Speaker 1: Welcome into jags AM On Thursday, November ninth, Pennie Stephens,
Speaker 1: fran Sexton, John Osier with me today this week ten.
Speaker 1: We're talking forty nine ers. We've been excited for this game,
Speaker 1: definitely one you circled on the calendar early on when
Speaker 1: you saw some of the marquee matchups for this team,
Speaker 1: and seems like Fortinitars are getting healthy too, so it
Speaker 1: should be a good kind of marker game, kind of
Speaker 1: see where they're at their start study team.
Speaker 2: I mean when you look at the roster and the names,
Speaker 2: whether it's George Pittle, CMC right we just three initials, right,
Speaker 2: or whin knows, Christian McCaffrey, and of course of the defense.
Speaker 2: So it's no surprise that tickets are hard to come
Speaker 2: by and they're selling stating room only. People know the
Speaker 2: forty nine ers, and it brings out a lot of
Speaker 2: folks who may be casual things.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I know, Doug talked this week about it not
Speaker 3: being a quote statement game, and I kind of like
Speaker 3: the message because I think he's tired of talking about
Speaker 3: a statement game. They've won what eleven out of thirteen games,
Speaker 3: they've beaten the Bills, they've beaten the Steelers, They've beaten
Speaker 3: the Cowboys during that I mean, how many statements do
Speaker 3: you need to make before you sit? They're are making
Speaker 3: a statement game and nobody hears you. So I think
Speaker 3: to him, this is Look, we're a good team. They're
Speaker 3: a good team. But I think not only from a
Speaker 3: national perspective, which I'm kind of worn out on trying
Speaker 3: to talk that national perspective, but from a showing you
Speaker 3: what they are in the locker room. San Francisco can
Speaker 3: really run. They're a powerful team. The Jaguars have spent
Speaker 3: the last what sixteen games ish being a stout defense,
Speaker 3: being a physical team, but they don't quite have that
Speaker 3: reputation you since you go Mano Amano and stuff this
Speaker 3: team out physical them, then you do have that reputation.
Speaker 3: So and I think they can prove that to themselves,
Speaker 3: not that they are have it already, but maybe they
Speaker 3: can say something to themselves about that. Improve that once
Speaker 3: and for all.
Speaker 1: Let's go over some of our big things this week.
Speaker 1: Big thing number one, thrush is going to be understand
Speaker 1: the assignment. As we mentioned, there's a lot of big
Speaker 1: names on the forty nine ers, a lot of star players,
Speaker 1: but a lot of this is gonna come down to
Speaker 1: doing your job and understanding the assignment.
Speaker 4: You've got to play eleven on eleven right, and and
Speaker 4: you know it's about our pieces against their pieces and
Speaker 4: how best we can maneuver our guys and try to
Speaker 4: create some matchups somewhere and and and yet you just
Speaker 4: know that you know these guys are gonna make plays.
Speaker 5: You know they're gonna they're.
Speaker 4: Gonna make up tackle for loss, or they're gonna get
Speaker 4: a sack, or they may you know, break up a
Speaker 4: pass or something like that. But it doesn't keep you
Speaker 4: from continuing to try right and execute your game plan.
Speaker 4: So good players give them their respect, and you know you.
Speaker 6: Still got to play.
Speaker 1: Brian Doug talking a lot about you know, understanding that
Speaker 1: they have star players. They're gonna make plays, they're gonna
Speaker 1: get sacks, they're gonna get tackles for loss, whatever it's
Speaker 1: going to be, and you kind of need to allow
Speaker 1: that but also stick to the game plan that you have.
Speaker 3: But it's gonna be a tough one.
Speaker 2: They've had a couple of weeks to get ready for
Speaker 2: this now with a buy and the coaches will have
Speaker 2: a plan, right, Doug in the offense you have a
Speaker 2: lot of confidence in because you know, and the defense
Speaker 2: now you should have a lot of confidence in. You know,
Speaker 2: last year you had a first year coordinator and they
Speaker 2: were kind of working through things. But talking to players
Speaker 2: in the locker room, especially Josh Allen yesterday, you know,
Speaker 2: they have a lot of confidence in Mike cold Well
Speaker 2: in that staff now, and they feel like Mike and
Speaker 2: his staff have the confidence in them to go out
Speaker 2: and run the plays that are called. So what you
Speaker 2: really have is to do your job. Situation here, they've
Speaker 2: got a game plan. If you do your job, you
Speaker 2: have a chance to succeed.
