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Jags Drive Time: Tuesday, August 21 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Jeff Wars did you don't what Jack Warris? Did you?
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Speaker 1: Jackuarris Drive Time? Ryan Sex steps that John says it
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Speaker 1: actually Jack Warris drive Time starts right now. Good morning
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Speaker 1: and welcome big actual shout out to my dog many
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Speaker 1: free my dog. Out out the hell hold out that
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Speaker 1: get right down the side. Jalen Ramsey back along with
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Speaker 1: Dante Fowler Jr. After the team's suspension a week ago.
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Speaker 1: Look good out on the field, look fluid. You knew
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Speaker 1: he would um look at the stoic there in the
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Speaker 1: instagram from his boy letterard for net. But it was
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Speaker 1: good to see that his teammates and you knew they would.
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Speaker 1: They'd embrace bringing back everybody learned something from last week.
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Speaker 1: Take a deep breath. They're back. The thing that just
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Speaker 1: stands out by the good morning, Good morning, Thank you
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Speaker 1: very much. Can I just share something with people. My
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Speaker 1: son's car is at the dealer and my car is
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Speaker 1: at Bishop Kenny High School, So good dad Ashlyn brought
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Speaker 1: me in this morning. I did. You can all thank
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Speaker 1: me that he is hearing here. I appreciate you. I
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Speaker 1: just want to say that, and I look over you
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Speaker 1: want to know I appreciate you bringing me in the problem.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. We're helpful here. We're a team
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Speaker 1: and we're glad you're with us on Tuesday morning. How
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Speaker 1: are you. I'm good. I'm going off no notes here.
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Speaker 1: I was a little panic. My laptop broke about five
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Speaker 1: minutes ago. But all we're sharing everything this morning. Um,
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Speaker 1: you're a broadcaster, Yeah, I'll do my thing. You go right, okay,
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Speaker 1: you trust yourself and your notes. And you were around
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Speaker 1: here all day yesterday and it was an interesting day.
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Speaker 1: It was very interesting day, which leads us right to
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Speaker 1: Big Thing one. Um and maybe the most interesting part
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Speaker 1: of it all. Yeah, Big Thing one is stealthy. So
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Speaker 1: we know that the suspension. Jalen Ramsey and Dante Feller Jr.
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Speaker 1: Came back yesterday, but they actually will not speak to
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Speaker 1: the media until Saturday. After the game. We spoke to
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Speaker 1: Miles Jack who said, it's good that they're back and
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Speaker 1: guys stepped up in their absence. Man, it's obviously always
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Speaker 1: good to have those guys back and just have your
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Speaker 1: huddle the way they are. But um, gotta stepped up
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Speaker 1: man like Spad. He he handled his business out there
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Speaker 1: against you know, the top receiving corps. Most people say,
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Speaker 1: so he did his thing, and then with other guys
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Speaker 1: come in for Dan, say like Demick and wild Man
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Speaker 1: and Carol so um, they did that thing. Man, they
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Speaker 1: did the thing. I think Miles Jack handled that perfectly,
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Speaker 1: and I think guys like Tyler Patman aren't getting enough
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Speaker 1: credit for stepping up and not being the storyline as well.
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Speaker 1: Here's the thing, and we know Jalen Ramsey spot on
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Speaker 1: the roster, we know what he means the defense, so
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Speaker 1: we didn't need to see him now he told he
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Speaker 1: didn't tell. His people communicated with Fred on Saturday morning
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Speaker 1: via text that Jalen missed the opportunity to go against
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Speaker 1: the receiver's Adam Ellen uh Dig Stefon Diggs and work
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Speaker 1: against Kirk Cousins. So he missed that. But really the
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Speaker 1: jagguars didn't lose anything by not having Jalen there. They
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Speaker 1: gained something and having Tyler Patman, having Trey Herndon, having
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Speaker 1: guys get an opportunity to work against them. Those are
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Speaker 1: guys are gonna get to play against this year if
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Speaker 1: they're on the field for any length of time. So
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Speaker 1: it was quality work for young guys, and from that perspective,
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars were not harmed by not having Jalen Ramsey
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Speaker 1: here all week last week, have forgotten guy. I mean,
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Speaker 1: let's be honest, we talked about Jalen, Jalen, Jalen. We
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Speaker 1: hardly mentioned Dante Fowler Jr. And I think I'm on
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Speaker 1: record as saying the guy's a lion on the field.
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Speaker 1: Jalen may be the best player on defense. I don't
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Speaker 1: have You couldn't convince me that there's anyone more athletic
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Speaker 1: than Dante Fowler Jr. I mean, he is at six
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Speaker 1: three to sixty and when he moves, he moves like
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Speaker 1: a lion out in the serengetti. You know, he is
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Speaker 1: a fluid, incredible athlete. Having him on the field means
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Speaker 1: a lot for this pass rush. Absolutely, And we were
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Speaker 1: talking to Vikings personnel and their employees and Paul Allen,
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Speaker 1: the voice of the Vikings, he was saying how bummed
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Speaker 1: the Vikings were that Ramsay and Fowler didn't make the
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Speaker 1: trip because they wanted to see that competition, and the
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Speaker 1: Vikings were so excited to see the best of the Jaguars,
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Speaker 1: So it really was a missed opportunity for both sides.
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Speaker 1: He's just he bounces around like a kiddie. It's almost
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Speaker 1: that he didn't even think. I mean, he just reacts,
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Speaker 1: which that's the position that he plays, right, I mean,
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Speaker 1: his job is to go and attack the passer. So
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Speaker 1: he missed last week and it hurt him because he
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Speaker 1: had been gone for a few weeks with the shoulder,
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Speaker 1: and he has a limited time for him to work
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Speaker 1: with the Jaguars because he serves the one game suspension
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Speaker 1: against the Giants. So this week and next big opportunity
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Speaker 1: for Dante Fowler Jr. To take advantage of before he
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Speaker 1: has to go on. The show has to use him wisely.
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Speaker 1: You got it. So we know the g Q article
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Speaker 1: came out unrelated to the suspension. I think too many
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Speaker 1: people just put them together butted them back to back
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Speaker 1: because they happened so quickly, But they're completely unrelated. G
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Speaker 1: Q took advantage of the suspend and the rageous nature
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Speaker 1: of Jalen in general and let loose with the article.
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Speaker 1: So we talked to Malik Jackson yesterday in the locker room,
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Speaker 1: who said, Hey, if you can walk the walk, you
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Speaker 1: can talk the talk. Because if you can back it up,
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Speaker 1: you can say whatever you want. You know, as long
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Speaker 1: as this respectful and coach Maron doesn't care. You know,
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, he's a top rated player,
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Speaker 1: you know. So if you want to go out there
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Speaker 1: and talk about somebody to talk to somebody, talk about
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Speaker 1: every quarterback in the league, then go ahead, you know.
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Speaker 1: But in this game, we talk about Russian cover going together, right,
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Speaker 1: the guys up front getting the quarterback to get rid
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Speaker 1: of the ball quickly, the guys in the back end
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Speaker 1: forcing him to hold it. Um, I don't I don't
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Speaker 1: think we've ever had the combination of Russian cover. We
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Speaker 1: never have in Jacksonville to this degree. And so the
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Speaker 1: guys on the front and really appreciate the guys on
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Speaker 1: the back end, and the guys on the back end
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Speaker 1: really appreciate the guys on the front, and so of
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Speaker 1: course they're going to back each other up. The fact
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Speaker 1: of the matter is is Jalen plays a position where
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Speaker 1: he takes a guy one on one, and so, yeah,
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Speaker 1: what if a quarterback talks that kind of smack and
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Speaker 1: they don't as a rule, Um, he needs his offensive
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Speaker 1: line to protect him, he needs receivers. Didn't get open
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Speaker 1: right when this guy does it. It's a completely different
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Speaker 1: world because he lined up Monoe Mono and takes his
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Speaker 1: guy to the game. And by the way, that guy
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Speaker 1: right there is the very best at taking his opponent
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Speaker 1: out of the game. So it's a great subplot. It's
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Speaker 1: an interesting story to talk about from this point forward.
