Speaker 1: Countdown to kickoff continues as the Jaguars visit the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Vikings today at one o'clock kickoff time j P. Shadrick
Speaker 1: each week joined by a pride of the Jaguars running
Speaker 1: back Fred Taylor. Hello, Fred, what's up? JP? More football man?
Speaker 1: Gotta love it, gotta love it. Let's keep having football.
Speaker 1: I know there's some games that have been in question
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, but so far, so good
Speaker 1: for the Jacksonville Jaguars in terms of getting these games played.
Speaker 1: Biggest news of the week Dave Colrell out as a
Speaker 1: general manager. He started here in he had a playoff
Speaker 1: rount in teen. There was some success in the later
Speaker 1: rounds of the draft, not as much success at the
Speaker 1: top of the draft, and I think that's the big key.
Speaker 1: Now what for the Jaguars, you know, now what they
Speaker 1: bring someone in and bring someone else in to call
Speaker 1: the shots. You know, hopefully someone that will work in
Speaker 1: a joint coordinated effort with the head coach to get
Speaker 1: the type of players they need to fill the roster
Speaker 1: and fill their philosophy. You know, a lot of times
Speaker 1: uh gms and head coaches that have different ideologies and
Speaker 1: philosophies and they don't mesh well. And I can put
Speaker 1: a strain on the organization top down as it relates
Speaker 1: to to to Dave Caldwell, I I really I like
Speaker 1: Dave a lot. I think he's an awesome person. The
Speaker 1: NFL is a business, more business than personal. The quarterback position,
Speaker 1: I think that sort of hurt uh Dave earlier on
Speaker 1: you know, the whole Blake borders that thing there. Although
Speaker 1: they did have the one that run three years ago,
Speaker 1: the defense was amazing. They built an amazing defense, so
Speaker 1: I do give them credit for that, having one of
Speaker 1: the best defenses, uh, statistically in the history of the
Speaker 1: game at different points throughout that season. You're not measured
Speaker 1: on one shot. It's about consistency in the NFL. UH.
Speaker 1: And usually that comes from the quarterback position. First. If
Speaker 1: you're gonna be a team that's in it every year,
Speaker 1: look at the successful teams around the NFL is the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. And then you build out from there. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you pretty much can do anything through draft, through
Speaker 1: free agency. And unfortunately one of Dave's first picks was
Speaker 1: the quarterback position and that didn't pan out. So it
Speaker 1: created this trickle down effect and this is what we
Speaker 1: have now. Hopefully going forward, uh shot Uh, the decision
Speaker 1: makers in the front office, they can find somebody out
Speaker 1: to get in there, and that would be solid, you know,
Speaker 1: get us some solid picks in work coordination with with
Speaker 1: the head coach whatever they're gonna do there. Uh and
Speaker 1: and and hopefully that will all translate to wins for
Speaker 1: the Jaguar fan base. And really that's all that matters.
Speaker 1: The fans don't care about all this stuff. They just
Speaker 1: want to see wins. The one way to get in
Speaker 1: the stadium enjoy you know, spending their hard earned money,
Speaker 1: seeing a great product on the field and enjoying their Sundays.
Speaker 1: That's all they care about. Fred Taylor with us to
Speaker 1: the Jaguars running back. So now it's on the Minnesota
Speaker 1: and a really good battle of running backs here, of course,
Speaker 1: James Robinson, the rookie for the Jaguars, and then Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook for Minnesota, the second best running back in terms
Speaker 1: of yardage in the league this year. You gotta love
Speaker 1: this matchup, Fred, You know, I do love the match up.
Speaker 1: I've been a fan of Dalvin since his his days
Speaker 1: at Florida State. Although he was a seminar but I
Speaker 1: was still a fan. I my you know, his style
Speaker 1: of run. I thought I always thought that he was
Speaker 1: getting the NFL to have a successful career, you know,
Speaker 1: not so much earlier on. You know, they they compared
Speaker 1: him to a lot of the other guys around the league,
Speaker 1: and he was slowed due to a few injuries. When
Speaker 1: coach Kennedy Poland my old position coach, when they got
Speaker 1: up there in Minnesota, and they adapted that that style
Speaker 1: of play they had here under with under coach Pola
Speaker 1: in the run game coordinator with myself from our reice,
Speaker 1: we were very successful. Kp he reached out a lot
Speaker 1: to me, you know, he talked about Dalvin and what
Speaker 1: the young man brought to the table. He put us
Speaker 1: on the phone together. He allowed myself to share my
Speaker 1: experiences with with d C with Dalvin, and Dalvin started
Speaker 1: training at my facility with coach Pete Bamrito here in
Speaker 1: South Florida, and his career skyrocketed. I mean, he's having
Speaker 1: a great last two years. He's been running really well,
Speaker 1: really efficient, and he's learning how to stay healthy. And
Speaker 1: and and James Robinson he'll do the same. You know,
Speaker 1: He's having a pretty solid rookie campaign. He's really the
Speaker 1: highlight of the entire team, you know, more than anything else.
