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Urban Meyer Show: Tuesday, November 9 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Own this thing. It's ours. Come on, let's go New
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Speaker 1: Walt County and nine oh four, let's own the stadium.
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Speaker 1: Make it hours. Welcome to the Urban Meyers showow Former
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Speaker 1: Jaguar Jeff Loghman and J. P. Shadrick discussed the latest
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Speaker 1: Jaguars news with the head coach. The Urban Meyers Show
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Speaker 1: starts right now. Welcome in the Urban Meyers Show. Heading
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Speaker 1: into week number ten. Recapping week number nine, the win
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Speaker 1: over the Buffalo Bills, JP Shadrick, Jeff Loghuman, and Jaguars
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Speaker 1: head coach Urban Meyer. A nine six victory for the Jags,
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Speaker 1: the second win of the season. And to do it
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Speaker 1: here at t i A Bank Field in such a
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Speaker 1: dramatic fashion that was that's gotta be a good feeling
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Speaker 1: for this organization. Great one. And uh, I know, I
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Speaker 1: speak for Jeff and and former players as well as
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Speaker 1: our current players that the Buffalo Bills are known to
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Speaker 1: travel well. And they did. And I was actually driving
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Speaker 1: into Stay in the morning, I thought, oh no, you know,
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Speaker 1: and I saw out about the red, white, blue stuff
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Speaker 1: around and but I got to give credit to our
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Speaker 1: our fans were outstanding. I mean, they are players thrived
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Speaker 1: off it. Uh, that's the fourth quarter of the defensive stands.
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Speaker 1: You know, you you you play for a lot of reasons.
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Speaker 1: You energized for each other on the team, but don't
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Speaker 1: fool yourself. You also played for that crowd. And the
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Speaker 1: crowd was awesome. And uh, our vision of packing this
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Speaker 1: place and making it one of the destination places. I'm
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Speaker 1: telling you, we're gonna We're working our tails out to
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Speaker 1: make this happen. All right, Urban, I thought the game
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Speaker 1: started out exactly the way all football games should start out.
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Speaker 1: The hundred and fifty ninth Fighter Wing of the Air
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Speaker 1: National Guard blew the roof off the stadium. Are you
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Speaker 1: kidding me? How awesome? Was that awesome? I'm a huge
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Speaker 1: military guy because my family and everybody else, and I
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Speaker 1: thought they're gonna take out the scoreboard. That's how close.
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Speaker 1: Charlie Strong and I looked like, oh my gosh. And
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Speaker 1: you know, but that rocked the That rocked the foundation
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Speaker 1: of the stadium. And then your defense just played outstanding.
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Speaker 1: I mean, so many guys really stood out. And a
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Speaker 1: lot of people want to jumps, oh, Josh Allen this,
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Speaker 1: but I mean, heck, Josh Allen, Rudy Ford smooth played well,
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Speaker 1: your defensive tackles played well. Everybody across the board I
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Speaker 1: thought played about their best game. Are two inside linebackers
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Speaker 1: to Jeff played their best ball this year. Miles, Jack
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Speaker 1: and Damien were all over. You know, we transitioned to more.
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Speaker 1: We were seventy thirty man zone and we've transitioned ever
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Speaker 1: since the prior to the Dolphins game. You know, we
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Speaker 1: just couldn't we we uh either made mistakes and evaluating
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Speaker 1: what our players do best, but whatever it was, we
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Speaker 1: just made a transition and it takes a minute. Very
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Speaker 1: proud of our coaches most of the sort importantly our players.
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Speaker 1: I saw drills showing up in the game. You know
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Speaker 1: where you get your depth to keep your shoulder square
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Speaker 1: and the ball gets stumped where Josh Allen the Buffalo
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Speaker 1: Bills Josh Allen, uh does a great job checking the
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Speaker 1: ball down and we were like missiles to the guy
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Speaker 1: with the ball in his hand. And Rudy Ford and
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Speaker 1: the two linebackers. I mean, you talk about guys going
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Speaker 1: after the ball, they're fantastic, great tackling job on a
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Speaker 1: perimeter inside and and one of the things that you
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Speaker 1: guys did pretty aggressive and a lot of people think
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Speaker 1: or maybe have the misimpression that you were blitzing and
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Speaker 1: playing man coverage, but you still stayed with the zone concept.
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Speaker 1: A lot of the pressures that you're bringing where a
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Speaker 1: zone blitz, and we if you notice, we played some
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Speaker 1: zone blitz with two behind it. So the quarterback through
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Speaker 1: a couple of times. I remember Shack and I remember
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Speaker 1: Tyson as well. You know, zone blitz a lot of
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Speaker 1: time in the spread offense tells you to throw the bubble.
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Speaker 1: We've done it, and then all of suden you throw
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Speaker 1: it a bubble and you've got a hard corner right
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Speaker 1: up on the receiver's facing to make a talk for
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Speaker 1: no gain. So uh, once again, uh, kudos to our staff,
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Speaker 1: more importantly the player's boy. They practice or tail off
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Speaker 1: and uh um. It was a great game to be
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Speaker 1: part of. Jaguar's head coach Urban Meyer with us here
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Speaker 1: on the Urban Meyer Show. Let's get to Josh Allen's performance.
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Speaker 1: You know, the last few weeks statistically it's starting to
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Speaker 1: come along for him. But he had his career day
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Speaker 1: eight tackles, a sack, an enter, exception of fumble recovery,
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Speaker 1: two tackles for loss. He can do a lot of
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Speaker 1: those things the stature there, but it was across the
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Speaker 1: board on the defensive line and that linebacker. Guys making
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Speaker 1: plays in the middle of the defense, and then that
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Speaker 1: gives Josh Allen room to go get home. And it's
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Speaker 1: not coach peak, it's it's real. When you're holding your
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Speaker 1: coverage like our guys held, so you hear coverage, sex
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Speaker 1: does that happen? Absolutely most sacks or coverage in the
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Speaker 1: NFL very really just beat a guy. Um uh. And
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Speaker 1: when you see a sack happen is because the first read,
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Speaker 1: the second read. By the time a quarterback gets to
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Speaker 1: a third read against a good defensive line, you're in trouble.
