Speaker 1: Welcome to the Jagslam this morning. I'm kind of Annie Stevens,
Speaker 1: Brian Sexton, and John Oser are with me today as
Speaker 1: we get ready to talk about week three for the
Speaker 1: Jags because they had to Buffalo from Monday night football.
Speaker 1: Let's kick things off with big things. Big thing number
Speaker 1: one is stay the course. There's a lot of talk
Speaker 1: about panic. We didn't see what we wanted to see
Speaker 1: out of the Jaguars in the first two weeks of
Speaker 1: the season. But Hoyle Litlcon, captain of this team, says,
Speaker 1: there's no panic right now.
Speaker 2: I think you always focus on the now. Obviously it
Speaker 2: was two games. There's a lot of games left, like
Speaker 2: you said earlier, but I gotta keep on saying each
Speaker 2: game is a race in itself when I like to
Speaker 2: win races. So let's win the next game. That's we
Speaker 2: have in our play doing everything it takes to uh
Speaker 2: come out with the right energy against Buffalo. Stay in
Speaker 2: our books, stay on our film. We know we have
Speaker 2: all the talent in the in the locker room and
Speaker 2: win games. So has go out a women kind of
Speaker 2: focused on ourselves on the inside. Obviously the outside has
Speaker 2: a lot of noise going on out there. They don't
Speaker 2: know what goes on in the locker room on a
Speaker 2: practice field, so we know we're capable level. We gotta
Speaker 2: go out there and improve it every week.
Speaker 1: From account ran, I think a lot of this feels
Speaker 1: a lot worse because of the way things ended last season.
Speaker 1: This team is zero and two. What do they need
Speaker 1: to do to get right? On Monday night?
Speaker 3: So I was at luncheon yesterday with Tony Bisselli, and
Speaker 3: famously the most sudden turnaround in Jaguars history is ninety six,
Speaker 3: where they started four and seven and went on a
Speaker 3: seven game winning streak to the AFC Title Game and
Speaker 3: only their second season. So I asked what was it
Speaker 3: that year that turned it around, and he said, leadership.
Speaker 3: It's a given that the coaches have to lead them out,
Speaker 3: but this is on the players in the locker room.
Speaker 3: We talked a lot earlier this week about Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 3: and the leadership he showed in the post game on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Now it's time for the rest of the leaders, guys
Speaker 3: like Foyer, Alucon on the defensive side, Josh Allen. The
Speaker 3: leadership is what we'll get this team focused and ready
Speaker 3: to play better football. On Monday in Buffalo.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's important those guys lead. It's also important
Speaker 4: that they play well, which means making plays at the
Speaker 4: end of games. Bucky Brooks has said it all week,
Speaker 4: the great Jay Wars media analyst, that we have big
Speaker 4: players have to make big plays in big moments for
Speaker 4: the last two months, meaning the last six weeks dating
Speaker 4: back to the last season, that hasn't happened. So the
Speaker 4: reason they can stay the course, they don't do ththing complicated.
Speaker 4: They have to play better. Big player one.
Speaker 1: Of them might be missing on Monday Night Football or
Speaker 1: big thing Number two is injury watch. We saw Evan
Speaker 1: Ingram get scratched from week two because he suffered a
Speaker 1: hamstring injury right during warm ups before that game. He'll
Speaker 1: be kind of day to day as they watch and
Speaker 1: evaluate is the week goes on. According to head coach
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson, John, how's this affect the offense if they
Speaker 1: don't have Evan Ingram once again?
Speaker 4: Well, some I don't think as much as we thought
Speaker 4: because Brenton Strange played well. There are tight end options.
Speaker 4: You should be able to get through a week or
Speaker 4: two without one of your top players, And frankly, I
Speaker 4: think they need to go a different direction offense anyway.
Speaker 4: Brian Thomas Junior Christian Kirk gave Davis Breton Strange Travis
Speaker 4: Etn as listed off four guys that you trust. Brent
Speaker 4: Strange may have to earn that a little bit more.
Speaker 4: But look, there are options in this offense. Just losing
Speaker 4: Evan Ingram should hurt you, but it's not like this
Speaker 4: offense can't function without him right now.