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Speaker 1: We will, but it's a little consequence. Now the g
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Speaker 1: Q article is out there and it's on him to
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Speaker 1: go play, and I just don't have any doubt that
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Speaker 1: he will. Absolutely and if he played any other position,
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Speaker 1: I think you're right it wouldn't it wouldn't work. But
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Speaker 1: because of the cornerback position and just his personality, he
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Speaker 1: somehow makes it work. All right. Big thing to the
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Speaker 1: helmet rule question mark, So that was a major story
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Speaker 1: line here yesterday, especially in the locker room. We talked
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Speaker 1: to a few guys about their understanding of it, and
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Speaker 1: they seem to get it, but to have their questions still. Alright,
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Speaker 1: So the guys clearly concerned about getting the fifteen yard penalty.
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Speaker 1: I mean, what Miles was saying there was he felt
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Speaker 1: it was inevitable he was going to get it. So
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Speaker 1: I'm not concerned. Isn't worried about it. But they know
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Speaker 1: that this rule is going to be an evolution, a
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Speaker 1: metamorphos over the course of the year. Guys don't know
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Speaker 1: what to expect right now, and they hope that by
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Speaker 1: the officials and the coaches and the players constantly communicating
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Speaker 1: with one another and evaluating this, that by the end
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Speaker 1: of the season they're all on the same page. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Myles jack said, it's almost inevitable that he's going to
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Speaker 1: get knocked with it sometime during the season. Elite Jackson
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Speaker 1: said the same thing. So I think if they accepted,
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Speaker 1: they seem to not want to change the way they play,
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Speaker 1: the aggressive nature of it as a whole because of
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Speaker 1: this rule. New rules always bring about, you know this,
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Speaker 1: what's the right term confusion? Right? Where can I place
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Speaker 1: my head? Where did my feet go? When can I
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Speaker 1: hit the guy? What defenseless? And this is the biggest one. Um.
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Speaker 1: And so let's go back to last night's Jaguars All
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Speaker 1: Access over at to Mellow Mushroom in Riverside and share
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Speaker 1: with you Jeff Loghman's film room if you miss All
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Speaker 1: Access on a weekly The first play involves roughing the past.
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Speaker 1: Education Williams, the linebacker right here on the edge is
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Speaker 1: coming because it really explained to the new rules quite well.
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Speaker 1: The first play involves roughing the passer and Williams, the
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Speaker 1: linebacker right here on the edge, is coming unblocked. And
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Speaker 1: watch what he does. He hits Kessler, and the rule
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Speaker 1: states this, if you land on top of the quarterback
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Speaker 1: with all or most of the way, it will be
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Speaker 1: a penalty. You can see that Williams, the linebacker has
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Speaker 1: one hand on the ground and one hand on the quarterback.
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Speaker 1: Now to me, that's not all of his weight on
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Speaker 1: the quarterback. This, and my mind, should not be a penalty. Now,
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Speaker 1: the second play involves the new rule with the use
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Speaker 1: of the helmet. Let's take a look at Article eight's language.
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Speaker 1: It is a foul if a player lowers his head
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Speaker 1: to initiate and make contact with his helmet against an opponent. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's look at the play. As boy drops into coverage,
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Speaker 1: he sees the running back Ham swinging to the flat
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Speaker 1: and as he comes up he gathers his feet perfect position.
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Speaker 1: Now let's look from the back, and I want you
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Speaker 1: to see what Ham the running back does with his helmet.
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Speaker 1: That's a battering ram and it's a penalty whether it's
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Speaker 1: an offensive player or a defensive player. With the new language.
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Speaker 1: How in the world can this not be offsetting fouls?
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Speaker 1: I have no idea. He is absorbing most of the
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Speaker 1: contact with his left shoulder. To me, this is not
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Speaker 1: a foul on Boyer, but this should be a foul
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Speaker 1: on Ham And I believe the new helmet rule has
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Speaker 1: affected calls in other areas. Let's take a look at
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Speaker 1: the hit that Jared Wilson had on the receiver. They
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Speaker 1: called this a hit against the defenseless player. The Fencil's
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Speaker 1: player rule states that you cannot make contact to the
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Speaker 1: head or neck area of a receiver, and you can
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Speaker 1: see on this play Wilson clearly hits the receiver in
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Speaker 1: the chest and the side nowhere near the head neck.
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Speaker 1: But I believe the officials have overreacted with the new
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Speaker 1: rule and have expanded it into other rules. So Lodgs
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Speaker 1: Film room has been and is the standard in Jacksonville
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Speaker 1: for understanding the game and those rules and his analysis
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Speaker 1: of it give you a really good idea of what
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Speaker 1: is and what is not right now. And and you
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Speaker 1: saw the other two instances, but go back to the middle,
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Speaker 1: and that was the one where a j Boyer was
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Speaker 1: flagged for lowering his head and he pointed out c J.
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Speaker 1: Ham did the same thing the fullback. This morning in
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Speaker 1: the Minneapolis newspapers, you have Mike Zimmer and Harrison Smith
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Speaker 1: both talking about that play for which they benefited for
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Speaker 1: the penalty against a j boy, but saying they didn't
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Speaker 1: think that he should have been called with that, much
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Speaker 1: like Jeff was saying that the linebacker shouldn't been called
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Speaker 1: with putting all of his weight by showing that the
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Speaker 1: hand was on the ground. So it's a tough job.
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Speaker 1: Being an official is an incredibly tough job. I'm not
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Speaker 1: sure that our viewers that the fans give the officials
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Speaker 1: enough credit for just how fast this game moves. You've
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Speaker 1: been on the sidelines, you know it's tough, and they
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Speaker 1: definitely don't get enough credit. And this rule, as we
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Speaker 1: talked about with John yesterday, is so important for the
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Speaker 1: future of the game to get it right. We're all fans, players, coaches, media,
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Speaker 1: all gonna have to be patient as they work and people.
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Speaker 1: I bring the violence back to football, right. That was
11:35
Speaker 1: the shirt that Sandejo the safety of the hat that
11:37
Speaker 1: Sandejo the safety for the Vikings War and was steward
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Speaker 1: for it. But Sally was talking about that last night
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Speaker 1: on Jaguars Monday. They're not going to know, They're they're
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Speaker 1: not going to We're all going to have to watch
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Speaker 1: the evolution of the game and participate by being patient
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Speaker 1: in our case, um, as they work through this this process.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna feel herkey jerky at times. It's sure did
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Speaker 1: on Saturday afternoon. Absolutely, yeah, I mean, but it is preseason.
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Speaker 1: We have to remember that, and these are all new rules.
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Speaker 1: They're trying to get it. I mean, Miles Jack suggested
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Speaker 1: that they're going to pull the fly quicker than normal,
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Speaker 1: but that's because everyone's trying to figure it out. So
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Speaker 1: you gotta expect more penalties to come in the preseason
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Speaker 1: because they're better safe than storry at this moment. The
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Speaker 1: line between the game being safe and the game being
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Speaker 1: the gladiatorial game that we all know, right, it's really
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Speaker 1: really it's a razor's edge. It's so fine, and they're
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Speaker 1: going to have to work through it to figure it out.
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Speaker 1: You're just gonna have to be patient. Richard Sherman will
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Speaker 1: have a tweet from him later in Top Tweets coming up.
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Speaker 1: He's not being so patient right now. Deep breath, everybody,
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Speaker 1: this one's going to take a little bit of time,
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Speaker 1: and it's just it's something you gotta get right. You
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Speaker 1: gotta be patiently. But you do not miss, by the way,
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Speaker 1: be there. But that film room segment really gives you
12:54
Speaker 1: a look inside the Jaguars game that weekend that very
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Speaker 1: few other people understand and can show you absolutely. So
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Speaker 1: Big Thing three is back on the field this week.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of healthy Jaguars back on the field.
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Speaker 1: We have guys like Austin Seferian Jenkins, Andrew nor Well obviously,
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Speaker 1: Dante Foller and Jalen Ramsey not for injury's sake, and
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Speaker 1: Tavin Bryan back on the field, which is great news
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Speaker 1: for the Jag're excited to see him. We were a big, strong,
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Speaker 1: strapping guy and they're going to need him. The guy
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Speaker 1: that I look up there and see is Austin Seferian Jenkins.
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Speaker 1: They don't have another tight end that can do what
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Speaker 1: he does. You know, the speed that he brings to
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Speaker 1: the game, the athleticism as a big body in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the field. You know, they need to Shaun Gibson.
