Speaker 1: Countdown to kickoff continues the Jaguars and the Baltimore Ravens
Speaker 1: in Week fifteen in the National Football League. The Jags
Speaker 1: are headed to the Inner Harbor and we're headed for
Speaker 1: our visit with pride of the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor.
Speaker 1: He joins us this time each week, what's up? Fred? Football? Football? Football? Football?
Speaker 1: What we got week the week? Fourteen fifteen, fifteen fifteen. Man,
Speaker 1: it's been that type of season. I'm even forgetting what
Speaker 1: week it is. It it's been all over the place.
Speaker 1: I'm glad we're having this many weeks. Who would have
Speaker 1: thought this in June? Right, Yes, sir, I, I totally agree.
Speaker 1: So we're fortunate to be here. Unfortunately, though, the Jaguars
Speaker 1: have lost the last twelve football games to go one
Speaker 1: and twelve. They're headed up to Baltimore team that is
Speaker 1: right on the cut line for the playoff race. They
Speaker 1: got a big win on Monday night and they're led
Speaker 1: really by that outstanding running attack. It's a different running
Speaker 1: attack though Lamar Jackson can run all over the yard.
Speaker 1: They've got multiple running backs, a stable of guys in
Speaker 1: that backfield, and baltom Or and it feels like a
Speaker 1: little different set up from last week when he had
Speaker 1: one main guy in Derrick Henry, who's a freight trade
Speaker 1: here in Baltimore. They've got a bunch of different ways
Speaker 1: to hit you. Yeah. I mean it starts with Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: He's so dynamic, you know, and he was pretty much
Speaker 1: written off coming out of the draft. You know, that's
Speaker 1: just a guy who's gonna run around in college football.
Speaker 1: In his second year, he's in League MVP. They've slowed
Speaker 1: down a little bit this year, but it's the same
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. You know, he's out there. He's still making
Speaker 1: a lot of plays with his feet. What he did
Speaker 1: with the Cleveland Browns last week on Monday Night, you know,
Speaker 1: that was something that was so exciting to watch. High scoring,
Speaker 1: a lot of running, running all over the place. So
Speaker 1: our defense has to make sure they maintain gap integrity.
Speaker 1: You know. Uh Doug mentioned last week after the game,
Speaker 1: guys getting out of their positions and it looked like
Speaker 1: it'll look as if they're not playing hard. And this week,
Speaker 1: I can tell you that that quarterback is usually unaccounted
Speaker 1: for in the run game. That's why you have a
Speaker 1: free safety on the other side. The defense He's the
Speaker 1: one guy that's supposed to be hat perhaps on the quarterback,
Speaker 1: but he also has to worry about the receivers down
Speaker 1: the field. If you don't maintain your gap integrity and
Speaker 1: at least slow Lamar down, it's gonna be a long day,
Speaker 1: right God for sure. And then you throw in a
Speaker 1: guy like Gus Edwards and J. K. Dobbins and mark
Speaker 1: Ingram still on the team. He's not quite as effective
Speaker 1: as he has been in the past. But that's uh,
Speaker 1: that's those are three names you don't want to get
Speaker 1: tangled up with if you're the Jags defense, right what
Speaker 1: without a doubt? And you you mentioned mark Ingram. He's
Speaker 1: a guy, you know, just a year ago he showed
Speaker 1: you that he still had juice. You know, he's still
Speaker 1: out there running it hard and he's gonna pound it.
Speaker 1: He's there slash hammer. He's gonna pound and pound and
Speaker 1: pound you. Those other guys are younger guys, you know,
Speaker 1: but they're they're they're very elusive, you know. That's what
Speaker 1: they bring to the table. So they want to wear
Speaker 1: you down. Ingram in there. They they're gonna you know,
Speaker 1: do something tackle stuff. They're gonna do some razzle, dazzle
Speaker 1: with Lamark, the ball faking, you know, trail running, the
Speaker 1: tight end that motions, tight end sets in the backfield,
Speaker 1: criss cross run. It's it's gonna be a lot that
Speaker 1: comes out at the defense today. But again, maintaining your
Speaker 1: lane assignment, your gap integrity is one thing, but also
Speaker 1: tackling those guys and trying your best to bring them down. Uh,
Speaker 1: and I allow them to get a full head of them.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this. The Jacks gave up a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago. You gave up over two hundred to Cleveland.
Speaker 1: You turn around, you give up another two hundred to
Speaker 1: one guy and Derrick Henry. And now this team is
Speaker 1: gonna tell you we want to run the ball first.
Speaker 1: There's no secret about it. So you gotta buckle down
Speaker 1: from a defensive standpoint to try and keep yourself in
Speaker 1: this ball game. Fred Taylor with US PROD of the
Speaker 1: Jaguars running back Gardner Minshew is getting the start at quarterback.
