WEBVTT - Jags A.M. Podcast Ep. 127 | Final Takeaways from Jaguars' Week 16 Loss + Hot Takes 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:20.239 Welcome into jag Zama. I'm Kindannie Stevens, Brian Sexton, and 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:22.600 John Oser are with me today. Is we're gonna recap 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:25.319 that game for you from Las Vegas on Sunday. So 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:28.880 we'll start with big things. Number One, unlucky in Las Vegas. Obviously, 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:31.720 the Jaguars losing to the Raiders and other teams struggling 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:35.000 throughout their season as well. Brian, it's disappointed, to say 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.000 the least. Obviously, it has been frustrating this entire season. 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:40.360 But to lose to a team that is also not 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:41.800 very good, that doesn't feel. 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:46.159 Great, you know, And I'm not sure that unlucky is 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.519 the best way to describe it, because this is what 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:50.400 we've seen all year. 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:51.000 I mean, Eric. 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:54.480 Ormstead back to back plays in the Neutrals thought, that's 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:56.840 just a disciplined So. 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:02.639 Yeah, I'm lucky for us to have to watch it now. 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:06.679 Listen there, You're absolutely right. It was a very tough 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:07.679 game to watch. 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:09.479 John. Yeah, it was. 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:18.280 Late season, out of the playoffs, before Christmas football, and 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:21.600 over five or six games they've they've been eliminated, what 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:24.760 with like five or six games remaining the Jags, it 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:29.000 defies logic to think one of these wasn't coming. This 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.319 was sort of it. Neither team is very good, neither 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:35.240 team's playing a starting quarterback. The Jaguars have one front 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:37.720 line receiver in the game, and it's and it's Brian 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.560 Thomas Junior, who plays like it. So it's it's it's 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:44.520 the same thing, different week, this one with a Christmas 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:44.800 bow on. 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.840 It felt like human nature had finally arrived, right. I mean, 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:52.120 you're going west the week of Christmas, you're missing key players, 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:55.040 You've lost games at the end. It's gotten to be 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.040 that point where you just can't avoid. As John just said, 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.280 a game like that, they felt like the first time 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.480 all year guy that human nature showed up. 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:05.440 I felt like it got to them. Big thing number 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:07.400 two is too late. We're talking a lot this week 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.600 about getting the younger players out there, getting other players 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:11.800 experienced in this game. It might be a little too 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:12.480 late for that. 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:15.959 I mean, I know for the guys that haven't been around, 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.240 it's hard. And I've been through this stuff many times, 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:22.440 and you just got to go play ball and know 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:24.760 that your tape is your resume and everyone's watching the 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.160 tape and that's what you gotta do. And it stinks 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:30.760 and I do everything in my power to scream at 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.600 guys and cuss and say let's effing go, But. 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:36.320 Is what it is? 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.440 John, You and I were there for that. And Andrew 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.480 winger Dewey very frustrated without getting to play, got into 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:45.600 the game a little bit only after injury. And we've 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:47.520 been talking a lot about whether it was Dewey coming 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:49.480 back or younger players, and we haven't seen all of 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:50.880 that at least second. 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:53.200 He's frustrated. 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.440 He's worked at this a long time, been a good 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:58.800 player for a long time, had a chance to start 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:03.880 before the season started, got hurt. So yeah, I mean 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:09.799 we're seeing some younger guys. I understand coaches with playing 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.840 younger guys. They don't just say let's throw everybody out 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:14.639 there and see what happens. You still want to give 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:21.320 yourself the best chance, you know. Has it happened soon enough? 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:22.639 I don't know. 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:26.720 It's is it too late? I guess it feels like 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:28.040 a lot of things are too late this season. 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.640 You're right on, But just for three names, right, I mean, 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.720 Keilan Robinson, Jordan Jefferson and Trey Prince. And I thought 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:39.080 because Ronald Darby was down, we might see Trey Prince, 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.480 who I think is a promising guy, obviously talking about 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:43.400 it all the time, but you do have some young 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:50.960 guys for whom there are some hopes that they can 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:52.560 evolve and become players. 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:53.960 And I'm not in the meeting room. 