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Speaker 1: Eric Allen back in studio for another edition of the
Speaker 1: Official Jets Podcast. On today's episode, we're gonna be going
Speaker 1: down to Jacksonville via the pull line. We're gonna be
Speaker 1: talking to Jaguar dot Com. John o'sher about what's going
Speaker 1: on there in Florida. But right here up in the
Speaker 1: tri stated A. First of all, the weather took a
Speaker 1: little dip this weekend. It's pretty nice that typically happens screens,
Speaker 1: the leaves start falling, start dancing a little bit, gets
Speaker 1: a little cooler. But the Jets aren't going to be
Speaker 1: cool this weekend because the forecast in Jacksonville calls for
Speaker 1: temperatures in the high eighties with high humidity. If you
Speaker 1: recall a couple of weeks ago when the Patriots went
Speaker 1: down there, it looked like everyone on the field was boiling,
Speaker 1: literally boiling, and so I wouldn't be surprised if the
Speaker 1: weather were similar. I didn't see much of that ball
Speaker 1: game because I believe we played. The Jets had their
Speaker 1: home opener in Week two against the Miami Dolphins, and
Speaker 1: that was the four o'clock game, so got home a
Speaker 1: little bit late, and then uh, I saw Jacksonville take
Speaker 1: care of business. Unfortunately for them, they looked like they
Speaker 1: were gonna take an early season stranglehold on the n
Speaker 1: f C self. But Tennessee's had their number of late
Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk to John Hole sure about that,
Speaker 1: because the Titans have won three consecutive games against the
Speaker 1: Jaguars and that's a difficult team to go off against.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Jaguars were a couple of plays away
Speaker 1: from the Super Bowl. Funny thing about that game, and
Speaker 1: we're not focusing on Tennessee here, but Blaine Gabber goes
Speaker 1: out and I think Marcus Mariota is a better quarterback
Speaker 1: despite dealing with an elbow injury, and he is a
Speaker 1: knack for making plays on the ground and tight matchups.
Speaker 1: So listen, the Jets are gonna be in for a
Speaker 1: dog fight down there against the Jaguars team who brings
Speaker 1: it defensively and on occasion they can get gone offensively.
Speaker 1: And we saw that against the New England Patriots. Like
Speaker 1: you mentioned before, Uh, I think it's a good little
Speaker 1: mini buy for the Jets after that what occurred in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: So they're able to get away from football for a
Speaker 1: little bit and the coaches maybe had some time for
Speaker 1: a self scout after three games in eleven days, where
Speaker 1: the Jets did a lot of good things. Unfortunately they
Speaker 1: didn't do enough. So they're one and two, and I
Speaker 1: know they'd love to finish this first quarter of the
Speaker 1: season with a two and two mark, which would be
Speaker 1: all the more impressive considering this is their third road
Speaker 1: game and this proceeds a three game homestand so this
Speaker 1: is a big game for the Jets here earlier year.
Speaker 1: We'll see what the status is of Jaguars running back
Speaker 1: Leonard for Net, he missed the past two games with
Speaker 1: a hamstring injury. Will speak to John Osher about that too,
Speaker 1: because you know what, maybe it's a lingering thing, maybe
Speaker 1: it's not, but I'm not used to these Jaguars. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk to Oshan about it. But the Keitlan Cole
Speaker 1: and d D Westbrook. D D Westbrook, one of Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfields in Oklahoma, did Westbrook had a tremendous collegiate career,
Speaker 1: and this Jaguars offense in the passing game is again
Speaker 1: a little different than what fans may remember because two
Speaker 1: years ago Alan Robinson was the guy down there. He
Speaker 1: is now a Chicago Bear. He missed last season with
Speaker 1: an a C. L tare and then Mark UIs Lee,
Speaker 1: who resigned with the Jags in the offseason. He also
Speaker 1: got hurt no longer available. So this, this Jaguars receiving
Speaker 1: corps is one that I think a lot of football
Speaker 1: fans have questions about. And Keeling Cole came all in
Speaker 1: real weight last year and he's a speed demon. But
Speaker 1: then you say this is I don't know what his
Speaker 1: forty times were, but you probably say the same thing
Speaker 1: about d D the other guys. The other guy, uh,
Speaker 1: Blake Bordles one of his top targets here on this season.
