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- 0:00Speaker 1: Here are our Countdown to Kickoff interviews for Week six.
- 0:03Speaker 1: JP Shatwick with You and this week, the four and
- 0:05Speaker 1: one Jaguars host the three and two Seattle Seahawks at
- 0:08Speaker 1: EverBank Stadium. This week, I caught up with Seahawks radio
- 0:11Speaker 1: analyst Dave Wyman for the latest on their early season success.
- 0:15Speaker 1: Countdown to Kickoff continues. The Jaguars welcome the Seattle Seahawks
- 0:19Speaker 1: to EverBank Stadium. The Jags at four and one the
- 0:21Speaker 1: Seahawks three and two. Dave Wyman is the radio analyst
- 0:26Speaker 1: for the Seattle Seahawks. We're gonna go in depth to
- 0:29Speaker 1: the opponent this week. Let's start, David. I mean, this
- 0:33Speaker 1: offense in Seattle's right there near the top of the
- 0:35Speaker 1: NFL and Sam Donald has seemingly found a home. Why
- 0:40Speaker 1: has this been so successful so far?
- 0:43Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's really interesting kind of what especially the
- 0:46Speaker 2: matchup last week of two sort of quarterbacks that lost
- 0:50Speaker 2: their way and you know, then got into a system
- 0:53Speaker 2: that really helped them. And that's really what's been the
- 0:56Speaker 2: key I think for Sam Donald. And yeah, I was
- 0:59Speaker 2: just to do like a breakdown of him from the
- 1:02Speaker 2: game the other day. His pocket awareness is amazing, and
- 1:06Speaker 2: that's one of the hardest things to do, you know,
- 1:08Speaker 2: as a quarter I wouldn't know because I played linebacker,
- 1:10Speaker 2: but but you know, you've got the sort of your
- 1:14Speaker 2: whole world crashing around you. You've got defensive linemen and
- 1:18Speaker 2: these big, fire breathing dragons, you know, pass rushing these days,
- 1:23Speaker 2: and you still have to keep your eyes downfield. And
- 1:25Speaker 2: that's what he does really well, Like he just kind
- 1:27Speaker 2: of feels the pocket, finds the open crease, and then
- 1:32Speaker 2: you know, delivers the ball and it just he's been
- 1:35Speaker 2: very accurate, and you know, he had a couple of
- 1:39Speaker 2: plays that were, you know, that kind of lost games,
- 1:42Speaker 2: but it wasn't his fall. I mean, he gets pushed
- 1:45Speaker 2: into and fumbles the ball in Game one against San Francisco,
- 1:49Speaker 2: and then this last week he got hit ball skips
- 1:52Speaker 2: off of a helmet and then you know, he throws
- 1:54Speaker 2: an interception. So there's a little bit of criticism for
- 1:57Speaker 2: him because of that, but I don't think those were
- 1:59Speaker 2: his I don't think those were his fault. And he
- 2:02Speaker 2: looks like the good Sam Darnold that everybody has seen.
- 2:06Speaker 1: Helps when you have that talented wide receiver around you.
- 2:08Speaker 1: To Jackson Smith, and Jig has been fantastic. Of course,
- 2:11Speaker 1: we know all about Cooper Cup, so those guys working
- 2:14Speaker 1: in tandem has been pretty strong and tough to defend.
- 2:17Speaker 1: How do you slow those guys down or do you
- 2:19Speaker 1: want to even tell us that's that would be the
- 2:21Speaker 1: give it away the game plan?
- 2:24Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think. I don't think I have the
- 2:26Speaker 2: need of that. But now those guys are both really good.
- 2:29Speaker 2: I mean, Cooper Cup, I think it took him a
- 2:31Speaker 2: while to kind of get going, but once everybody sees,
- 2:34Speaker 2: you know his value and.
- 2:36Speaker 3: Jays N is kind of the same way.
- 2:38Speaker 2: You know. It's kind of interesting because during the preseason
- 2:41Speaker 2: we got a chance to talk to Jackson and I
- 2:44Speaker 2: kind of wanted to ask this question, but I thought
- 2:46Speaker 2: it would be like kind of rude, so my guy
- 2:50Speaker 2: Michael Bennett asked it instead, and basically what he said
- 2:53Speaker 2: is what I think is like, you're not that big,
- 2:55Speaker 2: you're not that fast, you got good hands, but like
- 2:59Speaker 2: what makes you special? You know, it's kind of insulting
- 3:01Speaker 2: to him, I guess, but yeah, I mean it's him
- 3:04Speaker 2: and Cooper Cupp are kind of the same way. They're
- 3:06Speaker 2: sort of mid range size guys that just run really
- 3:10Speaker 2: good routes and catch the ball. I mean, that's that's
- 3:13Speaker 2: all you really need to do. So and Sam Darnold
- 3:16Speaker 2: is doing a good job with both of those guys
- 3:18Speaker 2: throwing him open, you know, at times where he thinks
- 3:21Speaker 2: they need to take a little bit of a sharper
- 3:23Speaker 2: angle or whatever, and he'll throw the ball that way,
- 3:25Speaker 2: and they've had a lot of success.
- 3:27Speaker 1: Dave Wyman with a Seahawks radio analyst. You know, I
- 3:30Speaker 1: call it a game of Kennis Walker the third in
- 3:33Speaker 1: college at Michigan State where he scored five touchdowns in
- 3:36Speaker 1: the game that quite it was against Michigan. He's at
- 3:39Speaker 1: quite to that level. But where is the run game
- 3:41Speaker 1: for Seattle that helps balance all this out?
- 3:44Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's still a work in progress. And really,
- 3:47Speaker 2: I mean I think Canine is the one that has
- 3:49Speaker 2: stepped up and you know, kind of shown to be.
- 3:51Speaker 3: The number one.
- 3:53Speaker 2: But there are lots of times where I look at
- 3:56Speaker 2: Sharbonna Zach Sharbonaye to get out of UCLA and go
- 3:58Speaker 2: he might be a better back, you know, and I
- 4:01Speaker 2: as a former linebacker, he's a guy that can humiliate you,
- 4:04Speaker 2: you know, if you if you try to take him
- 4:06Speaker 2: on and you're you know, a little bit light in
- 4:08Speaker 2: your stands, you're gonna get run over. No linebacker wants that.
