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Speaker 1: Time for our weekly conversation with Pride of the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: running back Fred Taylor. Week one is finally here Fred,

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars and the Dolphins. The off season, all the hype,

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Speaker 1: all the talk, Well it's almost over. We're talking right now.

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Speaker 1: What's up?

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Speaker 2: How are you AJP? Listen? How long do we have

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Speaker 2: to wait for football? From Super Bowl to now? Six

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Speaker 2: months or five six months or something? Listen. I found

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Speaker 2: a new I found a better love this off season

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Speaker 2: for hockey. My Florida Panthers won. I'm starting to learn

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Speaker 2: and like baseball a bit more. Still haven't been to

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Speaker 2: a game, but I've made a lot of friends throughout

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Speaker 2: my travels with the Pivot that play MLB that are

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Speaker 2: inviting me to a game. So I think I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: go check out a Yankees game. But still is not football.

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Speaker 2: It is not football. The Olympics were great this offseason,

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Speaker 2: which kind of filled that boyd a little bit. But

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Speaker 2: here we are Opening day, Jaguars Dolphins, interstate rival, and

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Speaker 2: I pray this time around that the team from the

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Speaker 2: North winds because last weekend what my Gators did versus

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Speaker 2: another team from the South so embarrassing. So I got

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Speaker 2: one more shot at it.

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Speaker 1: Fred. When you think of the Miami Dolphins, the first

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Speaker 1: thing I think a lot of people think of is

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Speaker 1: the just incredible speed that they have on offense in

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Speaker 1: so many places. So how do you slow this team down?

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Speaker 2: Well, it starts with the four down lineman, that new

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Speaker 2: look front, the interior. You know you added Eric Armstead,

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Speaker 2: you went out and you paid Josh Allen Hines. You

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Speaker 2: paid them a ton of money, so expectations are high.

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Speaker 2: You believe you're improved there. Josh can carry over what

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Speaker 2: he did a year ago, what he closed in close

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Speaker 2: to what was it fifteen sacks? How many sacks? I

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Speaker 2: forget how many sacks you had, but he had a

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Speaker 2: seventeen and have personal record. So I believe you know

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Speaker 2: that four down lineman. They're gonna have to show that. Look,

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Speaker 2: we have to get after tour. If we can get

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Speaker 2: after tour and bang him around, that's gonna slow everything

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Speaker 2: else down. He doesn't have the strongest arm in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, he's on the bottom half

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Speaker 2: of weak arms. So don't allow him to get back

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Speaker 2: set up so he can launch the ball to those

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Speaker 2: guys because they have an Olympic four y one hundred

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Speaker 2: style type offense at receiver at the receiver position, and

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Speaker 2: then when you look at the backfield with Raheem and Ashan,

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Speaker 2: you know, they got some guys that can really go

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Speaker 2: from that position as well. So you really have to

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Speaker 2: get after the quarterback, slow them down and on the

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Speaker 2: flip side offensively sustaining a run game. If you keep

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Speaker 2: them off the field by running the ball efficiently and effectively,

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Speaker 2: then you give yourself a better chance that slowing that big,

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Speaker 2: high powered offense down.

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Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with us and yeah, let's touch on the

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Speaker 1: Shaguars offense. If you're gonna run the ball and run

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Speaker 1: the clock and keep them on the sideline, it starts

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Speaker 1: on that offensive line. And that's been a focus of

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Speaker 1: this offseason. Of course. You know we'll find out pretty quick.

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Speaker 1: Have they done enough in the interior for those short

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Speaker 1: yardage situations to protect the pocket from the middle in

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Speaker 1: front of Trevor. This is where it starts for the

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Speaker 1: Jags this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always gonna start with the offensive line. You

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Speaker 2: know that group a year ago, I thought they had

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Speaker 2: played decently. Ezra Cleveland, you know, coming in there, he

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Speaker 2: did well. I believe this year. If they stay healthy,

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Speaker 2: this will be the best offensive line group that we've

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Speaker 2: seen out of the Jaguars in the past several years.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they have a nice collection of young guys

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Speaker 2: and veteran guys, bringing in Mitch Morris this past offseason

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Speaker 2: as an anchor there in the middle. I really believe

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Speaker 2: this offensive line and can show that they've been the

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Speaker 2: best maybe since you know Boselli and Big Sercy. It's

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Speaker 2: been that long since we've had some dogs up front.

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Speaker 2: And the running game. It goes back sometimes teams weigh

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Speaker 2: the offensive line success on the run game and how

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Speaker 2: many sacks they give up. I think it goes a

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Speaker 2: bit further than that because it also comes down to

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Speaker 2: mental errors in there. You don't want to play. I

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Speaker 2: have a lot of mistakes from that group, our communication bus.

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Speaker 2: So I believe with the veteran leaderships they have in

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Speaker 2: the center, and then you kind of branch that out

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Speaker 2: to the outside there, they're gonna play well. Brett.

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Speaker 1: How about this you mentioned too, but the quarterback matchup

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Speaker 1: as a whole. Both quarterbacks got paid this offseason to

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Speaker 1: a tongue of I love.

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Speaker 2: Of course, they've been half a billion out there, so

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Speaker 2: a lot of money on the field.

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Speaker 1: Billion, a lot of money on the field, and this

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Speaker 1: is the matchup with a lot of people will look

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Speaker 1: forward to and and then the matchup. This is different

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Speaker 1: styles and approaches. Doug Peterson has been at this for

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Speaker 1: a long time. It's one of Super Bowl Mike McDaniel,

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Speaker 1: up and coming young guy with a flashy offense. I mean,

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Speaker 1: these are two different dynamics here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very much so JP. But you have one who's

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Speaker 2: won the big game. You know, Doug's won a Super Bowl,

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Speaker 2: so you know he's leading an experience. Mike. Uh, he's

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Speaker 2: He's just a great person. Man. I just like to

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Speaker 2: sit there with him and just hear him talk. Like

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Speaker 2: his mind, the way his mind works, I think is beautiful.

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Speaker 2: And that from a from just a normal conversation standpoint,

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Speaker 2: it carries over to what he is as a coach,

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Speaker 2: how creative he is as an offensive mine and uh

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Speaker 2: he these younger coaches, you'll see Doug likes to go

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Speaker 2: for it on fourth down. These young guys, they don't

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Speaker 2: flinch either. So I think that's the only similarity we'll

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Speaker 2: see these guys, uh, is that they're very aggressive. Let's

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Speaker 2: just all that. But I hope that experience outweighs youth

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Speaker 2: in this one and Jaguars come back home with a victory.

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Speaker 1: Well, we're off and running. Fred. We'll do this again

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Speaker 1: next week before the Browns game, and we'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you then. Appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: See, that's what I want to hear the commentator say

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Speaker 2: about Travissey. He's often running. That'll make more that'll make

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Speaker 2: my early season prediction, which I'll just say Jaguars win.

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Speaker 2: I won't put a score to it, but obviously I'm

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Speaker 2: the most optimistic person in the world. So Jaguars win.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk about it in postgame