Speaker 1: There's a snap that's low the placement, the kick is blocked.
Speaker 2: Block I the Blaguars have wanted.
Speaker 3: The Jaguars have picked the ball up, racing down the sideline.
Speaker 3: They're gonnare he goes there, gonna score touchdown Jacksonville. Chris
Speaker 3: Hudson picks up the block in races downfield and the
Speaker 3: Jaguars have beat the Steelers.
Speaker 4: Welcome into Jags Am.
Speaker 5: This morning, we're going over some special moments in Jaguars
Speaker 5: Monday Night football history to celebrate the return to Monday
Speaker 5: Night Football, our first return there since twenty eleven. That
Speaker 5: was nineteen ninety seven when they blocked the Steelers field
Speaker 5: goal attempt to win the game. Jaguars got that twenty
Speaker 5: nine to twenty one win over Pittsburgh. Let's go over
Speaker 5: some of the big things for us this week as
Speaker 5: we prepare for the Monday Night football game against the Bengals.
Speaker 5: And Monster is our first big thing, and that's a
Speaker 5: three headed monster in the wide receiving court for the Bengals. No,
Speaker 5: they don't have Joe Burrow, but they have so much
Speaker 5: talent on the wide receiver group that pretty much anybody
Speaker 5: that can get them the ball is going to make
Speaker 5: them dangerous. Brian, this is something we talked a little
Speaker 5: bit about yesterday. But this has got to be a
Speaker 5: point that the Jaguars have been focusing on this week.
Speaker 5: Is shutting down these wide receivers.
Speaker 6: Well, it is, and I have a strong thought them
Speaker 6: that before I do that, Happy anniversary to all the
Speaker 6: Jaguars and fans who were called it. Today is the
Speaker 6: thirtieth anniversary of the National Football League announcement that the
Speaker 6: Jaguars would be the thirtieth franchise in NFL history, and
Speaker 6: is a great reminder John, who was here covering it,
Speaker 6: that thirty years can pass in the blink of an eye.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I actually didn't cover that event. I was covering the
Speaker 7: University of Florida at the time, but I certainly remember
Speaker 7: the call. I remember talking to Pete Prisco, who is
Speaker 7: the Times Union main writer breaking the story. He had
Speaker 7: a good feel three or four days that it was
Speaker 7: going to be the Jack Wars, and nobody believed it.
Speaker 7: Our editors the paper didn't believe it. He had to
Speaker 7: fight to get the stories written. That's how unlikely it was.
Speaker 7: And for somebody who grew up here who remembers ersay
Speaker 7: and the Colts and all the teams at Florida with Jacksonville.
Speaker 7: For years, he didn't think this could happen. The day
Speaker 7: that had happened. It's still a surreal feeling. I still
Speaker 7: get chills thinking about it, and to think that's thirty
Speaker 7: years ago.
Speaker 4: I'm an old man, right, Yeah, well I'm an old man.
Speaker 8: That's the goal.
Speaker 6: It beats the alternative, John, And they say, hey, remember
Speaker 6: John Osher Yeah, so they would say no, yeah, so
Speaker 6: a guy to answer your original question. Sorry to get
Speaker 6: off track, but it's a very memorable day for those
Speaker 6: of us who who were around and who have seen
Speaker 6: all of this, and hopefully for new Jaguars fans and
Speaker 6: there are many of them in recent years to appreciate
Speaker 6: what November thirtieth means. And here we are thirty years
Speaker 6: later talking about a big Monday night game against three receivers. John,
Speaker 6: I think this is probably if you're going to look
Speaker 6: at the most difficult group of receivers to match up
Speaker 6: with in the league. I think Jamar Chase is clearly
Speaker 6: well maybe he's not clearly, but he's right there at
Speaker 6: the very top of the league, and he is so
Speaker 6: hard to cover. And then you've got t Higgins, who
Speaker 6: is six foot five. I think they expect him to
Speaker 6: play again this week after missing a couple of weeks
Speaker 6: with a hamstring. And then you've got Tyler Boyd. All
Speaker 6: of these guys are thousand yard receivers in their career,
Speaker 6: and in fact, Jamar Chase and t Higgins in the
Speaker 6: last two years have posted thousand yard seasons. This is
Speaker 6: a formidable challenge even if Joe Burrow is not on
Speaker 6: the field.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really hard to cover him.
Speaker 7: When Burrow is playing the key with this offense, I
Speaker 7: think you need to stop Joe.
Speaker 4: Mix and it's what the Steelers did last week.
