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Jags Drive Time: Monday, November 11 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Celebrating twenty five years of Jaguars football hand thirty nine yards,
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Speaker 1: it's THIRTI enoughter, he just made eight people, Miss Ryan Jaguars.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Sex steps that John Oh shows it Actually Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Drive Time starts right now. Welcome back to Jaguar's Drive
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Speaker 1: Time Monday morning, brought to you by jet hormones. We
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Speaker 1: know you, miss us. It was a very very long break, rested,
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Speaker 1: ready to rumble. It wasn't all that long. Second half
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Speaker 1: of the season's here. We got our knaps in. We're
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Speaker 1: ready to go now. Were you just not saying that
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Speaker 1: another day might have been really bloused? We had a
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Speaker 1: little technical difficulties and I thought that was just a
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Speaker 1: sign that, you know what, let's start again to morrow.
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Speaker 1: But now everything's working. It's Monday, you know what. I
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of people not working today because it
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Speaker 1: was an easy drive in now easy for us, not
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Speaker 1: so much for the guy next to us. There's some
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Speaker 1: issues around the stadium today, some events that got in
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Speaker 1: my way. It's a Veterans Day parade, which I'm happy about.
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Speaker 1: The Veterans Day Parade. I'm I'm I'm less happy about
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Speaker 1: not being informed. I think agitated might be the right word. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so we've got a shortened show here today because Doug
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Speaker 1: Maroney is early on the post Monday, by yes. So
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Speaker 1: let's get right the big thing. Let's do it. Big
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Speaker 1: Thing one is act two second half of the season,
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Speaker 1: and every single eyeball of Jaguars fans is on this guy,
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Speaker 1: Nick Foles. You're hoping that you see the November December
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Speaker 1: Nick Foles that we've seen in the past. It's a
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Speaker 1: lot of pressure on this guy because everyone is looking
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Speaker 1: at how he will perform in the second half of
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Speaker 1: the season. Big thing, too, is looking up. You're now
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Speaker 1: looking up at the rest of the division, the a
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Speaker 1: f C South. You're now in last place, one game
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Speaker 1: behind the opponent that you will be playing on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: the Colts. The time is now to get hot because
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Speaker 1: you're starting to build a bit of a difference in
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Speaker 1: the a f C South. And Big Thing three is
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Speaker 1: getting home. It's a lot to ask that you're looking
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Speaker 1: at the defensive line. Their fourth in the league right now,
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Speaker 1: it's tied for fourth in the league thirty sacks on
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Speaker 1: the season, but it is key to success in the
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Speaker 1: second half of the season. This defensive line gets home guys. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know as much as we talked about Nick Foles,
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Speaker 1: and that's going to be the overarching story here this week. Um,
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Speaker 1: this defense has got to create pressure and they've got
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Speaker 1: to create takeaways turnovers. You have said extensively the last
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Speaker 1: few weeks that playing with the lead is the key.
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Speaker 1: And if that's going to be the key, then this
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Speaker 1: defense is going to have to play better than they
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Speaker 1: did in Houston. Are sorry in London against Houston? This
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Speaker 1: is all part of my Bernie woodfire girl. But didn't
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Speaker 1: read that. But um on big thing too, which is
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Speaker 1: staring up at the division. I got some emails with
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Speaker 1: the ozone this week, especially last night obviously after the
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Speaker 1: Titans one. Oh, we're in last place? Were the last place?
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Speaker 1: The events of yesterday the Titans? Fine, you control the
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Speaker 1: Titans if if if you beat them and keep pace,
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Speaker 1: you have head to head against them. There's some other
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Speaker 1: tiebreakers if it's three way, but for the most part,
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Speaker 1: you stall inntrol your destiny. The good news with the
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Speaker 1: Colts losing because that brings you back. So there were
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Speaker 1: people upset that they're now in the last place, and
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Speaker 1: then we still control all that. The positive was that
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Speaker 1: the Colt slaw, So I thought overall it was about
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Speaker 1: I would have rather if you're the Jaguars, had the
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Speaker 1: Colts losing, Titans win and vice versa in terms of
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Speaker 1: their twice right, and you still got the Raiders who
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Speaker 1: are hot as you control them. I mean, this is
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Speaker 1: still out there in front of here's the thing, and
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Speaker 1: it isn't just the AFC South. Uh. The Steelers won
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Speaker 1: a big game over the Rams last there, five and four. Right,
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Speaker 1: they have rebounded from their early season struggles and the
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Speaker 1: loss of Ben Roethlisberger. Uh. The Bills, Uh, they lost
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Speaker 1: a game, but they're still out in front of this
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Speaker 1: football team. There are some teams getting hot in the
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Speaker 1: a f C. The Titans at five and five. Um,
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Speaker 1: you've got to get hot and you've got to start
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Speaker 1: playing your best football because the competition is more fierce
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Speaker 1: for a wild card birth than it was if it's
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Speaker 1: possible last week. And it feels like it feels a
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Speaker 1: little gear a year it was, But there was a
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Speaker 1: year fifteen sixteen, during the Guest Bradley air where they
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Speaker 1: sort of got half into it and we all talked
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Speaker 1: playoffs scenarios in my line as they didn't win going
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Speaker 1: on the stretch, So obviously all of this stuff we're
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Speaker 1: watching yesterday matters not a wit if the Jaguars don't
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Speaker 1: win at some point, becauseyn'na start winning and right now,
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Speaker 1: like Sunday, Right if you don't win on Sunday, you
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Speaker 1: can you can forget about talking about playoffs. That's my
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Speaker 1: hot take day. You don't have to give that away.
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Speaker 1: You can resell it later. So let's go back to
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Speaker 1: to Act two. Um, we're starting over. It feels like
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Speaker 1: opening day in a sense. With Nick Foles. We we
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Speaker 1: just got to look at and remember we went through
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Speaker 1: that whole stretch of the preseason where we said, when
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Speaker 1: are we gonna see Nick Foles? We got to wait
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Speaker 1: till Opening Day and then we just got a taste
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Speaker 1: before he was taken away. And now he returns to
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Speaker 1: the lineup at a moment where this franchise needs him
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Speaker 1: the most, and thanks to Gardner Minshew, they're in a
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Speaker 1: position to be able to talk about beat the Colts
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Speaker 1: and stay in the playoffs. So excited to see this guy.
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Speaker 1: On Sunday. I was out in Cincinnati a couple of
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Speaker 1: weeks ago, early on Sunday morning, watching him war him up,
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Speaker 1: and I thought, boy, it looks pretty good, and successively
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Speaker 1: week in and week out, he looks like the guy
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Speaker 1: that we watched on the practice field all summer long.
