WEBVTT - Ep. 20: Chiefs Insider Perspective for Week 2 | Jags A.M. Podcast 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:21.520 Welcome into jags Am presented by Field's Auto Group. Jackson 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:24.440 will step up to luxury Fields Auto dot Com. I'm 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:26.920 kind of Annie Stephen's here with Brian Sexton, John Oser. 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:29.840 It is Chiefs week, it's the home opener. We're all 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:31.880 kinds of excited for our game on Sunday, so we're 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:34.640 diving into that matchup against the defending champs, and we 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:37.839 have our Chiefs insider Neil Jones with us today as 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.239 we go over some of the matchups and what it's 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.239 going to look like when these two teams face off 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:44.879 on Sunday. Neil, thank you for joining us. We appreciate you. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:46.920 Good morning, Good morning. 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.599 What kind of what is the roster going to look 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:51.320 like when the Chiefs get here on Sunday. I know 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.720 you guys have Chris Jones back, and then obviously the 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:55.680 Travis Kelsey situation was the latest on that. 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:58.400 Well, at practice yesterday we were able to go in 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:01.160 and shoot stretching only because, as you call me an insider, 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:04.160 there are no insiders in the media in Kansas City. 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:06.920 Andy Reid is as secretive as they come. He is 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:10.200 Bill Belichick with a slightly more genial personality. 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:11.240 So we really don't know. 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:15.040 I will say this, Travis Kelcey didn't do anything overt. 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.560 He didn't make any movements that were quick. He did 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.440 some stuff. He did some reps, but they were at 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.800 about a quarter speed. He was wearing a sleeve on 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:27.520 his right knee. Wasn't really a brace. It was like 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:28.759 a sleeve you'd put over your. 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:30.479 Pads, which is a good sign. 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.480 All signs are that his knee injury is not very serious, 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:36.840 But does that mean he can play. They will not 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:38.800 play him if there's any chance that he could get 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.640 hurt worse, So we don't know if he's going to 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:43.720 go or not. The likelihood is that he will be 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.480 able to play. When it comes to Chris Jones, the 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.480 question is how many snaps can he get. Yesterday was 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:53.440 unseasonably cool, at least for this year in Kansas City. 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:55.000 It was eighty degrees with. 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.400 Very little humidity. It's been very hot in human all 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.640 summer long. During training camp. It's hard to know what 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.720 kind of shape Chris Jones is in. I will say this, 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.120 he works out year round. He knew come in into 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.160 the league that he puts on weight in the offseason, 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.359 and so he made a concerted effort to get training 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:16.120 staff down in Miami where he spins the off season. 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:19.919 He works out twice a day, almost year round. So 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.680 he comes in looking very slim for a man who's 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.079 over three hundred and twenty pounds, and he says he's 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:28.480 in great shape. But how does that translate into game shape? 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:30.280 How many snaps can he make? And I think he 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.639 can play a major role in this game if he's 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:35.800 able to play thirty or forty snaps. 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:37.880 Hey, Neil, nice to see you, my friend. 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.040 And you know, look you ky, you called him the 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.560 Chiefs insider, and he humbly shook that off. He's been 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.959 around kansaiting a long time and few people know the 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:47.280 Chiefs as well as Neil Jones. 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.240 So thank you for making time, my friend. It's good 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:50.920 to see you. Good to see you as well. 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:52.920 First of all, I've seen a lot of players in 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.239 early season one o'clock games in Jacksonville who were in 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:59.360 great shape get carried off the field here famously, some 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.160 Steelers back in nineteen ninety six where it felt like soup. 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:04.799 So Chris Jones can have worked out twice a day, 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:06.239 but if he didn't do it in the kind of 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.600 humidity he's going to see here on Sunday. I wonder 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:10.400 how many snaps he could take, But that's not my 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.079 question for you. You have seen good football in Kansas 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.200 City with Patrick Mahomes. Were you surprised at how much 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:21.280 it how ineffective the offense performed relative to their standard? 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.760 Obviously without Kelsey. I mean, Patrick has made it look 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.600 so easy with whomever was around him, but on that 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.480 Thursday night against the Lions, it seemed difficult for him, 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:32.160 maybe for the first time in his career. 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:36.000 Yeah, you know, that's exactly what I took away from 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.200 that game and what surprised me so much. People don't 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:42.680 realize how good of a game planner Andy Reid really is. 