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Jags Drive Time: Wednesday, November 28 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Jaffuars. Did you don't Jack what Jack Warris? Did you
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Drive Time? Bryan Sex steps that. John says it
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Speaker 1: actually Jaguarris Drive Time starts right now. Good morning, sun
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Speaker 1: is up on a cool, crisp day. Love the weather.
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Speaker 1: I hope you do too. It's not lasting. By the way,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be eighty degrees on Sunday when the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: take on the Colts. Here at t i A a
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Speaker 1: bank field, it's time for Jags Drive Time, brought to
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Speaker 1: you by the du Bald Motor Company, who invite you
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Speaker 1: to experience the Duval Difference at four locations on cassid
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Speaker 1: Avenue and Atlantic Boulevard here in Jacksonville and down the
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Speaker 1: road in Gainesville. Hi, John, what you didn't see on
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Speaker 1: that part bridge shop is there's a bleep bleep stopped
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Speaker 1: right on the other side of that. It's jamming up
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Speaker 1: traff lee blete bleep bleeped it. Oh you did? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Say that went by? It was I don't handle myself
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Speaker 1: well in that situation, but the pressure that phrase the
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Speaker 1: world revolves around you, Ever, the world revolves around me.
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Speaker 1: If you guys waited for yeah, yeah, we did. Yeh.
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Speaker 1: The pressure to be here. Speaking of the world revolving
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Speaker 1: around an individual, H well, I was thinking more of
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars recently suspended running back for that who yesterday
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Speaker 1: had his appeal heard and to no one's surprised, the
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Speaker 1: suspension was upheld. And I'm going to say I didn't
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Speaker 1: think there was any chance that James Thrash, who was
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Speaker 1: the Special Master, the former Eagle and a Redskins wide receiver.
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Speaker 1: I didn't think it was anyway that he was going
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Speaker 1: to turn that over. What a great job, special mass,
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Speaker 1: special Master. I could cover so much this morning. I
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Speaker 1: should be special Master. You should not be any that
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Speaker 1: a special Master of yourself. That might be it um.
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Speaker 1: But I was gonna say I would be very, very
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Speaker 1: disappointed in the National Football League if they allowed Leonard
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Speaker 1: for Nette to play on Sunday suspended to be suspended.
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Speaker 1: And I would hope that if they didn't suspend him,
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Speaker 1: that the Jaguars would because because and let me go here,
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Speaker 1: real quids in because he cost his team to win.
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Speaker 1: I have no doubt and he admitted that, I have
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Speaker 1: no doubt that if he stays in the game and
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Speaker 1: they overturned the touchdown and he has it on third
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Speaker 1: or pardon me, first and goal at the one that
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Speaker 1: he scores his third touchdown. Right, I have no doubt
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Speaker 1: because I was on the field, felt the momentum changing
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Speaker 1: that the Jaguars win that game. If the Jaguars win
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Speaker 1: that game, I think that Nate Hackett is still the quarterback,
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Speaker 1: the coordinator. I think Blake is still the starting quarterback, right,
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Speaker 1: I mean, no, no, you don't. So he deserves to
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Speaker 1: be suspended. Hopefully he learns from this and becomes a
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Speaker 1: better teammate. But as I read that this morning, I
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Speaker 1: thought the arrogance of appealing that. Now, maybe he did
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Speaker 1: it for legal financial reasons, because you know, when you
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Speaker 1: get this sort of suspension, teams can come after your
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Speaker 1: bonus money and things like that. So maybe he did
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Speaker 1: it for that. But still I thought there was no
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Speaker 1: reason at all for the league to let him play.
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Speaker 1: And I hope that that the message is sent. I
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Speaker 1: thought that there was a chance that the league might
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Speaker 1: not suspend them only for this reason, not because they
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Speaker 1: shouldn't have, but because the league doesn't love setting precedents,
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Speaker 1: And now there's a Now you wonder if this will
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Speaker 1: lead toward a precedent of if you leave the bench,
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Speaker 1: where's the gray area, where's the line? But so I
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Speaker 1: thought there was a chance they might not suspend him,
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Speaker 1: but only for that reason, simply because and I thought
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Speaker 1: that if they didn't that the fine would be enormous,
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Speaker 1: the equivalent of a game check or whatever that is.
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Speaker 1: Or perhaps you might not want to punish the team
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Speaker 1: and just punish a player, which is sometimes what you
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Speaker 1: do when you're wanting to just fine. But there is
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Speaker 1: once the league decided to find and to suspend, I
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Speaker 1: didn't think it was any way it was gonna be
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Speaker 1: overturned and anything, it should have been overturned because the
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Speaker 1: difference was in the end. And John Ronnyon said this
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Speaker 1: in the letter, the malicious intent. I don't think he
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Speaker 1: phrased it that way. But leaving the bench, he left
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Speaker 1: the bench with the idea he was going to fight,
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Speaker 1: not be a piece, right and clear, and I clearly
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Speaker 1: was not a peacemaker once he got there. And I
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Speaker 1: think when you put those two together, uh, my guess
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Speaker 1: is what they saw when they were reviewing it was
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Speaker 1: pretty evident. And you said arrogance with the appeal, and
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Speaker 1: I agree that when we all saw that he was
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Speaker 1: appealing the decision. You're like, why, it's very clear that
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Speaker 1: what you did broke the rules. You see all the
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Speaker 1: layouts of it. The appeal was almost but you usually
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Speaker 1: you usually don't have this. It still feel arrogant, but
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Speaker 1: I understand why they did it on fine. I mean,
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Speaker 1: most guys who get fine free anything, I have a
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Speaker 1: quiet appeals process that we never hear about because it's
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Speaker 1: an eight thousand dollar fine, which for you and me
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Speaker 1: would be a big deal. For them, they just pay
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Speaker 1: it and move on and it it's not a headline.
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Speaker 1: This was a headline because it was a suspension. If
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Speaker 1: anyone out there thinks, that's just piling on, and I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure if anyone does or not. This is the
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Speaker 1: jaguars best offensive player by quite a distance from the
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Speaker 1: next one. He played perhaps his most complete game I
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Speaker 1: thought of his career. He was dominant right for the
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Speaker 1: first time since they drafted him. He felt like that
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Speaker 1: kind of back, that that take control of the game
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Speaker 1: kind of back. He was doing it. I thought he
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Speaker 1: got close to that against Pittsburgh regular season last year.
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Speaker 1: But really, except from the ninety yard run, he was
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Speaker 1: having a good game, not a fantastic game. Well, the
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Speaker 1: jump over the top of this fell completely different. But
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Speaker 1: this fell completely different. And I also thought Brian I
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Speaker 1: made this point on Monday, it not only felt different
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Speaker 1: for the first time backed up another game that was
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Speaker 1: really really good, because I thought he was good against
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Speaker 1: I'm John Blank the Steelers last week, so it was
6:12
Speaker 1: it was. It was two games in a row, which
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Speaker 1: he really hadn't done last year. He had the huge
6:17
Speaker 1: games back to back against the Rams and the Steelers,
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Speaker 1: but the Rams game was a seventy five yeard run
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Speaker 1: and nothing else. This was the first time he had
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Speaker 1: done it back to back where you thought to yourself, Okay,
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Speaker 1: this is why they drafted him. Uh, it's too bad
6:32
Speaker 1: he won't play well. You know. Malie Jackson said it
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Speaker 1: on Monday, Ashley and you were standing right there. Um,
6:39
Speaker 1: he said, the kid needs to grow up. And for
6:42
Speaker 1: those of us who are around here in the locker
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Speaker 1: room over the last two months, as he walked, walked
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Speaker 1: in and out, sauntered in and out, I felt it.
