WEBVTT - Ep. 40: Potential Game Changers in Week 10 | Jags A.M. Podcast 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:20.239 Welcome into jags AM On Thursday, November ninth, Pennie Stephens, 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:22.960 fran Sexton, John Osier with me today this week ten. 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:25.760 We're talking forty nine ers. We've been excited for this game, 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:28.320 definitely one you circled on the calendar early on when 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:30.480 you saw some of the marquee matchups for this team, 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:33.320 and seems like Fortinitars are getting healthy too, so it 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:35.839 should be a good kind of marker game, kind of 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:37.640 see where they're at their start study team. 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.360 I mean when you look at the roster and the names, 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:45.279 whether it's George Pittle, CMC right we just three initials, right, 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:48.239 or whin knows, Christian McCaffrey, and of course of the defense. 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:50.599 So it's no surprise that tickets are hard to come 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.360 by and they're selling stating room only. People know the 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:54.880 forty nine ers, and it brings out a lot of 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:56.680 folks who may be casual things. 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:59.520 Yeah. I know, Doug talked this week about it not 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:03.480 being a quote statement game, and I kind of like 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:05.400 the message because I think he's tired of talking about 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.640 a statement game. They've won what eleven out of thirteen games, 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:11.360 they've beaten the Bills, they've beaten the Steelers, They've beaten 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:14.080 the Cowboys during that I mean, how many statements do 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:15.880 you need to make before you sit? They're are making 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:18.360 a statement game and nobody hears you. So I think 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.200 to him, this is Look, we're a good team. They're 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.720 a good team. But I think not only from a 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:27.559 national perspective, which I'm kind of worn out on trying 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:31.760 to talk that national perspective, but from a showing you 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:36.479 what they are in the locker room. San Francisco can 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:42.280 really run. They're a powerful team. The Jaguars have spent 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:48.040 the last what sixteen games ish being a stout defense, 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:50.640 being a physical team, but they don't quite have that 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:58.680 reputation you since you go Mano Amano and stuff this 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:02.000 team out physical them, then you do have that reputation. 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.120 So and I think they can prove that to themselves, 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:08.720 not that they are have it already, but maybe they 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.440 can say something to themselves about that. Improve that once 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:11.880 and for all. 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.280 Let's go over some of our big things this week. 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.200 Big thing number one, thrush is going to be understand 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:19.320 the assignment. As we mentioned, there's a lot of big 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.760 names on the forty nine ers, a lot of star players, 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:23.480 but a lot of this is gonna come down to 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:25.800 doing your job and understanding the assignment. 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:29.360 You've got to play eleven on eleven right, and and 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.280 you know it's about our pieces against their pieces and 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.120 how best we can maneuver our guys and try to 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:41.360 create some matchups somewhere and and and yet you just 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.520 know that you know these guys are gonna make plays. 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:44.959 You know they're gonna they're. 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:46.560 Gonna make up tackle for loss, or they're gonna get 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.280 a sack, or they may you know, break up a 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.880 pass or something like that. But it doesn't keep you 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.800 from continuing to try right and execute your game plan. 0:02:54.880 --> 0:03:00.600 So good players give them their respect, and you know you. 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:01.320 Still got to play. 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.079 Brian Doug talking a lot about you know, understanding that 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:07.359 they have star players. They're gonna make plays, they're gonna 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.919 get sacks, they're gonna get tackles for loss, whatever it's 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:11.720 going to be, and you kind of need to allow 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:13.880 that but also stick to the game plan that you have. 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:14.960 But it's gonna be a tough one. 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:16.280 They've had a couple of weeks to get ready for 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:17.760 this now with a buy and the coaches will have 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.360 a plan, right, Doug in the offense you have a 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.160 lot of confidence in because you know, and the defense 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:24.720 now you should have a lot of confidence in. You know, 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.200 last year you had a first year coordinator and they 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.600 were kind of working through things. But talking to players 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.400 in the locker room, especially Josh Allen yesterday, you know, 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:34.440 they have a lot of confidence in Mike cold Well 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.080 in that staff now, and they feel like Mike and 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.600 his staff have the confidence in them to go out 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.560 and run the plays that are called. So what you 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.200 really have is to do your job. Situation here, they've 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.600 got a game plan. If you do your job, you 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:49.120 have a chance to succeed. 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.000 With so much of an offense like the forty nine 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:54.000 ers because they put pressure everywhere in the running game 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:55.920 and they have so many options in the running game, 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.280 meaning I'm McCaffrey, Deebo, Samuel, these guys can do different things. 