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- 0:03Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, October. This is Jaguars Happy Hour and
- 0:11Speaker 1: now a guy who runs angry Jay. That's right, I
- 0:18Speaker 1: go after contact. That's for sure. Welcome in Jaguars Happy
- 0:21Speaker 1: Hour on this Tuesday. Getting ready for Week eight and
- 0:24Speaker 1: the London trip coming up this week. The Jags leave Thursday.
- 0:28Speaker 1: They're trying to lick their wounds after three consecutive losses. Though.
- 0:32Speaker 1: Here's what we're getting to today. Here's what's coming up
- 0:34Speaker 1: on the program. London Week is starting. We'll get a
- 0:37Speaker 1: live report from Fred Taylor on the ground of the
- 0:40Speaker 1: United Kingdom prior to the Jaguars running Back is the
- 0:43Speaker 1: Air for events all week long. We'll hear from the
- 0:46Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles insider Dave Spidero and see what the Eagles
- 0:51Speaker 1: are up to. They've lost some games recently. They're trying
- 0:54Speaker 1: to figure out what's going on in Philadelphia the three
- 0:57Speaker 1: and four record. We'll hear from Dave, and we'll go
- 0:59Speaker 1: around the Jaguars with senior writer John Ozan. No Josh
- 1:03Speaker 1: Scobie this week. He is in route to London today
- 1:06Speaker 1: and he'll be on the ground in the UK throughout
- 1:08Speaker 1: the week as well. Let's start off with the biggest
- 1:10Speaker 1: news of the week the quarterback issue for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
- 1:14Speaker 1: Head coach Jagmaron yesterday afternoon released a statement saying that
- 1:18Speaker 1: Blake Portles is the starting quarterback moving ahead this week
- 1:21Speaker 1: in London. You see what he's done in the last
- 1:24Speaker 1: three weeks, a lot of turnovers for this Jaguars offense.
- 1:27Speaker 1: But Maron said that Portles gives the Jaguars the best
- 1:31Speaker 1: chance to win, so he decided to go with Blake
- 1:33Speaker 1: Portles after talking with both quarterbacks yesterday afternoon. He made
- 1:37Speaker 1: that statement yesterday, So Blake Portles is destroyter this week
- 1:41Speaker 1: against the Philadelphia Eagles. Cody Kessler entered the game last
- 1:45Speaker 1: week in the second drive of the second half and
- 1:48Speaker 1: came through with some solid numbers twenty one of thirty
- 1:51Speaker 1: passing in that game against the Houston Texans, a hundred
- 1:53Speaker 1: and fifty six yards, a touchdown, an interception. Seemed like
- 1:57Speaker 1: the offense moved a little bit more when he was in.
- 2:00Speaker 1: But after some determinations, some film, and some deep thought,
- 2:05Speaker 1: head coach Doug Moron decided to go with Blake Bortles.
- 2:08Speaker 1: And you know, as the guys talked about last night
- 2:10Speaker 1: on Jaguars happy hour, Pee Prisco and Tony Boselli. Could
- 2:13Speaker 1: it be a final move though it could change again,
- 2:16Speaker 1: But for now, Blake Bortles is the guy they feel
- 2:18Speaker 1: can lead this football team moving ahead. Now. The other
- 2:21Speaker 1: issue for the Jaguars is some turmoil in the locker room.
- 2:24Speaker 1: We heard about it after the game, with that unique
- 2:27Speaker 1: dockway and Calias Campbell's names being reported as some of
- 2:30Speaker 1: those in the midst there. Well, a player's only meeting
- 2:34Speaker 1: yesterday was confirmed by head coach Doug Moron. Yeah, there was,
- 2:42Speaker 1: and and that's and that's not out of the norm.
- 2:45Speaker 1: You know, it's you know, everyone trying to find what
- 2:47Speaker 1: their role is being together and pull it in the
- 2:49Speaker 1: same direction. You know. That's and that's what I expect
- 2:52Speaker 1: from this team. You know, we've we've done that before.
- 2:55Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of frustration and in the
- 2:58Speaker 1: fast you can get everyone back on us same page,
- 3:00Speaker 1: especially with a day off tomorrow for the players. I
- 3:02Speaker 1: want to get everyone in the same mindset and the
- 3:04Speaker 1: same mind you know mind frame. That was my goal
- 3:06Speaker 1: today if when we come back and go and now
- 3:08Speaker 1: we as coaches, we've got to get our butts to
- 3:10Speaker 1: work and get our guys in the best situation. Another
- 3:13Speaker 1: question for the head coach was how much does the
- 3:16Speaker 1: head coach get involved in locker room turmoil? He was
- 3:19Speaker 1: his answer yesterday, I think a lot of it has
- 3:21Speaker 1: to be you know, here is the lead on it,
- 3:23Speaker 1: and then it has to be a lot of communication
- 3:25Speaker 1: with that to get everyone unified, you know, to be
- 3:28Speaker 1: um pulling in the same direction. That's that's really the goal.
- 3:31Speaker 1: I mean, you can't um have little groups or a
- 3:35Speaker 1: little indecision of of what's the right way or the
- 3:37Speaker 1: proper way. You have to get everyone in in the
- 3:41Speaker 1: same boat. You know, we've done this to ourselves and
- 3:44Speaker 1: the only people are gonna be able to dig us
- 3:46Speaker 1: out of it is ourselves. But we all have to
- 3:49Speaker 1: have the same vision of how to do it. And
- 3:51Speaker 1: my thing to the team was, you know, we can
- 3:55Speaker 1: go in all these different directions, but if these two
- 3:58Speaker 1: things do not change, those directions aren't gonna matter. You
- 4:01Speaker 1: have it. Doug Marone yesterday afternoon. The bottom line is
- 4:04Speaker 1: when players only meetings happen things aren't going well. They
- 4:09Speaker 1: don't happen when your team is seven and oh this
- 4:11Speaker 1: team is far from that. They're three and four they've
- 4:13Speaker 1: dropped three in a row. You can have all the
- 4:15Speaker 1: players only meetings, coach to player meetings, anything you want.
- 4:19Speaker 1: But the game is one thirty London time on Sunday,
- 4:22Speaker 1: nine thirty a m. Eastern time, and we'll really find
- 4:24Speaker 1: out then how the Jaguars respond to all this over
- 4:28Speaker 1: the last week or three in this locker room. Coming
- 4:32Speaker 1: up this week, of course, a game in London against
- 4:35Speaker 1: those Philadelphia Eagles. Let's go to the United Kingdom now
- 4:38Speaker 1: on the ground. Pride of the Jaguars running back Fred
- 4:41Speaker 1: Taylor joins us from London. How you doing, Fred? What's
- 4:45Speaker 1: up JP? I always wanted to say, cheers, mate, We
- 4:50Speaker 1: do it every year. Thanks for coming on Live with
- 4:52Speaker 1: us today. Where are you right now? You know, I
- 4:57Speaker 1: just got back in a lobby and if hell headquarters,
- 5:00Speaker 1: hotel and uh. I can tell you this much. The
- 5:05Speaker 1: Philly fans, they're out in drove. I was so shocked
- 5:08Speaker 1: to see so many fans get off the plane or
- 5:12Speaker 1: at the airport this morning. I mean they were deep,
- 5:15Speaker 1: maybe about four or five different chartered groups. So they're
- 5:18Speaker 1: they're ready. I hope we're ready. Well, it's their first
- 5:21Speaker 1: ever trip to London as an organization. The Eagles have
- 5:24Speaker 1: never been there, and of course they won the Super
- 5:26Speaker 1: Bowl a year ago, so you'll have some of that
- 5:28Speaker 1: instant fandom of folks maybe over there. And we've seen
- 5:32Speaker 1: that before with the Jags go every year, but last
- 5:35Speaker 1: year there were a lot of Ravens fans too. Brett, Yeah,
- 5:39Speaker 1: that's that's true. And again the Jaguars have done it
- 5:43Speaker 1: multiple years in a row, and uh, you know, it's
- 5:46Speaker 1: it's uh, you know, it's a credit to the NFL.
