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- 0:13Speaker 1: Drive Time starts right now. Welcome into Jack's Drive Time
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- 0:34Speaker 1: We will. We'll get through. Your baggage has been discarded.
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- 0:42Speaker 1: know if you saw, but he scored a whopping twenty
- 0:45Speaker 1: nine points in fantasy last week. Bad We hadn't. I
- 0:48Speaker 1: had an average week. He had a bad week. But
- 0:50Speaker 1: you're now in third place. It was in third place
- 0:52Speaker 1: last week. I've distanced myself from him. My my sights
- 0:57Speaker 1: are set on Dampsey. He's number one. Yeah, I'm surpassing Houston.
- 1:01Speaker 1: All right, let's get into big things. Coffee with the coach.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Will join us in about ten minutes. It's game planning.
- 1:06Speaker 1: So we've heard defensive players. We've heard toddwh Leek Jackson,
- 1:10Speaker 1: the corners talk about keeping Patrick Mahomes in the pocket.
- 1:13Speaker 1: That is the huge game plan for this week because
- 1:15Speaker 1: when he gets out of the pocket, that's when he
- 1:17Speaker 1: makes huge place. Well, it's important, but there's so much
- 1:20Speaker 1: it's important about that. That's part of it. A huge deal.
- 1:24Speaker 1: Also is Jalen Ramsey a j boy must cover their
- 1:27Speaker 1: receivers deep. We heard Jalen talk about that he's fairly
- 1:30Speaker 1: confident ashally that he can do it. I don't if
- 1:32Speaker 1: you've heard that or not. He is confident that he
- 1:35Speaker 1: will come through on his part. Um, it's also about
- 1:38Speaker 1: contains about containing their running game, which brings up Malee
- 1:40Speaker 1: Jackson and Telvin Smith into stopping the speed of the
- 1:43Speaker 1: Chiefs back UH and to Seawan Gibson has to cover
- 1:48Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey. I got the idea from Jalen Ramsey. Then
- 1:50Speaker 1: maybe Jalen might have a look at Travis Kelsey that
- 1:54Speaker 1: you know what you know this week as well. Um,
- 1:56Speaker 1: it's truly I said earlier, I think on Wednesday that
- 1:59Speaker 1: the person with the most pressure UH under the most
- 2:03Speaker 1: spotlight this week is maybe Todd washed by the defensive
- 2:06Speaker 1: coordinator because there's so much that Andy Reid does pre snap,
- 2:10Speaker 1: uh trying to confuse and it was tied to use
- 2:14Speaker 1: the phrase Andy makes defensive players think rather than play fast.
- 2:20Speaker 1: That's countered what the Jaguars want to do, which is
- 2:22Speaker 1: play very, very fast, So that mental game is as
- 2:25Speaker 1: big a part of the game plan as anything on Sunday.
- 2:27Speaker 1: That's their strong point is playing fast. But I feel
- 2:29Speaker 1: like this defense is so prepared and amped up, and
- 2:32Speaker 1: we talked about it all weeks. This defense almost plays
- 2:34Speaker 1: better and the amped up, hyped up environment. I'm looking
- 2:37Speaker 1: forward to asking Doug about that because it it does
- 2:39Speaker 1: seem like this early last season, this team had not
- 2:44Speaker 1: played in any big games. It's been a long time
- 2:46Speaker 1: since there's been many big game for the Jaguars, and
- 2:49Speaker 1: you wondered this young team that clearly had so much
- 2:54Speaker 1: potential in such a bright future, how it handled big moments. Well,
- 2:57Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's been through big moments. It
- 3:00Speaker 1: had three playoff games last year, it had big moments
- 3:03Speaker 1: Seattle last year, at the end of the season New
- 3:05Speaker 1: England early, all of a sudden, you look up and
- 3:09Speaker 1: this is a team that is starting to be in
- 3:12Speaker 1: its prime, starting to have matured a little bit. So
- 3:16Speaker 1: I think you now have a perfect storm of being
- 3:19Speaker 1: able to handle the moment. Certainly Blake his hand has
- 3:22Speaker 1: shown he can handle those, and still young enough, enthusiastic
- 3:27Speaker 1: enough to play with that, you know, youthful fire, energy,
- 3:31Speaker 1: enthusiasm that really fuels this team. So I've been saying
- 3:36Speaker 1: all week, I think the Jaguars win. I think they
- 3:38Speaker 1: get some big plays early and it will be interesting
- 3:42Speaker 1: to watch this team in such an amped up environment.
- 3:45Speaker 1: It's what I think fans who love this team love
- 3:49Speaker 1: watching them in this environment, absolutely right. Big thing too
- 3:52Speaker 1: is attitude, and there has been a lot of attitude
- 3:54Speaker 1: this week, and a bunch of different forms. Yet Coach
- 3:57Speaker 1: Morrill with the Woe is Knee hyping up Patrick Mahomes
- 3:59Speaker 1: that he's next m v P quarterback. You had Telvin
- 4:02Speaker 1: not giving away much with the smiles during the press conference,
- 4:05Speaker 1: and then you had Jalen yesterday with a lot of comments.
- 4:08Speaker 1: The attitude is back, the swagger is back, and you
- 4:11Speaker 1: can tell how excited they are for Sunday. Yeah, I'm
- 4:13Speaker 1: not sure it ever went away, but it's certainly um.
- 4:16Speaker 1: You know, I you get the idea that if Tyreek
- 4:22Speaker 1: Hill had said nothing, that Jalen would have figured out
- 4:27Speaker 1: a way to have believed that Tyreek Hill said something.
- 4:31Speaker 1: Right now, he did say something, which is fine. That's
- 4:35Speaker 1: what this team loves to do. It loves to have
- 4:38Speaker 1: an enemy, it loves to have been wrong. Um. There
- 4:43Speaker 1: was talk during Jalen's press conference about, you know, still
- 4:48Speaker 1: not getting the respect it deserves, and Jalen even even
- 4:51Speaker 1: sort of said, well, I think we get respect, but
- 4:54Speaker 1: maybe not enough for space. So they're going to play that.
- 4:58Speaker 1: Whatever the narrative and whatever the we don't respect card
- 5:04Speaker 1: there is, This is obviously a chance to show if
- 5:10Speaker 1: if you believe you're the best defense in the NFL,
- 5:12Speaker 1: if you believe you're special, and if you believe that
- 5:15Speaker 1: you've been built to beat great offenses, you will never
- 5:19Speaker 1: get a better chance to do that than this game
- 5:20Speaker 1: on Sunday. I have no doubt that they believe they're
- 5:22Speaker 1: the number one defense in the league. So this is
- 5:24Speaker 1: the chance to prove it and silence the daughters. But
- 5:27Speaker 1: that's never gonna go away. The disrespect thing. I don't
- 5:29Speaker 1: think they'll ever go away. And I really don't think
- 5:31Speaker 1: that many people doubt this team. It's just that this,
- 5:34Speaker 1: as Doug has said this week, this is a special
- 5:37Speaker 1: offense right now. They're playing and it's doing unique things.
- 5:41Speaker 1: It also presents the challenge not only of doing unique
- 5:43Speaker 1: things and being really really good, it presents sort of
- 5:48Speaker 1: that extra wrinkle that they're doing it with a quarterback
- 5:51Speaker 1: who is still new and teams are still trying to
- 5:54Speaker 1: figure out. So it's sort of a double challenge of
- 5:56Speaker 1: stopping and you have the things that Andy Reid does offense.
- 6:00Speaker 1: So it's a phenomenal challenge for a coaching staff and players.