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.520 I don't know why they're not active, but there are 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.520 some young guys and maybe the final two weeks we 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:00.880 could see some of those three and see if they 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:02.840 are guys that you can lean on going into twenty 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:03.360 twenty five. 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.760 Our final big thing is final Push, because while there 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.200 it was some finality to that game in Las Vegas, 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.400 there are STI still two more games that have to 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.320 be played. Mac Jones talked a little bit about the 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:14.040 end of the season. 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.840 We'll keep that private, but definitely for me as as 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.479 I've been this situation two years in a row, just 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.159 play good football and put the ball in play and 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:28.160 eliminate turnovers and control we can control, and like I said, 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.640 once we're all on the same page, promise things will 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:32.960 go well and and that's that's our goal. 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:34.480 Ran. 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:36.400 We've been talking about the energy we've seen from the team. 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.479 They're in these games. They're close games, but it feels 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.040 like it's reaching the end of the track with this 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.320 amount of energy that they have left with all that's 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:44.359 been frustrating the season. 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:48.520 Well, it's it's a combination of lack of key players, right. 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:50.240 I mean the fact that we're talking to Mac Jones 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:54.040 after the game and not Trevor Lawrence says something about. 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.720 Where this team is and that they're throwing the ball 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:56.039 at times. 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.640 You have Tim Jones on the field yesterday, I mean, 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.800 not Christian Kirk. You're relying on Parker Washington and not 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.800 Gave Davis. So it's just kind of where they are 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:07.560 at this point of the season. If you'd like something 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.600 to be optimistic about, something to look forward to in 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:11.880 the final two weeks, I can give you something. 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:12.440 Would you like that? 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:13.159 Please do. 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.520 The Jaguars are good to finish with the winning record, 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:19.480 but they could finish with a winning record in the division. 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.760 I mean it's not much, but we're looking for something 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.800 to put in the old proverbial Christmas stocking. Perhaps a 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.000 couple of wins at the end of the year would 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.280 give them something to be happy about. 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:32.200 It. 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:33.920 It's all I got John. 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.880 Yeh, Look, somebody asked me, how did he get to 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:42.599 this point offensively? Well, they weren't a particularly good offense before, 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:48.840 and now they're playing a backup quarterback and they're down 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:53.159 three of their top four receivers. So I don't think 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.600 not particularly good. It's going to get great in the circumstances. 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.599 So that's why you see an offense that when Brian 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.440 Thomas you can't make a play. Uh, there's not much 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:06.280 going on offensively. It's where we're at. Merry Christmas. 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:10.120 Oh that was mean, all right, So this we'll come 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:11.680 back after the brake. We'll look at some of the 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:20.920 tape from the game in Vegas. Move the Frame, Move 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.920 the Freight. 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But John, as we've talked about, 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:47.800 it's always Brian Thomas junior that has to get it going. 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:49.200 Otherwise we don't see much of anything. 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.200 Yeah, it's uh, I don't know what the stat is, 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.080 but it seems like the last four or five games, 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.280 a couple of touchdowns each game, and when you kind 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.600 of look back at the key play, it's always a 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:04.400 bet and it says great things about him, not great 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.560 things about the team. And yesterday again in the first 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:08.839 half and they got it go and they got the 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.280 touchdown right after his he was a sixteen yarder that 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:14.360 broke Justin Blackings record and then credit him for sticking 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.840 it in. You know, they got the lead and they 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.000 can't do much with it. 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.960 It's amazing that we can talk about Brian Thomas Junior 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:23.880 as much as we do week after week after week 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.679 and it doesn't seem to get old' he's that good. 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.040 And he's doing it without Trebor Lawrence. He's doing it 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.320 on a field essentially all by himself. Because listen, no 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:37.040 disrespect intended, but no one is worried about Parker Washington 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.840 or Tim Jones or whoever else is out there, Josh Reynolds. 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:42.280 It's all about seven. 