down to
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Speaker 1: doing your job and understanding the assignment.
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Speaker 4: You've got to play eleven on eleven right, and and
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Speaker 4: you know it's about our pieces against their pieces and
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Speaker 4: how best we can maneuver our guys and try to
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Speaker 4: create some matchups somewhere and and and yet you just
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Speaker 4: know that you know these guys are gonna make plays.
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Speaker 5: You know they're gonna they're.
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Speaker 4: Gonna make up tackle for loss, or they're gonna get
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Speaker 4: a sack, or they may you know, break up a
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Speaker 4: pass or something like that. But it doesn't keep you
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Speaker 4: from continuing to try right and execute your game plan.
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Speaker 4: So good players give them their respect, and you know you.
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Speaker 6: Still got to play.
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Speaker 1: Brian Doug talking a lot about you know, understanding that
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Speaker 1: they have star players. They're gonna make plays, they're gonna
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Speaker 1: get sacks, they're gonna get tackles for loss, whatever it's
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Speaker 1: going to be, and you kind of need to allow
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Speaker 1: that but also stick to the game plan that you have.
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Speaker 3: But it's gonna be a tough one.
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Speaker 2: They've had a couple of weeks to get ready for
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Speaker 2: this now with a buy and the coaches will have
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Speaker 2: a plan, right, Doug in the offense you have a
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Speaker 2: lot of confidence in because you know, and the defense
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Speaker 2: now you should have a lot of confidence in. You know,
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Speaker 2: last year you had a first year coordinator and they
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Speaker 2: were kind of working through things. But talking to players
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Speaker 2: in the locker room, especially Josh Allen yesterday, you know,
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Speaker 2: they have a lot of confidence in Mike cold Well
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Speaker 2: in that staff now, and they feel like Mike and
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Speaker 2: his staff have the confidence in them to go out
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Speaker 2: and run the plays that are called. So what you
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Speaker 2: really have is to do your job. Situation here, they've
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Speaker 2: got a game plan. If you do your job, you
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Speaker 2: have a chance to succeed.
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Speaker 3: With so much of an offense like the forty nine
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Speaker 3: ers because they put pressure everywhere in the running game
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Speaker 3: and they have so many options in the running game,
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Speaker 3: meaning I'm McCaffrey, Deebo, Samuel, these guys can do different things.
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Speaker 3: What offenses like that thrive on is usually defenses think
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Speaker 3: they have to do too much to stop them, and
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Speaker 3: they're jumping out of lanes. The Jaguars defense, if it's
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Speaker 3: to me, if it's defined by anything, it's that you
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Speaker 3: have one superstar player. Maybe Josh Allen, you know, is
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Speaker 3: ascending to that, but everybody else, Devin, Lloyd Foyer, Rashawn Jenkins.
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Speaker 3: You started listening off guys. They're all good, and I
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Speaker 3: think they're confident sort of what you said, Brian. They
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Speaker 3: don't feel like they have to do much special to
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Speaker 3: stop teams, so I think they can play assignment football
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Speaker 3: and all those cliches the top of the guys in
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Speaker 3: the locker room. They believe that if they play their game,
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Speaker 3: they don't have to do anything special to win this
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Speaker 3: or stop this really good forty nine ers offense. That
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Speaker 3: to me is the matchup.
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Speaker 6: Here's why do your job is so important. We talked
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Speaker 6: about it yesterday.
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Speaker 2: You have a coach and Kyle Shanahan who is so
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Speaker 2: gifted at moving personnel groups and creating mismatches and giving
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Speaker 2: you Hey, it looks like we're doing this, and everything
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Speaker 2: says we're doing this, But now we're doing this. That's
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Speaker 2: where they do your job comes in because Mike and
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Speaker 2: Doug they will have everything figured out. They will know
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Speaker 2: exactly what the tendencies are and it's about Hey, like
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Speaker 2: John just said, don't get anxious to think, well, I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna jump over here, because I can make the play
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Speaker 2: and then watch it go over here instead.
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Speaker 1: It's nice to see the narrative switch a little bit
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Speaker 1: to Jaguars play Jaguars football. We should be able to
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Speaker 1: win the game. You don't have to try to cater
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Speaker 1: to the other teams. It's a good spot to be at.
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Speaker 1: Big thing Number two is going to be stop the run.
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Speaker 1: We've talked about Christian McCaffrey and he is talented so
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Speaker 1: many ways. You also have to stop him yards after
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Speaker 1: catch as well, and Doug talked a little bit about
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Speaker 1: why Christian McAffrey is so dangerous.
