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Jags Drive Time: Friday, November 30 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Jeff Wars, Ditch. You don't like Jack Wars, did you?
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Drive Time, Ryan Sex steps to John oh Ages
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Speaker 1: and Jaguars Drive Time starts right now. Friday morning Jags
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Speaker 1: driven coffee with the coach. Look at the line, John,
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Speaker 1: check it out right. I was just checking my hat
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Speaker 1: Brooks Brothers pink shirt. That's when you know going on
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Speaker 1: in this thing. It's morning Sex and the smartphones. I'm
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Speaker 1: telling you, you hook it up to go hamster wheel
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Speaker 1: and charge it at night. They're gonna catch on, Preston,
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Speaker 1: They're gonna get big in the next year earlier. Everyone's
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Speaker 1: gonna have them. You heard it here first, because we're
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Speaker 1: good lines. It's the same about of a game this weekend.
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Speaker 1: That means that there's a home game Sunday for how
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Speaker 1: are we expecting the crowd to be? Uh, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a beautiful day eighty degrees. Well, um,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'll be honest with you. I'm a
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Speaker 1: little low energy right now. Um. You know at this
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Speaker 1: point of the season that I was thinking last night.
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Speaker 1: Then once since September, my kids sat down to watch
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Speaker 1: the Saints and the Cowboys, and I do you want
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Speaker 1: to watch it one, no, kind of over it, right, yeah,
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Speaker 1: And I that's what happens when you go through this.
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Speaker 1: And I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't d a
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Speaker 1: percentage of the stadium. It's like, yeah, what are you
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Speaker 1: gonna show us? You know certainly will be I mean,
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Speaker 1: and that's that's what again, except in a few markets,
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Speaker 1: and really a very few markets. If if you're three
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Speaker 1: and seven this time of year, that or three and eight,
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Speaker 1: it's disappointing. You're gonna have some empty seats. And that's
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Speaker 1: that's the way of the world. It's not nineteen well,
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure it's ever been. Ain't different than that.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you have to put in the field to
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Speaker 1: put people in the seat. Well, there was a time
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Speaker 1: before you where there wasn't anything else, right, Um, you
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Speaker 1: didn't have else. You didn't have the that phone thing
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Speaker 1: that you've got or the internet, and and so you went,
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Speaker 1: you watched it was part of you know, your sporting
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Speaker 1: social fabric. And that's not the case anymore. If you
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Speaker 1: if you don't have something vibrant to bring people on
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Speaker 1: Sunday afternoons, they'll find something else to do. And by
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Speaker 1: the way, if it's eighty degrees, there'll be people on
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Speaker 1: the golf course at the beach, you know, playing tennis, fishing,
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Speaker 1: whatever they may do on a Sunday afternoon. Here's the thing.
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Speaker 1: The bummer for me is that I thought, as I
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Speaker 1: looked at the calendar when the season started, that today
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Speaker 1: the anniversary of the Jaguars being awarded to the city
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Speaker 1: of Jacksonville. That I said, that's going to be a
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Speaker 1: special day because we're going to talk about the team
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Speaker 1: pushing for its first Super Bowl appearance, UM in its
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Speaker 1: twenty year. And that's not the case. But I'm elated.
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Speaker 1: It's great because you were here at the beginning. I
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Speaker 1: was here at the beginning, and back then, every day
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Speaker 1: was a struggle to get everything done. There was so
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Speaker 1: much that needed to be done to put a franchise together.
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Speaker 1: And to think now that it's been twenty five years, UM,
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Speaker 1: really good years. You probably don't remember the day because
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Speaker 1: you weren't. Really I wasn't here yet, but I was
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Speaker 1: coming the University of Florida shelnnt UM and uh uh
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Speaker 1: I was it was. I was in the media room,
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Speaker 1: which probably didn't even exist when Slynn was there. Anymore
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Speaker 1: because it's been so long. But they and I hear
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Speaker 1: they've renovated the area. But I was talking on a
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Speaker 1: phone which which had a phone SHELNN used to connect
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Speaker 1: into the wall, and they had chords. I had little
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Speaker 1: rotary things that you put as Most people in Jacksonville
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Speaker 1: there at the time have a story from remembering it.
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Speaker 1: And I heard from the newspaper. Pete Prisco was in Chicago,
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Speaker 1: so the newspaper found out very quickly and I got
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Speaker 1: a call and I called my wife, and there was
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Speaker 1: a feeling at the time that you know, the town
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Speaker 1: when everybody same a and I was actually living in Middleburgh.
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Speaker 1: But I remember thinking, you know, this has a chance
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Speaker 1: because they were for the newspaper to change, you know,
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Speaker 1: the course of my life, you know, which is really
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Speaker 1: what's important to me. And uh, it was memblievable day.
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Speaker 1: And I didn't get into town. But most people who
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Speaker 1: are sports fans of the time have stories of coming
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Speaker 1: down to the landing when you would go to the
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Speaker 1: landing and it's, uh, you know, an unbelievable day. I
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Speaker 1: got here about six months later. And if we're going
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Speaker 1: to do the where were you? Then I can tell
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Speaker 1: you that I was working in Wichita, Kansas, and I'm
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Speaker 1: a native of St. Louis. It's where my family's all from,
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Speaker 1: and I wanted St. Louis to get the franchise. Irony
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Speaker 1: of all ironies that I've worked here for twenty five years,
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Speaker 1: but I walked back in. I was doing an afternoon
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Speaker 1: sports talk show, and I walked back in and the
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Speaker 1: AP Wire and to do the old John thing we
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Speaker 1: should lend. The ap wire used to actually print out
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Speaker 1: the stories right on paper, and you'd cut them up,
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Speaker 1: and I'd cut them up, and I'd have a handful
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Speaker 1: of things that I was going in to do the headlines.
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Speaker 1: And I looked and it said the NFL is going
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Speaker 1: to award the thirtieth franchise to Jacksonville, Florida. And I
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Speaker 1: remember saying, Jacksonville, Florida. Why in the world, where where
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Speaker 1: is Jacksonville, Florida. I knew Miami and Tampa New Orlando
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Speaker 1: was had no idea, And a month later I found
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Speaker 1: out that I was going to be moving down here
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Speaker 1: to work over at w o k VY, and of course,
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Speaker 1: irony of irony's but I remember that day thinking Jacksonville, Florida,
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Speaker 1: and see the interesting part is that back then there
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Speaker 1: were probably a lot of people all over this country.
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Speaker 1: They had no idea about Jacksonville. They knew probably more
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Speaker 1: about Jacksonville, North Carolina because of its prominence in the
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Speaker 1: military community. And yet Jacksonville, Florida here now is one
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Speaker 1: of thirty two teams. Uh. The connection with London is
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Speaker 1: obviously there and gives it even more prestige and national.
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Speaker 1: But five years ago the franchise was awarded to the
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Speaker 1: city of Jacksonville, and um, you know, I got here
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Speaker 1: six months afterwards. But I can tell you, um, she's
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Speaker 1: never been the same. It completely changed. Say I can
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Speaker 1: you know, I can remember I didn't go to the
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Speaker 1: bobber say helicopter in the Gator Bowls, friends who did
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Speaker 1: right and being in college at Florida all through their
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Speaker 1: pursuit and reading about it in Sports Illustrated and how
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Speaker 1: close they came to several different NFL franchises. Remember I
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Speaker 1: got to the paper. H I've told the story on
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Speaker 1: there before. Throughout the expansion process, there was a feeling
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Speaker 1: of Pete Priscoe was more tied in than anybody at
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Speaker 1: that time, and he kept telling people, especially six months
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Speaker 1: it was gonna happen. That's gonna happen, and everybody thought
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Speaker 1: he was absolutely nuts. And then about a month beforehand,
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Speaker 1: he was telling people in the paper, Look, this is happening.