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Speaker 1: I felt like the kid didn't have enough perspective on
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Speaker 1: who he is and what he has done. Now. Who
6:55
Speaker 1: he is is a kid that's been a star since
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Speaker 1: he was in seventh and eighth, Greg, But when you
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Speaker 1: get to the National Football League, it's about what you
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Speaker 1: do here, not what you did in college. And hopefully
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Speaker 1: this takes him and brings him back down a notch
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Speaker 1: because if the player comes back focused the player that
7:13
Speaker 1: I saw on the field in Buffalo, who now that's
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Speaker 1: something he can carry this team and they need him to.
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Speaker 1: He's got to get some perspective though. And I think
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Speaker 1: Brian the last not five games, the last four games, Uh,
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Speaker 1: if he plays like he does, aink, they're important for
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Speaker 1: him in the franchise. Uh. And that may be the
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Speaker 1: one spot where you can say that if he plays
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Speaker 1: the last four games like he did the last two,
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Speaker 1: then the idea of I want to say, building around
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Speaker 1: him because you've got to get the passing game going.
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Speaker 1: But you feel maybe a little different than you did
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Speaker 1: in the last even season and a half about truly
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Speaker 1: saying this is something that this is a building block
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Speaker 1: that we can win with. I don't think you knew
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Speaker 1: that before the last two games, but he's got a
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Speaker 1: show for the last four and you know you were
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Speaker 1: here John and and the FRED comparison is always going
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Speaker 1: to come back with this and then close until now. No, no, no,
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Speaker 1: But here's the thing. I'm going off the field with Fred. Though.
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Speaker 1: There was a moment where Fred had the gold grill right,
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Speaker 1: he was making a statement with that. He was eating
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Speaker 1: fast food, and he was driving a Suzuki Samur had
8:22
Speaker 1: a little you know, rice rocket um uh motorcycle, and
8:27
Speaker 1: he was kind of living that flamboyant sort of style.
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Speaker 1: And at some point that turned. Somebody got to him,
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, he became a pro. He
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Speaker 1: took this out and started speaking clearly with the media
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Speaker 1: because it him important to him. He started eating and
8:39
Speaker 1: taking care of his body because he realized that if
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Speaker 1: he didn't, he wasn't going to stay on the field.
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Speaker 1: And then he did something really really important. He took
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Speaker 1: all the things that were away from football, like the motorcycle,
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Speaker 1: and he focused on football, and he became a star,
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Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame caliber star. And I wondered on
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Speaker 1: last night in particular, I wondered if maybe this isn't
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Speaker 1: that turning point for him where he can't take its
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Speaker 1: incredible talent and potential and put all the other stuff,
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Speaker 1: the instagrams of the private jet and all of that
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Speaker 1: nonsense aside and focus on being the best player he
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Speaker 1: can be. Maybe this is that moment in the midst
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Speaker 1: of all that crap right now that feels like a
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Speaker 1: dumpster fire right now, Maybe that moment shines through, needs
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Speaker 1: to Yeah, it's an opportunity to say the least. All right,
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Speaker 1: let's go with it. Big things, all right, Big thing
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Speaker 1: one is today. Today is a big day. It's the
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Speaker 1: first day that we're going to see Cody Kussler get
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Speaker 1: the first snaps at quarterback on the practice fields. The
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Speaker 1: first day we're gonna see Scott Milanovich called the plays
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Speaker 1: on the practice field. It's also the first day that
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Speaker 1: we're going to be in the locker room today focusing
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Speaker 1: on what Cody Kussler has to say. It's changed. He'll
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Speaker 1: be interesting. Board is gonna be in the locker room
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Speaker 1: as well. He will. It'll be very interesting to see
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Speaker 1: how he handles the situation. I think, knowing him, he'll
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Speaker 1: handle it like a pro. Yeah, Blake will handle it fine. Um,
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Speaker 1: you can almost write what he'll say already. Uh, Kessler,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure he I'm sure fine. He's he started six
10:02
Speaker 1: games in the NFL. He believes that he's a starting
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Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL. He has that confidence and he'll
10:08
Speaker 1: handle it right. Uh as is the case with four
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Speaker 1: NET maybe not quite as high profile. But how he
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Speaker 1: plays over the last four or the last five games
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Speaker 1: Cody Kesler, I don't think it will change whether they
10:21
Speaker 1: go get a quarterback next year, because I think they're
10:23
Speaker 1: going to do that in the draft. But if he
10:25
Speaker 1: plays well, then you feel better about the prospect. Maybe
10:30
Speaker 1: you start him early until a rookie is ready. Maybe
10:32
Speaker 1: that plays into it. But I think how he plays
10:35
Speaker 1: over the last five games. Obviously if he if he
10:37
Speaker 1: comes out and it's bad, then you feel not good
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Speaker 1: about doing that. So do you have a sense of
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Speaker 1: who he is as a quarterback? Do you? He started
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Speaker 1: eight games in Cleveland and that that was on a
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Speaker 1: team that had no talent around him whatsoever. Although without
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Speaker 1: Leonard and with the offensive line beat up, it's not
10:54
Speaker 1: it's not a distant situation. Um, I just don't know
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Speaker 1: that I have a sense of what kind of a
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Speaker 1: quarterback he can be. Not really. He had the look
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Speaker 1: of a during the preseason, even against the Texans, of
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Speaker 1: a backup, and by that I mean not much outside
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Speaker 1: the box. So they're the one touchdown against the Texans
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Speaker 1: was a nice play on a scramble that he threw
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Speaker 1: the uh to t J Yeldon. Um looked obviously very
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Speaker 1: committed to running the offense, making sure you do everything right.
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Speaker 1: A little uh, maybe a little mechanical. I don't know
11:27
Speaker 1: if I'm reaching for the right word, but you know,
11:29
Speaker 1: when you first get into a situation, you're making sure
11:32
Speaker 1: you ran what was running practice. Very deliberate. I guess
11:36
Speaker 1: it's better than deliberate than uh. Mechanical. Is not a
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Speaker 1: knock because he was accurate. He played well. And what
11:43
Speaker 1: you hope is that over five games you see some looseness,
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Speaker 1: some some feel for the games, some ability to change
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Speaker 1: all those things that a quarterback has to do. There's
11:53
Speaker 1: a reason why I can't do it. He's never had
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Speaker 1: a chance to do it. Here we'll see and Um.