Speaker 3: No, And the name that you just said, John that
Speaker 3: strikes me the most is Travis Etn. The reason that
Speaker 3: Evan Ingram is such a valuable part of this offense
Speaker 3: is he is that hot option when all things break
Speaker 3: down and they bring three pass rushers Greg Russeau, von
Speaker 3: Miller and that Oliver for the Buffalo Bills Defenseive Long,
Speaker 3: you got to get rid of the ball in a hurry.
Speaker 3: To me, that would suggest that Travis Etn is going
Speaker 3: to have to be a bigger option in the passing game,
Speaker 3: or at least I wouldn't it have to be. If
Speaker 3: he is, he can help overcome the absence of Evan Ingram.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. As for our opponent on Monday Night Football, our
Speaker 1: final big thing, Bill's Bill's Bills, They're two and oh
Speaker 1: heading into this they've had an impressive performance against the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins last week. They're coming in well rested.
Speaker 5: Brian.
Speaker 1: When you look at the team, what's an factor for them?
Speaker 1: What are you worried about?
Speaker 3: Well, the front is very difficult to block. Von Miller
Speaker 3: looks like the von Miller of before his most recent
Speaker 3: ACL which was two years ago at Oliver I thought
Speaker 3: was the most difficult guy the Jaguars had to handle
Speaker 3: in the middle. And then of course Greg Russeau, who's
Speaker 3: a big, long Kalais Campbell, Eric Armstead kind of body.
Speaker 3: He wasn't active, he didn't play last year against these
Speaker 3: guys in London. So now they've got those three against
Speaker 3: an offensive line that hasn't played very well. Okay, so
Speaker 3: that's a trouble area. However, perhaps that's the rallying point.
Speaker 3: I mean, perhaps this is where those guys, you know,
Speaker 3: stiffen up and play to the capability that Doug Peterson
Speaker 3: and Phil Rousher saw in them when they set this
Speaker 3: offensive line before the start of the regular season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll go chalk here. I do rankings every week
Speaker 4: for Jaguars dot Com. My comment next to the Bills
Speaker 4: so far has been. Josh Allen still plays quarterback for
Speaker 4: the Bills. As long as they have him, he's very dangerous.
Speaker 4: He makes them dangerous. The quarterback can score and make
Speaker 4: plays in red zone when everything else is broken down.
Speaker 4: He can will then the touchdowns because of his size.
Speaker 4: As long as he's there, they're good. Everybody thought this
Speaker 4: was the season of transition for them. They're playing as
Speaker 4: well as anything in the league. I have them number
Speaker 4: two in the league and it's because Josh Allen plays
Speaker 4: quarterback for the Bills.
Speaker 1: Absolutely stay with us here on Jagzam. Coming up after
Speaker 1: the break, we'll hear from Jaguars players in the locker
Speaker 1: room see where the state of the team is heading
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Speaker 5: Com depending on who you are. I know, for me
Speaker 5: is I know I understand the implications of Monday night
Speaker 5: and what that is to a lot of other people.
Speaker 5: But you know, as we tune the noise out, you
Speaker 5: kind of want to tune that out for a little
Speaker 5: bit as well. When you get into the atmosphere, it'll
Speaker 5: definitely shake Over, Welcome.
Speaker 1: Back to the Jagzam. Here in the Hyundai Studios Andre Cisco,
Speaker 1: they're talking about how you get up for Monday night football.
Speaker 1: If you can't get high energy for Monday night football,
Speaker 1: there's probably something wrong with you that always. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just the premier night I feel like for football
Speaker 1: and everyone's watching you. You're on a national stage and
Speaker 1: hopefully the Jaguars can come out and perform.
Speaker 3: Listen, You're gonna have to match their energy. I mean,
Speaker 3: the Buffalo is an energetic place as it is now.
Speaker 3: You put the prime lights, the primetime lights on on it,
Speaker 3: then if you don't bring the energy, you're gonna be
Speaker 3: run over by it.
Speaker 4: It is a tough spot because it's team wants the Jags.
Speaker 4: I mean they have matched up well, the Jaguars have,
Speaker 4: so you had primetime a team that is not going
Speaker 4: to overlook you.
