Speaker 1: It's Thursday, January seventh. This is Jackuars Happy Hour and
Speaker 1: now a guy who coined the phrase Sean who j
Speaker 1: that wasn't me? Welcome in Jaguars Happy Hour on a Thursday.
Speaker 1: J P. Shadrick, Jeff Logaman coming up, left, Tony Basely
Speaker 1: busy show today, like going on in Jaguar Land. A
Speaker 1: lot j meetings going on at city Council. Will stay
Speaker 1: off of that for the most part today, but a
Speaker 1: lot of football things happening, and yes, head coach and
Speaker 1: GM searches continue, as does the search for a franchise quarterback.
Speaker 1: That search could be coming to an end in April.
Speaker 1: We'll touch on the big name that came out for
Speaker 1: the draft earlier this week, Tony Ball at four thirty today,
Speaker 1: fresh off a meeting with Snoop Dogg. Yes, we will
Speaker 1: get his thoughts that and much more around the Jaguars
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame finalists. And then the second
Speaker 1: hour of Jaguars Happy Hour on the network at five o'clock.
Speaker 1: Jeff Loghman with us now and here we go Logs.
Speaker 1: The offseason is here, a long season of football, fifteen
Speaker 1: straight losses, but it's in the rear view now we
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about that anymore. It's all about
Speaker 1: the future now, Yeah, it is. Everybody's looking forward to
Speaker 1: the decision making and the positions that are going to
Speaker 1: be filled with great anticipation. But just to take a moment, JP,
Speaker 1: I know you and I both have enjoyed working with
Speaker 1: Doug Moron and UH, and we've had had many many
Speaker 1: good moments with Doug, and and appreciate his willingness to
Speaker 1: participate and he was always great to us and UH,
Speaker 1: and nobody wanted this football team to win more, to
Speaker 1: win more than Doug. And so I appreciate him, I
Speaker 1: really do. And I wish him the best. I wish
Speaker 1: his family the best, and I know that he's gonna
Speaker 1: land on his feet. Okay, but I just wanted to
Speaker 1: put that out there because, uh, you know, the position
Speaker 1: that kind of we're in and working with coaches and stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, there has to be a relationship and it
Speaker 1: has to be on on both sides, and we have
Speaker 1: to give, and Doug has to give to be able
Speaker 1: to make this entertaining and informative for the listeners. And
Speaker 1: and Doug was willing to do that, and I really
Speaker 1: appreciate Doug for that, no doubt, and the best to
Speaker 1: him and Helen and the kids. And I'm sure I'm
Speaker 1: gonna guess he's probably on some voyage somewhere just to
Speaker 1: get away for a little bit. And then, like you said,
Speaker 1: I think he will end on his feet sooner rather
Speaker 1: than later as a position coach really whatever he wants
Speaker 1: to be in the NFL. I think there will be
Speaker 1: options for him in this league. Yeah, when when you
Speaker 1: sign up to be a coach, I mean, make no
Speaker 1: mistake about it that you know that things are are
Speaker 1: going to change. I mean, that's just the nature of
Speaker 1: the business. And it doesn't matter whether you're at the
Speaker 1: pro level, whether you're at the collegiate level, it's gonna change.
Speaker 1: And and so it's not unexpected. But I think the
Speaker 1: hard part is is being able to adjust and adapt
Speaker 1: in the family at that at home and because you know, look, uh,
Speaker 1: kids want to grow up and and you got a
Speaker 1: lot of uh, pure I don't want to say pressure,
Speaker 1: but pure criticism. Oh, you know, they want to have
Speaker 1: an opinion about your dad and about the football team,
Speaker 1: and and sometimes it can be flat out mean and
Speaker 1: and so the kids have coaches sometimes have to put
Speaker 1: up with a lot and and the wives of coaches
Speaker 1: have to put up with a lot and uh and
Speaker 1: so a little a little bit of uh kudos to
Speaker 1: the coaches wives and kids because it's never easy to
Speaker 1: go through a change and uh. And even though that
Speaker 1: it's expected at that position, sometimes it's still very hard
Speaker 1: for the family members. So of course, that was Monday morning.
Speaker 1: Doug Marone was a relief of his duties about nine
Speaker 1: o'clock and then around ten thirty Jaguars owners shot con
Speaker 1: met with the media for the first time in a
Speaker 1: long time, discussing everything football related. And now two openings
Speaker 1: on the football side. The general manager gig has been
Speaker 1: open for a little bit now and now the head
Speaker 1: coach uh job is open as well for the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: And one of his comments will hear a few of
Speaker 1: them throughout the show here of course, But how will
Speaker 1: this flow chart work for the Jacksonville Jaguars was Shotgun
Speaker 1: at the top. A key thing how you know we
Speaker 1: would be structuring this is that I'm going to have
Speaker 1: the general manager and the head coach report directly to me.
Speaker 1: And that way, really, you know, you have the transparency
Speaker 1: and the needs and the concerns of both parties without
Speaker 1: really getting filtered or having a chain of command. So um,
Speaker 1: and that's really what necessitates that you basically hire them
Speaker 1: about the same time. Uh. And really you have a
Speaker 1: perfect alignment, which you need in a winning organization. So
Speaker 1: they have a Jaguars owners shot con earlier this week
Speaker 1: on Monday discussing that float chart. And you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know of many organizations that do it like that.
Speaker 1: But to have equal conversation with the GM and the
Speaker 1: head coach equals status equals say and separately to the owner. Uh,
Speaker 1: it eliminates any uh finger pointing or any of that
Speaker 1: kind of thing. If if Shod Khan is the ultimate judge. Yeah, JP,
Speaker 1: I think that that set up actually exists, uh more
Speaker 1: than you think in the National Football League because general
Speaker 1: managers for the most part aren't allowed to just hire
Speaker 1: and fire the head coach willy nilly or because they
Speaker 1: wake up on the wrong side of the bed. I mean,
Speaker 1: they still have to gain approval from ownership. So I
Speaker 1: think that's probably more common than anything in the National
Speaker 1: Football League. And for me, it makes sense. You know,
Speaker 1: if if an interesting statement there when he says that,
Speaker 1: you know, there's no filter that way. Well, I think
Speaker 1: sometimes is it that What can happen is that if
Speaker 1: you have a general manager who hires a head coach,
Speaker 1: and the chain of command works as the coach reports
Speaker 1: of the general manager and then the general manager reports
Speaker 1: to the owner, then this filter that I think Shod
Speaker 1: is referring to can mean that, Look, the general manager
Speaker 1: might think that the players on this football team are
Speaker 1: good enough to win, and that's the coach's fault, and
Speaker 1: coaches are not doing a good enough job, and uh
Speaker 1: coach says that I'm doing a great job of personnel. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe that's not what the coach is saying, and the
Speaker 1: coach is saying, look, you know, look, I gotta have
Speaker 1: better players to win, And so the filter is removed
Speaker 1: because the coach would report directly an ownership. I think
Speaker 1: it's the only way to set it up. And and
Speaker 1: most importantly, the owner has to be involved from the
Speaker 1: standpoint of because if he's not, then there's a lack
Speaker 1: of accountability. And I think there has to be accountability.
