Latest / The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network / Jags Drive Time: Thursday, November 14
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Was celebrating twenty five years of Jaguars football players hugging.
- 0:05Speaker 1: They know what just happened. They understand that this game
- 0:08Speaker 1: just very the playoffs to the first on a ten years.
- 0:14Speaker 1: Jaguars did Jack Jackquars did. Jaguars time sex stept, thank
- 0:22Speaker 1: you pay hey, Ashman Seller, Jaguars dry A time starts
- 0:27Speaker 1: right now. My firm believer in the fourth quarter, players
- 0:32Speaker 1: make play. Do you trust the guy next to you?
- 0:33Speaker 1: You're probably gonna ask you better than if you don't. Um,
- 0:36Speaker 1: So that's where we're going. Nick Foles press conference yesterday
- 0:41Speaker 1: was absolutely worth watching. If you haven't seen it yet,
- 0:44Speaker 1: it's on Jaguars dot com. I think it has something
- 0:47Speaker 1: like three quarters of a million yet. He had a
- 0:50Speaker 1: lot to say. I was very very impressed watching the
- 0:53Speaker 1: entire thing. Government show also did incredible in the locker room.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Probably his last big press conference this year, but Nick Foles,
- 0:59Speaker 1: it was absolutely you know, and it's not one of
- 1:01Speaker 1: our big things today, but it's worth mentioning. He's such
- 1:04Speaker 1: a strong personality. How long do you suppose it will
- 1:08Speaker 1: take for his business lifestyle, his approach to football to
- 1:14Speaker 1: take over the locker room. In other words, to see
- 1:16Speaker 1: that culture because he used the word culture was seven
- 1:18Speaker 1: eight times until his approach becomes the culture of the
- 1:22Speaker 1: locker room. I think it happened immediately because we need
- 1:25Speaker 1: it immediately, you know. I think that because we lost
- 1:29Speaker 1: a big game and it meant a lot to us
- 1:31Speaker 1: as far as what we want to do as far
- 1:34Speaker 1: as the season. We need that right now. And since
- 1:37Speaker 1: he's won super bowls and they brought him into you know,
- 1:40Speaker 1: do what he does best and win games, they're gonna
- 1:43Speaker 1: latch onto him and hopefully we can win some games well.
- 1:46Speaker 1: And obviously, you know Calais has had that really strong approach,
- 1:50Speaker 1: but the locker room has been young, you know. I
- 1:52Speaker 1: mean you've had the guys Miles Jack and Unique and
- 1:54Speaker 1: gok Way. You know, Ramsey's obviously gone, but you've got
- 1:57Speaker 1: a lot of young guys in there. Um, even calais Is.
- 2:02Speaker 1: I don't wantay he's deferential, because when you're six ft
- 2:04Speaker 1: eight and that big, you're never deferential. But you just
- 2:06Speaker 1: get the sense that he's he's pointing and saying that's
- 2:09Speaker 1: the guy we're following him, which is deferring to a
- 2:13Speaker 1: Super Bowl MVP quarterback. From your perspective, had that oh,
- 2:16Speaker 1: seven bunch had a guy like this come in, And
- 2:19Speaker 1: again I talked about you guys all the time. The
- 2:21Speaker 1: personalities you had, especially on defense, dominated the room. But
- 2:25Speaker 1: had they had a guy like this come in, would
- 2:28Speaker 1: you have deferred to him? Absolutely? Because he's done something
- 2:32Speaker 1: that I or a lot of us haven't been able
- 2:34Speaker 1: to do, and that's to get that beautiful rank. And
- 2:37Speaker 1: sometimes you just need a little change of energy and
- 2:40Speaker 1: he can come in and bring that little piece of energy,
- 2:43Speaker 1: that that little piece of chemistry that we haven't had
- 2:45Speaker 1: to get us over the hump to win some games.
- 2:48Speaker 1: So you have to you have to give him the
- 2:50Speaker 1: reins to the to the cart and let him run
- 2:52Speaker 1: the sof for a little bit. You know. I thought, Ashton,
- 2:54Speaker 1: we've had this conversation. I thought they were a little
- 2:55Speaker 1: loose after the loss, uh to the Texans. On the
- 2:58Speaker 1: plane right home. I thought it was a little festive,
- 3:00Speaker 1: you know, more show than I would have wanted. UM.
- 3:03Speaker 1: And I think a guy like Nick is the guy
- 3:05Speaker 1: who sits there because guys, we lost, come on, yeah,
- 3:08Speaker 1: and then we lost. I know, it's the bye week
- 3:10Speaker 1: we lost. UM. I thought that. I think that based
- 3:15Speaker 1: on hearing him yesterday, Um, I'm with you. I think
- 3:19Speaker 1: he takes you over immediately. He is a commanding presence. Yeah,
- 3:21Speaker 1: you don't want to lose the locker room. You've got
- 3:23Speaker 1: young You've got young kids in there. You don't want
- 3:25Speaker 1: them to say, hey, this season is over as a wash.
- 3:29Speaker 1: You know, let's just try to finish because it's not.
- 3:31Speaker 1: It's not. It's not. You gotta fight for it. You
- 3:33Speaker 1: gotta have to fight for it. But it's not over.
- 3:35Speaker 1: So he needs to come in and he needs to
- 3:37Speaker 1: show this whole city that this is my team and
- 3:40Speaker 1: this is what we're gonna do and win win some games. Yeah,
- 3:42Speaker 1: it is all business right now, that's for sure. And
- 3:44Speaker 1: I think it was impressive when Nick Foles first got here.
- 3:46Speaker 1: When we were asking the locker room, do you think
- 3:48Speaker 1: of the signing? Everyone said, the respect they had from
- 3:50Speaker 1: because he was a Super Bowl m v P. The
- 3:53Speaker 1: amount of times I heard yesterday and Monday in the
- 3:55Speaker 1: locker room super Bowl m v P is countless. They're
- 3:58Speaker 1: right back to that mutual respect in the locker room because,
- 4:01Speaker 1: like you said, he has something no one else has.
- 4:04Speaker 1: Well locker Look, lockerroom is supposed to be a fun
- 4:06Speaker 1: place when you're winning right. Uh, and this is a
- 4:10Speaker 1: young team and I've just I've seen it. They haven't
- 4:13Speaker 1: grasped that that real business like and maybe maybe my
- 4:16Speaker 1: definition of it's different. But then I look at Nick
- 4:18Speaker 1: and I see him walk through the locker room and
- 4:20Speaker 1: I think that's it. That's what it takes to win. Yeah.
- 4:24Speaker 1: It's kind of funny because when when Minshew was doing it,
- 4:27Speaker 1: everyone was surprised that he was winning games. They were like, wow,
- 4:30Speaker 1: we're winning games with this, with this young cat, and uh,
- 4:33Speaker 1: it's it's good that we're winning games, but we expect
- 4:36Speaker 1: him to eventually fall off. And that was the energy
- 4:39Speaker 1: that you kind of see in the locker room. You
- 4:40Speaker 1: kind of seen it on the plane right there. Now
- 4:42Speaker 1: when you have Folds coming in, it's like, okay, it's
- 4:44Speaker 1: having to get serious. It's time to get the business
- 4:46Speaker 1: because this guy knows what it takes. Some one the
- 4:47Speaker 1: super Bowl. Hopefully there's no falling off, and we don't
- 4:50Speaker 1: want to fall off. We got lost to talk about.
- 4:52Speaker 1: All right, let's get into big things. Big thing one
- 4:55Speaker 1: it is the Colts quarterback unsure. Yeah. If Jacoby first
- 4:58Speaker 1: said will play on Sunday, however, he was a full
- 5:01Speaker 1: participant in practice yesterday, and they said, if all things
- 5:04Speaker 1: go according to plan, you will most likely play on Sunday. However,
- 5:08Speaker 1: t Y Hilton, his best offensive weapon, did not practice yesterday.
- 5:12Speaker 1: We'll talk about what that means for the Jaguars defense.
