Speaker 1: It is Thursday sept This is Jaguars Happy Hour and
Speaker 1: now Bronson, Missouri's number one Celine Dion impersonator j Peace
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Speaker 1: maybe at some point down the line. Welcome in. It's
Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hour on this Thursday of Game Week. J P.
Speaker 1: Shaddick from the home studio. Jeff Lockman at his home studio,
Speaker 1: Tony Boselli coming up. Here's what's coming up on the program.
Speaker 1: We'll have a preview of the Colts Jaguars matchup in
Speaker 1: week one right around the corner. Big test for this
Speaker 1: Jaguars defense. Certainly, how they played against the run last
Speaker 1: season was not good enough. Far from it. They'll get
Speaker 1: a test this week against the Colts team that ran
Speaker 1: the ball very effectively last year. The debut of the
Speaker 1: Jaguars offense is on the dock. Coming up. What will
Speaker 1: this thing really look like? And we'll find out. Tony
Speaker 1: Wasselli joins us at four thirty today and then Doug
Speaker 1: Baron joins us at five o'clock on the Doug bron Show.
Speaker 1: Jeff Lockerman, good afternoon, It's Game week. Finally, Hey, j P.
Speaker 1: Excited Uh, We've got a little football action tonight and
Speaker 1: then the Jaguars home opener against the division to put
Speaker 1: it on Sunday. So it's setting up to be a
Speaker 1: pretty good week. Yeah, I would say some game tonight.
Speaker 1: Fantastic matchup of quarterbacks tonight. The defending champions are at
Speaker 1: Arrowhead this evening against the Texans. Well, you know we're
Speaker 1: gonna pick that game a little bit later in the show.
Speaker 1: I know you can't wait for that. Let's say, get
Speaker 1: to the news of the day. The Jags back on
Speaker 1: the practice field Thursday to get ready for the Colts.
Speaker 1: They were one running back shorter, though divine A Zigbo
Speaker 1: placed on the reserve injured list after that hamstring injury
Speaker 1: that he misspracticed with yesterday, So he's gone. The Jaguars
Speaker 1: sign all right, I'm gonna try this. Log's dary. That's
Speaker 1: pretty good. That's pretty good. A couple of tricky names.
Speaker 1: Are you very surprising about a Zigbo? I mean, holy count,
Speaker 1: hamstring and practice just kind of odd there, and especially
Speaker 1: with all the attention that the Jaguars running back position
Speaker 1: has gotten this week and last week with the release
Speaker 1: of Leonard Fournett and uh, and then James Robinson. When
Speaker 1: they put out the depth chart, He's right at the
Speaker 1: top of it. And so the expectation was, Okay, it's
Speaker 1: going to be a shared role between Thompson or Zigbo
Speaker 1: and Robinson. And now Zigbo goes to I R which
Speaker 1: means that he can come back later on in the
Speaker 1: season and play for this football team. And then they
Speaker 1: go and sign dari Obo. And the only reason that
Speaker 1: I can pronounce that is that we played the Texans
Speaker 1: when he was with the Texans, and it was one
Speaker 1: of the most challenging names that that I had to
Speaker 1: pronounce and the easy way, and I always do it.
Speaker 1: I've got these uh little flip card my cheat sheets
Speaker 1: JP and that you've seen me carrying it around all
Speaker 1: the time, and I make a ton of notes. And
Speaker 1: if I have a guy's name that is incredibly hard
Speaker 1: to say or to pronounce, I write the name out
Speaker 1: phonetically that way that even BESSELLI could read my chart
Speaker 1: and get it right, even though he doesn't. You know
Speaker 1: what's funny, though, I haven't spelled out phonetically as well,
Speaker 1: and I still Butcher. But hey, that's the way it
Speaker 1: goes sometimes. But we'll I get used to that name
Speaker 1: because he's one of three running backs that at least
Speaker 1: currently are on the active roster for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 1: The injury report just came out as well. Josiah Scott,
Speaker 1: rookie cornerback, was added today. He did practice full though,
Speaker 1: but he's listed with a shoulder so but a full
Speaker 1: practice was not on the list yesterday. Tyler Eiffort full
Speaker 1: today after a scheduled day off Wednesday. James O'Shaughnessy practiced yesterday,
Speaker 1: but a scheduled day off today. Tyler Davis, the rookie
Speaker 1: tight end from Georgia Tech with the knee issue, is
Speaker 1: not practiced this week yet. And then Adam godsis added
Speaker 1: to the list of the scheduled day off today. And
Speaker 1: then as we mentioned, Divina Zigbo is on injured reserve.
Speaker 1: So there's your at least thursday injury report for the Jags.
Speaker 1: And if you look at the Colts sidelogs, the whole
Speaker 1: left side of the offensive line for the Colts is
Speaker 1: on the list today. Yeah. I don't think that's a
Speaker 1: big deal with them, Uh, you know, I think that's
Speaker 1: more of a precautionary thing, you know that I don't
Speaker 1: want to say it's a scheduled day off, because if
Speaker 1: that was the case, it would it would end up
Speaker 1: saying that, like the Jaguars have certain guys that have
Speaker 1: scheduled days off, but I think those are more precautionary,
Speaker 1: and I think the concern and what is going to
Speaker 1: be interesting, I know that we'll have to talk to
Speaker 1: Doug Moron about this later on during the Doug Marrone Show,
Speaker 1: is that this year the rules are a little bit
Speaker 1: different about how you can bring guys up from the
Speaker 1: practice squad as opposed to what they've been in the past.
