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- 0:02Speaker 1: It is Wednesday. This simple fit. This is Jack Bars
- 0:07Speaker 1: Happy Hour. Jack Wars Happy Hour, always brought you by
- 0:11Speaker 1: the Fields on the Group and now a guy who's
- 0:15Speaker 1: favorite fragrance is chicken and waffles. JA Welcome in the
- 0:22Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hour presented by the Fields Auto Group on
- 0:25Speaker 1: this Wednesday. JP Shatterick with you. Busy show to get
- 0:28Speaker 1: to today. Here's what's coming up. VP of Sales and
- 0:32Speaker 1: Service Chad Johnson standing by. He'll be with us in
- 0:35Speaker 1: just a few minutes. Mike Florio from Pro Football Talk.
- 0:39Speaker 1: We'll get the latest from around the National Football League
- 0:41Speaker 1: and his take and what has happened to the Jaguars
- 0:43Speaker 1: this season. We'll get to the Titans beat with Paul Karharsky.
- 0:47Speaker 1: He used to be a beat writer for the Tennessee
- 0:49Speaker 1: in in Nashville. Long time with ESPN, now his own
- 0:53Speaker 1: website and with a radio station in Nashville. We'll hear
- 0:57Speaker 1: from Paul coming up on the Tennessee Titans. And Alex
- 0:59Speaker 1: mar Vaz from Sirious XM Radio are good. Buddy joins
- 1:02Speaker 1: us a little bit later as well. Busy day to day.
- 1:05Speaker 1: The Jags are actually on an airplane right now, headed
- 1:07Speaker 1: to Nashville, Tennessee. The injury report has been released though
- 1:11Speaker 1: by the Tennessee Titans for this Jaguars Titans match up
- 1:14Speaker 1: on Thursday, including two Jaguars ruled out. D J. Shark Jr.
- 1:18Speaker 1: With the quadriceps issue out of the game, Abrey Jones
- 1:21Speaker 1: with the shin brewis he is out. Couple of players
- 1:24Speaker 1: questionable Cody Davis and Josh Walker, and then the guys
- 1:28Speaker 1: at the bottom of the screen no status. They're available
- 1:30Speaker 1: for the game, including Klais Campbell, including the Nashville area
- 1:34Speaker 1: native Jalen Ramsey as well Trey Herndon Quentin Meeks. Cornerbacks
- 1:38Speaker 1: should be available for this game as well, So good
- 1:40Speaker 1: news actually in the injury department. The Jacks had walked
- 1:43Speaker 1: throughs on Monday and Tuesday, another one today. The Monday
- 1:47Speaker 1: and Tuesday workouts were at night. It's a banged up
- 1:49Speaker 1: football team, of course, on a short week. Doug Marone
- 1:52Speaker 1: earlier this week was asked about the guys who stepped
- 1:55Speaker 1: into those injured roles, especially on the offensive line, and
- 1:58Speaker 1: how much of a challenge that has been up front.
- 2:02Speaker 1: I think the guys that have been I've been playing,
- 2:05Speaker 1: that have been here before you know, take take a
- 2:08Speaker 1: role in that um. So that's that that's been good
- 2:13Speaker 1: as far as the players that have been going in
- 2:14Speaker 1: you know, going in there, they're so focused on, you know,
- 2:17Speaker 1: working hard and trying to do the right thing, um
- 2:20Speaker 1: you know, and just getting ready for play and excited
- 2:23Speaker 1: about the opportunity because obviously a lot of a lot
- 2:26Speaker 1: of players, especially on that side of the ball, wouldn't
- 2:27Speaker 1: have this opportunity. So it's an opportunity for them to show,
- 2:30Speaker 1: you know, go out there and show what they can do.
- 2:32Speaker 1: And you know, it's a it's a challenge, you know,
- 2:35Speaker 1: it's it's a big challenge this week. I mean, Tennessee's
- 2:38Speaker 1: you know, has an excellent defense. UM front seven's outstanding,
- 2:43Speaker 1: big strong, powerful winebackers, downhill hit secondary play as well.
- 2:49Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna have to do a good job
- 2:51Speaker 1: up front. It would be a great challenge for those guys.
- 2:53Speaker 1: But on the old line, you have a lot of
- 2:56Speaker 1: familiar names on that defense whine we'll get to those
- 2:58Speaker 1: coming up with Paul Kaharsky of the Titans beat. But
- 3:01Speaker 1: here you have a look at what has happened on
- 3:03Speaker 1: the offensive line this year for the Jaguars. You know,
- 3:05Speaker 1: what's happened at left tackle or on the fourth left
- 3:07Speaker 1: tackle the season this year. Partnell was out of the
- 3:10Speaker 1: game some last week, came back in. He's available for
- 3:13Speaker 1: this week. That's a good news. But it has been
- 3:16Speaker 1: a mass unit upfront for this Jaguars football team in eighteen.
- 3:20Speaker 1: Quarterback Cody Kessler getting a second start with the Jaguars
- 3:23Speaker 1: on Thursday night, the tenth in his career. He's getting
- 3:26Speaker 1: a new weapon in the backfield with him in running
- 3:29Speaker 1: back Leonard Fournette this week, in my opinion, one of
- 3:32Speaker 1: the best running backs the NFL. Um you know, and
- 3:35Speaker 1: having him it was with Carlos and TJ back there. Um,
- 3:38Speaker 1: you know, it makes my life alot easier. So it's
- 3:40Speaker 1: gonna be exciting. Obviously don't play with Lenard yet, um,
- 3:43Speaker 1: so we'll be out there on the field with him.
- 3:44Speaker 1: Is gonna be exciting and you know side watching go.
- 3:49Speaker 1: You know what happened in Buffalo for the Leonard Fournette.
- 3:52Speaker 1: He was ejected from that football game after fighting against
- 3:56Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. He had a great half, that's the
- 3:59Speaker 1: good the good thing about it. He was playing very
- 4:01Speaker 1: well in that game in Buffalo and then came across
- 4:03Speaker 1: the field, got into the fisticuffs, was ejected from the
- 4:06Speaker 1: game and then suspended by the NFL. He was back,
- 4:09Speaker 1: he spoke in the locker room this week. He's got
- 4:12Speaker 1: a little extra rest actually going into this short week
- 4:14Speaker 1: on Thursday night football. That's the good news. Hopefully we'll
- 4:17Speaker 1: pay off of this Jags team. They need a big
- 4:19Speaker 1: win on a Thursday night on the road, a place
- 4:21Speaker 1: they have not won on the road since. The Rolling
- 4:25Speaker 1: Stones are coming to t i a A bank Field
- 4:27Speaker 1: in April is part of the No Filter US Tour
- 4:31Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. The show scheduled for April twenty four, that's
- 4:34Speaker 1: a Wednesday, the night before the first round of the
- 4:37Speaker 1: NFL Draft. Tickets on sale Friday, November that's they're already
- 4:41Speaker 1: on sale. They're selling very well and for more information
- 4:44Speaker 1: visit Rolling Stones dot com or ticket Master. And we're
- 4:48Speaker 1: joining out by Jaguars VP of Sales and Service and
- 4:52Speaker 1: the Chief Content Officer as well, Chad Johnson. Great to
- 4:55Speaker 1: see you man, Thanks, great to be here. It's right now,
- 4:57Speaker 1: It is right and you know we just mentioned the
- 4:59Speaker 1: Stones there, and you know, we know how the football
- 5:02Speaker 1: season is going, but we know what this organization wants
- 5:05Speaker 1: to do outside of the realm of football as well,
- 5:08Speaker 1: with Daily's Place and all the hopefully development around the
- 5:11Speaker 1: stadium here and everything that includes stadium shows. And there's
- 5:15Speaker 1: not much of a bigger stadium show than the Rolling Stones,
- 5:18Speaker 1: the greatest rock and roll band in the world. Yeah,
- 5:20Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at who were up against
- 5:22Speaker 1: right now is to the twelve biggest cities in the country,
- 5:24Speaker 1: the number one grossing rock and roll band in the
- 5:27Speaker 1: world coming here in our backyard. And and you mentioned
- 5:30Speaker 1: this is really the next step in a journey that
- 5:32Speaker 1: started a couple of years ago with our commitment to
- 5:34Speaker 1: bring live entertainment to downtown, specifically music content. Daily's Place
- 5:39Speaker 1: was a big part of that, and as we established
- 5:41Speaker 1: our reputation, UH, the industry started to look at us
- 5:44Speaker 1: as leaders in the music space. And that next step
- 5:48Speaker 1: was something that happened back in UH Labor Day weekend
- 5:51Speaker 1: with the Leonard Skinner Jason L. Dean Kid Rock Show,
- 5:53Speaker 1: where we really showed the industry how well we can perform.
- 5:57Speaker 1: And then it doesn't get any bigger than the Rolling Stones.
- 5:59Speaker 1: Let's let's go back to that Skinners show though, I mean,
- 6:01Speaker 1: that was that was an all day affair. Obviously, how
- 6:05Speaker 1: was the result? What was the bottom line? How did
- 6:08Speaker 1: it look? For the from the Jaguars and a Bold
- 6:10Speaker 1: Events perspective. Well, number one was the second largest show
- 6:13Speaker 1: that Skinner has ever done in their what forty year
- 6:16Speaker 1: in their career right, and so we knew we represented
- 6:19Speaker 1: Jacksonville well by having a full house forty four thousand
- 6:22Speaker 1: plus people there. But that was an idea in a
- 6:24Speaker 1: concept we came up with, and we had to go
- 6:27Speaker 1: out and prove to the industry that what Jacksonville may
- 6:29Speaker 1: lack in size of the market comparable comparable to some
- 6:32Speaker 1: of the others, we gain in passion, we gain in
- 6:35Speaker 1: the way we mobilize, and we gain in first class
- 6:38Speaker 1: artist experience. And those artists came here, they had an
- 6:41Speaker 1: awesome time. They started talking and started talking about Jacksonville.
- 6:45Speaker 1: And then here we are book in the next, uh,
- 6:47Speaker 1: next big act in that journey. Yeah, the Rolling Stones
- 6:50Speaker 1: coming up in April. Of course, Ticketmaster tickets around sale. Now,
- 6:54Speaker 1: the last time The Stones were in Jacksonville was I
- 6:57Speaker 1: think I was eight years old. It was nine. I
- 6:59Speaker 1: mean that that don't they don't come around here every day?
- 7:02Speaker 1: How did you guys land the Stone, All right, well
- 7:04Speaker 1: thirty years ago, you're right. And the initial conversation when
- 7:07Speaker 1: this started, and we had some strategic relationships with partners
- 7:10Speaker 1: that help get us a seat at the table right are.
