Latest / The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network / Previewing Week 2 vs. Broncos With Brian Sexton, Trevor Lawrence, Chad Morton and More
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- 0:15Speaker 1: Welcome to Week 2.
- 0:16Speaker 2: I'm Brian Sexton, and this is the second installment of
- 0:18Speaker 2: a podcast that didn't have a name last week, but
- 0:21Speaker 2: I think it might this time around. I'm going with
- 0:24Speaker 2: A Few Good Minutes, in part because I did a
- 0:27Speaker 2: short video segment with that title a decade ago, and
- 0:29Speaker 2: I liked it. And I actually get a few good
- 0:32Speaker 2: minutes every week with a number of folks in and
- 0:35Speaker 2: around the Jaguars. And also, I enjoyed A Few Good
- 0:38Speaker 2: Men with Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson. Can the NFL
- 0:42Speaker 2: handle the truth? that this Jacksonville Bunch is a legitimate
- 0:45Speaker 2: Super Bowl contender. The Jaguars are off to Denver this
- 0:48Speaker 2: weekend to face a Broncos squad that was very highly
- 0:50Speaker 2: considered by people who know. Then they went and laid
- 0:54Speaker 2: that egg of a performance in Kansas City on Monday
- 0:56Speaker 2: Night Football, and we're all reminded of Jim Moore's famous line,
- 0:59Speaker 2: you think you know, but you don't.
- 1:02Speaker 1: Here's what we do know.
- 1:03Speaker 2: Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence is playing the best football of
- 1:06Speaker 2: his career. He looks like the best player on the
- 1:09Speaker 2: field right now, and last Sunday he He posted the
- 1:12Speaker 2: best statistical performance of his career, completing 78% of his
- 1:15Speaker 2: passes with four touchdowns, and all of them were spectacular
- 1:19Speaker 2: throws that populated every social media channel across the internet.
- 1:23Speaker 1: Not that he cares.
- 1:24Speaker 2: He's focused on doing it again on Sunday and playing
- 1:28Speaker 2: to a level that only the very best quarterbacks in
- 1:30Speaker 2: league history ever have.
- 1:36Speaker 3: You know, I think that's the challenge. I mean, this
- 1:38Speaker 3: sport in general, but especially playing quarterback, is the consistency
- 1:41Speaker 3: piece just because of every week's a different game plan.
- 1:45Speaker 1: It's a different opponent. It's a different way of attack.
- 1:47Speaker 3: I'm going into a, you know, hostile environment this weekend
- 1:49Speaker 3: in Denver, so many different factors. And how can you
- 1:52Speaker 3: just consistently play well, keep your team in the game,
- 1:56Speaker 3: give yourself another shot. And I think that's the challenge
- 1:58Speaker 3: that we've talked about a lot this off season is
- 1:59Speaker 3: that consistency piece and just every down, how can I
- 2:03Speaker 3: do the right thing with the ball while also playing
- 2:05Speaker 3: with the freedom to make some big plays and to
- 2:08Speaker 3: use my athletic abilities and to get out of the pocket,
- 2:10Speaker 3: but staying on schedule. So I think that's the consistency piece.
- 2:13Speaker 3: And that's always a challenge that I think is good
- 2:15Speaker 3: to challenge yourself with every week, just because it's really important.
- 2:18Speaker 2: How much of that is consistency of preparation? And not
- 2:21Speaker 2: just practice and meetings, but the things that you do
- 2:23Speaker 2: personally outside of here to be ready to play?
- 2:26Speaker 3: I think that's a huge part of it. I felt
- 2:27Speaker 3: really prepared last week going into the Cleveland week. I
- 2:29Speaker 3: think our whole offense did, our whole team did.
- 2:32Speaker 1: And That's a huge part of it.
- 2:34Speaker 3: I think you get more and more comfortable, especially now
- 2:36Speaker 3: being with this staff for a second year, understanding how
- 2:40Speaker 3: we game plan and how the coaches work and things
- 2:43Speaker 3: that we do in our meetings and maybe some stuff
- 2:45Speaker 3: that I need to do on my own so that
- 2:46Speaker 3: I'm ready for the game Sunday. Just seeing where everything
- 2:50Speaker 3: fits into the schedule, I feel like I got it
- 2:52Speaker 3: down now after doing it all last year. Obviously, there's
- 2:56Speaker 3: things that I've done my whole career that carry over
- 2:59Speaker 3: every system, but then there's some things that change a
- 3:00Speaker 3: little bit. Our staff does an awesome job getting extra walkthroughs,
- 3:04Speaker 3: getting extra reps, mental reps, especially at quarterback with all
- 3:06Speaker 3: the different things that we do offensively, just to try
- 3:09Speaker 3: to see as many looks as I can throughout the
- 3:11Speaker 3: weeks that I'm prepared. And our coaches do an awesome
- 3:13Speaker 3: job with that. And I think that helps me a lot. Um,
- 3:16Speaker 3: and then, yeah, like you said, the stuff I do
- 3:17Speaker 3: on my own to some of the, the film I
- 3:19Speaker 3: watch the stuff, you know, I talked to the receivers
- 3:20Speaker 3: about and, um, the old line, the protection meetings we
- 3:23Speaker 3: do a lot of that stuff also pays off to.
- 3:26Speaker 2: Watching from the stands or the press box. It looked
- 3:28Speaker 2: like you were in complete control, complete command. Uh, Did
- 3:32Speaker 2: it feel like that to you? I mean, the numbers
- 3:34Speaker 2: said it was your best game statistically. Did it feel
- 3:37Speaker 2: right to you?
- 3:38Speaker 3: Yeah, I felt very comfortable, confident, just knew what we
- 3:41Speaker 3: were doing, knew what the plan was, felt confident in that,
- 3:44Speaker 3: and just felt like we were going to go attack them.
- 3:47Speaker 3: Whatever they decided to do defensively, we had an idea
- 3:50Speaker 3: of their identity, who they were going to be coverage-wise
- 3:53Speaker 3: and scheme, but we knew stuff could be a little
- 3:55Speaker 3: bit different. So I think when you go into games
- 3:57Speaker 3: like that, you are a little bit more open-minded, like, hey,
- 3:58Speaker 3: just play it how you see it. just go play,
- 4:02Speaker 3: trust my progression, trust my footwork, my timing. If it's
- 4:05Speaker 3: not there, be an athlete, be able to use my legs.
- 4:08Speaker 3: And you see all those things kind of came to life.
- 4:09Speaker 3: And I think that's a big part of just trusting
- 4:11Speaker 3: the system, trusting my guys to make plays and stay
- 4:14Speaker 3: on time and giving them opportunities and some good things happen.