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Speaker 1: People in the paper didn't believe them. People in the
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Speaker 1: paper he would write stories and they wouldn't believe the stories.
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Speaker 1: That's how much of an upset it was. And he
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Speaker 1: had people who were tied into the expansion process on
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Speaker 1: a level that was unbelievable, but it was so unbelievable
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Speaker 1: that they wouldn't accept it sometimes and he had to
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Speaker 1: get second and third sources. And so that's how much
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Speaker 1: of an upset it was. It was monumental. Well, and
7:19
Speaker 1: that upset, that underdog mentality. Uh, it kind of rode
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Speaker 1: through the end of ninety four and into ninety five,
7:26
Speaker 1: building up to the first game. Here I can remember,
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Speaker 1: you know, the Carolina Panthers were awarded at the same
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Speaker 1: time month before. But if you know, start and Joe
7:34
Speaker 1: Fortnado probably remembers this as well. Um, Almost every time
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Speaker 1: there was a story about the Jacksonville Jaguars in a
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Speaker 1: paper that wasn't Jacksonville or Carolina, you'd see the Carolina logo,
7:45
Speaker 1: the Panthers logo next to Jacksonville. Back during the ninety season,
7:50
Speaker 1: we we'd go to Cincinnati and the Cincinnati newspaper would
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Speaker 1: have the Panthers logo and its Jacksonville Jaguars. Anyone could
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Speaker 1: see the difference between the panther and a jaguar. It's obvious.
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Speaker 1: What do you know, Joe, real quick, because you were
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Speaker 1: here it hurt. But just a story for you about Um,
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Speaker 1: the day that the franchise was I was working over it. Okay,
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Speaker 1: remember we covered the heck out of it, and we
8:16
Speaker 1: we all just figured it's going to happen. They're going
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Speaker 1: to get it. And I forget who it was if
8:21
Speaker 1: it was one of one of the founders. Johnny helped
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Speaker 1: me out here. Um, part of the would be ownership group,
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Speaker 1: not Wayne necessarily, but somebody ry and uh, it might
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Speaker 1: have been pet Wayne who who Let's slip out that
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Speaker 1: to the media that he walked out of a room
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Speaker 1: and he knew ahead of time and he gave everybody
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Speaker 1: kind of a wink and and nobody knew about it,
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Speaker 1: and that's when we kind of all knew. And when
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Speaker 1: the announcement was made, I was like, well, okay, we're
8:53
Speaker 1: we're the biggest station here. We were going to get
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Speaker 1: this team. This team is going to be on our air.
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Speaker 1: You know. That's the way we were. And you know,
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Speaker 1: luckily it happened. And that's history. Yeah five years ago today, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it sure was. And as I've I looked back on
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Speaker 1: all twenty five of those years, I realized just how
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Speaker 1: meaningful it's been win or how I spent half my
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Speaker 1: life in this building. That hit me the other day
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Speaker 1: when I was thinking about that. But the reality of
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Speaker 1: it is is that the team with the most wins
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Speaker 1: in NFL history also happens to be the team with
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Speaker 1: the most losses. So you go through the ups and
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Speaker 1: the downs. Um. But the impact that a franchise has
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Speaker 1: in a city, an NFL franchise, especially this one, it's
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Speaker 1: the only one in this city, has been significant. Um.
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Speaker 1: So we'll just leave it at that. Haven't grown up here.
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Speaker 1: It's a different town, all right. Let's take a break.
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Speaker 1: Brian Ashton John on the twenty fifth anniversary of the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars being awarded to the city of Jacksonville, we bring
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Speaker 1: in the head coach, Doug Moreau. Now, if you don't
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Speaker 1: have any recollection of that process, do you know where
12:27
Speaker 1: were you in in nine I think I was coaching
12:30
Speaker 1: at the US Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut,
12:36
Speaker 1: and uh my mind was so far away from you know,
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Speaker 1: the NFL and on that I was just you know,
12:41
Speaker 1: trying to do the best job I could. Right there,
12:43
Speaker 1: were probably probably getting ready last game of the year.
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Speaker 1: We play Merchant Marine, which is a big rival game,
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Speaker 1: and they actually take one of the ship. They take
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Speaker 1: the ship up the Connecticut River and come to the game.
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Speaker 1: So that was a big game. And in that first year,
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Speaker 1: you know, we didn't have a very good team. Um,
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Speaker 1: we were a new stat of and uh, we wanted
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Speaker 1: to win in that game, which was a great way
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Speaker 1: to end the year. Did you always aspire to the
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Speaker 1: NFL and you started off in college? But is this
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Speaker 1: where you wanted to be? No, I just wanted to coach.
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Speaker 1: I didn't really have any um aspirations of going to
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Speaker 1: the NFL because of my time when I was a player. Um,
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Speaker 1: I saw things that you know, I just didn't appreciate
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Speaker 1: or didn't didn't really like, and I just thought that
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Speaker 1: there's more to give as a as a college coach,
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Speaker 1: and and that's where I started out, and you know,
13:30
Speaker 1: getting into it, what happened was that everyone wanted to
13:34
Speaker 1: be an NFL coach and I would always be the
13:36
Speaker 1: guy in the room going be careful what you wish for.
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Speaker 1: It's a lot more difficult thing than you think, you know,
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Speaker 1: handling players and things of that nature. And then next
13:44
Speaker 1: thing I know, I'm starting to think about you know, uh,
13:48
Speaker 1: maybe these guys are right and I'm getting phone calls,
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Speaker 1: not even pursuing anything. Next thing, I know, the Jets
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Speaker 1: offer me the job, and I'm sitting there going gosh,
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Speaker 1: I mean, everyone wants to go. I have an opportunity.
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Speaker 1: What should I do? And then I wanted to obviously
14:01
Speaker 1: taking the job. Then would you have been as good
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Speaker 1: as yours as a coach if you hadn't played. I
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Speaker 1: think the playing what the playing does is the plane
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Speaker 1: gives you a perspective of I believe what you can
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Speaker 1: ask out of the players. So in other words, UM,
14:22
Speaker 1: and the other thing it does, it gives you a
14:23
Speaker 1: good feel of what the locker room is and and
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Speaker 1: the training room and the way you not you know
14:28
Speaker 1: the day, you know what they're going through, so you
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Speaker 1: know you can understand some things to playing wise, I
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Speaker 1: think you can understand UM because they always believe what players.
14:37
Speaker 1: You have to say, Hey listen, we need you to
14:38
Speaker 1: get this done. This is tough, and hey listen, you've
14:41
Speaker 1: got to get this done. This is what we expect
14:43
Speaker 1: you to do. And I think when when the player
14:45
Speaker 1: sits there and you're able to communicate with him saying
14:48
Speaker 1: look that that was a tough situation, UM, and then
14:51
Speaker 1: this is what we can do better. I think the
14:53
Speaker 1: player appreciates it rather than saying you know this, this,
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Speaker 1: this and not have an understanding of what they have
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Speaker 1: to get done. I'm curious if if your time the NFL,
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Speaker 1: which is now significant, has has flipped your opinion and
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Speaker 1: and maybe now you think the NFL is the only
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Speaker 1: place to coach and going back to college it doesn't
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Speaker 1: seem like it would be appealing for you. Well I don't.
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Speaker 1: I mean personally for me, I love it right here.
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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot to do. Um. Obviously we
15:15
Speaker 1: have a lot of work, uh you know here in Jacksonville.
15:18
Speaker 1: Uh So that's a that's a challenge. It's one that
15:20
Speaker 1: you know, I want to make sure that you know,
15:22
Speaker 1: we get this thing turned the right way and do that.
