WEBVTT - Ep. 37: Continuously Finding Ways To Win | Jags A.M. Podcast 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:05.160 Now Jaguars get an ugly win in Pittsburgh, but they 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:07.600 are six and two as we head into the bye week. 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:09.680 What's your letter grade for them so far this season? 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:11.639 Has to be an A. Six and two with what 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:14.040 they've been through schedule wise, I can't imagine it being 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:15.520 anything but an A. 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:36.760 A welcome into Jags am Kayannie Stevens, Brian Sexton, John Osier. 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:39.640 A's all around for this team because you can complain, 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:41.239 you can say they're winning it ugly and they're not 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:42.800 doing what they need to do. But they are six 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:45.120 and two and that's one of the best starts this 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.319 team has ever had in the season. And Brian, it's 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:50.360 just remarkable that they've been able to do this. I 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:52.040 know we expected a lot of them, but the way 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:52.839 that they've been able to. 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:53.760 Do it as well, you know what I mean. I 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:57.200 think it The most optimistic of Jaguars fans would have said, yeah, 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:59.240 I think they could get the six of two. That 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:02.080 would be before this began, after the loss of the Texans. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.200 I think all of us, John were saying, all right, well, 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:06.679 you know, how long is it gonna take for this 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:08.920 team to get out of its own way. We didn't 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:10.840 take very long. The next week they started turning this 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.640 thing around. So it is remarkable in the sense that 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:17.640 they have gone from what was that getting the Texans 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.400 thirty seven points? I still can see that that botched 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:25.160 kickoff return with the fullback the heaviest return the return 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:29.600 man touchdown in NFL history, right, and to be where 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:32.080 they are five weeks later, pretty dramatic. 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:37.760 Yeah, it's it's the NFL. I mean, nobody expected the 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.120 Chiefs to lose to the Broncos yesterday. You're gonna have 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:44.120 those kind of games. So six and two to me 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.920 feels that. You know, if somebody last night saying, well 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:48.960 they should be seven and one, I think they should 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.200 be six and two. They've really played their way to 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:53.320 six and two. They're two and a half games up. 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.520 I think they deserve to be the front running team 0:01:55.520 --> 0:02:00.360 in the South. Look, an argument can be made outside 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.560 of Philly that this is the best team in football 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:02.960 right now. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:04.400 They haven't trailed. 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.920 They've trailed for about five minutes in the last five weeks. 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:12.880 It didn't trail yesterday, didn't it didn't trail and anything 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.240 trailed for a series against the Colts before they had 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:15.840 the ball. 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:18.200 In the NFL. 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:22.000 You can't play better than that in terms of making 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.640 your wins feel like controlling wins. I get they're not 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:31.360 doing it offensively, but they don't trail Well, what do 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:31.840 you want right? 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.560 No, Listen, you could see the upside offensively. Right when 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.920 you look at the Miami Dolphins, for instance, they are 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:40.120 scoring points. They'll always score points. They've got such explosive 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:42.960 receivers at running backs. But their defense didn't look all 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.480 that good yesterday. I mean, they gave a big chunks 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.639 of yardage to Mac Jones and the Patriots. Now they 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.480 didn't convert, and the Dolphins really didn't struggle to win 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.000 the ball game. But you see where there's upside with 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:58.080 this Jacksonville offense if they can find a level of efficiency, 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:00.720 which we're still waiting for. So I don't think you 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:03.160 can expect anything more at six and two. Man, it 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.600 feels really good if seven and one is what you're 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.519 looking for. If you're not happy with six and two, 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:09.680 you have not been paying attention to this franchise. It's 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:10.280 two thousand. 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:12.360 Here's my final thow on the offense before we move on. 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:17.680 I get that it's frustrating, but I don't think it's tragic. 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.680 Meaning in the games where they have really frustrated fans, 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:24.080 the reason for the frustration has been they move past 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:26.200 the fifty every time they have the ball. They were 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.680 past the fifty nine out of the of their ten 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:32.720 drives yesterday. I think that's what you're talking about. Yeah, 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:36.200 you can feel It's not that they couldn't move yesterday. 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.000 They were always inside the Pittsburgh thirty five. They just 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:42.760 couldn't score it. Well, I've covered bad offense around here. 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:46.920 I've covered offense that had where people were charting consecutive 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:47.640 three and outs. 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:48.920 This isn't that. 