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- 0:00Speaker 1: Week sixteen is here. The Jaguars face so Broncos in
- 0:03Speaker 1: a game with massive AFC playoff implications. JP Shadwick with
- 0:07Speaker 1: you with our countdown to kickoff interviews for the week,
- 0:10Speaker 1: and we start in the locker room where Brian Sexson
- 0:13Speaker 1: caught up with defensive lineman Matt Dickerson, who, after bouncing
- 0:16Speaker 1: around the league as an undrafted player, has now found
- 0:18Speaker 1: a home with his seventh team and eight NFL seasons,
- 0:22Speaker 1: the Jaguars, and he had his first career start a
- 0:24Speaker 1: week ago.
- 0:25Speaker 2: No.
- 0:25Speaker 3: I love the guys in this room, at least on
- 0:28Speaker 3: our side of the ball. And when I first got here,
- 0:31Speaker 3: I was on practice squad and was given a look
- 0:33Speaker 3: to the old line and you kind of build a
- 0:36Speaker 3: bond with them as well. And regardless of that, I
- 0:40Speaker 3: think everyone as soon as you walk in this room,
- 0:43Speaker 3: everyone knows each other, Everyone says up to each other,
- 0:46Speaker 3: everyone's tight, which I've been around a lot of teams
- 0:49Speaker 3: and I don't think the chemistry has matched what we
- 0:52Speaker 3: got here, so and unfortunate to be a part of it.
- 0:56Speaker 4: It seems to build week to week. You know, some
- 0:58Speaker 4: teams go up and down. I'm sure you've seen that,
- 1:00Speaker 4: but this just seems to kind of stack on top
- 1:02Speaker 4: of each other week after week.
- 1:04Speaker 3: No, I think winning does help brings guys closer and
- 1:09Speaker 3: knowing what we're doing during the week is we're doing
- 1:11Speaker 3: something right. So we just got to keep on improving
- 1:14Speaker 3: and just getting after it.
- 1:16Speaker 4: You wait for the practice squad to a starting job
- 1:19Speaker 4: in December. There's a lot of places in this league
- 1:21Speaker 4: where that doesn't happen. What does that say about this
- 1:23Speaker 4: coaching staff and the way that they approach week to week.
- 1:26Speaker 3: I'm very fortunate for the position I'm in. Obviously, you know,
- 1:31Speaker 3: you got to take it with the grain of salt
- 1:32Speaker 3: and you got to work to maintain that just the
- 1:35Speaker 3: way things worked out. But I love this coaching staff,
- 1:39Speaker 3: Liam coach camp Edwards. They're all bought in for us,
- 1:45Speaker 3: and that's what it's all about. It's all about us
- 1:47Speaker 3: and along with the guys here, just building trust with
- 1:51Speaker 3: one another and continuing to build and get better during
- 1:54Speaker 3: the week, which is the most important.
- 1:55Speaker 4: We already talked about chemistry. How about confidence. I mean,
- 1:58Speaker 4: you're going into Denver, it's one of the toughest places
- 2:00Speaker 4: to play. I guess the team that's got twelve wins
- 2:03Speaker 4: on the season. Tell me about the confidence a little
- 2:04Speaker 4: bit this team, about the way you're playing right.
- 2:06Speaker 3: No, we understand they're a great team. They got great players,
- 2:10Speaker 3: so do we. And like I said, this week is
- 2:13Speaker 3: very important for us, like it is every week, but
- 2:16Speaker 3: getting better and fixing what we need to improve on.
- 2:19Speaker 3: So we have all the confidence we have one out
- 2:20Speaker 3: there on Sunday.
- 2:21Speaker 4: How about I have thought about the guys you're playing
- 2:23Speaker 4: with right now, especially a lot of personality. Josh Trayvon
- 2:26Speaker 4: is different, Eric Garhamstead Devon, tell me a little bit
- 2:29Speaker 4: about that group and how you guys work together.
- 2:31Speaker 5: Right.
- 2:31Speaker 3: We all have different personalities, but I think at the
- 2:33Speaker 3: end of the day, it all comes down to respect.
- 2:35Speaker 3: We all have respect for one another. Everyone has their
- 2:39Speaker 3: different attributes and we try to learn with those attributes
- 2:43Speaker 3: and just overall this personality wise, I mean, everyone's great,
- 2:46Speaker 3: everyone's fun to get along with. It's we look forward
- 2:49Speaker 3: to coming to work every day. These are long days,
- 2:52Speaker 3: but we make the most out of them and it
- 2:54Speaker 3: helps having those guys around.
- 2:56Speaker 4: What a final thought on why not this team? Right?
- 2:58Speaker 4: I mean it's it's playing well at the right time
- 3:02Speaker 4: and things are coming together with confidence in chemistry, is
- 3:04Speaker 4: there any reason why it can't be this time?
- 3:07Speaker 3: Oh, I don't think it's I mean, we all want
- 3:11Speaker 3: it to be us, you know. So we all have
- 3:13Speaker 3: confidence in the world, and we love each other and
- 3:17Speaker 3: we want to make it happen.
- 3:18Speaker 4: So sneak one more in then real quick. And that
- 3:20Speaker 4: is just about how you focus when things are big,
- 3:22Speaker 4: the stakes are high. You focus exclusively week to week.
- 3:26Speaker 4: How did you prevent last week thinking about this week?
- 3:29Speaker 4: And how do you this week think about not thinking
- 3:30Speaker 4: about next week?
- 3:31Speaker 1: Right?
- 3:31Speaker 4: No?
- 3:32Speaker 3: I mean coach Liam always constantly talks about being want
- 3:34Speaker 3: to know and we learned from the previous week what
- 3:38Speaker 3: we need to improve on, and then we move on
- 3:40Speaker 3: to the next and you know, just take it day
- 3:43Speaker 3: by day, week by week. And this is our opponent,
- 3:46Speaker 3: so let's keep moving forward each week.
- 3:49Speaker 1: Mike Dempsey catches up with CBS Sports senior writer Pete Frisco.
