WEBVTT - Ep. 34: Where Do the Jaguars Stand Through Week 7? | Jags A.M. Podcast 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:04.520 Now Jaguars played on Thursday night this week. That means 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:06.040 we had a free weekend. What do you guys do 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:07.560 on a Sunday when you don't have DAGs football? 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:08.039 Uh? 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:11.000 I was traveling cause I went through the Navy Air 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:13.520 Force game on Saturday for my son's official. 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:14.440 Recruit in business. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:18.119 Any Actually, for the first time in years, I actually 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:19.320 did watch football. 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:22.400 All day Sunday, So that was the it was on Sunday. 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:22.880 There you go. 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.519 Welcome to Jags am here on this Monday as we 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:45.600 get ready to look back a little bit at Thursday 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:47.680 night football, but also we get to kind of preview 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:49.680 the week ahead, and we had a weekend off. 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:50.160 Which was nice. 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.839 I know, you guys traveling a little bit enjoyed football. 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.360 Maybe would you Jags fans got to watch Red Zone. 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:57.520 I went to Connecticut for a little bit to see 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.000 some family and then I missed a little Red Zone 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:01.400 time because I was in the airport. 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:03.200 But I did get back and get into it. 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:04.679 Cause it's always nice to kind of just sit on 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:06.560 the couch and you know, not be fully invested, but 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:09.200 still kind of pay attention to everything. Right, It's to 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:10.200 be a little bit of a fan. 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:11.880 The great thing about Red Zone is I got home 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:13.880 in time for the second set of games, but I 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.319 felt like I saw every game because they kept going 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.840 to showing highlights. Right when you watch red Zone, you 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:20.840 feel as if you saw everything. Even though you didn't 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:22.919 see every play of every game, you feel like you saw. 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.959 Enough, definitely, and it's a feature we unfortunately not unfortunately 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:27.480 fortunately for us because we get to cover the team 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:29.240 we don't get to take part in always, so it's 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:31.000 always fun when we get to do that. But the 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.560 Jags were in primetime on Thursday. We're gonna start with 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.280 our big things. Our first big thing is prime time 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.240 because they were under the lights in New Orleans in 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:43.280 that Thursday night matchup, and maybe it wasn't exactly going 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:45.120 to a game plan, but they did get the win, 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.319 and Trevor talked about, you know, it didn't go to plan, 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:48.200 but they did get. 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.800 To w and I just think it was good for 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.440 our team today. You know, we kind of we jumped 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:56.160 on them early and it looked like we could maybe 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.520 run away with it and put them away, and that's 0:01:58.560 --> 0:01:59.160 what we were all thinking. 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:00.120 That's what I also opening for, or. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:01.400 Maybe I can get out a little early and. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:02.960 You can get a lead and you know it's it's 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.040 NFL don't really work like that usually, so they come 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.480 storming back and it put us in a position where 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:10.520 we had to make plays down the stretch. And that's 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:12.959 that's something that builds your team is when you see 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:14.600 guys and make the plays when they have to, and 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.160 we score when we have to, and the defense gets 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:18.919 a stop on fourth down when they have to. It's 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.959 game on the line that builds confidence in their team 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.000 more than blowing a team out. So you know, that 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:26.359 was cool to see, and that was cool to be 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:28.520 a part of, and just the overall belief in each 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:30.040 other that we that we have right now. 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:30.760 So it's awesome. 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:31.000 Huge. 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:33.840 Rian Turvy's talking a little bit about, oh maybe this 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:34.960 is a game where we can get out to a 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:36.320 lead early. I can get out of the game, you know, 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:37.480 because I'm dealing with the NY thing. 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:37.760 Yep. 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:39.359 Things never go to plans. So what did you learn 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:39.799 about the team? 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.120 Well, I forget about the plan in short week. You know, 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:46.440 third game and what thirteen days getting to win? It's 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.880 the plan. And what you learn is that there is 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:52.960 a depth a resiliency to this team that they can 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.919 have some success and then see some of that success 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.480 erod to the second half and still with you know, 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:00.800 three p forty three or whatever was on the clock, 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.120 make a play, you know, with thirteen seconds left, make 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.480 a play in the end zone. They had enough in 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:10.600 the tank when quite honestly, it's not out of out 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:12.680 of a reasonable expectation that the tank would be empty. 