Speaker 1: It is Thursday, September nine. This is Jaguars Happy Hour,
Speaker 1: and now a confused man trapped in a bastion of
Speaker 1: common sense? Or is that the other way around? J
Speaker 1: P lost track, I'll say that. Welcome in a Jaguars
Speaker 1: Happy Hour on this Thursday afternoon. Glad you're along with
Speaker 1: us today, j P Shatdrick with you, and we've got
Speaker 1: a busy show ahead, a busy couple hours ahead, in fact,
Speaker 1: a week one preview the Jaguars in the Houston Texans
Speaker 1: coming up this Sunday at n r G Stadium in Houston, Texas.
Speaker 1: Will preview that game. Of course, Trevor Lawrence making his
Speaker 1: debut as his head coach, Irban Meyer. We'll hear from
Speaker 1: Daryl Bebel, the offensive coordinator, and Joe Cullen, the defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: Both of those guys talked today. CBS Sports analyst Adam
Speaker 1: Archiletta is on the call this Sunday. He'll join us
Speaker 1: about four fifteen or so today, and Jaguars analyst Jeff
Speaker 1: Logaman jumps on a Then at five o'clock on the
Speaker 1: Jaguars Radio Network, it is the season debut of the
Speaker 1: Urban Meyer Show. The head coach schedule to join us
Speaker 1: at five o'clock today. Let's recap the week. Let's start
Speaker 1: with urban Meyer back on Monday, setting the tone for
Speaker 1: the week ahead in Week number one, confident in the
Speaker 1: operation of the organization heading into the week. This week important,
Speaker 1: of course, but in a little different way than it
Speaker 1: was back in college. Certainly in college it's a you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's a march madness, you're a you know. Um,
Speaker 1: it's just a little different that you know, you can't
Speaker 1: lose a game in college and professional football. Reality is reality.
Speaker 1: But yeah, heck yeah, this is a tone center, this
Speaker 1: is a center for everything. But it's also the first game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so obviously, back in college, you lose one game. Ask
Speaker 1: ask Clemson, you lose one game and your chances of
Speaker 1: getting to the college football playoff have gone way way
Speaker 1: down there, minuscule in fact, that Clemson has to run
Speaker 1: the table right now, in fact, do that well. In
Speaker 1: the NFL, you lose one game, there are six team
Speaker 1: more to go, and it's all about standing. So you're
Speaker 1: no rankings, you don't have to impress any voters any
Speaker 1: of that. But obviously it is a big game for
Speaker 1: urban Meyer. It's his first NFL game. He's getting ready
Speaker 1: to put it on display for the first time for
Speaker 1: a lot of people that may or may not believe
Speaker 1: that he can do it at the NFL level. So
Speaker 1: I'm sure at some point deep down he's ready to
Speaker 1: go out and put a good performance together for this
Speaker 1: football team. The Jaguars named captains this week as well.
Speaker 1: Seven captains named by the Jaguars. Urban Meyer announced them,
Speaker 1: but they were voted on by the team. Three on offense,
Speaker 1: Marvin Jones Jr. The wide receiver, Trevor Lawrence, the rookie quarterback,
Speaker 1: and center Brandon Linder is the first Jaguars player to
Speaker 1: have five straight years of captaincy, so he has the
Speaker 1: full gold Sea on his jersey this year. On defense,
Speaker 1: there are four captains, Josh Allen, Shaquille Griffin, Ray, Shawn Jenkins,
Speaker 1: and Miles Jack who spoke with the media this week,
Speaker 1: it is an honor for the six year linebacker. I
Speaker 1: just feel like it's one of the highest honors, especially
Speaker 1: in the NFL. I mean, a lot of um awards
Speaker 1: to kind of be skewed, but to be in your
Speaker 1: building and have people, you know what I mean, feel
Speaker 1: like you deserve to be a captain. I'll truly appreciate it,
Speaker 1: and especially with the new faces and new you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, there's so many new guys, a brand
Speaker 1: new team. So um, I guess to just kind of
Speaker 1: have that kind of respect and you know, people think
Speaker 1: that high. It means a lot. So Meyer said the
Speaker 1: other day that Myles Jack was the leading vote getter
Speaker 1: of all the votes for captain for the Jaguars this year.
Speaker 1: And I remember the Jaguars last year actually had eight
Speaker 1: captains on the team. Urban Meyer says in the past
Speaker 1: he's always wanted a bunch of captains around, so they
Speaker 1: have seven on the roster this year and another one
Speaker 1: of those captains, as we mentioned as rookie quarterback Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 1: It's this first start the National Football League and the
Speaker 1: regular season that's coming against the Houston Texans, and Trevor
Speaker 1: discussing earlier this week, what do expect from the Texans
Speaker 1: defense this This won't change every week, but just um,
Speaker 1: just do what I do, don't try to do too much.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. I got great players around me. Just
Speaker 1: trusting those guys, trusting Coach Bev, Coach Shoddy, everybody put
Speaker 1: me in a good position which they have, um, and
Speaker 1: just just go and play. But as far as defensively, um,
Speaker 1: just a really sound defense. They don't try to necessarily
Speaker 1: trick you. They don't have a bunch of crazy looks
Speaker 1: and you know, all these different coverages. They keep it
Speaker 1: pretty simple. But the tough thing about that is when
Speaker 1: you keep something simple, they everyone's exactly where they're supposed
Speaker 1: to be, so it makes those windows tighter. Um. They
Speaker 1: do a really good job when they play man coverage
Speaker 1: of not giving up big plays. So that'll be a challenge. Um,
Speaker 1: But definitely definitely, like definitely like what we've seen from
Speaker 1: our group. But um, yeah, they do a good job
Speaker 1: zone eyes, really good job reading the quarterback, like they
Speaker 1: they forced ten turnovers this preseason, which is, you know,
Speaker 1: three games, that's a lot of turnover. So that's one
Speaker 1: thing that jumps out off the page. And they're looking
Speaker 1: at just their stats, um, but just the way they
Speaker 1: fly around has been has been impressive to watch. Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence the first overall pick in the NFL draft and
Speaker 1: in the common draft era from nineteen sixty seven through now,
Speaker 1: there have been twenty five first overall pick quarterbacks selected
Speaker 1: in their first career NFL start, they are a combined
Speaker 1: four wins, twenty losses, and one tie. The wins Jim
Speaker 1: Plunkett and seventy one lay at eighty three, Michael Vick
Speaker 1: and oh one, and the last to do it was
Speaker 1: David Carr with the Texans in two thousand two. The
Speaker 1: lone tie Kyler Murray in twenty nineteen, and a lot
Speaker 1: of the performances is you would expect with the number
Speaker 1: one overall pick. A lot of times don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of personnel around number one pick. There's a reason
Speaker 1: the team is picking number one overall. This one feels
Speaker 1: a little bit different though. There are a lot of
Speaker 1: players back from this team that went one in fifteen.
