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- 0:00Speaker 1: Jaguars. Did you don't Jack Jack Warris Digital Jaguars Drive Time,
- 0:08Speaker 1: Ryan Sex steps that, John Oss Ashley Jaguars Drive Time
- 0:14Speaker 1: starts right now. Ball came out, The balls came out.
- 0:28Speaker 1: Let's go. Let go that Jaguars middle linebacker Miles Jack. Obviously,
- 0:33Speaker 1: I love his energy and enthusiasm. That was a key
- 0:35Speaker 1: moment in the game where it felt like here come
- 0:37Speaker 1: the Jaguars. You can see that and more in this
- 0:40Speaker 1: week's Mike Up, presented by Duncan Donuts. It's on the website.
- 0:45Speaker 1: It was in All Access last night. UM. Really worth
- 0:48Speaker 1: listening to to understand just what a talented and intelligent
- 0:52Speaker 1: young man this is as he grows into the role
- 0:54Speaker 1: of filling the shoes of Paul push Lesnie. Good morning,
- 0:57Speaker 1: Welcome to Jack's Drive Time. Brian Sexton a long with
- 1:00Speaker 1: Ashlyn Sullivan. If you if you watched All Access last night,
- 1:03Speaker 1: you probably heard Brent Martine who sounded something like this
- 1:06Speaker 1: this morning, Um, and and you kind of sound a
- 1:08Speaker 1: little bit. I think the plane that we came back
- 1:10Speaker 1: on had a little something in the air, and so
- 1:12Speaker 1: all of us have a little bit of a cold,
- 1:13Speaker 1: so we'll just bear with us. Yeah, apologize for that
- 1:16Speaker 1: in the beginning, and we'll power through a show this morning.
- 1:19Speaker 1: Jeff Lagerman will join us in the second half hour
- 1:22Speaker 1: and to talk a little film and preview his film
- 1:26Speaker 1: Room Friday, which is coming up. Um well, I want
- 1:30Speaker 1: to start with something it's not on the script for it. So,
- 1:33Speaker 1: like a lot of folks, I saw the headline on
- 1:36Speaker 1: social media about the Friday incident in London, and the
- 1:41Speaker 1: first reaction is, oh, you know, just what a team
- 1:44Speaker 1: that had lost three in a row needs? What are
- 1:46Speaker 1: they doing? Um? And like a lot of you, the
- 1:50Speaker 1: first thing that you do is you start pointing the
- 1:53Speaker 1: finger at those guys and how crazy it looked. Um,
- 1:57Speaker 1: you know the Eagles were out too on Friday night,
- 2:00Speaker 1: and the Chargers the week before, and the Titans and
- 2:02Speaker 1: the Raiders and every team that was over there. Um.
- 2:05Speaker 1: The unfortunate part of this isn't that the players were out,
- 2:08Speaker 1: although I think everyone is probably gonna I wouldn't be out,
- 2:11Speaker 1: and I wouldn't be at two o'clock in the morning,
- 2:13Speaker 1: not when there's a game on Sunday. I wouldn't do that.
- 2:16Speaker 1: Everybody thinks that way at first, but if you're twenty
- 2:19Speaker 1: three or twenty four and you're in London, right, did
- 2:22Speaker 1: you go out? You're kind of in that age group.
- 2:24Speaker 1: Yeah in the morning. Well I might have been, and
- 2:28Speaker 1: I'm way past your age group. But the reality of
- 2:29Speaker 1: it is is that it was a really bad look,
- 2:32Speaker 1: really bad look for the right. It was not a
- 2:35Speaker 1: good look for the team. And the problem is not
- 2:36Speaker 1: a lot of people went deeper than the headlines. They
- 2:38Speaker 1: just saw it and they instantly reacted. There were more
- 2:41Speaker 1: than four guys on that bar tab at the end
- 2:43Speaker 1: of the night. There's a huge tab. They didn't handle
- 2:45Speaker 1: it very well. Um. And I'm not trying to make
- 2:48Speaker 1: excuses for it, to explain it because by now I
- 2:50Speaker 1: guess what I would urge you to do is to
- 2:52Speaker 1: take a deeper look at it if you're still chewing
- 2:54Speaker 1: on it, um. But the reality of it is is
- 2:57Speaker 1: I hope that the players use this opportunity to discuss professionalism,
- 3:02Speaker 1: because while it's easy to say, well, I wouldn't be out,
- 3:05Speaker 1: you know if I was one of those guys until
- 3:08Speaker 1: you're there, right, or to say well they're young men,
- 3:11Speaker 1: of course they're going to go out. And the other
- 3:12Speaker 1: teams were out too. If they're going to get this
- 3:14Speaker 1: thing turned around in the second half, and we'll talk
- 3:16Speaker 1: about how they do it. From a football perspective, there
- 3:18Speaker 1: has to be a hyper sense of focus on doing
- 3:23Speaker 1: the little things, and the little things say go home
- 3:26Speaker 1: at midnight. Right, the little things say, right, you've got
- 3:29Speaker 1: eight more weeks of football and if you want to
- 3:31Speaker 1: make it nine, ten, eleven, twelve, Right, the opportunities there,
- 3:35Speaker 1: but now the margin for error, the opportunity to go
- 3:38Speaker 1: and do some of those things, to go be twenty
- 3:40Speaker 1: four years old, has to wait till after the season. Right,
- 3:43Speaker 1: this is your job. It's easy for me now fifty
- 3:45Speaker 1: to be able to look back and go, hey, I
- 3:47Speaker 1: would have done it differently. So what I'm saying to
- 3:49Speaker 1: these young men is now's the time to do it differently.
- 3:52Speaker 1: Eight games remain. You can't do anything about being three
- 3:55Speaker 1: and five. I don't think that being three and five
- 3:58Speaker 1: instead of four and four. He's dependent on that Friday
- 4:01Speaker 1: night and I didn't sense that at all. However, now
- 4:05Speaker 1: professionalism comes into play, and so the task at hand
- 4:08Speaker 1: is is to become more professional over these final eight games. Yeah.
- 4:12Speaker 1: I liked what Doug Morone said after the loss of
- 4:14Speaker 1: the Eagles. He didn't really address much of the incident,
- 4:16Speaker 1: but he did say I have to do a better
- 4:17Speaker 1: job of communicating what we're expected in the building and
- 4:21Speaker 1: out of the building. The most communication there of what
- 4:24Speaker 1: is expected you outside the building obviously got out of hand.
- 4:26Speaker 1: Right now, I don't know whether this has been clarified.
- 4:28Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of people in the media who
- 4:29Speaker 1: know Barry Church. When I saw Barry was involved in that,
- 4:31Speaker 1: I went immediately, there's more to this story. And then
- 4:35Speaker 1: as you talk to players and figure things out, there
- 4:37Speaker 1: were a lot more people involved, and Barry was the
- 4:39Speaker 1: face of reason. They called Grandpa in the room. He's
- 4:41Speaker 1: the he's the sage veteran when you saw something not
- 4:45Speaker 1: out with his hair on fire in the middle of
- 4:46Speaker 1: the night. He was one of four guys who were left.
- 4:49Speaker 1: Is other guys rolling hit the tab right, He's putting
- 4:52Speaker 1: his credit card down to try to help cover some
- 4:54Speaker 1: of this expense, and it blew up and it was
- 4:57Speaker 1: a really, really, really bad look and really burying. Some
- 5:00Speaker 1: of the other guys now can take the embarrassment of
- 5:04Speaker 1: that and use it as an example of professionalism. And
- 5:07Speaker 1: all of those guys and who came through everyone in
- 5:09Speaker 1: the locker room could be more professional, all of them,
- 5:12Speaker 1: even guys like Calais. There's room for them to be better. Ah,
- 5:17Speaker 1: that is a word that I don't know will be
- 5:19Speaker 1: used all that often. They'll be, you know, talking about physical,
- 5:23Speaker 1: running game, all that kind of stuff focused all that, um,
- 5:26Speaker 1: but professionalism is something that could be greater in that
- 5:29Speaker 1: locker room. And if they let this incident go by
- 5:33Speaker 1: without saying, hey, you gotta be a better pro, right,
- 5:36Speaker 1: I gotta be a better pro than they're missing the boat.
- 5:38Speaker 1: You're paid to be a pro. That's what your job is. Absolutely,
- 5:41Speaker 1: so professionalism is is something we hope to see based
- 5:45Speaker 1: on that. Okay, um, we're a couple of days past,
- 5:48Speaker 1: but let's go ahead and hit the Jags drive time
- 5:51Speaker 1: poll on Twitter and we're asking you who the player
- 5:54Speaker 1: of the game was. You can see a lot of
- 5:55Speaker 1: great opportunity options there. Uh, the Boordles played a whale
- 5:59Speaker 1: of a ball game, right, Um, I don't know that
- 6:01Speaker 1: everybody can go back and say that and they see
- 6:04Speaker 1: what he did. But when you're throwing to David Grinage,
- 6:08Speaker 1: when you are looking for uh, Carlos Hyde who just
- 6:11Speaker 1: got here? When Josh Walker, a backup guard is playing
- 6:15Speaker 1: left tackle and d J. Chark is a key member
- 6:19Speaker 1: of the offense. You're realizing this guy who was your
- 6:23Speaker 1: leading passer and you're leading rusher. Yeah, he's doing a lot.
- 6:27Speaker 1: He played well enough for this team to win. We
- 6:28Speaker 1: know Josh Lambo now has the club record for most
- 6:30Speaker 1: consecutive field goals. He hit a personal best fifty seven
- 6:33Speaker 1: yard or we'll ask Jeff Loghaman about Marcel Darius and
- 6:36Speaker 1: just how well he's playing, folks. He is playing at
- 6:38Speaker 1: an exceptionally high level. He plays a position. You might
- 6:41Speaker 1: not recognize it every play because you're not focused on
- 6:45Speaker 1: what number is doing. Jeff will explain that a bit
- 6:48Speaker 1: when we get into his segment about half an hour
- 6:51Speaker 1: from now. Obviously, you have the option to add someone
- 6:54Speaker 1: else's name who is the Exfinity player of the game,
- 6:57Speaker 1: and the poll will be available all day through happy
- 6:59Speaker 1: hour this afternoon. So let's some let's jump into it.
