Latest / The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network / Jags Drive Time: Friday, September 21

Transcript

Jags Drive Time: Friday, September 21 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Jeff Warris, did you don't like what Jack Morris? Did you?
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Jaguars Drive Time, Ryan sex Sexta, John oh says it Ashley.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: Jaguars Drive Time starts right now. Good morning, Happy Friday.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Jack's Drive Time, brought to you by the
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Fields Automotive Group and this morning in particular Porsche of
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Jacksonville on Atlantic. Proud member of that group. Welcome Brian
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: Sexton along with Ashlyn Sullivan, John Osier, and this morning
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: we start the show with head coach dougmon. Hey, Happy Friday, Horny,
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Happy Friday. Been a busy week around here, a lot
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: of enthusiasm, a lot of energy in the building. It's
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: amazing what a couple of wins does for a team. Yeah,
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of that's on the outside. I
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: think the team, you know, for for us and the
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: coaches and players, we've just got to make sure that
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: we're we're focused in on the task in hand for
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: the day. And that's one of you know, the themes
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: that we try to save them for training camp is
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: just to make sure hey, listen, um, what do we
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: have to do today that's gonna help us, you know,
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: on Sunday and let's just focus on that and not
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: anything else that we can't control or we're gonna do sometimes,
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: you know, something down the road. But what is it
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: about the Titans makes them difficult? That talented team? I
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: think when you look from top to bottom, they're very
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: talented roster. There's really not a lot of weaknesses on
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: their team. Um, you know, good coaching, good scheme, um
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: and the and they have a lot of talent. They've
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: they've drafted well, acquired some good players. Um. No different
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: then when people look at our team and they say, hey, listen,
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: you know, you know we have some talent too. So it's, uh,
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: it's it's they're they're a good team. And obviously you
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: know they've they've beaten us, you know, twice, and it's
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: a tough challenge for us. You guys have been asked
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: all week about that, about losing twice to them last
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: year and if that was motivation. Interestingly enough, almost everyone said, no,
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: that's not the motivation. The motivation is this Sunday. Yeah,
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: I think that, you know, and it started, you know,
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: before the season even started, about you know, people are
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: gonna try to you know, draw us to go back
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: to last year and at times. You know, it's it's
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: not bad to go back and and to take the
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: good things, you know, the things that you know, the
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: hard work, to discipline, the things that you've learned during
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: the course of the year. But you know, the team
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: is is different. You know, the chemistry of the team
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: is different. And that's what I've talked to our players about.
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: You know, they they they've done a nice job. They
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: see more focused, you know than a year before. I'm
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: talking about daily during the week, you know, celebrate with
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: each other. Um. You know, so those things are going on,
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: and it's a different football team and it's it's a
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: different year. So um we get. But for us, it's
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: a division opponent, so it's a big game. Winning the
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: division is still outside that locker room. Even though this
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: team made it to the f C Championship Game last year,
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: is that still a huge goal for this team. Yeah,
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: I think I think first, first and foremost. When you know,
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: when you talk about it and we have you know, escalating,
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: escalating goals for our our our team, UM, I like
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: to take them like I kind of call them like
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: a little little tosses, you know what I'm saying. So
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: we try to get some little things done beforehand, but
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: everywhere I've been it's not this is nothing new. But
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: you know, the fastest way to get yourself in position
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: for the postseason is to win your division. So, um,
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: you know that's why you see teams spend a lot
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: of time on division opponents. We spend a lot of
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: time on him, and then obviously you want to build
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: your team, you know, so you can win your division.
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: I was curious about the mike. We're trying to figure
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: out the mike's working over here, so it's a little
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: bit you know what thinking. We had Dante Fowler in
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: with Lee Jackson on Thursday here on here, and uh,
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: he's fascinating to me, Doug, because it seems like he
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: has really taking a step in terms of his off
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: the field and preparation. And you've been you praised him
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: several times when you've talked about in publicly. Who's that Dante? Okay, yeah, yeah,
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: he I mean he's done a good job when he's
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: been in here. Um, you know, I think we still
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: got you know, he would tell you, he'd be the
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: first one to tell you that he can do a
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: better job and still has ways to go. Seriously, I mean, honestly,
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: Joe Fortunate, I just did the bear crawl. Yeah, he's
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: just bear crawl across. Yeah, that was a pretty good
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: form though, I'll say that it was impressive. Yeah, but
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: you know, it's a day to day thing. I think
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: that you know, when you when you have things that
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: have gone on where you haven't performed well, whether it
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: be on the field, off the field, you know, it's
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: something that um, people are gonna you know, they're gonna
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: they're gonna wait to see, you know, the consistency of
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: it to say, you know, I think he's really changing,
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: you know, or or things are going in a in
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: a good direction. And I think that takes time and
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: consistency and and and he's he's he's trying to do it,
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: and you know, over of course the time, if he
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: can do it for that whole period, and I think
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: people will say, yeah, you know, but you know, and
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: this is anyone, not just Dante, but if he falls back,
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: everyone be like, well I knew it, you know where
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: where you know, we're trying to we're trying to get
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: everything going in the right direction. Well, it seems as
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: if Malik, who was in here with him the other
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: day and and Calais after the game when I was
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: talking to Dante lingering around. You know, I don't want
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: they put their arm around, but really have embraced the
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: idea of helping him reaches potential. I think, I think
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: this team in general is a close football team. Um.
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: I said that last year too, that I thought that,
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: you know, these guys genuinely care about each other, and
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: that's not the case on least teams that I've been on.
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: You know, sometimes it's like it is a professional environment
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: where you're coming to work and then you go ahead
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: and leave. But you know, it's a little bit different
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: when you spend that much time together and you compete
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: against each other. So I think of it as those
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: you know, those guys try to literally help each other.