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:04.280 What offenses like that thrive on is usually defenses think 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.320 they have to do too much to stop them, and 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:09.600 they're jumping out of lanes. The Jaguars defense, if it's 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.600 to me, if it's defined by anything, it's that you 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:16.640 have one superstar player. Maybe Josh Allen, you know, is 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:23.160 ascending to that, but everybody else, Devin, Lloyd Foyer, Rashawn Jenkins. 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.839 You started listening off guys. They're all good, and I 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:30.359 think they're confident sort of what you said, Brian. They 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.120 don't feel like they have to do much special to 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:36.560 stop teams, so I think they can play assignment football 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.080 and all those cliches the top of the guys in 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.240 the locker room. They believe that if they play their game, 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.080 they don't have to do anything special to win this 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.720 or stop this really good forty nine ers offense. That 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:49.720 to me is the matchup. 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:51.440 Here's why do your job is so important. We talked 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:52.280 about it yesterday. 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.880 You have a coach and Kyle Shanahan who is so 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:59.839 gifted at moving personnel groups and creating mismatches and giving 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:02.159 you Hey, it looks like we're doing this, and everything 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.200 says we're doing this, But now we're doing this. That's 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.160 where they do your job comes in because Mike and 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.800 Doug they will have everything figured out. They will know 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:12.240 exactly what the tendencies are and it's about Hey, like 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.480 John just said, don't get anxious to think, well, I'm 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.240 gonna jump over here, because I can make the play 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:17.799 and then watch it go over here instead. 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:20.240 It's nice to see the narrative switch a little bit 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.360 to Jaguars play Jaguars football. We should be able to 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:24.080 win the game. You don't have to try to cater 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:25.880 to the other teams. It's a good spot to be at. 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:27.720 Big thing Number two is going to be stop the run. 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.640 We've talked about Christian McCaffrey and he is talented so 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.360 many ways. You also have to stop him yards after 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.559 catch as well, and Doug talked a little bit about 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.800 why Christian McAffrey is so dangerous. 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:41.600 You can put him anywhere anywhere in a formation, backfield, 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.840 put out wide motion him, you know, jet sweep, you 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:48.040 put him anywhere. He's just that type of player. Give 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:49.880 him the hand him the ball, throw him the ball, 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:56.160 screens down the field, just an overall solid player and 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:58.640 you have to account for him. And then you know 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.279 it's hard to get him on the ground. You know 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:05.160 he can break tackles, he's strong, you know, physical back 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.400 that you know does some really good things. 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:11.800 So we know Rock Cerry's been having some issues the 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:13.800 last couple of weeks, but Christian McCaffrey has just been so 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:15.560 dynamic for that team, and he's dangerous in a lot 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:16.280 of different ways. 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:21.640 Well, he's dangerous because to me, he's up I think 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.320 one of the first players since Marshall Fulk really who 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.720 can is just as good a receiver as he is 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:31.080 a running back and vice versa. The reason he's so 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.960 dangerous is you can do your job really well on 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:37.640 a play and he can still beat you. You can 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.920 do your job ninety eight percent and he can take 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.000 advantage of the two percent that you don't do because 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:45.160 he's so quick, his vision's so good. He's in everything 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:49.320 running back. So I expect him to score because he 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.359 usually does seventeen straight games. Yeah, I expect him to 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.640 be effective. But guess what, they've lost some of those 0:06:55.680 --> 0:07:00.080 games where he scored. So he can be effective and 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.120 you can still win this game. You have to keep 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.800 him from being the fantasy football stat guy this week. 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:07.200 Well, here's the fantasy football stats for me. 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.560 In the last four games, he has six touchdowns, three rushing, 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.800 three receiving, and in each of the last two games 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:15.040 he has one of each. So he's a multipurpose threat. 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:17.960 And they've still lost. No, No, you can still beat that. Well, 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:20.720 you can beat them. 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:22.600 The problem for them, a problem for the Jaguars this 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.520 week is is Deebo Samuel's coming back, and that's we 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.360 saw him last year two years ago. Here eight rushes 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.400 for eighty nine yards in a touchdown. So now they've 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.720 got that two headed monster. So I'm thankful this week 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.320 that you have Devon Hamilton back. We saw him in 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:39.920 some limited action against the Steelers and they look pretty good. 