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Speaker 1: Countdown to Kickoff continues. It is Week twelve, the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: and the Houston Texans coming up at NRG Stadium in Houston,

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Speaker 1: and it's time for our weekly conversation with Pride of

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor. Big ball game, Thanksgiving weekend,

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars in first place, the Texans right behind them

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Speaker 1: in first place. On the line, what's up?

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Speaker 2: JP?

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Speaker 3: Is all good man? Coming off Thanksgiving. I'm hoping the

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Speaker 3: team isn't as sluggish as they were coming off the

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Speaker 3: bye week. You know what that turkey can do to you,

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Speaker 3: So hopefully they can figure out a way to find

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Speaker 3: some sense of urgency, realize how important this game is.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, I just wanted to get right to it right.

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Speaker 3: We used to say Titans week, but now here we are.

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Speaker 3: We find ourselves and it's Texans week. And they're a

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Speaker 3: really good team. And in order for Jacksonville to win

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Speaker 3: this game, they're gonna have to play with the extreme

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Speaker 3: sense of urgency focus. They're gonna have to be dialed

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Speaker 3: in because that Texans team has been fire on all cylinders.

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Speaker 3: They won three in a row. You know, they beat

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Speaker 3: the Bengals. The young quarterback CJ. Stroud. He outdueled one

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Speaker 3: of the best quarterbacks in the game in Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 3: That defense playing well. They sacked Burrow for a time

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Speaker 3: and that's just a notable matchup. But then you also

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Speaker 3: have a Texans team who lost to Carolina Panthers, so

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Speaker 3: it seems like they're playing up to their competition. They

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Speaker 3: played a tough game a week ago versus the Cardinals,

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Speaker 3: So all of that being said, they're hitting their stride.

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Speaker 3: They found some momentum, unlike Jacksonville, who's been up and down.

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Speaker 3: But this is a matchup, it's a divisional matchup, is

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Speaker 3: very important. It'll decide first place in the division in

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Speaker 3: the FC South, so all marbles are on deck.

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Speaker 2: Man, guys gotta go.

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Speaker 1: Bred Taylor with us. How do you get to CJ.

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Speaker 1: Stroud mentally? He seems like he's so poised all the time.

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Speaker 3: If you haven't rattled him as a rookie, the way

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Speaker 3: he's performing, it seems that you can't get to him.

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Speaker 3: I guess I danced around your question because I don't

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Speaker 3: know the answers.

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Speaker 2: We're in week twelve now.

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Speaker 3: I think so many teams have tried to get to him,

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Speaker 3: yet he's putting up five hundred yards three fifty three

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Speaker 3: fifty three twenty and his interceptions aren't aren't high, and

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Speaker 3: even if he has a multi interception game, he's finding

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Speaker 3: a way to relieve that pressure to stay in there

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Speaker 3: and lead his team back the victory, which is what

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Speaker 3: it's all about. At the very end of the day.

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Speaker 3: We're talking about an organization who had the second and

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Speaker 3: third pick up the draft a year ago. They shouldn't

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Speaker 3: be playing this well, it seems, but it's coming through

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Speaker 3: CJ obviously their coach and Jamico Rians. I think he

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Speaker 3: should be candidate for Coach of the Year right now.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, the way you get to him is you

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Speaker 3: got to get to him. So our defensive front is

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Speaker 3: going to have to start with those guys, because if

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Speaker 3: they can rattle CJ, then everything, guess will handle itself.

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Speaker 1: They brun the ball well lately to Singletary of the

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Speaker 1: last two weeks over one hundred yards each time. Out

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Speaker 1: of course the deep ball thread and Tank Dell. They

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Speaker 1: can get those plays down the field. Fred Taylor with us,

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Speaker 1: You know, this is a Jaguars offense that last week

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Speaker 1: really played well against Tennessee and Trevor Lawrence had a

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Speaker 1: great day throwing it up to Calvin Ridley and running

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Speaker 1: when he had to do it. Is this Ridley's breakout?