- 7:02Speaker 1: Let's get a big thing, all right, big things three
- 7:04Speaker 1: and five? How did you get here? So we were
- 7:07Speaker 1: in the locker room yesterday we asked a bunch of guys.
- 7:09Speaker 1: You know, if you had to recap the first half
- 7:11Speaker 1: of the season, what would you say and When we
- 7:12Speaker 1: asked Lee Jackson, he wasn't making excuses, but he said
- 7:16Speaker 1: the obvious that injuries have been an opponent of why
- 7:18Speaker 1: we're here. I mean, it's just reality. I think injuries
- 7:21Speaker 1: have uh you know, heard us a lot. I mean
- 7:23Speaker 1: down to third, fourth tackle, you know whatever. Our cornerbacks
- 7:27Speaker 1: are a little hurt. But it's next man up, you know.
- 7:29Speaker 1: I think I think it's football. You know, playing football
- 7:31Speaker 1: is easy to staying healthy as a hard park. And
- 7:33Speaker 1: that's why we have guys behind them. Just have to
- 7:35Speaker 1: make sure we get everybody up to speed and uh,
- 7:38Speaker 1: and everybody when your opportunity comes to take you by
- 7:39Speaker 1: the horns and you and you go with it. So
- 7:42Speaker 1: hell it is what it is. Yeah. And and by
- 7:46Speaker 1: the way, that's one of the great pros in that
- 7:48Speaker 1: locker room. In so many ways, Mollie Jackson is a
- 7:50Speaker 1: guy that this team can absolutely lean on on the
- 7:53Speaker 1: field and off and I expect to hear a whole
- 7:55Speaker 1: lot more from him as we go through the second
- 7:57Speaker 1: half of the season. Um. He was obviously to talking
- 8:00Speaker 1: about the offense there, right, and the offense and the defense,
- 8:03Speaker 1: the way that this team has built played together. They
- 8:06Speaker 1: play hand in hand complimentary full Um, and I just
- 8:11Speaker 1: went through the list of guys that were, you know,
- 8:13Speaker 1: playing there. But I want to go back to the preseason,
- 8:15Speaker 1: and we talked ad nausea late July and August about
- 8:19Speaker 1: this being a super Bowl team. And obviously midway through
- 8:22Speaker 1: the season they look anything but a super Bowl team.
- 8:24Speaker 1: They look like a team on the verge of missing
- 8:26Speaker 1: the playoffs. Right, So how did we get here? Well,
- 8:31Speaker 1: if you remember that Atlanta game, which was the last
- 8:33Speaker 1: game that the starters played, talk we do. But for
- 8:36Speaker 1: those who might not join us every week. We didn't
- 8:39Speaker 1: see a whole lot of the defense in the preseason.
- 8:41Speaker 1: We didn't have to. We knew what they were and
- 8:43Speaker 1: so we put them off to the side. But the
- 8:45Speaker 1: offense that night, you and we hadn't seen the line
- 8:48Speaker 1: a whole lot. But that night the Jaguars ran the
- 8:50Speaker 1: ball against a good Falcons defense. Um. They had the
- 8:54Speaker 1: three running backs, which really were the crux of why
- 8:57Speaker 1: the optimism was there, because in tooth was an eighteen,
- 9:00Speaker 1: unlike in two thousand seventeen, the Jaguars were going to
- 9:03Speaker 1: score points. They were going to be able to control
- 9:06Speaker 1: the tempo of the ballgame, keep the defense on the sideline,
- 9:09Speaker 1: play with the lead, all the things that that defense
- 9:12Speaker 1: really needs to be at its very best. Any defense
- 9:14Speaker 1: does um but to see the sacks, takeaways, touchdowns, all
- 9:20Speaker 1: of that stuff, they needed to be on the sideline
- 9:21Speaker 1: playing with the lead. UM. That night we saw the
- 9:25Speaker 1: first real dose of the two back set. Leonard Frenette,
- 9:28Speaker 1: Corey Grant, Leonard Fornett, t J. Yeld and t J Yeldon,
- 9:31Speaker 1: Corey Grant, all of the handoffs, fake screens, tosses, possibilities
- 9:36Speaker 1: with the tight end Austin Severian Jenkins, and we came
- 9:38Speaker 1: out of that game thinking, don't play anybody in Tampa.
- 9:42Speaker 1: Rest everyone. Here we go. This team is in a
- 9:45Speaker 1: really good spot. If you remember, Leonard looked sensational during
- 9:50Speaker 1: training camp. We hardly saw him in the preseason. You
- 9:52Speaker 1: didn't need to. He was in fantastic shape. He was
- 9:54Speaker 1: ten pounds slider um. The optimism was there. Corey Grant,
- 9:59Speaker 1: who was now obviously on in JUW reserve, look terrific. Uh.
- 10:03Speaker 1: And we thought t J would be able to play
- 10:04Speaker 1: a complementary style, which is really his thing. He's not
- 10:06Speaker 1: a pounder. And now we know we haven't seen for
- 10:10Speaker 1: net but for twenty carries um, not even a full
- 10:13Speaker 1: game of football, probably not even a full half, to
- 10:15Speaker 1: be honest with you. Austin s. Ferry Jenkins has been
- 10:17Speaker 1: gone for a couple of weeks and the running game
- 10:18Speaker 1: has been off kilter um the last couple of weeks.
- 10:22Speaker 1: We have watched as the Jaguars have average forty three
- 10:26Speaker 1: passes a game, forty three, and we said the optimal
- 10:29Speaker 1: number was somewhere between twenty seven and thirty three, and
- 10:31Speaker 1: they're at forty three and they're only running the ball
- 10:34Speaker 1: at seventy six point five yards per game. So because
- 10:37Speaker 1: they can't run, they have to throw. And we know
- 10:41Speaker 1: that is just not the way that this team was built.
- 10:43Speaker 1: It was never nobody said just because we're paying Blake Boardles,
- 10:46Speaker 1: all of a sudden, we're gonna ask him to be
- 10:47Speaker 1: Drew Brees and throw the ball all over the field.
- 10:50Speaker 1: Not his game. He's a complimentary player. He doesn't lift.
- 10:53Speaker 1: The running game lifts, and that allows him to use
- 10:56Speaker 1: play action. And we saw last year, especially in the playoffs,
- 10:59Speaker 1: how he would is able to use both his legs
- 11:01Speaker 1: and play action to keep a defense off balance. It
- 11:05Speaker 1: all fit together well. Obviously that has not been the
- 11:08Speaker 1: case now, no, it does. It's do not fit together
- 11:10Speaker 1: as a whole. But I liked when we addressed, you know,
- 11:12Speaker 1: the first half of the season, and it wasn't making
- 11:14Speaker 1: excuse because done we're on very rarely talks about the
- 11:16Speaker 1: injuries because he feels like it is an excuse. But
- 11:18Speaker 1: Malik was honest with us and said, yeah, it's a
- 11:20Speaker 1: huge part of why this first half hasn't gone well,
- 11:22Speaker 1: and we know that's the reason well. And so on defense.
- 11:25Speaker 1: Now you have one key injury that you've got to
- 11:27Speaker 1: get back, and they hope that a J. Boyer can
- 11:31Speaker 1: step back out onto the field when they play the Colts.
- 11:32Speaker 1: It's calf injury. Uh, they haven't given us much on it,
- 11:36Speaker 1: and they won't have to until next week. Calf injuries,
- 11:39Speaker 1: if you treat him right, could be something you're back
- 11:40Speaker 1: from in three weeks, which should you know, hopefully be
- 11:43Speaker 1: the case with him, but they can linger if not,
- 11:45Speaker 1: um so hopefully you've got him back. Hopefully you get
- 11:48Speaker 1: for net bad and the reason for optimism is that
- 11:53Speaker 1: you could hopefully start that running game up. But there
- 11:55Speaker 1: are three and five for two major reasons they haven't
- 11:58Speaker 1: been able to run the ball, and the defense has
- 12:01Speaker 1: not played to the standard and that seems like such
- 12:04Speaker 1: a cliche thing to say the standard that, but it's
- 12:07Speaker 1: true because they've said it so high at the beginning
- 12:09Speaker 1: of the season, and Cala has said yesterday, we've given
- 12:11Speaker 1: up way too many big game changing plays. You look
- 12:14Speaker 1: at especially against the Cowboys, those huge plays that they
- 12:17Speaker 1: gave up the completely altered the end result of the game. Well,
- 12:20Speaker 1: and they haven't been very good against the run, which
- 12:22Speaker 1: they were not early last year and they got a
- 12:25Speaker 1: whole lot better. Uh, they got pushed into the end
- 12:27Speaker 1: zone in against the Texans here and I remember everybody
- 12:31Speaker 1: got side like whoa, you know what was that? So
- 12:34Speaker 1: the bye week is an opportunity for everybody to take
- 12:36Speaker 1: a deep breath and to refocus on doing their job,
- 12:40Speaker 1: which truthfully, they have not done very well. On the
- 12:42Speaker 1: defensive side. There's been way too much freelancing. Um. So
- 12:47Speaker 1: that's where we are three and five, eight games left
- 12:51Speaker 1: to play. It leads us to big thing number two.
- 12:53Speaker 1: Big thing number two is where are they going? Realistically,
- 12:56Speaker 1: have very little room for air of the second half
- 12:59Speaker 1: of the season. Dug Morown spoke to us yesterday and
- 13:01Speaker 1: told us and gave us some inside of what he
- 13:03Speaker 1: shared with his locker room yesterday. Tell you what I
- 13:05Speaker 1: told the players today. You know, there's a story out
- 13:09Speaker 1: there right now about this team. It's an ugly story. Okay,
- 13:13Speaker 1: it's a it's but the story hasn't ended. You know,
- 13:17Speaker 1: we can still control, you know, how the story reads.
