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- 0:03Speaker 1: Welcome to Jens Drive with Joan Hoosiers and Bryan Sexton.
- 0:09Speaker 1: Sexton James Drive starts right now. Hey, congratulations has off
- 0:32Speaker 1: to you guys. Man. I know this was a tough week.
- 0:33Speaker 1: It was a tough week mentally just because of the
- 0:35Speaker 1: situation this game. But you handled your business the right way, okay,
- 0:39Speaker 1: and it's showed on the field. It's showed by the
- 0:40Speaker 1: way you dominated in this football game. Congratulations, all three phases. Okay. Now,
- 0:53Speaker 1: we said a long time ago that we wanted this
- 0:55Speaker 1: thing to come down to week a team that has
- 0:57Speaker 1: we k teen you guys just keep being you. Yeah,
- 1:00Speaker 1: you don't do anything special, right, You don't have to,
- 1:02Speaker 1: you know, lift more weight to run, but I would
- 1:05Speaker 1: appreciate you doing that. But listen, just be you, be
- 1:09Speaker 1: you this week. It's time. It's time. It's time. We
- 1:12Speaker 1: talked about it last night, We've talked about it all week.
- 1:14Speaker 1: There's no reason to go back now. You guys have
- 1:17Speaker 1: come come way too far. You've battled too too much.
- 1:19Speaker 1: You've gone through adversity physically, all that kind of stuff.
- 1:22Speaker 1: We hang together, We rock and roll. Let's put it
- 1:24Speaker 1: in a good week of preparation. One day at a
- 1:27Speaker 1: time and get ready for next weekend. Okay, all right, man,
- 1:32Speaker 1: let's go Great Way Fellas one more next week. Let's
- 1:37Speaker 1: go Family head coach Doug Peterson in the Jaguars in
- 1:42Speaker 1: the Victorious locker room on Sunday at n r G
- 1:46Speaker 1: Stadium in Houston. Welcome to Jackson, Bille and t I A.
- 1:49Speaker 1: Bank Field for the Monday morning edition of Jags Drive Time.
- 1:53Speaker 1: Brian Sexon along with John Osier. I don't I don't
- 1:57Speaker 1: think we can go too far into this show without
- 2:01Speaker 1: acknowledging what the steady hand of Doug Peterson has meant
- 2:06Speaker 1: to this team this year. And and the folks just
- 2:09Speaker 1: saw how even keeled he is. Right, You're on the
- 2:13Speaker 1: essentially a playoff game on Saturday night now, and just
- 2:16Speaker 1: keep doing what you do, Just be you right. There's
- 2:19Speaker 1: there's no hype, there's it's just steady and steady wins
- 2:23Speaker 1: the race, as you learned years ago in Indianapolis with
- 2:27Speaker 1: maybe the most steady coach I've ever seen, in Tony Dungey. Yeah,
- 2:30Speaker 1: Dougs steady in that stratosphere of steady he in on
- 2:38Speaker 1: February six last year, he came in and the vibe
- 2:43Speaker 1: of the press conference and the Vibe and his introductory
- 2:47Speaker 1: press conference in the Vibe all offseason was that basically
- 2:51Speaker 1: he was going to bring the NFL to Jacksonville again,
- 2:55Speaker 1: you know, and bring how to do it right. Uh.
- 2:59Speaker 1: It had been a mess last year. It had it
- 3:02Speaker 1: had started going off the rails before that. I don't
- 3:05Speaker 1: think that's too strong and Doug he never really said
- 3:12Speaker 1: the phrase, but the promise was he was going to
- 3:15Speaker 1: show this franchise how to get back into the competitive NFL,
- 3:20Speaker 1: how it's done. Uh. And through the off season, remember
- 3:26Speaker 1: when he didn't start O T A s until the
- 3:30Speaker 1: week after he was allowed to, and then he didn't
- 3:36Speaker 1: have the rookie I mean, he didn't have the veterans
- 3:39Speaker 1: go to the mandatory minicamp, and everybody was how could
- 3:42Speaker 1: he do this? They need every second. My impression was
- 3:46Speaker 1: he was telling these guys all along, you guys belong
- 3:49Speaker 1: in the NFL. You guys can win in the NFL.
- 3:53Speaker 1: We don't have to do extra to get back, and
- 3:55Speaker 1: we don't have to. We're not the little brothers anymore
- 3:58Speaker 1: who are fighting in I thought that was the message
- 4:01Speaker 1: with that of Hey, you guys know what you're doing.
- 4:05Speaker 1: I'm gonna treat this like I would a veteran team.
- 4:08Speaker 1: He has shown these young guys how to do this
- 4:11Speaker 1: and he continues to do that. Since you used the
- 4:13Speaker 1: brother analogy, That's what I used all spring and summer
- 4:15Speaker 1: and talking to people. He was like the big brother
- 4:18Speaker 1: who came in here and said, let me show you
- 4:19Speaker 1: how we do this. It wasn't it calmed down. I
- 4:23Speaker 1: know how this is gonna be done. Let's get this done.
- 4:26Speaker 1: And here we are not even a year from that
- 4:28Speaker 1: introductory press conference, and at this time last year, we're
- 4:32Speaker 1: talking about who's the next Jaguars coach is going to be,
- 4:34Speaker 1: how are they going to fix the mess left behind?
- 4:37Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, we're talking about a Saturday
- 4:39Speaker 1: night eight kickoff for a playoff game to get into
- 4:43Speaker 1: the playoffs. Jaguars and Titans on Saturday Night, and it's epic.
- 4:48Speaker 1: Make no mistake, you know, I hope the Jaguars went
- 4:51Speaker 1: on Saturday. I believe they went on Saturday. They've earned
- 4:54Speaker 1: their way to a favorites role in that regardless of
- 4:58Speaker 1: the outcome. One of the ozone emailers last night emailed
- 5:06Speaker 1: me and said, hey, the tide has turned totally regardless
- 5:10Speaker 1: of what happened Saturday night. This is not the same
- 5:13Speaker 1: old Jack. You know. Uh, the Titans are good and
- 5:17Speaker 1: I don't care what the six games in a row whatever.
