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- 0:01Speaker 1: Celebrating twenty five years of Jaguars football. He's going down
- 0:05Speaker 1: at the one yard line. Maurice Drew was in for
- 0:09Speaker 1: his second touchdown of the ball game, and he can
- 0:11Speaker 1: meet Jaffuars. Did you Jackar Jaguarris? Did you know Jaguars
- 0:18Speaker 1: Drive Time? Ryan Sex steps to John O shoves it. Actually,
- 0:24Speaker 1: Jaguarris Drive Time starts right now. Good morning, and welcome
- 0:31Speaker 1: Jaguary's Drive Time. Friday morning. Jaguar is getting ready to
- 0:34Speaker 1: take on the Atlanta Falcons in Atlanta. Team heading there tomorrow.
- 0:38Speaker 1: A beautiful day in Jacksonville, a bit warmer. Not that
- 0:42Speaker 1: I'm for that or anything. I'm just saying, Solla's how
- 0:45Speaker 1: are we doing? I'm lovely because it's Friday and I
- 0:49Speaker 1: love Friday's. It sounds like, yeah, I'm excited. I am
- 0:56Speaker 1: Rosalie optimistic about life today. Ryan is a specific reason.
- 1:02Speaker 1: It's just it's really how I am as as a
- 1:06Speaker 1: default mode. So I think we should just get I
- 1:08Speaker 1: think it's because of your puppy mug that you've had
- 1:11Speaker 1: all week. It's putting you in a better mood. Happy,
- 1:15Speaker 1: happy Polidays. All right, let's remember that and let's get
- 1:18Speaker 1: into big things Shally, Big Thing one is Doug. It
- 1:22Speaker 1: is truly his ship to sail. Now. Can you repeat
- 1:24Speaker 1: the end of the season success he had against the
- 1:27Speaker 1: Titans and the Colts when he took over in two
- 1:29Speaker 1: thousand sixteen. So the next two games solidify his job
- 1:33Speaker 1: in whether it be a win or a loss. Big
- 1:37Speaker 1: Things to the locker room. The reaction was strong. Tom
- 1:39Speaker 1: Coplam being let go changes very little for us going forward.
- 1:42Speaker 1: We must focus on Atlanta. They didn't make it very clear, however,
- 1:46Speaker 1: that they want coach Marown and the entire coaching staff
- 1:49Speaker 1: to stay from Calais Campbell, Lenard for Nett, d J.
- 1:51Speaker 1: Hayden to more. All those guys were very strong saying
- 1:55Speaker 1: I got to focus on Atlanta and we like our coaches.
- 1:57Speaker 1: That speaks volumes about this team. Big Thing three Atlanta.
- 2:01Speaker 1: They're playing well recently after starting the season one in
- 2:04Speaker 1: seventh and out of the same record as the Jaguars.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Julio Jones might be the toughest matchup in the NFL,
- 2:10Speaker 1: but there are still some reasons to believe the Jaguars
- 2:13Speaker 1: could get it done in Atlanta. And I now asked
- 2:15Speaker 1: these two guys, what are those reasons? Well, Uh, their
- 2:20Speaker 1: offensive line has not played all that well. Matt Ryan
- 2:22Speaker 1: has been under pressure a lot, and that's obviously a strength. UM.
- 2:26Speaker 1: DeVonta Freeman two years ago was one of the better
- 2:28Speaker 1: backs in the league and he's struggling. Is averaging three
- 2:31Speaker 1: point six per carry. So they're not running it very well,
- 2:34Speaker 1: they're not protecting very well. That would seem to set
- 2:36Speaker 1: up the Jaguars defense. Um. You know. The flip side
- 2:40Speaker 1: is their defense has gotten some pressure in recent weeks,
- 2:45Speaker 1: but they have twenty four sacks, near the bottom of
- 2:47Speaker 1: the league. So you like your opportunities to be able
- 2:50Speaker 1: to throw the ball. DJ Charik is back, UM, But
- 2:52Speaker 1: I think the most important thing is there there's a
- 2:54Speaker 1: surge in that locker room after the events of the
- 2:58Speaker 1: last two days. There is there was already a good feeling,
- 3:01Speaker 1: some optimism. There was obviously a lot of cold water
- 3:04Speaker 1: on Monday when the NFL p A came out, but shots,
- 3:07Speaker 1: decisive action and the fact that it's Doug Morone who
- 3:10Speaker 1: is here, UM gives him a chance. I think this
- 3:14Speaker 1: team believes and I know that that sounds like something
- 3:17Speaker 1: you hear all the time about a team that's losing
- 3:19Speaker 1: at the end of the season, but I think they
- 3:20Speaker 1: believe in themselves this week. Yeah, I think the win
- 3:26Speaker 1: last week as much as anything has affected this, I'm
- 3:29Speaker 1: not I'm not going to discount the news about Tom.
- 3:32Speaker 1: But as much as Tom sort of affected things with
- 3:36Speaker 1: the fines, I never got the feeling that when you
- 3:39Speaker 1: were in the locker room, when they were talking as
- 3:41Speaker 1: a team, you already go out and play. I always
- 3:43Speaker 1: thought it was more about Doug, and I think there
- 3:46Speaker 1: was a rejuvenation when they won last week and a
- 3:48Speaker 1: feeling of you know, this is what it's supposed to
- 3:51Speaker 1: feel like, this what's it's supposed to do. I just
- 3:54Speaker 1: think the job that they've done keeping it together even
- 3:56Speaker 1: through that losing streak. I thought it turned at halftime
- 3:59Speaker 1: last week. More than anything. There was no reason to
- 4:04Speaker 1: think that the events that happened in the second half
- 4:07Speaker 1: we're going to happen, except that they didn't believe that
- 4:10Speaker 1: they weren't going to happen. UM, So I expect him
- 4:14Speaker 1: to play hard and well on Sunday. Uh. The Falcons
- 4:18Speaker 1: defense is playing really well lately, nineteen points a game.