- 13:20Speaker 1: And we get away, We've got to think long and
- 13:22Speaker 1: hard about it. We've got to come back and we've
- 13:25Speaker 1: got to figure out, you know, what the story is
- 13:27Speaker 1: gonna be, you know, on A two. So here's where
- 13:31Speaker 1: they're at. There are two games behind the Texans, and
- 13:34Speaker 1: the Texans are playing very well. Um, can the Jaguars
- 13:38Speaker 1: catch them? Yeah, but you're probably gonna have to go
- 13:40Speaker 1: eight now, and that's now you have head to head
- 13:42Speaker 1: with them. Injuries can hit them, Um, lots of things
- 13:46Speaker 1: can happen. But you're looking realistically having to go seven
- 13:51Speaker 1: and one. Maybe you have to go ten at six
- 13:55Speaker 1: to have a chance to win the division. Right, So
- 13:57Speaker 1: let's throw that out and and say that what they're
- 13:59Speaker 1: really chasing is the wild card spot. Okay. Um, if
- 14:03Speaker 1: that's the case, now you expect the two wild card spots.
- 14:06Speaker 1: One of them is going to be the Los Angeles Chargers.
- 14:08Speaker 1: They look like this is the year they're finally going
- 14:10Speaker 1: to get together. They're gonna get Joey Bosa back at
- 14:12Speaker 1: some point. They're already five and two. Um, the schedule
- 14:16Speaker 1: is favorable for them, I say them, because Kansas City
- 14:18Speaker 1: is gonna win the a f C West, So the Chargers,
- 14:22Speaker 1: I say, have got one. So you are now competing
- 14:25Speaker 1: with Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati realistically for the sixth wild
- 14:31Speaker 1: card spot. That is that should be the goal. Who
- 14:33Speaker 1: all now look more, much more promising than you are
- 14:35Speaker 1: at this moment, Well, without a doubt they do. They
- 14:38Speaker 1: all look like teams that you're gonna struggle to beat.
- 14:42Speaker 1: Now you're gonna get a shot at the Steelers coming
- 14:45Speaker 1: up in a couple of weeks, so you can do
- 14:47Speaker 1: something about that, and you can't focus on anything more.
- 14:49Speaker 1: You can't focus on them and their schedule and their
- 14:51Speaker 1: quarterback or any of that stuff. This team has to
- 14:54Speaker 1: focus one week at a time. But the focus has
- 14:58Speaker 1: to be on getting to nine and seven or ten
- 15:00Speaker 1: and six so that they can have a wild card
- 15:02Speaker 1: spot that they are up against it. By the way, UM,
- 15:06Speaker 1: besides the fact that your two games behind the Houston Texans.
- 15:10Speaker 1: You have to division losses in both of them are
- 15:12Speaker 1: at home, right, you can't afford anymore. No, no, you can't.
- 15:16Speaker 1: And Calais said, yesday, you cannot give up another division game.
- 15:21Speaker 1: You can't, which means you really have to overachieve. And
- 15:24Speaker 1: and Calais said yesterday they're underachievers at this point. But
- 15:27Speaker 1: where they're going, Okay, if you can get Leonard for
- 15:31Speaker 1: net back, and I don't think anybody is foolish enough
- 15:33Speaker 1: to go, hey, it's all fixed Leonards back. But if
- 15:37Speaker 1: you can get Leonard back, and now he and Carlos
- 15:39Speaker 1: Hide can split reps which will allow t. J. Yelden
- 15:44Speaker 1: right to play the way he plays. And I've got
- 15:45Speaker 1: some numbers coming up in our final big thing to
- 15:47Speaker 1: share with you. Um, then you can all of a
- 15:49Speaker 1: sudden at least back a defense off a little bit right,
- 15:54Speaker 1: just a little bit, or bring him forward and be
- 15:57Speaker 1: able to throw and have some room however you want
- 15:59Speaker 1: to play it. Play action comes back into port, succeed
- 16:03Speaker 1: you can you can do that. You can play better
- 16:06Speaker 1: on defense. You can mount a an opportunity. I mean,
- 16:10Speaker 1: you get the Colts, the Steelers, the Bills, right, these
- 16:14Speaker 1: are tough games, especially when the Colts are playing right now,
- 16:18Speaker 1: the Colts, the Steelers, and the Bills. But they're winnable
- 16:20Speaker 1: games for you if you can go out and run
- 16:21Speaker 1: the ball and play play action, playing simple. But you're
- 16:24Speaker 1: chasing the final wild card spot at the midpoint of
- 16:27Speaker 1: the season, which is not where we expected this team
- 16:30Speaker 1: to be. I thought after beating I still thought after
- 16:33Speaker 1: beating after the Patriots, for sure, but after the Jets,
- 16:36Speaker 1: I thought we'd be talking about home field advantage. That's
- 16:39Speaker 1: off the table, that's Kansas City's. If it's not Kansas
- 16:41Speaker 1: City is probably New England. The way that they're playing
- 16:43Speaker 1: right now, you're going forward the sixth wild card spot,
- 16:46Speaker 1: that should be the focus. If you look at the
- 16:48Speaker 1: way Kansas City, New England are playing, they're playing so
- 16:51Speaker 1: far above where the Jaguars team is right now that
- 16:53Speaker 1: that's not even in the realm of conversation. But we
- 16:55Speaker 1: did think a few weeks ago, we did think that
- 16:57Speaker 1: would be our topic of conversation. We would have a
- 16:59Speaker 1: lot of things to talk about. You have eight games
- 17:01Speaker 1: to try to earn the ability to get into that
- 17:04Speaker 1: into the tournament, eight games to get into that conversation.
- 17:06Speaker 1: The talent is there on the defensive side. We we
- 17:08Speaker 1: know it is still there. You saw the explosive nous.
- 17:11Speaker 1: I think the good thing coming out of London was
- 17:13Speaker 1: you saw a competitive game which we hadn't seen for
- 17:15Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. You're wondering, and absolutely you saw
- 17:18Speaker 1: the defense make plays and get turnovers. If the offense, honestly,
- 17:22Speaker 1: if the offense in in the two red zone drives
- 17:26Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter could get touchdowns, you win the
- 17:28Speaker 1: ball game. And you couldn't because you're throwing at David Greenage. No,
- 17:31Speaker 1: no offense to him, but he was on the practice squad.
- 17:33Speaker 1: He was not part of the conversation. He's not Austin
- 17:35Speaker 1: Seferian Jenkins right undrafted rookie free agent Carlos hid who
- 17:39Speaker 1: you traded for, who they still expect big things. Dougs
- 17:41Speaker 1: said that he expects the second half to see some
- 17:43Speaker 1: stuff from him d J h R, who again has
- 17:46Speaker 1: not been a huge part of the offense, but maybe
- 17:47Speaker 1: should if it's me. He gets Kealing Cole spot because
- 17:50Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks Cole has dropped third down
- 17:54Speaker 1: completely inexcusable play in London. I think he cost them
- 17:58Speaker 1: as much as anyone the game on Sunday. He didn't
- 18:01Speaker 1: need to drop the ball. If he gets the ball,
- 18:02Speaker 1: they have a chance to go in and maybe get
- 18:04Speaker 1: a touchdown going into the half and and have a
- 18:06Speaker 1: ten point lead. And he completely drops the ball. I
- 18:09Speaker 1: take him out and put Jark in. But at this point,
- 18:11Speaker 1: still Chark he should have caught it. But he's also
- 18:14Speaker 1: a rookie, so you have to, Yeah, you have to
- 18:16Speaker 1: the point of the matter is is that week by
- 18:18Speaker 1: week they can try to get something done here. They
- 18:20Speaker 1: got to be professional. That's the key right off the gate.
- 18:23Speaker 1: They got to be focused on that final wild card
- 18:25Speaker 1: spot and week to week find a way to get there.
- 18:28Speaker 1: That's where they're going realistically. That's the second half of
- 18:30Speaker 1: the season now, a long way from the first half.
- 18:32Speaker 1: We say week to week. We said that all season long,
- 18:35Speaker 1: but now it's even more so. We heard Malik said yesterday,
- 18:38Speaker 1: but they cannot focus anything longer than the opponent they
- 18:41Speaker 1: have on Sunday. I just just to put it in
- 18:43Speaker 1: perspective one more time before we move on to the
- 18:44Speaker 1: final big thing. We were talking the week of the
- 18:47Speaker 1: Titans game that if they could beat the Titans, they
- 18:50Speaker 1: had to have a two game lead and a chance
- 18:52Speaker 1: to really start racing there. And here they are at
- 18:55Speaker 1: three and five, which is a great reminder not to
- 18:57Speaker 1: count your chickens before they act. Okay, good saying, you know,
- 19:01Speaker 1: trying to have that's what you do when you're the
- 19:03Speaker 1: old guy in the room. All right, I'm not the
- 19:05Speaker 1: old guy in the room, Jones, Joe would say, just
- 19:07Speaker 1: quickly reminded us of that. Alright, big thing three, it's
- 19:11Speaker 1: on me. So I don't know if you heard our
- 19:13Speaker 1: imperson nations a few weeks ago. We talked about Sun
- 19:17Speaker 1: Room and Nate Hacket and Todd wash in the week
- 19:19Speaker 1: they had. So we're looking it back at the first
- 19:22Speaker 1: half of the season, and it's on me and each
- 19:24Speaker 1: picked a unit, right because the coach can stand there
- 19:28Speaker 1: and admirably so say it's on me. And let's be
- 19:32Speaker 1: clear about this. He's not just saying it's on me.
- 19:35Speaker 1: He's telling his team it's on you too. He's setting
- 19:38Speaker 1: the examples being a leader. Everyone in the locker room
- 19:40Speaker 1: should stand up in front of the media, even guys
- 19:42Speaker 1: who walked away. There were some guys who wouldn't stand
- 19:46Speaker 1: and talk after the game or even yesterday, they walked
- 19:50Speaker 1: away you're professional. Stand and talk. Okay, standing talk, be
- 19:56Speaker 1: a pro um, but be there and say it's on me.