- 5:48Speaker 1: One we're still believing in this thing. Even the local
- 5:53Speaker 1: fan base, not to mention the fans that are die
- 5:57Speaker 1: hard and uh, you know, finding a way to make
- 5:59Speaker 1: it to support their team, but just the local fan
- 6:04Speaker 1: base that they've created from all the different regions over
- 6:07Speaker 1: here in Europe. And when you see people from Scotland,
- 6:10Speaker 1: from Berlin, they're from all over the place coming here
- 6:13Speaker 1: to support the NFL and I think that's great and uh,
- 6:17Speaker 1: but more importantly, for years they've always supported the underdog,
- 6:21Speaker 1: which is unfortunately been the Jaguars, and I'm pretty sure
- 6:25Speaker 1: the expectations were high, uh, and there's still a lot
- 6:28Speaker 1: high for the fans here that route on the Jaguars.
- 6:32Speaker 1: So I'm pretty sure they're ready and excited to uh
- 6:37Speaker 1: come out and see the team play and get back
- 6:39Speaker 1: on track. Fred. This was supposed to be the biggest
- 6:42Speaker 1: build game in London history. The They've never had a
- 6:46Speaker 1: game with both teams holding winning records, and this was
- 6:50Speaker 1: supposed to be the one. The Eagles the defending champions,
- 6:53Speaker 1: the Jaguars the team that could have been in the
- 6:55Speaker 1: Super Bowl. It was five minutes away from it. But
- 6:58Speaker 1: both teams are three and four and that they've done
- 7:00Speaker 1: in different ways, of course, but this is not what
- 7:02Speaker 1: they expected when they put this together. You know, it's
- 7:07Speaker 1: not and uh, you know again I can say, welcome
- 7:10Speaker 1: to the NFL. Every year is a different year. You know,
- 7:13Speaker 1: this is what you're gonna get no matter what. Uh.
- 7:16Speaker 1: Some teams that do stand out, but again it's it
- 7:20Speaker 1: is the NFL, and things changed rapidly and unfortunately for us,
- 7:26Speaker 1: you know, the injury bugs sort of caught up with
- 7:29Speaker 1: us a little bit. But it's still earlier in the
- 7:32Speaker 1: season and hopefully things can change around. But yeah, after
- 7:36Speaker 1: the uh, I guess I could say more than anything else,
- 7:40Speaker 1: I wanted the Jaguards to make the Super Bowl. After
- 7:43Speaker 1: finding out Filly made it, you know, and they have
- 7:45Speaker 1: that have that uh that Super Bowl rematch abroad. I
- 7:49Speaker 1: always thought that would have been something, you know, nice.
- 7:52Speaker 1: It would have been great for the growth of the
- 7:55Speaker 1: game over here, having to uh Super Bowl or two
- 8:01Speaker 1: teams back competed in the superreboible to make here. But
- 8:04Speaker 1: that's that was last year. That didn't happen. We're here
- 8:07Speaker 1: this year for this. Hopefully it's a good matchup. Fred.
- 8:11Speaker 1: We'll get back to London in just a moment. I'm
- 8:13Speaker 1: gonna ask you your reaction to the news yesterday Doug
- 8:16Speaker 1: Marone saying Blake Bortles is going to start this game
- 8:20Speaker 1: in London and not Cody Kessler. I know we talked
- 8:22Speaker 1: a little in the post game about that they were
- 8:25Speaker 1: still up in the air. Was open competition, he said,
- 8:27Speaker 1: But the statement yesterday came out and Blake Portles as
- 8:30Speaker 1: a starter. Yeah, and uh Doug did it with conviction,
- 8:37Speaker 1: you know, he said last week the reason for him
- 8:40Speaker 1: making that move clearly, he said it was to try
- 8:42Speaker 1: and get a spark. And uh, you know, when you're
- 8:45Speaker 1: a coaching you sure ship you do whatever you feel, yeah,
- 8:49Speaker 1: necessary to get your team's attention, and that was a
- 8:52Speaker 1: move he made a week ago. I even said it
- 8:55Speaker 1: in the postseason game that, um, I was pretty confident
- 8:59Speaker 1: that break would uh come out and start this game.
- 9:02Speaker 1: If I were the coach, I would have allowed him
- 9:04Speaker 1: to come out and start this game. As as you
- 9:07Speaker 1: look at the first half. If it's a nightmare, if
- 9:10Speaker 1: we see the same things with the turnovers, whether it's
- 9:13Speaker 1: fumbles and interceptions, the lack of production by the offense,
- 9:18Speaker 1: then you know I was going to have time to
- 9:20Speaker 1: consider doing the same thing I did a week ago,
- 9:22Speaker 1: and let's getting Cody an opportunity. Uh. If you go
- 9:26Speaker 1: back a week uh, there are some things that Cody
- 9:30Speaker 1: did that were pretty impressive. I don't think Houston changed
- 9:35Speaker 1: much in their their play calling. So I thought Cody
- 9:38Speaker 1: went out there with what he was able to do
- 9:41Speaker 1: at that point in time, and I thought he played well.
- 9:44Speaker 1: A friend of mine, I actually a form of player,
- 9:46Speaker 1: said hey, why don't they called plays like that for Blake? Like,
- 9:50Speaker 1: what do you mean? You know? He said, Well, Cody
- 9:53Speaker 1: came out was doing a lot of quick, quick hitches
- 9:55Speaker 1: and speed outs and slant. I was like, he's just
- 9:58Speaker 1: getting the ball out quick, He's going into his progressions
- 10:00Speaker 1: and he's getting it out. I don't think the play
- 10:03Speaker 1: calling has a whole lot to do with it. But
- 10:06Speaker 1: then again, who knows. I'm not in their meeting, but
- 10:09Speaker 1: that was just a question that was supposed to me.
- 10:12Speaker 1: But either case, whoever the pub is JP, we gotta
- 10:15Speaker 1: get a win, man, That's all that matters. I don't
- 10:17Speaker 1: care who's out there. I just want somebody to get
- 10:20Speaker 1: out there, compete and give you the A team an
- 10:22Speaker 1: opportunity to win. They've been outscored fifty seven nothing in
- 10:25Speaker 1: the first half over the last three weeks. Why you
- 10:28Speaker 1: had it? Yeah, score some points, get them early in
- 10:31Speaker 1: the game would be nice. Fred. What's the rest of
- 10:33Speaker 1: your schedule this week? What events do you have, what
- 10:35Speaker 1: do you have coming up? And how are you gonna
- 10:37Speaker 1: spend your time in London? Well? I got a tomorrow morning,
- 10:41Speaker 1: I got a good morning football uh the network, and
- 10:45Speaker 1: then uh that's tomorrow, and then pretty much the rest
- 10:49Speaker 1: of the afternoon, I just hang out with my family. Uh. Thursday,
- 10:53Speaker 1: got some things where I really kicking to get Thursday
- 10:56Speaker 1: visiting the UK NFL officers, doing some extreme interviews there.
- 11:02Speaker 1: Thursday night, UH shots event on board, the kids met Friday,
- 11:08Speaker 1: We got the US for sure event Friday night after
- 11:12Speaker 1: you know, a pretty long day of U event twe
- 11:16Speaker 1: the NFL, you know, got some place sixty stuff before
- 11:19Speaker 1: we go out and teach the kid about health, healthy eating, nutrition,
- 11:23Speaker 1: about being active. That's Friday. Also, I'll be attending to
- 11:29Speaker 1: practice like we do all the time, so I'll attend
- 11:32Speaker 1: to practice and watch the Jag seven the Flag Football tournament.
- 11:36Speaker 1: So we're doing a little bit of that JP. I'm
- 11:39Speaker 1: pretty sure I'll run into you then. And then Saturday, Uh,
- 11:42Speaker 1: just a line up with different things, so looking forward
- 11:46Speaker 1: to as always Sunday, the big day. Then there's a
- 11:50Speaker 1: football game at the end of all that too. Really,
- 11:52Speaker 1: we kind of tend to forget about something. I know
- 11:55Speaker 1: you have a busy week ahead. It's fun, you know,
- 11:57Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's a fun week. It's h it's something different.
- 12:00Speaker 1: The Jags are the only team to go multiple years
- 12:03Speaker 1: and commit to multiple years, and they've taken advantage of
- 12:06Speaker 1: that with all the events leading up to the football game. Fred,
- 12:09Speaker 1: I know you have a busy week ahead. We appreciate
- 12:11Speaker 1: you taking your time out of your schedule and enjoy
- 12:14Speaker 1: the week. We'll see you on Friday at practice. No.