- 4:12Speaker 2: So yeah, they're they're kind of going back and forth.
- 4:14Speaker 2: It'd be nice to know who the sort of belcow is.
- 4:17Speaker 2: But I think it's working itself out. I think there's
- 4:20Speaker 2: a lot more good things to come in the run game.
- 4:23Speaker 2: But I'd say so far it's been just Okay.
- 4:26Speaker 1: Dave, let's touch on this defense here and the run defense.
- 4:30Speaker 1: I mean, the Jaguars are running the ball pretty well,
- 4:32Speaker 1: but this is a group that really seems to make
- 4:35Speaker 1: an emphasis early in the game that nothing's getting past
- 4:39Speaker 1: the front seven. How are they so effective against the run?
- 4:43Speaker 2: Well, first of all, you just got three bullies up
- 4:46Speaker 2: front for really, if you if you count Derek Hall,
- 4:50Speaker 2: but you know you've got Jared Reid and you know,
- 4:54Speaker 2: you got Big Cat and Byron Murphy the first rounder
- 4:57Speaker 2: from a couple of years ago, and those guys, you know,
- 5:00Speaker 2: typically that was the problem against Tampa Bay. They didn't
- 5:02Speaker 2: get much pressure with just rushing for and they've kind
- 5:04Speaker 2: of just rushed for. But as far as you know,
- 5:07Speaker 2: stopping the run, those guys are just I mean, you
- 5:10Speaker 2: can't double team them most of you know, those three
- 5:12Speaker 2: guys all can beat double teams, and I've seen them
- 5:15Speaker 2: do that pretty consistently this year. So then you've got
- 5:18Speaker 2: a really instinctive linebacker in the middle, Ernest Jones, and
- 5:23Speaker 2: he's a great leader. So yeah, I mean that the
- 5:26Speaker 2: defense really struggled last week though, And the reason why
- 5:29Speaker 2: it was the second well not necessarily the single reason,
- 5:34Speaker 2: but they did have a lot of backups and and
- 5:37Speaker 2: you know, they were missing two of their better players,
- 5:39Speaker 2: Julian Love and Devin Wetherspon. So those guys aren't you know,
- 5:42Speaker 2: they'll play up in the box every once in a while,
- 5:45Speaker 2: but yeah, just they just missed those guys. And I
- 5:48Speaker 2: thought a lot of some of the backups for the
- 5:50Speaker 2: Seahawks kind of showed why they were backups.
- 5:54Speaker 1: What is the outside of view, at least the Pacific
- 5:56Speaker 1: Northwest view of the Jaguars now at four and one,
- 5:58Speaker 1: what stands out the most.
- 6:00Speaker 2: That they're a problem, you know, and we were all
- 6:03Speaker 2: checking off our win loss before the season, and you know,
- 6:08Speaker 2: of course Jacksonville is a w and now all of
- 6:10Speaker 2: a sudden you're looking at it going, oh man, you know,
- 6:12Speaker 2: my very first time broadcasting with Rabel, who's the voice
- 6:18Speaker 2: of the Seahawks, was twenty seventeen in Jacksonville, and it
- 6:22Speaker 2: kind of reminds me of that that team a little
- 6:26Speaker 2: bit in that, you know, they've had poor records leading
- 6:29Speaker 2: up to it and just had been just drafting baller
- 6:33Speaker 2: after baller after baller, and then you know, they ended
- 6:36Speaker 2: up making making it to the AFC Championship game against
- 6:39Speaker 2: New England and lost that one. But it kind of
- 6:42Speaker 2: reminds me that's what Jacksonville kind of looks like to me.
- 6:44Speaker 3: Right now.
- 6:45Speaker 2: You've got the linebacker Lloyd who has four interceptions. I
- 6:49Speaker 2: mean that's more than I had in my whole career.
- 6:51Speaker 2: So he's done it in five games or four games.
- 6:54Speaker 4: So anyway, Yeah, I mean it looks like you just
- 6:56Speaker 4: have a bunch of really good players and kind of
- 6:59Speaker 4: reminds me of that time in j Jaguar history where
- 7:03Speaker 4: you know, it was like the compilation of just a
- 7:05Speaker 4: number of you know.
- 7:07Speaker 2: Top ten, top fifteen picks in the draft.
- 7:10Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 7:10Speaker 1: Twenty seventeen game was I think one of the Seahawks
- 7:13Speaker 1: players try to come fight some fans and they had
- 7:15Speaker 1: to hold back. It was a crazy game. It was
- 7:17Speaker 1: a crazy time.
- 7:19Speaker 2: Never forget that. The guy who's our equipment manager, Eric Kennedy,
- 7:23Speaker 2: I've known him since he was a high schooler. He
- 7:26Speaker 2: was like a ball boy and now he runs the
- 7:28Speaker 2: whole show and I remember him and I won't say
- 7:31Speaker 2: who the player was, but he was like holding him
- 7:34Speaker 2: by his waist, trying to drag him back down and
- 7:38Speaker 2: not go into the crowd. And I think it was
- 7:40Speaker 2: like pulling his pants down and he was just hanging
- 7:42Speaker 2: on for life.
- 7:43Speaker 3: And yeah, that was wild.
- 7:45Speaker 1: They interviewed the fans later. They were like, he didn't
- 7:47Speaker 1: want to come in this front row, So then you
- 7:48Speaker 1: know how fans are sometimes you never know. Let's hope
- 7:52Speaker 1: it doesn't come to that this week. Looking forward to it.
- 7:54Speaker 1: Thanks to the time Day Appreciate you.
- 7:57Speaker 2: Okay, thanks JP.
- 7:58Speaker 1: Each week, Mike Dempsey has a Converse station with CBS
- 8:01Speaker 1: Sports Senior Rider and our Jaguars Happy, our co host
- 8:04Speaker 1: on Monday's Pete Brisco, Well.
