WEBVTT - Ep. 52: What Will Offense Look Like Moving Forward? | Jags A.M. Podcast 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:05.519 It's been a couple of days since that disappointing performance 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:07.560 by the Jags against the Ravens. Do you guys feel 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:09.600 any better now that you've had a little time since 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:10.200 the game ended. 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:10.520 I do. 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:12.760 It's the week before Christmas. Man, if you can't bring 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:14.720 the energy, no one's going to give it to you. 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:16.759 So yes, I'm here to bring energy. 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:20.400 I feel good, Jaguars. Why that feel a little better? 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:31.080 There's a lot of concerns. 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:43.680 Welcome into jag zam here on Wednesday and Pinony, excuse me, 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:45.960 I'm kind of eys here with Bryan Sexton and John 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.239 Osier and we've had a little bit of time for 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:51.160 the dust to settle since things went down on Sunday Nights. 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:53.840 Football not what we wanted to see from that team, 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:56.400 but we have to move forward as there is still 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:58.440 some football left to be played and they're tied to 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:00.600 top the division of the AFC South now, so things 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.440 are very important. Let's start off with our big things. 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.600 The first big thing is positive. So Doug Peterson obviously 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:08.919 after the game not thrilled with how his team played, 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:10.720 but you have to move forward, and he's trying to 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:11.720 focus on the positives. 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:13.600 I think so much. 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.600 Sometimes we focus on the negative all the time and 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:17.640 not the positive. 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:18.560 We got to we gotta. 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:23.320 Find the good too, and and fill our players' heads 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:27.160 with positive this time of year, because you know, we're 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:29.240 we're we feel like we're still a good football team, 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.440 and we've we played like it at times. 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:31.960 Right. 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.039 It's just at times we we don't look very good. 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:39.720 It's just that simple, right, Brian, They just at times 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:40.800 they just don't look very good. 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:42.760 Well, you know it's funny, so we don't put the 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.039 question on. But I asked him the question, how is 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.240 it that you take something that feels like it's compounding 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:50.760 like it it just gets worse week to week? And 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.160 how do you break that cycle? And Johnny, you probably recall, 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.520 there was a long pause before he answered the question. 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:57.960 It was like he was trying to break that cycle 0:01:58.240 --> 0:01:59.400 in his own mind. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:00.960 You know, he was still frustrated. 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:02.880 You could tell when he walked in and he started 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.680 talking about having to be positive and bring positive energy 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.200 to it. My follow up question I thought was the 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:09.799 most telling. I said, how. 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:10.880 Difficult is it to do that? 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:15.800 His response was, it's really difficult, especially the day after 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.960 the loss. But you could sense john that he understood 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.760 that this team still if they could just get out 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:25.000 of their own way on the field, but listen to 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.720 the right voice in their head and ignore the Internet 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:29.560 and Twitter and all of those things they are telling 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:33.440 them lost loss, loss, failure, failure, failure, but focus just 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.280 on where they really are. Win these last three games. 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:37.040 It doesn't matter. 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.400 You're in at eleven and six and you repeat his 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.960 division champs for the first time since nineteen ninety eight 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:45.600 and nineteen ninety nine. That's the truth. Forget all the 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.760 other stuff. Focus on that, And that was his message 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:49.600 to them on Monday. 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:54.880 Yeah, going into this last six games, this on paper 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:59.359 was a possibility, meaning Cincinnati, all the teams they've lost 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.720 to you last three we have been good or playing 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.080 well and might all be in the playoffs depending on 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:08.160 how things play out. So you sort of knew they 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.880 can get to those last three, which are against teams 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.639 that aren't on paper playing as well, then they can 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.120 do it. But then once that reality hits you, it's like, oh, no, 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:17.160 they've lost three games. 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.400 It's all still there in front of them. 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:22.639 The worry for me is not necessarily they lost the 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.760 last three games. It's their situation now with quarterback with 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:32.000 personnel offensively. Does that sort of leak into the last 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.480 three and sort of get into their heads. I think 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:36.680 that's why Doug was trying to be so positive. It's 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:38.080 his job to make sure that doesn't happen. 