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: I know that, you know, everyone will look to me
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: and say, okay, that's the head coach. He's got to
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: go and help players. But a lot of times those
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: players helped me too. You know, we all have you know,
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: we all have issues. We're all up, we're all down,
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: we're all you know, sometimes all over the place, and
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: it takes all of us to to take us back
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: to one. You know, and I think that you know,
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: we've done a good job that we have a good
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: relationship you know, players and coaches, coaches and coaches, players
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: and players, and I think that helps us. It gives
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: us an opportunity to win games. It doesn't necessarily, um,
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: you know, it's not guaranteed. Is that something you try
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: to create or does it just have to happen as
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: you you like to see that. I think it's very
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: tough to manipulate leadership, manipulate you know, guys, um, you know,
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: getting along. And I think if you put those expectations
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: uh out there and in your mind you know what
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: you want, I think I think it's very difficult, uh
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: to to to get that, you know, rather than say, hey, listen,
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: leadership is gonna be developed between the players and it's
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: gonna come out of that locker room. They're gonna vote
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: on it. Hey listen, these guys are gonna spend some
• 6:37
  Speaker 1: time together. We're gonna put them in situations where they
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: can do that. Now, whether they take advantage of it
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: or not is up to them. So we we've done that,
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: and I think our team has done a good job
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: of that. I mean, this is you know, the one
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: thing about this team you can say whatever you want,
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: but they're they're close and they have each other's back.
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: And a lot of people say that, but these guys truly, truly,
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: it's genuine well and you felt it. I was talking
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: with Josh Wells in the locker room this week and
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: he was talking about filling the role that Cam had
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: obviously at left tackle and living to the standard, and
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: you could just sense in his part that he didn't
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: want to let anybody down. Tell us about Josh because
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: you've had him here for a couple of years. He's
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: been a swing guy, he's had some injuries. Now he's
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: your starting left tackle. Yeah, and and he's earned it.
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's worked harder. You know. When I first
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: came here, you know, I was coaching the line, I
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: wasn't sure, you know, I really wasn't. I knew he
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: was a good athlete. He can move well, um, but
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: you know, he had he had some some some issues,
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: you know, technical issues that we were trying to work on.
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: And but he's here all the time. He works extremely hard.
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: He he's overcome those those issues with UM. You know,
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: he's smart. He's gotten he's gotten bigger, he's gotten stronger,
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: and that's the one thing that you know, probably was
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: the main thing when I first had gotten here, and
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: and he's worked hard to be where he is today,
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: and you know, we have faith in him, and the
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: team does, um. You know, they see that's the one
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: thing that people on the outside aren't able to see,
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: whereas on the team you can. As you know, if
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: you watch someone and you watch them work every day
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: and you watch him in the weight room and you
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: watch him nutritionally, and you're seeing this, and then there's
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: an opportunity that that that opens up for the player.
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: You know, the team feels like, yeah, you know what,
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: he's earned it, and we trust them and believe in them.
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: And that's that's part about being a good a good teammate.
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: Is that why you're such a believer in bringing guys
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: up from the practice squad if you can, I mean,
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: is that sort of tie into that that you want
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: guys to have seen what these guys have done? Yeah?
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: I think I think, you know, because my philosophy is
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: I never want to treat anyone like a backup. I
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: think I think we as coaches in general, sometimes, at
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: least early in my career, I would see that coaches
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: with label players, and it happens all the time in
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: the meeting, and I think when you do that, no
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: matter what you do in life, once you can start
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: labeling people, you know, you limit them to what they
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: can be. And I never wanted to do that as
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: a coach, So therefore I never said, oh, he's a backup,
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: he's back You coach everyone like their starter because they
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: could be. And then I believe that I want everyone
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: that's part of the fifty three, and then obviously the
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: practice squad, which is ten. In my mind, I look
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: at them and saying, Okay, if something happens, you know,
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: can we go ahead and promote this player. And that's
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: why we've work a lot on development during the year
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: with some of those younger players after practice on Wednesday
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: and Thursday, so that they can come in and help us,
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: because you can't the way it's set up now, you
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: can't go out and just buy players at every position.
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: You've got to do a heck of a job as
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: a coach developing players. You know, it's easy to see
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: the top of the draft board and the talent, but
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you get these guys up
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: pop like you know, uh, Cole or Trey Herndon and
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: Corey Grant. I mean, these guys are playing major roles
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: for us right now. Now. Granted they've done a good
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: job working hard, but the coaches have done a good
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: job developing and making them better. And a couple of
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: names to throw in the mix, since we're talking about
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: offensive line, Tyler Shatley's to those guys, Uh, you've expressed
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: a lot of confidence in Josh Walker. I think your
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: statement was we we have our solution or answer here
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: in the building. You don't have to go out and
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: look for other guys at the offensive line, right And
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: and that's what I was trying to say. You know,
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: that's the way you know I I feel as as
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: the head coach, I just feel comfortable with it. We
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: did an exercise with our players right before the last
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: preseason game, and we did it by position. You know
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: how many how many uh you know, truly college free
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: agents came into this league. Well, when we did it
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: with our defensive backs, are you know if you look
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: at our four starting defensive backs are two safeties in
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: two corners. Three out of four we're free agents. And
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: you know, like I like I tell them all the
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: time and I truly believe this when when I and
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: I've said this every year, when everyone gets in there together,
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: I really don't care how you've gotten here, whether you've
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: been drafted, whether you got paid or all that stuff.
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: That stuff doesn't mean anything to me. Now you have
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: to earn it and and and you're just as equal
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: as anyone else. And I think that's where you're able to, um,
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: you know, find some of these players. No one at
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: Holy Holy Cow. I do have an opportunity. This is
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: open and through the hard work and the coaches coach
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: them all all to be starters, so they have an
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: opportunity to show what they have. And and we've been fortunate. Uh.
