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Speaker 1: It's our weekly conversation with Pride of the Jaguars running

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Speaker 1: back Fred Taylor. It's January. Happy new Year to your Fred,

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Speaker 1: and here we go. The Jaguars are in Houston to

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Speaker 1: settle a score with the Texans. How are you. I'm good, JP,

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Speaker 1: I'm doing great. Actually, man, Happy new year to you. Hey,

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Speaker 1: meaningful football in January. That's always a great resolution, right,

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Speaker 1: A great way to start the new year. If you're

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Speaker 1: a Jaguars fan. Uh man, it's gonna be exciting. Almost

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Speaker 1: exists as exciting. That's trying to figure out all these

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Speaker 1: different potential scenarios and the playoff looks and all this stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's so exciting, Jp. I just want to say, you know,

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Speaker 1: all these different scenarios, man, uh, you know, forget about

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Speaker 1: all of that. I say, bottom line is you win.

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Speaker 1: You're in. That's all that matters. We gotta keep grinding

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Speaker 1: and keep fighting and then find a way to get

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Speaker 1: in this thing. You know. It's an interesting approach. Doug

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Speaker 1: Peterson was asked earlier this week, Hey, you know theory

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Speaker 1: you could rest some guys and get ready for Week

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Speaker 1: eight team because it's for all the marbles in the

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Speaker 1: a f C South no matter what happens this weekend,

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Speaker 1: there is still the backdoor possibility of a wild card

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Speaker 1: some other things happen the next two weeks. If they

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Speaker 1: lose next week, they gotta win this game. So that's

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Speaker 1: still out there. And you know, so Dougs playing his guys,

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Speaker 1: he said, there's no such thing as a meaningless football game,

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna go out and try to carry this momentum.

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Speaker 1: Do you believe in that momentum? First of all? Is

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Speaker 1: that a real thing? And you know, can that carry

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Speaker 1: in the week seventeen? Yeah, I certainly do believe in momentum.

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Speaker 1: Act the titen, the Titans fans or even their players

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Speaker 1: and their coaching staff. You know, if you have an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to speak to some of them, I think after

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Speaker 1: their Dallas loss, what was that six in a row

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Speaker 1: for them? And on the flip side, you're saying our

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Speaker 1: last five games were four and one, so that that's

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Speaker 1: all momentum. Uh and uh, you know, I think the

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Speaker 1: players want to be out there. The guys are doing

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Speaker 1: a great job of taking care of their bodies at

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Speaker 1: this particular point of season. You know, we've been hit

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Speaker 1: with a few injuries. You know, with Smooth and uh

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Speaker 1: and Cam obviously, but you want to get guys out there,

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Speaker 1: especially on those offensive defensive line, because these guys have

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Speaker 1: to match, they have to communicate, they have to gel.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's very important to get those players

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Speaker 1: in uh so they can find a rhythm going into

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Speaker 1: the last game of the season, which is gonna be

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Speaker 1: the biggest game of the season. Uh So, Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: with Doug. I believe the momentum. I believe in getting

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Speaker 1: the guys out there, getting them in tune. Uh and

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Speaker 1: more importantly getting confidence. You know, just going back looking

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Speaker 1: at the Thursday night game JP, I think that was

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Speaker 1: the by design, that was the Titans play, and that's

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Speaker 1: what they try to do, have them trying to get

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Speaker 1: Dobbs rep, you know, not knowing who's gonna be that guy.

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Speaker 1: And I'm looking down the road by any means, I'm

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Speaker 1: not looking past the Texans, but I am looking down

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Speaker 1: the road in terms of strategic game planning. Uh So. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So Doug will be smart. He's a very smart coach.

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Speaker 1: He's been around the block, you know, multiple occasions. Uh So,

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Speaker 1: I think he is going to make sure, uh, guys

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Speaker 1: think you'll make that decision and we'll see the display

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Speaker 1: here today. Yeah, and I think it's the game goes along.

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Speaker 1: If if it's in hand somehow and it's pretty much certain,

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Speaker 1: then you might see some different in game decisions to

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Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll get let's get to even going going right,

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Speaker 1: going back to the Thursday night game too, Dallas didn't look.