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Speaker 1: You talk about and they used the phrase no margin
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Speaker 1: for air. It's a it's a popular thing to say,
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Speaker 1: you've been you know, he had pressure on him anyway
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Speaker 1: as the eighty eight million dollar guy when they really
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Speaker 1: were oh enough, now they've sort of got to act
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Speaker 1: like their own Oh but there's this thing in the
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Speaker 1: back of the mind. You're not Oh no, you're four
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Speaker 1: and five and probably can only withstand maybe two losses,
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Speaker 1: even have a prayer. Um, nothing like you know, there's
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Speaker 1: gonna be pressure anyway for eight eight million, I get that,
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Speaker 1: but nothing like real pressure, which say, hey, you can't
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Speaker 1: lose it. So I love I'd love for this to
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Speaker 1: be more impressive than it sounds. But I went back
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Speaker 1: and watched every snap of Nick Foles two thousand and
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Speaker 1: nineteen season. Uh, and what I saw in that very
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Speaker 1: brief time and yeah exactly was uh decisiveness. Um, a
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Speaker 1: clear understanding grasp of every concept of the offense and
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Speaker 1: where players were, and then the arm strength, I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's got that whip of an arm and can deliver
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Speaker 1: the ball. And then having gone back and watch some
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Speaker 1: of the misses from the rookie quarterback over the last
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks, there's some optimism, some guarded in a sense,
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Speaker 1: but real also that he can come out and execute
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Speaker 1: on offense and do what he was supposed to do,
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Speaker 1: create holes in the running game because your back guys
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Speaker 1: off the line of scrimmage and take advantage and then
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Speaker 1: set up the defense to play with the lead, take
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Speaker 1: advantage of them, creating takeaways because they're able to to
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Speaker 1: you off. And we haven't seen this yet, and I
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Speaker 1: don't know that we'll even have anything tangible to see
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Speaker 1: because you won't know what's happening. But I'm sure with Folds,
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Speaker 1: there will be situations where he comes to the line,
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Speaker 1: sees the situation, gets them out of a bad situation
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Speaker 1: into good situations more than Gardener could because of experience. Now,
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Speaker 1: that won't be a situation where we can chart that,
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Speaker 1: because it's it's impossible to know, but that should be
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Speaker 1: what Nick brings as well. Some of the things that
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Speaker 1: looked clunky at times with Gardner just by definition of
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Speaker 1: minrookie quarterback, you shouldn't see with Nick. Yeah, and my
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Speaker 1: family was asking me, you know, is he healthy? Are
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Speaker 1: they rushing him back because they need him? Watching him
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Speaker 1: warm up and run around, it looks like he could
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Speaker 1: have gone two weeks ago if need be, just because
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Speaker 1: of the short term I are. So here's another way
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Speaker 1: to look at this. If you had Gardner Minshew on
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Speaker 1: the field against Jacoby Brissette, who would you say is
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Speaker 1: the better quarterback? Uh? Right now, Brissett not to take
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Speaker 1: this is not to denigrade Gardener, but just just you know,
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Speaker 1: he's got more experience strictly, just because if you have
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Speaker 1: and it falls out there, you have the better quarterback. Yes, okay,
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Speaker 1: same thing the next week, Ryan Tannehill, Gardner Minshew. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I get it. You could argue from Minshew and based
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Speaker 1: on what he had done, the same thing you put
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Speaker 1: folds out there, you've got the better quarterback, right, same
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Speaker 1: thing with the following week against Jameis Winston. Right, Okay.
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Speaker 1: So I guess what I'm saying is it putting it
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Speaker 1: falls back in the lineup gives you the advantage at
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Speaker 1: the most important position on the field, So anybody, and
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Speaker 1: there are plenty of people who are questioning the wisdom
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Speaker 1: of removing Gardner from the lineup and replacing him with this.
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Speaker 1: Just look at it from that perspective. This player gives
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Speaker 1: you the better quarterback at least the next three weeks.
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Speaker 1: And if I'm not mistaken, you have been harping on
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Speaker 1: the fact that the next three weeks or the season. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: no question there, go okay at some point something, So
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Speaker 1: that makes this the right move. At some point it's
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Speaker 1: got to be the week. Not that we're still debating it,
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Speaker 1: but I just think when you look at it from
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Speaker 1: that perspective, you understand where this is. Some of it
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Speaker 1: with Nake admittedly a little bit of a leap of
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Speaker 1: faith because there's all these questions he has to prove
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Speaker 1: what you just said, right that he is the better quarterback.
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Speaker 1: But based on what he did are that he ought
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Speaker 1: to be all right, based on what he did in
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Speaker 1: seventeen and eighteen and in the little, the limited amount
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Speaker 1: we saw of him in the opener against Kansas City,
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Speaker 1: I think he's the better quarterback than the next three.
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Speaker 1: Now you can make the case for Philip Rivers because
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Speaker 1: Rivers hasn't been playing all that well. Although if you well,
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Speaker 1: I would agree with you. That's my favor. That's my guy,
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Speaker 1: favorite quarterback in the whole league. I love to watch
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Speaker 1: the guy play. But then the next week right car
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Speaker 1: versus Fools. Okay, the next week after that Matt Ryan,
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Speaker 1: although Ryan rebounded in a big way, and then you
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Speaker 1: get proset again. So I don't think it is a
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Speaker 1: stretch to say that in five of the seven remaining
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Speaker 1: games right now, you should have the advantage of the
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Speaker 1: most important position on the field. Good perspective. I never
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Speaker 1: thought of it like that. Well, you know, every once
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Speaker 1: Bernie dang it? It's Bernie by a girl hot takes light,
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Speaker 1: is Um it involves two or three of our big things,
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Speaker 1: and it's ironic. Brian and irony can be iron that
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars. But I think it's fitting and I think
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Speaker 1: it's right that the Jaguars season over the next seven
12:25
Speaker 1: games could very well be decided by the major moves
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Speaker 1: they made in the off season. Nick Foles, Josh Allen.
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Speaker 1: If Nick Foles plays well and Josh Allen slashed pass
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Speaker 1: rush play well, you could see this team being a
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Speaker 1: five or six win team. Um. If if they don't,
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Speaker 1: if Foles doesn't play well in the pass rush doesn't
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Speaker 1: get home, you can see as being a two win team.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's that much of a difference. So I
12:51
Speaker 1: think from the Jaguars perspective, if you're Doug Moron, if
12:54
Speaker 1: you're the people who put this thing together, that's what
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Speaker 1: you want it's there in front of you. It's there
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Speaker 1: for the taking the moves that you felt fantastic about
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Speaker 1: in the offseason. If they come to fruition, if you
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Speaker 1: were right, then you've got a fighting chance at this
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Speaker 1: Here's the reason why I think not just that you're correct,
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Speaker 1: but why you might see that um. D J. Chart
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Speaker 1: emerged right we thought he might, but even with a
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Speaker 1: rookie quarterback, he emerged. Chris Connley turns out is what
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Speaker 1: we thought he was going to be. We haven't seen
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Speaker 1: enough from D. D. Westbrook obviously, because Chart emerges and
13:31
Speaker 1: Westbrooks had some injuries that have slowed him down somewhat.
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Speaker 1: We've seen some of these guys that we thought and Leonard,
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Speaker 1: who we said looked great, has played great. So all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, Foles comes back in and the question
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Speaker 1: marks aren't question marks anymore. They might not be exclamation points,
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Speaker 1: but there are period. At least D J. Chark is
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Speaker 1: a very good player, period. Chris Conley is what we
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Speaker 1: thought he was period. D D. Westbrook is still a
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Speaker 1: guy that can be a very good player period. Right.