Speaker 7: Completely take away the run and then focus on getting
Speaker 7: after I'm even forgetting his name, and I've written.
Speaker 8: It the Frowning Jack Browns week.
Speaker 7: He focus on getting after a young quarterback. Obviously, the
Speaker 7: receivers could hurt you. I mean, the key for the
Speaker 7: Jaguars is making a young quarterback make a few mistakes
Speaker 7: that really cost them. I expect them to be able
Speaker 7: to do that. But sait all week, I think this
Speaker 7: is a little bit of a trap game. Don't assume
Speaker 7: just because Burrow is not playing that these receivers can't
Speaker 7: hurt you.
Speaker 5: They certainly can, and that's something I'm sure that the
Speaker 5: team has been focusing on this week. Another interesting thing,
Speaker 5: Our second big thing is going to be matchups, because
Speaker 5: this is a little bit of a different offensive line
Speaker 5: than we've seen so far the season. Obviously, Cam Robinson
Speaker 5: headed to the injured list, so John, we've seen azrare
Speaker 5: Cleveland a little bit, and now he's going to be
Speaker 5: starting at left guard. Walker Little moves over to left tackle.
Speaker 5: And what does this mean for the offensive line?
Speaker 7: Well, it shouldn't and it sounds silly, It shouldn't mean
Speaker 7: a lot. And when I say that, the Jedward have
Speaker 7: dide a nice job in the last two years of
Speaker 7: making sure they have seven eight guys that they trust
Speaker 7: that they can all play and play at a high level.
Speaker 4: They proved that last year.
Speaker 7: I don't think they get to the playoffs last year
Speaker 7: if they don't have seven linemen who can play.
Speaker 4: Shatley and Walker Little both came in.
Speaker 7: If they've done it right, and I think they have,
Speaker 7: there shouldn't be a drop off when they go to
Speaker 7: six or six. Now the danger becomes if you lose
Speaker 7: one more than your margin. Ferrera is gone, but Ezra Cleveland.
Speaker 7: I thought run blocked very well last week. He's a
Speaker 7: capable guy. He started four or five years or four
Speaker 7: years in this league. To me, I wasn't surprised when
Speaker 7: it looked the same last week when these guys went out.
Speaker 4: It's what it's designed to do.
Speaker 7: It's now there's really no depth, or not as much
Speaker 7: depth that should said.
Speaker 6: And Phil Roscher deserves a lot of credit for the
Speaker 6: mix and match that he's had to do with times
Speaker 6: on the left side of that line where they've had
Speaker 6: injuries and suspensions that have caused all sorts of those issues.
Speaker 6: The last two weeks, only one sack allowed for this
Speaker 6: offensive line, and that was when Trevor Lawrence ran out
Speaker 6: of bounds with the ball in.
Speaker 8: His hands against the Titans.
Speaker 9: Kid.
Speaker 8: Here's what I want to point out.
Speaker 6: They faced Trey Hendrickson, who has ten and a half sacks,
Speaker 6: so just shy of one per game. He's an impact
Speaker 6: pass rusher. And then a guy I think is underrated
Speaker 6: as DJ Reeder, the former Texan who signed in Cincinnati
Speaker 6: a few years.
Speaker 8: Ago as a free agent.
Speaker 6: He plays the nose or the zero technique right over
Speaker 6: the center.
Speaker 8: They'll slide him into the gaps.
Speaker 6: He's a big, wide body with surprisingly quick feet.
Speaker 8: And he can blow up plays.
Speaker 6: And when you talk about defensive line and especially the interior, guys,
Speaker 6: they don't have to do much. They don't have a
Speaker 6: lot of tackles or a lot of sacks in most cases,
Speaker 6: Aaron Donald being the exception to that rule in most cases,
Speaker 6: but they blow plays up and force you to do
Speaker 6: things to the outside and take away part of what
Speaker 6: you want to do with your game plan. The Bengals
Speaker 6: have guys up front who can do that. So this
Speaker 6: offensive line is going to be tested on Monday Night.
Speaker 5: As we move into our final big thing, we're going
Speaker 5: to go over some of our favorite Monday Night moments.
Speaker 5: We saw one off the top of the show and
Speaker 5: just talking about Monday Night football, Brian, because if you
Speaker 5: have a big game on Monday Night football in primetime,
Speaker 5: that can change your career trajectory. I mean, we talk
Speaker 5: a lot about Jacksonville getting that exposure, and we know
Speaker 5: Trevor Lawrence is great, but if he has a big
Speaker 5: game on Monday Night, or any player does, that can
Speaker 5: really stick in someone's mind for the rest of their career.