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Speaker 1: Dallas said, look, we are still in this hunt to

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Speaker 1: you know, we could have went match for match to

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Speaker 1: take some of our starters out, but they said no.

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Speaker 1: I think the only player they had I was Pollered.

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Speaker 1: And then you have a situation where Michael Parton's who,

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Speaker 1: you can't play afraid. You want to get out there

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Speaker 1: ready for the next big one. Brin Taylor with us.

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Speaker 1: The Jaguar's offense is ranked six in the NFL in

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Speaker 1: total offense right now, It's amazing to see how this

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Speaker 1: is six in the NFL right now. Fred, It's amazing

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Speaker 1: see how it's grown over the year, right And a

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Speaker 1: lot of that obviously has to do with the growth

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Speaker 1: of Trevor Lawrence and the last half of the season

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Speaker 1: here and all the weapons around him. Every NFL player

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Speaker 1: has some ego to them, Yes, I get that, but

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Speaker 1: there aren't any divas in this locker room. They spread

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Speaker 1: the wealth, they block for the other guys. They're genuinely

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Speaker 1: excited when the other receiver makes a player tight end

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Speaker 1: or running back or whoever it is. And it's just

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Speaker 1: a nice family environment on this offense. And it's growing

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Speaker 1: together with a coaching staff. This is fun to watch.

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Speaker 1: You know. I want to go back to the beginning.

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Speaker 1: You know, at the very beginning of the season, you know,

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Speaker 1: they realized they had they had number one pig from

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Speaker 1: year ago and Trevor Lawrence. They said, what are we

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Speaker 1: gonna do. Let's go out and find the best available

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Speaker 1: you know, sprinkled a few rumors of who would come in,

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Speaker 1: and then ultimately they found a former quarterback, former Super

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Speaker 1: higher you know, in most recent history Jaguars history, that is,

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Speaker 1: and bringing in coach Peterson to to to lead and

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Speaker 1: and developed Trevor Lawrence. So I think you start there

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Speaker 1: just said, an echo in that JP you have guys

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Speaker 1: come in here in one year, you know, less than

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Speaker 1: It's certainly paid his dividends. Uh, great moves across the

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Speaker 1: it says a lot to him, his conviction, what they

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Speaker 1: how well he's worked. Coach Peterson and the offensive mind.

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Speaker 1: A tremendous job that they've done this year in terms

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Speaker 1: I want to just give flowers too and shouts out too.

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Speaker 1: But ultimately, um, they've played well together this year. I've

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Speaker 1: seen enough for the Pivot podcast to know that you're

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Speaker 1: the one that gives out flowers all the time, Fred

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Speaker 1: Flowers doing this thing. But these guys are all deserving.

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Speaker 1: Everyone I just named and people are when I do

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Speaker 1: on the podcast JP, people are because we're not blowing

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Speaker 1: by that. So these are real flowers. These are real flowers,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's definitely always from the heart bred. Not

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Speaker 1: to jump ahead too far, but the excitement is building

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Speaker 1: for the finale and week eighteen here in Jacksonville, tickets

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Speaker 1: are almost gone. I mean it could be we'll find

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Speaker 1: Um boy, this is for all the marbles against the

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Speaker 1: Titans at home. Okay, let's just get to next week first,

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Speaker 1: But boy, that's gonna be fun next week. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be fun. You know this is it's truthfully in

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Speaker 1: it's in the making of it. It's the it's the

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Speaker 1: We need that excitement, you know, the riverfront there and

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Speaker 1: We need all of that love. Man, everybody needs to

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Speaker 1: that's what it costs. If you can afford to show up,

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Speaker 1: be there in spirit. UH, tune in via radio somehow,

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Speaker 1: We just need all the good energy man, uh to

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Speaker 1: So we need that energy, man. We need more importantly

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Speaker 1: That's that's really what it's all about. Well, look forward

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Speaker 1: Jaguars Texans game. Appreciate it. I'll be here, be here,

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