- 7:12Speaker 1: Our line is give us a puncher's chance. And we
- 7:15Speaker 1: got out there and we started talking with Stones Management
- 7:17Speaker 1: and we said, listen, there's solutions. Whatever challenge you have,
- 7:21Speaker 1: whatever challenge you think Jacksonville brings the table, let us
- 7:24Speaker 1: take that challenge on. Let's take the risk away from you.
- 7:27Speaker 1: Let's let us go out there and execute on this.
- 7:30Speaker 1: So we put a very aggressive offer in front of
- 7:32Speaker 1: them that offers aggressive financially, it's aggressive from the marketing
- 7:36Speaker 1: deliverables will do, from the artist experience, will give them.
- 7:39Speaker 1: And they came back and said, you know, we we
- 7:41Speaker 1: weren't interested in Jacksonville at all, but what you put
- 7:44Speaker 1: in front of us is so compelling that we're going
- 7:46Speaker 1: to take it to the band and see what they say.
- 7:49Speaker 1: And about two weeks later we got a call and said,
- 7:51Speaker 1: how do you think a looks because we're coming to Jacksonville.
- 7:54Speaker 1: It looks good? Was the answer there. That's pretty impressive,
- 7:58Speaker 1: it really is. But that's the thing that you invest
- 8:01Speaker 1: in it and it's not your it's not part of
- 8:03Speaker 1: the regular Stones tour. You guys had to make the
- 8:05Speaker 1: offer and make that part of the Stones tour. So
- 8:08Speaker 1: in promotion, like you said, the Jaguars have the big
- 8:11Speaker 1: hand in that, right. Yeah, Yeah, there's there's a lot
- 8:12Speaker 1: of risk for us in this case, right, but we
- 8:14Speaker 1: know and we believe that that risk has high reward
- 8:17Speaker 1: new fans coming to our stadium. And what was really
- 8:19Speaker 1: important to us JP was when you look at where
- 8:21Speaker 1: else they're playing. The closest venue north of US is Washington,
- 8:25Speaker 1: d C. And the closest venue west is Houston. So
- 8:28Speaker 1: we're gonna be a regional market. I've already looked at
- 8:31Speaker 1: the ticket buyers, obviously Atlanta, the Carolinas. We have forty
- 8:36Speaker 1: eight states so far that have purchased tickets. So all
- 8:38Speaker 1: of a sudden, all these people are coming down on
- 8:40Speaker 1: Jacksonville and giving us great exposure like letting our stadium
- 8:44Speaker 1: showcase some of the beautiful investments we've made. And that's
- 8:47Speaker 1: why we would take that risk, because we know more
- 8:50Speaker 1: fans that come into the stadium potentially become Jaguar fans,
- 8:54Speaker 1: potentially come back to Daily's place, potentially helped downtown Jacksonville,
- 8:58Speaker 1: and that was worth it for us. You got different
- 9:00Speaker 1: things to offer those fans while they're here as well,
- 9:02Speaker 1: bar real seating or the terrace suite or the clubs.
- 9:05Speaker 1: There's so many different areas to enjoy a concert here. Yeah,
- 9:10Speaker 1: we're we're, as we know, one of the best fan
- 9:11Speaker 1: experiences live for football. And that transfers over to the
- 9:15Speaker 1: music industry, right, and it's it's about the fans and
- 9:17Speaker 1: it's about the artists. And if our fans and artists
- 9:20Speaker 1: come to this building and walk away happy financially, everything
- 9:24Speaker 1: else falls into place, right and the next step falls
- 9:26Speaker 1: in place. So um, it's fun to have venues across
- 9:30Speaker 1: the country calling us going, how the heck did you
- 9:33Speaker 1: guys get the Rolling Stones? We tried, we couldn't. What
- 9:36Speaker 1: did you do right? And my answer is sorry, can't
- 9:40Speaker 1: tell you. Tune in for the next one, that's right,
- 9:42Speaker 1: you come seeing it in person if you want tickets
- 9:45Speaker 1: on sale? Now, how have sales gone the first week
- 9:48Speaker 1: or so? So? So we're thrilled with where we are today. Right.
- 9:50Speaker 1: We knew that we'd have to really work this for
- 9:53Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, get the other markets to understand
- 9:56Speaker 1: what's left here in Jacksonville. So we do have seats
- 9:58Speaker 1: available still, um, not many, but we have sold very well.
- 10:03Speaker 1: I think over the next two weeks as we really
- 10:04Speaker 1: market the rest of the state of Florida, the rest
- 10:07Speaker 1: of Georgia and the Carolinas um, that should fill out
- 10:10Speaker 1: right now. But uh, I think if I recall last time,
- 10:12Speaker 1: we had about eight thousand seats left, that's not many
- 10:15Speaker 1: really in the grand scheme of things. That we're selling
- 10:18Speaker 1: thousands a day right now, so it could be, you know,
- 10:20Speaker 1: could be just a couple more days. Favorite Stones song
- 10:23Speaker 1: go um. You know. I I've just had this debate
- 10:29Speaker 1: a few different times. I don't put you on the spot.
- 10:32Speaker 1: I think that you can't always get what you want.
- 10:34Speaker 1: I tell our staff that all the time. We've got
- 10:36Speaker 1: to keep grinding it. And I think I've got to
- 10:37Speaker 1: stick with it. I like that tumbling dice for me.
- 10:40Speaker 1: I don't know why. I just like the song. I
- 10:41Speaker 1: don't have really a reason behind it, but it's fun.
- 10:44Speaker 1: Coming up April. Tickets on sale ticketmaster dot com through
- 10:48Speaker 1: checkout Rolling Stones dot com for the full tour information
- 10:51Speaker 1: as well. Quickly either you have it on the screen
- 10:53Speaker 1: right there. These guys been going at it forever. This
- 10:56Speaker 1: is gonna be so fun to see these guys. Their
- 10:57Speaker 1: energy is still unlike anything I've ever seen. So it's
- 11:00Speaker 1: not just that are they one of the best rock
- 11:02Speaker 1: and roll bands of all time live? They are still
- 11:06Speaker 1: one of the best bands of all all time live
- 11:08Speaker 1: and you've just got to be here to see it.
- 11:10Speaker 1: One more Jaguars home game next weekend. It's amazing. It's
- 11:14Speaker 1: it's amazing how quickly this season's gone. Um. As you
- 11:17Speaker 1: can see now, we don't take a break as soon
- 11:19Speaker 1: as the as soon as the football season's over, returned
- 11:21Speaker 1: the page to the next big stadium concert, next big event.
- 11:24Speaker 1: So we're gonna keep busy all year long. Chead is
- 11:26Speaker 1: great to see you, man, I appreciate your time. Man.
- 11:28Speaker 1: Chad Johnson joining US VP of Sales and Service, Chief
- 11:31Speaker 1: Content Officer for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Gotta check out that show.
- 11:34Speaker 1: It's gonna be a blast. The Skinnered show is fantastic. Uh.
- 11:38Speaker 1: This is the greatest rock and roll band in the world.
- 11:40Speaker 1: The Rolling Stones coming to t i A bank Field.
- 11:42Speaker 1: We'll come back in a moment. Mike Florio Pro Football Talk.
- 11:45Speaker 1: We'll join us, give us some news from around the
- 11:47Speaker 1: National Football League, and his perspective on where the Jaguars
- 11:51Speaker 1: are at Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network.
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- 13:38Speaker 1: I don't know. I think our focus is just really
- 13:40Speaker 1: on on this next game, um, you know, or the
- 13:45Speaker 1: goal is to win, so every time you win, you know,
- 13:48Speaker 1: obviously it's it's uh, it's important. But I think I
- 13:53Speaker 1: think they're focusing now is not you know, I think
- 13:56Speaker 1: it's more just hey, this is the next game, you know,
- 13:59Speaker 1: not really going ahead or or or trying to get him,
- 14:04Speaker 1: you know, bundled up together, just think that, Hey, just
- 14:06Speaker 1: let's just focus on this week and let's go especially
- 14:08Speaker 1: this week because it's a little bit different. It's you know,
- 14:11Speaker 1: the practices are different. Um, there's more emphasis obviously on
- 14:15Speaker 1: the mental part. Of it, you know, than the physical part.
- 14:20Speaker 1: Head coach Jack Marone speaking about the short week the
- 14:23Speaker 1: Jaguars playing on Thursday Night Football tomorrow night against the
- 14:26Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. Welcome Back Jaguars Happy Hour presented by the
- 14:29Speaker 1: Fields Auto Group. JP shatterck with you. The team is
- 14:31Speaker 1: in the air, currently headed to Nashville, Tennessee. We go
- 14:35Speaker 1: to the phone lines and welcome in the creator of
- 14:37Speaker 1: Pro Football Talk, host of p f T Live on
- 14:39Speaker 1: the NBC Sports Network, Mike Florio with us. Good to
- 14:42Speaker 1: talk to you. Mike, How are you jing great, buddy?
- 14:45Speaker 1: How are you doing well? Well? Four and eight. I
- 14:47Speaker 1: don't know if that's well, but um, you know, snapped
- 14:50Speaker 1: to seven game losing skid last week, so better than
- 14:53Speaker 1: it could be, I guess, Mike, yeah, and you know,
- 14:56Speaker 1: the last week's game. Just to reminder that the talent
- 14:58Speaker 1: gap in the NFL not early as big as it
- 15:01Speaker 1: used to be. And we get locked into our narratives
- 15:03Speaker 1: about the good teams and the bad team. But even
- 15:06Speaker 1: the very worst team in the NFL, and obviously the
- 15:08Speaker 1: Jaguars are far far from that, but even the worst
- 15:11Speaker 1: team can be the best team if it all lines
- 15:13Speaker 1: up just right. And lined up just right the Jaguars
- 15:15Speaker 1: on Sunday an again with Sunday as they say, is
- 15:18Speaker 1: this just looking around to other teams in the league, Mike,
- 15:21Speaker 1: as you do. Um, this team had so much energy
- 15:25Speaker 1: and so much momentum heading into the season. They've just
- 15:27Speaker 1: been to the FC title Game in five minutes away
- 15:30Speaker 1: from the super Bowl, and now the four and eight.
- 15:32Speaker 1: Where does this rank among disappointing campaigns in terms of
- 15:37Speaker 1: the the build up to it. It's gotta be up well,
- 15:40Speaker 1: it's got Yeah, It's one of the most disappointing that
- 15:42Speaker 1: I can remember in recent years, just because this is
- 15:45Speaker 1: one of the rare teams. It was essentially bringing back
- 15:47Speaker 1: to everyone added Andrew Norwell, but for the most part,
- 15:51Speaker 1: it was consistent. There was continuity. That was one of
- 15:54Speaker 1: the chief reasons giving for keeping Blake Bortles at a
- 15:58Speaker 1: time when there were a bunch of different directions in
- 16:00Speaker 1: which the team could have gone at quarterback, and there
- 16:03Speaker 1: was a sense that let's just go back and do
- 16:05Speaker 1: it again and next time maybe we get a stepper
- 16:07Speaker 1: two farther on the playoff tree. And you know, I've
- 16:10Speaker 1: been trying to think of all the different reasons why
- 16:13Speaker 1: this could have happened, and maybe there's a bunch of explanations.