- 5:20Speaker 1: With a playoff game on line, you don't know what's
- 5:22Speaker 1: gonna happen. But this is what this team is now,
- 5:25Speaker 1: six and two in the last eight games. Competitive, good quarterback,
- 5:29Speaker 1: Young on the rise again. When you leave yourself a
- 5:33Speaker 1: winner take all in the NFL, you don't know what's
- 5:36Speaker 1: gonna happen. But this, I think is what you can expect.
- 5:39Speaker 1: This sort of energy, this sort of big and boy
- 5:45Speaker 1: did he deliver. As we go into big things, I'll
- 5:48Speaker 1: leave you with this idea, and that is we talked
- 5:49Speaker 1: about meaningful football around Thanksgiving, and here we are. The
- 5:54Speaker 1: final game of the year is as meaningful as it gets.
- 5:57Speaker 1: What a turnaround for Doug Peterson. So let's jump right
- 6:01Speaker 1: into big things and we'll start with the South Showdown.
- 6:03Speaker 1: Announced late last night, it will be Saturday night on
- 6:05Speaker 1: ESPN ABC. That means the Monday Night Football Crew. There
- 6:08Speaker 1: will be a lot of pomp and circumstance around this
- 6:10Speaker 1: game and some pressure as well. The Jaguars are looking
- 6:13Speaker 1: for their fifth consecutive win, something they have only ever
- 6:17Speaker 1: done here three times in their history two thousand and
- 6:21Speaker 1: I'm sorry and two thousand and five. It's been a while,
- 6:26Speaker 1: so the pressure is gonna mount. But Doug Peterson says, hey, man,
- 6:30Speaker 1: pressure is why we're here. This is what you play for.
- 6:34Speaker 1: This is what you coach for, you know, um, this
- 6:37Speaker 1: is this is this is what you want, you know, um,
- 6:39Speaker 1: for your football team. You want to be in the
- 6:41Speaker 1: conversation and you want to be playing for you know,
- 6:43Speaker 1: for us the a f C South, and we're playing
- 6:45Speaker 1: a good football team and and uh, listen, you know
- 6:48Speaker 1: we haven't done anything yet. There there's still the champs
- 6:50Speaker 1: until until something happens. And really feel like our guys
- 6:53Speaker 1: are again in a good, good place. They're a good
- 6:55Speaker 1: place mentally, physically, um, And I don't really have to
- 7:01Speaker 1: worry too much about them getting excited for this one.
- 7:03Speaker 1: You know. It's more it's more about just locking in
- 7:05Speaker 1: on your job and focusing in on your um, your
- 7:09Speaker 1: task you know this week, um, you know, starting tomorrow.
- 7:13Speaker 1: The thirty one or three win over the Texans made
- 7:16Speaker 1: it the first time since two thousand ten that the
- 7:18Speaker 1: Jaguars had beaten all three of their divisional opponents in
- 7:21Speaker 1: the same calendar year. That's just one streak that has
- 7:24Speaker 1: been broken. We talked about the nineteen game road losing
- 7:28Speaker 1: streak where the twenty consecutive season car party consecutive games
- 7:32Speaker 1: they lost to the NFC. I mean, it's just streak
- 7:35Speaker 1: after streak after streak that ended. And for Doug Peterson,
- 7:38Speaker 1: he acknowledges that this was a season filled with ending
- 7:41Speaker 1: the past. It's great for the organization, it's great for
- 7:44Speaker 1: the team, you know. Um, obviously, you set out each season,
- 7:49Speaker 1: you know, and hopefully you win, you win more than
- 7:51Speaker 1: you lose. But um, this is just a credit to
- 7:53Speaker 1: the staff. It's a credit to the players, you know,
- 7:57Speaker 1: even you know Mr Khan, you know, giving me the
- 8:00Speaker 1: opportunity to coach his team, and and just the direction
- 8:03Speaker 1: that we're headed. You know. Obviously we still have a
- 8:05Speaker 1: game left, and um, but yeah, we've we've we've conquered
- 8:09Speaker 1: a few first in a while, and um, you know,
- 8:12Speaker 1: it's too credit to those guys. And big thing three
- 8:15Speaker 1: is expectations at two and six. Expectations were a little iffy.
- 8:19Speaker 1: Right now at eight and eight, after going six and two,
- 8:23Speaker 1: I mean, they find themselves in a position where the
- 8:24Speaker 1: expectations have changed significantly, but you wouldn't notice it in
- 8:28Speaker 1: the voice of Treford Lawrence. You look at the situation
- 8:32Speaker 1: we put ourselves in. That's kind of been Honestly, the
- 8:35Speaker 1: feeling every week for us is just because if we
- 8:37Speaker 1: didn't win what today was was four in a row.
- 8:39Speaker 1: If we didn't win these games, we wouldn't be in
- 8:41Speaker 1: a position to do this next week. So for for us,
- 8:46Speaker 1: that that pressure or whatever you wanna call it's been there,
- 8:48Speaker 1: and you know, we've responded great to it. And now
- 8:50Speaker 1: that this moment, you know, we talked a lot about,
- 8:52Speaker 1: you know a few weeks ago this season is gonna
- 8:54Speaker 1: come down to Week eight. Team. We knew we had
- 8:55Speaker 1: to take care of business these prior weeks, but we
- 8:58Speaker 1: had a feeling we're gonna put ourselves into sastion to
- 9:00Speaker 1: where we k teams are on the side to you know,
- 9:02Speaker 1: our playoff birth and where we where we had after that,
- 9:05Speaker 1: and so we we've been expecting this um and we're
- 9:08Speaker 1: ready for it, and I think, like I said, you
- 9:10Speaker 1: can't treat it. You know, it's a big game, because
- 9:12Speaker 1: you're right, it is for for our season and to
- 9:14Speaker 1: keep to earn the right to keep playing, but it's
- 9:17Speaker 1: still a game. You still played the same way, still
- 9:19Speaker 1: the same length of time, all that stuff. It's the
- 9:21Speaker 1: same game. So you can't can't freak out and make
- 9:24Speaker 1: it bigger than it is. You gotta, you know, stick
- 9:26Speaker 1: to what you know, and you're And let's roll back
- 9:30Speaker 1: to the conversation we started with, which is how steady
- 9:32Speaker 1: Doug is? I think steady is the best way John
- 9:34Speaker 1: to describe the jaguars last two games. Right, you go
- 9:37Speaker 1: up to a primetime game in New York and terrible weather,
- 9:41Speaker 1: they do what they need to do. Nineteen three, they win.
