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Speaker 1: It is Chiefs week, it's the home opener. We're all
Speaker 1: kinds of excited for our game on Sunday, so we're
Speaker 1: diving into that matchup against the defending champs, and we
Speaker 1: have our Chiefs insider Neil Jones with us today as
Speaker 1: we go over some of the matchups and what it's
Speaker 1: going to look like when these two teams face off
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Neil, thank you for joining us. We appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 1: What kind of what is the roster going to look
Speaker 1: like when the Chiefs get here on Sunday. I know
Speaker 1: you guys have Chris Jones back, and then obviously the
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey situation was the latest on that.
Speaker 3: Well, at practice yesterday we were able to go in
Speaker 3: and shoot stretching only because, as you call me an insider,
Speaker 3: there are no insiders in the media in Kansas City.
Speaker 3: Andy Reid is as secretive as they come. He is
Speaker 3: Bill Belichick with a slightly more genial personality.
Speaker 1: So we really don't know.
Speaker 3: I will say this, Travis Kelcey didn't do anything overt.
Speaker 3: He didn't make any movements that were quick. He did
Speaker 3: some stuff. He did some reps, but they were at
Speaker 3: about a quarter speed. He was wearing a sleeve on
Speaker 3: his right knee. Wasn't really a brace. It was like
Speaker 3: a sleeve you'd put over your.
Speaker 2: Pads, which is a good sign.
Speaker 3: All signs are that his knee injury is not very serious,
Speaker 3: But does that mean he can play. They will not
Speaker 3: play him if there's any chance that he could get
Speaker 3: hurt worse, So we don't know if he's going to
Speaker 3: go or not. The likelihood is that he will be
Speaker 3: able to play. When it comes to Chris Jones, the
Speaker 3: question is how many snaps can he get. Yesterday was
Speaker 3: unseasonably cool, at least for this year in Kansas City.
Speaker 2: It was eighty degrees with.
Speaker 3: Very little humidity. It's been very hot in human all
Speaker 3: summer long. During training camp. It's hard to know what
Speaker 3: kind of shape Chris Jones is in. I will say this,
Speaker 3: he works out year round. He knew come in into
Speaker 3: the league that he puts on weight in the offseason,
Speaker 3: and so he made a concerted effort to get training
Speaker 3: staff down in Miami where he spins the off season.
Speaker 3: He works out twice a day, almost year round. So
Speaker 3: he comes in looking very slim for a man who's
Speaker 3: over three hundred and twenty pounds, and he says he's
Speaker 3: in great shape. But how does that translate into game shape?
Speaker 3: How many snaps can he make? And I think he
Speaker 3: can play a major role in this game if he's
Speaker 3: able to play thirty or forty snaps.
Speaker 2: Hey, Neil, nice to see you, my friend.
Speaker 4: And you know, look you ky, you called him the
Speaker 4: Chiefs insider, and he humbly shook that off. He's been
Speaker 4: around kansaiting a long time and few people know the
Speaker 4: Chiefs as well as Neil Jones.
Speaker 2: So thank you for making time, my friend. It's good
Speaker 2: to see you. Good to see you as well.
Speaker 4: First of all, I've seen a lot of players in
Speaker 4: early season one o'clock games in Jacksonville who were in
Speaker 4: great shape get carried off the field here famously, some
Speaker 4: Steelers back in nineteen ninety six where it felt like soup.
Speaker 4: So Chris Jones can have worked out twice a day,
Speaker 4: but if he didn't do it in the kind of
Speaker 4: humidity he's going to see here on Sunday. I wonder
Speaker 4: how many snaps he could take, But that's not my
Speaker 4: question for you. You have seen good football in Kansas
Speaker 4: City with Patrick Mahomes. Were you surprised at how much
Speaker 4: it how ineffective the offense performed relative to their standard?
Speaker 4: Obviously without Kelsey. I mean, Patrick has made it look
Speaker 4: so easy with whomever was around him, but on that
Speaker 4: Thursday night against the Lions, it seemed difficult for him,
Speaker 4: maybe for the first time in his career.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, that's exactly what I took away from
Speaker 3: that game and what surprised me so much. People don't
Speaker 3: realize how good of a game planner Andy Reid really is.
Speaker 3: I mean, we've seen him succeed with there's just a
Speaker 3: number of different quarterbacks with different skill sets, and you
Speaker 3: know that he's really good, but you don't realize how
Speaker 3: great he is until he was given an instrument like
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes who can execute his offense, who's also very
Speaker 3: smart and a hard worker, so that he can recognize
Speaker 3: things and to see them kind of steymied was surprising,
Speaker 3: But it was not just not having Kelsey that was
Speaker 3: the biggest But there he's got young receivers who were
Speaker 3: playing their first game. You know, their second round draft
Speaker 3: pick for Shee Rice, number four, who's an excellent player
Speaker 3: out of SMU is lost a little bit. Kadarius Tony
Speaker 3: was getting open. He does know the offense and he's
Speaker 3: worked very hard when he first came in from the
Speaker 3: Giants last year, so he knew where to be. The
Speaker 3: problem was when they threw it to him, he dropped
Speaker 3: the football. They had eighteen incompletions which is a large
Speaker 3: number for Patrick Mahomes, but ten of them are deemed
Speaker 3: to be drops by the official stats to compiled by
Speaker 3: the NFL.