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.320 Yeah, it certainly could become an issue for them this week, 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:42.200 and it touches on what I'm going to do for 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:43.960 hot takes. So I won't go too deep into it 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.560 other than to say that you really have to have 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:50.480 a very strong mental approach this week knowing that you're 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:52.520 going to be playing without some key players. 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:54.920 When we looked at the schedule earlier in the year, 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:56.280 I don't think we would have been shocked if they 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:58.640 lost maybe the last three games or so. But it's 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:00.720 the way that they've been losing, which into our big 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.320 thing Number two. Some of the negatives they've been hurting themselves. 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.360 It's self inflicting mistakes and just silly errors that they 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:09.600 know they shouldn't be making. Josh Allen a leader certainly 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:11.640 on this team. He talks a little bit about helping 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.880 his teammates, specifically Travon Walker and improvements that they need 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:15.480 to make going. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.640 Forward, you know, and that's another way of holding each 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.479 other accountable. You know, it was one player where I 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:24.279 thought he didn't do it right, and you know, for me, 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:26.680 I seen what I saw, so I got on him. 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:30.440 But it wasn't it wasn't the message what I was saying. 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:32.560 It was it was the words I was coming out 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:34.880 because this is something that we probably something that we did. 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.000 But then once he explained it to me, we kind of, 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.320 you know, dialogue, then they say like, okay, well, next 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:41.680 time you do it, didn't just do it like that, 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.599 and then everything he was just he was just free, 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.839 you know. So it's just little things that. 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:51.920 John, I feel like part of it what makes it 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.440 so frustrating is you know they can do it, and 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.320 sometimes they're just making mistakes that kind of baffle us 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:57.760 each week. 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.560 Yeah, and that's really the weird thing about the last 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:02.520 three games. All three of those teams are playing well 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:05.480 on paper. You can certainly see where they lost those games, 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:07.360 and you can make an argument that all three of 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:09.520 those teams are playing better than the Jaguars right now. 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:14.040 But at the same time, there were chances to win. 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:17.400 And Doug's right when he says if they had just 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:21.400 gotten out of their own way, they would have that's 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.799 really my storyline for the last three games. They should 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.640 win their last three. Even with the personnel on the field, 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:29.599 they can beat Tampa. They can do these things they're 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:33.279 talking about. But can they stop giving the ball away? 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.680 Can they stop giving free points away on defense? Which 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:40.640 they did against the Browns. The concern is is that 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.760 what they are now? I don't think we find that 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:44.680 out until Sunday. 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.160 No, I don't think so either. And there were two mistakes. 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.560 Trevor played a very good game against the Bengals and 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.479 then he got hurt and they lost, and then he 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.440 didn't play as well against the Browns. Of course, he's 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.159 playing on that angle, so you've got to make sure 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:58.880 you put that into the context. 0:05:58.880 --> 0:05:59.719 And then he had those. 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:03.800 Two red zone errors late in the ball game or 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:05.960 late in the first half that make you scratch your 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.000 head and go, okay, where's the quarterback at? And I 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:10.520 still john think that this is a kid who is 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:15.160 going to be a really good quarterback. But the errors 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.080 are on both sides of the ball, and they've got 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.120 to get those things fixed. And it gets much more 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.040 difficult when you're playing without Christian Kirk and now perhaps 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.839 say Jones, who's got a knee and a hamstring that 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:29.080 he's having to deal with, so everyone around them has 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:30.799 to pick up the slack this week. 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.479 Everyone, Let's go into our final big thing, which is 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.760 question mark. Obviously that revolves around quarterback Trevor Lawrence. He's 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:41.360 in the concussion protocol. They that came down after the game, 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.600 so we don't know what the exact timeline for his 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.560 return will be. Brian, I know you're a big fan 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.600 of kind of just going forward with maybe either a CJ. 