- 9:44Speaker 1: Right yesterday, you go into a division game against the
- 9:47Speaker 1: team that you hadn't beaten since two thousand and seventeen.
- 9:50Speaker 1: There was some pressure applied from the Jaguars perspective to
- 9:53Speaker 1: end that streak, and they go and they get the
- 9:56Speaker 1: job done. They don't reach there's nothing crazy they did
- 9:59Speaker 1: an off That steady Eddie approach from the coach has
- 10:04Speaker 1: played over to the team and they're just almost matter
- 10:07Speaker 1: of fact. I'm not I'm not sure I expected they
- 10:10Speaker 1: could be a matter of fact about about wins this season.
- 10:12Speaker 1: I thought everyone would seem big, but they have. They've
- 10:15Speaker 1: made that transition from hey man, we're happy to be
- 10:18Speaker 1: in this position to well, this is where we are
- 10:20Speaker 1: and this is how we do it, almost overnight. I mean,
- 10:23Speaker 1: it's uh. One stat I wanted to throw out there,
- 10:28Speaker 1: Doug Peterson, and the guy can really coach, and he
- 10:31Speaker 1: can coach in this situation. And when I say coach,
- 10:35Speaker 1: I don't mean called plays. He he's he's an off
- 10:38Speaker 1: the charts good play caller. But he can lead through this. Philadelphia,
- 10:42Speaker 1: two thousand and seventeen, they lose Carson Wentz late and
- 10:45Speaker 1: go in the Super Bowl. Everybody knows that story. The
- 10:47Speaker 1: next year they win five out of their last six
- 10:50Speaker 1: to make the playoffs at nine and seven the year
- 10:53Speaker 1: or maybe in the last three uh both years after
- 10:58Speaker 1: they made a Super Bowl up there they were up
- 11:01Speaker 1: against it and one late in the season with streaks. Uh.
- 11:08Speaker 1: I guess what when you're the defending Super Bowl champion
- 11:12Speaker 1: in Philadelphia and you're up against it in the last
- 11:14Speaker 1: five weeks, there's some outside noise you know that you
- 11:18Speaker 1: have to guide your team through. He can really navigate
- 11:21Speaker 1: this time, and I think that has served this team well.
- 11:24Speaker 1: When you're four and eight and then have to sort
- 11:27Speaker 1: of climb back into it. UM, to your point, when
- 11:32Speaker 1: you look back on this season in a year and
- 11:35Speaker 1: sort of think back about the arc, you're not going
- 11:39Speaker 1: to think about the Jets and the Texans as, oh,
- 11:42Speaker 1: those were huge wins. You don't think about Dallas, you
- 11:43Speaker 1: don think about Baltimore the Raiders and they came back.
- 11:46Speaker 1: These two steady wins are exactly what you talked about
- 11:50Speaker 1: before that game yesterday. The storyline was the Texans had
- 11:55Speaker 1: played the Chiefs and Dallas tough beating the Titans. There
- 11:59Speaker 1: was were like him in and I were talking to
- 12:02Speaker 1: the press box and it was a little let's see
- 12:06Speaker 1: what happens here, because this is a tough game to
- 12:09Speaker 1: sort of fight through. UM and I saw him right
- 12:13Speaker 1: for the game and I said, hey, worried about nothing.
- 12:16Speaker 1: This team has allowed you to worry about nothing. Sometimes
- 12:19Speaker 1: UM two to say, oh, you should go beat the Texans. Well,
- 12:25Speaker 1: they didn't go beat the Texans in Week five, and
- 12:27Speaker 1: they didn't go beat the Texans last year. Late, they
- 12:29Speaker 1: didn't go beat the Jets last year late. Uh, this year,
- 12:32Speaker 1: they would have been handled those teams. That to me
- 12:36Speaker 1: is as much of a show of where this team
- 12:39Speaker 1: is as the Dallas one. It's what good teams do.
- 12:42Speaker 1: It's what good teams. So two more streaks that are
- 12:45Speaker 1: over that I think are worthy of mention. Right. One
- 12:49Speaker 1: is they're one of what three teams that had had
- 12:52Speaker 1: the number one overall pick and back to back seasons
- 12:55Speaker 1: in the modern history of the draft. That's over. Uh.
- 12:58Speaker 1: And the other one is they had four consecutive seasons
- 13:01Speaker 1: with at least ten losses. Well, that's over too. And
- 13:06Speaker 1: if you thin nine of last ten, eleven whatever, they
- 13:11Speaker 1: gotta that. The glass ceiling is shot out of the abyss,
- 13:13Speaker 1: out of that mud, that muck that's tough to pull
- 13:17Speaker 1: your foot out of. And significantly, this was this wasn't
- 13:21Speaker 1: really a streak. They've won three straight road games. Um,
- 13:27Speaker 1: they're doing these things all of a sudden. From two
- 13:31Speaker 1: and six, they've turned into this team that you're not
- 13:36Speaker 1: really surprised when they go handle a game. Uh. That's
- 13:42Speaker 1: a remarkable turnaround. And I keep laughing when fans asked
- 13:47Speaker 1: what happened, Well, what happened? For eight weeks? All all
- 13:51Speaker 1: I wrote in the ozone and all we talked about
- 13:53Speaker 1: was the team's learned how to win. That wasn't just
- 13:58Speaker 1: stuff that Doug Peterson was saying, this team learned how
- 14:01Speaker 1: to win, and they've won four in a row. They
- 14:03Speaker 1: haven't won five in a row since two thousand and five.
