Latest / The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network / FOX Sideline Reporter Jen Hale Breaks Down Panthers vs. Jaguars

Transcript

FOX Sideline Reporter Jen Hale Breaks Down Panthers vs. Jaguars · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: The Panthers and the Jaguars coming up.
• 0:02
  Speaker 2: It is week one in the National Football League kickoff weekend.
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: Jen Hale has sideline coverage for the NFL on Fox.
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: They'll televise the game. Jen, great to speak with you,
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: and here we go. Finally football is back.
• 0:15
  Speaker 3: How are you great? JP?
• 0:17
  Speaker 4: I cannot wait for real football to be back. Cannot
• 0:20
  Speaker 4: echo you more.
• 0:21
  Speaker 3: And I think this matchup on Sunday is going to
• 0:23
  Speaker 3: be really intriguing. So many great storylines.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and let's get right to it. I mean, it's
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: a new era for the Jaguars.
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: We've heard that a lot over the last ten to
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: fifteen years, but.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: This is the youngest new era, I believe.
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: With the Liam Cohen, a young general manager in James Gladstone.
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: Tony Boselli moves to the front office as well. So
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: another new feel around here with some parts on offense
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: and defense that have been around a few iterations of that.
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: Why is this the right move? Liam Cohen, especially at
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: head coach.
• 0:54
  Speaker 4: Lovely and Cohen because of the body of work he
• 0:56
  Speaker 4: had in Tampa Bay with Baker Mayfield.
• 0:58
  Speaker 3: Look at what he did for Baker. Baker was a
• 1:00
  Speaker 3: cast off, has been.
• 1:02
  Speaker 4: Who ironically had been with the Panthers, a washed up
• 1:06
  Speaker 4: quarterback that had no future right and he goes down
• 1:10
  Speaker 4: to Tampa and gets absolutely rejuvenated, and he did so
• 1:14
  Speaker 4: well in this Limb Cohen system. I love the freedom
• 1:19
  Speaker 4: Limb gives his quarterbacks and the confidence that they play with.
• 1:23
  Speaker 4: I can't wait to see exactly how Limb has retooled
• 1:27
  Speaker 4: Trevor Lawrence the new dialed up version.
• 1:29
  Speaker 3: Liam talked about how good quarterback play. It's like a
• 1:33
  Speaker 3: dance was how he referred to it.
• 1:35
  Speaker 4: So he's been working on that footwork, the timing, the
• 1:38
  Speaker 4: body controlled, the eye discipline, the drops. I really think
• 1:43
  Speaker 4: he's going to make a big difference in Trevor Lawrence's game.
• 1:46
  Speaker 4: And look, JP, I don't need to tell you, but
• 1:48
  Speaker 4: this is the season that Trevor Lawrence needs to prove it.
• 1:52
  Speaker 4: He's gotten a long leash so far, and now it's
• 1:54
  Speaker 4: time for him to step up and prove that he
• 1:56
  Speaker 4: was worthy of that number one pick and that he
• 1:58
  Speaker 4: can be your franchise guy. I think Lin Cohen is
• 2:01
  Speaker 4: one of a handful of coaches out there that can
• 2:04
  Speaker 4: get the absolute best out of Trevor Lawrence. It's his
• 2:07
  Speaker 4: third offense, in five years, So it's certainly a lot
• 2:10
  Speaker 4: for him to digest in a short amount of time,
• 2:13
  Speaker 4: but I think it's the right system for him to
• 2:15
  Speaker 4: succeed in.
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's already got his contract extension as well, so
• 2:19
  Speaker 2: the big money is coming for Trevor Lawrence and the
• 2:22
  Speaker 2: rubber certainly.
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: Has to hit the road. They can say the same
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: thing in Carolina.
• 2:26
  Speaker 2: It's year three for Bryce Young and a good battle
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: here of number one overall pick quarterbacks. It felt like
• 2:32
  Speaker 2: obviously Young got bench last year, but then came back
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: in and has now a long stretch of games in
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: a row with at least a touchdown. It felt like
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: he played better but well, year two in this system
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: helped Bryce Young for the Panthers.
