WEBVTT - Ep. 49: Taking Stock After Week 13 Injuries | Jags A.M. Podcast 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:21.759 H Sometimes it's just luck, luck just being in the 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:23.520 right place at the right time, picking his feet up 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:27.640 at the right time. You know, he's obviously he's he's 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:31.080 very you know, he's long, he's tall, and and very 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:33.600 flexible as you can as you imagine, you know, the 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:37.640 one last night looked looked worse than than it really was. 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:41.879 Very fortunate there, but you know, he he seems to 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:45.080 have a little bit of a knack. But I just 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:50.560 think that's uh for the most part, you know, just been. 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:51.320 Just been fortunate. 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:56.360 Welcome in to jag them. Presented by Jet Homelands today, 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:58.640 I'm kind of hone. Stephen's Brian Sexton, John Oser with 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.320 me today. That's your head coach Peterson talking about Trevor 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:06.000 Lawrence's injury. It's a high ankle sprain, but as described yesterday, 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:10.720 fortunate it is not worse than they originally suspected. That's 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:12.679 our big thing today. Of course, Trevor Lawrence has to 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:14.720 be big thing number one for us as we look 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:16.600 forward to what this team is going to look like 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.160 going forward. They have not ruled him out for the 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:22.240 game against Cleveland, but Doug Peterson did say he wants 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.319 Trevor to feel one hundred percent before he gets back 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:24.720 out there. 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.520 I want to make sure that Trevor is one hundred percent, 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:30.840 you know before I before I put him or any 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:35.120 any player back on the field. And and you know, 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.800 it's just a matter of of there as a player too, 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.679 as a tolerance that they can they can withstand with 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:44.000 with any injury, and you just don't want to risk 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:47.800 If the player is not in any harm or could 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.880 risk further damage to the area, then then then you 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.760 have to consider it, but definitely don't want to don't 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.320 want to risk further injury. 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.000 So they have not ruled him out for that Brown 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.240 the game, Brian, but also they want him to get 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:04.240 back to one hundred percent before they play him. So 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:05.800 what exactly are we looking at this week? 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:06.040 Guy? 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:07.639 I think it's simple. If he can play on Sunday 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.320 in Cleveland, be superman, right. I mean I was stunned 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:12.800 at the video of him walking down the hallway that 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:16.440 Monday night football used and he was with every painful 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:20.000 step grimacing. High Ankle sprains have long been a part 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:21.800 of life in the NFL, and they have long been 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.240 a three to six week injury. You know, quarterbacks can 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:27.960 generally tape it up a little bit, but we've seen 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.720 what mobility means john to him in his game. And 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.000 then here's the other thing. I mean, you're talking about 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.080 a quarterback you want to be your guy for the 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:37.760 next fifteen to eighteen years. You always have to make 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.720 this smart decision when it comes to him. So from 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.040 my perspective, if he plays on Sunday, I would be 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:47.960 not surprised. I would be shocked. And that's only because 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.200 I just can't see how a guy like that can 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.560 play in just a week's time on that injury. Less 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:53.120 than a week's time. 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.000 Yeah, I mean, he's done some superhuman things. He's sort 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.800 of superhuman in New Orleans, but this would be sort 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:03.640 of super super human. I guess High Angel sprains, as 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.520 you said, three to six weeks, maybe they tape it up. 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.280 I kind of doubt it, you know. I think Doug 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:14.880 Peterson has his heaviest lift right now, trying to get 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:18.480 this team back up, trying to get the troops rallied, 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.639 if you will, whatever that cliche is, and I don't 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:25.120 expect Trevor to play, and that makes this week's game 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:29.080 against Cleveland to me fascinating ginormous. 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:30.600 Whatever that word is, well, if you want to look 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.800 just ahead one week, I don't want him to play 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.880 if he can't protect himself against Miles Garrett. Right the 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:40.520 next week, here come the Baltimore Ravens with the defense 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.280 that has forty three or forty four sacks, and there's 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.960 still a quarter of the season to play, So you've 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:47.800 got to make sure that he can protect himself from 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:49.680 some of these guys who will be head hunting a 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:51.440 quarterback they know isn't quite as mobile. 