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- 0:00Speaker 1: Jeff Wars did you don't check Jack Morris? Did you
- 0:02Speaker 1: know Jackuarris, Bran Time, Bryan Sex steps to John os Ages,
- 0:09Speaker 1: Ashley Jaguarris Drive Time starts right now. Good morning, Happy Friday.
- 0:18Speaker 1: Welcome to Jack's Drive Time, brought to you by our
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- 0:25Speaker 1: coach would be along for coffee with the coach. Uh,
- 0:28Speaker 1: we'll have my Dempsey later with fantasy football. Um, you know,
- 0:34Speaker 1: I'll check my fantasy scores. By the way, were you
- 0:37Speaker 1: it's still so as a little teaser, good news for
- 0:42Speaker 1: Johnny Oh coming later in really the last thing we
- 0:45Speaker 1: needed to him to be successful at this well, I
- 0:48Speaker 1: was the most successful the last time we did this
- 0:50Speaker 1: two weeks ago. I just want to point out you're
- 0:52Speaker 1: also Mista at this time, but I made up ground
- 0:54Speaker 1: on Mike, but I don't want to spoil. Yeah, you're
- 0:57Speaker 1: only really concerned with with Dempsey, right that. I mean
- 1:00Speaker 1: that I feel good. It's still a very large gap.
- 1:04Speaker 1: It's so large as you think. So. Um, yesterday on
- 1:08Speaker 1: this program, I we had Marcus on and we do
- 1:11Speaker 1: a Thursday night preview and I picked the Chargers and
- 1:13Speaker 1: Marcus looked at me like, you're crazy. Um. And even
- 1:17Speaker 1: when the Chiefs jumped out to a four teen nothing
- 1:19Speaker 1: lead last night, you still got the sense that their
- 1:22Speaker 1: defense wasn't gonna be able to hold off Philip Rivers.
- 1:24Speaker 1: And so I'm going to make a bold prediction here, Um,
- 1:28Speaker 1: I think that the Charges are gonna be the one
- 1:29Speaker 1: seed in the a f C. Kansas City has to
- 1:31Speaker 1: go to Seattle next week, and with their defense, which
- 1:34Speaker 1: has a few gifted players but not enough, I think
- 1:39Speaker 1: the Charges are gonna beat the Ravens and the Broncos
- 1:40Speaker 1: and have the one seed and everything is going to
- 1:42Speaker 1: have to go through l a maybe in both conferences.
- 1:46Speaker 1: How interesting would that be? Yeah, what's the a f
- 1:49Speaker 1: C championship game played in the stadium with twenty seven
- 1:52Speaker 1: thousand seats? If if the Saints don't lose, they'll still
- 1:57Speaker 1: have home field though, because they beat the Ramps. Uh
- 2:01Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean it's it is ironic that the
- 2:04Speaker 1: whole season areas in Tolle of the Rams and they
- 2:06Speaker 1: may not be the best team in Los Angeles. I
- 2:07Speaker 1: think right now you could make the case that the
- 2:09Speaker 1: Charges of the best team. And look, they've beaten Pittsburgh
- 2:11Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh and then Kansas City in Kansas City to
- 2:15Speaker 1: primetime games on the road in the cold, right, because
- 2:19Speaker 1: it was cold in both situations. And Philip Rivers Michael Williams, Wow,
- 2:25Speaker 1: what a receiver I did. I wish the check wards
- 2:28Speaker 1: were part of the playoffs because I think they're gound
- 2:29Speaker 1: be very compelling this year. Yeah, and it I think
- 2:33Speaker 1: I've been saying the last month or so, it looks
- 2:36Speaker 1: like some of the teams that were uh so explosive,
- 2:43Speaker 1: you know, the forty five point teams that were so
- 2:46Speaker 1: geared toward offense. I don't say they're coming back to Earth,
- 2:50Speaker 1: but it does seem like some more of the conventional
- 2:52Speaker 1: was that the Charge is a little more conventional conventional
- 2:56Speaker 1: and the Bears, so it's, uh, let's let the season
- 3:00Speaker 1: play out before we decide we're going to play basketball. Yeah,
- 3:04Speaker 1: I say Charges win the a f C. But the
- 3:06Speaker 1: confidence they had in Philip Rivers with eight seconds left,
- 3:09Speaker 1: I think myself watching I had all the confidence in
- 3:11Speaker 1: the world that he was going to score. By the way,
- 3:13Speaker 1: they won those two games without Melvin Gordon, right, who
- 3:16Speaker 1: is an explosive runner. If you haven't watched the Chargers,
- 3:19Speaker 1: and you've almost forgotten about that watching the game that
- 3:20Speaker 1: he wasn't there, Yeah, no doubt. I mean to watch
- 3:22Speaker 1: the kid playing for him and his name escaped him
- 3:25Speaker 1: and the kid playing forms good. Austin Ekeler, Yeah, he
- 3:28Speaker 1: didn't play last night either. He didn't well who was
- 3:30Speaker 1: playing for him? They had an It was Justin Jackson.
- 3:35Speaker 1: Justin Johnson. I mean I didn't even played good too.
- 3:37Speaker 1: He played well, right, but Kansas City miss Kareem Hunt,
- 3:41Speaker 1: missed Kareem Hunt greatly. And when you play a great defense,
- 3:44Speaker 1: and the Chargers do have that going right now. It
- 3:47Speaker 1: was an excellent game, fun game to what the Homes
- 3:49Speaker 1: only got like two or forty yards. He threw two
- 3:52Speaker 1: touchdowns in the first quarter and they didn't again. So
- 3:54Speaker 1: so yeah, pat day from Holmes hundred ten point seven.
- 4:00Speaker 1: Not quite that good. Okay, how about some big things
- 4:02Speaker 1: before a head coach does. Maron joined us and we
- 4:05Speaker 1: turned it over us. Big thing one is the same
- 4:07Speaker 1: but different, So similar situation for both these teams at
- 4:10Speaker 1: the beginning of the season. They had a lot to
- 4:12Speaker 1: play for. We were excited about this game at the
- 4:14Speaker 1: beginning of the season. Similar situations that this season hasn't
- 4:17Speaker 1: played out the way that the Redskins and Jaguars want,
- 4:19Speaker 1: but the Redskins are still playing for something. We talked
- 4:22Speaker 1: to the writer for the Redskins yesterday and he said
- 4:24Speaker 1: their locker room is split, that they're still talking about
- 4:26Speaker 1: the playoffs. Yeah, that's what makes this interesting. You know,
- 4:29Speaker 1: a national writer talked about this being the Disappointment Bowl,
- 4:32Speaker 1: two teams that had serious postseason aspirations, and he was
- 4:36Speaker 1: kind of downplaying the game. But you can't take away
- 4:39Speaker 1: from the fact that the six and seven Redskins and
- 4:42Speaker 1: their writer told us yesterday that if they win two games,
- 4:44Speaker 1: there's a legit chance for them to slide in and
- 4:47Speaker 1: he said there was even a mathematical chance if they
- 4:49Speaker 1: want only one. Well, if that's what they're talking about,
- 4:52Speaker 1: and I don't know the scenarios that gives them something
- 4:54Speaker 1: to play for, Josh Johnson or not, and with their defense,
- 4:57Speaker 1: it's going to make it an intense game. Well, I
- 4:59Speaker 1: think the Jagger a win Sunday, but you can't say
- 5:01Speaker 1: that that for Washington, this game is not winnable. That's
- 5:05Speaker 1: certainly capable coming into winning, and then they play Philadelphia next.
- 5:09Speaker 1: So my impression is I haven't looked deep in the scenario,
- 5:12Speaker 1: but the team they're most worried about that they can't
- 5:14Speaker 1: control is Minnesota because they can control what happens to
- 5:18Speaker 1: Philly because they can beat them. So yeah, they're thinking
- 5:21Speaker 1: about it. If if this, if this game proves nothing else. Um,
- 5:26Speaker 1: it's the injuries matter so much in the NFL. It's
- 5:30Speaker 1: what defines both of these teams season. Dog is gonna
- 5:33Speaker 1: come in here and say they shouldn't define it, but
- 5:34Speaker 1: it defined this team season. And I've gotten some emails
- 5:40Speaker 1: this week's and well, you know, the jag Wars can't complain.