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Speaker 1: But I do have an appreciation, though outside of myself,
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Speaker 1: for all coaches at every level. I think, uh, the
15:30
Speaker 1: one thing that I've always told people that just because
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Speaker 1: you have an NFL logo or that NFL patcha doesn't
15:38
Speaker 1: make you a better coach than necessarily a college coach
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Speaker 1: or a high school football coach. I think there's great
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Speaker 1: coaches in high school and that's the same way in college.
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Speaker 1: You know, you know, whether you're in the A SEC
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Speaker 1: or the SEC where you think that you might be
15:52
Speaker 1: better than everybody. I used to say to myself, you
15:54
Speaker 1: know there's someone in the MAC, there's somebody at Courtland
15:57
Speaker 1: State Division three that's that's just a good of a
16:00
Speaker 1: coach shelln is a bit of an sec ye around here. So, uh,
16:07
Speaker 1: this has obviously been as difficult a week as we've
16:09
Speaker 1: seen all season long. Have you ever had one like this?
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Speaker 1: Is there something that you were able to draw from
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Speaker 1: when you have a player get suspended and you have
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Speaker 1: to make a coaching change and a positional change at quarterback?
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Speaker 1: Have you been a part of it where you have
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Speaker 1: something you can draw from? Um, I don't know if
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Speaker 1: it's if it's if if it's something like you look
16:28
Speaker 1: back in your past and you can draw from. I
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Speaker 1: think it's just a matter of, you know, again, the
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Speaker 1: challenge of being a good leader in times like this
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Speaker 1: where a lot of things are going on, and make
16:37
Speaker 1: sure that, um, you're doing everything you possibly can the
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Speaker 1: win football games and when things happen, don't sit back sulk,
16:45
Speaker 1: you know, put your head down about it. You know,
16:47
Speaker 1: going to attack it, and you know you're gonna get
16:50
Speaker 1: questions you know from uh from everyone, you know, from
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Speaker 1: from media to management to everyone, of hey, what's going on?
16:58
Speaker 1: What are we doing? What are we doing? And if
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Speaker 1: you get consumed, you know, we're trying to um defend
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Speaker 1: you know, the decisions and things that you make, you're
17:08
Speaker 1: never gonna get a chance to go forward. So for me,
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Speaker 1: it's okay, what do I have to do to get
17:14
Speaker 1: this team to win? Okay, this is what we have
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Speaker 1: to do, and then put a plan in place and
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Speaker 1: go after it. And and I truly believe that that's
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Speaker 1: the only way that you can work yourself, you know,
17:24
Speaker 1: through these things. And I think you know, too many
17:26
Speaker 1: times I've seen where people defend agendas or people defend
17:31
Speaker 1: or make excuses, and when and when that's when that
17:33
Speaker 1: stuff happens, then there's no way that you can you
17:36
Speaker 1: can grow or fight through it. Because I do believe that,
17:39
Speaker 1: um that if you fight through it and you and
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Speaker 1: you we go ahead and we start winning and we
17:45
Speaker 1: start doing those things, it's gonna create a foundation for
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Speaker 1: success in the future. So looking at the week, you've
17:52
Speaker 1: seen Cody Kessler on the practice fields, gott Milanovitch working
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Speaker 1: with him, how would you evaluate how they've worked together?
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Speaker 1: So it's been it's been a good week of practice
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Speaker 1: and all he phases it really has. I think that,
18:02
Speaker 1: you know, that's the one thing people who question or wonder,
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Speaker 1: like how you know, how's the team? How's the team?
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Speaker 1: And you know they've they've responded quite well. They're working
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Speaker 1: extremely hard. We've had two good days. I've challenged him
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Speaker 1: to hey, let's let's get our third day in today.
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Speaker 1: You know, and obviously we know we're in a profession
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Speaker 1: where Sunday's performance is is really the key that you're
18:20
Speaker 1: going to be evaluated on. But you know they've done well.
18:24
Speaker 1: You know, it's you don't have a lot of time.
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Speaker 1: It's not like you could sit down for hours and
18:27
Speaker 1: talk about philosophy or anything like that. And I'm talking
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Speaker 1: about you know what Scott now being the play call
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Speaker 1: or you know, Cody obviously Iss has has spent a
18:35
Speaker 1: lot of time. But I think both both Scott and
18:37
Speaker 1: Cody understand that this is an opportunity for them that
18:40
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily happen quite a bit. UH, It's an opportunity
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Speaker 1: for them to lead, UH, to show and to help
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Speaker 1: our performance to win games. With Scott, do you just
18:50
Speaker 1: sort of assume that he knows how you want things called,
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Speaker 1: or how does that dynamic cord Well that that he'sn't
18:57
Speaker 1: he I mean he does know that. I mean as
19:00
Speaker 1: well as all the other offensive coaches or defensive coaches,
19:02
Speaker 1: a special teams. So those things are done in conjunction
19:05
Speaker 1: together all the time. I think that you know, uh,
19:09
Speaker 1: you know, with Scott being able to make a decision
19:11
Speaker 1: on having him be the play call that that came
19:13
Speaker 1: back uh probably when you know, when we're interviewing him,
19:16
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, looking at the background, seeing
19:18
Speaker 1: what he's done. He has called plays, He's won a championship,
19:21
Speaker 1: he's been a head coach, you know, so he's done
19:23
Speaker 1: a lot. He's been a quarterback. So you know, there's
19:26
Speaker 1: a lot of things that you would check the boxes with.
19:29
Speaker 1: And I think from the play calling standpoint, people are
19:31
Speaker 1: gonna know, like, hey, what's different, what's what's not? Well,
19:34
Speaker 1: a lot of that's gonna depend on what we feel
19:36
Speaker 1: Cody does best. You know, that's what you're gonna see there.
19:39
Speaker 1: And uh, he's had a good week of practice and
19:41
Speaker 1: he's put a lot of time in so again, it's
19:43
Speaker 1: an opportunity. I don't want to, you know, put all
19:45
Speaker 1: this pressure on saying oh this is different, this is
19:47
Speaker 1: you know, this is gonna be great. Um, you know,
19:49
Speaker 1: he's got to go out there and perform and that's
19:51
Speaker 1: what he's gonna be judged by. Offensive line were talked
19:54
Speaker 1: in the preseason about cohesion, about communication, about guys working together.
19:58
Speaker 1: You obviously have an interesting perspect active on it. How
20:00
Speaker 1: do you take a group of guys that haven't played
20:02
Speaker 1: together in a short period of time and create some
20:05
Speaker 1: of those things, those intangibles that you have to have. Yeah,
20:10
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's just tough. I mean, because you know,
20:13
Speaker 1: you can talk things out in the film room and
20:15
Speaker 1: you can say, hey, we'll make this call, we'll do this,
20:17
Speaker 1: this is what I'm gonna do. But there's a point
20:19
Speaker 1: of you know, where there's a feel for how I'm
20:21
Speaker 1: coming off a block or how we're gonna start this block.
20:24
Speaker 1: At those things that need to be worked on, you know,
20:27
Speaker 1: so you consistently have to work on that and then
20:29
Speaker 1: make no mistake about it over a period of time. Um,
20:32
Speaker 1: you know, then all of a sudden, you're you're playing
20:34
Speaker 1: off each other, You're getting a field for each other. So, uh,
20:38
Speaker 1: from that standpoint, you know, obviously we're not in that
20:41
Speaker 1: situation because we do have um, you know, so many
20:44
Speaker 1: you know, new guys playing together. But you know, at
20:47
Speaker 1: the same time, UM, we've got to be able to
20:50
Speaker 1: help them scheme wise, so we don't put them in
20:53
Speaker 1: a lot of those situations where the combinations are there,
20:57
Speaker 1: you know, with the you know, whether it be past
20:59
Speaker 1: protection with stunts, whether it be the run game with stunts.
