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- 0:01Speaker 1: It is Thursday, December eighteenth. This is Jaguars Happy Hour.
- 0:09Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hours brought to you by Heritage of North Florida.
- 0:15Speaker 2: And now while.
- 0:16Speaker 1: Talking to the people of Denver to find out why
- 0:19Speaker 1: it's known as the Mile High City, the majority answer was.
- 0:23Speaker 2: Dude, what was the question again?
- 0:26Speaker 3: J P.
- 0:28Speaker 4: Shure, Oh, come man, It is Jaguars Happy Hour, presented
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- 0:37Speaker 4: Busy couple of hours ahead. First, it's Jaguars Happy Hour.
- 0:41Speaker 4: Here's what's coming up. It's Week sixteen, the Jaguars and
- 0:44Speaker 4: the Broncos. Trevor Lawrence and the Jags offense against a
- 0:48Speaker 4: highly rated Broncos defense.
- 0:50Speaker 5: We'll get to all that coming up.
- 0:51Speaker 4: The Jags defense trying to slow down a mobile quarterback
- 0:55Speaker 4: in bo Nicks. Both teams are hot right now on streaks,
- 1:00Speaker 4: and we'll have coach Mark Dufter in studio to get
- 1:02Speaker 4: a scouting report on the Denver Broncos coming up. And
- 1:05Speaker 4: then at five o'clock is JAG's HQ on the Jaguars
- 1:08Speaker 4: Radio Network. James Gladstone, the GM, Tony Boselli, the EVP,
- 1:12Speaker 4: both scheduled to join us live. We're on ten Tonexcel
- 1:15Speaker 4: ninety two point five FM, Jaguars dot Com, Jaguars YouTube
- 1:20Speaker 4: JP Shadwick with Jeff.
- 1:21Speaker 5: Logoman, Hello, Jeff good Hello JP.
- 1:24Speaker 4: Coach Mark Tufter in studio with us as always each
- 1:27Speaker 4: and every Thursday.
- 1:28Speaker 5: Hey coach, Hey, how are you doing?
- 1:29Speaker 6: Great to be here today and also to be the
- 1:32Speaker 6: recipient of Tara Logoman's chili and cookie.
- 1:36Speaker 2: He said, are off the charts. I'm great.
- 1:39Speaker 6: Thanks to you, Jeff for feed meshing here with some
- 1:41Speaker 6: outstanding chout.
- 1:42Speaker 5: All I did was the washing of the dishes and
- 1:46Speaker 5: the bringing in of the of the crock pots.
- 1:48Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:48Speaker 6: Well, let me tell you some kind of good plenty
- 1:50Speaker 6: of a minute, very generous and deeply appreciated.
- 1:53Speaker 4: You use every piece of the deer, right, I mean
- 1:55Speaker 4: that's what you do. No way you're talking about good now,
- 1:57Speaker 4: that's good stuff.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:59Speaker 5: Better than medicine, hard to beat. Well, there is one
- 2:02Speaker 5: thing better than venison Chile. That's a game like this week,
- 2:06Speaker 5: no doubt.
- 2:06Speaker 4: The Jaguars are ten and four and the Broncos at
- 2:10Speaker 4: twelve and two, and this Jags team on a streak
- 2:12Speaker 4: right now. Broncos are as well, it's a big game
- 2:15Speaker 4: because it's the next game, but it's a really big
- 2:17Speaker 4: next game.
- 2:18Speaker 5: I think it's pretty cool that you have two AFC
- 2:22Speaker 5: powerhouses with sixteen consecutive wins combined coming in and there's
- 2:27Speaker 5: a lot on the line. You know, if Denver wins
- 2:29Speaker 5: and some other things happen for them, they clinch their division.
- 2:33Speaker 5: If the Jaguars win and either the Houston Texans lose
- 2:36Speaker 5: or the Indianapolis Colts lose, the Jaguars have a playoff berth.
- 2:40Speaker 5: You know. So this game has got a lot at stake,
- 2:42Speaker 5: including seeding. Could the Jaguars find a way to sneak
- 2:47Speaker 5: to number two? It's possible. I don't think it's likely,
- 2:51Speaker 5: but hey, look, you know, go for it. Why you
- 2:55Speaker 5: play the game.
- 2:55Speaker 6: Stuff absolutely, and again gets no better than what Jeff
- 2:59Speaker 6: just described in terms of for this team, for this organization,
- 3:02Speaker 6: for this town right now, it's terrific.
- 3:05Speaker 5: No doubt about that.
- 3:06Speaker 4: And looking forward to the environment in Mile High obviously
- 3:09Speaker 4: always a fantastic crowd there about seventy.
- 3:12Speaker 5: Six fantastic crowd since like nineteen seventy Did you see
- 3:16Speaker 5: the numbers on that No, so have you heard about this?
- 3:20Speaker 5: I mean it's crazy. So the Week one of nineteen
- 3:23Speaker 5: seventy ever since then, counting like every regular season game
- 3:28Speaker 5: and every playoff game, there has been a sellout in
- 3:33Speaker 5: Broncos football. There you go. I mean crazy rabid fans.
- 3:37Speaker 6: Yes, they're really unbelievable. And both stadiums, I mean this
- 3:41Speaker 6: new one, this is a newer one, but the older
- 3:43Speaker 6: stadium too. I mean you talk about rocking and rowing
- 3:46Speaker 6: and atmosphere that's off the charts none better.
- 3:48Speaker 5: Four hundred and sixty games in counting counting, so I'm
- 3:52Speaker 5: sure it's going to be four sixty one on Sundays, right.
- 3:55Speaker 5: I mean, they win let one reed, yeah, you know,
- 3:58Speaker 5: and they got a quarter back who's hot coming off
- 4:01Speaker 5: a big game. The Jaguars got a quarterback who's hot
- 4:04Speaker 5: coming off three really big games, and both teams doing
- 4:09Speaker 5: a lot of things on offenses. Is going to be
- 4:11Speaker 5: really exciting. Yeah.
- 4:13Speaker 6: No, defense right now arguably as good as there is
- 4:16Speaker 6: in the league right now in terms of Denver right now,
- 4:18Speaker 6: and ours trending that direction too, So he's got all
- 4:21Speaker 6: the makings. The playoff atmosphere will be at its best
- 4:25Speaker 6: right now. So tune in big time and be watching that.
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- 4:39Speaker 4: ninety two point five FM's Jaguars Happy or let's dig
- 4:42Speaker 4: into some of these matchup and started.
- 4:44Speaker 5: And let's start off with this Broncos defense.
- 4:46Speaker 4: I mean they rake number one in the league and
- 4:48Speaker 4: a bunch of different categories. Third down, red zone, they're
- 4:52Speaker 4: tied for third and scoring defense, there's number two and rushing.
- 4:56Speaker 4: They can sack the quarterback. They don't take the ball
- 4:59Speaker 4: away a lot, but when you're sacking the quarterback, you
- 5:01Speaker 4: can't throw the ball, So there's a lot of that
- 5:03Speaker 4: going on. This is a defense that is rolling right now, Duff.
- 5:06Speaker 4: What stands out as the big reason why.
- 5:09Speaker 6: Well, first of all, they're talented from the front to
- 5:12Speaker 6: the back. I mean, you can't find a player right
- 5:14Speaker 6: now that's not playing at a very very high level.
- 5:18Speaker 6: I mean, when you've got the number one quarterback hit
- 5:21Speaker 6: guy in the league being Zach Allen, and into your
- 5:24Speaker 6: defensive lineman, that says a lot about what's going on
- 5:27Speaker 6: with them. They're secondary second to none. They've got two
- 5:31Speaker 6: aggressive safetyes Sefanga and Jones, and then you know, obviously
- 5:35Speaker 6: the defensive player of the year, and certain now that
- 5:37Speaker 6: other cornerback Moss, who had an interception here this past
- 5:40Speaker 6: week against Green Bay, is a guy we need to
- 5:43Speaker 6: go after. He kind of leads the league or he's
- 5:45Speaker 6: right at the top in terms of PIS. So they've
- 5:48Speaker 6: got some vulnerable spots right now. But they're a team
- 5:50Speaker 6: that's going to play man coverage at high, high level.
- 5:54Speaker 2: I think third in the league in terms of that,
- 5:56Speaker 2: and they're.
- 5:57Speaker 6: Also a team that's done a great job of limiting
- 5:59Speaker 6: ex los of plays. I think their second in the
- 6:02Speaker 6: league as far as that's concerned. So you know, we're
- 6:05Speaker 6: gonna have to get after from start to finish. But
- 6:08Speaker 6: when you look at that Green Bay game, green Bay
- 6:10Speaker 6: was able to kind of get their number. They scored
- 6:13Speaker 6: on their first five drives of the game, and you know,
- 6:16Speaker 6: I think the thing that they did a really good
- 6:17Speaker 6: job of was attacking what Denver does on defense. With
- 6:21Speaker 6: as much man coverage as they employ, they went after
- 6:25Speaker 6: them the linebackers in the safeties. Jacobs as a running
- 6:29Speaker 6: back scores a touchdown on pass. But they got the
- 6:32Speaker 6: ball to those guys where they put stress on that
- 6:34Speaker 6: position and also utilized movement which we can do well
- 6:39Speaker 6: to take away to you know, work on that pass.
