Speaker 1: Celebrating twenty five years of Jaguars football. Mark were now
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hour presented by the Fields Auto Group. JP
Speaker 1: Shatrick with John Osier, Jaguars dot Com Senior Writer. An
Speaker 1: eventful day around here, Bud, what's up to? First? And
Speaker 1: a third of what I don't know? There's been a
Speaker 1: few of those. Here's what we're getting to today. Of course,
Speaker 1: Ramsey reaction day. The locker room just closed. We'll get
Speaker 1: into what some of the guys had to say. We'll
Speaker 1: review it. At least Bengal's week is here. We're on
Speaker 1: to Cincinnati players to watch uniform unveiling. Jimmy Luck doing
Speaker 1: to join us and Chris Connley, Jaguars wide receiver, will
Speaker 1: bring a surprise guests. We don't know who it's going
Speaker 1: to be, but we always like that. It's it kind
Speaker 1: of keeps us on our toes. He's doing a great
Speaker 1: job with that, and I'm sure whoever it is will
Speaker 1: be insightful. So today was Jalen Ramsey Day around here. Started,
Speaker 1: of course, last night, with the trade for two first
Speaker 1: round picks and a fourth round pick, a first round
Speaker 1: pick each of the next two drafts. The fourth round
Speaker 1: pick is draft to the Los Angeles Rams. Jale Ramsey
Speaker 1: has gone. We just got out of the locker room
Speaker 1: a little while ago, and I guess that for me,
Speaker 1: the tone was it wasn't really bashing of Jalen. It was, hey,
Speaker 1: we're sorry to see him go, but it's a business.
Speaker 1: We're moving on and here we go to the Bengals
Speaker 1: this week. That was what I got. For most of
Speaker 1: the it was the tone you would expect. I mean,
Speaker 1: there is a there's an acknowledgement among players that players
Speaker 1: it's fraternity. They know that guys have to do what
Speaker 1: they need to do. I think there's also an element
Speaker 1: not spoken a whole lot among the guys of you know,
Speaker 1: if if if a guy doesn't want to be here,
Speaker 1: if if if he doesn't want to fight this fight
Speaker 1: with us, Uh, you know they're not going to get
Speaker 1: real emotional when somebody who doesn't want to be here.
Speaker 1: It leaves Uh, there's emotion in this game when a
Speaker 1: guy who's out there fighting for them and with them
Speaker 1: gets hurt if he can't be there for reasons not
Speaker 1: of his own accord. But um, you know, Jalen made
Speaker 1: it clear three or four weeks ago that he didn't
Speaker 1: want to be here. Uh. He made it clear after
Speaker 1: the Week three game against Houston that he didn't want
Speaker 1: to play for this team. Uh. And he said right
Speaker 1: after that that he loves his teammates, but the reality
Speaker 1: is he didn't want to play with him and that
Speaker 1: reflects on how he and how he felt about them
Speaker 1: as well. They didn't verbalize that. UM. I asked a
Speaker 1: couple of players about that, and they are surprised he
Speaker 1: didn't want to go there, But um, I think there
Speaker 1: is an element of the team if you know what.
Speaker 1: We didn't want him gone. We're better with him, but
Speaker 1: there we're gonna be no sheep, No tears shed over
Speaker 1: a guy who made it clear weeks ago that he
Speaker 1: didn't want to be here and didn't want to be
Speaker 1: with them. Yeah. Time to time, move on and and
Speaker 1: play some football and get back on track. Tom Coughlin
Speaker 1: made a statement today and put it out and through
Speaker 1: the Jaguars PR department about the trade, and you have
Speaker 1: it on the screen and you've seen it all over
Speaker 1: social media today. That's the only thing we've heard from
Speaker 1: the upper management for the Jaguars. They we heard from
Speaker 1: the Jaguars owner of course, shot Con a little later
Speaker 1: in the day. He's down at the owner's meetings down
Speaker 1: South today. UM Doug Brone spoke with the media today
Speaker 1: on his regular Wednesday press conference, But as we always
Speaker 1: hear from Doug, there's only so much he can say
Speaker 1: about the nuts and bolts of the actual transaction. He's
Speaker 1: worried about the guys that are here ready to go
Speaker 1: on Sunday. He wanted Jailen here. He made clear of that,
Speaker 1: and any coach would. And I think Doug and a
Speaker 1: couple of his comments today made clear that he felt
Speaker 1: like he had reached out after the incident in Houston.
Speaker 1: Uh that relationship, if it even needed mending. I don't
Speaker 1: know that that was a mending situation, although he got
Speaker 1: played up that way. I never got the idea from
Speaker 1: listening to them, or from listening to jail And that
Speaker 1: there was bad blood conflict there beyond your normal I'm
Speaker 1: the coach, you're the player. Sometimes I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: get on, etcetera, etcetera. All reports are that whatever bad
Speaker 1: blood there was was from Jalen towards the front office.
Speaker 1: I assume that means Tom. Uh So at some point
Speaker 1: that got to a point where Jalen, I guess, didn't
Speaker 1: feel like he could play for the organization. And I
Speaker 1: still wonder, uh, you know, to me, there's still an
Speaker 1: element of Tom must have said something to Jalen about
Speaker 1: the behavior in Houston. I think everybody who saw the
Speaker 1: behavior in Houston couldn't have said that it was good
Speaker 1: behavior on Jalen's part. So I'm assuming that there was
Speaker 1: some sort of reprimand of you can't do that anymore
Speaker 1: that Jalen didn't like. And I can only assume all
Speaker 1: this because nobody's going to talk about it, but he's
Speaker 1: getting the pieces together. UM. And to me, frankly, if
Speaker 1: if if a player can't live with being told that
Speaker 1: those actions were wrong, then I don't know how you
Speaker 1: ever approached that player and tell him he was out
Speaker 1: of line again and again. JP. In this life, not
Speaker 1: everybody's perfect. I know you you're not perfect, um, But
Speaker 1: people have to be able to be told that a
Speaker 1: certain situation is out a line. They told Leonard Fronett
Speaker 1: publicly last year he was out of line, and he
Speaker 1: has come back. And I think Leonard would tell you,
Speaker 1: and I believe he said this that he's better for it.
Speaker 1: He learned from his situation. UM. I get the impression
Speaker 1: right now from Jalen Ramsey the actions right now. He
Speaker 1: can't be told that he was ever wrong. Uh. And
Speaker 1: I don't know, even as great a player as he was,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you coach that and how you
Speaker 1: move forward that in your building. I frankly don't know
Speaker 1: how the Rams will deal with that. But that's not
Speaker 1: our issue anymore. Let's take a look at the recent
Speaker 1: draft history of that of the Jacksonville Jaguars in the
Speaker 1: first round. We could go back even further if you
Speaker 1: but why you know, we started in when the ownership changed.