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Speaker 1: And that's what you saw Sunday well. And I thought
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Speaker 1: in some cases he didn't even get to a secondary
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Speaker 1: Tavn Bryan the first act that he had, he had
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Speaker 1: to end a really great swim move and and beats
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Speaker 1: the guard and get the sack. And then Roy Robinson
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Speaker 1: Harris who had been slowed by an ankle, And I
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Speaker 1: thought it was his best game yet as a Jaguar,
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Speaker 1: and I talked to him, he still, you know, he's
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Speaker 1: still got to get that sack. He's about to step away,
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Speaker 1: but the thing that Roy gives you tremendous push inside
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Speaker 1: plus the six five, and they were doing a much
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Speaker 1: better job of getting their hands up and being an
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Speaker 1: issue with the quarterback. So you're exactly right. But one
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Speaker 1: thing that was I thought a parent might might not
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Speaker 1: have been a parent to some. In past games urban
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Speaker 1: including Seattle, where you got caught with twelve men on
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Speaker 1: the field, you would do almost these kind of wholesale
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Speaker 1: substitutions with the defensive front. I didn't see a lot
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Speaker 1: of that against the Buffalo Bills. And that was a
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Speaker 1: noticeable change. And and it seemed to give your defensive
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Speaker 1: players kind of the ability to lock in instead of
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Speaker 1: worrying about am I on the field or in my
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Speaker 1: off the field? Is this guy lining up? Is that
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Speaker 1: guy lining up? Did? Did that have something to do
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Speaker 1: with it? It sure did, and and and they worked
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Speaker 1: at it. But it also Buffalo helped us by they're
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Speaker 1: really much pretty much one personnel grouping for most of
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Speaker 1: the day. You know, the problem is when the people
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Speaker 1: start coming in that out and we're working to work
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Speaker 1: hard on that, because you know, we were watching the
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Speaker 1: Colts and they placed some eleven in and twelve, but
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Speaker 1: mostly eleven which is one back, one tight end, but
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Speaker 1: that we did work on it, Jeff. But also when
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Speaker 1: the team sits in one grouping, it's a little easier.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned Rudy Ford, you know, coming up and making
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Speaker 1: tackles on the perimeter and all that. But now it's
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Speaker 1: his third career start. He's been in the league a
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Speaker 1: number of years. Obviously a special team's ace up in
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Speaker 1: Philly and now here in Jacksonville too. What went into
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Speaker 1: that decision process to to get him on the field
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Speaker 1: at Nicol Well, he, uh, he's the best coverage guy
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Speaker 1: I've ever seen in kicking. And when I say that,
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Speaker 1: I say that with great respect to a bunch of
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Speaker 1: my former players. I'm sure I'm gonna get text messages
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Speaker 1: if they hear that. But this guy is is arguably
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Speaker 1: one of the fastest guys, if not the fastest guy
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Speaker 1: on our team. He's relentless, he's tough as nails, and
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Speaker 1: he's uh, he worked so hard and so finally, you know,
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Speaker 1: I went into our staff and we kind of made
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Speaker 1: the change. And I know he's not a very experienced
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Speaker 1: man coverage guy. He's learning to play man coverage, but
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Speaker 1: he's one of our better players, right now and all
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about go ball, hit ball, seball, you know
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Speaker 1: the sea ball, hit ball. That's what he does. And
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Speaker 1: I know our fans enjoy watching it because he didn't.
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Speaker 1: He didn't just hits either. He accelerates his feet on contact.
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Speaker 1: You saw the one where Josh Allen scrambled to his
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Speaker 1: left and flick the ball to that running back and
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Speaker 1: a guy come like a shot and it was number five.
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Speaker 1: Rudy Ford knocked the ball out and uh you know,
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Speaker 1: spiked the guy out of bounds. And he's an aggressive player.
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Speaker 1: And then on the one that Calevan kind of slowed
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Speaker 1: up the back with the old clothes line move and
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden here comes Rudy Ford and fast
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Speaker 1: and furious and on the you talk about not very
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Speaker 1: much experience, and man, the interception I think he got
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Speaker 1: against Cole Beasley stepping in front of him was man.
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Speaker 1: And then on top of that urban you're not taking
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Speaker 1: him off of special teams. I mean he made a
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Speaker 1: kickoff coverage tackle. Uh so an impressive outing by him.
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Speaker 1: He played his guts out. Yeah, he had the I
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Speaker 1: V after the game and you know his his uh
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Speaker 1: calves locked up and you know he gives. I know
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Speaker 1: the Jaguar fans appreciate he gives everything he's got for us.
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Speaker 1: We mentioned want smooth, let's get a little bit more
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Speaker 1: into his game as well, and you know, it just
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Speaker 1: seems like he's two reliable. You know what you're gonna
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Speaker 1: get out of the one smooth every week and that's
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Speaker 1: a good thing to have a front. Yeah to one
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Speaker 1: smooth be the first to tie you and Josh Allen.
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Speaker 1: This time last year, Josh Allen was, you know, under
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Speaker 1: two hundred fifty pounds and Josh is over to sixty
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Speaker 1: right now. He's stronger, is strong he's actually the way
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Speaker 1: he works first of all. But our sports performance team
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Speaker 1: works with him. You know, our goal, my goal was
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Speaker 1: went back in January. I told you we're gonna stay
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Speaker 1: healthy the best we can. And as teams were down
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Speaker 1: during the season, the best teams I've been a part
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Speaker 1: of that I've had, they're actually stronger by the time
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Speaker 1: you get to bowl season in college. They're stronger when
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Speaker 1: you get to December in the NFL. And we're on
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Speaker 1: pace to do that. You know, we gotta stay healthy.
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Speaker 1: We had that one time six starters out on offense,
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Speaker 1: but it wasn't muscle pulse. It's stuff that happens that
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Speaker 1: unfortunately in this game. But Smoot and to answer your questions,
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Speaker 1: Smooth and Josh Allen are benefiting from the off seats
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Speaker 1: from the sports performance. Urban will return in just a
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Speaker 1: moment and get into the Jaguars offensive performance this past
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Speaker 1: week against the Bills. We're off and running. It's the
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Speaker 1: Urban Meyers Show on the Jaguars Radio Network. Welcome back.
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Speaker 1: The Urban Meyers Show continues along the Jaguars Radio Network
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Speaker 1: and Jaguars game day broadcasts are presented by Vicestar Credit Union.
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Speaker 1: The Urban Meyers Show continues j P. Shadrick with former
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Speaker 1: Jaguar and Jaguars analyst Jeff Lockman and Jaguars head coach
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Speaker 1: Urban Meyer joining us. Let's flip it around to the offense.
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Speaker 1: You know well and behold the offense runs out on
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Speaker 1: the field for the first time. Wait a minute, where's
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Speaker 1: Cam Robinson. He's not out there. You knew James Robinson
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Speaker 1: wasn't going to play. Then all of a sudden, the
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Speaker 1: starting left tackles gone. They've got some injuries of course
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Speaker 1: earlier in the season, and on offense. That was a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a surprise, I would say before kickoff, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: not a pleasant one. Uh. I really believe James was
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Speaker 1: gonna play, and James wanted to play, but he just
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Speaker 1: could not push and make cuts off that heel, Um,
10:02
Speaker 1: you know, he had a good I believe it was
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Speaker 1: Thursday or Friday, and then Saturday had swelled up and
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Speaker 1: that was our alarm by our trainer. He was worried,
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Speaker 1: but I still thought he was gonna play. And he
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Speaker 1: goes out pregame and he can't go. So that's one down.
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Speaker 1: And then uh, after actually after a warm ups where
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Speaker 1: fifteen is from game time, Uh, they tell me Cam
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Speaker 1: Robinson's out. I walk back in the train and he's
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Speaker 1: actually his back is locked up. And uh, I don't
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Speaker 1: want to say. Got an argument with Hop George Warhop,
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Speaker 1: but I thought, do we go with Will or do
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Speaker 1: we go with market? Uh? Walker little walk a little.
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Speaker 1: As I played, Will Richardson has been pretty consistent, and
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Speaker 1: he said, coach Walker's ready, and I looked at him
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Speaker 1: and I see better be and uh, we're facing number
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Speaker 1: one defense in the NFL. And he actually hung in there.
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Speaker 1: He gave up one sack, one pressure, but he hung
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Speaker 1: in there and he played really hard and he's We're
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Speaker 1: really glad we drafted him and he's gonna be around
10:52
Speaker 1: here for a while. Yeah, Mario Addison a good football
10:55
Speaker 1: player that he was facing, and that might be the
10:57
Speaker 1: best way to get to get your first start. You
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Speaker 1: don't know until they say, guess what you're in that way.
