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Jags Drive Time: Friday, November 9 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Jeff Wars. Did you don't talk with Jack Warris? Did
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Speaker 1: you Jaguars Drive Time? Brian Sex steps that, John says
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Speaker 1: it actually Jaguars Drive Time starts right now. Good Friday
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Speaker 1: to you. Foggy Friday morning, though that's supposed to burn
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Speaker 1: off before too long. What brings some clarity to your
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Speaker 1: morning is the Jaguars finish up the work week and
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Speaker 1: get ready to head to Indian Apples. You like how
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Speaker 1: he did that, don't you? Joe right. It's not a
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Speaker 1: clever song or something like that, but occasionally a transition, man,
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Speaker 1: that's all you need. Smooth and silky, just like the
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Speaker 1: guy on the other side over there is awesome sport
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Speaker 1: in the Brooks. Brother shirty, he got a raise, just
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Speaker 1: another day, dressed well for Johnny he is luxury. Things
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Speaker 1: are looking up for me. How long till the shorts
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Speaker 1: come on after the show is over? A short tone?
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Speaker 1: Right now? That's a life you don't want to. Don't ask, judge,
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Speaker 1: don't ask. It's Friday, Brian Ashlyn John the coach would
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Speaker 1: be along for coffee with the coach coming up? Will
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Speaker 1: have he will? He won't? He might pick one game
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Speaker 1: and pick it which will offer to you, and then
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Speaker 1: Mike Dempseill round out the show with fantasy football. Um,
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Speaker 1: let's go right into big things because we have about
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Speaker 1: ten minutes to get that task accomplished. All right. Big
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Speaker 1: thing one, of course, is number twenty seven offensive coordinate
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Speaker 1: Nate Hackett said, if Leonard for is available on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: he's not quite sure how he's going to use him
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Speaker 1: and he's going to be the power running back or
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Speaker 1: if we're going to see those multiple running back formations
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Speaker 1: that we saw in the preseason that we all loved.
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Speaker 1: All right, So it's interesting and we can't tell you
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Speaker 1: what Leonard thinks because Leonard didn't speak yesterday. Just can't
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Speaker 1: read his mind, right, Uh, Thursday's normally today that he
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Speaker 1: would do it when he was healthy, he didn't do
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Speaker 1: it yesterday, so we can't tell you. You know what
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Speaker 1: his anticipation had been. Go back and tell what coach
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Speaker 1: said when he spoke on Monday, which is if he's healthy,
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Speaker 1: they're all in full bore on Leonard for Net and
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Speaker 1: as they should be. I didn't know if we were
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Speaker 1: going to coach they Uh, but it's good of you
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Speaker 1: to lay out there just in case. I think it
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Speaker 1: will be if he's healthy, you run him as you
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Speaker 1: would if if he was completely healthy. I don't worry
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Speaker 1: about the hamstring play. You've got to play your game
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Speaker 1: at this point. I don't know that we're going to
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Speaker 1: see that many of the multi back stuff. Uh. It
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Speaker 1: seems that was a Corey Grant centric things a lot.
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Speaker 1: So I would anticipate, run Leonard until you can't run
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Speaker 1: Leonard anymore, run Carlos, and then run Carlos, and then
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Speaker 1: on third downs for now, still have a heavy t J.
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Speaker 1: Yeldon dose. That would be what I would expect if
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Speaker 1: you go all the way back to August, the story
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Speaker 1: was Leonard on third down. They wanted him in the
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Speaker 1: game in the preseason games on third down so that
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Speaker 1: they could have him in pass pro and keep him
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Speaker 1: out there. I wonder if we see some of that
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Speaker 1: as well, although it sounds like that's t J. Yeldon's
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Speaker 1: role now with the with the power game back, well,
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Speaker 1: I think they would like a Leonard to have that
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Speaker 1: in his arsenal. But you wonder if that if if
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Speaker 1: you're going to choose an area not to rush him
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Speaker 1: back in, and if you're gonna choose an area to
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Speaker 1: give him a break in. Perhaps that would be it.
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Speaker 1: The Colts defense has been good the last couple of
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Speaker 1: weeks because they've been opportunistic, right, They've gotten a lead
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Speaker 1: on offense, they forced teams to throw, they've created turnovers.
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Speaker 1: But they're not big and strong and physical upfront. So
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Speaker 1: do you suppose this is a since there's not a
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Speaker 1: power tight end and James Shaughnessy is coming back from
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Speaker 1: a hip injury that cost him sometime. Also, you suppose
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Speaker 1: this is a T. J. Shatley lines up at tight
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Speaker 1: end and you just cram it down the throat tips
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Speaker 1: your hands so much it totally does it basically says
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Speaker 1: we're running here. Stop. Yeah, And uh, I would think
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Speaker 1: they would try that. I don't know if that's um,
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Speaker 1: it's just we heard so much about power, power, power,
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Speaker 1: and this team hasn't been able to It's just hard
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Speaker 1: to do that in this energe. But if there was
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Speaker 1: a team that you would do it again. You would
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Speaker 1: think because this defense has Jibbal Shared and uh the
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Speaker 1: kid from South Carolina State Leonard, and the safety hooker
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Speaker 1: that they're you know that they're building around three core players,
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Speaker 1: you would think this would be a game that you
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Speaker 1: might just line. I'll be honest. Also, if I'm the
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Speaker 1: head coach and I want to run a power game,
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Speaker 1: I might run angry this week. I might say this
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Speaker 1: is who we are. The storyline has been they haven't
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Speaker 1: been able to be what they are Sunday. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: I think they will try to appoint Uh. You know,
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Speaker 1: you run angry until it doesn't work, and then you
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Speaker 1: get really angry it's not working, but it's yeah, and
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Speaker 1: you leave. But I do think they will try that approach.
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Speaker 1: I also think that if if you get two or
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Speaker 1: three series in and it's not working, you can't be
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Speaker 1: ridiculous about it. So I you do get the idea.
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Speaker 1: I think you guys are right that they will come
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Speaker 1: out with the idea of we are going to show
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Speaker 1: who we are. If it works, you keep doing it.
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Speaker 1: If not, well, okay. So one of the reasons I
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Speaker 1: bring it up is that the Colts have always forever
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Speaker 1: been a passing team, not a power game at all.
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Speaker 1: But they're up there this week beating their chest is
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Speaker 1: you know, probably a little bit of hyper belief. But
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Speaker 1: they're talking about how their line is the bully line.
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Speaker 1: Now they've run for two and twenty yards and back
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Speaker 1: to back games for the first time in thirty years
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Speaker 1: since thank yeah, I've been a long time since they've
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Speaker 1: been a four days they were a power team, right, Um,
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Speaker 1: so I kind of would get the sense. Look, and again,
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Speaker 1: since we're complaining about guys who didn't talk yesterday, none
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Speaker 1: of the offensive lineman wanted to talk yesterday either. I
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Speaker 1: don't know whether they've got a little packed going or what. Uh,
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Speaker 1: And they want to show it before they talk it.
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Speaker 1: Maybe we'll hear from them next week. But if I'm
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Speaker 1: Brandon Linder and Andrew Norwell, I want to show the power,
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Speaker 1: right That was the storyline in the in the off season. Uh,
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Speaker 1: Andrew no Well came in his age, that's what he
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Speaker 1: was in all pro guard. Power is his game. I'd
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Speaker 1: want to show it as much as those guys up
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Speaker 1: there are beating their chest now, Yeah, I mean that's
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Speaker 1: what they say they're good at. That's what they say
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Speaker 1: this team staple is, and that's what they need to
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Speaker 1: be good at. Um. The Colts, they are shaping up
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Speaker 1: the rest of the season. Which you anticipate from the
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Speaker 1: Colts is you've got what eight games left, Probably five
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Speaker 1: or six of those games they're gonna be really good offensively.
