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Speaker 1: Countdown to Kickoff continues ahead of Week fourteen, the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: and the Cleveland Browns coming up, and it's time for

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Speaker 1: our weekly conversation with Pride of the Jaguars running back

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Speaker 1: Fred Taylor, and here we go big December games. Gotta

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Speaker 1: get off the deck after last week's Monday Night loss

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Speaker 1: that was deflating in so many ways, but everything is

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Speaker 1: still out in front for this team.

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Speaker 2: Fred, JP, you said it. You got to get off

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Speaker 2: the deck.

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Speaker 3: Man, got to pick up with pieces and continue to

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Speaker 3: move forward. You know, it's no time to soak, no

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Speaker 3: time to have a pity party. You know, it's a

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Speaker 3: lot of football left a pretty good team. You know,

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Speaker 3: things didn't go the way they planned a week ago.

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Speaker 3: But I think this team, like I said in postgame,

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Speaker 3: I think they're resilient.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: I think Doug has really built the culture there where

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Speaker 3: the guys understand it, and I really believe in spite

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Speaker 3: of everything that took place last week, you know, the

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Speaker 3: injury to Trevor, Christian Kirk being out for several weeks,

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Speaker 3: even the loss, I think they'll find a way to

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Speaker 3: bounce back and get this win.

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Speaker 1: Pret Taylor with us, well, the injury bug is the

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Speaker 1: number one concern obviously, Fred, and it starts with the quarterback,

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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. As of Thursday, he was on the practice

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Speaker 1: field for a little bit doing some things. This could

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Speaker 1: go all the way down to game time again like

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Speaker 1: it did for Thursday Night Football and Trevor went out

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Speaker 1: there with a left knee issue. You know, we'll see

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Speaker 1: if he's not ready.

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Speaker 2: CJ.

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Speaker 1: Bethard has to be ready, and hey this you know

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Speaker 1: there's still five games, four after this week to make

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Speaker 1: sure Lawrence is right. So do you roll the dice

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Speaker 3: Well, you know you have to. I think you do

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Speaker 3: have to roll the dice and go. You do want

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Speaker 3: Trevor to be at his best. I think CJ. He's

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Speaker 3: been in the system long enough. He's shown signs that

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Speaker 3: he is capable of getting a job done. You know,

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Speaker 3: last week it was a challenge for him. You have

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Speaker 3: to come in in the fourth quarter, you know, a

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Speaker 3: few minutes left in the game where it was around

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Speaker 2: I'm not one hundred percent sure.

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Speaker 3: I can't really recall, but it was very abrupt and

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Speaker 2: But you got to always be ready.

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Speaker 3: And I think this week, as Doug mentioned, being able

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Speaker 3: to build a system, you know, specifically cater to CJ.

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Speaker 3: Simplify things, ETN. Let's try and take advantage of the run.

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Speaker 3: Cleveland hadn't been great versus the run. They have been

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Speaker 3: very stout at home, we get that, but versus the run,

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Speaker 3: they haven't been amazing. So I think you want to

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Speaker 3: try and commit to that run. Sprinkling some plays that

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Speaker 3: are CJ's favorites during meetings this week.

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Speaker 2: What do you like? What do you love? Let's narrow

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Speaker 3: Down and put you in better, more efficient in situations

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Speaker 3: So I think strategically, if they could map out that

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Speaker 1: Okay, Fred, we hear about high ankle sprains. Did you

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Speaker 1: ever have one of those? And how painful is this?

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Speaker 3: I can tell you it's the third most painful injury

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Speaker 3: surgical procedure they used when you have pronic growing. So

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Speaker 3: And lastly, the third toughest one again it's the high

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Speaker 3: Unlike a normal ankle sprain, which is three four or

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Speaker 2: It's tough for my position.

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Speaker 3: At a quarterback position, it's tough, but maybe not as

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Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with US, I liked the photo of somebody

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Speaker 1: a leg with a dog in it, and yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: Trevor's leg. He's got that dog in him.

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Speaker 2: I guess Trevor certainly has that dog in him. I

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Speaker 3: We talked about in the podcast that we released on Friday,

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Speaker 3: and man, he does have that dog in him.

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Speaker 2: We are all fans of Trevor Larrence. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So much heart, so much fight, so much passion and

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Speaker 2: I love to go to battle with him any day.

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Speaker 1: Bred what happened to the run defense last week? And

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Speaker 1: it's not who they are because they've been really good

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you can fix it, And they fixed it after

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Speaker 2: Certainly you can fix it. It's about having a sense

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Speaker 3: The guys have to get in there and watch them,

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Speaker 3: that was me out of position, or as you alluded

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Speaker 3: eight man's facing. Each player has a gap A through C.

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Speaker 3: You have to do your job, do your assignment. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: Pret Taylor wellis proud of the Jaguars running back Cleveland

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Speaker 1: this week. The Browns of course, seven and five. They're

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Speaker 1: right there in the wildcard chase right now. And then

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Speaker 1: next week, of course the Ravens. There are you been

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Speaker 1: The Jaguars do have the tiebreaker on the teams right

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Speaker 1: behind them in the division race. That's far from over.

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they have life. And the Jaguars

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, everybody talks about, you know, seating positioning

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Speaker 3: you know it too. These remaining five weeks. Every week

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Speaker 3: night atmosphere. Yeah, you have an opportunity with a night

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Speaker 3: the Ravens. Your mindset as a player should be this

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Speaker 3: And I realized the opponent, I had realized the magnitude

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Speaker 2: Last week? What was that stake. They felled. They completely failed.

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Speaker 3: That was a fail and they have to somehow bounce

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Speaker 2: But they got to go in there and make some

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Speaker 1: You gotta make the noise to be heard. Fred, it's

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Speaker 1: what it's about. And the jaguars are right there on

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Speaker 2: Gotta be hungry when you make that noise. Be hungry.

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Speaker 2: I think my bird is hungry.

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Speaker 3: You gotta feed those birds. Now, they got to go

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Speaker 3: out there and just handle business. I've said it the

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Speaker 2: It's not just cliche.

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Speaker 3: The guy's got to really understand that it's about them,

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Speaker 3: you know, managing distractions, not paying attention to the outside noise,

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Speaker 3: allowing people to tell you how good you are. We

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Speaker 3: I believe they have again.

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Speaker 3: Resilient and I think They're going to go out there

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Speaker 3: and win this game despite what's going on around them

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Speaker 3: with players. Doug said, is not about one, not about

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Speaker 3: any one. Guy is the greatest team sport and they

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Speaker 3: got to act according to So saying all that to say,

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Speaker 3: I got Jaggs, I got the Jaguars.

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Speaker 1: You heard it here first, Fred Taylor with the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: in Cleveland. Let's get it done, Fred, and we'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you in the post game.

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Speaker 3: And that ain't a Homer call. That's how I feel.

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Speaker 3: I'll be ready in the post game.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you will, and we'll talk to you then.

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Speaker 2: How to see you, JP,