Speaker 1: Here and you see the first round draft picks of
Speaker 1: each year and where they are now, and of course fourteen, fifteen,
Speaker 1: sixteen draft picks are all where in Los Angeles Rams
Speaker 1: uniforms the last three are here, and even previous to this,
Speaker 1: you know Blaine Gabbert's not here. Obviously he's he's gone,
Speaker 1: and then a lot of guys aren't in the league
Speaker 1: anymore or out or moved on. Mercedes Louis is in
Speaker 1: Green Bay. But really I think Blaine and and Mercedes
Speaker 1: before this or the only two still playing Tyson Oul
Speaker 1: while we're still playing. But that's that's really it. But
Speaker 1: they're not here, that's the issue. You know, a lot
Speaker 1: of these that's how you you build up your draft,
Speaker 1: your first round, second, third round guys, you keep them
Speaker 1: in the building. And that just hasn't happened over time here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, the Jalen is is clearly so
Speaker 1: much different than the others, the others, uh, Dante, I
Speaker 1: don't think it was a bad pick. I think he
Speaker 1: just wasn't going to be a guy who who was
Speaker 1: going to resign because they had players in the position
Speaker 1: he hadn't lived up to that first round draft or
Speaker 1: that top three status. Uh you know, Jaalen clearly wasn't
Speaker 1: a miss. Uh. You know, I think Jalen just got
Speaker 1: to the point where for whatever weird reason, didn't want
Speaker 1: to be here. But clearly you have to have more
Speaker 1: first round picks in the building over the course of time.
Speaker 1: To be a perennial playoff team right now, they haven't
Speaker 1: been in that charts a big reason why. Um. I
Speaker 1: think the the counter to that is they have draft
Speaker 1: did well in some other rounds. It's not like there
Speaker 1: is there is no productivity, productivity from drafts here in
Speaker 1: the building. But you're going forward. It's obviously if if
Speaker 1: in a similar chart reads the same and there's no uh,
Speaker 1: if if Josh Allen doesn't work out, if uh, let's
Speaker 1: just first round pick tap, if all these guys continue
Speaker 1: to not work out, then you're always and you're usually
Speaker 1: going to be down frontline performing talent and uh that's
Speaker 1: the reality of it. They've got to do better retaining it.
Speaker 1: That's always the goal, and that charts a reason why
Speaker 1: there's been one playoff appearance in the last ten years.
Speaker 1: It's hard to to predict what happened with Jalen. I
Speaker 1: mean you can't really. I've never seen anything like it.
Speaker 1: I understand quite like it. Again, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: know there's fans who are criticizing quote unquote how the
Speaker 1: team handled Jalen Um and I guess that's fair criticism
Speaker 1: because he's not here, so you're gonna have that criticism
Speaker 1: based on what we know, think, we know, have seen
Speaker 1: actions wise, I don't know how you handle that. You know,
Speaker 1: I've said several times a day on the air in
Speaker 1: different forms, Um I got, I got a question. And
Speaker 1: I was thinking about the concept last night of what
Speaker 1: advice would you give the Rams on how to handle
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey. And unfortunately, and and I really, for three
Speaker 1: years I enjoyed covering Jalen. I liked being a reporter covery,
Speaker 1: I was entertaining. I didn't think until the last month
Speaker 1: that he had been I thought until the last month
Speaker 1: he had been more positive than negative, clearly. But the
Speaker 1: only answer seems to be you can't do anything to
Speaker 1: make him unhappy, meaning you can't a call defenses that
Speaker 1: he doesn't like because he's publicly said he doesn't like
Speaker 1: that and that's bothered him. And you can't tell him
Speaker 1: that a behavior was out of line. Well, once you
Speaker 1: get to that point, I don't know how you manage it.
Speaker 1: So maybe he'll be different in l A. Maybe he'll
Speaker 1: be so happy in the sunshine with state tax that
Speaker 1: he's happy, and Gideon isn't bothered by those things. But
Speaker 1: the only reference that we have is that he was
Speaker 1: bothered by those things. And I don't know how you
Speaker 1: manage that if those things are going to set you off,
Speaker 1: because those things happened at every NFL team. Well, football
Speaker 1: is not like the NBA, meaning in the NBA, a
Speaker 1: couple of players can sort of run the organization. That
Speaker 1: doesn't work in football. In football, at some point, when
Speaker 1: you've got twenty two guys, at some point, things have
Speaker 1: to happen that aren't individually promoting one player or the other,
Speaker 1: unless that player is a quarterback. Now, if he's a quarterback,
Speaker 1: it's different, but you can't bend the whole organization and
Speaker 1: toward a non quarterback position. And it it felt like
Speaker 1: that's what Jalen wanted and needed. And uh, I think
Speaker 1: that works. So it's not gonna work here, and I
Speaker 1: will see if it works in Los Angeles Jaguars happy hour.
Speaker 1: Let's move on to the quarterback. Speaking of Gardner, Minshew
Speaker 1: the second spoke with the Jaguars media today and coming
Speaker 1: off worst outing for him at least this season in
Speaker 1: his rookie year, fourteen sixty three yards. This is our
Speaker 1: first chance to see how he bounces back from a
Speaker 1: rough outing on the field, and the tone hasn't changed
Speaker 1: for him. He still seems like the same guy he
Speaker 1: has been at least talking to him today, and you
Speaker 1: have to think that that's a good sign for the offense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he wasn't really asked specifically, And I almost asked it,
Speaker 1: and I wasn't quite sure how to phrase it in
Speaker 1: the right way, so I didn't. But you know, how
Speaker 1: do you bounce back from this? And does your approach change?
Speaker 1: And there really wasn't a sort of asking the area. Um,
Speaker 1: and it it's so short term what happened. He's not
Speaker 1: gonna be able to prove that he's a franchise guy
Speaker 1: in one week. Uh, just as he couldn't prove in
Speaker 1: four games that he was a franchise guy. And the
Speaker 1: process of getting over the New Orleans game, that's not
Speaker 1: really how it works. It's it's a process of over time,
Speaker 1: teams will throw things at a young quarterback, and over
Speaker 1: time you have to learn how to deal with that
Speaker 1: and how to move on and get through it and
Speaker 1: know what you're seeing. So it's not really a question.
Speaker 1: Just as it couldn't be asked today, it's not going
Speaker 1: to be able to be answered in one week, I guess,
Speaker 1: is my point. And everybody wants to know that there
Speaker 1: was excitement that he was a franchise guy for the
Speaker 1: first four weeks and then he had a bad game,
Speaker 1: and now he's not, and they want to know now
Speaker 1: is he going to be a franchise guy? How he
Speaker 1: plays in Cincinnati will decide that. And the problem in
Speaker 1: this day and age is there's six days between NFL games,
Speaker 1: and he used to have six days of writing in
Speaker 1: the newspaper about it and sort of calmness. Now you've
Speaker 1: got six days of Twitter and instant analysis, and everybody
Speaker 1: wants to have it take saying this is the guy,
Speaker 1: this isn't the guy. Um, So everybody wants to play
Speaker 1: off one game and make these huge, swathing decisions over
Speaker 1: a guy's career. It's not going to be that way
Speaker 1: for Gardener, just as it wasn't that way for Nick Foles,
Speaker 1: wasn't that way for Peyton Manning's rookie. When they wait
Speaker 1: for Aaron Rodgers in his third year, this is gonna
Speaker 1: play out. I think he's gonna be okay. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be good. And how he responds to all
Speaker 1: this over the next two or three weeks will be
Speaker 1: the first indications of how good. But we're not going
Speaker 1: to have the ultimate answer, just as we couldn't ask
Speaker 1: the ultimate question day of him. I couldn't stand there
Speaker 1: and say, hey, Gardner, are you gonna be a franchise guy?