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Speaker 1: Maybe Leonard for nets an exclamation point, right, but all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, they're not question marks, and so I
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Speaker 1: think Fools has a chance to come in and do that.
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Speaker 1: And I've been on the Island bandwagon for a long time.
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Speaker 1: Since I met the kid in Nashville, you could just
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Speaker 1: sense there was something more mature, more understanding. Maybe it's
14:19
Speaker 1: the fact that he's married with a child and came
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Speaker 1: in with a you know, with the idea that I'm
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Speaker 1: supposed to take care of my family, and that really
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Speaker 1: has been his idea. It's what he said to me
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Speaker 1: the hallways we were walking to new an interview in
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Speaker 1: Nashville and Draft night. Um, he's been special. I think
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Speaker 1: he's going to challenge javon curses record. I think he's
14:35
Speaker 1: gonna go off the second half of this season. Um,
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Speaker 1: so I'm with you. I could see this being a
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Speaker 1: five and two team over the second half of the season.
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Speaker 1: If those two absolutely nice one You're on it Monday.
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Speaker 1: I say that on Sunday the Jaguars will have a
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Speaker 1: three yard pass or a one hundred yard receiver and
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Speaker 1: a one hundred yard rusher. Now, I forgot the Carolina
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Speaker 1: game that Leonard had long run and got to a hundred.
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Speaker 1: I hadn't thought this had happened since the last time
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Speaker 1: they blew the doors off the Colts and Jacoby Brissette
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Speaker 1: in Week seven seen that was thirty eight games ago.
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Speaker 1: Uh so they've done it once in the last thirty
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Speaker 1: eight games, and I think on Sunday they do it again.
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Speaker 1: And one of the reasons why is because Folds comes
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Speaker 1: back with some of those periods and not question marks
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Speaker 1: and for Nett is playing well. I think that UM,
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Speaker 1: the Colts defense has some nice players, but what I
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Speaker 1: saw yesterday was not a defense that should seriously shut
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Speaker 1: this offense down if they come out to play UM
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Speaker 1: And I think what the three hundred really indicates it
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Speaker 1: some about And if you go back over the last
15:45
Speaker 1: two years, this team has had some big performances from
15:48
Speaker 1: the running game and the passing game was nowhere to
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Speaker 1: be found. That was a lot of team and this
15:53
Speaker 1: year they've had big performances here and there, but they
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Speaker 1: haven't put it all together other than the Carolina game.
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Speaker 1: They lost that game because of turnovers. UM, but that
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Speaker 1: if they don't have the turnovers, they probably win the game.
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Speaker 1: And there's the balance we're talking about. Folds comes back
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Speaker 1: and gives you the chance to be balanced, and in
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Speaker 1: being balanced on offense, It gives you the opportunity to
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Speaker 1: stay on the field, to convert, to keep the defense fresh,
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Speaker 1: to give them a chance to play with the lead,
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Speaker 1: and then perhaps t off and send Josh and Yuniken,
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Speaker 1: Gotay and some of these these weapons at them. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: He's important too, Yeah him to Um, I really sense
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Speaker 1: that the balance is possible for this team with Nick
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Speaker 1: in the lineup, Whereas even when Gardner was throwing the ball, well,
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Speaker 1: I thought they were going to have to be out
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Speaker 1: of balance to some degree. Um. So that's my hot take. Yeah,
16:41
Speaker 1: we talked about going into the bye week. The inconsistency
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Speaker 1: was the number one thing they had to work on.
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Speaker 1: You have a running game, you don't have a passing game.
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Speaker 1: To put all together would be huge the second half
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Speaker 1: of the season. All Right, I know this sounds dramatic,
16:53
Speaker 1: but it is a hot take, and at times you
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Speaker 1: have to be dramatic with tot takes. The Jaguar season
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Speaker 1: is decided on Sunday. A the mentality the season, all
17:03
Speaker 1: the above is decided on Sunday. That's because of the
17:05
Speaker 1: rest of the season is huge. Obviously second half of
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Speaker 1: the season, but against the a f C South Colts,
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Speaker 1: you're last in the division right now, but more so,
17:12
Speaker 1: you have a ton of teams gunning for that last
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Speaker 1: spot in the wild card. Steelers, Raiders, Chargers, all these
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Speaker 1: teams are getting hot. You have to get hot right
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Speaker 1: now to give yourself a shot. You realistically need to
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Speaker 1: go five and two. That gives you nine wins, That
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Speaker 1: gives you a prayer. If you don't start winning on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: You have to give this team something to believe in.
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Speaker 1: They have to believe they can get five into the
17:34
Speaker 1: second half the season. You don't get there with the loss. Well,
17:37
Speaker 1: and we knew going into London that the Jaguars had
17:40
Speaker 1: a three game stretch against the division and they needed
17:43
Speaker 1: to start winning. Plus, you gotta be the good team.
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Speaker 1: I mean the Jets, the Bengals, the Broncos. You've beaten
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Speaker 1: the team. The Titans now are proving themselves to be
17:51
Speaker 1: a good team, but it's been a while since you've
17:53
Speaker 1: beaten a good team. The Colts are a good team.
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Speaker 1: If Jacobe Brissette plays, and I would think he would play,
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Speaker 1: I mean, it seems apparent to me that he he
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Speaker 1: was held out despite practicing last week because the Colts
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Speaker 1: could be cautious against or thought they could be Against
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Speaker 1: the Dolphins, I would expect him to play t Y Hilton,
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Speaker 1: n c U. A Oh, We're back Jack Drive Time Monday, morning.
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Speaker 1: Have to interrupt the song today because we got a
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Speaker 1: lot to do. Doug Moron press conference in about five minutes.
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Speaker 1: But let's visit the ozone mail bag. First, oh man
20:45
Speaker 1: from Jacksonville, Long time no see big Oh? My question?
20:50
Speaker 1: How much of the nick Fole's decision was the coaching
20:52
Speaker 1: staff trying to save their jobs? There's more, There's more,
20:56
Speaker 1: there's more. But the moral of the question is was
20:58
Speaker 1: this decision to say? In a sense, Brian, yes, because
21:03
Speaker 1: every decision they make is about winning, and winning is
21:06
Speaker 1: about saving the jobs, especially the way Doug Marone thinks
21:10
Speaker 1: about it. I mean, Doug Marone has been very clear.
21:13
Speaker 1: He you know, there are other people in the building
21:15
Speaker 1: who think about the future. He thinks about what it
21:17
Speaker 1: takes to win that week right now. Uh, And so
21:23
Speaker 1: in that sense, it's about saving jobs, but only because
21:25
Speaker 1: everything he does is about winning the next game. Well,
21:28
Speaker 1: guys who were trying to save their jobs are trying
21:30
Speaker 1: to win the same that that's it's It's the most
21:32
Speaker 1: self evident question that could possibly be asked. No, Dah,
21:35
Speaker 1: he wants to win. Winning keeps the job. He made
21:40
Speaker 1: the decision not because he cared about anyone's feelings. But
21:43
Speaker 1: because this gave them the best chance to win, why
21:45
Speaker 1: feel bad for Gardner? Minshew? He's in a better position
21:49
Speaker 1: today than he was an opening day. Yeah, he's big time.
