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- 0:02Speaker 1: It's Victory Monday, September 14th. This is Jaguars Happy Hour.
- 0:11Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hour is presented by Jet Home Loans. And now,
- 0:17Speaker 1: a gal with callous disregard for the microphone from.
- 0:21Speaker 2: Sticky Wing Fingers.
- 0:24Speaker 3: Kainani Stevens.
- 0:26Speaker 4: Saucy wings are delicious, but when we have to do things,
- 0:29Speaker 4: it's a little difficult to eat. So I hope you
- 0:32Speaker 4: all were at home and were able to have wings
- 0:34Speaker 4: and watch that beautiful Jaguars victory. And I know I
- 0:37Speaker 4: enjoyed it. I got my wings after the game. That
- 0:39Speaker 4: was clutch. I'm Kainani Stevens, and for Jaguars Happy Hour,
- 0:42Speaker 4: presented by Jet Home Loans. And of course, coming up today,
- 0:45Speaker 4: we have a ton to talk about from the Hyundai
- 0:47Speaker 4: studios because the Jaguars got to win our first victory
- 0:49Speaker 4: Monday of the 2026 season. And they did so in
- 0:53Speaker 4: decisive fashion. Smooth operator Trevor Lawrence looked absolutely smooth as
- 0:58Speaker 4: butter yesterday. Got four touchdowns. completely dominated and just looked
- 1:02Speaker 4: so comfortable so you'll certainly talk about that we'll keep
- 1:05Speaker 4: it real all about what we saw in that game
- 1:08Speaker 4: and we'll answer your fan questions a little bit later
- 1:10Speaker 4: on so i want to welcome in cbs sports senior
- 1:11Speaker 4: writer pete frisco and former jaguars offensive end austin lane
- 1:14Speaker 4: and happy victory monday boys happy.
- 1:16Speaker 3: Talk Happy Victory Monday, the first lock of the season,
- 1:20Speaker 3: and we all got it right.
- 1:21Speaker 4: And we got the triple lock is now not an
- 1:23Speaker 4: issue anymore because this was the correct game to use
- 1:26Speaker 4: to fix it.
- 1:27Speaker 5: The other guy was the other guy was the most correct.
- 1:29Speaker 4: I'm here now. Triple locks are now allowed. But that
- 1:32Speaker 4: was fun to watch, especially because we haven't seen the
- 1:34Speaker 4: starters in so long. It's been since the Buffalo game
- 1:36Speaker 4: that we've seen them play. So it felt like finally.
- 1:39Speaker 4: All right. This team worried at all about a slow start.
- 1:42Speaker 4: No problem.
- 1:45Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought it was fantastic.
- 1:47Speaker 6: I mean, again, you're playing against a team that's not
- 1:49Speaker 6: very good. So you're at home on opening day. If
- 1:54Speaker 6: this had been a game in the middle of the season,
- 1:56Speaker 6: I might have think they'd look past them and look
- 1:58Speaker 6: to Denver, but that didn't happen. And because it was
- 2:01Speaker 6: on opening day and they did what they had to do.
- 2:03Speaker 6: You put that game away and then you, you know,
- 2:06Speaker 6: sit down guys that need to sit down and move
- 2:09Speaker 6: on to next week. So it was a dominant performance
- 2:12Speaker 6: against a bad football team, but a dominant performance.
- 2:14Speaker 3: I mean, yes, it was against a bad football team.
- 2:17Speaker 3: But week one, I think it kind of shows you
- 2:19Speaker 3: you can't take anybody lightly.
- 2:21Speaker 4: Right.
- 2:21Speaker 3: Like, I mean, if you told me the Chargers get
- 2:23Speaker 3: beat by the Cardinals, I would say you're crazy.
- 2:25Speaker 2: But lo and behold, that happens.
- 2:26Speaker 3: And this is what I think good to great teams
- 2:29Speaker 3: can do. They win the games they're supposed to win,
- 2:33Speaker 3: and they win it in decisive fashion. And my biggest
- 2:36Speaker 3: question mark going against the Browns was, okay, you didn't
- 2:38Speaker 3: really play any of your starters in the preseason and everything.
- 2:41Speaker 2: Are you going to come out flat, right? It will
- 2:43Speaker 2: take some time to acclimate and everything.
- 2:45Speaker 3: They hit the ground running, you know, the Foyer-Luke and interception,
- 2:48Speaker 3: and it was pitting their ears back after that. So,
- 2:51Speaker 3: I mean, I guess going forward, if Liam Cohen wants
- 2:52Speaker 3: to rest these guys for the entire preseason, cancel joint practices,
- 2:55Speaker 3: give them four weeks rest, I mean, this team came
- 2:58Speaker 3: ready to play against the Browns. I thought it was
- 3:00Speaker 3: a great showing overall.
- 3:01Speaker 6: You had to admit, though, the first couple plays, you're
- 3:03Speaker 6: sitting there going, what's going on here?
- 3:04Speaker 5: Cleveland's going down.
- 3:05Speaker 4: The field right away. I did think. I was like,
- 3:06Speaker 4: maybe it's, you know, a new team, new coordinators, new coaches, right?
- 3:09Speaker 4: So you don't entirely know what you're going to see
- 3:10Speaker 4: out of the Browns. So I was like, maybe that
- 3:11Speaker 4: first script will get them a little bit. But then
- 3:13Speaker 4: I was like, oh. Ventero Miller doing a cartwheel and
- 3:16Speaker 4: then Foye getting the pick. So I was like, all right,
- 3:18Speaker 4: we're fine. We're back where we were last time, getting
- 3:20Speaker 4: turnovers and getting after the quarterback. I was impressed with
- 3:25Speaker 4: Trayvon Walker. Pete, I know you were. The defense really disruptive.
- 3:28Speaker 4: Deshaun Watson is what he is, but they were in
- 3:30Speaker 4: the backfield all day.
- 3:32Speaker 6: Yeah, and again, it's an offensive line that was starting
- 3:34Speaker 6: five new guys. And so two.
- 3:36Speaker 5: Of them were rookies.
- 3:37Speaker 6: One of them was a backup who wasn't supposed to play,
- 3:39Speaker 6: who played really well, by the way. Barber, the guard,
- 3:42Speaker 6: he played guard. He's a tackle at Florida, but he
- 3:44Speaker 6: played guard. He did a nice job. But it's five
- 3:48Speaker 6: new guys. This defensive line took advantage of that. And
- 3:51Speaker 6: this is a great play by Trayvon Walker. I mean,
- 3:54Speaker 6: if you watch this play, and I don't know if
- 3:56Speaker 6: we have the end zone copy or whatever of it,
- 3:57Speaker 6: but he gets chopped.
- 4:00Speaker 5: And gets up. and chases down Watson. A, it tells
- 4:04Speaker 5: you about his effort. B, it tells you about his
- 4:08Speaker 5: ability to run. And C, it tells you he'll take
- 4:11Speaker 5: a cheap sack any way he can get it. Because
- 4:13Speaker 5: that was a sack. He had a lot of scrimmage.
- 4:17Speaker 5: But I thought he was outstanding all day.
- 4:19Speaker 6: And I thought he rushed well from the interior, which
- 4:21Speaker 6: is something they've talked about for a long time. Uh,
- 4:25Speaker 6: I think he's, I said it last week on the show.
- 4:27Speaker 6: I think he's in for a monster year.
- 4:28Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 4:29Speaker 2: Pete, you call it.
- 4:29Speaker 3: And if we see that play one more time, cause
- 4:31Speaker 3: I want to point something out here. Not only does
- 4:33Speaker 3: Trayvon Walker do his job, but then he also does
- 4:35Speaker 3: the safety's job as well because Cisco, um, I think
- 4:38Speaker 3: it's Cisco behind him, right?
- 4:39Speaker 2: If I'm not mistaken.
- 4:40Speaker 4: It's AJ.
- 4:41Speaker 5: Oh, AJ.
- 4:41Speaker 2: My bad.
- 4:42Speaker 3: Antonio Johnson.
- 4:43Speaker 2: Yeah, my bad.
- 4:44Speaker 3: Cisco. Antonio Johnson.
- 4:45Speaker 4: We just went back in time for a second.
- 4:47Speaker 5: Cisco was there.
- 4:48Speaker 3: Yeah, Cisco.
- 4:49Speaker 5: I see.
- 4:50Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. My bad. Antonio Johnson.
- 4:52Speaker 3: But he essentially does Antonio Johnson's job as well because
- 4:55Speaker 3: not only does he get underneath the puller, but then
- 4:57Speaker 3: he's an athlete enough where he gets around the puller
- 5:01Speaker 3: takes antonio jobs uh johnson's gap and essentially makes that
- 5:05Speaker 3: play so not only did he do the defensive end
- 5:06Speaker 3: job of crashing down and getting underneath the puller or
- 5:09Speaker 3: the the you know the the guy that's coming through
- 5:12Speaker 3: but he also got to the outside and took care
- 5:15Speaker 3: of antonio johnson's job as well i thought that was
- 5:17Speaker 3: a great job by trey.
- 5:17Speaker 6: They did a nice job covering for cisco yeah great
- 5:20Speaker 6: job covering for cisco.
- 5:21Speaker 4: There's always someone i don't know where's.
- 5:22Speaker 2: Cisco at he's a new york jet okay there it
- 5:25Speaker 2: is man yeah.
- 5:26Speaker 5: This and tackles for the new york jets not.
- 5:29Speaker 4: Our problem uh offensively, Trevor, 18 to 23, 245 yards,
- 5:34Speaker 4: didn't play in the fourth, four touchdowns. Pete, he looked
- 5:38Speaker 4: about as confident, cool, collected as we've seen him.
- 5:43Speaker 6: And when he gets back into the pocket and he
- 5:45Speaker 6: lets that go, he wasn't taking little baby shots either.
- 5:48Speaker 5: He's taking them down the middle of the field.
- 5:49Speaker 6: He's hitting some big ones. And I think he just
- 5:53Speaker 6: has a read on this offense now. A year ago,
- 5:56Speaker 6: he was learning it. And he struggled early in the season.
- 5:59Speaker 6: And he I'll go to the touchdown to Strange. The
- 6:03Speaker 6: touchdown to Strange tells you how different Trevor Lawrence is.
- 6:07Speaker 6: You know, we're all wowed by the throw to Cameron.
- 6:09Speaker 6: I mean, that throw was amazing.
- 6:10Speaker 5: But the touchdown to Strange, right, right, back to the middle, boom.
- 6:13Speaker 5: It's his third read. And he stood in there, and
- 6:17Speaker 5: a year.
- 6:17Speaker 6: Ago, he might have taken off after the first read
- 6:20Speaker 6: isn't there, or he might have checked it down. Now,
- 6:23Speaker 6: he's so confident in the way the offense plays that...
- 6:26Speaker 6: and the way it's being run, that he comes back
- 6:28Speaker 6: to his tight end on the third read. And I
- 6:30Speaker 6: thought that play right there kind of exemplifies where he is.
- 6:34Speaker 5: As a quarterback. Right, right, right, boom, back.
- 6:38Speaker 6: I mean, you could see that on the TV version
- 6:41Speaker 6: of it. So I was impressed with how he played.
- 6:43Speaker 6: This is who we're going to get from Trevor Lawrence
- 6:45Speaker 6: this year. He knows he's arrived.
- 6:48Speaker 5: You could just tell it the way he's been all
- 6:51Speaker 5: summer and all offseason. He knows this is his offense
- 6:54Speaker 5: and this is his team.
- 6:55Speaker 3: Well, and this is where the personnel groupings come into
- 6:57Speaker 3: play as well, because on that play, Travis Hunter was
- 7:00Speaker 3: looking for the ball, right? So if I'm the Cleveland
- 7:02Speaker 3: Browns and if I'm calling defense, I see Travis Hunter
- 7:04Speaker 3: on the field.
- 7:05Speaker 2: He doesn't play that much on offense right now. The
- 7:07Speaker 2: ball is probably going to him.
- 7:08Speaker 3: And if you saw the guy that was supposed to
- 7:10Speaker 3: take strange in that zone coverage, he actually cheats down
- 7:14Speaker 3: to try to help out and take Travis Hunter because
- 7:16Speaker 3: everyone thinks the ball is going to Travis Hunter. Lo
- 7:18Speaker 3: and behold, Brenton Strange has got a new contract for
- 7:20Speaker 3: a reason as well. Makes the easy catch, and yeah,
- 7:23Speaker 3: it's an easy play for the Jags touchdown.
- 7:24Speaker 4: Spreading the wealth around.
- 7:25Speaker 5: You know what I can't figure out, though, on that, Austin?
- 7:27Speaker 5: I think they were faking.
- 7:29Speaker 6: The bubble screen to Travis Hunter to try and throw
- 7:32Speaker 6: over the top, and they kind of came off of him.
- 7:35Speaker 6: You know how they fake the little bubble screen and
- 7:38Speaker 6: try and hit the shot over the top? Well, they
- 7:40Speaker 6: couldn't hit that, so then he comes back to the
- 7:42Speaker 6: middle to Strange. I think if you look at it again,
- 7:45Speaker 6: Travis thinks he's getting it on that screen right over
- 7:47Speaker 6: there on the right-hand side, and then I think they're
- 7:50Speaker 6: really faking it.
- 7:51Speaker 5: He's going to throw the wheel, see?
- 7:53Speaker 3: No, for sure, because it does make it seem like
- 7:55Speaker 3: this is the third option right now to Brenton Strange. So, yeah,
- 7:58Speaker 3: I believe it was that corner out in the end
- 8:00Speaker 3: zone where up on top that they were trying to
- 8:02Speaker 3: go for.
- 8:02Speaker 2: The Jacoby. The Jacoby, yeah. Yeah, exactly.
- 8:04Speaker 3: But then, obviously, Strange appears open. And this is a
- 8:08Speaker 3: classic example, too, of Liam Cohen setting this all up, right?
- 8:10Speaker 3: Because he ran that jet bubble before, right? So you're
- 8:13Speaker 3: showing the look once again, and now you're showing a
- 8:16Speaker 3: different wrinkle towards that. Same thing happened on the very
- 8:17Speaker 3: first touchdown of the game as well, where they ran
- 8:20Speaker 3: with Chris Rodriguez.
- 8:21Speaker 2: It looks like they're going to run with Chris Rodriguez again.
- 8:23Speaker 2: The play action, touchdown.
- 8:25Speaker 4: It just feels like we've talked to Cohen in the preseason. He's,
- 8:29Speaker 4: he's feels like he has the players that he needs
- 8:31Speaker 4: to run what he wants to run now, whether it's
- 8:33Speaker 4: Borkature playing, you know, a ton of snaps in this
- 8:35Speaker 4: game where when they're running a little bit bigger or
- 8:38Speaker 4: what they have in the running back room now that
- 8:40Speaker 4: they're pleased with, it feels like he, all of the
- 8:43Speaker 4: bags of tricks is open. Like he can touch anything
- 8:46Speaker 4: he wants to, and that's allowing him to be creative.
- 8:48Speaker 2: And to me, you kind of really, it's, you see
- 8:50Speaker 2: what the power of the run game can do.
- 8:52Speaker 5: Right.
- 8:52Speaker 3: And, and, give pete some credit man he's being a
- 8:55Speaker 3: he's been a big guy tooting you know uh supporter
- 8:58Speaker 3: uh he's been propping him up and everything and tooting
- 9:00Speaker 3: got the majority of the reps and and i'll say
- 9:03Speaker 3: this much like didn't really have that that breakout long
- 9:06Speaker 3: run that we're looking for with his speed but a
- 9:08Speaker 3: surprising thing that i saw from tooting that really helped
- 9:10Speaker 3: this offense out even when he got hit like at
- 9:13Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage or a couple yards after he
- 9:15Speaker 3: fell forward every single time and i play with one
- 9:18Speaker 3: of the best guys to ever do that maurice jones
- 9:19Speaker 3: drew And that makes all the difference in the world.
- 9:22Speaker 3: If you can get hit behind the line of scrimmage,
- 9:23Speaker 3: you just get hit at the one or two yards
- 9:26Speaker 3: into the play, and you can fall forward and get
- 9:27Speaker 3: an extra two or three, that makes all the difference
- 9:30Speaker 3: in the world for Liam Cohen and that offense. So
- 9:33Speaker 3: instead of going to a second and nine or second
- 9:36Speaker 3: and eight, now you're talking second and five, second and four,
- 9:39Speaker 3: opens the entire playbook up.
- 9:41Speaker 5: And you could.
- 9:42Speaker 6: Tell by Liam Cohen's comments after the game that that
- 9:45Speaker 6: caught his attention. the fact that he was falling forward
- 9:48Speaker 6: and taking shots and making.
- 9:49Speaker 5: Plays out of it.
- 9:50Speaker 6: And I thought the little screen pass that he had,
- 9:54Speaker 6: 22 yards on that play, that was.
- 9:55Speaker 2: A really good play by him because it wasn't blocked
- 9:57Speaker 2: very well.
- 9:58Speaker 5: He just got out there and made a play.
- 9:59Speaker 6: So that speed is going to be a problem for
- 10:02Speaker 6: defenses coming forward and I do think he needs to
- 10:04Speaker 6: get more carries I really do.
- 10:06Speaker 4: Did you feel, Pete? I mean, I guess this is
- 10:08Speaker 4: one of those games where it kind of got out
- 10:09Speaker 4: of hand quickly, so you don't maybe see the amount
- 10:12Speaker 4: of carries you'll end up seeing going forward in the
- 10:14Speaker 4: season because it was kind of in hand. But did
- 10:17Speaker 4: you feel like Tootin got enough of it earlier, or
- 10:19Speaker 4: would you like to see them run it a little
- 10:21Speaker 4: bit more?
- 10:22Speaker 5: He's got to get more. And look, I get it.
- 10:26Speaker 5: Rodriguez is a plotter. He'll get you the tough yards.
- 10:29Speaker 6: When they had to get the short yardage in this,
- 10:31Speaker 6: in the wildcat, he was the one that took the snap.
- 10:34Speaker 6: So clearly that's the role they have for him. But
- 10:37Speaker 6: if you want big plays in the run game, those
- 10:39Speaker 6: are coming from tootin. And I think he, he showed that,
- 10:42Speaker 6: like you said, he can, he can grind too. That
- 10:45Speaker 6: was the unknown with him. Could he handle it when
- 10:48Speaker 6: he's getting hit? Will he break tackles and will he
- 10:50Speaker 6: lean forward? And I think we saw that from him.
- 10:52Speaker 5: So that's the first step. What do you have? 66 yards.
- 10:55Speaker 5: Is that what it was? Let's see.
- 10:58Speaker 4: He had 66 yards on 15 attempts. Some of those
- 11:00Speaker 4: are the garbage time ones, because I don't think they
- 11:02Speaker 4: threw it once Nick Mullen came in.
- 11:04Speaker 6: And so I think now that the attempts go up
- 11:07Speaker 6: a little bit, I think the yardage will go up.
- 11:09Speaker 5: I think he's going to get a couple of big plays.
- 11:10Speaker 5: And when you get a couple of big plays, then
- 11:12Speaker 5: your yardage numbers go up.
- 11:13Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think it was a great idea to
- 11:15Speaker 3: kind of keep him in the game throughout even like
- 11:17Speaker 3: the third and fourth quarter simply because we haven't seen
- 11:19Speaker 3: enough of him. Like, you know what Chris Rodriguez is
- 11:21Speaker 3: bringing to the table, right? He's going to lower his shoulders,
- 11:23Speaker 3: deliver punishment, get you four or five yards. But with Tootin,
- 11:26Speaker 3: you know, going into his second year, like you still
- 11:28Speaker 3: want to see more of what he's capable of, get
- 11:30Speaker 3: him his rep. So I did like how it was
- 11:32Speaker 3: kind of split up in the first half between Rodriguez
- 11:36Speaker 3: and then Tootin in the second half.
- 11:37Speaker 2: It was mainly the Tootin show.
- 11:40Speaker 4: Well, yeah, when they got it out of– they had
- 11:42Speaker 4: it comfy. They were like, all right.
- 11:44Speaker 3: I mean, how refreshing is it to be Liam Cohen
- 11:47Speaker 3: week one not knowing what exactly you have? You can
- 11:49Speaker 3: kind of treat the Cleveland Browns game like you're like
- 11:51Speaker 3: a little league coach.
- 11:53Speaker 4: It was like a preseason game.
- 11:54Speaker 2: It was like a tester.
- 11:55Speaker 5: You know what's interesting about that, though?
- 11:57Speaker 6: We did think that their defense might be competitive and feisty,
- 12:00Speaker 6: so they weren't.
- 12:02Speaker 5: They were not at all.
- 12:02Speaker 4: I don't know if that's just because James Schwartz isn't there. Yeah,
- 12:04Speaker 4: I think James Schwartz. Yeah, because it was– Vers had, like,
- 12:07Speaker 4: nothing on the stat sheet, like– You didn't feel it
- 12:10Speaker 4: at all.
- 12:11Speaker 6: He got blocked, and Schlesinger had a terrible game, and
- 12:14Speaker 6: he was the defensive rookie of the year last year.
