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Speaker 1: Count down. The kickoff continues. The Jags and the Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans coming up today at one o'clock at t i

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Speaker 1: A Bank Field in Jacksonville, and we welcome in prior

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Speaker 1: to the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor. The second half

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Speaker 1: is underway, Fred, how are you, j P. I'm good, man,

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Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm just hoping that guys can get on track,

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Speaker 1: least where they're confident, if nothing else. So it won't

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Speaker 1: be easy. As we said earlier in the season, UM

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Speaker 1: help isn't coming from anywhere, and that is shown unless

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Speaker 1: um Jake lu Luton I pronounced his did It's hard

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Speaker 1: to even pronounce it. Man, I mean I don't know

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Speaker 1: the guy. I'm not in the building enough. But hopefully,

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Speaker 1: um we can, we can see what he has. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it's a bright spot. Who knows well, you said you

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Speaker 1: don't know him at all. Well, nobody really knows him

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Speaker 1: at all. He's a rookie. Nobody has been around the building,

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Speaker 1: nobody has been in the locker room in terms of

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Speaker 1: the media that to really get to know this guy.

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Speaker 1: And then we'll find out on Sunday what he looks

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Speaker 1: like on the NFL game field for the first time,

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Speaker 1: no preseason, no offseason workouts except for the training camp periods.

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Speaker 1: A big unknown here and things can change from positive

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Speaker 1: with J. J. Watt and others lined up on the

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Speaker 1: other side, things can change, Like you know, the first

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Speaker 1: meeting that the Texans have force acts. This meeting, it

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Speaker 1: could double, it could be eight. Um. But I don't

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Speaker 1: make sure that um, all things considered, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: just the offense as a whole. Hopefully they can get

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Speaker 1: you know, because it's gonna be frightening. You know, you

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Speaker 1: have merciless over there, you have what over there, you know,

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Speaker 1: and you have a Texans team who's won in six

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Speaker 1: only win was against the jack So I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 1: that confidence in sky high in this matchup near liking

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Speaker 1: gonna not gonna be easy for for Jake. But more

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Speaker 1: more than that, you know, the defense, you know, the

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Speaker 1: defense has to find a way to step it up

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Speaker 1: to even give him a chance. Even even Gardner out there,

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Speaker 1: you can't outscore them. You're giving up thirty plus points

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Speaker 1: a game. It's hard for any quarterback in the NFL

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Speaker 1: to get a victory when the defense is given up

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Speaker 1: so much. Let's continue that defensive conversation now, Fred, you know,

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Speaker 1: they haven't had much of a pass rush. I haven't

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Speaker 1: emphasis earlier in the year. They're banged up a good bit,

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Speaker 1: a lot of young guys are out there playing and

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Speaker 1: as you said, helps not on the way on the

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Speaker 1: defensive side. What can they do to get everything going

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Speaker 1: in the right direction with all that happening. Still, you know,

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Speaker 1: considering JP they're they're giving up over thirty points a game. Uh,

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Speaker 1: team is one in six year in start of rookie quarterback.

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Speaker 1: You know, you just got to try to get creative

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Speaker 1: dial up some pressure packages, things that other teams hadn't

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Speaker 1: what other teams have had success against the you know,

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Speaker 1: the guys to make plays. Pressure the quarterback, do some

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Speaker 1: exotic packages, develop some zero bitches, uh for man and

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Speaker 1: man coverages. Challenge your cornerbacks. You know, let those linebackers blips.

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Speaker 1: You got Miles Jacks back out, you know you sent him.

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Speaker 1: Use the team speed that you have, the draft picks,

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Speaker 1: you know, put them on the edge. Just turn them loose,

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Speaker 1: man and say, you know, like the coach used to

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Speaker 1: Let's just get anxiety. Let's see what happens again. Help

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Speaker 1: isn't coming. Things aren't necessarily gonna get any better doing

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Speaker 1: You have a lot of young guys in that locker

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Speaker 1: do things the right way, to teach them how to

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Speaker 1: he's gonna have to continue. You know, I hate to

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Speaker 1: pretty sure they're not gonna make the playoffs this year

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Speaker 1: in the post game, Fred no doubt man looking forward

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Speaker 1: to a JP when we returned the final word with

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