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- 0:00Speaker 1: Time for our countdown to kick off interviews for Week eleven,
- 0:03Speaker 1: JP Shadwick with you ahead of the Chargers Jaguars match up,
- 0:06Speaker 1: delivered by CSX. We start this week with CBS Sports
- 0:10Speaker 1: Senior writer Pete Prisco, each week visiting with Mike Dempse.
- 0:14Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's something I've been hoping and preaching he needs
- 0:18Speaker 2: to do for a while. I just think he plays
- 0:20Speaker 2: better when he turns it loose. And it's almost like
- 0:23Speaker 2: these he's not alone in this league anymore, Mike. I mean,
- 0:26Speaker 2: you look at the completion percentages around the league. They're
- 0:29Speaker 2: higher than they've ever been, in large part because people
- 0:31Speaker 2: don't turn it loose. They're ready to take the checkdown.
- 0:33Speaker 2: And he's guilty of that. We've seen it many, many,
- 0:35Speaker 2: many times this season where he's passed on the big
- 0:38Speaker 2: throw down the field to take the easy throw and
- 0:41Speaker 2: so turn it loose, go have fun. And I said
- 0:43Speaker 2: this on Monday, I said, what he should do is
- 0:46Speaker 2: what they should do is put on the tape of
- 0:47Speaker 2: the second half of the game against the last time
- 0:49Speaker 2: he played the Chargers, you know, in the playoffs, and say, hey,
- 0:53Speaker 2: look at this, this is when you turned it loose
- 0:54Speaker 2: because you had to turn it loose or go play
- 0:56Speaker 2: like that, and I think they'll ultimately get to that.
- 0:59Speaker 2: The problem is that, you know, the weapons down the
- 1:01Speaker 2: field haven't exactly been playing at a great level either.
- 1:04Speaker 3: That's a great way to look at it, right, Like,
- 1:06Speaker 3: do you think any NFL coach has ever gone into
- 1:08Speaker 3: a game telling us quarterback, hey, let's approach just like
- 1:10Speaker 3: we're down seventeen, right, Like, let's go out and play
- 1:13Speaker 3: like your hair's on fire. I think they're more conservative
- 1:16Speaker 3: by nature, but you're right somehow you got to get
- 1:18Speaker 3: yourself in that mindset that it's out there for me
- 1:21Speaker 3: and I just have to go take it.
- 1:22Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, we always have the old adage
- 1:25Speaker 2: it's built in still from way back in yesteryear. If
- 1:28Speaker 2: you throw the football, three things can happen in two
- 1:30Speaker 2: of them are bad. Right, that's not the case. I
- 1:32Speaker 2: mean you can also you know, you run the ball
- 1:34Speaker 2: and you have a long time consuming drive and you
- 1:37Speaker 2: end up getting a field goal. Is that a better
- 1:39Speaker 2: situation than getting a seventy yard touchdown pass down the sideline?
- 1:43Speaker 4: No?
- 1:43Speaker 2: Absolutely not. And I think we've gotten too caught up
- 1:46Speaker 2: in this. You know, all these defenses play off coverage now,
- 1:48Speaker 2: and so everybody's afraid to take the big shot. Well,
- 1:51Speaker 2: there's ways to beat those the coverages with the big shot.
- 1:53Speaker 2: You just got to figure it out. I don't think
- 1:55Speaker 2: the offensive coaches have been aggressive and enough, aggressive enough,
- 1:58Speaker 2: not just in Jacksonville, but every taking their shots down
- 2:01Speaker 2: the field.
- 2:02Speaker 3: Pete, you've been around covering this league for a long
- 2:04Speaker 3: time as well as anybody. And when teams get to Tuesday,
- 2:08Speaker 3: they start talking about how we got to look ahead
- 2:09Speaker 3: the next week, we can't let it impact us. How
- 2:12Speaker 3: easy is that to do or how difficult in this
- 2:14Speaker 3: circumstance where you do blow a nineteen point lead and
- 2:18Speaker 3: for the first time in franchise history, and you lose
- 2:20Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter in the fashion they did. How
- 2:22Speaker 3: well positioned is this Jaguar team mentally to bounce back?
- 2:26Speaker 2: In your opinion, Well, it's going to test Liam Cone again.
- 2:29Speaker 2: I mean, and he's done a nice job of handling
- 2:32Speaker 2: himself during the week. But I'm a big believer in
- 2:35Speaker 2: once you get out on the field and get hit
- 2:36Speaker 2: in the mouth the next week, that game's gone. Now
- 2:39Speaker 2: you might carry it over into the Wednesday and you're
- 2:41Speaker 2: thinking about it and maybe even in a Thursday. But
- 2:44Speaker 2: then I think you put it behind you and you
- 2:45Speaker 2: realize what you have to do, and then when you
- 2:47Speaker 2: get out of the field and the guy across from
- 2:50Speaker 2: you puts a four ONM in your mouth, you're not
- 2:51Speaker 2: going to sit there and say, oh, well, what happened
- 2:53Speaker 2: last week? Maybe I'm not reacting to test them up.
- 2:55Speaker 2: So I think that stuff kind of gets overrated because
- 2:58Speaker 2: it is a week to week league, and I think
- 3:00Speaker 2: guys do a great job of putting it behind them.
- 3:02Speaker 3: A typical team would look at the charges and go, Wow,
- 3:05Speaker 3: they're playing without their starting tackles, your interior, the offensive
- 3:09Speaker 3: line has had issues. We are going to feast in
- 3:11Speaker 3: the pass rush. But it's a very similar situation to
- 3:13Speaker 3: what Houston had last week. Are the Jags going to
- 3:16Speaker 3: be able to impact Justin Herbert with their pass rush today?
- 3:20Speaker 4: Well?
- 3:20Speaker 2: They better, And you know we saw that last week.
- 3:23Speaker 2: That's a bad offensive line and they didn't get much pressure.