- 4:21Speaker 1: To me, the only question is can the Jaguars be
- 4:24Speaker 1: efficient early in the game offensively can they score touchdowns
- 4:27Speaker 1: instead of field goals? And can they avoid this three
- 4:31Speaker 1: points start? It's been their pattern for or the three
- 4:34Speaker 1: point first half have been the pattern since what jets.
- 4:37Speaker 1: Well he had avoid that last three starts. Yeah, I
- 4:40Speaker 1: have produced a field goal in each of the first half. Yeah,
- 4:44Speaker 1: let's go back real quick. And that's what he's got
- 4:46Speaker 1: to get away from it. Someth You said you didn't
- 4:47Speaker 1: think Tom impacted it. Maybe not by name, Tom impacted
- 4:51Speaker 1: it by the fact that Doug now is clearly at
- 4:53Speaker 1: the helm right and well, I just think did a
- 4:57Speaker 1: good job through it. Well he did, And I think
- 4:59Speaker 1: that he team sees him now as being the guy
- 5:02Speaker 1: with both hands on the wheel. But because before if
- 5:05Speaker 1: Tom was finding people that Tom had a hand on
- 5:07Speaker 1: right and now Doug has both hands on the wheel.
- 5:10Speaker 1: And I think that his team, I said, we heard
- 5:12Speaker 1: it yesterday that this team likes Doug a lot, and
- 5:17Speaker 1: I think that we'll see a lift for them playing
- 5:21Speaker 1: for him. I think in the last couple of weeks,
- 5:23Speaker 1: as things were sliding downhill, they're playing for themselves for
- 5:26Speaker 1: one another. Now they're playing for him. Plus it helps
- 5:29Speaker 1: that he said it wasn't on Monday or Tuesday, whatever
- 5:33Speaker 1: day he spoke, No Tuesday where he said, Um, I'm
- 5:38Speaker 1: trying to protect players and coaches. I'm trying to save jobs.
- 5:42Speaker 1: There has been a solidifying of the group that's here
- 5:46Speaker 1: in recent days, even though it felt fractured on Monday. Yeah,
- 5:49Speaker 1: and we were talking on the practice field yesterday. So
- 5:51Speaker 1: normally when this happens this record, you hear coaches saying,
- 5:54Speaker 1: got to focus on the next game, focusing on Sunday.
- 5:57Speaker 1: For Doug Moron to be honest and say under stand
- 6:00Speaker 1: that I get it. I'm trying to save jobs. You
- 6:02Speaker 1: don't normally hear coaches say that. No, Well, it made
- 6:05Speaker 1: himself vulnerable, you know what I mean. I mean football
- 6:07Speaker 1: coaches generally don't like to be vulnerable. They like to
- 6:10Speaker 1: be tough, hardened exterior. We got this um and what
- 6:13Speaker 1: he said was he acknowledged we're all sitting here worried
- 6:17Speaker 1: about our jobs, and so the only thing we can
- 6:19Speaker 1: do is go work for them, and I am trying
- 6:22Speaker 1: to protect He put it on his shoulders. It was
- 6:25Speaker 1: refreshingly transparent. Were you guys surprised? I wasn't exactly, but
- 6:29Speaker 1: I was kind of surprised about the forwardness of all
- 6:33Speaker 1: the players in the locker room yesterday saying it wanted
- 6:35Speaker 1: to keep the entire coaching staff here. I would expect
- 6:38Speaker 1: them to say that, but for the strong passionate answers
- 6:41Speaker 1: we god, I don't think I was expecting that. Well.
- 6:45Speaker 1: Guys have sort of expressed that a little bit before,
- 6:48Speaker 1: especially Leonard Fournett all season when he's been asked about Doug,
- 6:51Speaker 1: especially early in the season when the theme was sort
- 6:53Speaker 1: of resiliency for a while when there were four and four. Uh.
- 6:56Speaker 1: For Nett, who was if not sus bended by Doug
- 7:00Speaker 1: as a rookie, Uh, sat down for a game. You
- 7:05Speaker 1: know a Doug was the one who made that call. Uh.
- 7:09Speaker 1: Doug has disciplined Leonard before, and Leonard has been very
- 7:15Speaker 1: up front this year. He said the other day, I
- 7:16Speaker 1: love coach Doug. The Doug does a nice job through
- 7:21Speaker 1: that of balancing. He talked about it. It was Wednesay
- 7:24Speaker 1: or Thursday. He was a player. He knows that he's
- 7:28Speaker 1: on management side a little bit at times, because you've
- 7:33Speaker 1: got to walk that line as a coach um, and
- 7:35Speaker 1: he does a nice job of I think being the
- 7:39Speaker 1: guy that they need to depend on and be able
- 7:41Speaker 1: to go to at times when things are getting weird. Yeah,
- 7:45Speaker 1: I agree with that. But also this locker room said
- 7:49Speaker 1: with the Tom Coughlin news that really nothing really changes
- 7:52Speaker 1: much for us, and Calais Kimbell was saying it's not
- 7:54Speaker 1: day to day. Yeah, Calais Kimbell saying, yes, he's on
- 7:57Speaker 1: the practice field, but it's not like he is with
- 7:59Speaker 1: us every single step of the way like head coach.
- 8:01Speaker 1: But there's clarity, right. So when Tom came back and
- 8:04Speaker 1: Tom was the executive vice president, he was a football coach.
- 8:08Speaker 1: He was never a GM. So the question that we
- 8:11Speaker 1: asked him was what's your role? And at times he
- 8:14Speaker 1: couldn't even answer it because he wasn't quite sure. This
- 8:17Speaker 1: provides clarity. Doug is the coach. If there is a problem,
- 8:20Speaker 1: a fine, Doug will handle it. It's not as if
- 8:23Speaker 1: Doug says, hey, all right, we're clear, and then you
- 8:25Speaker 1: come in and say, uh, you got a five dollar fine.