Speaker 6: Really well, it's the only game on and there are
Speaker 6: a lot of people who have heard of Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 6: maybe who saw him play at Clemson, but haven't seen
Speaker 6: the Jaguars because we're in a smaller market or in
Speaker 6: the AFC, or choose your reason. So it's a chance
Speaker 6: now for the Jaguars as a football team and the
Speaker 6: franchise to show what they're all about on Monday Night football.
Speaker 6: And John and I talked about this yesterday Sunday Night
Speaker 6: versus Monday Night and Monday Night in our you know,
Speaker 6: years growing up, because I think he said, we're old men.
Speaker 8: It was the game.
Speaker 6: And it feels this week, John, like this is the
Speaker 6: game ESPN because of the money that they have poured
Speaker 6: into the contract with the NFL is getting some big
Speaker 6: games and this was supposed to be a big game
Speaker 6: with Joe Burrow, I can't wait. We have seen some
Speaker 6: immemorable moments. Some of the most memorable moments in Jaguars
Speaker 6: history happened in the fifteen Monday Night football games that
Speaker 6: this franchise has taken part in in they're now twenty
Speaker 6: nine seasons.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I'm surprised. And to your point, some of
Speaker 4: the games.
Speaker 7: Of the Jaguars that I remember when I wasn't year
Speaker 7: was when they were playing on Monday Night. I think
Speaker 7: the Pittsburgh game six when they I think it was
Speaker 7: nine to nothing, shut him out. I remember that game
Speaker 7: was I saw it and I followed the Jaguars because
Speaker 7: they were in the division, but I didn't see them.
Speaker 4: So those.
Speaker 7: Those moments do resonate. I don't know that to me,
Speaker 7: the Chris Hudson return and the Fred Taylor for how long?
Speaker 4: Ninety yards?
Speaker 6: That was the playoff game in ninety nine, but that
Speaker 6: was seventy two yards sent.
Speaker 4: Me two yards. Those two plays to me stand out
Speaker 4: from the early days on Monday Night.
Speaker 5: Let's hope there's more to come, you guys. At least
Speaker 5: I'm hoping there's more to come. We have Sunday Night
Speaker 5: football as well, so there's plenty of time for the
Speaker 5: Jaguars to do something big in front of a national audience.
Speaker 4: So stay with us.
Speaker 5: We're going to continue our deep dive into this matchup
Speaker 5: against the Bengals.
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Speaker 5: prepare for that Monday night football matchup against the Bengals.
Speaker 5: And of course whenever we face off against a team
Speaker 5: like this, we want to check in with the people
Speaker 5: that know them the best. Mike Petralia are Bengals insiders
Speaker 5: joined us this morning as we try to predict a
Speaker 5: little bit about what we're going to see on Monday. Mike,
Speaker 5: I know when I saw the schedule come out and
Speaker 5: the Jaggers are going to face the Bengals, that was
Speaker 5: one of the games I looked at and circled on
Speaker 5: my calendar. I was really excited for, specifically to see
Speaker 5: Joe Burrow and Trevor Lawrence. Obviously, that's not what we're
Speaker 5: going to get. What's kind of the state of the
Speaker 5: team right now? Where are things at with them?
Speaker 12: Well, that's a great question, Kai, What is the state
Speaker 12: of the Cincinnati Bengals. I think you know what certainly
Speaker 12: Zach Taylor, head coach, has tried to impart upon and
Speaker 12: impress upon his players, his fellow coaches, and media and fans,
Speaker 12: is that the Bengals narrative can still be written or rewritten,
Speaker 12: even though they are five and six after eleven games,
Speaker 12: even though they have lost Joe Burrow for the season
Speaker 12: after Monday's surgery on his right wrist. He believes that
Speaker 12: this team quote can still achieve something special in the
Speaker 12: last six games of the season. And that's what really
Speaker 12: is at stake for the Bengals on Monday Night. Can
Speaker 12: they show everybody that this team is capable of playing
Speaker 12: competitive football on a primetime stage. Right before the break,
Speaker 12: you talked about the Jaguars in primetime. No team has
Speaker 12: struggled on the road in primetime more than the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 12: They have lost Kai fifteen in a road in a
Speaker 12: row on the road in primetime. Twenty six of the
Speaker 12: last twenty seven dating back to the nineteen nineties. They
Speaker 12: need to prove that they can be at least competitive
Speaker 12: on the road and maybe steal one on the road.