- 12:18Speaker 1: Problem Tears Mate Tears Fred Taylor with us from London,
- 12:23Speaker 1: the NFL Hotel in the United Kingdom. The Jags will
- 12:27Speaker 1: be on the ground there Friday h We'll return in
- 12:31Speaker 1: just a moment and we'll go to Philadelphia. Dave Spadero,
- 12:35Speaker 1: Eagles insider, will join us, will break down the opponent
- 12:38Speaker 1: for this Sunday's game at Wimbley Stadium in London. The
- 12:40Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles, the defending world champions. Right around the corner
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- 14:31Speaker 1: rolls along JP Shadrick, Josh Scobie is out. He is
- 14:34Speaker 1: in route to London. We'll see him on the ground
- 14:36Speaker 1: in the UK on Friday. He joins us each and
- 14:39Speaker 1: every Tuesday, our thanks to Fred Taylor on the ground
- 14:42Speaker 1: currently in London. He joined us just a few moments
- 14:45Speaker 1: ago previewing this Jaguars Eagles matchup on Sunday at Wembley Stadium.
- 14:50Speaker 1: Let's get the other perspective now, the Philadelphia Eagles of
- 14:52Speaker 1: the World Champions. Eagles insider Dave Spadero joins us over
- 14:56Speaker 1: the phone. Now, how are you, Dave? What's up? Well,
- 14:59Speaker 1: I mean route. Actually, I'm at the Newark Airport in
- 15:02Speaker 1: New Jersey, getting ready to fly over and check out
- 15:05Speaker 1: the scene a couple of days early and to a
- 15:08Speaker 1: kind of two kind of Eagles contingent will be out
- 15:10Speaker 1: there ahead of the game. Well, Fred Taylor was just
- 15:12Speaker 1: with us last segment. He said, they're Eagles fans everywhere. Yeah,
- 15:16Speaker 1: they really. I'll tell you, the demand for this game
- 15:20Speaker 1: is unreal. It's obviously our first trip over there, and
- 15:24Speaker 1: the fans who waited a lifetime to win the Super
- 15:26Speaker 1: Bowl have certainly celebrated in a big way. February fourth,
- 15:30Speaker 1: and Um, you know, the season has been a difficult one,
- 15:33Speaker 1: but I think everybody still believes the Eagles are in
- 15:35Speaker 1: the game in the NFC East, and Sunday should be
- 15:38Speaker 1: a very healthy group of Eagles fans supporting the team. Dave,
- 15:43Speaker 1: I know you've been around there really your whole life.
- 15:45Speaker 1: You've been an Eagles fan forever. How's the ring fit?
- 15:49Speaker 1: The ring fits beautifully, But you know it's interesting once
- 15:52Speaker 1: you get into the season, you're like, who cares about
- 15:54Speaker 1: the ring? And everything is focused on now? But it
- 15:56Speaker 1: is very beautiful. And if the life change you experience
- 16:00Speaker 1: has been feeling and really a dream come true, I
- 16:02Speaker 1: mean it's just been amazing. The parade, the ring ceremony,
- 16:07Speaker 1: all the city of Philadelphia, which has a kind of
- 16:11Speaker 1: a nasty tenor to it, a passionate nasty tenor to it.
- 16:14Speaker 1: A lot of that nastiness has gone away, although after
- 16:17Speaker 1: losing a seventeen point lead on Sunday to the Panthers,
- 16:20Speaker 1: a lot of that rancor came back. I would say
- 16:22Speaker 1: the honeymoon is long gone now after the Super Bowl win,
- 16:26Speaker 1: it seems like two different ways for these two different teams.
- 16:29Speaker 1: Here the Jags can't get started in games and the
- 16:31Speaker 1: Eagles can't finish games, and something's got to give. This Sunday,
- 16:35Speaker 1: it's it's interesting as seventeen to three lead in Tennessee evaporated,
- 16:39Speaker 1: a seventeen and nothing lead against Carolina went by the wayside.
- 16:43Speaker 1: But truly it's been more than that. It's been a
- 16:45Speaker 1: team that has put together one really convincing sixteen minute game,
- 16:49Speaker 1: and that was a week ago Thursday against the New
- 16:52Speaker 1: York Giants, and that was the game that everybody thought, Okay,
- 16:55Speaker 1: now the Eagles are back, the hangovers over, the team
- 16:59Speaker 1: is back on track to focuses there and then the
- 17:02Speaker 1: Eagles for three quarters looked great against the Carolina Panthers,
- 17:06Speaker 1: everything fell apart. So it's just been it's been as
- 17:08Speaker 1: it's really a mirror image of probably probably stopping technical.
- 17:12Speaker 1: Its an incredibly inconsistent team. Now this team, the games
- 17:15Speaker 1: that they've lost have been very close games, but still
- 17:19Speaker 1: they just last year you got used to the Eagles
- 17:21Speaker 1: finishing winning those close games, showing their dominance when they
- 17:25Speaker 1: had opportunities to do so this year they just haven't
- 17:28Speaker 1: done it. Dave Spadero with US the Eagles Insider Philadelphia
- 17:31Speaker 1: Eagles dot Com. So to that fourth quarter last week,
- 17:35Speaker 1: I mean seventeen nothing Leads in the fourth quarter just
- 17:38Speaker 1: don't evaporate in the NFL that often, they really don't.
- 17:41Speaker 1: What did the heck happened? What happened to the Eagles
- 17:43Speaker 1: last everything that you can imagine that the Panthers came
- 17:45Speaker 1: down three straight touchdown drives, they converted a two point conversion.
- 17:49Speaker 1: Cam Newton got hot, Eagles put a lot of pressure
- 17:51Speaker 1: on him with the four man rush, and he still
- 17:54Speaker 1: stepped up and made plays. The Eagles couldn't get off
- 17:56Speaker 1: the field on a fourth and ten, similar to what
- 17:59Speaker 1: happened in Tennessee, and we ti when they couldn't get
- 18:00Speaker 1: off the skill in the fourth and fifteen. The offense,
- 18:03Speaker 1: which has been really efficient, good mix on the ground,
- 18:06Speaker 1: good mixed in the air, dominating with al Sean Jeffrey
- 18:09Speaker 1: on the outside, tight ends dock Hurst on the inside,
- 18:11Speaker 1: suddenly couldn't sustain drives. And you find that when momentum
- 18:16Speaker 1: changes in the NFL really snowball and that's what happened
- 18:19Speaker 1: to the Eagles, which was stunning at home against the
- 18:23Speaker 1: Panthers team that looked to beat Now. One thing the
- 18:25Speaker 1: Eagles are learning is that when you are the Super
- 18:27Speaker 1: Bowl champion, everybody gives you their best. Nobody's taking any
- 18:32Speaker 1: plays off. They're gonna keep coming at you, keep coming
- 18:35Speaker 1: at you, keep coming at you. And that's what happened
- 18:37Speaker 1: in Tennessee. And that's what happened on Sunday. It was
- 18:39Speaker 1: shocking and really disappointing. And you know, you'll we'll see
- 18:44Speaker 1: if the Eagles have that. Everyone's waiting for the urgency,
- 18:47Speaker 1: the wake up call. I thought they played hard, I
- 18:50Speaker 1: thought they played urgent football. They just had it all
- 18:53Speaker 1: fall apart in fifteen minutes. It was stunning. Dave Spinnaro
- 18:57Speaker 1: with US from Philadelphia Eagles dot Com. Carson went se
- 19:01Speaker 1: passing this year, ten touchdowns, an interception. You know, people
- 19:05Speaker 1: I think tend to forget. He wasn't on the field
- 19:07Speaker 1: a lot last year, right towards the end of that run.
- 19:09Speaker 1: And he's still a very young quarterback in this league,
- 19:12Speaker 1: and there's moments where he's gonna make a young quarterback mistake. Yeah,
- 19:18Speaker 1: and Neil was interesting last week was despite all the
- 19:21Speaker 1: challenges that the Eagles had losing the seventeen pointly, they
- 19:24Speaker 1: were still sitting there first intent at the Carolina's point
- 19:27Speaker 1: two yard line, plenty of time left, two time outs.
