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Starters, depth & more observations from Preseason Week 1 | Jags Drive Time: Monday, August 15 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Jacks Drive John with Ashlyn Sullims with John
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Speaker 1: O'shans Bryan Sexton Jacks Drive Time and starts right now.
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Speaker 1: I feel like Sundays I be ready for today. Honestly, Uh,
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Speaker 1: Sunday was a very physical day. But I feel like
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Speaker 1: duck and send it on. That's happening. And I took
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Speaker 1: it hit out there. It took a couple of them,
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Speaker 1: but I feel like I needed that to get right
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Speaker 1: for tonight. So I was thought that I wasn't worried
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Speaker 1: about getting hit. I took a couple already. I was
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Speaker 1: really trying once to run through defenders and I was
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Speaker 1: just trying to be a hammer out the know, you know.
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Speaker 1: Today so when I feel like I just went out
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Speaker 1: there and I feel I'd work on but I was
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Speaker 1: glad to back out there. I want to come back
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Speaker 1: for running back Travis Et. I'm missing almost an entire
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Speaker 1: calendar year and finally back on the game field. Welcome
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Speaker 1: to Jaguars Drive Time. On a Monday, we are recapping
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Speaker 1: the second preseason game after a couple of days to decompress.
0:56
Speaker 1: By the way, if his nickname isn't Smiley, it's you know,
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Speaker 1: he's always so happy. Everyone who's watching this knows somebody
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Speaker 1: who has that magnetic personality. Every time they're in a room,
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Speaker 1: you just want to go say hello. And and that's
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Speaker 1: Travis E. T N. I'm sure there's other people like that,
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Speaker 1: but the most dynamic personality of anyone in that locker
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Speaker 1: room that I know of is Travis E. T N.
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Speaker 1: What a great It's the guy you can't help but
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Speaker 1: root for. Well, why it was so meaningful because we
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Speaker 1: talked about this all last year. Look, we gotta wait
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Speaker 1: and see can you practice every day? How will he
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Speaker 1: be after the first you know, live game action. All
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Speaker 1: we hear is he's ready to go. It's a huge
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Speaker 1: deal that that Liz Frank injury has ended players careers.
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Speaker 1: So it was no guarantee, and he worked his butt
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Speaker 1: off all off season to be ready to go. And
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Speaker 1: it's awesome. It's a great story, it really is. It
1:43
Speaker 1: was a week short of a full calendar year since
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Speaker 1: he entered it in the Saints game last season, and
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Speaker 1: and write no guarantee and early above schedule to get
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Speaker 1: here in time. But you get the sense with that
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Speaker 1: big smile on his face that if he had a
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Speaker 1: bad day, he still would have come out smiling and
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Speaker 1: said it'll get better and he's just good or bad,
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Speaker 1: he's going to be your favorite in the law. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: let's get into big things, shall we. Recaving that second
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Speaker 1: preseason game. Big thing one is the starting defense exactly
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Speaker 1: when we wanted to see from that group after a
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Speaker 1: week before struggling a little bit against the run, and
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Speaker 1: now we see the starting defense as one working together
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Speaker 1: at the front seven, bringing a lot of pressure, the
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Speaker 1: secondary making some plays and foy Alui Khan's first game
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Speaker 1: as a Jaguar, I was told my parents and I'm
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Speaker 1: just nervous going out there and making a good of
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Speaker 1: present for my teammates and then, uh, you know, for
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Speaker 1: the organization and stuff. But I think our energy would
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Speaker 1: great to start the game and we were definitely fit
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Speaker 1: to get into the ball and everything. I just love
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Speaker 1: the way we played to start off the game. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: we've gotta keep our energy up throughout the game, and
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Speaker 1: I make sure everybody on that same page. Big thing
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Speaker 1: too is starting offense. Took them a little bit to
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Speaker 1: get going. The first two series. Would have liked to
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Speaker 1: have touchdowns instead of field goal, but finally that third series,
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Speaker 1: scoring that touchdown, and Trevor Lawrence says, the biggest thing
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Speaker 1: is they didn't beat themselves. Yeah, that's great. I mean
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Speaker 1: that's the first step that you can't shoot yourself in
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Speaker 1: the foot, you know. Um, I thought coach did a
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Speaker 1: great job getting the calls in in and now the huddle,
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Speaker 1: you know, and then there's always gonna be times when
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Speaker 1: you're kind of behind the play clock and you got
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Speaker 1: to speed up. And I thought throughout camp we've done
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Speaker 1: a good job of working that and guys getting to
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Speaker 1: where they're getting to their spot quick and being able
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Speaker 1: to line up and go when we need to, because
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to be able to do that. So
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Speaker 1: tonight we had a couple of those that we had
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Speaker 1: to do and execute and ended up having a positive play.
