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Speaker 1: Countdown to kickoff continues. The Jaguars entertaining the Baltimore Ravens

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Speaker 1: on Sunday Night Football in week fifteen, and that's our

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

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Speaker 1: Bred Taylor. Big time football game, battle of division leaders

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Speaker 1: fred on Sunday Night Football. You can't ask for much

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Speaker 1: more than.

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Speaker 2: This, JP. That's a good setup, man, certainly a big

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Speaker 2: time game, two teams leading their divisions. In the case

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Speaker 2: of Jacksonville, who's going to show up? That's my question

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Speaker 2: to you. We'll find out in just a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I mean, who is going to show up, Who's going

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Speaker 1: to be healthy enough to show up? And who of

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Speaker 1: those guys that aren't out there replacing them will show up?

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Speaker 1: And that's been a question the last couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: for the Jags.

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Speaker 2: Right the curiosity. Man, I do know who is going

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Speaker 2: to show up. I will be there. It's going to

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Speaker 2: be an amazing atmosphere. I'm pretty sure all of Duvall

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Speaker 2: will be in a house. It's been a while since

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Speaker 2: we've entertained a Sunday night game. But I also think

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Speaker 2: that Lamar Jackson, I think he's gonna show up you know,

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Speaker 2: we in the past two weeks, we saw a Jake

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Speaker 2: Browning a backup, not Joe Burrow. You know, we saw

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Speaker 2: Joe Flacco a backup who is just on his mother's

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Speaker 2: couch from a lot of reports, and no Deshaun Watson.

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Speaker 2: So facing two teams with backups, and now we have

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Speaker 2: a former league MVP and Lamar Jackson. Not only that

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Speaker 2: he has more weapons with him this time around, he

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Speaker 2: has a defense or who's playing lights out. But yet

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Speaker 2: they're still, in my opinion, a team who is one

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Speaker 2: lead in the AFC, but they don't always play like it.

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Speaker 2: You know, they tend to at times play down to

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Speaker 2: their competition. They've had big leads where they've lost those leads.

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Speaker 2: So it's a team who I believe doesn't have the

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Speaker 2: greatest discipline. Uh, they're beatable, and maybe Jacksonville need an

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Speaker 2: opponent like this at this particular time so they can

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Speaker 2: try to hop off that two game skid.

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Speaker 1: Brad. The buzzword this week around here has been communication,

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Speaker 1: and there were moments in that game last week where

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Speaker 1: there was lack of communication on defense and they gave

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Speaker 1: the offensive side. You know, not necessarily the wrong routes,

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Speaker 1: but maybe just not on the same page or the

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Speaker 1: quarterback in certain instances. And you know it's week fifteen,

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Speaker 1: that's concerning enough. In week four right now, it's December

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Speaker 1: and at some point they've got to figure that out

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Speaker 1: before they can move forward.

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Speaker 2: As in life, I think we're more productive in life

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Speaker 2: outside of sports is when we communicate relationships. They talk

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Speaker 2: about communication business. It's about communicating with your partners, and

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Speaker 2: that's the number one thing, like that's what leads to success.

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Speaker 2: Ultimately bringing it back to football and being on a trill,

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Speaker 2: we spoke to it in post game. You know, the

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Speaker 2: broken coverages, people being out of place, you know, the

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Speaker 2: miss tackles, being antsy, even some of the play calls,

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Speaker 2: feeling that you're not getting enough pressure. You're putting these

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Speaker 2: guys in position where now you have to blitz and

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Speaker 2: they're not ready to handle it. On the back end,

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Speaker 2: then you give up explosives, play action game, lack of communication,

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Speaker 2: stuff out of place. So we could go the mixed

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Speaker 2: on the skinny post eight route, skinny eight bangate, whatever

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Speaker 2: you want to call it, Trevor to Ridley, whether it

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Speaker 2: was not a great throw or not a great route,

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Speaker 2: just out of sync. And we've seen that it is

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Speaker 2: quite it is alarming. Here, what is it week fourteen?

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Speaker 2: You mentioned JP so got to get fifteen. You got

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Speaker 2: to get back on track. It does start with the classroom, guys, studying, guys,

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Speaker 2: not being complacent, thinking, look, we're a good team. You

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Speaker 2: better team. The offense still hadn't performed up to its

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Speaker 2: preseason expectation based on the additions and the growth and

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Speaker 2: the players that were returning. The defense had been that

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Speaker 2: for or that's spells loss. So communication is going to

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Speaker 1: Brett Taylor with a spride of the Jaguars running back

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Speaker 1: and hey, the Jags run game, you know, there's some

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Speaker 2: List JP It goes back to what we spoke to

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Speaker 2: then now they have to do their assignment, proper foot

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Speaker 2: I felt that Travis wasn't as explosive as he had

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Speaker 2: But you get paid to go out there and perform.

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Speaker 2: You fight through injuries and you want to be there

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Speaker 2: and support your team. If you believe you can go,

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Speaker 2: admire about pro athletes. They can go, they go. I

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Speaker 2: had my share of injury JP. If I could go,

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Speaker 2: I would certainly show up. Taking a page out of

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Speaker 2: Trevor's book. I think it could be Tank Bigsby's coming

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Speaker 2: I don't know what the game plan is or what

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Speaker 1: Right of the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor with us. Well,

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Speaker 1: and fifty seven rush yards per game and not a surprise.

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Speaker 1: They don't take a week off. They run the football,

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Speaker 1: come hell or high water. They're running it with a quarterback,

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Speaker 2: And let's not forget the receivers. You know, end of rounds,

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Speaker 2: They could do so much zone reads. What is it

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Speaker 2: over there. It might be some recks on the field tonight. JP.

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Speaker 2: You know they're tough, they're tough offense to defend. You know,

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Speaker 2: Odell Beckham he has shown some glimpses of old form,

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Speaker 2: maybe not as much, but he's still very much capable

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Speaker 2: be a tough matchup, maybe the toughest matchup for our defense.

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Speaker 1: Brad final thought with you here. I mean this is

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Speaker 1: playoff race is wide open. Certainly, the number one seed

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Speaker 1: Kansas City's reeling right now. You saw their reaction to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, JP, I agree with you on all of that.

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Speaker 2: It was the game you go to Cleveland, you know

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Speaker 2: last week. This was a game where you said, we're

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Speaker 2: That was the game. I think the only game they

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Speaker 2: they stood up for that game. This game reminds me

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Speaker 2: it opens up that playoff race, as you mentioned, and

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Speaker 2: the sky is still the limit for him. Opportunities are

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Speaker 1: Bred well done. As always, Sunday night lights are bright.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if the Jaguars can respond, and we'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you in the postgame. You know, I'll be here, JP.

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Speaker 1: I'm aware, you're always.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know. I said I was gonna call it,

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Speaker 2: but I'm not gonna call it. I'm gonna let the

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Speaker 2: rooting them on.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you later, Fred, alrighty