- 8:06Speaker 5: I think it tells you that they want somebody that
- 8:08Speaker 5: fits their scheme better, and I think Newsome fits what
- 8:11Speaker 5: they want to do better, which is play looking at
- 8:13Speaker 5: the quarterback and play more zone. And Tyson Campbell, you
- 8:17Speaker 5: know his contract is very heavy. We've all known that
- 8:20Speaker 5: for what he is, and he's not a bad player.
- 8:22Speaker 5: But I think this is more of they feel Newsome
- 8:25Speaker 5: fits better with what they want to do.
- 8:28Speaker 1: Now.
- 8:28Speaker 5: He's in the last year of his contract, so if
- 8:30Speaker 5: he comes in plays really well, they're gonna have to
- 8:32Speaker 5: do something with him if they decide to go in
- 8:34Speaker 5: that direction. But I think it makes sense from a
- 8:37Speaker 5: win now kind of mode, because I think they look
- 8:40Speaker 5: around Mike in their four and one and all of
- 8:41Speaker 5: a sudden they're in the in the thick of the
- 8:43Speaker 5: AFC race. Why not get better and they feel like
- 8:45Speaker 5: news makes them better.
- 8:46Speaker 6: Well, I agree with you. I think that is the
- 8:48Speaker 6: big thing that we take away from this deal, Pete,
- 8:51Speaker 6: is that, yes, they thought they were going to be
- 8:52Speaker 6: competitive this year, but you and I have had all
- 8:54Speaker 6: the record conversations with members of this organization. They're like, look,
- 8:58Speaker 6: let's keep it realistic. Let's temper our expectations a little bit.
- 9:01Speaker 6: Does a big reclamation project here. And now you look
- 9:05Speaker 6: up and you're four and one, and you've got a
- 9:06Speaker 6: head to head against Kansas City, and you look around
- 9:09Speaker 6: the AFC and you're like, who is that super team? Peet,
- 9:11Speaker 6: I don't think there is one out there, and I
- 9:13Speaker 6: think they're reacting to that in the moment with this trade,
- 9:17Speaker 6: and you know.
- 9:17Speaker 5: What they should. I mean, you look around, like you said,
- 9:20Speaker 5: you look around the AFC. Buffalo's had some flaws, Baltimore's
- 9:23Speaker 5: playing poorly. The Chiefs they beat them, and they're, you know,
- 9:26Speaker 5: two and three and have their backs against the wall. Denver,
- 9:29Speaker 5: you know, won a game last week at Philly, but
- 9:31Speaker 5: they're three and two and nobody is running away with it.
- 9:34Speaker 5: And I think nobody is going to run away with it.
- 9:36Speaker 5: And so you look at it and you go, Okay,
- 9:38Speaker 5: you know, right now we're four and one, the culture
- 9:41Speaker 5: four and one. Let's get better, and maybe this is
- 9:43Speaker 5: a chance for us to get better and go do
- 9:46Speaker 5: some things the rest of the way. By the way,
- 9:48Speaker 5: I don't think they're done. I think they're going to
- 9:49Speaker 5: explore other possibilities to go and improve the roster elsewhere.
- 9:52Speaker 5: So you're right, it's kind of flipped. They thought they'd
- 9:56Speaker 5: have to have a long term, not a long term,
- 9:58Speaker 5: but a couple of year rebuild process, and I think
- 10:00Speaker 5: it's been expediated a little bit.
- 10:02Speaker 6: Absolutely, And why not, especially you don't have a first
- 10:04Speaker 6: round pick next year. I pushed them chips to the
- 10:07Speaker 6: center of the table and it all comes at the
- 10:10Speaker 6: expense of the Cleveland Browns. Ultimately, all right, so exciting.
- 10:13Speaker 6: We can do ballpe. We don't win Monday night football
- 10:15Speaker 6: around here very often. We don't play on Monday night
- 10:18Speaker 6: football very often. And to get that win in front
- 10:21Speaker 6: of a packed house against the Kansas City Chiefs, and
- 10:23Speaker 6: to have Trevor Lawrence in a position in a two
- 10:26Speaker 6: minute drill, to have to get a touchdown to win
- 10:28Speaker 6: the game and have him deliver, how big is that
- 10:31Speaker 6: for Trevor moving forward?
- 10:33Speaker 5: It was enormous And I think you can really if
- 10:36Speaker 5: you want to boil it down to one thing, it's
- 10:37Speaker 5: to throw to Brian Thomas on the sideline. I mean
- 10:40Speaker 5: that throw was outstanding. It might have been one of
- 10:42Speaker 5: the best throws of the entire season, and certainly one
- 10:44Speaker 5: of the best throws of his career. To make that
- 10:47Speaker 5: in that moment and put it right where it had
- 10:49Speaker 5: to be over the top of the defender's hands in
- 10:51Speaker 5: between the safety was outstanding. And I think that's the
- 10:54Speaker 5: kind of thing that gets the better. I'm a big
- 10:55Speaker 5: believer that he tends to play better when he's loose
- 10:59Speaker 5: and three and has to go get something. I mean,
- 11:02Speaker 5: I go back to the Chargers playoff game. He was
- 11:04Speaker 5: loose and free, had to go get points and he did.
- 11:06Speaker 5: He was loose and free in this drive and he
- 11:08Speaker 5: went and got him and he did. So to me,
- 11:10Speaker 5: it could be the impetus to get this offense to
- 11:13Speaker 5: where it needs to be throwing the football, because they
- 11:15Speaker 5: haven't been that good throwing the football this year. There's
- 11:18Speaker 5: been drops, you know that, there's been missteps. I still
- 11:21Speaker 5: think they have too many prestat penalties getting guys lined up,
- 11:23Speaker 5: but getting him going, getting Travis Hunter involved in the
- 11:27Speaker 5: passing game, I think that's important for the offense.
- 11:29Speaker 6: They got Trevor going on the ground as well. He
- 11:32Speaker 6: was very aggressive running the ball. Is this an element
- 11:35Speaker 6: that I think we've been calling for it? But do
- 11:37Speaker 6: you think we'll see this more consistently from him now?
- 11:41Speaker 5: You know, you gotta be careful with it, in part
- 11:43Speaker 5: because you don't want to take off before the play develops.