Speaker 5: In primetime, we saw a sense of desperation out of
Speaker 5: the forty nine ers, a good team that came in
Speaker 5: and had struggled, had lost three in a row, and
Speaker 5: they came in and completely dominated the Jaguars. What you're
Speaker 5: describing seems a little bit of a desperation point for
Speaker 5: the Bengals as well. Is that kind of a focus
Speaker 5: point of coming in improving yourself a little bit?
Speaker 12: I think so. And they were in bass last week
Speaker 12: Kai by running the ball just eight times and passing
Speaker 12: it for about thirty times. In that contest, they only
Speaker 12: had thirty eight offensive snaps from the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 12: not including the punts and the one field goal that
Speaker 12: they attempted and converted. They need to be better in
Speaker 12: the run game, There's no question about that. And I
Speaker 12: also heard your fellow colleagues talking about the Jacksonville run
Speaker 12: defense and running the ball and what the Bengals might
Speaker 12: try to do with Joe Mixon. They've got to be
Speaker 12: committed to First of all, they ran Joe Mixon eight
Speaker 12: times last week for sixteen yards. I think one point
Speaker 12: of emphasis coming into this game is going to be
Speaker 12: trying to establish the run more of a balance, so
Speaker 12: you don't put the full weight of the offense on
Speaker 12: Jake Browning, who did a pretty respectable job last week.
Speaker 12: He was twenty six I'm sorry, nineteen of twenty six
Speaker 12: for two hundred and seventy yards. Again very respectable numbers.
Speaker 12: He threw a touchdown, but he threw a key interception
Speaker 12: when the Bengals about seven to three driving on the
Speaker 12: first drive of the second half, he threw an interception,
Speaker 12: completely changed the course of the game and the Steelers
Speaker 12: came back and won the game.
Speaker 8: Good morning, Mike Key, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 6: Let me take you to the other side of the
Speaker 6: ball and the Bengals defense in Luanna Rouma, has been
Speaker 6: celebrated for his opportunistic unit the last couple of years,
Speaker 6: but obviously they've struggled with some downfield shots. Tell me
Speaker 6: what's got to happen on that side of the ball
Speaker 6: for the Bengals defense to get back to that level
Speaker 6: of play where they were earlier this year and in
Speaker 6: their playoff runs of the last couple of seasons.
Speaker 12: Well, their safety play has to be better. That has
Speaker 12: been a point of weakness. Jesse Baits, Jesse Bates, and
Speaker 12: Von Bell left last offseason. That left a big void
Speaker 12: back there. They had second year player Dax Hill out
Speaker 12: of the University of Michigan step up. He has essentially
Speaker 12: done a very commendable job filling in for Jesse Bates.
Speaker 12: Hasn't created the number of turnovers that Bates has in Atlanta,
Speaker 12: but real weak has been a strong safety spot. Nick
Speaker 12: Scott was signed away from the La Rams. He played
Speaker 12: okay at the start of the season, but his play
Speaker 12: really started to dip off, especially in the past coverage game.
Speaker 12: And they've brought in a rookie, Jordan Battle out of Alabama.
Speaker 12: He's done a good job, but again he makes free
Speaker 12: mistakes and they have allowed big gash plays. They allowed
Speaker 12: something like twenty explosive plays against seventeen explosive plays against
Speaker 12: the Houston Texans a couple of weeks ago. Last week
Speaker 12: against the Steelers, it was really about the run game,
Speaker 12: and the week before that against the Ravens, the run
Speaker 12: game has really failed them. And your point was about
Speaker 12: DJ Reader really and he and bj Hill have done
Speaker 12: their best in the middle of the defensive line. But
Speaker 12: when teams have gotten to the outside and run against
Speaker 12: the Bengals, they've had a great deal of success. And
Speaker 12: that's where I think the Jaguars will try and exploit
Speaker 12: the Bengals.
Speaker 5: Mike, one last thing from us. I do like to
Speaker 5: get an outside perspective what we see from Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 5: and what we know he's capable of. What have you
Speaker 5: kind of seen from an outside looking in. Obviously I've
Speaker 5: covered a young quarterback in Joe Burrow, but what have
Speaker 5: you seen from Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 12: Explosive, obviously, very mobile, and he can be as accurate
Speaker 12: as there is in the game. But I think the
Speaker 12: thing about Trevor Lawrence that impresses me, and we saw
Speaker 12: this last year in the playoffs, when the team gets down,
Speaker 12: Trevor Lawrence finds a way to rally the trips for
Speaker 12: the most part, and no game is ever out of
Speaker 12: reach with Trevor Lawrence. And those are the kind of
Speaker 12: things that Zach Taylor brought up this week. Of course,
Speaker 12: this is the Taylor Bowl Press Taylor against Back. I'm
Speaker 12: sure you've brought that up already, but Zach has been
Speaker 12: very impressed with the poise that Trevor Lawrence has shown,
Speaker 12: and that is something that the Bengals are going to
Speaker 12: have to be on the lookout for, not allow him
Speaker 12: to get out of the pocket and do things that
Speaker 12: Lamar Jacksons, for example, done against them Bengals played the Ravens.