Speaker 1: That's gonna happen on Sunday. That's what everybody sort of
Speaker 1: wants to know, But that answer isn't available yet. It
Speaker 1: would help if the Jags can still consistently run the football.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think to write right there lasting
Speaker 1: the league against the run, They're enormously lasting the league
Speaker 1: against the run. They are as bad as anybody's been
Speaker 1: over the last few games. They've Yeah, they've got some
Speaker 1: issues going on there Leonard. Even last week it was
Speaker 1: there were times where he was running well, but they
Speaker 1: just couldn't get to the point where they could run enough,
Speaker 1: you know, And that's what they need to be doing,
Speaker 1: is getting those third downs, keeping drives alive. They had
Speaker 1: a lot of three and ounced early in the game.
Speaker 1: They couldn't really establish anything. Last week, still had seventy
Speaker 1: two yards forty six in the receiving yards, So I mean,
Speaker 1: a pretty good day at the office for Leonard. But
Speaker 1: this feels like a game where you can really make
Speaker 1: hay in the running game. Yeah, and that's always uh,
Speaker 1: it's always dangerous in this league to say, well, this
Speaker 1: team is starting gets the Rhun, we want to run,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna be able to run, because usually teams
Speaker 1: can take that away if they want to. Even if
Speaker 1: they're bad against the Rhun, they can if they know
Speaker 1: what you want to do, they can slow it down
Speaker 1: enough where it's not gonna be this monster game. I
Speaker 1: don't expect four yards rushing against Uh. The Bengals. Interesting
Speaker 1: about the running game to me, though. JP was listening
Speaker 1: to Doug on Monday when he talked to the media.
Speaker 1: Doug's usually not one two come out and make bold
Speaker 1: statements if he really doesn't believe it. And he talked
Speaker 1: a couple of questions on Monday about liking where he
Speaker 1: thinks they're going with the running game. He feels like
Speaker 1: they're much better than they were early in the season.
Speaker 1: He likes what he's seeing it out of the blocking.
Speaker 1: When breakdowns happen, it's only one or two things. It's
Speaker 1: not like the entire play is breaking. Now when they're
Speaker 1: watching film, they can see things going in the right direction.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that will mean for the Bengals game.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna beat the Bengals because I don't
Speaker 1: think are very good right now. I don't know what
Speaker 1: it will mean for the running game in that game,
Speaker 1: but what you heard him say could bode well, especially
Speaker 1: when you come find it with how Leonard's running. I
Speaker 1: think they feel like the running game has a chance
Speaker 1: to get going and be something really productive. This time
Speaker 1: last year, it would have been hard to say that
Speaker 1: because Leonard was hurt, he was bulky on the hamstring
Speaker 1: all year, and they had so many offensive line injuries.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure last year they ever got to a
Speaker 1: point of feeling out like they were close to being
Speaker 1: what they wanted to be in that area. This year,
Speaker 1: you feel like they are, which could be one of
Speaker 1: those hidden things that we're talking about in a few weeks.
Speaker 1: Hey remember when they thought they were close, turns out
Speaker 1: they were right. It's it's an area to watch over
Speaker 1: the next month. Jaguar's defense, obviously, the spotlight will be
Speaker 1: on the secondary moving ahead here. Trey Herndon will fill
Speaker 1: in that spot that Jayala Ramsey vacates. But you got
Speaker 1: a j Boye on the other side, who has been
Speaker 1: around here for a few years now, and then the
Speaker 1: safety is on the back end, and they feel confident,
Speaker 1: at least they say they're confident they can go out
Speaker 1: there and play as a unit. Yeah, there's a there
Speaker 1: are some pieces there. It's just as a J. Boys
Speaker 1: sat in the locker room today, so striking that a
Speaker 1: J talked about seeing a picture of the two thousand
Speaker 1: seventeen secondary said he saw one this morning and he
Speaker 1: was talking about a C. Aaron Colvin Buried Church Get.
Speaker 1: I mean the tightness of that group, Um, the production,
Speaker 1: the energy that it felt when it came together. Uh, boy,
Speaker 1: times change in the NFL fast, and now they've got
Speaker 1: a group that very unproven at at best. You I
Speaker 1: haven't added up to start. When you add up Ronnie
Speaker 1: Harrison starts, Uh, Trey Herndon's and Will Stared Wilson's, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure they even get to sixteen total. If they do,
Speaker 1: it's close. So you're talking about three really either rookies,
Speaker 1: young guys in experience with boy a Um, yeah, the
Speaker 1: best player in secondary is probably Jay Hayden right now.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, there are pieces, but to me,
Speaker 1: it's really up to a miles Jack and good to
Speaker 1: continue getting better at linebacker and in this going into
Speaker 1: this season, the strength of this team is supposed to
Speaker 1: be the defensive line. It hasn't played to that yet clearly.
Speaker 1: For the for the next four or five games to
Speaker 1: be what this team needs, which is to win three
Speaker 1: or four and get back into it, the defensive line
Speaker 1: has to be what we thought it was gonna be
Speaker 1: before the season and what it really hasn't been so far.
Speaker 1: Quick look at the Cincinnati Bengals, of course, oh and six.
Speaker 1: They have struggled to do much on either side of
Speaker 1: the ball really, I mean especially on the defensive side.
Speaker 1: Their last league against the run, they struggle in the
Speaker 1: run game. On offense, they do throw the ball around
Speaker 1: a little bit, but other near the bottom of most
Speaker 1: any statistical category. So that's six games. It stats all that.
Speaker 1: They will have the quarterback right, Andy Dalton. How well
Speaker 1: is he playing that's up for debate. But um, he's
Speaker 1: been there for a while now. He's been the guy
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati for a number of years. This which is
Speaker 1: the May I mean he was drafted I believe the
Speaker 1: year I got back to Jacksonville two thousand and eleven,
Speaker 1: and I remember writing stories when I first got back
Speaker 1: about Dot Dalton in the draft, and I would the
Speaker 1: Jaguars take him if he was available in the second round. Uh.
Speaker 1: They wind up taking Blaine Gabbert in the first, so
Speaker 1: that I went out the window. But um, he was
Speaker 1: the guy a lot of Jaguars fans sort of liked,
Speaker 1: and you know as the second round pick. I've been
Speaker 1: a very good player throughout his career. Uh, three Pro Bowls. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's what you want. Um. The Bengals
Speaker 1: right now are your prototypical first year coach rebuild team.
Speaker 1: They've been close a few times. Uh, the record is
Speaker 1: probably a little worse than the actual team. They've had
Speaker 1: three games, Uh, could have slashed, should have won. So
Speaker 1: I don't think they're a team that's gonna go winless.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna push that envelope. At some
Speaker 1: point they're gonna get one. So in that sense, they're
Speaker 1: dangerous because you're going to Cincinnati if you're the Jaguars,
Speaker 1: and if you lose this one to meet, the season
Speaker 1: is done. I mean, I don't think you come back
Speaker 1: from this because that puts you at two and five.