- 6:41Speaker 2: What's was so good.
- 6:43Speaker 6: So I think that watching that game plan and then
- 6:46Speaker 6: carrying over what we did against the Jets doing the
- 6:48Speaker 6: same thing, using play action and working on the interior
- 6:52Speaker 6: of the defense the safeties and the linebackers will be
- 6:55Speaker 6: a good thing to follow.
- 6:56Speaker 5: Yeah, as good as they are rushing the pass or
- 6:58Speaker 5: and the third down defense, I mean, to have better
- 7:03Speaker 5: third down situations, keeping them off balance is going to
- 7:06Speaker 5: be I think big. So the ability to have balance
- 7:09Speaker 5: run the football effectively better than they have over the
- 7:12Speaker 5: last couple of weeks, I think is going to be
- 7:14Speaker 5: ultra important. And they've got to take care of those
- 7:18Speaker 5: man and man matchups just like they did his past week.
- 7:20Speaker 5: I mean, Quincy Williams got taken a school. I mean
- 7:23Speaker 5: he got taken to school. And it was clear after
- 7:26Speaker 5: the game and you kind of look back and you
- 7:28Speaker 5: watch what the Jaguars did and where they attacked they
- 7:32Speaker 5: went right after fifty six and it worked, and you've
- 7:37Speaker 5: got to give the coaching staff credit for developing that
- 7:39Speaker 5: game plan, and I'm sure that there will be some
- 7:42Speaker 5: targets on that Denver defense this week coming up with
- 7:45Speaker 5: all the man opportunities that you're going to have. But again,
- 7:49Speaker 5: having balance as and offense is who the Jaguars are,
- 7:52Speaker 5: and it's when they're at their best. And the quarterback
- 7:54Speaker 5: is just absolutely red hot. He said, he's feeling it,
- 7:58Speaker 5: he's seeing it, and and that's a good place to be.
- 8:01Speaker 5: When your quarterback is feeling it and seeing it.
- 8:03Speaker 4: You think this is Is this the best overall pass
- 8:06Speaker 4: rush that the Jaguars have had to face this year?
- 8:09Speaker 5: They faced some good duos. No, it's across the board.
- 8:12Speaker 5: Houston's better. Those two edge guys in the in the
- 8:16Speaker 5: defense for Houston is elite. I mean, look, there's Houston
- 8:20Speaker 5: at the top and then there's some other teams that
- 8:23Speaker 5: are kind of hovering below them, but nobody's at the
- 8:27Speaker 5: level that the Houston Texans are. And the Jaguars, you know,
- 8:30Speaker 5: struggled against them a little bit, but they still got
- 8:32Speaker 5: some points. And I think it's gonna be a great
- 8:35Speaker 5: matchup and the Denver Broncos are going to stress the
- 8:37Speaker 5: Jaguars offense through and through and it's going to test
- 8:40Speaker 5: Liam Cohen and and and the game plan that they
- 8:42Speaker 5: put together.
- 8:43Speaker 6: Yeah, and when we played Seattle, when we played the Rams,
- 8:45Speaker 6: when we when we played the Chargers, all their defenses
- 8:48Speaker 6: were highly ranked. In addition to what Jeff said about Houston,
- 8:51Speaker 6: and I think Houston is the best. So it's not
- 8:53Speaker 6: like we're going to be shocked by this defense. We've played,
- 8:56Speaker 6: you know, good defenses, as good as there are in
- 8:58Speaker 6: this league. And and fared well and learned from him
- 9:02Speaker 6: and got better from him. And again, all you got
- 9:04Speaker 6: to do is look at last week's game where we
- 9:06Speaker 6: give up no sacks. I don't care who you're playing against.
- 9:08Speaker 6: That front had had had success rushing. So I feel
- 9:12Speaker 6: good about going into this game with that matchup. Will
- 9:14Speaker 6: be We've got to win it in the trenches, as
- 9:16Speaker 6: we always do, but I feel good about it.
- 9:18Speaker 5: It's gonna be interesting to see. I think Breton Strange
- 9:21Speaker 5: is going to have a big game. And the reason
- 9:24Speaker 5: why is that Brandon Jones, one of their safeties, went
- 9:27Speaker 5: to IR with a peck injury I believe it was,
- 9:30Speaker 5: and so they're gonna be playing a backup in his spot.
- 9:32Speaker 5: And then you've got Hufalga, who came over from the
- 9:36Speaker 5: forty nine ers, and you know, look he's great in
- 9:39Speaker 5: the run game and comes up and he had a
- 9:41Speaker 5: play I've shown JP earlier. He came up a snot.
- 9:45Speaker 5: I saw it out of that Green Bay t on
- 9:47Speaker 5: a like a lead toss. I loved it.
- 9:49Speaker 6: Yeah it No, he buried the guy, I mean busted him,
- 9:52Speaker 6: rolled him, you know, crushed him.
- 9:54Speaker 5: Yeah, and so but Hufalgan passed coverage. That's not his strength,
- 9:58Speaker 5: you know. So I think Breton Strange has the chance
- 10:00Speaker 5: of having a big game. And the real question is
- 10:04Speaker 5: is that who is Sir Tan gonna match up on.
- 10:07Speaker 5: Is it gonna be a Jacoby Myers? Is it gonna
- 10:10Speaker 5: be a Brian Thomas junior. You know, I don't expect
- 10:14Speaker 5: maybe against Parker Washington, but you know that's gonna be
- 10:18Speaker 5: something that's key to watch.
- 10:19Speaker 6: Absolutely moving right, Yeah, they move travels. But let me
- 10:23Speaker 6: say this to you, that's exactly right. And they bet,
- 10:25Speaker 6: you know, let him pick any of the three that
- 10:27Speaker 6: Jeff just talked about. We got other guys, you know,
- 10:30Speaker 6: And like I said to you before that Moss now
- 10:32Speaker 6: has been an issue in terms of he's good player,
- 10:34Speaker 6: but he gets a little too aggressive right now. And
- 10:36Speaker 6: I'll take a PI any day too.
- 10:38Speaker 3: You know.
- 10:38Speaker 2: That's we can move the ball that way too.
- 10:40Speaker 5: So if they put Sir Tan on Jacoby Myers, how
- 10:44Speaker 5: many deep balls do you think the Jock Wars are
- 10:45Speaker 5: gonna throw to Brian Thimes?
- 10:47Speaker 6: But guy, yeah, no, no, I think that that that
- 10:52Speaker 6: is a really key component going into the game watching
- 10:55Speaker 6: that matchup for sure, and they've struggled, you know, really
- 10:58Speaker 6: in past defense the last well four weeks or so,
- 11:01Speaker 6: since week eleven. Right now, they're they've given up about
- 11:04Speaker 6: two hundred and forty yards a game in passing, so
- 11:07Speaker 6: they've gone back from where they were ranked about twenty
- 11:09Speaker 6: six when you look at that the last four weeks so,
- 11:12Speaker 6: and you know, so, I think that's going to be
- 11:14Speaker 6: to our advantage a little bit. But like Jeff said,
- 11:17Speaker 6: we've got to stay balanced. We've got to get that
- 11:19Speaker 6: run game going successfully now, make them defend the run,
- 11:22Speaker 6: stop to run, and then that passing game will show up.
- 11:25Speaker 5: My you know, we do kind of keys to the
- 11:27Speaker 5: game every week, you know, for the opening of the
- 11:29Speaker 5: broadcast and JP you know it. And my key this
- 11:33Speaker 5: week is the offensive line and the reason that I've
- 11:38Speaker 5: called it on the offensive line is that twofold one
- 11:41Speaker 5: is the balance factor of running the football. But then
- 11:44Speaker 5: when you have the number one pass rushing sack defense
- 11:47Speaker 5: in the National Football League, they got to rise up
- 11:50Speaker 5: their level of play. And look, they've been good now,
- 11:53Speaker 5: they've been don't know how many games now without a
- 11:55Speaker 5: SACKI is a five total. Wow, tremendous job there, and
- 12:00Speaker 5: they all seem to be healthy. And Cole van Landon
- 12:02Speaker 5: I think has given him a real boost at left tackle.
- 12:06Speaker 5: I'd be shocked if he's not still in at left
- 12:09Speaker 5: tackle this week given the success in the way he's
- 12:12Speaker 5: playing now. And then look if Walker Little's back, great,
- 12:15Speaker 5: now you got a guy that can be the swing
- 12:19Speaker 5: tackle like Cole was. So but I think the offensive
- 12:22Speaker 5: line has got to be really good this week. And
- 12:23Speaker 5: it's gonna be challenging too, because I mean, look, silent
- 12:26Speaker 5: count you're probably gonna have a lot of that. That's right,
- 12:28Speaker 5: you know, it's loud as heck. They're at my high stadium.
- 12:31Speaker 5: And the communication, the unspoken communication between offensive line and
- 12:35Speaker 5: quarterback and and all of the offense. Man, it's got
- 12:39Speaker 5: to be on dialed up and right in the groove.