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.760 Now he's having even more time to get integrated into 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.520 the defense because you're gonna need a rotation because if 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:47.280 you don't stop the run, and Josh said this, you 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.040 know is Sodi Rayshawn yesterday in the locker room. If 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.920 you don't stop the run, you have no prayer of 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.200 getting to the quarterback none. And if you get to 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.600 the quarterback, you can force turnovers. That's what they're trying 0:07:57.600 --> 0:07:59.680 to get to. This kid's got six turnovers in the 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.720 last three games. So they got to stop the run 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:04.560 to be able to attack him. And they know what 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.240 Deebo Samuel back this week that that job, which was 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.040 already difficult, just got much much harder. 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:12.400 Definitely a hallmark of the Jaguars defense though, So there 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:13.920 is hope there. I mean, if they get off schedule, 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.080 they can't stop the run. That's we're way off the 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.239 plantation by that point. Where league by that point. 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:19.920 Giving up less than eighty yards rushing per game, they're 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:23.600 playing fantastic. Every indication is they'll be able to stop 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:25.360 the run. Now, they might not hold them to their 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:29.200 average seventy nine point three, but if they can control 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:30.920 it right, I mean, they never could be one hundred 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:32.560 and thirty yards by the time the game is over. 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:34.680 But if they can control it in the situations where 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.080 they need to to set a third and long, fine, 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.000 will know, no matter what the stats say. Will know 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.439 on Sunday after the Jags walk off the field, if 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.720 they stop the run. The numbers won't tell the story. 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:45.800 You'll know it with your eyes. 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:48.160 Our final big thing this week is going to be 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.320 make your house your Home. The Jaguars are six and 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.360 two so far on the season. They've won five games 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:53.920 in a row, but they haven't played their best football 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:56.719 at home, and that's something Dan Peterson, head coach of 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:58.280 this team, says he's got to change. 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.480 You know, first thing, the schedule gets a little more 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:05.120 normal for us here in the last half of the season. 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.920 You know, we haven't played our best football at home, 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.720 which is crazy. You know, those two early games that 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.320 that we didn't we didn't play very well, and you know, 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:17.920 those are all things that we have to we have 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:20.880 to do better. Right we're playing in front of our fans. 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:24.560 We're at home, you know, our stadium, our locker room, 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.840 and we've got to feed off the energy obviously the 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.400 crowd and and uh and play our best football, you know, 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.800 and and especially in the second half of the season. 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:38.640 That's something that you know, if if you want that 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:39.400 home field. 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:41.520 Advantage or try to play for home field advantage, you 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:42.520 got to do it at home. 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:46.400 That's why they call it home field advantage. So you know, 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:48.400 we've just got to we've just got to focus in 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.720 on that and and just continue to improve. 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.240 Brian, we've talked, you know, it's great that the team 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.480 can play so well away from home, but they talked 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:59.319 a little bit about putting a good product on the 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.400 field to the fan to have something sure about because 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.080 two of those home games we had this season have 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:03.520 been tough. 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.080 I go back to the last two games of last year. 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.160 They are a prime time now right against Tennessee and 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:12.120 against the Chargers. The crowd was insane and it sent 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:13.079 a message. 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:13.640 To the rest of the league. 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:15.760 I probably don't want to go there and play because 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.000 it's a very difficult place when it's all riled up 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.920 there were the Texans game is a rough one, you know, 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.640 because you wanted to come out and play well and 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.160 establish your dominance early and give it the chance, the 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.680 fans a chance to get into it. The Colts was better, 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.680 but Sunday's a chance because there will be a national 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.480 audience wash right, it's a premier game. There will be 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.719 a lot of new eyes on this place, and it's 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:41.560 a chance for them to see what a tough place 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:43.559 this can be. The Gicks, you've got to play well 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:45.280 to get the fans into the game, to make it 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:47.880 go well for them. But it's an important thing when 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.520 you especially consider you've got the Titans coming up, and 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.400 you've got the Bengals in the raven You've got some 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:54.400 big games here at home. You need to get the 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.240 crowd juiced up and get them ready for those. 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:56.839 Yeah. 