21:53
Speaker 1: He's been on the field and he is no longer
21:55
Speaker 1: a question mark. He is. He is a guy that
21:59
Speaker 1: you believe you now can invest time and effort to develop.
22:03
Speaker 1: He's better than he was. Don't feel bad for him.
22:06
Speaker 1: There's t shirts with his face all over it. Who
22:09
Speaker 1: thought we'd see that ever, let alone this year. None
22:12
Speaker 1: of us thought that, not based on the preseason. So
22:14
Speaker 1: stop feeling bad for the kid. It's about winning. I'm
22:17
Speaker 1: tired of all the people who say, oh Gardner Minshew, stop, stop, stop, stop,
22:23
Speaker 1: this guy fold is the guy the whole thing was
22:25
Speaker 1: built on. He's the better quarterback, There's no question about it.
22:31
Speaker 1: He's the guy that gives you the best chance to win. Yes, yes,
22:34
Speaker 1: they feel the pressure to win to save their jobs.
22:37
Speaker 1: But they feel the pressure to win all the time.
22:40
Speaker 1: In your first year, in your second year, in your
22:42
Speaker 1: last year. It's about winning, and I'm winning launch today.
22:47
Speaker 1: Stop moping around. Tired of it. I'm so tired of
22:52
Speaker 1: Oh do you feel bad for Gardener? No? I don't know.
22:57
Speaker 1: He's doing great. All right, let's go to okal up
23:00
Speaker 1: John another John Hio. Just wondering if we are allowed
23:04
Speaker 1: to root for Gardner, Minshoe and Nick because from the
23:07
Speaker 1: sound of it, it's one or the other. I thought,
23:09
Speaker 1: if you're a fan of the Jags, you can root food,
23:11
Speaker 1: root for whoever the quarterback is to win. Well, it
23:15
Speaker 1: has become divisive and it's odd, but please yeah, I mean,
23:19
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? And the way answered this question
23:22
Speaker 1: Brian was this, um, if the Jaguars win the next
23:27
Speaker 1: two games, everybody who is in the Foals camp, I
23:30
Speaker 1: mean everybody who's in the Minshew camp will be in
23:32
Speaker 1: the Foals camp. They went on Sunday if they lose,
23:35
Speaker 1: because there will be a fALS camp. So that's how
23:38
Speaker 1: it is in the NFL. If they lose, What if
23:41
Speaker 1: they lose because the defense plays poorly? What if Foals
23:44
Speaker 1: goes out and throws for three hundred and Leonard runs
23:46
Speaker 1: for a hundred and d J charcos over a hundred,
23:48
Speaker 1: but the defense plays poorly, then are we against holes
23:50
Speaker 1: because they lost? Some people will be sure, Oh yeah,
23:53
Speaker 1: the mail bag will be popping for It's a cult,
23:56
Speaker 1: is what it is the cult of Minshoe. They say
23:59
Speaker 1: cold just win, just just when, just when, I'll say
24:07
Speaker 1: it again. Minshew is in a much better place than
24:10
Speaker 1: he was before kickoff on opening day, when we wondered,
24:14
Speaker 1: worried what would happen if he had to play. He
24:17
Speaker 1: now is a guy for whom there is heightened expectations.
24:21
Speaker 1: And when there are expectations of you, generally you get
24:23
Speaker 1: a chance to fulfill them and you get a chance
24:26
Speaker 1: to get paid. Minshew is just fine. He will have
24:29
Speaker 1: many opportunities in the future. My goodness, you're not good
24:32
Speaker 1: to root for the team because you don't like the
24:34
Speaker 1: quarterback plan. I mean, it's not like this is a course.
24:36
Speaker 1: It's not like they're putting what's the name of the
24:38
Speaker 1: kid um it was here from Florida International. Can't remember
24:41
Speaker 1: his name. You have the kid that went to Houston.
24:46
Speaker 1: It's not like putting Agoo in there. You're putting the
24:47
Speaker 1: eight eight million dollar man in there. Some people like
24:50
Speaker 1: if they did. Some people were on the tet was
24:53
Speaker 1: a big train. Do remember that it was a small train,
24:56
Speaker 1: but there was a train. All right. Let's wrap it
24:58
Speaker 1: up with Chris and nash Field, TENNESSEEE do you think
25:02
Speaker 1: the change that quarterback rolls result in a significant shift
25:05
Speaker 1: in targets too, wide receivers and tight end from what
25:08
Speaker 1: we have seen the past eight games with Minshow, Yeah, probably.
25:11
Speaker 1: I mean I'll cut you off here. Uh. It stands
25:15
Speaker 1: to reason that of Folds and Minshew, obviously different quarterbacks.
25:20
Speaker 1: Different quarterbacks like different reads. They feel comfortable with different reads,
25:24
Speaker 1: They look for different things in the line of scrimmage.
25:26
Speaker 1: Even within the context of a play, they may feel
25:29
Speaker 1: more comfortable. Folds may feel comfortable making a threat of
25:32
Speaker 1: Chris Conley on his first read and just naturally go
25:35
Speaker 1: to that. So I do think the one thing you
25:38
Speaker 1: might see different is a different usage and a comfort
25:42
Speaker 1: level with Chris Conley. I also think you may see
25:45
Speaker 1: Folds better able to put these guys in a position
25:50
Speaker 1: to make plays after the catch. Minshew was really good
25:53
Speaker 1: at that as a real for a rookie. But you
25:56
Speaker 1: would think that there would be things within the offense.
26:00
Speaker 1: It's subtleties that Folds can take advantage of, and it
26:04
Speaker 1: mins you couldn't. I don't know last why that question was,
26:08
Speaker 1: do you think you'll see the tight ends involved? What
26:10
Speaker 1: tight ends? I don't know, but I watched the games
26:12
Speaker 1: yesterday and and and salivated over the prospect of having
26:15
Speaker 1: a Kyle Rudolph or or a you know, there were
26:18
Speaker 1: tight ends everywhere in the Bills game and the Browns
26:21
Speaker 1: making catches, and I thought that if this offense had
26:24
Speaker 1: one of those guys that is I'm torn up by
26:28
Speaker 1: the image you just drooling. I like to use colorful language.