Speaker 1: And the a FC lost, and then even if you
Speaker 1: win these next two before the by you're still only
Speaker 1: four and five. This is one Againstown six team. Oh
Speaker 1: in six team that you have to win. Uh. They're
Speaker 1: beat up. They're not doing very well against what you
Speaker 1: think you do well, which is runs. So uh, you know, boy,
Speaker 1: this is one they need. It's kind of obvious, but
Speaker 1: to me, when you looked at the season once Foals
Speaker 1: got hurt, I thought they needed to get to five
Speaker 1: and four. But when I did all that math, three
Speaker 1: of those five wins I was talking about, we're in
Speaker 1: the next three weeks, so these are the ones you
Speaker 1: gotta win. Have them. Let's come back. Plenty ahead still,
Speaker 1: we'll look at the AFC South standings, will look at
Speaker 1: the games ahead in the division. This week we'll pick
Speaker 1: our players to watch. That's right around the corner. Jimmy
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Speaker 1: Audio on my phone, j V. Don't what that thing
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Speaker 1: C South standings. The order has not changed over the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. In BacT Houston is playing some
Speaker 1: good football, so they're up at the top of the division.
Speaker 1: Now forward to Indie three and two. They were off
Speaker 1: last week, the Jags and the Titans two and four,
Speaker 1: and the Jags have that one division win and one
Speaker 1: division loss to get ahead of Tennessee at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the division. Games coming up this week, there are
Speaker 1: a few in this division that will be certainly of
Speaker 1: interest to watch, starting of course, with the Jaguars Bengals
Speaker 1: game one o'clock kick off, and Say and Sonantity the
Speaker 1: Texans at the Colts and this should be a pretty
Speaker 1: good football game at Lucas Oil Stadium. The Chargers visit
Speaker 1: Nashville to face the Titans at two and four a
Speaker 1: Texas Colts game. This is one of those where the
Speaker 1: culture coming off of by and they're at home and
Speaker 1: here we go. It should be a good one. Somebody's
Speaker 1: gotta win, and somebody's gotta lose JP or they could tie,
Speaker 1: They can tie, or they get tied. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: I feel like and I feel like it's before the
Speaker 1: seas I emails over the off season. You like me
Speaker 1: saying it. I felt all along like the Texans were
Speaker 1: the best team in the division, like they're especially once
Speaker 1: the luck retired. They were the team you had to beat. Uh.
Speaker 1: And as much as people don't like hearing that around here,
Speaker 1: they keep winding up in the playoffs and and and
Speaker 1: they keep being tough for this team to beat me
Speaker 1: and the Jaguars. So until they prove you differently than
Speaker 1: they're still the team you have to be. I think
Speaker 1: they're good. I think Shaun Watson's having a good year.
Speaker 1: H So I expect him to go win that game
Speaker 1: because I still think at some point the Colts a
Speaker 1: very good roster. Uh, there's gonna be games this year.
Speaker 1: I feel like they will lose that they would have
Speaker 1: won head luck been there. That still has to bite
Speaker 1: them a little bit. So like there's probably one of
Speaker 1: those games that bites them. It's not a little call,
Speaker 1: thank you. The Chargers coming all the way to to Nashville, Um,
Speaker 1: and they're just to beat up football team and things
Speaker 1: in l A are weird, and but they're going on
Speaker 1: the road in Tennessee has their own issues. They had
Speaker 1: to put Mariota on the side. Yeah, the Chargers, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the NFL is great mysteries right now. Uh,
Speaker 1: the injuries have hurt. I'm still surprised that with Philip
Speaker 1: Yer's a quarterback that they're struggling to this degree at
Speaker 1: two and four. But for them, it's you know, you're
Speaker 1: going against a team play and a half to you
Speaker 1: feel like the Charges that go in that because of
Speaker 1: the mess of the Titans quarterback position. Uh, and you
Speaker 1: would certainly think that Philip Rivers goes across the country
Speaker 1: and wins that. I can't see the Chargers sliding out
Speaker 1: of it early this year, although they're getting close. They're
Speaker 1: on the way, I guess right now, let's get to
Speaker 1: our players to watch for the Jaguars this Sunday. UM.
Speaker 1: We usually pick one side of the um. One from
Speaker 1: each side of the ball is usually how we do it. John,
Speaker 1: would you like to get a start? Sometimes it's two
Speaker 1: from one side of the ball, but depends on what
Speaker 1: we're feeling that week. Yeah, let's flash the graphic up
Speaker 1: their second yours. De'cisly, who I picked him wait order
Speaker 1: for net to me, is the most interesting story in
Speaker 1: the team this year in the way that he has
Speaker 1: responded to what happened last season. And I get the
Speaker 1: worst sort of past that storyline. But he's to the
Speaker 1: point now where he is the most reliable, uh, a
Speaker 1: solid player on the offense, and to the point where
Speaker 1: I think if he doesn't have six eight yards in
Speaker 1: that range, then the offenses in a lot of trouble.
Speaker 1: He's got to the point where you expect that out
Speaker 1: of him again. I would expect that he has a
Speaker 1: big game this week. Considering the angles are struggling, I
Speaker 1: don't know it's gonna be a two yard game. But
Speaker 1: considering all things we talked about earlier in the show,
Speaker 1: as well, as they feel like they're getting to running
Speaker 1: the ball, I'm sure they will try it with him.
Speaker 1: They feel like they should have some success with him.
Speaker 1: And again he's gotten to the point where he is
Speaker 1: a key to the offense again every week. You hoped
Speaker 1: last year that he would be. You kept waiting for it,
Speaker 1: but you couldn't feel confident in it. Earlier this year,
Speaker 1: you weren't sure about it. Now he's proven that he's
Speaker 1: back where he belongs in that category. He's been speaking
Speaker 1: on Thursdays and I cannot wait for tomorrow's just to
Speaker 1: see his response to everything that happened with Jalen and
Speaker 1: the social media post the last couple of days, if
Speaker 1: you're into that, And he's just been a pleasure to
Speaker 1: to hear talk on Thursdays in general anyway, So with
Speaker 1: all this happening, I think it'll be fun to borrow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he has I haven't talked to him about it
Speaker 1: for a story specifically, but he's been interesting. I've heard
Speaker 1: a couple of different things he said about leadership, and uh,
Speaker 1: I think people are surprised. I'm a little surprised at
Speaker 1: how much he has accepted that role. Maybe the word
Speaker 1: is embraced, you know, this year been willing and acknowledging.
Speaker 1: There's a certain dynamic when guys are getting approach in
Speaker 1: the locker room after a game. Some guys don't like
Speaker 1: doing it, don't want to do it, but the veteran
Speaker 1: leaders on the team, you've been in this environment before
Speaker 1: where even after a loss, you know, there's there's sort
Speaker 1: of a deep sigh, Okay, I've got to go do it.
Speaker 1: Leonard has never this year once tried to act as
Speaker 1: if it's as if he's not going to speak after
Speaker 1: a game. He acknowledges that it's his role and and
Speaker 1: he needs to be a guy standing up and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, taking on that responsibility. And I
Speaker 1: think the last December you'd have been shocked if he
Speaker 1: would have if I had told you he was going
Speaker 1: to be a guy who was willing to do that
Speaker 1: and felt like that was his role and felt it
Speaker 1: was important. Not much felt important to him last year,
Speaker 1: or it didn't feel from reserving like he felt much
Speaker 1: was important. And this year he's taking a lot of
Speaker 1: responsibility for those things. And as I said multiple times,
Speaker 1: it's a remarkable turnaround because it feels real. It feels
Speaker 1: like something that he understands and has grown into. And
Speaker 1: it's cool to see, especially when you saw something not
Speaker 1: quite so cool develop on the other side of the ball.