- 19:30Speaker 1: I think Carson just tried to do too much in
- 19:32Speaker 1: that situation rather than take a check down here and
- 19:35Speaker 1: open receiver. They're keeping Jane moving work the ball into
- 19:39Speaker 1: the end zone rather than trying to go for it
- 19:41Speaker 1: on a couple of throws that he had late in
- 19:43Speaker 1: that game. But he's a superstar talent who is as intense, determined, intelligent,
- 19:51Speaker 1: physically talented, mentally gifted as any quarterback I've ever seen,
- 19:54Speaker 1: and in his day and age in the NFL with
- 19:57Speaker 1: Jared Goff, the Patrick Mahomes and some of the old
- 20:00Speaker 1: guard Drew Brees and Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers still
- 20:03Speaker 1: doing it, I think people are overlooking Carson a bit,
- 20:06Speaker 1: and understandably so. The Eagles offense has not put it
- 20:09Speaker 1: together this year, but I can tell you he'll be
- 20:11Speaker 1: a handful. It's gonna be a really great match up
- 20:13Speaker 1: the way that Jaguars, despite the struggles, how good they
- 20:16Speaker 1: are against the past, because the Eagles are very much
- 20:20Speaker 1: leaning in the past department. They are past heavy and
- 20:23Speaker 1: the teams that statistically any way have had success running
- 20:26Speaker 1: against Jaguars, and the Eagles have not put together a
- 20:29Speaker 1: sustained run attack and it's certainly been challenged with the
- 20:32Speaker 1: loft gay guy. So something has to give on Sunday.
- 20:35Speaker 1: And for the Eagles, you know, they've got to get
- 20:37Speaker 1: out of this doldroom of averaging twenty two points the game,
- 20:40Speaker 1: I mean one game. It's really hard to win in
- 20:45Speaker 1: the NFL these days because everybody's scoring so many points
- 20:48Speaker 1: and they're putting a lot of pressure on the Eagles defense.
- 20:51Speaker 1: Day Spedero with US you mentioned J J. I, the
- 20:54Speaker 1: A C. L. T. Harry, he's done for the year.
- 20:57Speaker 1: You know, it seemed last week you're trying to run
- 20:59Speaker 1: a four minute offense. Maybe, but they didn't run the
- 21:01Speaker 1: ball on the floor. Met an offense you can ask
- 21:03Speaker 1: you play you know, Doug Peterson had some comments to
- 21:05Speaker 1: the media about play calling and decisions and all that. Well,
- 21:08Speaker 1: you don't have a running back like that, It's hard
- 21:10Speaker 1: to run that kind of offense. How big of a
- 21:12Speaker 1: loss will a g i AB down the stretch here? Yeah,
- 21:15Speaker 1: significant loss and that that's all the speculations Philadelphia has
- 21:18Speaker 1: been how are the Eagles gonna get a top notch
- 21:21Speaker 1: running back? See how he rose in the GM has
- 21:24Speaker 1: set up this level of expectation. He's a wheeler and
- 21:26Speaker 1: dealer and he makes things happen. And he got a
- 21:28Speaker 1: gi E last year at the trade deadline, and a
- 21:30Speaker 1: Giant added explosiveness to the run game, something that really needed.
- 21:34Speaker 1: They had the hammer with like Garrett Blunt, and they
- 21:36Speaker 1: mixed in Darrence Rolls early in the season and then
- 21:39Speaker 1: Corey Clement came on and got some good carriage for them.
- 21:41Speaker 1: But they don't have an explosive element this year. Another
- 21:45Speaker 1: thing they do offensively is the RPO, the run pass option,
- 21:47Speaker 1: which works well for the Eagles last year. Well, the
- 21:50Speaker 1: quarterback has the r p O, he has the option,
- 21:53Speaker 1: so look at it's natural that a quarterback would Dave.
- 21:56Speaker 1: If I have an option, I'm going to put the
- 21:58Speaker 1: ball in my hands and make things happen. So in
- 22:00Speaker 1: defense of Doug Peterson, some of those play calls for
- 22:04Speaker 1: r p os that could have been run if Carson
- 22:07Speaker 1: liked the look that he saw. But this team, look,
- 22:11Speaker 1: they are seeing a lot of boxes, back boxes, they're
- 22:14Speaker 1: seeing single coverage in the passing game. Other than al Shan,
- 22:18Speaker 1: Jeffrey and Ert who are too formidable weapons, they really
- 22:22Speaker 1: haven't had a lot going in the past game. The
- 22:25Speaker 1: explosiveness not there. It's been degles that there weren't really
- 22:28Speaker 1: worked hard to get points on the board, long drive,
- 22:32Speaker 1: lots of plays, time of possession for sure, but that
- 22:35Speaker 1: you need some chunk plays, you need some easy scores,
- 22:37Speaker 1: you need some big plays to change the dynamic on defense,
- 22:40Speaker 1: and needles just not having that element in the offense
- 22:43Speaker 1: through seven games. You mentioned the rf os. I think
- 22:46Speaker 1: everybody outside of Foxborough has something like that right now. NFL, well, yeah,
- 22:50Speaker 1: that do what you know. He was actually introduced kind
- 22:52Speaker 1: of by Tip Kelly the one decent thing he did
- 22:54Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, and um and and and Doug took it
- 22:59Speaker 1: to a new level last year and look at it
- 23:00Speaker 1: helped them win a Super Bowl. So the things that
- 23:03Speaker 1: work last year, as we know, in the NFL, you
- 23:05Speaker 1: spend an entire off he's studying that, figuring out how
- 23:07Speaker 1: to stop it. And the Eagles they traded Torry Smith
- 23:10Speaker 1: wide receiver to Caroline in the off season. They haven't
- 23:13Speaker 1: replaced that production. They thought Mike Wallace would be that speed,
- 23:16Speaker 1: that vertical threat. He's hurt, um guy, He's hurt. They've
- 23:20Speaker 1: had injuries along the offensive line. It's just been really
- 23:23Speaker 1: Darren's roles has only played one game. He's got a
- 23:25Speaker 1: hamstring injury. He'll be out again this week, I expect,
- 23:28Speaker 1: And so it's been very difficult for the Eagles to
- 23:30Speaker 1: get anything going consistently offensively. A couple more thoughts with
- 23:34Speaker 1: it here, Dave. Defensively, Fletcher Cox has put up a
- 23:37Speaker 1: few sacks this year. How big of a forces have
- 23:40Speaker 1: you been up front for you guys on defense? Yeah,
- 23:42Speaker 1: he'll be. He's the look I tell you this. The
- 23:44Speaker 1: Jaguars are accounting for him on every play. He rarely
- 23:48Speaker 1: is singled up. He's doubles and tripled. That opens up
- 23:51Speaker 1: opportunities for others. The Eagles have a very good path rush,
- 23:55Speaker 1: and they need it because the back end is not seller.
- 23:58Speaker 1: They have struggled at cornerback. They lost their starting safety
- 24:01Speaker 1: Rodney McCloud. They have they moved their rookie nickel cornerback
- 24:05Speaker 1: of Ante Mattock from there to the deep safety position.
- 24:09Speaker 1: And it was a very soft coverage last week against Carolina.
- 24:13Speaker 1: Late and Carolina really exploited that they had a lot
- 24:16Speaker 1: of mistackles. But it begins with Fletcher, and it Fletcher dominates,
- 24:19Speaker 1: then they're gonna do really well. Fletcher was quiet against Carolina,
- 24:23Speaker 1: particularly late, and you really really notice the difference. Dave
- 24:27Speaker 1: Spodero with us first trip for the Eagles to London,
- 24:30Speaker 1: when's the team going over? You're going separate? I guess, yeah.
- 24:32Speaker 1: So we go over early because of all the fan
- 24:35Speaker 1: activities and I am see all the things to get
- 24:37Speaker 1: everybody fired up, and we have some alumni going over,
- 24:39Speaker 1: and the team will fly out on Thursday, arrived Friday
- 24:43Speaker 1: morning and you know, hopefully handle the distractions and the
- 24:47Speaker 1: the get lag and the the new environment and and
- 24:51Speaker 1: have a really strong game. On studay, it looked just
- 24:53Speaker 1: like just like you guys, just like Jackville. It's a
- 24:56Speaker 1: must win. Going to three and five would be very
- 24:58Speaker 1: difficult to overcome with a tough second half schedule. But
- 25:02Speaker 1: so the team thinks it's prepared. They've they really planned
- 25:04Speaker 1: for it, and they'll get there on Friday morning and
- 25:06Speaker 1: get on the practice field Friday afternoon. Dave, have a
- 25:09Speaker 1: safe flight. Will see you on the ground in the UK.