- 5:15Speaker 1: Big thing too is hash marks. It's no secret now
- 5:18Speaker 1: that Nick Foles is the starting quarterback. He likes to
- 5:20Speaker 1: use tight ends. He likes to just he likes to
- 5:23Speaker 1: use the middle of the field. DJ Chart, You hope
- 5:26Speaker 1: he is still a weapon going forward. He's taking back
- 5:30Speaker 1: control of the offense and things like that. Um very
- 5:36Speaker 1: no smart um in control at all times. You feel
- 5:40Speaker 1: like so he's more stability just from an experience standpoint.
- 5:47Speaker 1: And Big thing three is a big game, no secret.
- 5:51Speaker 1: Sunday's game against the Colts is a huge game in
- 5:53Speaker 1: the division. You've beaten the teams you're supposed to beat
- 5:56Speaker 1: this year, However, you haven't beaten many good teams are
- 6:00Speaker 1: blee now going forward. Clays Campbell says everything you want
- 6:03Speaker 1: to hear, how they're focusing day to day. Can't look
- 6:05Speaker 1: past this week, Miles Jack isn't as subtle. Worry about today.
- 6:09Speaker 1: If we can win this game in front of us, said,
- 6:12Speaker 1: give us an opportunity to have a chance next week.
- 6:14Speaker 1: So you know, let's take care of yourself, you know,
- 6:16Speaker 1: just you gotta take there our business. You know, the playoffs.
- 6:20Speaker 1: We have to win this game. But you know we
- 6:23Speaker 1: have to win this game. I liked it well, Jack
- 6:27Speaker 1: summed it up. Yeah, No, I did too, And and
- 6:30Speaker 1: really reright, this is it for them. You said the
- 6:32Speaker 1: key words, it's not over, but you're gonna have to
- 6:35Speaker 1: fight for it. And when you look at this division,
- 6:39Speaker 1: we said the Texans, the Colts, and the Titans would
- 6:41Speaker 1: decide the division, at least the Jaguar share of it. Right.
- 6:45Speaker 1: They would thrust themselves into it and be in the race,
- 6:47Speaker 1: or they would cast themselves out of it and be
- 6:49Speaker 1: looking at the race. And even though they didn't play
- 6:52Speaker 1: well and didn't win in Houston, this game here is
- 6:55Speaker 1: the full crumb. It's that one in the middle. You
- 6:57Speaker 1: get this one all of a sudden, now it's on. Yeah,
- 7:00Speaker 1: because you need this one, It's no question about it.
- 7:04Speaker 1: I mean, the coats they're they're they're hot right now.
- 7:08Speaker 1: But we have to come out here and we have
- 7:11Speaker 1: to play because I feel like with young people in
- 7:13Speaker 1: the locker room, if they lose this game, they're just
- 7:16Speaker 1: gonna check out, completely check out. And it's always better
- 7:21Speaker 1: to have something to look forward to when you play
- 7:24Speaker 1: football games. You don't want to just go out there
- 7:26Speaker 1: and just have to, you know, do your job and
- 7:28Speaker 1: just play the game with it's nothing you're fighting for.
- 7:32Speaker 1: They have to have something to fight for and they
- 7:34Speaker 1: have to win this game. So over the last couple
- 7:36Speaker 1: of years there have been must win games and we
- 7:38Speaker 1: have tire and in seventeen they got it done largely
- 7:41Speaker 1: with defense, right because in Gokway stripped a ball in
- 7:45Speaker 1: Cleveland and Telvin Smith picked up and took it back
- 7:47Speaker 1: for attenchdown. Things like that happened the last year and
- 7:50Speaker 1: a half, going back to the start of eighteen to now,
- 7:53Speaker 1: the must wins haven't been wins for this team. This
- 7:55Speaker 1: is where Nick changes the equation. This is why to
- 7:58Speaker 1: me it was a no brainer that you change from
- 8:00Speaker 1: Gardner Menshew back to Nick. Besides all the money in
- 8:03Speaker 1: the season planning and all of that stuff, it's because
- 8:06Speaker 1: this is a guy who wins must win games nine
- 8:08Speaker 1: and two in his last eleven starts over seventeen and eighteen.
- 8:12Speaker 1: Right in November December and January. This is what he does.
- 8:17Speaker 1: This is it's not fair to say this on him.
- 8:21Speaker 1: This is what he's supposed to do, right, Yeah, and
- 8:22Speaker 1: that's a lot. That's a lot because he's coming off
- 8:24Speaker 1: an injury and then you asked him to come in
- 8:27Speaker 1: and he has to win so many games. It's not
- 8:30Speaker 1: it's it's not just like, Okay, there's a much win
- 8:32Speaker 1: game for this week and then next week it's you know,
- 8:35Speaker 1: you want to win, but it's not. Yeah, you can
- 8:38Speaker 1: relax and get comfortable, but no, he has to win again.
- 8:41Speaker 1: And I think he can do it. Uh, you know
- 8:45Speaker 1: it will a team get behind him and support him.
- 8:48Speaker 1: It's the thing like are they already checked out or
- 8:52Speaker 1: are they like because if they're relaxed on the plane
- 8:54Speaker 1: and they're you know, saying, hey, it's the bye week
- 8:57Speaker 1: and let's just you know, have fun and and and
- 9:00Speaker 1: not thinking, hey, the Colts are coming, we have to
- 9:02Speaker 1: win this game. We have the quarterback that hasn't played
- 9:05Speaker 1: since the first week. You know, those are the type
- 9:07Speaker 1: of things that veterans worry about. If they're not like
- 9:10Speaker 1: that and they're not thinking, Okay, what can we do
- 9:12Speaker 1: to support him to win and get these last few
- 9:15Speaker 1: games taken care of, they're not gonna win. Will you
- 9:18Speaker 1: tell me you heard Miles right there? You heard Calais
- 9:21Speaker 1: right there. Those are two veterans, one a young one
- 9:23Speaker 1: of a season veterans. I didn't get the sense to
- 9:26Speaker 1: do yesterday that this team has checked out. They may
- 9:29Speaker 1: have checked out on the plane right home from London
- 9:31Speaker 1: thinking it's the bye week right um, and not have
- 9:34Speaker 1: been really tightened down. But my senses in the locker
- 9:37Speaker 1: room this week is is that they are tightened down,
- 9:40Speaker 1: That this is a team that understands that at four
- 9:42Speaker 1: and five they're very much in it, but they have
- 9:46Speaker 1: to win to get us in the mindset of a
- 9:49Speaker 1: must win for a player in that locker room, Is
- 9:52Speaker 1: it the same as it would be for any other game,
- 9:54Speaker 1: or is it tightening down? You know, I gotta spend
- 9:57Speaker 1: more time in the film room. I got to spend
- 9:59Speaker 1: more time you on my body? What does must win
- 10:02Speaker 1: feel like? Must win feels like everything? You must do everything? Okay, Um,
- 10:08Speaker 1: You're come in to work, you're taking notes, you're watching film,
- 10:11Speaker 1: you know everything, every check, every audible, what do I
- 10:15Speaker 1: do in every situation? And then after you get off
- 10:18Speaker 1: the field, you rest you do do the things that
- 10:21Speaker 1: you you should be doing. But sometimes you know, players
- 10:24Speaker 1: and players of veterans, they don't do they they're out
- 10:27Speaker 1: there doing things that's going to take away from their game.
- 10:30Speaker 1: And I don't know what that is. If that's standing
- 10:31Speaker 1: up all night, if that's you know, partying a little
- 10:33Speaker 1: bit too much, but hopefully we're not doing that. And
- 10:37Speaker 1: then you get ready, you get so serious because every
- 10:39Speaker 1: game is like a playoff game, and young players don't
- 10:43Speaker 1: understand this, that the game gets faster in the playoffs
- 10:46Speaker 1: because it's so important. But we're in a position where
- 10:50Speaker 1: this is our playoff. We have to win to keep
- 10:52Speaker 1: this thing going. And are they going to get that
- 10:54Speaker 1: serious so well that you just shout it? Actually, the
- 10:58Speaker 1: reality of it is is that this is a playoff
- 10:59Speaker 1: game for this team on Sunday, and then if you win, well,
- 11:02Speaker 1: then the next round is the next week against Tennessee,
- 11:04Speaker 1: and if you win then the next week. You know,
- 11:06Speaker 1: I refer to it all the time, but this team
- 11:09Speaker 1: is four and seven and they win a game, and
- 11:10Speaker 1: then they win another, and then they win another, and
- 11:13Speaker 1: at that point, there were no, hey, this is must
- 11:15Speaker 1: win because they're they're not thinking they're gonna make the playoffs.
