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Speaker 1: got a program for you today. Here's what's gonna be
Speaker 1: on it. The Jags in the Raiders preview coming up
Speaker 1: that game Sunday at the Oakland, Alameda County Coliseum or
Speaker 1: Ring Central Coliseum as it's called now. Rainer players still watch,
Speaker 1: will pick them uniform unveiling. Jimmy Luck will show what
Speaker 1: the Jags will wear in that game. Chris Connelly scheduled
Speaker 1: to join us. We could have a little bit of
Speaker 1: a jumbled show today. I don't know how different that
Speaker 1: would be, but the timing might be different than you're
Speaker 1: used to. Chris might be in a little early today.
Speaker 1: Jimmy might be a little later, a little earlier. We
Speaker 1: just we're just gonna fly by the seat of our
Speaker 1: pants today. John, that's what's gonna happen. Well, Phil, right
Speaker 1: at hum let's get right to it today. Head coach
Speaker 1: Doug Maron speaking with the media. And it's that time
Speaker 1: of year. Obviously, the Jags have dropped five straight. They
Speaker 1: haven't been close in those games. There are three games
Speaker 1: to go. There's still a lot left for this team
Speaker 1: and for each individual. According to head coach Doug Moron,
Speaker 1: there really every we're all fighting for our jobs, you know,
Speaker 1: And I think when you when you look at it,
Speaker 1: you know, from that standpoint, you know, each person has
Speaker 1: to make their own decision on how to handle those things.
Speaker 1: But the leak has shown to the past at what
Speaker 1: happens is and I told the players, I mean a
Speaker 1: lot of times when you know you're gonna look at
Speaker 1: film on players, whether they're on your team or you're
Speaker 1: looking to require them, you're gonna look to see how
Speaker 1: they're playing in December, you know, that's one of the
Speaker 1: main things that you look at, you know, especially when
Speaker 1: a team is not performing. And so that's that's where
Speaker 1: this team is right now. We're talking about looking at
Speaker 1: tape and playing for the name on the back of
Speaker 1: the jersey and for the future in the NFL. That
Speaker 1: that's really what this is about. The last three weeks
Speaker 1: of the season. Now, yeah, you're talking about professionalism and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, there is a reality that sometimes, uh when
Speaker 1: you're watching it. I remember when I was a fan
Speaker 1: back in the day and following different teams. I you're
Speaker 1: on your team to win, and when they're not in it,
Speaker 1: you sort of check out a little bit as a fan.
Speaker 1: But it's easy to forget that these players. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not Madden and just because you know it seems
Speaker 1: like a players play forever two fans. But these players
Speaker 1: have short rears and there's a guys on each team
Speaker 1: who are fighting just as much as as late in
Speaker 1: the preseason. These guys are fighting for jobs this time
Speaker 1: of year, and they're fighting for a chance to be
Speaker 1: on a roster next year. Uh, they're fighting for their
Speaker 1: reputation once they joined another team. You know, a coach
Speaker 1: watches you on film, and GM watches you on film.
Speaker 1: January February decides to sign us as to bring in Well,
Speaker 1: they remember that what they saw, So you're the perception
Speaker 1: of you goes up a great deal. And it's what
Speaker 1: you talked about a professionalism. When you're in your fourth
Speaker 1: or fifth year and you're you're preparing the right way
Speaker 1: when your team's out of in December, that holds some
Speaker 1: water in this league. So on that level, I don't
Speaker 1: think that's very interesting to fans because they're mad you've
Speaker 1: lost five in a row. But to the players who
Speaker 1: are going out there, that matters. Dug Morn also today
Speaker 1: discussing confidence down the stretch. How do they gain in
Speaker 1: the final three games? You know, you gain confidence by
Speaker 1: winning games, and we're not doing that. Well, then how
Speaker 1: do you gain that confidence? Well, we gotta go back
Speaker 1: and you know, make sure that we know exactly what
Speaker 1: what's what's going on. Feel good about it during a week,
Speaker 1: feel good about the plan. You know, you put it,
Speaker 1: You put a lot of things in you know, today tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna you know, we really as a staff
Speaker 1: and and players have to take a good look at
Speaker 1: what we can handle and not handle, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, and take it out and live with what
Speaker 1: we're gonna play with, you know, schematically, you know, in
Speaker 1: the game, So that's building up a game plan and
Speaker 1: being ready for this week's game. And it's not like
Speaker 1: they don't do that every week, but it's it seems like,
Speaker 1: at this point, what can we really do? Well, let's
Speaker 1: go execute them. Let's be realistic. There's no confidence. There's
Speaker 1: not gonna be a confidence going into this game in
Speaker 1: terms of a body of work, in terms of momentum.
Speaker 1: But what the coaches have to do and and Dougs
Speaker 1: talked about a couple of times, and I thought it
Speaker 1: was interesting when he talked about it today of look,
Speaker 1: we've got to figure out uh, and he was specifically
Speaker 1: talking about linebacker more than anything. We have to figure
Speaker 1: out what we can put in that these guys can
Speaker 1: do and that these guys feel remotely good about, because
Speaker 1: it's been a bunch that has uh, you know, not
Speaker 1: always read offense is always read keys that well, this year, um,
Speaker 1: what can they do? What are they gonna feel good about?
Speaker 1: What can they execute? Who's going to execute it right?
