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Speaker 1: Minshew Mania returning. Yes, he's getting the start this week
Speaker 1: against those Baltimore Ravens against plays Campbell, Unique and Gockway
Speaker 1: and all the rest on the defensive side. Mens. You
Speaker 1: today said that in Gockway will be out for blood
Speaker 1: in Sunday's game, and I don't doubt it either. Three
Speaker 1: games to go in this season. The uniform unveiling, we'll
Speaker 1: hear from Jimmy luck head equipment manager, and we'll play
Speaker 1: big game Jaguar gets you ready for Sunday's matchup in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Buckey Brooks John osan with us, Johnny, Oh, what's up man?
Speaker 1: Not a lot? Not a lot? JF here we are.
Speaker 1: I kind of laughed at the at the out for
Speaker 1: blood comment, and I will get into that later as
Speaker 1: we talk about this game. No doubt, Bucky. It's it's
Speaker 1: going to be an interesting matchup this week seeing those
Speaker 1: guys on the other side. Yeah, very interesting matchup. Two
Speaker 1: guys will be highly motivated to take their frustrations out
Speaker 1: on the Jacksonville Jaguars and be interesting to see how
Speaker 1: they plays out. Alright, guys, let's get right into it.
Speaker 1: Let's start with the quarterback position. It's the most important position.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't now when the team is one and twelve
Speaker 1: and has lost twelve in a row. I don't think
Speaker 1: there's anything that you can call a quarterback controversy that
Speaker 1: doesn't really qualify. But mins she was getting the start again.
Speaker 1: I played in last week's game, came in the third
Speaker 1: quarter and against some soft defenses, got some yardage, moved
Speaker 1: the offense down the field a bit, but Bucky, this
Speaker 1: is one where they've they've got to try to find
Speaker 1: a spark somehow down the stretch here. So Doug Moron's
Speaker 1: going back with the mustache. Yeah, this is all about
Speaker 1: the coaches trying to find a way to get a win.
Speaker 1: And you know, they went with Mike Lennon po a
Speaker 1: handful of games, couldn't necessarily get it going, and it
Speaker 1: kind of started fading on him. You started going to
Speaker 1: miss you jump in the game, lead a team on
Speaker 1: a drive for a touchdown, come back and kind of
Speaker 1: move the ball. And so they want to give him
Speaker 1: an opportunity. Now that's typically different. We miss you comes
Speaker 1: in off the bench as opposed to when he starts
Speaker 1: a full game and everyone knows. So we'll see how
Speaker 1: you deal with this Baltimore Ravens defense that likes to
Speaker 1: bring pressure from all angles. It had been an issue
Speaker 1: for him earli in the year. Maybe he's mature, maybe
Speaker 1: he's a better player against the blizz Now we'll find out,
Speaker 1: John in a hurry. Well, j he said there's no controversy.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what the controversy is. Why don't they
Speaker 1: have a better quarterback somewhere? So I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: be snyed about it. But that's the controversy is they
Speaker 1: don't have a guy that they feel good about starting.
Speaker 1: So I've said all week, I've gotten a lot of
Speaker 1: criticism in my ozone mail bag about why doesn't Doug
Speaker 1: make a decision? He keeps on saying this, He keeps
Speaker 1: on saying this. When you don't have a frontline guy,
Speaker 1: all a coach can do is keep playing guys, hoping
Speaker 1: somebody plays like a frontline guy for a game or two.
Speaker 1: This week's choice is Gardner Minsheit. But it's not more
Speaker 1: than that. That's not what That's not what. The controversy
Speaker 1: is not who's starting, it's why are they in this situation?
Speaker 1: Ifully they get solved in the off season. I'm fired up, buck,
Speaker 1: I'm fired up. Okay, I like it. J when you
Speaker 1: when you up, So you just keep the energy, keep
Speaker 1: the inagy y'all. Sixty minutes, sixty minutes. We've got a
Speaker 1: long conversation of course this offseason about that position moving ahead,
Speaker 1: and of course running game is quarterback's best friend. When
Speaker 1: things aren't going well, you can hand it off to
Speaker 1: James Robinson. He's over one thousand yards rushing for the
Speaker 1: season and closing in now on Fred Taylor's rookie franchise
Speaker 1: rushing mark of twenty three yards back in. It feels
Speaker 1: like he's going to get close to that, if not surpassing,
Speaker 1: very soon the next couple of weeks. You know, and
Speaker 1: and Gardner said this week he's been great for his
Speaker 1: fantasy team, Bucky and he's got him deep into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: which is a good sign. But Mr consistent James Robinson
Speaker 1: week after week and we see it every week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's been terrific. Uh. Normally you don't think of an
Speaker 1: undrafted player being the top op in the offensive game player,
Speaker 1: but James Robinson is that. Uh you just see it.