Speaker 1: A lot of people know him very well here in
Speaker 1: Jets Nation. That would be Austin Sans. He also, ironically,
Speaker 1: in Week one against the Giants, had another touchdown catch reversed,
Speaker 1: So he's uh. He may not be on the Jets anymore,
Speaker 1: but he as does not have some good luck at
Speaker 1: MetLife the past couple seasons there in terms of reverse touchdowns,
Speaker 1: I and I think, listen, I think Jacksonville had one
Speaker 1: seven consecutive games at home before facing Tennessee. So, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, they want to get the three and one,
Speaker 1: and I think the Jets are gonna come out there
Speaker 1: with the game offert and be ready. This is a
Speaker 1: double chin strap game, all right, I think without further ado,
Speaker 1: we talked about the Jaguars. Let's call in John Osher
Speaker 1: of Jaguars dot Com. Alrighty eight's it's time to go
Speaker 1: down to Jacksonville. Now. Welcoming in John Osher of Jaguars
Speaker 1: dot Com. John, thanks so much for joining us today.
Speaker 1: No problem, guys, No problem the ozone, I guess. So
Speaker 1: after last season, you know, being so closed to a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl birth is what's been the pulse in Jacksonville
Speaker 1: so far entering the fourth week of the season. Well,
Speaker 1: the pulse, uh, you know, all off season and really
Speaker 1: the first two weeks of the season has been sort
Speaker 1: of a feeling of, you know, they got close last year,
Speaker 1: and then even beyond that, you know, sometimes you get
Speaker 1: close and you feel like, okay, that was our shot.
Speaker 1: We blew it. Now we got to move on and
Speaker 1: try to rebuild or whatever. Well, the pulse of this
Speaker 1: team is that pretty much everybody came back. They lost
Speaker 1: a few pieces on defense, uhst Allen Robinson on offense,
Speaker 1: wide receiver, but overall the feeling was, hey, this is
Speaker 1: a young team. UH. The basically ten starters on defense return,
Speaker 1: including Jalen Ramsey, Miles, Jack Clays, Campbell, Telvin Smith. All
Speaker 1: the guys I just listened are pro bowlers UH, and
Speaker 1: a lot of them are just coming into their prime. UM.
Speaker 1: So there's really a feeling of, hey, as good as
Speaker 1: we were last year, this is a team that ought
Speaker 1: to be getting better and maybe just scratched the surface now.
Speaker 1: And it was really feeling that after the win over
Speaker 1: New England a couple of weeks back, UH came out
Speaker 1: on Sunday, followed that up with the lost to Tennessee
Speaker 1: where the offense was just really bad. So the overall
Speaker 1: pulse maybe doesn't match this immediate after Matt pull switch.
Speaker 1: As you guys know, being in New York, every loss
Speaker 1: is the end of the world, right, What is the
Speaker 1: magic formula? You've been talking about it all week down
Speaker 1: there in Jacksonville. Now, what does the town of see
Speaker 1: Titans have over the Jacksonville Jaguars. Now they've won three
Speaker 1: consecutive games in a regular season, and can the Jets
Speaker 1: take anything from their game plan? Well, you know, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't remember exactly what the Jets did defensively last
Speaker 1: year against the Jaguars. That was Week four last year.
Speaker 1: I haven't gone back and looked at it. But you
Speaker 1: know the Jets did, if you remember, did a nice
Speaker 1: job of limiting the Jaguars offense. Made that close game
Speaker 1: and the Jets had a long run below pal I think,
Speaker 1: you know, get along and they kind of kept it
Speaker 1: in it and and I sort of swayed the game.
Speaker 1: But it was it was a defensive game that the
Speaker 1: Jets one because the field position at the end of
Speaker 1: the game a huge punt to change the field position.
Speaker 1: So we're talking about field position type games where you
Speaker 1: shorten the game. Um, that's what the Titans always do
Speaker 1: against the Jags. It's it's a field goal type of game.
Speaker 1: It was only field goals the other day. Uh last
Speaker 1: year they beat him fifteen to ten. They had another
Speaker 1: game that was six three at halftime. So the Titans
Speaker 1: are able to get the Jaguars in a situation where
Speaker 1: they shortened games. They play kind of sloppy, they play
Speaker 1: kind of messy. They get big first downs that you
Speaker 1: wouldn't expect with Mariota, you know, scrambling and running for
Speaker 1: five yards on third and four and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you're on the field two or three minutes more. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's had. That's the way the
Speaker 1: Jets want to play. It seems like with Donald that
Speaker 1: they're looking toward a future where they're really efficient on offense.