- 3:27Speaker 2: And it's a lot of money invested in that defensive line,
- 3:29Speaker 2: a lot of assets invested in that defensive line to
- 3:32Speaker 2: not get pressure. So I mean, if I were on
- 3:34Speaker 2: that team right now, I would be calling out the
- 3:36Speaker 2: pass rushers I'd call out Josh heinz Allen and he
- 3:38Speaker 2: kind of did. This week, Liam Cohen, I'd call out
- 3:40Speaker 2: Trayvon Walker. I mean, your first overall pick and you
- 3:43Speaker 2: don't do anything. And I know he had to hand injury,
- 3:45Speaker 2: but you've got to be more aggressive getting up the field.
- 3:47Speaker 2: You know, even the fact where he got called back
- 3:49Speaker 2: for the personal foul, the guy tried to cut them.
- 3:52Speaker 2: It wasn't like he won tried to cut him and
- 3:54Speaker 2: miss them. And so I think this is a week
- 3:57Speaker 2: they have to be able to pressure justin Herbert, it's
- 3:59Speaker 2: going to be a long day, Pete.
- 4:00Speaker 3: For many years we've looked at this team and said, man,
- 4:03Speaker 3: why can't they cover a tight end? And over the
- 4:06Speaker 3: last few weeks it's kind of been that case. Again.
- 4:08Speaker 3: I know they have a bunch of injuries in the secondary.
- 4:10Speaker 3: You're not getting pressure, so you know, guys have to
- 4:13Speaker 3: cover longer. But a Rondee Gatson junior, maybe not a
- 4:16Speaker 3: household name, very good young player in his rookie season
- 4:20Speaker 3: making an impact. How dangerous is he to the Jaguars
- 4:23Speaker 3: defense today?
- 4:24Speaker 2: Well, he's definitely dangerous because he's you know, he's a
- 4:26Speaker 2: formal wide receiver's blown up to a tight end. So
- 4:28Speaker 2: he gives you mismatchup problems. And you know, we thought
- 4:31Speaker 2: last week we saw the touchdown in the back of
- 4:33Speaker 2: the end zone to the tight end and how did
- 4:35Speaker 2: that happen? Well, he had a week and a day
- 4:37Speaker 2: to throw the football. I mean, if you're going to
- 4:39Speaker 2: have a week in a day to throw the football,
- 4:40Speaker 2: you're going to beat those those safeties. And it's a
- 4:43Speaker 2: little bit of a you know, liability in that defense.
- 4:46Speaker 2: Winger can't run with anybody and that's a problem, and
- 4:50Speaker 2: Johnson blows assignments. That's a problem. So you have two
- 4:53Speaker 2: safeties that you can't rely on. And I think when
- 4:56Speaker 2: you want to try and get aggressive and blitz, you're
- 4:58Speaker 2: going to leave those safeties in some one on one
- 5:00Speaker 2: situations and that's problematic. So it's like you're damned if
- 5:03Speaker 2: you do and you're damned if you don't. And it's
- 5:05Speaker 2: tough to call defense when you don't have a great
- 5:07Speaker 2: pass rush and you have safeties who give up big plays.
- 5:10Speaker 3: All right, all that being said, how do you see
- 5:11Speaker 3: it going today?
- 5:12Speaker 2: I think the Chargers win the game. I just they
- 5:14Speaker 2: could prove me wrong by rushing the passer. But if
- 5:16Speaker 2: you don't rush justin Herbert, He's gonna sit back and
- 5:18Speaker 2: carve you to shreds. And I just think what we
- 5:22Speaker 2: saw from the Chargers defense last week was impressive. I
- 5:24Speaker 2: know it's a short, you know, short turnaround for them
- 5:27Speaker 2: on the East Coast, but I just think Herbert's going
- 5:30Speaker 2: to do enough to win the game.
- 5:31Speaker 1: I caught up with CBS sports analyst Adam Marcalletto Friday
- 5:35Speaker 1: first overall ten thousand foot view of Liam Cohen's first
- 5:39Speaker 1: half season as a head coach at five and four.
- 5:42Speaker 5: Well, listen, I've always been impressed by Liam. I had
- 5:46Speaker 5: an opportunity twice last year when he was the offensive
- 5:49Speaker 5: coordinator at Tampa Bay to just get a feel for him.
- 5:53Speaker 5: And right off the bat, you know, it strikes me
- 5:55Speaker 5: about him and what I love about him. And you
- 5:58Speaker 5: hear this so often with offensive guys. He's not the
- 6:03Speaker 5: offensive genius or guru. It's not about his scheme and
- 6:06Speaker 5: not about how smart he is, even though he is
- 6:08Speaker 5: smart and has a good scheme, but it's about football
- 6:11Speaker 5: principles and he's just a really good football teacher, right
- 6:15Speaker 5: and he really does understand and this is a cliche,
- 6:19Speaker 5: but he does understand that it's about players, not plays,
- 6:22Speaker 5: And to me, that is the hallmark.
- 6:23Speaker 6: Of any good coach.
- 6:24Speaker 5: You know, it's his first year in the National Football League,
- 6:26Speaker 5: he's a head coach.
- 6:27Speaker 6: He's learning. But I really do like his makeup.
- 6:30Speaker 5: I love his leadership style, and I do love that
- 6:33Speaker 5: he's a head coach.
- 6:34Speaker 6: But he's a teacher.
- 6:34Speaker 1: First, Jaguars defense giving up thirty three points a game
- 6:39Speaker 1: since Week seven.
- 6:40Speaker 7: They've got some injuries in the back end of the defense.
- 6:42Speaker 1: Right now, they're struggling through the pass rush, his issues
- 6:46Speaker 1: getting home tied for the few of sacks in the NFL.
- 6:49Speaker 1: And this week they face Justin Herbert, who has no
- 6:51Speaker 1: issues with pressure. Even when he is pressured, he seems
- 6:54Speaker 1: to perform. Well, how do you affect Justin Herbert and
- 6:58Speaker 1: this Chargers offense today?