Speaker 1: You know, this year you had the expanded practice squad
Speaker 1: roster in which you can have even veterans and the
Speaker 1: and the number was expanded to sixteen. Well, in past years,
Speaker 1: if you wanted, for example, let's say Davis the tight end,
Speaker 1: let's say he can't play this week, Well, what would
Speaker 1: you do, Well, you would release somebody off of your
Speaker 1: fifty three to be able to elevate maybe, uh, Ellison,
Speaker 1: did I say that right? Ellison? Else? And the other yeah,
Speaker 1: the young tight end that they don't have that practice squad,
Speaker 1: yes from North Dakota State. Well, in years past they
Speaker 1: would have to let somebody go to to be able
Speaker 1: to elevate Ellison off the practice squad to be able
Speaker 1: to play on game day. The rules are different this year,
Speaker 1: and uh and I was talking to Dug Run a
Speaker 1: little bit about that earlier today, and we'll go into
Speaker 1: greater detail with it with him because he can explain,
Speaker 1: I think a whole lot better than me. But now
Speaker 1: you don't have to release somebody to elevate somebody from
Speaker 1: the practice squad, which is a big difference than in
Speaker 1: years past. So essentially what the practice squad is now,
Speaker 1: it's really just an expanded roster. And I think the
Speaker 1: only difference is is that if a player is elevated
Speaker 1: from the practice squad to be active on game day,
Speaker 1: then he ends up getting a minimum salary one sevente
Speaker 1: paycheck instead of a practice squad salary. So it gives
Speaker 1: the team's great flexibility. And obviously the whole reason that
Speaker 1: they put this in was in the case of a
Speaker 1: huge outbreak of COVID nine team with a football team,
Speaker 1: they wanted to allow teams to be able to feel
Speaker 1: the teams. Hey, look if you got fifteen guys or
Speaker 1: sixteen guys, hey just elevate the whole practice squad and
Speaker 1: let's go, Because with contact tracing, you never know what
Speaker 1: might end up happening. If all of a sudden, one
Speaker 1: guy is sick and and he was around twelve other
Speaker 1: guys or fifteen other guys, you may end up having
Speaker 1: to utilize all of that practice squad. So, even though
Speaker 1: the rules were designed for COVID nineteen JP, I think
Speaker 1: the rules provide a lot of flexibility for teams this
Speaker 1: year to be able to utilize that practice squad in
Speaker 1: a much different fashion than what they have done in
Speaker 1: past year. And you know, considering that there was no
Speaker 1: preseason games this year kind of gives some guys that
Speaker 1: may not have had a chance to to really show
Speaker 1: a lot under the lights, which they might not still,
Speaker 1: but at least they're still involved in an NFL team
Speaker 1: with an expanded opportunity on the on the practice. What
Speaker 1: excited to hear what Doug Moron says about that? Um,
Speaker 1: let's hear from Doug Moron now. In fact, he was
Speaker 1: asked this week, with the opener looming on the horizon
Speaker 1: here a few days away, is it exciting or daunting?
Speaker 1: It's definitely exciting, you know, I mean, you know, you
Speaker 1: see a bunch of guys that have worked, you know,
Speaker 1: extremely hard, to see guys that are pulling together. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not you know, obviously you can't predict
Speaker 1: you know, what what's gonna occur, but um, you know
Speaker 1: the focus, Um, you know all the things that you're
Speaker 1: looking for that you're kind checking off the box, things
Speaker 1: that may cause you anxiety. You know, we've worked extremely
Speaker 1: hard about you know, discipline. We've worked extremely hard on penalty's.
Speaker 1: We've worked extremely hard and you know, not turning the
Speaker 1: ball over and creating turnover. So you know, we we
Speaker 1: put a lot of time in this and and it's
Speaker 1: been reflective in the practice now. Um, you know when
Speaker 1: you go out there and play, you know you expect
Speaker 1: that to carry over, but that doesn't always happen. Head
Speaker 1: Coachmarone earlier this week. Yeah, I mean excited. That's the
Speaker 1: way he has to be, right, I mean, he's the
Speaker 1: head coach of the team. This is a group that
Speaker 1: he believes in. It is a younger, excus younger, but
Speaker 1: they are veteran in certain key areas, especially the offensive line.
Speaker 1: So he's excited for what this team can bring to
Speaker 1: the table this year. Logs well, first and foremost, and
Speaker 1: a lot of people say, how can you be excited
Speaker 1: because you're young and this team is tanking. Look, they
Speaker 1: put together a roster that they think that they can
Speaker 1: win with, but then also build to the future with.
Speaker 1: Now is that going to happen or not? I mean,
Speaker 1: that's debatable, you know, and you can argue different ways,
Speaker 1: and eventually the win and lost record is gonna end
Speaker 1: up being the truest indicator obviously of was it the
Speaker 1: right thing to do and is it the right thing
Speaker 1: to do? But there's a lot of reason for excitement
Speaker 1: this week, jp whether you have a young football team
Speaker 1: or whether you have an older football team right now.
Speaker 1: First off, it's kickoff weekend, and kickoff weekend in the
Speaker 1: NFL is incredible, especially when the nation is still in
Speaker 1: the midst of a global pandemic and many people didn't
Speaker 1: even expect the NFL to be able to pull this off,
Speaker 1: So it's exciting from that aspect. Also, it is the
Speaker 1: home opener, and the home openers, even though you're not
Speaker 1: gonna have plus strong, it still means something. And also
Speaker 1: it's a divisional opponent, you know, so even though you're
Speaker 1: going against teams to where the whole secrecy thing and
Speaker 1: and to where you know, nobody knows what they did
Speaker 1: in the preseason. You don't get to see their players,
Speaker 1: and uh and the team's as we know, JP they
Speaker 1: went to their utmost to protect all of their little
Speaker 1: trade secrets because camps were closed this year and they
Speaker 1: weren't seen by other teams. Even though all of that happened,
Speaker 1: there's there's still some others. But there's so much excitement.
Speaker 1: I think when the season gets started. I don't care
Speaker 1: if you're you're the favorite, the Kansas City Chiefs playing tonight,
Speaker 1: or you're the Jacksonville jagut Wars which many people have
Speaker 1: thirty two and the power polls. There's always excitement to
Speaker 1: the newness of the season. And right now it's zero
Speaker 1: and zero everybody zero and zero, and that that's why
Speaker 1: they play the game. We're gonna find out this weekend
Speaker 1: where this Jaguars football team is at. And now I
Speaker 1: will say this too, not only this week, but the
Speaker 1: next week the Titans on the road in Nashville. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get a really good idea of how the
Speaker 1: Jaguars are going to fair in the a s C. South.