- 11:46Speaker 5: And there was you know, for example, he had a
- 11:48Speaker 5: nice run, but there was a guy I think strange
- 11:50Speaker 5: was standing in front of him for a fifteen yard completion.
- 11:52Speaker 5: That's the easier throw to the easier thing to do.
- 11:55Speaker 5: But it's good to have him and have the ability
- 11:58Speaker 5: to do that when pressure is getting around, escape, go
- 12:00Speaker 5: make a play and don't be scared to do it.
- 12:02Speaker 5: And I think, you know, with his injuries and everything
- 12:05Speaker 5: that's gone on, I think he's been a little apprehensive
- 12:07Speaker 5: in terms of getting outside and running the football. And
- 12:10Speaker 5: he kind of threw that out aside the other night
- 12:11Speaker 5: and did it. So I think it's a plus, but
- 12:13Speaker 5: you got to be careful of overusing it.
- 12:15Speaker 3: All right.
- 12:15Speaker 6: The absence of Treyvon Walker on Monday night was noticeable.
- 12:18Speaker 6: They didn't get a ton of pressure on Patrick Mahomes'
- 12:20Speaker 6: tough got to get pressure on. But regardless, they're not
- 12:23Speaker 6: getting a lot of sacks this year. What is the
- 12:26Speaker 6: state of the Jaguars pass rush in your opinion?
- 12:29Speaker 2: Not good enough?
- 12:30Speaker 5: And I think, you know, look, Josh einz Allen's a
- 12:33Speaker 5: really good player, Trayvon Walker is a really good player,
- 12:36Speaker 5: but they haven't they haven't been getting a guy on
- 12:38Speaker 5: the ground, and he was there the other night and
- 12:40Speaker 5: he clearly missed him. I thought there was some good
- 12:43Speaker 5: interior pressure from Mason Smith the other night. Again, that's
- 12:45Speaker 5: two games in a row. Maybe he's starting to come
- 12:47Speaker 5: on a little bit. But you know, they played a
- 12:50Speaker 5: lot of off coverage, and when you play a lot
- 12:52Speaker 5: of off coverage, they were even dropping some of those
- 12:54Speaker 5: defensive ends into coverage and rushing three at times, which
- 12:57Speaker 5: you know, you don't want to give up the big
- 12:58Speaker 5: play to the Chiefs. You don't want to get Mahomes
- 13:00Speaker 5: to get that big shot down the field. I get it,
- 13:02Speaker 5: but at some point you got to start getting the
- 13:04Speaker 5: quarterback on the ground. It's tough to do when you
- 13:07Speaker 5: don't have a player like Trayvon Walker.
- 13:08Speaker 6: All Right, all that said, Pete, what's your prediction for today?
- 13:13Speaker 5: Look, I think they win the game. I think this
- 13:15Speaker 5: team is starting to feel itself a little bit. I
- 13:17Speaker 5: think they're going to be physical against Seattle, and look,
- 13:20Speaker 5: Sam Darnold's put amazing numbers up and it really has.
- 13:23Speaker 5: But they didn't stop Baker Mayfield last week. And if
- 13:26Speaker 5: Jacksonville goes into that game, runs the ball and takes
- 13:28Speaker 5: those shots down the field, I don't think they're going
- 13:30Speaker 5: to stop them either.
- 13:31Speaker 1: Ryan Sexton caught up with Jaggs right tackle Anton Harrison
- 13:34Speaker 1: in the locker room this week and it's a good
- 13:35Speaker 1: start to the season for the group up front.
- 13:38Speaker 7: Everybody morale is high. Obviously still early in the season,
- 13:41Speaker 7: but you can see Gunna what's building here and what's
- 13:44Speaker 7: to come for the future. So I feel like everybody's
- 13:46Speaker 7: going to be on the right to Jack three right plan.
- 13:49Speaker 7: We just need to keep here and keep getting better.
- 13:51Speaker 8: The thing I find the most significant is the way
- 13:54Speaker 8: that five guys on the offensive line have been able
- 13:56Speaker 8: to come together.
- 13:56Speaker 1: How did you do it?
- 13:57Speaker 8: How did you get to a point where you guys
- 13:58Speaker 8: could trust each other and play at a high level
- 14:00Speaker 8: so quickly?
- 14:01Speaker 7: Religious from day one? I feel like we all outside
- 14:04Speaker 7: of football, we all connected well just as human beings,
- 14:07Speaker 7: as brothers, and we all just kept growing during OTAs
- 14:10Speaker 7: and camp, going through hard times together and just learning
- 14:14Speaker 7: from each other. Learning will be good at, will be
- 14:16Speaker 7: bad at, just helping each other out. And we know
- 14:18Speaker 7: off we want to run the offense through us, So
- 14:21Speaker 7: if we do that and we're together, everybody's gonna be together.
- 14:23Speaker 7: Everybody's gonna keep going. So we try to have that
- 14:25Speaker 7: mindset and it's been working so far.
- 14:27Speaker 8: How important was Brandon Sheriff to you being where you
- 14:31Speaker 8: are playing the way you are right now, because I
- 14:33Speaker 8: think you've always looked at him as a guy who
- 14:35Speaker 8: was very helpful for you.
- 14:36Speaker 7: Definitely, he was a guy I watched growing up, being
- 14:38Speaker 7: from DC. You know, he played with all the resks,
- 14:41Speaker 7: with the commanders now and just coming in that savvy
- 14:45Speaker 7: vat teaching me really a lot of the things that
- 14:48Speaker 7: I know now and just showing me how to be
- 14:50Speaker 7: a pro, showing me how to be a vet, one
- 14:53Speaker 7: of the best to do it.
- 14:54Speaker 1: Obviously he got the All Pros and Pro Bowls.
- 14:56Speaker 7: Things like that, but coming in planning playing somebody like
- 14:59Speaker 7: that is definitely huge for my career.
- 15:00Speaker 8: It goes without saying, you guys feel good about the
- 15:02Speaker 8: experience on Monday night and how awesome that was with
- 15:05Speaker 8: all those people. Is there a momentum in this locker
- 15:08Speaker 8: room right now or do you have to turn that
- 15:09Speaker 8: off and just focus on the next opponent.