Speaker 2: Ten drops.
Speaker 3: So they were executing the offense, getting the football people's hands,
Speaker 3: they weren't catching it.
Speaker 5: And what he does, what.
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes does, he puts the ball up and gives
Speaker 3: his receiver a chance to make plays. Sometimes that can
Speaker 3: make him look bad if the receiver turns the wrong
Speaker 3: way or doesn't win his battle for the ball, doesn't
Speaker 3: go up and win it at the high point, because
Speaker 3: it looks like he's just laying it out there. That's
Speaker 3: what happened in the AFC Championship Game two years ago
Speaker 3: in overtime against the Bengals and it got a beat.
Speaker 3: He tried to get it to Tyreek Hill and give
Speaker 3: him a chance to make a play, and Hill wasn't
Speaker 3: able to make it. It looks like he was throwing
Speaker 3: a double coverage, so it did look very uncharacteristic. But
Speaker 3: I will say this, the last time did we saw
Speaker 3: this Chiefs team playing without their all world tight end
Speaker 3: Travis Kelce was against the Titans in the playoffs the
Speaker 3: last half of the Alex Smith era. Their offense went
Speaker 3: completely stagnant in the second half without the tight end,
Speaker 3: he changes everything. Defensive coaches will say, you have to
Speaker 3: account for him. Used to be you had to account
Speaker 3: for him over the middle and for Tyreek Hill deep.
Speaker 3: Now without Hill, you have to account for him and
Speaker 3: without him in there to tie up a bunch of
Speaker 3: underneath coverage. It changed the way people play defense against him,
Speaker 3: and it made them vulnerable.
Speaker 5: Neil, this is obviously a huge game for Jacksonville, It's
Speaker 5: a big game for Kansas City. But I'm wondering if
Speaker 5: you get any vibe for how the Chiefs sort of
Speaker 5: feel about this game. I get the Jaguars had never
Speaker 5: beaten them. They were nine to eight last year, etc.
Speaker 5: Do the Chiefs care about this game in any way
Speaker 5: the way the Jags do, or put that in perspective.
Speaker 3: For me, what they're thinking of this, Well, you know,
Speaker 3: that's the great thing about last year. They played two
Speaker 3: games against the Jags. Game one, the Jags secondary was
Speaker 3: more physical than any other secondary that the Chiefs saw.
Speaker 3: They blasted them. It looked to me like they made
Speaker 3: a concerted effort.
Speaker 2: We are going to hit them early and often.
Speaker 3: And just we're gonna go right up to the rules
Speaker 3: and maybe a little bit over the line a little bit,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna really put it on them. That got
Speaker 3: their attention. I thought the Jags were much better that
Speaker 3: first game than we expected. And then the playoff game
Speaker 3: is a seven point game. I mean, they come into
Speaker 3: this saying all the right things, but more than that,
Speaker 3: I think that they believe.
Speaker 1: This Jags team is a good team.
Speaker 3: It is an ascending team that's coached by a guy
Speaker 3: who Andy Reid loves, Doug Peterson. He talked about it
Speaker 3: yesterday at the press conference. He goes, I've been with
Speaker 3: him a long time, a lot of years. I respect him.
Speaker 3: That carries over to the football team. This is a
Speaker 3: smart football team as well as being a talented football team.
Speaker 3: And I think they know how good the Jags can be.
Speaker 3: I don't think there's any way they overlook Jacksonville.
Speaker 4: Hey, quick thought, Neil. I'm sure you've gotten to know
Speaker 4: Juwan Taylor a little bit. We all love the kid.
Speaker 4: Just a tremendous young man and a good football player.
Speaker 4: How is he handled all the questions in attention put
Speaker 4: his way this week? Is he taking it in stride
Speaker 4: or is he a little aggravated by it? Because when
Speaker 4: he gets under his skin a little bit, he'll give
Speaker 4: you that little twitch.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, let me explain how it works. Yesterday
Speaker 3: we go out there, we have Patrick Mahomes, Chris Jones,
Speaker 3: Kadarius Tony, and the head coach, Andy Reid. They closed
Speaker 3: the locker room the minute the press conference ended, so
Speaker 3: none of us win.
Speaker 2: I don't know that.
Speaker 3: There might have been one or two internet guys who
Speaker 3: went in and talked to Juwan yesterday, but no television people
Speaker 3: did because we were in the interview room and it's
Speaker 3: an either or right, and everyone's like, I bet they
Speaker 3: keep I bet they they closed down the locker room
Speaker 3: the minute they get done with the press conference. And
Speaker 3: that's exactly what happened, because everybody wanted to go in there.