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Speaker 1: There is an element with the backup quarterbacks often where
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Speaker 1: what you see is a lot of they dropped back
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Speaker 1: and then the rush starts to get there, and it's
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Speaker 1: a rollout and if they're out of bounds or a rollout,
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Speaker 1: get away and take the safe throat. Um. That's understandable
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Speaker 1: because you're a backup and you're trying to make sure
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Speaker 1: you make a play, you're trying to make sure you
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Speaker 1: don't lose yardage, keep the down a distance manageable over time.
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Speaker 1: What you went from a quarterback is to sort of
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Speaker 1: feel that a little better and make plays out of
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Speaker 1: some situations. But he wasn't doing that. But it would
12:39
Speaker 1: have been a surprise if he if he'd been doing
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Speaker 1: that at this stage. But that's how he looked so far.
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Speaker 1: But that's how backup quarterbacks look, So that's okay. At
12:47
Speaker 1: times against the Texans, when we were standing on the
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Speaker 1: sidelines and he went in, I thought he was almost
12:51
Speaker 1: so caught up in the moment that it was distracting
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Speaker 1: for him. You saw him warming up and he was
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Speaker 1: all amped up. Then you saw him come off the
12:56
Speaker 1: field after an offensive drive and he was down by
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Speaker 1: the defense high five and them gonna get one amped up.
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Speaker 1: It was almost like he was really really excited to
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Speaker 1: be there, which of course he's going to be, but
13:04
Speaker 1: at times I thought it was almost like, all right,
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Speaker 1: take a deep breath, keep it going. Next question. It's
13:09
Speaker 1: like sitting next to me on set, I'm always just
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Speaker 1: HIPing people up, ready to go very similar high on life.
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Speaker 1: That's what I am do we know do you expect?
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Speaker 1: And again they're so hamstrung. No Leonard backups on the
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Speaker 1: offensive line, no tight end that you can rely on
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Speaker 1: to block or even catch. I think, um, what do
13:29
Speaker 1: you expect from Alan of bitch? I mean, what what
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Speaker 1: can he do? What do you got to throw more
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Speaker 1: on first down or run more on second? How different
13:35
Speaker 1: can it possibly be? Is what I'm scratching my head
13:38
Speaker 1: trying to figure out. You have the same weapons. You
13:40
Speaker 1: would love for them to be at full strength offensively,
13:44
Speaker 1: And I'm sure Nate Hacket is listening to this, going yeah,
13:46
Speaker 1: so would I. But you can't imagine that you won't
13:52
Speaker 1: see more passing on on first down, more attempt to
13:57
Speaker 1: open it up. Only because when Doug made this announcement
14:00
Speaker 1: are discussed it on Monday. He was very specific multiple times.
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Speaker 1: I did this because we need to get something going
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Speaker 1: in the passing game. So it would be a little
14:08
Speaker 1: odd if if you remember when they made the change
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Speaker 1: from Hacket, I mean from Olsen to Hackett in two
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Speaker 1: thousand and sixteen in Kansas City, it was clearly made
14:18
Speaker 1: because they were throwing the ball too much and they
14:20
Speaker 1: wanted to run. Well, they came out and they ran
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Speaker 1: for two hundred issue or it's Chris Ivy was running
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Speaker 1: all over the place. It was a run oriented game.
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Speaker 1: You would think you would see the opposite with this.
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Speaker 1: You would think you'd see a passing oriented game, because
14:33
Speaker 1: that's the reason they made the move. Um. At the
14:36
Speaker 1: same time, I don't know that you want to subject
14:39
Speaker 1: an offensive line with two opening day starters two. Hey,
14:43
Speaker 1: the Colts know we have to pass. Let's get after
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Speaker 1: uh Cody Kesler. So it has to be a mix.
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Speaker 1: But I can't imagine you won't see more passing on
14:54
Speaker 1: early down. Yeah, well just a thought. It's good for
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Speaker 1: them this week because they get a Colts team that
14:58
Speaker 1: doesn't have that elite pass rusher you faced some teams
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Speaker 1: coming up to do. Yeah, they got after him a
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Speaker 1: little bit in Indie though, So I mean it was
15:06
Speaker 1: the Colt's passed rush was better that day than the Jaguars,
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Speaker 1: mainly because the Colts offensive line. But when teams know
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Speaker 1: you're going to pass, even average pass rusher has become good.
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Speaker 1: Big thing too, is tomorrow and what's ahead, So we
15:22
Speaker 1: know some change has come. Is more change coming in
15:25
Speaker 1: two thousand nights and in the off season. It's going
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Speaker 1: to be an interesting off season. This week has made
15:29
Speaker 1: it even more so interesting than we expected. We talked
15:32
Speaker 1: about the numbers yesterday, John Um, there is always the
15:36
Speaker 1: possibility that because of the salary cap and and guaranteed
15:40
Speaker 1: money and dead money and all of that, that Blake
15:42
Speaker 1: Bortles could be on the roster. I I don't discount
15:45
Speaker 1: it completely, but I don't see it. It feels as
15:49
Speaker 1: if this is the end in the situation, whatever the
15:51
Speaker 1: feeling is worth. Um you see any way that that
15:54
Speaker 1: comes back around. When it first happened, my first thought was,
16:00
Speaker 1: this is a guy who has come back from the
16:04
Speaker 1: brink so often that you wouldn't be surprised if he
16:07
Speaker 1: did again, And now I would be. I mean, it
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Speaker 1: just feels like I don't even mean it's the starter.
16:14
Speaker 1: I mean maybe this was a competitives what I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's it's a I think he would be if it
16:23
Speaker 1: was in a vacuum, then maybe you could do it.
16:27
Speaker 1: I sort of feel like when they got rid of Gabbert,
16:31
Speaker 1: and I'm not comparing Blake to gabertt except in they
16:35
Speaker 1: could have kept Gabett for another year. At that point,
16:37
Speaker 1: I think he had one more year left on his deal.
16:40
Speaker 1: Talent wise, Blaine's gone on and been a decent backup
16:45
Speaker 1: come in and I mean he's he's a backup. He's
16:48
Speaker 1: back up in the NFL. H And that would have
16:52
Speaker 1: been an option on paper, but in fact it just
16:57
Speaker 1: could you do it. It was just a tough thing
16:59
Speaker 1: to do. Sort of feels the same way that, Um,
17:04
Speaker 1: there is a point where maybe as a franchise, you
17:07
Speaker 1: don't want to be the team that's always associated with
17:10
Speaker 1: that thing that happened in the past. Um it's a
17:15
Speaker 1: shame because if there's anybody in terms of a person
17:20
Speaker 1: that you want to be associated with with, its Blake.
17:23
Speaker 1: But at this point you do wonder if if it's
17:25
Speaker 1: just time, and I think it will be time after
17:27
Speaker 1: the offseason, I'd be surprised if he's here. Big Thing
17:30
Speaker 1: three them Big Thing three is Sunday. So we saw
17:33
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago how dominant the Colts offensive line was.
