WEBVTT - Ep. 89: Rookies Making Impact as Early as Week One | Jags A.M. Podcast 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.120 Welcome to jag Zam. I'm kind Annie Stephens, Brian Sexton, 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:21.840 and John Oser are with me today as we recapped 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:25.120 Week one heartbreaking loss for the Jaguars in Miami as 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:26.960 they lose on a game winning field goal by the 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:30.520 Dolphins as time expired. But should it have ever gotten 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:32.159 to that point? We're gonna start out with big thing 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:35.680 number one that melt down in Miami. Things We're all 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:38.080 going the Jaguars way in the first half, then a 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.280 fumble in the second half and the momentum completely shifted. 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:48.239 Just let's just when you know, I mean, what do 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:49.440 you want to lose? You want to go and look 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:51.320 at the film, you want to be pissed off. And 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.160 I feel like each and every week we got ahead 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.240 a mindset, I get want to know, and I feel 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:57.040 like we just have to just flush it, you know, 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:59.480 be critical of what happened on film, and next week 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:01.160 I tackle with from mindset. You know, it's a whole 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:04.319 new week, NFL. It's one week at a time. You know, 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.360 we can't let this carry on in this week because 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.120 it's not going to let us be out besto. And 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.160 now we had to flush this and have to get 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:11.720 better and be. 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:13.680 Better for my teammate Brian. 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.640 So much about that loss yesterday was frustrating to watch 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:17.800 from a fans perspective. 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:19.199 I'm sure for the players as well. 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.840 But last year their problem was letting this carry over 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.000 week after week after week. How do they not do 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:24.479 that this time? 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:28.720 Well, listen, I heard things from Travis there, from Trevor. 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:31.760 It's what I harped on all offseason. They were one 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:33.600 and four in the big games last year, and I 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.560 thought yesterday was a big game. They've got to get 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:38.360 over this hump. And I don't know whether it's beating 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.120 Cleveland or beating Buffalo, They've got to win one of 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:44.280 these games at the end where it's close, because right 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:47.440 now it doesn't appear that is in their makeup. Trevor 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:49.360 Lawrence talked about it in the post game yesterday what 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:54.200 his expectations are. Listen, you had the fumble and then 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:58.240 the explosive play. Don't forget Parker Washington fumbled on the 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:03.480 kickoff after touchdown, and if it wasn't for incredible effort 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:05.000 to get it either get it back, I mean, it 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.960 could have been even worse. So it's a great reminder 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.800 that in this league it is one game at a time, 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.760 one play at a time, because everything can change, as 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.040 it did when that fumble got punched out. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:21.600 Look, there's plenty to take away from this game positive. 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.320 The offensive line played better, the defense I thought I 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:28.480 played really well. There were moments. The problem is in 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:30.800 the last five, six, seven games eighting back to last season, 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:33.359 it's a team that it gets close and doesn't win. 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.200 In the NFL. Who cares about the moments, Who cares 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.799 about the improvement? You gotta win. So I'm with Brian, 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.760 with everybody. This is a big week to show that 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:44.480 this isn't who you are. The theme in the post 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.320 game yesterday was hey, it's only one game, it's one 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:50.639 to seventeen. Well, you can't have it be two seventeen 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.040 and in three seventeen. You got to fix this. You 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.320 got to get it right. Cleveland's a tough spot, but 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.000 that's the task this week. The veterans have to step up. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:01.640 Umber two for us going to be offensive. 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.720 The offense was clicking all cylinders seemingly in the first half, 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:06.200 but it was the tail of two halves in the 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.760 second half. It seemed to be a huge issue for 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:10.600 the offense and they couldn't get anything going. 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.440 No, it was trying to stay on the field, and 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:18.359 you know it really just wanted to stay on the field, 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.079 execute the play, stay on the field first and ten 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:25.120 they stopped us me to play and then you know 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.480 it turned into a good situation because you know they 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.600 ended up missing the field goal there, so, but no, 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.320 just I just wanted to stay on the field. 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:35.960 John, You were in the locker room post game a 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:37.680 lot of those players, so they didn't feel like the 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:39.840 Dolphins did anything different. It felt like they built. They 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.080 beat themselves. The Jaguars felt like they beat themselves. What 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:43.160 happened in the second half. 