Speaker 1: The Jaguars prepared to take on the top team in
Speaker 1: the AFC. Who's gonna need to have a big game
Speaker 1: on Sunday if they want to take down the Ravens.
Speaker 2: Devin Lloyd, He's going to have to be able to
Speaker 2: get out to the flat because Lamar Jackson loves to
Speaker 2: throw those short little passes to say Flowers and he
Speaker 2: gets open easily. And he's also gonna have to know
Speaker 2: where Lamar Jackson is because if you lose sight of him,
Speaker 2: you're in trouble.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say, Calvin Ridley, you need a big play
Speaker 3: from You need big plays from above the exits and
Speaker 3: ose players in big games.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Jags Am presented by Field's Auto Group. I'm
Speaker 1: Kenannie Stevens, Brian's exton John Osier, are with me today
Speaker 1: as we get prepared for Sunday night football against the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. Now Last week, the team went up against
Speaker 1: one of the best defenses in the league, probably number
Speaker 1: one and one A and one B. So big thing
Speaker 1: number one this week is going to be one A
Speaker 1: in one day because one BA would be the Ravens,
Speaker 1: who are the second best technically but one of the
Speaker 1: top defenses in the league, and they're going to be
Speaker 1: a tough test for the Jaguars on Sunday night.
Speaker 4: I mean, they just have a great defense all the
Speaker 4: way around, not even not even just pass rush, you know,
Speaker 4: on the back end, they're linebackers. I mean, they have
Speaker 4: some of the best linebackers in football. You know, Kyle
Speaker 4: Hamilton too is another guy who played in college and
Speaker 4: I think he might have been hurt last year when
Speaker 4: we played him. But that's a guy I'm somewhat familiar with.
Speaker 4: He's a great player. So yeah, they got They just
Speaker 4: have the really talented defense. But they're also really smart.
Speaker 4: You know, they do a great job and playing you know,
Speaker 4: sound and really on the same page. Everyone knows their
Speaker 4: assignment and knows what they're doing. They play really fast.
Speaker 4: I think that's the biggest thing is they know what
Speaker 4: they're doing and they play fast and they're physical.
Speaker 1: Brian and the Jags were able to score pretty readily
Speaker 1: against the Browns and didn't win the game. But does
Speaker 1: that mean that translates over to Baltimore is a completely
Speaker 1: different situation.
Speaker 2: I mean, they're different styles of defense. Here's what you
Speaker 2: know about the Ravens. The Ravens leave the league with
Speaker 2: forty nine sacks and their win percentage because they've got
Speaker 2: guys with eleven, seven and a half and six sacks,
Speaker 2: so the win percentage is about ten percent of the
Speaker 2: time they're affecting the quarterback, it's going to create problems.
Speaker 2: But if you protect decent enough right depending on who's
Speaker 2: on the left side of the line, you give yourself
Speaker 2: a chance to be able to score against the Ravens.
Speaker 2: It's not like people don't score against these teams. It's
Speaker 2: not like the great Ravens teams of the early two
Speaker 2: thousands where you were lucky. Can remember one game where
Speaker 2: the Jaguars got five field goals where you were lucky
Speaker 2: to score at all. They could score, but they've got
Speaker 2: to protect first.
Speaker 3: Yeah, protection's key. I think it's particularly key because it's
Speaker 3: hard to imagine the running game with Travis Dtn, with
Speaker 3: the interior the offensive line struggling in that area, it's
Speaker 3: hard to imagine the running game piling up one hundred
Speaker 3: and twenty one hundred and thirty ball control yards. I
Speaker 3: think the running game can get some big plays, some
Speaker 3: pops and make them The Ravens respected to do it help,
Speaker 3: but barring that you have to protect because there's gonna
Speaker 3: be passing situations where they have to convert big third
Speaker 3: downs to me third downs and big plays the way
Speaker 3: you beat the Ravens because they're gonna get to you
Speaker 3: a couple of times on their defense.
Speaker 2: And I'll say this, John, You know, last week the
Speaker 2: Jaguars had Blake Hans and Tyler Shatley on the left
Speaker 2: side of their line, and they were facing the best
Speaker 2: defensive pass rusher in football and a really good defensive front,
Speaker 2: and they were all right, you know, they had twenty
Speaker 2: seven points and they were, you know, within shouting distance
Speaker 2: at the end of the game. So you'd like to
Speaker 2: think that if Walker Little can play and he's practicing
Speaker 2: a bit this week, and if Ezra Cleveland can get
Speaker 2: out of the field and he's practicing a little bit
Speaker 2: this week, that you give yourself a fighting chance at home.
Speaker 1: Our second big thing this week, Eric today is to
Speaker 1: say there's gonna be MVP again because on the other
Speaker 1: side of the ball, the Ravens have one of the
Speaker 1: best quarterbacks in the league, Lamar Jackson, impressive and a
Speaker 1: comeback win last week. And you will also be a
Speaker 1: tough matchup for the Jaguars defense.