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Speaker 1: They're still young, so they're gonna have a couple of
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Speaker 1: games where they're not as good, and then going forward
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Speaker 1: they are going to be a power offense. They are
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Speaker 1: going to be a team that is very good offensively.
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Speaker 1: Uh again, I'm with you, guys. I expect the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: offense to come out and try to be what they
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Speaker 1: think they are. It's a very last standish type game.
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Speaker 1: And if you're gonna have the last stand, do what
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Speaker 1: you think you're good at. All of a sudden, I
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Speaker 1: just got images of Dodge City. Yeah, wider, all the
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Speaker 1: kids are playing red Dead Redemption? Yeah? Man, are we
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Speaker 1: on top of it here? Alright? Because nothing says red
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Speaker 1: dead redemp gives you that, Brothers, you are a bad man.
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Speaker 1: A big thing too, is rush and cover. This is
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Speaker 1: the week we find out how good this Jaguars defense
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Speaker 1: really is on paper. It's a game the Jaguars defense
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Speaker 1: should win the matchups. But you look at the Colts
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Speaker 1: offensive line. They have given up a sack in three games.
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Speaker 1: So is this a tougher day for the Jaguars defensive
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Speaker 1: line or is it a tougher day for the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: secondary when they have to try to stop Luck throwing
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Speaker 1: it down the field, which he, of course is going
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Speaker 1: to try to do. So I got nowhere in the
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Speaker 1: locker room with this line yesterday. You know, I expected
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Speaker 1: someone to say, well, look, we're gonna have to hold
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Speaker 1: up in coverage a second longer, right, Or I expected
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Speaker 1: someone to say, well, we're gonna have to beat our
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Speaker 1: blocks a second quicker. The truth of the matter is
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Speaker 1: is that the Colts offense is not going to ask
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Speaker 1: Andrew Luck to take a five or seven step drop
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Speaker 1: very often. They're trying to get him back to health.
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Speaker 1: They don't want to get him killed and have that
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Speaker 1: shoulder be an issue again. Even of the offensive line
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Speaker 1: is playing much better than it had. He's been sacked
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Speaker 1: ten times to this point. The last season he played
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Speaker 1: he had been sacked thirty one times, so it's a
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Speaker 1: dramatic improvement. He's getting rid of the ball quickly. Um
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Speaker 1: getting to him is going to be very, very difficult.
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Speaker 1: So John, and your estimation, who's got more pressure on
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Speaker 1: this week, the front or the back end, Well, I
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Speaker 1: would say the pressure is on the front to play
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Speaker 1: in such a way that you force the Colts to
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Speaker 1: play any ways, and you're gonna play, And it was
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Speaker 1: very convoluted way of saying. They need to rush well
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Speaker 1: so that the ball indeed has to come out quickly.
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Speaker 1: That allows the secondary to cover the short game as
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Speaker 1: opposed to having to cover the entire field. So, no,
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Speaker 1: you don't expect the way the Colts are playing. You
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Speaker 1: do not expect them to have ten sacks. You don't
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Speaker 1: expect it to be stand there, standing there, standing there
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Speaker 1: and they get hit from behind and as a sack fumble.
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Speaker 1: They're playing in such a way to get away from that.
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Speaker 1: But you can still pressure. You can still force him
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Speaker 1: to get the ball out when he doesn't want to.
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Speaker 1: That's your goal against a quick passing team. Now, I said,
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Speaker 1: I didn't have a lot of luck with that line.
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Speaker 1: I did find one guy who laid it out in
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Speaker 1: different terms, and that was Unique and Gonquay who told
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Speaker 1: me that they have to have success stopping the run
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Speaker 1: on first and second down to bring up third down
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Speaker 1: and long to make him go deeper in the pocket,
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Speaker 1: where last year they were going deeper all the time.
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Speaker 1: All situations were that. Absolutely, here's why they want to
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Speaker 1: stop the run. Because the Colts are averaging five point
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Speaker 1: seven yards per carry based on what they did against
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Speaker 1: the Bills and the Raiders obviously two teams that aren't
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Speaker 1: strong against the run, right, but they're running the ball
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Speaker 1: with power behind an offensive line that feels really good
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Speaker 1: about themselves. And the reality of it is, if you
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Speaker 1: want to give Andrew luck pressure, you do it by
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Speaker 1: stopping the run this week, at least according to number nine.
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Speaker 1: One on to our final big thing three is confidence.
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Speaker 1: We know this is a confident locker room, but we've
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Speaker 1: noticed this week it's altered in It's human nature when
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Speaker 1: you're on a losing street to have your confidence altered
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Speaker 1: a little bit. But I do think if the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: win an Indie on Sunday, we're not talking about confidence
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Speaker 1: next week. And this John and I saw this just
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Speaker 1: from a couple of guys. They didn't There weren't a
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Speaker 1: lot of talkers this week, but this was a I
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Speaker 1: saw it in Miles Jack's eyes. At one point. He
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Speaker 1: didn't know what to say, right. He they need something
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Speaker 1: good to happen, he said, they haven't one in a
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Speaker 1: month around here. You could just tell he was searching
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Speaker 1: for the right words. I don't know that that correlates
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Speaker 1: to confidence, necessarily, but you're this is a locker room
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Speaker 1: that when it's going well, no one lacks for a word.
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Speaker 1: After the first loss, you talk about getting it back. Hey,
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Speaker 1: you're not going to lose two in a row. After
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Speaker 1: you lose two in a row, there there is is
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Speaker 1: talk about how this is not who we are we're
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Speaker 1: gonna show. Then you get to the must win. Well,
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Speaker 1: at that point you've lost four in a row. I
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Speaker 1: don't mind that they didn't talk a whole lot this week.
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Speaker 1: There's not a whole lot to say. There's not a
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Speaker 1: whole lot to say. You, um, so don't talk as much.
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Speaker 1: Go play. That's fine. It makes our jobs a little harder,
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Speaker 1: but that's fine whenever you get any work. So but
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Speaker 1: I didn't worry as much the last couple of weeks
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Speaker 1: about what they were saying anymore as opposed to what
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Speaker 1: they do on the field. So I don't think they
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Speaker 1: I think it would be human nature if they didn't
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Speaker 1: lack a little confidence. You've lost four in a row.
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Speaker 1: You're not who you thought you were, So you've got
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Speaker 1: to go search for answers. Go search for answers, win
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Speaker 1: on the field and get the confidence back. A popular
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Speaker 1: question this week was what would one win do? That
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Speaker 1: was a question that didn't need an answer. Everyone knows
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Speaker 1: what one win would do it it would return them
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Speaker 1: to a position of confidence. Sure, absolutely, all right, We'll
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Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning. They did and it has coffee
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Speaker 1: in it. You should have coffee. They never get enough coffee,
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Speaker 1: never get enough during it. What's amazing. It's during the
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Speaker 1: season or when we start practicing, the amount of coffee
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Speaker 1: that gets drank. It's unbelievable, you know, compared to the
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Speaker 1: off season. How many cups a day in the morning,
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Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. If I look at it
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Speaker 1: as cups, it's about at least three to four stops
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Speaker 1: to the bathroom before practice. I guess that's probably the
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Speaker 1: best way I look at. Is there a cutoff time
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Speaker 1: when you stop drinking coffee? Um? Yeah, probably, you know
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Speaker 1: after you know, about seven or eight at night, you know,
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Speaker 1: because when you come off the field and you go again,
14:44
Speaker 1: you know, you kind of cut it off there and
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Speaker 1: you know, you're just a caffee and then after the
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Speaker 1: seat you just crash, you know, because you just kind
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Speaker 1: of got to cut it out in the beginning. You're
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Speaker 1: you're building your system up, and you know, sometimes you
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Speaker 1: get some headaches if you go too much too quick.
