Latest / Football Junkies podcast / Stack or Shed Ep.13: Jaguars edition

Transcript

Stack or Shed Ep.13: Jaguars edition · Football Junkies podcast

• 0:00
  Hey everybody, this is your GM, your back row
• 0:01
  dominance, your GM who currently is not on a
• 0:03
  team right now, but don't you worry about it,
• 0:04
  your hopium, hopium, hopium, hopium, hopium dealer
• 0:07
  here to give you episode 13 of the Stack and
• 0:09
  Shed series. Now in this series, we're covering
• 0:12
  all 32 teams, so everybody gets a chance to be
• 0:15
  talked about, all right? Now in this series,
• 0:17
  we're covering a few different topics and they
• 0:19
  include what went wrong, what do they need, stack
• 0:23
  or shed, their draft picks. one move I would
• 0:26
  do in their cap space right now in this episode
• 0:29
  we're going to do vol and we're talking about
• 0:32
  the Jacksonville Jaguars I'm gonna let you guys
• 0:34
  know right now this was by far the most difficult
• 0:36
  one to do because I tried to find something that
• 0:40
  was wrong with this team and I nicked and I picked
• 0:43
  and I couldn't find something until I did find
• 0:46
  something but it might be a little bit minute
• 0:48
  might be a big problem I don't know but let's
• 0:51
  talk about it All right, let's get into it. So
• 1:01
  what went wrong in the Jaguar season? And I will
• 1:04
  eventually say it was a slow offensive and defensive
• 1:06
  start. Despite the controversial hiring process
• 1:09
  of Liam Cohen, my expectations for the Jaguars
• 1:12
  this past season was very low because we've seen
• 1:15
  this same story over and over and over again.
• 1:20
  And that is the Jaguars will bring in a head
• 1:22
  coach who they believe is going to take this
• 1:24
  team to the next level. They may exceed expectations
• 1:27
  in their first year. They may win a playoff game,
• 1:30
  maybe two playoff games. Who knows? And for the
• 1:32
  rest of their tenure, they're trying to regain
• 1:34
  the momentum they had in the first season. Players
• 1:36
  are wanting out. There's division between the
• 1:39
  front office and the coaching staff. The coaching
• 1:41
  staff is leaking out things to insiders. There's
• 1:44
  just chaos everywhere. Although the Jaguars drafted
• 1:47
  Travis Hunter, I was never under the impression
• 1:50
  that he was going to be the sole reason why this
• 1:52
  offense goes to another level. Instead, I just
• 1:55
  thought that he was just going to be a Swiss
• 1:57
  Army knife that they can use in a variety of
• 1:59
  different ways. And as we saw last season, the
• 2:02
  offense didn't really take off until they acquired
• 2:04
  Jacoby Myers. According to Sumer Sports, From
• 2:07
  Week 1 to Week 9, Trevor Lawrence was 293 attempts
• 2:12
  for 175 completions, 1 ,840 passing yards, 9
• 2:17
  touchdowns, 6 interceptions, a 59 .7 completion
• 2:21
  percentage, while averaging 6 .2 yards per attempt,
• 2:24
  230 yards per game, with a 79 .7 passer rating.
• 2:29
  Now from week 10 to week 18, Trevor Lawrence
• 2:31
  was 267 attempts for 166 completions, 2 ,167
• 2:37
  passing yards, 20 touchdowns, 6 interceptions,
• 2:41
  a 62 .1 completion percentage, while averaging
• 2:44
  8 .1 yards per attempt, 240 yards per game, with
• 2:48
  a 103 .3 passer rating. Defensively, I don't
• 2:51
  know why they started slow. I don't know if it
• 2:53
  was a coaching issue, if it was a schematic issue,
• 2:55
  if it was a player issue, but whatever it was,
• 2:58
  it took them a long time to figure it out. According
• 3:01
  to Sumer Sports, the Jaguars' defense from Week
• 3:04
  1 to Week 9 allowed 2 ,689 yards, 4 .5 yards
• 3:08
  per play, while generating 10 sacks, 11 interceptions,
• 3:12
  five forced fumbles, and recovering four fumbles.
• 3:15
  But from week 10 to week 18, the Jaguars' defense
• 3:19
  allowed 2 ,473 yards, 3 .6 yards per play, while
• 3:24
  generating 22 sacks, 11 interceptions, six forced
• 3:28
  fumbles, and recovering five fumbles. Now with
• 3:30
  that being said, what do the Jaguars need? And
• 3:32
  that is a better start to the season. By starting
• 3:35
  off hot, you're applying added pressure on your
• 3:37
  division rivals to keep up with you. We saw last
• 3:40
  season that this division was very competitive
• 3:42
  until the end. So if I'm the Jaguars, I want
• 3:46
  to try to maintain at least a three to four game
• 3:48
  lead over the Texans and the Colts. Because at
• 3:52
  the end of the day, you want to try to lock up
• 3:53
  the division as quickly as possible. You don't
• 3:56
  want this thing to draw out until the last week
• 3:59
  of the season. Because the longer that this thing
• 4:01
  draws out, the better the chance that the Texans
• 4:04
  or the Colts or maybe even the Titans, surprisingly,
• 4:07
  may try to take the division from you. Now, with
• 4:10
  that being said, the question we all need to
• 4:11
  ask ourselves is stack. or shed. And I would
• 4:14
  venture to say stack. And the reason why I say
• 4:15
  that is because you guys were almost close to
• 4:18
  being the Bills last season in the playoffs.
• 4:20
  There's no need for you to scrap this team. But
• 4:22