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: I never I never forget when the Oilers came in
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: here and Eddie George walked out on the field, how
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: big he was. I don't know whether you ever played
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: or coached in again against him, just massive you. I
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: have the same reaction when, um, when Derrick Henry takes
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: the field. I mean, there are certain guys at their
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: position they're just so big. Does he play differently than
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of big backs. No, he's a big back
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: and you know, difficult to tackle. It's good bounce you
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: know good receiver. I'm sure you can throw. He's playing
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: a wildcat, you know. I just you know, when you
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: put in that mind. The first guy I think about
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: Jim Brown. He's a big cat. Larry's unco was a
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: big cat. But I remember when we played Pittsburgh they
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: had Jerome Bettison Douce Dale and those are two big
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: cats you know back there. And you know, the one
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: thing about is you don't want to get those guys going.
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: You want to get population. You want a lot of
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: people around them, um, you know, being able to tackle them.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: You want them to stay east and west. You know,
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: usually with those big backs, you don't want them going
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: north and south. So that's the challenge when you when
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: you're playing someone like Henry who's you know, obviously a
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: very good football player coming off coming off I sold
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: out game against the Patriots, really incredible atmosphere. There's tickets
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: still available for this game, and we've been saying all week,
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: you want to be here for this game. This is
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: a really important game. What's the message to the fans
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: for you? Yeah, I mean it's an important it's an
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: important game, and we love our fans. I've said it before,
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: you know, we we we work hard, you know, they're
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: part of this thing for us, and know, um, you
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: know they help us. We work hard to try to
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: earn you know there. I guess support it's probably the
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: best word to say it, because you know, we we've
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: we're working hard for it, and the and the fans
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: that are here have come out and they've shown it
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: to us. But you know, obviously this this is this
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: is a bigger game. I mean, you know, because it's
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: a division game, and and anyone that says anything different
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: is that's not true. We put a lot of emphasis
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: on the division. Um, you know, and I was saying,
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking to myself, you know, last week, hey we
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: have New England. That's a big game obviously because it's
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: an a f C team, But the following week is
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: even bigger, you know, because you're playing a division opponent.
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: So you know, this is really our home opener, a
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: division home opener is how we've labeled it to our players.
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: So you know, we're hoping that we get a great day.
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: We're hoping that we get a great crowd just like
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: we've we've been getting. You know, we've got something going
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: on here at home. Um, you know, We've been playing
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: well and part of the reason is that. Make no
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: mistake about it. Our players react to the support of
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: our fans and appreciate it. I'm sorry, Sandy. The Tennessee
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: side of your family gonna make their way down for this.
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: It's been I don't, I'm I'm sure, I don't. I don't,
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know. Okay, I get it. I'm
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: trying to win a football exactly. Alright, Coach, thanks so much.
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: I appreciate thank you. Tonight, who the uh they're gonna
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: win to Tonight's the one definite win on the schedule.
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: They have a bye bye is gonna buy has never
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: won exactly. Head coach Doug Morow, thank you so much
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: for your time. Coffee with the coach every Friday morning
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: here on Jags Drive Time. We'll take a break, come
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: back with big things rolling right along after this on
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: the Jaguars Digital Network. And you can step up to
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: luxury now. Hello, I'm Dan Fields. Whatever you're driving, you
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: can step up to luxury now. Plus get our field's amenities,
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: which include complementary loners, car washes, and our cafes. Make
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: this your year to step up to luxury at Fields, Catalec, Mercedes, Bends, Porsche,
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: land Rover, Jaguar, and Lexus. When it comes to the
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: ultimate car buying experience, there's only one name that matters. Fields,
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: and Fields matters because you matter. The Fields Auto Group
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: called Partners of your Jacksonville Jaguars. On the road, there's
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: a thin line between safety and tragedy. Don't cross it.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: Give lawn forcement, first responders, and service professionals the space
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: to safely do their jobs. When you see flashing lights,
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: move over a lane or slow down twenty miles per
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: hour below the posted speed limit. See lights move over.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: Florida brought to you by the Florida Department of Highway
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: Safety and Motor Vehicles and the Florida Highway Patrol. You
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: guys show yes. John was talking about my magic brush.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever seen it. I've seen it.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: It's the brush I used before every segment we do together,
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: and it brings us good luck. The magic brush brush.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Do you share the magic brush now? No, he doesn't
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: need it sharing John, who is a sharer beyond our
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: ability to im about others? YEA, yeah, yeah, but that's
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: one way to say it. Hey, we're a little lot
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: of ortakers. Coach came in to start the show today,
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: So let's roll onto big things. We still have plenty
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: to come on this morning's program. My Dempsey will join
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: us in about a half an hour. Ye. Big thing once,
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: like it has been for the past two weeks, is
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Leonard's like. He spokes to media after practice yesterday and
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: said I feel a lot better, like way better. He
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: mentioned it's still up to the coaches whether he plays
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: on Sunday, but it seems like there was up to him,
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: he'd be in that game. Yeah. I get the sense
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: he's playing on Sunday and maybe carrying a big load. Yeah,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: I do, Except that he kept on talking about's long season. Um,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: you know, you get the idea they'll be smart. Uh yeah,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: I mean he's been limited this week up from not
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: practicing last week, so it certainly has a better chance. Uh.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: The to talk about the long season and talk about
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: happen to be smart makes me wonder if they might