- 7:00Speaker 5: Listen, that's a great question, because you know, I've been
- 7:04Speaker 5: in this business a long time, and I've been a player,
- 7:07Speaker 5: and I've been a part of this league. And usually
- 7:09Speaker 5: when we go into a game and one of our
- 7:12Speaker 5: biggest graphics is this is the ninth or tenth offensive
- 7:16Speaker 5: line combination that they've had this year. That normally means
- 7:20Speaker 5: that they're not a good football team, no matter who's
- 7:21Speaker 5: playing quarterback, and it's a disaster, right, And so just
- 7:24Speaker 5: the fact that their offensive line is in shambles and
- 7:27Speaker 5: they're down their tackles and they've given up all those
- 7:29Speaker 5: pressures and all those hits and they're still where they are,
- 7:33Speaker 5: you know, at seven and three, and they're still a
- 7:35Speaker 5: legit top five offense and they've been able to manage it.
- 7:39Speaker 5: To me, really really says a lot. Yes they're giving
- 7:43Speaker 5: up a lot of pressure, Yes they're giving up a
- 7:45Speaker 5: lot of hits, but Justin Herbert has been able to
- 7:48Speaker 5: excel and thrive. And you know when I talked to
- 7:50Speaker 5: their coaching staff and I talked to Greg Roman, and
- 7:52Speaker 5: there's no doubt that they go into every game conscious
- 7:56Speaker 5: of the pressure, conscious of the hits, and they know
- 7:59Speaker 5: maybe they're not going to be as explosive is that,
- 8:01Speaker 5: or dynamic as they could be. They could be the
- 8:03Speaker 5: number one passing offense in the NFL, but they really
- 8:07Speaker 5: want him to be efficient and get rid of the
- 8:09Speaker 5: football because a healthy Justin Herbert is better than one
- 8:12Speaker 5: that's sitting on the bench. But it really is a
- 8:16Speaker 5: testament to Herbert their coaching staff that they found a
- 8:21Speaker 5: way to win games despite catastrophic injuries to really the
- 8:24Speaker 5: most important position group on offense.
- 8:27Speaker 1: Now to the other quarterback in this game, certainly for
- 8:30Speaker 1: the Jaguars, Trevor Lawrence, and you know, it's a third
- 8:34Speaker 1: offense for him. We're halfway through his first season in
- 8:36Speaker 1: this offense, and there's conversation this week with the head
- 8:40Speaker 1: coach about telling him to let it rip a little
- 8:43Speaker 1: bit more, maybe a little hesitancy in pushing it down
- 8:47Speaker 1: the field. What's your view outside looking in of Trevor
- 8:50Speaker 1: so far?
- 8:51Speaker 6: Well, listen, I think that.
- 8:54Speaker 5: With high expectations comes a high level of scrutiny. And
- 8:59Speaker 5: if you are that guy, that quarterback, and you're paid
- 9:02Speaker 5: as that guy, there's no question that you have to
- 9:04Speaker 5: play better. And you know, there's a lot of quarterbacks
- 9:08Speaker 5: that have had to learn different systems, and you know,
- 9:12Speaker 5: I think that the scrutiny is.
- 9:16Speaker 6: Correct.
- 9:17Speaker 5: There should be a higher standard and we should look
- 9:19Speaker 5: at these quarterbacks with a higher standard.
- 9:21Speaker 6: I will say this, as far as.
- 9:23Speaker 5: Letting it rip goes, to me, the biggest hurdle that
- 9:27Speaker 5: any player, regardless of position, has to learn is that concept.
- 9:32Speaker 5: Because if you are second guessing yourself, no matter what
- 9:35Speaker 5: you play. If you're a linebacker, on.
- 9:37Speaker 6: Your reads or whatever it is, you just can't play.
- 9:40Speaker 6: Guys are too good. You need to be confident in
- 9:42Speaker 6: what you see. You have to be decisive in what
- 9:44Speaker 6: you see.
- 9:45Speaker 5: And it's kind of counterintuitive, but you can't play with
- 9:51Speaker 5: fear of the result.
- 9:53Speaker 6: You really do have to be in a.
- 9:55Speaker 5: Place where you're not consciously making decisions, but you're in thinks.
- 10:00Speaker 5: You're just telling you that it's there and you have
- 10:01Speaker 5: to trust it. If you never learn to trust it
- 10:04Speaker 5: and you're always second guessing, you never know what you're
- 10:07Speaker 5: capable of, and so in those moments when there is
- 10:10Speaker 5: maybe that little bit of indecision, you're not going to
- 10:13Speaker 5: be able to perform.
- 10:14Speaker 6: So I just think it's a lesson.
- 10:16Speaker 5: Especially if you have some built in scars and you've
- 10:19Speaker 5: made some mistakes.
- 10:20Speaker 6: You know that ability to get rid of those and
- 10:22Speaker 6: just be.
- 10:22Speaker 5: Able to go out there and play and trust what
- 10:24Speaker 5: you see is to me one of the biggest.
- 10:28Speaker 6: Priorities of any player.
- 10:30Speaker 5: So quarterback you have to make more decisions, you know,
- 10:34Speaker 5: and there's a lot of responsibility, but that's why they
- 10:37Speaker 5: pay those.
- 10:37Speaker 7: Guys no doubt, and then you've got to make decisions
- 10:40Speaker 7: and plays against Derwin James and this Chargers defense today,
- 10:45Speaker 7: Let's just touch on James on the back end and
- 10:48Speaker 7: they're moving them all over the place.
- 10:50Speaker 6: He's done it for a long time at a high
- 10:51Speaker 6: level he has.
- 10:52Speaker 5: He's done it in a number of different defensive systems
- 10:55Speaker 5: as well.
- 10:57Speaker 6: What I love about Derwin James is it's hard to
- 11:02Speaker 6: be good at everything.
- 11:04Speaker 5: You know, most there's very few players that are good
- 11:06Speaker 5: at everything. Most players have a special trait. They do
- 11:10Speaker 5: something very well, and I think Pete Carroll used to
- 11:13Speaker 5: call it. They're uniquely talented in some way, shape or form.
- 11:17Speaker 5: And a lot of times when you try to be everything.
- 11:19Speaker 6: You never are good at anything, right.