Speaker 1: And by dividing enough to where the coach and the
Speaker 1: general manager both report to the to the owner, but
Speaker 1: both of them now have to be accountable, And so
Speaker 1: I think it's the only way to set things up
Speaker 1: in the National Football League to have success. Unless you
Speaker 1: have a general manager like an Ozzie Newsome, who you
Speaker 1: completely respect and completely trust and who has a proven
Speaker 1: track record, the last thing in the world that you
Speaker 1: want to do is to hire a general manager. Which
Speaker 1: hiring a general manager is not easy to do. J
Speaker 1: P And what we can get into this a little
Speaker 1: bit further, but think about it, how do you how
Speaker 1: do you go about finding out if a general manager
Speaker 1: is good at what he does when he's never done
Speaker 1: it before. If you hire somebody that's green, you don't.
Speaker 1: So why should that general manager have more power than
Speaker 1: the coach? Which it's a lot easier to find a
Speaker 1: track record with a coach than it is to find
Speaker 1: a track record with a general manager, Right, And we
Speaker 1: saw that last time around with Dave Colde's his first
Speaker 1: time as the GM, and you know, you just don't
Speaker 1: know how things are gonna go, how picks are gonna go,
Speaker 1: and you have to go play the games and the
Speaker 1: coaching changes and everything that happened here in those what
Speaker 1: eight years. He was almost almost wish that if if
Speaker 1: you're if you have a job in personnel. And because
Speaker 1: we've seen how the management council and the group that
Speaker 1: they put together and they put recommendations together for guys
Speaker 1: to get jobs for me, why don't they have a
Speaker 1: personnel pot When I say a personnel pots, Okay, So
Speaker 1: everybody that's in the personnel department around the league that
Speaker 1: has aspirations of becoming a future general management, why don't
Speaker 1: they put together their own their own separate draft board,
Speaker 1: put their name on it, okay, and it just gets
Speaker 1: put into a file every year and nobody looks at
Speaker 1: it because you don't want to end up sharing that
Speaker 1: information because then obviously you could compromise certain draft for
Speaker 1: But if everybody as an individual, the director of college personnel,
Speaker 1: the director of pro personnel, the director, the head of
Speaker 1: West uh Texas Scouting, I mean, whoever whoever wants to
Speaker 1: put in their list of the draft and put their
Speaker 1: draft order on a sheet of paper before the draft,
Speaker 1: turn it in. And then when the candidates start becoming available,
Speaker 1: ownership can go and say, you know what we're looking
Speaker 1: at hiring Joe Schmo. Well, let's pull up Joe Schmo's
Speaker 1: list over the last five years and how he ranked
Speaker 1: the draft and compared to how the drafts have turned out.
Speaker 1: So that way you'd end up having some information about
Speaker 1: how good personnel people are at number one picking players,
Speaker 1: because the last time I checked, that's the most important
Speaker 1: job description for the position as general managers because it's
Speaker 1: a player driven league. And so for me uh in
Speaker 1: in ownership, why wouldn't they help themselves and hiring people
Speaker 1: and have them do that on an annual basis, And
Speaker 1: then you can have type of history to be able
Speaker 1: to look at and say, this guy really knows his stuff.
Speaker 1: For this guy he doesn't know anything. He's terrible one
Speaker 1: of the other You know how it is though in
Speaker 1: in the business, it's who you know to get you
Speaker 1: in the doory stuff, do the job and do it well,
Speaker 1: but you still have to have those contacts to get
Speaker 1: in the room. Look at Houston, for goodness sakes, what
Speaker 1: happened down there because Serio got hired by basically Easterby.
Speaker 1: They had a search firm and everything, and it's the
Speaker 1: New England connection that got basically that job. From all reports. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying that that's not gonna work for
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. I mean maybe it will, right, But
Speaker 1: that's life, and that's life. That's not just football. That's
Speaker 1: real life too. That happens everywhere, absolutely absolutely. I mean,
Speaker 1: it may work, it may not. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know the answer to that. But it's very odd that
Speaker 1: you hire a firm to give you a list of
Speaker 1: names and then all of a sudden, the one that
Speaker 1: you hire is not on that list. I just find
Speaker 1: that really curious. And uh, I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people in league circles that are looking at that situation.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to say that the Texans are
Speaker 1: the laughing stock of the league, because eventually the truth
Speaker 1: and and the record will speak for itself. But there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people in the league and that are
Speaker 1: around the league to cover the league that are looking
Speaker 1: at that and sitting there kind of scoffing under their breath.
Speaker 1: I need to start my own search firm. I'd make
Speaker 1: a lot more money us. We'll call it the what
Speaker 1: should we call it? The JP Search Firm? Right? Right,
Speaker 1: that's catch up. Let me tell you that'll bring him
Speaker 1: in right exactly like that. Um, So that's the way
Speaker 1: it is. So the obviously the interviews are have gone
Speaker 1: on are going on for both roles really simultaneously. As
Speaker 1: you heard Mr Khan there say earlier. Ideally you hire
Speaker 1: them pretty close together, so they are tied together, and
Speaker 1: they whoever's hired first probably has a little bit of
Speaker 1: a say and the other person vice versa. That's probably
Speaker 1: how this will work. Yeah, I think that uh and
Speaker 1: and Sean talked about that, and he said that, you know, ultimately,
Speaker 1: do you like to do it together because you if
Speaker 1: you're a general manager, you want to know who the
Speaker 1: coach is gonna be, And if you're a coach, you
Speaker 1: want to know who the general manager is going to be.
