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Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, January four. This is Jaguars Happy Hours
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Speaker 1: and now a guy who stole a two calendar and
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Speaker 1: got twelve months. J. P. Shad Rick. Welcome to It's
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hour on a Tuesday afternoon. Heading into week
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Speaker 1: number eighteen, the Jaguars and the Indianapolis Colts coming up
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Speaker 1: at t I A. Bank Field. Here's what's coming up
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Speaker 1: on the show today. Jaguars analyst Jeff Lagman is always
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Speaker 1: standing by. We'll recap Week seventeen because we must Patriots
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Speaker 1: over the Jaguars fifty to ten, fifty to ten, final
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Speaker 1: week of one season. We'll look ahead of Week eight team.
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Speaker 1: The Colts need the game for the playoff berth. They
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Speaker 1: can sneak in another way, but they can win and
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Speaker 1: get in with a win over the Jaguars. And of course,
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Speaker 1: at five o'clock the Jaguars Coaches Show on the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Radio Network, the final show on the schedule this season,
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Speaker 1: we'll hear from interim head coach darryld Bevil. That's coming
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Speaker 1: up at five o'clock. Well, this past Sunday awful at
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Speaker 1: Gillette Stadium, Buckxboro, Massachusetts. The Patriots put up nearly five
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Speaker 1: hundred yards. They scored on eight of ten possessions. There
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Speaker 1: was a punt and a kneel down at the end
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Speaker 1: of the game. They scored touchdowns on the opening five possessions,
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Speaker 1: including all four in the first half. The Jags offense
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Speaker 1: turned the bowl over three times, couldn't do much else otherwise.
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Speaker 1: I got a field goal and then a garbage time touchdown.
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Speaker 1: It's eight straight losses for the Jags. A lot of
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Speaker 1: noise around the team these days, coaching search and everything
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Speaker 1: else going on. Trevor Lawrence after the game on controlling
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Speaker 1: what he can. Yeah, I mean, obviously I haven't been
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Speaker 1: here that long, and I've been here for a year. Um,
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Speaker 1: so well, you know, we'll see in this offseason. That's
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Speaker 1: something like I said, we we got one more left,
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Speaker 1: and I'm putting everything I happen to this last game
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Speaker 1: and and trying to get a win and finished wrong
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Speaker 1: with these guys and end on a positive note. But um, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I you know, I haven't been around the
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Speaker 1: NFL long, so I really you still don't even know
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Speaker 1: how how everything completely works. But um, you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: just trusting you know who's in leadership positions. You know
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, my job is to
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Speaker 1: be a quarterback, um and to lead this team, and
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Speaker 1: you know, I can only do so much, and that's
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Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do. So um. Other than that, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna put my head down, go to work,
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Speaker 1: and UM. Yeah, I have faith that that that we
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Speaker 1: are going to come out um in a way better
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Speaker 1: spot next year than we are right now. So I
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Speaker 1: a hundred percent believe that and I'm just looking forward
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Speaker 1: to um doing that because a lot of these guys
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Speaker 1: deserve it. That is Trevor Lawrence after the game in
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Speaker 1: Foxbro last week. Jeff Flagg ha been joining US now
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Speaker 1: Jaguars analysts and Happy New Year in person for the
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Speaker 1: first time. Yeah, Happy New Year. We talked on the
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Speaker 1: radio the other day, but this first time I've seen
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Speaker 1: you in person since we were talking on the CB. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, Breaking one nine. Of course, by the way,
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Speaker 1: that Trevor was a response that he had right there.
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Speaker 1: That was he was asked a question about is the
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Speaker 1: franchise direction is it? Is it? You know, are you
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Speaker 1: confident that it can head in the right direction? Which
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Speaker 1: I mean, first off, that's a tough question for a
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Speaker 1: rookie quarterback, and once again he handles it very well.
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Speaker 1: And that's uh, that's the one thing that we have
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Speaker 1: learned this year that Trevor still has a long way
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Speaker 1: to go performance wise, but as far as being a
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Speaker 1: pro and standing up in front of the tough questions,
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Speaker 1: he has never, never wavered and has never disappointed, no
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Speaker 1: doubt about that. I think as the season has gone along,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure he had an idea of this anyway, come again,
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Speaker 1: being the number one overall pick the quarterback and his
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Speaker 1: faces plastered all over town that okay, this is a
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Speaker 1: little different than just oh, I get a little time
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Speaker 1: to be a quarterback. I have to be a little
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Speaker 1: more than that. And I feel like as the season
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Speaker 1: went along, when all the adversity hit, when all the
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Speaker 1: aber Meyer stuff was going on, he was out there
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Speaker 1: and for everybody, and he was saying certain things that
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Speaker 1: on behalf of the football team, the players that uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know who else could be in
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Speaker 1: that role right now for the Jaguars beyond Trevor Lawrence.
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Speaker 1: He's I don't think I don't think anybody could have
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Speaker 1: handled it better. But I mean, here's the reality. He
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Speaker 1: shouldn't be the one handling all this so professionally. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's a rookie quarterback. He should be able to let
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Speaker 1: him focus on being a rookie quarterback. And that's that's
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Speaker 1: something that uh, the Patriots I think have done a
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Speaker 1: really good job of is managing you know what, what
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Speaker 1: mac Jones has to do for that franchise. He doesn't
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Speaker 1: have to worry about all the the drama or the distractions,
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Speaker 1: or the commentary about all of that stuff because it's
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Speaker 1: all handled by the Patriots. They make sure that it's
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Speaker 1: an environment for success. And I think if if you're
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Speaker 1: this organization, you look at that organization, the Patriots organization,
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Speaker 1: and you say, we need to get there. Here's what
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Speaker 1: we need to do to take the steps to ensure
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Speaker 1: that we're headed in the right direction. I would think
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Speaker 1: though there are you know of the teams that how
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Speaker 1: many teams you think are not there yet, because there's
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of the third of the teams that
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Speaker 1: are perennial playoff teams. They're just the perennial playoff teams
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Speaker 1: are there for a reason. Typically they have an organization
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Speaker 1: that has run well and then they have a quarterback.
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Speaker 1: I mean that's kind of two things that you need
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Speaker 1: to have. Okay, and now you have what you're expecting
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Speaker 1: is going to be a quarterback, and I would be
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Speaker 1: in the same categories. Bill Belichicks looked like that Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence is going to be a solid quarterback. Maybe great.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you just don't know that. You don't have
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Speaker 1: that crystal ball. I think Belichick was very accurate in
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Speaker 1: describing that. Now you need to take care of the
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Speaker 1: other aspect, and that's taking care and making sure that
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Speaker 1: the organization is set up for success. Because what this
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Speaker 1: past year or this year has showed is that it
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Speaker 1: is not a lot of holes to be filled. That's
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Speaker 1: on the roster part of it. We've seen that as
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Speaker 1: it's gone along. But just the thing around the football
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Speaker 1: team to the day to day operation of it, the
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Speaker 1: everything is just not been ideal. Now it hasn't been ideal,
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Speaker 1: and it's it's not easy. You know a lot of
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Speaker 1: people think that you know, you just wave one, you
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Speaker 1: make a right decision and then as fixed, I mean,
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Speaker 1: you you can continue to try because it has to be.