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:44.760 I mean, we've seen him succeed with there's just a 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.680 number of different quarterbacks with different skill sets, and you 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.240 know that he's really good, but you don't realize how 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.360 great he is until he was given an instrument like 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:56.280 Patrick Mahomes who can execute his offense, who's also very 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.160 smart and a hard worker, so that he can recognize 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:03.560 things and to see them kind of steymied was surprising, 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:07.240 But it was not just not having Kelsey that was 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:10.440 the biggest But there he's got young receivers who were 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:14.000 playing their first game. You know, their second round draft 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.640 pick for Shee Rice, number four, who's an excellent player 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:20.720 out of SMU is lost a little bit. Kadarius Tony 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.680 was getting open. He does know the offense and he's 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:25.880 worked very hard when he first came in from the 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.039 Giants last year, so he knew where to be. The 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.320 problem was when they threw it to him, he dropped 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:33.960 the football. They had eighteen incompletions which is a large 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:37.120 number for Patrick Mahomes, but ten of them are deemed 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.040 to be drops by the official stats to compiled by 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:40.640 the NFL. 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:41.880 Ten drops. 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:46.039 So they were executing the offense, getting the football people's hands, 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:47.360 they weren't catching it. 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:49.320 And what he does, what. 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.279 Patrick Mahomes does, he puts the ball up and gives 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.680 his receiver a chance to make plays. Sometimes that can 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.480 make him look bad if the receiver turns the wrong 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.240 way or doesn't win his battle for the ball, doesn't 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:02.920 go up and win it at the high point, because 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.200 it looks like he's just laying it out there. That's 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.719 what happened in the AFC Championship Game two years ago 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.240 in overtime against the Bengals and it got a beat. 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:13.120 He tried to get it to Tyreek Hill and give 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.159 him a chance to make a play, and Hill wasn't 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:16.680 able to make it. It looks like he was throwing 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:20.680 a double coverage, so it did look very uncharacteristic. But 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.599 I will say this, the last time did we saw 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.280 this Chiefs team playing without their all world tight end 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.919 Travis Kelce was against the Titans in the playoffs the 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:36.120 last half of the Alex Smith era. Their offense went 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:40.080 completely stagnant in the second half without the tight end, 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:44.200 he changes everything. Defensive coaches will say, you have to 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.440 account for him. Used to be you had to account 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.679 for him over the middle and for Tyreek Hill deep. 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.480 Now without Hill, you have to account for him and 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:54.440 without him in there to tie up a bunch of 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:58.520 underneath coverage. It changed the way people play defense against him, 0:05:58.680 --> 0:05:59.880 and it made them vulnerable. 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:04.760 Neil, this is obviously a huge game for Jacksonville, It's 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.240 a big game for Kansas City. But I'm wondering if 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:08.960 you get any vibe for how the Chiefs sort of 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.080 feel about this game. I get the Jaguars had never 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.560 beaten them. They were nine to eight last year, etc. 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.440 Do the Chiefs care about this game in any way 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.880 the way the Jags do, or put that in perspective. 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.800 For me, what they're thinking of this, Well, you know, 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.840 that's the great thing about last year. They played two 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:29.680 games against the Jags. Game one, the Jags secondary was 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.880 more physical than any other secondary that the Chiefs saw. 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.840 They blasted them. It looked to me like they made 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:36.640 a concerted effort. 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:38.800 We are going to hit them early and often. 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:40.640 And just we're gonna go right up to the rules 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:42.440 and maybe a little bit over the line a little bit, 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:44.760 and we're gonna really put it on them. That got 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.080 their attention. I thought the Jags were much better that 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.520 first game than we expected. And then the playoff game 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.120 is a seven point game. I mean, they come into 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.160 this saying all the right things, but more than that, 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.080 I think that they believe. 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:58.400 This Jags team is a good team. 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.159 It is an ascending team that's coached by a guy 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.960 who Andy Reid loves, Doug Peterson. He talked about it 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.280 yesterday at the press conference. He goes, I've been with 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:11.360 him a long time, a lot of years. I respect him. 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:13.960 That carries over to the football team. This is a 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.119 smart football team as well as being a talented football team. 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.320 And I think they know how good the Jags can be. 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.880 I don't think there's any way they overlook Jacksonville. 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.320 Hey, quick thought, Neil. I'm sure you've gotten to know 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:26.440 Juwan Taylor a little bit. We all love the kid. 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.640 Just a tremendous young man and a good football player. 