- 12:41Speaker 6: Well, watching that Green Bay game, Like you just talked
- 12:43Speaker 6: about that crowd in the ways. I mean, there was
- 12:45Speaker 6: a bunch of false starts in that game by that team.
- 12:48Speaker 6: So that's clearly an advantage that they've attempted, not attempted,
- 12:51Speaker 6: they have built in terms of what that atmosphere is
- 12:55Speaker 6: in that stadium.
- 12:56Speaker 5: Yeah, Green Bay, and let's see what do they have
- 12:59Speaker 5: in that game? Ten pen last week?
- 13:01Speaker 6: But a bunch of the fall starts like that shed Yeah.
- 13:03Speaker 6: And I by the way, they not only they want
- 13:05Speaker 6: to eleven straight this season, they want eleven in a row
- 13:08Speaker 6: at home, you know. So they're due right now for
- 13:11Speaker 6: a team to go in there and bust them up.
- 13:13Speaker 6: That'll be us.
- 13:14Speaker 2: Oh, I like that is a locka.
- 13:18Speaker 5: Locked it already. Hey, we're back in a moment. We're
- 13:21Speaker 5: gonna flipping around the other side.
- 13:22Speaker 4: We'll take a look at boat Nicks and how to
- 13:24Speaker 4: defend the mobile quarterback of the Denver Broncos.
- 13:29Speaker 5: We'll dig into that and some of the weapons.
- 13:32Speaker 4: It's almost like you know that Spider Man meme where
- 13:34Speaker 4: they're pointing at each other.
- 13:35Speaker 5: Yeah, Spider Man and Spider Man. Well, offenses kind of
- 13:38Speaker 5: feel the same here. Jags, and I like our guys,
- 13:42Speaker 5: I like our weapons. I take our weapons over there
- 13:44Speaker 5: as any day. Okay, well we'll dig into their weapons
- 13:46Speaker 5: when we come back.
- 13:47Speaker 4: It is to Nexcel ninety two point five FM, Jaguars
- 13:50Speaker 4: dot Com and Jaguars YouTube.
- 13:53Speaker 5: And this is Jaguars Happy Hour.
- 13:59Speaker 7: We watched it today, a bunch of clips of it
- 14:02Speaker 7: this morning as a team and how much in unison
- 14:06Speaker 7: that is and how much that does play apart? You know,
- 14:10Speaker 7: showed some clips of guys, you know, feeling like they
- 14:12Speaker 7: had something covered or may have had him down or corralled,
- 14:18Speaker 7: and then the play is not over. It's definitely one
- 14:21Speaker 7: of those things that's one of his best traits is
- 14:25Speaker 7: just going to being a football player as a coach's
- 14:27Speaker 7: son who understands the game.
- 14:30Speaker 4: Said coach Liam Cohen discussing Vode Nicks, the quarterback for
- 14:34Speaker 4: the Denver Broncos, and welcome back. It is Jaguars Happy
- 14:38Speaker 4: Hour from the HOUNDAI Studios at the middle of Electric Center,
- 14:41Speaker 4: run on ten TENXL ninety two point five FM, Jaguars
- 14:43Speaker 4: dot Com and Jaguars YouTube. Week sixteen, the Jaguars and
- 14:48Speaker 4: the Broncos. The Jags at number three seed, currently have
- 14:52Speaker 4: not clinched anything yet in terms of playoffs, but could
- 14:56Speaker 4: clinch a playoff spot where they win and a Texas
- 15:00Speaker 4: or Colts loss. The Broncos can cleanse anything from the
- 15:03Speaker 4: division to the number one seed. If a bunch of
- 15:05Speaker 4: things happen on Sunday, they have some possibilities. They're already
- 15:09Speaker 4: in the playoffs Officially, JP Shadick, Jeff Logoman, and former
- 15:13Speaker 4: Jags linebackers coach Mark Duffner with us in studio each
- 15:17Speaker 4: and every Thursday.
- 15:18Speaker 5: There's Bo Nicks.
- 15:19Speaker 4: The numbers are eerily similar to Trevor Lawrence this year.
- 15:22Speaker 4: They're only a few yards off of each other, like
- 15:25Speaker 4: forty more yards for bow Knicks, the same amount of
- 15:28Speaker 4: touchdown passes, similar interceptions, close to the same rating. Knicks
- 15:32Speaker 4: has thrown at four percent better overall in terms of
- 15:35Speaker 4: completion percentage. But Nicks has that mobility and he doesn't
- 15:41Speaker 4: get sacked if he's only only had like fifteen sacks
- 15:43Speaker 4: this year. Duff So, how do you affect Bo Nicks?
- 15:46Speaker 6: Well, I think a number of ways. First and foremost,
- 15:49Speaker 6: I think again, what we got to do is give
- 15:51Speaker 6: him looks. He's still a young player and he's been
- 15:53Speaker 6: an effective player now for the last two years. But
- 15:55Speaker 6: we've got to give him looks pre snap different than
- 15:58Speaker 6: what he's going to see post, but not let the
- 16:02Speaker 6: s guise lead to our demise again where we can
- 16:05Speaker 6: get him a little bit unsettled as far as what
- 16:07Speaker 6: he's seeing. That'll be a key component going in. And
- 16:10Speaker 6: then when we get an opportunity, we got to hit
- 16:12Speaker 6: the guy. You know, we got to let him know
- 16:13Speaker 6: we're here and there as far as that's concerned, you know,
- 16:16Speaker 6: So I think that'll be important this one. Pass wrest
- 16:19Speaker 6: lanes are always a component you've got to have week
- 16:22Speaker 6: to week, and this guy is going to challenge you
- 16:24Speaker 6: as far as that's concerned. As you mentioned, he can
- 16:26Speaker 6: make plays with his legs. They're going to move him around,
- 16:29Speaker 6: much like we've done a good job of with Trevor.
- 16:31Speaker 2: The bootlegs, the sprints and so, you.
- 16:34Speaker 6: Know, pass rush lanes, holding the edge, containing the edge
- 16:37Speaker 6: in terms of containing on this quarterback would be big,
- 16:40Speaker 6: big things to do. And as I said before, get
- 16:43Speaker 6: our hands up. We're possible. If we can't affecting with
- 16:46Speaker 6: an actual hit, let's back the ball down.
- 16:49Speaker 5: Yeah, they got some good offensive lineman. Now I think
- 16:51Speaker 5: it's gonna be a big challenge for Josh heinz Allen.
- 16:54Speaker 5: If you look the left tackle Garrett Bowles, you know,
- 16:57Speaker 5: kind of went through a period early in his career.
- 16:59Speaker 5: It wasn't really good and there's a lot of talk
- 17:02Speaker 5: about the Broncos moving on from him, and all of
- 17:04Speaker 5: a sudden, now he's rebounded and he's one of the
- 17:06Speaker 5: better players at left tackle in the league's only giving
- 17:08Speaker 5: up one sack. That's a great challenge for Josh heinz Allen.
- 17:11Speaker 5: This week McGlinchey, their right tackle, came over from the
- 17:15Speaker 5: forty nine Ers. The forty nine Ers haven't been able
- 17:17Speaker 5: to hold on some of their guys because of cap reasons,
- 17:19Speaker 5: and they've been getting some good players. Mcglinchy a good player.
- 17:23Speaker 5: My favorite offensive lineman, One of my favorite offensive lineman
- 17:26Speaker 5: in the league is their right right guard Miners Quinn. Miners.
- 17:30Speaker 5: Dude's a stuff, absolute stud and he's been fun to
- 17:34Speaker 5: watch for a number of years. He's like one of
- 17:36Speaker 5: the few guards in football that I can just literally
- 17:39Speaker 5: watch and enjoy in watching one player. You know, I mean,
- 17:44Speaker 5: it's not sexy or anything. Watch guard.
- 17:46Speaker 2: Sometimes he plays it like you want to play it.
- 17:49Speaker 2: But he's to watch.
- 17:51Speaker 5: He is really good player, and he's just he's built
- 17:54Speaker 5: like I mean, he's got the perfect build for like
- 17:56Speaker 5: a guard. You know. He's got that shorter end seam
- 17:59Speaker 5: law torso and long arms and just big broad shoulders.
- 18:04Speaker 6: Powerful, you know, and you know another thing that's going
- 18:06Speaker 6: to be I think helpful to us. You know, Harvey
- 18:08Speaker 6: there running back is a good been there third down back.
- 18:11Speaker 6: Now he's there featured back if you will. And he's
- 18:14Speaker 6: a good runner. He's a better receiver I think than
- 18:16Speaker 6: he is a runner. But when they bring in Baday,
- 18:18Speaker 6: I guess they has said who it is. He comes
- 18:20Speaker 6: in number twenty eight. He has struggled in pass protection.