Speaker 1: They need to be ready team the Jags beat last
Speaker 1: year in London, so I'm sure that's on their mind
Speaker 1: as well. Speaking of the locker room yesterday, we heard
Speaker 1: from Foya Luikin a little bit earlier, but we also
Speaker 1: talked about on the show yesterday just about that linebacker rotation.
Speaker 1: We saw Ryan Nielson likes to sub in different players
Speaker 1: and Foya Luik and playing a lot less. He's used
Speaker 1: to playing pretty much every snap, and he kind of
Speaker 1: addressed that in the locker room yesterday.
Speaker 2: And I got all the faith in the linebackers and stuff.
Speaker 2: And I came in this league not playing every snap.
Speaker 2: I've been blessed to be able to play every snap
Speaker 2: for what my third year all the way to my
Speaker 2: seventh year. Over the coach needs, but the the goal
Speaker 2: here is to win games down the road. Although want
Speaker 2: to win the games now. Obviously don't look right when
Speaker 2: we're not winning games right now. So let's get to
Speaker 2: winning the games now and you'll see a payoff down
Speaker 2: the road. But let's focus on the now. Don't worry
Speaker 2: about the snapcots and stuff. Let's worry about wins. Uh,
Speaker 2: how the linebackers look as a unit. Everything's gonna work
Speaker 2: out if we execute our g our players that we're
Speaker 2: supposed to.
Speaker 1: John feels like there's some understanding there. We've talked so
Speaker 1: much about that draft and develop angle. You gotta start
Speaker 1: developing guys early cause of what we saw last season
Speaker 1: where you weren't giving them reps and then at the
Speaker 1: end of the season you can't count on them. So
Speaker 1: I think they're trying to do some of that with
Speaker 1: Ventrel Miller and and some of some of the other linebackers.
Speaker 1: And obviously doesn't look great right now when you're not
Speaker 1: winning football games, but trying to make a plan.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's some understanding there. I I I kind of
Speaker 4: wonder how long the understanding last if if you lose
Speaker 4: a couple more games. Sure, I I don't think it's
Speaker 4: a major, major thing. I think Foy he is still
Speaker 4: playing eighty one per cent of the plays. He's probably
Speaker 4: down s eight nine plays a game. Uh, that can
Speaker 4: be a lot for the wrong eight or nine plays.
Speaker 4: I don't necessarily find it that interesting along the defensive
Speaker 4: front case irritate all the time the linebacker and the
Speaker 4: DB's thing. I still have to watch it. It's unorthodox.
Speaker 4: I get the point. Maybe it's just a little unusual
Speaker 4: for the old school guy.
Speaker 3: Listen, it'll evolve. I mean there will be times where
Speaker 3: you know, on Monday night, you'll think he should be
Speaker 3: in the game. They've only played two games together, and
Speaker 3: Ryan Nielsen's only had two games to work This system.
Speaker 3: In my understanding is is that as they get more
Speaker 3: familiar with the situations and the players, that this will
Speaker 3: will find its point. However, listen Tampa last year, Tennessee
Speaker 3: last year, at the end of the season, he didn't
Speaker 3: look my opinion, only he looked like he had worn
Speaker 3: down playing one hundred percent of the snaps. He's one
Speaker 3: of the most dependable players this team has ever had
Speaker 3: playing linebacker, and they want to give him the ability
Speaker 3: to be fresh at the end of the season. So
Speaker 3: they're trying to implement this. Now I get it, but
Speaker 3: I do think it's an evolution and you won't see
Speaker 3: him all the field and key situations as best they
Speaker 3: can set it up.
Speaker 1: Sure, we'll keep an eye on that for Monday Night football,
Speaker 1: for sure. Also, we heard from traves Y Danna in
Speaker 1: the locker room talking a little bit about the issues
Speaker 1: the offense has been having, specifically in the Cleveland game,
Speaker 1: and how maybe going up tempo a little bit could
Speaker 1: help get things going Earlier.
Speaker 6: We did take the pace of the game. We don't
Speaker 6: let them get set, don't let them dial up whatever
Speaker 6: they want to doll up. We kind of cass them
Speaker 6: on their toes and we control the pace. And I
Speaker 6: feel like I remember, I remember we had that long
Speaker 6: drive and those guys are there tired, you know, and
Speaker 6: I feel like it's an offense when you since that's
Speaker 6: kind of like a like we're like a shark of
Speaker 6: blood in the water. That's something you've got to go
Speaker 6: out there and attack and make the most out of it.