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:53.200 And we'll get to it a little bit later on 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.680 the show, but there's injuries across the offensive line as well, 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:57.840 which you have to bring up because they have to 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.080 protect him, and if he can't protect himself, that's something 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.920 to think about as well. Our second big thing today 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:06.600 is talk that talk, because miscommunication has been a problem 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.360 on the defense and we saw a lot of that yesterday. 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.520 Barring the injuries. The other big thing that stood out 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.120 was a lot of the issues on defense on a 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.680 team that has played well on defense all year long. 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.800 So Doug talked a little bit postgame about what was 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:19.680 going on on the field. 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:22.600 If you're on the field and the crowd as loud 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.480 as they are when we're on defense, you're going to 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:29.120 have we have to reiterate communication and that's all it is. 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.080 It's just double checking with everybody. 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.600 It's not communication issues, it's just being able to communicate 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:39.479 the calls effectively. So there's a lot of talk that 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:41.280 has to go back and forth because of the way 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.159 the crowd and the crowd was great today, you know, 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.960 and that's what you want, and it does kind of, 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.719 you know, put your defense in a little bit of 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:52.719 a bind because of that. 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.120 John Doug was a little short with the media after 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:58.840 the post game yesterday. I don't blame him for that. 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.760 Is there mis communication issues? Are they not missing? 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:01.800 Well? 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.560 I think just was a little misconstrued. After Doug said it, 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.120 he was trying to answer a question about why it 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.440 looked like the defense was having trouble communicating for the snap. 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.560 That's how I interpret it, And he was trying to 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:18.880 explain I think that when it's loud, it looks like 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.479 there's miscommunication because the defense is trying touch other for 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:25.200 the play. He was sort of criticized by some fans 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:27.200 for criticizing fans. I didn't get the idea that he 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.320 was criticizing the fans for being loud at all. I 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:31.919 think this was a case where he was trying to 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.400 answer a question, and sometimes when you're answering a question 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:40.080 and trying to explain things in this SoundBite era, people 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:41.800 try to take it and make it something it's not. 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.719 Now that being said, the defense didn't play well, but 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.320 I thought the communication was going on during the play. 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.160 A lot of bad run fits and they got blown 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.960 off the ball. It was a bad defensive game against 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:56.640 the run for a team that's played great against the 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:57.440 run most of the season. 0:05:57.520 --> 0:05:59.520 Yeah, honestly, I got the sensition. This is just a 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.440 feeling mad, you know. I mean he was mad standing there, 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:04.560 mad at his defense that they weren't doing the things 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:06.960 that they had done all season long, and his comments 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.440 were meant to temperate. He absolutely did not criticize the fans. 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.039 He went out of his way to make sure that 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:13.760 he said they were great. The defensive coordinator is going 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:15.679 to talk this week, and the question is a painful 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:18.000 one for him, but it goes something like this, how 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.520 is it that your defense, which has had some communication 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.039 issues and has talked about working on them throughout the year, 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.000 how is it the communication was a problem for you guys? 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:30.120 But not for the quarterback making only a second start, 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.840 his first away from home, and on Monday night in 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.880 that environment. How is it not a problem for him. 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:38.839 That's the question that has to get answer. Because John, 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:42.680 we've frankly talked about communication issues and big plays being 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.440 given up on the field at various points throughout the year. 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.800 The offense was able to overcome it and help the 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:51.160 defense out. The defense got takeaways to help the offense out. 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.120 But the other night, neither side of the ball was 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:56.160 working very well in communication became the flashpoint. 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.599 Yeah, I thought the offense actually did okay in that game. 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:06.320 I was again shocked at the inability to stop the 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.400 run of a team that hadn't run very well. That's 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.320 more detailed communications. We don't think about that being communication 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.920 as much as the back end. H Doug thought that 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.120 was the key to the game. I I sort of agreed. 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.800 This defense that has stopped the run so well all year, 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.520 all of a sudden couldn't fit. It had a lot 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:27.320 of linebackers and safeties going in the wrong direction at 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:28.320 frankly the wrong time. 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.000 Our final big thing today is gonna be next man up, 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.240 because we'll go in depth into the injuries, but there 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.120 were a lot of injuries, including Trevor Lawrence. But they 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.200 have to play on Sunday and it's a short week 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.760 before they head to Cleveland, so. 