Speaker 1: And I'm talking thank you if you missed that evidence,
Speaker 1: thank you. Um your other player to watch this week, sir?
Speaker 1: On defense, he's a rookie. He's on the defensive line. Oh, Josh, Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I was. I had. I've been considering discussing
Speaker 1: Trey Herndon here and I thought it was too obvious. Uh,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen because everything going on with Jalen and because
Speaker 1: they've been losing, I think it's been almost lost a
Speaker 1: little bit. How well he's playing, how consistent he's been,
Speaker 1: and how reliable he's been for a rookie. You know me, JP,
Speaker 1: I'm usually whatever you get out of a rookie, no
Speaker 1: matter what it is, pure gravy. Josh shows up every week.
Speaker 1: He seems to be developing very quickly in terms of
Speaker 1: having reliable pass rush moves, in terms of knowing what
Speaker 1: he needs to do succeed. Uh. It's it's too bad
Speaker 1: for him that they're not four and it's too bad
Speaker 1: for everybody they're not four in too, But it's too
Speaker 1: bad for him that they're not four and too because
Speaker 1: I think his production and his uh preparedness or his
Speaker 1: ability to play well early would be more acknowledged. I
Speaker 1: think he's getting lost because of the the Jaguars record and
Speaker 1: be surprised at this point if he didn't have eight
Speaker 1: or nine sex by the end of the year. And
Speaker 1: he sure looks like a guy who is uh everything
Speaker 1: they wanted him to be. I expect him this week
Speaker 1: against Cincinnati to have a couple of game breaking type plays,
Speaker 1: if it's not a sack bumble, to get some pressures
Speaker 1: that matter, because that's what he's been doing. You've got
Speaker 1: for that and Josh Allen my two guys to watch
Speaker 1: this week. Let's start with a j boyer in the secondary,
Speaker 1: and then we've mentioned earlier with Jayla Ramsey now traded
Speaker 1: to the Los Angeles Rams. He's kind of the guy
Speaker 1: on the outside seventh NFL season, now third with the Jags,
Speaker 1: and you see what he's done this Year's had a
Speaker 1: couple of moments this year where he kind of looked
Speaker 1: like the guy from two years ago where he was
Speaker 1: a second team All Pro and I had a fantastic
Speaker 1: season as part of that great secondary two years ago. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's there's been some of those moments. He battled through
Speaker 1: the hip thing early in the year. I think now
Speaker 1: I don't want to call it his secondary, but it
Speaker 1: darn close, right, And it's probably fair to acknowledge that
Speaker 1: he was hurt a lot last year, and when guys
Speaker 1: don't talk about it, sometimes that gets lost and you
Speaker 1: just started say what, they're that same player they were. Uh,
Speaker 1: sometimes we forget how much injuries matter because this is
Speaker 1: a physical game, or if you're not underprestenting to be
Speaker 1: hard to play it. And looking back, he was probably
Speaker 1: pretty hampered with that and probably get some criticism last
Speaker 1: year that uh, you know fair and fran and know
Speaker 1: what that means. But but probably would not have gotten
Speaker 1: it had not been injured. So I agree with you
Speaker 1: he's key going forward because now I don't know that
Speaker 1: he's a takeaway the side of the field guy like
Speaker 1: Jalen was. But they're gonna ask him to do that
Speaker 1: a little bit and you know if if if he
Speaker 1: can do that, they're that much better. Joan Taylor offensive
Speaker 1: line my other player to watch this week. If they're
Speaker 1: gonna run the football, well he would you have a
Speaker 1: big hand in that. You know what happened last week,
Speaker 1: Cam Jordan got him a couple of times. Rookie right tackle,
Speaker 1: that will happen from time to time, but he has
Speaker 1: been a solid player so far for the Jags, trying
Speaker 1: to work on the penalties and and get that toned
Speaker 1: down that happens with a young player as well sometimes.
Speaker 1: So I like him a right tackle obviously, the Jaguars
Speaker 1: like him there, and I think for this week's success,
Speaker 1: I think Joan is gonna have a nice game. All
Speaker 1: right tackle has been has become a tough spot. And
Speaker 1: because of this, in the old days or you never
Speaker 1: put your pass rusher over the right tack correct So
Speaker 1: a lot of times guys would be you draft your
Speaker 1: left tackle in the first round and usually got your
Speaker 1: right tackle in the second or third round, and you
Speaker 1: could start him because he wasn't gonna play the best
Speaker 1: pass rusher, and you didn't get exposed when now guys
Speaker 1: are flipping their pass rusher all over the field. And
Speaker 1: Jowan Taylor a guy who probably would they would have
Speaker 1: loved to have had a year where he could develop
Speaker 1: a little bit and then come into a second year
Speaker 1: like second round picks used to. Well, now you're playing
Speaker 1: and playing some top pass rushers, which is his position,
Speaker 1: never used to. I still think he's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: He's run up against some really really good players who
Speaker 1: have got him a little bit. I haven't heard anything
Speaker 1: from coaches that make me think that he's not gonna
Speaker 1: be really really good. They still are very high on him,
Speaker 1: like here's better than mine. But thanks man, appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Let's come back. Jimmy Luck will join us head equipment
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Speaker 1: That music each week means it's time for Jimmy Luck
Speaker 1: equipment manager. Hello, Jimmy, how are you doing? Great? Man?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Not much at a trade? Uh no,
Speaker 1: I'm you're good. I don't need to be making any
Speaker 1: kind of demands. Uh yeah. So let's take us through
Speaker 1: that on the equipment. So what you guys have to
Speaker 1: clean out the locker and do all that stuff. He
Speaker 1: doesn't come in and do all that, right, And how
Speaker 1: it was what we do is we basically get in
Speaker 1: touch with their equipment guys, um kind of like at
Speaker 1: the same time, and uh, we'll overnight like his shoulder
Speaker 1: pads and some cleats and stuff that he needs right away,
Speaker 1: and then we'll box up the rest of it and
Speaker 1: send it out his gloves, cleats, anything it's got in
Speaker 1: his locker. And that's pretty much any player in that
Speaker 1: situation you get, yeah, yeah, pretty much yeah. Yeah. We
Speaker 1: like said, we always try to get them their shoulder
Speaker 1: pads as quick as possible, so that way that you know,
Speaker 1: if they need to figure out jersey and stuff, we
Speaker 1: send a sample of his jersey, um, just because he
Speaker 1: does a little funky thing with the sleeve, so just
Speaker 1: so that way they could take a look at it.
Speaker 1: Just try to help him out, because it's one of
Speaker 1: those things that it goes around. I mean, we'll end
Speaker 1: up picking up somebody last minute like that, and we'll
Speaker 1: need to help. So you just kinda keep paying it
Speaker 1: forward and you're hope. I mean, at some point everybody's arrival,
Speaker 1: but everybody's professional that knows, but I would the other
Speaker 1: guy's job is yeah, I mean it's you try to
Speaker 1: help each other out, you know. It's um. Actually I
Speaker 1: had just seen their equipment guy the day before at
Speaker 1: an NFL meeting in Chicago, so yeah, so it was
Speaker 1: all good there. I think they're actually got a big week.
Speaker 1: They're going to Atlanta this week, staying there and then
Speaker 1: going to London. They played the week before we do
Speaker 1: What's happened with the c b A. You're in Chicago,
Speaker 1: do you get any That was no, that was I
Speaker 1: think they were doing that one somewhere else that was
Speaker 1: a different They didn't come by others. The one person
Speaker 1: we need to talk to came in over video conference.
