1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:04,760 Speaker 1: Something you may remember from the good old day. I 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: feel so old. Time for senior moments here has become 3 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:19,279 Speaker 1: for the close of November, starts the key month of 4 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: December seven and four with three straight home games. Brian Sexton, 5 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 1: senior writer, John or your Joe Fortunado's here somewhere in 6 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: the Cavernet studios, ambling, hobbling about a little bit hurt 7 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:35,479 Speaker 1: this week, plan hurt uh. Jaguars came home from Arizona 8 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 1: a little bit hurt. Feelings hurt um and people are 9 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,520 Speaker 1: worried about them, and there are some things to worry about. 10 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: So what if we take a couple of minutes here 11 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: and talk about the true state of the Jaguars where 12 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,239 Speaker 1: they are heading into the home stretch. And before we do, 13 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: let's just say this, before you lose perspective on what's 14 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: sort of wrong, what an incredible opportunity they have right now. 15 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: They're seven and four. They have gotten through went on 16 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 1: paper before the season seemed the tough part. Eleven games, 17 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 1: a bunch on the road, four and two on the road, 18 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:12,039 Speaker 1: beat Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh, pounded Pittsburgh one twice on the 19 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 1: road in the division, which no matter how it played, 20 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,559 Speaker 1: out when you start circling stuff for the season. That's 21 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: three big gets. And now they're back in EverBank Field, 22 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 1: three game homes stand with everything at hand, they've never 23 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 1: had a three game homestand in December and franchise history 24 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:34,199 Speaker 1: that they've gone into leading the division. So if you think, 25 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 1: if you if you take all that and say, where 26 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: do you think they were gonna be? Oh, they're so 27 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 1: far ahead, unbelievable December shaping up and you gotta take advantage. 28 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:46,319 Speaker 1: If I told you seven and four after eleven tied 29 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: for first place heading into this, you would have taken 30 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:50,919 Speaker 1: it in August. If I had said ten and six, 31 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: and like your head was on fire, if you'd say 32 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: that right exactly, especially based on the way that we 33 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: saw the offensive line player in the preseason here against 34 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: Tampa and Carolina without a doubt. Uh, if I had 35 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 1: said tenants six, wild card team, you play on the road, 36 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 1: you don't win the wild card game, but you make 37 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:11,919 Speaker 1: the playoffs, would you sign well of Jaguars fans would 38 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: give me that after the years of double digital losses 39 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: and and not making the playoffs and disappointment, you sign 40 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 1: in the lone you take it. So the perspective is there, 41 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: there's fiftent maybe maybe a little bit more than that. 42 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: The expectations run realistic, right, they're thinking, well, look, I 43 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: mean lines up for us to finish thirteen in three 44 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: and have a boss. You heard that kind of talk 45 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:37,399 Speaker 1: in recent weeks. So coming home losing to blame Gabbert 46 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:42,359 Speaker 1: and Adrian Peterson and a reshuffled offensive line out there. Um, 47 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: there's a sense of panic on some people's part. There's 48 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: a sense of unease on most people's part. So let's 49 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: just deal with the fact. The defense is what. The 50 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 1: defense is very very good. Any holes on the defense 51 00:02:55,720 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: that were you today? Um no, not in the grand 52 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: scheme of things. I mean, it's look, this is the 53 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: National Football League and you're going you know, you can 54 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 1: say what you want about the two thousand Ravens. They 55 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 1: were a great defense. They gave up at the end 56 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: of the season that year. They gave up like four 57 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yards passing to the Jets. Maybe exaggerating, 58 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 1: but it was. It was absurd the amount they give 59 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: up thirty six to Jacksonville that year. Uh So, no 60 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:29,919 Speaker 1: defense is gonna hold things to one sixty with ten 61 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 1: sacks every game. The rules aren't designed for that right. 62 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: So to me, the defense UH has done an amazing 63 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: job in most games of doing something where you look 64 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 1: at and go that should have won the game. Ten sacs, tensacs, 65 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: five turnovers, five turnovers twelve yards. And against the Bengals 66 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: the other day, to me, they got the ball back 67 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: twice for the offense in score situations that should have 68 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 1: ended the game. To me, the defense did its job. 69 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: I don't worry about this defense being good enough to 70 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: win every game the rest of the season. The thing 71 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: I went, the thing I worried about I think was 72 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: handled with the loss, and that was I talked to 73 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: guys last week and talked about focus. And it was 74 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: the first week that they had a full one game 75 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: lead over the Titans, and you know, how do you 76 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 1: focus going forward looking at the lineup and who you're playing. 