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.960 How is he handled all the questions in attention put 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.360 his way this week? Is he taking it in stride 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.240 or is he a little aggravated by it? Because when 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.000 he gets under his skin a little bit, he'll give 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:41.840 you that little twitch. 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.560 All right, Well, let me explain how it works. Yesterday 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.840 we go out there, we have Patrick Mahomes, Chris Jones, 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:55.240 Kadarius Tony, and the head coach, Andy Reid. They closed 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:58.960 the locker room the minute the press conference ended, so 0:07:59.080 --> 0:07:59.880 none of us win. 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:00.720 I don't know that. 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.160 There might have been one or two internet guys who 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:06.480 went in and talked to Juwan yesterday, but no television people 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:08.520 did because we were in the interview room and it's 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.480 an either or right, and everyone's like, I bet they 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:14.320 keep I bet they they closed down the locker room 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:16.480 the minute they get done with the press conference. And 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.920 that's exactly what happened, because everybody wanted to go in there. 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.000 I suspect today he will be There'll be some people 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:23.800 that do go in there, and they may even bring 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:24.560 him to the podium. 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:25.000 I don't know. 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.200 He did not have a great game. He didn't have 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.600 a terrible game on Thursday last Thursday, but he didn't 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:33.520 have a great game either. He had a couple of penalties, 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.240 and I didn't think the left tackle, the guy that 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.920 came in, Donovan Smith, who's a veteran guy who was 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.400 released from Tampa Bay last year, had a real good 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.360 run at Tampa Bay. I don't think he had a 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.320 great game either. He missed the block he got driven 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:51.680 right back into Mahomes's face. Now, Mahomes held the ball longer, 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.440 and this goes back, Brian, to what you were talking about. 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.640 He held the ball longer in. 0:08:56.520 --> 0:09:01.280 That game Thursday. According to the NFL stistics official stats, 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.400 he held it longer than he did at any time 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:06.960 last year. And that's because receivers weren't getting open, and 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.560 so he's patting the ball and moving around, keeping his 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:12.439 head up field. So the offensive line had to protect 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.840 longer than usual. The ball wasn't out on time he 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.000 dropped back. You're used to it coming out. It wasn't 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.079 coming out. So I'm not pointing the finger at the 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:21.520 offensive line, but the offensive line did not have a 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:23.200 great game, and it started with the tackles. 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:24.480 Neil. 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.000 I just want to close out with you because I 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.240 like to get the outside perspective as to what other 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:31.000 teams are seeing. But we feel like Jaguars have things 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:34.440 in place with Doug Peterson and Trevor Lawrence. Obviously, you 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.560 have a coach in quarterback combo that's pretty much as 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.600 good as it gets when you have an outside perspective 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:41.280 looking in. What do you see from Trevor Lawrence? And 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:43.679 are you guys as high on him as maybe we are? 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:46.960 Well, I think he proved himself. He made great throws 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.840 in those two games. He stands in there. He's a 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.080 big guy who's not afraid to take it. You know, 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:56.040 he was handed such a bad hand right out of college, 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:57.800 and it reminds me a little bit of what Alex 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:00.160 Smith went through when he came out the number one 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.600 picking the draft. Not okay, let's face it, nowhere near 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.080 the college career that Trevor Lawrence had at Clemson. But 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:10.120 Alex Smith comes out from Utah, people expected good things 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.680 and he goes into a really bad situation and he 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.480 said it set him back at least two years, both 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:20.480 mentally and physically and with emotionally with his confidence. I 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.160 think that the job that they did last year and 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.880 Doug Peterson's ability to work with quarterbacks and that offense 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.120 is so quarterback friendly. They shaped the offense to fit 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.880 the skills of the quarterback. It was a great, great 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.200 thing for Trevor Lawrence. And I think last year we 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.760 began to see what he can do. Obviously we knew 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:38.920 what he did in college. So I think people look 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:40.640 at them and they think, Okay, this is a team 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.520 who's arrow is pointing up. They are going to be 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:45.400 a team to be reckoned with. And I think the 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.439 Chiefs are taking them very very seriously. 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:49.839 Wonderful and Neil, thanks so much. We look forward to 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:52.080 the matchup on Sunday. When you appreciate you joining us 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.000 this morning. Got all right, stay with us here on 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.720 jag Zam. Coming up, we're going to detail our big 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:09.040 things for this weekend, what to look forward to. EverBank advantage, 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.440 you make the most of your money at EverBank dot 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:15.400 com slash Jaguars. EverBank is sponsoring the home opener on Sunday, 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.000 which is I don't know if it's completely sold out, 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.079 but if not, they're very, very close. I think the 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.320 standing room tickets at this point. So if you haven't 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.040 gotten your tickets already or it might be a little late, 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.640 but try anyway, because it's going to be. It's gonna 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:28.120 be as good of an atmosphere as you guys have 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.160 seen here in a while. Yeah, especially this earlier in 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:30.400 the year. 