- 20:00Speaker 1: I dropped the ball. Catling Cole should have said that
- 20:02Speaker 1: I dropped the ball, I cost my team. It's on me. Right,
- 20:06Speaker 1: there's a lot of players who could say it's on me, tackles,
- 20:10Speaker 1: I missed the block, whatever, but stand there and say it.
- 20:13Speaker 1: But what we're gonna do right now is talking about
- 20:15Speaker 1: units that can't. So I'm taking the running game, the
- 20:18Speaker 1: power running game. It's on me the running games. These numbers, right,
- 20:22Speaker 1: just the last three weeks, here are the numbers. Seventeen
- 20:26Speaker 1: rushing attempts, really only nine because Blake Portals ran eight
- 20:30Speaker 1: of those for seventy yards. Okay, you're leading rusher Blake
- 20:34Speaker 1: Portals um against the Texans twenty two rushing attempts for
- 20:37Speaker 1: seventy yards three seventy yards. The last two weeks. They've
- 20:41Speaker 1: averaged seventy yards, half of what they did a year ago.
- 20:44Speaker 1: You're leading rusher Blake Portals the last two weeks, right
- 20:48Speaker 1: before that against Dallas eight team for sixty five three
- 20:52Speaker 1: point six. Right, you get the point. The Jaguars are
- 20:57Speaker 1: not running the ball. The absence of Leonard for Net
- 21:00Speaker 1: is clearly a big part of that. But upfront, Doug
- 21:04Speaker 1: Morone lamented the fact that his defensive line wasn't I'm sorry,
- 21:08Speaker 1: his offensive line was not playing physical yesterday. The only
- 21:12Speaker 1: one that would talk was a j Can and he said,
- 21:15Speaker 1: if the coach says it, he sees it, we have
- 21:18Speaker 1: to see it as well. The Jaguars only hope, only
- 21:23Speaker 1: hope of getting the second half of the season started
- 21:26Speaker 1: is if they run with power. When you run with power,
- 21:29Speaker 1: you bring the linebackers into the gaps. You take the
- 21:31Speaker 1: safety is awareness and you pull them up and you
- 21:33Speaker 1: open up the passing game. Now you'd like to have
- 21:35Speaker 1: your tight end Austin Seferian Jenkins, You don't so, d D. Westbrook.
- 21:39Speaker 1: I want to see more DJ Chark. If I didn't
- 21:41Speaker 1: make that one clear, Dante Moncrief, these three men have
- 21:45Speaker 1: got to catch the ball coming across the middle. But
- 21:47Speaker 1: it all starts with a power running game. So I'm
- 21:50Speaker 1: the power running game. It's on me. It's on me
- 21:55Speaker 1: the absence of it, that's for sure. All I wrote
- 21:57Speaker 1: a little script. It's on me. The defense as a whole.
- 22:00Speaker 1: Now we know they're a dominant unit. They haven't been
- 22:02Speaker 1: playing like the way we thought they'd be playing. Last year,
- 22:05Speaker 1: I was most dominant union in football. Over the off season,
- 22:08Speaker 1: I said we would still be the most dominant union
- 22:10Speaker 1: in football. The talk it's over. Is this still an
- 22:13Speaker 1: extremely talented roster on defense filled with stars. Yes, we
- 22:17Speaker 1: saw the flashes of the defense we once knew against
- 22:20Speaker 1: the Eagles. The fight and drive were there. They were
- 22:23Speaker 1: excited to get back on the field. They created two turnovers,
- 22:26Speaker 1: but gave up two second half scoring drives that basically
- 22:28Speaker 1: cost the game. On the defense, I look at the
- 22:31Speaker 1: first half of the season, giving up big plays, changing
- 22:34Speaker 1: plays killed me. This defense didn't do that last year.
- 22:39Speaker 1: We heard Clay's Campbell say it himself, the big plays,
- 22:41Speaker 1: game changing plays, that wasn't them. So it's on you,
- 22:44Speaker 1: it's on me. It's on me the defense, it's on
- 22:47Speaker 1: me the running game. So don't mistake it. Ashlyn and
- 22:50Speaker 1: I are not taking the blame. It's not on Ashlyn Bryan.
- 22:54Speaker 1: It's not Ashlyn Bryan. We can do our show better.
- 22:57Speaker 1: Uh and and and we'll talk about that. We'll have
- 22:59Speaker 1: it all on me. We'll do our own little press
- 23:01Speaker 1: conference afterwards. Um, but it's on the running game and
- 23:03Speaker 1: it's on defense. Fix those two things over the second
- 23:06Speaker 1: half of the season, and you give yourself the talent
- 23:09Speaker 1: is there. The talent is there. You can still do something.
- 23:13Speaker 1: Um what we do. We'll keep talking about that. That's
- 23:16Speaker 1: our show, all right, Let's take a break. When we
- 23:19Speaker 1: come back. Ashland's analysis. We've got top tweets Jeff Logaman,
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- 25:06Speaker 1: to Jack's Drive Time. Bland Sexton Ashlyn Sullivan will be
- 25:09Speaker 1: joined by Jeff Logaman shortly. Um You're just worth pointing
- 25:12Speaker 1: out we showed some passing place during Big Thing three
- 25:16Speaker 1: where we're talking about the running game, that as much
- 25:18Speaker 1: as anything, was a subtle hammer for you. In other words,
- 25:23Speaker 1: there weren't a lot of running place. No, it was
- 25:25Speaker 1: very difficult to make a video of the running place because,
- 25:28Speaker 1: as we said, there's an absence of them. So it
- 25:31Speaker 1: really underscores subtly that it's on me, well, not not me,
- 25:35Speaker 1: not me, not me, not me, It's on them. It's
- 25:38Speaker 1: on them all right. Time for Ashlands analysis and if
- 25:41Speaker 1: it's not good, it's gonna be on you. Yeah, I
- 25:43Speaker 1: think it's pretty good this week Ashland's analysis has got
- 25:45Speaker 1: the Lake Bortles against the Eagles played well enough two wins.
- 25:48Speaker 1: Before we dive into it, let's hear what D. D.
- 25:50Speaker 1: Westbrook had to say in the locker room after the loss. Uh,
- 25:55Speaker 1: think about it great, you know what I mean. Sit
- 25:57Speaker 1: in the fact the last past couple of weeks. You know,
- 25:59Speaker 1: everybody's been shrilled a name for him to come out
- 26:01Speaker 1: and be resilient and played away that he did. You
- 26:03Speaker 1: know it obviously uplifted us as a team and as
- 26:06Speaker 1: a receiving corps. So Doug Maron said the same thing
- 26:09Speaker 1: in his press conference after the game that Bortles played
- 26:11Speaker 1: well enough to win, that he saw some things that
- 26:13Speaker 1: were promising from him. He had the same amount of
- 26:15Speaker 1: yards as Carson Wentz in the game, two passes, had
- 26:20Speaker 1: a touchdown, no interceptions. He was also your team's leading rusher,
- 26:24Speaker 1: taking on a lot Bordles. We saw promise from him,
- 26:27Speaker 1: We saw we thought he would have a big week.
- 26:29Speaker 1: He thought he would bounce back, especially after the week
- 26:31Speaker 1: he had where his bench for Cody Kessler and came
- 26:33Speaker 1: back a lot of drama going on in the week.
- 26:36Speaker 1: He had a good week. He played well enough to win.
- 26:38Speaker 1: It's hard to express um the appreciation for that guy
- 26:43Speaker 1: because he plays with his whole heart. I mean, he
- 26:47Speaker 1: loves the game. He goes out to play for his teammates.
- 26:49Speaker 1: People gripe about what he's not, but the Jaguars have
- 26:52Speaker 1: tried to build their offense around what he is, which
- 26:56Speaker 1: is a tough, mobile quarterback who can make enough throws
- 27:00Speaker 1: and play within the system that they've set up. He's
- 27:02Speaker 1: not Drew Brees, He's not Carson when he I'm tired
- 27:06Speaker 1: of telling what he's not. There are plenty of quarterbacks,
- 27:08Speaker 1: plenty of teams that would like to have a lot
- 27:10Speaker 1: of his qualities out there. His ability to take the
- 27:13Speaker 1: ball and run and not shy away from the contact,
- 27:17Speaker 1: a guy who takes the blame, who doesn't point fingers.
- 27:21Speaker 1: He is a terrific young man. And for all the
- 27:25Speaker 1: things that he is, he is a guy who takes
- 27:29Speaker 1: the heat. He does say it's on me Sunday. It
- 27:33Speaker 1: was not on him. It was on guys who dropped passes,
- 27:38Speaker 1: who missed blocks, right, it was on them. This guy
- 27:42Speaker 1: was your leading passer, he was your leading rusher. He
- 27:45Speaker 1: made enough key throws. And I'm telling you, if I'm
- 27:49Speaker 1: keeling Cole, I'm ashamed of myself for dropping that pass,
- 27:53Speaker 1: because if I have that pass, I give myself a
- 27:55Speaker 1: chance and my team a chance to take at least
- 27:59Speaker 1: a nine two three lead in Instead, I give the
- 28:04Speaker 1: ball up and give them a chance to score a
- 28:06Speaker 1: touchdown and take the lead that they wouldn't relinquish. It's
- 28:09Speaker 1: guys like that that have to make bigger plays in
- 28:11Speaker 1: the second half of the season. They've got to hold
- 28:13Speaker 1: on for it. The quarterback does not get enough love.
- 28:16Speaker 1: I get it, I get it. He has a bad
- 28:18Speaker 1: day in Kansas City, and everybody wants to just run
- 28:21Speaker 1: Downhill on him. But what he did in London against
- 28:24Speaker 1: Philadelphia is undervalued and under appreciated. The ESPNS and the
- 28:28Speaker 1: NFL networks of the world will not take the time.