- 4:16Speaker 2: You see the running game up close. Obviously, it's been
- 4:19Speaker 2: a point of focus for this team. Are they on schedule?
- 4:22Speaker 2: Do you like where it's at? It would seem to
- 4:23Speaker 2: be very important today against this defense.
- 4:26Speaker 4: Yeah, it's huge.
- 4:28Speaker 3: It's hugely important for our offense and just the way
- 4:31Speaker 3: we want to play football. And I think last week
- 4:33Speaker 3: was a good start for us in the run game.
- 4:35Speaker 3: There's definitely some things that we can clean up. But
- 4:37Speaker 3: as far as us playing physical up front and at
- 4:41Speaker 3: tight end and moving people and playing hard and then
- 4:43Speaker 3: our running backs running through some contact, getting some dirty yards,
- 4:47Speaker 3: and then obviously we had a couple big ones.
- 4:48Speaker 1: I mean, all those things flash and pop.
- 4:51Speaker 3: So I think now it's just continuing to work on
- 4:53Speaker 3: the details more honing on a new game plan for
- 4:56Speaker 3: a different opponent that plays defense pretty differently. So that's
- 5:00Speaker 3: going to be a challenge for us, but it's going
- 5:01Speaker 3: to be really, really important this week.
- 5:02Speaker 1: I could ask you about all of your receivers.
- 5:04Speaker 2: Each one of them individually has such a strong personality,
- 5:06Speaker 2: but Parker's the one everyone wants to talk about. The
- 5:09Speaker 2: things that he does, the catch that he made last week,
- 5:12Speaker 2: the things he does in the practice field, does it
- 5:14Speaker 2: ever surprise you the things he can do physically?
- 5:18Speaker 4: Not anymore.
- 5:20Speaker 3: I wouldn't say it surprised me. It is cool to watch, though,
- 5:23Speaker 3: just to see A guy like Parker, like I've said
- 5:27Speaker 3: a lot in the past, just does everything the right way.
- 5:28Speaker 3: And to see him shining right now as he deserves.
- 5:33Speaker 3: I mean, he's such a hard worker. Like I said,
- 5:34Speaker 3: does everything the right way. Great teammate. Plays hard for
- 5:37Speaker 3: the guys around him. And to see that pay off
- 5:39Speaker 3: for him and to see how talented he is, I mean,
- 5:42Speaker 3: it really is special. So, you know, I think people
- 5:46Speaker 3: are grateful for him. I hope they are because he's special.
- 5:49Speaker 3: And just continuing to build that relationship and chemistry with
- 5:53Speaker 3: him because he's I think we can do a lot
- 5:55Speaker 3: of great things together.
- 5:56Speaker 2: Speaking of relationships and chemistry, how about a behind-the-scenes perspective
- 5:59Speaker 2: on the head coach? I mean, everyone is interested in
- 6:02Speaker 2: him because he's got such a great personality. Can you
- 6:04Speaker 2: tell me about how your relationship has grown and how
- 6:06Speaker 2: much you perhaps enjoy playing for him?
- 6:10Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he's awesome. He's been fun to play for.
- 6:13Speaker 3: I've learned a lot. You know, he pushes me hard.
- 6:15Speaker 3: He coaches me hard. And our whole staff, you know, Grant, Spence,
- 6:19Speaker 3: all those guys that I work with on a day-to-day basis,
- 6:21Speaker 3: including obviously Liam in that.
- 6:23Speaker 1: They push me hard. They coach me hard.
- 6:24Speaker 3: I've learned a lot from them. I'm very, very grateful
- 6:27Speaker 3: for the staff that we have. And then with Liam,
- 6:29Speaker 3: it's funny, the intensity I've talked about in the past.
- 6:31Speaker 3: I think that's brought a little bit more of that
- 6:34Speaker 3: out of me, just the sense of urgency and intensity
- 6:37Speaker 3: because he has so much of that. And every day
- 6:40Speaker 3: is like that. He's just so competitive. And I think
- 6:43Speaker 3: that sense of urgency has been really good. And then
- 6:45Speaker 3: also my personality is kind of the opposite in some ways.
- 6:48Speaker 3: So it's funny to see us interact and how that
- 6:50Speaker 3: balances each other out. And I've just learned how to
- 6:53Speaker 3: take them more and more every day from a perspective.
- 6:57Speaker 1: Of at the end of the day, I have the ball.
- 6:59Speaker 3: And I think we have a good back and forth
- 7:01Speaker 3: of he wants things done a certain way. And I'm
- 7:03Speaker 3: bringing that message along because I'm the guy in the huddle.
- 7:06Speaker 3: But then also being able to calm guys down and
- 7:10Speaker 3: do my job on that. And I think it's been
- 7:11Speaker 3: a really good pair in that regard. So it's been fun.
- 7:15Speaker 2: And then the final thought is, you always have to
- 7:17Speaker 2: prove it. I mean, the whole league for 32 years, Trevor,
- 7:20Speaker 2: has always said, Jacksonville, the Jaguars, they got to prove it.
- 7:23Speaker 2: You get to prove it against one of the best
- 7:25Speaker 2: teams in the league in one of the most hostile environments,
- 7:27Speaker 2: and you got a really tough stretch of schedule coming here.
- 7:30Speaker 2: This would seem to be a great challenge and something
- 7:33Speaker 2: that you're excited about.
- 7:34Speaker 4: Yeah, we're really excited.
- 7:36Speaker 3: I mean, every week is an opportunity, no matter who
- 7:39Speaker 3: you're playing. And last week, we were playing Cleveland, and
- 7:41Speaker 3: that was a great opportunity for us, and we took
- 7:44Speaker 3: advantage of it. And this week, we got Denver on
- 7:46Speaker 3: the road, and We know this is a really good team,
- 7:48Speaker 3: really good AFC opponent. And like we say in the past,
- 7:52Speaker 3: you never know how the season's going to end up.
- 7:54Speaker 3: So to have these games early against these conference opponents
- 7:57Speaker 3: on the road, hostile environment, it's a great opportunity for
- 8:01Speaker 3: us to show up.
- 8:04Speaker 1: The Jaguars have always showed up in Denver. Remember the Jaguars?
- 8:08Speaker 2: Hey, thanks to longtime Denver Post columnist Woody Page for
- 8:12Speaker 2: a Sunday morning column the day of that AFC Divisional
- 8:15Speaker 2: Playoff game that became a rallying cry in the locker
- 8:18Speaker 2: room and that is one of my great memories in
- 8:20Speaker 2: 32 years of Jaguars football.
- 8:22Speaker 1: If you've never read it, do yourself a favor. Go
- 8:25Speaker 1: find it.
