Speaker 1: Countdown to kickoff continues the first place Tennessee Titans at
Speaker 1: eight and four meat the one and eleven Jacksonville Jaguars
Speaker 1: in week fourteen, and it's time for our weekly visit
Speaker 1: with pride of the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor. What's up, Fred? JP?
Speaker 1: All is good? Man? All good? How about yourself? We're
Speaker 1: hanging in there, you know, four games to go. We're
Speaker 1: counting them down at this point. That's the way it
Speaker 1: goes when the football team is one and eleven. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure you were never on a team that lost
Speaker 1: eleven in a row. How do you think the mindset
Speaker 1: is come December? You know it's coming down close to
Speaker 1: the end, and really all you have left is direct
Speaker 1: other teams hopes and dreams of the playoffs. Well, you know, JP, um,
Speaker 1: I guess that's the only incentive. Two things actually, just
Speaker 1: the opportunity to play another game. Just being able to
Speaker 1: get out there play another game. That should always, you know,
Speaker 1: bring a little something to you, righte. Uh. Your mindset
Speaker 1: should always be competing and trying to win. Uh. The
Speaker 1: other thing is playoffs. You know you're not going. You
Speaker 1: gotta find something in your mind to play for and
Speaker 1: uh being able to play spoiler. It's a good feeling.
Speaker 1: The one game that's the determining you know, who's who's
Speaker 1: leading in the a f C South between the Titans
Speaker 1: and the coach is the game that we want to
Speaker 1: open the season versus the Coats. Uh. And just little
Speaker 1: things like that. You never know what type of impact
Speaker 1: is gonna have on the season, but it's gonna play
Speaker 1: out someway somehow. Fred Taylor with us and of course,
Speaker 1: you know, the last few games, it's felt like, except
Speaker 1: for the Steelers game, that the Jags have kind of
Speaker 1: been in it. You know, second half, fourth quarter of
Speaker 1: play here, play there, the ball doesn't bounce your way.
Speaker 1: They couldn't finish an overtime last week, but they got
Speaker 1: to overtime last week. I mean that this is not
Speaker 1: a team that's getting blown out by thirty every week.
Speaker 1: You know, they have I'm packed it in, you know,
Speaker 1: and uh, as I mentioned in the post game, you know,
Speaker 1: just looking at everything. Uh, some of the fans might say,
Speaker 1: we we gotta lose so we can get ourselves in position,
Speaker 1: you know, to get the quarterback out of Clemson, and uh,
Speaker 1: some fans, you know, they don't care about draft position.
Speaker 1: They want to see their their team that they root
Speaker 1: on win and these guys are fighting. I mean they've
Speaker 1: interchanged so many different pieces, whether it's due to COVID
Speaker 1: or coaches, whether it's due to injuries. You know, uh
Speaker 1: C j Henderson our first round thinking he's not there.
Speaker 1: The secondary is beat up. You know, we don't have
Speaker 1: you know, Josh Allen, you know he's not. Their injuries
Speaker 1: across the board. But what we do have, you know,
Speaker 1: let's focus on that the guys that are out there playing,
Speaker 1: and most notably James Robinson a great surprise. You know,
Speaker 1: he's number three right now in the NFL and Russian.
Speaker 1: That's huge, man for a guy who's been undrafted, just
Speaker 1: a few yards away from a thousand yards. So we
Speaker 1: do have some bright spots. Again, the season isn't over.
Speaker 1: Let's see what goes on the last four games, and
Speaker 1: that the match up against today against the Titans, and
Speaker 1: then the last game of a year against the Coats,
Speaker 1: that can have some impact on what those guys are
Speaker 1: gonna do in terms of playoff positioning. Fred Taylor with US.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the name James Robinson and he is getting
Speaker 1: close to those big numbers as the year goes along here.
Speaker 1: You know, I think he's got two hundred twelve rushing
Speaker 1: attempts this year, only twelve of those are for negative yardage.
Speaker 1: So the guy could just continues to plow forward even
Speaker 1: though defenses know that he's gonna get the football a
Speaker 1: lot of times, and he's still just finding a way
Speaker 1: to get it done. You're right, he's finding a way.
Speaker 1: He's the guy who is excited. You know, they spoke
Speaker 1: about the rookie wall, you know, get him some rets,
Speaker 1: getting the other backs and carries. I don't think he'll
Speaker 1: see a rookie wall, not when you're out there and
Speaker 1: you're proving guys wrong. You know, he's been playing with
Speaker 1: a chip on his shoulder by Louren his shoulder, and
Speaker 1: you mentioned it jp barely any negative runs, you know,
Speaker 1: so that's a testament to himself. You know, the guys
Speaker 1: up front, you know, they came with it this year
Speaker 1: in the run game. But they're motivated. They know they
Speaker 1: have a guy by find them who's ready to run
Speaker 1: the ball each and every week, a great path level,
Speaker 1: his quickness, everything, and as you said again, the defenses,
Speaker 1: they know he's going to get the ball. They know
Speaker 1: we've struggled in the past game you see eight guys
Speaker 1: in the box each and every week. But yet he's
Speaker 1: still running efficiently and effectively. And again he's my brightest
Speaker 1: spot on the team this year and hopefully I'm going forward.
Speaker 1: They can continue to add pieces and build around him.
Speaker 1: On the other side, we know about the freight train
Speaker 1: that is Derrick Henry. He is the league's leading rusher.
Speaker 1: But you know, one way to get him out of
Speaker 1: the game plan is to do what the Browns did
Speaker 1: last week and put up thirty eight in the first
Speaker 1: half where he can't run the football. That's one thing
Speaker 1: that worked last week. Now that's asking a lot of
Speaker 1: this worst team to do that, but it worked for
Speaker 1: the Browns. That's the really the only way. If they
Speaker 1: get in going and balance it out on offense with Tannehill,
Speaker 1: throw it around to those guys outside. That's when the
Speaker 1: Titans are really really dangerous. Yeah, they they are dangerous
Speaker 1: if they can get into their play action game. They
Speaker 1: do want to get into their stretch offends outside zone.
Speaker 1: That's when Derek's most dangerous. When you give up the edge,
Speaker 1: he gets out there and then now he's into your secondary,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna straight arm every defensive back that comes
Speaker 1: within his arm length, his seven eight feet armspan, whatever
Speaker 1: it is, it seems like it's never ending. Uh, to
Speaker 1: be honest with you can't let him get on the edge.
Speaker 1: Our defensive ends will have a big task today by
Speaker 1: h making sure they secure the edge. Uh. If they
Speaker 1: can get stow him down from the outside run game,
Speaker 1: and they will minimize their play action opportunities. And then
Speaker 1: after that you have to get after tenne Hill. You know,
Speaker 1: he's the same guy who was in Miami a few
Speaker 1: years ago. That same guy is still in him. But
Speaker 1: you have to find a way to shut the run
Speaker 1: game down first and then put some pressure on Tannihill
Speaker 1: and hopefully that will translate to a few turnovers that
Speaker 1: are translated into solid fuel position that hopefully it'll eventually
Speaker 1: translate to points in a win for the Jaguars. And
Speaker 1: that would be nice, That would be really nice, indeed,
Speaker 1: and that would mean a fun post game show with
Speaker 1: you a little bit later. Fred, we'll talk it will yes,
Speaker 1: it will talk to you later. JP. Al Right, Fred Taylor,
Speaker 1: with this pride of the Jaguars running back, we're back
Speaker 1: with the final word before kickoff with head coach Doug Moron.
Speaker 1: The Jags and the Titans coming up at one o'clock
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