- 11:21Speaker 5: But for Derwin James, he's a big safety who really
- 11:25Speaker 5: you know, early in his career under Gus Bradley, really
- 11:28Speaker 5: excelled in the box, really was a great box safety,
- 11:32Speaker 5: was able to blitz, and then he started moving around,
- 11:35Speaker 5: and then they started playing him at nickel and they
- 11:36Speaker 5: played him at free safety. He truly is one of
- 11:39Speaker 5: the guys that can do it all in affect the game.
- 11:41Speaker 5: It's not a situation where oh James is in the
- 11:44Speaker 5: deep middle, let's go attack him here. You know, we
- 11:46Speaker 5: got him out of position or he's in the slot.
- 11:50Speaker 5: This year, jesse Mentor is blitzing him more than he's
- 11:53Speaker 5: ever blitzed before. And to me, even though he can
- 11:56Speaker 5: do everything, that's where at its best. I think when
- 11:59Speaker 5: you see Derwin James in the box or in the slot,
- 12:01Speaker 5: you have to be aware because he has that ability
- 12:04Speaker 5: to make plays and he's just an excellent tackler.
- 12:07Speaker 6: They're doing a great job with that secondary in general.
- 12:09Speaker 1: Brian Sexton this week with Jaguars kicker Cam.
- 12:12Speaker 8: Little, I mean, you can never really say that there's
- 12:15Speaker 8: a line that's too far, because if you say that,
- 12:17Speaker 8: then another guy is gonna go out there and hit it.
- 12:18Speaker 8: But I mean, you've seen some guys hit even in
- 12:21Speaker 8: the offseason when some guys are on the league are
- 12:23Speaker 8: just hitting their hitting seventy seventy five, like the guys
- 12:25Speaker 8: that have the big legs, like the Aubrey's of the
- 12:27Speaker 8: world debates, those guys are hitting seventy plush yarders in
- 12:30Speaker 8: training and so I mean, you saw Aubrey on what
- 12:33Speaker 8: was that Monday night football hit one from sixty eight
- 12:35Speaker 8: that could have probably been good for seventy three seventy four.
- 12:37Speaker 8: So there's there's definitely guys that can touch that limit.
- 12:40Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
- 12:41Speaker 9: Do you ever stand back there and think that is
- 12:43Speaker 9: a long way away? Because I went and stood on
- 12:44Speaker 9: the field after you hit it and thought, man, that's
- 12:47Speaker 9: a long way away.
- 12:48Speaker 8: Yeah, in the in the game preseason game against Pittsburgh,
- 12:53Speaker 8: that was a long one. That was the first kick
- 12:55Speaker 8: I've really like stood behind and been like, holy cow,
- 12:58Speaker 8: this is seventy yards away from the uprights. But most
- 13:00Speaker 8: of the time when you go out there, you just
- 13:02Speaker 8: you don't You're peripheral and add to the fans and
- 13:04Speaker 8: the everything that's around you, like the line in front
- 13:07Speaker 8: of you, you can't really like tell that it's that
- 13:09Speaker 8: far because you're just so dialed in on the spot
- 13:11Speaker 8: and the kick.
- 13:12Speaker 9: How much of your preparation is on the mental side.
- 13:14Speaker 8: Oh, I think that's probably what separates an NFL kicker
- 13:17Speaker 8: from a lot of you know, college guys that that
- 13:20Speaker 8: jump mentally knowing you have to do it not only
- 13:23Speaker 8: every time, but seventeen games throughout the season. You know,
- 13:27Speaker 8: It's like golf. Golf is a mentally taxing game, and
- 13:30Speaker 8: your mind can try and play tricks on you sometimes.
- 13:32Speaker 8: But yeah, I think mental preparation probably takes up about
- 13:35Speaker 8: eighty percent of my you know ability, twenty percent is
- 13:39Speaker 8: talent and you know, hard work and technique and all
- 13:42Speaker 8: that stuff. But a lot of guys can kick a
- 13:45Speaker 8: ball sixty yards and in, but you know, can't do
- 13:48Speaker 8: it every time because mentally they're thinking about things in
- 13:50Speaker 8: their backswing. So I think mentally the mental game is
- 13:53Speaker 8: a big side of kicking for sure.
- 13:55Speaker 9: Physically, how much of it is just your genetics and
- 13:57Speaker 9: how much of it is the actual art of preparing.
- 14:00Speaker 8: Yeah, I think preparation is I've always been a big
- 14:03Speaker 8: believer that like preparation throughout the week leads to success.
- 14:06Speaker 8: I think when I have, you know, my best weeks
- 14:08Speaker 8: of practice and know when I'm hitting the ball well,
- 14:10Speaker 8: and I'm not thinking that's when I usually go out
- 14:11Speaker 8: there and play the best. But even I've had to
- 14:14Speaker 8: learn throughout my NFL career, if you don't have and
- 14:16Speaker 8: even in college career, like if you don't have a
- 14:17Speaker 8: good week of practice, you can't on the flip side,
- 14:19Speaker 8: you can't let that affect your game because at the
- 14:21Speaker 8: end of the day, we play games on Sundays, we
- 14:23Speaker 8: don't practice to you know, go out there and you know,
- 14:26Speaker 8: the practice isn't the game. The game is the game.
- 14:28Speaker 8: So yeah, I think preparation is a big reason why
- 14:31Speaker 8: I do have confidence in leading up to success.
- 14:33Speaker 4: Yeah, who's your caddy?
- 14:34Speaker 9: You know that guy that that's out there with you deciding,
- 14:37Speaker 9: you know, this is the mark today, here's the wind
- 14:40Speaker 9: and the way that it's coming across the field. Who
- 14:42Speaker 9: is it that you consult with?
- 14:43Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 14:43Speaker 8: I think Heath is a good Heath and Logan are
- 14:45Speaker 8: both really good assets for that. Heath has been around
- 14:48Speaker 8: the league for so many years now, not only as
- 14:49Speaker 8: a player but as as a coordinator, and so he's
- 14:52Speaker 8: you know, played with great kickers that have had long
- 14:54Speaker 8: careers and obviously he coached Tyler Bass and Buffalo and
- 14:57Speaker 8: you know a lot of good kickers here and so
- 15:00Speaker 8: so he kind of knows my leg and kind of
- 15:01Speaker 8: gauges that based on the wind and stuff like that.
