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Speaker 1: My name is Jake Shadrick. Jeff Logoman coming up shortly.
Speaker 1: We've got a busy show for you today. It's week nine.
Speaker 1: The jackson the Houston Texans meet up this Sunday at
Speaker 1: t i A bank fieldle preview the matchup this week
Speaker 1: with the division rivals. Second meeting between the teams. Houston
Speaker 1: got it done down in Houston back in week five.
Speaker 1: Jake Luton, time rookie quarterback, will start this week for
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars. Will get Logs take on him. The
Speaker 1: defense against a Shawn Watson. That's always the storyline. How
Speaker 1: do you contain him and don't let him run around
Speaker 1: all day long? If he gets in trouble in the pocket,
Speaker 1: he has the ability to do that. There are COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen concerns starting today in Houston. Three linebackers will not
Speaker 1: be available for the game this week due to contact tracing.
Speaker 1: A couple of the one positive and to contact tracings
Speaker 1: will delve into that Tony Boselli joins the support thirty
Speaker 1: today and the Doug Moron Show at five o'clock. We'll
Speaker 1: hear from the head coach. We hear from Jeff Flagaman
Speaker 1: now who joins us on. The program is always on
Speaker 1: Thursday afternoons. And here we go logs, fresh off the by.
Speaker 1: Are you rested, relaxed and ready for the stretcher run? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm ready to go. The buy is always good.
Speaker 1: And uh, I had a lot of productive days, i
Speaker 1: will say, during the by and kept up with all
Speaker 1: the sporting world and all the events with the NFL,
Speaker 1: so uh and actually got to relax and watch a
Speaker 1: little football just as kind of a a fan. And
Speaker 1: it's kind of nice sometimes to do that, There's no
Speaker 1: doubt about that. Enjoy those times while you get it.
Speaker 1: But now the stretch run is here, and the Jaguars
Speaker 1: are starting the stretch run with a new quarterback. Governer
Speaker 1: Minshew has a thumb injury, so they're going with Jake Luton,
Speaker 1: the rookie six round draft pick out of Oregon State.
Speaker 1: He'll make his first career NFL appearance of any kind
Speaker 1: this Sunday against the Houston Texans Doug Marone earlier this
Speaker 1: week when asked about Luton and what do you expect
Speaker 1: from the rookie? Well, I think the one thing is,
Speaker 1: you know, you look early on of of you know,
Speaker 1: picking up the system. You know systems now, um, you know,
Speaker 1: probably quite different than most college programs. You know, on
Speaker 1: on play calls and and and things of that nature.
Speaker 1: And you know there is bourbage, there's a there's a
Speaker 1: lot on on that plate, you know, for those for
Speaker 1: those quarterbacks. So I guess the first thing I would
Speaker 1: say I was, I was impressed with, you know, outside
Speaker 1: of whatever physical ability. You know what I'm saying that
Speaker 1: you guys, we all can see you know from his
Speaker 1: college film is uh, you know, his ability to pick
Speaker 1: it up alright, picking it up one thing logs, of course,
Speaker 1: that's that's fine and dandy, knowing the system. But when
Speaker 1: the lights come on and you walk out on the
Speaker 1: field on Sunday, you'll you'll have J. J. Watt and
Speaker 1: the Texans defense on the other side. What are your
Speaker 1: first expectations, I guess for Luton this week, I mean
Speaker 1: expectations for most rookies. I mean, not a whole lot.
Speaker 1: I mean it, Uh, you know, you're talking about a
Speaker 1: tough situation to be and I think Jay Gruden had
Speaker 1: a comment this week and just a couple of days ago,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if we're gonna be able to
Speaker 1: play this later on or not, but he said, quote,
Speaker 1: Jake hasn't called a play our play, one of our
Speaker 1: plays in our huddle since training camp. Think about that
Speaker 1: for a minute. Okay, so the last time he was
Speaker 1: in a huddle calling a Jaguars offensive play was all
Speaker 1: the way back in training camp. So it's not like
Speaker 1: he was in the huddle and he's been practicing the
Speaker 1: verbiage of the j Gruden offense. It's in the Jaguars offense.
Speaker 1: Hasn't happened. So the expectations for a young player in
Speaker 1: that situation, I think it's low. But let me say this,
Speaker 1: My expectations of his physical abilities is pretty high. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe the performance may not be there initially because look,
Speaker 1: he hasn't had a lot of practice time. Even though
Speaker 1: you had a bye week, it wasn't like they were
Speaker 1: practicing four days during the bye to get Jake Luton
Speaker 1: ready for this opportunity after the bye week. You know,
Speaker 1: there's been limited opportunity but I still think and I
Speaker 1: believe that. I believe this going all the way back
Speaker 1: to training camp when they made him the second quarterback
Speaker 1: that made the roster on final cutdown day, I thought
Speaker 1: it should have stayed that way because he impressed me
Speaker 1: that much JP and training camp, I thought he earned
Speaker 1: the job to be the backup, But they chose to
Speaker 1: bring Mike Glennan back after exposing him in the final
Speaker 1: cuts because they just felt comfortable that Mike Glennon has
Speaker 1: been around a little bit and maybe it wouldn't be
Speaker 1: too for him. But in my opinion and training camp,
Speaker 1: Jake Lewton earned the backup job, and in fact, and
Speaker 1: part of my mind it was thinking he might earn
Speaker 1: an opportunity to be able to compete for the starting
Speaker 1: job because at times he showed the things that you
Speaker 1: want in a franchise quarterback, which is he has great height,
Speaker 1: he's got the vision to see over the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: He's got an NFL caliber arm. He can fit it
Speaker 1: in the tight windows. He can throw the velocity balls
Speaker 1: on the outs, the deep outs, and also into a
Speaker 1: little short windows or small windows in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field. So my expectations JP again aren't high. But
Speaker 1: I also think, and I agree with Doug bron and
Speaker 1: that when Doug Brown said his ceiling is high, and
Speaker 1: that's what he believes, I think a ceiling is high too.
Speaker 1: But the thing that you just don't know about is
Speaker 1: the mental makeup JP. When the live bullets start flying
Speaker 1: and J. J. Watt starts rushing, uh and Za cunning
Speaker 1: Ham starts coming at you in and all out, let's
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Right? It's a different world
Speaker 1: when when that happens sometimes. Now, I wonder the curious
Speaker 1: thing I think a lot of people will ask going
Speaker 1: into this game, and I'll be curious to see it
Speaker 1: on Sunday is how different will the offense be called
Speaker 1: with Luton? Will they open it up a little bit
Speaker 1: with his ability to throw a deeper football down the field,
Speaker 1: or will they be a little more conservative and mixing
Speaker 1: that run game and and keep things safe for Looten?