Speaker 1: That's usually what you're gonna get from the running back position, though,
Speaker 1: you know, we we were that spark that the entire
Speaker 1: ball club needs. But he's doing his job. Uh, he's
Speaker 1: making the guys up front excited about blocking again in
Speaker 1: the run game. He's doing it in the past game.
Speaker 1: And uh, he's definitely been a great find for the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: And again all the days out of the building, you
Speaker 1: know that decision was made between he and coach Marone,
Speaker 1: but again, um it wasn't through the draft. But he's
Speaker 1: still a solid player, never the case, whatever the case
Speaker 1: may be, and luckily he's on our side. Fred Taylor
Speaker 1: with a final thoughts here, Fred, you know there's five
Speaker 1: games left. The team's officially eliminated from postseason contention. They've
Speaker 1: already made a change in the front office. Who knows
Speaker 1: what other changes could come down the line here, but
Speaker 1: there's still five football games left to be played. You know,
Speaker 1: Doug Brone is trying to go out and get the
Speaker 1: best out of this team that he can and still
Speaker 1: try to win games. How difficult is it to to
Speaker 1: stay motivated, to stay locked in, first as a football
Speaker 1: team and then as an individual player when you know
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you're you're not going anywhere,
Speaker 1: you know. I want to start from the individual side
Speaker 1: and then look at it from the team aspect. I
Speaker 1: think from an individual side, the guys are motivated from.
Speaker 1: You know, some guys may have, you know, certain incentives
Speaker 1: that they're close to hitting. Uh. Some guys just want
Speaker 1: to put something on tape. You know, you got a
Speaker 1: lot of young guys out there due to injuries that
Speaker 1: they they understand that, hey, this might be my last shot.
Speaker 1: Who knows, So I have to put some film on
Speaker 1: tape and give myself an opportunity. And I think that's
Speaker 1: a motivating factor. And how hungry these guys are gonna
Speaker 1: be throughout the remaindering, pushed portion of the season. And
Speaker 1: then now I want to talk about the team effort.
Speaker 1: I think the key part for that is how well
Speaker 1: they're communicating in the building throughout all of this madness
Speaker 1: with COVID UH this whole season, UH, dealing with their
Speaker 1: injuries and their personal frustrations. How well they're communicating these
Speaker 1: these last five weeks, you know, how important it is
Speaker 1: to them, uh from an individual standpoint, and now I
Speaker 1: think that all bill on the team side, uh, the coaches.
Speaker 1: The coaches want to finish for the bank. They don't
Speaker 1: want to lose. You know. People tend to joke and say, well,
Speaker 1: they're jockeying for position to to get the number one pick.
Speaker 1: I don't know how true that is, because when you're
Speaker 1: between the choke, you just want to go out there
Speaker 1: and play your butts off. Coaches want to coach their
Speaker 1: tails off, you know, because they know it's about opportunity
Speaker 1: for them as well. So, UM, I don't know how
Speaker 1: they're gonna you know, how it translates to the overall
Speaker 1: team picture, but I do know that you have guys
Speaker 1: in the building definitely. Over the last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: have shown that they're hungry, they're still passionate about football.
Speaker 1: The end result hadn't been great, it's not what they've wanted,
Speaker 1: but they're out there playing their butts off. They're playing
Speaker 1: hard down to the last whistle, and that's what I'm
Speaker 1: excited to see. I'm excited to see the young guys
Speaker 1: out there scrapping and hopefully those are building blocks that
Speaker 1: will get us to where we want to be. You know,
Speaker 1: where we were three years ago and hopefully where we
Speaker 1: can be within the next three year window. As the
Speaker 1: entire French Fred, great stuff. As always, We will talk
Speaker 1: to you again in the post game coming up a
Speaker 1: little later. I'm gonna see you there, Fred Taylor, pride
Speaker 1: of the Jaguars running back and up next, the final
Speaker 1: Word with head coach Doug Brone ahead of the Jaguars
Speaker 1: and the Vikings in Week thirteen. This is countdown to
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