- 11:17Speaker 1: They make the playoffs that year until Morton Anderson is
- 11:19Speaker 1: a field goal on the final play of the game here.
- 11:22Speaker 1: But then it just got to that point where it, wow,
- 11:25Speaker 1: every game has been a must win. Well now they're
- 11:28Speaker 1: looking at it. I mean it's like you can see
- 11:29Speaker 1: the schedule. They say playoffs aren't on the schedule. They
- 11:31Speaker 1: are right now for this team, this could be a
- 11:33Speaker 1: very long playoff races. And that's seven week playoffs. Of
- 11:38Speaker 1: what you're saying even more, and that is is that
- 11:40Speaker 1: you really have to take the time to take care
- 11:43Speaker 1: of your body. Now, here's my question. If ashes out partying,
- 11:47Speaker 1: if I'm going to say to her, hey, we need
- 11:51Speaker 1: you for the show. And I would say that I
- 11:53Speaker 1: would because as I was told in the donut shop,
- 11:55Speaker 1: yester Sady, oh isn't it nice your outcome buying donuts
- 11:57Speaker 1: with your daughter? That was that what you did? Well?
- 12:03Speaker 1: And here's the interesting part, I did too. Um. But
- 12:05Speaker 1: the reality of it is is I would tell her, Hey,
- 12:09Speaker 1: you can't do it every night. You gotta come ladies,
- 12:12Speaker 1: every ding. You gotta be ready to go. Okay, are
- 12:15Speaker 1: they saying that it's Calais saying that to the guy
- 12:17Speaker 1: next to him, Miles Jack saying that to Quincy Williams.
- 12:21Speaker 1: I'm just pulling names out of the hat here, not
- 12:23Speaker 1: trying to point a finger to anybody. But are these
- 12:25Speaker 1: guys saying it to one another? You would hope so
- 12:28Speaker 1: did you guys? You know? Seven? Yeah? Yeah, I mean,
- 12:30Speaker 1: and that's why we had I mean, we have some
- 12:32Speaker 1: party animals. I mean and uh, it's some party animals
- 12:37Speaker 1: on the defensive line, on the defensive line and on
- 12:39Speaker 1: the d line. We pulled it in. Yeah, we pulled
- 12:41Speaker 1: it in because it's like, Okay, it's the time to
- 12:43Speaker 1: have fun, it's the time to go to work, and
- 12:45Speaker 1: it was time to go to work. And we didn't,
- 12:48Speaker 1: you know, in that year, we didn't put ourselves in
- 12:51Speaker 1: this position where we had the strain like this is
- 12:53Speaker 1: a stressful situation because you know, every game is so
- 12:57Speaker 1: important where if you would have a little bit of
- 12:59Speaker 1: cush it, if you have some more wins. Every game
- 13:02Speaker 1: is important, but it's not this important. So I'm hoping
- 13:05Speaker 1: that they're telling me, hey, let's rest, Hey, um, come
- 13:08Speaker 1: to my house, let's watch some film as a unit. Okay,
- 13:12Speaker 1: we don't need any coaches in the room. We don't
- 13:13Speaker 1: need anyone that's going to you know, make it real stiff.
- 13:16Speaker 1: We can sit down, relax, We'll watch film as a group.
- 13:19Speaker 1: If we see something, we'll talk about it and we
- 13:21Speaker 1: can discuss things that we can do on the field. Okay,
- 13:24Speaker 1: that's the type of that's the type of situation we're in.
- 13:27Speaker 1: And hopefully they do that, and if they don't, we're
- 13:30Speaker 1: going to see it on film. Because you know what
- 13:32Speaker 1: they say that the eye and the sky doesn't lie.
- 13:35Speaker 1: You see everything and when it goes wrong, we can
- 13:37Speaker 1: point it out. All right, we got let's go back
- 13:39Speaker 1: top real quick. Couple said did practice uh, And the
- 13:42Speaker 1: word was that if he went through a full practice
- 13:45Speaker 1: that he was going to be a full participant. Has
- 13:48Speaker 1: been out most of the last two games coming back
- 13:50Speaker 1: from an mc L. This is a mobile guy. My
- 13:53Speaker 1: guest would be that the game plan is to hit
- 13:56Speaker 1: him and hit him as often as you can. And
- 13:58Speaker 1: I hope so, because when someone has a knee injury,
- 14:01Speaker 1: they're gonna be a little scared. They're gonna be protective
- 14:03Speaker 1: by that knee. And with the rules now, you can't
- 14:06Speaker 1: really know, you can't really attack. Since you bring that
- 14:09Speaker 1: up ye since your We talked about this on on
- 14:12Speaker 1: yesterday with John so Deshaun Watson. I'm sure you saw
- 14:15Speaker 1: the game. He was given that extra half second by
- 14:19Speaker 1: the officials to dump the ball out when and got
- 14:22Speaker 1: way and Tavin Bryant had their arms wrapped all around him,
- 14:25Speaker 1: and you're expecting the whistle. Right as a player, are
- 14:27Speaker 1: you not thinking I better but go easy here because
- 14:29Speaker 1: the whistle Abrey Jones was living on the sidelines. Give
- 14:33Speaker 1: me your perspective as a defensive lineman. How do you
- 14:35Speaker 1: play these quarterbacks who were mobile when the officials are
- 14:39Speaker 1: supposed to protect him and giving them the extra time.
- 14:43Speaker 1: How do you guys win? That's that's a difficult one
- 14:46Speaker 1: because if I was out there, I would have slammed him.
- 14:50Speaker 1: I would have slammed him. And you know, made it
- 14:53Speaker 1: on the referee to make a decision whether to throw
- 14:55Speaker 1: the flag on me as opposed to letting him throw
- 14:58Speaker 1: the ball. Because I was watching and I was like, man,
- 15:00Speaker 1: he should blow the whistle, he should blow Oh he
- 15:03Speaker 1: threw the ball. This is ridiculous. And then he ran down.
- 15:05Speaker 1: I was like, and I wanted to scream at the screen.
- 15:09Speaker 1: You know, I wanted to scream at the ref, and
- 15:10Speaker 1: I was like, no, No, If I was out there,
- 15:12Speaker 1: I would have sealed the deal. I would have slammed
- 15:14Speaker 1: the quarterback and then you know, hopefully got a sack
- 15:17Speaker 1: and then made him call a flag on me. So,
- 15:20Speaker 1: as a player, like when you see someone that's safety
- 15:23Speaker 1: trying to knock the ball out of wide receiver's hand
- 15:25Speaker 1: across the middle, does he does he let up? Should
- 15:28Speaker 1: he let up? No? I wouldn't let up. I would
- 15:30Speaker 1: do my job and make the ref call that call. Yeah,
- 15:34Speaker 1: I probably would say the same thing. Go ahead him.
- 15:36Speaker 1: That's what Avery was saying that day is let's hit him.
- 15:38Speaker 1: If they're going to get very colorful. He used his vocabulary.
- 15:44Speaker 1: He used to vocabulary that made Ashland blush. It was
- 15:49Speaker 1: a little scared of words. I didn't want to be involved,
- 15:53Speaker 1: and thankfully I wasn't. But at this point, hey, no
- 15:57Speaker 1: matter what how he said, it what he said, if
- 16:00Speaker 1: they're going to give him time, that means we have
- 16:02Speaker 1: time to let's put him on the ground. I mean,
- 16:05Speaker 1: the referees are changing the game. They're changing the game,
- 16:07Speaker 1: but you still have to play it, and you have
- 16:10Speaker 1: to play it the way that you were brought up planning.
