Publix Tailgate Show: Andrew Catalon, CBS Sports

CBS Sports play-by-play announcer Andrew Catalon preview the Week 17 game against the Colts with J.P. Shadrick on the Publix Tailgate Show.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
CBS Sports play by play man Andrew Catalan joining us
week seventeen. You can't get enough Jaguars football, Andrew. We
appreciate your time as always, JP great to talk with you.
Happy New Year to you and everyone in Jacksonville. Thank
to you. And here we go. The Jaguars are done.
They've done it. They've got the number one overall pick

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in the one NFL draft. With a loss last week
to the Bears and another Jets win, and people here
testing positive for Trevor fever. It's all over Jacksonville. But
still there's a lot to be done between now and
draft day. There's gonna still get the guy who's going
to pick number one overall, the new g M. There's

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possibly other changes coming down the line, and the kid
has two football games maybe still to play, and he
has to declare for the draft. That's a lot to happen.
But people are fired up here in Jacksonville, and I
guess rightly so. The Jags have never had the number
one overall pick. I agree with you. It's been uh
an incredibly tough season for the Jaguar cars and their fans,

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and I think that there was probably some element where
you knew all right there they are going to rebuild.
This could be a tough year, but not to this extent.
And look, I mean this is this is like hitting
the lottery. You got this kid who everyone says you
can't miss. No one's going to hand in a winning
lottery ticket. That's kind of the way I look at it.
So if you're a Jaguars fan and you're excited, I

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think you have every right to be. You should enjoy
the next few months as you sort out the things
that you said GM and maybe other changes, and then
get ready for what should be um a really exciting
you hope, ten fifteen years with one guy under center,
which is something we know they have not had for
a long long time in Jacksonville Clemson. To lose the

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first game and then you know then no, no, don't
even worry about the second game. That's that would be ideal. Yeah,
just rest up right, get ready for O. T A s.
Get the bubble wrap ready, Andrew cattle on with us. Now,
today's game, of course, the Jaguar in Indianapolis to face
the Colts, and the Colts have to win the playoff.
Chances that it comes down to this game and they

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need a little bit of help as well. There would
be panic in the streets of downtown Indy if they
missed the playoffs with ten or eleven wins and because
of the Jaguars, they beat him in Week one somehow,
and if they come out and beat them in Week seventeen,
that would be peak twenty for Indianapolis fans. Yeah, you
look back at that Week one game and there's a
there's a good chance that's gonna keep Indianapolis out of

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the playoffs. And you're right, it's crazy to think that
with an extra playoff team this year that in a
leaven win Colts team may still be on the outside
looking in. I think the Colts are very good. They're
a team that if they do get in the playoffs,
I think they can make some noise, especially in the
a f C, where I don't think there's a clear

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cut dominant team. And that's no disrespect to the Chiefs,
who are home for the first round, but I just
feel like any of these teams can get on a
run and get hot in the a f C, and
the Colts are included, but who knows what's gonna happen.
I mean, you know, Pittsburgh is not playing their guys.
Who knows how Buffalo is gonna treat this. Uh, you know,
Baltimore is going to into Cincinnati and the Ravens is

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the Jaguars just found out a couple of weeks ago
a red hot, and you know the Titans are going
into a Houston team that's that's been down. So you know,
the odds are, I believe, a little bit stacked against them.
You'd like to think, if you're a Colts fan, that
that one of these games would go your way, but
it's very possible they'll be the third team with eleven
wins to not make the playoffs. You get a love

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Week seventeen when the games get moved and the competitive
balanced things happen and everybody's playing at the same time.
This is if you're in the playoff race. It doesn't
get much more exciting than this. I love it too.
I mean it's just the drama that you you just
you know, you go in on paper, you're like, all
this will happen, that it will happen, maybe this, but
you have no idea. I mean, you look at last

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week and the Jets winning, and you know the way
the Jets have won their last two games. No, but
he thought that, Um, you know so, I just think
that we should be set up for a great conclusion
to the regular season. It's obviously been a crazy year,
but for the NFL to get to this point where
it looks like we're gonna get all the games in
with no extra weeks, and yeah, we've played on Fridays

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and Wednesdays and Tuesdays, but here we are. We're we're
set up for a great finish, uh today on Sunday,
and it feels like they're going to get all two
hundred fifty six in. That is pretty remarkable. Andrew Catalan
with us from CBS Sports, Well, when the team has
lost fourteen in a row, not many coaches can survive that.

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That is the feeling that, you know, Doug Brone might
not survive this. Let's say, let's reflect on his tenure
here though. Remember he came in here as an assistant
and offensive line coach after his running Buffalo for a
couple of years. He was the interim head coach at
the end of sixteen, hired in seventeen full time. They
had the playoff run issues the eighteen and nineteen with

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the roster and big names wanting to get out of
here and the team not playing well, and we have
seen what has happened with a lower talent level on
the roster. It's amazing though, Like Jaguar fans love Doug
Moron because I think of his personality and how he's
handled it. But losses are losses, and that's what happens
in the league. Sometimes change happens. Yeah, it is a

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tough one for me as well, because I personally liked
Doug um. I think that he has grown a lot
since his time in Buffalo, and I think that's a
good lesson for a lot of people that you know,
you might come up a certain way and think this
has to be the way, but but you have to adapt.
And I think that behind closed doors, Doug Moron has adapted,

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and I think that he has become more of a
player's coach now. Not not for everyone, and we know
it's been public that you know, some people didn't see
eye to eye with him, But to me, he's pretty
much a straight shooter, and I think that that's what
you gotta like about him. And I also think he's
a really good football coach. I think that he can
get the best out of you, I think I think

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that he has a way to motivate, and he may
not be for everyone, but I I believe that he
is a very good coach in the NFL. Now, as
you pointed out, when when you've had these last few
years and you have a new changing of the guard,
so it seems at quarterback you've already fired your GM,

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it could be time just for a clean fresh start.
But to me, I think that Doug Marone is the
type of guy that, uh if he is let go,
would be worthy of of of certainly another head coaching
job in the NFL, because I think that he has
changed who he is, He's adapted to today's NFL, and
I think that he's a guy that can win your
football games if put in the right position. Andrew Catalan

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with us, how about your schedule ahead this week seventeen?
That means you're done with the NFL? Right? Are you
doing playoff games? What's up? Now? I'm gonna go take
it a nap JP is game ends. I might sleep
for about two or three weeks, and then when I
wake up, it'll be time for college basketball. So I
figure if I time this nap out, I'll wake up
in time for a Seton Hall basketball game in mid January.

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Sounds like a plan, and you appreciate your time all
season long. Man, great to visit with you. A happy
new Year and we'll talk to you soon. Happy New Year, JP,