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.840 Oh, I think this is sort of indicative the league 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:56.000 is playing this way. They're playing red zone defense inside 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.360 the twenties make it tough. So the league is kind 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.400 of trended toward this. But the Jars had figure out 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:01.640 is how to get the ball in the end zone. 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:04.280 One way is not to fumble. Any other way is 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:08.280 not to listen bad intercepts. You just said it wasn't tragic. 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:09.960 Tragic would be you telling me I had to play 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:16.200 without Traves, etn Calvin Ridley, Evan Ingram, Christian Kirk or 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.360 Trevor Lawrence for any amount of time the guys are healthy, 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.839 and they're going to be healthier in two weeks when 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:23.440 they get some of these guys back. And when you've 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.279 got that, then you've got the chance to be who 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:26.200 you want to be on offense. 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:28.120 All right, guys, let's go over our big things. We 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:29.960 touched on one of them already. But this team is 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:33.320 six and two. That's their best start since nineteen ninety 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:35.640 nine when they were over that. But Doug talked about 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.440 what he's seen from his team and how pleased he 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:38.360 is heading into the buy. 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:40.880 Yeah, I thought. 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:46.680 Defensively, just really again, an another solid game defensively, you know, 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:51.400 kept the offense in the football game. You know, we 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:55.640 knew going in how how opportunistic Pittsburgh's defense is, and 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.720 then they capitalized. You know, obviously they created some takeaways 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.640 and then our defense in the second have created a 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:06.040 couple of takeaways. So, you know, for Monterak to come 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.200 in and play like he's done now the last couple 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.480 of weeks, and Andrew Winger to come in and play 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.960 that safety spot, and you know, Antonio Johnson getting in there, 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.200 and you know, just the guys have just hanged together, 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.200 you know, and I'm really proud of the way they 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:26.120 performed to. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:25.680 To I know we've talked a little bit about this 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:27.680 record that they have, but the way that they're doing 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:29.839 it also not in terms of just defense, but players 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.120 stepping up right because there were a lot of injuries. 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.080 We've seen a lot of them are missing out in 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.800 this last game. But what this team has been able 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.200 to do in terms of getting backups ready to go 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:42.360 in when they are needed, that has been huge. 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.320 And astute observer the Jaggers a long time could go 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:46.960 back and look at two thousand and seven in two 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:48.880 thousand and five and say those were good teams. They 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.159 had good starts. Maybe not six and two, but they 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:54.400 were good. This team reminds me of ninety eight and 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:56.800 ninety nine John, because they have the answers. They have 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:00.680 all sorts of guys and all sorts of answers for 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.960 questions that are posed by injury or a lack of 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.760 productivity at any given moment in time or a matchup. 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:10.520 This is a talented team and Doug Peterson's staff are 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:11.720 getting the most of them right now. 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:16.119 I think if you really gave Doug the honesty pill, 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:20.000 he'd have told you at one and two, looking at 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.880 the schedule they had. I think he'd taken five and 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.320 three easy, maybe even just try to get to five hundred, 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:29.800 and I know they wanted more than that, but to 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:33.400 have sort of passed through that, I think he's ecstatic. 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.080 I think he looks at it said, I've got a 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.560 defense that doesn't feel like it's going away. I don't 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.239 know if they're gonna, you know, all of a sudden, 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:43.520 be the best defense we've ever seen. But I think 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.279 a stat is seven straight or seven out of eight 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.120 games the opponent has had seven or less in the 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:53.080 first half. Well, that means you're in the game, you 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:57.240 know you're not getting out of it, and then they 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.200 follow that up by playing really well in the second half. 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:01.159 I don't think you think the defense is going away. 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.480 And I think he sees an offense right now that's 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:04.960 close and that when. 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:05.560 It needs it. 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:09.000 The last two weeks, forty four yard touchdown to win it, 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.840 fifty six yard touchdown to it when they need the 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:13.280 plays they make just. 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.360 They saw it. This is a really good coaching staff. 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:17.480 I mean yeah, from the head coach and the coordinators 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.560 who get all of the attention on down to Phil 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.520 Rauscher on the offensive line, or Brenston Buckner on the 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:26.360 defensive line, or Bill Shoey, who's got those two outside 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:30.000 backers playing very well. We talk about players all the time. 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.760 I think this might be the best coaching staff from 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.360 top to bottom that the Jaguars have had since the 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:36.840 early days of the Calflin regime. 