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Speaker 1: Things have to merge. Things that you're doing right have
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Speaker 1: to merge. And when I say it's not easy. First
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Speaker 1: of all, you have you have to have the right
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Speaker 1: the right leadership, and you have to have good good leadership.
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Speaker 1: When I say good leadership, good people. And then once
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Speaker 1: you have the good people in place, then you have
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Speaker 1: to have an accountability that everybody has to do their jobs.
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Speaker 1: You've got to get the right players. You've obviously got
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Speaker 1: to get the right components at the quarterback position, and
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Speaker 1: you have to have a successful system in a consistent system.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there there are so many different things and
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Speaker 1: if it was easy, everybody would do it. I mean
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Speaker 1: everybody would be winning. And that's just not the case.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's why it's so difficult. That's why I
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Speaker 1: think the NFL game is so special. It is because
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Speaker 1: it is extremely hard to do, which makes what Bill
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Speaker 1: Belichick and the New England Patriots what they have done
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Speaker 1: and what they are doing, it makes it amazing. I
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Speaker 1: think it makes you appreciate the greatness that they have
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Speaker 1: and have had and half and uh and trust me,
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Speaker 1: nobody nobody appreciates the New England Patriots more than I do.
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Speaker 1: And look, I'm not a Doingly Patriots homer or anything.
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Speaker 1: It's just that for them to have the success that
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Speaker 1: they've had for so long with Tom Brady and now
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Speaker 1: they're building something without him. It's impressive one year down
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Speaker 1: last year and then uh, here they're right back in
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Speaker 1: the thick of it again in the playoffs with a
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Speaker 1: rookie quarterback and a fantastic defense to support that. It
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Speaker 1: feels very similar to the early days. But that game
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Speaker 1: was just it reminded me. You go back and I
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Speaker 1: want to say it was the playoff game in New
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Speaker 1: England or whatever when Tom Brady completed like nineties something
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Speaker 1: percent of eight or what it was some crazy number
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Speaker 1: that he had a completion percentage in a game against
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars. That was like an NFL record. So you're
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Speaker 1: talking about they scored on every possession that game except
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Speaker 1: the kneel down. And think that's what it was. Payoff game.
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Speaker 1: It was like Week three. It was. It was a
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Speaker 1: game and it would you sit there and you go, wow,
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Speaker 1: is he really good? And when you sit there and
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Speaker 1: you go wow, and and then all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: we're in this game up there in New England on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: We're sitting there thinking that this is gonna be the
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Speaker 1: worst game in Jaguars history. It was because I was.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I was on this team when we had
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Speaker 1: the one that was the worst, which was the loss
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Speaker 1: in Detroit when they were taking a knee and how
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Speaker 1: many minutes was left in the ball game when they
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Speaker 1: were taking a knee in that game? Talk the show
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Speaker 1: last night, that's what Pete said, third quarter it was embarrassing.
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Speaker 1: But I don't think it was a third quarter. But
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's Pete just trying to be funny. But
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Speaker 1: it was bad. It was embarrassing, not really funny. No,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't not funny at all. It's it's frustrating one bit.
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Speaker 1: J Don't you laugh. I'm I'm sitting here with you.
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Speaker 1: It's not funny at all to get to be turned
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Speaker 1: into a spider monkey. So the defense just couldn't get
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Speaker 1: much done. They couldn't get them off the field methodical drives.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't like huge field flipping plays for New England
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Speaker 1: or anything. They just did their thing and drove down
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Speaker 1: the field. They took advantage of those takeaways for some
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Speaker 1: short fields also, but they cashed it in most every time.
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Speaker 1: Well they yeah, you're right, they took advantage of the
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Speaker 1: short field on the interceptions, But I will say that
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Speaker 1: they were. First of all, they do a great job
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Speaker 1: of making sure they stay ahead of the sticks. So
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Speaker 1: I think the one drive was either first. For the
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Speaker 1: second scoring drive that they had, they had a penalty
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Speaker 1: which they were able to overcome that. But for the
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Speaker 1: most part, they don't make the self inflicted mistakes that
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Speaker 1: hurt their rhythm on offense and it and it allowed
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Speaker 1: them continue to run the football and they ran the
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Speaker 1: football very well. And then mac Jones was incredibly efficient
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Speaker 1: and he is having a nothing short of a spectacular,
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Speaker 1: spectacular rookie season. And credit to him, credit to Bill Belichick,
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Speaker 1: and credit to their offensive coordinator Josh McDaniel, who is
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Speaker 1: doing an amazing job with him. And also they're doing
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Speaker 1: an amazing job of managing him. And that's something that
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Speaker 1: I think that that hasn't been very good here with
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrences, that the management of the situation of the
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Speaker 1: quarterback hasn't gone as well as it could have gone.
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Speaker 1: From Ac Jones. He doesn't have to go make the
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Speaker 1: spectacular play, just go execute the play. They got guys
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Speaker 1: that can jump in the air at wide receiver. They
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Speaker 1: brought a guy off the practice squad who's making plays
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Speaker 1: and uh, they're just running the system well and and
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Speaker 1: they have he has a really good defense, which is
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Speaker 1: the number one defense in the National Football League as
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Speaker 1: far as points allowed. I mean, when you have that
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Speaker 1: as a quarterback and you have a good running game
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Speaker 1: and oh, by the way, you have two really good
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Speaker 1: tight ends that are what's the right word security blankets
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Speaker 1: for you. I mean, that's what tight ends are for
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Speaker 1: a young quarterback. And they spent a ton of money
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Speaker 1: to get them. Um, I give them credit now. They
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Speaker 1: they've they've done a really good job. And the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: defensively did not do a good job. You had some
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Speaker 1: issues to where you had guys out of gaps and
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Speaker 1: run defense. You had a couple of guys that were
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Speaker 1: not on the same page in coverage as you can
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Speaker 1: see from the Wilkerson touchdown where you had two guys
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Speaker 1: covering one and there he goes for a touchdown. That
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Speaker 1: was a throw that I probably could have made after
11:44
Speaker 1: warming up for about twenty minutes, but not cold. I
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Speaker 1: could have made that throw cold, but I could have
11:49
Speaker 1: made that throw after warming up for a bit. And
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Speaker 1: uh not a not a not a great job by
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Speaker 1: the defense in that game. Anytime you give up that
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Speaker 1: amount of scores with the frequency that they did, it's
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Speaker 1: and something that we've seen the Jaguars do a really
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Speaker 1: good job on this year. They didn't do a good
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Speaker 1: job in that game, and that was sudden change. Think
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Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, they've been pretty good, they don't holding
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Speaker 1: the field goals or whatever, but not this time on
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Speaker 1: on the year, going into that game, the Jaguars defense
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Speaker 1: had only allowed sixty four points off of the twenty
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Speaker 1: six committed offensive giveaway. That's good defense. I mean, as
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Speaker 1: far as sudden change goes, and it all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: you turn around in this game and you have, you know,
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Speaker 1: interception touchdown, interception touchdown, and then another interception touchdown. So
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Speaker 1: three giveaways twenty one points. I mean, that's a third
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Speaker 1: of what you had going into the game, a third,
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Speaker 1: but only three giveaways compared to the twenty six previous
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Speaker 1: ones that you had. You know, So now, I think
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Speaker 1: it just tells you a little bit of the state
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Speaker 1: of the week going in also, I mean, and the
12:46
Speaker 1: way the roster was and there were a lot of
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Speaker 1: JP that's what it is, I mean, and then they're
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Speaker 1: really out man, when you got twenty seven guys in
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Speaker 1: the COVID and and I think you know is does
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Speaker 1: this is this an undict meant on your depth? Because
13:02
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, now you're playing guys that you
13:04
Speaker 1: you know, you haven't had to play. But then you
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Speaker 1: go back and you look at the previous two games. Oh,
13:10
Speaker 1: by the way, the Jets had I think eight starters
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Speaker 1: out from the COVID list. Thing okay, and then the
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Speaker 1: week before that, the Houston Texans I think had five
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Speaker 1: and a handful. Uh So how come they were able
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Speaker 1: to put it together? And then this team was not.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about just to win. I'm just
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Speaker 1: talking about stay in the game, having a competitive game,
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Speaker 1: and that's a concern. This wasn't close. Plenty more on
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Speaker 1: that coming up, a little more in Trevor Lawrence's day
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Speaker 1: and what you want to see out of him in
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Speaker 1: week eight team. I think we'll get into that when
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Speaker 1: we come back. The last chance to see him as
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Speaker 1: a rookie well, and I hope he takes a nice,
13:49
Speaker 1: long needed vacation after the after this game. A little
13:53
Speaker 1: more business to attend to before we get to that.