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Speaker 4: You can put him anywhere anywhere in a formation, backfield,
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Speaker 4: put out wide motion him, you know, jet sweep, you
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Speaker 4: put him anywhere. He's just that type of player. Give
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Speaker 4: him the hand him the ball, throw him the ball,
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Speaker 4: screens down the field, just an overall solid player and
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Speaker 4: you have to account for him. And then you know
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Speaker 4: it's hard to get him on the ground. You know
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Speaker 4: he can break tackles, he's strong, you know, physical back
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Speaker 4: that you know does some really good things.
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Speaker 1: So we know Rock Cerry's been having some issues the
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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, but Christian McCaffrey has just been so
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Speaker 1: dynamic for that team, and he's dangerous in a lot
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Speaker 1: of different ways.
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Speaker 3: Well, he's dangerous because to me, he's up I think
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Speaker 3: one of the first players since Marshall Fulk really who
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Speaker 3: can is just as good a receiver as he is
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Speaker 3: a running back and vice versa. The reason he's so
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Speaker 3: dangerous is you can do your job really well on
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Speaker 3: a play and he can still beat you. You can
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Speaker 3: do your job ninety eight percent and he can take
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Speaker 3: advantage of the two percent that you don't do because
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Speaker 3: he's so quick, his vision's so good. He's in everything
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Speaker 3: running back. So I expect him to score because he
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Speaker 3: usually does seventeen straight games. Yeah, I expect him to
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Speaker 3: be effective. But guess what, they've lost some of those
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Speaker 3: games where he scored. So he can be effective and
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Speaker 3: you can still win this game. You have to keep
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Speaker 3: him from being the fantasy football stat guy this week.
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Speaker 6: Well, here's the fantasy football stats for me.
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Speaker 2: In the last four games, he has six touchdowns, three rushing,
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Speaker 2: three receiving, and in each of the last two games
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Speaker 2: he has one of each. So he's a multipurpose threat.
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Speaker 3: And they've still lost. No, No, you can still beat that. Well,
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Speaker 3: you can beat them.
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Speaker 2: The problem for them, a problem for the Jaguars this
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Speaker 2: week is is Deebo Samuel's coming back, and that's we
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Speaker 2: saw him last year two years ago. Here eight rushes
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Speaker 2: for eighty nine yards in a touchdown. So now they've
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Speaker 2: got that two headed monster. So I'm thankful this week
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Speaker 2: that you have Devon Hamilton back. We saw him in
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Speaker 2: some limited action against the Steelers and they look pretty good.
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Speaker 2: Now he's having even more time to get integrated into
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Speaker 2: the defense because you're gonna need a rotation because if
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Speaker 2: you don't stop the run, and Josh said this, you
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Speaker 2: know is Sodi Rayshawn yesterday in the locker room. If
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Speaker 2: you don't stop the run, you have no prayer of
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Speaker 2: getting to the quarterback none. And if you get to
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Speaker 2: the quarterback, you can force turnovers. That's what they're trying
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Speaker 2: to get to. This kid's got six turnovers in the
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Speaker 2: last three games. So they got to stop the run
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Speaker 2: to be able to attack him. And they know what
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Speaker 2: Deebo Samuel back this week that that job, which was
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Speaker 2: already difficult, just got much much harder.
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Speaker 1: Definitely a hallmark of the Jaguars defense though, So there
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Speaker 1: is hope there. I mean, if they get off schedule,
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Speaker 1: they can't stop the run. That's we're way off the
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Speaker 1: plantation by that point. Where league by that point.
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Speaker 2: Giving up less than eighty yards rushing per game, they're
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Speaker 2: playing fantastic. Every indication is they'll be able to stop
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Speaker 2: the run. Now, they might not hold them to their
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Speaker 2: average seventy nine point three, but if they can control
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Speaker 2: it right, I mean, they never could be one hundred
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Speaker 2: and thirty yards by the time the game is over.
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Speaker 2: But if they can control it in the situations where
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Speaker 2: they need to to set a third and long, fine,
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Speaker 2: will know, no matter what the stats say. Will know
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Speaker 2: on Sunday after the Jags walk off the field, if
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Speaker 2: they stop the run. The numbers won't tell the story.
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Speaker 2: You'll know it with your eyes.
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Speaker 1: Our final big thing this week is going to be
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Speaker 1: make your house your Home. The Jaguars are six and
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Speaker 1: two so far on the season. They've won five games
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Speaker 1: in a row, but they haven't played their best football
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Speaker 1: at home, and that's something Dan Peterson, head coach of
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Speaker 1: this team, says he's got to change.
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Speaker 4: You know, first thing, the schedule gets a little more
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Speaker 4: normal for us here in the last half of the season.