Speaker 1: And it's sounded from listening to Doug today like they
Speaker 1: went back on on Tuesday, looked at at the Chargers
Speaker 1: game and said, you know what, we maybe tried to
Speaker 1: put in too much Hey, stop al rgo in this way,
Speaker 1: stop this. Let's just simplify it. It's always think coaches
Speaker 1: say simplify when you're in trouble, and boy, they're in trouble. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, get it as simple as possible. Read this,
Speaker 1: go here, read this, go here. Stop with the air,
Speaker 1: stop with the players out of position. Can it happen? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we haven't seen it happen, but that's what they continue
Speaker 1: to strive for. Get a game plan in that the
Speaker 1: level of player that you've got, the level of football
Speaker 1: and intelligence that you've got in the field, can handle
Speaker 1: and that's their task. I had a chance today to
Speaker 1: visit with Avery Jones, Jaguar's defensive tackle. He was on
Speaker 1: this program last week and there was a quote that
Speaker 1: came after the game that was widely circulated on social
Speaker 1: media after the loss. I'll talk about that after you
Speaker 1: talk to Abe about it. Yeah. So the quote was,
Speaker 1: if you feel like we're quitting, don't come to the game.
Speaker 1: That's all I got to say. That was after the
Speaker 1: game on Sunday. I asked him about that today and
Speaker 1: if the frustration had boiled over. I mean, he's mostly frustration,
Speaker 1: you know, stuff like that. Lost one not you never
Speaker 1: want to talk to you fans, especially not these fans
Speaker 1: because I know how much they care for us and
Speaker 1: things like that. But I mean, it is just stressful
Speaker 1: to hear people say that, people that work their whole
Speaker 1: lives to get here to a place where it's not
Speaker 1: easy to stay, where you got prove your self day
Speaker 1: and day out, and to just think we would quit
Speaker 1: on ourselves, and we would quit on this season. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sugarcoat nothing. I know what it looks
Speaker 1: like out there. It's a whole bunch of bs. There's
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of loss people paying hard on money
Speaker 1: to come see us play, and we're giving out this performance.
Speaker 1: I get that through and through. But I mean, don't
Speaker 1: tell no man that's not here providing for his family,
Speaker 1: chasing his dreams, that he's quitting on himself, because that's
Speaker 1: one thing I don't want to see none of my
Speaker 1: teammates do is quit on themselves. Things can go bad,
Speaker 1: we could be a bad team. I get that, but
Speaker 1: there's a difference between being a bad team and being quitters.
Speaker 1: Because you quit, you quit here, now you're gonna quit
Speaker 1: in life. So I feel like we don't have nobody's
Speaker 1: gonna quit in life anything like that. You know, I
Speaker 1: apologize to the fans. It's probably, well not probably. I know.
Speaker 1: I've seen the mentions and stuff like that, so I
Speaker 1: know you upset. That's cool with men. You can talk
Speaker 1: about me all day, call me garbage, this and that.
Speaker 1: I don't really care. But one thing you're not gonna
Speaker 1: do is go on social media or look at me
Speaker 1: in my face and tell me I'm a quitter. I
Speaker 1: don't care how bad the game is. So that's not us.
Speaker 1: Every Jones today in the locker room with a response
Speaker 1: and an update from after the game on Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And when he said it, I was standing there and
Speaker 1: I kind of cringe because on Sunday, yeah, you know
Speaker 1: the reaction when he when a player said something like that.
Speaker 1: And often after a game and even within the course
Speaker 1: of an interview, things get said. And I don't want
Speaker 1: to use the word out of context, but maybe it
Speaker 1: applies here. Um Aby said that as part of about
Speaker 1: nine or ten sentences that he said when asked about quitting,
Speaker 1: and he basically said, look, if if you think we quit,
Speaker 1: don't come to the games. Um I didn't get the
Speaker 1: feeling when he said it that that's what he meant.
Speaker 1: I didn't get the feeling that he was saying, you know,
Speaker 1: kiss off to the fans or whatever that meant. It
Speaker 1: was more the spirit of what he just said. Look,
Speaker 1: you know, we're not quitting. That's not the that's not
Speaker 1: the idea that he gets. If anybody has had a
Speaker 1: good relationship with his fan base, it's been avery over
Speaker 1: the years. He's been here, seven or eight years. You know,
Speaker 1: if if fans and I think most fans get this,
Speaker 1: who really follow it, But you're talking about a guy
Speaker 1: who lived through Gus, who lived through the first year
Speaker 1: or two of Gus, who has seen this go back
Speaker 1: after they thought they had to turn the corner. He's
Speaker 1: the most tenured guy here. If any player cares about
Speaker 1: the uniform, which a lot of players don't, they get here,
Speaker 1: they don't care about anything. If when they care about themselves,
Speaker 1: this is a guy who's been here. I mean, he
Speaker 1: is one of the most tenure players in Jaguars history.
Speaker 1: Now not it's the seventh year and then right, so
Speaker 1: he's ingrained in this. Yeah, and uh, I hope that
Speaker 1: in the long run people don't associate that sort of
Speaker 1: one comment in a long quote with Avery, that's how
Speaker 1: social media works these days. I get it, YESEF thrown
Speaker 1: back in your face, but um, Avery Jones does not
Speaker 1: devalue this fan base. He doesn't want people to have
Speaker 1: to come to games. Uh. His point is one that
Speaker 1: I think fans sometimes miss. These players don't quit. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, you might occasionally have one that has a
Speaker 1: bad back, but overall, these players don't quit. They're out
Speaker 1: there they and if for no other reason than he said,
Speaker 1: they're fighting for their football careers. This is what they do.
Speaker 1: This is what puts food on the table for their families, etcetera.
Speaker 1: All those things. So I probably didn't say it as
Speaker 1: well as Abrey said it. But these guys don't quit.