- 3:53Speaker 5: Yeah, Mike, I think you can. I think the one
- 3:55Speaker 5: thing you noticed about him when you watch it tape
- 3:56Speaker 5: is how much more confidence he has in as received
- 4:00Speaker 5: be his offensive line and he's able to get through
- 4:04Speaker 5: his progressions and get to the throw behind the checkdown.
- 4:07Speaker 5: He's much more willing to stay in there and maybe
- 4:10Speaker 5: step to the left and fire a shot down the
- 4:13Speaker 5: field than he was earlier in the season. And I
- 4:15Speaker 5: think that's added up to a much better quarterback, a
- 4:17Speaker 5: much more confident quarterback. And yeah, Denver's a step up
- 4:20Speaker 5: in terms of what they will face. But the way
- 4:22Speaker 5: he's playing right now and the way he's reading things
- 4:25Speaker 5: out and playing with confidence, I definitely think he can
- 4:27Speaker 5: have success against that defense.
- 4:29Speaker 6: As far as the passing game goes, Pete, you figure
- 4:32Speaker 6: Patser Tan is going to try to take out one
- 4:34Speaker 6: of the top couple of wide receivers. Is this a
- 4:36Speaker 6: game where your secondary, your third guy, your tight end
- 4:42Speaker 6: needs to step up and play a bigger role.
- 4:44Speaker 5: Yeah, because, look, sir Tan hasn't been as good this year.
- 4:47Speaker 5: I mean, he's been banged up some and he just
- 4:49Speaker 5: quite frankly, hasn't been as good as he was a
- 4:50Speaker 5: year ago. So it's not like if he gets on
- 4:53Speaker 5: a guy, you got to stay away from him. You
- 4:55Speaker 5: saw Green Bay go after him a little bit. He
- 4:56Speaker 5: did get an interception, but you can go after him
- 4:58Speaker 5: and you know, Riley Maull on the other side as
- 5:01Speaker 5: a ton of you know, penalties and holds and grabs
- 5:05Speaker 5: and interference and everything else that you can attack him too.
- 5:08Speaker 5: But I also think you mentioned the tight end. I
- 5:09Speaker 5: think there's going to be opportunities in the middle of
- 5:11Speaker 5: the field for Strange to get some balls on his
- 5:13Speaker 5: way as well. Got to spread it around, and they've
- 5:15Speaker 5: done a great job of that in recent weeks, and
- 5:17Speaker 5: I think that's going to be the formula today to
- 5:20Speaker 5: try and attack that defense.
- 5:21Speaker 6: And of course travs CTN playing outstanding football lately as well.
- 5:25Speaker 1: Pete.
- 5:25Speaker 6: He's got a dozen touchdowns on the year. No bagel
- 5:27Speaker 6: toot in this week, and you are playing at a
- 5:29Speaker 6: mile high altitude, so you know a lot of more
- 5:33Speaker 6: pressure than we've seen on Laquin Allen and whoever else
- 5:36Speaker 6: needs to supplement that running back group this week.
- 5:38Speaker 5: Yeah, and m quinn Allen's done a nice job. When
- 5:40Speaker 5: he's got on the field, he hasn't got a ton
- 5:42Speaker 5: of carries, and so that's the thing when he comes on,
- 5:44Speaker 5: what does that mean will he get more carries? Is
- 5:46Speaker 5: he want of those guys that can handle the carries
- 5:48Speaker 5: if he does get him? But when he's on the field,
- 5:50Speaker 5: and particularly he's important when you look at those pass
- 5:53Speaker 5: rushers and his ability to chip and him in the
- 5:56Speaker 5: ribs on his way out and stuff like that. So
- 5:59Speaker 5: I think they'll be fine with Quinn Allen. And you
- 6:01Speaker 5: mentioned it, he can's been really good. I mean, he's
- 6:04Speaker 5: been great catching the ball out of the backfield, and
- 6:06Speaker 5: he's just added a nice little dynamic to the offense,
- 6:08Speaker 5: particularly as a receiver.
- 6:10Speaker 6: Yeah, and we talked about how good a game Trevor
- 6:12Speaker 6: Lawrence had Denver's quarterback Bo Knicks four touchdowns last weekend,
- 6:16Speaker 6: maybe his best game of the year as well. Pete,
- 6:18Speaker 6: what has made him as successful as he's been in
- 6:21Speaker 6: his first couple of years in the league.
- 6:23Speaker 5: Well, I think initially it was an athletic ability and
- 6:26Speaker 5: the way they call plays and got him outside the pocket.
- 6:29Speaker 5: I think in recent weeks it's his ability to stand
- 6:31Speaker 5: in there and make some throws. I mean, you know
- 6:33Speaker 5: that was one thing about him. He wasn't willing to
- 6:35Speaker 5: stay there and make the throws down the field. I
- 6:38Speaker 5: mean a couple of weeks ago he completed thirty passes
- 6:40Speaker 5: for barely over two hundred yards. But then last week
- 6:42Speaker 5: he came back and he hit those deep shots down
- 6:44Speaker 5: the field and made those thoughs. So I still think
- 6:47Speaker 5: the way to play him is to keep him inside
- 6:49Speaker 5: the pocket. And if Jacksonville could keep him inside the pocket,
- 6:52Speaker 5: I think they have they can have some success slowing him.
- 6:55Speaker 5: I think, you know, the way they're playing right now,
- 6:57Speaker 5: he's playing at a high level, but I think the
- 6:59Speaker 5: way to slow him down a little bit to keep
- 7:00Speaker 5: him inside the pocket.
- 7:01Speaker 6: Pete Prisco here with us, said Pete. I think a
- 7:03Speaker 6: lot of people when Evan Ingram went to Denver, thought
- 7:05Speaker 6: he'd play the joker role in Sean Payton's offense. He
- 7:08Speaker 6: hasn't been nearly as productive as I thought he would
- 7:11Speaker 6: be this year. He'll probably get match up at times
- 7:14Speaker 6: with Devin Lloyd, who's had a great year but in
- 7:17Speaker 6: past years has been a liability and coverage. Who wins
- 7:19Speaker 6: that match up? If they do get singled.