Speaker 5: I don't know if the tailor's passed that trophy back
Speaker 5: and forth anymore, but I'm sure bragging rights are on
Speaker 5: the line either way.
Speaker 12: They are on the line.
Speaker 8: Kai.
Speaker 12: But Zach asked specifically about that on Monday and he said,
Speaker 12: now that the trophy stays at home with the parents,
Speaker 12: with his dad, but they still do have bragging rights.
Speaker 12: There's no question about that.
Speaker 7: Very good.
Speaker 5: Should be a good one on Monday night. Mike, thank
Speaker 5: you for joining us and filling us in on all
Speaker 5: things Bangles.
Speaker 2: You got a Kai.
Speaker 12: Thank you?
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Speaker 4: We now hands on Taylor running left, cuch it back.
Speaker 14: He's got a hold there, he is thirty, Panda upside
Speaker 14: forty there, he goes to the forty five, fifty. It's
Speaker 14: a foot race. Forty Taylor, thirty, Taylor to the twenty.
Speaker 14: He's to the ten. He's pulled down, but he gets
Speaker 14: into the until touchdown. The first play of the game.
Speaker 5: Talking about our Monday memories, Ryan, that's a good one.
Speaker 4: First play of the game.
Speaker 6: You know that that was Taylor's rookie year, and he
Speaker 6: took over just the week before I think or two
Speaker 6: weeks before against Baltimore, and he had not won the
Speaker 6: job from James Stewart, another first round pick at the time,
Speaker 6: and people remember kept saying, what's that with Fred?
Speaker 8: How come we haven't seen this guy? You know?
Speaker 4: Go?
Speaker 6: And the first carry he had against the Ravens went
Speaker 6: for fifty six yards in a touchdown, So we weren't
Speaker 6: really surprised that he was explosive, like you could do that,
Speaker 6: except that was that was one of the fastest defenses
Speaker 6: in football. That was Brock Marion and Sam Madison and.
Speaker 8: I mean they were they were good.
Speaker 6: And for him to do that on the first play
Speaker 6: the game against that defense, John, that was epic.
Speaker 7: And it was a year where Fred should have won
Speaker 7: Rookie of the Year. Randy Moss won it. Fred had
Speaker 7: an equal argument to Randy Moss. I think without Sam
Speaker 7: mountm touchdown seventeen Yeah, without the Randy Moss Thanksgiving game.
Speaker 4: Three catches, sixty three yards and three touchdowns in Dallas,
Speaker 4: I think Fred wins that award.
Speaker 7: But every game, excuse me, every game he's doing something special.
Speaker 7: I talked to Fred a couple of years ago about
Speaker 7: that Miami game, and he said, what people don't remember,
Speaker 7: and he was sort of thankful for it. They were
Speaker 7: geared up to stop him and I think he gained
Speaker 7: like eighteen yards the rest of the ya I mean
Speaker 7: with Zach Thomas defense. They were really geared up to
Speaker 7: stop him. But he said, I got him on that play.
Speaker 7: As what people remember. And the funny thing about that game,
Speaker 7: it was a great game.
Speaker 4: Beyond that.
Speaker 7: That was the game where Keenan caught two touchdown passes
Speaker 7: at the end. They came back late. It was not
Speaker 7: a given the jag was really good. It was not
Speaker 7: a given they were going to win that game. I
Speaker 7: think Tony Brackens had a game ending sack in that game.
Speaker 7: He was coming off an injury. So it was a
Speaker 7: beyond that play, I would say, a turning point. But
Speaker 7: they were always big back then when you played the
Speaker 7: Dolphins in the Bucks because they were the established teams,
Speaker 7: and that game sort of started establishing is to the Jags,
Speaker 7: I thought. And they beat the Bucks later that season
Speaker 7: as the team Okay, they're they're not kids anymore. They
Speaker 7: went on and they won the division that year. It
Speaker 7: was a great year.
Speaker 5: For the Jags ninety eight and that Randy Moss game
Speaker 5: on things. I mean, we talk about these primetime moments.
Speaker 5: They can last in your memory, get you awards, get
Speaker 5: you notice all these things.