Speaker 1: Really quick this season. The first two weeks of the
Speaker 1: year here they come. Well, and let me kind of
Speaker 1: add to that, because you know, during this past Saturday,
Speaker 1: when the general manager Dave called well talked, he alluded
Speaker 1: to that and said that, hey, look we're gonna know
Speaker 1: right away. We've got a couple of tough games, and
Speaker 1: obviously some people are picking the Colts and the Texans
Speaker 1: to be favorites, etcetera, etcetera. And you know, look, you
Speaker 1: don't play the first two weeks to find out where
Speaker 1: you're at, where you're at. You know, you play to
Speaker 1: win and then you figure out where you're at at
Speaker 1: the end of the season. That's what mattered. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter where you are in Week two, because as a
Speaker 1: football team, you can still get better and from week one,
Speaker 1: week too, all the way until your week sixteen, you know.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what Bill Belichick has had such
Speaker 1: great success in New England is that he always, even
Speaker 1: though he had Tom Brady and Gronkowski, and that he
Speaker 1: always preached improvement throughout the season, and his team's always
Speaker 1: improved throughout the regular season. So I'm a little don't
Speaker 1: want to say shocked, but I'm a little surprised at
Speaker 1: at you know, the comments that you know, after two
Speaker 1: weeks we're gonna know where we are. Well again, I
Speaker 1: want to say that, look, after two weeks, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter where you are. It's after sixteen weeks, you know,
Speaker 1: the whole goal is to get to the playoffs when
Speaker 1: the division, get to the playoffs and get in the
Speaker 1: tournament race. And so with the young football team, I
Speaker 1: think the most important thing is is that you've got
Speaker 1: to get better every week so that when the end
Speaker 1: of the season rolls around, you feel good about where
Speaker 1: you are and where you can be. All right, let's
Speaker 1: come back in a moment, Logs and we'll get into
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Speaker 1: I think it's you know one of their strengths. They've
Speaker 1: added some great weapons on the outside too, and obviously Philip,
Speaker 1: but um, I think that's the strength of their ball club. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna have our work cutout for us. Um,
Speaker 1: they're very good players. UM I think we have some
Speaker 1: good matchups that that, uh, we're gonna try to get
Speaker 1: to in different situations and stuff like that. But um,
Speaker 1: it is definitely their strength and we're gonna to challenge
Speaker 1: our guys up front. It's it's it's been a week
Speaker 1: where we have challenged the heck out of our front
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, they're one of the best fronts
Speaker 1: in the league. And we're fortunate up that we get
Speaker 1: to seem twice a year. Todd Wash talking about the
Speaker 1: Colts offensive blind Welcome back, Jaguar is a happy hour.
Speaker 1: J P. Shatrick from the home studio, Jeff Flagman from
Speaker 1: his home studio. And we're about fifteen minutes or less
Speaker 1: away from Tony Boselli joining us at four thirty. So
Speaker 1: here we go right in the fire against one of
Speaker 1: the top offensive linds in football. And we mentioned earlier
Speaker 1: that three of the guys are are on the injury report.
Speaker 1: But it just doesn't seem like they have missed the opener.
Speaker 1: But who knows. Let's but this is a group that look,
Speaker 1: they have thrown so much money at this position, at
Speaker 1: at this group across the front over the last couple
Speaker 1: of years to really solidify things their draft equity and
Speaker 1: some free agent money and new contracts. I mean, look
Speaker 1: at the numbers. Costanzo is on a two year deal
Speaker 1: thirty three billion. There's quentnin Nelson still in his rookie
Speaker 1: deal all guaranteed twenty three point eight. Ryan Kelly just
Speaker 1: got paid fifty million total contract, Lewinski the right guard,
Speaker 1: three year, sixteen million. Brandon Smith a second year player,
Speaker 1: a second round pick, still at his rookie deal, but
Speaker 1: they feel like he's a really solid player on the
Speaker 1: right side too. So it's a successful group. It's a
Speaker 1: consistent group. They didn't miss a snap last year across
Speaker 1: the front, and they're all back and most of these
Speaker 1: guys are paid. So that's pretty good group somewhere. Why
Speaker 1: in the hell did you finally decide to address the
Speaker 1: offensive line with me gone right? He took a beating
Speaker 1: while he was with Indianapolis and Ryan Griggson, the general
Speaker 1: manager essentially got fired for it, and rightly so. But
Speaker 1: I think what is is interesting is that the things
Speaker 1: you mentioned about the Colts that you know, they played
Speaker 1: all sixteen games last year and they were I think
Speaker 1: the only offensive line that we're all able to do
Speaker 1: that and play every play. But the Jaguars are also
Speaker 1: returning all five starters from the offensive line from a
Speaker 1: year ago. This I don't know how many times this
Speaker 1: has ever happened in league history. Where do you have
Speaker 1: an opening game on kickoff weekend where both teams return
Speaker 1: all five starters from the year before. It's very rare,
Speaker 1: and obviously it's something that because that is the case,
Speaker 1: that both teams have an expectation out of that offensive
Speaker 1: line to be something that you can count on, and
Speaker 1: the Colts have proven that they can be counted on
Speaker 1: as an offensive line. That Jaguars are trying to reach
Speaker 1: that level of success, and so I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be an interesting watch and it obviously makes Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: very comfortable. When you're talking about a seventeenth year quarterback
Speaker 1: who is a little long in tooth and maybe the
Speaker 1: not the most fleet of foot, he doesn't have great
Speaker 1: escapability outside of the pocket, but he can maneuver are
Speaker 1: in a pocket. And I'm sure it was one of
Speaker 1: the big reasons why Philip Rivers decided to go to Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, talk about comfort level, you know, leaving
Speaker 1: San Diego slash l A. And I'm surprised I got
Speaker 1: both of those cities mentioned with the Chargers, which I'm
Speaker 1: proud of myself for that JP by the way, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, he's got some familiarity with
Speaker 1: Frank Reich and Sara Janni the offensive coordinator, and they
Speaker 1: have a great offensive line. I mean, does it get
Speaker 1: any better than that for Philip Rivers to continue his career?
Speaker 1: And I mean, I think it's a pretty great set
Speaker 1: up for a guy like him. Now, before we went
Speaker 1: to the break, he referred to him as a future
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. That's debatable. I think. I think it's
Speaker 1: a great argument, but I wouldn't put him in that
Speaker 1: category yet. I don't think there's much of a debate. Logs,
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, he's every statistical category. I
Speaker 1: know he hasn't won one, but well, I know I
Speaker 1: get you. But you know what when you when you
Speaker 1: play quarterback and you coach, what do you judged on
Speaker 1: wins winning the Big One? The Big One? Yeah, wins
Speaker 1: in in the Big One, and and he hasn't He
Speaker 1: hasn't done that. So is it enough to get him
Speaker 1: into Hall of Fame? Probably so, But I don't think
Speaker 1: he's a He's not going in on roller skates now,
Speaker 1: so potential Hall of Famer is a better way to
Speaker 1: refer to him. I know it's a it's a one
Speaker 1: year deal for him, so this might be his swan
Speaker 1: song this season. It does help, though, when you have
Speaker 1: a running attack like the Colts had. We saw, of
Speaker 1: course this first hand last year. I think it was
Speaker 1: Week eleven last season when the Colts ran rough shot
Speaker 1: over the Jaguars. Marlon Mack had a big hand that
Speaker 1: day for the Jags. And this is a it's a
Speaker 1: running group, man, I mean, and this is what they
Speaker 1: really I think you're gonna be built to do is
Speaker 1: hand the ball off and then Philip can do his
Speaker 1: damn je off the run. Yeah. Look, Marlon Mack is
Speaker 1: a really good running back. I don't think he's a
Speaker 1: very good back out of the backfield. As a receiver,
Speaker 1: I think sometimes he has the Roberto Duran syndrome hands
Speaker 1: of stone, and that's why they have him Hines who
Speaker 1: is more of a threat out of the backfield, and
Speaker 1: he's gotten great speed. And then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: they drafted Jonathan Taylor in the second round. The Colts
Speaker 1: had quite a few second round picks, and we're able
Speaker 1: to pick up a wide receiver and running back, and
Speaker 1: running back is Jonathan Taylor, and he's a good one
Speaker 1: from Wisconsin, and the expectations for him are very high.