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.880 I don't know they're gonna win or lose this week, 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:04.000 and the Jags, I don't really worry about them playing 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.360 well at home. I kind of attribute the Chiefs and 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:11.160 the Texans to me was more about early season working 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.319 through some stuff than it was not being able to 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:15.120 play well at home. They showed me last year they 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:16.800 can play well at home and take advantage of this. 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:19.760 They won what their last five here, so I attribute. 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:21.120 I mean, I'm not saying they don't need to go 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.679 get it done, but I don't really worry that they 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.800 have a problem playing at home. I thought those first 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:30.760 two games were more about them trying to figure out 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.280 coming back from last year, trying to figure out what 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.240 they were, etc. Etc. So I hope they go prove me. 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:36.800 Right on Sunday. 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.760 I do think if I'm the coach, I make the 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.120 point that Doug made it, which is, hey, we want 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:46.240 to play well here. We didn't play well against the Texans, 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.920 forget where it was, right, but we want to play here. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.120 So let's have an emphasis of getting these guys involved. 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:53.280 Well. They want to establish that because you got the 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:59.480 Ravens the big game. Basically, you hold sir the rest 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.400 of the way at home, home, and when one or 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.280 two on the road and you're set. So they've got 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:06.439 it in front of them in terms of that. 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.120 A lot of primetime eyes on this game too, because 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:10.800 I think seventy five percent of the country's gonna have 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.560 this as their one o'clock games, so it'll be very 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.880 national stage for everybody. It's a good one first of 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:17.640 several big games for the day. 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:18.160 Stay with us. 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:20.320 We're gonna hear from QB one coming up after the break. 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:29.959 We're getting ready for the forty nine ers to come 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:31.920 to town. It's nice to be back home, play some 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:33.959 home games in front of the home crowd, and we 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:37.160 expect to be a big one coming off a bye week. 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.320 Both of these teams should be well rested, should be 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:41.680 healthy as they can be at this point in the season. 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:44.080 And Trevor Lawrence talked a little bit about taking that 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.040 time away but then also getting back into game mode 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:48.200 once you got back in the building. 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.400 We still feel that momentum, that energy that we that 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.520 we left with, you know when we took the week off. 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.040 But you gotta find a way to kind of get 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:58.560 that edge back because it is, you know, you're kind 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.040 of relaxing, getting your body back underneath you. You have to. 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.760 It's a long season. We played, you know, eight tough 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:05.520 games in a row and then now we got a 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:07.120 nice stretch, so you got to give your body a 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:10.320 chance to rest. But now it's today in practice, and 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:12.560 it started on Monday, really, had we had a lighter 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:14.920 practice and just getting that getting our legs back under 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:16.920 us and getting that edge and practicing hard, that's where 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:18.680 it starts. You can't just walk out there Sunday and 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.040 expect to expect to play with that edge if you 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:22.920 didn't all week in practice. So I think that's where 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:26.160 it starts really today and as we practice every day 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:26.600 of the week. 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.199 John, when we look at these two teams, they're both 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:32.160 going into a bye, but in different ways. Jaguars five 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.679 winners of five straight, the forty nine lost three, and 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.679 kind of the break probably meant different things to those teams. 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.280 But the refocused energy when you come back is really 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:43.360 because you're not carrying momentum at this point. It's it's 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:44.640 kind of starting over a little bit. 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:48.320 Yeah, for the Jags, it meant I mean, didn't it 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:53.679 feel like they were just pulling and trying to get 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:57.320 to that buy through this tough stretch and just thinking 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:03.600 if we can just get through this, gotcha, thank goodness 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.840 because it was hard and even Evan Ingram talked about 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:10.079 in the locker room on Thursday, Man, I feel like 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:16.440 we've been away from this place forever. One reason the 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:18.760 Doug is such a good coach. Doug Peterson. He talked 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.200 about what Trevor was talking about, and the thing that 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:25.520 struck me yesterday was when he spoke about needing to 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:31.160 get back to play in with energy for four quarters. 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:34.320 And I'm not saying it right, but that intensity level 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.440 that you need to win in the NFL. And I 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.320 don't think he thought that they had it early in 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:43.160 the season, and then they got it for five games. 