- 15:03Speaker 8: And then obviously Logan's played here for what is see
- 15:06Speaker 8: in his ninth year here now, so he knows the
- 15:08Speaker 8: win in this stadium, he knows the wind all around everywhere.
- 15:11Speaker 8: So both those guys are great assets for me.
- 15:13Speaker 9: And why do you suppose it is now all of
- 15:15Speaker 9: a sudden, the guys are just nailing it past sixty five.
- 15:18Speaker 9: I can remember in nineteen ninety eight when Jason Elam
- 15:21Speaker 9: kicked the first record setting field goal in Denver against
- 15:26Speaker 9: the Jaguars, and since then it's just been record after
- 15:29Speaker 9: record after record.
- 15:29Speaker 4: Why is that happening?
- 15:30Speaker 8: I just think you think about golf swing and the
- 15:33Speaker 8: evolution of the golf swing, and people will be able
- 15:34Speaker 8: to hit it so far now they're starting to learn
- 15:36Speaker 8: how to waste to kick the ball farther. Not only that,
- 15:38Speaker 8: but like the operations are just so good now. I
- 15:41Speaker 8: mean you look at ours so good when like you
- 15:44Speaker 8: look at the sixty eight, all Ross put it directly
- 15:47Speaker 8: over the spot. All Logan had to do is just
- 15:49Speaker 8: sit it down, laces out, and we're going out there
- 15:50Speaker 8: and we're making it.
- 15:51Speaker 10: And so.
- 15:53Speaker 8: Not only the technique and you know, the ability is evolutionizing,
- 15:55Speaker 8: but the operation is so good now to where guys
- 15:59Speaker 8: just have to go out there and worry about kicking.
- 16:01Speaker 8: And that's the beauty of you know, being here is
- 16:03Speaker 8: all I gotta do is just go worry about kicking
- 16:05Speaker 8: the ball.
- 16:05Speaker 6: I don't got to worry about my operation at all.
- 16:06Speaker 9: Let's just wrap it up with this going into the
- 16:08Speaker 9: stretch run of the season. You've kicked a sixty eight
- 16:10Speaker 9: yard field goal, You've kicked one that sent it into overtime.
- 16:13Speaker 9: We've had long returns by reserve wide receivers to set
- 16:17Speaker 9: up plays, and we've had Parker Washington with a couple
- 16:20Speaker 9: special teams. Seems to be hitting its stride. It's important
- 16:23Speaker 9: time of the year.
- 16:23Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that kind of credits Heath and just
- 16:26Speaker 8: the kind of guys first of all, credits Heath, but
- 16:28Speaker 8: not only Heath, but the guys in that room very
- 16:31Speaker 8: meticulous about you know, going into practice week, and you
- 16:34Speaker 8: know that's a big emphasis and a big, big part
- 16:37Speaker 8: of the big.
- 16:37Speaker 4: Part of the game.
- 16:38Speaker 8: You know, it's the third phase of the game besides offices, defense,
- 16:41Speaker 8: and whenever we can go out there and make an impact.
- 16:43Speaker 8: You know, with those guys in the room that take
- 16:45Speaker 8: their job really seriously on special teams, it can be
- 16:47Speaker 8: a special thing. So it's really cool to know that
- 16:49Speaker 8: we have, you know, guys like you know Ross and
- 16:51Speaker 8: Logan that have been here for six to nine years,
- 16:53Speaker 8: say Ros six or seven and Logan eight or nine,
- 16:57Speaker 8: that are kind of leading that room and they know
- 16:58Speaker 8: that the standard is a standard. We're can drop alow
- 17:00Speaker 8: that standard. So it's really cool to you know, be
- 17:02Speaker 8: a part of something that matters because you know, special
- 17:05Speaker 8: teams in you know, high school and college may not
- 17:07Speaker 8: matter to a lot of teams, you know they play
- 17:08Speaker 8: the two phases, but here it's a it's a big
- 17:09Speaker 8: part of it.
- 17:10Speaker 1: And continuing the special teams theme, Brian Sexton with teams
- 17:14Speaker 1: coordinator Heath.
- 17:14Speaker 10: Farewell, Yeah, i mean, these kickers keep getting better every year.
- 17:19Speaker 10: It's it's so impressive, how how talented they are, the
- 17:22Speaker 10: work they put in, it's it's unbelievable. Cam we see
- 17:24Speaker 10: every day. You know, he's one of the hardest workers
- 17:26Speaker 10: on this team. Uh, and so you see the results.
- 17:28Speaker 10: You know, we've seen him do it in practice. So
- 17:30Speaker 10: it's really cool to kind of actually to put it
- 17:32Speaker 10: to a to a game, to kind of for a
- 17:34Speaker 10: display for everybody in the stadium and the and the
- 17:36Speaker 10: TV to see, to witness what we see all the time.
- 17:38Speaker 9: You're kind of his caddy right him in the caddy
- 17:40Speaker 9: you kind of know what the wind is doing and
- 17:43Speaker 9: and and and where his spot is on the field.
- 17:45Speaker 9: How do you how do you calculate that when when
- 17:48Speaker 9: you're on the field in the pre game.
- 17:49Speaker 10: I mean, I think just knowing your guy. I think
- 17:51Speaker 10: that's part of his knowing your guy and then getting
- 17:53Speaker 10: a feel how he's feeling on game day, what the
- 17:55Speaker 10: wind is like, you know, and that's it's a feel
- 17:59Speaker 10: thing on game and so him and I have great conversations,
- 18:03Speaker 10: and it's you know, it starts all week of how
- 18:05Speaker 10: he's feeling, and then it continues throughout warm ups and
- 18:08Speaker 10: throughout the games. You know, I have to check in
- 18:10Speaker 10: with him as that win changes, maybe in the fourth
- 18:13Speaker 10: quarter or what does that change to his line? So
- 18:15Speaker 10: him and are in constant communication of what I'm seeing,
- 18:17Speaker 10: what I'm feeling, and he's doing the same. And so
- 18:20Speaker 10: between the two of us, we usually come up with
- 18:22Speaker 10: those lines, and you know, it's funny how it works out.