Speaker 5: Great football player, great quarterback.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: One of the things he's doing, you know, this year,
Speaker 5: I think, which was a point of MPs for them,
Speaker 5: obviously throwing the ball a little bit more from the pocket.
Speaker 5: And he's done a nice job for that, you know,
Speaker 5: And it takes all eleven on defense. You just can't,
Speaker 5: you know, you can't let your guard down with him obviously,
Speaker 5: not only in the run game, but the pass game
Speaker 5: as well. When you get an opportunity to tackle him,
Speaker 5: you got to tackle him.
Speaker 3: John.
Speaker 1: We all know Lamar Jackson can run, but he's really
Speaker 1: been staying in the pocket and throwing, especially now that
Speaker 1: he's got wide receivers A Flowers, the rookie and also
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham junior. It's impressive to see what he's been
Speaker 1: able to do with his game now a couple of
Speaker 1: years in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he has, he's much better there than he has been.
Speaker 3: To me, what still makes him meget dangerous is that
Speaker 3: he can get that in the passing game, but then
Speaker 3: he can also kill you getting outside the pocket. And
Speaker 3: I think where the Jaguars have a chance to stay
Speaker 3: even against the Ravens. Look, the Ravens are one of
Speaker 3: the best teams in the NFL. You're probably not gonna
Speaker 3: shut them down and blow them out, but what gives
Speaker 3: you a chance to maintain With the Ravens. Same thing
Speaker 3: as last year with Lamar. The Jaguars defense is much
Speaker 3: better than it was two or three years ago, with
Speaker 3: mobile quarterbacks, keeping them in the pocket, not letting those
Speaker 3: guys just kill you. Play after scramble after scramble. I
Speaker 3: think the Jaguars, because of Josh Allen Trayvon, the linebackers
Speaker 3: are very good. They can contain Lamar. They cannot let
Speaker 3: him have the seventy yard run or the or the
Speaker 3: multiple fifteen yard runs that just make it drive. I
Speaker 3: think they match up okay there and Brian. That's gonna
Speaker 3: give them a chance to hold serviance them, maintain and
Speaker 3: not let that factor win the game. The Ravens defense
Speaker 3: hears me as much as that. Yeah, the Ravens defense
Speaker 3: is really good. Look, the Jaguars defense has to play
Speaker 3: smart football. They have not gotten home in the last
Speaker 3: two weeks.
Speaker 6: A little bit of.
Speaker 2: Pressure on Browning, But was he thirty two or thirty
Speaker 2: seven two weeks ago on the Monday Night football and
Speaker 2: then you got this guy here who he's not looking
Speaker 2: to run. As you mentioned guy Todd Munkins offense gives
Speaker 2: him more options if he stays in the pocket, and
Speaker 2: you've seen him grow throughout the course of the year.
Speaker 2: But you know, if your run past him, and we've
Speaker 2: seen that from this Jaguars defense, a guy gets out
Speaker 2: of his gap, runs too far, you know this guy's
Speaker 2: going to go for twenty five yards and put himself
Speaker 2: in scoring position like that. This is about playing smart.
Speaker 2: And I don't think the Jaguars defense has had too
Speaker 2: many bad games this year, but the last two weeks
Speaker 2: have not been their best.
Speaker 1: All Right, our final big thing today is going to
Speaker 1: be growing up. Obviously, the Jaguars went on a great
Speaker 1: run at the end of last season to a little
Speaker 1: bit unexpectedly make the playoffs. This year, they're achieving at
Speaker 1: a pace we probably predicted. But now they're on a
Speaker 1: two game losing streak, and Doug Peterson says that they
Speaker 1: can't really use that youth fixed these anymore.
Speaker 5: Everybody's played rookies are no longer rookies. Is week fifteen.
Speaker 5: You know, I can't I can't hide behind that anymore.
Speaker 5: You know, I can't use that as an excuse anymore.
Speaker 5: You know, every team's in Week fifteen, there's no more buys,
Speaker 5: every rookie's played. I mean, it's it's it's just everybody
Speaker 5: has to focus that much greater, Brian.
Speaker 1: This is a young team, but they're not inexperienced at
Speaker 1: this point. I think this is a point where Doug
Speaker 1: wants to see that maturity level kind of step up
Speaker 1: and see them kind of take hold of this opportunity,
Speaker 1: especially on either Sunday Night football or the home stretch
Speaker 1: as a whole.
Speaker 2: Well, you decide how you wanted to play. Do you
Speaker 2: wanted to play loose and free? I mean, let's be honest.
Speaker 2: They're not in real contention for the number one overall
Speaker 2: seed like they were two weeks ago when Cincinnati was here.