Speaker 1: And I'll I think I said this on the show
Speaker 1: this week, Fred, when you're one and twelve and have
Speaker 1: lost twelve in a row, there's really no such thing
Speaker 1: as a quarterback controversy because none of the quarterbacks have
Speaker 1: really played well. So Gardner got a little something going
Speaker 1: late in the game. It's a late game situation last week.
Speaker 1: He's getting the start today. But in the grand scheme
Speaker 1: of things, they're gonna have to reset after the season. Anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with you totally. JP. Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Gardner was what one in six before he exited with
Speaker 1: his thumb injury, and then they gave other guys an
Speaker 1: opportunity to get out there. Uh, what we saw with
Speaker 1: Loving at first, we saw some potential young guys, strong arm,
Speaker 1: you know, amazing arm, big body Glenn and a veteran
Speaker 1: guy who's been around. Uh, he had an opportunity then
Speaker 1: farewell for him. So you had you were pretty much
Speaker 1: forced to reinsert Gardener minshoot uh and um last minute
Speaker 1: against a lot of prevent defenses all that stuff. You know,
Speaker 1: I didn't buy it, but again, it was good to
Speaker 1: see him back out there trying to rally the troop.
Speaker 1: You know, he has the hardest, biggest Jacksonville, right and uh,
Speaker 1: he's the guy who's gonna play. He's gonna play his
Speaker 1: butt off. But you know, it's just tough, man, It's
Speaker 1: tough you're gonna play a Ravens team who's trying to
Speaker 1: make it to the playoffs. They're eight and five and
Speaker 1: they're they're fighting, you know, to get one of those
Speaker 1: wild card spots. Uh. They're gonna come after him, you know.
Speaker 1: But the good thing is they did give up what
Speaker 1: was it forty two a week ago against Cleveland, and uh,
Speaker 1: their defense hasn't been lights out. But who knows, maybe
Speaker 1: we can sneak a win today. Maybe Gardener can have
Speaker 1: one of those Menstrumania performances that made the people love
Speaker 1: him uh today and if he can, uh, we'll be
Speaker 1: able to squeak out of wind and probably upset some
Speaker 1: fans that we won't get the second pick. If we do,
Speaker 1: you play the game to win. Fred Taylor with a
Speaker 1: prod of the Jaguars running back. Final thought here, Fred
Speaker 1: James Robinson up to a thousand, thirty five yards. He
Speaker 1: has come then hot on your rookie rushing record of
Speaker 1: twenty three yards back. I think you mentioned this in
Speaker 1: the postgame show when when he was on with all
Speaker 1: of us last week. You want him to go get
Speaker 1: that record. That means good things for the franchise. Yeah,
Speaker 1: without a doubt, man. You know, I've always been for
Speaker 1: me franchise first, even when I was a player. You know,
Speaker 1: I could have had more touchdowns if I you know,
Speaker 1: complain like a lot of other guys around the NFL.
Speaker 1: You know, I could have forced myself into a few
Speaker 1: more ball games when I was asked to sit out
Speaker 1: and rest due to my health. But I've always been
Speaker 1: franchised first, always been about winning. And here I am,
Speaker 1: you know, rooting for a guy to break my record,
Speaker 1: as I did when I came in, and as guys
Speaker 1: are gonna do throughout the history, you know, as this
Speaker 1: game evolved. Well, here's the guy who was undrafted, you know,
Speaker 1: the fourth guy in the history of the NFL to
Speaker 1: achieve a thousand yards Russian to go over that milestone.
Speaker 1: Not only that he did it the fastest of those
Speaker 1: guys in the history. Why not continue to ride that wave?
Speaker 1: You know, I think it's a hundred and he's about
Speaker 1: a hundred eighty nine yards. Offer so uh for for
Speaker 1: for for beating the record. I think he should get it,
Speaker 1: you know. Uh, God forbid any you know, anything out
Speaker 1: of ordinary, but he should get it. I would like
Speaker 1: for when to get it in a major fashion. Big
Speaker 1: run or maybe even half a day where he gets
Speaker 1: a hundred and you in the game and actually pushes
Speaker 1: that thing up and set the bar even higher for
Speaker 1: the next guy. Well, the way these teams run the ball,
Speaker 1: it should be one of the fastest games of the year.
Speaker 1: So we will see you shortly in the post game show.
Speaker 1: Fred Shortly, I like that of the Jaguars running back
Speaker 1: Fred Taylor. We're back in a moment, the final word
Speaker 1: with head coach Doug Broone ahead of the Jags and
Speaker 1: the Ravens, and it's countdown to kickoff on Jaguars Radio.