Speaker 1: On the offensive side, a veteran offensive line they have
Speaker 1: confidence in. They've added a tight end to the mix,
Speaker 1: two run block and Chris Manhert's They've got wide receivers
Speaker 1: the top three they're very confident in, and d J.
Speaker 1: Chark will be healthy and ready to go. The running
Speaker 1: back returns they've added a couple to that room as well.
Speaker 1: So this has maybe a little bit of a different
Speaker 1: feel of fully revamped defense to go along with that.
Speaker 1: We just don't have an idea of what it's really
Speaker 1: all going to look like. Yet we'll find out coming
Speaker 1: up on Sunday, and hopefully he can buck that trend
Speaker 1: of number one overall pick quarterbacks struggling early in their
Speaker 1: rookie seasons. Now on the Jaguar's offensive coordinator Darryl Bevil
Speaker 1: ready to push the buttons and get this offense moving
Speaker 1: and discussing Trevor Lawrence earlier today, really comfortable. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm excited about his progress. And you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: been a daily thing and it still is a daily,
Speaker 1: daily deal for him. Uh. He puts a lot of
Speaker 1: effort and time into it. He really works his tail off.
Speaker 1: You know, there's there's so much at the court back
Speaker 1: has to do, and we take off of him as
Speaker 1: much as we can, you know, we gotta. We're very
Speaker 1: fortunate that we have a veteran center, you know, in
Speaker 1: in Brandon Linder, who can take some of that stuff
Speaker 1: off of him, but you know, ultimately always falls back
Speaker 1: on the quarterback. So where he's at right now, I'm
Speaker 1: really excited about good spot to be good offseason for Lawrence.
Speaker 1: Of course, all positive reports and grades throughout the off season,
Speaker 1: preseason training camp, the entire thing and that continues now
Speaker 1: heading into Week one. Well, he also has to have
Speaker 1: somebody to throw the football too. He hasn't really had
Speaker 1: a deep threat Lawrence in the preseason, at least until
Speaker 1: the final game when they signed a couple of guys
Speaker 1: to bring in to throw the ball down the field
Speaker 1: a little bit more. One of those should be back
Speaker 1: this week. D J. Chark Jr. Big year for Chart.
Speaker 1: It's his fourth year contracts season for him. And we
Speaker 1: heard from Bevil today as well. What does DJ Chark
Speaker 1: bring to this Jaguars offense. It's huge for us. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's he's a veteran player, you know, he's he's he's
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl player, brings great experience to us. I mean,
Speaker 1: he he really has been working his tail off, you know.
Speaker 1: And it's unfortunate that he that he you know, hurt
Speaker 1: that finger because he missed some of the time. But uh,
Speaker 1: these last I would say three days, Um, he's really
Speaker 1: kind of hit his stride again. He's got his speedback.
Speaker 1: He looks really good moving down the field. So I
Speaker 1: mean I've decided with him and Marvin and uh lavisca
Speaker 1: pretty good trio there and that's the idea, at least
Speaker 1: on offense at wide receiver. Let's move down on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. Joe Cullen ready to dial
Speaker 1: it up for the first time as a defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: in the National Football League, a long time in this
Speaker 1: league as a defensive line coach. Now gets an opportunity,
Speaker 1: and his first opportunity will be against Tyrod Taylor, the
Speaker 1: quarterback for the Houston Texans, and Cullen dug deep during
Speaker 1: the research of Taylor. He's the big thing is when
Speaker 1: he can make he can make the deep throws. He's
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl quarterback. He can he can win the
Speaker 1: game with his feet if if, if they like to
Speaker 1: do that, and we're gotta do a great job. So
Speaker 1: we went back to the all this time at Buffalo.
Speaker 1: We opened season with him when when when we were
Speaker 1: at Baltimore, and the biggest thing we want to do
Speaker 1: is make sure we kept him in the pocket because
Speaker 1: that's where he was beating people. So we just go
Speaker 1: back to see it, not necessarily the plays, and then
Speaker 1: we looked at the the playoff game here and they
Speaker 1: were doing a lot of some Buffalo is doing a
Speaker 1: lot of similar things that Easton is doing booting them out,
Speaker 1: sprinting them out. So we went back to those two
Speaker 1: games Jags and and when when Baltimore opened against him
Speaker 1: digging deep, they're hoping the pass rush can kind of
Speaker 1: keep him contained. Tyrod Taylor a six round picked by
Speaker 1: the Ravens back in twenty eleven. That's a while a
Speaker 1: code now, he's just kind of hung around the league.
Speaker 1: He's had some moments, putting a starting time in the
Speaker 1: regular season against the Jaguars. He's played in two games
Speaker 1: with one start. He did have that playoff start for
Speaker 1: Buffalo after the seventeen season, the a f C wild
Speaker 1: Card playoff game. The Jaguars defense was strong, really strong
Speaker 1: in that game. He had a regular season started against
Speaker 1: the Jags in sixteen with Buffalo, and I was twelve
Speaker 1: of eighteen passing and that one was sacked five times.
Speaker 1: That is a while ago though, of course, even back
Speaker 1: to that playoff game after the seventeen season, and we'll
Speaker 1: see what this defense looks like. A revamped group up front.
Speaker 1: Can they stop the run? That's a big question this week.