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Speaker 1: They need to have these guys out there, but they
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Speaker 1: have to have a s J in the middle of
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Speaker 1: that offense to open everything else up. Absolutely. James O'Shaughnessy
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Speaker 1: is a very nice, complimentary guy, but they've got to
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Speaker 1: have a s J because it opens up his game.
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Speaker 1: And you know, you look at some of them as
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Speaker 1: he moves, look at how fluid he is, so fast
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Speaker 1: for how big he is. Absolutely, he's a tough guy.
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Speaker 1: He has to get the attention of the safeties to
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Speaker 1: open everything else up. He will. He's that big, that strong,
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Speaker 1: that talent him and just the commitment and the excitement
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Speaker 1: we saw with him on the field, it's it stinks
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Speaker 1: to not have him on the field. We saw it
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Speaker 1: all training camp and for him not to be in
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Speaker 1: the game, it was like dang I was excited to
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Speaker 1: see him. And the guys that we're looking at right
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Speaker 1: now are big, strong, fast, powerful, talented experienced athletes. The
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Speaker 1: Jaguars need that. They want them on the field. They
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Speaker 1: need them on the field to be as good as
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Speaker 1: they want to be. So it's good news that they're
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Speaker 1: practicing this week and tracking towards playing. Now. We asked
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Speaker 1: Havin in the locker room yesterday, So this means you're
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Speaker 1: ready to go on Saturday against the Falcons. He smiles
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Speaker 1: that that would be fun, which is his keyword for
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Speaker 1: telling you his his code. I'm not in control of
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Speaker 1: this one. Hope to be out there play. He seems
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Speaker 1: to be confident about it. And you can only tell
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Speaker 1: so much what Tavin how excited he is, because he's
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Speaker 1: a man of very few words. But he was animated
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Speaker 1: yesterday though. Yeah, for him, that was like two sentence
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Speaker 1: of detail, which I thought was funny, but for him
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Speaker 1: it was animated. And for him to be back on
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Speaker 1: the field his first NFL game hopefully on sorry, that's
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Speaker 1: big for him. And he showed you in his eyes,
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Speaker 1: his eyes it up. He wants to play. He knows
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Speaker 1: which this thing is all about. He said. The first
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Speaker 1: thing he said was I just need to get hit.
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Speaker 1: I need to get back in the game. I need
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Speaker 1: to get hit on the field. That's what I'm here
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Speaker 1: for and that's why we're here to cover him. So
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Speaker 1: and closer. Alright, one of the things that we have
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Speaker 1: endeavored to bring you every Tuesday morning since we went
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Speaker 1: daily with this show is a look around the a
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Speaker 1: f C South, which in the last couple of years
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Speaker 1: has not gotten the credit, probably didn't deserve any credit.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't a very good division, but now it may
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Speaker 1: be the best division in football. So this week we're
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Speaker 1: wrapping up our initial go round with Andrew Walker, who's
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Speaker 1: the writer at Colts dot com and had a game
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Speaker 1: in front of him last night. Luckily for us, it
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Speaker 1: was a home game, so he could get up with
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Speaker 1: us this morning. How are you this morning, Andrew? Hey,
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Speaker 1: I'm great. How are you doing good? Thanks for taking
18:21
Speaker 1: some time to join us. We're sorry we woke you
18:24
Speaker 1: up early. What's that I said? We're sorry? We woke
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Speaker 1: you up early. Oh no, it's all right, you know,
18:29
Speaker 1: it just goes with the territory. Um. We actually started
18:32
Speaker 1: out in Seattle August nine with a It was ten
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Speaker 1: pm Eastern time by the time we kicked off, so
18:39
Speaker 1: we're feeling at that next day too. And um, so
18:42
Speaker 1: we've had a couple of odd ones now, but now
18:44
Speaker 1: it's it's almost like preseason and warp mode because the
18:47
Speaker 1: forty Niners come in on Saturday, and then you wrap
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Speaker 1: up the preseason a few days after that. I think
18:52
Speaker 1: it's three games in ten days. So um, you know,
18:56
Speaker 1: if you're a player or coach or one of us
18:59
Speaker 1: doing digital media doesn't matter. You gotta you gotta get
19:02
Speaker 1: up and get ready and and and uh because this
19:05
Speaker 1: regular season is coming fast. So I know you are
19:08
Speaker 1: so tired of every interview starting with Andrew Luck and
19:11
Speaker 1: probably many of them finishing with Andrew Luck. But we
19:13
Speaker 1: got to go there. Um, the adjectives I read this
19:17
Speaker 1: morning were sloppy, But do you really care what the
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Speaker 1: numbers look like or whether he's fine tuned in the preseason.
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Speaker 1: You've got Andrew Luck, who is one of the premier
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the NFL back on the field, taking shots,
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Speaker 1: throwing the ball. That to me has got to be
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Speaker 1: the storyline. Yeah, you know, it's it's preseason play. So
19:37
Speaker 1: let's be honest, Frank Reich. Uh, you know, he's not
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Speaker 1: opening up this playbook at all. You know, this is
19:42
Speaker 1: about his playing Jane as it gets for the preseason.
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Speaker 1: And let's consider this, you know, let me build in
19:47
Speaker 1: some excuses for the guy. But you know, the Colts
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Speaker 1: didn't have t Y Hilton, they didn't have Anthony Costanzo.
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Speaker 1: The running backs are banged up, so um. You know,
19:55
Speaker 1: I think obviously the hope is you want to go
19:57
Speaker 1: into a preseason game looking much Chris for Um. You
20:01
Speaker 1: want you want to establish rhythm, you want to get
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Speaker 1: the ball in the end zone. Those are all simple
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Speaker 1: things that by week two or three of the preseason. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, if you if you want to you know,
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Speaker 1: accomplish some some goals and and check some boxes, that's
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Speaker 1: what you want to do. Um. But for the most part,
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Speaker 1: the good news is Andrew Lux you know, he's there,
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Speaker 1: he's under center, he's taking you know, he's taking lead
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Speaker 1: to this new offense. Uh considerably. Um. And um, he's happy,
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Speaker 1: he's he's excited, he's like a little kid out there. Um,
20:30
Speaker 1: just because you know, he really missed football last year
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Speaker 1: and um and the team missed him obviously, so um.
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Speaker 1: So yeah. I mean you can look at the performance
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Speaker 1: last night and we can talk about if you want. Um,
20:41
Speaker 1: there's some specifics that that didn't go so well, but
20:44
Speaker 1: you know, overall, kind of to your point, it doesn't
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Speaker 1: really matter because he's there, he's he's learning with the
20:50
Speaker 1: rest of this offense. He's actually playing and they are
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Speaker 1: building some momentum towards week one of the regular seasons, Andrew,
20:55
Speaker 1: Are people in the organization and the fans in Indianapolis
20:59
Speaker 1: are they holding their breath every time he goes under center?
21:02
Speaker 1: I mean, he took some shots last night. In fact,
21:03
Speaker 1: I I read where he said that he was sort
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Speaker 1: of happy that Terrell Suggs sacked him because he landed
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Speaker 1: on that shoulder and in a very similar way that
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Speaker 1: created the injury a few years ago, and got right
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Speaker 1: back up and started playing. Is it to the point
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Speaker 1: now where okay, there's Andrew. It's just a matter now
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Speaker 1: of him fine tuning some things and and after missing
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Speaker 1: you know, nearly six hundred days of football, getting into
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Speaker 1: that into that space where he feels comfortable. Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 1: I I think I can speak for the fan base
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Speaker 1: and saying Terrell Suggs coming off the edge, untouched to
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Speaker 1: the blind side and um, taking Andrew luck down the
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Speaker 1: way he did last night, I think, you know, if
21:44
Speaker 1: that's Blake Portals or you know, whoever, I think, whoever's
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Speaker 1: at quarterback, if if you see that and you see
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Speaker 1: him taken down like that, you kind of you get
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Speaker 1: that feeling of hey, get up, man, get up, get up, because, um,
21:56
Speaker 1: you know, nobody wants to see their quarterback take a
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Speaker 1: hit like that. But with Andrew, I think, just because
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Speaker 1: of the injury history, he just you know, you really
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Speaker 1: kind of think that in the back of your mind
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Speaker 1: when he pops right back up with jobs to the sideline. Um.
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Speaker 1: But for the most part, I will say, Um, the
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Speaker 1: storyline obviously going into training camp was how's this guy
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Speaker 1: shoulder going to react to a full practice load? Um?