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.320 Let's go to our second big thing, which is defense. 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:40.680 Had today. We can give a lot of credit to 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:42.360 Mike calgall what he's been able to do with this 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.400 team so far this season, the amount of turnovers they 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.560 are forcing, and also a lot of those plug and 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.440 play players that we've been discussing, Andrew Wingard stepping up, 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.360 mon Terrek Brown as well. And the defense had themselves a. 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.520 Day great, really good. 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.160 You know, It's something that I told the team, you know, 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.040 the first half of the season, these first eight games, 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:07.920 I think, you know, with all the travel and Thursday 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.200 games and in and out of hotels and different things 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:12.320 like that, the guys have really handled it extremely well. 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:14.920 Proud of the guys for doing that, and really excited 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.480 to be you know, six and two at the Bible. 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:20.680 So when you come into the game yesterday against Pittsburgh 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:22.640 and you see Andr Cisco and Tyson Campbell are going. 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.080 That's when I was concerned it was going to be 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:26.880 a little bit of a hope defense. By the way 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.600 that Andrew Winger and bust Around were able to step 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.920 up and kind of Darius Williams has been playing. It's 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.120 so many different names and maybe names you didn't expect. 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:36.840 He saw the first play of the game they went 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.679 right at Dewey, right, Yeah, and he was up for 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.960 the challenge. He had a great day this defense. I 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.600 don't think they were ever really threatened yesterday. I thought 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:48.280 they had control of it from the start to the 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.320 finish of the game. Yeah, they moved the ball at 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.280 times and got themselves in position, but the defense only 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.720 gave up three points on the three turnovers. Right. I 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.240 mean they were excellent against the run, not that the 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.439 Steelers run the ball very well. And I don't think 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.680 John the Kenny Pickett ever really felt comfortable at Trubisky. 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.600 Obviously didn't because even though there were only a couple 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.720 of sacks, there were constant hands and bodies in the 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.000 face of the quarterback. They were always there. I'm gonna 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.120 give a lot of credit to Devon Hamilton because I 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.120 thought that the push that he had in the middle 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:20.120 of the line, made a big difference and set up 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.559 Trayvon Walker from the other side because Pickett kept one 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:25.800 to slide to his right, right into the arms of him. 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:26.960 Here's a you know. 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.720 In the ozone late night last night, I wrote that 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.360 it really wasn't a very unusual and there's nothing really 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.000 stood out about this game from the five game winning streak, 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.040 And I didn't write that to be insulting. I said 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:46.160 the defense wasn't spectacular, the offense certainly wasn't perfect. And 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.040 then after I wrote it, I kind of laughed, said, well, 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:49.599 the defense just held a team to two hundred and 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:53.120 sixty one yards ten points, was never threatened in its 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.360 spectacular because it's it's now what we expect from this. 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.880 But this is a good front seven. I said it 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.520 on in the season, you started looking at the whole 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.520 team and thought, okay, well, on defense, maybe Josh Allen's 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:07.120 the superstar. 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:09.280 Beyond that are their superstars? Maybe not? 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.640 But every position is really good and there's no position 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:14.920 And now you're getting to the point where the depth 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.480 you feel okay if Dewey has to go in, you 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:19.280 feel okay if Montay Brown has to go in. Now, 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:22.160 I think some of that back there the front seven 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:25.000 as much as people, oh, there's no pass rusher, This 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:28.280 front seven is really, really, really good against the run. 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:33.240 It's exceptional against the run and against the pass, it's disruptive. 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.720 Quarterbacks don't really have time to over and over again 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.880 pick the secondary apart. Now there's some drops and things 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.120 like that. They got a break early, yes, stay the 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.280 secondary did, but they take advantage of it. 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.520 Even calebon chaseon had a couple good pass rushers yesterday. 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.559 You're not talking about the sacks, but you are talking 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.679 about the quarterback never feeling comfortable. And by the way, 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:56.760 Darius Williams play was it on George Pickens out on 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.719 the boundary where he timed the ball and tipped it 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.520 away early in the game. That was a spectacular play. 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:07.000 He's been spectacular all around. Our final big thing turnover troubles, 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.920 because fair of us to point out that the team 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:11.640 has not been doing what they need to do on 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:13.920 offense in terms of not turning the ball over. Turnor 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.960 Lawrence had a terrible pick at one point, and obviously 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.959 the fumbles as well. Terbor talked about some of those issues. 