17:36
Speaker 1: Quentin Nelson was my god good at going up against
17:39
Speaker 1: Barry Church. We all saw that video. The same thing
17:41
Speaker 1: is going to happen. They have answers with their quarterback
17:44
Speaker 1: and it seems like he is making the entire roster better.
17:46
Speaker 1: It's what the Jaguars want to get is he's making
17:49
Speaker 1: complimentary players on the offense better as the entire offense
17:52
Speaker 1: has been successful this season, you know, And I chose
17:54
Speaker 1: this topic because I thought that it would be instructive
17:58
Speaker 1: of how quickly now they have their quarterback. So it's
18:01
Speaker 1: quicker than most. But their quarterback was getting killed two
18:04
Speaker 1: years ago. The last time we saw him, he'd been
18:06
Speaker 1: sacked thirty times in the first seven games. He's been
18:09
Speaker 1: not what He's been touched once in the last five
18:11
Speaker 1: six weeks. Uh, he's able to play, stay healthy, and
18:15
Speaker 1: perform at his best. The offensive line has lifted them.
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Speaker 1: So we'll talk a lot about quarterback and what that
18:21
Speaker 1: means and how the Jaguars have to find their guy
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Speaker 1: and go forward. They also have got to play on
18:26
Speaker 1: the offensive line at a much higher level, especially inside.
18:30
Speaker 1: So I don't know what that means for Brandon Linder.
18:33
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means that right guard, you know,
18:35
Speaker 1: right tackle. I mean, I think you've got two guys
18:38
Speaker 1: that you know for sure you're going forward, maybe three,
18:40
Speaker 1: maybe Lender's there. I don't know. I didn't think he
18:42
Speaker 1: was playing all that well. I didn't think he was
18:44
Speaker 1: playing like an eleven million dollar center. Um, but you've
18:48
Speaker 1: got Cam Robinson and Andrew Norwell, both of whom you're
18:51
Speaker 1: committed to. You're going to have to do some work
18:54
Speaker 1: on this offensive line next year. To the Cults have
18:57
Speaker 1: shown you just how important it is and how quickly
18:59
Speaker 1: you can make progress if yours is great. Yeah, and uh,
19:05
Speaker 1: it's tough because the Jaguars have tried to address it,
19:10
Speaker 1: and they've tried to address it in a way as
19:12
Speaker 1: as you go along. You know, there were so many
19:16
Speaker 1: needs in thirteen and fourteen that it was hard to
19:21
Speaker 1: take the Colts approach of first round, first round. First
19:24
Speaker 1: That's what Dallas did. First round, first round, first round.
19:27
Speaker 1: It's hard because you've got all other things you need
19:30
Speaker 1: to get done this year. Do you want a first
19:33
Speaker 1: round right tackle? What do you want a quarterback? Non't
19:37
Speaker 1: the quarterback absolutely well? And then if you didn't have
19:41
Speaker 1: Unique and got Clays they didn't have back then do
19:43
Speaker 1: you want a first round guard or do you want
19:46
Speaker 1: a pass rusher? And that's what they were up again.
19:48
Speaker 1: I think some of that depends on who your quarterback
19:49
Speaker 1: is too, right well, and and the Colts remember had
19:52
Speaker 1: luck all this time, so you hadn't have to keep
19:54
Speaker 1: going after that. So that's why they don't have the
19:56
Speaker 1: dominant pass rusher right now because they decided to play
19:58
Speaker 1: to their quarterback. You make choice, and the Jaguars tried.
20:02
Speaker 1: And this is something I've written a lot. It's not
20:05
Speaker 1: that they haven't tried in the last five or six
20:07
Speaker 1: years to go offensive line. You went Luke jokel you
20:10
Speaker 1: went Camera Robinson, which is a second and a high
20:13
Speaker 1: first two third round picks, and Cannon Lender. He spent
20:18
Speaker 1: big money on right tackle. He spent big money on
20:20
Speaker 1: on Zane Beatles, he spent big money on Andrew Norwell. Well.
20:24
Speaker 1: There's equity there, you can there's trying and then there's
20:29
Speaker 1: trying and not quite working. H I think next year
20:34
Speaker 1: you will see the three you just talked about, Lender, Robinson,
20:39
Speaker 1: and Norwell back. I don't think he's any way in
20:40
Speaker 1: the world. Lender gets out of here at this point. No,
20:43
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that initially he should not, but I
20:45
Speaker 1: just didn't think he was playing all that well. But yeah,
20:47
Speaker 1: he has been a big factor. He's, you know, not
20:49
Speaker 1: practicing on Wednesday, right. I asked a little bit about this.
20:52
Speaker 1: He he's not a top three center, top ten center.
20:55
Speaker 1: He is, so I don't think you get rid of that.
20:58
Speaker 1: And he's their best offensive lineman. So you if he's
21:04
Speaker 1: not paid like the best offensive lineman Norway, Well yeah,
21:07
Speaker 1: but you had to go get that, and that's harder
21:11
Speaker 1: when you pay your own versus go getting. You're always
21:13
Speaker 1: gonna pay more for go get. But you know, I
21:17
Speaker 1: think right tackle would be a priority. And then at
21:20
Speaker 1: some point you can't spend everywhere. I think right guard
21:24
Speaker 1: will be where you probably have a third round rookie
21:27
Speaker 1: And you're saying you gotta or some rookie in their
21:30
Speaker 1: second Well, again, you got a lot to get to Phil.
21:33
Speaker 1: You got a draft receiver, you got a draft backup
21:35
Speaker 1: running back, I mean backup running back. Well, you've got
21:38
Speaker 1: Carlos Hide. Well, he's on your on your roster for
21:42
Speaker 1: the next two years. Gonna be t J Yelden. And
21:45
Speaker 1: these two guys right now aren't the third down safety
21:50
Speaker 1: net the t J Yelden is. I would agree, but
21:52
Speaker 1: I would argue with you, if you've got an offensive
21:55
Speaker 1: line that's performing at a higher level, you can find
21:57
Speaker 1: a runner later in the draft. It could be t
21:58
Speaker 1: J Yelden based on what in he's done. We'll see.
22:02
Speaker 1: It's all. They're gonna try to get that guy somewhere
22:05
Speaker 1: in the draft. I think agreed. I think they should.
22:07
Speaker 1: And let's leave it with this. It would it surprise
22:10
Speaker 1: you if every dollar and every draft pick was spent
22:14
Speaker 1: on one side of the ball next year? Um the
22:18
Speaker 1: answers yes, because you don't expect them to do that
22:20
Speaker 1: every draft pick. No, but it could easily be where
22:23
Speaker 1: they have seven because they sort of swapped out the fifth.
22:27
Speaker 1: Uh five, Yeah, yeah, all right, we'll do for a break,
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Speaker 1: single Wednesday. It is a joyful moment here on this
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Speaker 1: side of the studio as we introduced to you a
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Speaker 1: right good Mr Sexton in the radio, A long time
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Speaker 1: Joe Johnny one hit wonders the Proclaimers ring a bell,
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Speaker 1: I will walk there, you go, all right, well today
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Speaker 1: we're gonna kill that record. Will I know that? Will?
