WEBVTT - Jags A.M. Podcast Ep. 111 | Stopping Vikings Offense, Who Will Play QB, Shell Whites & More 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:18.960 Welcome to jag Zam this morning. I'm kind of Annie Stevens, 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:20.760 Brian Sexton and John Ozer are with of me. We're 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:23.600 gonna talk about the Jaguars Viking game coming up this Sunday, 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:25.920 but I'm not entirely sure who's gonna be out on. 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:27.360 The field for the Jaguars at this point. 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:29.600 Let's start out with big thing one, which is QB, 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:32.599 who Trevor Lawrence banged up in the game against the Eagles, 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.240 the team bringing in backup quarterback c Ja Besards to 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:38.080 back up the other backup quarterback, Matt Jones. So we 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:39.879 heard from Trevor Lawrence earlier this. 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:41.919 Week talking about whether he'd be ready for game TEB. 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:44.880 That's the goal. I'm gonna doing everything I can to 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:47.720 be out there, you know, and if I gets in 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:49.640 the past, I've gotten banged up in the past, and 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:50.839 I just try to do everything I can do and 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:53.680 the week concern myself to play Sunday and just pretty 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:56.080 much time as possible into that and getting healthy. So 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:58.760 that's that's the way my my mind is right now. 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:02.320 Brand We saw Trevor Lawrence battle through a lot of 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:05.959 injuries last year. He played without practicing without trying to 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.920 rest throughout the week. Didn't always go that well for him, 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:10.840 especially in that kid. At the end of last season, 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:12.880 they brought in mac Jones for this purpose. Are we 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:13.800 gonna see Trevor Lawrence? 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:14.160 Do you think? 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:14.920 I don't think so. 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:15.200 Now. 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:17.840 Listen, I assumed on Monday when I made my little hay, 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:19.920 I think the Jaguars will win this Sunday prediction. I 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:22.039 assumed that Trevor was going to play, So I'm just 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:23.520 gonna go the other way and assume that he's not. 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.440 Although I think the tell there was that's the goal. 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:28.680 That's what I'm trying to do. Look, he had a 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.039 lot of time last year in over six weeks. He 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.360 learned that it isn't disseasy to do. I mean, your 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:38.160 body may say no when your heart and mind say yes. 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.920 I have no inside knowledge on this, and the Jaguars 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.920 are doing their part to make sure nobody has inside 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:46.760 knowledge on this. They want the advantage one way or 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:48.880 the other. And I'm going to tell you I didn't 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.680 get the sense that he was gonna throw it all 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:53.280 out there on the field on Sunday. 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:54.120 I just didn't. 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.360 Yeah, I think he's gonna try and He's shown that 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:03.720 he's willing CJ. Bethard the Mammy Dolphins practice squad to 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.760 be the backup to Mac Jones, which means you're keeping 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:10.080 CJ on the roster for at least three weeks. That 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.840 tells I think everybody that there's a serious chance to 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:18.680 everyone play. So I'm going to lean toward not just 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:19.280 because of the. 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:20.679 Tea leaves and something. 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:22.560 We'll keep an eye and see what his availability is 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:24.519 in practice as this week goes along. 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:26.400 Our big thing Number two is going to be year three. 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:28.920 We're looking ahead to that matchup with the Vikings this 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:32.040 week and Kevin O'Connell, head coach over there in Minnesota. 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:32.840 Is entering his third season. 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.760 And when you look at this offense, Brian, when we've 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.240 seen what they've done with Sam Darnold and this year 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:40.680 after drafting a quarterback and then bringing him in, it's 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:42.960 been impressive to see on offensive sets football. 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:46.400 Well, he comes from the Sean McVay, you know, Shanahan 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:50.600 kind of mold of a young bright offensive mine. But 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.959 they were sort of grasping when they grabbed Sam Donald. 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:54.320 I don't think there's any way that they could have 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.480 looked and said, well a right. Sam Donald was the 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:58.400 fourth pick by the Jets and they let him go, 0:02:58.440 --> 0:02:59.800 and he went to the Panthers and they let him 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.160 go when he went to San Francisco for a year. 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:05.560 I mean, maybe maybe Shanahan shared some knowledge with him 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.200 about what the quarterback was. But it really helps when 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:10.880 you have the best wide receiver in football in Justin 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:14.519 Jefferson and then they go grab Aara Jones in free 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.800 agency and he's been a revelation for them, just a 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:21.679 powerful running back. And Sam Donald settled in seven seasons 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:23.840 in turns out he is a pretty good quarterback. And 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.639 O'Connell looks like a genius sportthanding him the reins. 