WEBVTT - Ep. 55: Déjà Vu? Breaking Down Win-and-In Matchup vs. Titans | Jags A.M. Podcast 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:35.240 Congratulations, Congratulations, congratulations. Winning is fun, right, Winning is fun. 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:37.960 Winning is fun. My hat's off to everybody in this room. 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.440 We've battled and you were battle tested. Okay, you're battle 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.479 testing you guys. Continue to stick together. Great things is 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:46.120 gonna happen this football team moving forward. 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:48.199 Okay, you just got to continue to believe, continue to 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:48.880 believe in one another. 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:49.559 All right, great job. 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:55.320 We gotta finish with one down. Okay, ready, one, two, three. 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.680 Welcome to Jags Am. Winning is really fun. 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:02.200 That's why we're gonna celebrate victory Monday all week long. 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.720 Hair on JAG's Am, because Jags finally break their four 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:07.959 game losing street. They gonna win over the Panthers, and 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.240 they do it in the best way possible by playing 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:14.040 clean football and not making mistakes. Our first big thing today, 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:16.120 it's gonna be it was always the Titans, So we 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:18.119 had this game circled on the calendar. It came down 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:20.080 to the Titans game, the final game of the regular 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:21.160 season last year. 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:23.479 It's gonna be the same situation this year. 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.319 And Josh Allen told us why it's always a little 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:27.920 bit special when it's best arrival. 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:29.760 Again. 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:32.640 You know that goes down to the ribery game. You 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.000 just say they're not playing for anything, and they they're 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.840 playing for a lot, playing for pride, they playing for themselves, 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:41.600 they playing for check, they're playing for everything. So for us, 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.520 why do you know how robbery games go. You know, 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:45.800 you can be the best team, you can be the 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.360 worst team. But ribery games, the MG's gonna be high. 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.559 And so we have to we have to come prepared 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:54.160 to play. No lacks of Baisic cool movement, No, no 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.960 going through the motions. We have to start Monday, No, 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:01.520 when we're going to play first and foremost, and get 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:03.040 ready to prepare every single day. 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:03.960 And we can do that. 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:06.560 You know, I can see the same outcome as this. 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:09.200 Brian. 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:11.680 The Titans aren't playing for anything on paper, but sometimes 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.200 playing for pride is the most important thing. So I 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:16.000 can't imagine this is going to be an easy matchup. 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:16.880 No it won't. 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:18.240 And we just need to go back and look at 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:22.560 last January when they rolled down here and they had 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:28.359 Josh Dobbs. They didn't have Andrea, DeAndre Hopkins, Derrick Henry, 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:32.040 and Ryan Tannehill all on the field, right, I mean 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.160 it was pretty much Derick Henry and Josh Dobbs and 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.519 they darn near beat the Jaguars and knocked him off. 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:39.480 This isn't as good a team, but. 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:41.840 Mike Grabel's a really good coach and he'll have them 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.640 ready to go, locked and loaded to play. And John, 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.360 you know, look, this is probably Derick Henry's final game 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.520 as a Tennessee Titan, which means that the video board 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.560 is going to be loaded with highlights of what he's 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.400 done to torture the Jaguars through the years. Probably that 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.480 long ninety nine yard touchdown run will be over and 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.880 over and over. And there's some marks he can hit, 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:05.239 like set a franchise record with forty one career one 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:07.080 hundred yard days against the Jaguars. 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:07.880 He could get that done. 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:09.960 So my guess is you're going to get the best 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:11.560 they've got, and Henry is still pretty good. 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:13.840 Yeah, I feel like all forty one of coming against 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:19.520 the Jaguars. Look, it's not the same team that came 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:23.040 in here last year. They're not as good. They're more 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:26.440 similar to the Carolina team last week in the sense 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.160 that they are struggling right now towards the end of 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:33.040 the season. Tell the people up there they think the 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:34.880 motivation for the Titans is not as much being the 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:37.560 Jaguars as it is just winning a game. There's not 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.480 a whole lot of rivalry feel for people I've talked 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:42.880 to that being said, you need to do this ani 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:47.000 it against Carolina, which is get up early, get a 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:50.680 touchdown lead, and make them not believe. I think if 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.200 you do that, I think you can get this game 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.000 without a whole lot of drama. That's easier said than 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.200 done on the road against the Mike Rabel coach team. 