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.520 I'm sure that that you guys have been hit like 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.040 I have with everybody who wants what can you get? 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.600 There are maybe a few standing room only that will 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.040 be available, but it's almost all gone. 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:43.119 It's going to be sensational. 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:45.360 Johnny feeling calls from all your friends. 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.559 I have no friends, but I'm not for that. I'm 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.080 feeling calls from people. You know. It's gonna be an 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.320 unbievable atmosphere. I did see somebody there's a story of 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:59.640 something that the biggest game in Jacksonville in years. Well, no, 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:01.760 it's not. The playoffs were here last year or in 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.240 the end of the season, but I will compare this. 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.760 I think most people who've been around for a little while. 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.360 Remember the atmosphere of the Patriots game in twenty eighteen. 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.160 That's what it's gonna feel like. With the heat, with 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:17.000 the energy, with the fact that this team has been 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.160 so good for so long. I don't know that it's 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:23.040 as easy to hate the Chiefs as it was to 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:26.120 hate the Patriots. Yeah, you know, they're not a hated team, 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:32.160 but beating them sure means exactly what beating the Patriots meant. 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.880 So yeah, it's gonna be It's gonna be a scene. 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:35.040 Man. 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:36.720 Part of the reason they won't be hated is because 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.840 Doug Peterson and Andy Reid's relationship is so strong. I 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.760 think people understand that. And the relationship between Mahomes and 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.199 Trevor Lawrence in the way that they've shown mutual respect, 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:47.240 is really strong too. I do want to point this out. 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:51.920 And John, you were there Week one home opener nineteen 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.440 ninety six. It felt like a million degrees on that field. 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.880 And here come the AFC defending champion Pittsburgh Steelers, fresh 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.640 off the Super Bowl, and I have Johnson and Greg 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.760 Lloyd and Kevin Green. This was a great team and 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.360 end of the third quarter they were carrying those guys 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.480 off the field. I mean, they just were not prepared 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.040 for how hot and steamy it was. It's hot in 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.760 Kansas City. I know I'm from there, but opening day 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.280 one o'clock here, it could really be something. 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.360 Can't You're sell the home field advantage for sure. 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:25.199 The only difference like that year, it was so nude everybody, 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.680 and they hadn't been very good in their expansion season, 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:30.800 So I don't know that people expected. They sort of hoped. 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:35.800 I think there's a feeling of, you know, this could 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.800 solidify what people hope they feel about this team, if 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:42.880 that makes any sense. So there's and again that was 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:47.920 the same feeling people had in eighteen and it all went, 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:52.800 it all went haywire. This doesn't feel anything close to 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.920 being able to go haywire. So I think people also 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.199 feel that there is a feeling of what I said yesterday. 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:03.480 I think people were jacked about this game, but they 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.000 also sort of realize there's gonna be more of these. Yeah, 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.240 this is the first of a lot of moments like this, 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:11.719 So it's gonna be cool, but it's not gonna be 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:12.400 the only one. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.800 All right, let's go over some of our big things, 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.160 our first big thing is gonna be thirty six hundred 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.640 seconds because we talked a lot about the Jags having 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:23.200 a fast start, but now it's about playing a full 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.560 complete game. Doug Peterson talked a little bit about that 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:26.400 earlier this week. 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:29.320 It could come down to that, right, It could come 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:32.040 down to a kick. It could come down to whoever 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:36.560 has the ball last, which you know, you do look 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:38.280 at the playoff game, right and if we don't, we 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.560 don't fumble, hopefully you score. You're down three with you know, 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:43.720 five minutes to go, you get to you know, so 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.000 it's gonna come down to those types of types of moments, 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:51.840 and you know we've got to be prepared for that. 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:53.600 You know, not only is the coaching staff, but as 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:57.920 players and and but anytime you're playing you know, these 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.520 types of teams, you've you gotta be ready for that 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:02.080 fourth quarter. 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:04.560 John, I know you called it last week that the 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:06.360 game was gonna come down to the wire, but it 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.280 seems like it always comes down to the wire with 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:08.800 the Chiefs. 