- 28:31Speaker 1: There are too many other stories and so we will.
- 28:33Speaker 1: And if you look at it objectively, you see a
- 28:35Speaker 1: guy that did everything he could. When when they went
- 28:38Speaker 1: down seventeen six in the third quarter, Um, how could
- 28:42Speaker 1: you not think, oh, right, oh twelve I mean, oh,
- 28:47Speaker 1: what are you gonna do here? And yet he put
- 28:48Speaker 1: him in a position the guys have to step up.
- 28:51Speaker 1: He's not the guy to lift this team. He's the
- 28:54Speaker 1: guy to play within himself. The running game needs to
- 28:57Speaker 1: lift this team. So it's on me. Let's it's not.
- 29:01Speaker 1: But there you have it. He played well enough to
- 29:03Speaker 1: win enough that you got we have best of the
- 29:08Speaker 1: Locker Room, Best of the Locker Room from Sunday and Monday.
- 29:11Speaker 1: We combined the two. So let's start with Calais Campbell.
- 29:14Speaker 1: We asked if he could summarize the first half of
- 29:16Speaker 1: the season, what would he say? Not good enough? You know, uh,
- 29:21Speaker 1: you know, uh, we didn't play up to our centers.
- 29:24Speaker 1: We're under achievers right now currently. You know, even in
- 29:28Speaker 1: the three ones that we we have. You know, we
- 29:30Speaker 1: didn't play up to our standards, you know, but we
- 29:32Speaker 1: were able to get him out and find a way
- 29:34Speaker 1: to win. But I mean, you know, I don't know
- 29:37Speaker 1: what our turnover margin is, but it's not pretty. That's ridiculous.
- 29:42Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I mean, you know, I supposed
- 29:44Speaker 1: to win ball games and you do that. You know.
- 29:47Speaker 1: I want to hear more, But I don't want to
- 29:49Speaker 1: hear more from him. We've heard so much from it well,
- 29:51Speaker 1: because he's always willing to stand there and talk about
- 29:55Speaker 1: what's good, what's not good, taking the blame. I want
- 29:58Speaker 1: to hear that from Telvin Smith. I want to hear
- 30:00Speaker 1: that from Unique and gok Way. I want to hear
- 30:02Speaker 1: that from Jalen Ramsey. I want to hear it from
- 30:05Speaker 1: Miles Jack. I want to hear those young talented players
- 30:08Speaker 1: around whom this team is supposedly building this dominant defense.
- 30:13Speaker 1: I want them to have learned enough from Calais Campbell
- 30:16Speaker 1: to step forward and say the exact same thing. Don't
- 30:18Speaker 1: put the hoodie on and shrug the shoulders and say nope,
- 30:21Speaker 1: next nope, next nope, next, hey man up, let's go.
- 30:26Speaker 1: Don't say oh, don't come over here and talk to me,
- 30:27Speaker 1: as some guys did in the locker room on Sunday,
- 30:29Speaker 1: say hey, come on over, I got something to say.
- 30:32Speaker 1: To be a professional, Calais as a professional, He'll keep
- 30:36Speaker 1: saying it, but I want to hear from some of
- 30:37Speaker 1: the other guys. No, it's definitely fair to say. Another
- 30:40Speaker 1: professional that we mentioned is Malik Jackson. Always willing to
- 30:43Speaker 1: talk about this team, good or bad. He was asked
- 30:45Speaker 1: to be just if he's disappointed in the outcome disappointment
- 30:49Speaker 1: level zero. It's like we're out there not playing. Uh.
- 30:53Speaker 1: I'm upset that we're not winning, of course, but I'm
- 30:55Speaker 1: not like we're not playing, you know, so disappointment. I'll
- 30:58Speaker 1: have any disappointments. I will always go listen to what
- 31:02Speaker 1: he has to say, because Caliis is that sage veteran
- 31:06Speaker 1: who talks like a coach, and Malik is that sage
- 31:09Speaker 1: veteran that talks like a player. He's got some fire. Yeah,
- 31:11Speaker 1: and he was annoyed at that, and he's gonna call
- 31:13Speaker 1: guys out and he's gonna say what needs to be said.
- 31:15Speaker 1: But again, he's always willing to do it. I went
- 31:18Speaker 1: up to him in the locker room at Wembley Stadium
- 31:20Speaker 1: on Sunday in London. And he looked at me and
- 31:21Speaker 1: he said, okay. I said, do you have time to talk?
- 31:25Speaker 1: And he said, let's do it right. Other guys said no, no,
- 31:28Speaker 1: don't come over here, Leeks. I'm serious, and you know
- 31:31Speaker 1: who they are. And I don't. I want to call
- 31:33Speaker 1: you out. I want to call you out in the
- 31:34Speaker 1: worst way right now, but I'm not going to do
- 31:36Speaker 1: it because professional is the word of the day here.
- 31:38Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, but they were telling you they
- 31:40Speaker 1: were there, not Malik. Other guys should follow me league's example.
- 31:44Speaker 1: Even though you knew he did not want to talk.
- 31:46Speaker 1: He's still doesn't and and and credit two guys like
- 31:49Speaker 1: Unique and Deed Westbrook and who did follow the example
- 31:53Speaker 1: and stood there and talked again. But I want to
- 31:56Speaker 1: hear more from Malik for sure. All Right, we just
- 31:58Speaker 1: mentioned Miles Jo He said the importance of having to
- 32:01Speaker 1: buy right now? Yeah, I think we all just need
- 32:05Speaker 1: to go home for a little bit, you know what
- 32:07Speaker 1: I mean. Everybody go to their families to take a
- 32:09Speaker 1: break from this. You know, we've been going hard um
- 32:12Speaker 1: things that have been going our way. I think we
- 32:14Speaker 1: just you know, take a week to regroup, we could
- 32:17Speaker 1: go on a little run here, and the whole mood
- 32:19Speaker 1: of says, I think he's a terrific young player. I'm
- 32:22Speaker 1: glad that he took the time to talk. I mean
- 32:24Speaker 1: he looked at me at first, and then he went, okay, right, question,
- 32:28Speaker 1: I don't want to do this, oh boy, right. But
- 32:31Speaker 1: right next to him at that moment in the locker room,
- 32:33Speaker 1: Wembley was buried church and Barry wasn't answering questions about
- 32:36Speaker 1: the game. He was answering questions about the evening at
- 32:38Speaker 1: the nightclub, the last thing he wanted to talk, right,
- 32:41Speaker 1: But he stood there and he did it, and he understood.
- 32:43Speaker 1: He was going to tell his story. That's the key.
- 32:45Speaker 1: Tell your story. If it's on me, it's on me.
- 32:51Speaker 1: It's on me. Tell the story. I want to hear
- 32:53Speaker 1: more from him, agreed, alright. Last of best of the
- 32:55Speaker 1: locker room is quarterback Blake Bortles, who said, this team
- 32:58Speaker 1: and this offense need to play the way they're capable
- 33:01Speaker 1: of playing. I mean, I'm not mad at anybody. I'm
- 33:03Speaker 1: not mad at myself. You know, I frustrated with everybody
- 33:06Speaker 1: and myself included, when we don't do the things that
- 33:08Speaker 1: you know, I know we can do and I know, um,
- 33:10Speaker 1: you know, I've watched this too on a weekly basis.
- 33:12Speaker 1: So I think that's all we gotta do is continue
- 33:15Speaker 1: to find a way to just be ourselves and make
- 33:17Speaker 1: the place that everybody on our offense can make. You know,
- 33:19Speaker 1: I don't think anybody needs to be Superman or or
- 33:21Speaker 1: anything special. We've got to do, um what what we're
- 33:24Speaker 1: all capable of. So a couple of weeks ago here
- 33:27Speaker 1: a media member turned to me as Blake was finishing
- 33:31Speaker 1: his news conference and said, I love that guy. I
- 33:33Speaker 1: wish more people knew how good he was to deal
- 33:36Speaker 1: with and what a class act he is. And I said,
- 33:38Speaker 1: you should write it now. To the best of my knowledge,
- 33:41Speaker 1: that person has not written that story yet for whatever reason,
- 33:43Speaker 1: maybe his editors don't want to read that story. Um,
- 33:46Speaker 1: But the fact of the matter is is that, look,
- 33:48Speaker 1: he has to talk to the media. He's the quarterback.
- 33:51Speaker 1: That's expected. But he stands there and does it when
- 33:54Speaker 1: it's good, when it's bad, he is and it's great
- 33:57Speaker 1: either way. Consistent, he is a consist performer, even when
- 34:01Speaker 1: he knows that he's not going to get the flags
- 34:03Speaker 1: from the refs for the late hits or the shots
- 34:05Speaker 1: to the head that other quarterbacks do. And he's not
- 34:07Speaker 1: going to get the assist to the media that he
- 34:09Speaker 1: tries to assist to do their jobs as much as
- 34:11Speaker 1: he should. He's not going to get the nice articles
- 34:13Speaker 1: written about it. He just he's not. He's not. If
- 34:16Speaker 1: you wanted to read an article, read Mike Silver's from
- 34:19Speaker 1: last week, and he kind of where he kind of
- 34:21Speaker 1: he kind of lays that one out. So I just
- 34:23Speaker 1: would like to see more of that, him getting the
- 34:26Speaker 1: credit that he's due, and that means he has to
- 34:28Speaker 1: play as a consistent quarterback. Maybe those articles will call
- 34:30Speaker 1: you know, he'll tell you it's on him. And as
- 34:32Speaker 1: much as we talk about the running game in defense,
- 34:34Speaker 1: he can elevate his game too. Everyone can alright. Top
- 34:38Speaker 1: tweets headlines are next, and then Jeff Logerman will join
- 34:40Speaker 1: his feet last ten minutes of the show and share
- 34:42Speaker 1: his thoughts from Sunday and looking forward to the bye week.