Speaker 1: But as of right now with the Jets kind of
Speaker 1: trying to get going and being a good defensive team. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's a way that you can hang with the Jaguars. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. I remember last seasons the game
Speaker 1: like it was yesterday, and the Jets really they pounded
Speaker 1: it on the ground. It was big, big games from
Speaker 1: not only Blah Paul, but Eli McGuire as well. Eli
Speaker 1: won't be playing in this ball game. And it's a
Speaker 1: different offensive system up front, the zone blocking scheme. Black
Speaker 1: poles come out and he's averaging about four point five
Speaker 1: yards to carry and the Jets are getting the contributions
Speaker 1: from the running backs with the big thing John Uh,
Speaker 1: that they're stressing here up in New York with Sam
Speaker 1: Donald his commitment to the run and also a balance
Speaker 1: offensive attack. Yeah, it's Uh, it's a little bit of
Speaker 1: a different feel for the Jaguars. And you mentioned last
Speaker 1: year the Jets ran all over him and when the
Speaker 1: when the Jags struggled early last year defensively, that's where
Speaker 1: they struggled. They got run on. Uh, that's changed a
Speaker 1: little bit since they went and got Marcel Darius, who
Speaker 1: Jets fans know from his days with the Bills. Uh,
Speaker 1: the Jaguars after mid season last year, we're a much
Speaker 1: better running defense. And even the other day, Uh, Derrick
Speaker 1: Hennry got a hundred and fifty on him. Um, but
Speaker 1: it was on thirty five carries. It didn't feel like
Speaker 1: a gash kind of game. Um. So the Jaguars at
Speaker 1: least feel like they're a better overall defense, certainly than
Speaker 1: the one that played the Jets last year in Week four. Um. So,
Speaker 1: obviously the Jets are gonna want to run, but maybe
Speaker 1: a different matchups than always last year. What's up with
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournett because he heard his hamstring or tweaked it
Speaker 1: in MetLife Stadium Ironically, against the Giants, and do you
Speaker 1: think that one do you think that he's going to
Speaker 1: be ready to play Sunday? I know it's very early
Speaker 1: in the week as I record here on Monday. And
Speaker 1: then the second part is is I know it's been
Speaker 1: a small sample size this year, but how different is
Speaker 1: this offense with four net playing in the game versus not.
Speaker 1: It's it's tricky to try to project if you'll play Sunday.
Speaker 1: I he had a much better chance I think of
Speaker 1: playing this past Sunday than the first week he was out,
Speaker 1: which makes sense with a hammy. Um, you know, if
Speaker 1: I had to guess, I'd say he plays, because he
Speaker 1: said he was so much further ahead than where he was.
Speaker 1: But you know, this is not a team that's very
Speaker 1: forthcoming in terms of degree of injury on that front,
Speaker 1: which you know most NFL teams aren't. But it's it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of have to get a read on it.
Speaker 1: I would guess he plays, but I sure wouldn't. It
Speaker 1: wouldn't bet anything important on it and follow me. Um,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a different offense in this sense. They
Speaker 1: they have had stretches where they're better offensively when he's
Speaker 1: not in the game. It's kind of a weird thing,
Speaker 1: but they open up the offense a little more. They
Speaker 1: throw effectively. But for the most part, they're a better
Speaker 1: offense when he's in the game because he gives them
Speaker 1: such a threat of running that teams really have to
Speaker 1: defend it. When he's not in the game, you don't
Speaker 1: feel as much of a sense of urgency as a
Speaker 1: defense to make sure you get him stopped. Uh, And
Speaker 1: therefore you know you're not His apter to pack the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage makes it a little tougher on the
Speaker 1: passing game. So he's really the the offense's identity. Even
Speaker 1: on games where he doesn't run for a hundred yards. Uh.
Speaker 1: They like to get physical. They like to run. You know,
Speaker 1: I'd like to have him run you over. It gets
Speaker 1: their videos fired up. Uh. He's sort of a calling
Speaker 1: card for him, if you will. And it does change
Speaker 1: when he's not in the game. And the Jets twenty
Speaker 1: overtime victory over the Jags last year. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: four nuts stats right now, and I didn't realize it
Speaker 1: actually during that Sunday action, But man, what a workload.
Speaker 1: Carries eighty six yards, four receptions, fifty nine yards and
Speaker 1: receiving touchdown. So uh, he was very productive. Uh last
Speaker 1: fall against the Green and White. What have you seen
Speaker 1: from Blake Bortles here early this season? I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna help the Jets that they've faced a couple of
Speaker 1: uh quarterbacks who can use their legs here early on
Speaker 1: in the season, Ryan tanney Hill the r POS with
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, and to Rod Taylor. I faced him for
Speaker 1: a half. Bortles is another guy who can use his legs.
