Speaker 1: Countdown, the kickoff rolls along. The Lions and the Jaguars
Speaker 1: tea it up today at one o'clock in week six.
Speaker 1: Pride of the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor joins us
Speaker 1: every week on this program, and he's here with us
Speaker 1: again today. Good after the Fred, JP, what's up, boss?
Speaker 1: I know I got I guarantee to win last week,
Speaker 1: and uh I now do it again this week. I
Speaker 1: don't care because I gotta be optimistic. Man. I believe
Speaker 1: they'll get one sooner or later. Well, this is one.
Speaker 1: It kind of feels like, Fred, that they have to
Speaker 1: have considering the way things have gone the last few weeks.
Speaker 1: It's a younger football team that needs to have some
Speaker 1: confidence going into l A next week, and then the
Speaker 1: bye week, and then the schedule of course gets really
Speaker 1: tough after that. But this feels like one they really
Speaker 1: have to have to keep things together and keep that
Speaker 1: confidence going. I mean, in the perfect world, obviously, that's uh,
Speaker 1: that's the feeling. And I'm pretty sure the guys are
Speaker 1: optimistic in the locker room saying, hey, we're gonna get one.
Speaker 1: Last week felt that way. You had a team that
Speaker 1: was owing for and a week before that, felt that
Speaker 1: way when when they faced off with the Bengals. Unfortunately
Speaker 1: need to need the one ended up with with the
Speaker 1: Jaguars victorious. But again, this is a new week, new team,
Speaker 1: new opportunity, and the opportunity for a lot of guys
Speaker 1: that hadn't played a lot of football to get out
Speaker 1: there and play and make a name for themselves. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm optimistic. I would always be that way because I'm
Speaker 1: a Jaguar lifer. But it doesn't matter. I can talk
Speaker 1: all I want to talk behind his microphone. Those guys
Speaker 1: got to get out there and play, and I think
Speaker 1: that we'll see some good things happening. They just got
Speaker 1: to find a way to to provoke consistency and in
Speaker 1: in every aspect, and I think they'll find a way
Speaker 1: to win a game. Let's get to the offensive side,
Speaker 1: and a talking point this week Fred has been the
Speaker 1: balance or lack thereof on the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: Gardner mint, you through the ball forty nine times last week,
Speaker 1: and Jake Gruden himself said that's way too many. And
Speaker 1: of course, every game that he's thrown more than forty
Speaker 1: times this year, the Jaguars have loss. That's the last
Speaker 1: four James Robinson only had thirteen carries last week in
Speaker 1: the game. A balanced offense is the one j Gruden
Speaker 1: feels like can get the most success. H No, I agree, JP. Um,
Speaker 1: he's calling the plays, so I mean he's he has
Speaker 1: full control of it. Uh, the opportunity to be as
Speaker 1: balanced as as they're gonna be. He's the man that's
Speaker 1: calling the shots. Just looking at the game last week
Speaker 1: for example, and it's really been the theme of the season. Uh,
Speaker 1: the slow starts. You know, Jane Robinson, he comes out,
Speaker 1: you know, he had eleven yard run, an eight yard run,
Speaker 1: a seven yard run, four yard, four yard and a
Speaker 1: few no games. But that doesn't mean go away from
Speaker 1: the run game. That means dig in there and try
Speaker 1: to have some patience with it and hopefully some good
Speaker 1: things will happen. But he has shown early in the
Speaker 1: game feed me I want the rock. They gotta find
Speaker 1: a way to stick with it, which means the defense,
Speaker 1: you know, they got to play better on their side.
Speaker 1: They can't allow the other team to convience the field
Speaker 1: and win the field position battle, uh and and outscore
Speaker 1: our offense. So if the defense isn't playing great, it's
Speaker 1: hard to find that balance on the offensive side. So
Speaker 1: it's a combination of things. Defense, special teams, offense. They
Speaker 1: all got to be firing on all cylinders and on
Speaker 1: the same page. So hopefully again this is the week. Detroit,
Speaker 1: they don't do a very good job at stopping the
Speaker 1: run as the other teams the past two weeks, uh
Speaker 1: they were the same. So that means that Jaguar's offense
Speaker 1: got to go out there and force the issue sort
Speaker 1: of and hopefully have a few big plays, you know,
Speaker 1: within that within those calls. UH. And and that's what
Speaker 1: I expect. I think James Robinson he's fired up, he's
Speaker 1: geared up, ready to have a big week show. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say he's gonna get a hundred on the ground
Speaker 1: this week. This is the week. This is the week.