- 18:23Speaker 6: So I think that's another area that we can we
- 18:25Speaker 6: get to that running back right now. That's going to
- 18:27Speaker 6: help us, I think in terms of again affecting this quarterback,
- 18:30Speaker 6: which will be critical. This guy, you know, Sean Payton's
- 18:34Speaker 6: done a real good job in terms of their game
- 18:37Speaker 6: plan week to week some Kansas City, he went downtown,
- 18:40Speaker 6: you know, that was what he felt he could do
- 18:41Speaker 6: against them. Other games, he's featured the short game kind
- 18:45Speaker 6: of as an extension of their running game. Well, they're
- 18:47Speaker 6: running games kind of faded to me a little bit
- 18:49Speaker 6: more recently, and so I anticipated, you know, a good
- 18:53Speaker 6: mix like they always do. But I think the passing
- 18:55Speaker 6: game he'll lean on a fairmountain this game. Now he's
- 18:58Speaker 6: also used personnel well, I mean they'll mix twelve personnel
- 19:02Speaker 6: thirteen which is three tight ends, and sometimes they bring
- 19:06Speaker 6: in a twenty two personnel which is two backs and
- 19:08Speaker 6: two tight ends and the receiver. And they also have
- 19:11Speaker 6: snuck in. I noticed in the game's unbalanced line, which
- 19:14Speaker 6: I haven't seen a lot this year. But they'll line
- 19:17Speaker 6: up quickly with tempo coming out in an unbounced line
- 19:19Speaker 6: where they've got an overloaded line and an eligible on
- 19:22Speaker 6: the back side on where the offensive tackle would be
- 19:25Speaker 6: for those that want to know what an offensive unbounced
- 19:27Speaker 6: line is. And they don't only use it in short
- 19:30Speaker 6: yarders and goal line. They'll use it up field trying
- 19:32Speaker 6: to get a misalignment where they can get a play.
- 19:34Speaker 6: So kudos to what they do as far as that's concerned.
- 19:37Speaker 6: But again, I like where we're you know, trending right
- 19:41Speaker 6: now on defense right now, if we can get those
- 19:43Speaker 6: takeaways like we had last week, that'll be a big bonus.
- 19:46Speaker 5: Yeah, the one guy that consistently has been kind of
- 19:49Speaker 5: the guy on third down big playmakers, Courtland Sutton. You know,
- 19:53Speaker 5: he's a really good football player. He's got he's got length,
- 19:57Speaker 5: he's got speed. He can take the top off of
- 20:00Speaker 5: a defense. So you better have some awareness when you
- 20:03Speaker 5: got fourteen lined up across from you, if you're a
- 20:05Speaker 5: defensive back, and that's in that case and duff from
- 20:10Speaker 5: a defensive coaches perspective, I always like asking people that
- 20:14Speaker 5: have faced some of the better coaches in the league,
- 20:17Speaker 5: what challenges does a coach like Sean Payton have for defenses?
- 20:22Speaker 5: Like schematically, Well, that's I think you know again.
- 20:27Speaker 6: Early I told you he'll utilize personnel groups quickly, trying
- 20:30Speaker 6: to get big people against your subgroup in case you're
- 20:34Speaker 6: not on top of your substitution game. He'll use formation
- 20:37Speaker 6: to try to get an advantage as far as that's concerned,
- 20:40Speaker 6: and then he uses those players in terms of positioning
- 20:43Speaker 6: right now, Like you talked about Sutton being a big
- 20:45Speaker 6: play guy, but he'll he'll move the tight ends around,
- 20:48Speaker 6: he'll move the wide receivers around, He'll utilize the running
- 20:52Speaker 6: back out in space to try to get a mismatch
- 20:54Speaker 6: for you.
- 20:54Speaker 5: So with a young quarterback, does he does he kind
- 20:58Speaker 5: of condense the package down a little bit, or it
- 21:01Speaker 5: is the playbook wide open for a second year quarterback.
- 21:05Speaker 2: I think that he's moved in that direction.
- 21:07Speaker 6: I think they're doing more than you might suspect for
- 21:09Speaker 6: a second year quarterback. And it's credit has to be
- 21:12Speaker 6: to the quarterback. He's you know, matured pretty good so far.
- 21:16Speaker 6: But he will also every once in a while getting
- 21:17Speaker 6: a stretch where he'll throw it to the wrong jersey.
- 21:20Speaker 2: We're kind of looking forward to that happening.
- 21:21Speaker 6: But he's coming off his best game, probably against the
- 21:24Speaker 6: Green Bay Packers, and our guy's coming off of three
- 21:27Speaker 6: great games. So it's going to be a good matchup
- 21:29Speaker 6: of those two quarterbacks. This guy the quarterback senior nixt
- 21:32Speaker 6: he's the first quarterback in their history to have twenty
- 21:36Speaker 6: touchdowns in his first two seasons. Passing touchdowns back to back.
- 21:40Speaker 6: That's saying a lot when you think about some you know,
- 21:42Speaker 6: obviously all Way and so forth out.
- 21:44Speaker 5: There, and just a little note here, we haven't touched
- 21:46Speaker 5: on special teams yet, but you know, last week was
- 21:49Speaker 5: obviously a big one because the Jets had two legit
- 21:52Speaker 5: return guys. And Mims is a pretty good return guy,
- 21:56Speaker 5: Pro Bowl return guy, so that's something also to be
- 22:00Speaker 5: aware of in this ball game. Obviously, special team scorer
- 22:03Speaker 5: a lot of times end up leading the victories the
- 22:05Speaker 5: team that gets a special team score. And uh and
- 22:08Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to seeing our kicker cam little in pregame. Yeah,
- 22:13Speaker 5: in Mile High Stadium, you know, checking out the distance
- 22:17Speaker 5: you might see eighty yards.
- 22:19Speaker 2: I mean, I mean you might, right, yeah.
- 22:21Speaker 5: I mean it's uh and the and the thing about
- 22:24Speaker 5: that too, just you know, the ball does sail farther
- 22:27Speaker 5: and uh and it is real where they talk about
- 22:31Speaker 5: Mile High having a hard time going to Mile High
- 22:34Speaker 5: and breathing and catching your breath. That's as a player,
- 22:37Speaker 5: I can tell you it's real. It's very real early
- 22:41Speaker 5: in the ball game. And then once you kind of
- 22:43Speaker 5: settle in, it's not as bad, but it's you know,
- 22:47Speaker 5: at the very beginning of that game, you're like, you know,
- 22:49Speaker 5: for sometimes you're like almost hyperventilating trying to catch your breath.
- 22:52Speaker 5: Sometimes you're like Jesus, and you're like, you know, first
- 22:55Speaker 5: time ever in my cruw and I used to never
- 22:57Speaker 5: be an oxygen guy. I was an oxygen guy my
- 23:00Speaker 5: high stadium before early in the game.
- 23:02Speaker 2: And what what Jeff saying is exactly right.
- 23:05Speaker 6: We've really worked hard and going there over the years,
- 23:08Speaker 6: getting our guys to really crank up and pregame to
- 23:11Speaker 6: try to get that early surge of difference you know,
- 23:14Speaker 6: out of the way.
- 23:15Speaker 2: And so what jeff'saying is one hundred percent.
- 23:17Speaker 6: Correct, and there will be a lot of oxygen on
- 23:20Speaker 6: the satelite.
- 23:20Speaker 5: M all right, man, Well, better better science, sports science,
- 23:25Speaker 5: through better.
- 23:26Speaker 6: Medicage before take advantage of mems. You know, he's sneaking
- 23:29Speaker 6: into the game too as a receiver. More and more
- 23:32Speaker 6: they're not afraid to us assume to take the top
- 23:34Speaker 6: off the coverage. Now, you got a little bit of
- 23:36Speaker 6: a stinger I think in the last game. So we'll
- 23:38Speaker 6: see how that comes back off. But as Jeff said,
- 23:40Speaker 6: I mean, shoot, he's got great speed and great punt returner,
- 23:44Speaker 6: great kickoff returner and deep threat for them.
- 23:46Speaker 5: So we had a punt return for a touchdown I
- 23:48Speaker 5: think two weeks ago against the Raiders. Yes, he did
- 23:51Speaker 5: so between him and Parker Washington, you know, you got
- 23:54Speaker 5: a couple of really good return guys.
- 23:55Speaker 6: Some of these matchups, I mean some of these comparisons
- 23:58Speaker 6: are awesome in this game.
- 24:00Speaker 5: And looking forward to a lot of these matchups.
- 24:02Speaker 4: This week against the between the Jaguars and the Denver Broncos,
- 24:07Speaker 4: it's a fantastic football game. Week sixteen, the number one
- 24:11Speaker 4: seed hosting the number three seed. Mark Dufner, how about
- 24:14Speaker 4: some keys to a Jaguars victory to keep the train
- 24:17Speaker 4: rolling late in December.
- 24:19Speaker 6: Well, I think that, you know, neutralizing their pass rush,
- 24:22Speaker 6: you know, it's been so herald and talked about, and
- 24:24Speaker 6: it's not just the sacks, but it's the hits on
- 24:25Speaker 6: the quarterback will be a critical component. I think winning
- 24:28Speaker 6: the early downs, you know, I think if we have
- 24:31Speaker 6: good first and second down offense and defense, that'll be
- 24:34Speaker 6: a major factor. They've been successful as a third and
- 24:37Speaker 6: long defensive team going in, So if we can win
- 24:39Speaker 6: the early downs and put ourselves into good manageable down
- 24:43Speaker 6: in distances there, I think that'll be a key component.