- 5:43Speaker 1: Look what's happened to the Redskins. This shows the Joe.
- 5:47Speaker 1: They're both the same story. Six and three Washington was
- 5:52Speaker 1: before the injuries hit. I think they were leading the
- 5:54Speaker 1: division by two games. Before the injuries hit. This team,
- 5:58Speaker 1: they were three and one, so um yeah they matter.
- 6:02Speaker 1: But the Skins. You absolutely as weird as it sounds
- 6:07Speaker 1: for the team that's lost four games in a row.
- 6:09Speaker 1: The Jaguarys can play spoiler this weekend. I understand that.
- 6:12Speaker 1: And and the interesting part and people forget they're they're
- 6:14Speaker 1: looking at Josh Johnson, who was now famously playing and
- 6:18Speaker 1: pick up basketball games two weeks ago, um, ten days ago.
- 6:23Speaker 1: They look and they go fourth quarterback hasn't played since fourteen.
- 6:25Speaker 1: There's no way you're going on their own beating anybody,
- 6:27Speaker 1: especially not a team with the talent that the Jaguars
- 6:29Speaker 1: have on devents no chance, right, Um, except that you
- 6:33Speaker 1: remember that Gruden had Josh Jackson with him in Tampa
- 6:39Speaker 1: and since so they don't have to dramatically change a
- 6:41Speaker 1: whole lot. Johnson's a smart kid. By the ways, Marshawn
- 6:44Speaker 1: Lynch's cousin, I don't know even know that they grew
- 6:46Speaker 1: up together in Oakland, California. Was reading a story about
- 6:49Speaker 1: that yesterday. Uh, smart kid and Uh Todd Walsh was
- 6:55Speaker 1: on that staff in Tampa with Yeah, that had him
- 6:58Speaker 1: so uh and yesterday that he was effusive in his
- 7:01Speaker 1: praised for the kind of kid that he is and
- 7:03Speaker 1: the kind of athlete and the kind of plays that
- 7:04Speaker 1: he can make. So I know people are gonna pay
- 7:06Speaker 1: have the fourth quarterback. Jacks aren't playing for Redskins, aren't really?
- 7:09Speaker 1: Yeah they the Redskins are, and that makes this a
- 7:12Speaker 1: game worth paying attention to. Well, and it's he'll have
- 7:15Speaker 1: a package of plays that he can do. You you
- 7:18Speaker 1: would figure he can't go very deep in his reads,
- 7:21Speaker 1: but he has the ability to run and he has
- 7:23Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson. So right now, the way the Jaguars are
- 7:26Speaker 1: playing offense, uh, you know, the Skins have to come
- 7:29Speaker 1: in here thinking if we get a couple of touchdowns
- 7:32Speaker 1: that we're gonna be in this It's up to the
- 7:34Speaker 1: Jay Wars offense to prove that very wrong. All right,
- 7:35Speaker 1: big thing too, Big Thing too is focused, So obviously
- 7:38Speaker 1: easier said than does that. This team has to have
- 7:40Speaker 1: focused the next three weeks. But I will said, have
- 7:42Speaker 1: been pleasantly surprised this week in the locker room. They
- 7:45Speaker 1: do seem focusing on the Redskins. And even if you're
- 7:47Speaker 1: talking about, you know, focusing for the rest of the season,
- 7:49Speaker 1: they were so honed in on this game this week,
- 7:52Speaker 1: winning this game, and we've been talking about that all season,
- 7:55Speaker 1: but it seems to be true this week that they
- 7:56Speaker 1: are focused for the Redskins. Well, and you know, there
- 7:59Speaker 1: was the story this week that Malik Jackson said he
- 8:01Speaker 1: didn't see a future for himself in Jacksonville. And you
- 8:04Speaker 1: start talking about change, and players start talking about change,
- 8:07Speaker 1: and every player starts thinking, oh, you know, is it me?
- 8:09Speaker 1: Is it someone else? Coaches assistant coaches think that way too.
- 8:12Speaker 1: I think Doug's biggest task at this juncture of the
- 8:15Speaker 1: season is keeping everybody focused. Right. That's not an easy
- 8:18Speaker 1: thing to do with fifty three men on the roster
- 8:21Speaker 1: and a coaching staff and a support staff. That's not
- 8:25Speaker 1: just not an easy thing to do. That's a very
- 8:27Speaker 1: demanding and difficult thing to do, right. And I think,
- 8:30Speaker 1: if memory serves I think he addressed a little bit Monday.
- 8:33Speaker 1: Uh he's been around the NFL. He knows what it is.
- 8:35Speaker 1: Uh So, yes, that's his task. But um, you can
- 8:39Speaker 1: be focused on this game, same Elie Jackson, for example.
- 8:43Speaker 1: You can be focused on this game and still know
- 8:45Speaker 1: in the back of your mind that this this league's
- 8:49Speaker 1: a business and that it appears unlikely you won't be back.
- 8:52Speaker 1: Those two things don't have to one doesn't have to
- 8:55Speaker 1: interfere with the other, and they're pros. I think the
- 8:59Speaker 1: big thing what happened this week is they won't want
- 9:03Speaker 1: to go to the end of the season defined by
- 9:05Speaker 1: what happened in Tennessee. If the defense comes out and
- 9:08Speaker 1: plays against Adrian Peterson the way it did against Derrick Henry,
- 9:11Speaker 1: they will be defined by what happened. So my guests
- 9:14Speaker 1: is at least for this week, that that motivation will
- 9:17Speaker 1: serve them. Well, all right, let's roll a big thing
- 9:19Speaker 1: three because I see the coach in the other room.
- 9:21Speaker 1: Big thing three is farewell the season finale at home
- 9:24Speaker 1: this Sunday, And for some players it will be the
- 9:26Speaker 1: last time that they played here in Jacksonville at home.
- 9:28Speaker 1: So we talked about taking advantage of the opportunity. For
- 9:31Speaker 1: some of these players, it's your last game here in Jacksonville.
- 9:34Speaker 1: And I go back to something that Calais Campbell said,
- 9:37Speaker 1: and he said it a few times, but he was
- 9:39Speaker 1: he was on the Monday morning Quarterback with Albert Breer
- 9:42Speaker 1: was doing a radio show, and he talked about fighting
- 9:44Speaker 1: to keep as many of the guys here, right, to
- 9:48Speaker 1: give Doug and Dave and Tom a compelling reason to
- 9:51Speaker 1: keep as many of them as they can so that
- 9:54Speaker 1: they could finish what they started last year next year.
- 9:58Speaker 1: And obviously that's little and those are salary cap decisions
- 10:02Speaker 1: and draft comes into that and all of that stuff
- 10:04Speaker 1: in there. Um. But I just got the sense from
- 10:06Speaker 1: a couple of those guys they liked this group. They
- 10:09Speaker 1: enjoyed being around each other, and they understand that this
- 10:13Speaker 1: is the swan song, at least at t I a
- 10:15Speaker 1: bank Field. Well, that's the reality with any NFL team
- 10:19Speaker 1: these days, you know, the core can some of them
- 10:21Speaker 1: stay together, It's always gonna be changed and and and
- 10:23Speaker 1: they'll be guys on this team who have mattered, who
- 10:27Speaker 1: have been out in the community, who have connected to Jacksonville,
- 10:31Speaker 1: who will be playing their last game. So it's a
- 10:32Speaker 1: storyline for some of these guys. Um And again there's
- 10:36Speaker 1: a difference with teams that are out of it. There's
- 10:39Speaker 1: often a difference between how they play on the road
- 10:41Speaker 1: and play at home. There's another reason I think that
- 10:43Speaker 1: I think they'll play well this week, much better than
- 10:45Speaker 1: they didn't ask right. Also, you know, you say, okay,
- 10:48Speaker 1: there's a good chance that Millie Jackson moves on with
- 10:51Speaker 1: the salary cap figure. But we're seeing more of Tavin,
- 10:53Speaker 1: Brian and Brian all of a sudden, So yeah, it
- 10:54Speaker 1: isn't fairwell, but it's also an introduction because Ronnie Harrison
- 10:57Speaker 1: is going to play, you know, for the third straight
- 10:59Speaker 1: game in the last two weeks. He's introduced himself to
- 11:02Speaker 1: the fantas away so Yeah, it's that. It's that matriculation.