Speaker 1: But he had a coming out party against the Patriots,
Speaker 1: so I think he threw for over three hundred yards
Speaker 1: and then uh, the whole offense wasn't able to get
Speaker 1: gone against Tennessee. It's been kind of up and down.
Speaker 1: Probably the best way to describe Bortles is, uh, for
Speaker 1: for the first three years of his career, everything around
Speaker 1: him and him it was all so bad that he
Speaker 1: really got sort of a bad rap as just being awful.
Speaker 1: I mean, there were people who just wrote him off
Speaker 1: and said, this guy is one of the worst quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Well, he's not that. He's a quarterback
Speaker 1: who can beat you if you're covering guys. Man, if
Speaker 1: if he's got guys that when he can hit him.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's one of the best ten quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the NFL, but he is a guy who is
Speaker 1: very savvy, very tough. This team believes in him, and
Speaker 1: i've primarily he's been really good for the last i'd say,
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty games at if he hits a patch of adversity.
Speaker 1: I mean, if he has a bad game like he
Speaker 1: did yesterday, or if he has a bad throw and interception,
Speaker 1: he's been exceptionally good at putting it away and moving on.
Speaker 1: Early in his career, a bad play, a bad game,
Speaker 1: things would sort of, you know, sort of start to snowball.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he would see the shoulders dropped,
Speaker 1: but there was just sort of a collective Okay, here
Speaker 1: we go again. Well, now he's much better at if
Speaker 1: something goes bad, he responds to it. They tend to
Speaker 1: have a good drive after he throws an interception, and
Speaker 1: that's really what they ask of him is, hey, you're
Speaker 1: gonna make mistakes. Who know it's not gonna be perfect,
Speaker 1: but bounced back. So that's where he's improved, and it's
Speaker 1: one reason he got to the a C Championship Game
Speaker 1: last year. He just doesn't concern himself with the criticism,
Speaker 1: doesn't really worry if there's a bad play. Uh. He
Speaker 1: knows the team has confidence in him. So he's not
Speaker 1: turning around and looking over his shoulder trying to lose
Speaker 1: his job every week. Flipping sides of the ball. Here
Speaker 1: to the defensive side is from New York. When you
Speaker 1: think about the Jaguars, you say, oh my god, that's
Speaker 1: one of the best defenses in the league. When you
Speaker 1: look at the front seven and then A J. Bouyer
Speaker 1: and Jalen Ramsey. And so what I want to know
Speaker 1: is from your perspective, because you're very much closer to
Speaker 1: the team than we are, is what is the strength
Speaker 1: of this defense? And then secondly is if you're an offense,
Speaker 1: let's say the Jets this week, is how do you
Speaker 1: even go about attacking a defense like the Jaguars. Well,
Speaker 1: it's tough. And I'll give you a stat that I
Speaker 1: just I just sort of dug up in the last Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, I was doing the game on a Sunday night.
Speaker 1: They really given up one touchdown this year, uh, when
Speaker 1: they've had a lead of less than ten points, And
Speaker 1: that was when s Kwan Barkley went I think for
Speaker 1: sixty seven yards and the opener, they had the Patriots
Speaker 1: down twenty one three before they have a touchdown, and
Speaker 1: they didn't give up one against the Titans. Even though
Speaker 1: they lost their game, the defense was very strong, had
Speaker 1: a couple of drives late where they gift some runs
Speaker 1: they didn't want to. Um. It's probably like any defense,
Speaker 1: it's really really good. If you can run on them,
Speaker 1: then it forces them to do things they don't want
Speaker 1: to do. They have to commit a little more to it,
Speaker 1: and then you open yourself up on the back end.
Speaker 1: Which is a little bit of a cliche. It's not
Speaker 1: really detailed towards this defense, but that's how you get
Speaker 1: this defense. If you can run on them, then they
Speaker 1: have to single cover a little bit or they have
Speaker 1: to do things in the back. Seven. They don't like
Speaker 1: to answer the question of why they're good. Uh, they
Speaker 1: rushed the past, serve very very consistently, and they tend
Speaker 1: to get the ball out when they had the quarterback.
Speaker 1: And then of course, like you said, they've got two
Speaker 1: cornerbacks who are as good as there is. And the
Speaker 1: safety is Bury Church and to Seawn Gibson are very underrated.
