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Dan Orlovsky Previews Falcons vs. Jaguars | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: ESPN analyst Dan Orlovski with us at Jaguars practice Friday
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  Speaker 1: ahead of the Falcons Jaguars matchup at Wimbley. All right, so,
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  Speaker 1: first off, this is a Jaguars team that all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden coming into the season, had expectations for the
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  Speaker 1: first time in a long time, and so far a
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  Speaker 1: one and two record, some question marks last week about
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  Speaker 1: how this team played so handling the expectations.
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  Speaker 2: How does a team learn how to do that?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the NFL teaches you and kind of wires
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  Speaker 3: you in many ways to become a creature of habit
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  Speaker 3: and go week to week, and you know, you can
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  Speaker 3: fall into the trap of it's a long season because
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  Speaker 3: eventually those games run out, and so it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's having the understanding that there's no need to panic
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  Speaker 3: because there are plenty of games left. But also you
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  Speaker 3: can't just think just because it's Tuesday or Wednesday or
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  Speaker 3: Thursday of game week that what needs to get corrected
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  Speaker 3: from last week is going to just because And so
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  Speaker 3: I think focusing on some of the things that are
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  Speaker 3: showing up.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I learned this early in my career from
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  Speaker 4: Gary Koback. You said, winning covers everything.
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  Speaker 3: Not cures everything, and so when you win last year
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  Speaker 3: and the expectations, it might cover up some of the
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  Speaker 3: things that you aren't doing well habit wise.
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  Speaker 4: On a daily basis.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I think last week's game is in
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  Speaker 3: many ways inn avorition for anybody, let alone them.
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  Speaker 4: You know, how many different ways can you beat yourself?
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  Speaker 3: So it's certainly learning from that, but also being aware
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  Speaker 3: like more than likely.
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  Speaker 4: That's not going to be the case on a consistent basis.
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  Speaker 1: Quarterback play Trevor Lawrence year three, year two in this system.
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  Speaker 1: We know what he did down the stretch last year.
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  Speaker 1: He kind of flipped the switch after the London game.
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  Speaker 1: Last year we threw the goal to go interception here
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  Speaker 1: against Denver, then realized, hey, we got to stop doing that.
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  Speaker 1: That's what happened down the stretch without carrying it over
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  Speaker 1: into year three.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of pressure on Trevor Lawrence, but you
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  Speaker 2: have to be able to handle that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we're where that pressure showing up is
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  Speaker 3: in those moments where you want him instinctually to be
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  Speaker 3: his natural self. You know, some of the third down
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  Speaker 3: and red zone throws you could almost feel.
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  Speaker 4: Watching the tape.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to be so perfect here because you know,
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  Speaker 3: of those expectations, and he'll run very similar plays versus
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  Speaker 3: relatively similar defenses on first or second downs, and you know, yep,
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  Speaker 3: that's awesome. And then he'll run, you know, stuff very
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  Speaker 3: similar on third downs or red zones and why are.
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  Speaker 4: You waiting just a moment to throw that ball?
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  Speaker 3: Or I saw you cut that very similar concept loose
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  Speaker 3: in the first quarter with nine minutes to go. So
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just getting him to that point, and
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  Speaker 3: he's got to get himself there of you know, kind
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  Speaker 3: of making sure that he's you know, obviously those those
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  Speaker 3: plays matter, but trying to just rely on his talent
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  Speaker 3: and his instincts a little bit more than forcing the
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  Speaker 3: ball to be perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Daniel Lowski with us ESPN.
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  Speaker 1: Big game for Calvin Ridley coming off last week's performing
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  Speaker 1: first of all right, two drops, two full starts, but
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  Speaker 1: then playing his former team this week as well, and
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  Speaker 1: it's a contract to hear everything that.
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  Speaker 2: Goes with it.
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  Speaker 1: He just wants to be so perfect all the time.
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  Speaker 1: But Doug Peterson said this week he just has to
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  Speaker 1: be Calvin. Well, what is a true Calvin Ridley?
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  Speaker 3: Performing one of the top you know, seven wide receivers
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  Speaker 3: in the NFL, certainly one of the elite route runners
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  Speaker 3: and separators in the NFL. And so you know it,
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  Speaker 3: when you watch the ball go from Trevor to Calvin,
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  Speaker 3: you go, yeah, that's that's a duo. That's one of
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  Speaker 3: the league's best at duos. And obviously the drops last
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  Speaker 3: week showed, I mean, to be honest, the team leads
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  Speaker 3: the NFL and drops, so I think that's it's not just.
