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Speaker 1: Welcome to Jacks Drive Time with John Hosier Herkson and

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Speaker 1: Bryan Sex dated sixty Jangs Drive Time, and it starts

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Speaker 1: right now here we go on a Thursday morning Jags

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Speaker 1: Drive Time from t i A bank Field in Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: Brian and John with you for the next half hour

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Speaker 1: or so, getting you set for Saturday nights primetime kick

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Speaker 1: offf between the Jaguars and the Titans. Everywhere I go

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Speaker 1: in the city and John, I'm sure it's the same

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Speaker 1: for you. People want to talk about this game. Standing

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Speaker 1: in line at Publix last night, walking the dog this morning.

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Speaker 1: Everyone is interested in this game. For the first time,

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Speaker 1: probably maybe when the Patriots were here. Have we seen

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Speaker 1: such interest in the Jaguars game. Yeah, I'm I'm not

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Speaker 1: allowed out of my house except to come here, so

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Speaker 1: I don't have that starting this that, but if if

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Speaker 1: it's it's an un leievable moment that I keep sort

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Speaker 1: of going back to have been a couple of radio shows,

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Speaker 1: et cetera. I think the thing to remember that's really cool. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they're eight and eight, but if you break down the

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Speaker 1: second half the season, they have earned their way here.

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Speaker 1: They beat the Ravens, they beat the Cowboys, who are

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Speaker 1: both contending for the playoffs. If they win Saturday, they

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Speaker 1: will have beaten the Titans twice, who were in first

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Speaker 1: place when this whole thing started. You talk about seeing

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Speaker 1: what's in front of you and going and taking it.

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Speaker 1: If they accomplished it, you know, I think there would

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Speaker 1: be an asteris I'm not saying that, but oh, nine

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Speaker 1: and eight whatever in the last nine games of the season.

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Speaker 1: This team is good, you know it. It bears mentioning.

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Speaker 1: You and I had this conversation when I first mentioned

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Speaker 1: that this team was very similar to the ninety six team,

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Speaker 1: and you caution, hold on um. The difference between the

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Speaker 1: two teams is the schedule that this team faces is

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Speaker 1: with legitimate contenders, and the ninety six team played the

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Speaker 1: Bengals who were not at that moment, the Oilers, the

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Speaker 1: Seas who were not at that moment, and the Falcons,

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Speaker 1: who most decidedly were not at that moment. They finished

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Speaker 1: the season with the easiest part of the schedule, whereas

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Speaker 1: this particular team is finishing with the meat of the schedule.

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Speaker 1: When you looked at that nineties six schedule with five

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Speaker 1: was doing playoffs scenarios because you know, the Jacks make

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Speaker 1: play But when you looked at it every game that year,

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Speaker 1: you did not have this feeling of, well, they ought

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Speaker 1: are gonna be tough, the Ravens are gonna be tough,

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Speaker 1: the Titans are gonna be tough. And I haven't run

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Speaker 1: the table because the Chiefs and the Lions were also

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Speaker 1: in there. But the two losses were the teams that

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Speaker 1: still are and on Saturday night, the Jaguars have a

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Speaker 1: tough one with the Titans, despite the fact that the

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Speaker 1: Titans have a league high twenty two players on injured reserve.

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Speaker 1: It's just what happens when you have two teams that

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Speaker 1: big things here. On Thursday morning, it will start with

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Speaker 1: Trevor's time. Look, I mean, this is the moment when

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Speaker 1: a quarterback steps onto the stage. It's not yet the postseason,

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Speaker 1: but it might as well be Prime time Saturday Night winner.

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Speaker 1: Take all everything on the line, and these are the

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Speaker 1: kinds of games that you measure quarterbacks in their careers by.

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Speaker 1: And the Jaguars and offensive coordinator Press Taylor have no

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Speaker 1: and we don't expect anything different from him. Like you said,

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Speaker 1: the coin. That's the Tennessee Titans, who will bring in

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Speaker 1: Joshua Dobbs, who two weeks ago was on the Detroit

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Speaker 1: Of course, he has a degree in aerospace engineering. So

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Speaker 1: Josh was under selling that just a dad and finally

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Speaker 1: And you know, I'm proud of the situation we put

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Speaker 1: this is the only game that matters right now, and

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Speaker 1: I mean, he was so young when he was playing

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Speaker 1: that bigness. This is not going to be bigger than

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Speaker 1: Somebody has to lay hats on him early and make

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Speaker 1: sure he doesn't get going. That concept the interior run

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Speaker 1: defense is incredibly important and again I've been saying all week.