- 16:12Speaker 1: And if that's you know, getting a penalty here and there,
- 16:14Speaker 1: you're gonna give me a penalty, you're gonna I'm gonna
- 16:17Speaker 1: make you call a penalty and then I have to
- 16:19Speaker 1: back off. But he he should have slammed him. I
- 16:22Speaker 1: have a feeling that's going to feel some of that
- 16:23Speaker 1: this thing. I hope so around around the lower body too.
- 16:27Speaker 1: I might take a penalty. I'm um, whatever it does,
- 16:30Speaker 1: whatever it takes. Yeah, Well that's why they don't really
- 16:36Speaker 1: disclose those things, and that's why they're show protective on
- 16:38Speaker 1: the injury reports, because they know, right if you have
- 16:41Speaker 1: a quarterback coming in here without a tonail on a
- 16:43Speaker 1: big toe, right when Sam Donald did it, I might
- 16:45Speaker 1: step on him, right, it happens that walk the mic, Yeah,
- 16:49Speaker 1: not me. I was putting myself in Reggie shoes, all right.
- 16:54Speaker 1: When we come back, we go a round the locker
- 16:56Speaker 1: room from yesterday's a big day, a bunch of quarterback
- 16:58Speaker 1: news and looking more to do cult scheme on Sunday.
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- 18:48Speaker 1: Auto Group. And I want to go back to something Brian,
- 18:51Speaker 1: you and I were both there. Oh yeah, that was
- 18:55Speaker 1: but way back when Tom Coughlin J Fund. Yeah, and
- 18:59Speaker 1: Nick Foles we hadn't only heard much about him, you know,
- 19:01Speaker 1: we hadn't had one press conference with him at that time.
- 19:04Speaker 1: And I mean we knew what type of guy he
- 19:06Speaker 1: was coming in. But reader, if you can pull up
- 19:08Speaker 1: the picture of Brian, you can tell this better than me.
- 19:12Speaker 1: I was just in the stands. So this is at
- 19:14Speaker 1: the J Fund gala the night before the golf tournament,
- 19:17Speaker 1: and we do a big introduction of all the celebrities,
- 19:20Speaker 1: and this what I should say. The celebrities are both players,
- 19:25Speaker 1: broadcasters and the kids. Right, they feature a couple of
- 19:28Speaker 1: of J Fund kids. And this little girl was with
- 19:32Speaker 1: Nick and did she ask him or did you ask um?
- 19:37Speaker 1: She was telling him how she was scared to walk
- 19:39Speaker 1: by herself because they introduced the kids alone and it
- 19:41Speaker 1: was a room of probably two people. Loud, I can
- 19:43Speaker 1: understand why I'd be scary. So he picked her up
- 19:46Speaker 1: and carried her in, and it was that moment that
- 19:48Speaker 1: you realized that this guy was a leader. You talk
- 19:51Speaker 1: about servant based leadership, it's a it's a very popular
- 19:54Speaker 1: way to describe leadership in this day and age. That's
- 19:58Speaker 1: it right there. That's someone caring about someone else. And
- 20:00Speaker 1: he talks so much yesterday and in the spring about
- 20:03Speaker 1: caring about his teammates right about getting to know them,
- 20:06Speaker 1: about helping them be their best and when Nick talks,
- 20:09Speaker 1: and if you go back and watch the news conference
- 20:11Speaker 1: room yesterday, you won't be able to help but feel
- 20:14Speaker 1: that this is a genuine human being. We all want
- 20:17Speaker 1: to let our genuine nature through. Sometimes you let your
- 20:20Speaker 1: genuine nature through and people don't like you. Um, not
- 20:23Speaker 1: that that's anybody here, but the genuine nature of Nick
- 20:26Speaker 1: Foles is They said, he is someone I think that
- 20:28Speaker 1: you like, that you want to be around, and that
- 20:30Speaker 1: players would want to play for you. Get that sense, Yeah,
- 20:34Speaker 1: I think his leadership isn't forced like he's like I've
- 20:37Speaker 1: had teammates where they try to be leaders and it
- 20:39Speaker 1: seems like the forcing that out of themselves and it's
- 20:42Speaker 1: not genuine is You're like, no, no, I can't get
- 20:45Speaker 1: behind that because it's not organic. And Nick is an
- 20:49Speaker 1: organic guy. I mean, he's doing things and he's being
- 20:52Speaker 1: himself and all we think is, Wow, that's a leader.
- 20:55Speaker 1: Like he's not trying to be a leader, he's just
- 20:57Speaker 1: being a great guy. And you get hand people that
- 21:01Speaker 1: are naturally good people. So I think that it comes
- 21:04Speaker 1: it comes easy to him well, and it's it bears
- 21:07Speaker 1: mentioning again. When the Jaguars built their entire plan for
- 21:12Speaker 1: en and beyond on Nick Foles, it wasn't just Nick
- 21:15Speaker 1: Fole's Super Bowl m v P. It was Nick foles
- 21:18Speaker 1: most valuable person, the guy who comes into your locker room,
- 21:20Speaker 1: into your community and has a positive, powerful impact. That's
- 21:25Speaker 1: why he's back in the starting lineup. Yeah, And the
- 21:26Speaker 1: reason I brought that up is because we were all
- 21:29Speaker 1: so excited that Nick Foles was going to have an
- 21:30Speaker 1: opportunity to be the quarterback here and that moment you're like, wow,
- 21:34Speaker 1: I can't wait for the season to start. And then
- 21:36Speaker 1: everything with Gardner Minshew and the minshumania happened in all
- 21:38Speaker 1: the excitement with full subsided, I go back to that moment.
- 21:42Speaker 1: The entire Jaguars fan base was excited to see him play,
- 21:44Speaker 1: and they will be excited when they see him play
- 21:46Speaker 1: on Sunday again if he plays like he did the
- 21:48Speaker 1: first twelve or thirteen snaps here people forget. Yeah, he
- 21:51Speaker 1: got hurt. He got hurt throwing one of the most
- 21:53Speaker 1: beautiful rainbow like touchdown passing that I've ever seen a
- 21:57Speaker 1: Jaguars quarterback throw. Dropped it right in the red basket.
- 22:00Speaker 1: It for d J. Chark, and I think got him
- 22:02Speaker 1: started by the way it bears mentioning. Also, Gardner Minshew
- 22:05Speaker 1: talked in the locker room yesterday, probably the last time
- 22:07Speaker 1: he talks until he plays again. Um. His appreciation for
- 22:12Speaker 1: Nick Foles came shining through talking about genuine right. I mean,
- 22:16Speaker 1: this is a guy who he is who he is too,
- 22:19Speaker 1: and he was grateful for the opportunity. And of course
- 22:22Speaker 1: that interviews up on Jaguars dot Com even go watch it. Um.
- 22:25Speaker 1: But I was really impressed because I asked the question,
- 22:28Speaker 1: he supported you, now, how do you support him? Whom
- 22:31Speaker 1: he jumped right on it. It wasn't any I don't know.
- 22:33Speaker 1: I'm in the backup now right now. Yeah, I know.
- 22:36Speaker 1: He's a strong character guy. He has a bright fusure
- 22:39Speaker 1: I think, I mean, and it's unscripted, like he wasn't
- 22:42Speaker 1: planning on doing any of this this year. So he
- 22:45Speaker 1: I mean, Nick got hurt. He jumped in there. He
- 22:47Speaker 1: was great. He gave us a chance to you know,
- 22:50Speaker 1: still be in the game and being this you know season,
- 22:53Speaker 1: and now he has to take a back seat, and
- 22:55Speaker 1: he's comfortable with that. Well, he did say, if you
- 22:58Speaker 1: had told me before this season that I would get
- 23:00Speaker 1: a chance to start half a season, but he didn't
- 23:02Speaker 1: think he was going to play this year, No chance.
- 23:05Speaker 1: Here's an eighty eight million dollar quarterback. He got eight
- 23:07Speaker 1: games of experience and now, and you can speak to
- 23:10Speaker 1: this as much as anybody, more show than anyone in
- 23:12Speaker 1: this room. That is, you do not stop learning just
- 23:16Speaker 1: because you're not playing. Playing is the greatest experience. But
- 23:19Speaker 1: he's not going to get a chance to see the
- 23:20Speaker 1: game from a completely different point of view. And that's
- 23:23Speaker 1: not invaluable. No, it's not. Because he was out there.