26:33
Speaker 1: I do that often about it, but it's uh, you know,
26:39
Speaker 1: my wife friends sing, please find a tight end. I mean,
26:42
Speaker 1: maybe the Oliver kid can emerge at some point, but
26:45
Speaker 1: what tight ends? Who are you gonna throw to Ben
26:47
Speaker 1: Koyak in the middle of the field. Come on, please,
26:53
Speaker 1: I'm torn up. I can't I can't wait to see
26:58
Speaker 1: Seth DeValve out there. You know, you see what I mean. Mean,
27:00
Speaker 1: it's not like they don't have that guy. They've got
27:02
Speaker 1: to find the guy in the middle of the field
27:04
Speaker 1: that opens things up. Now in the absence, I do
27:06
Speaker 1: expect to see more D. D. Westbrook because as much
27:09
Speaker 1: as we can talk about Conley being comfortable, boy, Westbrook
27:12
Speaker 1: was the star of camp. If you were call going
27:13
Speaker 1: all the way back. There was an instant connection between
27:16
Speaker 1: he and Folds and Folds will find ways to get
27:19
Speaker 1: him involved because in the middle of the field, he
27:22
Speaker 1: at least gives you a chance more than any tight
27:24
Speaker 1: end on the roster currently to open up the middle
27:26
Speaker 1: of the field outside. You bet he's the toughest guy
27:30
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field. At times he can
27:32
Speaker 1: get hit three different ways and still hold onto the ball. Sure,
27:36
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Speaker 1: Head coach Dunrone at the podium shortly, probably getting his
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Speaker 1: cough or something very busy man, but I'm sure he's
29:37
Speaker 1: gonna get asked about the division. You see the graphics
29:40
Speaker 1: on TV this morning on Good Morning Football, and you
29:42
Speaker 1: see Jaguars last place. It's like stinks. It's kind of
29:47
Speaker 1: thinks to look at. But you look at the standings
29:50
Speaker 1: and you're really not that far off. Well, I'm not
29:52
Speaker 1: sure how much really changed for this team except in
29:56
Speaker 1: a positive way from last Friday, Meaning the Titans moved
30:01
Speaker 1: ahead of you by what a half game? And that's fine,
30:05
Speaker 1: but you're still the Colts came back to you. The
30:09
Speaker 1: Texans are right there. They're not going to catch the
30:10
Speaker 1: Texans at this point. You're a two games out with
30:13
Speaker 1: the tie breaker in your seven games, so that maybe
30:15
Speaker 1: a miracle happens, but that's not what you're thinking about
30:17
Speaker 1: right now. Um. So, yeah, it looks bad on paper,
30:20
Speaker 1: but I do think they got helped significantly when the
30:24
Speaker 1: when the Dolphins beat the Colts. And I don't was
30:26
Speaker 1: it you that was on the storyline a couple of
30:28
Speaker 1: weeks ago. No, I'm sorry, I just confused you with
30:30
Speaker 1: Gene for that, Um it was it was it was
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Speaker 1: Geane who last week I think was talking about the
30:35
Speaker 1: division record and this team's historically poor showing in this division. Now, Uh,
30:42
Speaker 1: the Colts and the Texans have both won the title
30:44
Speaker 1: multiple times, but the Titans, I don't think of one
30:47
Speaker 1: an a f C South title in there. Yeah, they
30:50
Speaker 1: won in Sorry guys, let me interrupt. Head coach done
30:55
Speaker 1: Brown at the podium. Now we'll be back after for reaction.
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Speaker 1: Yeah right, different places to cover and stuff. And didn't
31:30
Speaker 1: give you guys any time to rest. Yeah, Well, we
31:34
Speaker 1: started the meeting today, you know, obviously Veteran's Day, so
31:37
Speaker 1: you know, God blessed of you know, the people that
31:40
Speaker 1: have served and the people that are serving. And I
31:42
Speaker 1: told the players that mean time to take a little
31:44
Speaker 1: break and think about, you know, those people that are
31:48
Speaker 1: sacrificed everything for us, really for our freedom. So uh,
31:53
Speaker 1: it's important to me. It has been for a long
31:55
Speaker 1: period of time, my whole life. Um, that's one that
31:59
Speaker 1: I think, you know, you wanted to take a step
32:01
Speaker 1: back and do you know, just recognize it. And I
32:04
Speaker 1: think we did a good job of that today as
32:06
Speaker 1: a team. Obviously, everyone when you look around the room,
32:09
Speaker 1: you know, everyone knows somebody that's in the military, and
32:13
Speaker 1: and we appreciate that. Going into the next thing is
32:16
Speaker 1: that obviously we're pretty much we expect everyone to be
32:20
Speaker 1: out there practicing, you know, so we're we're healthy after
32:23
Speaker 1: the bye, which is one of the goals that you
32:25
Speaker 1: want to do, get yourself you know, um a little
32:28
Speaker 1: bit more time and get yourself ready to go. And
32:31
Speaker 1: and we feel that that, uh, you know, right now
32:34
Speaker 1: we're at we feel good about it. You know, with
32:37
Speaker 1: the players going out today, Um, Jake Ryan is on
32:40
Speaker 1: a non football injury list. He comes off and starts practicing,
32:43
Speaker 1: so we expect him to practice today. Um, that's good.
32:48
Speaker 1: And then obviously jouring this week, we went through a
32:50
Speaker 1: ton of self scout and you know, we we go
32:55
Speaker 1: through all three phases and then I usually handle a
32:57
Speaker 1: team phase. And you know, I talked to the airs
33:00
Speaker 1: today about just the turnovers where we are, you know,
33:02
Speaker 1: how we've you know, fought during the season and we're
33:05
Speaker 1: at minus two right now. And also talking about field position,
33:09
Speaker 1: which we're thirty at in the NFL, which is something
33:12
Speaker 1: that we have to address and and and improve upon.
33:15
Speaker 1: The obviously schematically, you know, offense, defense and special teams
33:18
Speaker 1: have things to work on. Um, it's always good that
33:22
Speaker 1: when you get a chance, you know, kind of take
33:23
Speaker 1: a step back and look at some of the things
33:25
Speaker 1: that you're doing and and um, look at the tendencies
33:28
Speaker 1: that you have and what people are looking at. So
33:30
Speaker 1: I think we've learned a lot about ourselves, you know,
33:33
Speaker 1: talking about coaching wise, and you know this past week
33:38
Speaker 1: and players are excited to be back, coach's excited to
33:40
Speaker 1: be back, and you know, we're gonna focus on you know,
33:43
Speaker 1: having a good day today, an extra day and and
33:47
Speaker 1: and work our butts off to put ourselves in position
33:50
Speaker 1: for a good performance when we go on the road,
33:52
Speaker 1: you know versus Indy. At what point did you have
33:56
Speaker 1: a pretty good idea that Nick was going to ready
34:01
Speaker 1: two be a full participant and be ready for the
34:04
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts game. I think, like anything, when you when um,
34:09
Speaker 1: when when people are injured and it's something like a
34:12
Speaker 1: collar bone or a wrist or you know, something where
34:16
Speaker 1: where it has to deal with the bone, I think
34:18
Speaker 1: you have a pretty good shot to know and when
34:20
Speaker 1: you know, as long as nothing there are no setbacks, UM,
34:24
Speaker 1: you know you um, So I think probably when Um,
34:28
Speaker 1: when he was injured, I knew that there was an
34:30
Speaker 1: opportunity that if there were no setbacks that he'd be
34:32
Speaker 1: able to come back. Was it made easier because it
34:35
Speaker 1: was the left collar bone and nothing right because Nick
34:38
Speaker 1: said it as soon as he got hurt, he said,
34:41
Speaker 1: this was worse than the handlon fracture he had back
34:45
Speaker 1: in Philly, and he set out the last eight games
34:48
Speaker 1: of that year when Philly had every in set to
34:50
Speaker 1: put him back on the field because they were in
34:51
Speaker 1: the playoff hunt. So either it being the left was
34:55
Speaker 1: was it was a reason or the healing powers were
34:58
Speaker 1: much better this time around. Uh. I always think of
35:04
Speaker 1: my cousin Vinnie when when that stuff goes on. So
35:06
Speaker 1: you're so you're the grit eating nature and you can cook.