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:45.720 He talked about it, players talked about it in the 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.240 locker room. He's clearly emphasizing that, hey, we've got to 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:51.640 get back to what we were doing, not only physically 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:56.360 but mentally. The energy, the focus, all that stuff. It's 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.160 why he's the head coach, Brian. He's really good at 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:02.480 emphasizing the right things, and that feels like something that 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:03.960 they need to give back to because boy, did they 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:05.280 have it for five games for the buy. 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:07.400 I can just tell you, you know, my conversations with 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:09.600 guys yesterday, there's an energy level for this game on Sunday. 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:10.240 They're excited. 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:12.760 Cam Robinson in particular, I spent some time with him 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.920 for a pregame radio interview and he's really you know. 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:20.320 I was asking him about the challenge of the Niners, 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:22.320 and I mean he's like, I'm ready for it. He goes, 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:25.800 I love. I live for Sundays where I'm going to 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.880 be challenged. He says, I faced the best in the 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.680 NFL over the course of my career. Then every Sunday, 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.520 I love it. But this is a challenge and I'm 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.400 really excited about it. And everyone I talked to shared 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:37.480 that they love the idea that the Niners are coming 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.760 in here. They don't love the idea that they're underdogs 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:41.840 at home, but they love the idea that they've got 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:45.240 a chance to go prove themselves on Sunday afternoon. They're 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:49.240 excited to play these guys. There's Fere's not the right word. 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:53.160 There's no trumpidation at all. They're ready to go. To me, 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:55.440 that was a really good sign backing up what Trevor 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:57.920 was talking about, in other words, getting back here and 0:15:57.920 --> 0:15:59.440 getting to work. They're excited to get to work because 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:00.120 they're excited to get. 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.720 And I'm not a big raw ra guy. You aren't 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:10.120 locker room bulletin boards stuff, but I do think if 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.960 if I'm the Jag and this team is really about team. 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:20.520 I mean, in talking to players, it's a selfless team 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:24.840 that cares about winning, and not all NFL teams feel 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:29.120 the same way about that. And I think for them, 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:33.160 they're three point underdogs, which means the world whatever that is, 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:39.160 thinks the Niners are six points better. I do think 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.720 that makes this a little bit of a you know what, 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:46.240 we won five in a row. I do wonder if 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:47.880 that can come into play on Sunday. 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.000 I think some of the lack of you know, maybe 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.880 national understanding where this team is at is because they 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:56.360 haven't seen a huge jump out of Trevor Lawrence because 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:57.880 they're not watching it. You know, if you just look 0:16:57.960 --> 0:16:59.960 at the box score, you're not watching the game, probably 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:01.760 not seeing what Trevor Lawrence has been able to do 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.399 for this team. And Trevor did talk about really wanting 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.360 to get the offense going and put up a good 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:07.800 offensive performance in this game. 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.400 We've been I think we've been a lot more consistent 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:15.560 on just moving the ball, not stalling out as much. 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:17.520 But then you see two weeks ago we have the 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.320 we have the dumb turn turnovers that kind of kept 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.439 Pittsburgh in the game and gave him a shot and 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:26.240 didn't let us really take off and blow the game open. 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:28.880 So it's something like that every week that we got 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:30.720 to fix. So you know, you're hoping every week is 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:32.600 that week, and we're emphasizing it. We've got a lot 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:34.560 of a lot of emphasis on the details of just 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:38.119 not having turnovers, being better on third down and all 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:40.800 those things play together, and having a clean game. And 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:42.879 that's the idea is having a game where you can 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:46.160 come out of it not any or many turnovers at all, 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:48.800 being great on third down, scoring in the red zone. 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:50.840 It'd be nice to you know, put all those together 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:52.800 this week and against a good team like this, this 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:54.160 is the week to do it. You know, you gotta 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.119 gotta play well against great teams. 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:59.200 Obviously, every week we're kind of hoping that's the week 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.800 that we see the offense, you know, be to what 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.680 we expect them to be. But they have been getting better. 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.760 They're consistent, and we've seen that complimentary football from this team, 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.439 and Trevor talking a little bit about what they were 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.600 able to do in Pittsburgh and you know, so shooting 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:15.440 themselves on the foot at some points, and we're kind 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.440 of hoping maybe got some of that energy out maybe 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:19.679 that interception out of the way, so now we can 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:20.919 turn the page here. 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.600 A turnovers the last four games. Change that and you 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.919 have a better offensive showing in every game. But the 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:28.480 other thing, and I feel like I'm beating a dead 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:32.359