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:00.200 Yeah, let me highlight that real quick, because you talk 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.640 about getting a lead, John, If the Jaguars get a lead, 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.120 then they won't be able to give the ball to Henry, 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.120 and the numbers on that a very start. When he 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.760 carries the ball seventeen times or fewer this year, Kay, 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:12.400 he only averages thirty seven yards per game, but when 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:15.480 it's eighteen or more, it's one hundred and fourteen. So 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.479 their best hope of beating the Jaguars is Derick Henry 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:20.920 getting something done on the ground. If you build that 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.320 early lead that John talked about, you take that away. 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.040 Also, Okay, the Jaguars haven't won this year, you Trannel 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.320 at halftime, So get a lead. 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:30.880 Lead, always helps and it helps out the defense as well. 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.320 That's our second big thing, which is defense helping. 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:33.680 Out the offense. 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:36.280 The offense was very good last week and not turning 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.600 the ball over and playing smart football. Could have done 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:39.960 a little bit better in the red zone, but we're 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.840 working on that. The defense, though, also played well and 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:44.160 helped out the offense. 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.440 When a defense is playing like that, it takes so 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.240 much pressure off the offense and off a quarterback to 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.680 feel like you have to press and do this and 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:54.600 do that. So, you know, we you know, obviously we'd 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:56.640 like to be better on the red zone, but one 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.159 of your defense is playing like that, it's not the 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.080 worst thaing to skicking field goals, taking care of the football. 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.120 We kind of knew all week we wanted to protect 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:05.800 the ball and just you know, move the ball and 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:07.320 put up points, and that's what we did. The defense 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.960 played played great, So hats off to those guys, and 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.880 hats off to Josh for you know, getting this three 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:15.920 sacks a day and getting that record. That's a big 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:17.279 deal and that's that's awesome. 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:20.280 John, when you lost so many games and are trying 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.360 to get your momentum back. I think even if it's 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.440 field goals, getting points on the board, and then playing 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.280 solid defense. That's the complimentary football that they haven't been 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.599 doing the past month, and that was what was able 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:31.160 to get them an early lead and then a little 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:31.840 bit of confidence. 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.320 Yeah, I thought it was key. You know, Brandon McManus 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:37.080 had struggled coming into the game. They were longer field 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.000 goals that he missed in that four game stretch. I 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.160 think he missed four out of five, and I think 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.480 three of them were from fifty plus and wins, So 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:45.760 it's not like he's a horrible kicker. 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:47.240 They just hadn't been going through. 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.320 They were getting closer the other day, but yeah, getting 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:54.520 that scoreboard advantage. Doug Peterson does a nice job within 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:58.200 close games of playing to the score, of getting up 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.760 by a touchdown, of getting up by a couple of touchdowns, 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.080 and then being able to sort of dictate play after that. 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:08.640 He's a really good scoreboard game coach. When field goals 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:12.240 aren't going through, Brian, it's tougher to play that strategy 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.039 type game because all of a sudden, the things you've 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.720 done to get there haven't gotten any advantage and you're 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:21.400 back to square one. So in my ten things the 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.719 Jaguars need to do to win on Sunday. Making makeable 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:25.880 kicks is what I'm you. 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.760 Know, Press Taylor talked about last week before the game 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.480 against the Panthers about how they had a game plan 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.159 ready to go and then the circumstances of the game 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:35.440 got away from them. 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:36.599 And that's what you're talking about. 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.080 Their field goals and how you tend to play get 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.520 away from you. Just one more point on the Jaguars 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:43.840 building a lead, and that is is it unleashed the 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:47.680 pass rush. Last week you saw six sacks, which totally 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.800 took away any sort of rhythm from the young quarterback 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.520 for Carolina. And you happen to be going against a 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:57.640 Titans offensive line that allowed six sacks last week. So 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.800 making the kicks, getting the first down, putting points on 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.640 the board allows you to really play to the strength 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.560 of your defensive line and last week without standing. So 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.000 all those little things add up. In the field goal 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:10.920 part of it certainly is. 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:11.200 Part of it. 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.280 Our final big thing is staying dialed in because of 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.320 that losing streak for the Jaguars, it's been pretty much 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:19.680 must win since last week. 