25:43
Speaker 1: I know that we want three, and I know that
25:45
Speaker 1: three means we won more than two. And I know that,
25:50
Speaker 1: and I know if we want four, that means four
25:52
Speaker 1: is winning more than three or two. And I know
25:56
Speaker 1: that winning out seems like straight, but being eight might
26:00
Speaker 1: not be what to do and to left aprils coming
26:05
Speaker 1: around a real fast, and it might be that a
26:07
Speaker 1: drafting one or two. So should we play five hundred
26:13
Speaker 1: or should we try to use them all. The season
26:18
Speaker 1: went to hell fast and we can we if we're sure.
26:28
Speaker 1: So you didn't know that. I didn't know that song? Absolutely, you, sir,
26:34
Speaker 1: are a delight everye what else it's really there? Well,
26:37
Speaker 1: I mean that. Look, we all know we're headed to
26:40
Speaker 1: that conversation in December. We know it. So you just
26:44
Speaker 1: laid it out for us in a musical tune A
26:47
Speaker 1: pipe little tune? Pipe was Is that in your wheelhouse?
26:50
Speaker 1: Ash Yeah? I know that song. I didn't know. I
26:53
Speaker 1: didn't know who's sang it, but I've heard it, Okay,
26:55
Speaker 1: that's I think that's fair. When Joe told me the
26:57
Speaker 1: name of this new song for me, and I think
26:59
Speaker 1: it was written before Ashton was born. There's a lot
27:04
Speaker 1: that happened before Ashland was born. Let's just be honest.
27:07
Speaker 1: But a lot has happened since I've been alive. The
27:09
Speaker 1: sure that Joe was wearing today probably existed before Ashlyn.
27:13
Speaker 1: It's cold, I know, sadly that's probably true. Yeah, probably
27:19
Speaker 1: what something? Joe has very colorful socks that that pre
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Speaker 1: date you, That might predate your parents. It might be
27:27
Speaker 1: time to get new socks. Then somebody has to punch.
27:31
Speaker 1: Might have clothes that predate. I don't think they're speaking
27:38
Speaker 1: of time. It's a mean all kidding aside, it's it's
27:51
Speaker 1: a really good song. That is the one that Joe
27:54
Speaker 1: just did, No, the original, not Oh Joe did that too,
28:00
Speaker 1: in a way he did. Yeah, he's a good man.
28:03
Speaker 1: He's very talented. You know, I lost I brought a
28:06
Speaker 1: pen from Joel last week and lost it where I
28:08
Speaker 1: gave it back and he's fine with it. That's that's
28:11
Speaker 1: character telling. That's a nice man. He should join you
28:14
Speaker 1: for the breakfast buffet. Wanted you wanted? You got to
28:16
Speaker 1: treat him to the breakfast buffet for the pen that
28:19
Speaker 1: you lost. It'd be a good someday. I'll just steal
28:21
Speaker 1: something off his day and feel good about it, okay,
28:26
Speaker 1: because you leave cash just laying around spend thrift that
28:29
Speaker 1: you are. All right, let's get to this thing. Let's
28:32
Speaker 1: go to Jacksonville, Eddie. So if Kessler goes in and
28:37
Speaker 1: lays an egg, then what do we do? Well then yeah, well,
28:42
Speaker 1: you know how much worse can it be? Exactly? You know,
28:49
Speaker 1: what do you have to do? Just just wait it out.
28:50
Speaker 1: It'll soon be over. Yeah, I mean, it's uh, they'll
28:54
Speaker 1: keep starting him and it'll be bad, but I don't
28:59
Speaker 1: think it'll be uh yeah, I guess it's that could
29:04
Speaker 1: be any worse. I don't have to answer the question,
29:05
Speaker 1: but I think he'll be okay if if he lays
29:10
Speaker 1: an egg then this weekend, I don't think you worry
29:14
Speaker 1: about it too much. If he lays an egg for
29:16
Speaker 1: four games and you know you don't have that guy
29:17
Speaker 1: and then you gotta go get a veteran guy to
29:20
Speaker 1: go along with the rookie next year and you start over,
29:22
Speaker 1: I don't think it changes that much in the long term.
29:26
Speaker 1: If he lays an egg, if he plays well, then
29:28
Speaker 1: I think it makes you think, Okay, this is a
29:30
Speaker 1: guy that that we can factor into the quarterback equation bridge,
29:34
Speaker 1: whereas right now you don't really know he can bridge
29:36
Speaker 1: it for it, which is what you're looking for. You're
29:38
Speaker 1: absolutely I mean Tom Coughlin did local radio yesterday and
29:42
Speaker 1: was talking about, you know, the game and the way
29:43
Speaker 1: that it's changed and the rules and how people want
29:46
Speaker 1: points and just interpret that. Right, you gotta get one
29:50
Speaker 1: of those guys. You've got to find a guy who
29:53
Speaker 1: can do that most significant because and Brian, we've talked
29:59
Speaker 1: about it on the show. Uh, the Rams has, but
30:03
Speaker 1: they run. Everything goes through the running end. That's what
30:07
Speaker 1: you wonder the last four games with four net does
30:11
Speaker 1: he show because he hasn't been Tied Gurley yet? Oh no,
30:14
Speaker 1: So well, there's some people think he's great, he's not
30:18
Speaker 1: with Todd Gurley has proven it on the front. But
30:21
Speaker 1: he's shown in the last couple of weeks that he
30:23
Speaker 1: can be an element something like that. Maybe not Tied Gurley,
30:27
Speaker 1: but it's something you can build around that you know
30:29
Speaker 1: what you've got. He needs to play that way for
30:32
Speaker 1: four games so that they are sure in the offseason
30:35
Speaker 1: what they have and then it's it's an element that
30:37
Speaker 1: they know they can build off of. I have said
30:39
Speaker 1: it showing that more since the losing started that no
30:42
Speaker 1: matter what you think of Nate Hackett and the offense,
30:46
Speaker 1: what they wanted to do this year was what the
30:49
Speaker 1: Rams are doing. They could do a little different at
30:51
Speaker 1: the two backs set. They didn't have that deep Brandon
30:53
Speaker 1: Cook's receiver, but they really like what they could do
30:56
Speaker 1: with Corey Grant out of the backfield. What they thought
30:58
Speaker 1: the tight end was going to give them, and they
31:00
Speaker 1: hoped to have Mark Keislee and Donte Moncreef streaking down
31:03
Speaker 1: the field. The Rams are doing it better, but they're
31:06
Speaker 1: doing exactly what the Jaguars hoped to do. Nad Hacket
31:10
Speaker 1: didn't have a chance. He didn't have the players and
31:12
Speaker 1: have something that really hurt your soul. You need that
31:15
Speaker 1: right as Yeah, give it to me Leonard for Nett
31:17
Speaker 1: running like he has the last two weeks with Corey
31:21
Speaker 1: Grant and oh on the field, and and Austin Seferian Jenkins,
31:26
Speaker 1: who I think would have been a huge difference in
31:28
Speaker 1: the middle of the field. People can bang on Blake
31:30
Speaker 1: Boardles all they want for the passing on Sunday and
31:33
Speaker 1: in the second half against the Steelers, but the reality
31:36
Speaker 1: of it is is that last year we saw a
31:38
Speaker 1: guy who, with complimentary pieces, to use the word that
31:41
Speaker 1: you brought into the equation weeks ago, was very efficient
31:45
Speaker 1: and played to the strengths of the team. Couldn't do it,
31:48
Speaker 1: had to carry the team. Can't do it. Jaguars likely
31:51
Speaker 1: moving on wouldn't have been a top three offense with that,
31:54
Speaker 1: but I think it would have been a top ten
31:55
Speaker 1: to fourteen. I think they'd be six and five. Life
31:58
Speaker 1: would be very different, all right, Let's go to good
32:01
Speaker 1: old Jamie offensive coordinator, fired quarterback bench. Who are the
32:06
Speaker 1: fans going to hate next week? If the Jaguars win,
32:08
Speaker 1: it'll probably be the head coach for not making the
32:10
Speaker 1: change sooner. I guess we'll have to stay tuned. Well.