- 15:11Speaker 7: Oh, it's definite momentum.
- 15:13Speaker 3: You don't want it to be too much.
- 15:14Speaker 7: You don't want to be distracting because you know, obviously
- 15:17Speaker 7: got another one this weekend and Sunday it's gonna keep
- 15:19Speaker 7: going and you gotta keep trying to get wins. So
- 15:21Speaker 7: obviously you want to enjoy it. We know minium, but
- 15:24Speaker 7: use the minimum as fuel, use it to come on
- 15:27Speaker 7: strong and play all four quarters.
- 15:29Speaker 3: Good for the next one.
- 15:30Speaker 8: What do you see on tape from Seattle? Clearly the
- 15:32Speaker 8: numbers say that this is gonna be a big test
- 15:34Speaker 8: for us.
- 15:35Speaker 7: We want to know. We want to start up front.
- 15:36Speaker 7: We want to control both sides of the ball, the lines,
- 15:39Speaker 7: O line, D line, We want to run the ball.
- 15:41Speaker 7: I just want to protect the quarterback. Seattle, I say
- 15:44Speaker 7: they do a lot of different things well, blisses, games, movements,
- 15:48Speaker 7: things like that, so it's something we need to be
- 15:50Speaker 7: dialed in on. They have a good defensive scheme, good player.
- 15:53Speaker 7: So but we trust each other. We trust we know
- 15:56Speaker 7: what we're doing, we know the game plan, trust the
- 15:57Speaker 7: game plan.
- 15:58Speaker 3: So we do that, We'll be fine.
- 15:59Speaker 8: Final thought, Tony PISENTI doesn't throw a lot of compliments
- 16:02Speaker 8: out there, but he's very complimentary the way that you're playing,
- 16:04Speaker 8: How well are you playing and what did it take
- 16:07Speaker 8: for you to be able to play at your peak
- 16:09Speaker 8: right now?
- 16:10Speaker 7: I feel like I'm playing a pretty good love right now.
- 16:12Speaker 7: Obviously I still got things to work on. I'm not
- 16:14Speaker 7: even at my peak right now. I'm still getting better
- 16:16Speaker 7: weekend and week out. Really just me locking in and
- 16:19Speaker 7: focusing and the little things that I knew that I
- 16:22Speaker 7: had to get better in, like pad level and finish
- 16:25Speaker 7: and those little things that to elevate my game and
- 16:28Speaker 7: to be the most dominant player I wanted to be
- 16:30Speaker 7: every week. So just coming in every Sunday with that
- 16:32Speaker 7: mindset to dominate, to beat my player every snap no
- 16:36Speaker 7: matter what, it really just changed a lot for me.
- 16:38Speaker 1: Brian Sexson also caught up with Jags quarterbacks coach Spencer
- 16:41Speaker 1: Whipple about the progression of this Jags team and of
- 16:44Speaker 1: course quarterback Trevor Lawrence.
- 16:46Speaker 9: I think that's just kind of his personality coming out,
- 16:49Speaker 9: and a lot of it has to do with all
- 16:51Speaker 9: the work he's put in, all the work that the
- 16:52Speaker 9: team is put in to try to put the best
- 16:55Speaker 9: offensive display on in front of everybody, and then all
- 16:59Speaker 9: that coming to light. And I think the other part
- 17:01Speaker 9: of it is just the adversity through the game. You know,
- 17:03Speaker 9: you're playing a team like that in a stage like
- 17:05Speaker 9: that and having some ups and downs and then battling
- 17:08Speaker 9: back and staying the course, and there's a lot of emotion.
- 17:10Speaker 9: Guys were hype offense defense. You got big plays both sides,
- 17:13Speaker 9: So you know, that was good to see. And I
- 17:15Speaker 9: think it's just, you know, it's more about all the
- 17:18Speaker 9: work in preparation that those guys put in to finally
- 17:21Speaker 9: get there and then have to show that emotion.
- 17:23Speaker 8: He consistently talks about another level in the offense, how
- 17:26Speaker 8: it's coming, how they're working through things. How difficult is
- 17:30Speaker 8: it for a quarterback, even a relatively young guy, to
- 17:33Speaker 8: make the adjustment to his third offense in five seasons,
- 17:36Speaker 8: and how long should it take him to feel as
- 17:38Speaker 8: if it's where he wanted to be.
- 17:40Speaker 9: Yeah, I think Trevor's the guy too that's played a
- 17:42Speaker 9: lot of football and been exposed to a lot of
- 17:45Speaker 9: different systems as well, and so he has that background
- 17:48Speaker 9: and then you know, just to go through all the preparation,
- 17:51Speaker 9: all the things that you know, there's a lot in
- 17:53Speaker 9: terms of starting in the spring, and then all the
- 17:55Speaker 9: installs through springtime and then training camp and then getting
- 17:59Speaker 9: into the season preparing for an opponent. So all those
- 18:02Speaker 9: things kind of stack up and layer up, and we're still,
- 18:05Speaker 9: you know, focusing on fundamentals through the entire offense of
- 18:07Speaker 9: things that we had initially put in in the spring
- 18:10Speaker 9: and things that will still come up in training camp
- 18:11Speaker 9: to still hold true that you want to keep, you know,
- 18:14Speaker 9: keep harping on through through the season. And then especially
- 18:17Speaker 9: when you're playing different opponents.
- 18:19Speaker 8: When he gets frustrated and he comes to the sideline,
- 18:23Speaker 8: how difficult is it to coach a guy at that moment.
- 18:26Speaker 9: I think as a quarterback to every everybody's a little
- 18:29Speaker 9: bit different in terms of how they handle, you know,
- 18:31Speaker 9: what just happened on the field generally, you know, you know,
- 18:34Speaker 9: you like to based on who the person is, you know,
- 18:37Speaker 9: on how they handle what had just happened. You know,
- 18:39Speaker 9: I feel like it's good to just kind of take
- 18:41Speaker 9: a look, take take a breath, and see what happened
- 18:43Speaker 9: and kind of be able to talk through things and
- 18:46Speaker 9: for him, for me just to be there for him,
- 18:47Speaker 9: just to you know, talk through the previous drive and
- 18:50Speaker 9: then see and then after we kind of shut that
- 18:52Speaker 9: off and we've kind of corrected everything or gone through
- 18:54Speaker 9: the plays, what's coming next, Because that's really the mode
- 18:56Speaker 9: that you have to be in, you know, to play quarterback.