- 7:21Speaker 5: Up, you know, it'd be interesting, Mike, because you know,
- 7:24Speaker 5: I don't know if they'll single him up all that much.
- 7:27Speaker 5: You know, they play a lot of zone and that's
- 7:30Speaker 5: the way they want to play, so I don't know
- 7:31Speaker 5: if they'll single him up much. But you're right, I mean,
- 7:34Speaker 5: they thought he would come in and be a big
- 7:36Speaker 5: part of the passing game and it hasn't quite worked.
- 7:38Speaker 5: Out now. Having said that he's more than capable, then
- 7:41Speaker 5: you know, go sit down in some zones, get some
- 7:43Speaker 5: easy throws to the quarterback and get yourself you know, five, six,
- 7:47Speaker 5: seven catches, And I just don't think the big players
- 7:50Speaker 5: are down there for him, particularly catch this defense. So
- 7:52Speaker 5: I would think they would look to the outside of
- 7:54Speaker 5: the outside receivers.
- 7:55Speaker 6: When you look at Denver and you see that they
- 7:57Speaker 6: won eleven in the row, but they've won ten out
- 8:00Speaker 6: of twelve one possession games this year. Is that the
- 8:03Speaker 6: sign of a good team knowing how to win the
- 8:04Speaker 6: close ones? Or is that a team that you look
- 8:06Speaker 6: at say, well, maybe they're a little bit more gettible
- 8:08Speaker 6: than the record indicates.
- 8:10Speaker 5: I would think they're more gettible than the record indicates.
- 8:12Speaker 5: And not only that, I mean of all the teams
- 8:13Speaker 5: that have had eleven game winning streaks in the history
- 8:15Speaker 5: of the league, their scoring margin is the smallest of
- 8:18Speaker 5: any of them. So that tells you they've been in
- 8:20Speaker 5: a lot of close games and found ways to win them.
- 8:23Speaker 5: That's a look, it's a testament to the coach. Sean Payton,
- 8:26Speaker 5: is a testament to bo Nicks in key moments. But again,
- 8:29Speaker 5: you can't be living that way all the time, and
- 8:31Speaker 5: they've done that against some bad teams too, so I
- 8:34Speaker 5: think it's more of a sign that they are gettible.
- 8:37Speaker 6: All right, give us your prediction for today, Pete.
- 8:39Speaker 5: I think Jacksonvill goes out there and wins the game.
- 8:40Speaker 5: I think they're physical. I think they control bow knicks
- 8:43Speaker 5: inside the pocket. I think Josh heinz Allen has a
- 8:45Speaker 5: big day rushing the passer. And I think it's going
- 8:47Speaker 5: to be one of those days where they shock the
- 8:49Speaker 5: world and people start paying more attention to the Jacksonvill Jaguars.
- 8:52Speaker 1: I had a conversation this week with Benjamin Albright. He
- 8:55Speaker 1: covers the Broncos with KOI Radio and Denver, and he
- 8:59Speaker 1: provided insight of the Broncos run.
- 9:01Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly not mean this much for these two teams.
- 9:05Speaker 2: I think there was some cautious optimism in Denver that
- 9:07Speaker 2: they were a repeat playoff team based on you know,
- 9:10Speaker 2: last year, as far as that kind of stuff goes.
- 9:12Speaker 2: But I mean even in Denver, there was no way
- 9:14Speaker 2: anyone here thought that they'd be in the driver's seat
- 9:17Speaker 2: for the number one seed or you know, riding the
- 9:19Speaker 2: top of the AFC West. But Kansas City eliminated at
- 9:22Speaker 2: this point. There was in their wildest dream there was
- 9:24Speaker 2: nobody here that felt that those were those were possibilities.
- 9:28Speaker 6: The Jacksonville thing.
- 9:29Speaker 2: I mean, I think there's from the outside looking in,
- 9:31Speaker 2: I think there was a lot of optimism with you know,
- 9:34Speaker 2: with Liam Cohen, what he did with Baker Mayfield and
- 9:36Speaker 2: that offense taken off that kind of stuff. But and
- 9:39Speaker 2: then of course there's a vested interest here in Colorado
- 9:41Speaker 2: because of Travis Hunter, who's obviously not playing, but Travis
- 9:45Speaker 2: was such a big deal here in Colorado, So you know,
- 9:47Speaker 2: I think there was a there was kind of an
- 9:49Speaker 2: eye on that as far as that kind of stuff goes.
- 9:51Speaker 2: But yeah, I think in the wildest dreams, I don't
- 9:53Speaker 2: think anybody here would have predicted this.
- 9:55Speaker 1: Benmin All Bright KOA Radio in Denver, what has been
- 9:59Speaker 1: the most important part of Sean Payton's addition to this
- 10:04Speaker 1: franchise and what has he brought that that was missing
- 10:06Speaker 1: over the last seven eight years.
- 10:09Speaker 4: Standards, he raised the floor.
- 10:11Speaker 2: Whatever you think of Sean Payton, and you know, honestly,
- 10:14Speaker 2: the resume between Sean Payton and Mike McCarthy is not
- 10:16Speaker 2: really that different. Whatever you think of him, at the
- 10:19Speaker 2: end of the day, seven and nine is the floor.
- 10:22Speaker 2: He's got standards. Seven and nine is going to be
- 10:24Speaker 2: the floor. And so I think that's what it was.
- 10:27Speaker 2: You look at who was there before him and Nate Hackett,
- 10:30Speaker 2: and that's someone I'm sure you guys Jacksonville a little
- 10:32Speaker 2: bit familiar with. You know, Nate was Nate was a
- 10:35Speaker 2: fun guy. Everybody liked Nate Hackett. But the question was
- 10:39Speaker 2: could he coach? And he certainly answered that with a
- 10:41Speaker 2: resounding no. I think it's in and I'll give you
- 10:45Speaker 2: little anecdote here. I think it's it's funny, it's it's
- 10:47Speaker 2: weird in hindsight. When he was here, uh, and he's
- 10:50Speaker 2: he's paling around with the media practice a little bit
- 10:52Speaker 2: and he said, Hey, you want to get out there
- 10:53Speaker 2: and run a route real quick? And I'm like, what
- 10:55Speaker 2: what are you doing here? This is I mean, you've
- 10:56Speaker 2: got limited reps in a professional football setting and you're
- 10:59Speaker 2: asking if they want to want to run a round
- 11:01Speaker 2: and practice, like, what are we doing here?
