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- 0:01Speaker 1: Jeff Warris, did you don't Jack Jack Warris? Did you
- 0:04Speaker 1: Jack Wars? Drive Time, Ryan sex Sext, John O Sage,
- 0:10Speaker 1: Ashley s Jeffuarres. Drive Time starts right now. Hello, good morning,
- 0:17Speaker 1: Welcome to Jack's Drive Time Wednesday, brought to you by
- 0:20Speaker 1: the Duval Motor Company. Remind you doing joy. The Duval
- 0:25Speaker 1: difference bites you to discover the Duval difference at four
- 0:28Speaker 1: locations on Atlantic Boulevard and Caside Avenue in Jacksonville, and
- 0:31Speaker 1: in two places in games. So good morning morning. I
- 0:34Speaker 1: thought I had it. One of these days. I'll get it. John,
- 0:37Speaker 1: what the Duval difference? I think you've been here before.
- 0:41Speaker 1: It's always been about day. We have a Twitter pool
- 0:44Speaker 1: for you today. Um, it's kind of petty, and John
- 0:47Speaker 1: likes petty. So which team would you like the most
- 0:51Speaker 1: to miss the playoffs? In other words, who's misery would
- 0:55Speaker 1: you revel in the most? Um? Pittsburgh is sliding. Indies
- 0:59Speaker 1: loss year puts them in a precarious situation. The Dolphins
- 1:03Speaker 1: had their miracle over the weekend, but they're still on
- 1:05Speaker 1: the outside looking in. Or maybe there's someone else that
- 1:08Speaker 1: it wouldn't The Jaguars missing the playoffs wouldn't bother you
- 1:12Speaker 1: as much as long as they did too. Does that
- 1:15Speaker 1: fit your definition of petty? Yeah? And I have a
- 1:18Speaker 1: feeling there'll be a few other comments. I think so too,
- 1:20Speaker 1: and my guesses it'll be Indy just because it's it's
- 1:23Speaker 1: the division me that'll probably win the pole. I think
- 1:27Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's gonna miss it. I mean, they've got New England
- 1:30Speaker 1: still somebody else if the Jaguars have been able to
- 1:34Speaker 1: hold on and beat them, they have two tough games
- 1:38Speaker 1: back to back. I know when of these New England
- 1:40Speaker 1: I can't remember who they play right after that, but
- 1:42Speaker 1: it's uh, they're in trouble. Yeah. I have a feeling
- 1:44Speaker 1: the Titans will be in the comments section. And that's
- 1:46Speaker 1: given the Ravens something to run with. With Lamar Jackson,
- 1:50Speaker 1: who I believe it is still undefeated as their starting quarterback,
- 1:52Speaker 1: he's defeated. That's why they lost in overtime, right Yeah,
- 1:56Speaker 1: and if if they won that game to be in
- 1:58Speaker 1: first place, right so? They is your Twitter poll for
- 2:00Speaker 1: the day. Let's jump right into big things. The first
- 2:05Speaker 1: big thing is Washington was at the beginning of the season,
- 2:08Speaker 1: we were somewhat looking forward to this last home game
- 2:10Speaker 1: of the season. It was intriguing, I guess you could say,
- 2:13Speaker 1: because we didn't know where these teams would be. Now
- 2:15Speaker 1: it's the battle of the bad New Bears esque teams.
- 2:18Speaker 1: Washington is on their fourth quarterback of the season, with
- 2:21Speaker 1: John Johnson starting this game. Mark Sanchez last week six
- 2:25Speaker 1: and fourteen thirty eight yards, two interceptions. However, they still
- 2:30Speaker 1: have Adrian Pearson as the running backs, so this defense
- 2:32Speaker 1: cannot take any size of relief with Well, look, it's
- 2:35Speaker 1: it's an interesting matchup because you have two teams that
- 2:37Speaker 1: are both dramatically less than they thought they would be
- 2:40Speaker 1: at this point. Obviously, both teams are injured. Um the
- 2:44Speaker 1: Redskins a month ago had a two game lead, four
- 2:47Speaker 1: weeks ago had a two game lead in the NFC
- 2:50Speaker 1: East over the Cowboys, and here they are now six
- 2:52Speaker 1: and seven, having lost four in a row. And you
- 2:54Speaker 1: can understand it. They lose Um the quarterback they traded
- 2:58Speaker 1: for Smith, uh Alex Smith, and then Colt McCoy goes in,
- 3:04Speaker 1: and you can't feel real good when Colt McCoy's your
- 3:06Speaker 1: starting quarterback, but they lose him. So they signed Mark
- 3:09Speaker 1: Sanchez off the street, and then Josh Johnson who last
- 3:13Speaker 1: started the game in two thousand and eleven. But we'll
- 3:17Speaker 1: start on Sunday here. And to me, that's so interesting
- 3:21Speaker 1: because how much can he possibly know? Well, it's uh,
- 3:28Speaker 1: it's an intriguing game in this sense. Your first thought
- 3:31Speaker 1: when these you know, when Sunday ended and the Skins
- 3:35Speaker 1: had lost to four to sixteen, your first thought was, boy,
- 3:38Speaker 1: this is two teams playing out the string. Uh. But
- 3:40Speaker 1: Josh Johnson played pretty well in the second half of
- 3:42Speaker 1: that game. It was mop up time. I was gonna
- 3:45Speaker 1: say they were down forty to nothing, but he but
- 3:47Speaker 1: he what could the Giants be throwing at him at
- 3:49Speaker 1: that right? He threw yards, which you know might mean
- 3:53Speaker 1: he starts for this team. So um uh. But the
- 3:57Speaker 1: intriguing thing is as badly as the Skins of play.
- 4:00Speaker 1: They've lost four in a row. You would look at
- 4:02Speaker 1: and think they're out of it. They're a half game
- 4:04Speaker 1: out because the Vikings have come back to Earth and
- 4:08Speaker 1: the Eagles are six and seven. So as much as
- 4:12Speaker 1: you want to say it's two teams playing out the string,
- 4:15Speaker 1: if the Skins win this, they have the Eagles the
- 4:18Speaker 1: next week, Uh, you wouldn't see any way they could.
- 4:20Speaker 1: They were down forty nothing at home with the playoffs
- 4:23Speaker 1: on the line, so you would think they're in the tank.
- 4:26Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's intriguing because they're really not,
- 4:30Speaker 1: and if they win, they're right back in it. So
- 4:32Speaker 1: it's hard to know what to make of this team.
- 4:33Speaker 1: I'm not an oddsmaker, and I really don't pay all
- 4:36Speaker 1: that much attention, but a guy mentioned to me last night, Hey,
- 4:39Speaker 1: the Jaguars are a seven point favorite team that struggles
- 4:41Speaker 1: to score seven points in a game. Right the caveat
- 4:44Speaker 1: there is a seven point favorite. To win by seven,
- 4:47Speaker 1: you must score sevendown. I'm not sure they will win
- 4:50Speaker 1: by seven. I just rarely do I even think about
- 4:56Speaker 1: the line. But when he pointed out, I went, that's
- 4:58Speaker 1: almost absurd because the offense has hit such a low. Well,
- 5:01Speaker 1: it means they're not expecting the Skins to score at all.
- 5:05Speaker 1: With Josh I gott keep. I want to say Josh Jackson.
- 5:08Speaker 1: Josh Johnson who has not played at a game since
- 5:10Speaker 1: two thousand and fourteen until last week, and now all
- 5:13Speaker 1: of a sudden, he's the starting quarterback for the Skins,
- 5:16Speaker 1: who were a half game out of it. Yeah, I mean,
- 5:18Speaker 1: it's uh is it is a tougher spin, and you
- 5:23Speaker 1: soon you're talking about tougher spots for a team that's
- 5:25Speaker 1: four and nine, and you know at this point people
- 5:27Speaker 1: listening like, who really cares if they win? But it's
- 5:30Speaker 1: a tough spot for the Jags in the sense that
- 5:33Speaker 1: this team needs it and they're gonna be hard to
- 5:35Speaker 1: prepare for because you don't know what to expect from
- 5:36Speaker 1: Josh Johnson. They'll have a package, they'll have X number
- 5:39Speaker 1: of plays that he knows um and they have Adrian Peterson.