Speaker 1: And that was his message of say what you want
Speaker 1: about is say we're not good, say etcetera. But don't
Speaker 1: say that we're quitting, because that's not how these guys feel.
Speaker 1: Jacks are headed to Oakland the final game with the Colosseum.
Speaker 1: The Raiders will move to Las Vegas next year. One
Speaker 1: guy who knows the Oakland fan base and the organization
Speaker 1: well is d J. Hayden, Jaguar's cornerback the Nickel for
Speaker 1: this team. He's the second season with the Jaguars. We
Speaker 1: know what he's been through this season. Banged up a
Speaker 1: little bit, fighting through it. Tough guy on this Jags defense.
Speaker 1: But what would it mean for this Raiders fan base
Speaker 1: to play in this final game? Well, he would know
Speaker 1: he played there four years, he's a former first round
Speaker 1: pick of the Raiders. What would it mean for the
Speaker 1: Raiders fans? What would have mean to him as well? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: you know, they're very upset that the team is leaving,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna want to see a good game. They're
Speaker 1: gonna want to see a good win for them. But
Speaker 1: I just hope he going there and get him a
Speaker 1: big fatass ill. There's d J. Hayden And that's the
Speaker 1: kind of the mentality of a lot of guys on
Speaker 1: this team and on this defense right now. Just just
Speaker 1: in the slides somehow and go in there and wrecked
Speaker 1: the party in Oakland will be a good way to
Speaker 1: do it this week. Yeah. D J. Hayden's fascinating team.
Speaker 1: He came in in his first year. I remember trying
Speaker 1: to air you him off the practice field during r
Speaker 1: t A and in retrospect, he was a guy who
Speaker 1: was still try to find his place here. He was
Speaker 1: the new guy in the secondary. There was a very
Speaker 1: tight secondary. I remember you had a c Aaron Colvin,
Speaker 1: uh Ramsey, uh boy, even a great secondary before. And
Speaker 1: I remember talking to him coming off the field. I
Speaker 1: probably talked to him for seven right minutes that day
Speaker 1: and it was like pulling teeth to get him to
Speaker 1: say anything. Well, it ain't this guy. I mean, he
Speaker 1: has been fantastic this year, you know, Eddie and fans
Speaker 1: don't care how good quote guys. He's been a good player,
Speaker 1: he's a professional. Uh, he's played well. If you have
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys like that on your team, you're
Speaker 1: in good shape. And uh. I like the fact that
Speaker 1: he's willing to admit today, Yeah, I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: going back. They gave up on me and they all
Speaker 1: feel that. But in a game where your reputation is
Speaker 1: is what you have, he's looking forward to going back.
Speaker 1: He wants to he wants to walk off that field
Speaker 1: and be would a point to people in the stands,
Speaker 1: have a good time, laugh, maybe dodge a few seats
Speaker 1: and get out of there. And I feel good about
Speaker 1: the either way. On the way home, it's been a
Speaker 1: bad season, but for him, I'm sure that would be
Speaker 1: a fun day in the lost season. I think it
Speaker 1: would be for a lot of the guys. They realized
Speaker 1: that now or not, But to go out there on
Speaker 1: the final look at you know, down the line, if
Speaker 1: they're watching NFL football twenty years from now, I played
Speaker 1: in that last game and yeah, you know, and you're
Speaker 1: a baseball guy, they's still play there, maybe not for long,
Speaker 1: but but they're playing to play there next year. So yeah,
Speaker 1: this can't really be a repeat of Cleveland and where
Speaker 1: fans were. I mean, because at some point the people
Speaker 1: can be like, hey, we gotta we need uh you know,
Speaker 1: at some point we got so in Cleveland it was
Speaker 1: it was really sort of a who care thing and
Speaker 1: it was every everything was over. Well, that's still gonna
Speaker 1: be like a like a functional stadiums like the A's
Speaker 1: are packing them in either, by the way, well there's
Speaker 1: still a competitive of like major league organization from time
Speaker 1: to time. Yes they're good this year. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I haven't. I don't not in baseball anymore. The s
Speaker 1: Um Oakland Alamy, The County Colisseum opened in sixty six
Speaker 1: and then of course, the A's moved there in sixty
Speaker 1: eight from Kansas City. They shared the facility, the last
Speaker 1: one shared in the NFL. Some big time games, some
Speaker 1: history has been played in that stadium, of course. The
Speaker 1: last AFL Championship game from the sixty nine season played
Speaker 1: at nineteen seventy heighdi game in sixty eight Sea of Hands.
Speaker 1: Seventy four or four different ANFC championship games played in
Speaker 1: that building. And we're leaving a bunch off the list here,
Speaker 1: but and it's currently since l A isn't play right now,
Speaker 1: it is the fourth oldest stadium in use in the NFL.
Speaker 1: The coliseum in L. A. Soldier Field originally opened to Nino.
Speaker 1: It was nearly totally refurbished a few years ago. Obviously
Speaker 1: lambeau Field in fifty seven. And this maybe, well it is.
Speaker 1: I've been a This is the oldest stadium in terms
Speaker 1: of look and feeling. This one doesn't feel like it's
Speaker 1: been renovated at all, correct, DP. And if you noticed
Speaker 1: or not, because I don't share very much with you,
Speaker 1: because we're not close, who are you the A's When
Speaker 1: I was a kid Oakland A's, you know, seventy two
Speaker 1: seventy four A's. That was my team, the whole team.
