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Speaker 1: Countdown to Kickoff continues the Jaguars and the Tennessee Titans

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Speaker 1: in Week eighteen, and with US today, it's lead NFL

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Speaker 1: analyst for Pro Football Focus Sam Monson, and well, he

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Speaker 1: can't ask for much more than this Week eighteen. The

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Speaker 1: division title on the line, Sam.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, division title on the line. You know, multiple

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Speaker 2: teams in play. It's exactly what you would want from

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Speaker 1: Are you buying the Jaguars?

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Speaker 2: I think this is the weird year right, not just

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Speaker 2: particularly in recent weeks when they've had the forty nine ers,

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Speaker 2: when they've had the Dolphins. Every time they've been set

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Speaker 2: they've looked like frauds right where they've looked like a

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Speaker 2: team that doesn't belong in the postseason or doesn't belong

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Speaker 2: challenging for a Super Bowl. But because it's ever, because

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Speaker 2: it's the entire NFL that means anybody is live. You know,

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Speaker 2: we've got jeriatric thirty eight year old Joe Flacco out

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Speaker 2: landscape in front of him is not what it looked

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Speaker 2: like before the season. You know, if you had been

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Speaker 2: pitched that as an idea, right, even though the Browns

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Speaker 2: have the best defense in the NFL, thirty eight year

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Speaker 2: But this year, number one, some of those guys aren't

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Speaker 2: thought they would preseason. So for a team like Jacksonville

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Speaker 2: the Jags, you know, they've had their their struggles, they've

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Speaker 1: Sam Monson from Pro Football Focus with US Trevor Lawrence

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Speaker 1: but there's been some good times with Trevor too, and

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Speaker 1: No word yet on what's happening this week. Doug Peterson

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Speaker 1: as a Friday, you know, said it could go up

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: I think he's one of a few quarterbacks this season

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Speaker 2: You know, certainly early in the year there was a

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Speaker 2: Right, So I think now you have this this analysis

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Speaker 1: Sam. One of the weapons that they brought in for

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Speaker 3: I don't know if they have that guy on the roster.

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Speaker 1: Sam monson Pro Football Focus with us well, in order

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Speaker 3: In our grade.

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Speaker 2: He would appreciate it if he went through in detail

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Speaker 1: We'll have to put you guys together. We'll have to

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Speaker 2: Are you going to be at the super Bowl this week?

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Speaker 2: Cam Robinson is intriguing because you know, I don't know

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Speaker 2: So that's a factor. The run of kind of sacks

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Speaker 1: Sam, Why is Foyer Lukan overlooked so much? It feels like,

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Speaker 1: you know, is it just the marketplace? Is it not

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the marketplace has definitely something to do

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Speaker 2: kind of reflected in PFF grades. The average number for

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Speaker 2: And I don't think it's because the players are any

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Speaker 3: They were previously.

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Speaker 2: But I think there's also in like an increased awareness

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Speaker 2: You know, it tells you something, but it doesn't. Just

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Speaker 2: You know, he's got some negative plays on his tape

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Speaker 2: mean anything. So I think he's having a great year

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Speaker 2: this year. They had a really good year season ago,

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Speaker 2: and you're right those two things, in addition to the

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Speaker 1: Final thoughts, Sam or the Jags winning Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Uh, Yeah, I think they will.

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Speaker 2: I think they have enough, They have enough need to

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Speaker 2: get that game done, they have enough talent and hopefully.

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Speaker 3: Well well we'll be able to make it happen.

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Speaker 1: Thanks of the time, Sam Monson, lead NFL analyst Pro

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Speaker 1: Football Focus A pleasure.

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Speaker 3: Thanks a lot anytime, Thanks for having me