- 11:06Speaker 1: I don't want what the right words circle of life,
- 11:08Speaker 1: Brian's what it is is that what they call it business.
- 11:10Speaker 1: Thanks Ashton grew up on Lion Kings, great film. Okay,
- 11:15Speaker 1: all right, so we're through the big things. By the way, Folks,
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- 13:32Speaker 1: Moron joins us now on a Friday morning. Um, you've
- 13:35Speaker 1: been asked all week about Josh Johnson. How far back
- 13:39Speaker 1: do you go to find a solution to what he
- 13:43Speaker 1: may be? Well, I think you know, obviously he played
- 13:45Speaker 1: last week, so you have you know, that stuff on film,
- 13:48Speaker 1: and you know Todd Washer was with him and Tampa, so, um,
- 13:52Speaker 1: you know he had a good insight to obviously the
- 13:54Speaker 1: skill set, even though it a long time ago. Um,
- 13:57Speaker 1: but you can see the skill set, you know from
- 13:59Speaker 1: the film that we watched the other day. Knowing that
- 14:01Speaker 1: you know, he's a guy that, uh, you know, he
- 14:03Speaker 1: can he can extend plays, he can you know, break
- 14:06Speaker 1: out of the pocket. He can you know, run all
- 14:09Speaker 1: the read option with the run pass options on the
- 14:11Speaker 1: on the outside. So you know, he's a quarterback that
- 14:15Speaker 1: you know, we've been struggling with most of the year.
- 14:17Speaker 1: You know, these guys that can do all this stuff,
- 14:19Speaker 1: so it's gonna be a great challenge for us. On Sunday,
- 14:21Speaker 1: I can remember us talking opening week and and talking
- 14:24Speaker 1: about how difficult it's opening week, especially with a new coach,
- 14:27Speaker 1: and on the other sideline trying to figure out what
- 14:29Speaker 1: they may do. This would seem to be the same challenge,
- 14:31Speaker 1: right it would be. And I think, you know, you
- 14:33Speaker 1: just got to make sure your sound and everything that
- 14:35Speaker 1: you do and you have everything covered so um, you
- 14:37Speaker 1: know from that standpoint, and you know, we have to
- 14:39Speaker 1: have a good rush plan and try to keep him
- 14:41Speaker 1: in the pocket and then cover our gaps defensively. And
- 14:44Speaker 1: I think, you know, the one thing that gets overlooked
- 14:46Speaker 1: is the first thing I would imagine that you know,
- 14:48Speaker 1: they're gonna turn around and hand the ball to Adrian
- 14:50Speaker 1: Peterson to see if you know we have a good
- 14:51Speaker 1: tackling plan for him. He talked, I'm serious. You've talked
- 14:56Speaker 1: a lot in a couple of years been in here
- 14:58Speaker 1: about certain players he had a great respect for. And
- 15:00Speaker 1: I know you respect what players go through. Adrian Peterson,
- 15:04Speaker 1: to play at a high level for as long as
- 15:05Speaker 1: you have has to be something you respect. There's no
- 15:08Speaker 1: doubt I think that you know, I always go back to, uh,
- 15:11Speaker 1: you know, my time and with the Jets when we
- 15:14Speaker 1: had Curtis Martin, who is the you know, he's actually
- 15:17Speaker 1: is the oldest player to win the Russian title, and
- 15:20Speaker 1: he had an unbelievable year and just you know, watching
- 15:23Speaker 1: him practice and watching how he took care of his bodies,
- 15:26Speaker 1: it's just it's just amazing, you know, to see you know,
- 15:29Speaker 1: those top end athletes and and what they can do.
- 15:32Speaker 1: And I think, you know, a p is the same
- 15:34Speaker 1: type of guy. I think that you know, he's the
- 15:35Speaker 1: guy that's taking care of his body, so you know,
- 15:38Speaker 1: you can see him when you know a lot of
- 15:39Speaker 1: times you're you're always gonna be physical. You know, he
- 15:42Speaker 1: breaks tackles, you alds after contact. But outstanding I think
- 15:45Speaker 1: the thing probably that you're most impressed with us. You know,
- 15:48Speaker 1: obviously he broke that ninety yard run and was able
- 15:50Speaker 1: to run by people, and uh, you know, when he
- 15:53Speaker 1: gets out in the open field and he's running, you know,
- 15:55Speaker 1: not only is he tough to bring down, but he
- 15:57Speaker 1: also has good speed. With the way that the Wards
- 16:00Speaker 1: defense couldn't stop Derrick Henry last week. What kind of
- 16:02Speaker 1: emphasis has been put on stopping thereun this week with
- 16:04Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson. Well, you know, both Wednesday and Thursday of
- 16:07Speaker 1: this week, you know, we spent a lot of time
- 16:09Speaker 1: with you know, form tackling. You know, at this time
- 16:11Speaker 1: of the year, you don't have pads on during the practice,
- 16:14Speaker 1: so you know, we spent a lot of time on that,
- 16:16Speaker 1: you know, making sure that you know, we're we're tackling
- 16:19Speaker 1: at the at the proper level, and we're trying to
- 16:21Speaker 1: get population to the football, you know, so we're trying
- 16:24Speaker 1: to get as many guys as we can. So we
- 16:25Speaker 1: put them for the song it this week and you know,
- 16:27Speaker 1: hopefully we can go out there and it shows in
- 16:29Speaker 1: a performance. We were talking about the Maleague story that
- 16:32Speaker 1: came out earlier this week and focus. When you see
- 16:35Speaker 1: a story like that, how do you react to coach
- 16:37Speaker 1: at this point of the year. How do you do
- 16:38Speaker 1: you think you're maybe losing a little bit the focus
- 16:40Speaker 1: in that locker room when guys start talking about next year. Well,
- 16:44Speaker 1: I didn't read, you know, exactly what he said. So
- 16:48Speaker 1: he said he didn't necessarily see a future for himself
- 16:50Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. I think when you're losing and you know
- 16:53Speaker 1: and you have a disappointing season. I think it affects everyone.
- 16:57Speaker 1: You know, everyone you know come in the question of
- 17:01Speaker 1: you know, we all did into our job, starting with me.
- 17:05Speaker 1: So you know, I think when you say, you know,
- 17:07Speaker 1: I don't know what the future holes, I don't know
- 17:09Speaker 1: where I'm gonna be. I just know that, you know,
- 17:11Speaker 1: I've got to go out there every day and be
- 17:13Speaker 1: able to to to be a pro and in a performance,
- 17:16Speaker 1: whether it's for you know, the team that you're on,
- 17:19Speaker 1: or whether you know, if it's in it's in the
- 17:21Speaker 1: plans that you may not be here, that it's gonna
- 17:23Speaker 1: be for a thirty one other team. So I think
- 17:25Speaker 1: that's what happens a lot to teams. Um, you know
- 17:28Speaker 1: when they're in this situation that we're in. You talked
- 17:31Speaker 1: on Monday about maybe it's Wednesday, but the fact this
- 17:34Speaker 1: is the final home game, and you've always talked about
- 17:36Speaker 1: the fans what they mean. Uh, it's important to you
- 17:39Speaker 1: And I got the sense do you think would be
- 17:41Speaker 1: important to players on Sunday? Well, that's the message that
- 17:43Speaker 1: we're trying to to to talk to the team about.
- 17:45Speaker 1: You know. Obviously, UM, you know we're very disappointed. Um,
- 17:50Speaker 1: you know, we understand that our fans are extremely disappointed,
- 17:53Speaker 1: and it's a it's a tough, tough pill to swallow,
- 17:57Speaker 1: you know. And you know, we started off this season well,
- 18:00Speaker 1: and you know in the middle of the season, from
- 18:02Speaker 1: the second and third quarter, we we played poorly. And
- 18:06Speaker 1: you know, we have one more opportunity, you know, to
- 18:08Speaker 1: go out in front of our fans that have been great,
- 18:11Speaker 1: you know, to have a good performance and you know,
- 18:13Speaker 1: try to end the season almost like we started it.