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Speaker 1: And then no, I mean no false starts, holes, any
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Speaker 1: of that. Sent that's that's huge. You can't you can't
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Speaker 1: hurt yourself. And big thing three is depth. Now, I
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Speaker 1: guess you could say this is the area of concern.
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Speaker 1: In a preseason game, when the offense and defensive starters
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Speaker 1: left the field, there was a huge drop off in
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Speaker 1: the depth of this team. Head coach Dog Peterson says
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Speaker 1: it's on this coaching staff to get them ready. Um,
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Speaker 1: you can a little bit, um, you know, to try
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Speaker 1: to have some success on offense and defense. I still
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Speaker 1: think it's difficult, especially with the out of players that
3:50
Speaker 1: both teams are playing this time of year, you know,
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Speaker 1: and and obviously we have two games under our belt
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Speaker 1: where they'll have one, you know, so there's not a
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Speaker 1: lot to go off of. But you you still want
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Speaker 1: your team to have success one into the game, so
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Speaker 1: you try to prepare him a little bit for for
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Speaker 1: what they what they may see. Um. But again, it
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Speaker 1: kind of just boils down to just doing your job,
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Speaker 1: you know, and how your coach and what you're what
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Speaker 1: your coach to do assignment wise. And I think tonight,
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Speaker 1: especially in the second half, we had we had a
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Speaker 1: number of mistakes that that that cost us and uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, I heard us attept and there you have it.
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Speaker 1: Those are big things. Recapping a presem game against the
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Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns, and let's go right to the depth issue
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Speaker 1: because it wasn't good. But let me put something in perspective,
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Speaker 1: maybe something you haven't thought about. Um. Will Richardson was
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Speaker 1: the starting left tackle on that second team offensive line.
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Speaker 1: He did not play well. Okay, Now, when he doesn't
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Speaker 1: play well, it doesn't look good at all for Ben
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Speaker 1: Bards who's lined up next to him right, or maybe
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Speaker 1: the tight end who's supposed to chip on the way out.
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Speaker 1: When that left tackle is struggling in such a prominent position,
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Speaker 1: it plays breakdown. It makes everything look bad. Well, I
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Speaker 1: didn't think he was going to make this team anyway, right,
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Speaker 1: I mean maybe he does. I don't not making that decision.
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Speaker 1: But with what you've got with Walker Little right and
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Speaker 1: Juwan Taylor, one of the two of them is now
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Speaker 1: your swing tackle, not Will Richardson Jr. Right, So you think, well, gosh,
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Speaker 1: we have no depth because we've got Will Richardson Jr.
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Speaker 1: Who's struggling out there playing left tackle for us. Well,
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Speaker 1: he's not gonna be years. So you actually do have
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Speaker 1: depth at a critical position, because what you would do
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Speaker 1: is if Cam can't play, move Walker a little over
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Speaker 1: the left side and put you on Taylor in a
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Speaker 1: right tackle, or you know verse, whatever you choose to do.
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Speaker 1: You've got better depth at left tackle than you think.
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Speaker 1: But when you're watching the game, you're thinking, well, Will
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Speaker 1: Richinson is an important guy. Is a backup? Not really
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Speaker 1: not really, because you drafted Walker Little last year and
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Speaker 1: the year before you drafted Juwan Taylor, so you've actually
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Speaker 1: got depth there now. I mean that there are other
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Speaker 1: positions that broke down that you may not have depth that.
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Speaker 1: But that's just a clearing example of how you can't
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Speaker 1: say second team didn't score any points. They gave up
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Speaker 1: a lot of points. Coach mentioned it. There's a lot
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Speaker 1: of guys come get another lineup that don't necessarily work
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Speaker 1: against each other on the practice field or work with
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Speaker 1: each other on the practice field. There's just a big
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Speaker 1: dynamic when you get beyond the first team, and so
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Speaker 1: they've got to be better. But it's not as bad
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Speaker 1: as you're the thing. Yeah, and you expect a drop off, right,
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Speaker 1: like you expect a big drop off. And I think
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Speaker 1: fans panics because it was a massive drop off. But
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Speaker 1: I love what Coach Peterson said. We spoke to him
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Speaker 1: on the radio broadcast post game and he's like, look,
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Speaker 1: you know, I was in their shoes before. They're playing
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Speaker 1: with all this pressure, they're trying to make this team.
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Speaker 1: At times, there's some hero ball going on, wanting to
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Speaker 1: make the big play to impress instead of doing your assignments.