Speaker 3: With so much of an offense like the forty nine
Speaker 3: ers because they put pressure everywhere in the running game
Speaker 3: and they have so many options in the running game,
Speaker 3: meaning I'm McCaffrey, Deebo, Samuel, these guys can do different things.
Speaker 3: What offenses like that thrive on is usually defenses think
Speaker 3: they have to do too much to stop them, and
Speaker 3: they're jumping out of lanes. The Jaguars defense, if it's
Speaker 3: to me, if it's defined by anything, it's that you
Speaker 3: have one superstar player. Maybe Josh Allen, you know, is
Speaker 3: ascending to that, but everybody else, Devin, Lloyd Foyer, Rashawn Jenkins.
Speaker 3: You started listening off guys. They're all good, and I
Speaker 3: think they're confident sort of what you said, Brian. They
Speaker 3: don't feel like they have to do much special to
Speaker 3: stop teams, so I think they can play assignment football
Speaker 3: and all those cliches the top of the guys in
Speaker 3: the locker room. They believe that if they play their game,
Speaker 3: they don't have to do anything special to win this
Speaker 3: or stop this really good forty nine ers offense. That
Speaker 3: to me is the matchup.
Speaker 6: Here's why do your job is so important. We talked
Speaker 6: about it yesterday.
Speaker 2: You have a coach and Kyle Shanahan who is so
Speaker 2: gifted at moving personnel groups and creating mismatches and giving
Speaker 2: you Hey, it looks like we're doing this, and everything
Speaker 2: says we're doing this, But now we're doing this. That's
Speaker 2: where they do your job comes in because Mike and
Speaker 2: Doug they will have everything figured out. They will know
Speaker 2: exactly what the tendencies are and it's about Hey, like
Speaker 2: John just said, don't get anxious to think, well, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna jump over here, because I can make the play
Speaker 2: and then watch it go over here instead.
Speaker 1: It's nice to see the narrative switch a little bit
Speaker 1: to Jaguars play Jaguars football. We should be able to
Speaker 1: win the game. You don't have to try to cater
Speaker 1: to the other teams. It's a good spot to be at.
Speaker 1: Big thing Number two is going to be stop the run.
Speaker 1: We've talked about Christian McCaffrey and he is talented so
Speaker 1: many ways. You also have to stop him yards after
Speaker 1: catch as well, and Doug talked a little bit about
Speaker 1: why Christian McAffrey is so dangerous.
Speaker 4: You can put him anywhere anywhere in a formation, backfield,
Speaker 4: put out wide motion him, you know, jet sweep, you
Speaker 4: put him anywhere. He's just that type of player. Give
Speaker 4: him the hand him the ball, throw him the ball,
Speaker 4: screens down the field, just an overall solid player and
Speaker 4: you have to account for him. And then you know
Speaker 4: it's hard to get him on the ground. You know
Speaker 4: he can break tackles, he's strong, you know, physical back
Speaker 4: that you know does some really good things.
Speaker 1: So we know Rock Cerry's been having some issues the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, but Christian McCaffrey has just been so
Speaker 1: dynamic for that team, and he's dangerous in a lot
Speaker 1: of different ways.
Speaker 3: Well, he's dangerous because to me, he's up I think
Speaker 3: one of the first players since Marshall Fulk really who
Speaker 3: can is just as good a receiver as he is
Speaker 3: a running back and vice versa. The reason he's so
Speaker 3: dangerous is you can do your job really well on
Speaker 3: a play and he can still beat you. You can
Speaker 3: do your job ninety eight percent and he can take
Speaker 3: advantage of the two percent that you don't do because
Speaker 3: he's so quick, his vision's so good. He's in everything
Speaker 3: running back. So I expect him to score because he
Speaker 3: usually does seventeen straight games. Yeah, I expect him to
Speaker 3: be effective. But guess what, they've lost some of those
Speaker 3: games where he scored. So he can be effective and
Speaker 3: you can still win this game. You have to keep
Speaker 3: him from being the fantasy football stat guy this week.
Speaker 6: Well, here's the fantasy football stats for me.
Speaker 2: In the last four games, he has six touchdowns, three rushing,
Speaker 2: three receiving, and in each of the last two games
Speaker 2: he has one of each. So he's a multipurpose threat.
Speaker 3: And they've still lost. No, No, you can still beat that. Well,
Speaker 3: you can beat them.