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Speaker 1: People who are wondering, is there anything but coffee and
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Speaker 1: that cuff? I mean, do you use cream sugar or
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Speaker 1: you just a straight black coffee guy? But the what
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Speaker 1: we're playing. I wish it was something stronger, but you know,
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Speaker 1: I just usually drink it um black. Sometimes I'll have
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Speaker 1: cream and sugar, but most of the time it's just
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Speaker 1: blacking stronger. I'll give your mind. Uh, since you bring
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Speaker 1: it up. How's the week on the practice field? Bid
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Speaker 1: you expect to see your team back on Sunday in Indianapolis? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I expect us. You know, they came back and it
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Speaker 1: was a good mindset. Um, you know, trying to put
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Speaker 1: everything in the on the back end, like I said before,
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Speaker 1: and really focus on this next quarter in this first game,
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Speaker 1: and you're just really focusing on the day and focus
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Speaker 1: on getting one win, you know, And that's that's that's
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Speaker 1: what we're about. And then the players have gone out
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Speaker 1: there and we've had you know, probably are our two
15:44
Speaker 1: best practice days, you know, and um, you know they've
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Speaker 1: been enthusiastic there, uh, excited. You know. It's obviously a
15:50
Speaker 1: great challenge going to going on the road, you know,
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Speaker 1: to Indianapolis. So, um, you know, and it all comes
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Speaker 1: down to how we perform on Sunday. What was the
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Speaker 1: the schedule change? What did you hope to get out
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Speaker 1: of that? Well, we went back and we looked at, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, some of the things that we weren't doing
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Speaker 1: well from a technical standpoint. Um, we wanted to make sure,
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Speaker 1: you know that everyone knew what we're trying to get
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Speaker 1: done from a philosophy standpoint overall. But one of the things,
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Speaker 1: it's very difficult to extend your practice time because you
16:23
Speaker 1: can you know obviously where you where a team out
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Speaker 1: at this point in the season, and you know, I
16:29
Speaker 1: felt like we were getting away from that, you know,
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Speaker 1: just the fundamentals and technique. So you know, what we
16:34
Speaker 1: did is we we put more time in the morning
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Speaker 1: to the walk throughs, which which they really jogged throughs,
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Speaker 1: and you know, that's more of an emphasis on alignment
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Speaker 1: technique and assignments where a lot of times walk throughs
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Speaker 1: just go through assignments. So you know, we've been really
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Speaker 1: coaching that like we're coaching a practice or coaching a game.
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Speaker 1: So we've we've put a lot of time to that.
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Speaker 1: And then you know, and then went out at one o'clock,
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Speaker 1: which most of our games now are all at one
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Speaker 1: o'clock except for the Thursday and game, so you know,
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Speaker 1: we can get that body clock right. And but as
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Speaker 1: far as from the beginning of the day to the
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Speaker 1: end of the day. It's it's still the same amount
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Speaker 1: of time. What was the response from the locker room.
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Speaker 1: I think at first it's always it's always tough for players,
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Speaker 1: you know, they kind of get into a routine and
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Speaker 1: kind of you know, used to that and then all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, So Wednesday was probably a little bit tough,
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Speaker 1: and then Thursday it was, it was great. So the
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Speaker 1: injury report the last two days has had Leonard for
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Speaker 1: Net practicing full Uh. It's hard for us not to
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Speaker 1: think he's playing. Is he playing? Do you know that yet? Uh?
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Speaker 1: You know, it's it's hard because as a coach, you know,
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Speaker 1: you sit here and you say, um, yes, he's definitely playing,
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden today you go out there
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Speaker 1: and something could happen. You know, something could happen on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: and there's so much, um, there's so much being talked about.
17:46
Speaker 1: You know. Obviously with Learry coming back, he's had you know,
17:48
Speaker 1: he's had a good week. He's worked extremely hard to
17:50
Speaker 1: get to this point right now. So for me as
17:52
Speaker 1: a coach, I would rather say, well, I don't know
17:54
Speaker 1: on Sunday when he gets out there, But I'm not
17:56
Speaker 1: saying that because he's not working. I'm saying that because, uh,
18:00
Speaker 1: if something does happen, you know, between now and then,
18:02
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna go, you know, when did this happen? When
18:04
Speaker 1: did you know? And I just don't like to get
18:06
Speaker 1: into all that. You know, I can't remember a situation
18:08
Speaker 1: where it seems like it's all being put on one
18:11
Speaker 1: player like like this. I mean, I know the fans
18:13
Speaker 1: are looking going, well, that's the difference. He's been out right,
18:16
Speaker 1: and people are talking about the return of Leonard. For Nette,
18:18
Speaker 1: it's almost as if well it's it's a magic wand
18:20
Speaker 1: Leonard for that well, I mean, you gotta remember as
18:23
Speaker 1: a player that you know, had you know, fourteen hundred
18:25
Speaker 1: yards and twelve touchdowns last year, and you know it's
18:28
Speaker 1: explosive and people had a game plan against him, which
18:32
Speaker 1: opened up some things for us. But I think, you know,
18:34
Speaker 1: even more so you lose sight. It's not it's not
18:36
Speaker 1: you know, Leonard's coming back, obviously, but you know we
18:39
Speaker 1: have to Two of our tight ends are out. You know,
18:41
Speaker 1: Mark Easley has been out since the preseason, he's out
18:44
Speaker 1: for the year, or Cam Robinson has been out, so
18:46
Speaker 1: you know, to say it's just a one player, you know,
18:50
Speaker 1: it's probably unfair even though he's a very important part
18:53
Speaker 1: of the piece and and kind of the way that
18:56
Speaker 1: was built around him. But those other players the big
18:58
Speaker 1: contributors to and and that's why we need some people
19:01
Speaker 1: to step up. Getting guys like Hayden and Patman back
19:05
Speaker 1: on defense. Big. It's big. I mean, obviously DJ was
19:08
Speaker 1: playing extremely well, you know before um the injury, and
19:12
Speaker 1: he's worked extremely hard to get back and he looks
19:15
Speaker 1: good on the practice field, but you know, he's a
19:17
Speaker 1: big part of it. He's done a heck of a
19:20
Speaker 1: job when he's been out there, and you know, we
19:22
Speaker 1: feel like we can continue to do that. We really
19:24
Speaker 1: like the way he's played. You know, he's the guy
19:26
Speaker 1: that that doesn't really say much, but he's focused, ready
19:28
Speaker 1: to go. So excited about him. And then you know,
19:31
Speaker 1: obviously Patman coming back helps us. You know, we're a
19:34
Speaker 1: little banged up at one corner. So you know, Pack
19:36
Speaker 1: can get in there, DJ can get in there. You know,
19:39
Speaker 1: at least we have some guys that are played that
19:40
Speaker 1: feel comfortable, that notice system that's not going to limit
19:43
Speaker 1: us to what we can do, and that Nickel's spot
19:45
Speaker 1: is hard to play. It's not just a corner. It's
19:48
Speaker 1: a different position, and DJ is good at it. Yeah,
19:51
Speaker 1: I mean the overall philosophy that I've always had is
19:53
Speaker 1: that you know, it's very difficult. And some teams do
19:56
Speaker 1: this when they play there. You know, they're starting corner,
19:58
Speaker 1: will move into nickel, and then they'll bring another corner in.