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.560 And they put this team together this year with the 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:46.520 idea that it was gonna be kind of like basketball 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:50.040 John Proper spacing makes everything work, and they haven't had it, 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.840 and he's still playing so well, and it's such a 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:57.120 dominant player. I'm excited to see what they do if 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:58.960 they can get it right with everyone else around him 0:07:58.960 --> 0:07:59.600 next year. 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:01.440 Ye thoughts to him, and I think what you're gonna 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:06.440 see is once they get things moving around him. He 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.560 had nine for one hundred and thirty yesterday, which is 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:13.120 what about twelve yards reception ish and wasn't very good 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:17.480 at math. But I think once he gets people around 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.520 him a little bit, you're gonna see those yards perception 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:22.560 go up. He's gonna be more of a attack the 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:25.200 defense in the middle guy. And he's a smart guy 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.040 the press. Tyler talked about it last week, his ability 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:32.720 to run all routes of all these receiver positions. Can 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:37.120 you imagine how good he's gonna be once those things 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.240 calm down in his head and he's. 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:40.200 An experienced receiver. 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:42.840 It's I you're looking at the top five guy. 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:44.599 It's good to see, at least on that side of 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.079 the football. We talked a lot about confoundary footballs is 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:48.880 not new. This is an issue they've had all season, 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.280 but finally get on the scoreboard and immediately give up 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.240 a touchdown to the Raiders. And it's just that ability 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.640 or lack of ability to cover, and they're letting these 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.120 huge plays come about. Obviously this one against Tyson and 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:04.040 Campbell setting up the touchdown, and just throughout the year. 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.160 I mean, it's is it scheming, it's players, it's all 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:06.520 of it. 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.480 It seems like, Kay, you tried to be kind with 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.160 this secondary this year and give them time to evolve, 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:17.000 but they've been horrible. The number of explosive plays lead 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.600 the league are a franchise record already with two games 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.720 left to play, and they've been maddeningly consistent when you 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.000 needed a play to be made, whether it was the 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:28.920 Packers game at the end when the Jags tied it up, 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:30.760 or the Eagles game when the Jaguars were making it 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.360 closer and the safety to go over the top and 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.480 DeVonta Smith was wide open at the back of the 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.839 end zone. I mean, it's just been game after game 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.880 after game. The secondary has to be taken apart, reconstituted, 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:43.920 and put back together in a different form than twenty 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:45.560 twenty five. You can't play with this. 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:49.640 Yeah, it's been as bad as Brian described. And look, 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.360 it doesn't mean every player is atrocious. It doesn't mean 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.839 that every play has been bad. But the NFL is 0:09:54.840 --> 0:10:00.120 about like big plays, and when you give up three 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.080 or four a game and their game breakers like that, 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.400 then all of a sudden, the fifteen plays you did 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:10.520 make don't matter. So I did not expect this sort 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:11.360 of season from that bunch. 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:13.520 They gotta fix the safeties in particular. I mean, whether 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:16.520 it's about Cisco or Antonio Johnson or Turnhill Savage, I mean, 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:22.400 they have all been really bad and the mistakes that 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.240 they have made, whether it was Cisco an opening day 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:27.840 against Miami as he watched Tyreek Hill or or Philly 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.880 or the Jets game, you know, the safety Antonio Johnson 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:32.440 watched DeVante Adams. 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.080 Yeah, there's a fair few examples, I'm sure. 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:38.320 Well, I can just roll them off the top of 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.040 my head, which goes to show we've been dealing with 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:40.800 it all season long. 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.040 Absolutely, all right, we're not gonna belabor the point. We'll 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.320 look at one more. Because Brian Thomas Juniors touched down 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.880 that broken play, we finally got one of our own 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.240 on offense. Obviously, the Raiders missing a field goal before that, 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:52.960 so kind of set it up. As I mentioned, both 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.600 these teams not the best, so it's set up that play. 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.360 But and we talked a little bit about this earlier 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:03.480 with Brian, but just it's impressive that he's able to 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.640 run all of those different routes, right, and he's doing that. 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.360 I think John you mentioned without knowing that. 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:16.720 Ent wasn't necessarily Sexton. Brian Sexton Junior could have scored 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:17.120 on that put. 