WEBVTT - Ep. 14: Preseason Week 3 Takeaways, Finalizing Roster | Jags A.M. Podcast 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:06.280 Welcome into JAG's am. The preseason is done. Regular season 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:08.400 around the corner. But we've got a hurricane on Wednesday. 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:10.040 What do I need to know from my first hurricane? 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:15.480 You guys, you're the weather guy. Yeah, it'll be winding rain. 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:17.239 Okay. Should I get snacks? 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:20.160 Yes, snacks and make sure you have coffee. 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:42.159 Okay, John good booze, I should know. Welcome in tot Jagson, 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:46.240 presented by Carshield or here in Hyundai Studios, Kai Nannie Stevens, 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:50.680 Brian Sexton, John Oser, sober Sally this morning. Of course 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:53.040 you got your coffee, but we will have our booze 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:53.600 for the hurricane. 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:54.640 That is a good recommendation. 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:55.600 I do appreciate that. 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:55.760 Oh. 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:59.280 I think most people around here they're already stocked up. Yeah, 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.560 they know that, like from day one, as soon as 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:03.400 you turn hey it's twenty one. 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:03.639 Yeah. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.160 I was listening on the way in and heard my 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:08.039 buddy Mike Burush talking about it, and he said, it's 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:09.880 you know, it's that rare storm that comes up out 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:11.160 of the Caribbean that's going to kind of bend to 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.360 the east, and it looks like it's gonna come over us. 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.200 You know, during the day on Wednesday and probably still 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:19.560 have some hurricane force wins. I mean no meteorologists, but 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.199 you kind of learned to be one. We live in Florida, 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:24.040 so listen to Burish. That's the best advice I can 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:24.240 give you. 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.520 All Right, I appreciate that start with our big things. 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:28.920 The preseason is behind us. Finally we got that fast 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.600 start we've been talking about. Doug Peterson is saying he 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:33.840 wants to get that fast start from the offense, and 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.840 other than a little hiccup from Tank, pretty good out 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:38.560 of the gate. Is that what you were hoping to see? 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:41.399 It was, you know, press Taylor said last week and 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:43.080 then was followed up with the coach in the quarterback 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.759 where they talked about clean, clean, clean, and man did 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.040 it look clean for the first eleven plays John and 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.240 they mixed in the pass and the run beautifully. That 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:55.720 was a picture perfect drive until Bixby was a little careless. 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:55.920 With the football. 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:59.680 Yeah, and I thought it was exactly what you wanted. 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:01.760 And I don't worry about preseason pumbls. I don't think 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:06.320 Tank's going to be a fumbler. It struck me and 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:10.359 it's hard to put into words, but yes, they were clean. 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:10.720 But. 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:19.080 They played with this energy and with this confidence like 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.320 they expected to do what they did and what they 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:25.519 wanted to do is I hate the phrase send a message, 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.720 but that felt like they were sort of sending a 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.440 message of this is what we are. And I wish 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:32.760 I had a better way to put it than that, 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:34.760 but there was an energy to it, there was an 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.239 aggressiveness to it, and there was a confidence that every 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:42.119 play was going to work, and it was I don't 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:46.359 get excited about preseason, but sometimes teams start to look 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:50.200 like they're going to be something that looked like what 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.440 this team wants to be, and it was impressed to 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:56.880 see them do that in that final warm up. So 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.640 many times we've talked on these shows for years and 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:03.320 years is about what you might see. Think they gave 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:06.040 the Jaguars fans and inkling of what they're going to 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:06.480 be this year. 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.760 Well, and that's really the point is is what they 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.600 are looked good. And that's before they've had a lot 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:14.400 of time, I mean, think about where they could be 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:18.520 in November. The production crew that does our television preseason 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:20.720 broadcast is from Saint Louis and a lot of those 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.720 guys used to work around the Rams, and in nineteen 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:25.720 ninety nine, you know, they were telling us after the 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.480 game they could see the greatest show on turf starting 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.720 to evolve, and of course it exploded pretty early in 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.200 the season. It became something special and no one was 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.600 anticipating it because remember Kurt Warner was the third team 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.080 quarterback who had to take over for the injured Trent Green, 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.160 and it just sort of evolved into what it became. 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:46.440 I get the sense that we could see something that's 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:47.839 going to have a lot of people going, WHOA where 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:48.560 did that come from. 