Speaker 1: And I want to add to UH. And my my
Speaker 1: rookie year in Jacksonville could have been your two. I
Speaker 1: remember another great Detroit Lion running back that came to town,
Speaker 1: Barry Sanders, and there was a rookie on the other
Speaker 1: side I believe was my rookie year JP. I have
Speaker 1: a duel Barry Sanders, and I'm pretty sure James Robinson
Speaker 1: he's looking he's gonna be looking over on the other
Speaker 1: sideline looking at Adrian Peterson, thinking that the same thing,
Speaker 1: same thoughts that I had back in the day when
Speaker 1: I wanted to out rush uh Barry that day, and
Speaker 1: I did. I think I had a hundred eighty three yards.
Speaker 1: But who's counting? Who's counting? Uh? And I'm hoping that
Speaker 1: we have the same output today. Fred Taylor with a
Speaker 1: speaking of a P, how much juice does Adrian Peterson
Speaker 1: still have the steep into his career? Oh? Man, he
Speaker 1: looks good. I can see those knees aren't bending the
Speaker 1: same way they used to. But still he's running the
Speaker 1: ball effectively, very efficiently. So I mean, as long as
Speaker 1: he's putting up, you know, four yards a walk, we
Speaker 1: can accept that. You know, he's the top five Russia
Speaker 1: all time, so you gotta respect that. You still gotta
Speaker 1: respect his ability what we saw him doing just a
Speaker 1: year ago in Washington, still ripping off some long runs
Speaker 1: and he still has that ability. Otherwise he wouldn't be
Speaker 1: in the NFL because he's definitely a young man's game,
Speaker 1: and the teams can find any young guy to get
Speaker 1: out there and put up some numbers. So a P
Speaker 1: still has a lot of juice in his tank man
Speaker 1: and uh, I think his motivation is passing Barry Sanders,
Speaker 1: which he is about eight hundred yards shy of that
Speaker 1: to be number four all the time, Joe, you can't
Speaker 1: fall to sleep on him. Out their defense, Fred, Let's
Speaker 1: get to the Jaguars defense now. Of course, last week
Speaker 1: a handful of starters did not play, and it sounds
Speaker 1: pretty positive this week that the Jags will have a
Speaker 1: lot of those guys back. But the guys who stepped
Speaker 1: in and played last week played pretty well, especially to
Speaker 1: a guy liked one, Smoot and Sydney Jones. Smoots, a
Speaker 1: guy who's been around here for a few years. Draft pick,
Speaker 1: was kind of working his way up. Sydney Jones had
Speaker 1: an injury in the free draft process, was with the
Speaker 1: Eagles that didn't work out. The Jags claimed him this year.
Speaker 1: But those two guys had nice performances and they might
Speaker 1: have a role moving ahead. And that's good news for
Speaker 1: this defense. It's good news for the organization across the board.
Speaker 1: I mean, they the Jaguars front office, they said, look,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get younger. You know, we're gonna do some
Speaker 1: things through the draft. We're gonna release a lot of
Speaker 1: the guys that were heavy on our salary cap, you know,
Speaker 1: getting rid of Klaish boy A, even you know the
Speaker 1: Ramsey trade in gock Way. They made it known that
Speaker 1: they were gonna get young and started almost pressed the
Speaker 1: reset button. So what that's gonna do at least for
Speaker 1: years ahead, if not this year. Uh, it's going to
Speaker 1: give guys an opportunity to get out there and get
Speaker 1: on the trail. The Jaguars Um front office, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be able to evaluate your fans might not always agree
Speaker 1: with it, but hopefully they can evaluate this talent. Uh,
Speaker 1: the guys that they drafted, the guys that are getting opportunity,
Speaker 1: like you know Sydney and those guys in smooth Um,
Speaker 1: they're getting opportunities now. So uh, the team, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have an opportunity see what we have. And Uh, the
Speaker 1: more that guys are injured, the more other guys are
Speaker 1: gonna be able to play. And hopefully we can find
Speaker 1: you know, some future Pro Bowlers or some some some
Speaker 1: guys that will bring some wins to Jacksonville in the
Speaker 1: years to come. Well, let's try to get a win
Speaker 1: today first, and today faced the Detroit Lions in Week
Speaker 1: six and Fred, let's get a w and we'll talk
Speaker 1: to you in the post game. I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: JP back at the moment, the final word with head
Speaker 1: coach Doug Moron ahead of the Lions and the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: Or a one o'clock kickoff time at t I A A.
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