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Speaker 1: is Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network. Welcome back.
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Speaker 1: It's Jaguars Happy Hour on a Tuesday afternoon. J P.
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Speaker 1: Shadrick with Jeff Logavan. Glad you're along with us. Joe
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Speaker 1: Portunado on the audio side, Brent Reeber on the video
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Speaker 1: on Jaguars dot Com. The Jaguars and the Indianapolis Colts
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Speaker 1: coming up in week eighteen. Well, the game did not
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Speaker 1: get flexed. There's always that possibility if the game has
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Speaker 1: playoff meaning for one team or both teams, that it
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Speaker 1: could get mood, but it's stayed at one o'clock. It
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Speaker 1: stays on CBS. Greg Gumbel and Adam Rceletta will have
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Speaker 1: the call on CBS one o'clock kickoff time from t
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Speaker 1: I A A. Bank Field. Yes, yeah, the uh, the
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Speaker 1: chances of this game getting flexed. I mean, Indie needs
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Speaker 1: the game and that would be the reason why it
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Speaker 1: would have been in the conversation to be moved to
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Speaker 1: a later time, but um, they decided to go ahead
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Speaker 1: and get this one out of the way, and then
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Speaker 1: it would be compelling not just from a from a
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Speaker 1: playoff possibility, but if you all of a sudden, had
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Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions or uh, if they lose a game,
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Speaker 1: or excuse me, if they want a previous game at
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Speaker 1: one o'clock and the Jaguars were scheduled at for the ability,
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Speaker 1: who's gonna pick number one? Yeah, I could have been
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Speaker 1: at stake. I think that's down the pro exactly. That's
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Speaker 1: not that's not worthy of a flex. I don't think
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Speaker 1: that's worthy of a flex. So alright, one one last opportunity.
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Speaker 1: I mean that's the only reason I would have been
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Speaker 1: compelling from a Jaguars Jaguars perspective, sure, and for the
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Speaker 1: wrong reason. So alright, we we mentioned in a moment
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Speaker 1: ago Trevor Lawrence, of course, had three interceptions this past week.
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Speaker 1: He's only had two touchdown passes over what the last
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Speaker 1: eight weeks now combined concluding the one this past week. Yes, um,
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Speaker 1: one more week to go. So first off, I've got
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Speaker 1: to keep him healthy. We said that for the last
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Speaker 1: two months. Well, can we can we talk about the
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Speaker 1: interceptions for a minute? We can? Yes, let's start the
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Speaker 1: first Let's start with that first one hit Riquil Armstead
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Speaker 1: right in the hands Rocks. I mean, that was one
16:23
Speaker 1: of the knocks on Rock when he came out was
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Speaker 1: that he was not a very good catcher of the
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Speaker 1: football at Temple and could he do that. That's why
16:33
Speaker 1: many people viewed him as a first and second down back.
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Speaker 1: And then when in his first stint with the Jaguars,
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Speaker 1: he actually showed that he had pretty good hands. And
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Speaker 1: then on this particular play, for some reason, he kind
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Speaker 1: of goes to choke it down in his route a
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Speaker 1: little bit and Trevor's leading him and so then he
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Speaker 1: kind of gets caught in, you know, reacting and he
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Speaker 1: he kind of goes up in the air. Wasn't very
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Speaker 1: smooth operations. Gotta make that catch, though, I mean, come on,
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Speaker 1: gotta make that catch. If you can't make that catch,
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Speaker 1: you can't play running back in the National Football League
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Speaker 1: in the modern era because you have to catch the football.
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Speaker 1: Isn't running back now. The second interception interception, Trevor had
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Speaker 1: absolutely no business making that throw whatsoever. He essentially has
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Speaker 1: Tavon Austin covered by J. C. Jackson, and it's very
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Speaker 1: obvious that he's covered. And oh, by the way, he
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Speaker 1: had a tight end wearing that was wide open on
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Speaker 1: the levels route that was deeper than Tavon Austin streaking
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Speaker 1: down the numbers. It would have been a big play.
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Speaker 1: Would not have been a touchdown, but it would have
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Speaker 1: been a big play. The last one, which was a
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Speaker 1: I think it was a third and four team and
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Speaker 1: the score was thirty four to three at that point.
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Speaker 1: I can't remember if it was a lost artage player
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Speaker 1: a penalty before, but there was plenty of time to
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Speaker 1: to come up with an idea there for third and fourteen.
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Speaker 1: And this is what I'm talking about about, how you
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Speaker 1: have to manage a young quarterback act When it's third
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Speaker 1: and fourteen and the score is thirty four to three,
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Speaker 1: why would you put him in a situation to where
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Speaker 1: he may force a ball. He's already got two interceptions.
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Speaker 1: What would you rather see their draw on a draw
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Speaker 1: or throw a screen tight end screen, running back screen?