- 18:24Speaker 10: It seems like what our numbers are pretty much almost
- 18:27Speaker 10: exactly every time. We just have a good relationship and
- 18:30Speaker 10: feel for each other. I know how he's feeling. I
- 18:33Speaker 10: could feel him, you know, I think he can understand
- 18:35Speaker 10: where I'm coming from. And so it's amazing how accurate
- 18:39Speaker 10: we are on those lines. And we trust him. And
- 18:41Speaker 10: that's the biggest thing is when he tells us the
- 18:43Speaker 10: line or we talk to a line. We're sending him
- 18:45Speaker 10: out there with it, with the with the thought he's
- 18:46Speaker 10: gonna make it, and we know he's gonna make it.
- 18:48Speaker 9: Tell you about your return game. Last two games, right,
- 18:51Speaker 9: you get the long one against the Raiders on the
- 18:52Speaker 9: kickoff that was very important to you, and of course
- 18:54Speaker 9: Parker sets the franchise record with his third career putt return.
- 18:58Speaker 9: Tell me about your return game.
- 19:00Speaker 10: I mean, our returners are unbelievable. You know we have Obviously,
- 19:02Speaker 10: Parker's been fantastic. His ability to change directions make people
- 19:08Speaker 10: miss is spectacular. And I think the guy's blocking, it's
- 19:13Speaker 10: it's it's really cool to kind of see where they've
- 19:15Speaker 10: come from, you know, week one or week two to
- 19:19Speaker 10: where they are now and just blocking for him. They're unbelievable.
- 19:22Speaker 10: And then, like I said, Bagel, la Quint's been back there,
- 19:25Speaker 10: We've had you know, a bunch of guy we've rotated through.
- 19:29Speaker 10: You know, Diami's been back there. So we've rotated through
- 19:31Speaker 10: a bunch of returners and they've all kind of gave
- 19:33Speaker 10: us a different look and different perspective. Uh, and they've
- 19:36Speaker 10: all been great. So it's been really cool to kind
- 19:37Speaker 10: of work with these guys. But you can feel anytime
- 19:41Speaker 10: Parker gets the ball, and you know, you talk to
- 19:43Speaker 10: the guys that are out there on the field, they
- 19:45Speaker 10: they believe and they believe anytime we get those pump
- 19:48Speaker 10: returns there's a chance to score. So you could feel
- 19:50Speaker 10: that that, you know, that emotion, and even the sideline
- 19:53Speaker 10: kind of stands up like wait, that something's good about
- 19:55Speaker 10: to happen. So it's a cool thing to be a
- 19:57Speaker 10: part of. I think the guys are really embracing the
- 19:59Speaker 10: return game and like I said, I'm glad to be
- 20:02Speaker 10: a part of it.
- 20:03Speaker 1: And we wrapped the week, of course with pride of
- 20:05Speaker 1: the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor. The Jags coming off
- 20:09Speaker 1: a really disappointing loss down in Houston last week. Fred
- 20:12Speaker 1: nineteen point lead, blowing the largest in franchise history. But hey,
- 20:17Speaker 1: guess what, there's still the seventh seed. There's a lot
- 20:19Speaker 1: of important football left here. You got to clean some
- 20:22Speaker 1: things up though, before you move forward.
- 20:24Speaker 11: Yeah, that's what it's all about, JP, you know, making
- 20:28Speaker 11: sure you are operating under a high efficiency mindset, high
- 20:35Speaker 11: efficiency thought process. That's the players, the coaches, everyone alike.
- 20:41Speaker 11: I remember at the end of the game last week,
- 20:44Speaker 11: Coach Cohen, he made a statement, you know, addressing potential
- 20:49Speaker 11: play call or execution. You know, it could be a
- 20:52Speaker 11: combination of both, especially when you you know, have a
- 20:56Speaker 11: nineteen point lead with you know, fifteen minutes remaining in
- 21:00Speaker 11: a game and you give up you know, twenty six
- 21:04Speaker 11: and lose the game. So a lot of questions, and
- 21:09Speaker 11: I think a lot of times it all goes back
- 21:11Speaker 11: to one simple muscle, the heart, Like at some point
- 21:16Speaker 11: you gotta display that thing and go out there and fight.
- 21:20Speaker 11: That dog has to come out and ain't no way
- 21:23Speaker 11: you're supposed to give up that many points.
- 21:26Speaker 4: So there are a lot of.
- 21:27Speaker 11: Questions surrounding these guys. Hopefully they had a solid week
- 21:32Speaker 11: of practice. From what I'm hearing, it was a solid
- 21:36Speaker 11: week of practice. It was a quality week of practice
- 21:40Speaker 11: of work, and they're ready to you know, erase that
- 21:43Speaker 11: taste from a week ago. And typically the best way
- 21:47Speaker 11: to do it is go and line up against another
- 21:50Speaker 11: opponent and play your hearts out and try to get
- 21:54Speaker 11: a win. So we'll see what that looks like this afternoon.
- 21:58Speaker 1: Prince Taylor with us, Well, the opponent this week is
- 22:01Speaker 1: really good. The La Chargers are seven to three and
- 22:04Speaker 1: are fighting for the AFC West title. And they've got
- 22:07Speaker 1: the quarterback and some veteran receivers and a running game
- 22:11Speaker 1: and a young tight end. The old Lion's been a
- 22:13Speaker 1: little question. They've had some injuries there, of course, but
- 22:16Speaker 1: even with Justin Herbert getting hit a lot, he's still
- 22:20Speaker 1: number one in completions and attempts in the league, second
- 22:23Speaker 1: in passing yards. He can run with it too. Where
- 22:26Speaker 1: do you begin with Herbert? And what do you like
- 22:28Speaker 1: about the Chargers quarterback?
