Speaker 1: Countdown to kickoff continues, the Jags and the Texans coming
Speaker 1: up at one o'clock Eastern at NRG Stadium in Houston,
Speaker 1: and pride of the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor joins
Speaker 1: us now as the Jags get back on the road. Fred,
Speaker 1: are you ready for this Houston game? JP? I am
Speaker 1: definitely ready. Man. I hope the guys are ready, but
Speaker 1: they they better be because this Houston team is coming
Speaker 1: off a week where they fired their head coach Bill
Speaker 1: O'Brien after an old and four start. In your experience
Speaker 1: around and seeing this in the league, this might be
Speaker 1: one of the earliest in a long time in the NFL.
Speaker 1: But how does a team respond to something like this?
Speaker 1: Is there a boost that comes to a team that
Speaker 1: maybe everybody kind of has their act together a little
Speaker 1: bit more? Man, and you you in the perfect world,
Speaker 1: that's what you hope and look for. Coach Cornell, who
Speaker 1: who's stepping stepping as from coach is his overall record
Speaker 1: as a head coaches and impressive at all. I started
Speaker 1: eight and fifty five, so I don't think that posed
Speaker 1: as much of a threat. So really it comes down
Speaker 1: to the guys getting out there. Uh and making plays,
Speaker 1: making things happen today. Uh, and it really for me.
Speaker 1: JP is is gonna start with our offense playing well. Uh.
Speaker 1: Coach O'Brien used to play caller. They didn't put up
Speaker 1: a lot of points. They don't put up twenty points
Speaker 1: a game while giving up thirty one points a game,
Speaker 1: so I can understand why they they fired him. But
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator who steps in as the head coach
Speaker 1: now he wasn't impressive either, So I mean on that
Speaker 1: side of for the texts, they have some issues. It's
Speaker 1: perfect timing for the Jaguars and hopefully translate to a
Speaker 1: W so we can stop this light uh and get
Speaker 1: get out of the L column and put something in win.
Speaker 1: College have three straight losses for the Jags. We'll get
Speaker 1: back to the Shaguars team coming up in a moment.
Speaker 1: But around the league this week, some more COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: positive tests spread. A handful of teams had more positives
Speaker 1: this week, and it brings up obviously you nique challenges
Speaker 1: and logistics for the NFL moving ahead. What is your
Speaker 1: confidence level right now of how the league has has
Speaker 1: handled it so far and what to expect moving ahead.
Speaker 1: I guess besides the unexpected. Really, I'm very impressed to
Speaker 1: how they handled it to date. I mean, going through camp,
Speaker 1: keeping the numbers down because they're they're they're micromanaging tons,
Speaker 1: tons and tons of players. You're talking about the administrators, staff,
Speaker 1: coaching a lot of people in and out of the buildings,
Speaker 1: the players, you know, even the young guys that excited
Speaker 1: to be in an NFL for the rookies, you know,
Speaker 1: and and a lot of guys that can have an
Speaker 1: extremely high immaturity level. You know, they're telling them you
Speaker 1: can't do this, so the protocol is tight. I'm really
Speaker 1: impressed by how the teams have managed. I think on
Speaker 1: a big skeller thing, if there is a fifteen players
Speaker 1: in the in the International Football League, the percentages are
Speaker 1: really small. Going forward, I'd like to see football. I'm
Speaker 1: sure everyone around the would like to see football. But
Speaker 1: going forward, you know, it's sketchy. I know they just
Speaker 1: released a new protocol. You know, I still keep in
Speaker 1: touch with Mercedes Lewis. The Packers are on the bye week. Uh.
Speaker 1: They can't leave town. You can't leave your your city
Speaker 1: for for bye week. Uh. And I know when I
Speaker 1: play uh. And even now, a lot of guys want
Speaker 1: to get out of town and sort of hit that
Speaker 1: refresh button. They have to test every day during the
Speaker 1: bye week, so that's extremely tight. First missed test is
Speaker 1: the dollar fine. So the NFL isn't playing around. They're
Speaker 1: taking this thing extremely serious, and if the number spiked,
Speaker 1: we might not see football. I hope we can avoid that,
Speaker 1: you know. I hope we can follow strict quarantine rules
Speaker 1: much like they have been so we can continue to
Speaker 1: enjoy the best board in the world. Fred Taylor with
Speaker 1: US proud of the Jaguars running back Well said, Fred,
Speaker 1: let's get to the Jags last week. The Jaguars defense
Speaker 1: struggled in the second half, especially played pretty well the
Speaker 1: st half, gotta turnover in the end zone, but then
Speaker 1: in the second half, Joe Mixon ran all over them.
Speaker 1: They had some frontline guys go down with injury. That
Speaker 1: brings younger and actually more just inexperienced players on the field.
