Speaker 1: Welcome into dag Dam. I'm Kindannie Stevens, Brian Sexton, and
Speaker 1: John Oser are with me today as we get ready
Speaker 1: to talk to you about Titanking Jaguars matchup on Sunday.
Speaker 1: But first of all, I want to wish you a
Speaker 1: happy holiday. Hope you had a merry Christmas and happy
Speaker 1: Honkah for those who celebrate. We're gonna start with a
Speaker 1: big thing, number one, which is reality. I spent a
Speaker 1: lot of my holiday watching basketball and football, and I
Speaker 1: think watching that Texan game, Brian, we've talked a ton
Speaker 1: about this being a missed opportunity for this division, but
Speaker 1: just being what the Texans have done this year, and
Speaker 1: this being that missed opportunity is out of takeaway you
Speaker 1: had as well.
Speaker 2: Well it was, and I think I mentioned it last
Speaker 2: week on our Hot Takes on Thursday. I think this
Speaker 2: can be a quick turnaround for the Jaguars because I
Speaker 2: don't think the Texans are that good now.
Speaker 3: Listen, They've got some really good.
Speaker 2: Players and they made plays and won close games this year,
Speaker 2: including two against the Jaguars. But I didn't think and
Speaker 2: their result yesterday against the Baltimore Ravens didn't show a
Speaker 2: team that's head and shoulders better than the rest of
Speaker 2: the AFC South, Not like when Peyton Manning was the
Speaker 2: quarterback of the Colts and John was covering them. It's
Speaker 2: a completely different deal. I think the Jaguars, if they
Speaker 2: do some right things, and we can debate what those
Speaker 2: right things are, kai but if they do some things well,
Speaker 2: they've got pieces here that they can quickly turn this around.
Speaker 3: And I think yesterday's game showed that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if a few things had gone right for the Jags.
Speaker 4: You know, they've lost so many close games, which to
Speaker 4: me means you're a bad team. But being a bad
Speaker 4: team doesn't necessarily mean you're that far away from getting
Speaker 4: it right. They have pieces, Yes, if they do the things,
Speaker 4: If they have the kind of turnaround they did in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty two, the Texans are gettable. But you know,
Speaker 4: when you're three and twelve, I'm not gonna sit there
Speaker 4: and talk about.
Speaker 3: Winning the division.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's fair. It's got a big thing
Speaker 1: Number two, which is holiday. Wish a lot about the
Speaker 1: Holidays game yesterday, and I'm gonna talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about us coming back and reinventing the team a little
Speaker 1: bit next year. So as far as a holiday wish, John,
Speaker 1: if you could only fix one thing right now, what's
Speaker 1: the most important thing for this team to fix?
Speaker 4: Well, do I get to choose either the defensive interior
Speaker 4: or the offensive interior. And by the offensive interior, those
Speaker 4: guys have passed blocked well this year. But I guess
Speaker 4: I would change the fact that this team on either
Speaker 4: side of the ball doesn't feel like it can get
Speaker 4: a big stop or get a big fourth and one
Speaker 4: way that matters. That's not every play They've gotten some,
Speaker 4: but just overall, Brian, there's a stoutness and a toughness
Speaker 4: that they talked about last off season getting and to me,
Speaker 4: that still sort of defines too much. Can I have
Speaker 4: the secondary too well?
Speaker 3: You just do mine two things.
Speaker 2: First of all, they just have to be better in
Speaker 2: the middle of both lines. I mean, Mitch Morse came
Speaker 2: in and he brought them more stoutness. But they're still
Speaker 2: not that good when you want to run the ball,
Speaker 2: and we saw that last week in Las Vegas. They
Speaker 2: just don't. They can't not between the tackles. Occasionally they can,
Speaker 2: they can't exert their will on offense and on defense.
Speaker 2: I get pushed around too much up front. So from
Speaker 2: the toughness perspective, that's there. But as I was thinking
Speaker 2: about your question, Kai, this is esoteric. I mean, I
Speaker 2: can't put my finger on it and give you seven
Speaker 2: different things. But the culture in this building is just
Speaker 2: not the same as the culture that you have in
Speaker 2: a place with a winning tradition. You've been in New England.