Speaker 2: I mean, they could get there, but it's not the
Speaker 2: most likely scenario. Or do you want them to play
Speaker 2: desperate right like the Niners were on a three game
Speaker 2: losing streak, you know, like the Browns were last week
Speaker 2: where they played super hungry in front of their home
Speaker 2: crowd because they understood that they were on the margins
Speaker 2: of the playoffs, but they could find themselves behind the
Speaker 2: eight ball in a very competitive AFC, you choose me myself.
Speaker 2: I'd like to see them come out with a it's
Speaker 2: so esoteric, John, but just a sense of desperation, like, Hey, look,
Speaker 2: we haven't played our best football. We're on Sunday night
Speaker 2: football in primetime, and we didn't play well last time.
Speaker 2: So let's get out there and play good football against
Speaker 2: the best team in the AFC. Let's be hungry to
Speaker 2: show the rest of the country you know what we
Speaker 2: are and not let them walk away thinking but we're not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Jaguars in the last few weeks, and I
Speaker 3: would include this week, are in one of those crisis
Speaker 3: points of the season. And when I say crisis, I
Speaker 3: probably mean defining more than that. They're beat up. They
Speaker 3: are in first place, but they've lost a couple of games.
Speaker 3: They haven't been blown out in they just haven't quite
Speaker 3: gotten there. And there's plenty of reasons for it, the injuries,
Speaker 3: Trevor's ankle's mistakes. At some point during those stretches, really
Speaker 3: good teams get one and sort of rite the ship.
Speaker 3: And I think that's what Doug would like to see
Speaker 3: this week. Hey, it's tough. The NFL is not easy.
Speaker 3: You're playing a first place schedule this year, which means
Speaker 3: you're playing not teams like the Ravens and the Niners
Speaker 3: and the Chiefs instead of the other teams. At some point,
Speaker 3: go get one of those late in the season that
Speaker 3: puts you over the top where you're not necessarily favored
Speaker 3: in the game. And it takes what Brian's talking about.
Speaker 3: It takes that desperation, that intensity, maybe making a play
Speaker 3: you didn't expect somehow finding a way to use that cliche.
Speaker 3: I think that's what Doug would like to see this week,
Speaker 3: and that's what he's talking about with maturity. You know,
Speaker 3: a mature team, a playoff team, figures out a way
Speaker 3: to somehow get this one even when people don't expect it.
Speaker 1: I think you're right, John, Definitely a sense of urgency
Speaker 1: the team's gonna need going into this game against the Ravens.
Speaker 1: All right, Stay with us here on jags Am as
Speaker 1: we go around the locker room. Here what everybody else
Speaker 1: has to say about the Ravens matchup. Welcome back to
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Speaker 1: for Sunday Night Football two thousand and eight.
Speaker 2: This last night, yeah, October fifth, two thousand and eight,
Speaker 2: they played a game against the Steelers, and it was
Speaker 2: John Madden's last Jaguars game, last game in Jacksonville. So
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, I had to go back
Speaker 2: and look it up. It wasn't the most memorable game,
Speaker 2: although Rashee Mathis had it picked six early in the
Speaker 2: game to give the Jaguars the leader for Ben Roethlisberger.
Speaker 2: Rasheen who was a three time Pro Bowl corner, which
Speaker 2: just always seemed to be the Steelers nemesis.
Speaker 6: That guy that just always had Roethlisberger looking around and
Speaker 6: where is he? Where is he?
Speaker 2: But it was John Madden's last game, and I remember
Speaker 2: having a conversation with him in the hallway about, you know,
Speaker 2: the importance of this team starting to win because they
Speaker 2: weren't much and knowing that Jacksonville really needed this team
Speaker 2: to start to get some traction so that their future
Speaker 2: would be secure, and he thought they would. So now
Speaker 2: they are many many years I remember that conversation with him.
Speaker 1: Nice man, he was right, all right, cool, let's talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about what's been going on in the
Speaker 1: locker room. We got down there yesterday, talked to of
Speaker 1: the guys about, you know, whether they're hitting the panic
Speaker 1: button right now. Evan Ingram had a very strong response
Speaker 1: to that.
Speaker 6: Just diversity.
Speaker 7: That's what life is about, that's what this league is about.
Speaker 7: And obviously we got the great We got the guys
Speaker 7: in here to figure it out and respond and turn
Speaker 7: this thing around. And you know, it's cool. We're sitting
Speaker 7: at eight and five and we know we could be better.
Speaker 7: So we're definitely gonna go out and try to respond
Speaker 7: and get back at.
Speaker 1: The way Colin, for sure, the first part of that
Speaker 1: one was hell, no, it's not time to pan.
Speaker 6: No, No, he was fired up here.
Speaker 2: Toady had another conversation with him for radio pregame and
Speaker 2: he said, look, those are lights are damn bright, and
Speaker 2: everybody needs to respond. You know, we were talking about urgency.