- 12:17Speaker 5: They did not play very well.
- 12:18Speaker 4: Yeah, very uninspired, for sure. I was a little surprised
- 12:22Speaker 4: by that, that they didn't have a little more push
- 12:23Speaker 4: from the defense. Parker, Washington, Washington, how about that?
- 12:28Speaker 5: Hmm.
- 12:29Speaker 4: How about that? A little catch in the statement. Well,
- 12:32Speaker 4: first touchdown of the game. I've seen him do that
- 12:35Speaker 4: at training camp a couple of times. He does a
- 12:36Speaker 4: little barrel roll after he grabs it. And so it's
- 12:38Speaker 4: not surprising. He's certainly capable of, and that's why Trevor
- 12:41Speaker 4: put it right there. But, uh, every day, I'm sure
- 12:44Speaker 4: that cha-ching, cha-ching.
- 12:46Speaker 5: Yeah, that was a great catch. Cause it wasn't a
- 12:48Speaker 5: great row.
- 12:49Speaker 4: It's not.
- 12:50Speaker 5: You got your receivers open like that.
- 12:52Speaker 6: You got to, you know, you don't want to make
- 12:53Speaker 6: them lay out to make a catch like that, but
- 12:55Speaker 6: a fantastic catch by him. And then, uh, I mean,
- 12:59Speaker 6: everybody says it's the price going up every time he plays.
- 13:02Speaker 6: And look, that deal is going to get done. If
- 13:06Speaker 6: his camp is smart, they get done. If the Jaguars
- 13:09Speaker 6: are smart, they get it done. They can tag him
- 13:12Speaker 6: next year. That's in their arsenal. And so I think
- 13:16Speaker 6: you've got to look at it from that standpoint, from
- 13:19Speaker 6: his people. And I think they're really close, and I
- 13:22Speaker 6: think they will get it done. But right now, every
- 13:26Speaker 6: time he makes big plays... he could sit there and say, Hey,
- 13:29Speaker 6: you know what?
- 13:30Speaker 5: Look at me. I need more. But again, what's the number?
- 13:35Speaker 5: Where do you want to go to with him?
- 13:37Speaker 6: Do you, you know, we talked about Michael Wilson and
- 13:40Speaker 6: we talked about Christian Watson and those are 25 ish.
- 13:45Speaker 5: Right.
- 13:45Speaker 4: But as he and Zay flowers in his mind, is
- 13:48Speaker 4: that where he is?
- 13:50Speaker 5: He's not. No, he's not.
- 13:51Speaker 6: In fact, Christian Watson had a two touchdown game and
- 13:54Speaker 6: was running wild yesterday for the Packers. So, Look, he's
- 13:58Speaker 6: in that group with those guys, so where do you
- 14:02Speaker 6: go to? And I said this all along, too. The
- 14:04Speaker 6: risk is with all the people around him, there are
- 14:08Speaker 6: going to be games maybe where he doesn't get those
- 14:10Speaker 6: numbers that he's going to get.
- 14:11Speaker 5: And what was his numbers yesterday? Because he had a
- 14:13Speaker 5: big first half.
- 14:14Speaker 4: Five receptions, 83 yards, and the 30-yard touchdown.
- 14:18Speaker 6: Okay, so if he has five receptions every game, that
- 14:23Speaker 6: gives you 75, right?
- 14:25Speaker 5: Isn't that right?
- 14:27Speaker 2: Or is that, no, 517.
- 14:28Speaker 5: 60 times 12. Math live on air.
- 14:29Speaker 4: Let's just prove that I know not what's happening. It's
- 14:32Speaker 4: 5 times 35 plus the 10.
- 14:33Speaker 7: So it's 85.
- 14:33Speaker 5: So if you get 85 and the yardage will be
- 14:34Speaker 5: 1,300 or so. Is that is that Pete Megan?
- 14:49Speaker 2: If he's getting touchdowns, it absolutely is.
- 14:52Speaker 4: I mean, they're doing it by choice.
- 14:53Speaker 5: He's not going to have 17 touchdowns.
- 14:55Speaker 3: He's not probably not. But I think that that first half, obviously,
- 14:59Speaker 3: when the game was a little more competitive, it showed
- 15:01Speaker 3: Trevor's first look.
- 15:02Speaker 2: It felt like it was going to Parker Washington.
- 15:04Speaker 4: Right.
- 15:04Speaker 3: And and I told John Osher this like. I got
- 15:09Speaker 3: so much scar tissue from that catch by Parker Washington
- 15:12Speaker 3: for touchdown. It was a great catch. It was a
- 15:13Speaker 3: great throw. Trevor's getting pressured a little bit. He gets
- 15:15Speaker 3: the ball out. Parker Washington makes a great catch. That
- 15:18Speaker 3: feels like last year where that ball's just a little
- 15:19Speaker 3: to the right. The wide receiver drops it, and then
- 15:21Speaker 3: all of a sudden the next play is going to
- 15:23Speaker 3: be a false start, and it's going to snowball, and
- 15:24Speaker 3: all of a sudden it's going to be a competitive
- 15:26Speaker 3: game against the Browns.
- 15:28Speaker 4: That's the old Jags.
- 15:29Speaker 2: That's the old Jags.
- 15:30Speaker 3: This new Jags, you have a great throw by Trevor Lawrence,
- 15:32Speaker 3: even a better catch by Parker Washington, and after that
- 15:35Speaker 3: catch and after that celebration and everything... It was over.
- 15:39Speaker 5: What did you say he had? It was 87?
- 15:42Speaker 4: Five catches, 83 yards. 83.
- 15:45Speaker 6: So if you multiply that out, it's 85 catches, right?
- 15:53Speaker 6: That's darn good if he has 85 catches on a
- 15:55Speaker 6: roster where there's that many people who can catch the football.
- 15:58Speaker 5: And then you multiply. He had 83 times 17.
- 15:59Speaker 6: That'll get you to 1,400. And then say he has
- 16:06Speaker 6: half the number of touchdowns. You're not going to catch
- 16:08Speaker 6: everyone every game. So say he has 10. So if
- 16:11Speaker 6: you have 85, 1,410. That'll do it.
- 16:16Speaker 2: Welcome to 30 million, huh?
- 16:17Speaker 5: No, I don't think so.
- 16:19Speaker 2: Okay.
- 16:20Speaker 4: We're not the money people. We're not the math people.
- 16:22Speaker 4: We just like to talk football around here. And a
- 16:24Speaker 4: lot to talk about today after a really good Jaguars win.
- 16:26Speaker 4: When we come back, we'll hone in on what the
- 16:28Speaker 4: defense was able to get done. This is Jaguars Happy
- 16:30Speaker 4: Hour presented by Jet Home Loans.
- 16:35Speaker 7: And that was an absolute dot through four defenders to
- 16:39Speaker 7: trust Josh in that moment. He had Josh and Jacoby
- 16:42Speaker 7: were kind of the either-or there. We scored on that
- 16:45Speaker 7: exact play in the joint practice against Carolina, and.
- 16:50Speaker 2: He threw it to Jacoby.
- 16:51Speaker 7: And the safety happened to be kind of leaning that way.
- 16:54Speaker 7: Jacoby didn't have great leverage on the play, and I
- 16:58Speaker 7: thought he did a really nice job coming off the
- 17:00Speaker 7: action with his eyes and then just making the decision
- 17:04Speaker 7: right now, no hesitation, put that ball in only one
- 17:08Speaker 7: spot that we could make the play, and then Josh
- 17:11Speaker 7: obviously being strong hands, protecting himself away from the safety
- 17:16Speaker 7: on the throw. That was high-level football. I mean, that's
- 17:19Speaker 7: an NFL– you know, open touchdown.
- 17:24Speaker 4: Welcome back to Jaguars Happy Hour presented by Jet Home Loans.
- 17:27Speaker 4: I'm going to apologize. The fact we made it through
- 17:28Speaker 4: that whole first segment without showing that, which is what
- 17:31Speaker 4: my favorite play of the day yesterday was an absolute dot.
- 17:34Speaker 4: Liam Cohen is correct. I've been talking about this nonstop
- 17:37Speaker 4: because every angle is crazier and crazier. There's four people
- 17:42Speaker 4: he threw that through, put it in the only place
- 17:43Speaker 4: he could put it. I can't imagine Josh Cameron could
- 17:45Speaker 4: even see it when he put his hands up. And
- 17:47Speaker 4: kudos to him. The catch is great as well to
- 17:49Speaker 4: be able to take that down and keep it when
- 17:51Speaker 4: you had someone coming in at your head as well. So, Austin,
- 17:54Speaker 4: that throw and catch.
- 17:56Speaker 2: It was amazing.
- 17:57Speaker 3: And I was sitting in the 100 section of that
- 17:58Speaker 3: end zone. And when that ball was released, I'm like, what?
- 18:02Speaker 4: Yeah, you were prepared to almost be mad.
- 18:04Speaker 5: I'm like, oh! Here goes a.
- 18:05Speaker 3: Deflection or something. Hopefully it doesn't get tipped up for
- 18:07Speaker 3: an interception. But yeah, definitely threaded the needle. And give
- 18:10Speaker 3: all the credit to, number one, great play call, but
- 18:12Speaker 3: also Josh Cameron in selling that. Because he actually sells
- 18:15Speaker 3: the run, right? Like, you have a rookie out there.
- 18:18Speaker 3: If I'm a cornerback, I'm thinking, OK, well, Rodriguez is in.
- 18:20Speaker 3: Probably going to be another run play. That play action,
- 18:23Speaker 3: Josh Cameron sells the run brilliantly and then releases on
- 18:26Speaker 3: the inside, and a perfect throw by Trevor gets the
- 18:28Speaker 3: job done.
- 18:30Speaker 6: What I liked about it, once he turned his head
- 18:32Speaker 6: after the play fake, he looked in the middle, and
- 18:35Speaker 6: he kind of held that safety.
- 18:37Speaker 4: Yeah, that safety that sheeted over to Jacoby, which is
- 18:39Speaker 4: where the original, I think, play is.
- 18:41Speaker 6: Yeah, and by holding that safety, he gave him that. Look,
- 18:44Speaker 6: right back, he came back over there and just hit
- 18:46Speaker 6: that shot. That was one of the best throws all
- 18:48Speaker 6: day around the league.
- 18:49Speaker 4: That's chef's kiss. Just perfect. I, I think that's the
- 18:54Speaker 4: epitome of Trevor feeling comfortable and just owning that moment to,
- 18:58Speaker 4: to the nth degree. Just like I'm going to, I can,
- 19:00Speaker 4: he's always had the ability to make those throws, right?
- 19:03Speaker 4: We've seen him do amazing things. Then he'll do something
- 19:05Speaker 4: that you're like, what are you thinking? And it worked out.
- 19:07Speaker 4: So I'm not saying, what are you thinking? I'm saying, wow,
- 19:09Speaker 4: that was amazing. And that was, that's a quarterback throw
- 19:11Speaker 4: an NFL throw, like Liam Cohen was saying.
- 19:14Speaker 5: And let's say, can we play that one more time?
- 19:16Speaker 5: Because he's really shortened up his motion.
- 19:19Speaker 4: Has he?
- 19:20Speaker 5: I think if, yeah, he was, if you go back
- 19:22Speaker 5: to this, look, boom.
- 19:25Speaker 6: He was much longer wind up a year ago than
- 19:30Speaker 6: what we're seeing now. And I think he's done a
- 19:32Speaker 6: great job of working to marry his feet to the
- 19:36Speaker 6: release of that ball.
- 19:37Speaker 5: And there it is. Once it's up, boom.
- 19:39Speaker 4: Compact.
- 19:40Speaker 6: Yeah, it's much more, it's smoother. It's much more compacted.
- 19:46Speaker 6: And it just looks like he's done a lot of
- 19:48Speaker 6: work Oh.
- 19:50Speaker 5: On that motion. Remember, he had a long windup. And
- 19:52Speaker 5: when you have a long windup, long strider, long windup,
- 19:57Speaker 5: what does that do?
- 19:58Speaker 6: That gives defenses a tell. And I think this version
- 20:04Speaker 6: doesn't give you quite the tell. They have tells still,
- 20:07Speaker 6: but this one doesn't give you as much of a tell.
- 20:09Speaker 3: Pete, let me ask you this about Josh Cameron, because
- 20:12Speaker 3: to me, that wide receiver group, he just looks different.
- 20:15Speaker 3: Like this is a big looking guy, obviously showcased his
- 20:18Speaker 3: hands right there. Do you get the sense that– and
- 20:21Speaker 3: I'm not going to compare him because he's got a
- 20:23Speaker 3: long ways to go to get to this level. But, like,
- 20:25Speaker 3: could he be like a Puka Nakua is to the Rams?
- 20:27Speaker 3: Just in terms of that big-bodied receiver, get him on
- 20:30Speaker 3: slants and everything, get the ball in his hands, lower
- 20:33Speaker 3: his shoulder, and be hard to tackle. Like, that's the
- 20:36Speaker 3: way I can– like, that to me right there is
- 20:38Speaker 3: a Puka Nakua.
- 20:38Speaker 5: Puka runs such great routes.
- 20:39Speaker 8: Sure.
- 20:40Speaker 2: You know?
- 20:41Speaker 6: And we don't know if Cameron does. But again, Puka
- 20:44Speaker 6: runs such great routes.
- 20:45Speaker 2: But just the size and stature.
- 20:47Speaker 5: But you're right.
- 20:47Speaker 6: He's different than everybody else. He's a big body receiver.
- 20:51Speaker 6: And he gives them big targets. And the other guys don't.
- 20:55Speaker 6: And I think that's the biggest difference with him.
- 20:57Speaker 5: And again... You know, we talked about the receiver room
- 21:00Speaker 5: last week. We didn't include him much, did we?
- 21:03Speaker 4: Nope. Another mouth to feed.
- 21:04Speaker 5: Now you got catches. Now you got catches. Touchdown catches
- 21:07Speaker 5: going to somebody else. So now you got, well, what
- 21:10Speaker 5: about me?
- 21:11Speaker 2: It's coming.
- 21:11Speaker 5: I'm telling you.
- 21:12Speaker 4: They did a pretty good job. Nine different people. Trevor
- 21:16Speaker 4: completed a pass to in that game. So he spread
- 21:18Speaker 4: the wealth all the way around because.
- 21:20Speaker 5: I was thinking of you. What if Jacoby doesn't catch
- 21:22Speaker 5: the touchdown?
- 21:23Speaker 4: I was just going to say, I was thinking of
- 21:24Speaker 4: you saying that, and I was like, oh, they haven't
- 21:26Speaker 4: really got Jacoby anything because I think one just kind
- 21:28Speaker 4: of went awry. He didn't get the catch, and then
- 21:30Speaker 4: I was like, oh, it was a touchdown, so it's fine.
- 21:32Speaker 5: That was the only one he had, right, was the
- 21:33Speaker 5: touchdown catch.
- 21:34Speaker 4: There was another target he didn't come down with, right?
- 21:37Speaker 4: He had a jet sweep.
- 21:38Speaker 2: He had the jet sweep on third down. It was
- 21:40Speaker 2: third down or fourth down.
- 21:43Speaker 4: They didn't go for it on fourth, did they?
- 21:44Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think he had the jet sweep on
- 21:45Speaker 2: third down.
- 21:46Speaker 6: Well, they went for it on fourth down with Rod.
- 21:48Speaker 3: No, that was third down with Rod. That was third down.
- 21:50Speaker 3: I think he had a jet sweep.
- 21:52Speaker 5: The jet sweep, you know how much I love that play.
- 21:54Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, for sure. Wildcat was in there, too.
- 21:56Speaker 5: One of my favorites.
- 21:56Speaker 3: Pete, I mean, do you think that Liam Cole is
- 21:58Speaker 3: listening to you because 14 points up, fourth and one, and.
- 22:04Speaker 2: Opted to kick a field goal? Take the points.
- 22:06Speaker 5: Kick the field goal.
- 22:07Speaker 2: Do you think they're listening to you?
- 22:09Speaker 3: Because to me, that's uncharacteristic of Liam Cole and at
- 22:11Speaker 3: home up 14.
- 22:12Speaker 4: He heard you, Pete.
- 22:13Speaker 5: Well, you know what? I get in all their heads.
- 22:16Speaker 5: That's my job. I tell you what, he called a
- 22:18Speaker 5: great game. He really did.
- 22:20Speaker 6: And he put his quarterback into a rhythm. He is
- 22:24Speaker 6: brilliant when it comes to offensive football. I really believe that. And,
- 22:27Speaker 6: and I think Trevor now believes in all of it
- 22:33Speaker 6: and understands all of it. It is the most, again,
- 22:36Speaker 6: having spent time talking to Liam Cohen in the spring
- 22:40Speaker 6: for that story I worked on, it is so complicated
- 22:43Speaker 6: what these defenses do and young quarterbacks heads spin. And,
- 22:48Speaker 6: but he, Trevor's head was spinning a year ago. It
- 22:52Speaker 6: ain't spinning anymore. The only spinning it's doing is when
- 22:55Speaker 6: he goes from one, two, three. That's the spinning it's
- 22:58Speaker 6: doing now. It's not a nasty spin. So I think
- 23:02Speaker 6: Liam Cohn knows he has himself a quarterback that can
- 23:05Speaker 6: run his offense, and he's going to play with a
- 23:08Speaker 6: lot of toys, and he's got a lot of toys.
- 23:11Speaker 5: In fact, next week at Denver, you might see more
- 23:14Speaker 5: tight ends.
- 23:15Speaker 3: For all we know.
- 23:16Speaker 2: We don't know what he's going to do.
- 23:17Speaker 3: And it almost seems like a paradigm shift, too, because
- 23:20Speaker 3: last year, like, yes, Trevor had a great year MVP candidate,
- 23:22Speaker 3: but it almost seemed like it was the Liam Cohen
- 23:24Speaker 3: story last year, right? Like, wow, this guy came in,
- 23:26Speaker 3: turned around this offense, won 13 games, right? Like, I
- 23:30Speaker 3: feel like he was getting all the headlines. And it
- 23:32Speaker 3: seems like it's been a pretty quiet offseason in terms
- 23:35Speaker 3: of Trevor Lawrence. Like, we weren't breaking down every single
- 23:37Speaker 3: practice of training camp just because we expect so much
- 23:40Speaker 3: more of him now. And it seems like this season
- 23:42Speaker 3: is going to be the Trevor Lawrence season. And, like,
- 23:44Speaker 3: Liam Cohen almost takes a step back, which I think
- 23:46Speaker 3: is what you want as a team.
- 23:48Speaker 4: Absolutely. And it's because the back half of the season,
- 23:50Speaker 4: he was comfortable in knowing what the play calls were
- 23:53Speaker 4: and knowing that he's in control of the situation. I
- 23:56Speaker 4: feel like so many years before it was Trevor going
- 23:58Speaker 4: up to the line of scrimmage, repeating what was said
- 24:00Speaker 4: to him and just running that play. And there's so
- 24:02Speaker 4: much more put on his shoulders. And he's risen to
- 24:04Speaker 4: the challenge. Credit to Trevor. He's really risen with what
- 24:07Speaker 4: the responsibility has been given to him. And he's taken
- 24:09Speaker 4: a charge of that. And it's showing right now.
- 24:12Speaker 5: You know what else we didn't see? We didn't see
- 24:14Speaker 5: looking around for a play call, rushing to the line
- 24:17Speaker 5: of scrimmage and having the play clock going down. We
- 24:19Speaker 5: didn't see that, did we?
- 24:21Speaker 4: No, he was ready, calling the plays.
- 24:22Speaker 5: That tells you that he understands. Yeah, he gets the
- 24:26Speaker 5: play call, calls it, comes to the line. Has kill,
- 24:29Speaker 5: by the way. He has kill potential there. He has
- 24:31Speaker 5: two plays at the line of scrimmage.
- 24:33Speaker 6: And he just looked like he was in a real
- 24:36Speaker 6: rhythm and a groove. And he knew where he was
- 24:38Speaker 6: going with the football. That's what you want from your quarterback.
- 24:41Speaker 5: I mean, look... again it's cleveland we got to slow
- 24:45Speaker 5: the roll a little bit we'll know a lot more.
- 24:48Speaker 6: About this team next week you go on the road
- 24:51Speaker 6: remember last week last year they went on the road
- 24:53Speaker 6: they beat the daylights out of that team and that
- 24:56Speaker 6: team we'll know more about them next week when they
- 24:59Speaker 6: go to denver and it's it's the marquee game on
- 25:01Speaker 6: cbs on sunday so.
- 25:02Speaker 4: Yeah so hopefully everybody gets to see it um Fans,
- 25:06Speaker 4: when the Jaguars score a field goal of 40 yards
- 25:08Speaker 4: or more, they unlock a free medium sub with the
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- 25:12Speaker 4: Subs app. Participating Florida restaurants only. See terms at FirehouseSubs.com.
- 25:17Speaker 4: Cam Little had one of those yesterday, so go check
- 25:19Speaker 4: it out. When we return, we're going to preview a
- 25:22Speaker 4: little bit of that Broncos matchup and also talk about
- 25:24Speaker 4: what the defense was able to do yesterday because I
- 25:27Speaker 4: think we definitely got to give them their props as well.