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Speaker 4: You know, we haven't played our best football at home,
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Speaker 4: which is crazy. You know, those two early games that
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Speaker 4: that we didn't we didn't play very well, and you know,
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Speaker 4: those are all things that we have to we have
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Speaker 4: to do better. Right we're playing in front of our fans.
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Speaker 5: We're at home, you know, our stadium, our locker room,
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Speaker 5: and we've got to feed off the energy obviously the
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Speaker 5: crowd and and uh and play our best football, you know,
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Speaker 5: and and especially in the second half of the season.
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Speaker 4: That's something that you know, if if you want that
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Speaker 4: home field.
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Speaker 5: Advantage or try to play for home field advantage, you
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Speaker 5: got to do it at home.
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Speaker 4: That's why they call it home field advantage. So you know,
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Speaker 4: we've just got to we've just got to focus in
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Speaker 4: on that and and just continue to improve.
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Speaker 1: Brian, we've talked, you know, it's great that the team
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Speaker 1: can play so well away from home, but they talked
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Speaker 1: a little bit about putting a good product on the
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Speaker 1: field to the fan to have something sure about because
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Speaker 1: two of those home games we had this season have
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Speaker 1: been tough.
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Speaker 2: I go back to the last two games of last year.
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Speaker 2: They are a prime time now right against Tennessee and
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Speaker 2: against the Chargers. The crowd was insane and it sent
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Speaker 2: a message.
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Speaker 6: To the rest of the league.
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Speaker 2: I probably don't want to go there and play because
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Speaker 2: it's a very difficult place when it's all riled up
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Speaker 2: there were the Texans game is a rough one, you know,
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Speaker 2: because you wanted to come out and play well and
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Speaker 2: establish your dominance early and give it the chance, the
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Speaker 2: fans a chance to get into it. The Colts was better,
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Speaker 2: but Sunday's a chance because there will be a national
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Speaker 2: audience wash right, it's a premier game. There will be
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Speaker 2: a lot of new eyes on this place, and it's
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Speaker 2: a chance for them to see what a tough place
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Speaker 2: this can be. The Gicks, you've got to play well
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Speaker 2: to get the fans into the game, to make it
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Speaker 2: go well for them. But it's an important thing when
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Speaker 2: you especially consider you've got the Titans coming up, and
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Speaker 2: you've got the Bengals in the raven You've got some
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Speaker 2: big games here at home. You need to get the
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Speaker 2: crowd juiced up and get them ready for those.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I don't know they're gonna win or lose this week,
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Speaker 3: and the Jags, I don't really worry about them playing
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Speaker 3: well at home. I kind of attribute the Chiefs and
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Speaker 3: the Texans to me was more about early season working
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Speaker 3: through some stuff than it was not being able to
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Speaker 3: play well at home. They showed me last year they
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Speaker 3: can play well at home and take advantage of this.
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Speaker 3: They won what their last five here, so I attribute.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not saying they don't need to go
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Speaker 3: get it done, but I don't really worry that they
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Speaker 3: have a problem playing at home. I thought those first
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Speaker 3: two games were more about them trying to figure out
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Speaker 3: coming back from last year, trying to figure out what
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Speaker 3: they were, etc. Etc. So I hope they go prove me.
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Speaker 6: Right on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: I do think if I'm the coach, I make the
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Speaker 2: point that Doug made it, which is, hey, we want
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Speaker 2: to play well here. We didn't play well against the Texans,
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Speaker 2: forget where it was, right, but we want to play here.
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Speaker 6: So let's have an emphasis of getting these guys involved.
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Speaker 3: Well. They want to establish that because you got the
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Speaker 3: Ravens the big game. Basically, you hold sir the rest
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Speaker 3: of the way at home, home, and when one or
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Speaker 3: two on the road and you're set. So they've got
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Speaker 3: it in front of them in terms of that.
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Speaker 1: A lot of primetime eyes on this game too, because
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Speaker 1: I think seventy five percent of the country's gonna have
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Speaker 1: this as their one o'clock games, so it'll be very
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Speaker 1: national stage for everybody. It's a good one first of
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Speaker 1: several big games for the day.
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Speaker 3: Stay with us.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from QB one coming up after the break.
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Speaker 1: We're getting ready for the forty nine ers to come
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Speaker 1: to town. It's nice to be back home, play some
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Speaker 1: home games in front of the home crowd, and we
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Speaker 1: expect to be a big one coming off a bye week.
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Speaker 1: Both of these teams should be well rested, should be
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Speaker 1: healthy as they can be at this point in the season.
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Speaker 1: And Trevor Lawrence talked a little bit about taking that
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Speaker 1: time away but then also getting back into game mode
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Speaker 1: once you got back in the building.
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Speaker 7: We still feel that momentum, that energy that we that
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Speaker 7: we left with, you know when we took the week off.