Speaker 1: I still I still have a record album Finley's Heroes.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, so I love going to that
Speaker 1: stadium because you walk in and you actually see it's
Speaker 1: painted like they used to have and you've been you know,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, the A's memorabiliap. So it's it's really
Speaker 1: cool as a kid who grew up around that. Now,
Speaker 1: if I was a player wanted to play in it.
Speaker 1: I guess it's so cool for the raider, you know,
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. But it is an anticated old stadium, uh,
Speaker 1: and the NFL can't really afford to play in places
Speaker 1: like that anymore, unfortunately. But it's it's neat for the
Speaker 1: lore of it. So and it's gonna be gone at least, right.
Speaker 1: What's that? Are they still the last team to win
Speaker 1: three straight A's? Yeah? Yeah? Are the Yankees do it
Speaker 1: during the one three out of four or that was
Speaker 1: in the nineties. I'd have to go look, I don't know, well,
Speaker 1: checking out on the Google bad TV on the computer machine.
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Speaker 1: Oakland Raiders coming up Sunday in Oakland, California. Final game
Speaker 1: ever at the Coliseum. Should be a rowdy crowd. Our
Speaker 1: research on the Google machine we got had some baseball
Speaker 1: questions since you were in Oakland. A's fanatic that they
Speaker 1: were the last. They were the last team to win
Speaker 1: three consecutive seventy two, three and four World Series. The
Speaker 1: Yankees won three out of four in the late nights. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good for you. Um so that. Yeah, the history of
Speaker 1: that stadium obviously, and and everything that, all the great
Speaker 1: Raiders games, NFL films, and all the great games that
Speaker 1: were played in that facility. This will be the last one,
Speaker 1: barring a crazy miracle with the Raiders getting off the
Speaker 1: mant and winning out down. The strategy has helped to
Speaker 1: get in it. What's funny is they thought it was
Speaker 1: the last one back in when they moved. Yeah, l
Speaker 1: a thirty five years later, it's really is the last one. Hey,
Speaker 1: let's we got some live television. Here, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and get to our uniform unveiling. The Jaguar are facing
Speaker 1: the Oakland Raiders this week, and we'll find out from
Speaker 1: Jimmy Luck, head equipment manager. Here here he comes what
Speaker 1: the Jaguars will wear this Monday. And we've got a
Speaker 1: little conversation before then. This music every week means it's
Speaker 1: time for Jimmy walk Hi, Jimmy, how are you? What's up? Good?
Speaker 1: How's it going? It's good? Thanks for you know, on
Speaker 1: the fly working through it here. Switching up a little
Speaker 1: bit today, Let's start with the biggest news in the
Speaker 1: equipment industry. Last week, the Kansas City Chiefs lost like
Speaker 1: thirty seven bags and um, they ended up in another
Speaker 1: town after the team arrived, and and there were thoughts,
Speaker 1: at least written reports that they might have to forfeit
Speaker 1: the game if they didn't get there in time. How
Speaker 1: in the heck does something like that happened this day
Speaker 1: and age, I'm not exactly sure. I haven't talked to
Speaker 1: those guys yet. UM, I'm gonna let it kind of
Speaker 1: lie before. It's probably not really exactly even though I
Speaker 1: believe Mike Perkins has already called him and gave him
Speaker 1: a hard time. But um, yeah, that's one of those things.
Speaker 1: We actually talked about it Sunday and UM and Monday
Speaker 1: morning with hams are you know our travel team, like,
Speaker 1: you know, what what can we do to prevent something
Speaker 1: like this so it doesn't happen to us? Um, you
Speaker 1: know it's crazy you had to think about that, but yeah,
Speaker 1: you know things like this. Glad it happened to somebody else.
Speaker 1: I feel horrible for him. It's you know, it's like
Speaker 1: anytime like evedn't hear kickers say like kickers never rude
Speaker 1: against guys. So anytime, like you see an equimmic guy
Speaker 1: like team's plane in the rain or the snow, you
Speaker 1: always kind of like, man, that sucks, I know how
Speaker 1: that is. So then you hear this, you're you're just like,
Speaker 1: oh man, I know exactly what they feel like. So
Speaker 1: one could have happened, fortunately for you, happened Kansas City, Jimmy.
Speaker 1: Isn't as simple as just saying, you know, before you
Speaker 1: close the cargo bay on the airplane, somebody should look inside. Um. Well, again,
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what happened. There's a few things
Speaker 1: that maybe did happen. Um, the way we kind of
Speaker 1: do our plane. It's a little different. We actually bring
Speaker 1: the cans off the plane because the way we load
Speaker 1: them on. Um, so we think maybe that would have
Speaker 1: prevented it. From our standpoint. Um, we're fortunate to like
Speaker 1: the planes we use, they don't leave, they stay at
Speaker 1: the airport. So there's a few things that, like said
Speaker 1: Hams and eye talking through it, we think maybe would
Speaker 1: you know, maybe it wouldn't happen to us, but you know,
Speaker 1: knock on wood, like you know, it could be something else.
Speaker 1: So but it kind of makes you re evaluate everything
Speaker 1: and you go through and you know you don't want
Speaker 1: to be that guy. Hey make sure you check, but
Speaker 1: you know, maybe maybe you do have to say that.
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody the least that from now and again, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I feel horrible for those every logistics are
Speaker 1: a little different. It's not like every team has a
Speaker 1: plane specifically for it exactly, and then that's what it is,
Speaker 1: but it's really not. Teams don't really own planes exactly.