Speaker 1: We were pretty low down the totem pole there. So
Speaker 1: the Jags are headed to Cincinnati. I will say I
Speaker 1: did read that the Bengals are wearing black jerseys. So well,
Speaker 1: the Jaguars were this Sunday, Jimmy Luck, it's gonna go
Speaker 1: with the white pants. Okay, white pants. And also since
Speaker 1: you said they're wearing black, wearing white and he waits
Speaker 1: all week. Yeah, and then literally five seconds before you
Speaker 1: so white over white whatever. White got a little Josh
Speaker 1: Allen kind of local, you know, Kentucky hour or so
Speaker 1: down the road. Sure, yeah, he was one of my
Speaker 1: players who watch this week. If you need that, I
Speaker 1: don't know, but you like this player better though I
Speaker 1: did not, now not now your Yeah, I liked yours better.
Speaker 1: That's why Josh Allen often good start four sacks, Yeah
Speaker 1: they are, so we'll be wearing all white. You could
Speaker 1: have also picked Andrew Norwell, he's from Cincinnati. Did not
Speaker 1: know that about that? I did not know. I know
Speaker 1: he went to a house state, but I didn't know
Speaker 1: he's from. Since yes, well now you know. Now you
Speaker 1: know where's Josh from? Is he from? Since he's not
Speaker 1: from the High now he's from New Jersey, that's right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. And then then grew spent some time in
Speaker 1: Alabama as well, and then was in Jersey. That's right,
Speaker 1: all right? White on what looks great? Jimmy, way to go.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. We'll see you next week. Jimmy look
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Speaker 1: coming up a very special guest, surprise guest from the
Speaker 1: locker room will join us and whenever they get out
Speaker 1: of meeting, So that could be at any moment. So
Speaker 1: coming up. So Jags are tuned for um what is
Speaker 1: the on the defensive side of the ball. It seemed
Speaker 1: like a solid game last rook for this group. Overall, right,
Speaker 1: they slowed down Chamara. He seems to be hampered though
Speaker 1: a little bit now just reading the reports from New
Speaker 1: Orleans this week. Moving ahead and the next couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have some issues, it sounds like with him.
Speaker 1: But they did slow him down. They didn't let the
Speaker 1: receiver go offer a huge game, he got some Teddy
Speaker 1: held the ball a good bit and you know, they
Speaker 1: played a solid game. They needed that game after the
Speaker 1: weeks prior to that. Camara was clearly hampered, clayly hampered,
Speaker 1: and there were some moments late in the game where
Speaker 1: you'd have liked to have gotten off the field better
Speaker 1: against the Saint Um. The bottom line is, you hold
Speaker 1: any team in this league to thirteen points and you've
Speaker 1: done your job. I it was. It was a fine
Speaker 1: game by the defense. It wasn't one that will be
Speaker 1: writing about in ten years as as as a generational game,
Speaker 1: but it was fine. It was good enough to win.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I think right now it's what
Speaker 1: the defense is. I don't think they are not the
Speaker 1: elite unit that we thought they were going to be
Speaker 1: before the season. I think a lot of people, including myself,
Speaker 1: misjudged that a little bit. But they're not awful. They're
Speaker 1: a defense that probably eight or nine times this year
Speaker 1: we'll play the kind of game that did the other day.
Speaker 1: They already done at three out of six. You know,
Speaker 1: they've held opponents three times to twelve I'm sorry, thirteen
Speaker 1: thirteen and seven at a six game, Well, you know
Speaker 1: that's good. The other games have not been good. So
Speaker 1: I think it's probably what you're gonna get from this defense.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be eight or nine games really good. Uh,
Speaker 1: seven or eight that are not so great because right now, um,
Speaker 1: the personnel is not what it was in two thousand seventeen.
Speaker 1: You know you the offensive line is not playing in waves.
Speaker 1: Uh you had Miles Jack, piz Lesnie, and Telvin in seventeen.
Speaker 1: Now you've got Miles Jack out of that bunch. Uh
Speaker 1: naj good. I don't think he's putting the class at
Speaker 1: the other guys, although he played well the other day.
Speaker 1: And the secondary is now a J boy A and
Speaker 1: three guys that excuse me that you're waiting to see
Speaker 1: what they me that you wait to see what they are.
Speaker 1: But the counter to that is the offense at times
Speaker 1: can score enough to get them even with the other
Speaker 1: team's offense. So it's gonna be up for this team
Speaker 1: to figure out a way to win a lot of
Speaker 1: close games. Um, but that's what the NFL is. They've
Speaker 1: they've shown they can do that. They just have to
Speaker 1: do it more consistently. Are weekly co host on this program.
Speaker 1: Is Jaguars wide receiver Chris Conley, and he joins us.
Speaker 1: Now the meetings are over, he has a special surprise
Speaker 1: guest from the locker room today. Chris, First off, how
Speaker 1: are you doing? What's going on? Man? Which I am
Speaker 1: doing extremely well? And you know I'm doing so much
Speaker 1: better now that I can be joined by this awesome
Speaker 1: and amazing guest today. You know, I'm just so excited
Speaker 1: to have someone of this caliber sit in that chair
Speaker 1: opposite of me, you know, going oh, I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: you guys, you know, someone who just you know, went
Speaker 1: to a school that embodies everything about college football that
Speaker 1: just might be wrong, but it's still just such a
Speaker 1: wholesome and awesome person to be in a locker room with.
Speaker 1: You know, it isn't that nice of you? I know,
Speaker 1: it's correct, It's it's amazing. This is this is awesome.
Speaker 1: LAURENTI McCree, how are you, sir? Doing well? You know,
Speaker 1: any time, anytime I get to come into a football
Speaker 1: with you guys, you know, it's it's awesome. Glad to
Speaker 1: have you anytime. Um, and Chris is certainly glad to
Speaker 1: have you to it sounds like, yeah, I wish it
Speaker 1: would have been a couple of weeks later, but I
Speaker 1: mean I'll talk again. We can talk again. Obviously, the
Speaker 1: Florida Georgia, you guys sit across from each other, lockers
Speaker 1: are literally How is that going to be in a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks? Um, I think it'll be a lot
Speaker 1: of orange blue in that corner. Yeah, we'll see, We'll see.
Speaker 1: Uh huh. Let's start with the big story today, the
Speaker 1: reaction to the jail and Ramsey trade. Um, how was it?
Speaker 1: We saw in the open media time, guys were kind
Speaker 1: of they weren't really on jail and too much. They
Speaker 1: were happy for him moving forward and then the team
Speaker 1: can move forward to Cincinnati and onto the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. Is that an accurate portrayal? What are you
Speaker 1: guys feeling? Offensively? That's you know, where we're at. We
Speaker 1: don't really have time to to register or sit back
Speaker 1: and and really take time off right now. We have
Speaker 1: to move forward. We have to get a game plan ready,
Speaker 1: you know. And obviously it's probably different for the defense,
Speaker 1: and you can get that perspective from Lorente, But offensively, man,
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta lock in and get ready for Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Good player, but he's not around anymore, Lorenta, Does that
Speaker 1: mean to you guys? Definitely, guy, we're gonna miss um
Speaker 1: when you're dealing with one of the best cornerbacks in
Speaker 1: the league. Man, we're definitely gonna Misshie of the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. I mean we were able to,
Speaker 1: you know, call the defense a little bit differently, you know,
Speaker 1: throughout different teams and throughout the game. So I mean,
Speaker 1: it's definitely definitely gonna miss him. Is it frustrating? Though?