- 6:05Speaker 1: Uh So, taking the respect thing out of it, it's
- 6:09Speaker 1: truly a chance to if if you shut down this team,
- 6:11Speaker 1: if you get turnovers on this team, if you intercept
- 6:13Speaker 1: this kid, you've done something that other teams haven't been
- 6:16Speaker 1: able to do. So respect or not, you show you
- 6:20Speaker 1: can do it, and you show that you're the best,
- 6:22Speaker 1: right all right? Big thing three is playoff implications. So, yes,
- 6:26Speaker 1: this is week five, Yes it's the regular season, Blake
- 6:28Speaker 1: Bortle said earlier this week, you know, it's just another
- 6:30Speaker 1: big regular season game, but this could be something that
- 6:33Speaker 1: we're talking about in December. Well, you want to win
- 6:37Speaker 1: the way the schedule is set up right now, uh,
- 6:41Speaker 1: division winners from the previous season play the other division
- 6:45Speaker 1: winners in your conference. You play all of them, you
- 6:47Speaker 1: play one of them because of the rotation. But you're
- 6:50Speaker 1: guaranteed to play all the divisions, all the division winners
- 6:52Speaker 1: in the the previous season. So by definition, those games against
- 6:56Speaker 1: the teams that won their divisions last year, if things
- 7:00Speaker 1: break the way that you expected to, are going to
- 7:03Speaker 1: be big games for playoff imfications. So they've already beat
- 7:05Speaker 1: in New England, they get Pittsburgh here at home. But
- 7:09Speaker 1: if things go well, which doesn't always happen in the NFL,
- 7:11Speaker 1: but if things go to play and this will be
- 7:13Speaker 1: a big game for playoff implications. Um, when this one,
- 7:17Speaker 1: perhaps it prevents you from going back in January with
- 7:21Speaker 1: eleven games to go. That's way to really to talk
- 7:23Speaker 1: about that. But that could be something in December. All right, Well,
- 7:26Speaker 1: it's gonna be a huge game, no doubt. Up next,
- 7:28Speaker 1: we're gonna take a short break and be joined by
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- 9:20Speaker 1: Drive Time. We're now joined by head coach Dug myur
- 9:22Speaker 1: own coffee with the coach. See that graphic? What do
- 9:26Speaker 1: you think of it? The coach? Yeah, that's fine, there's fine.
- 9:32Speaker 1: I only spent hours and hours on it, but I
- 9:35Speaker 1: gotta find some time to exercise. Coach, Big game this week.
- 9:40Speaker 1: Everyone's hyped up for it. Everyone's so excited. Are you
- 9:43Speaker 1: treating this week any differently? Does it feel any differently
- 9:45Speaker 1: with this huge matchup on Sunday? Um? I mean, you know,
- 9:49Speaker 1: as far as treating it, we don't. We make adjustments
- 9:53Speaker 1: obviously during a week depending on who we're playing, and
- 9:56Speaker 1: then we have to make adjustments depending on, you know,
- 9:58Speaker 1: the health of our team. So that's that's normal. So
- 10:00Speaker 1: those adjustments occur each week. But um, you know, we've
- 10:04Speaker 1: we've got the noise in pumped in this week. You know,
- 10:06Speaker 1: obviously it's a hostile environment. You know, we understand that. Obviously,
- 10:10Speaker 1: we're getting prepared for it to be you know, rain
- 10:12Speaker 1: on Sunday, so we're preparing our players for that. So
- 10:16Speaker 1: I think those are the things that are going on.
- 10:18Speaker 1: You know. Other than that, we we understand it's a
- 10:20Speaker 1: it's a you know, you get a chance to say,
- 10:22Speaker 1: you know, is it a little bit more? Well? A
- 10:24Speaker 1: lot of that all depends on the noise on the outside.
- 10:26Speaker 1: I think, you know, when a lot of people are
- 10:28Speaker 1: starting to build something up, it happens. But we have
- 10:30Speaker 1: to keep it in in perspective of you know, hey, listen,
- 10:33Speaker 1: it's the first game of the second quarter, it's on
- 10:35Speaker 1: the road, it's an a f C opponent. We know
- 10:38Speaker 1: it's gonna be a tough game, and let's get dialed
- 10:40Speaker 1: in and focused. This team is I think gotten used
- 10:43Speaker 1: to playing big games. You had Seattle, you have the
- 10:44Speaker 1: playoffs last year, you had New England. Do you feel
- 10:47Speaker 1: like this team prepares better with more focused than it
- 10:54Speaker 1: did maybe early last season we're playing big games or
- 10:57Speaker 1: do you see a change in that. Well, I think
- 10:59Speaker 1: as a what you'd like to say up here, you know,
- 11:01Speaker 1: and be able to say, well, you know what, we
- 11:03Speaker 1: prepare the same way for every team that we play.
- 11:05Speaker 1: But you know, I think you know, that's a lot
- 11:08Speaker 1: of you know, uh, I think it's just it's just
- 11:11Speaker 1: human nature, you know. I think whether now it can
- 11:15Speaker 1: be whether you're your matchup, Let's say you're going against
- 11:18Speaker 1: a really good player, you'll see that level of focus,
- 11:21Speaker 1: you know, rising someone. You know, we as coaches have
- 11:24Speaker 1: to keep it consistent the whole time at its highest point.
- 11:27Speaker 1: But I think with players you can see a little
- 11:29Speaker 1: bit level um, not not necessarily of their performance and
- 11:33Speaker 1: how they go out there, but more of their kind
- 11:36Speaker 1: of demeanor you know, around the building and things of
- 11:38Speaker 1: that nature. You know, what's on their mind. You know
- 11:41Speaker 1: that thought process the team. Um, you know, you get
- 11:44Speaker 1: a little bit of feel for that. You had a
- 11:46Speaker 1: lot of praise for Patrick Mahomes in your press conference,
- 11:48Speaker 1: really amped him up, and you seem like you have
- 11:50Speaker 1: a lot of mutual respect for him. What is it
- 11:52Speaker 1: about him that makes him so good even though he's
- 11:54Speaker 1: so young. Yeah, I mean, it's just you know, it's
- 11:57Speaker 1: it's this game is what you put on tape. And
- 12:00Speaker 1: you know what he's put on tape so far is
- 12:02Speaker 1: is really incredible. So you know, to get up there
- 12:05Speaker 1: and and um, you know, sometimes you get up there
- 12:08Speaker 1: and you might overhype somebody or make a bigger deal,
- 12:12Speaker 1: you know. Um, but you know this one, you just
- 12:15Speaker 1: tell them the truth. You know, you just say, listen,
- 12:17Speaker 1: look at the numbers. Look what he's done and he's
- 12:19Speaker 1: in his second year. Look at the weapons he has
- 12:21Speaker 1: around him. Look at the offensive line. Um, you know,
- 12:25Speaker 1: all those things are are are are hitting on all
- 12:28Speaker 1: cylinders for him. So you know, we're hoping to go
- 12:31Speaker 1: in there and try to, you know, throw a little
- 12:33Speaker 1: wrench in it. I'm a big believer that their coaches
- 12:36Speaker 1: in this league or last twenty five years, who have
- 12:38Speaker 1: been overlooked and dismissed unfairly because they haven't won a
- 12:41Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Schottenheimer fit into that. I and Andy Reid
- 12:45Speaker 1: is sort of the poster child for that. Right now,
- 12:48Speaker 1: tell me about him as a coach. What you respect
- 12:50Speaker 1: about the job he's done over going on two decades. Now, Yeah,
- 12:55Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we we faced him, you know,
- 12:58Speaker 1: when he was in Philly and played him in um,
- 13:00Speaker 1: you know, playoff games and played him during the season.
- 13:03Speaker 1: You know, just a lot of respect. They put a
- 13:04Speaker 1: lot of pressure on you. From an offensive standpoint. Um,
- 13:08Speaker 1: you know, he's always been very innovative. You know, probably
- 13:11Speaker 1: he doesn't get enough praise for that. You know, what
- 13:13Speaker 1: he's done for the game from that aspect. Uh, you know,
- 13:17Speaker 1: obviously he's an outstanding First of all, he's an outstanding person.
- 13:20Speaker 1: I mean, he's one of the guys that you know
- 13:22Speaker 1: when you go to these coach owners meetings or whatever
- 13:26Speaker 1: they are. You know, coach Reid has been around a
- 13:29Speaker 1: long time and his wife Tammy, and you know, if
- 13:31Speaker 1: you're a young coach or like I feel like I am,
- 13:34Speaker 1: or some of the other coaches, you know, he always
- 13:37Speaker 1: makes it a point to try to come over and talk.