- 5:43Speaker 1: So if if if you tackle Adrian Peterson the way
- 5:45Speaker 1: you tackle Derrick Henry, h J wasn't gonna win by
- 5:48Speaker 1: seven A problem. I keep wanting to say, there's no
- 5:50Speaker 1: way that Josh Johnson is going to come off the
- 5:53Speaker 1: treaty was just signed a week ago yesterday, right, and
- 5:58Speaker 1: put up numbers against this defense. But I guess I
- 6:01Speaker 1: should stop saying this defense is so talented because we
- 6:03Speaker 1: haven't seen it, and we stawt two weeks ago. But
- 6:06Speaker 1: over the course of the season, we have seen so
- 6:08Speaker 1: many big plays and then the lack of big plays allowed,
- 6:12Speaker 1: and then the lack of big plays that halt was
- 6:14Speaker 1: the hallmark of this defense. A year ago. So I
- 6:16Speaker 1: guess I shouldn't think, well, Jaguars got this one because
- 6:21Speaker 1: this defense is not performed at a level that gives
- 6:23Speaker 1: you any confidence. Uh. They did against the Colts, but
- 6:27Speaker 1: consistently that they're going to be able to just shut
- 6:29Speaker 1: anyone down. But you understand why the odds makers played
- 6:32Speaker 1: this one this way. Uh, if you think about it's
- 6:36Speaker 1: a late season game, as you said, you've got a
- 6:38Speaker 1: correcuisn't play. It's it's easy to foresee if if the
- 6:43Speaker 1: Jaguars get a lead, it's easy to foresee a couple
- 6:47Speaker 1: of defensive touchdown. This is the kind of game where
- 6:49Speaker 1: a couple of defensive touchdowns happened for a team. You're
- 6:52Speaker 1: at home, last game of the season, a lot of
- 6:55Speaker 1: pent up stuff, and you're playing Accord hasn't played a
- 6:57Speaker 1: whole lot if it if it goes the Jaguars way early,
- 7:02Speaker 1: it might go big the Jaguars way. It's just that
- 7:05Speaker 1: so little has gone that way, and it's hard to
- 7:08Speaker 1: imagine this team getting a big lead when they haven't
- 7:11Speaker 1: scored a significant offensive touchdown since they made the coordinating
- 7:13Speaker 1: quarterback change. But the other thing is is that Washington
- 7:16Speaker 1: comes in with a decent defense. Now I say decent.
- 7:18Speaker 1: They were pretty darn good, and then the last five
- 7:21Speaker 1: weeks they've given up four hundred yards of total offense,
- 7:24Speaker 1: which happens when your offense goes in the tank. Absolutely,
- 7:27Speaker 1: that's usually a part in parts. So they've become vulnerable
- 7:29Speaker 1: to although they are very talented. Ryan Carrigan coming off
- 7:32Speaker 1: the edge is a terrific pass rusher. Their corners are good.
- 7:35Speaker 1: They've got some big, strong guys inside. Um, we'll see. Yeah,
- 7:40Speaker 1: no guarantees that this Jaguars defense can stop even Josh Johnson.
- 7:44Speaker 1: Interesting that they'll There's not much film of him at all.
- 7:47Speaker 1: I think that's an interesting you're a hard time finding
- 7:48Speaker 1: a picture of him. I did find a picture for
- 7:50Speaker 1: the graphic and it was hard. There's film, black and
- 7:53Speaker 1: white film. By the way, did you realize that I
- 7:56Speaker 1: hadn't until we started talking about him yesterday. He's played.
- 7:59Speaker 1: This is his twelfth NFL stop. That's amazing. Fifth round pick, right,
- 8:04Speaker 1: twelve NFL teams well rounded, you can say that, Yeah,
- 8:09Speaker 1: that's a positive. That's about a third, a little more
- 8:13Speaker 1: than the third. It's right now. It's three eights, is
- 8:19Speaker 1: what it is. A matter of fact creates of the
- 8:22Speaker 1: teams in the league. Perfect what a guy. Alright, big
- 8:25Speaker 1: thing too is that and down the hatches. Three weeks
- 8:28Speaker 1: left to go. And you think that this locker room,
- 8:30Speaker 1: of course is focused on winning, which most of them are,
- 8:32Speaker 1: but you can't help but also think that every single
- 8:34Speaker 1: player and coach in that locker room is also thinking
- 8:37Speaker 1: of their own job, because it's human nature. You gotta
- 8:39Speaker 1: at this point think of your own job, in your
- 8:41Speaker 1: own future. John thinking of his future, So am I
- 8:44Speaker 1: it's about focus. I had one future. You do. I
- 8:49Speaker 1: think you have a bright future. Actually, But you know
- 8:51Speaker 1: how this one goes. Guys start seeing the writing on
- 8:53Speaker 1: the wall, They understand changes coming, and so they pick
- 8:55Speaker 1: up a phone and you know, they call a buddy
- 8:57Speaker 1: in you know, the NFC West to her, you know,
- 9:00Speaker 1: the a f C North, and they just start, you know, hey,
- 9:03Speaker 1: I don't know what's here. You know, they start talking
- 9:04Speaker 1: about that maybe we go to college, and they're they're
- 9:06Speaker 1: doing the smart thing. They're thinking about their families. Yeah right,
- 9:10Speaker 1: they look, I don't know that anybody in particular should
- 9:14Speaker 1: be doing this, but everybody just starts to wonder. You
- 9:17Speaker 1: don't know what the owner might do you could blow
- 9:19Speaker 1: the whole thing up. You could make changes on one
- 9:21Speaker 1: side of the ball, maybe everybody on one side of
- 9:24Speaker 1: the ball. So they just start calling, Well, when you
- 9:26Speaker 1: do that, what happens, Well, your focus gets away from
- 9:28Speaker 1: the game. You know the same thing with players, they're thinking,
- 9:31Speaker 1: have the knees really bothered me this week? It's been
- 9:33Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. It hasn't gotten any better. Maybe
- 9:36Speaker 1: I need to go on injured reserve. You know, they
- 9:38Speaker 1: just start thinking about themselves, which we all do historically.
- 9:43Speaker 1: You always have a lot for your injuries when you're
- 9:45Speaker 1: in the middle of the playoff chase. Without doubt, guy
- 9:47Speaker 1: play it right. So the level of focus is naturally
- 9:52Speaker 1: on the decline with the team that's not in it
- 9:54Speaker 1: in December, somehow, some way. That's what Doug Moron has
- 9:59Speaker 1: to co back this week, which is often why you
- 10:01Speaker 1: get a uh. People ask well, why it was such
- 10:09Speaker 1: a big deal to be a Thursday game last week?
- 10:11Speaker 1: Why is it such a big deal to have a
- 10:12Speaker 1: short week and and on the road, will you add
- 10:15Speaker 1: one more thing to what we're already talking about. And
- 10:18Speaker 1: you've got guys already thinking about that, you've got a
- 10:20Speaker 1: short week you've got the road. I anticipate them playing
- 10:24Speaker 1: better and being more focused for a final home game
- 10:27Speaker 1: for some reasons, because that's usually how it plays out. Uh.
- 10:30Speaker 1: But the X factor with the focus again is they
- 10:32Speaker 1: have nothing to play for, and even though the Redskins
- 10:35Speaker 1: are struggling, it's still alive for them. They still have hope.
- 10:40Speaker 1: They still don't need to be making those phone calls
- 10:42Speaker 1: and thinking those things yet, So that can be a
- 10:44Speaker 1: big tilting point um in a game that's often decided
- 10:48Speaker 1: by a few small things. On the plane right home
- 10:49Speaker 1: from Nashville early Friday morning, I was talking to a
- 10:52Speaker 1: couple of coaches. They were working on Saturday, talking about focus. Right.
- 10:55Speaker 1: Players came in, had had a Monday kind of day
- 10:58Speaker 1: on Friday, and then they had the weekend off. But
- 11:00Speaker 1: the coaches were here both days during the weekends. I
- 11:03Speaker 1: mean that's I was not, No, none of us were,
- 11:07Speaker 1: but they they were, Which is Doug Morown's way of
- 11:10Speaker 1: keeping his team, And he's doing it because he believes
- 11:13Speaker 1: it's the best thing for his team and for his
- 11:15Speaker 1: coaching staff to keep working and finding a way to win.
- 11:18Speaker 1: Because everybody understands that if you get to the end
- 11:20Speaker 1: of the season having started three and one and god forbid,
- 11:24Speaker 1: you don't win another game and you finished four and twelve.
