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- 0:00Speaker 1: M hmm.
- 0:04Speaker 2: It is Thursdays, August thirsteen. This is Jack Wars Happy
- 0:11Speaker 2: hours and now a guy who worry about these opens
- 0:16Speaker 2: more than JP ever did. Brian Saxon.
- 0:54Speaker 1: It's the preseason for everyone. I wasn't gonna rude, I
- 0:59Speaker 1: was gonna right, I wasn't gonna worry about the opens.
- 1:02Speaker 1: But now Joe's put it in my head. Everybody. Welcome
- 1:04Speaker 1: into JAG's happy hour. Brian Sexton along with Jeff Loghman
- 1:08Speaker 1: getting back on a bike here.
- 1:09Speaker 3: At Welcome aboard.
- 1:11Speaker 1: It's nice to be this is your show. Oh we
- 1:14Speaker 1: saw my show, well today it's gonna be your show. Well,
- 1:17Speaker 1: and got the tape up in front of you from today.
- 1:19Speaker 4: And I haven't gotten through all of it, but my
- 1:22Speaker 4: eyes were able to see the entire joint practice today.
- 1:26Speaker 4: But welcome back. I mean, we used to do this
- 1:29Speaker 4: for many years. How many totally years did we do this?
- 1:32Speaker 1: Well, we did it from two thousand and two until
- 1:34Speaker 1: twenty fourteen.
- 1:35Speaker 3: Yeah, so twelve thirteen years something like that.
- 1:38Speaker 1: Yeah, let's see how much longer we can go.
- 1:39Speaker 3: I think we can figure it out, all right, and we're.
- 1:41Speaker 1: Gonna do our best. The Jags figured it out today
- 1:43Speaker 1: By the way, we are at the team hotel in
- 1:45Speaker 1: New Orleans where the Jaguars arrived last night. Practice today
- 1:49Speaker 1: with the New Orleans Saints at their practice facility, and
- 1:52Speaker 1: we heard from the head coach right after practice his
- 1:55Speaker 1: overall perspective on what got done at the training facility
- 1:59Speaker 1: in Metai.
- 2:04Speaker 5: It was nice to see the skilled players keep making
- 2:07Speaker 5: some plays out there. I thought Trevor settled in defensively.
- 2:11Speaker 5: I think from what I understand, we stopped the run.
- 2:14Speaker 4: Well.
- 2:14Speaker 5: There was a couple explosive passes that we got to
- 2:16Speaker 5: clean up and look at. But overall, great work. I mean,
- 2:19Speaker 5: you know, I had a couple of little things, but no.
- 2:21Speaker 3: Big fights or anything. I just it was good quality.
- 2:24Speaker 5: Work that you can't simulate at home.
- 2:29Speaker 1: Jeff, this is the preseason now. I was talking with
- 2:31Speaker 1: James Gladstone in the lunch room before we left Jacksonville.
- 2:34Speaker 1: I said, James, tell me if I'm right about this.
- 2:36Speaker 1: These joint practices are getting ready for the season, and
- 2:41Speaker 1: the preseason games are about development, finding out who belongs
- 2:44Speaker 1: on your roster, who belongs on your practice squad, and
- 2:46Speaker 1: who doesn't necessarily earn a spot. Yeah.
- 2:48Speaker 4: I think that the joint practices are a great tool
- 2:52Speaker 4: for coaches to come maybe because here's reality. The coaches
- 2:56Speaker 4: have an idea of who they believe is going to
- 2:59Speaker 4: be able to help their team win. And when I
- 3:02Speaker 4: say who, I'm talking a percentage, you know, let's say
- 3:06Speaker 4: eighty percent, Well you still got to figure out that
- 3:09Speaker 4: other twenty percent and how everything is going to kind
- 3:12Speaker 4: of fit because you don't have a lot of track
- 3:14Speaker 4: record on that twenty percent. And so with the joint
- 3:17Speaker 4: practice is what it allows you to do, is that
- 3:20Speaker 4: allows you to get work with the guys that you
- 3:23Speaker 4: know about in a very controlled environment to where they're
- 3:26Speaker 4: not going to be exposed out there on the plane
- 3:28Speaker 4: field with somebody who's trying to make an impression and
- 3:31Speaker 4: is out of control right right.
- 3:32Speaker 1: A blindside shot from a rookie lineback exactly.
- 3:35Speaker 4: And so you like today, for example, the joint practice today,
- 3:40Speaker 4: the starters took I would say sixty five percent of
- 3:44Speaker 4: the snaps in practice today. And so there were probably
- 3:47Speaker 4: a lot of younger guys that felt a little off
- 3:50Speaker 4: and that, hey, look, how come I didn't get my
- 3:52Speaker 4: opportunity in practice? Well, their opportunity is going to come
- 3:55Speaker 4: Saturday afternoon and that's also one of the reasons why
- 3:59Speaker 4: the have been able to attract a lot of undrafted
- 4:04Speaker 4: free agents. And this is kind of goes to the
- 4:07Speaker 4: Rams philosophy where Sean McVay and Less snead they've done
- 4:11Speaker 4: this in LA and that look, if you have a draft, Okay,
- 4:16Speaker 4: the draft picks don't have a choice in coming to
- 4:18Speaker 4: your franchise. The undrafted guys though, for example, which the
- 4:23Speaker 4: Jaguars perfect example, BJ Green and Danny Stigo last year,
- 4:27Speaker 4: two good players, Branson Colemebs another one who's fighting for
- 4:30Speaker 4: a starting job, Okay, you were able to attract them
- 4:34Speaker 4: based on selling them the fact that, hey, look, we
- 4:38Speaker 4: believe that our starters aren't going to play a lot
- 4:40Speaker 4: in the preseason. So if you come here as an
- 4:42Speaker 4: undrafted guy, you're going to have a great opportunity because
- 4:46Speaker 4: you're going to play a lot in the preseason, and
- 4:48Speaker 4: your tape is going to get out there to all
- 4:50Speaker 4: the personnel guys in the league and well here it is. Okay,
- 4:54Speaker 4: starters play today in the joint practice, and then once
- 4:57Speaker 4: we get the Saturday, I would be surprised if we're
- 5:00Speaker 4: gonna see hardly any starters. We'll probably see some just
- 5:04Speaker 4: based on numbers. But then all these undrafted guys and
- 5:07Speaker 4: unproven guys are going to get a great opportunity to
- 5:10Speaker 4: put some film out there that's gonna show everybody what
- 5:13Speaker 4: they can do.
- 5:14Speaker 1: One more guy who deserves mentioned, if only because Gladstone
- 5:17Speaker 1: mentioned him to me. At Jabar Mohammed, the corner from
- 5:21Speaker 1: Oregon who was on the roster. Well, he was in
- 5:23Speaker 1: the practice squad for most of last season. He could
- 5:25Speaker 1: be the fourth undrafted from last year that makes the
- 5:28Speaker 1: fifty three man roster.
- 5:29Speaker 4: Yeah, and some of those undrafted guys, I mean, you know,
- 5:33Speaker 4: me and BJ Green, I don't have a love affair
- 5:36Speaker 4: with guy.
- 5:37Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of I love the way he
- 5:39Speaker 3: plays a game. He's twitchy.
- 5:40Speaker 1: Can we get fifty six on BJ Green?
- 5:42Speaker 3: He is?
- 5:44Speaker 4: What's great about him is that I don't think there's
- 5:47Speaker 4: one guy on this roster that has come to work
- 5:51Speaker 4: every day, I mean every day with the goal of
- 5:55Speaker 4: getting better and working his rear end off.
- 5:57Speaker 3: Like BJ Green.
- 5:58Speaker 1: He has an angry look on his face.
- 6:00Speaker 3: He does, he does and sometimes he doesn't even want
- 6:02Speaker 3: to talk to you.
- 6:03Speaker 1: We like that about it.
- 6:04Speaker 4: He's got that you know, that laser focus and I
- 6:07Speaker 4: like that about Bja, you know, and he knows I'm
- 6:09Speaker 4: a big fan of his and he's you know this today,
- 6:12Speaker 4: he had a great opportunity to go against other players,
- 6:14Speaker 4: but you know, I give him a lot of credit
- 6:16Speaker 4: and he's earning his way and that's that's what this
- 6:19Speaker 4: organization is about. That's what this culture that they've established
- 6:23Speaker 4: is all about as well.
- 6:23Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the quarterback because that's the
- 6:25Speaker 1: position everyone wants to focus on. And our quarterback preview
- 6:29Speaker 1: is brought to you by See Breeze Propane. See Breeze Propane,
- 6:32Speaker 1: slow mascot, fast delivery. Tell me, because I see on
- 6:36Speaker 1: the screen in front of you, number sixteen. How did
- 6:40Speaker 1: Trevor do today?