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: not be smart one more week. But well said. But
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: what was interesting though, was the question that was asked
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: of Nate Hackett during the coordinated meeting at time yesterday,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: and it was it was basically what we've been talking
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: about a week. Is the idea that this offense is
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: going to be more efficient, better, more diverse without Leonard
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: from him and his reaction is wearing sunglasses so you
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: couldn't see his eyes, but it was almost like he'd
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: come upon a dead body. Was like what what? What
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: that exactly? I had asked the question, so he may
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: have been reacting. No, you didn't ask me, Okay, it
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: was asked by someone else. Okay, well it could have
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: been just your presence. Yeah, I got the same reactions.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: And the whole idea that you can't be creative, that
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: you can't be uh aggressive with Leonard Fournett in the
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: game is silly. And I asked him after it broke up,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: after the you know, the media scrum broke up, I
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: asked Nate again, you know, can you be creative? And
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: he said, well, what's creative? And he's right in the
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: sense that being creative isn't just throwing twenty five yards
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: down field. They threw the way they threw against the
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Patriots because opportunities were there to do that because their
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: guys were winning one on one. That's the biggest thing
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Nate really uh emphasized by the Patriots game or why
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: was it? Why was it successful? Because the guys who
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: were being asked to win one on one matchups were
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: winning them. And you can be creative, as we saw
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: against Atlanta with you know, the two backs set. Creativity
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: just isn't about throwing twenty five yard touchdowns down field.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: So I think they'll continue be created with four Nette,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: but I do think it would There will be smashed
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: mouth when he's in the game because that's what he
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: does well. And to have him on the field gives
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: you the ability to go to the two backs set.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: So when he went out in the game in New York,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: any thought of the Corey Grant, Leonard Fournett yelled in,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Frenett yelled in Grant went out the window. You can't
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: do it with only two healthy backs. So in terms
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: of carrying the load, having him on the field allows
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: them the ability to go and be creative. Actually, having
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Leonard creates creativity, and they were creative and productive in
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: the first half against the Giants when he was playing.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: They scored three out of four times they had the
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: ball in that situation. They'll be fine when he gets
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: back in. To think they won't a selling may take
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Leonard's leg off of the big things. We may, we
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: may do it, but it will always be lingering in.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: It will be just because of the hamstring injury and
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: the nature of those that can come back, like Paris
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: will always have Leonards like. The best was when he
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: was asked in his press conference, you know what's yeah,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: the sofense is more efficient when you're not on the field,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: and he looked with attitude, next question, we're happy with that?
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: He was not happy with that. It was a brave
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Mark long it was. It was posed to him in
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: a in a in a less aggressive manner. Uh, And
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: he answered the question and that is, Look, it's it's
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: their job. He was talking about Corey and yelled in
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: and the receivers in creating points. He said, their job.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: I expected them to do that. I knew that we
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: had all these weapons. The rest of the National Football
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: League might not have known that, but I expected them
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: to do it. And it goes back to something we've
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: talked about all week on this show, and that is
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: this was going to happen. The evolution of this offense
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: was going to happen. It wasn't going to be what
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: it was from week one to Week sixteen of last year,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: they were dimensional because they couldn't do a lot of
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: other things. Now, all of a sudden, they've got young players.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: You're leading receiver has ten catches in a touchdown and
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: he was an undrafted rookie free agent last year. Your
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: number two receiver was a rookie last year and he
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: was on age reserved the first half of last year.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: D D. Westbrook has nine catches and a touchdown. We
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: all talked about Corey Grant following the a f C
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Championship game. Corey talked about Corey Grant in the off season,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: but he didn't know why he didn't see the ball.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: More what they showed you right out here, what they
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: think he's capable of giving them. Plus there's t J.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Yeldon who's been running with power, and Austin Sephari and
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Jenkins who gives a different dimension to this. And then
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: they used Niles Paul and James O'Shaughnessy. So it was
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: always going to happen that this offense was going to evolve.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: You haven't seen anything yet. The more guys touched the ball,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: especially in the passing game, the better this team is
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: going to be In the sad. The other day it
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: was eight or nine guys touching the ball as receivers.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: The more that happens, the better for net will be.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: When he gets the ball. They have options, no doubt.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: All right. Big thing too on the other side of
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: the ball is the Titans injury update and the things
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: say that again Titans tightens. I have trouble with that word.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I know, yeh, tight tens. Titans injury update. Marks Mariot
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: at the quarterback yes practice a lot yesterday, got a
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: lot of the reps, but still feels numbness in the hand.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: He admitted to it yesterday after practice that it is
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: still there, it is still present. Well. Mike Keith, who
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: was there play by play guy, was talking the other
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: day about how a week ago at this time they
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: thought Mariota was going to get on the field and play.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: They didn't realize until Saturday or Sunday that he wasn't.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people listening to Douglass we
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: talked about Leonard for NAT. They felt like he was
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: going to get on the field based on the confidence um.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: So he took most of the reps in practice yesterday.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: But you know, kind of like with an A c L. Right,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: when a guy practices with an A C L. It
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: isn't that day, it's the day after. Does the niece swell?