Speaker 1: Ran I know sometimes easier said than done with stuff
Speaker 1: like that, but going up temple can't be a bad
Speaker 1: idea right now.
Speaker 3: Right No, I don't listen. I don't think any idea
Speaker 3: is bad right now when what you're doing isn't working.
Speaker 3: So whether it's up tempo or no huddle or different
Speaker 3: personnel packages, however you want to do it, I think
Speaker 3: everything should be on the table. And with an all
Speaker 3: clinching staff like Doug Peterson and Press Taylor and Mike McCoy,
Speaker 3: I would doubt that everything isn't on the table right
Speaker 3: I would believe that they are examining every opportunity to
Speaker 3: get this thing jump started.
Speaker 4: I'm a big fan of up tempo if they can
Speaker 4: do it. I guess what I mean by that is,
Speaker 4: you know the other day, plays were getting in and
Speaker 4: they were hiking the ball at one second. It's hard
Speaker 4: to go up tempo and you're not getting plays in
Speaker 4: like that. And I'm not trying to be facetious, but
Speaker 4: in order to go up tempo, you have to really
Speaker 4: be on the same page. You have to be going.
Speaker 4: It's hard to do for entire games too. It's I
Speaker 4: think it is usually a fantastic change of pace. You
Speaker 4: can surge through a quarter or so with it. It's
Speaker 4: hard to do it all the time. But you know,
Speaker 4: I guess facetious or not. In order to go up tempo,
Speaker 4: everybody has to be on the same page. They weren't
Speaker 4: on the same page on Sunday.
Speaker 1: They were not, and that whether you're going up temper
Speaker 1: or not was an issue for them. Clearly say with
Speaker 1: us here, we're going to give you our predictions for
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Speaker 1: here's where we put our predictor caps on. We're gonna
Speaker 1: try and figure out what the headlines are gonna be
Speaker 1: on Tuesday after the Jags and Bill's face off in
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football. Brian, when you look ahead, what do
Speaker 1: you think we'll see?
Speaker 3: Well, my headline is a bent but not broken, kind
Speaker 3: of like some of those tables that the Bill's Mafia
Speaker 3: jump onto in their parking lot, which is psychotic and
Speaker 3: fun at the same time, usually on fire as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: those folks are serious. And I think that the Jaguars
Speaker 3: are going to go play well.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: I thought they'd played well last week, and they did
Speaker 3: in the second half. I thought they play well on
Speaker 3: Opening Day, and they did for the first three quarters.
Speaker 3: So I'm gambling that the momentum that they built in
Speaker 3: the second half last week, plus the just sheer disgust
Speaker 3: of the way that that game went by the players
Speaker 3: that I talked to this week tell me that I
Speaker 3: think they're going to go play well. That I don't
Speaker 3: know that that's going to be enough to overcome Josh
Speaker 3: Allen in that Buffalo crowd in prime time and as
Speaker 3: John said, with the bullseye on their back, because the
Speaker 3: Jaguars have beaten them the last two times they've played them,
Speaker 3: so but I think they'll play well. So, you know,
Speaker 3: bent like one of those tables because they kind of
Speaker 3: are right now but not broken, and we'll see where
Speaker 3: it goes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we're on the same page. I went
Speaker 4: with what's next, and I hope I'm wrong. I see
Speaker 4: a game where the Jaguars come out and play very well,
Speaker 4: especially early. I think they might get a lead. I
Speaker 4: think the adrenaline of knowing not to say what Trevor
Speaker 4: Lawrence said after the game, but knowing what it meant,
Speaker 4: knowing what they have to do, knowing the urgency, I
Speaker 4: expect them to play very well. I expect there to
Speaker 4: be a lot of hope in the second half. I
Speaker 4: think the Bills are really good. I think this kid
Speaker 4: were showing on It is hard to stop in big situations.