- 11:03Speaker 6: Yeah?
- 11:03Speaker 2: That would never fly with Sean Payton, as much more
- 11:06Speaker 2: difficult and less genial as he is. There's certainly a
- 11:10Speaker 2: level of professionalism and a standard here, you know in
- 11:14Speaker 2: Denver that was missing before Ben.
- 11:16Speaker 1: General Albright with us KOA radio in Denver. He's got
- 11:20Speaker 1: his quarterback now too. Apparently bow next seems like the
- 11:23Speaker 1: guy for the future here, right.
- 11:24Speaker 6: I mean, that's that's the way it looks.
- 11:26Speaker 2: Yeah, you know Bo. I mean, if you look statistically, honestly,
- 11:30Speaker 2: Bo isn't appreciably better than Russ other than not taking sacks,
- 11:33Speaker 2: which which Russ would, you know, I think everybody knows
- 11:35Speaker 2: how Russ does with that. Russ had a few more fumbles,
- 11:38Speaker 2: but the difference otherwise isn't appreciably different. I mean, the
- 11:41Speaker 2: offense looked bad for three quarters with Russ and then
- 11:43Speaker 2: he would pull something out of his backside and have
- 11:44Speaker 2: a game winning drive when Sean was here. But the
- 11:47Speaker 2: cost difference is something else too. It allows you, with
- 11:50Speaker 2: this rookie contract, to be able to pay this defense,
- 11:53Speaker 2: you know, And that's I think right now we're trying
- 11:56Speaker 2: to see if bo can grow into something a little
- 11:58Speaker 2: bit more because when it comes time to pay him,
- 12:00Speaker 2: and you're not going to be able to be able
- 12:02Speaker 2: to pay the offensive line what you're paying them, and
- 12:05Speaker 2: and you know, and and the defense, everybody on defense
- 12:07Speaker 2: and all that kind of stuff. You'll need a quarterback
- 12:09Speaker 2: it's able to carry a football team. And and Bo
- 12:11Speaker 2: has has the week's gone on, continue to mature and
- 12:15Speaker 2: kind of point that's the direction they're headed. So that's
- 12:17Speaker 2: been a big part of it. I think his his
- 12:20Speaker 2: kind of energy is infectious. He's a football dude. He
- 12:23Speaker 2: grew up around ball. His dad was a coach. You know,
- 12:26Speaker 2: he's just kind of got that that, you know that
- 12:28Speaker 2: football is my life mentality, and dudes tend to gravitate
- 12:30Speaker 2: to that.
- 12:31Speaker 1: Benjamin, Let's touch on this defense ranked number one and
- 12:34Speaker 1: a bunch of categories this year, but they don't have
- 12:37Speaker 1: takeaways as much. What's what's going on there? Why is
- 12:40Speaker 1: the circumstances, what's the situation?
- 12:42Speaker 2: Well, some of that's opportunity, you know, I mean there's
- 12:45Speaker 2: there's been some missed and failed opportunities. But I think
- 12:49Speaker 2: the other part of this is when you're getting so
- 12:51Speaker 2: many sacks, unless you're getting a strip sack, well you
- 12:54Speaker 2: can't intercept the ball because the quarterback's down. He's been
- 12:57Speaker 2: you know, he's been sacked. And so I think there's
- 12:59Speaker 2: a there's a part to this that, you know, given
- 13:02Speaker 2: it take you look at the vic Fangio defense, for instance,
- 13:05Speaker 2: which is what was previously in place here before you know,
- 13:08Speaker 2: Vance went back to what it did. Vic Fangio's defense is,
- 13:11Speaker 2: you know, it's it's tight front, drop everybody back, and
- 13:14Speaker 2: try to pick you off. It is a very low
- 13:16Speaker 2: sack defense. It just does not get as much pressure.
- 13:19Speaker 2: And you turn around look at what Vance is running,
- 13:20Speaker 2: which is a variant of Wade Phillips defense, which is
- 13:23Speaker 2: send everything at the at the quarterback. We're not running
- 13:26Speaker 2: zone on the back of well, it's it's mostly man.
- 13:29Speaker 2: There is some zone, but it just depends on the
- 13:31Speaker 2: leverage rules, but it's it's designed to sack you and
- 13:34Speaker 2: put you in negative situations and then hopefully try to
- 13:36Speaker 2: turn you over and those kinds of things. They just
- 13:37Speaker 2: haven't had much luck with that, although they got a
- 13:39Speaker 2: couple against Green Bay and people are hoping that that,
- 13:43Speaker 2: you know, sort of takes things off.
- 13:45Speaker 4: As far as the.
- 13:46Speaker 2: Defense goes, you're looking at it mostly manned, single high
- 13:49Speaker 2: type defense. They try to disguise things a little bit
- 13:51Speaker 2: here or there. It's got some leverage rules where it
- 13:53Speaker 2: turns into zone on inside leverage and all that, so
- 13:56Speaker 2: it's not it's not a pure man defense, but then
- 13:58Speaker 2: nothing's a pure nanny defense anymore, you know. But overall
- 14:02Speaker 2: it's it's been highly effective, and I think Vance's has
- 14:05Speaker 2: coached his way to a second try at a head
- 14:07Speaker 2: coaching opportunity after the season.
- 14:08Speaker 1: Ben's all bright KOA radio in Denver. How about maybe
- 14:13Speaker 1: a deeper player on this roster on both sides of
- 14:16Speaker 1: the ball that's not in the marquee. Who's somebody that
- 14:20Speaker 1: you need to watch out for both sides of the
- 14:22Speaker 1: football for the Broncos.