Speaker 1: And you'd like to have maybe some familiarity there to
Speaker 1: where there's gonna be a real positive working uh. Two
Speaker 1: guys working together, a little bit of energy and synergy,
Speaker 1: and so that's the in a perfect world. But at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, if you have all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you've got what you think is the best
Speaker 1: candidate at either position general manager or head coach, and
Speaker 1: you're not quite sure what you're gonna do with the
Speaker 1: other and there's another team that's sitting there offering the
Speaker 1: guy that you love and the guy saying, hey, look
Speaker 1: I really want to work for you, but I've got
Speaker 1: this offer and I've got to take care of my family.
Speaker 1: So you need either there's a term and it's uh
Speaker 1: uh kind of pooper, get off the pot. And so
Speaker 1: if if that happens, then the team needs to move,
Speaker 1: then you got to move. But in a in a
Speaker 1: perfect world, like Shot said, you'd like to be able
Speaker 1: to hire him together so that there is the energy
Speaker 1: that's created together and one knows who the other is
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be working together, So obviously you want
Speaker 1: to have kind of the approval of both of them
Speaker 1: in that situations. Out and now, no matter who they are,
Speaker 1: they'll likely pick a quarterback. And when we return, we'll
Speaker 1: get into the franchise quarterback discussion, including a key name
Speaker 1: that is coming out. He's going to the NFL draft,
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence out of Clemson. When a discussion about that
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Speaker 1: right right a passage, Okay, as a new owner coming
Speaker 1: into the league, you know, the advisors, consultants, whatever, So
Speaker 1: you know we did that this time around. I think
Speaker 1: I have a much better sense myself, so you know
Speaker 1: I'm the key decision maker. But we do have people
Speaker 1: at the team at the Jaguars. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: Mark Lamping would be one who will be working with
Speaker 1: these people, so um, you know they will be involved
Speaker 1: if from that viewpoint, but you know when it comes
Speaker 1: to who the key decision maker is going to be,
Speaker 1: I mean, you're looking at it. Welcome back Jaguar's happy hour.
Speaker 1: That's Jaguars owner's shot Khan Monday morning. When asked who
Speaker 1: is helping you with the search for GM and head
Speaker 1: coaching J P. Shadrick with the Jeff Logham, we are
Speaker 1: we are not among those in that group. I'll say
Speaker 1: that Jeff, you're looking at it. I love that line. Uh,
Speaker 1: and and so it should be. Look, he's the owner
Speaker 1: of the football team and and that gives him the
Speaker 1: right to make the decisions. And I think, uh that
Speaker 1: he has learned a lot and I think he will
Speaker 1: make a better decision this time around. And obviously the
Speaker 1: decision was influenced from a lot of input that he
Speaker 1: got the first time around. And and he's right. I mean,
Speaker 1: after a while of being an owner in the National
Speaker 1: Football League, you have a an ability to learn, and
Speaker 1: he's a very smart man. Otherwise he wouldn't be as
Speaker 1: successful as he has been. And I'm sure that he's
Speaker 1: going to apply some of the the recipes that have
Speaker 1: gotten him where he is in the automotive parts business
Speaker 1: and apply that to what what he knows now about
Speaker 1: football and work to make that a success because I
Speaker 1: look at he wants to win. I mean, make no
Speaker 1: mistake about it. When you commit any resource that is
Speaker 1: necessary for the success of a football team. And trust
Speaker 1: me when I say this, there is nothing that has
Speaker 1: ever been asked for by coaches or staff that has
Speaker 1: ever been turned down by Shan Khan as it relates
Speaker 1: to the success of this team on the field. And
Speaker 1: that's pretty amazing because that's not how it always is
Speaker 1: around the National Football League acts. Those that were in
Speaker 1: San Diego for many years as some of the folks
Speaker 1: that might be in Ohio and uh sinc. The NATI mainly,
Speaker 1: and and you will find out that there are other
Speaker 1: owners that aren't quite as willing to spend to be
Speaker 1: able to get results. But Shan Khan is not one
Speaker 1: of them in that category. He is very willing. One
Speaker 1: of the things that Mr Khan has learned and we
Speaker 1: all have learned if we didn't know, and now we
Speaker 1: certainly do know, that you need a franchise quarterback on
Speaker 1: your roster. And a few times Mr Cohn discussed this
Speaker 1: on Monday, and if you're watching on Jaguars dot Com
Speaker 1: on the video portion of our broadcast today, you'll see
Speaker 1: them on your screen a couple of the excerpts from that. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, they have the ability now to make a
Speaker 1: choice and it's going to define the franchise moving forward.
Speaker 1: The last eight years we haven't had a franchise quarterback,
Speaker 1: So I think that's very important, said Mr Khan, So
Speaker 1: he he understands that, he gets it. Also, if there
Speaker 1: was any doubt at all what's gonna happen at number
Speaker 1: one overall, that's all gone now. Yeah, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: there's still I mean, is there a level of intrigue
Speaker 1: that could it not be Trevor Lawrence? Could could it
Speaker 1: be somebody different? I think that possibility is there. Is
Speaker 1: it likely probably not, but the possibility still exists. So
Speaker 1: the intrigue I think will well stare still carry on
Speaker 1: for a little bit. But I mean, I think, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, Trevor Lawrence is the guy. And and I've
Speaker 1: just started to watch a little film on him this week,
Speaker 1: and everything that I've seen so far has been JP
Speaker 1: has been fantastic. He's got the athleticism to move around
Speaker 1: the pocket, he has the athleticism to move out of
Speaker 1: the pocket. He has arm strength, he has accuracy, he
Speaker 1: has a coolness about him. I mean, there's very little
Speaker 1: that he doesn't do well. Uh. I haven't had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to watch some of the other quarterbacks, so I
Speaker 1: will and I will make this kind of a weekly
Speaker 1: report based on some of the film that I watched
Speaker 1: as as we head towards the month of April. There's
Speaker 1: a reason why everybody's been talking about number sixteen for
Speaker 1: Clemson since before he showed up in Clemson, South Carolina.
Speaker 1: He was the top high school player coming out and
Speaker 1: one of the top recruits, but he was going to
Speaker 1: Clempson the whole time. There was really not much of
Speaker 1: a debate. And then he gets to a Clemson and
Speaker 1: performs in a big, big way a national championship in
Speaker 1: his first season there in eighteen. He was the offensive
Speaker 1: m v P of that national championship game, the Heisman
Speaker 1: Trophy runner up this year. I don't know of many
Speaker 1: people that expected him to finish that high in the
Speaker 1: voting this year, but he did, and Clemson was in
Speaker 1: the playoff again this year. They lost, of course to
Speaker 1: Ohio State last week. But um, he's He's lived up
Speaker 1: to expectations and beyond already throughout his career, and it
Speaker 1: feels like everybody in the NFL thinks that's going to continue. Well,
Speaker 1: he's a winner and that's the most important thing about
Speaker 1: playing the position of quarterback is winning. And so that's
Speaker 1: what he's done, and he's done it at all levels.