- 16:15Speaker 1: I think one is that after the Patriots game back
- 16:19Speaker 1: in September, team goes to two and oh. I think
- 16:22Speaker 1: maybe there was a tendency to forget that you have
- 16:25Speaker 1: to show up every week and bring it every week
- 16:27Speaker 1: and win every game. I feel like maybe there was
- 16:30Speaker 1: an organizational temptation to fast forward to a rematch with
- 16:33Speaker 1: the Patriots in the postseason. I wonder about the physical
- 16:36Speaker 1: toll on the players from the Doug Barron training camp
- 16:39Speaker 1: last year, through sixteen regular season games, through three postseason games,
- 16:44Speaker 1: through another physical training camp. Does that take a toll
- 16:47Speaker 1: on the players? You know, was there is there an
- 16:50Speaker 1: organizational complacency that's set in where it's just like, hey,
- 16:53Speaker 1: you know what, let's just do what we've been doing,
- 16:55Speaker 1: and you just forget how hard it was to do
- 16:57Speaker 1: what they did last year and also the bigger target
- 17:01Speaker 1: on your back. You become a team that other teams
- 17:04Speaker 1: no longer take for granted. And that's a really a
- 17:06Speaker 1: real dynamic in the NFL. You know, just as the
- 17:09Speaker 1: the Eagles are getting the best from everyone they played,
- 17:12Speaker 1: that the Eagles become the measuring stick for where other
- 17:16Speaker 1: teams are. The Jaguars for years benefited from being that
- 17:19Speaker 1: team that people would just kind of go ask it's
- 17:22Speaker 1: just the Jaguars. Well not, that's not the case this year.
- 17:25Speaker 1: That's a measuring stick team because the Jaguars had all
- 17:28Speaker 1: the hype because they didn't do well last year. And
- 17:30Speaker 1: I think a lot of those things come together and
- 17:32Speaker 1: made it very difficult. And once you once you start
- 17:35Speaker 1: a losing streets, sometimes it's very it's very hard to
- 17:37Speaker 1: get out of it. And I think that's, uh, that's
- 17:40Speaker 1: what happened. Because the talent is there, they just weren't
- 17:42Speaker 1: able to execute this year. Mike Florio with US Pro
- 17:45Speaker 1: Football Talk. I mean, it's everybody hates excuses, but it's
- 17:49Speaker 1: a reason for some of this um not having success
- 17:53Speaker 1: running the injuries. I mean, the offense is just beat
- 17:55Speaker 1: up right now, Mike. They're on the fourth left tackle,
- 17:58Speaker 1: backup left guard, backup center. The right tackle came out
- 18:01Speaker 1: of the game and came back in last week. The
- 18:03Speaker 1: fifth tight end has been played this year in Blake Bell.
- 18:06Speaker 1: You know, the running back situation. You don't like excuses,
- 18:09Speaker 1: but that's a big part of what's happened on offense too,
- 18:12Speaker 1: especially when you build it around Blake portals and all
- 18:15Speaker 1: that breaks down, then what else can you turn to?
- 18:18Speaker 1: There's not much left. Yeah, And this is where the
- 18:22Speaker 1: challenges when it comes to that notion of injuries being
- 18:25Speaker 1: excuss because the natural inclination for anyone and plenty of
- 18:29Speaker 1: teams go through this every year. Hey there's been too
- 18:31Speaker 1: many injuries. What are we supposed to do? And that's
- 18:34Speaker 1: one of the things that sets the Patriots apart because
- 18:36Speaker 1: they have fully embraced this idea that there are no
- 18:39Speaker 1: excuses for injuries. We're not going to say, oh always does.
- 18:42Speaker 1: We're not going to accept anything less than the highest
- 18:45Speaker 1: possible performance from whoever steps in for a player who
- 18:48Speaker 1: is injured, and they're able to pull it off. One
- 18:50Speaker 1: of the things they able to pull it off is
- 18:52Speaker 1: they manage the salary cap in a way where they
- 18:54Speaker 1: have high quality death when they go to the backup.
- 18:57Speaker 1: The backup is pretty good and almost as good as
- 18:59Speaker 1: the guy who's in front of him, and it's easier
- 19:02Speaker 1: to pull it off then when guys get injured. But
- 19:04Speaker 1: that that's a that's a mentality that gets baked into
- 19:07Speaker 1: an organization over a period of years. And that's a
- 19:10Speaker 1: tough that's a tough switch for any team to flip.
- 19:13Speaker 1: And uh, you know, and it's it's it's new for
- 19:16Speaker 1: the Jaguars to even have to make excuses, right right,
- 19:19Speaker 1: Nobody nobody's had this in how many years since the
- 19:22Speaker 1: conflent coaching era, really and at a minimum in ten years,
- 19:25Speaker 1: had had never been an occasion where you had to
- 19:27Speaker 1: make an excuse the team just wasn't very good and
- 19:30Speaker 1: you never got to the point where you had to say, well,
- 19:32Speaker 1: we got a bunch of injuries. And I think that
- 19:34Speaker 1: that that they're processing that this year and maybe that
- 19:36Speaker 1: will change come next year. Mike Florio from Pro Football
- 19:39Speaker 1: Talk with us uh sug Moron pulls the plug on
- 19:43Speaker 1: Blake Bortles as the starting quarterback. And that's franchise altering stuff,
- 19:47Speaker 1: of course, Mike. When you have a first round draft
- 19:49Speaker 1: pick and he started every game in his career, you know,
- 19:52Speaker 1: and has has been a sturdy force at least on
- 19:54Speaker 1: the field. Whatever you can say about his play, but
- 19:57Speaker 1: he's been out there, he's been available. When you pull
- 20:00Speaker 1: him and you're pretty much done with him, that's a
- 20:04Speaker 1: franchise altering thing. And you get the feel that quarterback
- 20:07Speaker 1: will change around here in the offseason. What is Blake
- 20:10Speaker 1: Bortle's future in the league? Can will he be a backup?
- 20:13Speaker 1: Will he play well? I think we'll get a chance
- 20:16Speaker 1: to compete, to be on a depth chart somewhere, probably
- 20:19Speaker 1: as it back. But you know there's going to be
- 20:21Speaker 1: a coach out there that thinks I can fix this guy.
- 20:24Speaker 1: I see enough good in him that once I did
- 20:27Speaker 1: him in my system, I'll figure out how to put
- 20:29Speaker 1: guys around him and they can work, and maybe he
- 20:32Speaker 1: becomes even more determined to make the most out of
- 20:36Speaker 1: whatever second chance he has somewhere else. But he's gonna
- 20:39Speaker 1: have to earn it. He's gonna have to prove it.
- 20:41Speaker 1: Nothing's going to be given to him at best. What
- 20:44Speaker 1: he's gonna find is a is a team where they've
- 20:47Speaker 1: got a couple of guys who were competing for that
- 20:49Speaker 1: for that starting job. And I could see him signing
- 20:53Speaker 1: with a team that We've seen this a few times
- 20:56Speaker 1: in recent years, like the Mike glennon the Chicago Grove
- 20:59Speaker 1: last year, where you sign a veteran before the draft
- 21:02Speaker 1: and then you draft a guy in Round one and
- 21:05Speaker 1: that treater and just kind of holds the spot until
- 21:07Speaker 1: the rookies ready, and you know, that's one of the
- 21:09Speaker 1: reasons to do the draft before you have free agency,
- 21:11Speaker 1: because you don't want to end up being that quarterback.
- 21:14Speaker 1: It gets nuts to the wayside. But I could see
- 21:16Speaker 1: something like that happening with Portals, where a team that
- 21:18Speaker 1: clearly hasn't need a quarterback signs him as a placeholder
- 21:21Speaker 1: and then goes after the guy they want to try
- 21:23Speaker 1: to room and develop in the draft. The problem, of
- 21:25Speaker 1: course for the Jags is that they're stuck with sixteen
- 21:28Speaker 1: million against the calf no matter what happens with him
- 21:31Speaker 1: next year. I mean, that's a lot of money going
- 21:33Speaker 1: out the door for no production, no quarterback, and that's
- 21:37Speaker 1: what makes the decision so glaring. I remember when I
- 21:39Speaker 1: first caught win it was going to go that way,
- 21:42Speaker 1: even though there were so many other guys out there
- 21:45Speaker 1: the Jaguars could have explored, from Kirk Cousins, the case
- 21:48Speaker 1: Keenum to Teddy Bridgewater, trade for Tyrod Taylor, trade for
- 21:51Speaker 1: Alex Smith, draft Lamar Jackson. I still thought there was
- 21:54Speaker 1: a good chance to Lamar Jackson was going to be
- 21:56Speaker 1: a pick at twenty nine, even with Blake Portals there
- 21:58Speaker 1: for the next three years. Be because you've got Lamar
- 22:01Speaker 1: Jackson and you can groom him quietly. You can use
- 22:04Speaker 1: him the way that the Ravens used him, and if
- 22:06Speaker 1: Mortal doesn't work out, you've got a guy that you
- 22:08Speaker 1: can make into your quarterback. But for whatever reason, they
- 22:10Speaker 1: weren't ready to pull the trigger on him, and there's
- 22:12Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of regret about how that was handled.
- 22:15Speaker 1: And now this year, with fewer quarterbacks available in free
- 22:18Speaker 1: agency in the draft, it's you know, it's gonna be
- 22:21Speaker 1: uh time to move on. And I think it makes
- 22:22Speaker 1: it even more compelling for them to find a younger,
- 22:25Speaker 1: cheaper guy through the draft because of that money is
- 22:28Speaker 1: gonna get allocated to Blake Bortles. Moving forward, Mike, last
- 22:32Speaker 1: few minutes with you here. We appreciate your time today.
- 22:34Speaker 1: Let's touch around the NFL, the domestic violence issues popping
- 22:38Speaker 1: up the last couple of weeks. Ruben Foster arrested the
- 22:40Speaker 1: team hotel down in Tampa a couple of weeks ago,
- 22:43Speaker 1: cut and then claimed by the Redskins. Uh, we know
- 22:48Speaker 1: all what all happened there. Of course, Kareem hunting video
- 22:51Speaker 1: came out and then he's cut by the Kansas City Chiefs.
- 22:54Speaker 1: That is a busy week from anyone's standards. Let's start
- 22:58Speaker 1: off with the Foster thing and and the Redskins claiming him.