Speaker 1: The Texans have a stable of veteran running backs behind
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor to work with and you know, guys have
Speaker 1: been around the league for a while. Rex Burke headed
Speaker 1: his ninth season, mark Ingram and his eleventh season in
Speaker 1: the league. David Johnson and season number seven. Philip Linzey
Speaker 1: is one of the young guns of the group and
Speaker 1: he's in his fourth year and he's had a lot
Speaker 1: of success in the National Football League. So that is
Speaker 1: a veteran running back room. We'll see what kind of
Speaker 1: rotation that Texans have and if this Jaguars run defense
Speaker 1: is fixed. Only one way to find out, Let's to
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Speaker 1: Thursday afternoon. J P. Shadrick with you. Coming up in
Speaker 1: just a few minutes, Jeff Logoman will join US Jaguars analysts,
Speaker 1: and then at five o'clock Urban Meyer's show makes a
Speaker 1: season debut you on the Jaguars Radio Network. That's coming
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Speaker 1: Jaguars in Week two when the Jaguars host the Denver
Speaker 1: Broncos for their home opener. Adam arch Alta has been
Speaker 1: on NFL and NFL and CBS analyst since and now
Speaker 1: is in a second season working with the veteran play
Speaker 1: by play man Greg Gumbel. Archer Letta we spoke earlier today,
Speaker 1: had plenty of thoughts about the debut for Meyer and
Speaker 1: Lawrence Revent and defense for the Jaguars, and Adam Archiletta
Speaker 1: has seen some Jaguars football games over the years with
Speaker 1: the call on CBS Sports. This Sunday is the Jaguars
Speaker 1: face the Houston Texans. It's analysts Adam Archiletta are good
Speaker 1: friend who knows the Jaguars well, Great to see you
Speaker 1: again and happy kickoff weekend. Yeah, it's uh, it's good
Speaker 1: to be back in the saddle, that's for sure. It's
Speaker 1: always interesting after you know, going eight or nine months
Speaker 1: um in between doing games and just getting back into
Speaker 1: the swing of things. But there's nothing like to start
Speaker 1: a football season, whether you're playing or announcing. It's a
Speaker 1: great time. The Jaguars are currently, Adam on a fifteen
Speaker 1: game losing streak. Unfortunately, that's got to end at some
Speaker 1: point soon. It's a new era of Jaguars football. New coach,
Speaker 1: new quarterback, brand new defense. I mean you've been you've
Speaker 1: been covering Jaguars games for a long time on CBS.
Speaker 1: You started with the NFL and CBS. It has been
Speaker 1: quite a journey for this organization from that time too
Speaker 1: now and hopefully it's the start of a brand new future.
Speaker 1: You're right, I've seen I've seen the Jaguars go through
Speaker 1: big ebbs and flows from from Gus to uh to
Speaker 1: Doug Morone and Tom Coughlin and now Urban Meyer. I've
Speaker 1: seen him as you guys have a lot of different
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that were supposed to be the answer. Um. But
Speaker 1: I gotta say, if you want to be optimistic, and
Speaker 1: you are optimistic, I mean, it doesn't get any better
Speaker 1: than this. Chevor Lawrence is now your quarterback. If he
Speaker 1: can't do it, I don't know who can. So you
Speaker 1: know it's gonna be a bumpy season. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: ups and downs on paper. Right now, he has everything
Speaker 1: that it takes to be that guy for you guys,
Speaker 1: so that the enthusiasm is well deserved. Urban Meyer spent
Speaker 1: the whole offseason, Adam trying to establish the culture here.
Speaker 1: I guess the question is, how do you know when
Speaker 1: a culture is established? When do you stop pressing the
Speaker 1: gas pedal on that car? And and just get going
Speaker 1: week to week and coaching football games. Or is it
Speaker 1: a constant evolution and reminder of what the culture should be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good question. I don't think. I think you're
Speaker 1: always toying with it. And I think when you get
Speaker 1: a locker room in the same message, it becomes stagnant
Speaker 1: and it becomes on repeat, then you start to lose things.
Speaker 1: I think culture, certainly, it starts with being able to
Speaker 1: draft and develop your young talent right and not have
Speaker 1: to go out and really stock your team with a
Speaker 1: bunch of different cree agents. You need those pieces, sure,
Speaker 1: but the culture really comes from from getting those young guys.
Speaker 1: And one thing, you know, there's I mentioned Gus and
Speaker 1: I mentioned Coughlin in Marown. Very different cults, personalities, very
Speaker 1: different cultures. Both are successful. To me, what it comes
Speaker 1: down to as a player is very simple. If I
Speaker 1: buy in to what you're teaching me and I see
Speaker 1: the result on the field, meaning I make more plays
Speaker 1: and I'm having success, then I don't really care what
Speaker 1: kind of coach you are. I don't care if you're
Speaker 1: positive like Gus authority too. I don't care what it
Speaker 1: is because the bottom line is if I buy into,
Speaker 1: you amy a better player at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: And if these coaches and the staff can instill that
Speaker 1: in the players within your culture, is going to be
Speaker 1: just fine. But players are really good at at sniffing
Speaker 1: out like if you're a phony. And if if I
Speaker 1: buy in and then I'm not getting rewarded, well, then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, now we have a problem. So
Speaker 1: I think that's really what it comes down to. And
Speaker 1: look not to say that the previous two coaches didn't
Speaker 1: do that, because they are wildly successful, right, it just
Speaker 1: didn't translate to getting it done on the field. And
Speaker 1: a Marcialletta with us. You touched on Trevor Lawrence. He's
Speaker 1: the number one overall pick and historically number one overall
Speaker 1: picks struggle from time to time in the first year.
Speaker 1: And a lot of rookie quarterbacks too. It's just the
Speaker 1: name of the game. This one feels a little different
Speaker 1: coming in. There's a lot of guys back from a
Speaker 1: one and fifteen football team. On this offense, the entire
Speaker 1: line is back, a couple of receivers. The running back
Speaker 1: you're plugging in, Trevor Lawrence, can they lean on him
Speaker 1: right away and open up this full playbook or do
Speaker 1: you work him into it as the week's go along.
Speaker 1: I don't really think that you can really, you know,
Speaker 1: throw the kitchen sink. Um, this is going to be
Speaker 1: a progression, and if you've been around the NFL, there
Speaker 1: are going to be ups and downs, and there's a
Speaker 1: good chance he might struggle mightily. The best example I
Speaker 1: think I can come up with to explain this process,
Speaker 1: and somebody I was completely wrong on was Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: I did maybe three or four of Josh Allen's games
Speaker 1: as the rookie. I had severe questions I had he
Speaker 1: where he had to come from. He was so raw
Speaker 1: and he came from I've never seen a quarterback come
Speaker 1: from that that a level of rowne. Right, he made
Speaker 1: improvements in the set a year, but I still had reservations.