21:02
Speaker 1: You know that we're doing things that create some confidence
21:05
Speaker 1: where they can come off and and just and just
21:08
Speaker 1: fall into it and and do it rather than trying
21:10
Speaker 1: to really manipulate it and have a great feel for it.
21:14
Speaker 1: But you know a lot of times in practice, well
21:16
Speaker 1: you know, those guys are mixed up a lot of
21:18
Speaker 1: times working together. But you know, now you know Shatley's
21:21
Speaker 1: and there Pats and the Pats been here you know before,
21:24
Speaker 1: uh Flowers, So basically we have Pat and Flowers who
21:27
Speaker 1: are with the giants, you know what I'm saying. So
21:28
Speaker 1: I'm sure they've worked together there a little bit, and
21:30
Speaker 1: they've been working hard this week. You mentioned good week
21:33
Speaker 1: of practice. Is that something you watched for in terms
21:36
Speaker 1: of keeping them engaged, considering the record, considering the you know,
21:40
Speaker 1: what's happened? Is that something that you Yeah, I think
21:42
Speaker 1: it's easy. I think it's easy to say. You know, um,
21:47
Speaker 1: you know, coach out of practices, Hey, listen to practice?
21:49
Speaker 1: Are great their professionals, that's their job, that's what they
21:51
Speaker 1: need to do. Um. You know, you hear that a lot,
21:54
Speaker 1: you know, and the players get that a lot, and
21:56
Speaker 1: the coaches, we get that. But you know, human nature,
22:00
Speaker 1: you know, when things aren't going well, you know, you
22:03
Speaker 1: have to make sure that you get to the right
22:05
Speaker 1: guys on a team that are going to provide that
22:07
Speaker 1: leadership and motivation. You make sure that you UM, for me,
22:12
Speaker 1: I make sure that I you know, no elephants are
22:14
Speaker 1: in the room. We throw it out there, Hey, this
22:16
Speaker 1: is what it is, and use things to motivate and
22:18
Speaker 1: go out there and see, you know how the player
22:21
Speaker 1: of the practicing. Because you know, if if it's my
22:23
Speaker 1: job to make sure that we practice well and we're focused,
22:26
Speaker 1: and it's my job to make sure that we perform
22:28
Speaker 1: at a high level. So I just want to make
22:30
Speaker 1: sure all that stuff's going on so we can get
22:31
Speaker 1: this thing right and get back on track. With for
22:34
Speaker 1: NET serving the one game suspension this week, how do
22:36
Speaker 1: you plan on using Carlos Hide and t J Yelden.
22:38
Speaker 1: Are you confident that they can overcome the load that
22:41
Speaker 1: he's not there for NET? Yeah, I think you know,
22:44
Speaker 1: we really haven't played with Leonard for quite a bit.
22:46
Speaker 1: I mean when you look at it, I think it
22:48
Speaker 1: was a half of the New York Giant game and
22:50
Speaker 1: half of the New York Jet game. Um, and then
22:53
Speaker 1: he didn't come back until you know, Indianapolis, So it's
22:56
Speaker 1: three games so and then the third quarter you know,
22:59
Speaker 1: a flaw. So he really hasn't hasn't been there, So
23:02
Speaker 1: it's not something that is new, you know what I'm
23:06
Speaker 1: saying with Carlos and t J and you know, David
23:09
Speaker 1: Williams back there. So I don't think that, you know,
23:12
Speaker 1: to answer your question, yes, I do think they can
23:14
Speaker 1: handle They can handle it. Um, they've done it before.
23:17
Speaker 1: You know, we've shown that, we've we've we've been doing
23:19
Speaker 1: it during the season. But make no mistake about it.
23:21
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's it's a it's a blow to
23:24
Speaker 1: our football team and it's something that we've got to
23:26
Speaker 1: learn from that we can't you know, put ourselves in
23:29
Speaker 1: that type of situation where we you know, hurt the team. Uh,
23:33
Speaker 1: first half up their defensive loust twenty nine points, second
23:36
Speaker 1: half nothing from your perspective, what was the difference between
23:39
Speaker 1: first half and second half? And what do you need
23:41
Speaker 1: to see from your defense against Andrew Luck. We had
23:43
Speaker 1: some breakdowns, you know what I'm saying early in that game.
23:45
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the things. We just got
23:46
Speaker 1: to make sure that you know, we're we're doing our job,
23:49
Speaker 1: we're in the in the right place. I think everyone
23:52
Speaker 1: can see if someone you know, gets beat, someone makes
23:54
Speaker 1: a great play, or somebody misses a tackle. Um, but
23:58
Speaker 1: you know, there were guys that were running and I
24:00
Speaker 1: think that you know, once we've got everything uh, once
24:05
Speaker 1: we I shouldn't say once we got everything corrected, once
24:07
Speaker 1: we started doing everything the right way, you know saying,
24:10
Speaker 1: and we're doing our job, then we were able to
24:12
Speaker 1: do a much better job to work our way back
24:14
Speaker 1: in the game. So I think that you know, for us,
24:17
Speaker 1: we've got to make sure that you know, we don't
24:19
Speaker 1: make those type of critical mistakes early in the game,
24:22
Speaker 1: both offensively, defensively or special teams. And when we've done that,
24:26
Speaker 1: as a team we've played well, we have not been
24:28
Speaker 1: able to do that for four quarters though, whether it
24:31
Speaker 1: be offense, defensive, special teams, there has been that breakdown
24:34
Speaker 1: somewhere where we haven't been able to overcome uh, penalties,
24:39
Speaker 1: drops from you know, giveaways, so all those things. You know,
24:43
Speaker 1: when people say what's going on with this team, I
24:45
Speaker 1: think it's very simple to look back and say, you
24:47
Speaker 1: know what the problems are why they're not winning because
24:51
Speaker 1: we're not even giving ourselves a chance to win. We're
24:53
Speaker 1: actually losing the game before we can win the game.
24:56
Speaker 1: And that's something that we've addressed with the team. Um,
24:59
Speaker 1: you know, quite a it and it's something that we
25:00
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25:02
Speaker 1: And I have to do a better job a head coach,
25:04
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27:00
Speaker 1: And you know what, um seventh consecutive laws. Uh. You
27:06
Speaker 1: lose your star offensive lineman Andrew Norwell, your uh star
27:10
Speaker 1: running back makes a knucklehead of decision and not only
27:12
Speaker 1: gets thrown out of the game and gives you a
27:14
Speaker 1: chance to win or cost you a chance to win,
27:17
Speaker 1: but then has gone for the next game. You fire
27:19
Speaker 1: your friend, the offensive coordinator. And that couldn't have been easy,
27:22
Speaker 1: by the way. I mean, those two guys are close. Uh.
27:25
Speaker 1: You bench your quarterback uh. And Jalen Ramsey has been
27:28
Speaker 1: on the injury report and not practicing this week. Can't
27:31
Speaker 1: be an easy thing to come in here and sit
27:33
Speaker 1: down and smile and talk. No, but he's a pro
27:36
Speaker 1: and he's done it, man, he knows Uh. Again, he's
27:40
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27:44
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27:47
Speaker 1: he has. He has acted and done the job as impressive.
27:49
Speaker 1: We've all been around coaches who have been snooty, who
27:53
Speaker 1: have been short, who have been tough to deal with
27:56
Speaker 1: when things go bad. Um, but Doug is not. He's,
28:00
Speaker 1: like you said, like a pro and we appreciate him
28:02
Speaker 1: doing that. How about a quick run through big things.