Speaker 1: They're both veterans, and probably the thing that makes them
Speaker 1: really unique beyond those two levels of the defense, Miles
Speaker 1: jack and Telvin Smith, who are their main linebackers. They're
Speaker 1: the guys who play all three downs. Might be the
Speaker 1: fastest due in the league. So they're tough to get
Speaker 1: outside on if if you're trying to run or or
Speaker 1: you know, hit plays in the short passing game and
Speaker 1: the running backs they tend to cut that off pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: Are they creating a home field advantage down there? I
Speaker 1: know this it comes right after losing the Tennessee at home,
Speaker 1: but prior to that game, I believe it was seven
Speaker 1: in a row. Or do you think that's more just
Speaker 1: of the reasoning there is Jacksonville is just a good team.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter where they play well. Uh, probably the
Speaker 1: best way I answered this for a long time. You know,
Speaker 1: I got this team back in the nineties when it
Speaker 1: was a terrific home field advantage. Well, it was not
Speaker 1: nearly as good a franchise for about fifteen years, and
Speaker 1: for about five or six years before last year, they
Speaker 1: were bad every year, so the home field advantage went away.
Speaker 1: Uh really because the team hadn't earned it. About midway
Speaker 1: through last season you really saw it come back. Um
Speaker 1: and in the last three or four games. The last
Speaker 1: season Buffalo playoff game, there was an afternoon game against
Speaker 1: Seattle where to me, it felt once again like it
Speaker 1: had felt in the nineties when they had Fred Taylor
Speaker 1: and Tony Besselli and guys like that, they're going to
Speaker 1: the playoffs every year. You were starting to get that
Speaker 1: feeling back. To answer your question, when this team is good,
Speaker 1: this is a very, very tough place to play, and
Speaker 1: it has felt like that the last two weeks. Now
Speaker 1: one factor. Yesterday it was so unbelievably hot that once
Speaker 1: you hit the third quarter, I think the fans, I
Speaker 1: think the heat was just as often happens in Florida
Speaker 1: sometimes you just had a heat factor where maybe not
Speaker 1: quite the advantage that had been in a late afternoon
Speaker 1: game the week before. But it's uh, as somebody who
Speaker 1: covered this team early on, it's been impressive to see
Speaker 1: that home field advantage come back. John on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball really quickly. Here is since Aaron
Speaker 1: Colvin has departed in the offseason, who's stepped up as
Speaker 1: that slot third corner and how has he been performing well?
Speaker 1: D J. Hayden was the slot um who was the
Speaker 1: former first round pick by the Raiders and then played
Speaker 1: a year with the Lions. They signed him as a
Speaker 1: free agent to replace Colvin. He played very well at
Speaker 1: that spot um for the first two weeks. I had
Speaker 1: a toe injury last Friday. Didn't play on Sunday against
Speaker 1: the Titans. He had been playing very very well. Uh.
Speaker 1: Tyler Patman played in this place the other day. I
Speaker 1: hadn't really watched specifically on how he played, but they've
Speaker 1: liked him for a while. Uh, didn't seem to hurt
Speaker 1: them because the Titans really didn't. Titans weren't able to
Speaker 1: throw because Marriot's elbow was still bothering him. So probably
Speaker 1: a little bit of an incomplete on Tyler Patman. Uh,
Speaker 1: And it'll be something to watch this week. Does d J.
Speaker 1: Hayden come back and play because he had replaced Colvin?
Speaker 1: I think much better than people thought he would now. Finally, John,
Speaker 1: how's Austin some Ferrian Jenkins doing down there? He's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I've gotten to know him a little bit,
Speaker 1: as you guys know, a great guy. He's added a
Speaker 1: little something to their their passing game last year they
Speaker 1: had a guy named Mercedes Lewis who had been here forever.
Speaker 1: Mercedes is a frontline run blocker, not a great pass blocker.
Speaker 1: I mean, I had a great pass catcher at the
Speaker 1: stage of his career. So Safari and Jenkins caught a
Speaker 1: touchdown against New England, had one called back against the Giants.
Speaker 1: They had hoped he'd out a wrinkle to the passing game,
Speaker 1: and you know, through three games he's getting incomplete. So far,
Speaker 1: so good. All right, well, John, thank you very much
Speaker 1: for joining us here on the Official Judge Podcast, and
Speaker 1: we'll see a Sunday at salute. Looks forward to you guys.
