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- 0:02Speaker 1: It is Victory Monday, November 2nd.
- 0:05Speaker 2: This is Jaguars Happy Hour.
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- 0:30Speaker 1: Beat the Ravens. Kainani Stevens. Terrible.
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- 0:36Speaker 4: disclaimer always, kids. I'm Kainani Stevens. Welcome into Jaguars Happy Hour,
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- 0:41Speaker 2: And happy Victory Monday.
- 0:42Speaker 4: It's always a good day in Jacksonville when the Jaguars
- 0:44Speaker 4: win on Sunday, because Monday... You know, the sun shines
- 0:47Speaker 4: a little brighter, your coffee tastes a little better. Everything's
- 0:49Speaker 4: better on a victory Monday. We have a lot coming
- 0:51Speaker 4: up today. presented by Deep Eddy Vodka, handcrafted with real fruit,
- 0:55Speaker 4: the proud partner of the Jacksonville Jaguars. It's Monday, November 2nd,
- 0:59Speaker 4: November already, and home sweet home. The Jaguars were away
- 1:02Speaker 4: for five weeks. They finally came back to Everbank Stadium,
- 1:05Speaker 4: and they got another dominant win. It's one of several
- 1:07Speaker 4: in a row here. They've been playing outstanding at home,
- 1:10Speaker 4: and it was a huge win, very decisive over the Colts,
- 1:13Speaker 4: but also a huge loss because Devon Hamilton injured in
- 1:16Speaker 4: that game and now likely to be out for the season.
- 1:18Speaker 4: So we'll talk about that and what that means for
- 1:19Speaker 4: the team going forward. We will keep it real as always.
- 1:22Speaker 4: and answer your fan questions, some of them having to
- 1:25Speaker 4: do with some of the injuries suffered in that game.
- 1:28Speaker 4: Pete Prisco joining us along with former Jaguars defensive end
- 1:31Speaker 4: Austin Lane. You guys, it was nice to be home
- 1:34Speaker 4: and nice to get that win, but not to start
- 1:37Speaker 4: on a full downer. That loss of Devon Hamilton is
- 1:40Speaker 4: going to feel huge going forward for the rest of
- 1:43Speaker 4: the season. That news coming out today that it was
- 1:45Speaker 4: a quad injury and he's going to undergo surgery and
- 1:47Speaker 4: be out for the rest of the season.
- 1:49Speaker 3: Yeah. You know, way to start a downer. I'm sorry.
- 1:54Speaker 2: It just like kind of just came out today.
- 1:55Speaker 1: You have to start there.
- 1:57Speaker 5: Pete wants to talk about Tune, I know. No, but
- 1:59Speaker 5: you have to start there because it does mean that much, right? And,
- 2:03Speaker 5: you know, we talked about it many times on this show.
- 2:04Speaker 5: He really, I feel like, is kind of the heart
- 2:06Speaker 5: and soul, a little bit of that defense. Obviously, all
- 2:09Speaker 5: his teammates speak his praises. And you knew it was bad, right?
- 2:12Speaker 5: I was at the game in the stands, and I
- 2:14Speaker 5: thought it was going to be a knee. ends up
- 2:16Speaker 5: being a quad but nevertheless out for the season and
- 2:19Speaker 5: listen you talk about this Jaguars identity they always preach
- 2:22Speaker 5: on stopping the run first stopping the run first and
- 2:24Speaker 5: and they they dedicate a lot of resources sometimes to
- 2:26Speaker 5: that maybe even more than getting after the quarterback it
- 2:29Speaker 5: would appear sometimes well you just lost really your your
- 2:33Speaker 5: captain in terms of stopping the run I feel like
- 2:35Speaker 5: in Devon Hamilton so I think it's time to assess
- 2:39Speaker 5: now and see what you got and see if you
- 2:40Speaker 5: have to make a move Pete Yeah, and.
- 2:43Speaker 1: Look, he's the reason that teams don't run on him, basically. Look,
- 2:47Speaker 1: Trayvon Walker and Josh Hines, they're good run players too,
- 2:50Speaker 1: but that guy's special. I mean, he is special. He
- 2:53Speaker 1: might be the best run-stuffing nose in the league, and
- 2:57Speaker 1: that's why they lead the league in run defense. I mean,
- 3:00Speaker 1: they are that good. Now he's not going to be there,
- 3:02Speaker 1: and so what do you do?
- 3:04Speaker 6: Because they don't have that behind him.
- 3:07Speaker 1: There isn't anybody that can fill that role or come
- 3:10Speaker 1: close to filling that role. So they got to, they
- 3:12Speaker 1: got to go explore the market. I don't think there's a,
- 3:15Speaker 1: they were probably going to explore the market anyways. And
- 3:19Speaker 1: I think they're going to explore the market harder and
- 3:21Speaker 1: even more intensely because he's gone. And that does, by
- 3:24Speaker 1: the way, that doesn't take him out of getting an
- 3:26Speaker 1: edge guy either. I still think, you know, you got
- 3:30Speaker 1: to make moves. This is your window.
- 3:32Speaker 6: You know, we were talking about this last night on
- 3:33Speaker 6: our show.
- 3:34Speaker 1: They might be the most complete team in the league.
- 3:38Speaker 1: All the other teams that are contenders have issues on
- 3:41Speaker 1: one side of the ball. Now, Jacksonville might not have
- 3:43Speaker 1: an offense as good as Buffalo's or a defense as
- 3:46Speaker 1: good as Denver's, but the combination, they might be the
- 3:51Speaker 1: most complete team in the league. And so you have
- 3:53Speaker 1: to go for it. It's now. And I think they will.
- 3:57Speaker 1: I think they're going to go explore, you know, making
- 3:59Speaker 1: some deals and go get somebody up there that they
- 4:01Speaker 1: can plug into that role and maybe plug in a
- 4:04Speaker 1: guy who can help rush the passer too.
- 4:06Speaker 5: Listen, I understand that there's no replacing Devon Hamilton, but
- 4:09Speaker 5: spoke with, you know, Foye Aluokun in training camp. He's
- 4:14Speaker 5: a guy I hold in high regard in terms of
- 4:15Speaker 5: the roster just because he's such an intelligent dude and
- 4:18Speaker 5: he knows his players inside and out. And he told me,
- 4:20Speaker 5: I asked him, who's the most underrated player on this
- 4:22Speaker 5: team that doesn't get talked about that should get talked about?
- 4:24Speaker 5: And he said Matt Dickerson. He says Matt Dickerson does
- 4:27Speaker 5: all the dirty work, plays nasty, and does things that
- 4:31Speaker 5: aren't going to show up in the box score. I mean,
- 4:33Speaker 5: can Matt Dickerson replace Devon Hamilton?
- 4:36Speaker 3: No. But can he be a serviceable rotational piece? Possibly.
- 4:40Speaker 5: And then keep in mind who else we're talking about.
- 4:42Speaker 5: albert regis and this more is kind of like a
- 4:45Speaker 5: james gladstone um you know you know tip of the
- 4:48Speaker 5: hat if you will where and i get it he's
- 4:49Speaker 5: been banged up a little bit but you took this
- 4:51Speaker 5: guy in the third round for a reason right and
- 4:53Speaker 5: then usually third round picks they do contribute in some
- 4:56Speaker 5: capacity so do we expect to see albert regis now
- 4:59Speaker 5: because i'm curious to see what he can do i
- 5:02Speaker 5: mean you took him in the third round for a
- 5:03Speaker 5: reason not to say hey don't go after a a
- 5:05Speaker 5: big three technique or a nose tackle but I mean,
- 5:08Speaker 5: as far as those two guys are concerned, Pete, do
- 5:10Speaker 5: you have any faith at all that those two guys
- 5:12Speaker 5: can kind of carry the weight a little bit of
- 5:14Speaker 5: Devon Hamilton?
- 5:15Speaker 1: No, I don't.
- 5:17Speaker 7: I don't.
- 5:17Speaker 1: I think they're entirely different players. And Dickerson, to me,
- 5:20Speaker 1: you don't remember before the season. I said he's the
- 5:22Speaker 1: most underappreciated player, like the Louis said. I don't think
- 5:24Speaker 1: he's played quite to that this year. He hasn't been
- 5:27Speaker 1: as good. I thought he would be better. So, you know,
- 5:30Speaker 1: there's still, you saw some plays from him on Sunday.
- 5:33Speaker 1: He made some plays. So there's still some talent in there.
- 5:36Speaker 1: And Regis is not big enough. I mean, he's, you know,
- 5:38Speaker 1: he's not big enough to handle that. They need a
- 5:40Speaker 1: big body. And I don't know, because where's their big
- 5:43Speaker 1: body now? That's what you look like. You know, Roro,
- 5:48Speaker 1: who's actually playing pretty good football, by the way.
- 5:50Speaker 2: Had a pretty good game yesterday.
- 5:52Speaker 1: Yeah, but he's not, that's not what he is.
- 5:54Speaker 3: Sure.
- 5:55Speaker 1: You know, Armstead's not that.
- 5:57Speaker 5: Armstead's a big body, but that's not his style to
- 6:00Speaker 5: take on double teams.
- 6:01Speaker 1: He's like a long.
- 6:01Speaker 2: It's more of a length.
- 6:02Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 6:03Speaker 1: And plus, he spent a lot of the last couple
- 6:05Speaker 1: weeks getting blocked anyways. I mean, that's what he's been doing.
- 6:09Speaker 1: And his snaps, by the way, got cut down on Sunday,
- 6:12Speaker 1: which is what they should have done. I said that
- 6:15Speaker 1: all along. He plays too many snaps. So they don't
- 6:17Speaker 1: really have that big body, but where do you go
- 6:19Speaker 1: get it? That's the question. Where do you get a
- 6:21Speaker 1: giant big body who could stop the run?
- 6:23Speaker 2: And that someone's willing to part with.
- 6:25Speaker 7: True.
- 6:25Speaker 4: Because there's not many people of that size that can
- 6:28Speaker 4: play football on this earth.
- 6:30Speaker 2: And if you have one, you probably don't want to
- 6:31Speaker 2: part with them very easily. Would you call.
- 6:33Speaker 1: The Eagles on Jordan Davis?
- 6:36Speaker 3: That was the name I was going to bring up
- 6:38Speaker 3: a little bit.
- 6:39Speaker 5: I think it's an interesting name, Pete, because obviously he's
- 6:42Speaker 5: the big body, right? But he also provides you a
- 6:45Speaker 5: little bit in pass rush, where I don't just necessarily
- 6:48Speaker 5: see him just being a straight-up nose. If you need
- 6:50Speaker 5: some interior rush and you want to move him to
- 6:51Speaker 5: a three and third and longs, I think he's suitable
- 6:55Speaker 5: doing that as well. Because him and Jalen Carter, it's interesting, right?
- 6:58Speaker 5: They're both big-bodied guys, but very athletic and can do
- 7:02Speaker 5: a lot of things, right?
- 7:04Speaker 3: And if I'm Jax, well, that's what I'm looking at
- 7:06Speaker 3: right now.
- 7:06Speaker 5: Like, we have the preconceived notions of what a nose
- 7:08Speaker 5: tackle should be, like, you know, 350, 360, just can't
- 7:11Speaker 5: move them. And, yeah, that's great if you can find, like,
- 7:13Speaker 5: a Vita Vea or somebody, but they don't make Vita
- 7:15Speaker 5: Veas on trees. So if you can get a guy
- 7:18Speaker 5: who can, it's almost like a hybrid, plays the run well,
- 7:21Speaker 5: can play that one or head up, and then can
- 7:24Speaker 5: also play a three technique in the pass rush.
- 7:25Speaker 1: I'm all for it. Well, I mean, if you look
- 7:28Speaker 1: at Seattle's defense, and they're really good, they don't have
- 7:31Speaker 1: a big body like that in the middle of their defense.
- 7:34Speaker 1: You know, Murphy and Williams and Reed and those guys,
- 7:39Speaker 1: they're good and they're athletic and they're strong, but they're
- 7:43Speaker 1: not a power player like in the traditional sense of
- 7:46Speaker 1: a nose or a one technique. So, you know, it's
- 7:49Speaker 1: going to be hard to find that guy. Jordan Davis
- 7:51Speaker 1: is one of them. But, you know, are the Eagles
- 7:53Speaker 1: going to get rid of him? Somebody said Jalen Carter.
- 7:56Speaker 1: I can't imagine in a million years the Jaguars would
- 7:59Speaker 1: be interested in him. All we ever hear about is
- 8:03Speaker 1: the locker room, you know, the character of the player.
- 8:08Speaker 1: And I just don't see as good as he is
- 8:11Speaker 1: at times. And he was great against Jacksonville. He'll disappear
- 8:15Speaker 1: for games. And it's frustrating. So I think Davis would
- 8:19Speaker 1: make more sense. But again, are the Eagles now in
- 8:23Speaker 1: sell mode and are they willing to sell him? And,
- 8:25Speaker 1: you know, a Jomo is another name that has been mentioned,
- 8:28Speaker 1: but he's not that either. He's not a power inside
- 8:31Speaker 1: player like that.
- 8:33Speaker 3: Listen, I think we all want to play mad.
- 8:35Speaker 5: Let's get an edge. Let's get a three technique. Let's
- 8:38Speaker 5: get a nose. Let's get a safety. Like easier said
- 8:40Speaker 5: than done. Got to have your trade partners with how
- 8:42Speaker 5: you guys feel about it. What do you think is
- 8:43Speaker 5: more of the need right now? Do you need interior
- 8:46Speaker 5: or do you need edge more? Like what would you
- 8:47Speaker 5: want to see him attack first?
- 8:50Speaker 1: Up until a week ago, I would have said edge.
- 8:52Speaker 2: I'm switched now, though.
- 8:53Speaker 3: You going into it? Yeah, I'm switched.
- 8:55Speaker 6: They got to get a big body in the middle
- 8:57Speaker 6: of that defense.
- 8:58Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 8:59Speaker 2: I don't know who that will be.
- 8:59Speaker 4: We'll talk, maybe play GM a little bit later in
- 9:02Speaker 4: the show, see if we can find some options.
- 9:04Speaker 1: I love playing GM. You know that.
- 9:05Speaker 2: Pete wants to be a GM at heart.
- 9:07Speaker 4: But this is a great football team. And let's talk
- 9:09Speaker 4: about some of the stuff that they do very well
- 9:11Speaker 4: and offensively scoring yesterday. When they are at home, they
- 9:14Speaker 4: are pretty much unstoppable. They're 7-0 in their last seven
- 9:18Speaker 4: regular season games here at everbank stadium getting that decisive
- 9:22Speaker 4: victory over the colts and yes i know they're in
- 9:24Speaker 4: the fire sale mode and we all know what we
- 9:26Speaker 4: expected going into that game but finally seeing some explosives
- 9:31Speaker 4: come through and specifically austin the run game came together
- 9:34Speaker 4: let's give uh pete all the credit for the tootin
- 9:37Speaker 4: tootin train we know he knew tootin had it in
- 9:39Speaker 4: him but finally seeing it all come together in not
- 9:41Speaker 4: only the run game but the pass game.
- 9:42Speaker 5: As well Yeah, and to me, it was a long
- 9:45Speaker 5: time coming because he was due, right? He had a
- 9:47Speaker 5: couple that were called back, and during the pregame show,
- 9:49Speaker 5: I actually spoke on this. What would you rather see more,
- 9:52Speaker 5: a Brian Thomas Jr. big day of you know 70
- 9:54Speaker 5: plus yards or a Tootin day of over 100 and
- 9:57Speaker 5: you know we got a Brian Thomas Jr. touchdown but
- 9:59Speaker 5: we definitely had the Tootin day and I look at
- 10:03Speaker 5: it from a defensive coordinator standpoint trying to game plan
- 10:05Speaker 5: for the Jaguars, right? Like Trevor had a very efficient day.
- 10:08Speaker 5: Now he got hit a lot. We'll talk about that later.
- 10:09Speaker 5: He got hit a little bit too much for my liking,
- 10:11Speaker 5: but had a very efficient day. But now if I'm
- 10:14Speaker 5: a defensive coordinator, I got to take into account, okay,
- 10:16Speaker 5: now we got to stop this screen game, this short
- 10:18Speaker 5: pass game to Tootin because he's a weapon. You know,
- 10:22Speaker 5: when he's in space and everything, I got to shut
- 10:23Speaker 5: down the run game. It's like Pete said to open
- 10:25Speaker 5: the show. The Jaguars might be the most complete team
- 10:29Speaker 5: in the NFL because they can beat you with three
- 10:31Speaker 5: wide receivers or they can beat you pounding the rock
- 10:33Speaker 5: right now as well. So if I'm a defensive coordinator, man,
- 10:36Speaker 5: I'm having nightmares.
- 10:38Speaker 1: He is the best running back in that draft class.
- 10:41Speaker 1: Think about that.
- 10:42Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 10:43Speaker 1: Austin, you remember this. At one point, there was strong consideration,
- 10:49Speaker 1: if they didn't make the move for Travis Hunter, about
- 10:52Speaker 1: picking Ashton Gentry in Jacksonville. And now they end up
- 10:57Speaker 1: with the best back in the draft class who was taken, what,
- 11:00Speaker 1: three rounds, two rounds later. I mean, I love everything
- 11:04Speaker 1: about Tootin'. And I'm going to sit here, and you
- 11:06Speaker 1: guys know that. I've been saying it all along. Look,
- 11:09Speaker 1: the bottom line is he's a.
- 11:10Speaker 6: Lot tougher than I thought he was going to be.
- 11:13Speaker 1: I thought he would be an explosive back in space
- 11:16Speaker 1: and they could use him.
- 11:17Speaker 6: He'd pop off long runs.
- 11:18Speaker 1: But man, he runs a lot tougher than I thought
- 11:21Speaker 1: he would.
- 11:22Speaker 6: You don't get good hits on him. They don't get
- 11:25Speaker 6: square hits on him.
- 11:26Speaker 1: And those backs usually fall forward and they get extra yards.
- 11:30Speaker 1: And that's what he does. to see that run and
- 11:33Speaker 1: then to see that screen pass i i was truly
- 11:36Speaker 1: impressed with what i saw from him and i think
- 11:38Speaker 1: this is only scratching the surface of where he is
- 11:40Speaker 1: going by the.
- 11:41Speaker 5: Way dudes got all the potential in the world and
- 11:43Speaker 5: like listen you saw him break some tackles and lower
- 11:45Speaker 5: his shoulder in college but like you know that's that's
- 11:49Speaker 5: different than getting to the league right like i remember
- 11:50Speaker 5: watching isaiah pacheco thinking this guy's gonna be an absolute
- 11:53Speaker 5: monster and injuries played a part to that with isaiah
- 11:55Speaker 5: pacheco but it's like Getting hit in college football and
- 11:59Speaker 5: using your strength is a lot different than the NFL.
- 12:01Speaker 5: So I thought, okay, you're going to have this guy
- 12:03Speaker 5: in two, and he's going to be more of that
- 12:05Speaker 5: speed guy, find the hole, get him in space, cool.
- 12:08Speaker 5: But no, this dude is physical, and he's not afraid
- 12:10Speaker 5: to lower his shoulder. And much to my surprise, which
- 12:12Speaker 5: I didn't expect, NFL tacklers are having problems with him.
- 12:17Speaker 3: They're bouncing off him. Yeah.
- 12:20Speaker 5: Anytime you can combine speed and strength like he can,
- 12:23Speaker 5: I mean, the sky's the limit.
- 12:24Speaker 3: Not to not Chris Rodriguez.
- 12:26Speaker 1: Did they say anything today about was Cleveland hurt?
- 12:31Speaker 4: Yes, Cleveland got hurt, I think, on the second drive,
- 12:34Speaker 4: and then he went back in on the third drive,
- 12:36Speaker 4: but then came back out after that. It's a lower
- 12:38Speaker 4: body injury, as you like to discuss in hockey. Is
- 12:41Speaker 4: that what they said? No, I think it's an ankle
- 12:43Speaker 4: or knee. I'll get the specific for you. I know
- 12:46Speaker 4: it's his foot.
- 12:47Speaker 1: It's a lower body. NHL. Welcome to the NHL.
- 12:50Speaker 3: I mean, the NFL.
- 12:52Speaker 4: So he was dealing with that throughout the game. That's
- 12:54Speaker 4: why he didn't play much after that.