- 24:45Speaker 6: And then, like always win the takeoff takeaway battle. I mean,
- 24:48Speaker 6: if we can hold onto the ball, which we've done
- 24:50Speaker 6: a great job of lately.
- 24:51Speaker 2: And continue to win the takeaways. I like where we sit.
- 24:54Speaker 5: I like, really where we sit, just along the lines
- 24:58Speaker 5: of the takeaways. It's a little ref fresher for people
- 25:01Speaker 5: that might have forgotten how many takeaways we had back
- 25:04Speaker 5: in twenty twenty four. Okay, nine nine nine, and we
- 25:10Speaker 5: got twenty five points off of those nine takeaways. Sure,
- 25:15Speaker 5: that's great. We are at twenty six takeaways and ninety
- 25:19Speaker 5: seven points scored off of those takeaways.
- 25:23Speaker 2: Dramatic.
- 25:23Speaker 5: I think it's like two points off the lead. I
- 25:26Speaker 5: think they're second in the league in points off turnover.
- 25:28Speaker 5: You think coaching matters, it's huge?
- 25:31Speaker 6: Uh yeah, no, no, no question.
- 25:33Speaker 5: I don't want to go back there.
- 25:34Speaker 6: No, you know, they're actually minus right now in terms
- 25:37Speaker 6: of takeaways and turnovers, so.
- 25:39Speaker 2: We have a real edge there.
- 25:41Speaker 5: Yeah, there are minus two.
- 25:42Speaker 6: Yeah, we're gonna hunt that ball like you've never seen
- 25:44Speaker 6: coming up at four h five.
- 25:46Speaker 4: It's a game that we haven't seen around these parts
- 25:49Speaker 4: in a long time in the regular season. The first
- 25:51Speaker 4: Jags regular season game with both teams with ten or
- 25:54Speaker 4: more wins since Week sixteen of nineteen ninety nine.
- 25:58Speaker 5: I was a senior in high school. Have you any
- 26:00Speaker 5: kind of broadcast map? Yes? And what's what's it looked like? Small?
- 26:06Speaker 5: Still small? Yeah? Four or five? Four or five regional
- 26:10Speaker 5: game on Fox. Yeah, I mean you would think that
- 26:12Speaker 5: this one be blasting across the country. I mean you're
- 26:15Speaker 5: talking about two hot teams, right yeah.
- 26:18Speaker 6: The two honest teams in ball right now.
- 26:20Speaker 5: Really yeah, wow, I mean that's disrespect. I'm playing that
- 26:25Speaker 5: carp on the screen. Team. Look at this. Look we've
- 26:30Speaker 5: got a great game here, and this is what they
- 26:32Speaker 5: think of us. They're not even gonna let the country
- 26:35Speaker 5: see us. But in two places, Denver and Jacksonville, that.
- 26:38Speaker 6: Chip on our shoulders has been very good for us
- 26:42Speaker 6: going through this season right now. And as long as
- 26:45Speaker 6: we just continue to focus in on what we need
- 26:47Speaker 6: to focus on the rest that will take care of it.
- 26:49Speaker 2: That chip on the shoulder hadn't hurt us.
- 26:50Speaker 5: I want to see. I want to see a big
- 26:53Speaker 5: win and then we can send Richard Sherman a dozen
- 26:57Speaker 5: teal roses. How about that?
- 27:00Speaker 2: You know, well done, well done, Jeff.
- 27:01Speaker 5: I like that. He's such a slappy dub. We'll see
- 27:06Speaker 5: you later, man, have a great week.
- 27:08Speaker 6: Well, thank you very much. And again I don't think
- 27:10Speaker 6: guess we're not going to do this next week.
- 27:12Speaker 1: Coach.
- 27:12Speaker 5: Yeah, Mary Christmas, Merry Christmas. I mean you can kind
- 27:15Speaker 5: of do a show on Christmas if.
- 27:16Speaker 2: We want, I'd like to. I may be the other
- 27:18Speaker 2: one here, but I would.
- 27:19Speaker 6: I hope Santa Claus is good to both of you
- 27:21Speaker 6: guys and your families into all of our fans.
- 27:24Speaker 5: Same to you, duff thanks a lot.
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- 28:00Speaker 7: You try to prepare for chips and relief for you know,
- 28:06Speaker 7: one guy or so. It's hard to do it at
- 28:10Speaker 7: both the ends and inside. It's just hard to go
- 28:13Speaker 7: help and especially where they do so much five man
- 28:17Speaker 7: rush that by alignment alone makes it difficult and challenging
- 28:22Speaker 7: to find where you're gonna go and try to provide
- 28:24Speaker 7: a little relief and help for. So they do it
- 28:28Speaker 7: both with their personnel and they have good scheme. I
- 28:30Speaker 7: mean fans shows just one of the best out there
- 28:33Speaker 7: right now, and got a lot of respect for the
- 28:35Speaker 7: way that they've put their players in the best positions
- 28:39Speaker 7: to be successful. And you know, winning one on one
- 28:41Speaker 7: matchups is what this league's all about.
- 28:44Speaker 4: Leam Cohen discussing the Broncos pass rush and welcome back.
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- 29:03Speaker 4: scouting report on the opponent, and Jaguars reporter Ka Nannie.
- 29:07Speaker 5: Stevens joins us each and every Thursday as well.
- 29:10Speaker 8: Hi ki, I do our little tradition.
- 29:12Speaker 3: I like it.
- 29:13Speaker 5: I told you earlier it's one of my favorite parties.
- 29:15Speaker 8: Earlier and said it's his favorite part of the week.
- 29:17Speaker 5: It's a big part of the week's big.
- 29:19Speaker 8: It's a big part.
- 29:20Speaker 5: That's it's my favorite. I'm not backing off that. I'm
- 29:23Speaker 5: not backing off that.
- 29:24Speaker 4: Hey, that's the number one priority, right is, don't get
- 29:28Speaker 4: those down and distant situations where these guys can go
- 29:31Speaker 4: sack the quarterback.
- 29:32Speaker 3: Correct And I think also we talked a little bit
- 29:35Speaker 3: on JAGXAM about kind of some dumb penalties they can
- 29:38Speaker 3: get involved and we haven't seen as many pre snap penalties,
- 29:40Speaker 3: but you know, silly things like BTJ pushing a player,
- 29:45Speaker 3: you know, kind of get into it with got things
- 29:47Speaker 3: like that. Dumb penalties three of them last week in
- 29:50Speaker 3: a good game. That's going to cost you. That's that's
- 29:53Speaker 3: that can lose you a game. So just being smart
- 29:55Speaker 3: and obviously it's going to be competitive, so you understand
- 29:58Speaker 3: you're going to have that competition on the field, but
- 30:02Speaker 3: like you know, it's a little bit different. It's going
- 30:03Speaker 3: to feel a little bit different. So you want to
- 30:05Speaker 3: take a serious but not get too ahead of yourself
- 30:07Speaker 3: with it and just play smart football because if you
- 30:11Speaker 3: give them any opportunity, they're going to take full advantage
- 30:13Speaker 3: of it.
- 30:13Speaker 8: The Bronco as well.
- 30:14Speaker 5: Yeah, speaking of penalties, the two most highly penalized teams
- 30:18Speaker 5: in the league are matching up. That's the Jaguars are.
- 30:21Speaker 8: Number one week they're physical.
- 30:23Speaker 5: One hundred and seventeen penalties on the season and the
- 30:27Speaker 5: Denver Broncos not far behind at one hundred and twelve.
- 30:30Speaker 8: Well, we got pre snap problems. What's their problem?
- 30:33Speaker 5: Well, has interferenced, Well that's one of them. But yeah,
- 30:38Speaker 5: I mean it's going to be interesting to see how
- 30:39Speaker 5: that affects the game because we've seen that the Jaguars win.
- 30:43Speaker 5: They have penalties a lot of them, especially on offense.
- 30:47Speaker 5: They it takes them off schedule and doesn't allow them
- 30:51Speaker 5: to kind of to be in that comfort zone. And
- 30:54Speaker 5: the other thing that I kind of wonder about is
- 30:56Speaker 5: how are they going to handle not having the number
- 31:00Speaker 5: two punch of that one two punch and Basheal touton.
- 31:03Speaker 5: You know it is le Quinn Allen Jr're just gonna
- 31:05Speaker 5: step right in and handle it no problem. Are they
- 31:08Speaker 5: gonna use uh, you know the new guy that was
- 31:11Speaker 5: brought in from Brunswick right up the road. We'll see.
- 31:14Speaker 5: I think that's gonna be an interesting watch.
- 31:16Speaker 4: By the way, holding is their number one penalty called
- 31:18Speaker 4: against Denver. Defensive pass interference number two with the twenty
- 31:22Speaker 4: of them for the season, Yeah, a lot.
- 31:25Speaker 5: That's what happened when you play a lot of band
- 31:26Speaker 5: a lot of man coverage. Yep, get a little handsy.
