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Speaker 1: Time down for our weekly conversation with Pride of the

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Speaker 1: Jaguars running back Fred Taylor. Preseason Week two, Jaguars Game

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Speaker 1: number three, the Pittsburgh Steelers come to town, and that's

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Speaker 1: always music to Fred Taylor's ears. I'm sure when the

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Speaker 1: Steelers come in jap you better believe it. Man, gotta

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Speaker 1: love this, still gotta love playing against the Steelers, no

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Speaker 1: matter the capacity. Preseason offseason that day said we had

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Speaker 1: to shoot up and in February, uh, mid February, Lake,

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Speaker 1: I don't care. I'm ready to play those guys, man um.

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Speaker 1: But realistically, you know, I'm sure these guys are ready

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Speaker 1: to play too, because they're gonna treat this game, you know, uh,

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Speaker 1: as close to a regular season game as they can

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Speaker 1: with the amount of reps such and such that the

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Speaker 1: Stars are able to take. So I'm looking forward to it. Fred,

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Speaker 1: you were just up in Pittsburgh or around that area

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Speaker 1: training camp a couple of weeks ago to visit with

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Speaker 1: some of the Steelers on your podcast, The Pivot. Of course,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Jaguars are trying to find that organizational stability, right.

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Speaker 1: They've got a new head coach, they've got a GM

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Speaker 1: now in year two, they feel like they're on the

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Speaker 1: verge of something. They gotta go prove it though, obviously

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Speaker 1: with wins on the field. But the Steelers organization is

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Speaker 1: the pretty much the the standard for consistency around the NFL.

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Speaker 1: They've had three head coaches over the last what fifty years.

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Speaker 1: They don't make a lot of changes. They go win

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Speaker 1: in a lot of different ways over the years, and

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Speaker 1: Mike tomlin Is is the latest example of that. When

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Speaker 1: you were there and you saw that in person last week,

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Speaker 1: Why is that? Why are they so consistent and so successful? Uh?

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Speaker 1: JP man, that's I mean, the question was amazing obviously,

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Speaker 1: and you're you hit it right on the head. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And I've always spoke to that and I've always wanted

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Speaker 1: that from my team, my organization, which is the jag Wars.

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Speaker 1: Of course, you know, on the flip side of of

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Speaker 1: what they're doing. You know, I think we've had multiple

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Speaker 1: coaches and last five years, i mean ten years, we've

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Speaker 1: had almost twice as many coaches as they had. But

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Speaker 1: a consistency is the key, you know, It's one of

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Speaker 1: those secret sauces and ingredients and um, you know, having

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Speaker 1: a great organization and being successful and winning over all

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Speaker 1: those years and their track record follows that. It also

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Speaker 1: feels good as a former player to be able to

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Speaker 1: when you do go back, you know, was there with

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Speaker 1: Ryan Clark, former safety for Pittsburgh. When you do go back,

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Speaker 1: everybody embraces you. It's like just this huge reunion. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure that would be different for me, you know if

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Speaker 1: I attend the Jaguars camp or practice, because I don't

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Speaker 1: know anybody. You know, they might know me based on

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Speaker 1: my history and what I've done and what they hear

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Speaker 1: about me. You know, as a former player that there,

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Speaker 1: but I don't know anyone is to be you know,

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Speaker 1: but you know, you get through that part and going

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Speaker 1: forward though, I would hope that it's the case that

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Speaker 1: we're able to create that consistency and winning does that.

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Speaker 1: Winning does a whole lot um. But it starts now,

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Speaker 1: you know, it starts now. You know they're planning these seeds. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully Coach Peterson's the guy that it changed that trajectory

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Speaker 1: and the outlook of the Jaguars organization. Uh, and making

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Speaker 1: sure that everyone that's there now will be intact many

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Speaker 1: years to come. Fred Taylor with as Pride of the

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Speaker 1: Jaguars running back the Jaguars offense this week. I had

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Speaker 1: a pretty decent outing, I would say for the starters

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Speaker 1: last week against the Browns, and then Monday night they

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Speaker 1: had a practice in the stadium. Look pretty good. Wednesday though,

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Speaker 1: things didn't go so well for the offense. Interceptions, miscommunication

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Speaker 1: with heat related issues. It was just a rough day

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Speaker 1: get your feetbacks underneath you again. You just gotta go recalibrate.