Speaker 1: I mean over scrimming jrs. He's been a terrific player
Speaker 1: and he hasn't had the negative runs and so when
Speaker 1: you've given him the ball, he has found the way
Speaker 1: to keep his team, his offense on schedule. I think
Speaker 1: the future is bright for James Robinson. I think they
Speaker 1: may have uncovered really a great one in the undrafted
Speaker 1: free agent market. Two negative runs last week, so fourteen
Speaker 1: for the season now, John, And you know, that's one
Speaker 1: of those where it looked like the Titans last week.
Speaker 1: We're going to let him get rolling early. So the
Speaker 1: Jags kind of went away from him in that second
Speaker 1: quarter a little bit. But I don't know how much
Speaker 1: more we can say about James and has played this year.
Speaker 1: John Well, I think they went away from it because
Speaker 1: at some point, and I've seen this a couple of
Speaker 1: times this year, you've always say, run James Robinson, run
Speaker 1: James Robinson. Well, if the defense is completely stacked against
Speaker 1: the running back, it's hard to just beat your head
Speaker 1: against the wall every play if you look, if you
Speaker 1: analyze what the other teams doing, and you continue to
Speaker 1: run something that's not gonna work. And that's negligent on
Speaker 1: the part of the coaching staff. So I think they
Speaker 1: saw in the first half. Look, they are trying to
Speaker 1: do anything can to stop this guy. We've got to
Speaker 1: go another route. Even if logic tells you to James
Speaker 1: Robinson's their best player, you still have to be able
Speaker 1: to come off that. That's gonna be Gardner's challenge the
Speaker 1: rest of the season as long as he plays too often.
Speaker 1: In the first seven games, he really couldn't get the
Speaker 1: defense back with his throws. Everything was bunched up the
Speaker 1: check downs made everything happen within ten or twelve yards
Speaker 1: for James Robinson be success for the last three games,
Speaker 1: They've got to keep pushing that defense back with throws.
Speaker 1: We haven't really seen that out of Gardener, but I
Speaker 1: think that's the storyline against the Ravens for the Jaguars
Speaker 1: offense on Sunday. All right, let's get into this Ravens
Speaker 1: defense here, guys, it's Patrick Queen leads the way in tackles.
Speaker 1: They don't quite have. They brought in cock Way in
Speaker 1: the trade, but he hasn't really done a lot statistically
Speaker 1: with the Ravens. Had Kellias Campbell has been is just
Speaker 1: a veteran player trying to fight through some things. Buckey,
Speaker 1: what stands out the most about this Ravens defense. I
Speaker 1: think the aggressiveness, the physicality, and maybe the multiplicity of
Speaker 1: what they do Underwing Martin deal. This is a team
Speaker 1: that wants to heat you up. About two of the
Speaker 1: time they bring pressure and then they follow it up
Speaker 1: with what they simulated pressures where it ends up being
Speaker 1: a four man rushed with seven in the coverage. But
Speaker 1: they bring so many different people from so many different angles.
Speaker 1: They really tests the awareness and the acumen of the quarterback.
Speaker 1: And so I think the blitz and bluff strategy that
Speaker 1: the Ravens will employ against Gardener Minshew is gonna be
Speaker 1: a difficult one because they get home early and they
Speaker 1: hit him a couple of times. He could begin to
Speaker 1: see goals because you just don't know where the guys
Speaker 1: are coming from and how many are coming. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: is going to be quite a challenge this week. It's
Speaker 1: challenge every week. We know this, We've said this on
Speaker 1: this program before, but with with that kind of defensive
Speaker 1: set up john challenge for Minshow. Yeah, the Ravens to
Speaker 1: me feel like a team that they're not a super
Speaker 1: Bowl favorite this year. I talked to Clifton Brown, who
Speaker 1: covers them in my role. Uh, they're not a favorite
Speaker 1: going in, but with a couple of tweaks, with a
Speaker 1: couple of things, they're a group that could still do it.
Speaker 1: There's a group of teams that could still do it.
Speaker 1: One of the tweaks they have to make is getting
Speaker 1: their run defense right. They're used to being able to
Speaker 1: stop the run and that's the and they rely on that.
Speaker 1: They assume they can stop the run. Most year they
Speaker 1: haven't been able to do that this year. They're very talented,
Speaker 1: as Bucky said, but that's been a little bit of
Speaker 1: a blind spot form that they haven't able to fix.
Speaker 1: If they fix that, then all of a sudden they're
Speaker 1: back to last year where they're one of the favorites
Speaker 1: going in. I you know, I don't want to be
Speaker 1: Joe pessimist, um, but to me, overall, this feels like
Speaker 1: a tough matchup. The only hope the Jaguars have is
Speaker 1: that the Ravens run defense, which has struggled somehow, can't
Speaker 1: figure out James Robinson and he's able to control clock.