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:17.880 Yeah, I think so. 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.280 But the person I talked about a lot last week, 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.079 and it was very interesting that once the other guy's 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.880 got hurt, all of a sudden, BTJ is running routes 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:33.200 from different receiver positions. It can take veterans. There are 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.160 veterans who can't do that. He hasn't spent an off 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.400 season learning it. His ability to pick up the press 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:43.640 was saying basically, he he hears something that they told 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.560 Christian Kirk, hasn't really drilled it, and then can go 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:51.360 out and do it. That's high end football intelligence. This kid, 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:55.800 once that gets where it's it's like learning a language, right. 0:11:56.160 --> 0:12:00.760 He sort of knows Spanish now once he really learned Spanish. 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:02.960 Wow, ole. 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.160 Oh, it's about all I know. So here's a really 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.600 impressive part we talked. I just railed on the Jaguar secondary. 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:12.520 How bad are the Raiders that at the snap of 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:16.840 the bowl the safety on Brian Thomas junior side runs 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.360 to the middle of it, runs away, and the corner 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.160 jumps up to meet him and then lets him go by. 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.760 I mean, that's the only threat on the entire field, 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.000 and he's a hell of a threat. He could make 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:31.720 you look stupid. And two guys ran away from him. 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:33.520 What does that mean he had one job? 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:39.040 Listen, put three guys around him. Because you don't worry 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.640 about no offense, You don't worry about anyone else but 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.480 number seven man. You can't have enough guys to go 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:46.559 where is he? And on that play, it's like they went, 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:47.640 don't worry about him? 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.880 Or when you're having tough seasons. Yeah, those things happen 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:52.880 in tough seasons. Both teams are having tough seasons. 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:54.880 Stay with us here on jag Zamar and give me 0:12:54.920 --> 0:13:04.040 your hot takes After free Jaguars fans, register your furry 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.840 friends for the Official Jaguars Official Four Legged Fan Club 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.160 for Pets presented by Forever That's Animal hospital. 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I'll go 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:35.120 back to the end of the third quarter of Miami 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.200 An opening day, Travis etn fumbles into the end zone, 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:41.800 Dolphins recover next play touchdown, and it felt to me 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.120 like the wind was out of their sails at that moment, 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:48.880 and it's never really returned because of Brian Thomas Junior. 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.000 Because you're playing without Trevor Lawrence right now. 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.400 You've got Evan Ingram who will be back next year. 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:58.200 You've got some guys, You've got some promising young guys. 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.520 What I watched yes yesterday just made me shake my 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:06.400 head but realize that maybe, just maybe, if you get 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.120 this thing right in the offseason, meaning how you construct 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:12.280 your roster, how you deal with your salary cap, what 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.040 you decide to do going forward with your leadership, both 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.120 in personnel and in coaching. If you get it right, 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:19.560 you can turn this thing back around. Listen, I'm not 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:21.960 saying you're going to compete with Kansas City or Buffalo 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.440 or Baltimore in twenty twenty five, but you can compete 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.360 with Houston because this is not a great division. I 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.280 watch them as you probably did on Saturday. They're not 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.360 a great team. We know what the Colts and the 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:36.280 Titans are. The Jaguars have enough promising young talent that 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.720 they can get this thing back to a eight nine, 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.360 ten wins sort of team relatively quickly. 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:43.280 I believe that. 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:48.320 Yeah, I agree, and you can get eight to nine 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.840 nine eight a say eight and eight. I'm an old guys, 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:58.680 but yes, even the difference between eight and nine what 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.280 this is for this team is not huge. 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:02.360 No, you can get it. 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:05.280 I think the long term you serve with the franchise 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:09.520 needs to be how do you get structurally over a 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.000 two or three year period up to the teams you're 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:12.600 talking about. 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:13.920 That's a heavier lift. 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:18.200 To have a legitimate Super Bowl hopes, there needs to 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:23.640 be some structure stuff in terms of the roster, Andrew 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:24.480 needs your quarterback. 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.520 Yeah, take that next big step and become that elite 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:28.560 franchise quarterback. 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:30.840 If that's the case, if he comes back next. 