- 14:07Speaker 1: And as I mentioned, they won eleven in a row
- 14:09Speaker 1: in ninety nine, and they had the seven game winning
- 14:11Speaker 1: streak at the end of the nineties six season, So
- 14:14Speaker 1: it has been rare for this team to stack these together.
- 14:17Speaker 1: If they beat the Titans and make the playoffs, it
- 14:20Speaker 1: will be a five game winning streak. And it is
- 14:23Speaker 1: astounding that this football team has figured it out at
- 14:27Speaker 1: the exact right time against some quality opponents. I got
- 14:30Speaker 1: some thoughts on the um magnitude of Saturday Night's game
- 14:37Speaker 1: as it relates to Jaguars history, but we'll save that.
- 14:39Speaker 1: We'll take a break. When we return, we'll go through
- 14:41Speaker 1: a couple of highlights from Sunday's game. There are not
- 14:43Speaker 1: many of them, which is a really good thing. Uh
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- 15:13Speaker 1: a Monday morning, Jack's Drive Time, brought to you by
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- 15:18Speaker 1: over and over. We're so used to Sunday games Saturday
- 15:20Speaker 1: night eight kickoff, ABC, ESPN. It's the Joe Buck, Troy
- 15:24Speaker 1: Aikman Monday Night Crew, a big moment for Jacksonville, and
- 15:28Speaker 1: there's some consternation about not giving that Sunday night game.
- 15:31Speaker 1: Think about it like this, and this is just my opinion. Um,
- 15:34Speaker 1: the Jaguars, if they win and host a wild card game,
- 15:36Speaker 1: it's gonna be a Saturday game the next week. The
- 15:39Speaker 1: Jacksonville market has not had a Sunday home playoff game.
- 15:42Speaker 1: They did in ninety nine with the a f C
- 15:44Speaker 1: Championship game. Um, they're gonna get a Saturday game, so
- 15:47Speaker 1: at least I think they will. So if you're worried
- 15:50Speaker 1: about the short day this week, you get the extra
- 15:52Speaker 1: day next week. I think you're in the postseason this,
- 15:56Speaker 1: I mean, this is the end of the season. You're
- 15:59Speaker 1: under the lights. Uh, it's it's huge. It is a
- 16:06Speaker 1: Scenday night any better. I don't know why if you're
- 16:10Speaker 1: hosting a Saturday game. And again the times haven't been
- 16:13Speaker 1: figured out. I'm just going on history. If you're if
- 16:16Speaker 1: you're playing in a Saturday playoff game, then the Saturday
- 16:20Speaker 1: game here gives you the extra day as opposed to
- 16:22Speaker 1: the Sunday which takes the day away. It's it's six
- 16:24Speaker 1: of one happen. Would I wouldn't worry. In other words,
- 16:27Speaker 1: it wouldn't worry about it. It doesn't matter. Don't worry
- 16:29Speaker 1: that they didn't get the Sunday night game because people
- 16:32Speaker 1: the minute Green Bay one, you know they're gonna put
- 16:34Speaker 1: Green Bay in there because they're the Packers. It's Aaron
- 16:36Speaker 1: Rodgers exactly. And a hundred years of pay is gonna
- 16:42Speaker 1: outdraw Texans in Jacksonville. Now, I don't know that's necessarily true.
- 16:47Speaker 1: In a year or two, when people get used to
- 16:48Speaker 1: have special Trevor Lawrence, that's how it changes when it's
- 16:52Speaker 1: a quarterback like that. I mean to share. When I
- 16:55Speaker 1: got to Indy, I the Colts were not at a
- 17:00Speaker 1: guaranteed prime time Uh. By the time I left, I
- 17:05Speaker 1: got so tired of four am arrivals from prime time
- 17:10Speaker 1: road trips to the coast. And that's what that's what's
- 17:13Speaker 1: coming well and I think with this kid, I don't
- 17:16Speaker 1: think Jaguars fans will say, oh no, I'm not ready
- 17:18Speaker 1: for the prime time. They want the prime time games.
- 17:20Speaker 1: We haven't had it, but you might get them, don't
- 17:22Speaker 1: you know. Everybody else is fine, I know, but I
- 17:24Speaker 1: do think good for me, it's good for me. Well,
- 17:26Speaker 1: I mean, you see the Steelers and the Packers and
- 17:28Speaker 1: some of those Colts teams you've covered that would get
- 17:29Speaker 1: four and five prime time games in a season, especially
- 17:32Speaker 1: now that you've got Thursday and Sunday and Monday nasty stuff. Yeah, well, yeah,
- 17:36Speaker 1: so buckle up because those prime time plays, those primetime
- 17:40Speaker 1: games are coming. All right. Let's go to highlights from yesterday,
- 17:42Speaker 1: and it starts on the Texans opening drive. They decided,
- 17:46Speaker 1: I think inexplicably so to go for it on fourth down.
- 17:50Speaker 1: Let's see if they come up with us stop here
- 17:52Speaker 1: school trying to do it itself, hit hard by chickens
- 17:55Speaker 1: and this is gonna be very close, and the jeff
- 17:59Speaker 1: Ars defense comes up with a stop. Hey, stay right
- 18:04Speaker 1: up the middle, stretch use out and it's a touchdown.
- 18:09Speaker 1: Third time this year the Jaguars have schooled that touchdown
- 18:12Speaker 1: on their opening drive. Now, maybe if your study rookie
- 18:16Speaker 1: running back is in the ball game, but Pierce has
- 18:18Speaker 1: been on injured reserve now for a couple of weeks.
- 18:20Speaker 1: Going for it on your side of the field on
- 18:23Speaker 1: the opening drive, especially the way you played the Chiefs,
- 18:26Speaker 1: the Cowboys and the Titans, that didn't make sense to me.