Speaker 1: I mean, for me, Logs, you're throwing him out there.
Speaker 1: Let's throw the ball around and see what this kid has. Sure, sure,
Speaker 1: but but but I will say this, I mean, here's
Speaker 1: the thing. How advanced was the Jaguars playbook anyway? With
Speaker 1: Gardner Mishew Garden Gardener Mitshew had and and the Jaguars
Speaker 1: offense what seven games under his belt? Yes, and this
Speaker 1: is seven games under j Gruden's offense to the playbook,
Speaker 1: wasn't six inches thick for Gardner Minshew? Now, also, okay,
Speaker 1: Jake Luton's coming in, we're gonna just you know, we're
Speaker 1: gonna rink it down. Instead of six inches six we're
Speaker 1: gonna cut it down to a one inch playbook. It's
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not how it was. So I think
Speaker 1: the playbook will be it will shrink a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I don't think it's gonna shrink that much.
Speaker 1: And uh, do you maybe get a little bit of
Speaker 1: conservative nature with some of your play calling? Maybe, But
Speaker 1: here's the reality. Weren't they kind of trying to be
Speaker 1: conservative play calling with Gardner Minshew over the last number
Speaker 1: of weeks? And weren't they talking about that going all
Speaker 1: the way back to the last Houston matchup in the
Speaker 1: week before that. I mean, so, it's not like you're
Speaker 1: gonna do something drastically different and you're gonna change the
Speaker 1: offense because of a different skill set with Jake Luton.
Speaker 1: Your offense is your offense. You just need to find
Speaker 1: a quarterback that connectecute it better. And I think that
Speaker 1: Jake Luton is gonna have a great opportunity on his hands.
Speaker 1: And Doug Moron did not mince any word when he
Speaker 1: was asked a question about well Gardner Minshew get his
Speaker 1: job back. He said, look, if Jake Luton comes out
Speaker 1: there and plays well, I mean, what what should you do? Well?
Speaker 1: You should let him keep playing, you know, So it's
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to me JP. And and just another note,
Speaker 1: you know, with with Gardner Minshew, a lot of people
Speaker 1: may be wondering what is a fracture and damage ligaments
Speaker 1: and everything? What does that do with a quarterback? How
Speaker 1: does that happen? And I've had them on both thumbs here,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna try to to show you visually what
Speaker 1: if looks like that's had ligament and broken bones. Okay,
Speaker 1: both of them. Okay, they've both been in ways that
Speaker 1: they shouldn't been, okay, And what happens is when a
Speaker 1: thumb gets bent like this way, the ligament that is
Speaker 1: basically spacing the gap pulls a little piece of bone
Speaker 1: off with it. So I'm not the doctor in this case,
Speaker 1: but I'm getting that it was something of this nature
Speaker 1: with Gardner Minshew, because I remember when I had it
Speaker 1: with both hands it was hard to grip. And with
Speaker 1: Gardner throwing the highballs on occasion the last couple of
Speaker 1: games that we saw him playing, losing the grip is
Speaker 1: what means the ball. You can't hold it when you're
Speaker 1: trying to be forceful and put velocity on it, and
Speaker 1: so you lose your grip and the ball comes out
Speaker 1: high and flies high. So that's my guess as to
Speaker 1: what happened with Gardner Minshew, even though the Jaguars don't
Speaker 1: talk medically and don't release that information, if I had
Speaker 1: to guess, that's what it would have. Well, I just
Speaker 1: know we we just saw your thumb do weird things
Speaker 1: in high definition if you're watching on Jaguars dot com
Speaker 1: and uh that that was quite interesting. Thank you for
Speaker 1: the visual. I actually had just a quick cool story.
Speaker 1: Is that you know when you when you play defensive
Speaker 1: line or offensive line. I remember when I came in
Speaker 1: the league, there was a guy that played offensive guard
Speaker 1: and his name was Dan Alexander and Dan played at
Speaker 1: UH I think it was Louisiana Tech. He was Louisiana guy.
Speaker 1: We called him Cajun Dave, you know, and and Uh
Speaker 1: or Cajun Dan. And he used to wear because back
Speaker 1: in the early days of the National Football League, you
Speaker 1: didn't have gloves so to speak, you know, the the
Speaker 1: Nike gloves or the Adidas gloves or the Newman gloves.
Speaker 1: You know, back then the first cloves that were kind
Speaker 1: of out, they were called Newman's. Well with the offensive
Speaker 1: linemen back in the day, they were they we didn't
Speaker 1: have gloves. I mean, receivers caught with their hands and
Speaker 1: you stick them and Uh and the offensive line to
Speaker 1: protect their hands because their hands are so exposed, they
Speaker 1: would actually wear a gardening glove, I mean like old
Speaker 1: fashioned leather gardening gloves. Dan used to wear these old
Speaker 1: leather gardening gloves and he'd have on the old spot
Speaker 1: built shoes cleats for turf that will looked like boots,
Speaker 1: you know, like literally like like work boots, and he
Speaker 1: would take these gloves up. But they did that to
Speaker 1: protect the hands because as offensive lineman and defensive lineman,
Speaker 1: you know, you catch something the wrong way and fingers
Speaker 1: can just go, you know, in ways that they shouldn't go,
Speaker 1: and that brought around the advent of gloves and everything
Speaker 1: of that nature. But you know, gloves didn't even start
Speaker 1: becoming popular in football probably until about the early nineties
Speaker 1: when Newman were the first ones that came out with it.
Speaker 1: When they did, at first a lot of guys were
Speaker 1: resisted to doing it, but then they realized how well
Speaker 1: it could protect their hands, and then everybody started using them.
Speaker 1: And he can go right back home after the game
Speaker 1: and do some gardening outside trim to change gloves. You know,
Speaker 1: it's perfect. Here's another thought about Gardner Minshew here. You know,
Speaker 1: I think everybody kind of understands maybe why he wanted
Speaker 1: He wants to stay on the field. Obviously, he knows
Speaker 1: his situation here and this was this is is his
Speaker 1: year to show that he was a franchise guy. This
Speaker 1: was an opportunity. So the story is that he didn't
Speaker 1: tell the team that he had this injury and they
Speaker 1: found out officially during the bye week. Where are you
Speaker 1: on that it's not obviously Doug Moron talked about it
Speaker 1: this week where he he wants players to be forthright
Speaker 1: and you know, the medical crew can help the player
Speaker 1: maybe get back, but when it goes the other way
Speaker 1: it sometimes can hurt the football team. To where do
Speaker 1: you stand on this or I stand on that? First off,
Speaker 1: I'm amazed that a starting quarterback for a football team
Speaker 1: doesn't communicate to the organization that he's got a thumb issue.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's like a JP for baseball fans. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like having Nolan Ryan not tell the Houston Astros
Speaker 1: or the Rangers. I mean that they looking up I'm
Speaker 1: having a hard time throwing because my thumb is having
Speaker 1: an issue. I mean, that's crazy to me. Um. So,
Speaker 1: obviously that's not a situation that you want to have
Speaker 1: because the expectation is that you should have excellent communication
Speaker 1: between your starting quarterback and the coaching staff, the training staff,
Speaker 1: and the organization as a whole. And obviously that wasn't
Speaker 1: the case with Gardener Minsho. And I do understand to
Speaker 1: some extent that, look, hey, he wants to be able
Speaker 1: to keep his job. It's as an opportunity to be
Speaker 1: starting quarterback, and he doesn't want to be told, well,
Speaker 1: we got to take you out of there, and he's
Speaker 1: trying to suck it up and play play through it
Speaker 1: and all that. I mean, I understand that part of it.
