Speaker 1: Countdown to kickoff continues, the Jags and the Packers coming
Speaker 1: up at one o'clock at Lambeau Field in Green Bay.
Speaker 1: Pride of the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor with us
Speaker 1: now as we head into week ten. What's up Fred, JP,
Speaker 1: same thing? Man, got some football on the radar. That's
Speaker 1: how that matters today. Jags are now one and seven.
Speaker 1: They're facing a six and two Packers team and a
Speaker 1: lot of this football team for the Jags will be
Speaker 1: going to Green Bay and the Lambeau Field for the
Speaker 1: first time. I went for the first time in twelve.
Speaker 1: I'm not playing, of course, but just to see the
Speaker 1: names on the wall and everything you're you're walking through
Speaker 1: the building and hearing the NFL films and your ears
Speaker 1: when you're walking in there, it feels like is there
Speaker 1: anything to that as a player as well? And and
Speaker 1: what place where you really fired up to see when
Speaker 1: you first got in the league. You know, JP um,
Speaker 1: the home mystique behind Lambo, you know the tradition, you
Speaker 1: know and uh just everything you know you hear about
Speaker 1: about the game, Well, the game of football is so
Speaker 1: you know Sta Mecca, you see the Lambo leap, you
Speaker 1: know when you haven't played there, And I think I
Speaker 1: mentioned on the production last week on television those guys
Speaker 1: leaping on the you know, leaping on the fence there.
Speaker 1: You know, you think to yourself, oh, that thing is
Speaker 1: six or seven ft high, you know, especially the guys
Speaker 1: that leap up there and kind of fall off of it.
Speaker 1: But it's only hedge high. It's just uh, you know
Speaker 1: for maybe four ft highs or it's kind of a
Speaker 1: lambo baby leap, uh you know. But still, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just one of those things that you're waiting to do.
Speaker 1: You know, you're praying that you score a touchdown so
Speaker 1: you can participate and you know, upset their fans by
Speaker 1: doing their thing. Now I had an opportunity, I believe
Speaker 1: it was two thousand three, first time in my career
Speaker 1: to go up there. It was so cold. It was
Speaker 1: a cold, cold game and the tundra was frozen. And man,
Speaker 1: when I tell you, just that feeling in that moment,
Speaker 1: just being in Green Bay, looking around, absorbing the fan.
Speaker 1: You know here in the stories about the season tickets,
Speaker 1: how they passed down from generation to generation. Now this
Speaker 1: is the opportunity to play under these lights, in front
Speaker 1: of all these people. Uh, it was amazing just to
Speaker 1: the intensity that um, the added motivation for me. So
Speaker 1: these guys, it's a lot that they have to look
Speaker 1: forward to in a sense of that tradition, you know,
Speaker 1: being able to soak that in even though the fan
Speaker 1: experience won't be there because of what we're dealing with
Speaker 1: in the pandemic, the ghosts of Lambo. Just to have
Speaker 1: those thoughts in your mind, I think it's an amazing,
Speaker 1: you know, special feeling. Fred Taylor, Well, it's pride of
Speaker 1: the Jaguars running back. They better shake it off quick though,
Speaker 1: because Aaron Rodgers is on the other side. He has
Speaker 1: weapons around him. This is an offense and a football
Speaker 1: team that is fully loaded and ready for the stretch run.
Speaker 1: He does everything right. There's nothing he really does wrong.