- 13:39Speaker 1: I mean, just a real uh class act. And you know,
- 13:43Speaker 1: obviously from a football xs and os, I mean he
- 13:45Speaker 1: has you know, he has a respect of I believe
- 13:48Speaker 1: obviously everyone in the league because of the job he's done.
- 13:51Speaker 1: So you know, I don't think he can really you know,
- 13:53Speaker 1: say enough. And you know, in this day and age,
- 13:55Speaker 1: with the way this league is, you know, to to
- 13:57Speaker 1: have been a head coach for that long. I mean
- 13:59Speaker 1: that's of something right there. You know. Um, not only
- 14:02Speaker 1: has he been able to to have you know, very
- 14:04Speaker 1: good football teams, but he's involved obviously with the personnel,
- 14:07Speaker 1: and you know he's always been outstanding and um in
- 14:10Speaker 1: developing that that quarterback position where those quarterbacks have always played,
- 14:15Speaker 1: you know, for him, lights out and to get there
- 14:17Speaker 1: every year to win ten like he has. You know,
- 14:20Speaker 1: I know you respect that in terms of consistency over time. Absolutely,
- 14:24Speaker 1: it's very difficult to win games in the NFL. And
- 14:27Speaker 1: I think you know you said it right, you know
- 14:29Speaker 1: when you talked about coach Schottenheimer, who I know well
- 14:32Speaker 1: and I brought him out, you know, uh to speak
- 14:34Speaker 1: to the team, not our team, but when I was
- 14:36Speaker 1: in Buffalo, and um, you know, you just have a
- 14:38Speaker 1: tremendous amount of respect for those guys just the way
- 14:40Speaker 1: they've been able to do that to you know, get
- 14:43Speaker 1: that team to play each week, to get him to
- 14:44Speaker 1: play extremely hard, to get them to uh, you know,
- 14:47Speaker 1: win football games, and you know it's it's not an
- 14:51Speaker 1: easy thing to do in this league. We had Jim
- 14:53Speaker 1: Nance on the show yesterday. He's obviously calling the game
- 14:55Speaker 1: with Tony Realmo, and we asked him a simple question, know,
- 14:57Speaker 1: how do you think Blake Bortles has played this season?
- 14:59Speaker 1: And he got pretty heated and said, I'm tired of
- 15:01Speaker 1: people making fun of Blake Bortles. He's a good quarterback
- 15:04Speaker 1: and people need to start believing it. Yeah, I hope
- 15:06Speaker 1: they keep making fun of him that I don't know.
- 15:10Speaker 1: Blake does a good job with it. But you know,
- 15:12Speaker 1: I don't know if he would expect it to ever
- 15:15Speaker 1: be the other way, you know, because it's gone so
- 15:17Speaker 1: tough for him. But um yeah, I mean you know,
- 15:20Speaker 1: but that's good, I mean for me. You know, let it,
- 15:23Speaker 1: let us let him go under the radar. Uh we know,
- 15:26Speaker 1: you know what he's done for us, you know, I
- 15:27Speaker 1: know I do. I know our offensive, I know our
- 15:29Speaker 1: whole team does. And you know he's he's done a
- 15:32Speaker 1: good job. And you know he's working hard each week
- 15:35Speaker 1: and he understands that. You know, it's gonna be you know,
- 15:37Speaker 1: proving each and every Sunday, like I say, all the time,
- 15:40Speaker 1: Um until uh he you know, people are gonna recognize,
- 15:44Speaker 1: you know, the job that he's done. And you know,
- 15:46Speaker 1: I think it's hard. I think when you come off
- 15:48Speaker 1: in any profession, when you come when you come out
- 15:51Speaker 1: of the gate and you're you're hard on someone and
- 15:53Speaker 1: someone and maybe for the right reasons, whatever it may be,
- 15:56Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden that player starts to
- 15:58Speaker 1: change a little bit. Well it's kind of it takes
- 16:00Speaker 1: a little bit longer time for people to start turning around. So,
- 16:04Speaker 1: you know, hopefully that's the case and we can, you know,
- 16:06Speaker 1: just keep getting better as we go through the season. Uh,
- 16:08Speaker 1: not just Blake, but everybody else and and uh, you know,
- 16:11Speaker 1: win some games were four games into this this year.
- 16:15Speaker 1: Give me something that you like about this team that
- 16:17Speaker 1: maybe you aren't asked about a whole lot. Yeah, I mean,
- 16:22Speaker 1: you know, I get asked a lot of things, you know.
- 16:25Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we get you know, but uh,
- 16:28Speaker 1: you know, I think, you know, I I like that.
- 16:32Speaker 1: You know, it's like last year, you know, I like
- 16:34Speaker 1: I like the team last year, I like the team.
- 16:36Speaker 1: That the reason why I like this team, I think
- 16:39Speaker 1: it's because you know, we can communicate with each other
- 16:42Speaker 1: and and uh upfront. So in other words, um, you know,
- 16:47Speaker 1: I'm a firm believer that I don't have a problem
- 16:49Speaker 1: with confrontation. I think that you know, people have seen that,
- 16:54Speaker 1: whether it's between our coaches, coaches, players, me player, whatever,
- 16:58Speaker 1: whatever it does, because I think nothing nothing lingers, you
- 17:02Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like in other words, hey, you
- 17:05Speaker 1: confront it. You see an issue, let's confront it, let's
- 17:07Speaker 1: solve it, let's get it done. And there's there's a
- 17:09Speaker 1: lot of things that go on, uh like that that
- 17:12Speaker 1: that I appreciate. So we're able to you know, address
- 17:15Speaker 1: the situation and move on without any lingering feelings and
- 17:19Speaker 1: things like that. So when you talk about you know,
- 17:21Speaker 1: family of things of that nature, Um, those are the
- 17:25Speaker 1: things that that that I appreciate a team, and I
- 17:27Speaker 1: also appreciate the way we we understand that, you know,
- 17:30Speaker 1: we're truly a team. It's not just you know, the
- 17:33Speaker 1: defense gets a lot of the credit, you know, obviously,
- 17:36Speaker 1: you know the way they've been playing and played for
- 17:39Speaker 1: for a long period of time now, and then you know, offensively,
- 17:41Speaker 1: it's kind of up and down special teams. But that
- 17:45Speaker 1: may be the view on the outside, but on the inside,
- 17:48Speaker 1: we're really all accountable for each other, and I think
- 17:51Speaker 1: that that's important. There's no finger pointing, there's no hey,
- 17:53Speaker 1: you've got to do this. Everyone knows what their job is.
- 17:57Speaker 1: You know, during the week, everyone knows what we need
- 17:59Speaker 1: to do on Sunday to win, and you know, we
- 18:01Speaker 1: take it upon ourselves to get that done as one team.
- 18:05Speaker 1: Yankees versus Red Sox big game. You mentioned you have
- 18:08Speaker 1: to be at your kids high school game. But are
- 18:10Speaker 1: you the type of guy for a big game like that?
- 18:12Speaker 1: Do you want to go to the sports bar and
- 18:14Speaker 1: watch what your friends or would you rather be by
- 18:15Speaker 1: yourself at home? Well, first of all, I'm married, okay,
- 18:21Speaker 1: And when I mentioned that my wife last night that
- 18:24Speaker 1: I was thinking about, you know, hey, listen, so you're
- 18:27Speaker 1: you guys are gonna go to the game, I'm gonna
- 18:29Speaker 1: stay home and watch the Red Side game. The look
- 18:31Speaker 1: to stare was that killer stare. And I was the
- 18:34Speaker 1: only kidding because I like that alight. So I was thinking,
- 18:37Speaker 1: I said, that's no problem. I'll probably just have my
- 18:39Speaker 1: my phone just kind of keeping tracked in between plays.
- 18:42Speaker 1: But um, yeah, I mean, it's yeah, I'm gonna it's
- 18:50Speaker 1: I hope it's not long. I hope we we go
- 18:52Speaker 1: through them quickly, you know, But it's uh, you know,
- 18:54Speaker 1: it's obviously it's obviously Uh, it's obviously big, so I
- 18:58Speaker 1: have at least one. October is always my favorite moth,
- 19:02Speaker 1: you know, because there's so much going on sports wise.