Speaker 1: You know, there are some basic stuff that he just
Speaker 1: wasn't getting and I really really questioned on whether or not,
Speaker 1: you know, he was gonna be an effective quarterback. And
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, bam, right, and now this
Speaker 1: guy is legit, like it's the real deal, legit, bona
Speaker 1: fide guy. But it was our rocky first two years. Um,
Speaker 1: you see it, you know, the early success Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: had when he came in, you know, kind of took
Speaker 1: over and gave Cleveland a shot in the arm, gave
Speaker 1: him some energy. Then he struggled in year two and
Speaker 1: he has some questions. You know, Kevin Steffancie comes in.
Speaker 1: You see last year he starts to turn it around
Speaker 1: and starts to make plays again. So I know, we
Speaker 1: want to see Trevor Lawrence come out and just light
Speaker 1: it up and be on fire. Chances are that's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen. But again, if he can't do it, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know who can he He might be maybe
Speaker 1: the most polished, you know, guy coming out of college
Speaker 1: since Andrew Luck and certainly look had some good times
Speaker 1: as a rookie. But you just gotta ride the journey
Speaker 1: and you just gotta be willing to take it. Jacksonville fans,
Speaker 1: some great moments, some head scratching moments, but that's the
Speaker 1: beauty of you had a football fan. Adam Archialletta with us.
Speaker 1: This defense last year couldn't stop the run at all. Adam,
Speaker 1: they were thirty first in the league against the run.
Speaker 1: They made it a priority in the off season, though
Speaker 1: in personnel to go get a bunch of free agent
Speaker 1: players up front, a new linebacker. They added a bunch
Speaker 1: of free agency and the bat in the defensive backfield
Speaker 1: put some draft equity into that too. The question is
Speaker 1: what is this thing going to look like? On defense?
Speaker 1: First of all, it's a whole brand new scheme three four,
Speaker 1: they're multiple, a new coordinator, so many new faces. I
Speaker 1: think that's the real question mark of this game on
Speaker 1: Sunday is what in the heck is this thing going
Speaker 1: to look like? Yeah, you know, I think that's a
Speaker 1: that's a great question. It's funny because you go to
Speaker 1: the Texan side and they're going they're almost swopping places
Speaker 1: so tech. The Texans were, you know, extremely multiple and
Speaker 1: doing all that stuff with with Romeo's influence. You know,
Speaker 1: now they go to you know, Lovey Smith, who who
Speaker 1: keeps it more simple and gets guys to play fast.
Speaker 1: On the other side, you know, if they're gonna bring
Speaker 1: that that Ravens kind of style that they're kind of
Speaker 1: known for, it's gonna be extremely multiple, right. And so
Speaker 1: you've got a coach that's coming from a place with
Speaker 1: a track record of doing two things, putting tremendous pressure
Speaker 1: on the quarterback and playing with an extremely physical style.
Speaker 1: I mean that's been the Raven blueprint for years. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously they draft well, they get good players, they develop players. Um,
Speaker 1: if it resembles anything like what they've been able to
Speaker 1: build in Baltimore, then I think it's gonna be a treat.
Speaker 1: But again, these are two brand new staff, got a
Speaker 1: bunch of new players, a bunch of new faces. You know,
Speaker 1: this thing is gonna take time. You know they've had
Speaker 1: to rebuild this thing. But there's no doubt that upfront
Speaker 1: is where it starts in the NFL. If you've got
Speaker 1: guys that can, that can be physical and stuff to
Speaker 1: run and then obviously get after the passer and harass him.
Speaker 1: That is really the first two ingredients that you need
Speaker 1: for a top end defense. And it feels like a
Speaker 1: big year for Josh Allen. He missed a bunch of
Speaker 1: games last year defensive in outside linebacker. Now a little
Speaker 1: different set up in this scheme for him. What kind
Speaker 1: of year can you expect from Alan coming off he's
Speaker 1: healthy now and all this new environment around him. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: it always comes down to hell first and foremost, And
Speaker 1: you know that's the number one thing that can kind
Speaker 1: of derail a player who has a lot of promise
Speaker 1: and had some very early success, right, so you know,
Speaker 1: if he resembles anything like he was as a rookie,
Speaker 1: hey lights out. Now, as a rookie, he was more
Speaker 1: of a situational guy, you know, wasn't really a three
Speaker 1: down guy, and so he got a chance with a
Speaker 1: pretty good pass rusher on the other side to take
Speaker 1: some of the heat off of him, you know, But
Speaker 1: now he's probably going to be asked to carry the
Speaker 1: load a little bit. Um Again, he is being taught
Speaker 1: and in a system that really has it dialed in
Speaker 1: on on how they eat protection, how they get after
Speaker 1: the past, or how they manufacture rush. In order to
Speaker 1: do that, you've got to have a pretty discipline secondary
Speaker 1: that can communicate, you know, and not get mixed up
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Speaker 1: to some big plays. If their defensive coordinator's history is
Speaker 1: any any predictor, they should be able to manufacture some
Speaker 1: very good pressures and put a guy like Allen in
Speaker 1: one on one matchup and I expect that he's gonna emerge.
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Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars, Welcome back. It's Jaguars Happy Hour on
Speaker 1: a Thursday afternoon. Jaguars Game Day broadcast are presented by
Speaker 1: Vicestar Credit Union. Glad you're along with us today, JP
Speaker 1: Shadrick thanks to Adam Archoletta of CBS Sports. Jeff Logaman
Speaker 1: jumps in now Jaguars analysts, and it is almost kick
Speaker 1: off weekend. In fact, it starts tonight down in Tampa.
Speaker 1: The World champ is gonna go on. Yeah, I'm excited
Speaker 1: about that game and everything that you read about the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers and how much better they are this year.
Speaker 1: That's hard to imagine because they got on such a
Speaker 1: role at the end last year. If they're better than
Speaker 1: last year, look out. I mean, it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: great team and look a great way to celebrate their
Speaker 1: Super Bowl championship. And also against America's team. I mean,
Speaker 1: what better way to start the NFL calendar. So the
Speaker 1: Jaguars will soon be America's team. Okay, there the next thing.