Speaker 1: I think the thing that also makes him intriguing from
Speaker 1: a coaching standpoint and so attractive from a coaching standpoint,
Speaker 1: coaches love to have young quarterback that have mobility, and
Speaker 1: the reason they like that is that it allows them
Speaker 1: to do some things with a young quarterback to still
Speaker 1: have success but without effecting a young quarterback that completely
Speaker 1: operate from within the pocket. So in other words, look,
Speaker 1: you got a young player just like uh Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: is down in Arizona and all of a sudden he
Speaker 1: can't get to the third progression just because he's not
Speaker 1: mature enough and he's he's not experienced enough to do so.
Speaker 1: Then his legs allows him to scramble by time to
Speaker 1: maybe get to that third option or his fourth option
Speaker 1: or when it comes to scramble rules and all schedule play.
Speaker 1: So coaches like that because it doesn't force somebody to
Speaker 1: sit in the pocket and to get hammered because they're
Speaker 1: not ready to get to that third progression yet. So coaches,
Speaker 1: I think, And if you were to ask any coach
Speaker 1: look and she said, hey, look, you can have your
Speaker 1: choice of any type of young quarterback. What do you want?
Speaker 1: I mean, the first words out of their mouth was
Speaker 1: be I want a franchise quarterback. And then then they
Speaker 1: would start to talk about the traits and the traits
Speaker 1: I think arm strength, accuracy, smart, intelligent, and then probably
Speaker 1: when you get down past some of the obvious things,
Speaker 1: I think the coach will tell you mobility and the
Speaker 1: ability to create with the legs to be able to
Speaker 1: allow this young quarterback to have success while he's learning
Speaker 1: on the job. And uh, and I think that's great.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think John Elway was a little bit
Speaker 1: that way, and that he was mobile and could do
Speaker 1: things with his legs and tell he learned. Mark Burnell
Speaker 1: is another perfect example of a of a quarterback that
Speaker 1: is young and makes things happen with his legs and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you lay over time he
Speaker 1: becomes more of a pocket passer and then relies more
Speaker 1: on his arm. And with Trevor, Lawrence the ability to
Speaker 1: run a lot of the read options stuff right out
Speaker 1: of the gate and which will get him on the
Speaker 1: field and plane and we'll make the offense multiple and
Speaker 1: multiple threats. Again the defense I think makes him very attractive.
Speaker 1: And are the other quarterbacks that are available to his
Speaker 1: level as far as having that type ability, I think
Speaker 1: they're pretty good, but I don't think they're at that level.
Speaker 1: Fields in Ohio State has that mobility as well. He's
Speaker 1: able to doesn't use it as much as Trevor does,
Speaker 1: but you know, twenty nineteen, Lawrence ran for five hundred
Speaker 1: sixty three yards that season. I mean, that's that's a
Speaker 1: pretty significant number for a quarterback. Yeah, and you're and
Speaker 1: you're look, you're not looking for a guy that can
Speaker 1: be Lamar Jackson. I mean, it just doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: those guys don't come along very often. And and I
Speaker 1: think the expectation with Lamar Jackson right now is that now,
Speaker 1: oh my god, he's an absolute threat with his legs,
Speaker 1: But sooner or later, Lamar Jackson has to learn to
Speaker 1: be better from the pocket. And because right now he
Speaker 1: has the reputation is that if he does not have
Speaker 1: a lead, he is not a good quarterback. And it
Speaker 1: makes him do something that he doesn't want to do,
Speaker 1: and it makes the offensive coordinator do things that they
Speaker 1: don't want to do. And so in a perfect world,
Speaker 1: like Lamar Jackson, Okay, look he's running with great success
Speaker 1: the first two years. The next progression for him is
Speaker 1: to be better in the pocket and less rushing yards
Speaker 1: and become twice as many passing yards as as a quarterback.
Speaker 1: So and I think they look at Trevor Lawrence is
Speaker 1: athletic and and but he's got a lot of other
Speaker 1: great skill sets that are going to be very beneficial
Speaker 1: for any team, and will he be a franchise guy.
Speaker 1: I hope so. I hope so because JP Unfortunately, we've
Speaker 1: seen first overall pick quarterback that have not worked out
Speaker 1: in NFL history. So there, I don't think there's anything
Speaker 1: that you would call a sure thing, but he would
Speaker 1: certainly say that maybe he's as close to a shut
Speaker 1: thing as possible, But again, there are no sure things. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll say this, Justin Fields put on a fantastic performance
Speaker 1: in the Sugar Bowl the other night, and Alabama will
Speaker 1: have her handsful if he's ready to go Monday with
Speaker 1: those ribs, He'll they'll have their hands full against Justin
Speaker 1: Fields in the National Championship Games, six touchdowns, fighting through
Speaker 1: the rib injury and really showed a gutsy effort in
Speaker 1: that game. And he's flashed obviously all year, the two
Speaker 1: in that game last Friday. You know that that seems
Speaker 1: to be because he's throwing down fields so much and
Speaker 1: hitting all these deep plays. That's kind of where he's
Speaker 1: been a lot of the year. It's not like he's
Speaker 1: having to throw fifty times a game because they're they're
Speaker 1: blowing people out a lot of times when they play well.
Speaker 1: First off, uh give him credit because the year before
Speaker 1: they got hammered right, and so, K you motivate a
Speaker 1: football team, you motivate an individual, and an individual that
Speaker 1: the week before didn't play very well and was widely
Speaker 1: criticized for his level of play the week before, And
Speaker 1: they come into this game against Clemson and he only
Speaker 1: has six games under his belt. And as them as
Speaker 1: a team, they only have six games under their belt.
Speaker 1: So for them to play how they did and and
Speaker 1: I mean as domint as they were for me, the
Speaker 1: way that Ohio States defense played against Clemson, and then
Speaker 1: the way which was fantastic, but most importantly the way
Speaker 1: that Ohio State's offense kept Clemson's defense off balance with
Speaker 1: with manipulating tempo and changing tempo. That was impressive to me.