- 23:01Speaker 1: Obviously there was a huge uproar about that. What's your view, Well,
- 23:06Speaker 1: I think what Washington thought they could do is called
- 23:09Speaker 1: this Don Foster, who's not going to play this year,
- 23:12Speaker 1: will be available at some point in twenty nineteen. And
- 23:15Speaker 1: they figured, hey, you know what, who's gonna give us
- 23:18Speaker 1: a hard time for this. It's not like he's going
- 23:19Speaker 1: to be on the field. We know he's not going
- 23:21Speaker 1: to be on the field, will pay him not to play,
- 23:23Speaker 1: and we'll have him available to us in twenty nineteen.
- 23:26Speaker 1: And I just don't think they had a plan for
- 23:28Speaker 1: the backlash that they got, because everything they did after
- 23:30Speaker 1: that it felt like it made it worse instead of better.
- 23:34Speaker 1: And I think that's one of the big reasons Kareem
- 23:36Speaker 1: Hunt wasn't claimed. After people saw what Washington experience, they decided,
- 23:40Speaker 1: you know what, it's not worth putting ourselves in this
- 23:42Speaker 1: position where we're gonna suffer through a week of bad
- 23:46Speaker 1: pr for a guy who can't play for us until
- 23:49Speaker 1: who knows when. In teen or maybe not even until Yeah,
- 23:53Speaker 1: that's the question I had next is will either one
- 23:56Speaker 1: of these guys play in the league again. I think
- 23:59Speaker 1: Foster will be back at some point next year, and
- 24:01Speaker 1: I think Hunt, unless the NFL decided to, would pose
- 24:05Speaker 1: a very very serious and stern punishment on Hunt based
- 24:09Speaker 1: on the February incident that was on video. There's a
- 24:12Speaker 1: June incident that's been reported, the league's investigating. There's a
- 24:15Speaker 1: January incident that popped up earlier this week. I mean,
- 24:18Speaker 1: if they really want to stack together these punishments, they
- 24:21Speaker 1: could knock him out for all of twenty nineteen and
- 24:24Speaker 1: maybe even into twenty twenty. But this guy is ascending.
- 24:26Speaker 1: He left the league in rushing as a rookie, and
- 24:29Speaker 1: there will be a team that will give the guy
- 24:31Speaker 1: a second chance. Mikel Vick got a second chance. I
- 24:33Speaker 1: never thought he'd be back in the NFL after the
- 24:36Speaker 1: things he admitted to doing and after going to prison
- 24:38Speaker 1: for two years. Hunt's not even gonna get arrested for
- 24:41Speaker 1: any of the things he did. So you'll see that.
- 24:44Speaker 1: You'll see him get a second chance somewhere, and somebody's
- 24:47Speaker 1: gonna end up with a pretty good player. Who's going
- 24:49Speaker 1: to be motivated to show that that number one, he's
- 24:52Speaker 1: gotten his life together, and number two that he can
- 24:55Speaker 1: still get it done and that he can earn the
- 24:57Speaker 1: kind of money that everybody thought he was gonna get.
- 24:59Speaker 1: In Kansas City, Mike Florio with US Pro Football Talk,
- 25:01Speaker 1: how does TMZ get all these videos ahead of the
- 25:04Speaker 1: league and the authority mine they paid for him and
- 25:07Speaker 1: the NFL is not inclined to do it. I posted
- 25:09Speaker 1: something earlier today explaining that the NFL is very leary
- 25:13Speaker 1: about trying to beat TMZ at its own game, because
- 25:17Speaker 1: you know, t m z's immediate outlet, and even though
- 25:19Speaker 1: the NFL operates its own in house pidia outlet, it
- 25:22Speaker 1: wouldn't be trying to get it for the purposes of media.
- 25:24Speaker 1: They'd be trying to get it to the purposes of
- 25:26Speaker 1: internal discipline. So if the hotel whose employee sells that
- 25:31Speaker 1: video to the NFL decides to sue that employee in
- 25:34Speaker 1: the NFL gets in the middle of it, they can't say, well,
- 25:36Speaker 1: we have we you know, we have a legal privilege
- 25:39Speaker 1: where we don't have to tell you who gave us this.
- 25:42Speaker 1: And I think they're very concerned about getting themselves some
- 25:44Speaker 1: ugly messages if they start doing what TMZ does. Plus
- 25:47Speaker 1: there's an unseemly quality to this idea of paying for
- 25:51Speaker 1: for videos. So what they need to do is try
- 25:53Speaker 1: harder to get the video that they're operating in a
- 25:56Speaker 1: in a scenario where TMZ will pay, the NFL won't.
- 26:00Speaker 1: And I think that they need to be relentless in
- 26:02Speaker 1: their efforts to try to get law enforcement to demand
- 26:05Speaker 1: the video, law enforcement to share the video. That was
- 26:07Speaker 1: the problem in Cleveland. The hotel would only get the
- 26:10Speaker 1: video to law enforcement, and law enforcement wouldn't ask for it.
- 26:13Speaker 1: And I'd love to see the paper trail between the
- 26:15Speaker 1: League office and law enforcement in Cleveland as to how
- 26:18Speaker 1: aggressively the NFL tried to get that video, because I
- 26:22Speaker 1: think they need to do everything they can. They need
- 26:24Speaker 1: to never let it go and try and try and try.
- 26:26Speaker 1: Once into that videos there, they gotta do everything they
- 26:28Speaker 1: can't short of buying it to get that video. Hey,
- 26:32Speaker 1: what's uh you gonna watch Thursday night? And who you
- 26:34Speaker 1: got Titans or Jays? Well, you know, I never know
- 26:37Speaker 1: which Titans team is going to show up. Nobody does,
- 26:40Speaker 1: and and and the Titans at six and six you know,
- 26:43Speaker 1: we were talking earlier today on TFT Live. Christens and
- 26:46Speaker 1: I were going through all the six six teams to
- 26:48Speaker 1: figure out which one's going to find the gas pedal,
- 26:50Speaker 1: because every year it seems like there's a team that
- 26:52Speaker 1: gets hot and runs the table and carries that momentum
- 26:55Speaker 1: into the postseason. And it could be the because their
- 26:57Speaker 1: schedule is favorable, but every time they get a big
- 27:00Speaker 1: win or two, they follow it up with an ugly
- 27:02Speaker 1: loss or two. So I really don't know which way
- 27:05Speaker 1: this one's gonna go. Short week dynamic changes everything. I
- 27:09Speaker 1: probably air on the side of the home team, but
- 27:11Speaker 1: error is the key word, because we saw the Jaguars
- 27:14Speaker 1: beating the Colts on Sunday, and if they can carry
- 27:16Speaker 1: that bote in the Thursday night and the the Jaguars can
- 27:18Speaker 1: run into two in a row, I mean, this is
- 27:20Speaker 1: really a game where I have no idea how it's
- 27:22Speaker 1: going to play out, which makes it, you know, all
- 27:24Speaker 1: the more reason to watch. Well, the way the Jags
- 27:26Speaker 1: offense is struggling these days. It took a shutout to
- 27:29Speaker 1: get that done last week against the Colts, so we'll
- 27:32Speaker 1: see if the Jags defense is up to the task again. Tomorrow. Hey, Mike,
- 27:36Speaker 1: it's great to talk to you. We really appreciate your time. Man,
- 27:38Speaker 1: Have a good day, all right, Jake Buddy Mike Florio
- 27:41Speaker 1: Pro Football Talk. Always great to have him on with us.
- 27:44Speaker 1: He's gracious with his time each and every year, and
- 27:47Speaker 1: certainly again today. Plenty left to come on. Jaguars Happy Hour.
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- 30:04Speaker 1: to put on him, you know what I'm saying at
- 30:06Speaker 1: a time. And you know, he's always played well. He's
- 30:08Speaker 1: one of the better inside players in the league. I mean,
- 30:11Speaker 1: you know, he's up there when you're mentioning, you know,
- 30:13Speaker 1: like Aaron Donaldson, players like that that play inside. He's
- 30:16Speaker 1: right up there with him. He's uh. I have a
- 30:19Speaker 1: lot of respectful him. You know, their whole defense. So
- 30:22Speaker 1: you know, all those guys play extremely hard. They really do.
- 30:24Speaker 1: I mean, their efforts outstanding. Um, you know, and we
- 30:29Speaker 1: have not played well against that. That's a fact. Head
- 30:35Speaker 1: coach Doug Marone earlier this week discussing Darrell Casey and
- 30:39Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans Welcome Back Jaguars Happy Hour. Hey, the
- 30:43Speaker 1: drivetime pool this morning on Jack's Drive Time was this,
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- 31:06Speaker 1: They have the poll most mornings on Jags Drive Time.
- 31:10Speaker 1: Uh no show tomorrow morning. By the way, that you're
- 31:12Speaker 1: playing on the way to Nashville. They'll have the Thursday
- 31:15Speaker 1: night football game tomorrow night against the Tennessee Titans. Uh
- 31:19Speaker 1: And it's a Titans team. As Mike Florio just said,
- 31:22Speaker 1: they're right there at five hundred. Which way will this
- 31:24Speaker 1: Titans team go? Well, maybe we can find out from
- 31:27Speaker 1: our next guest, Paul Kaharsky from Paulkaharsky dot Com one
- 31:30Speaker 1: or four point five of the zone in Nashville. Paul,
- 31:33Speaker 1: how are you It's been a while? Um, well, how
- 31:35Speaker 1: are you doing? Great? Well, not as great as the
- 31:37Speaker 1: Titans are. Right now, there's six and six, Jags are
- 31:40Speaker 1: four and eight. Thursday Night football national television audience at
- 31:44Speaker 1: Nissan Stadium. What what is Let me know when you
- 31:47Speaker 1: figure out which way the Titans team is going to go?
- 31:50Speaker 1: Which which way? Will that be? The final month? Paul? Yeah,
- 31:55Speaker 1: I wish I knew. Um, you know, last year at
- 31:58Speaker 1: this time they were eight and four and a lot
- 32:00Speaker 1: of bad stuff was ahead. Um, they finished nine and seven.
- 32:05Speaker 1: Only after that last week win over the Jags, when
- 32:07Speaker 1: the Jags already had things sealed up, so it's gonna
- 32:11Speaker 1: be a harder track, uh this time around. Winnable games obviously,
- 32:16Speaker 1: Jags are not what most of us expected. UM. Giants
- 32:21Speaker 1: and Washington have had before season finale at home against
- 32:25Speaker 1: the Colts, which could could be a huge game, could
- 32:29Speaker 1: be a playoff game if the Titans take care of
- 32:31Speaker 1: things between now and then. But Titan has been very
- 32:35Speaker 1: up and down, very unpredictable, often playing to the level
- 32:38Speaker 1: of the competition. UM, so it's it's really hard to know.