- 18:59Speaker 9: And then really for anybody in the position, to play
- 19:01Speaker 9: any position on the field is all right, what's next,
- 19:03Speaker 9: what's coming next? And then you know, so you know,
- 19:06Speaker 9: refocusing on what the next play is, what the next
- 19:08Speaker 9: series looks like, you know what you know, the time
- 19:10Speaker 9: and the game, the situation, all those things and stay
- 19:12Speaker 9: at present.
- 19:13Speaker 8: Leadership is such an obtuse term. It means different things
- 19:16Speaker 8: to different people. But his calm demeanor and the way
- 19:20Speaker 8: that he interacts with all the different position groups, it
- 19:22Speaker 8: would seem like he's the kind of guy with the
- 19:25Speaker 8: right mindset to be the leader of this football team.
- 19:28Speaker 8: Do you see that leadership side of it. I know,
- 19:30Speaker 8: it's it's an opaque term.
- 19:31Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, he's He's done a great job, you know,
- 19:35Speaker 9: owning the system, you know, learning into it, you know,
- 19:38Speaker 9: buying buying in and learning the ins and outs, and
- 19:41Speaker 9: then putting it on display, and then really connecting with
- 19:43Speaker 9: the guys around him, you know, all positions, making sure
- 19:46Speaker 9: everybody's on the same page, keeping that communication up, you know,
- 19:49Speaker 9: throughout the day, throughout the week, throughout the season, and
- 19:51Speaker 9: then you know, ultimately bringing the guys together so they
- 19:54Speaker 9: can all be on the same page.
- 19:55Speaker 1: That's where it starts.
- 19:56Speaker 9: You know, the coaches can install the information, the game plan,
- 19:59Speaker 9: but really it comes to on to the quarterback and
- 20:01Speaker 9: the players at the end of the day getting on
- 20:02Speaker 9: the same page for how they see it, want it
- 20:04Speaker 9: to work, and you know, in the end ends up
- 20:06Speaker 9: being the result they want, you know, as long as
- 20:08Speaker 9: they're keep talking and keep that communication, and then it
- 20:11Speaker 9: creates that that connectedness within the offense and within the team.
- 20:14Speaker 8: I like the fact that he always points to himself
- 20:16Speaker 8: where he can be better. What does he need to
- 20:18Speaker 8: do to take that next step in this offense? Wait,
- 20:20Speaker 8: is it anything in particular or mostly in general?
- 20:23Speaker 9: No, I think he's I think he's on a great track.
- 20:25Speaker 9: I think he's you know, he's each week there's new things.
- 20:29Speaker 9: He played different opponents, there's a whole new you know.
- 20:31Speaker 9: We may have our base things that we do, you know,
- 20:33Speaker 9: in terms of a system, but then you're going against
- 20:35Speaker 9: a whole new another opponent. And he's done a tremendous
- 20:39Speaker 9: job in terms of just diving in each week, putting
- 20:42Speaker 9: in the work daily, weekly, anytime, doing whatever he can
- 20:45Speaker 9: to make sure he's the most prepared that he can be.
- 20:47Speaker 9: So he goes out there during the game and and performs,
- 20:50Speaker 9: And I'm excited just to see us as a whole
- 20:53Speaker 9: unit collectively and the things that we can we can accomplish,
- 20:56Speaker 9: you know, moving forward, you know, with more games under
- 20:58Speaker 9: our belt and you know, more exposure to different situations.
- 21:02Speaker 9: I'm really excited about it. I know he is too,
- 21:03Speaker 9: and you know, it just comes back to all the
- 21:06Speaker 9: work he's put in from the first day we got
- 21:08Speaker 9: here until now and he's still building. And that's the
- 21:11Speaker 9: great thing. You see have a game like that the
- 21:12Speaker 9: other night, where you know, you perform like that, perform
- 21:15Speaker 9: well on a national stage, and then come back in
- 21:18Speaker 9: and jump right in, all right, what's next? What can
- 21:20Speaker 9: I do next? And that's really been you know, his
- 21:22Speaker 9: his mode of operation, and that's that's a great thing
- 21:24Speaker 9: to see about him. He's always hungry for what's next
- 21:26Speaker 9: and how can he can keep improving.
- 21:28Speaker 1: And finally, our weekly conversation with Pride of the Jaguars
- 21:31Speaker 1: running back Fred Taylor. The Jaguars are four and one.
- 21:35Speaker 1: They are tied for first in the AFC South, tied
- 21:38Speaker 1: for the best record in the AFC. A lot of
- 21:40Speaker 1: football left red. But that's a really good place to
- 21:43Speaker 1: be right now.
- 21:44Speaker 10: Hey, I'd rather be here at four and one than
- 21:47Speaker 10: the other way around one and four. So it's he's
- 21:50Speaker 10: exciting times, not only for the franchise but for his city.
- 21:54Speaker 10: You know, it was a great turnout last week, and
- 21:58Speaker 10: you know, I'm pretty sure now with that mo mentum,
- 22:00Speaker 10: we'll see more and more you know, crazy fans, not crazy,
- 22:04Speaker 10: like crazy crazy, but you know what I mean, like
- 22:06Speaker 10: fanatics in the bank. And that's what the team wants
- 22:10Speaker 10: and that's the energy they need and hopefully this thing
- 22:13Speaker 10: can keep moving forward.
- 22:15Speaker 1: James Gladstone said in the offseason when he was hired,
- 22:18Speaker 1: they're not going to be afraid to make bold decisions
- 22:21Speaker 1: and moves. And they've made another trade as of this
- 22:25Speaker 1: week in Tyson Campbell heading to the Browns. Greg knew
- 22:29Speaker 1: some coming back from the Browns. They've traded some draft
- 22:32Speaker 1: picks as well, and here we go. They're not gonna
- 22:35Speaker 1: stop making moves and trying to improve this roster.
