WEBVTT - Ep. 53: Time To Grow Up | Jags A.M. Podcast 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:04.520 The Jaguars prepared to take on the top team in 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:06.480 the AFC. Who's gonna need to have a big game 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:08.399 on Sunday if they want to take down the Ravens. 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:10.319 Devin Lloyd, He's going to have to be able to 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:13.000 get out to the flat because Lamar Jackson loves to 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:15.800 throw those short little passes to say Flowers and he 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:17.919 gets open easily. And he's also gonna have to know 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:21.360 where Lamar Jackson is because if you lose sight of him, 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:22.200 you're in trouble. 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:24.400 I'm gonna say, Calvin Ridley, you need a big play 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:26.560 from You need big plays from above the exits and 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:34.600 ose players in big games. 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.640 Welcome to Jags Am presented by Field's Auto Group. I'm 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:51.360 Kenannie Stevens, Brian's exton John Osier, are with me today 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:54.120 as we get prepared for Sunday night football against the 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:57.200 Baltimore Ravens. Now Last week, the team went up against 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.560 one of the best defenses in the league, probably number 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:02.600 one and one A and one B. So big thing 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:04.800 number one this week is going to be one A 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.200 in one day because one BA would be the Ravens, 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:09.920 who are the second best technically but one of the 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:11.840 top defenses in the league, and they're going to be 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.120 a tough test for the Jaguars on Sunday night. 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:16.560 I mean, they just have a great defense all the 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:18.760 way around, not even not even just pass rush, you know, 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:21.880 on the back end, they're linebackers. I mean, they have 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.959 some of the best linebackers in football. You know, Kyle 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:26.880 Hamilton too is another guy who played in college and 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:28.759 I think he might have been hurt last year when 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.520 we played him. But that's a guy I'm somewhat familiar with. 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:34.920 He's a great player. So yeah, they got They just 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.480 have the really talented defense. But they're also really smart. 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:41.200 You know, they do a great job and playing you know, 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.680 sound and really on the same page. Everyone knows their 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.160 assignment and knows what they're doing. They play really fast. 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:48.520 I think that's the biggest thing is they know what 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.280 they're doing and they play fast and they're physical. 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:54.760 Brian and the Jags were able to score pretty readily 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.000 against the Browns and didn't win the game. But does 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.240 that mean that translates over to Baltimore is a completely 0:01:59.240 --> 0:01:59.840 different situation. 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:03.040 I mean, they're different styles of defense. Here's what you 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.360 know about the Ravens. The Ravens leave the league with 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.200 forty nine sacks and their win percentage because they've got 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:10.720 guys with eleven, seven and a half and six sacks, 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:12.799 so the win percentage is about ten percent of the 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.760 time they're affecting the quarterback, it's going to create problems. 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:21.480 But if you protect decent enough right depending on who's 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:23.639 on the left side of the line, you give yourself 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:26.120 a chance to be able to score against the Ravens. 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.160 It's not like people don't score against these teams. It's 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.519 not like the great Ravens teams of the early two 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:32.760 thousands where you were lucky. Can remember one game where 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.680 the Jaguars got five field goals where you were lucky 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:37.840 to score at all. They could score, but they've got 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:38.720 to protect first. 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:43.320 Yeah, protection's key. I think it's particularly key because it's 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:47.080 hard to imagine the running game with Travis Dtn, with 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:49.960 the interior the offensive line struggling in that area, it's 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.360 hard to imagine the running game piling up one hundred 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:54.679 and twenty one hundred and thirty ball control yards. I 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.640 think the running game can get some big plays, some 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.560 pops and make them The Ravens respected to do it help, 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.200 but barring that you have to protect because there's gonna 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.400 be passing situations where they have to convert big third 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.160 downs to me third downs and big plays the way 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:10.840 you beat the Ravens because they're gonna get to you 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:12.079 a couple of times on their defense. 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:13.960 And I'll say this, John, You know, last week the 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.960 Jaguars had Blake Hans and Tyler Shatley on the left 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:18.800 side of their line, and they were facing the best 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:23.720 defensive pass rusher in football and a really good defensive front, 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:25.520 and they were all right, you know, they had twenty 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.560 seven points and they were, you know, within shouting distance 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.360 at the end of the game. So you'd like to 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.520 think that if Walker Little can play and he's practicing 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:34.639 a bit this week, and if Ezra Cleveland can get 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:36.200 out of the field and he's practicing a little bit 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.840 this week, that you give yourself a fighting chance at home. 