- 25:30Speaker 4: You're listening to Jaguars Happy Hour presented by Jet Home Loans.
- 25:36Speaker 4: Publix fans, on Tuesday, September 15th, that's tomorrow, from 6
- 25:39Speaker 4: to 7, head to Publix at 12541 Yellow Bluff Road.
- 25:43Speaker 4: You get to meet some Jaguars players. Jackson DeVille will
- 25:45Speaker 4: be there and the Roar Cheerleaders as well. It's at
- 25:48Speaker 4: Publix where shopping is a pleasure.
- 25:51Speaker 7: At that point, I felt like points were necessary. You
- 25:54Speaker 7: want to just continue to score points and, you know,
- 25:58Speaker 7: would I have loved to, part of me wanted to
- 26:00Speaker 7: go for it?
- 26:00Speaker 5: Absolutely.
- 26:01Speaker 2: But I felt.
- 26:02Speaker 7: Confident making the decision. I know the offense wanted to
- 26:05Speaker 7: stay on the grass, which I appreciate. But I think
- 26:09Speaker 7: early in the year, just, man, let's go get some points.
- 26:11Speaker 7: We're up 14-0. Let's get Cam involved. Let's get him
- 26:15Speaker 7: going a little bit. And the way the defense was playing,
- 26:19Speaker 7: I felt confident we'd get some more ops to be
- 26:21Speaker 7: able to score some more touchdowns.
- 26:23Speaker 4: Liam Cohen not going for it on fourth down, you know,
- 26:27Speaker 4: maturing a little bit, listening to Pete Prisco and John Ogier,
- 26:30Speaker 4: you know, not taking every risk just because he can.
- 26:32Speaker 4: Taking the points sometimes.
- 26:34Speaker 6: By the way, guys, why give him any chance to
- 26:36Speaker 6: get momentum in that scenario?
- 26:37Speaker 4: And there we are. Take the points sometimes. Keep it rolling.
- 26:41Speaker 4: The defense was doing great. The offense was doing great.
- 26:43Speaker 4: There was no concern going forward. It's not like you're
- 26:46Speaker 4: trying to prove something to anybody. In that situation, I
- 26:49Speaker 4: fully agree.
- 26:51Speaker 5: Can we stop saying on the grass, too? Because doesn't
- 26:54Speaker 5: the sideline have some grass on there, too?
- 26:56Speaker 4: Turf on the sideline, technically. If we're going to be technical,
- 27:00Speaker 4: it's turf on the sideline in Jacksonville.
- 27:02Speaker 5: There's no grass over there? There's no grass at all?
- 27:04Speaker 5: There has to be some grass there. No, it gets
- 27:06Speaker 5: all scorched.
- 27:07Speaker 4: They only do the grass where they actually play, at
- 27:09Speaker 4: least for right now. We don't know what it'll look
- 27:10Speaker 4: like soon.
- 27:11Speaker 6: But on the grass has become the buzz phrase in
- 27:14Speaker 6: the National Football League.
- 27:15Speaker 4: When toe meets leather and they're on the grass.
- 27:18Speaker 6: Yeah, Tony has started saying that, and he says it,
- 27:22Speaker 6: and now around the league, people are saying it.
- 27:26Speaker 5: Austin, nobody ever said that when you played.
- 27:28Speaker 3: I've never heard it until these past couple years, I
- 27:31Speaker 3: feel like.
- 27:31Speaker 2: Yeah, on the grass.
- 27:32Speaker 4: I think it's like in basketball, it's like on the court,
- 27:35Speaker 4: so maybe it's like they're just kind of transferring it over.
- 27:37Speaker 3: You know, field, I think would suffice.
- 27:40Speaker 4: On the field.
- 27:41Speaker 6: On the field, out on the field, out on the field.
- 27:43Speaker 6: We're on the practice fields, not on the grass. We're
- 27:45Speaker 6: on the practice fields. And I told Basile, I go, Tony,
- 27:49Speaker 6: you never said that. You know, I used to say,
- 27:51Speaker 6: you never said it. I covered you for years. You
- 27:52Speaker 6: didn't say it on this show ever. He never said it.
- 27:55Speaker 4: We've got a tiny verbiage around here. We hear a
- 27:57Speaker 4: lot of stuff. So on the grass.
- 27:59Speaker 5: And by the way, the other thing all coaches do.
- 28:01Speaker 2: What you got?
- 28:02Speaker 5: They say, right. They say, right.
- 28:04Speaker 6: When you, so if I'm talking to a coach, he's right.
- 28:08Speaker 6: You're listening to me, right? So we went out there
- 28:10Speaker 6: and we played the game, right? It's like they all
- 28:14Speaker 6: do it. I watch college interviews. I watch pro interviews.
- 28:17Speaker 5: They all do it now.
- 28:18Speaker 2: Interesting.
- 28:18Speaker 4: Trying to keep you engaged. Right?
- 28:21Speaker 2: Making sure you're on the same page, right?
- 28:23Speaker 6: Or that I feel confident in what they're saying. See,
- 28:25Speaker 6: I always think that when people say right, they're not
- 28:26Speaker 6: confident in what they're saying.
- 28:27Speaker 5: Sure. See, I'm confident when I say it. I wouldn't
- 28:30Speaker 5: say that.
- 28:33Speaker 2: Andre Sisco, right?
- 28:34Speaker 3: Yeah, I got you.
- 28:35Speaker 5: Do you say it?
- 28:36Speaker 2: You don't say it.
- 28:36Speaker 5: No, no, no. I've never heard you guys say it.
- 28:38Speaker 2: No.
- 28:40Speaker 4: I don't think so. I'd probably say some other things,
- 28:42Speaker 4: but I don't say right after I say it. Let's
- 28:45Speaker 4: talk a bit about our player of the game from
- 28:49Speaker 4: Publix as well, where shopping is a pleasure. It has
- 28:51Speaker 4: to be Trevor Lawrence, of course, but we saw some
- 28:53Speaker 4: good defensive efforts there. We're going to talk about Trevor
- 28:56Speaker 4: all day, so I'll move back to the defense a
- 28:58Speaker 4: little bit because I do want to touch on this.
- 28:59Speaker 4: Trayvon Walker, you could argue. Ventrell Miller was one of
- 29:02Speaker 4: the best players out there because talk about that. We
- 29:04Speaker 4: were concerned about the linebacker room, and Ventrell was very
- 29:08Speaker 4: much proving the point. And also, I'll give some credit
- 29:11Speaker 4: to Coach Camp for coaching him up. He looked great,
- 29:14Speaker 4: and it didn't feel like he had not been out
- 29:17Speaker 4: there before. It felt very comfortable. Foye-Lewikin, obviously, the same
- 29:20Speaker 4: as he's always been, which is excellent. But Ventral Miller
- 29:23Speaker 4: really surprised me with how well he played and was
- 29:25Speaker 4: not making mistakes. He understood his assigned role very well.
- 29:30Speaker 4: Not that he didn't before, but it's just different kind
- 29:32Speaker 4: of playing time for him, obviously, with Devin Lloyd out
- 29:34Speaker 4: there most of the time. So I was very impressed.
- 29:36Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, if you're an off-the-ball linebacker for the
- 29:38Speaker 3: Jacksonville Jaguars, and you're going in a contract year, you
- 29:41Speaker 3: got a contract coming up.
- 29:43Speaker 4: This is your year, though.
- 29:44Speaker 3: Go ahead and call your agent and say, hey. Back
- 29:47Speaker 3: up the brink struck because Coach Kemp's going to put
- 29:48Speaker 3: me in position to make plays. And you saw it
- 29:51Speaker 3: with Ventro Miller, right? I mean, we never questioned his physicality.
- 29:55Speaker 3: What I was skeptical about is how can he blitz?
- 29:57Speaker 3: How can he drop back into coverage, cover those tight
- 30:00Speaker 3: ends and those running backs? And once again, I get it.
- 30:03Speaker 3: It's the Cleveland Browns and everything. It's week one. But
- 30:06Speaker 3: pass with flying colors as far as I'm concerned because
- 30:08Speaker 3: this interception right here, it doesn't happen anywhere. if Ventro
- 30:11Speaker 3: Miller doesn't get home, cause some chaos, and also does
- 30:14Speaker 3: a great job of disguising the blitz where they had
- 30:16Speaker 3: no idea he was coming to the very last second.
- 30:19Speaker 3: Center couldn't see him coming. Sean Watson didn't check out
- 30:22Speaker 3: of it. It was a great call. It was a
- 30:24Speaker 3: great blitz ran by Ventro Miller and a great play
- 30:26Speaker 3: by Boya.
- 30:26Speaker 2: Luke in here.
- 30:27Speaker 4: Got chipped in a cartwheel.
- 30:28Speaker 5: You know, it's funny because it's a point I made.
- 30:31Speaker 5: And by the way, I wasn't one of those guys
- 30:33Speaker 5: that was concerned about the linebacker position.
- 30:35Speaker 2: You know that.
- 30:36Speaker 5: Because I didn't think they lost much in Devin Lloyd.
- 30:38Speaker 5: I didn't. I mean, he made a lot of splash
- 30:40Speaker 5: plays last year, but he was hard to line up.
- 30:43Speaker 5: He didn't line up well. And I didn't think he
- 30:45Speaker 5: was that good as a linebacker. I thought he was okay.
- 30:48Speaker 6: But he didn't do much yesterday in Carolina.
- 30:51Speaker 5: They got run over for 270 yards. And he made
- 30:54Speaker 5: a lot of tackles, but he didn't play very well. HN, ETN,
- 30:59Speaker 5: whatever you want to call him, didn't do a lot
- 31:02Speaker 5: in New Orleans.
- 31:03Speaker 6: And so all offseason, the whole perception around the Jaguars
- 31:07Speaker 6: was they suffered two major hits.
- 31:10Speaker 5: They lost guys. No, they didn't. And that's all I
- 31:13Speaker 5: ever said. I said, I didn't think they lost anybody.
- 31:15Speaker 5: And I still don't.
- 31:16Speaker 6: And what Ventrell Miller did yesterday and what Tootin did yesterday...
- 31:21Speaker 6: kind of backs that up that they really didn't.
- 31:24Speaker 5: And okay. It's only one game and it's against the Browns,
- 31:26Speaker 5: but that's a good start.
- 31:28Speaker 6: So I thought he was as, he was as good
- 31:30Speaker 6: as ever, anybody on the defense yesterday.
- 31:32Speaker 5: And I loved her.
- 31:33Speaker 6: I thought Trayvon Walker was fantastic, but I thought he
- 31:35Speaker 6: was as good as, as anybody on that defense.
- 31:38Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 31:38Speaker 3: I mean, I think that the entire defense in general was,
- 31:40Speaker 3: was great. And I'm going to say this much. If
- 31:43Speaker 3: you got Trayvon Walker and Josh Hines, Alan right next
- 31:45Speaker 3: to each other and those third and longs pass rushing
- 31:48Speaker 3: and best of luck to you if you're a quarterback.
- 31:50Speaker 3: Maybe make some business decisions and go down because that's
- 31:53Speaker 3: going to be like that duo right there next to
- 31:55Speaker 3: each other. You see it right here. That's going to
- 31:58Speaker 3: be an issue. And this is the beautiful thing about
- 32:01Speaker 3: it too, Pete. I don't think we even saw close
- 32:03Speaker 3: to the full arsenal of this defense. Like I think
- 32:06Speaker 3: they got up a little bit. They started running a
- 32:08Speaker 3: little more meat and potatoes of this philosophy and this
- 32:10Speaker 3: scheme and everything. But I think they still have a
- 32:12Speaker 3: lot of things left in that playbook that they can
- 32:14Speaker 3: kind of unveil as the season progresses.
- 32:17Speaker 5: I agree.
- 32:18Speaker 4: I agree.
- 32:19Speaker 5: I think those two, and Josh had a good game too.
- 32:22Speaker 6: Those two guys give you so many options on how
- 32:25Speaker 6: you can rush the passer. Like you said, they move
- 32:27Speaker 6: Walker inside and he rushes next to him. Or you
- 32:30Speaker 6: move him inside and have another tackle next to him, Armstead,
- 32:33Speaker 6: and you rush him from the other side. There's so
- 32:35Speaker 6: many things you can do with them. And I think
- 32:37Speaker 6: camp is going to be really creative with them. And
- 32:40Speaker 6: I think that helps the defense as well. And I
- 32:42Speaker 6: love what I saw from the defense. And we'll get
- 32:45Speaker 6: to talking about the secondary too, because they might be
- 32:48Speaker 6: headed for.
- 32:49Speaker 5: A problem as well. I like pinpointing problems. I mean,
- 32:54Speaker 5: look who played. Everybody.
- 32:56Speaker 4: Yeah. They didn't seem to be, we'll talk about the
- 32:59Speaker 4: exact snap counts a little later in the show, but
- 33:01Speaker 4: they definitely, we talked about what that secondary was going
- 33:03Speaker 4: to look like now that everybody was healthy and they
- 33:04Speaker 4: really did rotate it around. And, and I was, I
- 33:07Speaker 4: was trying to figure out if it was scheme or
- 33:08Speaker 4: if they just were trying to, it felt like they're
- 33:10Speaker 4: trying to get everybody in at least from the broader picture.
- 33:13Speaker 5: Early in the game, even they had like 60, we
- 33:15Speaker 5: talked about that last week.
- 33:16Speaker 6: They're going to play a lot of six DBs. I mean,
- 33:19Speaker 6: and Ransall was on, it wasn't like he played in
- 33:21Speaker 6: garbage time. He was on the field.
- 33:24Speaker 4: Early yeah and we didn't even know what that third
- 33:27Speaker 4: safety was going to look like right we were talking
- 33:28Speaker 4: whether it's going to be Caleb Ransaw or if it's
- 33:30Speaker 4: Jalen Husky and Husky didn't dress they went with Ransaw
- 33:33Speaker 4: and he was out there quite a bit.
- 33:35Speaker 6: He was, and he made some plays. He showed up.
- 33:39Speaker 6: He showed his speed. I think that's what they want
- 33:41Speaker 6: to see from that spot. They would bring Johnson down
- 33:44Speaker 6: and play him as like a linebacker in the box
- 33:47Speaker 6: and then play Ransaw and Murray at safety. I mean,
- 33:51Speaker 6: he was creative again. And again, I'm with you.
- 33:54Speaker 5: I don't think he showed a whole hell of a
- 33:55Speaker 5: lot like he will next week against Denver.
- 33:59Speaker 4: I just go back to training camp. I remember talking
- 34:00Speaker 4: to Trevor Lawrence and him saying that he was most
- 34:03Speaker 4: impressed during training camp with the wrinkles that camp has
- 34:07Speaker 4: added to his defense. He was saying as a quarterback,
- 34:09Speaker 4: it's really difficult to, to understand what you're looking at
- 34:13Speaker 4: and get a read quickly and get the playoff and
- 34:15Speaker 4: that he's excited to see it put into work against
- 34:17Speaker 4: other quarterbacks going forward. So I am excited to see
- 34:20Speaker 4: that against the, if you.
- 34:22Speaker 5: If you know, if you don't know camp and you
- 34:24Speaker 5: see him out or whatever, get to know him because
- 34:27Speaker 5: he ain't going.
- 34:28Speaker 4: To be around next year.
- 34:29Speaker 3: And I thought I saw some to the very first defense,
- 34:32Speaker 3: the very first play of the game where you had
- 34:34Speaker 3: Josh Hines out on the right side, And you had
- 34:37Speaker 3: Trayvon on the left side. And if you watch Josh Hines,
- 34:40Speaker 3: I was almost he was it wasn't a four point stance,
- 34:43Speaker 3: but he was like head up on the tight end.
- 34:45Speaker 3: Get ready to stop the run. It looked like a
- 34:46Speaker 3: little bit. And to me, that shows. And this is
- 34:48Speaker 3: a new wrinkle. I feel like of this defense this year.
- 34:50Speaker 3: Last year, I felt like they had a strong side
- 34:52Speaker 3: and they had a weak side.
- 34:53Speaker 4: Right.
- 34:53Speaker 3: You had Trayvon Walker playing that strong side. Josh Hines
- 34:56Speaker 3: down playing the weak side. now it seems like they've
- 34:58Speaker 3: shifted a little more towards matchups because they're confident that
- 35:01Speaker 3: josh hines alan can do the exact same dirty work
- 35:04Speaker 3: that trayvon walker did last year in terms of stopping
- 35:06Speaker 3: the run and kind of playing with that you know
- 35:08Speaker 3: two hands in the ground and playing run first and
- 35:10Speaker 3: then transitioning into your pass rush and if you can
- 35:13Speaker 3: do that now there's no strong side weak side there's
- 35:16Speaker 3: the left and there's the right and when you can
- 35:17Speaker 3: when you can just set it and say okay they're
- 35:19Speaker 3: going to go in motion josh move over get in
- 35:21Speaker 3: the four point stance or oh trayvon your time like
- 35:24Speaker 3: That means everything because Trayvon Walker, yes, this quarterback sack
- 35:28Speaker 3: numbers were low last year. And yes, maybe like the
- 35:30Speaker 3: stats didn't pop off the page, but he was doing
- 35:33Speaker 3: all the dirty work. You see what happens when he
- 35:35Speaker 3: gets on the edge and that can actually pin his
- 35:37Speaker 3: ears back a little bit. He was causing chaos. So
- 35:39Speaker 3: I expect that going forward now, too, as well, where
- 35:41Speaker 3: sometimes Josh will be playing that four.
- 35:43Speaker 2: I are stopping the run and sometimes it'll be Trayvon.
- 35:45Speaker 4: Make a good point.
- 35:46Speaker 5: By the way, speaking of stopping, sorry, but speaking of
- 35:49Speaker 5: stopping the run.
- 35:50Speaker 6: All 52 does is he gets no, nobody ever thanks
- 35:54Speaker 6: that guy.
- 35:54Speaker 5: He's just a, it's just a plug in the middle.
- 35:57Speaker 3: It's a thankless job, man.
- 35:58Speaker 2: It's a thankless job.
- 35:59Speaker 4: But I know they're, they always saying their hat, not
- 36:02Speaker 4: allowed in a hundred yard rush or kind of keeping
- 36:03Speaker 4: everything in check. And they certainly did that yesterday. When
- 36:06Speaker 4: you're talking about Josh and Trayvon. They are both healthy,
- 36:10Speaker 4: and they both play well when they're playing together at 100%.
- 36:13Speaker 4: You very rarely see one of them have a breakout
- 36:16Speaker 4: without the other one also playing well. And maybe it's
- 36:18Speaker 4: the dirty work, so maybe it's not in the box score,
- 36:20Speaker 4: but physically watching the tape and seeing both of them
- 36:23Speaker 4: out there having success, it's a combination of the two
- 36:26Speaker 4: of them. It's going to make them really dangerous if
- 36:27Speaker 4: they continue to do that. Let's see. What else haven't
- 36:31Speaker 4: we talked about? Well, let's talk a little bit about
- 36:32Speaker 4: Denver because, I mean, we're going to see them tonight
- 36:34Speaker 4: on Monday Night Football. We haven't played yet. So a
- 36:36Speaker 4: little bit of a short week in that regard for
- 36:38Speaker 4: prepping for them. Obviously, last year they had a big
- 36:41Speaker 4: game late so they can talk about that. But Pete,
- 36:44Speaker 4: what have you seen from them? What do you think
- 36:45Speaker 4: we'll see from them tonight from the Broncos?
- 36:47Speaker 5: Well, they played the preseason. They played their starters in
- 36:50Speaker 5: the preseason. So they've they've showed some stuff. Getting Jalen
- 36:53Speaker 5: Waddell involved in that.
- 36:55Speaker 6: Passing attack will really help them. I mean, he gives
- 36:57Speaker 6: them juice in the middle of the field.
- 36:59Speaker 5: I mean, he's got the ability to take a short
- 37:01Speaker 5: slant and go to the house. So that changes who
- 37:04Speaker 5: they are. One thing about them, they won a lot
- 37:08Speaker 5: of close games last year.
- 37:09Speaker 6: I think they were 11-2 or something like that in
- 37:12Speaker 6: close games, decided by, you know, seven points or less
- 37:16Speaker 6: or whatever. Well, if that's the case, usually, and the
- 37:20Speaker 6: history tells you that because a year ago, the Chiefs
- 37:23Speaker 6: won a lot of close games and then came back.
- 37:24Speaker 5: To the norm. You usually come back to the mean
- 37:27Speaker 5: when that happens.
- 37:28Speaker 6: So I'm not saying it's, and we'll know more tonight
- 37:30Speaker 6: when we see him, but usually if you win a
- 37:32Speaker 6: lot of close games, the next year, you usually lose
- 37:36Speaker 6: those games and you come back to the mean some more.
- 37:38Speaker 6: So it'll be interesting to see how they play tonight.
- 37:40Speaker 6: By the way, underdogs on the road to the Chiefs.