- 6:40Speaker 4: I thought he had a pretty good day, but I
- 6:42Speaker 4: think I think some of the play up front did
- 6:44Speaker 4: not allow him to have a great day.
- 6:47Speaker 3: You know, there are some injuries with the offensive.
- 6:49Speaker 4: Line right now, and the reality is the Saints were
- 6:53Speaker 4: pretty healthy on their defensive front, with the exception of
- 6:56Speaker 4: their longtime defensive end who is I think supposedly playing in.
- 6:59Speaker 3: His life last year. I guess.
- 7:02Speaker 4: Jordan Cam Jordan and uh, you know, our offensive line
- 7:06Speaker 4: if you look at it from a number standpoint Walker
- 7:09Speaker 4: Little didn't practice today.
- 7:10Speaker 3: Chiuma Dog is a little banged up on the left side.
- 7:16Speaker 4: Ezra Cleveland had been banged up a little bit, and
- 7:19Speaker 4: so they were flipping a bunch of guys on the
- 7:21Speaker 4: right side today, so that for example, they had gentle
- 7:24Speaker 4: Manheim at right guard and then they had Whitet bottom
- 7:27Speaker 4: out at right tackle, and so you have kind of
- 7:29Speaker 4: two guys out of the position that are not normally
- 7:31Speaker 4: playing uh as starters for that group, and then the
- 7:35Speaker 4: backups are kind of shuffled a little bit as well.
- 7:38Speaker 4: So the playoff front wasn't great today. I thought Trevor
- 7:42Speaker 4: had an okay day. He had one beautiful throw that
- 7:45Speaker 4: he anticipated, which was a deep ball down in the
- 7:47Speaker 4: middle of Parker Washington, and he threw it.
- 7:49Speaker 1: And I remember watching was that the one where Parker
- 7:51Speaker 1: Washington went Odell Beckham on it?
- 7:53Speaker 4: No, not the one that he went crazy in the air? No, no, no, no,
- 7:56Speaker 4: there was another one.
- 7:57Speaker 3: It was.
- 7:57Speaker 4: It was a good throat. He just kind of sat
- 8:00Speaker 4: down in a little hole in the zone. And when
- 8:04Speaker 4: I saw it live, I wasn't particularly impressed because like, okay,
- 8:09Speaker 4: Trevor throws the ball, Parker catches it. He doesn't have
- 8:12Speaker 4: to do anything spectacular. It's just the run of the
- 8:14Speaker 4: mill play. Then you turn the film on and then
- 8:17Speaker 4: you see where Trevor is starting. When he starts his
- 8:20Speaker 4: throwing motion, it's like the throw that he had going
- 8:24Speaker 4: back at Arizona last year.
- 8:25Speaker 1: Oh yeah, sliding touchdown.
- 8:27Speaker 4: There was nobody open when he starts to release the
- 8:30Speaker 4: ball and then he throws it and you're like.
- 8:32Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, no, no no no. The ball
- 8:34Speaker 3: leaves and you go, oh, he saw it right.
- 8:38Speaker 4: He knew that Parker was going to be coming into
- 8:41Speaker 4: that window and it was a beautiful throw.
- 8:43Speaker 3: So, I mean, there were some good things by Trevor.
- 8:46Speaker 4: Had a couple interceptions today, yep, okay, which are not great,
- 8:51Speaker 4: and I think some of that was due to some
- 8:53Speaker 4: of the play up front, but also some of it
- 8:55Speaker 4: was that, you know what, you can't make some of
- 8:57Speaker 4: them throws.
- 8:57Speaker 3: But at the same token, this is what this time
- 9:00Speaker 3: of year's four.
- 9:01Speaker 1: There was one goal line drill where he was looking
- 9:03Speaker 1: for a receiver on this lant and he threw it
- 9:06Speaker 1: just behind him. It should have been an interception, right,
- 9:08Speaker 1: guy drops it on the goal line and you could
- 9:10Speaker 1: see Trevor just kind of drop his head. Then the
- 9:12Speaker 1: Jaggers go to the other side of the field and
- 9:15Speaker 1: he throws touchdowns to Jacoby Myers and Brian Thomas Junior
- 9:19Speaker 1: on back to back place.
- 9:20Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean they were good throws. Yeah, really good thro.
- 9:23Speaker 1: Well, the one did Jacoby Myers was a laser.
- 9:25Speaker 3: And Jacoby's hands are so good.
- 9:26Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's you know, the first the first
- 9:29Speaker 4: early part of camp, Jacoby Myers was not exactly sure handed.
- 9:33Speaker 4: He was he was having some drops and I remember
- 9:36Speaker 4: sitting there saying to myself, Okay, look last year when
- 9:40Speaker 4: Brian Thomas Junior had the drops, we were like, ah, it's.
- 9:42Speaker 3: Gonna be fine, right, right, and we've learned from that one.
- 9:44Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, the regular season rolled around.
- 9:46Speaker 4: It kind of it continued, and so I was sitting
- 9:49Speaker 4: there thinking, don't say that it's gonna be okay, Jacoby
- 9:51Speaker 4: Myers is gonna be fine. It's fine, Yeah, because he
- 9:55Speaker 4: stopped dropping the ball and he starts to look now
- 9:58Speaker 4: like Jacoby Myers had all his whole career, which is
- 10:01Speaker 4: catching everything throwing his way.
- 10:03Speaker 1: I want to talk about Parker Washington and tell people
- 10:05Speaker 1: to look for this best player on the field one
- 10:07Speaker 1: hundred percent. But before I do, I've got to get
- 10:09Speaker 1: a thought because you're talking about the offensive line. Last week,
- 10:12Speaker 1: Trevor and Liam both talked about the benefits of all
- 10:15Speaker 1: the shuffling along the offensive line that it will pay dividends?
- 10:20Speaker 1: Is that wishful thinking right now? And I could tell,
- 10:23Speaker 1: but they look in your eye.
- 10:24Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, Look it's yeah, I mean, it's it's
- 10:28Speaker 4: at the point now where it's like, okay, it's not
- 10:30Speaker 4: paying dividends now because you're living with some of the
- 10:34Speaker 4: uncomfortableness of it, and guys are trying to figure it out, right,
- 10:37Speaker 4: and that's part.
- 10:39Speaker 3: Of the deal.
- 10:40Speaker 4: And at least they're getting reps there now. It's better
- 10:42Speaker 4: now than maybe they can improve upon what we're seeing now.
- 10:46Speaker 4: And it doesn't look like what we're seeing now in games, right,
- 10:50Speaker 4: So that's one of the reasons why you do this,
- 10:52Speaker 4: you know. And there for example, like today, playing Joah
- 10:54Speaker 4: Manheim at guard, Okay, well, look, in reality, you would
- 10:58Speaker 4: probably just keep him at center or and I'm not
- 11:01Speaker 4: saying for a game, but in game day he may
- 11:04Speaker 4: be your only active guy that you've had the ability
- 11:06Speaker 4: to move him out to guard, and so they're they're
- 11:09Speaker 4: treating it like gain day, like, hey, look, we've got
- 11:11Speaker 4: an injury. We got to move him now to guard
- 11:14Speaker 4: and then move Milom to right tackle because that's what
- 11:18Speaker 4: we have active.
- 11:18Speaker 3: On game day.
- 11:19Speaker 4: So it's almost an exercise in game day roster management
- 11:24Speaker 4: the way they're handling it in practice, whereas some coaches
- 11:26Speaker 4: would say, hey, look, instead of let's shuffling two positions
- 11:31Speaker 4: like we would have to do on game day, let's
- 11:33Speaker 4: just go ahead and put in the next guy up
- 11:35Speaker 4: with the one guy that got injured, and we're only
- 11:38Speaker 4: kind of depleting one position. So I appreciate what Liam
- 11:41Speaker 4: and the coaching staff are doing because it's a very
- 11:43Speaker 4: intentional way of preparing for a game day type of situation,
- 11:47Speaker 4: and that you're limited on what you can do because
- 11:50Speaker 4: you only have certain amount of guys acting, you know.
- 11:52Speaker 4: So it's a great exercise in which they're executing now,
- 11:56Speaker 4: which we'll pay dividends later.
- 11:58Speaker 1: I promise we'll get to Parker Washington. But got asked
- 12:00Speaker 1: about Anton Harrison. That's been one of the stories of camp.
- 12:02Speaker 1: Early on his move to the left side, it seems
- 12:05Speaker 1: all but sealed, cemented, and he's what you see from him.
- 12:08Speaker 4: He's your left tack and he had a great matchup
- 12:11Speaker 4: today because Jay Shung is a good football player and
- 12:15Speaker 4: he's bounced around with some different teams.