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.079 We talked about a lot going to this game. 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.319 You know, this team that we're playing, Steelers, they're really 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:28.760 good when you if you have more than one turnover, 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.360 if you give up more than a sack or two, 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.520 if you don't score. You know, I think it's twenty 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.960 three points at least. Like their record is really really 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:40.120 good when those things happen, and we didn't. We didn't 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.520 do anything by that formula today. I mean, we scored 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.280 twenty points, had I don't know how many sacks, you know, 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.720 a few three or four, had three turnovers in plus 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.439 positive territory. I mean, but it's just a testament to 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.719 our defense for one, and then our offense being able 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.120 to make the plays when we need them. And we 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.360 moved the ball consistently all day, which was which was 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:00.520 great against a really good defense. But we just gotta 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:02.360 find ways to finish those drives. You know, I had 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.240 a bad play down in the red zone that that 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.040 can't happen. That took off you know, seven points, but 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.160 at least three points off the board for us, you know, 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:13.000 so I think they went down and they went down 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.320 and scored on that drive. So just you know that 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.520 that shouldn't happen. I can't let that happen being quarterback, 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.640 and I gotta be smarter there. But all in all, 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:21.280 it's a great win. You're always gonna take wins in 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.240 this league, and it's cool to see us fight and 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:24.320 battle through the adversity. 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.400 Try to taking some accountability for that terrible pick there. 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.920 But also they didn't follow formula right, You're not supposed 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:32.559 to turn over the ball against the Steelers and give 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.319 them advantages that they did. They were able to kind 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:36.920 of bounce back from that, but you gotta clean that 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:37.800 up second half of the year. 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:41.920 Say what that the pick was the one that bothers 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:45.960 him because John the Steelers create turnovers. On that trouble 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.319 pass to Evan Ingram, I'm not sure he could have done. 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.200 He had both arms around the ball and it was 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:53.480 just perfectly time. The Steelers create turnovers, and. 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.480 Playing on a wet day, that kind of yeah, maybe 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.480 that kind was going to happen. But even Biggs kind 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:58.280 of turnovers gonna happen. 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:00.520 He's the bigbie thing, right, So during training I'm staying 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.880 with my son and I shake Bigsby's hand and it 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.280 felt like he was squeezing my hand with both He 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.840 has an incredible grip and so I was really surprised 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:10.520 that the ball came out. But you know, he's got 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.320 one guy holding him up and the other guy's pulling 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.800 with everything. I was still surprised the ball came out, 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.640 knowing how strong Bigsby is. But that's what the Steelers do. 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.160 Yeah, they're good at it. 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:22.680 It was. 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.800 As much as people criticized the offense, and I get 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.479 that it it was staggering yesterday, meaning. 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:32.080 Could not quite get there. 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:37.760 It also played well enough against a Steelers a defense 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.560 that is good to get you three and then get 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:44.480 you six and get that advantage. And then even when 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:48.360 it was turning the ball over, they were getting into Steelers' 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.360 territory so often that it felt like the game was 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:54.160 tilted and the Steelers are always having to play uphill. 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.360 So I think the offense, as much as it's going 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.599 to get criticized this week for not for what it 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:01.959 didn't do, the fact that it had three in seventy 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:08.280 one yards twenty first downs and it was always able 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.480 to take momentum back from Pittsburgh and shove them back. 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.960 It did its job in that sense, and then again 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.959 I keep going back to every time it needs it 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:23.360 in this winning streak, it makes a big play. There's 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.360 something to be said for that in terms of trying 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:27.040 to win in this league. 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.600 Even with the turnovers yesterday, it felt like the Jaguars 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:31.680 held them. Yeah, like the big brother little brother. They 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:33.440 were holding them off the whole time. It was just 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.120 a matter of all, right, when are they gonna make 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:36.600 the play. And of course it was a beautiful play 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:37.880 on the fifty six yard at eat. 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:39.600 Oh what I was saying, Brian, that goes back to 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:40.200 what you were saying. 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.720 There's nothing going on to make you think that the 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.920 offense at some point is not going to have a 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.560 day loser of points. It's just not quite there yet. 