- 37:43Speaker 6: I mean, you think about that. I don't know what
- 37:46Speaker 6: that says about, because the Chiefs have injury issues at
- 37:50Speaker 6: some spots. They're starting an undrafted left tackle. So I'm
- 37:55Speaker 6: curious to see how this plays out. But also, here's
- 37:57Speaker 6: the other thing. Bo Nix is coming off an ankle injury.
- 38:00Speaker 6: an ankle injury he's injured before where is he in
- 38:03Speaker 6: terms of his health i think that's something to keep
- 38:05Speaker 6: an eye.
- 38:05Speaker 3: On yeah to me that there's a couple questions with
- 38:07Speaker 3: with the broncos right now obviously you think the defense
- 38:09Speaker 3: is going to be still pretty stout and be pretty
- 38:11Speaker 3: solid but on offense you know like payton loves to
- 38:13Speaker 3: run the football and he's been hellbent on getting 100
- 38:16Speaker 3: yard rusher game in and game out you have jk
- 38:18Speaker 3: dobbins which sounds like he's gonna be the starter going
- 38:21Speaker 3: forward doesn't really offer you a lot i feel like
- 38:22Speaker 3: in the past game but it's like that between the
- 38:24Speaker 3: tackles runner that they like They have R.J. Harvey, who
- 38:27Speaker 3: showed some glimpses as a little better receiver. But, like,
- 38:30Speaker 3: I'm not sure if they're really confident with him being
- 38:32Speaker 3: the lead back. So they kind of have, like, it's
- 38:34Speaker 3: going to be a running back by committee.
- 38:35Speaker 5: Well, the rookie they like a lot, too.
- 38:37Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 38:38Speaker 5: The Coleman kid.
- 38:39Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
- 38:39Speaker 3: So it's curious to see him with this Kansas City
- 38:42Speaker 3: Chiefs game coming up, how they're going to rotate. Because
- 38:44Speaker 3: right now I feel like Dobbins is the guy. even
- 38:46Speaker 3: though he's not really diverse in what he can do
- 38:49Speaker 3: as opposed to the other two. So that'll be something
- 38:51Speaker 3: to watch. And also, like you said, Jalen Waddle, I mean,
- 38:53Speaker 3: you spend a first round pick on him. How are
- 38:55Speaker 3: you going to use him?
- 38:56Speaker 5: And here's the other part of it. Sean Payton's not
- 38:58Speaker 5: calling plays.
- 38:59Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 39:00Speaker 5: Davis Webb is calling the plays now. So for how long,
- 39:03Speaker 5: for how long is he.
- 39:04Speaker 4: Going to take it back?
- 39:05Speaker 5: I'm taking that damn thing out of his hands. It's mine.
- 39:09Speaker 5: I'm doing it.
- 39:10Speaker 6: And so it'll be interesting to see how, how that
- 39:12Speaker 6: works out because he's calling plays for the first time.
- 39:14Speaker 6: And look, everybody I've talked to says he's brilliant and
- 39:18Speaker 6: he will be a head coach in this league. But again,
- 39:20Speaker 6: it's the first time you're calling plays and you go
- 39:23Speaker 6: to arrowhead to play the chiefs.
- 39:25Speaker 5: And then you got the Jaguars a second week. That's
- 39:27Speaker 5: a tough way to start. All right.
- 39:29Speaker 4: That week, to match up on Sunday is going to
- 39:31Speaker 4: be on Paramount Plus for Jaguars Broncos, your live local
- 39:35Speaker 4: NFL on CBS games every week. So stay with us
- 39:39Speaker 4: when we return here on Jags AM. We'll talk more
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- 39:45Speaker 4: those four touchdowns, all that much more on Jaguars happy
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- 40:02Speaker 4: Time to ask Copilot a question. We're going to check
- 40:05Speaker 4: in with Microsoft's Copilot because why not? So today we're
- 40:10Speaker 4: going to talk about Trevor a lot. So I had
- 40:12Speaker 4: to ask the question, how many NFL quarterbacks have thrown
- 40:14Speaker 4: for 100 touchdowns and run for 20 touchdowns before they
- 40:17Speaker 4: turn 27? And the answer is four. Trevor Lawrence now
- 40:21Speaker 4: joins Josh Allen, Cam Newton and Lamar Jackson as the
- 40:25Speaker 4: four quarterbacks to get it done with their arms and
- 40:28Speaker 4: with their legs. Trevor still got about a month of 26,
- 40:32Speaker 4: which is crazy to think about because he feels like
- 40:33Speaker 4: he's been in the NFL forever in a day. But
- 40:37Speaker 4: that's the best I've seen him maybe since the Chargers
- 40:40Speaker 4: game was good to Pete. But that was just in
- 40:42Speaker 4: terms of operation. In my time here, that was the
- 40:46Speaker 4: most confident, clean, just smooth production I've seen out of Trevor.
- 40:50Speaker 4: There was only that one jumping in front of the
- 40:52Speaker 4: line of scrimmage try to play he had. There's always
- 40:54Speaker 4: going to be one little thing, but everything else is perfect.
- 40:59Speaker 5: That was a quarterback who told the world, I know
- 41:02Speaker 5: what I'm doing. I know the offense. That's what that was. Again,
- 41:06Speaker 5: the next step, go on the road and do that
- 41:08Speaker 5: against a good Denver team.
- 41:10Speaker 6: You know, if you go on the road and you
- 41:12Speaker 6: go to Denver and you don't play well and you.
- 41:13Speaker 5: Throw three interceptions, then all of a sudden you're going
- 41:15Speaker 5: to go, oh, wait a second, we have to slow
- 41:17Speaker 5: the roll.
- 41:17Speaker 6: That was against the Browns. So that's why this is
- 41:19Speaker 6: a big week for him and for the offense. But
- 41:22Speaker 6: I'm not worried about it because I think what I
- 41:24Speaker 6: saw on Sunday is what we're going to see for
- 41:26Speaker 6: most of this year. What's he on pace for, 68 touchdowns?
- 41:30Speaker 2: Let's do it.
- 41:32Speaker 4: We're killing it with the math today, so we might
- 41:33Speaker 4: as well give him 68 touchdowns.
- 41:34Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
- 41:36Speaker 4: The confidence to me, it was obvious, but like, look
- 41:39Speaker 4: at that. Talk about that Josh Cameron play again. You're
- 41:41Speaker 4: making it extremely difficult throw. And there's a lot of
- 41:43Speaker 4: trust in your receiver as well. Cause he could easily
- 41:45Speaker 4: get hung out to dry there. And it's a rookie.
- 41:48Speaker 4: Like he's now so confident. He's like, Oh, well, whoever
- 41:50Speaker 4: I throw it to, I'm going to throw up so perfectly.
- 41:52Speaker 4: They can't possibly mess it up. And I think that's
- 41:55Speaker 4: a new place for him to be. Cause he's never
- 41:58Speaker 4: going to be cocky. He's never going to talk that way,
- 42:00Speaker 4: but with his play, I feel the confidence is coming through.
- 42:04Speaker 5: Well, the guy's taken a lot of abuse, let's be real.
- 42:06Speaker 6: Over the first, you know, part of his career, there
- 42:11Speaker 6: were people calling him a bust.
- 42:13Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 42:13Speaker 6: I mean, number one overall pick, he's a bust, which
- 42:16Speaker 6: was absurd to begin with. But anybody who doesn't mention
- 42:20Speaker 6: him as a potential MVP and talks about him being
- 42:24Speaker 6: a bust.
- 42:25Speaker 5: Is just misguided.
- 42:26Speaker 6: Now you're not even close to the truth because he
- 42:28Speaker 6: has arrived. And, you know, Damian Harris, who works with me,
- 42:32Speaker 6: last night on our show, last year, he was very
- 42:36Speaker 6: critical of Trevor early in the season. And then last night,
- 42:42Speaker 6: he said this Trevor reminds him of the Trevor who
- 42:46Speaker 6: torched his Alabama team in the national championship game.
- 42:49Speaker 4: Converted him.
- 42:50Speaker 5: He did. Trevor converted him.
- 42:53Speaker 6: And, you know, of course, I had to bring up
- 42:54Speaker 6: the fact that last year you buried him, so I
- 42:56Speaker 6: don't know if we can get him out of the
- 42:57Speaker 6: hole anymore.
- 42:58Speaker 4: But.
- 42:59Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, that to me, he's making a lot
- 43:02Speaker 5: of converts of people who doubted him.
- 43:05Speaker 6: And not that he cares about that, but you can
- 43:09Speaker 6: say all you want, you don't care. Deep down, it's
- 43:11Speaker 6: nice to shut up people.
- 43:13Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
- 43:14Speaker 3: I mean, that's always going to be a motivation, right? Like,
- 43:16Speaker 3: you're not going to come out and say it. You're
- 43:17Speaker 3: not going to come out and say, I see people
- 43:19Speaker 3: on Twitter or anything like that. But, you know, deep down,
- 43:23Speaker 3: nothing's better than shutting somebody up. And I think now, like,
- 43:27Speaker 3: I guess the question is then what's the next step
- 43:29Speaker 3: for Trevor, right? Like MVP candidate last year and everything,
- 43:32Speaker 3: like hopefully he's in the conversation.
- 43:34Speaker 2: Win it. Yeah, win it.
- 43:35Speaker 3: But also I think now we can start– because I
- 43:37Speaker 3: think this Josh Cameron play that Kai mentioned, I think
- 43:42Speaker 3: now we're starting to talk about he's elevating the guys
- 43:44Speaker 3: around him, right? Where it almost doesn't matter who he's
- 43:47Speaker 3: throwing to. Like the ball is going to get there.
- 43:49Speaker 3: It's going to be on target. And he can elevate
- 43:52Speaker 3: whoever he's throwing to. And I think you look around
- 43:55Speaker 3: the NFL, there's a very few amount of quarterbacks that
- 43:57Speaker 3: can do that.
- 43:58Speaker 4: Right.
- 43:58Speaker 2: Like Mahomes.
- 43:59Speaker 3: I remember Aaron Rodgers in his prime could do that.
- 44:02Speaker 3: But that's that's a very rare trait that I'm not
- 44:05Speaker 3: ready to call and say Trevor Lawrence is there yet.
- 44:07Speaker 3: But I think that's going to be the next step
- 44:08Speaker 3: as well.
- 44:09Speaker 4: When you talk about national coverage of Trevor and I
- 44:12Speaker 4: think part of, you know, it can be laziness. There's
- 44:14Speaker 4: a lot of stuff to cover. I understand that. But
- 44:17Speaker 4: for Trevor, it's the consistency of it. You can't look
- 44:19Speaker 4: at that game and pick out anything and say he
- 44:21Speaker 4: made some grievous error. Before, there was always, hey, he
- 44:25Speaker 4: made a great throw, and then there's something else that
- 44:27Speaker 4: people can latch on to. If every week you're going
- 44:29Speaker 4: to look at the tape and Trevor's going to look
- 44:31Speaker 4: like that, it will become difficult for anybody to think
- 44:34Speaker 4: anything else. They've seen the interceptions, stuff like that, in
- 44:37Speaker 4: the past. And that's what they remember. And we talk about,
- 44:40Speaker 4: you know, the Jags get overlooked every time because no
- 44:42Speaker 4: one they don't come to mind. People just kind of
- 44:44Speaker 4: gloss over it. And so now I think when he's
- 44:47Speaker 4: putting week to week, you'd have to go probably back
- 44:50Speaker 4: to even before like midseason last year to find consecutive
- 44:53Speaker 4: tape of him looking. confused or not looking confident not
- 44:57Speaker 4: knowing what's going on he's now in the last at
- 45:00Speaker 4: least nine regular season games even in the bills game
- 45:02Speaker 4: he's confident he knows what he's doing he's not making
- 45:05Speaker 4: dumb decisions you know things are not going to go
- 45:08Speaker 4: perfect and i think this week coming up will be
- 45:10Speaker 4: an example of a very tough test for them but
- 45:13Speaker 4: if he can consistently do that and have people remember
- 45:15Speaker 4: that i think that monday night football game did a
- 45:17Speaker 4: lot for him last year i know it wasn't pretty
- 45:19Speaker 4: but finding a way to win i think people remember
- 45:21Speaker 4: that and that's what gets in their minds and that's
- 45:24Speaker 4: kind of the reputation you get going forward well and
- 45:26Speaker 4: that's kind.
- 45:27Speaker 3: Of been trevor's mo i feel like where it hasn't
- 45:29Speaker 3: always been pretty right it hasn't always been aesthetically pleasing
- 45:32Speaker 3: but he finds a way to get the job done
- 45:34Speaker 3: this cleveland browns game was aesthetically pleasing with some of
- 45:37Speaker 3: the throws that he's made right and and he needs
- 45:39Speaker 3: to do that to get that national spotlight because he's
- 45:42Speaker 3: not a joe burrow where he's driving around in a
- 45:44Speaker 3: batmobile and and you know dating all these supermodels and
- 45:47Speaker 3: everything right he's not josh allen where he's gonna probably
- 45:49Speaker 3: run for 100 yards truck people run people over have
- 45:52Speaker 3: the human highlights lamar jackson the same way like trevor's
- 45:55Speaker 3: a quarterback and and he's an even-keeled quarterback that he
- 45:58Speaker 3: has a personality but like he's not going to go
- 46:00Speaker 3: above himself you know like a baker mayfield and dance
- 46:03Speaker 3: and do all this crazy stuff like he's calm cool
- 46:05Speaker 3: and collected so if he can go out there and
- 46:07Speaker 3: just keep on threading needles and making plays the world
- 46:11Speaker 3: will be forced to talk about.
- 46:12Speaker 5: Him unless he plays in jacksonville which hurts him Exactly.
- 46:15Speaker 4: And I think with MVB campaigns, as we all know,
- 46:18Speaker 4: it's popularity contest. But if you have tape you can
- 46:21Speaker 4: throw out there and you can show me that Josh
- 46:23Speaker 4: Cameron catch a million times, anybody's going to be impressed
- 46:26Speaker 4: with that. When you have throws like that, not only
- 46:29Speaker 4: just getting the stats up, but things that look difficult,
- 46:32Speaker 4: a high degree of difficulty that he's completing, that will
- 46:35Speaker 4: help you and help your case. And having this early
- 46:38Speaker 4: in the season for him to put forth, because last
- 46:40Speaker 4: year he did great end of season, but that wasn't
- 46:42Speaker 4: enough to overcome anything.
- 46:44Speaker 6: By the way, real quick, I feel better about my
- 46:49Speaker 6: Super Bowl pick today than I did.
- 46:52Speaker 5: A week ago.
- 46:52Speaker 4: Well, I would hope so.
- 46:54Speaker 5: Not just for what they did.
- 46:55Speaker 6: Just looking at some of the other teams in the
- 46:58Speaker 6: league and what they did, I really feel good about
- 47:01Speaker 6: that team and where it is.
- 47:03Speaker 2: Now, those Dallas Cowboys, we'll talk about that later.
- 47:05Speaker 4: We'll get to that in a minute. Early.
- 47:08Speaker 5: Early. Early. Stay with us.
- 47:11Speaker 4: We've got a whole other second hour. We've got a
- 47:14Speaker 4: second hour of Jaguars Happy Hour. We're going to get
- 47:16Speaker 4: to all of that and much, much more. And we'll
- 47:18Speaker 4: see you then on Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars
- 47:20Speaker 4: Digital Network in a minute. Welcome back to the second
- 47:29Speaker 4: hour of Jaguars Happy Hour brought to you by Mr.
- 47:31Speaker 4: Chubby's Wings before the game, during the game, and after
- 47:33Speaker 4: the game. I'm Kidani Stephens. Pete Prisco, Austin Lehner with me,
- 47:36Speaker 4: but let's do our opening drive presented by Target Zero.
- 47:39Speaker 4: Let's get everyone home safely. Blowout yesterday, Jaguars get the
- 47:44Speaker 4: 34 to 10 win over the Browns and Trevor Lawrence
- 47:46Speaker 4: looked pretty flawless with four touchdowns, 245 passing yards, not
- 47:51Speaker 4: a ton of penalties. They were about 50% on third down,
- 47:54Speaker 4: didn't turn the ball over. Check, check, check. Things look
- 47:57Speaker 4: pretty good. Yes, it is the Cleveland Browns, but going
- 48:01Speaker 4: in there. not playing around, not playing down to anybody,
- 48:04Speaker 4: not letting the week one weirdness get to them because
- 48:07Speaker 4: the starters hadn't played at all in the preseason. They
- 48:09Speaker 4: went in and operated like, I don't know, this was
- 48:12Speaker 4: mid-season form for them, which Austin wasn't sure if we
- 48:15Speaker 4: were going to see that, but it was a nice surprise.
- 48:17Speaker 2: I was skeptical. I was getting ready to come in
- 48:19Speaker 2: here and say, well, see what happens.
- 48:20Speaker 3: You guys don't practice or you don't play in the
- 48:23Speaker 3: preseason game. Hey, take your time off. Play the threes
- 48:26Speaker 3: and fours for the entire preseason. I'm not going to
- 48:28Speaker 3: say anything else because yes, okay, it was the Cleveland Browns,
- 48:31Speaker 3: but It's how efficient that they looked, right? Because you
- 48:33Speaker 3: go back to last year, there was a pre-snap penalties,
- 48:36Speaker 3: the illegal motions, everything didn't get really cleaned up until
- 48:38Speaker 3: like week five, week six. I felt like you didn't
- 48:41Speaker 3: really see it. Was there any pre-snap penalties?
- 48:44Speaker 4: I think there might have been. Did Hainsey have one?
- 48:47Speaker 4: There might have been an offensive line, one or two.
- 48:49Speaker 2: Okay, it might have been, but it was minimal.
- 48:52Speaker 4: Yeah, because this time last year, it was every single play.
- 48:55Speaker 6: Every snap, and then they were late with the play
- 48:58Speaker 6: clock all the time.
- 48:59Speaker 5: That was another problem.
- 49:00Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right.
- 49:01Speaker 6: It was tough to watch, and that's why you know
- 49:03Speaker 6: Trevor has more control of the offense.
- 49:05Speaker 5: Cause you didn't see that on Sunday. And I think
- 49:08Speaker 5: that that's the bet. One of the best things, by.
- 49:10Speaker 6: The way, where any of the defensive players, man, that
- 49:11Speaker 6: they gave up that late touchdown.
- 49:13Speaker 5: Did anybody say anything? in the locker room? Josh is furious.
- 49:15Speaker 3: Oh, Josh Heinz.
- 49:15Speaker 4: Foye is furious.
- 49:16Speaker 2: He did. All of them.
- 49:18Speaker 4: Yes, very upset. Because they were... I mean, they were.
- 49:20Speaker 4: First of all, watching that game is the latest touchdown,
- 49:23Speaker 4: so it made it 10 points. They should have held
- 49:25Speaker 4: them out of the end zone. It was one explosive. Yeah.
- 49:27Speaker 4: And that's something they are very keenly aware of is
- 49:30Speaker 4: limiting the explosive and to have that one touchdown. Yeah,
- 49:34Speaker 4: I heard it from I think everybody that spoke.
- 49:36Speaker 5: That was Monteric, wasn't it, on that?
- 49:37Speaker 4: That was Monteric Brown, yep.
- 49:39Speaker 6: Yeah, he got caught in man coverage, which is not–
- 49:41Speaker 6: that's not his strong suit. That kid can run, by
- 49:43Speaker 6: the way. That kid from– the rookie from Washington can run.
- 49:47Speaker 6: And so he got caught trailing him, and he just
- 49:49Speaker 6: ran by him.
- 49:51Speaker 4: It's okay. It's all right. There's got to be something
- 49:55Speaker 4: to improve upon. Well, special teams– Coverage, too, probably. There's
- 49:59Speaker 4: a couple of things. There's always something you've got to
- 50:01Speaker 4: work on, right? You've got to have some teach tape somewhere. But, yeah,
- 50:04Speaker 4: they were, other than that, a great defensive effort from them.
- 50:07Speaker 4: And early, we talked about that kind of first drive.
- 50:10Speaker 4: It was going along, and you're like, oh, wait, and
- 50:13Speaker 4: then to get the turnover. So I thought that was key.
- 50:16Speaker 4: And I know Coach Campanelli focuses a ton on takeaways.
- 50:19Speaker 4: You always say that, but they really do focus on
- 50:23Speaker 4: having their eyes towards the football, being aware– presence and
- 50:27Speaker 4: knowing where they need to be on the field, but
- 50:28Speaker 4: just being aware of where the ball is as well.
- 50:31Speaker 4: And a couple of takeaways in this one. So clearly
- 50:34Speaker 4: they're trying to get back to that style that they
- 50:35Speaker 4: had going last year. Do they need to keep getting
- 50:37Speaker 4: those takeaways to have success? Cause those can be in,
- 50:40Speaker 4: you know, they can come in waves, but I feel
- 50:42Speaker 4: like it helps so much with getting the offense back
- 50:44Speaker 4: on the field.
- 50:46Speaker 6: Well, it's great to get takeaways, but sometimes takeaways can
- 50:49Speaker 6: mask the fact that your defense isn't very good.
- 50:53Speaker 5: Like, I'll give you an example.