- 32:43Speaker 1: And coming off a game where you know, they did
- 32:46Speaker 1: what they had to do and beating the Jets, but um,
- 32:50Speaker 1: I really didn't look like they were up to the
- 32:51Speaker 1: task for for three quarters of that game. Really. Uh,
- 32:55Speaker 1: it was disappointing. So it's hard to know exactly what
- 32:59Speaker 1: the what they're gonna be. Um, they're not as talented
- 33:03Speaker 1: as as we thought. The loss at Delaney Walker on
- 33:06Speaker 1: opening day really really hurt them. And UM, you know,
- 33:11Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel and his staff UM, which is a lot
- 33:14Speaker 1: of newcomers still kind of sorting through things. Speaking of Rabel, Paul,
- 33:21Speaker 1: you know you're with him on a day to day
- 33:22Speaker 1: basis there on the beat. UM compare him to some
- 33:25Speaker 1: of the Titans coaches in the past, Malarkey and wizzen
- 33:28Speaker 1: Hunt and Munshack and Fisher. I mean, how does he
- 33:30Speaker 1: compare to deal with what's his personality? How has he
- 33:34Speaker 1: been so far in his first year? Well, I mean,
- 33:37Speaker 1: I think he's a really smart guy. I think sometimes um,
- 33:43Speaker 1: maybe with some of the aggressive calls he's made. Going
- 33:46Speaker 1: for a two point conversion at the end of the
- 33:48Speaker 1: Chargers game in London, Uh, to play winner loss right
- 33:53Speaker 1: there at the end, when it had taken the Titans
- 33:56Speaker 1: uh so much energy to get in the end zone
- 33:59Speaker 1: for the touchdown. I thought they had taken momentum in
- 34:03Speaker 1: that game and that they'd need more than you know,
- 34:06Speaker 1: they had needs a lot more than one try to
- 34:07Speaker 1: get in for the touchdown. I thought it was over aggressive. Um.
- 34:13Speaker 1: Uh they tried a fullback dive with with Luke stock
- 34:17Speaker 1: or a tight end who never carried the ball in
- 34:18Speaker 1: the NFL or in college. Um a couple of weeks
- 34:23Speaker 1: ago and a big turning point at Houston. Um, sometimes
- 34:28Speaker 1: it seems a little bit too much. Um, a player
- 34:32Speaker 1: still with wanting to go for it in the way
- 34:35Speaker 1: that a player might We didn't play that long ago.
- 34:40Speaker 1: I mean he was on the field not that long ago. UM,
- 34:44Speaker 1: But I think I think he's smart. Like he took
- 34:47Speaker 1: intentionally took a twelve menu on the field penalty the
- 34:50Speaker 1: other day on the second two against the Jets. That
- 34:53Speaker 1: kind of stop the clock bought the Titans an extra
- 34:56Speaker 1: time out, gave them a reset because they knew the
- 34:58Speaker 1: Jets were gould to convert a second and two, but
- 35:01Speaker 1: gave them a new kind of four minute defense reset.
- 35:05Speaker 1: And um on a new first new first down there
- 35:10Speaker 1: and helped set the Titans up for a stop, get
- 35:13Speaker 1: the ball back, drive down, and you know they were
- 35:15Speaker 1: in position to tie it with the field goal or
- 35:17Speaker 1: win it with touchdown, and they wanted with the touchdown.
- 35:20Speaker 1: He does some smart things like that. I think he's
- 35:23Speaker 1: got a real feel for for what players need in
- 35:26Speaker 1: terms of rest um and and when um and I
- 35:32Speaker 1: think he's a comer, but I think this season maybe
- 35:34Speaker 1: he is a little harder than he and and and
- 35:38Speaker 1: UH general manager who hired him, John Robinson expected UM
- 35:42Speaker 1: and I think they'll know full well at the end
- 35:44Speaker 1: of the season whether they get in or not. Um
- 35:48Speaker 1: just the work that's ahead of them to kind of
- 35:50Speaker 1: complete the transition into these schemes and uh, and to
- 35:55Speaker 1: get things going in a better direction a little faster.
- 36:00Speaker 1: Caharsky is with us. Give him a follow on Twitter
- 36:01Speaker 1: at Paul Koharsky nfl UM Paul Marcus Mariota is a
- 36:07Speaker 1: guy who's taken a lot of hits this year. That's
- 36:09Speaker 1: one thing. He runs around a good bit. We know that.
- 36:12Speaker 1: Um of those sacks and the quarterback hits? Is it?
- 36:15Speaker 1: Is it? Line issues? Isn't his style of play? Can
- 36:20Speaker 1: he overcome that? What? What has what has been the
- 36:22Speaker 1: reason for him getting just hit a lot this year?
- 36:25Speaker 1: What's the deal? Well, it's line issues first and foremost. Um,
- 36:30Speaker 1: you know, knock on wood for them. He's done a
- 36:33Speaker 1: pretty good job surviving it. I mean, he got his
- 36:36Speaker 1: elbow knocked pretty good in the season opener and um,
- 36:40Speaker 1: and then dealt with you know, kind of weird nerve
- 36:44Speaker 1: stuff like a fun a prolonged funnybone injury where he
- 36:48Speaker 1: had some tingling that that kind of reduced his feeling
- 36:52Speaker 1: in his hand and uh and left him with some
- 36:55Speaker 1: tinglingness in his hand that was an issue for a while.
- 36:58Speaker 1: He overcame that and uh, you know it's been dinged
- 37:02Speaker 1: once since then. But he's done a better job staying
- 37:05Speaker 1: healthy than you might expect based on how much he's
- 37:07Speaker 1: been hit. He's just not uh, not doing well enough
- 37:10Speaker 1: throwing the ball away and get getting himself out of trouble.
- 37:14Speaker 1: There's some metrics that say generally gets rid of the
- 37:17Speaker 1: ball quickly, but he's not getting rid of it quickly enough.
- 37:20Speaker 1: And some of those sacks circumstances. Now sometimes I mean
- 37:24Speaker 1: people are getting blown up and uh, and he's hit
- 37:26Speaker 1: very quickly, but I think even in some of those circumstances,
- 37:29Speaker 1: he should see stuff coming. And uh, you know, he's
- 37:33Speaker 1: got some circumstances where he's getting ah, he's creating big
- 37:38Speaker 1: losses where he could have smaller losses and uh and
- 37:41Speaker 1: it's a problem there there and second and long and
- 37:44Speaker 1: third and long and far too often and uh and
- 37:47Speaker 1: not able to battle out of that stuff. And the
- 37:49Speaker 1: Jaguars obviously came to life against Andrew luck putting the
- 37:54Speaker 1: Colts in some of those situations. So they're gonna need
- 37:57Speaker 1: to do far better. And they'd certainly like to see
- 38:00Speaker 1: the Jaguars from previous weeks and not from last week
- 38:03Speaker 1: Tomorrow night. Yeah, that that's the recipe for the Jaguars
- 38:06Speaker 1: right now, they have to nearly pitch a shutout the
- 38:08Speaker 1: way the Jags offense is set up and is playing
- 38:11Speaker 1: these days, and I'm not sure if that can happen
- 38:14Speaker 1: again tomorrow night. A couple of top ten defense speaking
- 38:17Speaker 1: of the Jags defense, the Titans defense the top ten
- 38:19Speaker 1: unit as well, familiar names Casey, Iraqpo Wood you admired
- 38:23Speaker 1: all the rest. I mean, where do these guys stand?
- 38:26Speaker 1: Why are they ranking so highly? And it's got a
- 38:29Speaker 1: start up front, right with with Casey, he's still stud.
- 38:33Speaker 1: He's a stud, but he didn't have much help alongside him.
- 38:36Speaker 1: The rest of the defensive line hasn't really done much.
- 38:38Speaker 1: And those outside guys you mentioned Racpo. He had a
- 38:41Speaker 1: good game last week, but he's looked old this year.
- 38:45Speaker 1: He's in the last year of his contract. Derek Morgan's
- 38:47Speaker 1: banged up, might not play. He's in the last year
- 38:50Speaker 1: his contract. Has been banged up a lot this year
- 38:52Speaker 1: and hasn't done much. Uh. The interiors really provided the rush.
- 38:56Speaker 1: Wesley Woodyard H J. Brown, the young inside linebacker. He's
- 39:01Speaker 1: more of a coverage guy, but has found a way
- 39:04Speaker 1: um to get in the backfield, particularly on blitz is.
- 39:07Speaker 1: It's a good scoring defense first and foremost. It was
- 39:11Speaker 1: first for a while before it got lit up and
- 39:13Speaker 1: back to back weeks by the Colts, um and the Texans.
- 39:17Speaker 1: Good scoring defense, still, good red zone defense, very good
- 39:22Speaker 1: at making people kick field goals and buckling down. But
- 39:25Speaker 1: not a lot of good individual numbers, not a lot
- 39:27Speaker 1: of sacks um and not a lot of turnovers. It's
- 39:31Speaker 1: been been uh too long since. Uh. I mean Malcolm
- 39:36Speaker 1: Butler finished this game off this week with an interception,
- 39:39Speaker 1: but uh uh an interception to staunch the bleeding in
- 39:42Speaker 1: the middle of the game hasn't come in a long time.
- 39:45Speaker 1: Haven't seen the defense in the end zone in a
- 39:47Speaker 1: long time. Um, they really could help out the offense
- 39:50Speaker 1: even a bit more. But it's a it's a defensive
- 39:53Speaker 1: football team for sure. Every time I think it's going
- 39:55Speaker 1: to be an offensive football team and don't turn out
- 39:57Speaker 1: that way. No, it doesn't. And we we saw that
- 40:00Speaker 1: certainly at the end of the regular season last year.
- 40:02Speaker 1: A couple of interceptions I buyed in that game, one
- 40:04Speaker 1: to seal it and then won the middle of the
- 40:07Speaker 1: football game as well off Blake Portals. Alright, so Thursday
- 40:10Speaker 1: night football is the city ready. They're excited about the
- 40:12Speaker 1: Titans still are they kind of on the on the
- 40:14Speaker 1: fence here? Uh? Well, I wrote this week, Um, you know,
- 40:19Speaker 1: this team still hasn't grabbed this town. Obviously, the two
- 40:24Speaker 1: nine and seven seasons were way better than the Ken
- 40:27Speaker 1: wizzen Hunt era where they you know, had two and
- 40:30Speaker 1: three wins and consecutive seasons, and um, he got fired
- 40:34Speaker 1: in the middle of one of those. Uh last year
- 40:36Speaker 1: nine and seven and went to the playoffs. But there
- 40:38Speaker 1: was a real disconnect between the team and the town
- 40:41Speaker 1: lugely over the playing style. Uh and Malarkey's future was
- 40:45Speaker 1: a big storyline there still and it hasn't connected much better.