- 31:28Speaker 5: That's why I say Hufonga, right, that might be one
- 31:31Speaker 5: of the coolest battles to look forward to is the
- 31:34Speaker 5: Hufanga Brenton Strange because you know, if Fong is like
- 31:37Speaker 5: a he's a head knocker, right, physical safety, not exactly
- 31:42Speaker 5: the most talented in coverage. It's gonna be interesting to
- 31:45Speaker 5: watch from my standpoint, not only the physical matchup of
- 31:49Speaker 5: those two guys, but then also the matchup in the
- 31:52Speaker 5: passing game with Vanga trying to cover a Breton Strange.
- 31:55Speaker 5: That's gonna be fun to watch. Kay.
- 31:57Speaker 4: Trevor Lawrence is on a roll right now, certainly the
- 32:00Speaker 4: last three games, nine touchdowns, no interceptions, all right, this
- 32:04Speaker 4: is a chance to go prove it against a top
- 32:06Speaker 4: tier defense in the NFL, sure is.
- 32:08Speaker 3: And I think what's cool about it now is, or
- 32:10Speaker 3: at least from my perspective, is he looks like he
- 32:13Speaker 3: just doesn't care what anybody thinks and he's just playing
- 32:16Speaker 3: playing playing ball. And that's what when I feel like
- 32:18Speaker 3: he's at his best, right if he's in there, if
- 32:20Speaker 3: he looks if you watch him play and he looks
- 32:22Speaker 3: like he's trying to figure something out, or he's concerned.
- 32:24Speaker 3: That's not I've learned the best way for him to
- 32:27Speaker 3: be functioning if he's just going out there kind of
- 32:29Speaker 3: like all right, we're doing this and like running through
- 32:31Speaker 3: it like he knows it like the back of his hand.
- 32:33Speaker 3: That's when this offense operates best, and he operates best
- 32:36Speaker 3: and not being scared and you know some of those
- 32:38Speaker 3: stupid players where he rolls out to his left and
- 32:40Speaker 3: just throws it up and somehow that works, Like that
- 32:42Speaker 3: works when you're playing the way that he's playing right now,
- 32:45Speaker 3: with the confidence that he's playing with. So I think
- 32:47Speaker 3: this is a perfect time to be having this game.
- 32:49Speaker 3: If they played him earlier in the season, you may
- 32:50Speaker 3: not have and we may not have been as excited
- 32:53Speaker 3: about it because they were still kind of figuring some
- 32:54Speaker 3: stuff out. So now to see them figuring this out
- 32:57Speaker 3: against you know, teams they should be like the And
- 33:00Speaker 3: then now going on the road and facing one of
- 33:03Speaker 3: the premier teams in the league, you're really going to
- 33:05Speaker 3: see where you stack up.
- 33:07Speaker 5: The h that throw that you were just talking about,
- 33:09Speaker 5: the one where he threw it in the Parker, right,
- 33:12Speaker 5: you know, when I when I saw that, the first
- 33:14Speaker 5: thing that came to my mind was, Uh, it's Caddyshack
- 33:18Speaker 5: right with Bill Murray and uh and what's his name
- 33:21Speaker 5: from Rodney Dangerfield. No, it's it's a when he's putting
- 33:26Speaker 5: the ball and he's just sitting there going no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
- 33:29Speaker 5: Chevy Chevy Chase, right, he's putting it. So it's like
- 33:32Speaker 5: Trevor Lawrence is in that zone that he's just seeing
- 33:35Speaker 5: it and the needs the ball, feeling it be the ball,
- 33:38Speaker 5: you know. I mean, it's I mean, it's amazing how
- 33:40Speaker 5: much confidence that you can see in him in the
- 33:44Speaker 5: last couple of weeks, because in the past you would
- 33:47Speaker 5: see him kind of drifting in the pocket, drifting back
- 33:51Speaker 5: still when the ball needs to be coming out, And
- 33:54Speaker 5: now you're seeing that rear foot plant and then that
- 33:57Speaker 5: ball's coming out, and that's just a sign of confidence
- 34:02Speaker 5: and letting it rip to some extent, you know, going
- 34:05Speaker 5: back to Liam Cohne's comment to him to just let
- 34:07Speaker 5: it rip, and he's he's letting it rip, but letting
- 34:10Speaker 5: it rip with the confidence of knowing where that ball
- 34:13Speaker 5: needs to go.
- 34:14Speaker 3: And I think that's key, is knowing where he wants
- 34:16Speaker 3: to go with it. Other times, if there's pressure on him.
- 34:18Speaker 3: It looks like he's trying to figure out what to
- 34:20Speaker 3: do with it. Now he's just like, all right, I'm
- 34:21Speaker 3: throwing it up and I trust my guy to go
- 34:23Speaker 3: get it, which is nice.
- 34:24Speaker 5: That was a heck of the throw.
- 34:25Speaker 1: Man.
- 34:25Speaker 3: I called him stupid place because you watch it happened.
- 34:27Speaker 3: You're like, that's so stupid. It shouldn't work, Like under
- 34:30Speaker 3: no circumstances. Should he just be like rolling out this way,
- 34:32Speaker 3: going across his body, throwing it forty yards and then
- 34:35Speaker 3: somehow Parker comes down with it. You're just like that,
- 34:37Speaker 3: that's just stupid. But it works, and like, this is awesome.
- 34:40Speaker 5: And how soon how quickly we forget? I mean, that
- 34:43Speaker 5: was that throw happened after he got the finger taped up.
- 34:47Speaker 5: You know, he's on the sideline, he's flexing his hand
- 34:50Speaker 5: and we said in our broadcast, and he threw that one,
- 34:52Speaker 5: and he threw another one to Parker on the right
- 34:54Speaker 5: sideline over there, and I was like, well, I guess
- 34:57Speaker 5: the finger's okay. You know, he throwing the ball pretty well,
- 35:00Speaker 5: doing just fine.
- 35:01Speaker 4: Time now for the Jaguars defensive coverage of the game,
- 35:03Speaker 4: presented by G. Eha Keimmman, Employees Health Association benefits for
- 35:08Speaker 4: federal employees and retirees.
- 35:10Speaker 5: And we talked about the.
- 35:11Speaker 4: Denver defense, but the Jaguars defense can hold their own
- 35:14Speaker 4: in a lot of the areas as well.
- 35:17Speaker 5: They are number one still.
- 35:18Speaker 4: Against the run eighty six yards per game allowed. They
- 35:21Speaker 4: are top ten and scoring defense, second in the league
- 35:24Speaker 4: in takeaways, and you know what, they're gonna have a
- 35:28Speaker 4: challenge this week with a mobile quarterback in bo Nix
- 35:31Speaker 4: who has the ability at least to get out of
- 35:33Speaker 4: the pocket and make some things happen down the field.
- 35:36Speaker 5: And the one thing that we don't have up there
- 35:38Speaker 5: is points allowed. The Broncos third in the league points allowed,
- 35:42Speaker 5: the Jaguars about them, Okay, the bought them and then
- 35:45Speaker 5: the tenth and points allowed. Sorry, my eyesight's not that
- 35:48Speaker 5: good for that far away at stream, But I mean
- 35:51Speaker 5: that's that's at the at the end of the day,
- 35:53Speaker 5: that's kind of the true measure defense, you know, scoring defense,
- 35:56Speaker 5: that's what matters the most. And then also takeaways, because
- 36:01Speaker 5: takeaways lead to points for your team, but don't show
- 36:05Speaker 5: up obviously as kind of your benefits statistical category when
- 36:10Speaker 5: it comes to point so but point differentials also shows
- 36:14Speaker 5: up with that, but that's something It's a great matchup
- 36:16Speaker 5: of defenses, and if I think if you're of the
- 36:18Speaker 5: Jaguars defense, the more one dimensional that you can make
- 36:22Speaker 5: the Broncos. Obviously, and that goes to pretty much all
- 36:25Speaker 5: of football all the time, but it makes it much
- 36:28Speaker 5: easier to coach and pass rush when you're putting them
- 36:32Speaker 5: in obvious pass situations.
- 36:34Speaker 3: I think just also when we talk about takeaways, we're
- 36:37Speaker 3: saying it leads to points. You have to make sure
- 36:38Speaker 3: that it leads to points. In a game like this,
- 36:40Speaker 3: you'd almost have to say touchdowns because I feel like
- 36:44Speaker 3: any opportunity, if you get one or two, that's going
- 36:46Speaker 3: to be great, and then you need to turn that
- 36:49Speaker 3: into something on the offensive end, because we've seen some
- 36:52Speaker 3: times where they get turnovers, not recently, but like if
- 36:54Speaker 3: you get turnovers and only you're not getting points off
- 36:57Speaker 3: at or only getting field goal, that can come back
- 36:58Speaker 3: to buy you.
- 36:59Speaker 8: I don't know how how high scoring.
- 37:00Speaker 3: I know the Daguars have been scoring a lot lately,
- 37:02Speaker 3: I don't know how high scoring this matchup's going to be.