Speaker 1: So you have really a really strong one to punch
Speaker 1: and maybe even a three punch if you're counting to
Speaker 1: him Hines in that category. So the Colts are definitely
Speaker 1: gonna try to lean on what has been their bread
Speaker 1: and butter, particularly in an opener when you're talking about
Speaker 1: having a new quarterback. So the Jaguars better be prepared.
Speaker 1: And watched a little bit of film this week of
Speaker 1: the match up that you were referring to, which was
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis last year, and it wasn't very good. JP.
Speaker 1: It wasn't very good by the Jaguars defensively at all.
Speaker 1: They weren't getting off of blocks, they were out of position.
Speaker 1: You didn't see a wholehearted commitment to stop in the run.
Speaker 1: When I say a whole hearted commitment, the numbers were there,
Speaker 1: in other words, the defensive calls, you fortified the front
Speaker 1: to stop the run. But you just didn't see the
Speaker 1: emphasis in the sense of urgency by the players in
Speaker 1: that game. And it turned out to be a game
Speaker 1: that wasn't pretty. And the Jaguars, obviously, the next time
Speaker 1: around in Jacksonville last year, had a whole lot better
Speaker 1: performance than they did at Indianapolis and were able to
Speaker 1: hold the Indianapolis Colts running game in check. If the
Speaker 1: Jaguars don't hold the Colts running game in check, they
Speaker 1: have no chance of beating the Colts at home this Sunday.
Speaker 1: It's been an emphasis all off season, but we really
Speaker 1: don't know until you go out and play what the
Speaker 1: defense is really going to look like against the ruck.
Speaker 1: Can they you know, they they've done all they can.
Speaker 1: They've added the middle linebacker and free agency, they added
Speaker 1: a couple of other free agents who have opted out
Speaker 1: are retired for different reasons, and now it's the guys
Speaker 1: that are here are gonna have to step up and
Speaker 1: do it. And they added Journey in at the in
Speaker 1: the middle of training camp as well, but that that
Speaker 1: middle of that defensive line and the middle linebacker spout
Speaker 1: with Miles Jack on the outside roaming around to make
Speaker 1: some plays. That's where it's got to start guys in
Speaker 1: the right spot and then you have to have the
Speaker 1: want to after that. But a lot of these guys
Speaker 1: are new here. They didn't see that game last year
Speaker 1: in Week eleven. No, And I don't know how much
Speaker 1: motivation that you get out of what happened last year.
Speaker 1: But but I'm sure a guy like Avery Jones or
Speaker 1: Miles Jack, and we're talking about defensive captains that that
Speaker 1: this is in the back of their mind because they
Speaker 1: went through that and they know how important it is
Speaker 1: to stop the run at against the Colts. But knowing
Speaker 1: that it's important and then having the ability to stop
Speaker 1: it are two totally different things. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: tremendous challenge for any football team to stop the running
Speaker 1: game of the Indianapolis Colt and I think it's a
Speaker 1: it's a huge challenge for a Jaguars football team that
Speaker 1: has a lot of components that are gone and then
Speaker 1: a lot of components that were brought in to fortify
Speaker 1: areas that were maybe a week spot last year. Some
Speaker 1: of those guys are gone to now, you know, so
Speaker 1: can they do it? And I think that's a big question.
Speaker 1: And obviously there's a lot of skepticism that is out
Speaker 1: there about the Jaguars ability to improve on defense with
Speaker 1: some of the lack of additions that they had and
Speaker 1: the subtractions that they had from last year. I mean,
Speaker 1: because and I understand it. I mean, if you look
Speaker 1: at it from a name standpoint, JP, the list is
Speaker 1: pretty long. You're talking about Klais Campbell, Marcel Darius uh A,
Speaker 1: J Boy, Jalen Ramsey, and I know that those guys
Speaker 1: aren't necessarily run stoppers. And then Ronnie Harrison. I mean,
Speaker 1: so there's a lot of new faces with this defense
Speaker 1: and some of the same faces, and can they do it?
Speaker 1: We're gonna find out on Sunday. Two new faces on
Speaker 1: defense first making now their debut in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: the two first round picks c J. Henderson and Cal
Speaker 1: and chaseign A lot of folks I know are excited
Speaker 1: about what they could offer on defense this year. What
Speaker 1: have you seen in camp from the two first rounders?
Speaker 1: What do you expect on Sunday? I know there are
Speaker 1: two different type of roles. That feels like I think
Speaker 1: Calevan Chase On is ready to be uh When I
Speaker 1: say an impact player in that it won't appear that
Speaker 1: he's a rookie. I think he's gonna have successful pass rush.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be able to put pressure on
Speaker 1: the quarterback from week one. And he's got a real
Speaker 1: nice quickness to him. He's got some power to him,
Speaker 1: he's got some advanced hands to where he is I
Speaker 1: think a step ahead of where Josh Allen was last
Speaker 1: year as far as knowing how to have moves as
Speaker 1: a pass rusher, Whereas Josh Allen last year was just
Speaker 1: kind of think more more being an athlete than anything else.
Speaker 1: So I think there's a real there's a good role
Speaker 1: that Caleb and Chaz is gonna be able to fill.
Speaker 1: He's gonna back up Josh on regular personnel when they
Speaker 1: get the sub which is Nickel or their dime packages,
Speaker 1: They're both gonna be on the field and both gonna
Speaker 1: be the edge rushers. Uh. C j Henderson, I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna have He's gonna get tested, and I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be very interesting to see what light that
Speaker 1: they view him in will he follow a t Y Hilton?
Speaker 1: Will he match up with other number one wide receivers?