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Speaker 1: Usually you look for different matchups in a game. Well,

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Speaker 1: maybe this will be it. Stop Derrick Henry and make

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Speaker 1: this team play offense in a way it doesn't like

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Speaker 1: to play. And I think you win the game. Well,

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Speaker 1: and it's my Keith set to us yesterday. If you

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Speaker 1: get a lead on the Titans right and you have

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Speaker 1: to stop Derrick Henry to do that, then all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden he can't be a factor in the second half.

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Speaker 1: And we saw that a couple of weeks ago in Nashville.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing about Lucan that I love, Um. And

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Speaker 1: when you watch the the end zone vision on the

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Speaker 1: you see the wiggle that he has. He's got this

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Speaker 1: ability to kind of side shuffle without giving up his

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Speaker 1: leverage and get behind or in front or beneath somebody

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Speaker 1: to be able to make a play. He could torts

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Speaker 1: his body in a way that doesn't seem possible for

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Speaker 1: a guy who's moving at full speed. UM, talented guy

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Speaker 1: and smart, smart yale educated. That's all you need to say.

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Speaker 1: And again one of these guys we talked about free

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Speaker 1: agents who have come in and then what they were

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Speaker 1: expected to be. Uh. You know, it's a remarkable thing

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Speaker 1: because you don't see it all the time. All Right,

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Speaker 1: for my he will, he won't mind. I'm going with

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Speaker 1: Travis each again, and I say he will make a

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Speaker 1: big play. He'll have one of those signature runs against

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Speaker 1: the Titans on Sunday. Now. The reason why, obviously, is

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Speaker 1: that we saw him get on track last week, but

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Speaker 1: they bottled him up the last time the Jaguars played

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Speaker 1: the Titans and he didn't quite get there. But I

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Speaker 1: saw the confidence with which he was running, the way

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Speaker 1: that he hit the whole He just he's got it.

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Speaker 1: He's ready for this, and on Sunday he will hit

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Speaker 1: a big play. He won't average five yards of carrying.

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Speaker 1: You don't do that against the Titans, who are one

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Speaker 1: of the NFL's best run defenses. But they're banged up

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Speaker 1: up front. Jeffrey Simmons, the most dominant player is gutting

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Speaker 1: it out on an ankle. As we heard from Mike

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Speaker 1: Keith yesterday, there's gonna be opportunities there. But to suggest

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Speaker 1: that he'll be able to do what he did against

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Speaker 1: the Texans, I don't know. So I don't say he

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Speaker 1: won't get to five yards to carry, but he might

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Speaker 1: be the X factor on Sunday with the Titans trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out a way to take Evan Ingram away

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Speaker 1: to keep Christian Kirker's A Jones from doing what they've

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Speaker 1: done so consistently over the last six weeks. John, I

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Speaker 1: think that Travis E. T N might be that guy.

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Speaker 1: It might not be as a running back, it might

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Speaker 1: be as a receiver. But this is where I think

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Speaker 1: that Doug Peterson and Press Taylor and Jim Bob Cooterer,

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Speaker 1: I think this is where that offensive brain trust says,

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Speaker 1: we've got a guy that can be that X factor,

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Speaker 1: explosion guy that you can't account for because we're making

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Speaker 1: you take in all the other weapons we've got on

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Speaker 1: the field. And I think it might be Travis on

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Speaker 1: Saturday night. And you know, I needs to hold the ball.