- 18:16Speaker 1: And that's been you know said to the team, you know,
- 18:18Speaker 1: each and every day, you know, we want to go
- 18:20Speaker 1: out there and have a great performance, you know, because
- 18:22Speaker 1: the last game at home and you know, get a
- 18:25Speaker 1: get a good taste in your mouth, I guess, you know,
- 18:27Speaker 1: for lack of a better term, um, you know, as
- 18:29Speaker 1: you keep pushing forward with with two games left after us,
- 18:32Speaker 1: we've had a lot of fans talk about winning right now,
- 18:36Speaker 1: are losing for the draft? And I know that as
- 18:38Speaker 1: a coach, you probably want to win right now and
- 18:39Speaker 1: I even think about the draft. But is that true
- 18:41Speaker 1: for the locker room that no one is thinking about
- 18:43Speaker 1: the draft at this moment? No, I mean, you know,
- 18:46Speaker 1: I can't speak for anyone except for the coaches and players.
- 18:50Speaker 1: I can't imagine. Um everywhere I've ever you know that
- 18:53Speaker 1: I've been, and we've had up and down years that
- 18:55Speaker 1: you know, people are looking forward to the draft. What
- 18:58Speaker 1: happens is is when you you know you're not you're
- 19:01Speaker 1: not playing well at the end of the year, you know,
- 19:03Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, there's more talk on the outside,
- 19:06Speaker 1: you know, from a media perspective of where they're going
- 19:08Speaker 1: to be slotted, what they're draft and what they're doing.
- 19:10Speaker 1: I think that's more of the outside stuff. That stuff
- 19:12Speaker 1: really doesn't um penetrate, you know, the locker room or
- 19:16Speaker 1: the coaches. You um, you talked Monday about having fun,
- 19:20Speaker 1: players playing for love of the game, and we've heard
- 19:23Speaker 1: the word disappointment mixed in the last couple of weeks.
- 19:25Speaker 1: When you go out of the practice field today, do
- 19:26Speaker 1: you expect to see a team having fun? Have you
- 19:29Speaker 1: have they dealt with the disappointment dug in a productive way? Well?
- 19:32Speaker 1: I think I think it's tough. I mean each person
- 19:34Speaker 1: deals with and you know, in a in a different way.
- 19:36Speaker 1: And you know, when we say, you know, let's go
- 19:38Speaker 1: out there and you know and have fun, it means
- 19:41Speaker 1: you know, remember how you played this game when you
- 19:43Speaker 1: were given everything you had where it didn't really matter,
- 19:46Speaker 1: you know, you were out there in uh in the park.
- 19:48Speaker 1: I remember a story, Um, Herman Edwards had told us,
- 19:51Speaker 1: you know, we were having a down year, you know.
- 19:54Speaker 1: Herman Edwards said, um, you know, he was driving and
- 19:58Speaker 1: he wanted to park in his car are and running
- 20:00Speaker 1: into uh pharmacy And I think this was her and
- 20:03Speaker 1: I'm not not sure, but I know it was the
- 20:05Speaker 1: head coach I was with. And you know, he parked
- 20:07Speaker 1: at this pharmacy and he pulls up and is an
- 20:09Speaker 1: empty lot, you know, next to it, and he sees,
- 20:13Speaker 1: you know, like one of those five on five you know,
- 20:15Speaker 1: tackle football games going on. And he said, you know,
- 20:18Speaker 1: he just sat there and he and he watched these
- 20:21Speaker 1: kids and there were no officials, there were no fans,
- 20:25Speaker 1: there were no other people, no one in the stands.
- 20:28Speaker 1: And you know, they're running around, they're giving unbelievable effort there.
- 20:32Speaker 1: You know, they're they're they're trying their best, they're doing
- 20:35Speaker 1: all that stuff. And a lot of times, you know,
- 20:37Speaker 1: in this game we look at it as you know, hey,
- 20:40Speaker 1: they're professionals, they have talent, they have this and that.
- 20:43Speaker 1: But what it means is, hey, go back to that
- 20:46Speaker 1: time when you were playing this game because you loved
- 20:49Speaker 1: it so much. You know, because you it has to
- 20:52Speaker 1: be bigger in order to be a really good football
- 20:56Speaker 1: team and a consistent football team. You know, it has
- 20:59Speaker 1: to be big you than just it's my job. Thing else.
- 21:04Speaker 1: I'm just thinking, I'm ninety sure that is Harma heard
- 21:07Speaker 1: that story before. I think it was harm too. For
- 21:10Speaker 1: what it's worth, Doug's rights confirmed. Thanks, coach. I'll call you.
- 21:15Speaker 1: We've head coach Doug moron Friday mornings your own Jack's
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- 23:05Speaker 1: Drive time. Friday morning, stop by the dream Finders Home
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- 23:21Speaker 1: Thanks again too, Head coach Doug Moron for Friday mornings. Um,
- 23:26Speaker 1: I'm prepping for fantasy. Can you guys just take this
- 23:28Speaker 1: segment and I can like the little or you should
- 23:31Speaker 1: have prepped four? Still prepping? It's that never end. I'm focused,
- 23:38Speaker 1: really have not all right? But yes, yes, go to
- 23:43Speaker 1: the drink finders home. Okay, So you you're gonna join us?
- 23:47Speaker 1: If you're not, oh, I'm here for you. I think
- 23:49Speaker 1: you should go first. After all of that, you should
- 23:52Speaker 1: go first. For he will, he won't, he might. Is
- 23:53Speaker 1: there anything that we do that John doesn't go first?
- 23:56Speaker 1: Very fair? All right, so let's do it. Let's to
- 24:00Speaker 1: pick one game and then we'll pick it. So John,
- 24:04Speaker 1: your game, I got the biggie. And you know it's
- 24:11Speaker 1: funny you thought it was the big before the season.
- 24:14Speaker 1: Would you have dreamed that this wasn't the biggest game
- 24:17Speaker 1: of the weekend, which it wasn't, because you know you
- 24:20Speaker 1: had last night's game, which clearly, unless this one's a doozy,
- 24:24Speaker 1: will be the best game of the weekend. Um, this
- 24:30Speaker 1: is a tough one because you didn't think that both
- 24:33Speaker 1: would be in a situation where this game might matter.
- 24:37Speaker 1: New England's gonna make it, but if Pittsburgh loses it,
- 24:40Speaker 1: Baltimore might climb past him. And it's conceivable Pittsburgh can
- 24:44Speaker 1: not make the playoffs. Pittsburgh has been sliding, yeah, and
- 24:46Speaker 1: if the Daggers have been able to hold on here,
- 24:48Speaker 1: they would have they'd beat below the cusp. It's huge.
- 24:52Speaker 1: You kind of keep thinking at some point Pittsburgh is
- 24:55Speaker 1: gonna turn it back on. Uh, But then sometimes teams
- 25:01Speaker 1: don't turn it back on because they can't turn it
- 25:03Speaker 1: back on, and you wonder if that's where they're at.
- 25:05Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go with New England because I think
- 25:06Speaker 1: Pittsburgh might be in trouble well. And and the photo
- 25:09Speaker 1: that we have there is Jesse James last year with
- 25:14Speaker 1: the infamous fumble that helped change the rule. I mean
- 25:18Speaker 1: that should have been a touchdown. The Steelers should have
- 25:20Speaker 1: won this game. Um. The thing that you know is
- 25:23Speaker 1: that if the Steelers fall behind, coming back on Pittsburgh,
- 25:29Speaker 1: I'm sorry, coming back on New England won't be easy.
- 25:32Speaker 1: And New England just seems this year to be able
- 25:35Speaker 1: to jump out to that lead. Now they blew it
- 25:38Speaker 1: last week at the end of the ball game. Um,
- 25:41Speaker 1: I just I struggled to see Ben Roethlisberger without the
- 25:44Speaker 1: consistent running game. Is Connor playing this week? Yeah, but
- 25:48Speaker 1: without the consistent running game, I struggled to see him
- 25:50Speaker 1: able to jump out to a big lead and hold off.
