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Will Travis Hunter Play More vs Bengals? · Duval Daily: A Jacksonville Jaguars Podcast

• 0:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Jacksonville, Jaguar's fans, welcome in to Duval, daily presented by jingyag.com.
• 0:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Jordan Aluga, thanks so much for being here.
• 0:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thursday, September 11th.
• 0:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Mind y'all to never forget once again.
• 0:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Right now, though, we're talking about Travis Hunter.
• 0:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Jaguar's rookie, second overall pick, ever heard of him.
• 0:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: He obviously, a player playing both sides of the ball for the Jack Wars, playing YGC, and playing Cornerback, Heisman Trophy, Winner, y'all don't need all that stuff, you know about him.
• 0:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: But Travis Hunter, we're gonna kind of review what he did in week one and talk about what to expect from him moving forward.
• 0:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then towards Andy Walsh, I'll talk a little bit about Bacial Tutton, who, in my opinion, is the rookie on the Jacks that has the second most,
• 0:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, second to third most impact potentially in week two and beyond against the Cincinnati Bengals really bashed student and is running back room mate is rookie classmate Liquid Allen so we're gonna get into it really appreciate y'all being here if you enjoy the content Please like and subscribe and I'll just check out gymjag.com slash shop pick up some new dovall gear so
• 1:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: The question is, will Travis Hunter play more in week two?
• 1:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: He ended up with six catches on eight targets for the Jaguars.
• 1:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: One drop, 33 yards I believe it was, 60 fence of snaps.
• 1:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: which is obviously an underwhelming number, six total defensive snaps.
• 1:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: He was on the field for 64% of the offensive snaps and less than 10% of the defensive snaps.
• 1:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: On offense, I think there's plenty to take away.
• 1:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: And nothing really surprised me all that much.
• 1:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: They targeted him early often.
• 1:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of it was short, quick hitting routes from the slot, kind of choice routes where he can decide
• 2:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, towards the center of the field or towards the sideline, again, 24% target share.
• 2:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: I expect his usage to expand moving forward on offense, but I still am expecting him to be primarily a guy that they've feed the ball to, and these easy situations get the ball in his hands and then let him work.
• 2:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think as he gets more comfortable, you can definitely see him on more downfield stuff.
• 2:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: the one time that they kind of took a shot that was a little bit deeper and it wasn't even a deep shot.
• 2:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was like an intermediate throw.
• 2:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Lawrence and and Hunter couldn't quite hook up really it should have been a catch.
• 2:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't a perfect throw by Trevor, but it should have been a catch.
• 2:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was a drop by Travis Hunter, but still I mean overall good performance on offense.
• 2:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: They didn't need him to be anything more than he was, which was basically a keep the offense on schedule, move the chains type of guy for them, and week one on the offensive side of the ball, on the defensive side of the ball.
• 3:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: They really didn't need him at all.
• 3:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Even though they're dealing with Teteromic Millen, Teamac was really the only teeth to the Panthers' offense.
• 3:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Panthers were struggling to run the ball.
• 3:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: They were struggling to get the ball to anybody not named Teteroma McMillan, and Teamack really did a lot of his work late in the game.
• 3:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: When the hay was in the barn, so to speak.
• 3:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: So they were a much better team than the Panthers.
• 3:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: They were better coach, they were more talented.
• 3:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: They didn't need Travis Hunter to be the player that you draft.
• 3:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: with the second overall pick and hopes of him being a dominant player on both sides of the ball.
• 3:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: They didn't need him to be that in game one, which is good, right?
• 3:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: He got his feet wet in the NFL, that had a pretty good game offensively, was effective, had six reps defensively, so he got into the game a little bit, again, dipped his toes in the water, so to speak.
• 4:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: Will he play more in week two against Cincinnati Bengals, a Cincinnati Bengals team that has offensive fire power?
• 4:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, they struggled last week against the Browns.
• 4:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Will he play more on both sides?
• 4:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think you will.
• 4:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do.
• 4:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a couple of reasons.
• 4:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: First, in your first game, you were not too far removed from missing about 10 days of training camp with an upper body injury.
• 4:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Not only was it his first game, but he also hadn't had the full a lot of practice time.
• 4:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I think those two things factored into his playing time.
• 4:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: I also think the fact that it was an easy matchup in week one, and they just didn't really need him on defense all that much, or offense all that much late in the game.
• 4:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: That
• 4:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: By virtue of you being in an uncompetitive ballgame, you're just not going to utilize him as much because you don't need to, you want to save him for the big moments, for the big games, for the big halves of football throughout the season, and which you did not have one, really.
• 5:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Against the Panthers in Week 1.
• 5:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: And Liam Cohen was asked about this.
• 5:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: He said the plan is to ramp it up.
• 5:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's more so going into week one, it was okay.
• 5:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: We know that it's going to be not a ton on defense.
• 5:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: The goal is to increase and continue to increase.
• 5:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: It just so happens that we're playing Cincinnati with two good wide outs this week.
• 5:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: So,
• 5:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: He understands the fact that Travis Hunter probably does give them a better opportunity.
• 5:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Not necessarily to shut down T-Higgins and Jamar Chase, I don't think he expects to be able to shut down T-Higgins and Jamar Chase for a full game.
• 5:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Although the Browns did their best job at that last week.
• 6:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's about being able to make a place, being able to bounce back, being able to compete consistently.
• 6:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: On the defensive side of the ball, he gives him a better option, opportunity, in my opinion, to do that than having a jargon Jones out there consistently.
• 6:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now,
• 6:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Do I think it's going to suddenly flip, and he's not going to be on the offensive side of the ball, as much as he is the defensive side of the ball.