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Speaker 1: You don't have any time for nerves in that situation. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I saw his face a little bit, and you know,
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Speaker 1: I was wondering how the best to go about it?
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Speaker 1: At my best way, I know, I handles, Let George
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Speaker 1: Warhot handle it in the offense line surround him. That's
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Speaker 1: a pretty good group. You're down three starters in the
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Speaker 1: offense line. It happened at Miami when we played Miami. Well,
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Speaker 1: Richardson went and played. It happened. You know, Brandon Lenner's out,
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Speaker 1: A j Can's out, and now Cam Robinson, one of
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Speaker 1: the best, I think, one of the better left tackles,
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Speaker 1: he's out. And our guys did a pretty good job.
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Speaker 1: But we knew that we uh, you know, we I
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Speaker 1: thought dev and shot Schottenheimer called a good game. I
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Speaker 1: was involved in that because our defense was playing the
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Speaker 1: way they're playing, and we need to take care of
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Speaker 1: the ball and get some good drives going. The thing
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Speaker 1: is we didn't score in the red zone, and we
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Speaker 1: turned that ball over once in the red zone. And offensively,
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Speaker 1: you guys knew that it was gonna be a tough
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Speaker 1: letting type of day, what I call a lunch pale
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Speaker 1: day because Buffalo Bill is just so good across all
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Speaker 1: three levels of defense, which is very rare to find
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Speaker 1: in the national football in today's day and age of parody. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and we if you look back, it's you know, it's
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Speaker 1: a tale of missing a couple of throws that you know,
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Speaker 1: we miss a couple, uh, and Agnew dropped a c J.
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Speaker 1: Bethred comes in, which is another story, comes in and
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Speaker 1: drops a dime on the defense and as out of
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Speaker 1: twenty times he catches that ball and he dropped it,
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Speaker 1: that's a touchdown. Then we had a stutter and go
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Speaker 1: by Marvin Jones on the outside in the fourth quarter
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Speaker 1: that that's a Steeler. It's over if he hit that
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Speaker 1: and we overthrew it. So, um, you know, we're growing,
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Speaker 1: but we're playing complimentary football, which is the best kind
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Speaker 1: of football to play. And that throw that you talked
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Speaker 1: about to Jamal Agnew the dime throw. I mean, he's
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Speaker 1: got a defensive tackle bearing down on him and smokes
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Speaker 1: him after he throws it. I mean, that's that's an
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Speaker 1: impressive play in and of itself. But I thought what
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Speaker 1: was really impressive coaches, that you have your starting quarterback
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Speaker 1: get hurt. He leaves the field, goes to the tunnel,
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Speaker 1: and when he comes back, he's ready to go back in.
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Speaker 1: And he is like, I'm talking ready to go back in.
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Speaker 1: I love of the game and I love the outcome,
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Speaker 1: but you just found out your quarterback as tough as nails. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And he I had to grab him, you know, he
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Speaker 1: was running on the field. We already had a play
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Speaker 1: call and and so I said, just you know, and
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Speaker 1: I had to make sure he's warmed up and you
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Speaker 1: know all that. You don't just throw a guy in
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Speaker 1: right middle of a drive. So we got the first
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Speaker 1: down and then we went and put him in. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: that the future is bright with Trevor Lawrence. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: then C. J. Bethard comes in pretty much cold. Here.
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Speaker 1: He is he's gotta make some throws and keep the
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Speaker 1: offense somewhat moving and steps in in a big moment
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Speaker 1: and make some big time throws. Yeah, you go back
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Speaker 1: to her. The whole process of that, Who's who're you
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Speaker 1: going to take as a quarterback? I wanted Alex Smith.
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Speaker 1: You know Alex Smith. I knew, I coached him. He's
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Speaker 1: a great veteran, and then he was unable to play.
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Speaker 1: And then you you're shopping around, shopping around, and we
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Speaker 1: just fell in love with CJ. Because he's tough as nails,
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Speaker 1: he knows the game, he's a great mentor, he's a
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Speaker 1: great leader, and we know he'd be ready on on
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Speaker 1: on call. Plus he's a very accurate thrower. You saw
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Speaker 1: that in preseason, So we got the right guy. There.
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Speaker 1: Urban one thing I think that you can kind of see,
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Speaker 1: even though the offense was a little bit of a
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Speaker 1: struggle on Sundays, that your your coaches are starting to
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Speaker 1: get comfortable with some of the personnel and some of
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Speaker 1: the things that they're doing. First drive of the game, example,
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Speaker 1: Jamal Agnew lines up in the backfield and of course
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Speaker 1: he's wearing a thirty nine former defensive back and the
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Speaker 1: Bills are matching up man a man. You got a
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Speaker 1: linebacker Edmonds who ends up matching up on him, and
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Speaker 1: it's a critical down and he absolutely runs away from
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Speaker 1: the linebacker. I mean, that was a great play designed
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Speaker 1: by your coaching staff, and I think it indicates how
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Speaker 1: much more comfortable they're starting to get. Yeah, well we
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Speaker 1: Bev's that's BEV brought that to us. And and you know,
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Speaker 1: it's a man coverage play. If its own, it's not
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Speaker 1: a great one. And so I was standing right next
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Speaker 1: to official that was a critical time forth and I
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Speaker 1: think two or three, and I said, do you like it?
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Speaker 1: Do you like it? Then he saw the linebacker much stuff,
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Speaker 1: and so he went with it and obviously a big play,
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Speaker 1: great accurate pass. And then if you really watch Agnew,
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Speaker 1: you know, once again fans and just people that love football,
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Speaker 1: Agnew is one of the toughest cats. If you ever noticed,
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Speaker 1: he doesn't run out of ounce. He cups the ball
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Speaker 1: and we call it clamps the ball, and he throws
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Speaker 1: himself right into the defensive back at the end of
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Speaker 1: that place sent the temple of the game. It's amazing
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Speaker 1: to see what that guy has done in the last
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Speaker 1: two years, changing positions here in the NFL. I know
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Speaker 1: you talked about this on Monday briefly, but it's now Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: We're a day closer to week ten. What's the latest,
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Speaker 1: the exact latest done? James Robinson and and Cam Robinson
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Speaker 1: this week it's all positive. We're gonna and so you
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Speaker 1: have Miles Jack that is a little slowed right now
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Speaker 1: with just his knee, but he's gonna be good to go.
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Speaker 1: You have Cam. Every indication is he'll be good to go.
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Speaker 1: I just gotta be smart this week and practice. James Robinson,
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Speaker 1: I know he'll be good to go. Um and Trevor
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Speaker 1: will be good to go. So all good on the
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Speaker 1: injury front as we speak Tuesday. That's the best news
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Speaker 1: we can hear. We'll come back and take an early
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Speaker 1: look at the Indianapolis colts on The Urban Meyer Show
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Speaker 1: on Jaguar's Radio Wow Welcome Back. The Urban Meyers Show
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Speaker 1: continues along the Jaguars Radio Network. Welcome back j P. Shadrick,
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Speaker 1: Jeff Flagman, and Jaguars head coach Urban Meyer on The
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Speaker 1: Urban Meyers Show. The Jaguars, coming off a win over
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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, have won two of the last three
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Speaker 1: and now headed up to Lucas Oil Stadium in downtown
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Speaker 1: Indianapolis at one o'clock kickoff time in week ten for
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Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts at four and five and the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: at two and six. This is a running offense in
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Speaker 1: Indianapolis Urban, with Jonathan Taylor second in the league in
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Speaker 1: rushing yards in the top five and many other categories.