- 8:29Speaker 1: There's none of that a claret And we've talked about
- 8:32Speaker 1: this a lot. Tony Dungee always wanted to make things
- 8:34Speaker 1: clear for his players, simple routine. This creates for all
- 8:40Speaker 1: of these guys a clarity that allows them to understand
- 8:44Speaker 1: exactly where they stand because they don't have to worry.
- 8:46Speaker 1: I'm okay with you, but what about the guy down
- 8:47Speaker 1: the hall? They only have to worry about Doug That that,
- 8:50Speaker 1: in and of itself is day to day better for
- 8:52Speaker 1: the players. Agree with that? Right when we come back,
- 8:55Speaker 1: Head coach Don Brown joins us for coffee with the coach.
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- 11:14Speaker 1: We're back Jaggs Drive Time Friday morning. That guy Calais
- 11:18Speaker 1: Campbell selected to his fifth Pro Bowl of his career,
- 11:23Speaker 1: his third in Jacksonville. A few other Jaguar selected as alternates.
- 11:27Speaker 1: We'll see what happens as head coach Doug Marne joins
- 11:30Speaker 1: us for coffee with the coach here on Jags Drive Time. Coach,
- 11:33Speaker 1: you talked a little bit earlier in the week about
- 11:35Speaker 1: Calais Campbell what he means to this team as a
- 11:37Speaker 1: player a person. Five Pro bowls in your career, that's
- 11:41Speaker 1: quite the accomplishment it is. I mean, you talk about
- 11:44Speaker 1: the ultimate professional. And I said, you know, probably one
- 11:48Speaker 1: of the more difficult things that that I had to
- 11:51Speaker 1: do is, you know, you want to get up there
- 11:54Speaker 1: and you want to do a good job. You know
- 11:57Speaker 1: for the player. You want people that maybe don't know
- 11:59Speaker 1: him that well to try to give him an insight
- 12:03Speaker 1: to the type of person he is. And you know,
- 12:06Speaker 1: people talk about the effect of the team. I look
- 12:09Speaker 1: at at it. He's such a great person. It's an
- 12:12Speaker 1: effect of of on the organization, on the community, here. Um,
- 12:18Speaker 1: I've never probably been around a more positive, focused, um,
- 12:25Speaker 1: great pro and I've been around a lot of great players.
- 12:29Speaker 1: But he, you know, he's always gonna go you know,
- 12:31Speaker 1: in my mind, he'll always go down with me. Is
- 12:34Speaker 1: is probably being you know, the top or one of
- 12:36Speaker 1: the top two. You know, you know, Drew Brees was
- 12:39Speaker 1: awesome and people like that and Kevin Y, But I don't.
- 12:43Speaker 1: I think what's difficult is trying to find the words,
- 12:47Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying to describe a guy that
- 12:49Speaker 1: people are like, you know, because you people like, oh,
- 12:53Speaker 1: this coach he's full of crap. It's not it's because
- 12:56Speaker 1: he comes off. He's a millionaire, superstar, enorm as pro
- 13:00Speaker 1: football player, and yet he's decidedly normal. He the way
- 13:03Speaker 1: that he talks to people when he's just standing there. Um,
- 13:06Speaker 1: he acts as if every person is important. I can
- 13:08Speaker 1: take you for sure. In twenty five years, I don't
- 13:10Speaker 1: know of another player, with all the things he has
- 13:13Speaker 1: that's as normal as he is. Yeah, I agree, so,
- 13:16Speaker 1: and and it's well deserved. I mean, he's a he's
- 13:18Speaker 1: a heck of a football player. But I say, you know,
- 13:22Speaker 1: more importantly, he's just a better person. Yeah, and you've
- 13:25Speaker 1: got to have the traits he has in terms of preparation.
- 13:28Speaker 1: You've talked a lot. It sounds like he's on a
- 13:30Speaker 1: level with Kevin, the guys that you've been around, Curtis Martin,
- 13:34Speaker 1: who just the professionalism of preparation. He may be on
- 13:39Speaker 1: your rushman. Sure, I think that when you know, I
- 13:41Speaker 1: look around and I've had players that have played, you know,
- 13:43Speaker 1: over twelve or thirteen years in the league, and they're
- 13:46Speaker 1: all different positions, different types of guys, different backgrounds. But
- 13:51Speaker 1: the one thing I'll say it is is is there's
- 13:54Speaker 1: the one common trait is you know, how they take
- 13:57Speaker 1: care of themselves. And I remember my first year in
- 14:00Speaker 1: the league in two thousand and two as a coach, Um,
- 14:05Speaker 1: we played our our last game, we lost a playoff game.
- 14:08Speaker 1: Um I think it was in Oakland, and we came
- 14:11Speaker 1: back and you know, you're normally when you come back
- 14:14Speaker 1: on that Monday, you exit the players out, then the
- 14:18Speaker 1: coaches right up, evaluations, handed into management, and the coaches
- 14:23Speaker 1: have pretty much those next couple of days and that
- 14:25Speaker 1: weekend off and then they come back in on Monday
- 14:28Speaker 1: and the players usually they're done until at that time.
- 14:31Speaker 1: I think it was like March dark, right, It's like
- 14:35Speaker 1: you were no one's in the building, right. But then
- 14:38Speaker 1: I remember going in on that Monday and Curtis Martin
- 14:43Speaker 1: and Kevin Mawai are in the weight room. I was like,
- 14:48Speaker 1: what what are you guys doing. They're like, Coach, we're
- 14:50Speaker 1: not And they weren't handling a lot of heavy weight
- 14:52Speaker 1: or anything, but they're like, look, we just get started
- 14:55Speaker 1: right away, and we don't. We just come in, we
- 14:57Speaker 1: do a little of this, a little of that, and
- 14:59Speaker 1: just get our bodies to start coming back. And you know,
- 15:03Speaker 1: Jim bo Elliott was like that, a lot of guys
- 15:05Speaker 1: that have played a long time and they know what
- 15:08Speaker 1: it takes and the amount of dedication, uh, for the longevity.