Speaker 1: How did they work out of this? On the defensive side,
Speaker 1: they shouldn't have a big issue against the run. They
Speaker 1: don't even average and hundred yards a game. That's awful,
Speaker 1: and they have a running quarterback, so you would think
Speaker 1: they would implement some plays to get him in both
Speaker 1: after paying him that much money. But their issues are
Speaker 1: their issues. Let's talk about the defense. Our defense. You
Speaker 1: know they're they're not playing great. They are out there
Speaker 1: with the young guys that they have out there trying
Speaker 1: to make some things happen. Last week, I expected them
Speaker 1: to be able to get after quarterback, a guy who
Speaker 1: had been hit so many times in two weeks, hit
Speaker 1: so many times and sacked just as much. This week,
Speaker 1: it's a different field because you have a guy who's
Speaker 1: gonna run the ball if the play breaks down. Burrow,
Speaker 1: he he didn't move move about, he didn't scramble a
Speaker 1: ton I should say. But this week you have a
Speaker 1: guy You're gonna have to be a lot more discipline.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to play in your lane. Uh, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to react, You're gonna have to get after him.
Speaker 1: So I think strip drills this week are important for
Speaker 1: the defensive guys um the secondary. Uh. The Texans hadn't
Speaker 1: done a whole lot in the area either. It could
Speaker 1: be a week for the Jaguars to get a win
Speaker 1: to to fine tune some some play on the back
Speaker 1: end of the defense as well as upfront. So hopefully
Speaker 1: those go guys can go out there and execute, create
Speaker 1: some opportunities for the offense and thrill position. Fred Taylor
Speaker 1: with US James Robinson is a weekly segment of this interview,
Speaker 1: and he deserves he's playing well and it's a big
Speaker 1: week for him after four weeks of really stellar play
Speaker 1: for the rookie. Yeah, you know, I again, I was
Speaker 1: looking up his numbers. JP sixty carries to eighty five,
Speaker 1: four point seven yard average and three touchdown. The four
Speaker 1: point seven yard is what I'm most impressed with. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he has some good runs early eight yard,
Speaker 1: four yards, seven yard. They had to go away from
Speaker 1: it after interception. They tried to come back to it. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: they're not able to sustain because they find themselves down
Speaker 1: at some point during the game. So I believe that
Speaker 1: if we can get him going early, you know, and
Speaker 1: and put up some points in the process in the
Speaker 1: first quarter, in the third quarter, because that's where the
Speaker 1: offense has been pretty bad in the first and third quarter.
Speaker 1: If we can get him going and being able to
Speaker 1: sustains and drives, put some touchdowns on the board, and
Speaker 1: if the defense can get a stopper two early on
Speaker 1: then I think it gives him an opportunity to get
Speaker 1: you know, fifteen carries, uh, twenty carries even I would
Speaker 1: love to see what he can do with twenty carries.
Speaker 1: The first game of the year, he got stronger, you know,
Speaker 1: against the Titaness. He got stronger when he had an
Speaker 1: opportunity to get the ball in his hand. So this
Speaker 1: is an opportunity for the Jaguars offensive line of the
Speaker 1: play caller to say, we're gonna commit to this. You know,
Speaker 1: hopefully the defense can stop some drives and give us
Speaker 1: an opportunity to commit to this and uh see what
Speaker 1: we could do. Because it'll be a good thing to
Speaker 1: put it on tape because I think this young guy,
Speaker 1: he's definitely a bright spot on the offense along with
Speaker 1: DJ Chart, Fred Taylor with us. You mentioned the Jaguars
Speaker 1: star wide receiver who returned to the line up last week,
Speaker 1: Fred with two touchdowns too spectacular players really the toe
Speaker 1: drag in the back of the end zone and they
Speaker 1: ripped the ball away from the defender on the second one.
Speaker 1: And he makes a difference. Obviously. When he's back in
Speaker 1: the lineup, you can spread some things out and and
Speaker 1: do some different things as a play caller offensively, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll be good to get him going. DJ Chart going on.
Speaker 1: It helps out Robinson and vice versa. Much like myself,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Keenan. Those guys out there, you know you played
Speaker 1: off each other. But I really think that if they
Speaker 1: can come out get Chart going early, makes some connections
Speaker 1: early in the first quarter, I would like to see
Speaker 1: them feed the ball to enforce those targets. He's a
Speaker 1: big guy, you know, worst k' you know. Allow him
Speaker 1: to jump ball opportunities so he can fight for maybe
Speaker 1: even get some passing appearances the Texans secondary, but they've
Speaker 1: they've been good, but they haven't been great. I should
Speaker 1: say DJ involved early, get Gardner, you know, um in
Speaker 1: a position where he's confident that his guys are gonna
Speaker 1: bring in those catches, and then I think it will
Speaker 1: open up the run game and the team will come
Speaker 1: back home with a victory. Good stuff, Red. We will
Speaker 1: talk to you in the post game, hopefully after the
Speaker 1: Jaguars snapped this three game skid. How about it? As always,
Speaker 1: JP man, I stay looking forward to it, but this
Speaker 1: week I want to have some fun with him, and
Speaker 1: I want to have some manager and that only happens
Speaker 1: if we win. Coming up the final word with head
Speaker 1: coach Doug Moron the Jaguars and the Texans coming up
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