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Speaker 1: And you know, we saw this firsthand on Week seventeen
16:41
Speaker 1: longs last year. He runs for about two thirty on
16:44
Speaker 1: this team last week of the season, and he's doing
16:47
Speaker 1: that again this year. He's a real problem. Yeah, I
16:49
Speaker 1: have experience with him in college. Uh, he played at
16:52
Speaker 1: Wisconsin's very fast, really really uh elite back. Uh he's
16:57
Speaker 1: arguably be their fastest player. They have t y All
17:00
Speaker 1: so it receiver, but he's not as uh, you know,
17:02
Speaker 1: not as active as the tail back. So he's the guy,
17:06
Speaker 1: you know, and obviously, uh, with a bad offense line,
17:09
Speaker 1: great tailbacks aren't very good. They have a very good
17:11
Speaker 1: offensive line, and they their scheme they spread. You talked
17:14
Speaker 1: about spread the field now they use all fifty three yards.
17:16
Speaker 1: What was your history against him in college? You remember, sure,
17:21
Speaker 1: I don't know, great respect for him and uh, yeah, okay,
17:26
Speaker 1: so he's a tremendous well, I mean, he's a great back.
17:28
Speaker 1: But don't get me wrong, but Urban. I mean, there's
17:30
Speaker 1: a lot of backs that they have on their roster
17:33
Speaker 1: having success behind that offensive line, and it starts with
17:35
Speaker 1: Quinton Nelson as a guy, is an absolute stud, got
17:39
Speaker 1: an excellent center of the tackles. I think are are
17:41
Speaker 1: still on the way to being good. That's a really
17:43
Speaker 1: good offensive line, arguably maybe the best offensive line you
17:46
Speaker 1: guys will face yet this year. Yeah, the center is
17:49
Speaker 1: really good too. And and uh, Quinton Nelson. I sat
17:52
Speaker 1: in his home in New Jersey and tried to recruit him,
17:54
Speaker 1: and uh, he's one the gut away from us, and
17:57
Speaker 1: I went to Notre Dame, had a awesome family. I
17:59
Speaker 1: just love the guy, and he's a rugged player, you know,
18:02
Speaker 1: a lot of respect for him. And uh, you're right,
18:05
Speaker 1: that's where it starts. Stunts, you know. Uh, Jonathan has
18:08
Speaker 1: a great years so far. With the backup is really
18:11
Speaker 1: good too. Yeah. The the one thing they also do
18:14
Speaker 1: is the wide receivers block. And of course so many
18:17
Speaker 1: people don't think about wide receivers blocking in the running
18:20
Speaker 1: game and being a factor. But I've been watching this
18:23
Speaker 1: wide receiver for the coach for quite some time. Pascal,
18:26
Speaker 1: who went to Old Dominion University, which most people have
18:29
Speaker 1: no idea that's even they even play football there. And
18:32
Speaker 1: he is I think one of the best blocking wide
18:34
Speaker 1: receivers in the league. Yeah. I actually asked Trent about him,
18:37
Speaker 1: you know, because I've never heard of him, and the
18:40
Speaker 1: same I had the same reaction on Sunday or Monday.
18:42
Speaker 1: Excuse me when I said, and watched uh about four games,
18:46
Speaker 1: I walked and said, my gosh, this guy's up. He's
18:48
Speaker 1: a really good player too, not extremely fast, but just
18:51
Speaker 1: you know, he's a football player. And you can see
18:53
Speaker 1: that all you know, Damn every Darnia, every snap head
18:56
Speaker 1: coach remand Meyer with us, Carson Wentz triggers this offense,
19:00
Speaker 1: you know. And and he hasn't turned the ball over
19:03
Speaker 1: a lot a couple of the key moments a week
19:05
Speaker 1: or two ago it happened. But a guy has been
19:07
Speaker 1: in the league now for a long time, and if
19:10
Speaker 1: he can manage this offense, he can be very successful.
19:13
Speaker 1: I actually talked a shot about him and Trent when
19:15
Speaker 1: I first was hired. You know what direction we're going
19:18
Speaker 1: and the quarterbacks, and I just have always like Carson Wentz,
19:22
Speaker 1: you know, I remember watching to play for the Eagles.
19:24
Speaker 1: I thought he's tough, he's athletic, he runs, and he
19:27
Speaker 1: knows how to run an offense. So when the Colts,
19:29
Speaker 1: you know, was real disappointed when I saw the Colts
19:32
Speaker 1: get him, because I think he's a really good I've
19:33
Speaker 1: always thought he was very good player. Flipping it over
19:35
Speaker 1: to the Colts defense number one in the national football
19:38
Speaker 1: he just got seems to be a theme. Last week
19:40
Speaker 1: he kind of faced the same thing with the Colts
19:43
Speaker 1: have now twenty takeaways on the season and leading the
19:46
Speaker 1: way as Darius Leonard, the linebacker who seems to have
19:49
Speaker 1: taken that role from Peanut Tillman where he's punching that
19:53
Speaker 1: ball out, and he did it again this week on
19:55
Speaker 1: Thursday night. He's a good football player, and they played
19:57
Speaker 1: good defense. That really good defense. It starts with Buckner
20:00
Speaker 1: inside the three technique. He's a guy that you have
20:03
Speaker 1: to deal with. And then he's got a three and
20:04
Speaker 1: a thirty pound partner in the middle, number ninety. That
20:08
Speaker 1: just they play well, and their their linebackers are excellent
20:11
Speaker 1: and their safety plays excellent too. So um yeah, I'm
20:14
Speaker 1: looking forward to playing a bad defense. I'm not sure
20:16
Speaker 1: when that's gonna happen. Well, it's not gonna be this week.
20:19
Speaker 1: Their defensive coordinator I've had great respect for. I think
20:22
Speaker 1: he's gotten the most out of what they've had ever
20:24
Speaker 1: since that he's been there. Matt Eberflis, I believe is
20:27
Speaker 1: his his name, and he seems to get the most
20:30
Speaker 1: out of everybody, gets that group playing hard. You know
20:32
Speaker 1: the last two the Buffalo Bills with Leslie Fraser, who
20:36
Speaker 1: have a lot of respect for, and then this coach
20:38
Speaker 1: very similar. It's it's it's a similar defense. It's not
20:41
Speaker 1: a lot of bills and whistles to it. It's just
20:43
Speaker 1: really good players at the three levels and they know
20:46
Speaker 1: their defense and they play it well. It's not the
20:48
Speaker 1: chaotic you know where you're gonna have guys all over
20:51
Speaker 1: the place. They're gonna be a four down, four three
20:53
Speaker 1: defense and they play split safety and one high safety
20:56
Speaker 1: and that's it. So game planning you it's gonna be
21:00
Speaker 1: a lot about matchups. Going back to the forced fumble situation.
21:04
Speaker 1: Ten fumbles that have been caused and taken away by
21:08
Speaker 1: the Colts defense this year and Leonards the guy that
21:10
Speaker 1: punches it out. What else do you say to the
21:13
Speaker 1: offense this week? Offensive players, skill guys with the football,
21:16
Speaker 1: do you do you put an extra couple of points
21:18
Speaker 1: of emphasis in this week to talk about ball control.