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:12.000 Yeah, and I think the Jaguars task is to have 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:17.000 it be a game that last year's games, to me, 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:22.560 felt like the Jaguars had a chance if everything went right, 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.240 and that they were fighting uphill the whole fourth quarter, 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.720 and you kept thinking, if they could just get a 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.160 break and get back in this, they'll have a chance. 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:34.520 And it felt to me the whole games that the 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:36.760 Chiefs were clearly the better team and the Jaguars were 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.040 gonna need something special to happen. 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:39.360 At the end. 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:43.120 They were close. But the task now is to be 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:47.800 even keeled or even footing the whole game, and then 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.000 to be the team that makes the play, not have 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.280 it feel as much like a miracle as miracles too strong. 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.400 You know, I'm getting no I can elaborate on it. 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.000 I think they're there where they have a chance to 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.200 do that. At the same time, number fifteen over, they're 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:03.120 so good that it's hard to pay me well. 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.040 And that's it, John, Look, you go in this league 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.160 kai from being a bad team that loses big, which 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:10.600 the Jaguars have been, to a team on the rise 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:14.320 that loses small, which they were doing last year, to 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.800 a team that wins small, to a team that occasionally 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.080 wins big, because that doesn't happen this league that often, right, 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.080 So the next step for the Jags is to go 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.920 and win those small games, those tight games in the 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:26.640 fourth quarter you have to know and they do because 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.320 they watch that playoff game against Buffalo where the Jaguar 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:31.920 jaggs the Chiefs beat the Bills. You know with thirteen 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.560 seconds left to play. They understand this one. Can they 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:36.800 get comfortable with it? Can you go into the fourth 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.400 quarter knowing that you have to be on an even 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:43.720 keel emotionally, mentally, physically, you have to be ready to 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.920 go every second of the game because Mahomes is so 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:51.240 incredibly good in those situations. Is this team ready for that? 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.640 And Doug and Trevor both answered the question yesterday and 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.320 both believe they're ready to take that step. 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:58.240 I mean, we compliment them all the time, or at 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.480 least I do. Trevor is about us even as it 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:02.720 gets and this will truly be the test of how 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:04.879 even keeled he can be when you take on the Chiefs, 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.120 because they always seem to pull it out of everybody else. 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.720 People fall apart going up against them. So we'll see 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.720 what Trevor can do with that on Sunday. Our next 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.359 big thing today is gonna be a shootout, because when 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.199 you're going up against the Chiefs, you can try and 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:18.920 slow them down a little bit, but it's really gonna 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:21.280 come down to maybe who has the ball last on Sunday, 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.240 and Trevor Lawrence talked about that earlier this week as well. 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.520 But you do understand that even if it the final 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:31.720 score isn't thirty plus points or whatever it is, you 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.159 understand the firepower they had that they can answer at 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.440 any moment. So I think that's something like I said, 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.800 you got to execute in situations. You gotta score off turnovers, 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.720 you gotta score in the red zone, specifically touchdowns. You know, 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.800 all those things are heightened awareness of that based on 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.040 who you're playing. But yeah, I mean, I'm excited to 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:49.959 see our defense. You know, they get another crack at them. 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:50.960 It's gonna be fun. 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:53.960 Brian, are you looking at something like thirty five thirty one? 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:55.720 Yeah, you're gonna be high. 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:59.120 Yeah, I mean at thirty one to twenty eight. Maybe 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:01.280 I asked him the question, and I don't know whether 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.040 you caught on. The very first thing he did was 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.280 defend the defense and said, I have faith in the defense. 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:06.720 I'm excited about. 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:08.840 What they're capable of doing, and then he went into 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:11.440 scoring points. I have faith in the defense too, based 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.280 on what they did last week how well they played. 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:15.919 It's not about the defense. It's about the fact that 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:19.840 with Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes, these guys averaged twenty 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:23.600 nine point two points per game last year. They score 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:27.800 against everybody, you're gonna score thirty, which means points points 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:29.240 points points points. 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.520 Yeah, the Chiefs scored twenty seven twice last year against 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:37.359 this team and won both games. The Jaguars are not billed. 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:39.879 Very few teams are in the NFL right now, But 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.680