- 22:30Speaker 11: You said it right there, JP. It's just a matter
- 22:33Speaker 11: of executing and taking advantage of it. They've been beat
- 22:36Speaker 11: up across the board with their offensive line. I know
- 22:39Speaker 11: they lost later for the season, and this was several
- 22:42Speaker 11: weeks ago, but they're still finding a way to truck long.
- 22:45Speaker 4: And it's by design.
- 22:47Speaker 11: It's by having a quarterback who's smart enough to take
- 22:50Speaker 11: advantage of what the defense gives him.
- 22:53Speaker 4: You know, it's taking his deep shots.
- 22:54Speaker 11: He has this big veteran og back and Keenan Allen
- 22:58Speaker 11: who recently broke the charges all the time, receiving a
- 23:02Speaker 11: record a week ago.
- 23:04Speaker 4: So he's a deep shot guy. He's their possession. Guy.
- 23:07Speaker 11: And then when you throw in lad Mo Conkley and
- 23:11Speaker 11: those running backs that you've mentioned, these are our players
- 23:15Speaker 11: that are going to go out there, dependable players. They're
- 23:18Speaker 11: going to go out there and make plays for him.
- 23:21Speaker 11: And he trusts those guys, so they're always on the
- 23:23Speaker 11: same page from what I'm getting from them. And coach Harball,
- 23:28Speaker 11: you know, he's a high efficiency coach, very high quality coach.
- 23:33Speaker 11: He has great systems. He's always had great systems. So
- 23:37Speaker 11: it starts by just getting after Herbert. You know, pressure.
- 23:41Speaker 11: You know, we started a couple of years ago, different
- 23:44Speaker 11: different time, but same same guy. You know, the tendency
- 23:49Speaker 11: is there that when he's pressured, he'll give you the ball.
- 23:51Speaker 11: Most quarterbacks will, but Herbert has shown that if you
- 23:55Speaker 11: get after him. Tough guy, big guy, but if you
- 23:58Speaker 11: get after him enough, the pressure will get to them.
- 24:02Speaker 11: Here eventually start throwing the ball over and with his
- 24:04Speaker 11: own defense that the Jags are playing ben but don't break.
- 24:09Speaker 11: They need more pressure up front, but they need more
- 24:11Speaker 11: sacks up front. They're getting pressure, they're getting to the quarterbacks,
- 24:15Speaker 11: it's just they don't have to sacks to show for it.
- 24:18Speaker 11: And they have to clean that up and if they
- 24:21Speaker 11: can generate pressure, they'll be able to get after after
- 24:26Speaker 11: Herbert and get some turnovers.
- 24:28Speaker 4: And when they get turnovers, they win football games.
- 24:30Speaker 1: Fred, I mean, they have twelve sacks this year. There's
- 24:33Speaker 1: two guys in the league that have eleven solo sacks,
- 24:36Speaker 1: So I mean it is tied for the lowest total
- 24:39Speaker 1: in the league.
- 24:40Speaker 4: And they've tried with five.
- 24:41Speaker 1: They can't get home with four right now, they've tried
- 24:44Speaker 1: with five. I mean, at what point do you start
- 24:47Speaker 1: changing players that are.
- 24:49Speaker 11: Up on game day?
- 24:50Speaker 1: Give younger guys a shot? Like, what else do you
- 24:52Speaker 1: do well as a defensive coordinator, as a head coach
- 24:55Speaker 1: to jump start this pass rush.
- 24:58Speaker 11: It's gonna be hard to sit down a guy who
- 25:03Speaker 11: you just gave, you know, a brand new extension to
- 25:06Speaker 11: an offseason.
- 25:07Speaker 4: And Josh heines Allen.
- 25:08Speaker 11: You know, when you talk to Trayvon, he's just a
- 25:10Speaker 11: couple of years removed from being selected number one over all.
- 25:14Speaker 11: So you got your two bookends. You brought in a
- 25:17Speaker 11: big time free agent to shore up the middle. Now again,
- 25:24Speaker 11: they play well in spurts, but the consistency isn't there,
- 25:29Speaker 11: you know, and then those moments when they do get
- 25:32Speaker 11: sacked shout out to Trayvon. It's followed up by roughing
- 25:36Speaker 11: the passers. So just playing smarter. They they're gonna have
- 25:43Speaker 11: to if they're gonna want to play that good zone
- 25:46Speaker 11: defense from behind. Uh, they're gonna have to get pressure,
- 25:50Speaker 11: you know. So it may be the rotation, addressing the
- 25:54Speaker 11: rotation where everybody's fresh. You know, Josh heines Allen, he's
- 25:59Speaker 11: playing almost every snap, he's influencing plays. He's playing really well.
- 26:03Speaker 11: It's just that he doesn't have the sacks to show
- 26:06Speaker 11: for it. But the pressure is there, the influences there.
- 26:09Speaker 11: He's feeding the other guys, helping the other guys make plays.
- 26:13Speaker 11: But they I think the consistency is the bigger concern,
- 26:16Speaker 11: and addressing that by way of rotation, getting some of
- 26:21Speaker 11: those young fresh legs in there at the right moments
- 26:24Speaker 11: can potentially help them turn that around.
- 26:28Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with US Pride of the Jaguars running back
- 26:31Speaker 1: and now on the other side of the Jaguars offense
- 26:33Speaker 1: against this Chargers defensive group that has some veteran players
- 26:38Speaker 1: on the back end, they've got guys up front that
- 26:40Speaker 1: can get after it.
- 26:40Speaker 4: Of course, Khalil Mack.
- 26:44Speaker 1: All these guys have multiple sacks up front, so they
- 26:47Speaker 1: know how to get after the passer. So as a
- 26:49Speaker 1: Jaguars offense, what's the approach today? Is it just kind
- 26:53Speaker 1: of play your own games, trying to run it still
- 26:55Speaker 1: and balance it out like you always kind of want
- 26:58Speaker 1: to do, or do you have something else sleep especially
- 27:01Speaker 1: if Trevor Lawrence they've talked this week Fred about him
- 27:05Speaker 1: letting it rip in so to speak, down the stretch.
- 27:09Speaker 1: Maybe that's more of a broad mentality than a game
- 27:12Speaker 1: to game thing.