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Speaker 7: But you gotta find a way to kind of get
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Speaker 7: that edge back because it is, you know, you're kind
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Speaker 7: of relaxing, getting your body back underneath you. You have to.
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Speaker 7: It's a long season. We played, you know, eight tough
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Speaker 7: games in a row and then now we got a
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Speaker 7: nice stretch, so you got to give your body a
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Speaker 7: chance to rest. But now it's today in practice, and
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Speaker 7: it started on Monday, really, had we had a lighter
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Speaker 7: practice and just getting that getting our legs back under
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Speaker 7: us and getting that edge and practicing hard, that's where
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Speaker 7: it starts. You can't just walk out there Sunday and
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Speaker 7: expect to expect to play with that edge if you
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Speaker 7: didn't all week in practice. So I think that's where
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Speaker 7: it starts really today and as we practice every day
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Speaker 7: of the week.
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Speaker 1: John, when we look at these two teams, they're both
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Speaker 1: going into a bye, but in different ways. Jaguars five
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Speaker 1: winners of five straight, the forty nine lost three, and
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Speaker 1: kind of the break probably meant different things to those teams.
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Speaker 1: But the refocused energy when you come back is really
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Speaker 1: because you're not carrying momentum at this point. It's it's
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Speaker 1: kind of starting over a little bit.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, for the Jags, it meant I mean, didn't it
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Speaker 3: feel like they were just pulling and trying to get
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Speaker 3: to that buy through this tough stretch and just thinking
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Speaker 3: if we can just get through this, gotcha, thank goodness
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Speaker 3: because it was hard and even Evan Ingram talked about
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Speaker 3: in the locker room on Thursday, Man, I feel like
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Speaker 3: we've been away from this place forever. One reason the
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Speaker 3: Doug is such a good coach. Doug Peterson. He talked
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Speaker 3: about what Trevor was talking about, and the thing that
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Speaker 3: struck me yesterday was when he spoke about needing to
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Speaker 3: get back to play in with energy for four quarters.
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Speaker 3: And I'm not saying it right, but that intensity level
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Speaker 3: that you need to win in the NFL. And I
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Speaker 3: don't think he thought that they had it early in
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Speaker 3: the season, and then they got it for five games.
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Speaker 3: He talked about it, players talked about it in the
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Speaker 3: locker room. He's clearly emphasizing that, hey, we've got to
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Speaker 3: get back to what we were doing, not only physically
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Speaker 3: but mentally. The energy, the focus, all that stuff. It's
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Speaker 3: why he's the head coach, Brian. He's really good at
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Speaker 3: emphasizing the right things, and that feels like something that
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Speaker 3: they need to give back to because boy, did they
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Speaker 3: have it for five games for the buy.
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Speaker 2: I can just tell you, you know, my conversations with
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Speaker 2: guys yesterday, there's an energy level for this game on Sunday.
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Speaker 6: They're excited.
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Speaker 2: Cam Robinson in particular, I spent some time with him
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Speaker 2: for a pregame radio interview and he's really you know.
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Speaker 2: I was asking him about the challenge of the Niners,
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Speaker 2: and I mean he's like, I'm ready for it. He goes,
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Speaker 2: I love. I live for Sundays where I'm going to
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Speaker 2: be challenged. He says, I faced the best in the
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Speaker 2: NFL over the course of my career. Then every Sunday,
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Speaker 2: I love it. But this is a challenge and I'm
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Speaker 2: really excited about it. And everyone I talked to shared
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Speaker 2: that they love the idea that the Niners are coming
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Speaker 2: in here. They don't love the idea that they're underdogs
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Speaker 2: at home, but they love the idea that they've got
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Speaker 2: a chance to go prove themselves on Sunday afternoon. They're
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Speaker 2: excited to play these guys. There's Fere's not the right word.
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Speaker 2: There's no trumpidation at all. They're ready to go. To me,
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Speaker 2: that was a really good sign backing up what Trevor
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Speaker 2: was talking about, in other words, getting back here and
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Speaker 2: getting to work. They're excited to get to work because
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Speaker 2: they're excited to get.
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Speaker 3: And I'm not a big raw ra guy. You aren't
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Speaker 3: locker room bulletin boards stuff, but I do think if
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Speaker 3: if I'm the Jag and this team is really about team.
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Speaker 3: I mean, in talking to players, it's a selfless team
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Speaker 3: that cares about winning, and not all NFL teams feel
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Speaker 3: the same way about that. And I think for them,
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Speaker 3: they're three point underdogs, which means the world whatever that is,
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Speaker 3: thinks the Niners are six points better. I do think
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Speaker 3: that makes this a little bit of a you know what,
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Speaker 3: we won five in a row. I do wonder if
16:46
Speaker 3: that can come into play on Sunday.