- 50:54Speaker 6: The Chicago Bears all last year got a ton of takeaways,
- 50:56Speaker 6: but their defense wasn't very good. And on Sunday, their
- 51:00Speaker 6: defense wasn't great again, and they got a bunch of takeaways.
- 51:03Speaker 5: So, yeah, it's great to get them. Nobody's going to
- 51:06Speaker 5: complain about them.
- 51:08Speaker 6: But that doesn't necessarily translate to you being a dominant defense.
- 51:11Speaker 5: I think, you know, yeah, if you have a good
- 51:14Speaker 5: pass rush, it contributes to that.
- 51:16Speaker 6: So i think ideally they'd like to be a better
- 51:18Speaker 6: defense all the way around against the pass they were
- 51:21Speaker 6: great against the run last year but you got to
- 51:22Speaker 6: be better against.
- 51:23Speaker 3: The pass pete here's the phrase that gets echoed way
- 51:25Speaker 3: too much on defense it's ben don't break right we
- 51:28Speaker 3: want to bend but we don't want to break well
- 51:31Speaker 3: i mean i think you know the jaguars were a
- 51:32Speaker 3: little bit of an example but ben don't break defense
- 51:34Speaker 3: last year i think they want to improve upon that
- 51:37Speaker 3: like i think josh hines allen generally being pissed off
- 51:39Speaker 3: for giving up 10 points against the cleveland browns it
- 51:41Speaker 3: shows like expectations now in the bar has been raised
- 51:44Speaker 3: even more where it's not bend, don't break.
- 51:46Speaker 2: It's we're not bending at all.
- 51:47Speaker 3: Like we're, we're going to enforce our will on you
- 51:49Speaker 3: cause turnovers and get the ball back to the offense.
- 51:52Speaker 3: It's a good point.
- 51:52Speaker 6: Those guys weren't on the field then though, if I'm
- 51:54Speaker 6: not mistaken, that was at the end.
- 51:55Speaker 5: I didn't, I didn't, by then. Yeah.
- 51:57Speaker 4: I don't think that was like two, three minutes left.
- 52:01Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 52:01Speaker 4: It was late.
- 52:02Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 52:03Speaker 4: I mean, they hang, they love the fact that they
- 52:06Speaker 4: didn't allow a hundred yard rusher last year. That was up. They,
- 52:09Speaker 4: They hear it. They pinpoint it in their minds. You know,
- 52:11Speaker 4: they have things that motivate them, of course. I think
- 52:13Speaker 4: it's a good point you're saying about Josh. They they
- 52:17Speaker 4: turn the page quickly at times in the past. And
- 52:21Speaker 4: this is, you know, because notoriously Jacksonville have a good
- 52:24Speaker 4: season and they fall off.
- 52:25Speaker 5: Right.
- 52:25Speaker 4: As of recent, that's kind of the M.O. and what
- 52:27Speaker 4: people talk about. To me, the mentality of the team
- 52:32Speaker 4: having a really great season under new leadership, probably overachieving
- 52:36Speaker 4: last year, they've moved forward and truly embody the fact
- 52:40Speaker 4: that they expect to win. It was not always that way.
- 52:44Speaker 4: Even at times last year, it was like they were
- 52:45Speaker 4: more excited, happy to win. Yes, it's becoming an expectation.
- 52:50Speaker 4: You feel like they hate losing more than they like
- 52:52Speaker 4: winning sometimes, and that's what good teams are. I don't
- 52:55Speaker 4: think they had that before, and I feel like it's difficult.
- 52:57Speaker 4: I know Liam Cohen hates losing more than he likes winning.
- 52:59Speaker 4: but now it's getting down to the players and you
- 53:01Speaker 4: feel it a bit more. And Josh, I'm down. Who's
- 53:03Speaker 4: been here for a long time and was with some
- 53:05Speaker 4: of those teams. Now hearing him in an answer, be like, yeah,
- 53:07Speaker 4: we want all that. That's great. I'm talking about Denver
- 53:10Speaker 4: next week. Like we're already post game on Sunday talking
- 53:13Speaker 4: about the next one.
- 53:14Speaker 3: Well, and here's the beautiful thing about week one. And
- 53:17Speaker 3: once again, a thing that's overset a lot, but I
- 53:19Speaker 3: do agree with you make your most improvements from week
- 53:21Speaker 3: one to week two. Okay. But the importance of week one,
- 53:24Speaker 3: I always felt like is, You can tell what teams
- 53:26Speaker 3: have bought in through training camp that trust in their
- 53:29Speaker 3: coaches and what teams that are kind of still teeter-tottering
- 53:31Speaker 3: to say.
- 53:31Speaker 2: Like, I don't know if this is really going to
- 53:33Speaker 2: be us or not, right?
- 53:34Speaker 3: Like, I think the Jaguars, for as flawless as they
- 53:37Speaker 3: were with cleaning up the penalties and everything, I think
- 53:39Speaker 3: it goes to show that they bought all in, right?
- 53:42Speaker 2: Now, is that going to equate to 13, 14 wins?
- 53:44Speaker 3: I'm not sure.
- 53:45Speaker 5: Right.
- 53:46Speaker 3: But I think it shows that this team is playing
- 53:49Speaker 3: together from week one on. And this team is, you know,
- 53:53Speaker 3: they have unfinished business, let's just say, from Buffalo. I
- 53:56Speaker 3: thought the game last night, the Giants game, for instance,
- 53:58Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of questions in New York
- 54:00Speaker 3: about what they're going to look like, right, what that
- 54:02Speaker 3: defense is going to do, what Jackson Dart's going to do.
- 54:04Speaker 3: That Giants team showed, you know what, they kind of
- 54:06Speaker 3: bought in to what John Harbaugh is selling.
- 54:08Speaker 2: So I get it.
- 54:10Speaker 3: It's a hodgepodge of what you can tell, what you
- 54:12Speaker 3: can't tell from week one. But I think what you
- 54:14Speaker 3: can really get a good inkling on is what teams
- 54:18Speaker 3: are buying and what teams are still on the fence
- 54:19Speaker 3: about it.
- 54:21Speaker 4: And I think with a new coaching staff, with like
- 54:23Speaker 4: what Liam Cohen's saying, it's easy to get the rah-rah
- 54:26Speaker 4: in the first year. But then, you know, are they
- 54:28Speaker 4: going to keep? buying into and making it a standard
- 54:31Speaker 4: because there's places there's certain franchises or teams you go
- 54:34Speaker 4: to and you know what is expected of you you
- 54:36Speaker 4: know what the standard is and liam cohen is trying
- 54:38Speaker 4: his very damnedest to make it a winning standard in
- 54:42Speaker 4: jacksonville and coming here and understanding you're going to be
- 54:44Speaker 4: a physical football team and we're going to win football
- 54:46Speaker 4: games and it's trickling down and you're feeling it a
- 54:48Speaker 4: little bit more this season i think oh.
- 54:51Speaker 6: And by the way one one thing we haven't talked
- 54:53Speaker 6: much about the offensive line oh yes i thought colvin
- 54:56Speaker 6: lannan For a guy that coming off a major knee surgery,
- 55:00Speaker 6: he was outstanding.
- 55:02Speaker 4: And didn't really hit in practice until last week. He
- 55:07Speaker 4: came out.
- 55:07Speaker 5: Of the game early. I don't know how many snaps
- 55:09Speaker 5: he played, but he came out early.
- 55:10Speaker 4: Yeah, Walker Little came in, I think, third quarter at
- 55:13Speaker 4: some point, later in the third quarter. I mean, it
- 55:14Speaker 4: was well in hand by that point.
- 55:16Speaker 5: And Walker wasn't good. Walker was Walker. He wasn't that good.
- 55:21Speaker 6: But Colvin Atlanta was very good. I thought the right
- 55:24Speaker 6: guard was solid. I thought the center was okay, not great.
- 55:29Speaker 5: The left guard is a rookie in pass protection.
- 55:32Speaker 3: He's a square.
- 55:33Speaker 2: He had some pancakes, too.
- 55:34Speaker 5: And he's good in the run game.
- 55:36Speaker 6: Once he understands his assignments a little better and the angles,
- 55:40Speaker 6: he's going to be really good.
- 55:40Speaker 5: In the run game. And the left tackle was really good,
- 55:44Speaker 5: I thought.
- 55:45Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you didn't hear Jed versus name at all.
- 55:47Speaker 4: I mean, he's a big zero on the stats sheet
- 55:49Speaker 4: pretty much.
- 55:49Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 55:50Speaker 4: Anton shut it down. I know that defense looks a
- 55:52Speaker 4: lot different than what we expected, but still just to
- 55:54Speaker 4: have that clean of a day when you have so
- 55:56Speaker 4: many people familiar faces, but in different positions.
- 55:58Speaker 7: Right.
- 55:58Speaker 4: This line looks nothing like what it looked last year
- 56:00Speaker 4: in terms of where these people are playing.
- 56:02Speaker 3: Yeah. And if Harrison can keep on doing he I mean,
- 56:04Speaker 3: you want to talk about the Parker Washington deal and everything. Well,
- 56:06Speaker 3: Harrison's going to be in line for another one as well.
- 56:08Speaker 3: So they're going to have some problems on their hands
- 56:10Speaker 3: in terms of how they're going to divvy up all
- 56:11Speaker 3: the cash. But it's great to see because and I
- 56:14Speaker 3: get it. There's a lot of returning players on offensive line,
- 56:16Speaker 3: but there might have been a question of, OK, can
- 56:18Speaker 3: Anton Harrison play left tackle in the NFL?
- 56:20Speaker 5: Right.
- 56:20Speaker 3: And I thought he passed with flying colors against a
- 56:22Speaker 3: guy like Jared Burse and pregnant is still pancaking people.
- 56:26Speaker 6: Don't you love Austin, though? He wants to pay Ventrell Miller.
- 56:29Speaker 6: He wants to pay Harris.
- 56:29Speaker 4: It's not our money. It ain't my money. It's easy
- 56:32Speaker 4: to say.
- 56:32Speaker 5: What do you want me to do? ETN slash HN.
- 56:35Speaker 3: I will donate plasma if I have to to help out.
- 56:38Speaker 3: What do you want me to do? I want to
- 56:40Speaker 3: pay everybody, man. This is a form of player speaking.
- 56:43Speaker 3: I want to see players get paid.
- 56:45Speaker 6: Austin, some guys you just got to let go.
- 56:48Speaker 3: Okay, so Pete, let me ask you this then real quick,
- 56:50Speaker 3: and Kyle, feel free to play along here. If you
- 56:53Speaker 3: could franchise take one player and try to work a
- 56:55Speaker 3: different deal with another player, are you going to franchise
- 56:58Speaker 3: take Anton Harrison?
- 56:59Speaker 2: Are you going to franchise take Parker Washington?
- 57:01Speaker 5: How many years? He's got a year. Anton has another.
- 57:03Speaker 4: Year on his field. He's a first-round pick, so he
- 57:05Speaker 4: has the fifth-year extension, right? Isn't that how– But OK,
- 57:09Speaker 4: so it'll be a crazy number, I'm assuming. So they'll
- 57:11Speaker 4: probably want.
- 57:12Speaker 5: To look it up. But I think that's OK.
- 57:14Speaker 2: Then scratch that.
- 57:15Speaker 4: He was the same year as Parker, but he has
- 57:18Speaker 4: the extra year for the extension.
- 57:20Speaker 5: I'd much rather have the left tackle if he's good.
- 57:23Speaker 4: What's a franchise tag number on a left tackle, though?
- 57:26Speaker 4: Is that like crazy?
- 57:27Speaker 2: I mean, I think a wide receiver is crazy now, too, though.
- 57:30Speaker 8: True.
- 57:30Speaker 4: I don't. Parker, you got to situate that.
- 57:33Speaker 5: Yeah. He's got one more year left.
- 57:35Speaker 2: Okay. Gotcha.
- 57:36Speaker 4: Cause they picked up the extension on him. Gotcha. Okay.
- 57:38Speaker 2: So he's fine then, but he'll, I'm sure be asking
- 57:41Speaker 2: to be, you know, you know, you know how that works.
- 57:44Speaker 5: Oh yeah. He's going to be, cause he's going to
- 57:46Speaker 5: be like Parker. Cause Parker has the year, this is
- 57:47Speaker 5: his year and he's barking about a contract. And so, yeah,
- 57:50Speaker 5: of course he's going to be barking about a new contract. Yeah.
- 57:54Speaker 4: When you have this much change on the line, I
- 57:57Speaker 4: didn't know what it was going to look like in term.
- 57:59Speaker 4: It's the same players are in different spots, but that's change. Um,
- 58:02Speaker 4: not only did they do well in pass protection, they
- 58:05Speaker 4: got the run a little bit when they chose to
- 58:07Speaker 4: do that. Trevor was comfortable with it. I mean, another
- 58:10Speaker 4: comfort thing with Trevor, like he could have easily been like,
- 58:12Speaker 4: all right, let me like, I got a rookie over here.
- 58:14Speaker 4: Anton's like, you know, he was not looking around at all.
- 58:17Speaker 4: He's fully trusting in that.
- 58:18Speaker 5: And I feel everybody.
- 58:19Speaker 6: He didn't have anybody near him for most of that game.
- 58:22Speaker 6: He had no, he had clean pockets.
- 58:24Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 58:25Speaker 6: You know, to throw those balls down the field, it
- 58:26Speaker 6: takes time. He's going to have to stand there.
- 58:28Speaker 5: And they were good. I mean, that line was good.
- 58:31Speaker 6: I mean, look, they had some leaky stuff here and there,
- 58:34Speaker 6: but for the most part, it was good.
- 58:36Speaker 2: Pete, let me ask you this.
- 58:36Speaker 3: I haven't really been following Denver too closely. Are they
- 58:40Speaker 3: returning a bunch of their guys back on defense? Obviously, like,
- 58:43Speaker 3: they're still going to be pretty solid getting after the
- 58:44Speaker 3: quarterback and everything. Yeah, everyone's coming back.
- 58:47Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
- 58:48Speaker 4: That pass rush was impressive last season. So that'll be
- 58:51Speaker 4: a different kind of test.
- 58:53Speaker 6: And, you know, But again, when Jacksonville went there last year,
- 58:56Speaker 6: they beat them up pretty good, I thought.
- 58:58Speaker 4: They got up early and then it was quiet. And
- 59:01Speaker 4: that was, if you've ever been in the press box,
- 59:03Speaker 4: good because it shakes. It's not like.
- 59:06Speaker 5: The old mile. The old mile high really used to shake.
- 59:09Speaker 8: It is.
- 59:10Speaker 4: It is loud it is a great environment if you're
- 59:12Speaker 4: the home team uh it will be important for the
- 59:15Speaker 4: jaguars to once again you know get things going early
- 59:17Speaker 4: i think that that that always helps when you're on
- 59:20Speaker 4: the road in a tough game but i feel like
- 59:23Speaker 4: this was a marquee game last year it really put
- 59:26Speaker 4: The Jaguars on the map a little bit because Denver
- 59:28Speaker 4: was really good. I mean, they were made as the
- 59:31Speaker 4: AFC championship. They're a great team, but they were, you know,
- 59:33Speaker 4: whatever their record was at that time in the season,
- 59:35Speaker 4: the Jaguars were trying to win out to continue to
- 59:38Speaker 4: win the AFC South because the Texans were neck and
- 59:40Speaker 4: neck with them. I wasn't surprised they went there and
- 59:43Speaker 4: did that, but to do it in really dominating fashion,
- 59:47Speaker 4: how important is it for them to do it this
- 59:49Speaker 4: year too? Because Not just necessarily because of what people say,
- 59:54Speaker 4: but schedule-wise, it's not an easy schedule. It's not a
- 59:56Speaker 4: first-place schedule. It's tough. A win at Denver, I feel,
- 59:59Speaker 4: would take them a long way.
- 1:00:01Speaker 5: A win at Denver serves notice to the– depending on
- 1:00:05Speaker 5: what happens tonight. I mean, if Denver goes in and
- 1:00:07Speaker 5: lays an egg at Kansas City, then we're going to
- 1:00:09Speaker 5: sit back and say, okay, maybe they're not as good.
- 1:00:10Speaker 5: But if Denver wins or plays a competitive game at
- 1:00:12Speaker 5: Kansas City, then you're going to sit there. If Jacksonville
- 1:00:15Speaker 5: goes to Denver and wins, then I think it opens
- 1:00:17Speaker 5: up the eyes. And I think a lot of people
- 1:00:19Speaker 5: are starting to get on to Jacksonville a little bit.
- 1:00:21Speaker 5: I've heard a lot of the national media come around
- 1:00:23Speaker 5: a little bit. So a win at Denver would be
- 1:00:25Speaker 5: enormous for them. And we talked before the season when
- 1:00:28Speaker 5: we played it out, this four-game block– It's what it's
- 1:00:31Speaker 5: it's Denver and then it's New England. Well, New England.
- 1:00:34Speaker 4: Yeah. And then the Bengals.
- 1:00:37Speaker 5: I mean, that's a tough four game stretch. They got
- 1:00:40Speaker 5: to come out of that with at least two, if
- 1:00:42Speaker 5: not three of them.
- 1:00:43Speaker 3: Well, and here's why I think it would be impressive
- 1:00:45Speaker 3: if Jacksonville can go to Denver and once again, take
- 1:00:47Speaker 3: care of business like last year.
- 1:00:49Speaker 2: And once again, it's the NFL, right? Anybody can win
- 1:00:52Speaker 2: any given Sunday and everything.
- 1:00:53Speaker 3: But I guarantee the guys in that locker room and
- 1:00:57Speaker 3: the Denver Broncos locker room are going to say, okay, well,
- 1:00:58Speaker 3: we didn't take Jacksonville seriously. They're the small market team,
- 1:01:01Speaker 3: all this stuff. Well, NFL players have short memories, but
- 1:01:04Speaker 3: they also have long-term memories, right? And I guarantee every
- 1:01:06Speaker 3: single player in that Denver Broncos locker room remembers how
- 1:01:09Speaker 3: that Jaguars game went, right? So there's going to be
- 1:01:11Speaker 3: some bad blood there. There's going to be a little
- 1:01:13Speaker 3: bit of a payback, a little comeuppance. And if the
- 1:01:17Speaker 3: Jaguars can show up and beat the Broncos with the Broncos' best– Yeah,
- 1:01:22Speaker 3: then I think you put the whole NFL on notice.
- 1:01:24Speaker 2: I really do.
- 1:01:26Speaker 5: I do too.
- 1:01:26Speaker 6: And by the way, I still think had they gone
- 1:01:29Speaker 6: there in the playoffs, they would have beat them again.
- 1:01:31Speaker 4: The way they were playing in the end. Yeah, I
- 1:01:32Speaker 4: feel the matchup for them.
- 1:01:33Speaker 5: I think they would have beat them again.
- 1:01:34Speaker 4: Favorable. A lot to talk about here on Jaguars Happy
- 1:01:38Speaker 4: Hour on a victory Monday. Coming back, we're going to
- 1:01:40Speaker 4: keep it real about the cornerbacks and the playing time.
- 1:01:43Speaker 4: A lot to talk about there. Jaguars Happy Hour today
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- 1:01:53Speaker 8: Feel really comfortable, really confident in what we're doing. I
- 1:01:55Speaker 8: think last year at this time, I knew what we
- 1:01:57Speaker 8: were doing, but it was still, you know, you're still
- 1:02:00Speaker 8: getting used to the game plan and the moving parts
- 1:02:02Speaker 8: of the offense, which is a lot, which is a
- 1:02:04Speaker 8: big change for me. So I think there was that
- 1:02:06Speaker 8: dynamic of still trying to get completely comfortable in it.
- 1:02:09Speaker 8: So I think all that stuff, I feel, feel really good.
- 1:02:12Speaker 8: And like I said, we got to have short memory and,
- 1:02:15Speaker 8: you know, enjoy it tonight.
- 1:02:17Speaker 5: It was awesome.
- 1:02:17Speaker 8: We get to win a week one, but just excited
- 1:02:19Speaker 8: now to, we got a big challenge next week and
- 1:02:21Speaker 8: we got to turn the page and, go put together
- 1:02:23Speaker 8: another great game plan.
- 1:02:25Speaker 4: We're already turning the page to next week. That includes
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- 1:02:48Speaker 4: going to be in town. Welcome back to Jaguars Happy Hour. Kai, Austin, Pete,
- 1:02:52Speaker 4: time to keep it real. Presented by ServPro. We always
- 1:02:55Speaker 4: keep it real, but this one is presented by ServPro
- 1:02:57Speaker 4: like it never even happened. We're going to talk about
- 1:02:59Speaker 4: the cornerback situation because a lot of being made of
- 1:03:03Speaker 4: what Travis Hunter's snap count was going to be. Did
- 1:03:05Speaker 4: not play a ton on offense. Had four offensive snaps,
- 1:03:09Speaker 4: two targets, I think. And on defense, he only played
- 1:03:13Speaker 4: 26 snaps, which we thought CB1 would be on the field.