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.080 Bether and the game plan for that instead of kind 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.839 of waiting out things for Trevor. But this will be 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.159 an interesting week because they need to play well in Tampa. 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:58.960 This could be you know now that they're hig to 0:06:59.000 --> 0:06:59.880 top Dassuth. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:01.400 Well, you know, so we're looking here at some of 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.960 the late throws. It seems so errant that one wasn't 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.000 quite so late, but some of the throws and when 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:08.760 he was throwing the ball, you're like, what's going on? 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:10.960 That doesn't look like Trevor. And then we found out 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:15.080 afterwards Johnan he was in the concussion protocol. Look, you know, 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.320 he gutted it out with the knee and had a 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:19.880 great game on Thursday, Night football in New Orleans, and 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.400 then he gutted it out and gave his team a 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.560 chance to win despite the turnovers in Cleveland. This is 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:27.760 not one he gets to decide. This is not him 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.760 who says I'm just I'm playing no matter what. He's 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.240 in the protocol. So, more so than ever, you don't 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.000 even need to say help is not on the way. 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:37.440 You know, you don't even need to declare this because 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:39.200 it's obvious. 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:39.720 C J. 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.080 Stroud, by the way, the Houston Texans quarterback, didn't play 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:43.720 last week, and now the word is he's not gonna 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:45.320 play this week. So I think you just have to 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:48.200 assume he isn't playing and CJ. Bethert is going to 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:49.880 be the quarterback. And I think at this point of 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:52.320 the week it's a benefit to know that because everyone 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.520 knows help is not on the way. Everyone knows that 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.280 they've got to lift their game to another level and 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:59.520 make plays so that they can help CJ. 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:00.760 Bethard as they move the ball. 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.600 However they do that, Yeah, and I really think the 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:07.400 key for one game, this isn't the key for career season. 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:12.760 Even if Trevor was playing, the message would be don't 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:16.640 make mistakes don't give this away. Let's play clean and 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.720 see if we can by playing clean offensively with either 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:22.720 Even if Trevor plays, it's a limited cast. I don't 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:24.800 think Zay Jones is gonna play, Chris is not gonna play. 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:27.600 They're having trouble running the ball, so it's gonna be 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:31.320 a challenge offensively. So I think that's gonna be the 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:34.680 theme even if Trevor comes back. They have to play 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.400 to their identity, which has been all season. Create turnovers 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:39.800 on defense, play good on defense, and it makes some 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:43.280 big plays offensively. I don't think it matters who's I 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:44.720 don't think it matters who plays quarterback. 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:45.640 I think that's the approach. 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.400 This is gonna be a defensive game. The defense is 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:49.240 gonna need to do this. 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:53.240 The bucksher I think they're twenty first on offense and 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.120 twenty sixth on defense. That've gotten to seven and seven 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.000 because the quarterback is playing well. Baker Mayfield's coming off 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.600 a perfect pasture. I think he's the first quarterback to 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.520 ever do that at lambeau Field in another uniform other 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.320 than the Packers. A four touchdown, three hundred and eighty 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.440 one yard performance. So I mean, you can just point 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:12.800 right now, right here. The question is who's gonna get 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.360 this done, and the answer is the defense. 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:17.959 All right, stay with us. We're gonna go over a 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:20.040 little bit about the road ahead and what the Jags 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:21.120 are going to need to do if they want to 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.400 win the AFC South. Jagzam is brought to you by 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.080 field Atto Group, Jacksonville. You can step up to luxury 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:32.120 at field Atto dot com. Price dot com is the 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.400 easiest way to save money with comparison shopping, cashback coupons 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:37.840 all in one. It is freeing. Can try out price 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:44.760 dot com today. This school, this school, Welcome back to 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:47.280 Jagsam today. Well, back on the couch, We're gonna do 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:49.000 a little this or that. There's a whole lot going 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.000 on in the AFC South right now. Things have gotten 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:53.880 a little bit more interesting than we were hoping they 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:55.360 would be at this time in the season. It's a 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.680 tie top the South with the Colts and the Texans 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:00.880 and the Jags and a little bit of this or that. 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.080 Which one are you more concerned about at this point? 