Speaker 1: I thought that the Clemson Tigers defensively, they got out
Speaker 1: coached the Ohio State's offense. They absolutely put them their
Speaker 1: foot on their on on Clemson's neck and held it
Speaker 1: there the entire game. And so credit the Ohio State
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Speaker 1: lined up in and and and even even when they
Speaker 1: had their starting linebacker who eventually got forgot tossed for targeting,
Speaker 1: which I thought was the proper call recording the collegiate rules,
Speaker 1: even though they lost him, even when they had him,
Speaker 1: they were having a hard time with the tempo Ohio State.
Speaker 1: And it helps when you have a run game, trace
Speaker 1: servant can can bring it on the ground for them
Speaker 1: to balance it out of it. Clemson has great round
Speaker 1: and ground game, right I mean, but where State I
Speaker 1: mean they put a put a check on that and
Speaker 1: that was it. Man, that was done. You know, so good,
Speaker 1: good entertaining game, And congratulations to Ohio State. And and
Speaker 1: Clemson will have to reload, and and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: difficult to reload without a quarterback and is of the
Speaker 1: stature of of Trevor wat You like the guy they
Speaker 1: have that's coming on deck. But we'll we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens down the line for Clemson. Let's come back, and
Speaker 1: Tony Boselli will join us fresh off a visit with
Speaker 1: Snoop Dogg. Yes, that's right, I said it. We will
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Left Tackle and Hall of Fame finalist Tony Basselli. Congratulations.
Speaker 1: I think it's the first time we've spoken to you
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Speaker 1: so congrats, Tony, what's up? Thank you? J Pree. All
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Speaker 1: All right, I've got same old, same old. You're hanging
Speaker 1: out with Snoop Dogg. What in the world. Come on,
Speaker 1: let's take a look on Jaguars dot com. This is
Speaker 1: from Mega Parak, the Chief Legal Officers Instagram. Last night
Speaker 1: a E W Dynamite at Daily's Place, all Elite Wrestling,
Speaker 1: Snoop Dogg in attendance and Tony Boselli in attendance as well.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, you guys go all the way back to
Speaker 1: like ninety three in in l a right. Well, you
Speaker 1: know he is uh from Long Beach Pauli. Uh and
Speaker 1: his one of his buddies from Long Beach Paully was
Speaker 1: William Guinness, who was We're in the same recruiting class
Speaker 1: and played a s C together. So we go back.
Speaker 1: Uh it's not like I know Snoop well or anything
Speaker 1: like that. Um and so, but he, uh, he found
Speaker 1: out I was there and he said he grabbed Megan, said, hey,
Speaker 1: tell Tony come back to the trailer. So I went
Speaker 1: back and took my daughter and Mike Perkins kids and
Speaker 1: got some pictures and uh, he's a funny dude now,
Speaker 1: but he's a good dude. He was great, you know what.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. But he's a big star. Everyone knows that.
Speaker 1: But he was great with the kids taking pictures, you know,
Speaker 1: really engaging and he was. It was great. It was fun.
Speaker 1: He's tall. We're looking at the photo. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: at six eight, six nine and he's right there with you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm six seven, six seven and a half. I mean
Speaker 1: he's a good six four I mean, and but he
Speaker 1: might not weigh more than a buck. You're talking about
Speaker 1: about pretty wiry. He's pretty wiry. So Tony, I remember
Speaker 1: uh years ago and uh when I was playing with
Speaker 1: the Jets and we were on our way for a
Speaker 1: West coast trip, and so we flew out there on
Speaker 1: a Friday, and so on Saturday, we were on our
Speaker 1: way to USC's campus. And I don't remember the year,
Speaker 1: but we're on and you were probably there on campus
Speaker 1: of the time. But we're on our way to USC
Speaker 1: campus to have a practice, and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: we turn on Compton, I guess is the name of
Speaker 1: the road, And all of a sudden, a bunch of
Speaker 1: guys on our team started freaking out, going, snoop, snoop,
Speaker 1: look at snoop. I'm going, what in the world's going on?
Speaker 1: And I didn't even know who snoop? What at the
Speaker 1: top and a couple of guys and I look, and
Speaker 1: all I see is a Bentley, And I mean, you
Speaker 1: know it's a I mean it's a nice Bentley. I
Speaker 1: mean it's got the shine to it, and the windows
Speaker 1: rolled down, the music is playing, and and I see
Speaker 1: a guy that everybody's telling me, all my teammates are
Speaker 1: telling me that's Snoop Dogg. I'm like, all right, that's cool.
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know who Snoop Dogg is, but
Speaker 1: I think it's cool. Yeah, and that was probably early nineties, Jeff.
Speaker 1: I actually think I remember, you know, when you guys
Speaker 1: came out because it was a big deal. You know,
Speaker 1: you're a college kid playing football and the Jets are
Speaker 1: coming out to practice your feel and you probably turned
Speaker 1: down to Figaroa if you're getting off getting off the
Speaker 1: highway and heading to the campus there. So um yeah,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, it was fun. You know, it was my
Speaker 1: first time going to a w live. I've seen it
Speaker 1: on TV, you know obviously, and uh and what a
Speaker 1: great I'll tell you what, Tony con has done. An
Speaker 1: amazing job. It is a show. Um. You know, I
Speaker 1: was a huge wrestling fan as a kid, but I
Speaker 1: haven't watched it, you know, in years outside of you know,
Speaker 1: until Tony started a w So you know, obviously, as
Speaker 1: an owner of the Jaguards, you pay attention and you
Speaker 1: watch here and there and and what how what the
Speaker 1: funny thing is, I was watching it one night a
Speaker 1: while ago and my my eleven year old daughter comes
Speaker 1: in and she sat there for an hour with me,
Speaker 1: and it was just mesmerized and she was like, Dad,
Speaker 1: this is awesome. And she's like, I'm like, would you
Speaker 1: like to go to one of these? Sometimes she goes,
Speaker 1: I would love to go do it? Do one. So
Speaker 1: the surprise was I took you know, I took her there.
Speaker 1: My other kids were so mad, not because they wanted
Speaker 1: to go to wrestling. They were so mad because they're
Speaker 1: older than college and everything, like she gotta meet Snoop
Speaker 1: Dogg and uh, but it was great the production. I mean,
Speaker 1: it is entertainment, and uh, it was fun. It was
Speaker 1: a fun night. It's always good to do stuff with
Speaker 1: your kids. And um, I mean, jpn you dog have kids,
Speaker 1: but Jeff, you know that just doing those special moment
Speaker 1: with your kids. That was my favorite part to seeing
Speaker 1: her smile and she thought it was so cool that
Speaker 1: she gotta meet Snoop Dogg. Um. All right, So it's
Speaker 1: not a question because I'm just real quick, what was
Speaker 1: Snoop Dogg doing with a w I know that Snoop
Speaker 1: Dogg is on a TV show with the head wrestling guy,
Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes. They yeah, Cody, Cody Rhodes, And so is
Speaker 1: that part of what was going on while he's in town. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so. That just probably promotion of both a
Speaker 1: w and Snoop show show more than anything. Um he
Speaker 1: came out and did a little wrestling bit with uh
Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes and jumped off the top. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: I was impressed. He got to the top of the
Speaker 1: rope and jumped off and did one of his you
Speaker 1: know things, uh body slam or whatever it was called.