- 25:53Speaker 1: At the same time, New England is a is a
- 25:58Speaker 1: touch more vulnerable than you would think. They didn't. They
- 26:02Speaker 1: always play poorly in Miami for them, which means they
- 26:05Speaker 1: occasionally lose down there. They've lost five of the less
- 26:07Speaker 1: six times they've played done right, So, um, they're nine
- 26:11Speaker 1: and four, which is there? Right? Nine and four? Guests,
- 26:17Speaker 1: you lose this one, all of a sudden, you're in
- 26:18Speaker 1: danger of going to the playoffs with six You know,
- 26:21Speaker 1: for them, that is a really startling season. Uh, you
- 26:25Speaker 1: just have to go with Belichick in this one and
- 26:27Speaker 1: think that somehow they will figure out how to do it.
- 26:30Speaker 1: I'm gonna go against you on this one. I'm gonna
- 26:32Speaker 1: have to. I'm gonna go with the Steelers because I
- 26:37Speaker 1: this is it for them. If they don't get this one,
- 26:40Speaker 1: then I then I'm with you. The Ravens I think
- 26:43Speaker 1: have a winnable game this weekend. I think that they
- 26:45Speaker 1: fall behind and they fall out of this thing. Um,
- 26:48Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Ben Roethlisberger at home. I do
- 26:51Speaker 1: like their defense. You know, the guy that I really
- 26:53Speaker 1: have appreciated watching this year for them is Juju Smith Schuster,
- 26:56Speaker 1: And I know everyone points to that guy. I hadn't.
- 26:58Speaker 1: I didn't focus on him last year, but they're here
- 27:00Speaker 1: in this game and watching him in recent weeks. He
- 27:03Speaker 1: is such a nice player. Yeah, you need a playmaker.
- 27:06Speaker 1: I think what John said, you have to go with
- 27:08Speaker 1: New England after especially last week the Miami miracle, but
- 27:12Speaker 1: you you you had to go with Kansas City. Last
- 27:15Speaker 1: night was like, dang it, Brian's gonna bring it up.
- 27:21Speaker 1: But sometimes you keep thinking a team's gonna pull it
- 27:24Speaker 1: off and they're really done, and uh, you just wonder
- 27:28Speaker 1: if this isn't a season where they're doing Ain't there
- 27:30Speaker 1: gonna be good for the long term. But you wonder
- 27:32Speaker 1: if this season isn't sliding out of control for some reason.
- 27:35Speaker 1: I just see Roethlisberger throwing five touchdown passes, I mean,
- 27:38Speaker 1: doing something ridiculous. You don't know what you can run
- 27:42Speaker 1: the game? Yeah, I've got that, You're going to get that.
- 27:45Speaker 1: I don't have the first pick I don't believe. Well,
- 27:46Speaker 1: I'm taking it Okay Up next, Slynn, I have Indianapolis
- 27:54Speaker 1: in the Dallas Cowboys. Cowboys have won five straight. Colts
- 27:57Speaker 1: are one spot out of the final wild card spot
- 27:59Speaker 1: in the a f C. Colts just took down one
- 28:02Speaker 1: of the hottest teams in the NFL with the Texans
- 28:04Speaker 1: last week, and something tells me they keep rolling at
- 28:07Speaker 1: Lucas Oil Stadium. They seem to have figured it out.
- 28:09Speaker 1: They've got their quarterback, they've got their playmakers. Dallas, I know,
- 28:12Speaker 1: as one five straight has seemed to figure it out
- 28:14Speaker 1: as well, but I think Colts got this one. So
- 28:17Speaker 1: I was confused last week. Was the Jaguars performance against
- 28:20Speaker 1: Andrew Luck and the Colts as impressive as it seemed,
- 28:23Speaker 1: or did the Colts just come in not ready to
- 28:25Speaker 1: play right? I mean, I'm sure it would. We watched
- 28:28Speaker 1: the defense. It was really good. Um, But then the
- 28:31Speaker 1: Colts go on the road and they give it to
- 28:33Speaker 1: a Texans defense that was playing better than the Jaguars
- 28:37Speaker 1: defense was, and they hang a number on them and
- 28:39Speaker 1: all of a sudden, whoa, it just did the Colts
- 28:43Speaker 1: just not show up? Well? I think what it really did,
- 28:45Speaker 1: and I think we had someone to the ozone who said,
- 28:47Speaker 1: you know what could have been this year because that
- 28:50Speaker 1: defense played its best game of the season against those guys.
- 28:54Speaker 1: Um Andrew Lux got it rolling up there now. I
- 28:56Speaker 1: mean when Marlon Mack looks like a tough guy to tackle,
- 28:59Speaker 1: I mean he's just a I and and yet you
- 29:01Speaker 1: know he finds room. And it's because Luck and t
- 29:05Speaker 1: Y Hilton have such a such a chemistry going. What
- 29:08Speaker 1: also shows you and Jalen talked about it yesterday. Jalen
- 29:11Speaker 1: did a nice job one not t Y Hilton heldon.
- 29:14Speaker 1: I think it was seventy seven yards. He caught eight passes,
- 29:17Speaker 1: but it was for nine point six If if if you
- 29:19Speaker 1: look at t wise other averages during this time, it's
- 29:22Speaker 1: seven eight yards above that. Right now, UM, don't lose
- 29:27Speaker 1: sight of the fact that Jayalen is the best of
- 29:29Speaker 1: what he does. I don't, don't. You can't forget that.
- 29:32Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting now because Dallas has been playing
- 29:35Speaker 1: at a very high level defensively too. UM, I don't know,
- 29:39Speaker 1: I don't. I guess I'll go with Luck at home.
- 29:42Speaker 1: They're still in it. They've got a lot of reasons
- 29:45Speaker 1: to play well, and they do play well at home.
- 29:47Speaker 1: I'll go with the Colts, but I think it's gonna
- 29:49Speaker 1: be a great game. I go to Dallas. Excuse me
- 29:52Speaker 1: because good television. Um, I go to Dallas because it
- 29:58Speaker 1: seems like late in the Sea and you were getting
- 30:01Speaker 1: a trend back toward defense winning, and it's been happening
- 30:06Speaker 1: with Chicago, has been happening with Dallas. I think it
- 30:08Speaker 1: happened a little bit with San Diego. Obviously high scoring game,
- 30:12Speaker 1: but it just feels like that's coming back a little bit.
- 30:16Speaker 1: Dallas one of the better second half teams over the
- 30:19Speaker 1: course of this season. I think they keep doing it.
- 30:21Speaker 1: If if Luck puts up a number on these guys, right,
- 30:24Speaker 1: let's say Luck puts twenty seven points up on these guys,
- 30:27Speaker 1: and then back to back weeks he has played so
- 30:29Speaker 1: well against the Texans and the Cowboys, good defenses. What
- 30:33Speaker 1: does it say about the drag Wars defense that when
- 30:35Speaker 1: it's right, it can be And I get a lot
- 30:39Speaker 1: of questions about this, Why can't they play if they
- 30:41Speaker 1: did against Colts? Very weak teams don't play that well
- 30:44Speaker 1: every week. And again, you needed some breaks in that
- 30:47Speaker 1: game to make it happen. The Colts had a chance
- 30:49Speaker 1: to hit one deep and luck missed it. Four down
- 30:52Speaker 1: call that they made to go forward field goal was
- 30:55Speaker 1: taken off the But usually shutouts have an element of
- 30:58Speaker 1: luck to it. You don't shut out teams in sleading
- 31:00Speaker 1: is to get out of lucky. But even with all that,
- 31:03Speaker 1: it was a ten thirteen point effort for the Colts,
- 31:07Speaker 1: even if things had gone right, which is a phenomenal effort.
- 31:10Speaker 1: It shows you with when this defense is right and
- 31:12Speaker 1: things are going its way, it can shut you down.