- 40:50Speaker 1: This new final offense was supposed to grab people scored
- 40:53Speaker 1: ten points less at this stage of the season than
- 40:57Speaker 1: Malarkey's archaic offense. So I don't know how how how
- 41:02Speaker 1: well it's gonna go tomorrow in terms of the tenants.
- 41:04Speaker 1: It's cold here and I think people are frustrated with
- 41:07Speaker 1: this team. Uh. Still holding out hope obviously that that
- 41:11Speaker 1: it will produce a playoff birth, but there's no love
- 41:14Speaker 1: affair going on right now. People are frustrated that they
- 41:16Speaker 1: haven't turned the corner and figured things out. Malarkey's offense
- 41:20Speaker 1: was archaic. That was exotic smash mouth. Paul. I don't
- 41:22Speaker 1: know what you're talking about. It was exotic arcade. Paul.
- 41:27Speaker 1: It's uh. It's good to talk to you, but it's
- 41:29Speaker 1: been too long and we'll hope to talk to you
- 41:31Speaker 1: again soon. Thanks for your time today. Thanks for having Paulski.
- 41:34Speaker 1: Give him a follow on Twitter at Paul Kaharsky NFL,
- 41:37Speaker 1: Paul Kaharsky dot com, one or four point five of
- 41:40Speaker 1: the Zone in Nashville as a longtime writer for the
- 41:43Speaker 1: Tennessee and when the team first got to Nashville, and
- 41:46Speaker 1: he's been on that beat really since day one, since
- 41:48Speaker 1: the move from Houston. We'll come back in a moment.
- 41:50Speaker 1: Alex Marvez Serious XM Radio joins us for his thoughts
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- 44:14Speaker 1: We could listen to him all day. That was in
- 44:15Speaker 1: the locker room after the win over the Indianapolis Colts,
- 44:18Speaker 1: the shutout victory for the Jaguars football team to snap
- 44:20Speaker 1: a seven game losing skid. The Jags are currently in flight.
- 44:24Speaker 1: They're headed to Nashville for Thursday night football against the
- 44:26Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. We welcome in our friend Alex Marvez from
- 44:30Speaker 1: Sirius XM Radio. Alex, it's great to talk with you.
- 44:34Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on today, Bud Noble, and I'm sorry
- 44:37Speaker 1: they left your behind again. I mean, listen, I know
- 44:39Speaker 1: what this has become. At first you thought, Okay, this
- 44:41Speaker 1: is cute, and then you realize that they were changing
- 44:43Speaker 1: your schedule that they were giving you so that you
- 44:45Speaker 1: kept missing this flight. I hope it's nothing personal, any
- 44:47Speaker 1: any sort of thing that you did, but it is
- 44:49Speaker 1: still great to be talking to you. Yeah, I hope
- 44:52Speaker 1: it's not personal either. But that's well, we'll see. The
- 44:55Speaker 1: jury's out, alex Um. The Jags have some issues right now,
- 45:00Speaker 1: alex certainly on the offensive side. They let the offensive
- 45:03Speaker 1: coordinator go. They've benched the franchise quarterback and that's never
- 45:08Speaker 1: a good sign for the final month of the season
- 45:10Speaker 1: and then this offseason coming ahead. There's a lot of
- 45:14Speaker 1: change of float down here in Jacksonville. Yeah, that's what
- 45:17Speaker 1: it's looking like. And listen, you know, things unfortunately for
- 45:19Speaker 1: Nate Hacket, the guy very creative at times with this
- 45:21Speaker 1: game plan, and you know, had made some strides with
- 45:23Speaker 1: Blake Portals and where I don't want to sit here
- 45:25Speaker 1: and beat up on Blake because I actually like Blake Portals,
- 45:27Speaker 1: but as a person he's always been gracious to me.
- 45:30Speaker 1: But as a quarterback, you know, sometimes you know, in
- 45:32Speaker 1: this league, you've got to be able to raise the
- 45:34Speaker 1: level of the play around you. And unfortunately for Blake,
- 45:37Speaker 1: it just wasn't happening. And of course he pays a
- 45:39Speaker 1: heavy price in eate Hacket pays a heavy price, and
- 45:41Speaker 1: it just raises some questions. So what is the future
- 45:43Speaker 1: at quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars, And you know, and
- 45:47Speaker 1: it's so weird, right because each time you win, you
- 45:48Speaker 1: feel better about it and you're trying to get the
- 45:50Speaker 1: program to finish strong in December. But it also moves
- 45:53Speaker 1: you away from one of those high draft picks where
- 45:55Speaker 1: you may be able to get a quarterback. And we
- 45:57Speaker 1: look at some of the teams that are struggling in
- 45:59Speaker 1: the NFL right now, and they may need quarterbacks. So
- 46:02Speaker 1: I think that's one of the tough parts about this,
- 46:04Speaker 1: you know, I think it really starts right there, JP
- 46:06Speaker 1: just trying to figure out who's going to be under center.
- 46:08Speaker 1: I'm not sure if Scott Milanovitch is the long term
- 46:10Speaker 1: answer at offensive coordinator, but we'll let him call the
- 46:13Speaker 1: plays right now. See where that goes. But I think
- 46:15Speaker 1: everything really starts there, and of course a return to
- 46:17Speaker 1: health because this wasn't Alan Blake. You've had Leonard for
- 46:20Speaker 1: needed in onto the lineup throughout the year, whether it's
- 46:22Speaker 1: Leonard screwing up or its injuries. You've had four off
- 46:25Speaker 1: starting offensive lineman, go On I r And Marquis Lee
- 46:28Speaker 1: one of the underrated absences for the Jacksonville Jaguars. He
- 46:31Speaker 1: developed into a pretty darn good receiver. He hasn't been
- 46:33Speaker 1: playing all years since getting hurt, I think and we
- 46:35Speaker 1: want Yeah, that's a great point, Alex. The Marquis sleeping.
- 46:38Speaker 1: It was actually the preseason against the Falcons he got
- 46:41Speaker 1: rocked and h He's his recovery continues, and of course
- 46:44Speaker 1: they signed him to a longer deal before this season.
- 46:47Speaker 1: He's not available and it's not even yet. Certainly his
- 46:50Speaker 1: speed and everything in the in the past game down
- 46:52Speaker 1: the field to get vertical, but he's big in the
- 46:55Speaker 1: run game now, they'll they'll be the first to tell
- 46:57Speaker 1: you the guy can block too, absolutely if you're right
- 47:00Speaker 1: about that, and one of the underrated things about him.
- 47:03Speaker 1: And it's been an interesting year for Dante Moncrief as well.
- 47:05Speaker 1: I know it was a one year. Let's see how
- 47:07Speaker 1: this Ghoest type deal, you know, nine million dollar salary.
- 47:09Speaker 1: It was solid. You know, he was hoping to become
- 47:11Speaker 1: the next Alshon. Jeffrey Right and al Shan signed almost
- 47:14Speaker 1: the exact same numbers with the Philadelphia Eagles and they
- 47:16Speaker 1: were able to strike the long term to deal with
- 47:18Speaker 1: him during the season. And al Shan has been great
- 47:20Speaker 1: for the Eagles. So here's something else for the Jacks
- 47:23Speaker 1: to consider, because they've got so much money now up
- 47:26Speaker 1: against the salary cap, and they understood that this was
- 47:28Speaker 1: a team that was built to peak in eighteen. Some
- 47:30Speaker 1: familiar faces that that you've seen in Jackson go for
- 47:33Speaker 1: a while, probably won't be back next year as his
- 47:35Speaker 1: team retools and and just tries to keep having the
- 47:38Speaker 1: success in the draft that it's been that it has been,
- 47:40Speaker 1: because while the free agent signings have helped the Jacks
- 47:43Speaker 1: get to be two thousand, seventeen AFC Championship Game, it's
- 47:46Speaker 1: really the draft that to me has served as the
- 47:48Speaker 1: backbone of so much of the positive things that have
- 47:50Speaker 1: happened on Florida's first goes Alex Marvez with a serious
- 47:54Speaker 1: XM Radio Leonard for that is back. He has missed
- 47:58Speaker 1: ten of twenty eight pass games in his career. Either
- 48:01Speaker 1: the injury or suspension or the team holding him off
- 48:04Speaker 1: to the side, whichever way you want to look at it,
- 48:07Speaker 1: is he a long term franchise back in this league?
- 48:10Speaker 1: Can he be that kind of guy? Count? Well, he
- 48:12Speaker 1: can be, what with more consistency. I mean, the nice
- 48:15Speaker 1: part of the Jack is, look at you're in for
- 48:16Speaker 1: a penning, You're in for a pound, right, And we
- 48:18Speaker 1: got two more years to try to determine this. When
- 48:20Speaker 1: I when I was in you know, at your Jack
- 48:22Speaker 1: training camp in mid August, you know, nice, nice, cool,
- 48:25Speaker 1: breezy degree day in the middle of the month. Um,
- 48:28Speaker 1: you know, Leonard Fournette looked great, right, and you know,
- 48:32Speaker 1: he looked like he had lost some weight. He spoke
- 48:34Speaker 1: with a guy with a lot more confidence than he
- 48:36Speaker 1: did in his rookie season. And I'm not you know,
- 48:38Speaker 1: that's not disparaging his rookie season. But I'm just trying
- 48:40Speaker 1: to give you a snapshot from one year to the
- 48:42Speaker 1: next about what I saw in Leonard Fornett. And I
- 48:44Speaker 1: was really optimistic that he had turned the corner. You know,
- 48:47Speaker 1: remember in his rookie season he had been I think
- 48:49Speaker 1: he missed a meeting or something JP, I forget what
- 48:51Speaker 1: it was, but team photos. I mean, yeah, so you
- 48:55Speaker 1: know that sort of steff he just can't do at
- 48:57Speaker 1: this level. And you know, for Leonard, it's always been
- 48:59Speaker 1: so easy for him, right and be one of the
- 49:00Speaker 1: great high school running backs you've ever seen, one of
- 49:02Speaker 1: the great college running backs that you had seen. And
- 49:05Speaker 1: he gets to the NFL and it's it's a different animal.
- 49:07Speaker 1: You have to be disciplined, you have to watch your weight.
- 49:09Speaker 1: I mean you're so you know, as the number four
- 49:11Speaker 1: overall picking the draft, there's responsibilities that come with that,
- 49:13Speaker 1: and unfortunately at times Leonard has not embraced that list.
- 49:16Speaker 1: And the guy got hurt hamstring injury. Fortunately doesn't look
- 49:19Speaker 1: like it's a chronic thing, you know ala Shawn Lee.