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:44.800 Of the offense, Well, this is one of those games 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:46.800 where there's going to be a disconnect between how the 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.520 coaches see it and how the fans and the media 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:53.640 see it. Meaning when the coaches look at this, they're 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.920 gonna say, look, the running game was working, we were 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.280 close on the running game. We stuck with the running game, 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.080 and we just couldn't convert third downs. And that's all right. 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.600 Jay War's only got fifty plays. When you only get 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.120 fifty plays, it's hard to get a lot going offensively. 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.160 It's hard to throw and run as much as you 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.960 want there's gonna be a lot of complaints and angst 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.040 about Trevor only throwing two times in the fourth quarter. 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:17.320 They didn't have the ball that much. They kept going 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:20.440 three and out. When you don't convert third down, Brian, 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.880 it makes the whole offense look clunky, because it is. 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:26.440 I think they're gonna think they were close. I think 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.240 they're gonna like the good things, but you got to 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:29.000 convert third down. 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.480 Listen, you score that one touchdown and then all of 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.240 this is, well, we can clean this up. However, in 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:38.120 the fourth quarter they had twelve yards right, and then 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:39.960 when they got the ball back, with the game tied 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.359 at seventeen, with four to twenty two to play at 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.000 their own thirty yard line, an opportunity take the forur 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.720 minute offense, go down the field right, no game on 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.360 the running play, sack sack, loss of ten yards. I mean, 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.880 that's the part that you just chew on mentally. How 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.520 with everything on the line right where you want to be. 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.960 It's a one score game, right, It's a one score league. 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.600 Most of the games are decided in the fourth quarter 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.760 by less than eight points. You're right where you need 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:08.920 to be and you can't get first down, you can't 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.040 move the ball at all. That's the part where I'm 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.520 scratching my head this morning, saying, how is this team 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.520 unable to do anything, especially giving up back to back sacks. 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.440 That's the part that for this week I'm gonna be 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:20.200 asking that question. 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:22.760 Our final big thing is gonna be empty tank. The 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.200 defense was out there a lot of un Peterson alluded 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:26.920 to in the second half. The offense couldn't stay on 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:29.080 the field, so the defense was out there quite. 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.120 Some amount of time. Before the game. 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:32.720 You told me they were gonna hold them to two touchdowns, 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:33.840 I would have said that I will give him a 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:34.280 good shot. 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:34.880 John. 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:38.160 It was frustrating at times to watch, but the defense 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:40.080 was great out there for most of the game, which 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:41.880 just at the end when they've been out there so long. 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.720 Yeah, it kind of goes back to the fifty plays offensively. 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:46.920 The only that many plays offensively the defense is on 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:50.159 the field a lot more. I'm kind of like Brian 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.440 on this one too. After the fumble, it took on 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.320 sort of this air of inevitability about what was going 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:00.720 to happen. To me. I think it was because you 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.640 felt like the defense had done what it could. It 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.400 had given a yeoman's effort the whole thing, and then 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:09.600 once Tyreek hit the big play, you just kind of 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.320 felt like the offense wasn't gonna get going, and then 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.599 there wasn't quite enough left to stop the field goal drives. 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:21.680 You know, it's such a game of circumstance. Had the 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:25.440 fumble night happen, you're playing downhill the rest of the way. Defensively, 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:27.719 it felt like they were on even footing the rest 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:29.360 of the way, and the Dolphins were able to wear 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:29.720 them down. 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.000 Listen, you hold the Dolphins to seventeen points until the 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:33.800 final play of the game. I mean, that's a win. 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.200 This is the number one offense in football last year, 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.240 number two in scoring, and you saw how Mike McDaniel 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.440 did it on that final drive where they needed thirty 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.800 one yards to set up the game winning field goal. 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.040 He was swinging it outside to side and forcing the 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.640 Jaguars defense, which had been on the field for most 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.240 of the game, to run and chase I Chan and 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.400 a lot of those guys that are so difficult to catch. 