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Speaker 1: Time for weekly Conversation with Pride of the Jaguars running

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Speaker 1: back Fred Taylor, And it is kickoff weekend.

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Speaker 2: Fred.

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Speaker 1: The Panthers are in town to face the Jaguars. And

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Speaker 1: this is as exciting as it gets. Well, maybe it's

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Speaker 1: exciting when the playoff actually start over again, Fred, because

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Speaker 1: I saw.

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Speaker 2: Your screen froze there for a second. So here we go.

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Speaker 2: We'll do it again.

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Speaker 1: Here we go three two and one time par weekly

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Speaker 1: Conversation with Pride to the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor.

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Speaker 1: It is Kickoff weekend, the Panthers and the Jaguars. At

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Speaker 1: long last, Fred, real football is here.

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Speaker 2: What's up? Hey? Is this thing even on? And actually

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Speaker 2: I know it's on, but that was a test. The

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Speaker 2: tests are done, right, It's the real show right now,

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Speaker 2: and he is football season. I'm excited finishing up my

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Speaker 2: fantasy leagues and what have you. We're going to do

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Speaker 2: our first annual Pivot fantasy league, so I'm excited about

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Speaker 2: that as much as I am about, you know, my

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Speaker 2: Jaguars this year. We dropped the episode actually earlier in

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Speaker 2: the week, just talking about you know, interests and things

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Speaker 2: to be excited about this year. And yes, I am

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Speaker 2: a Homer. I'm gonna always say the Jags first because

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Speaker 2: it's always the Jags, right, But realistically, I am excited

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Speaker 2: about the Jags. New coach, new front office, a lot

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Speaker 2: of big moves this offseason. Trevor's back, he's healthy. Want

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Speaker 2: to see what that looks like. We got a few

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Speaker 2: new running backs in the running backs room, the offensive line,

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Speaker 2: you know, are they up for the task? And the defense,

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Speaker 2: we got one of the best picks in the history

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Speaker 2: of the league, I believe in Travis Hunter. Excited about

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Speaker 2: that as well. In the new additions to the team.

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Speaker 2: You got Dammie Brown on the offense. On the flip side,

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Speaker 2: we just got guys on the defense. Some password but

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Speaker 2: I believe the defense is gonna surprise the NFL this year.

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Speaker 2: So got a lot of big sight for it. That's

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Speaker 2: a long list of things.

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Speaker 1: Let's stick into a couple of those key things, and

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Speaker 1: I mean.

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Speaker 2: Let's start off with the back.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is his third offense now in five seasons,

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Speaker 1: will be his fifth season in the NFL. Rubbers got

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Speaker 1: to hit the road here. How much pressure is on

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Speaker 1: him going into Week one?

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Speaker 2: How much pressure can you put on him? Put all

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Speaker 2: the pressure on him, and I'm sure Trevor welcomes that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think he's cut from that sort of fabric.

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Speaker 2: You go back to college, he put those Clemson teams

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Speaker 2: on his shoulder, win and one national championship. Now he's

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Speaker 2: the first pick, being the first pick, I do not

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Speaker 2: necessarily believe that he's played to first pick standard. And

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Speaker 2: that's because if you look at the win lost columns,

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Speaker 2: those guys are going to always be judged by how

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Speaker 2: many games they win, how many playoff games you win,

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Speaker 2: how far you take your team in the playoffs, and

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Speaker 2: again in all flatterns, given Trevor grace, it's not Trevor alone.

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Speaker 2: You know, three different offenses. This is his third head coach,

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Speaker 2: So those things matter. What he has around him, the

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Speaker 2: weapons that they're able to put around him, those things matter. Defensively,

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Speaker 2: how well the defense is plan those things matter as well.

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Speaker 2: So you know, I'm not just going to throw the

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Speaker 2: baby out with the bath water and say no, we're

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Speaker 2: going to give up on Trevor. Collectively as a unit,

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Speaker 2: football is the greatest sport, and it takes a unit

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Speaker 2: to go out there and be successful. An he needs

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Speaker 2: guys around him. So minus the quarterback. Other positions have

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Speaker 2: to step up, but he's going to get all the attention.