- 12:55Speaker 1: Because I wanted to give a little tip of the
- 12:59Speaker 1: hat to Milam.
- 13:01Speaker 6: Because Milam went in there.
- 13:03Speaker 1: And Ezra had played well the last couple games, much
- 13:06Speaker 1: better than he had at certain stretches during the season.
- 13:08Speaker 1: But Milam went in there and was really good on Sunday.
- 13:13Speaker 1: If you watch that run that Tootin has for the
- 13:16Speaker 1: big game, watch what he does on that play. I mean,
- 13:20Speaker 1: he did a lot of that, too. And I think
- 13:22Speaker 1: that's a really good sign going forward. He was physical.
- 13:26Speaker 1: He got after it. Parker getting after it.
- 13:29Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 13:29Speaker 3: Everyone's getting after it.
- 13:30Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 13:31Speaker 1: So I don't know.
- 13:33Speaker 6: I mean, I'm not saying you replace him, but just
- 13:36Speaker 6: take it.
- 13:37Speaker 1: I think we're going to run it again, but if
- 13:38Speaker 1: you see it from behind, it's really an impressive physical presence.
- 13:42Speaker 1: He was physical. You know, that's something that sometimes you
- 13:45Speaker 1: don't get that from that offensive line. Even though they
- 13:47Speaker 1: played better, they were physical.
- 13:49Speaker 5: There's the Chris Rodriguez touchdown. And can I go out
- 13:52Speaker 5: here and put a little caveat real quick? So I'm
- 13:55Speaker 5: in the stands because, I mean, I can't be in
- 13:56Speaker 5: the press box. I got to be with the people
- 13:58Speaker 5: and the energy and feel it.
- 13:59Speaker 2: Did they kick you out, Austin? Is that what happened?
- 14:01Speaker 2: Too much yelling? Wasn't following the rules?
- 14:05Speaker 3: Hey, Kai, no comment.
- 14:06Speaker 1: Wasn't following the rules, were we?
- 14:07Speaker 5: Might have stole too many egg rolls from up there,
- 14:09Speaker 5: but no. Can I just put a caveat to all
- 14:11Speaker 5: the fans? A lot of people watch the show, get
- 14:12Speaker 5: a lot of compliments.
- 14:13Speaker 3: It's great.
- 14:14Speaker 5: When Chris Rodriguez scores the touchdown and some random fan
- 14:18Speaker 5: comes up to me and goes, that's right, Lane. Put
- 14:19Speaker 5: that right in Pete Prisco's face. Hey, we're on the
- 14:23Speaker 5: same team. I understand that Tootin is the bell cow.
- 14:26Speaker 5: He's the stirrer that stirs the drink. He's the straw
- 14:29Speaker 5: that stirs the drink. I understand that. It's more than
- 14:31Speaker 5: just good fun. I'm not campaigning for Chris Rodriguez to
- 14:34Speaker 5: get the lion's share of the reps. I just want
- 14:37Speaker 5: to put that out there for the fan base because
- 14:38Speaker 5: there seems to be a civil war that's happening right
- 14:43Speaker 5: now when I go to these games that I don't
- 14:45Speaker 5: want to be a part of.
- 14:46Speaker 3: So just put that out there for everybody.
- 14:48Speaker 4: You know what?
- 14:48Speaker 1: I'm glad. That means they're listening to the show and
- 14:51Speaker 1: listening to everything we say. And by the way, that fan,
- 14:54Speaker 1: you're entitled to your wrong opinion just like Austin is.
- 14:58Speaker 4: How did I know that was going to be a
- 14:59Speaker 4: pizza opinion?
- 15:00Speaker 1: Of course.
- 15:02Speaker 4: It was a great day running and a great day
- 15:04Speaker 4: passing as well.
- 15:05Speaker 2: I think they had.
- 15:05Speaker 4: 11 different people catching passes from Trevor Lawrence or 10
- 15:10Speaker 4: different people because he had 10 completions.
- 15:12Speaker 3: I'm waiting, by the way.
- 15:14Speaker 1: I'm waiting. When's the first complaining coming? We're not seeing volume.
- 15:23Speaker 1: We're not seeing catches. We're not seeing touchdowns.
- 15:27Speaker 5: I mean, I think there was a move yesterday that
- 15:29Speaker 5: might show that something might be up.
- 15:32Speaker 3: In terms of wide receivers.
- 15:33Speaker 2: Ah, yes.
- 15:34Speaker 4: We'll talk about special teams and who's been returning punts.
- 15:37Speaker 2: We're going to hit a break really quickly here.
- 15:39Speaker 1: That is really dumb, by the way. Can I already
- 15:40Speaker 1: chime in on that?
- 15:41Speaker 2: I'm shocked you think that.
- 15:42Speaker 4: We're going to talk exactly about that when we come
- 15:45Speaker 4: back after this break.
- 15:46Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us.
- 15:46Speaker 4: So far, this is Jaguars Happy Hour presented by Jet
- 15:49Speaker 4: Home Loans.
- 15:56Speaker 7: I've said it before. I think it's just a part
- 15:57Speaker 7: of my growth and learning and growing. I've learned a lot.
- 16:01Speaker 7: you know, from our staff. I think the way I
- 16:03Speaker 7: prepare is just completely different than I used to. And
- 16:07Speaker 7: that's just from learning of what works for me. The
- 16:10Speaker 7: staff has helped me a lot in that process of
- 16:13Speaker 7: how you prepare, you know, how you study the game plan,
- 16:16Speaker 7: why we're doing certain things. And I think I'm just
- 16:17Speaker 7: really in tune to that. So it's helped me a
- 16:19Speaker 7: lot pre-snap. It's helped me make better decisions. I think
- 16:24Speaker 7: our guys are playing really good on the perimeter, you know,
- 16:26Speaker 7: up front. We're running the ball great. Our line's playing good.
- 16:30Speaker 3: Really well.
- 16:31Speaker 7: There's a lot of factors into that, to be honest,
- 16:33Speaker 7: but I do think I'm playing the most consistent I've
- 16:36Speaker 7: played in my career for sure.
- 16:39Speaker 2: Welcome back into happy hour.
- 16:40Speaker 4: We're going to talk about our player of the game
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- 16:44Speaker 4: We've already talked about Tootin. You could certainly say he
- 16:46Speaker 4: was the player of the day. I'm also going to
- 16:47Speaker 4: give you Trevor Lawrence because he's playing his best football
- 16:49Speaker 4: right now and he's doing it on limited opportunities. 10
- 16:52Speaker 4: of 14, 210 yards, three touchdowns, 153.3 rating. Pete this
- 16:59Speaker 4: stretch he's been on I know we've talked about it's
- 17:01Speaker 4: almost become expected of him and it's so nice to
- 17:05Speaker 4: see him get to this point we knew he was
- 17:06Speaker 4: capable we see him make these throws but to now
- 17:09Speaker 4: be doing it every single week and be as consistent
- 17:13Speaker 4: as he can be against some good teams I mean
- 17:15Speaker 4: the Colts are what they are right now but against
- 17:17Speaker 4: other good teams to see him at that level Pete
- 17:20Speaker 4: this is what they need and I'm sure is part
- 17:21Speaker 4: of why you expect them to be in their Super
- 17:23Speaker 4: Bowl window Yeah.
- 17:25Speaker 1: They have the guy. I mean, this is the guy.
- 17:27Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. The guy you saw earlier
- 17:31Speaker 1: in his career that was kind of feeling his way,
- 17:33Speaker 1: learning offenses, dealing with bad head coaches like Urban Meyer,
- 17:38Speaker 1: that guy's gone. This guy plays with confidence. He goes
- 17:41Speaker 1: through his progressions. He gets through his reads. And I
- 17:43Speaker 1: think Liam Cohn... You know, for all the talk and
- 17:47Speaker 1: all we hear all over this league is Ben Johnson,
- 17:50Speaker 1: Ben Johnson, Ben Johnson, Ben Johnson. And Ben Johnson is fantastic.
- 17:55Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. But Liam Cohn deserves his credit, too.
- 18:00Speaker 1: Liam Cohn is outstanding calling plays. I mean, he is
- 18:05Speaker 1: so good at what he does. And I'm going to
- 18:08Speaker 1: use a couple examples. They brought Milam into the game
- 18:13Speaker 1: as the extra offensive lineman when he wasn't in for Cleveland.
- 18:16Speaker 1: They put Strange in the backfield and made it look
- 18:22Speaker 1: like it was going to be a power lead run.
- 18:23Speaker 6: He was going to be the lead blocker, which he's
- 18:25Speaker 6: done a lot of.
- 18:25Speaker 1: He sneaks through the line, gets into the flat, I mean,
- 18:30Speaker 1: into the pattern. He's wide open, nobody there. He had some,
- 18:33Speaker 1: it's a big play. Play design made that such an
- 18:36Speaker 1: easy play for Trevor Lawrence. The second play was the
- 18:42Speaker 1: tight end leak for Borkature for the touchdowns. Now, that
- 18:46Speaker 1: was made a little harder than it should have been.
- 18:49Speaker 2: Yeah, bearing down on him.
- 18:52Speaker 1: Well, yeah, in large part because they asked... I think
- 18:56Speaker 1: it was... Who was it? Oh, it was Strange. It
- 18:59Speaker 1: was Strange, and I don't know if he was too... Yeah,
- 19:02Speaker 1: it was... That's a hard block if you're asking him
- 19:05Speaker 1: because Borgature... is leaving that space to leak out. So
- 19:10Speaker 1: he's not going to block him unless Borkature was supposed
- 19:12Speaker 1: to get hands on him. I'm trying to remember.
- 19:15Speaker 3: I feel like Strange's alignment's a little too wide.
- 19:17Speaker 2: Who's to the left?
- 19:19Speaker 1: Or, Austin, Borkature, sometimes you get your hands on that
- 19:25Speaker 1: guy before you leak out. but i'm trying he does
- 19:28Speaker 1: nothing of that sort yeah so he might have been
- 19:30Speaker 1: a little too antsy to get out or i mean
- 19:35Speaker 1: you're right the alignment was too wide because there's no
- 19:37Speaker 1: way in hell that strange can make that block.
- 19:39Speaker 5: But also p if you look at this play it's
- 19:41Speaker 5: weird because it's a it's a boot right so trevor
- 19:43Speaker 5: lawrence is supposed to run to his right and keep
- 19:45Speaker 5: on running to his right, and he can't. And then
- 19:48Speaker 5: he finds Borkature. So it made me realize, like, is
- 19:50Speaker 5: this even a design play to Borkature or did Trevor
- 19:53Speaker 5: just stop and see it?
- 19:53Speaker 3: Because what I thought.
- 19:54Speaker 1: No, no, that's a design play.
- 19:56Speaker 3: Okay.
- 19:56Speaker 1: Everybody runs, what do they call that, Y leak or
- 19:58Speaker 1: whatever it is.
- 19:59Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. Okay.
- 19:59Speaker 1: Every team runs that play. And it works every single
- 20:03Speaker 1: time every team runs it, by the way.
- 20:05Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay. Then maybe it's on Britain.
- 20:06Speaker 1: But I think Borkature, you know, sometimes that tight end
- 20:09Speaker 1: that leaks kind of blocks a little bit and then
- 20:12Speaker 1: takes his time and then leaks out. I don't know
- 20:14Speaker 1: how they planned on running that because the way they
- 20:17Speaker 1: ran it, he probably should have got hands. If we
- 20:19Speaker 1: look at it, he blocks down, and there's no need
- 20:22Speaker 1: for that. He probably needs to get hands on that
- 20:25Speaker 1: end and then leak out because I think you're asking
- 20:31Speaker 1: a lot of Strange to make that block on the
- 20:34Speaker 1: defensive end, but Trevor made a great play.
- 20:36Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 20:36Speaker 1: That's a great play.
- 20:37Speaker 4: Mm-hmm. And he was in the pocket getting harassed all day.
- 20:41Speaker 4: So for him to complete that and just be as
- 20:43Speaker 4: unbothered as he was, give credit to the O-line for
- 20:47Speaker 4: run blocking. They did amazing yesterday. But Pete, where are
- 20:50Speaker 4: the issues with the pass block? Because I felt Trevor
- 20:52Speaker 4: was getting hit a little too much for anybody's liking.
- 20:54Speaker 1: Well, Van Lannen got beat on the one sack. He
- 20:57Speaker 1: just got, that guy just blew by him. The other sack,
- 21:02Speaker 1: there were two, right?
- 21:03Speaker 4: Yeah. Yes, this is the sack fumble that I'm talking about.
- 21:07Speaker 1: Yeah, this is just, he comes underneath him, and he had,
- 21:10Speaker 1: you know, it was just a bad set. If you
- 21:13Speaker 1: look at it, he sets too wide, and the guy, like,
- 21:17Speaker 1: he's lunging at him. You can't do that. Let him come.
- 21:20Speaker 1: I think he lunged at him.
- 21:21Speaker 3: Especially with the chipper, too.
- 21:22Speaker 5: Well, especially with the chipper, too, as well, because they
- 21:23Speaker 5: had a tight end chip on that, so he was
- 21:25Speaker 5: delayed in his rush. So if you're Cole Van Lannen,
- 21:27Speaker 5: and you have that chipper to your side, the last
- 21:29Speaker 5: thing you can do is give up, you know, a
- 21:31Speaker 5: rush to the inside.
- 21:32Speaker 3: And it's exactly what he does there. So kind of
- 21:34Speaker 3: have to know and then.
- 21:36Speaker 1: The other one was more of a coverage sack because
- 21:38Speaker 1: i thought he kind of held it a little bit
- 21:40Speaker 1: um if you go back i do we have that
- 21:42Speaker 1: second sack because i think i watched it today i
- 21:45Speaker 1: thought he held it a little bit and that one
- 21:47Speaker 1: he kind of came.
- 21:48Speaker 6: Underneath they didn't squeeze it and he came.
- 21:50Speaker 1: In between them but but i'll tell you one thing
- 21:53Speaker 1: about their protection you know who was really good walker
- 21:56Speaker 1: little you're damn right he was yeah That's two games
- 22:00Speaker 1: in a row. He has been outstanding both in the
- 22:04Speaker 1: run game and in protection.
- 22:06Speaker 3: He did.
- 22:08Speaker 1: Who the hell is in that uniform?
- 22:10Speaker 3: That's what I want to know.
- 22:13Speaker 5: Yeah, because it seemed like everybody else kind of had
- 22:15Speaker 5: their moments. Like even Pregnan had a couple moments where.
- 22:18Speaker 5: he kind of got beaten, put on skates a little bit.
- 22:20Speaker 1: I'm little, he was pretty, he was pretty solid.
- 22:24Speaker 7: Yep.
- 22:25Speaker 1: And I thought when my lemon and he did a
- 22:27Speaker 1: nice job and Van Lannen had some problems, but if
- 22:30Speaker 1: I had the rank them as how well they played,
- 22:32Speaker 1: number one, it would have been little. Number two probably
- 22:36Speaker 1: would have been Milam slash Hainsey in that group. Number
- 22:40Speaker 1: three would have been for, for Van Landen. Pregnant was
- 22:43Speaker 1: the worst of them.
- 22:44Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 22:44Speaker 1: And Pregnant's problem. And I love him. I think he's
- 22:47Speaker 1: going to be a really good player. at oregon if
- 22:50Speaker 1: you got that big body on somebody.
- 22:52Speaker 2: That was all i needed the.
- 22:54Speaker 1: Play was over yeah in the nfl you get that
- 22:57Speaker 1: big body on somebody he doesn't finish he's gotta finish
- 23:02Speaker 1: he's a mauling big physical guy he's gotta.
- 23:05Speaker 4: Finish is that a drive thing pete you can coach
- 23:07Speaker 4: that i would imagine because he has the physical ability
- 23:09Speaker 4: it's just having that austin having that ability to continue
- 23:14Speaker 4: through and it's same as defensive end like never giving
- 23:16Speaker 4: up but just having that resilience.
- 23:18Speaker 5: Yeah it's about technique there's one where he got burnt
- 23:20Speaker 5: on really a counter move um and that's thing in
- 23:23Speaker 5: college like okay if if you wash somebody down usually
- 23:26Speaker 5: that's game over right with your size and athleticism and
- 23:28Speaker 5: speed um you're good right because college you can get
- 23:31Speaker 5: by with a little more of you know it's not
- 23:33Speaker 5: so much hand placement and this is what i learned
- 23:35Speaker 5: as a pass rusher in the nfl it is it
- 23:37Speaker 5: is so minute in the details that go into your
- 23:39Speaker 5: hand placement into your footwork You saw that yesterday with
- 23:42Speaker 5: Pregnan where there was one play where he feels like
- 23:44Speaker 5: he has the guy beat.
- 23:45Speaker 3: He's washing him down.
- 23:46Speaker 5: I don't think it was a spin move or just
- 23:48Speaker 5: like a counter club, but the guy counters him and
- 23:51Speaker 5: Pregnan's not ready for it.
- 23:52Speaker 3: And then he kind of gets a free lick on
- 23:54Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence.
- 23:55Speaker 5: And it just comes with time and getting your reps.
- 23:58Speaker 4: Austin, is that something where, you know... I mean, he's
- 24:00Speaker 4: a half season into this, right? It's a rookie year,
- 24:02Speaker 4: and I don't think any of us expected him to
- 24:03Speaker 4: be starting at this point. Pleasant surprise, but at a
- 24:06Speaker 4: certain point, you're not a rookie anymore. You need to
- 24:08Speaker 4: understand what is expected of you. Is this something in
- 24:10Speaker 4: a couple weeks where it's like, okay, he understands.
- 24:13Speaker 2: It a little bit more? You have to do it
- 24:14Speaker 2: in live action, I would imagine.
- 24:15Speaker 1: To get to that point.
- 24:16Speaker 3: No, it has to be live action.
- 24:17Speaker 5: Listen, if this is going to be a thing that
- 24:19Speaker 5: gets put on film and doesn't get corrected, and now
- 24:21Speaker 5: teams are starting to expose this a little bit, then yeah,
- 24:23Speaker 5: I'd be worried. But listen, this is a rookie. Wasn't
- 24:26Speaker 5: probably expecting to start from the get-go. I'm not too
- 24:29Speaker 5: worried about it right now. I like to feel like
- 24:32Speaker 5: the more live reps that he gets in meaningful ballgames,
- 24:35Speaker 5: the better he's going to adapt to it.
- 24:36Speaker 1: You're talking about Pregnant?
- 24:37Speaker 3: Pregnant, yeah.
- 24:39Speaker 1: Yeah, again, he doesn't finish. And the other thing he
- 24:41Speaker 1: does is when he starts getting beat, instead of trying
- 24:44Speaker 1: to reset or get back underneath the guy, he starts grabbing.
- 24:50Speaker 1: And he gets those holding penalties. And they're little... You
- 24:55Speaker 1: can see the physical talent. It's just the little things
- 24:58Speaker 1: that he needs to do. And you know this, Austin.
- 25:02Speaker 1: In college, if the play's going away from him and
- 25:05Speaker 1: he gets on a guy away from the play, that
- 25:08Speaker 1: usually means that guy's not in the play.
- 25:10Speaker 6: But in the NFL, they come off of you.
- 25:13Speaker 1: If you don't stay on them, and they can come
- 25:14Speaker 1: down the line and get back in on the play.
- 25:17Speaker 1: So he's got to do a better job of that.
- 25:21Speaker 1: But I think as a whole, Walker Little... I don't
- 25:25Speaker 1: understand where that has come from, but they got to
- 25:29Speaker 1: be thrilled with that.
- 25:30Speaker 4: Very pleasant surprise for the next man up in that rotation.
- 25:34Speaker 4: We're going to take another break. Coming back, we will
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- 26:02Speaker 4: they're not going to get that this week because they
- 26:03Speaker 4: scored all touchdowns instead of field goals. It's a good
- 26:06Speaker 4: place to be. I think you get some cheese curds
- 26:08Speaker 4: out of it, if I do recall. That's available for
- 26:10Speaker 4: the fans. But, yeah, they got to get something every
- 26:13Speaker 4: time they score over 35 because it feels like every
- 26:15Speaker 4: time they are home. They get that home cooking going,
- 26:19Speaker 4: and they are rolling right now at Everbank Stadium.