- 23:26Speaker 1: He knows what it takes. And now he's gonna sit
- 23:28Speaker 1: back and say, Okay, what would I've done in that situation?
- 23:31Speaker 1: What would I have done? And how would I would
- 23:34Speaker 1: have helped the team? So he's not going to just
- 23:36Speaker 1: go back to you know, Thursday is his most important day,
- 23:40Speaker 1: that's a big day for scout team. He's not gonna
- 23:42Speaker 1: go back to that. He's gonna go back to like,
- 23:44Speaker 1: what would I have done in that situation? And Plus
- 23:46Speaker 1: he's on people's radar. He's not on just the Jaguars radar.
- 23:50Speaker 1: He's on other teams radar. And he did great for himself.
- 23:53Speaker 1: All right, And speaking of Gardner min show, we are
- 23:55Speaker 1: going to run a bite that you were just talking
- 23:57Speaker 1: about about what he thought when the starting job was
- 24:00Speaker 1: no longer his. If you'd told me in the beginning
- 24:03Speaker 1: of the year that I get to play half a
- 24:04Speaker 1: season and then be able to learn, I said, I'll
- 24:06Speaker 1: take that deal, you know what I'm saying. So I
- 24:08Speaker 1: got a lot of good experience, and I'm also going
- 24:10Speaker 1: to be able to learn from one of the best
- 24:12Speaker 1: dudes in the business, one of the best dudes in
- 24:15Speaker 1: the business to wrapper he's good mustache and say, dude,
- 24:21Speaker 1: like there's nothing like you can understand people enjoyed him
- 24:26Speaker 1: so much, why they're disappointed they're not going to see
- 24:28Speaker 1: him on a weekly basis in his news conference. You know,
- 24:31Speaker 1: that's not going to be quite as as prominent as
- 24:33Speaker 1: it was, but he'll still be around. The best is
- 24:35Speaker 1: I don't know, Reggie if you have seen the Twitter clip,
- 24:37Speaker 1: but there's one member of the media that he comes
- 24:40Speaker 1: up with a different name for him every single year
- 24:43Speaker 1: is Jerry, Jerry, Terry, Gary. Yesterday was Perry. It lives on.
- 24:50Speaker 1: So we were pretty excited that was still happy. We
- 24:52Speaker 1: were saying, how funny would be if Nick Foles came
- 24:54Speaker 1: in and just dropped a name into but it just
- 24:56Speaker 1: wouldn't understand, it wouldn't be genuine. And speaking of the
- 25:00Speaker 1: excitement around Nick Foles, Brandon Linder, who was excited to
- 25:03Speaker 1: see number seven back out there, Oh yeah, he's got
- 25:07Speaker 1: an energy about him. On Monday for the jog through
- 25:11Speaker 1: and I kept like looking at him, all right, it's
- 25:14Speaker 1: time to go. So yeah, he's got he's got an
- 25:16Speaker 1: incredible energy, and uh, you know, everyone's excited. Everyone's feeding
- 25:19Speaker 1: off of that. Chris Connolly also said that in walkthrough,
- 25:23Speaker 1: I guess this normally doesn't happen that Folds was dropping
- 25:26Speaker 1: fifty five yard bombs left and right, just throwing him everywhere,
- 25:30Speaker 1: and Chris like, I can't keep up with you, dude,
- 25:31Speaker 1: Like slow down, I can't catch these balls. But he
- 25:35Speaker 1: was just so ready to throw. Finally, that's good. That
- 25:37Speaker 1: means that throwing folder was ready. And uh, if he
- 25:40Speaker 1: can come in and throw a couple of bombs like that, yeah,
- 25:43Speaker 1: I mean what would that do for the tam tam?
- 25:45Speaker 1: Would just they are erupted behind him? Well, din't you
- 25:48Speaker 1: say that? I I think, look, if Gardner did anything
- 25:50Speaker 1: really well, he got Chark and Conny involved and engaged
- 25:55Speaker 1: in big plays and chart especially Conny, we kind of
- 25:59Speaker 1: knew what he was. He is exactly what they thought
- 26:01Speaker 1: they were getting. He is worth every penny they paid him.
- 26:04Speaker 1: And d D. Westbrook has not been as involved. He's
- 26:06Speaker 1: been injured a couple of weeks. But d J. Chark
- 26:08Speaker 1: is a different player than he was on opening Day,
- 26:12Speaker 1: and so Nick Foles is. It's like it's like Gardner
- 26:15Speaker 1: pulled the Ferrari out of the car, out of the
- 26:17Speaker 1: garage and got it all warmed up on a cold morning.
- 26:19Speaker 1: The seats are heated. You know what, there's no there's
- 26:22Speaker 1: nothing on the windshield. It's ready to go. And now
- 26:24Speaker 1: he's stepping in with a guy in charge. It's a
- 26:26Speaker 1: little bit of an exaggeration, but he looks like he's
- 26:28Speaker 1: going to be that kind of an athlete. And now
- 26:30Speaker 1: all of a sudden he gets Nick Foles. I expect
- 26:33Speaker 1: that to blossom. Yeah, I mean you think about it.
- 26:37Speaker 1: What is what is Nick Foles? Nick Foles? And it
- 26:40Speaker 1: is thirty and and and garden mens who is you
- 26:43Speaker 1: know young and and he's moving around and inside, but
- 26:46Speaker 1: Nick is in the pocket old school, let's you know,
- 26:50Speaker 1: air it out. And And if I was the why
- 26:52Speaker 1: I received, I'd be excited about that. You know that
- 26:55Speaker 1: that you know I put on my special cleats for
- 26:57Speaker 1: this because I know the ball was coming. Get my
- 27:01Speaker 1: hands ready, I'll be I put my hands on on
- 27:04Speaker 1: a pillow at night and I'm like, Okay, it's gonna happen.
- 27:06Speaker 1: So they're ready to go. And that's what you want
- 27:09Speaker 1: or what I received, was to be excited. If I
- 27:12Speaker 1: was a quarterback, I want you guys to be excited
- 27:14Speaker 1: because you know the ball's coming. What made your special
- 27:15Speaker 1: cleats special? Um? You know what I would put on
- 27:19Speaker 1: special cleats. I like, it's funny. I was a huge guy,
- 27:23Speaker 1: but I would wear like white receiver cleats. Yeah. Yeah,
- 27:26Speaker 1: try to try to be as fast as possible. So
- 27:28Speaker 1: I was I was like, you know, I'm like, what
- 27:31Speaker 1: do you got on, Jimmy? What do you let me
- 27:35Speaker 1: get those infa make it happen? Amazing? All right? And
- 27:42Speaker 1: Chris Connolly tells us that these next few weeks basically
- 27:45Speaker 1: have to be perfect. We've eliminated any room for error
- 27:49Speaker 1: that we have, you know, at these last this last loss,
- 27:52Speaker 1: and just where we are as a team, I think
- 27:54Speaker 1: everyone is it is excited about the prospects of what
- 27:57Speaker 1: we can do. We believe that we can we can
- 28:00Speaker 1: win games and now we can be a dangerous team.
- 28:03Speaker 1: But really right now, that just it just comes down
- 28:05Speaker 1: to this week. This week is the most important week.
- 28:09Speaker 1: This week is the most important week. Was like, yeah, yeah,
- 28:12Speaker 1: he's that way anyway, And he played with fools in
- 28:15Speaker 1: Kansas City. Um, but if Folds and Lender and Connolly
- 28:20Speaker 1: are all that way, it can't help it spread. Yeah.
- 28:23Speaker 1: When I when I looked at that, I felt like
- 28:25Speaker 1: he could see the whole season. It's business like every week.