• 2:45
  Speaker 3: It certainly should.
• 2:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, last year was an up and down experience for him,
• 2:50
  Speaker 4: a growing time for him.
• 2:53
  Speaker 3: But look to his credit, that can't be easy being
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: the number one pick and getting benched, But he took
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: it and he used it.
• 3:01
  Speaker 4: To make himself better, to do a true self scout,
• 3:04
  Speaker 4: not to pout. So to me, that showed a tremendous
• 3:06
  Speaker 4: amount of maturity, and his teammates certainly think so too,
• 3:10
  Speaker 4: and that's part of the biggest buy ins that you meet.
• 3:16
  Speaker 4: You need the team around your quarterback to believe in him,
• 3:19
  Speaker 4: and we actually my crew had Bryce's game coming back
• 3:23
  Speaker 4: from the benching, and so many of his teammates talked
• 3:25
  Speaker 4: about it's just a different guy. The confidence, the way
• 3:28
  Speaker 4: he carries himself, the way he speaks to others, the
• 3:31
  Speaker 4: way he's engaged. Now he's moving like a veteran. So
• 3:35
  Speaker 4: the benching was so good for him from that perspective,
• 3:38
  Speaker 4: But the stats also tell the story. JP after his
• 3:42
  Speaker 4: benching almost a sixty two percent completion rate, he was
• 3:46
  Speaker 4: rushing a ton two hundred and twenty three yards five touchdowns.
• 3:49
  Speaker 4: So this should be the next step for him now
• 3:53
  Speaker 4: building off of that, now that he has that new mindset,
• 3:56
  Speaker 4: now that he's had a full off season with Canal,
• 3:59
  Speaker 4: let's to really settle in. And look, Carolina's tried to
• 4:03
  Speaker 4: surround him with some weapons. They took a wide receiver
• 4:06
  Speaker 4: team MAC in the draft that's supposedly supposed to be
• 4:09
  Speaker 4: an absolute beast on the field.
• 4:12
  Speaker 3: You've got Xavier Laget still there.
• 4:15
  Speaker 4: My question is in that wide receiving corps, they had
• 4:18
  Speaker 4: some shakeups very last minute. Their wiley veteran Adam Feelin
• 4:22
  Speaker 4: got traded back to the Minnesota Vikings, and then they
• 4:26
  Speaker 4: had Jalen Cocher go on IR right around.
• 4:30
  Speaker 3: The same time, right as the preseason was ending.
• 4:32
  Speaker 4: So besides t mac and Lagett, do they have the
• 4:36
  Speaker 4: weapons to get it done for Bryce Young because he
• 4:38
  Speaker 4: needs to be surrounded by a lot of weapons. They
• 4:40
  Speaker 4: also have some injury questions on the old line, including
• 4:43
  Speaker 4: one time then who had to have an deck tomy emergently.
• 4:47
  Speaker 4: So how does that wide receiving course back up? And
• 4:50
  Speaker 4: is that O line healthy enough to buy Bryce enough time?
• 4:54
  Speaker 4: Those are my two big question marks for the Panthers
• 4:56
  Speaker 4: this Sunday.
• 4:57
  Speaker 2: Josh Allen two and a half sacks away from the
• 4:59
  Speaker 2: France career records, so he's looking at his chops with
• 5:03
  Speaker 2: that offensive line entry as well.
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: Jen Hale with us from the.
• 5:06
  Speaker 2: NFL on Fox has the sidelines of the Panthers and
• 5:08
  Speaker 2: the Jaguars. All right, what's the coverage plan for Travis Hunter?
• 5:13
  Speaker 2: From the Fox TV perspective, we are.
• 5:16
  Speaker 3: Going to be all over him.