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Speaker 1: Basically told everyone just pump the brakes a little bit.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna get them ready. Right now, there's ninety guys
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Speaker 1: we're trying to figure out, and you're counting on those
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Speaker 1: guys and special teams and maybe some sub packages, but
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Speaker 1: the first team is where we want to see improvement,
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Speaker 1: and we did and we did see that. Let's go
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Speaker 1: back to the top and talk about the defense real quick, um,
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Speaker 1: and we can talk about Raton Jenkins in the forced
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Speaker 1: fumble and what he did there. But the three guys
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Speaker 1: who get the least amount of attention and acto aids
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Speaker 1: are those three interior alignment in this three force game.
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Speaker 1: Because we're always talking about tray Von and josh Right.
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Speaker 1: In the first two drives, we on the television broadcast,
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Speaker 1: Bucky and I were talking about Devon Hamilton's I hope
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Speaker 1: Nick Harris, the starting center for the Browns, has successful
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Speaker 1: surgery and is back quickly, but Devon folded him, I
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Speaker 1: mean just pushed him backwards. Well that was great to
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Speaker 1: see because you're counting on Devon. I watched fully Fasi
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Speaker 1: and I watched Robertson Harris both collapse their defender back
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Speaker 1: into the pocket and make either Deshaun Watson or two
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Speaker 1: Ernest Brown make a play to the outside where there
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Speaker 1: were players waiting. Those three guys, all three showed how
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Speaker 1: much better this defense is because if they set the
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Speaker 1: tempo like that, and they won't always set it like that,
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Speaker 1: but if they can, well, now you've got linebackers right,
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Speaker 1: you'll have your Devn Lloyd and your full Lukan's you know,
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Speaker 1: screaming to the ball with no one in front of them.
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Speaker 1: Those three guys were really impressive and showed why I
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Speaker 1: think everybody believed that this defense is going to be
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Speaker 1: that much better than it was, a vast improvement from
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Speaker 1: week one, and I will I have to pump the
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Speaker 1: brakes on myself because I know Nick Chubb and those
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Speaker 1: running backs and Joelbatino, they're all pro guard didn't play,
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Speaker 1: so I mean, you do have to kind of shade
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Speaker 1: it a little bit. But let's be honest, based on
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Speaker 1: what we saw in week one, different or last year,
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Speaker 1: at times, we wouldn't have been talking about how dominant
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Speaker 1: those interior three were. And nobody ever focuses on the
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Speaker 1: three interior defensive lineman in a three fource game, and
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Speaker 1: yet they were and that speaks volumes for how much
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Speaker 1: better this defense can be going against DeShawn Watson as well.
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Speaker 1: And we've seen his talent and that's IM listening to
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Speaker 1: the TV broadcast. That's what everyone was talking about nationally
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Speaker 1: is oh my gosh, look at this Jaguars defense against
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Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson. Grant and he hasn't played in forever. Not
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Speaker 1: a good showing. No, No, they made him think and
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Speaker 1: and here's the guy who hadn't played in eighteen nineteen months,
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Speaker 1: a little bit longer than that, so he was gonna
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Speaker 1: be rusty no matter what. But they didn't give him
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Speaker 1: any time. Right, if he had had three seconds instead
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Speaker 1: of two, perhaps he looks better. They did a great
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Speaker 1: job on the defensive front. They did, and let's quickly
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Speaker 1: mention big thing to the starting offense. Took them three
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Speaker 1: series to get a touchdown, but there were some impressive
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Speaker 1: moments at times. I think Trevor Lawrence will admit he
9:14
Speaker 1: missed some throws those first two series, and that's the
9:16
Speaker 1: reason he's playing a preseason game is to get that right.
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Speaker 1: You can't it's tough to replicate that on the practice
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Speaker 1: field when you know guys aren't going to hit you. Um,
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Speaker 1: I'll say this, travisy t had a touchdown on the
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Speaker 1: first drive. He saw that ball coming and he's thinking
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Speaker 1: about getting to the corner. You could see that he
9:31
Speaker 1: was trying to figure out where he was in relation
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Speaker 1: to the sideline and the cone and when he needed
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Speaker 1: to turn it up and he just took his eyes
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Speaker 1: off the ball. That was a good throw and he
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Speaker 1: probably gets into the end zone. So, yes, they need
9:44
Speaker 1: more time. Thankfully, they've got a couple more weeks before
9:47
Speaker 1: they've got to get there and evenly and I think
9:49
Speaker 1: even when they get into the regular season, it's going
9:51
Speaker 1: to take a little time to get into that. But
9:54
Speaker 1: what they've got our pieces and tools that they can
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Speaker 1: plug in and attacks the situations that they haven't been
10:01
Speaker 1: able to do. They've they've improved this roster. Last Friday
10:04
Speaker 1: night proved that the roster is significantly improved. Yes, now
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Speaker 1: they have to go out execute absolutely. And I was
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Speaker 1: on the sidelines for radio and Berning Palmy was saying
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Speaker 1: that same thing to Travis etn that they're so happy
10:14
Speaker 1: for him, and they can tell he's so excited, but
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Speaker 1: they were saying, he's almost too nancy right now. And
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Speaker 1: you mentioned the patients. Didn't you know you were going
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Speaker 1: to see that from him? How could you not? Right?