Speaker 1: If you win, If you win, you can become everybody's team.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the fact. I mean, JP, you go
Speaker 1: back and and seriously, you go back to the seventies
Speaker 1: and when I was growing up as a kid, I
Speaker 1: grew up right in the backyard of the Washington Redskin,
Speaker 1: which is now the Washington football team. But in the seventies,
Speaker 1: who was really good, well, Dallas was good Steers, that's right,
Speaker 1: Terry Branshaw, Frank o'haris, Jack Lambert who was I used
Speaker 1: to just love Jack Lambert and they became kind of
Speaker 1: my adopted team, not you know, because they won. So
Speaker 1: I mean, there could be little kids in Kansas and
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh that could become Jaguar fans if the Jaguars win.
Speaker 1: It's that's what it's all about. It's about winning. Urban
Speaker 1: Meyers said to make his NFL regular season debut this week,
Speaker 1: and you know, he said it the other day in
Speaker 1: a press conference that he's so detail oriented when it
Speaker 1: comes to game planning and and having every tip sheet
Speaker 1: I dotted tease cross and everything. And he's really hard
Speaker 1: on his assistant coaches more than the players. So I'm
Speaker 1: sure this this week, going into regular season week one, uh,
Speaker 1: they're probably getting a full full glass of Urban my
Speaker 1: if you will, as he gets ready for a football game. Well, look,
Speaker 1: that's that's the head coach's job. I mean, he basically
Speaker 1: holds his assistance accountable, who in turn have to hold
Speaker 1: the players accountable. And the best in the business at
Speaker 1: it is Bill Belichick. And when you talked two different
Speaker 1: people that played for Bill Belichick, That's the one thing
Speaker 1: they always talk about is his attention to detail and
Speaker 1: how he never met, never missed any situation to where
Speaker 1: whenever they got into a game, they felt confident what
Speaker 1: they were doing because they had practiced it. And there's
Speaker 1: not many coaches that ever missed all of the details
Speaker 1: in the National Football League, but Belichick is one of them.
Speaker 1: Ken or Rumyer be one of them. Well, his track
Speaker 1: record is spoken. He's one of the winning his coaches
Speaker 1: in college football history. Does that translate to NFL success,
Speaker 1: Not necessarily, but it's sure you certainly have Look, if
Speaker 1: you stink as a college coach, there's probably not a
Speaker 1: real good chance you're gonna be good in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So at least you know that he has the ability
Speaker 1: to be a good coach, and so there's excitement there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you stink in college, you're not gonna get You
Speaker 1: might not be in college that long either. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: it's uh. I think leadership is obviously it's incredibly important,
Speaker 1: but at the NFL level, leadership is not everything. You
Speaker 1: can have great leadership. Jimmy Johnson great leader. Got a
Speaker 1: lot of respect for Jimmy Johnson. I mean, he's a
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame coach and he was able to do
Speaker 1: it in Dallas and do it at a level that
Speaker 1: was I mean at that time. I mean he was
Speaker 1: the man. I mean, he was dominant. And then he
Speaker 1: goes to Miami and it it turns out a little
Speaker 1: bit different. It's the same thing with Bill Belichick. Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick was in Cleveland and wasn't able to do anything.
Speaker 1: But then once he got together with some great players
Speaker 1: in New England, namely Tom Brady, he was great. So
Speaker 1: you gotta have both. And because there's been some great
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and not many though that have not one. Okay
Speaker 1: with without I mean, good luck if you if you
Speaker 1: gave if you're an owner of an NFL franchise and
Speaker 1: you asked that owner, and if you went to all
Speaker 1: owners in the NFL today and said, look, you've got
Speaker 1: a choice. You can either have the greatest coach or
Speaker 1: the greatest quarterback. Who you're gonna take the greatest quarterback? Yeah? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: those don't come around. Oh it's all day long. I mean,
Speaker 1: because that's that's what it takes. And Jaguars have what
Speaker 1: many view is that he could be a great quarterback.
Speaker 1: And so this is where you get excited, JP. I mean,
Speaker 1: because now the lights are bright, the game's count, there's
Speaker 1: winners and losers starting tonight, okay and carrying on into Sunday.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna see exactly where this football team stands,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna see where their first overall draft pick,
Speaker 1: how he measures up. It's awesome. You know. I'm just
Speaker 1: going back thinking about the coaches that have made the
Speaker 1: transition and john were talking about players. You know, Jimmy
Speaker 1: Johnson had players because they had up all the draft
Speaker 1: picks and traded her schell away and all that. Nick
Speaker 1: Saban didn't have it in Miami. They couldn't get Drew
Speaker 1: Brees down there. The physical well look, I mean Nick
Speaker 1: Snaven points to that as the reason why he lost.
Speaker 1: I mean sure, I mean, that's circle quarterback it. You
Speaker 1: gotta have a quarterback, and what you have won with
Speaker 1: it probably would have won a lot more than what
Speaker 1: he did, might have stayed in the in the National
Speaker 1: Football League longer. But Nick Saban did the wise thing
Speaker 1: and he went somewhere where the field is never level.
Speaker 1: And that's college football. You can always out recruit the
Speaker 1: other guy. I mean, but I mean that that's a
Speaker 1: rare talent in and of itself. I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: anybody can go and win in college football, because obviously
Speaker 1: that's not the case. But that's what makes football at
Speaker 1: the college level so much different than the NFL level.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the quarterback now, Trevor Lawrence making his
Speaker 1: National Football League debut, and we asked Archiletta this a
Speaker 1: moment ago. Do you let him lose? Do you work
Speaker 1: him into the game plan slowly with some high percentage throws,
Speaker 1: run the ball? But what's the field with Trevor? I think,
Speaker 1: I think you have to manage the situation. And I
Speaker 1: really felt that last year with Justin Herbert, the Chargers did,
Speaker 1: and Anthony Lynn did, I think a masterful job of
Speaker 1: managing him. And what people say, what do you mean
Speaker 1: by manage him? There were so many situations that the
Speaker 1: Chargers were in last year where you would have think, okay,
Speaker 1: you got to let Justin Herbert aired out here. And
Speaker 1: the Chargers chose to call running plays where they would
Speaker 1: hand the ball off. So they tried to take as
Speaker 1: much pressure off of Justin Herbert as they possibly could,
Speaker 1: and and and it made it an easier transition for him,
Speaker 1: it allowed him to have the success. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: that allowed him to have the success that he did.