- 8:26Speaker 2: If you weren't with us in Denver 30 years ago,
- 8:29Speaker 2: here's a little reminder of that mile-high magic. By the way,
- 8:32Speaker 2: I'm stealing that hashtag from the Broncos digital media team
- 8:34Speaker 2: this week.
- 8:36Speaker 5: 438, 437, 436. Can the Jaguars make something happen? Brunel
- 8:41Speaker 5: under center. Sends Keenan in motion from the near to
- 8:43Speaker 5: the far side. He'll take the snap and drop back
- 8:46Speaker 5: to throw. Pressure coming. He's jumping out to the near side.
- 8:48Speaker 1: Pump action. Cuts across the 50. Breaks a tackle at
- 8:50Speaker 1: the 45. He's at the 40.
- 8:52Speaker 5: Mark Brunel running to the far sideline.
- 8:54Speaker 1: Turns the corner.
- 8:55Speaker 6: 35-30.
- 8:55Speaker 1: Down to the 25. An inside move. Leaping for the 21.
- 9:00Speaker 5: Mark Brunel with a masterful run of 29 yards, and.
- 9:05Speaker 1: The clock continues to run.
- 9:06Speaker 2: The Jaguars are 4-3 all-time on the road in Denver,
- 9:10Speaker 2: and it feels like they're poised to make it 5-3.
- 9:12Speaker 2: They're really dialed in this week, as you heard from Trevor,
- 9:15Speaker 2: and you will in our next conversation with running backs
- 9:18Speaker 2: coach Chad Morton. He was coaching his backs right up
- 9:21Speaker 2: until I pushed play on my microphone. The Jaguars need
- 9:25Speaker 2: 4.85 yards per carry again this week to slow down
- 9:29Speaker 2: that Broncos pass rush that last year fell just short
- 9:32Speaker 2: of the NFL record, if you can call 68 sacks
- 9:36Speaker 2: in a single season falling short. Morton knows last week
- 9:39Speaker 2: was last week, but he likes the direction this running
- 9:42Speaker 2: game is headed into week two. 4.85 yards per carry,
- 9:49Speaker 2: which is what you guys got against the Browns last week.
- 9:51Speaker 1: Is that good enough to win week in and week
- 9:53Speaker 1: out in the NFL? Definitely.
- 9:55Speaker 7: Obviously, we want more, right?
- 9:56Speaker 6: I'm always greedy.
- 9:58Speaker 7: We're standard is really high. So yeah, we have to just,
- 10:03Speaker 7: the biggest thing is about being consistent. You know what
- 10:05Speaker 7: I mean? Keeping the offense on track, on schedule. So
- 10:08Speaker 7: we're not getting these losses and get second and, you know,
- 10:10Speaker 7: known passing situation. So, but yeah, if we can do that,
- 10:13Speaker 7: then hopefully then, you know, we should be able to win.
- 10:16Speaker 1: When you ask your guys to be consistent, what are
- 10:17Speaker 1: you asking them to do?
- 10:19Speaker 7: The biggest thing is really just being sharp on the details.
- 10:22Speaker 7: Your track, just, you know, previewing the defense, know where
- 10:25Speaker 7: to put the ball, know where it's supposed to go, right?
- 10:28Speaker 7: And just if you're supposed to hit in the B gap,
- 10:30Speaker 7: hit it in the B gap, you know, unless obviously
- 10:32Speaker 7: something changes. But it's really those kind of details of
- 10:35Speaker 7: just speed off the ball, correct track, and then, you know,
- 10:38Speaker 7: just going from there. And obviously ball security, just those
- 10:41Speaker 7: little things. That's why we don't preach about what happens afterwards.
- 10:44Speaker 7: I tell them, hey, just do point A to point B,
- 10:46Speaker 7: the first part correct. After you get through and make
- 10:48Speaker 7: the right read, then it's up to you to do
- 10:51Speaker 7: what you want after that as long as you hold
- 10:52Speaker 7: on to the football.
- 10:53Speaker 2: Broncos are one of the best defenses in football. What's
- 10:55Speaker 2: the challenge running the ball against them?
- 10:57Speaker 7: They did well against us last year, just being physical
- 11:00Speaker 7: up front and really just going back to being detailed
- 11:02Speaker 7: for the running back. I think the O-line did a
- 11:04Speaker 7: great job last year. We missed some reads last year
- 11:07Speaker 7: that we could have had. Could have had some really
- 11:09Speaker 7: good explosives off of it. That always falls on us,
- 11:12Speaker 7: and we're always going to take responsibility for that kind
- 11:14Speaker 7: of stuff. So just going back, harping on the details,
- 11:16Speaker 7: and I think we'll be good.
- 11:18Speaker 2: Chad, there are all sorts of statistics, especially that next
- 11:20Speaker 2: generation statistics. Are there any numbers that you look at
- 11:23Speaker 2: specifically when you get the stat sheet? This tells us
- 11:26Speaker 2: how good, how efficient we were.
- 11:30Speaker 7: You know, probably just the overall yards per carry, because
- 11:34Speaker 7: that just shows you basically how consistent you are. Um,
- 11:41Speaker 7: I think that, you know, I always look to see
- 11:43Speaker 7: if I always like to have a hundred yard rusher,
- 11:45Speaker 7: you know what I mean? Cause you're putting a lot
- 11:46Speaker 7: of yards out there on the ground and, um, but yeah,
- 11:49Speaker 7: that's the biggest thing. Um, but you know, really it's just,
- 11:53Speaker 7: it's not just a yard thing after the step, you
- 11:55Speaker 7: know what I mean? It's more, I'm just more concerned
- 11:56Speaker 7: about how the guys are doing, if they're making the
- 11:58Speaker 7: correct read and you know, that point A to point B,
- 12:00Speaker 7: because otherwise, If we start just chasing yards, then, you know,
- 12:03Speaker 7: all of a sudden we're going to be in big
- 12:04Speaker 7: trouble because then they're going to start bouncing stuff that
- 12:06Speaker 7: they don't need to bounce. So we never really just
- 12:08Speaker 7: harp on that stuff. It's cool afterwards, you know what
- 12:11Speaker 7: I mean, just to kind of check the stat sheet.
- 12:13Speaker 7: But other than that, no, we're just focused on just
- 12:15Speaker 7: doing our job.
- 12:16Speaker 2: Tell me about Basial Tootin from year one to year
- 12:18Speaker 2: two and what you've seen from him so far.
- 12:20Speaker 7: Yeah, he's doing great. He's just really improving on the reads,
- 12:24Speaker 7: just on some of the stuff. There's, you know, certain—
- 12:27Speaker 7: Certain runs that I wanted him to improve on more
- 12:29Speaker 7: than others, right?