Speaker 1: But look, your performance was lacking the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: That certainly was affecting you in the Chargers game. And
Speaker 1: uh and I'm you know, And the one thing I
Speaker 1: will say JP is that Gardner Minshew has never been
Speaker 1: super accurate on the intermediate to long stuff, and he's
Speaker 1: never had great velocity on his ball. Um He's always
Speaker 1: thrown the ball a little bit where it's got a
Speaker 1: little bit of an arc on it. And we've never
Speaker 1: said that he has a weak arm. But we've never
Speaker 1: said that he has a strong arm. So if he
Speaker 1: loses a little velocity or if he loses a little accuracy,
Speaker 1: then maybe you don't notice it as much with a
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew compared to like, let's say Dan Rino. You know,
Speaker 1: if it Dan Reno usually throws ninety and also Unneth
Speaker 1: throwing seventy, then you notice it, whereas Gardner Minshew's probably
Speaker 1: throwing sixty and then all of a sudden, now he's
Speaker 1: throwing fifty, you know. And not not trying to be
Speaker 1: funny here, but I'm just trying to give you an
Speaker 1: analogy of the different speeds and how sometimes it can
Speaker 1: be hard to tell. Maybe if a guy has an
Speaker 1: injured thumb. You know. So from the team standpoint, the
Speaker 1: trainer standpoint, unless he tells them, they don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: all you know is that he just missed d J.
Speaker 1: Chark ten yards over his head. That's just a bad throw, right,
Speaker 1: I mean that's the first reaction. That was my first reacting,
Speaker 1: you know, in the first throw that he had in
Speaker 1: a game against the Charges. My reaction wasn't, oh man,
Speaker 1: he can't grip the ball. He must have a thumb injury,
Speaker 1: you know. So it's it's a shame that had happened,
Speaker 1: but the reality is that it did and uh and
Speaker 1: so it presents an opportunity and a great opportunity for
Speaker 1: Jake Luton. Jake Luton, sixth round rookie getting started this
Speaker 1: week for the Jags against the division rival Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: Plenty of A had more on this a little later
Speaker 1: when Tony Boselli joins us in about fifteen minutes, we'll
Speaker 1: come back doing a moment logs and get on the
Speaker 1: Jaguars defense and see if they can develop that pass rush.
Speaker 1: This has been a talking point all season long, hasn't
Speaker 1: really happened yet, got about half a season to go
Speaker 1: to see if those young guys can get going and
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Speaker 1: week nine. The Jags and the Texans coming up Sunday,
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Speaker 1: Logerman and let's get to this Jaguars defense now and
Speaker 1: the matchup this week against the Shawn Watson and the Texans. Now,
Speaker 1: you remember back in week five, they had a big
Speaker 1: day through the air. Brandon Cooks had a huge day
Speaker 1: a hundred sixty one yards touchdown, eight catches. On the game,
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson throws for three fifty nine and three scores.
Speaker 1: He didn't think two interceptions in that game. Um. But
Speaker 1: the defense, you know they're in that string right now,
Speaker 1: struggling obviously, thirty point games in the last six times
Speaker 1: out there in all six losses. So where do you
Speaker 1: start on defense this week to get things turned the
Speaker 1: right way? Are you hiding behind your break here? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm starting right here because if you actually look at
Speaker 1: the last matchup, this is my game board from the
Speaker 1: Houston Texans game, and let's see, uh no c j Henderson,
Speaker 1: uh no, Josh Allen, um no, Miles Jack. You didn't
Speaker 1: have Cindy Jones in there until a little bit later,
Speaker 1: you know. So look, when you play a football team
Speaker 1: and you're depleted, you know, the reality is it's tough.
Speaker 1: And I think the positive thing for the Jaguars defensively
Speaker 1: this week is that you're gonna have I don't want
Speaker 1: to say all hands on deck because you know Avery
Speaker 1: Jones is on I R. But you're gonna get Miles Jack,
Speaker 1: I think is the expectation you could end up getting
Speaker 1: your safety Jared Wilson back. Uh. C J Henderson is
Speaker 1: gonna be able to play in this game. Josh Allen
Speaker 1: is two two weeks now back in action and also
Speaker 1: having the extra week with the bye, his knee should
Speaker 1: be better, you know. So, Uh, it's a better situation
Speaker 1: for the Jaguars. But JP, make no mistake about it.
Speaker 1: Even if you're healthy, it's a it's a pretty strong
Speaker 1: test to be able to face a Deshaun Watson. Uh.
Speaker 1: The one thing that Deshaun Watson hasn't had going for
Speaker 1: him this year for the most part, is a running game.
Speaker 1: And that's why the Texans were so good last year
Speaker 1: is that they had a pretty strong running game and
Speaker 1: it took a lot of pressure off of Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 1: And this year the ranked dead last in the National
Speaker 1: Football League running the ball as an offense. And uh,
Speaker 1: that's not a very good number. But the last time
Speaker 1: they played, David Johnson had seventeen carries for ninety six yards.
Speaker 1: If if you're gonna beat the Texans this time, you
Speaker 1: can't allow that to happen, you know so, Uh, you
Speaker 1: better worrying about be worried about stopping and run first
Speaker 1: and then you can worry about Deshaun Watson. And once
Speaker 1: you get to Deshaun Watson, JP, we all know it's
Speaker 1: a it's a very specific, hard to execute game plan.