16:48
Speaker 1: I think some of the lack of you know, maybe
16:51
Speaker 1: national understanding where this team is at is because they
16:53
Speaker 1: haven't seen a huge jump out of Trevor Lawrence because
16:56
Speaker 1: they're not watching it. You know, if you just look
16:57
Speaker 1: at the box score, you're not watching the game, probably
17:00
Speaker 1: not seeing what Trevor Lawrence has been able to do
17:01
Speaker 1: for this team. And Trevor did talk about really wanting
17:04
Speaker 1: to get the offense going and put up a good
17:06
Speaker 1: offensive performance in this game.
17:09
Speaker 7: We've been I think we've been a lot more consistent
17:11
Speaker 7: on just moving the ball, not stalling out as much.
17:15
Speaker 7: But then you see two weeks ago we have the
17:17
Speaker 7: we have the dumb turn turnovers that kind of kept
17:20
Speaker 7: Pittsburgh in the game and gave him a shot and
17:22
Speaker 7: didn't let us really take off and blow the game open.
17:26
Speaker 7: So it's something like that every week that we got
17:28
Speaker 7: to fix. So you know, you're hoping every week is
17:30
Speaker 7: that week, and we're emphasizing it. We've got a lot
17:32
Speaker 7: of a lot of emphasis on the details of just
17:34
Speaker 7: not having turnovers, being better on third down and all
17:38
Speaker 7: those things play together, and having a clean game. And
17:41
Speaker 7: that's the idea is having a game where you can
17:42
Speaker 7: come out of it not any or many turnovers at all,
17:46
Speaker 7: being great on third down, scoring in the red zone.
17:49
Speaker 7: It'd be nice to you know, put all those together
17:50
Speaker 7: this week and against a good team like this, this
17:52
Speaker 7: is the week to do it. You know, you gotta
17:54
Speaker 7: gotta play well against great teams.
17:56
Speaker 1: Obviously, every week we're kind of hoping that's the week
17:59
Speaker 1: that we see the offense, you know, be to what
18:01
Speaker 1: we expect them to be. But they have been getting better.
18:04
Speaker 1: They're consistent, and we've seen that complimentary football from this team,
18:07
Speaker 1: and Trevor talking a little bit about what they were
18:10
Speaker 1: able to do in Pittsburgh and you know, so shooting
18:13
Speaker 1: themselves on the foot at some points, and we're kind
18:15
Speaker 1: of hoping maybe got some of that energy out maybe
18:17
Speaker 1: that interception out of the way, so now we can
18:20
Speaker 1: turn the page here.
18:20
Speaker 2: A turnovers the last four games. Change that and you
18:23
Speaker 2: have a better offensive showing in every game. But the
18:26
Speaker 2: other thing, and I feel like I'm beating a dead
18:28
Speaker 2: horse here. They're inconsistent on third down. Right, one week
18:32
Speaker 2: it's good, it's fifty percent. The next week it's horrible.
18:34
Speaker 2: It's thirty two percent. And they're averaging about thirty six
18:37
Speaker 2: percent on the season. They've got to get that number up.
18:39
Speaker 2: They've got to be more efficient. They've got to be
18:41
Speaker 2: more consistent on third down and short if they are,
18:44
Speaker 2: and of course Trevor talked about this yesterday. He talked
18:46
Speaker 2: about not putting yourselves in third down. He goes, get
18:48
Speaker 2: a first down on first down, get a first down
18:50
Speaker 2: and second down, great, But when you do get to
18:52
Speaker 2: those third and short situations, for this offense to find
18:55
Speaker 2: a tempo rhythm, choose your adjective, they're just gonna stay
18:58
Speaker 2: on the field.
18:59
Speaker 6: They need to be better on them.
19:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, the thing that Doug really wants fixed going forward,
19:04
Speaker 3: and it's kind of self evident. Thirteen giveaways, which is
19:07
Speaker 3: second the league. Their third down and red zone are
19:11
Speaker 3: the twenty fifth, twenty six, whatever, it's not good and
19:14
Speaker 3: all that sort of ties together. It's all about those
19:17
Speaker 3: big moments. I wrote a story for the site for today.
19:24
Speaker 3: I don't remember the exact number, but it is an
19:28
Speaker 3: insane number of times this team that's driven past the
19:31
Speaker 3: fifty and not gotten points this year. It's like twenty
19:34
Speaker 3: seven or twenty eight drives that they've gone inside the
19:37
Speaker 3: opponent's fifty. Well, start adding that up. That's three or
19:40
Speaker 3: four game. You get three or seven out of one
19:45
Speaker 3: of those, and all of a sudden, all this angst
19:47
Speaker 3: about the offense isn't there. My point is, it's not
19:50
Speaker 3: that they're not moving. It's not that they're not capable
19:53
Speaker 3: of moving, and they're there. It's that those big moments,
19:57
Speaker 3: those big things. It's certainly a It certainly got better
20:01
Speaker 3: last year. I think it will get better moving forward.