Speaker 1: If he didn't have that management of the exposure or
Speaker 1: his exposure, I don't think he would have done as
Speaker 1: well as he as he did. So how do you
Speaker 1: do that? First of all, you need to run the
Speaker 1: football well. I mean, that's that's a big part of
Speaker 1: managing your quarterback. So if you run the football well,
Speaker 1: you take a lot of pressure off of him. And
Speaker 1: if you're all of a a sudden you run a first
Speaker 1: down play and you end up getting stuff for a
Speaker 1: one yard game because I'm not gonna say minus one
Speaker 1: because James Robinson never got to stop for minus ever,
Speaker 1: so we just say it's a one yard game. You
Speaker 1: can't be afraid to turn around and hand it off again,
Speaker 1: because you know what, maybe end up at third and four,
Speaker 1: Whereas if you're throw an incompletion on second and nine,
Speaker 1: you're looking at third nine, you know, and third and
Speaker 1: nine is obviously not nearly as good as third and four.
Speaker 1: So you can't be afraid to hand the ball off
Speaker 1: on some second and longs. And that's that's all part
Speaker 1: of the management. And one thing that listening to Daryl
Speaker 1: Bevil today speak to the media, he talked about keeping
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence healthy and in the pocket. Urban Meyer talked
Speaker 1: about that this week about how do we go about
Speaker 1: keeping them healthy, how do we go about help helping
Speaker 1: him have success? And because you know, if you go
Speaker 1: back and you listen to some of my comments in
Speaker 1: the off season, I thought that it would be easier
Speaker 1: to transition Trevor Lawrence into the NFL because they could
Speaker 1: utilize some of his mobility in some packages while he's
Speaker 1: learning to function in the pocket. I get the impression
Speaker 1: now that they're like, there's I don't want to say
Speaker 1: they're saying essentially that they're not gonna do that, but
Speaker 1: they're saying that we don't. You know, they don't they
Speaker 1: don't want to do it that way, which in the
Speaker 1: long run, that's probably the smart decision to make. But
Speaker 1: I think it's very interesting how much will they actually
Speaker 1: let Trevor Lawrence run? How much will they incorporate that
Speaker 1: read option part of the offense into their offense that
Speaker 1: they're going to use at the NFL level, because that
Speaker 1: doesn't work if the quarterback is not a legitimate running threat.
Speaker 1: The read option system. That's right because they can just
Speaker 1: focus on the back at all times or the past
Speaker 1: that comes off of it. So, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it's I mean, and that's part of the curiosity about
Speaker 1: this opening. First off, there's always the curiosity about a
Speaker 1: first overall pick. But then for me, it goes beyond that.
Speaker 1: Are the Houston Texans the dumpster fire that everybody says
Speaker 1: they are? Are they gonna be as bad as everybody
Speaker 1: says they are? Are the Jaguars offense? Are they Are
Speaker 1: they gonna not incorporate some of the read options stuff
Speaker 1: to make sure that they protect their quarterback Trevor Lawrence?
Speaker 1: What will the all it's look like? How will the
Speaker 1: offensive line performing? Oh, there's so many different questions that
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Speaker 1: and to that point, Joe Cohen spoke today Jaguars defensive
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Speaker 1: you don't run packages just to run package. So you're
Speaker 1: running packages because there's a purpose to it. For example,
Speaker 1: let's say you want to have four down in in
Speaker 1: your nickel out there. Okay, but the down and distance
Speaker 1: might be you know, because you're facing the Texans, and
Speaker 1: the Texans are gonna want to be trying to run
Speaker 1: the football quite a bit, so you're concerned about them
Speaker 1: maybe trying to run the football. Well, if that's the case,
Speaker 1: then you may end up having uh, let's say Von
Speaker 1: Hamilton's at one defensive tackle and Malcolm Brown at the
Speaker 1: other defensive tackle, and then you might have Jawad johd
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Speaker 1: defensive end. That's kind of a big nickel package, right, Well,
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Speaker 1: Caleb and chays On and Josh Allen outside on as
Speaker 1: your rushers. You know. So, I mean there's there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of ways to play that's in a nickel package.
Speaker 1: It's no different playing in your base personnel. You have
Speaker 1: some flexibility there, and that's the one thing about this
Speaker 1: defense is that you have guys that can do multiple things.
Speaker 1: And the more each guy can do, the more flexibility
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Speaker 1: is for an offensive coordinator say hey, look let's really
Speaker 1: attack this. Because they have that personnel grouping on the
Speaker 1: field from the front seven, they can do a lot
Speaker 1: of different things out of that. So there's it's kind
Speaker 1: of hard to attack a certain area. But the one
Speaker 1: thing that I do know this week, the Texans are
Speaker 1: gonna come out and they're gonna try to run the football.
Speaker 1: I mean they're gonna try to. I mean they're and
Speaker 1: there it's not gonna be just okay, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a halfhearted dedication to it. It is gonna be a
Speaker 1: full blown we're gonna run the football and run the football,
Speaker 1: and run the football, and run the football and run
Speaker 1: the football because they want to make sure that they
Speaker 1: can run the ball, play action, run the ball, run
Speaker 1: the ball, run the ball, play action. Tyrod Taylor is
Speaker 1: at his best when he's moving bootlegs out of the pocket,
Speaker 1: play action and uh. And they have a whole stable
Speaker 1: of running backs to help them run the football. They
Speaker 1: got five on the rosters that have been around the
Speaker 1: league for a minute. Me just just the sheer number
Speaker 1: that they have at that position ought to tell you
Speaker 1: where where their thought process is from a game planned standpoint.
Speaker 1: You've got five running backs, you're gonna run football. If
Speaker 1: you've got eight wide receivers, chances are you might want
Speaker 1: to throw the football a little bit, you know. So
Speaker 1: the Texans have revamped their offensive line. They went out
Speaker 1: and they signed Justin britt as a free agent off
Speaker 1: the street. He's coming off in a c L that
Speaker 1: he suffered a nineteen. They moved Titus Howard from right
Speaker 1: tackle over to left guard, and they've moved some guys around.