- 11:27Speaker 1: The review is brutal. Yeah, it is brutal. These three
- 11:30Speaker 1: weeks are important, to say the least for them all. Right,
- 11:33Speaker 1: big thing three is winning question mark the age old question.
- 11:37Speaker 1: Should you win out these next three games or attempt
- 11:39Speaker 1: to or should you be playing for draft position? Right now?
- 11:42Speaker 1: We've talked about it for a few weeks. Now, this
- 11:45Speaker 1: locker room, we all believe is playing to win because
- 11:47Speaker 1: they're playing for their jobs. No one's thinking about the
- 11:49Speaker 1: draft in that locker room, but we all have to
- 11:51Speaker 1: start thinking about You know, here's the interesting part. And
- 11:53Speaker 1: normally when you get to a season like this, you've
- 11:56Speaker 1: identified a player that you want as a fan, right
- 11:58Speaker 1: as somebody who does what we do your thing. Wow, Look,
- 12:00Speaker 1: this team needs a quarterback, and if they want a quarterback,
- 12:04Speaker 1: they've got to get into this spot. So you don't
- 12:06Speaker 1: want to win the rest of the way. You know,
- 12:08Speaker 1: with this team this year and the quarterbacks that are
- 12:10Speaker 1: out there, um, you might be able to get into
- 12:15Speaker 1: the quarterback you want. Where you are right now, you know,
- 12:17Speaker 1: somewhere between five and ten, right, there's two, three, four
- 12:19Speaker 1: guys that looks like who are out. There's no you
- 12:23Speaker 1: don't have to lose to win at this point of
- 12:25Speaker 1: the year. And I understand this is a topic. It's
- 12:30Speaker 1: easily solved by thinking about this way, fancy and think
- 12:33Speaker 1: what they want. Players and coaches aren't going to think
- 12:35Speaker 1: this way. Coaches are going to be far more focused
- 12:39Speaker 1: on keeping the whole thing together and in lockstep than
- 12:43Speaker 1: the players. I even Thursday night. I'm not a big
- 12:48Speaker 1: believer that players quit, but I do believe that players
- 12:52Speaker 1: start trying to make big plays. They your word was
- 12:57Speaker 1: the best. They can be deflated very I'm gonna go
- 12:59Speaker 1: into my hand there, Ashland. They can be deflated quite easier, right,
- 13:05Speaker 1: They are hit harder by a big play against and
- 13:10Speaker 1: the pregame enthusiasm. Wayne's far quicker in games like this, Um.
- 13:15Speaker 1: But they're gonna try. They're gonna try to make big plays.
- 13:17Speaker 1: They're gonna try to do things personally that look good
- 13:20Speaker 1: on film, whether or not that goes within the team concept.
- 13:23Speaker 1: That's what the coaches have to work very hard to do.
- 13:25Speaker 1: But they're going to try to win. It's just your
- 13:29Speaker 1: odds of being deflated in your odds of that of
- 13:31Speaker 1: that effort being sustained the whole game and that concentration
- 13:34Speaker 1: being staying the whole game. That's where the coaches really
- 13:36Speaker 1: are in their money this time well, and it seems
- 13:38Speaker 1: preposterous to stay to say that they would even think
- 13:40Speaker 1: that way. When Tom Coughlin, almost two years ago it
- 13:43Speaker 1: is the introductor news conference, said we're trying to win
- 13:45Speaker 1: launch right, So there's no way that the mentality over
- 13:48Speaker 1: there is gonna be anything but win, win win. Now,
- 13:51Speaker 1: from an outside perspective, winning can be losing at this
- 13:55Speaker 1: time of the year because you lose undraft position and
- 13:58Speaker 1: not just talking to your point is it's not as
- 14:00Speaker 1: it's not as year because of the quarterback situation. But
- 14:03Speaker 1: I do want to point out this, and everyone focuses
- 14:06Speaker 1: on the first round because that's where the best players
- 14:09Speaker 1: are generally found, although not always. Tom Brady was a
- 14:13Speaker 1: sixth round pick. We and we can give you great
- 14:15Speaker 1: players that were picked in every round. But people need
- 14:18Speaker 1: to start thinking about where you want to be in
- 14:20Speaker 1: the top of the second round, top of the third round,
- 14:23Speaker 1: when you're sitting in the top five, top seven picks.
- 14:25Speaker 1: It's not just in the first round. It's in every round,
- 14:29Speaker 1: and this draft is deep in defensive line. They're a
- 14:32Speaker 1: good offensive lineman. So the thing about it is, try
- 14:36Speaker 1: to stay in the top ten picks. If you're this
- 14:38Speaker 1: team right my way, I know, stay there pretty easily. Yeah,
- 14:43Speaker 1: I was trying to. I think they have a chance
- 14:46Speaker 1: to win this week if the Texans are in it.
- 14:49Speaker 1: At the end of the Texans are playing for something.
- 14:51Speaker 1: The Texans losing to the Colts means they might still
- 14:54Speaker 1: be playing at the end that they have not wrapped
- 14:56Speaker 1: up the division titles and New England being nine and four,
- 14:59Speaker 1: I mean, it's gonna be something for the Texans to
- 15:01Speaker 1: play for. If there's things to play for for the
- 15:03Speaker 1: Dolphins and the Texans going on the road for this team,
- 15:06Speaker 1: it is going to be very, very difficult, just the
- 15:09Speaker 1: way the thing rolls out. All right, Well, that'll do
- 15:12Speaker 1: it for big things. We've got much more head here
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- 17:17Speaker 1: a beautiful morning chilling out there, at least people in
- 17:20Speaker 1: North Florida. If you're from North Dakota, it is a
- 17:24Speaker 1: spring light day. Um. But it was there was frost
- 17:27Speaker 1: on your windshield this morning, wasn't there? I freaked out.
- 17:30Speaker 1: There was ice on my windshield this morning, John, and
- 17:32Speaker 1: I panicked. There's no ice and that little Palm Beach mansion. John, Please,
- 17:41Speaker 1: you need a cassette. Had a cassette in your car?
- 17:45Speaker 1: You could scrape that off. That's right. I used my
- 17:48Speaker 1: jacket sleep despite my dad's disapproval. Is there any chance
- 17:52Speaker 1: that you ever had a cassette in your line? No?
- 17:56Speaker 1: One of your parents possibly my parents. Did you have CDs? Yeah?
- 17:59Speaker 1: I had not for very long. And Montana back in
- 18:03Speaker 1: the day beaver Fever, good old days. I I could
- 18:09Speaker 1: see that when he comes to townel you know, just
- 18:15Speaker 1: in case, just in case, all right, Joe, Well, somebody
- 18:22Speaker 1: talking up, go ahead. That's why I love you guys.
- 18:30Speaker 1: You just never know what we're gonna do. Yeah, and
- 18:32Speaker 1: we never really know what you're gonna do. Well today,
- 18:35Speaker 1: finally I'm going to butcher the beetles. What yes, butchering
- 18:39Speaker 1: the Beetles, h Washington, here we go. I know it
- 18:48Speaker 1: will be too good. Scared they're left and if they
- 18:59Speaker 1: should kids the trouble, it's smart Sanchez on double. That's
- 19:04Speaker 1: why will be the Redskins. Even it far Off stumbles,
- 19:11Speaker 1: it's defense that won't trumble. That's why will be the
- 19:16Speaker 1: red Skins. Actually good at seven. First, Guessler will let
- 19:21Speaker 1: by no reason to be shy, and if he begins
- 19:32Speaker 1: to tumble, will just run it and not stumble. That's
- 19:36Speaker 1: why we'll be the Redskins. And if I may be
- 19:43Speaker 1: so humble with many words, that prime fumble. But but
- 19:47Speaker 1: but I chose not to go better. It's the little things. Joe, Yes, sir,
- 19:56Speaker 1: the Beatles are Joe's band. I don't know what you
- 19:58Speaker 1: know that. I didn't know that. I knew he was
- 20:01Speaker 1: a fan, but he's never tried to butcher the Beatles
- 20:03Speaker 1: before the season. Yeah, a excellent work is always be
- 20:07Speaker 1: Do you even sing that? Do you even sing Beatles
- 20:09Speaker 1: tunes when you're out with your band? Yeah? We we
- 20:12Speaker 1: do day Tripper and we've tried um paperback Writer generally
- 20:19Speaker 1: stay that's hard. Yeah, that's it's tough. I was curious
- 20:24Speaker 1: she's a Woman, which is an obscure Beatles song. Yeah,
- 20:28Speaker 1: that's a deep track which I always on this aftern
- 20:30Speaker 1: That's true. I always like that record. I don't know
- 20:32Speaker 1: why it's it's not one of their She's a Woman
- 20:35Speaker 1: is a song by the Beatles, which is what he
- 20:37Speaker 1: did ash, but not one of their one classic hits.