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.120 If it was constant three and out, I'd really worry 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:55.160 about it. But that's not what it is. 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:56.720 By the way, scoring is down this year in this 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:59.720 league through eight games. Red zone production is down through 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.760 eight as we're getting here in this league right if 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.120 you just look at the numbers, the number of young 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:08.320 quarterbacks is one of the reasons why. But defenses this 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.080 year are playing really well. We shouldn't be surprised because 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:13.800 the Jaguars defense is playing well that other defenses aren't 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:16.440 lifting their level. It's just not a big year for offense, 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:18.240 at least not the first half of the season. 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:20.280 All right, guys, stay with us, We're gonna go over 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.600 some of the highlights from yesterday here on jag Zam 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:31.480 presented by Carshield. You can call Carshield now if your 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.920 cars out of manufacturers warranty, you don't get stuck with 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:38.520 expensive mechanical and computer repairs called car shield. Now, welcome 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.600 back to jag Zam presented by Carshield. We're in the 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.400 Hundai studios. Let's go more some highlights from yesterday. It 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.640 was ugly, but there were some good things to very 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:48.280 memorable things, I should say as well. And one of 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.280 the first ones out of the gate was Treyvon Walker 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:53.240 getting after the quarterback. Because we know we've seen a 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:56.520 lot from Josh Allen, but Trayvon's success was impressive yesterday. 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.320 And especially Brian, I know you specifically talked about down 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.120 Hamilton's and helping him out well. 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:04.480 And it was so timely because so many people wanted 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:09.320 to question Mike Tomlin right noted defensive coach praising Trayvon Walker. 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.200 There were lots of skeptics and yet here he is 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.920 coming out and proving that he's got it. Now. Does 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.600 he have a bevy of pass rush moves. No, But 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:19.720 when you see him get to the quarterback like that 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.880 man all of a sudden, Now, if you're the offensive coordinator, 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.080 you gotta start sliding back that way. And then it 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:26.880 opens things up for Josh Allen, who came up with 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.440 two sacks. So he is a wrecking ball and he 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.000 is a really good football player. This was fun to 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:32.680 see early on. 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:37.840 When he pushes the pocket, he sometimes pushes multiple people 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:41.320 back into the pocket. I don't think you can give 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:45.720 him enough credit for making it difficult to operate to 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:50.560 his side of the field. He's a dominant presence on 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.680 his side of the field. And I get that people 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:58.200 are frustrated by sack numbers, but I said, for a month, 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.320 I don't want to watch this team play defense without 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:02.640 Trayvon Walker on the field. And that's why he plays 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:07.560 more snaps than anybody in that group, because he's. 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.200 The player they don't want off the field. He's matched 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.280 the soldo from last year through eight games. He's got 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:13.199 nine more games. My guess is he'll end up with 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:17.200 seven or eight, and that might silence might silence people 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.199 a little bit here's the best part that set up 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.639 a third down and fifteen on a wet field for quarterback. 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.359 I mean, Jaguars got the ball back and it's not 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.520 Trayvon's fault. They didn't score a touchdown, they just were 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.240 with a field goals, so he created an opportunity for 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:30.800 the offense. 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:34.200 Well, that's what this team does defensively. They get other 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:38.040 teams in down in distance is a big deal for 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:41.640 play calling in this league. This defense, I haven't looked 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.400 at the numbers, but just the way it feels faces 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:46.520 a lot of third and sevens as opposed to third 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:48.720 and threes because of the way they play run defense 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:50.720 and early that Well, let's. 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:52.960 Look at some of those field goals. Obviously not opportunity 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:54.800 you want to get into the end zone. That could 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:56.479 have put the game out of the way earlier. But 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:59.040 let's shout out the kicker because I feel like we 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:01.359 don't get to do that very Lochen and Brendan McManus 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.960 with two fifty plus yard field goals to start this game. 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.800 There's a reason in wet conditions, there's a reason you 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:08.919 go out and get a veteran kicker because you're not 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:10.680 worried as much when you see a kick. I got 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:12.080 like he was lining up for fifty plus and I 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:13.399 was like, oh, yeah, they'll be fine. 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.040 But there are a couple of situational moments that really 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:19.199 mattered early they faced I think it was third and 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:22.560 twenty one. I think it was the first drive, and 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.360 they got twelve yards and got back into where he kicked. 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:29.160 I think it was his fifty one yarder. They got 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:33.800