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Speaker 1: But it was just funny. Coach Parmly was like, all right,
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Speaker 1: settle down, Yeah, you're on the field absolutely well, all right,
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Speaker 1: that is big things when we come back. Some highlights
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Speaker 1: from the second preseason game against the Browns coming up
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11:03
Speaker 1: Drive time. A Monday morning back on the training camp
11:05
Speaker 1: practice field today a night practice. We're very much looking
11:08
Speaker 1: forward to that. But of course it's the coolest morning
11:10
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville so far, so of course they would move
11:13
Speaker 1: it tonighttime today. It was really nice to walk out
11:15
Speaker 1: this morning with the Dogs and feel that little bit
11:18
Speaker 1: of a brief and you're not already sweating at six
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Speaker 1: Sam at least two months before we get them, all right,
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Speaker 1: probably three, yes, absolutely, all right. Let's get into some
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Speaker 1: highlights from the second three season game. We're gonna go
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Speaker 1: first drive here in that offense, we were talking about
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Speaker 1: some big time catches from Lawrence's receivers. He's got three
11:35
Speaker 1: receivers in the tight end. That's Banhurst at the top
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Speaker 1: of the screen. By actually rolling out now with Tom
11:41
Speaker 1: what's the big shot when he's got Jos He's jud
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Speaker 1: a toss, make field and the Jaguars pub out with
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Speaker 1: an exclamation point on their first play thirty two yards.
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Speaker 1: But rebuild offensive lineage are big stories we'll talk about tonight.
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Speaker 1: They're doing a good job. Laurence standing at the pocket,
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Speaker 1: Jurgy delivering in trap big. It's a nine yard pricked
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Speaker 1: up to about the nine yard. That's the first offensive drive.
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Speaker 1: And I think the biggest thing that stood out to
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Speaker 1: me is after last season, when all Jaguars fans wanted
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Speaker 1: is a big time play, a big time throw, something
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Speaker 1: to move down the field. That very first play to
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Speaker 1: have it be z A Jones and that big time catch.
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Speaker 1: So I anticipated that because in our production meeting with
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Speaker 1: Trevor on Friday, I'm sorry Thursday. Uh, he was wide
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Speaker 1: eyed about za Jones and was excited because he said,
12:33
Speaker 1: we're gonna have him in a lot of different situations.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna put him in places to make plays until
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Speaker 1: immediately he goes right down the field. So you could
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Speaker 1: see it. We've seen it in the practice. The great
12:43
Speaker 1: it was the throw to man Hurts in particular that
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Speaker 1: I want to focus on because the pocket did a
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Speaker 1: great job. Right a minute, You've got a rookie center,
12:50
Speaker 1: he's a five time pro bowler, but it's the first
12:51
Speaker 1: time Brandon Sheriff has played in a game situation with
12:53
Speaker 1: your quarterback, um, and you've got a rotating situation at
12:58
Speaker 1: right tackle. But they set up a perfect pocket and
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Speaker 1: the quarterback was comfortable stepping forward, waiting, didn't worry about
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Speaker 1: get hit, and then he put the ball in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the field, right where big Chris man Hurts
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Speaker 1: could get it. That's what he's gonna muscle the ball
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Speaker 1: at the marker for you. He's not the seam tight end.
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Speaker 1: He's a reliable guy though, So I just I love
13:19
Speaker 1: what I saw from the pocket on both of those
13:21
Speaker 1: and the quarterback. We've said it here since training camp began.
13:25
Speaker 1: The quarterback is incredibly confident on the practice goes. You
13:28
Speaker 1: can see this year that he knows what he wants
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Speaker 1: to do and that he has the full support of
13:33
Speaker 1: that coaching staff. They're working almost in lockstep. He told us, um,
13:37
Speaker 1: so we saw it and it's only going to get
13:40
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say that. There will be moments where you'll
13:42
Speaker 1: see it. You'll be like, what's happening out here? But
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Speaker 1: I think I think we're seeing his incredible potential to
13:48
Speaker 1: be a franchise quarterback evolved right in front of us. Yeah,
13:52
Speaker 1: the offensive line gave him all the time in the world,
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Speaker 1: and that was with Jowan Taylor on the first two
13:56
Speaker 1: series and then Walker a little going in the third
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Speaker 1: and fourth. So we're keeping a close on who was
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Speaker 1: going to go out, But as of right now, Jowan
14:02
Speaker 1: Taylor seems to be the guy. And you do have
14:03
Speaker 1: to put this, You gotta put this in perspective. There
14:06
Speaker 1: was no Miles Garrett, who last year at sixteen and
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Speaker 1: be a little different story is the best big end
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Speaker 1: in football. Uh And and there was there was no
14:14
Speaker 1: Jadeveon Clowney on the other side, though, with Cam Robinson
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Speaker 1: is playing, I disagree. I think Walker Little is going
14:18
Speaker 1: to be your starting right tackle. So we'll see where
14:20
Speaker 1: it goes. I know, I'm curious. It's what will pay
14:22
Speaker 1: attention to who is walking out every single series, and
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Speaker 1: maybe it changes this week. I just think he's He's
14:27
Speaker 1: got the footwork and the length. He looks more natural
14:30
Speaker 1: at that position. Please somebody move the big guy Juwan
14:35
Speaker 1: into guard and let's see him plug. I'm sure coach
14:37
Speaker 1: Rousher is listening right now. Now he's not listening, alright.