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Speaker 1: That's a big factor right now. When he's got the

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Speaker 1: ball in. It needed to be said just to make

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Speaker 1: sure that people understood that we're aware of it. But

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Speaker 1: he has to be in the game. I like your

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Speaker 1: he will hem you might for this reason. If he

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Speaker 1: gains five yards on on Saturday, he'll be important because

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Speaker 1: every fiber of me believes that the Titans are up

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Speaker 1: there game planning. You have to account for him. They

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Speaker 1: know that you have to account for him. I believe

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Speaker 1: that's why the Jaguars the Titans will beat up in

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Speaker 1: the secondary of that day too. But they passed so

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Speaker 1: well against that team up there. A big reason for

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Speaker 1: that is they were worried about Travis c E. T

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Speaker 1: N worried about trying to stop him. He has to

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Speaker 1: be in the game. You have to give him, even

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Speaker 1: if he gains forty yards, give him the opportunities to

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Speaker 1: for the Titans to know that you believe in him,

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Speaker 1: and it will open things up for everybody else. All right,

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Speaker 1: there's he will he won't he might. When we returned

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Speaker 1: the final segment of Jags Drive Time presented by the

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Speaker 1: Fields Auto Group, but we present you Sunday's Headlines today.

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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back Jack's Drive Time. John Osian and

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Speaker 1: Brian Sexton with you from t I A Bank Field

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Speaker 1: in Jackson. Gvillman has always we end the Thursday show

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Speaker 1: with a preview of what we think the headlines are

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Speaker 1: going to be. Normally we call it Monday's Headlines Today,

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Speaker 1: but since it's a Saturday night primetime game. Here's what

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Speaker 1: we think you might be reading on Sunday morning. John,

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Speaker 1: I went with it was always the South, you know,

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Speaker 1: And I would say it's a play on on on

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Speaker 1: on duties. It was always the Jags and apparently, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I guess I from what I've read, Doug can read

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Speaker 1: the future, but he knows what's gonna happen. Maybe he

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Speaker 1: can tell me what the headline is gonna be. Maybe

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Speaker 1: he should be on this segment, on this segment and

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Speaker 1: just kill all the all the anticipation and nervousness for

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Speaker 1: the fans. But they've been talking about this since week

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Speaker 1: seven or eight, about this game, about winning the division.

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Speaker 1: This way, I would think that you will hear this

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Speaker 1: from players on Saturday night if they win this game.

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Speaker 1: It was always this out. Uh yeah, you might see

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Speaker 1: that t shirt showing up in the next couple of

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Speaker 1: days to uh, you might see people wearing it. Mine

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Speaker 1: is turned the page, right. I could just I envision

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Speaker 1: a picture somewhere of the game and turn the page,

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Speaker 1: and you turn the page of the newspaper and there

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Speaker 1: is Jaguars logo with a f C South champions. Because

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Speaker 1: the Titans have been the a f C South champions

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Speaker 1: for the last two years, and they've really been the

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Speaker 1: class of this division. I know Houston had a little

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Speaker 1: run there, but since Andrew Luck left in Indianapolis, this

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Speaker 1: has been the team to beat. And now that I

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Speaker 1: believe has changed and the Jaguars are the team to beat.

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Speaker 1: And so turn the page on the regular season to

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Speaker 1: the postseason. Turned the page from the Titans to the Jaguars.

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Speaker 1: Turned the page from suffering and losing Jaguars fans to

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Speaker 1: winning and enjoying your football team. So, yeah, you in

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Speaker 1: this game not to look too far ahead, but then

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Speaker 1: you enter next season, like we talked about as the hunted.

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Speaker 1: You know, you're four and two in the division. I

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Speaker 1: think that would be my no. No, you went on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: you finished four and two, which well, I mean they

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Speaker 1: did it in seventeen, but as we've talked about, didn't

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Speaker 1: beat all the teams that year. It would be the

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Speaker 1: first year, I guess ever, that you felt like you

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Speaker 1: were truly the class of the division, because even in

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Speaker 1: seventeen there was that little Titans had swept your thing. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, you would walk into the office, I mean

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Speaker 1: I walked into the postseason for the first time, knowing

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Speaker 1: you were kings of this out and the Jaguars hope

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Speaker 1: to be able to claim that on Saturday night here

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Speaker 1: at t I A a bank field that'll do it

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Speaker 1: for us. Have a great day. We'll talk to you

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Speaker 1: on Saturday evening as the Jaguars get set to try

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Speaker 1: to claim the South. Have a great day, everybody,