20:04
Speaker 3: But that's what people are feeling about the offense.
20:08
Speaker 1: Certainly feels like it's just right there, just almost there.
20:11
Speaker 1: We'll have to see if it comes together fully for
20:14
Speaker 1: us in the forty nine ers game. Stay with us
20:16
Speaker 1: after the break. We're gonna go over some of our
20:18
Speaker 1: game changers we think for the matchup. Welcome back, to
20:27
Speaker 1: jag z Am. We're here in the Hyundai studios and
20:29
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk a little bit about some of the
20:31
Speaker 1: Jaguars players we have our eye on this week. So, Brian,
20:35
Speaker 1: when you're looking at who might do something in this game,
20:37
Speaker 1: who do you have your eye on?
20:39
Speaker 2: Walker Little in particular. I think he is a guy
20:43
Speaker 2: who will it's the right way to put this, He'll
20:46
Speaker 2: be the difference maker on third and short, right, He'll
20:48
Speaker 2: be that guy he is He might be your best
20:52
Speaker 2: offensive lineman. I mean, I think he's tremendously talented. He's
20:57
Speaker 2: very athletic, he's very powerful. He won't be over matt By,
21:00
Speaker 2: you know, bigger guys like Hargrave in Armstead. And I
21:04
Speaker 2: think he's that guy who will you know you'll be
21:06
Speaker 2: able to run behind him, You'll be able to He'll
21:08
Speaker 2: lift the play of Luke Fordner up and help them
21:11
Speaker 2: work through it and be more successful on third and
21:14
Speaker 2: short and keep drives alive.
21:16
Speaker 3: I went with Foyer. Lukan he will play well because
21:22
Speaker 3: he always does. He's as consistent and I think he's
21:26
Speaker 3: playing better than last season. It seems to me like
21:29
Speaker 3: he has more tackles in that one in two yard
21:34
Speaker 3: range than he did last year. I think the overall
21:36
Speaker 3: defense is playing better around him. He won't need to
21:40
Speaker 3: stop at forty nine of his offense all by himself,
21:42
Speaker 3: because I think the key for this game is what
21:45
Speaker 3: I said earlier, the fact that all eleven guys on
21:48
Speaker 3: this defense, they play so well together and it's rare
21:52
Speaker 3: to see guys out of position. What's been remarkable to
21:54
Speaker 3: me about this defense is how often the running game
21:59
Speaker 3: can be a little hard to get a feel for
22:02
Speaker 3: when you're watching it, because if you're if you're getting
22:06
Speaker 3: the difference between three and four yards on first down
22:08
Speaker 3: and one and two is a lot. The Jaguars, to me,
22:13
Speaker 3: have done a great job this year of stopping and
22:16
Speaker 3: all of a sudden you're in second and eight instead
22:18
Speaker 3: of second and six, and those two yards for down
22:20
Speaker 3: and distance or can be everything what you're trying to do.
22:24
Speaker 3: But he might he might make the Pro Bowl off
22:27
Speaker 3: this game, And what I mean by that is it's
22:30
Speaker 3: a national game up, you're gonna be watching it. He's
22:32
Speaker 3: already had the interception for a touchdown on national TVs.
22:35
Speaker 3: People are aware of he's the league in tackles. Pro
22:38
Speaker 3: Bowl can be a reputation type thing. Have a big
22:41
Speaker 3: game in a game like this, or just get people
22:43
Speaker 3: talking about you in a game like this and all
22:45
Speaker 3: of a sudden, you know, it's a shame it works
22:48
Speaker 3: that way because he deserves it no matter how he
22:50
Speaker 3: plays on Sunday. But this is the kind of game
22:53
Speaker 3: they can put a middle linebacker. Oh, you're stopping the
22:55
Speaker 3: forty nine ers, So this is the kind of game
22:59
Speaker 3: they can make a reputation for a player like him.
23:01
Speaker 2: Well, especially with Fred Warner on the other side for
23:03
Speaker 2: the Niners, they'll be talking about him. And if foyers
23:05
Speaker 2: playing well, you'll be You'll be in the same breath
23:08
Speaker 2: as a guy who is generally considered the best overall
23:11
Speaker 2: linebacker in football.
23:12
Speaker 6: So that's good for him.