Speaker 1: And when I say very specific in that your goal
Speaker 1: is to keep DeShawn Watson in the pocket to build
Speaker 1: kind of this moat around him. But the problem is
Speaker 1: you can't just build the moat and then be happy
Speaker 1: with that, because then he's just gonna sit back there
Speaker 1: in his castle and just you know, throw docs and
Speaker 1: be able to throw the ball deep though some very
Speaker 1: speedy receivers. So you need to find a way somehow
Speaker 1: to get pressure without taking a lot of chances, so
Speaker 1: that all of a sudden you have a breakdown in
Speaker 1: your moat and all of a sudden he escapes, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you're expecting a defensive back
Speaker 1: to cover for another four or five seconds. And and
Speaker 1: that's the challenge of Deshaun Watson. And not only that,
Speaker 1: but hey, the reality is he can take off and
Speaker 1: run for thirty rds if you got back turn and
Speaker 1: you're in man coverage. So, uh, tough challenge this week.
Speaker 1: And it becomes really really tough if they're running the
Speaker 1: football well like they did the last meeting. I never
Speaker 1: thought we would have talked about moats and castles on
Speaker 1: this show today, but we've gone there like that. I
Speaker 1: like that analogy. Yes, that was very nice. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: but now I'm curious about the development of these pass
Speaker 1: rushers overall. You know, the scores have not been great
Speaker 1: for them to be able to get after the quarterback
Speaker 1: a lot in those situations, that's one thing. But you know,
Speaker 1: they've been close. Allen's been there. He's been banged up
Speaker 1: now the last little bit and he's back on the field.
Speaker 1: That's fine. He's got nine games left this year to
Speaker 1: really get going. Chase on how's his development going. I
Speaker 1: know they're doing a lot of extra work after practice
Speaker 1: every day, talking to Joey Bosa after the game on
Speaker 1: the field in l A. They're doing everything they can.
Speaker 1: But at some point, the Rubbers gotta hit the road
Speaker 1: during the game and they've got to get to the
Speaker 1: quarterback a little more often. Yes, and I'm all all
Speaker 1: for it, And uh, they're not doing a very good job.
Speaker 1: J p Um. The reality is, if if you like,
Speaker 1: you go back to the game two weeks ago against
Speaker 1: the Chargers. The only guy that was having wins as
Speaker 1: a pass rusher was Josh Allen, and Josh wasn't completely healthy.
Speaker 1: I mean it wasn't like Josh was just crushing guys.
Speaker 1: I mean it was he was doing a pretty good job,
Speaker 1: not as good as Josh Allen can do, and nobody
Speaker 1: else is winning. And that's hard. I mean, it's very
Speaker 1: hard when it's a one man band, asked Joe. He
Speaker 1: can tell you it's hard to play all the instruments
Speaker 1: by yourself at a live concert. But Caleban Chase on
Speaker 1: has got to find a way to have what I
Speaker 1: call the hands and the hips kind of married together.
Speaker 1: And what does he have? One sack on the year?
Speaker 1: Is that right? I think it's one sack on, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's one sack. But here's the reality. The one sack
Speaker 1: that he got, I don't want to say it was
Speaker 1: anything that he did a great pass rusher to be
Speaker 1: able to get that sack. It's kind of one of
Speaker 1: those sacks that every now and again you'd like to get.
Speaker 1: You fall into him and but his hips and his
Speaker 1: and his arms or hands aren't working together. And that's
Speaker 1: the one thing I think that concerns me. You know
Speaker 1: when I when I watched him in training camp, I thought,
Speaker 1: really thought, and was very impressed with his hands because
Speaker 1: he was using his hands, and a lot of young
Speaker 1: players don't learn to use their hands. They just try
Speaker 1: to run around guys and be faster than another guy
Speaker 1: or be stronger than another guy. But they soon find
Speaker 1: out at the National Football League level, you actually have
Speaker 1: to have a plan. I mean, even the great Reggie White,
Speaker 1: who was just so dominant physically, actually had a plan.
Speaker 1: Reggie's plan was he was gonna take you down the
Speaker 1: middle and run you over. And then the next plan
Speaker 1: was is that once you started sitting heavy, he was
Speaker 1: gonna get you to sit heavy and then give you
Speaker 1: a little juke and then give you a power rip
Speaker 1: to the outside. And then once you started to sit
Speaker 1: on the power rip on the outside, if that didn't work,
Speaker 1: he was gonna hump your butt about six yards up
Speaker 1: the field because he was so strong. So even Reggie
Speaker 1: White had a great plan. Lawrence Taylor had a great plan.
Speaker 1: If you got a great get off, he was chopping
Speaker 1: and ripping to get to the outside, and if he
Speaker 1: was a little bit laid off the ball, he would chop.
Speaker 1: Thinking that they're letting the offensive lineman know that I'm
Speaker 1: going outside. But Laura's Taylor would chop down and then
Speaker 1: immediately spend to the inside. So even the great pass rushers,
Speaker 1: they weren't just like these dominant, physically gifted pass rushers.
Speaker 1: You actually have to learn technique and setting guys up.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what Calaman chaded on is figuring
Speaker 1: out right now. And then in college it was a
Speaker 1: little bit easier. And now you have to have your
Speaker 1: hands and your hips working together, but then you also
Speaker 1: have to have your mind working with your hands and
Speaker 1: your hips, so you can have a plan when you
Speaker 1: rush the passer. And it's tough. He's having a tough time, yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know at some point um it'll start to click.
Speaker 1: I think for those guys. How about the interior play
Speaker 1: last time out, Davon Hamilton, the rookie out of Ohio State.
Speaker 1: Avery Jones was not there course, so he kind of
Speaker 1: stepped into that role in the interior and it was
Speaker 1: certainly the best game he's had so far as a rookie,
Speaker 1: and that was a really bright spot and in a
Speaker 1: in a year where there aren't many bright spots on defense,
Speaker 1: I think that was a very good development for this organization.
Speaker 1: Well down. Hamilton's the third round pick, and so your
Speaker 1: expectation with a third round pick is that he's a starter,
Speaker 1: and it should be um as a third round pick,
Speaker 1: and he's a big dude, big dude. This past game,
Speaker 1: I thought it was his best game, and I thought
Speaker 1: he did a really good job, and and I expected
Speaker 1: him to do better this past game. And the reason
Speaker 1: I expected him to do better was that Poenie, who
Speaker 1: is the starting center for the Chargers, who took over
Speaker 1: for the uh the center Pouncy who was injured. And
Speaker 1: Phoenie had been a guard in the past. But Poenie's
Speaker 1: not a like he's. He's a little straight legged, he's
Speaker 1: not super strong, he doesn't play real load to the ground.
Speaker 1: He does play with a lot of leverage. So I
Speaker 1: expected somebody who's big and strong like Devon Hamilton's to
Speaker 1: play well against Feeney, and he did, and it was
Speaker 1: good to see. And and even if it's against the
Speaker 1: guy that's not super physical or super strong, it's good
Speaker 1: to see because when you go against the guy you
Speaker 1: think you should play well against, you gotta play well
Speaker 1: against him. And he did. That so, so that's good
Speaker 1: and I hope it's something that he can build off of.