- 1:03:18Speaker 4: And yes, there was some later in the game, wasn't in,
- 1:03:21Speaker 4: of course. I mean, Mark Tarek Brown was in, so
- 1:03:23Speaker 4: there's an argument there. But the snap count was a
- 1:03:26Speaker 4: little maybe misleading. So I'll read off some of the
- 1:03:28Speaker 4: DB playing time. Antonio Johnson had 45 snaps. Buster Brown
- 1:03:32Speaker 4: had 38 snaps. Jarrion Jones had 37 snaps. Rand saw
- 1:03:37Speaker 4: the rookie, or not rookie, the second-year player. He didn't
- 1:03:39Speaker 4: play last season. He had 33. Murray also had 33.
- 1:03:41Speaker 4: Travis Hunter had 29. Jordan Lewis had 28. So, Pete,
- 1:03:45Speaker 4: I know you watched the film. Is some of that scheme?
- 1:03:47Speaker 4: Are they trying to keep everyone happy? What's going on?
- 1:03:50Speaker 5: Well, they took him out late, so he didn't.
- 1:03:52Speaker 6: That was, for him, that was, you know, he's coming
- 1:03:55Speaker 6: off a knee injury, so you take him out. That
- 1:03:56Speaker 6: makes sense. So that's why his were down a little bit.
- 1:04:00Speaker 6: But they're in a situation where, They.
- 1:04:04Speaker 5: Got a lot of guys.
- 1:04:05Speaker 4: That's a pretty even split.
- 1:04:07Speaker 5: You can't play them all. How many guys did you mention?
- 1:04:09Speaker 4: So I had a bunch of the DBs. So Antonio Johnson,
- 1:04:13Speaker 4: Monterey Brown, Jaron Jones, Caleb Ransaw, Murray, Hunter, and Lewis.
- 1:04:20Speaker 5: That's seven.
- 1:04:21Speaker 6: And you're not going to play seven a lot of
- 1:04:23Speaker 6: the time. So that means somebody or some bodies.
- 1:04:27Speaker 5: Are not on the field.
- 1:04:28Speaker 8: Yes.
- 1:04:28Speaker 6: And they did use a lot of defenses where they
- 1:04:31Speaker 6: had six of them on there. They had Ransaw and
- 1:04:34Speaker 6: Murray at safety and kind of dropped down Antonio. A
- 1:04:38Speaker 6: couple of times they dropped Ransaw down and played him
- 1:04:41Speaker 6: up there. And so they, you know, Jordan Lewis played
- 1:04:44Speaker 6: in the slot. Jari and Joe's played both spots. And
- 1:04:48Speaker 6: I think that that's what you're going to see from them.
- 1:04:51Speaker 6: And in talking to people around that team, one of
- 1:04:53Speaker 6: the things they said to me was they all tackle.
- 1:04:57Speaker 6: You know, a lot of teams don't have a corner
- 1:04:58Speaker 6: who doesn't tackle. And they have corner, you know, Jordan
- 1:05:01Speaker 6: Jones will tackle. Jordan Lewis will tackle. Hunter will tackle.
- 1:05:05Speaker 5: They'll tackle.
- 1:05:06Speaker 6: And so if you've got guys that Monteric will tackle.
- 1:05:08Speaker 6: So if you have guys that are willing to tackle,
- 1:05:10Speaker 6: you can do different things with that.
- 1:05:12Speaker 5: And I think that's what you're going to see this year.
- 1:05:14Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not buying too much into the 26 snaps
- 1:05:17Speaker 3: on defense, right? This is what happens when you play
- 1:05:18Speaker 3: the Cleveland Browns, right? I expect a lot more snaps
- 1:05:20Speaker 3: against the Denver Broncos. Assume the game is going to
- 1:05:22Speaker 3: be a lot closer than what it was yesterday. And
- 1:05:27Speaker 3: people got to keep in mind, this is a marathon,
- 1:05:29Speaker 3: not a sprint. And they're all healthy right now. They're
- 1:05:32Speaker 3: all healthy. Obviously, coming off a major injury last year,
- 1:05:35Speaker 3: didn't play any of the preseason games. Yeah, let's go
- 1:05:38Speaker 3: ahead and ease Travis Hunter along. Now, I didn't have
- 1:05:41Speaker 3: Josh Cameron getting a touchdown before Travis Hunter did, if
- 1:05:45Speaker 3: I'm being 100% transparent. But I think they're going to
- 1:05:49Speaker 3: sprinkle him on in the offensive part of the game
- 1:05:51Speaker 3: as well. And then on defense, that's your starting cornerback.
- 1:05:54Speaker 3: And as long as the game's competitive... I expect to
- 1:05:56Speaker 3: see him out there covering one receivers a lot more
- 1:05:59Speaker 3: than what we saw against the Browns.
- 1:06:01Speaker 6: Cause there were, and I thought he did a nice
- 1:06:02Speaker 6: job in the coverages he was asked to do too.
- 1:06:04Speaker 5: I mean, he could cover, there's no question about that.
- 1:06:06Speaker 4: He's a natural at that. I feel that's his obviously
- 1:06:09Speaker 4: natural position, but it doesn't seem as it's effortless almost
- 1:06:13Speaker 4: like that's where you see his talent shine the most.
- 1:06:15Speaker 4: And I think his B comes a little more comfortable
- 1:06:17Speaker 4: as an NFL cornerback, you know, understanding what he can
- 1:06:20Speaker 4: maybe get away with, you know, the push and pull
- 1:06:22Speaker 4: of it. He's going to only progress to be even better.
- 1:06:25Speaker 4: That's where he can be a shutdown. And I think
- 1:06:27Speaker 4: it'll take a little bit more time. I think, I'm
- 1:06:30Speaker 4: not sure if we're fully there yet with Travis Hunter.
- 1:06:32Speaker 4: And as you mentioned, he is coming back from a
- 1:06:34Speaker 4: knee injury.
- 1:06:34Speaker 5: So by the way, when.
- 1:06:35Speaker 6: He came on the field on offense, they handed him
- 1:06:37Speaker 6: one of my favorite little, uh, you know, jet sweepers.
- 1:06:41Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
- 1:06:41Speaker 5: The little jet sweepers. And then they threw a, what
- 1:06:43Speaker 5: they threw a bubble screen from that. Right. Didn't they?
- 1:06:47Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:06:48Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:06:49Speaker 5: Come on. Oh no.
- 1:06:50Speaker 8: True.
- 1:06:51Speaker 3: But then that bubble screen, we just talked about it. The,
- 1:06:53Speaker 3: like the second break of the show, that bubble screen
- 1:06:55Speaker 3: opened up the touchdown and, Um, yeah.
- 1:06:58Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:06:59Speaker 2: To Brenton strange.
- 1:06:59Speaker 6: That would have been, well, no, because the idea, the
- 1:07:02Speaker 6: idea of part of that play is to open up
- 1:07:04Speaker 6: the one down, you know, you fake it.
- 1:07:05Speaker 5: And then you hit Jacoby.
- 1:07:06Speaker 2: That's right.
- 1:07:07Speaker 5: It was a fake.
- 1:07:08Speaker 6: So it didn't work.
- 1:07:10Speaker 5: Trevor just worked it to the, coming back to the middle.
- 1:07:13Speaker 4: Trevor threw and completed a pass to nine different players yesterday.
- 1:07:17Speaker 4: Parker Washington, of course, Brian Thomas jr. We haven't even
- 1:07:20Speaker 4: touched on what he was able to do yesterday. Jacoby Myers,
- 1:07:23Speaker 4: who had a touchdown catch. Brent Strange, who had a
- 1:07:25Speaker 4: touchdown catch. Josh Cameron, who had a touchdown catch. Tootin
- 1:07:29Speaker 4: caught a pass from him. Nate Borkature, your rookie tight end.
- 1:07:32Speaker 4: Travis Hunter. Amir Abdullah had one. And they also threw
- 1:07:36Speaker 4: one to Quint Morris.
- 1:07:37Speaker 3: Almost had one.
- 1:07:38Speaker 4: Almost had another one. So he almost had 10. They're
- 1:07:40Speaker 4: not afraid to spread the ball around. That is clear.
- 1:07:43Speaker 4: But they won, so no one's upset yet, Pete. Is
- 1:07:46Speaker 4: it just too early?
- 1:07:47Speaker 5: Well, at least we don't know about it yet. If
- 1:07:50Speaker 5: Jacoby hadn't got his touchdown, I bet he wouldn't be happy.
- 1:07:53Speaker 4: He was.
- 1:07:53Speaker 2: Strange, maybe, too.
- 1:07:56Speaker 5: But what did he have, though?
- 1:07:58Speaker 4: He had one he dropped, didn't he? Yeah, so he
- 1:08:02Speaker 4: had three targets, two receptions, 23 yards.
- 1:08:06Speaker 6: Yeah, I can't imagine everybody's thrilled with their usage yesterday,
- 1:08:09Speaker 6: even though they won. But, again, guys got pulled out
- 1:08:11Speaker 6: of the game. So you're not going to do that.
- 1:08:14Speaker 6: You know what I mean?
- 1:08:15Speaker 4: It's hot. They want to chill out. It was a
- 1:08:17Speaker 4: lot yesterday.
- 1:08:17Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think that's a problem in a game.
- 1:08:20Speaker 5: That's not a problem in a game like that. But, again,
- 1:08:23Speaker 5: it could be. And I thought Borkic's reception showed that
- 1:08:27Speaker 5: he could run away from some people. I mean, that's
- 1:08:29Speaker 5: a good sign.
- 1:08:29Speaker 4: And he played a ton, Pete.
- 1:08:31Speaker 5: Yeah, he can block.
- 1:08:33Speaker 6: They like his blocking ability. I mean, he's a good blocker.
- 1:08:35Speaker 6: They have two tight ends that now can block. That
- 1:08:37Speaker 6: gives you flexibility there. And both of them catch the football,
- 1:08:39Speaker 6: I think.
- 1:08:40Speaker 3: And Morris, not the best receiver, but Morris had some
- 1:08:41Speaker 3: great blocks yesterday as well.
- 1:08:43Speaker 5: He did.
- 1:08:43Speaker 2: He did.
- 1:08:44Speaker 5: They all can block. You're right.
- 1:08:45Speaker 6: All those tight ends can block. So that gives you
- 1:08:47Speaker 6: some flexibility there. But you wait when these receivers start complaining.
- 1:08:52Speaker 5: I know it's coming. Okay, but real quick, though.
- 1:08:54Speaker 3: So when you say they start complaining, are we going
- 1:08:57Speaker 3: on Twitter? Are we doing this in the press conference?
- 1:09:00Speaker 2: How's it going to happen?
- 1:09:01Speaker 5: I don't know how it's happening, but it'll happen.
- 1:09:03Speaker 2: Are we going to hear Adam Schefter?
- 1:09:05Speaker 6: When you have that many, when you have that many,
- 1:09:08Speaker 6: it's going to happen.
- 1:09:09Speaker 3: It's going to be like an Adam Schefter exclusive. We're
- 1:09:11Speaker 3: in Jacksonville. They're undefeated. They're 5-0, but they're not happy
- 1:09:15Speaker 3: with who's getting the ball. Is that what it's going
- 1:09:16Speaker 3: to be?
- 1:09:17Speaker 4: Well, if someone gets sent out, you might notice. If
- 1:09:20Speaker 4: somebody gets sent out of the way.
- 1:09:21Speaker 5: If they're 5-0, nobody's squawking.
- 1:09:22Speaker 2: You know that.
- 1:09:22Speaker 5: If your team's good, they're not going to squawk.
- 1:09:24Speaker 2: For sure.
- 1:09:26Speaker 4: Brian Thomas, who we haven't talked about, he had a
- 1:09:28Speaker 4: couple good catches.
- 1:09:29Speaker 5: Went to the middle of the field.
- 1:09:31Speaker 2: Nice catch.
- 1:09:31Speaker 4: He had a couple good catches in the middle of
- 1:09:34Speaker 4: the field, set up that Josh Cameron. It was on
- 1:09:35Speaker 4: the same drive as that Josh Cameron touchdown. And, you know,
- 1:09:39Speaker 4: for all we've said about him as well, for him
- 1:09:41Speaker 4: to do that. And I think by spreading it around,
- 1:09:44Speaker 4: you're not depending on him as much for every single thing.
- 1:09:47Speaker 4: It's allowed other players to get open. And in this example,
- 1:09:51Speaker 4: setting up the Josh Cameron touchdown, BT, I think, excels
- 1:09:55Speaker 4: best like this. I don't know if it'll continue in
- 1:09:58Speaker 4: the same split as the season goes along or if
- 1:10:01Speaker 4: he'll be happy with it, like Pete says. But I
- 1:10:04Speaker 4: like how they're utilizing, and we say this all the time,
- 1:10:06Speaker 4: they're playing to everybody's strengths, right? So they're putting them
- 1:10:09Speaker 4: in positions to succeed. And Brian Thomas Jr., I've been
- 1:10:11Speaker 4: pleased with what I've seen. from him so far.
- 1:10:14Speaker 5: Well, he's had a great offseason.
- 1:10:15Speaker 6: And he looked, I mean, on the field on Sunday,
- 1:10:18Speaker 6: he looked like a different guy. He looked like he
- 1:10:20Speaker 6: was back to being the guy we thought he would be.
- 1:10:22Speaker 4: So.
- 1:10:24Speaker 5: He's got to be a guy that's a field stretcher.
- 1:10:26Speaker 5: He has to be.
- 1:10:27Speaker 6: And whether you stretch the field, then you break those in-breakers,
- 1:10:31Speaker 6: because he loves throwing those in-breakers.
- 1:10:33Speaker 3: We know that.
- 1:10:34Speaker 5: Liam Cohen loves the in-breakers.
- 1:10:36Speaker 6: And look, that's where you get a lot of your
- 1:10:38Speaker 6: chunk plays is on those passes.
- 1:10:40Speaker 5: He told me that. That's where you get a lot
- 1:10:42Speaker 5: of chunk plays out of the in-breakers.
- 1:10:44Speaker 6: Brian thomas had to be able to go prove to
- 1:10:47Speaker 6: people we can go across the middle and he did
- 1:10:48Speaker 6: on sunday that's a good sign going.
- 1:10:50Speaker 3: Forward and i think just mentally too because you saw
- 1:10:53Speaker 3: when he when he had that catch across the middle
- 1:10:55Speaker 3: and he yeah he you know he flexes up the
- 1:10:56Speaker 3: crowd got him back he was flexing to 20 000
- 1:10:59Speaker 3: people on twitter saying that he can't go across the
- 1:11:01Speaker 3: field and catch the ball and he's scared right like
- 1:11:03Speaker 3: that that was for them now you know had a
- 1:11:05Speaker 3: little bit i think it was a shoulder if i'm
- 1:11:06Speaker 3: not mistaken where he went out a little bit but
- 1:11:08Speaker 3: then came back.
- 1:11:09Speaker 4: In so And he's had that kind of unfortunately on
- 1:11:11Speaker 4: and off where he, cause he goes up and he
- 1:11:13Speaker 4: comes down on his shoulders pretty hard. I think he's
- 1:11:16Speaker 4: this training camp last year. He dealt with a shoulder,
- 1:11:18Speaker 4: but this training camp as well, he got a little
- 1:11:19Speaker 4: banged up.
- 1:11:20Speaker 6: So I thought, I thought Austin was saying he was
- 1:11:23Speaker 6: flexing to the 20,000 people on the crowd.
- 1:11:25Speaker 2: Oh no, there's more than 20,000 people.
- 1:11:27Speaker 5: Pete.
- 1:11:27Speaker 4: No, it was, it was, it was, it was a
- 1:11:30Speaker 4: good turn. So it's limited capacity. Upper deck is closed.
- 1:11:34Speaker 5: Was it sold? Was it sold out to 40,000?
- 1:11:36Speaker 4: I didn't hear the announcement, but I will just visually
- 1:11:39Speaker 4: for me, because those September games are brutal, and I
- 1:11:42Speaker 4: don't blame anyone that doesn't want to sit outside in
- 1:11:44Speaker 4: that temperature. I understand it. And with the opponent, it
- 1:11:48Speaker 4: wasn't necessarily a huge marquee game. It was really full, Pete.
- 1:11:51Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:11:52Speaker 3: There's a lot of people in the bud zone, whatever
- 1:11:53Speaker 3: you want to call it, upstairs, kind of in the
- 1:11:55Speaker 3: shade and everything.
- 1:11:56Speaker 4: Or you'll see the Jacksonville side full with the shaded areas.
- 1:11:59Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:12:00Speaker 4: I would say the whole bowl section that was open
- 1:12:03Speaker 4: was pretty full.
- 1:12:04Speaker 5: If they beat Denver and come home, that game will
- 1:12:06Speaker 5: be packed against New England.
- 1:12:08Speaker 4: It's going to be packed anyway. It should be. That's
- 1:12:10Speaker 4: going to be a great matchup.
- 1:12:11Speaker 5: If they lose, you never know.
- 1:12:13Speaker 4: Nah, I think we're past it.
- 1:12:14Speaker 3: If they want to give out like a... Because we
- 1:12:16Speaker 3: got free hats, so we're all excited about those.
- 1:12:18Speaker 4: We'll have free gifts.
- 1:12:19Speaker 2: If you want to give out like a complimentary IV
- 1:12:21Speaker 2: for the next home game, because it was.
- 1:12:23Speaker 4: Gatorades or something.
- 1:12:24Speaker 5: It was rough.
- 1:12:25Speaker 2: It was a rough one.
- 1:12:26Speaker 4: It was bad, and it's that... As you're familiar, Pete,
- 1:12:29Speaker 4: it's that like Florida rain a little bit, then steamy
- 1:12:32Speaker 4: and just steamy.
- 1:12:33Speaker 5: Oh, I can't only.
- 1:12:34Speaker 4: And I'm very happy.
- 1:12:35Speaker 5: Well, that's not going to be an issue in the
- 1:12:36Speaker 5: new stadium, right? It won't be an issue.
- 1:12:38Speaker 4: I'm happy for pace of play because it poured exactly
- 1:12:40Speaker 4: like five minutes after the game ended. So we made it.
- 1:12:43Speaker 4: We didn't have to do a rain delay like we
- 1:12:45Speaker 4: did or lightning delay like we did in the opener
- 1:12:47Speaker 4: against the Panthers last year. So all is well.
- 1:12:49Speaker 3: Well, the way the Browns look and just call the
- 1:12:50Speaker 3: game with the preseason, we'll go home.
- 1:12:52Speaker 4: But yeah, I would have.
- 1:12:53Speaker 5: Usually the Browns have a lot of fans that go
- 1:12:55Speaker 5: with them or they're not.
- 1:12:56Speaker 4: There was a little bit, but I believe the situation
- 1:13:00Speaker 4: they're dealing... I don't know if... Watson as the QB
- 1:13:03Speaker 4: is inspiring anybody to travel. There was a little. There
- 1:13:07Speaker 4: was a little.
- 1:13:07Speaker 3: So it was funny because the Browns fans that did
- 1:13:10Speaker 3: travel that we talked to after the.
- 1:13:12Speaker 2: Game, and they were, I mean, I felt kind of
- 1:13:14Speaker 2: bad because they're just getting ragged on, right?
- 1:13:16Speaker 4: I mean, Jaguars have been there.
- 1:13:17Speaker 5: They know.
- 1:13:18Speaker 3: But the Browns fans are just like, yeah, we're just
- 1:13:20Speaker 3: happy to come to Florida and hang out. Have a
- 1:13:22Speaker 3: nice weekend. The exact quote was, we're actually going to
- 1:13:25Speaker 3: away games better than our home games. So this was
- 1:13:27Speaker 3: a nice vacation for us. I'm like, okay.
- 1:13:30Speaker 2: Cool.
- 1:13:30Speaker 5: I thought the Jaguars would make them wear brown.
- 1:13:33Speaker 3: I said the exact same thing in the pregame show
- 1:13:36Speaker 3: because when I, and I don't know if it's the
- 1:13:38Speaker 3: rules changed or not, but back when we, when I played,
- 1:13:40Speaker 3: I remember we played Tennessee, 2011 opening game at home.
- 1:13:45Speaker 2: We made them wear the blue. We went all white.
- 1:13:47Speaker 3: We went white tops and white bottoms because yeah.
- 1:13:51Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:13:52Speaker 6: Jacksonville picked that. So they could now somebody said the
- 1:13:55Speaker 6: jerseys are so light now.
- 1:13:56Speaker 5: It really doesn't matter anymore. Hmm. You tell me.
- 1:14:00Speaker 4: It might be a mental thing.
- 1:14:01Speaker 2: Yeah, but I haven't worn a jersey, Pete, in 15 years, man.
- 1:14:05Speaker 6: Yeah, but if you felt any of the new ones,
- 1:14:07Speaker 6: go feel one of the new ones.
- 1:14:08Speaker 5: You tell me if you feel like when you're next
- 1:14:09Speaker 5: time you're in the field.
- 1:14:11Speaker 2: I'll get back to.
- 1:14:12Speaker 4: You on it. It doesn't matter that Jacksonville Heat.
- 1:14:14Speaker 2: You know that. Same. Same.
- 1:14:17Speaker 5: The Browns' brown jerseys look heavy.