- 26:21Speaker 5: Listen, I'd want to tell Sean Conner and Mark Lamping
- 26:23Speaker 5: how to do their jobs and everything, but can we
- 26:25Speaker 5: delay the construction in the new stadium? Because I don't
- 26:27Speaker 5: want this team to go to Orlando next year. With
- 26:29Speaker 5: the way they're playing at home, it's unreal.
- 26:31Speaker 4: Maybe it is the construction that's working so well.
- 26:34Speaker 5: I don't know, but this team is, I mean, once again,
- 26:37Speaker 5: they haven't played, a couple games have been questionable on
- 26:40Speaker 5: the road, but one thing's for sure, when they play
- 26:43Speaker 5: at home, They're almost unbeatable so far, it looks like.
- 26:45Speaker 2: Blowouts.
- 26:46Speaker 1: Well, they also lost a home game in London. Oh, yeah,
- 26:51Speaker 1: that's right. They only count those when they want to
- 26:54Speaker 1: count them, I guess, right? I mean, they're technically a
- 26:59Speaker 1: home game.
- 27:00Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right.
- 27:00Speaker 5: And they played their best against the Eagles either, which
- 27:03Speaker 5: was a huge home game as well, even though I
- 27:05Speaker 5: heard a lot of let's go Eagles chants, but it's
- 27:07Speaker 5: all good.
- 27:08Speaker 3: Or let's go birds chance, but that was.
- 27:10Speaker 1: A home game. Cause you know, they keep putting all
- 27:12Speaker 1: these numbers up about their home games. Well, home games
- 27:14Speaker 1: are in London. They, they gotta, you know, say in.
- 27:17Speaker 4: That state, I'm talking about Jacksonville, not going to pull
- 27:19Speaker 4: in Duval County, not going.
- 27:20Speaker 3: To pull the Wolverine pizza eyes. Like if you're to
- 27:22Speaker 3: count home games, count all the home games. I got you.
- 27:25Speaker 4: Right.
- 27:25Speaker 1: Right. I will say this, this, you can't deny they're
- 27:29Speaker 1: number one, the league and scoring differential.
- 27:31Speaker 2: They sure are.
- 27:33Speaker 4: Cause these are, uh, blowouts in every single home game
- 27:36Speaker 4: in Everbank stadium. They've won all of those by I
- 27:39Speaker 4: think an average of 28 points or something like that
- 27:42Speaker 4: with the last seven that they've had, all of those
- 27:44Speaker 4: will just go back to the chargers game, the Jets Titans,
- 27:47Speaker 4: like all those blowout games they had right in a
- 27:49Speaker 4: row to end last season.
- 27:51Speaker 1: It's funny though.
- 27:52Speaker 4: It's crazy.
- 27:52Speaker 1: You know what? People are starting to jump on board.
- 27:56Speaker 4: I'm fine.
- 27:56Speaker 1: Plenty of room. You're starting to hear it. You're starting
- 27:58Speaker 1: to hear it.
- 27:59Speaker 2: I'm here for it.
- 28:00Speaker 1: And, and, and quite frankly, it's, I really believe they
- 28:04Speaker 1: should be undefeated.
- 28:07Speaker 4: Should, but we know how the NFL is and there's
- 28:09Speaker 4: a bunch of stuff.
- 28:09Speaker 2: I mean, the Eagles game, they usually should have lost like, yeah.
- 28:13Speaker 1: But they kind of slog through that. They're better. They're
- 28:16Speaker 1: better than Denver and they're better than Houston. Sure. They're
- 28:19Speaker 1: better than both those teams.
- 28:19Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 28:20Speaker 1: So, I mean, when you look at this, this, they
- 28:23Speaker 1: should be undefeated. Not everybody be talking about them.
- 28:27Speaker 2: This, this benefits them though. I still would argue again.
- 28:30Speaker 1: They don't, they're not loaded with stars. again with this?
- 28:38Speaker 1: They're not loaded with stars. And so that hurts you.
- 28:43Speaker 2: And We're going to get Pete back in, but they
- 28:48Speaker 2: are not loaded with stars.
- 28:49Speaker 4: I'm sure Pete enjoys everyone coming up with, you know, Austin,
- 28:52Speaker 4: you know, too, you watch some of the national stuff
- 28:54Speaker 4: and they'll say stuff that we've been saying for like
- 28:56Speaker 4: a year and a half.
- 28:56Speaker 2: They're like, Oh, Trevor Lawrence is very good.
- 28:58Speaker 3: I'm like, so happy for you to join us.
- 29:00Speaker 5: We've been waiting for you as, as I've got, I'm
- 29:02Speaker 5: not going to call him out, but like somebody today
- 29:04Speaker 5: was like, yeah, Jake was actually be super welcome. You
- 29:06Speaker 5: don't say a complete team. You don't say a team
- 29:09Speaker 5: that can run the football and pass the football. You
- 29:11Speaker 5: don't say Trevor Lawrence franchise quarterback. I could have swore
- 29:15Speaker 5: the MVP last year, you know, like being in the
- 29:17Speaker 5: running was good, but maybe not. So listen, it is
- 29:21Speaker 5: what it is, right? And at the end of the day,
- 29:25Speaker 5: no matter how long it takes for you to get there,
- 29:26Speaker 5: eventually everyone's going to get there.
- 29:28Speaker 3: Or not, and you just beat them and then it's
- 29:30Speaker 3: a surprise.
- 29:30Speaker 5: Or don't, but like eventually there's going to be the
- 29:32Speaker 5: product where it's like you can't deny it anymore. And
- 29:35Speaker 5: I think we're getting to the point now where it's
- 29:37Speaker 5: undeniable you've got to take this team seriously.
- 29:39Speaker 4: We take this team seriously.
- 29:41Speaker 1: And I was saying, for some reason I keep going out.
- 29:44Speaker 1: I have no idea why. But, you know, I was
- 29:47Speaker 1: saying that now it's been that way forever in Jacksonville.
- 29:51Speaker 1: And you know that, Austin. You played there. And you know, Kai,
- 29:54Speaker 1: nobody pays attention to them until they have to.
- 29:57Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
- 29:58Speaker 1: It's like, oh, that little team down there, you know, oh,
- 30:00Speaker 1: that little, oh, wait, they might actually be pretty good.
- 30:04Speaker 1: And so I don't think they're quite getting the attention
- 30:07Speaker 1: they deserve. I go back to the Bears. I mean, Chicago,
- 30:11Speaker 1: Ben Johnson, Ben Johnson, Ben Johnson. And nobody's saying the
- 30:15Speaker 1: same stuff about Liam Cohn. He's doing every bit as
- 30:17Speaker 1: good as Ben Johnson is. You know, they're one of
- 30:21Speaker 1: two teams that are in the top 10 in both
- 30:23Speaker 1: scoring offense and scoring defense. The other one's the 49ers.
- 30:28Speaker 4: We hear about all the time pretty good yeah right.
- 30:31Speaker 1: That's high praise so again keep winning keep stacking them
- 30:35Speaker 1: and they'll start getting their attention but it is starting
- 30:37Speaker 1: to get out there now a little bit people are
- 30:39Speaker 1: paying attention pete let me ask.
- 30:40Speaker 5: You i mean let me ask obviously every single win
- 30:42Speaker 5: as they they pile up is only going to help
- 30:44Speaker 5: you out but like what game do you feel like
- 30:46Speaker 5: that's remaining on the schedule is that game we can
- 30:49Speaker 5: go out there and say I mean, there's nothing left
- 30:53Speaker 5: to discuss. Because I want to say it was the
- 30:54Speaker 5: Ravens game, but now obviously, you know, it's going to
- 30:56Speaker 5: be with this game.
- 30:57Speaker 1: That's not now.
- 30:58Speaker 5: It's Lamar Jackson's out and Huntley. I don't think it's,
- 31:00Speaker 5: you know, like... You know, it's still a hard game
- 31:02Speaker 5: to play. It's still Derrick Henry.
- 31:03Speaker 3: It's still in Baltimore.
- 31:04Speaker 5: It's still, you know, an early week of practice and everything,
- 31:07Speaker 5: all that, but nobody cares. So, like, my question to
- 31:10Speaker 5: you is, what's the game where you can point to
- 31:12Speaker 5: and be like, okay, you guys better all come on
- 31:14Speaker 5: board now or else we're.
- 31:15Speaker 3: Leaving the station.
- 31:16Speaker 1: You know, let's go through Chicago because Chicago, yeah.
- 31:18Speaker 4: It's got to be.
- 31:19Speaker 6: It has to be Chicago. It's Ben Johnson and Liam Cohen.
- 31:21Speaker 1: Liam Cohen and Ben Johnson. There you go.
- 31:23Speaker 2: Head to head.
- 31:24Speaker 1: By the way, the schedule, we did the schedule before
- 31:28Speaker 1: the season. We looked at it and we said, oh.
- 31:30Speaker 1: Now you look, the Baltimore game has entirely changed. And
- 31:36Speaker 1: by the way, they weren't playing very good with him.
- 31:39Speaker 1: The rest of them around them aren't playing very well either.
- 31:42Speaker 1: So that's not a great team right now. Then after that,
- 31:45Speaker 1: the Cowboys all of a sudden don't look as daunting
- 31:49Speaker 1: at home either. The Giants are probably better than we
- 31:54Speaker 1: thought they were going to be. Yeah. Agreed. But do
- 31:59Speaker 1: you have the schedule right in front of you, Kai?
- 32:00Speaker 1: Because we can look at it, and the Texans aren't
- 32:04Speaker 1: nearly as good as anybody thought they were going to be.
- 32:06Speaker 5: And even if you beat them, even though they're a
- 32:08Speaker 5: rival and a divisional opponent and everything, I don't think
- 32:11Speaker 5: people are going to be like, oh, see, the Jaguars
- 32:12Speaker 5: are free.
- 32:13Speaker 3: I'm going to beat the Houston Texans.
- 32:14Speaker 4: So the next three, they go on Thursday this week.
- 32:16Speaker 4: They're at Baltimore. Then they go on the road to Tennessee.
- 32:18Speaker 4: Then they're on the road to New York to play
- 32:21Speaker 4: the Giants. And then they're back home. back home again
- 32:25Speaker 4: to play the Titans. So you've got Titans two and
- 32:26Speaker 4: three weeks there.
- 32:27Speaker 1: They should rip through that at 4-0.
- 32:30Speaker 2: Absolutely.
- 32:30Speaker 4: And I'm backtracking a bit because I thought they were
- 32:33Speaker 4: going to have a worse record than they did last year.
- 32:35Speaker 4: And the way they're rolling through this right now and
- 32:37Speaker 4: the way that things are timing up with certain teams,
- 32:39Speaker 4: like they might.
- 32:41Speaker 1: The Giants game will be tough, and they'll have moments
- 32:44Speaker 1: at Tennessee like they always do when they play in
- 32:47Speaker 1: Tennessee where they don't look great, but they'll find a
- 32:50Speaker 1: way to win that game. But let's go through. They'll
- 32:52Speaker 1: win that game, they'll win that game, they'll win that game,
- 32:54Speaker 1: they'll win that game. Then you get to what? Is
- 32:56Speaker 1: that the Steelers next?
- 32:57Speaker 4: No, it's they go on the road to the Bears
- 33:00Speaker 4: for the first week of December.
- 33:02Speaker 1: That could be an enormous game for both teams.
- 33:05Speaker 2: It could be.
- 33:07Speaker 4: Maybe get a little snow by the lake.
- 33:09Speaker 1: You could be talking one seed versus one seed potential
- 33:12Speaker 1: in that game.
- 33:13Speaker 2: I don't know if they can flex it, but that
- 33:14Speaker 2: would be a good night game, too.
- 33:15Speaker 1: That would be a great game. That would be a
- 33:17Speaker 1: great game.
- 33:18Speaker 2: I don't know if they're allowed to do that.
- 33:19Speaker 1: I think it's on Fox. They might flex it if
- 33:20Speaker 1: they win the next four. Although, again, do you flex
- 33:23Speaker 1: it when nobody wants to see Jacksonville play?
- 33:25Speaker 4: No.
- 33:25Speaker 6: I mean, that's just the reality of it.
- 33:27Speaker 4: But Chicago alone would draw it. And then if they
- 33:29Speaker 4: both have those records, that's my only argument. Young coaching,
- 33:32Speaker 4: Trevor still playing well.
- 33:33Speaker 1: There's no better matchup.
- 33:34Speaker 2: Two quarterbacks.
- 33:35Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 33:36Speaker 1: It just depends on who's scheduled in that. Like, if Dallas,
- 33:39Speaker 1: no matter what is scheduled at the Sunday night game
- 33:41Speaker 1: that week, they wouldn't flex it.
- 33:43Speaker 4: Cowboys fans like pain and want to watch their terrible team.
- 33:45Speaker 3: Yeah, but, I mean, do you want to flex that?
- 33:48Speaker 5: It's going to be winter, and it's going to be
- 33:49Speaker 5: at night, which will be colder.
- 33:50Speaker 3: I guess.
- 33:51Speaker 1: I don't know. I like cold football. Yeah, but they're
- 33:53Speaker 1: built to run the football, too, though, right?
- 33:55Speaker 3: That's right.
- 33:55Speaker 4: Absolutely. They're practicing all week for a rain game.
- 33:57Speaker 1: They're ready to go.
- 33:58Speaker 3: Here we go.
- 33:59Speaker 4: Let's go.
- 33:59Speaker 1: Okay, so then you get to Chicago.
- 34:01Speaker 2: Then we're back for Monday night football against the Steelers.
- 34:04Speaker 1: Pittsburgh. That's better than we thought they were going to be.
- 34:07Speaker 3: That's the one that's scary.
- 34:07Speaker 5: That's well, I said, that's when we pick the preseason.
- 34:10Speaker 5: That's the game that scared me the whole time.
- 34:12Speaker 6: And then, and then they got the Colts again, right?
- 34:14Speaker 1: Somewhere.
- 34:15Speaker 2: Well, that's the last game of the season.
- 34:16Speaker 4: They go on the road to Texas, uh, to the Texans.
- 34:19Speaker 4: And then the next week they go on the road
- 34:20Speaker 4: again and play the Cowboys. That's after Christmas.
- 34:23Speaker 1: And then the Colts on the road.
- 34:24Speaker 4: And then they come back, play the commanders. And then
- 34:26Speaker 4: the Colts on the road is the end of the season.
- 34:27Speaker 1: They're going to, they're going to end up, they could,
- 34:29Speaker 1: if they play the way they're capable of playing, uh,
- 34:32Speaker 1: They have a real shot to end up with the
- 34:34Speaker 1: one seed.
- 34:36Speaker 4: They do. And if they can win against the Ravens,
- 34:39Speaker 4: get all these AFC wins as well to help them out.
- 34:42Speaker 4: I mean, that Broncos one could be, depending how they
- 34:45Speaker 4: end up going around, could hurt them.
- 34:46Speaker 1: That's the problem is when it comes to the end,
- 34:50Speaker 1: if the Broncos somehow end up with the same record,
- 34:53Speaker 1: they're going to go back and go. Why did we
- 34:55Speaker 1: not give the ball to Tootin when we got inside?
- 34:58Speaker 2: Why didn't we listen to Pete?
- 35:00Speaker 4: We had the winning formula.
- 35:02Speaker 3: Real quick, what are the last three games of the season? Washington, Indy?
- 35:05Speaker 2: I'm sorry, at the Cowboys after Christmas.
- 35:08Speaker 4: Then they're going to be home hosting the Commanders, and
- 35:10Speaker 4: then they will go on the road to Indianapolis.
- 35:12Speaker 5: And listen, and we'll see how it all shakes out.
- 35:14Speaker 5: I mean, if you're playing for one seed, you can
- 35:15Speaker 5: rest starters, so be it. But I'm always a big fan.
- 35:18Speaker 5: I'm a big proponent of ending your season on a
- 35:20Speaker 5: high note. So if you can go out and win
- 35:22Speaker 5: those last three and carry that momentum in the playoffs too,
- 35:25Speaker 5: I think that means a lot. But once again, if
- 35:27Speaker 5: you're playing for a one seed, then maybe you're not
- 35:28Speaker 5: even worried about that momentum.
- 35:29Speaker 1: You know what's interesting too, guys, is the AFC playoffs
- 35:33Speaker 1: are pretty much decided already. And by that, I mean,
- 35:37Speaker 1: it's just a matter of seeding. The Bills and Patriots,
- 35:41Speaker 1: the Jaguars, the Steelers and Bengals, because the Browns are
- 35:48Speaker 1: going to fall off, I think. And then you have...
- 35:51Speaker 1: the Broncos, and the Chiefs. That's your seven. I mean,
- 35:55Speaker 1: with the possibility of what?
- 35:58Speaker 3: I mean.
- 35:59Speaker 1: Cleveland?
- 36:01Speaker 3: I probably like Cleveland better than... Because Vegas... Doesn't Vegas
- 36:03Speaker 3: have a shot, too? But I like Cleveland better than Vegas.
- 36:05Speaker 1: Yeah, they're four and four, but that don't.
- 36:06Speaker 3: Yeah, but I like Vegas. I mean, I like Cleveland
- 36:08Speaker 3: better than Vegas, I think.
- 36:10Speaker 1: So, but we're eight weeks in now, and we have
- 36:13Speaker 1: a pretty good idea of who the seven teams are
- 36:16Speaker 1: going to be. Now, the Texans could rip off... They
- 36:19Speaker 1: play the Chargers this week.
- 36:20Speaker 2: You don't want to throw a dirt on them yet?
- 36:22Speaker 2: They're 2-5.
- 36:22Speaker 1: They could. Yeah, I mean, that would be.
- 36:24Speaker 3: I got to say their defense do something, Pete.
- 36:27Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you.
- 36:28Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 36:29Speaker 1: I'm with you. But the Chargers stink. You know, the
- 36:31Speaker 1: Chargers haven't scored a touchdown since week five.
- 36:34Speaker 3: When do they make a move and let someone go?
- 36:37Speaker 1: That's a good question.
- 36:40Speaker 5: I mean.
- 36:40Speaker 1: McDaniel will probably be the one that gets let go.
- 36:43Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 36:44Speaker 1: Yeah. But, you know, the Chargers and the Texans, you've
- 36:47Speaker 1: got a winless team against a team that might be
- 36:49Speaker 1: the biggest disappointment in the league this week, and it
- 36:51Speaker 1: looked like on paper it was going to be a
- 36:53Speaker 1: good game.
- 36:53Speaker 3: That game's getting flexed to Nickelodeon.
- 36:57Speaker 1: I mean, when I say the seven teams are there,
- 36:59Speaker 1: can you see any of those other teams breaking through?
- 37:01Speaker 1: Other than Cleveland.
- 37:02Speaker 2: Yeah, so obviously other than what's mentioned, the Jets are 2-6.
- 37:05Speaker 4: No.
- 37:05Speaker 2: Dolphins 1-6.
- 37:07Speaker 4: No.
- 37:08Speaker 2: Browns are 5-3. That's probably the only argument.
- 37:10Speaker 4: The Ravens, you would have if Lamar was going to
- 37:12Speaker 4: come back, but they're 4-4 and he's out for the
- 37:14Speaker 4: rest of the year.
- 37:15Speaker 2: So no. Colts, obviously fire sale. Titans 1-7.
- 37:19Speaker 4: The Raiders 4-4. That's probably your only other. I don't
- 37:22Speaker 4: see that, but.
- 37:23Speaker 1: So it's either the Raiders or the Browns. Do you
- 37:25Speaker 1: see either one of those teams cracking a seven? I don't. Probably.
- 37:30Speaker 3: I mean, like I said, I err on the Browns
- 37:32Speaker 3: more than I do on the Raiders.
- 37:34Speaker 1: So if the Browns crack the seven, they would be
- 37:37Speaker 1: taking probably.
- 37:39Speaker 2: One of their AFC North. You think the Steelers? It's
- 37:43Speaker 2: got to be one of those if they make it, right?
- 37:45Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 37:45Speaker 5: I think that once again, I get because they just,
- 37:48Speaker 5: the Titans took them to the wire. I think the
- 37:50Speaker 5: Bengals are the team to beat in that division.
- 37:53Speaker 1: I do, too.
- 37:54Speaker 3: I do, too.
- 37:55Speaker 1: And by the way, they're going to play a game.