- 20:42Speaker 1: How many times in the years that we've gone to
- 20:43Speaker 1: London have you trecked to Abbey Road? Just twice? I
- 20:47Speaker 1: got a great story, but we probably cut, but it's
- 20:50Speaker 1: it's a wonderful story. Someday we're four and nine. Yeah,
- 20:52Speaker 1: you tell us the story. Joe being Kush, we decide
- 20:56Speaker 1: we're going to go to Abbey Roads. Is the first
- 20:58Speaker 1: year we went to London. We get up early in
- 21:01Speaker 1: the morning. It's it's probably Saturday morning. Figured there's no traffic,
- 21:05Speaker 1: dog you know, dawna's breaking. We're get in the cab.
- 21:11Speaker 1: Dawn is breaking, morning is broken. Catch stevens um and
- 21:15Speaker 1: the cab driver starts rolling his eyes. The second we
- 21:18Speaker 1: said we want to go to Abby Rouge, we gotta where.
- 21:20Speaker 1: We're talking about it, having a good time and I
- 21:22Speaker 1: won't say a while you're here. The cab driver going,
- 21:25Speaker 1: So we finally get there. It's great for me. I'm
- 21:28Speaker 1: looking at Abbey Road at the crossing. Right. We get
- 21:32Speaker 1: out of the car, I say, hey, can you wait
- 21:34Speaker 1: for us. We're just gonna like take a quick picture
- 21:35Speaker 1: because no, no no, I gotta go. I got I got
- 21:37Speaker 1: business I have to do. So I pay the cab driver.
- 21:41Speaker 1: He makes you turn, pulls off roses, window down and
- 21:43Speaker 1: yells out the window Stones rule that takes off. It's
- 21:49Speaker 1: like that was probably the greatest thing. There's no crosswalk
- 21:53Speaker 1: for the Stones, but he was. He was definitely a
- 21:56Speaker 1: Stones fans. How about that Stone by the way you're
- 22:02Speaker 1: coming to they're coming to here. Have you done any stuff?
- 22:06Speaker 1: We haven't done a Stone song this year? Have you
- 22:08Speaker 1: next week? Could be next week? Pull it up? What
- 22:11Speaker 1: other songs do you like? Do you like to play anything?
- 22:14Speaker 1: I don't care. I'll play anything country, jazz, I don't care.
- 22:18Speaker 1: Give us an example of one of your favorites, wagon Wheel.
- 22:22Speaker 1: Now you're missing my point. I'm trying to get you
- 22:24Speaker 1: into transition to play the Ozone music. I'm sorry, this
- 22:27Speaker 1: is my favorite tune. We're off, We're not on the
- 22:30Speaker 1: same page. It's early. The zone you're kidding side is
- 22:43Speaker 1: a really good zone. He doesn't have a He didn't
- 22:47Speaker 1: have a cross walk either, John does not have a
- 22:51Speaker 1: cross walk. Might next year? Next year is gonna be
- 22:53Speaker 1: a good year from me? I feel that this has
- 22:54Speaker 1: been a bad year, but things are looking up for all. John,
- 22:57Speaker 1: your son graduates from college this year, Ryan, he graduates
- 23:00Speaker 1: and uh may yeah, that's on his way home today.
- 23:04Speaker 1: Will that make it a good year for you? Financial?
- 23:07Speaker 1: It'll still cost me somehow? Stop paying? Does he have
- 23:13Speaker 1: Does he have access to your credit card this Christmas season?
- 23:16Speaker 1: He's pretty smart about that. He knows the wrath of John.
- 23:22Speaker 1: All right, So let's let's go to Mason from Palm Bay,
- 23:26Speaker 1: good Town. All these people talking about trading Ramsey need
- 23:30Speaker 1: to kick rocks. They clearly have never played football in
- 23:33Speaker 1: their lives. Sorry that he doesn't answer questions well enough
- 23:36Speaker 1: for them. Let me come interview them after a tough
- 23:39Speaker 1: day at work. I mainly use this because I love
- 23:41Speaker 1: the phrase kick rock. I liked it fantastic. Um. I
- 23:48Speaker 1: think people have looked at this team from a distance
- 23:52Speaker 1: and see a lot of penalties on the field. They
- 23:56Speaker 1: see Jalen his reputation coming into the season, and the
- 24:02Speaker 1: way that Leonard Fournette has acted on the sidelines in
- 24:05Speaker 1: the last couple of games. And I'm not saying what
- 24:07Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette did the other day, you know what you
- 24:10Speaker 1: know with the racial slur. Uh, I don't know that situation.
- 24:15Speaker 1: But the fight in Buffalo is more what I'm referring
- 24:17Speaker 1: to with that. And they've sort of lumped all these
- 24:20Speaker 1: players together as being bad guys, and it's just sort
- 24:24Speaker 1: of this thing, and it's become a thing where that's
- 24:29Speaker 1: the way the players in this team are being portrayed.
- 24:31Speaker 1: And and and Jalen somehows gotten lumped into that because of
- 24:34Speaker 1: the stuff he said this summer. I just don't see
- 24:37Speaker 1: Jalen being a problem right now on this team. Uh,
- 24:43Speaker 1: I'm with you, Brian. I think in the last four
- 24:45Speaker 1: weeks since the Indie game, he has worked very hard
- 24:49Speaker 1: to turn it around to be more of the leader.
- 24:52Speaker 1: It seems important to him now. Yeah, And uh, you know,
- 24:56Speaker 1: I just don't know that Jalen's repute Haitian or perception
- 25:01Speaker 1: or whatever you wanna call it is matching up with
- 25:04Speaker 1: who he really is right now. Okay, so late last year, Um,
- 25:07Speaker 1: you know, they've got this thing and they do it
- 25:09Speaker 1: for social media where they take photos of the guys
- 25:11Speaker 1: in their nice outfits as they're getting on or off
- 25:14Speaker 1: the plane. I don't know which um. And there were
- 25:16Speaker 1: a couple with Jalen Ramsey and Leonard for Nette, and
- 25:18Speaker 1: they were side by side, and at the time, of course,
- 25:21Speaker 1: both were playing well, and I remember looking at one
- 25:23Speaker 1: of them and thinking, all right, there's your cornerstones, right,
- 25:25Speaker 1: one on offense, one on defense. Here you go. Well,
- 25:28Speaker 1: clearly in my perception that's changed, right, Jalen still a cornerstone,
- 25:33Speaker 1: Leonard sliding In my estimation for the I was on
- 25:37Speaker 1: the sidelines. I've been on the sidelines, I hear. And
- 25:39Speaker 1: the fact that he's turning whatever was said and engaging
- 25:42Speaker 1: the crowd instead of this team is the problem for me.
- 25:46Speaker 1: Forget all the other nonsense, right, it's just for him
- 25:49Speaker 1: this year, it's just been straight downhill. So I wouldn't
- 25:53Speaker 1: put Jalen and Leonard in the same photo this year
- 25:57Speaker 1: at all. They're completely different. And yes, Jalen has some
- 26:00Speaker 1: rough edges in the locker room at times, and and
- 26:03Speaker 1: Mason's point is great, let me come interview you after
- 26:06Speaker 1: a tough debt um. However, he's a star player and
- 26:10Speaker 1: he's going to be paid like that, and that's part
- 26:12Speaker 1: of the job, is that you have to stand and
- 26:13Speaker 1: answer it. That's the difference between you and me. Someone
- 26:15Speaker 1: comes in here, it's completely different. Um, but he has
- 26:18Speaker 1: gotten better at it. It's important to him. If you
- 26:21Speaker 1: haven't seen Mike Dup, which was done this week as
- 26:25Speaker 1: a collaboration between Pat Kavanaugh, Dave to Candice and mad Max,
- 26:30Speaker 1: It's terrific. And at the end of it, Todd wash
- 26:33Speaker 1: puts his arm around Jalen and I had the earpiece
- 26:35Speaker 1: in and was listening at the time as he said,
- 26:38Speaker 1: he's gonna be your team. I mean, it was clear
- 26:39Speaker 1: that Todd was impressed. And those two, by the way,
- 26:41Speaker 1: I've had their differences. Uh. I can't tell you how
- 26:45Speaker 1: many times this year I've seen them drawing at each other,
- 26:47Speaker 1: which is part of the gig. It happens. It's emotional game.