Speaker 2: Choose your words, that's a desperation. But he said, everybody
Speaker 2: needs to respond to the challenge that we have an
Speaker 2: end to each his own was his specific phrase. Everybody's
Speaker 2: going to come to the game prepared in their own way,
Speaker 2: feeling their own way, desperate, hungry, loose, and relaxed. Whatever
Speaker 2: he says isn't about one common theme and everybody's on
Speaker 2: the same wavelength. Is about everybody responding to the challenge
Speaker 2: that we face in their own way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the Jaguars have waited a long time to
Speaker 3: be a contender, and contending in the NFL these days
Speaker 3: is this. I mean last year was sort of unique
Speaker 3: and that the Jaguars got on a roll and they
Speaker 3: kind of came from nowhere and everything felt sort of inevitable,
Speaker 3: Like when you look back on it, it felt inevitable they're
Speaker 3: going to win those five games and get that's not
Speaker 3: a story. But usually there are some teams like forty
Speaker 3: nine ers this year that look like they're just the
Speaker 3: team and they're sort of rolling. Well, that's a rare
Speaker 3: thing to reach in the NFL. Usually you have some
Speaker 3: adversity late in the season. It's a league of attrition.
Speaker 3: You've got some injuries, you play well for a few weeks,
Speaker 3: you sink back because everybody else is good. You're playing contenders,
Speaker 3: and the league wants these last games to be competitive.
Speaker 3: They try to schedule tough games. So this is sort
Speaker 3: of what it is. And I think Evan's point is
Speaker 3: look for about what happened last week, Go in this one,
Speaker 3: figure out a way to win this one, get it,
Speaker 3: and then figure out the next one. And it's hard
Speaker 3: to sort of analyze that, but at some point you're
Speaker 3: out there playing games and you're not necessarily worlds better
Speaker 3: than the opponent. You just find a way to win
Speaker 3: that week and you move on. And they answer Jaguars
Speaker 3: task this, but they're not favored. I'm not sure they're
Speaker 3: gonna win, but they're very capable of winning if they
Speaker 3: play well. They just happened the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: To your point, they are seeing the exact same thing
Speaker 2: in Kansas City right now, where they've lost to in
Speaker 2: a row, in Philadelphia where they've lost two in a row,
Speaker 2: in Miami, and in Detroit. I mean, even the contenders,
Speaker 2: those teams, if you follow such things as power rankings,
Speaker 2: that have been in the top all year long, they're
Speaker 2: all dealing with this too. And it was only late
Speaker 2: October that the Niners were dealing with this. They lost
Speaker 2: back to back games to backup quarterbacks. You're thinking, what's
Speaker 2: the matter with them? And they got hot.
Speaker 3: I got an angry email this week. I want this
Speaker 3: team to be consistent, And I said, outside of San Francisco,
Speaker 3: find me one. I mean, yes, it was an instance
Speaker 3: right now, but everybody else in the league. Okay, Dallas too,
Speaker 3: right now they're on a roll. But the Niners are
Speaker 3: the team that are consistent in the AFC.
Speaker 6: Nobody is.
Speaker 2: You know, the Dolphins scored seventy points in September and
Speaker 2: since then they have been up and down and up
Speaker 2: and down.
Speaker 1: It up.
Speaker 2: Now, what do you think they're saying? It's out Florida
Speaker 2: about consistency. Where's the team that scored seventy What do
Speaker 2: you expect it every week?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 3: Right, yes, yes they do, Yes, they do.
Speaker 1: Else we're in the locker room. Calvin Ridley kind of
Speaker 1: haig in. We've been talking about the issues with the
Speaker 1: route running and Trevor was talking about miscommunication as well,
Speaker 1: and really kind of broke down what he saw on
Speaker 1: that play, on one of the interceptions.
Speaker 8: On that type of play, it's the ball can go
Speaker 8: to me, can go to someone else, and it's a look.
Speaker 8: You know, I thought I had a certain look and
Speaker 8: I was trying to, you know, get my feet on,
Speaker 8: get my get up on the dB and take them
Speaker 8: a certain way. So we could get another person's pop open.
Speaker 8: But it was a different look, and I didn't get
Speaker 8: my head around faster, and the ball came out a little.
Speaker 3: Faster than I thought. But if I would have, I
Speaker 3: just need.
Speaker 8: To be logged in in that moment more and just
Speaker 8: see to look better and get my head around bass.
Speaker 6: Then it had been a different type.
Speaker 1: Of place, accoring towardly running the right route, not the
Speaker 1: look he thought misidentified what the defense was doing, thought
Speaker 1: it was going somewhere else happens if that's something they
Speaker 1: need to get on the same page about obviously, to
Speaker 1: kind of just always be prepared, especially I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: being emphasized this week without Christian Girk out there, because
Speaker 1: there's not always that guy that's gonna be the first option.