Speaker 2: The problem for them, a problem for the Jaguars this
Speaker 2: week is is Deebo Samuel's coming back, and that's we
Speaker 2: saw him last year two years ago. Here eight rushes
Speaker 2: for eighty nine yards in a touchdown. So now they've
Speaker 2: got that two headed monster. So I'm thankful this week
Speaker 2: that you have Devon Hamilton back. We saw him in
Speaker 2: some limited action against the Steelers and they look pretty good.
Speaker 2: Now he's having even more time to get integrated into
Speaker 2: the defense because you're gonna need a rotation because if
Speaker 2: you don't stop the run, and Josh said this, you
Speaker 2: know is Sodi Rayshawn yesterday in the locker room. If
Speaker 2: you don't stop the run, you have no prayer of
Speaker 2: getting to the quarterback none. And if you get to
Speaker 2: the quarterback, you can force turnovers. That's what they're trying
Speaker 2: to get to. This kid's got six turnovers in the
Speaker 2: last three games. So they got to stop the run
Speaker 2: to be able to attack him. And they know what
Speaker 2: Deebo Samuel back this week that that job, which was
Speaker 2: already difficult, just got much much harder.
Speaker 1: Definitely a hallmark of the Jaguars defense though, So there
Speaker 1: is hope there. I mean, if they get off schedule,
Speaker 1: they can't stop the run. That's we're way off the
Speaker 1: plantation by that point. Where league by that point.
Speaker 2: Giving up less than eighty yards rushing per game, they're
Speaker 2: playing fantastic. Every indication is they'll be able to stop
Speaker 2: the run. Now, they might not hold them to their
Speaker 2: average seventy nine point three, but if they can control
Speaker 2: it right, I mean, they never could be one hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty yards by the time the game is over.
Speaker 2: But if they can control it in the situations where
Speaker 2: they need to to set a third and long, fine,
Speaker 2: will know, no matter what the stats say. Will know
Speaker 2: on Sunday after the Jags walk off the field, if
Speaker 2: they stop the run. The numbers won't tell the story.
Speaker 2: You'll know it with your eyes.
Speaker 1: Our final big thing this week is going to be
Speaker 1: make your house your Home. The Jaguars are six and
Speaker 1: two so far on the season. They've won five games
Speaker 1: in a row, but they haven't played their best football
Speaker 1: at home, and that's something Dan Peterson, head coach of
Speaker 1: this team, says he's got to change.
Speaker 4: You know, first thing, the schedule gets a little more
Speaker 4: normal for us here in the last half of the season.
Speaker 4: You know, we haven't played our best football at home,
Speaker 4: which is crazy. You know, those two early games that
Speaker 4: that we didn't we didn't play very well, and you know,
Speaker 4: those are all things that we have to we have
Speaker 4: to do better. Right we're playing in front of our fans.
Speaker 5: We're at home, you know, our stadium, our locker room,
Speaker 5: and we've got to feed off the energy obviously the
Speaker 5: crowd and and uh and play our best football, you know,
Speaker 5: and and especially in the second half of the season.
Speaker 4: That's something that you know, if if you want that
Speaker 4: home field.
Speaker 5: Advantage or try to play for home field advantage, you
Speaker 5: got to do it at home.
Speaker 4: That's why they call it home field advantage. So you know,
Speaker 4: we've just got to we've just got to focus in
Speaker 4: on that and and just continue to improve.
Speaker 1: Brian, we've talked, you know, it's great that the team
Speaker 1: can play so well away from home, but they talked
Speaker 1: a little bit about putting a good product on the
Speaker 1: field to the fan to have something sure about because
Speaker 1: two of those home games we had this season have
Speaker 1: been tough.
Speaker 2: I go back to the last two games of last year.
Speaker 2: They are a prime time now right against Tennessee and
Speaker 2: against the Chargers. The crowd was insane and it sent
Speaker 2: a message.
Speaker 6: To the rest of the league.
Speaker 2: I probably don't want to go there and play because
Speaker 2: it's a very difficult place when it's all riled up
Speaker 2: there were the Texans game is a rough one, you know,
Speaker 2: because you wanted to come out and play well and
Speaker 2: establish your dominance early and give it the chance, the
Speaker 2: fans a chance to get into it. The Colts was better,
Speaker 2: but Sunday's a chance because there will be a national
Speaker 2: audience wash right, it's a premier game. There will be
Speaker 2: a lot of new eyes on this place, and it's
Speaker 2: a chance for them to see what a tough place
Speaker 2: this can be. The Gicks, you've got to play well
Speaker 2: to get the fans into the game, to make it
Speaker 2: go well for them. But it's an important thing when
Speaker 2: you especially consider you've got the Titans coming up, and
Speaker 2: you've got the Bengals in the raven You've got some
Speaker 2: big games here at home. You need to get the
Speaker 2: crowd juiced up and get them ready for those.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know they're gonna win or lose this week,
Speaker 3: and the Jags, I don't really worry about them playing
Speaker 3: well at home. I kind of attribute the Chiefs and
Speaker 3: the Texans to me was more about early season working
Speaker 3: through some stuff than it was not being able to
Speaker 3: play well at home. They showed me last year they
Speaker 3: can play well at home and take advantage of this.
