WEBVTT - Ep. 52: Making Sense of a Crowded AFC in Final Stretch | Jags A.M. Podcast 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:20.560 Welcome into jag xam on this Wednesday, Wednesday, December thirteenth, 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.160 I'm kay Nannie Stevens, Brian Sexton and John Osier are 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:25.400 with me today as we look ahead, the DAGs have 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:26.720 lost two in a row, but they're gonna try to 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.760 write the ship on Sunday Night football against the Ravens. 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.880 So big thing number one is the clock is ticking 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:35.320 because they do have time to turn things around, but 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:37.919 there are only four regular season games left if they 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:39.840 want to try and close things out in me as 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:42.560 myself and make a run in the playoffs. Don Peterson 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:44.680 seems to think there's plenty of time to get things 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:45.120 in order. 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.559 This time of year, though, is where teams begin to separate, 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.240 right and you start to get a better picture, or 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.760 a clear picture at least of the postseason. But you know, 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.680 for us, it's a matter of just continuing to just 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.880 focus on us, be us, be who we are. You know, 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:05.920 control the things that we can control, and you know 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:10.440 not you know, at least go out and not try 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:12.600 to lose another football game if possible. 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:15.760 It's just that simple, Ran, just not try to lose 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:16.640 another football game. 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:18.960 It's four weeks enough time for them to get everything 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:19.319 back in. 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:19.880 Order it is. 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.520 Last year they were four and eight KAI and instead 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.320 of four games remitting, you're obviously five. And there were 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:29.240 more difficult games in there, including a game against the 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.440 Cowboys and against the Titans at the end of the season. 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.080 So yes, there's plenty of time, and it could certainly 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:38.200 start on Sunday. You could jump start this thing with 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:39.960 a win over the Ravens. And I get you know, 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:41.720 the Ravens are ten and three and they're the number 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.399 one team in the AFC. But I don't think that 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.240 this league is so disparate that the Jaguars are so 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:49.680 far behind the Ravens that they can't come out and 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.320 play well and win on Sunday night. And I'll use John. 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:57.800 The Titans with a rookie quarterback going to Miami without 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:01.160 their best defensive player, and that rookie quarterback have two 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.639 touchdown drives in the final three and a half minutes 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.640 to win. So anything is possible. It could start on Sunday. 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:09.359 Yeah, And I don't think the difference between the Ravens 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:11.600 and the Jaguars is the difference between the Dolphins and 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.880 Titans this year. Look, the Jaguars are eight and five. 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:19.080 If they play the way they've played most of the season, 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:21.160 they have a very good chance to beat the Ravens. 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.000 They have played poorly the last two weeks in some 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:26.920 key areas, still only lost by seven points. 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:29.960 They're not bad. I think the bad news for. 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.720 Them this week is the Ravens are a team that 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.040 you can play well against and still not beat. It's 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:36.560 only a handful of those teams for the Jaguars. I 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.040 think the Ravens are one of them. But it's not 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:42.680 an unwinnable game. Even all that said, there's still time 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.800 because I think if you win any of the you 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.239 win three of the last four, and you beat Tennessee, 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:51.440 then you win the division. So there's time. But lose 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.280 this week in the margin fair maybe gone well. 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:56.360 Just to underline what John was saying, Kay, the Jaguars 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:58.919 have lost the last two games by combining seven points 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.480 one A field goal gives you a win at the 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.919 end of regulation against the Bengals. But more than that, 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.760 this is an offense. John. Without Christian Kirk, He's had 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:09.800 one play in the last two games, and they've scored 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:12.560 fifty eight points. That's as good as two game stretch 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.679 as they've had all season long. So it is it's turnovers, 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:17.320 it's a few key areas, the lack of a running game, 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.120 which I know we're going to talk about a few 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.240 key areas, and it's going to be on the practice 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.960 field this week that Doug Peterson and his offensive staff 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:25.240 are going to try to figure that one out. 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:27.639 The offense has been scoring a lot more points that 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:29.680 has not really come from the running game though. That's 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:34.120 our second big thing about getting creative because obviously Travessey 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:35.880 Tanne was doing great in the beginning of the season. 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.680 He's slowed down tremendously. Part of that the line issues 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:40.520 as well, But Doug Peterson says they're gonna have to 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:41.880 get a little bit creative to try to get their 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:42.800 running game going. 