- 12:17Speaker 3: You know, first was what pick of the draft was he?
- 12:20Speaker 1: He was he was the number two overall, I thought,
- 12:23Speaker 1: right by the Washington Commanders.
- 12:25Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's bounced around a little bit.
- 12:28Speaker 1: With San Francisco in twenty twenty three.
- 12:31Speaker 4: And he is, uh, he's a man. In fact, Uh,
- 12:35Speaker 4: it was great today because I was out. You know,
- 12:37Speaker 4: there's two fields that they're practicing on and I was
- 12:41Speaker 4: working the kind of the sideline in the middle of
- 12:43Speaker 4: the two of them, and uh, Deuce McAllister, who is
- 12:47Speaker 4: the Saints radio color an.
- 12:49Speaker 1: It's a long time running back and great dude. Yeah,
- 12:52Speaker 1: great dude.
- 12:53Speaker 4: And I've known him for years and and me and
- 12:55Speaker 4: him get together and it's just like, you know, it's
- 12:57Speaker 4: like two women. You know, they talk and all you know,
- 13:01Speaker 4: left and right.
- 13:02Speaker 1: Surprisingly, the crews here with us today are all nodding
- 13:04Speaker 1: their heads. Of course.
- 13:05Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 13:05Speaker 4: They know how I can be like a woman sometimes
- 13:07Speaker 4: talking about football especially, And so Deuce was telling me
- 13:10Speaker 4: about Chase. He said, look, he's a man you know,
- 13:13Speaker 4: and I said, well, it's going to be a great
- 13:15Speaker 4: match up today against Anton Harrison.
- 13:16Speaker 3: He goes, well.
- 13:17Speaker 4: I played with his dad, he goes, I know him
- 13:19Speaker 4: very well, and so we got a conversation about Anton,
- 13:22Speaker 4: and he was asking me how he's doing, and I
- 13:25Speaker 4: said he's been great. And Anton and Chase Young today
- 13:28Speaker 4: we're battling out, and that that's a marquee matchup when
- 13:31Speaker 4: it comes to some big name guys. And I thought
- 13:34Speaker 4: Anton did very well, and Chase Young a couple of
- 13:37Speaker 4: times tried to do some things and get them Anton
- 13:41Speaker 4: moving and Andton's just got great feet. And when you
- 13:45Speaker 4: have great feet, you can stay in balance, and therefore
- 13:47Speaker 4: you can be powerful. When you don't have great balance,
- 13:51Speaker 4: you get off balance and then you lose your power.
- 13:53Speaker 4: And it's one of the first signs that you are
- 13:55Speaker 4: off balance, not so much that you're falling down, it's
- 13:57Speaker 4: just that you don't have power.
- 13:59Speaker 3: And has power.
- 14:01Speaker 4: And because he's so good with his feet, and it
- 14:05Speaker 4: was a great exercise for him today going against Chase Young,
- 14:08Speaker 4: because you know what, look, the reality is after a
- 14:10Speaker 4: couple of weeks, I mean, for defensive players and offensive players,
- 14:14Speaker 4: when you go against the same guy. Like I mean,
- 14:15Speaker 4: for example, when I would pass rush against Tony Boselli
- 14:19Speaker 4: in practice, it got old, yeah, you know, because one,
- 14:22Speaker 4: I was losing all the time, and number two, it
- 14:25Speaker 4: was the same look all the time.
- 14:27Speaker 3: So it was it's.
- 14:28Speaker 4: Nice for guys to go against a different team so
- 14:31Speaker 4: you can get a different type of player to pass
- 14:34Speaker 4: rush against or to play against, and also to maybe
- 14:38Speaker 4: get a chance to success.
- 14:39Speaker 1: Yeah, well, sharpened jump when you know you could get
- 14:41Speaker 1: embarrassed on that tape if you're not ready.
- 14:43Speaker 4: And the intensity that I think that's the best thing
- 14:46Speaker 4: about joint practices. And I remember the first time that
- 14:50Speaker 4: I ever had a joint practice and we were I
- 14:54Speaker 4: was with the Jets at the time, and we would
- 14:56Speaker 4: go to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, which is where the Redskins.
- 14:59Speaker 3: Wh called that at the time. So I'm gonna call
- 15:01Speaker 3: them the Redskins.
- 15:02Speaker 4: And you grew up in suburban Virginia exactly, so uh,
- 15:06Speaker 4: they are to you. And it was then the first
- 15:09Speaker 4: thing that you notice is that the intensity went way up, right,
- 15:12Speaker 4: you know, the intensity and a joint practice versus a
- 15:15Speaker 4: regular practice against your own guys, it's not even close.
- 15:18Speaker 4: And then when you add fans into into the stands.
- 15:23Speaker 4: With that joint practice, that even takes it up another level.
- 15:26Speaker 4: And so you can't generate that in your own backyard practicing.
- 15:32Speaker 3: You just can't.
- 15:33Speaker 4: And so it's great to evaluate guys in that different setting,
- 15:36Speaker 4: the more highly competitive setting, and you're also doing it
- 15:41Speaker 4: in a controlled environment, which is better for the team overall.
- 15:44Speaker 1: All right'm much more ahead here on Jags Happy Hour
- 15:47Speaker 1: from the Team Hotel in New Orleans. This first from
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- 16:02Speaker 1: He's been the star of camp and he was a
- 16:04Speaker 1: star on the field today. Bryan Jeff back with you
- 16:07Speaker 1: on Draguars Happy Hour after this on ten ten XL.
- 16:13Speaker 5: You know, look, you fly in, we're delayed coming in.
- 16:15Speaker 5: It's just you know, a long night. You get in
- 16:17Speaker 5: that you get up and go. It's not an excuse,
- 16:19Speaker 5: it's the reality. And it was a little slower to go.
- 16:22Speaker 5: But hey, is that that's a game too, right? Like
- 16:26Speaker 5: it's truly the ebbs and flows. That's why This is
- 16:28Speaker 5: a great thing for us, is because you get exposure
- 16:31Speaker 5: to game like scenarios and that's momentum, and that's.
- 16:35Speaker 3: Playing the next play.
- 16:37Speaker 5: And that was the biggest thing that I, you know,
- 16:40Speaker 5: applauded them for after the practice was Guys.
- 16:43Speaker 3: We could have gone in the tank.
- 16:44Speaker 5: We came out and stunk early on, but man, we
- 16:47Speaker 5: just continued to play, keep our heads freaking right where
- 16:50Speaker 5: we are, be where we our feet are, and go
- 16:52Speaker 5: play the next play.
- 16:53Speaker 1: So I was pleased with that. Head coach Lee. Going
- 17:00Speaker 1: after practice against the Saints today, Brian and Jeff with
- 17:03Speaker 1: you from the team hotel in New Orleans. This is
- 17:05Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hour. Jags HQ comes up at five o'clock
- 17:10Speaker 1: Eastern time. Tony Boselli and James glad Still will join
- 17:12Speaker 1: us here in New Orleans.
- 17:13Speaker 3: Stead Liam just say that that they stunk early on yesterday.
- 17:17Speaker 1: I love his candor. Right well, you don't even have
- 17:19Speaker 1: to ask him, Hey, how'd you think your team did?
- 17:21Speaker 1: I mean, he comes right out and tells you we
- 17:22Speaker 1: didn't do well. But that's the thing I like about him.
- 17:25Speaker 1: It's almost as if he wants to see how they're
- 17:28Speaker 1: going to deal with the adversity of it. He understands
- 17:31Speaker 1: what this is. It's an opportunity for them to get better,
- 17:34Speaker 1: and sometimes getting better means you got to get up
- 17:37Speaker 1: off the grass well.
- 17:38Speaker 4: And I think he was speaking obviously from the field
- 17:41Speaker 4: that he was at, which was the offensive He.
- 17:43Speaker 1: Was over there most of the time.
- 17:44Speaker 3: The defensive side of the field. I thought.
- 17:47Speaker 4: I thought defense had had a pretty good day overall
- 17:50Speaker 4: and actually started out pretty well, and the offense though,
- 17:54Speaker 4: was struggling early on. But you know, the great thing
- 17:56Speaker 4: that I appreciate about about Liam is just how good
- 17:59Speaker 4: of a communicator is and sometimes that communication has to
- 18:02Speaker 4: be very honest, and it's something the reality is. Look,
- 18:07Speaker 4: a lot of people would say, oh, well, coach shouldn't
- 18:09Speaker 4: take that to the media. I mean, the reality is
- 18:11Speaker 4: is that he has to. He's very honest everywhere he is.
- 18:15Speaker 4: If he's saying that to the media, he's also telling
- 18:18Speaker 4: it to his team well.