Speaker 1: You're at the mercy of other schedules sometimes and you know,
Speaker 1: there was a bunch of little things they couldn't really
Speaker 1: get in the night before if they did they had
Speaker 1: to go in super late. Um, you know, so there's
Speaker 1: a lot of little things that you know, we're kind
Speaker 1: of tied into this, and normally when there's things that
Speaker 1: go wrong, it's a couple of things have gone wrong,
Speaker 1: and you know, hopefully if one of those. I think
Speaker 1: they said, uh it was something about the three milesland accident,
Speaker 1: like seven things went wrong and that was a disaster.
Speaker 1: If any one of them had been found, it wouldn't
Speaker 1: have happened. So I don't know, that's the way. It
Speaker 1: would have been pretty close to three. They had forfeit
Speaker 1: the game. Well that's the other thing too. You hear that,
Speaker 1: You're like, man, would they really have made the forfeit
Speaker 1: or would you just like, hey, we're gonna delay this
Speaker 1: like an hour? I mean because already there the fans
Speaker 1: were there, like, I don't think we've seen that before.
Speaker 1: I know, right yeah, right around the Patriots practice jerseys.
Speaker 1: How about the final game in Oakland as an equipment guy,
Speaker 1: as a football fan, I mean, being involved in the
Speaker 1: last game with the colosseum is is really cool, and
Speaker 1: but do you have to do anything different in terms of,
Speaker 1: you know, protecting from souvenir seekers? Or anything like that.
Speaker 1: In the final game. I did talk to the guys
Speaker 1: in Denver um because I guess they played their last
Speaker 1: year thinking there's was gonna be the last game. Um,
Speaker 1: so there's he said. They did a few things. There's
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be more security. I guess. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully they don't burn the stadium down before we get
Speaker 1: out of there. That's where everybody's kind of joking this week. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I can I can just envision two like
Speaker 1: people walking out with seats. You know, it's got a
Speaker 1: row of seats walking out, you know, so hopefully they
Speaker 1: don't have any Jaguar trunks or anything. Maybe we can
Speaker 1: problem like here, take this football. I don't think the
Speaker 1: jersey trunk, right, I like that? Alright, So now the
Speaker 1: Jags and the Raiders coming up four oh five, kickoff
Speaker 1: time Eastern on Sunday at Oakland Alameda County College. See
Speaker 1: him the final game ever for the Raiders in Oakland.
Speaker 1: What will the Jaguars wear against the Raiders this Sunday?
Speaker 1: So we're going with the the white jerseys. Very cool there,
Speaker 1: former Raider, Yes, first round pick of the Raiders. All
Speaker 1: around good guy too. Okay, and black pants, white jersey,
Speaker 1: black pants in the black hole in the exactly d
Speaker 1: J Hayde. We heard from him just a moment ago.
Speaker 1: He wants to give him a big fat ass l
Speaker 1: on the way out, he said, so, which is just
Speaker 1: like DJ to say that. I mean, he's been Uh
Speaker 1: he's a good, good guy, as you said, Jimmy, he's
Speaker 1: good to have her on this on this football team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's pretty funny. Took a little comments like that, right,
Speaker 1: little little barb here there, Jimmy, good stuff as always.
Speaker 1: Thanks And by the way, happy belated birthday. It was
Speaker 1: his birthday yesterday, Jimman. When yours is tomorrow? Tomorrow, that's right,
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Speaker 1: tonight and j Yeah you're invited. John come on, okay, okay,
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Speaker 1: our co host Chris Conley joins us. Hi, Chris, how
Speaker 1: are we doing? It's good to be here today and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, for another edition of this wonderful show and
Speaker 1: to be joined by one of my honestly one of
Speaker 1: my favorite people in this building from player engagement, Tim Owens.
Speaker 1: Tim Owens, welcome, close to the microphone. Please, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, eat the welcome in, thank you, welcome. So
Speaker 1: why is he one of your favorite guys? Tim? Player
Speaker 1: engagement is an interesting and interesting thing. It encompasses the
Speaker 1: transition of player onto your team, into a new city,
Speaker 1: onto a roster, and into a locker room that they
Speaker 1: are not UH used to, and then helping streamline everyday
Speaker 1: life with preparation on the field and off the field
Speaker 1: to help them be the best pros that they can
Speaker 1: be to really compete at a high level UM four team.
Speaker 1: And so, really Tim has helped me in multiple ways,
Speaker 1: whether it's been preparing U for a season in new city,
Speaker 1: whether it's finding ways to overcome certain adversities that the
Speaker 1: game brings on or off the field, and really just
Speaker 1: talking through some situations to be prepared mentally for Sunday
Speaker 1: and going out there. Uh. He has a lot of
Speaker 1: wisdom when it comes to that. Uh. He and MP
Speaker 1: do a great job of making sure that guys are
Speaker 1: locked in and UH and growing while while playing the game.
Speaker 1: You mentioned in p Marcus Pard. We have him on
Speaker 1: a good bit though, I mean the the challenge though,
Speaker 1: as you said, Chris, there's a lot of guys, especially
Speaker 1: this time of year, there's some churn at that on
Speaker 1: that uster and some new guys coming in or it
Speaker 1: with a whirl with environment. If you can settle them
Speaker 1: down a little bit, that that helps them do their
Speaker 1: job better, right, Yes, sir, Um, it's all about relationships. Um.
Speaker 1: When the guys come into the office, you know, it's
Speaker 1: I do more listening than anything, which is great because
Speaker 1: I get to know them as as a player, get
Speaker 1: to know him as a person, not only the player,
Speaker 1: because most times in player engagement, Will would take away
Speaker 1: with it, ignore the number and focus on the name
Speaker 1: on the back. So it allows us to connect with
Speaker 1: them a lot more. Um. And we talk about adversity.
