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Speaker 1: Countdown, the kickoff rolls along. The Lions and the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: tea it up today at one o'clock in week six.

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Speaker 1: Pride of the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor joins us

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Speaker 1: every week on this program, and he's here with us

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Speaker 1: again today. Good after the Fred, JP, what's up, boss?

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Speaker 1: I know I got I guarantee to win last week,

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Speaker 1: and uh I now do it again this week. I

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Speaker 1: don't care because I gotta be optimistic. Man. I believe

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Speaker 1: they'll get one sooner or later. Well, this is one.

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Speaker 1: It kind of feels like, Fred, that they have to

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Speaker 1: have considering the way things have gone the last few weeks.

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Speaker 1: It's a younger football team that needs to have some

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Speaker 1: confidence going into l A next week, and then the

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Speaker 1: bye week, and then the schedule of course gets really

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Speaker 1: tough after that. But this feels like one they really

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Speaker 1: have to have to keep things together and keep that

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Speaker 1: confidence going. I mean, in the perfect world, obviously, that's uh,

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Speaker 1: that's the feeling. And I'm pretty sure the guys are

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Speaker 1: optimistic in the locker room saying, hey, we're gonna get one.

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Speaker 1: Last week felt that way. You had a team that

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Speaker 1: was owing for and a week before that, felt that

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Speaker 1: way when when they faced off with the Bengals. Unfortunately

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Speaker 1: need to need the one ended up with with the

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Speaker 1: Jaguars victorious. But again, this is a new week, new team,

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Speaker 1: new opportunity, and the opportunity for a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: that hadn't played a lot of football to get out

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Speaker 1: there and play and make a name for themselves. Again,

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Speaker 1: I'm optimistic. I would always be that way because I'm

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Speaker 1: a Jaguar lifer. But it doesn't matter. I can talk

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Speaker 1: all I want to talk behind his microphone. Those guys

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Speaker 1: that we'll see some good things happening. They just got

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Speaker 1: to find a way to to provoke consistency and in

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Speaker 1: in every aspect, and I think they'll find a way

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Speaker 1: to win a game. Let's get to the offensive side,

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Speaker 1: and a talking point this week Fred has been the

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Speaker 1: balance or lack thereof on the offensive side of the ball.

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Speaker 1: Gardner mint, you through the ball forty nine times last week,

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Speaker 1: and Jake Gruden himself said that's way too many. And

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Speaker 1: of course, every game that he's thrown more than forty

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Speaker 1: times this year, the Jaguars have loss. That's the last

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Speaker 1: four James Robinson only had thirteen carries last week in

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Speaker 1: the game. A balanced offense is the one j Gruden

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Speaker 1: feels like can get the most success. H No, I agree, JP. Um,

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Speaker 1: he's calling the plays, so I mean he's he has

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Speaker 1: calling the shots. Just looking at the game last week

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Speaker 1: the slow starts. You know, Jane Robinson, he comes out,

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Speaker 1: you know, he had eleven yard run, an eight yard run,

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Speaker 1: the run game. That means dig in there and try

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Speaker 1: to have some patience with it and hopefully some good

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Speaker 1: game feed me I want the rock. They gotta find

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Speaker 1: a way to stick with it, which means the defense,

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Speaker 1: you know, they got to play better on their side.

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Speaker 1: They can't allow the other team to convience the field

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Speaker 1: our offense. So if the defense isn't playing great, it's

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Speaker 1: the same page. So hopefully again this is the week. Detroit,

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Speaker 1: run as the other teams the past two weeks, uh

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Speaker 1: they were the same. So that means that Jaguar's offense

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Speaker 1: of and hopefully have a few big plays, you know,

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Speaker 1: within that within those calls. UH. And and that's what

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Speaker 1: And I want to add to UH. And my my

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Speaker 1: rookie year in Jacksonville could have been your two. I

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Speaker 1: remember another great Detroit Lion running back that came to town,

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Speaker 1: Barry Sanders, and there was a rookie on the other

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Speaker 1: side I believe was my rookie year JP. I have

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Speaker 1: a duel Barry Sanders, and I'm pretty sure James Robinson

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Speaker 1: he's looking he's gonna be looking over on the other

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Speaker 1: sideline looking at Adrian Peterson, thinking that the same thing,

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Speaker 1: looks good. I can see those knees aren't bending the

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Speaker 1: can accept that. You know, he's the top five Russia

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Speaker 1: respect his ability what we saw him doing just a

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Speaker 1: fall to sleep on him. Out their defense, Fred, Let's

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Speaker 1: get to the Jaguars defense now. Of course, last week

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Speaker 1: a guy liked one, Smoot and Sydney Jones. Smoots, a

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Speaker 1: I mean, they the Jaguars front office, they said, look,

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Speaker 1: they're getting opportunities now. So uh, the team, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: years to come. Well, let's try to get a win

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Speaker 1: today first, and today faced the Detroit Lions in Week

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Speaker 1: six and Fred, let's get a w and we'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you in the post game. I'm looking forward to that.

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Speaker 1: JP back at the moment, the final word with head

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Speaker 1: coach Doug Moron ahead of the Lions and the Jaguars.

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