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:50.720 One of the things for me is, specifically I've talked 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.360 about it in practice, Trevor seems to be not going 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:56.080 to Doug as much for obviously for you know, counsel 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.640 and discussing things, but not on how to run things. 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:00.800 And when you see him running all now, it looks 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.480 a little bit more like he's in control of everything 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:04.960 that's going on, which is what you want to see 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.640 out of your quarterback. I think he missed that is 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:09.400 that that third down pass is a Jones and then 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.000 they went forward and fourth down that was kind of 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:12.640 like him being like, all right, I got this like 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:14.720 and kind of going with it that way. And that's 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:16.600 something you know, when you have a young quarterback, you 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:17.240 love to see that. 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.080 He said on Thursday when we met before the game, 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:24.640 that he has a strong confidence in his command of 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:26.640 what they're asking him to do because they have a 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.680 great line of communication between Mike McCoy, Press Taylor, and 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:31.720 Doug Peterson. They're all on the same page and he 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:33.960 feels comfortable with it, which John is exactly what you 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.480 expect one of those elite guys to be able to do, 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:37.600 even in their third season. 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.800 Yeah, we're going to talk about Trevor so much. I 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:47.640 think what impressed me the most on Saturday was it 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.360 looks like the run is going to be there for 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:55.120 them much more. And I'm gonna say we didn't anticipate 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:58.680 them being a good running team. I don't know if 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:03.840 we expected to see the ETN look quite that good, 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:08.479 quite that confident, quite that strong. At as Doug said, 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:11.040 they were blocking, the offensive line was playing on the 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.120 other side of the line of scrimmage, and when you 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:17.120 had Bigsby to that, it just feels like there's an 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.920 element with this running game. We've all talked about it, 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.240 but almost as an aside and almost like, yeah, it 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:28.559 could be good. I think the running game it's going 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.880 it's not going to get the opportunity to be what 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.000 the seven team was. I'm not going to compared to 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:35.720 that because that was a team that ran its way 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.800 to what twelve and four record? Yeah, eleven and five, 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:40.320 and they had one hundred and fifty six yards a 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:44.320 game rushing. So this is a different style team. But 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:48.440 these two backs yea early on the game and I 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.560 hate to even not mention now journ just because he 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:52.560 looks really, really good. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:54.200 But those first two. 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.159 It's going to be interesting to see how Doug and 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.680 Press want to call these games, because I think they're 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:03.960 going to try to figure out away bus as possible 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:07.280 to use this run to set it up. And it's 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.560 different now, by the way, different looking offense. 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:12.599 I think the earnest is past hasty and they like hasty. Yeah, 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:14.919 but that tells you how much they like DearS Johnson. 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.080 Let's go on to big thing number two, because it's 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:18.560 going to be about who makes the cut. We're going 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.040 to talk specifically about players that we have, you know, 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.080 either that may have been on the bubble that we 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.160 think will get in or maybe the first guy out later. 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.080 But just in general, I want to just talk about 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:28.559 this scene because I know you guys have been around 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.560 for a while. This has to be one of the 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:34.080 teams that has retained the most players and probably the 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.560 least amount of spots available from year to year, maybe 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:38.360 just from last year, because I think when we talked 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.320 to Doug, he said, you know, maybe five fish. 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.080 Well, generally in a season, you'll see the roster turnover, 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.800 not necessarily starters, John, but the roster. You know, about 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.599 a third of the roster on a yearly basis will 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:52.560 turn over. And that's among teams at the bottom. At 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.520 the top, it's a little bit less than that. There 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.160 weren't that many jobs available because they retained everybody from 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:00.000 last year. If not everybody, right, arden Key didn't come back. 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:02.719 There's a couple of those guys, But for the most part, 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.679 this is a roster that comes back from last year 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:07.400 with just a few jobs open. 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.240 Yeah, I still think you're gonna find eight, nine, ten 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:14.560 rookies just because they're gonna keep these guys on the team. 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.320 And you always have a little roster churn just because 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.360 at the bottom of the roster year contracts run out 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:21.800 and you've got guys that you know are going to 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:28.280 replay one thing I was thinking this weekend about I'm 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:30.920 not trying to short change the receivers on this year. 