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Speaker 1: You gotta understand that it's practice. That's what it's for.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's for you to you know, you don't

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Speaker 1: want to make a ton of mistakes, but mistakes are

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. You know, sloppy player is gonna happen. But

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Speaker 1: You gotta get that stuff all clean and freshen up

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Speaker 1: Even here, we're still in training camp, so those things

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Speaker 1: You know. Maybe you can get optimistic and say, okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna go win every game. But that's

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Speaker 1: just not the case. You know. I've been a part

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Speaker 1: But you're still optimistic because you don't want to go

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Speaker 1: not satisfactory. Uh, toil your fight through through it. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'd rather have those mistakes now and be able to

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Speaker 1: notice them so I can clean them up. Uh. And

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Speaker 1: that's that will give us something to learn from how

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Speaker 1: to create a certain experience situationally, so when you when

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Speaker 1: bounce back because it's gonna happen at some point. You

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Speaker 1: don't want it to happen where it's gonna determine the

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Speaker 1: outcome of the game. You know, in the player too.

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Speaker 1: So go ahead and get these young guys in the

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Speaker 1: in the in the sense of mind, have them develop,

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Speaker 1: help them develop the mindset that. Uh, we're gonna have setback, setbacks,

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Speaker 1: the comeback. Uh. And that's what's going to lead to, uh,

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Speaker 1: that consistent success that they're trying to create in that environment.

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Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with US Christian Kirk should make his preseason

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Speaker 1: debut for the Jaguars against the Steelers. Say Jones has

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Speaker 1: had a pretty good week of work. Those are the

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Speaker 1: the field. And I guess what do you want to

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Speaker 1: see from the offense tonight? After week one? Last week

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Speaker 1: against the Browns, I wanted to see where the money went.

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Speaker 1: We need to see it. I know the fans want

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Speaker 1: to see it. I want to see it. But I'm

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Speaker 1: glad they're back. You know, you gotta get out there,

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Speaker 1: do it in game mode. You know. Hopefully these guys

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Speaker 1: I say these guys they can play multiple quarters. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: just the whole communication part, JP I think is it's

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Speaker 1: to get that from the huddle to alignment, snacking the ball,

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Speaker 1: they hear the noise about their quarterback position. So their

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Speaker 1: defenses say, no, we're gonna be all right. You know,

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Speaker 1: quarterback position comes along. And so it has Nigi Harris.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's like, I'm give me the ball. You

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Speaker 1: know we're gonna be okay. So that's the mindset you have.

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Speaker 1: They're ready to play football. They're ready for this test,

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Speaker 1: even though it's a preseason game. They're ready. So the

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Speaker 1: Jaguars have to have that same mindset. So being able

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Speaker 1: their weapons. I'm excited to see that. And from a

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Speaker 1: You know, they started fast, They disrupted Cleveland's offensive front,

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Speaker 1: was able to create some pressure early, and that's what

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Speaker 1: we need to see. The secondary played with some energy

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Speaker 1: offensive standpoint to capitalize off those turnovers, because that's key

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Speaker 1: to victories here in the NFL. So I'm excited to

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Speaker 1: see all of that. PREDI mention the defense, Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: game last week, and Doug Peterson said, hey, we need

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Speaker 1: to see a little bit more of the defense. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they played well, but it's the same idea on communication

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Speaker 1: need to have a little more time on task this week. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure they will get that. They're gonna get

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Speaker 1: their fair share uh here in this matchup, um and one.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to see what the young man can

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Speaker 1: do for an extended period of time. And I speaking,

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Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to that. Uh, and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: he's looking forward to it. You know, all of those

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Speaker 1: it's important for them to be out there so from

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Speaker 1: a coaching standpoint too, that they're able to communicate for

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Speaker 1: the guys that they're gonna depend on the most to

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Speaker 1: carry this season while they're out there. So um to

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Speaker 1: be interesting to see how it goes. But I'm sure

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