- 37:56Speaker 1: They're going to play my dream game one day where
- 37:58Speaker 1: they don't run it once.
- 38:00Speaker 2: They're close, Pete. Damn, they're close.
- 38:02Speaker 3: Unless it's Joe Burrow running.
- 38:06Speaker 1: They ran it 16 times on Sunday. And I said
- 38:09Speaker 1: on the show last night, I said, that's 16 too many.
- 38:12Speaker 4: Pete, that Buccaneers game must have been your nightmare then
- 38:15Speaker 4: because Baker Mayfield didn't throw a pass, correct?
- 38:18Speaker 1: He did not. And it's the first time since 1974.
- 38:21Speaker 1: And by the way, he did not throw, well, he
- 38:27Speaker 1: threw three. He didn't complete any.
- 38:28Speaker 2: Okay.
- 38:29Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 38:29Speaker 2: He tried those three.
- 38:31Speaker 1: He didn't complete any and no passing yards. And he
- 38:35Speaker 1: wasn't the worst quarterback on the field. Think about that
- 38:37Speaker 1: for a second.
- 38:38Speaker 2: That hurts.
- 38:39Speaker 1: That's not, that's not Michael Penix through four interceptions. It
- 38:42Speaker 1: was incredible.
- 38:43Speaker 4: They were playing.
- 38:44Speaker 1: I think if the playoffs started today, what seed would
- 38:47Speaker 1: Jacksonville be? They would be the, cause they do that.
- 38:50Speaker 1: It's out there.
- 38:51Speaker 4: It's a little off because of the, um, the bi-weeks
- 38:54Speaker 4: cause they're five and two, obviously the Steelers are six
- 38:56Speaker 4: and two bills are six and one.
- 39:00Speaker 2: Broncos are 6-2. Chiefs are 5-2.
- 39:03Speaker 1: Yeah, so they're... So the Bills would be the one seed.
- 39:05Speaker 1: The Jaguars would probably be the four then right now,
- 39:08Speaker 1: but that'll change because of the bar.
- 39:10Speaker 4: Yeah, with the Broncos and the tiebreakers. But we'll see.
- 39:13Speaker 2: That's promising things.
- 39:15Speaker 4: We are looking towards postseason, but we're not going to
- 39:17Speaker 4: get ahead of ourselves. We're going to take another break.
- 39:19Speaker 1: One week at a time. One game at a time.
- 39:21Speaker 1: One game at a time.
- 39:22Speaker 4: Every game that's the most important game never never would
- 39:25Speaker 4: i do that um we will talk to co-pilot we'll
- 39:28Speaker 4: keep it real we'll do all the things stay with
- 39:30Speaker 4: us here on jaguars happy hour presented by jet home
- 39:32Speaker 4: loans welcome back into jaguars happy hour presented by jet
- 39:36Speaker 4: home loans time now to consult co-pilot ai rules the
- 39:39Speaker 4: world is brought to you by microsoft so we had
- 39:42Speaker 4: to ask because things look good at home Home as
- 39:45Speaker 4: in Jacksonville. Do the 2026 Jacksonville Jaguars play well at
- 39:49Speaker 4: Everbank Stadium? In fact, yes, they do. They've been excellent
- 39:54Speaker 4: at Everbank Stadium so far. They are undefeated at home
- 39:56Speaker 4: in 2026, 3-0. They've gone 10-1 at Everbank Stadium under
- 40:00Speaker 4: head coach Liam Cohen. Other than playoff loss, obviously, to Buffalo.
- 40:05Speaker 4: This is regular season. They are 10-1. Austin, what was
- 40:08Speaker 4: the other loss?
- 40:08Speaker 2: Do you remember?
- 40:09Speaker 5: Ooh.
- 40:11Speaker 4: No.
- 40:12Speaker 5: It was Seattle.
- 40:14Speaker 4: It was. To the Super Bowl champions.
- 40:17Speaker 3: Tight ends had a field day that day. Okay.
- 40:20Speaker 1: That was the Wingard Bowl.
- 40:22Speaker 3: That was the Wingard Bowl.
- 40:23Speaker 5: Can you ask Copilot how much it would cost the
- 40:26Speaker 5: city if they were to delay the construction of the
- 40:28Speaker 5: new stadium?
- 40:28Speaker 2: I will not be asking Copilot that.
- 40:30Speaker 3: Okay.
- 40:30Speaker 5: I'm just trying to play at home as much as possible, man,
- 40:32Speaker 5: because they play well at home.
- 40:33Speaker 2: They sure do.
- 40:34Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 40:34Speaker 4: We got three more. One of them is primetime for
- 40:36Speaker 4: Monday Night Football. I am looking forward to that. Monday
- 40:38Speaker 4: Night Football is my personal favorite. um just feels a
- 40:41Speaker 4: little special every week we won't be here on a
- 40:43Speaker 4: monday unfortunately that means you don't get us but um
- 40:45Speaker 4: you get a monday night football matchup prime time out of.
- 40:47Speaker 1: It the championship game in that place will be wild too.
- 40:51Speaker 4: I can't wait i can't wait pete late a little
- 40:53Speaker 4: late january it's gonna be perfect um let's get to
- 40:59Speaker 4: let's what have we not talked about we haven't talked
- 41:00Speaker 4: about the defense obviously devon hamilton going on is a
- 41:03Speaker 4: huge loss but They were able to, against a Colts
- 41:06Speaker 4: team I know, kind of get back into the groove
- 41:09Speaker 4: of things.
- 41:10Speaker 2: What we saw against the Texans was not.
- 41:13Speaker 4: What we had seen from them through the beginning of
- 41:15Speaker 4: the season. They allowed some more explosive runs, not what
- 41:19Speaker 4: we expected. Obviously, CJ Stroud had a great day. He's
- 41:22Speaker 4: very talented. But wanted the defense to kind of get
- 41:24Speaker 4: back to basics, and they were able to do that.
- 41:26Speaker 2: They forced some turnovers.
- 41:29Speaker 4: Yes, against the Colts, I know, but got after the
- 41:31Speaker 4: quarterback and got some sacks. And I was happy, Austin,
- 41:34Speaker 4: to at least see that kind of bounce back. We've
- 41:37Speaker 4: seen it on the offense, but from the defense.
- 41:39Speaker 5: Yeah, and I was happy to see guys step up
- 41:42Speaker 5: that were called upon. Rayon Lane, no relation, by the way,
- 41:45Speaker 5: but I'll still see at the family reunion.
- 41:46Speaker 2: You should take it.
- 41:47Speaker 5: I mean, I'm going to at this rate with that
- 41:50Speaker 5: play he had yesterday. But I thought Rayon Lane... Hell
- 41:54Speaker 5: of a job, you know, being in the right spot
- 41:55Speaker 5: at the right time. Sometimes it's all it takes to
- 41:57Speaker 5: play either a cornerback or a safety, right?
- 41:59Speaker 3: And he made a big play there.
- 42:01Speaker 5: You know, Pete, I don't know if you saw this
- 42:02Speaker 5: on film or not, and, you know, you saw a
- 42:04Speaker 5: couple different looks, right, a couple different blitzes and everything,
- 42:07Speaker 5: but something that really stood out to me is I
- 42:09Speaker 5: feel like they're getting on the line of scrimmage a
- 42:11Speaker 5: lot more. They're getting in people's faces a little more, right?
- 42:15Speaker 5: They're not playing so far back anymore. And whether, you know,
- 42:18Speaker 5: that's whether you're in man, whether you're in zone, but
- 42:21Speaker 5: to me... You know, and I think a guy like
- 42:23Speaker 5: Jarrion Jones, right? You know what type of player he is.
- 42:26Speaker 5: You know his personality. You know what he's great at.
- 42:29Speaker 5: He's great at press. He's great at getting in somebody's face,
- 42:31Speaker 5: putting his hands into that shoulder pad, and knocking them
- 42:34Speaker 5: off their track. And yesterday I saw a little more
- 42:36Speaker 5: of that in terms of we're going to be a
- 42:38Speaker 5: little more aggressive, whether it's second or third down. It's
- 42:41Speaker 5: a pass situation. We'll be a little more aggressive, throw
- 42:43Speaker 5: guys off their track a little bit, and then depend
- 42:45Speaker 5: on our pass rush or our blitz packages to get home.
- 42:49Speaker 1: Yeah, and they didn't blitz as much on Sunday, I
- 42:51Speaker 1: didn't think. Which, remember, they got hit by a ton
- 42:54Speaker 1: of blitzes against the Texans. They had problems getting out
- 42:56Speaker 1: of those, and they had busted assignments. So they didn't
- 42:59Speaker 1: blitz as much. One thing you noticed on Sunday, too,
- 43:02Speaker 1: Travis Hunter was flipping sides. And he actually went into,
- 43:06Speaker 1: if you notice, he flipped sides. All year, most of
- 43:09Speaker 1: the year, he's played left corner, right? That's where he's been. Well,
- 43:14Speaker 1: on Sunday, he was on both sides.
- 43:16Speaker 2: Was he following anybody or was he just playing, do
- 43:18Speaker 2: you think, just schematically?
- 43:20Speaker 1: He wasn't following anybody because they don't have anybody that's
- 43:22Speaker 1: worth following. But I think they played him. What they
- 43:27Speaker 1: did is they put him on one side, let him
- 43:29Speaker 1: play man on that side. I still haven't taken the
- 43:32Speaker 1: total in-depth look on it, see if he went to
- 43:34Speaker 1: the weak side, and then he played on the strong side,
- 43:35Speaker 1: he played zone on that side. But he played a
- 43:39Speaker 1: lot more man, physical man, and flopped and went in
- 43:44Speaker 1: the slot. And he did a lot of things. He's
- 43:45Speaker 1: a really good cover corner. He gave up the one
- 43:49Speaker 1: in-breaker to Treadwell. Probably should have made a play on
- 43:52Speaker 1: that ball. You remember when he's trailing in man-to-man coverage?
- 43:55Speaker 6: But you get beat sometimes in man.
- 43:58Speaker 1: Coverage, you know?
- 43:59Speaker 2: It's good to see from the defense.
- 44:00Speaker 1: I think it's great.
- 44:02Speaker 2: Good to see you from Travis Hunter.
- 44:03Speaker 1: I think it's going to be great.
- 44:04Speaker 4: We'll talk about three-way player Travis Hunter when we come
- 44:06Speaker 4: back for the second hour of Jaguars Happy Hour. Stick
- 44:09Speaker 4: with us here on the Jaguars Digital Network. Welcome to
- 44:19Speaker 4: the second hour of Jaguars Happy Hour. This one presented
- 44:21Speaker 4: by Mr.
- 44:22Speaker 2: Chubby's Wings.
- 44:22Speaker 4: Before the game, after the game, and during the game,
- 44:25Speaker 4: we are going to start with our opening drive for
- 44:27Speaker 4: hour two, presented by Target Zero.
- 44:30Speaker 2: Let's get everyone home safely.
- 44:32Speaker 4: Normally I start with all the wonderful statistics from a
- 44:35Speaker 4: Jaguars win on a victory Monday.
- 44:36Speaker 2: But unfortunately I have more negative news today. Eric Murray.
- 44:40Speaker 4: Safety, who suffered an elbow injury on the first play
- 44:43Speaker 4: of the game against the Colts, is going to be
- 44:45Speaker 4: undergoing surgery, and he will miss the remainder of the season.
- 44:48Speaker 2: This just coming out now.
- 44:49Speaker 4: Obviously, also Liam Cohen confirming that Devon Hamilton has that
- 44:52Speaker 4: quad injury. He's also going to be out for the
- 44:54Speaker 4: rest of the season. So, Austin, we started the other show.
- 44:57Speaker 4: I felt like a Debbie Downer, but now I'm a
- 44:58Speaker 4: Debbie Downer again with this because that's not the news
- 45:01Speaker 4: you wanted to hear in terms of the secondary as well.
- 45:04Speaker 3: Yeah, welcome to Jake's somber hour brought to you by Kai.
- 45:07Speaker 2: I mean, at.
- 45:08Speaker 3: This point, Kai.
- 45:09Speaker 2: Sad hour continues.
- 45:11Speaker 3: Are we still in first? Are we good? We still
- 45:12Speaker 3: in first place in the division?
- 45:13Speaker 1: Apparently, we're still a good team. Okay, I hope so.
- 45:15Speaker 5: But no, obviously, that's... I mean, that's a loss as well, Pete.
- 45:19Speaker 5: And that's a big loss, man. You did like the
- 45:22Speaker 5: way that Rayon Lane did play and everything. Coming in
- 45:25Speaker 5: to fill in for Murray. But yeah, obviously... A guy
- 45:30Speaker 5: who I think commands a lot in that secondary, kind
- 45:33Speaker 5: of gets guys lined up and everything.
- 45:35Speaker 3: It's a big one.
- 45:37Speaker 2: It does sound like Antonio.
- 45:38Speaker 1: Johnson will be back. I mean, they're down guys in
- 45:40Speaker 1: that secondary. Yeah. Think about that.
- 45:42Speaker 4: It does sound like Antonio Johnson, who did not play
- 45:44Speaker 4: against the Colts, was kind of dealing with an ankle injury.
- 45:46Speaker 4: They are hoping he will be available on Thursday. I
- 45:48Speaker 4: think it was kind of take this week and use
- 45:50Speaker 4: it to get ready for Thursday night football.
- 45:52Speaker 2: So hopefully he will be back.
- 45:52Speaker 1: But think about the starting. I mean, OK, once Murray
- 45:54Speaker 1: went out, it was Merriweather and Lane. Yep. So Lane
- 46:01Speaker 1: was on the team because they thought he was a
- 46:03Speaker 1: special teams player, and Merriweather was brought up from the
- 46:07Speaker 1: practice squad.
- 46:08Speaker 2: A couple weeks ago, yeah. Signed to the team.
- 46:11Speaker 1: And by the way, the rookie had a nice sack
- 46:14Speaker 1: and actually looked explosive in getting.
- 46:16Speaker 2: It, didn't he? Husky late, yeah.
- 46:19Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
- 46:20Speaker 4: I don't know the inner workings of the thought process. Obviously,
- 46:22Speaker 4: he's a draft pick that they feel like, needs more
- 46:25Speaker 4: time to be comfortable. Athleticism is not the issue. I'm
- 46:27Speaker 4: assuming it's maybe complicated scheme, trying to get in the
- 46:30Speaker 4: right place, play that position, and know where he needs
- 46:33Speaker 4: to be. Because I know, I can't remember who I
- 46:36Speaker 4: was talking to about this, but kind of the juxtaposition
- 46:38Speaker 4: of the offense to defense. Offense feels like they give
- 46:40Speaker 4: people a little more time to work things out. Some
- 46:42Speaker 4: of the younger athletic players, they give them a little
- 46:44Speaker 4: more chance to work. On defense, they value more knowing
- 46:47Speaker 4: to be in the correct place and kind of the
- 46:49Speaker 4: veteran experience to know where they need to be in
- 46:52Speaker 4: the scheme. So maybe that's just how, you know, the
- 46:55Speaker 4: coordinators kind of go about their rosters, but you have
- 46:58Speaker 4: to imagine now they're going to be, their hand is
- 47:00Speaker 4: going to be forced somewhat, but Jalen Husky will dress
- 47:02Speaker 4: and we'll have to be a part of this mix now.
- 47:03Speaker 3: Well, then if that's the case, I'm sorry.
- 47:06Speaker 1: I was going to say lane was fantastic on Sunday.
- 47:09Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 47:10Speaker 1: And I'm not just talking about the interception. He was blitzing.
- 47:13Speaker 1: He got near the quarterback. He influenced the quarterback. He
- 47:15Speaker 1: tackled well, he covered well. And he looked like much
- 47:19Speaker 1: more than just a special teams gunner on Sunday. And
- 47:22Speaker 1: he hadn't looked like that on the field up until
- 47:25Speaker 1: that point. That was his, by far his best game.
- 47:27Speaker 1: And not just because of the pick six.
- 47:28Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 47:29Speaker 5: I mean, I think the biggest thing with Husky, cause
- 47:30Speaker 5: I've been singing his praises since training camp, like he
- 47:32Speaker 5: looks the part, like when you watch him go through
- 47:34Speaker 5: Joe's and everything, he he's a big dude.
- 47:36Speaker 3: He's built like a safety.
- 47:38Speaker 5: So one would assume that, okay, it's supposed to be
- 47:40Speaker 5: more of just like a, you know, they call it
- 47:43Speaker 5: between the years kind of thing where, whether it's not
- 47:45Speaker 5: getting lined up properly, not being in his right zone,
- 47:48Speaker 5: just because if we're seeing veterans have problems out there
- 47:52Speaker 5: and explosive plays and everything like that, well, then how
- 47:55Speaker 5: are we going to expect a rookie to come in
- 47:56Speaker 5: and pick up where those veterans left off? So it
- 47:59Speaker 5: is probably more of a between-the-ears kind of thing. A
- 48:02Speaker 5: mental thing.
- 48:03Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go.
- 48:03Speaker 3: A mental thing between the ears. But then do you
- 48:05Speaker 3: simplify it, Pete?
- 48:07Speaker 1: Like, if you have to. Well, if he gets on
- 48:08Speaker 1: the field, you're going to have to simplify. I think
- 48:10Speaker 1: they've simplified it a little bit, even with Merriweather and
- 48:13Speaker 1: Lane on the field. You know, it was supposed to
- 48:16Speaker 1: be Murray and Antonio Johnson, with Ransaw maybe pushing one
- 48:21Speaker 1: of them for the job. And now, this past week,
- 48:25Speaker 1: Murray was out, first play. Johnson didn't play, and Ransaw
- 48:30Speaker 1: didn't play. And so, you know, it really does become
- 48:35Speaker 1: a survival test in the NFL. And they've lost their
- 48:39Speaker 1: starting left tackle, their best defensive tackle, and now one
- 48:43Speaker 1: of their starting safeties. I mean, those are hits. But
- 48:47Speaker 1: all you got to do is look across the field
- 48:49Speaker 1: on Thursday and think that your hits aren't their hits.
- 48:52Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 48:53Speaker 2: Everyone's dealing with it.
- 48:54Speaker 3: No, it's part of the game.
- 48:56Speaker 1: Or their backup.
- 48:59Speaker 3: Right.
- 49:00Speaker 1: They probably take away their nose tackle, left tackle and
- 49:04Speaker 1: safety in order to have Lamar Jackson on the field.
- 49:07Speaker 1: I can tell you that.
- 49:08Speaker 5: No, at the end of the day, I mean, it's,
- 49:10Speaker 5: you know, death taxes and like, you know, there should
- 49:13Speaker 5: be injuries in the NFL.
- 49:14Speaker 7: Right.
- 49:15Speaker 5: I mean, you don't get through the season unscathed. It's
- 49:17Speaker 5: just a matter of do you have the death to confess?
- 49:20Speaker 5: or do you have to make a play you know
- 49:23Speaker 5: before the trade deadline and you know we'll see how
- 49:25Speaker 5: the secondary shakes out and everything um you know now
- 49:29Speaker 5: it gets a little more interesting and i don't know
- 49:30Speaker 5: if you explore options there as well but Once again,
- 49:33Speaker 5: I mean, you just may have to rely on your depth,
- 49:35Speaker 5: and this is where drafting, this is where developing comes
- 49:37Speaker 5: into play. And I won't say this much about it,
- 49:39Speaker 5: and we'll see how it all shakes out with trades
- 49:41Speaker 5: and everything. But I do have confidence in terms of
- 49:44Speaker 5: players getting developed because we've seen with this Liam Cohen
- 49:48Speaker 5: regime and everything, they do a great job of developing players.
- 49:53Speaker 1: Well, in that position, you can see it in this
- 49:56Speaker 1: league where young players play at safety. You know, there's
- 50:00Speaker 1: a kid at Miami, Michael Taft, who was drafted, I think,
- 50:03Speaker 1: in the sixth round. He's starting at safety and making plays.
- 50:06Speaker 1: Rookie out of Texas, good player. You saw it last
- 50:09Speaker 1: year with Watts playing as a rookie, good player. I mean,
- 50:12Speaker 1: you go through the league and you can play that position.
- 50:15Speaker 1: Once you get the mental part of it, and that's
- 50:18Speaker 1: the tough part, Once you get that down, like, didn't
- 50:22Speaker 1: you think Lane was playing so much faster on Sunday
- 50:26Speaker 1: than he had his previous games as a safety? Yeah,
- 50:30Speaker 1: because he's not thinking as much. Of course.