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:34.080 We talk about how deep the receivers are, and they 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:37.000 are deep. One reason I think they look deep is 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:38.680 a lot of times they're catching passes from a real 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:43.240 good quarterback now, so the whole the whole thing looks better. 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.400 So guys are performing better in it. Does that makes sense? 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:47.600 I mean it's. 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.400 I think there were guys in the past who fans 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.120 have dismissed and we're off the team quickly, who may 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:58.400 have looked good in what's going on now because you're 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:02.400 a part of something that's functioning very highly. So that 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:03.720 was just a little thought. Yeah. 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:05.640 I mean it is Manning with the offensive line, he'd 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:09.640 lose an offensive lineman or two even and still play'd. 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.640 I remember him making Charlie Jones, who was a left 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.880 tackle for them. I think it was eight maybe nine, 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.000 and I'm thinking, well, here's an advantage for the jag Wars 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:18.960 to take advantage of it. They couldn't touch it because 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:19.720 Manning was so good. 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:22.840 Our last big thing of the day is going to 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:27.240 be precedent because Saturday's game was cut short after an 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:31.080 injury to Dolphins player that both coaches and player reps 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.040 came in and decided they didn't want to finish out 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:34.319 the game. I think there's eight and a half and 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.719 eight change left in the fourth quarter, and that's the 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:41.240 second preseason game this year that's been called early. The 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.160 Packers and Patriots called their game after a similar injury 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.959 to one of our Patriots players. And just Brian and 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.840 I feel very strongly about this, just the precedent that 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.560 it sets without anything written down about what they're going 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:54.800 to do in a situation like this. 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:56.640 Well, I have two questions, and look, I have lots 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:58.600 of questions, and I've been thinking about this, and you 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.000 and I talked about it last week a little bit, and 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:02.880 we elected not to make it an issue because it 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.960 didn't have enough local at this point. But John, would 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:07.319 they have canceled that game if it had happened in 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:07.920 the first quarter? 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:10.760 Probably not. 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.240 So what's the difference between the first and the fourth 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.360 and how the players feel, because that was what both 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:21.680 Doug and Mike McDaniel cited was the way that the 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.280 players were reacting and they were, you know, concerned for 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:28.040 their players, and then the second question is, well, it 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:28.959 would they cancel. 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:30.320 It on opening day? 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:30.559 No? 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.559 Okay, So then what's the difference between players these feelings. 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:38.040 It's pretty season well, okay, the difference. 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:39.560 But they didn't cite that that was the thing. 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.559 They cited the fact that they were worried about their 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.560 players and how their players felt well. And what I'm 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.520 saying is that can't be the criteria. There has to 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.120 be a plan for how this goes forward, not just 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.880 two coaches, two players and the official making the decision. 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.160 Well, I do think it doesn't realist to think that 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:03.439 it you look at preseason games through a different lens anyway. 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:07.800 I get that to a degree, but this is still precedent. No, 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:08.200 I don't. 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:12.280 I don't think they would stop this game during the 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:18.240 regular season, mainly because he had movement in his extremities 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.200 and he was conscious. 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.080 They stopped it on January second, on Monday Night football. 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:24.160 For Lamar Hamlin. 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.240 That was a significantly scariest thing. 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:28.800 But you get what I'm saying, though, There's got to 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:32.600 be something to be president of a delineation here on 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:34.319 how you're going to do it. Because a couple of things. 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:38.559 You've got customers who buy your tickets, fill your parking lot, 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.520 your beer, your hot dogs, your sodas. Right, you've got 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:45.080 television partners who have customers who buy the advertisements that 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:48.200 pay the fee. And now gambling's involved in this as well. 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.199 And so if you're canceling games and you're not gambling 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:54.400 on preseason I'm assuming that we're talking about the regular 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.960 season here. I guess what I'm saying is, I'd like 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:01.600 to see the commissioner who represents the owners and the 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.400 players Association, who represents the players and the networks, because 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.600 they're a full partner in this, and then gambling is too. Now, 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:09.760 I mean the league is they're in those waters. 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:11.320 I don't know if you can put gambling into this 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.240 because there's a million things that affect gambling. 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:15.760 Well, okay, but you have to understand when you're taking 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:16.640 the money from them. 