Speaker 1: You know, we talk about a lot of things, but
Speaker 1: you know, just adversity that he brings up. Um, adversity
Speaker 1: you can do one of three things. You can need
Speaker 1: to define, destroy or develop you. And did you have
Speaker 1: a greater appreciation Chris for the for the job coming
Speaker 1: in this year? This is really your first year of
Speaker 1: transition once in the NFL. Yeah, you know, Um, free
Speaker 1: agency can be interesting. Uh. And moving into a locker room.
Speaker 1: You know, they were about two guys on the roster
Speaker 1: before I got here that we're here that I knew,
Speaker 1: but other than that was completely new environment, completely new staff. Uh.
Speaker 1: Just transitioning into the building was a little bit difficult
Speaker 1: at first, not because you know, people acted a certain way,
Speaker 1: but because just a level of comfort and routine that
Speaker 1: you have football players or creatures of habit and having
Speaker 1: to develop that again was difficult. But having people in
Speaker 1: your corner who could ease that transition, like Marcus and
Speaker 1: like Tim has really made that made that easier and
Speaker 1: challenged me as well. Um, you know, with Tim's background
Speaker 1: and wisdom when it comes to living life and and
Speaker 1: and overcoming adversities and struggles, whether it's mentally, whether it's physically,
Speaker 1: really challenges me as a player to up my game
Speaker 1: and take it even further and be able to go
Speaker 1: out there and do more. What's the biggest thing? You
Speaker 1: try to tell guys that they're old leaders, the old
Speaker 1: leaders in their own right. Um, everybody has a different
Speaker 1: leadership stus. I mean, look at US four. We can
Speaker 1: have a significant tax. We're gonna have a task, and
Speaker 1: we might have four different ideas of getting that done,
Speaker 1: but the most important thing is the finished product, um.
Speaker 1: But also finding a meaningful purpose for it. Not saying
Speaker 1: because we're not neither one of us are perfect, um,
Speaker 1: but we can step back, analyze the actual situation and realize,
Speaker 1: you know, come to a refortion of what we would
Speaker 1: do going forward if you know, granted that opportunity again,
Speaker 1: and how we will attack it. So it's the same
Speaker 1: thing to actually do on the football field in the
Speaker 1: film room. Um, we just compared translated to life life skills.
Speaker 1: We're not leaders. Yes, yes, let's see the words of
Speaker 1: the words of Tim hold a lot of weight and gravity.
Speaker 1: You can just feel the wisdom in them. But then
Speaker 1: also when you know a little bit like Tim, I
Speaker 1: don't know, if everybody knows of your of your history,
Speaker 1: your past, would you like enlighten people a little bit
Speaker 1: so we know that as players and that and looking
Speaker 1: through that filter, it gives even more our weight and
Speaker 1: gravity to the words that you say each day. I'm
Speaker 1: a small country kid from Greenville, South Carolina. UM. I
Speaker 1: grew up playing basketball. Um. Then I actually transitioned over
Speaker 1: into the Marine Corps. I'm in so uh from there,
Speaker 1: I was artillery, switched over to logistics right before the war,
Speaker 1: um challenge doctor along with the other things. Other things
Speaker 1: I actually done throughout my career actually turned into twenty
Speaker 1: years um as far as leading men lead mental training
Speaker 1: and educate the next generation, which is something that I
Speaker 1: actually absolutely enjoy anytime you come, you know in an
Speaker 1: environment where leaders to be infected, to be affected by
Speaker 1: you know, positive leadership and reinforcements. Teachers just read the
Speaker 1: corps um a sound mind, sound discipline, and to get
Speaker 1: around a group of people that share the same vision
Speaker 1: that you have to meet the meet the mission obviously
Speaker 1: the mission here is to win football games and development
Speaker 1: of character. You there, still seemed like the drill instructor demeanor.
Speaker 1: But can you turn that back on every once in
Speaker 1: a while or what? It's still there. It's still there.
Speaker 1: I don't know. If I want to see it, I
Speaker 1: can use it. But it's uh, it's more it comes
Speaker 1: out when provoked. But these guys, these guys in the
Speaker 1: locker room, I mean, they make me better. Um, I
Speaker 1: guess far has been in actual space. I told them
Speaker 1: all the time, I you know, have this conversation with
Speaker 1: a lot of guys in the locker room, you know,
Speaker 1: not only they say, you know, Chris came here and
Speaker 1: said I make him a better, better version of himself.
Speaker 1: They do the same thing to me. So it's a
Speaker 1: it's a catch twenty two here. So all the team development, Chris,
Speaker 1: you were in the a f C West and you've
Speaker 1: seen some games in the black Hole Oakland, Ellamy, the
Speaker 1: County Coliseum. This will be the final game in Oakland ever,
Speaker 1: they're moving to Las Vegas. Of course, it's been the
Speaker 1: build up this week. What can this team expect in Oakland?
Speaker 1: For those who have not been out there before. Well,
Speaker 1: in the team meeting today, UH coach asked, hey, who
Speaker 1: has played in the black Hole before? And you had
Speaker 1: a very few sparse hands go up over the room.