Speaker 1: You know, when you draft a guy number one overall
Speaker 1: and then in the top ten at that corner position,
Speaker 1: I think most people would expect that that eventually maybe
Speaker 1: an right away, but at some point you've got to
Speaker 1: take him and put him on somebody else's best guy.
Speaker 1: And if you look at the Jaguars roster and that
Speaker 1: corner position, that's not gonna be Trey Herndon. That that's
Speaker 1: just that's just not him. I think he's a good
Speaker 1: football player, but to be able to match up with
Speaker 1: the true number one, that's a that's a totally different
Speaker 1: level of of of ability. And I think CJ's got
Speaker 1: that ability. But is he ready for it? You know, Look,
Speaker 1: that's why you dropped him in the first round. Time
Speaker 1: to put him on a t Y Hilton then find out.
Speaker 1: But I'm excited about him, watch him because he's got
Speaker 1: he's got the tool box. I don't think there's any
Speaker 1: debate whether he has the tool box. The question mark
Speaker 1: is I think with a lot of young players, especially
Speaker 1: on that on that position that's on an island, do
Speaker 1: they have the mental makeup to be able to have success,
Speaker 1: because at some point things are gonna go bad. And
Speaker 1: if things go bad and you give up a big
Speaker 1: play or you have a bad play, what's your next
Speaker 1: play gonna be? Like? What's your next game gonna be? Like?
Speaker 1: You know, can you work your way through? And I
Speaker 1: think that's a question that you don't know until you
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Speaker 1: otherwise you're in the wrong business. You know, we're very
Speaker 1: optimistic going to the season. We know we have a
Speaker 1: lot of challenges. We had some youth plan but really
Speaker 1: I think the biggest uh reason for belief that I
Speaker 1: have is the offensive line. I think the offensive line
Speaker 1: uh is very solid right now with tackles that we have,
Speaker 1: the interior players and obviously the center I feel good about.
Speaker 1: So for the offensive line, it gives you the ability
Speaker 1: to do a lot of different things, I think, and
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll give us a chance to get our skilled
Speaker 1: players the ball in space and between the tackles and
Speaker 1: do some good things. Jay Gruden, offensive coordinator from the
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars earlier this week and welcome back to Jaguars
Speaker 1: Happy Hour and this Thursday of Colts Week. The kickoff
Speaker 1: weekend game coming up Sunday at t I A. Bank Field,
Speaker 1: JP Shadrick, Jeff Lockerman, and Tony Vasselli joins us. Now, Tony,
Speaker 1: good afternoon. What's happening. What's up guys? You know, just
Speaker 1: getting ready for the opener? That's really about it. We've
Speaker 1: got a lot going on. It's uh, it's right around
Speaker 1: the corner. I can't believe it's here tonight is the
Speaker 1: first game? Is it just new or does it not
Speaker 1: feel like kick off Weekend? I mean, it's just I
Speaker 1: think it's because like historically, we've all been a part
Speaker 1: of this where you're like getting ready for the regular season,
Speaker 1: Like you have the preseason games and you like get
Speaker 1: tired of pre Like you're so excited for the first
Speaker 1: preseason games like hey, we're gonna play someone else's in
Speaker 1: the stadium, YadA, YadA, YadA, and then by like the
Speaker 1: third preseason game, like I cannot wait for the regular season,
Speaker 1: We're so tired of this. And then you're all amped
Speaker 1: up for Opening Day. Well we've cut out, that's a
Speaker 1: big portion of it, and we haven't been able to
Speaker 1: be around the team, Jeff, like we usually are like
Speaker 1: talking to people, hanging out, like getting really amped up.
Speaker 1: And then I was like thinking about today. I'm like,
Speaker 1: we play a game on Sunday, Like I'm looking looking
Speaker 1: through the game release and and then I'm thinking, Okay,
Speaker 1: what tape am I gonna go watch? Well, there's no
Speaker 1: tape to watch outside of last year's game, I guess.
Speaker 1: And they got a whole new offense because I up
Speaker 1: rivers and everything else, and it's, uh, it's it's it's wacky.
Speaker 1: I think once we get into the regular season, um,
Speaker 1: then we'll it'll feel a bit a little bit more normal.
Speaker 1: I don't know, if if we're ever even gonna feel
Speaker 1: even close to normal this year. I mean you like
Speaker 1: you're saying you typically have a build up, and I
Speaker 1: think what may even be stranger is that, you know,
Speaker 1: we go to the stadium on game day this Sunday
Speaker 1: and you're talking about maybe fifteen thousand people, and uh
Speaker 1: I mean talk about different. I mean fifteen thousand people
Speaker 1: that that's something that you would get maybe for a
Speaker 1: scrimmage in preseason, and uh so it's gonna be vastly different.
Speaker 1: And you wonder as a player. You know, look, coaches
Speaker 1: can say all they want, Tony that, Okay, you gotta
Speaker 1: have guys that are pros and they're paid to play
Speaker 1: the game and they got to prepare and they gotta
Speaker 1: come ready to play. But to re it is Look
Speaker 1: when I played at Virginia to use an example here,
Speaker 1: and we will go down to play Clemson. It was incredible.
Speaker 1: I mean a great atmosphere, you know, the team coming
Speaker 1: down the hill, touching the rock and getting ready to
Speaker 1: play football game. And they hammered us all the time
Speaker 1: pretty much, and we got beat up, but it was fun.
Speaker 1: I mean it was eighty thousand strong in Death Valley
Speaker 1: and then we travel maybe the Duke and there'd be
Speaker 1: a couple of people over in this section, a couple
Speaker 1: of people over in that section and uh maybe twelve
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand people looking. I know you didn't have that
Speaker 1: in the in the in the pack twelve or ten
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, Tony, But I mean it's got
Speaker 1: to be like playing at Duke back in the day.
Speaker 1: And and yeah, I mean, yeah, you're a pro, but man,
Speaker 1: having sixty thousand plus strong cheering and get you fired
Speaker 1: up that I mean to not have that, that's that's
Speaker 1: gonna be different. Yeah, I think it would be really different.
Speaker 1: And as a player, Jeff, I think once you get
Speaker 1: on the field and the game's going, it's competitive. I
Speaker 1: don't think like the level of play will be uh
Speaker 1: noticeably different. I mean, I can't remember remember the last
Speaker 1: game we played in uh Basterdom in nineties six and
Speaker 1: there was one about seven thousand people in that place.
Speaker 1: We played the Oilers and you can literally hear each
Speaker 1: other coming off the sideline. You could hear, but once
Speaker 1: you got in the game, it felt like a real game. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe it was because we were playing for the playoffs
Speaker 1: and we were like getting better at the end of
Speaker 1: the season and we're really trying to shoot for something.