23:14
Speaker 1: I went with Josh Allen. I think he's been having
23:17
Speaker 1: quite a season. I think he will get to Rock
23:19
Speaker 1: Purty on Sunday, and I think he won't let up
23:24
Speaker 1: in that regard because we've seen him gas out. He's
23:27
Speaker 1: if anybody need a bye, he gets. Josh Allen, what
23:29
Speaker 1: he's been able to do in the first half of
23:31
Speaker 1: this season has been impressive. He's a man playing for
23:33
Speaker 1: a contract and he's earning every penny at this point,
23:36
Speaker 1: he might be the difference maker in this game because
23:38
Speaker 1: I think he'll either get a strip, sack, force of fumble,
23:41
Speaker 1: get an extra possession, and I think at the end
23:42
Speaker 1: of the day, it might come down to who's going
23:44
Speaker 1: to win the turnover battle in this game. Brian, we
23:47
Speaker 1: talked about Josh Allen needing to play well this season
23:49
Speaker 1: and kind of earn that contract, if you will. But
23:52
Speaker 1: it's so impressive what he's been able to do, and
23:54
Speaker 1: I don't see him slowing down.
23:55
Speaker 2: He might be the most consistent pass rusher in the league.
23:57
Speaker 2: And it seems ridiculous because t J. Watt's so very
24:00
Speaker 2: good and Nick Bose is so very good, but he
24:02
Speaker 2: leaves in the league with pressures, right, he can forty eight
24:05
Speaker 2: coming into this week, and he is just consistently there.
24:09
Speaker 2: And maybe it's because he doesn't see as many double
24:11
Speaker 2: teams as TJ. Watt as I don't know there are
24:14
Speaker 2: reasons why, but I just he's really really good. And
24:18
Speaker 2: I think we take him for granted in Jacksonville because
24:20
Speaker 2: he's had some good and some bad bad it's the
24:23
Speaker 2: wrong word, he said, some good and some not as
24:25
Speaker 2: productive games. But he's got nine sacks near the top
24:28
Speaker 2: of the what a half a sack off the AFC League. Yeah, yeah,
24:31
Speaker 2: not very far. And he's got nine games left and
24:35
Speaker 2: you just you look and see where he could have
24:38
Speaker 2: a He could break Kalay's Campbell's I think single season
24:40
Speaker 2: franchise record. You bet he was talking about it yesterday.
24:43
Speaker 2: That means something to him, because Kalais means something to him.
24:46
Speaker 3: He's been underappreciated around here for a long time when
24:53
Speaker 3: you consider how important game situations are to sacks. From
25:00
Speaker 3: of his career, he's played on a team that's trailed
25:03
Speaker 3: by ten points a lot, and there are some years
25:07
Speaker 3: where it was insane how many double digit games they lost.
25:10
Speaker 3: It's hard to get sacks if the other team's not throwing.
25:12
Speaker 3: And if the other team doesn't have to throw. This year,
25:15
Speaker 3: guess what, the Jaguars are better. His pressures are becoming
25:19
Speaker 3: sacks because there's more situations where he can do it.
25:21
Speaker 3: And I'm not take anything away from what he's done
25:23
Speaker 3: this year, but he's always been a good player and
25:26
Speaker 3: I'm ecstatic for him that it's showing up in the
25:28
Speaker 3: status sheet for him because he's a class act.
25:32
Speaker 2: And I think you could have made the case going
25:33
Speaker 2: into the season there was a chance he might be
25:35
Speaker 2: somewhere else in twenty twenty four if Trayvon came on
25:38
Speaker 2: and had a big year, and if his numbers hadn't translated.
25:41
Speaker 2: But he's meant so much to this defense and its
25:43
Speaker 2: overall level of performance. I don't think there's any way
25:46
Speaker 2: he plays anywhere else.
25:47
Speaker 3: I don't see how you don't.
25:48
Speaker 6: It's all valuable.
25:49
Speaker 2: Whatever it takes, they're going to create a creative way
25:52
Speaker 2: to work it all in and Josh Allen will be
25:54
Speaker 2: here long term.
25:55
Speaker 3: You know why, Brian, because you trust him.
25:57
Speaker 2: Yes, he's He's also the kind of per one in
26:00
Speaker 2: your locker room. He is a stand up. He's a
26:03
Speaker 2: good father, he's a good husband by all accounts. He's
26:06
Speaker 2: a good neighbor, he's a good teammate, and he's a
26:08
Speaker 2: good football player. Those guys the whole package don't come
26:11
Speaker 2: along that often, and we now see that he's the
26:14
Speaker 2: whole package. He's going to get a big contract to
26:16
Speaker 2: deserve it.
26:17
Speaker 3: His ceiling is very high, but his floor is too.