- 37:05Speaker 3: So if you can get one or two turnovers and
- 37:07Speaker 3: turn that into a touchdown, that could be a difference.
- 37:10Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think that. I think we're going
- 37:12Speaker 5: to see a game that's somewhere in the mid twenties,
- 37:15Speaker 5: and you know, very tight. You know, both teams in
- 37:18Speaker 5: that mid twenties range, somewhere in that ballpark, I'm guessing.
- 37:21Speaker 5: But takeaways can make the difference between winning and losing, obviously,
- 37:25Speaker 5: and the Jaguars defense has been tremendous in that category. Now.
- 37:29Speaker 5: I hope that they keep it up. It makes a
- 37:32Speaker 5: big difference, especially on the road, kind of quiets the crowd,
- 37:35Speaker 5: kind of gives a team momentum, gives them more opportunities,
- 37:39Speaker 5: and that would be huge in this game against a
- 37:41Speaker 5: young quarterback because the reality is, you know, we're talking
- 37:44Speaker 5: glowingly about Bonex right, how good he is and how
- 37:47Speaker 5: good he's been. Reality is, he's still a second year
- 37:50Speaker 5: player that has does not have a lot of games
- 37:54Speaker 5: or snaps of experience with all the different scenarios under
- 37:58Speaker 5: his belt. So I still think that you can find
- 38:01Speaker 5: ways to confuse him, and I hope they do.
- 38:03Speaker 8: It's so fun that he's two months younger than Trevor.
- 38:06Speaker 3: It's crazy, like you're like Trevor's been in the NFL forever, Trevor's.
- 38:11Speaker 5: Got more mileage on him bent.
- 38:13Speaker 8: Right, Well, he's seen some stuff.
- 38:15Speaker 5: Bos go to contract seven years or something.
- 38:17Speaker 8: I mean those COVID years. They gave you a bunch
- 38:19Speaker 8: of bonus year.
- 38:20Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, a.
- 38:20Speaker 8: Bunch of bonuses. So he's been around a while.
- 38:23Speaker 3: But I'm excited to see if Trevor can kind of
- 38:25Speaker 3: take advantage of I talked to one of my friends
- 38:28Speaker 3: that's on the Broncos beat earlier for our show on
- 38:30Speaker 3: jag XAM, and I was kind of, you know, the
- 38:32Speaker 3: defense is great, but where's a weakness on it? He said,
- 38:34Speaker 3: it's explosives, right, because when we talk about the cornerbacks,
- 38:38Speaker 3: they like to play physical, but they're also open up
- 38:41Speaker 3: to that potential. And now seeing what Brian Thomas has
- 38:44Speaker 3: been able to do the past couple of weeks, obviously,
- 38:46Speaker 3: Jakobe Myers, I mean, if and the way Trevor's thrown
- 38:49Speaker 3: right now, if they can throw up a couple and
- 38:50Speaker 3: get some big plays there, that can be a huge difference.
- 38:54Speaker 4: Jaguars All Access Television Tonight, seven o'clock, Fox thirty Strings,
- 38:58Speaker 4: Sports Brewery and Springfield.
- 39:00Speaker 8: Who you got, Antonio Johnson? Is that correct?
- 39:04Speaker 5: I think you had all that figured out.
- 39:09Speaker 3: But I do know we're at the beach next week,
- 39:11Speaker 3: so for the special Christmas.
- 39:13Speaker 8: Edition on Tuesday.
- 39:14Speaker 3: We won't be back by then because Happy Hour next
- 39:17Speaker 3: week is on Christmas.
- 39:18Speaker 8: But yeah, we'll be at Strings at the beach.
- 39:21Speaker 5: Next week's Tuesday. Tuesday, next Tuesday, because that's Christmas Eve
- 39:26Speaker 5: is on Wednesdays. Christmas on Thursday, Christmas Eve correct, and
- 39:32Speaker 5: then the following week. I think we're on Tuesday.
- 39:35Speaker 8: We're getting ahead of ourselves.
- 39:36Speaker 5: We don't know, we're still trying to figure that out.
- 39:38Speaker 5: What is tomorrow Friday? Let's start with sure, Yes, Friday.
- 39:42Speaker 4: Tonight, seven o'clock. String Sports Brewery in Springfield, Antonio. Johnson
- 39:46Speaker 4: safety may heck of a game, played a heck of
- 39:50Speaker 4: a game this past week. A good football player, now
- 39:52Speaker 4: the length that he has. That play that he made
- 39:55Speaker 4: at the end of that ball game and then allowed
- 39:57Speaker 4: the Jaguars to just take a knee tremendous play just
- 40:01Speaker 4: because he went right over top of the offensive player
- 40:04Speaker 4: without even interfering them. But his arms reached well literally
- 40:07Speaker 4: out in front of the guy, grabs the ball, just
- 40:10Speaker 4: snatches it away from him, and I mean big time.
- 40:13Speaker 5: He's playing really well.
- 40:14Speaker 3: I think that's what's cool is he's always had the
- 40:16Speaker 3: physical ability, and now it feels like he's a little
- 40:17Speaker 3: more comfortable in the system and kind of knows where
- 40:19Speaker 3: he needs to be at different times. So now you
- 40:22Speaker 3: can see the athleticism show a little bit more.
- 40:24Speaker 5: I had some mental errors last year, but again, coaching matters.
- 40:30Speaker 5: Just saying the takeaways. Coaching matters. Guy, great stuff, have
- 40:36Speaker 5: a great show tonight.
- 40:37Speaker 8: See you next week. No not, it won't be back
- 40:40Speaker 8: next week. I just lied again.
- 40:41Speaker 5: Three weeks, three weeks.
- 40:43Speaker 8: This is going to be difficult. Your favorite part of
- 40:45Speaker 8: the week. It's not coming for the next two weeks. Tough,
- 40:47Speaker 8: It's tough, all right, everyone, Battle three. We'll be back
- 40:49Speaker 8: in three weeks.
- 40:50Speaker 5: We'll somehow find a way.
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- 41:16Speaker 4: But this is Jaguars Happy Hour. Welcome back, it is
- 41:35Speaker 4: Jaguars Happy Hour. JP Shadwick, Jeff Logoman from the Hondai Studios.
- 41:38Speaker 4: Final few minutes of the program that at five o'clock
- 41:41Speaker 4: it's Jags HQ. We'll have Tony Bisselli and James Gladstone
- 41:45Speaker 4: in studio to join.
- 41:47Speaker 5: Us live for about thirty minutes or so.
- 41:49Speaker 4: To break down what is happening with the Jags and
- 41:52Speaker 4: heading to Denver this week to face the Broncos in
- 41:55Speaker 4: week sixteen to one versus three seed matchup currently in
- 41:59Speaker 4: the AFC playoff race and coming.
- 42:03Speaker 5: Up in a few weeks now.
- 42:04Speaker 4: It's the Jaguars final home game of the twenty twenty
- 42:06Speaker 4: five season. You'll not want to miss it. It's the
- 42:09Speaker 4: fan appreciation game. The Jaguars face off against the Titans
- 42:13Speaker 4: and you can cheer on the team as they take
- 42:14Speaker 4: the field in the Prowler throwbacks one last time this season.
- 42:18Speaker 4: Get your tickets down Jaguars dot Com slash tickets are
- 42:20Speaker 4: called nine oh four six three three two thousand and
- 42:23Speaker 4: Of course, depending what's happening this week and next, it
- 42:26Speaker 4: could have major implications for the Jaguars and the AFC
- 42:31Speaker 4: South and the AFC playoff pictures. So check it out there.
- 42:35Speaker 4: By the way, there's this is not just an AFC
- 42:38Speaker 4: South thing where there's you know, teams competing and fighting,
- 42:41Speaker 4: and the Jaguars haven't been around it for a few years.
- 42:44Speaker 4: I mean, it's the entire AFC twenty twenty five, actually
- 42:47Speaker 4: the whole NFL, every division. The AFC has a chance
- 42:56Speaker 4: to have a different division winner from the previous season
- 42:59Speaker 4: for the first time since two thousand and three. Yeah,
- 43:03Speaker 4: like every team in the AFC could be a different
- 43:05Speaker 4: division win.
- 43:05Speaker 5: It's parody. Yeah, and the NFC, I think it's three
- 43:08Speaker 5: of the four. Yeah, it's parody in the National Football League.
- 43:12Speaker 5: And you know, it just goes to show you when
- 43:13Speaker 5: you get hot, you know, teams can get on a roll,
- 43:16Speaker 5: gain a lot of confidence, and steamroll as they kind
- 43:18Speaker 5: of worked their way through a schedule. Who won the
- 43:22Speaker 5: FC South last year Houston Texas right right, earlier in
- 43:27Speaker 5: the year, we were thinking to Indianapolis Colt, We're going
- 43:29Speaker 5: to run away with the division. They were the number
- 43:31Speaker 5: one seed for a minute. Then all of a sudden,
- 43:32Speaker 5: now they've got an injury. They're struggling just to keep
- 43:34Speaker 5: their playoff life afloat and the Houston Texans are nearly
- 43:41Speaker 5: scratching clawing their way back into this thing, you know.