- 14:24Speaker 2: Okay, on defense, a couple of guys, the backup nose
- 14:28Speaker 2: Tagle Malcolm Roach. He gets almost as many snaps as
- 14:31Speaker 2: DJ Jones. He gets a lot of push, and when
- 14:35Speaker 2: you've got a three man front of him, Zach Allen
- 14:37Speaker 2: and John Franklin Myers, it's tough to pick who you're
- 14:39Speaker 2: gonna double up because all three are strong guys that
- 14:41Speaker 2: can get after the quarterback and free things up for
- 14:44Speaker 2: the linebackers to shoot, whether that's Benito or you know,
- 14:47Speaker 2: Singleton or or Cooper. And then in the secondary, Jatte
- 14:52Speaker 2: Barn the rookie. You know, he's not one of the
- 14:54Speaker 2: starting corners, but they sort of use him as a
- 14:56Speaker 2: mismatch chess piece guy. They bring him into cover athletic
- 14:59Speaker 2: tight ends. You know, he's he's kind of and he's
- 15:02Speaker 2: probably gonna get more work with Brandon Jones, the safety
- 15:04Speaker 2: out now they move him around in that secondary. He
- 15:07Speaker 2: might get a little more work back there where PJ.
- 15:09Speaker 2: Locke will start. He'll he'll get a little more rep
- 15:11Speaker 2: on the offensive side. Nate Atkins just back off injury.
- 15:15Speaker 2: You know, he's an h back and they love to
- 15:18Speaker 2: use him in the low red zone to get touchdowns
- 15:19Speaker 2: because nobody's you know, they're all covering all the other guys.
- 15:22Speaker 2: Atkins is. He can play full back, he can play
- 15:25Speaker 2: tight end. You can split him out wide. He's athletic enough.
- 15:27Speaker 2: He doesn't look like it, but he's athletic enough you
- 15:28Speaker 2: can split him out. In fact, he got a he
- 15:31Speaker 2: got a touchdown this year before his injury off a
- 15:34Speaker 2: fake screen you know, fake screen wheel, uh, because nobody
- 15:38Speaker 2: and nobody was covered him. He's he's just that dude.
- 15:41Speaker 2: So he's kind of the unsung secret sneaky. I mean,
- 15:45Speaker 2: if you're a if you're a wagering person, you wanted
- 15:46Speaker 2: to put something down on any time touchdown, that's the
- 15:49Speaker 2: sneaky play with the with the best.
- 15:51Speaker 1: Odds final one here. The AFC playoff race is as
- 15:56Speaker 1: wide open as we've seen it in a long time.
- 15:58Speaker 1: The Chiefs are going to Coon in a few weeks.
- 16:01Speaker 1: That's probably the reason why. But that's got to give
- 16:03Speaker 1: the Broncos a lot of hope in that division. Certainly,
- 16:06Speaker 1: Jaguar is a team like the upstart Jags. They're in
- 16:09Speaker 1: the hunt too. And it seems like a whole new
- 16:11Speaker 1: world in the AFC this year.
- 16:13Speaker 2: Yeah, that it does, and at a fascinating kind of realignment.
- 16:17Speaker 2: I think when you when you look at things, some
- 16:19Speaker 2: of the traditional powers are struggling. You look, we already
- 16:21Speaker 2: mentioned Kansasity, look at the Ravens. They're struggling too. You know,
- 16:24Speaker 2: Buffalo hasn't been what they've been the last couple of years.
- 16:27Speaker 2: They're still in the hunt though, And and I'll say
- 16:30Speaker 2: this from a from a Broncos perspective, they're They're toughest
- 16:33Speaker 2: games have come out of the AFC South. They lost
- 16:35Speaker 2: to the to the Colts. I think if CJ. Stroud
- 16:38Speaker 2: hadn't got hurt in that game against the Texans, they
- 16:40Speaker 2: might have lost that one. So their toughest games to
- 16:42Speaker 2: sort of you know, come out of the AFC South Sands, Tennessee,
- 16:45Speaker 2: which we all know about. So this is kind of
- 16:48Speaker 2: fascinating looking at the realignment. I think that's why we
- 16:50Speaker 2: love this game, love this league, is because the parody
- 16:53Speaker 2: eventually shifts things back and forth. There's an ebb and
- 16:56Speaker 2: flow and nobody aside from the Chiefs and the Patriots
- 16:58Speaker 2: or whatever. I mean, you get a little mini dynasties,
- 17:00Speaker 2: but you don't get just a choke hold on everything
- 17:03Speaker 2: that makes it impossible for other teams to eventually build
- 17:06Speaker 2: and compete. And look at this you got. You've got
- 17:08Speaker 2: two teams that really haven't been I hesitate to use
- 17:11Speaker 2: the work relevant, but it's sort of apropos in quite
- 17:14Speaker 2: some time now, all of a sudden, making a lot
- 17:16Speaker 2: of noise here in the AFC, with with potential and
- 17:18Speaker 2: possibility of being you know, top four seeds.
- 17:21Speaker 1: Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence is playing at a high level
- 17:24Speaker 1: as of late. Brian Sexton caught up with quarterbacks coach
- 17:26Speaker 1: Spencer Whipple to find out why.
- 17:28Speaker 7: Yeah, he's doing a great job, you know himself, running
- 17:32Speaker 7: the show, the operation. I think it's just a culmination
- 17:36Speaker 7: of all the guys working, putting in the work. The
- 17:39Speaker 7: offense you can see is clicking, kind of getting more
- 17:41Speaker 7: comfortable each week, and I think that's really just those
- 17:44Speaker 7: guys putting in the work. Trevor has been working endlessly.
- 17:48Speaker 7: You know, he comes prepared each day, he works on
- 17:49Speaker 7: his own, comes in, gets more work, always eager to
- 17:52Speaker 7: improve and keep it going. I think that rubs off
- 17:55Speaker 7: on the rest of the guys and they've done the
- 17:57Speaker 7: same thing. And you've seen a lot of that growth
- 17:59Speaker 7: throughout the whole year, and it's been really fun to watch.
- 18:02Speaker 4: He was always going to take some time right a
- 18:04Speaker 4: new system and new coaching staff. We don't have much
- 18:06Speaker 4: patience in professional sports anymore. But to see him coming
- 18:10Speaker 4: alive at this point of the season November and December,
- 18:12Speaker 4: where things come, you know, to a head, it seems
- 18:15Speaker 4: like it's a really important time.