Speaker 1: But I don't remember thinking, um, I wasn't playing hard.
Speaker 1: But what I think backup is the motion that was
Speaker 1: surrounding the game wasn't the same that gave you that
Speaker 1: I want to say gave me individually extra juice, but
Speaker 1: to your point, made it a more fun environment, Like
Speaker 1: it was just exciting because you like you could sense
Speaker 1: the you know, the feelings of the fans and everything else.
Speaker 1: So I think that will be missing. I can't you
Speaker 1: can't replace the Remember earlier this week or maybe it
Speaker 1: was over the weekend, I was watching UM football college football.
Speaker 1: It was b y U maybe and I'm sitting there
Speaker 1: and there's no one in the stands, and I felt
Speaker 1: like I was watching the scrimmage because you could hear
Speaker 1: the whistles, you could hear players, you could hear every
Speaker 1: aspect of going back and forth, Like I felt like
Speaker 1: I could hear the coaches screaming, and it was missing
Speaker 1: something not I watched it. It was great. It was
Speaker 1: fun to watch football UM. But I think it will
Speaker 1: be different. And then I look at it for Jeff,
Speaker 1: you and I in our experience on game day Uh, like,
Speaker 1: we won't even see JP, probably because we're not gonna
Speaker 1: go down the studio. We're gonna spend the whole time
Speaker 1: up in the booth. We're not gonna go down on
Speaker 1: the field and talk to the coaches and get those
Speaker 1: nuggets that you kind of feel. You get a sense
Speaker 1: of like how everyone's feeling about the game, and you
Speaker 1: know who's up, who's down. You know what happened at
Speaker 1: the end of the practice, the end of the week
Speaker 1: and practice. You know all those things we're missing. And
Speaker 1: for me, like I sow it forward to the game,
Speaker 1: It'll be fun to call the game, Um, but I'll
Speaker 1: miss that. It won't be as fun because of those experiences.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be a whole different deal. Um. But
Speaker 1: I still think you have millions and millions of people
Speaker 1: watching it, and I think the nation cannot wait to
Speaker 1: see UH football start tonight kick it off with the
Speaker 1: Chiefs in the Texas. Hey, JP, just thought here, JP,
Speaker 1: real quick, the with this game coming up, and obviously
Speaker 1: it's the Colts Jaguars. Philip Rivers has been training for
Speaker 1: a game like this for the last couple of years
Speaker 1: or the last year in l A Right, I mean,
Speaker 1: how many fans that they have in l A that
Speaker 1: were that were Chargers fans, so advantaged Philip Rivers in
Speaker 1: this instance. Interesting thought there for sure. Let's go back
Speaker 1: to Jake Gruden at the top of the segment here,
Speaker 1: you know he was he was talking about the offensive line.
Speaker 1: And obviously we've known all offseason, Tony, that they've they've
Speaker 1: put a lot of eggs in this basket. This year.
Speaker 1: They brought everybody back. Um, the entire starting line is
Speaker 1: back from the end of last season. And you can
Speaker 1: argue this obviously for most offenses anybody, but this for
Speaker 1: the Jaguars offense is where this season will be made
Speaker 1: or broken. If if they play well, then Gardner has
Speaker 1: time to deal it out to all the playmakers. If
Speaker 1: they don't, they can't run the ball for some reason,
Speaker 1: then Gardner is gonna have to run around like a
Speaker 1: Chase Chicken like he was a lot last year. So
Speaker 1: it starts up front, Tony. And where is your belief
Speaker 1: in this offensive line a few days out? Well, I'll say,
Speaker 1: you know after after Gardner minshore the offensive line is
Speaker 1: the most important position group on this entire team, without
Speaker 1: hands down. Um, I found it interesting listening to Jay Gruden,
Speaker 1: he sounded like me, I've been like the one proponent
Speaker 1: of this offensive line and especially last year, and I
Speaker 1: got just skewered for it because they didn't perform. And
Speaker 1: that was actually um and that she said, and I
Speaker 1: said it a little thing I wrote up today. Brochure
Speaker 1: is like, like, individually, I love these guys, Like individually,
Speaker 1: they're good players, and I think they would start on
Speaker 1: other teams. But for whatever reason, as a group, they've
Speaker 1: been wildly and consistent and that has to change this year.
Speaker 1: They really knew have to be the strength and Um
Speaker 1: and Jagrun's right. If you have confidence in your offensive
Speaker 1: line and then they perform up to their expectations that
Speaker 1: everyone has, it makes the entire team better because it
Speaker 1: makes everything easier. It makes plain quarterback easier because you
Speaker 1: can run the ball and you have time back there.
Speaker 1: If it makes it easier to get open outside because
Speaker 1: they're worried about the run, it makes it easier to
Speaker 1: run the ball. If you're young back and Robinson is
Speaker 1: a rookie, I'm just gonna get a lot of carries.
Speaker 1: So UM, I agree with them. Um, I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit more pessimistic and It's hard for me to be
Speaker 1: pessimistic about the offensive line because I do love these guys.
Speaker 1: But after going all in on them last year and
Speaker 1: taking a lot of heat for it, I still believe
Speaker 1: in them. I believe them as individuals, and I think
Speaker 1: they're well coached. I think words war Off is a
Speaker 1: very good coach. I just got to see it happen
Speaker 1: on the field, and they're gonna have to show that
Speaker 1: their consistent group that can really carry this offense. JP
Speaker 1: the to go back to your original comment about the
Speaker 1: offensive line, and it stemmed from a question to the
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, Jay Gruden, and he was asked about the
Speaker 1: offense and his entire response was essentially about the offensive line,
Speaker 1: and I didn't hear him, and he didn't go in
Speaker 1: any way, shape or form towards his quarterback, which I
Speaker 1: kind of find found that interesting, And that when you're
Speaker 1: asked a question about your offense, then your answer is
Speaker 1: about the offensive line. I mean, it doesn't usually you're
Speaker 1: one of somewhere in there you're gonna talk about your quarterback.
Speaker 1: But he didn't. I think it's really intriguing how this
Speaker 1: offense as a whole is going to perform, not just
Speaker 1: the offensive line, but a rookie running back, a group
Speaker 1: of wide receivers that we all kind of view as
Speaker 1: a very talented position, a second year quarterback that we
Speaker 1: whom is gonna take the next step, but you can't
Speaker 1: be assured that he's gonna take the next step. So
Speaker 1: for me, there's a lot of intrigue, you know, especially
Speaker 1: with a new offense, a new offensive coordinator in a
Speaker 1: year in which you've had so many things that were
Speaker 1: different and restricted in the off season, and so you
Speaker 1: didn't and we're able to rep this new offense and
Speaker 1: O t A s and mini camps or anything else.