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:20.480 It'll be must win. 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:22.280 This week, and then of course the playoffs if they 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:22.800 get there. 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.720 So staying dialed in is going to be key going forward. 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.480 Coming down to week eighteen. I mean, that's just I 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:34.560 think our guys really thrive on these situations. And that's okay, 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:39.040 you know, it's it's it's a great opportunity for our 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.840 for our organization, for our franchise, for players, for our owner, 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.080 you know, to be in this situation, and you know, 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:47.120 we got to go. We gotta go play another good 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.920 football team on the road, and well, we'll enjoy this 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.160 one obviously, and prepare, you know, prepare this this week 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:55.040 whenever we play. 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:56.680 Brian. 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:58.760 I'm sure many of us would have appreciated if they 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:00.480 locked up a playoff spot a little bit earlier in 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.800 the year. But they really do play their best football 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:03.880 when their backs against a wall. 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:05.680 Well, I hope so, because they haven't played their best 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.559 football this year in big games. Kai I circled five 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:12.400 dates when the schedule came out in the spring, Kansas City, Buffalo, 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:16.040 San Francisco, Cincinnati, and the Ravens, and they only won 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:18.960 one of those games, right, And we heard after the 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.960 Chiefs loss that it was the worst week of practice 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:23.480 that they had all season long. 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:25.680 Well, flip it now. We heard that last week was. 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:29.440 The best week of practice, so hopefully they're in that mindset. 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.600 It doesn't get any bigger than this win and you're 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.520 in lose and you probably go home because of the 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.600 way that the scenarios play out. And I know we're 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.920 going to talk about that later, but if this team 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.679 has been lacking anything this year, it's been that situational 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.440 awareness of a big game and when you've got to 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.120 play your best and you can't have any excuses injuries 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:47.720 or otherwise. 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.000 Yeah, I think it remains to be seen if they 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:52.880 play their best with their bast games to all this year, 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:56.400 because to me, Sunday is the biggest example of that. 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.319 Beating Carolina was very impressive at home. You got to 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:03.160 go on the road in a place where until last 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:04.440 year he hadn't played very well. 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:05.000 The whole thing. 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:10.400 Yeah, look, if you're not ready, if you're not dialed 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.160 in for this one, go do something else. 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:15.400 Just go do something else. 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.840 John said it say with us here on JACKXAM, do 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:19.520 not go do something else. I'm gonna talk about the 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:23.200 playoff scenarios coming up here on DIXAM presented by Jet Homewooks, 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:29.720 Jack exam is brought to you by Field's Auto hoop 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.520 Jackson Bill. You can step up to luxury at Fieldsauto 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.160 dot com. We also want to take a moment to 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:38.600 thank jea's frontline teams for their critical services they provide 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.439 to this community. Today, we'd like to recognize JEA employees 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.120 who volunteered over five hundred hours at the Salvation Army 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:44.720 Toy Show. 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:45.559 Thank you for. 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.720 Helping make the holiday season a little bit righter for 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:48.480 our community. 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:51.559 There was seven to one we counts on the field, 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.040 and I feel like he just bringing that veteran president. 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:58.080 He just been here, he'd been through everything with the Jaguars, 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.600 and he understand what it was like when they were 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:02.600 winning no games and now he knows what it is to. 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:03.520 Feel like success. 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:05.599 And he just has the aura about him and I 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:07.600 feel like it just kind of feeds off into the 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.719 other guys. And that's just he just means so much 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:12.679 to the officer line, to the team, to all of us. 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:14.400 And I feel like when he's out, it's just kind 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:15.920 of definitely notice. 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.360 It's good to happen that It's just it's just, uh, 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:19.280 he's just. 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.120 A difference maker for us. He's an energy as energy 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:23.400 as pantagious in that room. 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.480 Man, we ran the ball really well today, so having 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:28.079 him back was. 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:28.760 A plus for us. 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.679 So I know he's probably just starting to get back 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.120 in his groove too. So you know, he came out 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:34.760 healthy today and. 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:36.440 You know we're gonna keep moving forward with him for sure. 