Speaker 3: I suspect today he will be There'll be some people
Speaker 3: that do go in there, and they may even bring
Speaker 3: him to the podium.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 3: He did not have a great game. He didn't have
Speaker 3: a terrible game on Thursday last Thursday, but he didn't
Speaker 3: have a great game either. He had a couple of penalties,
Speaker 3: and I didn't think the left tackle, the guy that
Speaker 3: came in, Donovan Smith, who's a veteran guy who was
Speaker 3: released from Tampa Bay last year, had a real good
Speaker 3: run at Tampa Bay. I don't think he had a
Speaker 3: great game either. He missed the block he got driven
Speaker 3: right back into Mahomes's face. Now, Mahomes held the ball longer,
Speaker 3: and this goes back, Brian, to what you were talking about.
Speaker 2: He held the ball longer in.
Speaker 3: That game Thursday. According to the NFL stistics official stats,
Speaker 3: he held it longer than he did at any time
Speaker 3: last year. And that's because receivers weren't getting open, and
Speaker 3: so he's patting the ball and moving around, keeping his
Speaker 3: head up field. So the offensive line had to protect
Speaker 3: longer than usual. The ball wasn't out on time he
Speaker 3: dropped back. You're used to it coming out. It wasn't
Speaker 3: coming out. So I'm not pointing the finger at the
Speaker 3: offensive line, but the offensive line did not have a
Speaker 3: great game, and it started with the tackles.
Speaker 5: Neil.
Speaker 1: I just want to close out with you because I
Speaker 1: like to get the outside perspective as to what other
Speaker 1: teams are seeing. But we feel like Jaguars have things
Speaker 1: in place with Doug Peterson and Trevor Lawrence. Obviously, you
Speaker 1: have a coach in quarterback combo that's pretty much as
Speaker 1: good as it gets when you have an outside perspective
Speaker 1: looking in. What do you see from Trevor Lawrence? And
Speaker 1: are you guys as high on him as maybe we are?
Speaker 3: Well, I think he proved himself. He made great throws
Speaker 3: in those two games. He stands in there. He's a
Speaker 3: big guy who's not afraid to take it. You know,
Speaker 3: he was handed such a bad hand right out of college,
Speaker 3: and it reminds me a little bit of what Alex
Speaker 3: Smith went through when he came out the number one
Speaker 3: picking the draft. Not okay, let's face it, nowhere near
Speaker 3: the college career that Trevor Lawrence had at Clemson. But
Speaker 3: Alex Smith comes out from Utah, people expected good things
Speaker 3: and he goes into a really bad situation and he
Speaker 3: said it set him back at least two years, both
Speaker 3: mentally and physically and with emotionally with his confidence. I
Speaker 3: think that the job that they did last year and
Speaker 3: Doug Peterson's ability to work with quarterbacks and that offense
Speaker 3: is so quarterback friendly. They shaped the offense to fit
Speaker 3: the skills of the quarterback. It was a great, great
Speaker 3: thing for Trevor Lawrence. And I think last year we
Speaker 3: began to see what he can do. Obviously we knew
Speaker 3: what he did in college. So I think people look
Speaker 3: at them and they think, Okay, this is a team
Speaker 3: who's arrow is pointing up. They are going to be
Speaker 3: a team to be reckoned with. And I think the
Speaker 3: Chiefs are taking them very very seriously.
Speaker 1: Wonderful and Neil, thanks so much. We look forward to
Speaker 1: the matchup on Sunday. When you appreciate you joining us
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Speaker 1: which is I don't know if it's completely sold out,
Speaker 1: but if not, they're very, very close. I think the
Speaker 1: standing room tickets at this point. So if you haven't
Speaker 1: gotten your tickets already or it might be a little late,
Speaker 1: but try anyway, because it's going to be. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be as good of an atmosphere as you guys have
Speaker 1: seen here in a while. Yeah, especially this earlier in
Speaker 1: the year.
Speaker 4: I'm sure that that you guys have been hit like
Speaker 4: I have with everybody who wants what can you get?
Speaker 4: There are maybe a few standing room only that will
Speaker 4: be available, but it's almost all gone.
Speaker 2: It's going to be sensational.
Speaker 1: Johnny feeling calls from all your friends.
Speaker 5: I have no friends, but I'm not for that. I'm
Speaker 5: feeling calls from people. You know. It's gonna be an
Speaker 5: unbievable atmosphere. I did see somebody there's a story of
Speaker 5: something that the biggest game in Jacksonville in years. Well, no,
Speaker 5: it's not. The playoffs were here last year or in
Speaker 5: the end of the season, but I will compare this.
Speaker 5: I think most people who've been around for a little while.