- 28:28Speaker 1: But he knows that they're behind a ball they need
- 28:31Speaker 1: to win. You know, all these games coming up, right,
- 28:33Speaker 1: and he understands is bigger than just you know, one week,
- 28:37Speaker 1: It's every week and we need to win them all
- 28:40Speaker 1: and so we can put ourselves in position to get
- 28:42Speaker 1: to the playoffs. Ready for Reggie reacts, Yeah, sure, we
- 28:46Speaker 1: come back. Some Reggie's reactions on Josh Alan sacks so
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- 31:04Speaker 1: at you, but we're exactly a small guy, nice and
- 31:10Speaker 1: tight ones. They're even tighter now technology and the bablage
- 31:15Speaker 1: they're out there. Yeah, yeah, but that was a good
- 31:17Speaker 1: after a big stack. Look at Wilfrid's out they're running
- 31:19Speaker 1: onto the field. You probably got to drown over something.
- 31:21Speaker 1: I did something right at that moment in time, so
- 31:24Speaker 1: it's a right moment. All right. We'll get your copy
- 31:27Speaker 1: of this quart because you every want you to. While
- 31:28Speaker 1: you need to look at that. I don't know that's
- 31:29Speaker 1: what it looks at. My kids don't think I did anything.
- 31:32Speaker 1: They don't even think you're cool. Right, where are we
- 31:35Speaker 1: in this house? Right? Alright? Reggie's reactions. We're looking at
- 31:42Speaker 1: Josh Allen his season so far, seven sacks this season
- 31:45Speaker 1: could break the rookie sacks if things go according to
- 31:48Speaker 1: plan the second half of the season. How do you
- 31:50Speaker 1: think he's done so far? First, he's done great. I
- 31:52Speaker 1: mean I have seven sacks. That's difficult. That's difficult, especially
- 31:55Speaker 1: in this day and age where you can't even touch
- 31:57Speaker 1: the quarterback. To half seven halfway through with Beau um
- 32:01Speaker 1: if how how is he gonna get it? Next? Had
- 32:03Speaker 1: to come and throw the ball. We gotta get up.
- 32:05Speaker 1: We gotta get some things behind, yeah, we we We
- 32:08Speaker 1: gotta put him in passing situations where he can just
- 32:10Speaker 1: do his thing, all right, So it's gonna take a
- 32:13Speaker 1: little bit of offensive power for him to break this record.
- 32:16Speaker 1: And I think that it happened. If if Nick's going
- 32:19Speaker 1: in practice right, it looked it bears mentioning. I keep
- 32:21Speaker 1: throwing it out there because you know, a little more
- 32:23Speaker 1: than halfway through the season, you've got seven sacks, and
- 32:25Speaker 1: he's had some multiple sack games and some games in
- 32:28Speaker 1: which he didn't have the pass rush opportunities. He's going
- 32:31Speaker 1: to have to be a man to get seven and
- 32:33Speaker 1: a half sacks to tie Jivan Curses record. But I
- 32:37Speaker 1: could see him doing it. I wouldn't throw it out
- 32:39Speaker 1: there if he was just you know, grabbing the quarterback
- 32:43Speaker 1: here or there. But Rich, when I watch him, I
- 32:45Speaker 1: see a guy who can use the power rush convert
- 32:49Speaker 1: speed to power like you used to right. Not everyone
- 32:51Speaker 1: can do that as a rookie. How long did that
- 32:53Speaker 1: take you to develop? It took me a while, because um,
- 32:56Speaker 1: I was so light, and I thought that I had
- 32:57Speaker 1: to be bigger, and I didn't even understand than just
- 33:01Speaker 1: you know, how to change everything into power. It's it's
- 33:04Speaker 1: amazing these young pass rushers, they're they're coming out of
- 33:06Speaker 1: college way more advanced than we did. And then and
- 33:08Speaker 1: they're better coach. So he got to college with a
- 33:12Speaker 1: full set of moves, which were you know, bread and
- 33:14Speaker 1: butter move. Then he had something that he changed up,
- 33:17Speaker 1: and then maybe one more move, so he had three
- 33:19Speaker 1: moves and they're all hard to see. And being an
- 33:22Speaker 1: offensive tackle, you're expecting power and he changes it to
- 33:24Speaker 1: speed or he does a counter. It's very difficult to
- 33:27Speaker 1: block that. And so he came out of college with
- 33:30Speaker 1: all those you know that Arsenal already prepared for him,
- 33:34Speaker 1: whereas I had to learn how to do that, and
- 33:36Speaker 1: I actually learned it from vets, not even my coaches.
- 33:38Speaker 1: I learned that from older players. So it's this that's
- 33:41Speaker 1: why he had seven sacks, and he can continue doing
- 33:45Speaker 1: that because if we can put some points on the board,
- 33:48Speaker 1: this just gonna be extremely hard to stop him. They're
- 33:51Speaker 1: gonna have to chip him, they're gonna have to double
- 33:52Speaker 1: team him, and they may open it up for other people.
- 33:54Speaker 1: It's good as he had the guy the other shote
- 33:57Speaker 1: unique and god, he's in a unique situation right right,
- 34:02Speaker 1: not very fun, I know, yeah, a little bit. But
- 34:07Speaker 1: he's got four sacks and he is in a contract
- 34:10Speaker 1: year right this is they can they can franchise tag him,
- 34:13Speaker 1: but he wants the big deal. He wants the big
- 34:16Speaker 1: meal right now. And if I were him, I would too.
- 34:18Speaker 1: I mean, it's professional Football's about the money. Yeah, he's
- 34:20Speaker 1: got seven games, laft, put yourself in his shoes now, right.
- 34:24Speaker 1: He's got thirty three and a half career sacks in
- 34:26Speaker 1: fifty six games. He has played at a very high level. Yes,
- 34:30Speaker 1: what are you thinking? How are you preparing? Are you
- 34:33Speaker 1: putting the pressure on yourself? How do you handle the
- 34:36Speaker 1: last seven games? What's his mindset? His mindset is to
- 34:40Speaker 1: get as many players, as many tackles, as many sacks
- 34:43Speaker 1: as possible. I mean, he's out there, he's gonna be
- 34:46Speaker 1: running around like a chicken with his head cut off
- 34:47Speaker 1: because he's not only interviewing for the Jaguars, he's interviewing
- 34:50Speaker 1: for other teams out there, and most importantly, they want
- 34:53Speaker 1: to win, so he's gonna have to put forth his
- 34:55Speaker 1: best effort when these games are said, and then we're
- 34:58Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna turn around and look back and say
- 35:01Speaker 1: who did what to help us win? And he needs
- 35:04Speaker 1: to be a part of that conversation. Now he gets
- 35:06Speaker 1: he bows his chest up when we talked to him,
- 35:10Speaker 1: because as we've said, he is an undersized pass rusher, right,
- 35:15Speaker 1: he's not six ft six uh, but he's effective. And
- 35:21Speaker 1: talk about if you've got Calais and Josh and Unique,
- 35:27Speaker 1: talk about how they worked together, because Unique will come
- 35:30Speaker 1: off the field and immediately get in someone space. But
- 35:33Speaker 1: you need to do this so that I can do that,
- 35:35Speaker 1: or I need to do this so that you can
- 35:36Speaker 1: do that. And it's not just put your hand in
- 35:38Speaker 1: the ground and rush the pass for all the time. No,
- 35:39Speaker 1: it's not yet. Say some sometimes you need your big
- 35:42Speaker 1: guys to run stunts with you. And then the better
- 35:46Speaker 1: the big guy, the better the stunt, the easier it
- 35:48Speaker 1: is for you to get a sex. So when you
- 35:50Speaker 1: have that type of pressure on you, when you look
- 35:53Speaker 1: down the line and you see some great people doing
- 35:55Speaker 1: great things, you got to step your game up. Yeah,
- 35:58Speaker 1: as a man, not even a full ballplayer. When people
- 36:01Speaker 1: are around you are getting things done, you should want
- 36:04Speaker 1: to be a part of that. And he needs to
- 36:06Speaker 1: take that as a challenge to himself, saying like, look,
- 36:09Speaker 1: I have too many people down the line that are
- 36:11Speaker 1: making plays and that are helping this team win. I
- 36:13Speaker 1: need to be a part of us. So one of
- 36:15Speaker 1: the reasons why I'm excited to watch these guys is
- 36:18Speaker 1: because you have this interesting dynamic of two guys in
- 36:20Speaker 1: the room who are both chasing something, who both have
- 36:23Speaker 1: a chance to I mean, I think both of them
- 36:25Speaker 1: are Pro Bowl caliber right now, Josh Allen needs one
- 36:28Speaker 1: sack to set to tie the franchise record for rookie sacks,
- 36:32Speaker 1: and he's got that bag in a He's a double
- 36:34Speaker 1: digit sack guy. For sure. Those are all big accomplishments.