- 26:50Speaker 1: But I've wondered how they were going to coexist. And
- 26:52Speaker 1: when Todd went over and did that, I went wow.
- 26:55Speaker 1: I mean that just made me think, Okay, I saw
- 26:56Speaker 1: this one coming. I wasn't out of the line, which,
- 26:58Speaker 1: by the way, brings it back to the football talk
- 27:00Speaker 1: stuff and Jeff Lockhaman was in here yesterday and he
- 27:03Speaker 1: was he was about to go down that line and
- 27:05Speaker 1: we both said, hey, stop, we were there. It was
- 27:08Speaker 1: it was out of context. That was not Jalen PuTTY's
- 27:11Speaker 1: finger at other people. It was not. But that's just
- 27:14Speaker 1: Jeff reading the tween. Well, but it's also what you're
- 27:17Speaker 1: talking about. The perception is that Jalen's that way, and
- 27:21Speaker 1: he was. It's got to the point with Jalen where
- 27:23Speaker 1: people are reading everything that he says convinced that it's
- 27:29Speaker 1: going to have a me first, kicking teammates under the
- 27:32Speaker 1: bus feel. So they're looking for something that says that
- 27:37Speaker 1: if you were around him in that locker room on
- 27:38Speaker 1: Thursday night, you know, a that's never been Jalen's m
- 27:42Speaker 1: O anyway, but there are there have been times where
- 27:47Speaker 1: he's been cryptic, where he's tried to um, you know,
- 27:53Speaker 1: imply things without saying it. But I haven't felt that
- 27:57Speaker 1: from him really since this season started to go bad,
- 27:59Speaker 1: and I but I particularly haven't felt it from him
- 28:01Speaker 1: since the Indie game, which I really think was a
- 28:05Speaker 1: wake up call for him, and he is he has
- 28:08Speaker 1: changed from it. So uh the two Indie games to
- 28:11Speaker 1: find his season. Yea, one was the worst game. One
- 28:14Speaker 1: might have been his best and playing pretty good. Well yeah,
- 28:18Speaker 1: but but the fact that he went out there at
- 28:20Speaker 1: that knee and competed against t Y Hilton like he
- 28:23Speaker 1: did in a game as we referenced earlier that they
- 28:27Speaker 1: were really out of it. He didn't have to play
- 28:29Speaker 1: that game, he said, No, you would have understood it. Yeah, yeah, okay,
- 28:33Speaker 1: what else you got, Let's go all the way to Brazil?
- 28:36Speaker 1: Trade second round for Flacco? Question Mark gets complicated. Yeah,
- 28:43Speaker 1: and if it was bringing him in at exactly the
- 28:47Speaker 1: salary you wanted, with no commitment, uh, with no giving
- 28:52Speaker 1: up picks. I mean, you know, if he just magically appear,
- 28:57Speaker 1: I would say yes, because I think he's good. I
- 29:00Speaker 1: think he's a guy who would fit, and I think
- 29:03Speaker 1: there would be a price ceiling that you would go to.
- 29:08Speaker 1: I think it would be worth it to spend a
- 29:09Speaker 1: certain amount, but the trade would bring him in at
- 29:15Speaker 1: his cap figure, and I'm going to scary. I want
- 29:17Speaker 1: to go to that because look, so next year, if
- 29:20Speaker 1: Blake Bortles is not here, he's an eleven and a
- 29:23Speaker 1: half million dollar cap hit. And that's that's just if
- 29:26Speaker 1: you do it before the calendar year starts. Um. For
- 29:30Speaker 1: clarity sake, Joe has about the same amount of dead money.
- 29:34Speaker 1: He's got sixteen and that's a lot to ask the
- 29:36Speaker 1: Ravens to be able to swallow. And again, you can
- 29:39Speaker 1: restructure some of these deals. And I don't want to
- 29:41Speaker 1: get too far into the weeds on the numbers because
- 29:42Speaker 1: people just get lost. Um. But Joe in nineteen, I
- 29:46Speaker 1: just want to look at his contract real quick and
- 29:48Speaker 1: tell you what he is, because you talk about the numbers,
- 29:51Speaker 1: he is a twenty six and a half million dollar
- 29:54Speaker 1: cap hit for the Ravens next year. His base salaries
- 29:58Speaker 1: eighteen million, five hundred. Now that's not terrible for a
- 30:02Speaker 1: guy that you know that you expect to come in
- 30:04Speaker 1: and lead you to the playoffs. It's not terrible. But
- 30:07Speaker 1: what what what it applies is is that you have
- 30:09Speaker 1: to find a way look at them. Let me look
- 30:13Speaker 1: at Blake's just assuming that he would be on the
- 30:15Speaker 1: on the here next year. His base salary is sixteen million,
- 30:19Speaker 1: so the contracts aren't that far off. Two and a
- 30:21Speaker 1: half million up on the base salary. Um, you could
- 30:24Speaker 1: do something. Of course, you'd almost need to trade him
- 30:27Speaker 1: head up to wash it out. Completely. I don't know
- 30:29Speaker 1: that you could get them to take Bortles at that number.
- 30:35Speaker 1: Will another the question ran into and if you get
- 30:40Speaker 1: a feel for the league, is somebody else going to
- 30:43Speaker 1: trade for him? Or whether Ravens be forced to release him? Uh,
- 30:48Speaker 1: it would be far better if they waited until he
- 30:51Speaker 1: was released and then figured something out on that front.
- 30:53Speaker 1: So trade second round or if all I'm giving up
- 30:58Speaker 1: as a second rounder and there's not your amaphic ocasions? Yes, Um,
- 31:04Speaker 1: the cap ramifications are probably too complicated, and try to
- 31:08Speaker 1: figure out a yes or no answer to that question.
- 31:10Speaker 1: So just in general terms, next year, right now, with
- 31:14Speaker 1: Flacco on the roster at his eighteen and a half
- 31:18Speaker 1: million dollar base, they still have thirty seven million dollars
- 31:23Speaker 1: in cap space, and they're going to carry some money
- 31:25Speaker 1: over next year. So the Ravens don't have to release him.
- 31:28Speaker 1: They could still go forward. Now I get it, you
- 31:31Speaker 1: have Lamar Jackson, he's the future. But they're under no
- 31:35Speaker 1: pressure from the Cap to get rid of Joe Flacco
- 31:38Speaker 1: because you're starting quarterback salary is going to be, you know,
- 31:41Speaker 1: minimal compared to what Lamar Jackson's salary this year is. Um,
- 31:46Speaker 1: his basis his whole cap hits two point one. So
- 31:48Speaker 1: you know the vibe from up there is that if
- 31:51Speaker 1: if Lamar finishes out the year and he's the that
- 31:54Speaker 1: all part ways. But if you don't have to release him,
- 31:57Speaker 1: then you can hold in hostage to trade and make
- 31:59Speaker 1: a team come and pay your ransom for him, which
- 32:03Speaker 1: is what they'll probably do. That's leverage, and if you're
- 32:05Speaker 1: a team, you don't give up that leverage. So it's
- 32:08Speaker 1: worth investigating. But you have to do something with Blake's
- 32:12Speaker 1: contract to create room. Here's something again, and there's cap
- 32:16Speaker 1: people on the league, and I'll come on, man, you
- 32:18Speaker 1: just do this, this, this, and this, which I don't
- 32:20Speaker 1: know and which you I couldn't explain to you without
- 32:24Speaker 1: graphics and illustrations in the whole nine yards. But can
- 32:27Speaker 1: you keep Calais Campbell right and his fifteen million dollars
- 32:31Speaker 1: next year and go get a Joe Flacco? In other words,
- 32:34Speaker 1: if you decide that's who I've got to go get,
- 32:36Speaker 1: who has to leave? Because you're right up against the
- 32:38Speaker 1: cap here. They're gonna roll over seven million dollars in
- 32:41Speaker 1: cap room next year and still be five million over
- 32:44Speaker 1: and so they're gonna need to cut. Someone say, Barry Church,
- 32:46Speaker 1: he's gone. He's got a six million dollar cap figure
- 32:49Speaker 1: next year, So all of a sudden, you're one million over.