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.200 Yeah, you guys are gonna get tired of hearing it today. 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:17.960 I thought it was a pretty win. 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:22.639 I mean, I guess the way I see Thursday night 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:26.160 football is there is no plan, no matter when you 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:26.600 play it. 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:31.720 If you watch any Thursday night games, teams never look 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.000 like they look in other games. In those games. 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:39.720 It is not a great setup for seeing quality football. 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.200 I understand the money part of it, but I think 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.680 most coaches look at it like, look, we're gonna throw 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:47.440 the kitchen sink at this one, and if we come 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:51.440 out with a win, we're ecstatic. So I thought the 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:56.360 fact that they won, I can't all week long, or 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.200 the three days long. I kept saying, as long as 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.480 you win, this is a really, really impressive win. So 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.080 that they got it, I'm not going to go back 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:06.440 on that and say, oh, I didn't like the way 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.520 the offense played in the second half. They've won four straight, 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:11.760 four different stadiums. 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.360 You know, nineteen days. I think they said. 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.039 Three cities, two continent, six time zones. 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:20.200 Absolutely, if you're a Jags fan, it didn't get any 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:21.640 better than that, Nope, anything. 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:23.920 Considering the conditions on Thursday as well, I was more 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:25.800 surprised some of the good things they were doing right, 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.960 because I was repecting they'd find a way, but I 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.160 was more surprised how well they did early on. Our 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.400 second big thing this week is going to be the comeback. 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.559 Now necessarily the Saints comeback, but the comeback the Jags 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.000 have had these last four games. As we mentioned, they've 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:40.760 been one of the best teams in football, at least 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:42.200 from what we've seen, and they haven't even hit their 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.760 stride yet. Christian Kirk talked a little bit about what 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.040 this team's been able to do lately. 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:49.799 Yeah, you know, I think it shows a lot about 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:53.800 the character, the professionalism in our room, not shying away 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.800 from adversity. You know, before we went over to London, 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.719 you know, we're pretty down on ourselves, but all it 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.640 took it was just us kind of bending together, growing 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.599 even closer and just all we needed was one and 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:07.520 we knew, you know, the flood games had kind of open. 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:10.200 So I like where we're at right now. Like I said, 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:11.760 we definitely have a lot of work to do, but 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:13.800 the fact that we're able to turn around and you know, 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.200 play four games in nineteen days and be able to 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:18.160 be on you know, four no is says a lot 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:18.800 about our team. 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:21.680 Christian is certainly one of the leaders in the locker 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:23.320 room John, but just the mentality of this team, it 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.080 feels different because you know, when they were in that 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.200 stretch with the Chiefs and the Texans game, it's almost 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.600 like they were just so stressed and like they felt 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:31.479 like they couldn't win, and now it feels like we'll 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:32.039 find a way. 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:34.120 Well, I think there's an element too when you're in 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:35.880 a stretch like that, you're trying to figure out what's 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.920 going on. And I think maybe as much as anything 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:42.360 during that time, sometimes in the NFL you lose. The 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:43.840 last team to go in to feed it was fifty 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:45.960 years ago and that's not walked through the door again. 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:52.440 So I I guess I just look at this team 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:56.840 every email I get, it seems right now is trying 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:00.360 to find the flaw. Everybody's trying to outsmart themselves. They've 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:03.599 won four straight games. They haven't trailed in the second 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.719 half in any of those games. In the NFL, you know, 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.320 I keep getting emails about way they can't protect leads. 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.120 They haven't trailed exactly. 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:12.680 They haven't trailed. 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.480 The only time they trailed was three to nothing against 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:17.960 the Colts and they hadn't had the ball yet. You 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.200 can't protect leads better than this team is protecting them 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.960 right now. It's professional football. When you're up fifteen in 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:26.799 the second half, you know it's gonna happen. Sometimes sometimes 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:31.479 you're gonna get tied. And they responded to that, well, 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:32.719 Terrek Brown, Look. 