Speaker 1: They're able to keep that off the field. Maybe that
Speaker 1: sets Minshew up for some place. That's the hope, and
Speaker 1: that's okay, because James Robinson is a good hope. But
Speaker 1: you just get the idea that is one dimensional as
Speaker 1: the Jaguars offense fields. The Ravens are good enough defensively
Speaker 1: to stop one dimension. All right, let's get a little
Speaker 1: deeper into the former jag talk here, Klaas Campbell and
Speaker 1: Unique and got Way Andrew Normal is going to excuse
Speaker 1: me practice this week, and Dug Baron seemed pretty positive
Speaker 1: that he'll be able to play on Sunday, it's a
Speaker 1: good sign in the interior there. Um Well, Kalia said
Speaker 1: about a three sack game a while back, like Week
Speaker 1: six of the season, but hasn't done a lot of
Speaker 1: statistically since then. Bucky, what kind of season has Klaias
Speaker 1: had in Baltimore. Well, there's been a little up and down.
Speaker 1: I think some of us to transition into a new defense.
Speaker 1: Some of that has been dealing with injuries and the like.
Speaker 1: But I think this team is positioned to really lean
Speaker 1: on him as they make the dash for the cash,
Speaker 1: meaning they make their run for the postseason. If this
Speaker 1: team gets into the postseason, because they can play a
Speaker 1: style that is really different and unique, they can be
Speaker 1: a handful. The offense speaks for herself with Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: that controls running around like a madman. But defensively because
Speaker 1: of the combination of pressure, the personnel that they've had,
Speaker 1: and then the experience because they played in a number
Speaker 1: of big games, this is a team that I watch
Speaker 1: out for all right, and then Unink and got Qua
Speaker 1: John we mentioned at the top. He Gardner mentioned thinks
Speaker 1: he's going to be out for blood this week, but
Speaker 1: so far in Baltimore, seven tackles, one sack, two quarterback hits,
Speaker 1: or Uniken got way of former Jaguar's third round pick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: very quickly. I'll touch on Calais real quick. I have
Speaker 1: a thought on that. He the Ravens got him for
Speaker 1: what's coming up, not what's in the rear view. You
Speaker 1: had to know when you're going after a guy like
Speaker 1: Calais at his age, he probably wasn't going to give
Speaker 1: you nineteen games, which is what the Ravens want to play.
Speaker 1: Because of his age. That's the reason the Jaguars let
Speaker 1: him go. Last year, he had a three set game
Speaker 1: against Tennessee, didn't really do that much the rest of
Speaker 1: the year. Similar situation for the Ravens this year. But
Speaker 1: if he plays well the last six games they hope,
Speaker 1: then it's a great trade for the Ravens. As far
Speaker 1: as Unique, you know, he's a baffling story in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways. He gets traded to the Vikings. They
Speaker 1: trade him five weeks later, feel like the run defense
Speaker 1: got better after that. Unique is not playing a whole
Speaker 1: lot because of sort of what the knock on him.
Speaker 1: Was not a great run player, just a pass rusher,
Speaker 1: having trouble getting on the field. So I guess he'll
Speaker 1: be out for blood. I hope for his sake that
Speaker 1: he gets on the field throughout his career and has
Speaker 1: a great career, but right now, not the impact player
Speaker 1: the Ravens had hoped for. But that's what he is.
Speaker 1: He's a great pass rusher and not a great run defender.
Speaker 1: But yeah, when I think about Joannick, I think of
Speaker 1: him as kind of a complimentary pass rusher, meaning because
Speaker 1: you have someone in place and he is on the
Speaker 1: back side, kind of eating off of their leftovers. When
Speaker 1: I look at whether they have in in Baltimore, they
Speaker 1: certainly have those pieces in place for him to be
Speaker 1: able to do so. But it's a matter of him
Speaker 1: getting really, really comfortable in Wink Mortondale scheme. So he
Speaker 1: may not be an A plus player, but he's certainly
Speaker 1: a nice B plus with with with a bullet he
Speaker 1: can be a guy that can take over games and
Speaker 1: create chaos. If you don't have the guys on the
Speaker 1: edges that can handle this speed, well, just keep running
Speaker 1: the ball and stay in those favorable situations down in
Speaker 1: distance and see if they can take advantage of that
Speaker 1: against the Ravens this week. Hey, let's come back. I
Speaker 1: guess what the Ravens can run the football too. On offense,
Speaker 1: We'll get into their offensive scheme and Lamar Jackson's play
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Speaker 1: the Jags and the Ravens coming up. The Jaguars had
Speaker 1: some link breaking transactions just a few minutes ago. Well,
Speaker 1: the other day they placed Ben Bartch the left guard
Speaker 1: on the reserve COVID nineteen list. Well, they've now added