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Speaker 1: Can he? Can he do it? Can you know? Will
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Speaker 1: he tire? Will he have pain? Will you know? All
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Speaker 1: the questions that you're just wondering because you just haven't
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Speaker 1: seen him do it, and and it couldn't have gone better.
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Speaker 1: He practiced I think fifteen out of eighteen of the
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Speaker 1: training camp practices fully throwing. Um, they had built in
22:36
Speaker 1: rest days for him. Um, just that's just part of
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Speaker 1: his program. But um, for the most part, I mean
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Speaker 1: he was he was afishing. I think he we charted
22:45
Speaker 1: him throwing a completing seventy of his passes. UM. And
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Speaker 1: you know, throwing touchdown stone bombs really work in the
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Speaker 1: short game. UM. So you know, by the end of
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Speaker 1: training camp, the dude grows a mustache and that's the storyline.
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Speaker 1: No one really talking about it his uh, his shoulder
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Speaker 1: at all, which I think you know that I'm not
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Speaker 1: saying the mustache was was the plan there, but UM,
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Speaker 1: I think you know, if you're Andrew Luck or the Colts,
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Speaker 1: it's great news that no one's really talking about the
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Speaker 1: shoulder anymore. It's it's it's just typical training camp stuff.
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Speaker 1: So um. So that's another reason why I think, um,
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Speaker 1: things are progressing in the right way. Andrew coming off
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Speaker 1: the game last night, besides Andrew Luck, what are some
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Speaker 1: storylines you took away? Yeah, it's one of those as
23:27
Speaker 1: one of those games where kind of like one unit
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Speaker 1: was clicking and another one really wasn't. Um, you know,
23:32
Speaker 1: the Colts had some really critical faults that you know,
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Speaker 1: really reared their ugly head. UM at times. They turned
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Speaker 1: the ball over three times. They had thirteen accepted penalties
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Speaker 1: I think for hundred twenty nine yards. UM. You know,
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Speaker 1: they struggled to get the ball in the end zone
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Speaker 1: and and red zone and goal toghost situations. UM. And
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Speaker 1: I think you alluded to it earlier. Is just sloppy.
23:54
Speaker 1: But I will say this, the defense mostly played pretty
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Speaker 1: darn well. They allowed just two hundred and sixty six
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Speaker 1: net yards, only seven through the air. They had three sacks. UM.
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Speaker 1: So you know, I've said kind of this whole off season.
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Speaker 1: You know, they're switching back to the four three. Um.
24:09
Speaker 1: They have a lot of young pieces. I think they're
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Speaker 1: gonna gonna take their lumps early. UM, But I think
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Speaker 1: they're aggressive nature seems to be evident early and will
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Speaker 1: help them down the road. UM. Then the special teams
24:19
Speaker 1: coverage units were outstanding. They poured food fumbles on punts,
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Speaker 1: they were covering them both UM. And then Terrell Bashm
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Speaker 1: had a really nice block punt at the end of
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Speaker 1: a game on a play where he recovers the ball
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Speaker 1: himself deep in ravends territory. The Colts get a touchdown
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Speaker 1: on the very next play. Thankfully, Frank Reich elect to
24:37
Speaker 1: go for two instead of tying it and sending it
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Speaker 1: to overtime in a late preseason game. Yeah, so they
24:45
Speaker 1: didn't convert that. That's why the final score is twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 1: But um, you know, I think it's just one of
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Speaker 1: those typical preseason games and in this regard where um,
24:55
Speaker 1: you know, you look good at some things, you look
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Speaker 1: not so good at others. Um. But again, if they
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Speaker 1: can kind of get things back on the right track
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Speaker 1: for this forty Niners game. And look the fourty Niners
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Speaker 1: as we all know, Um, we know how they surged
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Speaker 1: a momentum at the end of last year with Jimmy
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Speaker 1: g Um, they've got a good defense to Um, it's
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Speaker 1: gonna be that final regular season tuna for the starters
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Speaker 1: on Saturdays, as we might guess. So, um, they that's
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Speaker 1: the game. I think they're circling where they're still not
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Speaker 1: gonna open the playbook. They're not gonna give anything away.
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Speaker 1: But I think, um, you know, they're really looking to
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Speaker 1: be crisp on Saturday against forty Niners. It's a quarterback league,
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Speaker 1: and I think if we work under the assumption that
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Speaker 1: you know, at some point early this season, Andrew Luck
25:36
Speaker 1: will start to look like Andrew Luck, which is to
25:39
Speaker 1: say the game changer he can be. There's two areas, um,
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Speaker 1: Andrew that I look at the Colts roster and I
25:44
Speaker 1: wonder about where's the running game gonna come from. Now?
25:47
Speaker 1: I know they're very solid up front, and Quentin Nelson
25:49
Speaker 1: looks like a beast already. Where who's going to get
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Speaker 1: the carries? Who's going to be the guy in that
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Speaker 1: backfield or is it going to be by committee? And
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Speaker 1: and then on the other side of the ball, who's
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Speaker 1: gonna rush the pastor and create turnovers? We saw that
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Speaker 1: so dominant from Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis all those years.
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Speaker 1: Do the Colts have someone on that side of the
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Speaker 1: ball to give it back to Andrew? Yeah? If you're
26:11
Speaker 1: talking running back. So you guys all got a taste
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Speaker 1: of Marlon Mack last year. Um it was his rookie year,
26:17
Speaker 1: a guy coming out of a system, and cause when
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Speaker 1: he wasn't really asked to do traditional running back things,
26:22
Speaker 1: he was more of a kind of a weapon on
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Speaker 1: the outside. Um, you know, taking runs to the outside
26:28
Speaker 1: and and being used in that way. UM. So he
26:30
Speaker 1: really kind of had to learn, um how to be
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Speaker 1: a more traditional I guess running back last year. And
26:37
Speaker 1: and you know, you couldn't have a better teacher in
26:40
Speaker 1: that regard than UM Frank Gore. So UM Marlin's you know,
26:45
Speaker 1: he's kind of hit the injury bug a little bit.
26:47
Speaker 1: He actually played through what I believe was a torn
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Speaker 1: labor m all last year UM and UM and then
26:53
Speaker 1: elected that surgery of course the beginning of this offseason,
26:56
Speaker 1: so he missed the whole program. With a new system
26:59
Speaker 1: gets implemented uh and training camp and it's like you
27:02
Speaker 1: didn't skip a bee. He was looking really strong. UM.
27:06
Speaker 1: And you know, overall the Colts want to utilize a
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Speaker 1: running back by committee system. That's what worked for Frank w.
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Speaker 1: Reich so well with the Eagles the last couple of years. UM.
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Speaker 1: You know, they're other than the fact just having a
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Speaker 1: great offensive line, they had UM a really good running
27:20
Speaker 1: game because they were able to have a running backs
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Speaker 1: that did UM things differently UM and could attack a
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Speaker 1: defense in different ways. UH. You know at different points
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Speaker 1: of the game. That's what Frank Reich wants to do now.
27:31
Speaker 1: But I look at Marlon mac once he gets back.
27:34
Speaker 1: He got hurt ankle in or i'm sorry, a hamstring
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Speaker 1: injury in the first preseason game. He probably won't play
27:39
Speaker 1: until week one the regular season. UM. So, but I
27:42
Speaker 1: look at him as kind of lead back. UM. But
27:45
Speaker 1: there are a couple of exciting young rookies. Jordan Wilkins
27:48
Speaker 1: looks like he has a great vision, UM Nightie Hines
27:51
Speaker 1: is kind of a joker type that UM is more
27:54
Speaker 1: of a receiver, but he can also, you know, be
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Speaker 1: a running back. So they they brought in some backs
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Speaker 1: with with different flavor. They want to do running back
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Speaker 1: by committee. But by week one, I would I would
28:05
Speaker 1: imagine if he can stay healthy, Marlon mack is is
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Speaker 1: your kind of key guy taking a lot of the
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Speaker 1: carries UM and then they'll split it up from their
28:12
Speaker 1: depending on what the defense shows. And oh and you
28:15
Speaker 1: talk about passenger. UM. You know, the simple fact is
28:20
Speaker 1: Dwight Freeney and Robert mathis other than Robert Mathis being
28:23
Speaker 1: on the coaching staff, they're not on this team, UM,
28:26
Speaker 1: and they want to get to that point. Obviously, they
28:28
Speaker 1: want to develop some pass rushers and UM and they've
28:31
Speaker 1: got Tarle Basham who's in his second year. Um, who's
28:34
Speaker 1: the guy they're excited about. Tomoco Toure. They took out
28:37
Speaker 1: of Rutgers this year in the second round. So they
28:39
Speaker 1: have some one vols that they want to develop. But
28:42
Speaker 1: I think right now they're just folcusing really on aggression
28:45
Speaker 1: and speed and and hustle and effort um and they
28:48
Speaker 1: hope that over time they can maybe get there. Robert
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Speaker 1: Mathis or their Dwight Freeney, um, John Simon, Jabal Star
28:55
Speaker 1: seemed to be solid. You know, they're solid in the
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Speaker 1: run game. They're solid and applying pressure. Um. Whether or
29:01
Speaker 1: not that pressure turns into sacks. That wasn't really the
29:04
Speaker 1: case last year, but they did apply a lot of pressure.