- 36:37Speaker 1: But why not go for the top of the mountain?
- 36:39Speaker 1: Right Why stop halfway up? If I can get to
- 36:41Speaker 1: fourteen fifteen sacks? Why stop just because I'm a rookie.
- 36:45Speaker 1: And he said, yesterday, what rookie wall? No one shown
- 36:48Speaker 1: it to me? Why should I accept that it's there?
- 36:50Speaker 1: If I can't see it, it's invisible to him? And yeah,
- 36:54Speaker 1: he's not the type of guy that's gonna stop. He
- 36:56Speaker 1: loves what he's doing. He's having fun. He's playing the game.
- 37:00Speaker 1: You're seeing him playing football like your high school coast
- 37:03Speaker 1: tells you to just go out there have fun. And
- 37:05Speaker 1: he's out there having fun. And um, if I was
- 37:09Speaker 1: the other defensive end, if I was another the lament,
- 37:11Speaker 1: I will try to you know, immanate that. I want
- 37:13Speaker 1: to have fun. I want to do what he's doing.
- 37:15Speaker 1: He's having a great time. I'm gonna be a part
- 37:17Speaker 1: of this great time. I love a party. I love
- 37:19Speaker 1: with I love a party. I don't doubt it. He
- 37:22Speaker 1: is a big personality, that's for sure. All Right, when
- 37:24Speaker 1: we come back, I grilled these guys with ashland Esque
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- 39:10Speaker 1: Welcome Back Jigs, drive Time Thursday Morning, brought to you
- 39:13Speaker 1: by Fields Auto Group. Our last segment of the day,
- 39:17Speaker 1: ashal And asked three questions for these two guys. They
- 39:21Speaker 1: are tough today, let me tell you they're not that
- 39:25Speaker 1: that resist kating. Who are you looking to have a
- 39:29Speaker 1: big season in the second half. Who's your guy that
- 39:33Speaker 1: you think is going to light it up the second
- 39:35Speaker 1: half of the season. Bryan had this prepared. You CHEA
- 39:38Speaker 1: didn't probably looked at the rundown head of salt. I
- 39:40Speaker 1: just did right here because I was look, I had
- 39:43Speaker 1: to come up with someone other than Josh Allen. I mean,
- 39:45Speaker 1: I've obviously said you have been that guy that and
- 39:49Speaker 1: there are a couple of guys I could go with um,
- 39:51Speaker 1: but I'll let my friend here come first. Go ahead,
- 39:56Speaker 1: thank you. We're very polite on driving time. I'm gonna
- 40:00Speaker 1: go with Mr Allen. I think I changed yes, because
- 40:05Speaker 1: I'm a defensive end. And for him to and I
- 40:08Speaker 1: put fifteen up here, fifteen that's that's star, right, but
- 40:11Speaker 1: a star. I want him go that's the goal. Yes,
- 40:16Speaker 1: I want him to get the record because records are
- 40:19Speaker 1: made to be broken, and this one is twenty years old,
- 40:21Speaker 1: and this one's getting old. Yeah, you know, I played
- 40:24Speaker 1: with with the Freak and he was amazing talent. And
- 40:27Speaker 1: for him to even be in this conversation with him,
- 40:30Speaker 1: that's amazing. And it's his first year or too. So well,
- 40:33Speaker 1: the record, and it used to be fifteen sixteen sacks
- 40:36Speaker 1: was it was a huge number for the NFL leader. Well,
- 40:39Speaker 1: we're going to see a guy on Sunday in Justin
- 40:41Speaker 1: Houston for the Colts who and that isn't the NFL
- 40:45Speaker 1: records hands and a half, So fifteen is a really
- 40:50Speaker 1: big number. Obviously, it would be the biggest number ever
- 40:53Speaker 1: for a rookie. No pressure, Josh, we're gonna put a
- 40:55Speaker 1: little asteris and less that half of sack with straight hand.
- 41:03Speaker 1: If that was the case in Justin Houston, would be
- 41:05Speaker 1: the league leader. All Right, I'm going with this guy,
- 41:07Speaker 1: Leonard four Nette, and I vacillated back and forth between
- 41:11Speaker 1: four net and a J boy A, But I'm going
- 41:14Speaker 1: with four Nette for this reason. I thought he was
- 41:17Speaker 1: going to come into this season and have a chance
- 41:20Speaker 1: at a really big year. Two things, Hey, he had
- 41:22Speaker 1: to get his head right. But you spent time with
- 41:24Speaker 1: him in New Orleans and you came back raving about
- 41:26Speaker 1: where he was, so I assumed he had his head right.
- 41:28Speaker 1: And from this point he has. Another reason is he
- 41:32Speaker 1: read the guy runs like Earl Campbell and he has
- 41:35Speaker 1: not been on the injury report and we're in week ten.
- 41:39Speaker 1: That is unbelievable. But the real reason is he has
- 41:42Speaker 1: a quarterback now who can send the ball down the field.
- 41:45Speaker 1: And with Blake Bortles the last few years, people didn't
- 41:49Speaker 1: believe in him and so they stacked the line of scrimmage,
- 41:52Speaker 1: and Leonard has always battled in a hate man box.
- 41:54Speaker 1: Was got one rushing yards, which is the third most
- 41:57Speaker 1: in the a f C. Right now he's got eleven
- 41:59Speaker 1: and twenty six all purpose yards, which is third most
- 42:02Speaker 1: in the NFL. He's having a really good season. Now
- 42:04Speaker 1: you get that quarterback Gardner Minshoe. For all of us
- 42:08Speaker 1: down the field passing, did not back safeties off the
- 42:11Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. You know fools will do that if
- 42:15Speaker 1: he does. If he's successful and hits Chark, hits Conley,
- 42:18Speaker 1: finds d d over the middle, there's gonna be room
- 42:20Speaker 1: for for Neck to run. And I think the second
- 42:22Speaker 1: half of the season has a chance to be better
- 42:24Speaker 1: than the first. I agree with that, And then it'd
- 42:26Speaker 1: be nice to see that. Um the play action. They're
- 42:29Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna start him off. They're gonna feed in
- 42:31Speaker 1: the ball because they want Nick the youth play action.
- 42:34Speaker 1: So he's gonna have his opportunities. He's gonna have his touches,
- 42:37Speaker 1: and he's gonna make the most of it. So once
- 42:39Speaker 1: they get him running and get him moving, then they're
- 42:41Speaker 1: gonna play action and they're gonna throw the ball and
- 42:43Speaker 1: that defense is going to be completely discombobulated. They don't
- 42:47Speaker 1: know which way to go. So hopefully he's running the
- 42:49Speaker 1: ball and he should be a ten touchdown guy and
- 42:51Speaker 1: he's only got one, so there's not Yeah, how you
- 42:55Speaker 1: have all those yards on have one touchdown? They have
- 42:58Speaker 1: not been good in the strug hold in the red zone.
- 43:00Speaker 1: You know that he should have had three or four more,
- 43:03Speaker 1: but for whatever reason, they were not successful. Gotta change
- 43:07Speaker 1: and hopefully again with a Super Bowl MVP quarterback, the
- 43:10Speaker 1: red jone improves the greens on baby the money. All right,
- 43:17Speaker 1: summarize has to been on the white board. What is
- 43:21Speaker 1: Gardner Minshoe's future? What does it look like? And like
- 43:25Speaker 1: five to six words, Oh oh yeah, I told you
- 43:28Speaker 1: this would be tough. This isn't an easy show. Now,
- 43:32Speaker 1: this isn't a cake walk. What is Gardner Minshoe's future
- 43:37Speaker 1: is with the Jaguars? Is it with another NFL? T
- 43:41Speaker 1: does he continue to play in the league. I have
- 43:44Speaker 1: so many questions comparisons possibly to other quarterbacks, that maybe
- 43:53Speaker 1: I'll let you go first again. Okay, I said it's
- 43:55Speaker 1: a whole, but it's bright. Okay, he's gonna have to
- 43:58Speaker 1: sit behind. That's got it. We brought in here to
- 44:00Speaker 1: make a whole bunch of money. But he is the future.