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:30.040 Yeah, I think you're gonna see Sam Donald type stories 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:30.840 more around the league. 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:32.160 You're seeing it with Baker Mayfield. 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.880 These guys come in and you know, the more I 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.320 think about this last couple of weeks as I sort 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.440 of focused on it, I think the league's broken when 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.120 it comes to trying to develop young quarterbacks. They have 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.600 to play too soon, the expectations, then you're out the door. 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.520 So I think Sam Donald's an example of I think 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.720 a trend you're gonna see which means nothing to the 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.520 Jaguars this week. The point is they've got to play 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.280 this guy. And the Vikings are a lot better than 0:03:58.320 --> 0:03:59.840 you would have thought that. The Vikings are one of 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:03.839 the teams in the NFL right now. They're consistent, they're 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.760 always hard to beat, they're always there, and they're even 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:07.960 hard to beat for the Jaguars this week. 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:09.280 And this is a solid team. 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.040 Right hey, don't forget Jared Goff is a reclamation story 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.080 of his own and he may have the best football 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.200 team out there right now with the seven and one Lions. 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.960 And the guy in Seattle was reclaimed a couple of 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.839 different times, so it's going to be a hot storyline 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.960 because the lack of patients in developing these guys, the 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:27.159 sense that you've got to go all in right now. 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:28.120 I mean c J. 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.440 Stroud, who was so good as a rookie. It's been 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:32.640 pretty good this year too. Seems to be the exception 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:34.280 to the rule. These guys need some time. 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.160 We're seeing with Anthony Richardson and Bryce Young right now 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.200 as well, so it's be something to keep an eye 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:40.960 on for sure. Let's do our final big thing today, 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:42.200 which is going to be picked your poison. 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:43.200 We're talking a little. 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.240 Bit about the Vikings, who had kind of an inverse 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.520 season with the Jaguars have been having They've been playing 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.920 tight games, and they've been finding ways to win. John 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:52.920 when we talk about that offense, obviously what they've been 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.040 able to do with Sam Darnold, but also this defense 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.320 has been pretty much shut down since Brian Flour. 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:57.640 I've got there. 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:01.440 Well, the defense is good. On offense, justin Jefferson's really good. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.239 This is when you looked at this stretch the Jaguars 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.599 are going into, I guess the filling a lot of people. 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.119 This was not a game they looked at as maybe 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.480 the same stretches Detroit or Philly. 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.000 But it's good. And if I picked my poison, I. 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.719 Think the offense this week, I mean, the Jaguars offense 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.480 is going to need some above the x's and o's 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:29.080 type plays from special players. This is not a defense 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:30.760 the Vikings that you're gonna go up and down the 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:36.400 field twelve plays. It's my headline later in the show, 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:45.960 so won't give it away. But yeah, although I could hear. 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.440 It, you're whispering still like that. I'm gonna say the 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.040 same thing this week that I said last week, and 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.160 that is if you don't stop Aaron Jones, if you 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:56.960 can't make him, if you can't put them in third 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.840 and long situations, you got no hope of stopping Justin Jefferson. 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:00.320 Anyway. 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:02.719 So this football team last week got a couple of 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.960 key tackles that Devon Hamilton played so well, made the 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.240 big tackle that set up the long field goal that 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.400 they missed to break serve and give the Jaguars offense 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:15.280 a chance. The defense has to help the quarterback, no 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.000 matter who it is. If it's Trevor who's banged up, 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:18.919 or as we seem to think, Matt Jones is going 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:21.240 to get his first start for the Jaguars, You're going 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.760 to have to get something more from the defense, and 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.680 I think that stopping Aaron Jones is giving them more. 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.560 All right, so far, and Jagzam coming up after the break. 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:31.359 We'll talk a little bit more about that Vikings matchup 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:45.919 coming on Sunday. Welcome back to Jagzam, brought to you 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.640 by Fields Auto Group, Jackson Bill's premier luxury auto group. 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:54.240 You can head over to Fieldsauto dot com. 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:55.919 Welcome you back in. 