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:51.440 Just again finding those schemes that have worked in our past. 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:54.160 And trying to tap back into that to see if 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.560 we can't jump start the one game. 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.520 It's that simple scheme. It up a little bit differently. 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:04.880 Why has the run game been so deficient lately? 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.480 It's not that simple, I don't think, and it's been 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.360 that deficient because I don't think this is a very 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:14.560 good run blocking line this year. I think the interior 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.960 has struggled, and I hate saying that every week. It 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.560 sounds like I'm bashing those guys. I think it's it's 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.279 a decent run, it's a decent pass blocking line. But 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.640 the season has shown us so far that this group 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:30.960 has a tough time getting interior push. Travis gets hitting 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.760 the backfield a lot. It's not all the offensive line, 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:38.159 because it's never all one thing in the NFL. So 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:43.200 you ask me, scheme it up, I'd like to see 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.520 it before. I think they're going to get it fixed. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.839 I hope they do, but after twelve games, I don't 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:50.680 know that the running game is going to be a juggernaut. 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:52.640 I think against the Ravens, what you have to do. 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.960 You have to find some way to get enough yards 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.840 to make them respect it and then open up other things. 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:00.560 I think that's hurting them as much as the lack 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:00.960 of production. 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.000 Well, I'm gonna lean heavily into the offensive line because 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:09.200 he had fourteen carries etn did kai and of those fourteen, 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.160 seven went for two yards or less, and four of 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.520 those went for negative right, meaning he lost yards with 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:18.720 stuff in the backup. So half his carries earned two 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.000 yards or lesson if you combine them all together. They 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.760 lost seven yards, so they're getting no push. Brandon Sheriff 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:26.560 is a five time Pro Bowl guard, but he's at 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:29.280 his best on the move out pulling. That's that's his game. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.040 Lou Fortner has just gotten no push in the middle 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.320 of the line. And they've had four different starting guards 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.160 four is it five, and forget they've had four different 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.039 starting guards over on the left side, so the lack 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:42.360 of cohesion there hasn't helped Fortner at all. The middle 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.320 of the line has been a mess in terms of 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.160 short yardage. The Jaguars are at fifty percent on third 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.800 down and two or fewer yards third and two. You 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.799 should be up near eighty eighty five percent. They're nowhere 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.200 close to that. So I think the problem is the 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.000 lack of power in the middle of their offensive line. 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:01.480 And of course they have had a lot of different 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:03.400 bodies they were left guard, which hasn't helped either. 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:05.680 A lot of blame to go around right now, at 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.400 least in our point of view, where they need to 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.000 work on certain things. The run game certainly one of those. 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:12.640 The secondary has been an issue recently as well. Big 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:16.159 plays big problem. Our final big thing because those three 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.680 big plays really were the difference in the game against 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.000 the Browns that the secondary gave up some of that 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:24.200 miscommunication some of that how they're steaming with the Blitz 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.719 and dwand Smooth talked a little bit yesterday about some 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:29.560 of the miscommunication issues on defense. 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.320 Like I just said, it's communication. I mean, we like 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:35.159 we just have to be on the same page. Like 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.719 we've had some some pretty good matchups coming up, and 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:40.719 we've been, you know, scheming up a lot of different 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:42.560 things and we just got to get back to you know, 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.760 what allows us to play fast is just communicating and 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:46.599 all being on the same ding. 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:50.920 Brian, we talked a couple of weeks about this, what's 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.440 the disconnect right now? They've been playing together for quite 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:53.720 some time. 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.159 Now you're you're thirty games into this defense. They brought 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.000 all the starters back and the staff is the same. 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:02.960 I mean, communication issues, especially at home right. I know 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.600 the noise was a factor, but you want the noise 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:09.440 if you're on defense, it's supposed to help you communication issues, 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:11.880 not just by the way on one side of the bowl. Kai, 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.680 because we heard about the communication issues from the quarterback 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:18.520 talking about the interceptions last week in Cleveland, I scratched 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.560 my head at this because I know Tyson Campbell has 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.080 been out, but monterk Brown has played pretty well. There 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:27.440 have been communication issues between the linebackers and the safeties 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.080 and that has caused some problems. We saw twice last week. 