Speaker 3: They won what their last five here, so I attribute.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not saying they don't need to go
Speaker 3: get it done, but I don't really worry that they
Speaker 3: have a problem playing at home. I thought those first
Speaker 3: two games were more about them trying to figure out
Speaker 3: coming back from last year, trying to figure out what
Speaker 3: they were, etc. Etc. So I hope they go prove me.
Speaker 6: Right on Sunday.
Speaker 2: I do think if I'm the coach, I make the
Speaker 2: point that Doug made it, which is, hey, we want
Speaker 2: to play well here. We didn't play well against the Texans,
Speaker 2: forget where it was, right, but we want to play here.
Speaker 6: So let's have an emphasis of getting these guys involved.
Speaker 3: Well. They want to establish that because you got the
Speaker 3: Ravens the big game. Basically, you hold sir the rest
Speaker 3: of the way at home, home, and when one or
Speaker 3: two on the road and you're set. So they've got
Speaker 3: it in front of them in terms of that.
Speaker 1: A lot of primetime eyes on this game too, because
Speaker 1: I think seventy five percent of the country's gonna have
Speaker 1: this as their one o'clock games, so it'll be very
Speaker 1: national stage for everybody. It's a good one first of
Speaker 1: several big games for the day.
Speaker 3: Stay with us.
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from QB one coming up after the break.
Speaker 1: We're getting ready for the forty nine ers to come
Speaker 1: to town. It's nice to be back home, play some
Speaker 1: home games in front of the home crowd, and we
Speaker 1: expect to be a big one coming off a bye week.
Speaker 1: Both of these teams should be well rested, should be
Speaker 1: healthy as they can be at this point in the season.
Speaker 1: And Trevor Lawrence talked a little bit about taking that
Speaker 1: time away but then also getting back into game mode
Speaker 1: once you got back in the building.
Speaker 7: We still feel that momentum, that energy that we that
Speaker 7: we left with, you know when we took the week off.
Speaker 7: But you gotta find a way to kind of get
Speaker 7: that edge back because it is, you know, you're kind
Speaker 7: of relaxing, getting your body back underneath you. You have to.
Speaker 7: It's a long season. We played, you know, eight tough
Speaker 7: games in a row and then now we got a
Speaker 7: nice stretch, so you got to give your body a
Speaker 7: chance to rest. But now it's today in practice, and
Speaker 7: it started on Monday, really, had we had a lighter
Speaker 7: practice and just getting that getting our legs back under
Speaker 7: us and getting that edge and practicing hard, that's where
Speaker 7: it starts. You can't just walk out there Sunday and
Speaker 7: expect to expect to play with that edge if you
Speaker 7: didn't all week in practice. So I think that's where
Speaker 7: it starts really today and as we practice every day
Speaker 7: of the week.
Speaker 1: John, when we look at these two teams, they're both
Speaker 1: going into a bye, but in different ways. Jaguars five
Speaker 1: winners of five straight, the forty nine lost three, and
Speaker 1: kind of the break probably meant different things to those teams.
Speaker 1: But the refocused energy when you come back is really
Speaker 1: because you're not carrying momentum at this point. It's it's
Speaker 1: kind of starting over a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for the Jags, it meant I mean, didn't it
Speaker 3: feel like they were just pulling and trying to get
Speaker 3: to that buy through this tough stretch and just thinking
Speaker 3: if we can just get through this, gotcha, thank goodness
Speaker 3: because it was hard and even Evan Ingram talked about
Speaker 3: in the locker room on Thursday, Man, I feel like
Speaker 3: we've been away from this place forever. One reason the
Speaker 3: Doug is such a good coach. Doug Peterson. He talked
Speaker 3: about what Trevor was talking about, and the thing that
Speaker 3: struck me yesterday was when he spoke about needing to
Speaker 3: get back to play in with energy for four quarters.
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying it right, but that intensity level
Speaker 3: that you need to win in the NFL. And I
Speaker 3: don't think he thought that they had it early in
Speaker 3: the season, and then they got it for five games.