- 19:04Speaker 1: So at least when I take a break from my job,
- 19:06Speaker 1: which is not much, you know, I could, I can
- 19:08Speaker 1: get my attention somewhere else and um, you know, not
- 19:12Speaker 1: not be as stressed out. And you still get nervous
- 19:15Speaker 1: forgetting like I've sort of lost some of my fanom
- 19:19Speaker 1: and getting nervous for other sports. You get nervous when
- 19:21Speaker 1: the Yankees play. Is it like that or okay? I mean,
- 19:24Speaker 1: you know it's anxiety. I'm I'm a fan for that,
- 19:27Speaker 1: you know, like you know, you know, and I have
- 19:30Speaker 1: some people that I know, so I'm like, hey, what's
- 19:32Speaker 1: the strategy? What are we gonna try to do? You know,
- 19:34Speaker 1: what's what's going on? You know? How we how we
- 19:36Speaker 1: throwing these pictures? You know, the last game against the
- 19:38Speaker 1: A's and you know Serbino starring why not have you know,
- 19:42Speaker 1: I'm truly a fan when it comes to that, and
- 19:45Speaker 1: and um, I enjoy it, you know, I enjoy you're
- 19:48Speaker 1: watching football. It's hard for me to be a fan
- 19:50Speaker 1: because it's it's what I do, you know, So every time,
- 19:52Speaker 1: no matter what level it's at. You know, I'm always
- 19:56Speaker 1: looking at it the same way, you know, dissecting it,
- 19:59Speaker 1: looking at this schematics, looking at the play. So for me,
- 20:02Speaker 1: it's it's a lot more difficult. I go through a
- 20:05Speaker 1: lot of energy, you know, watching football. But when I'm
- 20:10Speaker 1: a fan, I'm just like everybody else. You know, I'm
- 20:12Speaker 1: drinking a beer, yelling, cursing at the TV, you know
- 20:15Speaker 1: what I'm saying, getting fired up, texting my buddies when
- 20:18Speaker 1: something good is going on. So I'm a true fan. Yeah.
- 20:22Speaker 1: Now we're relatively the same age. So I have my
- 20:24Speaker 1: Bucky Dent memory. Yeah, Bucky Dent, Yeah, I remember that.
- 20:29Speaker 1: I remember. Another thing I remember is when we were
- 20:32Speaker 1: playing the Dodgers in the World Series. My my parents,
- 20:35Speaker 1: my mom took me to the game. Were sitting out
- 20:37Speaker 1: in the bleachers and that was a game with the
- 20:39Speaker 1: Yankees loss, and it threw the smoke bomb. And the
- 20:41Speaker 1: guy that threw the smoke bomb was about four rows
- 20:43Speaker 1: in front of me. You know, No, it wasn't me.
- 20:45Speaker 1: I was young at the time. I just remember I
- 20:48Speaker 1: didn't know what it was. He took it off, he
- 20:49Speaker 1: popped it off with like a canister, with like a
- 20:52Speaker 1: wooden stick. You know, it looked like one of those
- 20:55Speaker 1: German grenades that you saw in the old World War
- 20:58Speaker 1: two movies, and you know, he threw it out there.
- 21:01Speaker 1: I was like, whoa. You know, I was nervous at first,
- 21:05Speaker 1: but you know I remember that. And my probably other memory,
- 21:08Speaker 1: a great memory, was, you know, the night that that
- 21:11Speaker 1: I found out that Thurmamuson passed away. You know, that's
- 21:13Speaker 1: kind of like it's kind of like the Kennedy memory
- 21:16Speaker 1: and and I'm not trying to put in perspective like
- 21:18Speaker 1: that at the time sports fan. I remember, yeah, I
- 21:22Speaker 1: remember where I was, I remember who I was with.
- 21:24Speaker 1: You know, Mike Kay was with me, who obviously does
- 21:26Speaker 1: the Yankee games now, you know. And I remember that night,
- 21:29Speaker 1: how how we were all uh, we were all hurt.
- 21:34Speaker 1: Shocking night. All right, thanks coach for something. I appreciate it.
- 21:37Speaker 1: Thank you. All right, we will be back with Brian
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- 23:20Speaker 1: by m c u A. We're back Jaggs Drive time
- 23:27Speaker 1: on a Friday morning. You just heard head coach Don
- 23:29Speaker 1: Rome with coffee with the coach. We're gonna get to
- 23:31Speaker 1: he will, he won't. He might with Brian Sexton on
- 23:33Speaker 1: the phone in Kansas City. But first, John is a
- 23:36Speaker 1: very important message to tell you all. Local farm Congret
- 23:39Speaker 1: and Pens new Farm Cider Garden debut is October six,
- 23:42Speaker 1: within October Fest celebration to benefit the Jaguars Foundation. The
- 23:46Speaker 1: day of German festivities will include locally sourced Fair and
- 23:48Speaker 1: Bruce live music and Jaguars mascot Jackson Deville. Tickets maybe
- 23:52Speaker 1: purchased at nine O four ticks dot com Events october
- 23:55Speaker 1: Fest Concrete. Well done, Now I want to go to
- 23:59Speaker 1: the event, Brian Sexton are you there? Did you just
- 24:03Speaker 1: hear that, Brian, John? Yeah? I did. I've I've heard
- 24:07Speaker 1: every word from the mouth of John this morning, and
- 24:09Speaker 1: I I'll remember that. Oh, baggage is the operative boid,
- 24:15Speaker 1: that's mine. Baggage is the watchword. Yeah, you sound like
- 24:18Speaker 1: my wife. Good morning. How are you guys? Good morning?
- 24:20Speaker 1: How is Kansas City? What's the weather like? Well, I'm
- 24:23Speaker 1: standing on the back deck of my folks home in
- 24:26Speaker 1: suburban Kansas City this morning, and it is cloudy and
- 24:30Speaker 1: the leaves are changing and it's about fifty degrees. It's sensational.
- 24:34Speaker 1: If if we knew that it would be this without rain, oh,
- 24:38Speaker 1: it would remind you of Indianapolis in October. It's about
- 24:42Speaker 1: the same, temperate and uh, it's fantastic. This is football weather.
- 24:46Speaker 1: It's nice to get out of the heat. What kind
- 24:48Speaker 1: of beer are you drinking? You know what? I will
- 24:52Speaker 1: have some Boulevard Pale Ale, the heritage beer here in
- 24:59Speaker 1: Kansas City. But more importantly, I'll be having Joe's barbecue
- 25:02Speaker 1: in about three hours. Nice. So we just talked head
- 25:06Speaker 1: coach Don Morrow and we gave a little game people, Brian,
- 25:08Speaker 1: what are you looking forward to on Sunday? Before we
- 25:10Speaker 1: get into he will, he won't? He might? Well, I'm
- 25:13Speaker 1: looking forward the atmosphere in the Arrowhead and is you know,
- 25:15Speaker 1: people who are watching the listing, you know they've heard
- 25:17Speaker 1: me say this is home to me. And I know Arrowhead.
- 25:20Speaker 1: I knew it back in the early eighties when they
- 25:21Speaker 1: were fifteen thousand people in the stadium for a season
- 25:25Speaker 1: finale against the Jets, and I saw it through the
- 25:27Speaker 1: Marty Schottenheimer Carl Peterson ero where they turned the ship
- 25:31Speaker 1: around and made this a very difficult place to play.
- 25:34Speaker 1: So with this weather that I'm experiencing, and with you know,
- 25:36Speaker 1: the four and O'chiefs and the three and one Jaguars,
- 25:39Speaker 1: I'm excited to that big game field this early in
- 25:41Speaker 1: the season. Normally it's November when you start to get
- 25:44Speaker 1: to the games that really matter, when the teams that
- 25:47Speaker 1: are going to make their push start to rise to
- 25:50Speaker 1: the top. And it's gonna be it's gonna feel like that.
- 25:53Speaker 1: A quick story. We landed last night about ten thirty
- 25:55Speaker 1: local time, and I was standing I had a Jaguar
- 25:57Speaker 1: shirt on, and I was standing at the carousel at
- 26:00Speaker 1: a Kansas City airport. The number of people that had
- 26:03Speaker 1: a comment about my shirt right, Oh, you're here for
- 26:06Speaker 1: the game. The Chiefs are the best team in football.