Speaker 5: Remember the atmosphere of the Patriots game in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 5: That's what it's gonna feel like. With the heat, with
Speaker 5: the energy, with the fact that this team has been
Speaker 5: so good for so long. I don't know that it's
Speaker 5: as easy to hate the Chiefs as it was to
Speaker 5: hate the Patriots. Yeah, you know, they're not a hated team,
Speaker 5: but beating them sure means exactly what beating the Patriots meant.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it's gonna be It's gonna be a scene.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: Part of the reason they won't be hated is because
Speaker 4: Doug Peterson and Andy Reid's relationship is so strong. I
Speaker 4: think people understand that. And the relationship between Mahomes and
Speaker 4: Trevor Lawrence in the way that they've shown mutual respect,
Speaker 4: is really strong too. I do want to point this out.
Speaker 4: And John, you were there Week one home opener nineteen
Speaker 4: ninety six. It felt like a million degrees on that field.
Speaker 4: And here come the AFC defending champion Pittsburgh Steelers, fresh
Speaker 4: off the Super Bowl, and I have Johnson and Greg
Speaker 4: Lloyd and Kevin Green. This was a great team and
Speaker 4: end of the third quarter they were carrying those guys
Speaker 4: off the field. I mean, they just were not prepared
Speaker 4: for how hot and steamy it was. It's hot in
Speaker 4: Kansas City. I know I'm from there, but opening day
Speaker 4: one o'clock here, it could really be something.
Speaker 1: Can't You're sell the home field advantage for sure.
Speaker 5: The only difference like that year, it was so nude everybody,
Speaker 5: and they hadn't been very good in their expansion season,
Speaker 5: So I don't know that people expected. They sort of hoped.
Speaker 5: I think there's a feeling of, you know, this could
Speaker 5: solidify what people hope they feel about this team, if
Speaker 5: that makes any sense. So there's and again that was
Speaker 5: the same feeling people had in eighteen and it all went,
Speaker 5: it all went haywire. This doesn't feel anything close to
Speaker 5: being able to go haywire. So I think people also
Speaker 5: feel that there is a feeling of what I said yesterday.
Speaker 5: I think people were jacked about this game, but they
Speaker 5: also sort of realize there's gonna be more of these. Yeah,
Speaker 5: this is the first of a lot of moments like this,
Speaker 5: So it's gonna be cool, but it's not gonna be
Speaker 5: the only one.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go over some of our big things,
Speaker 1: our first big thing is gonna be thirty six hundred
Speaker 1: seconds because we talked a lot about the Jags having
Speaker 1: a fast start, but now it's about playing a full
Speaker 1: complete game. Doug Peterson talked a little bit about that
Speaker 1: earlier this week.
Speaker 7: It could come down to that, right, It could come
Speaker 7: down to a kick. It could come down to whoever
Speaker 7: has the ball last, which you know, you do look
Speaker 7: at the playoff game, right and if we don't, we
Speaker 7: don't fumble, hopefully you score. You're down three with you know,
Speaker 7: five minutes to go, you get to you know, so
Speaker 7: it's gonna come down to those types of types of moments,
Speaker 7: and you know we've got to be prepared for that.
Speaker 7: You know, not only is the coaching staff, but as
Speaker 7: players and and but anytime you're playing you know, these
Speaker 7: types of teams, you've you gotta be ready for that
Speaker 7: fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: John, I know you called it last week that the
Speaker 1: game was gonna come down to the wire, but it
Speaker 1: seems like it always comes down to the wire with
Speaker 1: the Chiefs.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think the Jaguars task is to have
Speaker 5: it be a game that last year's games, to me,
Speaker 5: felt like the Jaguars had a chance if everything went right,
Speaker 5: and that they were fighting uphill the whole fourth quarter,
Speaker 5: and you kept thinking, if they could just get a
Speaker 5: break and get back in this, they'll have a chance.
Speaker 5: And it felt to me the whole games that the
Speaker 5: Chiefs were clearly the better team and the Jaguars were
Speaker 5: gonna need something special to happen.
Speaker 2: At the end.
Speaker 5: They were close. But the task now is to be
Speaker 5: even keeled or even footing the whole game, and then
Speaker 5: to be the team that makes the play, not have
Speaker 5: it feel as much like a miracle as miracles too strong.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm getting no I can elaborate on it.
Speaker 5: I think they're there where they have a chance to
Speaker 5: do that. At the same time, number fifteen over, they're
Speaker 5: so good that it's hard to pay me well.
Speaker 4: And that's it, John, Look, you go in this league
Speaker 4: kai from being a bad team that loses big, which
Speaker 4: the Jaguars have been, to a team on the rise
Speaker 4: that loses small, which they were doing last year, to
Speaker 4: a team that wins small, to a team that occasionally
Speaker 4: wins big, because that doesn't happen this league that often, right,
Speaker 4: So the next step for the Jags is to go
Speaker 4: and win those small games, those tight games in the
Speaker 4: fourth quarter you have to know and they do because
Speaker 4: they watch that playoff game against Buffalo where the Jaguar
Speaker 4: jaggs the Chiefs beat the Bills. You know with thirteen
Speaker 4: seconds left to play. They understand this one. Can they
Speaker 4: get comfortable with it? Can you go into the fourth
Speaker 4: quarter knowing that you have to be on an even
Speaker 4: keel emotionally, mentally, physically, you have to be ready to
Speaker 4: go every second of the game because Mahomes is so
Speaker 4: incredibly good in those situations. Is this team ready for that?