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.240 Our second big thing this week, Eric today is to 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.480 say there's gonna be MVP again because on the other 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:46.080 side of the ball, the Ravens have one of the 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.880 best quarterbacks in the league, Lamar Jackson, impressive and a 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.240 comeback win last week. And you will also be a 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:53.920 tough matchup for the Jaguars defense. 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:56.400 Great football player, great quarterback. 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:56.520 You know. 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.760 One of the things he's doing, you know, this year, 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:00.440 I think, which was a point of MPs for them, 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.520 obviously throwing the ball a little bit more from the pocket. 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.440 And he's done a nice job for that, you know, 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.920 And it takes all eleven on defense. You just can't, 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:11.720 you know, you can't let your guard down with him obviously, 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:13.360 not only in the run game, but the pass game 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.320 as well. When you get an opportunity to tackle him, 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.120 you got to tackle him. 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:19.600 John. 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.560 We all know Lamar Jackson can run, but he's really 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:23.560 been staying in the pocket and throwing, especially now that 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.080 he's got wide receivers A Flowers, the rookie and also 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.960 Odell Beckham junior. It's impressive to see what he's been 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:30.520 able to do with his game now a couple of 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:30.920 years in. 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:35.279 Yeah, he has, he's much better there than he has been. 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.920 To me, what still makes him meget dangerous is that 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.880 he can get that in the passing game, but then 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:47.760 he can also kill you getting outside the pocket. And 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:51.000 I think where the Jaguars have a chance to stay 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:52.880 even against the Ravens. Look, the Ravens are one of 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.320 the best teams in the NFL. You're probably not gonna 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:57.719 shut them down and blow them out, but what gives 0:04:57.720 --> 0:04:59.960 you a chance to maintain With the Ravens. Same thing 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.920 as last year with Lamar. The Jaguars defense is much 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.280 better than it was two or three years ago, with 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.480 mobile quarterbacks, keeping them in the pocket, not letting those 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:13.240 guys just kill you. Play after scramble after scramble. I 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:17.040 think the Jaguars, because of Josh Allen Trayvon, the linebackers 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:21.240 are very good. They can contain Lamar. They cannot let 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:24.640 him have the seventy yard run or the or the 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.560 multiple fifteen yard runs that just make it drive. I 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.719 think they match up okay there and Brian. That's gonna 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:35.520 give them a chance to hold serviance them, maintain and 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.760 not let that factor win the game. The Ravens defense 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:39.440 hears me as much as that. Yeah, the Ravens defense 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.479 is really good. Look, the Jaguars defense has to play 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.440 smart football. They have not gotten home in the last 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:45.039 two weeks. 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:45.880 A little bit of. 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.480 Pressure on Browning, But was he thirty two or thirty 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:50.800 seven two weeks ago on the Monday Night football and 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:54.640 then you got this guy here who he's not looking 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.919 to run. As you mentioned guy Todd Munkins offense gives 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.600 him more options if he stays in the pocket, and 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.240 you've seen him grow throughout the course of the year. 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.800 But you know, if your run past him, and we've 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.280 seen that from this Jaguars defense, a guy gets out 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.520 of his gap, runs too far, you know this guy's 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.080 going to go for twenty five yards and put himself 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:17.599 in scoring position like that. This is about playing smart. 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.360 And I don't think the Jaguars defense has had too 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.760 many bad games this year, but the last two weeks 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:23.679 have not been their best. 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.680 All Right, our final big thing today is going to 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:28.880 be growing up. Obviously, the Jaguars went on a great 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.120 run at the end of last season to a little 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:34.000 bit unexpectedly make the playoffs. This year, they're achieving at 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.719 a pace we probably predicted. But now they're on a 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.520 two game losing streak, and Doug Peterson says that they 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:41.520 can't really use that youth fixed these anymore. 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:46.560 Everybody's played rookies are no longer rookies. Is week fifteen. 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:51.359 You know, I can't I can't hide behind that anymore. 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:53.520 You know, I can't use that as an excuse anymore. 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:57.839 You know, every team's in Week fifteen, there's no more buys, 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:05.560 every rookie's played. I mean, it's it's it's just everybody 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:11.480 has to focus that much greater, Brian. 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.280 This is a young team, but they're not inexperienced at 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.080 this point. I think this is a point where Doug 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.360 wants to see that maturity level kind of step up 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.920 and see them kind of take hold of this opportunity, 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.239 especially on either Sunday Night football or the home stretch 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:23.720 as a whole. 