32:14
Speaker 1: The fans will hate Todd Wash next week because he's
32:16
Speaker 1: no I mean, you know you had some media yesterday
32:19
Speaker 1: that we're asking the question when I fire him too. Yeah,
32:21
Speaker 1: there's fire everybody. Um, it's fine, Um, just hand him
32:27
Speaker 1: the check as he walks out the door, a big check.
32:32
Speaker 1: At this point. Unless you turn this around and win
32:36
Speaker 1: four or five, there's gonna be calls for Doug. There's
32:39
Speaker 1: gonna be calls for Todd Wash. There's gonna be calls
32:41
Speaker 1: for Dave calls yesterday, Right, So they wanted her to
32:44
Speaker 1: change your name from Ashlyn to Ashley, and I don't
32:46
Speaker 1: think I did much at all, Right, but apparently I'm
32:48
Speaker 1: a part of the equation. Everybody becomes part of the problem.
32:51
Speaker 1: That actually is a nice name. I mean, it's it's
32:53
Speaker 1: got a nice ring to it. I'll consider it. But yeah,
32:58
Speaker 1: they're gonna hate and continue to hate until you start winning.
33:02
Speaker 1: It's what fans do. I personally think Doug is going
33:07
Speaker 1: to be fine. I think he mean, I think he's
33:10
Speaker 1: gonna be back next year. Uh, but we'll see. Well.
33:14
Speaker 1: And as I mentioned, we talked about this yesterday Ashland John,
33:17
Speaker 1: I don't know we did. People thought what it Doug
33:20
Speaker 1: too much of a curmudgeon offensively, he doesn't. We've got
33:22
Speaker 1: to get a coaching here who's going to run a
33:24
Speaker 1: high octane offense. Don't forget he worked with Sean Payton.
33:28
Speaker 1: He got exactly and you played at the strings that
33:32
Speaker 1: you have. Don't think for a moment that he can't
33:35
Speaker 1: go and fine tune this thing. If they bring in
33:38
Speaker 1: players and run a different offense entirely, don't make the
33:42
Speaker 1: different offense. Well he was trying to Tom Coughlin. Uh
33:49
Speaker 1: remember when he was here with Jimmy and Keenan. Right,
33:51
Speaker 1: it is not averse to the passing game. They tried
33:54
Speaker 1: to win last year and this year with what they had.
33:59
Speaker 1: Guess what they want last year with what they had
34:01
Speaker 1: when it was healthy. So if they have something different,
34:06
Speaker 1: they will adapt around that. All right, Let's finish it
34:09
Speaker 1: off with Brandon from Asheville, North Carolina. When it rains,
34:13
Speaker 1: it pours this upcoming game will look like a preseason
34:16
Speaker 1: game with the number of injuries, demotions and suspensions on offense.
34:20
Speaker 1: What hope is there? You know, it's funny when I
34:23
Speaker 1: first got this from Brandon in Asheville. Uh, great town Ashville.
34:27
Speaker 1: By the way, uma is that ash Lynnville was Asheville
34:30
Speaker 1: shut for Ashlynnville as my mother doesn't like Ashley. That's
34:37
Speaker 1: how she likes Ashville. I don't know, I'll have to ask.
34:40
Speaker 1: I'll call her after just text her now she's probably
34:43
Speaker 1: texting you. When I first got the email, I thought
34:46
Speaker 1: it was a big I thought it was a bit extreme.
34:49
Speaker 1: When I thought about the email, I thought it was
34:51
Speaker 1: dead on because it is going to have a preseason
34:54
Speaker 1: feel in terms of we've never seen Cody Castle start before. Uh,
34:59
Speaker 1: you have a new coordinator, two starting offensive lineman. How
35:03
Speaker 1: many guys starting on Sunday did you expect it would
35:08
Speaker 1: be starting? I think the numbers three. I think A D. D. Westbrook,
35:13
Speaker 1: which really expect him to be starting, but H D
35:16
Speaker 1: D Westbrook and two offensive linement A J. Cannon, Jeremy Parnell. Right,
35:20
Speaker 1: that's it. So yeah, it's got that feel. Nothing is
35:25
Speaker 1: quite against a team that's won five in a row
35:28
Speaker 1: and their quarterback is untouchable. It seems your chance to
35:33
Speaker 1: win on Sunday is the past rush gets free and
35:38
Speaker 1: Jalen and Boy and the safeties picked the ball off.
35:41
Speaker 1: And yet you know what Brian, I would expect by
35:43
Speaker 1: the way, I expect Jalen too, even though he had
35:46
Speaker 1: that terrific game against the Steelers. I would think that
35:49
Speaker 1: Jalen will remember a month ago and be ready to go. Yeah,
35:53
Speaker 1: he hopes. I think he'll play well. And I'll say
35:56
Speaker 1: this more on Friday. I have a feeling dag Wars
36:00
Speaker 1: went on Sunday. Whoa, I'm sorry to see that. I
36:02
Speaker 1: hear on the Diguars went on Sunday. Because that's how
36:05
Speaker 1: this league work. It's so weird works, and you've seen
36:08
Speaker 1: it so many times. There's your hope, Brandon. I'm not
36:10
Speaker 1: betting any money on you wouldn't, but it's just how
36:15
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Speaker 1: happen today, but before that, I have some questions for
38:31
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38:37
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38:40
Speaker 1: say Nathaniel Hackett is still the offensive coordinator this week? Brian,
38:46
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38:51
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Speaker 1: as well? Yes, well, because they win, I think, and look,
38:59
Speaker 1: the momentum was clearly they were driving and Blake through that.