14:40
Speaker 1: We talked all about Travis e t N in the
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Speaker 1: first block, so let's see some highlights of his big
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Speaker 1: runs in the preseason game. These guys on the edges.
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Speaker 1: Here's the hand off the e t N and look
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Speaker 1: already so you the explosiveness of that thirteen yard run
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Speaker 1: and grew a vand hurts the tight ends to the
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Speaker 1: bottom of the spr and here's ez N. Look at
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Speaker 1: the role analysis off the professor eats his stating inside
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Speaker 1: the five lord surveys and hands off, and here is
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Speaker 1: e t N. He ducks underneath the defender inside the
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Speaker 1: forty five to the forty two yard line is our sound.
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Speaker 1: The signal takes the drop, turns and throws. He's gotten
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Speaker 1: at e t N takes it, turns up the field
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Speaker 1: and it's another Jacksonville first down inside the thirty three
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Speaker 1: yard line. That last run is really the one that
15:31
Speaker 1: got the crowd going, at least on the sidelines, as
15:33
Speaker 1: he could have gotten out of bounds here. And it
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Speaker 1: says he turns and gets the first down and is
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Speaker 1: aware well and also note the patients as he gets
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Speaker 1: the ball before he turns up the field. It's it's
15:43
Speaker 1: almost the exact same route that they ran in the
15:45
Speaker 1: in the red zone where he dropped it on the
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Speaker 1: opening drive. So he's adapting. He's calming down. You know
15:51
Speaker 1: you talked about Bernie Parmley there on the sidelines. Tell
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Speaker 1: him the cal him down. He slowed the role that
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Speaker 1: time and he did it. Um. The explosiveness is there,
15:59
Speaker 1: the vision is there. He's a patient runner, Um and
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Speaker 1: I love watching him run between the tackles because when
16:05
Speaker 1: you look at him, you think this is a guy.
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Speaker 1: He's not a huge guy. He's big, but he's not that.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't look like New Connor, right Connor looks like
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Speaker 1: a hammer, um and and the way's funny because in
16:14
Speaker 1: the postgame Travis said I wanted to be the hammer,
16:17
Speaker 1: not the nail. Who he was tonight, Yeah he wasn't
16:19
Speaker 1: and he did it Friday. He did a nice job.
16:21
Speaker 1: He did. All right, let's go to this defense. We
16:22
Speaker 1: haven't talked enough about them and the aggressive style of
16:25
Speaker 1: play and turnovers. Remember how much we talked about the
16:27
Speaker 1: lack of turnovers last year. You get one in the preseason.
16:32
Speaker 1: Harris von Hamilton had fund a little bit tonight. Here's
16:35
Speaker 1: Brown on his second area, holds up, Hey loses the ball.
16:38
Speaker 1: It's recovered by Gilrick at the Jaguars head business at
16:42
Speaker 1: the clay one. A couple of things, A couple of
16:46
Speaker 1: things that stand out right away. S Our guy Trent Padilla,
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Speaker 1: our fabulous director and producer, got this awesome second angle,
16:52
Speaker 1: so we can really see how this play was made.
16:54
Speaker 1: But ray Sean Jenkins and Shakille Griffin, that duo, they're together,
16:57
Speaker 1: always on the field, there together, always off the field.
17:00
Speaker 1: Look good for them to make. If we had a
17:01
Speaker 1: little higher angle on this. You see fifty two and
17:07
Speaker 1: those big guys that we've talked about earlier stacking. There's
17:10
Speaker 1: nowhere for this guy to go. He's got to try
17:13
Speaker 1: to bounce it to the outside, but there was nowhere
17:14
Speaker 1: for him to run there either. Um, those guys right there,
17:18
Speaker 1: those big guys in the middle, are the key to
17:20
Speaker 1: making a defense like this work. And it looks to
17:23
Speaker 1: me like they're going to make it work really well
17:25
Speaker 1: this year. Absolutely, And we've been waiting for that secondary
17:28
Speaker 1: to make a play. And yes it is the preseason.