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:42.480 The next man up. 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.320 You know, obviously we would love to have Season out there. 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.400 You know, he's a he's a head man. But you know, 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:50.720 if he's not out there, we all got it back. 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.000 And it's like I said, but as a next next 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:56.840 man approach to mentality and we can approach it like that, 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:01.360 and defense we hone in no more mistitles like we 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:03.840 get better at the defense and help the Dolphins out. 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.160 But I think CJ gonna hold his own and I 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.160 think I know you know how to leave this offense, Solf. 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.560 You know, we do our part, play a little bit better, 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:13.000 we'll be all right. 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.440 CJ. Bethard is the next man out at quarterback, Brian 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:18.960 or what are we looking at if CJ's a starter 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:19.480 on Sunday. 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.120 Look, if I'm Doug, I'm tempted to say he didn't 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:25.320 play it right and let everybody know that early in 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.160 the week, so they don't think that help is on 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:30.360 the way that they figure out that they're all going 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.520 to have to lift their games a little bigger, a 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:36.280 little better rather because sixteen's not back there, So everybody's 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.920 got to be better on blocking, tackling, catching, running, all 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.880 of those things. Everybody's got to have that mentality of 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.840 sixteen isn't there to bail us out. We've got to 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.760 be there to help CJ. And if for some reason 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:52.160 Superman does show up on Sunday, great, But I think 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:55.559 the mentality has to be he didn't plan. We've got 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:57.320 to be ready to do this without him and John. 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:59.640 I think this roster has the ability to go and 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:03.040 win a game in Cleveland without him, provided they get 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.480 a couple of those other guys back. Yeah, it does. 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.080 I don't think over the course of a season it's 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.439 gonna be a playoff team without Trevor Lawrence, but I 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:12.880 think it can go. It showed the other night that 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.400 in Spurts it can be effective with CJ. CJ did 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.760 a nice job. He led the team to a drive 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:23.680 to tie the game. He made a throw to Ridley, 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:25.920 gave really a chance to make a play on what 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.959 was a call that sort of took a touchdown or 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:33.520 potential touchdown away in overtime. He did his job. He'll 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:38.400 be functional. I thought it was encouraging that the players 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.800 Angram Z Jones, guys like that late in the game 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:44.920 seemed to lift. They're gonna have to lift for sixty 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.200 minutes on Sunday. It's harder to do that than it 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:48.160 is for a couple of drives. 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:50.760 All right, coming up after the break, we're gonna go 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:52.840 over some of the injuries this team suffered and what 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.960 they'll be dealing with going into Cleveland this Sunday. 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On Tuesday, 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.440 December twelfth, from five to six. You can meet members 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:39.960 of the Jaguars there before they head off to Cleveland 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:40.280 this week. 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.120 He's the leader of our team. It does a great 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:49.320 job each week, doesn't doing this thing? You know, I 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:52.320 feel like that that plays on me too, So you 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.760 know that definitely hurts. But you know the saying gotta 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:58.520 come out, grow, get ready, and let's get ready to 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.560 work next week. Be more decisive, tomro be quicker, so 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.160 you know third now, I didn't know if there was 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:06.880 pressure or not. I just got to be able to 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:09.360 make a play and be decisive from the quarterback. 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.040 It's Parker Washington. Welcome back to jag z Am. He 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.360 had a touchdown in this you know NFL touchdown. He 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:18.439 said he felt a little responsibility on that play where 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.079 Trevor got hurt. He should have been a little more 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:24.080 decisive on his route. But you know, he got thrown 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.080 into the fire for sure because Christian Kirk went on 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:26.920 the first play the game. 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:28.640 Well, he's gonna get the chance because he's gonna get 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.320 more reps obviously on the practice field this week with 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:33.240 Christian Kirk being down and he's going to play a 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.440 whole lot more. You know, he made that touchdown catch, right, 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.000 but he also had a critical third down catch where 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.600 he dove and fought for the ball and took it 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.080 away from the Bengals defensive back. I saw some things 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.280 that I really liked from him. He's a tough kid. 