- 50:32Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 50:32Speaker 4: He's also getting the reps going in. I think you
- 50:34Speaker 4: can't discount that when you're practicing all week, knowing you're
- 50:37Speaker 4: going to play as opposed to getting thrown in there
- 50:40Speaker 4: like he did against the Bengals. So I will give
- 50:42Speaker 4: him credit fully. And from what we've seen out of him,
- 50:44Speaker 4: he's been so smart in such a quick study. So
- 50:46Speaker 4: having that whole week of prep has been huge.
- 50:48Speaker 5: You know who was playing a lot faster than we've
- 50:50Speaker 5: seen him play so far this year, Pete?
- 50:52Speaker 3: Branson Combs.
- 50:53Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
- 50:53Speaker 2: He was all over the place.
- 50:54Speaker 1: Yes. That was a heck of an interception he had
- 50:56Speaker 1: on Sunday.
- 50:57Speaker 2: He was lighting people up on special teams, too. It
- 50:59Speaker 2: was like back-to-back punt returns. He was lighting people up.
- 51:01Speaker 3: Making himself known, for sure.
- 51:03Speaker 1: Yeah, and we can get in-depth on the defense a
- 51:06Speaker 1: little bit because certain, if you saw, and I don't
- 51:10Speaker 1: know the exact snap count, but Roro Roro played more snaps,
- 51:14Speaker 1: many more snaps than Armstead did. I mean, I think
- 51:18Speaker 1: it was double, if I'm not mistaken, or close to double,
- 51:21Speaker 1: which is the way I think it needs to be played.
- 51:23Speaker 1: He's played better than him.
- 51:24Speaker 4: Yeah, so actually what was interesting and what is great
- 51:26Speaker 4: about the blowout is a lot less snaps for everybody.
- 51:29Speaker 2: So they did get to rest some people. Only had
- 51:31Speaker 2: three people at 100%.
- 51:31Speaker 4: It was Pregnant, Walker Little, and Ran Lane on defense,
- 51:35Speaker 4: the only defensive player that played 100 snaps. So Oro
- 51:38Speaker 4: Oro had 72% of the snaps. That was third. Monteric
- 51:41Speaker 4: Brown played 89% of the snaps. Armstead only played 33 snaps,
- 51:45Speaker 4: which was 54% on defense.
- 51:47Speaker 2: So, yeah, I think, I mean, it's not a bad thing.
- 51:49Speaker 4: It's a good thing because him playing less snaps, he
- 51:51Speaker 4: can put more effort into the snaps. He's out there
- 51:53Speaker 4: at this stage in his career. It's a benefit for
- 51:55Speaker 4: both ways.
- 51:56Speaker 5: But I also feel like he got pulled for one
- 51:58Speaker 5: series because there was a play in the backfield that
- 52:00Speaker 5: he kind of missed on and whiffed on a little bit.
- 52:02Speaker 3: And then I feel like they pulled him out right
- 52:04Speaker 3: after that.
- 52:04Speaker 1: The other guy's playing better.
- 52:06Speaker 3: He's playing better.
- 52:07Speaker 1: I mean, you play the best player. You don't care
- 52:09Speaker 1: where they come from, what they do, how much they make.
- 52:11Speaker 1: You play the best player. And I think this regime
- 52:12Speaker 1: has pretty much said that.
- 52:14Speaker 4: We saw some more Brian Thomas, defensive end Brian Thomas
- 52:16Speaker 4: as well in this game.
- 52:18Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, the problem is their best pass rusher is who? Gardeck.
- 52:29Speaker 2: When you use him that way, yes. He flies around.
- 52:32Speaker 6: That's not the way it's supposed to be.
- 52:35Speaker 2: It's not.
- 52:35Speaker 4: That is not his main job, I would argue.
- 52:38Speaker 3: You think he's the best pass rusher, Pete?
- 52:41Speaker 1: He's the most productive.
- 52:43Speaker 3: Okay. Yeah, I mean.
- 52:45Speaker 1: On paper, he shouldn't be, but is he not the
- 52:48Speaker 1: most productive pass rusher?
- 52:50Speaker 5: I think with what they ask him to do, he's
- 52:52Speaker 5: productive at what they ask him to do.
- 52:54Speaker 1: He's around the ball a lot. He's tough. He's physical. Yeah.
- 52:57Speaker 1: I mean, but he also had a night. Trayvon had
- 53:00Speaker 1: a nice sack on Sunday.
- 53:01Speaker 4: Sure.
- 53:01Speaker 3: I mean, yeah.
- 53:03Speaker 6: You know, and he actually used the move, which was amazing.
- 53:06Speaker 6: I mean, I was like and and.
- 53:08Speaker 1: Again, they're good players.
- 53:11Speaker 6: But they hadn't been playing to what they're supposed to
- 53:13Speaker 6: be playing to.
- 53:14Speaker 1: They'd probably be the first two to tell you that.
- 53:17Speaker 3: No, I agree with you.
- 53:17Speaker 6: Drayvon's getting doubled a lot. He's getting doubled a lot.
- 53:20Speaker 4: Isn't he, like, second most doubles in the league, but
- 53:22Speaker 4: he has the most.
- 53:22Speaker 1: Yeah, he's getting doubled a ton. Well, that means that
- 53:25Speaker 1: Josh Hines-Allen needs to be better.
- 53:27Speaker 4: Correct.
- 53:27Speaker 1: I thought he was better on Sunday.
- 53:29Speaker 3: He was better. But, like, and listen.
- 53:31Speaker 5: I'm not knocking Dennis Gardeck at all because the guy
- 53:34Speaker 5: does produce, but I think if you put somebody else–
- 53:37Speaker 5: he's always in that wide– I mean, you.
- 53:39Speaker 3: Call it a wide nine.
- 53:39Speaker 5: He's not a defensive end, but he's an outside linebacker,
- 53:41Speaker 5: but he's essentially just like a wide nine. So his
- 53:44Speaker 5: only job, if he recognizes it, is just to go
- 53:46Speaker 5: as fast as he can towards the quarterback, and I
- 53:49Speaker 5: feel like the other responsibility as a defensive line– It's
- 53:52Speaker 5: still stop the run first and then get.
- 53:54Speaker 3: After the quarterback a little bit.
- 53:55Speaker 1: But on third down, it's not.
- 53:56Speaker 3: No, on third down, it's not. And that's true.
- 53:58Speaker 5: But once again, on third down, I feel like they
- 54:00Speaker 5: just give Garnett a clear, hey, just use your speed
- 54:03Speaker 5: and go.
- 54:03Speaker 3: And then the other guys are starting to run games
- 54:05Speaker 3: and everything like that and waiting for time to develop.
- 54:07Speaker 1: Because he's a little twitchier than the other guys.
- 54:08Speaker 3: Fast twitch. I hear you.
- 54:10Speaker 2: The twitch.
- 54:11Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, we're back to that again. But I
- 54:14Speaker 1: think Hines Allen kind of had one of his better
- 54:18Speaker 1: games in recent games. Mm-hmm. On Sunday, so he was
- 54:21Speaker 1: much better.
- 54:23Speaker 3: Did they get in the sack or not? Because I
- 54:24Speaker 3: don't know if Armstead got it.
- 54:25Speaker 4: Yeah, half.
- 54:26Speaker 3: Okay.
- 54:27Speaker 1: And you know what, though? You know who should have
- 54:29Speaker 1: got that sack? And when they go back and reevaluate it,
- 54:31Speaker 1: Aroa Roro got that sack.
- 54:32Speaker 3: I know.
- 54:33Speaker 1: That was his sack.
- 54:34Speaker 3: Whoever celebrates the most gets the credit, Pete. That's how
- 54:37Speaker 3: that works.
- 54:37Speaker 2: Interesting note. We were in the press box, and they
- 54:39Speaker 2: kept giving stats to.
- 54:42Speaker 4: Wesley Williams number 90 because of the way his jersey
- 54:44Speaker 4: was tucked up.
- 54:45Speaker 2: And then about third quarter, they were like, wait, he's
- 54:47Speaker 2: not in the game.
- 54:49Speaker 4: So the stats might get updated at some point because
- 54:51Speaker 4: they were given tackle for loss and all this to
- 54:53Speaker 4: 90 who wasn't in it.
- 54:56Speaker 2: But it was nice to see a bounce back from them.
- 54:57Speaker 4: And I know the Colts are where they're at, but
- 55:00Speaker 4: just to see them come back to form. And also
- 55:02Speaker 4: with that loss of Devon Hamilton to come together a
- 55:04Speaker 4: little bit and still find a way to be successful.
- 55:07Speaker 2: There's more to accomplish, of course.
- 55:09Speaker 4: And then I think In this Ravens game, because quickly,
- 55:12Speaker 4: this is going to be Thursday night before we know it,
- 55:14Speaker 4: they're going to be going up against who even knows
- 55:17Speaker 4: on the offensive line if Baltimore will be able to
- 55:20Speaker 4: bring in a quarterback or if they'll still be on
- 55:21Speaker 4: their third string. Because that is difficult to plan for
- 55:26Speaker 4: when you have no idea who the uh qb is
- 55:29Speaker 4: going to be against the team here so all i
- 55:31Speaker 4: can say is we're probably going to see a lot
- 55:32Speaker 4: of derrick henry which this.
- 55:33Speaker 5: Team is used to seeing and that's what i was
- 55:34Speaker 5: going to say i mean if i'm the baltimore offensive
- 55:36Speaker 5: coordinator and i might just put a wildcat out there
- 55:38Speaker 5: and put derrick henry in shotgun because if if we've
- 55:41Speaker 5: been following derrick henry a long time in jacksonville he's
- 55:43Speaker 5: had some pretty dang good games against the jaguars right
- 55:46Speaker 5: and i get people are saying okay he looks a
- 55:47Speaker 5: step slow.
- 55:48Speaker 2: They say that every time.
- 55:50Speaker 3: Not going to count that guy out against the Jaguars, man.
- 55:52Speaker 3: Never going to.
- 55:52Speaker 5: So and keep in mind, you're losing probably your best
- 55:56Speaker 5: run stopper in Devon Hamilton as well. So it it's
- 55:59Speaker 5: not going to be just easy breezy. I feel like
- 56:00Speaker 5: in Baltimore, it's going.
- 56:02Speaker 1: To be the NFL. Yeah, it's the NFL. Of course,
- 56:04Speaker 1: you're on the road on Thursday night on a short week.
- 56:06Speaker 1: I don't care who you're playing. That's a tough game.
- 56:08Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 56:08Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 56:09Speaker 4: Getting to play at home is a huge benefit on
- 56:10Speaker 4: a Thursday night just because what goes into the Yes,
- 56:13Speaker 4: it's a short week.
- 56:14Speaker 2: We all hear that. But actually being around the team.
- 56:16Speaker 1: Right.
- 56:16Speaker 4: So they were in today. Normally, this is kind of
- 56:18Speaker 4: like their half day. They were here practicing, getting back together,
- 56:21Speaker 4: doing a lot of walkthroughs this week because they try
- 56:23Speaker 4: to get the players back in the building, but like
- 56:26Speaker 4: not running them as much.
- 56:27Speaker 2: They just had a game, of course.
- 56:28Speaker 4: And then.
- 56:29Speaker 2: Before you know it, Wednesday night, they're flying to Baltimore.
- 56:30Speaker 4: They're going to be there going through walkthroughs on Thursday
- 56:33Speaker 4: morning and then playing Thursday night. So I don't think
- 56:36Speaker 4: there was much enjoyment in that Colts victory. It was quick,
- 56:39Speaker 4: turn on the tape, and then start looking at Ravens
- 56:40Speaker 4: stuff already.
- 56:41Speaker 1: If they win against the Ravens, they'll have an enjoyment
- 56:44Speaker 1: on that weekend, though.
- 56:45Speaker 2: Oh, it's like an extra buy.
- 56:47Speaker 1: It's like a mini buy, yeah.
- 56:48Speaker 2: Austin, was that worth it?
- 56:49Speaker 4: I feel like the players hate the fact they have
- 56:51Speaker 4: to play on Thursday, but then you get the little
- 56:52Speaker 4: extra bye afterwards, so it's kind of like.
- 56:54Speaker 5: Well, no, because I remember the Thursday night games against...
- 56:56Speaker 5: That was the Colts we played against one year. We
- 56:58Speaker 5: didn't win that game, so it didn't feel like a
- 56:59Speaker 5: vacation at all. And that was like my birthday night.
- 57:02Speaker 5: I mean, I had a sack in Angelica. It was
- 57:04Speaker 5: great and everything, but yeah, we didn't win, so it
- 57:07Speaker 5: didn't feel like a nice extended bye.
- 57:08Speaker 2: Was it home or was it in Indianapolis?
- 57:09Speaker 3: It was home. Got to be a captain and everything.
- 57:12Speaker 1: You're part of the last team that lost to the Colts, right?
- 57:16Speaker 5: No, because I think that was 14. So I was
- 57:19Speaker 5: here until it would have been 13. So I just
- 57:22Speaker 5: missed out on that.
- 57:24Speaker 1: So you're not going to blame me.
- 57:25Speaker 5: I'm not taking responsibility for that, Pete.
- 57:29Speaker 1: Well, now let's think about it. Now it's another year longer.
- 57:31Speaker 1: We're going to do it again for another year.
- 57:35Speaker 3: Man.
- 57:37Speaker 4: A shame.
- 57:37Speaker 5: iPhone 8 was, but by the way, last time the
- 57:39Speaker 5: Colts won in Jacksonville, the iPhone 8 was out.
- 57:41Speaker 2: There were six.
- 57:42Speaker 1: By the way, I don't give guarantees for the next season,
- 57:45Speaker 1: but I'm going to guarantee that they lose again in Jacksonville.
- 57:48Speaker 4: The Colts?
- 57:49Speaker 3: Well, it's going to be in Orlando, but yeah, I
- 57:50Speaker 3: hear you.
- 57:52Speaker 4: That'll be their excuse even if they win they won't
- 57:55Speaker 4: be in jacksonville so we'll continue they're.
- 57:57Speaker 1: Not gonna win that team's gonna be horrible they have
- 57:59Speaker 1: no draft picks and no quarterback and no talent yeah
- 58:02Speaker 1: it's gonna.
- 58:02Speaker 3: Be bad do they stick with daniel jones like i
- 58:04Speaker 3: mean i'm obviously.
- 58:06Speaker 1: This year he said today he's gonna stick with him
- 58:08Speaker 1: today this week but i'm saying.
- 58:09Speaker 4: For next season oh no what's the other option now
- 58:12Speaker 4: they're just like you have to play they.
- 58:14Speaker 1: Got a draft one the problem is they don't have
- 58:15Speaker 1: a first round pick.
- 58:16Speaker 3: Yeah they got sauce grinder that'll be all right i'll
- 58:18Speaker 3: figure it out.
- 58:19Speaker 6: And then they've got to figure out what to do
- 58:20Speaker 6: with Jonathan Taylor.
- 58:21Speaker 1: I still think they're going to trade him.
- 58:23Speaker 2: They've got a week. Where do you think he'll end up, Pete?
- 58:27Speaker 1: Green Bay, maybe. Maybe Minnesota will call on him.
- 58:30Speaker 3: Denver.
- 58:31Speaker 1: Somebody's saying Denver. Did you see the.
- 58:32Speaker 3: Seattle press conference?
- 58:35Speaker 2: I didn't see. I saw a tweet about it. I
- 58:36Speaker 2: didn't listen to it.
- 58:37Speaker 3: It's weird.
- 58:37Speaker 5: Pete, did you see the Seattle press conference? Talking about Price,
- 58:42Speaker 5: check it out during a break. It's weird, man. So
- 58:44Speaker 5: essentially the coach, and I thought it was AI, but
- 58:47Speaker 5: it's real. Yeah, their coach came out and said, you know,
- 58:50Speaker 5: Jadarian Price might be up, might be down tonight. We'll
- 58:52Speaker 5: see how the transactions go. And it's like, you're really
- 58:55Speaker 5: just going to put that out there for everyone to
- 58:57Speaker 5: speculate on? So, yeah, check out that press conference, man.
- 59:00Speaker 3: It's weird.
- 59:01Speaker 1: Well, I think Charbonnet is going to be up tonight.
- 59:03Speaker 3: Of course.
- 59:04Speaker 5: And I get like Jadarian Price hasn't really been doing
- 59:06Speaker 5: much all season. He's been hurt a little bit. But, like,
- 59:08Speaker 5: that's still your first-round pick.
- 59:09Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 59:10Speaker 1: He's been hurt.
- 59:10Speaker 3: You're just going to let him go after a half
- 59:12Speaker 3: a year.
- 59:14Speaker 1: No, no.
- 59:14Speaker 4: Also titling it transactions makes you think like, yeah, I
- 59:17Speaker 4: don't know.
- 59:18Speaker 3: It was weird.
- 59:18Speaker 2: Interesting.
- 59:20Speaker 4: All right, we've been pushing the fan questions, and we've
- 59:21Speaker 4: been pushing some of the other segments, so we're going
- 59:24Speaker 4: to take another break. We will come back, we will
- 59:25Speaker 4: keep it real, and then we will get to your
- 59:27Speaker 4: fan questions, as well as looking ahead to Thursday Night Football.
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- 59:50Speaker 4: ServPro like it never even happened. I feel like most
- 59:54Speaker 4: weeks we end up talking about Travis Hunter. We are
- 59:55Speaker 4: going to keep it real about Travis Hunter, the three-way
- 59:58Speaker 4: player today, because not only did he play offense, he
- 1:00:00Speaker 4: played defense, and he was returning punts, which is something
- 1:00:04Speaker 4: we saw him doing in training camp. He does it
- 1:00:06Speaker 4: at practice from time to time. Pete, I didn't care
- 1:00:09Speaker 4: for it.
- 1:00:09Speaker 2: Didn't like it.
- 1:00:10Speaker 4: And then later on in the game, he got wrapped
- 1:00:13Speaker 4: up by his legs and tackled over the top.
- 1:00:14Speaker 2: And I was like, this is why I don't like it.
- 1:00:16Speaker 2: So what's up with that?
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: It's dumb. Get him off of there right now. Stop it.
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: Just stop it. Okay.
- 1:00:22Speaker 7: Okay.
- 1:00:24Speaker 1: Why would you do that to your best cover corner,
- 1:00:27Speaker 1: the one guy that can give you a guy who
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: can match up with anybody in the secondary, and you
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: also have him as a weapon on offense when you
- 1:00:34Speaker 1: need to. He didn't do much on offense on Sunday.
- 1:00:36Speaker 3: Didn't need him to.
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: But the threat of him on the one screen pass,
- 1:00:43Speaker 1: you can see him, they put him in jet sweep motion,
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: like they threw that play to him last week, and
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: then they got tootin' out of the backfield on the
- 1:00:50Speaker 1: other side for the touchdown. They designed the plays around him,
- 1:00:55Speaker 1: I mean, that play around him, because he's such a threat.
- 1:00:59Speaker 1: But why put him, why subject him to, here it
- 1:01:02Speaker 1: is right there, that's the play. I mean, they got
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: him out, and it was one of those plays where
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: you see him, throw to him, nope, come back. Because
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: they go to him. Everybody on defense went in that direction,
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: by the way. So it makes sense in that standpoint.
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: But why... Why would you... Here, they motion over. See,
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: they take a step over. It's a great play design.
- 1:01:20Speaker 1: Liam Cohn could call plays. I can tell you that.
- 1:01:22Speaker 2: He's smart. He sets them up.
- 1:01:23Speaker 1: And design plays.
- 1:01:24Speaker 4: He runs a play with Travis like that, then everyone
- 1:01:26Speaker 4: sells on it, and then he does something like that,
- 1:01:28Speaker 4: twist it the other way.
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: He's always thinking about the next part of what he's
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: setting up, which I think is a great trait for
- 1:01:33Speaker 1: a play caller. But... Why would you put him on
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: the punt return team? That's just dumb.
- 1:01:38Speaker 5: So, yeah, so here's the thing, right? Because I always
- 1:01:40Speaker 5: call Travis Hunter, he's like the juice guy, all right?