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.000 John i think, the head coach, said on Monday, there 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:34.680 were three plays for one hundred and twenty yards that 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:38.680 were broken. Plays that were communication issues. We've talked about 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:40.640 what we think this team can do and can they 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.840 play together and get hot not if they can't communicate. 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:46.640 Yeah, they've given up some big plays this year. I 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.680 think until the other day it was a relatively normal amount. 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:52.760 The problem the other day was a couple of things. 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:56.400 The big plays went for touchdowns. They had three plays 0:07:56.440 --> 0:08:00.000 over thirty yards, three touchdown passes. There were thirty yards 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.960 to giving up. They had allowed five of those all seasons. 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:07.960 So it was as much miscommunication, it was just mistakes. 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.400 Guys bid on play ash and guys went into the 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.120 backfield when they're supposed to be. 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:13.400 Covering tight ends. 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:17.960 And there was a miss on the touchdown to on 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:19.280 the forty one yard to David Bell. 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.480 That hasn't happened like that. 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.600 It's sort of two weeks in a row where against 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:28.960 the against the Bengals they had stopped the run all 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.920 of a sudden, Against the Browns they had not allowed 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.600 touchdown big plays, all of a sudden they did. 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:39.800 They've got to stop that or it becomes who they are. 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:44.600 I don't know the answer to say, well, you made 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.000 a mistake on this play, gave a touchdown, don't make 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.520 the mistake again. I don't know how else to analyze 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.120 other than that, maybe I'm missing something. 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.320 Sorry, I don't have an answers either. 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.120 We're going to talk through some more of it coming 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.040 up next on jagxam as go over some of this 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:02.880 or that for us this week, and we also look 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.319 around the league see what's going on in the AFC South. 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:16.720 Here on jagsam presented by Jet Homebooks. For ten years, 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.319 Dreambinders Holmes has been proud to call themselves the official 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.200 homebuilder of the Jacksonville Jaguars. You can visit Dreambinders' homes 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:26.040 dot com for all of the available inventory. P Jaguars 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.480 Welcome back in to Jagszam this morning, as we're going 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:32.480 to talk a little bit about what's been going on 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.400 in the AFC South because as this gets closer to 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:36.680 the end of the season, we got to keep track 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:38.760 of those other teams. And if you didn't watch Monday 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.680 Night football, the Titans certainly put on a show as 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:46.679 Will Levis led come back against the Dolphins on the road, 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:49.280 and I didn't know they had to do home, especially 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:50.440 after the beginning of this game. 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:52.560 To be honest, it's the NFL. 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.679 It's end so strange. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.640 That's why the people who are sort of panicked about 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.679 the Jags losing a couple in our and saying, oh, 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:04.440 they stink, they can't do anything. The Dolphins have looked 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.800 like world beaters, and they lost Tyreek Hill late in 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:11.680 the game. But you think about what their fans must 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:13.319 be saying. Think about what the Chiefs fans. 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:13.640 Must be thinking. 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:15.560 They used to win the Super Bowl every year and 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:17.760 now they've lost two in a row. These kind of 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:21.240 things happen late in the season. But it was an 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:25.959 impressive game for the Titans. Not that unexpected because a 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.400 vable coach teams, even when they're bad, are. 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:29.520 Gonna have these moments. 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.160 I'm a big believer in that guy. 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.640 Yeah, and they look they're playing with nothing to lose 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.440 right at four and eight. He's got those guys just 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.480 focused on playing physical football, and the Dolphins, for all 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:44.480 of their speed, are not a real physical football team, 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.800 but not all that strong on defense except the back end, 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.680 especially without Jalen Phillips right now. So he went in 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:52.240 there and beat him in a game they don't like 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:52.640 to play. 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:54.960 What also speaks to what this league is. 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:03.960 The league is set up to be late game thing, right, 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.760 I mean not late like this. The Titans came down, 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.080 the Dolphins had one drive where they couldn't convert, and 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:15.280 then the Titans do it again. It's unusual, obviously, but 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:18.679 in a past oriented league, this is. 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.280 What the league was not unusual this year. How about 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.080 the Bears coming back and beating the Lions. I mean, 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:26.760 the Bears had no chance according to anybody, and yet 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.480 here are the Lions, who were hoping to get to 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.839 ten and three and stay at the top of the 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:35.000 the NFC. They fell off to nothing worse than a. 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.880 Team with nothing to lose, as we see time and 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.959 time again throughout this. And then we'll headed to Houston, 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.440 who we thought was kind of, you know, the team 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.079 that we needed to be most concerned with, but they've 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.040 been dealing with a lot of injuries recently as well. 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:49.719 Of course, we know Tank Dell's out for the rest 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:52.319 of the season with his leg injury, and now c J. 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.360 Stroud's and concussion protocol, and Ego Collins had an injury 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.200 in the game as well, So this could really hamper 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.080 their you know, run at things towards us. 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:01.840 At the end of the years. 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:03.920 Well, I would expect that it will. You know, they 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:06.240 were a team that was playing with house money all 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.840 season long. The quarterback was given them a lot, and 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.680 they appear now with some injuries that they hadn't really 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:16.040 sustained to be on the cusp. I mean, they've got 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.760 to go now and play. They're at Tennessee. 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:23.199 This week, they are at Tennessee. 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.520 And then they've got Tennessee twice, Tennessee twice the last time, 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.360 and the Colts. They've got three conference games, they only 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.080 have one the three division games, and they only have 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:33.079 one division win. I believe that was over the Jaguars. 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.600 If the Jaguars have earned the spot where they are, 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.240 and when I say that, I mean they are what 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.000 four and one in the division right now? 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:41.400 Correct? 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:43.640 They swept the Colts that we're going to talk about 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:47.000 next and they split with the Texans, they're a game up, 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.880 but they're really a game and a half ash up, 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:54.320 even two games up. To me, it feels like both 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:57.079 the Texans and the Colts, one of them's gonna lose 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.280 once because they play each other. It feels like both 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.440 teams are playing the kind of football right now where 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:07.360 the best they go is three and one. That means 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.560 the Jaguars, if they split down the stretch and beat Tennessee, 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:11.319 win the division. 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:14.280 So there's some wiggle room for the Jags. 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.120 And when I say it that way, I say it 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.240 in a way that they earned that. Yeah, yeah, for 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:22.160 sure wiggle room, so then you take advantage of it. 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:28.320 But barring a collapse, if the Jaguars play okay, they're 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:29.360 still in control of this thing. 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:31.680 Makes you appreciate them having those games a little bit 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:33.600 earlier in this season, because when you got two or 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:35.040 three of them at the end of the year, there's 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:36.440 so much riding on those games. 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:38.320 The Colts are still in the mix here. 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.480 They lost last week to the Bengals, which certainly helped 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.640 out the Jaguars in terms of, you know, seating there 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.880 when they're all kind of still pretty close together. A 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:49.120 couple of games apart in the division standings, But Colts 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:52.440 have a tough schedule. They've got another divisional game coming up, 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:55.080 and then whether they'll be able to continue to contend 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:58.160 because they've struggled without Jonathan Taylor in there at running. 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:59.920 Back, and there's some thought that he might be back 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:01.319 this week. People are going to test them on the 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.760 practice field, so that would certainly give them a lift. 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.000 Let's be honest, though, I mean, Jonathan Taylor isn't the 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:11.600 story in Indian my mind. Mine says that defense, which 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:15.760 has created some points in some positive field situations for 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:20.040 Gardner and for that offense, if their defense comes up 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.120 opportunistically like they have at various points, you know, against 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.840 the Titans, against the Panthers, against the Patriots, then that 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:28.680 gives them a shot. They're hanging in there at the 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.400 very what are they seventh right now? Yeah, they're in it. 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:36.040 Yeah, right now. It's really a league. I wrote this 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.880 for quick thoughts tomorrow. The AFC right. 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.720 Now is the Ravens, and then there's a little bit 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:48.920 of a mix of Jags angles, I mean Jags, Dolphins, 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.800 maybe Chiefs. But there's seven or eight teams they could 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.840 all still be in this it's sort of the Ravens 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.760 and everybody else. Frankly, I mean the Chiefs and Dolphins 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:00.520 because they were hot early in the j are sort 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:05.600 of a but Bengals, Browns. Everybody's sort of saying the 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:07.920 Browns with such a bad loss. You know, the Browns 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:10.880 record is same as a jack yea. So it's a 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:14.480 very even AFC. It's as much parody after the Ravens 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:15.200 as I can remember. 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:16.720 You know, the Kansas City when you look at them 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.360 and people are what's the matter with them? 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:18.520 Right? 