- 18:18Speaker 1: And he did it on national television Week two last year,
- 18:21Speaker 1: where he's pounding his chest to do you remember that
- 18:24Speaker 1: it's Cincinnati, right that that's who he is speaking of
- 18:27Speaker 1: getting better. One of the ways they got better was
- 18:29Speaker 1: they threw the ball to Parker Washington today. And you
- 18:31Speaker 1: know Jeff from the first day of training camp until now,
- 18:34Speaker 1: every day he does something which makes you go whoa wow,
- 18:38Speaker 1: including a catch that will be up on social media.
- 18:41Speaker 1: Our photographer Gabby Dalton caught a beautiful shot of this.
- 18:45Speaker 1: I wasn't sure anybody got it. She had a big
- 18:47Speaker 1: smile on her face when she came off of the
- 18:49Speaker 1: practice field because she had a great shot of it.
- 18:51Speaker 1: So to be on social media at some point. The
- 18:53Speaker 1: only can think of it was is no Deell Beckham
- 18:55Speaker 1: from Louisiana. I mean right, he played at LSU and
- 18:58Speaker 1: that was that was the hand.
- 19:00Speaker 3: He's back by the way, he's with the Giants.
- 19:03Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure he could make the catch that
- 19:06Speaker 1: Parker Washington made today, not in his advanced football age.
- 19:11Speaker 1: What a throw? What an adjustment to the ball in
- 19:14Speaker 1: the air. It's it was an Odell Beckham moment for
- 19:17Speaker 1: Parker Washington, who was shown us he can do anything.
- 19:20Speaker 4: Yeah, he's u I mean he's playing like he's the
- 19:23Speaker 4: best player that the Jaguars have on offense. And look,
- 19:29Speaker 4: I think that the contract situation, which is kind of
- 19:33Speaker 4: what everybody's waiting on. I'm sure Parker's even waiting on that,
- 19:38Speaker 4: I think it's gonna get done.
- 19:39Speaker 3: And here's the reality. The longer you wait, the cost
- 19:42Speaker 3: just keeps going up. Yeah, you know, I mean. And
- 19:45Speaker 3: here's the thing.
- 19:46Speaker 4: When you start talking about keeping guys that are Jaguar players,
- 19:52Speaker 4: Parker Washington is the epitome of a Jaguars player.
- 19:56Speaker 1: They traded for Jacobe Myers and they paid him I
- 19:59Speaker 1: think twenty million dollar a year is his average. They
- 20:02Speaker 1: drafted Brian Thomas Junior in the first round, and yet,
- 20:06Speaker 1: for my money, the guy that the quarterback wants to
- 20:09Speaker 1: throw to most where's number eleven?
- 20:11Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 20:11Speaker 4: I think I think he definitely does because he trusts him.
- 20:15Speaker 4: And when you listen to everybody talk, they always talk
- 20:18Speaker 4: about the leadership that Jacobe and Parker provide. And it's
- 20:23Speaker 4: not very often that leadership or leader is tag is
- 20:28Speaker 4: put on somebody at the age of Parker Washington. But
- 20:32Speaker 4: his work ethic is unparalleled, his performance is fantastic. The
- 20:37Speaker 4: play that I saw today, and I'm not sure if
- 20:39Speaker 4: that's the one that we're gonna put on social that
- 20:41Speaker 4: Gaby got is it was almost where Parker was kind
- 20:46Speaker 4: of going down the field and he's looking to the
- 20:48Speaker 4: inside the last second, he has to turn around the other.
- 20:51Speaker 3: Way, and he does it.
- 20:54Speaker 4: And the first the only thing that I could think
- 20:56Speaker 4: of when I saw the way he controlled his body
- 20:59Speaker 4: in the air, It's like cat.
- 21:01Speaker 3: Cats have just just and I'm not a cat person,
- 21:04Speaker 3: trust me.
- 21:05Speaker 1: I was gonna exonerate you all being a cat man.
- 21:08Speaker 3: I'm a dog guy.
- 21:09Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, okay, but you know, you take a cat,
- 21:11Speaker 4: you toss it up in the air, and it literally
- 21:13Speaker 4: it finds a way to land on it on its paws.
- 21:17Speaker 4: And Parker, in mid air, somehow was able to contort
- 21:20Speaker 4: his body and spin around to the other direction.
- 21:23Speaker 1: One handed and make that cat.
- 21:26Speaker 3: And here's the crazy thing. Were any of us surprised
- 21:29Speaker 3: by it?
- 21:29Speaker 4: No, no, because I mean that's just who Parker Washington is.
- 21:33Speaker 1: But I was standing there and I may have yelled
- 21:35Speaker 1: holy oh did and he picked up and he saw
- 21:38Speaker 1: me and he smiled. He just got to drink one
- 21:40Speaker 1: of those looks because I was so loud of I
- 21:42Speaker 1: didn't mean to say it that loud, but it was
- 21:44Speaker 1: just such an astounding cat.
- 21:46Speaker 3: He's really good.
- 21:47Speaker 1: Do you see look Joe was giving it. Joe's a
- 21:48Speaker 1: cat guy.
- 21:49Speaker 3: I know, I know, he's a cat guy. He's a
- 21:51Speaker 3: cat scratch fever guy too.
- 21:53Speaker 1: Now, having said that, we did see big catches from
- 21:58Speaker 1: Joey tech Gent reference. By the way, fellow Hunter.
- 22:02Speaker 3: Some of the young guys out there just to wait
- 22:04Speaker 3: right over the heads there, you Hunt.
- 22:05Speaker 1: He plays guitar, so the new gent thing goes perfectly.
- 22:08Speaker 1: We saw Jakobe Myers make a beautiful catch and that's
- 22:12Speaker 1: on social media now as well. Brian Thomas had a
- 22:15Speaker 1: very productive day also. And I didn't I didn't notice
- 22:19Speaker 1: Travis Hunter on the offensive side very much, but he.
- 22:22Speaker 4: Had one catch then I'll point this out, and it
- 22:26Speaker 4: was Nick Mullins threw a ball in the end zone
- 22:29Speaker 4: and it was kind of that back corner fade.
- 22:31Speaker 3: Yeah, and.
- 22:34Speaker 4: He makes the throw and and and Nick Malls does
- 22:36Speaker 4: not have strong s arm. Okay, so he throws it
- 22:39Speaker 4: and but he threw it far enough out there the
- 22:41Speaker 4: word Travis just runs right up underneath of it and
- 22:44Speaker 4: makes a beautiful catch. I mean, so it was like, wow,
- 22:46Speaker 4: that's not many guys could make that. I mean, Parker
- 22:49Speaker 4: probably could, but I mean it was just an impressive catch.
- 22:52Speaker 4: Not an impressive throw, but an impressive catch, but impressive
- 22:56Speaker 4: anticipation by Nick Mullins of being able to get it there.
- 23:00Speaker 3: But yeah, I thought he had an okay day.
- 23:02Speaker 4: I mean, there's uh, it's hard to keep track of
- 23:06Speaker 4: him where he's at sometimes, you know, because sometimes you're uh.
- 23:11Speaker 4: And in today's practice, if correct me if I'm wrong,
- 23:14Speaker 4: he wasn't. I did not see him flipping fields a lot.
- 23:17Speaker 4: You know, It's like, Okay, he's over here for a while,
- 23:19Speaker 4: then he's over here for a while.
- 23:20Speaker 1: I sun go back and forth once or twice.
- 23:23Speaker 4: Yeah, but it wasn't like, Hey, I'm gonna go play
- 23:24Speaker 4: here and then go over there and do a play
- 23:26Speaker 4: right there real quick.
- 23:27Speaker 3: You know, like it isn't practice.
- 23:29Speaker 4: He can literally go from one play to the next
- 23:30Speaker 4: play offense to defense, and he's not necessarily doing that
- 23:34Speaker 4: in a practice with another team.
- 23:35Speaker 1: Before I ask you about the young tight ends, anything
- 23:37Speaker 1: from the young receivers, did you see Josh Cameron? Did
- 23:40Speaker 1: you see cej Williams do anything with the ball in
- 23:42Speaker 1: their hands?
- 23:42Speaker 4: So I think interesting because you know, when when I
- 23:45Speaker 4: look at those two guys, I think the first thing
- 23:47Speaker 4: that comes to my mind is what role on special
- 23:49Speaker 4: teams can they have? Because the reality is, are we
- 23:53Speaker 4: gonna you know, deactivate Jakobe Myers or Parker or Travis
- 23:57Speaker 4: or Brian Thomas junior for one of these guys to play. No,
- 24:02Speaker 4: So what's the role that they can find a way
- 24:04Speaker 4: to carve out for themselves right now? Well, that role
- 24:07Speaker 4: is special team or it's that Tim Jones role, right
- 24:10Speaker 4: which is what kept Tim Jones on this roster. I'm
- 24:13Speaker 4: still here off and on, yeah, for the last number
- 24:16Speaker 4: of years, and you got to play special teams that's
- 24:20Speaker 4: the role, and then contribute on offense in a little fashion.