20:01
Speaker 1: But I think over over a period of time to
20:04
Speaker 1: really appreciate the position. You know, it's a whole different
20:08
Speaker 1: route tree, you know, from the inside, and usually you're
20:11
Speaker 1: seeing the guys on the inside, or guys that may
20:15
Speaker 1: or may not be able to get off press coverage,
20:17
Speaker 1: or guys that they want to feature, you know what
20:19
Speaker 1: I'm saying in the slot. So you know, there is
20:21
Speaker 1: a different skill set, you know for the player that's
20:24
Speaker 1: that's that's playing over the slot. You know, sometimes they're
20:26
Speaker 1: better man, sometimes they're better zonn. You know, we think
20:29
Speaker 1: we're very fortunate with DJ where he can do both
20:31
Speaker 1: and and pressure obviously too, you know, so he can
20:34
Speaker 1: do all those three things. And that's what you're looking
20:36
Speaker 1: for because you know, most of the routes are are
20:38
Speaker 1: are quick, fast, fast cuts, you know, going right now
20:41
Speaker 1: and then then when they get you in those tight
20:43
Speaker 1: sets and and and the bunches and stuff like that.
20:45
Speaker 1: Now you have to be in concert with you know,
20:47
Speaker 1: your corner and your safety and your linebacker to see
20:50
Speaker 1: how you're playing all those Before you walked in, we
20:51
Speaker 1: were talking about Russian cover. Obviously, people are getting to
20:54
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck. He's only been sacking ten times. Part of
20:57
Speaker 1: that is is scheme. How do you create pressure all
21:00
Speaker 1: a guy who's getting rid of the ball as quickly
21:02
Speaker 1: as they are, Well, I wouldn't. I wouldn't give all
21:04
Speaker 1: the credit to scheme, and I think that's what people
21:06
Speaker 1: do quite a bit. I would give the credit to
21:08
Speaker 1: the guys up front and the quarterback and the receiver
21:11
Speaker 1: is getting open. I think you know, when you look
21:13
Speaker 1: at what they've done with their offensive line, you know
21:15
Speaker 1: they you know, three first round picks in a second
21:17
Speaker 1: round pick that are that are playing. I mean, and
21:19
Speaker 1: they're playing at a high level, and they're playing well
21:22
Speaker 1: and and that's one of the things. And then you
21:24
Speaker 1: take a quarterback like Luck and you know, you put
21:26
Speaker 1: them back there where you know he knows where he's
21:28
Speaker 1: going with the ball before the leather hits his hands.
21:30
Speaker 1: You know, the ball is gonna come out quick. It's
21:32
Speaker 1: gonna it's gonna get out. And then you look at
21:34
Speaker 1: the matchups. You know, t Y Hilton has always been
21:36
Speaker 1: a great player. He Bron has come along, and then
21:39
Speaker 1: now you know Mac, I've always thought with a really
21:41
Speaker 1: good running back. Um. I think they've had some issues before,
21:44
Speaker 1: maybe with the line or whatever it may be, but
21:46
Speaker 1: but they don't have those issues now. And I think
21:48
Speaker 1: you're seeing, you know, how good of a player he
21:50
Speaker 1: can be. And obviously that's gonna be a challenge. We're
21:53
Speaker 1: so used to this locker room being a really confident
21:55
Speaker 1: group that's not afraid to say what they think, and
21:57
Speaker 1: this week it's been different. As a coach, is that
21:59
Speaker 1: a thing? Would you rather them just go play on Sunday? Well,
22:02
Speaker 1: I can't, you know, you can't control you know, the
22:05
Speaker 1: players or how they how they their emotional, uh situation,
22:10
Speaker 1: whatever it may be. You know. So you know, basically,
22:13
Speaker 1: for us, we're just trying to make sure, you know,
22:15
Speaker 1: just really it's a very simple concept of just you know,
22:18
Speaker 1: hear the call, know your assignment, do your job. I mean,
22:21
Speaker 1: that's what it is. And you know, if we have
22:22
Speaker 1: everyone doing their job on every single play that we run,
22:26
Speaker 1: they we're gonna be in really good shape. But if
22:28
Speaker 1: you don't, and then all of a sudden, people start
22:30
Speaker 1: making adjustments to their initial job, that's when you start
22:35
Speaker 1: seeing the big plays. That's when you start seeing you know,
22:39
Speaker 1: the miscommunication things of that nature that go on that
22:42
Speaker 1: you know causes you to lose games. I think when
22:44
Speaker 1: you look at teams that you know lose football games,
22:47
Speaker 1: I think there's there's a common trait, whether it be uh,
22:50
Speaker 1: turnovers or giving up explosive plays, uh, things of that nature.
22:54
Speaker 1: So uh, it's not like, Okay, one team is losing it.
22:57
Speaker 1: They have this problem. This team has another problem. It's
23:00
Speaker 1: pretty much the same thing. And you know, it's tough
23:02
Speaker 1: because you you get so much uh, there's so much
23:06
Speaker 1: noise on the outside when you have high expectations and
23:10
Speaker 1: and what you can't do is you can't let that um,
23:13
Speaker 1: you know, put you on a roller coaster, you know,
23:15
Speaker 1: up and down, up and down. When things are going
23:16
Speaker 1: well and you know, everything's great, everyone's like you said,
23:19
Speaker 1: good and then all of a sudden, when it gets down,
23:21
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, everyone's isolated. You know, we've talked
23:24
Speaker 1: about that quite a bit. Before the season started. So
23:27
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to you know, really putting the past
23:29
Speaker 1: and you know behind us, knowing that we've learned from it,
23:32
Speaker 1: but we have to act on the things that we've learned.
23:34
Speaker 1: I think that's the key. Any thoughts on coming out
23:36
Speaker 1: of the bye week, I didn't interest. Well, just generally
23:39
Speaker 1: there's some teams come of slow. I mean, is there
23:42
Speaker 1: anything to the fact that having two weeks off and uh,
23:46
Speaker 1: losing a little bit of momentum and it takes a
23:47
Speaker 1: little time to get sharp again. No, I mean I don't,
23:51
Speaker 1: I don't. It's not you know when someone says two
23:54
Speaker 1: weeks off, you know, really for the players, this Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
23:57
Speaker 1: you know, so it's and and then that's a little
23:59
Speaker 1: that's ended obviously for the season, you know, but they're
24:02
Speaker 1: they're in too. Work on Monday, they're working you know,
24:04
Speaker 1: the prior Wednesday, and then you have a normal week.
24:06
Speaker 1: And then for coaches, obviously we work longer than that,
24:09
Speaker 1: you know, during the week to go, so there's not
24:11
Speaker 1: really much of a difference. You know, it's not like
24:14
Speaker 1: everyone's gone, you know, games over, you you know, be
24:17
Speaker 1: back the following week and get yourself going, um, you know,
24:20
Speaker 1: but we haven't shown out in practice. And again it's
24:23
Speaker 1: a very difficult thing. You know from doing this for
24:25
Speaker 1: quite a while, is that you know, sometimes we've had
24:28
Speaker 1: great weeks of practice, went out and play great. Some
24:30
Speaker 1: weeks we had poor weeks of practice, went out and
24:32
Speaker 1: played poorly. Uh, then vice versa. You know, we've had
24:36
Speaker 1: great weeks of practice and played poorly and bad weeks
24:38
Speaker 1: of practice and played well. So you know, it's very
24:41
Speaker 1: difficult to judge. But when you're looking at it from
24:43
Speaker 1: day to day, that's what you want to make sure of.