21:21
Speaker 1: How do you do that? Well, we're gonna we already
21:23
Speaker 1: had a bevil talk to him, and then we're also
21:25
Speaker 1: gonna make a video clip of it to show of
21:27
Speaker 1: prior practice tomorrow, um and show and actually tell the
21:31
Speaker 1: defensive scout team players, our practice squad players to be
21:34
Speaker 1: swinging at the ball, which our defense is getting better.
21:36
Speaker 1: They're they're swinging at that thing constantly. But we better,
21:40
Speaker 1: you know, we better be locked down with the ball.
21:42
Speaker 1: And that's how I was disappointed, my biggest disappoint last week.
21:45
Speaker 1: We have red zone opportunities and uh and we're not.
21:48
Speaker 1: You know, we twice we walked away without points. Mr
21:50
Speaker 1: Field going in the fumble. We can't have that. One
21:53
Speaker 1: of the things that's I think a joy to watch
21:55
Speaker 1: is the growth process of your young quarterback. And he's
21:58
Speaker 1: getting better, but you know, just like the market, the
22:00
Speaker 1: growth never seems to be a perfect arrow going up.
22:03
Speaker 1: There's always ups and downs. What's the one area that
22:06
Speaker 1: you want to see the greatest growth from with Trevor
22:09
Speaker 1: from last week to this week? Just third downs and
22:12
Speaker 1: you know, we can't miss him when we have this.
22:15
Speaker 1: You know, the NFL is so hard to get open.
22:18
Speaker 1: When you're open, you gotta hit him. And I put
22:20
Speaker 1: the same challenge on the receivers when you are open,
22:23
Speaker 1: you know, help your quarterback out. You know, I thought
22:25
Speaker 1: our tight end did you know it wasn't Trevor, but
22:28
Speaker 1: Dan Arnold made a spectaclor catch on the sideline. You
22:32
Speaker 1: know that's expected, that's not You're supposed to do that.
22:34
Speaker 1: We had I can count three or four times, and
22:37
Speaker 1: I even went over to the sideline and kind of
22:38
Speaker 1: get after him. We help the guy out. How he
22:40
Speaker 1: helped the guy out? Make your play man, get open,
22:43
Speaker 1: to make your play coach, final thought here, coming off
22:46
Speaker 1: a winning result last week, after the first win of
22:49
Speaker 1: the season, there was the bye week, and now it's
22:51
Speaker 1: back to back games, getting back to work. What do
22:53
Speaker 1: you expect the mood in the building to be this
22:55
Speaker 1: week in that locker room and the focus moving ahead
22:58
Speaker 1: to Indianapolis? Already saw it today, you know, well, yesterday
23:01
Speaker 1: we had something called victory Meal, which is a new
23:02
Speaker 1: tradition we brought here to Jacksonville. And that's a very
23:06
Speaker 1: nice dinner. You'll play the highlights of the game and
23:07
Speaker 1: a little fellowship and and then they get out of here.
23:10
Speaker 1: But I walked around. That's my best time of the
23:12
Speaker 1: day is to walk down the training room and rehab
23:14
Speaker 1: room and talk to players. And we don't want it
23:16
Speaker 1: by week. We want to keep going. And uh, I
23:19
Speaker 1: gotta be smart how we practice, take care of these
23:21
Speaker 1: guys and make sure they're full speed on Sunday. Alright,
23:25
Speaker 1: so Sports Performance Model, you got the Victory meal? What
23:29
Speaker 1: might be on the menu there? I always tell people
23:32
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter because we call it Victory. I'm gonna
23:34
Speaker 1: enjoy it. They can put whatever you want, but it's
23:36
Speaker 1: it's it's Jeff, you are personally invited to the next one.
23:39
Speaker 1: A right, Wait a minute, you're down the road, Jeff.
23:44
Speaker 1: Do we do we have maybe a ribby cap on
23:46
Speaker 1: Victory Mills, or there was a river. There was a
23:48
Speaker 1: ribby last night. I believe a little lobster mac and cheese.
23:52
Speaker 1: I think JP, you're out, Jeff. Maybe one of these days.
23:57
Speaker 1: We're about halfway through the season. Urban, thanks for the time.
24:00
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you. Thank you, head coach Urban Meyer.
24:02
Speaker 1: We're back with more on the Urban Meyers Show on
24:05
Speaker 1: the Jaguars Radio Network. Welcome back, The Urban Meyer Show
24:10
Speaker 1: continues along the Jaguars Radio Network. Welcome back to Urban
24:15
Speaker 1: Meyers Show continues, j P. Shadrick, Jeff Lagman, and thanks
24:18
Speaker 1: to the head coach Urban Meyers joining us in the
24:20
Speaker 1: first half hour every week here on the Urban Meyers
24:23
Speaker 1: Show on the Jaguars Radio Network. And I guess I'm
24:26
Speaker 1: just gonna go starve logs. I mean, I'm just gonna
24:29
Speaker 1: continue to eat crumbs. If I'll tell you what, Jp,
24:32
Speaker 1: I'll get you to go box that great thanks free
24:38
Speaker 1: eating Ribby. I'll take lobs for mac and cheese everybody.
24:44
Speaker 1: And I think it's pretty cool though that they do
24:45
Speaker 1: something like that. You know, it's it's uh, it's cool.
24:48
Speaker 1: It look at it's a it's a good way to
24:52
Speaker 1: kind of enjoy the great side of football, which is winning,
24:57
Speaker 1: and it's a way to build camaraderie. So I like
24:59
Speaker 1: that idea. I like I like the concept and uh,
25:02
Speaker 1: but here's the critical thing. Yes, the food's gotta be
25:06
Speaker 1: good because if you do it, food is junk okay,
25:12
Speaker 1: and it ain't gonna work okay because the players in
25:15
Speaker 1: the National Football League they've got I don't want to
25:19
Speaker 1: say highbrow taste buds but they well they can, yes,
25:24
Speaker 1: they do. They. I mean they got personal chefs and
25:27
Speaker 1: all this other stuff, so you better make sure the
25:30
Speaker 1: food is good. Yes, and I'm sure it is. After
25:33
Speaker 1: a winning result last week. Maybe I won't know personally
25:36
Speaker 1: for a while, but that's okay, no hard feelings or
25:38
Speaker 1: but of course, now another thing. It was interesting what
25:40
Speaker 1: he said. We're talking about Carson Wentz, the Indianapolis Colts quarterback,
25:45
Speaker 1: and I said that he was disappointed when the Colts
25:48
Speaker 1: got him. Kind of looking at him a little bit,
25:51
Speaker 1: it felt like, well, I get the impression that having
25:55
Speaker 1: you know, and knowing that there's a relationship between Carson
25:59
Speaker 1: Wentz and Frank right, that that's the place of Carson
26:01
Speaker 1: Wentz was gonna be able to bounce back and revive
26:03
Speaker 1: his career. That would be it. And so I think
26:06
Speaker 1: any time that you have that kind of thing happened
26:09
Speaker 1: in your division, you're always kind of like that gum
26:11
Speaker 1: out wish you'd gone somewhere else, you know, because that's
26:13
Speaker 1: the best chance that Carson Wentz would have kind of
26:16
Speaker 1: getting back on track. And and he's been solid. He
26:19
Speaker 1: hasn't been great, but but Carson Wentz has been good.