Speaker 3: He talked about it, players talked about it in the
Speaker 3: locker room. He's clearly emphasizing that, hey, we've got to
Speaker 3: get back to what we were doing, not only physically
Speaker 3: but mentally. The energy, the focus, all that stuff. It's
Speaker 3: why he's the head coach, Brian. He's really good at
Speaker 3: emphasizing the right things, and that feels like something that
Speaker 3: they need to give back to because boy, did they
Speaker 3: have it for five games for the buy.
Speaker 2: I can just tell you, you know, my conversations with
Speaker 2: guys yesterday, there's an energy level for this game on Sunday.
Speaker 6: They're excited.
Speaker 2: Cam Robinson in particular, I spent some time with him
Speaker 2: for a pregame radio interview and he's really you know.
Speaker 2: I was asking him about the challenge of the Niners,
Speaker 2: and I mean he's like, I'm ready for it. He goes,
Speaker 2: I love. I live for Sundays where I'm going to
Speaker 2: be challenged. He says, I faced the best in the
Speaker 2: NFL over the course of my career. Then every Sunday,
Speaker 2: I love it. But this is a challenge and I'm
Speaker 2: really excited about it. And everyone I talked to shared
Speaker 2: that they love the idea that the Niners are coming
Speaker 2: in here. They don't love the idea that they're underdogs
Speaker 2: at home, but they love the idea that they've got
Speaker 2: a chance to go prove themselves on Sunday afternoon. They're
Speaker 2: excited to play these guys. There's Fere's not the right word.
Speaker 2: There's no trumpidation at all. They're ready to go. To me,
Speaker 2: that was a really good sign backing up what Trevor
Speaker 2: was talking about, in other words, getting back here and
Speaker 2: getting to work. They're excited to get to work because
Speaker 2: they're excited to get.
Speaker 3: And I'm not a big raw ra guy. You aren't
Speaker 3: locker room bulletin boards stuff, but I do think if
Speaker 3: if I'm the Jag and this team is really about team.
Speaker 3: I mean, in talking to players, it's a selfless team
Speaker 3: that cares about winning, and not all NFL teams feel
Speaker 3: the same way about that. And I think for them,
Speaker 3: they're three point underdogs, which means the world whatever that is,
Speaker 3: thinks the Niners are six points better. I do think
Speaker 3: that makes this a little bit of a you know what,
Speaker 3: we won five in a row. I do wonder if
Speaker 3: that can come into play on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I think some of the lack of you know, maybe
Speaker 1: national understanding where this team is at is because they
Speaker 1: haven't seen a huge jump out of Trevor Lawrence because
Speaker 1: they're not watching it. You know, if you just look
Speaker 1: at the box score, you're not watching the game, probably
Speaker 1: not seeing what Trevor Lawrence has been able to do
Speaker 1: for this team. And Trevor did talk about really wanting
Speaker 1: to get the offense going and put up a good
Speaker 1: offensive performance in this game.
Speaker 7: We've been I think we've been a lot more consistent
Speaker 7: on just moving the ball, not stalling out as much.
Speaker 7: But then you see two weeks ago we have the
Speaker 7: we have the dumb turn turnovers that kind of kept
Speaker 7: Pittsburgh in the game and gave him a shot and
Speaker 7: didn't let us really take off and blow the game open.
Speaker 7: So it's something like that every week that we got
Speaker 7: to fix. So you know, you're hoping every week is
Speaker 7: that week, and we're emphasizing it. We've got a lot
Speaker 7: of a lot of emphasis on the details of just
Speaker 7: not having turnovers, being better on third down and all
Speaker 7: those things play together, and having a clean game. And
Speaker 7: that's the idea is having a game where you can
Speaker 7: come out of it not any or many turnovers at all,
Speaker 7: being great on third down, scoring in the red zone.
Speaker 7: It'd be nice to you know, put all those together
Speaker 7: this week and against a good team like this, this
Speaker 7: is the week to do it. You know, you gotta
Speaker 7: gotta play well against great teams.
Speaker 1: Obviously, every week we're kind of hoping that's the week
Speaker 1: that we see the offense, you know, be to what
Speaker 1: we expect them to be. But they have been getting better.
Speaker 1: They're consistent, and we've seen that complimentary football from this team,
Speaker 1: and Trevor talking a little bit about what they were
Speaker 1: able to do in Pittsburgh and you know, so shooting
Speaker 1: themselves on the foot at some points, and we're kind
Speaker 1: of hoping maybe got some of that energy out maybe
Speaker 1: that interception out of the way, so now we can
Speaker 1: turn the page here.