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Speaker 2: Everything's going to be magnified. How well will the Jaguars

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Speaker 2: do this season is going to be based on Trevor

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Speaker 2: under new offense, new head coach. If Liam Cohen can

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Speaker 2: turn Baker mayfield career around and have Baker go out

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Speaker 2: and finish one of the top guys in the entire NFL,

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Speaker 2: They're going to expect the same thing out of Trevor Lawrence,

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Speaker 2: who is supposed to do it. He's supposed to do it.

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Speaker 2: So the jury's out, we have what is it, two

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Speaker 2: playoffs and all that different stuff. But for regular seasons,

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Speaker 2: regular season standard, it starts here with the Panthers. He

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Speaker 1: Brent Taylor with US Travis Hunter, and we mentioned him earlier,

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Speaker 1: the big offseason acquisition, number two overall pick. We've seen

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Speaker 1: it all training camp, working on both sides of the ball.

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Speaker 1: What is your expectation as a former player for what

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Speaker 1: what do you want to see out of Travis Hunter.

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Speaker 2: Well, we technically didn't see it all preseason because he

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Speaker 2: was out for a few games. But it's true, true,

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Speaker 2: I know what you meant. We did get a chance

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Speaker 2: did see that. My expectations are you know, the same.

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Speaker 2: You gave away future picks for this guy, and you

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Speaker 2: know we're gonna see him on the field doing his thing.

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Speaker 2: I think he is going to live up to the

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Speaker 2: preseason expectation and all of the hype. You know, God

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Speaker 2: forbid any injury, any injury setbacks because granted it's part

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Speaker 2: of the game. We talked about it before. JP injuries

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Speaker 2: are basically one hundred percent guaranteed to happen throughout the

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Speaker 2: course of the season. But are you going to be available?

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Speaker 2: And going both ways is going to increase those odds

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Speaker 2: for him, But again, he's a guy who did it

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Speaker 2: in college. He was able to play through it and

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Speaker 2: he was able to play well. So with that, we're

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Speaker 2: going to have to see him come in do what

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Speaker 2: So we don't slide, you know, we don't give away

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Speaker 2: That's the one thing we will hope to avoid. So

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Speaker 2: that means we have to win way more games than

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Speaker 2: they won last year. Maybe drafting the later parts of

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Speaker 2: the playoffs. I know I'm projecting them way down the road.

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Speaker 2: But Travis, he's part of that. The draft pick is

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Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with us, Let's touch quickly on running backs,

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Speaker 1: your expectations if they rotate around. I mean, all these guys,

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Speaker 1: just the numbers, But what's your feel.

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Speaker 2: Coming out of the training camp. Well, you got your

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Speaker 2: you got but sure. And my pronouncing is round. I

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Speaker 2: think name baseial to. I know how to say two

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Speaker 2: BT is what I'm calling him the rest of the year.

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Speaker 2: And I ain't talking about Brian Towns. I'm talking about

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Speaker 2: know his name, and that's tougher than base shual, which

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Speaker 2: is crazy, right, but uh, you know, we're gonna have

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Speaker 2: BT is probably gonna get some spot duty on certain

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Speaker 2: that doesn't bode well necessarily for the veteran guys because

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Speaker 2: he's gonna cut into their reps. But it just makes

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Speaker 2: certain things than myself. And you know, unselfishly, I said, Yo,

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Speaker 2: Mojo deserves this because he has the juice and he's

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Speaker 2: good at that. I don't want to miss an opportunity

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Speaker 2: about us. But that's tough. All of those guys are

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Speaker 1: Frit Chader, this final thought here, anything scarier about the

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Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers in Week one? What do you know about him? Obviously,

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Speaker 1: Bryce Young, former number one pick quarterback. You know, they

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Carolina one game better than the Jackson year ago.

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Speaker 2: Bryce was streaky, but he showed some signs that he

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Speaker 2: Other than that, you know, I got the Jags winning

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Speaker 2: and I'm all, then, baby ask for the win. Let's go,

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Speaker 2: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, Fred will talk to you in the postgame and

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Speaker 1: again next week.

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Speaker 2: Real quick, JP trivia. Who was my first preseason game

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Speaker 2: to start my career.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna get I'm gonna guess Carolina, that was.

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Speaker 2: A nugget too easy catch in preseason catch in the

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Speaker 2: pre game, pre game and postgame and postgame. See you some. Thanks, friend,