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Speaker 1: Just don't just don't make him drop back. He's already
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Speaker 1: got two interceptions and it's third and fourteen, okay, and
18:30
Speaker 1: especially with the score is what it is, I mean,
18:32
Speaker 1: that's that's the moment there to say Hey, it's okay
18:36
Speaker 1: to punt. Okay, we're getting our rear ends kicked. Let's
18:40
Speaker 1: not make it worse on our young quarterback. And you
18:43
Speaker 1: move forward. And I thought that was a that was
18:45
Speaker 1: a big coaching mistake in that game. Moving ahead, now, um,
18:50
Speaker 1: I'm gonna see who's available. There's still a bunch of
18:53
Speaker 1: guys in the reserve COVID nineteen lists this week. Offensive
18:56
Speaker 1: lineman have a couple of guys down still. We'll get
18:58
Speaker 1: to that coming up and just a few minutes. But
19:01
Speaker 1: you know, what do you want to see from him
19:03
Speaker 1: this time? I mean, we got one more chance to
19:05
Speaker 1: go see what else is left. I want to see
19:07
Speaker 1: competitiveness out of him, every everybody, and that's you didn't
19:14
Speaker 1: see that. I mean I want to say you didn't
19:17
Speaker 1: see that. There were times where individuals were competitive, but
19:21
Speaker 1: the game itself was not competitive. So when you say
19:25
Speaker 1: what do you want to see first and foremost, I
19:26
Speaker 1: want to see a team that competes, not a team
19:29
Speaker 1: that comes out and gets gets boat raced. That's what
19:33
Speaker 1: happened in New England. And I want to obviously see
19:37
Speaker 1: a young quarterback Trevor Lawrence have success. This is a
19:41
Speaker 1: division opponent. I don't care if you're out of the
19:43
Speaker 1: playoffs and all the changes coming or not. This is
19:46
Speaker 1: a division game and it's an opportunity to beat the calls,
19:49
Speaker 1: and you take every opportunity that you can to beat
19:51
Speaker 1: the calls. I don't give a damn about draft pick position.
19:54
Speaker 1: I don't because whether you're picking first or whether you're
19:58
Speaker 1: picking second, you're are gonna be in a plenty good
20:01
Speaker 1: enough position to get a good player in a position
20:03
Speaker 1: to now you need to execute that. And that's obviously
20:08
Speaker 1: a source of that needs to improve with his football
20:13
Speaker 1: team going for you gotta you gotta get better players,
20:15
Speaker 1: and you gotta get better coaching, you gotta get better organizationally.
20:18
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things that you gotta get better at.
20:21
Speaker 1: But this is an opportunity to compete, and last week
20:24
Speaker 1: this team did not compete. The Colts are not one
20:28
Speaker 1: in Jackson Villison's m well. I look locked down the bank,
20:35
Speaker 1: and they're they're very aware of that. You read all
20:37
Speaker 1: the clips that come out of Indianapolis, you read the
20:40
Speaker 1: interviews that are that are happening over there or up there.
20:44
Speaker 1: They all recognize that they know that coming down here,
20:47
Speaker 1: it's not going to be an automatic thing for them.
20:50
Speaker 1: But here's the thing I think that's a little bit
20:53
Speaker 1: troubling is that the Colts are at their best when
20:57
Speaker 1: they're running the football, with Jonathan Taylor clearly at their best.
21:02
Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan of Carson Wentz. I think
21:06
Speaker 1: he in last week he spent a little bit of
21:08
Speaker 1: time on COVID list in practice, end up playing against
21:11
Speaker 1: Raiders and couldn't perform as well as he needed to.
21:15
Speaker 1: But he's been the one thing that's kind of kept
21:17
Speaker 1: them from winning games this year, and that when he
21:21
Speaker 1: hasn't been solid, they've lost. I mean just solid. But
21:26
Speaker 1: with Jonathan Taylor when he gets off and ripping man,
21:29
Speaker 1: that's a hard team to beat. And the Jaguars defensively,
21:34
Speaker 1: you look at last week and gap defense was not
21:38
Speaker 1: great at times. They gave up another hundred yard rusher
21:42
Speaker 1: in that ball game. The week before that against the Jets,
21:47
Speaker 1: they gave up what was it, two hundred and seventies
21:51
Speaker 1: and it was in the two seventies, two seventy plus
21:53
Speaker 1: yards in a game. I mean that that's the trend
21:56
Speaker 1: in the wrong direction. And uh, and right now some
22:00
Speaker 1: of your better players on defense are not playing like
22:05
Speaker 1: they are your better players. And obviously COVID has an
22:08
Speaker 1: impact on all of that, but so does every other
22:11
Speaker 1: team in the league have that They've been dealing with
22:14
Speaker 1: those type of things too. So it is what it is,
22:17
Speaker 1: and it is not good right now for the Jags.
22:20
Speaker 1: But one chance to try to go out and ruin
22:22
Speaker 1: the Colts playoff opportunity I got left. Really that can't
22:29
Speaker 1: motivate you, though, Why not? Because it's ruining. It's fake,
22:36
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, it's it's if if that's
22:38
Speaker 1: your internal motivation as a player, Oh yeah, I want
22:41
Speaker 1: to go out there and I want to ruin the
22:43
Speaker 1: Colts postseason, you know, or ruin their season so they
22:47
Speaker 1: don't go to the postseason. It's fake. It's fake. I
22:50
Speaker 1: mean you you go out there to be a competitor.
22:55
Speaker 1: No maunder the stakes, no matter what's going on, it
22:58
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Last week that's Jaguars, neither team was in it.
23:03
Speaker 1: You compete, I mean that's what you are. You're supposed
23:05
Speaker 1: to be a competitor. And this team last week was
23:10
Speaker 1: not a competitor. They were not a competitive team. And
23:14
Speaker 1: this week you hope that that changes, just because if
23:18
Speaker 1: this is a this is gonna be a game at home,
23:21
Speaker 1: and this will also be a very interesting game to
23:24
Speaker 1: see the fan response. That is a concern because the
23:29
Speaker 1: fans are not happy right now. There's a lot going on. Obviously,
23:32
Speaker 1: we'll come back in a moment and touch a little
23:35
Speaker 1: deeper on the Indianapolis Colts. Their defense. They've got a
23:40
Speaker 1: bunch of Pro Bowlers on that team, especially on the
23:42
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. They're one win away from
23:46
Speaker 1: the playoffs. And of course, coming up at five o'clock
23:49
Speaker 1: the Jaguars Coaches Show, Daryl Bevil, interim head coach, will
23:52
Speaker 1: join us as always in the final Jaguars Coaches Show
23:55
Speaker 1: on the schedule for season. This is Jaguars Happy Hour
23:59
Speaker 1: on the jaguar Is Digital Network. Welcome back, It's Jaguars
24:06
Speaker 1: Happy Hour Tuesday afternoon. J P. Shadrick with Jeff Blogum
24:10
Speaker 1: in It's Week eighteen, the Jaguars in the Indianapolis Colts
24:14
Speaker 1: coming up at t I A. A. Bank Field, the
24:16
Speaker 1: Jags trying to bounce back from a fifty to ten
24:20
Speaker 1: loss to the New England Patriots in Week seventeen. Trivia
24:23
Speaker 1: for you. Is this the first time that we've ever
24:26
Speaker 1: entered into a week eighteen in the National Football League.
24:30
Speaker 1: That's cold week eighteen. Yes, when there was a season
24:37
Speaker 1: a few years back, if I remember correctly, that they
24:39
Speaker 1: had two buys in it, and so that created a
24:43
Speaker 1: week eighteen at that point. So this is actually the
24:46
Speaker 1: second time in NFL. Good point, that was a weekend.