39:03
Speaker 1: It was a beautiful pass to mon Creef put him
39:06
Speaker 1: at the goal line. The way they're playing, I mean,
39:09
Speaker 1: you know, they tried a couple of plays on first
39:10
Speaker 1: and second down on his second touchdown, and finally on
39:12
Speaker 1: third down the game in the ball, remember they threw
39:14
Speaker 1: it and they ran it to to Tommy Bohannon and
39:17
Speaker 1: then and he just kind of walked in. So yeah,
39:19
Speaker 1: he absolutely scores. They have momentum. Now that doesn't necessarily
39:23
Speaker 1: mean that Nate finishes out the season. No, I agree
39:27
Speaker 1: with that. The next loss he isn't. It depends on
39:31
Speaker 1: how they play. Yeah, Now if they had won two
39:34
Speaker 1: or three in a row, yeah, probably not. If it
39:36
Speaker 1: you know, they don't make it change like they made
39:40
Speaker 1: on Monday, if they went on Sunday. Let's just how
39:42
Speaker 1: the league. All right, let's go to the next one.
39:45
Speaker 1: Hard getting questions is Blake Bortles on the Jaguars roster
39:49
Speaker 1: in two thousand and nineteen doesn't have to be the starter?
39:54
Speaker 1: Is he? Just here in Jacksonville are unanimous. Now. The
40:00
Speaker 1: reason that I say this is because if you recall
40:02
Speaker 1: about a month ago, I was then when people were
40:05
Speaker 1: calling for that, I went to the dead money on
40:08
Speaker 1: the salary cap and right now there's sixteen point five
40:10
Speaker 1: million in dead money assigned to Blake Bordles for two
40:14
Speaker 1: thousand and nineteen. But a little Bertie whispered to me
40:17
Speaker 1: that that number is not entirely accurate. That if they
40:21
Speaker 1: don't keep him on the roster, they can get five
40:24
Speaker 1: and a half million of that back because they don't
40:26
Speaker 1: pay it. You pay what you I'm sorry, you claim
40:30
Speaker 1: what you pay, right, So if they haven't paid that yet,
40:33
Speaker 1: they don't have to claim it. So it's only eleven million,
40:36
Speaker 1: which is a huge bite of the apple, don't I
40:39
Speaker 1: would really have trouble if I owned this team, um,
40:42
Speaker 1: because I don't want to pay eleven million. But they
40:45
Speaker 1: can get out from underneath that without having to destroy
40:49
Speaker 1: their roster. So I'm gonna say, because I've said it
40:52
Speaker 1: all week, it feels like this is the end Jacksonville.
40:57
Speaker 1: I think usually you have rules, and one of your
41:03
Speaker 1: rules is usually we're not going to pay that much
41:07
Speaker 1: for somebody not to be on the roster. But there's
41:10
Speaker 1: also cases in everything where as long as you know
41:13
Speaker 1: why you're breaking the rules, that you go ahead and
41:16
Speaker 1: break them. And I think this is one where you say,
41:19
Speaker 1: normally we would not if it was a defensive end,
41:22
Speaker 1: we would not. If it was a cornerback, we wouldn't
41:24
Speaker 1: do this. But with it being the quarterback and with
41:27
Speaker 1: it being such a you know, central position, uh, we
41:33
Speaker 1: just know that this is not something we want to
41:36
Speaker 1: go forward with. So I think it'll be not. I
41:37
Speaker 1: think it'll be no. And it essentially makes it just
41:42
Speaker 1: one year, six million dollar deal that you gave Blake. Yeah, thanks,
41:48
Speaker 1: all right, last national mask Pick one Jaguar who is
41:53
Speaker 1: making it to the Pro Bowl this year? Before I
41:58
Speaker 1: would have said Josh Lambo. He's and money this season
42:01
Speaker 1: a little in consistent the past few weeks, but he
42:04
Speaker 1: might still be your best. But of course Jalen Ramsey.
42:13
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna go with with Jalen not necessarily because
42:19
Speaker 1: he's had a magnificent year. He's had a couple of
42:22
Speaker 1: high profile interceptions or three actually, and I was his
42:27
Speaker 1: interception number at three now, um so gets one more,
42:34
Speaker 1: it would be maybe more of a reputation, more of
42:39
Speaker 1: a highlight type of selection. I still think he's one
42:44
Speaker 1: of the best, uh two or three corners in the
42:47
Speaker 1: NFL and still playing like that. So if he makes
42:51
Speaker 1: it to be for that reason, and I think there's
42:53
Speaker 1: a chance that he still makes it, although it certainly
42:56
Speaker 1: wouldn't have the shine that last year's did. Uh No,
42:58
Speaker 1: And I wrote Jalen too because that's the obvious one.
43:00
Speaker 1: But a guy who deserves to go because he's played
43:02
Speaker 1: at this level is Marcel Darius. He's been there before. Um.
43:06
Speaker 1: The teams that have played and the offensive lines that
43:09
Speaker 1: have faced him would have to say that he is
43:12
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl caliber player. Whether he gets there or not,
43:15
Speaker 1: I don't know, Um, but he certainly played at a
43:17
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl level. Yeah, I doubt he'll get there, only
43:20
Speaker 1: because although he definitely should. Uh. Usually defensive lineman, especially
43:28
Speaker 1: interior defensive lineman who don't have sacked numbers, is a
43:32
Speaker 1: is a reputation how good your team was type thing,
43:37
Speaker 1: fairly or unfairly. You've got to really be has something
43:41
Speaker 1: going spectacularly for you to make it well. And a
43:44
Speaker 1: guy like Jerrell Casey and Nashville generally gets the spot
43:47
Speaker 1: because even though he's a three four defensive end, they
43:50
Speaker 1: count him as a defensive tackle because he's more of
43:52
Speaker 1: an interior rusher, right, And he gets Yeah, so I
43:56
Speaker 1: think he should I'd be surprised if he did. Alright,
44:00
Speaker 1: that's it, that's it. How about some agree to disagree.
44:02
Speaker 1: We'll take our final break. We have John here, we've moved.
44:05
Speaker 1: Agree to disagree Wednesday. Sometimes both agreeable and disagreeable. The
44:12
Speaker 1: change of quarterback will invigorate the Jags offense and we'll
44:14
Speaker 1: see touchdowns instead of field goals on Sunday. And disagree.
44:20
Speaker 1: I think you're still going to see from some field
44:22
Speaker 1: goals a few touchdowns, but I don't think it's gonna
44:24
Speaker 1: invigorate the Jaguars offense Cody Custler because he still has
44:27
Speaker 1: the same offensive weapons that Blake Bortles said, and he's
44:29
Speaker 1: still playing behind the same offensive line without Andrew Normal.
44:32
Speaker 1: Now A because I'm generally agreeable, but but be um.
44:41
Speaker 1: You often see a jump, a a a spark with
44:46
Speaker 1: the new offensive coordinator. We saw it with Nate Hacking
44:49
Speaker 1: a couple of years back. It's harder to do that
44:53
Speaker 1: consider you also have a backup quarterback and everything else
44:56
Speaker 1: is in disarray. Um, but I think you'll see a
45:00
Speaker 1: I don't think they'll win, but at three touchdowns, did
45:02
Speaker 1: you not just say that said they were gonna win?
45:05
Speaker 1: You just said that in the last break they were
45:06
Speaker 1: gonna be all excited. You said they're gonna win, as hey,
45:15
Speaker 1: here's yeah, yeah, yeah, they're gonna four touchdown So invigorate.