- 49:22Speaker 1: But I think the jury still I don't whether this
- 49:23Speaker 1: is gonna work out for him, you know, over the
- 49:25Speaker 1: long haul, he's got two years to prove it and
- 49:27Speaker 1: try to earn that big money deal. I know they
- 49:29Speaker 1: can redo is do after year three out of Tide Gurley,
- 49:31Speaker 1: but I don't think that's happening. I think it's gonna
- 49:33Speaker 1: say two solid years of Leonard Burnett showing that he's
- 49:35Speaker 1: someone that you can trust. Otherwise I wouldn't be surprised
- 49:38Speaker 1: if the jackson move on, Alex, What do you make
- 49:40Speaker 1: of the leadership structure here in Jacksonville where a couple
- 49:43Speaker 1: of seasons into it now Tom Coughlin at the top,
- 49:47Speaker 1: Dave calledwell the GM, Doug Marone the head coach, Tony
- 49:50Speaker 1: Con is involved in there, of course as Parcelona or
- 49:53Speaker 1: the team, and shot Con the owner. It's um, you
- 49:56Speaker 1: don't see that type of you know, structure. I guess
- 50:00Speaker 1: around the league a lot. What did you make the
- 50:01Speaker 1: first couple of years of this? I think it's fine.
- 50:04Speaker 1: I don't think the leadership structure is that you know
- 50:06Speaker 1: that the structure of it itself is not the problem
- 50:08Speaker 1: that the problem is like portals decision is there's a
- 50:11Speaker 1: big one. I mean for this team, you know that
- 50:13Speaker 1: was a huge one. I mean, look and endless that
- 50:16Speaker 1: every team is gonna have hits, every team is gonna
- 50:17Speaker 1: have some misses, right, I mean, look, Aaron Coleban to
- 50:19Speaker 1: me's a heck of a corner. But there's only so
- 50:21Speaker 1: many players are going to be able to resign, right,
- 50:23Speaker 1: And I'm not sure if the nickel you know, the Nickel.
- 50:25Speaker 1: Cornerback play has been up to snuff, and I know
- 50:27Speaker 1: there's been some injuries. Listen, very Church that didn't want
- 50:30Speaker 1: expect the wheels to fall off on him as quickly
- 50:32Speaker 1: as they did. But fortunately you've got a nice replacement
- 50:34Speaker 1: in Richardson, the rookie who started last week and had
- 50:37Speaker 1: a big game, I know, a big sack against the Colts.
- 50:39Speaker 1: So there's something that's promising there. I don't think the
- 50:42Speaker 1: structure of this team is an issue. In fact, I
- 50:44Speaker 1: think it's actually a positive for this team because there
- 50:47Speaker 1: are defined roles. Everybody knows what their responsibility is. Do
- 50:51Speaker 1: your job, JP, and you'll be fine. Just like when
- 50:53Speaker 1: John oshan boss is you around. As long as you
- 50:55Speaker 1: respect him, you're doing great. Yeah, that's just like, that's
- 50:59Speaker 1: just Alex straight of Um, there have been changes in
- 51:04Speaker 1: the league already though. Mike McCarthy's out in Green Bay,
- 51:07Speaker 1: Hugh Jackson is out in Cleveland. Um, what was the
- 51:13Speaker 1: how about the McCarthy when let's start with that one?
- 51:15Speaker 1: How surprising mid season was that that was when he
- 51:18Speaker 1: kind of felt coming though the way things were going
- 51:20Speaker 1: apart there, Yeah, things were going that way. But listen,
- 51:23Speaker 1: you know, for the for the Packers. What was the
- 51:25Speaker 1: endgame on all this? I mean, you you just lost
- 51:28Speaker 1: to the Arizona Cardinals and that is, you know, probably
- 51:31Speaker 1: the worst team in football, just just based upon the
- 51:33Speaker 1: way they played, every statistical ranking, you name it. You're
- 51:36Speaker 1: playing at home December football lambeau Field, knowing that you
- 51:40Speaker 1: probably need to win out to make the playoffs, and
- 51:42Speaker 1: you just stink. And I think that that was one
- 51:45Speaker 1: of those indications. I don't want to say that Mike
- 51:46Speaker 1: lost the team because I'm not there and I don't
- 51:48Speaker 1: you know, I'm not there every day. I don't think
- 51:50Speaker 1: that's fair to say. But it was clear that that
- 51:52Speaker 1: this was just unacceptable to management. So why waste anybody's time,
- 51:55Speaker 1: you know, why continue to see the way it was going? So,
- 51:58Speaker 1: you know, this gives the Packers and let's and they
- 52:00Speaker 1: can start talking to college coaches now, they can start
- 52:03Speaker 1: talking to people outside the league right now, and they're
- 52:05Speaker 1: they're in a war right here with the Cleveland Browns
- 52:07Speaker 1: for a head coach, and there's gonna be others that
- 52:09Speaker 1: end up making changes. You would figure the New York
- 52:11Speaker 1: Jets going to be a team that's probably moving on
- 52:13Speaker 1: from Todd Bowls as well, and you know a couple
- 52:15Speaker 1: of others. So and really, this year, there isn't that
- 52:18Speaker 1: hot head coaching candidate. You know what I mean When
- 52:20Speaker 1: you look, everyone's trying to find the young, hot shot
- 52:22Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, that up and coming guy. Who is it?
- 52:25Speaker 1: I mean John D. Philippo in Minnesota. I mean JP,
- 52:27Speaker 1: he hasn't heard of running the football. The Vikings have
- 52:30Speaker 1: the most out of skew offense of any team in
- 52:32Speaker 1: the NFL. They passed sixty at the top. I mean, yeah,
- 52:36Speaker 1: that's brutal, brother. I mean, you've got to be able
- 52:38Speaker 1: to have some sort of running game to complement it.
- 52:40Speaker 1: And what happens sometimes is you get these guys, the
- 52:42Speaker 1: Jim Bob Couts of the world that you know him,
- 52:45Speaker 1: that John D. Filippo, and you know, they forget that
- 52:47Speaker 1: you have to have balance and you have to be
- 52:49Speaker 1: able to keep teams off guard because they love designing
- 52:52Speaker 1: pretty past plays and I understand it. And everyone's seeing
- 52:54Speaker 1: the success of Sean McVeigh and Matt Neggie in Chicago.
- 52:57Speaker 1: You know they say, Okay, well we're gonna get the
- 52:59Speaker 1: hot shot offensive human with a veteran defensive guy and
- 53:02Speaker 1: we'll go from there. Well, there aren't too many hot shot,
- 53:04Speaker 1: offensive guys out there that are really floating people's VOTs.
- 53:07Speaker 1: So I think for the Packers is just allowed them
- 53:09Speaker 1: to move on from here. Allow Mike McCarthy too, since
- 53:11Speaker 1: he's going to be in high demand that I think
- 53:13Speaker 1: he will get another shot right away to be able
- 53:15Speaker 1: to prepare for what his next step is. It really
- 53:17Speaker 1: works best for rival involved. Trust me, Mike didn't want
- 53:19Speaker 1: to get fired. It isn't the way he wanted to
- 53:21Speaker 1: go out in Green Bay. He wanted to try to
- 53:23Speaker 1: win out, get into the postseason. But the reality is
- 53:25Speaker 1: they were going to be moving on, So why not
- 53:27Speaker 1: just go from there? What's the better job green Bay
- 53:29Speaker 1: with four or five more years of a quarterback or
- 53:32Speaker 1: an up and coming Brown's franchise. You gotta live in Cleveland, right,
- 53:37Speaker 1: I mean that's sort of right there, JP. I just
- 53:40Speaker 1: sort of sort of settled that. I mean, look, I
- 53:42Speaker 1: think when you have John Dorsey, a guy who his
- 53:44Speaker 1: track record speaks for itself as far as personnel goes,
- 53:47Speaker 1: and building a winning roster, I think that's a really
- 53:49Speaker 1: appealing job. Green Bay's got some work. I don't think
- 53:51Speaker 1: it's as far off as people think, but you know,
- 53:54Speaker 1: I do think that there's some work ahead and listen
- 53:56Speaker 1: to I mean, what are you gonna run with Aaron Rodgers?
- 53:58Speaker 1: I just feel like the fense, you know, And I
- 54:01Speaker 1: hope Mike just takes a look back and not take
- 54:03Speaker 1: it personally or anything like that, but takes a look
- 54:05Speaker 1: at what he's been doing on the offensive side of
- 54:07Speaker 1: the football and having Aaron Rodgers stand back there and
- 54:10Speaker 1: waiting for these plays to develop. I mean, the NFL
- 54:12Speaker 1: has become a short passing league, JP. We've seen offense
- 54:15Speaker 1: and passing we've never seen before in the NFL. Because
- 54:18Speaker 1: of the high completion passes, quarterbacks are getting the football
- 54:20Speaker 1: out of their hands quicker than ever. It's the exact
- 54:23Speaker 1: opposite in Green Bay. It seems almost archaic with the
- 54:26Speaker 1: way that they're doing their business. But I will tell
- 54:27Speaker 1: you this, based upon the draft this year, not only
- 54:30Speaker 1: does John Dorsey deserve high mark, but Brian gutten Coust,
- 54:32Speaker 1: the general manager. In his first year there, JP, he
- 54:34Speaker 1: did a fantastic job finding some nice talent at wide receiver,
- 54:38Speaker 1: some talented linebacker I mean, listen, and retooling that secondary.
- 54:41Speaker 1: I think ultimately these guys are gonna be pretty good.
- 54:43Speaker 1: What's interesting about Green Bay as well. Mike Petton I
- 54:45Speaker 1: think done a solid job as defensive coordinator there. So
- 54:49Speaker 1: does green Bay look for that young, hot shot offensive
- 54:51Speaker 1: coach and then say, okay, we're good with Mike Petton
- 54:54Speaker 1: will roll from there. And the same thing with Cleveland
- 54:56Speaker 1: Greg Williams. I don't think he's going to be the
- 54:58Speaker 1: head coach there, but to the Browns Entie Faim with
- 55:00Speaker 1: a Vic Bangio a three million plus dollar a year
- 55:02Speaker 1: offer to try to keep him in the fold. So
- 55:04Speaker 1: I think it's interesting. I think both teams are looking
- 55:07Speaker 1: for the same thing. It'll be interesting to see how
- 55:09Speaker 1: that one plays out. Alex Marvez with us last couple
- 55:12Speaker 1: of minutes with you here, Alex, you still have the
- 55:13Speaker 1: Hall of Fame vote right, I'm now a permanent voter.
- 55:17Speaker 1: By the way, you're in, You're in the room. I
- 55:21Speaker 1: like that. That congratulations. I thought I thought voting for
- 55:23Speaker 1: the Pro Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame. It was like
- 55:25Speaker 1: my peak, that's what Tony and I thought. But now
- 55:27Speaker 1: it's not, and it's just you know, really, I'm just
- 55:29Speaker 1: now I got this not bad. It was just a
- 55:31Speaker 1: stepping zone to get you here, um, Tony Baselli is
- 55:35Speaker 1: a semifinalist again, he was in the room last year.