24:50
Speaker 1: The two buyer system was essentially meant to gain more
24:53
Speaker 1: TV revenue dollar three logs. I remember that because I
24:58
Speaker 1: remember going playing that's kind on a that was ninety
25:03
Speaker 1: three three. Yeah, I was, you were, Yeah, I'm just
25:08
Speaker 1: trying to remember exactly how we how what our record
25:10
Speaker 1: was probably wasn't very good. Can find that real quick.
25:13
Speaker 1: The New York Jets, Now, that might have been a
25:16
Speaker 1: year we uh, that might have been the playoff year
25:19
Speaker 1: that which was the only playoff year that I had
25:22
Speaker 1: when I was with the Jets, and I think we
25:24
Speaker 1: were eight and eight, and if if that is the case, right, okay,
25:29
Speaker 1: here here's a cool thing about what I remember about
25:31
Speaker 1: that year just qualified for the playoffs. We did not
25:34
Speaker 1: know you sure about that. I'm at eight and eight
25:40
Speaker 1: must have been the year before you you did not
25:42
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. I don't know about the year before two.
25:46
Speaker 1: You guys are four and twelve. It wasn't. It wasn't.
25:47
Speaker 1: It wasn't ninety two, ninety four, you were six and ten. Sure,
25:55
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here looking at it. I'm trying to remember
25:57
Speaker 1: the year that we're in the playoffs because the nine
26:01
Speaker 1: was the season Coslet was fired and Pete Carroll was
26:05
Speaker 1: promoted after that, correct, So it had to be had
26:10
Speaker 1: then and eight lost the wild card play in Houston
26:17
Speaker 1: against the Oilers. That's what I was thinking of the
26:19
Speaker 1: reason I was thinking of that one I knew we
26:20
Speaker 1: were eight eight somewhere in there, you know, because of
26:24
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, and that we never had a winning
26:26
Speaker 1: season in New York and the reason that that. Do
26:29
Speaker 1: you remember the significance of that playoff game? Jones Okay,
26:35
Speaker 1: our executive producer radio, Do you remember the significance of
26:38
Speaker 1: the New York Jets at Houston playoff game? In Do
26:44
Speaker 1: you remember why that game will always be remembered in
26:48
Speaker 1: the history of the NFL. That's the game that Kevin Gilbride.
26:53
Speaker 1: They were beating the pants off of us in the
26:56
Speaker 1: playoff game, and Kevin Gilbride was still in passes and
27:01
Speaker 1: then Buddy Ryan and tried to punch him on the sideline,
27:07
Speaker 1: and then Kevin Gilbride, who, oh, by the way, was
27:10
Speaker 1: the first offensive coordinator in Jaguar's history, turns around and
27:14
Speaker 1: tries to punch Buddy Ryan back, and they had staff
27:18
Speaker 1: and players and everything restraining the two of them. They
27:21
Speaker 1: were winning the game. They were we had no chance
27:26
Speaker 1: that that Houston team, by the way, just living in
27:29
Speaker 1: the past here for a minute, was one of the
27:31
Speaker 1: most talented football teams that I had ever seen in
27:36
Speaker 1: the National Football League, both offensively and defensively. They were stacked,
27:41
Speaker 1: I mean stacked as a football team. But that's why
27:45
Speaker 1: everybody can remember that game is that's the moment that
27:49
Speaker 1: there was a little fisticuffs with Buddy Ryan and Kevin Gilbride. So, uh,
27:53
Speaker 1: take us back logs. Since we're going back in history,
27:56
Speaker 1: we're gonna go back in the se to week ten,
28:01
Speaker 1: November fourteen, the Jaguars in Indianapolis against the Colts. The
28:06
Speaker 1: Jags had just won two out of the previous three
28:09
Speaker 1: games and they go into Lucas Oil Stadium. The Indianapolis
28:13
Speaker 1: Colts come away with a twenty three seventeen win. They
28:16
Speaker 1: led twenty to six at one point in the game,
28:18
Speaker 1: The Jags got within three points at the ten thirty
28:22
Speaker 1: mark on James Robinson touchdown run, but that was it.
28:25
Speaker 1: I remember that game very well, JP, and what I
28:29
Speaker 1: remember most is that the Colts came out of the gate,
28:32
Speaker 1: and I think on the first three drives, Jonathan Taylor
28:34
Speaker 1: nearly had a hundred yards rushing. Uh. In fact, with
28:38
Speaker 1: my notes here, he had ten carries for ninety three
28:40
Speaker 1: yards after the first three Colts offensive series. And uh,
28:45
Speaker 1: the Colts blocked a punt first drive and scored a touchdown,
28:51
Speaker 1: and so it got a field goal in the first drive,
28:54
Speaker 1: blocked a punt. Now they're up ten and nothing. And
28:57
Speaker 1: then the Jaguars offense, Okay, now you need to put
28:59
Speaker 1: some things together, and you go three and out and
29:03
Speaker 1: Jamal ag knew how to drop and then all of
29:06
Speaker 1: a sudden, Jonathan Taylor scores on the Colts second offensive possession,
29:11
Speaker 1: and they're up seventeen and nothing. And Jonathan Taylor at
29:14
Speaker 1: that point has tin carries for ninety three yards. And
29:16
Speaker 1: you're sitting there, glunch, you gotta be kidding me. And
29:20
Speaker 1: then here's what happens, which baffled me. Frank Reich starts
29:24
Speaker 1: calling passes with Carson Wentz. The Jags defense got three
29:29
Speaker 1: straight three and ounce after that. Yes, because because he
29:32
Speaker 1: was throwing the ball, you got you got Jonathan Taylor,
29:35
Speaker 1: who might rush for a thousand yards in one game,
29:39
Speaker 1: and you start throwing it because he's your quarterback, I mean,
29:44
Speaker 1: because WinCE is your quarterback. What are you doing? I
29:47
Speaker 1: mean that was the perfect opportunity to have your offensive line,
29:50
Speaker 1: which the Colts got a really good offensive line, by
29:53
Speaker 1: the way, to allow them to do what they do best.
29:56
Speaker 1: And they and Frank didn't do that. And that was
29:58
Speaker 1: I think a hard lesson for Frank, right, because the
30:02
Speaker 1: Jaguars climbed back into that game with an opportunity at
30:06
Speaker 1: winning it. Late in the ball game, if the score
30:08
Speaker 1: was seventeen twenty, the Jaguars are down three points and
30:12
Speaker 1: they got the ball with a chance to go ahead
30:15
Speaker 1: and get the go ahead score. And what do they do?
30:18
Speaker 1: Three three plays, one yard and punt and then the
30:21
Speaker 1: Colts were able to uh score and uh and then
30:26
Speaker 1: the Jaguars fumbled on the ensuing possession. Was still another opportunity,
30:30
Speaker 1: down by six at that point, to to go ahead
30:32
Speaker 1: and get a go ahead score or tieing score and
30:35
Speaker 1: then kick an extra point for the win. So it
30:38
Speaker 1: was a very competitive game, but it did not start
30:40
Speaker 1: out competitive. Early on. Jamal Agnew had a sixties six
30:43
Speaker 1: yard touchdown run in the game, first points for the
30:46
Speaker 1: Jaguars in that game. And I will ask you, is
30:50
Speaker 1: there Well, I know the answered. I don't know why
30:53
Speaker 1: I'm even asking the question. There's not really a big
30:56
Speaker 1: play threat like that on this offense, Annore. It's really not.