- 26:09Speaker 1: Some words that oh would use, but I can't possibly
- 26:12Speaker 1: not in the same house with my mom to utter them.
- 26:14Speaker 1: On the back deck. Um, they are this this city
- 26:18Speaker 1: has fired up, This city is ready for a big game,
- 26:21Speaker 1: and I Sunday will be in an epic atmosphere just
- 26:24Speaker 1: from twelve hours I've been here. I love to hear.
- 26:27Speaker 1: All Right, are you ready for he will? He won?
- 26:28Speaker 1: He might, John Brian, I I was born ready. All right, Brian,
- 26:32Speaker 1: you go for to Gibson? Yeah. Uh, so he will
- 26:37Speaker 1: have a tough match up against Travis Kelsey. Uh. Kelsey
- 26:40Speaker 1: leads the NFL tight ends in the NFL in yards
- 26:44Speaker 1: after the catch. Uh. He's different than Gronkowski, who is
- 26:47Speaker 1: just a really tough guy to cover um. But he's
- 26:51Speaker 1: so fast and he has great change of direction and
- 26:54Speaker 1: after the catch skills. H plus, he's he's a top competitor.
- 26:58Speaker 1: I mean he fights you for everything. So he will
- 27:01Speaker 1: have his hands full. He won't let Kelsey have a
- 27:04Speaker 1: big day now. When they saw them two years ago
- 27:06Speaker 1: in two thousand and sixteen, different defense, but Kelsey was
- 27:10Speaker 1: getting he was getting rolling. He had six catches for
- 27:12Speaker 1: fifty eight yards before he was thrown out of the
- 27:14Speaker 1: game for that personal foul. So you know he'll he'll
- 27:17Speaker 1: do some damage, but he won't get free and he
- 27:21Speaker 1: might come up with the pick six. I mean, he
- 27:24Speaker 1: he had that ball last week. He's been yapping in
- 27:26Speaker 1: the locker room about being the first defensive back to
- 27:28Speaker 1: come down with it. The ball is gonna be near
- 27:31Speaker 1: a lot. That's what they do here, That's what Patrick
- 27:34Speaker 1: Mahomes does. I just got the sense that the Gibson,
- 27:38Speaker 1: the whole tight end Whisperer thing earlier this week with
- 27:40Speaker 1: Kelvin h might be the guy to turn the game
- 27:43Speaker 1: from a really tight game and maybe blow it open.
- 27:47Speaker 1: The tight end whisper It seems like when we heard
- 27:49Speaker 1: from Kelvin Smith and Jalen Rams he was talking about
- 27:51Speaker 1: to Sean Gibson, it seems like they're expecting him to
- 27:54Speaker 1: have a huge week. Sure does it, Sure does. And
- 27:58Speaker 1: you can get you know, to sell loves to talk.
- 28:00Speaker 1: I joke with him all the time, you know, put
- 28:02Speaker 1: a period in there, Shan or Akama even. I mean,
- 28:05Speaker 1: he gets started and well, I guess I do the
- 28:07Speaker 1: same time. Uh, he gets started. It's tough to get
- 28:09Speaker 1: him to stop. Um. But he generally says something that
- 28:13Speaker 1: you walk away and you put in your notebook and
- 28:14Speaker 1: you use it. Um. This week he was he was
- 28:17Speaker 1: full of all of that. And so I just I
- 28:19Speaker 1: got the sense to that there's some energy about this.
- 28:22Speaker 1: He uh, he was almost genuinely offended, but he was
- 28:25Speaker 1: taken aback that so many people didn't recognize the job
- 28:28Speaker 1: that he had done on Gronkowski. They all thought it
- 28:30Speaker 1: was gonna Uh. I think he is motivated to prove
- 28:34Speaker 1: that he is tight end whisper. It's tight end whisper,
- 28:38Speaker 1: all right, My he will he won't. He might is
- 28:40Speaker 1: Malik Jackson. He will stick to the game plan and
- 28:44Speaker 1: contribute to it. John. We talked about it earlier. How
- 28:46Speaker 1: big of the game this defensive line is going to have.
- 28:49Speaker 1: I think he contributes to that heavily by keeping Patrick
- 28:51Speaker 1: Mahomes in the pocket so he can avoid those big
- 28:55Speaker 1: running plays. He won't get a penalty that affects the game.
- 28:58Speaker 1: He was talking about the hit on Lane gabbert Um
- 29:01Speaker 1: that brought Marcus marioed into the game on Tennessee this week.
- 29:04Speaker 1: Talked about the fine he got for but talks about
- 29:06Speaker 1: what he learned from it, and he said he had
- 29:08Speaker 1: a call with the NFL about it, and he's learned
- 29:10Speaker 1: from it, and he said he's going to try to
- 29:12Speaker 1: avoid that at all costs. He might be the big
- 29:14Speaker 1: defensive player of the game. He has won sack on
- 29:17Speaker 1: the season. I think he gets another one and I
- 29:19Speaker 1: think he has a huge game against Patrick Mahomes this week.
- 29:23Speaker 1: So so it's me okay, um, I was gonna go
- 29:26Speaker 1: with Sexton because he might be Wally Pip, whoa, why
- 29:30Speaker 1: do you say such a thing? Well, because you're doing
- 29:31Speaker 1: such a great job, sucks. Did you hear that? Oh,
- 29:36Speaker 1: it doesn't surprise me at all. I knew that you
- 29:38Speaker 1: would do a good job because that's been a good
- 29:40Speaker 1: job training you to do that job. Correct. But the
- 29:43Speaker 1: real one I'm going with is Jalen Ramsey. Uh. He
- 29:47Speaker 1: will get opportunities this week. I think both he and
- 29:51Speaker 1: a J boy A Uh I would stay frustrated, but
- 29:54Speaker 1: they're waiting for their opportunity to get plays and to
- 29:59Speaker 1: make plays. And I think with Patrick Mahomes they will
- 30:02Speaker 1: go deep. They will have opportunities to make them. Uh.
- 30:06Speaker 1: He won't get beat deep by by Tyreek Hill. You
- 30:10Speaker 1: could tell the other day with him talking about it.
- 30:14Speaker 1: He's ready for that. He really doesn't believe that it's
- 30:17Speaker 1: going to be a one on one match up the
- 30:18Speaker 1: entire game with Tyreek, but when it is, you know
- 30:22Speaker 1: he's going to be ready for that. He usually doesn't
- 30:24Speaker 1: get beat deep, so I see no reason why he'll
- 30:26Speaker 1: get beat deep in this game. Uh, he might, and
- 30:29Speaker 1: I'll I'll sort of piggyback off Brian a little bit.
- 30:32Speaker 1: He might get his first couple interceptions this season. And
- 30:34Speaker 1: I say couple because for a guy like Ramsey, opportunities
- 30:40Speaker 1: usually come in bunches, because when teams decide they're not
- 30:44Speaker 1: going to go away from him, then for the first
- 30:48Speaker 1: time he has those opportunities. And he dropped one last week. Um,
- 30:53Speaker 1: it seems I sort of agree with Brian. I don't
- 30:55Speaker 1: want to say they were bored last week, but their
- 30:57Speaker 1: attention is much more in tune and their antennas are
- 31:01Speaker 1: up for this game. I think they get a couple
- 31:02Speaker 1: of picks. I think Jalen has at least one. I
- 31:06Speaker 1: think we were talking about it earlier when the stats
- 31:08Speaker 1: don't show with Jalen, Ramsey and Nient point because of
- 31:11Speaker 1: the lack of picks. We heard it on Good Morning
- 31:12Speaker 1: Football this morning. They're like, yeah, yeah, he's talking a
- 31:14Speaker 1: lot of talk about you don't even have any reception yet. Well,
- 31:17Speaker 1: people who talk about defensive backs not have interceptions and
- 31:21Speaker 1: defensive ends not having sacks. Uh, it's it's easy fodder
- 31:27Speaker 1: for television, and it's easy fodder for a while. Why
- 31:29Speaker 1: are you doing this opportunities When cornerbacks reach elite levels,
- 31:36Speaker 1: their interceptions usually drop. If you look at most great
- 31:38Speaker 1: cornerbacks throughout NFL history, they have very high interception rates
- 31:41Speaker 1: their first couple of years, and then teams stopped going
- 31:44Speaker 1: away from the leading interceptions in this era. Leading interception
- 31:49Speaker 1: guys usually finish their careers within the fifties of the forties.
- 31:52Speaker 1: Opportunities are rare if you are not giving up plays
- 31:56Speaker 1: as a corner and you're taking away sides of the field,
- 31:58Speaker 1: you were doing your job as a corner and this
- 32:00Speaker 1: day and age, if you get three or four interceptions,
- 32:02Speaker 1: that's a huge year for a cornerback in this day
- 32:04Speaker 1: and age. So to say, well, he's not getting interceptions
- 32:07Speaker 1: is uh again shows a lack of knowledge of the situation.
- 32:11Speaker 1: All right, Well it's time for pick them, where we
- 32:14Speaker 1: pick one of the big marquee matchups of the weekend
- 32:17Speaker 1: and tell you who we think is gonna win and
- 32:19Speaker 1: why you should watch it. Brian, you have Minnesota at Philadelphia. Yeah,
- 32:24Speaker 1: that's the game that I'm interested in this week. I
- 32:26Speaker 1: obviously it's a replay of the NFC Championship game from
- 32:30Speaker 1: last year, which wasn't the game for very long. I'm
- 32:32Speaker 1: interested because you have to. You have two teams kind
- 32:35Speaker 1: of stuck all of a sudden Carson Wentz back, So
- 32:38Speaker 1: I don't think the Eagles will be there long, but
- 32:40Speaker 1: you know they're coming off that loss to Tennessee last week.
- 32:43Speaker 1: The defense and Philly got a lot of attention last year.
- 32:45Speaker 1: I know that Nick Foles and what he did after
- 32:48Speaker 1: Carson Wentz went out kind of became the story. But
- 32:51Speaker 1: that defense was highly regarded. And for them to allow
- 32:55Speaker 1: three consecutive fourth down conversions in overtime on a single
- 33:00Speaker 1: drive with the game on the line, they're gonna be
- 33:03Speaker 1: at home and they're gonna be angry, and I just
- 33:05Speaker 1: I mean that interested me. Plus you've got Minnesota and
- 33:07Speaker 1: we were there that early August, and so that's a
- 33:11Speaker 1: good team. But they're one two and one. They got
- 33:14Speaker 1: spanked at home by the Bills. So that's the defense again,
- 33:18Speaker 1: like the Eagles, very highly regarded. They put eighty four
- 33:21Speaker 1: million dollars into a veteran quarterback, they got beat by
- 33:24Speaker 1: a rookie. They can either res first or second start
- 33:27Speaker 1: on the road in their building. I mean, you get it.
- 33:29Speaker 1: You have two angry teams, you have two talented teams,
- 33:32Speaker 1: and you have two desperate teams. And it doesn't have
- 33:35Speaker 1: the storyline of the Jaguars and the Chiefs, obviously, but
- 33:39Speaker 1: I think it's equally as compelling. And I'm going to
- 33:41Speaker 1: go with the Eagles at home, all right. I also
- 33:44Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the Eagles at home. I was
- 33:46Speaker 1: reading an article where it says, like the sky is
- 33:48Speaker 1: falling in Philadelphia. We don't know what's going on with
- 33:50Speaker 1: the Super Bowl champs. They have to fix it now.
- 33:53Speaker 1: I think there's a bit of panic in Philadelphia, and
- 33:55Speaker 1: I think this is the week where they get back
- 33:56Speaker 1: on track. Um, it's a tough one for me because
- 34:02Speaker 1: I firmly believe in desperate team syndrome in the NFL,
- 34:06Speaker 1: which leads me to think Minnesota will play well. But
- 34:10Speaker 1: as in my pick, which is coming up, you've got
- 34:12Speaker 1: two desperate teams. Um, I'm gonna go with the Vikings
- 34:17Speaker 1: because it's so hard to see them at one, three
- 34:19Speaker 1: and one. But um, I don't love to pick, so
- 34:22Speaker 1: I mean it's and it sort of flows into I
- 34:26Speaker 1: went with Falcons and Steelers for the same reason. I
- 34:28Speaker 1: think Brian went with Minnesota and Philadelphia. These two games
- 34:32Speaker 1: show you you know how hard it is to win
- 34:36Speaker 1: in the NFL. You're talking about Falcons and Steelers, Minnesota
- 34:40Speaker 1: and Philadelphia. If Minnesota and the Falcons lose this week,
- 34:45Speaker 1: there's seasons are in big trouble. And nobody thought that
- 34:49Speaker 1: Minnesota seemed to be in trouble. I think the Falcons
- 34:51Speaker 1: are really really good. Uh, they're beat up on defense,
- 34:54Speaker 1: but they're a team that a couple of things break right.
- 34:57Speaker 1: You could be talking about making a deep playoff run
- 34:59Speaker 1: and all the said, they have a chance to be
- 35:00Speaker 1: almost out of it. Um, you know, it's a It's
- 35:06Speaker 1: the kind of game the Historically, the Steelers stack on
- 35:10Speaker 1: top of what they've been doing and start to get
- 35:13Speaker 1: back in it. So if they don't win this game,
- 35:17Speaker 1: you wonder if they're not for real. This year they
- 35:23Speaker 1: lost the Ravens didn't look like it. But usually the Steelers,
- 35:27Speaker 1: even when you think they're look like the Patriots, even
- 35:30Speaker 1: when you think they're struggling early, they surprise you a
- 35:33Speaker 1: stack up a couple and then all of a sudden
- 35:34Speaker 1: they're going and you think, boy, how bad they look
- 35:37Speaker 1: in September. Well, no, it's fine, They're fine if if
- 35:41Speaker 1: they don't do it in this game against the Falcons
- 35:43Speaker 1: at home, I wonder if they're going to do it.
- 35:44Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go with the Steelers. But sort of
- 35:47Speaker 1: like the Philadelphia pick, it's hard to imagine the Falcons
- 35:50Speaker 1: out of it this early, so I think this is
- 35:51Speaker 1: a monster game. I'm gonna go with the Falcons. But
- 35:54Speaker 1: I do agree that this is a must one for
- 35:55Speaker 1: both sides, so one of them has to lose. But
- 35:58Speaker 1: just the Steelers just don't seem like the others. Maybe
- 36:00Speaker 1: it is what you say that maybe they just haven't
- 36:02Speaker 1: figured it out yet and they will, But the Falcons
- 36:04Speaker 1: to me just looked like the better team in this one. Brian,
- 36:06Speaker 1: what do you think? Well, I think both of these
- 36:08Speaker 1: teams are screwed because I've gotten their players all over
- 36:11Speaker 1: my fantasy this week. And uh and you guys, you
- 36:14Speaker 1: were you were right in hammering me earlier about one
- 36:17Speaker 1: of the worst fantasy weeks in the history of fantasy.
- 36:19Speaker 1: Um Roethlisberger, I think should have a big day against
- 36:24Speaker 1: the Falcons, beat up secondary, but I see I can
- 36:28Speaker 1: see Matt Ryan throwing the ball all over the field too,
- 36:30Speaker 1: against a Steelers team that is uncharacteristically near the bottom
- 36:34Speaker 1: of the league in the defensive ranking. UM, I don't
- 36:37Speaker 1: know which way to go. DeVante Freeman's coming back. They're
- 36:39Speaker 1: talking to Pittsburgh about actually giving the ball to James Connor.
- 36:43Speaker 1: I'll go with the Steelers at the home. I love,
- 36:45Speaker 1: you know. I went on to desperation theory fifth here. Um,
- 36:48Speaker 1: I think Pittsburgh is a more desperate team than the Falcons,
- 36:52Speaker 1: just because of all of the the high drinks and
- 36:56Speaker 1: the nonsense with Levy and fell and Antonio Brown. I
- 36:59Speaker 1: think they have got to pull themselves, you know, out
- 37:02Speaker 1: of the mock this week and set their season on
- 37:05Speaker 1: a different road. So I'll go with the Stewards at home.
- 37:07Speaker 1: But I don't love to pick alright. My game is
- 37:11Speaker 1: Rams at Seattle. The Seahawks. Rams continuing to show that
- 37:15Speaker 1: they are the team to beat the season, one of
- 37:17Speaker 1: two unbeaten teams along with Kansas City. Last week, you
- 37:20Speaker 1: have the Seahawks drama with Earl Thomas, he's out for
- 37:22Speaker 1: the season. You have the drama that happened on the sideline.
- 37:26Speaker 1: Rams are only a seven point favorite, though, which makes
- 37:28Speaker 1: me want of if the Seahawks team is going to
- 37:30Speaker 1: challenge them. But I think the Rams are just too good.
- 37:32Speaker 1: I think they stay on beating this week. Yeah, I'm
- 37:35Speaker 1: gonna go with I'm gonna go with the Seahawks because
- 37:38Speaker 1: everything tells you how to go through Rams, and this
- 37:41Speaker 1: league is so weird on games like this. Uh, the
- 37:45Speaker 1: Seahawks are desperate. They need to stay in it. If
- 37:48Speaker 1: if they're going to challenge at all, you need to
- 37:50Speaker 1: win win games like this at home. Uh, they haven't
- 37:53Speaker 1: been playing bad, They've been staying in it. I'm gonna
- 37:57Speaker 1: go with the Seahawks because I want to sit there
- 37:59Speaker 1: and smile when they But I'll tell you this, if
- 38:03Speaker 1: the Rams win this game against a desperate team on
- 38:06Speaker 1: the road with an experienced coach, If the Rams win
- 38:09Speaker 1: this game and go to five and oh, then all
- 38:11Speaker 1: of a sudden, they look like one of those teams
- 38:14Speaker 1: that might have a sprinter stretch and get to eight
- 38:18Speaker 1: or nine and oh. It's hard to go unbeating early
- 38:21Speaker 1: because there's always teams that believe they're still good. The
- 38:25Speaker 1: Seahawks believe they're still good. Uh So if the Rams
- 38:28Speaker 1: do win this, I see them get into eight nine ten.
- 38:32Speaker 1: But I think the Seahawks win it and are basically saying,
- 38:34Speaker 1: what a weird league it is. Obsests like this happened
- 38:37Speaker 1: every year. Ryan, What do you think, um? What? The
- 38:42Speaker 1: Rams remind me of the early nineties Cowboys. You know,
- 38:44Speaker 1: they've got a powerful running attack, They've got a big
- 38:48Speaker 1: time arm, they've got receivers who can get down the field,
- 38:51Speaker 1: and man, can they play defense. I mean, they just
- 38:53Speaker 1: look like one of those teams from from Jimmy Johnson's
- 38:56Speaker 1: first years in Texas. But I'm with John on this one.
- 39:00Speaker 1: The desperate theory really plays out, and you know what
- 39:02Speaker 1: looks Seattle is a long way from everywhere. That's not
- 39:05Speaker 1: a short trip for the Rams. I'm gonna go with
- 39:08Speaker 1: the Seahawks at home. John and I have both been there.
- 39:11Speaker 1: We know what that place is like when it gets
- 39:12Speaker 1: amped up. You know their back is against the wall.
- 39:15Speaker 1: The fans are feeling that. I think that's all gonna work.
- 39:17Speaker 1: Here was the tipping point for me when Todd Gurley
- 39:20Speaker 1: last Sunday night, after the Rams wins that we can't
- 39:23Speaker 1: be beat right now. I went, well, you'll lose next week.
- 39:26Speaker 1: You opened your mouth. You shouldn't have done that. Um.
- 39:29Speaker 1: If that's the way they're thinking, then they're probably do
- 39:32Speaker 1: their young team. All those players are in there, you know,
- 39:35Speaker 1: third fourth year. Uh, they look like they're prime for
- 39:37Speaker 1: an upset. I'll go with the Seahawks. All right, thank you, Brian.
- 39:41Speaker 1: We're going to take a pick and come back with
- 39:43Speaker 1: some fantasy football with Mike Dempsey. Stay tuned, m m
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- 41:44Speaker 1: with Jags Drive Time on this Friday morning, brought to
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- 41:49Speaker 1: of Orange Park. Mike Dempsey, John Osier, Ashland Sullivan, Bryan
- 41:52Speaker 1: Sexton is on the phone already in Kansas City now.
- 41:55Speaker 1: Mike said it might be because of his poor Fantasy score,
- 41:58Speaker 1: did not those punishment, but it's not the case. I
- 42:04Speaker 1: don't know what to say. It was bad. I knew
- 42:07Speaker 1: it was gonna be bad. I took a gamble. I
- 42:09Speaker 1: tried to go with smaller ends, and I lost big time.
- 42:13Speaker 1: So I'll change that philosophy this week. But I'm telling
- 42:16Speaker 1: you what, being in Kansas City, Mike Um a couple
- 42:19Speaker 1: of days before this Chief's game and getting to feel
- 42:22Speaker 1: the full weather in the field, the build up is
- 42:24Speaker 1: already big for this game. Uh, it's a pleasure this morning.
- 42:29Speaker 1: That should be right. I mean, it's the best offense
- 42:32Speaker 1: and the best defense of the national football You don't
- 42:34Speaker 1: get that every time. No, it's gonna be It's Arrowhead
- 42:37Speaker 1: is going to be uncharacteristically crazy from everything I can
- 42:40Speaker 1: gather already all right before we get if anybody didn't,
- 42:46Speaker 1: if anybody had to. I'm not being fantasy football guy, Okay,
- 42:48Speaker 1: I and I respected. I don't play it a whole
- 42:51Speaker 1: lot um. But there are people out there who you know,
- 42:57Speaker 1: all time fancy football fancy. I'm not of those guys.
- 43:00Speaker 1: I love that it exists. I'm just not into it.
- 43:04Speaker 1: But if if you thought for a minute that there's
- 43:07Speaker 1: not skill to this thing, and the first weeks, I'll
- 43:16Speaker 1: get Ryan later. But this is Mike's blowing us out
- 43:20Speaker 1: and it's consistency. He knows what he's doing, he is
- 43:24Speaker 1: and he's way over the top. He is the fantasy boy.
- 43:27Speaker 1: Thanks John. I don't think he likes that name, all right,
- 43:31Speaker 1: before we get to fantasy football, let's get he will
- 43:33Speaker 1: he won't? He might from you, all right, I'll do
- 43:35Speaker 1: uh Roddy Harrison this week. I'm gonna say he will
- 43:38Speaker 1: play a lot because I think the formations that the
- 43:41Speaker 1: Chiefs are gonna use, I don't think they're gonna, uh
- 43:43Speaker 1: just spread it out with a bunch of little guys
- 43:45Speaker 1: that think they're gonna go a lot of two tight
- 43:47Speaker 1: end sets. I think he's going to be in coverage
- 43:48Speaker 1: on Kelsey some of the time there. So I'm gonna
- 43:51Speaker 1: say he will play a lot of significant role in
- 43:53Speaker 1: this game. He won't be a liability in coverage. I
- 43:56Speaker 1: think his coverage ability has been fantastic so far. And
- 44:00Speaker 1: he's a really versatile two ways safety from what we've seen,
- 44:03Speaker 1: and you could definitely envision him in a big time
- 44:05Speaker 1: role for the Jaguars down the road, and I'll say
- 44:08Speaker 1: he might be the primary I hope the Jags have
- 44:11Speaker 1: of slowing down Travis Kelsey. You know, the numbers are
- 44:14Speaker 1: out there that the Jags performance against three wide sets
- 44:18Speaker 1: is phenomenal. They're they're almost impenetrable. But when teams start
- 44:22Speaker 1: to throw to the backs and the tight ends, uh,
- 44:24Speaker 1: they're a little bit more vulnerable. And I think you're
- 44:26Speaker 1: gonna see a lot of Demetris Harris out there. You're
- 44:27Speaker 1: gonna see a lot of Travis Kelsey obviously, So two
- 44:30Speaker 1: tight end sets with the Kareem Hunt catching passes out
- 44:32Speaker 1: of the backfield. And I think Ronnie Harrison is going
- 44:34Speaker 1: to be heavily involved in all that. And to piggyback
- 44:37Speaker 1: on Mike, I think he might be the next Jaguars
- 44:39Speaker 1: defensive star down there. I think he's gonna be a
- 44:41Speaker 1: big time Yeah. He looks like he didn't need much
- 44:44Speaker 1: of a transition period to get the way the players
- 44:47Speaker 1: talk about him. This is the guy who the big time,
- 44:50Speaker 1: elite guys on this defense one out there on the
- 44:54Speaker 1: field with him. He came ready to play, no doubt,
- 44:56Speaker 1: all right, I came ready to play. You guys, ready
- 44:58Speaker 1: for you. Let's do it. All right. We've got i'n
- 45:00Speaker 1: Sexton leading off today. An unfortunate twenty eight point performance
- 45:03Speaker 1: last week for him. Uh. Several individual players on other
- 45:08Speaker 1: teams may have topped him this week, but John Osier
- 45:11Speaker 1: had sixty one very solid. At two sixty nine, he
- 45:14Speaker 1: is in uh third place right now. Ashland Sullivan beat
- 45:17Speaker 1: him by a point last week. Sixty two gives her
- 45:20Speaker 1: to seventy seven, and I got lucky with the ninety
- 45:23Speaker 1: seven point week to give me three biggest week year
- 45:27Speaker 1: so far. Yeah, but we've all had You were going
- 45:29Speaker 1: to mention it. Yeah, I didn't mention it. Alright, Brian,
- 45:33Speaker 1: you've got the board. I think you know who has
- 45:36Speaker 1: taken already. You can only use each player once all year,
- 45:38Speaker 1: and once the players selected, nobody else can use him
- 45:40Speaker 1: in that week. So you're up first, Brian. Matt Ryan
- 45:44Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, boy, I wish I hadn't used him last week,
- 45:46Speaker 1: because I would he'd be my first pick in a
- 45:49Speaker 1: lot of these kind of drafts this week. All right, John,
- 45:52Speaker 1: I'm going, uh, I'm sorry to strategize a little staring
- 45:55Speaker 1: figure out. I'm going advance McDonald white. That's it. Really
- 46:00Speaker 1: one of my favorite picks. He's very He's a second
- 46:02Speaker 1: ranked tight end on my board this week in terms
- 46:04Speaker 1: of guys I haven't used, so I really that's very
- 46:07Speaker 1: well done. I like that a lot. All right, Ashland,
- 46:09Speaker 1: you're up next. I'm gonna go Andy Dalton, okay Man
- 46:16Speaker 1: the good fortune right here? Uh yours truly, It's gonna
- 46:19Speaker 1: go with Blake Boardles, Come on, h he may have
- 46:25Speaker 1: but he can't have him and uh. I will go
- 46:28Speaker 1: with Ezekiel Elliott at running back this week. So back
- 46:31Speaker 1: to Ashland. By the way, we pick a quarterback, running back,
- 46:34Speaker 1: a wide receiver, and tight end. For folks who may
- 46:36Speaker 1: have missed a segment in the past, I'm gonna go
- 46:38Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay. I was impressed with him last week. I
- 46:41Speaker 1: think he has another good game. All right Lindsay for
- 46:43Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos John Near a quarterback, running back, or
- 46:46Speaker 1: wide receiver. I'm gonna go big Ben Ben. That would
- 46:51Speaker 1: have been if Blake was gone, would have been Blake pick.
- 46:56Speaker 1: He's gonna get overlooked by a lot of people this
- 46:58Speaker 1: week and he has a huge game. Yeah, I mean,
- 47:00Speaker 1: couldn't ask for a better matchup, certainly on paper. Brian,
- 47:03Speaker 1: you've got Matt Ryan. Now you've got back to back picks.
- 47:07Speaker 1: I'll go with Kyle Rudolph at the tight end for Minnesota,
- 47:11Speaker 1: and I'll go with Antonio Brown as a wide receiver
- 47:14Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. He's going big this week, ladies and gentlemen,
- 47:17Speaker 1: and I don't blame him one bit. All right, John,
- 47:20Speaker 1: you need a running back world wide receiver. Brian Went's
- 47:22Speaker 1: back in this thing. He's coming for you. You might
- 47:26Speaker 1: go out look out right pick here in Rodgers to
- 47:28Speaker 1: Umu Culan cole Cole. There you go, Ashley need a
- 47:33Speaker 1: wide receiver or a tight end here, I'm going Bengals.
- 47:35Speaker 1: Have you him going a J Green? J Green is
- 47:38Speaker 1: now off the board. All right, So I got back
- 47:40Speaker 1: to back picks. I'm gonna go with Juju Smith Schuster
- 47:44Speaker 1: at wide receiver for the Steelers, and I'm gonna go
- 47:47Speaker 1: with the Jared Cook at tight end for the Raiders,
- 47:51Speaker 1: leaving Ashland with a tight end pick here, Jordan read, please,
- 47:55Speaker 1: Jordan read Monday Night Football. Uh, John, you need a
- 47:59Speaker 1: running back and Mike, I'll be honest with you. I
- 48:03Speaker 1: struggle at the running back position. It's a weird position
- 48:06Speaker 1: in fantasy. To me, it's uh. And you've told me
- 48:09Speaker 1: over the years there's a couple of guys who really
- 48:11Speaker 1: stand out and then it sort of drifts into there's
- 48:15Speaker 1: a lot of shared back fields and become more and
- 48:17Speaker 1: more prevalent. And I see now why you say, you know,
- 48:21Speaker 1: in your season long fantasy drafts, those top few running
- 48:24Speaker 1: backs go big and they're the guys you Guys like
- 48:26Speaker 1: Girly and Alvin Kamara, guys like that our goal. Yeah, so, um,
- 48:30Speaker 1: I'm going Carrie on Johnson. Uh wow, I don't love
- 48:35Speaker 1: it a little outside the box right there for the
- 48:37Speaker 1: Detroit Lions strategy and Brian need you're running back here?
- 48:41Speaker 1: Or did John Steele carry on Johnson from you? Yeah?
- 48:43Speaker 1: He where I can lay low, you know, typical John.
- 48:48Speaker 1: I'll let that one slide so that that kind of
- 48:51Speaker 1: leaves me in great territory. So I guess I'll just
- 48:53Speaker 1: swing big and stay with it and hope I get
- 48:55Speaker 1: back into it. This week. I'll go with Kamara. I
- 48:57Speaker 1: think he's a good The only reason I'd just want
- 49:00Speaker 1: to see how they integrate mark Ingram in was his
- 49:03Speaker 1: first week back, but look, he's going to be there
- 49:05Speaker 1: the rest of the year. This may be the best
- 49:07Speaker 1: other week to play Alvin Kamara because Ingram's just coming
- 49:10Speaker 1: off you know, his first practices of the uh the season.
- 49:13Speaker 1: All right, So Brian's got Matt Ryan, Alvin Kamara, Antonio
- 49:17Speaker 1: Brown and Kyle Rudolph, John has Big Ben Carrie and Johnson,
- 49:21Speaker 1: Keelan Cole and Vance McDonald. Ashleyn went with Andy Dalton,
- 49:24Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay, A. J. Green and Jordan Reed. And I've
- 49:27Speaker 1: got Blake Bortles, Ezekiel Elliott, Juju Smith, Schuster and Jared Cook.
- 49:33Speaker 1: That the caboost was cutting on my carry on, Johnson,
- 49:36Speaker 1: I think he was. He was admiring how you taken
- 49:40Speaker 1: him from his clutches right there. Back. I'll give you
- 49:43Speaker 1: a few pointers. He's got names for everybody. John got
- 49:48Speaker 1: a list of things I need to know from you.
- 49:52Speaker 1: All right there, it is fantasy football. Thank you, Mike,
- 49:54Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. All right, Brian, we will see
- 49:56Speaker 1: you tomorrow when the Jaguars travel to Kansas City for
- 49:59Speaker 1: a big Chiefs match up on Sunday. Thanks for watching
- 50:02Speaker 1: this week on Drivetime. Ye