- 25:12Speaker 1: My pleasure Thank you so much for having me. Dave Spadero,
- 25:14Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles dot Com. Eagles inside of great stuff. They're
- 25:17Speaker 1: great insight. They're going over early. A lot of Eagles
- 25:19Speaker 1: fans going to the UK for this one. We'll return
- 25:22Speaker 1: with senior writer John Osier. He joins us in studio
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- 27:18Speaker 1: Hour continues on a Tuesday. JP Shaddick no Josh Scobie.
- 27:22Speaker 1: This week coming up, the Jaguars are in London against
- 27:25Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles, and John you're right in the camera shot.
- 27:29Speaker 1: That's great, John Os, you're joining us senior writer who
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- 27:35Speaker 1: Of course, NFL VP of the International Mark Waller joins
- 27:40Speaker 1: us each and every year to give us an update
- 27:42Speaker 1: on the progress of the International Series. You'll hear the
- 27:45Speaker 1: full interview on Sunday in the Public's Tailgate Show from
- 27:48Speaker 1: Wembley Stadium. Here's a preview today after a couple of
- 27:51Speaker 1: games already in the series, three consecutive games in the
- 27:55Speaker 1: London marketplace that how much of a challenge is that
- 27:58Speaker 1: for the folks on the ground in the UK? Yeah,
- 28:00Speaker 1: definitely from a from an executional standpoint sort of two things. One,
- 28:06Speaker 1: we're in the same stadium for all three games, so
- 28:10Speaker 1: making sure that the field, particularly the pitches is ready
- 28:15Speaker 1: and and sort of in good shape. So that's been
- 28:18Speaker 1: a big focus. And then obviously you know a lot
- 28:21Speaker 1: of a lot of tickets to sell three games across
- 28:24Speaker 1: three weekends. That two tickets, but all three games sold out.
- 28:30Speaker 1: Very excited with that, and a lot of those tickets
- 28:33Speaker 1: are what you call season tickets. People buying all three games.
- 28:36Speaker 1: How much of a breakdown of fan attending the game there?
- 28:41Speaker 1: Where are they from? Are they mostly UK? Are they
- 28:43Speaker 1: mixed from Europe? Everywhere else. What kind of numbers that
- 28:47Speaker 1: we do a lot of work on sort of collecting
- 28:49Speaker 1: fan data, and our data is suggests that about ninety
- 28:54Speaker 1: of the fans are UK fans, and probably two thirds
- 28:57Speaker 1: of them from within a couple of hours of London,
- 29:01Speaker 1: and then the balance of the fans tend to be
- 29:03Speaker 1: about four or five percent from the rest of Europe,
- 29:07Speaker 1: notably Germany, uh and Scandinavia, and then the US fans
- 29:15Speaker 1: traveling over. So this last weekend we had a lot
- 29:18Speaker 1: of Seahawks fans were obviously expecting a lot of fans
- 29:23Speaker 1: to travel over for the Eagles game. That's a that's
- 29:26Speaker 1: a sort of easy trip from from there, and so
- 29:30Speaker 1: that's the balance is sort of American traveling. Mark Wahler, Well,
- 29:35Speaker 1: this is the NFL VP of International and Events. You've
- 29:38Speaker 1: said in the past that there was the date the
- 29:41Speaker 1: year that you wanted to be ready for a franchise
- 29:44Speaker 1: in the UK that is still a few years away,
- 29:47Speaker 1: but you've said recently the marketplace is ready. Why is that?
- 29:51Speaker 1: I think we feel now that the work that we've
- 29:54Speaker 1: done on the stadium side of having Wembley, twicken and
- 30:00Speaker 1: and then Tottenham coming on stream next year. We feel
- 30:03Speaker 1: very good that we could schedule the games, and from
- 30:07Speaker 1: a fan growth perspective, you know, we continue to see
- 30:12Speaker 1: incredible demand and great growth in the fandom. So it
- 30:16Speaker 1: just feels to us that the yeah, the core requirements
- 30:20Speaker 1: for any franchise in any market is, yeah, you obviously
- 30:23Speaker 1: need to have enough fans for it to be sustainable
- 30:26Speaker 1: and places to play, and we feel now that we're
- 30:29Speaker 1: in a place where we can deliver that as when
- 30:32Speaker 1: the ownership requires it, there's more quality. NFL VP of
- 30:36Speaker 1: International and Events Here the full interview coming up this
- 30:38Speaker 1: Sunday in the Public Tailgate Show. It's a nine am kickoff,
- 30:42Speaker 1: so a six thirty am Public Tailgate show before the
- 30:45Speaker 1: Jags and the Eagles, and it's time to hear from
- 30:48Speaker 1: the Ozone Like we're on the Public Tailgate Show right
- 30:58Speaker 1: now with that intro music, John Ozer, we saw a
- 31:01Speaker 1: big You saw more of the other than you wanted
- 31:03Speaker 1: to a minute ago. Right, Uh yeah, sorry about that
- 31:06Speaker 1: live Okay, thanks for coming in seeing that problem. I
- 31:09Speaker 1: was actually just trying to move out of the way
- 31:11Speaker 1: and I moved in the way, which is you know,
- 31:13Speaker 1: kind of story of my life. No, Josh Scobie this week.
- 31:17Speaker 1: He's on a plane in London. Kicker for the kicker. Yeah,
- 31:22Speaker 1: he usually he's right there. You're they're usually there. He works.
- 31:25Speaker 1: Are we pay him to come on? I believe that's
- 31:28Speaker 1: money well spent. It is, so we're without him this week.
- 31:32Speaker 1: But that said, in uh and in Josh Scoby fashion,
- 31:36Speaker 1: we always have the specialist break to do. So we're
- 31:39Speaker 1: gonna do that right now and take a look at
- 31:40Speaker 1: the specialist for the Philadelphia Eagles the opponent this week.
- 31:44Speaker 1: The Eagles have Jake Elliott, the second year kicker out
- 31:47Speaker 1: of Memphis eleven and fifteen field goals along and forty
- 31:51Speaker 1: six perfect and extra points. Cameron Johnston is the punter
- 31:55Speaker 1: his first year college out of Ohio State. There a
- 31:59Speaker 1: great average nearly forty four yards per pump net and
- 32:03Speaker 1: uh Rick Lovado, an old Dominion long snapper secret weapon
- 32:07Speaker 1: for the Eagles heading to London this week. I know
- 32:10Speaker 1: that's your favorite. We wanted to make sure we got
- 32:12Speaker 1: it in this week. John So, I wasn't paying attention.
- 32:14Speaker 1: I was looking for something to gouge. We don't have
- 32:18Speaker 1: anything back, you know. Yeah, it looked great. Perfect. We'll
- 32:21Speaker 1: see on Sunday when the Jackson. The he's in the air,
- 32:25Speaker 1: he can't call in. I don't break that down. Think, Yeah,
- 32:30Speaker 1: Well to get him on later in the week when
- 32:32Speaker 1: we get on the ground there it's it's a blow.
- 32:33Speaker 1: It'll probably be like the difference in the game to
- 32:36Speaker 1: I'm talking it down. It will probably be like important
- 32:39Speaker 1: kick of all time. Okay. Biggest news this week, of course,
- 32:43Speaker 1: the quarterback decision has been made by head coach Doug Moron,
- 32:47Speaker 1: and he announced it yesterday in a statement that Blake
- 32:50Speaker 1: Bortles will start this week against the Philadelphia Eagles. Uh,
- 32:54Speaker 1: you know that, you can go. Fans are going both
- 32:56Speaker 1: ways on this obviously, Um, is this a permanent deal?
- 33:01Speaker 1: Can this change again? Well? Yeah, if if you can
- 33:04Speaker 1: change it once, certainly, no better than Blake has played
- 33:08Speaker 1: the last three weeks, and no better than the offense
- 33:10Speaker 1: is functioning around him, you can certainly change it. And
- 33:14Speaker 1: I think that's important to note because there's coaches seem
- 33:18Speaker 1: to have different philosophies on this. UM. I thought the
- 33:21Speaker 1: coaches who say, you know, you support your guy at
- 33:24Speaker 1: quarterback until he's not your quarterback and then once you
- 33:28Speaker 1: move on, you can't go back. There are people, I
- 33:30Speaker 1: mean their NFL people and coaches who firmly believe that
- 33:35Speaker 1: Doug it doesn't make it right or wrong, but that's
- 33:39Speaker 1: the way they believe. Doug clearly doesn't subscribe to that.