  instead, you need to continue to build this team
• 4:24
  the right way. And that is good drafting, good
• 4:27
  signings, and allowing this team to grow. a lot
• 4:31
  of times we see that teams don't allow their
• 4:33
  players to grow. Players are going to make mistakes.
• 4:37
  Now, it's what you do with those mistakes that
• 4:39
  matters the most. Now, do I think this team is
• 4:41
  in the right direction with Liam Cohen? I don't
• 4:44
  know. It's still too early to tell, but I do
• 4:47
  believe they have the infrastructure to be successful.
• 4:50
  Looking at their draft picks, they have a second,
• 4:52
  three -thirds, a fourth, two -fifths, a sixth,
• 4:54
  and three -sevenths. Now, I don't expect the
• 4:56
  Jaguars to use all 11 picks, but instead, I think
• 4:59
  they're going to group some of them to either
• 5:01
  trade up, trade down, or use them for future
• 5:04
  assets in the 27 draft class. Now the one move
• 5:07
  that I would do is keep Travis Hunter at corner.
• 5:10
  By acquiring Jacoby Myers and Parker Washington
• 5:13
  showing some promise and the expectation that
• 5:16
  Brian Thomas is going to have a resurgence in
• 5:18
  this upcoming season, it lessens the need for
• 5:21
  Travis Hunter to be a dual threat player and
• 5:23
  increases his role of being a number one corner.
• 5:26
  When Travis Hunter is with the defense, they
• 5:28
  allow Seth 761 yards, 4 .9 yards per play, while
• 5:33
  generating 5 sacks, 5 interceptions, 1 forced
• 5:36
  fumble, and recovering 1 fumble. But when Travis
• 5:38
  Hunter isn't with the defense, they allow 4 ,401
• 5:41
  yards, 4 .9 yards per play, while generating
• 5:44
  27 sacks, 17 interceptions, 7 forced fumbles,
• 5:48
  and recovering 6 fumbles. Now maybe once in the
• 5:51
  blue moon you want to spice things up a bit,
• 5:53
  maybe get the crowd going, fine. i have no problem
• 5:56
  with that but to have him take offensive and
• 5:59
  defensive snaps every single game is unnecessary
• 6:03
  at this point looking at their cap space they
• 6:06
  have 6 .8 million now i expect for them to move
• 6:09
  some money around so that they can be players
• 6:10
  in that second and third wave of free agency
• 6:13
  while having more than enough to sign all their
• 6:15
  draft picks. Now I'm curious, whose contract
• 6:18
  can they restructure or extend in order to generate
• 6:20
  more cap space? Could they do something with
• 6:23
  Trevor Lawrence? Could they do something with
• 6:25
  Eric Armstead? Could they try to give an extension
• 6:27
  to Trayvon Walker and maybe you can do something
• 6:29
  with their cap space right now? I don't know.
• 6:31
  Time will tell. But I'm going to end this episode
• 6:33
  here. If you guys like what you're listening,
• 6:35
  please, please, please, please, please make sure
• 6:37
  you guys leave a five -star, five -star, five
• 6:39
  -star, five -star, five -star review on anywhere
• 6:41
  and everywhere that you can list the podcast,
• 6:42
  okay? We are available on Apple, Spotify, and
• 6:45
  a few other places. Now, if you want to access
• 6:47
  those places, go on Google, type in rss .com
• 6:50
  football junkies podcast. It should be the first
• 6:53
  link. When you click on that link, it'll take
• 6:54
  you to our rss .com page where you can listen
• 6:57
  to this podcast on your online browser. There
• 6:59
  should be a box. that says listen to when you
• 7:01
  click on that box it'll give you a plethora of
• 7:04
  different places that you can listen to this
• 7:05
  podcast all right now you can follow us on youtube
• 7:08
  at football junkies pod Football Junkies Pod.
• 7:11
  Make sure you guys like, share, subscribe, turn
• 7:14
  the notification bell on, leave a comment down
• 7:16
  below. Let me know your thoughts on this episode
• 7:19
  and previous episodes that I have discussed.
• 7:21
  Am I right? Am I wrong? Let's talk about it,
• 7:23
  all right? Now, on our YouTube at Football Junkies
• 7:26
  Pod, Football Junkies Pod, there is a link tree.
• 7:30
  When you click on that link tree, it'll take
• 7:31
  you to anywhere and everywhere that we have Football
• 7:33
  Junkies content, all right? Now, you can follow
• 7:35
  us on Instagram at Football underscore Junkies
• 7:38
  Pod. Football underscore Junkies. spot junkie
• 7:40
  spot is not what it is together not spaced okay
• 7:46
  it is together not space football underscore
• 7:49
  junkies pod all right you can follow us on tiktok
• 7:52
  at football junkies pod Football Junkies Pod.
• 7:55
  I got some clips on the way. Just give me some
• 7:57
  time, all right? You can follow me on Blue Sky
• 7:59
  at G -M -K -I -L -E. G -M -K -A -I -L -E. G -M
• 8:05
  -K -A -I -L -E, all right? You can follow me
• 8:08
  on Twitter at G -M -K -I -L -E. G -M -K -A -I
• 8:13
  -L -E, all right? As always, I hope I gave you
• 8:15
  guys a fix that you guys need. I love you guys.
• 8:17
  I appreciate you guys so much. And thank you
• 8:19
  guys for listening to the best football podcast
• 8:21
  that you can listen to on a week -to -week. day
• 8:24
  -to -day basis and as always this is your gm
• 8:26
  kale signing out peace and love later guys