- 31:15Speaker 1: I'll go with them Miami at Minnesota, and we'll talk
- 31:18Speaker 1: a lot about Miami next week because the Jaguars will
- 31:21Speaker 1: be playing there a week from Sunday. You know the
- 31:24Speaker 1: Dolphins this year, I didn't know. I didn't see them
- 31:26Speaker 1: as being in playoff position. Remember the players they shed, right,
- 31:31Speaker 1: I mean Jarvis Landry and and Dominican Sue, just to
- 31:34Speaker 1: name a couple. And you see what those two players
- 31:36Speaker 1: have meant to the Rams and to the Browns. You
- 31:38Speaker 1: don't abandon that kind of talent and and necessarily get
- 31:42Speaker 1: better by bringing in older players, which is what they've done.
- 31:44Speaker 1: But Adam Gaze has it rolling. Then Tanny Hill goes
- 31:47Speaker 1: down and and they have bruck Osweiler, who was a tremendous,
- 31:51Speaker 1: colossal failure in Houston, and then you know Cleveland. How
- 31:55Speaker 1: could they be in a position and yet here they
- 31:57Speaker 1: are based on the miracle in Miami lst week if
- 32:00Speaker 1: you want to call it, that, they're taking on a
- 32:02Speaker 1: Minnesota team that you spent eighty four million dollars on
- 32:05Speaker 1: a quarterbacks disappointing as this thing has been down here
- 32:09Speaker 1: this year. Who how does it feel in Minnesota? Eighty
- 32:12Speaker 1: four million for Kirk Cousins. His numbers aren't bad, his
- 32:15Speaker 1: quarterback ratings right near a hundred um. But they got
- 32:18Speaker 1: him to win games like the other and they go
- 32:21Speaker 1: and they haven't done that. They the big games this
- 32:23Speaker 1: year they've lost. So here you've got a Miami team
- 32:26Speaker 1: again still on the cusp of it, a Minnesota team
- 32:29Speaker 1: still on the cusp of it. This one should be
- 32:31Speaker 1: a tremendous game. This one has the opportunity because there's
- 32:34Speaker 1: some talent on the defense in Miami and some talent
- 32:37Speaker 1: on the offense in Minnesota. I mean both sides of
- 32:39Speaker 1: the bowl. These are good matchups. Miami is what the
- 32:43Speaker 1: Jaguars season I think it could have been with a
- 32:47Speaker 1: breaker two was a four nine. If they get a
- 32:49Speaker 1: break or two in a couple of games, they should
- 32:52Speaker 1: could slash of one. Then. Uh, the Jaguars are seven
- 32:57Speaker 1: and six right now, even with all the injuries all
- 32:59Speaker 1: that stuff. Uh yeah, So, I mean Miami is an
- 33:04Speaker 1: example of if you win the games you're supposed to win,
- 33:07Speaker 1: and get a break or two here and there, you
- 33:09Speaker 1: can be in contention late in the season. Um, I
- 33:13Speaker 1: think I want to pick Minnesota because I just keep
- 33:17Speaker 1: believing in their talent level and it's hard to believe
- 33:20Speaker 1: there's six, six and one, But I know the Skins
- 33:23Speaker 1: will be watching that game on Sunday, and so it's
- 33:25Speaker 1: a I'm I'm gonna go with Minnesota, but I'm not
- 33:30Speaker 1: gonna feel great about it. Yeah. I feel the same
- 33:32Speaker 1: way because when you look back at the game last
- 33:34Speaker 1: week with Miami and New England, you need a miracle
- 33:37Speaker 1: to beat New England, and I don't think that can
- 33:38Speaker 1: happen every week obviously. Now. Do you know, though I
- 33:41Speaker 1: have said to you guys, in fact, I wrote it
- 33:42Speaker 1: one of our columns, that maybe I should stop saying
- 33:45Speaker 1: that the Jaguars are so talented, you know, because it
- 33:48Speaker 1: hasn't translated to wins. I feel the same way about Minnesota.
- 33:51Speaker 1: You look at their defense, just like I look at
- 33:53Speaker 1: the Jaguars defensive, wonder how they can give up Yeah,
- 33:56Speaker 1: how they can give up yards and points like they
- 33:57Speaker 1: have at times this year. So I'm gonna go with
- 33:59Speaker 1: my AMMI because I think that they're gonna ride. Last
- 34:03Speaker 1: week and I heard something from Kirk Cousins in the
- 34:07Speaker 1: postgame show that troubled me. He's like, hell, if we
- 34:10Speaker 1: could just turn this on. It was almost like it's
- 34:12Speaker 1: not going to go on this year. But boy, if
- 34:14Speaker 1: we could have turned it on this year, what could
- 34:16Speaker 1: it have been. Well, here's a staggering thing about Minnesota.
- 34:19Speaker 1: They have really good wide receivers. Yeahs right now, Deeed
- 34:26Speaker 1: Westbrook is it is playing well. He's the third wide
- 34:30Speaker 1: receiver MINNESOTAF he's playing up there. He's not starting with
- 34:32Speaker 1: those two. So the wide receivers on that team are
- 34:35Speaker 1: significantly better than here, and they're still struggling. So that's
- 34:40Speaker 1: a surprise. They didn't expect this. But so often it's
- 34:43Speaker 1: why we talk about free agency and adding and things like.
- 34:46Speaker 1: It often takes even though we live in a society
- 34:50Speaker 1: where you want to some results free agents last year
- 34:54Speaker 1: with the Jaguars. It usually does not happen where free
- 34:58Speaker 1: agents make this dramatic, standing raising impact that immediately. My
- 35:03Speaker 1: guess is Kirk Cousins has a better year next year
- 35:05Speaker 1: than he does this year. And everybody's right now, what happened, Well,
- 35:08Speaker 1: it just took time. So let's pick one game and
- 35:11Speaker 1: pick it. How about we shift gears now and go
- 35:14Speaker 1: to he will, he won't, he might, and John will
- 35:17Speaker 1: slide back down the table to first. Uh. Clayiss Campbell
- 35:21Speaker 1: and I get that. We talked about Clayiss all the time,
- 35:24Speaker 1: But in this one he makes sense to me because
- 35:27Speaker 1: he will show up. And I don't mean that is
- 35:29Speaker 1: he's gonna show for the game. He will show up,
- 35:33Speaker 1: and he'll be there and he'll prepare all week. He'll
- 35:37Speaker 1: be there, engage, um, And you never have to worry
- 35:42Speaker 1: about that with him. So you saw that this week.
- 35:45Speaker 1: He's a pro. He'll always be there. Um. He won't
- 35:50Speaker 1: be thinking about next season, except for the fact that
- 35:54Speaker 1: you mentioned earlier that he wants this thing to stay together.
- 35:59Speaker 1: I'm feeling different on him than I was. But three
- 36:01Speaker 1: or four weeks ago I wondered if he would be
- 36:04Speaker 1: back it seems to me like he is playing well
- 36:08Speaker 1: enough to be an outlier in the sense that if
- 36:11Speaker 1: he was a normal thirty with the thirty two. Yes,
- 36:14Speaker 1: if he was a normal thirty two year old, I
- 36:17Speaker 1: don't think he'd be back. But he's playing at such
- 36:19Speaker 1: a high level that I think he will be back. Um,
- 36:22Speaker 1: and he might pull away from Goockway in in the
- 36:25Speaker 1: sack department this week, right, So I think that's a
- 36:29Speaker 1: little battle between him. Um, you know it's Uh. I
- 36:34Speaker 1: don't think he's ever gonna hit double digit sacks again.
- 36:36Speaker 1: I think that, uh, last year was his year to
- 36:39Speaker 1: do that. But and he'll get a couple more, get
- 36:42Speaker 1: eight or nine this year and uh yeah, have a
- 36:46Speaker 1: season that merits him coming back. Okay, It's funny you
- 36:49Speaker 1: talk about the competition he has within Gockway. Brian and
- 36:51Speaker 1: I were standing next to the defensive line yesterday at
- 36:53Speaker 1: practice and they were racing each other to try to
- 36:55Speaker 1: get to the sack first and talking trash to each other.
