Speaker 1: CBS Sports play by play man Andrew Catalan joining us
Speaker 1: week seventeen. You can't get enough Jaguars football, Andrew. We
Speaker 1: appreciate your time as always, JP great to talk with you.
Speaker 1: Happy New Year to you and everyone in Jacksonville. Thank
Speaker 1: to you. And here we go. The Jaguars are done.
Speaker 1: They've done it. They've got the number one overall pick
Speaker 1: in the one NFL draft. With a loss last week
Speaker 1: to the Bears and another Jets win, and people here
Speaker 1: testing positive for Trevor fever. It's all over Jacksonville. But
Speaker 1: still there's a lot to be done between now and
Speaker 1: draft day. There's gonna still get the guy who's going
Speaker 1: to pick number one overall, the new g M. There's
Speaker 1: possibly other changes coming down the line, and the kid
Speaker 1: has two football games maybe still to play, and he
Speaker 1: has to declare for the draft. That's a lot to happen.
Speaker 1: But people are fired up here in Jacksonville, and I
Speaker 1: guess rightly so. The Jags have never had the number
Speaker 1: one overall pick. I agree with you. It's been uh
Speaker 1: an incredibly tough season for the Jaguar cars and their fans,
Speaker 1: and I think that there was probably some element where
Speaker 1: you knew all right there they are going to rebuild.
Speaker 1: This could be a tough year, but not to this extent.
Speaker 1: And look, I mean this is this is like hitting
Speaker 1: the lottery. You got this kid who everyone says you
Speaker 1: can't miss. No one's going to hand in a winning
Speaker 1: lottery ticket. That's kind of the way I look at it.
Speaker 1: So if you're a Jaguars fan and you're excited, I
Speaker 1: think you have every right to be. You should enjoy
Speaker 1: the next few months as you sort out the things
Speaker 1: that you said GM and maybe other changes, and then
Speaker 1: get ready for what should be um a really exciting
Speaker 1: you hope, ten fifteen years with one guy under center,
Speaker 1: which is something we know they have not had for
Speaker 1: a long long time in Jacksonville Clemson. To lose the
Speaker 1: first game and then you know then no, no, don't
Speaker 1: even worry about the second game. That's that would be ideal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just rest up right, get ready for O. T A s.
Speaker 1: Get the bubble wrap ready, Andrew cattle on with us. Now,
Speaker 1: today's game, of course, the Jaguar in Indianapolis to face
Speaker 1: the Colts, and the Colts have to win the playoff.
Speaker 1: Chances that it comes down to this game and they
Speaker 1: need a little bit of help as well. There would
Speaker 1: be panic in the streets of downtown Indy if they
Speaker 1: missed the playoffs with ten or eleven wins and because
Speaker 1: of the Jaguars, they beat him in Week one somehow,
Speaker 1: and if they come out and beat them in Week seventeen,
Speaker 1: that would be peak twenty for Indianapolis fans. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: look back at that Week one game and there's a
Speaker 1: there's a good chance that's gonna keep Indianapolis out of
Speaker 1: the playoffs. And you're right, it's crazy to think that
Speaker 1: with an extra playoff team this year that in a
Speaker 1: leaven win Colts team may still be on the outside
Speaker 1: looking in. I think the Colts are very good. They're
Speaker 1: a team that if they do get in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: I think they can make some noise, especially in the
Speaker 1: a f C, where I don't think there's a clear
Speaker 1: cut dominant team. And that's no disrespect to the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: who are home for the first round, but I just
Speaker 1: feel like any of these teams can get on a
Speaker 1: run and get hot in the a f C, and
Speaker 1: the Colts are included, but who knows what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Pittsburgh is not playing their guys.
Speaker 1: Who knows how Buffalo is gonna treat this. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Baltimore is going to into Cincinnati and the Ravens is
Speaker 1: the Jaguars just found out a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: a red hot, and you know the Titans are going
Speaker 1: into a Houston team that's that's been down. So you know,
Speaker 1: the odds are, I believe, a little bit stacked against them.
Speaker 1: You'd like to think, if you're a Colts fan, that
Speaker 1: that one of these games would go your way, but
Speaker 1: it's very possible they'll be the third team with eleven
Speaker 1: wins to not make the playoffs. You get a love
Speaker 1: Week seventeen when the games get moved and the competitive
Speaker 1: balanced things happen and everybody's playing at the same time.