26:22
Speaker 1: But it's kind of interesting that he alluded to the
26:24
Speaker 1: fact that, uh, you know, I don't want to say
26:27
Speaker 1: that they were interested in him, but it certainly gave
26:29
Speaker 1: the impression that they were following what was going on
26:32
Speaker 1: with him kick the tires. I don't know about kicking
26:34
Speaker 1: the tires, but at least just kind of look at
26:35
Speaker 1: the label as if, maybe, Okay, do we consider signing
26:39
Speaker 1: a guy like that. We know we're gonna be able
26:41
Speaker 1: to draft Trevor Lawrence, we know we're drafting Trevor Lawrence.
26:44
Speaker 1: Is this a guy that we can have in house
26:47
Speaker 1: as as somebody to help groom Trevor Lawrence to maybe
26:51
Speaker 1: play for a little bit until he's ready. I mean,
26:54
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what the thought process was,
26:56
Speaker 1: but uh, but but interesting comments that he had and
26:59
Speaker 1: and very honest I like that. Yeah, I mean he has.
27:01
Speaker 1: But that's the thing that on shows like this press conferences,
27:05
Speaker 1: we've seen and heard him throw out, you know, what
27:09
Speaker 1: he thinks a lot of times, or what he doesn't
27:11
Speaker 1: know about. He's been good and um, he's been good
27:17
Speaker 1: on his show, and he's definitely I don't want to
27:20
Speaker 1: say he's an open book, but but you know, you
27:23
Speaker 1: asked him a good question. He's going to give you
27:25
Speaker 1: an honest answer. Now I appreciate that. Let's come back.
27:28
Speaker 1: We'll take a look at this Jaguars offense and we're
27:31
Speaker 1: gonna get some answers out of you. You've been asking
27:34
Speaker 1: for answers for a while. I'm gonna keep asking if
27:37
Speaker 1: here's here's one positive thing. Last week, you told me
27:40
Speaker 1: that that I was gonna give you answers for that
27:43
Speaker 1: Jaguars defense, and I think they answered it for you
27:48
Speaker 1: this week. It's about performance, execution and making sure that
27:53
Speaker 1: you're ready to go. Okay, that's the defense. We're gonna
27:56
Speaker 1: come offense. Though he's still got questions that we need answers. Okay, well,
28:01
Speaker 1: some of those answers might not be available until well,
28:04
Speaker 1: don't don't kill the whole segment. We're back after this.
28:06
Speaker 1: It's the Urban Meyer Show on Jaguars Radio. Welcome Back.
28:18
Speaker 1: The Urban Meyers Show continues along the Jaguars Radio Network.
28:23
Speaker 1: We're back. The Urban Meyers Show rolls along JP Shadrick,
28:26
Speaker 1: Jeff Flagman, Jaguar's head coach, Urban Meyer with us in
28:28
Speaker 1: the first half hour every Tuesday on the Jaguars Radio Network.
28:33
Speaker 1: Coming off a dub the Jackson one two out of
28:36
Speaker 1: the last three. They're on to Indianapolis to face Everything's perspective, right, right,
28:43
Speaker 1: Jaguars have one, or you can say the Jaguars one
28:49
Speaker 1: two out of out of their last three. That's right,
28:53
Speaker 1: but I didn't. Hey, we're going positive. I like. I
28:57
Speaker 1: like the positivity fix the offense logs go. You've got
29:02
Speaker 1: to have the growth of a quarterback continue to happen.
29:05
Speaker 1: You gotta acquire more talent around him, and you have
29:08
Speaker 1: have to have better execution. Pretty simple. It's it's okay,
29:13
Speaker 1: It's all about perspective, I guess though, right, Okay, right,
29:16
Speaker 1: I do know this and that not having James Robinson
29:21
Speaker 1: and this is you know, I mean, I mean captain
29:24
Speaker 1: obvious right here. Okay, Well, not having James Robinson hurt significantly.
29:30
Speaker 1: And uh, the wide receivers and the quarterback both need
29:34
Speaker 1: to do a much better job. There's not a lot
29:37
Speaker 1: of separation. Or the coaches have to do a better job.
29:40
Speaker 1: They need to get and find what they had earlier
29:44
Speaker 1: in the season, but maybe not to that degree. And
29:46
Speaker 1: that they were aggressive in vertical and they backed off
29:50
Speaker 1: on that a lot because the turnover machine was just
29:53
Speaker 1: getting out of hand with Trevor's interceptions. But you still
29:57
Speaker 1: have to have that element of the game. It works,
30:00
Speaker 1: and and I think that they have. I don't want
30:03
Speaker 1: to say they've shied away from it, but they've backed
30:05
Speaker 1: away from it a little bit. But you still have
30:07
Speaker 1: to have it. You know. Obviously the stutter go with
30:09
Speaker 1: Marvin Jones Jr. Was there. That's a vertical element of
30:12
Speaker 1: the game. You had a deep ball to Jamal Agnew
30:15
Speaker 1: that c J Beth through. That's a deep ball. But
30:17
Speaker 1: you've got to start connecting on some of these things
30:20
Speaker 1: because it it becomes harder and harder the less you
30:24
Speaker 1: attack the vertical part of the defense. It becomes harder
30:27
Speaker 1: every week to be able to have success because the
30:29
Speaker 1: defenses don't respect it. If you're not attacking it, if
30:33
Speaker 1: you're not forcing them to cover the entirety of the field,
30:36
Speaker 1: it becomes harder. Asn't offunt. Do you believe there's some
30:39
Speaker 1: offensive minds coordinators that you know what, we're gonna take
30:44
Speaker 1: six shots of game no matter what, throw it down
30:46
Speaker 1: the field. Das right. I mean the late matter if
30:50
Speaker 1: we hit him or not. Just to back everybody away,
30:53
Speaker 1: you take the late Al Davis and he would walk
30:55
Speaker 1: into his coach every week, I'm sure, and tell him
30:59
Speaker 1: throw the ball deep six times a game. And I
31:02
Speaker 1: don't care because if you don't do it, I'm gonna
31:04
Speaker 1: fire you. And he would. I mean that's look. I
31:10
Speaker 1: mean Al Davis was a smart man. I mean, it
31:12
Speaker 1: wasn't like he was just a medling owner. Al Davis
31:14
Speaker 1: fotball coach. And the reason why he wanted a vertical
31:18
Speaker 1: element to his offense no matter who the coach was
31:20
Speaker 1: with the Raiders because he was right, you have to
31:24
Speaker 1: have that type of element to your offense. So, uh,
31:28
Speaker 1: can the Jaguars find it? I mean, they got they
31:30
Speaker 1: gotta find a way. Um. And and here's the thing
31:34
Speaker 1: they've got to They've got to start trying trying to
31:37
Speaker 1: find different solutions in my opinion. Okay, what I mean
31:41
Speaker 1: by that. Okay, you've tried Tavon Austin. You haven't had
31:44
Speaker 1: a lot of great success with him. Okay, you've tried
31:48
Speaker 1: the wide receiver that they just signed last week to
31:50
Speaker 1: the active roster, Treadwell, Okay, have you gotten many results
31:55
Speaker 1: out of none of that? Tyrone Johnson was inactive this
31:59
Speaker 1: past game because you know, in Seattle. He had some
32:03
Speaker 1: mental errors, then he's got superspeed. But if you if
32:05
Speaker 1: you have mental errors, you can't play. So I think
32:09
Speaker 1: the next step is is to say, Okay, it's not
32:12
Speaker 1: working here, let's try a different possible solution, which means
32:18
Speaker 1: elevate one of your practice squad guys, Cottony, bring him up.