- 33:43Speaker 1: He threw it open to a few days of competition
- 33:49Speaker 1: last preseason. He pulled Blake the other day and has
- 33:53Speaker 1: no problem going back to him. I think a big
- 33:55Speaker 1: reason he felt confident with it was because Blake handled
- 33:59Speaker 1: it last year, was able to whatever the verb is,
- 34:03Speaker 1: regain maintain the respective people in the locker room, and
- 34:09Speaker 1: that didn't affect the dynamic of the team that was
- 34:13Speaker 1: still comments in him. So I think Doug has the
- 34:16Speaker 1: frame of reference for making that work. Is it? Is
- 34:19Speaker 1: it permanent? You know? I um, it's not ideal to
- 34:23Speaker 1: have uncertainty there. But as as I've said a couple
- 34:25Speaker 1: of times during this losing streak, ideal left the station
- 34:28Speaker 1: a couple of weeks back. We're not ideal. Yeah, this
- 34:30Speaker 1: is something where they've got to deal with it and
- 34:31Speaker 1: figure it out. I think it would have been hard
- 34:35Speaker 1: to go to Cody Kessler for a couple of games
- 34:39Speaker 1: and then have Blake come back in as a result
- 34:43Speaker 1: of Kestler playing poorly. I think then all of a sudden,
- 34:45Speaker 1: you're going back and forth. This move makes sense for
- 34:49Speaker 1: a lot of reasons than mobility. Uh yeah, I mean
- 34:54Speaker 1: just all those things. Um So I I was fifty,
- 35:02Speaker 1: I wrote, as I'm sure you read because you loved
- 35:04Speaker 1: to read everything, right, Um I wrote that I thought
- 35:07Speaker 1: it would be blake. That was the good feeling I
- 35:10Speaker 1: had a mate. I wavered a little bit when Doug
- 35:12Speaker 1: talk yesterday. We did last night on the show too,
- 35:15Speaker 1: because it made it seem like, see how guys reacted
- 35:18Speaker 1: around and while on the field they moved the ball
- 35:20Speaker 1: and off. Yeah, and uh but that can be a
- 35:24Speaker 1: tough gauge, the getting excited about how a backup quarterback
- 35:29Speaker 1: plays with a twenty point deficit against a team that
- 35:36Speaker 1: you know, the Texans defense at that point when Kesler
- 35:38Speaker 1: was playing, had to believe all we gotta do is
- 35:41Speaker 1: keep stuff in front of us, make it hard for
- 35:43Speaker 1: him to score, and we're gonna win this game. There
- 35:46Speaker 1: wasn't a whole lot of a feeling of threat and
- 35:51Speaker 1: no game planning against Kessler. So if you and not
- 35:58Speaker 1: to discount what he did, but it's difficult to take
- 36:02Speaker 1: that as a gauge or how it will be going
- 36:04Speaker 1: forward to consider the context of the game. Yeah, So
- 36:08Speaker 1: for all those reasons, I just I was the needle
- 36:13Speaker 1: was a little toward Blake. But as I said, often
- 36:17Speaker 1: when you're even talking about it, it means there's no
- 36:20Speaker 1: good solution. It's never a good topic to have a
- 36:23Speaker 1: quarterback issue, especially a week seven of a season and
- 36:27Speaker 1: a season that can still be salvaged. But they got
- 36:30Speaker 1: a lot of work to do. But we'll say this,
- 36:32Speaker 1: if if it was any other quarterback involved with this,
- 36:40Speaker 1: I would think, boy, I wonder if this guy goes
- 36:42Speaker 1: in the tank with a lot of quarterbacks, I would
- 36:45Speaker 1: be absolutely stunned. If they put together six games out
- 36:50Speaker 1: of the last nine where they were just playing well
- 36:53Speaker 1: everybody around would it surprise you if Blake did that.
- 36:58Speaker 1: He's done it before, I mean, and and anybody listens
- 37:01Speaker 1: gonna say, well, of course, it's surprises you, because he's terrible.
- 37:03Speaker 1: He's done this. He's done this as mean, if you
- 37:05Speaker 1: look at the last season, Um, if you look at
- 37:09Speaker 1: some of the things that he's been able to do
- 37:11Speaker 1: coming back from a situation like this, Um, it's not
- 37:15Speaker 1: unheard of that he would come out and have some
- 37:18Speaker 1: lights out games the rest of the way because he's
- 37:20Speaker 1: done it before. A new face behind him in the backfield.
- 37:24Speaker 1: Carlos High joined the Jacksonville Jaguars, traded here on Friday.
- 37:30Speaker 1: Was close maybe the playing on Sunday. He spoke with
- 37:33Speaker 1: the media in the locker room on Monday home. I
- 37:36Speaker 1: had just got home. Actually, I was saying out with
- 37:38Speaker 1: my son and I got a call from Dorsey telling
- 37:42Speaker 1: me I just got traded to Jacksonville. I was shocked. Um,
- 37:48Speaker 1: but I mean, honestly, I do you know what the field,
- 37:50Speaker 1: but I was definitely shocked. Then I had to come
- 37:52Speaker 1: on the flight that night and come here. So it
- 37:55Speaker 1: happened so quick. You know, there were reports that you
- 37:59Speaker 1: were about to be active for the game yesterday. How
- 38:02Speaker 1: mean how close were you? Was it just a playbook
- 38:04Speaker 1: situation or could you have gone? And what was that situation? Um? Yeah,
- 38:09Speaker 1: that was like one of the first questions I asked
- 38:10Speaker 1: my guy, or if can I play Sunday? Um. I
- 38:13Speaker 1: had looked over the plays and some of the round
- 38:15Speaker 1: plays were familiar what I was doing over in Cleveland.
- 38:18Speaker 1: So I was like, you know, I think I can
- 38:20Speaker 1: definitely get in the game and run these plays. I
- 38:22Speaker 1: don't think it would be that hard. But you know,
- 38:25Speaker 1: they didn't let me. But I was definitely pushing for it.
- 38:28Speaker 1: What they didn't happen, Carlos, this team wants to have
- 38:31Speaker 1: an offensive identity, that physical running, that sort of thing
- 38:34Speaker 1: that fit what your game is, I mean what they want.
- 38:37Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was definitely you know, um me, you know,
- 38:42Speaker 1: I run angry downhill you know, smash my football. You
- 38:45Speaker 1: know that's been my gamer since I started playing this game.
- 38:48Speaker 1: So I think I'll fit in perfect here. There's Carlos
- 38:50Speaker 1: hide in the locker room on Monday there, and it's
- 38:52Speaker 1: something they don't really have a guy who can be physical.
- 38:56Speaker 1: And somebody in the building the other day said he's
- 38:58Speaker 1: not gonna run over of guys like for not he's
- 39:01Speaker 1: not gonna avoid guys like Gelden. He's kind of in between.
- 39:05Speaker 1: He's got a little bit of the in between skill set. Yeah,
- 39:07Speaker 1: when he said I run angry, I'm thinking, you know,
- 39:09Speaker 1: I'm always angry. Minds like a petty anger that doesn't
- 39:12Speaker 1: get very much done. Uh, what you went out of
- 39:15Speaker 1: this guy is if you've seen him playing. And I
- 39:19Speaker 1: haven't watched the Browns much, but I watched the watch
- 39:22Speaker 1: the opener and playing the Jets. Um, he's what they
- 39:26Speaker 1: need right now in terms of giving themselves a little
- 39:30Speaker 1: bit of that offensive identity. Um. I've gotten some emails
- 39:39Speaker 1: with people asking how much of a difference can he make.
- 39:42Speaker 1: I think some of that's getting clouded with the fact
- 39:44Speaker 1: that the Jay was brought in Jamal Charles, and at
- 39:45Speaker 1: least him so quickly. This is a much different acquisition
- 39:48Speaker 1: than that. Jamal Charles was an eleven year guy who
- 39:51Speaker 1: you hoped you might get something out of was on
- 39:53Speaker 1: the street. Uh. Not to knock Jamal Charles, but at
- 39:56Speaker 1: that point in running back his career, I never really
- 39:59Speaker 1: had any thought that he was gonna make a big impact.