- 1:01:43Speaker 5: Like he's like a vitamin B12 shot or a T12 shot,
- 1:01:45Speaker 5: as I'm going to call him. You mean to tell
- 1:01:48Speaker 5: me that you drive the ball 98 yards, you end
- 1:01:50Speaker 5: it with Brian Thomas Jr.
- 1:01:51Speaker 3: In the end zone. The whole crowd's chanting BTJ, by
- 1:01:54Speaker 3: the way.
- 1:01:54Speaker 5: One of the coolest moments so far this year was
- 1:01:56Speaker 5: the crowd kind of getting behind Brian Thomas Jr.
- 1:02:00Speaker 3: Your defense comes out, you go three and out. You
- 1:02:04Speaker 3: guys need juice?
- 1:02:05Speaker 5: We need juice to put Travis Hunter in catching punts,
- 1:02:09Speaker 5: something I don't think he even did in college. I
- 1:02:10Speaker 5: get he does it in camp, and I get he
- 1:02:13Speaker 5: did it in high school, but to me, Pete, there's
- 1:02:16Speaker 5: more to it than this. There has to be, because...
- 1:02:19Speaker 5: Parker Washington's a guy where I never saw, okay, well,
- 1:02:21Speaker 5: let's get him out. Like, he's not a good partner.
- 1:02:22Speaker 5: You know, like, and maybe it's because, you know, they
- 1:02:26Speaker 5: don't want to get him hurt. Sorry. Either, but it
- 1:02:29Speaker 5: didn't make much sense to me. And, and I think
- 1:02:32Speaker 5: there's something else to it. Like, I feel like when these,
- 1:02:35Speaker 5: when the Jaguars and Liam Cohen and his company make
- 1:02:38Speaker 5: moves like this, it's not just because we wanted more juice.
- 1:02:42Speaker 3: That doesn't make any sense. What is your reasoning?
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: It's something with Parker. What do you think it is?
- 1:02:48Speaker 3: It's something with Parker. It has to be.
- 1:02:50Speaker 1: Like he doesn't want to do it anymore because he
- 1:02:52Speaker 1: doesn't have his new contract?
- 1:02:54Speaker 3: That I'm not sure.
- 1:02:55Speaker 4: He's not returning them as much. I noticed that long
- 1:02:58Speaker 4: drive they started with. I don't know if he lost
- 1:03:00Speaker 4: it in the lay or whatever, but he wasn't even
- 1:03:03Speaker 4: near it. He let it drop, which he doesn't normally
- 1:03:05Speaker 4: do unless it's going to be a kick return.
- 1:03:06Speaker 2: So maybe they weren't happy with.
- 1:03:08Speaker 3: What he's doing.
- 1:03:09Speaker 1: If I'm him, I'm not asking off of that. I
- 1:03:11Speaker 1: want as many opportunities as I can get. That's part
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: of the attraction.
- 1:03:15Speaker 2: What is a contract year you want to sell yourself?
- 1:03:18Speaker 2: If it's not here, then somewhere else.
- 1:03:20Speaker 1: What were his numbers on Sunday?
- 1:03:22Speaker 3: Yeah, they weren't good. But Pete, let me ask you this.
- 1:03:25Speaker 5: Pete, and once again, I don't know the dealings of
- 1:03:28Speaker 5: the conversations with Parker Washington, but do you think maybe
- 1:03:32Speaker 5: it comes down to he's not getting paid to be
- 1:03:34Speaker 5: a punt returner, so he doesn't want to do it?
- 1:03:36Speaker 2: Parker Washington had two targets, one reception for 16 yards.
- 1:03:42Speaker 4: Yeah but no one had but no one had more
- 1:03:43Speaker 4: than two targets because that's the kind of.
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: Thing again it goes back it goes back to what
- 1:03:48Speaker 1: i said the beginning of the season someone's.
- 1:03:50Speaker 4: Gonna be unhappy pete this proves your point maybe if
- 1:03:52Speaker 4: if what awesome is saying is accurate i don't.
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: I doubt that he is he he doesn't he's the
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: first guy in the last guy out doesn't seem like
- 1:03:58Speaker 1: he would do that now maybe an agent would do
- 1:04:01Speaker 1: that tell him to do.
- 1:04:03Speaker 3: It i'm just saying man and like.
- 1:04:05Speaker 2: There's a propensity for injury at that as well.
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: You sound like you heard something.
- 1:04:08Speaker 3: I haven't heard that.
- 1:04:09Speaker 5: No, man. I'm just saying I watch this team closely, right?
- 1:04:12Speaker 5: I don't always talk a lot, but I'm always watching
- 1:04:15Speaker 5: this team and the.
- 1:04:15Speaker 3: Moves that they make.
- 1:04:16Speaker 5: And I just don't think that move of Travis Hunter,
- 1:04:19Speaker 5: because you didn't need juice in that moment. I could
- 1:04:22Speaker 5: have saw it where, okay, Indy scored and everything. Defense
- 1:04:25Speaker 5: isn't playing well. You need to motivate your guys a
- 1:04:27Speaker 5: little bit. We know Travis Hunter's a lot more shifty
- 1:04:30Speaker 5: and a lot quicker than Parker Washington is. Okay, maybe
- 1:04:33Speaker 5: that's what you're going with. You didn't need it in
- 1:04:36Speaker 5: that circumstance. So to me, I think it says something. Now,
- 1:04:41Speaker 5: didn't they bring Parker Washington back in, though, again?
- 1:04:43Speaker 2: Yeah, Parker Washington, they switched on and off, so it
- 1:04:45Speaker 2: wasn't just that.
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: But here's the funny part.
- 1:04:48Speaker 3: Hang on. Go ahead, Pete.
- 1:04:51Speaker 1: Look, Deion used to return punts and play corner.
- 1:04:55Speaker 3: Remember? Yeah, of course. But here's the thing.
- 1:04:58Speaker 5: I felt like the Travis Hunter punt returns, it was
- 1:05:02Speaker 5: always when he had a chance to return it. The
- 1:05:04Speaker 5: Parker Washington ones, he was deep in his own end
- 1:05:07Speaker 5: zone and he couldn't do anything with it.
- 1:05:08Speaker 3: So it felt like.
- 1:05:10Speaker 1: You think he was just there to catch the ball
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: and that's it.
- 1:05:12Speaker 3: Parker was. And I think the ones that had the return,
- 1:05:15Speaker 3: Travis Hunter was out there for it.
- 1:05:18Speaker 6: Parker hasn't been great returning punts this year.
- 1:05:21Speaker 4: Uh.
- 1:05:23Speaker 6: What's his average compared to what he did last year?
- 1:05:25Speaker 2: I'll look it up.
- 1:05:27Speaker 4: But my thought process is twofold here because, Pete, I
- 1:05:30Speaker 4: know you mentioned he wants to market himself, right? And
- 1:05:34Speaker 4: part of his sell is that he does special things
- 1:05:37Speaker 4: on punt return. But also the point being proven when
- 1:05:40Speaker 4: you're talking about not getting hurt because this is a
- 1:05:43Speaker 4: contract year for you, punt return is where people get
- 1:05:45Speaker 4: banged up. And that's part of my issue with Travis
- 1:05:47Speaker 4: Hunter being involved in punt return because he just came
- 1:05:50Speaker 4: back from an injury in his rookie year. And now
- 1:05:51Speaker 4: we're putting him in a spot where people can tee
- 1:05:53Speaker 4: off against him. This isn't a great spot to be at.
- 1:05:56Speaker 1: Yeah, it's almost like, well, we got this toy and
- 1:05:58Speaker 1: we got him going on offense a little bit. Now
- 1:06:01Speaker 1: let's get him going on special teams to show how
- 1:06:03Speaker 1: great he is. Nobody needs to see that. Look, it
- 1:06:08Speaker 1: just doesn't make any sense. The risk is too great
- 1:06:11Speaker 1: for him on the punt return. I wouldn't do that.
- 1:06:13Speaker 1: You know, back in the day, there was a corner
- 1:06:15Speaker 1: named Jason Sehorne who the Giants had returning kickoffs. Remember him?
- 1:06:19Speaker 1: He was a really good corner. He returned kickoffs and
- 1:06:21Speaker 1: he was never the same because he tore up his
- 1:06:25Speaker 1: knee on a kickoff Yeah.
- 1:06:28Speaker 5: I just think, I mean, once again, maybe if it's
- 1:06:30Speaker 5: the play, you know, maybe with a game on the line,
- 1:06:31Speaker 5: a season on the line, I can, I can maybe
- 1:06:34Speaker 5: fathom it.
- 1:06:35Speaker 3: I just don't think in that moment, it really made
- 1:06:37Speaker 3: a lot of sense to me.
- 1:06:39Speaker 4: It was just one of the unique things where normally
- 1:06:41Speaker 4: you kind of understand where they're going with things. And
- 1:06:43Speaker 4: that just kind of felt like it came out of
- 1:06:44Speaker 4: nowhere a little bit there.
- 1:06:45Speaker 1: Did anybody ask him after the game?
- 1:06:49Speaker 2: I was not in the coach's press conference, so I'm
- 1:06:51Speaker 2: not sure.
- 1:06:51Speaker 3: I'm in the stands, Pete.
- 1:06:54Speaker 2: As mentioned, I'm not.
- 1:06:55Speaker 1: There because I would ask them, what in the hell
- 1:06:57Speaker 1: are you doing putting Travis Hunter back on punch floor?
- 1:07:01Speaker 4: I mean.
- 1:07:02Speaker 1: I mean, look, Travis might want to do it, but
- 1:07:05Speaker 1: you've got to protect your player in that situation.
- 1:07:06Speaker 2: Travis wants to do everything.
- 1:07:07Speaker 4: Travis will play every single down.
- 1:07:08Speaker 3: Travis wants to be a kicker.
- 1:07:09Speaker 4: Travis would kick field goals for you, if you will, Adam.
- 1:07:11Speaker 1: Your punt returner to me, and it's exactly what Parker
- 1:07:15Speaker 1: Washington was when he became a good punt returner, is
- 1:07:18Speaker 1: a backup wide receiver.
- 1:07:20Speaker 3: Yes.
- 1:07:20Speaker 6: That's what your punt returner should be.
- 1:07:23Speaker 4: I think Josh Cameron is who they should focus in
- 1:07:25Speaker 4: on for that, personally.
- 1:07:27Speaker 2: Josh Cameron has that ability.
- 1:07:29Speaker 3: And you're right, Pete, and I said this.
- 1:07:31Speaker 5: If you pay Parker Washington, right, and obviously, regardless of
- 1:07:34Speaker 5: what the stats look like right now, he's making wide
- 1:07:36Speaker 5: receiver one money.
- 1:07:37Speaker 3: How many wide receiver ones in the NFL are returning punts?
- 1:07:42Speaker 2: They're not.
- 1:07:42Speaker 3: They're not. For a reason.
- 1:07:43Speaker 1: No.
- 1:07:44Speaker 7: Right?
- 1:07:44Speaker 3: So... I don't know if that's got something to do
- 1:07:47Speaker 3: with it. I don't know. I just don't think it
- 1:07:50Speaker 3: was just.
- 1:07:50Speaker 1: If he's a wide receiver one, he better start putting
- 1:07:52Speaker 1: up the numbers like a wide receiver one.
- 1:07:53Speaker 4: Sure.
- 1:07:53Speaker 3: Fair. And I agree with you.
- 1:07:56Speaker 1: He is their wide receiver one. Don't get me wrong.
- 1:07:58Speaker 1: You don't need him that much in a game where
- 1:08:00Speaker 1: you run the ball like they did on Sunday.
- 1:08:01Speaker 7: True.
- 1:08:02Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:08:04Speaker 4: Oh, well.
- 1:08:05Speaker 3: But again.
- 1:08:06Speaker 1: It'll be something to watch. He ain't happy. I don't
- 1:08:08Speaker 1: care what anybody says. He's not happy with his numbers
- 1:08:10Speaker 1: and his production. He can't be.
- 1:08:12Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 1:08:13Speaker 2: You're never going to know.
- 1:08:14Speaker 6: The other guys can't.
- 1:08:14Speaker 1: Be happy with their numbers in their production.
- 1:08:17Speaker 2: So Pete, who's the angriest? You think they're all angry
- 1:08:19Speaker 2: right now?
- 1:08:19Speaker 6: They would never admit it.
- 1:08:21Speaker 1: You don't admit it when you're in a good team.
- 1:08:24Speaker 1: And you're winning.
- 1:08:24Speaker 4: Okay.
- 1:08:25Speaker 2: You're only allowed to admit it, but.
- 1:08:26Speaker 1: I deep down, if you put them all in a
- 1:08:28Speaker 1: lie detector test and after they were happy with their production, they,
- 1:08:30Speaker 1: every one of them, if they said yes, they would
- 1:08:32Speaker 1: be get the.
- 1:08:35Speaker 4: Lion.
- 1:08:36Speaker 5: Because listen, there's some positions in the league where when
- 1:08:38Speaker 5: you get a new contract, it doesn't matter as long
- 1:08:41Speaker 5: as you have the wins. And then there's some positions
- 1:08:42Speaker 5: that are predicated, how many touchdowns you have, how many
- 1:08:45Speaker 5: receptions you have, how many quarterback sacks you have. They
- 1:08:47Speaker 5: don't care about pressures. You have to, you have to
- 1:08:49Speaker 5: the quarterback at quarterback sacks to get a new contract.
- 1:08:52Speaker 5: Wide receiver, you need receptions, you need touchdowns.
- 1:08:55Speaker 1: And we saw the cornerback part of that start to
- 1:08:58Speaker 1: play out a little bit on Sunday, too.
- 1:08:59Speaker 6: Because somebody only had i think 14 snaps.
- 1:09:04Speaker 1: You know who that was who's this jorian.
- 1:09:07Speaker 3: Jones yeah jorian jones.
- 1:09:10Speaker 2: Why do we think that.
- 1:09:11Speaker 1: Is because i think they feel more comfortable with the other.
- 1:09:15Speaker 4: Guys yeah Is this a permanent situation, do we think?
- 1:09:19Speaker 4: I guess we'll keep an eye on it.
- 1:09:21Speaker 6: I mean, do you think he can be happy about that?
- 1:09:24Speaker 6: There's not a chance in hell.
- 1:09:25Speaker 1: He's happy about that.
- 1:09:26Speaker 3: Jarrion Jones, do you want my opinion about it? Yes.
- 1:09:29Speaker 5: I think Jarrion Jones is pretty upset because he's been
- 1:09:32Speaker 5: playing off the wide receiver way too much, and he's
- 1:09:35Speaker 5: upset with that. Because, once again, I don't know any
- 1:09:38Speaker 5: inside thing. I watch people and their personalities. Jarrion Jones
- 1:09:42Speaker 5: was the first guy when Trevor Lawrence got cheap shot
- 1:09:44Speaker 5: a couple years ago.
- 1:09:45Speaker 3: That went after Aziz Alshair. So I know what kind
- 1:09:48Speaker 3: of dog he is.
- 1:09:49Speaker 5: So when you have a guy like him who's playing
- 1:09:52Speaker 5: off the ball, who's playing off the guy, I think.
- 1:09:55Speaker 1: That rubs— But he's also been beating man-to-man.
- 1:09:56Speaker 3: No, no, and once again, I agree, Pete.
- 1:09:59Speaker 5: But I think when you have a guy and you
- 1:10:01Speaker 5: play him off the ball like that, I think that
- 1:10:03Speaker 5: gets in his psyche a little bit, and obviously you
- 1:10:04Speaker 5: don't get the best Johnny and Jones.
- 1:10:06Speaker 6: Yeah, the last couple games he was not good.
- 1:10:08Speaker 1: Correct. And so I think maybe that's a reflection of that.
- 1:10:12Speaker 1: Because how many, are you looking at it?
- 1:10:13Speaker 2: Yeah, 12 snaps. Him and Jalen Jones both had 12.
- 1:10:15Speaker 1: Yeah, so now he's the fifth corner.
- 1:10:21Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, some of this is garbage time, but
- 1:10:23Speaker 4: Jalen Husky played 18 snaps.
- 1:10:26Speaker 2: So comparatively, yeah, not.
- 1:10:29Speaker 1: I mean, I guarantee you, as a good beat guy
- 1:10:33Speaker 1: as I used to be, I'd be in that locker room.
- 1:10:36Speaker 2: Pete will ask you those tough questions.
- 1:10:38Speaker 1: Oh, I'd be in. No, I wouldn't. I'd get a
- 1:10:39Speaker 1: story out of it. I'd go, hey, Jorian.
- 1:10:42Speaker 2: Wow.
- 1:10:42Speaker 1: 14 snaps?
- 1:10:43Speaker 6: What the hell is going on?
- 1:10:44Speaker 1: Poking the bear.
- 1:10:45Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
- 1:10:45Speaker 2: Pete, an instigator?
- 1:10:46Speaker 1: I can't imagine. And knowing how the players react. he
- 1:10:54Speaker 1: would react in the way that I know he would react,
- 1:10:56Speaker 1: because he's a fighter and a battler, and he'd be pissed,
- 1:10:59Speaker 1: and he'd say something along those lines, and all of
- 1:11:01Speaker 1: a sudden I had my headline, Jarrion Jones not happy
- 1:11:03Speaker 1: with his role.
- 1:11:05Speaker 2: Pete Prisco with his tabloid headline.
- 1:11:07Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, but wouldn't you, and again, I would
- 1:11:12Speaker 1: have gone over to Travis Hunter and said, why are
- 1:11:14Speaker 1: you returning punts? You shouldn't be.
- 1:11:16Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 1:11:17Speaker 3: And then people would go to Parker and be like,
- 1:11:19Speaker 3: one reception? Yeah, one reception.
- 1:11:21Speaker 1: No, I'd go to Parker and say, you're not getting
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: the ball enough.
- 1:11:24Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:11:25Speaker 1: And then I'd say, why aren't you on punts? You've
- 1:11:27Speaker 1: got to ask the questions. I know the guys are
- 1:11:29Speaker 1: in there. Some of those guys will do it. But,
- 1:11:32Speaker 1: you know, it's just... Ryan O'Halloran will go in there
- 1:11:36Speaker 1: maybe on Wednesday and ask those questions. Or Hayes. One
- 1:11:40Speaker 1: of them needs to go. Or Duraco. One of these
- 1:11:42Speaker 1: guys needs to go ask those questions. They're legitimate questions.
- 1:11:45Speaker 1: And they all do a good job. They just do
- 1:11:48Speaker 1: it differently than I used to do it. I was
- 1:11:50Speaker 1: a little.
- 1:11:52Speaker 2: There's no finesse with Pete Prisco. There's no finesse. He's
- 1:11:55Speaker 2: just coming in.
- 1:11:55Speaker 3: That's why they call him Sledgehammer.
- 1:11:57Speaker 1: You got to play the player. You got to play
- 1:12:00Speaker 1: the player against the organization and then the player against
- 1:12:03Speaker 1: the coach. It's so easy to do.
- 1:12:04Speaker 5: That's Paramount plus Pete right there, Kai. That's why he's
- 1:12:07Speaker 5: making the big bucks. You better tell him, Pete.
- 1:12:09Speaker 4: A drama king indeed.
- 1:12:11Speaker 3: All right.
- 1:12:12Speaker 4: We're going to take one more break. Jaguars Happy Hour
- 1:12:14Speaker 4: presented by Mr. Chubby's Wings. We will finally get to
- 1:12:17Speaker 4: our fan questions when we come back.
- 1:12:23Speaker 3: Jones stops the throw. Four-man rush. Love game. Fires middle
- 1:12:27Speaker 3: of the field.
- 1:12:27Speaker 4: That ball's going.
- 1:12:28Speaker 1: To be picked off. The Jackson running it back. 20, 25, 30,
- 1:12:31Speaker 1: 40-yard line along the right sideline. That's Rayon Lane. 30, 20, 15, 10, 5. Touchdown.
- 1:12:39Speaker 1: Rayon Lane brought it all the way back. He scored
- 1:12:42Speaker 1: a defensive touchdown. How good is that?
- 1:12:46Speaker 2: Frank Frangie with the call of the game winner.
- 1:12:48Speaker 4: Not the game winner, but one of the plays of
- 1:12:50Speaker 4: the game presented by Coil Fence since 1927. We've been
- 1:12:53Speaker 4: around the block and fenced it too. Ran Ling got
- 1:12:56Speaker 4: pretty fast and then I was afraid he was going
- 1:12:58Speaker 4: to gas out at the end there, but he made
- 1:13:00Speaker 4: it into the end zone. A pick six.