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:25.520 Well, you decide how you wanted to play. Do you 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.520 wanted to play loose and free? I mean, let's be honest. 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.480 They're not in real contention for the number one overall 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.880 seed like they were two weeks ago when Cincinnati was here. 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:35.360 I mean, they could get there, but it's not the 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.560 most likely scenario. Or do you want them to play 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.920 desperate right like the Niners were on a three game 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.320 losing streak, you know, like the Browns were last week 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.680 where they played super hungry in front of their home 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.880 crowd because they understood that they were on the margins 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:52.400 of the playoffs, but they could find themselves behind the 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:57.000 eight ball in a very competitive AFC, you choose me myself. 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.360 I'd like to see them come out with a it's 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:04.120 so esoteric, John, but just a sense of desperation, like, Hey, look, 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.560 we haven't played our best football. We're on Sunday night 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.920 football in primetime, and we didn't play well last time. 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.880 So let's get out there and play good football against 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.360 the best team in the AFC. Let's be hungry to 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.720 show the rest of the country you know what we 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.320 are and not let them walk away thinking but we're not. 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:25.600 Yeah, the Jaguars in the last few weeks, and I 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:28.200 would include this week, are in one of those crisis 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.080 points of the season. And when I say crisis, I 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:34.840 probably mean defining more than that. They're beat up. They 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:38.760 are in first place, but they've lost a couple of games. 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.160 They haven't been blown out in they just haven't quite 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.720 gotten there. And there's plenty of reasons for it, the injuries, 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:49.679 Trevor's ankle's mistakes. At some point during those stretches, really 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.400 good teams get one and sort of rite the ship. 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.680 And I think that's what Doug would like to see 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.360 this week. Hey, it's tough. The NFL is not easy. 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:00.880 You're playing a first place schedule this year, which means 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.280 you're playing not teams like the Ravens and the Niners 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:06.400 and the Chiefs instead of the other teams. At some point, 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.280 go get one of those late in the season that 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.920 puts you over the top where you're not necessarily favored 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:15.240 in the game. And it takes what Brian's talking about. 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.840 It takes that desperation, that intensity, maybe making a play 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.880 you didn't expect somehow finding a way to use that cliche. 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:23.679 I think that's what Doug would like to see this week, 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:25.360 and that's what he's talking about with maturity. You know, 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:29.040 a mature team, a playoff team, figures out a way 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.600 to somehow get this one even when people don't expect it. 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.319 I think you're right, John, Definitely a sense of urgency 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:37.240 the team's gonna need going into this game against the Ravens. 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.320 All right, Stay with us here on jags Am as 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.040 we go around the locker room. Here what everybody else 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:50.360 has to say about the Ravens matchup. Welcome back to 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.120 jag Zam, presented by Field's Auto Group, Jacksonville. You can 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:57.760 step up to luxury at Fieldsauto dot Com. Welcome back. 0:09:57.760 --> 0:09:59.800 We're here in the Hyundai studios as we get ready 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:02.880 for Sunday Night Football two thousand and eight. 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.160 This last night, yeah, October fifth, two thousand and eight, 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.880 they played a game against the Steelers, and it was 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:12.200 John Madden's last Jaguars game, last game in Jacksonville. So 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:14.439 to be honest with you, I had to go back 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.880 and look it up. It wasn't the most memorable game, 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.199 although Rashee Mathis had it picked six early in the 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.400 game to give the Jaguars the leader for Ben Roethlisberger. 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.640 Rasheen who was a three time Pro Bowl corner, which 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.320 just always seemed to be the Steelers nemesis. 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.280 That guy that just always had Roethlisberger looking around and 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:31.600 where is he? Where is he? 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:33.480 But it was John Madden's last game, and I remember 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.920 having a conversation with him in the hallway about, you know, 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.520 the importance of this team starting to win because they 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:43.400 weren't much and knowing that Jacksonville really needed this team 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.760 to start to get some traction so that their future 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.600 would be secure, and he thought they would. So now 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:53.559 they are many many years I remember that conversation with him. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.000 Nice man, he was right, all right, cool, let's talk 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.080 a little bit about what's been going on in the 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:00.160 locker room. We got down there yesterday, talked to of 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.040 the guys about, you know, whether they're hitting the panic 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.520 button right now. Evan Ingram had a very strong response 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:05.800 to that. 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:07.840 Just diversity. 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:10.600 That's what life is about, that's what this league is about. 