17:30
Speaker 1: They will make plays when they have they have the time,
17:34
Speaker 1: and they got it all right. And those are highlights
17:36
Speaker 1: from preseason game. When we come back. What we do
17:39
Speaker 1: know and what we don't know about this jag Boars
17:42
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18:00
Speaker 1: Monday morning, we're getting ready for a week three of
18:02
Speaker 1: the preseason. We have a lot of questions about this
18:04
Speaker 1: roster right now as it starts breaking down from a
18:06
Speaker 1: ninety man to a fifty three here shortly. So what
18:09
Speaker 1: do we know and what we don't know about two
18:12
Speaker 1: particular players sprying someone. I'll take Chad Muma. Here's what
18:15
Speaker 1: I know. He's really smart, right. He has a degree
18:17
Speaker 1: in mechanical engineering. Uh, and was the heartbeat of that
18:21
Speaker 1: that Wyloman Cowboys demons. I mean, every time you turned
18:23
Speaker 1: them on, you saw this guy directing traffic and mostly
18:27
Speaker 1: making the play. So in Week one in the Hall
18:29
Speaker 1: of Fame game, he looked just a bit behind the play, right.
18:33
Speaker 1: I mean, when you come from their college football to
18:36
Speaker 1: this level, you know the speed of the game is
18:39
Speaker 1: going to catch you off guard if you're not careful. Um,
18:42
Speaker 1: And so it looked like he was a step behind.
18:44
Speaker 1: We saw him turn that around a little bit in
18:45
Speaker 1: the second half against the Raiders, but it was obvious
18:48
Speaker 1: on Friday night that he had figured it out. Right.
18:51
Speaker 1: So what I don't know is how much better he
18:53
Speaker 1: can get, how much quicker? Right, it was a week
18:55
Speaker 1: a week different. I mean, it's just he's so smart.
18:58
Speaker 1: And you know, Paul past love Knee I thought was
19:01
Speaker 1: the most prepared linebacker I'd ever watched. He knew the tape,
19:04
Speaker 1: he knew the tendencies, and he could overcome anything any limitations.
19:08
Speaker 1: He had right, Um by being in the right place
19:11
Speaker 1: at the right time. Well, this guy really can. He's
19:13
Speaker 1: a good runner. I mean, he can cover a lot
19:14
Speaker 1: of ground and it appears he's a Paupez Lesnie type.
19:17
Speaker 1: Smart studies. The tape understands. Um. I don't know how
19:22
Speaker 1: he keep him off the field. I mean, he doesn't
19:23
Speaker 1: look like he's going to be a starter, obviously because
19:25
Speaker 1: he's an inside linebacker. But they're going to create packages
19:28
Speaker 1: in places to get him out there, to make place.
19:30
Speaker 1: There was one in particular, the Jaguar sideline mid second
19:34
Speaker 1: quarter where he came from nowhere and just stoned the
19:38
Speaker 1: running back. I think it was Kelly Jr. On the sideline.
19:41
Speaker 1: It was like, whoa, where did he come from? Right?
19:43
Speaker 1: That's what you have to see, the explosiveness, and that
19:46
Speaker 1: comes from understanding where you're supposed to be. Um. I
19:49
Speaker 1: don't think it's I don't think it's making too much
19:52
Speaker 1: of his education mechanical engineer. He figures things out quickly.
19:56
Speaker 1: His tape goes, Okay, here's what I have to do.
19:58
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're excited about this guy, and we
20:01
Speaker 1: expect to see some of Devin Lloyd this week, yes,
20:04
Speaker 1: but if you're excited about Chad Molma. You should be,
20:06
Speaker 1: because he understands this game. Very curious how they balanced
20:09
Speaker 1: that because Devin Lloyd, I think, is supposed to come
20:11
Speaker 1: back at some point, hopefully tonight in tonight's practice. They're
20:13
Speaker 1: spposed see him back on the practice field this week.
20:15
Speaker 1: I don't know if you would play in the preseason
20:17
Speaker 1: game with a hamstring, and it's tricky, but yeah, I'm
20:20
Speaker 1: curious how they use these packages to get them both
20:23
Speaker 1: on the field, because you kind of have to at
20:24
Speaker 1: this point. Well, you'd like to think that he would
20:26
Speaker 1: see sometime in one of these final two preseason games.