24:45
Speaker 1: If you want to make sure that you're putting in
24:46
Speaker 1: the work, you're doing everything. Players have an understanding and
24:49
Speaker 1: you want to see uh, enthusiasm because usually when you
24:53
Speaker 1: see enthusiasm, that's where you see the confidence. And you know,
24:58
Speaker 1: I think our players are trying to you know, really
25:00
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25:02
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Speaker 1: your Welcome back to Jade's Drive Time Friday morning. We
27:05
Speaker 1: just heard Doug more own coffee with the coach. The
27:08
Speaker 1: show must go on. He will, he won't, he might?
27:11
Speaker 1: All right, John take it away? Um? I went with
27:15
Speaker 1: d J Shark here for he will, he will? He might?
27:18
Speaker 1: And I think I've done him before in this segment,
27:21
Speaker 1: but it feels more pertinent now with dj I. His
27:25
Speaker 1: snaps were more against Philadelphia than they had been in
27:30
Speaker 1: the past, So he will have a big role this week.
27:33
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna have a big role moving forward,
27:35
Speaker 1: so long as he's healthy. I think it's time. He's
27:38
Speaker 1: the one guy in that receiver corps who might eventually
27:41
Speaker 1: be elite, So it's time to accelerate that process of time.
27:44
Speaker 1: See if he can do it. He won't drop a
27:47
Speaker 1: touchdown past this week. And that's the thing that everybody
27:51
Speaker 1: when you write or talk about DJ Chark right now,
27:54
Speaker 1: that memory is so vivid that people say, well, what
27:58
Speaker 1: what kind of a difference can he make it? The
28:00
Speaker 1: talent is the athletic ability. I talked to him this
28:03
Speaker 1: week and he talked about the difficulty at that position.
28:07
Speaker 1: He wasn't trying to make an excuse. I was asking
28:09
Speaker 1: the question about the difficulty at that position of adapting
28:13
Speaker 1: and figuring out what's supposed to do, trying to get
28:15
Speaker 1: to a point mentally where you can play fast. He
28:18
Speaker 1: feels like he's closer to that. He might be the
28:21
Speaker 1: best receiver on the team going forward, and that's frankly
28:25
Speaker 1: has been a fairly low bar. I think Westbrook will
28:27
Speaker 1: still be the guy who winds up leading this team
28:30
Speaker 1: and receptions the rest of the year. But we talked
28:33
Speaker 1: Brian and Nashlyn during the regular I mean not during
28:37
Speaker 1: the training camp the DJ tark. By the end of
28:39
Speaker 1: the year, you hoped that he might be that guy
28:42
Speaker 1: where you said, yeah, you can build around that going forward.
28:46
Speaker 1: I thought he showed signs of that against Philly, even
28:49
Speaker 1: despite the drop. There were routes where he was getting
28:52
Speaker 1: open and showing confidence in Blake was showing confidence in him.
28:55
Speaker 1: I think bode well going forward. So again, he might
28:58
Speaker 1: be that guy by the end of the season. He's
29:00
Speaker 1: also a tougher guy than I thought he was in
29:01
Speaker 1: the middle of the field. There was one catch in
29:03
Speaker 1: London where he made the grab and instead of turning
29:05
Speaker 1: to the outside, and if you look at his tape
29:07
Speaker 1: at l s U, he was he was a picture
29:10
Speaker 1: frame guy. He played on the outside of the field. Um,
29:13
Speaker 1: that's football lingo picture frames. He turned back to the
29:17
Speaker 1: inside and took on the linebacker in the safety, put
29:19
Speaker 1: his shoulder down to draw draw for extra yards and
29:21
Speaker 1: that stood out to me. So there's a lot there,
29:24
Speaker 1: and I interrupted you rhyme, but there's a lot there
29:27
Speaker 1: in terms of his special teams play early, in terms
29:30
Speaker 1: of some things he does where he shows flashes that
29:33
Speaker 1: make you think when it comes together that there's gonna
29:36
Speaker 1: be a lot there. Well, he's he's a combination of
29:38
Speaker 1: size and length and bybical what's the difference. Well, he's
29:41
Speaker 1: tall and he's got long arms. Right, Not every tall
29:43
Speaker 1: guy does have long arms like he does. He also
29:45
Speaker 1: was really big hands, so in contested ball situations, he's
29:49
Speaker 1: a guy who can't go up and win. He's got
29:50
Speaker 1: elite speed. I mean he's a four or three guy. Uh,
29:53
Speaker 1: and the toughness side of it. Plus he's an eager kid.
29:56
Speaker 1: He's one of those kids. He really this is important
29:58
Speaker 1: to him. He wants to be his past. He's not
30:00
Speaker 1: there yet, but I guess I included in this segment
30:04
Speaker 1: to sort of make the point. Well, and um, he's
30:10
Speaker 1: still showing signs and doing it. This guy does not
30:13
Speaker 1: look like a guy who's going to be a bust.
30:15
Speaker 1: This guy looks like a guy who's going to be
30:16
Speaker 1: at minimum a really good player. And you all you
30:19
Speaker 1: know that a lot of guys they get to this
30:20
Speaker 1: point of their rookie season. They've been working all the
30:22
Speaker 1: way from the end of their college career, you know,
30:25
Speaker 1: through January and February, through the combine to get ready
30:27
Speaker 1: and then all the workouts, and they don't get great
30:30
Speaker 1: in this year, right, So he does not look like
30:32
Speaker 1: a guy who's slowing down. He actually looks like a
30:34
Speaker 1: guy who's getting stronger as the season goes along, which
30:36
Speaker 1: would be a good sound guy. But it is true, John,
30:38
Speaker 1: you talked about the drop. I remember Jeff Logerman was
30:40
Speaker 1: telling me last week that DJ Chark was the bright
30:42
Speaker 1: spot for him for the first half of the season,
30:44
Speaker 1: and all I could think about was that drop touched
30:46
Speaker 1: un past. I was like, yeah, but I can't get
30:48
Speaker 1: past that. Can get past that? Right? What do you
30:51
Speaker 1: look for out of rookies they're gonna make mistakes like that.
30:55
Speaker 1: You look for things that make you think if they
30:58
Speaker 1: keep doing that once they keep getting it's so hard
31:01
Speaker 1: to adapt at that position as a rookie. I tell
31:03
Speaker 1: the story many times. I covered Reggie Wayne, who is
31:06
Speaker 1: a borderline Hall of Famer. Uh. I think he had
31:10
Speaker 1: twenty seven catches his first year, looked nothing like the
31:13
Speaker 1: player that you wind up becoming didn't become that player
31:16
Speaker 1: until his fourth year, and that was with a very
31:18
Speaker 1: good quarterback. So it can take time. I'm not comparing
31:22
Speaker 1: DJ to Reggie, but it can take time as a rookie,
31:26
Speaker 1: and often particularly at that position and a pass rusher,
31:29
Speaker 1: there's are two spots where sometimes they don't look anything
31:32
Speaker 1: like they're gonna look in their second year as a rookie.
31:35
Speaker 1: All right, actually you're up, my he will he won't.
31:37
Speaker 1: He might is Calais Campbell. He will push this team.
31:40
Speaker 1: I'm not breaking any news that he is a leader
31:42
Speaker 1: in the locker room. He's holding this team to a
31:45
Speaker 1: very high standard. I say he pushes this team more
31:47
Speaker 1: than ever this week. He won't have a huge game.
31:50
Speaker 1: I think his numbers in two thou seventeen are much
31:52
Speaker 1: better so far. But if he has a game like
31:53
Speaker 1: he did against the loss of the Titans, two sacks,
31:56
Speaker 1: five solo tackles, that'll be enough for this Jaguars defense
31:59
Speaker 1: to win the game. He might be one of the
32:01
Speaker 1: sole reasons that this team gets back on track. He
32:04
Speaker 1: has held the socker room to such a high standard.