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:06.040 I think normally would say the Texans, but set Strausen 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.080 the protocol as you mentioned, Yeah, that limits them. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:08.360 Yeah. 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.040 In early news, this week is that it doesn't look 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.160 like he's going to come out of the protocol, right, 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.360 which means that they're going to start Davis Mills, who 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.560 was good enough to beat the Titans last week, but 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.440 probably not good enough to beat a Browns team that 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:27.000 has all sorts of momentum back to back winning seasons. 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.119 For Cleveland, it's the first time sin's the Marty Schottenheimer 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.320 era that they have done that. So they are feeling 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.480 really good about themselves and they're in the middle of 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:38.320 this thing, and so you know, good for the Jags, right, 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:41.680 and then behind them, you've got a Colts team that 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:46.000 is scrappy and refuses to go away, that's playing in Atlanta. 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:49.000 So you've got to be more concerned about the Colts 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.760 because remember they're two games back unless they have a 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:56.560 better record than you. So I would say that's the 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:57.160 last part. 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:02.520 Yeah, Well, I think the scenario that could play out 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:07.560 is Cleveland goes to Houston this week and wins. It's 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:11.679 in Houston, right, and then last game of the season, 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:15.160 Houston with a healthy C. J. Stroud beats the Colts, 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:18.040 giving both of those teams one loss and giving Jaguars 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.640 air to breathe a little bit. In that scenario, the 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:24.040 Jaguars win the division with two wins, meaning they could lose. 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:25.160 Sunday and still get in. 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.280 Nobody wants to be in that situation because that's like 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:29.760 walking on. 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:30.280 A tight rope. 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:34.559 So I'd say right now, my big concern would still 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:41.280 be the Texans long term, But the Colts are that 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:46.760 team this year. That for eleven games, probably because the 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:48.760 Jaguars beat the Colts, it's. 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:52.840 Been out of the Colts. Well, now it's the Colts. Now. 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.080 If you lose, the Colts control your destiny and you 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:57.000 can't do anything about it. 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:00.960 So I'd say both unfortun Well, one. 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.880 More reason why the Colts are team to be aware 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:07.080 of is they're getting healthy. Right So, Jonathan Taylor's coming back. 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:10.160 They got Grover Stewart, their big nose tackle, who really 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.000 they found out when he was absent, how he powers 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.440 that defensive front. He's such a load in the middle 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.280 that you've got to have two guys always sort of 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.760 accounting for him, and it makes everyone else's job easier. 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.280 So they're getting healthy, they're getting guys back at the 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:23.839 right time. 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.520 They certainly are. It's going to make things difficult. We 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:28.839 will mention the days on the tiebreakers, but just went 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:30.120 out and then you don't have to worry about any 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.560 of the tie breakers, which would be key. Let's do 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.240 a little quarterback talk because Nathan Rourke got picked up 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:38.160 by the Patriots off waivers this week and coming at 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:42.439 probably the worst possible time, right because obviously with Trevor 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.880 and the protocol now CJ. Bethard, who has banged up 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.080 the last couple of weeks as well with a shoulder 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:50.000 injury for himself. So is it a big deal that 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:52.440 they've lost their third string quarterback? Normally I'd say no, 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.000 but it's kind of not a great time to be 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:54.480 losing him. 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.240 Well, it's not a great time, but I'm not sure 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:57.760 it's that big of a deal. What do we really 0:12:57.840 --> 0:12:59.640 know about Nate Pipwork. We haven't seen him on the 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:01.400 practice field. I mean he's been out there, but we 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:05.400 haven't seen him on a game field since uh since August. 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:07.960 And you know, he was playing at a time, John 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:11.000 where athletic quarterbacks run around and make plays. I mean 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.839 there were hundreds of he saw him everywhere guys and 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.400 making great throws because they're running around and avoiding you know, 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.760 guys who are driving milk trucks now right there are 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.760 even our milk trucks anymore. But I just don't know 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:24.439 that he's a proven commodity. I don't know you can 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.160 say other than he has more knowledge. 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:28.720 Of your knowledge of the system. 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:29.240 Although e J. 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.680 Perry was here on the practice squad last year, and 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.080 how much has it changed. It's the same offensive coordinators, 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:35.120 same quarterback coach. 