- 18:16Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a great time for sure, and I think,
- 18:19Speaker 7: you know, he'll say the same thing, and I think
- 18:21Speaker 7: a lot of times with an offense, it just takes
- 18:24Speaker 7: takes a little time to kind of work some things out.
- 18:26Speaker 7: First yere in the system, guys getting comfortable, and then
- 18:28Speaker 7: also finding out what we're what we're good at and
- 18:30Speaker 7: what we like, you know, what the guys like to run,
- 18:33Speaker 7: what they see, what Trevor's you know, comfortable with. And
- 18:36Speaker 7: he's got extreme ownership right now. He's done a great
- 18:38Speaker 7: job preparing each week, every day to allowing himself to
- 18:42Speaker 7: play comfortably and to play free like he's been doing
- 18:44Speaker 7: every Sunday. And I think that just goes back to
- 18:47Speaker 7: all the work that he's put in up until this point.
- 18:49Speaker 4: I've got to get you to define extreme ownership. I'm
- 18:51Speaker 4: assuming that's a Jocko will Nick reference.
- 18:54Speaker 7: I don't know. Yeah, it's just something. It's just something
- 18:57Speaker 7: that he's kind of done a great job of of.
- 19:00Speaker 7: You know. Now we're at the point where he's comfortably
- 19:03Speaker 7: go out there in any setting and able to operate
- 19:05Speaker 7: the offense, able to get us into the right play,
- 19:09Speaker 7: get us into the right checks. He's seeing the defense,
- 19:10Speaker 7: he's seeing coverage, he's seeing things before they happen, which
- 19:14Speaker 7: takes a lot of you know, preparation throughout the week
- 19:16Speaker 7: in terms of finding the film and watching the film
- 19:18Speaker 7: and seeing what they're about to do. And that can
- 19:20Speaker 7: make his you know, process much easier come game day
- 19:23Speaker 7: because he's seen that before and tape, he's seen those things,
- 19:26Speaker 7: he's wrapped them in practice. You know, he's gotten some
- 19:28Speaker 7: extra work with the guys after practice, making sure he
- 19:30Speaker 7: gets the throws he needs to get to and I
- 19:33Speaker 7: think that's just allowing him to play comfortably out there
- 19:35Speaker 7: each day. And so the work he's put in is
- 19:37Speaker 7: really shown right now.
- 19:38Speaker 4: It would be easy for me to point to the
- 19:40Speaker 4: acquisition of Jacoby Myers and say that was a point
- 19:42Speaker 4: where it started to turn, but clearly that is a
- 19:46Speaker 4: very important acquisition for him.
- 19:47Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 19:48Speaker 7: Absolutely, Jacoby's been unbelievable. I mean he just does a
- 19:51Speaker 7: great job, you know at the receiver position. You know,
- 19:54Speaker 7: the way he's able to run his routes be friendly
- 19:56Speaker 7: for the quarterback get open. But also the job he
- 19:58Speaker 7: does in the run game think is something that's been
- 20:02Speaker 7: really really fun to watch too. The way he goes
- 20:04Speaker 7: and digs out safety selfless. You know, he'll do whatever
- 20:07Speaker 7: it takes in order to make each play successful. And
- 20:10Speaker 7: then you see just has a great feel and a
- 20:12Speaker 7: great knowledge of the game and able to get on
- 20:14Speaker 7: the same page for what Trevor's looking for. And you
- 20:17Speaker 7: know they're able to talk and some great dialogue in
- 20:19Speaker 7: terms of you know, ironing out some details within each play.
- 20:23Speaker 7: So he's been he's been incredible. He's been a great,
- 20:25Speaker 7: great acquisition for us.
- 20:26Speaker 4: Peyton Manning always said after playing ray Lewis and those
- 20:29Speaker 4: great Baltimore Ravens teams that he was mentally exhausted after
- 20:33Speaker 4: that game. Do you suppose your quarterback will be the
- 20:34Speaker 4: same way against this Broncos defense this week.
- 20:36Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a great challenge they do. They do a
- 20:38Speaker 7: great job. PJ and I were together in Arizona, so
- 20:42Speaker 7: I get to see a lot of what yeah, he
- 20:44Speaker 7: brings as a coach and a coordinator, and it's a
- 20:46Speaker 7: really impressive stuff he does. He does a great job,
- 20:48Speaker 7: and their team, you know, presents a great challenge for us,
- 20:51Speaker 7: and I think the guys are really excited and you know,
- 20:54Speaker 7: just go about it, you know, with the preparation how
- 20:56Speaker 7: we've been doing it, and you know, watch the film,
- 20:59Speaker 7: you get with the me get guys on the field,
- 21:01Speaker 7: you know, after those guys are working and and uh,
- 21:04Speaker 7: you know, spending a little more time on their own.
- 21:05Speaker 7: I think at this point in the season too, that
- 21:07Speaker 7: that's where you kind of see some of the growth
- 21:09Speaker 7: within the within the team, the players talking to players,
- 21:11Speaker 7: coaching and uh getting in the room and watching film together.
- 21:14Speaker 7: So that's that's the cool part about where we're at
- 21:16Speaker 7: as an offense and a and a unit. Everybody's pushing
- 21:18Speaker 7: each other and you know they want to just keep
- 21:21Speaker 7: going to new heights.
- 21:22Speaker 4: Trevor's so calm and even keeled, and I see that
- 21:25Speaker 4: in this football team. Are they adopting adapting to him?
- 21:29Speaker 7: Yeah, he does a great job I think in terms
- 21:31Speaker 7: of when bullets are flying and things are happening fast
- 21:34Speaker 7: around you, whether it be in practiced or definitely on
- 21:37Speaker 7: on game day, able to kind of calm everybody around.