- 15:13Speaker 1: You know, to be able to put now. You need
- 15:14Speaker 1: the talent obviously, but if you don't have that type
- 15:17Speaker 1: of work ethic and taking care of your body, you're
- 15:20Speaker 1: not gonna last in this leak. Yeah. Jerry Rice used
- 15:22Speaker 1: to say, you get your last five or six years
- 15:25Speaker 1: by what you do in your first five or six years.
- 15:27Speaker 1: Good points, good point. Hey, does this feel at all
- 15:30Speaker 1: like two thousand sixteen in the end of the season
- 15:32Speaker 1: to you? You know, when you took over as the
- 15:35Speaker 1: as the inter of coach. I know it's not apples
- 15:36Speaker 1: to apples, but um, just talking to players yesterday, there
- 15:40Speaker 1: was an energy in the locker room. It was almost
- 15:42Speaker 1: as if, you know, there's two games left and they're
- 15:44Speaker 1: treating them as their playoff rount or an audition or
- 15:47Speaker 1: however you want to put it. But there just seems
- 15:49Speaker 1: to be a field. We got through the stuff earlier
- 15:51Speaker 1: in the week, and now there seems to be a
- 15:53Speaker 1: great focus and purpose about this game. Well, you know,
- 15:56Speaker 1: I addressed to players obviously just before I come in,
- 16:00Speaker 1: you know, to this meeting, and you know, one of
- 16:03Speaker 1: the things I wanted to make sure that I spoke
- 16:07Speaker 1: to the players about was, you know, the appreciation that
- 16:11Speaker 1: I have for the coaches and the players on his team.
- 16:16Speaker 1: We all understand it's a disappointing season, okay, we we
- 16:20Speaker 1: were all part of that. No one's clear of you know,
- 16:26Speaker 1: of that, of that accountability. But when you look back,
- 16:31Speaker 1: starting from O. T A. S too now, it's there's
- 16:34Speaker 1: been a lot of things that have gone on, a
- 16:37Speaker 1: lot of distractions, a lot of things that have pulled
- 16:41Speaker 1: that potentially, I should say, can pull this team apart.
- 16:44Speaker 1: Or separate them, um, but the consistency of them staying together,
- 16:50Speaker 1: them working hard preparing each week, you know, is something
- 16:56Speaker 1: that I wanted to make sure I acknowledge to them. Uh.
- 16:59Speaker 1: Grant at our performances on Sunday have not been good enough,
- 17:03Speaker 1: but at the same time, each one of us have struggled,
- 17:07Speaker 1: whether it's myself all the way down to anyone that's
- 17:10Speaker 1: in that team meeting room, of these things from the
- 17:13Speaker 1: outside that we all know that it's it's very easy
- 17:17Speaker 1: for people to say stay focused, but all of us
- 17:20Speaker 1: have a different level of what's gonna pull us away
- 17:23Speaker 1: from that focus. So, you know, the one thing that
- 17:25Speaker 1: I told the team is that even though our performance
- 17:29Speaker 1: hasn't been good and we understand that, I appreciate the resiliency,
- 17:33Speaker 1: and like you said, you know the way they've they've
- 17:36Speaker 1: come approached this and and come about it now. Is
- 17:40Speaker 1: it is it been successful for us on Sunday? Absolutely not,
- 17:44Speaker 1: But during the week at least you're working towards a
- 17:47Speaker 1: successful Sunday. You've seen a lot of players over year career. Uh,
- 17:53Speaker 1: where does Julio Jones rank in terms of a guy
- 17:56Speaker 1: who just jumps out when you watch and try to pay.
- 18:00Speaker 1: I mean, I I go back to you know, because
- 18:02Speaker 1: you you look at you know, the first thing that
- 18:04Speaker 1: jumps out of your size. So when I when I
- 18:06Speaker 1: think about size, and I'll date myself here, I think
- 18:10Speaker 1: like Harold Carmichael, you know, when he was with the Eagles,
- 18:12Speaker 1: who's actually a rains guy, a local guy, and he's
- 18:15Speaker 1: on the centennial list for Hall of Fame candidates. Yeah,
- 18:18Speaker 1: you know he was. He's a guy that jumps out. Um.
- 18:22Speaker 1: I think the next guy for me would be Calvin Johnson,
- 18:25Speaker 1: you know for Detroit and another big guy and can run,
- 18:28Speaker 1: you know, and Julio is a big guy that that
- 18:30Speaker 1: can run. And so when I when I look at him,
- 18:35Speaker 1: and there's a lot of great players and a lot
- 18:37Speaker 1: of great wide receivers and we've seen it, but you know,
- 18:39Speaker 1: I really think he's someone that's unique in a way
- 18:42Speaker 1: of having all those traits and you know, you know,
- 18:47Speaker 1: it's arguably you could say who's who's better, No one's better.
- 18:50Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into that, but I think
- 18:53Speaker 1: he'll go down as you know, one of those great receivers.
- 18:56Speaker 1: And you know, whether it's you know, people talk about Jerry,
- 19:00Speaker 1: the people talk about Steve Smith, you know, I mean
- 19:02Speaker 1: all those guys as we go down, you know, Michael Irvin,
- 19:05Speaker 1: things of that nature, because um, he's done it for
- 19:08Speaker 1: a long time. He's done it at a very consistent level,
- 19:11Speaker 1: and every time he's on that field, Um, he's productive.
- 19:14Speaker 1: He's a little off topic, and I apologize it's not
- 19:16Speaker 1: Jaguars related, but at Drew's Night the other night you
- 19:19Speaker 1: probably didn't watch it, but moves into some more all
- 19:23Speaker 1: time list. I know you're close with him, special still
- 19:28Speaker 1: to watch him what he's doing for you, it is.
- 19:32Speaker 1: I mean, he's one of those guys that you know,
- 19:34Speaker 1: I think when you're around kind of like we talked
- 19:36Speaker 1: about a little bit with Calais. Um, they're just they're
- 19:40Speaker 1: just special. And it's not just because of they can
- 19:44Speaker 1: throw with football or play defensive, you know, and it's
- 19:48Speaker 1: not it's not that it's they're special because of the
- 19:50Speaker 1: effect that they have on on the people around them.