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- 36:44Speaker 1: Tuesday morning, we have some top tweets for you, something
- 36:48Speaker 1: for you sunny top tweets. Al Right, first one, it
- 36:56Speaker 1: feels like we've talked about this guy at nauseum so
- 36:58Speaker 1: far on the show. But it's just he's so easy.
- 37:02Speaker 1: Campbell tweeted this yesterday. First half the season didn't go
- 37:05Speaker 1: as planned. Oh well, put that behind us and make
- 37:08Speaker 1: sure we come out of this by with a vengeance
- 37:10Speaker 1: hashtag hunting season. Great moments come from great opportunity. He
- 37:14Speaker 1: is all in. I mean he is all in. When
- 37:16Speaker 1: he signed here last year, he was all in, and
- 37:19Speaker 1: look I'd be all in when I have thirty million
- 37:20Speaker 1: guaranteed dollars too. But there are lots of guys who
- 37:23Speaker 1: make a lot of money and don't show how all
- 37:25Speaker 1: in they are. He is man, and um, I say
- 37:28Speaker 1: this to you because you're just starting your career in
- 37:31Speaker 1: the NFL um Well, I didn't say that, But what
- 37:35Speaker 1: I am saying is is you may go the rest
- 37:37Speaker 1: of your career and never have someone that good. Right.
- 37:40Speaker 1: He stands in the locker room on Sunday, win or lose.
- 37:44Speaker 1: He's there on Monday, win or lose. He's there on Wednesday,
- 37:46Speaker 1: win or lose. You can grab on Thursday. You know,
- 37:49Speaker 1: no problem. He is as good a pro. He does
- 37:52Speaker 1: all access and he is terrific. Our people love working
- 37:56Speaker 1: with him. Brent Martineau, Pat Kavanaugh, and one that works
- 37:59Speaker 1: with him understands his involvement level. Plus, he is a
- 38:02Speaker 1: real human being, a real I mentioned a recipe to
- 38:06Speaker 1: him for a rub that I've got for steaks. He
- 38:08Speaker 1: said to me yesterday, when you gonna get that to me? Right?
- 38:11Speaker 1: And and so we air dropped it together. Right. He's
- 38:14Speaker 1: just He's just, he's he's a normal human and he
- 38:19Speaker 1: pokes and he prods and he likes to know something
- 38:21Speaker 1: about the people that he works around. He's enjoying every moment.
- 38:24Speaker 1: He's a total pro. I hope you get a hundred
- 38:26Speaker 1: more guys like that. I fear that you won't, But
- 38:28Speaker 1: at least you've got that wonderful Yeah. You can't hold
- 38:32Speaker 1: other people that standard, Well you can. He talked about
- 38:35Speaker 1: him being a normal human being. I was walking in
- 38:37Speaker 1: the parking lot yesterday leaving work and he drove by,
- 38:40Speaker 1: and it was this like normal little car and it
- 38:42Speaker 1: looks like his knees were like up to his ears
- 38:44Speaker 1: because it was a small car, and he just waved
- 38:46Speaker 1: like a normal guy. And there are plenty of players,
- 38:48Speaker 1: and we all know who they are, who in their
- 38:49Speaker 1: tinted Mercedes go by in that way. We work with
- 38:52Speaker 1: him all the time, and they don't do it he is.
- 38:54Speaker 1: He stands alone. There just aren't many guys like him. Yeah,
- 38:57Speaker 1: it was I didn't recognize the car, but it came
- 38:59Speaker 1: out of the player law and I was thinking, no,
- 39:00Speaker 1: I don't even know who this is, and him with
- 39:02Speaker 1: his up to his own All right, what's your next one?
- 39:07Speaker 1: Let's go to Ian wrapped poor. Not that the Jaguars
- 39:11Speaker 1: another injured on defense, but cornerback Quentin Meeks, who start
- 39:14Speaker 1: on Sunday, suffered an mcl sprain. No. Dug Marone said
- 39:17Speaker 1: yesterday he's not sure how long he'll be out, but
- 39:19Speaker 1: we saw him with crutches, heavy brace on his knee.
- 39:22Speaker 1: He played well. Three pass back, he had a chance
- 39:24Speaker 1: to six. He was sick about it on the sidelines,
- 39:28Speaker 1: sick about it. Here was a young man who got
- 39:30Speaker 1: his hands on three balls in his first NFL I
- 39:33Speaker 1: think it was his first start, first started corner, for sure.
- 39:35Speaker 1: I know he played some nickel in Kansas City. Um,
- 39:38Speaker 1: they liked him. Get out of Stanford. Father Ron, longtime
- 39:41Speaker 1: NFL defensive coordinator, clearly knows the game as a bright kid.
- 39:45Speaker 1: Well stepped up into the situation and had a good game.
- 39:48Speaker 1: It's uh, it's too bad. It's kind of the story
- 39:50Speaker 1: of the season that the injuries have piled up and
- 39:53Speaker 1: now on defense, some some youthful depth that you were
- 39:57Speaker 1: hoping could keep making progress diminishing. Yeah. Well, we wait
- 40:01Speaker 1: and see how long he's out with that. But that's
- 40:02Speaker 1: generally a three to five week injury, right, all right.
- 40:04Speaker 1: Last one, a journalist that covers the Jaguars, tweeted this
- 40:08Speaker 1: out and then I went and did more research on it,
- 40:10Speaker 1: and it is true. Draft Network tweeted out that the
- 40:13Speaker 1: Jaguars are predicted of the ninth overall draft pick in
- 40:15Speaker 1: the two thousand nineteen draft. Six weeks ago, the Jaguars
- 40:19Speaker 1: owned a nine one odd to win the Super Bowl.
- 40:22Speaker 1: Quite the change. I have nothing to say that that
- 40:24Speaker 1: it's quite right. But you know, we talked about first
- 40:27Speaker 1: half versus second half of the season, and that, as
- 40:30Speaker 1: much as anything, underscores what we talked. That sums up
- 40:34Speaker 1: that was six weeks ago. Can you believe that I
- 40:36Speaker 1: saw somebody, Uh they tweeted a photo of a dumpster
- 40:39Speaker 1: on fire, um and it felt that way on Sunday
- 40:43Speaker 1: before the game with the incident from the nightclub. But
- 40:47Speaker 1: just three consecutive losses, the way that they played, even
- 40:50Speaker 1: though they lost coming home, I felt like at least
- 40:52Speaker 1: they put the extinguisher in the dumpster and the fire
- 40:56Speaker 1: was out. Now the question is can they clean it
- 40:57Speaker 1: up and can they get back to regular We'll find out.
- 41:01Speaker 1: We will find out all right. Time for some headlines
- 41:03Speaker 1: and then will InVID Jeff Loghmanto to share some thoughts,
- 41:06Speaker 1: and we start with the big news from yesterday, not unexpected,
- 41:11Speaker 1: but the man on the right, Jimmy Haslum fired. I
- 41:15Speaker 1: guess it depends on where you're standing. The guy without
- 41:18Speaker 1: the football guarbon. Jimmy Haslum fired the guy with the
- 41:20Speaker 1: football garb On Hugh Jackson, who in forty NFL games
- 41:26Speaker 1: was three thirty six in one. They also fired the
- 41:30Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, Todd Haley. Not as big as story. He
- 41:32Speaker 1: only had eight games under Here's the interesting part about this.
- 41:35Speaker 1: Do you realize so Jimmy Haslum took over before the
- 41:38Speaker 1: two thousand and twelve season. He has just fired his
- 41:40Speaker 1: fourth coach. Greg Williams, a one time Jaguars defensive coordinator,
- 41:45Speaker 1: is now the interim head coach. So he's the fifth
- 41:47Speaker 1: coach and the next higher will be the sixth coach
- 41:50Speaker 1: in six seasons that Jimmy Haslum has had to talk
- 41:53Speaker 1: about a busy guy. Now they've got talent. It's a
- 41:55Speaker 1: much more attractive job, especially with Baker Mayfield, than it
- 41:58Speaker 1: has been at any point in time. But the owners
- 42:00Speaker 1: as much of a problem, it appears, as the guy
- 42:03Speaker 1: in the front was. But the owner can't fire himself.
- 42:05Speaker 1: So there you go. Alright, moving on headline number two,
- 42:09Speaker 1: how grateful are we? We're gonna get more fits? I
- 42:13Speaker 1: hope that at some point he dons another. That's the
- 42:16Speaker 1: picture of the year, at least from postgame locker room. Um.
- 42:19Speaker 1: Jamis Winston. Four games, eleven turnovers, on the bench, the
- 42:22Speaker 1: number one overall pick. If you think you are unhappy
- 42:26Speaker 1: with your quarterback situation. The Bucks suffered through a miserable season,
- 42:29Speaker 1: got the number one overall pick, the hot shot out
- 42:31Speaker 1: of Florida's date and off the field. On the field
- 42:34Speaker 1: has been a dumpster fire nightmare. And so if it's
- 42:37Speaker 1: magic comes back. Now, here's the problem for the Bucks.
- 42:39Speaker 1: Right at one point they were three and one and
- 42:41Speaker 1: all in and here we go. Since they have fired
- 42:45Speaker 1: Mike Smith, their defensive coordinator, and now bench their starting
- 42:49Speaker 1: quarterback number one overall, they got problems in Tampa as well.
- 42:53Speaker 1: Oh final headline, Um, there's a great quote from a
- 43:00Speaker 1: philosopher named George Santayana who said that those who do
- 43:04Speaker 1: not know history are doomed to repeat it. Well, you
- 43:07Speaker 1: will recall last year that Ben McAdoo, they head coach
- 43:09Speaker 1: of the New York Giants, decided he needed to get
- 43:12Speaker 1: a look at what he had and so he benched
- 43:15Speaker 1: Eli Manning. Not for very long. He came back. It
- 43:19Speaker 1: was it was a dumpster fire. To stay with the analogy,
- 43:22Speaker 1: he ended up losing his job right a year after
- 43:24Speaker 1: going eleven and five and making the playoffs. He's ushered
- 43:26Speaker 1: the door. Well, here's Pat Schermer, who all he could
- 43:29Speaker 1: talk about through the off season was what great shape
- 43:31Speaker 1: Eli Manning was in for the thirty seven year old.