Speaker 1: Maybe a lot of the time. You have to be
Speaker 1: ready at all times.
Speaker 2: Well, And another radio conversation I had there say it
Speaker 2: was with wide receivers coach Chad Hole, and he talked
Speaker 2: about about he used the word cohesion. He talked about
Speaker 2: that unspoken communication between a quarterback and a wide receiver.
Speaker 2: And then I was standing in the locker room yesterday
Speaker 2: and noticing that Trevor's locker is here, and Calvin's locker
Speaker 2: is here. I mean they have got to since the
Speaker 2: start of the season. There's no accident that these two
Speaker 2: guys are across from each other. They've been trying to
Speaker 2: build that sense of unspoken timing. How long did it
Speaker 2: take Peyton and Marvin Harrison to create that How long
Speaker 2: did it take when Reggie Wayne came in to be
Speaker 2: able to be that target that Peyton Manning was looking at.
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to excuse the mistakes he made. I'm
Speaker 2: saying this is part of the process of two guys
Speaker 2: coming together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's rarely, especially with route running offense in
Speaker 3: the NFL these days, it's rarely one thing this guy
Speaker 3: did this poorly. It's usually over the course of a game.
Speaker 8: More.
Speaker 3: You a lot of read routes. You got a lot
Speaker 3: of routes that playoff of Okay, that even's doing this. Now,
Speaker 3: the quarterback sees this, the wide series sees this. I
Speaker 3: keep going back to you know, yes, the communication has
Speaker 3: been a bit clunky with Calvin at times with Trevor,
Speaker 3: but everything was sort of going in a good direction
Speaker 3: offensively until Trevor didn't practice last week. So I do
Speaker 3: think that's sort of become a forgotten element of there
Speaker 3: was really no reps at all with these guys, and
Speaker 3: up until he got hurt against Cincinnati the last couple
Speaker 3: of games, I felt it was going smooth even without Christian.
Speaker 3: Then all of a sudden, guess what, he doesn't practice
Speaker 3: and it looks clunky.
Speaker 6: Well, that's how it goes.
Speaker 3: You know, that makes sense to me. I think it'll
Speaker 3: be better this week. There's still gonna be some of
Speaker 3: that because frankly, Calvin was out two years and this
Speaker 3: is still a young offense trying to get these things
Speaker 3: and you're gonna have this in the NFL sometimes.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And you know, the other thing Chad Hall said when
Speaker 2: we had our conversation after practice es today was that
Speaker 2: the coach, the head coach, had personally challenged all of
Speaker 2: the coaches to make fixes right, to look differently at it,
Speaker 2: and in fact, Doug said it in his news conference
Speaker 2: on both Monday and Wednesday, and that was the first
Speaker 2: thing that Chad went to. So it's not just the
Speaker 2: players who are trying to communicate, it's the coaches who
Speaker 2: are working it as well. They were attacking this problem right,
Speaker 2: this issue from last week at every angle.
Speaker 3: And Calvin said something that I thought was interesting. Yes
Speaker 3: today too. It was sort of after one of the questions,
Speaker 3: he goes, I just kind of wish the guy had
Speaker 3: dropped the while we had another chance. And there is
Speaker 3: an element of that. We're focused on that one play
Speaker 3: because the Brown's got an interception off of it. Every
Speaker 3: team in the league has miscommunications at times between receivers
Speaker 3: and quarterbacks. That one really bit the Jags. So we're
Speaker 3: talking about it a lot, and there was some It
Speaker 3: showed up big time on Sunday. It really hurt them.
Speaker 3: It doesn't always hurt you that much. A lot of
Speaker 3: teams weren't hurt by it, so I think this is
Speaker 3: this week's topic. I don't know that miscommunication with receivers
Speaker 3: has been a season long thing that's defined it, but
Speaker 3: they got to get it fixed now.
Speaker 1: I think it's interesting that you're talking about Doug Peterson
Speaker 1: telling coaching staff to try something new, cause a lot
Speaker 1: of what we talked about is we're making mistakes the
Speaker 1: game plan to sound the plans or what they are.
Speaker 1: It's just the player's execution or making self inflicted wounds.
Speaker 1: But it is a nice change, I'll say, to see
Speaker 1: a little bit of Hey, we need to do a
Speaker 1: couple things differently. What we're doing is not even if
Speaker 1: we do it to perfection, is not perfect, and we
Speaker 1: need to kind of adapt and move forward. So that's
Speaker 1: some growth there that's good to see as well. One
Speaker 1: of the people that is stepping up in the absence
Speaker 1: of Christian Kirk has been Evan Ingram. He's been letting
Speaker 1: in the world on fire. His first touchdown of the
Speaker 1: year on Monday Night Football and then of course got
Speaker 1: a couple of touchdowns against the Browns as well, and
Speaker 1: he says this Ravens defense is gonna be a tough
Speaker 1: magic as well.