Speaker 1: And uh, and also in the meantime to continue to
Speaker 1: get better and anticipate. And I was talking to somebody
Speaker 1: about this earlier in the week. JP, you know, you
Speaker 1: go back, because you know I'm talking about how big
Speaker 1: and strong Devon Hamilton's is. You go back in the
Speaker 1: early days of Jaguar's history, and and John Jurkovic, who
Speaker 1: was a defensive tackle, and he and Joe Fortunato and JP.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you ever had a chance to
Speaker 1: meet him, maybe if he came back for alumni day
Speaker 1: or something that Joe remembers him. He might have had
Speaker 1: the the worst body in the National Football League. I
Speaker 1: mean literally, the guy didn't look like he could play football.
Speaker 1: The guy didn't look like he ever played football. He
Speaker 1: might have played a little, you know, high school ball,
Speaker 1: maybe a little called small college ball, because he was
Speaker 1: just kind of around around guy. And UH. And if
Speaker 1: he told you at the bar and you never knew
Speaker 1: who he was and just met him, he tells you
Speaker 1: he's an NFL player, You're like, you're so full of it.
Speaker 1: I mean, that would be your reaction but he was
Speaker 1: he was a good player, and he was a good
Speaker 1: player doing large part because he could anticipate blocks. He
Speaker 1: could anticipate if I'm playing a shade on a nose
Speaker 1: one way, that guard's coming down and I'm getting a
Speaker 1: double team, I can I can dig my left hip
Speaker 1: or my right hip, depend on which side of the
Speaker 1: senator that I'm on down and hold the point and
Speaker 1: anticipate where that pressure is coming from. Or if the
Speaker 1: guards coming down, centers pulling around, I can immediately play
Speaker 1: over here to the guard and now I'm fighting against
Speaker 1: pressure and and for a large part of the early
Speaker 1: part of the season, Devon Hamilton's wasn't anticipating and you
Speaker 1: can be big and strong, but the reality is a
Speaker 1: lot of the other guys that you're playing again big
Speaker 1: and strong too, And so he was getting knocked around
Speaker 1: a little bit, you know so, and so when you
Speaker 1: went to anticipate, you can play stronger, be stronger and
Speaker 1: UH and hopefully the more reps he gets, the better
Speaker 1: he becomes in the better pass rusher that he can be.
Speaker 1: Because there was a third round pick, the expectation as
Speaker 1: you need to be able to UH to be a
Speaker 1: decent pass rusher as a defensive tackle. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: if you if you drop somebody in the third round,
Speaker 1: he's gotta have some pass rushing potential too, and I
Speaker 1: think he's got a little bit and he's getting better
Speaker 1: at it. All right, Loves, let's come back in a moment.
Speaker 1: Tony was Sally is standing by. He'll join us after
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Speaker 1: not gonna be easy, you know, for a rookie first game.
Speaker 1: I hadn't taken a lot of ups with the first team.
Speaker 1: In fact, I don't think he's called off play one
Speaker 1: of our players in the huddleson's training camp. So, uh,
Speaker 1: it will not be easy for him. Uh, it's his
Speaker 1: job to be prepared mentally, make sure he goes through
Speaker 1: the right progressions, handles himself in protections, gets the ball
Speaker 1: James Robinson when he hands it off and does things
Speaker 1: right what he's been taught this whole process. So, uh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a great challenge for him, but we
Speaker 1: feel good about his demeanor, his work ethic. We feel
Speaker 1: like he's mentally prepared. But now we just have to
Speaker 1: wait and see. But we'll do the best we can
Speaker 1: to uh make it as easy as possible for him.
Speaker 1: That's offensive coordinator Jay Gruden earlier this week discussing Jake Luton,
Speaker 1: the rookie quarterback we'll make the start for the Jags
Speaker 1: this Sunday against the Houston Texans. Jaguars Happy Hour continues.
Speaker 1: J P Shadrick, Jeff Lagerman, and Tony Basselli joins us
Speaker 1: now from way out in Ponto Vedra Beach, Florida. Tony, good, afternoon.
Speaker 1: What's up? What's up? JP? Logs? Are we doing okay?
Speaker 1: Ready for some football? Yes? Jake? Hey, listen? Jake Luten Yeah, Luke,
Speaker 1: what do you think? Tony? Are you? What's what is
Speaker 1: your expectation for his performance on Sunday? I have zero
Speaker 1: expectations because here's a guy who's a rookie. Um has
Speaker 1: never taken a snap in an NFL game, had no
Speaker 1: preseason no o t as, limited reps in training camp,
Speaker 1: limited reps in the regular season as the third string quarterback.
Speaker 1: Um is a six round draft pick. Um. I have
Speaker 1: zero expectations. He's being put in a very tough spot. Um,
Speaker 1: and I wish him the best. I mean, we saw
Speaker 1: limited reps of them in training camp. When we saw him,
Speaker 1: he looked good. Um. He has a big arm. He
Speaker 1: looks like he's accurate. But the last time he faced
Speaker 1: a pass rush, guys, was in the Mighty Pack twelve. Um.
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be a little bit different speed and
Speaker 1: feel out there on Sunday. Uh, if they do play
Speaker 1: based on the COVID situation with Houston, Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 1: That's Uh, that's a It is quite a task for him,
Speaker 1: you know. But it's one of those where a JP
Speaker 1: we were talking about we we got Yeah, we gotta
Speaker 1: go back to what what J Grud said there, and
Speaker 1: I mean think about that for a minute. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: said that he hasn't called one of our plays and
Speaker 1: our huddle since training camp. I mean so, I mean
Speaker 1: Tony's right, I mean, the expectation is is not there.
Speaker 1: It's not high, and uh, you know, you just you
Speaker 1: just hope that the young man has a knack and
Speaker 1: that he's he can allow some of his physical talents,
Speaker 1: which we clearly saw in training camp and in the
Speaker 1: scrimmage that allows some of those physical talents to carry
Speaker 1: him a little bit. And and the also the positive
Speaker 1: thing is is that his last year of Oregon State,
Speaker 1: he was very good at protecting the football touchdowns I
Speaker 1: think or something of that nature and three interceptions. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's an incredible ratio. And if he can do
Speaker 1: that same type of thing with Jaguars, then awesome, awesome.
Speaker 1: But like Tony said, the expectation is low, but at
Speaker 1: the same token, the opportunity is very high for a
Speaker 1: young quarterback in this situation. What's that first huddle going
Speaker 1: to be Like? If you're a veteran offensive lineman and
Speaker 1: and here's Jake Luton out here calling plays in the huddle,
Speaker 1: it's gotta be a little bit. Not that Gardner Minshew's
Speaker 1: a salty vet. I mean they're both young guys. Anyway, Well,
Speaker 1: and I got my I can't remember that. UM, maybe
Speaker 1: Jeff can but and I think it was nine seven. UM.