Speaker 1: another player to the reserve COVID nineteen list. Cornerback Trey
Speaker 1: Herndon has been added. Randon Lender has been placed on
Speaker 1: injured reserve with that ankle injury, so it sounds like
Speaker 1: he's done. So Herndon's and Bart's two players now john
Speaker 1: on the COVID nineteen list. And I think that's the
Speaker 1: most impact the starting group has had this year on
Speaker 1: the list. Yeah, it feels like I'm trying to remember
Speaker 1: the rest of the Uh, it may have been a
Speaker 1: practice squad deal before that. Um, what you hope is
Speaker 1: it's not more, you know, one today, one yesterday. You
Speaker 1: hope that's the extent of it. You can probably get
Speaker 1: through what they've had so far. Herndon certainly a loss, uh,
Speaker 1: but it's it's what teams have been dealing with, and
Speaker 1: I think a lot of teams would say, well, welcome
Speaker 1: to the club, especially the raven who dealt with as
Speaker 1: much as anybody. Right, the Ravens were no Bucky because
Speaker 1: they just went through this recently. Yeah, they would, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna be then that will be very ampathetic to
Speaker 1: the Jaguars play if they have a handful of guys
Speaker 1: they have to sit out because of contract, contact tracing
Speaker 1: or anything like that. And so this is a situation
Speaker 1: where all year coaches have had to be adaptable, They've
Speaker 1: had to be flexible, They've had to prepare the practice
Speaker 1: squad guys more now than ever, and so hopefully they
Speaker 1: have put practices in place where they give those guys
Speaker 1: enough rest where they can be comfortable. But it's one
Speaker 1: of those things where we've seen any stranger things happen
Speaker 1: this year, and you have to be ready to have
Speaker 1: you back us play and play a prominent role in
Speaker 1: the game. All right. So there you have it. Two
Speaker 1: players now from the Jaguars in the reserve COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: list Ben Bartch the other day and then just now
Speaker 1: Tray Herndon Jaguars cornerback placed Downe there as well. We'll
Speaker 1: keep you posted on any other changes there. Let's get
Speaker 1: to the Baltimore Ravens offense against this Jaguars defense. You
Speaker 1: know we were always talking about being gaps sound and
Speaker 1: being in the right place on defense. Well, certainly the
Speaker 1: case this week when you have Lamar and Jackson, who
Speaker 1: can pull it out of running backs belly and run
Speaker 1: on his own for seventy yards in a touchdown. This
Speaker 1: guy is the m v P of the league of
Speaker 1: course a year ago. And Bucky, I mean they're starting
Speaker 1: to roll with him. And you know there was some
Speaker 1: in the middle of the season he wasn't throwing the
Speaker 1: ball exceptionally well, there was a lot of talk out
Speaker 1: of Baltimore, but that seems to avoided a little bit
Speaker 1: since they're starting to get back in the race. You know,
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens are I mean, they're an explosive offense.
Speaker 1: They're explosive in a in a different light. When John
Speaker 1: Harbor made the change to this offensive style, he said,
Speaker 1: we want to be the Army of the NFL. And
Speaker 1: so if you look at army games, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of grounded pound, I mean all grounded pound and that's
Speaker 1: where the Ravens, when they're doing that, that's when they're
Speaker 1: at their best. Lamar Jackson running the ball, they're giving
Speaker 1: it to three or four running backs in the backfield.
Speaker 1: They're coming down here with these power gap schemes and
Speaker 1: mr directions and it puts your defenders at the front
Speaker 1: line in a bind. And so the Jaguars have to
Speaker 1: think about one. They got a mess of physicality and
Speaker 1: toughness too. They have to be gap sound and really
Speaker 1: understand where they're supposed to be in terms of the
Speaker 1: overall feth of the defense. And Three, you've gotta be
Speaker 1: able to tackle and tackle the number eight in space
Speaker 1: has been a challenge for everyone in the league his
Speaker 1: first three seasons. We'll see if the Jaguars up to
Speaker 1: the challenge. Yeah, John, he can light you up in
Speaker 1: a hurry. Well, and you can be as gap sound
Speaker 1: as you want against this guy, and he can make
Speaker 1: you miss in a gap and go. So that's that's
Speaker 1: what makes him special. I I I knew he would
Speaker 1: run for a lot of yards. I kind of re
Speaker 1: looked it up. Uh last year that's staggering for a quarterback. Uh.
Speaker 1: This offense is different. The flaw in it obviously, as
Speaker 1: if it falls behind, meaning the Ravens, it can be
Speaker 1: difficult for it to catch up if it gets in
Speaker 1: that sort of a game. Can the Jaguars make him
Speaker 1: fall behind? Uh? They the cynics out there, Bucky, it's
Speaker 1: at one and twelve. But have you say probably not?