Speaker 7: They played with a lot of swagger. Uh they they
Speaker 7: played really tough. They push pushed people around, and uh
Speaker 7: they're playing really well. It's part of the you know,
Speaker 7: they have a good, great offense and a great defense. So, uh,
Speaker 7: they it's gonna be a challenge. They're gonna be in
Speaker 7: our house. They came here last year and uh, they're
Speaker 7: probably trying to respond to how the game ended last year.
Speaker 7: So we're gonna get their best punch, but we got
Speaker 7: the guys to go do it, for sure, John.
Speaker 1: I have to imagine Evan's gonna be targeted quite a.
Speaker 3: Bit for some good looking media around here and focusing
Speaker 3: yeah it. To me, Evan has in this offense even
Speaker 3: when the running game's going well. The passing game is
Speaker 3: part of the running game in the West Coast offense
Speaker 3: that hasn't been as effective with receivers necessarily this year.
Speaker 3: But to me, a lot of Evans production is making
Speaker 3: up for the lack of a running game a little
Speaker 3: bit because Trevor really relies on it. When they're in
Speaker 3: second and nine, it's going to Evan a lot getting
Speaker 3: to third and two, getting the third and manageable. That
Speaker 3: isn't I mean, Evan's not effective. I think it makes
Speaker 3: them very important in this right now because you need
Speaker 3: that tight end. He's on pace, I think, to catch
Speaker 3: more passes than anybody except Jimmy in nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 3: He's probably gonna reach that number because they're using him
Speaker 3: that way. The most impressive thing about Evan the last
Speaker 3: couple weeks, all of a sudden, the red zone production's there.
Speaker 3: It really hadn't been. I don't think he's ever going
Speaker 3: to be a thirty five yard per catch guy like that,
Speaker 3: but if he can keep giving you that in the
Speaker 3: red zone. That's an element that they lacked for twelve
Speaker 3: games or for eleven games. If that's there and they
Speaker 3: start putting it together, that's really big Intocember Bryant.
Speaker 2: If you were the Ravens, you take him away right,
Speaker 2: try to Yeah, I mean, that's where you send Kyle Hamilton,
Speaker 2: who was limiting a practice.
Speaker 6: He's got the knee from last week.
Speaker 2: That's where Rokwan Smith, who was an excellent linebacker, that's
Speaker 2: where you'd put him. So to me, you said he'll
Speaker 2: be targeted a lot. They'll try. This is where Parker
Speaker 2: Washington and Jay Jones and Tim Jones or Elijah Cooks
Speaker 2: or whenever the ball comes your way it may only
Speaker 2: be twice, then you got to make a catch, especially
Speaker 2: if it's on third down. You've got to pull this
Speaker 2: one in. This is gonna be a game where Evan's
Speaker 2: gonna get someplace. He's gonna make some place. He's really
Speaker 2: a tough matchup, but this Ravens defense is excellent. It's
Speaker 2: gonna come down to another guy making a clutch catch
Speaker 2: in a key moment.
Speaker 1: Should be all right coming up after the break here
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Speaker 4: Definitely. I mean, we got we got four four games left,
Speaker 4: you know, we're we're we're in a fine position, you
Speaker 4: know where we're at record wise. We we got to
Speaker 4: take care of business this week and and moving forward,
Speaker 4: but we got to take it one week at a
Speaker 4: time and need to get back on track this week
Speaker 4: for sure. But yeah, there's still plenty of time. You know,
Speaker 4: you look at where we're at. If we could have
Speaker 4: been in this position last year, we would have we
Speaker 4: would have given a lot to be here. So you know,
Speaker 4: there's no panic, but there is sense urgency where this
Speaker 4: time of year, December going into January, you got to
Speaker 4: be playing your best football and we're not there yet.
Speaker 6: So we got some work to do.
Speaker 1: Still plenty of time to get things figured out. And
Speaker 1: it is a good point. This was very different than
Speaker 1: this time last year and you wheeled off all those
Speaker 1: wins in a row, and that was wonderful. But now
Speaker 1: that you're in you know, you build up this kind
Speaker 1: of lead, so if something like this happens, it doesn't
Speaker 1: break your season.
Speaker 2: Well, and John talked about it, managing attrition, managing the injuries.
Speaker 2: And you've got guys now who you are either getting
Speaker 2: back or who have been back for a week or
Speaker 2: two and you hope get closer to being one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: Can I just go ahead with my He will?
Speaker 6: He won't? He mind, because my guy's one of those
Speaker 6: guys in that state. Jones.
Speaker 2: You know, he's been playing with a knee since week
Speaker 2: two and he missed a good portion of the season.