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Does it give them any discomfort? Can he practice the
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: next day? So I think we'll know more today on
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Mariota's injury based on his ability to grip the ball.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: But you know as well as I do, John, he
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: could get out there on Sunday and that nerve that's
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: been bothering him there was like a guitar string. He
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: described you as well, it could be strumming again on
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Sunday and he might not be able to go. Yeah,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: it's we'll know when we know. It's always the default
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: storyline when it's a new quarterback, when it's uncertain quarterback,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: is how difficult is it going to be to prepare
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: for that guy? And we asked Todd wash that yesterday. Um,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: in this situation, you wonder if it's not a little
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: tricky for the Titans preparing because they're having to go
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: in with Mariotta practicing with the idea that he may
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: not play. So you've got to prepare blame game. We
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: have to prepare both quarterbacks. So it it's probably there's
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: an uncertain feeling to this game anyway, going in against
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the Titans, because you had Derrick Henry run wildcat, you
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: had Mike Rabel call trick plays out of UH special
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: team formations, and you have certainty at attack. So much
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: uncertainty preparing form that it's a it's a weird prep
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: week for the jag Wars, but you also get a
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: feeling that will be counterbalanced by being a little weird
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: for Tennessee. Well. The tackle situation is the other big
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: issue on the injury report. We've been talking about it
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: all week here tailor the one practice yesterday, but has
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: not yet been cleared by the outside medical consultant that
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: was supposed to happen yesterday afternoon about four thirty. Right,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: he's had a concussion issue exactly. Have not seen anything
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: from Nashville about whether he's able to play. And it
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: doesn't sound like Jack Conklin. They're all pro right tackle
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: who toward the A c L in the playoff game
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: in January, UH is going to go this week. They're
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: good even without that. Their offensive line somehow, even without
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: these guys, the way they play, they don't give up
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: a lot of sacks. UH. They seem to play efficiently
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: even without those guys. And as much as you want
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: to look at their depth chart and say, well they're
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: without there, without there, without, this is a weird team
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: that seems to find a way to function even without
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: their guys. So it's a it's a weird tricky matchup
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: that on paper you think, boy, the Jaguars have a
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: big edge. Somehow, the Titans are always around turnovers, takeaway
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: It's always a part of the game between the Titans
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: and the Jaguars. Okay, Final one. Final One's a f
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: C South title game, question mark, And we just heard
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Dug Moround talk about the importance of this game. If
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: you win this game on Sunday, you can be two
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: games ahead and division the third week of the regular season.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: That's huge. So, John, here's the story. If the Jaguars
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: win and go three and o, the Titans are one
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: and two. If the Texans win their one and two,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: and then you've got the Colts playing in Philadelphia with
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: the return of Carson went So what they's just assume, right,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: the odds say they lose that one. So you could
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: have a two game lead three games in, which is
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: pretty rare. So the question is how much of a
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: hole does that put the rest of the division in. Well,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: if that happens, it's thirteen games, and a lot can happen.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: But good teams and teams that start hitting their stride,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: and we've all seen them, we're all of a sudden,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: there they're five and one and way up, and you
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: get the feeling that there the lead dog and the pack.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: It's what good teams do, and you hate to be chasing.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: This would put the Jaguars in a situation where they
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: had the rest of the division, and again, I don't
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: want to assume any Napsis is going to go to
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia and lose. It would be a high scoring game,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: slight edge to the Eagles, you would have even the
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Colts with two and one. You would have a two
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: game lead on two teams in your division, which you
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: want to start, you know, cutting out those guys and
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: putting them down. It would be big because you've got
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: if you're one of those teams and you're one and two,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: now you've got to keep winning and hope the Jaguars lose,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: and then even when they lose once, you still gotta
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: win again to catch them. So it puts some pressure
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: on the marathon that is this thing. It makes it
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: a lot more difficult. And in the NFL, over thirteen
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: games a two game lead, if that was baseball, you
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: start counting magic numbers, you know. But but it's not
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: anything that's clinched but well, but ends up two things.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: You want to be and you want to have long
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: winning streaks at home in this league which they had
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Jaguars do you want to be in front early? You
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: want to have hot starts. It gives them a lot
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: of things that good teams do. You'll recall because you
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: were covering the Colts when the Colts jumped out oh
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: six oh seven, you know, seven, eight and oh, right
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: on the way to thirteen and oh in one of
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: those years, at one point looking at sixteen and oh
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: before backing it off. You would get to the second
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: week in October and realize, okay, forget getting the division title.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: This team in two thousand and seven new there was
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: no way they were going to win the division title.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: So their sites were set on the other teams in
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the a f C. You know, games against the Steelers
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: and the Raiders where they needed to win. You were
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: looking mathematically at the four five I'm sorry. The five
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: or the six, that's it. You're playing for one of
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: two spots. So it put a different focus on the
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: season because you were chasing, and I see the opportunity
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: if you go three and oh here with the jetson
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: rookie quarterback the next week and the chance to go
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: four oh, you have an opportunity to put them in that. Okay,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: we better start looking at the other teams were really
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: competing with. It also means one slip up doesn't hurt
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: you as much. And I don't say it takes pressure
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: off because in the NFL, in the sixteen games, every
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: game has pressure and it's not the way they're gonna
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: think with preparing. But if you've got a two game
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: lead early and you and you have tough game against
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Kansas City coming up, well, if you don't get that one,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: which is one where you're playing and what looks like
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: an elite team on that's a formula if if if
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: you're gonna lose two or three games during a season,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: that's one that you look at and go, okay, that
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: could be it. It eases the pressure. Okay, you lose
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: that when you're still in control of the division, etcetera, etcetera.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: So it it eases a sliver of the pressure off
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: and again. And I don't want to say it ease
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: is the pressure, because you gonna pressure in every game,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: but it takes away the dramatic effect of a potential loss.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: It's a big game on Sunday. And despite the fact
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: that people may want to say no, come on three
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: and oh and a two game leader really on doesn't
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: mean anything? You bet it does. We absolutely does. It
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: also does because if if you win again and a
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: couple of teams lose, but then all of a sudden,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: you're you know, you know, now you're hitting your stride
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: and you're the lead guy in that marathon and it
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: looks like you're sprinting and you're the Yeah, you're the
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: lead guy, and you're not out of breath, you know.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is when you feel strong and like, look,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna run this mile. Get off to leads like that,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: like head over the coast. For a long time, they
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: used to do that a lot, and it just gave
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: that franchise the feeling of Okay, we're back where we're
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: supposed to be and when we play these guys, they've
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: got to catch us. And that's a good feeling to have.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: All right, that's big things. When we return the featured
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: game of the week, pick it, pick it, pick it right,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: present it, then pick it. We're gonna do that, and
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: then also we will have he will he won't. He
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: might back after this and you can step up to
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: luxury now. Hello, I'm Dan Fields. Whatever you're driving, you
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: can step up to luxury now. Plus can our Fields
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: amenities which include complementary loners, car washes and our cafes.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Make this your year to step up to luxury at Fields, Catalec, Mercedes, Bands, Porsche,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Land Rover, Jaguar and Lexus. When it comes to the