- 32:51Speaker 1: Barry's gone. Uh. Of course Malie is gonna be gone too,
- 32:54Speaker 1: so you're gonna be able to create some cap room here. Um.
- 32:57Speaker 1: It just it isn't as easy as we want him.
- 32:59Speaker 1: Go get him. Yeah, no, he doesn't just appear. Okay,
- 33:04Speaker 1: contrary to popular belief, I think there's one more all right,
- 33:06Speaker 1: Ron from Tallahassee. It was difficult seeing some dominant defensive
- 33:10Speaker 1: shutouts shut down high powered offenses without thinking what could
- 33:14Speaker 1: have been for the Jags this season. You know, there
- 33:17Speaker 1: were some games this weekend of the Buccaneers held the
- 33:21Speaker 1: Saints down for most of the game, which they erupted
- 33:23Speaker 1: and scored twenty eight points. How about what the Bears
- 33:25Speaker 1: did to the Rams. I mean, who thought that was possible? Yeah?
- 33:28Speaker 1: It uh what they did philosophically, And of course what
- 33:33Speaker 1: the Jaguars did the Colts was not wrong. It didn't
- 33:37Speaker 1: work out because the offense completely went south to a
- 33:44Speaker 1: degree in quarters number two and three, to the point
- 33:48Speaker 1: where the defense couldn't hold that up anymore. And I
- 33:52Speaker 1: think you will see more games like Bears Rams. My
- 33:56Speaker 1: guesses in the playoffs you're gonna see a couple of
- 33:59Speaker 1: games where people are like, oh, I thought offense was
- 34:01Speaker 1: the trend. I don't think the Super Bowl is. I don'
- 34:04Speaker 1: think every playoff game is. UM. Defense will still matter.
- 34:10Speaker 1: This team could have won this way. UM, And it's
- 34:15Speaker 1: too bad it was in no zone answer the last
- 34:17Speaker 1: couple of days. It's too bad that we didn't get
- 34:20Speaker 1: to see how the plan would have worked, because what's
- 34:24Speaker 1: happening on the field isn't the plan. Because of interview
- 34:27Speaker 1: Well and Tom in his Um in his radio interview
- 34:31Speaker 1: what was It two weeks ago, said he still believed
- 34:33Speaker 1: very much in the philosophy, which is run the ball
- 34:35Speaker 1: and play a dominant brand of defense. You still have
- 34:38Speaker 1: to take your shots down the field, which is what's
- 34:39Speaker 1: missing this year. And that looked like folly when he
- 34:42Speaker 1: said it, because you were just coming off a basketball
- 34:44Speaker 1: game on many night football. It wouldn't seem so silly
- 34:47Speaker 1: now that you're coming off rands season long. The Rams philosophy,
- 34:51Speaker 1: the Rams style of offense is exactly what this team
- 34:53Speaker 1: planned to play. Some different wringles because they had Corey
- 34:56Speaker 1: Grant instead of Brandon Cooks, and and of course they
- 34:59Speaker 1: have a quarter who is playing at a very high level,
- 35:01Speaker 1: a running back who's playing at a historic level, and
- 35:03Speaker 1: a receiver who stretches the field, which this team doesn't have.
- 35:07Speaker 1: At least it hasn't evolved yet as this thing gets
- 35:11Speaker 1: later this season. And I'm not saying that one of
- 35:13Speaker 1: these offensive teams, which I love, by the way, but
- 35:17Speaker 1: often in the playoffs, who are the hottest teams over
- 35:20Speaker 1: the last month that you're talking about right now? Cowboys, Seahawks,
- 35:23Speaker 1: Bears defense play much more like this team was going
- 35:28Speaker 1: to going to plan to play. It'll be interesting to
- 35:31Speaker 1: see how that plays out, because right now those are
- 35:33Speaker 1: the teams that seem to be making strides. All right,
- 35:36Speaker 1: we'll take a break. When we come back. Ashland asks
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- 37:28Speaker 1: Welcome back to Jack's drive time Brian Ashland, John, what
- 37:32Speaker 1: a lovely day might be forty degrees? Now you think
- 37:35Speaker 1: maybe you can blimp venture out to your car after
- 37:36Speaker 1: this or you have to wait until the sun is
- 37:38Speaker 1: all the way out. Alright, this is your turn, you
- 37:42Speaker 1: take the rain. Sister Ashland ask, let some good ones
- 37:46Speaker 1: to speak, John, is your board ready? I'm I'm bored?
- 37:49Speaker 1: All right? All right? The first Ashland ask, let's see it, Maxwell.
- 37:56Speaker 1: Who has impressed you the most during this losing streak?
- 38:00Speaker 1: What guy has stood out to you? It could be
- 38:06Speaker 1: an all season type of thing, but especially in the
- 38:09Speaker 1: past few weeks. John, Brian, go ahead, you see. Well,
- 38:15Speaker 1: I'm I'm in thought because now I'll just go with it,
- 38:20Speaker 1: Go with it, go with the initial two point. Oh.
- 38:22Speaker 1: I mean I've been talking about him for the last month. Um,
- 38:26Speaker 1: the way he's handled himself. We have We've done it
- 38:28Speaker 1: ad nauseum. I would say the Jaalen is at the
- 38:31Speaker 1: top of my list for people that I have been
- 38:33Speaker 1: impressed with. Yeah, I agree with Brian, he's been impressive. Um.
- 38:39Speaker 1: I went with D. D. Westbrook. I didn't necessarily think
- 38:45Speaker 1: coming in, I thought Celan Cole would be the player
- 38:48Speaker 1: who really took a jump in the wide receiver position.
- 38:51Speaker 1: I wasn't sure about d d Um, but what's been
- 38:55Speaker 1: impressive at D D Westbrook. I don't know that he's
- 38:57Speaker 1: going to develop into an elite Pro Bowl guy. But
- 39:00Speaker 1: what's fun to watch about the guy is, you know,
- 39:03Speaker 1: you think to yourself, if this team was better, he
- 39:06Speaker 1: would be moving into a situation where he was a
- 39:09Speaker 1: lot of people's favorite player. He he plays hard, he
- 39:13Speaker 1: knows how to play. It looks to me like he's
- 39:15Speaker 1: played five hundred football games when I say that he's
- 39:20Speaker 1: he's got a feel for the game. He's a natural
- 39:24Speaker 1: football player. He competes, he's not scared out there. The
- 39:27Speaker 1: game's never too big for him. He reminds me a
- 39:29Speaker 1: lot of more Quies in that way, and uh, you know,
- 39:33Speaker 1: makes plays, figures it out. Um so I um, he's
- 39:39Speaker 1: been impressive. He's the only he's really the only player.
- 39:42Speaker 1: Uh T. J Yelding early in the season was impressive,
- 39:45Speaker 1: But I think de d has passed him in terms
- 39:47Speaker 1: of maybe the one guy who's playing good on offense
- 39:50Speaker 1: right now. I will say this, it was after the
- 39:51Speaker 1: Jets game. I believe he came in he'd had seven
- 39:53Speaker 1: or eight catches and had been rocked. I mean he's
- 39:56Speaker 1: been hit hard in the middle of the field. And
- 39:58Speaker 1: we were talking about, you know, his termination and catching
- 40:01Speaker 1: the ball. He was I'm tough. He was I'm tough too.
- 40:03Speaker 1: He wanted to make that point. I mean people see
- 40:05Speaker 1: him as as uh smaller he has a smaller receiver,
- 40:08Speaker 1: as as fast as a playmaker. But in the middle
- 40:11Speaker 1: of the field, which is kind of where he roams,
- 40:13Speaker 1: he's tough guy. That is not a place where the
- 40:15Speaker 1: faint of heart belong. And he is tough. If you
- 40:19Speaker 1: had fifty three d Westby, he'd be fine. I'm We'll
- 40:22Speaker 1: give you one more guy. Um. And here's what's impressed
- 40:25Speaker 1: me the most. He's been playing with a hamstring injury,
- 40:29Speaker 1: on a bad offensive line, a decimated offensive line, and
- 40:33Speaker 1: doing his job. And I haven't watched enough a j
- 40:36Speaker 1: can to be able to tell you that he's playing
- 40:38Speaker 1: at a high level. But he's out there every week
- 40:41Speaker 1: gotting it out where he could be one of those
- 40:43Speaker 1: guys that says, I you know where you know he's hurt,
- 40:45Speaker 1: he's in the last year of his contract, doesn't nobody's
- 40:48Speaker 1: gonna be here, so you kind of get why he's
- 40:50Speaker 1: doing it. He wants to show people how tough he is. Um,
- 40:52Speaker 1: but I've been impressed with his attitude and the way
- 40:54Speaker 1: he's going about doing it, and that's really a story
- 40:56Speaker 1: of the whole offensive line. You think about this, and
- 40:58Speaker 1: if you tie to hearing about injuries right now, you've
- 41:02Speaker 1: got a j camp plan on one leg. You've got
- 41:04Speaker 1: Jimmy Pannell, Parnell who basically always plays on one leg.