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.640 Year better than he's ever been, Okay, I mean then 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.320 this is not enough take, right, But I do think 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.080 when you look what eight one score losses, seven of 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.120 those in the final two minutes of the game. You 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.240 flip a couple of those and you're where we're talking about, 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:45.400 so you can turn this thing around as quickly as 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:46.200 it went south on you. 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.960 Yep, my take was also relatively cold. It we'll call 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:53.480 it hot because it's Christmas. Same old, same old, has 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:59.160 gotten roll old. I mean, it's sort of the theme 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.080 of the show, and my hot take is sort of 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.840 what the theme of the show is. It's the exact 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:08.200 same stuff we've seen all year. Not enough plays at 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:12.400 the end of the game secondary can't cover, and then 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:16.440 you lose a one score game because you don't have 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.600 players except for Brian Thomas Junior who make plays about 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:24.000 the exits of notes and that's why they're not in 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:24.520 the playoff. 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.120 Hunt and three eleven or three and twelve min Here's 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:28.880 how old it is. Gotten I stopped by. 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:30.920 A Christmas party on my way home from the stadium 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.360 last night, and nobody wanted to ask me about the game. 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.080 Nobody even wanted to offer condolences like, oh, you guys 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:39.320 are dealing with this again. Nobody even wanted to talk 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.960 about the game. That's how old it's gotten. Because hope 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:47.360 on any given Sunday exists for NFL fans, Jaguars fans, 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:50.000 as sick as they are of what the season has become, 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:51.880 still on Sunday you want to have a little bit 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.960 of hope that at least you might enjoy your team's performance, 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.880 even in a dismal year like this. And it's gotten 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.800 so old that nobody even wanted to talk, even to 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:03.960 give me a little grief about it, which everyone seems 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.119 to want to do whether I'm in publics or wherever 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:07.120 Christmas shopping. 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:08.560 Not yesterday. 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.119 It's a season of cheer. Oh boy, Unfortunately I'm going 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:12.399 to be a little gloomy as well. I think that 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:15.640 was the final one score game. That's my hot take 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.320 that we're going to see this season. We've seen a 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:21.119 lot of close losses, nine one score losses this year, 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.320 because it felt like they were always close to getting 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:24.520 a win. I don't think we're going to see that 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:26.920 the rest of the way. Mason Rudolph's now the quarterback 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:28.800 for the Titans. I think if they had had him 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:30.800 in a quarterback, I don't believe the Jags would have 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.120 won that most recent game in Nashville. And I think 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:35.320 the Colts are trying to put something together, proof something 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:37.760 to themselves the back half of their season. So unfortunately, 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:39.760 I think the three that we got are the three 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:41.680 that we're going to have the rest of the way. 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:44.000 And well, especially if you're playing without more guys, right, 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.359 I mean, if Walker little because I thought cold Van 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.199 Landon played pretty well. I mean, I know we had 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.159 the holding call on that key fourth down play, but 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:52.240 I didn't even notice it most of the game. So 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.720 we obviously came in and did a pretty decent job. 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:56.959 But you know, when you lose more guys, I mean, 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.080 Ventral Miller's a guy that you might not have back, 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:03.120 and maybe Anton Harra send you just if you Yeah, yeah, 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:03.800 I think you're right. 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:04.720 It's gonna be a tough one. 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:09.119 I think Sunday could be a repeat of yesterday because 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:12.000 the Titans are in the same boat. So you've got again, 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:15.240 two more teams in the same both that you don't 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:15.520 want to be. 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.960 I'll say this, Doug Peterson's four and one against the Titans. 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.399 That's not something a lot of Jaguars coaches over the 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.080 history of that series have been able to claim a 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:23.679 winning record. 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:26.439 So maybe he's got a little something. We'll see. I'm hopeful. 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:27.119 I'm hopeful. 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:28.960 There we go, and I'd love to be wrong. We 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:30.880 always love a Titans win no matter when it comes. 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:32.480 Stay with us here we'll tell you what's coming up 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:44.400 the rest of the week. 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