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: ultimate car buying experience, there's only one name that matters Fields,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: and Fields matters because you matter. The Fields Auto Group
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: called Partners of your Jacksonville Jaguars. Did you hear the
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: last two years the Jaguars were turned up punt for
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: a touchdown, earning local families one hundred thousand dollars towards
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: the dream Finders Home. Lauren Brooks here letting you know
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: that could be you this season. Visit any dream Finders
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Homes model and register to win that Take it to
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: the House promotion for your chance at scoring one hundred
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars towards your dream Finders home. Dream Finders Homes
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: homes built to fit your lifestyle. Jags fans experienced t
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: I A a bank Field like never before. Visit Jaguars
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: dot com Slash Tours and book at guided behind the
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Scenes tour presented by Fuel Up to play sixty your
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: stories of great plays by Jaguars legends. Get up close
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: and personal with the famous video boards, and see why
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: the Travel channel named t I A A bank Field
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: as one of the fifteen bucket List destinations for any
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: football fan. Discounts available for children, first responders, and military.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Visit Jaguars dot com Slash Tours for tickets and tales.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: See you at the Bank Welcome back t I A
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: bank Field Sunday afternoon one o'clock kickoff. Tickets are available
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: for the Jaguars and Titans in the first game of
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: the a f C South schedule. Again. You see the
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: game on CBS and will have all kinds of coverage
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: social channels, Jaguars dot com, you name it. The game
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: presented on Sunday by the Universal Folks in Orlando. All right,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Brian Sexton, Ashlyn Sullivan, John Owes your time for he
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: will he won't. He might heat three three, Okay, get
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: it all right, John can go first. I pick him.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Uh oh, Nate Hacket, Yes, I pick Nate Hacke, um
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: and apparently and everyone with a coach. But he will
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: be creative or whatever that means. And again I always
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: laugh at that because that's become such a thing this week,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Like like when he has Leonard Fournette, all Nate does
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: is like drive across the hard Bridge and go home
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: and like eat a Chick fil A at night, and
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: he never game plans. Um. It's he's he's creative whether
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: or not Fournette is in the game. But I do
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: think you're going to start once this offense gets to
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: full health of everybody involved, you're going to see some
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: creativity that maybe isn't about though in a deep downfield,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: it's maybe more about getting both backs involved. Um. I
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: was intrigued by some of the things that they did
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: early on against the Giants, against the Falcons to see
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: how they're going to use these guys, and I think
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: that's going to be a storyline going forward. He won't, um,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: he won't overuse for Net. If he's back, um, he'll
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: use him, but he will be used as part of
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: the grander scheme as part of a diverse offense. I
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: think diversity we talked about a little Brian is going
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: to be the key to this thing going forward. I
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: think you're gonna see by the end of the season,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: eight nine guys have a fifteen or twenty receptions, maybe
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: eight nine guys have touchdowns. I think that will be
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: the theme going forward as well. He might. He might
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: go back and show a Pittsburgh type game plan going forward,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: and I just think that that is going to be
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: the prototype. And we've talked about so much, the use
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: of tight ends in that game, the use of the
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: entire offense, the use of for Net. That might be
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: the prototype going forward. That was a good one, John,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Thank you. As he won't he might. Key three is
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Dante Fowler Jr. He will impact this game. We saw
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: the strip sack recovered fumble against the Patriots. I think
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: you can expect him to make more plays like that
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: going forward. He won't just impact big games. We know
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: he's come off two Patriots games where he's had a major,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: major plays. I think you see him be more consistent,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: show up regularly, and be more accountable. I guess you
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: could say with his teammates were making big plays every game,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: and he might be this week's defensive player of the game.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Yet again, I found a newfound focus with him after
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: talking to him two weeks ago. He seems just lasered
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: in and we mentioned with Malik and Calais Campbell hovering
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: over him, I think a lot of people are counting
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: on him this season. But you know what I love
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: about him. Yes, he's laser focused, but well, laser focus
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: might be strong. He's focused. He's Dante laser focus. That's right, um.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: But also there's an element of him and we asked
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: him about this on on a Happy Hour when he
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: was on right before the sack on Sunday, the biggest
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: play of the game, he's literally three ft away from
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: the huddle. I mean the guys dancing. This is me dancing.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Peaple can't show the actual video of the dance because
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: it's nothing like that. Is that what it was? He
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: tweeted about it. He got he got that from me,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: He got that off my ippie. Um. But the looseness
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: that weasm that he played, yeah, he got the Dance
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: movie too. Yeah, but yeah, I mean it's He's a
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: fun guy to watch, and I do agree with Doug.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: He has shown signs of growing up well, even with
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: the right and the focus. The focus that you talk
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: about is his ears are open. He's listening to Malik,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: He's listening to Klais. I was interviewing him for the
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Big Boards after the game, and Calais came over to
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: share the thought that before the game today or game
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: on Sunday, he had told Kalais he was going to
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: make a game changing play and Klais want to make
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: sure everyone knew it. And in listening to Dante, you
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: hear little bits and pieces of Calais and Malik and
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: working at and I hadn't heard that from him in
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: the past. So good one, Ashley, nice Jome, okay um.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Josh Wells. He will be challenged
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: on Sunday. Uh. This Titans team doesn't have the elite
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: pass rusher, that guy that like von Miller that scares you,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: like Junique and go Way, but more they can roll
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: guys at you. Briana Rapko is still an excellent pass rusher. Uh.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Derek Morgan has never lived up to his first round building.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: But he's a really solid football player who can push
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: the pocket. And they've got the youngster Harold Landry who
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: flashed last week, the second round pick out of Boston College.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: So he will absolutely be challenged. He will have to
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: play better football than he did against the Patriots. Trey
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Flowers left the game, not that it was easy for him.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: He's gonna be challenged this week. He won't be a liability.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: He's a guy who he's gotten better. Ryan he was
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: here in two thousand, fifteen and sixteen. He came in
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: in two thousand fourteen. We didn't really know. We knew
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: he was a guy with some skills. Jeff Logman talked
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: about how much he liked his ability he had injuries.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: He's not a liability. He won't be the guy that
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: you're pointing to saying they miss Cam Robinson. He's a
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: guy who will be able to protect the quarterback solidly,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: and he might might have a lot of potential left
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: in him. He's you know, you look at him. He's
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: not as big as Cam Robinson is. Cam Robins is
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: naturally large. Josh is a guy who played quarterback in
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: high school. He's worked hard to get stronger. You heard
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Doug Marrone say, to build up his strength. Uh, he
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: might have better football in him than we have seen
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: to this point. We might see on Sunday. We'll definitely
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: need to see it over the course of the regular
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: season if the Jaguars are gonna keep doing the creative
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: things that they want to do, so we'll follow up
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: and see how we did with He will he won't.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: He might on Monday. I don't know if he is
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: the heat Three made this as a heat for for Josh.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: If he plays by this season, he might be really
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: rich at the end of the season. Two, because he
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: here he is thinking about playing left tackle. He's not
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: a guy who you think is is automatically a core player, right,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: but but boy left tackle he plays thirteen games at
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: a high level as strange as is the say for
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: a guy who has had four starts. This is the
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: opportunity of a career for him. Well, and I asked
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Jeff the other day we had n't been on Tuesday morning,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: and he said, is he reached his ceiling? In other words,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: is he do you need him to play as well
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: as he ever has or does he have the ability
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: to have another gear. Is there more football in him?