Speaker 4: And Doug and Trevor both answered the question yesterday and
Speaker 4: both believe they're ready to take that step.
Speaker 1: I mean, we compliment them all the time, or at
Speaker 1: least I do. Trevor is about us even as it
Speaker 1: gets and this will truly be the test of how
Speaker 1: even keeled he can be when you take on the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: because they always seem to pull it out of everybody else.
Speaker 1: People fall apart going up against them. So we'll see
Speaker 1: what Trevor can do with that on Sunday. Our next
Speaker 1: big thing today is gonna be a shootout, because when
Speaker 1: you're going up against the Chiefs, you can try and
Speaker 1: slow them down a little bit, but it's really gonna
Speaker 1: come down to maybe who has the ball last on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and Trevor Lawrence talked about that earlier this week as well.
Speaker 8: But you do understand that even if it the final
Speaker 8: score isn't thirty plus points or whatever it is, you
Speaker 8: understand the firepower they had that they can answer at
Speaker 8: any moment. So I think that's something like I said,
Speaker 8: you got to execute in situations. You gotta score off turnovers,
Speaker 8: you gotta score in the red zone, specifically touchdowns. You know,
Speaker 8: all those things are heightened awareness of that based on
Speaker 8: who you're playing. But yeah, I mean, I'm excited to
Speaker 8: see our defense. You know, they get another crack at them.
Speaker 8: It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: Brian, are you looking at something like thirty five thirty one?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna be high.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean at thirty one to twenty eight. Maybe
Speaker 4: I asked him the question, and I don't know whether
Speaker 4: you caught on. The very first thing he did was
Speaker 4: defend the defense and said, I have faith in the defense.
Speaker 2: I'm excited about.
Speaker 4: What they're capable of doing, and then he went into
Speaker 4: scoring points. I have faith in the defense too, based
Speaker 4: on what they did last week how well they played.
Speaker 4: It's not about the defense. It's about the fact that
Speaker 4: with Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes, these guys averaged twenty
Speaker 4: nine point two points per game last year. They score
Speaker 4: against everybody, you're gonna score thirty, which means points points
Speaker 4: points points points.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Chiefs scored twenty seven twice last year against
Speaker 5: this team and won both games. The Jaguars are not billed.
Speaker 5: Very few teams are in the NFL right now, But
Speaker 5: the Jaguars didn't build this thing to beat the Chiefs
Speaker 5: seventeen to fourteen. They build it to win thirty one
Speaker 5: twenty seven, to get those ten points that they didn't
Speaker 5: get last year. I thought the money quote from Doug
Speaker 5: Peterson yesterday it sort of goes back to big thing
Speaker 5: One was when he was talking about the Chiefs get
Speaker 5: better as the game goes on, and then you followed
Speaker 5: that with we're starting to do that. I'm paraphrasing with that.
Speaker 5: To me, that's the thing that if you sat Doug
Speaker 5: down and said what do you respect most about the
Speaker 5: Chiefs and Andy Reid that he gets his teams to
Speaker 5: do that, it goes back to it's going to be
Speaker 5: a high scoring game, and the team that can look
Speaker 5: the other team in the eye and make that play
Speaker 5: at the end is the team that's going to win.
Speaker 5: The reason the Chiefs have been five straight AFC Championship
Speaker 5: games is they're usually the team to do that. I
Speaker 5: think Doug thinks, if we can be the team to
Speaker 5: stare this team in the eye, there's no team we
Speaker 5: can't stare.
Speaker 1: In the eye. Absolutely, and that's bodes well for the
Speaker 1: rest of the big games this year. Our final big
Speaker 1: thing is going to be windshield because you need to
Speaker 1: look forward in this league. And while the Jags came
Speaker 1: out on the wrong side of things in the two
Speaker 1: games last year against the Chiefs, they have an opportunity
Speaker 1: in Week two to make a statement, but also for
Speaker 1: themselves kind of see where they're at. They're going to
Speaker 1: have to compete against teams like this I especially in
Speaker 1: the playoffs if they want to make it to their
Speaker 1: ultimate goal. So, Brian, when you look at this, is
Speaker 1: it a measuring stick game? What do you want to
Speaker 1: call it? Whatever you want to call it, What can
Speaker 1: we take away from this game on Sunday?
Speaker 4: Well, yes, it is a measuring stick game because you're
Speaker 4: going up against the champs and how much better are
Speaker 4: you than you were last year? Can you execute better
Speaker 4: than you did last year? Because as John mentioned, you know,
Speaker 4: they gave up twenty seven points, which was below the
Speaker 4: Chiefs average, but they still didn't do enough. Are they
Speaker 4: ready to do enough? And I know the question was
Speaker 4: asked a lot, you know this week. Do you go
Speaker 4: back and look at those games against Kansas City? Is
Speaker 4: it personal? You know, did you grind? Did you wear
Speaker 4: that all off season? And these guys, the guys at
Speaker 4: least that I heard, the answer was no, I'm looking forward.