- 19:53Speaker 1: They're you know, they're special because of you know, they're
- 19:56Speaker 1: competitive nature. Everyone's competitive, but it seems like the these
- 20:00Speaker 1: types of players have it at a there's a different level.
- 20:03Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know of it and um,
- 20:07Speaker 1: you know I guess he was what twenty nine for
- 20:09Speaker 1: thirty and he missed he missed a wide route and
- 20:12Speaker 1: I heard him say, I can't believe I missed it.
- 20:14Speaker 1: I didn't set my feet, that's true, you know, and
- 20:17Speaker 1: I know that. Um, I know my wife told me
- 20:20Speaker 1: that that. She texted I guess Brittany while the game
- 20:23Speaker 1: was going on. She was watching it, and uh, Brittany
- 20:26Speaker 1: said something to effective, Well, if you do something long enough,
- 20:29Speaker 1: you know, we would hope that you can be at
- 20:30Speaker 1: least good at something. You know what I mean. It was,
- 20:33Speaker 1: you know, it was one of those comments. But you know, yeah,
- 20:36Speaker 1: we I am close with him, and um, you know
- 20:38Speaker 1: I always tell people we used to actually keep tracked
- 20:41Speaker 1: when I was in New Orleans. There were four practices
- 20:45Speaker 1: and I want you to think about this, where the
- 20:49Speaker 1: ball never touched the ground, meaning that from patent go
- 20:55Speaker 1: to routes versus air to seven on seven to our
- 21:00Speaker 1: team periods to a running backs carrying a football, the
- 21:04Speaker 1: ball never touched the ground. And that was our goal,
- 21:08Speaker 1: you know, every time that we went out on the
- 21:09Speaker 1: field that you know, the ball was never going to
- 21:12Speaker 1: touch the ground. So for me to see a twenty
- 21:14Speaker 1: nine for thirty. I mean, it's it's hard to it's
- 21:18Speaker 1: hard to be twenty nine for thirty on air, you know.
- 21:22Speaker 1: And then now all of a sudden you go out
- 21:23Speaker 1: there and you're competing and you're doing it. So you know, special,
- 21:26Speaker 1: special guy. You know, Um, Shawn's a special guy too.
- 21:30Speaker 1: You know in Pete Carmichael that that thing I did.
- 21:33Speaker 1: I think there's a book coming out. Uh, someone's writing
- 21:36Speaker 1: a book because they had called me because I was
- 21:37Speaker 1: there in the beginning to give my comments. But you
- 21:41Speaker 1: know about this relationship, you know, and I said, you
- 21:45Speaker 1: know from the beginning, Um, you can just tell that
- 21:49Speaker 1: it was special and you knew that great things could
- 21:52Speaker 1: could come from it. And at the time Drew was injured.
- 21:54Speaker 1: So um, it's just this connection, this vibe, this this
- 22:00Speaker 1: this this thing that go on where we're probably watching
- 22:04Speaker 1: um and people might say whether it be Josh and
- 22:06Speaker 1: Tom Brady or you know, and there's a lot of
- 22:09Speaker 1: this that goes on, honestly, But you know, Sean Payton
- 22:12Speaker 1: Drew Brees will go down as one of the best
- 22:13Speaker 1: combinations to ever be in this league. And remember walking
- 22:16Speaker 1: around the Senior Bowl when Pete Carmichael Senior, who worked
- 22:21Speaker 1: here was trying to get Pete Carmichel junior in the league,
- 22:24Speaker 1: and he was, you know, so probably one of the
- 22:27Speaker 1: more underrated coaches, under the radar type guys. You know,
- 22:31Speaker 1: obviously we were very close and we're still close. And uh,
- 22:34Speaker 1: you know it just does an outstanding job and was
- 22:37Speaker 1: really a key figure because he was with He's been
- 22:40Speaker 1: with Drew the longest. You know, he was with him
- 22:42Speaker 1: in San Diego when they were in San Diego, and um,
- 22:45Speaker 1: you know came uh to New Orleans when Drew came
- 22:48Speaker 1: to New Orleans. Coach, I can tell you're getting in
- 22:51Speaker 1: the Christmas spirit are then? I don't know if I said,
- 22:58Speaker 1: I'll take the cup with the snowflake side, but but
- 23:01Speaker 1: please give me the snowflake cup this morning. What are
- 23:03Speaker 1: them around Christmas plans? Share? I'd say this, I think
- 23:08Speaker 1: you know, we all have challenges, especially in this profession
- 23:10Speaker 1: of this time of year. Um, you know, it's it's
- 23:13Speaker 1: it's it's always difficult, you know, when you're not playing well.
- 23:17Speaker 1: And I try to tell the younger coaches, Uh, don't
- 23:22Speaker 1: make some of the mistakes you know that I've made,
- 23:25Speaker 1: meaning that the job and the season and the disappointment
- 23:29Speaker 1: and you know, the your job securities up in the air,
- 23:33Speaker 1: and everyone's kind of worried about it. You know, don't
- 23:37Speaker 1: don't take that too the Christmas you know, spirit with
- 23:41Speaker 1: your children. Don't let them see that whatever you have
- 23:44Speaker 1: to do, because you know, you would hope that when
- 23:48Speaker 1: you get older in life and you and you talk
- 23:51Speaker 1: to your children, they can say, oh, we loved Christmas.
- 23:53Speaker 1: It was great. Not God, our Christmases were awful because
- 23:57Speaker 1: you know, Dad didn't win enough games or Dad didn't
- 23:59Speaker 1: do that. And um, so I think, you know, when
- 24:03Speaker 1: you have your young kids, you have to be very
- 24:04Speaker 1: conscious obviously when your kids are older like mine are
- 24:07Speaker 1: now that they're aware of that, so you know how
- 24:10Speaker 1: you act and how you talk to him. Um, I
- 24:13Speaker 1: think it's things that I've learned, you know what I'm
- 24:15Speaker 1: saying over the years. And obviously everyone knows that my
- 24:18Speaker 1: my wife's father was a Hall of Fame coach, and
- 24:22Speaker 1: you know, Christmas was tough too, you know, and it's
- 24:25Speaker 1: just tough. But like I said, I'm not complaining about that.