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: He said he thought there was more football, absolute a
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: lot more football at him. He's been through the injuries.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: He was from James Madison, a converted quarterback who has worked,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: you know, eating enough, working out enough to get to
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: this point where he could and he's hardly physically play right,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: There's more there, so it could be exciting to watch
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: and see how he develops as the starter. He told
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: me yesterday in the locker room where two days ago
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: in the locker room. Uh, he always worked like a starter, right,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: And that's what that's all of them say that. They
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: all know they're one play away. So I said, what
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: else are you gonna do? He said a lot. There's
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: more to it than just preparing as the starter. So
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: what that means we'll find out how he does. Alright,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: time for pick one and pick it. That's where we
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: bring a featured game to the table every single Friday,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: sell the game and make the selection. So we'll start
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: with you, John, what's your game? Well, uh, we have
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: a graphic for that. You don't remember, Say no, no no,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: I mean I I focus when I do the pick,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: and then I wait and so I can be fresh here.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: I think Broncos Ravens is big because you wonder who
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: the Broncos really are there two and oh and with
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: that defense, they're one of those teams that you look
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: you had before the season, and thank god in no
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: way because the quarterback situation, well, all of a sudden
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: they get to two and oh and all of a sudden,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: you think, okay, what do they have going? They're at
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: the Ravens. Usually with the two and o team that
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: surprised you early, it's that week three where opponents start
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: to figure them out and you're going across country against
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: a team that's usually not a pushover in Baltimore. So
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: you would think this would be whether the Broncos fall
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: off that unbeaten. You know, the packs are going and
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: then and the usually guys fall out of that. You
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: would think that's whether the Broncos fall out. If they don't,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: then it looks like they're here to stay. Well, the
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Broncos are thrilled with what they're getting from case keenom
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: at two and oh. In fact, that I was reading
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: a story the other day, uh that the Vance Joseph
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: and Gary Kubiak, who worked together in Houston they had
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: seen a running back emerge right in Aryan Falls and
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: it's Lindsay the kid, the undrafted rookie here who Terrell
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Davis is raving about. So they're making a comparison there.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: And the other guy they talked about is keenom they
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: knew he was good. They think he's better, and remember
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: they had him in Houston, he was there, So they're
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: really excited. I'm excited to see this game because if
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: case Keenum leads them to another win in plays like
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: he did in Minnesota last year, They've really got something.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: They're gonna be a with that defense and that rookie
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: running back who's playing well. Of course, you know in
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: their history the Broncos and have found rookie running back, right,
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: I guess we picked them. Uh. I go Ravens here
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: because getting too three and oh is tough unless you're
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: really good going across country at you know, on the road.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I go Ravens here, very with a very slim margin. Yeah,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: I go Broncos here. I think to come back wins.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: It seems like they have some momentum. I think they
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: keep that going. I'm gonna go with the Broncos as well.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: I I just think that defense is better than Baltimore's defense,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: and that they've got the ability to shut down Flacco. Um.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: You know, Flacco came off to a strong start. We'll
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: see if he can keep it going. I just I
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: believe more in the Broncos at this point because of
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: their defense. Your next mine is the battle of l
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: A Rams and Chargers. I think the Rams will most
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: likely win this game. I think that the better team,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: but I think they'll be tested with that Charger's offense.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: I think it's the best offense the Rams have seen
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: so far this season. Injuries with the Chargers, with Joey
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Boza out, I think that it's going to give the
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Rams the upper hand. But I still think it's gonna
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: be a pretty good game and a fun one to watch.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: That Rams defense is really good, very good. The addition
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: of and Dominican Sue with Aaron Donald who's now happy,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: gives them pressure up the middle, guys who can get
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: on the edge against an offensive lineman. And those two
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: corners they went out and bought and paid for in
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: the offseason have made a big difference. I think this
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: is I think that Rams team is for real. It's
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: why put him at the top of the power rankings
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: that we did the other day. Yeah, and I think
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: the Rams win because the Chargers always won. Wind a
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: find a way to dig themself as a hole, and
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: they always seem to start slowly. Rams are starting fast.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: They feel like they're the team. Uh Rams jack super
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Bowl right, Yeah, take it. In Atlanta, I went with
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty Niners at the Kana City Chiefs.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Kansas City is its self explanatory. They have a quarterback
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: who's throwing ten touchdowns in his first two games, and
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: that is an NFL record ten touchdowns in two weeks.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: They've got so many targets with Hill and uh Kareem
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Hunt and Travis Kelsey and obviously Andy Reids a weapon
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: in and of himself. The Niners bunch is interesting. Their
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: defense is not nearly as good as their offense. They'll struggle,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: they'll give up points. But Garoppolo is a thirty seven
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: million dollar player this year. They believe enough in him,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: and Kyle Shanahan's a guy who believed enough in him
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: to trade for him. Um I think I think the
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Niners are gonna be in it in the end. In
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: the NFC. Um so I you've got two teams that
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: should be competing for a shot, and you get him
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: in week three. Yeah, this is another proved me your
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: for real game, you know, for the Niners, are for
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs, for both, but especially for the Chiefs historically too.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: And oh again, unless you're really good. A lot of times,
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: if you've been something, if you've been doing something really
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: well for a couple of games, teams get film on you,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: and that Week three is often the one where people
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: think they've seen a trend and then all of a
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: sudden they go, why that team lost to that team? Uh?