- 18:28Speaker 1: I'm glad they did. Yeah. I thought it showed that
- 18:33Speaker 1: Lovey knew that the Jaguars were a better team obviously, uh,
- 18:38Speaker 1: and felt like he needed to steal possessions they needed
- 18:42Speaker 1: to establish. And I also think they had run well
- 18:46Speaker 1: on the what five or six plays they had run already,
- 18:49Speaker 1: so I think they thought they could pick that up.
- 18:51Speaker 1: I thought significantly on the next series they went as
- 18:55Speaker 1: fast a tempo and maybe I'm exaggerating it, but it
- 18:58Speaker 1: felt like they ran as fast to tempo as they've
- 19:00Speaker 1: run all season. The Jaguars, they had three wides to
- 19:03Speaker 1: each side or three split and maybe Ingram was in there, uh,
- 19:07Speaker 1: and they went bang bang bang. To me, they clearly
- 19:12Speaker 1: wanted to do something to catch the Texans a little
- 19:15Speaker 1: off guard against the defensive Trevor struggled with and Doug afterwards,
- 19:21Speaker 1: I asked him how important it was to get a lead,
- 19:23Speaker 1: and he sort of couched it with well, it's always
- 19:25Speaker 1: important to get a lead. But I think against that team,
- 19:28Speaker 1: considering what happened out here thirteen to six where you
- 19:31Speaker 1: didn't get touchdowns. If you remember that Week five game,
- 19:36Speaker 1: it felt like you were always slogging in mud trying
- 19:39Speaker 1: to get a touchdown. You feel like, if you just
- 19:40Speaker 1: get a touchdown, just get a lead. It was six
- 19:42Speaker 1: six and six three. I think Doug really wanted to
- 19:45Speaker 1: be up seven nothing on that team, thinking if we're
- 19:47Speaker 1: up seven nothing, they're gonna have a hard time getting
- 19:50Speaker 1: back tied and all we need a couple of field goals. Well,
- 19:53Speaker 1: and I had a note in my notebook for red
- 19:56Speaker 1: zone possessions, right, and I wrote it in your final
- 19:58Speaker 1: analysis column. Let's track and see because they were oh
- 20:01Speaker 1: of three in the red zone when they played the
- 20:03Speaker 1: Texans here, so you know there's red zone touchdown. Turns
- 20:05Speaker 1: out the Jackers didn't need much in the red zone.
- 20:07Speaker 1: Second quarter, Travis e t N went from long distance
- 20:13Speaker 1: first and ten for Jacksonville. E t N on first
- 20:17Speaker 1: tub as a Chris there he goes e t N.
- 20:22Speaker 1: See you later touchdown the sixty two yard run. If
- 20:29Speaker 1: I recalled correctly. He was your he will, he won't,
- 20:32Speaker 1: he might, And you've been talking about him getting big
- 20:35Speaker 1: plays like this. Yeah. Our friend Asher uh texted me
- 20:39Speaker 1: after the game and say, hey, you're right about the
- 20:41Speaker 1: E t N long run And I said, well, throw
- 20:43Speaker 1: enough stuff at the wall eventually in half. Yeah, I
- 20:46Speaker 1: mean that's probably MYTI. He will, he will, he might?
- 20:49Speaker 1: And I finally got one. Um. I asked Travis after
- 20:52Speaker 1: the game, I said, when you when you broke through,
- 20:54Speaker 1: when did you know that you're going to score? And
- 20:57Speaker 1: I forget exactly how I said it, but his his
- 21:00Speaker 1: response basic, it was only one guy. So I wasn't
- 21:06Speaker 1: getting tracked down that situation. But he had been waiting
- 21:11Speaker 1: for that for fourteen or fifteen weeks. That moment where
- 21:14Speaker 1: he took it to the house. Uh, he's pretty humble,
- 21:18Speaker 1: so you know, but I think that was a big
- 21:20Speaker 1: moment for him. Okay, I got it. He knows he's good.
- 21:23Speaker 1: He's proven himself to that. He's proving that to himself. Um.
- 21:28Speaker 1: One thing we missed on the first highlight, Trevor Lawrence
- 21:32Speaker 1: made a big time through. I think it was DSA
- 21:34Speaker 1: Jones maybe to Marvin Jones. He had missed a couple. Uh,
- 21:40Speaker 1: and I got some emails about, well he was a
- 21:41Speaker 1: little he was a little off. That throw to Marvin
- 21:45Speaker 1: was a big time laser shot, again showing you once
- 21:49Speaker 1: or twice a game he does something that makes you think, oh,
- 21:54Speaker 1: this is why he's special. I don't know if they
- 21:56Speaker 1: score on that drive without that play. Trevor Lawrence was
- 22:00Speaker 1: the difference on that drive between three and seven. Just
- 22:03Speaker 1: one more thing that he's doing to give them points,
- 22:06Speaker 1: show that he's special. Uh. I don't think. Yes, it
- 22:10Speaker 1: was his greatest game. He missed a few, but there's
- 22:13Speaker 1: still moments. Man, He's going to be so good. All right,
- 22:16Speaker 1: up fourteen nothing second quarter. You felt good about it.
- 22:19Speaker 1: Knew the Jaguars were the better team, but it was
- 22:21Speaker 1: still the Texans. They lost nine in a row in
- 22:23Speaker 1: some funky ways. Three plays later, they slammed the door
- 22:26Speaker 1: with a guy that I picked for He will, he won't,
- 22:27Speaker 1: he might. Josh Allen coming through with a huge play.
- 22:32Speaker 1: You get into it second and eight hills and that
- 22:37Speaker 1: one flutters. It's a loose ball, still loose. TuS Campbell
- 22:42Speaker 1: touchdown to Cussy at the quarterback pressure and Tyson Campbell
- 22:51Speaker 1: with the scoop and score first first NFL touchdown. So
- 22:56Speaker 1: a couple of quick thoughts. One, it slammed the door
- 22:58Speaker 1: right there. But watched Josh Allen, you're push his way
- 23:00Speaker 1: through young and get there. And then I laughed out
- 23:04Speaker 1: loud because Tyson Campbell is one of the most quiet,
- 23:09Speaker 1: humble guys in the locker room, and because watch the
- 23:13Speaker 1: celebration tells you everything you needed to know about how
- 23:16Speaker 1: the Jaguars felt that game was. Yeah, I laughed too.
