Speaker 1: Countdown to Kickoff continues. The Jaguars host the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: today at one o'clock in week sixteen, and as always
Speaker 1: in this program, we visit with pride of the Jaguars
Speaker 1: running back Fred Taylor. Good afternoon, Fred, JP. What's up,
Speaker 1: boss man. We're ready for some football today. Two weeks
Speaker 1: to go in the regular season, the Jaguars are one
Speaker 1: in thirteen. But the big news this week the Jets
Speaker 1: are also one in thirteen. They got a big win
Speaker 1: last week, a crazy win on the road in l
Speaker 1: A against the Rams. The Rams are a seventeen point
Speaker 1: favorite in that game, and your guy Frank Gore got
Speaker 1: it done. So that means the Jaguars as they sit
Speaker 1: right now, would hold the number one pick in the
Speaker 1: NFL draft. But there's two games to go in this
Speaker 1: season and head coach Duck Barone this week said they're
Speaker 1: trying to go out and win football games. Still. There's
Speaker 1: a fine balance there, right because Jags fans everywhere want
Speaker 1: that number one pick, and that would mean Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 1: the players and coaches still want to win football games, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we we we kidded and we
Speaker 1: joked around a little bit in the post game last week. Uh,
Speaker 1: Saint Christmas came early on the flip side of that. Um,
Speaker 1: it's really hard to try and and lose a game,
Speaker 1: you know, on any level. You know, we've been taught
Speaker 1: our entire lives to go win and to get out
Speaker 1: there and say, hey, let's let's try and well not
Speaker 1: let's try to lose these two games, because Doug has
Speaker 1: said that's not gonna happen. You know, they're gonna go
Speaker 1: out there and fight. And I really think the players,
Speaker 1: they don't get involved in the draft and and the
Speaker 1: draft positioning and all that stuff. Guys are out there
Speaker 1: focused on their job, trying to do their best. They
Speaker 1: want to compete naturally, that's what's in their heart. And uh,
Speaker 1: it's really hard to just get out there and roll over.
Speaker 1: But I mean it is what it is. Right we're
Speaker 1: in this position. Do you roll with it, you know,
Speaker 1: you do not game playing and you just go out
Speaker 1: with whatever it is you're gonna go out with, or
Speaker 1: do you really get out there really coach him up
Speaker 1: and and and and and pray for the best, pray
Speaker 1: for a beautiful loss. I mean, who knows. Trevor lawns
Speaker 1: Man he's just he's an organization changer, it seems right.
Speaker 1: I don't want to prematurely crowning King. You know, he's
Speaker 1: a great talent, Uh, not just on the field, but
Speaker 1: he's a guy who can get into your community and
Speaker 1: do some great things. I mean, he's high Christian faith
Speaker 1: guy kid. So he just seems as if it's our time,
Speaker 1: how do you mess this up? But again, being a
Speaker 1: player is hard to just get out there with thoughts
Speaker 1: of losing in your mind. That that doesn't fly. The
Speaker 1: Ravens ran up and down the field on them last week.
Speaker 1: The defense is like on the third string guys now.
Speaker 1: And they've played seventy nine players this year. They might
Speaker 1: just not be good enough this year. I know they
Speaker 1: were close in the middle of the season, they almost
Speaker 1: got some wins there. But I mean that's what they
Speaker 1: are right now. They're not a really good football team.
Speaker 1: You're right, j P. You know that they're not a
Speaker 1: great team. They fought the entire year, you know, plug
Speaker 1: and play, plug and play. They've had there's a lot
Speaker 1: of starters been out for the last couple of months. Uh,
Speaker 1: just that all around the team. The offense has been
Speaker 1: more healthy than anything more so than the defense. Um,
Speaker 1: but they've also had their issues as well, shuffling the
Speaker 1: offensive line, you know, receivers, starting receivers, chart in and
Speaker 1: out line up. Young team. You know a lot of
Speaker 1: guys have potentially hit that wall, you know that that
Speaker 1: they talked about. So, um, they haven't played bit long
Speaker 1: until any season. So yeah, maybe it's just caught up
Speaker 1: with him. Chicago very inconsistent team, but still has some ability. Uh,
Speaker 1: they went out and won their game last week. And uh,
Speaker 1: they have a few guys man that are that are
Speaker 1: good players on the offensive side and defensive. You talked
Speaker 1: about Khalil mac as far over there, and then let's
Speaker 1: also talk about Montgomery in the backfield. He's leading a charge.