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Speaker 1: Then we'll do pick one game and picket he will
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Speaker 1: he won't. He might take another break in a fantasy
28:09
Speaker 1: football wrap up a Friday morning. So first big thing,
28:12
Speaker 1: big thing one is new look. We know all the
28:15
Speaker 1: changes that happened to this football team this week, new
28:17
Speaker 1: play caller, new quarterback, learnard for not suspended Come Sunday.
28:21
Speaker 1: What do we think of this new look and how
28:23
Speaker 1: it's going to result for this team? Nice? What you
28:26
Speaker 1: expect there? Uh? I have no idea except history tells
28:32
Speaker 1: me that there's a good chance they'll be a jump
28:35
Speaker 1: uh and a spark from a new play caller. Only
28:39
Speaker 1: because the Colts have never they have nothing to game
28:43
Speaker 1: plan off of Scott Lanovitch for So, I think you'll
28:46
Speaker 1: see a jump. I think you'll see some energy. I
28:48
Speaker 1: don't know how long that lasts. It's usually a a
28:52
Speaker 1: a burst and then back to earth. That's the hope.
28:55
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what to expect from Cody Kessler. Uh.
28:58
Speaker 1: He was impressive through stretches when he played against the Texans.
29:02
Speaker 1: UH in the preseason, he looked like a backup. He
29:05
Speaker 1: looked like he was still getting used to the offense,
29:07
Speaker 1: which is what you expect from a backup quarterback who
29:10
Speaker 1: just got here in preseason. So um, I said to
29:13
Speaker 1: go down field more. I expended to be more accurate
29:16
Speaker 1: than Blake. I don't know how I hand. I don't
29:17
Speaker 1: know how he'll handle the past rush compared to Blake,
29:20
Speaker 1: and I don't know what he has around him. So
29:21
Speaker 1: I think it's a big mystery going in. I think
29:23
Speaker 1: if the defense can do what the Cowboys defense did
29:25
Speaker 1: last night, in other words, set them up, take a
29:27
Speaker 1: high powered offense and neutralize it. UH. If they can
29:31
Speaker 1: do that, then it could be a fun Sunday afternoon
29:33
Speaker 1: and we could see Cody take some chances. Um. But
29:37
Speaker 1: if the defense struggles like they did in the first
29:39
Speaker 1: half in Indianapolis, I don't know how Cody Kesler puts
29:41
Speaker 1: it on his shoulders without Leonard for Nett, without Elstin
29:44
Speaker 1: Seferian Jenkins without Norwell and and the offensive line being intact.
29:49
Speaker 1: But if the defense steps up, if they can lean
29:51
Speaker 1: on the defense on Sunday afternoon like the Cowboys did
29:55
Speaker 1: last night against the Saints, they can win in there.
30:00
Speaker 1: Tom Now you think it's coffee, it's cool, Aid, it's
30:02
Speaker 1: Jaguar's cool. I'm gonna give you one here. I do
30:08
Speaker 1: you remember in October going in how we thought the
30:10
Speaker 1: schedule was sort of tough in October? How tough is it?
30:14
Speaker 1: Looking back? Yeah? The Chiefs, Cowboys, You think the Cults
30:18
Speaker 1: were any good? All of a sudden they're on fire,
30:20
Speaker 1: Texas and one in a row, and the Texans um
30:24
Speaker 1: turned out to be, you know, as bad as they
30:27
Speaker 1: started playing. It was one of those where it just
30:30
Speaker 1: came into boil. You couldn't have gotten that stretch at
30:34
Speaker 1: the worst time. Might be four of what the how
30:37
Speaker 1: does stay teams in the league right now? Doesn't mean
30:41
Speaker 1: it's an excuse for them having lost all those games
30:43
Speaker 1: or haven't played the way they wore. But I don't
30:45
Speaker 1: think we realized going into October. I can do the
30:48
Speaker 1: Chiefs were tough. I'm not sure we knew quite how
30:51
Speaker 1: tough the rest of that schedule was going to be
30:54
Speaker 1: um and it bit them. So it's just a little
30:57
Speaker 1: cool aid, a little reason why they played the way
31:00
Speaker 1: they did. I do remember that starting October that was
31:03
Speaker 1: Chiefs Week, and we talked about, you know, that being
31:05
Speaker 1: the toughest component of the month and that they were
31:07
Speaker 1: going to move on and we weren't sure about the Chiefs,
31:09
Speaker 1: but it wasn't a talk of this well. And the
31:11
Speaker 1: week that they went I remember because I flew home
31:14
Speaker 1: commercial from Kansas City and I watched the Sunday night
31:16
Speaker 1: football game between the Cowboys and the Texans, and it
31:18
Speaker 1: was you looked at you looked at both of those teams,
31:21
Speaker 1: and you thought you'd be okay. They played those two
31:26
Speaker 1: teams the next two weeks and I thought, yeah, they'll
31:28
Speaker 1: they'll get out of this, and then of course they did. Yes,
31:32
Speaker 1: the Colt was actually the ninth week. I think I
31:34
Speaker 1: had that wrong, still made up on the fly. That's
31:38
Speaker 1: met Eagles too. Hence the cool which was really party
31:41
Speaker 1: big thing too. All Right, who's ready, who's going to
31:44
Speaker 1: take their shot? These next five weeks? After hearing Todd
31:47
Speaker 1: wash yesterday, I went and I made this lovely graphic.
31:50
Speaker 1: I went with Ronnie Harrison, that's gonna get his shot.
31:53
Speaker 1: He's gonna get more snaps. He's been playing well at
31:55
Speaker 1: a high level of this season. I think he is
31:58
Speaker 1: going to be ready in these next five weeks. He's
32:00
Speaker 1: one guy, another defensive back. You pick whichever one's ready
32:04
Speaker 1: to go, Trey Herndon Er or Quentin Meeks. Meeks looked
32:07
Speaker 1: like he was going to be I don't know what
32:10
Speaker 1: a player or coming on, but he had a decent
32:12
Speaker 1: showing in London against the Eagles. He's been out ever
32:15
Speaker 1: since with the m c l injury. But uh, if
32:18
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey can't go, and he hasn't practiced the last
32:20
Speaker 1: two days, so I don't know whether he'll be able
32:22
Speaker 1: to or not. One of those young corners. And by
32:24
Speaker 1: the way, they were very high on those young corners
32:26
Speaker 1: coming out of training camp. Yeah, they were higher on
32:28
Speaker 1: Herndon coming out of camp than Meeks. But Meeks that
32:32
Speaker 1: played exceptionally well against the Eagles. I'd be shocked if
32:34
Speaker 1: Ashland's graphics guy, Ronnie Harrison doesn't start, By the way,
32:39
Speaker 1: they haven't said that, but I don't know why he
32:40
Speaker 1: wouldn't at this point. Um, it's time and Gibson has
32:45
Speaker 1: a nine point six million dollar cap figure in you
32:48
Speaker 1: have to be thinking about moving on from that. Yeah,
32:50
Speaker 1: well you've got to move on from Church period. I mean,
32:54
Speaker 1: Gibson I think has a chance to be back. Church
32:56
Speaker 1: has no shot, and his cap figure is a six
32:58
Speaker 1: million dollars whatever the cap figure. But um, I think
33:02
Speaker 1: Taven Brian I'm not sure how many more reps he'll get.
33:06
Speaker 1: But my understanding is he's playing much better the last
33:11
Speaker 1: two or three weeks, to the point where they really
33:13
Speaker 1: like what he's doing. Um, he's getting the fundamentals of
33:18
Speaker 1: this defense down a lot more. Through the first eight
33:21
Speaker 1: weeks of the season, you weren't sure what you had.