Speaker 2: You know that John was in Indianapolis when they were
Speaker 2: winning every week. This place doesn't have that winning culture.
Speaker 2: And you can talk about it coming from the general manager,
Speaker 2: from the coach, or from the owner, but it.
Speaker 3: Comes from the players.
Speaker 2: And we've just seen too many times this year this
Speaker 2: team get beat by the little details. The things that
Speaker 2: great teams do. Doesn't look to me like the Jaguar
Speaker 2: do that. Whether that's extra time in the film room
Speaker 2: or more time in the weight room, or it's got
Speaker 2: to come from the players. The culture is set by
Speaker 2: the guys on the field, and I want to see
Speaker 2: a legitimate winning culture in this building, and I think
Speaker 2: that comes from doing more.
Speaker 3: That's just a perspective.
Speaker 1: Culture definitely sets the tones. So I agree with you there.
Speaker 1: Our final big thing today is going to be rivalry.
Speaker 1: We'll talk a little bit about this week, the Titans
Speaker 1: are coming to town. This the second time Jaguars are
Speaker 1: going to play them this month. Now, Brian, we talked
Speaker 1: a lot about the rivalry. I feel like some of
Speaker 1: the rivalry energy has been put on the Texans lately.
Speaker 1: But will it always be the Titans no matter what,
Speaker 1: even in the down years.
Speaker 2: Well, listen for those of us who are here in
Speaker 2: the early days, I mean, the Titans were the oilers
Speaker 2: and they came in here and spoiled the Jaguars inaugural
Speaker 2: game ten to three. You look a little bit further
Speaker 2: into it, in the nineteen ninety eight, the Jaguars had
Speaker 2: the chance to win their first AFC South Division title
Speaker 2: here in December. Titans spoiled that one. A year later,
Speaker 2: Jaguars host the AFC Championship game of Titans at that
Speaker 2: point spoil that. And then through the years there's been
Speaker 2: the rivalry with you know, Jeff Fisher, and it just
Speaker 2: this is the rivalry. I don't care whether they don't,
Speaker 2: I don't care what the record is. I always want
Speaker 2: to beat the Titans, and the Titans John have always
Speaker 2: seemed whether they were the Oilers of the Titans, to
Speaker 2: have the upper hand. I mean they have, but Doug
Speaker 2: Peterson is four and one in five games against the Titans,
Speaker 2: and I like that. And the Jaguars have finally kind
Speaker 2: of narrowed the gap between wins and losses to under
Speaker 2: double digits. So, yes, this is a rivalry game. It
Speaker 2: will always be the rivalry as far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 2: and I want to see them win.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's there are fans who write me
Speaker 4: and I always wanted for a little tongue in cheek,
Speaker 4: but they say that they'd rather beat the Titans than
Speaker 4: do anything else. So there is a hatred and arrival.
Speaker 3: Among some people.
Speaker 4: It was cooler when you got the sweep, and the
Speaker 4: sweep got you the division title. I mean that was
Speaker 4: really a satisfying thing. When you knock them out of
Speaker 4: the playoffs and sent them down, I guess the next
Speaker 4: best thing is to sweep them to go four and twelve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not going to be one of those
Speaker 2: super memorable games just because of the circumstances. But this
Speaker 2: is the Titans and it is one of those games
Speaker 2: that should matter to people, and you reignite it by
Speaker 2: beating them.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, stay with us after the break. We'll talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about that Titans game. Well, what the brand
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Speaker 1: do have a football game this Sunday, but last game
Speaker 1: here in EverBank Stadium this season. So we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about the Titans. We played them already
Speaker 1: this month, but things could look a little bit different.
Speaker 1: Our head coach Brian Callian talked a little bit about
Speaker 1: who's going to be a quarterback.