- 43:45Speaker 5: I mean, you talk about one of the most exciting
- 43:46Speaker 5: divisions in all of football. You could probably say that
- 43:49Speaker 5: the AFC South has been the most exciting division in
- 43:53Speaker 5: all of football this year.
- 43:54Speaker 4: Because you had Jack's at Colts next week and then
- 43:57Speaker 4: Colts Texans the final week of the season.
- 43:59Speaker 5: Two the lot going on down the stretch.
- 44:02Speaker 4: Time now for the injury report presented by UFL, the
- 44:05Speaker 4: proud healthcare partner of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Thursday's is not
- 44:09Speaker 4: out yet. It comes out a little bit later since
- 44:11Speaker 4: the Broncos are in the Mountain time zone.
- 44:14Speaker 5: So we'll take a look at.
- 44:14Speaker 4: Yesterday's list for the Jaguars and guard Ezra Cleveland with
- 44:19Speaker 4: a shoulder issue limited of course, played last week, Walker
- 44:22Speaker 4: Little and with a concussion full participation on Wednesday. He
- 44:27Speaker 4: was full Thursday and Friday last week, but was questionable
- 44:30Speaker 4: for the game. Did not play in the game, was
- 44:32Speaker 4: a scratch, and he's full on Wednesday at least. We'll
- 44:36Speaker 4: check him moving ahead this week. Jalen McLeod, linebacker on
- 44:39Speaker 4: the field limited participation for the rookie at of Auburn.
- 44:43Speaker 4: I hadn't seen him all year with an ankle issue.
- 44:45Speaker 4: Danny Strigo defensive end ankle issue. Did not practice Wednesday.
- 44:49Speaker 4: Base Old Tootin had surgery on his finger a couple
- 44:52Speaker 4: weeks maybe down running back and Trayvon Walker full battling.
- 44:57Speaker 5: Through a knee issue. So pretty healthcare, pretty healthy for
- 45:01Speaker 5: the most part. I guess the reports are basal. Tuton
- 45:04Speaker 5: is gonna be out for a couple of weeks. I
- 45:05Speaker 5: mean that's you know, what you would expect after having
- 45:09Speaker 5: finger surgery. That's a little bit disappointing, But everybody else
- 45:13Speaker 5: seems good to go, and it's good to have the
- 45:16Speaker 5: full roster available to you, essentially almost going into the
- 45:22Speaker 5: biggest game of the season. It's got to feel good,
- 45:24Speaker 5: I think probably as a coaching staff, and now you're
- 45:28Speaker 5: making decisions based on, Okay, who gives us the best
- 45:31Speaker 5: chance to win this week, and that's a good place
- 45:33Speaker 5: to be.
- 45:34Speaker 4: Remember, and we just talked about it with the Colts
- 45:37Speaker 4: and all their injuries and things that happened at the
- 45:38Speaker 4: quarterback position all that, so teams deal with it and
- 45:42Speaker 4: attrition this time of year.
- 45:43Speaker 5: Especially in the trenches.
- 45:44Speaker 4: But remember twenty seventeen Jaguars defense missed two starts all season.
- 45:50Speaker 4: I think Telvin Smith missed two games with a concussion
- 45:52Speaker 4: late freaky it was unli healthy, freaky healthy, which it
- 45:56Speaker 4: never happens like that International Football League.
- 45:59Speaker 5: That was just a gift from the football Gouze that year. Absolutely,
- 46:04Speaker 5: I mean that defense back twenty seventeen, though they would ask.
- 46:08Speaker 5: I mean they were on their way at one point
- 46:11Speaker 5: to riveling the eighty five bear statistics, and that's how
- 46:17Speaker 5: good they were. And who how fastly things kind of
- 46:22Speaker 5: fell apart after the fastly a word, I just made
- 46:26Speaker 5: it one. It's really fast. That's just slightly faster than fast, right, yeah, yeah.
- 46:34Speaker 4: A couple of Denver notes on the injury report from Wednesday,
- 46:38Speaker 4: guard Ben Powers of the biceps issue limited, and then
- 46:42Speaker 4: Justin Strand the linebacker the foot issue. Did not practice.
- 46:45Speaker 4: Everybody else on the report for them practiced on Wednesday
- 46:48Speaker 4: at least, and again the Thursday went not out yet,
- 46:51Speaker 4: but it should be relatively soon. We'll get it to
- 46:53Speaker 4: you on JAG's HQ if it comes out in that hour.
- 46:56Speaker 4: All right, this is what you line up for nast
- 47:00Speaker 4: December Showdown. It's big because it's the next one. Anyway,
- 47:03Speaker 4: they all kind of count the same as the standings,
- 47:05Speaker 4: but when it's coming down to the wire with three
- 47:07Speaker 4: weeks to go and both teams are in the AFC
- 47:09Speaker 4: playoff race and seated highly, there should be a lot
- 47:13Speaker 4: of eyeballs.
- 47:14Speaker 5: And ears on this one. I mean, it makes it fun.
- 47:17Speaker 5: I mean, as you know, you work your rear end
- 47:19Speaker 5: off all year long, and to have games at the
- 47:21Speaker 5: end of the season coming down the stretch that have
- 47:24Speaker 5: the meaning that these games have, I mean, couldn't ask
- 47:28Speaker 5: for better than that. I mean, it's you know, it's
- 47:30Speaker 5: amazing how when you're in the situation like this, the
- 47:34Speaker 5: injuries in the in the little bumps and bruises that
- 47:37Speaker 5: you've had kind of get minimized a little bit because
- 47:41Speaker 5: you're all you're focusing on is the game and the
- 47:44Speaker 5: opportunity and the challenge and the ultimate competition coming up.
- 47:49Speaker 5: You know, So sometimes you don't need an extra aspirin
- 47:53Speaker 5: in a week like this because the adrenaline really kind
- 47:56Speaker 5: of takes its place.
- 47:57Speaker 4: It's a fun locker room to be around right now too.
- 48:00Speaker 4: Just going in there on Wednesday and Thursday each week
- 48:03Speaker 4: and getting audio from guys to use the rest of
- 48:06Speaker 4: the week.
- 48:07Speaker 5: They're confident.
- 48:08Speaker 4: They think they're a good team that disrespect things kind
- 48:10Speaker 4: of reels is a little bit of a chip, but
- 48:12Speaker 4: not an over the top any of that. They just
- 48:15Speaker 4: know they have to go do their job and do
- 48:17Speaker 4: it well. They can compete with any team in the league.
- 48:19Speaker 5: I think if you're leaning on the disrespect thing to
- 48:23Speaker 5: get you motivated solely, then I think you're in trouble.
- 48:27Speaker 5: I think this team is beyond that. I think they
- 48:29Speaker 5: got a lot more to them than that. I think
- 48:31Speaker 5: that they have grown incredibly tight, and I think the
- 48:34Speaker 5: reason why is I think the head coach is a
- 48:37Speaker 5: great communicator, and he's done a really good job of
- 48:41Speaker 5: challenging this team and giving them a focus that is
- 48:45Speaker 5: just it's impressed me. I mean it's seriously, it's impressed
- 48:48Speaker 5: me to no end. This year is fun to watch
- 48:50Speaker 5: and and I can't I can't wait to see what's
- 48:53Speaker 5: next with his football team and Liam at the Helm.
- 48:56Speaker 4: And Liam Cohen going up against Sean Payton battling wits
- 48:59Speaker 4: against ra Rao.
- 49:01Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, look, Sean Payton's one of the greatest
- 49:02Speaker 5: coaches of all time. I mean, I don't know what the
- 49:04Speaker 5: numbers are. I was looking at him earlier. He's thirteenth
- 49:07Speaker 5: in NFL history with one hundred and eighty two regular
- 49:10Speaker 5: season wins. I mean, he's he's big time. He won
- 49:13Speaker 5: a Super Bowl with the Saints. Who does that? Nobody
- 49:15Speaker 5: fifteen with the Saints. I think it was. I mean,
- 49:19Speaker 5: you know, and if I remember right, I mean he
- 49:21Speaker 5: had some really bold coaching decisions in that Super Bowl
- 49:25Speaker 5: he did. So could we see some bold decisions coaching
- 49:29Speaker 5: wise in this game coming up? I like that.
- 49:32Speaker 4: We'll find out this Sunday four h five kickoff time.
- 49:35Speaker 4: We'll go on air with the Public's Tailgate Show here
- 49:38Speaker 4: in Jacksonville at one o'clock, three o'clock with countdown to
- 49:41Speaker 4: kickoff on the Jaguars Radio Network. Coming up next, we'll
- 49:45Speaker 4: have Tony Boselli and James Gladstone in studio live with
- 49:48Speaker 4: Jaggs HQ. That's coming up on the Jaguars Radio Network.
- 49:52Speaker 5: Ahead of this.
- 49:52Speaker 4: Jaguars Broncos matchup, Jags ten and four Broncos.
- 49:57Speaker 5: Twelve and two.
- 50:00Speaker 4: Be quite a game at Mile High on Sunday, And
- 50:02Speaker 4: there's this Jaguars Happy Hour