35:10
Speaker 1: It's faster than you know. I always think about that
35:13
Speaker 1: in the healing. But um, you know, I don't know
35:14
Speaker 1: about the situation before. But to answer, is it better
35:18
Speaker 1: with a non throwing um part of it than the throwing?
35:22
Speaker 1: I think absolutely. I think you know the stress on
35:24
Speaker 1: your your throwing, um, you know shoulder, you know obviously
35:29
Speaker 1: a lot more than than you're off shoulder. Um. I
35:33
Speaker 1: think that's that's really all I know about that. Do
35:37
Speaker 1: you think him being a venture and will help him,
35:39
Speaker 1: you know, get back up of the speech he's been
35:41
Speaker 1: practicing now, I mean it's not like you know, so
35:43
Speaker 1: we've we've already gone through the the progression you know
35:48
Speaker 1: of Okay, here's when he first came back. You know,
35:52
Speaker 1: we were focused on on doing this, and then we're
35:55
Speaker 1: focused you know, and just really building it up into um,
35:59
Speaker 1: building up the rep building up the the amount of
36:03
Speaker 1: speed around him. I guess that's probably the best way,
36:05
Speaker 1: you know, because early on, obviously we don't want anyone
36:07
Speaker 1: around him, you know, we don't want any setbacks. UM.
36:11
Speaker 1: And then we just started, you know, putting him on
36:13
Speaker 1: a move, doing a bunch of different things. And you know,
36:16
Speaker 1: UM's he's up to speed as far as where he
36:20
Speaker 1: should be physically and throwing in all of that. So
36:24
Speaker 1: we're not going into this week, UM limiting anything that
36:28
Speaker 1: he should do. Some successive Carder had and you know,
36:33
Speaker 1: being the center of attention to to speed, how touch
36:35
Speaker 1: do you think it's gonna be for him to to
36:37
Speaker 1: go back to being the back Well again, we we,
36:41
Speaker 1: like I said before, we had a good conversation. Tough
36:45
Speaker 1: conversation for me because I appreciate you know, you know,
36:49
Speaker 1: what he's done, and um, you know, specifically pointed out
36:53
Speaker 1: a couple of things that you know, we need to
36:55
Speaker 1: keep progressing with him and working on. Um, I'm sure
36:59
Speaker 1: he's a competitor. I'm sure you know that there's some
37:01
Speaker 1: level of disappointment personally. But the great part about Gardner
37:06
Speaker 1: is that you know, uh, he's gonna do whatever he
37:09
Speaker 1: can to help this team win, and he knows that, Um,
37:13
Speaker 1: there are things that he's gonna work on and he's
37:14
Speaker 1: gonna improve upon, which is gonna make him even better
37:16
Speaker 1: the next time he has an opportunity to do this
37:20
Speaker 1: for the rest of the seat and assuming they say
37:22
Speaker 1: it's healthy, Yeah, I mean, I mean, I think some
37:27
Speaker 1: people you know that look at the film may not
37:29
Speaker 1: get to know that. I'd rather not give out the
37:31
Speaker 1: scouting report on him, you know. Um, you know there's
37:35
Speaker 1: about two or three things that we think are coachable
37:37
Speaker 1: that come with experience that you know, we're gonna be
37:40
Speaker 1: able to show him and and he'll just grow and
37:42
Speaker 1: get much better. It's not anything that is limited from
37:46
Speaker 1: a physical standpoint of what he can and cannot do. So, UM,
37:51
Speaker 1: that's what's encouraging about that. Look back on the first
37:55
Speaker 1: half of the season and you see what men she
37:58
Speaker 1: was able to do to get you guys around five
38:00
Speaker 1: hundred a Dubai. I think that's kind of what everyone thought.
38:02
Speaker 1: Or if they can just get to five hundred at
38:04
Speaker 1: Dubai or around five hundred at the Bible, at the
38:06
Speaker 1: backup quarterback, things could be okay? Was that kind of
38:09
Speaker 1: the way you approached it? A little bit? I want
38:11
Speaker 1: to tell you, Mike, you know a lot of times
38:14
Speaker 1: in its profession, you you you you hear that term
38:18
Speaker 1: meaning that you know, hey listen, if um, your quarterback
38:23
Speaker 1: goes down, you know, the backup comes in. Hey listen,
38:25
Speaker 1: you want to be you know, five hundred all right? UM,
38:30
Speaker 1: I necessarily don't agree with that. I think it's uh,
38:34
Speaker 1: it's probably um, probably a more realistic approach maybe that
38:41
Speaker 1: that people, you know, we'll be able to take. But
38:44
Speaker 1: again I go back to, um, h our job is
38:48
Speaker 1: to win football games. So hey, listen, what do we
38:51
Speaker 1: have to do to win games? And I don't put
38:54
Speaker 1: it all on Gardner. Um, you know, I put it
38:56
Speaker 1: on on myself. So UM, you know, he did everything
39:00
Speaker 1: you know that he can possibly do, uh to put
39:03
Speaker 1: us in that position, And you know I go into
39:06
Speaker 1: it thinking, hey, listen, we've got to win everyone. I think,
39:08
Speaker 1: you know, when you looking around the league, there's a
39:10
Speaker 1: lot of players that have that have won a lot
39:12
Speaker 1: of games as a backup quarterback. Um. And I think
39:16
Speaker 1: when I look back this past bye week, I think
39:19
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that I know I could
39:21
Speaker 1: have done better, you know, to put us in a
39:23
Speaker 1: better position. So I feel, um, I've got to do
39:26
Speaker 1: a better job in that. A lot of teams have
39:29
Speaker 1: won with backup quarterbacks. And I think at one point
39:32
Speaker 1: this season, backup quarterbacks and actually won more games than
39:35
Speaker 1: number one overall paper quarterbacks. Why do you think backups
39:39
Speaker 1: are having a little bit more successful I don't know.
39:42
Speaker 1: I think it goes to team, the team, you know.
39:44
Speaker 1: I think that you know, um, I think it's really
39:48
Speaker 1: you know, team a team and what they have around you,
39:50
Speaker 1: how they're playing, how you know, how they're winning games.
39:53
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't have a lot of time to
39:54
Speaker 1: study that. I didn't know that. Um Um, I'm not
39:59
Speaker 1: surprised about at the one you know, the one players
40:02
Speaker 1: is Teddy you know what I'm saying. With New Orleans,
40:04
Speaker 1: I know that he won all of his five and oh, um,
40:07
Speaker 1: I don't I can't really can't answer that for the
40:10
Speaker 1: other teams, but um, you know, I know for us,
40:13
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I think we all
40:15
Speaker 1: could have done a better job the challenge in these
40:19
Speaker 1: next two weeks of trying to win back to back
40:21
Speaker 1: division games, particularly both of them being on the road. UM,
40:25
Speaker 1: last twelve times the Jaguars had that situation, they either
40:29
Speaker 1: got swept or it was a split. It's been like
40:31
Speaker 1: since two nine. You guys have games back. You just
40:35
Speaker 1: talking about the challenge of that, especially in your case.