Speaker 5: That's one of the things that Mason that's one of
Speaker 5: his strengths. You know, he's got the ability to avoid
Speaker 5: the negative play when it comes to sacks. He gets
Speaker 5: the ball out, he gets you know's where to go
Speaker 5: with it quickly. He's not taken many sacks this year
Speaker 5: and it just you know, when you look at what
Speaker 5: sacks do to drives, you know, over the course of
Speaker 5: a season and the scoring percentages, when you take a
Speaker 5: sack and a drive, it really does have an impact.
Speaker 5: And that's one of the things that he does well.
Speaker 5: It's one of the strengths is he finds completions and
Speaker 5: he doesn't take sacks, so that does help us stay
Speaker 5: on schedule.
Speaker 1: Certainly, Mason rudolphs gonna be the starter in this game
Speaker 1: versus the Jags. Will Levis was a starter last time
Speaker 1: and he struggled making decisions, so I think if they
Speaker 1: have a chance at this one, it's definitely gonna be
Speaker 1: with Mason Rudolf.
Speaker 2: Listen, the hard part for the Jaguars is that the
Speaker 2: secondary has made mistakes against every quarterback. Will Levis couldn't
Speaker 2: take advantage of it. Mason Rudolph will Now, Rudolph wasn't
Speaker 2: really good last week. You know, he had those two
Speaker 2: touchdown passes and he led them back against the Colts,
Speaker 2: but he also had three interceptions. So I mean, we're
Speaker 2: not talking about Ben Roethlisberger here, We're not talking about Joe.
Speaker 3: Burrow or any elite quarterback.
Speaker 2: But this secondary has made a lot of average quarterbacks
Speaker 2: Aidan O'Connell look much better than they are because is
Speaker 2: their inability john to just do their assignments.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you figure that when you're playing a backup quarterback,
Speaker 4: and this has been true against Mac, that it's an
Speaker 4: opportunity for interceptions. Even if you give up some plays,
Speaker 4: you would think we we're gonna get some plays where
Speaker 4: you get some picks.
Speaker 3: The defense has seven takeaways.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's an absurd number to have at this
Speaker 4: point in the season, So you figure, can they get
Speaker 4: advantage on the young quarterback, which is what you want.
Speaker 2: I don't know what's absurd is they have those takeaways
Speaker 2: right The last one was against the Vikings. They had
Speaker 2: three in that game, so they had nothing up until
Speaker 2: that point. It was an abundance that we thought, well,
Speaker 2: maybe the whole turnovers coming bunches.
Speaker 3: To five games.
Speaker 4: Since, yeah, you almost have to try not to get
Speaker 4: a turnover in five games.
Speaker 2: By the way, the Chiefs have six straight games without
Speaker 2: committing a turnover.
Speaker 3: So just to give you, I guess that's what I'm trying.
Speaker 2: To point out, is is that good teams don't have turnovers.
Speaker 3: Bad teams don't get turnovers very well.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure you thinking to be said.
Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about last time they played.
Speaker 1: We talked will Ebison's gonna be out on the field.
Speaker 1: A lot of will Eps's issues were in the red
Speaker 1: zone and that was a problem for them. Mason Rudolph
Speaker 1: talked about converting in the red zone and what it's
Speaker 1: going to take for them to score.
Speaker 6: You know, there's there is some good there. That's that's
Speaker 6: some improvement. And you know, I think you know, the
Speaker 6: off schedule plays. We look at the the cut up
Speaker 6: of red zone touchdowns each week as as a cute
Speaker 6: quarterback room and I mean i'd say ninety percent or
Speaker 6: you know, off schedule and and and scrambled drill type situation.
Speaker 6: So we've Bohart agrees, done a good job, you know,
Speaker 6: drilling us at that stuff and trying to simulate as
Speaker 6: much as you can in practice.
Speaker 1: The Titans have had trouble scoring in the red zone
Speaker 1: when they have, though, it's been a little bit of
Speaker 1: that off schedule stuff, scrambled drill kind of throwing it
Speaker 1: up to people. And that's concerning considering the Jaguars propensity
Speaker 1: to give up a big play. And especially I'll give
Speaker 1: credit where it's due, they did well the first they
Speaker 1: play the Titans, but that's got to still be a
Speaker 1: concern this time around.