33:23
Speaker 1: I don't think they knew what they had. Um, but
33:26
Speaker 1: you're starting to see them comment more on him. I'm
33:30
Speaker 1: hearing it's real that they really like what they're saying. Well,
33:33
Speaker 1: that's critical. On the past. On on Ben Roethlisberger, sard
33:37
Speaker 1: touchdown to Antonio Brown, Taven Briant picked up the left
33:42
Speaker 1: guard and was pushing him back. He was half a
33:44
Speaker 1: second from knocking Ben Roethlisberger over using the guard. It
33:48
Speaker 1: was a very impressive play. Yeah, the key to remember
33:50
Speaker 1: with him Brian. As you know, he's playing the run
33:53
Speaker 1: very well. He's not quite getting the quarterback yet. That's
33:56
Speaker 1: not unusual for a rookie not to have his past
33:59
Speaker 1: rush is quiet and he's the big end. Remember and
34:02
Speaker 1: Calias Campbell didn't have a fourteen sack outburst until he
34:05
Speaker 1: was thirty one years old and in Jacksonville, so that's
34:08
Speaker 1: not out of it. But you know, here's the thing
34:09
Speaker 1: about him. With three guys with cap figures over ten
34:12
Speaker 1: million dollars next year on the defensive line, right, Calias
34:16
Speaker 1: and Malik are both over fifteen million, and Marcel Darius
34:19
Speaker 1: is near eleven million. Tavin Brian was a crucial draft
34:23
Speaker 1: pick and I know people said, why didn't take a quarterback?
34:25
Speaker 1: Why didn't they take a tight end there instead of
34:27
Speaker 1: Taven Brian. But next year, if Brian's coming on, that's
34:29
Speaker 1: a really good sign for this franchise because they're going
34:32
Speaker 1: to have to make some moves up front. Right. He
34:35
Speaker 1: he has to start next year and has gonna be good. Defensively,
34:38
Speaker 1: he has to be good. He's showing the first signs
34:40
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks that he might be and
34:42
Speaker 1: he's been successful inside as opposed to outside. He was
34:45
Speaker 1: playing the three technique against the Steelers and against the
34:50
Speaker 1: the Bills last week. And that's important because Malik has
34:53
Speaker 1: a fifteen million dollar cab figure and they need a
34:57
Speaker 1: three technique if Malik doesn't come back, Yeah, it's important
35:00
Speaker 1: because my lea, it's not gonna be back. So there
35:02
Speaker 1: you go, you gotta have him. Okay. Final big thing
35:04
Speaker 1: team to beat the Indianapolis Colts five game winning streak.
35:09
Speaker 1: We saw that they beat up on this Jaguars defense
35:11
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. They're coming in hot, they're coming
35:13
Speaker 1: in with something to play for. We talked to Caroline Canna,
35:16
Speaker 1: team reporter yesterday, and she said, this team is looking
35:18
Speaker 1: straight to the playoffs. Well, and here's the interesting thing.
35:21
Speaker 1: They don't necessarily look like the team to beat this year,
35:25
Speaker 1: but they look like the team to beat again for
35:28
Speaker 1: the foreseeable future. The quarterbacks back, they've built an offensive
35:31
Speaker 1: line that will protect him, and they've got a ton
35:34
Speaker 1: of cap room to to bolster their roster. They look like,
35:38
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they're the class of the a
35:40
Speaker 1: f C South in twenty team. They look like the
35:42
Speaker 1: team to beat in terms of that wild card spot
35:44
Speaker 1: at the end they're six and five. The Ravens are
35:47
Speaker 1: six and five. Um, you feel better about the Colts
35:52
Speaker 1: quarterback situation there because you've seen Luck do it and
35:56
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson looks like he's getting it together, but he's
36:00
Speaker 1: a rookie's played two games. If you're gonna trust the guy,
36:02
Speaker 1: you're gonna trust Luck in that scenario. Um, yeah, I
36:05
Speaker 1: think they're gonna make the playoffs. And I think they are.
36:10
Speaker 1: It's hard to say they're the team to beat over
36:12
Speaker 1: the Texans because the Texans seemed to have a more
36:16
Speaker 1: balanced roster right now, but in the future, it's hard
36:18
Speaker 1: to ar against the Colts right now, absolutely all right.
36:21
Speaker 1: So there are are big things and we'll turn our
36:23
Speaker 1: attention to what's up next. Pick one and pick it.
36:26
Speaker 1: So let's look at the games and then we'll do
36:28
Speaker 1: He will, he won't, he might. John will start with you.
36:30
Speaker 1: And you've got a good one. The Chargers and the
36:31
Speaker 1: Steelers good. And I picked this one kind of early.
36:34
Speaker 1: I got it in early to kind of you guys.
36:38
Speaker 1: This is is this in Los Angeles? No, it's the
36:43
Speaker 1: Charges at the Steelers. And there's two members of the
36:45
Speaker 1: quarterback class of two thousand and four This is tough
36:50
Speaker 1: because the Steelers all of a sudden look a little vulnerable.
36:54
Speaker 1: Lost last week, should have lost here. Uh you wonder
36:58
Speaker 1: if maybe the Laby unbuilt things catching up a little bit.
37:02
Speaker 1: James Conner. I think it's fumbled the last couple of games,
37:05
Speaker 1: as that's some issues there. I don't know enough about
37:07
Speaker 1: the Steelers to know that. Um, if it was in
37:11
Speaker 1: l A, you think the Charges are definitely hot enough
37:13
Speaker 1: to get it. It feels like a game that when
37:17
Speaker 1: you start doubting the Steelers this time of year, they
37:20
Speaker 1: come back and they get you. So I'm gonna go
37:22
Speaker 1: with the Steelers, but I think this Chargers team may
37:25
Speaker 1: wind up go to the Super Bowl. I Um, I'm
37:29
Speaker 1: not sold on the Steelers because of their performance here. Um,
37:33
Speaker 1: the Jack was able to take James Connor out of
37:35
Speaker 1: the game, they hadn't played particularly good defense, and yet
37:38
Speaker 1: they were able to turn it on. And now, of
37:40
Speaker 1: course they gave it up in the fourth quarters. So
37:42
Speaker 1: you've got to give Ben Roethlisberger's credit. Uh. The loss
37:45
Speaker 1: of Melvin Gordon to the m c L injury could
37:47
Speaker 1: be a problem for the Chargers because the other day,
37:51
Speaker 1: when Philip Rivers completed passes twenty five in a row.
37:55
Speaker 1: Melvin had a big day, and their balanced their play
37:58
Speaker 1: action pass kept everything you know, off balance for them. Um,
38:04
Speaker 1: I like, I really think the Chargers are playing great
38:06
Speaker 1: football and both is back for that defense. I'm with you.