- 12:30Speaker 1: That's just everybody.
- 12:31Speaker 7: But he's just really honing in on the details of
- 12:33Speaker 7: the stuff and just, you know, really studying the playbook
- 12:35Speaker 7: and knowing what's going on and, you know, not having
- 12:39Speaker 7: MAs knock on wood, just things like that. Just be
- 12:41Speaker 7: more locked in all the time and be more detailed.
- 12:44Speaker 2: Folks got their first look at Chris Rodriguez, who came
- 12:46Speaker 2: here in free agency from Washington. What are your expectations
- 12:49Speaker 2: for how he fits in and what he'll provide this year?
- 12:51Speaker 7: Yeah, really just that big physical downhill runner. You know,
- 12:57Speaker 7: when we put him in there and, you know, he
- 12:58Speaker 7: had some short yardage opportunities. So he's got to be
- 13:00Speaker 7: able to convert that. You know, that's a must, especially
- 13:03Speaker 7: if you're put in that situation. You have to get it,
- 13:07Speaker 7: you know. And so he just got to continue to
- 13:09Speaker 7: just work on that stuff, right?
- 13:10Speaker 8: Pad level.
- 13:11Speaker 7: And then just doing what we ask him to do.
- 13:13Speaker 7: And same thing for him, too.
- 13:15Speaker 8: It really is.
- 13:15Speaker 7: I know I'm going back to the detail thing, but
- 13:18Speaker 7: it's really important for our running backs to be able
- 13:20Speaker 7: to do that.
- 13:21Speaker 2: You want your players to be consistent. The coach is
- 13:23Speaker 2: consistent with the things that he preaches. You have a
- 13:25Speaker 2: fairly young room. Tell me how Amir Abdullah blends in
- 13:30Speaker 2: and what he gives you.
- 13:31Speaker 7: Oh, he is outstanding. We need that veteran presence in there.
- 13:34Speaker 7: They rely on him for a lot of stuff just
- 13:36Speaker 7: because of his wisdom and knowledge and things that he's
- 13:38Speaker 7: seen around the league and just played and obviously also
- 13:41Speaker 7: on the special teams aspect of it too. Like he's
- 13:44Speaker 7: all in on the special team. So he's able to
- 13:46Speaker 7: talk to those guys about the importance of it. And
- 13:48Speaker 7: also just the details of when he's like returning. Cause
- 13:51Speaker 7: all our guys are back there. Um, uh, the running
- 13:53Speaker 7: backs are all returners too. So just what to see
- 13:56Speaker 7: out there, what to look for, what to anticipate. Um,
- 13:59Speaker 7: so all that experience that he has is really helpful
- 14:01Speaker 7: in our room.
- 14:02Speaker 2: Let's wrap on Denver. It's a Amazing environment for an
- 14:07Speaker 2: NFL football game. The altitude, the team, the fans, the noise.
- 14:12Speaker 2: What a challenge for week two of the NFL and
- 14:15Speaker 2: one that this team seems really excited to embrace.
- 14:17Speaker 8: Yeah, that's the best. That's what you want.
- 14:19Speaker 7: You want it to be loud. You want it to
- 14:21Speaker 7: be a good team, right? You love that environment. You know,
- 14:24Speaker 7: we don't give two points. I don't want to say
- 14:27Speaker 7: any curse words, but we don't care about the altitude
- 14:30Speaker 7: or whatever. We just got to go on there and
- 14:32Speaker 7: just be focused on controlling what we can control and
- 14:35Speaker 7: just playing our game. But like, yeah, if you don't
- 14:37Speaker 7: get hyped up for that kind of stuff, like I
- 14:39Speaker 7: want it loud. Like those are the best environments when
- 14:41Speaker 7: you go away and then beat them at their own
- 14:43Speaker 7: stadium where they're leaving early and they shut the hell up.
- 14:45Speaker 7: And now they got to, you know what I mean?
- 14:47Speaker 7: Go hurry up and try to get out of the
- 14:48Speaker 7: parking lot. Like that's the kind of stuff that's just beautiful.
- 14:51Speaker 7: And then now we're yelling back at the stands, you
- 14:53Speaker 7: know what I mean? Yelling at our fans, seeing them
- 14:54Speaker 7: coming down and, that's the kind of games that you
- 14:57Speaker 7: look for.
- 14:58Speaker 1: So I guess I should say go make it quiet
- 15:00Speaker 1: there today.
- 15:00Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely.
- 15:03Speaker 2: Fred Taylor travels the country these days in search of
- 15:06Speaker 2: great conversations for The Pivot, which is the ridiculously successful
- 15:09Speaker 2: podcast that covers sports, culture, a little bit of politics,
- 15:13Speaker 2: and life from the perspective of a few former pro
- 15:15Speaker 2: football players. You may see him in L.A. talking Rams
- 15:19Speaker 2: or Nashville talking Titans, but his heart is always in Duval.
- 15:23Speaker 2: with his Jaguars, which is why he makes time to
- 15:26Speaker 2: spend a few minutes with me each week.
- 15:28Speaker 4: Fred, how are you?
- 15:34Speaker 8: Hey, listen, anytime we get a win, I'm great, actually.
- 15:37Speaker 8: I'm doing good, man. How about yourself?
- 15:38Speaker 4: Doing very good. I'm the same way.
- 15:40Speaker 2: Listen, the week rolls so smoothly when everybody's happy and smiling.
- 15:43Speaker 2: And when you win 34 to 10, they certainly are.
- 15:46Speaker 2: Let's get started with today's game in Denver. You know
- 15:50Speaker 2: what it takes to win up there. 5,280 feet above
- 15:54Speaker 2: sea level, a crazy crowd and.
- 15:55Speaker 4: A really good football team. What do you think is.
- 15:58Speaker 2: The key to victory this week for the Jaguars to
- 16:00Speaker 2: go and get another win at Mile High Stadium?
- 16:04Speaker 8: They got to start fast.
- 16:05Speaker 6: You have a team who was surrounded by a lot
- 16:08Speaker 6: of offseason hype and the Broncos. After that, you know,
- 16:12Speaker 6: onslaught by Kansas City. You know, they're real and they're
- 16:16Speaker 6: asking some questions. And not only that, Brian, they're on
- 16:18Speaker 6: a short week. So you want to try to hit
- 16:21Speaker 6: them quick, hit them fast. And before you know it,
- 16:24Speaker 6: if you can display the sort of quick start that
- 16:26Speaker 6: you did a week ago versus the Brown, you give
- 16:29Speaker 6: yourself an opportunity to evoke doubt in the minds of
- 16:34Speaker 6: the Broncos players. So I would suggest a fast start
- 16:38Speaker 6: in that hostile environment. You take the players out by
- 16:41Speaker 6: taking over their minds and frustrating them, as well as
- 16:45Speaker 6: the fans. And now they'll start questioning themselves And before
- 16:48Speaker 6: you know it, you'll be back on the plane enjoying
- 16:51Speaker 6: the win.