29:07
Speaker 1: So they're hoping maybe that turns around this year. So
29:10
Speaker 1: there are some there are some veterans there, there are
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Speaker 1: some young guys they're developing. So you know, they just
29:15
Speaker 1: hope that over time maybe that will turn into a
29:17
Speaker 1: free mat this type situation. All right, let me put
29:19
Speaker 1: the spotlight on you before we let you go. The
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Speaker 1: quarterback is back? Are the Colts back? I think I
29:26
Speaker 1: think in this so cliche say and I'm sorry say
29:29
Speaker 1: the Colts go as far as Andrew rucktes Um and
29:33
Speaker 1: you know Jacobe Brissette, you know, admirable job last year
29:37
Speaker 1: considering he was traded for a few days before the
29:40
Speaker 1: regular season opener, plays the fourth quarter of the opening
29:43
Speaker 1: game and then is starting the rest of the way
29:46
Speaker 1: just learning the offense and chunks as he goes. And
29:49
Speaker 1: he actually played pretty well considering all that. But you know,
29:52
Speaker 1: I think we all saw in the fourth quarter of
29:54
Speaker 1: games last year. I mean, the Colts were in I
29:56
Speaker 1: think they had a fourth quarter or a second half lead,
29:59
Speaker 1: and nine their games, we saw how they needed a closer.
30:03
Speaker 1: They needed a guy that that could come in and
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Speaker 1: run the offense um, you know, efficiently make defenses miss
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Speaker 1: and get into the end zone in critical times. And
30:13
Speaker 1: it just didn't happen. And many of those games obviously
30:16
Speaker 1: only winning four games. So you know, I think Angel
30:19
Speaker 1: luks the difference between a four win season and let's
30:23
Speaker 1: say an eight win season. I don't know, um as
30:26
Speaker 1: they keep building the talent up, but um I do
30:29
Speaker 1: know this. Chris Ballard couldn't respect the way the Jaguars
30:33
Speaker 1: have built their system and Tom Coughlin and them have
30:36
Speaker 1: built their system and their defense and all that, and
30:39
Speaker 1: that's exactly what what the Colts want to do. And
30:42
Speaker 1: it's just weird because you alluded to alluded to this.
30:44
Speaker 1: They f C South maybe a couple of years ago,
30:46
Speaker 1: was laughed at and and the Jaguars were kind of
30:49
Speaker 1: the little brother that everybody beat on. It's not that
30:51
Speaker 1: way anymore. It's the exact opposite. The Jaguars are the
30:54
Speaker 1: king of the division. Everyone respects how they've built this
30:58
Speaker 1: thing through defense and running and like Borrels has improved
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Speaker 1: greatly and seems to really enjoy the system. And uh,
31:05
Speaker 1: and now everybody's catching up to that. So you know
31:08
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good race. Houston and Tennessee obviously
31:12
Speaker 1: our playoff caliber teams. So um so if anybody's guess
31:16
Speaker 1: how it ends up playing out, but I would say
31:17
Speaker 1: the Colts are in much better hands obviously with Andrew
31:20
Speaker 1: luck and and it could make a major difference with
31:23
Speaker 1: their win loss record. And Frank right, there's a tremendous coach.
31:27
Speaker 1: A lot of people around the league have such a
31:28
Speaker 1: great regard for him. So here's what we do know, Andrew,
31:31
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a fund race. As you mentioned, around
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Speaker 1: the A f C South this year and we're looking
31:34
Speaker 1: forward to catching up with you throughout the season. Have
31:36
Speaker 1: a great rest of your preseason, buddy, and we'll we'll
31:39
Speaker 1: talk to you once the season gets rolling. Okay. Thanks
31:41
Speaker 1: appreciate Andrew Walker, Colts dot Com writer. We certainly appreciate him.
31:46
Speaker 1: How about a couple of other headlines from around the
31:48
Speaker 1: a f C South for you and in Houston. What
31:51
Speaker 1: stands out is Kevin Johnson. He hit the field hard,
31:57
Speaker 1: hard covering Marquise Scott when if you haven't seen it,
32:00
Speaker 1: go look at that piece of video. He had to
32:02
Speaker 1: go to the hospital with a concussion. That doesn't happen
32:04
Speaker 1: very often. He is out. He was at practice yesterday,
32:08
Speaker 1: which is a good sign. But boy, that's a big, big,
32:12
Speaker 1: big component of their defense. He is a former first
32:16
Speaker 1: round pick and they had a lot of injuries on
32:18
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball last year. That would
32:20
Speaker 1: have been a big hit to them early. And I
32:22
Speaker 1: don't know whether you saw it, but Lebron James speaking
32:27
Speaker 1: kills right. Uh. Taiwan Taylor, young receiver had two touchdowns
32:31
Speaker 1: the other night in the Titans preseason game against the
32:35
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Titans Buccaneers. Look, we know he follows
32:38
Speaker 1: the Browns, right, who knew that? He just followed the
32:41
Speaker 1: NFL randomly through Instagram. He saw Taiwan Taylor speed and
32:46
Speaker 1: it's four three speed. Yeah, that's quite the compliment. And
32:51
Speaker 1: well I would think so too. And of course Taylor
32:53
Speaker 1: tells everyone and look anyone who is in that fifteen
32:57
Speaker 1: year old range. Of course, Lebron James is your favor
33:00
Speaker 1: at basketball player. He said afterwards, how humbling it was
33:03
Speaker 1: to have him comment on what he was able to
33:07
Speaker 1: do in a preseason game. So those are your a
33:09
Speaker 1: f C South headlines from around our division. How about
33:14
Speaker 1: a quick look at some NFL headlines that stand out.
33:18
Speaker 1: The first one is the Buffalo Bills went and put
33:20
Speaker 1: ten million bucks into a j. McCarron from the Cincinnati
33:25
Speaker 1: Bengals and he broke his clavical. Now they're getting a
33:30
Speaker 1: second opinion trying to see how bad it is. But
33:33
Speaker 1: he was injured, and it looked they had sent the
33:36
Speaker 1: first round pick on a quarterback, Josh Allen, so it
33:39
Speaker 1: just makes sense he would go in there. But they're
33:40
Speaker 1: looking for help, which brings us two point number two.
33:43
Speaker 1: Could it be Teddy Bridgewater? You know, the whole situation
33:46
Speaker 1: in New York is working out beautifully. They're using each
33:49
Speaker 1: other Teddy Bridgewater in the Jets perfectly. They have a
33:52
Speaker 1: first round pick, Sam Donald, who has looked good on
33:54
Speaker 1: the field. They have Josh McCown who led them to
33:58
Speaker 1: greater heights than anyone thought was possible year. So here's
34:00
Speaker 1: Teddy a couple of touchdowns, looks pretty sharp. The Jets,
34:05
Speaker 1: they get to know, trade him right. Thing started working
34:08
Speaker 1: out perfectly, perfectly. It's an A plus. It's the best
34:11
Speaker 1: case scenario. The rookie looks good. The the veteran free
34:15
Speaker 1: agent they signed, you know, coming off the horrific knee
34:18
Speaker 1: injury from a couple of years ago, looks good. Now
34:21
Speaker 1: they get to trade him. Pat Shermer, who was his
34:23
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator in Minnesota when he got injured, is now
34:26
Speaker 1: the coach of the Giants, who they play this week.