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:58.240 In the first quarter, the Daguars defense, with what too 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.839 ten left to play, gave up the thirty one yards 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:02.680 and they just couldn't hold off the Dolphins anymore. But 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.480 other than that little stretch there, and I really was 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.719 excited about what I saw, and I'm sure Ryan Nielsen 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:08.040 is too. 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:10.160 Stay with us here on Jagzam. 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.280 Coming back, we're gonna look at the tape from yesterday's 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:13.080 game in Miami. 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.480 Move the Move, the Freight, Move the Freight. 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.360 Magellan Transport voted the coolest office space in Jacksonville. 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It's really I mean, I'm not gonna call 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:54.520 out John, but John didn't want to come sit down 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:55.640 in his favorite chair, so. 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.400 Well, we did what the Jaguars have to do this 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:03.680 week to do adversity. Something changed we moved on. So 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:05.040 this is the tone center for the week. 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.080 Right the way we go through the rest of the week, 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:08.840 we'll set the tone for sure, sets the tone. 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:10.120 Doug needs to mention this in the meeting. 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:13.360 Let's stay the course and provide a good example. 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.440 So let's go over some of the highlights from yesterday first, 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:17.040 because the first half there were a lot of highlights 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:18.280 that we saw, and we saw a lot of good 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:19.840 play from the defense early on as well. 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.800 But one of the things that impressed me the most 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:24.080 was Brian Thomas Junior. 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.480 We've been talking about him, what we expected from him, John, 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.600 You've been talking about how you actually have some expectations 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.800 for a rookie for once, but he more than exceeded 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:32.160 what I was expecting to see from him. 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.520 Right out of the gate. Getting this pass interference call. 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.680 Against Dalen Ramsey and then chirping at him after shows 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:39.560 me a little something about what we're going to see from. 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:40.040 Him going forward. 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.520 Well, I think he knows he belongs and you don't 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:47.920 really see this from Thomas Junior when he speaks to 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.280 the media, you don't see around the building. But when 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.719 it came time to compete, when the lights came on. 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:55.240 I don't get the feeling that he was necessarily looking 0:08:55.360 --> 0:09:00.160 for that. I think Jalen was probably talking earlier, be 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:04.920 my guess, and BTJ made a play, But Brian. I 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.679 think what impressed me most about Brian Thomas Junior was, 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:14.240 you know, nothing looked overly difficult, and it didn't look 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.920 like he was playing above himself. He just looked like 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.480 he was playing and it looked like there's going to 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:21.959 be things that come easy to him that don't come 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:23.320 easy to most NFL receivers. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.600 He totally belongs. I mean his game translated from LSU 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.839 to the pros immediately, like so many of the LSU 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.319 receivers have over time. The thing I loved the most 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.840 about this play is that Ramsey had to tackle him right. 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.800 I mean, Ramsey knew and he still almost caught it beat. 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.160 I get he had the hamstring, but Thomas is the 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:44.000 exact opposite of Ramsey. If Ramsey had been a good 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:45.720 guy in the locker room and a jerk on the field, 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.600 everybody would have loved him. But he was a jerk 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:51.079 on both. Thomas is a guy who is absolutely a 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.040 great guy in the locker room, and I love that 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:55.480 he turned and chirked right at Ramsey and you know 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:57.640 he beat him on the other touchdown too. I mean, 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.360 it's just what a great day for Brian tom Junior. 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:02.760 Which she could celebrate it more, but coming in here today, 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:03.520 he's not going to be. 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.240 Able to yeah and think about this with him. He uh, 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:10.760 this is the first game and he was huge on 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.679 all three touchdown drives he had. On the field goal drive, 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:19.240 I think he had a catch early. He If you 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:22.400 know anything about wide receiver play in the NFL first game, 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.640 you're operating at about a ten percent capacity of what 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:29.480 you can be. This kid has a chance to be 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.400 a star and to be, you know, Goboard one of 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.959 the best receivers this franchise has ever seen. If yesterday's 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:38.640 any is any indicator, well, it. 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:40.640 Was Fred Taylor in our radio post game yesterday that 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.040 made the comparison to Jimmy Smith. Now he didn't compare 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.120 him directly. What he said was, I don't know that 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.280 I've seen a receiver as big and talented as fast 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.240 in Jacksonville since the guy who worried you too. Yeah, 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:53.360 let him grow into that. But I'll say this, there 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:54.720 are a lot of people who are concerned that Evan 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.199 Ingram only got one catch yesterday for five yards. Hold tight. 