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Speaker 1: Countdown to kickoff continues the Jaguars facing Indianapolis Colts. It

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Speaker 1: is Week one in the National Football League and it's

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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, and it is opening weekend at

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Speaker 1: long last, Fred, what's.

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Speaker 2: Up, JP. I'm good man.

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Speaker 3: I'm just happy football is back and this opponent it's

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Speaker 3: an old friend, like an old bully. I don't know

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Speaker 3: if you remember different strokes. Remember, uh, what was it?

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Speaker 3: What was that bully's name, the Gooch or something like that.

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Speaker 3: That's that's the Coats. They used to be an old bully,

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Speaker 3: but not anymore. I think the Jaguars are here to stay.

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Speaker 1: I didn't think i'd get a different strokes reference today.

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Speaker 1: I must say, you've that's one bingo square. I didn't

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Speaker 3: Well yeah, well, I mean I used to. That was

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Speaker 3: my show growing up, man. You know what I'm saying

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Speaker 3: a little a little different strokes, a little this and

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Speaker 3: on YouTube watching the pivot. But it's all good for me.

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Speaker 3: But again, it's just happy that it's football season, real games,

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Speaker 3: you know, we get to see some real scores. We

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Speaker 3: of our eyes, some guys, you know, reach that legendary status.

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Speaker 3: We get to see some old school guys on other

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Speaker 3: I want to see how Saquon is going to do.

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Speaker 3: And it missed up all this running back turmoil, turmoil

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Speaker 2: So football, man, it all put it.

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Speaker 3: In that big pot of dumboat that you call football

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Speaker 3: is going to be so good.

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Speaker 1: Bret Taylor with us. Let's get to this Jaguars Colts matchup,

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Speaker 1: and let's start with the star attraction. It's the Jaguars offsets.

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Speaker 1: Just everybody's been talking about it all off season. You know,

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Speaker 1: all these weapons on offense, a maturing quarterback, the play calling,

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Speaker 1: it in the game though, Fred, I mean, what is

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Speaker 3: Well, I hope that it looks amazing. You know, that's

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Speaker 3: the anticipation, the expectations are.

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Speaker 2: You know, Trevor Lawrence, he's arrived.

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Speaker 3: You know, we're ready to see him as sin to become,

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Speaker 3: you know, to continue to be in that conversation as

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Speaker 3: you know, now you had Travis etn in the run game.

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Speaker 3: You got Calvin Ridley in addition to the receiving court,

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Speaker 3: so they're ready. And then you bring the other receivers

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Speaker 3: what this hype is all about. But again with that,

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Speaker 3: NFL was about defense. You had to have a defense.

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Speaker 3: Defense wins championship, blah blah blah. Yeah, they don't really

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Speaker 3: say that nowadays. They're like, how strong is your offense?

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Speaker 3: Can we slow them down? That's the NFL that we

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Speaker 2: So it should be fun to watch.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like fun to me. It's Fred Taylor pride of

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Speaker 1: You know, what is Anthony Richardson really going to look?

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Speaker 3: But more importantly, what we didn't see as much of

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Speaker 3: work hard. You're all in and you bet on yourself.

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Speaker 3: You have to bet on yourself at the running back position.

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Speaker 3: You just have to bet on yourself now because the

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Speaker 3: You got money in your pocket, spend it right, save

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Speaker 3: then indirectly that money will come. So hopefully jt Ben

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 3: But we still got to go out there and play

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Speaker 1: The Coats Week one and week six, by the way,

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Speaker 1: the Colts come back to Jacksonville. Fred Taylor with his

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Speaker 1: final thought here, Fred, you know, just going into the season,

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Speaker 1: everything else up. Ideally it would be after this year.

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Speaker 1: This is like the last. This is what it's about

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Speaker 3: You know. Most recently, the Los Angeles Rams La Rams

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Speaker 2: They're the youngest team in the entire NFL.

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Speaker 3: I think at one point during training camp they had

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Speaker 3: we talked to Sean McVay, they had thirty nine rookies

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: I sometimes I like to go and shop at Louis

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Speaker 3: and we'll wait another twenty seven eight years, twenty eight

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Speaker 2: So bid. We want to taste this one, the first one.

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Speaker 3: There's nothing like it, and hopefully those guys can make

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Speaker 3: have a really solid roster that's capable of getting it done.

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Speaker 3: and that would be amazing.

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Speaker 1: It's always a pleasure to visit with the Louis Vaton

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Speaker 2: Ah, I like that. I got my luggage Prime time

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Speaker 2: say bring your luggage. I am in the bag.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next week.

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Speaker 2: Fred. I'm looking forward to it always. J Pete