- 24:25Speaker 4: But it doesn't have to be big. An injury, okay,
- 24:27Speaker 4: might get a little bit bigger. But I think the
- 24:31Speaker 4: role with CJ. Williams is not as good as what
- 24:36Speaker 4: it's going to be for Josh Cameron because Josh Cameron,
- 24:40Speaker 4: first of all, he's a big dude.
- 24:42Speaker 3: He's two hundred and twenty four pounds.
- 24:44Speaker 4: He right now is taking some reps at what was
- 24:49Speaker 4: held by Andrew dewey Winger. The personal protector or the
- 24:52Speaker 4: PP as what we call them, and that's a coveted position.
- 24:57Speaker 4: That's a position of trust. Yeah, you got to be
- 25:00Speaker 4: smart and also because that position can free release you
- 25:05Speaker 4: have typically one of your best special teamers playing it,
- 25:08Speaker 4: and right now Josh Cameron is getting reps at that
- 25:12Speaker 4: he's doing that practice today and so, okay, well, can
- 25:15Speaker 4: c J.
- 25:16Speaker 3: Williams be a gunner?
- 25:17Speaker 4: Well, you know, today against the Saints, it's very clear
- 25:21Speaker 4: to me that CJ. Williams does not have the speed
- 25:25Speaker 4: to be a gunner. Now, he has wide receiver speed,
- 25:29Speaker 4: but the speed at the gunner position, which is the
- 25:32Speaker 4: guy split out wide on punt team. Okay, for those
- 25:36Speaker 4: that don't know, we call them gunners. Okay, you got
- 25:38Speaker 4: to have great speed, and you got to have elusiveness,
- 25:40Speaker 4: and you have to be physical. Rayon Lane is one
- 25:43Speaker 4: of the best at in the league. Tayleb Bramsaw is
- 25:45Speaker 4: pretty good too for the Jaguars, and I can't wait
- 25:47Speaker 4: to see him in game action. I believe that if
- 25:51Speaker 4: Josh Cameron will put out there is a gunner, he
- 25:54Speaker 4: would do really well.
- 25:56Speaker 3: Big, strong, fast, right, but not super fast. But CJ.
- 26:00Speaker 4: Williams doesn't have that speed because and he's not as
- 26:03Speaker 4: physical as Cameron.
- 26:05Speaker 3: So I think that that's gonna be an interesting watch.
- 26:09Speaker 4: And Cameron, I think has a leg up because you know,
- 26:11Speaker 4: I don't think those two guys are fighting for one spot.
- 26:14Speaker 3: No, I don't think so much.
- 26:16Speaker 4: I think that there may be room for two just
- 26:18Speaker 4: because of the what I call the accounting factor of
- 26:21Speaker 4: Travis Hunter. So I think there's gonna be room for
- 26:24Speaker 4: both of those guys. But I think CJ. Williams is
- 26:27Speaker 4: one to be one of those guys that you know
- 26:29Speaker 4: his time of being active and contributing as a wide
- 26:33Speaker 4: receiver and it's down the road, Josh Cameron, his role.
- 26:37Speaker 1: Is going to be right now, how about a quick
- 26:39Speaker 1: thought on the tight ends before we take a break
- 26:41Speaker 1: and come back and turn to defense. I noticed Nate
- 26:44Speaker 1: Borgacer catch one ball and drag a defender about six
- 26:47Speaker 1: yards up the field today. What do you see from
- 26:49Speaker 1: him in Tanner Cozy Old?
- 26:50Speaker 4: Yeah, he's he's doing a good Both him and Cozy
- 26:52Speaker 4: ol are doing a good job. And there was one
- 26:54Speaker 4: particular play that Borkershire had to and it was, oh god,
- 27:00Speaker 4: what's his name? Let me look at my board here,
- 27:02Speaker 4: Carl Granderson. And Granderson is one of these guys that
- 27:06Speaker 4: he's big dude. When he's on his game, his flashes
- 27:11Speaker 4: are elite. The problem with the type of player he
- 27:15Speaker 4: is is that the flashes are very uncommon infrequent, but
- 27:21Speaker 4: Granderson had a flash on this one particular, playing Borkershire
- 27:26Speaker 4: was kind of going to go out to block him. Well,
- 27:29Speaker 4: Granderson had kind of read the play and was attacking
- 27:32Speaker 4: him when the ball was snapped and Borkershire got a
- 27:35Speaker 4: welcome to the NFL moment a little bit there. But
- 27:37Speaker 4: here's the thing that I appreciate about that about Borgershire.
- 27:41Speaker 4: He got jacked up, Okay, and that's fine because look,
- 27:46Speaker 4: the reality is everybody gets jacked up in the NFL,
- 27:49Speaker 4: and some get jacked up more than others.
- 27:52Speaker 3: But the great thing on that play, he never quit.
- 27:56Speaker 4: He got jacked up, and then all of a sudden,
- 27:59Speaker 4: Granderson is like kind of trying to finish the play,
- 28:04Speaker 4: and Borkersher is like that you know, that chihuahua that
- 28:08Speaker 4: this guy has butts banked by the bigger dog.
- 28:11Speaker 3: But it's not giving up, you know. And he got yeah,
- 28:14Speaker 3: and he's and he's you know, blocking him.
- 28:16Speaker 4: He's still blocking him when the play's finished, and he
- 28:19Speaker 4: didn't go over the top like being you know, a
- 28:23Speaker 4: jerk about it.
- 28:24Speaker 3: Hey, I got jacked up. Now I'm gonna be mad.
- 28:26Speaker 4: I'm gonna block you after the play and and show
- 28:28Speaker 4: you how tough I am.
- 28:29Speaker 3: After the play.
- 28:30Speaker 4: No, when the play ended, he stopped and and you know,
- 28:33Speaker 4: gave Granderson a tap and said good job. But I
- 28:37Speaker 4: just love the fight of Borkerscher on that play got
- 28:41Speaker 4: his rear end kicked okay initially, but then stayed on
- 28:44Speaker 4: the block and finished the block on the play.
- 28:47Speaker 3: Love that about him.
- 28:48Speaker 1: And the Jaguars do as well. When we come back,
- 28:51Speaker 1: we will turn to defense, and our defensive coverage of
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- 29:20Speaker 5: With limited overall reps throughout even throughout a training camp
- 29:24Speaker 5: is Look, we're gonna keep it fairly simple in terms
- 29:27Speaker 5: of the formations, the motions, the coverages, the calls.
- 29:31Speaker 3: I just want to see a clean.
- 29:33Speaker 5: Operation, I mean that, and then just go play. Like,
- 29:36Speaker 5: let's see who is gonna be the guy that's gonna
- 29:38Speaker 5: go make plays when it's not perfect?
- 29:41Speaker 3: Right?
- 29:41Speaker 5: What they You know, we're not getting a ton of reps.
- 29:44Speaker 5: A maybe this play and it gets read, well, can
- 29:47Speaker 5: you can they fix it. Can they fix any problems
- 29:50Speaker 5: on Saturday that maybe we haven't shown them? Who can
- 29:54Speaker 5: do that operation? And then who's gonna win some one
- 29:57Speaker 5: on one matchups?
- 30:00Speaker 1: And welcome back. We're in New Orleans with the Jaguars
- 30:03Speaker 1: getting set for Saturday Nights, Saturday afternoon, four h five
- 30:08Speaker 1: Eastern time kickoff preseason opener the Jaguars and the New
- 30:12Speaker 1: Orleans Ain't you here? The head coach? His expectations are
- 30:14Speaker 1: different when you've got backup players, guys who are working
- 30:18Speaker 1: for a roster spot. It's not the same like when
- 30:20Speaker 1: you played or early days with the Jags, when it
- 30:23Speaker 1: was about getting sharp and wanting to see some cohesion,
- 30:27Speaker 1: some communication. It's different with these guys.
- 30:30Speaker 3: It's a completely different set of rules.
- 30:32Speaker 4: And I think a lot of the attitudes have changed
- 30:36Speaker 4: as far as preparing guys for the regular season, you know,
- 30:39Speaker 4: and I think that the way that they do it
- 30:42Speaker 4: today in today's game, I think is the way it
- 30:45Speaker 4: should have been done for years.
- 30:46Speaker 1: The only starter caliber players that we will see on
- 30:51Speaker 1: Saturday Night, We're going to see Branson Combs and Ventrel Miller.