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  Speaker 4: A Calvin thing.
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  Speaker 3: You know. It's interesting because we called the Monday night
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  Speaker 3: game against Cincinnati and the Rams and Jamar Chase had
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  Speaker 3: been very quiet to start this season, and Joe Burrow
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  Speaker 3: gonna play, and Jamar was just like, just get me
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  Speaker 3: the ball, you know, and I'll figure out ways that
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  Speaker 3: we win. And I think it feels a little bit
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  Speaker 3: like that coming off of last week, where you know,
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  Speaker 3: Calvin got to have one of those hey, just throw
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  Speaker 3: them the football type of games, and if I get
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  Speaker 3: fourteen or fifteen targets, I'll make sure most of them
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  Speaker 3: are in my hands and it's good for our offense.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, sometimes I'm the king of loving creativity
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to offense. I also am the king
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  Speaker 3: of hating, trying to do too much and you know,
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  Speaker 3: trying to overcomplicate things.
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  Speaker 4: And there's a simplicity when.
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  Speaker 3: You have elite talent, you know, and you can kind
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  Speaker 3: of put those guys by themselves and see if that
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  Speaker 3: is a one on one match of you love and
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  Speaker 3: if not, you've got plenty of other talent to work
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  Speaker 3: away from. So there's a little bit of go back
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  Speaker 3: to kind of the simple aspects of my guy better
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  Speaker 3: than your guy.
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  Speaker 2: Dan. Let's slip it to this Jaguars defense.
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  Speaker 1: Now, it's a group that pretty much everybody came back
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  Speaker 1: from last season.
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  Speaker 2: That's one thing the continuity helps.
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  Speaker 1: However, they're facing a running attack today and v Jon
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  Speaker 1: Robinson and a tight end group that can play without
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  Speaker 1: Devin Woyd. He's he didn't even travel for the trip.
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  Speaker 1: So the challenges of Robinson. First of all, not many
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  Speaker 1: offenses in the league are geared up like this with
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  Speaker 1: a heavy run attack with tight ends.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think the first thing is they they got to
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  Speaker 3: be so good before the snap. You know, Atlanta is
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  Speaker 3: and Arthur are so creative with their motions and their
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  Speaker 3: shifts and their personnels, and you know they'll take one
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  Speaker 3: personnel say called twenty one two back, one tight end
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  Speaker 3: and it'll look like eleven with with like three wide
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  Speaker 3: receivers out there. And then they'll take like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: twenty two personnel and it'll look spread out, or they'll
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  Speaker 3: they'll take eleven personnel, one back, one tight end and
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  Speaker 3: it'll look like a run formation. So making sure they're
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  Speaker 3: really good pre snap, you know, in disciplined is going
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  Speaker 3: to be a big deal. And then handling the diversity
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  Speaker 3: of the run game is gonna be a big deal.
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  Speaker 3: Arthur throws a lot of different looks at you in
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  Speaker 3: the run game. It's not just the zone concept. So
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  Speaker 3: that'd be a big thing, I think, you know, for
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  Speaker 3: them that have a lot of success defensively, the interior,
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  Speaker 3: the defensive line's got to be great in the past
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  Speaker 3: rush game. That's been a weakness for Atlanta, specifically in
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  Speaker 3: their play action game. And Desmond Ritter, and I'm a
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  Speaker 3: fan of Desmond. Desmond's gonna he has three plays a
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  Speaker 3: game where you sit there and go, did you not
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  Speaker 3: see the guy? You know, he'll he will give them
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  Speaker 3: the opportunity to get hands on the football.
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  Speaker 4: They gotta make those plays.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, special teams you can't have those gaps like
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  Speaker 1: last week that that can lose you a football game
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  Speaker 1: almost faster than anything else. When you're missing a field goal,
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  Speaker 1: getting one blocked, they get a touchdown after that, and
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  Speaker 1: then the kickoff return that's got to clean up.
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  Speaker 3: N Yeah, absolutely, And I think that's again like a
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  Speaker 3: hopefully for them, an outlier. You know, anytime you play
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  Speaker 3: a game that's so unique like this, when everything travels
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  Speaker 3: and you're in a different country and all that stuff,
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  Speaker 3: you always get worried about that because there is there
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  Speaker 3: a lack of focus potentially. But I would imagine coming
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  Speaker 3: off last week, it's gonna be a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: of the opposite, a little hyper focus.