38:09
Speaker 1: I'm going with the Chargers, though. I agree Chargers are
38:11
Speaker 1: rolling and you watch go back to the Patriots game
38:13
Speaker 1: against the Jaguars, and we've seen how these Jaguars have
38:15
Speaker 1: not played well the past few weeks, and they almost
38:17
Speaker 1: had them. I don't think that was a good look
38:19
Speaker 1: for the Steelers at all. All Right, you're next. I'm
38:21
Speaker 1: next New England in Minnesota. Both teams on a roll
38:25
Speaker 1: after starting off a little bit shaky at the beginning
38:27
Speaker 1: of the season. Of course, the storyline here is the quarterbacks,
38:30
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins and Tom Brady. Vikings. Defense has shown up lately,
38:34
Speaker 1: going with back to the Packers game and beating up
38:36
Speaker 1: on Aaron Rodgers. But I think this is the time
38:39
Speaker 1: when New England Patriots pull away in the season. This
38:42
Speaker 1: is the week where it starts going up north for
38:45
Speaker 1: the Patriots. See and I I'm going to go with
38:47
Speaker 1: the Vikings here. In back to back weeks, they have
38:50
Speaker 1: the chance to beat Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady, and
38:53
Speaker 1: they're playing very well on that side of the ball
38:56
Speaker 1: right now. Um Cousins has been quiet. The eight four
38:59
Speaker 1: million dollar man has not had one of those wowser games,
39:02
Speaker 1: the kind that we have seen from quarterbacks like Drew
39:05
Speaker 1: Brees and Pat Mahomes. But they've got enough going on
39:08
Speaker 1: that side of the bowl. Feeling has been consistent to
39:11
Speaker 1: all year. Stefon Diggs made some plays last week. I'm
39:13
Speaker 1: gonna go with the Vikings. Um, i just think that
39:17
Speaker 1: they're gonna make a little run here after stumbling around
39:19
Speaker 1: most of the season. That would Yeah, Cousins may have
39:22
Speaker 1: had his best game last week. I thought I actually
39:25
Speaker 1: played pretty well in the part out. Um. It's a
39:29
Speaker 1: big game for the Patriots because when they're good and
39:33
Speaker 1: when they're going places, which has been the last fifteen years,
39:36
Speaker 1: but when they're good, they win this game. H It
39:41
Speaker 1: seems like they're getting there, but you don't trust them
39:45
Speaker 1: quite as much as you have the last few years.
39:47
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the Patriots because I'm gonna go
39:49
Speaker 1: with them until they're not there. But this could be
39:52
Speaker 1: one of those turning point games that they look back
39:54
Speaker 1: on and say, okay, they they lost this one. This
39:57
Speaker 1: is when we saw it coming. The Vikings have the
40:00
Speaker 1: say ds to play with Gronkowski. Uh, if you can
40:02
Speaker 1: take Gronkowski away, and I know it, with Edelman back,
40:05
Speaker 1: it's a different dynamic. But if you can take Gronkowski
40:07
Speaker 1: out of the game, you stand a greater chance of
40:11
Speaker 1: beating them. And I think that that's what the Vikings
40:13
Speaker 1: can do. I chose the Broncos at the Bengals for
40:16
Speaker 1: two reasons. Number one, there aren't that many great games.
40:19
Speaker 1: This week's bad Weekum, but this one's interesting to me
40:23
Speaker 1: because the Broncos after really looking like you know, they
40:26
Speaker 1: spent twenty two million a year on case Keenum. Uh.
40:29
Speaker 1: That defense, it seemed I was getting wasted, um the
40:33
Speaker 1: effort that they would bring every week. But they've really
40:35
Speaker 1: come on. The defense is playing great. Von Miller is
40:37
Speaker 1: an impact player every play again, and the rookie Philip
40:41
Speaker 1: Lindsay is making plays from the running back spot. Um,
40:44
Speaker 1: they're charging. They're making a hard charge here at the
40:46
Speaker 1: end of the year. I think it would be fun
40:47
Speaker 1: to watch that game, even though the Bengals are a
40:50
Speaker 1: team in disarray. Playing with Jeff Driscoll instead of Andy Dalton. Yeah,
40:55
Speaker 1: go Gators, whatever, I'm interested in that game. I'm gonna
40:58
Speaker 1: go with the Broncos to go on the road and
40:59
Speaker 1: get the win and staying in the chase. Um. I
41:02
Speaker 1: agree with you mainly because it feels like the Bengals
41:06
Speaker 1: are deficient and getting more deficient. That they lost Andy Dalton.
41:11
Speaker 1: Earlier in the year, it looked like the Bengals might
41:12
Speaker 1: be a surprise team. They had burst and it looked
41:16
Speaker 1: like Marvin Lewis are We're get together. You wonder if
41:20
Speaker 1: this trail off that they're experiencing might finally be the
41:25
Speaker 1: end of Marvin Lewis. And I hate to say finally,
41:26
Speaker 1: because Marvin Lewis has been the head coach of the
41:29
Speaker 1: Bengals since Jack del Rio started here. They were hired
41:32
Speaker 1: the same year. Yeah, he was oh three, right, Yeah,
41:35
Speaker 1: I mean they were both hired at the same time.
41:36
Speaker 1: Jack is long gone and he's still in Cincinnati. Yeah,
41:39
Speaker 1: and and you got to playoff win. But I think
41:42
Speaker 1: if you consider where they were before he got there,
41:46
Speaker 1: they are a franchise that has had a chance in
41:50
Speaker 1: seasons far more often than before he got there. But
41:53
Speaker 1: it it just sort of feels like this slump at
41:59
Speaker 1: the end of the season, maybe the end. Uh, and
42:02
Speaker 1: without Andy Dalton feels like they're going the wrong direction.
42:04
Speaker 1: It seems like the slump will continue. And I remember
42:06
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago we were talking about the Bengals,
42:08
Speaker 1: you know, if they were exciting and they had a
42:09
Speaker 1: chance to get into the wild card, and it's just
42:11
Speaker 1: seemed gone straight down. All right, how about a quick guy?
42:14
Speaker 1: He will he won't, he might, And then we'll take
42:17
Speaker 1: a break and go to famtasy football. John will start
42:19
Speaker 1: with you you have Carlos hide cross I Uh, he
42:22
Speaker 1: will start and uh because Leonard four nett Uh, he won't.
42:29
Speaker 1: I don't think he'll get a hundred yards because I
42:31
Speaker 1: don't think they'll be able to reach it. They haven't
42:33
Speaker 1: reached it with an individual back yet. Um. I think
42:37
Speaker 1: he'll get close to it. I think he'll play better
42:40
Speaker 1: than what perhaps people think, because although they will throw
42:49
Speaker 1: more than they have because of I guess the mandate
42:54
Speaker 1: or because of the coaching change this week, they still
42:56
Speaker 1: need to run effectively to be able to get to
42:58
Speaker 1: the past. Uh. He might be the reason that they
43:02
Speaker 1: have some ballots this week. I think he's going to have.
43:06
Speaker 1: He didn't play particularly wells first two games where he
43:08
Speaker 1: didn't get out of productions first two games. He has
43:11
Speaker 1: been better the last two or three games, and I
43:13
Speaker 1: think he's got a chance to have an impact this week.
43:16
Speaker 1: I had the obvious Cody Kessler he will he won't
43:19
Speaker 1: he mind. I think he will take advantage of the opportunity.
43:22
Speaker 1: We've seen throughout training kimp that he throws a pretty
43:24
Speaker 1: good ball. We always said it's been better than boardles ball.
43:26
Speaker 1: I think they're going to pass more with Cody Kessler
43:29
Speaker 1: mentes to see though, how he escapes the rush with
43:32
Speaker 1: the offensive line, especially being injured. I don't think he
43:34
Speaker 1: won't ball out. He won't have a huge game, and
43:37
Speaker 1: I don't think they're expecting him to, and they're not
43:38
Speaker 1: asking him to. They're not asking him to be the hero.
43:40
Speaker 1: He just can't turn the ball over, can't make huge
43:43
Speaker 1: mistakes and just control the game. He might have two
43:46
Speaker 1: touchdown passes this week. Okay, I went with Scott Milanovitch,
43:51
Speaker 1: the new offensive coordinator. Uh, he will look different than
43:55
Speaker 1: Nate Hackett, not in terms of the personnel that he's
43:58
Speaker 1: got on the field, because that's going to be exactly
43:59
Speaker 1: the same, that's not quite as good. But what he
44:02
Speaker 1: will be able to do is perhaps change the mix,
44:06
Speaker 1: change the run on first down, throw the ball more.