Speaker 1: Andy heck Son is out this week because of COVID,
Speaker 1: So could they have Marcus Cannon, who you know, the
Speaker 1: former New England Patriot that opted out last year and
Speaker 1: who's been a good tackle in the league. I mean,
Speaker 1: so that they have they have revamped their offensive line,
Speaker 1: added a stable of running backs because they will be
Speaker 1: committed to the running game. The uh yeah, and then
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor. We you know, we've heard from Joe Cohen today.
Speaker 1: We heard earlier in the week for Wherever Meyer about
Speaker 1: the quarterback for the Texans in this week's game. He's
Speaker 1: been around the league for a long time, has had
Speaker 1: some success in his past, but has really been a
Speaker 1: never really been a consistent starting quarterback in the league.
Speaker 1: Was with the Chargers a few years ago where he
Speaker 1: got it was getting a shot in his ribs. It
Speaker 1: was last year, right last year, he was getting ready
Speaker 1: to play in a game. He had a couple of
Speaker 1: cracked ribs and he was taking a pain killing injection
Speaker 1: and then the doctor, I guess, pushed the needle in
Speaker 1: too far. It punctured as lung and and there was
Speaker 1: major concern and had rushed him too the hospital and
Speaker 1: he did not play again for the rest of the year,
Speaker 1: but he is a good, really good backup. Tyrod Taylor
Speaker 1: is the one reason why they brought him those because Coullie,
Speaker 1: the head coach of the Texans, had a relationship with
Speaker 1: him because they were together, I believe in Buffalo, uh
Speaker 1: back in seventeen when Tyrod Taylor was the starter there.
Speaker 1: So that's where that relationship came from. And I think
Speaker 1: originally they wanted to have DeShawn Watson there even if
Speaker 1: they wanted to have Tyrod Taylor there, even if DeShawn
Speaker 1: Watson was going to be the quarterback, because David Culley
Speaker 1: felt so strongly about the example that Tyrod Taylor sets. Well,
Speaker 1: then everything kind of went to hell in a hand
Speaker 1: basket with DeShawn Watson and the allegations and you know,
Speaker 1: the demand that he wants to be traded and all
Speaker 1: that stuff happens. And so now you've got a guy
Speaker 1: that is And I will tell you this about Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 1: He is an average quarterback. That's what he is. I mean,
Speaker 1: average quarterback at best. He's probably not might not even
Speaker 1: be an average quarterback. But if he gets out of
Speaker 1: the pocket and he creates what we call scramble rules
Speaker 1: or buys time outside of the pocket. Then he becomes
Speaker 1: a dangerous quarterback because things become off schedule and he
Speaker 1: can make throws down the field. So what you want
Speaker 1: to do with him is keep him in the pocket,
Speaker 1: make him function as a pocket passer. If he gets out,
Speaker 1: that's where he can hurt you. The Texans receivers are
Speaker 1: much different looking than they have been over the last
Speaker 1: few years. Around there, they have a lot of changes.
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks is there now, Chris Conley is now in
Speaker 1: the wide receiver room. Uh, it's not quite as deep
Speaker 1: as it has been in the past there obviously when
Speaker 1: they had the bigger names that were in that room. Well,
Speaker 1: Cooks has been all over the place. I mean he's
Speaker 1: been traded like like five times. I'm being kind of
Speaker 1: facetious there, but he's been traded a bunch. It's his
Speaker 1: fourth team. And when you've been traded a bunch, I mean,
Speaker 1: how good are you? I mean that's a legitimate question.
Speaker 1: I Mean people that are great they don't get traded
Speaker 1: like that, you know. So he's a he's not a
Speaker 1: one number one wide receiver. He's a good wide receiver,
Speaker 1: and he's got blazing speed, which is a concern. And
Speaker 1: the rest of them, we know what Conley is. He's
Speaker 1: a he's a three at best and uh, super guy
Speaker 1: love him and uh, I think he's a stand up
Speaker 1: of guys that there is. He's big, he has some
Speaker 1: drops occasionally, as we saw when he was here. And
Speaker 1: then their third wide receiver was supposed to be Anthony Miller,
Speaker 1: who they got I believe from the Bears, and he
Speaker 1: dislocated the shoulder in the preseason and he has not
Speaker 1: expected to play, I don't believe this week. And so
Speaker 1: they go out there and they drive right down the
Speaker 1: road and knock on the door of Danny Amndola, who's
Speaker 1: from not far from downtown Houston, and say, hey, well,
Speaker 1: you want to come to Patriots South because Cesario Sarrio,
Speaker 1: the general manager, is from the Patriots, and Avendola obviously
Speaker 1: spent some time up there with him, and they're trying
Speaker 1: to create a culture there in Houston. So they signed
Speaker 1: him and Doola to be a slot receiver. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure exactly why they would pay somebody who is in
Speaker 1: their thirteenth year, who was on the street and nobody
Speaker 1: else was willing to sign. I don't know why they
Speaker 1: would pay him to an a half million, but they did.
Speaker 1: And so once he's on this active roster this week,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be guaranteed that money, which doesn't make a
Speaker 1: whole lot of sense as to why that they would
Speaker 1: do that. But anyway, I don't think Danny's gonna question it.
Speaker 1: Heck no, I mean he's happy about it. But I mean,
Speaker 1: looked at again, this is about the running game, and
Speaker 1: this I think plays right into the Jaguars hands because
Speaker 1: this defense that we saw in the preseason, as bad
Speaker 1: as they were last year in the league as far
Speaker 1: stopping the run, it appears that they have fixed that
Speaker 1: from what we saw in the preseason. And yes, they
Speaker 1: weren't facing a lot of number one offenses, but JP
Speaker 1: what were the numbers were very good. I mean I
Speaker 1: think they were a point though they didn't have They
Speaker 1: didn't play really a starting running back all preseason. And
Speaker 1: who scares you with the Texans running back group? Who
Speaker 1: scares me? Does anybody scare you out of that? Not? Really?
Speaker 1: Not really? So I mean that's I think a big
Speaker 1: part of it. I mean, the Texas running backs are
Speaker 1: and first of all, a lot of people are calling
Speaker 1: the geriatrics squad. Are they are? We will say they've
Speaker 1: been around the block of time or two. He was
Speaker 1: in his eleventh year. He's been around a long time.