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:38.880 He just pulled my helmet off, so I'll pulled hisself. 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:44.319 That's yeah, good, that's the last one I normally do. 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.040 Cam being Cam, he always gets the last laugh. 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.360 I know he doesn't love that narrative of that, the 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.480 team being seven and one when he plays, but everybody 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:55.240 else does and they all love him when he's out there, 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.400 and they play a little bit different too, and uh 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.320 nice to see a little bit a little bit of 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:00.920 Cam's energy at the end of the game too, when 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:01.920 things are in hand as well. 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:06.520 Yeah, it's not that they win seven and one because 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:11.240 Cam Robinson's I mean, but they are a different team. 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:16.640 They run better, and frankly, he's the alpha on the offense. 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:16.840 You know. 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:19.480 We had this conversation with Nate Hackett back in twenty 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:23.360 seventeen where he identified Cam Robinson, who was a rookie, 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:25.520 as being one of the two or three guys on 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:27.560 the offense that they could count on to bring it, 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:29.480 you know, top competitor at all times. 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:31.400 And that was a good running team that year. Yeah, 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:32.920 so he does matter in the run yet. 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.480 Yeah, And you know when you talk about those guys, 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.000 and it's hard unless you're in that locker room and 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.800 you get to know them a little bit personally. You know, 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.679 the guys to whom football matters, right, and so some 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.800 guys it's good, it's important, but it's not like everything, 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.040 and not every guy in every locker room is ever 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:51.679 going to be that way. But Cam is one of 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.400 the guys in that locker room. Man, it really freaking 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:57.199 matters to him. And I've changed my tune, you know. 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:58.480 I kind of thought he was gonna be one of 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.280 those guys that was gonna be a cap casualty next year. 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.000 Is they went to sign a bunch of those other 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.800 young players. Those young players haven't come through this year, 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.600 and Cam certainly has. I don't think there's any way 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:09.960 that you can let Cam Robinson go. 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.360 Yeah. Do you want to go into big games without him? 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:12.960 Hell no? 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:14.160 So that's yeah. 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:15.760 I don't want to see that locker room without him either, 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.679 because when we talk about hating to lose more than 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:19.520 you like to win. 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:21.680 Cam is one of those people to me, and I. 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.160 Love the standoff on the field. I loved it. 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:27.400 That was their best player, Derrick Brown and the Jaguars' 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.120 best offensive lineman and one of their best players, and 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.199 he just wouldn't let go. And the way he tossed 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.560 a home and casually, I just I loved it. I mean, 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:36.719 it's not the best in sportsmanship, and at least he 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:38.720 didn't it didn't hit somebody because maybe they would have 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:40.079 given him more than they're gonna give him. 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:40.880 But I loved it. 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:43.679 Because it's set the tone ky that I think has 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.640 been lacking from this team. That was a big game 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.240 in the sense that they had to win it, and 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:50.280 I thought. 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:51.800 That that was the best sign that I've seen from 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:52.800 this team in more than a month. 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:54.559 I know had coach Doug Peterson liked it. 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.320 Beca in the media session the other day, someone asking 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.480 about him, he was just ear to ear green talking 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:00.200 about it a. 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:01.000 Little bit about playoffs. 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.200 So obviously, the easiest route for this team is going 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.240 to be win and in they can lose, and then 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:10.280 there's a little backdoor situation of they can back into 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:14.040 the playoffs with some other things going their way, but 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:15.040 then you're a lower seed. 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:16.240 Obviously nobody wants that. 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.000 And then the way this team's been playing, if they 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.720 lose and then get in, I don't know what the 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:22.440 success rate is really going to be there, because you're 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.720 also probably gonna be taking on Baltimore or Miami. 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:26.600 Well, so you know, right out of the gate, you 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:30.280 will know, I should say on Saturday night, because in 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.760 order for the Jaguars to lose on Sunday and still 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.480 make the playoffs, they need the Ravens to beat the 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:40.760 Steelers on Saturday. And they've already said in Baltimore that 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:43.199 Lamar Jackson's not gonna play, which means there will be 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.080 a number of guys who are probably beat up and 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.160 banged up on both sides of the ball that won't 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.720 play either, and the Steelers are gonna come hard charging 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.800 it's a rivalry game anyway. I don't see the Ravens 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.840 beating the Steelers on Saturday night, which will just further 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:59.520 hopefully John, you know, get the team focused on what 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:00.160 they've bet. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:01.000 Do one Sunday. 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:05.840 Yeah, look, this is winner in and realistically it takes 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:07.360 a miracle to get in if you don't. 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:09.560 So if they don't win, they don't deserve to be in. 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:17.160 So there's also a scenario in there if the Steelers lose, 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:17.840 which could happen. 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:18.679 They're inconsistent. 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:22.160 It's not a guarantee that a resting Baltimore team couldn't 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:26.440 win that game. Then you need Denver to either lose 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:31.040 or tie. And clear that up, that's because Denver can't 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:34.080 make the playoffs, but they can get into a potential 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.200 tie with Jacksonville and. 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:40.920 Pittsburgh. And once you get into a three. 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.520 Way tie, then all of a sudden, the head to 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:47.200 head that the Jaguars have over Pittsburgh it's thrown out 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.680 and it comes down to that three way deal. So 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.360 it's complex, trust me that that's what it is, even 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:58.000 if they explain it right. But the long and short 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:05.720 is they're depending on Pittsburgh to lose, I mean, and 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.840 that realistically is not something you can depend on going 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.400 into this game. So well is the old playoff game? Yeah, 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:13.160 and that isn't the only one. 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.160 You also need the Raiders to beat the Broncos, and 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.320 you'd say, well, the Raiders that Antonio Pierce has had 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.680 on the field at various times will clearly be. 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:20.800 They've also been up and down. 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:21.760 Yeah, up and down. 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.080 So you need two things to happen. Right, If it 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.600 was just one your percentages higher, but two your percentage drops. Look, 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:30.880 they're a better team than the Titans. They should be 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:34.000 at the Titans. Go do it and eliminate all of 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.120 the consternation about it. And the good news is is 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.440 that at least on Saturday night they'll know one way 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.360 or the other if there's an opportunity for. 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:46.160 And the same matchup that enabled the Jaguars to completely 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:49.080 control the Titans here is still there for the table. 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.720 It's offensive line of the Titans, which is not the 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.840 offensive line that it's been the last you know, before 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:59.800 last year against What I still feel is the Jaguars. 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:00.960 Strength, which their defensive front. 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.480 They ought to be able to get sacks, they ought 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.200 to be able to make those days of mistakes. To me, again, 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:11.800 the key goes back to don't have weirdness early that 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:15.080 gives them a lead that surprises them and energizing. And 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.000 if you don't do that, if you play the way 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.120 you did out here on Sunday, which is three nothing 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:24.320 maybe three three tens, get up. If you get up 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.400 on this team, I think they would be ready to leave. 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:29.440 Remember that they were up twenty seven nothing on them 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:30.920 at the end of the third quarter. It wasn't till 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:32.800 a fourth quarter that they made it a closer game. 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:34.720 And so the reality of it is is that they 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:36.680 did the same thing to the Panthers that they did 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.360 for three quarters against the Titans. They should be able 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:43.280 to match up and win and eliminate any of the 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:44.720 worry about the playoffs. 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:46.920 The only reason that Titans kind of looked like they 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:48.920 were worth anything was Levis kind of threw a couple 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:50.800 of big, deep balls and he left the last game 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:52.960 with an injury. So we don't know if we'll see Tannehill, 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:53.760 we'll see Levis. 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:58.560 So he's surprising if Levis plays, considering out of the two, 0:16:58.680 --> 0:16:59.800 he's the future guy. 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:02.400 I don't know that they would. Again, I have no 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:02.960 insight on this. 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.360 I don't know they if you put him out there 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.280 in an injury risk situation and risk him having to 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.560 rehab in the offseason, I doubt they do that well. 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:12.800 The one thing though, that leans in the direction of 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.440 levis Is is that the head coach, Mike Brabil said 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:18.399 last week before he got injured that every rep the 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.520 rest of the way was so valuable to him, and 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:25.439 then said yesterday in his news conference that he anticipated 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:27.399 that he was feeling better and had a chance to 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.320 practice this week. So I get the sense listening to 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:32.680