Speaker 1: And so a majority, great majority of this team has
Speaker 1: never played there. Uh. They don't really understand what the
Speaker 1: black Hole is, UH, and who the fans are, but
Speaker 1: they're they're their own thing, their own group that that
Speaker 1: stadium UH is. It's one of the tougher places to
Speaker 1: play because of multiple things. One of the things is
Speaker 1: the field half the year is a baseball field. UM,
Speaker 1: it's an outfield, UH, And there's dirt under it, so
Speaker 1: when they put some of the grass in, sometimes it
Speaker 1: doesn't really take well. The field holds moisture and so
Speaker 1: the grass does rip up easily. You'll see a lot
Speaker 1: of guys slipping and sliding and falling out there. Uh,
Speaker 1: depending on the forecast. I've played in a number of
Speaker 1: rain games where it was just a mud bowl there. Um.
Speaker 1: And the wonderful thing about the stadium is it's so
Speaker 1: old that it leaks. And the locker room has about
Speaker 1: fifty lockers, which is not enough. And those lockers are
Speaker 1: about yea wide, little wooden stalls, and the ceiling leaks,
Speaker 1: and so sometimes they're the floor is moist and then
Speaker 1: other times it's flooded. So other times you go into
Speaker 1: locker room and there are puddles of water, literal puddles
Speaker 1: of water in your locker where you can't put things
Speaker 1: on the ground. Uh, your feet are getting wet, your
Speaker 1: cleats get wet. It's it's tough. And then the field
Speaker 1: is the same way. And then the fans just matched
Speaker 1: the environment and they're about it as obnoxious as they
Speaker 1: can be. Think uh Raspy Rowdier. New England's Patriots fans
Speaker 1: so they're they're obnoxious. Yes they will. They will yell
Speaker 1: obscene things, and they take pleasure in being, you know,
Speaker 1: members of the black hole. But all that being said,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of history three, A lot of history
Speaker 1: in that stadium, a lot of history on that field,
Speaker 1: and you can feel it and hear it. They play
Speaker 1: a classic NFL film songs before the game, and they
Speaker 1: put highlights up there from from past years, like long,
Speaker 1: long time ago football teams, and so you begin to
Speaker 1: feel a little bit of that nostalgia, uh and feel
Speaker 1: like you're playing in a classic football game and it
Speaker 1: gets it gets dirty. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1: I gotta go. As as a d. J. Hayden, former
Speaker 1: Raiders first round pick, told me earlier today, it would
Speaker 1: nothing be better to go give him a big fat
Speaker 1: ass l out there. That's what he's ready. He's fired up,
Speaker 1: as you can tell. Yeah, No, I think this is
Speaker 1: a this is a great opportunity for us. You know,
Speaker 1: two teams that that really could use uh boost right now.
Speaker 1: I know for sure that we can. And um, you know,
Speaker 1: going into this week, you let everybody know that, you
Speaker 1: let them know that, hey, we gotta go out there
Speaker 1: and we gotta prepare, you know, Oakland and struggled with
Speaker 1: some things. We've struggled with a lot of things. Uh,
Speaker 1: And so they're probably look in their chops looking at
Speaker 1: this game too. But who's gonna come out, who's gonna
Speaker 1: throw that punch, and who's gonna be able to take
Speaker 1: punches repeatedly? Get back up and continue marching forward down
Speaker 1: the field until that clock hit zero zero. Is it
Speaker 1: such a young team, Chris, especially now with some of
Speaker 1: the injuries. Uh, what are you telling some of the
Speaker 1: younger guys about the importance of these last three games.
Speaker 1: You're a veteran, so you know, you know the importance
Speaker 1: of good tape and a lot more than even than that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know this this league can be volatile. Uh, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of turnover in this league. And playing beyond
Speaker 1: playing to your third year and playing beyond your third
Speaker 1: year is a blessing because a majority of guys don't
Speaker 1: make it that far in this league. So telling a
Speaker 1: lot of guys, hey, what you put on tape is
Speaker 1: your resume, and that follows you everywhere. And that's not
Speaker 1: just a cliche that in January February, that really comes
Speaker 1: every team watches that tape. Every team talks to other
Speaker 1: teams to see, Hey, what is your work ethic? What
Speaker 1: kind of attitude does this person have? Is he going
Speaker 1: to be a lead? You're in the locker room. Are
Speaker 1: you gonna be poisoned? Cancerous in the locker room? How
Speaker 1: is he going to help us moving forward? He's gonna
Speaker 1: help her hinder us? Uh? Is his production level higher
Speaker 1: than his maintenance? And so uh, just talking to guys
Speaker 1: and really just challenging them, uh in a young locker
Speaker 1: room to to grow up quickly and to prepare like
Speaker 1: a pro. You know, you you've had this whole season,
Speaker 1: even if you weren't the guy who was out there
Speaker 1: on the field, uh, making those plays. You know, we
Speaker 1: have a lot of young guys playing on taking snaps
Speaker 1: on defense. Even if you weren't the guy out there
Speaker 1: making the plays on defense. You had so long to
Speaker 1: watch those guys in front of you and how they prepare,
Speaker 1: how they studied, how they watched film, how they took
Speaker 1: care of their bodies. At this point, you have no
Speaker 1: excuse going into these games. Uh, You're not a rookie anymore.
Speaker 1: Go out there, prepare correctly, play a solid game, and
Speaker 1: let's go get let's go get a W. Good a
Speaker 1: W and Oakland would be a good way to close
Speaker 1: down the Colosseum and then get things back on track
Speaker 1: for the Jaguars. Thank you for coming in again as always.
Speaker 1: Thank you Tim, good to see it. Thank you. I
Speaker 1: don't my first time. You're great job, wonderful, fantastic job.
Speaker 1: We'll be back in just a moment. We'll get our
Speaker 1: players to watch for this game and will wrap it
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Speaker 1: Office for swinging in that he had no idea he
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Speaker 1: Good job. Uh. And Chris always does a fantastic job.