- 23:20Speaker 1: I thought that was a lot of character for him. Um,
- 23:24Speaker 1: I this shows you how tough it is sometimes to
- 23:30Speaker 1: be a pass rusher in the NFL. Josh leads the
- 23:33Speaker 1: team in pressures this year. Josh Allen, he has not
- 23:36Speaker 1: been nearly as bad as as maybe he thinks. If
- 23:42Speaker 1: you follow me, he said moments where yeah, where he's
- 23:44Speaker 1: been very frustrated. Um, he has been nearly as bad
- 23:47Speaker 1: as fans believe. And he's probably been a sniff of
- 23:53Speaker 1: a step away from multiple plays like that yesterday. He
- 23:58Speaker 1: gets it just a fast gets home. If if he's
- 24:02Speaker 1: a half a step later, maybe that play doesn't happen. Uh,
- 24:05Speaker 1: credit to him, Good for him, good guy. Um, And
- 24:09Speaker 1: I was happy to see him get that moment, and
- 24:11Speaker 1: so let's go to the fourth I'm sorry, the fourth
- 24:13Speaker 1: scoring drive, third quarter opening drive, Jaguars impressively go right
- 24:17Speaker 1: down the field and stoop Connor gets in on the
- 24:19Speaker 1: action my first goal step put the touchdown, his first
- 24:27Speaker 1: NFL touchdown. And we showed this highlight the fifth round
- 24:31Speaker 1: pick from Mississippi. And we show you this highlight because
- 24:36Speaker 1: at this moment now Trevor Lawrence has done, Travis e
- 24:40Speaker 1: t n is done, Brandon Sheriff is done. Jaguars have
- 24:44Speaker 1: a to nothing advantage there, and all of a sudden,
- 24:49Speaker 1: Doug gets to do what we hoped he would get
- 24:51Speaker 1: to do. What we talked about maybe getting to do
- 24:54Speaker 1: is getting those guys out of the game. Yeah, and
- 24:56Speaker 1: it shows you the importance you know, again, the NFL
- 24:59Speaker 1: is hard. It's hard to blow teams out. Shows the
- 25:03Speaker 1: importance of getting a break in the first half with
- 25:07Speaker 1: the I mean I say a break. They created the break,
- 25:09Speaker 1: but the big play with the scoop score, um, you know,
- 25:13Speaker 1: if you don't get those, then all of a sudden,
- 25:16Speaker 1: that game comes out a little tighter. The Texans have
- 25:18Speaker 1: more oomph coming out. I think that's why Doug wanted
- 25:22Speaker 1: to score a touchdown so much on that first drive.
- 25:25Speaker 1: Late in the season, when you're playing teams that are
- 25:27Speaker 1: out of it, the quicker you can get them believing
- 25:31Speaker 1: it's over and then saying, Okay, it's time to get
- 25:33Speaker 1: home to the family tonight, the better. And they did
- 25:36Speaker 1: a nice job of stepping on the throat, so to speak,
- 25:39Speaker 1: and saying this is not going to be a game today. Uh,
- 25:42Speaker 1: that the first one set that up. I was thought
- 25:44Speaker 1: it was interesting. Um, the opposite of guys you talked
- 25:47Speaker 1: to in the locker room. I talked to Evan Ingram, Uh,
- 25:50Speaker 1: talk to Trevor Lawrence on the podium. They weren't thrilled
- 25:53Speaker 1: yesterday with how they played. They felt like they left
- 25:55Speaker 1: some things out there. It could have been more efficient.
- 25:57Speaker 1: But Trevor said he really liked how that drive to
- 26:02Speaker 1: start the second half went because I think they sort
- 26:04Speaker 1: of knew they were going out of the game after that.
- 26:07Speaker 1: To Trevor, it was really important to get that. And
- 26:10Speaker 1: isn't it instantly that we're talking about a game from
- 26:13Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence and they went thirty one to three. Most
- 26:16Speaker 1: dominant score against the Texts. Quarterbacks have games in blowout
- 26:21Speaker 1: sometimes this is not unusual. It's not a cause for alarm. Whichever,
- 26:25Speaker 1: if a thirty one three is his game, you'll take
- 26:28Speaker 1: it for sure. Al Right. When we come back Drag's
- 26:30Speaker 1: Drive Time, we've got hot takes more to come from
- 26:33Speaker 1: t I A bank Field on a Monday morning. But
- 26:35Speaker 1: jag Wars are eight and eight and host Tennessee Titans
- 26:40Speaker 1: on Saturday night at eight here at t I A
- 26:44Speaker 1: A bank Field. Back after this, well call car shield today.
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- 26:57Speaker 1: with expensive mechanical and computer screen repairs called car shield, right,
- 27:03Speaker 1: Sexton John owes you with you here on Jack's Drive
- 27:06Speaker 1: Time on a Monday Jaguar is thirty one three winners
- 27:09Speaker 1: in Houston, and it brings us two hot takes. John,
- 27:14Speaker 1: I was just looking at my hot time. You know
- 27:18Speaker 1: it was gonna be this is a boring game. And
- 27:20Speaker 1: that's okay because I did get a couple of emails saying,
- 27:23Speaker 1: well this is born. Well welcome, because after you know,
- 27:28Speaker 1: it's okay to be born if you're winning. But this
- 27:29Speaker 1: is a maturing team and they're playing like it, and
- 27:32Speaker 1: it sort of ties in with that. The last two
- 27:34Speaker 1: games haven't really been masterpieces. You know, you're not going
- 27:39Speaker 1: to go back probably and UH watched that sounds of
- 27:44Speaker 1: the game in three years as as a memory point
- 27:48Speaker 1: for this season. But they are winning games in in
- 27:54Speaker 1: methodical fashion, and that to me is as important. It
- 27:59Speaker 1: doesn't important to take care of the games you ought
- 28:02Speaker 1: to win as it is to have dramatic moments in
- 28:05Speaker 1: the games you're not supposed to win. And to me
- 28:08Speaker 1: it shows that this team is Uh. I have more
- 28:14Speaker 1: faith that what we're seeing is going to be a
- 28:20Speaker 1: sustained thing moving forward because of the methodical wins over teams.