Speaker 1: I mean they can so, I think. I think here's
Speaker 1: the thing that you have to understand when you're dealing
Speaker 1: with the Baltimore Ravens and Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson is
Speaker 1: at his best. We can talk about him being a
Speaker 1: dynamic runner. They basically are running the single wing. They
Speaker 1: want to put it in his hands as a runner
Speaker 1: ten to twelve times and allow him to impact and
Speaker 1: influence the defense because when they begin to chase him,
Speaker 1: that's when they handed off to mark Ingram. Because Edwards J. K.
Speaker 1: Dobbinsn't have a lot of success in the passing game,
Speaker 1: it is really important for the Jaguars to jam the
Speaker 1: middle of the field. Lamar Jackson is at his best
Speaker 1: throwing inside the numbers. If you can force him to
Speaker 1: throw the ball to the boundary outside and down the field,
Speaker 1: he struggles in that area. Going all the way back
Speaker 1: to Louisville. That has been his achilles uh tendon, and
Speaker 1: so that's been his Achilles hills. So you have to
Speaker 1: play them in a specific way because the Jaguars play
Speaker 1: a single hot defense that could work in their favorite
Speaker 1: But now it's about can you execute the game plan
Speaker 1: because they don't know what to do, but can they
Speaker 1: get it done? That is what todd Watch has to
Speaker 1: figure out. Edwards and Dobbins have been getting a lot
Speaker 1: of the running back play, and Ingram, I think has
Speaker 1: been banged up a little bit this year. Bucky, what's
Speaker 1: his story? You know, here's the thing with Mark Ingram.
Speaker 1: J K. Dobbins is by far their most talented and
Speaker 1: most explosive runner, but they still want to do it
Speaker 1: by committee because Ingram brings some value as it's kind
Speaker 1: of what I call it, kind of like the trash
Speaker 1: can run of the garbage running. He gets all the
Speaker 1: dirty yards, does all the stuff in between the tackles,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't have the explosive potential of some of
Speaker 1: the other guys, but he still has value. And so
Speaker 1: when I look at this team and I look at him,
Speaker 1: he plays a key role. But they're better when J. K.
Speaker 1: Dobbins and Gus Edwards are handling the bulk of the carries,
Speaker 1: So the Jaguars defense is well walking wounded to begin with.
Speaker 1: We've talked about this over the last few weeks, and
Speaker 1: now with another addition to the COVID nineteen list. This
Speaker 1: is a thin group to begin with, and John it
Speaker 1: is it's challenge every week, but against a group like this,
Speaker 1: it just becomes more and more challenging as the weeks
Speaker 1: go on, especially when you're losing players. Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure how much more there is to analyze when you
Speaker 1: think about it in this way, losing Trey Herndon, The
Speaker 1: good news is it sounds like you're getting Claybrooks back,
Speaker 1: so you're not down ridiculously at the cornerback position. You know,
Speaker 1: they're already down so far. I don't know that there's
Speaker 1: a huge talent drop off anymore when they lose guys,
Speaker 1: because they're plugging guys in. Yeah, not in the case
Speaker 1: of Trey Herndon, but in a lot of times you're
Speaker 1: plugging rookie free agent in for rookie free agent. Now.
Speaker 1: So unless you lose Miles Jack, unless you lose you know,
Speaker 1: uh Shobert, I don't know that you're losing anything you
Speaker 1: can't place because it's such a struggle. They're working so hard,
Speaker 1: they're playing so hard. If you got to give him credit,
Speaker 1: the key is can try hard beat the Ravens, and
Speaker 1: you try hard. Has faded in the fourth quarter in
Speaker 1: earlier the last two or three weeks. Uh yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if XS and O's breakdown can say much
Speaker 1: more than what I just said. They're depleted, and you
Speaker 1: wonder how long they can hold up against an offense
Speaker 1: as talented as the raven Wow. Where they are about this,
Speaker 1: I mean they Yeah, we definitely depleted. I would say
Speaker 1: the one the saving grace with the Jaguars, Potentially you
Speaker 1: could be the struggles of the Baltimore Ravens offensive line.
Speaker 1: They struggle when they are put into long yarded situations
Speaker 1: when it's obvious passing downs. They're just not good enough
Speaker 1: up front. And so if tym Wah is able to
Speaker 1: do some things on early downs to get them behind
Speaker 1: the change, maybe be a more aggressive first down blitz
Speaker 1: scene that could play into the Jaguars hands because the
Speaker 1: pass for us might be able to just affect Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson a little bit. And we've seen when they have
Speaker 1: eyes and vision and play vision and break coverage. They
Speaker 1: could have an opportunity to get to hands on some boss.
Speaker 1: It does feel like, though, that the Ravens are on
Speaker 1: the verge of a little run here at the end
Speaker 1: of the season to get into the playoffs. I mean
Speaker 1: after that win Monday night, that game was spectacular and
Speaker 1: the way they won the game, that gives a team momentum. John,
Speaker 1: if you can get it going well there, I guess
Speaker 1: I would call him desperate. You know, they're an absolute
Speaker 1: must win mode. Their schedule lays out that they can
Speaker 1: win the rest of their games and they have to.