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Speaker 1: the Oakland Raiders. And we'll see if the Jackson gets
Speaker 1: something jump started this week Sunday in the final game
Speaker 1: ever at the black Hole. Let's get our players to
Speaker 1: watch for this game, John, and then we'll um, we'll
Speaker 1: move along. I'll start with mine today. Mine aren't that
Speaker 1: hard Gardnerment show quarterback might have heard of him. He
Speaker 1: has a mustache. Here's what he did last week, hundred
Speaker 1: sixty two yards a touchdown. The offense sputtered, you know,
Speaker 1: they had the long drive early for a field goal,
Speaker 1: and then they couldn't get much going sustained after that.
Speaker 1: The defense was given up a lot on the other
Speaker 1: side too, didn't help much. But hey, we're still looking
Speaker 1: to see down the stretch of the last three games
Speaker 1: what he really is and what this franchise feels about
Speaker 1: him going into the off season. There are big questions,
Speaker 1: of course at the top of the organization to be
Speaker 1: answered at some point. But gardnerment, she was a draft
Speaker 1: pick last year. You get the feeling he's gonna be
Speaker 1: around here for a while. What can he really do
Speaker 1: down the stretch. I think it's a big question starting
Speaker 1: this Sunday. Yeah, it's it's still a small sample size
Speaker 1: and there's still a lot of potential there and he's
Speaker 1: done a lot of good things he had. He's had
Speaker 1: a point now though, where his last two starts have
Speaker 1: been lost. Uh, a little bit of the same pattern
Speaker 1: with Yeah, it's not effective. Many reasons for that, not
Speaker 1: at all just on Gardner, But you know, you want
Speaker 1: to break out of that streak because if you have
Speaker 1: another couple of games like that, then the book becomes well,
Speaker 1: he was okay for a while, and now defenses of
Speaker 1: what figured him out. So I don't necessarily think that's
Speaker 1: all that has happened, but he definitely needs to break
Speaker 1: out of that and not have that be a trend. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's why I picked him. So Gardner bent to the
Speaker 1: second Jaguars quarterback is my first one. Uh. The The
Speaker 1: other one for me is a position group this week,
Speaker 1: and it's the linebackers. Obviously. I mean that that has
Speaker 1: been the focal point over the last few weeks, and
Speaker 1: things have broken down a number of places on the defense.
Speaker 1: But can this group figure some things out. They've tried
Speaker 1: different names in different places, different guys, and you've got
Speaker 1: guys on injured reserve. When you look at the linebacker
Speaker 1: room right now, Dakota Allen just joined the team. Austin
Speaker 1: Callitro has been around, but he hasn't had a lot
Speaker 1: of time on the field. Joe Giles Harris is up
Speaker 1: now and active on the roster. Lee On Jacobs is
Speaker 1: a strong side. Donald Payne has a bunch of tackles
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, but a lot of them
Speaker 1: are down the field a little bit. Quincy Williams. That's
Speaker 1: the linebacker crew right now. So who of these guys
Speaker 1: can step up and and really get something going at
Speaker 1: that linebacker second level. Yeah, that's the question. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I'm not sure there's a good answer. Uh. You look
Speaker 1: at that crew that's gonna start Leon Jacobs and he's
Speaker 1: solid strong side. Quincy Williams has really struggled for the
Speaker 1: most part this season. And then you have Donald Payne,
Speaker 1: who had a good game, but he's you know, he's
Speaker 1: undrafted player who's in his third year and was out
Speaker 1: of football in September. Um, it's not rocket science to
Speaker 1: figure out that a lot of the two yard rushing games,
Speaker 1: the the linebackers are struggling. And I don't know that
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily play better, right. I hope they do,
Speaker 1: but we haven't seen a body of work to suggest it.
Speaker 1: Which brings us to one of my players to watch. Alright,
Speaker 1: verse a little bit. I chose Ronnie Harrison is my
Speaker 1: defensive player to watch, mainly because I don't necessarily think
Speaker 1: that the linebackers are going to be able to play
Speaker 1: that well. So Andrew Wingard came in played for Rannie Harrison,
Speaker 1: but Ronnie Harrison supposed to be the better the two players.
Speaker 1: Maybe Ronnie Harrison's presence in the middle of the defense
Speaker 1: can help them be a little bit less browner up
Speaker 1: the middle. Um, that's that's where, Yeah, I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: think it's gonna happen. And it's sort of another a
Speaker 1: little bit tongue in cheek for the tight end, I
Speaker 1: mean offensive player to watch. I'm going with seft de Valve.
Speaker 1: De Valve is demand this week and he hasn't played
Speaker 1: in four games because of the oblique. He had a
Speaker 1: couple of stats at tight end earlier. Uh, six catches
Speaker 1: sixty eight yards. Maybe they can get something in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field to get some relief off the sides. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm all in JP on set devolve. You use them
Speaker 1: in the running game as well as a lead back.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they'll line up as an H back and do
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff and then go out and pass
Speaker 1: routes and me a little facetious, But he started fifteen
Speaker 1: games they brought him. He's a serviceable NFL tight end. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see if they can get something out of that position.
Speaker 1: They got I got their only touchdown from Nicol Larry
Speaker 1: last week. But uh, you know, tight end has been
Speaker 1: so deficient. Maybe they get something out of it. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, but realistically that positions are reset in the
Speaker 1: off season no matter what happens. I agree with that.
Speaker 1: There you haven't our players to watch. Seff Devlove, Ronnie Harrison,
Speaker 1: I've got Gardener. Went to the second and the line
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