Speaker 1: Count down. The kickoff continues. The Jags and the Houston
Speaker 1: Texans coming up today at one o'clock at t i
Speaker 1: A Bank Field in Jacksonville, and we welcome in prior
Speaker 1: to the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor. The second half
Speaker 1: is underway, Fred, how are you, j P. I'm good, man,
Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm just hoping that guys can get on track,
Speaker 1: you know, find a way to do something positive at
Speaker 1: least where they're confident, if nothing else. So it won't
Speaker 1: be easy. As we said earlier in the season, UM
Speaker 1: help isn't coming from anywhere, and that is shown unless
Speaker 1: um Jake lu Luton I pronounced his did It's hard
Speaker 1: to even pronounce it. Man, I mean I don't know
Speaker 1: the guy. I'm not in the building enough. But hopefully,
Speaker 1: um we can, we can see what he has. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's a bright spot. Who knows well, you said you
Speaker 1: don't know him at all. Well, nobody really knows him
Speaker 1: at all. He's a rookie. Nobody has been around the building,
Speaker 1: nobody has been in the locker room in terms of
Speaker 1: the media that to really get to know this guy.
Speaker 1: And then we'll find out on Sunday what he looks
Speaker 1: like on the NFL game field for the first time,
Speaker 1: no preseason, no offseason workouts except for the training camp periods.
Speaker 1: A big unknown here and things can change from positive
Speaker 1: training camp practices to NFL real lights of the study
Speaker 1: with J. J. Watt and others lined up on the
Speaker 1: other side, things can change, Like you know, the first
Speaker 1: meeting that the Texans have force acts. This meeting, it
Speaker 1: could double, it could be eight. Um. But I don't
Speaker 1: want to be the pessimist, you know, I want to
Speaker 1: make sure that um, all things considered, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: just the offense as a whole. Hopefully they can get
Speaker 1: out there and do some good things for the kid,
Speaker 1: you know, because it's gonna be frightening. You know, you
Speaker 1: have merciless over there, you have what over there, you know,
Speaker 1: and you have a Texans team who's won in six
Speaker 1: only win was against the jack So I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: that confidence in sky high in this matchup near liking
Speaker 1: their chops, knowing that Menshoe isn't out there, so it's
Speaker 1: gonna not gonna be easy for for Jake. But more
Speaker 1: more than that, you know, the defense, you know, the
Speaker 1: defense has to find a way to step it up
Speaker 1: to even give him a chance. Even even Gardner out there,
Speaker 1: you can't outscore them. You're giving up thirty plus points
Speaker 1: a game. It's hard for any quarterback in the NFL
Speaker 1: to get a victory when the defense is given up
Speaker 1: so much. Let's continue that defensive conversation now, Fred, you know,
Speaker 1: they haven't had much of a pass rush. I haven't
Speaker 1: really had any pass rush this year. Um, They've struggled
Speaker 1: in moments stopping the run though that was a big
Speaker 1: emphasis earlier in the year. They're banged up a good bit,
Speaker 1: a lot of young guys are out there playing and
Speaker 1: as you said, helps not on the way on the
Speaker 1: defensive side. What can they do to get everything going
Speaker 1: in the right direction with all that happening. Still, you know,
Speaker 1: considering JP they're they're giving up over thirty points a game. Uh,
Speaker 1: team is one in six year in start of rookie quarterback.
Speaker 1: You know, you just got to try to get creative
Speaker 1: as a defense coordinator. You know, takes some chances, you know,
Speaker 1: dial up some pressure packages, things that other teams hadn't
Speaker 1: seen on film. You know, go back and look at
Speaker 1: what other teams have had success against the you know,
Speaker 1: let's say the Texans use them, for example, because the
Speaker 1: game that they're playing. Now, uh, let's let's see who
Speaker 1: has success against them. You know, create some opportunities for
Speaker 1: the guys to make plays. Pressure the quarterback, do some
Speaker 1: exotic packages, develop some zero bitches, uh for man and
Speaker 1: man coverages. Challenge your cornerbacks. You know, let those linebackers blips.
Speaker 1: You got Miles Jacks back out, you know you sent him.
Speaker 1: Use the team speed that you have, the draft picks,
Speaker 1: you know, put them on the edge. Just turn them loose,
Speaker 1: man and say, you know, like the coach used to
Speaker 1: do back in the day, rush the passer every play,
Speaker 1: you know, play the run by way of rushing the passer.