Speaker 1: So when you combine that with being a veteran team,
Speaker 1: when you have guys like Colais, they have enough veterans
Speaker 1: on that team. If they know what has to be done,
Speaker 1: they know how they want to play. That's also important
Speaker 1: laden to see. And I think this game very similar
Speaker 1: to the Titans game last week from the Jaguars perspective.
Speaker 1: The Titans knew in that game that if they kept
Speaker 1: running Derrick Henry that eventually it was gonna break, meaning
Speaker 1: they were going to eventually get success in that because
Speaker 1: the Jaguars didn't have the stamina to hold up. They
Speaker 1: knew doing that that the Jaguars were not going to
Speaker 1: be a team that could get way ahead of him
Speaker 1: on offense. They didn't fear the Jaguars offensive play that way.
Speaker 1: Well that's the way the Ravens play anyway. So uh,
Speaker 1: I don't wanna call it the toughest matchup because I'd
Speaker 1: be disingenuous. I thought Steelers were tough. Green Bay is tough.
Speaker 1: This is right up there with the tough matchup second
Speaker 1: half the season. They need breaks early, the Jaguars do.
Speaker 1: They need turnovers early, some stops you don't expect and
Speaker 1: get it and somehow get a lead to make them
Speaker 1: somehow get out of the Ravens game. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it was an impressive wine. No, No, I
Speaker 1: think I think outline it has to be one of
Speaker 1: those where the jack Wars played at a level early
Speaker 1: where they can put him in a hole. If you
Speaker 1: can put them in a hold and make Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: have to operate as a passer, that is your best bet. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: if you had to play him, even Stephen head up,
Speaker 1: I don't know if the physicality and toughness exists enough
Speaker 1: from us to be able to get that done. So
Speaker 1: um Jags Bravens coming up Sunday at HIM and T
Speaker 1: Banking Stadium in Boltimore, Maryland at one o'clock kickoff time.
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Speaker 1: join us, the head equipment manager. We'll get into what
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Speaker 1: in Week fifteen. J D. Shadrick, Bucky Brooks, John Osier.
Speaker 1: The Jaguars this year, by the way, guys have seventy
Speaker 1: nine players that have played. That is the most in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. That means just played on the
Speaker 1: field this year. It is the most enfranchise history since
Speaker 1: too now and it's the second most in that time
Speaker 1: frame in league history. The Dolphins had eighty four players
Speaker 1: play in the nineteen season last year. So with an
Speaker 1: addition this week, if they have a guy or two
Speaker 1: come up and play for the first time, they'll just
Speaker 1: keep adding to that total. But seventy nine players have played,
Speaker 1: and that makes head equipment manager Jimmy Luck a busy man.
Speaker 1: And he joins us now from t I A a
Speaker 1: bank field. Jimmy, what's up, man, that's a lot of
Speaker 1: players rolling through. Yeah, it's uh definitely, you know, with
Speaker 1: all the different uh COVID list and i R return
Speaker 1: and things like that. Yeah, we've got a lot more
Speaker 1: players around UM than we've normally have. I think you
Speaker 1: said seventy nine have played, but I think we actually
Speaker 1: have like eighty five maybe on our roster counting i R.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a lot, and that that also kind
Speaker 1: of runs into you know, there's only a limited amount
Speaker 1: of jersey numbers right for these guys. Quentin Meeks rolled
Speaker 1: out there on Sunday wearing number five at cornerback, and
Speaker 1: there are league rules about what numbers can be used
Speaker 1: at certain positions. Why was Meeks able to run out
Speaker 1: there with the number five as a corner Well again
Speaker 1: going back to all that what we just talked about
Speaker 1: with all the different lists and and things. Um, So
Speaker 1: the league has given some exemptions this year because we've
Speaker 1: kind of been hit kind of hard with injuries at
Speaker 1: the cornerbacks dB position and you've basically just run out
Speaker 1: of numbers. UM So we had some single digits you
Speaker 1: have to um basically asked the league permission to get
Speaker 1: an exemption, and uh, I kind of thought we would
Speaker 1: run too this problem earlier, but we've been you know,
Speaker 1: lucky enough not to and then we finally caught up
Speaker 1: with us this week here and uh, just that was
Speaker 1: kind of what I had open. And you know, I
Speaker 1: hate it, you know, but it kind of looks like
Speaker 1: an option quarterback out there. Um. You know, he's he's
Speaker 1: very athletic, and you know, so it kind of looks funny. Um,
Speaker 1: but it happens in the preseason occasionally. Um. The one
Speaker 1: thing that's different about the rule now is in the
Speaker 1: preseason you can have double numbers, having two guys wearing
Speaker 1: a number. But I guess for like film and some
Speaker 1: of that other stuff, they're not letting us have it,
Speaker 1: uh now during the season, so so you'll get maybe
Speaker 1: anomaly like that. I think there's a few other teams