32:22
Speaker 1: You got another guy on there that was with you
32:24
Speaker 1: in training camp from Florida, Josh Hammond. Hammond, Okay, let's
32:28
Speaker 1: give him a shot and see if he's gonna do anything,
32:31
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, it comes a point to where
32:34
Speaker 1: you've got to you've got to try something different. I think,
32:36
Speaker 1: if it's not working for you, and uh, and we'll
32:40
Speaker 1: see what happens. Maybe they do all right. So one
32:43
Speaker 1: of the big national stories today around the NFL, the
32:45
Speaker 1: waiver wire came through at four o'clock. Odell Beckham Jr.
32:49
Speaker 1: Was not claimed by any team, and for the first
32:52
Speaker 1: time in his career, he is a free agent. Would
32:55
Speaker 1: you dare why or why not? What? I would absolutely
33:01
Speaker 1: have a conversation with him and his people because he's
33:05
Speaker 1: a he's a he has been exceptional, I mean exceptional,
33:11
Speaker 1: and he hasn't been great recently in Cleveland. In fact,
33:14
Speaker 1: you can see that him and Baker Mayfield exactly we
33:18
Speaker 1: weren't exactly on the same page, and I don't think
33:20
Speaker 1: there's any love loss between the two of them. O'Dell
33:25
Speaker 1: is one of those guys that wants and expects the ball.
33:28
Speaker 1: That can be a problem at times. Is he a diva?
33:32
Speaker 1: He's about as close with a thing as you can
33:34
Speaker 1: get to it. But can you handle that personality? Typically
33:40
Speaker 1: to handle a personality like that, you have to have
33:42
Speaker 1: a very strong locker room. Do you have a strong
33:45
Speaker 1: enough locker room? Do you have a strong enough foundation
33:48
Speaker 1: in your building to handle a guy like that? That's
33:51
Speaker 1: a challenge, and so that's got to be a big
33:54
Speaker 1: consideration to to figure out whether or not you want
33:57
Speaker 1: to have a guy like that come in or not.
33:59
Speaker 1: And it's just still over seven million bucks and there's
34:02
Speaker 1: he wouldn't probably be ready to go this week, So
34:04
Speaker 1: eight games remaining a rental basically a one year deal,
34:08
Speaker 1: and there's no guarantee he's gonna be back after this season.
34:12
Speaker 1: That's you know, a lot of money going out the door.
34:14
Speaker 1: I know there's room and salary cap, but it's still
34:16
Speaker 1: real money going out the door. Well for eight games,
34:19
Speaker 1: you definitely kick the tires. And because the last thing
34:24
Speaker 1: you want is because you didn't want to, you know,
34:29
Speaker 1: claim him on waivers, because then it could be a
34:32
Speaker 1: problem if he doesn't want to be here, you know,
34:36
Speaker 1: then you're you know, looking at a major problem, and
34:39
Speaker 1: you don't want to have that. So you want to
34:40
Speaker 1: have people. You always want people that want to be here.
34:44
Speaker 1: And so do you have a conversation with him now, Yeah,
34:47
Speaker 1: you gotta find out whether or not he wants to
34:48
Speaker 1: be here. Well, there's reports earlier today that his number
34:51
Speaker 1: one choice would be the Packers. He wants to for
34:55
Speaker 1: a proven quarterback as a chance to and to play
34:58
Speaker 1: for a contender. And I don't blame him. Everybody wants
35:02
Speaker 1: to do that, to play for a team that's got
35:04
Speaker 1: a good chance of winning at all. Who wouldn't, especially
35:08
Speaker 1: when you're a veteran player and and you're gonna have
35:10
Speaker 1: the ability and the flexibility of determining where you want
35:13
Speaker 1: to go because you're gonna be a free agent. I'm
35:15
Speaker 1: not mad at him. Shoot, I mean, look, that's the
35:18
Speaker 1: whole point why the system is there. And he goes
35:22
Speaker 1: through the waiver plot process. Anybody could have claimed him.
35:25
Speaker 1: Nobody did and probably smartly so and so now he
35:29
Speaker 1: will be able to choose where he wants to go
35:32
Speaker 1: and what money he wants. Now he's not going to
35:35
Speaker 1: be able to determine what money he gets. He can
35:39
Speaker 1: say whatever he wants, but you know, green Bay maybe
35:43
Speaker 1: his desired destination. But green Bay may say, hey, we
35:47
Speaker 1: love to have you, but here's our number, and it
35:51
Speaker 1: may not match to what he wants, you know. So
35:53
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to make a determination at that point
35:57
Speaker 1: is is he comfortable with it? And okay? Money okay,
36:01
Speaker 1: And because this may be part of the decision, it
36:02
Speaker 1: may not be. The money may be great to go
36:05
Speaker 1: to a contender, but then again, the money may not be.
36:07
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna spoke the seven million would have been
36:09
Speaker 1: if they claimed him seven Now it's free, it's done, yes,
36:13
Speaker 1: whatever and whatever it will be the case. Well, when
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Speaker 1: we return, we'll go on the defensive side. You gave
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Speaker 1: us a lot of answers last week, and they came
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Speaker 1: through and followed them to a t and got the win.
36:24
Speaker 1: Now it's about moving ahead on the defensive side of
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Speaker 1: the football. That's all coming up in just a moment
36:29
Speaker 1: and This is the Urban Meyers Show on the Jaguars
36:32
Speaker 1: Radio Network. Welcome back. The Urban Meyers Show continues along
36:38
Speaker 1: the Jaguars Radio Network. Welcome back j P. Shadrick, Jeff Flagman,
36:43
Speaker 1: Joe Fortunado, Brent Reeward. Glad you're along with us on
36:46
Speaker 1: the Urban Meyers Show today. The Jaguars head coach joining
36:49
Speaker 1: us in the first half hour every week at five o'clock.
36:52
Speaker 1: You're on the Jaguars Radio Network logs. You gave us
36:57
Speaker 1: some answers last week on defense, and the Jaguars defense
37:01
Speaker 1: went out there and and did it. They they stood tall,
37:05
Speaker 1: they they stared down the top scoring offense and football
37:08
Speaker 1: and held him to six points, the quarterback four times,
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Speaker 1: took the ball away three times, and they had two
37:14
Speaker 1: all season coming in. I mean, this was it was
37:17
Speaker 1: almost like they were, you know, embarrassed and by the
37:21
Speaker 1: performance in Seattle, like Miles Jack said, well it was.
37:24
Speaker 1: It was a great, great defensive effort even you hold
37:28
Speaker 1: a high powered offense like that. Essentially what was season
37:32
Speaker 1: I was across the board, you know, points and yards
37:34
Speaker 1: and efficiency of their quarterback. It was all great. Now
37:38
Speaker 1: you get like you talked about, you get three takeaways
37:41
Speaker 1: as a team against a team that had only turned
37:43
Speaker 1: the ball over five times on the entire season. Uh,
37:48
Speaker 1: those are all great numbers and uh. And that's what
37:50
Speaker 1: it took to win, and that the Jaguars played aggressive,
37:54
Speaker 1: and that's what you gotta do when you're playing a
37:55
Speaker 1: good team when you haven't been playing well. There, I
37:57
Speaker 1: think they were aggressive from the standpoint of they went
38:00
Speaker 1: for it on some fourth downs. They played an aggressive
38:03
Speaker 1: style of defense, and they brought some zone blitz is
38:06
Speaker 1: and and they just played hard. And I think that's
38:08
Speaker 1: the number one thing, is that if you play hard,
38:10
Speaker 1: you always have a chance. And they played hard. Is
38:13
Speaker 1: that type of performance sustainable this week? Can they do
38:17
Speaker 1: that same thing again? I mean, it's a it's a
38:19
Speaker 1: cold seam, you can run the football. It's hard to
38:22
Speaker 1: say that a performance like that is sustainable, and it's
38:26
Speaker 1: hard to believe that it can be. But here's the thing.
