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Speaker 1: Sign for our weekly conversation with Pride of the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: running back Fred Taylor. It's a short week, Thursday night

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Speaker 1: football is here, the Jaguars and the Saints in the

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Speaker 1: Superdove of New Orleans, and here we go. The short

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Speaker 1: weeks are always interesting, Fred, what's up?

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Speaker 2: Oh that's good, JP. I can tell you one thing.

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Speaker 3: The days don't care anything about momentum and vice versa. Hey,

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Speaker 3: these guys are on the hot streak, man, they gotta

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Speaker 3: find a way to keep it going. They got to

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Speaker 3: dig in deep. Short weeks do require that. We spoke

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Speaker 3: about it on the postgame show. The mental toughness. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: physically football is grueling, we all know that part about it.

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Speaker 3: But the mental aspect of it is so underrated. Whereas

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Speaker 3: you know, guys can lose themselves, you know, from being

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Speaker 3: simply being physically just drained. But I think this week

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Speaker 3: the preparation comes in the form of mentally focused right,

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Speaker 3: studying the opponent, visualizing your sign because you're not going

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Speaker 3: to get the same reps that you get on a.

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Speaker 2: Typical normal work week.

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Speaker 3: So here it is the New Orleans Saints, a place

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Speaker 3: we have in won and I can under I can

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Speaker 3: guarantee you that record doesn't care about a short week either,

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Speaker 3: So it's go time, man tying to play football.

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Speaker 1: The big storyline this week, at least early in the week,

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Speaker 1: is the status of Trevor Lawrence and that left knee issue.

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Speaker 1: We had a chance to see him Tuesday on the

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Speaker 1: practice field at least, and he was wearing a brace

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Speaker 1: during the open media time. Didn't really do it much

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Speaker 1: before the media was kicked out, So we'll see what happens.

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Speaker 1: It was day to day, Doug Peterson said earlier this week.

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Speaker 1: But you know, there's there's a balance.

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Speaker 2: There, right.

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Speaker 1: You want your quarterback to power through and play, but

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Speaker 1: there's a long season ahead as well, and that's a

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Speaker 1: big decision to make.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a huge decision for the staff. And I

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Speaker 3: can tell you that if Trevor can go, he's gonna go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I love that kid simply for the fact

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Speaker 3: that he's a winner.

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Speaker 2: He's a fighter at which means that the off line

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Speaker 2: they're gonna have to fight.

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Speaker 3: You know, looking back, they're gonna say, we got our

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Speaker 3: guy back there. He's showing so much art, you know,

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Speaker 3: trying to be there for us. So we have to

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Speaker 3: be there for him, and that's gonna be the challenge.

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Speaker 3: Can the front five along with the tight end and

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Speaker 3: maybe a few other uh uh sprinkles and the protection

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Speaker 3: there by Press Taylor uh and Coach Peterson, you know,

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Speaker 3: they're gonna have to create some wrnkles where if Trevor

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Speaker 3: can go, they're gonna have to find a way to

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Speaker 3: max protect and slow down that Saints front four because

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Speaker 3: they are very good front. They've always been a very

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Speaker 3: good front. It's gonna be a good challenge for those guys.

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Speaker 3: So if Trevor can go, protection is gonna be the

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Speaker 3: key as well as let me not forget I'm almost

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Speaker 3: forgetting the running game. We cannot forget Travis etn and

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Speaker 3: Tank Bigsby. Those guys are gonna have to step up tremendously.

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Speaker 1: Bret Taylor with us and that leads us right into

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Speaker 1: the running game and travase etm leads the league carries,

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Speaker 1: which is pretty remarkable. Can you you know can he

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Speaker 1: keep that pace for seventeen games? Press Taylor seemed to

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Speaker 1: think so. Offensive coordinators like, yeah, well he's he's a

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Speaker 1: great playmaker for us. We're gonna give him the football

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Speaker 1: and not worry about all that. Can I running back

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Speaker 1: handle that type of load anymore?

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Speaker 2: Oh? You know, it all depends. It's relative right jp

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Speaker 2: to where we are in the sport.

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Speaker 3: It's not the same twenty five you know carry type

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Speaker 3: football that we were used to seeing in the days

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Speaker 3: when I played Hell.

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Speaker 2: Some games we even touched the ball thirty plus times.

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Speaker 2: I think I had a few of those in my career.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if guys get I don't what is

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Speaker 3: the averaging per game and carries? So it's relative to

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Speaker 3: one how many carries he's actually averaging, leading the league

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Speaker 3: and carries game. The game is so different, it's so

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Speaker 3: evalld of now, so what does that really look like?