Speaker 1: And it was I was afterwards, I was making I
Speaker 1: was giving a hard time and said, Snoopy looked little
Speaker 1: shaky there on the top of the ropes and he said,
Speaker 1: oh man, that was fine. And he went on to
Speaker 1: share that he wanted to do that because his favorite
Speaker 1: wrestler growing up was Jimmy Fly Jimmy Uh yep, and
Speaker 1: uh so he went, it was great, it was fun.
Speaker 1: It was a fun night. We got it got a
Speaker 1: little chilly out there. That's why my code on. But
Speaker 1: it was fun. That's pretty awesome. That's that's a heck
Speaker 1: of a photograph. I'll say that for sure. And uh,
Speaker 1: I hope you don't mind us sharing that on the
Speaker 1: protract because it's it's out there publicly anyway, it's already,
Speaker 1: it's on Instagram. It's out there all right, So so
Speaker 1: wait minute before we go on here. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have some fun here because you know, last show
Speaker 1: or last the show that's wrapped up the season here.
Speaker 1: I grew up a big wrestling fan, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: back in the day we had in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: We had DC twenty, which used to show some of
Speaker 1: the old school wrestlers and Bob Backlin and obviously on
Speaker 1: during the giant guys like that. Growing up as a kid,
Speaker 1: who is your favorite wrestler, you know, I mean, I
Speaker 1: I mean it was probably Holk Hogan because I remember
Speaker 1: going to Nicol mcnichol's arena, the Old Arena and Denver
Speaker 1: and they had a big event and I'll never forget
Speaker 1: he was fighting I think the Junkyard Dog, and uh
Speaker 1: you know, it's also it's so beautifully done, and he
Speaker 1: did the thing where he looks like he's almost beaten,
Speaker 1: and there they raised they raised his hand in the
Speaker 1: first two times he would drop and then the third
Speaker 1: time he hold it up and start shaking. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that that never he was like just like just
Speaker 1: in my mind, it's just like written in my brain
Speaker 1: that I'll never have that image. And and so I
Speaker 1: loved him I and I also loved Macho Man and
Speaker 1: Randy Savage was I thought was great, you know, And
Speaker 1: I remember the one I disliked the most was, um,
Speaker 1: what was it, Roddy Roddy Piper or Rodney Rodney Piper
Speaker 1: whatever his name was. Oh yeah, and so I don't
Speaker 1: know it, Roddy Piper, fantastic stick the best. It was fun.
Speaker 1: It was a fun night. And I give, you know,
Speaker 1: I give him credit. I give I mean, they're competing
Speaker 1: with you know, an entity in w W has been
Speaker 1: around forever and they're doing great. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: Tony conn has done a good job of that thing
Speaker 1: is you know. So if you ever get a chance
Speaker 1: to go to the day's place when they're here, I
Speaker 1: don't know how much longer they're here, or what the
Speaker 1: schedules or anything like that, but it's a it's a
Speaker 1: it's a good it's a fun, entertaining night, all right,
Speaker 1: j P. Who's yours? It's gotta be right in that
Speaker 1: same ballpark, Hulk Hogan. But I always enjoyed the interviews.
Speaker 1: Mean Gene Oakerland and the interview. Those are fantastic. Come
Speaker 1: on now, the facial expressions he had with some of
Speaker 1: the comments are so good. And I will say Jim Ross,
Speaker 1: who does the commentary now is a long time w
Speaker 1: W E w w F announcers. He does a w
Speaker 1: now does a great job. And how about this this
Speaker 1: this summer, um, Doug Barrone and I went out to
Speaker 1: see Jim Ross. That is a part. But at Jack's
Speaker 1: Beach and grill out steak for two hours. I didn't
Speaker 1: get a word in edgewise with those two. That was
Speaker 1: an afternoon to remember. I'll say, Doug bar Ross, let's
Speaker 1: come back in a moment. We'll get into the GM
Speaker 1: head coaching search. Our wrestling discussion is done for the day.
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Speaker 1: Baselli Jaguars Happy Hour continues, Tony, what's your gut saying?
Speaker 1: Is it gonna be a bit? Are they coming in hot?
Speaker 1: Are there there's obviously interviewing. We've seen the list of
Speaker 1: candidates on the GM and the head coaching side at
Speaker 1: least that are getting interviews or have been interviewed. What's
Speaker 1: your gut saying about maybe a timetable. Oh, I would
Speaker 1: think in the next couple of weeks, you know at
Speaker 1: the soonest to be next week. Um, but I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna go through the process. I mean they're interviewing
Speaker 1: people right now. Uh, you know obviously of the urban
Speaker 1: news out there. Um, that I think is real. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's his job or anything like that, but
Speaker 1: I think it's real and they're gonna go through that process.
Speaker 1: And then they're also interviewing GM so uh yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean two weeks, maybe three weeks max. Because I think
Speaker 1: once the first team hires a coach, the dominoes start following,
Speaker 1: because you you you know, if you have multiple teams
Speaker 1: wanted the same guy, or they stack ranked them the same,
Speaker 1: you know, that's where you start seeing a little bit
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Speaker 1: just a guess. You know, I think Shod was clear
Speaker 1: that he would like to in a perfect world do
Speaker 1: these both at the same time. Um, They're both gonna
Speaker 1: report to him. They're gonna be on equal footing. UM
Speaker 1: with him being a part of the decision making process,
Speaker 1: especially on the big deals around player acquisition and contracting
Speaker 1: and and if they asked, you know, they end up
Speaker 1: cutting a player or something. My guess is that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean if he's you know, they're cutting the you know,
Speaker 1: the fifty three guy on the roster that Sean needs
Speaker 1: to know every single little bit about that. Maybe he does,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but you know, the big decision they
Speaker 1: think you saying, Listen, you know, I'm right in the
Speaker 1: checks and this is my team, and I want to
Speaker 1: understand what we're doing. And I'm gonna trust the you know,
Speaker 1: the GM and the head coach to make the decisions.