Speaker 4: Do I recognize?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: But am I focused on what we did last year? No,
Speaker 4: which tells me about the way that Doug Peterson has
Speaker 4: this team mentally ready to go. You can't just it's revenge.
Speaker 4: Doesn't work in the NFL, except in very limited cases.
Speaker 4: It's got to be about proving yourself and showing the
Speaker 4: league who you are now, not that you're better than
Speaker 4: you were last year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they've got to get past this team, obviously to
Speaker 5: get where they want to go. But I don't think
Speaker 5: these guys last year. I spent the off season saying,
Speaker 5: oh man, the Chiefs, you know they jenerars weren't the
Speaker 5: best team in football last year. It's not like the
Speaker 5: beat It's like ninety nine and they beat everybody else
Speaker 5: and couldn't bet the Titans. They were, you know, ascending,
Speaker 5: and they ran into the best team in football twice
Speaker 5: best mean football beat them. So I think they just
Speaker 5: look at it as, yes, it's a measuring stick, because
Speaker 5: if they beat or how they play against them shows
Speaker 5: where they are. But I don't get the vibe that
Speaker 5: it's all or nothing. If you follow me, I think
Speaker 5: they think, well, this is gonna be measuring stick. And
Speaker 5: then the Bills and then the Bengal. You know they're
Speaker 5: gonna be big games. At some point, they're gonna start
Speaker 5: winning those big games, is it, Sunday? I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think they're gonna be really good for a long time.
Speaker 5: Are they ready to win this game? Sunday? I don't know,
Speaker 5: because that's why they play the games.
Speaker 1: I think this is why we're so confident about them
Speaker 1: going forward, because it's not like years past or maybe
Speaker 1: they're getting up for one big game and then there's
Speaker 1: a f all off after that. They're even keeled going
Speaker 1: into this. Yes it's a big game, but they know
Speaker 1: There's a lot more season to go after week two,
Speaker 1: so stay with us here on jag Zam. He will,
Speaker 1: he won't, he might? As we preview the Sunday's matchup
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Speaker 1: Welcome back as we get ready for he will he won't?
Speaker 1: He might in our Sunday matchup against the Chiefs. Rand
Speaker 1: you want to kick us off with who you.
Speaker 5: Have for him?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going with Andre Cisco and Andre will have
Speaker 4: a big game on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Now, look, I just got done saying they didn't look
Speaker 2: back to last year.
Speaker 4: But if there's one guy that might look back, it
Speaker 4: would be Andre Cisco. You know, he got that penalty
Speaker 4: for the hit that he made on Marcus Valdez. Scant No,
Speaker 4: was a scantling, I thought it was.
Speaker 2: It was Jay Wright. It was a concussions christ teacher, right.
Speaker 4: Okay, So he had that big hit which was not
Speaker 4: any illegal hit. And then of course he had the
Speaker 4: hit last week on the tight end in the ball game,
Speaker 4: again not a cheap shot, but it was illegal in
Speaker 4: the sense that it was poorly timed. He's a big
Speaker 4: hitter and a big, big player in the middle of
Speaker 4: this defense. He'll have a big game on Sunday and
Speaker 4: he might remember a little bit about last year. He
Speaker 4: won't back down. His style is not going to change.
Speaker 4: He'll make adjustments so that he doesn't give fifteen yard
Speaker 4: penalties every game, but that's just not the way he's
Speaker 4: going to play the game. He is going to be
Speaker 4: there to deliver the hit in the middle of the field.
Speaker 4: He's an enforcer of swords and John. I think he
Speaker 4: might be the most overlooked guy in the Jaguars on
Speaker 4: the Jaguars defense, because you know, we talked about Trayvon
Speaker 4: and Josh and Foyer and Devin and Tyson all the time,
Speaker 4: and yet Andre Cisco is a really good football player
Speaker 4: and a really important piece on the back end. You know,
Speaker 4: he's that quarterback of the defense, especially the secondary, that
Speaker 4: gets everybody where they're supposed to be. And then he's
Speaker 4: got the speed, in the range, in the size to
Speaker 4: be a good closer and clean plays up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was He's starting to be really good, and
Speaker 5: he was good last year starting to come on. He
Speaker 5: had that weird start where he didn't play as a
Speaker 5: rookie in the urban year. That was all kind of
Speaker 5: messed up. But yeah, he's quietly. I'm not sure why
Speaker 5: it's so quiet, because he's a big hitter and he
Speaker 5: makes plays, so it feels like he's one game or
Speaker 5: one sort of big play away from all of a
Speaker 5: sudden being a guy that every fan talks about hay
Speaker 5: lof Cisco, Yeah, because he's a likable kid when you
Speaker 5: interview him, very very intelligent, very dynamic to talk to.
Speaker 5: He's a safety who he has a little bit of
Speaker 5: a unique combination of he really hits and at the
Speaker 5: same time he's got an incredible nose for the ball.