Speaker 1: And how do you defend Aaron Rodgers. Well, you know
Speaker 1: he is a hard defense. You know at thirty seven
Speaker 1: years of age. Uh, you know, he's playing some of
Speaker 1: the best football in his entire career. You know, he
Speaker 1: has twenty four touchdowns. The two interceptions. The crazy thing
Speaker 1: is those two interceptions came in one game against the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay defense that had been okay until they were
Speaker 1: carved up a week ago was still Aaron Rodgers, you know,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite quarterbacks. Yeah, the guy that I
Speaker 1: love talking about, you know, a guy who's embraced one
Speaker 1: of my former teammates. And Mercedes Lewis just the things
Speaker 1: that he's done. You know, a year ago, they were
Speaker 1: they were trying to count him out. They were trying
Speaker 1: to count him out. You know, they drafted a quarterback
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, they thought it was gonna be
Speaker 1: it for him. But he's ascended this year and he's
Speaker 1: playing lights out. I almost wanted to say the package
Speaker 1: don't deserve him. I wish he was down in Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: But we got a young guy, a couple of young
Speaker 1: guys with some upside. But Aaron Rodgers is a guy
Speaker 1: that the defense has to look out or or else
Speaker 1: they're they're gonna get carved up if they don't get
Speaker 1: pressure on him. How motivated is Mercedes Lewis in this
Speaker 1: game today? Come on? You know, Uh, Mercedes, you know
Speaker 1: he he never wanted to leave Jacksonville, you know, but
Speaker 1: he understands the business of football and uh, looking at things,
Speaker 1: you go sometimes, man, you know, they could have used
Speaker 1: you know, eighty nine to block and you know, uh,
Speaker 1: get get Leonard when Nanna was there, you know, on
Speaker 1: the outside and around the corner and all those different things.
Speaker 1: Just looking back, I'm sure he's motivated a week ago,
Speaker 1: you know he called a touchdown on Thursday Night Football.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he's you know, licking his chop, hoping
Speaker 1: that he can get one on the team that on
Speaker 1: his former team today. As I was motivated when I
Speaker 1: was in New England, just wanted to get out there
Speaker 1: and see the guys you know, in that experiences. So
Speaker 1: this is sweet feeler. Fred Taylor with us. You mentioned that,
Speaker 1: we mentioned Aaron Rodgers, you mentioned the young quarterbacks with
Speaker 1: the Jacks. Jake got his first NFL start last week.
Speaker 1: A little little difference in experience than a lot of difference.
Speaker 1: There is about to go to eleventh of the all
Speaker 1: time passing yardage list this week and Jake Luton played
Speaker 1: sixty NFL snaps in his career. So how did he
Speaker 1: look last week to you? And he said he got
Speaker 1: his stiff arm and his spin moved from you. Yeah
Speaker 1: he did say that, man, And uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know what game he saw then, but you know
Speaker 1: it made me feel good for him to acknowledge that
Speaker 1: he was a fan. Uh and it makes me feel,
Speaker 1: you know, just a day older. So that's all good.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, for me, I thought he looked well,
Speaker 1: a big, tall guy who was able to just stand
Speaker 1: over there and see over the lyne and scrimmin so,
Speaker 1: you know, his awareness and being able to scan to
Speaker 1: feel the trajectory in which he delivers the ball, all
Speaker 1: of that stuff comes natural because of his height. His
Speaker 1: arm stream that looked good. You know, I saw velss
Speaker 1: of a lot of zip on his passes. I thought
Speaker 1: he made some you know, for the most part, he
Speaker 1: made some good decision His poise was there. Uh, he
Speaker 1: had a few um errant throws, but you know that happens.
Speaker 1: That happens too with the greats. But he has a long, long,
Speaker 1: long way to go. You know, I think the more
Speaker 1: repetition game repetitions, he he gets his you know, his
Speaker 1: confidence to increase. Hell, you know, you're saying out there
Speaker 1: attempting throws with that bullet arm that maybe he shouldn't attempt.
Speaker 1: But it's confidence, you know. I'm I'm hoping that the
Speaker 1: head coach and the coach is going forward. When you
Speaker 1: have two guys. The question was actually coach Marone. Who's
Speaker 1: gonna be a guy. But when you have two guys,
Speaker 1: you know, young guys, you let him compete and it
Speaker 1: will sort itself out. For looting. I just hope he's
Speaker 1: able to get out there show that same poise that
Speaker 1: he's displayed last week, you know, connected with his receivers,
Speaker 1: you know, lead the offense and keep this game competitive. Fred.
Speaker 1: We will talk to you in the post game and
Speaker 1: have a good day you too, j P. See soon
Speaker 1: back in a moment. The final word before kickoff with
Speaker 1: head coach Doug Morone ahead of the Jaguars and the
Speaker 1: Packers at one o'clock kickoff time at Lambeau Field in
Speaker 1: Green Bay. And this is countdown to kickoff on Jaguars Radio.
Speaker 1: All right, buddy, let me stop the recording.