- 36:58Speaker 1: It's it's definitely a competition either. Actors Field felt like
- 37:00Speaker 1: a game yesterday, which is a good sign. Yea. They
- 37:03Speaker 1: were having fun. All right, young lady, we slide to
- 37:05Speaker 1: you my he will, he won't. He might is a
- 37:08Speaker 1: J boyer. He will take these next three weeks seriously.
- 37:11Speaker 1: He has something to prove that he can still play
- 37:13Speaker 1: at a pro bowl level. We talked about the drop
- 37:15Speaker 1: off he had this season to last season. He's gonna
- 37:18Speaker 1: take these next three weeks seriously because he wants to
- 37:20Speaker 1: get back to the level he played in two thousands seventeen.
- 37:23Speaker 1: J Grunen talked about the Jaguars past defense and how
- 37:26Speaker 1: Josh Johnson is gonna have a tough time because he's
- 37:28Speaker 1: gonna have to go against Jalen Ramsey. And he said, yeah,
- 37:30Speaker 1: but you forgot about the other guy on the other
- 37:32Speaker 1: side of the field. A J boy, he's not too
- 37:34Speaker 1: bad either. He won't make it about him. We've turned
- 37:36Speaker 1: about the Jaguars defense and when they've had troubles, they
- 37:39Speaker 1: haven't stuck to their job and they haven't done their job.
- 37:41Speaker 1: You didn't hear a J boy in that conversation. He
- 37:44Speaker 1: has done his job and he might get an interception
- 37:47Speaker 1: this week because why not? Why not? Why not? Alright?
- 37:51Speaker 1: That brings um to you, to me, and this is
- 37:54Speaker 1: what this one's gonna surprise you, because I've been down
- 37:55Speaker 1: on this. Oh my gosh, um healing Cole, I like
- 37:59Speaker 1: the one for the record. I, Um, he'll show up
- 38:03Speaker 1: this week. You know it's been Dante Moncrief and d
- 38:06Speaker 1: d Westbrook. Um, but physically this might be the most
- 38:09Speaker 1: gifted of those three guys. Um. He of course, you
- 38:13Speaker 1: know the last two months since the big drop in
- 38:15Speaker 1: the London game. Of course, he had the drops in
- 38:17Speaker 1: the the Houston game. So since the twentieth of October,
- 38:19Speaker 1: he's been an entire non factor. Had the fumble against Dallas.
- 38:24Speaker 1: He has a really really tough stretch and you know
- 38:26Speaker 1: it's easy to forget that he's from Kentucky Wesleyan. UM.
- 38:30Speaker 1: So you talked about taking time and Kirk Cousins needing
- 38:32Speaker 1: some time. You know, we all watched him back in
- 38:35Speaker 1: training camp and thought, yeah, he could have a huge
- 38:38Speaker 1: season and probably missed that there was gonna be a
- 38:40Speaker 1: bump from him this year after the strong finish the
- 38:43Speaker 1: last year. UM. So I'm gonna say he will show
- 38:46Speaker 1: up this week and be a factor. Will be a
- 38:48Speaker 1: guy who has seven or eight catches, you know, maybe
- 38:51Speaker 1: eighty nine yards um, and will be the difference maker.
- 38:55Speaker 1: He'll move the chains, He'll have some plays that get
- 38:58Speaker 1: the downfield passing games started, take the pressure off of
- 39:03Speaker 1: Moncrief and Westbrook and adds a different element, a different
- 39:07Speaker 1: option for UM. I wonder a couple of things on
- 39:12Speaker 1: Cuman Colt. I wonder if the emphasis on not turning
- 39:15Speaker 1: the ball over, which I think for both quarterbacks, has
- 39:19Speaker 1: reduced their throws downfield. UH has heard Kean a little
- 39:24Speaker 1: bit in the sense that you don't throw downfield as
- 39:25Speaker 1: much when you do that. UM. I also wonder I
- 39:31Speaker 1: know he'll get a chance. I think he'll come back
- 39:35Speaker 1: stronger than UH next year than he was this year.
- 39:39Speaker 1: I think the last three games for him. YOU saw
- 39:40Speaker 1: it a little bit against Tennessee, which I'm sure is
- 39:42Speaker 1: why you used him this week. He was my deep
- 39:45Speaker 1: cut on Jaguars Happy Hour. UM. I think these last
- 39:51Speaker 1: four games, including the one last week, are very important
- 39:54Speaker 1: for him, and I do think he's still got a chance.
- 39:57Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna be the one I thought
- 39:59Speaker 1: last year he might have a chance to develop into
- 40:01Speaker 1: a big time player. I'm not sure he's gonna be there,
- 40:03Speaker 1: but I think he's got a chance to be a
- 40:05Speaker 1: significant contributor because he's gonna fit salary wise, into what
- 40:09Speaker 1: they're doing, and I don't think they've given up on him,
- 40:11Speaker 1: and he has the talent to do it. I picked
- 40:12Speaker 1: him for the way that he stood in the locker
- 40:14Speaker 1: room and talked after the Tennessee game, right because when
- 40:17Speaker 1: things got tough, he crawled into his shell against Houston,
- 40:20Speaker 1: especially in London, UH and wanted nothing to do with
- 40:24Speaker 1: owning it. And after the game in Nashville, he kind
- 40:28Speaker 1: of won me back with standing there and answering the question.
- 40:30Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say he won't make a key mistake,
- 40:33Speaker 1: he won't drop a third down pass. UH, he won't
- 40:36Speaker 1: fumble a ball. I think that he will come to
- 40:39Speaker 1: play and I think that he won't make mistakes. And
- 40:41Speaker 1: what I'm gonna say is, I think he might be
- 40:44Speaker 1: the guy that we're all crowded around in the locker
- 40:46Speaker 1: room afterwards talking to um, because let's face it, the
- 40:50Speaker 1: offense has not had him, and it hasn't it hasn't
- 40:54Speaker 1: done well the last couple of weeks. If they're going
- 40:57Speaker 1: to come out and play well, UM, I think he
- 40:59Speaker 1: might be the reason why he might be that game
- 41:02Speaker 1: changing player this week. I think I had one to
- 41:05Speaker 1: have thought on on what's hurt him this year too.
- 41:08Speaker 1: I think the running game and the offensive line struggles
- 41:10Speaker 1: have really hurt what he potentially does. Meaning member last
- 41:15Speaker 1: year he was not a twelve yard over the middle guy.
- 41:18Speaker 1: He's not there yet, but he was a deep guy
- 41:21Speaker 1: who could get open deep. The fact that they haven't
- 41:24Speaker 1: been able to get back to that play action game
- 41:26Speaker 1: because the running game hasn't been working, because the offensive
- 41:28Speaker 1: line is struggled to protect a lot of things went
- 41:30Speaker 1: into it. What he does really well is to get deep.
- 41:34Speaker 1: They haven't had a lot of time to do that
- 41:35Speaker 1: as well. Right, you saw that unreal one handed catch
- 41:37Speaker 1: against New England deep on the sidelines, but that's when
- 41:40Speaker 1: everything was going okay. Well, that shows you his obvious athleticism,
- 41:44Speaker 1: but it's it's for him. It's about being able to
- 41:47Speaker 1: be reliable and consistent weekend and week out. There's a
- 41:50Speaker 1: lot of guys that can make those crazy catches, but
- 41:52Speaker 1: not a lot of guys that can come week in
- 41:54Speaker 1: and week out and be the guy that their quarterback needs.
- 41:57Speaker 1: All Right, that's it for this segment. When we returned
- 41:59Speaker 1: Mike Dempsey just he'll give us he will, he won't,
- 42:01Speaker 1: he might, and we'll check in on Fantasy before wrapping
- 42:04Speaker 1: up a week here on the Jaguars Digital Network. Jaguars
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- 43:57Speaker 1: I have won just because I lost lost week. He
- 44:00Speaker 1: played that. No, this is from Mr Dempson. He looked
- 44:05Speaker 1: right at me. I came in last last time. I
- 44:10Speaker 1: think it's trying to make it more competitive at the end. Well,
- 44:13Speaker 1: it is getting close. John speaking up. He counted, he
- 44:19Speaker 1: knows exactly what had no idea what the score was
- 44:22Speaker 1: in September. I'm pretty fun. Happen he's doing well. How
- 44:26Speaker 1: are you guys? Good? How are you? He will he
- 44:29Speaker 1: won't he mind Avery Jones, my guy, I will say.