Speaker 1: Margaret Dog got hurt in training camp and we started
Speaker 1: the season with Rob Johnson. Rob Johnson got hurt in
Speaker 1: week one, finished the game, but got hurt week one,
Speaker 1: and we had to have our third string quarterback, Matthews.
Speaker 1: I can't remember his first name of the life of me.
Speaker 1: For whatever reason, Steve Matthews and Steve Matthews knew about
Speaker 1: Um through pass plays and six run plays that he
Speaker 1: actually could call on the huddle, and it was a
Speaker 1: struggle for him to get him out. And and so
Speaker 1: the key in those situations everyone else has to rise
Speaker 1: to the occasion. Everyone else has to play better. And
Speaker 1: we knew it, and we knew the situation where we're in.
Speaker 1: We knew we had a guy that was gonna struggle
Speaker 1: be comfortable, a guy who's gonna struggle to communicate UM.
Speaker 1: And it was gonna be a very simple game plan.
Speaker 1: And all we ended up doing is going to scoring
Speaker 1: I think forty three points. Now, the defense played very well,
Speaker 1: got some turtle words for us, and we ran the
Speaker 1: ball and we had big plays to Jimmy Smith and
Speaker 1: Kingo Cardell. But I think we literally called you know,
Speaker 1: probably a total of ten different plays on that Sunday,
Speaker 1: and the owners came on everyone else. The offensive line
Speaker 1: has to block better. You have to keep a clean pocket,
Speaker 1: you have to run block, you have to be you
Speaker 1: have to control the line of scrimmage. Receiver has got
Speaker 1: to create space. Um, you know, the back's gotta run hard.
Speaker 1: Tight ends got to do their thing. I mean it, really,
Speaker 1: the onness comes on everyone else. Now, you can't put
Speaker 1: this on Jake Luton. It's not fair. He's not ready.
Speaker 1: I don't care how talented he is. I don't care
Speaker 1: what the story is. You know he has, he has
Speaker 1: a big arm, all those different things. I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see what he can do. It'll be interesting. Um, but
Speaker 1: let's be honest. There's a reason he was a six
Speaker 1: round draft pick, and not that guy's lating the draft
Speaker 1: can't perform at a high level, and not that scouts
Speaker 1: don't miss some people. So I'm not taking a shot
Speaker 1: Jake Luton. But you gotta be honest with yourself, and
Speaker 1: you gotta be realistic, and you have to understand that
Speaker 1: we're not going to ask this kid to do too
Speaker 1: much because if we do, most likely it'll be a
Speaker 1: complete failure. Alright. So so I'm gonna bring this up.
Speaker 1: And and it's obviously tongue in cheek. Tom Brady was
Speaker 1: a six round pick. Yeah, but Jeff, but you're you're right.
Speaker 1: Let me say something real quick. That's a good job
Speaker 1: because you're right. And but let's not forget um it
Speaker 1: was I think it was the second year when he
Speaker 1: finally got in there midway through the season. Um. And
Speaker 1: if you think back to the early years of Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: tom Brady did not carry that to It's not the
Speaker 1: tom Brady we know now or in the in the
Speaker 1: you know, the last career, the first quarter of his career.
Speaker 1: It was a defensive team. They ran the ball. They're
Speaker 1: one of the best defenses in the NFL. That's how
Speaker 1: they won the Super Bowl, that's how everyone else and
Speaker 1: allowed Tom Brady to get into it. Yeah, they had
Speaker 1: did a very good defense. And I obviously said that
Speaker 1: tongue in cheek, but you know, I think the one
Speaker 1: thing that they can do. You know, when Tony JP
Speaker 1: is talking about, Okay, we only had ten plays for
Speaker 1: Steve Matthews, and there's nothing wrong with having ten plays,
Speaker 1: you know, because the one thing I think that you
Speaker 1: can do sometimes is you can dress up those ten plays.
Speaker 1: You can put a skirt on it, you can put
Speaker 1: a dress on it, you can put jeans on it.
Speaker 1: What I mean by that is you can window dress it.
Speaker 1: So you might be running the same you might be
Speaker 1: running ten plays, but one play, if it's run the same,
Speaker 1: might look you know, four different ways based on a
Speaker 1: formation or emotion or a way that you get to it.
Speaker 1: And so it's kind of a way to simplify things
Speaker 1: without making it simple for the defense to figure out
Speaker 1: exactly what you're gonna do. But you know, it's I
Speaker 1: think it's a It's an exciting time for Jake Luton
Speaker 1: and Tony's right. I mean the expectations are low, but
Speaker 1: at the same token, after what I've seen out of
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew the last couple of weeks, I'm ready to
Speaker 1: see something different. I'm ready to see somebody execute the
Speaker 1: offense at a better rate. I'm looking at board and
Speaker 1: seeing a quarterback trust his pockets to stay in the pocket,
Speaker 1: to keep his eyes down the field and go through
Speaker 1: a progression, and then also to be able throw somebody open,
Speaker 1: you know, with with arm strength and fitting it in
Speaker 1: the tight windows, because I haven't seen much of that
Speaker 1: from Gardner. Minshew, Jeff, do you think and you know
Speaker 1: based on what you just said? Um, because I agree
Speaker 1: with all that, I think you're dead on. But I
Speaker 1: had big questions. I mean, I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: going to get good in the pocket. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's gonna be comfortable with the rush. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's gonna step up. I don't know if
Speaker 1: if the first guy is not open, if his eyes
Speaker 1: go down and start looking around a way to escape.
Speaker 1: I'm interested what happens the first time he gets hit
Speaker 1: in the chops by J. J. Watt and now all
Speaker 1: of a sudden it's came on. Is he started looking
Speaker 1: at the rush? Does he take his eye eyes off
Speaker 1: down the field? I have no idea. All I know
Speaker 1: about this kid is that he is a big arm.
Speaker 1: He looks the part. I don't know. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not even sure how great of an athlete is he
Speaker 1: gonna be able to run around and buy a time.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know in training camp that's easy.
Speaker 1: But those are all things that I have no idea
Speaker 1: what to expect, and anyone outside that coaching staff, and
Speaker 1: even the coaching staff doesn't know because they've never seen
Speaker 1: him do it in any game, not in the preseason nothing.