- 43:33Speaker 1: They were going to build on this one. They paid
- 43:35Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Jr. They had a hot shot running back
- 43:37Speaker 1: sa Kwon Barkley. Now all of a sudden there and
- 43:40Speaker 1: there by week this week, Shermer says, I'm not married
- 43:44Speaker 1: to Eli being my quarterback when we return in a
- 43:46Speaker 1: week ten. Don't do it. Don't do it right right? Um,
- 43:50Speaker 1: there's all kinds of trade rumors again linked to this
- 43:52Speaker 1: franchise as well. But why why if you don't want
- 43:56Speaker 1: to commit to him being your quarterback in week ten,
- 43:58Speaker 1: why would anyone else? Right? Why would anyone give up
- 44:01Speaker 1: a pick that you're looking for and absorbed the salary?
- 44:03Speaker 1: Not gonna happen, But that looks like he's going to
- 44:05Speaker 1: be the starter either, So we'll find out. And and
- 44:07Speaker 1: credit to Eli Manning, anyone who knows him, who's met
- 44:09Speaker 1: him when he's come down here for the coffin and Japon.
- 44:11Speaker 1: What an incredible young man. I mean, just as Sterling,
- 44:14Speaker 1: a stand up guy as possible said, that's what the
- 44:16Speaker 1: coach does, you know. A year ago he didn't quite
- 44:18Speaker 1: know what to say, but he said, that's what the
- 44:19Speaker 1: coach does in there by week is they evaluate everything
- 44:22Speaker 1: they included. So those are your headlines. We take a break,
- 44:25Speaker 1: Jeff Logan and join us when we return on Jags
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- 46:16Speaker 1: I saw you with the iPad in hand for most
- 46:20Speaker 1: of us, like home from London. Yeah, probably about three
- 46:24Speaker 1: and a half hours. Yeah, and if to really watch
- 46:27Speaker 1: film in detail, it's about three three and a half.
- 46:30Speaker 1: And do you like getting it done quickly? Are we
- 46:32Speaker 1: just trying to get that off your to do list
- 46:34Speaker 1: because you knew it was going to be a short
- 46:35Speaker 1: turnaround without much sleep? Or do you like to watch
- 46:37Speaker 1: it so closely after the game that you can relive it?
- 46:40Speaker 1: To be honest with you, that's all I want. I'm
- 46:41Speaker 1: thinking about me, Okay, I'm thinking about getting into a
- 46:44Speaker 1: deer stand at some point this week and getting all
- 46:46Speaker 1: my work done as fast as possible. I kill you,
- 46:48Speaker 1: and I can't sleep on a plane, right, did you
- 46:50Speaker 1: guys sleep? Slept at a road myself? You guys have
- 46:53Speaker 1: road maps in your eyes. By the way I saw
- 46:55Speaker 1: you guys at Customs. You guys looked rough. Really Yeah? Yeah,
- 46:59Speaker 1: you guys look you like got thirty minutes of sleep
- 47:01Speaker 1: and somebody woke you up. They were too late. Yeah,
- 47:04Speaker 1: they were two ladies playing. You look good, but your
- 47:06Speaker 1: eyes looked like road map. There were two ladies playing
- 47:08Speaker 1: Gin Rummy next to me for nine hours and you
- 47:10Speaker 1: know how people do this with their cards, Uh huh, Yeah,
- 47:14Speaker 1: that was nice of the way. You had ear plugs
- 47:17Speaker 1: in a little thing that they I didn't help because
- 47:21Speaker 1: it was the viper. Hear you, I hear you. But
- 47:23Speaker 1: it's a long flight. And yeah, like three and a
- 47:24Speaker 1: half three three three and a half hours of film
- 47:26Speaker 1: something like that, and uh, disappointing film because there were
- 47:31Speaker 1: some some moments there in the game that they had
- 47:33Speaker 1: a lot of opportunities to to get a win. If
- 47:37Speaker 1: what were you most disappointed in the offense of the defense, Well,
- 47:40Speaker 1: I mean the offense is kind of is what it is.
- 47:42Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of hard to be disappointed in
- 47:44Speaker 1: an offense that's missing a bunch of offensive linemen and
- 47:47Speaker 1: tight ends and the quarterback hasn't been playing great and
- 47:50Speaker 1: receivers are leading the league and drops. But we thought
- 47:52Speaker 1: he got it out and had a great I thought
- 47:54Speaker 1: he did too, but he also missed some opportunities. But
- 47:58Speaker 1: he also had guys dropped opportunities that he connected on
- 48:01Speaker 1: DG Chark, d J Chark in the end zone, catch
- 48:04Speaker 1: the ball. The fourth and one I showed this on
- 48:07Speaker 1: Jaguars All Access last night. The fourth and won the
- 48:09Speaker 1: first fourth down opportunity. They're late in the ball game.
- 48:12Speaker 1: He kind of leaves the pocket. Blake does really before
- 48:15Speaker 1: the pressure showed up. He could have shuffled a little
- 48:18Speaker 1: bit instead of doing the pirouette spin out. But either way,
- 48:21Speaker 1: when he gets out of the pocket, did he Westbrook
- 48:24Speaker 1: is streaking down the left sideline, which is the Jaguar sideline,
- 48:26Speaker 1: and he's wide open. And if that's Aaron Rodgers, Patrick Mahomes,
- 48:32Speaker 1: now a lot of top quarterbacks in the league, Matt
- 48:34Speaker 1: Ryan and there it is, down by six. Guess what
- 48:38Speaker 1: we're winning out? Yeah, not perfect by what he is.
- 48:42Speaker 1: That's disappointing because I don't know if if we'll ever
- 48:45Speaker 1: do that. And and kind of to defend him a
- 48:47Speaker 1: little bit on that play, did he see it? I
- 48:51Speaker 1: don't know. If he didn't see it, that's kind of
- 48:53Speaker 1: maybe a problem too. But if he did see it
- 48:56Speaker 1: and said, I can walk to the first down and
- 48:59Speaker 1: I know I got it, I don't know if they're
- 49:02Speaker 1: gonna be able to react if I throw it. So
- 49:04Speaker 1: if he looked at it and calculated in his head
- 49:07Speaker 1: real quick, it's not worth the try. I'm guaranteed the
- 49:10Speaker 1: first down here, then I could probably say okay, all right,
- 49:14Speaker 1: but still you see it you're thinking instead touched down
- 49:20Speaker 1: defense and defense, I mean where ball? You know? And
- 49:25Speaker 1: you know me branding during the game. Okay, I'm writing
- 49:27Speaker 1: down my notes here. And the Jaguars kick a thirty
- 49:32Speaker 1: three yard field goal which was the score, brought it
- 49:35Speaker 1: to se and they drove on the next sixth place
- 49:39Speaker 1: seventy five yards that you had a thirty six yard
- 49:41Speaker 1: or to Matthews, a seventeen yard run to Adams, and
- 49:44Speaker 1: capped off with a five yard touchdown by Earth's and
- 49:47Speaker 1: so it took almost no time either. I mean they
- 49:49Speaker 1: get six plays. Look, if you're a good defense, that
- 49:53Speaker 1: doesn't happen. And Unique and Goquay came over to Jalen
- 49:56Speaker 1: Ramsey right before they went back out onto the field
- 49:58Speaker 1: and said we're gonna win this game. They they were
- 50:00Speaker 1: talking the talk like they knew what was up, and
- 50:03Speaker 1: yet even knowing the situation and being ready for it,
- 50:06Speaker 1: they couldn't stop him. Well if you stop him right
- 50:08Speaker 1: there and then you kicked the subsequent field goal that
- 50:11Speaker 1: you did later on, then you win. Yeah. Eighteen fifteen well,
- 50:16Speaker 1: and there was also the you you punt. The punt
- 50:19Speaker 1: team does a great jobs pins him down third quarter
- 50:23Speaker 1: and you let them drive. First of all, you let
- 50:25Speaker 1: him convert third nine from the six yard line, which
- 50:27Speaker 1: was a problem, and then you couldn't stop him the
- 50:29Speaker 1: rest of the way. You had the chance to get
- 50:31Speaker 1: them off the field and make them punt from their
- 50:33Speaker 1: end zone. And this defense, which we expect to be
- 50:35Speaker 1: able to do that, I couldn't do it. I haven't
- 50:37Speaker 1: done it. And uh, Telvin Smith, everybody in the focus,
- 50:43Speaker 1: I think from all of us, was okay, all these
- 50:45Speaker 1: young defensive backs that are playing in this game. Carson
- 50:47Speaker 1: Wentz concern big time about the young players, and I
- 50:52Speaker 1: thought they did okay. Quentin Maeks hand pretty easy. Yeah.
- 50:55Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, quin makes you gotta catch
- 50:57Speaker 1: one of those two, right, that would be nice. One
- 50:59Speaker 1: of them was a pixel, giving your offense point blank
- 51:02Speaker 1: at least if he doesn't score. But I thought the
- 51:05Speaker 1: disappointing thing was the play of the linebackers another RPO offense,
- 51:09Speaker 1: which is and I've said this before, I think I've
- 51:12Speaker 1: said it with you guys, it's very challenging for linebackers.
- 51:15Speaker 1: And so the linebackers have to play well on r
- 51:17Speaker 1: p O s because it's essentially three different things can
- 51:20Speaker 1: happen on one play. He can quarterback and hand it.
- 51:23Speaker 1: Then running back he can keep it himself and run it.
- 51:26Speaker 1: Or he can pull it out of the running back
- 51:27Speaker 1: stomach not running himself, and throw the ball. So as
- 51:29Speaker 1: a linebacker, you don't know what's happening. You have to
- 51:32Speaker 1: be very disciplined and you have to be patient. But
- 51:34Speaker 1: then once it's determined what the play is, you've got
- 51:36Speaker 1: to go. And that was telling Smith Worre's game. Yeah
- 51:41Speaker 1: as a pro, Yeah, as a pro, I never thought.