- 30:55Speaker 1: Both are fighting for that weak side linebacker job. And
- 30:59Speaker 1: you saw them on the today. How did those two
- 31:01Speaker 1: guys do?
- 31:02Speaker 4: Both of them are working really hard, and I think
- 31:04Speaker 4: they're just two different players, you know, and which one wins?
- 31:09Speaker 4: I think it's obviously games are going to go a
- 31:11Speaker 4: long way towards determining that. I think Branson Colmes might
- 31:16Speaker 4: have a little bit of a leg up. He had
- 31:19Speaker 4: one particular play that he made on the boundary and coverage.
- 31:22Speaker 4: It was just fantastic and that's something that at times
- 31:26Speaker 4: with Devin Lloyd you really didn't want to have him
- 31:29Speaker 4: doing that. And so now you have Branson Colmes, who
- 31:33Speaker 4: is actually pretty good in space, runs well, has some awareness,
- 31:36Speaker 4: always trying to get the ball out. She seems to
- 31:40Speaker 4: show up all the time. And then Ventro Miller's strength
- 31:43Speaker 4: is that.
- 31:44Speaker 3: He is a hardhead. When I say a hard head
- 31:48Speaker 3: a good way.
- 31:48Speaker 1: When he hits you, you go down.
- 31:50Speaker 3: He's a thumper another way to describe it.
- 31:52Speaker 4: And so he's very physical and when he goes downhill Man,
- 31:57Speaker 4: he brings a lot of anger. And I like that
- 31:59Speaker 4: with with him because that can be a tone center
- 32:02Speaker 4: or a tempo center center for the game, but it's
- 32:06Speaker 4: such a passing league and it's played in space.
- 32:09Speaker 1: And He's a weak side linebacker, right, don't they have
- 32:11Speaker 1: to be able to cover.
- 32:13Speaker 4: Well, I mean, both guys have to cover the mic
- 32:15Speaker 4: and the will, So I think I don't think it
- 32:18Speaker 4: really matters either way on that. But I just think
- 32:20Speaker 4: that Branson Colmes has a little bit of a leg
- 32:23Speaker 4: up right now. But it's very early in the process,
- 32:25Speaker 4: you know. So look, and I'm not willing to count
- 32:29Speaker 4: out the rookie.
- 32:29Speaker 1: Parker Hughes, seventh round pick from Middle Tennessee State.
- 32:33Speaker 3: Yeah, he's working hard.
- 32:34Speaker 4: And the thing that I like about him, he is
- 32:39Speaker 4: extremely fast.
- 32:41Speaker 3: On special teams.
- 32:42Speaker 4: I have no idea what his forty times, I don't know,
- 32:45Speaker 4: but I can tell you besides Rayon Lane, which plays
- 32:50Speaker 4: special teams like a madman, the two fastest guys that
- 32:54Speaker 4: I'm watching on special teams to me, are you sy Abdullah?
- 32:58Speaker 1: Okay, that rookie Houston.
- 33:01Speaker 4: I'm just telling you those two guys and Jayla McLeod
- 33:05Speaker 4: did not practice today, and I don't know what's going
- 33:08Speaker 4: on with him outside linebacker. And he's actually had a
- 33:11Speaker 4: pretty good camp and he was in his jersey and
- 33:14Speaker 4: shorts today and tennis shoes.
- 33:16Speaker 3: He did not practice.
- 33:18Speaker 1: He missed all last season on the practice squad? Are
- 33:20Speaker 1: your pardoning the injury risks?
- 33:21Speaker 4: And for him and Caleb Brandsaw both, you know, so
- 33:24Speaker 4: it's like, okay, we get to take a look at
- 33:26Speaker 4: the Christmas presents now from last year and Jayala McLeod
- 33:30Speaker 4: is on silent but man watching you Syrubdullah on special teams.
- 33:35Speaker 4: I don't think anybody has the speed that he has
- 33:39Speaker 4: on special teams. And it's gonna be I'll tell you this,
- 33:44Speaker 4: it's gonna be really hard to let him go. And
- 33:47Speaker 4: I guarantee you that he's sure is going to be
- 33:49Speaker 4: pounding table for some guys and that's gonna be one
- 33:53Speaker 4: of them. And if you Syre Abdullah ends up getting
- 33:57Speaker 4: let go because.
- 33:58Speaker 3: Of the numbers game, that may word.
- 34:00Speaker 1: He doesn't beat Jalen McLeod out, he might I mean,
- 34:03Speaker 1: you know, I mean you're saying that if he does
- 34:05Speaker 1: get let go, it's because Jayleen McLeod takes his spot.
- 34:07Speaker 1: They play the same page, right, yep.
- 34:09Speaker 4: Maybe, Or it could be a numbers thing at you know,
- 34:12Speaker 4: the weak side or the mic. I mean, because all
- 34:14Speaker 4: that factors in to that same position. There's no fixed
- 34:18Speaker 4: number at that same position. It's all in flux based
- 34:21Speaker 4: on what's happening at the mic and the will as well.
- 34:24Speaker 3: I'm just saying that, you served, if he gets let go, there's.
- 34:28Speaker 4: One football team out there and one special teams coordinator
- 34:32Speaker 4: that's going to be out there that's going to be
- 34:33Speaker 4: licking their chops to get it in the door as
- 34:36Speaker 4: soon as they can.
- 34:37Speaker 1: We're talking defense here on JAG's Happy Hour. Don't forget
- 34:41Speaker 1: coming up at the top of the hour, Tony Brisseli
- 34:43Speaker 1: and James Gladstone join us defensive coverage of the day.
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- 34:55Speaker 1: What else did you see on the defensive side? I
- 34:57Speaker 1: think what I saw Eric Armstead, who I thought when
- 34:59Speaker 1: he's practice has been really good this summer, had a
- 35:02Speaker 1: couple of good pass rushes.
- 35:03Speaker 4: Today he's the best player on the defensive side of
- 35:05Speaker 4: the field. Really, I mean, it's it's been that way
- 35:08Speaker 4: off camp.
- 35:09Speaker 1: Did you think last year you would say that this
- 35:11Speaker 1: year and because he was even really practicing, you know me, okay,
- 35:14Speaker 1: I know.
- 35:15Speaker 4: About Eric Armstead, you know, after you know the season
- 35:18Speaker 4: he had two years ago.
- 35:19Speaker 3: I was like you know, look, not exactly my favorite player.
- 35:24Speaker 3: You know, he's not going hard well this year. They
- 35:27Speaker 3: can't block him. I mean they can't block them, you know,
- 35:30Speaker 3: and he's he's.
- 35:32Speaker 1: Are they lining him up in a different spot.
- 35:34Speaker 3: No, he's lining him up right where he is.
- 35:37Speaker 4: He's healthy, obviously, And I think one thing that he's
- 35:41Speaker 4: doing that he was not doing very well before is
- 35:46Speaker 4: that he's getting off the ball and he's going straight ahead, okay,
- 35:50Speaker 4: with that first step instead of well.
- 35:53Speaker 3: Let me read it.
- 35:54Speaker 4: You know, he's just going and when you get six
- 35:57Speaker 4: foot seven, what is he three hundred pounds most of
- 36:01Speaker 4: it going that way.
- 36:03Speaker 1: With long arms and gets leverage on end.
- 36:05Speaker 4: Athletic Yeah, okay, I think the first play or the
- 36:08Speaker 4: second play of the of the Innscott the practice today,
- 36:12Speaker 4: he have sack. I mean, it's crushing guys. And he's
- 36:16Speaker 4: so fun to watch. And you know, and again, like
- 36:19Speaker 4: I said, I'm very honest. You know, in the last
- 36:22Speaker 4: couple of years, I didn't think he was very tough.
- 36:25Speaker 4: Two years ago, I didn't think he was very tough
- 36:27Speaker 4: at all. I thought last year he had a much
- 36:29Speaker 4: better year.
- 36:30Speaker 3: This year.
- 36:31Speaker 4: The guy is the best player on defense. I mean
- 36:34Speaker 4: he's the best player on defense out there right now.
- 36:36Speaker 1: It's what you expect as a football fan. You see
- 36:39Speaker 1: the biggest guy on the team because he is huge,
- 36:41Speaker 1: you think, well, that guy's gonna kill the guy across
- 36:43Speaker 1: from him.
- 36:44Speaker 4: He's now, he's doing it now and sou and I'm
- 36:48Speaker 4: just sitting there going, don't shoot all of your energy out.
- 36:54Speaker 4: You're in year twelve, hold it. But yeah, no, I
- 37:00Speaker 4: appreciate the effort that he's putting forth. And it's definitely
- 37:05Speaker 4: a really pleasant surprise. And this guy right now is
- 37:09Speaker 4: playing at a level that you go, wow. I mean,
- 37:12Speaker 4: you might even think about extending them, but maybe you won't.