Speaker 1: that that have are close to doing it, if they
Speaker 1: haven't already Bucky. Of course, that's when we see in
Speaker 1: college all the time, where you've got single digit defensive
Speaker 1: lineman and you know, the rules just just roll them
Speaker 1: out there. I mean, I do like it. I like
Speaker 1: I like the single ditches. I think it does give
Speaker 1: it a little bit of a college tent. Did the
Speaker 1: coaches complain when when it comes down to that, when
Speaker 1: you see guys in single digites or do they know
Speaker 1: they're just trying to keep guys on the field. I
Speaker 1: wanted I couldn't hear that, Bucky. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that was me or if that was you there. Uh
Speaker 1: So I like like, yeah, the question. Yeah, the question
Speaker 1: Jimmy was, Uh, does do the coaches worry about all
Speaker 1: the Jersey number changes and they just worried about getting
Speaker 1: players eleven guys on the field at one time? No,
Speaker 1: they don't. They don't care what what number of people are,
Speaker 1: how they look, you know, any of that. They just
Speaker 1: want them out there now. Obviously my job is to
Speaker 1: make sure that they look good and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: and you know, you wanted to look normal and you know,
Speaker 1: but like I said, it's it's and that's kind of
Speaker 1: how everything has gone this year. Unfortunately done there. There's
Speaker 1: a bit of a weather situation in Boltimore right now,
Speaker 1: freezing rain, snow, but it should be cleared up up there, John,
Speaker 1: so that this time of year up in that area
Speaker 1: it can be an issue. But John, it feels like
Speaker 1: it's going to clear out at least by Sunday. So
Speaker 1: that's good news for Jimmy. It would be awesome for me, rain, snow, whatever, Jim. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's even if I was going to be in the
Speaker 1: press box, that would still be fine. Hey, I had
Speaker 1: one question for Jenny. If if it got down to
Speaker 1: the point that you're out of numbers, would they make
Speaker 1: you use a quote retired number like eighty two or
Speaker 1: seventy one, preferbably seventy one, because I want to see
Speaker 1: somebody take the Sally's place. Um No, I don't think
Speaker 1: we would do that. We would just probably have to
Speaker 1: take a number from and I are guy. Um, you
Speaker 1: know somebody's hurt and not coming back this year. Um.
Speaker 1: But you know, you you run into things like that
Speaker 1: now where like C. J. Henderson, I'm not gonna take
Speaker 1: his number. He's gonna be here. He's the first round pick,
Speaker 1: you know. So we can't really do some of that.
Speaker 1: So you kind of get stuck in some of that
Speaker 1: where you have to go down and and and do that.
Speaker 1: So but yeah, it would be uh, it might be
Speaker 1: fun to see seventy one running around out there. By
Speaker 1: the way. I'd like to just see I see him
Speaker 1: in forever, so I'd like to just see him. For
Speaker 1: the record, though, Yeah, yeah, you're good. Okay, So for
Speaker 1: the record though, the Jaguars do not have any officially
Speaker 1: retired jerseys, right, Jimmy, But there are certain numbers that
Speaker 1: are keep out of circulation, let's say. Yeah, like pretty
Speaker 1: much like if your numbers on the stadium in there,
Speaker 1: I'm not giving that we're out. Um, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to beat it out of me. But there's a few
Speaker 1: others that you know, I try not to issue um.
Speaker 1: And for the most part, it's pretty easy to do
Speaker 1: that with a couple here and there. But we run
Speaker 1: into a situation like we are now. Yeah, it gets
Speaker 1: pretty tight, but I can as I'm here, you won't
Speaker 1: see seventy one out there or um eight, you know,
Speaker 1: so eighty two about thirty two Mojo? Uh, we've got
Speaker 1: a practice squad guy in it right now. Um. And
Speaker 1: that was one of those things where we had to
Speaker 1: do it. It was I didn't want to, but we did. Um. Also,
Speaker 1: there's not a not a fifty one or sixty three,
Speaker 1: so I kinda told those for those guys as well.
Speaker 1: It's a puzz Lesnie and mister at the last two
Speaker 1: to wear those and and Bucky make sure Mojo here's
Speaker 1: about that please would be great them. Did I think
Speaker 1: two should actually be the one already. So Bucky saw this,
Speaker 1: Jimmy that twenty two should be the number that's out
Speaker 1: of circulation. That's his old number. But I'll make it.
Speaker 1: I didn't, honestly, Blacky, I apologize. I didn't know that,
Speaker 1: so I will. I'll work on that this offseason. Jimmy,
Speaker 1: Let's get to the business of Sunday. What will the
Speaker 1: Jaguars wear in Baltimore this week at M and T
Speaker 1: Bank Stadium in week fifteen? Alright, besides probably some thermals underneath,
Speaker 1: we will wear um the white jerseys because we're on
Speaker 1: the road. You got Tyler Shatley there, my god. And
Speaker 1: then we will go with black pants, very nice white
Speaker 1: over black for the Jaguars in Baltimore, and yes, bring
Speaker 1: out the thermals. The high is about pretty five degrees
Speaker 1: on Sunday, Jimmy, so you're gonna have to pack heavy.
Speaker 1: It sounds like, well, it's Florida, guys. Yeah, that's pretty
Speaker 1: chilly for us. That's really chilly right now? Is chilly
Speaker 1: for us outside? Great stuff. Jimmy has always appreciate it.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again next week, all right, appreciate it. Thanks, guys, Jimmy,
Speaker 1: look out of here to go, retire the number twenty two,
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Speaker 1: We will pick a Jaguar to have a big game
Speaker 1: against the Ravens this Sunday. John Osian, why don't you
Speaker 1: start us off this week? Since you're pumping your fist.
Speaker 1: I'm winging it again. Buck all in, I'm all in
Speaker 1: on the stash. It's back minshe Man Big Game Jaguar.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's ever gonna have another big
Speaker 1: game again, but this one is it. Somehow he's gonna
Speaker 1: get outside the pocket, off schedule stuff. DJ Chark Big Game.
Speaker 1: This is a hail Mary Buck. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I believe it or not. It's the one shot Big
Speaker 1: Game Jaguar. The Stash Gardner Minshe the second, not the third,
Speaker 1: not his son the second. Want him picky? Why not?
Speaker 1: You just saw Baker Mayfield throw for a million yards
Speaker 1: against the Ravens. They play similar styles. Maybe just maybe
Speaker 1: gardnments you can come up with one. I'm gonna going
Speaker 1: to the the defense of the ball, and U say, Joe
Speaker 1: Schobert has to have a big game because it is
Speaker 1: all about the Ravens running attack. Is about finding a
Speaker 1: way to slow down Lamar Jackson and company. He is
Speaker 1: going to have to play a big role, a big
Speaker 1: part in slowing down his run game. They see if
Speaker 1: you can flow those gaps and makes me at the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, you cannot let Lamar Jackson get loose
Speaker 1: on the second level. And I'm gonna stick with you
Speaker 1: on the defensive side there, Bucky, and go with Miles
Speaker 1: jack Jaguars linebacker. He's a guy that can flash and
Speaker 1: make a big play and get a takeaway, a forced fumble,
Speaker 1: something like that. He always are not well a lot
Speaker 1: of times in his career, has had some big moments
Speaker 1: like that. We know, of course he can hearse a
Speaker 1: handful of those this week. So I'm going with Miles
Speaker 1: jack to have a big game as part of that
Speaker 1: linebacker group alongside Joe Schobert. But there we haven't the
Speaker 1: big game Jaguars are in for this week. I've got Miles,
Speaker 1: Bucky has Schobert, and John Osier is going with Gardner
Speaker 1: Minshew the second all in who all in, all in.
Speaker 1: The Jags trying to snap a twelve games skid, and
Speaker 1: it's tough obviously, And the next week the Bears come
Speaker 1: to town and then they finish up with the Colts.
Speaker 1: So the stretch run here, John is upon us now
Speaker 1: three games to play in what has been an awfully
Speaker 1: disappointing season. Yeah, I mean it's it's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I've been impressed for the most part until last week
Speaker 1: with how they played after the bye, toughest part of
Speaker 1: their schedule. These guys fought, They gave themselves a chance.
Speaker 1: I don't sense that will happen on Sunday. I think
Speaker 1: the desperation and matchup is too tough for Baltimore. But uh,
Speaker 1: the last two weeks, we'll see. What do you think, Bucky,
Speaker 1: what's your gut? Well, my gut tales me that to
Speaker 1: Baltimore understand that they can't they have to win out
Speaker 1: and so they're gonna bring a level of urgency that
Speaker 1: is typical of a playoff team. And so for the Jaguars,
Speaker 1: it's not only meeting that urgency, is meeting that physicality.
Speaker 1: For the Jacks to win, Gorda Minshew is going to
Speaker 1: have to play out of his mind. He's just going
Speaker 1: to have to have one of those games that we
Speaker 1: talked about ten, fifteen, twenty years from now. He is
Speaker 1: going to have to put on a remarkable performance. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe you can dig into bag and put it out
Speaker 1: a little magic, but we're gonna have to see, because
Speaker 1: that's what it's gonna take. It's gonna take a herculean
Speaker 1: effort from him. We'll see what happens this Sunday. Well done, guys,
Speaker 1: great show. Thanks to everybody back in the studio, Joe Fortunato,
Speaker 1: Brent Raber for Bucky Brooks and John Osier. I'm j P. Shadrick,
Speaker 1: the Jaguars and the Ravens coming up Sunday and we'll
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