- 28:29Speaker 1: It feels like that means, Okay, these guys knew how
- 28:31Speaker 1: to win. That the more I listened to Doug and
- 28:35Speaker 1: the more that I talked to guys like Evan Ingram
- 28:37Speaker 1: and Christian Kirk in the locker room. You know, we
- 28:38Speaker 1: all have heard Trevor from the podium even through last year,
- 28:43Speaker 1: how mature he was, how calm and reasoned he was.
- 28:47Speaker 1: But to listen to the guys or they they've adopted.
- 28:49Speaker 1: Maybe they're both new this year, but maybe Kirk and
- 28:52Speaker 1: Ingram had this personality in Arizona and New York already.
- 28:56Speaker 1: But it sure seems like there is a buy in
- 28:59Speaker 1: on the culture is the wrong word, but the personality
- 29:02Speaker 1: of this team, and they've all adopted it. Yeah, I
- 29:05Speaker 1: think and culture makes sense. I mean it's uh, it
- 29:12Speaker 1: is amazing how in infectious winning can be. Um. But yeah,
- 29:17Speaker 1: it's cool. This is a good team. And uh, I
- 29:23Speaker 1: don't think that change is No matter what happens on Sunday,
- 29:26Speaker 1: that hasn't changed. You have won six out of eight,
- 29:30Speaker 1: four in a row. Uh, and your only losses during
- 29:33Speaker 1: that streak, or or to two teams who at the
- 29:35Speaker 1: time were as hot as any team in the NFL. Uh,
- 29:39Speaker 1: they've earned their way here, both on the road. All right,
- 29:41Speaker 1: here's mine. Uh. This is the biggest regular season game
- 29:44Speaker 1: Saturday night in Jacksonville since they played the Falcons on
- 29:49Speaker 1: the twenty second of December back in that was the
- 29:53Speaker 1: conclusion of that great run through the regular season that
- 29:56Speaker 1: sent the Jaguars into the playoffs. And we knew that
- 29:59Speaker 1: day and John, you were here for that, so you recall,
- 30:02Speaker 1: we knew that Kansas City was most likely gonna lose,
- 30:04Speaker 1: which would put Buffalo in the playoffs. But we knew
- 30:07Speaker 1: if the Jaguars won, they were going to be in
- 30:09Speaker 1: the playoffs, and so it really set up just like
- 30:12Speaker 1: this one on Saturday Night. This one has a little
- 30:14Speaker 1: more drama because it's a heated rival, right because it's
- 30:18Speaker 1: a prime time game, but it's the biggest regular season game.
- 30:21Speaker 1: The only one I could even come close to thinking
- 30:24Speaker 1: was the same was the season finale in nine because
- 30:28Speaker 1: it was a season finale and that team was playing
- 30:31Speaker 1: to guarantee home field advantage and they needed to beat
- 30:35Speaker 1: Cincinnati and they did, but we knew they were going
- 30:37Speaker 1: to the playoffs regardless, so it didn't quite have the
- 30:39Speaker 1: same umph um. There was a game against the Raiders
- 30:42Speaker 1: here are two thousand seven that cemented everything for that team,
- 30:45Speaker 1: but it didn't We knew, but they were coming off
- 30:47Speaker 1: a win in Pittsburgh. We knew they were going to
- 30:49Speaker 1: the playoffs. It was just a matter of beating Carolina
- 30:51Speaker 1: or the Raiders, and they did, so not a big deal.
- 30:54Speaker 1: This one, because it's the season finale and has the
- 30:56Speaker 1: playoffs in the line against the Titans sets up as
- 30:59Speaker 1: the biggest since the Falcons and maybe the biggest ever. Yeah.
- 31:04Speaker 1: Jean for Nette and I were debating this a bit
- 31:07Speaker 1: before the game. Jeans convinced it's the biggest game Enfranchise history.
- 31:14Speaker 1: You know that Atlanta game regular season history? Yeah, you correct, Uh,
- 31:21Speaker 1: the Atlanta game. It it was big at the moment,
- 31:28Speaker 1: there was a bigness to it. Uh So I don't
- 31:30Speaker 1: think you can discount that game. I put this one
- 31:33Speaker 1: up there, Jeans point and I kind of see it
- 31:37Speaker 1: was Well, it's for the division, it's your hated rival,
- 31:41Speaker 1: no doubt, it's big. I just the passage of time
- 31:46Speaker 1: can sometimes diminish just how big that Atlanta jack game
- 31:49Speaker 1: was a huge, huge game. Well, because they were forward seven,
- 31:52Speaker 1: because it was the second year of the franchise, and
- 31:55Speaker 1: and and because of the drama that that that we
- 31:58Speaker 1: had seen, you know, the way they won in Baltimore
- 32:01Speaker 1: and the five field goals in the rain here against
- 32:04Speaker 1: the Bengals and will Sony Bracken's interception against Seattle on
- 32:07Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football. I will say this, the way the
- 32:10Speaker 1: NFL has sort of changed Week eighteen is terrific because
- 32:16Speaker 1: this will give the game, I mean, just a monster feel.
- 32:19Speaker 1: So after the game, I may I may go to
- 32:22Speaker 1: Jean and say, hey, you're right because of I mean,
- 32:25Speaker 1: I think the environment is going to be incredible. The
- 32:28Speaker 1: environment and he's six is pretty cool. It's pretty good.