34:28
Speaker 1: And of course they're right there in the same areas says,
34:29
Speaker 1: do not sleep on Teddy Bridgewater. The Bills might think
34:33
Speaker 1: about finding a way to bring him to help teach
34:37
Speaker 1: instruct back up Josh Allen, and that would make John
34:40
Speaker 1: Osier so happy. So he did not get those mail
34:43
Speaker 1: bags anymore about him coming to the Jaguars exactly. And
34:45
Speaker 1: then final thought from around the league, Josh Gordon, who
34:48
Speaker 1: was one of our headlines early on when he went
34:50
Speaker 1: on the non football injury list, is back with the Browns. Look,
34:55
Speaker 1: we saw the Browns last year. They gave the Jaguars
34:58
Speaker 1: all they could handle. And the weather had something to
35:00
Speaker 1: do with him. Um, they were a quarterback away. They
35:02
Speaker 1: had a rookie who wasn't very good last year into
35:05
Speaker 1: Shaun Kaiser who's now not there anymore. But you can
35:08
Speaker 1: tell their offensive line had talent, their defense has a
35:11
Speaker 1: lot of talent, and if they could just get Josh
35:14
Speaker 1: Gordon on the field. We saw him in two thousand twelve.
35:16
Speaker 1: He had two hundred and sixty nine yards receiving against
35:19
Speaker 1: this Jaguars team. Not not this Jaguars team. They weren't
35:22
Speaker 1: nearly this good defense. You couldn't defend him. He's six four,
35:26
Speaker 1: He's Randy Moss is what he is. He's that physical
35:29
Speaker 1: specimen that you just can't you can't get a guy on.
35:33
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see Jalen Ramsey on him, right,
35:36
Speaker 1: But he's that good. Now you combine him with Jarvis
35:38
Speaker 1: Landry and the young tight end, no coup that they
35:41
Speaker 1: drafted last year out of Miami. Hold on, folks, this
35:45
Speaker 1: Cleveland team could jump from O N six to eight
35:47
Speaker 1: and eight with new problem. They've got that kind of talent.
35:50
Speaker 1: The quarterback is obviously issue. But to want what was
35:53
Speaker 1: saying to Rod Well it was Tyrod. Now it's too
35:57
Speaker 1: Rod to Rod? Is the new the new pronunciation to
36:01
Speaker 1: Rod Taylor rocket arm. Yeah, let's see what they can
36:06
Speaker 1: in the You can go from worst to first in
36:09
Speaker 1: the division standings. You can go from oh and sixteen D.
36:12
Speaker 1: I don't think eate and eates out of the realm
36:14
Speaker 1: of possibility. They have that much talent in Cleveland. It
36:16
Speaker 1: could be a very quick turnaround Jackson, and they certainly
36:20
Speaker 1: deserve it. We need to take a break. We'll be
36:23
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38:05
Speaker 1: us up to date. Colts played last night story there
38:08
Speaker 1: in case you missed that interview Andrew Lucks on the field.
38:12
Speaker 1: They're not worried about preseason football at this point. They
38:15
Speaker 1: just like seeing Andrew Luck on the field and running around.
38:19
Speaker 1: Things are positive when that happens. And the guy, by
38:21
Speaker 1: the way, the guys on this defense, they want to
38:23
Speaker 1: see him too. They want to test themselves against the
38:25
Speaker 1: very best. And before he was injured, Luck was considered
38:28
Speaker 1: a virtuoso performer. I mean that that guy whose father
38:32
Speaker 1: groomed him to be a professional quarterback, and he looked
38:36
Speaker 1: like he was ready to be the next great quarterback.
38:38
Speaker 1: Hopefully the shoulder injury doesn't deter him from getting there.
38:43
Speaker 1: What you got for us this morning? In Ashland's analysis,
38:46
Speaker 1: we've discussed it a little bit. The new NFL rules
38:49
Speaker 1: of course, the helmet rule and the roughing the past
38:50
Speaker 1: where we heard death log him and his take on it.
38:52
Speaker 1: So we look back at the play against the Minnesota
38:55
Speaker 1: Vikings when Cody Kessler got sacked and immediately that was
38:58
Speaker 1: called roughing the pastor now I remember when we had
39:01
Speaker 1: the referees come to t I a bankfield. They said,
39:04
Speaker 1: when a defender comes and puts all of his weight
39:07
Speaker 1: on a quarterback, it's going to be a flag. Immediately,
39:10
Speaker 1: that gets called a flag. Coach marone Um actually said,
39:13
Speaker 1: we have the sod of it. Actually maximum you can
39:15
Speaker 1: play it. He says, you know, when all the weight
39:18
Speaker 1: goes on the on the quarterback, it's going to be
39:20
Speaker 1: a flag. Right. You know, when you when you hit
39:22
Speaker 1: the quarterback, it's very simple in the rule book. When
39:24
Speaker 1: you hit the quarterbacks, as you hit him once you're
39:28
Speaker 1: you're going down with him, you've got to show that
39:30
Speaker 1: you're trying to go to the side and not put
39:32
Speaker 1: your full weight on him. That that's what the rule says.
39:36
Speaker 1: So we're going back to Jeff Logman film room and
39:38
Speaker 1: you watch the play. He has one hand on the ground,
39:41
Speaker 1: one hand on the quarterback, and it looks like he's
39:43
Speaker 1: splinting his weight. Yet that gets called. Well, so when
39:47
Speaker 1: you look at the play from that angle, what the
39:49
Speaker 1: first play involves and ray shoulder watch it. He wrenches
39:54
Speaker 1: his right shoulder down, kind of throws it. That is
39:57
Speaker 1: what the officials saw. He didn't see that hand end
40:00
Speaker 1: on the ground. He saw the shoulder wrench right and
40:04
Speaker 1: it looked to him like he was putting extra emphasis,
40:07
Speaker 1: extra weight on top of him, kind of see right there,
40:11
Speaker 1: driving him into the round. Now from the other angle,
40:13
Speaker 1: this one right here, you can see the hand is down.
40:16
Speaker 1: But it's tough because we mentioned how fast the game
40:19
Speaker 1: is played and the officials have to make a judgment call.
40:22
Speaker 1: You can't see everything. He saw that little wrench move
40:26
Speaker 1: and through the fifteen yard penalty. I think just general
40:29
Speaker 1: going forward. I remember standing there and hearing the crowd
40:31
Speaker 1: go when you hear those pops in those big time plays.
40:35
Speaker 1: I think it's just emphasis for the flag. And I
40:37
Speaker 1: said on the broadcast with Fred on Saturday afternoon, I
40:40
Speaker 1: didn't think that was a penalty. And I didn't think
40:43
Speaker 1: that was a penalty. That just looks like football or
40:46
Speaker 1: what football always was. But they're trying to remove some
40:50
Speaker 1: of the violence from the game, and especially when it
40:53
Speaker 1: comes to the quarterback, and so from that perspective, they're
40:57
Speaker 1: going to throw that flag more often than not. It
40:59
Speaker 1: was any of the Vikings had coached. Mike Zimmer yesterday
41:02
Speaker 1: was in a press conference. He said, now, looking back
41:04
Speaker 1: at it, I think it was a penalty. He said,
41:06
Speaker 1: you know that pop. He mentioned the pop, and he
41:08
Speaker 1: mentioned the drive into the shoulder. I think now looking back,
41:10
Speaker 1: that should have been a flag. Well, and the one
41:11
Speaker 1: thing his own team, you're right, right, and you heard
41:14
Speaker 1: Doug talk about that also with respect to some of
41:17
Speaker 1: the penalties that his guy's got and they had to
41:19
Speaker 1: do it cleaner better. That's preseason coaching right there, where
41:21
Speaker 1: they're willing to say because he doesn't cost them a game,
41:24
Speaker 1: where they're willing to be completely honest and tell you
41:27
Speaker 1: exactly what's what on whatever side it was. Because remember
41:30
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer said that he thought that C. J. Hamm
41:32
Speaker 1: probably should have gotten a penalty because he lowered his
41:34
Speaker 1: head first on a J boy A. Right, These guys
41:37
Speaker 1: get it. They understand we're all kind of in the
41:39
Speaker 1: same boat here trying to find that razor's edge where
41:44
Speaker 1: the game has to be played in order for it
41:46
Speaker 1: to be its best and not degrade. Right. I thought
41:48
Speaker 1: it was interesting yesterday dun Morons press conference when he
41:50
Speaker 1: said he's going to call the league and asked about
41:52
Speaker 1: that helmet role with a J boy And I'm interesting
41:54
Speaker 1: to see what they come back with and if dun
41:56
Speaker 1: Ron is going to mention how that phone call went. Yeah,
41:58
Speaker 1: you know, um, a guy who got a penalty was
42:01
Speaker 1: Unique and got Way. Yes, we've been trying to squeeze
42:03
Speaker 1: this story in for weeks see uh, and we have
42:07
Speaker 1: time now, so we're going to do this. I believe
42:09
Speaker 1: it's finally gonna it's finally going to see the finally
42:11
Speaker 1: gets his time to shine. Unique and got Way one
42:14
Speaker 1: of the really good guys. Now, it doesn't always come
42:16
Speaker 1: off that because he has smile and he's got that
42:18
Speaker 1: intensity about him, and it's really tough to see through
42:21
Speaker 1: that when you only see him on a limited basis.