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:37.200 It's not perfect, but it's sort of my hot take. Yeah, 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:39.640 I'm working, I. 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:43.560 Am locked good. I mean mount Terrek Brown, who struggled 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.040 mightily against the Colts, came back and made the play 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.680 that sealed the win. A yeah, no, no, no doubt. 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:51.000 He made a couple of plays. He made a couple 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.520 of plays. But so my take on this at this point, 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:55.640 Kay and John we talked about it. You know, there 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:56.960 was this sense the jack was just kind of pick 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.040 up where they left off last year, and they'd be 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:00.680 better than they were at the end of last year 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.839 because they had Calvin Ridley and the offense was ready 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:07.600 to soar, and it didn't start that way. So what 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.240 we have as a team that's evolving still right, they 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.320 didn't play great football at the end of last year. 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.000 What they did was find a way to win games 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.040 at the end. You know, they remember they were down 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.120 twenty seven to seven at the half. They needed that 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.800 big play from ray Sean and Josh to beat the 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:23.360 Titans to even get to the playoffs. So I think 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.680 when we look back where therever the season ends, I 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.400 think we'll look at this stretch, you know, from London 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.520 to New Orleans, as we talked about, you know, three cities, 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.760 sports stadiums, six time zones, two continents. We'll look at 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.560 this as that point where evolution changes. And that's my 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:39.040 hot take. So I don't want to go too far 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.080 on it other than to say that where they are 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:42.760 right now from where they were when they left for 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.440 London is dramatically different, and it's really impressive. 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:47.800 I think one of the most impressive things is they 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.040 kind of do it a little bit differently in every game. Obviously, 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.840 the defense has been very consistent, but they find ways 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.840 to make things work. Gritty not pretty, if you will. 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:59.160 Is our final big thing this week for a Lulliican 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:01.760 try to describe exactly what this team is. 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:04.280 That's that's who we are as this team. 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:04.640 Bro like. 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:06.600 We ain't got no Hollywood people on this team. We're 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:11.040 all gritty, Like I'm saying, we're fighters. Trevor coming out 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.040 and fighting for us. We're gonna fight for him, fight 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:14.600 for our by the next year us. I appreciate him, 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:16.520 saw him that every drive when he started running and stuff. 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:18.800 I said, dang, you know, I gotta start going and 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:20.600 I came here, took a five hundreds. Yes, I gotta 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:20.960 do more. 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:22.920 And I appreciate him. 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:23.960 I appreciate everybody real. 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:27.920 Trevor with that knee injury was one of our big 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.800 stories this week. Him going out and playing and playing 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.280 the way he did inspired his teammates. Many of them 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:35.000 will tell you that what does that mean to and 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:36.120 how does that bring a team together? 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:36.319 Right? 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.400 Well, when you have the quarterback right and you heard 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.120 Jonathan Allen yesterday in the locker room, you know when 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.920 Washington lost to New York talking about, you know, seven 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.000 years of this stuff. He didn't use the word stuff. 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.880 If you heard it. They have a quarterback and they 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:51.640 don't have anybody that can rally around, and so you 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.800 got the defense against the offense. Look, everybody here in 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.959 Jacksonville can rally around this quarterback. They know they've got 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.199 their guy. It helps lift every one's level of performance 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.280 when you have someone like that. And I think it 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.040 bears saying, John, when you think you know, gritty not pretty? 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:06.400 Wait? 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:08.040 Was Kansas City pretty yesterday? 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:08.240 No? 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.640 Kansas City was not pretty yesterday? Was Philadelphia pretty yesterday? 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:11.720 No? 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.080 Philadelphia wasn't pretty yesterday. I'm not sure that we're going 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:16.280 to see that from San Francisco tonight. Maybe the only 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.520 pretty offense yesterday. The pretty team was the Ravens, and 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:21.480 they weren't pretty the last time they were out. And 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.560 that's just the league. It's a gritty league. John talked about, 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:26.480 you know, having a lead and holding it in the 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.160 fourth quarter. Who cares whether it's ugly or not. If 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:29.880 you hold it, you win. 