- 16:51Speaker 4: Tell me about that short week, right?
- 16:53Speaker 2: Because they played Monday night in Kansas City, and Tuesday's
- 16:56Speaker 2: normally the players' day off. Where are they losing in
- 16:59Speaker 2: terms of their preparation time?
- 17:00Speaker 4: Is it physical? Is it mental?
- 17:02Speaker 2: Where does it cause a problem for a team that
- 17:05Speaker 2: plays Monday and then Sunday?
- 17:07Speaker 8: It's a bit of both.
- 17:08Speaker 6: It also depends on how the game unfolded, injuries, those
- 17:14Speaker 6: types of things. And week one, A lot of injuries
- 17:16Speaker 6: have been happening around the NFL. I think for the Broncos,
- 17:21Speaker 6: they missed the review to see what they did wrong
- 17:24Speaker 6: in that game versus the Chiefs. That's usually Monday. That's
- 17:28Speaker 6: the review. You get the kinks out. You do a
- 17:30Speaker 6: little therapy, you know, some massage and try to regroup
- 17:34Speaker 6: and get your body together. Tuesday is totally a maintenance
- 17:37Speaker 6: day or either just whatever you want to do to
- 17:40Speaker 6: catch up with your personal stuff day. Wednesday, you get
- 17:43Speaker 6: back in. Typically on Wednesdays, you would do a big install.
- 17:47Speaker 6: And Thursday, you want to fine tune that. Friday, everything's quick.
- 17:50Speaker 6: Saturday's a walkthrough, a lot of visual mental stuff. But
- 17:54Speaker 6: in the short week, all of that has to get
- 17:56Speaker 6: moved the day ahead. And the coaches have to do
- 17:58Speaker 6: their best to try to modify that weekly routine so
- 18:04Speaker 6: it can fit.
- 18:05Speaker 8: But they lose some valuable time.
- 18:08Speaker 2: Last fall, when the Jags played out there, the running
- 18:10Speaker 2: game was nowhere to be found.
- 18:11Speaker 4: Just three yards per carry, Fred.
- 18:13Speaker 2: And when you take out Travis Achan's 24-yard run, just
- 18:19Speaker 2: 1.85 yards per carry. Now, my question for you is,
- 18:22Speaker 2: based on what you saw last week against the Browns,
- 18:24Speaker 2: can that 4.85 yards per carry, which is what we
- 18:27Speaker 2: got from the primary running backs, is that enough to
- 18:29Speaker 2: win in Denver against an excellent defense?
- 18:32Speaker 6: You know, they didn't really... Look, it's a new season.
- 18:37Speaker 6: You look at the Texans, you look at the Broncos.
- 18:41Speaker 6: A lot of these other teams that have these so-called
- 18:43Speaker 6: great defenses. Now, you don't want to look past them
- 18:46Speaker 6: because they do have potential. But this is a new season.
- 18:49Speaker 6: Everybody have to, you know, they have to be playing
- 18:51Speaker 6: their techniques. They have to be playing their discipline. You know,
- 18:54Speaker 6: they have to really play sound football, right? And, you know,
- 19:00Speaker 6: the way the Jags ran the ball a week ago
- 19:02Speaker 6: was excellent. I think they had 126 yards. We don't
- 19:05Speaker 6: know where the Browns are from a defensive standpoint. You
- 19:08Speaker 6: look at what Kansas City did. right, to the Broncos.
- 19:12Speaker 6: They had about 200, Kenneth Walker had 173 himself with
- 19:17Speaker 6: a 60-yard scamper down the left sideline on the fourth
- 19:19Speaker 6: and one bus by the Broncos. So I would say
- 19:22Speaker 6: the Jaguars have to be excited seeing this on film,
- 19:26Speaker 6: and I'm sure they're going to try and do some
- 19:28Speaker 6: of that. But as long as they can create the
- 19:30Speaker 6: balance that they had a week ago, if Trevor can
- 19:33Speaker 6: really Outside zone, a lot of outside.
- 19:36Speaker 8: Play action run.
- 19:37Speaker 6: A lot of Trevor big passes came off by way
- 19:41Speaker 6: of play action pass.
- 19:43Speaker 8: It wasn't just simple drop back.
- 19:44Speaker 6: It was a lot of play-action action along with those
- 19:47Speaker 6: nice passes, which typically, Brian, opens up the run game.
- 19:51Speaker 6: So if we can execute on those things, then the
- 19:54Speaker 6: run game should be able to go this week versus
- 19:56Speaker 6: the Broncos.
- 19:57Speaker 4: Brett, I can give you all the numbers, but you
- 19:59Speaker 4: know them. Trevor Lawrence is playing at an insane level
- 20:03Speaker 4: right now. How good is he?
- 20:05Speaker 2: Has he stepped up into the level of Josh Allen
- 20:08Speaker 2: and the elite quarterbacks in this league, or is he
- 20:10Speaker 2: still knocking at the door?
- 20:11Speaker 8: I think.
- 20:13Speaker 6: I would say he's still knocking at the door. This
- 20:16Speaker 6: is a very sample size. These guys have been doing
- 20:19Speaker 6: it year in, year out, very consistently. Trevor's getting there.
- 20:23Speaker 6: We saw 17 games last year where Trevor played outstanding.
- 20:28Speaker 6: This year is a continuation of last year. We're impressed
- 20:33Speaker 6: by the fast start, the pocket throws he was making,
- 20:36Speaker 6: the accuracy, the velocity, the control. This is what you
- 20:40Speaker 6: want to have out of your franchise quarterback, which is
- 20:42Speaker 6: what we see out of these other guys. I asked
- 20:46Speaker 6: Coach Cohen during our podcast on the pivot, when does
- 20:49Speaker 6: he give the keys to Trevor? When does it go
- 20:51Speaker 6: from Trevor running Coach Cohen, Liam Cohen's offense, to it
- 20:55Speaker 6: becoming Trevor Trevor Lawrence's offense. He's like, we're working towards that.
- 21:00Speaker 6: And I think last week showed another step closer in
- 21:03Speaker 6: that direction.
- 21:05Speaker 8: And Trevor, don't get me wrong, Brian, he's right there.
- 21:08Speaker 6: I mean, there are different tiers of quarterbacks in this league,
- 21:11Speaker 6: but he is right there. And again, the comparison is
- 21:13Speaker 6: to NFL MVP and Josh Allen. So if he can
- 21:18Speaker 6: make that step, we'll be talking MVP for Trevor Lawrence.