• 5:18
  Speaker 4: This is the storyline, right, everybody's talking about this nationally,
• 5:22
  Speaker 4: I think even more so than the storyline of two.
• 5:25
  Speaker 3: Former number one picks going at it at quarterback.
• 5:29
  Speaker 4: It's so unusual and so refreshing to see a guy
• 5:32
  Speaker 4: like Travis Hunter who doesn't just want to play both ways.
• 5:35
  Speaker 3: He demanded to play both ways. This is the era of.
• 5:40
  Speaker 4: Rest of limited snapcount, saving myself to the end, and
• 5:44
  Speaker 4: here's this rookie. He's tipping that all on its head
• 5:47
  Speaker 4: and saying, no, give me more, give me more.
• 5:49
  Speaker 3: Can he sustain it? Though?
• 5:51
  Speaker 4: Because the speed of the NFL game, it's so much faster,
• 5:54
  Speaker 4: it's so much more intense. Of course, very telling that
• 5:57
  Speaker 4: depth start came out. He's listed as a starting wide
• 6:00
  Speaker 4: receiver and then as a backup secondary player in the defense.
• 6:05
  Speaker 4: So obviously he's going to get more snaps offensively than defensively.
• 6:09
  Speaker 3: How much does he get defensively?
• 6:10
  Speaker 4: And I'm going to guess it's going to change week
• 6:13
  Speaker 4: to week based on the matchups. It's really fascinating to
• 6:18
  Speaker 4: me how they are managing his minutes, not just from
• 6:21
  Speaker 4: a game perspective, but from a preparation perspective during the week,
• 6:25
  Speaker 4: because you spend so much time in your respective rooms,
• 6:28
  Speaker 4: the wide receiver room, the cornerback room, the defensive line room. Right,
• 6:33
  Speaker 4: how does a rookie who's trying to digest a new
• 6:37
  Speaker 4: system and a faster way of doing things at that
• 6:40
  Speaker 4: faster pace. How does he double the workload by doing both?
• 6:45
  Speaker 4: So I cannot wait. We're going to sit down with
• 6:47
  Speaker 4: him on Friday and meetings tomorrow, and that's going to
• 6:51
  Speaker 4: be my first question to him is how have you
• 6:53
  Speaker 4: divvied up this workload? When you go home at night
• 6:55
  Speaker 4: from the practice facility? What do you open up first?
• 6:58
  Speaker 4: Your offensive playbook, your defensive play book. I think it's
• 7:02
  Speaker 4: going to be a very curious thing how he attacks
• 7:05
  Speaker 4: this from a preparation standpoint.
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: Jin What a way to start your fifteenth year in
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: the NFL on Fox right.
• 7:12
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, it has been JP the most tremendous ride. When
• 7:16
  Speaker 4: I started, I said, gosh, if I can just make
• 7:18
  Speaker 4: ten years, if I can make a decade, I will
• 7:20
  Speaker 4: feel like such a success. And here we are starting
• 7:23
  Speaker 4: year fifteen with a fantastic matchup, and it's.
• 7:26
  Speaker 3: A dream come true. You know, I really don't work
• 7:28
  Speaker 3: a day in my life.
• 7:29
  Speaker 4: It's what I've always wanted to do and it's a
• 7:32
  Speaker 4: blessing to get to do this and to do it
• 7:34
  Speaker 4: with my NFL and Fox grew. We've been together a
• 7:36
  Speaker 4: long time, Mark Schlare, Chris Meyers, and myself and it's
• 7:41
  Speaker 4: like family, so it's so much fun. And I've done
• 7:44
  Speaker 4: a ton of games both in Carolina and in Jacksonville,
• 7:47
  Speaker 4: so always fun to come back to the places that
• 7:49
  Speaker 4: feel a little bit like you're home away from home.
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: Great stuff. Thanks for the analysis and we'll talk to
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: you on Sunday.
• 7:54
  Speaker 2: Jen.
• 7:55
  Speaker 3: Thanks JP. You hope to see on the sidelines.