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:34.320 Yeah. I think this team's world's better than it was 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:39.480 late last year. I'm worked up. 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:42.160 Do you want to take a break so you can 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:43.040 get ready for your hot take? 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.920 Anyone to calm down, John, did you get. 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.600 Well, it's late last year. 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:53.000 In the last six of their last eight games, they 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:56.280 had to come from a touchdown down to win. This 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.400 team has trailed by a total of three points in 0:09:58.440 --> 0:09:59.040 four games. 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:04.120 Where is it not better? I mean it's you are. 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:09.160 Not gonna have games in the NFL very often where 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.720 they're like Trevor was sort of talking about in his presser, 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:14.680 where you get up and you're thirty eight to seventeen, 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:18.400 you're kneeling on the ball at the end. It's such 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.640 a league of plays and moments that if you get 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.800 that fourteen point lead, I thought, Doug a little bit, 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:26.480 you know, Oh, they took the foot off the gas. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:31.320 You played percentages to try to get the win. They 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:35.600 never trailed. The Saints tied them, then they played good defense, 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:36.839 and then they went down and made the play of 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:37.240 the game. 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:42.200 At the end. That's how you build playoff pushes, is 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:42.880 wins like that. 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:45.360 All right, we're gonna come back a little bit. 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.000 We won't go over full highlights, but some of our 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.480 game changing moments, some of the top plays from Thursday 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:56.760 Night Football. Welcome back, Sign up your free friend for 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.560 the Jaguars Official four Legged Band Club for Pats presented 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.680 by for That's Animal Hospital. 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But 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.040 we're gonna go over some of the key moments for 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:29.160 us and things that will probably remember long past this week. 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.040 And I think the first one's got to be Foya 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.319 Lucan getting his pick six his first touchdown, he said, 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.240 since high school, because he didn't have one in college 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:38.959 and it hasn't had one so far in the NFL, 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:40.720 because it's definitely not an easy thing to get in 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:44.040 the NFL. But John he's been everywhere, He's led the 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:45.800 league and tackles two years in a row. 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:47.320 And what does he mean to this defense? 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:53.760 Well, he's really really important. I think he's got to 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.040 shot the Pro Bowl this year, I think so. I 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.760 think this plays a big reason why because of the 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:04.400 dynamic provo voting. This play isn't why he's great. He's 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:08.960 really really good because he's so consistent tackling. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.320 You trust him implicitly. But he's won. 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:14.880 I mean, he's been the leading tackler two years in 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.319 a row. I think he's got a really good chance 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:20.800 to do it again. A primetime play like this, all 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.520 of a sudden gets your name out there a little more. 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.160 So this could be what catapults him there. And if 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:27.400 it does, he's. 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.559 A really really productive player. He's the kind of guy 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:32.120 that deserves to go to the Probo once twice in 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:32.480 his career. 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.000 And he's better than he was last year. I mean 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.960 he has. He came in. He led the Falcons in 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:41.199 his final season in Atlanta in tackles and led the 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.240 league in tackles with Atlanta, and he came right in and 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:44.960 he did the same thing last year. But there were 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.680 some there were some moments where he missed and tackles 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:49.880 last year. I haven't seen him miss it tackle this year. 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.840 Even when he's he's the guy that's knocking his legs 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.640 out underneath and grabbing for someone else to pull him down. 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:59.240 He makes the play. Anytime you see twenty three, he 0:12:59.320 --> 0:12:59.880 makes the play. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:00.920 You get the idea. 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:03.880 I haven't really talked to foy about this, but I 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.680 would guess that he is able to play a little 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:10.400 faster a being in the scheme an extra year, and 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.920 I think Devin Lloyd is much more aware now. Yeah, 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.079 I don't think Foye has to make up for that 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.119 the way you do with any rookie. 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:19.720 So I think that's helping Foye. 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.800 I would guess when you talk about free agent signings, 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.959 you know he is as good as you could find. 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.400 Christian Kirk was big, Say Jones was big, or Robertson 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.680 Harris's turn out to be good. Evan yeah, Evan was yeah, right. 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:33.800 Now, there's a lot of options. 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:35.880 Yeah, but this guy's as good as a free agent 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:37.000 as they've had in Jacksonville. 