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.160 The Jaguars are going to take on the Vikings in 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.360 their Salute to Service game this weekend and as they 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.840 come to town. You're very talented team. We've been talking 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:05.160 about it a little bit, but we're going to look 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:06.960 into that a little bit more. One of the players 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.840 that's coming back, very familiar to Jaguars fans, came Robinson 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.800 traded there last week. I already played one game, so 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:14.480 it's been a couple of weeks since he's been gone, 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.280 but he's already been impressive in his first performance. 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:22.800 Cam being the first a veteran player with over ninety starts, 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:25.920 he knows how to play the game. I thought, for 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.560 a guy that showed up, and I used the play 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.600 style term a lot. He probably only heard it about 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:32.840 one hundred times, you know, which is a low number 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:34.560 most of our players will tell you. 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:36.440 But that showed up. 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.120 I mean his physicality in the run game. Maybe the 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.040 technique might not have been perfect, but his length and 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.840 strength and able to you know, come off the rock 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.840 when we needed him to, depending on if we were 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:49.680 running to his side or he was on the back 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:50.480 side of a run. 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:51.640 That showed up to me. 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:57.080 Ryan, we very familiar with Cam's style and we know 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.520 he'll be up for this game for sure. What are 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.080 we going to see from Cam? This might be the 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:02.680 best game we see from Cam. Yeah. 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:04.720 I mean we heard the stories that he was animated 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:08.160 when he lost his starting job, so you know, there's 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.440 a little bur under the saddle there, and the fact 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.480 that the Jaguars traded him he was the longest tenured 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:16.000 player here and that they were willing to move on. 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:21.320 There wasn't a real cohesive feeling between the organization and came. 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.640 At least from my third person perspective, it felt like 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:27.080 it was a little bit disjointed this year. So I 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:28.720 expect him to come play well. And I don't know 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.320 whether you saw the piece of video from the locker 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:33.520 room post game where Kevin O'Connell gave him a game ball. 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.040 The smile on his face was pretty telling, and I 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.480 expect that Josh and trayvonn't gonna have their hands full 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:40.160 with him on Sunday. 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:41.400 Yeah. 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:46.079 The end in the NFL is usually not how you feeling. Yeah, 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:50.440 because you're leaving. You don't want to leave. Look, Cam's fun. 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.640 Cam will be up for this, probably some pushing at 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:55.360 least some shoving. 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:57.040 As I've said a couple times this. 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:00.240 Week, I fully expect that at some point in the future, 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.200 Cam will be embraced. Cam will embrace the organization. He 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.640 was here for eight years. He liked being here. 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.360 This is not the weekend for embracing now. 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.839 It'll be fun. Cam gets motivated by things like that. 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:17.400 He's a street ball type guy. He likes the scrap 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:19.960 and I think I'm not saying he's gonna be fights, 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.800 but you know there's gonna be motivation. And you know what, Brian, 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:26.040 this is the kind of storyline makes it fun. 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.440 Especially when you go at you and seventeen right, you 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:31.280 need a little something to juice it up. I also 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.720 think that if you're Cam Robinson, you appreciate Kevin O'Connell, 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:35.800 you know, praising you, not just in front of your team, 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:37.760 but in front of the media. Because he's gonna be 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.360 a free agent in eight more regular season games. They're 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.880 a playoff team for sure. This gives him an opportunity 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.720 to stand up and say, hey, I'm still a quality 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:46.600 starting left tackle. 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:47.720 I want some more money. 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:49.120 He's auditioning a little bit himself. 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:52.320 Yeah, all right, let's look at what the Vikings are 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.240 going to bring to town. Doug Peterson talked a little bit. 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.040 We mentioned Sam Darnold's kind of his resurgence that he's 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.280 had in Minnesota. And Doun talked to a little bit 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.040 about what Sam Donald brings to the game. 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:04.880 I think the talent around him, you know, I mean 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.839 that helps, right, I mean just having having having the 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:09.920 run game, the defense, the way the defense is played, 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.360 you know, being in coach O'Connell's system and in the 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:20.120 way he calls plays, I think is helpful. And and look, 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:24.480 he's he's always been. He's always been a solid quarterback 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:29.120 and whatever team role he's on, I just think now 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:33.400 he's learning, maturing and in showing. 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:34.559 That he's capable of doing it. 