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:48.360 He slid in the draft because he had broken part 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.960 of a bone in his foot somewhere when he was 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:52.240 in his last year at Penn State, and so he 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.000 didn't run quite as well. But he's a guy with 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:55.559 a lot of potential and they're going to need to 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:57.599 work that out of him on the practice field in 0:11:57.640 --> 0:11:59.440 the next couple of weeks to get some of it 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.280 back from him on the game field. Yeah, it bodes well. 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.000 So often if if a guy doesn't play as a 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:08.800 rookie in September, people are panicking, sane it was a 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.320 bad draft pick. They were never that worried about Parker Washington. 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:13.480 This hasn't been really a chance for him to play 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.480 with Christian Kirk being in there. With the receiver depth, 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.520 I think he'll be fine in terms of when when 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.360 they throw him the ball, he'll catch it. He needs 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:26.120 to improve knowing where to be on the field, but 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:29.559 that's sort of rookie stuff, you know. That being said, 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.439 I don't want to minimize what Christian Kirk being out, 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:36.599 and it sounds like he's out for the season or 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.600 at least until you know, AFC Championship Game week, super Bowl. 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:46.760 He's really important in terms of chemistry, reliability. Out of 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:51.000 all the receivers, he's the best at You never worry 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.280 that he's going to be exactly where he's supposed to be. 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:55.120 That's a huge edge for the quarterbacks. 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:56.280 It's why he's the leading receiver. 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:59.560 It's why Trevor depends on him so much that over 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:01.680 the long term is a big, big loss. 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:04.520 I think the thing we need to remember about Parker 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.480 two is we've talked a little bit about he didn't 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.560 get to play as rookie. Those are mistakes. We've been 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.000 talking about tank tanks for making for twelve weeks. He 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.320 hasn't had that opportunity. He got hurt as well, and 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:14.880 then he's coming in to play for Agnum and now 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.320 Christian Kirk. So, Christian Kirk a huge injury. He has 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.640 a core injury that Doug said will probably need surgery, 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.440 which puts him at you know, six plus weeks out so, 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:25.360 as John mentioned, if we're lucky to make it that 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.360 far AFC Championship, super Bowl, that's when maybe something like 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.560 that could happen. But this injury list is a long one, 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.480 and that's something we're talking about because without Christian Kirk, 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.520 he's kind of a safety blanket for Trevor and he 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:38.040 is someone where you know where he's gonna be at 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.960 all times. And what does that take away from the offense, John. 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.280 Well, it takes away all that trust, all that kind 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:49.160 of new I mean, you're you're never surprised when when 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.040 Trevor drops to pass. It's just the way obviously games 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.240 that don't watch it on TV, when Trevor drops to 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.360 pass and you look out and you see Christian running 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:57.280 wide open. 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:58.560 Like he wasn't the play he got hurt. 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.240 Yeah, you're never surprised because he's such a good route 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:06.240 runner and there's such trust. And just think over what seventeen, 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:11.320 how many games Christian's been here, how many huge third 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:17.040 downs he's caught, how reliable he is. We talked for 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.680 six seven weeks about how much the offense misses Zay 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.280 Jones because you have to account for him well, and 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.720 offense is like this the guys that you cannot leave 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:30.000 single covered, which in this offense are Christian Kirk, Evan Ingram, 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:35.280 Calvin Ridley, and Jay Jones. When you lose one, that 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.200 messes up the gears and now they have to play 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:40.160 with their gears messed up. 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.400 It just always seems like he's that guy in third 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.440 and forever right where you know you need almost a 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.720 prayer to convert third down in seventeen and he's the 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.280 guy who's open. And I think back to last season 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:52.440 and the place that he made against the Ravens and 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.760 the Cowboys, the plays that he made against the Titans 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.400 and the Chargers. I mean, he's just he always seems 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:00.680 to make a big play. And it may not be 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:02.920 a sixty eight yard touchdown, it may only be a 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:07.160 twenty six yard completion, but it happens in big moments. 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.160 That's the kind of player he is. He's not tall 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.040 in stature, but he makes tall plays, if that makes sense. 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.600 And here's what you sort of notice about Christian. He's 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:18.880 not really on the highlights that much because so many 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.440 of his big plays are he's open and Trevor gets 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.560 in the ball, because Trevor knows exactly where he's going 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.040 to be, so there's not a whole lot of highlight. 