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Speaker 1: Can he maintain this now that Jay Jones is back

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Speaker 1: on the other side and on the field. Does that

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Speaker 3: I think they're very complimentary and I think it does

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Speaker 3: help him. I think it helped Trevor as well from

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Speaker 3: being comfortable. Standpoint, Jay is a guy who had just

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Speaker 3: a year ago, you know, well over sixty plus receptions

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Speaker 3: along with Evan Ingram and Christian Kirk, and I like

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Speaker 3: to see them get back to a lot of what

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Speaker 3: they did a year ago. We haven't seen much of that, Jpeter,

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Speaker 3: be quite honest with you. Last year we saw Ingram

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Speaker 3: on a lot of shallow routes being able to catch

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Speaker 3: giving Trevor those underneath options, which I think in turn

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Speaker 3: will open up Jay Jones as well as Calvin Ridley

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Speaker 3: in the deep intermediate game. So if I think if

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Speaker 3: they can take advantage of their short game, first coach Peterson.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully they looked at it, because I think if you

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Speaker 3: look at the percentage of those crossing type routes they

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Speaker 3: percentages are extremely low this year. So getting back to

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Speaker 3: a lot of what you did a year ago, taking

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Speaker 3: star players are not oportunity to make plays with the

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Speaker 3: ball after the catch, and again that will open up Zay,

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Speaker 3: which in turn will open up It'll just give Trevor

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Speaker 3: an opportunity to, you know, to be more comfortable and

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Speaker 3: find some real rhythm.

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Speaker 1: Bret Taylor with us. These defensive ends for the Texans

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Speaker 1: are playing well. Jonathan Grenard putting a bunch of sacks

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Speaker 1: this year. And of course the rookie Will Anderson junior.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the number three overall pick, that's him, and

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Speaker 1: he blocked the field goal last time against the Jagons

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Speaker 1: as well. So it's not just on defense. The guy

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Speaker 1: is all over the field. And hey, the tackles have

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Speaker 1: their hands full this.

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Speaker 3: Week again we're you're talking about the impact players. You

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Speaker 3: have two rookies drafted second and third. Overall, they've come

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Speaker 3: in and made an immediate impact. Will Anderson such a

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Speaker 3: stud He's making everybody else around him better, you know.

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Speaker 3: And then that system that coach Ryan's is running, you know,

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Speaker 3: much like what he had in San fran It started

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Speaker 3: really good secondary, to be honest with you. So I

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Speaker 3: think all in all, the Texans are a really good team.

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Speaker 3: People have to take them serious, especially at six and five.

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Speaker 3: They're trending in the right direction and it only takes

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Speaker 3: a few games for you to get hot, and I

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Speaker 3: think they believe they're doing that. But again, their impact players,

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Speaker 3: Will Anderson, you mentioned it from a defensive standpoint, CJ.

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Speaker 3: Stroud obviously being a leader on offense, singletary, he's picking

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Speaker 3: up some steam here in the run game, and that's

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Speaker 3: coming by way of what CJ is doing. Teams are

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Speaker 3: focusing on the young rookie quarterback and trying to stop

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Speaker 3: their passing attack. Now they're able to run the ball

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Speaker 3: and they're showing that balance. But the good thing is this,

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Speaker 3: Jacksonville has been great against the run. They've been absolutely

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Speaker 3: wonderful against the run. They can't fall asleep on it.

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Speaker 3: But you can understand that that's an area that there

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Speaker 3: shouldn't be too much concern.

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Speaker 2: Yet they still have to get the job done.

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Speaker 3: Because you know as well as I know JP the

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Speaker 3: run game is one player is all it takes and

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Speaker 3: then it's a house call. So I still have to

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Speaker 3: be honest. But also those d ends have to find

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Speaker 3: a way to strivet all.

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Speaker 1: Right, Fred division lead on the line. It should be

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Speaker 1: a playoff environment in our g stadium. Do they get

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Speaker 3: Well, as long as they don't take the trip to

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Speaker 3: fan to Texas, I think they can get it done.

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Speaker 3: They got to make sure whatever energy drinks or whatever

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Speaker 3: they might want to dry scoop some C four like

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Speaker 3: Michael Parsons say he did before the game.

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Speaker 2: And so well for him it did not.

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Speaker 3: But I think he ended up with two sacks or

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Speaker 3: something like that, and I think at the end of

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Speaker 3: the day that matters. I don't want to say it's

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Speaker 3: all that matters because health matters, but he got two sacks.

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Speaker 2: How about that? Maybe we can balance that out. I

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Speaker 2: don't know.

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Speaker 3: They need energy in Texas and they can find a

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Speaker 3: way to get that win.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Red. We'll talk to you after all, right, JP,

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Speaker 2: I'll be ready