Speaker 1: And I know he's from Alabama, JP, and I know
Speaker 1: you're a big fan of his Birkeheads and his your
Speaker 1: number nine. He's been around the block a lot. David
Speaker 1: Johnson has been around for a while. Uh. Seventh Philip Lindsay,
Speaker 1: who was the undrafted guy that the Broncos got a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago and then kind of flamed out
Speaker 1: a little bit as a small, shifty type of guy.
Speaker 1: You know. So Scottie Phillips, I don't know much about him,
Speaker 1: he hasn't played much. But those other, you know, the
Speaker 1: four main guys that we're talking about, I mean, they've
Speaker 1: been around the league. They've been pretty good or have
Speaker 1: been good at times, and I think that they're gonna
Speaker 1: be an interesting matchup. I would not be surprised. The
Speaker 1: one thing I would be concerned about if I'm Joe
Speaker 1: Colin is what kind of packages are they going to
Speaker 1: have with multiple running backs on the field at the
Speaker 1: same time, you know, I mean, I don't want to
Speaker 1: say you're concerned, but I mean you're just aware that
Speaker 1: they could do that. They could end up having let's say,
Speaker 1: uh like David Johnson lined up split out in the
Speaker 1: slot and then they've got Rex Burke had also lined
Speaker 1: up in a slot, and then they got Marketing or
Speaker 1: lined up behind the quarterback. I mean, how do you
Speaker 1: how do you match up? I mean, those are some
Speaker 1: of the things I think that you want to make
Speaker 1: sure that you're you're ready and prepared to handle. Could
Speaker 1: you can see you never know what you're gonna see. No,
Speaker 1: and in the opening week you just gotta deal with
Speaker 1: sometimes there'll be a negative play, move on, get on
Speaker 1: to the next play and try to make it a positive.
Speaker 1: And and I'm glad you kind of brain that up
Speaker 1: because that's the one thing about opening day that is critical,
Speaker 1: and that there will be something that pops up with
Speaker 1: on both sides. Now, I mean from the Texans perspective
Speaker 1: and also from the Jaguars perspective, and both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball. From each perspective that let's say the Jaguars
Speaker 1: go out there and they see something that the Texans
Speaker 1: offense has never shown before, something they didn't anticipate. They're
Speaker 1: gonna have to adjust. The Jaguars offense may see something
Speaker 1: out of Lovey Smith's defense that they've never, never expected,
Speaker 1: but that they see it, then they have to adapt
Speaker 1: an adjust on the fly. And that's a lot of
Speaker 1: times what will happen on opening week, especially when you
Speaker 1: have two organizations that had significant change with the coaching
Speaker 1: staff and the player rosters. So the Jaguars and the
Speaker 1: Houston Texans coming up this Sunday at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas.
Speaker 1: It's a one oh five official kickoff time as the
Speaker 1: Jacks get it started on the road, and again the
Speaker 1: Packers and the Saints will be here at t I A.
Speaker 1: Bank Field four that day. And I can't wait. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm so fired up. This has been a fun off season.
Speaker 1: We've had a lot of fun off seasons around here,
Speaker 1: but it's now time to bring that to real football
Speaker 1: and and see it between the white lines starting on Sunday.
Speaker 1: JP The the for me, the anticipation of going out
Speaker 1: there and just seeing sixteen, I mean that's I mean, look,
Speaker 1: we saw the while moments, the while throws and preseason
Speaker 1: and practices where a lot of the fans they don't
Speaker 1: get to see it, and we we're trying to when
Speaker 1: we've been telling them all along. You know there's those
Speaker 1: three or four throws that you see in practice and
Speaker 1: you go, wow, Well, we were saying it, and then
Speaker 1: in the preseason we didn't see it. But Dallas we
Speaker 1: kind of got a glimpse of it. You know, we
Speaker 1: saw some of that because they could actually throw the
Speaker 1: ball down the field in that game and it was sharp.
Speaker 1: So that's what we're hoping to see in Houston. And
Speaker 1: is it going to be perfect? No, But I'm excited
Speaker 1: and I'm also I'm excited. And first of all, congratulations
Speaker 1: to the captains that were named this week, all seven
Speaker 1: of them, and in a very unique way. If you
Speaker 1: haven't seen it, go to Jaguars social media, Twitter, Instagram.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that that's still posted up there and they
Speaker 1: can see it there. But pretty cool way of them
Speaker 1: showing that. And the captains are Marvin Jones, Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 1: and Brandon Linder on offense and then on defense you've
Speaker 1: got four josh Allen, Shaq, Griffin, Miles Jack and ray
Speaker 1: Seon jack Ends. Congratulations to them and uh, a pretty
Speaker 1: cool honor. And I can honestly say that. I don't
Speaker 1: know if there is a bigger honor in the locker
Speaker 1: room than being named the captain when you're voted on
Speaker 1: by your peers. Were you a captain ever? I was
Speaker 1: one of the first captains in Jaguars history. Very nice,
Speaker 1: very nice. That's that's a great honor. Yeah, that was awesome.
Speaker 1: It was awesome. I mean that's something that you know,
Speaker 1: you can always say. I look, I was one of
Speaker 1: the one of the one of the first captains. Who
Speaker 1: are the others in history? Uh, that's a great question.
Speaker 1: I have to go back and look. I have to
Speaker 1: go back and look. It's been a little while. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's years, think so, I don't know. Maybe it's been
Speaker 1: a minute, it's been twenty seven years. It has been. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been a few twenty six years. Congratulations to those
Speaker 1: guys and of course the Jaguars in the Texans coming up.
Speaker 1: Looking forward this game, looking forward to Trevor Lawrence, looking
Speaker 1: forward to seeing what Urban Meyer gets done in his
Speaker 1: opening game as an NFL head coach, coach, all of
Speaker 1: that new on defense, What does it look like, what
Speaker 1: does it feel like throwing a couple of sleeps away,
Speaker 1: a couple of sleeps away. It's yeah. But a good
Speaker 1: thing is is that they'll go pretty fast because we
Speaker 1: have Thursday Night Opening Night, football tonight, and then we
Speaker 1: got college football before we get the sun. A lot
Speaker 1: of football coming up. But we're back in a moment
Speaker 1: on the network, the Urban Meyer Show. For the first
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Speaker 1: Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network.