31:01
Speaker 1: It hasn't been for since he was gone. Really well,
31:04
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, were we saying that Jamal Agnew
31:07
Speaker 1: is this great? He was? He was playing well for
31:11
Speaker 1: the Jaguars Stoard from sixty yards. I get that, but
31:15
Speaker 1: let's not let's not make him Jonathan Taylor of the
31:18
Speaker 1: Jaguars relative to what the Jaguars have now in terms
31:23
Speaker 1: of big play, field flipping offensive players. They he was
31:26
Speaker 1: the guy. He was one of your most explosive There's
31:30
Speaker 1: no no question. But he wasn't perfect. He had a
31:32
Speaker 1: lot of drop balls cost this offense. He was a project,
31:36
Speaker 1: with no doubt, and this offense has lost quite a
31:40
Speaker 1: few weapons. They he lost d J. Chark, He lost
31:43
Speaker 1: Dan Arnold, who was on the designated return list but
31:47
Speaker 1: then ended up on the COVID list. I don't know
31:49
Speaker 1: where that is at right now, still there at COVID,
31:52
Speaker 1: I'm sure, but yeah, I mean the Jaguars offense lost
31:55
Speaker 1: some weapons, but I think part of it is is
31:58
Speaker 1: that they didn't do a good enough job of acquiring
32:02
Speaker 1: more because the more you have, the better you're gonna be.
32:07
Speaker 1: And when you have a young quarterback, you want to
32:09
Speaker 1: have as many explosive elements as you can. And then
32:12
Speaker 1: e t N obviously going down with the foot injury
32:14
Speaker 1: that impacted it as well. But I think they could
32:19
Speaker 1: have done a better job of acquiring more skill position
32:24
Speaker 1: options that had an explosive element for this offense, and
32:27
Speaker 1: it could have done that. In free agency. The Colts,
32:31
Speaker 1: when you look at their defense, they take them by
32:34
Speaker 1: the way, why did they signed Carlos Hide. I mean, look,
32:37
Speaker 1: I don't have anything against Carlos Hide, but I mean
32:40
Speaker 1: let's let's look at I mean, where was the explosive
32:44
Speaker 1: element signed Carlos Hide? Because he went to Ohio State,
32:48
Speaker 1: there was a relationship. I mean, if that's the reason, why,
32:51
Speaker 1: then then things were broke long before that. The incident
32:54
Speaker 1: happened from Cincinnati Columbus. I mean, that's that's a problem.
32:58
Speaker 1: And there's a relationship from San Francisco as well. JP.
33:03
Speaker 1: I know you very well, but I don't want you
33:05
Speaker 1: to change in the oil on my truck. Okay, just
33:07
Speaker 1: because we got a relationship. Okay, everybody's got an ability,
33:10
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. You can do the bath
33:13
Speaker 1: after that. I'm just telling you that there were two
33:15
Speaker 1: connections connection. Okay, but production matters more, I agree. Okay,
33:20
Speaker 1: it's about production, that's what it's about. Yes, it is defense,
33:26
Speaker 1: um for the Colts. They produce, they certainly do. They
33:30
Speaker 1: take the ball away. It's a theme of their defense.
33:33
Speaker 1: They go out, they punch the ball away. They try
33:35
Speaker 1: to punch the ball away. They're successful and punching the
33:38
Speaker 1: ball out and recovering it and taking the ball away.
33:40
Speaker 1: That's what they do. I think their defensive coordinator is
33:44
Speaker 1: at some point gonna get a a real strong opportunity
33:47
Speaker 1: to be a head coach in the in the national
33:49
Speaker 1: football because I think he's done a really good job.
33:52
Speaker 1: And even ever flus Or Flus yes, Flukes right, Yeah,
33:56
Speaker 1: you don't know. It's there's reports that he has been
34:01
Speaker 1: on the list for the Jaguars and that they're gonna
34:04
Speaker 1: wait until the regular season's over to to have those conversations.
34:08
Speaker 1: That's a report at least. I think he's done a
34:10
Speaker 1: really good job in Indianapolis, and he has done I
34:14
Speaker 1: think a good job of maximizing some of his players
34:17
Speaker 1: abilities and production. And uh, I sit there and I
34:21
Speaker 1: go back, and you remember the defensive end that Indianapolis
34:24
Speaker 1: signed who was a long time thinking from Estonia, the
34:28
Speaker 1: defensive end from Cincinnati Bengals, who they acquired a couple
34:32
Speaker 1: of years ago. And when they got him, they actually,
34:35
Speaker 1: Refluce actually moved him and I'm trying to remember his
34:37
Speaker 1: dag um name, but they moved him from defensive end
34:41
Speaker 1: to nose tackle, and which was kind of what you
34:45
Speaker 1: wouldn't think because the guy that we're talking about, or
34:47
Speaker 1: that I'm thinking of it was like six ft six
34:51
Speaker 1: Margus Hunts. Margus Hunt, Yes, I mean think about Marcus Hunt, right,
34:55
Speaker 1: six six two. He was taller than that and maybe
35:00
Speaker 1: six eight and long. And the last place you would
35:05
Speaker 1: think of putting him would be probably nose tackle, right,
35:09
Speaker 1: because you always think short, squatty, powerful, you know, yeah,
35:13
Speaker 1: you know, immovable objects. But Marcus Hunt was a really
35:18
Speaker 1: good nose tackle and He was one of the reasons
35:20
Speaker 1: why a couple of years ago that the Colts were,
35:24
Speaker 1: I mean one of the best teams in the league
35:26
Speaker 1: at stopping the run, and I give credit to ebra
35:30
Speaker 1: Flus for for figuring that out. And they haven't always
35:33
Speaker 1: had the most talent laden defense. They've got a couple
35:36
Speaker 1: of real talents. Now, the forced Buckner's are really strong talent.