77 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: And I didn't believe them when they talked to him, 78 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 1: all we're focused, we know exactly the players are always 79 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: going to say that. I got a sense that the 80 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 1: power rankings and the defensive rankings and a lot of 81 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 1: that that adulation was well deserved. But I kind of 82 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:33,599 Speaker 1: got the sentence, especially for some of the younger players. 83 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,160 Speaker 1: They had taken a bye to that apple, and I 84 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 1: think it got solved late in the game when Blaine 85 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 1: Gabbert hit the long pass and the touchdown to give 86 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: venteen lead. I think there was a little humility there 87 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:46,679 Speaker 1: and and they get it. They they have to focus 88 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,279 Speaker 1: no matter who the quarterback is, whether it's Blaine Gabbert 89 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: noted failure in Jacksonville or Jacoby Brissett who's been battling 90 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 1: all season long, they better be sharp. So I think 91 00:04:55,320 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 1: they're fine. Offensively, different story, Yeah, I don't know. I 92 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: don't get the sense. I've been asked a couple of 93 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,840 Speaker 1: times this week, what are the answers on offense? Frankly, 94 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: I don't think there are answers on offense. I think 95 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: the offense is what it is. Uh. There's not gonna 96 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: be a magic bird come down from the sky and say, yeah, 97 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:17,039 Speaker 1: you're gonna be a great passing offense. Uh, you know, 98 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: I don't think I think Jeremy Jeremy Partnell comes back 99 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 1: this week, I don't think. I don't think he's the 100 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: magic elixer. I think he helps you. The reality is 101 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: this has been a team that, for the most part, 102 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 1: has not been dominant offensively in anything this year. It's 103 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: it's been a good running team. Uh. It has not 104 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:41,720 Speaker 1: been a running team that you felt like controlled games. Uh. 105 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: Well wait, you didn't feel like they controlled the Pittsburgh game. 106 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:46,840 Speaker 1: You didn't feel like one out of nine or one 107 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: out of eleven. Okay, they controlled that game. But for 108 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,480 Speaker 1: the most part, and maybe Baltimore and maybe, Uh, they 109 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 1: had a pretty good impact in Houston on Opening Day, 110 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: although I mean, I know the defense sacked the quarterback 111 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:02,039 Speaker 1: eleven or ten times, had a good impact. My point being, 112 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: they have averaged Fournet has averaged four yards to carry 113 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 1: three times this year. Um. And one of those games 114 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: was the Rams game, which I'm not sure you would 115 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: make the argument that was a dominant running day except 116 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: for the seventy five yard that was where they right 117 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 1: after the the opening to drop. The other one was Cleveland, 118 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:25,919 Speaker 1: which again an impressive effort for Fornet against Cleveland, But 119 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: you never got the feeling in that Cleveland game like 120 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: they were dominating the line of scrimmage. So I don't 121 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:33,479 Speaker 1: think that's gonna happen. I think they're a good running team. 122 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 1: They can play to that formula and get enough out 123 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:39,719 Speaker 1: of the run to be successful. But this offense, I believe, 124 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: for the last five games, is still going to struggle 125 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: for consistency. UM. I don't think you're gonna have a 126 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 1: whole lot of games that you come off saying, boy, 127 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:51,040 Speaker 1: that offense and just drove the other I think it's 128 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 1: what it is, UM, But I think you can offensively 129 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: do what they started to do the other day, which 130 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:04,359 Speaker 1: is scrap, claw, fight, find your way. So the formulas changing, Um, 131 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 1: the formulas no longer play great defense and run the ball. 132 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 1: I think that's where they want to formula to be. 133 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 1: I'm not sure the run the ball formula has been 134 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: the dominant formula that maybe the stats have shown so 135 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty four yards a game rushing is not 136 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 1: indicative to you, and I tend to agree with you 137 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 1: because it didn't feel like they were able to. Let's 138 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: show the numbers out for to me twenty four years 139 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: in this league. My belief is that success running the 140 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 1: ball is when you line up and the other team 141 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 1: knows what you're going to do and they still can't 142 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 1: stop it. In other words, third down to two, we run, 143 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 1: and we either run in the A gap or the 144 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 1: B gap, so buckle up, guess which one we're coming at. 145 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: We can run when we want to run. And it's 146 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: hard to make a case that they have done that 147 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:55,679 Speaker 1: most of the season. I have m but that doesn't 148 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: mean that you shouldn't be running team and that you 149 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: shouldn't strive for it who you are. I mean, that's 150 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: still what they have to be. So my contention is 151 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 1: the guard play here? Is the problem been a struggle? Yeah, 152 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: and because there's always someone in the gap, the guards 153 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 1: don't to me, they don't play with enough power. To me, 154 