20:30
Speaker 1: He hope, So it depends on how his his body
20:32
Speaker 1: responds tonight. Absolutely, all right. I have z A Jones
20:36
Speaker 1: for what we know and what we don't know. What
20:37
Speaker 1: I do know is they got their money's worth on
20:40
Speaker 1: this guy bringing him in in free agency. We we
20:42
Speaker 1: had some questions of how is A Jones would be
20:44
Speaker 1: used and truthfully, that's my biggest I don't know, But
20:47
Speaker 1: my gosh, what a beautiful thing to not know because
20:49
Speaker 1: he's all over this field. I don't think he has
20:51
Speaker 1: one job. I don't think he has one spot and
20:54
Speaker 1: We're hearing all the compliments from Trevor Lawrence and coach
20:56
Speaker 1: Peterson on We're going to see him everywhere and we
20:59
Speaker 1: don't have to put him and one slot because look
21:01
Speaker 1: at all the things he can do. The biggest thing
21:03
Speaker 1: was z Jones. What we do know is this the
21:05
Speaker 1: guy that just gets open and he doesn't give up
21:07
Speaker 1: on a route. He's running all over the place, has
21:10
Speaker 1: some patience and you see it in the preseason game.
21:12
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence knows first, second, third progression. Okay, z Jones
21:16
Speaker 1: is open because he beat this guy. Maybe it took
21:18
Speaker 1: a little time, but this is a guy that is
21:21
Speaker 1: just always open, no matter what on the training camp
21:23
Speaker 1: field or in the game. When they signed him, I
21:24
Speaker 1: was skeptical because big guys who can run generally don't
21:27
Speaker 1: get free, right. He must not have good hands, he
21:30
Speaker 1: must not run good routes. That's I was trying to
21:32
Speaker 1: figure out why the Raiders, who, by the way, or
21:34
Speaker 1: a franchise who's always valued speed right always, why do
21:38
Speaker 1: they let a guy like this go? Um. I don't know.
21:41
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe it's just they couldn't fit him in
21:43
Speaker 1: the salary structure, But I'm telling you I've not watched
21:47
Speaker 1: him on the practice field and wondered anything, but why
21:51
Speaker 1: did they let him go? He just keeps making play
21:53
Speaker 1: after play after play after play. So especially when Christian
21:57
Speaker 1: Kirk gets back, because he's that kind of guy. He
21:59
Speaker 1: creates spacing on the field. Right when you've got that
22:02
Speaker 1: that slot receiver who in the middle of the field
22:05
Speaker 1: has a safety going, Where's where's Kirk? Where's their team? Right?
22:09
Speaker 1: Exactly right, he will make He will space the field
22:12
Speaker 1: out better for Za Jones, and I think you'll see
22:15
Speaker 1: even more explosive potential from number seven. But from a
22:19
Speaker 1: guy who didn't didn't think he was a big signing,
22:22
Speaker 1: couldn't understand why at the time it didn't seem that way,
22:25
Speaker 1: why a guy like that would be let go. Um
22:27
Speaker 1: from Buffalo and from from the Raiders. Right, I'm glad
22:31
Speaker 1: he's here, absolutely, And coach Doug Peterson did say that
22:33
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk, if it was a regular season game, would play.
22:36
Speaker 1: They're just being cautious, so maybe we'll seem on the
22:38
Speaker 1: PROCs field you really don't need to if you want
22:41
Speaker 1: them is on the field on September the eleven in Washington. Absolutely,
22:44
Speaker 1: and that is what we do know and don't know
22:46
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23:11
Speaker 1: to try to have some success on offense and defense.
23:14
Speaker 1: I still think it's difficult, especially with the amount of
23:17
Speaker 1: players that both teams are playing this time of year,
23:20
Speaker 1: you know, and and obviously we have two games under
23:22
Speaker 1: our belt where they'll have one, you know, so there's
23:24
Speaker 1: not a lot to go off of. But you still
23:27
Speaker 1: want your team to have success one into the game,
23:30
Speaker 1: so you try to prepare them a little bit for
23:32
Speaker 1: for what they what they may see. Um. But again,
23:36
Speaker 1: it kind of just boils down to just doing your job,
23:38
Speaker 1: you know, and how your coach and what's your what's
23:40
Speaker 1: your coach to do? Assignment wise. I think tonight, especially
23:43
Speaker 1: in the second half, we had we had a number
23:45
Speaker 1: of mistakes that that that cost us and uh, you know,
23:48
Speaker 1: I heard us at times head coach Doug Peterson being
23:52
Speaker 1: asked if they will game plan for Saturday's game against
23:55
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. It is the third preseason game, so
23:57
Speaker 1: normally this is the game where you treat it the
23:59
Speaker 1: most like the regular season. So we solve three series
24:03
Speaker 1: for the starters last Friday. Possibly you are going to
24:06
Speaker 1: see some more this week. You'll see them pull the
24:07
Speaker 1: cards out on Wednesday and Thursday and show you know,
24:11
Speaker 1: basic formations. You can't game plan beyond maybe the first
24:15
Speaker 1: series if you know their starters are going to be there.