35:40
Speaker 1: Darius Leonard really strong talent. But I think besides those
35:44
Speaker 1: two guys, are they are there anybody else that really
35:47
Speaker 1: stands out with that Defenseeky is kind of okay, but
35:52
Speaker 1: he's had a good season. You're right, But I mean
35:54
Speaker 1: is he a star? No? But look at where they
35:57
Speaker 1: are from a takeaway standpoint, and I think that that's
36:00
Speaker 1: the perfect thing I think or example of, is that
36:05
Speaker 1: you've got to make sure that as a defensive coach
36:08
Speaker 1: that you're emphasizing the takeaways, etcetera. Because that's not a
36:13
Speaker 1: talent issue in a lot of cases. I mean, interceptions
36:16
Speaker 1: are in a in a big way. Okay, like last week, Okay,
36:20
Speaker 1: the Patriots had a ton of interceptions. This week, the
36:24
Speaker 1: Colts defense has a ton of cost fumbles. Number one
36:28
Speaker 1: in the National Football League at takeaways and is that
36:31
Speaker 1: a talent thing? Are they that talented on defense? I
36:34
Speaker 1: don't think that's it. I just think that the teaching
36:37
Speaker 1: and the awareness taught by Ebraflus, the defensive coordinator, uh
36:41
Speaker 1: he I think he does a tremendous job. The attitude
36:43
Speaker 1: you gotta go want it and know how to go
36:45
Speaker 1: get it. And then Pete Carroll was always an excellent
36:48
Speaker 1: coach and his defenses historically have always had great success
36:53
Speaker 1: in getting takeaways because of the teaching and the emphasis
36:57
Speaker 1: that he put on it. And that's something I think
37:00
Speaker 1: Joe Colin is a really good football coach, but that's
37:02
Speaker 1: something that hasn't been productive here for this football team
37:06
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37:09
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38:19
Speaker 1: at ten till four. Let's see there are sixteen names,
38:23
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38:27
Speaker 1: on Jaguars dot Com, including Dan Arnold, Ben Bartch, Calebon Chaison,
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Speaker 1: Rudy Ford, Shaq Griffin, Jacob Hollister, Brandon Linder, Lorendi McCray,
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38:49
Speaker 1: Josh Hammond and guard Jared Hawker. Basically basically eight or
38:55
Speaker 1: nine starters depending on how you look at at cale
38:58
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39:02
Speaker 1: then it would be eight, and then it would be
39:04
Speaker 1: nine if you consider uh or and I've considered Rudy
39:08
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39:10
Speaker 1: plays a ton, He's essentially a starter, and then Jaden
39:13
Speaker 1: could be considered ninth because he is your starting returner.
39:17
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a lot of guys and no other
39:21
Speaker 1: changes today except the one practice squad player was off
39:24
Speaker 1: and then cut. And I would expect that, uh, that
39:29
Speaker 1: this will kind of clear out a little bit this
39:31
Speaker 1: week because the NFL protocols have changed and now you
39:34
Speaker 1: have to have back to back negative tests for players
39:38
Speaker 1: to come off of COVID. So I would expect to
39:41
Speaker 1: see a significant number return this week. And now the
39:45
Speaker 1: question will be how healthy will some of them be?
39:50
Speaker 1: Did you see? I wonder if the guys who came
39:52
Speaker 1: back and played in last week's game, the guys that
39:55
Speaker 1: came off the list late, you see it maybe a
39:58
Speaker 1: step behind. Uh. I mean, first of all, like Lavisca
40:01
Speaker 1: who came off. Laviska didn't play a lot. They limited
40:05
Speaker 1: his reps and obviously his reps were limited last week.
40:08
Speaker 1: I thought Norwell actually played pretty well and the way
40:11
Speaker 1: in the games that he had played before, he had
40:13
Speaker 1: not been playing very well, So he was fine. Um
40:17
Speaker 1: trying to think who else came off in time for
40:19
Speaker 1: the game? Uh, couples late and they they added kept
40:23
Speaker 1: adding players. No man hurts. I thought it was fine,
40:26
Speaker 1: but he's mostly a blocking tight end defensively. Devon Hamilton's
40:30
Speaker 1: did not play well. I thought Malcolm Hamilton's played pretty well,
40:35
Speaker 1: pretty solid. Jahad Ward came off of that list also, Uh,
40:40
Speaker 1: he was okay, Um what was that with him? By
40:44
Speaker 1: the way he sacked him, got the penalty and then
40:46
Speaker 1: was trying to shake the referees and yeah, it was
40:49
Speaker 1: it was very weird and that he did. He got
40:51
Speaker 1: a sack of mac Jones. He actually had a good
40:53
Speaker 1: rush and then when he comes in on mac Jones,
40:57
Speaker 1: the arm swipes across and hits mac Jones in the
41:00
Speaker 1: face mask. And while the officials are having a conversation
41:05
Speaker 1: about okay, was that roughing? Was it not roughing? Between
41:08
Speaker 1: the two officials that can see it. Well, he's just
41:11
Speaker 1: kind of standing about six or seven yards away. And
41:15
Speaker 1: then after the discussion breaks and the official goes to
41:19
Speaker 1: call the penalty, he walks right over to him and
41:23
Speaker 1: then sticks his hand out, and the officials like he's
41:27
Speaker 1: going on here. He's very confused, you know. And then
41:31
Speaker 1: I think, johatel him, I just want to shake your hand.
41:33
Speaker 1: He shakes his hand out. It's like almost like a
41:34
Speaker 1: gesture of saying, well, thank you, that was a good call.
41:37
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there going that's just kind of strange. Okay, yeah,
41:44
Speaker 1: but but it negated a big play and it was
41:47
Speaker 1: just one of those signs of the day. That's the
41:49
Speaker 1: way it was. Let's take a look at the a
41:51
Speaker 1: f C playoff picture, because they are still up for grabs.
41:57
Speaker 1: A few playoff spots coming down a week eighteen. Five
42:00
Speaker 1: teams have clinched playoff birth the Titans, the Chiefs, the Bengals,
42:04
Speaker 1: the Bills, and the Patriots. There are two teams still
42:07
Speaker 1: in the hunt, the Colts and the Chargers. On the
42:10
Speaker 1: bubble the Raiders, Steelers and Ravens, and the Chargers and
42:14
Speaker 1: Raiders play each other in the final game of the season.
42:17
Speaker 1: Great win by the way Pittsburgh Steelers last night and
42:20
Speaker 1: what many of view has Ben Roethlisberger's last game, and
42:25
Speaker 1: Mike Rabel, in my opinion, should be the NFL coach
42:28
Speaker 1: of the year. I really believe that. I mean for
42:33
Speaker 1: for them to lose a player of the caliber of
42:37
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry and to still win. And when I say
42:41
Speaker 1: still win, even when you had Derrick Henry, the job
42:45
Speaker 1: that he has done as a coach there in Tennessee
42:48
Speaker 1: has been marvelous, and I hope he gets some consideration.
42:52
Speaker 1: The Kansas City Chiefs, nobody's gonna want to play them
42:55
Speaker 1: in the playoffs because they started out extremely slow this year,
42:59
Speaker 1: They've come mown and their quarterback is going to give
43:03
Speaker 1: them a chance in every game. And look out for
43:06
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow now in the Cincinnati Bengals. Young quarterback and
43:10
Speaker 1: his young wide receiver can absolutely light up a scoreboard.
43:14
Speaker 1: The Buffalo Bills play good defense, got a mobile quarterback.
43:17
Speaker 1: The Patriots number one scoring defense. I mean, this a
43:20
Speaker 1: f C playoff picture. In the playoff battle is gonna
43:24
Speaker 1: be I mean, if you had to pick a favorite,
43:26
Speaker 1: could you no? No, I mean that's that's the beauty
43:30
Speaker 1: of the NFL. I mean, when we watch college football, JP,
43:34
Speaker 1: did we ever think for a minute that Cincinnati had
43:36
Speaker 1: a chance in the in the NF, in the a
43:40
Speaker 1: n c A playoff. No, you didn't think the That's
43:43
Speaker 1: the beauty of the NFL over college football, the NFC
43:50
Speaker 1: playoff picture. It's a little different now, a little different
43:54
Speaker 1: day at the top Clichs home field, the l A. Rams.