- 22:38Speaker 3: No, they hit the ground running. They're very aggressive since
- 22:41Speaker 3: day one.
- 22:43Speaker 10: It's carried over to on the field, you know, in
- 22:46Speaker 10: the way coach Cohen he's been in his play calling,
- 22:50Speaker 10: you know, but strategic, you know, not just aggressive just
- 22:54Speaker 10: to be aggressive, but very strategic.
- 22:56Speaker 3: And they're making the moves.
- 22:58Speaker 10: To try and when out James Gladstone. He was there
- 23:02Speaker 10: in Los Angeles with the Rams when they made some
- 23:05Speaker 10: aggressive moves and they went out and got the guys
- 23:08Speaker 10: they needed and to let the lead know, look, we
- 23:11Speaker 10: want to win now and we'll worry about everything later.
- 23:14Speaker 10: And people thought those moves would set them back. But
- 23:18Speaker 10: if you look at the Rams, who will be you know,
- 23:20Speaker 10: seeing in a week from now out in London. You know,
- 23:24Speaker 10: they haven't been much falloff and they're still plug and
- 23:27Speaker 10: playing with a lot of young guys despite all the
- 23:30Speaker 10: bets that they've signed. So you know, I knew some
- 23:34Speaker 10: he's been a very solid cornerback throughout his career. Unfortunately
- 23:38Speaker 10: for Tyson, who's very close to myself and my family,
- 23:42Speaker 10: we're gonna hate to see him leave the state of Florida,
- 23:46Speaker 10: you know, and even more so the Jaguars. I think
- 23:51Speaker 10: it's a good move by the team, you know, quite naturally,
- 23:54Speaker 10: and if I'm being honest, I felt that Tyson needed
- 23:57Speaker 10: to perform better and and you know the team probably
- 24:01Speaker 10: did too to make that move. So we'll see here
- 24:04Speaker 10: we are. Newsom's gonna, uh, you know, get an opportunity
- 24:08Speaker 10: to go out there and show everyone what he's made
- 24:12Speaker 10: of as you alluded to before this conversation, is a
- 24:16Speaker 10: contract year for him, you know, so that's motivation and
- 24:19Speaker 10: itself and a little change never heard. So it's always
- 24:22Speaker 10: been intriguing, So we'll see how it turns out.
- 24:25Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with us. Let's get into this matchup now,
- 24:28Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks coming to town to face the Jacksonville Jaguars.
- 24:32Speaker 1: And boy, I mean this offense in Seattle's throwing it
- 24:35Speaker 1: around with Sam Darnold. Now they've got good receivers and
- 24:39Speaker 1: Cooper Cupp and Jackson Smith and Jigba, and they've got
- 24:42Speaker 1: a pair of running backs that they utilize, starting with
- 24:45Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker the third. What about this offense? What do
- 24:49Speaker 1: you like the most about Seattle's attack?
- 24:51Speaker 10: You know, I like everything that you just mentioned. You know,
- 24:55Speaker 10: j Assen a great player. Uh you know you talk
- 25:00Speaker 10: about Cooper Cup, Triple Crown, former Triple Crown who people
- 25:04Speaker 10: thought he was sort of on his way out. He's
- 25:07Speaker 10: resurging along with Sam Donald, another player who's resurging and
- 25:12Speaker 10: you know, uh, redeeming his career. You know, one of
- 25:16Speaker 10: those early round picks that kind of been like a journeyman.
- 25:22Speaker 3: But Minnesota a year ago. He did well, provoked the trade.
- 25:26Speaker 10: Now he's out in Seattle where he's playing well and
- 25:31Speaker 10: he's firing.
- 25:32Speaker 3: He's he's a leader for him.
- 25:34Speaker 10: Kenneth Walker, you mentioned him, my former coach, coach Kennedy
- 25:38Speaker 10: Pola KP, my guy. I talked to him not too
- 25:41Speaker 10: long ago.
- 25:42Speaker 1: Uh.
- 25:43Speaker 10: KP's you know, teaching him everything he taught Maurice and myself.
- 25:47Speaker 3: I've even spoken with Kenneth a few times on the phone.
- 25:51Speaker 10: Young guy, solid back, can do it all amazing jump,
- 25:54Speaker 10: cut fast and get it downhill. Kind of just arrived
- 25:58Speaker 10: on the scene his rookieyear year caught some people off guard.
- 26:02Speaker 10: Long run after long run. So it's certainly capable, very
- 26:07Speaker 10: explosive offense. And you know, they're gonna have to do
- 26:12Speaker 10: well up front. I know they battle some injuries, but
- 26:14Speaker 10: they're gonna have to do well upfront in order to
- 26:17Speaker 10: slow down this Jaguars pass us and opportunistic defense.
- 26:22Speaker 3: So it'll be a good display and challenge for them.
- 26:26Speaker 1: You know, that's the part of this Jaguars defense. It's
- 26:29Speaker 1: been opportunistic. They punch the ball away, they get interceptions.
- 26:34Speaker 1: Last week they had to pick six. Of course, with
- 26:36Speaker 1: Devin Lloyd I mean, is that sustainable? Can they just
- 26:40Speaker 1: keep doing the same thing they've been doing and results
- 26:42Speaker 1: are still gonna come?
- 26:43Speaker 3: Right?
- 26:44Speaker 10: Well, you know that's the question we've been asking every week,
- 26:48Speaker 10: you know, and they're proven us right or wrong. They're
- 26:51Speaker 10: proving themselves right every week because they're preaching it.
- 26:54Speaker 3: You know, they're talking it in the building.
- 26:56Speaker 10: They're talking in the locker room, and you know, we
- 27:00Speaker 10: talk about speaking things into existence. It was the theme
- 27:06Speaker 10: on the show a few days ago. And these guys, man,
- 27:10Speaker 10: they love each other, they're thriving around each other, and
- 27:13Speaker 10: they believe in what they're doing, and turnovers is one
- 27:17Speaker 10: of those things.
- 27:18Speaker 3: It's the theme.