42:24
Speaker 1: But during one of the busiest moments of training camp
42:26
Speaker 1: and on his off day, Ashlynd you joined him for
42:29
Speaker 1: a nice evening at Academy Sports. We did so. Myself
42:33
Speaker 1: and Max Hawkman went out to a community event as
42:35
Speaker 1: we normally do each week, but this one was a
42:36
Speaker 1: little different. With training camp. I didn't expect a community
42:39
Speaker 1: event like this to go on the first day of
42:41
Speaker 1: training camp, but actually was. Miles Jack Unique went out
42:44
Speaker 1: to Academy Sports, bought kids backpacks, bought kids sneakers for school,
42:47
Speaker 1: and the story behind it's pretty cool. The Jaguars have
42:56
Speaker 1: wrapped up a successful first week of training camp and
42:59
Speaker 1: have earned themselves and all day unking. Gockway and Milens
43:01
Speaker 1: Stock are using that off day to do some back
43:03
Speaker 1: to school shopping with the Boys and Girls Club of
43:05
Speaker 1: Northeast Florida. I need nice to meet you. Do you
43:10
Speaker 1: want to shople? Come on follow me. With the new
43:14
Speaker 1: school year approaching, it's easy to forget that some kids
43:16
Speaker 1: may need a little more help than others. Jaguar's defensive
43:20
Speaker 1: end unique and Gockway knows the feeling, which is why
43:23
Speaker 1: he provided new school supplies for thirty students for three
43:27
Speaker 1: strife life. Yeah, we don't give him with dater ship.
43:31
Speaker 1: Set you up nice because I was in a similar
43:33
Speaker 1: situation that these kids came from, growing up in d
43:35
Speaker 1: C in the inner city, so I know how it
43:37
Speaker 1: feels like to have to use some of the same
43:39
Speaker 1: things from the previous school year into the next school year.
43:41
Speaker 1: So I'm just happy to see that these kids need
43:43
Speaker 1: get some Brandon's help. Not having the newest Chance Sport
43:46
Speaker 1: backpack gaving Gockway the motivation to be the Pro Bowl
43:49
Speaker 1: defense event he is today. Because I understand why my
43:52
Speaker 1: mom's used a single mom and should have to take
43:53
Speaker 1: care two boys. So at the time I was just
43:56
Speaker 1: you know, trying to get used to it. But at
43:58
Speaker 1: the same time, I knew I wasn't going to be
44:00
Speaker 1: doing this forever. Push from the Ultimated Football there, linebacker
44:04
Speaker 1: Miles Jack says his mom did all she could to
44:07
Speaker 1: prepare him for school, but now wants to take it
44:10
Speaker 1: upon himself to get these kids ready and day. Nobody
44:13
Speaker 1: helps us. So to give him, you know, a hundred
44:15
Speaker 1: dollars to tour school or or or football or whatever,
44:18
Speaker 1: maybe I think that's very beneficial. Both players told these kids,
44:22
Speaker 1: regardless of what they want to be, it all starts
44:25
Speaker 1: with their education. For Jaguars dot Com, I'm Ashlan Sullivan,
44:36
Speaker 1: So we've seen a lot of players to do back
44:38
Speaker 1: to school shopping. That's a popular event, but with unique
44:41
Speaker 1: we found out before the event, before we got there.
44:43
Speaker 1: The reason he wanted to do it is because when
44:45
Speaker 1: he was in school, he always didn't get new school
44:47
Speaker 1: supply and in fact, he said, there were a lot
44:48
Speaker 1: of years where I had to use the same stuff
44:50
Speaker 1: because my mom did the best she could. So he said,
44:52
Speaker 1: coming full circle now that I can provide for these kids.
44:55
Speaker 1: And there was thirty kids there that I can provide
44:57
Speaker 1: for these kids, and I know that they were going
44:59
Speaker 1: through the same things I went through. Was pretty cool
45:01
Speaker 1: that the reason why he did that. And let's let's
45:03
Speaker 1: drill down here real quick. So those are two professional
45:06
Speaker 1: football players and they make way above the median income
45:09
Speaker 1: in this county and in this country. But neither one
45:11
Speaker 1: of those guys has gotten that big check yet. Right.
45:14
Speaker 1: Unique was the third round pick. He got it. He
45:17
Speaker 1: makes a nice living, but it's not like he's a
45:19
Speaker 1: multi multimillionaire yet, like a Marcel Darius or a Malik Jackson.
45:23
Speaker 1: He hasn't gotten his yet, and so he's still taking
45:28
Speaker 1: the time and pulling the money out of his pocket
45:30
Speaker 1: he can afford it. I'm not crying poor for him.
45:32
Speaker 1: I'm just saying he's not waiting for the big check.
45:34
Speaker 1: He's not waiting for the money in his pocket. He's
45:37
Speaker 1: not using that as an excuse. He and Miles were
45:40
Speaker 1: out there giving what they had now to help others.
45:43
Speaker 1: And it's a cool story. And just on a personal note,
45:46
Speaker 1: those two young men are so impressive on the field,
45:51
Speaker 1: and they are more impressive off of it. I have
45:53
Speaker 1: not met any of Unique's family, but I've met miles mom,
45:58
Speaker 1: and if you want to know why he's such a
46:00
Speaker 1: good kid and so respectful, spend a little time with her.
46:03
Speaker 1: She's here. She comes down from Atlanta for some of
46:05
Speaker 1: the games. She's a very impressive ladies. You know, we
46:09
Speaker 1: talked about the players. You gotta be able to play,
46:10
Speaker 1: otherwise you don't. You don't get in the doors here, right,
46:13
Speaker 1: But the kind of person you are goes a really
46:15
Speaker 1: long way, and they found him absolutely. Miles mentioned his
46:20
Speaker 1: mom at the community event and said she raised me
46:22
Speaker 1: to what I am today. Very very impressive family. All right,
46:26
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Speaker 1: but you know he sings along. I always miss someone
47:59
Speaker 1: I know. But it's time for top tweets, tweets, top tweets, tweets,
48:08
Speaker 1: top Yeah, that's where he gives you the rupie smile.
48:11
Speaker 1: That's where he just loves it. Here's that Richard Sherman
48:13
Speaker 1: tweet that I alluded to, right, we mentioned it, so
48:15
Speaker 1: he said there's no make adjustments to the way you tackle.
48:19
Speaker 1: Even in a perfect form tackle, the body is led
48:21
Speaker 1: by the head. The rule is idiotic and should be
48:24
Speaker 1: dismissed immediately. When you watch rugby players tackle, they are
48:28
Speaker 1: still led by their head. Will be flag football soonis
48:33
Speaker 1: So this is what we talked about yesterday. We alluded
48:36
Speaker 1: to it today. It's that fine line, and Richard Sherman
48:40
Speaker 1: clearly thinks they've already crossed it. Um. If you go
48:42
Speaker 1: back and watch some of the rugby hits, and Joe
48:46
Speaker 1: de Camillus, the special teams coordinator, and I did a
48:48
Speaker 1: piece back in the spring. It's on the website somewhere.
48:51
Speaker 1: Maybe we can find it and get it moved up. Um.
48:54
Speaker 1: He used some video that we used of rugby players
48:57
Speaker 1: in Australia using their shoulder. Yes, the head goes with
49:01
Speaker 1: the shoulder right, but the heads off to the side
49:04
Speaker 1: and the shoulder is making contact before the initial contact.