45:20
Speaker 1: Invigorate might not be the right word, but talking to
45:24
Speaker 1: some of the guys in the locker room on Monday,
45:26
Speaker 1: they feel responsible for the changes that were made. Dede.
45:30
Speaker 1: Westbrook was wondered, I know that you talked to in particular.
45:32
Speaker 1: So I would like to think that balls that were
45:34
Speaker 1: dropped healing cole Um might be caught, right. I mean,
45:38
Speaker 1: some of these guys who have struggled over this losing
45:41
Speaker 1: streak might step up and make the catch and perform
45:44
Speaker 1: at a higher level. So I'll say, yes, I agree
45:47
Speaker 1: with that thing comes into play. I'll bet that they
45:49
Speaker 1: scored two first quarter touchdowns just because that's how this
45:54
Speaker 1: league works. Well, because it's how it works. And remember
45:59
Speaker 1: game planning for a coordinator. There's no tape on Scott Monitage,
46:03
Speaker 1: so maybe they fool him. They do something weird. They
46:06
Speaker 1: get a couple of touchdowns that you go jump off
46:08
Speaker 1: and lead, it'll be tight, it'll be tight, and then
46:10
Speaker 1: they wink, oh, so we're college football now, Is that
46:15
Speaker 1: it all right? How about the next one. Let's just
46:17
Speaker 1: do one more of these because we're up against it.
46:19
Speaker 1: We'll take a break after this. Uh, this is the
46:21
Speaker 1: end of the borders here. We've covered that. Hey, Max
46:24
Speaker 1: put up the next one. Yeah, we did that. I
46:27
Speaker 1: love it for Net, but it would but would take
46:30
Speaker 1: the c back he didn't earn it. Um. We talked
46:33
Speaker 1: about this yesterday. I totally agree with this. Uh. Now
46:37
Speaker 1: Doug said that it was primarily the player's decision. They
46:41
Speaker 1: gave him the sea. Do they want to take it back? Um?
46:46
Speaker 1: I would, because I'm I'm into sending the kid a message.
46:49
Speaker 1: Right now, I agree with I agree with your premise. Um.
46:53
Speaker 1: Looking at it from Doug's point of view, Doug's next player,
46:57
Speaker 1: and he believes in the saying city of the locker
47:00
Speaker 1: want certain things. He clearly believes that players choose the
47:03
Speaker 1: captains the captaincy. Um, so I don't think he'll do that.
47:08
Speaker 1: He believes that the players set that and that's something
47:11
Speaker 1: that he lets the players do. I don't think he'll
47:13
Speaker 1: veer from that. Uh. My guess is he would like
47:17
Speaker 1: if if if the players said, you know what, this
47:20
Speaker 1: is not the right guy. Right now. I don't think
47:22
Speaker 1: that will happen, but I don't think I'll have the
47:24
Speaker 1: captaincy stripped. I agree, but hearing Klais Campbell and Jaguars
47:28
Speaker 1: all access and then Malik Jackson in the locker room
47:31
Speaker 1: saying that Leonard for Net needs to grow up. I
47:32
Speaker 1: would be shocked if someone went to Dug Morrow and said, hey,
47:35
Speaker 1: this isn't the right guy right now. I think it'd
47:37
Speaker 1: be a really good thing for this team of something
47:38
Speaker 1: like that happened, but again not Doug's decision. Like he
47:41
Speaker 1: said on Monday, it has to come from a play
47:43
Speaker 1: message of the law of the Jersey hanging in the
47:46
Speaker 1: locker without the sea on. It would be enough again
47:48
Speaker 1: for me, and I don't know Leonard well enough to
47:51
Speaker 1: know whether it will, but that to me would be okay,
47:54
Speaker 1: I better go earn that back. We'll take a break.
47:57
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47:59
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49:54
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49:58
Speaker 1: power ranking. Let's put John's up there first. People's interest
50:02
Speaker 1: in this is much much lower with the Jaguars bottoming out,
50:07
Speaker 1: But there you go, John, Yeah, Sam's Patriots Chargers. The
50:12
Speaker 1: interesting thing, I think the Chargers are the team that
50:16
Speaker 1: might sneak in there and be really dangerous to the
50:18
Speaker 1: other you know. Tom Brady suggested that on Monday Night Football,
50:21
Speaker 1: he talked on the Westwood one radio broadcast before the
50:24
Speaker 1: game about that, Yeah, if they get you know, they're
50:26
Speaker 1: gonna get the pass rusher back and Joey Bosa, So yeah,
50:30
Speaker 1: they're dangerous. The Jaggers twenty eight way Ashley My Power
50:35
Speaker 1: rankings Saints, Ram's Chief, Patriots, Chargers, Jaguars at six. I
50:40
Speaker 1: really like the Saints here. I think they're explosive. Their
50:43
Speaker 1: offense is so fun to watch. I don't see them
50:45
Speaker 1: slowing down very much at all. UM and mine have
50:49
Speaker 1: the Jaguars in roughly the same spot at UM. I
50:53
Speaker 1: put the Texans in at number five. UM. I like
50:56
Speaker 1: the way they're playing right now. The Patriots are out
50:58
Speaker 1: of it, just just because right now I put him
51:00
Speaker 1: at six. UM, but clearly they belong in there. Just
51:04
Speaker 1: the Texans. They're running the ball, they're playing great defense.
51:08
Speaker 1: I didn't think they had a good enough offensive line
51:10
Speaker 1: to consistently run the ball. UM, but that was a
51:13
Speaker 1: good textan a part of me Titans defensive line that
51:16
Speaker 1: they ran on the other night. Um. And the quarterback
51:20
Speaker 1: is playing well. The playoffs will be fascinating because right
51:23
Speaker 1: now we've got the Patriots where like four or three
51:26
Speaker 1: or you know, I mean, I've got them at six.
51:28
Speaker 1: Just outside that, but just to have some more different
51:30
Speaker 1: to some good teams. There's the Chargers, there's the Texans.
51:33
Speaker 1: There is the Chiefs, obviously, but somebody's gonna have to
51:39
Speaker 1: beat those guys to get to the Super Bowl, me
51:41
Speaker 1: and the Patriots, and and you kind of saw last
51:43
Speaker 1: year how tough that is. Even if you're playing well,
51:46
Speaker 1: even you gotta go, and even you gotta lead. At
51:48
Speaker 1: some point, it's gonna be a four point game against
51:52
Speaker 1: the Patriots with seven minutes ago, and somebody's got to
51:54
Speaker 1: hold on to beat him and knock him out. And
51:56
Speaker 1: even though you think these teams might be better, they're hotter,
51:59
Speaker 1: there was to say, more difficult to put off. All right,
52:02
Speaker 1: Thanks for the show, Hey, John, Thanks for skipping the
52:04
Speaker 1: buffet this morning and making it in. We know that
52:06
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52:08
Speaker 1: In that you made it, we appreciate. I'm yes, you
52:14
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52:17
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52:20
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