- 37:15Speaker 1: Twelve years in. I don't know. He loves you right now.
- 37:18Speaker 1: He might not have been your favorite, but all of
- 37:20Speaker 1: a sudden, you're his favorite. Let me throw another one
- 37:23Speaker 1: at you. A guy that I saw.
- 37:24Speaker 3: Pretty hard on him two years ago.
- 37:26Speaker 1: Well, listen, you've come around now. Look I'm like a politician.
- 37:30Speaker 3: Hey, I'm easy, change my mind.
- 37:32Speaker 4: Be a good football player, me tough as nails, and
- 37:36Speaker 4: I'll be a fan in a minute.
- 37:37Speaker 1: Toughest nails, a good football player. Write that down for me, Joe,
- 37:40Speaker 1: I need to remember that. Let me throw. Another guy
- 37:42Speaker 1: that I saw today, and that is Antonio Johnson, who
- 37:45Speaker 1: has had a really good camp and all of a sudden,
- 37:49Speaker 1: they're moving him all over the place. I saw six
- 37:51Speaker 1: splashing all over the place today. You tell me, was
- 37:54Speaker 1: it good or did I just see six?
- 37:55Speaker 3: No, he's good.
- 37:57Speaker 4: He's a really good player, and I think defensive coaches
- 38:00Speaker 4: loved to have players. You know, going back to my
- 38:04Speaker 4: New York Jets days, I'll never forget. And I've shared
- 38:06Speaker 4: this story with you, but I'm gonna share it again.
- 38:09Speaker 4: The head equipment guy for the New.
- 38:11Speaker 1: York Jets an all time legend, Bill Hampton.
- 38:14Speaker 4: You know, I mean, he's you know, he's a Hall
- 38:16Speaker 4: of Fame equipment guy, Bill Hampton, Sr. And we all
- 38:19Speaker 4: called him Fang, and his sons actually called him that,
- 38:23Speaker 4: so we just started calling him Fang. Don't ask me
- 38:25Speaker 4: where the nickname came from. And when I got there
- 38:28Speaker 4: with the Jets, he would always had he had to
- 38:31Speaker 4: say and and he he would say it to me
- 38:33Speaker 4: and say it to other guys as well, And there
- 38:36Speaker 4: was an ulterior motive to it, but he would say,
- 38:38Speaker 4: the more you can do, young man, the more you
- 38:40Speaker 4: can dowls, and and it was about getting help folding
- 38:44Speaker 4: the towels back in the laundery room, you know.
- 38:46Speaker 3: And and there was another guy that was name name
- 38:48Speaker 3: was Mickey Randeen.
- 38:49Speaker 4: And Mickey worked in the equipment room as well and
- 38:52Speaker 4: also worked with the Yankees. Was a longtime equipment guy there,
- 38:56Speaker 4: and he would always go around saying the same thing.
- 38:58Speaker 4: But the reality is is that the more you can
- 39:00Speaker 4: do young man on defense gives defensive coordinators this great
- 39:08Speaker 4: ability to disguise coverages and to do different things because
- 39:14Speaker 4: they have personnel that have the ability to do multiple things. So,
- 39:19Speaker 4: for example, if Antonio Johnson can play safety and he
- 39:22Speaker 4: can play a dime linebacker and he can play nickel,
- 39:26Speaker 4: now of a sudden, when you line up, when the
- 39:28Speaker 4: quarterback comes to the line of scrimmage and you're putting
- 39:31Speaker 4: Antonio Johnson in different roles, now it's hard for a
- 39:35Speaker 4: quarterback to kind of zero in on what you're doing
- 39:37Speaker 4: as a defense. And so the more guys that you
- 39:40Speaker 4: have like that, you know, Dennis Gardeck is another example.
- 39:44Speaker 4: He can play edge, he can play outside linebacker, he
- 39:47Speaker 4: can play stand.
- 39:48Speaker 3: Up linebacker, you know.
- 39:50Speaker 4: So the more guys that you have that can do
- 39:52Speaker 4: multiple positions, within a position group and then multiple positions
- 39:57Speaker 4: across all the positions. Like Antonio Johnson, it gives you great,
- 40:03Speaker 4: great strength as a play caller to do different things.
- 40:06Speaker 4: And I'm sure that uh, Anthony Campanelli or Campanila whenever
- 40:10Speaker 4: we want to pronounce that is just loving having number six.
- 40:13Speaker 1: All right, well, let's see we talked about Branson, Combs,
- 40:15Speaker 1: Ventro Miller, Eric Armstead, Antonio Johnson. So let's make them
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- 40:34Speaker 1: Happy Hour coming up. At the top of the hour,
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- 41:05Speaker 5: It'll be a really good time for me to be
- 41:08Speaker 5: on the defensive headset a little bit. We got Matta
- 41:11Speaker 5: Rougio being a new pass game coordinator on defense.
- 41:13Speaker 3: I'd like to be able to hear some more of the.
- 41:15Speaker 5: Communication between Campy and him and the defensive coaching staff,
- 41:21Speaker 5: and just be able to hear that and get that
- 41:25Speaker 5: more than I normally am able to do within a game,
- 41:28Speaker 5: because typically when the defense is on, you know, I'm
- 41:31Speaker 5: doing adjustments with the offensive staff and then I'll click
- 41:34Speaker 5: over and be able to get a little bit here
- 41:36Speaker 5: and there. So just being able to hear the full
- 41:39Speaker 5: process and be able to hear a little bit more
- 41:42Speaker 5: of the new communication that we'll have to exist.
- 41:48Speaker 1: That's Liam Gohen. After practice today against the Saints. I
- 41:50Speaker 1: asked him if Branton Dinski is going to call the
- 41:52Speaker 1: offensive place, and he is, what are you gonna do?
- 41:55Speaker 1: And you know, there's the offensive minded play calling head coach,
- 42:00Speaker 1: and there have been many of them in the NFL,
- 42:02Speaker 1: And then there's the CEO coach, and he's going to
- 42:05Speaker 1: in the preseason at least be that CEO coach.
- 42:08Speaker 4: And over the last couple of weeks at Jaguars practices,
- 42:14Speaker 4: there's been a couple appearances by former Jaguars head coach
- 42:18Speaker 4: Tom Coughlin.
- 42:19Speaker 1: I saw him.
- 42:20Speaker 4: And he was out there the other day, and I
- 42:22Speaker 4: believe that was on Monday, and there was some people
- 42:26Speaker 4: that were there for the j Fund and.
- 42:29Speaker 1: Time zer Daniel Murphy.
- 42:31Speaker 4: It gets buddy and it was great and got to
- 42:34Speaker 4: see him and and then the time before that when
- 42:37Speaker 4: he was there, me and him were having a conversation.
- 42:39Speaker 4: He was out there as well with some Jay Fun people,
- 42:41Speaker 4: sponsors and stuff, and we got on the topic of
- 42:45Speaker 4: the head coach, Liam Cohen, and I said, you know,
- 42:48Speaker 4: I said, I think it does a really good job
- 42:50Speaker 4: of communicating. And I said, and that's the one thing
- 42:53Speaker 4: that really kind of jumps out at me. And Tom
- 42:56Speaker 4: Coughlin immediately responded and said.
- 42:58Speaker 3: Look he goes. I think he's a great play caller.
- 43:02Speaker 4: And when you get that kind of recognition from what
- 43:07Speaker 4: is going to be a Hall of Fame coach and
- 43:09Speaker 4: Tom caffl is not there, the.
- 43:10Speaker 1: Word great round about many.
- 43:13Speaker 4: No, he doesn't throw it around. It's like manhole covers
- 43:16Speaker 4: he throws right.
- 43:18Speaker 1: He didn't call you his great player rep. Never in
- 43:21Speaker 1: the locker room.
- 43:23Speaker 4: He would never do that. But it was like, I'm
- 43:26Speaker 4: just sitting there. I stopped for a minute and I
- 43:28Speaker 4: took it in. I was like, he's not one to
- 43:31Speaker 4: throw around something like that.
- 43:33Speaker 1: He does not do that. So so from the perspective
- 43:36Speaker 1: of Liam Cohen, who has always been on the offensive
- 43:39Speaker 1: microphone and he will be again this year, what do
- 43:41Speaker 1: you think, No, No, well he's good at it. Nobody
- 43:45Speaker 1: should want him to give that up.
- 43:46Speaker 4: But in reality is look, Grant Yudinsky at some point
- 43:50Speaker 4: will call his own plays.
- 43:52Speaker 3: And it probably will be when he gets his.