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.000 And obviously we got the great We got the guys 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.560 in here to figure it out and respond and turn 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.480 this thing around. And you know, it's cool. We're sitting 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:20.160 at eight and five and we know we could be better. 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.520 So we're definitely gonna go out and try to respond 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:23.200 and get back at. 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.840 The way Colin, for sure, the first part of that 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:27.280 one was hell, no, it's not time to pan. 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:28.600 No, No, he was fired up here. 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.680 Toady had another conversation with him for radio pregame and 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.680 he said, look, those are lights are damn bright, and 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.280 everybody needs to respond. You know, we were talking about urgency. 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:41.000 Choose your words, that's a desperation. But he said, everybody 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.160 needs to respond to the challenge that we have an 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.880 end to each his own was his specific phrase. Everybody's 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:51.440 going to come to the game prepared in their own way, 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.920 feeling their own way, desperate, hungry, loose, and relaxed. Whatever 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.600 he says isn't about one common theme and everybody's on 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.760 the same wavelength. Is about everybody responding to the challenge 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:03.920 that we face in their own way. 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:10.640 Yeah, it's the Jaguars have waited a long time to 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:14.480 be a contender, and contending in the NFL these days 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:18.200 is this. I mean last year was sort of unique 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:20.719 and that the Jaguars got on a roll and they 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:25.000 kind of came from nowhere and everything felt sort of inevitable, 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.200 Like when you look back on it, it felt inevitable they're 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.240 going to win those five games and get that's not 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:33.280 a story. But usually there are some teams like forty 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.120 nine ers this year that look like they're just the 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.959 team and they're sort of rolling. Well, that's a rare 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.960 thing to reach in the NFL. Usually you have some 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.040 adversity late in the season. It's a league of attrition. 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:46.400 You've got some injuries, you play well for a few weeks, 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:50.240 you sink back because everybody else is good. You're playing contenders, 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.680 and the league wants these last games to be competitive. 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:57.240 They try to schedule tough games. So this is sort 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.080 of what it is. And I think Evan's point is 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.400 look for about what happened last week, Go in this one, 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:04.480 figure out a way to win this one, get it, 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.480 and then figure out the next one. And it's hard 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.760 to sort of analyze that, but at some point you're 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:13.319 out there playing games and you're not necessarily worlds better 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.160 than the opponent. You just find a way to win 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:18.640 that week and you move on. And they answer Jaguars 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:20.800 task this, but they're not favored. I'm not sure they're 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:24.079 gonna win, but they're very capable of winning if they 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.000 play well. They just happened the last couple of weeks. 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.040 To your point, they are seeing the exact same thing 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:29.920 in Kansas City right now, where they've lost to in 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.199 a row, in Philadelphia where they've lost two in a row, 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:34.920 in Miami, and in Detroit. I mean, even the contenders, 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.720 those teams, if you follow such things as power rankings, 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.480 that have been in the top all year long, they're 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.760 all dealing with this too. And it was only late 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:46.800 October that the Niners were dealing with this. They lost 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.760 back to back games to backup quarterbacks. You're thinking, what's 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:51.760 the matter with them? And they got hot. 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.000 I got an angry email this week. I want this 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.800 team to be consistent, And I said, outside of San Francisco, 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.560 find me one. I mean, yes, it was an instance 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:03.880 right now, but everybody else in the league. Okay, Dallas too, 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.920 right now they're on a roll. But the Niners are 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:08.640 the team that are consistent in the AFC. 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:09.200 Nobody is. 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.320 You know, the Dolphins scored seventy points in September and 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.760 since then they have been up and down and up 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:15.000 and down. 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:15.200 It up. 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:16.559 Now, what do you think they're saying? It's out Florida 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.120 about consistency. Where's the team that scored seventy What do 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:20.040 you expect it every week? 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:20.640 Yes? 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:22.840 Right, yes, yes they do, Yes, they do. 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:25.600 Else we're in the locker room. Calvin Ridley kind of 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.200 haig in. We've been talking about the issues with the 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.440 route running and Trevor was talking about miscommunication as well, 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.640 and really kind of broke down what he saw on 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.840 that play, on one of the interceptions. 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.560 On that type of play, it's the ball can go 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:41.760 to me, can go to someone else, and it's a look. 