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.480 That's not going to hold because defenses are going to 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:01.760 have to adjust to the size and speed of Brian 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.480 Thomas Junior, and everything's going to get easier for those 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:05.040 other guys. 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:07.560 It's taking advantage of when you do get the ball though. 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:09.160 We'll touch on that a little bit later on. But 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.920 that PI call set up this touchdown from ETN. The 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.640 running game was looking good early Tanks specifically as well. 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.720 From what we saw, he was just running right through 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:20.360 the center. They were setting up holes for him and 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:21.920 he was going for it, and then they got away 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.720 from it later, But John reimpressed with what the running 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:25.319 game did early. 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:27.880 Yeah, it was and I think they stuck with it. 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:33.320 And again a lot of my complaints in the inbox 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.439 were about that they got away from Trevor in the 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.800 fourth quarter at I didn't feel that the stats showed 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.880 that more than I felt it. But the reason for 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:46.760 that is they had success. They were four point nine 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.520 a carry. That carried over to the second half where 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.679 they said we're having success with this, we can't get 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.040 away from it, and then it's sort of bit him 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:58.160 a couple of times late. I mean, you know that 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:00.839 success when you're sticking with it and you don't get it, 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:02.960 then all of a sudden you're off the field fast, right. 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:07.439 So I get why the coaches stayed with the run too, 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.319 and I think over the course of time, sticking with 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:15.000 it will have benefits. It didn't benefit him in the 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:16.720 fourth quarter on Sunday. 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:21.320 Doug said last week, the best defense against Miami's offense 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:23.920 is the Jaguars offense staying on the field. And they 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.000 knew they were more physical front than Miami, and they 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.240 pushed them around up front. And when you had a 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.439 lead and you didn't have to play from behind and 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.199 you didn't have to throw the ball over the field 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.679 on a hot day, man lean on those guys and 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:37.599 get it done. I didn't have a problem with the 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:39.960 play calling, and I'll touch on that when we get 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:44.720 into our hot takes, but they just weren't as good 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.760 in the second half at running the ball. Miami made plays. 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:49.080 All right. 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.760 Let's look at that second touchdown drive from the Jaguars, 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.160 big catch by Christian Kirk to set things up, and 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:55.760 then Brian Thomas Junior as well. 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:57.599 Kirk had a rough day, but he did have a 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:59.439 great catch here over the middle that kind of set 0:12:59.480 --> 0:12:59.800 things up. 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:01.760 This is what you want to see when you can 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:04.439 establish the run open things up, and whether it's Tim 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.240 or Gave Davis had a couple of big plays over 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.360 the middle as well. That's the offense we want to 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.600 see from them being a little bit more dynamic. Brian, 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:12.959 how do they continue to tap into this as the 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:13.920 season goes forward? 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.440 Lisen? You keep the running game going, and that means, 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:20.359 by the way, consistent into the second half, be successful 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.319 running the bowl and bringing those safeties up. I think 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.800 Tang Pigsby is a great one two punch, and I 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:29.559 have that physicality at the line of scrimmage. Bring the 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.360 safeties up with what you got with Kirk and Ingram 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.319 and Brian Thomas Junior. This will come. You've got to 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.720 be able to be efficient and effective in the running 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.959 game when you want to run. If they are his 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.400 play action will work and it will work Wonderfulay. 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:45.440 Yeah, that's what I said the top of the show. 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:49.080 It's a tough game to analyze because you saw things 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:52.120 like that that you liked, you know, I feel better 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:55.360 about the running game yesterday, Yeah, than I think I 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:56.560 did at any point last season. 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:57.200 I'm going with you there. 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.480 I don't remember every game, but they felt like they 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:03.240 were getting things they wanted to do. Tank was running 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:03.679 with power. 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:05.199 You sort of know that. 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:06.360 You know. 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.000 The only concern I have is Travis Dtan is such 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.920 a burst runner that if he's not getting as many 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.040 carries as he did, does he have as many chances 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.760 it bursts. But I think that'll work itself out. You 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.040 feel good about that, You feel good about the weapons. 