- 43:54Speaker 4: Own head coaching job, which is coming, okay, which which
- 43:57Speaker 4: is probably gonna be coming. And and you know, when
- 44:01Speaker 4: you're a great play caller, there's a it's just a knack.
- 44:05Speaker 4: You've got a you got a pulse of your team
- 44:08Speaker 4: and a pulse of the moment.
- 44:10Speaker 3: And it's not easy to do.
- 44:11Speaker 4: And the reality is play calling in the preseason it's
- 44:16Speaker 4: like getting three choices on ice cream. Okay, it's strawberry,
- 44:19Speaker 4: chocolate and vanilla.
- 44:21Speaker 3: That's it.
- 44:21Speaker 4: There's no Rocky Road, no cookies in cream, no mint
- 44:25Speaker 4: chocolate chip, no strawberry chocolate vanilla, okay.
- 44:31Speaker 3: And that's what you're gonna be getting as a play caller.
- 44:33Speaker 4: And so Grant Yudinsky is, uh, I'm not saying it's boring,
- 44:37Speaker 4: but I'm just saying is that, Look, you're not trying
- 44:40Speaker 4: to do a lot of things.
- 44:41Speaker 3: You want your guys which are young, right, they're.
- 44:44Speaker 1: Gonna keep it experience, they're gonna keep it.
- 44:46Speaker 4: You want them to give them the opportunity, especially in
- 44:50Speaker 4: the first preseason game. You want them to be able
- 44:53Speaker 4: to play fast without having to mental calculation slow anybody down. Now,
- 45:00Speaker 4: when you get into maybe the preseason game two or three.
- 45:05Speaker 3: Then it's a little different.
- 45:07Speaker 4: Then you're gonna maybe expand it a little bit, actually
- 45:09Speaker 4: go through the motions of installing a game plan. But
- 45:12Speaker 4: it's not gonna be extensive. But then it may get
- 45:15Speaker 4: a little bit more interesting as a play caller.
- 45:17Speaker 1: I asked Udinski about calling plays with young players, and
- 45:21Speaker 1: he got a big smile on his base and he
- 45:23Speaker 1: talked about, you know, these guys who've been working so
- 45:25Speaker 1: hard on the practice field and getting their opportunity. I
- 45:28Speaker 1: got a conversation with Heath Farwell as he came off
- 45:32Speaker 1: the practice field today, the Jaguars outstanding special teams coordinator.
- 45:35Speaker 3: There's two of them, by the way. Luke Thompson also, yeah,
- 45:37Speaker 3: he really excellent.
- 45:39Speaker 1: So he almost got emotional. I mean you could hear
- 45:42Speaker 1: it in his voices. He talked about the opportunity because
- 45:45Speaker 1: he was an undrafted rookie with the Minnesota Vikings and
- 45:48Speaker 1: he worked his way into a job and became a
- 45:50Speaker 1: Pro Bowl Special teams player. These guys, they get attached
- 45:57Speaker 1: to some of these guys, I mean, they spend so
- 45:58Speaker 1: much time with them in the media room and on
- 46:01Speaker 1: the field. I mean, he just started talking about what
- 46:03Speaker 1: it's like to pull the uniform on and go out
- 46:06Speaker 1: in that field for the very first time like they will.
- 46:08Speaker 1: And of course they're all going to play a lot
- 46:10Speaker 1: on Saturday night, so he was super excited for them.
- 46:13Speaker 4: And then he's the one thing I love about Heath
- 46:18Speaker 4: is his energy. And when you coach special teams, you
- 46:23Speaker 4: got to remember, I don't want to say ninety seventy
- 46:27Speaker 4: five percent of the guys that you're coaching don't really
- 46:31Speaker 4: want to play special teams, you know, because they view
- 46:35Speaker 4: themselves as starters on offense and starters on defense that
- 46:39Speaker 4: don't have a role on special teams. But he's energy
- 46:44Speaker 4: and excitement for special teams I think allows guys to
- 46:48Speaker 4: be great and to take pride in that. And he
- 46:52Speaker 4: also helps them recognize, hey, look, not everybody's role is
- 46:57Speaker 4: as a starter on offense or defense. But this is
- 47:00Speaker 4: how you can become a quote unquote special team starter
- 47:05Speaker 4: and to have a role and to make a good
- 47:07Speaker 4: living and to be really good at it. And so
- 47:10Speaker 4: he does a great job of getting that messaging across.
- 47:13Speaker 4: And he's one of the best special teams coaches in
- 47:17Speaker 4: the National Football League.
- 47:18Speaker 1: All four of his units were ranking the top ten last.
- 47:20Speaker 4: Well, and he's he's got to thank you as three
- 47:23Speaker 4: specialists two for some of that.
- 47:24Speaker 3: When you're talking about.
- 47:25Speaker 1: Cam Little, you know, ross Pro Bowl level.
- 47:28Speaker 4: Guys, you know what I mean, that's pretty good to have.
- 47:32Speaker 4: And that's not even talking about Parker Washington, the.
- 47:35Speaker 1: Best punt returner in the league probably yeah, best of
- 47:38Speaker 1: Jaguars history for sure. And you mentioned a couple of names.
- 47:42Speaker 1: You see him Doulah and Rayon Lane and Josh Cameron.
- 47:46Speaker 1: Cameron's got to prove it, obviously.
- 47:48Speaker 3: You can't wait to watch him Saturday afternoon.
- 47:50Speaker 4: That's the one guy on special team watching exactly. And
- 47:55Speaker 4: that's exactly what I was going to tell people watch
- 47:57Speaker 4: nineteen because I'm just telling you two hundred and twenty
- 48:01Speaker 4: four pounds and can run and heavy footed and strong,
- 48:05Speaker 4: very mature. This guy is gonna be put it this
- 48:09Speaker 4: way when special teams are on the field.
- 48:11Speaker 3: I'll be watching nineteen.
- 48:13Speaker 1: Just a thought because you said this the other day,
- 48:14Speaker 1: and I'm not sure, and maybe you've said this over
- 48:16Speaker 1: and over and over, but you said something to me.
- 48:18Speaker 1: You said that Rayon Lane, who was a late round
- 48:20Speaker 1: draft pick from the Naval Academy last year, he's the
- 48:23Speaker 1: best gunner in the National Football League by far, by far.
- 48:27Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 48:27Speaker 4: Yeah, he's the best gunner in the National Football League.
- 48:31Speaker 4: And I would say that he's one of the top two.
- 48:36Speaker 4: So I don't want to say the best.
- 48:38Speaker 1: I liked it when you said one.
- 48:40Speaker 4: Of the best two in the National Football League. And
- 48:43Speaker 4: George Welsh will be proud. Oh, the old Virginia coach. Oh,
- 48:48Speaker 4: you know, old the old head coach at Navy. Absolutely.
- 48:52Speaker 1: You know, you kind of stack things together and figure
- 48:54Speaker 1: out where guys comings. When the jag Wars drafts somebody
- 48:58Speaker 1: in the late rounds, people may go, who's this guy? Right,
- 49:02Speaker 1: I'm sure they said that a safety from the Naval Academy,
- 49:04Speaker 1: but they had this was the guy that he farwell
- 49:08Speaker 1: targeted last year. He was their guy this year was
- 49:12Speaker 1: Josh Cameron. If you get if Josh Cameron is equal
- 49:16Speaker 1: in his role to Rayon Lane. I mean, what does
- 49:20Speaker 1: that say about where the Jaguars Special teams go. Well,
- 49:22Speaker 1: and there's some other good Goslin would put them at
- 49:24Speaker 1: the top of the Rakies.
- 49:25Speaker 3: Yeah, and he does a great job with that.
- 49:28Speaker 4: And there's other guys that are really good too in
- 49:30Speaker 4: that special Teams unit. And then just to throw out
- 49:32Speaker 4: another name, Chandler Brayboy is a really good special teams
- 49:36Speaker 4: player as well.
- 49:37Speaker 1: All Right, that'll do it for Jaguars Happy Hour from
- 49:41Speaker 1: the Team Hotel in New Orleans. In just a matter
- 49:45Speaker 1: of moments, we expect to have Tony Boselli at James
- 49:48Speaker 1: Climestone join us for Jaguars h Q, so we'll get
- 49:52Speaker 1: their perspective on today's joint practice with the Saints, and
- 49:56Speaker 1: we'll look ahead a little bit to Saturday afternoons game
- 50:00Speaker 1: against the Saints that the Caesar is Super Dome. It
- 50:02Speaker 1: is a four zero five kickoff Eastern time. So that
- 50:08Speaker 1: will wrap it up for here. We'll be back in
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- 50:13Speaker 1: but with more energy and enthusiasm like only Tony Boselli
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