Speaker 6: Then he comes back and he's playing with a brace,
Speaker 6: which he had never played with before, he told me
Speaker 6: not long ago.
Speaker 2: But he's finally feeling like he's getting back to one
Speaker 2: hundred percent. And he's a guy who loves to play
Speaker 2: in prime time and saves, he said, a little bit
Speaker 2: of energy right for these kinds of games. So I
Speaker 2: expect that he will come out and he will be
Speaker 2: the go to guy. He will be that guy who
Speaker 2: has ten targets, nine catches, you know, eighty nine yards
Speaker 2: and two touchdowns, and remember he was the guy that
Speaker 2: caught the two point conversion lines last year that beat
Speaker 2: the race.
Speaker 6: So he'll be that guy. I don't know that he's
Speaker 6: going to be that breakaway guy that he's been, right.
Speaker 6: I mean, he's the big speed guy, down the field guy.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure he's ready, you know, from a knee perspective,
Speaker 2: to be able to get down the field like that.
Speaker 2: But I do believe that he might be the difference
Speaker 2: maker in this game and catch the game winning touchdown
Speaker 2: pass because we have forgotten with Christian and with Evan
Speaker 2: and with Zay's injury that last year he was a
Speaker 2: go to guy and having him back on the field,
Speaker 2: even with Christian's absence, makes a world of difference for
Speaker 2: the quarterback. It's another guy that he knows will be
Speaker 2: where he's supposed to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when he's right, he really matters.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wonder how much that knee injury is him, because
Speaker 1: it's some things he's just to step off and I
Speaker 1: feel like if he was fully healthy, it would be.
Speaker 2: He's getting there, he says, But it's that again, it's
Speaker 2: one of the stories where you hope that some of
Speaker 2: these guys who are back and playing through injury all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, get a little healthier, get a little stronger,
Speaker 2: and feel more like themselves.
Speaker 3: And it's tough because he hasn't been bad. I remember
Speaker 3: there was a big play down the sideline. He made
Speaker 3: a great catch Agains Houston. There's been a couple where
Speaker 3: it's been there, he's flashed open, and sometimes this league
Speaker 3: is sort of circumstances. The guy makes a great play
Speaker 3: on you, but they definitely need his They need defenses
Speaker 3: to respect him bare minimum to open everything else up.
Speaker 3: I went with Josh Allen he will play well, because
Speaker 3: when hasn't he played well this year? I think that's
Speaker 3: probably the most telling thing about Josh. Even beyond in
Speaker 3: games where he comes off the fields as I could
Speaker 3: have done more, he's still playing well. He's been I
Speaker 3: think their most consistent player all year. I'm not sure
Speaker 3: who else I would put in that category. He won't
Speaker 3: He won't disappear in this game. He won't. This is
Speaker 3: never too much for him, and he won't quit. I
Speaker 3: think the biggest thing he knows with Josh, even in
Speaker 3: the games where he doesn't get a sad, he's pressuring.
Speaker 3: Last week he was close you don't always get home
Speaker 3: when you're a SAT guy. I thought he's still mattered,
Speaker 3: and then I think that's why you need to sign
Speaker 3: him and keep him around, because even I've said a
Speaker 3: million times, even when he doesn't quote play well, he
Speaker 3: plays well.
Speaker 5: He might.
Speaker 3: He had the moment against Cincinnati and then they didn't
Speaker 3: win the game. He might make a play Sunday where
Speaker 3: he's the one talking to Melissa Stark after the aim,
Speaker 3: or you know, he might solidify himself on Sunday primetime
Speaker 3: audience as not only a pro bowler, but a guy
Speaker 3: everybody around the country says, Oh, he's good.
Speaker 6: That's why the Jaguars are good.
Speaker 3: This might be his night.
Speaker 1: This one becomes the Josh Allen instead of Jaguars Josha.
Speaker 3: This is a chance seat of bills Josh. Well, he
Speaker 3: was that on one glorious day in a weird season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta take him next week if he doesn't
Speaker 2: get a sack record, because it's coming.
Speaker 1: I think it's coming. I think it's gonna Sunday Night Football.
Speaker 3: It wouldn't be cool for him. And if he got
Speaker 3: that on Sunday Night Football in a win, the whole
Speaker 3: story and he's the kind of player some guys get
Speaker 3: in the situation and they willt he's the kind of
Speaker 3: player who rises to it. I hope, so I hope
Speaker 3: we're right.