Speaker 1: So it to me it's gonna be very interesting to
Speaker 1: see where they are at. Yeah, quite a matchup early
Speaker 1: this year too. And you know Tony today, another change
Speaker 1: in the running back room. Zigbo's gone on i R.
Speaker 1: They bring another guy in off the street last second.
Speaker 1: So that position group has been a revolving door the
Speaker 1: last week or so. Especially. That's not ideal. No, we
Speaker 1: got Rock Armstead on the COVID list and it sounds
Speaker 1: like he's not gonna be back for a while. Um JP,
Speaker 1: I like you this, say who the new running back
Speaker 1: is they signed? Did you give us his name please.
Speaker 1: I'd like uh played this game earlier, Dara ogun you
Speaker 1: but you didn't quite get it. Tony your turn ole
Speaker 1: um he uh listen like, I hope Robinson is good,
Speaker 1: and I hope Chris Thompson, you know, is the scap
Speaker 1: back that they want him to be, because they put
Speaker 1: a lot of eggs in those baskets, in that basket.
Speaker 1: And I go back to I'm of the belief they
Speaker 1: knew from January that they were going to find a
Speaker 1: way to get you know, try to trade Leonard Fournette.
Speaker 1: He was not in their plans moving forward. And because
Speaker 1: of that, I'm shocked that they did not do more
Speaker 1: to address the running back room. And I think now
Speaker 1: we're seeing, you know, this is a thing group, and
Speaker 1: you're counting on an undrafted rookie free agent to be
Speaker 1: your bell cow um more than you know, really and
Speaker 1: Chris Thompson, who's the third down scap back, who has
Speaker 1: more receiving yards and resting yards in his career, is
Speaker 1: going to be, you know, your third down back. Not
Speaker 1: a lot of debt um, not a lot of room
Speaker 1: for air. And I hope Dave and dougle right um
Speaker 1: as they kind of put this this room together. I
Speaker 1: know they liked the room. I like that. I know
Speaker 1: they like the attitude in the room. But Jeff, I'm
Speaker 1: still shocked knowing how I feel, at least how I
Speaker 1: think they felt about Letter for Net for a long time,
Speaker 1: that they didn't do more to put some bodies in there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think a little bit of the unexpected happened with
Speaker 1: with rock Armstead and then a zig bow with the hamstring.
Speaker 1: But the good thing is is that I think both
Speaker 1: of those guys are gonna be able to return at
Speaker 1: some point. And then with the rule changes, you also
Speaker 1: have Cotrell who was an undrafted running back Nathan Contrell
Speaker 1: on the practice squad, and so I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: have the ability to maybe elevate him up this week
Speaker 1: because o'gon bally is gonna be so fresh and raw
Speaker 1: to the system, how much can he actually understand and
Speaker 1: no to contribute to a game plan? So uh, kind
Speaker 1: of this is gonna be an interesting year. And I
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier Tony, I don't know if you happen to
Speaker 1: hear it about the rules are different for the practice
Speaker 1: squad and how will that relate to to an issue
Speaker 1: like you have now running back to where Okay, you
Speaker 1: need some somebody, you know, So could Cantrell come up
Speaker 1: without having to subtract somebody from the fifty three man roster.
Speaker 1: The rules are different for that this year, and if
Speaker 1: teams now have greater flexibility, so I would expect that
Speaker 1: that could be a possibility. Uh. But then again, maybe
Speaker 1: o goobally has some familiarity with Jay Gruden system from
Speaker 1: somewhere somehow, and he can hit the ground and run
Speaker 1: and be running. It's gonna be interesting, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a group that I think, um, outside
Speaker 1: of Robinson really just being a study and maybe it's
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe he's you know, it's happened before in
Speaker 1: this league where a seventh rounder or undreut to guy
Speaker 1: comes out of nowhere. I mean, just two years ago,
Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay undrafted guy from Colorado State or next to
Speaker 1: the University of Colorado for the Broncos had a thousand
Speaker 1: plus yard rookie year. It was just dynamic and great.
Speaker 1: And maybe Robinson is that guy, let's hope. So, but
Speaker 1: outside of that, I think you're gonna see a bunch
Speaker 1: of bodies back there, and I agree with Jeff. You
Speaker 1: can see guys coming up and down from the practice
Speaker 1: squad until they really figure out, um, what they're gonna do,
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do with that position, or how they're
Speaker 1: gonna handle that. And it's such a far cry from
Speaker 1: where they were the last two years. I mean, think
Speaker 1: about this offense was designed to be built around letter
Speaker 1: for net. Um, you're gonna be a run first, pound
Speaker 1: the ball, physical team, um uh. And that's how you
Speaker 1: wanted to play. And now they've traded, we're actually cut
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette. They're going with the young quarterback and they
Speaker 1: really i mean running backs at fit the style that
Speaker 1: he wants to play in and that's out of the
Speaker 1: show and a lot of inside outside zone and you know,
Speaker 1: quick throws, quick passing game and everything else. So um,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a hundred eighty degree turn for where
Speaker 1: they were even last year, especially two years ago when
Speaker 1: Blake was the quarterback. Um. And it's very obvious with
Speaker 1: how they're handling the person personnel in that running back room.
Speaker 1: Something to watch between now on game day, see what
Speaker 1: happens for the Jags on Sunday at running back position.
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Speaker 1: M it means everything you know, Um, you know, that's
Speaker 1: one of the host honors you can have, is you know,
Speaker 1: being voted on by your peers, um to represent them
Speaker 1: and to be their captain. It's something, um, you know,
Speaker 1: of all the you know awards you can win, that's
Speaker 1: one that really, um to me means means a lot,
Speaker 1: means the most because that's really you know, how you
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Speaker 1: Gardner bench to the second Jaguars quarterback and team captain.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Jaguars, Happy our j P Shadrick, Pete, Pete Prisco.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Tony Vaselli and Jeff Logan with us in
Speaker 1: the day's mixed up on Thursday, Ready for the first game.