- 51:44Speaker 1: I never thought I would see a game like that.
- 51:47Speaker 1: I'll Tellman and I and look, he was hurt, yeah,
- 51:50Speaker 1: but get the shoulder. But if your play is at
- 51:53Speaker 1: that level, I mean, you gotta come out right. I did.
- 51:57Speaker 1: I didn't see it as much, but I heard after
- 51:59Speaker 1: the game that he Lee had bad plays that people
- 52:02Speaker 1: wanting where who is that guy? Wasn't good? That's not
- 52:06Speaker 1: that's not the Telvin that I have come to love
- 52:10Speaker 1: and appreciate and to respect as a as on his
- 52:14Speaker 1: level of play, did you see enough from this defense
- 52:17Speaker 1: to think that they can get back to their standard
- 52:18Speaker 1: of play in the second half of the season, because
- 52:21Speaker 1: but be honest with you, against the Texans and against
- 52:23Speaker 1: the Cowboys, we're thinking this defense isn't what we thought
- 52:25Speaker 1: it was. Do I think it's possible? Yes? Is it
- 52:30Speaker 1: gonna happen? Great question. I don't know j J Boy
- 52:35Speaker 1: throughout the early part of the year because one of
- 52:38Speaker 1: the reasons why this defense was so special last year
- 52:40Speaker 1: is that him and Jalen. It was a great argument
- 52:43Speaker 1: as to which is the best cornerback in the league
- 52:45Speaker 1: because the last year I thought one of those two guys,
- 52:47Speaker 1: take your pick, it's either one of them, and I
- 52:50Speaker 1: think they're I think Jaalen is playing well, but I
- 52:54Speaker 1: don't think either one of those guys is playing at
- 52:56Speaker 1: an elite level as far as the percentage of completions, etcetera.
- 53:02Speaker 1: Against a J, I think as struggle. If you compared
- 53:06Speaker 1: his performance this year to last year, he's not no
- 53:10Speaker 1: so and that's surprising because a J is a student
- 53:14Speaker 1: of the game. He works hard, and he's still doing
- 53:16Speaker 1: all the same things. From what I hear, the performance
- 53:18Speaker 1: is just not at that level for whatever reason. So
- 53:21Speaker 1: if you're going to go back to the level that
- 53:23Speaker 1: you played that last year. The only way you're gonna
- 53:24Speaker 1: do that is that those two guys need to get
- 53:27Speaker 1: back to the level that they were at well and
- 53:28Speaker 1: so perfect leading here is is that Jalen Ramsey made
- 53:31Speaker 1: that play on the ball that was not his to make.
- 53:33Speaker 1: He covered an incredib you tweeted it out an incredible
- 53:36Speaker 1: amount of it was aw that was one of my tweets,
- 53:38Speaker 1: he said. He said to be I think it was
- 53:40Speaker 1: bury Church on the sidelin because I was standing right there.
- 53:42Speaker 1: He said, I saw you jump that route and I
- 53:45Speaker 1: ran to the end zone. And he's got the speed,
- 53:47Speaker 1: the length, the athleticism to make that kind of play,
- 53:50Speaker 1: great range, and he's a special player. He's a special player,
- 53:54Speaker 1: and I I love watching him play the game because
- 53:58Speaker 1: he can do things physically that other guys is can't do.
- 54:01Speaker 1: Just a quick thought on the Running Game, I know
- 54:04Speaker 1: you gotta have the backs and perhaps for Net and
- 54:07Speaker 1: Hide can be a tandem that will work and allow
- 54:09Speaker 1: t g Ow to do what he does. Who upfront
- 54:12Speaker 1: can play better? I mean everyone, I get it, But
- 54:15Speaker 1: who are you looking at in particular that could change
- 54:17Speaker 1: the outcome of the Running Game? Literally, Brian, And this
- 54:20Speaker 1: is not being facetious, right, every one of them, okay,
- 54:23Speaker 1: every one of them can play better because if there's
- 54:26Speaker 1: been moments where it's I've said this in games pass
- 54:29Speaker 1: where it's kind of taking turns now to expect that
- 54:33Speaker 1: Josh Walker is gonna turn into turn into this great
- 54:36Speaker 1: left tackle or guard. He's a guard. So maybe after
- 54:40Speaker 1: the bye week, do you take a look at Flowers?
- 54:43Speaker 1: I would think absolutely, you know, I think that's maybe
- 54:45Speaker 1: a possibility because what you're doing right now is not
- 54:47Speaker 1: working and he's starting to get exposed a little bit
- 54:50Speaker 1: and pass protection because he has a guard. And I
- 54:52Speaker 1: give credit now, I mean he's a fighter, gritty, he's
- 54:55Speaker 1: a fighter, tough guy. You know, he's got a little
- 54:59Speaker 1: junk in the trunk, so to speak, as far as like, yeah,
- 55:03Speaker 1: he's kind of kind of like a Ran hell Are
- 55:06Speaker 1: type of guy name from the past. There. I got
- 55:12Speaker 1: ejected from games again with him. He remember you guys
- 55:14Speaker 1: having that converty he was here is it a coach
- 55:16Speaker 1: for a little while he was, and I told him,
- 55:18Speaker 1: let's go, man, let's go. Um besides hunting, what are
- 55:21Speaker 1: you gonna do with yourself for a couple of days.
- 55:23Speaker 1: That's about it. That's it. Spend time with the family.
- 55:26Speaker 1: We're going to the woods and and uh gonna commune
- 55:30Speaker 1: with nature. Good for you in our own special way.
- 55:33Speaker 1: We don't need any more details on that. You see
- 55:36Speaker 1: you next week. You're gonna be on with You're gonna
- 55:38Speaker 1: be on with Mike Dempsey coming up here at film
- 55:40Speaker 1: Room Friday. Real quick, one more thought, um, I have
- 55:43Speaker 1: thought that Marcel Darius was playing at a really high level.
- 55:46Speaker 1: I hear that that's a big part of your film
- 55:48Speaker 1: Room on Friday. It is, uh, well, not film on Friday.
- 55:51Speaker 1: It's actually the Jaguars TV show for the weekend. I
- 55:53Speaker 1: believe it is Jars Weekend. Jaguars Weekend, Thank you all.
- 55:59Speaker 1: But yeah, that's because Doug has got the week off
- 56:02Speaker 1: from that. So essentially what I did was film Room
- 56:04Speaker 1: Friday for that and Marcel is playing at an unbelievable level.
- 56:09Speaker 1: There's one particular play and I'm showing this but just
- 56:12Speaker 1: to describe it to people, that there's two Pro Bowl
- 56:15Speaker 1: offensive linemen with the Eagles, because Jason Peters is not
- 56:18Speaker 1: a Pro bowler. He mean, he has been in the past,
- 56:19Speaker 1: but he's not playing at that level. But it's Brooks
- 56:21Speaker 1: and Kelsey, So the center and right guard, they double Marcel,
- 56:26Speaker 1: and Marcel throws Kelsey first, and then Kelsey goes flying
- 56:32Speaker 1: forward and falls on the phase first one the round
- 56:36Speaker 1: and then he throws Brooks and then he makes a
- 56:38Speaker 1: play for no game. And I'm going, why didn't the
- 56:43Speaker 1: Good Lord bless me with that kind of strength, okay,
- 56:46Speaker 1: so that I can make plays like that when I
- 56:48Speaker 1: played football, because it is truly special. I mean, he
- 56:50Speaker 1: is so freakishly strong, And the best part about him
- 56:54Speaker 1: is now he's as trim as he's ever been. He
- 56:57Speaker 1: looks great. He's three fifteen and literally we had him
- 56:59Speaker 1: on the TV show last week and he comes in
- 57:01Speaker 1: and I said, dude, this, what are you wein? He goes, man,
- 57:03Speaker 1: I'm like three fifteen. He goes, I look good, don't
- 57:05Speaker 1: you know, rub his stomach down and all that kind
- 57:10Speaker 1: of stuff, and fixing his shirt so that you know,
- 57:11Speaker 1: because he's got no rolls no more. Well, if you
- 57:14Speaker 1: haven't seen him in the SpongeBob costume from yeah, that's
- 57:19Speaker 1: not the most flattering. It was funny. He's a great
- 57:22Speaker 1: dude and at a high level. So we'll look forward
- 57:24Speaker 1: to that. And Jack wears Weekend presented by t I
- 57:27Speaker 1: eight back. That's it. I'm glad you know all that. Yeah, well,
- 57:30Speaker 1: somebody has to I just do the film exactly. His
- 57:32Speaker 1: favorite uniform was the all white because he's slimming trim,
- 57:35Speaker 1: and he said it shows off his slimness. The all white.
- 57:37Speaker 1: There's no question he is looking slim. Yeah. Okay, but
- 57:40Speaker 1: let me let me have this. Okay, we're gonna talk
- 57:41Speaker 1: fashion about real quick. Can we get rid of the
- 57:44Speaker 1: teal pants with any other top that's not the same color.
- 57:47Speaker 1: You don't like it. I don't like the teal pant.
- 57:49Speaker 1: I like the teal pants a lot. I like I
- 57:51Speaker 1: like if it's all teal. Yeah, I'm cool with it.
- 57:53Speaker 1: I think we're going to see that against the Steelers.
- 57:56Speaker 1: Is the all teal? Look, we haven't seen it yet.
- 57:58Speaker 1: Me talking fashion, Yeah, stick to cam O, good boy.
- 58:01Speaker 1: All right. That's Jeff Logham and folks, you'll see him
- 58:03Speaker 1: this weekend as well. Thanks to Jeff, to Ashland, to
- 58:06Speaker 1: Joe Fortunato, and to our buddy Stone Cold Reeber in
- 58:09Speaker 1: the other room. Have a great day. We're back for
- 58:11Speaker 1: one more show this week tomorrow with John Osire