- 24:28Speaker 1: It's a job that we've chosen. But these are the
- 24:31Speaker 1: things that go on in the lives of you know,
- 24:35Speaker 1: a lot of us around the league. All right, coach, Well,
- 24:37Speaker 1: good luck this weekend and have a great Christmas. Thank you, thanks, thanks,
- 24:41Speaker 1: We come back. He will, he won't He might right
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- 27:07Speaker 1: Happy holidays and that's the truth. All right, Polidays guy,
- 27:12Speaker 1: take it away. He will, he won't, he might, Can
- 27:19Speaker 1: you please remember for one week? Joy, and we talked
- 27:24Speaker 1: about this. I believe he will draw Julio Jones quite
- 27:29Speaker 1: a bit. I don't know that he's wanting to be
- 27:32Speaker 1: on that the entire time. Um, he won't. And I'll
- 27:37Speaker 1: sort of segue those two together quickly. He won't completely
- 27:40Speaker 1: shut him down or be on him all the time
- 27:42Speaker 1: because that's not how you play Julio Jones. Even if
- 27:45Speaker 1: he who shall not be named Jon Ramsey was still here, Um,
- 27:50Speaker 1: it wouldn't be an a one on one all the
- 27:52Speaker 1: time with Julio Jones because that's how you do defense
- 27:55Speaker 1: against guy like him. But it's uh, it might be
- 27:59Speaker 1: the toughest channel lenge that he'll have in his career.
- 28:02Speaker 1: I think he talked about that earlier this week. UM,
- 28:05Speaker 1: I don't know if Michael Thomas is the best wide
- 28:09Speaker 1: receiver in the NFL right now or DeAndre Hopkins are
- 28:11Speaker 1: all these guys, but I don't know that matchup wise
- 28:15Speaker 1: with everything the receiver can do and just the pure
- 28:18Speaker 1: athletic ability. If there is a tougher matchup. It was
- 28:21Speaker 1: like a power forward. He could have a body you
- 28:23Speaker 1: would get you out of the lane. And the ability
- 28:25Speaker 1: to and I shouldn't say this because I especially DeAndre
- 28:30Speaker 1: does this too, but the ability to have perfect coverage
- 28:33Speaker 1: and to still have a remarkable catch when you walk
- 28:36Speaker 1: out the field and say, well, you know anything good
- 28:39Speaker 1: about that? And uh, I don't know that boy's playing
- 28:42Speaker 1: for his job at this point. I think there's I mean,
- 28:47Speaker 1: half million dollar hit. I mean next year. I don't
- 28:50Speaker 1: know that there's anything that you can do in the
- 28:52Speaker 1: last two games to change that dynamic. That's gonna be
- 28:55Speaker 1: what it is. But you know, as the season ends.
- 28:59Speaker 1: He's a guy who for three years has been such
- 29:02Speaker 1: an integral part of this and such a stand up
- 29:04Speaker 1: guy a lot, and I do believe this year he
- 29:07Speaker 1: has done a remarkable job of shedding a difficult injury wise,
- 29:12Speaker 1: last injury wise year last year, turning it into a
- 29:15Speaker 1: very good year. Not the year he had in seventeen.
- 29:17Speaker 1: I don't think he's that player anymore, but a remarkably
- 29:20Speaker 1: good year, considering that he had to change roles mid season.
- 29:24Speaker 1: By the way, when the schedule came out in April,
- 29:26Speaker 1: I had circled this game because I was I was
- 29:28Speaker 1: looking forward to see Ramsey versus he got to see
- 29:31Speaker 1: he got to see him because he was with the Rams,
- 29:34Speaker 1: And I don't remember what he did. But that's a matchup.
- 29:38Speaker 1: I mean when you're talking about any of those three,
- 29:41Speaker 1: but especially Julio Jones because he's done it so consistently
- 29:44Speaker 1: over the year or so. Okay, Okay, you didn't think
- 29:48Speaker 1: too much about Hey, William might Okay, I kind of
- 29:52Speaker 1: gave it. Okay, okay, all right, you didn't remember who
- 29:56Speaker 1: you had? No I did after I was your mind. Sure,
- 30:02Speaker 1: I'll take Leonard for Nett. I saw the look in
- 30:03Speaker 1: his eye yesterday. He will have a big day. Um,
- 30:06Speaker 1: you're talking about a player who has at times, he's
- 30:10Speaker 1: made some noise this year, but it's not been the
- 30:13Speaker 1: kind of noise. It's not been consistent enough. He only
- 30:16Speaker 1: has a couple of touchdowns one rushing touchdown of the year. Um,
- 30:20Speaker 1: three touchdowns told, three rushing touchdowns pardoning. Um, it's just
- 30:24Speaker 1: been okay for him, even though he's got yards. So
- 30:28Speaker 1: I think he's due for a big game here. Um,
- 30:31Speaker 1: he won't. I don't know what he won't do. I mean,
- 30:35Speaker 1: I think he's he's seventy three seventy three catches, right,
- 30:39Speaker 1: I said I had it. He won't forgotten my guy,
- 30:42Speaker 1: But I had it. He won't. You did. I don't
- 30:44Speaker 1: have it. He won't. Um, he might score a touchdown.
- 30:46Speaker 1: He might. He might score a touchdown rushing and receiving
- 30:52Speaker 1: on Sunday. He's been the leading rusher. He is the
- 30:55Speaker 1: leading receiver in terms of receptions, and he might combine
- 30:59Speaker 1: both on on day in Atlanta. I say, won't, okay,
- 31:02Speaker 1: O give he won't be here. I'll do mine and
- 31:04Speaker 1: I'll carry yours. Um, he won't complain about his circumstance
- 31:09Speaker 1: this year. And what I mean by that is I
- 31:11Speaker 1: got a better one. You started up. It's mine. Stop,
- 31:13Speaker 1: I got atter. He won't be on the he won't
- 31:15Speaker 1: be on the injury report at all this year. Uh,
- 31:17Speaker 1: he's already there, right, He's on the injury report today.