Speaker 5: So he's probably that close to being, I don't say
Speaker 5: a national name, but a really big time player. A
Speaker 5: lot of people know.
Speaker 4: About hadding towards Aco in his last year, Yeah, Syracuse,
Speaker 4: he would have been a.
Speaker 1: First up pick, certainly a first round talent at least
Speaker 1: for US. Fortunately, John, who do you have for he will?
Speaker 7: He won't?
Speaker 1: He might this week?
Speaker 5: Well, I kind of went with the obvious, or to me,
Speaker 5: it's obvious. Calvin Ridley, he will obviously be very important
Speaker 5: to the game plan. He won't be overlooked because she's
Speaker 5: going to know about him. At the same time, in
Speaker 5: the he won't part. He's the one factor in this offense.
Speaker 5: With apologies to Bigsby and Strange, He's the one difference
Speaker 5: between what they were last year and what they are now.
Speaker 5: And we've all talked about it. We talked about it
Speaker 5: so much in the off season. We saw a little
Speaker 5: bit of it last week. But it feels to me
Speaker 5: like there's a step in terms of dynamic above the
Speaker 5: exits and those plays that he's capable of that might good. Hey,
Speaker 5: I didn't have to stop. I just went right into it.
Speaker 5: You're getting John might be the difference in the game
Speaker 5: because he's the difference in this offense and just statistically
Speaker 5: scored twenty fourist last year scored twenty against the Chiefs.
Speaker 5: He might be that guy that gets him to thirty
Speaker 5: that they need. So great trade. Obviously, great vision to
Speaker 5: see this coming from Trent Balkey. He might be the
Speaker 5: difference in the game because as good as he looked
Speaker 5: last week, I think Jaguars fans are excited about what
Speaker 5: he did. Did you guys think that he was maxing
Speaker 5: out at all. I mean, so there's something there, Yes,
Speaker 5: And you wonder if with a special player like this,
Speaker 5: the moment gets bigger, he'll get bigger. So I just
Speaker 5: wonder if there's not a big moment game something from
Speaker 5: Calvin Realley this weekend.
Speaker 1: Mine is similar in the sense that it bounces off Calvin. Really,
Speaker 1: because I'm staying the offensive side of the ball, I picked.
Speaker 3: The Christian Kurk.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to lead the team and catches
Speaker 1: this week because I don't believe he's going to be shit.
Speaker 1: He won't be shut out like he was last week.
Speaker 1: I don't believe he's gonna have two down weeks in
Speaker 1: a row. And we discussed, you know, Jay Jones was
Speaker 1: the recipient of some of those benefits from playing with
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley when there's overcoverage on him. Za Jones benefited
Speaker 1: with that great touchdown catch, and I think Christian Kirk
Speaker 1: is going to benefit this week. Especially if Chris Jones
Speaker 1: in the backfield a lot, They're going to want to
Speaker 1: bail out and get those quick passes off, and I
Speaker 1: think Christian Kirk is going to be that guy that
Speaker 1: is the recipient for that. Frequently and he might very
Speaker 1: well be the guy at the end of the game
Speaker 1: that ends up being that game winning catch, whether it's
Speaker 1: Calvin or not. Because I know everybody's eyes are on Calvin,
Speaker 1: I think it might be one of the other targets.
Speaker 1: And for me, it's Christian Kirk this week that I
Speaker 1: think will benefit most from that.
Speaker 4: I talked to offensive coordinator Press Taylor yesterday after practice.
Speaker 4: He told me that he had a nice conversation with Christian.
Speaker 4: The Christian gets the fact that with all the talent
Speaker 4: that's there on the offensive side of the ball, there
Speaker 4: are going to be days where the ball is just
Speaker 4: going to go the other way. And there were situations
Speaker 4: in the game where the ball could have gone to him.
Speaker 4: But the Colts, and especially with the linebacker Shack Leonard
Speaker 4: and middle of the field, we're very aware of where
Speaker 4: Christian Kirk was. And he doesn't think there's gonna be
Speaker 4: a lot of games this year where Christian Kirk only
Speaker 4: has one catch.
Speaker 5: Here's what's going to happen this year. Every week, I'm
Speaker 5: going to get some email, but why didn't they do this?
Speaker 1: You know? Ye?
Speaker 5: All the emails last week were why did they stick
Speaker 5: with the run? So much. Well, you know what if
Speaker 5: they hadn't stuck with the run and been why they
Speaker 5: get away from the run. If you're going to stick
Speaker 5: with the run, which this team is going to do
Speaker 5: in spots, and get the ball to Ridley and get
Speaker 5: the ball to Evan and get the ball to Tank
Speaker 5: and get the you know, somebody's going to get left
Speaker 5: out because there's only so many I answered a question
Speaker 5: about Christian Kirk this week in the Ozone Man, so
Speaker 5: his game's only last, so loll there's only so many
Speaker 5: catches or there's only so many plays. If it had
Speaker 5: been five quarters, I'll bet Kirk has three catches for twenties,
Speaker 5: you know, but time runs out and all of a sudden,
Speaker 5: presses that they're going I got it now, I gotta
Speaker 5: talk to.