- 55:39Speaker 1: What are the odds here is you have a good,
- 55:41Speaker 1: a real shot to get in this year. Well, let's
- 55:44Speaker 1: take a look at Here's how I like to look
- 55:46Speaker 1: at this sort of thing. Right, how many slots are
- 55:47Speaker 1: we talking about? Right now? We have five modern error
- 55:50Speaker 1: candidates who are set to get into the Pro Football
- 55:53Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. So who do we figure gets in
- 55:55Speaker 1: on the first ballot? Tony Gonzalez? And it was okay, right,
- 55:57Speaker 1: So you figure Tony gets what are those flops the
- 56:00Speaker 1: figure Ed Reid? And Ed Reid gets one of those slots,
- 56:02Speaker 1: and then I think there's gonna be a strong push
- 56:04Speaker 1: for Champ Bailey to get one of those spots. So
- 56:07Speaker 1: what does that leave us? That leaves us to Hall
- 56:09Speaker 1: of Fame spots. And that's where the Joscelyn begins, so
- 56:13Speaker 1: to speak, to try to get people into the Hall
- 56:14Speaker 1: of Fame. I can tell you without breaking any confidences
- 56:17Speaker 1: or Hall of Fame rules. In my eyes, Isaac Bruce's
- 56:20Speaker 1: candidacy really got help last year because of the comparisons
- 56:25Speaker 1: between Tara Owens you know, and other great wide receivers.
- 56:28Speaker 1: I think that it really helped Isaac and I think
- 56:31Speaker 1: voters may look come into this Hall of Fame class
- 56:33Speaker 1: looking at him differently maybe than they did in the past,
- 56:36Speaker 1: because his body of work is so impressive and it
- 56:38Speaker 1: wasn't just the greatest show on turf. This guy was
- 56:40Speaker 1: doing some great things well before that. I mean, receiving
- 56:44Speaker 1: yards in a second NFL season was absolutely ridiculous, you know.
- 56:47Speaker 1: And if we're comparing apples to apples, and if you're
- 56:50Speaker 1: one of these Hall of Fame voters, it says, why
- 56:51Speaker 1: I don't want to vote for five dbs to get in.
- 56:53Speaker 1: I'm going to vote one at each position. Well, as
- 56:56Speaker 1: Tony Boselli a better candidate than Thief Hutchinson, As Tony
- 56:59Speaker 1: Boselli a better handidate than Kevin Mawai, And is he
- 57:01Speaker 1: a better candidate than Alan Fantica, you know, and all
- 57:04Speaker 1: of these guys now are starting to get to be
- 57:06Speaker 1: multiple times in the room as offensive line candidate. I
- 57:09Speaker 1: think Tony during his heyday was an incredible player. You know.
- 57:12Speaker 1: Part of the problem he has that Terrell Davis was
- 57:14Speaker 1: able to overcome is that t D You you saw
- 57:17Speaker 1: Terrell Davis, it was tangible to watch him run with
- 57:19Speaker 1: the football right and carry it, and he was an
- 57:21Speaker 1: offensive superstar and a Super Bowl m v P, all
- 57:24Speaker 1: of those things. With Tony Vasselli, he blocks. I mean,
- 57:26Speaker 1: you know what I saying, it's it's not the sexiest
- 57:28Speaker 1: thing in the world. So he's got to overcome the
- 57:30Speaker 1: fact that he had such a short injury play career.
- 57:32Speaker 1: But when he was on there was nobody better. And
- 57:34Speaker 1: I think that's the hope for Tony Boselli and whoever
- 57:37Speaker 1: the presenter is has to be able to stress this
- 57:39Speaker 1: in JP just behind the scenes thing here on this
- 57:41Speaker 1: to me when I go into the meeting, I know
- 57:44Speaker 1: that the guy is a great player. You don't have
- 57:45Speaker 1: to tell me how great he is. He's obviously one
- 57:47Speaker 1: of the final fiftine. I just want to have answered
- 57:50Speaker 1: why he shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame. I
- 57:52Speaker 1: want you to be able to be prepared to tell
- 57:54Speaker 1: me all of the reasons why he shouldn't be there
- 57:56Speaker 1: have good defense mechanisms for him to be honest to do.
- 57:59Speaker 1: I think that's what cost of Parcels getting in the
- 58:01Speaker 1: first time people say, well I didn't Bill get in.
- 58:03Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you. I thought the presentation was lacking,
- 58:05Speaker 1: and there were some questions about Bill that lingered. He
- 58:08Speaker 1: finally got in. I mean, trust me, and he's completely worthy.
- 58:10Speaker 1: But I just think the presentation matters as well. That's
- 58:13Speaker 1: interesting thoughts. I mean, and not a lot of people
- 58:15Speaker 1: get an insight into that room. I know you guys
- 58:17Speaker 1: are pretty quiet about all the tactics and everything that
- 58:20Speaker 1: happens in there. But that's an interesting take. It is
- 58:24Speaker 1: each city's voter has to present. Isn't that how it works? Correct?
- 58:29Speaker 1: And you know, but I will say this though, sometimes
- 58:31Speaker 1: as a presenter you can get a little bit of help.
- 58:33Speaker 1: So you know, that's where like some others can come
- 58:35Speaker 1: in and you can reach out and you can talk
- 58:37Speaker 1: to some at large voters. You can talk to people
- 58:40Speaker 1: that support the candidacy and have them try to help.
- 58:43Speaker 1: I mean, there's different ways you can present. I mean
- 58:45Speaker 1: I've had you know, I'll give you an example. Jeff Legwald. Uh,
- 58:48Speaker 1: you know ESPN Denver did an incredible job presenting you
- 58:51Speaker 1: know Floyd Little. I mean, you know, JP, A lot
- 58:54Speaker 1: of people wouldn't know Floyd Little. Well. The Broncos were
- 58:56Speaker 1: terrible in the sixties. I mean this team didn't even
- 58:58Speaker 1: make the playoffs for the first time until the seventies,
- 59:01Speaker 1: let alone have a winning record. They were like the
- 59:02Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints to the sixties in the NFL. Jeff
- 59:06Speaker 1: went back and watched all the film and he marked
- 59:08Speaker 1: down every time Floyd Little was able to turn getting
- 59:10Speaker 1: tackled at the backfield until like a one to three
- 59:13Speaker 1: yard game. And you really convince people to do it
- 59:15Speaker 1: like that. Armando sal Ghetto of the Miami Herald he
- 59:18Speaker 1: got Jason Taylor, and largely because of a letter from
- 59:20Speaker 1: Tom Brady where Tom Brady wrote a note to Hall
- 59:23Speaker 1: of Fame voters that said, this is the best defensive
- 59:26Speaker 1: player I have ever played again, and Armando was able
- 59:29Speaker 1: to parlay that into getting in. So there's different mechanisms
- 59:32Speaker 1: that can be used to show the greatness of Tony Boselli.
- 59:34Speaker 1: And I just hope this presenter take advantage of all
- 59:37Speaker 1: that is out there to get them in and works
- 59:39Speaker 1: hand in hand with Tad Dickman and his award winning
- 59:41Speaker 1: media relations staff to be able to get some information
- 59:44Speaker 1: that would be able to help tell the Tony's canvasy
- 59:46Speaker 1: just flip on the tape of the Bruce Smith game yeah,
- 59:48Speaker 1: that that might be a good starter. Exactly right, you
- 59:51Speaker 1: know what I mean, things like this, go how about
- 59:53Speaker 1: this called Bruce Smith? Hey, Bruce, what was it about
- 59:55Speaker 1: Tony Boselli that made him so great? Bruce? Is not
- 59:58Speaker 1: things like this that that you know, can help get
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: the guy in. I've heard Bruce is not so open
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: to discussing that football game though. Alex twists are man
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: twists are? That's it? An Tony to his house. He's
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: still an imposing figure. He'd block him again. Um, hey,
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: what about Thursday night football? Jacks Titans? So you got quickly?
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: I got the Titans. I mean, I just think, and
- 1:00:20Speaker 1: I don't want to say that the game means more
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: to them. It does mean more to them. Not that
- 1:00:23Speaker 1: this Jacks team won't be fired up, but I just
- 1:00:25Speaker 1: it's a short week and listen, look at look at
- 1:00:27Speaker 1: the results on Thursday night football, by the way, and
- 1:00:30Speaker 1: you know, just look at their home results, and I
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: think it answers your question. Obviously we have an anomaly
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: here and they're like Denver Arizona. But by and large,
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: if tho teams are equal, the home team wins. I
- 1:00:40Speaker 1: go with the home team. And you know, the Titans
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: have been so erratic this year, but I think they
- 1:00:44Speaker 1: can get it together. And look, the Jacks have passed
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: for I believe the net yardage total is somewhere around
- 1:00:49Speaker 1: three hundred yards in the past three games, if I'm
- 1:00:51Speaker 1: not mistaken and trying to do that on the road,
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: and when a short week with a quarterback who hasn't
- 1:00:55Speaker 1: had a whole heck of a lot of practice. I
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: know Leonard for Nette is back, but then the Jacks
- 1:00:59Speaker 1: get something done in the air because the Titans will
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: score a few points. I just don't think it happens.
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: I think the Titans win. Alex. We can always count
- 1:01:06Speaker 1: on your butt. It's always great to talk with you,
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: and let's do it again soon. Appreciate your time, shameless Plug,
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: You're real quick. Tune in midnight to two a m.
- 1:01:15Speaker 1: Friday morning after the Jack Titans gave durious X of
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: NFL Radio. If you want to join me for the
- 1:01:19Speaker 1: postgame show on Channel eight, I am welcome to hear
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: you in Jack's fans. I know if you want someone
- 1:01:24Speaker 1: to yell at if you guys win and you can
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: yell at me for picking the loss, feel free join
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: us here on Channel eight on Friday, the ratings will
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: be through the roof after the Jags in Nashville. Thank
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: you Alex. Alex Marvez Sirius XM radio host, one of
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: the best in the business man. Always good to have
- 1:01:42Speaker 1: him on our Thanks to all our guests today, Chad Johnson,
- 1:01:45Speaker 1: Senior VP of Sales and Service for the Jacksonville Jaguars,
- 1:01:48Speaker 1: Mike Florio Pro Football Talk took some time out today,
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: Paul Kaharsky from Nashville one oh four point five FM
- 1:01:55Speaker 1: and Paul Karski dot Com. Of course, Alex Marvez. Our
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: thanks to Linda Fortunato for stepping in today, coming all
- 1:02:01Speaker 1: the way down here to punch this show. Brent Reaver
- 1:02:04Speaker 1: as well, Ashland Sullivan, Max Hawkman, Joe Fortunato, Dave de Candice,
- 1:02:10Speaker 1: Patrick Kavanaugh, our entire crew. I'm JP Shatterck. Thank you
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