- 1:14:19Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:14:19Speaker 5: Don't they? Yeah.
- 1:14:21Speaker 3: I said the exact same thing in the pregame show.
- 1:14:23Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't know why they're going teal today.
- 1:14:25Speaker 4: It could be a mental thing. Who knows? It's hot
- 1:14:27Speaker 4: down there for everybody. I'm not even going to.
- 1:14:29Speaker 3: But also, there's some gamesmanship, too. And I don't know
- 1:14:31Speaker 3: if the rules changed, where if you're the home team,
- 1:14:33Speaker 3: you can decide to have fans on the sideline. And
- 1:14:35Speaker 3: if you have fans, then the away team gets them.
- 1:14:39Speaker 3: Just like if you play in colder weather, if you
- 1:14:41Speaker 3: get a heated bench, the away team gets the heated bench.
- 1:14:44Speaker 3: But if you opt out of a heated bench, the
- 1:14:46Speaker 3: away team doesn't get it. So I remember playing in
- 1:14:48Speaker 3: a cold weather game in Tennessee where they didn't want
- 1:14:50Speaker 3: the heated bench because it was an advantage.
- 1:14:52Speaker 2: So we didn't get it.
- 1:14:55Speaker 4: They had the fans on there, fortunately. I don't think
- 1:14:57Speaker 4: anybody's not going to do it in week one.
- 1:14:59Speaker 3: We'll see with New England.
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- 1:15:27Speaker 4: for you in the second hour brought to you by Mr.
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- 1:15:33Speaker 4: first fan question is. Ah, here we go. Do the
- 1:15:35Speaker 4: kickoff problems have more to do with kicker timing his
- 1:15:39Speaker 4: kicks or is it the coverage unit? Probably the only
- 1:15:43Speaker 4: thing you can nitpick from yesterday. Pete, what's going on
- 1:15:46Speaker 4: with that?
- 1:15:47Speaker 5: Yeah, it looked like coverage unit to me.
- 1:15:49Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 1:15:50Speaker 4: So how do you fix it? I mean, was this
- 1:15:52Speaker 4: a problem last year? Is this just a personnel issue?
- 1:15:56Speaker 4: What's going on? Heathrow will handle it, I'm sure, but
- 1:15:59Speaker 4: where do you think they could fix things?
- 1:16:01Speaker 6: Well, I think it's a lot of young guys that
- 1:16:03Speaker 6: are just playing special teams. You're learning how to play
- 1:16:06Speaker 6: special teams, and it takes a little time to adjust
- 1:16:09Speaker 6: to that. So I wouldn't panic after one game. I
- 1:16:14Speaker 6: think that might be a little.
- 1:16:15Speaker 5: Bit of an overreaction.
- 1:16:16Speaker 3: Well, and this is really the one play that you
- 1:16:19Speaker 3: can't mimic In training camp.
- 1:16:21Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:16:21Speaker 2: That you can't really mimic in practice.
- 1:16:23Speaker 3: Like, yeah, sure, you guys can run down and everything,
- 1:16:25Speaker 3: and you can go, you know, eight-quarter speed, seven-quarter speed. But, like,
- 1:16:29Speaker 3: to go full speed and then to try to hit somebody, like,
- 1:16:33Speaker 3: you're not going to simulate that in practice, right? So
- 1:16:35Speaker 3: the only time you get it is in the game. And, yeah,
- 1:16:38Speaker 3: like Pete said, I mean, hopefully it's just a one-off
- 1:16:41Speaker 3: and then they clean it up and everything. But if
- 1:16:42Speaker 3: this starts to be a problem, then maybe you guys
- 1:16:44Speaker 3: start looking at personnel in terms of getting some other
- 1:16:46Speaker 3: guys in there.
- 1:16:48Speaker 5: Or kick the damn thing out of the end zone.
- 1:16:49Speaker 2: Or kick it out of the end zone and go
- 1:16:50Speaker 2: to 35.
- 1:16:51Speaker 4: Take Pete's advice.
- 1:16:52Speaker 5: There you go.
- 1:16:53Speaker 4: All right, Van Diver wants to know, he says, I
- 1:16:55Speaker 4: know it's week one, but can Josh Cameron be a
- 1:16:57Speaker 4: dark horse offensive rookie of the year candidate? You have
- 1:17:01Speaker 4: to imagine he's going to be a big red zone
- 1:17:02Speaker 4: target for Trevor because he's big in there and he'll
- 1:17:05Speaker 4: go up and get it. I think it's early, Pete,
- 1:17:07Speaker 4: but is this possibly... Something to keep an eye on
- 1:17:10Speaker 4: going forward.
- 1:17:11Speaker 6: He's not going to get enough catches. He's not going
- 1:17:14Speaker 6: to be involved enough. I mean, let's look at it
- 1:17:17Speaker 6: on the surface. Technically, he's the fifth receiver.
- 1:17:22Speaker 5: Yes. If you count Hunter. And so fifth receiver is
- 1:17:25Speaker 5: not going to be an offensive rookie of the year.
- 1:17:26Speaker 6: So I would be astounded if he had more than
- 1:17:30Speaker 6: four touchdowns.
- 1:17:33Speaker 5: That would shock me.
- 1:17:35Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think when you talk about Offensive
- 1:17:37Speaker 3: Rookie of the Year, it's all about volume, right? You
- 1:17:40Speaker 3: got some running backs out there like Love in Arizona.
- 1:17:43Speaker 3: That's going to get the volume if he can stay healthy.
- 1:17:45Speaker 3: So I just think, I mean, listen, I think Josh
- 1:17:48Speaker 3: Cameron's a great story. He's got a bright future here. But, like,
- 1:17:50Speaker 3: I don't think he's going to get the targets and
- 1:17:52Speaker 3: the reps needed to win Offensive Rookie of the Year.
- 1:17:55Speaker 6: He won't either be Offensive Rookie of the Team because
- 1:17:57Speaker 6: Pregnanz is starting left guard with him.
- 1:18:03Speaker 3: I mean dude keeps getting pancakes maybe you can nominate
- 1:18:05Speaker 3: him who knows i mean he might be a household
- 1:18:08Speaker 3: name like quentin nelson was remember quentin like remember quentin
- 1:18:11Speaker 3: nelson for a while was the only guard i ever
- 1:18:12Speaker 3: heard of in the nfl it seemed like for the
- 1:18:14Speaker 3: right couple years.
- 1:18:15Speaker 4: Yeah sometimes it's good when they don't say your name
- 1:18:17Speaker 4: though especially i.
- 1:18:17Speaker 6: Tell you what cameron that's a good story because you
- 1:18:21Speaker 6: were drafting him where you drafted him and the fact
- 1:18:23Speaker 6: that they raved about him all off season in the
- 1:18:25Speaker 6: summer i mean that it tells you that they did
- 1:18:27Speaker 6: a nice job picking him.
- 1:18:28Speaker 4: Yeah Let's move a little long. Tartan Teal wants to know,
- 1:18:32Speaker 4: how many sacks do we think Trayvon and Josh Heinz-Allen
- 1:18:34Speaker 4: will have this season?
- 1:18:37Speaker 5: This is the Basselli question from last year.
- 1:18:39Speaker 4: They each have one and a half so far through
- 1:18:41Speaker 4: one game.
- 1:18:42Speaker 5: You know that?
- 1:18:42Speaker 6: This is the Basselli question from two years ago. He
- 1:18:44Speaker 6: predicted the 26.
- 1:18:46Speaker 5: I think it was. I think they got to it.
- 1:18:48Speaker 4: Okay is that the year josh had 17 and a
- 1:18:49Speaker 4: half and trayvon had like 10 or 11 because that's.
- 1:18:52Speaker 5: How they got to so austin you pick it all
- 1:18:54Speaker 5: right so this is gonna be combined uh sure yeah
- 1:18:57Speaker 5: let's go ahead what did tony guess it was 27
- 1:19:01Speaker 5: he called the 26 i think he guessed 26 okay
- 1:19:04Speaker 5: and i said if they got the 27 and a
- 1:19:05Speaker 5: half They'd be in the championship game.
- 1:19:08Speaker 2: Okay.
- 1:19:09Speaker 5: Half right.
- 1:19:10Speaker 3: I mean, well, then I guess I got to do
- 1:19:12Speaker 3: them one better, which I think it's feasible if they
- 1:19:14Speaker 3: can both stay healthy.
- 1:19:16Speaker 2: But also there's going to be a lot of blitzing, right?
- 1:19:18Speaker 2: But I'm going to say 27. All right.
- 1:19:20Speaker 4: We're on record.
- 1:19:22Speaker 8: 27.
- 1:19:22Speaker 5: How do you break it down?
- 1:19:23Speaker 3: I think you're going to give... I think Heinz Allen
- 1:19:27Speaker 3: gets the advantage. So I think you're going to give
- 1:19:30Speaker 3: him 15. Okay. And then you're going to give Trayvon Walker,
- 1:19:35Speaker 3: it would be 12.
- 1:19:36Speaker 4: 12.
- 1:19:36Speaker 2: There there's that.
- 1:19:37Speaker 6: Math 15 and 12 by the way yeah they get
- 1:19:39Speaker 6: 15 and 12 they will be in the super.
- 1:19:41Speaker 4: Bowl all right book it book it and book it
- 1:19:44Speaker 4: check mark we know you we know you already called
- 1:19:46Speaker 4: the super bowl shot so that's fine so we'll just
- 1:19:47Speaker 4: add it we'll add it to the list dutch brewmaster
- 1:19:51Speaker 4: wants to know is ventrilo ventral miller looking this good
- 1:19:54Speaker 4: a surprise to anybody else campanile absolutely cooking for us
- 1:19:58Speaker 4: which we talked about this earlier in the show but
- 1:20:01Speaker 4: Ventrell was one of the best players out there on
- 1:20:02Speaker 4: defense and did not miss a beat. And Coach Campanile's
- 1:20:06Speaker 4: system certainly supports that. I don't think, I wasn't shocked, Pete.
- 1:20:10Speaker 4: I know you weren't.
- 1:20:12Speaker 5: No, I was not. But I will say this. He
- 1:20:15Speaker 5: looks leaner.
- 1:20:17Speaker 6: He looks like he's trimmed down a little bit. And
- 1:20:20Speaker 6: he's faster, which I think he needed to do. I
- 1:20:22Speaker 6: think they all.
- 1:20:23Speaker 4: Looked a little bit faster on the defensive side of football.
- 1:20:27Speaker 6: But I look at his body composition, he doesn't look
- 1:20:29Speaker 6: as square as he looked a year ago, and I
- 1:20:31Speaker 6: think that's helped him with his speed.
- 1:20:32Speaker 5: He's always been a violent player.
- 1:20:34Speaker 6: I mean, he throws his body around, but he needed
- 1:20:36Speaker 6: to be faster, and I think he did so. It
- 1:20:39Speaker 6: just looks that way to me, to the eye, and
- 1:20:41Speaker 6: I know you guys have been around him.
- 1:20:42Speaker 5: Does he look leaner to you?
- 1:20:43Speaker 3: No, actually, I agree with you, because that was, going
- 1:20:46Speaker 3: into training camp, that was my biggest question. It was like, man,
- 1:20:49Speaker 3: you know, he always kind of seemed like a heavier guy,
- 1:20:50Speaker 3: maybe even like a middle linebacker type more than the
- 1:20:53Speaker 3: off-the-ball linebacker, but.
- 1:20:55Speaker 3: He showcased his speed yesterday, and you mentioned it, Pete,
- 1:20:58Speaker 3: and I agree with you. I think Ventra Miller, his
- 1:21:01Speaker 3: biggest asset is the physicality. It's the violence that he
- 1:21:04Speaker 3: plays with. And any position, but especially linebacker, you can't
- 1:21:08Speaker 3: teach that. You can get leaner, you can get in
- 1:21:10Speaker 3: the weight room and get a little faster, but you
- 1:21:13Speaker 3: can't get more violent. Either you're born with that or
- 1:21:15Speaker 3: you're not. And he's born with that with spades, obviously.
- 1:21:18Speaker 3: So if you take that and couple that with his
- 1:21:20Speaker 3: speed now, you got something.
- 1:21:24Speaker 4: I was impressed. I was not shocked. Hush now. We're
- 1:21:28Speaker 4: talking about Ventrell. We're talking about Ventrell. All right, let's
- 1:21:32Speaker 4: hit our last break because I think there's a bunch
- 1:21:34Speaker 4: of stuff to talk about around the NFL. So when
- 1:21:36Speaker 4: we come back, we'll talk about what went on in
- 1:21:38Speaker 4: the NFL over the week and what we're looking forward
- 1:21:41Speaker 4: to next week in week two. This is Jaguars Happy
- 1:21:43Speaker 4: Hour presented by Mr. Chubby's Wings.
- 1:21:49Speaker 2: Shotgun for Trevor.
- 1:21:50Speaker 3: Dropping again.
- 1:21:51Speaker 2: Pump fake. Looking, looking. Now fires in the back of
- 1:21:54Speaker 2: the end zone.
- 1:21:54Speaker 6: That ball is caught for the touchdown, Brenton Strange. And
- 1:22:00Speaker 6: the Jags are pouring it on to Cleveland Browns.
- 1:22:03Speaker 4: It's Frank Frangie with your call of the game, presented
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- 1:22:08Speaker 4: and they've fenced it, too. Welcome back to Jaguars Happy Hour.
- 1:22:11Speaker 4: Kanani Stephens, Austin Lane, Pete Prisco. Jaguars are 1-0, a
- 1:22:16Speaker 4: victory Monday edition. We've talked a ton about that and
- 1:22:20Speaker 4: what that looked like, but let's check in because it
- 1:22:21Speaker 4: was week one, and it's always weird in week one.
- 1:22:24Speaker 4: So we're going to do Around the NFL, brought to
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- 1:22:27Speaker 4: local NFL on CBS Games, and, of course, all... Pete
- 1:22:30Speaker 4: Prisco's wonderful product is there as well.
- 1:22:32Speaker 5: 12 to 2, 12 to 2 every day on CBS
- 1:22:37Speaker 5: Sports HQ.
- 1:22:37Speaker 4: We don't have enough Pete in our lives.
- 1:22:39Speaker 3: Just football.
- 1:22:40Speaker 5: Just football. Just football every day. I'm on Monday, Tuesday,
- 1:22:44Speaker 5: and Thursday.
- 1:22:45Speaker 6: And then postgame, the postgame, right after the game, we
- 1:22:48Speaker 6: just go final.
- 1:22:48Speaker 5: 7 to 9 every Sunday.
- 1:22:51Speaker 4: So, Pete, you get to watch all these games. Let's
- 1:22:54Speaker 4: start off with that Super Bowl repeat. Unfortunately, it looked
- 1:22:57Speaker 4: like the Patriots had the same game plan they had
- 1:22:59Speaker 4: the first time around, and it did not go well.
- 1:23:01Speaker 4: Drake May, wild fourth quarter.
- 1:23:05Speaker 5: Well, Drake May in his last five games has not
- 1:23:08Speaker 5: been very good.
- 1:23:09Speaker 4: He's not. That defense was amazing in that playoff run,
- 1:23:11Speaker 4: but yeah, he wasn't lighting it up.
- 1:23:13Speaker 5: He struggled, and they said he was hurt in the playoffs,
- 1:23:15Speaker 5: but he didn't play very well the other night either.
- 1:23:17Speaker 4: It was the decision-making.
- 1:23:19Speaker 5: Yes.
- 1:23:20Speaker 6: Drake May has to go out this week against Pittsburgh
- 1:23:22Speaker 6: and prove to people that he can get over all
- 1:23:24Speaker 6: this bad football he's been putting up out there.
- 1:23:27Speaker 8: A.J.
- 1:23:27Speaker 3: Brown, too, can be out for a little bit.
- 1:23:29Speaker 4: And Sam Darnold got hurt.
- 1:23:31Speaker 5: He was loafing around anyway.
- 1:23:34Speaker 4: Did you see that clip of him mic'd up on
- 1:23:35Speaker 4: the sideline telling a line to.
- 1:23:37Speaker 5: Block for him? I was like, you're not going to
- 1:23:40Speaker 5: make friends with Doug that way.
- 1:23:42Speaker 3: Don't tell the big boys up front what to do, man.
- 1:23:44Speaker 2: That ain't your job. Not good.
- 1:23:47Speaker 4: Uh another of the earlier games this week the 49ers
- 1:23:50Speaker 4: and the rams in australia rams went down for a
- 1:23:53Speaker 4: whole day and it uh did not go as it
- 1:23:55Speaker 4: did in london it backfired this time around and then
- 1:23:57Speaker 4: also crazy miles garrett had that knee injury all camp
- 1:24:00Speaker 4: now he's getting surgery on it that's crazy to me
- 1:24:04Speaker 4: a little bit.
- 1:24:05Speaker 6: It's a young man's game never ever forget that it's
- 1:24:08Speaker 6: a young man's game Miles Garrett's not a young man.
- 1:24:10Speaker 5: Aaron Donald's coming off two years not playing.
- 1:24:12Speaker 6: Not a young man. Matt Stafford, who didn't look good,
- 1:24:16Speaker 6: not a young man. It's a young man's game. And
- 1:24:18Speaker 6: they're also slow. The Rams are slow. They can talk
- 1:24:20Speaker 6: all they want about the travel and everything else. If
- 1:24:24Speaker 6: that game was played anywhere and anytime, they would have
- 1:24:27Speaker 6: lost the game. The 49ers were better that day. They
- 1:24:29Speaker 6: would have won at home, at San Francisco, at the Rams.
- 1:24:32Speaker 4: Is it panic mode for LA, or is this weak weirdness?
- 1:24:35Speaker 2: No, no.
- 1:24:35Speaker 4: They'll figure it out.
- 1:24:36Speaker 6: No, but it's funny how everybody... crowned them before this.
- 1:24:41Speaker 4: They're an on paper team. You're like, Oh, this looks
- 1:24:43Speaker 4: really good.
- 1:24:44Speaker 5: You know what? Four times.
- 1:24:46Speaker 6: I think it's in the last 30 years that the
- 1:24:48Speaker 6: team that was crowned and was the heavy favorite has
- 1:24:50Speaker 6: won it four times.
- 1:24:53Speaker 5: Doesn't happen.
- 1:24:54Speaker 4: We're QB situation in Atlanta. We've been talking about who
- 1:24:57Speaker 4: to his name starter, right? Then all of a sudden
- 1:24:59Speaker 4: there's practice footage where he just sits down and then
- 1:25:01Speaker 4: we don't see him again. And then he's not playing.
- 1:25:03Speaker 4: Then Cooper rush, who we didn't even know was around
- 1:25:05Speaker 4: has back spasms. He's playing. It was, it was, What's
- 1:25:09Speaker 4: the situation there?
- 1:25:12Speaker 6: Look to the college ranks, because that's where their quarterback's
- 1:25:14Speaker 6: going to be for them. Look, Tua's not it. Michael
- 1:25:17Speaker 6: Penix isn't it. Cooper Rush certainly isn't it. I mean,
- 1:25:21Speaker 6: if they had any sort of quarterback play, they would
- 1:25:22Speaker 6: have won the game against the Steelers on Sunday. The only,
- 1:25:25Speaker 6: you know, the Steelers didn't light it up. They had
- 1:25:27Speaker 6: a touchdown, you know, an interception.
- 1:25:29Speaker 5: By TJ Watt.
- 1:25:30Speaker 6: Otherwise they, you know, they might not even win that game.
- 1:25:32Speaker 6: So Atlanta's got quarterback issues. They're going to have quarterback
- 1:25:35Speaker 6: issues all year long.
- 1:25:36Speaker 3: Shout out to the NFC South trying to find the
- 1:25:38Speaker 3: first team to win eight games to win their division
- 1:25:40Speaker 3: and have a losing record once again for the playoffs
- 1:25:42Speaker 3: just to make me lose my mind.
- 1:25:44Speaker 4: It was a tough watch. Some of those were tough
- 1:25:46Speaker 4: watches for sure.
- 1:25:47Speaker 3: NFC South is down a little bit.
- 1:25:48Speaker 2: They might be. I don't know. I mean, the Saints
- 1:25:50Speaker 2: kind of did their thing a little bit against the Lions,
- 1:25:52Speaker 2: just couldn't finish it.
- 1:25:53Speaker 5: Well, they should have tied. They should have taken the tie.
- 1:25:55Speaker 3: I appreciate going for two, though.
- 1:25:57Speaker 2: I like it.
- 1:25:58Speaker 4: Nobody likes a tie.
- 1:25:59Speaker 5: In week 17, I guarantee you they're going to want
- 1:26:01Speaker 5: that tie.
- 1:26:03Speaker 4: They are. They're going to want it back. But I'm
- 1:26:05Speaker 4: all for going for two. I don't like ties, and
- 1:26:07Speaker 4: I feel like I'm a little Liam Cohen in that regard.
- 1:26:10Speaker 4: I would want to go for two. When they're 8-8-1.
- 1:26:12Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 1:26:13Speaker 4: Oh, no.
- 1:26:13Speaker 2: Are they going to win the division or not? You
- 1:26:16Speaker 2: know what?