Speaker 1: Let's go, let's tee it up on Sunday and sun
Speaker 1: just right around the corner. I know, Hey, it's Week one,
Speaker 1: no preseason game. Day around the corner and we can't
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Speaker 1: tickets for all the info. The Jaguars announced guys eight captains,
Speaker 1: three on offense Menshew Lender and Conley, four on defense,
Speaker 1: Alan Miles, Jack Abery Jones, Jared Wilson, and on special
Speaker 1: teams the kicker Josh Lambeau. Um is that me? Or
Speaker 1: is that a lot of captains, Tony? That's a lot
Speaker 1: of captain of your cent of your roster at the captain, Um,
Speaker 1: I mean not that what you know. I looked at
Speaker 1: other teams, like I've seen most of them. I have
Speaker 1: four captains. I remember Jeff when we played I think
Speaker 1: it was three captains. Um. That was different. Tom named
Speaker 1: the captains each game. Um, but eight, I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: that's a lot. Um. So whatever the reasoning is, I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is. Uh. And the role of
Speaker 1: a captain is different and you know, depending on the
Speaker 1: team and the culture in the locker room. UM. For instance,
Speaker 1: like we never voted for captains. When Jeff and I played,
Speaker 1: Tom named him each game, and like, but you know
Speaker 1: who the leaders were. It was very obviously who the
Speaker 1: leaders in the locker room were, UM, and then the
Speaker 1: other teams. Nowadays they vote for captains, which I think
Speaker 1: is great, by the way, and I get I agree
Speaker 1: with Gardner what he said. It's quite an honor. I
Speaker 1: guess I was just a little bit surprised that we
Speaker 1: have so many, but more the merrier, I mean, with
Speaker 1: the distancing, they might not all be able to go
Speaker 1: to the coin toss anyway, right Yellow to be very crowded. Well,
Speaker 1: it will make for an interesting coin toss. I can
Speaker 1: tell you that you got that right before we go
Speaker 1: on to a Thursday night thinking the game tonight. We
Speaker 1: we earlier before you jumped on here, Tony. We're talking
Speaker 1: about the Colts offensive line, and they played every game
Speaker 1: last year, all five physicians, super consistent. They were a
Speaker 1: top ten rushing attack last year. They are most of
Speaker 1: them have big contracts, by the way, now they just
Speaker 1: paid the center recently. How good is this group compared
Speaker 1: to others in the league. Oh, I'll just go by
Speaker 1: what we saw last year. Obviously, I haven't seen what
Speaker 1: they're gonna do this year. But they're very good. UM
Speaker 1: top ten rushing attack top ten and sacks allowed. UM.
Speaker 1: They were the strength of the offensive line. And I
Speaker 1: think they're a very dangerous team because that they can protect.
Speaker 1: And if you give Philip Rivers a bunch of time,
Speaker 1: which he hasn't experienced in a long time because behind
Speaker 1: that sieb of an offensive line and uh in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles said he had to play behind um, he's fighting
Speaker 1: for his life. Uh, He's gonna be dangerous because he's
Speaker 1: gonna get them in the right play, in the right situation,
Speaker 1: and if he has time, he's gonna find the open receiver.
Speaker 1: So I think the culture very good, and I think
Speaker 1: it does start up front with their offensive line. And
Speaker 1: they got Marlon back back there, who's an effective back
Speaker 1: as well. And they got Taylor, the rookiet of Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: who you know, rushed for like six million trillion yards
Speaker 1: in college and awards at a campus. He's pretty good. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, holy cow, he's a great he's a great back.
Speaker 1: You know, we haven't even talked much about the additions
Speaker 1: that the Colts have to their defense. They gave up
Speaker 1: a first round picked to acquired the Force Buckner, who
Speaker 1: is essentially like a Kliss Campbell that can play and
Speaker 1: he can play a free technique. He can he can
Speaker 1: pass rush, and he can stop the run. He's a
Speaker 1: great football player. And then Nix Xavier Rhodes at the
Speaker 1: corner spot, who's a big, physical corner. It was a
Speaker 1: very good last come back and even more healthy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, but he's in his past. He's
Speaker 1: been been pretty good in his past. So I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be, you know, a better Colts defense and
Speaker 1: uh certain league with another year under their belt for
Speaker 1: some of those young players that they've had, because you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago they committed the youth and
Speaker 1: so some of those guys you know, and and one
Speaker 1: of them that's obviously is the best of Darius Leonard.
Speaker 1: I mean, he we don't even have to talk about
Speaker 1: him coming into his own The day he stepped foot
Speaker 1: on an NFL field, he was an impactful player and
Speaker 1: he's only going to get better, no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: Now time to pick Thursday Night Football. It's the season
Speaker 1: opener in the National Football League. It's a battle of
Speaker 1: the two highest paid quarterbacks in league history. Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: and the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs entertained
Speaker 1: to Shawn Watson and the Houston Texans. Kickoff time at
Speaker 1: eight twenty and Arrowhead. Seventeen thousand expected in attendance. Oh,
Speaker 1: you got tonight in the season opener on kickoff weekend, Tony.
Speaker 1: I got the team all the way. They got the
Speaker 1: best quarterback in the league I can do. Probably one
Speaker 1: of the best coach teams in NFL. UM. They're good
Speaker 1: at every position group on the offensive side of the
Speaker 1: all they got Chris Jones back is the defensive lineman
Speaker 1: who's very disruptive. I they're really good, and I have
Speaker 1: I think I think the Texans are a question mark.
Speaker 1: I actually have them as the third best team in
Speaker 1: the NFC South. UM. I don't think they're great on defense. UM,
Speaker 1: and offensively, you know was now DeAndre Hopkins. I'm interested
Speaker 1: how they run that offense because he was a safety outlet.
Speaker 1: He was a safety blanket to pacifier whatever you wanna
Speaker 1: call whatever. Deshaun Watson was in trouble, he'd find me
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins. So I think Deshaun Watson is an outstanding
Speaker 1: player and because of that, the Texans got a chance.
Speaker 1: But I think I had the Chiefs win by ten points. Interesting.
Speaker 1: It will be very interesting to see how Deshaun Watson takes,
Speaker 1: you know, where his game goes without DeAndre Hopkins. A
Speaker 1: lot of times quarterbacks get better without the guy that
Speaker 1: they feel like that they have to throw it to
Speaker 1: and then they just allow the offense to dictate where
Speaker 1: the ball goes. So could that be the case with
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. I don't know, but I mean, for me,
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes is such a marvelous player. They've got so
Speaker 1: much speed with at Kansas City offense. They've got a
Speaker 1: very good offensive line, one of the better offensive lines
Speaker 1: in the league, and they're at home. I don't see
Speaker 1: them losing. Tonight should be a good one. The Texans
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs kick off the season coming up tonight, Tony.
Speaker 1: We will talk to you Sunday on the Public's Tailgate
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