32:07
Speaker 1: I think he might be one of the reasons that
32:08
Speaker 1: he pushes this team back to a win. It's hard
32:11
Speaker 1: to argue he's the guy they need, just like Jark
32:13
Speaker 1: that you know, there's guys that you need. They need
32:15
Speaker 1: him in the locker room. Okay, mine is Leonard for
32:19
Speaker 1: Nette going with the obvious one this week. I say
32:21
Speaker 1: he will have a big game. They'll have a hundred
32:23
Speaker 1: yards and score a touch Yeah, I'm going with it.
32:27
Speaker 1: The Cults are not big and physical upfront on defense.
32:30
Speaker 1: I think the Jaguars with for Nette and Carlos Hide
32:34
Speaker 1: can have a one to punch and get the thing rolling,
32:36
Speaker 1: setting up play action. Um I see the Jaguars coming
32:40
Speaker 1: out and making a statement, just observation. We didn't hear
32:44
Speaker 1: from Leonards. So it's hard to say, but this would
32:47
Speaker 1: appear to be a really important game. A little birdie
32:49
Speaker 1: whispered to me that he was talking to players about
32:52
Speaker 1: carrying the team on his shoulders when he came back
32:56
Speaker 1: during the week in London, and so it appears he
32:59
Speaker 1: wants to do that. He's a guy who's you heard
33:02
Speaker 1: Doug say last year four yards, twelve touchdowns. He's way
33:05
Speaker 1: behind scheduled to be where he wants to be, so
33:08
Speaker 1: he comes out motivated against a lighter colts defense and
33:10
Speaker 1: makes plays and has a big game. Uh. And that's
33:15
Speaker 1: the one thing he can give you, oh, is that
33:19
Speaker 1: I want the ball and I want to do it.
33:21
Speaker 1: It's something that they lost personalities like that when they
33:26
Speaker 1: lost Safarian Jenkins on the offensive line to a degree,
33:29
Speaker 1: Cam Robinson, markis Lee. Those guys aren't Pro bowlers, but
33:34
Speaker 1: they were guys who when in the huddle on the
33:39
Speaker 1: sidelines of things are bad, you guys are on the
33:40
Speaker 1: sideline is more than me. Those three guys are guys
33:43
Speaker 1: who are our leaders, who are willing to say, letting
33:47
Speaker 1: me do it. He's the last guy left. Uh. He
33:51
Speaker 1: won't have a ninety yard touchdown road or seventy five
33:54
Speaker 1: yard touchdown round. I don't know that this will be
33:55
Speaker 1: a Flashey performance for him. Guys who come back from
33:58
Speaker 1: hamstring injuries generally tend to say in fourth gear and
34:00
Speaker 1: don't kick it all the way to fifth gear. So
34:02
Speaker 1: I don't know that we'll see that kind of explosive play.
34:04
Speaker 1: But I just think it's the hammer effect that he
34:06
Speaker 1: brings over and over and over. Then you have Carlos Hyde,
34:10
Speaker 1: who wasn't here the last time Leonard was on the field,
34:12
Speaker 1: who can help exaggerate the hammer effect. And then you
34:16
Speaker 1: bring in t. J. Yelden, who's a guy who after
34:18
Speaker 1: they're tired of taking the beating, he can make them
34:21
Speaker 1: run sideline to sideline to take advantage of that. Uh.
34:25
Speaker 1: He won't have explosive plays, but he will have a
34:27
Speaker 1: hammer effect. Um. And he might might smile in the
34:32
Speaker 1: locker room after the game and talk to the media
34:35
Speaker 1: about what it's been like to endure six weeks of
34:39
Speaker 1: speculation and questions and pressure and all of those things.
34:44
Speaker 1: He might talk to us after the game. Stay tuned. Yeah,
34:47
Speaker 1: all right, Uh, time for pick one game and pick
34:50
Speaker 1: it and we'll go back to the other side of
34:51
Speaker 1: the table. Mr Brooks brothers himself. You know the problem
34:58
Speaker 1: is there's that logo is so Maul John maybe you
35:01
Speaker 1: could it feels big, feel as it does. Um. I
35:06
Speaker 1: picked Miami at Green Bay. I didn't see this as
35:09
Speaker 1: a great week for other games. It's okay. Uh, Miami
35:13
Speaker 1: green Bay to me was intriguing. Uh, because you've got
35:18
Speaker 1: Green Bay, which is in the other conference. We don't
35:20
Speaker 1: talk about him a whole lot. They're teetering, they're teetering
35:23
Speaker 1: on the edge. And if if they lose this. You
35:27
Speaker 1: don't want to stay with Aaron Rodgers that it's over.
35:29
Speaker 1: But they're looking more and more like a team it's
35:30
Speaker 1: not gonna be in the playoffs. Uh. And that's unusual
35:34
Speaker 1: for a healthier quarterback. But he's not healthy. That's you
35:39
Speaker 1: have to think that that's all part of the dynamic.
35:42
Speaker 1: And from Miami, they're a team that they're easy to
35:45
Speaker 1: forget about, but they're also stored. And I think they're
35:48
Speaker 1: four and four. Uh, they're still very much in it.
35:51
Speaker 1: They're a factor for the Jaguars. They're a team they
35:53
Speaker 1: have to get past. They're a team they can get
35:56
Speaker 1: past the team they play later, so they still that
35:59
Speaker 1: they can still cont roll that. But a relatively big
36:02
Speaker 1: game for the Jaguars and an intriguing game for the
36:05
Speaker 1: rest of the league because of the pack, you know.
36:07
Speaker 1: And the Dolphins are four and four and Ryan Tannehill
36:09
Speaker 1: really hasn't played a factor this year. They got brock Osweiler,
36:12
Speaker 1: you know, he who has cast asunder from Houston and
36:15
Speaker 1: Cleveland and everyone he was a joe. People laughed about
36:19
Speaker 1: Brock Costwiler. Um, it's not like they have a power
36:22
Speaker 1: running game or they have that explosive Julio Jones type
36:25
Speaker 1: of receiver. They're just getting it done. It's a combination
36:27
Speaker 1: of good players on both sides of the ball. They're
36:30
Speaker 1: a pretty good roster on both sides of the ball. Remember,
36:32
Speaker 1: they shed a lot of talent. I mean, Dominan Sue
36:34
Speaker 1: was the big name on that deepens he's gone. Slandry gone, yeah,
36:38
Speaker 1: Jervis Landry, big guy on the offensive side. A Donk
36:41
Speaker 1: is gone. Kick God? Are they still in the World
36:44
Speaker 1: Football League? They they're still with Memphis. That's right. I
36:49
Speaker 1: think it was Memphis the World Football League as well.
36:51
Speaker 1: We'll explain it like exactly right. You're up next, kid, Alright,
36:55
Speaker 1: New Orleans versus Cincinnati a chance for the Bengals to
36:59
Speaker 1: definitely change the narrative of the season if they win
37:02
Speaker 1: this one. The Bengals have won two of the last three,
37:04
Speaker 1: but watching the game last week with the Saints, they
37:06
Speaker 1: have so many playmakers. Drew Brees is playing out of
37:08
Speaker 1: his mind. Michael Thomas is the star of that season.