Speaker 4: Right, they had huge stops last time against the Titans,
Speaker 4: and you know, if you recall, they missed scoring in
Speaker 4: the red zone twice. I think inside the ten twice. Otherwise,
Speaker 4: that game's twenty to nothing when the Jaguars start their comeback,
Speaker 4: and there probably isn't a comeback. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: if you can hold teams scoreless when they get in
Speaker 4: the red zone, you're got a good shot. You can't
Speaker 4: depend on that. That to me is going to be
Speaker 4: the Titans key because I expected to move the ball.
Speaker 4: If they can score in the red zone, I think
Speaker 4: they win. And it was I don't think this week, Brian,
Speaker 4: that they will go away from Tony Pollard as much
Speaker 4: he's been their best player, and I don't think they'll
Speaker 4: go away from.
Speaker 3: It wasn't that opening drive. I thought, are the Jaguars
Speaker 3: gonna be able to stop the run?
Speaker 2: And then the Titans stopped running, which helped them.
Speaker 3: As far as I'm.
Speaker 2: Concerned, this is a game in which the Jaguars defensive
Speaker 2: front has got to get to Mason Rudolph. And we've
Speaker 2: said that all season long, just because the secondary hasn't
Speaker 2: been very good. But jac Laitham, their rookie left tackle,
Speaker 2: has given up thirteen sacks this year. That's the most
Speaker 2: by any offensive tackle in football. It's been a rotation
Speaker 2: at the right side, and they've had all kinds of
Speaker 2: guys in and out of the lineup in the middle.
Speaker 2: In fact, their starting center is on injured reserve. So
Speaker 2: I mean this should be a game that the Jaguars
Speaker 2: defensive line is able to make some hay and make
Speaker 2: things happen. If it isn't, Mason Rudolph will pick them apart.
Speaker 4: And I think we saw something last week that is
Speaker 4: a sliver of positive for the future. Mason Smith got
Speaker 4: some pressure in the middle, which the Trayvon Walker and
Speaker 4: Josh Allen haven't had amazing numbers this year. Pressure in
Speaker 4: the middle would help those guys immeasurably.
Speaker 3: Maybe they can start building.
Speaker 5: On that would be nice.
Speaker 1: I like that, it's a good plan.
Speaker 2: Mason Smith showed us in training camp. He's big, strong,
Speaker 2: he's long, He's a very difficult.
Speaker 3: Guy to match up with.
Speaker 2: He just he hasn't had to know the tech niques
Speaker 2: of the position because in college and in high school
Speaker 2: he was just so much bigger and stronger than everyone else.
Speaker 2: And Doug Peterson talked a little bit about this earlier
Speaker 2: in the week, saying it's a tough position for guys
Speaker 2: to learn to play well. It's a really important one
Speaker 2: for him to finish strong, because.
Speaker 3: Listen, this is as good an.
Speaker 2: Area for the Jaguars to address in the draft next
Speaker 2: year as any as the middle of that line.
Speaker 3: Gotta know what you got.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, we're gonna tell you what we think our predictions
Speaker 1: for the headlines are gonna be on Monday after the game.
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Speaker 1: be on Monday morning after this heavyweight bout of the
Speaker 1: Titans and Jaguars seventeen sixteen seventy.
Speaker 4: Seventeen.
Speaker 3: Want to go, let's do it.
Speaker 2: I'll go with twice as nice and you could say, well,
Speaker 2: they beat the Titans twice, which would be the case, but.
Speaker 3: They've only won at home once this year.
Speaker 2: Really important to give the home crowd a reason to
Speaker 2: come back winning certainly does that?
Speaker 3: So listen, I get it.
Speaker 2: You're probably playing without Walker Little, You're starting left tackle.
Speaker 3: That doesn't help you against arden Key.