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: they don't get guys out of the way. Uh, they're 155 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,680 Speaker 1: not elite athletes. And people say, well, what guards are 156 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: really elite athletes? But it strikes me that these guards 157 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: are okay, but they're not good enough for a downhill 158 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: runner like Leonard for Nett, And it's got to be 159 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: it has to be addressed. And in fairness, some of it, 160 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 1: or a big chunk is still teams are able to 161 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,960 Speaker 1: put eight in the box. So that's you know, and 162 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: that's the kind of thing that we're not saying that, 163 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:49,320 Speaker 1: but that ain't gonna change. So may put tend people 164 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 1: in the box right in the context of that um 165 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: you know, it's I think you still strive for it, 166 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: you still go after it, but I don't know that 167 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: you're going to turn. When the How Boys were running 168 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 1: last year, if you watch them, it felt like it 169 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 1: was Zeke for five, ze for seven, Zeke for two, 170 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 1: and then Zeke for ten. Right now, the Jaguars don't 171 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: feel like that, and I think they have to get 172 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 1: closer to what they want to be. But I don't 173 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: think they're gonna be a dominant offense in terms of 174 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 1: dictating the tempo of a game. Uh. I'd just I'd 175 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 1: be surprised if it happens. It's felt the last couple 176 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 1: of weeks like it's been for Net for one, for 177 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 1: Net for a loss of two, for Net for four, 178 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: for Net for two. I mean, it's just it's there's 179 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 1: been an inability to get very far, to build up 180 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 1: a head of steam, which is the way that he runs. 181 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 1: You're gonna have to keep after it, though, because the 182 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: passing game and boy, it just boggles my mind that 183 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:50,320 Speaker 1: everyone wants to throw it at at Blake Bortles when 184 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: you look at Mark Easley. But I think we'd all 185 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:54,559 Speaker 1: agree is a good two when you got a solid one. 186 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: On the field, right, Okay, is last week spectacular three, 187 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: which is what he'd be playing if Hernson Robinson we're 188 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:04,199 Speaker 1: both in okay, so and I agree with you. So 189 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:09,080 Speaker 1: you have he him lined up in front of Patrick 190 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 1: Peterson and the safety always kind of looking in that direction, 191 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 1: which means that you had to lean last week on 192 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: DD Westbrook, who had played in his second NFL game, 193 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 1: and Keelan Cole who a year ago this time was 194 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 1: playing against Alfred State. Right, don't underestimate Alfred's date. Okay, 195 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 1: I've never heard of him until I looked it up. Right, 196 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 1: we can go back and go back forth on Alfred's 197 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:37,680 Speaker 1: day there, But you get my point. Um, it's ridiculous 198 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 1: right now to expect that they're going to throw for 199 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 1: three hundred yards when you don't even have Alan Hearns 200 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 1: on the fields there. Now you're down to Jaden Mackens 201 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:50,559 Speaker 1: who was off the practice squadish temperatory man. And I 202 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:54,319 Speaker 1: you know what I've said, O'Shaughnessy all season. Why don't 203 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:55,839 Speaker 1: they get into the ball. I mean, especially since a 204 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: rob went Nott have been looking for a big target 205 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 1: who can replace those jump ball they haven't gone to him, right, 206 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:03,599 Speaker 1: I tried to last week a couple of times, you know, 207 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: But I mean, even if you go to him, I'm 208 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: not going to discount of Shaughnessy, but he's probably not 209 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: gonna get you sixty yards. I mean we can changed. 210 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 1: Can you keep drives along? Um? And that's right now. 211 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:19,080 Speaker 1: I still go back to what I said after the 212 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:24,440 Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers game. Uh, the key for this offense. 213 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 1: I think it's gonna have a couple of weeks where 214 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 1: it looks better than it's I think this week it 215 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 1: will look better because I think what they're gonna wind 216 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 1: up doing is Blake has not thrown the deep ball 217 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 1: poorly this year. I would make the case that the 218 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 1: receivers have caught it poorly at times. And I think 219 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 1: you were well within your rights based on last week. 220 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: So what I think what happen is they need to 221 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 1: continue to do that. Blake has thrown the fade bomb 222 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 1: whatever you call it, pretty well. I'm thinking of the 223 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:52,560 Speaker 1: past two yelled in last week. It was a good 224 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: past that was dropped. The past down the middle of 225 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:56,960 Speaker 1: the field to Keelan Cole was a good pass that 226 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 1: was dropped, could have been caught. Whatever, go make the way. Um, 227 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: I think you're going to continue to see that play 228 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 1: three or four or five times a game on the 229 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,959 Speaker 1: weeks that they hit it and catch it, which I 230 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: do believe that catching it into the last three weeks 231 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: have been a bigger issue