37:11
Speaker 1: I don't know who can beat the Saints at this
37:14
Speaker 1: point after watching a game, a full game from them. Uh, well,
37:18
Speaker 1: it's a great question. Someone who can run the ball
37:21
Speaker 1: and play defense, keep it away from Drew Brees. That's
37:23
Speaker 1: probably the best way to attack it. The interesting thing,
37:25
Speaker 1: John was that, um, Michael Thomas is seventy catches the
37:29
Speaker 1: next receiver receiver. Now there's a running back at a
37:31
Speaker 1: tight ending between them. Receiver had only twelve. I mean,
37:34
Speaker 1: it was the Michael Thomas Show, and with all the
37:36
Speaker 1: coverage leading his way, he was still making play after
37:39
Speaker 1: play after play. So they went out and signed Dez
37:41
Speaker 1: Bryant this week. And you know there's this guy who
37:44
Speaker 1: people said, well, he doesn't have the speed anymore, and
37:46
Speaker 1: he doesn't run good routes and he's not the explosive playmaker.
37:49
Speaker 1: But with Drew Brees and Michael Thomas, he doesn't need
37:51
Speaker 1: to be. Does Bryant might come in to be a factor? Right? Yeah?
37:54
Speaker 1: I would anticipate if he's going to be a factor,
37:56
Speaker 1: that it will be red zone four touchdown, is in
38:00
Speaker 1: the red zone, something along those lines. I would be
38:03
Speaker 1: surprised if it's a major long term hit. But for
38:07
Speaker 1: a franchise that doesn't need a one, and that's always
38:11
Speaker 1: been the thing with Dez is you know, does he
38:14
Speaker 1: want to get paid like a one? Are you gonna
38:15
Speaker 1: come in and expect him to be a one. They
38:17
Speaker 1: don't need a one. They need a guy to play
38:20
Speaker 1: a specific role. I'd be surprised if it's a huge
38:24
Speaker 1: splash going forward, but the Saints don't need that. They
38:26
Speaker 1: need a couple of plays, all right, My pick oneed
38:29
Speaker 1: picketers New England at Tennessee. Tom Brady has led the
38:33
Speaker 1: Patriots back from one and two to seven and two,
38:39
Speaker 1: so six straight wins for them. Um Edelment's back. Gronkowski
38:43
Speaker 1: is healthy. Now they've got Gordon. They're playing really really well,
38:48
Speaker 1: scoring thirty points a game. Now they're going up against
38:50
Speaker 1: the number one scoring defense in the league. The Titans
38:53
Speaker 1: are rolling, allowing seven team points a game. The problem
38:56
Speaker 1: here in Tennessee is a lot like the problem here
38:59
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. In Marcus Mariota has five touchdown passes and
39:05
Speaker 1: five interceptions on the season. They're not scoring. They're scoring
39:08
Speaker 1: sixteen points a game. So they're the very top of
39:10
Speaker 1: the chart in terms of what their defense is allowing,
39:12
Speaker 1: but the very bottom of the chart in terms of
39:14
Speaker 1: what their offense is getting. It's an important game. The
39:16
Speaker 1: Jaguars need to stay close to the Titans, much like
39:19
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, much like the Colts um and the Jaguars
39:23
Speaker 1: really need the Patriots to go ahead and win. Plus
39:26
Speaker 1: if you do now factor this in, if you do
39:28
Speaker 1: get back into this thing and it gets to tiebreakers
39:31
Speaker 1: and you have beaten the Patriots and the Patriots have
39:34
Speaker 1: beaten the Titans, that's a tiebreaker head to head matchups.
39:37
Speaker 1: So it's an important game. Even though that's a long
39:39
Speaker 1: way off. That's still a factor in this Bowl game.
39:41
Speaker 1: It's an interesting game because the Titans, like the Jaguars,
39:45
Speaker 1: thought they would be better this year and they're not
39:48
Speaker 1: getting the performance from their quarterback. Yeah, and they still
39:51
Speaker 1: have a chance. For the Titans, this is a game.
39:55
Speaker 1: They're still in it enough and they've just beaten Dallas,
39:59
Speaker 1: so they've got that on you if commin opponents, if
40:01
Speaker 1: we're not on me, but if they if they win
40:05
Speaker 1: this and all of a sudden, they feel fantastic about themselves.
40:08
Speaker 1: They've beaten two teens, you know, on how good the
40:10
Speaker 1: Cowboys are. They're five and four the Victory Area, New England.
40:16
Speaker 1: They feel fantastic and all of a sudden they're a
40:19
Speaker 1: team that's getting talked about again if they win this.
40:20
Speaker 1: But I remember they got their doors blown off in
40:22
Speaker 1: the divisional playoff game up there, thirty to fourteen, and
40:25
Speaker 1: it wasn't even that close. And there are some Malcolm Butler,
40:28
Speaker 1: there's some former Patriots who are down there, the running
40:31
Speaker 1: back Deon brand not Branch. Uh, Yes, I was see
40:37
Speaker 1: Deon Branch who was one of the receivers for years. Um.
40:40
Speaker 1: But there's a Patriot, big Patriots theme. Mike Vrabel once
40:42
Speaker 1: played there, obviously, and John Robinson came from there. So
40:46
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of storylines here, but the
40:48
Speaker 1: biggest is and the Titans offense score. Now this is
40:56
Speaker 1: a one side at twenty point game, so yeah, not
41:00
Speaker 1: a question were used asking So it just makes the
41:02
Speaker 1: Jaguars game on Sunday even bigger because if you get
41:06
Speaker 1: that advantage that drops them to Ford five. Anyway, we
41:09
Speaker 1: can do all the maths. Oh yeah. Instead, we're gonna
41:11
Speaker 1: turn to fantasy football, which we haven't done it a
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Speaker 1: football fantasy football, alright, Uh he will. He won't be
43:21
Speaker 1: my promuser. I was gonna go with James O'Shaughnessy, So
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Speaker 1: let's go with James o'shauness So all right, how about that?
43:28
Speaker 1: He will obviously be back, and I think it is
43:32
Speaker 1: a much needed piece of the passing game for Blake Bortles.
43:34
Speaker 1: He hasn't gotten it, really anything out of the tight
43:36
Speaker 1: end in a while. Now. He won't obviously be paid
43:41
Speaker 1: as much attention to is the other guys that are
43:42
Speaker 1: gonna be back this week in Winnard for Nett and
43:44
Speaker 1: d J. Hayden. But he might be in terms of
43:47
Speaker 1: the passing game, a critical piece over these final eight games,
43:51
Speaker 1: because it's not like he's gonna catch six to eight
43:53
Speaker 1: balls a week, but I think two or three chain movers.
43:56
Speaker 1: It's something that they've been missing, you know, they just
43:58
Speaker 1: haven't gotten anything out of the position. Um, he's not
44:01
Speaker 1: a guy that opposing teams are gonna game plan for strenuously.
44:04
Speaker 1: Blake's already hit him with some big plays earlier this year,
44:07
Speaker 1: so I think, you know, just a small cog that's
44:09
Speaker 1: gonna probably be overlooked with the returnal winner from Net
44:12
Speaker 1: and d J. Hayden Well and this old school approach
44:14
Speaker 1: on offense that they wanted to do that they did
44:16
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh last year. Run the ball, draw the linebackers up,
44:19
Speaker 1: drag the tight ends, then set up the deep patchould
44:21
Speaker 1: have been there, oh Shanes. At least gives them some
44:23
Speaker 1: semblance with the shorter play action stuff. Right. At least
44:26
Speaker 1: we're not down to number five on the depth chart
44:28
Speaker 1: or wherever we were based on how things looked in training.
44:31
Speaker 1: I don't even know who that is. It's good he will,
44:33
Speaker 1: he will might. I think that's that's an excellent I
44:35
Speaker 1: was gonna go with that, so he's putting you in
44:39
Speaker 1: his category gradually that that's a good well, it's a
44:42
Speaker 1: good category. For the last three weeks, John's been sitting
44:44
Speaker 1: high and mighty because well, the last week we did
44:46
Speaker 1: fantasy was Week seven and then you guys went to
44:49
Speaker 1: London for a Week eight. We had to buy last week.