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:18.840 Now, oh well that's a whole Well they are, they're 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:20.959 taking their partners right, right, But they chose. 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.000 To but they chose to get which is why you 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.200 have to at least consider it. And what I'm saying 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.679 is there needs to be a criteria of what and 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:32.360 how If it's life threatening. DeMar Hamlin was dead, they 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:36.679 resuscitated him. Okay, that's the criteria. But if you I'll 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:40.760 give you a great example, and Darryl Stingley, Mike Utley, 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:44.320 Dennis Bird, Ryan Shazier, four players from nineteen seventy eight 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:48.680 a preseason game to December of two, twenty seventeen, who 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.920 are all to some degree paralyzed. Okay, and then there's 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.520 Joe Eisman, which is probably the most gruesome injury I've 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:56.599 ever seen. You were a Redskins fan, I know you 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.160 probably think the same way. On Monday Night football in 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:03.040 nineteen eighty five, they all went back and plagued. All right, 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:07.000 But if you're saying, this is absolutely one where we cancel, 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.599 But what about this because that injury, I don't know 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.880 if you've ever seen it, but it was a complex, 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:16.160 compound fracture where the leg did this, and it was 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.960 hard to watch then and it's hard to watch now. 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.920 And if players are going to be disturbed by the neck, 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.160 they're gonna be disturbed by that. I just want there 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.640 to be some clarification. I'm going to speak at noon. 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.600 I spoke yesterday and I was asked the question and 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.679 I couldn't give the answer. They said, would they cancel 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:35.760 in the regular season, and I could only say I 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:39.240 don't think so. So I would like to see if 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.400 you're going to cancel games, yeah, which I think is 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:45.120 dangerous to do for all kinds of reasons. I'd just 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.160 like to see somebody say, here's the rules. 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.720 My guess is what they'll do is they'll have a 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:56.240 hard fast rule during regular season and probably you know, 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.560 I see your point. I would think they would get 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.160 very close to we're just not stopping under the regular 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:06.280 season and then during the preseason saying it can be 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.920 a coach's decision, much like was made. But I do 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:13.320 get think these two back to back incidences, the tone 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.480 has clearly changed, the mood has clearly changed. 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:17.280 So I think you're right. 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:18.600 I think there is that to be I had a 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.600 woman to me, I don't want my son to play football. 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:23.920 Change my mind based on the last two Saturday nights. 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.280 She was, if they're canceling games, then it must not 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.840 be safe. Well, look, the game has never been safer. 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.679 I coached youth football for ten years and I had 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.640 to get certified by USA Football, which is run by 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:38.120 some former NFL types like Bill Pollian, and it's taught 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.520 heads up. There's a story this morning in the Athletic 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.040 about I think it's the icis. I don't know whether 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:48.400 it's pronounced vicious or vicious, but position specific helmets and 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.040 I know the guys at right now and the things 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.920 that they're doing. Player safety has never been more at 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.400 the forefront, and I think that it should be right. 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.760 But you still have to take into account the business 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:02.840 side of this, and remember all the consternation about if 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:04.720 they had had to play the Bills and the Chiefs 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.040 in Atlanta in the AFC Championship game because they canceled 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:12.160 the Bills Bengals game. You just have to have a 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.479 set of criteria that everyone understands. 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.719 And I think that that's what eventually will happen. I 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:19.280 don't know if it's this year or whenever they have 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:20.520 player meetings next. 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:21.600 But here's the physicians. 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.360 Peter King's Money Football Morning in America column is the 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.120 most prominent column. It's a must read for most people 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:32.720 in the NFL. Last week he wrote extensively about the 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.080 decision in the Packers Patriots game. This week this morning, 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.600 not one word was written in this column about what 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.720 happened on this field. So are we now just saying, well, 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:44.920 that's normal that what we do or are we saying, well, 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.920 that's what we do in the preseason. Again, some clarification 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.320 is really important for the league going forward. 