43:58
Speaker 1: If Jalen stops punching his team mates in the huddle
44:01
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay at twelve and four, was kind of face
44:05
Speaker 1: swiped him. It's kind of strange. Arizona Cardinals and the
44:09
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles, San Francisco and the Hunt the Saints on
44:13
Speaker 1: the bubble. That's uh, those are the teams. It's pretty
44:16
Speaker 1: much buttoned up. Green Bay Packers and Aaron Rodgers. I mean,
44:20
Speaker 1: it's kind of you just kind of get the sense
44:21
Speaker 1: that that's a team that's on a mission. With all
44:24
Speaker 1: the the scrutiny that Aaron Rodgers has been under and
44:27
Speaker 1: a lot of it well deserved, that they could be
44:30
Speaker 1: a team of destiny and the playoffs are gonna be
44:34
Speaker 1: going through some serious cold man. The road goes through
44:39
Speaker 1: Green Bay on the NFC side of things, And was
44:42
Speaker 1: there anything more crazy than Antonio Brown and that Tampa
44:48
Speaker 1: New York Jets game this past week, that was that
44:50
Speaker 1: was a new one. I haven't seen anything like that.
44:52
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody has. And nothing has ever happened
44:55
Speaker 1: like that. It depends on, you know, the storyline you
44:59
Speaker 1: listen to. There was an ankle issue. They were trying. Okay,
45:03
Speaker 1: if you got an ankle issue, are you jumping up
45:06
Speaker 1: and down doing jumping? Jack's going to the tunnel, what's
45:10
Speaker 1: going on? And then that's such bs. And you know,
45:13
Speaker 1: credit to Mike Evans on the sideline from the fan
45:16
Speaker 1: video that we saw that he was trying to calm
45:18
Speaker 1: him down and hey, don't don't do it, don't take
45:20
Speaker 1: it off. He finally took off his pads through him
45:23
Speaker 1: and the rest is history. And he was sitting courtside
45:26
Speaker 1: of a Brooklyn Nets game last night, by the way,
45:28
Speaker 1: he was, and he put out a rap video the
45:33
Speaker 1: other day. Maybe he was looking to promote the rap video.
45:36
Speaker 1: I don't know either. It's all come that that. Those
45:38
Speaker 1: are the two things that have happened since Sunday. And look, look,
45:43
Speaker 1: I'd like to find some compassion for the guy Tom Brady. Okay,
45:47
Speaker 1: because that's what Tom Brady's was asking for a little compassion. Right,
45:51
Speaker 1: give me a reason why with what you're talking about. Right,
45:57
Speaker 1: he walked out on him, and they came back and
46:01
Speaker 1: won the football game too, by the way, Uh with
46:04
Speaker 1: a guy who didn't play college football making the touchdown catch.
46:08
Speaker 1: And it's just crazy like that that you got videos
46:11
Speaker 1: out on social media the taxi cab driver or whatever
46:14
Speaker 1: that took him out of the stadium, and you know
46:18
Speaker 1: there's reports that he was denied transportation. I mean, it's
46:22
Speaker 1: just a it's all. There's so many lies that follow
46:26
Speaker 1: him that it's it's it's incredible. It just it takes
46:29
Speaker 1: away from the football that's that's a team that could
46:32
Speaker 1: make some noise in the postseason. He violated and now
46:35
Speaker 1: he's not a problem for that anymore. He violated the
46:39
Speaker 1: one thing as a player that you never violate, and
46:43
Speaker 1: that's leaving an abandoning your teammates in battle. You never
46:47
Speaker 1: do that. They were literally on offense on the field too.
46:51
Speaker 1: He will never I mean, I don't see how anybody
46:55
Speaker 1: or any player that plays this great game, or that
46:59
Speaker 1: has played this great game whatever accept him into the
47:02
Speaker 1: huddle again. I would be shocked. Good thing they didn't
47:07
Speaker 1: break the huddle because I think they would have twelve
47:09
Speaker 1: minut on the field. Officially, he was in the end zone. Yeah,
47:11
Speaker 1: he was on the field. And technically it's a crazy one.
47:16
Speaker 1: That was a wild one. Craziness. So all right, I
47:19
Speaker 1: come it up and just a few moments it's the
47:22
Speaker 1: Jaguars Coaches Show, the final Jaguars Coaches Show on the
47:25
Speaker 1: schedule for the season. We will not have one next week. Well,
47:28
Speaker 1: I will say this, I've appreciated the professionalism that Daryl
47:32
Speaker 1: Bevil has had and he was a refreshing change for
47:37
Speaker 1: us this year during the Coaches Show because uh uh nothing,
47:43
Speaker 1: no fence to Urban Meyer. But it wasn't exactly an
47:46
Speaker 1: enjoyable process, and Darryl made it fun again and and
47:49
Speaker 1: makes it fun again. And I appreciate him because that's
47:52
Speaker 1: a tough position to be in when you've had all
47:55
Speaker 1: the drama that this organization has had this year and
47:59
Speaker 1: then to be asked to be the interim head coach
48:02
Speaker 1: and then he's handled it with professionalism and grace, and
48:05
Speaker 1: I appreciate him for that tough place to be right now.
48:08
Speaker 1: For him. Also, you've got you don't know what's gonna
48:11
Speaker 1: happen in the future coming up next week even and
48:14
Speaker 1: you've got all this COVID nineteen stuff going on, You've
48:16
Speaker 1: got to try to rally this team and get him
48:19
Speaker 1: to do something they haven't done in two months. And
48:21
Speaker 1: that's what And you know you you as a coach.
48:24
Speaker 1: I mean, all these coaches that came to this staff
48:27
Speaker 1: came here to work with her Ramiro and he's gone.
48:30
Speaker 1: And they have contracts, and they look, they have families
48:33
Speaker 1: and so the and they're all expecting, okay that they
48:37
Speaker 1: sign a two or three year contract. Hey, I'm gonna
48:39
Speaker 1: be here three years. The family thinks are gonna be
48:40
Speaker 1: here three years at least, have an opportunity to be
48:42
Speaker 1: here for a couple of years at least. And now
48:44
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, all of these coaches, families, et cetera,
48:48
Speaker 1: are into the unknowned where they don't know what the
48:50
Speaker 1: future holds. And so I feel for him because that's
48:55
Speaker 1: a that's a tough place to be. All you can
48:57
Speaker 1: focus on now is the week ahead, and we will
49:00
Speaker 1: hear from Darryl Bevil coming up to get his thoughts
49:03
Speaker 1: on the past week in New England and the week
49:06
Speaker 1: ahead against the Indianapolis Colts that all is coming up
49:11
Speaker 1: and they have. The Jags will try to defend their
49:13
Speaker 1: home tour for one final time against the Colts this
49:15
Speaker 1: Sunday at one o'clock in Week eight. Team coming up
49:18
Speaker 1: the Jaguars Coaches Show on the Jaguars Radio Network. This
49:23
Speaker 1: has been Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network