Speaker 1: This is if you're in the playoff race. It doesn't
Speaker 1: get much more exciting than this. I love it too.
Speaker 1: I mean it's just the drama that you you just
Speaker 1: you know, you go in on paper, you're like, all
Speaker 1: this will happen, that it will happen, maybe this, but
Speaker 1: you have no idea. I mean, you look at last
Speaker 1: week and the Jets winning, and you know the way
Speaker 1: the Jets have won their last two games. No, but
Speaker 1: he thought that, Um, you know so, I just think
Speaker 1: that we should be set up for a great conclusion
Speaker 1: to the regular season. It's obviously been a crazy year,
Speaker 1: but for the NFL to get to this point where
Speaker 1: it looks like we're gonna get all the games in
Speaker 1: with no extra weeks, and yeah, we've played on Fridays
Speaker 1: and Wednesdays and Tuesdays, but here we are. We're we're
Speaker 1: set up for a great finish, uh today on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and it feels like they're going to get all two
Speaker 1: hundred fifty six in. That is pretty remarkable. Andrew Catalan
Speaker 1: with us from CBS Sports, Well, when the team has
Speaker 1: lost fourteen in a row, not many coaches can survive that.
Speaker 1: That is the feeling that, you know, Doug Brone might
Speaker 1: not survive this. Let's say, let's reflect on his tenure
Speaker 1: here though. Remember he came in here as an assistant
Speaker 1: and offensive line coach after his running Buffalo for a
Speaker 1: couple of years. He was the interim head coach at
Speaker 1: the end of sixteen, hired in seventeen full time. They
Speaker 1: had the playoff run issues the eighteen and nineteen with
Speaker 1: the roster and big names wanting to get out of
Speaker 1: here and the team not playing well, and we have
Speaker 1: seen what has happened with a lower talent level on
Speaker 1: the roster. It's amazing though, Like Jaguar fans love Doug
Speaker 1: Moron because I think of his personality and how he's
Speaker 1: handled it. But losses are losses, and that's what happens
Speaker 1: in the league. Sometimes change happens. Yeah, it is a
Speaker 1: tough one for me as well, because I personally liked
Speaker 1: Doug um. I think that he has grown a lot
Speaker 1: since his time in Buffalo, and I think that's a
Speaker 1: good lesson for a lot of people that you know,
Speaker 1: you might come up a certain way and think this
Speaker 1: has to be the way, but but you have to adapt.
Speaker 1: And I think that behind closed doors, Doug Moron has adapted,
Speaker 1: and I think that he has become more of a
Speaker 1: player's coach now. Not not for everyone, and we know
Speaker 1: it's been public that you know, some people didn't see
Speaker 1: eye to eye with him, But to me, he's pretty
Speaker 1: much a straight shooter, and I think that that's what
Speaker 1: you gotta like about him. And I also think he's
Speaker 1: a really good football coach. I think that he can
Speaker 1: get the best out of you, I think I think
Speaker 1: that he has a way to motivate, and he may
Speaker 1: not be for everyone, but I I believe that he
Speaker 1: is a very good coach in the NFL. Now, as
Speaker 1: you pointed out, when when you've had these last few
Speaker 1: years and you have a new changing of the guard,
Speaker 1: so it seems at quarterback you've already fired your GM,
Speaker 1: it could be time just for a clean fresh start.
Speaker 1: But to me, I think that Doug Marone is the
Speaker 1: type of guy that, uh if he is let go,
Speaker 1: would be worthy of of of certainly another head coaching
Speaker 1: job in the NFL, because I think that he has
Speaker 1: changed who he is, He's adapted to today's NFL, and
Speaker 1: I think that he's a guy that can win your
Speaker 1: football games if put in the right position. Andrew Catalan
Speaker 1: with us, how about your schedule ahead this week seventeen?
Speaker 1: That means you're done with the NFL? Right? Are you
Speaker 1: doing playoff games? What's up? Now? I'm gonna go take
Speaker 1: it a nap JP is game ends. I might sleep
Speaker 1: for about two or three weeks, and then when I
Speaker 1: wake up, it'll be time for college basketball. So I
Speaker 1: figure if I time this nap out, I'll wake up
Speaker 1: in time for a Seton Hall basketball game in mid January.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a plan, and you appreciate your time all
Speaker 1: season long. Man, great to visit with you. A happy
Speaker 1: new Year and we'll talk to you soon. Happy New Year, JP,