than hitting it. On the 232 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 1: weeks you catch it, then I think people are gonna go, oh, 233 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:21,079 Speaker 1: look at this, and you're gonna have some flip field plays, 234 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 1: some touchdowns, et cetera. On the weeks you don't. I 235 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 1: think people are gonna say, what in the world is 236 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: wrong with this offense? From what I hear from you 237 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: and the conversations that I've had, the defense is going 238 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 1: to put this team in the playoffs with short fields 239 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: for the offense. That's it. You're relying. Are you gonna 240 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 1: get Are you gonna get a long drive? Yeah? Here 241 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 1: and there. If Hernsey comes back, right, if Marcedes gets involved, 242 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 1: you get one or two a game. They've been getting 243 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 1: one or two game long drives the last couple of weeks. 244 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 1: If you think about they got the one Againt San 245 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:53,959 Speaker 1: Diego or La Samas, whatever you want to call him. Uh. 246 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 1: I want to point out that on NFL Network on 247 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 1: Sunday Morning with San Diego San Diego, San Diego, San Diego. 248 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 1: So if it's good some time, it's good enough from um. 249 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 1: They did it a couple of times against the Cardinals 250 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:08,120 Speaker 1: where it was the drive that scored, where Blake's scored 251 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: the one yard. On both of them he ran it 252 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 1: was well. The second one was sort of a short 253 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:15,840 Speaker 1: field ish at after the Corey Grant play, But the 254 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 1: first one it was. It was a long drive, but 255 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 1: it never felt like continuity. It felt like Blake got 256 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 1: the run but but they managed to squeeze it out somehow. 257 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: I think they'll get one or two of those a game. 258 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:27,560 Speaker 1: The rest of them gotta be short fields and maybe 259 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,959 Speaker 1: a big play something to create. You know, again, we're 260 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 1: sort of going over ourselves. But I don't think you're 261 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 1: gonna see uh many more games like Baltimore early in 262 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 1: the season where it's just boom boom boom, boom boom. 263 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 1: It just doesn't feel like that kind of an offense. 264 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 1: They looked to me like a ten and six team. 265 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 1: I know, people go, whoa WHOA hold on. I mean, 266 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:47,439 Speaker 1: there's five winnable games left. I mean, they could be 267 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 1: a twelve and four team, can't they? Yeah, But with 268 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 1: the offense the way it is, and and you have 269 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: banged this drum. Close games are in this team's future, 270 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:59,319 Speaker 1: and not knowing what the offense can produce, it's tough 271 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: to go. Hey, they're twelve and four. It feels like 272 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 1: you're gonna have three to five games just like the 273 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 1: last three. And to me, I've we've talked about this 274 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 1: a couple of times already. I felt like the last 275 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 1: three games were all the same game. They just lost 276 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:16,559 Speaker 1: one on the road in the game where the defense 277 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 1: pretty good as always offense, Uh, they won twice, they 278 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 1: lost once. If you scrap light that over the last five, 279 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 1: you probably get three and two. Uh. That feels if 280 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 1: you're looking at it from the outside with no passion 281 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 1: involved with the team, that looks like what this team is. 282 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 1: By the same token as you said, this defense is 283 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: good enough. There's not a game they can't win. So 284 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: you choose which ones. Let's see what happens ten and 285 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: six again, you take it all day long in August 286 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: you absolutely, we'll take that instead of ten losses. Give 287 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 1: it to me and let's not sit here at the 288 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 1: beginning of December and poop who the playoffs. I know 289 00:14:56,400 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 1: you're a big poopoo the playoffs guy, But I just 290 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: like you're talking about, I just like saying poo and 291 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 1: in my hand, like you can't see, you've got five left. Uh, 292 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 1: don't discount the need to win some to get in 293 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 1: this thing, because getting in it matters and it's not 294 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 1: a guarantee. The Jaguars were not running the ball well, 295 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: and they weren't playing great defense. They were playing okay defense. 296 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: They're making plays when it matters. They were playing as 297 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 1: we went into the playoffs, and they beat Jim Kelly 298 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 1: by running the ball and playing very good defense. And 299 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 1: they beat John Elway by running the ball and in 300 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 1: the second half playing very good defense and shutting them out. 301 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 1: So there's no reason why they can't find something and 302 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 1: makes something happen. It's just at this point as you 303 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 1: sit realistically, they look like attendance six point seeing anybody. 304 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: I'll tell you if you do whatever you can to 305 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: get in and then hope you get matchups, hope you 306 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 1: getting health, and hope you get hot. Senior Rodger JAS 307 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 1: dot Com senior correspondent in your moments, and then there's job. 308 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 1: We love your job. See you later.