- 44:02Speaker 1: They're not gonna let him go because they're they're already
- 44:04Speaker 1: they're already excited about him, they're already happy about him.
- 44:07Speaker 1: They know that he can step in there under pressure,
- 44:09Speaker 1: makes some place. So, um, I wouldn't let him go.
- 44:12Speaker 1: It's too hard to find quarterbacks, especially these college kids.
- 44:16Speaker 1: They're coming in highly paid, highly ranked, and they're not
- 44:20Speaker 1: they're not living up to to all the numbers and
- 44:22Speaker 1: all the money that they're getting. So when you have someone,
- 44:24Speaker 1: you hold on to them, you don't let them go.
- 44:26Speaker 1: And then um, you just coach him and you keep
- 44:29Speaker 1: them involved and then when it's time for him to
- 44:30Speaker 1: take over, let him have it. So I'm gonna go
- 44:34Speaker 1: a slightly different route. I'm gonna say he's he's Mark Brunell.
- 44:38Speaker 1: So Brunette was a fifth round pick in Green Bay
- 44:41Speaker 1: and the quarterback at the time was a guy named
- 44:43Speaker 1: Brett Farve, and from him was Tidetma and by the
- 44:46Speaker 1: way behind him was Kurt Warner. That's a hell of
- 44:49Speaker 1: a room, um. Tom Cofflin identified him, traded third and
- 44:54Speaker 1: fifth round picks for him, and in he traded time
- 44:58Speaker 1: with Steve Burlin, and nine he became the starting quarterback. Uh.
- 45:02Speaker 1: People doubted him because he's not all that tall. He's
- 45:04Speaker 1: six ft one. He is a lefty, and people wondered
- 45:07Speaker 1: about lefties. Um. And he had a tremendous career that
- 45:11Speaker 1: spanned nineteen seasons. He was a starter here for eight years,
- 45:15Speaker 1: and then he started a couple of years in Washington,
- 45:17Speaker 1: and then he became that backup in New York and
- 45:19Speaker 1: New Orleans where he was making a couple of million
- 45:22Speaker 1: bucks a year, and he won a Super Bowl ring.
- 45:24Speaker 1: I think when it's all said and done, and I
- 45:26Speaker 1: don't know whether he's the starter here or the Jaguars
- 45:28Speaker 1: flip him like they did Rob Johnson in ninety eight.
- 45:31Speaker 1: And he became Fred Taylor. I mean, who knows who?
- 45:35Speaker 1: What if Niffoles leads this team to a Super Bowl, right, well,
- 45:38Speaker 1: then you got an issue. And then but you have
- 45:39Speaker 1: an asset. So I think, whether it's here or somewhere,
- 45:43Speaker 1: I think he's going to have a long career as
- 45:46Speaker 1: a starter and then as a guy that someone wants
- 45:49Speaker 1: in your quarterbacks room to develop someone else. I think
- 45:52Speaker 1: he could play fifteen nineteen years, make a bunch of money.
- 45:56Speaker 1: I think he'd take that deal. I would, right, Yeah,
- 46:01Speaker 1: it sounds great. All right. Finally, what is the Jaguars
- 46:05Speaker 1: record at the end of the season. I know I
- 46:09Speaker 1: gotta leave with the big guns. What is the record
- 46:15Speaker 1: at the end of the season right now? Four and
- 46:18Speaker 1: five out of the bye week going to Indianapolis. Let's
- 46:24Speaker 1: hope there's more than four at the end of the season.
- 46:30Speaker 1: You don't look happy. I'm not. I'm not. It's hard.
- 46:34Speaker 1: It's hard. It's seven and nine, and uh I I'm
- 46:41Speaker 1: not a comfortable with this. I'm gonna be honest with
- 46:44Speaker 1: you because I want to see what Nick does. Look,
- 46:49Speaker 1: I want eight and eight. And the reason I win
- 46:51Speaker 1: eight and eight because I expect Nick to give them
- 46:54Speaker 1: a winning record right to go four and three at least.
- 46:58Speaker 1: I mean, look, could I see them ripping off some wins. Yeah.
- 47:02Speaker 1: The thing is it's got to start on Sunday with
- 47:04Speaker 1: the Colts. They had this must win in London, where
- 47:07Speaker 1: the Texans had never played, where the Texans were without
- 47:10Speaker 1: their best offensive lineman Larremy Tuncil, their best defensive lineman
- 47:14Speaker 1: h J. J. Watt, without two starters in the second
- 47:17Speaker 1: you see him, We're going I don't trust them. They
- 47:19Speaker 1: didn't show up to play on a day that it
- 47:22Speaker 1: was all set up for them. So I can't say, oh,
- 47:25Speaker 1: they're gonna go nine and seven to make the playoffs.
- 47:27Speaker 1: Can't do it yet. Now, if they win this week,
- 47:30Speaker 1: then next week you asked me this question, it could
- 47:32Speaker 1: be an entirely different answer. All write that down, ask
- 47:34Speaker 1: you then Mexican again next week. But they look like
- 47:37Speaker 1: an eight and eight team, and it's not just because
- 47:39Speaker 1: it's been a pattern of you know, win to lose,
- 47:41Speaker 1: to win to lose to that. That is the formula
- 47:44Speaker 1: for eight and eight and they're in that formula right now.
- 47:47Speaker 1: But they can break it on Sunday with the win
- 47:49Speaker 1: and change the trajectory of their season. But they've got
- 47:53Speaker 1: to do it and prove it to me and to
- 47:55Speaker 1: all the viewers into Reggie before we can go any
- 47:58Speaker 1: higher than this. Otherwise we're just polling to pie in
- 48:00Speaker 1: this guy. Isn't it all beautiful? And it isn't it
- 48:03Speaker 1: as of now, but it could be. It could be.
- 48:05Speaker 1: And to say that Nick is going to come in
- 48:08Speaker 1: and he's the only reason we're not winning, that's saying
- 48:11Speaker 1: a lot. I mean, it's a he's a great player,
- 48:13Speaker 1: and he's a great quarterback, and and mentor did a
- 48:16Speaker 1: great job. But if Nick comes in and wins all
- 48:20Speaker 1: these games, then I'll be ecstatic and I'll be proud,
- 48:24Speaker 1: but surprised. I'll be very surprised. So here's here's what
- 48:29Speaker 1: I think. When I say I think they go forward
- 48:31Speaker 1: and and three and get to eight and eight, I
- 48:34Speaker 1: think Nick elevates the performance of his teammates. It's what
- 48:39Speaker 1: he said all offseason the day he arrived at an
- 48:41Speaker 1: interview with him and John D. Philippo, and he never
- 48:44Speaker 1: left the message that day, You remember, Richlynn, He never
- 48:47Speaker 1: said anything more than I'm here to be a great teammate,
- 48:49Speaker 1: to learn about my teammates, to care about my teammates.
- 48:51Speaker 1: To build the culture. If he is true to that,
- 48:54Speaker 1: and I have no reason to doubt that he is um,
- 48:57Speaker 1: then he will elevate the performance of guys who have
- 49:00Speaker 1: a good but could play much better, and guys who
- 49:02Speaker 1: have played really well who would play great. I think
- 49:05Speaker 1: there's another level in djars game, and I don't know
- 49:08Speaker 1: the gardner Minshew was ready at this point in his
- 49:11Speaker 1: career to be the guy to bring it out of him.
- 49:13Speaker 1: I think Nick Foles could be the guy. I can
- 49:14Speaker 1: agree with. That sound good to me, all right, and
- 49:17Speaker 1: that is our show. Thank you for joining us. Our
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