Speaker 1: I went with Hoya Lewisan from My Hero who wins
Speaker 1: Tonight because he will need to be the catalyst if
Speaker 1: they're gonna fix this communication on defense. We've talked about
Speaker 1: this for a couple of weeks now, how about things
Speaker 1: have not been going away. They want to whether it's
Speaker 1: the secondary or just not you know, reading things correctly,
Speaker 1: it's buying on the run, whatever it may be. He's
Speaker 1: kind of the captain out there, and he's gonna need
Speaker 1: to be, you know, the sounding piece between the defensive
Speaker 1: backs and the pass rush, especially now with so many
Speaker 1: players that are backup playing in the secondary. He won't
Speaker 1: have the luxury of not having a good tackling game
Speaker 1: like he did on Monday Night Football, because with Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson's much of it is you know, keeping him in
Speaker 1: the pocket and tackling him if he does go out
Speaker 1: of the pocket. So with that, I think he might
Speaker 1: have the ability to maybe force some turnovers because as
Speaker 1: we know, Lamar does like to get out of the pocket,
Speaker 1: run a little bit when he has that opportunity, and
Speaker 1: of course Foil hopefully be there to make the tackle.
Speaker 2: He's played at such a high level this season. The
Speaker 2: last two weeks have not been up to that standard
Speaker 2: that he sets for himself. I saw an overrun plays
Speaker 2: which he never does against the Bengals, and last week
Speaker 2: he had a communication issue with Devin Lloyd.
Speaker 6: You just don't expect that.
Speaker 2: So he's one of those guys that I expect to
Speaker 2: come out and play well because that's who he is,
Speaker 2: that's what he does. Johnny had a big game against
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson last year. He had a bunch of tackles.
Speaker 2: I think that was his eighteen tackle game.
Speaker 3: It was, And he's key against this team because they
Speaker 3: want to run. Lamar is so key. If the linebackers
Speaker 3: don't play well, meaning make tackles two yards off line
Speaker 3: of scrimmage and not five, then they'll win this game.
Speaker 3: And he gets the Ravens. Your linebackers have to play well.
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Speaker 8: Let's all do oh, let me play, Let me play,
Speaker 8: let me play.
Speaker 1: They're down in four B God intercept it.
Speaker 2: He put it right in the chest of Darius Williams.
Speaker 2: The Jaguars defense needed that.
Speaker 9: Not a boy just became a little bit of a
Speaker 9: smash up derby out there and the receiver can't get there,
Speaker 9: and Darius Williams fills the void and happily takes it away.
Speaker 9: How was you?
Speaker 5: You help him?
Speaker 1: Darius Williams miked up last week and he doesn't always
Speaker 1: talk a lot, but on the field was pretty musing.
Speaker 1: I will say it was one of my more interesting
Speaker 1: mikes ups.
Speaker 6: That he should talk more. He's having a hell of
Speaker 6: a season.
Speaker 2: Seventeen passes, defense, near the top of the league, four interceptions.
Speaker 2: I didn't expect that kind of a performance from him
Speaker 2: this year. I expect him to be steady. I didn't
Speaker 2: expect him to be, you know, the best cover corner
Speaker 2: out there. Of course, Tyson Campbell has been injured for
Speaker 2: so long, but he's really been nice.
Speaker 3: No. I've said before I had egg on my face
Speaker 3: with this, and I thought he'd be a weakness. I mean,
Speaker 3: he was not great playing the nickel last year early
Speaker 3: and he played well after that. I sort of ignored that.
Speaker 3: This year he's been. I mean he's been their best corner.
Speaker 3: Tyson had mental field, so credit to him and Pride
Speaker 3: of Creek Side High. Yeah, he was on the ozone
Speaker 3: podcast earlier four or five weeks ago. He doesn't love
Speaker 3: doing media, so fans haven't really gotten to know him
Speaker 3: a whole lot. But he's a very engaging, interesting young man.
Speaker 6: We talked to.
Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football this week, first time since two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight. As we've talked about, I do want to
Speaker 1: remind everybody to be in their seats early. The light
Speaker 1: show was pretty cool for Monday Night Football. Sunday Night
Speaker 1: Football is the tealout, so they're doing the Teal light
Speaker 1: show as well, and there'll be little cards when you
Speaker 1: get to your seat and you can put a little
Speaker 1: Teal cover on top of your phone and then it'll
Speaker 1: all be a Teal show as well. John do you
Speaker 1: think you could handle it?
Speaker 6: Oh, yeah I can.
Speaker 1: There's a card writer. It should be full proof. Just
Speaker 1: scan it on there if John.
Speaker 3: It makes me laugh when you when you mentioned the
Speaker 3: teal out for the Monday night game. Why don't they
Speaker 3: do a teal out? Why don't they do a tea
Speaker 3: doing a blackout? That's guess what? Just be patient.
Speaker 6: Are they wearing allD teal?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 6: Yeah, tell out.
Speaker 1: Everybody's wearing teal Team two, team too, Team two. All right, everybody,
Speaker 1: enjoy the return of Sunday night football to Jacksonville. Will
Speaker 1: be with you next week as we go over hopefully
Speaker 1: a Jaguars win against the Ravens.
Speaker 3: Enjoy the game.
Speaker 1: He left the
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