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.480 I think he's great as well because he makes others better, right, 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.880 just leadership alone, the trust factory you have to have. 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:43.920 On defense, you can tell the people around him are 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:45.360 getting better because of his influence. 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:47.920 Well, and he plays right. He's a middle linebacker and 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:49.880 he's leading your team to tackles. I mean, those guys 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.600 get banged up. It's always there's an injury report. He's 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.000 always on the practice field. He's exactly the kind of 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.360 guy you want leading your defense and on your salary 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:58.840 cap because you get what you pay for. 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.520 Absolutely, another big play, although you wouldn't know from what 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.240 Alan Michael's call of it was, was Christian Kirk's go 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:09.120 ahead touchdown late Just to see what he's been able 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.920 to do. Obviously his connection with Trevor, but just he 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.920 said he doesn't think he's ran that fast sins College maybe, 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:17.320 but just to get around and find the end zone 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:18.560 on that one was pretty impressive. 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:23.240 Well, look, they are an offense run There's been so 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.000 much talk about White and Calvin really get the ball 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.520 well because they have players like this to also get 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:29.880 the ball. 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.360 This was a huge play at a huge moment. 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:35.920 It sort of goes back to what you were talking about, Brian, 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:40.160 Christian Kirk, Puya Lua Khan Zay Jones. What struck you 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.360 last year was that these guys felt like they had 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.680 been with this franchise their whole career. 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:47.360 The day they walked in the door. 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:50.920 You're so used to their jag Wars players, their core players. 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:58.440 Christian Kirk is just ultra reliable, ultra smart. He's the 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:00.680 kind of guy you sort of expect to make plays 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:04.880 like this. It was an outstanding play. And I'll go 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:08.200 back to what I was saying about the offense. Everybody's 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:12.120 talking right now about what the offense isn't. The offense 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.800 made huge plays laid against Buffalo to win that game. 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:16.840 They made a huge play to win this game. They 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:18.920 made a huge play to win the Colts game in 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:23.200 Week one. Worry about what they're doing in big moments 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.800 more than what if they're sporadic in the third quarter. 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.240 They're making plays when they happen. This was a huge 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:33.880 play that for years this team didn't make. Everybody forgets 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.840 about this because they went X of X on third downs. 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:38.320 Big plays in big moments. 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.520 Do you remember on opening Day in Indianapolis when Christian 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.440 Kirk was a complete non factor, right, I mean everyone 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:47.080 Calvin Ridley got all the balls. Well, here we are 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:50.400 and Christian Kirk. Christian Kirk is that guy. And you 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.280 would expect that if on Sunday in Pittsburgh he has 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.080 two catches for thirty six yards, he'll be the same guy. 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:58.840 Even postgame locker room than he was after the win 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:03.000 in New Orleans. He is a tremendous person as well 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.560 as a tremendous player. And you know, you just you 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:07.480 got to give the general manager and the head coach 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.360 a lot of credit for the players that they brought 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.440 in here last year because for this offense to be 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:15.800 performing at such a high level, even without performing at 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.160 this high level as we expect them to, but what 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.960 they've done the last four weeks, Christian Kirk is an 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:25.280 excellent example of a guy who's overpaid right right, I. 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.200 Mean attitude attitude alone, not to mention what he does 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:29.840 in the field, because when you see some of these 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.040 other players, Stefan Diggs smashing tablets, you see Derek Karkhan 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:36.880 out his offensive coordinator to fact to not have that 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:40.240 drama and gone through what they've gone through, that can 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:40.600 do a lot. 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.800 He and the quarterback clearly have a special relationship worth 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:45.280 every penny. 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:51.280 Well the chemistry there, and then we're moving on the 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:58.240 smashing tablets and you get the idea that Zay and 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.200 Christian and I think out and fits into this pretty 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:04.919 well for being a new guy. Evan, if one of 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:07.719 them smashed the tablet. The other three'd big, what are 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:08.000 you doing? 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:08.760 What are you doing? 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.399 Like it would be so out of place that it 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:16.600 would be weird. So I think they'd be uncomfortable doing 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:18.119