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:35.559 You know. 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:37.480 The only thing that's changed is the wide receivers coach 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.959 and that doesn't impact it. So I would say e J. 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:41.880 Perry ought to be able to come back in and 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:43.800 I think it's a wash. 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:48.320 Yeah, I mean, I think you'd rather have Roork because 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.480 the reality is if you would have rather had Perry, 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.600 he would have been here. So it's a little disingenuous 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:58.400 to say it means nothing. There also is a school 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:02.640 of thought of once he gets down to that third guy, 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:03.600 then what are. 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:04.160 You really talking? 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:06.360 But as soon as I say that, a lot of 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.400 teams are winning and grinding through with third guys right now. 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.800 The Brown Yeah, so uh yeah, you would rather probably 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:14.320 have Rour. 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:18.400 But the big reality is if they had been super 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:23.720 concerned about that possibility, they wouldn't have ever made him available, 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:25.000 he would have been on the fifty three. 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.920 So, uh, that being said, why don't think it matters 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:29.200 that much? 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:34.320 What's what really is the difference between Rourke and Perry 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:35.160 that much? 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:35.880 That much? 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.800 As John says, when you get down to it, it 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.720 better be someone else making plays because you can't rely 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:43.160 on that third quarterback to do it. 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.880 Let's hope it doesn't get to that point. 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I know the 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:55.840 s guy felt like it was falling at that point. 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:57.440 It may still be falling, but at least we're a 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:01.120 little calmer about it. What are our takes this week, Brian? 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:01.920 You want to kick us off? 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:07.360 Sure? This week it is the how before the food. 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:09.520 The NFL is always. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.320 About movie yet, I mean, it's who's your quarterback? It's 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:17.320 about players, not plays. But this week, to me, it's 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:20.960 about Doug Peterson and Press Taylor trying to figure out 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.720 how to move the football with the collection of guys 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:29.080 that are or haven't been impact players yet, right, I mean, 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.520 Parker Washington has a couple of touchdowns. 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.360 But you're looking at Elijah Cooks and Tim Jones. 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:36.440 You know who knows If you bring a Seth Williams 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:41.840 up from the practice squad, it is more about how 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.440 they get guys open and how they utilize c J. 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.880 Bedtherd and what they ask him to do. It. 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:51.560 It's always players, But this week I just have this 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.120 strong sense that Doug and Press and their team are 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.440 going to have to grind to create ways to get 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:00.080 guys open and be clever and creative. Not that they 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.200 are not always wanting to be that, but this week 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:03.520 there's more of an emphasis on it. 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:09.320 Yeah, it's it's it's frankly hard to see when you 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.880 try to analyze it where points and where offensive efficiency 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.720 is gonna come from. They've been really good at times 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.960 when they've had all four guys, it's been operating smoothly. 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.760 But they're not gonna have all four and they only 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:26.560 have two, and the running game has not shown us 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.119 that it can be a reliable force for this team 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:30.880 that teams even have to respect. 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:35.760 So they may they will have to scheme. 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:37.760 And if you're gonna see a trick play, if you're 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:40.199 gonna see something like that, you know that feels desperate. 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:41.159 You don't have to do that. 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:45.800 They somehow have to get their way into two field 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:49.720 goals and two touchdowns and win twenty to seventeen to me, 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:54.560 and that will take Yeah, some scheming on the part 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:55.840 of Taylor and Peterson. 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:58.240 That's the reality this week. 0:17:58.280 --> 0:17:59.840 I think it might be one of those we need 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:01.960 some points from the defense game ye as well, or 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:03.879 turnover is getting really good field position in the red 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:04.960 zone helping. 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:06.479 Any well, remember the other night. 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:13.120 You know, if if you take advantage of your opportunities 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.919 in the first half, you get at least twelve, maybe 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:20.359 even sixteen, and then the Agnew touchdown gets you to 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:21.920