- 31:21Speaker 1: So unless that's gonna be a segment, you got a
- 31:26Speaker 1: thing going on, it's gonna be say he won't be
- 31:27Speaker 1: on the injury all year, and that he and I
- 31:30Speaker 1: talked about that. You actually leaving the locker room. It's remarkable.
- 31:33Speaker 1: Fred Taylor obviously never had a season where he wasn't
- 31:38Speaker 1: on the injury report one day, and neither did can
- 31:42Speaker 1: you keep it down over there? And neither did Morris
- 31:47Speaker 1: Jones Drew. So for him to go through an entire
- 31:48Speaker 1: season without being on the injury report one day would
- 31:52Speaker 1: be remarkable, and he hasn't. So there's my we won't.
- 31:54Speaker 1: It just took me a beaut and I think to
- 31:56Speaker 1: your point at the beginning, Um, he hasn't had a
- 32:00Speaker 1: year that he wanted to. But I would say out
- 32:04Speaker 1: of all the players who that's true of this year,
- 32:06Speaker 1: that's less his fault. If they hadn't gone in the tank.
- 32:09Speaker 1: He defensively, he would have been a two thousand yards
- 32:11Speaker 1: season from right. So it could have been he will
- 32:13Speaker 1: he won't. He might he would have because he would
- 32:15Speaker 1: have had a huge year and he would have done
- 32:18Speaker 1: the things that you were talking about the beginning of
- 32:19Speaker 1: the season. Well, at one point he was on track
- 32:22Speaker 1: for the single season rushing record and the single season
- 32:27Speaker 1: yards from scrimmage record, and then that's five game stretch
- 32:30Speaker 1: where they just they couldn't stay with it. Run lack
- 32:32Speaker 1: of opportunity more anything, more than anything, that was a
- 32:35Speaker 1: nice group. He will, he won't moren't together. Now you're
- 32:38Speaker 1: on your own. Great. I have no help, But he
- 32:41Speaker 1: will he won't. He might is Leon Jacobs. He will
- 32:43Speaker 1: continue to make an impact. Everyone's talking about Donald Payne
- 32:47Speaker 1: coming in playing well, but what about our guy Leon
- 32:50Speaker 1: Jacobs eight tackles last week against the Raiders, played well.
- 32:53Speaker 1: Expecting another good week from him, He won't. We won't
- 32:57Speaker 1: compare him to Paul puzz lesnia consistently rate linebacker. But
- 33:01Speaker 1: for a seventh round draft pick to come in and
- 33:03Speaker 1: play how he has, he has absolutely exceeded expectations for that,
- 33:07Speaker 1: and he might make a game changing play. We've been
- 33:11Speaker 1: meeting one of those lately. I'm thinking maybe a fumble recovery,
- 33:14Speaker 1: something like that. It would be nice. I I've been
- 33:19Speaker 1: ringing the bell for this guy all week long because
- 33:21Speaker 1: he impressed me so much with the way he played.
- 33:23Speaker 1: Uh do I see him as Paul puzz Doesn't he know?
- 33:26Speaker 1: Paul Puzzles name was top draft pick and a guy
- 33:29Speaker 1: who who played for eleven years at a very high level.
- 33:32Speaker 1: And we're talking about a young player. But the way
- 33:34Speaker 1: he ran all over the field, his best footballs in
- 33:36Speaker 1: front of him, and when you start talking about all
- 33:38Speaker 1: the changes you've got to make on the defense and
- 33:40Speaker 1: how you've got to rebuild it. I don't want people
- 33:42Speaker 1: to overlook forty eight there, because when you plug him in,
- 33:45Speaker 1: you're getting a guy who is fundamentally sound now here
- 33:49Speaker 1: now appears to understand how they want him to play. Uh.
- 33:53Speaker 1: If there's anybody who's more cut, I mean, the guy
- 33:56Speaker 1: is just he has built like a linebacker physically as
- 34:00Speaker 1: the tools to play. I don't know what we're talking about.
- 34:03Speaker 1: A pro bowler, but not everyone on your defense has
- 34:04Speaker 1: to be. I think he'll be a role player, a
- 34:07Speaker 1: consistent player for years to come. He's a guy that
- 34:09Speaker 1: you know in the off season when you're putting together
- 34:11Speaker 1: the whiteboard depth chart, you know he's going to be
- 34:14Speaker 1: your strong side linebacker and you feel good about it. Uh,
- 34:17Speaker 1: that's not going to be the case when they first
- 34:19Speaker 1: take down the names. This obvious and he was having
- 34:22Speaker 1: a nice season and the foot injury and since he
- 34:25Speaker 1: slowed him down, he's finishing strong, which is good for
- 34:27Speaker 1: a young player. Yep. Absolutely, when we come back, we
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- 36:35Speaker 1: If it's laundry night, it's got to be tied. This
- 36:48Speaker 1: weekend in Atlanta, the Jaguars will be wearing white on
- 36:51Speaker 1: teal Unique and got quit this graphic saying I don't
- 36:56Speaker 1: quit because in his micdop that was his message. Don't
- 36:59Speaker 1: get it. That guy has to love the deal. Pants
- 37:03Speaker 1: love it. They pulled him out twice last year. They
- 37:05Speaker 1: lost both games, so they put it away. But maybe
- 37:07Speaker 1: they'll change it up this year. Panos nothing to do
- 37:10Speaker 1: with it. Yeah, they've lost plenty of white and black tube.