Speaker 1: Great stuff from the O Zone down in Jacksonville. Long
Speaker 1: story short, Yeah, I think a lot of fans think
Speaker 1: this too. Is that it's gonna be a tough, tough
Speaker 1: game for the Jets, especially facing Jacksonville defense that's widely
Speaker 1: regarded as probably top three in the NFL. It's a
Speaker 1: winnable game, though, because the Tennessee I went down to
Speaker 1: Jacksonville last week and they want a slug fest, and
Speaker 1: I think the Jets do have an ability to get
Speaker 1: in the slug fest with him. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be difficult at times for Jacksonville to move the ball
Speaker 1: on the Jets defense. Uh. Conversely, we know it's gonna
Speaker 1: be an ugly game at times for the Jets offense
Speaker 1: because you're going against a tremendous defense who has players
Speaker 1: at all three levels. With that being said, I like, uh,
Speaker 1: the scrambled ability and uh and Sam Donald in this
Speaker 1: kind of situation and maybe he can get some your
Speaker 1: it's on the ground here and Uh, when you look
Speaker 1: at that game last week, what did Tennessee do? They
Speaker 1: played great defense and they stayed in it. So that's
Speaker 1: what the Jets have to do. You have to make
Speaker 1: this a game where it's in the third or fourth
Speaker 1: quarter it's really tight, and then make the plays down
Speaker 1: the stretch. And I think they have the ability to
Speaker 1: do that. Bottom line is, yes, Jacksonville is one of
Speaker 1: the FC's top teams, but the Jets certainly have a
Speaker 1: shot and winning this ball game. I thought that the
Speaker 1: stat that Osier talked about was pretty staggering when he
Speaker 1: said that the Jaguars have only let up one touchdown
Speaker 1: when they were within ten points of their opponent. I
Speaker 1: thought that that's a very impressive stat And I know
Speaker 1: that you the Jets are very capable of being involved
Speaker 1: in a slug fest. But just to inform fans of
Speaker 1: what a slug fest is, where do you look to
Speaker 1: like are you talking you just talking about like defensive
Speaker 1: game and we're talking about a physical game with the
Speaker 1: run with the run game? What what exactly is the
Speaker 1: slug fest? And offensively, how did the Jets go about
Speaker 1: attacking this Jaguar defense scienticipated as being a low scoring game.
Speaker 1: I don't think either one of these teams are going
Speaker 1: to get in the thirties because they get in the twenties. Yes, Um,
Speaker 1: what I mean by slug fest is again, Uh, the
Speaker 1: Jets this year defensively have not given up a ton
Speaker 1: of points. We think about Detroit seventeen and the defense
Speaker 1: actually got on the scoreboard in that ball game at
Speaker 1: home against Miami. They give up twenty points, but fourteen
Speaker 1: of those points came off of turnovers inside while not
Speaker 1: inside that for the first touchdown there was inside the
Speaker 1: twenty yard line where Miami benefited from and then Cleveland
Speaker 1: scored twenty one points. So the Jets right now, in
Speaker 1: terms of giving up points, they're not giving up a ton.
Speaker 1: They're not giving up a ton of yards no matter
Speaker 1: what Baker Mayfield did in the second half last week,
Speaker 1: and give him a lot of credit for coming out
Speaker 1: and giving the Browns that spark. Browns didn't have a
Speaker 1: ton of yards against the Jets, and uh, Jacksonville offensively
Speaker 1: has scuffled at times. Is it going to be different
Speaker 1: if Leonard Fournett is in the ball game, No doubt
Speaker 1: about it. He is their workhorses. Oshan said, he is
Speaker 1: their guy. Interesting though, Greens is that ocean commented on it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes their offense looks a little smoother withour fornet in
Speaker 1: the ball game, but then you go to the other
Speaker 1: side of the ball. The Jets scored a lot of
Speaker 1: points in Detroit, but complimentary football all three phases scoring
Speaker 1: Against Miami, Sam Donald throws for three on the thirty
Speaker 1: four yards, but they're limited to twelve points. And then
Speaker 1: against the Browns points were hard to come by. I
Speaker 1: think when I say a slug fast is this is
Speaker 1: going to be a low scoring game unless teams turn
Speaker 1: over the football deep inside their territory. I think the
Speaker 1: Jets defense is going to be a problem for the
Speaker 1: Jaguars offense. Sam Donald, I anticipate he'll play better than
Speaker 1: he did Thursday night in Cleveland, just because he'll have
Speaker 1: more preparation. This is his first true NFL week in
Speaker 1: his career. You think about it, he played Monday night football.