- 41:07Speaker 1: Three backups. You're still down to no tight end in
- 41:11Speaker 1: terms of a tight end. Who's a true tight end
- 41:14Speaker 1: on what this scheme? Once your number one receiver was
- 41:17Speaker 1: more keys, So you literally have zero blockers that you
- 41:21Speaker 1: thought we're gonna be your front line when training camp began.
- 41:27Speaker 1: If you consider the Canon Parnell are both in situations
- 41:30Speaker 1: where ideal they probably wouldn't be playing. All right, the
- 41:34Speaker 1: next ash ask number two, let's give a percentage chance
- 41:38Speaker 1: the Jaguars can win on Sunday? What percent are you
- 41:41Speaker 1: giving them? Gentlemen? Why I got really excited. Well, yes,
- 41:57Speaker 1: that's a given. All right, he's doing something ridiculous. Go ahead, Brian,
- 42:06Speaker 1: I mean there there there are seven point favorites. So
- 42:09Speaker 1: obviously the folks in Vegas and to do that. And
- 42:13Speaker 1: by the way, I said that, I'm not much of
- 42:15Speaker 1: a line guy. I mean, with legalized betting coming, you
- 42:18Speaker 1: see more and more ESPNS and pro football talk and
- 42:21Speaker 1: all those people doing betting stuff. I better learn more
- 42:24Speaker 1: about it. Um. I just I have the sense that
- 42:26Speaker 1: this week the defense will be able to score UM
- 42:29Speaker 1: give him a lead, and then hopefully in the season
- 42:32Speaker 1: finale at home, they've got a little bit of juice.
- 42:34Speaker 1: So I'm going SI chance to win. I was gonna
- 42:38Speaker 1: I went with two point three six seven eight two one.
- 42:42Speaker 1: I was gonna go with fifty two point three six
- 42:44Speaker 1: seven eight two four, but it seems as if that
- 42:52Speaker 1: slight wind from the south at about six miles an
- 42:54Speaker 1: hour might impact I was going to go with incentive. UM,
- 42:59Speaker 1: the JA Wars on paper, should win this game. The
- 43:02Speaker 1: fact that the Skins are playing for something, I it
- 43:07Speaker 1: leads me to believe that it will be closer than
- 43:10Speaker 1: your oddsmakers, who you're a big fan of, UM, I believe.
- 43:15Speaker 1: So again, I'm gonna go with fifty two points. You
- 43:21Speaker 1: can round down, but I prefer to go with fifty
- 43:23Speaker 1: two point three six. That's fair way to complicate things.
- 43:28Speaker 1: That's what you do. It's never easy, all right. The
- 43:33Speaker 1: last Ashlyn asked, with this losing streak going on, I
- 43:38Speaker 1: remember last year we were in the thick of it
- 43:40Speaker 1: right now, all excited. I didn't even know it was
- 43:42Speaker 1: Christmas this year? Are you feeling more into the holiday
- 43:46Speaker 1: spirit because of the losing streak? I love Krema, So
- 43:55Speaker 1: this is this is uh? I remember last year Christmas
- 44:01Speaker 1: rolled around and I didn't even know it was Christmas.
- 44:08Speaker 1: What are you drawing? You're gonna wonder when I turned around, John,
- 44:12Speaker 1: go ahead, go ahead. I don't know what that means.
- 44:21Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. Oh, that's a peanut
- 44:25Speaker 1: butter blossom. I was eating them the other day. I
- 44:28Speaker 1: thought it was something out I know you did. That's
- 44:30Speaker 1: why I drew that. That's why. That's why I drew
- 44:32Speaker 1: the little lines here to make it look like a
- 44:33Speaker 1: hershey kiss. I thought it was something It might be
- 44:35Speaker 1: the opposite. I got a brown marker here if you
- 44:39Speaker 1: want know. No, that's a peanut butter blossom. And they
- 44:41Speaker 1: are brown, by the way, they're light brown and dark brown. Right,
- 44:44Speaker 1: it's multi colored, multi layered. Um yeah, not somebody in
- 44:48Speaker 1: the office made them and I was eating them. And
- 44:50Speaker 1: then the other night the boy said, when are we
- 44:51Speaker 1: gonna make Christmas cookies? So we did so I'm absolutely
- 44:53Speaker 1: in the holiday. You forgot the little squiddly lines up
- 44:56Speaker 1: above it. You know what I probably should have done.
- 44:58Speaker 1: Hold on, this would have got in your mind out
- 45:00Speaker 1: of the toilet where yours is almost always Anyway, that
- 45:05Speaker 1: was good. That's good stuff. Now do you know what
- 45:09Speaker 1: it is? Perfect? Now we know a little more detail. Goodness.
- 45:14Speaker 1: It's about to say, what does that have to do
- 45:16Speaker 1: with Christmas? Christmas cookie? I know Doug Moron doesn't eat them?
- 45:22Speaker 1: Remember that last year? Do you remember that? Remember I
- 45:27Speaker 1: asked Hi about Christmas cook You looked at me like
- 45:29Speaker 1: like I had a horn going out in the middle
- 45:30Speaker 1: of my head. What are you asking about Christmas cook?
- 45:34Speaker 1: Trying to win a game? Yeah? I know, but it's
- 45:35Speaker 1: Christmas Christmas. I'm had to bring some them in this week?
- 45:39Speaker 1: All right? Is that it? That's it? Tweets top tweets.
- 45:50Speaker 1: We haven't heard that song in a while. What cracks
- 45:53Speaker 1: me up is that John thinks he's on camera and
- 45:56Speaker 1: he's not. Next week, you got to do a close
- 45:58Speaker 1: up when he screams top tweets. I think he lives
- 46:01Speaker 1: for that. I think that's how weekly. Yes, yes, you are.
- 46:06Speaker 1: You should remember that, kind of like Leonard for Nett.
- 46:09Speaker 1: You should always know there's one on your somewhere, al right.
- 46:11Speaker 1: The first top tweet is a story about DJ Chark.
- 46:14Speaker 1: So we all remember over the summer, over the off season,
- 46:17Speaker 1: g J Chark learned how to swim at the local
- 46:20Speaker 1: y m c A and it was a big storyline
- 46:22Speaker 1: that we covered on Jaguars dot com over the summer. Well,
- 46:25Speaker 1: yesterday they invited him back the y m c A
- 46:27Speaker 1: to teach little kids how to swim. Pretty cool story
- 46:30Speaker 1: that it came full circle for him just a few
- 46:33Speaker 1: months later. But DJ Tarkeet was all over his social
- 46:36Speaker 1: media account that now he is a swimming instructor at
- 46:38Speaker 1: m A. You know, you're right, that's tremendous and he
- 46:42Speaker 1: is a phenomenal young man um whereas his former L
- 46:47Speaker 1: s U teammate doesn't really want to talk to the
- 46:49Speaker 1: media and kind of tries to avoid us. DJ stands there.
- 46:51Speaker 1: The other day, Leonard came by and what are you
- 46:53Speaker 1: doing that for? Because because they're here to talk to
- 46:55Speaker 1: me and I want he said, I'm doing my job.
- 46:59Speaker 1: He's a hard kid, he is a personable kid, and
- 47:03Speaker 1: clearly he gets the value of paying it forward. And
- 47:09Speaker 1: he's the guy we're gonna talk a lot about next
- 47:12Speaker 1: spring because he was had a first round grade by
- 47:15Speaker 1: a lot of teams. The Jaguars got him in the
- 47:17Speaker 1: second round. And he is a guy with incredible upside
- 47:20Speaker 1: as your receiver. Yeah, and all the football stuff. He
- 47:24Speaker 1: needs to take a big jump because they need him
- 47:27Speaker 1: to be a frontline wide receivers. They don't have one
- 47:30Speaker 1: right now, but that's for another day. That's fantastic. It
- 47:34Speaker 1: is cool stuff. All right. Let's go to Daniel and Jeremiah,
- 47:36Speaker 1: NFL network analysts. Not pleasant, too big a surprise for
- 47:41Speaker 1: me this season Jacksonville and Seattle. I thought Jacks were
- 47:44Speaker 1: going to win twelve to thirteen games. I thought the
- 47:46Speaker 1: Seahawks were a four to five win team. Twelve thirteen games.