- 21:21Speaker 2: Well, I talked to Cohen last week, and the head
- 21:23Speaker 2: coach told me that the key, the next step for
- 21:25Speaker 2: him was consistency, doing it week in and week out.
- 21:28Speaker 4: And this would seem to be.
- 21:29Speaker 2: A great challenge today against that pass rush that the
- 21:32Speaker 2: Broncos bring. Last year, they fell just short of the
- 21:35Speaker 2: NFL record, if you can call 68 sacks coming up short.
- 21:40Speaker 6: Yeah, well, you know, this offensive line, the Jacksonville Five,
- 21:45Speaker 6: like I said, they like to shuffle the guys, right?
- 21:48Speaker 6: They did a great job last year. They did a
- 21:50Speaker 6: great job last week. Trevor barely had any pressure on him.
- 21:53Speaker 6: I think if they can continue with the offensive line,
- 21:57Speaker 6: as well as certain play schemes to minimize that pressure
- 22:02Speaker 6: from the Broncos front, same thing Kansas City did a
- 22:05Speaker 6: week ago. And two things you can do with that, Brian.
- 22:08Speaker 6: You can run the ball, wear them out. That pressure
- 22:10Speaker 6: will slow down. You can also get the ball out quick.
- 22:13Speaker 6: Trevor did that last week. That pressure will slow down. Oh,
- 22:17Speaker 6: it should be three things. You can also chip with
- 22:20Speaker 6: the running backs on their releases and that pressure will
- 22:22Speaker 6: slow down. So by way of coaching, you can do
- 22:25Speaker 6: some things to ensure that the sags are minimized.
- 22:29Speaker 2: By the way, our buddy Jeff Loggaman loved the Jacksonville Five.
- 22:33Speaker 2: He grabbed me on Monday when he was here and
- 22:35Speaker 2: was laughing, said you had the best line of the weekend.
- 22:37Speaker 8: So kudos.
- 22:38Speaker 6: Listen, they did so much shuffling. They do more shuffling
- 22:42Speaker 6: than the Jackson Five. So we might as well call
- 22:44Speaker 6: them the Jacksonville Five. I mean, you got to Guy
- 22:46Speaker 6: go from right tackle to left, left tackle to right.
- 22:50Speaker 8: The guards are moving. They're all over the place.
- 22:53Speaker 2: I sense a music video that maybe makes its way
- 22:56Speaker 2: onto the pivot for your Netflix debut. But let's talk
- 23:00Speaker 2: real quick about Sean Payton, one of the game's great
- 23:02Speaker 2: play callers. He's been calling plays. How do you think
- 23:05Speaker 2: that plays out? How do the Jaguars prepare for that
- 23:08Speaker 2: on Sunday?
- 23:09Speaker 6: Look, he's– so we tend to– We invest a lot
- 23:18Speaker 6: in having a conversation around who's calling the plays.
- 23:22Speaker 8: All of the coaches are on the same page.
- 23:24Speaker 6: The script, the game plan, all of that comes down
- 23:29Speaker 6: from the head man. He wants to not have as
- 23:33Speaker 6: much stress on the sideline throughout the game, but you
- 23:35Speaker 6: can better believe that he's totally involved in everything that's
- 23:40Speaker 6: coming out of that other earpiece or the headset going
- 23:43Speaker 6: into the quarterback's headset. He's going to either green light
- 23:46Speaker 6: and say, yeah, let's go with that one. Or he's
- 23:48Speaker 6: going to say, no, check it. Let's try this one.
- 23:51Speaker 6: Even though he's not calling the plays in the eyes
- 23:54Speaker 6: of everybody that's watching, he's calling the plays throughout the weekend.
- 23:58Speaker 6: He has a big influence on it. And Sean Payton,
- 24:01Speaker 6: why would he give up the keys? I mean, he's
- 24:03Speaker 6: a great one.
- 24:04Speaker 8: All right.
- 24:04Speaker 2: Who impressed you most last week against the Browns? Ventrell Miller,
- 24:08Speaker 2: who was nine tackles, a sack, a forced fumble, a
- 24:11Speaker 2: pass deflection, and was flying all over the field even
- 24:13Speaker 2: when he wasn't making tackles. Or Trayvon Walker, who had
- 24:16Speaker 2: six quarterback pressures, the sack.
- 24:19Speaker 4: I thought he was a game wrecker.
- 24:21Speaker 2: The defense has so many options to choose from, but
- 24:23Speaker 2: those two guys really stood above everyone else.
- 24:26Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, Brian, I think this sounds a bit
- 24:28Speaker 6: like a setup or maybe even a trick question. I mean,
- 24:31Speaker 6: because we got a bulldog and a gator. I love Trayvon.
- 24:36Speaker 6: I mean, he's an amazing kid, amazing person. Don't want
- 24:38Speaker 6: to call him a kid. Amazing player as well. But Ventrell,
- 24:42Speaker 6: I mean, he's a gator boy who's been waiting for
- 24:44Speaker 6: his opportunity.
- 24:46Speaker 8: I think he had more. He had a ton of expectations.
- 24:50Speaker 6: You know, I don't know how to weigh the expectations
- 24:52Speaker 6: with a former number one pick in Trayvon versus Ventrell.
- 24:56Speaker 6: I've been trail, a guy who's had some big shoes
- 24:58Speaker 6: to fill in the place of Devin Lloyd, but I
- 25:01Speaker 6: think he stepped up. I think he did everything. The
- 25:04Speaker 6: team asked them to do in a bit more, just
- 25:07Speaker 6: a hell of a performance. I will say hell on
- 25:10Speaker 6: the radio.
- 25:11Speaker 8: Who's listening.
- 25:12Speaker 6: I think they would agree with me in that sense,
- 25:18Speaker 6: but I'm gonna go with my Gator. You know, I
- 25:21Speaker 6: think he really influenced the start of the game. that
- 25:24Speaker 6: led to that big turnover there, which also led to
- 25:28Speaker 6: that fast start, and the Jaguars never looked back. So
- 25:31Speaker 6: I just hope that he can get out there and
- 25:33Speaker 6: double down again this week, along with Trayvon. We're going
- 25:36Speaker 6: to need a lot of pressure on Bo Nix, who's
- 25:39Speaker 6: still coming off that ankle surgery from a year ago.
- 25:42Speaker 6: He has some mobility, but I don't know if he
- 25:44Speaker 6: has as much as he showed last year. So we're
- 25:47Speaker 6: going to need pressure from everybody.
- 25:48Speaker 4: Brett, let me tell you, there's so many things I
- 25:50Speaker 4: love and admire about you.