- 32:30Speaker 1: All right, We'll take a break, come back and wrap
- 32:32Speaker 1: up a Monday morning Jags Drive Time. Right after this, well,
- 32:43Speaker 1: Magellan invites you to move the freight with them, voted
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- 32:57Speaker 1: Brian and John with you back to wrap up Jags
- 32:59Speaker 1: Drive Time. UM, I just want to run through a
- 33:01Speaker 1: couple of superlats because we talked about this UM, and
- 33:04Speaker 1: we'll start with Evan Ingram, who had a catch in
- 33:07Speaker 1: the second quarter that pushed him to a UM Jaguars record,
- 33:14Speaker 1: single season, franchise record for receiving yards. I don't think
- 33:19Speaker 1: that numbers are right, no, UM, but he has sixty
- 33:22Speaker 1: nine receptions. I think he's seven is some somewhere in there.
- 33:29Speaker 1: But yes, he has the single season record, and it
- 33:34Speaker 1: it feels right. He's had, to me, the best season
- 33:39Speaker 1: for receiving tight end that I've seen, with apologies to
- 33:43Speaker 1: Mercedy Lewis who had ten touchdowns inos and that was
- 33:46Speaker 1: a heck of a year. I wasn't here for that,
- 33:48Speaker 1: but I remember he was a factor. So let's shout
- 33:50Speaker 1: out to Mercedes, but Evan came here for this reason
- 33:54Speaker 1: to play for Doug Peterson. Uh. And credit to Evan Ingram, who,
- 34:00Speaker 1: as I said a couple of times in this show,
- 34:01Speaker 1: had a tough time in New York. Uh. That can
- 34:06Speaker 1: that can jade a guy. Uh. He's a terrific guy,
- 34:11Speaker 1: likes being here. I hope they get him resigned, and
- 34:14Speaker 1: I hope he's part of this going forward because to me,
- 34:17Speaker 1: he feels like that second contract core guide me. And
- 34:19Speaker 1: by the way, we should mention mcyle Brady came here
- 34:22Speaker 1: as a free agent ninety nine and had a huge
- 34:24Speaker 1: impact on that ninety nine team, primarily in his ability
- 34:27Speaker 1: to move the chains on third down and the running game.
- 34:30Speaker 1: But have an Ingram is that receiving tight end in
- 34:32Speaker 1: the modern mode of the game, and he has set
- 34:34Speaker 1: those marks. Christian Kirk went over a thousand yards I
- 34:37Speaker 1: think that's where that number comes from, the first thousand
- 34:40Speaker 1: yard uh season in his career modest day yesterday. But
- 34:45Speaker 1: he's been very impactful. Well his impact. Um. Somebody asked
- 34:52Speaker 1: me last week who I would uh least like to
- 34:56Speaker 1: see not on the team, I mean or at least
- 35:00Speaker 1: like to see injured uh in our pregame show and
- 35:05Speaker 1: I said, maybe Angram, but but the reality is I
- 35:09Speaker 1: wouldn't want to see this offense right now without Kirk,
- 35:12Speaker 1: Ingram orz A Jones because as a threesome they put
- 35:17Speaker 1: so much strain on the defense and I don't think
- 35:19Speaker 1: you would be putting that strain, UH without any of them.
- 35:23Speaker 1: I think they all compliment each other very well. Credit
- 35:26Speaker 1: to Christian Kirk, a lot of speculation and criticism when
- 35:29Speaker 1: he first got signed for the contract and all that noise, Uh,
- 35:33Speaker 1: he has really shown his value and his importance to
- 35:38Speaker 1: this offense, fitting exactly how they envisioned he would fit.
- 35:42Speaker 1: And finally, Travis E. T N and his performance this
- 35:45Speaker 1: season and you can see um fifth yard rushing game
- 35:50Speaker 1: on the season, the longest touchdown of his career. UM.
- 35:54Speaker 1: Still I want to see him hold the ball a
- 35:57Speaker 1: little bit better. UM, But I mean, the guy is
- 35:59Speaker 1: a tremend this talent explosive and where would the offense
- 36:04Speaker 1: be without that? Yeah? And every time I get an
- 36:07Speaker 1: email saying why do they keep giving him the ball?
- 36:10Speaker 1: Because of that? That's why? And but yeah he's got
- 36:13Speaker 1: to you hope that the fumble stuff doesn't bite the offense,
- 36:21Speaker 1: and right now it feels like something they could. I
- 36:23Speaker 1: don't want to sugarcoat that the ball is on the
- 36:26Speaker 1: ground too much when it involves him. Uh, and that's
- 36:31Speaker 1: a worry. Well. Uh, he's a guy who, when he
- 36:34Speaker 1: does have the ball in his hands, can put your
- 36:36Speaker 1: heart in your throat if you're a defender. Unfortunately a
- 36:38Speaker 1: couple of times this season when you've been a Jaguars
- 36:40Speaker 1: fan to be like holding onto the ball. But the
- 36:43Speaker 1: sixti two York touchdown really was a huge moment in
- 36:45Speaker 1: the game yesterday. I mean no, no, no, there's no
- 36:49Speaker 1: from him. You're staying the obvious because every Jag better
- 36:55Speaker 1: then I anticipated, and I thought he'd be good. He
- 36:58Speaker 1: is a special player, all right. Wars and Titans Saturday night,
- 37:03Speaker 1: eight fifteen, right here at t i a a Bank Field.
- 37:05Speaker 1: Of course, the game will be broadcast on ABC and ESPN.
- 37:09Speaker 1: Will be here all week long doing what we do,
- 37:11Speaker 1: Steady Eddie, just like Doug said, providing you insight, news
- 37:14Speaker 1: and analysis on the Jaguars here on Jags Drive Time,
- 37:18Speaker 1: on Jaguars dot com, and on TV and on radio.
- 37:21Speaker 1: Have a great rest of your Monday. It's a big
- 37:24Speaker 1: week in Jacksonville, folks, soak it up and enjoy it,
- 37:26Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you on Wednesday here on Jags
- 37:28Speaker 1: Drive Time.