- 1:13:01Speaker 1: Could you imagine if Daniel Jones had caught him?
- 1:13:03Speaker 4: Oh, I know.
- 1:13:03Speaker 2: He never would have heard the end of it. So
- 1:13:04Speaker 2: he still, he made it. He played the angle at
- 1:13:06Speaker 2: the end, so that was good. He's smart enough to
- 1:13:08Speaker 2: do that.
- 1:13:08Speaker 4: But yeah, great game for him and a great moment
- 1:13:10Speaker 4: as well. So congrats to him and congrats to the team.
- 1:13:13Speaker 4: Let's get to some fan questions. I'm sorry I've been
- 1:13:14Speaker 4: dragging everybody along here, but So much to talk about
- 1:13:17Speaker 4: that we just haven't gotten to them yet. So let's
- 1:13:19Speaker 4: start out with trade possibilities. Pete, we've been talking about
- 1:13:22Speaker 4: this for weeks, but Max Crosby allegedly says he wants
- 1:13:25Speaker 4: to stay in Las Vegas. Payne injured in Washington. Are
- 1:13:29Speaker 4: the Jags running out of options for trade?
- 1:13:31Speaker 1: Nah, there's always guys. You just got to be willing
- 1:13:33Speaker 1: to pay the price on them. And, you know, again,
- 1:13:37Speaker 1: they signed Austin Johnson today to the practice squad.
- 1:13:40Speaker 2: Yeah, he was with us last season.
- 1:13:41Speaker 1: So they got another big body. They brought him back.
- 1:13:43Speaker 1: He's another big body. Not that he's the answer. They
- 1:13:46Speaker 1: still got to go explore some of those options. But
- 1:13:48Speaker 1: you call teams. There's guys out there. Teams that stink
- 1:13:51Speaker 1: will be willing to trade some of their players.
- 1:13:54Speaker 4: Even I heard Christian Barmore in England was available now.
- 1:13:57Speaker 2: Did you see that, Pete?
- 1:13:58Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 1:13:59Speaker 2: That's interesting.
- 1:14:01Speaker 1: I would call on him. I would call on Zach
- 1:14:04Speaker 1: Seeler in Miami. I would call on Jordan Davis in Philly.
- 1:14:10Speaker 1: Jomo in Philly. Although, you know, I don't think a
- 1:14:14Speaker 1: Jomo's played that well. this year yeah early in the
- 1:14:18Speaker 1: season he was good then he kind of tailed off
- 1:14:19Speaker 1: then he got dinged up a little bit so there
- 1:14:22Speaker 1: there are guys out there um you could make call
- 1:14:25Speaker 1: roy lopez in uh arizona big body guy you might
- 1:14:29Speaker 1: be able to get somebody like that so there are
- 1:14:31Speaker 1: bodies out there it's just a matter of making making
- 1:14:33Speaker 1: the decision to.
- 1:14:34Speaker 6: Go get one and i think they will and they
- 1:14:36Speaker 6: might get two.
- 1:14:38Speaker 4: P what's what can you give up those it just
- 1:14:40Speaker 4: have to be picks i mean when you go all
- 1:14:41Speaker 4: in when you're trying to go for a Super Bowl now,
- 1:14:44Speaker 4: it has to be future picks, right?
- 1:14:45Speaker 2: Because you don't want to give up too much of
- 1:14:46Speaker 2: what you have.
- 1:14:48Speaker 1: Yeah, and you've got to be careful about giving up those.
- 1:14:50Speaker 1: I mean, if you get the guy and win the
- 1:14:51Speaker 1: Super Bowl, it's the greatest trade in the history of mankind.
- 1:14:54Speaker 1: If you get the guy and you don't win the
- 1:14:55Speaker 1: Super Bowl, then your organization is going to be set back.
- 1:14:58Speaker 1: But I think they're in a position now that they
- 1:15:01Speaker 1: can win it all. I really believe that. I picked
- 1:15:04Speaker 1: them before the season. I believe it even more so now.
- 1:15:07Speaker 1: But you've got to make some moves to kind of
- 1:15:09Speaker 1: solidify that. Other teams out there going for it, the Bears,
- 1:15:12Speaker 1: they're making moves. And so, you know, I think when
- 1:15:16Speaker 1: the trade deadline gets here, like the Chiefs are looking
- 1:15:18Speaker 1: for wide receiver help. Downs might be one of them. Hell,
- 1:15:21Speaker 1: they might. I think Brian Thomas could be one. So
- 1:15:25Speaker 1: they're going to make a move. I think Broncos might
- 1:15:27Speaker 1: make a move for a back. Jonathan Taylor's out there.
- 1:15:30Speaker 1: So if everybody's going to make moves, you've got to
- 1:15:32Speaker 1: do something to make your team and make your chances.
- 1:15:35Speaker 1: It's your time. Go make the moves.
- 1:15:37Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
- 1:15:38Speaker 5: I mean, if the window's open, you've got to capitalize
- 1:15:40Speaker 5: on it, right?
- 1:15:42Speaker 3: And keep in mind who we're talking about.
- 1:15:43Speaker 5: This regime comes from the Rams, who I feel like
- 1:15:45Speaker 5: the Rams wrote the blueprint and the notebook on how
- 1:15:49Speaker 5: to capitalize and give up some of that draft capital
- 1:15:51Speaker 5: for To win now.
- 1:15:52Speaker 4: We're going to play Dudwell's Advocate.
- 1:15:56Speaker 2: Hypotheticals here as well.
- 1:15:57Speaker 4: If the Jaguars don't make a move ahead of the
- 1:16:00Speaker 4: trade deadline, can the offense take steps forward, carry the
- 1:16:03Speaker 4: defense with a deep playoff run? Can they still get
- 1:16:06Speaker 4: to the Super Bowl, Pete, with the roster as currently
- 1:16:08Speaker 4: constructed is a guess.
- 1:16:09Speaker 1: Yes, but you're going to have to score more and
- 1:16:11Speaker 1: you're going to have to play a little looser and
- 1:16:13Speaker 1: a little freer on the offensive side of the ball,
- 1:16:14Speaker 1: I think. That's, you know, that's my perception of it. Yeah.
- 1:16:19Speaker 1: I don't think I still don't think we've seen the
- 1:16:21Speaker 1: best of the passing game yet.
- 1:16:22Speaker 4: That's what my so this feels plausible to me only
- 1:16:25Speaker 4: because do you as as many blowout wins as they've had?
- 1:16:28Speaker 4: I still feel like there's more to be unlocked. Like
- 1:16:30Speaker 4: I still haven't seen it all. Like there's there's more
- 1:16:32Speaker 4: to be done in my turn, in my my opinion,
- 1:16:34Speaker 4: in terms.
- 1:16:35Speaker 2: Of the offense.
- 1:16:36Speaker 1: I agree. I think they can throw it around much
- 1:16:39Speaker 1: better than they throw it and much more than they
- 1:16:42Speaker 1: throw it. And I think they will.
- 1:16:45Speaker 3: I don't like the whole phrase carry the defense. I'm
- 1:16:47Speaker 3: not going to lie. Could we go back to that question?
- 1:16:49Speaker 5: Because I didn't like how they just said carry the– well,
- 1:16:52Speaker 5: I mean, because I feel like this defense has kind
- 1:16:54Speaker 5: of had the offenses back a couple times.
- 1:16:55Speaker 3: This season as well.
- 1:16:56Speaker 2: Sure, we're just nitpicking.
- 1:16:57Speaker 4: We're talking about– because we've been talking about getting an
- 1:16:59Speaker 4: edge forever and now without Devon Hamilton and now.
- 1:17:02Speaker 1: Without Aaron Murray. Right, you're down two starters on that defense.
- 1:17:07Speaker 1: But you're also down– a starting offensive lineman on offense too.
- 1:17:12Speaker 1: And technically on Sunday... Maybe two.
- 1:17:14Speaker 2: Now because Ezra Cleveland was injured as well.
- 1:17:16Speaker 1: Right.
- 1:17:17Speaker 6: You played mostly with two down on Sunday.
- 1:17:19Speaker 1: And the backup stepped up and made play. Look, if
- 1:17:23Speaker 1: you think about it, Milam went in and was really good.
- 1:17:27Speaker 1: Walker Little was their best offensive lineman. Lane was outstanding.
- 1:17:30Speaker 4: And....
- 1:17:32Speaker 1: You know, when Hamilton went out, it's not like the
- 1:17:35Speaker 1: Colts ran the hole over him. So the replacements went
- 1:17:38Speaker 1: in there and did a nice job. So that's a
- 1:17:40Speaker 1: good sign to have the depth that can step in
- 1:17:42Speaker 1: and play when you have those injuries.
- 1:17:44Speaker 5: Pete, real quick, the way that the AFC shakes up
- 1:17:47Speaker 5: right now, and let's just fast forward to the playoffs
- 1:17:48Speaker 5: a little bit. If the Jaguars can stop the run
- 1:17:52Speaker 5: like we think that they can't even lose Devon Hamilton,
- 1:17:55Speaker 5: what offenses really get stifled?
- 1:17:58Speaker 3: Because I see it like this.
- 1:17:59Speaker 5: I think if you stop Kenneth Walker right now with
- 1:18:01Speaker 5: who the Chiefs have, I don't think their offense is
- 1:18:05Speaker 5: even top 15, right? So I'm not worried about the
- 1:18:07Speaker 5: Chiefs per se if you stop the run. What teams
- 1:18:11Speaker 5: were you in the AFC if.
- 1:18:13Speaker 3: You stopped the run? Buffalo?
- 1:18:15Speaker 1: Buffalo, Cincinnati. Okay.
- 1:18:17Speaker 3: Anybody else?
- 1:18:19Speaker 1: No, because Pittsburgh runs the ball. They've been running it wild.
- 1:18:22Speaker 1: You'll get an idea against them. New England, they don't
- 1:18:27Speaker 1: run it that well anyways, but they don't really fear you.
- 1:18:30Speaker 6: They don't got anybody outside that you scare.
- 1:18:31Speaker 1: And A.J. Brown has a knee injury, a knee problem. Denver,
- 1:18:36Speaker 1: you don't fear Denver. You should have beaten them the
- 1:18:39Speaker 1: first time. So I think the teams that you would
- 1:18:42Speaker 1: not want to play Not that you wouldn't want to
- 1:18:46Speaker 1: play them, but you at least want to play them
- 1:18:47Speaker 1: are Buffalo and Cincinnati.
- 1:18:49Speaker 3: Gotcha.
- 1:18:49Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 1:18:49Speaker 3: Makes sense.
- 1:18:50Speaker 1: And they already beat Cincinnati.
- 1:18:51Speaker 4: Yeah. They did.
- 1:18:53Speaker 2: I thought they did. Let's see. How about this? Okay.
- 1:18:57Speaker 4: With the injuries to Anton and Hamilton, do you think
- 1:19:00Speaker 4: the Jaguars will keep BTJ for the rest of the
- 1:19:03Speaker 4: year in case of wide receiver injury because they're dealing
- 1:19:05Speaker 4: with that elsewhere?
- 1:19:06Speaker 1: It depends on if he's involved in any trade for
- 1:19:14Speaker 1: a player you need on the defensive line, I think.
- 1:19:17Speaker 1: I wouldn't trade him for picks unless I could take
- 1:19:22Speaker 1: those picks and use them to get a defensive lineman.
- 1:19:26Speaker 1: I would include him in a trade for a defensive
- 1:19:29Speaker 1: lineman if the team that I was trading him to
- 1:19:32Speaker 1: needed that. But just to trade him for the sake
- 1:19:35Speaker 1: of getting picks, I wouldn't do that.
- 1:19:38Speaker 6: No that's you got a chance to play and win
- 1:19:40Speaker 6: the super bowl why.
- 1:19:40Speaker 5: Would you do that you trade for picks when you're
- 1:19:42Speaker 5: almost like the the colts would do the colts are
- 1:19:45Speaker 5: doing that right like you're in like a rebuild mode
- 1:19:47Speaker 5: that's not what the jaguars are in so the only
- 1:19:49Speaker 5: way i'd even be.
- 1:19:50Speaker 1: More picks and you could use picks to trade for
- 1:19:53Speaker 1: sure but a defensive lineman so let's put it.
- 1:19:55Speaker 5: Like this the only way i'm gonna be happy if
- 1:19:57Speaker 5: brian thomas jr gets like i'll even like entertain it
- 1:20:01Speaker 5: is if you get immediate impact right away that season,
- 1:20:03Speaker 5: whether that's picks that turn into a player, whether that's
- 1:20:06Speaker 5: a player. But if we're talking about, oh, they get,
- 1:20:09Speaker 5: you know, a couple more picks next year. No, absolutely not.
- 1:20:11Speaker 1: It has to be an immediate impact. I'm not just
- 1:20:15Speaker 1: trading them for extra picks for next year.
- 1:20:17Speaker 4: No.
- 1:20:18Speaker 1: If I get the picks to get a player, yes.
- 1:20:20Speaker 1: If it's a player for player in a swap, yes.
- 1:20:22Speaker 7: Yep.
- 1:20:23Speaker 4: We touched on this a bit earlier, but now with
- 1:20:25Speaker 4: the Devon Hamilton injury, the question is what is Albert Regis' status?
- 1:20:30Speaker 4: Because when you look back at some of the picks
- 1:20:31Speaker 4: this year, he's one of the ones that we haven't
- 1:20:33Speaker 4: seen anything from. He's not active very often. Is he
- 1:20:37Speaker 4: just not ready, Pete? Is this not something that's happening
- 1:20:39Speaker 4: right now?
- 1:20:41Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you look through defensive linemen, it takes
- 1:20:44Speaker 1: them a little time to get going as young players.
- 1:20:48Speaker 1: It's hard to– that position as much as any.
- 1:20:50Speaker 6: Other is tough.
- 1:20:52Speaker 1: And so– but now he's going to have to play.
- 1:20:55Speaker 1: And he's going to have to be a guy that
- 1:20:57Speaker 1: gets in there and starts doing some things. You know,
- 1:20:59Speaker 1: the one thing about him is– He's not that power
- 1:21:03Speaker 1: run stuffer, even though he's pretty good against the run,
- 1:21:05Speaker 1: at least he was in college, but he can push
- 1:21:08Speaker 1: the pocket too. If he can do what he did
- 1:21:10Speaker 1: in college, he pushed the pocket a little bit. So
- 1:21:11Speaker 1: that might help them from that standpoint.
- 1:21:14Speaker 5: Yeah, it's wild because when he was drafted, because a
- 1:21:17Speaker 5: lot of people felt a certain type of way about it.
- 1:21:19Speaker 5: They weren't happy with the size and, you know, what's
- 1:21:22Speaker 5: going to go against the consensus boards a little bit.
- 1:21:25Speaker 5: But to me, like I saw that and I saw
- 1:21:27Speaker 5: a Puna Ford from the Rams.
- 1:21:29Speaker 3: Like that's what I envisioned.
- 1:21:31Speaker 5: If you know anything about Puna Ford, like undersized, right,
- 1:21:35Speaker 5: but fit in a great scheme with the Rams and
- 1:21:37Speaker 5: is once again kind of like their unsung guy a
- 1:21:39Speaker 5: little bit when they're playing well. I'm struggling a little
- 1:21:41Speaker 5: bit right now, but kind of the unsung guy and
- 1:21:44Speaker 5: great in stopping the run.
- 1:21:45Speaker 3: And that's kind of what I envisioned for Alvarito.
- 1:21:48Speaker 5: He's a little taller than Puna, but I just feel
- 1:21:50Speaker 5: like the same style, same build and everything.
- 1:21:52Speaker 3: So that's why I'm a little optimistic.
- 1:21:54Speaker 5: But once again, it's one thing to put a guy
- 1:21:56Speaker 5: in there who doesn't have a lot of experience coming
- 1:21:58Speaker 5: off an injury as a rookie and expect him to
- 1:22:01Speaker 5: replace a guy like Devon Hamilton.
- 1:22:03Speaker 1: By the way, one other thing about that consensus board,
- 1:22:05Speaker 1: they were all wrong about Borkature.
- 1:22:07Speaker 4: Hmm.
- 1:22:08Speaker 2: I like to bring that up every time because it's funny.
- 1:22:10Speaker 3: Let him know.
- 1:22:10Speaker 4: Let him know, Pete.
- 1:22:12Speaker 2: Blocking tight end catches touchdowns, too. It's not too bad.
- 1:22:15Speaker 1: He's going to be a good pass-catching tight end, too,
- 1:22:18Speaker 1: by the way.
- 1:22:19Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:22:19Speaker 2: It's a quick study.
- 1:22:20Speaker 4: It's nice to see that success right out of the
- 1:22:21Speaker 4: gate for him, and obviously he's doing great in the
- 1:22:23Speaker 4: blocking game as well. What they've been able to do
- 1:22:25Speaker 4: with the run is a lot of a testament to
- 1:22:27Speaker 4: the tight end room as well. We should give them
- 1:22:28Speaker 4: some credit there. We may have answered this question already
- 1:22:32Speaker 4: because of the injury to Eric Murray, but High Roller says,
- 1:22:35Speaker 4: I feel like safety has left a lot to be
- 1:22:37Speaker 4: desired over the past couple of seasons outside of Antonio Johnson.
- 1:22:40Speaker 4: Do you think we'll see more usage of guys like
- 1:22:42Speaker 4: Lane and Husky after Sunday's games? Austin, do you think
- 1:22:45Speaker 4: now that we are... Sorry to cut.
- 1:22:46Speaker 1: You off, Pete.
- 1:22:46Speaker 4: Austin, do you think now that they have to, will
- 1:22:50Speaker 4: Husky get his chance now?
- 1:22:51Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think obviously Lane and this team
- 1:22:54Speaker 5: makes a habit where if you make plays, they're going
- 1:22:56Speaker 5: to find a spot for you or find you in
- 1:22:57Speaker 5: some kind of capacity. So I definitely expect to see
- 1:23:00Speaker 5: more lane Husky. I just think it's a guy that
- 1:23:03Speaker 5: they keep gradually getting him reps and getting him more confidence.
- 1:23:06Speaker 5: Cause it's like I've said the whole time, the physicality,
- 1:23:09Speaker 5: the athleticism to me, isn't the issue. I think it's
- 1:23:12Speaker 5: just the mentality or like the IQ of being a rookie.
- 1:23:16Speaker 5: So that takes time.
- 1:23:17Speaker 1: To recognize and get guys lined up and everything else. But,
- 1:23:21Speaker 1: but I will say this, that is one position where
- 1:23:25Speaker 1: when it goes for an older player, And then you
- 1:23:29Speaker 1: see the younger player next to him. And that younger
- 1:23:33Speaker 1: player looks so much faster and so much more athletic.
- 1:23:37Speaker 1: I think that's when you can say, okay, it might
- 1:23:39Speaker 1: be time. And Murray was a good cerebral, good player
- 1:23:44Speaker 1: in their defense. But when he had to, he got,
- 1:23:46Speaker 1: did he have a concussion a couple of weeks ago?
- 1:23:48Speaker 1: And then he came back against the Texans. And he wasn't,
- 1:23:51Speaker 1: he wasn't very good in that game. He didn't look
- 1:23:53Speaker 1: like himself. So I think, Look, you're going to miss them,
- 1:23:59Speaker 1: but if one of those guys gets the mental part
- 1:24:01Speaker 1: of it down, you're not really going to miss them.
- 1:24:04Speaker 4: It's the mental part, but it's also the communication because
- 1:24:06Speaker 4: we've seen what bad communication on the back end can
- 1:24:09Speaker 4: look like around here in Jacksonville, and that was the
- 1:24:11Speaker 4: part that I need to see them do.
- 1:24:12Speaker 1: But you know what? Those young athletic players, Kai, they'll
- 1:24:13Speaker 1: make up for it sometimes with their athletic ability.
- 1:24:15Speaker 4: I sure hope they can when they mess up.
- 1:24:18Speaker 3: Josh Downs said thank you yesterday.
- 1:24:19Speaker 4: When they mess up and they can still get back
- 1:24:22Speaker 4: to the spot.