- 25:51Speaker 2: Your loyalty to the Gators stands so strong. I just,
- 25:54Speaker 2: I smile every time you say it.
- 25:56Speaker 8: And this is the thing too.
- 25:58Speaker 6: We haven't had a ton of Gators success in draft
- 26:01Speaker 6: picks and players in Jacksonville. So anytime I get a
- 26:04Speaker 6: Gator that can have an opportunity to play well, we
- 26:08Speaker 6: got to talk about him.
- 26:09Speaker 8: I want to highlight him.
- 26:10Speaker 6: And Ventrell is just a great person as well. So yeah,
- 26:14Speaker 6: I'm going to show my Gators love all the time.
- 26:16Speaker 1: All right.
- 26:16Speaker 4: Let me get one last thought from you. Two years ago, right?
- 26:20Speaker 2: The last year before Liam Cohen became the head coach,
- 26:23Speaker 2: you had a team that lost games in the fourth
- 26:25Speaker 2: quarter regularly. Nine out of 10 games they had the
- 26:27Speaker 2: leader were tied in the fourth quarter and they came
- 26:30Speaker 2: away with L's. In one year's time span, in the
- 26:33Speaker 2: span of 18 regular season and one postseason games, Liam
- 26:36Speaker 2: Cohen has completely transformed this team into a bunch of
- 26:39Speaker 2: just stone cold killers, especially on the road. I mean,
- 26:43Speaker 2: They won their last four games on the road. They
- 26:45Speaker 2: won the West Coast on the road. This team is
- 26:48Speaker 2: completely transformed, not just physically by the style of play,
- 26:52Speaker 2: but mentally by the way they approach the game.
- 26:54Speaker 1: I just marvel at what the coach has done.
- 26:57Speaker 6: Yeah, he's done an amazing job, and I think it
- 27:00Speaker 6: starts with trust. You know, it starts with the approach,
- 27:05Speaker 6: the respect for the players, and that's reciprocated. It starts
- 27:10Speaker 6: with accountability. That's another piece of it. Those guys, he's
- 27:13Speaker 6: accountable to them. They're accountable to him. And I think
- 27:16Speaker 6: it's mutual right at the surface and underneath that. And
- 27:21Speaker 6: I believe the last piece of that, Brian, is that
- 27:29Speaker 6: these guys, they believe in each other. The locker room,
- 27:34Speaker 6: we're talking about a standard that they uphold. And that's
- 27:38Speaker 6: what Liam was preaching when he first arrived at Jacksonville.
- 27:41Speaker 8: It was a standard.
- 27:42Speaker 6: Because a lot of times things can get lost in
- 27:44Speaker 6: this whole, well, it's the culture, it's the Jaguars culture. No,
- 27:48Speaker 6: I prefer standard over culture because standard has no shortcuts. Culture,
- 27:55Speaker 6: there are so many variations of culture, right? So, but
- 27:58Speaker 6: a standard, you uphold one standard and that doesn't change
- 28:03Speaker 6: for anyone. And as long as the leadership in the
- 28:06Speaker 6: locker room can identify what that is and it trickles
- 28:09Speaker 6: down to everybody else, starting from the head coach down
- 28:12Speaker 6: to the players, I believe SAT is what they have.
- 28:16Speaker 6: A standard and accountability with each other and a trust
- 28:20Speaker 6: because of all of that.
- 28:22Speaker 1: SAT.
- 28:23Speaker 2: That sounds like something I need to find a way
- 28:24Speaker 2: to use. Great thoughts from one of the great Jaguars.
- 28:27Speaker 4: Fred, as always, we appreciate your insight. Hope you enjoy
- 28:30Speaker 4: the game. We'll catch up with you in the postgame.
- 28:32Speaker 8: I'm looking forward to it. Talk to you soon.
- 28:36Speaker 2: My favorite Fred Taylor moment against the Broncos came on
- 28:38Speaker 2: Monday Night Football late in the 1999 season when Broncos
- 28:42Speaker 2: quarterback Brian Greasy was giving the Jaguars fits. The game
- 28:46Speaker 2: was tied at 17 with 2 minutes and 35 seconds
- 28:49Speaker 2: to play. Now, Fred hadn't played much because he was
- 28:51Speaker 2: recovering from a hamstring injury, but he came off the
- 28:54Speaker 2: bench when the Jags needed him most and raced through
- 28:57Speaker 2: the Broncos defense for a 38-yard touchdown that sparked the Jags'
- 29:01Speaker 2: 10th consecutive win. Ironically, if the Jaguars win in Denver
- 29:06Speaker 2: on Sunday, it will be their 10th consecutive regular season victory.
- 29:12Speaker 2: One more conversation to share with you, and it's a
- 29:14Speaker 2: good one. Linebackers coach Tim Lubaku is already one of
- 29:17Speaker 2: my favorites. He's passionate, energetic, and as you're about to hear,
- 29:21Speaker 2: a natural leader. It's easy to see why the linebackers
- 29:25Speaker 2: love playing for him and why they played so well
- 29:27Speaker 2: last week. Foye Aluokun, Branson Combs and Ventrell Miller combined
- 29:32Speaker 2: for 17 tackles, two sacks, an interception, and a forced fumble.
- 29:36Speaker 2: Miller played especially well after winning the starting job for
- 29:39Speaker 2: the first time. time in his four-year career. So I
- 29:42Speaker 2: asked Lubaku if he saw that one coming.
- 29:48Speaker 1: I did because he's prepared.
- 29:51Speaker 9: You know, we try to make it very obvious to
- 29:54Speaker 9: the guys that it shouldn't be a surprise if you
- 29:57Speaker 9: put the work in what the results are. We're process-driven.
- 30:01Speaker 2: And the process worked well because you had interceptions and
- 30:04Speaker 2: fumble recoveries and sacks. The linebacker corps as a whole
- 30:07Speaker 2: had a heck of a game.
- 30:08Speaker 9: Yeah, we have a habitat. We have a culture in
- 30:13Speaker 9: that room. Preparation equals performance. And that's what the guys
- 30:17Speaker 9: did the whole summer and the week leading up to
- 30:20Speaker 9: this team.
- 30:20Speaker 2: Liam has talked about success being when the players take
- 30:23Speaker 2: over and hold the standard high. Has your room taken
- 30:25Speaker 2: over that culture, or are you still driving it? A
- 30:27Speaker 2: thousand percent the players. That's what it's always going to
- 30:30Speaker 2: be from now to the end of time. It's the way,
- 30:34Speaker 2: you know, the first time I got into the league,
- 30:37Speaker 2: that's what I realized. The good players, the guys that
- 30:40Speaker 2: are consistent, it comes from them, right? We give them direction.