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.920 They're a mind a seven. I mean they have always 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:24.560 been a positive turnover ratio team with Andy Reid and 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:28.080 Patrick Mahomes, and because those receivers aren't the big play 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.640 guys that he's used to. The only guy down the 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.120 field that they've been able to consistently rely on is Kelsey, 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.480 and teams have been able to take him away. But 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.520 being minus seven is it is what Kansas City just 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.640 isn't the same Kansas City. They're obviously having to retool 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:43.800 and figure things out as they have traded away Tyreek 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:45.520 Hill and let some guys go in free agency. 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.440 Can't score it will as much as they use well. 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.120 It also shows you that as much as we all talk, 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:55.840 and I'm guilty of it, the whole quarterback who can 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:59.480 lift everything by himself is is a little bit of 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.440 a myth. Were one of the best quarterbacks of all time, Peyton. 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:04.680 He couldn't lift everything by himself. You needed players around him, 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.600 and even Brady had other things. I know the receivers 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.040 weren't always frontline guys, but there were other things for 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:15.480 those teams. As good as they are, none of them 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:16.760 could do it absolutely alone. 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:18.680 I think they maybe asking Patrick to do a little 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:19.320 too much this year. 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:21.840 They are We'll see, all right, stay with us. 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:23.280 We're gonna do a little this or that coming up 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:30.960 after the break here in Jagsam, Price dot com is 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.560 the easiest way to save money with comparison shopping, cash 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:35.400 back coupons, all that in one. 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:36.080 It's free. 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:42.160 Try price dot com today, this school that, this school that, 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:44.920 welcome back to jag Zam. We're gonna do a little 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:47.560 price dot com this or that. We're gonna talk about 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.000 some of what we've talked throughout the week, but look 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:51.960 at some film and kind of try to go with 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.080 what we think is going on, or try to choose 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.680 or what we think maybe they might change going forward. 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:58.600 So one of the things we talked about was the 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.760 susceptibility to that big play, specifically against the Browns, where 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:04.399 they gave up three of those big plays and some 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.760 of them coming on the blitz right, So they are 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.160 trying to help out their pass rush by sending extra people, 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:10.640 but that ends up burning them. 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.680 So it's a little bit of a double edged sword. 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:14.200 Do you try to help out the pass rush and 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.440 send extra people or do you try to keep them 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:18.760 back and try to prevent some of those big plays 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:20.840 from burning you. I mean, I guess it's you want 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.280 to do both ideally or pick your spots. 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.960 But is the blitz coming back to bite them? Sometimes? 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.399 Brands, Well, it does and they haven't been able to 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:31.080 get home John with four very often lately and that's 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:34.960 caused problems for them as well. Blitzing a guy like 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:39.920 Lamar Jackson is always dangerous because if everybody isn't in 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:43.080 their lane, he's thirty yards down the field before you 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:44.119 even know what comes at you. 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:46.760 Yeah, I don't think the first two. 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:50.560 Weren't as much pass blitz as they were biting on 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:56.320 play action. So look, you've got a blitz at times 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.679 or else you're two predictable in this scheme. You have 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:04.840 to bring guys or else it doesn't work. You know, 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:09.800 you've got to hope it works when when you send it. 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:12.639 H that's always the problem that you know. One thing 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.560 it's always true is when you don't blitz. Fancy, why 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:16.240 didn't you blitz? 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:17.040 It worked? 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.560 The blitz Well, if it worked all the time, you know, 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.640 the teams would always do blitzlit So so you've got 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:26.040 to pick your spots with it. They've got good blitzers 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:26.760 on this team. 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:30.680 Rachel Jenkins is very good at it, but he hasn't 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:31.680 gotten home in recent weeks. 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:32.840 Right, I don't think you stop it. 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:34.800 We did see Antonio Johnson get a strip seck. 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:37.280 Another young guy who can really get after it. Andre 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:39.679 Cisco is a good blitzer from that safety spot. So 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.639 it isn't so much blitzer not blitch. It's when to 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:47.440 blitz right in what situations and calling the right blitz 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:49.679 at the right moment. That's on they had well the. 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:53.199 Defensive coordinator, yes, Mike call Goal makes those choices. On 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:54.080 the other side of the ball. 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:56.960 We saw a lot of miscommunication that game against Cleveland, 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.240 probably more than we've seen on the offense in quite 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:03.480