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.080 And that's what you're seeing on on film, you know, 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.120 taking care of the football. That's a big part of 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:42.880 this thing. And and to yes, Justin Jefferson is a 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.600 you know, obviously an elite receiver in this league that 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:48.760 you know can can recavoc on you. 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.120 John ruin this press conference yesterday, I think he laughed 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:53.840 when someone asked him about what Sam Donald brings and 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:55.560 he just laughed and said, well, Justin Jefferson helped us 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:57.360 a lot, and I'm sure it does well. 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.520 So much of this league can be circumstance just Jeffson 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.600 certainly helps. He's a guy who's a you know, we 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.720 all love to talk about true number one. Well, he's 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:08.640 a true number one, and a lot of guys get 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:10.520 tagged with that and they're not really This guy can 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.760 beat double coverage, he can beat defenses that are designed 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:19.040 to stop him. Also, Sam Donald a lot of quarterbacking 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.360 in this league. There are guys who can ascend through 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:27.640 weirdness and define an offense as quarterback. There's the other 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:31.040 guys who can thrive in a system that's already there. 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:33.680 This system is already there. There's light going on around. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.599 Sam Donald was able to step in into a calm situation, 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:41.640 which I doubt he had really had before. So again, 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.959 the teams that are good know how they want to play. 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.440 The Vikings seem to know their identity, they know how 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.240 they want to play. It makes them dangerous and Donald's 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.120 confidence so it's scary. 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.560 Yeah, Listen, when you've already been a bust, right when 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:58.880 you've been shipped out of the door by the team 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:00.520 that drafted you in the top five and then a 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.480 backup in Carolina in San Francisco, what do you care 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:04.280 what other people think? 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:05.320 I don't think he does. 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:07.600 When I watch him play, he looks like a guy 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.160 who is out there just functioning, as John said, in 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:13.800 a system was really good football players around him, playing 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.240 and having fun. I mean, he's learned in six previous 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.640 seasons how to play the game at this level, and 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:22.720 now he's got a legitimate opportunity. Remember he wasn't supposed 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.880 to necessarily be the starter. The McCarthy kid who was 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.079 drafted out of Michigan with the knee injury, was supposed 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.280 to be the starter this year. So they plug him 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:32.400 in and he goes in, plays great. 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:33.920 There's a little Kurt Warner to it, right. 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:37.520 If you remember back in the day the Rams signed 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:41.120 Trent Green to be their quarterback. He gets hurt in 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:42.719 the Rams thought, oh my god, it's all over, and 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:44.840 then Kurt Warner steps in and becomes a Hall of Famer. 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.199 So you know, for him, he's in the perfect situation. 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.240 And six years now, seven years into his NFL career, 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:52.240 he just gets to go play. 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.320 Yeah, so much of its maturity. Yeah, six years. He 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:59.240 now realizes he said nothing to lose, he can come in. 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:01.880 He makes a mistake. Why every thought it was my names? 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.720 Yeah mistake. Anyways, supposed to be here and I don't 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:08.000 have to be a hero. So he's got his dough 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:08.600 Now he can. 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:12.439 Go put let's touch to the other side of the football. 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:14.920 Brian Flora is now their new defensive coordinator coming in 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.480 this season has given them a different look and and 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.800 Doug spoke a little bit about what that defense looks 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:21.160 like now. 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:24.440 I think coach Fory has just done a great job 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:28.920 with the personnel there. He's found roles for their guys. 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:37.360 It's a multiple, multiple front disguise defense. They're going to keep, 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.559 you know, the lid on it. You know, they're not gonna, 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.360 you know, let a lot of explosive passages, which I 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.200 think was a year ago, you know, was was was 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.760 part of the part of the issue there. But they've 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:52.960 done a great job I think just just moving guys 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.959 around on defense and we got veteran guys in spots 0:13:56.000 --> 0:14:01.240 that our leaders there. That's a physical group and it's 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:02.439 another top challenge. 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:06.240 For offense, definitely getting the physicality out of them. I'm 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.040 familiar with Floors is some of his coaching work in 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.120 New England John and he talked about it on the 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.480 podcast there today with Bucky Brooks and just what he's 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:14.760 been able to dial up with them and for lack 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.240 of a better word, basically attacking their opponents and kind 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.280 of making them making those teams adjust to them. 