38:30
Speaker 1: You've now shown to yourselves that that you can play
38:33
Speaker 1: at that level and that if you play well and
38:37
Speaker 1: do this and do that, then the results can be there.
38:40
Speaker 1: And I think that's a that's it so important for
38:44
Speaker 1: the confidence of any team. And I think that's the
38:47
Speaker 1: best aspect of that performance. Okay, Now you know, you
38:52
Speaker 1: can play every week, every Sunday. You can compete against anybody,
38:58
Speaker 1: you know, So that's the positive aspect from that. Now,
39:01
Speaker 1: will they come out and hold Indianapolis to six points?
39:06
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean that's you know, come on, that's
39:08
Speaker 1: not easy to do against anybody. And so, but I
39:13
Speaker 1: think this is a very good matchup this week for
39:17
Speaker 1: the Jaguars. One, you're coming off a game where I
39:20
Speaker 1: think you've gained a lot of confidence. Number Two, the
39:22
Speaker 1: Colts have a quarterback who needs to be a manager
39:25
Speaker 1: that needs to have a strong running game. And the
39:29
Speaker 1: Jaguars are very good against the running. And you know
39:32
Speaker 1: one thing that I think is impressive. The Jaguars defense
39:36
Speaker 1: last year was thirty in the National Football League against
39:40
Speaker 1: the run. That's not good. There's thirty two teams. You're genius.
39:47
Speaker 1: That means they're not good. They're they're twelve this year.
39:51
Speaker 1: That's that's significant improvement. Last year they had eighteen sacks
39:57
Speaker 1: on the season. What do they got this year? Five team?
40:00
Speaker 1: I mean, they're up there now, they're getting close. I'll
40:02
Speaker 1: tell you what they got. Uh They've got so it's good.
40:09
Speaker 1: I mean, look, they've improved on defense, There's no doubt
40:13
Speaker 1: about it. They've got to still continue to find ways
40:16
Speaker 1: to affect the quarterback, which has been haunting this defense
40:20
Speaker 1: all season. But they did it against the Bills and
40:24
Speaker 1: against the best number one scoring offense in the league.
40:28
Speaker 1: By the way, that the run defense, you're right, twelfth
40:31
Speaker 1: in the league overall, but per running play their third
40:34
Speaker 1: in the league under four yards per carry all out. Now,
40:38
Speaker 1: that can all get skewed in the hurry, as we
40:39
Speaker 1: know against a guy like Derrick Henry because he can
40:42
Speaker 1: rip off an eighty yard er. Well, Jonathan Taylor can
40:44
Speaker 1: do the same thing if you let him get Lucy
40:46
Speaker 1: had a seven yarder last week on Thursday Night. You know,
40:49
Speaker 1: he's a guy and he's done it against this team
40:51
Speaker 1: before last season. He can run, he's got it all.
40:56
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a speed. He's two eight pounds I
41:00
Speaker 1: think to thirty something like that. I mean he's not
41:02
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry way he's in it, you know, to seven
41:05
Speaker 1: to fifty, but he is. He's got power, he's got speed,
41:09
Speaker 1: and he's got size and those are three great combinations
41:12
Speaker 1: for a running back. And uh and I like the
41:14
Speaker 1: way he handles his business. You know, he's a kind
41:17
Speaker 1: of a quiet, confident doesn't uh doesn't talk a lot.
41:21
Speaker 1: Let's his play speak. And uh. And look, the Colts
41:25
Speaker 1: have another good back that's kind of in their stable,
41:28
Speaker 1: and that's Marlon Mack who really can't see the field
41:30
Speaker 1: because this guy is so good. And then Hines in
41:33
Speaker 1: the passing game, he's a receiver anything, and he's had
41:37
Speaker 1: more success catching the ball against the Jaguars. Story but
41:40
Speaker 1: hell he had he had six carries for seventy said,
41:46
Speaker 1: yeah he last Thursday night. He was pretty good. Yeah,
41:50
Speaker 1: they were all pretty good. When you score, when you
41:52
Speaker 1: score forty five points, everybody's doing everything right. Yeah, you know.
41:55
Speaker 1: I the one thing I'll say about that game is, Uh,
42:00
Speaker 1: first of all, I've always been a fan of Robert Sala.
42:03
Speaker 1: You know, he was here, linebacker, coach here. Uh he
42:07
Speaker 1: got that Jets team to fight back, you know, to
42:11
Speaker 1: to where it where it wasn't a complete boat, right quit.
42:14
Speaker 1: They didn't quit, and they fought back, and they fought
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Speaker 1: back hard. And so I give the Jets credit, and
42:19
Speaker 1: I give Robert credit because you know, he's the leader
42:21
Speaker 1: and he's the one who gets in to play like that.
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42:35
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Speaker 1: Urban Meyer Show. J P. Shadrick Jeffen Final moments of
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Speaker 1: today's program. The Jaguars face the Indianapolis Colts in week ten.
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Speaker 1: The division rival Tennessee's Divisional lose. I think right now,
43:12
Speaker 1: the way they played on Monday Night, goodness, they would
43:14
Speaker 1: slap the Rams around kind of kind of like the
43:18
Speaker 1: Jaguars Buffalo game. I wasn't expecting that, oh anybody was.
43:24
Speaker 1: I mean, without Henry the whole thing. Credit credit to
43:28
Speaker 1: Tennessee and Mike Vrabel, who I think is is an
43:32
Speaker 1: excellent coach. I mean, he he does a good job,
43:35
Speaker 1: and he does a really good job. I think I
43:37
Speaker 1: think he's one of the one of the better young
43:38
Speaker 1: coaches that there is in the league. And he's winning
43:41
Speaker 1: a lot of football games with without a premier quarterback.
43:45
Speaker 1: The Colts with that performance on Thursday night couldn't gain
43:48
Speaker 1: any ground. I mean, they're three games back and we're
43:51
Speaker 1: about halfway home in the division, and you know that
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Speaker 1: twice to Tennessee. The door is not closed. It's not.
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Speaker 1: But they gotta start making up some ground in the
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Speaker 1: next little and they know if you're a Coults team
44:04
Speaker 1: defending your home turf this week key against a team
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Speaker 1: that's still trying to fully kind of figure things out.
44:09
Speaker 1: And the Colts get a little extra rest. Remember they
44:12
Speaker 1: played on Thursday night against the Jets, so they they
44:15
Speaker 1: should feel much better. Jags by forty. That's my predictions. Great,
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Speaker 1: I'm all for it. But here's the thing. JP havn't
44:23
Speaker 1: scored over twenty three points and this is the word
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Speaker 1: for it, but uh, they've got to find a few
44:32
Speaker 1: more answers on offense before they start worrying about scoring
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Speaker 1: twenty four. I agree, um our thanks to head coach
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Speaker 1: Erman Meyer. Logs have a great week. We'll talk to
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Speaker 1: you man. That's Jeff Logum and our entire crew, Joe
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Speaker 1: fort Tonado, Brent Reb I'm JP Shadrick. This is the
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