- 21:41Speaker 7: I think that comes with playing the quarterback position is
- 21:43Speaker 7: having that that demeanor and having that you know, whatever's
- 21:46Speaker 7: going on, I can be the kind of the calm
- 21:48Speaker 7: and the storm. And he's done a great job with that,
- 21:50Speaker 7: you know, whether it's ups and downs, whatever's going on,
- 21:53Speaker 7: keeping that that level that's steady, that steady presence out
- 21:56Speaker 7: there for the guys in order to keep them, uh
- 21:59Speaker 7: in a in a mode where we can operate in
- 22:00Speaker 7: any condition when things are maybe not going our way
- 22:03Speaker 7: and then be able to bounce back. I think you've
- 22:04Speaker 7: seen that a lot this season and that's you know,
- 22:06Speaker 7: a lot of tribute to to Trevor and the way
- 22:08Speaker 7: he's kind of handled what's going on throughout the course
- 22:10Speaker 7: of the game, the ebbs and flows and him staying
- 22:12Speaker 7: consistent and keep firing and keep letting it rip. And
- 22:16Speaker 7: you know, it's been a fun, fun thing to see
- 22:18Speaker 7: and it's a great mindset that he does possess and
- 22:20Speaker 7: it rubs off from all the guys around him.
- 22:22Speaker 4: December in Denver, with so much on the line, What
- 22:25Speaker 4: a fun time to be a Jaguars fan. Folks are
- 22:27Speaker 4: enjoying it. I hope you do too. Best of luck
- 22:29Speaker 4: today and Merry Christmas.
- 22:30Speaker 7: Yeah, I appreciate it. Yeah, thank you. It's a looking
- 22:33Speaker 7: forward to It's a great challenge each week. You know,
- 22:34Speaker 7: it's a whatever team you play, it's going to be
- 22:36Speaker 7: It's the NFL, so it's a it's it's always a
- 22:38Speaker 7: great opportunity to get to get to go against him,
- 22:41Speaker 7: and then you know where they're at and their record.
- 22:43Speaker 7: It's a it's gonna be fun to go on the
- 22:44Speaker 7: road and play against these guys. So guys are looking
- 22:46Speaker 7: forward to it.
- 22:47Speaker 1: And finally, our weekly conversation with Pride of the Jaguars
- 22:50Speaker 1: running back Fred Taylor. It's a huge ballgame in Denver
- 22:54Speaker 1: this week, the one seed Broncos the three seed Jaguars.
- 22:58Speaker 1: Does get much bigger than this and the regular season.
- 23:00Speaker 1: In fact, bredis one of the biggest games in recent
- 23:03Speaker 1: Jaguars regular season history, the first Jags regular season game
- 23:08Speaker 1: with both teams with ten or more wins since nineteen
- 23:12Speaker 1: ninety nine.
- 23:13Speaker 6: It's been a while.
- 23:14Speaker 1: How are you?
- 23:15Speaker 8: I am doing great? Do you guys go and find
- 23:18Speaker 8: stats that it just blows my mind? But and again
- 23:23Speaker 8: to add to that, JP, I believe that this is
- 23:26Speaker 8: the Broncos' biggest game since their Super Bowl under you know,
- 23:31Speaker 8: Peyton Manning when he was there as a Bronco. It's
- 23:35Speaker 8: meaningful for them. You know, they want to secure home
- 23:38Speaker 8: fill advantage. They've been They're undefeated at home this year,
- 23:43Speaker 8: so they want to continue that trend. And this game
- 23:46Speaker 8: is as more important for them as it is for
- 23:49Speaker 8: the Jaguars, who's a team that's protecting position. You know,
- 23:54Speaker 8: they're a game ahead of the Texans in the division
- 23:57Speaker 8: race and they need this one. You know, they have
- 24:00Speaker 8: to continue to play on a consistent basic as they
- 24:03Speaker 8: have been and continue to show that this is our
- 24:05Speaker 8: identity is real. You know, this isn't you know, Doctor Jacko,
- 24:10Speaker 8: mister high this is who we are. You know, we're
- 24:13Speaker 8: coming to prove a point. You know, they've been riding
- 24:16Speaker 8: that disrespect theme and earning respect. They got to continue
- 24:20Speaker 8: to do it. You know, last week coach Cohen said
- 24:24Speaker 8: respect thing's just gonna come. You gotta go get it,
- 24:27Speaker 8: you know, And and I think they're out to do that.
- 24:30Speaker 1: This would be a way to go get it, certainly.
- 24:32Speaker 1: And the quarterback's been playing like he wants to do
- 24:35Speaker 1: it as well. Nine touchdowns no interceptions over the last
- 24:38Speaker 1: three games. We know what he did last week. Of course,
- 24:41Speaker 1: that's trending the right way. And they've got weapons all around.
- 24:45Speaker 1: They've got a running game. They're going up against one
- 24:48Speaker 1: of the best defenses in football this week, the Denver Broncos,
- 24:51Speaker 1: with a pass rush for the back end, they rank
- 24:53Speaker 1: highly in most every category. Where can Trevor Lawrence go
- 24:58Speaker 1: from here?
- 25:00Speaker 8: You know, Trevor can go as the old line goes.
- 25:04Speaker 8: You know, Trevor can go as the run game goes.
- 25:06Speaker 8: You just mentioned it, JP. They got a great pass rush,
- 25:09Speaker 8: they got a great back end. I do not expect
- 25:12Speaker 8: this to be a high passing yardage type of day.
- 25:16Speaker 8: But I do expect Trevor to continue playing as he's
- 25:19Speaker 8: played with control. He's been protecting the football of late.
- 25:23Speaker 8: He's been throwing and getting the ball to the open receivers.
- 25:28Speaker 8: You know, he's not just chunking the deep going for
- 25:31Speaker 8: home runs. He's taking advantage of what the defense gives him.