- 1:26:17Speaker 5: They might. That division.
- 1:26:18Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
- 1:26:19Speaker 4: Another weird quarterback situation in Minnesota. Kyler Murray was named
- 1:26:23Speaker 4: the starter. He got hurt. Obviously, he had to go out.
- 1:26:24Speaker 4: Carson Wentz comes in, and then he's just throwing it
- 1:26:27Speaker 4: up all over the place. Austin, you watched that game.
- 1:26:30Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah. He threw a long touchdown pass on a
- 1:26:34Speaker 5: free play. I usually say they don't count because there's
- 1:26:37Speaker 5: no risk involved with it. So he got a free play.
- 1:26:40Speaker 6: Then he threw one of those touchdown passes to Jefferson
- 1:26:42Speaker 6: on one of those little easy flick plays where he
- 1:26:44Speaker 6: came in motion and nobody.
- 1:26:45Speaker 4: Went with him. Just let Jefferson go.
- 1:26:47Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:26:47Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:26:48Speaker 6: And so it was okay. That's a great choke job
- 1:26:51Speaker 6: by the Packers. They had no business losing that game.
- 1:26:54Speaker 5: No.
- 1:26:54Speaker 3: Think about this.
- 1:26:56Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:26:57Speaker 5: Did you see it, Austin? Yeah, of course. They were
- 1:27:00Speaker 5: up 22-17.
- 1:27:01Speaker 6: They had a fourth and six or fourth and five
- 1:27:04Speaker 6: and a half. Kicked a field goal to go up
- 1:27:07Speaker 6: eight in the fourth quarter. They're off sides. He decides
- 1:27:10Speaker 6: to take the points off the board and go for it.
- 1:27:12Speaker 6: Gets stuffed on a quarterback's knee. They never scored again.
- 1:27:14Speaker 2: Whole game changed.
- 1:27:16Speaker 5: The Vikings get dumb move by LeFleur. Really dumb move.
- 1:27:19Speaker 3: Whole game changed right there. Not taking the points.
- 1:27:22Speaker 4: What happened? Did J.J. McCarthy not play in Minnesota?
- 1:27:26Speaker 5: No, they hate him. No, he's the serve keeper.
- 1:27:29Speaker 4: They're over it?
- 1:27:30Speaker 6: But he's going to have to be the backup now
- 1:27:33Speaker 6: because Murray had a concussion, so we don't know how
- 1:27:36Speaker 6: long he's going to be out.
- 1:27:37Speaker 5: Probably a couple weeks.
- 1:27:39Speaker 2: They got a new GM there right now? Yeah, they do.
- 1:27:42Speaker 3: Okay, I was going to say. Yeah, he came from Seattle.
- 1:27:45Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, got you.
- 1:27:46Speaker 4: Let's look around the AFC South because why not? The
- 1:27:48Speaker 4: Jaguars are solo in first place because everybody lost. And
- 1:27:52Speaker 4: Texans did it in interesting fashion with a fumble at
- 1:27:55Speaker 4: the end of the game against the Bills. That was
- 1:27:57Speaker 4: a back-and-forth affair.
- 1:27:57Speaker 5: Well, what happened to the 85 Bears? Because everybody all offseason,
- 1:28:00Speaker 5: all we heard about, they're the 85 Bears. Got the
- 1:28:01Speaker 5: greatest defense since the 85 Bears. Nobody's going to score
- 1:28:03Speaker 5: on them. You can't score on them. And all Josh
- 1:28:05Speaker 5: Allen did was go there and light them up.
- 1:28:07Speaker 2: And I thought it was really telling, too.
- 1:28:10Speaker 3: They ran pretty decent against the Texans, but they went
- 1:28:13Speaker 3: against away from the run and just said, hey. Josh Allen,
- 1:28:16Speaker 3: here's DJ Moore.
- 1:28:16Speaker 2: Go get it. Tossing it up. Crazy.
- 1:28:18Speaker 6: And I was okay with that because they protected well,
- 1:28:20Speaker 6: and that team needs to give the ball to Josh
- 1:28:22Speaker 6: Allen and let him go.
- 1:28:23Speaker 5: Yeah. Look, Cook led the league in rushing last year.
- 1:28:25Speaker 6: I'd rather play Cook getting carries than Josh Allen throwing
- 1:28:30Speaker 6: it all.
- 1:28:30Speaker 5: Over the place.
- 1:28:31Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:28:32Speaker 4: Pete, I feel like the Texans have blamed the offensive
- 1:28:34Speaker 4: line for a long time, but Stroud's decision-making, it's both, right?
- 1:28:39Speaker 4: It's a combination. of the two.
- 1:28:41Speaker 6: And he actually was okay for little parts of that game.
- 1:28:44Speaker 6: But you get the ball in crunch time and you're
- 1:28:47Speaker 6: inside the 20, you can't take two sacks.
- 1:28:49Speaker 5: You just can't. You can't take those.
- 1:28:52Speaker 6: And so, again, you sit there and you say, okay, well,
- 1:28:54Speaker 6: Stroud looks like he's better now. You know, he's getting protected.
- 1:28:57Speaker 6: He's got some shots down the field. And then you
- 1:28:59Speaker 6: get into crunch time.
- 1:29:01Speaker 5: You can't take... And he turned into who he was, right?
- 1:29:03Speaker 5: I mean, so... I don't know.
- 1:29:05Speaker 6: We'll see. We'll see as the season plays on. But
- 1:29:09Speaker 6: that defense, they were blocked. They got blocked. And when
- 1:29:13Speaker 6: you get blocked, they give up a ton of big plays.
- 1:29:17Speaker 4: Ravens new head coach blowing out the Colts, went in there,
- 1:29:21Speaker 4: handled business. We didn't know necessarily what Baltimore was going
- 1:29:24Speaker 4: to look like, but they looked really good yesterday.
- 1:29:26Speaker 5: Well, Lamar Jackson's history on a fast track is– you
- 1:29:30Speaker 5: go look at his numbers on those kind of surfaces,
- 1:29:33Speaker 5: he goes nuts. And he went nuts. He went crazy.
- 1:29:36Speaker 5: And the Colts couldn't stop him.
- 1:29:37Speaker 6: The Colts looked– they took the opening kickoff right down
- 1:29:40Speaker 6: the field, made it 7-0 to the Colts.
- 1:29:42Speaker 5: And then from that point on, it was all Ravens.
- 1:29:44Speaker 5: They dominated that game.
- 1:29:46Speaker 6: So Ravens are going to be a tough out. You know,
- 1:29:48Speaker 6: Jacksonville goes there on that Thursday night. That's going to
- 1:29:50Speaker 6: be tough. Tough sledding.
- 1:29:53Speaker 4: Jets beat the Titans, so the Jets get a win.
- 1:29:55Speaker 4: The Titans, I was– Curious if they would. I mean,
- 1:29:58Speaker 4: last year was real ugly, so I didn't have overly
- 1:30:01Speaker 4: overconfident hopes, but not great out of the gate just yet.
- 1:30:05Speaker 5: Cam Ward looked bad. He looked bad. I mean, he
- 1:30:08Speaker 5: was getting pressured and stuff, but he was leaving clean pockets.
- 1:30:11Speaker 6: And I haven't watched the tape, but on the TV games, TV,
- 1:30:14Speaker 6: it didn't look good at all. And that's not a
- 1:30:17Speaker 6: great Jets team. It's a better Jets team. But you
- 1:30:20Speaker 6: got to be better than that if you're the Titans.
- 1:30:22Speaker 6: You know, you get Dable to run the offense. You know,
- 1:30:24Speaker 6: you think you're going to fix that thing?
- 1:30:26Speaker 5: That was bad.
- 1:30:27Speaker 3: Well, keep in mind.
- 1:30:27Speaker 5: They're not good.
- 1:30:28Speaker 3: They're not that good, but they also, you know, they...
- 1:30:31Speaker 3: Cut out all the seed oils. It takes a couple
- 1:30:32Speaker 3: of weeks for the fat to actually reap the benefits.
- 1:30:34Speaker 3: So let's go talk to me about five, six weeks
- 1:30:37Speaker 3: from now in terms of cutting out the seed oil
- 1:30:39Speaker 3: is what this team looks like.
- 1:30:40Speaker 2: Did you hear about that, Kai?
- 1:30:41Speaker 5: I don't think that's going to fix them.
- 1:30:43Speaker 4: They took the uncrustables from them and they took their
- 1:30:46Speaker 4: heart with it.
- 1:30:48Speaker 3: They did.
- 1:30:48Speaker 4: It's just terrible. How about the Bears putting up a
- 1:30:51Speaker 4: college score, 59 points. I mean, neither of them played defense.
- 1:30:56Speaker 6: It was 59, 37, but on fourth, he went for
- 1:30:59Speaker 6: it on fourth and one from his own 21.
- 1:31:00Speaker 5: Yeah. And basically he didn't divert it.
- 1:31:05Speaker 6: He gave him a touchdown and put it back in
- 1:31:07Speaker 6: the game.
- 1:31:08Speaker 5: What you're basically doing is telling your defense, you stick.
- 1:31:11Speaker 5: That's what he said. He said, you stink. We're going
- 1:31:13Speaker 5: to score a ton. We don't think you're good enough.
- 1:31:15Speaker 5: You stink. We're going to go try and score here.
- 1:31:18Speaker 6: And again, at some point, he's got to get out
- 1:31:20Speaker 6: of that habit because he's going to come back and
- 1:31:22Speaker 6: really cost them a game.
- 1:31:24Speaker 5: But they scored, man. They ran the ball for 270 yards.
- 1:31:28Speaker 6: I mean, that doesn't happen. And of course, the linebacker
- 1:31:31Speaker 6: in the middle of that defense was Devin Lloyd.
- 1:31:35Speaker 4: Duval DNA in the desert. Cardinals get that 26-14 win. J.P.
- 1:31:39Speaker 4: Shadrick on the call. And Dewey Winger with the interception.
- 1:31:44Speaker 4: I mean.
- 1:31:44Speaker 2: Couldn't have done it any better.
- 1:31:45Speaker 5: I wish we could have heard that call.
- 1:31:47Speaker 4: I'll find it for us next week. I'm sure it
- 1:31:50Speaker 4: was a doozy. The Chargers, I feel like, always get
- 1:31:53Speaker 4: the love for no reason. But here, we're seeing it.
- 1:31:56Speaker 5: I came up with the Charger ring, I call it.
- 1:31:59Speaker 5: Anytime they look like they're ready to.
- 1:32:01Speaker 6: Chargering, anytime they look like they're ready to.
- 1:32:03Speaker 5: Go to real high places, they make some of the
- 1:32:06Speaker 5: dumbest decisions and lose some of the worst games. It's
- 1:32:09Speaker 5: been their way in history.
- 1:32:11Speaker 6: If you go back and look at the Chargers, back
- 1:32:13Speaker 6: in the day, they used to be the high-flying Chargers
- 1:32:16Speaker 6: with Dan Fouts, and he'd throw the ball all over
- 1:32:19Speaker 6: the place.
- 1:32:20Speaker 5: And you know what? They'd go somewhere. They'd come to
- 1:32:23Speaker 5: Miami and win a game in the heat in the
- 1:32:25Speaker 5: longest game. Remember that game? It's in history. It's a
- 1:32:27Speaker 5: famous game. And what did they have to do the
- 1:32:29Speaker 5: next week? They went to Cincinnati and played in like
- 1:32:32Speaker 5: 30 degrees below and they couldn't throw the ball.
- 1:32:34Speaker 6: Something always happens to that team. It's called chargering. They
- 1:32:38Speaker 6: either do it or it happens to them.
- 1:32:40Speaker 3: Pete, real quick, if you're going to start an NFL franchise,
- 1:32:42Speaker 3: are you taking Jim Harbaugh or John Harbaugh?
- 1:32:47Speaker 5: Probably John.
- 1:32:48Speaker 4: John?
- 1:32:49Speaker 5: Probably John.
- 1:32:52Speaker 4: Probably John at this stage.
- 1:32:54Speaker 5: John's not as weird as Jim. Jim's weird.
- 1:32:57Speaker 3: Yeah, but I feel like Jim's like the quarterback whisperer. Well,
- 1:32:59Speaker 3: it wasn't against the Cardinals, I guess, but I feel
- 1:33:01Speaker 3: like he's more of like the offensive friendly guy.
- 1:33:02Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 1:33:04Speaker 6: And let's not forget they also have Mike McDaniel who's
- 1:33:06Speaker 6: supposed to fix the offense too, and the offense was bad.
- 1:33:08Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:33:09Speaker 4: He's probably got his cool sneakers on and doing whatever
- 1:33:11Speaker 4: else he's doing. Pete, anything else stand out to you?
- 1:33:15Speaker 4: Lions sneak out a win over the Saints. Anything else
- 1:33:18Speaker 4: stick out to you?
- 1:33:19Speaker 5: Yeah, if I were the Saints, I would have kicked
- 1:33:20Speaker 5: the extra point and taken my tie. That's what I
- 1:33:23Speaker 5: would have done. Because I think in that division you
- 1:33:26Speaker 5: might need that tie.
- 1:33:27Speaker 6: The Bucs turned the ball over a boatload against Cincinnati,
- 1:33:31Speaker 6: and that really cost them. One was a three-run for
- 1:33:33Speaker 6: a touchdown. One was Baker Mayfield going in. So the
- 1:33:37Speaker 6: Cincinnati defense looked better. And if they're better, that makes
- 1:33:41Speaker 6: that a tougher team. Because they didn't do a lot
- 1:33:43Speaker 6: on offense on Sunday, and they still scored.
- 1:33:45Speaker 5: A boatload of points.
- 1:33:46Speaker 4: And the Giants pull out a win on Sunday night
- 1:33:48Speaker 4: football against the Cowboys.
- 1:33:50Speaker 5: Dallas looked like crap.
- 1:33:51Speaker 4: What's up with that? That was your other Super Bowl pick.
- 1:33:55Speaker 5: Pickens dropped balls early in that game. Didn't help. Never
- 1:33:58Speaker 5: got into a rhythm.
- 1:33:59Speaker 6: And defensively, they had so many missed assignments. And they
- 1:34:03Speaker 6: play young guys on that team, and it's all kind of.
- 1:34:05Speaker 5: A new group. But you saw guys open the whole game.
- 1:34:09Speaker 5: And then they kept running that little dump off to
- 1:34:12Speaker 5: the back where nobody would get over there at the
- 1:34:13Speaker 5: end of the game, and they couldn't stop them.
- 1:34:15Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I get it's an offensive-driven league, but
- 1:34:18Speaker 3: I do have some concerns with that Cowboys defense. And
- 1:34:20Speaker 3: I get it was more of an assignment than talent,
- 1:34:22Speaker 3: I think. But they tore it all down, Pete, to
- 1:34:25Speaker 3: try to fix the problems from last year. They haven't
- 1:34:28Speaker 3: fixed anything. It's the same song and dance right now.
- 1:34:31Speaker 6: But again, it's one game, just like the Rams and
- 1:34:34Speaker 6: the Niners. Everybody's burying the Rams.
- 1:34:36Speaker 5: It's one.
- 1:34:38Speaker 6: The Raiders went to New England last year in week
- 1:34:41Speaker 6: one and beat them.
- 1:34:42Speaker 4: And their season went very differently after that, so there's
- 1:34:44Speaker 4: still time. All right. Tonight, under the bright lights of
- 1:34:49Speaker 4: Arrowhead Stadium, the Denver Broncos take on their division rival,
- 1:34:52Speaker 4: the Kansas City Chiefs. Two quarterbacks coming back from injury,
- 1:34:56Speaker 4: looking to lead their team to victory. Bo Nix, Patrick Mahomes,
- 1:35:00Speaker 4: who you got?
- 1:35:03Speaker 5: I'll let Austin go first.
- 1:35:05Speaker 3: Sorry, I was trying to avoid that football coming right
- 1:35:06Speaker 3: at me.
- 1:35:06Speaker 2: Kyle, you got to be careful.
- 1:35:08Speaker 5: It's going to hit you right in the head.
- 1:35:10Speaker 4: Head on a swivel.
- 1:35:11Speaker 5: I know. It's like a punch in the ring.
- 1:35:14Speaker 3: So I'm going to take the Broncos out. My son
- 1:35:16Speaker 3: in the other room, he's a big Broncos fan. He's
- 1:35:18Speaker 3: a big Oregon fan for Bo Nix.
- 1:35:19Speaker 4: All right, we won't count it against him next week.
- 1:35:21Speaker 3: Oregon just got beat, and I expect an apology from
- 1:35:23Speaker 3: Dan Lanning because my son came home from that game
- 1:35:25Speaker 3: after watching Oregon and got out a soccer ball.
- 1:35:27Speaker 2: Apparently, football's not even a thing in the Wayne house.
- 1:35:30Speaker 3: He switched sports because Oregon got beat by Oklahoma State,
- 1:35:33Speaker 3: but nevertheless, I'm taking the Broncos.
- 1:35:36Speaker 5: I'm taking the Chiefs. I think the Chiefs... I can't.
- 1:35:39Speaker 6: Wait to see Mahomes. What he's done is incredible. Eight
- 1:35:42Speaker 6: and a half months... He put in so many hours.
- 1:35:45Speaker 6: I mean, it was like 10 hours a day, they say,
- 1:35:47Speaker 6: at the facility. And I just think he's Jordan. And
- 1:35:50Speaker 6: when Jordan gets back out there and puts the cleats
- 1:35:53Speaker 6: back on, he's Jordan.
- 1:35:54Speaker 5: I want to see it again.
- 1:35:55Speaker 4: You see him say he was so competitive, he's trying
- 1:35:57Speaker 4: to beat his toddler to walking again when he had
- 1:36:00Speaker 4: his surgery.
- 1:36:00Speaker 3: He's like, I'm going to beat my.
- 1:36:02Speaker 4: Toddler and walk first.
- 1:36:02Speaker 5: I love every bit of that. That's the kind of.
- 1:36:04Speaker 4: Crazy you need in your quarterback, I think.
- 1:36:06Speaker 5: And anytime Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes are together, they're
- 1:36:10Speaker 5: going to be in games. Now they are starting a,
- 1:36:12Speaker 5: they are starting an undrafted free agent at left tackle tonight.
- 1:36:16Speaker 5: So that is concerning against Nick Benito.
- 1:36:18Speaker 2: Stay tuned.
- 1:36:19Speaker 4: The chiefs to me are like some of those Patriots
- 1:36:21Speaker 4: teams where they didn't even have a ton of time.
- 1:36:23Speaker 4: They find a way. They just, they find a way
- 1:36:26Speaker 4: to do it. And they're, they're so good. They can
- 1:36:28Speaker 4: figure things out on the fly.
- 1:36:29Speaker 5: I mean, at the end of the day, they got
- 1:36:31Speaker 5: young talent on defense though.
- 1:36:32Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:36:32Speaker 6: There's a lot of good young talent on defense. Our
- 1:36:34Speaker 6: Mason Thomas, keep an eye on, remember the name tonight.
- 1:36:37Speaker 6: He might have his coming out party.
- 1:36:39Speaker 2: Here's the thing, Kyle.
- 1:36:40Speaker 3: If you have the quarterback and you have the coach,
- 1:36:41Speaker 3: you always got a chance to do something special. And
- 1:36:43Speaker 3: they got both those there in Kansas City.
- 1:36:44Speaker 4: You can figure everything else out. I don't know who's
- 1:36:47Speaker 4: going to win, but I hope Denver does because I
- 1:36:49Speaker 4: want them both to be 1-0 going in.
- 1:36:51Speaker 3: Storylines.
- 1:36:52Speaker 4: Set things up for next week.
- 1:36:53Speaker 6: Because if they lose, they'll be much more focused than
- 1:36:57Speaker 6: if they win.
- 1:36:58Speaker 5: That's just the nature of the beast, don't you think?
- 1:37:00Speaker 4: Well, I think. Yeah, but once again, it's a short week.
- 1:37:04Speaker 3: I think if Denver wins, they're still going to remember
- 1:37:07Speaker 3: last year.
- 1:37:07Speaker 4: They're still pissed about last year.
- 1:37:08Speaker 3: They're still going to be pissed off.
- 1:37:10Speaker 6: Coming off a short week kind of negates the fact
- 1:37:13Speaker 6: that Jacksonville has to go all the way out there
- 1:37:14Speaker 6: and play them a little bit.
- 1:37:15Speaker 4: It does equal things out in terms of travel, I think,
- 1:37:17Speaker 4: because Monday night football always makes it tougher to prep
- 1:37:20Speaker 4: once you get back in the building, kind of lose
- 1:37:22Speaker 4: that day off. All right. That was Jaguars happy hour.
- 1:37:25Speaker 4: Thank you, Pete. Awesome.
- 1:37:27Speaker 5: Anybody lock in this week? Anybody lock in anything?
- 1:37:31Speaker 4: I'm going to lock it on the way out. I'll
- 1:37:32Speaker 4: lock it on the way out.
- 1:37:33Speaker 2: Winning mile high.
- 1:37:34Speaker 4: We'll see you next week on Happy Hour.
- 1:37:36Speaker 5: Okay.