- 27:13Speaker 4: But what do you make of all this on offense?
- 27:16Speaker 11: I think the mindset is you want to enter the
- 27:18Speaker 11: game with the thought process of running the ball, establishing
- 27:23Speaker 11: and run. There's so much more efficient and their offense
- 27:27Speaker 11: is a little bit more high power when they're able
- 27:31Speaker 11: to run the ball because they can do so many
- 27:33Speaker 11: things off of the run.
- 27:34Speaker 4: You've got play action.
- 27:36Speaker 11: Then you also have screen game that you can implement
- 27:39Speaker 11: play action screen which they've shown.
- 27:44Speaker 4: To work well. You know, even getting the tight ends
- 27:47Speaker 4: back involved.
- 27:48Speaker 11: You know, off those actions, you have some boot actions
- 27:51Speaker 11: where the tight ends can seep out until the coverage
- 27:55Speaker 11: late or even crossing routes. And these are the things
- 27:59Speaker 11: that we saw the JAG's doing well the first couple
- 28:02Speaker 11: of weeks of the season, and then you take pressure
- 28:05Speaker 11: off the offensive line, who has struggle.
- 28:08Speaker 4: We could go versus the Texans.
- 28:11Speaker 11: The Neil Hunter took full advantage of the offensive line
- 28:15Speaker 11: and created pressures at the right time that put Houston
- 28:18Speaker 11: in position to come back and win that game.
- 28:22Speaker 4: So if you're running the ball, you're allowing your.
- 28:25Speaker 11: Defense and opportunity to rest up so you can avoid
- 28:28Speaker 11: those moments that happened a week ago. If you're running
- 28:31Speaker 11: the ball, you're taking pressure off your offensive line. You
- 28:35Speaker 11: don't give guys like Khalil Mack an opportunity to get
- 28:38Speaker 11: excited and get after the quarterback. He isn't as great
- 28:43Speaker 11: of a player as he was when he first came
- 28:44Speaker 11: in the league, but he still has a lot of tank.
- 28:47Speaker 11: He a lot in his tank. He's a savvyvet. And
- 28:50Speaker 11: on the back end, Derwin James, he's their coverage leader.
- 28:54Speaker 11: He's gonna blitch you. Just a great player, potential Hall
- 28:58Speaker 11: of famer in my in Derwin one of their best
- 29:02Speaker 11: players on the team. So you want to influence him
- 29:06Speaker 11: as well in the run game because he's gonna be active.
- 29:09Speaker 11: So run the ball, create some play action opportunities for yourself.
- 29:14Speaker 11: Get back to the screen game, get the tight ends involved,
- 29:18Speaker 11: and Trevor take advantage of the checkdowns, you know, get
- 29:22Speaker 11: it out to the batch early once they're at their spots.
- 29:27Speaker 11: Allow the linebackers to come up and coverage to want
- 29:32Speaker 11: to now defend the checkdown game, and after that play action,
- 29:36Speaker 11: have them draw the linebackers in. Then throw the ball
- 29:39Speaker 11: behind them with the crossing route game in the pass
- 29:43Speaker 11: game to the receivers and hopefully they catch the ball.
- 29:46Speaker 4: And then that's the formula for success.
- 29:50Speaker 1: Fred Taylor with US last meeting between the Jags and
- 29:53Speaker 1: Chargers the AFC Wild Card playoff game after the twenty
- 29:57Speaker 1: twenty two season, in which the Jaguars down twenty seven
- 30:00Speaker 1: to nothing after four first half interceptions from Trevor Lawrence,
- 30:04Speaker 1: and then they threw four touchdown passes and the Jaguars
- 30:07Speaker 1: won the game on the last second field goal. There's
- 30:10Speaker 1: a handful of the guys still there for the Chargers,
- 30:12Speaker 1: certainly handful of guys still there for the Jacks so
- 30:14Speaker 1: long ago. But let's not get down twenty seven nothing
- 30:18Speaker 1: this week.
- 30:18Speaker 11: Well, you know, it doesn't it doesn't seem like it
- 30:22Speaker 11: was so long ago. Maybe two some Jags fans. It
- 30:27Speaker 11: seemed like a turn a year ago because we hadn't
- 30:29Speaker 11: been to the playoffs and quite some time. But I
- 30:34Speaker 11: don't know, man, you know what I'm gonna do. I'm
- 30:36Speaker 11: gonna bring a pivot for the guy. So when you're
- 30:39Speaker 11: not doing what you're supposed to do, just pivot right
- 30:43Speaker 11: and you turn things around.
- 30:44Speaker 4: JP.
- 30:45Speaker 11: So being down twenty seven zero would be tough. Yes,
- 30:50Speaker 11: you can't do that. It's usually tough. So we had
- 30:54Speaker 11: the greatest comeback against you know, a week ago. We
- 30:58Speaker 11: don't want to have the greatest come four you know,
- 31:01Speaker 11: this week because we already had that in twenty twenty two.
- 31:04Speaker 11: I doubt it'll be that. This is a much better
- 31:07Speaker 11: team across the board, and I think based on how
- 31:12Speaker 11: the game went a week ago, they'll come back home,
- 31:15Speaker 11: turn things around and get this win in front of
- 31:18Speaker 11: the home team, in front of the fans.
- 31:21Speaker 4: Save that pivot for the fourth quarter this time. Will
- 31:23Speaker 4: you hand them out late? Hand them out late? Well,
- 31:27Speaker 4: they you know they know where to find me.
- 31:29Speaker 11: I'm actually looking for Mark Lamping so we can cut
- 31:32Speaker 11: a deal so I can have it in this stadium.
- 31:34Speaker 4: How about that everybody can get.
- 31:36Speaker 1: It best wishes on that good luck to your.
- 31:38Speaker 4: Fan and I just had to pitch it out there.
- 31:42Speaker 4: It's vivid.
- 31:43Speaker 6: We'll talk to you and both gave friend.
- 31:45Speaker 4: Appreciate you JP.
- 31:47Speaker 1: The Jaguars host the Chargers Sunday at one o'clock. Enjoy
- 31:50Speaker 1: the game.