Speaker 2: You were very good last week against Aiden O'Connell, so
Speaker 2: you know, how are you gonna be better against Mason
Speaker 2: Rudolpho thinks a better quarterback. But I just think the
Speaker 2: Jaguars get it done in their season finale at home,
Speaker 2: and the guy right here has another big day. He said,
Speaker 2: back to back one hundred yard games, maybe he can
Speaker 2: make it three in a row.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I went with sweep with a lot of exclamation points
Speaker 4: because and my picture was Mac Daddy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mac Jones.
Speaker 4: Look, there's not gonna be a whole lot to salvage
Speaker 4: this season, and Mac as a starter will not finished
Speaker 4: with a winning record.
Speaker 3: But he's a Jacksonville kid.
Speaker 4: I sort of picture Max's guys in the stands who
Speaker 4: grew up with and watching the Jags.
Speaker 3: Having a couple of beers and going yeah with.
Speaker 4: An expletive about the Titans, high five in each other.
Speaker 4: Our boy led him to it a moment. I'm not
Speaker 4: saying that's everything. I'm gon say it makes it a
Speaker 4: successful season, but I think Mac would enjoy beating the Titans.
Speaker 4: He's a Jacksonville kid. He sort of knows the history
Speaker 4: of it. It'd be cool for him if he got
Speaker 4: to win at home against this team.
Speaker 2: I love it because I like beating the Titans and
Speaker 2: so and I like Mac. So if Mac beats the Titans,
Speaker 2: I like it even more twice as much.
Speaker 1: What the holidays are all about, I'm going to be
Speaker 1: a grinch here and go negative. Unfortunately, I think we're
Speaker 1: it off lenk Away. We got a little holiday punch
Speaker 1: well here. I just think that they would have lost
Speaker 1: that game against the Titans a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: if will Levis was capable of making some better decisions.
Speaker 1: And I think Rudolph is a smarter quarterback and we'll
Speaker 1: be able to make those decisions. And while he turns
Speaker 1: the ball over, we don't seem to catch those, you know,
Speaker 1: interceptions that are thrown around by other quarterbacks. So I
Speaker 1: think that will kind of be the downfall. If they
Speaker 1: can force some turnovers from Rudolpha and take advantage of
Speaker 1: those turnovers and get points off of them, I think
Speaker 1: the Jaguars can win, But unfortunately I don't see that
Speaker 1: right now. And hopefully this is a jinx. The reverse
Speaker 1: drinks that I've been doing.
Speaker 2: We'll work for them and they will win, isn't There's
Speaker 2: so many holiday puns that we could put in there.
Speaker 1: There is Rudolph leave it alone, so many it's too
Speaker 1: many to do.
Speaker 3: Stay with this.
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Speaker 3: Is taken down by Miles Cole.
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Speaker 6: Yes, yes, so.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 3: Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, Josh hain Z Allen best hype man in
Speaker 1: the game, getting Mason Smith and Miles Cole hyped up.
Speaker 1: Nice to see the young guys out there. We talked
Speaker 1: a lot about it. Hopefully we see more of them
Speaker 1: this week as well.
Speaker 2: You know, we talk a lot about Mason Smith and
Speaker 2: his importance to the build of the Jaguars because he's
Speaker 2: a second round pick and those guys are expected the starters.
Speaker 2: But Miles Cole is a guy they brought in sort
Speaker 2: of a flyer at the end of the draft, and
Speaker 2: it's good to see him get out there and make
Speaker 2: a couple of plays. Jeff Logan was talking about it
Speaker 2: earlier in the week. H some good, some bad, but
Speaker 2: enough that you think there's something you can work with.
Speaker 2: You gotta have.
Speaker 4: I think about the difference, if you really feel like
Speaker 4: Mason Smith can be guy, how much different your line
Speaker 4: looks going into next year than if you're worried about it.
Speaker 4: It's it's it's a mammoth difference. So I think these
Speaker 4: next two games in that sense are really important for
Speaker 4: a guy like that.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll see affects a lot of.
Speaker 1: The decision making, that's for sure. Of course, we hope
Speaker 1: you enjoy the game this weekend. If you want to
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