Speaker 6: Randy was a huge story because of that. Fred had
Speaker 6: more total yards and seventeen touchdowns, the equal to Randy Moss.
Speaker 6: But he came up just shy, and he never forgot it.
Speaker 6: He does it, never forgot it. That's what I loved
Speaker 6: about Fred was is you know, he remembered everything, even
Speaker 6: if he was grateful that some people didn't remember everything.
Speaker 5: Hopefully they're both in the Hall someday together and then
Speaker 5: they can just give each other crap the entire time.
Speaker 6: That's what I would wake for semi finalists.
Speaker 5: Right, semifinalists here. As we move forward, we're gonna look
Speaker 5: a little bit at who we think might be big
Speaker 5: playmakers in this game on Monday. Who do you have
Speaker 5: this week?
Speaker 6: Well, I'll go with Travis etn for the reasons that
Speaker 6: Mike from Cincinnati just shared. He is an outside runner.
Speaker 6: Nothing to take away from his ability to go inside.
Speaker 6: But we have seen this year that when Travis et
Speaker 6: And is at his best, he is getting outside looking
Speaker 6: for the cutback or just racing to the corner and
Speaker 6: making things happen. The Bengals have been susceptible there, so
Speaker 6: I see it happening. He won't necessarily average seven yards
Speaker 6: a carry, right I mean, he is a guy. He's
Speaker 6: just under what is a three point seven, three point
Speaker 6: eight right now? I mean it's a yard, a yard
Speaker 6: and fifteen yards with Etn And I think there'll be
Speaker 6: a bunch of those. So it's not like he's gonna
Speaker 6: put up these epic numbers. But I do think he'll
Speaker 6: get one hundred yards and he might score two touchdowns
Speaker 6: again because I think the Jaguars are going to see
Speaker 6: an opportunity to feature Etn on the ground and keep
Speaker 6: the ball in his hands. And I think he's got
Speaker 6: a big night in front of him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really you feel for Travis a little bit.
Speaker 7: And again it's not to knock the offensive line, but
Speaker 7: it has not been a great, consistent, consistent run blocking
Speaker 7: unit this year, and I think Travis has done a
Speaker 7: remarkable job his I've never really seen a back do
Speaker 7: this like this.
Speaker 4: I've covered Fred, I covered Edgar and James probably the
Speaker 4: two best running backs I've covered.
Speaker 7: Travis is an amazing job of getting small on a
Speaker 7: at a moment and getting yards that most backs couldn't get.
Speaker 7: And I think he's created a lot of his own
Speaker 7: stuff this year, and he's having a remarkable year for
Speaker 7: how the offense is playing. And I think they're a
Speaker 7: better team when they can get him in the end
Speaker 7: zone on.
Speaker 4: The occasions where they've been able to will him into
Speaker 4: the end zone.
Speaker 7: Buffalo, that three game stretch, to me, that still feels
Speaker 7: like they're They felt more secure in the offense in
Speaker 7: those two or three weeks, like they trusted what they.
Speaker 4: Were doing a little more.
Speaker 7: And a lot of that's because they they trusted their
Speaker 7: running game more than they have an eight point this year.
Speaker 6: And I don't take anything away from his ability, his
Speaker 6: willingness to go inside. His longest run last week in
Speaker 6: Houston was you know, inside the tackle run where he
Speaker 6: set the defender up and then got nineteen yards to midfield.
Speaker 6: It's just, well, he's so electrifying when you let him
Speaker 6: get outside.
Speaker 8: And they need him this week.
Speaker 4: And most backs are better out there because there's fewer people.
Speaker 6: He's just not a pounder, no no doubt, but he's
Speaker 6: gutsy and he will do it.
Speaker 4: I went with Josh Allen and it's sort of an
Speaker 4: obvious tick. That's a great game last week.
Speaker 7: But he will play well because to me, one of
Speaker 7: the biggest disservices people have done and analyzing Josh, He's
Speaker 7: always been good. It's not like this year he's all
Speaker 7: of a sudden, come out of nowhere and good.
Speaker 4: He's getting more.
Speaker 7: Opportunities for sacks this year. He's closing a little better.
Speaker 7: But to me, he's been a near Pro Bowl caliber
Speaker 7: player every year of his career. He won't this week
Speaker 7: be shut out. I think he'll get a sack. The
Speaker 7: big reason I wanted to do this as he will
Speaker 7: he when he might, he might.
Speaker 4: It's not the people on the nation don't know him.
Speaker 7: Yet, but he might be the guy on the Jaguars
Speaker 7: who has the biggest chance to become a superstar on Monday.