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.320 Well, they're really good. They they they blitz. 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.880 Well, they've got I think five or three guys with 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:30.520 five or more sacks, so it's hard to identify who 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:35.560 you have to double. The key to playing this scheme 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.760 is you have to be patient and and and you 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.240 have to be very smart and make good quick decisions 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:42.440 in the short passing game. 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.080 Uh. I think mac Jones can do that. 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.720 I mean it's it's uh, this shapes up to me 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.920 as a game the Jaguars can stay competitive in if 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:53.080 they're smart and patient. 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:53.680 Uh. 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:56.120 I think Matt can do that if he's the guy. 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:00.400 Uh if he stays over his feet, so to speak, 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:02.560 I try to do too much say in the game 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:04.280 plan and not panic, which I think he can do. 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:08.600 Explorer is the most successful coach to leave New England. 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:10.280 I mean lots of guys did. 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:12.920 He obviously didn't have success as a head coach when 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.120 he went to Miami, but I would argue he's one 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.280 of the better coordinators and what he's been able to 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.600 do Obviously he was in the Steelers last year as well, 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:23.160 and he when we talk about how we want our 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.280 team to be physical and tackle hard and finish, he 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:28.600 always gets that out of players and he's really creative. Obviously, 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.480 the Malcolm Butler play in the Super Bowl, he was 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:32.320 kind of in charge of the secondary at that point 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.560 when he was able to. I mean, Malcolm Butler undrafted 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:39.080 free agent out of small college in Mississippi, so he 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.160 gets a lot out of what he has and I 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.200 think plays to their strengths and gets. 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:43.880 The most of his players. 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.040 I think it's also worth noting that they let the 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.960 Neil Hunter walk in free agency, right and are fine apparently, Yeah, right, 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.880 which is a great lesson, a great lesson. They knew 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:56.720 what they had, they knew what they wanted, and incomes 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.960 a new defensive coordinator and without the Neil Hunter puts 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:01.840 together maybe the best defense in football. 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:03.520 Gotta love it. 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:05.200 He was impressive, very much. 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:06.800 So is all right, say us, we're gonna give you 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:08.720 our prediction. That's to what the headlines are gonna be 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:19.760 on Monday morning. 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I predicted a win on Monday, so 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:56.640 I'm sticking with it. 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:57.840 I go with white hat Hero. 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:00.760 They're wearing white helmets for the very first time in 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:02.960 franchise history. Was weird to be on the practice field 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.840 to just see those. I'm gonna stick with the assumption 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.080 that Matt Jones will make his first start in a 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:12.639 Jaguars uniform, and I think he makes a play and 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.719 keeps the Vikings off balance early on, the Jaguars get 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:20.879 their offense going and find a way to shock people 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:23.680 and beat a really good Vikings team. 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:28.280 Well, much like you, Brian, I'm an eternal optimist, and 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.240 this prediction of mine is full of hope. 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:37.040 And so I'm I'm predicting a Jaguars a win this 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:43.440 Tiger's time. Look at the alteration. I like it, hissed Tiger's. 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:43.840 Time would be better. 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:49.480 But you know, Brian Thomas Junior coming out was sort 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:52.000 of like Justin Jefferson in the sense that he was 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:56.399 sort of the second LSU receiver in his draft. And 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:59.640 I think if the Jaguars are gonna win, they may 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:03.720 have to gear the offense more toward BTJ than they've 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:07.640 done in the past. So maybe this is when we're 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:09.760 sitting there watching NFL Network on Sunday night, when they're 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.360 talking about Brian Thomas Junior instead of Justin Jefferson. 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.720 Wow, that would be something mackwell, and it really would. 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.679 You could see that being a storyline. That wouldn't mean 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.480 BTAJA is better yet, right, but if this is a 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:24.720 step toward getting there, I think he can get there 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:26.920 and he can be that guy. Maybe this is the 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:29.560 week he starts to ascend to that level. He's already 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:30.320 a pretty good level. 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:32.720 You were in New England at the time the Jaguars 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:37.760 passed on Jordan Jefferson or Justin Jefferson. Jordan Jefferson's in 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:39.399 their locker room. Now that didn't pass on him on 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:43.199