Speaker 4: Well listen my interview with Press wool Run in the
Speaker 4: first hour of the pregame radio show, so if you'd
Speaker 4: like to hear it, look for it there. But he said,
Speaker 4: I'm going to call plays for everyone. I'm never going
Speaker 4: to tell the quarterback where to throw the football, right, Okay, Well,
Speaker 4: that's the quarterback's decision based on what he sees, and
Speaker 4: week to week based on what the defense says, with
Speaker 4: how the defense tries to defend them, he will find
Speaker 4: guys that are open.
Speaker 1: Look at us all these options?
Speaker 5: Is this what is this about?
Speaker 1: The team has so many places to go. This is great,
Speaker 1: this is a good, good place to be, but they
Speaker 1: have too many people to throw the ball to say
Speaker 1: with us as we go around the locker room previewing
Speaker 1: Sunday's matchup against the Chiefs back here on JAG's Am,
Speaker 1: We're going to quickly go around the locker room see
Speaker 1: what some of the players had to say as they
Speaker 1: get geared up for a big matchup this week on Sunday.
Speaker 6: They're really a great all around team. The old line
Speaker 6: works really well together. Mahomes is obviously a tremendous quarterback,
Speaker 6: Travis obviously a great receiving threat. And then it's it's
Speaker 6: schematics as well. You know, Andy Reid is a you know,
Speaker 6: he's gonna be a Hall of Fame coach one day,
Speaker 6: so you know, he's putting his guys in a great position.
Speaker 9: It's really about what we need to do, making sure
Speaker 9: that everyone's in the spots that they need to be,
Speaker 9: making sure that we all rely on one another, and
Speaker 9: we go out there and we'd be where we need
Speaker 9: to be where we need to be there and just
Speaker 9: trust the process and and uh we'll see what happens
Speaker 9: at the end.
Speaker 5: Of the game.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it'll be a good test for us early in
Speaker 10: the season to see where we're at. And uh, you know,
Speaker 10: this is gonna be a tight football game, and we
Speaker 10: know that, we know adversity's gonna strike. And so I
Speaker 10: think it's big for us, you know, week two, uh,
Speaker 10: to really get a taste of you know, the caliber
Speaker 10: football and the level of football that we want to play,
Speaker 10: you know, and we're gonna have to beat teams like
Speaker 10: this to get to where we want to go. So
Speaker 10: I think it's really important, you know, for us to
Speaker 10: approach it that way. And uh, you know, I'm looking
Speaker 10: forward to see how we respond, like I said, you know,
Speaker 10: when when things get tough and uh, you know, hopefully
Speaker 10: come out on the positive side of fans.
Speaker 1: So all right, seems like the players are ready, coaches
Speaker 1: are ready. I know the fans are ready to get
Speaker 1: out there on Sunday. Uh, final call you guys who
Speaker 1: you got on Sunday?
Speaker 5: John Ah, ain'ts h I'm bailing because I got to
Speaker 5: pick for it. I think it's a coin flip. I
Speaker 5: think the Jaguars can win. I don't know if they're
Speaker 5: ready to beat Mahomes, so I think it's gonna be tight.
Speaker 2: I say Jacksonville thirty one to thirty.
Speaker 4: Brandon McManus drills a long field goal to beat the
Speaker 4: Chiefs here in front of an insane crowd on a
Speaker 4: really warm day, and yeah, I just have the sense
Speaker 4: that this team is ready to get over that hump, now,
Speaker 4: you know. I mean that doesn't mean they're gonna be
Speaker 4: all of these teams, you know, the Buffaloes and the
Speaker 4: Bengals and that, but I just have the sense that
Speaker 4: this one is theirs.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's part of me that thinks this offense could
Speaker 5: score if they can get these guys blocked, which is
Speaker 5: a big if. Yeah, the offense it's there, it's there
Speaker 5: if they can get him blocked.
Speaker 4: I also don't think that Travis Kelcey, even if he plays,
Speaker 4: is gonna be anywhere near himself. And I think that
Speaker 4: Devin Lloyd and Andre Cisco are more prepared this year
Speaker 4: to be able to handle that or however Mike uses them.
Speaker 4: But those two guys would seem to be the guys
Speaker 4: most capable of handling him in that situation, and I
Speaker 4: just don't think he's going to be himself, and I
Speaker 4: think the Jags take advantage of that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a game where we can see if some
Speaker 5: guys have grown up.
Speaker 1: Yep, absolutely, we'll see. It's definitely going to come down
Speaker 1: to the last minute. I think for whoever comes out
Speaker 1: on top, I'm going to double down on the Jags.
Speaker 1: I said they were going to start really hot, so
Speaker 1: they're going to take down the Chiefs in week two.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll have all of your recap for you
Speaker 1: on Monday on Jags Am. Enjoy the home opener on Sunday,