- 25:34Speaker 8: And he's going to have to do that versus this
- 25:36Speaker 8: Broncos defense. They're fast, they're smart, they're young, they're discipline,
- 25:41Speaker 8: they just want to fly around. So he's going to
- 25:44Speaker 8: have to take advantage of what they give them until
- 25:47Speaker 8: they make a mistake. What you get with youth is
- 25:50Speaker 8: oftentimes you get mistakes, and those guys can get, you know,
- 25:54Speaker 8: caught up in situations where they're trying to make a
- 25:57Speaker 8: play because of how big this game is, and you
- 25:59Speaker 8: want to take advantage of those moments. But you gotta
- 26:02Speaker 8: have patience, you gotta have poise. He's gonna be loud
- 26:06Speaker 8: and I think Trevor, their leader, is in position to
- 26:11Speaker 8: take him that way. But it starts with a great
- 26:13Speaker 8: run game. I expect Travis dt In to get his
- 26:16Speaker 8: bulk carries this week. I expect coach Cohen's gonna challenge
- 26:20Speaker 8: that offensive line to continue their trend of no sacks
- 26:24Speaker 8: and one hundred plus one hundred and fifty plus yards
- 26:27Speaker 8: on the ground. On the flip side of the defense is
- 26:29Speaker 8: gonna have to stop their run game and try and
- 26:32Speaker 8: neutralize bow Knicks.
- 26:35Speaker 1: Fret Taylor with us prout of the Jaguars running back
- 26:37Speaker 1: and yeah, let's flip it around now and talk about
- 26:40Speaker 1: that Jaguars defense. It's you know, it's not as highly
- 26:44Speaker 1: ranked across the bord as Denver. You know what, they're
- 26:46Speaker 1: doing some things pretty well. Obviously they're stopping the run game,
- 26:49Speaker 1: they're taking the football away. But this is a different
- 26:53Speaker 1: feel with bow Knicks this week. A mobile quarterback. He
- 26:56Speaker 1: can move things, get off schedule, and that's when things
- 26:59Speaker 1: can it weird.
- 27:01Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, if the Jacks hadn't played Kansas City
- 27:05Speaker 8: on a Monday night, you know I would I would
- 27:09Speaker 8: probably throw out there that this is the best quarterback
- 27:13Speaker 8: that they that they played. I do know they played
- 27:17Speaker 8: Justin Herbert. And although I am a Justin Herbert fan,
- 27:20Speaker 8: I am a huge fan of boat Nicks. Just his demeanor,
- 27:25Speaker 8: you know, the way he wields the team and the
- 27:28Speaker 8: way he approaches the game. It gives me a little
- 27:30Speaker 8: bit of Philip Rivers type attitude, and you know, I'll
- 27:34Speaker 8: do whatever it takes to win a game. But you know,
- 27:38Speaker 8: you have to throw the mobility in there. You have
- 27:40Speaker 8: to throw the arm accuracy in there, the arm strength.
- 27:43Speaker 8: He does it all man. So it's gonna be a challenge.
- 27:46Speaker 8: It's going to require a lot of discipline. The defensive ends,
- 27:49Speaker 8: they're not gonna be able to crash on their pass rush.
- 27:52Speaker 8: They're gonna have to maintain their their laying assignment and
- 27:55Speaker 8: stay outside and contain him so he doesn't get outside
- 27:58Speaker 8: of the pocket straight drop back passes. The interior defensive guys,
- 28:03Speaker 8: they're gonna have to maintain their gap integrity and stay
- 28:06Speaker 8: in their lanes as well. The secondary they're gonna have
- 28:10Speaker 8: to make sure they're cover cover, cover cover, you know,
- 28:13Speaker 8: throughout the duration of the play and hopes that the
- 28:15Speaker 8: sacks or the upfront get there with pressure. So this
- 28:20Speaker 8: might be one of their biggest tests this year JP.
- 28:22Speaker 8: So we'll we'll see what comes here later.
- 28:25Speaker 1: Yeah, they think their contenders were about to find out
- 28:28Speaker 1: because the road environment tough road environment in Denver.
- 28:33Speaker 6: Let's wrap with Liam Cohen.
- 28:35Speaker 1: We talk about him most every week, but he's going
- 28:38Speaker 1: up against Sean Payton, who has a Super Bowl, of
- 28:40Speaker 1: course in New Orleans, and it's his third year now
- 28:44Speaker 1: in Denver and they went to the playoffs last year.
- 28:47Speaker 1: They've kind of turned some things around Denver. Lee was
- 28:49Speaker 1: trying to do the same thing around here and seems
- 28:53Speaker 1: to be maybe a little bit ahead of schedule in
- 28:55Speaker 1: doing it. How about the matchup of wits this week
- 28:58Speaker 1: with the head coaches.
- 29:00Speaker 8: I mean, you have experience and Sean Payton, who's been
- 29:03Speaker 8: around you mentioned he has the Super Bowl, took some
- 29:06Speaker 8: time off away from the game in return. It seemed
- 29:09Speaker 8: that the return wasn't quite welcoming in year one, but
- 29:16Speaker 8: they were going through some stuff trying to find some
- 29:18Speaker 8: adjustments the quarterback and Sean didn't mesh. They were able
- 29:23Speaker 8: to figure that piece out, went out and drafted bow
- 29:26Speaker 8: knicks and insert bow knicks, and he's turned things around
- 29:30Speaker 8: for them. Coach Cohen, you know, younger coach, very energetic, passionate,
- 29:36Speaker 8: very smart, great play design guy and he's on his way.
- 29:41Speaker 8: You know, the only thing he doesn't have that Sean
- 29:44Speaker 8: has his time and that experience. But coach Cohen as
- 29:48Speaker 8: a head coach. He's on his way and say, hopefully
- 29:51Speaker 8: we find our way in San Francisco for the last
- 29:55Speaker 8: game of the season. But I will say they are
- 29:58Speaker 8: trending in the right direct and I'm happy that coach
- 30:02Speaker 8: Cohen was the higher Fred.
- 30:04Speaker 1: Always a pleasure.
- 30:05Speaker 6: Big ball game in Denver.
- 30:06Speaker 1: Will talk to you afterwards.
- 30:08Speaker 8: Huge ball game in Denver, Man, this is gonna be interesting, man,
- 30:13Speaker 8: looking forward to it.
- 30:14Speaker 1: The ten and four Jacksonville Jaguars meet the twelve and
- 30:17Speaker 1: two Denver Broncos in Week sixteen.
- 30:20Speaker 6: Enjoy the game.