Speaker 7: He has a couple of If he has a couple
Speaker 7: of sacks, he's a dynamic guy. He's not only a
Speaker 7: sack guy, but when he gets his sacks, he can
Speaker 7: be violent.
Speaker 4: He can create a sack fumble.
Speaker 7: This might be where people nationally start referring to the
Speaker 7: Bills guys the other Josh Dallin.
Speaker 6: You're clever this morning, ohsher, I will say this. Also,
Speaker 6: he's getting Orlando Brown, who is a handful because he's
Speaker 6: so big at left tackle. However, he's facing Jake Browning
Speaker 6: as a quarterback.
Speaker 8: And you know C. J.
Speaker 6: Stroud, Joe Burrow. These are guys who feel the pressure,
Speaker 6: who can slip to evade, or very crafty in the pocket.
Speaker 6: I watched the game, the Bengals game against the Steelers.
Speaker 6: He's not a crafty pop pocket presence. Josh is a
Speaker 6: guy who keeps coming and can slide either way. I mean,
Speaker 6: I think this quarterback is going to be befuddled by
Speaker 6: the outside pass rush of Trayvond and Josh, and they're
Speaker 6: gonna get some sacks because he's just gonna be clueless
Speaker 6: about what's going on around him.
Speaker 7: Well, it's sort of the right time of the year
Speaker 7: for Josh to do what we're talking about. He's already
Speaker 7: got twelve. You get a couple on Monday night that
Speaker 7: gets you to fourt You know, now you can supplement
Speaker 7: the staff. People on the broadcast are talking about whoa
Speaker 7: this guy? You know, they talk about the numbers. They
Speaker 7: can go back and talk about the year he's having.
Speaker 7: It won't look like a flash in the pan game,
Speaker 7: which it wouldn't be, but you never know about perception.
Speaker 4: I think it's a huge moment for him.
Speaker 6: Tony Brackens, who's the all time ZAC leader here with
Speaker 6: fifty five, his best season was twelve. Kalays Campbell in
Speaker 6: twenty seventeen set the franchise record. He has fourteen and
Speaker 6: a half. I mean, can you see Josh not getting
Speaker 6: the franchise record. I mean he might get it in
Speaker 6: the next two.
Speaker 4: Weeks matter when.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know he's got that in his set of
Speaker 5: his mind as well. You got that on top of
Speaker 5: mind as well. I went with Andresis though, because as
Speaker 5: we mentioned, gonna be tough with the wide receivers, so
Speaker 5: it will be a tough matchup for Andra Sisco to
Speaker 5: be out there kind of dealing with all of the
Speaker 5: wide receivers and all of the weapons that the Bengals have.
Speaker 5: I don't think he won't be overwhelmed by it, is
Speaker 5: what I will say. He's faced off against great wide
Speaker 5: receivers before. We have seen moments as the nature of
Speaker 5: the position is where there's a susceptible big play for
Speaker 5: this team. But I think this might be an opportunity
Speaker 5: for him to take advantage of a rookie quarterback. We've
Speaker 5: seen him be a ball hawk, We've seen him get interceptions.
Speaker 5: He's still trying to get that pick six. I know
Speaker 5: that's on top of his mind. So this might be
Speaker 5: an opportunity where if Josh Allen and treyvonn are putting
Speaker 5: a ton of pressure on him, Jake Browning makes some
Speaker 5: silly throws which younger quarterbacks are known to do, or
Speaker 5: backup quarterbacks are known to do, and that's a possibility.
Speaker 6: I hope he does better for you that he did
Speaker 6: for me. I thought last week he was my he
Speaker 6: will he won't. He might last week and I thought,
Speaker 6: you know, the ball might get up there and he
Speaker 6: might get something.
Speaker 4: And maybe this week.
Speaker 6: See j Stroud is obviously a very good rookie quarterback,
Speaker 6: but this week you get Jake Browning, who's not the
Speaker 6: same caliber. I bet you this week is a good
Speaker 6: week for Andre Cisco.
Speaker 5: Let us hope, let us hope. Let's big, big games
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Speaker 5: We will have one more Monday night moment when we
Speaker 5: come back after the break and we give our predictions
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Speaker 8: He's on the run.
Speaker 14: Ten fine touchdown Creig Taylor and Jacksonville plays the lead.
Speaker 14: Hollis put it up and throw the Jaguars our winners
Speaker 14: over the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 5: Not much better than that. A Fred Taylor touchdown and
Speaker 5: a game winning field goal.