Speaker 1: Then he comes back and it's a short week against
Speaker 1: Miami and it's a really short week against Cleveland. Well,
Speaker 1: now this guy has ten days to prepare for the
Speaker 1: Shacksonville defense. I think he'll be better this week. What
Speaker 1: the Jets have to do is probably not offensive banance.
Speaker 1: Chad Pennington told me, uh this week on Jets Flight Plant,
Speaker 1: which airs Sunday mornings on CBS, told me that, Jets,
Speaker 1: we're doing a good line of scrimmage in the first
Speaker 1: half against Cleveland. That you didn't see that as much.
Speaker 1: Cleveland took control of the line of scrimmage against the Jets.
Speaker 1: It's going to be tough to win the battle. Constantly
Speaker 1: lying a scrimmage against Jacks film, that's just not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: So I anticipated slutfest. I agree with that because whether
Speaker 1: or not for Net plays, Uh, let's assume just let's assume, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's assume he is. If he is playing, and you
Speaker 1: would imagine your attention goes to Leonard for net in
Speaker 1: the running game, so then all you know, you stack
Speaker 1: the box whatever it maybe, Well, the Jaguars receivers are
Speaker 1: much different than what the Jets faced last year. And
Speaker 1: last year was Mark Easley was the primary guy because
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson already had hurt his knee. This year, Marquis
Speaker 1: Lee's hurt his knee earlier this season and he's done
Speaker 1: for the year, so your primary option is Keeling Cole
Speaker 1: and and and one thing you wrote about it too,
Speaker 1: but we gotta remember Austin Seferian Jake. Yes, absolutely, but
Speaker 1: it's a very different look. And I think that last
Speaker 1: year's receiving corps might have been better. I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. Um well there, whether it's last year or
Speaker 1: this year. They don't go by Blake Borls. I think
Speaker 1: that he is a guy that they're hoping that he
Speaker 1: doesn't lose a game, but you never put on the
Speaker 1: shoulders that he has to win. The game against New
Speaker 1: England were like always saying John Osher was saying that
Speaker 1: they decided they're gonna play a lot of man and
Speaker 1: the Patriots defensive backs, frankly have struggled early in the season.
Speaker 1: If anybody watched that game, against Detroit Lions Sunday night.
Speaker 1: That defense is trying to find themselves. The Jets secondary,
Speaker 1: while they encountered some problems in the second half, I
Speaker 1: don't think they're trying. They're they're having issues right now.
Speaker 1: I think, in fact, I anticipate they're gonna get better
Speaker 1: and better. Well. I think last year what the Jets
Speaker 1: did so well against the Jaguars is that I remember
Speaker 1: at the time Coney eally talked about it. He actually
Speaker 1: picked off Blake Bortles last year. But I remember him
Speaker 1: saying that, and then it wasn't just him, It was
Speaker 1: a large chunk of the defense. Is what they did
Speaker 1: so well was pinned the Jaguars deep after first and
Speaker 1: second out, so it's third and long, and then you
Speaker 1: rushed the passer heavily and you make Blake Bortles throw
Speaker 1: to get to move the chain. So I thought the
Speaker 1: last year the Jets had a very good job of that,
Speaker 1: and why had good numbers last year he had good
Speaker 1: numbers receiving two He actually probably screen he probably total
Speaker 1: what near Yeah, he was a very effective player for
Speaker 1: the Jaguars last year against the Jets, So it would
Speaker 1: be a big boost if he's in. But if he's
Speaker 1: not in, like we've talked about before, is t J.
Speaker 1: Elden is not some slouch. He's a very talented running
Speaker 1: back and he's a dual threat. Also, he can run,
Speaker 1: he can catch. It'll be interesting for me to see
Speaker 1: what happens how the Jets respond long week after three
Speaker 1: games in eleven days, and frankly, I think that this
Speaker 1: team is ready for a slug faster, another dog fight,
Speaker 1: And I'm really excited to see what happens because I
Speaker 1: think that the that the Jets match up pretty well
Speaker 1: against the Jaguars. Yeah, listen, we don't know if they're
Speaker 1: gonna win or lose, but it would be really something
Speaker 1: if they wanted to get to two and two and
Speaker 1: then you have a three game homestand coming up, you
Speaker 1: got Denver coming in, followed by Indianapolis and Minnesota. You'd
Speaker 1: like where you're at if you're two and two after
Speaker 1: four games. The thing that stood out to me about
Speaker 1: last year's game looking back, these two teams played each
Speaker 1: other in Week four as well, which I didn't know
Speaker 1: before I went back and looked again. Obviously, the Jets
Speaker 1: won three twenty in overtime, but they pounded the Rocky
Speaker 1: two what thirty six yards Russia. It was a two
Speaker 1: hundred fifty six years Russia. It would be tough to
Speaker 1: duplicate that kind of offer the Jets. I mean, Bile
Speaker 1: Powell had a seventy five yard score. Eli McGuire had
Speaker 1: a sixty nine yard score. I mean that there were
Speaker 1: some some splash plays, but the Jets were consistent on
Speaker 1: the ground. I mean that those two played obviously stick out,
Speaker 1: but throughout the game the Jets were moving. And what
Speaker 1: Oshan said is that after the Jags got Marcel Darius
Speaker 1: midway through the season, the run defense got a little better.