- 40:02Speaker 1: Carlos High. It is a guy who scored five touchdowns
- 40:04Speaker 1: this year. He plays the way you want him to play.
- 40:08Speaker 1: I don't want to put the pressure on him of
- 40:09Speaker 1: saying he's going to be a a Marcel Darius type
- 40:13Speaker 1: pick up, but it has that feel of a guy
- 40:16Speaker 1: that they really need. It's rare to make a trade
- 40:21Speaker 1: where you start looking at and saying, boy, this guy's
- 40:23Speaker 1: not bad, you know. I mean, other times you make
- 40:24Speaker 1: a trade. Okay, well he does what you want him
- 40:27Speaker 1: to do. He runs angry he's got three or two
- 40:31Speaker 1: yards rushing the season that he's up among the league leaders.
- 40:35Speaker 1: This has a chance to be a significant pickup, not
- 40:38Speaker 1: only this year, this week, but in the future. You know,
- 40:42Speaker 1: the way they want to play. Everybody was surprised they
- 40:45Speaker 1: didn't have a second banging running back. Um, I don't
- 40:49Speaker 1: know when Leonard's coming back. You know, I have no idea.
- 40:52Speaker 1: I keep thinking after the bye, but I've seen nothing
- 40:55Speaker 1: to guarantee that. So this guy could be the back
- 40:58Speaker 1: for a while. And it's not like you're picking up
- 41:01Speaker 1: a backup from somebody. This guy's is a front line
- 41:05Speaker 1: NFL running back. Fifth year could be a major pickup.
- 41:09Speaker 1: And I don't want to say that it's going to
- 41:12Speaker 1: change the entire offense because there's too much else that's wrong,
- 41:17Speaker 1: and one running back is not going to make Cam
- 41:20Speaker 1: Robinson's knee better. I'm not going to get Mark Keith
- 41:23Speaker 1: Lee back in the fields, get us far and Jenkins
- 41:25Speaker 1: back in the field. But it does give you the chance.
- 41:30Speaker 1: You hand theball t J. Yelton three or four times,
- 41:31Speaker 1: you gotta get out of game because he's not going
- 41:34Speaker 1: to run eight straight times and you needed for past
- 41:37Speaker 1: bro It's hard to just feed him the ball. Now
- 41:39Speaker 1: you've got two guys that you can do that with
- 41:42Speaker 1: a chance to get back to some something close to
- 41:44Speaker 1: their identity. Toy was Sully last night on Happy Hour
- 41:47Speaker 1: said that Carlos Hide is the best running back on
- 41:50Speaker 1: the roster right now, better than for that, better than Yelled,
- 41:56Speaker 1: better than Williams, because he's available, he's out there, and
- 42:02Speaker 1: he has the statistics in the average yards per Russian
- 42:05Speaker 1: everything to go with. And I get his point, and
- 42:08Speaker 1: I'm not going to disagree with that. I mean, Hid
- 42:10Speaker 1: and I think has more missability than for Net. Uh
- 42:14Speaker 1: a healthy Leonard for Net. It's hard to know what
- 42:18Speaker 1: that's gonna bring. I didn't I didn't think he was
- 42:20Speaker 1: great last year. I thought he was really good last
- 42:22Speaker 1: year for last situations, but I didn't think he was elite.
- 42:25Speaker 1: I don't know they call his hides elite. UM for
- 42:28Speaker 1: Net still gotta prove a lot. Biggest thing. He's got
- 42:30Speaker 1: to prove that he can stay healthy. I also don't
- 42:33Speaker 1: want to discount the identity that four Net broad and
- 42:36Speaker 1: all that. So he's obviously you want him to be
- 42:40Speaker 1: the guy. Uh, Yes, Hides better than Yelled in UM,
- 42:46Speaker 1: but let's not lose sight of how important t J
- 42:51Speaker 1: is and how well he's played, what he's played through
- 42:54Speaker 1: and done this. Yeah, I mean, considering all the circumstances around,
- 42:59Speaker 1: it's run Carlos high topic. But t J was a
- 43:03Speaker 1: guy who for the first three years had a couple
- 43:05Speaker 1: of flashes um and they liked him, like what he
- 43:08Speaker 1: could do, and he was good in past bro but
- 43:10Speaker 1: really hadn't uh sort of carried him and gotten him
- 43:14Speaker 1: through anything. He's played really well this year, really good
- 43:18Speaker 1: in past protection, and really good as a runner. He's
- 43:22Speaker 1: not the carry the offense in a in a violent
- 43:27Speaker 1: physical offense like they want to be, but he is fantastic.
- 43:31Speaker 1: If you've got a you've got a guy who can
- 43:33Speaker 1: do that. The way they originally planning these backs was
- 43:37Speaker 1: Corey Grant Leonard for NET and t J Yeldon within
- 43:41Speaker 1: that concept, I think if you had what you thought
- 43:45Speaker 1: Corey was gonna be, and you had what you thought
- 43:47Speaker 1: leon was gonna be at the beginning of the year,
- 43:50Speaker 1: you'd be looking at t J yelling and thinking, boy,
- 43:53Speaker 1: what a fantastic part of a group of three. He's
- 43:55Speaker 1: doing his jobs. He sure is, and now we'll see
- 43:58Speaker 1: what Carlos hide has for the Jacksonville Jaguars is coming Sunday.
- 44:02Speaker 1: We'll take a time out. We'll get into players only meetings.
- 44:07Speaker 1: It was one of those yesterday. We can get into
- 44:11Speaker 1: a good point. We will discuss it. Shelley Uh. This
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- 45:59Speaker 1: Josh Scobe is out this week, John Osier is in
- 46:05Speaker 1: Welcome that's right, uh, Jags are heading to London, but
- 46:10Speaker 1: busy time at Daily's Place as well, and that starts
- 46:14Speaker 1: this Friday, Corey Smith with a free concert before the
- 46:19Speaker 1: world's largest outdoor cocktail party. That's the night before the game.
- 46:23Speaker 1: Rudy and Concert. November sevent with the Jacksonville Symphony. That's
- 46:26Speaker 1: the movie on the big screen while the Symphony plays
- 46:29Speaker 1: the score live on stage. Good stuff November and then
- 46:34Speaker 1: the big ticket Wheezer and Foster the People December. First
- 46:36Speaker 1: ticket to Daily's Place dot com. Players only meetings Baseball
- 46:42Speaker 1: player a long time ago, when I was first kind
- 46:44Speaker 1: of starting out, said when there's players only meetings, that
- 46:47Speaker 1: means you're not a very good team. And the Jags
- 46:50Speaker 1: are not a very good team right now. Yeah, and it's, uh,
- 46:55Speaker 1: they're fine. I mean it's it's it's fine to have him.
- 47:00Speaker 1: I think coaches smart coaches, which Doug is, except some
- 47:08Speaker 1: fine trust that the leaders on the team are are
- 47:13Speaker 1: coming from the right place, which generally speaking, I think
- 47:16Speaker 1: the guys who who who lead this team? Uh do
- 47:21Speaker 1: players only meetings for the right reasons? Um, I I'm
- 47:27Speaker 1: skeptical into how much impact they actually have. Uh. That's
- 47:33Speaker 1: why I say they're fine. You know, I've read and
- 47:37Speaker 1: heard a lot of stories about players only meetings. Um.
- 47:43Speaker 1: Sometimes you're sitting at a Super Bowl and players are
- 47:47Speaker 1: talking about a players only meeting in October to turn
- 47:50Speaker 1: things around. Oftentimes you're covering a four and twelve team
- 47:57Speaker 1: and you forget that there was a player's only meeting
- 47:59Speaker 1: because it was one of the eight of them. So
- 48:01Speaker 1: it on a serious note. It's good that they had it.
- 48:04Speaker 1: It's good that they care. Um, I'm sure the right
- 48:08Speaker 1: things were said in it, and it they understand what
- 48:12Speaker 1: a critical point it is and they want to get
- 48:15Speaker 1: it turned around, just like last week when they were
- 48:17Speaker 1: talking about we need to get reset. Um, it's not
- 48:21Speaker 1: ahead in the sand situation where they think everything's okay.