Speaker 1: And I'm pretty sure Trabinsky, you know, he every week
Speaker 1: he's trying to prove people wrong considering what he's going
Speaker 1: through and the way he was able to come back,
Speaker 1: and I guess he's playing fairly decent for him. So
Speaker 1: that's a team who at five hundred, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: they wanted the season would have ren winning record, and
Speaker 1: they have an opportunity, so they're not gonna lay down, alright,
Speaker 1: fred So Pro Bowl Voting results came out this week.
Speaker 1: There were no no Jaguars on the list. The name
Speaker 1: that should have been on the list is running back
Speaker 1: James Robinson. You've been in this boat before, Fred the
Speaker 1: same thinking ship Man. It's you know, here we are
Speaker 1: twenty two years after my rookie year. I don't understand
Speaker 1: how they can't get this right. You know, something has
Speaker 1: to change in that in that process. You know, the
Speaker 1: James is a guy who's third in the NFL and
Speaker 1: rushing UH number two in the AFC behind Derrick Henry.
Speaker 1: And his numbers are I think when I looked at it,
Speaker 1: he's a hundred and sixty yards better than Josh Jacobs
Speaker 1: and and Nick Chubb is much further down the list.
Speaker 1: His numbers are better than both of those guys. UH,
Speaker 1: and I get it. Sometimes they look at the team wins.
Speaker 1: That would mean Cleveland, Nick Chubb. You know they have
Speaker 1: a much better record. I don't know the Raiders overall record,
Speaker 1: but there there there. I guess they've had a decent year.
Speaker 1: But still, if we're looking at individual performances and just
Speaker 1: backing everything out totally by the numbers, and also let's
Speaker 1: look at what he has done for his team, he's
Speaker 1: been the you know, the the workhorse. He's been the
Speaker 1: biggest bright spot. When you look at percentages of plays
Speaker 1: output performance, you give it to James Robinson. Again, I
Speaker 1: don't know how they can mess this up, but they
Speaker 1: messed it up years ago when I was a rookie.
Speaker 1: My numbers were better, better than Eddie George's number in
Speaker 1: that season. I feel that I should have got an opportunity.
Speaker 1: The veterans once told me that, well, you have to
Speaker 1: put in a year before they recognize you. I call
Speaker 1: it bs. I call it crap, but they say that's
Speaker 1: the way the dice roll, and I have to live
Speaker 1: with it. And I've been living with the crappy dice
Speaker 1: for more than twenty two years. And again, Uh, they're back,
Speaker 1: you know at those crazy games. By doing James the
Speaker 1: way they did, that's just not right. I think they
Speaker 1: should just take the top three guys statistically, make it easy,
Speaker 1: and you earn it that way as a player, and
Speaker 1: you take the voting, you take all of the other
Speaker 1: craziness out of it. Because it's a name thing, you know,
Speaker 1: it becomes a marketing Uh it's kind of like a pageant,
Speaker 1: you know, just something that looks good on the surface.
Speaker 1: Names Uh, let's see how we can sell tickets, bring
Speaker 1: get the fans and ball. That's just absurd in and
Speaker 1: out of this world. Mr Congeniality, is the award that
Speaker 1: feels like James Scott exactly. That's not the one you want.
Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with us. I'm gonna finish with a very
Speaker 1: simple question, Fred, do you want Trevor Lawrence? Yeah, simple answer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you in the post game. Looking forward
Speaker 1: to a JP Fred Taylor Pride of the Jaguars running back.
Speaker 1: We're back in a moment final word with head coach
Speaker 1: Dug Baron before kickoff. The Jaguars and the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: coming up. And this is countdown to Kickoff on Jaguars Radio.