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.040 You know, if they'd gotten the win, you'd be doing 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.720 cartwheels because you said all these things that you like. 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.480 They just have to get a win to sort of 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.080 stay afloat and wait for these things to sort of 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.600 develop around them, because you feel like it's there, but 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:36.040 you can't. 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:38.000 What you're sake losing. 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:41.120 It's one game, but you can't keep losing and keep 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:41.840 saying it's there. 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.480 But what you're saying is the old age, old truism 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:46.640 in the NFL, And it's never as bad as you 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.000 think it is. It feels bad because the fumble and 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:52.680 the explosive play and that first down series that didn't 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.360 go anywhere, but when you go back and look at it, 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:59.680 you win on Sunday against Cleveland. You're feeling pretty good 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:01.480 some of the things that you've seen in the first 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.040 two weeks. Yeah, and being one and one, because remember 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:06.400 in September with the schedule with three or four on 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.960 the road, you come out two and two, You're in 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:09.520 a good spot. 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:11.440 We should say. 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.000 On the back end of that drive with the touchdown 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:14.600 with Brian Thomas Junior, do you want to say that 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.520 throw from Trevor was excellent Brian Thomas Junior to have 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:19.800 the body awareness to go up and get first of all, 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:21.320 when Trevor lagoes the football, he wasn't even in the 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:22.840 end zone yet it's all the way in the back 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:24.240 of the end zone, gets it and the toe tap 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.280 it in. I'm just excited to see their growth together 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.280 going forward because they're already in sync, which we've seen 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:32.960 sometimes takes Trevor a longer time to get on sync 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.680 with newer receivers, and he's already there seemingly with Brian 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:37.560 Thomas Junior. Also, want to give a shout out to 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:39.520 another rookie, Kim Little coming on for how about your 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:40.840 first kick fifty three yards? 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:41.480 Not bad? 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:45.400 You know that was the longest kick in Jaguar's history, 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:49.400 right the fifty three yard field goal until year twenty 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:53.120 until twenty ten, so like fifteen maybe, until Josh Goby 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:55.240 kicked the fifty nine yarder, fifty three was the standard. 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.320 And he steps up and meets the standard with his 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:58.480 first NFL kick. 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:00.440 And the leg on it could have been been further. 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:04.400 Yeah, And I was watching that and I'm not going 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.800 to say I was scared for the kid, but you're thinking, Okay, 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:13.000 he's had this great preseason. In training camp, the sort 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.360 of lingering question was, well can he do it in 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:18.680 the games? And you pull for the kid because you 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.800 know he's a Jaguar players, he's like a likable kid, 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:26.040 and you're just like, okay, can he do it now? 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:28.160 And then when he did it, you're like, well, of 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.360 course he didn't. He's been doing it the whole time. 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:35.920 He doesn't seem to get affected by stuff, and he 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.760 now he looks like a really good long term solution 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:39.320 at that spot. 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:40.560 And by the way, what they get the ball with 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.680 one four to begin that drive and it's an answer 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.280 to the Dolphins and it pushed the lead. You want 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.280 to be excited about something that was a really important, 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.720 effective drive for the offense, don't forget that they ended 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.800 the first half with that statement field goal and that 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.760 drive and that wasn't something that they did last year. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.160 And think about where they were able to do because 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:03.760 they would go for it on four thousand times and 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:05.040 then trust kicks that one. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.879 Right, sort of playing to your point, really impressive. What 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.359 ninety six yard drive in the first half of ninety 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:16.919 four and then they get the stop or yeah, they 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.120 got the stop. The Dolphins got to the twenty six 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.520 Trayvon got the sack in the second half, they get 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:23.120 the stop and then they go down and go ninety 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.280 six yards in about three seconds for the fumble. 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:27.920 They did some really. 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:33.000 Impressive things, and yet this league is so difficult because 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:34.920 you do impressive things and of things and then one 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:39.680 play changes it. And to me, unfortunately for Travis, yesterday 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:41.000 really was just about one play. 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:42.639