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- 37:22Speaker 1: Heading into this NFL weekend, John Osier has Buffalo Bills
- 37:26Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. Yeah, and this is a tough
- 37:29Speaker 1: one because it's tough to see changing of the guard
- 37:33Speaker 1: games coming before they happen. But this has a chance
- 37:35Speaker 1: to be one. The Bills probably should have beaten New
- 37:39Speaker 1: England early in the season when they played, uh say
- 37:42Speaker 1: should have? It could have gone either way. The Bills
- 37:43Speaker 1: had a chance to win at the end of the game.
- 37:45Speaker 1: The Bills feel like a team that's going to take
- 37:48Speaker 1: the mantel away from the Patriots at some point as
- 37:50Speaker 1: as Brady continues, or as continues begins whatever it is
- 37:55Speaker 1: as he declines, which eventually you do. Um, when did
- 37:59Speaker 1: your start? Oh it's it's it's begun. I'm knee deep, baby. Um,
- 38:06Speaker 1: I'm gonna take I almost said the Bills, but I'm
- 38:10Speaker 1: gonna take the Patriots because so many people are thinking
- 38:13Speaker 1: that this is the change in the Guard moment, and
- 38:15Speaker 1: you just kind of have a feeling that somehow Brady
- 38:18Speaker 1: is gonna be doing the postgame interview talking after the
- 38:21Speaker 1: game given that little uh you know smile like he
- 38:24Speaker 1: knew it all that he does and we'll all hate
- 38:28Speaker 1: him again. So but I'll go with the Patriots, hedging
- 38:34Speaker 1: it as I want to do by saying that this
- 38:37Speaker 1: wouldn't be one that would be shocking if the Patriots
- 38:40Speaker 1: go down in this Yeah, I like it. What was nice.
- 38:46Speaker 1: I'll go with the Shaints of Titans, primarily because I
- 38:48Speaker 1: just couldn't get excited about the NFC East and that's
- 38:51Speaker 1: big Eagles Dallas game. Um. But this one is interesting
- 38:54Speaker 1: because the Shaints are obviously on a high and I
- 38:56Speaker 1: thought that the Titans were playing as well as any
- 38:57Speaker 1: team in football was last week, but four they played
- 39:00Speaker 1: the Texans and they fell off. Not part of me
- 39:03Speaker 1: picking the Titans, which I'm going to do, is hopeful
- 39:06Speaker 1: because I really want to see a Titans Texans for
- 39:08Speaker 1: all the marbles uh the next week, um, and in
- 39:12Speaker 1: the final game. I just the Titans are this team
- 39:15Speaker 1: that you just want to count them out. They're not
- 39:16Speaker 1: good enough here, they're not good enough there. How can
- 39:19Speaker 1: they possibly handle the Saints? And Drew Brees is playing
- 39:22Speaker 1: in all this is the perfect game for the Titans
- 39:24Speaker 1: at home, playing the underdog card against a powerful Saints team.
- 39:29Speaker 1: I just think that this is the kind of game
- 39:31Speaker 1: that Titans win, and I want them to win because
- 39:33Speaker 1: I want to watch that Texans Titans game the next
- 39:35Speaker 1: week at home too. I thought, look, I thought that
- 39:40Speaker 1: the Titans were gonna beat the Texans. I just it's funny.
- 39:42Speaker 1: The Texans are one of those teams that they just
- 39:44Speaker 1: they don't dazzle you and impress you, and then all
- 39:46Speaker 1: of a sudden you think, yeah, they're not that good,
- 39:48Speaker 1: and then Watson comes out and lights people on. So
- 39:50Speaker 1: in the Titans are the same way. The Titans are
- 39:52Speaker 1: weird teams, as you you sort of alluded to. They'll
- 39:56Speaker 1: sort of go along and go three and one against
- 39:59Speaker 1: an average schedule and then be a really good team
- 40:04Speaker 1: and then lose to a team they shouldn't lose to.
- 40:07Speaker 1: They strike me as being very capable in the playoffs
- 40:09Speaker 1: of the first round upset a couple of years ago,
- 40:13Speaker 1: and then probably not yet quite a super Bowl team.
- 40:16Speaker 1: I don't. I don't see him that way yet, But
- 40:18Speaker 1: I think the Saints win this game because they're still playing.
- 40:20Speaker 1: I mean at the NFC is so good, it's going
- 40:22Speaker 1: to work against the Titans this week. You have to
- 40:25Speaker 1: keep winning in the NFC or else you can turn
- 40:27Speaker 1: in from one to four seed or three seed, because
- 40:31Speaker 1: the four seats gonna come out of you. Like I said,
- 40:33Speaker 1: I want the Titans to doing because I want to
- 40:35Speaker 1: watch a big game between the Titans and Texans the
- 40:36Speaker 1: next week. Fair enough, alright, my pick win, and pick
- 40:39Speaker 1: it is. Rams at forty nine is coming off a
- 40:42Speaker 1: big upset loss to the Falcons. Hey, look, we know him,
- 40:46Speaker 1: Thou that shall not be named Rams playoff chances on
- 40:51Speaker 1: life support, having similar problems as the Jags mid way
- 40:54Speaker 1: throughout the season. Couldn't stop the run last week two
- 40:57Speaker 1: hundred and sixty three yards. But forty Niners have a
- 41:00Speaker 1: heavy running game. But more so, I can't see San
- 41:03Speaker 1: Francisco losing two in a row, especially at home. So
- 41:06Speaker 1: give me the forty Niners. It's got good in this
- 41:09Speaker 1: picture Brian that his teammates are helping him off the
- 41:11Speaker 1: field with back end worried about that him. He looks healthy.
- 41:17Speaker 1: Teammates Leven, you just take one joke, it just doesn't
- 41:24Speaker 1: go away. Good for him. Max is very excited to
- 41:27Speaker 1: see him in Orlando. I'll bet, I bet I have
- 41:32Speaker 1: nothing to say, all right, Happy holidays a retweet. That's
- 41:36Speaker 1: our show. Stay tuned Jaguars dot com for all game coverage.
- 41:40Speaker 1: We'll be back Monday morning on the next Jack Strap
- 41:43Speaker 1: Time