- 27:19Speaker 10: So you know, if they're in the right places and
- 27:23Speaker 10: you know they're studying and they're believing and trusting what
- 27:26Speaker 10: they're seeing on tape, this is how it happens.
- 27:30Speaker 3: So I talk.
- 27:31Speaker 10: I got an opportunity to talk to Camp a week ago.
- 27:34Speaker 10: I didn't know he was that big of a Fred
- 27:35Speaker 10: Taylor family. It was a hug after hug. I'm like,
- 27:39Speaker 10: keep them coming, the hugs and the turnovers. So you know,
- 27:43Speaker 10: it's a lot of love and happiness in the building. So, uh,
- 27:48Speaker 10: you know, if it's sustainable honestly, I don't know, you know,
- 27:51Speaker 10: but it's been a theme for him, man, and it's worked.
- 27:54Speaker 10: And whatever they're doing, I'm sure they're going to keep
- 27:56Speaker 10: doing until they have to do something else, so, you know,
- 28:00Speaker 10: keep it going until it ain't going no more.
- 28:02Speaker 1: I'm surprised he didn't punch to the football. He was
- 28:04Speaker 1: trying to hug you.
- 28:05Speaker 10: I didn't have a ball, but sometimes when you're visualize
- 28:10Speaker 10: and practice on the air, that's the way you get
- 28:12Speaker 10: good at it. But no, it was just a great
- 28:17Speaker 10: moment to be able to sit there and chop it
- 28:19Speaker 10: up with him. You know, one of those moments where
- 28:21Speaker 10: they make you feel old because they were so young.
- 28:24Speaker 3: You know.
- 28:25Speaker 10: The coaches these days are like thirty twenty nine, and
- 28:28Speaker 10: they're like.
- 28:29Speaker 3: I grew up watching you. I was a big fan.
- 28:31Speaker 3: I couldn't wait to meet you.
- 28:32Speaker 10: It was just one of those encounters, man, but just
- 28:35Speaker 10: more so than anything, just full of respect and admiration.
- 28:40Speaker 3: You know.
- 28:41Speaker 10: It was reciprocated, and I congratulated him on the hire
- 28:45Speaker 10: and the things that they've been able to achieve in
- 28:47Speaker 10: this early part of the season.
- 28:49Speaker 1: Brent Taylor with us, let's get a thought on the
- 28:52Speaker 1: Jaguars offense here and the performance last week. Obviously, Trevor
- 28:55Speaker 1: Lawrence was just filled with moxie and it felt like
- 29:01Speaker 1: in that game it wasn't pretty, but he made big
- 29:03Speaker 1: throws when he needed to and then ran when he
- 29:06Speaker 1: needed to, even when it didn't look great, he just
- 29:09Speaker 1: found a way to get his team over the top.
- 29:11Speaker 1: That's that's a good foundation, right, what's the next step
- 29:15Speaker 1: now for Trevor in this offense?
- 29:17Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, it was a great, great way to end
- 29:19Speaker 3: the game.
- 29:20Speaker 10: Let's say that, you know, some learning processes and moments,
- 29:25Speaker 10: teachable moments throughout the course of the game. You know,
- 29:28Speaker 10: we don't want to you know, hang on those too long,
- 29:30Speaker 10: but you know, you want to bring him to Trevor's attention.
- 29:34Speaker 10: I'm pretty sure Liam and the staff has you know,
- 29:38Speaker 10: for example, the one play where he could have tossed
- 29:40Speaker 10: it out of bounced later in the game, it was
- 29:42Speaker 10: a situational opportunity for Trevor to display, you know, his
- 29:47Speaker 10: awareness and just you're out of the pocket, toss it out.
- 29:50Speaker 3: You don't lose the time out, you don't lose valuable seconds.
- 29:54Speaker 10: And that would have been one of those things that
- 29:56Speaker 10: would have come back to hunt them. Had he not
- 30:01Speaker 10: had the same awareness to get off the ground and
- 30:04Speaker 10: run and punch it in to win the game for
- 30:07Speaker 10: his ball club. The ETN play on the sideline, take
- 30:11Speaker 10: the eight or maybe even ten first down reset as
- 30:14Speaker 10: opposed to the shot to the end zone. But we're
- 30:17Speaker 10: all Monday morning quarterbacks, right, We're not out there in
- 30:20Speaker 10: the heat of the moments. We see things from all
- 30:22Speaker 10: twenty two in the sky view that players don't see
- 30:26Speaker 10: when they're out there in those pressure situations. Still, I
- 30:30Speaker 10: don't want damp and the move. Great victory, gut see Maxie.
- 30:34Speaker 10: As you mentioned, he did everything needed to will this
- 30:38Speaker 10: team to a win, and that's what you need from
- 30:40Speaker 10: your franchise quarterback.
- 30:42Speaker 1: All right, Fred, let's keep this train rolling. How about
- 30:45Speaker 1: a win this week?
- 30:47Speaker 3: A win would be big, It would be huge.
- 30:51Speaker 10: Then you head to London with opportunity to play a
- 30:53Speaker 10: solid Rams team, and then you have a few after
- 30:58Speaker 10: that that are very winnable. It is the NFL, as
- 31:02Speaker 10: Liam would say, it's hard to get a winning here.
- 31:04Speaker 10: So you don't look fast these teams. But you know,
- 31:08Speaker 10: let's just say the schedule starts to turn favorable. If
- 31:12Speaker 10: this team continues to stack them up in this manner.
- 31:16Speaker 1: So if this was a stock you would buy right now.
- 31:19Speaker 3: I would certainly buy. I would buy.
- 31:22Speaker 10: What do they say, what's to say? Buy the hype,
- 31:28Speaker 10: sell the news, or whatever wherever however it goes.
- 31:32Speaker 3: This is the hype train.
- 31:33Speaker 10: I would buy the hype, sell the news, because when
- 31:36Speaker 10: the news hit sometimes it's too day.
- 31:39Speaker 1: Fred will talk to you, man.
- 31:40Speaker 3: Thanks all right, boss, we'll go in.
- 31:43Speaker 1: Seahawks Jaguars coming up Sunday at one o'clock. Tickets at
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