24:18
Speaker 1: The coaches take Monday night and almost all day Tuesday
24:21
Speaker 1: to game plan during the regular season. You're not doing
24:24
Speaker 1: that because you're still in an evaluation mode. What you're
24:26
Speaker 1: doing is putting a card up so that you have
24:28
Speaker 1: some ability to be able to block right, to understand
24:32
Speaker 1: what they do defensively, to know what they're blocking schemes are,
24:35
Speaker 1: so that you have ability to do it defensively. But
24:37
Speaker 1: there's still no game plan for this one. You're trying
24:39
Speaker 1: to evaluate. You're trying to make sure that you're getting
24:42
Speaker 1: the right combinations of players with the right plays so
24:46
Speaker 1: that when you get to the regular season, you've got
24:49
Speaker 1: a familiarity and you're ready to go and to me
24:51
Speaker 1: for this this third preseason game coming up on Saturday.
24:54
Speaker 1: I saw enough of the defense truthfully last week, but
24:57
Speaker 1: I could understand for the offense how it took a
24:59
Speaker 1: little bit to get going field goals the first two series.
25:02
Speaker 1: Maybe you want to see more of them and challenge
25:04
Speaker 1: them again in that game action. I think so, yeah,
25:07
Speaker 1: I did. I think you're The third preseason game was
25:09
Speaker 1: the one where they would always play the most when
25:11
Speaker 1: there were four right, and they would play the first
25:13
Speaker 1: half and then go to halftime, make adjustments, and come
25:15
Speaker 1: out and play the first series of the third quarters.
25:17
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know that you do that. I
25:19
Speaker 1: don't think Doug wants to do that. I think the
25:21
Speaker 1: clue is he talks about making sure that you don't
25:24
Speaker 1: lose a key player here or there. That was postgame
25:26
Speaker 1: in campon. You don't want to lose those guys because
25:28
Speaker 1: it throws your entire season off if you do. UM,
25:31
Speaker 1: But you want to make sure that you you create
25:33
Speaker 1: a little bit of momentum in the game. So if
25:36
Speaker 1: it were me, first series down the field, touchdown, got enough,
25:40
Speaker 1: I got enough. I don't need any more than this.
25:42
Speaker 1: That's enough, UM, and I get it. The big guys
25:44
Speaker 1: who take a beating inside, I don't need to see fully,
25:48
Speaker 1: I don't need to see Varno or Roy No No
25:51
Speaker 1: got enough. So got enough? And I got the Violet
25:53
Speaker 1: leaks from being on the sidelines that that second series
25:56
Speaker 1: was going to be that series if they got that touchdown.
25:58
Speaker 1: And then when they didn't score, I saw all the
26:00
Speaker 1: helmets go back on. I saw some frustration. They didn't
26:02
Speaker 1: want to end it on that, And I totally get
26:04
Speaker 1: that you need a touchdown end and probably not playing
26:06
Speaker 1: anybody when you get to Atlanta for the season, the
26:08
Speaker 1: preseason finale. So the guys that you want to see
26:11
Speaker 1: you got to see him in this game. So I'm
26:13
Speaker 1: sure that Doug and Trent Bulky will get together and
26:16
Speaker 1: be judicious and make sure that they aren't overreaching like
26:20
Speaker 1: that Walker, little Jawan Taylor battle. I think that's something
26:22
Speaker 1: you need to Yeah, you want well, you wanted to
26:24
Speaker 1: be a fair battle. You want the best player to win,
26:26
Speaker 1: so you're going to make sure that they get enough
26:29
Speaker 1: snaps to get the job done. But you you don't
26:31
Speaker 1: want to Nick Harris, right, you don't want to see
26:33
Speaker 1: a guy that you're counting on on that offensive up
26:35
Speaker 1: front getting nicked up. That was awful. Yeah, you felt
26:39
Speaker 1: for them there and Zach Wilson and with the New
26:41
Speaker 1: York Jets. At first that was an a c L
26:43
Speaker 1: tearing out something better, but you hear it every single year.
26:45
Speaker 1: It's worst case scenario in my cash, it happens every year.
26:48
Speaker 1: But you also hear the players. You heard last week
26:50
Speaker 1: Andre Cisco say that he needed the live reps in
26:53
Speaker 1: practice and needed the game time because you don't practice. Yeah,
26:56
Speaker 1: it's a hard balance, it's very much right. So you
26:59
Speaker 1: feel pretty good about what you saw from the first team.
27:02
Speaker 1: You may want to put a few guys in situations.
27:04
Speaker 1: You may want to put a couple of guys and
27:05
Speaker 1: say you're not playing Brandon Sheriff who hasn't played a
27:07
Speaker 1: full season the last couple of years. Thanks, it's enough. Thanks, right, exactly, absolutely,
27:13
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27:15
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