• 6:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that because as much as you want him out there trying to slow down, T-higgins, Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase obviously.
• 6:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: You also want him on your offensive side of the ball to be able to make sure not only are you keeping up if you need to keep up, but you're keeping your foot on the gas on offense.
• 6:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: You have other offensive weapons.
• 6:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think after one week, you would probably say, you feel better about your other offensive weapons than you do about whoever's out there on the field at Cornerback, Not an Amtis and Camembert or Jordan Lewis.
• 7:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, I could understand the argument to have him out there on the defensive side of the ball more than the offensive side of the ball this week.
• 7:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: I still don't think that's gonna happen just because again, he is their starting slot receiver.
• 7:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: And he was their most targeted receiver last week.
• 7:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: More targets, some Brian Thomas Jr.
• 7:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: and Game number one.
• 7:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now some of the aspects of the fact that the Brian Thomas Jr.
• 7:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: and Trevor Lawrence connection wasn't really very strong last week,
• 7:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I still just think that you're going to see him about the same amount on offense, 65, 70%, probably ramp up, you know, defense.
• 7:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, it was less than 10%, maybe you're looking at.
• 7:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: depending on the game script as well, right?
• 7:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, if the Jack Wars don't need him in the second half as much, you probably won't see like a massive uptick, but I could see anywhere from like the 15 to 20% range of snaps on defense, which if it's similar amount as last week, I think they had like 66 defensive snaps, something like that, you know, 66 times 0.2,
• 8:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: 15 to 20 tops would be my guess we don't know exactly though and that's kind of the beauty of it um and Liam Cohen has talked about that a little bit James Gladstone talked about it a good bit just teams won't know how they're going to deploy Travis Hunter week to week
• 8:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: And the jags, they ran a lot of zone defense last week, no surprise.
• 8:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Zone defense, we're, we're giving our corners an opportunity to read what's happening in front of them, read and react.
• 8:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Safety is as well.
• 8:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: My backers too.
• 8:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Travis Hunter is as good as it gets when it comes to jumping routes, Tyson Campbell's pretty good at jumping routes.
• 8:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: He saw Eric Murray doing in that.
• 8:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: He saw Dewey, he saw Jordan Lewis.
• 9:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, it'll be fascinating to see like how they match up, but I do think Travis Hunter is going to have to have a bigger role this week in all likelihood.
• 9:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Unless the Jack Wars get out to a good start and the Bangle's really struggle.
• 9:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Which is possible.
• 9:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Bangle's are winless, under Zack Taylor and week two of the regular season.
• 9:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: They've been very bad overall in September of regular season games.
• 9:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: They
• 9:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Barely.
• 9:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Barely beat.
• 9:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: A Brown team that does have a good defense, but really an offense that is fairly toothless, right?
• 9:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: So they might need him more in this game that might need him to have a bigger impact in this game if the bingles get going.
• 9:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to need him to play make to hunt on the defensive side of the ball within the structure of the defense, but they are going to need him to hunt.
• 9:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: If things are going on how they did last week though, as I mentioned, I do, I don't think that they're going to have to utilize them as much, but I also would say, even if things are going how they did last week, I don't think they'll take their foot off the gas as much as they did in the second half, and they didn't do it from an intensity standpoint, but they were trying to get out of that game.
• 10:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: take, take time off the clock and get out of here with a W. That's exactly what they did.
• 10:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I think if you're winning by a couple touchdowns against the bingles, it's a different formula to win the game because I don't think you feel like you can just be conservative for lack of a better word and you're play-clawing.
• 10:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: You have to keep pushing it because they're a team that can come back and come back quickly.
• 10:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, as far as those running backs with tank bigs be being gone, I do think you'll see Basial Tut and more.
• 10:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Travis CTN is obviously still the starter, but you look at the runners share last year or last week I should say excuse me.
• 11:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Basial Tut and had four total snaps.
• 11:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Liquid Allen had nine.
• 11:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, does that mean Liquid Allen is now the RB2 and Basial Tut and is RB3?
• 11:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: No.
• 11:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: When Basle Tutan was on the field, he got three carries.
• 11:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: When Lee Quint Allen was on the field, it was mostly for passing down.
• 11:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Six of his nine snaps were passing down snaps.
• 11:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Basle Tutan was in there to run the ball more.
• 11:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Lee Quint Allen was in there to pass protect and be a receiver out of the backfield one.
• 11:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's just what it is.
• 11:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's their roles in this offense.
• 11:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, I do think you look at Basial 2 and having 4 total snaps last week, tank Biggs be having 14 and Travis ET and having 40.
• 11:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't expect Travis ET and Snapchat to change all that much.
• 11:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: What I do expect is most of that 14 snaps for tank Biggs be to go to Basial 2
• 12:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: And overall, it will be game script dependent on that, right?
• 12:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: If the Jaguars get into a game script where they're just having to drop back and pass the football, you'll probably see more Lee Quint Allen, but I think that in a normal game where you're able to run the ball, you don't feel like you just have to throw the ball.
• 12:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Facial Tutant will get a lot of that tank bigs be workload that you saw last week and tank bigs be had six carries.
• 12:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Facial had three so you could be getting close to ten carries almost close to double digit carries potentially four basial tutan in a neutral game script.
• 12:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: We will see exactly how that plays out but that's kind of my expectation for it.
• 12:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: But bottom line Travis Hunter.
• 12:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: will continue to ramp up.
• 12:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think he will play more this week.
• 12:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Even if the game script is similar to last week, I still expect to see him play a little bit more getting up tick on both sides of the ball and have an impact.
• 12:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Make place.
• 12:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Really appreciate y'all tuning in.
• 13:00
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• 13:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Y'all have a good one.