Speaker 2: A turnovers the last four games. Change that and you
Speaker 2: have a better offensive showing in every game. But the
Speaker 2: other thing, and I feel like I'm beating a dead
Speaker 2: horse here. They're inconsistent on third down. Right, one week
Speaker 2: it's good, it's fifty percent. The next week it's horrible.
Speaker 2: It's thirty two percent. And they're averaging about thirty six
Speaker 2: percent on the season. They've got to get that number up.
Speaker 2: They've got to be more efficient. They've got to be
Speaker 2: more consistent on third down and short if they are,
Speaker 2: and of course Trevor talked about this yesterday. He talked
Speaker 2: about not putting yourselves in third down. He goes, get
Speaker 2: a first down on first down, get a first down
Speaker 2: and second down, great, But when you do get to
Speaker 2: those third and short situations, for this offense to find
Speaker 2: a tempo rhythm, choose your adjective, they're just gonna stay
Speaker 2: on the field.
Speaker 6: They need to be better on them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the thing that Doug really wants fixed going forward,
Speaker 3: and it's kind of self evident. Thirteen giveaways, which is
Speaker 3: second the league. Their third down and red zone are
Speaker 3: the twenty fifth, twenty six, whatever, it's not good and
Speaker 3: all that sort of ties together. It's all about those
Speaker 3: big moments. I wrote a story for the site for today.
Speaker 3: I don't remember the exact number, but it is an
Speaker 3: insane number of times this team that's driven past the
Speaker 3: fifty and not gotten points this year. It's like twenty
Speaker 3: seven or twenty eight drives that they've gone inside the
Speaker 3: opponent's fifty. Well, start adding that up. That's three or
Speaker 3: four game. You get three or seven out of one
Speaker 3: of those, and all of a sudden, all this angst
Speaker 3: about the offense isn't there. My point is, it's not
Speaker 3: that they're not moving. It's not that they're not capable
Speaker 3: of moving, and they're there. It's that those big moments,
Speaker 3: those big things. It's certainly a It certainly got better
Speaker 3: last year. I think it will get better moving forward.
Speaker 3: But that's what people are feeling about the offense.
Speaker 1: Certainly feels like it's just right there, just almost there.
Speaker 1: We'll have to see if it comes together fully for
Speaker 1: us in the forty nine ers game. Stay with us
Speaker 1: after the break. We're gonna go over some of our
Speaker 1: game changers we think for the matchup. Welcome back, to
Speaker 1: jag z Am. We're here in the Hyundai studios and
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk a little bit about some of the
Speaker 1: Jaguars players we have our eye on this week. So, Brian,
Speaker 1: when you're looking at who might do something in this game,
Speaker 1: who do you have your eye on?
Speaker 2: Walker Little in particular. I think he is a guy
Speaker 2: who will it's the right way to put this, He'll
Speaker 2: be the difference maker on third and short, right, He'll
Speaker 2: be that guy he is He might be your best
Speaker 2: offensive lineman. I mean, I think he's tremendously talented. He's
Speaker 2: very athletic, he's very powerful. He won't be over matt By,
Speaker 2: you know, bigger guys like Hargrave in Armstead. And I
Speaker 2: think he's that guy who will you know you'll be
Speaker 2: able to run behind him, You'll be able to He'll
Speaker 2: lift the play of Luke Fordner up and help them
Speaker 2: work through it and be more successful on third and
Speaker 2: short and keep drives alive.
Speaker 3: I went with Foyer. Lukan he will play well because
Speaker 3: he always does. He's as consistent and I think he's
Speaker 3: playing better than last season. It seems to me like
Speaker 3: he has more tackles in that one in two yard
Speaker 3: range than he did last year. I think the overall
Speaker 3: defense is playing better around him. He won't need to
Speaker 3: stop at forty nine of his offense all by himself,
Speaker 3: because I think the key for this game is what
Speaker 3: I said earlier, the fact that all eleven guys on
Speaker 3: this defense, they play so well together and it's rare
Speaker 3: to see guys out of position. What's been remarkable to
Speaker 3: me about this defense is how often the running game
Speaker 3: can be a little hard to get a feel for
Speaker 3: when you're watching it, because if you're if you're getting
Speaker 3: the difference between three and four yards on first down
Speaker 3: and one and two is a lot. The Jaguars, to me,
Speaker 3: have done a great job this year of stopping and
Speaker 3: all of a sudden you're in second and eight instead
Speaker 3: of second and six, and those two yards for down
Speaker 3: and distance or can be everything what you're trying to do.