Speaker 1: They they he has never been back there where the
Speaker 1: thought that if he holds the ball too long or
Speaker 1: if he steps up in the pocket, a three d
Speaker 1: pound defensive tackles is gonna hit him as hard as
Speaker 1: he can right in the chest as he's delivering it.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's definitely is seven on seven. One good
Speaker 1: thing Tony Uh we talked about j J Walk coming
Speaker 1: in is that Jaguars did a pretty good job on
Speaker 1: j J the last time in the last matchup. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Whitney Merciless was the one that I think had a
Speaker 1: pretty significant impact in that ball game. And as of
Speaker 1: right now, Whitney Merciless is not playing in this game
Speaker 1: against the Jaguars. So positive. Yeah, let's compatible and we'll
Speaker 1: get into that situation in Houston. We'll talk about that
Speaker 1: COVID nineteens situation there for the Texans when we come back.
Speaker 1: We'll hear from Josh Allen as well and get some
Speaker 1: final thoughts. And I look at the division games this week.
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Speaker 1: But I'm just kidding. I hope everybody's you know, hope
Speaker 1: everybody's healthy over there. Uh. You know, I don't wish
Speaker 1: nobody to get sick or miss any games because they're
Speaker 1: missing paychecks and you know, they got friends that day
Speaker 1: care of too, So hopefully they get back healthy and
Speaker 1: I'm just ready to play. You know, we gotta play
Speaker 1: with the cars that we'll dealt with, but they gotta
Speaker 1: play with the cards that they will dealt with, and
Speaker 1: let's just see how it goes. Sunday, dr Allen discussing
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans COVID nineteen situation and welcome back to
Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hour On this Thursday, JP Shadrick, Jeff Lockman,
Speaker 1: Tony was elly with us as well. The Texans have
Speaker 1: placed three linebackers on the COVID nineteen reserve list. Jacob
Speaker 1: Martin tested positive for COVID nineteen reportedly, but linebackers Whitney
Speaker 1: Merciless and Dylan Cole will also miss this week's game.
Speaker 1: They must test negative for five days in a row
Speaker 1: because of contact tracing, so three linebackers not available for
Speaker 1: the Texans this week against the Jaguars, and now, of
Speaker 1: course concerns about the status of the game as well.
Speaker 1: Romeo Cornell said today that the league wants to play
Speaker 1: the game if possible, and they'll wait until tomorrow before
Speaker 1: making a decision at the latest Saturday, when the Texans travel.
Speaker 1: So still some question marks, guys about this game. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, three linebackers not coming, that's a that's a
Speaker 1: big chunk on that defensive sidebogs. Yeah, and and I
Speaker 1: will say that JP. I mean the three linebackers you're
Speaker 1: talking about, the one that supposedly tested positive with Jacob Martin,
Speaker 1: and then you have the the high uh incidents of
Speaker 1: contact with Whitney Merciless and Dylan Cole. So that's three.
Speaker 1: But then you go to a fourth linebacker, which is
Speaker 1: Kyle Emmanuel who did not practice the last couple of
Speaker 1: days because of a concussion. So in reality, they could
Speaker 1: be short four linebackers, three of them due to COVID,
Speaker 1: one of them because of a concussion. So that would
Speaker 1: leave the Texans with Zack Cunningham, UH, Peter Colombay, Tyrrell Adams,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Greening, and Brendan Scarlett. But you gotta remember now,
Speaker 1: I mean some of these guys are like hybrid defensive
Speaker 1: end linebackers that are not true linebackers. So the Texans
Speaker 1: are gonna have to dip into that practice squad I
Speaker 1: would imagine for this Jaguars game this weekend. Yeah, big change, Tony,
Speaker 1: and you know, we'll see you the next day or
Speaker 1: so if there's any more positives that pop up down there.
Speaker 1: Hopefully not, Hopefully this game goes on a schedule this week.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean you hope so, I mean number one,
Speaker 1: you hope no one's getting sick, and you hope everyone's
Speaker 1: all right there. Um, and the you know, the league
Speaker 1: wants to play this game. They want to play all
Speaker 1: the games here because you're running our you know teams
Speaker 1: with by weeks. We've already had our bye week. So
Speaker 1: now if you don't play this game, you're moving it
Speaker 1: to a Week eight team. I mean you're moving it
Speaker 1: out or you're doing something. I mean, you're you're I
Speaker 1: don't know if you can just because both teams are
Speaker 1: out of the playoffs. I maybe he just cancel it.
Speaker 1: I mean, how do you do it? But you have
Speaker 1: draft order, I mean, you have so many different things
Speaker 1: going on that it becomes a real issue looking at
Speaker 1: the overall standing. So I imagine they'll play it unless
Speaker 1: there's a big outbreak at the Texans if it continues
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be forced to shut down the game,
Speaker 1: But I would plan on. My guess is they'll play.
Speaker 1: But the other interesting thing guy guys around the game,
Speaker 1: you know, is you have the COVID issue, which is,
Speaker 1: you know, first and foremost making sure that everyone's healthy.
Speaker 1: But Florida George is gonna be playing on the field
Speaker 1: on Saturday and it's seventies pent chance of rain. You know.
Speaker 1: One of the concerns I've been thinking about and worrying
Speaker 1: about is what's that field look like. You know, if
Speaker 1: if Florida and Georgia tear it up, um be in
Speaker 1: you know, to no fault through their own just because
Speaker 1: of the rain. If you get a heavy rain for
Speaker 1: on Saturday, it could make it for interesting playing conditions
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Yeah, I'm looking at the weather forecast and
Speaker 1: I got tony it was about so hopefully it is
Speaker 1: more and what I'm looking at versus what you're you're describing.
Speaker 1: One of the things one of the things about the
Speaker 1: COVID situation that I had mentioned a while ago, and
Speaker 1: I'm kind of surprised that the league didn't even take
Speaker 1: a look at this or there wasn't any conversation about this.
Speaker 1: Is because Tony you mentioned how okay, now that both
Speaker 1: teams have had their byes, what are you gonna do
Speaker 1: if something happens, and and JP you had mentioned that
Speaker 1: as well earlier. I thought that every opportunity with teams
Speaker 1: um going into a bye weeks. Perfect example is the
Speaker 1: Jaguars Texans at the Jaguars and Texans have a bye
Speaker 1: week and they share it, and they're playing together coming
Speaker 1: out of that bye week. Play it now like last week.
Speaker 1: They should have played it last week. Then it would
Speaker 1: give if teams are healthy, just because okay, the more
Speaker 1: bye weeks that you can save kind of getting towards
Speaker 1: the end of the season, the more flexibility that you
Speaker 1: have to maybe jumble things around and move things around.
Speaker 1: And I'm surprised that the league uh didn't take advantage
Speaker 1: of that once again here in this instance, because both
Speaker 1: the Texans and the Jaguars had to buy this past weekend.