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:27.680 He doesn't after one handed, he doesn't make it all 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:31.960 leaven catches. He's just open and the right timing on 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.160 his route. He makes it look easy and subtle and 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:36.600 you don't think about it that much. But how many 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.800 big plays. The touchdown against the Colts this year where 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.280 him and Trevor are on the same page. Last year 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:44.960 he's the only touchdown against the Titans in the last 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:48.160 game of the season. He makes big plays at big moments, 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.600 and again you go back. 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:51.040 To the trust. 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.440 Trust is so big for a quarterback. Out of all 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:59.880 the receivers, Trevor trusts him number one. When Trevor gets back, 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:01.800 that'll be a loss in chemistry he has to make 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:02.040 up for. 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.240 Talked about the two biggest injuries, of course, your quarterback 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.560 and Christian Kirk who looks like he'll be out long term. 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:09.480 But there's a lot of other names. So when you 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.200 look at this list of people that are injured, who's 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.400 kind of sticking out to you, Brian, who's an injury 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:15.840 you're concerned about other than the big deal? 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.040 Well, Walker little because you lost Cam Robinson last week, 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:22.960 right and now a guy that we've heard is a 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.800 natural left tackle is likely the left tackle here of 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:29.040 the future because the salary cap considerations. Now he's down, 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:34.280 which means your left tackle is Blake Hants. Okay, ugh, right, 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:37.880 you worry about that the next two weeks. As I 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:41.000 mentioned earlier, teams with really strong pass rushes, and you're 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:44.520 gonna ask a guy who's probably more naturally a right 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.120 side player and a guard at that to go play 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:49.000 left tackle. That's troublesome. 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:52.200 Yeah, and Miles Scarrett plays for that team. 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.040 Right he mostly stays on the left side of the defense. 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.160 He's not a guy that they flip really often. He's 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:01.200 still play with it. Yet take everybody else and go 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:04.040 go back the weak spot at left tackle because Miles 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:04.880 Garrett's over there. 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:11.680 Yeah, and with Walker he has shown such great potential. 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:15.680 But you know, as a team, they would love at 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:19.160 some point to know that they can rely on that 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.040 for the long term. A lot of him not playing 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.919 has hasn't been his fault. The boy, they would have 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.600 loved to have seen him healthy for a stretch. And 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:29.720 so at the end of last year, this year he 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:31.639 gets in a right guard and then all of a 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:35.560 sudden he's out, yea. I think he's a big time player, 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.959 but boy, you would love to have that body of 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.640 work where you said, yeah, we know what that guy. 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:44.240 Is, especially someone you're thinking about giving long term big 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:46.520 money to when yeah, often injured. 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:51.160 Yeah, so I think that's let's hope the hamstring isn't bad, 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.360 that he can be out there and sort of show 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:55.400 himself for extended period of time. 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:57.639 I'd like to think that a tackle would have a 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:01.119 better chance of playing on a hamstring, obviously than a 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:03.280 defensive back or a wide receiver because he doesn't have 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:05.000 to be quite as explosive. I haven't talked to him. 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.359 I don't know the extent of the injury, but I 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.040 would imagine he's going to gut it out and try 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:12.640 and go to be there to protect CJ. Befort because 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:13.280 they're gona need him. 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:13.439 Yah. 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:16.320 The other guy you don't want down is Fotokasi. You 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.560 don't talk a lot about defensive tackles, but he's been 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.040 a huge reason that they're really stout against the run, 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:25.240 maybe behind Trayvon and Josh, the most consistent player up 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.880 front this year. You don't want him out for very long. 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.720 Well, and that's the same injury that cost him the preseason. 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:32.680 Member he heard it on the practice field in Detroit. 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:34.760 We watched him kay walk off the field at Allen 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:37.200 Park that day, and he missed the rest of the preseason. 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:40.840 He's been really stout this year, really, and Devon Hamilton, 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:43.639 as we've heard from the coach, kind of still working 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:45.240 his way back to being able to play. 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:47.520 For me, I'm looking at the secondary and I think 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:49.080 that might be the sum of all the parts there, 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:52.480 because we finally get Tyson Campbell back from that hamstring injury. 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:55.320 Now he has a right quad injury as well. Trey 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:57.919 Herndon still in concussion protocol in a short week, and 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.000 Andre Sisko heard a shoulder he went back into the game. 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.160