Speaker 1: But I would like to be looped in when those
Speaker 1: big decisions are being made. Right. So we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens in the next days weeks ahead on both fronts.
Speaker 1: And you know, we we touched earlier Tony on the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. What Mr Kahn said about that spot, guys,
Speaker 1: and is is that you Tony? Are you ringing? Is
Speaker 1: that Jeff? Who is that? Was mine? I off? Sorry,
Speaker 1: the world is going on over there, Indra today my fault. Wow,
Speaker 1: So I didn't I didn't sign my uh in silence
Speaker 1: my own. That's like an old school ring right there.
Speaker 1: Do you have a flip phone? That's pretty cool? What
Speaker 1: is that? No, it's a normal it's an iPhone, not
Speaker 1: a flip phone. All right, that's good. So quarterback position
Speaker 1: obviously priority number one for whoever is hired lugs. We've
Speaker 1: touched on that earlier. I mean, you've got to start
Speaker 1: there because you don't have this opportunity to have a
Speaker 1: blank slate like this is an organization for ownershot con.
Speaker 1: I mean this is probably the only time, hopefully the
Speaker 1: only time this will ever happen. Will you have the
Speaker 1: number one pick and a new head coach and GM
Speaker 1: at the same time, Yeah, I mean you hope. I
Speaker 1: mean that, Uh, it means you have you're not doing
Speaker 1: very well when you have all those three things kind
Speaker 1: of co inside. But I think it's pretty important too
Speaker 1: that that the Jaguars find it. In my opinion, uh,
Speaker 1: an offensive coach. And the reason I say that is
Speaker 1: if if you hire a defensive coach, and look, trust me,
Speaker 1: I'm a defensive guy, and I think there's some really
Speaker 1: really good defensive guys out there. But if you end
Speaker 1: up hiring a defensive guy and then you hire an
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator and all of a sudden you start having
Speaker 1: great success, your likelihood of losing that offensive coordinator to
Speaker 1: a head coaching job is pretty high. I mean, look
Speaker 1: at all the hires that have happened recently and that
Speaker 1: it's a lot of offensive guys to where if you
Speaker 1: can find a way to get a great leader as
Speaker 1: a head coach, which is the most important thing, but
Speaker 1: also that his side of expertise and football is on
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball, it's better. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it's the only way, but I think it's better
Speaker 1: then that way that you can have continuity with a
Speaker 1: young quarterback throughout his growth cycle. Because of all a sudden,
Speaker 1: you have a defensive coach and have a coordinator and
Speaker 1: then you start getting hot and Trevor Lawrence is playing well,
Speaker 1: then you know what. Unfortunately, the hottest candidate in the
Speaker 1: league would be the guy that tutoring Trevor Lawrence, because
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna want that person to be tutoring their first
Speaker 1: round or first overall pick quarterback. And so the team
Speaker 1: is gonna have an opening that's gonna be drafting a
Speaker 1: quarterback very high in the top of the first round,
Speaker 1: is going to look for their next break head coach
Speaker 1: that's got an offensive mind. So I think it's just
Speaker 1: something to consider. And I don't think, like I said,
Speaker 1: I want to repeat this, it's not the only way
Speaker 1: to go about it. But I think it's certainly something
Speaker 1: that I would lean towards. Yeah, I think, Jeff, you
Speaker 1: said the most important part, you know, of what you
Speaker 1: just said is leadership, you know, And I would agree
Speaker 1: like if lean if you want to lean towards the
Speaker 1: offensive mindset of the guy who's head coach, I'm fine
Speaker 1: with that as well. To me, it's about leadership. Get
Speaker 1: the right leader, and it's not you gotta have the
Speaker 1: right leader to the head coach. It's such a critical position.
Speaker 1: They set the tone for the organization, they set the culture. Um,
Speaker 1: you need the right leader at the GM as well,
Speaker 1: because those two have to be lockstep, they have to
Speaker 1: be in it together. They have to have a similar philosophy, beliefs,
Speaker 1: convictions and everything else. So to me, the number of
Speaker 1: people have asked me, like, what what do you want
Speaker 1: to head coach? One thing, I want a leader. I
Speaker 1: want a guy who can lead the organization. Who can
Speaker 1: you know can because at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: that guy's job. He has to lead fifty three guys
Speaker 1: on the roster active roster, and he has to lead
Speaker 1: a coaching staff, and he has to be consistent in
Speaker 1: in you know, forward thinking and you know in dynamic
Speaker 1: and all those different things. But it's all about leadership.
Speaker 1: And to just point, if you get a guy who's
Speaker 1: a great leader and leads to the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball, that's a plus. Alright, guys, So it is
Speaker 1: that that'll do it for our Jaguars discussion today because
Speaker 1: it is Super wild Card weekend in the National Football
Speaker 1: League and our last chance, Tony to catch up with
Speaker 1: you before you're headed to Pittsburgh right to do the
Speaker 1: Brown Steelers game on Sunday night, the nightcap on the
Speaker 1: second day of wild card weekend. Um, that should be
Speaker 1: a fun game. We'll get to that one coming up.
Speaker 1: But we've got some division rivals involved this weekend. The
Speaker 1: Colts are at the Hills on Saturday one o'clock. What's
Speaker 1: your gut on this one, Tony Well, the Bills are
Speaker 1: the hottest Steven football in my opinion, I mean outside,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you argue Green Bay, but Josh
Speaker 1: Allen's playing such a high level. Uh, you know, They've
Speaker 1: got a dynamic passing game, They've got a good offensive line. Defensively, Um,
Speaker 1: there one weakness if you look at just statistically and
Speaker 1: kind of games, is that run defense. So that'll be interesting.
Speaker 1: I think it's a matchup where for the Colts to win,
Speaker 1: they gotta run the ball, Jonathan Taylor control the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, and then they have to win with their
Speaker 1: front flour of getting after Josh Allen with the Forrest
Speaker 1: Buckner and Justin Houston leads away. So the Colts but
Speaker 1: they have a great chance. I'm not counting them out,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna have to be the front four taking
Speaker 1: over that game. Because if Josh Allen has times back
Speaker 1: time back there and he can operate at the level
Speaker 1: he's operating right now, that he will skewer the Colts secondary.
Speaker 1: I'll put it this way, JP, there's no chance that
Speaker 1: the Colts beat the Offlow Bills. The Colts were fortunate
Speaker 1: to beat the Jaguars in the last week of the season.
