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Speaker 1: Time for a weekly visit with Pride of the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: running back Fred Taylor and yes, host of the Pivot podcast,

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Speaker 1: which is blowing up on social media. Fred, it is

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Speaker 1: great to see you again and here we are back

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Speaker 1: to football. Back to football and g in d J

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Speaker 1: p Uh. Appreciate the plug right there. Man to pivot

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Speaker 1: A lot of work. Give me a linebackers. The same

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Speaker 1: thing I said about golf is I really have a

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Speaker 1: linebacker in front of me and that little white ball.

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Speaker 1: Linebackers are easy. This pivot, this media stuff can be challenging,

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Speaker 1: but I can I can say this I created you

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Speaker 1: guys or even giving me a confidence to think I

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Speaker 1: can be a part of, you know, the media space.

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Speaker 1: So without that in the last several years that we've

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Speaker 1: been doing pre postgame radio in bowl analysis, game day,

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Speaker 1: without that, it wouldn't be no Pivot. So I appreciate

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Speaker 1: you all. Man. We Fred. It's it's a two way straight.

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Speaker 1: We're glad to have You're what you say matters, it

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Speaker 1: carries weight, and I think you've really developed over the

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Speaker 1: last few years the way to get that across to

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Speaker 1: people in a positive way. And it takes work, and

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Speaker 1: you've done the work and you continue to do the work,

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Speaker 1: and that's what it's all about, right. But people think

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Speaker 1: we're just talking sometimes. I think we're just putting stuff

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Speaker 1: out of our you know what, if Channing Crowder was

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Speaker 1: But we try to. You know, we gotta be fair,

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Speaker 1: but we also gotta, you know, be truthful and transparent.

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Speaker 1: And I've learned that you guys also have taught me that.

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Speaker 1: Um So, man again, I appreciate y'all for making me

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Speaker 1: better at this. Fred Taylor with us, we're back to football, Fred,

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Speaker 1: It's Hall of Fame game week. The Jaguars will have

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Speaker 1: had eleven days of training camp, I think only eight

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Speaker 1: practices before they suit up tonight against the Raiders. That

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Speaker 1: is a quick turnaround from from zero to sixty in

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Speaker 1: less than two Yeah, indeed. You know, but those guys,

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Speaker 1: they've had some O T A times. Those guys they

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Speaker 1: knew this was coming. Their coaches knew this was coming.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure in a in a legal way, they were

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Speaker 1: able to communicate that to those guys. And if it matters,

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Speaker 1: if it's important to the guys that are currently on

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Speaker 1: the roster, the guys who are gonna make their appearances,

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Speaker 1: uh in this game. Then they did some extra studying.

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Speaker 1: They're doing some extra studying throughout the week to make

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Speaker 1: sure they get there. And uh, I know in my

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Speaker 1: days of training cam JP, the one thing I hated

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Speaker 1: the most, if anything other than that a hundred plus

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Speaker 1: So this for this is right up some guy's alley,

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Speaker 1: because they're gonna get better as they go. The worst

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Speaker 1: thing you can do is just hit on your teammates

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Speaker 1: for too long. Now they get an opportunity to go

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Speaker 1: hit someone else. Fredd Is. The years have going on,

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Speaker 1: the philosophy has changed a bit of playing time in

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Speaker 1: the preseason, and th Peters should have that. Hey, they're

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Speaker 1: a different animal. Top receivers aren't going. Of course, Trevor

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Speaker 1: That's the idea. Uh, there's a balance there. You want

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Speaker 1: to see everybody's new around here. You want to see

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Speaker 1: of football to be played between now and opening day

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Speaker 1: September eleven. Yeah, coaches coach players played. The coach's job

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Speaker 1: is to put those guys in the best position possible

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Speaker 1: care of his defense. Coach Peterson is an offensive mindy guy.

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Speaker 1: He's taking care of his offense, but he also wants

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Speaker 1: And and a lot of times these moments can be tests,

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Speaker 1: He's been there, he's you know, he's one on the

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Speaker 1: And I must say, Fred, he has a little more

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Speaker 1: going forward. Fred a lot of eyeballs tonight on Trayvon Walker,

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Speaker 1: it's early, so whatever, you know, whatever happens in this game, No,

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Speaker 1: That's what that's what that's what we do. That's that's

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Speaker 1: exactly what we do. If he you know, if there's

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Speaker 1: someone's gonna have something to say. That's that's just what

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Speaker 1: So we know nothing. So we leave it up to

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Speaker 1: you gotta look at it. Every year, JP, this year

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Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with his final thought, whether the Jags were

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Speaker 1: huge moment for the Jaguars organization to finally have somebody

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Speaker 1: about that? You know, JP is certainly a huge moment.

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Speaker 1: I will be there during the enshrinement. I will also

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Speaker 1: be there for the private party. I'm not missing it

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Speaker 1: for for the world talked to be selling we were

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Speaker 1: I'm happy for him. He's so excited. Um, I'm probably

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Speaker 1: celebrate with the big fellow man well deserved. Uh. What

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Speaker 1: I don't want JP is for the uh the I

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Speaker 1: they will Coach Coughlin should be in that equation as

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Speaker 1: a Jaguar myself and uh, Jimmy Smith as well. Red

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Speaker 1: great stuff. As always, We'll see you this weekend and camp.

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to a JP