40:38
Speaker 1: Tennessee's has a bye week before they before they played,
40:42
Speaker 1: so they have a bye week, and and and I
40:44
Speaker 1: think it's the same thing. I think that you know,
40:47
Speaker 1: when you start looking at um, two games, and this
40:50
Speaker 1: was kind of what we talked about today with the team,
40:53
Speaker 1: when you're looking about two games, or you're looking about
40:55
Speaker 1: two road games, and um, I think that you can
41:02
Speaker 1: let's say, you know, look, you know you're looking too far.
41:07
Speaker 1: Basically what I've told the team, you know, I think
41:09
Speaker 1: that you know, I've got to do a good job
41:11
Speaker 1: of making sure that you know, we're we're doing the
41:14
Speaker 1: right things to make us in position with the two
41:16
Speaker 1: road games that you know, might put a little were
41:19
Speaker 1: on you as a team. But again we're coming off
41:21
Speaker 1: of the buy um, so we had a good chance
41:24
Speaker 1: to get away and and get some rest up. Really,
41:28
Speaker 1: so my focus really isn't you know, thinking about the
41:32
Speaker 1: two road games in a row right now, even though
41:35
Speaker 1: that's that's the truth. I mean, we know that that
41:37
Speaker 1: that that's a fact that's there. Um My, My talk
41:43
Speaker 1: with the team was, hey, let's not get ahead, let's
41:46
Speaker 1: not go too far. Let's make sure let's work on
41:50
Speaker 1: what we have to do today, you know, which this
41:52
Speaker 1: team has done a good job of working hard and
41:54
Speaker 1: preparing during the week and getting on our schedule so
41:57
Speaker 1: that we can have a better performance on Sunday. And
42:01
Speaker 1: that's that was my talk to the team. So I
42:03
Speaker 1: try not to, um, you know, talk to them about
42:07
Speaker 1: you know, looking about two games on the road or
42:08
Speaker 1: whatever it may be. I think that's something that I
42:10
Speaker 1: have to do a good job with, you know, with
42:12
Speaker 1: the scheduling and how we practice and how we travel.
42:15
Speaker 1: I guess we shouldn't be surprised at things that have
42:17
Speaker 1: in the NFL yesterday a lot of crazy results. Does
42:21
Speaker 1: that give you even more optimism that if anything can happen,
42:26
Speaker 1: than this team go on a pretty good run. Can
42:29
Speaker 1: all that happen? Well, I tell you, yesterday was the
42:32
Speaker 1: first time I was able to kind of watch you
42:34
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying some stuff, um, And I don't
42:37
Speaker 1: normally do it, um. But when I got I was
42:42
Speaker 1: doing something and I got got around and watched that
42:44
Speaker 1: NFL Network red zone. That sounds crazy, you know, it
42:47
Speaker 1: goes to game the game, the game. I mean it's like,
42:51
Speaker 1: I was like, it was crazy. I didn't know they
42:53
Speaker 1: had that stuff, you know. But I think it goes
42:57
Speaker 1: back to the same thing I said before. I think
42:58
Speaker 1: that it's it is extremely difficult to win on Sundays.
43:03
Speaker 1: I know sometimes you look at it and you look
43:05
Speaker 1: at records and you know all this stuff, and you're like, well,
43:09
Speaker 1: this team should win this, and then all of a sudden,
43:10
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you know, a couple
43:13
Speaker 1: of turnovers, this happens, and the next thing, you know,
43:16
Speaker 1: a team that you thought, you know, should win on
43:18
Speaker 1: paper doesn't win. And that's why it's it's such a
43:21
Speaker 1: competitive league. And and I said it before when we
43:24
Speaker 1: played some teams that had poor records that you know, hey,
43:27
Speaker 1: we really don't look at that, you know, we we
43:30
Speaker 1: understand that every team has people that can make plays
43:32
Speaker 1: and do things and and and it's still based upon
43:36
Speaker 1: you know, your own performance, that you don't give the
43:38
Speaker 1: game away, which people do. Um, you know, and that's
43:41
Speaker 1: always been my philosophy. A lot of times you wind up, uh,
43:45
Speaker 1: you wind up losing the game, uh than actually competing
43:48
Speaker 1: to win the game, you know, when you talk about
43:50
Speaker 1: turnovers and and other things that factor into it. So
43:54
Speaker 1: I think that you know, where a lot of people
43:56
Speaker 1: may be talking about a run. Um goes back to
44:00
Speaker 1: Jean said, you know, I think that you can't you
44:03
Speaker 1: can't get on a run unless you do a good
44:05
Speaker 1: job where you are right now today, which is Monday,
44:08
Speaker 1: you know, and then obviously you know work at that.
44:10
Speaker 1: So you know, our philosophy with the team has been, hey,
44:13
Speaker 1: let's let's take each day and try to win each
44:15
Speaker 1: day and get up for a great performance on Sunday
44:18
Speaker 1: and really not look at or use the terms of hey,
44:21
Speaker 1: we're getting ready to do this, We're getting ready to
44:23
Speaker 1: do that. The only thing we're getting ready for is
44:24
Speaker 1: to have a great Monday. Focus is the Colts, but
44:28
Speaker 1: there is another big little game going on on Saturday.
44:32
Speaker 1: Any thoughts on the court of the job. You're talking
44:35
Speaker 1: out the court of the Joe. Yeah, it's uh, it's
44:37
Speaker 1: at MetLife. It's probably gonna be the biggest crowd that
44:40
Speaker 1: they've had. And I think it's um it's probably one
44:44
Speaker 1: of the most unique games that I've ever been involved with. UM.
44:48
Speaker 1: I got a question a long time ago when I
44:51
Speaker 1: was at Syracuse and coming off you know, we were
44:55
Speaker 1: in the NFC Championship game and coached a bunch of
44:57
Speaker 1: big games and everything, and someone asked me, like, what's
45:00
Speaker 1: the the biggest game you've ever been in? And I meant,
45:04
Speaker 1: I mentioned, you know, Courtland State Ithaca, and you know,
45:08
Speaker 1: people were passed. They were like, bull crap, that's not true,
45:11
Speaker 1: that's not true. And I said, I said, well, if
45:13
Speaker 1: you look at the standards and which I judge games,
45:16
Speaker 1: you know it probably comes out, UM, when you wake
45:20
Speaker 1: up and at eight o'clock in the morning and there's
45:22
Speaker 1: a line or lines in front of all the bars,
45:26
Speaker 1: that's a pretty big game, you know when you when
45:28
Speaker 1: you go and do that. So for me, UM, And
45:32
Speaker 1: then you know when we used to play, if we
45:34
Speaker 1: played in Ithaca, if you were able to bring something
45:37
Speaker 1: back from Ithaca, you've got a free drink. It was.
45:40
Speaker 1: It got crazy for a while. So I think it's
45:42
Speaker 1: a it's a great game, it's a great rivalry. Um.
45:45
Speaker 1: I think that's what makes college football so great is
45:48
Speaker 1: that you have these rivalries and you have these fans,
45:51
Speaker 1: um and alumni that are involved in it. Um. No
45:55
Speaker 1: different than than the game down here, which I'm happy
45:57
Speaker 1: to see them extend. You know, the George to Florida game.