44:51
Speaker 1: So John has been sitting on a three week total
44:54
Speaker 1: seventy four points. That's the three game wh I believe
45:02
Speaker 1: that was his first win of the year weekly win
45:04
Speaker 1: of the year. Uh, And it got him out of
45:06
Speaker 1: the cellar as well. I came in second by a
45:08
Speaker 1: few points, and then Brian and Ashlyn tied for third
45:11
Speaker 1: with fifty six. Uh. They say, tightly bunched, tightly bunched.
45:14
Speaker 1: Here's where we're at. Ashland has earned the first pick.
45:17
Speaker 1: I'm a loser season long total. John just moved out
45:22
Speaker 1: of the cellar for the first time in a while.
45:25
Speaker 1: Bryan's been climbing and I have the lead through I
45:28
Speaker 1: guess nine weeks. My strategy has failed me. He's Mr Fantasy.
45:34
Speaker 1: Oh boy, if that's your theme song, you're fired. I'm
45:38
Speaker 1: done now, all right, Ashlyn, you have the board. And
45:41
Speaker 1: for folks who haven't heard this in a while. Obviously,
45:44
Speaker 1: we're doing what's called a one and done draft. You
45:46
Speaker 1: can use any player you like. You can all use
45:47
Speaker 1: him one time throughout the entire NFL season, and if
45:50
Speaker 1: that player is selected, no one else can use him
45:52
Speaker 1: that week. So Ashlyn, you are up. Mm hmmm. Let's
45:57
Speaker 1: go Russell Wilson. Let's keep the fire power going, all right,
46:01
Speaker 1: Russell will John Osier trying to build out a three
46:05
Speaker 1: game winning streak. I'm going homes against Arizona Patrick Mahomes
46:10
Speaker 1: all right, Brian, I'll go with Melvin Gordon for the Chargers. Gordon,
46:15
Speaker 1: I see a theme is about to develop here, because
46:18
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the Keenan Allen in that game
46:22
Speaker 1: as well against the Oakland Raiders. And I'm gonna go
46:25
Speaker 1: with Kareem Hunt though at running back. Haven't used him yet,
46:29
Speaker 1: So Brian, back to you for a quarterback, of wide
46:31
Speaker 1: receiver or a tight end. I'm gonna go with Aaron
46:33
Speaker 1: Rodgers at home against Miami. Okay, Rodgers off the board.
46:37
Speaker 1: That brings us to John Uh. I'm going with Kamara
46:42
Speaker 1: versus Cincinnati. All right, John's going big guns. I believe
46:48
Speaker 1: they're two of the top three overall fantasy point scores
46:51
Speaker 1: in the league this year. Let's let that hold should
46:54
Speaker 1: be time for a letdown, and I'll run my winning
46:55
Speaker 1: streak to six. Ashlyn, what do you have, Let's do
46:58
Speaker 1: Tevin Coleman Coleman and you get another one here and
47:03
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon, Josh Gordon. Okay, so you got Russell Wilson
47:06
Speaker 1: with those guys. Back to you, John, with Mahomes at Kamara,
47:10
Speaker 1: I'm going uh ERT's against Alas. All right, zach Ertz,
47:15
Speaker 1: it's off the board. Brian need a wide receiver or
47:17
Speaker 1: a tight end. I like fitz Magic in uh in Tampa.
47:20
Speaker 1: I'll go with Mike Evans. Mike Evans at wide receiver. Yeah, Evans,
47:24
Speaker 1: it's a pretty good week to play him. I think
47:25
Speaker 1: he had ten targets one catch last week. He's probably
47:27
Speaker 1: in for a big bounce back. He had some pretty
47:29
Speaker 1: good chemistry with Fitzpatrick early in the season. All Right,
47:32
Speaker 1: at quarterback, I'm gonna go Philip Rivers here to go
47:35
Speaker 1: with Keenan Allen and hopefully build up a big first
47:38
Speaker 1: halflete against Oakland. And then at tight end, I'm gonna
47:41
Speaker 1: go with you and go with the Bucks. I'm gonna
47:43
Speaker 1: go o. J. Howard right there and brings us back
47:46
Speaker 1: to your tight end pick. I'll take Ben Watson for
47:48
Speaker 1: New Orleans against Watson. You got it. John need a
47:51
Speaker 1: wide receiver, I said a question. Is there a good
47:53
Speaker 1: tight end this year? Uh? They're called zach Ertz. You
47:56
Speaker 1: got one, Okay, He's one of the handful George Kittle,
47:59
Speaker 1: Uh position right, and in the worst position in fantasy
48:02
Speaker 1: football for consistency? Yeah? Is it always or is it
48:05
Speaker 1: more this year? Uh? They are only usually a few
48:07
Speaker 1: really elite ones, but some of them, like Gronk, hasn't
48:10
Speaker 1: been that this year. He's got three weeks of double
48:13
Speaker 1: digit Fantasy points, which is not what you expect. Right,
48:16
Speaker 1: That's how it feels that just didn't know, three really
48:19
Speaker 1: good ones and everyone else kind of a hodgepodge. So
48:21
Speaker 1: I'm wide receiver. Yes, let's go be j j al
48:27
Speaker 1: right here as well, Burton Burton, All right, here's what
48:33
Speaker 1: we've got. Ashlyn went with Russell Wilson, Tevin Coleman, and
48:36
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon to go with Trey Burton, john Is, Patrick Mahomes,
48:39
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara, Odell Beckham Jr. And zach Ertz. It's probably
48:43
Speaker 1: the big name team of the week as he goes.
48:46
Speaker 1: Last week, Brian, You've got Aaron Rodgers, Melvin Gordon, Mike
48:50
Speaker 1: Evans and Ben Watson. I went with Philip Rivers, Cream
48:52
Speaker 1: Hunt end Allen and O. J. Howard Segments of the week.
48:57
Speaker 1: Any any partying thoughts on Sunday the Jaguars and the
49:00
Speaker 1: Colts Leonard Forint's return. You know, I think for Nett,
49:03
Speaker 1: I predict for Net about twenty carries eighty yards. Whether
49:07
Speaker 1: he gets a touchdown or not, just depends on game
49:09
Speaker 1: flow and stuff like that. I I I hope the
49:12
Speaker 1: offense is much improved. I'm worried though. I think this
49:16
Speaker 1: Colts offense is pretty good. I think they're gonna put
49:18
Speaker 1: up some points and uh, I wonder I struggle to
49:21
Speaker 1: see the Jaguars getting into the twenties offensively this week.
49:25
Speaker 1: Anything in the first half would be welcome. Hey anything, Look,
49:28
Speaker 1: I'll take a win. I think we all would buy
49:29
Speaker 1: any score, any style, doesn't matter. Desperate for a w
49:33
Speaker 1: right now. That'll do it. Then, Thanks for your fantasy
49:37
Speaker 1: and thank you appreciate it. We should catch him on
49:39
Speaker 1: ten Tennant Jacksonville, also on Sirious NFL Radio, Give Me
49:43
Speaker 1: Sing his theme song on the way out, just kind
49:45
Speaker 1: of I don't I don't think anyone. Mike for Ashland
49:51
Speaker 1: for John. Thanks to head coach Doug Morone for joining
49:53
Speaker 1: us with coffee with the coach Joe Fortunado, Max Huckman,
49:56
Speaker 1: have a great weekend. It would talk to you Sunday
49:58
Speaker 1: from Indianapolis.