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:53.040 My guess is what will happen, and this is probably 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:58.080 this may sound cold, but I think what they'll eventually 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:01.760 come to the players excuse me, the player association and 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.560 the league office will get together and they will say 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:09.200 we're not stopping any more games. And it's not a 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:13.280 matter of coldness. It's more a matter of we've looked 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:17.960 at this, we understand and in the preseason, I think 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:21.680 that fine. In the regular season, my guess is they 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.520 will look at it and say the players will have 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.160 to weigh in and say, we understand the risk involved, 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.120 We're okay with moving forward no matter what. They do 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.840 that when they sign their contract, right right, But let's understand, though, 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:34.720 this is a game that is the most viewed game 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:38.160 in America because there is risk. People they don't watch 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.840 basketball like they watch the NFL. Right, and think about this. 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:47.000 College football drives that entire scene, and the NCAA Tournament 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.680 is one of the great sporting events every year, but 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:53.880 it's all college football that drives it. Football drives television revenue, 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.280 which creates salary opportunities for coaches and players. So there's 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:59.040 risk associated with it, and if you take the risk 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.080 out of the game, it's it's not nearly as popular. 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:02.280 So you've got to take. 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.720 All those into account when you're looking at the big 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:06.840 picture here, and what I'm saying is not my game. 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:08.480 So you all decide what you want to do, but 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.760 just clarify it. Make it simple so that everybody knows. 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.360 I think we'll get there eventually. Obviously, the decision is 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.320 still up to the coaches and the players at this point. 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.200 At least it was on Saturday and they made that 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:20.200 decision for themselves. 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.640 It's up to the owners now. The owners have to 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:23.120 weigh in on this. 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.480 When they do, we will then know coming up we're 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:29.000 going to do highlights from Saturday's game, and then we 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.040 will also talk about who's going to make this fifty 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:31.760 three man roster. 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:39.280 Welcome back to jags Am. 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.080 You can sign up your furry friend for the Jaguars 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.000 Official four Legged Fan Club for pets presented by Forever 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:48.120 That's Animal Hospital. Or pet will receive access to exclusive merchandise, 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.440 events and sweepstakes throughout the twenty twenty three season visit 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:55.360 Jaguars dot com Slash Promotion Slash four Legged fan. 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.400 Club to sign up. All right, let's get to some 0:16:58.440 --> 0:16:58.960 of the highlights. 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.680 Obviously, this was the final preseason games, so we take 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:03.360 it to see the starters for a good chunk of time. 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:05.919 And obviously we talked about that first drive, but I, 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:09.520 for me, I was most impressed with Trevor using different targets. 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:09.679 Right. 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:11.719 We talk about Calvin Ridley all the time. Obviously he 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:15.760 was involved in this thing, but he's using the tight ends. John, 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:17.720 you were talking about the running game really coming through, 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.320 and I think when you have all these weapons at 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:22.320 your disposal up more than just the wide receivers, which 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:24.359 we talk about a lot, that makes your offense a 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:25.480 little bit more dynamic. 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:30.360 Yeah, you better get this team in some bad down 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:34.000 and distances, because it's a team right now that with 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:36.680 all these weapons, if they're in first and ten second, six, 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.440 which is obviously what you want to do, if they're 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:43.560 on schedule, they're gonna be really dangerous. And again there's 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:45.399 Tank's fun. Well, I don't expect that to be a 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.760 long term issue. Actually got an email Brian, somebody saying 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.720 why did they run tank outside. When he's a power 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:55.000 runner who runs up the middle, Well, you know you're 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.680 not just gonna run Tank over the middle with like 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.280 like straight handoffs. Teams will figure that out. Look, they're 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.560 going to be dynamic. I think what's really scary about 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:07.000 this offense is when Bigsby's in the game or Etn's 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:10.040 in the game. Etn doesn't mean pass around here, right. 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:12.880 Etn runs hard for his size, and he ran with. 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.520 The shoulders square to the last scrimmage. Hey, how about this. 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.239 When we talked to the coaches about Luke Ferrell, they 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.919 talked about how he was potentially a better blocking tight 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:22.960 than Chris Mannherts, who was here the last two years. 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.240 But you saw him on that first drive catch two 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:27.520 balls for first downs. When Luke Ferrell is involved in 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:29.680 the passing game, that tells you how deep you are. 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:31.320 Doug's gonna have a lot of fun with that tight 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:33.920 down room for sure. And then Tank Bigsby, he's a rookie. 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.159 That's a learning mistake. I think we have all all 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:36.880 the confidence in the world. 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:38.720 Who's going to learn from that one? On this one? 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:40.520 Learn to hold onto the ball, Yes. 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:41.760 It might do old school, have to carry the. 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:42.760 Guy goes guy. 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:44.480