26:19
Speaker 3: Even when he hadn't had these numbers, he's really really
26:22
Speaker 3: good on and off the field.
26:23
Speaker 1: Integral part of this team, so happy to see him
26:26
Speaker 1: having as much success as he's having this season. Stay
26:28
Speaker 1: with us after the break, we'll go over our final
26:30
Speaker 1: predictions for the game and talk a little bit more.
26:33
Speaker 1: Forty nine ers.
26:41
Speaker 7: The fans are going to be huge. I mean, obviously
26:43
Speaker 7: we've got a lot of momentum right now and they're
26:44
Speaker 7: a huge part of that. And just bringing that. You know,
26:46
Speaker 7: we've been really successful on the road this year. We
26:50
Speaker 7: need to start winning at home more and that's a
26:51
Speaker 7: big part of you know, with our fans as well,
26:53
Speaker 7: and I know that's what they're looking forward to seeing.
26:55
Speaker 7: So we just need all we can get all that
26:57
Speaker 7: home field advantage.
26:59
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawren saying the Man cast, he's excited to be
27:01
Speaker 1: Jacksonville's quarterback, and he's excited to be at home play
27:04
Speaker 1: for the fans. Standing room only at this point for
27:06
Speaker 1: forty nine ers, but get out there if you can.
27:07
Speaker 2: He always fit this town when he's playing at Clemson.
27:10
Speaker 2: Just everything about him screamed Jacksonville, and in talking to
27:15
Speaker 2: him back in the preseason for an interview before a
27:18
Speaker 2: preseason football game, he talked about how much and his
27:22
Speaker 2: wife love it here. It's just it's genuine and real
27:24
Speaker 2: and people can connect with him. He's the perfect quarterback
27:27
Speaker 2: for this town.
27:28
Speaker 1: It should be a good one.
27:29
Speaker 3: Are you guys?
27:29
Speaker 1: Do you have game predictions for us?
27:31
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think they win if they can get a
27:36
Speaker 3: couple of turnovers. I think they need the big plays
27:38
Speaker 3: energy from that. I think in this game you need
27:41
Speaker 3: to have Andre Cisco and leading the team on this
27:44
Speaker 3: thing that they do now when they get interception and
27:46
Speaker 3: they're running down and they're doing it, you know, and
27:49
Speaker 3: you got to see a way out of the defense
27:51
Speaker 3: for them to win this game. Maybe two maybe two okay,
27:53
Speaker 3: maybe two ways.
27:56
Speaker 6: I have a good feeling about it.
27:57
Speaker 2: I mean I can't say they are a certain score,
28:00
Speaker 2: you know, with the Niners and how well coached they
28:02
Speaker 2: are and how talented they are, they're's gonna go into
28:04
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter. I mean, you're not gonna run away
28:06
Speaker 2: from these guys and have a two touchdown lead with
28:08
Speaker 2: ten minutes to play.
28:10
Speaker 6: So I just this team proved last year that they
28:13
Speaker 6: can win games late.
28:13
Speaker 2: They've proven that they can overcome mistakes, especially with eight
28:17
Speaker 2: turnovers in the last four games and all of those
28:19
Speaker 2: being wins.
28:20
Speaker 6: So I have a good feeling.
28:21
Speaker 2: Just I think this is a really good team. I
28:23
Speaker 2: think I think this is as good a team as
28:25
Speaker 2: there is in the AFC. It might be the best
28:27
Speaker 2: team in the AFC. I mean, watching all the weekend
28:31
Speaker 2: and I know Kansas City and I know them well.
28:33
Speaker 2: I think this may be the best team in the AFC.
28:35
Speaker 2: And they should be able to beat the best team
28:36
Speaker 2: in the NFC, which is the Eagles right now, but
28:39
Speaker 2: you got to beat you.
28:40
Speaker 6: Gotta beat the Niners.
28:42
Speaker 2: And at one point at five and zer after they
28:44
Speaker 2: had clouded the Cowboys, everyone thought they were the best
28:46
Speaker 2: team in the NFL. They get all those players back, right, Deebo, Samuel,
28:50
Speaker 2: Trent Williams. They're all back, So this could be best
28:53
Speaker 2: versus best. Let's see what you got.
28:55
Speaker 1: Absolutely gotta beat the next team on your schedule. I'm
28:57
Speaker 1: gonna I'm go with the Jags too, why not? And
28:59
Speaker 1: maybe this will be the breakout week for the offense too.
29:02
Speaker 1: Of course, we'll have you covered on game day with
29:04
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29:05
Speaker 1: we'll be right back here on Jagxam on Monday to recap.
29:08
Speaker 1: Hopefully Jaguars win. Enjoy the game,