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Speaker 3: And the other thing is taking care of yourself. He

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Speaker 3: could do it if he take care of himself, getting

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Speaker 3: proper resk, getting proper nutrition, not having the big you know,

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Speaker 3: the big injuries. If you have small things muscles sore

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Speaker 3: in his tightness, hip tightness, those are things that you

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Speaker 3: can work on and do.

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Speaker 2: Maintenance each and every week.

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Speaker 3: Hot cold up. We spoke about that. We spoke about

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Speaker 3: massages in the post game last week.

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Speaker 2: Chiropractic.

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Speaker 3: The science has changed too along with the game, So

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Speaker 3: we had ancient stuff.

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Speaker 2: When I played, seems so long ago.

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Speaker 3: These guys have amazing medicine and the game is just evolving.

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Speaker 2: It's gotten better and better and faster. These guys are

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Speaker 2: healing faster.

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Speaker 3: Looking at sakuon back Sunday night for the Giants, I'm like, whoa,

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Speaker 3: why is he even out there?

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Speaker 2: But that's the medicine, that's the sport.

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Speaker 3: If he can handle it, they're going to dish it

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Speaker 3: out to him, and I think he's ready for the challenge.

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Speaker 2: Hell, he's only really a year too. He didn't play

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Speaker 2: a rookie year, so he's probably still he wants those carries.

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Speaker 1: Brent Taylor with us. This is Jaguars defense leads the

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Speaker 1: league in takeaways. They are third in the league against

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Speaker 1: the run. That's what they wanted. They wanted to be

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Speaker 1: a good run defense. They wanted to take the ball away.

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Speaker 1: They're doing that at a very good pace so far.

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Speaker 1: What does the Saints offense have to offer is Alvin

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Speaker 1: Kamara still Alvin Kamara?

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Speaker 3: You know, I love aka Alvin Kamara has you know,

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Speaker 3: always been one of my favorites. There's a new regime there,

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Speaker 3: you know, it's a different style of offense than what

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Speaker 3: he had under Coach Payton.

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Speaker 2: He had a quarterback who can really throw the ball

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Speaker 2: and Drew.

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Speaker 3: Brees, which takes some pressure off you, you know, as

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Speaker 3: a as a running back, when you can have someone

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Speaker 3: back there that can slink it like as such, I

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Speaker 3: think talent wise, he's the same guy.

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Speaker 2: You know, he hasn't lost lost any quickness.

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Speaker 3: He still gets power downhill through his vision and his

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Speaker 3: decision making.

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Speaker 2: He's a one cut type of bag. He could do that.

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Speaker 3: So you can't let him loose, you can't let him

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Speaker 3: off the hook. You can't wait until game day to

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Speaker 3: see if he's the same Alvin Kamara, because at that

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Speaker 3: point he'd be six touchdowns deep and back in the

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Speaker 3: record books. So you know, I think he still has

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Speaker 3: a lot in his tank.

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Speaker 1: Bred Taylor with us, you like Thursday Night's Quick Turn,

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Speaker 1: the whole deal thee.

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Speaker 3: I like Thursday Nights simply because there's another opportunity to play,

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Speaker 3: you know, whether it's Thursday, Monday, Sunday nights, whichever it is.

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Speaker 3: Primetime games are one always great. What I learned more

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Speaker 3: even later in my career and as well as I

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Speaker 3: know now, those are opportunities for guys to market themselves.

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Speaker 3: Those are opportunities for the team to get some national spotlight,

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Speaker 3: and Jacksonville hadn't been in that national spotlight, you know,

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Speaker 3: over the course of you know, the most recent years.

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Speaker 3: So it's a good sign for them for that. But

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Speaker 3: for myself, Thursdays are always good night games are always good.

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Speaker 3: And then I guess JP after the Thursday game is

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Speaker 3: the is the good thing because you want to play

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Speaker 3: that Thursday game, come out healthy.

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Speaker 2: You know, you're gonna get you know, somewhat.

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Speaker 3: Of a modify bye week with that ten days before

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Speaker 3: the next game. So yeah, it's a good time for football.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully it's a good time to run off and win

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Speaker 3: for in a row as well.

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Speaker 1: It'll be nice the Jaguars four and two and in

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Speaker 1: first place. And we'll talk to you a little bit later, Fred,

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Speaker 1: appreciate the time. We'll catch you next week.

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Speaker 2: Let's do it. Tune in