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.200 You know, I thought I had a certain look and 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.200 I was trying to, you know, get my feet on, 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:48.760 get my get up on the dB and take them 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.600 a certain way. So we could get another person's pop open. 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.920 But it was a different look, and I didn't get 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.440 my head around faster, and the ball came out a little. 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.400 Faster than I thought. But if I would have, I 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:00.960 just need. 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:02.680 To be logged in in that moment more and just 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:04.880 see to look better and get my head around bass. 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:06.640 Then it had been a different type. 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:10.320 Of place, accoring towardly running the right route, not the 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:14.040 look he thought misidentified what the defense was doing, thought 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:17.720 it was going somewhere else happens if that's something they 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:19.760 need to get on the same page about obviously, to 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.520 kind of just always be prepared, especially I'm sure it's 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.960 being emphasized this week without Christian Girk out there, because 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.920 there's not always that guy that's gonna be the first option. 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:29.840 Maybe a lot of the time. You have to be 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:30.640 ready at all times. 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.640 Well, And another radio conversation I had there say it 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.800 was with wide receivers coach Chad Hole, and he talked 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.640 about about he used the word cohesion. He talked about 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:43.320 that unspoken communication between a quarterback and a wide receiver. 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.040 And then I was standing in the locker room yesterday 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.680 and noticing that Trevor's locker is here, and Calvin's locker 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.520 is here. I mean they have got to since the 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.960 start of the season. There's no accident that these two 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.320 guys are across from each other. They've been trying to 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:59.520 build that sense of unspoken timing. How long did it 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.240 take Peyton and Marvin Harrison to create that How long 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.360 did it take when Reggie Wayne came in to be 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.840 able to be that target that Peyton Manning was looking at. 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:10.640 I'm not trying to excuse the mistakes he made. I'm 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:14.800 saying this is part of the process of two guys 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:15.760 coming together. 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.840 Yeah, and it's rarely, especially with route running offense in 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.080 the NFL these days, it's rarely one thing this guy 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:26.000 did this poorly. It's usually over the course of a game. 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:26.760 More. 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:28.480 You a lot of read routes. You got a lot 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:32.720 of routes that playoff of Okay, that even's doing this. Now, 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.560 the quarterback sees this, the wide series sees this. I 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:40.040 keep going back to you know, yes, the communication has 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.720 been a bit clunky with Calvin at times with Trevor, 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.480 but everything was sort of going in a good direction 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:52.400 offensively until Trevor didn't practice last week. So I do 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:56.040 think that's sort of become a forgotten element of there 0:16:56.120 --> 0:17:00.040 was really no reps at all with these guys, and 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.560 up until he got hurt against Cincinnati the last couple 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.480 of games, I felt it was going smooth even without Christian. 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:08.680 Then all of a sudden, guess what, he doesn't practice 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:09.520 and it looks clunky. 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:11.000 Well, that's how it goes. 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:13.840 You know, that makes sense to me. I think it'll 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:16.399 be better this week. There's still gonna be some of 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.840 that because frankly, Calvin was out two years and this 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:23.080 is still a young offense trying to get these things 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:24.600 and you're gonna have this in the NFL sometimes. 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:24.920 Yeah. 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.640 And you know, the other thing Chad Hall said when 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:29.960 we had our conversation after practice es today was that 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.960 the coach, the head coach, had personally challenged all of 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:37.119 the coaches to make fixes right, to look differently at it, 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.159 and in fact, Doug said it in his news conference 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:41.359 on both Monday and Wednesday, and that was the first 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.560 thing that Chad went to. So it's not just the 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:46.239 players who are trying to communicate, it's the coaches who 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.600 are working it as well. They were attacking this problem right, 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.360 this issue from last week at every angle. 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:55.080 And Calvin said something that I thought was interesting. Yes 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:58.160 today too. It was sort of after one of the questions, 0:17:58.200 --> 0:17:59.600 he goes, I just kind of wish the guy had 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:01.840 dropped the while we had another chance. And there is 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.680 an element of that. We're focused on that one play 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:07.520 because the Brown's got an interception off of it. Every 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:12.359 team in the league has miscommunications at times between receivers 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:15.640 and quarterbacks. That one really bit the Jags. So we're 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:17.639 talking about it a lot, and there was some It 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:22.560 showed up big time on Sunday. It really hurt them. 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:24.639 It doesn't always hurt you that much. A lot of 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.439