49:08
Speaker 1: So I get what Richard Sherman saying. The head is
49:10
Speaker 1: going with it. But in that form tackling, the head
49:13
Speaker 1: is away more than it was when C. J. Ham
49:16
Speaker 1: or a J Boy or anybody who's gotten it is lowered.
49:19
Speaker 1: I think you can get to a point where guys
49:21
Speaker 1: drop their hips. Look, my kids playing the Junior Development
49:24
Speaker 1: Football League here in town. It's a heads up league
49:26
Speaker 1: run by USA Football, which works with the NFL. So
49:29
Speaker 1: I've done all the coaching certification on teaching heads up,
49:33
Speaker 1: and I've seen with younger kids, seventh and eighth graders,
49:36
Speaker 1: how you teach these guys to tackle when they drop
49:39
Speaker 1: their hips. Right, when your hips go down, what goes
49:42
Speaker 1: with it? Right shoulders, The head goes back. The head
49:45
Speaker 1: is still going to be in it right because the
49:47
Speaker 1: shoulder in the head go together. But if you slow
49:49
Speaker 1: down and you heard Jeff say, he gathers his feet,
49:52
Speaker 1: But we call that buzzing the feet in youth football,
49:54
Speaker 1: where you get the feet underneath you so that you
49:56
Speaker 1: can drop the hips and square up and make a
49:58
Speaker 1: form tackle. That's what they're going for. You're not bringing
50:01
Speaker 1: the violence back to the game. It's not going to
50:03
Speaker 1: become flag football. But you're gonna drop the hips and
50:06
Speaker 1: you're gonna learn how to use that shoulder first. Richard,
50:09
Speaker 1: like I said to a lot of the people who
50:11
Speaker 1: are watching, is just going to be patient with it.
50:14
Speaker 1: The players, they're all gonna to be patient and the
50:16
Speaker 1: League office should help the patients by not sending out
50:18
Speaker 1: big fines. Right, A J boy should not get a
50:20
Speaker 1: fifteen dollar finds. None of these guys should get any
50:24
Speaker 1: of these fines as they work through it. Unless you
50:26
Speaker 1: can see the intent and you conte the guy, um
50:30
Speaker 1: what was his name? We just did it last week.
50:32
Speaker 1: It was cut by the Colts. Schamarco Shamarco Thomas, the
50:36
Speaker 1: safety who was the first guy who was flagged for
50:39
Speaker 1: going vertical and thrown out of a game that looked
50:42
Speaker 1: throw the fine, give him the fine. But but boy
50:44
Speaker 1: A and Jared Wilson, no fines now until we figure
50:49
Speaker 1: this thing out. That to me just makes sense. Right,
50:53
Speaker 1: Maybe send a little warning letter sternly. You know the
50:55
Speaker 1: next time we're gonna the reason we flagged you is
50:59
Speaker 1: because you did this, and you have a phone call
51:01
Speaker 1: with a J boy and say, hey, next time, this
51:03
Speaker 1: is what you should do. But if you want the
51:04
Speaker 1: players to buy in, hold the fine money back here.
51:07
Speaker 1: Because this is this is new stuff, Ashlyn. This is
51:11
Speaker 1: not hyperbole from me. I'm not just creating this drama
51:13
Speaker 1: around this. We're really at that moment where the league
51:15
Speaker 1: has to figure this stuff out to save the game
51:18
Speaker 1: for the long term. So don't don't nickel and dimeon.
51:21
Speaker 1: Not the fifteen grand is nickels and dimes, not quite
51:24
Speaker 1: at all, But don't do that right now. Find a
51:26
Speaker 1: way to help the players stay patients as they work
51:28
Speaker 1: their way through absolutely all right, let's go to our
51:31
Speaker 1: next top tweet and it is none other than Jalen Ramsey.
51:33
Speaker 1: So on Saturday, on game Day when the Jaguars played
51:36
Speaker 1: the Vikings, the NFL tweeted twenty days until kick off.
51:39
Speaker 1: The nice little graphic there of Jalen Ramsey. Jalen quote
51:42
Speaker 1: tweets that says twenty days un till checks will be
51:45
Speaker 1: cash two point oh. And we always say, Brian football.
51:48
Speaker 1: It all comes back down towards look. Pro football is
51:51
Speaker 1: about the money, and it was interesting that the NFL
51:53
Speaker 1: used Jalen for that right because he was suspended and
51:57
Speaker 1: didn't play in the game and had the g q R.
52:00
Speaker 1: But the NFL never misses the opportunity for tweets and
52:04
Speaker 1: capitalize on the popular player. And last week there was
52:08
Speaker 1: no player that made news that was involved in more
52:10
Speaker 1: stories on more networks and in more publications than Jalen Ramsey.
52:14
Speaker 1: So we talked about it being checks being cashion about
52:16
Speaker 1: the money. The NFL is about the money too. Yep,
52:19
Speaker 1: absolutely no doubt about that. With that tweet, I can't
52:22
Speaker 1: tell you how much fun it is to watch this
52:24
Speaker 1: guy play, even when he's practicing. It's fun to watch
52:26
Speaker 1: a guy who can move like that, who plays with
52:29
Speaker 1: such great intensity. Just enjoyed having him back, even for
52:32
Speaker 1: the little bit of time that we got to watch me.
52:34
Speaker 1: It just seems like all was right in the world. Again,
52:36
Speaker 1: didn't When you walk back on the field, everyone was
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Speaker 1: in their right positions, and all the healthy guys back
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Speaker 1: on the field to a s J back, normal back,
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Speaker 1: taven back, it seems like everything was going in the
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Speaker 1: right direction yesterday. You got to do that in this game.
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Speaker 1: You can't count on that, absolutely all right, our last one.
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Speaker 1: The New York Giants official Twitter account, a fellow linebacker says,
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Speaker 1: we take it one week at a time here, but
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Speaker 1: since the schedule came out, I can't wait for the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars game. I gotta think that's just because it's opening
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Speaker 1: Day and it doesn't have anything to do with Olivier Vernon,
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Speaker 1: who played for the Dolphins and was courted by the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars and chose the Giants instead. Um, maybe because he's
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Speaker 1: a high dollar free agent and he wants to prove
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Speaker 1: his value. I mean that's the only thing. Thank you're
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Speaker 1: in New York where they're never really all that nice
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Speaker 1: to you, Right, If you play for the Giants and
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Speaker 1: you're not delivering big numbers based on your big contract,
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Speaker 1: they're gonna remind you of that. Yeah, I feel like
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Speaker 1: he feels like stepping onto the stage with the Jaguars defense.
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Speaker 1: You know this, like it's all about proving themselves absolutely,
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Speaker 1: but we just we've seen a lot of hype around
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Speaker 1: this first week of the regular season. I feel like,
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Speaker 1: more so the normal have a target on their back
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Speaker 1: this year. There's no way around it, especially when you
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Speaker 1: talk like this team talks, right, and it's mostly the defense.
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Speaker 1: The defense likes to write the checks with their words.
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Speaker 1: Now they can cash them old top gunline, they can
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Speaker 1: their bodies can cash those checks. Um, and they you're
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Speaker 1: gonna have to. Those guys are going to have to
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Speaker 1: come up with the kinds of plays like they did
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Speaker 1: after Boarder's interception in Minnesota, because that just fuels the
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Speaker 1: just fuels this team. Okay, Olivia, you get it. They're
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Speaker 1: coming September nine, they'll be there. All right, what else
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Speaker 1: do you have anything? That's it? That's all I got?
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Speaker 1: All right? Now you're yeah, you gotta get your computer fixed? Yeah? Max,
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Speaker 1: can I have a solo shot here? I have something
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Speaker 1: to say. She's too up, you break, I fix. I'm
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Speaker 1: coming for you. I want my forty. But she did
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Speaker 1: a great job without the computer. Today you flew without
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Speaker 1: the net and you did phenomenal. I would thank you.
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Speaker 1: I want to be the guy at thirty. You'll see
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Speaker 1: me in the lobby. She's serious about her money, We're
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Speaker 1: serious about the content we bring you here on the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Digital Network. You can see we've got a lot
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54:50
Speaker 1: ninety minutes from now, Doug Morone takes the press conference
54:53
Speaker 1: podium and of course happy hour with JP and crew
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Speaker 1: this afternoon at four o'clock. We're back here tomorrow. John
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