Speaker 4: He's specially he's one of the two or three special
Speaker 4: guys in the league. So I don't know if a
Speaker 4: sometimes a great performance by a team isn't enough, and
Speaker 4: I kind of worry that might be the case for
Speaker 4: the Jags. I think if if you see a great performance,
Speaker 4: then I think there's hope moving forward. There'll also be
Speaker 4: zero to three if that happens, so you got to
Speaker 4: ask what's next. But I hope I'm wrong, and I'm
Speaker 4: not trying to be pessimistic. I just think sometimes this
Speaker 4: is tough. This is a tough, tough spot.
Speaker 1: I'm not entirely sure what we're gonna see in the game.
Speaker 1: Like you mentioned, Monday night football is weird. Beginning the
Speaker 1: season is weird. What we've seen from effort from them
Speaker 1: has been weird. So hoping they can get up for
Speaker 1: Monday night football. One thing I do know is that
Speaker 1: every week, even when I felt like the team was
Speaker 1: kind of listless, whether it's the end of Dolphins or
Speaker 1: on the home opener against the Browns, this guy was not.
Speaker 1: This rookie does not play like a rookie. I think
Speaker 1: under the Monday night lights in primetime, he will shine.
Speaker 1: Whatever his whatever, how much of a focus they make
Speaker 1: him on the offense, when he has a play drawn
Speaker 1: up for him, I think he will come through. And
Speaker 1: I think on a national stage, for people to see
Speaker 1: what Brian Thomas Junior is about will be beneficial for
Speaker 1: this scene in the long term. I think people already
Speaker 1: respect him, but I think he has the capability to
Speaker 1: do that, and I don't think he's going to shy
Speaker 1: away from primetime at all.
Speaker 4: And I wish I'd gone you were out guy, because
Speaker 4: he's sort of the X factor. You remember Fred on
Speaker 4: Monday night against the Dolphins.
Speaker 3: Yeah, seventy seven yards on the first play of the game.
Speaker 4: All of a sudden, a kid like this special play special,
Speaker 4: can a turn himself into a star, but can really
Speaker 4: shape a game like this, And you get the idea
Speaker 4: that he's the guy on this roster you.
Speaker 1: Can do that.
Speaker 3: I just want to touch on one thing you said
Speaker 3: on Monday, and that is is that the intensity that
Speaker 3: he plays with, right He seems so laid back. I
Speaker 3: know you have him on the podcast this week and
Speaker 3: he's very understated until the balls in his hands and
Speaker 3: the way that he went at it with Jalen Ramsey
Speaker 3: and the way last week that he was willing to
Speaker 3: mix it up with those safeties for the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 3: I'd love that.
Speaker 1: And he can affect the rest of the team too.
Speaker 1: You know, always want it to be a rookie, but
Speaker 1: if he can do it, why not.
Speaker 4: Stay with us.
Speaker 1: After the break, We're gonna go over what's coming up
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Speaker 1: back in. We got a little bit of a weird week.
Speaker 1: The players are back in the building today. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like a normal Wednesday for them. Is everything that
Speaker 1: pushed back a day. But Brian, you're talking to christ
Speaker 1: Ra sharda this week to talk a little bit about what.
Speaker 3: The backs have been able to do, the playing without
Speaker 3: Tyson Campbell for at least a month, and don't know
Speaker 3: about Darnell Savage. You know you didn't play last week.
Speaker 3: And Monteric Brown comes in and plays his best game
Speaker 3: and looks like a guy that the Jaguars can depend on.
Speaker 3: Christ Rashard is obviously the cornerback whisper. He's been around
Speaker 3: this league with some really good teams for years. So
Speaker 3: I will talk to him. And I had a great
Speaker 3: conversation with Brenton Strange too great.
Speaker 1: Kidden stepped up big last week. For sure.
Speaker 3: We go to this week.
Speaker 4: I have uh Brian Thomas Junior on the ozone podcast
Speaker 4: and uh yeah, it's my first chance to really talk
Speaker 4: to him. I think the kid's gonna be a star,
Speaker 4: and I'm I'm I'm fascinated to see, uh maybe how
Speaker 4: things will handle that.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, we'd love to learn more. Uh. We hope all
Speaker 1: of you guys enjoy Monday night football. We'll be back
Speaker 1: with you on Wednesday to recap everything that goes down
Speaker 1: in Buffalo.