Speaker 3: But he might he might make the Pro Bowl off
Speaker 3: this game, And what I mean by that is it's
Speaker 3: a national game up, you're gonna be watching it. He's
Speaker 3: already had the interception for a touchdown on national TVs.
Speaker 3: People are aware of he's the league in tackles. Pro
Speaker 3: Bowl can be a reputation type thing. Have a big
Speaker 3: game in a game like this, or just get people
Speaker 3: talking about you in a game like this and all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, you know, it's a shame it works
Speaker 3: that way because he deserves it no matter how he
Speaker 3: plays on Sunday. But this is the kind of game
Speaker 3: they can put a middle linebacker. Oh, you're stopping the
Speaker 3: forty nine ers, So this is the kind of game
Speaker 3: they can make a reputation for a player like him.
Speaker 2: Well, especially with Fred Warner on the other side for
Speaker 2: the Niners, they'll be talking about him. And if foyers
Speaker 2: playing well, you'll be You'll be in the same breath
Speaker 2: as a guy who is generally considered the best overall
Speaker 2: linebacker in football.
Speaker 6: So that's good for him.
Speaker 1: I went with Josh Allen. I think he's been having
Speaker 1: quite a season. I think he will get to Rock
Speaker 1: Purty on Sunday, and I think he won't let up
Speaker 1: in that regard because we've seen him gas out. He's
Speaker 1: if anybody need a bye, he gets. Josh Allen, what
Speaker 1: he's been able to do in the first half of
Speaker 1: this season has been impressive. He's a man playing for
Speaker 1: a contract and he's earning every penny at this point,
Speaker 1: he might be the difference maker in this game because
Speaker 1: I think he'll either get a strip, sack, force of fumble,
Speaker 1: get an extra possession, and I think at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, it might come down to who's going
Speaker 1: to win the turnover battle in this game. Brian, we
Speaker 1: talked about Josh Allen needing to play well this season
Speaker 1: and kind of earn that contract, if you will. But
Speaker 1: it's so impressive what he's been able to do, and
Speaker 1: I don't see him slowing down.
Speaker 2: He might be the most consistent pass rusher in the league.
Speaker 2: And it seems ridiculous because t J. Watt's so very
Speaker 2: good and Nick Bose is so very good, but he
Speaker 2: leaves in the league with pressures, right, he can forty eight
Speaker 2: coming into this week, and he is just consistently there.
Speaker 2: And maybe it's because he doesn't see as many double
Speaker 2: teams as TJ. Watt as I don't know there are
Speaker 2: reasons why, but I just he's really really good. And
Speaker 2: I think we take him for granted in Jacksonville because
Speaker 2: he's had some good and some bad bad it's the
Speaker 2: wrong word, he said, some good and some not as
Speaker 2: productive games. But he's got nine sacks near the top
Speaker 2: of the what a half a sack off the AFC League. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: not very far. And he's got nine games left and
Speaker 2: you just you look and see where he could have
Speaker 2: a He could break Kalay's Campbell's I think single season
Speaker 2: franchise record. You bet he was talking about it yesterday.
Speaker 2: That means something to him, because Kalais means something to him.
Speaker 3: He's been underappreciated around here for a long time when
Speaker 3: you consider how important game situations are to sacks. From
Speaker 3: of his career, he's played on a team that's trailed
Speaker 3: by ten points a lot, and there are some years
Speaker 3: where it was insane how many double digit games they lost.
Speaker 3: It's hard to get sacks if the other team's not throwing.
Speaker 3: And if the other team doesn't have to throw. This year,
Speaker 3: guess what, the Jaguars are better. His pressures are becoming
Speaker 3: sacks because there's more situations where he can do it.
Speaker 3: And I'm not take anything away from what he's done
Speaker 3: this year, but he's always been a good player and
Speaker 3: I'm ecstatic for him that it's showing up in the
Speaker 3: status sheet for him because he's a class act.
Speaker 2: And I think you could have made the case going
Speaker 2: into the season there was a chance he might be
Speaker 2: somewhere else in twenty twenty four if Trayvon came on
Speaker 2: and had a big year, and if his numbers hadn't translated.
Speaker 2: But he's meant so much to this defense and its
Speaker 2: overall level of performance. I don't think there's any way
Speaker 2: he plays anywhere else.
Speaker 3: I don't see how you don't.
Speaker 6: It's all valuable.
Speaker 2: Whatever it takes, they're going to create a creative way
Speaker 2: to work it all in and Josh Allen will be
Speaker 2: here long term.