- 44:33Speaker 1: He will be instrumental in what should be a run
- 44:38Speaker 1: heavy game plan for the Washington Redskins. If they watched
- 44:41Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football a week ago. I think they will
- 44:44Speaker 1: try to run Adrian Peterson quite a bit in this
- 44:46Speaker 1: football game. So I think he'll be key to the
- 44:48Speaker 1: run defense playing defensive tackle. There he won't get nearly
- 44:52Speaker 1: the recognition of the other guys on the defensive line
- 44:55Speaker 1: because he doesn't have this bigger name or as big
- 44:57Speaker 1: a contract. But he's playing very well this year, and uh,
- 45:01Speaker 1: he might be the opening day starter at that position
- 45:04Speaker 1: next year. I mean, it could be Marcel Darius, you know.
- 45:06Speaker 1: But a lot of bigger names probably won't be on
- 45:09Speaker 1: this football team. But Abrey Jones is I think had
- 45:12Speaker 1: a really nice bounce back year for himself. I actually
- 45:14Speaker 1: wish this had been mine because it's a great call.
- 45:18Speaker 1: His absence was absolutely Noticeabigins Tennessee. If you went back
- 45:22Speaker 1: and watched, Uh, they ran right up the middle a
- 45:24Speaker 1: couple of times where the people replacing Abrey did not
- 45:28Speaker 1: play as well. It's a good call, Mike. Thanks. You
- 45:31Speaker 1: could have had it up to five minutes ago. I remember, Oh,
- 45:34Speaker 1: I better come up with one. That's a good call.
- 45:37Speaker 1: Good call. Alre we go, Here we go. Here's where
- 45:39Speaker 1: things stand as we had into week fifteen. Ashland, we'll
- 45:43Speaker 1: have the first pick today. She has six thirteen points,
- 45:47Speaker 1: so Brian, despite the fact that the last time we convened,
- 45:51Speaker 1: had gotten a big zero from Melvin Gordon because he
- 45:53Speaker 1: had already used him, bounced back in a big way.
- 45:55Speaker 1: He had seventy four points to lead the way last
- 45:57Speaker 1: time at Ashland at fifty four, John, you had five
- 46:00Speaker 1: five and I had forty. So Ashland at six thirteen,
- 46:04Speaker 1: Brian at six fifteen, John at eight, and I'm at
- 46:06Speaker 1: seven thirty nine on the season. These stats don't quite
- 46:10Speaker 1: show the comeback though. If you're probably a couple of
- 46:13Speaker 1: hundred points down a chart that shows a graph just
- 46:19Speaker 1: for John. You don't want a pie graph, you want
- 46:21Speaker 1: a graph. It's trending well for you right now. Alright,
- 46:24Speaker 1: So to remind folks, we can use any player you like,
- 46:27Speaker 1: you can only use him once all year, and once
- 46:29Speaker 1: the players taking no one else can use them that week.
- 46:31Speaker 1: So Ashland you have the first pick. This is in
- 46:35Speaker 1: spite of Brian Ben Roethlisberger, Ben Roger like gave Way.
- 46:39Speaker 1: You had no idea of putting that one together. Yes
- 46:42Speaker 1: I did. It's right here on my list. Because you said, oh,
- 46:47Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about it. You did. At the same
- 46:48Speaker 1: time I came up with I'll take Drew Brees against
- 46:51Speaker 1: all right, John, I'm glad to be your number two.
- 46:56Speaker 1: Got me on that one, right, Um, thank you. I'm
- 47:00Speaker 1: gonna take Deshaun Watson against the Jets, all right, and
- 47:03Speaker 1: with that, I will wait until my last take a quarterback.
- 47:07Speaker 1: I will take Alvin Kamara on Monday night football haven't
- 47:10Speaker 1: used him yet. And I will go with Adam Thielan
- 47:15Speaker 1: from the Minnesota Vikings. Haven't used him yet. John, you
- 47:18Speaker 1: can take a running back, wide receiver, a tight end.
- 47:20Speaker 1: See it's the subtle thing that it makes Mike so
- 47:23Speaker 1: good at this. He knew we all went quarterbacks now
- 47:25Speaker 1: he can wait. That's I'm gonna go uh Ebron against
- 47:37Speaker 1: the Cowboys, Okay, Eric Ebron has been having a great
- 47:40Speaker 1: year at tight end obviously, Brian. Back to you, Barkley Nice,
- 47:45Speaker 1: he's been automatic every week, Ashley, and you get two
- 47:48Speaker 1: picks here. I'll go Christian McCaffrey and Michael Thomas. Caffrey
- 47:53Speaker 1: has been ridiculous and Michael Thomas is ridiculous as well.
- 47:57Speaker 1: All right, Brian, I'll go with great Kittle because I
- 47:59Speaker 1: haven't us to him yet this year. And boy, I
- 48:01Speaker 1: hope you saved you a few yards after last week
- 48:04Speaker 1: to ten in the first half, John, you're up with
- 48:07Speaker 1: a running back or a receiver. I learned something from Mike.
- 48:09Speaker 1: I didn't take Kittle because Mike says don't chase point.
- 48:13Speaker 1: I just don't unless he has a good week back
- 48:16Speaker 1: to back, right, we try not to chase those points.
- 48:20Speaker 1: So I'm looking at wide receiver, right, Yes, I'm gonna
- 48:22Speaker 1: go Thomas from New Orleans against a sliding carry d
- 48:28Speaker 1: Ashland for John in the circumstance, Antonio Brown, Antonio Brown,
- 48:32Speaker 1: it's a pretty good fallback right there. All right, I
- 48:34Speaker 1: will go. I'm gonna go Russell Wilson, even though it's
- 48:39Speaker 1: on the road. He threw four touchdowns versus San fran
- 48:41Speaker 1: last time. And at tight end, I'm going to go
- 48:44Speaker 1: Ian Thomas of the Carolina Panthers and brings you back
- 48:49Speaker 1: to you John with a running back uh zeke okay,
- 48:55Speaker 1: Brian need a wide receiver, Juju Smith Schuster, ju Ju.
- 48:58Speaker 1: There's chasing third three from last week. I just haven't
- 49:02Speaker 1: used him and I can be fantastic good matchup, and
- 49:05Speaker 1: you need a tight end, Ashlyn. Jered Cook please alright,
- 49:08Speaker 1: Jared Cook, alright, strong teams. Nobody is holding anything back anymore.
- 49:12Speaker 1: Right until he's got I'm trying to Godess say you're
- 49:17Speaker 1: doing You're right there, that there's some drama there, Ben McCaffrey,
- 49:21Speaker 1: Michael Thomas, Jared Cook, Brian's got Drew Brees, sa Kwan Barkley,
- 49:24Speaker 1: Jujus Smith, Schuster, and George Kittle. John went with the
- 49:27Speaker 1: Shawn Watson, Ezekiel Elliott, Antonio Brown and Eric Ebrown and
- 49:30Speaker 1: I've got Russell Wilson, Alvin Kamara, Adam Deeling, and Ian
- 49:33Speaker 1: Thomas at tight end. Luck to all but John. You
- 49:37Speaker 1: see John, he's just realized over there on his phone
- 49:40Speaker 1: that he can get these rankings and keep up with things.
- 49:42Speaker 1: It's amazing. Yes, it's all about Yeah, I'm telling you
- 49:46Speaker 1: there the way with the future millennials in their phones,
- 49:48Speaker 1: he's ridiculous. Thanks Mike, we appreciate you, and we are
- 49:52Speaker 1: done for the week. Thanks for joining us all week long.
- 49:56Speaker 1: We'll have a wrap up show on Monday from Sunday's
- 49:59Speaker 1: game against the Washington Redskins. See you then eight thirty
- 50:03Speaker 1: Eastern time for our starting point next Monday morning. Have
- 50:06Speaker 1: a great weekend, everybody. M