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers does not look great and he has to
Speaker 1: have an incredible running game to support him. And uh,
Speaker 1: and that's the fact. And the Buffalo Bills are gonna
Speaker 1: run all over them and wear them out. Wow, okay, um,
Speaker 1: I like that. There's really no You didn't stutter at
Speaker 1: all in that in that prediction. The Rams at the Seahawks,
Speaker 1: and we need the Seahawks to win, and we also need,
Speaker 1: by the way, the h what is it the Bears
Speaker 1: and Washington to win. That would give uh, the Jaguars
Speaker 1: the best possible draft pick with the Rams pick. If
Speaker 1: the Rams lose in Washington, Chicago wins and they have
Speaker 1: the the worst record of the teams that have lost, well,
Speaker 1: and and explain to people why, but I mean, that's
Speaker 1: the Jail and Ramsey trade. You still have a first
Speaker 1: round pick this spring, in the fourth round pick this
Speaker 1: spring that is due to be paid to the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: So the more that the Seahawks lose, the out of
Speaker 1: the draft position for the Jaguar in the Rams um exactly. Yep, Yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly right. Um, I think this is an interesting game.
Speaker 1: I think you know it's in Seattle, but there's no crowd.
Speaker 1: It's not like you have the loud twelfth Man there. Um.
Speaker 1: These two teams have played two games, have been both
Speaker 1: very close. Um. I can't imagine Jared Goff being ready
Speaker 1: thumb thumb surgery. So you're probably John Warford, the Jacksonville
Speaker 1: kid from Bishop Kennedy. Um. He actually played pretty well
Speaker 1: in that week's sevent team matchup that they had against Arizona.
Speaker 1: So I think it's Seattle. I mean their defense is
Speaker 1: playing a really high level as of late second half
Speaker 1: of the year. So Russell Wilson, you know, two close teams.
Speaker 1: You know, both good teams go with the better quarterback
Speaker 1: in Russell Wilson's as much as we'll be rooting for
Speaker 1: John Warford for as a Jacksonville guy, but uh, I
Speaker 1: think Russell Wilson is a little bit better. Yeah, definitely
Speaker 1: rooting for him. But Seattle's d defense has made vast
Speaker 1: improvement since the beginning of the year, and I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough even though it is a no
Speaker 1: crowd game. I think it's gonna be tough for for
Speaker 1: the ram Let's get through the rest of these pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: Here Tampa Bay in Washington, the NFC East champs. I
Speaker 1: think this is closer to any one thinks because you
Speaker 1: know what's the one thing Tom Brady hates. That's pressure.
Speaker 1: And the football team can rush the pastor they got
Speaker 1: a defensive front that can get after you. The problem is,
Speaker 1: I don't think they can score points because that Tampa
Speaker 1: defense is pretty good too. So, um, I think it's
Speaker 1: a close game, but I think Tampa wins. Yeah. I'm
Speaker 1: almost Tony right there. I thought that was perfectly described.
Speaker 1: Six to three final Maybe no, not quite Okay, Uh,
Speaker 1: Sunday three good football games here, the Ravens and the
Speaker 1: Titans get us started at one o'clock in Nashville. Tony,
Speaker 1: I think that's a good one. That's a good Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know about you, but I mean
Speaker 1: I think the Ravens win because I don't think the
Speaker 1: Titans stop anybody. That defense is so bad, I mean,
Speaker 1: they were so bad. And the Ravens are playing at
Speaker 1: a high level right now, and uh, I think they
Speaker 1: have a chip on their shoulder. I think they're going
Speaker 1: in better than they were last year, even though they were,
Speaker 1: you know, had the best record in the NFL. Um
Speaker 1: they went to adversity. They've overcome it. March Jackson is
Speaker 1: playing really well. Their defense is good. I mean, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: it's always everything the game. But if you can't get
Speaker 1: people off the field, how do you win? And the
Speaker 1: Titans are just atrocious. I'm I'm you know. What I'm
Speaker 1: searching right now on my phone is what's the playoff
Speaker 1: record for combined yards rushing? Oh? Okay, because I think
Speaker 1: this game is gonna break it. It's gonna be it
Speaker 1: might be broken. Let's see what it says. They put individuals.
Speaker 1: They don't play a single game. Wait, yeah, they put
Speaker 1: single individuals. But I think that's whatever the record is. Man,
Speaker 1: look out, it might be broken. Good game Bears Saints
Speaker 1: coming up at four forty and then the Brown Steeler
Speaker 1: is the night cap, Tony, what do you think about
Speaker 1: those two games? You know, I can't imagine the Saints
Speaker 1: losing that game. I mean, Chicago is not a very
Speaker 1: good football team. Um so I think it's Saint No,
Speaker 1: you never know. I means one word, you never know.
Speaker 1: That's why they play the games. Kirk Cousins went in
Speaker 1: and one last year or so, who knows. UM, I think, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm disappointed about the Cleveland Pittsburgh game from the standpoint.
Speaker 1: I mean, Cleveland just not getting a fair shake here.
Speaker 1: You know, no practices all week. They haven't thrown the past.
Speaker 1: You know, they haven't done anything on the field. Their
Speaker 1: head coaches gona be out because of COVID. Their offensive
Speaker 1: line coach Bill Callahan probably out because of COVID. They're
Speaker 1: gonna be out with their Pro Bowl left guard. But Tonio, UM,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's such a tough thing. I mean, you
Speaker 1: hate it. You don't want to see this in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: This is the COVID world we live in. I think
Speaker 1: the Steelers win this game pretty easily. Yeah, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: with Tony on both of them. And all right, JP,
Speaker 1: Monday Night football is the college national championship game and
Speaker 1: there's a team is playing that you've got a little
Speaker 1: bit of a maybe a little bit of affinity for well,
Speaker 1: I have a degree from there. But yes, um, and
Speaker 1: who's gonna win? J M. I think Alabama will win,
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's gonna be a blowout. I
Speaker 1: think I think Ohio State can can score with them.
Speaker 1: If Fields is healthy, is gonna boat race them Alabama.
Speaker 1: We'll by Alabama wins by two touchdowns. I think it's
Speaker 1: closer than the experts think. On Monday Night in Miami, Tony,
Speaker 1: have a great weekend and enjoy the game in Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you all right, guys, Tony Boselli
Speaker 1: out of here. We're back in a moment on the
Speaker 1: network with another hour of Jaguars Happy Hour on the
Speaker 1: Jaguars Digital Network.