Speaker 1: So it's different. It's a different look up front, and
Speaker 1: that's in that sense for that. Saxonville, about this number
Speaker 1: for you, seven sacks through three games, eight sacks through
Speaker 1: three Here you go. Uh No, listen, Saxonville. Comma New York,
Speaker 1: Calvin Beacham said it this week, and you wrote about
Speaker 1: a green set. We know we have to run the football.
Speaker 1: They know we have to run the football. So listen,
Speaker 1: it's sometimes it's not. Sometimes you're gonna get two yards,
Speaker 1: sometimes you get in one yard, but you gotta keep
Speaker 1: on pounding the rock and that's what the Jets are
Speaker 1: gonna do this week. I think Bla Paul has looked
Speaker 1: phenomenal early in the season. I think he's average about
Speaker 1: four and a half yards to carry. Isaach Royle has
Speaker 1: been in that zone four times as well. Uh. The
Speaker 1: other thing that I wrote about my storylines piece looking
Speaker 1: ahead to this matchup is which one of these teams
Speaker 1: is going to be able to take a shot down
Speaker 1: the field and complete it and pick up some chunkyards
Speaker 1: Because if you're playing a game and a phone booth,
Speaker 1: at times, you're gonna need a chunk play, probably in
Speaker 1: the passing game, and the Jets weren't able to get
Speaker 1: that going against the Cleveland Browns. Uh, you know, relying mostly.
Speaker 1: The most successful passed against the Browns screens wide receiver
Speaker 1: screens to Quincy and noon law. Robby Anderson had a
Speaker 1: long touchdown in Week one against Detroit, and then when
Speaker 1: you look at Jacksonville. Oshan wrote about that this week
Speaker 1: that Tennessee Dared Bortles beat us down the field, he
Speaker 1: didn't take his shots down the field. So we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens there. Is very interesting matchup wise. The other
Speaker 1: think a lot of people say, oh, the Jaguars were
Speaker 1: a game away from the Super Bowl last year, and
Speaker 1: the Jets were five five and eleven and had the
Speaker 1: sixth overall pack and then time before the trade out.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that I think the external narrative is
Speaker 1: not representative of how close of the game this will be.
Speaker 1: It will be close if the Jets continue to play
Speaker 1: sound on special team. So far, you gotta be encouraged
Speaker 1: by Andre Roberts as you returned, man, he's making Hay
Speaker 1: his apartment return especially not too many attempts. And as
Speaker 1: far as the kick returns concerned, Jason Myers continues to
Speaker 1: boot the yep. It continues to boot the ball out
Speaker 1: of that and zone. You want your coverage team to
Speaker 1: spin uh sound as ever, and you can't turn it over.
Speaker 1: The second interception of Donald in Cleveland through a throat away, Yeah,
Speaker 1: no time outs left or that the clock was turning
Speaker 1: counting down. You had to get the ball up the field.
Speaker 1: The first one is the one that he would want
Speaker 1: to have back. He's Jermaine Curse is open, his eyes
Speaker 1: are on him, and it's split second he hesitates, then
Speaker 1: the rush comes to him and he tried going back
Speaker 1: to him there's Joe Schobert, and there's your ball game.
Speaker 1: I can't do that this week. This Sunday, one o'clock,
Speaker 1: Jets Jacks in Jacksonville pre Game Central. That's a pregame show.
Speaker 1: You're gonna want to watch it. E A. Anthony beck
Speaker 1: is gonna be making a guest appearance along with laverneus Cole.
Speaker 1: So will the e A and Anthony becked and the
Speaker 1: Laverne calls are gonna hop on Jets Jacks. What more
Speaker 1: could you ask for? That's eleven o'clock Sunday morning. Be
Speaker 1: sure to lock in and then we'll be back next week.