Speaker 1: Let's just get anxiety. Let's see what happens again. Help
Speaker 1: isn't coming. Things aren't necessarily gonna get any better doing
Speaker 1: what you've been doing. So you got to try to
Speaker 1: get creative, get anxiety, and hopefully you guys will make
Speaker 1: plays for you. Fred Taylor with US Pride of the
Speaker 1: jaguarris running back back to the offensive side. Now, how
Speaker 1: can a veteran player, how can any player, I guess,
Speaker 1: help out a young quarterback at his first start. Did
Speaker 1: you ever have something like this in your career where
Speaker 1: you had here we go, a rookie coming again to
Speaker 1: start this first ever moment in the NFL. Has that
Speaker 1: ever happened with you? Yeah? Yeah, without a doubt. Um,
Speaker 1: when Byron left was replaced Mark Brunell. You know, as
Speaker 1: much as we all fell in love with Byron the person,
Speaker 1: you know, based on the potential, you know, the heroic
Speaker 1: efforts that he just played back at Marshall. He's a fighter,
Speaker 1: you know, he played with tenacity. Uh he just didn't
Speaker 1: quite you know, get it for for the high draft
Speaker 1: pick in which he was selected. But nevertheless, you know,
Speaker 1: you look over to the side, here's a guy in
Speaker 1: Brunell who you know, old faithful brew man. He still
Speaker 1: had a lot in his tank, but you had a
Speaker 1: new regime in there. They brought in their draft pick
Speaker 1: and obviously they wanted to see what he was made of,
Speaker 1: and they made the change. It was a solid feeling
Speaker 1: and a lot of our you know, solid taste in
Speaker 1: a lot of our miles. It could be similar. I mean,
Speaker 1: who knows, but Mark was a lot more proven than
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshire, you know, So for for me, it was
Speaker 1: a bigger change when that came in. A guy who
Speaker 1: hadn't played beside Mark for for five years leading up
Speaker 1: to that change. So, I mean, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: You have a lot of young guys in that locker
Speaker 1: room now. I think the only veteran UH guy in
Speaker 1: there really Um, with the exception of the offensive line,
Speaker 1: but when you look at the receiver position, um, it's
Speaker 1: about it. Chris. Chris Connelly is the only bat guy
Speaker 1: in there. So these other guys just want the ball.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they just want the ball, even though
Speaker 1: they've established some sort of relationship with Gardner, they just
Speaker 1: want the ball. You know, he doesn't know any better.
Speaker 1: Chart is year two. He's he just wants to go
Speaker 1: out there and perform well. So maybe he can post
Speaker 1: a little bit on Instagram and killing Cole who has
Speaker 1: been making some plays. I'm sure he just wants to
Speaker 1: get continue to make plays, no matter who's throwing him
Speaker 1: the ball, so he can uh get that you get
Speaker 1: a bigger contract at some point. So this is all
Speaker 1: the experiment for everybody. We don't know what the end
Speaker 1: result is gonna be. I'm hoping, you know, from the
Speaker 1: optimistic point of view, that he goes out there and
Speaker 1: do well the same that I would hope for Gardner,
Speaker 1: but I mean, who knows. I know, Jack's Nation. They're
Speaker 1: hoping that we can get somewhere in that quarterback lottery
Speaker 1: and that Trevor Lawrence lottery if if that's you know,
Speaker 1: still option at the end of the year. The follow
Speaker 1: up question to this will be about the rest of
Speaker 1: this year. And we know things have not gone well
Speaker 1: so far. It's a six game losing skits currently. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of injuries. Obviously the quarterback position is checking
Speaker 1: up now due to injury. Uh. The schedule coming up
Speaker 1: is definitely cold too. There's a lot of really good,
Speaker 1: talented football teams on that schedule coming up. If things
Speaker 1: don't go well and this young football team continues to
Speaker 1: come to work every day, how do you continue to
Speaker 1: motivate a young team like the jaguarris to continue to
Speaker 1: do things the right way, to teach them how to
Speaker 1: go about business in the NFL? Is that a hard
Speaker 1: thing to do in the environment this team could be
Speaker 1: in the later in the year. You know that follows
Speaker 1: on the headman's lap. You know, Coach Marone, you know
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to continue. You know, I hate to
Speaker 1: use this term, but he's gonna have to, you know,
Speaker 1: go down with the ship, go down swinging or whatever
Speaker 1: it may be. You know, teach these guys what the
Speaker 1: NFL is all about. That is getting getting up every day,
Speaker 1: no matter what it is, going out there, being the
Speaker 1: best that you could be, you know, displaying some character,
Speaker 1: maintaining a sense of integrity, even since of urgency. And
Speaker 1: I know it all sounds cliche out on the surface,
Speaker 1: but for me, even our in our losing years, you know,
Speaker 1: my motivation came from within. It came from loving to compete,
Speaker 1: you know, not even the money was a byproduct of
Speaker 1: of me competing in that hard in that passion for
Speaker 1: the game. So a lot of these young guys should
Speaker 1: just be wanting to get out there to play. You know,
Speaker 1: they have a roster full of young guys who you know,
Speaker 1: they want to take advantage of their opportunity, and that's
Speaker 1: just getting out there to play, no matter the record.
Speaker 1: At some point, you got to toss that out. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure they're not gonna make the playoffs this year
Speaker 1: unless they run off nine in row, and that's a
Speaker 1: doubt that will happen. So just get out there, be
Speaker 1: excited about going to work, excited about being around teammate,
Speaker 1: Excited about wearing a uniform and competing and beating your
Speaker 1: guy in the one on one matchup. Well, the matchup
Speaker 1: this week for the Jags the Houston Texans and kickoff
Speaker 1: coming up at one o'clock. We will talk to you
Speaker 1: in the post game, Fred no doubt man looking forward
Speaker 1: to a JP when we returned the final word with
Speaker 1: head coach Doug Brown before kickoff Jags Texans at one o'clock.
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