- 30:43Speaker 2: We give them the data. We give them the information.
- 30:45Speaker 2: And then once they're on the grass, it's all them
- 30:47Speaker 2: taking over. I see that the linebackers are almost always
- 30:50Speaker 2: the last guys off the field, and your veteran guys
- 30:53Speaker 2: right here working with the younger guys. How much does
- 30:55Speaker 2: that help you?
- 30:57Speaker 9: It's everything because, you know, more is more.
- 31:01Speaker 8: More is more.
- 31:03Speaker 9: You can never work hard enough. We try to do
- 31:05Speaker 9: it within the bounds of what we're allowed to do,
- 31:07Speaker 9: but there's always something that we haven't seen yet or
- 31:11Speaker 9: something that we can always work on, and the guys
- 31:13Speaker 9: have embraced that, and it shows.
- 31:15Speaker 2: So this team last year had a good day running
- 31:17Speaker 2: the ball in Week 16, but Monday night they didn't
- 31:20Speaker 2: run the ball so well. How do you balance what
- 31:21Speaker 2: you've seen in two games, one on TV and one
- 31:23Speaker 2: in person?
- 31:24Speaker 9: It's the National Football League. If you don't bring your
- 31:27Speaker 9: A game, you're going to get taken advantage of, and
- 31:31Speaker 9: that's not what we do.
- 31:32Speaker 1: So you just assume you're going to get their very best.
- 31:34Speaker 8: Absolutely.
- 31:36Speaker 9: That's always the attitude that we have because they're highly paid, too.
- 31:40Speaker 2: Give me a sense of this quarterback. Bo Nix is
- 31:42Speaker 2: a guy who moves around a lot. He stresses the defense,
- 31:45Speaker 2: doesn't he? What's important for a defense to be aware
- 31:48Speaker 2: of with him?
- 31:49Speaker 9: Our eye control. They do a lot of eye candy
- 31:51Speaker 9: and things that mess with the linebackers. The guys take
- 31:54Speaker 9: pride in our room that we're the first level of
- 31:59Speaker 9: defense that every offense tries to take advantage of. And
- 32:03Speaker 9: when we're on our game, it looks really good.
- 32:06Speaker 2: Takeaways were a big part of last Sunday's win. They
- 32:08Speaker 2: were a big part of your win in Denver. It's
- 32:11Speaker 2: obviously something that people just assume. Well, you're not going
- 32:13Speaker 2: to get 31 again this year, but you're off to
- 32:15Speaker 2: a great start. What's the mindset of your football team?
- 32:17Speaker 9: The mindset is we never talk about we're going to
- 32:20Speaker 9: have 31 takeaways. The mindset is the process, and the
- 32:23Speaker 9: process is attack the ball. And you can attack the
- 32:27Speaker 9: ball if you're anticipating plays, by looking at formations, by
- 32:31Speaker 9: looking at tendencies. That's the things that allow us to
- 32:34Speaker 9: attack the ball.
- 32:34Speaker 2: Tim, is it difficult to get players to go from
- 32:36Speaker 2: being outcome-driven to process-driven? Or we've seen enough of it
- 32:40Speaker 2: in recent years that guys come into the league ready
- 32:42Speaker 2: to be process-driven.
- 32:44Speaker 9: It's 100% difficult. I'm a guy, I'm in my 40s,
- 32:47Speaker 9: and it's human nature. You always want the results now,
- 32:51Speaker 9: but results only come because of work.
- 32:54Speaker 2: Can you put into words, for everyone who's listening, what
- 32:57Speaker 2: Foye Aluokun means to this defense?
- 33:00Speaker 9: He is the glue guy. He's the energizer bunny. Oh,
- 33:05Speaker 9: by the way, on top of that, he's also making plays.
- 33:07Speaker 9: So who wouldn't want that on their team?
- 33:09Speaker 1: Doesn't surprise you at all that he has an interception
- 33:11Speaker 1: on the opening drive, does it? Not at all.
- 33:13Speaker 2: Not the way he prepares. Tell me about playing in Denver.
- 33:16Speaker 2: It's one of the great road atmospheres. You're heading into
- 33:19Speaker 2: a tough stretch of schedule against one of the best
- 33:21Speaker 2: teams in the league in one of the most difficult environments.
- 33:24Speaker 2: in pro football. How much does this team embrace the challenge?
- 33:28Speaker 2: How as coaches do you help them embrace the challenge?
- 33:31Speaker 9: We love it. We love it. It's part of the equation.
- 33:34Speaker 9: It's part of being great. If you want to be
- 33:37Speaker 9: great in this league, you got to go and perform
- 33:39Speaker 9: in those kind of environments.
- 33:40Speaker 1: It all comes with it.
- 33:42Speaker 9: It's not that we're going to behave any differently because
- 33:46Speaker 9: of where it is and who it is, but it's
- 33:48Speaker 9: a part of the blessing that we have to be
- 33:51Speaker 9: a part of this league and compete versus a team
- 33:55Speaker 9: that has a great atmosphere and a lot of good players.
- 33:57Speaker 2: And let's end on this. We've heard about AAA. Anyone, anytime, anywhere.
- 34:01Speaker 2: How have your guys embraced that?
- 34:04Speaker 9: It's what makes it even more fun for us because,
- 34:07Speaker 9: you know, as a competitor, you don't want to ever
- 34:10Speaker 9: make excuses for why you don't perform or compete at
- 34:13Speaker 9: a high level, and we never will. So that's why,
- 34:17Speaker 9: you know, we always strive to be better than we
- 34:19Speaker 9: were the day before.
- 34:20Speaker 1: Tim Novakou, go get him today.
- 34:22Speaker 9: I appreciate you.
- 34:26Speaker 1: So there you have it.
- 34:27Speaker 2: A few good minutes with a few good people to
- 34:29Speaker 2: help get you ready for the Jaguars Week 2 showdown
- 34:31Speaker 2: in Denver. Kickoff comes at you at 4.05 Eastern Time,
- 34:35Speaker 2: and if you're so inclined, and would like to hear more,
- 34:37Speaker 2: dial us up.
- 34:38Speaker 1: We're on 1010XL in.
- 34:39Speaker 2: Jacksonville or the Jaguars YouTube channel with the Publix pregame
- 34:43Speaker 2: show starting at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. And I'd
- 34:46Speaker 2: love to hear your Jaguars Broncos memories. You're more than
- 34:49Speaker 2: welcome to share them with me on X. You'll find
- 34:51Speaker 2: me at Brian Big Mouth. Yeah, I know the shoe fits.
- 34:54Speaker 2: Thanks for spending some time with us. We'll be back
- 34:56Speaker 2: next week with another edition of A Few Good Minutes.