- 1:24:23Speaker 2: But yes, that is my concern.
- 1:24:25Speaker 1: That was not on the safety, though.
- 1:24:27Speaker 3: No, is that the– I mean, yeah.
- 1:24:29Speaker 6: It was– I think it was Monteric Brown, to be
- 1:24:32Speaker 6: honest with you.
- 1:24:32Speaker 3: Yeah, now you mention it, I think you're right.
- 1:24:35Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 1:24:36Speaker 2: Well, we'll see what this looks like going forward.
- 1:24:38Speaker 3: It's not the best look, though, either.
- 1:24:39Speaker 6: Oh, that shouldn't be happening for him.
- 1:24:41Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:24:43Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:24:44Speaker 2: Was it man or zone? Because we all know.
- 1:24:45Speaker 3: Oh, I believe it was zone. They didn't pass it off.
- 1:24:48Speaker 3: It was zone.
- 1:24:49Speaker 1: The guy went inside. He went with them. They both
- 1:24:51Speaker 1: went with them, and then they went to the outside.
- 1:24:53Speaker 1: Nobody was sitting over there. I think he should have
- 1:24:54Speaker 1: been sitting outside. At least that's what it looked like
- 1:24:57Speaker 1: to me. I don't know for sure. I've got to
- 1:24:59Speaker 1: watch it again, but it looked like it was Brown.
- 1:25:01Speaker 4: It's his strong suit after all. We're going to take
- 1:25:03Speaker 4: one more break here on Jaguars Happy Hour.
- 1:25:04Speaker 2: We'll come back.
- 1:25:04Speaker 4: We'll talk about the Ravens Thursday night football right around
- 1:25:07Speaker 4: the corner. We'll look around the league, and we'll talk
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- 1:25:20Speaker 4: Welcome back to Jaguars Happy Hour brought to you by Mr.
- 1:25:23Speaker 4: Chubby's Wings, the second hour. And let's talk a little
- 1:25:26Speaker 4: bit about Thursday Night Football because it's right around the corner.
- 1:25:29Speaker 4: We talked some earlier, but Lamar Jackson was injured in
- 1:25:32Speaker 4: his game this week. Very early on, had a thumb injury.
- 1:25:35Speaker 4: He's had an operation. He will likely be out the
- 1:25:37Speaker 4: rest of the season. Then their backup, Snoop Huntley, got
- 1:25:41Speaker 4: hurt and he was out.
- 1:25:42Speaker 2: And then they went into.
- 1:25:44Speaker 4: their third string quarterback, UConn legend Joe Fagnano. And whether
- 1:25:50Speaker 4: he will be starting this weekend, I'm sure they'll bring
- 1:25:52Speaker 4: in some other bodies as they will need to. But
- 1:25:55Speaker 4: this might be the Derrick Henry show is what I'm expecting.
- 1:25:58Speaker 2: It's going to look like.
- 1:26:00Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know what, though? And you know this, Austin.
- 1:26:04Speaker 1: When you don't have to really respect the pass, it's
- 1:26:07Speaker 1: a lot easier to play that run.
- 1:26:09Speaker 2: Stack the box.
- 1:26:09Speaker 3: It sure is.
- 1:26:11Speaker 5: You're not lying there, but I will say this much
- 1:26:13Speaker 5: because Zay Flowers will be good to go or not.
- 1:26:15Speaker 3: Did he come out? He had zero catches, by the way.
- 1:26:17Speaker 3: Zero catches?
- 1:26:18Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:26:19Speaker 3: So was he hurt?
- 1:26:21Speaker 4: No.
- 1:26:21Speaker 1: That's because the kid didn't throw to him.
- 1:26:23Speaker 7: Okay.
- 1:26:25Speaker 5: Regardless, be mindful of him in space. It doesn't take
- 1:26:28Speaker 5: a lot for Zay Flowers to get going in space, right?
- 1:26:31Speaker 6: I know a guy that could cover him.
- 1:26:33Speaker 3: You do you now.
- 1:26:34Speaker 1: T12?
- 1:26:34Speaker 3: Yeah, the punt returner.
- 1:26:37Speaker 1: The punt returner.
- 1:26:38Speaker 2: The three-way player?
- 1:26:40Speaker 1: Yeah, put the punt returner on him.
- 1:26:41Speaker 3: I like it.
- 1:26:42Speaker 1: I like it.
- 1:26:43Speaker 3: Let's see what happens.
- 1:26:44Speaker 1: But, yeah, I think... Look, he's an undrafted free agent.
- 1:26:50Speaker 1: Or was he his late route? Was he his seventh
- 1:26:52Speaker 1: round pick? I think he was undrafted. Undrafted. And he
- 1:26:56Speaker 1: looked good in the preseason, but now there's a little
- 1:26:58Speaker 1: tape on him, you know, so.
- 1:27:02Speaker 4: Listen, regular season is very different than what we see
- 1:27:04Speaker 4: in preseason.
- 1:27:05Speaker 1: And they haven't made a move as of yet, so
- 1:27:07Speaker 1: I can't imagine anybody else is starting that game.
- 1:27:09Speaker 3: No, there's no way.
- 1:27:10Speaker 4: If there's someone on the street, unless you can try
- 1:27:11Speaker 4: to try and bribe our old friend Joe back into town.
- 1:27:15Speaker 1: Joe Flacco?
- 1:27:16Speaker 3: He's got one more of them.
- 1:27:17Speaker 2: Is he hanging out since he, these days?
- 1:27:19Speaker 3: I think he is.
- 1:27:20Speaker 1: Yeah. But they need a, they need a quarterback that
- 1:27:22Speaker 1: knows that system too. That's, that's why there was rumors
- 1:27:25Speaker 1: about trading for Bajan from the bears. Cause he played
- 1:27:28Speaker 1: Declan Doyle was in Chicago.
- 1:27:29Speaker 2: There's no way the bears are going to give that away.
- 1:27:31Speaker 2: They wouldn't get rid of him earlier.
- 1:27:33Speaker 4: I think people wanted, um, So I'm curious what that
- 1:27:38Speaker 4: will look like. Hopefully it's not Jake Browning or some
- 1:27:39Speaker 4: other backup quarterback Jaguar killer.
- 1:27:42Speaker 2: That we've run into in the past. How about Minshew
- 1:27:45Speaker 2: Mania part two, Pete?
- 1:27:47Speaker 4: The Cardinals. Gardner Minshew named the starter there as they
- 1:27:50Speaker 4: were able to. They've got the Cowboys number, apparently, because
- 1:27:53Speaker 4: they were able.
- 1:27:53Speaker 1: To get a win in overtime. Gardner is that guy.
- 1:27:55Speaker 1: He's going to come off the bench, play really well,
- 1:27:58Speaker 1: throw it around, have some fun, play loose, get his
- 1:28:00Speaker 1: team back in the game, maybe win it. And then
- 1:28:02Speaker 1: he'll start for a couple games and look good maybe
- 1:28:05Speaker 1: in one and.
- 1:28:06Speaker 6: Awful in two of them, and then back to the
- 1:28:07Speaker 6: bench he goes.
- 1:28:08Speaker 1: That's who he is.
- 1:28:08Speaker 2: That's it? It's that simple?
- 1:28:11Speaker 3: You guys don't want the wigs back?
- 1:28:13Speaker 4: Do the whole thing again?
- 1:28:15Speaker 1: I said this today on one of our shows. I
- 1:28:17Speaker 1: said it's the pile of backup quarterbacks. They all do
- 1:28:19Speaker 1: the same thing, every one of them. I don't care
- 1:28:21Speaker 1: who they are. If they play, you're going to see
- 1:28:24Speaker 1: glimpses of good. Somebody will say, oh, well, he could
- 1:28:27Speaker 1: start somewhere, and then they play three games, and you go, oh,
- 1:28:30Speaker 1: back into the pile you go. You're a backup quarterback.
- 1:28:32Speaker 5: Pete, I know that this guy is not going to
- 1:28:34Speaker 5: be in the pile anytime soon because they need him,
- 1:28:36Speaker 5: but you think JJ McCarthy is in that mold.
- 1:28:38Speaker 3: Or do you think he can kind of make a
- 1:28:39Speaker 3: name for himself again?
- 1:28:40Speaker 1: He's going to go back into the backup pile.
- 1:28:42Speaker 3: Back in the pile he goes.
- 1:28:44Speaker 1: Back into the pile.
- 1:28:45Speaker 4: Ruthless.
- 1:28:46Speaker 1: Nothing.
- 1:28:47Speaker 3: Back in the pile.
- 1:28:48Speaker 4: Pete, Titans tried to make something out of something in Cincy,
- 1:28:51Speaker 4: but couldn't get it done in overtime. Is this a
- 1:28:54Speaker 4: sign of them getting things together on offense, or just
- 1:28:57Speaker 4: no one was playing defense?
- 1:28:58Speaker 2: Is that what that was?
- 1:28:59Speaker 1: The Bengals defense wasn't very good. Plus, they turned the
- 1:29:01Speaker 1: ball over a couple of times and set him up.
- 1:29:03Speaker 1: But Cam Ward was his I think that was his
- 1:29:05Speaker 1: best game rewatching it. Got the ball out, was in rhythm,
- 1:29:09Speaker 1: didn't panic. It was clearly his best game this year
- 1:29:12Speaker 1: and it might have been his best game yet. So
- 1:29:14Speaker 1: that's a good sign for the Titans. Not a great
- 1:29:16Speaker 1: sign for Jacksonville has to play him twice.
- 1:29:18Speaker 5: Yeah, it seems like now it's this whole offense is
- 1:29:21Speaker 5: tailored to see if Cam Ward's the guy or not.
- 1:29:23Speaker 5: Like that's what they're going to find out going forward.
- 1:29:25Speaker 5: Like they have to figure out if he's going to
- 1:29:27Speaker 5: be the franchise dude or if they have to look
- 1:29:28Speaker 5: in a different direction.
- 1:29:29Speaker 2: Played well.
- 1:29:30Speaker 4: I didn't love that kind of two-minute drill at the
- 1:29:32Speaker 4: end there because they had an opportunity, but he took
- 1:29:33Speaker 4: a sack late, and that's what.
- 1:29:34Speaker 1: Kind of ended up going into overtime.
- 1:29:37Speaker 4: And also just I think there's a lot to be
- 1:29:39Speaker 4: said when you're obviously the quarterback, you're leading the team,
- 1:29:41Speaker 4: but when you're operating two-minute drill and you're yelling but
- 1:29:44Speaker 4: not in an organized way, if that makes sense, it
- 1:29:46Speaker 4: looked a little frantic to me, and I'm like, I
- 1:29:47Speaker 4: know you guys practice this every day. This cannot be
- 1:29:50Speaker 4: as frantic as it is.
- 1:29:52Speaker 1: And that was not a good look for him.
- 1:29:53Speaker 4: It didn't look great. Elsewhere in the league, what we
- 1:29:55Speaker 4: got going on? Detroit able to beat the Vikings. That's
- 1:29:58Speaker 4: their first loss. Have they figured out? Did they figure
- 1:30:00Speaker 4: out how to deal with all the blitzing?
- 1:30:02Speaker 1: Well, they ran it right at them for about 200 yards.
- 1:30:06Speaker 1: I've said that all the time again. I said that always.
- 1:30:09Speaker 1: I said, you run at them. They're not big. You
- 1:30:12Speaker 1: kind of expose them a little bit, and they ran
- 1:30:14Speaker 1: it for 200. And it wasn't just Gibbs. Bakke ran
- 1:30:17Speaker 1: for about 70 yards, too. Sione Bakke. They ran at them.
- 1:30:21Speaker 3: All right.
- 1:30:21Speaker 2: Run the rock.
- 1:30:22Speaker 1: The Vikings might have a quarterback problem, and they've got
- 1:30:24Speaker 1: to decide what they're going to do about that. You
- 1:30:26Speaker 1: don't do it when you're 6-1, but their stretch is
- 1:30:30Speaker 1: Buffalo this week, at Green Bay, 49ers in San Francisco.
- 1:30:35Speaker 1: If they lose those three games, they're going to make
- 1:30:38Speaker 1: a change.
- 1:30:39Speaker 2: What are the options right now?
- 1:30:41Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. Or all the Raiders on Kirk Cousins. Huh?
- 1:30:48Speaker 2: Kirk's return to.
- 1:30:50Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, you watch Kyler Murray and the whole
- 1:30:53Speaker 5: back foot throw just drives me nuts when he does.
- 1:30:55Speaker 3: I don't, I don't get it.
- 1:30:56Speaker 2: He's trying to get a little.
- 1:30:57Speaker 1: He fails everything because he's so little.
- 1:30:59Speaker 2: He's trying to see.
- 1:31:00Speaker 1: He fails every pass because he's so little.
- 1:31:02Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
- 1:31:03Speaker 1: He's throwing off his back because he can't see.
- 1:31:05Speaker 3: I guess.
- 1:31:05Speaker 1: And you saw frustration from Jefferson on Sunday. Oh, of course.
- 1:31:08Speaker 1: Which is never a good thing.
- 1:31:09Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't want him getting upset.
- 1:31:12Speaker 4: Because you throw it anywhere in his region and he'll
- 1:31:14Speaker 4: get it. So the fact you can't even get it
- 1:31:15Speaker 4: over to him.
- 1:31:16Speaker 1: And he was wide open for a touchdown and he
- 1:31:17Speaker 1: sailed it over his head by about 10 yards. It
- 1:31:19Speaker 1: was terrible.
- 1:31:20Speaker 5: You feel so bad for Jefferson, though, just the quarterbacks
- 1:31:22Speaker 5: that he's had to play with, right?
- 1:31:23Speaker 3: Like he had to go to the car.
- 1:31:25Speaker 5: And meanwhile, you had Jamar Chase just, you know, doing
- 1:31:27Speaker 5: his thing and everything.
- 1:31:29Speaker 3: And you got Justin Jefferson.
- 1:31:30Speaker 5: The best wide receiver in the league is just like,
- 1:31:32Speaker 5: can I get somebody to throw the ball.
- 1:31:34Speaker 3: To me, please?
- 1:31:34Speaker 4: Right.
- 1:31:34Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:31:35Speaker 2: That would be nice. That would be thoughtful.
- 1:31:36Speaker 4: Pittsburgh gets the win over Cleveland. I know you're fading
- 1:31:39Speaker 4: on Cleveland now, right? No faith in the Browns.
- 1:31:41Speaker 1: I think they've overachieved. They're young. That's a young team.
- 1:31:44Speaker 1: Watch out for them in a year or two when
- 1:31:46Speaker 1: they get a quarterback. But I think the Steelers, Mike
- 1:31:49Speaker 1: McCarthy's a good football coach. People give, you know, they've
- 1:31:52Speaker 1: ripped him everywhere he goes. But he knows how to
- 1:31:56Speaker 1: win games, and they got back to their roots. They
- 1:31:58Speaker 1: ran the ball, and they had eight sacks. They lead
- 1:32:02Speaker 1: the league in sacks, the Steelers.
- 1:32:03Speaker 5: Yeah, it's wild, right, because it's not the sexiest offense
- 1:32:07Speaker 5: by any means, but they find a way to get
- 1:32:09Speaker 5: the job done. And when you have a defense that
- 1:32:11Speaker 5: can play complimentary football, you're always going to have a shot,
- 1:32:14Speaker 5: and Rodgers is doing just enough right now. And it's
- 1:32:16Speaker 5: wild to think about the scenes of Rodgers chewing out
- 1:32:20Speaker 5: McCarthy and T.J. Watt cussing out the defensive coordinator a
- 1:32:23Speaker 5: couple weeks ago. Yeah, they're kind of back to doing
- 1:32:26Speaker 5: their thing again.
- 1:32:27Speaker 2: All right.
- 1:32:28Speaker 4: Tonight, the defending Super Bowl champions will host the Chicago Bears,
- 1:32:32Speaker 4: two of the top defenses, two of the young coaches,
- 1:32:35Speaker 4: Mike McDonald and Johnson. Lots to watch in this game.
- 1:32:40Speaker 4: This is probably one of our closest matchups on Monday
- 1:32:42Speaker 4: Night Football. Bears, Seahawks, who you got?
- 1:32:46Speaker 1: You know, also in that game, Jeffrey Simmons against Quentin Nelson.
- 1:32:50Speaker 2: Yes, Jeffrey Simmons, Dave Hughes.
- 1:32:53Speaker 1: Right?
- 1:32:54Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:32:54Speaker 1: Like at AFC South. All AFC South, at least, battle
- 1:32:57Speaker 1: each other twice a year. Now they're back doing it tonight.
- 1:33:01Speaker 1: I'm going to take Seattle. I think they're the better team. And, look,
- 1:33:05Speaker 1: everybody's on the Bears, but you go into Seattle on
- 1:33:09Speaker 1: a nighttime game, that's a tough, tough ask. I'll take Seattle.
- 1:33:13Speaker 5: I mean, running the football versus a team that can
- 1:33:14Speaker 5: stop the run. It's the age-old question. You err with
- 1:33:18Speaker 5: the defense, but I need a game picker upper here,
- 1:33:20Speaker 5: so go ahead and give me the Chicago Bears. Can
- 1:33:22Speaker 5: I get the ball one more time? Get the ball
- 1:33:24Speaker 5: or not?
- 1:33:25Speaker 1: You're getting desperate.
- 1:33:26Speaker 5: Hey, Travis Hunter, better catch it next time. I don't
- 1:33:28Speaker 5: want to see any of you. Just this right here
- 1:33:30Speaker 5: and just catch it, man.
- 1:33:31Speaker 1: Or don't even put him in that situation.
- 1:33:33Speaker 3: Or just, I don't care if you put him in,
- 1:33:34Speaker 3: just one of these right here is all we need.
- 1:33:36Speaker 3: Appreciate you, dude.
- 1:33:37Speaker 4: All right.
- 1:33:37Speaker 1: Austin's getting desperate. He's making picks, trying to make his
- 1:33:39Speaker 1: record better.
- 1:33:40Speaker 4: Well, finally, we have an option here. Pete's leading five
- 1:33:42Speaker 4: to two. Austin has three and four. So this is
- 1:33:45Speaker 4: an opportunity to get a game back.
- 1:33:47Speaker 3: I mean, it's a coin flip, I feel like. It
- 1:33:48Speaker 3: is a pickup. Yeah.
- 1:33:49Speaker 1: By the way, we locked the Colts last week. Let's
- 1:33:52Speaker 1: not forget about that.
- 1:33:53Speaker 2: We did. Lock is a win. What do we feel
- 1:33:55Speaker 2: about Thursday night football?
- 1:34:00Speaker 1: Um, with Joe Fagnano, a quarterback, if they don't win
- 1:34:03Speaker 1: that game, it's one of the great chokes of all time.
- 1:34:05Speaker 1: So they will win the game.
- 1:34:07Speaker 3: Are you going to lock that Pete?
- 1:34:09Speaker 2: Should we triple lock it?
- 1:34:10Speaker 1: I'm not locking it. I don't lock road games.
- 1:34:12Speaker 7: No.
- 1:34:13Speaker 2: Are we making up rules, Pete? When is that?
- 1:34:15Speaker 3: Oh, no, this is always my rule.
- 1:34:16Speaker 1: This is always my rule. I never lock the road.
- 1:34:18Speaker 1: I don't lock road games.
- 1:34:19Speaker 5: Hasn't gone to the Super Bowl, but we're going to
- 1:34:20Speaker 5: stay away from those road games.
- 1:34:22Speaker 4: All right.
- 1:34:22Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't have to lock it. You know
- 1:34:24Speaker 1: what I mean?
- 1:34:25Speaker 6: So if I don't have to lock it, I won't.
- 1:34:26Speaker 4: He's got the AFC running through Jacksonville, so he doesn't
- 1:34:28Speaker 4: have to go.
- 1:34:28Speaker 3: To road games. Okay, fair. I feel like Super Bowls
- 1:34:30Speaker 3: are going to be a road game.
- 1:34:31Speaker 2: All right, everybody.
- 1:34:32Speaker 4: Enjoy Thursday night football this week. Go out and vote
- 1:34:34Speaker 4: tomorrow if you can.
- 1:34:36Speaker 2: And just enjoy your weekend as well.
- 1:34:38Speaker 4: We will be back on Monday to recap everything for
- 1:34:40Speaker 4: you on Jaguars Happy Hour.