Speaker 8: Yeah, context on that one.
Speaker 6: Fred in ninety nine and this six games with a hamstring,
Speaker 6: and he took a lot of grief for that. They
Speaker 6: called him fragile Fred. And if you know anything about Fred,
Speaker 6: that really aided him. He didn't play most of that game.
Speaker 6: He had a few carries smattered here and there around
Speaker 6: James Stewart did mostly every work. They put him back
Speaker 6: in the game in the fourth quarter, and that's what
Speaker 6: he rips off is the game winner.
Speaker 8: And it was an important Monday night game. And I
Speaker 8: think a lot of people forget that Monday.
Speaker 6: Night game because the Jaguars were, you know, fighting for
Speaker 6: home field advantage, and that put it away gave them
Speaker 6: the number one seed in the AFC. So Fred's run
Speaker 6: was not just the game winner, it gave them home
Speaker 6: field advantage.
Speaker 5: It was a good one. We love these Monday Night moments,
Speaker 5: so hopefully we'll get some more. We can play them
Speaker 5: on Monday for you or Wednesday for you. Next week
Speaker 5: you're playing Monday night. I gotta get my day straight.
Speaker 5: We've talked a lot about this game. What are our
Speaker 5: final predictions. I guess Brian will start with you.
Speaker 8: Well, I mean, I think the Jaguars have a lot
Speaker 8: of motivation.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 6: The last time they had a significant game at home
Speaker 6: it was the Niners, and we all know what happened there.
Speaker 6: They're focused, They are the better team with Joe Burrow
Speaker 6: out especially, they are. They're playing well on both sides
Speaker 6: of the ball. I mean, just pick an area and
Speaker 6: you can talk about the offensive line, the defensive line.
Speaker 6: They're playing good football. I do think that the secondary
Speaker 6: has to play tighter coverage, right. It's easy to say,
Speaker 6: hard to do against the three headed monster that we
Speaker 6: let off the show with. But I think the Jaguars
Speaker 6: win and set up next week's can we stay in
Speaker 6: the number one overall seed discussion?
Speaker 4: Yet? I think they win.
Speaker 7: I don't think it'll be a spectacular game offensively, only
Speaker 7: because I don't know if it'll have to be. It
Speaker 7: feels to me like it's a game that the Jaguars
Speaker 7: should be able to relatively control offensively. Bengal might move,
Speaker 7: but with a younger quarterback, you would think they would
Speaker 7: not be great in the red zone.
Speaker 4: So you know, i'd say some of on the lines of.
Speaker 7: Twenty eight sixteen, where the Jaguars feel in the second
Speaker 7: half like they got it under control. The reason I
Speaker 7: say it's not wider is the Bengals are a proud team,
Speaker 7: They're a tough team. They're not going to go down easily.
Speaker 7: So I think it'll be a fight. But I think
Speaker 7: the Jaguars, if they play, you know, if they show up,
Speaker 7: if they play the way they've played to get tait
Speaker 7: and three, with that level of intensity, I think they
Speaker 7: will win the fourth quarter and win the game. They're also,
Speaker 7: by the way, the Bengals are well coached team.
Speaker 6: You know, you look at the way that they played
Speaker 6: last week, undermanned as they were in Pittsburgh, and it
Speaker 6: took the Steelers all the way to the end of
Speaker 6: the game to knock them out of it. So, and
Speaker 6: it's not just Zach Taylor, it's also lou An Rumabo,
Speaker 6: the defensive coordinator, is a very well regarded coach. So
Speaker 6: expect them to come in prepared and to make a
Speaker 6: find of it.
Speaker 5: And I think that's big for me. It's a proven
Speaker 5: game in terms of the Jaguars just being ready to play.
Speaker 5: Obviously we saw them against the forty nine Ers that
Speaker 5: was our last big game we were excited for, and
Speaker 5: they weren't ready to play. They just weren't. Obviously it's
Speaker 5: a tremendous team, but they weren't able to do much
Speaker 5: of anything. And then also to see them go up
Speaker 5: against the Chiefs not be able to quite get there.
Speaker 5: I think just taking care of business will say a
Speaker 5: lot about this team and just focusing, not underestimating an
Speaker 5: opponent just because Joe Burrow isn't out there, and you know,
Speaker 5: going out there and winning the games that they should win,
Speaker 5: and I think they should win. On Monday Night now, everybody,
Speaker 5: I hope you enjoy your Sundays. I hope you enjoy
Speaker 5: Monday night here in Jacksonville. Will be back next week
Speaker 5: to recap everything for you on Wednesday on Jags. I
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