Speaker 1: At times when the way it went down the last
Speaker 1: few weeks, Um was with him out to the side
Speaker 1: and then not participating and wanting to be traded actively
Speaker 1: saying that week do we do you guys hear all
Speaker 1: that stuff and how do you block all that away?
Speaker 1: I mean we kind of we kind of just isolated it.
Speaker 1: I mean, we just deal with deal with the game
Speaker 1: plan one week at a time. We weren't really focused
Speaker 1: on Jayalen. You know, we didn't really make a big
Speaker 1: of an issue as they made it outside. You know,
Speaker 1: he's he's a team player. We got three guys on
Speaker 1: the team. He's one of the guys. If he had
Speaker 1: a personal issue, whatever he was dealing with, you know,
Speaker 1: that was his issue. You know, we just compartmentalized and
Speaker 1: just move forward. You know, I believe that people on
Speaker 1: the outside, you know, they pretty much scrutinized that situation
Speaker 1: more than it actually wasn't it. And Chris, is it
Speaker 1: a case of it's a business or is there anything
Speaker 1: of he didn't want to be here? Still we're done
Speaker 1: with it? I mean, or where do you draw the
Speaker 1: line on that? Or does it even something you think about?
Speaker 1: I think as players we have to realize that this
Speaker 1: is a business. But this game is a business, and
Speaker 1: you know, with the things that he was dealing with
Speaker 1: in the situation that he was in, we have to
Speaker 1: make sure that we don't judge that situation, that we
Speaker 1: don't judge him because at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: that's my teammate, you know, And and Jalen and I
Speaker 1: had a rocky start here in Jacksonville. We had a
Speaker 1: very competitive rivalry going through camp. But he's he became
Speaker 1: one of those guys that I grew to respect a
Speaker 1: lot and to respect that a way that he came
Speaker 1: in and the way that he prepared, and I had
Speaker 1: to myself make sure that I wasn't judging his situation,
Speaker 1: make sure he was doing what was right for him. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: the team did what was right for the team, and
Speaker 1: you know that's it. I wish him the best and uh,
Speaker 1: as he's moving forward, I hope he plays lights out,
Speaker 1: you know, until we meet him. But um, we gotta
Speaker 1: move forward and do what we gotta do. It's onto Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: is um, Bill Belichick once said. And then that's where
Speaker 1: those teams going this week, this offense. So Chris struggled
Speaker 1: last week to find that consistency and move the ball
Speaker 1: a bunch of three and outs early, couldn't find the rhythm.
Speaker 1: And then when she can't get those third downs and
Speaker 1: the running game can't get going, and it just didn't
Speaker 1: really seem to find much life last week. How do
Speaker 1: you guys get back on track with that this week?
Speaker 1: How do you do that? Really, just being your toughest critic,
Speaker 1: when you come in and you watch the film and
Speaker 1: you have a day like that, it happens, and there
Speaker 1: are times where you're out of rhythm and there are
Speaker 1: times where it's a lot harder to get going. You
Speaker 1: have to be brutally honest with yourself as to why
Speaker 1: that happened. Why did we have drive stallers. Why did
Speaker 1: we have penalties at certain times? Why did we have
Speaker 1: some place that we're really close to popping but they
Speaker 1: didn't quite pop. You have to be brutally honest about
Speaker 1: those things, and then you have to go back to
Speaker 1: the drawing board. Maybe reinvent some things, maybe change some
Speaker 1: things up a little bit, but when you come down
Speaker 1: to the basic, you have to make sure that you
Speaker 1: are fundamentally sound and everything that you do. If you're
Speaker 1: fundamentally sound, you can move the ball, you can sustain drives,
Speaker 1: you can't get some sort of points. And that's what
Speaker 1: we gotta do. Get back to the basics and make
Speaker 1: sure that we're focusing on little things. I know you
Speaker 1: get worn out on always asking questions about Gardener, but
Speaker 1: he's the quarterback and this was his first real tough
Speaker 1: game in the NFL. How has he responded this week?
Speaker 1: Do you like what you've seen from him in terms
Speaker 1: of approach? It's it's been really good. I feel like
Speaker 1: Gonner has picked himself up and his message that he's
Speaker 1: been relaying to guys in the locker room is whatever
Speaker 1: we do this week, let's get better. Whatever happened this
Speaker 1: past weekend, whatever mistakes that were made, whatever the score
Speaker 1: was this that, whatever we didn't do, Let's make sure
Speaker 1: this week we get better. Let's get better at the
Speaker 1: things that we weren't as good as last week. And
Speaker 1: so as we've been moving through the meetings today, as
Speaker 1: we moved through practice today, he just continued to echo,
Speaker 1: let's just get better. Let's just get a little bit
Speaker 1: better at this, Let's just get a little bit. And
Speaker 1: I like that that is a sign of that's good
Speaker 1: leadership coming from a young guy being able to like
Speaker 1: scope and zoom in on something so simple that can
Speaker 1: motivate people. And that's really going to be helpful this week.
Speaker 1: I want to hear about y'all's section of the locker room.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be you know, you guys are on the
Speaker 1: same areas. You get to know each other well, you
Speaker 1: get to know a j what is that group like
Speaker 1: and how much interchange is there between you two guys,
Speaker 1: because I get the feeling there's quite a bit even
Speaker 1: beyond Ford to Georgia, A give and take over there, man,
Speaker 1: I'll call I'll called the game last week when something
Speaker 1: went down there, when they went down there and beat
Speaker 1: them boys. So okay, A j next to me, So
Speaker 1: I was, yeah, that's South Carolina. They took care of
Speaker 1: my boys. But you know they'll bounce back, They'll be
Speaker 1: all right. I actually forgot. We actually have a j
Speaker 1: and we have Cam. We got Josh yeah, Kentucky. Yeah.
Speaker 1: This that our corner of the locker room is. And
Speaker 1: got SEC football to corner. Yeah. And so everybody's got
Speaker 1: an opinion. Everybody's got an opinion, everybody's got something to say.
Speaker 1: Everybody does not back down from an argument. But that's
Speaker 1: what makes our corner of the locker room the best
Speaker 1: corner of the locker room, you know, because we played
Speaker 1: real college football. You know what I mean? Right, what
Speaker 1: does this mean? Okay, great Alabama, I get it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the whole SEC room. Sure, I think you're gonna get
Speaker 1: me by LSU. I agree with that. I think this
Speaker 1: could be the year because l s you can throw
Speaker 1: the ball around Florida, l SEC champion. Quite possible, Quite possible.
Speaker 1: If that happens, you just want Leonard as far away
Speaker 1: from that side as I think. I get my money back.
Speaker 1: So what all right? Do you guys you have any
Speaker 1: questions for Laurenta or do you have any questions for Chris.