- 47:51Speaker 1: You and me both, Danny, Yeah, thanks a lot, Daniel,
- 47:56Speaker 1: check me too. I don't think that applies to but
- 48:00Speaker 1: I agree. I thought the same thing me too. All right,
- 48:04Speaker 1: let's go to Steve up Now it has a completely
- 48:09Speaker 1: different meaning because it's in your hands and not mine. Alright,
- 48:13Speaker 1: let's go to Steve nay Smith after the Jaguars lost.
- 48:17Speaker 1: This is some embarrassing stuff I'm seeking from the Jaguars. Offensively,
- 48:21Speaker 1: they stink. Defensively they've surrendered. This is exactly why I
- 48:24Speaker 1: said Jalen Ramsey was wrong to talk so much. He's
- 48:27Speaker 1: a stunt, no doubt he can back it up, but
- 48:29Speaker 1: he can't speak for his teammates. Yeah, when you talk
- 48:34Speaker 1: this much, you got have something to say, and that's
- 48:36Speaker 1: I mean. Uh, And when you're losing, people are gonna
- 48:39Speaker 1: circle back and say, this is why I said, Jalen
- 48:42Speaker 1: Ramsey talking is not why the day Wars are losing.
- 48:44Speaker 1: And that's fine. Um, I I'm not the Offensively they
- 48:50Speaker 1: stunk and defensively they look bad. All this is fine. Um,
- 48:54Speaker 1: you know, was Jalen Ramsey talking the reason they've played
- 48:59Speaker 1: bad this year. That's going to be the narrative because
- 49:03Speaker 1: and Stephen A is not the only one who said this,
- 49:05Speaker 1: And I like Steven he's a good job. It's hard
- 49:08Speaker 1: to come up with takes when you have to have
- 49:09Speaker 1: a take on everything. But people nationally are gonna look
- 49:13Speaker 1: at this and say, well, see Jalen Ramsey because he's
- 49:16Speaker 1: the one Jaguar that I know something about is the
- 49:18Speaker 1: reason that they're losing, because that's the take I have,
- 49:21Speaker 1: because that's the only thing I know about the team.
- 49:24Speaker 1: I'd be surprised if he talks next summer like he
- 49:27Speaker 1: did this summer, and that's based on the last month
- 49:30Speaker 1: and watching him grow a bit. I don't. I don't
- 49:31Speaker 1: have any knowledge of it. I'm not an advisor, I'm
- 49:33Speaker 1: not in his circle. I'm just gonna say that. I
- 49:36Speaker 1: would think he'll still have something to say, but it
- 49:38Speaker 1: won't be so crass as the g Q article was.
- 49:42Speaker 1: He'll change and grow. He's hell, twenty three years old.
- 49:48Speaker 1: Goodness knows, three year olds have a long way to go,
- 49:53Speaker 1: but they're young. Ash will be different in five years
- 49:56Speaker 1: and she is now. I'm stuck in this awful that
- 50:00Speaker 1: I'm in. I'm fifty. But when you're young, you change,
- 50:03Speaker 1: you grow, your mature. He will, Yes, I think there's
- 50:07Speaker 1: a big difference from Jane Ramsey over the summer to now,
- 50:10Speaker 1: even within just a few months. I thought, Ashton hold
- 50:13Speaker 1: out some hope that maybe you would change over time.
- 50:15Speaker 1: I'm if anything, I'm I'm digressing. That's positive, all right.
- 50:21Speaker 1: We are too to our last break when we come back,
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- 52:17Speaker 1: the day, which team would you love to see miss
- 52:19Speaker 1: the playoffs? Yes, it's petty, but we gotta say say
- 52:24Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. Jaguars fans would love to see miss
- 52:26Speaker 1: the playoffs. But twelve comments Tennessee Titans. Yeah, I figured
- 52:30Speaker 1: that would way in somewhere in there. I am a
- 52:32Speaker 1: little surprised it's overwhelmingly Pittsburgh. Um. I'm like John would
- 52:36Speaker 1: have thought it would have been Division, Um, other or Andy.
- 52:40Speaker 1: But we'll take it. We love the Peg. Don't get
- 52:42Speaker 1: I don't get the Pittsburgh. It seem beats them all
- 52:44Speaker 1: the time when yeah, it's not like they've stood in
- 52:47Speaker 1: the way of a lot of things. The Jaguars over
- 52:49Speaker 1: the years, I mean frankly, so yeah, good, okay, here
- 52:54Speaker 1: we got um power rankings being what they are, and
- 52:59Speaker 1: and Max, I don't have them in any particular orders,
- 53:00Speaker 1: so just pop up the first one and we'll go
- 53:02Speaker 1: with whoever it is. Oh look, he's always first. UM.
- 53:08Speaker 1: I actually was toying with the idea of tying the Saints,
- 53:11Speaker 1: Rams and Chiefs because right now I don't see any
- 53:13Speaker 1: of them as being particularly overwhelming it, and I think
- 53:16Speaker 1: the Chargers may wind up. It's gonna be interestingly see
- 53:18Speaker 1: the Chargers can get in there. They look like a
- 53:21Speaker 1: team that might sneak up and winter off in Jaguars
- 53:24Speaker 1: twenty nine because it was impossible to have him at two.
- 53:30Speaker 1: I don't is it impossible? Though? I don't know? It's coming.
- 53:34Speaker 1: Go ahead, it's coming. Geez alright. My power rankings somewhat
- 53:38Speaker 1: similar to John Saints Ram's Chief Patriots Chargers. Brian and
- 53:42Speaker 1: I had to talk this morning, and I had to
- 53:43Speaker 1: put the Jaguars at thirty one because all the teams
- 53:47Speaker 1: above that that are in the same boat as the
- 53:48Speaker 1: Jaguars at least have their answer at quarterback, so it's
- 53:52Speaker 1: tough to put them above that answer. Well, and so
- 53:55Speaker 1: you know where I'm at on this one. UM, I
- 53:58Speaker 1: mixed up a little bit. I have the chaint Chiefs
- 54:00Speaker 1: because of their obvious quarterback and the way that they're playing. UM.
- 54:04Speaker 1: I like the Chargers. In fact, I thought about putting
- 54:06Speaker 1: the Chargers number one this week. I let the Saints
- 54:08Speaker 1: have it because they battled their way back and the
- 54:10Speaker 1: Chiefs and the Chargers play on Thursday night and so that'll,
- 54:13Speaker 1: you know, determine the outcome right there. Um. But high
- 54:17Speaker 1: toyed with putting the Jags thirty two also because when
- 54:20Speaker 1: you look at the teams that are below them, um
- 54:23Speaker 1: in in many of the popular power rankings, the different websites,
- 54:28Speaker 1: they all have their quarterback, you know San Francisco, Oakland, Arizona.
- 54:33Speaker 1: Even the teams that are slightly above them, you know,
- 54:34Speaker 1: the Bills, the Jets, they all have their guide uh,
- 54:37Speaker 1: and the Jaguars don't. And that is a dramatic disadvantage
- 54:42Speaker 1: in today's football. UM. So here's hoping the Jaguars can
- 54:47Speaker 1: find their quarterback in the off season. John, you have
- 54:50Speaker 1: anything else to say, No, I still don't get it,
- 54:57Speaker 1: but I do know we're at the end of our
- 54:59Speaker 1: wits and the of this hour. So we'll give a
- 55:01Speaker 1: great big shout out to Hey Joe Fortunado for another
- 55:05Speaker 1: outstanding song. Matt Max in there punching the buttons and
- 55:08Speaker 1: making us all look. You decide where it's good or not.
- 55:11Speaker 1: Have a great day, everybody, Happy hour comes your way
- 55:12Speaker 1: with the birthday boy J P. Shadrick four o'clock this afternoon.
- 55:15Speaker 1: Make sure he called text right, don't happ your birthday, Yeah,