Speaker 3: You know why, Brian, because you trust him.
Speaker 2: Yes, he's He's also the kind of per one in
Speaker 2: your locker room. He is a stand up. He's a
Speaker 2: good father, he's a good husband by all accounts. He's
Speaker 2: a good neighbor, he's a good teammate, and he's a
Speaker 2: good football player. Those guys the whole package don't come
Speaker 2: along that often, and we now see that he's the
Speaker 2: whole package. He's going to get a big contract to
Speaker 2: deserve it.
Speaker 3: His ceiling is very high, but his floor is too.
Speaker 3: Even when he hadn't had these numbers, he's really really
Speaker 3: good on and off the field.
Speaker 1: Integral part of this team, so happy to see him
Speaker 1: having as much success as he's having this season. Stay
Speaker 1: with us after the break, we'll go over our final
Speaker 1: predictions for the game and talk a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Forty nine ers.
Speaker 7: The fans are going to be huge. I mean, obviously
Speaker 7: we've got a lot of momentum right now and they're
Speaker 7: a huge part of that. And just bringing that. You know,
Speaker 7: we've been really successful on the road this year. We
Speaker 7: need to start winning at home more and that's a
Speaker 7: big part of you know, with our fans as well,
Speaker 7: and I know that's what they're looking forward to seeing.
Speaker 7: So we just need all we can get all that
Speaker 7: home field advantage.
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawren saying the Man cast, he's excited to be
Speaker 1: Jacksonville's quarterback, and he's excited to be at home play
Speaker 1: for the fans. Standing room only at this point for
Speaker 1: forty nine ers, but get out there if you can.
Speaker 2: He always fit this town when he's playing at Clemson.
Speaker 2: Just everything about him screamed Jacksonville, and in talking to
Speaker 2: him back in the preseason for an interview before a
Speaker 2: preseason football game, he talked about how much and his
Speaker 2: wife love it here. It's just it's genuine and real
Speaker 2: and people can connect with him. He's the perfect quarterback
Speaker 2: for this town.
Speaker 1: It should be a good one.
Speaker 3: Are you guys?
Speaker 1: Do you have game predictions for us?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think they win if they can get a
Speaker 3: couple of turnovers. I think they need the big plays
Speaker 3: energy from that. I think in this game you need
Speaker 3: to have Andre Cisco and leading the team on this
Speaker 3: thing that they do now when they get interception and
Speaker 3: they're running down and they're doing it, you know, and
Speaker 3: you got to see a way out of the defense
Speaker 3: for them to win this game. Maybe two maybe two okay,
Speaker 3: maybe two ways.
Speaker 6: I have a good feeling about it.
Speaker 2: I mean I can't say they are a certain score,
Speaker 2: you know, with the Niners and how well coached they
Speaker 2: are and how talented they are, they're's gonna go into
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter. I mean, you're not gonna run away
Speaker 2: from these guys and have a two touchdown lead with
Speaker 2: ten minutes to play.
Speaker 6: So I just this team proved last year that they
Speaker 6: can win games late.
Speaker 2: They've proven that they can overcome mistakes, especially with eight
Speaker 2: turnovers in the last four games and all of those
Speaker 2: being wins.
Speaker 6: So I have a good feeling.
Speaker 2: Just I think this is a really good team. I
Speaker 2: think I think this is as good a team as
Speaker 2: there is in the AFC. It might be the best
Speaker 2: team in the AFC. I mean, watching all the weekend
Speaker 2: and I know Kansas City and I know them well.
Speaker 2: I think this may be the best team in the AFC.
Speaker 2: And they should be able to beat the best team
Speaker 2: in the NFC, which is the Eagles right now, but
Speaker 2: you got to beat you.
Speaker 6: Gotta beat the Niners.
Speaker 2: And at one point at five and zer after they
Speaker 2: had clouded the Cowboys, everyone thought they were the best
Speaker 2: team in the NFL. They get all those players back, right, Deebo, Samuel,
Speaker 2: Trent Williams. They're all back, So this could be best
Speaker 2: versus best. Let's see what you got.
Speaker 1: Absolutely gotta beat the next team on your schedule. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm go with the Jags too, why not? And
Speaker 1: maybe this will be the breakout week for the offense too.
Speaker 1: Of course, we'll have you covered on game day with
Speaker 1: all of your coverage on Jaguars dot Com and then
Speaker 1: we'll be right back here on Jagxam on Monday to recap.
Speaker 1: Hopefully Jaguars win. Enjoy the game,