Speaker 1: This is kind of how we do this. Sometimes we
Speaker 1: let you guys kind of go out of here. If
Speaker 1: you're gonna ask me a question, just make it, make
Speaker 1: it the good one, because this is your chance, this
Speaker 1: is your moment right now. Keep it clean. Already, I
Speaker 1: already have any questions. I mean, I'm just you know,
Speaker 1: anxious to see, like should I get some Jordan shoes
Speaker 1: for you to wear? You know, like, what size do
Speaker 1: you wear? What'side sho? Do you wear? Thirteen? Okay, I
Speaker 1: go about you. I got some blue Jordans for you.
Speaker 1: What about you? What size do you wear? What's size? T? Shirt? Body?
Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter, headband. I won't be wearing that stuff,
Speaker 1: you see. Any have a question? Yeah? I want so?
Speaker 1: Should I have you weared in London? Because we played
Speaker 1: in London? You know, after they play right now? I
Speaker 1: want all the smoke. So if that's what we is that,
Speaker 1: if that's what we're doing on Rocking Women, what we're
Speaker 1: making this official on the show. Yeah here on the
Speaker 1: on the show. So I guess we gotta wear it.
Speaker 1: What what the whole time in London or what a
Speaker 1: day or two in London? I would say, you wear
Speaker 1: it we're in London, then where it once we get
Speaker 1: back on Monday. Okay, so maybe on this show a
Speaker 1: day in London the day when we get back, the
Speaker 1: loser of that game has to rock whatever gear the
Speaker 1: other person gets on. I'm cool with that. I like that,
Speaker 1: you know, I like it. You know, some people shy
Speaker 1: away from from these, you know, gentlemen's agreements. They don't
Speaker 1: really they can't really get behind their team. I really
Speaker 1: like it when someone, regardless of what their team looks like,
Speaker 1: whatever the situation is, can get behind their team and
Speaker 1: that you know, we're not throwing a bunch of money
Speaker 1: on this bat, but I mean, you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: still a it's still a good competitive situation. And I
Speaker 1: like competitive situation from last year that it's a long story,
Speaker 1: but Florida overachieved let's say last year. That's okay defensively
Speaker 1: for this team. You know, this is a game where
Speaker 1: you guys kind of got back on track as a
Speaker 1: whole unit. It felt like last week against New Orleans.
Speaker 1: It didn't win the game, obviously, but for the most
Speaker 1: part of the day, you did what you wanted to
Speaker 1: do against the Saints. Is that is that more what
Speaker 1: you guys, I feel like you're back to now. Is
Speaker 1: this gonna be a week over week thing for you guys?
Speaker 1: Do that? I mean, we just got to be consistent.
Speaker 1: I mean today we went out, we had a good
Speaker 1: day today in practice, and tomorrow we gotta go out
Speaker 1: and have another good day, and then on Friday we
Speaker 1: had to put it all together. So we basically just
Speaker 1: gotta take it one day at a time. Just come in,
Speaker 1: like he said, get better at something, a small thing,
Speaker 1: and that's going to be be able to create consistency
Speaker 1: throughout the year. So I mean, the best team that
Speaker 1: wins the super Bowl is not the best team in
Speaker 1: September or October. It's the best teams in December and
Speaker 1: January that usually go on to go to the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So that's what we're doing. We're trying to consistently go
Speaker 1: up that roller coaster and get to the top, not
Speaker 1: go all the way to the top and then have
Speaker 1: a fall. You've been with Joe D a long time, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Special teams coordinator. Yes, all right, Is there any good
Speaker 1: Joe D story that you can share on the air
Speaker 1: that you can share? I mean there's the internet, I guess,
Speaker 1: uh I'll just stay away from that today. You guys,
Speaker 1: over the years, he's a great guy to play for
Speaker 1: special teams guys, Yeah, absolutely, yeah, why, Um, he's just
Speaker 1: he's one of the best special teams coaches you know
Speaker 1: there is in this NFL. You know, Um, he just
Speaker 1: he just does all those things. I mean, he puts
Speaker 1: you in the best position. He breaks down film, he's
Speaker 1: always studying. He's always has a good assistant that helps
Speaker 1: him out. You know, he draws a good play cards,
Speaker 1: he has a good you know, he he knows their tennessee'es. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, he knows their best players. He he pretty
Speaker 1: much knows the bottom half of every team roster in
Speaker 1: the NFL. So that's that's really important. To be the
Speaker 1: special teams coordinator. You have to know their deficiencies as
Speaker 1: an athlete. You know, so that you your team can
Speaker 1: go out there and dominant. You have to know if
Speaker 1: they're good in space. You got to know if you
Speaker 1: know they get tied up on blocks. You have to
Speaker 1: know if they can move, you know, in space as
Speaker 1: they're blocking you on on kickoff return. You gotta knows
Speaker 1: a guy he's a straight line guy. You have to
Speaker 1: know a lot of different stuff. So he's real good at,
Speaker 1: you know, going in and setting up. I think he
Speaker 1: can be approach scout because he's good at diagnosed and
Speaker 1: talent and he always keeps it even even key all right,
Speaker 1: right right, it gets a little wired of but I mean,
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta love him. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: a guy that you want to play for us, a
Speaker 1: guy that you one of your fox sol You know,
Speaker 1: you know he means well. You know, even if he
Speaker 1: says something bad, you know it's coming from a good place.
Speaker 1: So you just gotta respect him. You gotta respect his
Speaker 1: attitude coming into work every day. Alright, final thoughts, You're
Speaker 1: going to Cincinnati, and this is a stretch. I know
Speaker 1: we look game to game. We've had this discussion on
Speaker 1: this program before, one game at a time, one game
Speaker 1: at a time. But Chris, this is a stretch where
Speaker 1: you know, two and four, it's early, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of football left we played. What do you feel about
Speaker 1: the next few weeks here? About getting back to you know,
Speaker 1: I can't necessarily speak as to the next few weeks here,
Speaker 1: but I can speak as to the next few days.
Speaker 1: You know, this team has to lock in, put together
Speaker 1: a couple more good practices like we had today, and
Speaker 1: then the big thing for this team where we are
Speaker 1: right now is we just let have to let those
Speaker 1: practices translate into the game. There's not one person who
Speaker 1: can tell me that this defense, that special teams and
Speaker 1: offense have not worked their butt off this offseason, this season,
Speaker 1: preseason and every day in here studying, going out there
Speaker 1: and giving it all. They got out in the heat
Speaker 1: getting ready for these games. But now we're at the
Speaker 1: point where we have to let those things translate. When
Speaker 1: once you let them translate, those plays start to fall,
Speaker 1: start to fall your way, and you go from being
Speaker 1: an R right team to a really good team, a
Speaker 1: really hard team to beat. And so that's where we
Speaker 1: want to go right now. And you know, I can't
Speaker 1: speak for the weeks to come, but I know that
Speaker 1: this week we're trying to get back on track. This
Speaker 1: is a get back on track week. This is a
Speaker 1: get back on track game, and you know we just
Speaker 1: gotta not You can't be afraid to let it translate.
Speaker 1: Can't be afraid to let great things happen because of
Speaker 1: your hard work. I love it. Big game this Sunday,
Speaker 1: one o'clock Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati, Laurenti McCrae. Always good
Speaker 1: to see you and talk about with you. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming in many, no problem, Thanks for having
Speaker 1: great talking about what you learned. McCrae and Chris Connie,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you next week. Man, it sounds like
Speaker 1: a plan. There he is for John Osier, our entire crew.
Speaker 1: Thank you for watching. I'm JP Shatrick. It's Jaguars Happy
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