Speaker 1: And the other thing, I mean, you wonder could they
Speaker 1: move the game like they have before moving to Monday
Speaker 1: night or Tuesday night type of thing to give the
Speaker 1: Texans more time to go through the testing protocols and
Speaker 1: get guys back healthy. Um if if it forks out
Speaker 1: with that five day window, so you know, we'll find
Speaker 1: out more tomorrow. Um and uh, we'll see where this
Speaker 1: thing goes. But you know, with COVID cases ticking up
Speaker 1: everywhere and around the country, this is gonna be something
Speaker 1: the NFL has have to deal with weekend and week out.
Speaker 1: I'm frame yeah. And one thing here, JP the league
Speaker 1: is dealing with to one win football teams here, and
Speaker 1: I think the flexibility as long as the teams can
Speaker 1: feel fifty three or however many for game day by
Speaker 1: utilizing their practice squad elevations, the league is gonna say
Speaker 1: the game must be played. In my opinion, I don't
Speaker 1: think they're gonna try to, you know, maneuver anything else
Speaker 1: around or have any special considerations for this game. The
Speaker 1: word is that we're told that the Texans are practicing today,
Speaker 1: but they're in intensive protocol just like the Jaguars were
Speaker 1: the week of the Chargers games, so virtual meetings. But
Speaker 1: at least so far today practice has been normal for
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. Let's look around the a f C
Speaker 1: South games on the docket this week and we'll see
Speaker 1: how good the Colts are Johnny five and two. They're
Speaker 1: hosting the Baltimore Ravens also at five and two this week.
Speaker 1: What do you think about that game? Well, it's it's
Speaker 1: interesting if strength against strength at Colts defense is pretty
Speaker 1: damn good and they've done good job all year. They're
Speaker 1: gonna face the Baltimore Ravens, who can run the ball.
Speaker 1: We know that. I mean, they gashed the Steelers and
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for a bunch of turnovers by Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson in the passing and probably would have beat the Steelers. Um,
Speaker 1: So you know, you gotta load up and it'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to see how the Colts defend them. I think
Speaker 1: that right now, with the way that the passing game
Speaker 1: for the Ravens is going, I think Lamar we have
Speaker 1: not seen a step forward like we did last year
Speaker 1: with Lamar Jackson. He has been a little bit shaky
Speaker 1: from the pocket. So I think they're gonna do everything
Speaker 1: they can to load up and forced Lamar Jackson to
Speaker 1: beat him from the pocket. Yeah, and the wide receiver
Speaker 1: in Baltimore Brown is not very happy because he's not
Speaker 1: getting the ball. Lamar Jackson hasn't taken that next up up.
Speaker 1: You know, interesting too, the cults have been affected by
Speaker 1: the COVID situation as well. Uh, if I remember reading correctly, today,
Speaker 1: they practiced and because they had a positive test with
Speaker 1: a staff member that they are practicing, and then after
Speaker 1: that they are doing the meeting than everything else remotely
Speaker 1: because of a staff member being tested positive. So it's amazing.
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't know if you guys have
Speaker 1: seen some of the the uptick in the COVID cases
Speaker 1: across the nation, but I think we're seeing some of
Speaker 1: that also kind of being reflected in the National Football
Speaker 1: League because I just don't remember as many issues popping
Speaker 1: up early in the season, is what we're seeing now
Speaker 1: with the situation. The Bears and the Titans meet in
Speaker 1: Nashville this week. Bears at five and three, Titans at
Speaker 1: five and two. Who you like in this one, Tony Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, that was shocked last week that the Titans
Speaker 1: played so poorly against the Bengals. I mean, I thought
Speaker 1: that was a perfect game for them to go out
Speaker 1: there and run the ball. But their defense has been
Speaker 1: so poor. That made the trade for Desmond King from
Speaker 1: the Charges. This week they got rid of Pick Beasley
Speaker 1: and has really done nothing for them except for take
Speaker 1: cast some big paychecks. Um and so, but this is
Speaker 1: I think we're the Titans and healthy defensively, defensively at
Speaker 1: least because the Bears are atrocious on the offenses out
Speaker 1: of the ball. The problem is they're going to get
Speaker 1: some really good Bears defense, one of the better units
Speaker 1: in the NFL, led by gluil Mack and McKy um
Speaker 1: and Hicks the interior defensive alignment. So, um, I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a really good football game. It'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to gain strength agains strength weakness against weakness, so
Speaker 1: it'll be a good matchup. Yeah, Nick Foles is just
Speaker 1: he's not very good, and uh, you know, they made
Speaker 1: the major switch from Rabinsky to Nick Boles and Nick
Speaker 1: Foles not great And I think the the interesting matchup
Speaker 1: of that. Of course, that's always interesting to watch Derrick
Speaker 1: Hennry against a great defense, but seeing how Nick Boles
Speaker 1: and the Bears offense plays against that Titans defense is
Speaker 1: also that. It's a great matchup. And I'll take the titles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you know interesting thing, Jeff about you mentioned
Speaker 1: Dick Folds not playing very good. You know, the Bears
Speaker 1: have better offensive numbers under Trabinsky than they do under Folds.
Speaker 1: But a brisk he went and had his shoulder looked at. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think this week he has some damage. So my
Speaker 1: guess is he won't be coming back. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a bad They're not very good, and uh, I think
Speaker 1: the Titans get healthy this week. Can figure it out alright, guys,
Speaker 1: about a minute left here. Final thought about the Jaguars
Speaker 1: Texans game. What's your gut telling you're Tony I actually
Speaker 1: have no feeling for this one, JP, because I don't
Speaker 1: know what you're gonna get out. Jake Luten, I mean now,
Speaker 1: because the Texans defense is so decimated. I hopefully the
Speaker 1: offensive line has a big day. Give it to James Robinson,
Speaker 1: but you have to Shaun Watson. We have yet in
Speaker 1: the last six games stopped anybody from scoring thirty plus points,
Speaker 1: so I think they're gonna have to keep it under
Speaker 1: thirty to win. J C. I'm taking the Jaguars just
Speaker 1: because the toa factor, just like the Miami Dolphins got
Speaker 1: a new quarterback. Everybody else rallied and played well and
Speaker 1: uh and you saw the Dolphins end up winning even
Speaker 1: though two or through for less than a hundred yards.
Speaker 1: I think so. I think he could see something similar
Speaker 1: to that with the Jaguars as a team. Well, all right,
Speaker 1: I like it. Jeff Loguman picking the Jags this week, Tony.
Speaker 1: We will talk to you a little bit later in
Speaker 1: the week. Have a good one, all right, Tell Douga
Speaker 1: said hello, We'll do it, Tony Vaselli out of here.
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