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: If the Chiefs are for real, if that offense is
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: going to be as hard to stop as it has
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: looked all season, they get through this and still look
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: like an offensive machine. I think they do, because I
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: think they are. But this one wouldn't surprise me if
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: win forty Niners. Although I'm I'm picking Chiefs, I don't
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: think it's an easy pick for the Chiefs. Yeah. I
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: think it'll be a close game as well, but like
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: you mentioned, they have so many offensive weapons. I don't
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: know if that forty Niners defense is gonna be good
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: enough to stop. And it's their home opener. The Chiefs
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: were on the road the first two weeks. Arrowhead is
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: a dangerous environment, one of the loudest in the National
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Football League. They're all geeked up out there for the
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: the debut with Patrick Mahomesmer. This is his third game
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: as the starting quarterback. He played in in Denver last year.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: He's not played a home game at Arrowhead. I think
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: place is gonna be ready to come apart. I'll go
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: with the Chiefs. So there you go. Pick one, pick it,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: and we have time for a break when we come back.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: I can see you over there ocean when we come back.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Mike Dempsey joins us for fantasy football. You can step
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: up to luxury now. Hello, I'm Dan Fields. Whenever you're driving,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: you can step up to luxury now. Plus get our
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: field's amenities, which include complementary loners, car washes, and our cafes.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Make this your year to step up to luxury at Fields, Catalec, Mercedes, Bands, Porsche,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Land Rover, Jaguar, and Lexus. When it comes to the
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: ultimate card buying experience, there's only one name that matters. Fields,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: and Fields matters because you matter. The Fields Auto group
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: called Partners of Your Jacksonville, Jaguars Advice Star. We believe
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: in better and that means treating people better with friendly
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: personal service that's kept our members happy since a smile
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: and personal greeting when you enter the branch, an online
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: or phone chat for those quick questions, and the call
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: center that's open every day. If you believe that great
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: services better joined by Star, we never forget that it's
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: your money. All loan subject to approval, insured by n
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: c U. A worship Jacksonville on Atlantic presenting this hour
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: of Jack's Drive Time. Proud member of the Fields Auto
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: Group Brian Ashlynd John joined by Mike Dempsey for little
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: fantasy football talk. But before we do that, let's get
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: he will he won't? He might? Oh okay, since we
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: just we just came off that segment. Uh. John took
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Nate Hackett, and Ashlyn took Dante Fowler and I took Josh. Well,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: so who do you present this week? Is he will
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: he won't he? I'm gonna go malite Jackson all right,
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: this week? He will remember what Jarrell Casey had to
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: say about his quarterback last year. We saw that in
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, and he'll let that drive him. Uh he
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: won't probably get the recognition that he deserves for the
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: season that he's having because you don't necessarily put up
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: the big stats playing three technique like you might coming
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: off the edge. And uh, he might be the best
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: defensive lineman the Jags have had through two weeks. He
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: is a terrific player. Yeah, he had he would die there.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, because he had plays against the Patriots that
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: not only did he make some tackles on taxis for losses,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: but he set up guys taxis for losses in that game.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: He was outstanding well. And his penetration, you know, forced Brady,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: or I shouldn't say forced, prevented him from stepping up
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: and staying in the pocket like he liked to be.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: He's normally that guy who'll move a foot here, foot
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: there and just not move at all. And Malik's presence
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: in the pocket really forced him to do what he
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: didn't like to do. Move. He's in for a big
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: game because I hit it with Dante last week. Yes
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: he had the key, Yes he did. Speaking of hitting
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: at the young lady here again again. Wins ninety two points,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: second week in a row for Ashland last and really
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: you went a little too heavy on the Chargers last week.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: But you had Rivers, you had Melvin Gordon, they were excellent.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Mike Williams is okay. He caught a touchdown but didn't
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: do much other than that. And Travis Kelsey had a
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: huge day. You see the scores up on the board
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: there at eighty three. John made a move, but he's
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: still coming. He still has the first pick because his
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: overall point total is still let's give it. Remember it's
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: not it's not it's not one week, it's the whole deal,
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: season long. There you go, John with one fifteen a
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: lead off today, Brian is one thirty eight. I've got
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: one seventy one. Ashland has many exclamation points to go
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: with graphic. I don't know how that I get. I
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: get a little pathetic tear emoji down there, and I
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: want you to see bottom of the chart. I'm coming
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: for sex. He's you can't get the first rop, first
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: leap frogging the guy in third. That's exactly right, So
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: good luck too. I figured that's an easy bar to get.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: So your next em all right, well your first so
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go a Smith Shoester versus Tampa Bay. All right, Juju,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: we're Johning Remote lsstsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss