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Jags Drive Time: Monday, November 15 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Jacks Drive Time with Ashlyn sullif Sounds, John Oceans,
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Speaker 1: Bryan Sexton, Jacks Drive Time, and it starts right now.
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Speaker 1: They could sucker Coom and left after the second quarter,
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Speaker 1: like you see some teams do. They didn't do that.
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Speaker 1: So I hate to use the word proud, but I
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Speaker 1: am welcome in Jaguars Drive Time Monday morning. The fight
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Speaker 1: was there, the competitiveness was there, Jaguars overcoming a very
0:35
Speaker 1: slow start against the Indianapolis Colts to have a chance
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Speaker 1: to win the game at the end of the game,
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Speaker 1: and it did not happen. Welcome in the Jaguars Drive Time.
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Speaker 1: Tough loss, they were competitive. It's kind of like what
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Speaker 1: we said earlier last week is we thought they'd play well,
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Speaker 1: but we didn't know if they had enough to overcome
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Speaker 1: the Colts. Exactly what I thought. I didn't think there'd
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Speaker 1: be a block punt um, but I thought that the
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Speaker 1: offense would struggle and the defense would rise, and that's
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Speaker 1: exactly what happened. That's that's a good sign for where
1:01
Speaker 1: this football team is that they can go in there
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Speaker 1: and play that well. I mean to be a better
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Speaker 1: sign if they won, and there was certainly a chance
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Speaker 1: of it. But that's that's what I expected, that this
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Speaker 1: football team to go and really compete. It's also a
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Speaker 1: good sign for the defense. Two. In the NFL, you
1:17
Speaker 1: don't do what you did to the Bills very often,
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Speaker 1: meaning come out never you get a touchdown. I forget,
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Speaker 1: I forget with the yards were but against the Bills,
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Speaker 1: you felt like the Bills were never going to school.
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Speaker 1: The Bills had a total yards and the Colts ended
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Speaker 1: up with But in the NFL it's about adjustments. The
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Speaker 1: Colts came out and rolled the Jags in the fourth quarter.
1:41
Speaker 1: I mean first the first quarter and you thought, okay,
1:44
Speaker 1: well it was just sort of a flukey thing, you know,
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Speaker 1: But to come back and absolutely nail down that team
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Speaker 1: for the final three quarters, it's significant. Also, I think
1:55
Speaker 1: we can believe in the past rush now. I didn't
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Speaker 1: know if we could before, but this seemed getting consistent pressure.
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Speaker 1: The guys that you feel like our core pieces Smooth
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Speaker 1: alan Jack up front are playing like it each week.
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Speaker 1: They're consistent. I think you believe in them now. At
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Speaker 1: the end of the first quarter, there were two ways
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Speaker 1: it could go same old Jaguars that we've seen or
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Speaker 1: new and improved, and it was decidedly in the direction
2:20
Speaker 1: of new and improved. I've got some thoughts about this.
2:23
Speaker 1: Is there an issue. We're gonna put that to bed.
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Speaker 1: It is, but it is true. I mean we were there,
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Speaker 1: we were standing on the field and the block punt
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Speaker 1: happened and you said, oh, here we go again. Was
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Speaker 1: last week just one of those weeks where it just
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Speaker 1: was going really well? And yeah, it's true. It had
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Speaker 1: the feeling of an impending doom and it was the
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Speaker 1: opposite changed. Yes, it did. Let's get into big things.
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Speaker 1: Big thing one is doing enough. The Jaguars defense is
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Speaker 1: doing their job. After allowing a hundred and sixteen yards
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Speaker 1: in the first quarter, they only gave up a hundred
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Speaker 1: and seventy nine in the next three. The d friends
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Speaker 1: gave this team a chance to win. Now the offense
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Speaker 1: has to score more points. I love the way our
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Speaker 1: defense is playing. They you know, they keep doing that,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna have a chance to win every game. And
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Speaker 1: us as an offense, we gotta take we gotta take
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Speaker 1: some responsibility and get better and um put put the
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Speaker 1: right foot forward. So we'll do that. We've gotta just
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Speaker 1: stick together and we're gonna do that, but um, definitely
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Speaker 1: need to play better. Big Thing too is not enough.
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Speaker 1: This offense has scored thirty three points in three games.
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Speaker 1: Offense went three and out six of their first seven possessions.
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Speaker 1: They have to figure out a way to get the
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Speaker 1: ball down field. Teams will put eight guys in the
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Speaker 1: box every game now because it's proving that it works.
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Speaker 1: They have to push forward. I would say the greatest
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Speaker 1: attribute of this team would be that you know, we're
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Speaker 1: no matter what people say about us, We're always gonna
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Speaker 1: keep on fighting, UM and that I feel like a
3:53
Speaker 1: lot of people can say that about their team, but
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Speaker 1: I think it's honestly something that I truly believe that
4:01
Speaker 1: there's people that think that we played bad football and
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Speaker 1: say that we don't have good players. And at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, we're just a group of cats
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Speaker 1: that are going to go out there and keep on
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Speaker 1: playing no matter what. And yeah, unfortunately, you know, we
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Speaker 1: turn the ball over and that's kind of how this
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Speaker 1: game goes sometimes. UM, so you just gonna move on
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Speaker 1: from it. Finally, Big Thing three, like every Monday, is
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Speaker 1: tracking Trevor the worst half of his career. To start
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Speaker 1: the game in Indianapolis, three or fourteen for thirty six yards.
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Speaker 1: And there are people asking what's going on with Trevor Lawrence. Well,
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Speaker 1: he's a rookie with limited weapons and he will bounce back.
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Speaker 1: One thing about Trevor, but that this one stunt. I
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Speaker 1: could tell this one stunk, this one hurt him. And
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Speaker 1: that's what's our response, My responsibility or coaching staff and
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Speaker 1: the rest of the team pick each other up. Man,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna go you know everybody. There's gonna be critics,
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Speaker 1: there's gonna be there, but that's fine. Let's go out
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Speaker 1: and beat San Francisco. We're gonna get the ball in
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Speaker 1: your hand again with a chance to go in the game.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna go do it. This him and then you
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Speaker 1: have it. That is big things. It was a terrible
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Speaker 1: way to end the game, to see that bumble. But
5:06
Speaker 1: we knew when Trevor Lawrence was drafted there would be
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Speaker 1: highs and lows on this roller coaster of a rookie season,
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Speaker 1: and that was the low. It was a picture perfect low. John,
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Speaker 1: You were all wound up. Why don't you just start
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Speaker 1: swinging well to play at the end of the game. Yes,
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Speaker 1: protect the ball, but fumbles at the end of the
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Speaker 1: game when you're trying to come back. Uh, they happen.
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Speaker 1: You don't happened in every game. It doesn't happen in
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Speaker 1: every game. But this idea that he's playing poorly or regressing. Yes,
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Speaker 1: the status yesterday were bad. I went back and watched
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Speaker 1: first half this morning. I got through the end of
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Speaker 1: the third quarter. The third quarter was rocky. First half.
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Speaker 1: He didn't play bad at all. There was nobody open
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Speaker 1: New Well, there was one, and I'll talk about it, okay,
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Speaker 1: But here's the point. He threw at thirty five times.
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Speaker 1: Well I counted so far two or three bad throws
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Speaker 1: where I said, okay, he missed this guy. But even
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Speaker 1: when he missed the guy, it is a tight window
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Speaker 1: that he was thrown into. If you watch the game
6:03
Speaker 1: near station and I think you were there. Um, Michael
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Speaker 1: Pittman from the Colts running open, and I'm not knocking
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars defense. It happens in the NFL. Receivers get open,
6:16
Speaker 1: but not for this team. Right now, Michael Pittman gave
6:22
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz two or three easy crossing maps the DJ
6:25
Speaker 1: Chark used to do. That's DJ Chark's move. Um, I
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Speaker 1: did not see in the first half of that game,
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Speaker 1: a quarterback who was particularly inaccurate or had much to
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Speaker 1: throw to multiple Even the big play to Marvin Jones
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Speaker 1: down the side of the field was sort of what
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Speaker 1: Marvin has given you. He's not getting incredibly open, but
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Speaker 1: he does make really clutch catches. There's nothing downfield, and
6:50
Speaker 1: the offense is compressed. It is the major factor for
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Speaker 1: this team. It's why I banged so hard and get
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Speaker 1: somebody here at the trade or claim, oh b J.
7:01
Speaker 1: They chose not to. They've got their own reasons for that,
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Speaker 1: but they I wrote in quick thoughts, I really thought
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Speaker 1: that Brian Schottenheimer Daro Bevil called a good game. You
7:10
Speaker 1: could see them putting different design elements, you know, in
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Speaker 1: different combinations to try to get things open. But you
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Speaker 1: use the word compressed. The safeties are squatting, you know,
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Speaker 1: fifteen yards up the field. They're not worried at all
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Speaker 1: about getting beat deep, which allows you to put one
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Speaker 1: up in the box to stop the rod defined the
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Speaker 1: first half, oh and totally defined for you know those
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Speaker 1: four straight drives where you had the ball near midfield
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Speaker 1: and you've got nothing three and out on every one.
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Speaker 1: So there was a wheel route where Leviscus ult was
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Speaker 1: wide open down the sideline. Beautiful design, It worked perfectly.
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Speaker 1: The problem was the Colts were able to send the
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Speaker 1: house at him on that play because they didn't have
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Speaker 1: to worry about the deep ball. And so he didn't
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Speaker 1: even have time to turn back and see that he
7:52
Speaker 1: was focused on the front side, not he didn't get
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Speaker 1: to that read and and and it was it was
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Speaker 1: so distinct. The defenses don't respect the deep game. It's
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Speaker 1: going to keep helping the offensive line either not well, exactly,
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Speaker 1: not at all. I mean that that the offensive line
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Speaker 1: did a pretty torn good job yesterday. Here's the deal.
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Speaker 1: It's all on James Robinson right now. And you can't
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Speaker 1: win that way. If he runs strong, you have a
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Speaker 1: chance at play action. If he is getting mauled at
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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. And there were times yesterday where
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Speaker 1: the Colts it was like they were just but it's
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Speaker 1: harder for him strong defense. But that's what I mean.
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Speaker 1: And so you're at this point now where you gotta
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Speaker 1: get lucky. You don't have the deep ball. So people
8:31
Speaker 1: who look at this quarterback are looking to micro and
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Speaker 1: not macro enough and seeing the big picture. This is
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Speaker 1: fixed with d j Arko on the field, he's not here.
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Speaker 1: It's fixed in the draft and free agency next year
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Speaker 1: when you find him. Guys who create separation. There was
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Speaker 1: zero separation. It was laborious to watch la Visca on
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Speaker 1: the outside trying to get down the field and make
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Speaker 1: that grab that was just over his outstretched storms. He
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Speaker 1: can't get away from people. That's not his game. This
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Speaker 1: is not to say he didn't make mistake Trevor perfectly.
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Speaker 1: You had some passes I thought in the second half
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Speaker 1: creeping in where they were there at account one in
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Speaker 1: the first half that he missed. It was it was
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Speaker 1: a short one. The points passes in the NFL you
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Speaker 1: are usual, especially as a rookie, not going to throw
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Speaker 1: thirty five perfect passes. I thought he had five, six,
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Speaker 1: seven that weren't great passes. But he didn't have nineteen
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Speaker 1: that weren't great passes. He didn't play atrociously well, and
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Speaker 1: I thought he made good decisions to run. I thought
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Speaker 1: he's still he has not gotten gun shy with the rush.
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Speaker 1: He still was like a quarterback. He's gonna be fine,
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Speaker 1: zero problem with I mean, he needs to get better,
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Speaker 1: but when he has weapons and you can accurately judge
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Speaker 1: his ability to make the reads and to stand in
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Speaker 1: the pocket strong and wait for guys to get open.
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Speaker 1: You're going to see those things because we see him
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Speaker 1: now when guys aren't getting open. They have to fix
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Speaker 1: this thing in the off season, and I have no
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Speaker 1: doubt with the draft capital they have and the salary
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Speaker 1: cap room that they have, they'll do it. They'll give
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Speaker 1: him something. So counted. I think it was at the
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Speaker 1: end of the third quarter, five crucial drops, and we
10:04
Speaker 1: heard Dan Arnoldson, we have to play better for this
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Speaker 1: rookie quarterback. You see him take the deep shot down
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Speaker 1: the silence too, Jamal Avenue. If he makes that catch,
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Speaker 1: it's a huge momentum swing and it's it's right there
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Speaker 1: to make. And that's it's just every week, we're talking
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Speaker 1: about that every Monday morning. The problem is Jamal Agne
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Speaker 1: is supposed to be a weapon, and right now he's
10:22
Speaker 1: the weapon. You know, it's more than he bargained for.
10:25
Speaker 1: Ye asked for a little bit more money. I think
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Speaker 1: on the free agent five drops gets you to thirty five.
10:31
Speaker 1: I know I count at least six or seven in
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Speaker 1: the first half where he's trying to throw to a
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Speaker 1: guy who there is no room to throw in. He
10:38
Speaker 1: is a team guy. If he was a selfish player,
10:40
Speaker 1: he'd be telling you he wouldn't throw those passes. He
10:44
Speaker 1: would just throw him out of bound. Because you know
10:47
Speaker 1: you're worry about the interception. He's trying to make the
10:49
Speaker 1: best play possible. He's thrown to guys who are who
10:52
Speaker 1: are very, very covered. It's an interception risk. He didn't
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Speaker 1: care about that. He's trying to win the game. So
10:58
Speaker 1: buckle up. This is all we're gonna see. The defense
11:01
Speaker 1: is going to give them opportunities. And I've got a
11:03
Speaker 1: hot take on that, so I'm gonna hold off on
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Speaker 1: that one. But you have eight games left and you
11:07
Speaker 1: know how this one is gonna play. So if you're
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Speaker 1: evaluating the quarterback, you have to look big picture and
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Speaker 1: see what he's working with and how they can deploy
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Speaker 1: the offense. I thought Schottenheimer and Bevill did a really
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Speaker 1: good job with the game plan yesterday. It just didn't
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Speaker 1: work because they couldn't execute yes. And then I said
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Speaker 1: last week, I worried that Trailer was going to get
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Speaker 1: over criticized the rest of the season because it was
11:27
Speaker 1: going to look like he wasn't improving. I think Sunday
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Speaker 1: was the first element of that. It's going to continue
11:35
Speaker 1: and I'm probably gonna come in here all out of
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Speaker 1: breath all again. That's why I was so adamant about
11:39
Speaker 1: go get him someone so that you can make an
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Speaker 1: accurate read. They've decided they can do it without that,
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Speaker 1: and they want to save the capital. Fine, but it
11:46
Speaker 1: leaves you in this position right now of really struggling
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Speaker 1: to give this quarterback what he needs. Just stay off Twitter, folks,
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Speaker 1: That's all I have to say, John, Just take a
11:54
Speaker 1: little break. Okay, just silence your Twitter. I letna get
11:57
Speaker 1: a nappy. We'd come back on jaguarys Drive Time some
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Speaker 1: of the times, understand that this is what it is
12:45
Speaker 1: you know, don't overthink it, don't overguess it. This is
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Speaker 1: what we've been seeing this whole time, is believing that
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Speaker 1: has play fast that once we kind of calm down,
12:52
Speaker 1: that's all we had to do. We just had to
12:53
Speaker 1: settle in at this cornerback Shaquille Griffin post game talking
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Speaker 1: about the adjustments that defense made after the first choter,
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Speaker 1: and and it was pretty obvious. You saw them be
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Speaker 1: a little jumpy, kind of jumped some routes and just
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Speaker 1: have to settle down. And once they did, they were
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Speaker 1: good to go. When you're playing the stretch play, which
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Speaker 1: is what the Colts got them on early, and you
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Speaker 1: jump out of gaps is the age old thing. One
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Speaker 1: guy out of a gap and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: the guy's gone again. I'll go back to the top
13:19
Speaker 1: and maybe it was they heard Shack say it yesterday. Um,
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Speaker 1: a really good job for a defense they got rolled
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Speaker 1: by a certain player early to come back and stabilize it.
13:32
Speaker 1: If you watch the league, that's what you have to
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Speaker 1: do to play good defense. You are not gonna hold
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Speaker 1: teams to six points or or or nine points very often.
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Speaker 1: Think about it. And since they felt like they got
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Speaker 1: their feet under him against Seattle. What was the halftime
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Speaker 1: scored Seattle seventeen? Nothing? Uh so really two touchdowns in
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Speaker 1: ten quarters to Seattle in the third quarter, which okay,
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Speaker 1: none against the Bills and they really only gave up
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Speaker 1: the one touchdown drive and did it. It was a
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Speaker 1: short field. Yeah, a short field. So uh that was
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Speaker 1: winning defense yesterday to me. Yeah. They were playing chas
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Speaker 1: yesterday and it was awesome to see in a couple
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Speaker 1: of guys in particular stand out. But it's my hot takes.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna hold on. We're gonna hold off, and we're
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Speaker 1: gonna get to highlights. That better be a heck of
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Speaker 1: a hot day. It's just about it. First drive Jonathan
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Speaker 1: Taylor had forty nine yards rushing just in the first
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Speaker 1: drive that put the Jaguars and quite the whole. I'm
14:31
Speaker 1: a big tailor starting at running back. On first down
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Speaker 1: and ten, it is a hand off tic Taylor between
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Speaker 1: the tackles, pass room there he goes Taylor from the
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Speaker 1: sideline and shoved that a bounce by ray Shawn Jenkins
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Speaker 1: to that is seventeen extra points. The one Missuges saw
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Speaker 1: on the graphic was his one game with Tennessee pursuing
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lauren Jacksonville goes three stop such very quick ten
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Speaker 1: to zero deficit that became seventeen to zero the next
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Speaker 1: drive before Jamal Agnew provided a very much needed spark.
15:31
Speaker 1: Wait for that, Sparne Rock. He's got a great screen.
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Speaker 1: Thank yoush. That's what he got, Jamal. And when we
15:51
Speaker 1: talked about that drop pass at the beginning of big things,
15:54
Speaker 1: but then he can do something like this singing. Look,
15:56
Speaker 1: I don't care about the drop past. He's not supposed
15:59
Speaker 1: to be here number one. No, No, I mean he's
16:01
Speaker 1: gonna have some drops. He's not a huge guy. When
16:04
Speaker 1: he's in traffic. He hasn't done that a whole lot.
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Speaker 1: He was a defensive back. No. I mean, the guy
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Speaker 1: is he's giving you what. He's giving you a kickoff
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Speaker 1: return touchdown, that the kick six, he's giving you one
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Speaker 1: rushing receiving. I mean, now we're just waiting for the
16:20
Speaker 1: punt return, right. I mean, you know the guy has
16:21
Speaker 1: given you everything he could and the speed that looked
16:24
Speaker 1: like Fred Taylor in the open field, right. I mean
16:26
Speaker 1: that was an incredible burst of speed. But you you
16:29
Speaker 1: can only do so much and you can't ask him
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Speaker 1: to be d j hr and make those contested balls
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Speaker 1: on the sideline catches. If he does, great, but he's
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Speaker 1: what is five ten? Terror has given him a lot
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Speaker 1: of chances because he's getting open. Yeah, So it's a
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Speaker 1: lot of credit to Jamal a lot. There's this has
16:50
Speaker 1: happened for in the NFL, where a guy has changed
16:52
Speaker 1: positions and become really really good at another. It's rare
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Speaker 1: these days. It's a really impressive thing he's done yesterday
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Speaker 1: is let's go all the way to the fourth quarter.
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Speaker 1: The Jaguars offensive drive that the comeback begins. There comes
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Speaker 1: to pressure, Lawrence fires looking for Jones and he makes
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Speaker 1: the catch. Great adjustment along the sideline by Marvin Shoon
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Speaker 1: Farrell and motion get He is in and touchdown Jacksonville.
17:27
Speaker 1: Following the block of the defensive tackle, Malcolm ground Lawrence
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Speaker 1: several pass inside and they've got it. Arnold, you know
17:38
Speaker 1: what made this drive work? The running game? Yeah, James
17:40
Speaker 1: Robinson got off on this drive. Yet that eighteen yard
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Speaker 1: run after after this catch by Marvin Jones, the running
17:46
Speaker 1: game had the colds on their heels. You gotta have
17:48
Speaker 1: that running game, yeah, And I don't I don't know,
17:52
Speaker 1: James Robinson. Uh, because of COVID, I've been around the
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Speaker 1: whole lot. Uh. My interpretation show what happened yesterday is
18:01
Speaker 1: he must have really had an impressive game in the
18:04
Speaker 1: second half in terms of dealing with pain. He didn't
18:06
Speaker 1: start and didn't play a whole lot in the first half,
18:08
Speaker 1: knowing what I know about, and the only reason that
18:10
Speaker 1: would happen is if he was really playing through some
18:13
Speaker 1: of that He'll second half he was going on it
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Speaker 1: and was impressive. Uh. He is more and more impressive
18:22
Speaker 1: and more critical as the season goes on and turning
18:26
Speaker 1: into one of the better stories that franchise has ever seen.
18:29
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting to watch how they manage here
18:31
Speaker 1: because a he'll injury for a running back is not
18:33
Speaker 1: something that's all of a sudden're gonna be solved. It's
18:34
Speaker 1: gonna linger throughout the course of the year. So you
18:37
Speaker 1: probably won't see him practice much until should he Well,
18:40
Speaker 1: you know what he does, he does very very well.
18:43
Speaker 1: I mean, you'd like to get him the reps, but
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Speaker 1: and he didn't have him He all players need practice.
18:49
Speaker 1: A running back who plays the way he does needs
18:53
Speaker 1: he can do that and it might even be good
18:55
Speaker 1: for him. To not be putting a wear and tear
18:59
Speaker 1: on himself. So other words, don't worry when he doesn't
19:01
Speaker 1: practice on Wednesday, he's not gonna play. Yeah, he was
19:04
Speaker 1: a true game time decision. We were watching Trent Bulky
19:06
Speaker 1: examine his pregame workout and it was it was close
19:10
Speaker 1: and he was decided to go. So credit to him.
19:12
Speaker 1: All right, so we go crazy enough, the Jaguars have
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Speaker 1: a chance to win this game the final drive, even
19:17
Speaker 1: though it seemed like this game was completely out of
19:19
Speaker 1: reach in the first quarter. And let's see what happens
19:22
Speaker 1: at the end of the game. Lawrence's close out, Lawrence fumbles,
19:35
Speaker 1: no signal yet, cold syndicating they have it, but no
19:41
Speaker 1: signal from the officials. If the Colts do come out
19:45
Speaker 1: of the catch the ball just three turnover is obviously refused.
19:52
Speaker 1: So we're gonna take a look at this. And it
19:54
Speaker 1: wasn't like his fourth progress was stopping. Just the worst
19:57
Speaker 1: way to end the game. You hate that for him,
19:59
Speaker 1: and he was visibly Trevor Lawrence visibly frustrated leaving this game.
20:03
Speaker 1: But I mean this, this is a rookie year, and
20:05
Speaker 1: this is you can't ask for much more from this defense.
20:07
Speaker 1: To have a chance to win the game at the
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Speaker 1: final drive. It's those moments of frustration and and Dan
20:11
Speaker 1: Arnold Ludabo this that will define him, right and how
20:15
Speaker 1: he responds. And I don't I just maybe I'm just
20:19
Speaker 1: a hopelessly optimist game. But I don't see how next
20:22
Speaker 1: year we're not talking about what a learning experience this
20:25
Speaker 1: year was, and how improved he is, how much more
20:28
Speaker 1: sense of the game going on around him he has. Well,
20:30
Speaker 1: I'm not hopelessly optimistic by nature, but I have no
20:34
Speaker 1: doubt that he's going to be fine, and he's gonna
20:36
Speaker 1: be very, very good. I didn't even I did not
20:39
Speaker 1: have time to look at that play this morning. I
20:41
Speaker 1: don't know who was open. It didn't look I don't
20:44
Speaker 1: have a huge problem with his field awareness. I don't
20:47
Speaker 1: think that he's not seeing it. I just don't think
20:49
Speaker 1: there's very much. You know, it's all percentage. When you
20:53
Speaker 1: talk like this, there's always gonna be cases where you
20:54
Speaker 1: miss a guy. Generally speaking, I don't think he's missing
20:57
Speaker 1: guys downfield. There. There weren't guys on field right. The
21:00
Speaker 1: only time I saw an open player was the one
21:02
Speaker 1: wheel route Demiscus and all that It Yes, he's not
21:06
Speaker 1: getting much help, that's for sure. That is some. That
21:08
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Speaker 1: about Jaguar Drive Time. It is Monday. It is time
21:57
Speaker 1: for some hot takes. We're gonna calm everyone down a little.
22:00
Speaker 1: It sweek heating people up. Yeah, either right, Okay, it's
22:05
Speaker 1: it's down. I'm going to heat them up. All right,
22:07
Speaker 1: let's go alright, So the Jaguars defense, you can feel
22:10
Speaker 1: the confidence growing, you can feel the sense that they've
22:13
Speaker 1: got that they can impact the game, turn the game around. Um,
22:17
Speaker 1: they needed to do more yesterday. They needed to create
22:20
Speaker 1: a turnover, a takeaway, a short field something. And what
22:23
Speaker 1: I'm saying is is just watching them get better from
22:26
Speaker 1: the end of the first quarter to the end of
22:27
Speaker 1: the game and over the last couple of weeks. I
22:30
Speaker 1: say that they get there this week against the Niners
22:33
Speaker 1: and the next week against the Falcons, they take that
22:35
Speaker 1: next step and become a takeaway team again and give
22:38
Speaker 1: their chance give their team a chance to win. I
22:40
Speaker 1: say the Jaguars win the next two on the strength
22:43
Speaker 1: of the defense creating more opportunities for the offense. Wow,
22:46
Speaker 1: I'm in on it. I'm in on I really believe
22:49
Speaker 1: in this defense, and I really think that you're going
22:52
Speaker 1: to see this quarterback be able to do some things
22:54
Speaker 1: because the defense is going to give him a chance.
22:56
Speaker 1: They will respond in a big way because of the
22:59
Speaker 1: way that they were in the post game locker room listening.
23:02
Speaker 1: I'm telling you the defense is going to take another
23:05
Speaker 1: step this week and that'll be the difference. Yeah, and
23:07
Speaker 1: it's favorable matchups as well. When you look at this
23:10
Speaker 1: could be pretty good. Yeah my hot take? Are you go?
23:16
Speaker 1: My hot tape? Okay, um, you don't have a comment.
23:19
Speaker 1: I mean you were in the whole time. I've been better.
23:21
Speaker 1: Be good. Mine is also about the defense. So uh,
23:28
Speaker 1: that's why I didn't have much on yours. I'm a
23:31
Speaker 1: little more worked up about the Trevor thing, but I
23:33
Speaker 1: knew we were talking about that at the top. This
23:37
Speaker 1: game impressed me more, and I'm really agreeing with you. Uh.
23:43
Speaker 1: It pressed me more than the Bills game because it
23:46
Speaker 1: made me believe more. And this is a team, meaning
23:53
Speaker 1: the Colts, who are much more balanced in the Bills.
23:55
Speaker 1: I don't think there are better offense, but they're much
23:57
Speaker 1: more balanced. And to me, it took more doing it
24:00
Speaker 1: on the road, having to do it a second time.
24:02
Speaker 1: I go back to do I said at the top,
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Speaker 1: smooth Alan Jack. Uh. If you're not a believer in
24:09
Speaker 1: Josh Allen right now, you're not watching it. That is
24:12
Speaker 1: a huge developments as Trevor gets better and becomes a
24:15
Speaker 1: franchise guy. If if Josh is the player he's shown
24:19
Speaker 1: for the last month, you've got your cornerstones on both
24:22
Speaker 1: sides of the ball. Not that many teams have that,
24:24
Speaker 1: let me tell you. Also, Malcolm Brown and Taven Bryan yesterday,
24:28
Speaker 1: and I don't want to dismiss Robert sas he was doing,
24:30
Speaker 1: but Malcolm Brown and Taven Brian were in on nearly
24:33
Speaker 1: every tackle. Between the tackles, I mean they were all
24:36
Speaker 1: over disruptive. Back to back games for Taven Brian were like,
24:40
Speaker 1: I'm starting to get interesting, and I wrote it off
24:42
Speaker 1: last week it was one, uh two is more than one?
24:46
Speaker 1: Let me take something. It is Quentin Nelson is the
24:49
Speaker 1: best interior alignment in football. And I know he's got
24:51
Speaker 1: an ankle, so he wasn't a dent, but he was
24:53
Speaker 1: out there on the field. Had to him. Taven Brown
24:56
Speaker 1: turned him upside down. Tavin Brown, Tavin Bryan turned him
24:59
Speaker 1: up upside down three or four times in that second quarter,
25:03
Speaker 1: third quarter where the Jaguars totally shut down Taylor and
25:06
Speaker 1: he was the reason why. So, I mean, they've they've
25:09
Speaker 1: got some nice pieces and that's why I think if
25:12
Speaker 1: if Tyson Campbell can continue to get better and he
25:17
Speaker 1: had breakup, he had some good moments yesterday, he had
25:19
Speaker 1: some moments where you want to see more, um, then
25:22
Speaker 1: we're going to see this defense go. You're right. He
25:24
Speaker 1: was more impressive because they had to play Jonathan Taylor.
25:27
Speaker 1: They had to They couldn't stop the run on the
25:29
Speaker 1: way to the quarterback. They had to stop the run
25:31
Speaker 1: to get to the quarterback. And they did a good job. Yeah,
25:33
Speaker 1: and had to come back from a huge seventeen and
25:36
Speaker 1: nothing whole all right, My hot take is tight end
25:39
Speaker 1: Dan Arnold is becoming Trevor Lawrence's biggest asset. I was
25:43
Speaker 1: talking to a Saints fan the other day and I
25:45
Speaker 1: was talking about how this trade has been really good
25:47
Speaker 1: for the Jaguars c j Henderson for Dan Arnold, and
25:49
Speaker 1: they said, yeah, but I'll never forget Dan Arnold for
25:53
Speaker 1: dropping that ball in the NFC Championship game. And he
25:55
Speaker 1: spoke about that postgame, saying how he didn't let that
25:58
Speaker 1: moment define him for the rest of his career, and
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Speaker 1: how he sat with Trevor post him in the locker
26:02
Speaker 1: room and said, don't let that fumble define you. Dan
26:05
Speaker 1: Arnold is really impressive, at least on the podium. He
26:08
Speaker 1: he really is honest and tells you how it is.
26:11
Speaker 1: And for him to sit there with the rookie quarterback
26:13
Speaker 1: charneys that right now he has Marvin Jones, who is
26:15
Speaker 1: a veteran presence, but he needs more of that, and
26:17
Speaker 1: Dan Arnold is becoming that he might be Trevor's biggest asset.
26:21
Speaker 1: And also on the field is becoming one of those
26:23
Speaker 1: deep threats that Trevor needs. But he might be the
26:26
Speaker 1: best acquisition that the coach and the general manager have
26:31
Speaker 1: had right because urban Meyer came in and talked about
26:33
Speaker 1: how much he wanted him in free agency, but they
26:36
Speaker 1: couldn't quite land him. Look, the Jaguars have tried. I
26:38
Speaker 1: mean Julius Thomas, anybody remember the money they gave him.
26:41
Speaker 1: They drafted Josh Oliver in the third round. I mean
26:43
Speaker 1: they tried to move up at different times and find
26:45
Speaker 1: tight ends. And here you've got a difference maker right
26:48
Speaker 1: moving the chains, keeping drives alive, the safety valve. And
26:51
Speaker 1: he came to you along with a third round pick
26:54
Speaker 1: for a cornerback that they had given up on. Good move.
26:58
Speaker 1: I would love to see and and we'll see it
27:00
Speaker 1: next year what dan orlod can be with receivers to
27:04
Speaker 1: spread the field, because when you look at it, I
27:07
Speaker 1: don't mean over the optimistic about an offense. It's scoring
27:09
Speaker 1: eleven points a game the last three weeks. But there's
27:12
Speaker 1: some weapons. If you think you've got Taylor, Taylor, Robinson, Robinson,
27:21
Speaker 1: h Lawrence. I was trying to say Trevor and it's
27:24
Speaker 1: I'm tired. It's a long trip Arnold, Robinson and Lawrence.
27:32
Speaker 1: You feel like you're almost set there. Put two receivers
27:36
Speaker 1: behind a decent offensive line. It may not take very
27:41
Speaker 1: long for this offense to get better if if they
27:43
Speaker 1: get a weapon or two on the I think that
27:44
Speaker 1: if you get a weapon or two on the outside,
27:45
Speaker 1: you've got another weapon waiting in Labiscus Nult, who was
27:48
Speaker 1: a mismatch on linebackers and safeties. But you're not getting
27:52
Speaker 1: there because you need him outside. So you're absolutely right, John,
27:54
Speaker 1: You go find that game breaking wide receiver, that guy
27:57
Speaker 1: who can really take the safety, take the top office,
27:59
Speaker 1: they liked to say, and all of a sudden pieces
28:01
Speaker 1: start to fall into place that maybe you don't see
28:04
Speaker 1: right now because you're too close to it. And not
28:05
Speaker 1: to mention Travis e t N coming back. We've seen
28:08
Speaker 1: nothing from him. We have no idea what his potential is.
28:10
Speaker 1: But it can only help right now. Mismatches. It's a
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Speaker 1: game of matchups on paper. E t n ought to
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Speaker 1: be what agg knew did on that safety. Wouldn't wouldn't
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Speaker 1: be interesting if they had two of that? Certainly well,
28:25
Speaker 1: and if you get e t N back and healthy,
28:27
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you do have to write
28:29
Speaker 1: and that would be a lovely issue to have. And
28:33
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29:18
Speaker 1: It is one to grow on. We're ending on an
29:20
Speaker 1: optimistic note. Who you want to go? Go with? Malcolm Brown?
29:23
Speaker 1: You know, I've been impressed with him because of COVID.
29:25
Speaker 1: I don't know him, but people who I know who
29:28
Speaker 1: do say he's a good dude with a lot of energy,
29:31
Speaker 1: and you could see it lines up in the back field.
29:33
Speaker 1: He's in the backfield as a defensive tackle. UM with
29:36
Speaker 1: a nod to Taven Brian because I almost went with him.
29:38
Speaker 1: I think Malcolm Brown is an energetic guy on the
29:40
Speaker 1: inside and they're gonna need him the next eight games.
29:43
Speaker 1: Tremendous trade in the off season to bring in a
29:46
Speaker 1: guy who can be so versatile for you. I'm liking it.
29:49
Speaker 1: I'm tired today, shalm No tired to the Trevor criticism.
29:53
Speaker 1: I'm particularly tired of the criticism of Shatt Griffin. H
29:57
Speaker 1: I think he's my one to grow on. Um. Sorry, Max,
30:02
Speaker 1: I Uh, Shatt Griffin could have had an interception yesterday.
30:08
Speaker 1: That's the fourth that he could have had. And he's
30:11
Speaker 1: killing himself. I'm getting letters from people or emails. Nobody
30:15
Speaker 1: writes letters anymore. Oh, he's a waste of money. He's
30:20
Speaker 1: a huge disappointment. Look, he's playing really good cornerback. I
30:25
Speaker 1: if I'm a GM and signing a cornerback, I hope
30:28
Speaker 1: they get interceptions. I need them to shut down receivers.
30:32
Speaker 1: I need them to have their hands on passes. To me,
30:35
Speaker 1: if a cornerback gets his hand in the past, he's
30:36
Speaker 1: done his job. If he catches it, it's a bonus.
30:39
Speaker 1: Shaq Griffin is fine. I do think he'll get a pick.
30:41
Speaker 1: He'll turn something into something that he wants to do
30:43
Speaker 1: so desperately. But he is not playing poorly whatsoever. Schlenn
30:47
Speaker 1: He's also a great guy. He comes into every single
30:50
Speaker 1: win or lose. He's there in the locker room. He's
30:54
Speaker 1: the culture guy. He is a tremendous one. Good shadowed
30:57
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman and he's making that adjustment where he's shadowing
31:00
Speaker 1: that number one receiver. And we didn't see much from
31:02
Speaker 1: Michael Pitton. We saw those explosive plays, but that's going
31:04
Speaker 1: to happen. I mean, that's gonna happen occasionally. He's fine.
31:09
Speaker 1: This team is getting better because of players like Jack
31:12
Speaker 1: and Malcolm Brown and David Bryant and Roy Robertson Harris,
31:16
Speaker 1: who is my one to grow on Bears fans. I
31:18
Speaker 1: remember when they acquired him and free agency said, uh,
31:21
Speaker 1: we missed a good one. You're gonna love Roy Robertson Harris.
31:24
Speaker 1: And he's been dealing with an injury at the beginning
31:26
Speaker 1: of the season and we didn't see much from him,
31:28
Speaker 1: and I said, I don't know what's going on, but
31:30
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that splash that everyone's talking about with
31:33
Speaker 1: Roy Robertson Harris until the past couple of weeks. He's
31:36
Speaker 1: been on the field. He's been making an impact and
31:38
Speaker 1: showing us this free agency class it's improving in the
31:41
Speaker 1: right direction, just to kind of end it. Look, I
31:44
Speaker 1: understand people pay good, hard money and they want to
31:47
Speaker 1: see wins and losses. But I've said since the beginning
31:50
Speaker 1: that this year is not about the record. It's about
31:52
Speaker 1: the development. And right now, even at two and seven,
31:56
Speaker 1: the development is tangible for this football team and my hote.
32:00
Speaker 1: I think the next two weeks people will be happier
32:02
Speaker 1: because of the defense. Just hold on. What's impression you
32:07
Speaker 1: guys alluded to it. You now have a defensive line
32:10
Speaker 1: that is capable of coming at you in waves. That's
32:15
Speaker 1: what this defense. It's what all defenses need. But we're
32:17
Speaker 1: talking about Tavin, Brian or Robitson, Harris Smoot, a lot
32:21
Speaker 1: of guys who probably never gonna make the Pro Bowl,
32:23
Speaker 1: but they are making impacts and they have numbers up
32:27
Speaker 1: front defensively hasn't been that way since probably mid two eighteen.
32:30
Speaker 1: If Brian has another big game, I'm going to have
32:32
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