46:03
Speaker 1: Obviously Nick favors tight ends. That's something we knew coming
46:07
Speaker 1: into this season with them coming to Jacksonville. What is
46:09
Speaker 1: your confidence in that position knowing that he works so
46:12
Speaker 1: much with Jeff and with James, and now both those
46:14
Speaker 1: guys will not be out there. Yeah, I think that
46:17
Speaker 1: you know, um, you know, the players that we have
46:19
Speaker 1: now playing are doing the best job that they can.
46:21
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, it all depends on you know,
46:24
Speaker 1: what team you are and where the playmakers are. So again,
46:26
Speaker 1: when you know before he was on a team that
46:28
Speaker 1: had a lot of playmakers in that position, um, multiple
46:31
Speaker 1: playmakers actually, Um, you know at that position, So you
46:35
Speaker 1: know you're gonna you're gonna be able to take advantage
46:38
Speaker 1: of that. I think you know, Nick will do a
46:41
Speaker 1: good job of of you know, going through the progressions
46:44
Speaker 1: and which players are going to be able to get
46:45
Speaker 1: open and which matchups so we can we can win
46:47
Speaker 1: on he'll be able to take advantage of five tackles
46:54
Speaker 1: for loss. Over the last three weeks, he seems like
46:56
Speaker 1: he's kind of wowing up before the bye. What do
46:58
Speaker 1: you expect from him down the stretch? Yeah, I think
47:01
Speaker 1: you know, his production, you know, when you see the
47:03
Speaker 1: production by him, it's it's um. You have to remember
47:06
Speaker 1: that teams are doing a lot to stop him, meaning
47:09
Speaker 1: that you know, whether especially in the pass rush phase. Um,
47:13
Speaker 1: you know, he he's had a bunch of quality rushes,
47:17
Speaker 1: you know, but he also has uh, you know, a
47:20
Speaker 1: bunch of double teams that he's fighting through or chips
47:23
Speaker 1: or or that. I think that he's improved greatly in
47:26
Speaker 1: the in the run game. I think he's done a
47:27
Speaker 1: really good job there. And I think, you know, he's
47:30
Speaker 1: improved as a as a pass rusher and has done
47:32
Speaker 1: an excellent job. I believe that. Um, the numbers may
47:36
Speaker 1: not show that, but when you watch the film and
47:39
Speaker 1: you see how many people are you know, getting at
47:43
Speaker 1: you know they're putting on him. Um. I think at
47:46
Speaker 1: times that can be very discouraging. And he has done
47:49
Speaker 1: a great job. Um in a lot of ways he's
47:52
Speaker 1: been He's been great in the locker room, he's been
47:55
Speaker 1: great in practice. Um. You know, he's doing everything he
47:58
Speaker 1: possibly can to help this team win. And you couldn't
48:02
Speaker 1: asked for more from a player. On your self assessment,
48:06
Speaker 1: do you still see yourself platoon in you? In some laugh? Indeed,
48:11
Speaker 1: you see that as something that you're going to continue.
48:13
Speaker 1: I do. I like where where we are with that, John,
48:17
Speaker 1: I think that, Um, I don't think either one of
48:22
Speaker 1: those players have really separated, you know, themselves to a
48:25
Speaker 1: point where you stick with one. I think that for
48:29
Speaker 1: some reason, both those players playing are giving us a
48:33
Speaker 1: good production. And I think in the long run, um,
48:37
Speaker 1: that's something that's just gonna be very beneficial, you know
48:40
Speaker 1: for us. I feel, you know, good about both players,
48:43
Speaker 1: and you know, if one of them starts playing better
48:45
Speaker 1: than the other, then then the reps will start going
48:47
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit differently. But you know, right now
48:50
Speaker 1: it's it's it's pretty decent, pretty equal, and both players
48:53
Speaker 1: are playing. And you know, if that production stays up
48:56
Speaker 1: or increases, and that's good. If it goes down, then
48:59
Speaker 1: I think you'll a one one going in. You know
49:01
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, I'm playing a little bit more, all right,
49:05
Speaker 1: appreciate it, Thank you. That was Doug Morown's press conference
49:11
Speaker 1: and Monday morning at the podium. Biggest takeaway for sure
49:14
Speaker 1: is that this entire team is healthy right now, especially
49:17
Speaker 1: Jake Ryant coming off the non football injury list. We
49:20
Speaker 1: don't know when that would happen, and we'll see where
49:23
Speaker 1: it goes. I mean, I think realistically, Jake Ryan has
49:26
Speaker 1: been out so long this year that you don't know
49:28
Speaker 1: what he'll bring. I think it would be a pleasant
49:31
Speaker 1: surprise if he's effective and contributing, but I know it's
49:35
Speaker 1: what they want to have. Well, you've also had how
49:38
Speaker 1: many hamstring toe injuries run back, and they've been depleted
49:42
Speaker 1: for more than a month now with linebackers. So the
49:44
Speaker 1: fact that you're getting Leon back, right, Quincy and Quincy
49:48
Speaker 1: Williams back, now you mix Jake Ryan and I can't
49:51
Speaker 1: help but think, you know, we talked about they were
49:53
Speaker 1: going to run some of this three four package early
49:55
Speaker 1: on and that went by the wayside, And I can't
49:57
Speaker 1: help but think that one of the reasons why they
49:59
Speaker 1: thought they could do. It was because Jake Ryan played
50:01
Speaker 1: in that three four scheme in Green Bay, and now
50:05
Speaker 1: maybe he comes back and gives you the flexibility to
50:07
Speaker 1: do some things with your linebacking corps. That linebacking group
50:11
Speaker 1: is the one to have the most optimism about if
50:15
Speaker 1: they're healthy, because you've just been it's been duct taped
50:18
Speaker 1: and you've just been getting by there. You get some
50:20
Speaker 1: of those guys back, perhaps you have a chance to
50:22
Speaker 1: really make some plays and something to watch. The linebacking corps.
50:25
Speaker 1: To Quincy Williams didn't play well when he was in
50:27
Speaker 1: early It wasn't that he wasn't doing it athletically, it
50:32
Speaker 1: was that he was a rookie and so enthusiasts you're
50:35
Speaker 1: trying to do so much. I've heard from several people
50:37
Speaker 1: that he is ready and understands mentally what he was
50:43
Speaker 1: doing wrong. Uh, he could have a big second half
50:46
Speaker 1: of the season. Yeah. Another two guys that you're happy
50:48
Speaker 1: to have back is d J. Hayden for one in
50:50
Speaker 1: TD Westbrook. Two guys that were if he coming back
50:53
Speaker 1: to have both of them back, both playmakers well, and
50:55
Speaker 1: I thought the secondary obviously was sort of mismatched in
50:57
Speaker 1: some places against Deshaun Watson and London, and one of
51:00
Speaker 1: the places that it was missing the most was d J.
51:02
Speaker 1: Hayden's I'm sorry, Bryan. This is what the BIA is
51:06
Speaker 1: supposed to do. You should have a clean injury report,
51:09
Speaker 1: and your opponent's injury report is going to have one
51:11
Speaker 1: with their quarterback onto so that's where you're supposed to
51:13
Speaker 1: have an edge, absolutely all right. Coming up on Jaguars
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