- 48:24Speaker 1: So more power to them, But I just don't put
- 48:28Speaker 1: a lot of stock in it. There was a time,
- 48:30Speaker 1: like back first covering the league, where it was sort of, oh,
- 48:33Speaker 1: players only must mean they do like the coach. They
- 48:35Speaker 1: don't with the coaches in there. You know, that's really
- 48:38Speaker 1: not what it is. It's more of in this day
- 48:40Speaker 1: and age, especially players feeling like, look, we gotta take
- 48:44Speaker 1: this on ourselves. We've got to be the ones to
- 48:46Speaker 1: get this fixed. And uh, they're right, it's Tony like
- 48:51Speaker 1: referencing Tony you for some reason, but we just spoke
- 48:54Speaker 1: last night. I know it's a it's a flaw. Sorry. Um,
- 48:57Speaker 1: it's a players league when things are going well and
- 49:00Speaker 1: then all of a sudden it turns into something other
- 49:02Speaker 1: of the players league when things aren't going well sometimes,
- 49:04Speaker 1: but players gonna take that back, you know, it's always
- 49:07Speaker 1: coaching the NFL. Coaching is always a fun every Yeah,
- 49:11Speaker 1: but that's that's sometimes how it is. But the guys
- 49:15Speaker 1: still have the passion and the energy to try to
- 49:17Speaker 1: get things right here. Yeah, no question. And it's uh,
- 49:20Speaker 1: it's a tough, brutal time. It's a time, as we
- 49:23Speaker 1: saw on Sunday, when you go through three straight weeks
- 49:28Speaker 1: where the offense does not score in the first half
- 49:31Speaker 1: and the offense, by the way, is and it knows
- 49:36Speaker 1: everybody putting a tremendous strain on the defense. Actually actually
- 49:40Speaker 1: looked up a stat means I did some research today. JP.
- 49:43Speaker 1: Uh you know that I'm I'm cramping a little bit here,
- 49:48Speaker 1: so my fingers are cramping from google. UMT sacks last year? Yes, right,
- 49:55Speaker 1: I venture I guess is how many of those came
- 49:58Speaker 1: with the Jaguars leading I would say a good and
- 50:05Speaker 1: the huge sack games ten and ten Houston and the
- 50:09Speaker 1: opener and Andy all ten sacks. Both of those games
- 50:13Speaker 1: came when the Jaguars were ahead. Uh Now, the outlier
- 50:18Speaker 1: was last year they had three or four defensive touchdowns
- 50:22Speaker 1: that were with the game on the line, either trailing
- 50:25Speaker 1: or with a very close where it didn't feel like
- 50:27Speaker 1: avalanche mode. But for the most part, your leads leading
- 50:34Speaker 1: create your opportunities for defenses to create chaos, no matter
- 50:38Speaker 1: how good you are. So that's what's missing this year,
- 50:41Speaker 1: and that's what you wonder how they get back to that.
- 50:48Speaker 1: And I think that's where some of the dissension, frustration,
- 50:53Speaker 1: whatever it is comes. Defense knows it's got the talent
- 50:56Speaker 1: to do it. Not having a chance to get into
- 50:59Speaker 1: that mode, um, it makes it tough. It makes it
- 51:02Speaker 1: really tough. The Jags and the Eagles was supposed to
- 51:05Speaker 1: be the big Marquee International Series matchup ever, and it's big.
- 51:10Speaker 1: It's a big for a different reason. It's pie Prisco
- 51:13Speaker 1: called an elimination game of sorts, you know, three and
- 51:16Speaker 1: four record. Both teams need this game to kind of
- 51:19Speaker 1: really get things back on track here going into the season.
- 51:22Speaker 1: Of course, it was built as one of the biggest
- 51:24Speaker 1: games they've ever had in London or defending champs. That's
- 51:26Speaker 1: even the NFC Championship game, and it just quite hasn't
- 51:29Speaker 1: lived up to that advanced building. But it's still has
- 51:32Speaker 1: a chance to be a very good football game in
- 51:34Speaker 1: Whimbley on Sunday. I agree with Pete. It's an elimination game.
- 51:39Speaker 1: Uh intends if you lose at your three and five.
- 51:42Speaker 1: Here's the weird thing. They're both three and four and
- 51:47Speaker 1: fortunate enough to be in divisions where you feel like
- 51:51Speaker 1: nine wins might get it. So for the Jaguars, three
- 51:54Speaker 1: and five means you have to go six and two
- 51:56Speaker 1: to get to nine wins. That's a that's a big
- 51:58Speaker 1: lift the way the offense is playing right now. So yeah,
- 52:01Speaker 1: it's elimination. But they're both fortunate enough and you know
- 52:05Speaker 1: the NFC East right now, the Skins are up four,
- 52:10Speaker 1: four and two. They don't feel like a team is
- 52:12Speaker 1: gonna get away from you. So for both teams it's
- 52:14Speaker 1: it's a good chance. Um. I think it's a tough
- 52:18Speaker 1: matchup for the Jags h only because I feel like
- 52:21Speaker 1: right now, anytime they're playing a functioning offense, it's a
- 52:25Speaker 1: tough matchup for the Jags because you wonder where their
- 52:29Speaker 1: points are going to come from. Um, Philadelphia runs the
- 52:32Speaker 1: rp O, they run a lot of things to give
- 52:33Speaker 1: the jag Wars problems. Um, you hope that the jag
- 52:38Speaker 1: Wars can avoid turn this into a twenty minute game.
- 52:41Speaker 1: And but that I mean it's felt like twenty minute
- 52:43Speaker 1: games last couple of weeks because once the other team scores,
- 52:46Speaker 1: you feel like it's going to take a miracle to
- 52:48Speaker 1: get back in it. Um, maybe Carlos Hide fixes that
- 52:52Speaker 1: or helps them fix that. But you had, says elimination game.
- 52:56Speaker 1: I'm avoiding calling it a must win. I'm tired of
- 52:59Speaker 1: the turn. But if it ain't that, what isn't it's
- 53:02Speaker 1: it's pretty darn close if it's not. Uh. The a
- 53:05Speaker 1: f C South standings as we look at the now,
- 53:07Speaker 1: the Houston Texans, of course lead the way all alone
- 53:10Speaker 1: in first place in the a f C South four
- 53:12Speaker 1: and three Tennessee and Jacksonville three and four. The Titans
- 53:14Speaker 1: have the type record Indianapolis at two and five. The
- 53:18Speaker 1: team leaves on the back in the building tomorrow to
- 53:21Speaker 1: practice Wednesday. They'll also practice Thursday and then hop on
- 53:25Speaker 1: the plane Thursday night and head to London and on
- 53:29Speaker 1: the field on the field Friday at Alliance Park the
- 53:32Speaker 1: Homo Saracens Rugby Club for their annual walk through on Friday.
- 53:36Speaker 1: They walked through a whimbley on Saturday, with the fan
- 53:39Speaker 1: rally event midday, the pub party Saturday night Let's Go,
- 53:43Speaker 1: and then a game time one thirty uh greens. Meantime,
- 53:47Speaker 1: the time changes on Sunday over there, you fall back
- 53:51Speaker 1: an hour in London, not here, so it's only four
- 53:55Speaker 1: hours difference on game day it's five hours right now.
- 53:57Speaker 1: Text me I'll let you know. I mean I want
- 54:00Speaker 1: to set the one because I got no shot running
- 54:04Speaker 1: around trying to find a bus, grabbing a double decker
- 54:07Speaker 1: bus that way the game. Fortunately, Wemley's right across the
- 54:10Speaker 1: jefrom We say, so, how does walk it? Good luck
- 54:12Speaker 1: to you, oh see if you can get there on time. John,
- 54:15Speaker 1: thanks for coming in to all right buddy. Thanks appreciate it,
- 54:17Speaker 1: Senior writer, John Os, you're joining us our thanks to
- 54:20Speaker 1: Dave Spadaro as well. IF Eagles Insider from Philadelphia Eagles
- 54:24Speaker 1: dot Com and Fred Taylor joined us on the ground
- 54:27Speaker 1: in the UK about nine o'clock at night over there.
- 54:30Speaker 1: He's already there making the rounds are thanks to everybody involved,
- 54:34Speaker 1: our entire crew. I'm JP Shatterick. We'll see you next time.
- 54:37Speaker 1: It's Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network.