44:10
Speaker 1: We'll see something different because we have to because what
44:12
Speaker 1: we have seen has not worked. He's got great experience
44:14
Speaker 1: from his years as the head coach in Toronto in
44:17
Speaker 1: the Canadian Toronto Yeah, the argonautm um in the Canadian
44:21
Speaker 1: Football League. Listening to him yesterday and it was clear
44:24
Speaker 1: that he knew what he wanted to do. He wasn't
44:26
Speaker 1: gonna share it. He wasn't gonna give the Colts any tips.
44:29
Speaker 1: But every coach who sits on his staff has ideas
44:34
Speaker 1: about how they would do it. Um, you're never gonna
44:37
Speaker 1: come out and say it because they don't want to
44:39
Speaker 1: undercut their coordinator. But you can bet he's been sitting
44:42
Speaker 1: there watching, and as the quarterbacks coach, he has a
44:43
Speaker 1: unique insight. So there are plays that he has wanted
44:46
Speaker 1: to call that Nate didn't feel comfortable calling. Um, it's
44:49
Speaker 1: easier to be the backseat quarterback in that situation. Now
44:52
Speaker 1: he's the man, and I think we'll go ahead and
44:53
Speaker 1: call it. Don't everything to lose. You're not in the
44:55
Speaker 1: race anymore, so I think we will see something different.
44:58
Speaker 1: How do I say this? He won't. He's not gonna
45:03
Speaker 1: score thirty points. He's not gonna look like the New
45:05
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints in one week or Kansas City because you
45:08
Speaker 1: don't have the weapons. Right. Um. He might though, have
45:13
Speaker 1: a football team that is energized to do something different. Uh,
45:18
Speaker 1: they'll overcome the absence of Fornat, the absence of Austin
45:22
Speaker 1: Seferian Jenkins and all those offensive linemen. Uh, and they
45:25
Speaker 1: might get to twenty points. Yeah, it's interesting, Brian, we
45:30
Speaker 1: I did a bad job of getting to the point
45:32
Speaker 1: that you were getting to. Um, it's a tricky spot
45:36
Speaker 1: that he's in because there is this idea that he
45:39
Speaker 1: has to improve the passing game, and yet he has
45:42
Speaker 1: an offensive line that's really beat up. How does he
45:46
Speaker 1: get Carlos Hied involved with that to give him enough
45:50
Speaker 1: time to pass? At the same time, you need to
45:53
Speaker 1: improve the passing games, that's what's expected. So it's a
45:58
Speaker 1: personnel makes a tricky Yeah, and when you're this down,
46:02
Speaker 1: I I'm not sure what I would do in that situation.
46:06
Speaker 1: Listening to him yesterday, Yeah, he's got a plan. Yeah,
46:08
Speaker 1: he's got he's got something and he's been in he's
46:10
Speaker 1: been here since the beginning of last season. He knows
46:13
Speaker 1: what he's got. And again, you sit in a meeting
46:15
Speaker 1: with whoever it is that you're working with, and somebody
46:17
Speaker 1: gets to make the decision. If it's not you, you're
46:18
Speaker 1: thinking I would do this right, it happens. So we'll
46:21
Speaker 1: see what he's gonna do. On Sunday. We'll take a break.
46:23
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Speaker 1: degrees time for fantasy football. Mike is a course on fire.
48:31
Speaker 1: Um John John's on fire. I'm not here. You're scared
48:37
Speaker 1: to you know why? Because you're on five. Great Mike,
48:42
Speaker 1: take this thing over. He ah, he will, he won
48:44
Speaker 1: he might? Is Dante Moncrief today, Okay, he will, Like
48:49
Speaker 1: every player who goes against the former team, be motivated
48:52
Speaker 1: to give a good performance, which he did last time
48:55
Speaker 1: they played. And uh, he won't be overlooked by the
48:58
Speaker 1: cold soul. Remember the eight yard touchdown that he scored.
49:01
Speaker 1: He cut three balls for ninety eight yards in that game.
49:04
Speaker 1: And he might be the favorite target of Cody Kessler
49:07
Speaker 1: this week. And you go back and look at that game.
49:09
Speaker 1: I know Cody threw at thirty times, but six of
49:11
Speaker 1: those went to Dante Moncrieff in the second half. He
49:14
Speaker 1: led the team with ten targets against the Colts, by far,
49:17
Speaker 1: the most of anybody on the team. So there you go,
49:19
Speaker 1: Donte Moncrief, he won't, he won't, he might. Here we go,
49:22
Speaker 1: here we go. Oh, we had a big issue Brian Sexton.
49:29
Speaker 1: The rules clearly state you may use each player once
49:32
Speaker 1: all year. Now we keep a spreadsheet and we keep
49:34
Speaker 1: track of it. And Brian, uh took Melvin Gordon for
49:38
Speaker 1: consecutive weeks. It sounded good at the time. I think
49:41
Speaker 1: it was consecutive. Actually, yeah, it was wet. He did
49:50
Speaker 1: well both times. But Brian lost out on twenty points
49:53
Speaker 1: that he would have had otherwise. Overall, let's see what
49:57
Speaker 1: we've got here. We've got I'm in first, but John
50:01
Speaker 1: has been coming on. He had the big week with
50:03
Speaker 1: ninety seven points last week. He's at six thirty three.
50:06
Speaker 1: Ashlyn uh Ashlan took advantage of Brian's Melvin Gordon mishap
50:11
Speaker 1: and moved into third place at fifty nine and Brian
50:14
Speaker 1: at forty one. As you can see, has earned the
50:17
Speaker 1: top pick this week. And I don't. I didn't look
50:20
Speaker 1: to see who had used um uh, so I'll go
50:25
Speaker 1: with um DeShawn Watson Shaun Watson, Okay, go, I have
50:31
Speaker 1: not used him for folks. We haven't done this, so
50:33
Speaker 1: we don't do this every single week. And we take
50:35
Speaker 1: a quarterback, running back, wide receiver in tight end and
50:37
Speaker 1: you can only use each player once all year. So Ashlyn,
50:40
Speaker 1: you are next. I'm gonna go Cam Newton. Cam is
50:42
Speaker 1: a great quarterback play this week. I believe John. I'm
50:47
Speaker 1: going with Kittle versus Seattle. Ah. Yes, everyone's gonna use
50:52
Speaker 1: him eventually. He's top five Fantasy tight end. To be sure,
50:56
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go tight end as well. I'm gonna go
50:58
Speaker 1: Cameron Braid for the Buccaneers. The Carolina Panthers actually give
51:03
Speaker 1: up the most fantasy points to tight ends. And I
51:06
Speaker 1: will go with say Kwan Barkley at running back this week.
51:10
Speaker 1: Haven't used him yet. Back to you, John, I'm going
51:14
Speaker 1: to go Hunt versus Oakland. Okay, Kareem Hunt off the board.
51:17
Speaker 1: Ashland cannot pair him with Cam Newton now, dang it.
51:21
Speaker 1: I'll go Todd Gurley, Girly all right, fresh his head
51:27
Speaker 1: coach said he's good to go. Brian, you got back
51:29
Speaker 1: to back picks here. I'll go with Christian McCaffrey. Okay, Uh,
51:33
Speaker 1: and give me Davante Adams. Davante Adams, Brian, going some
51:38
Speaker 1: big guns there, Ashlyn, you're next. You've got Cam and Girly,
51:41
Speaker 1: Julio Jones, firepower, all the firepowers coming off the shelf. John,
51:46
Speaker 1: need a quarterback or a wide receiver here. I didn't
51:49
Speaker 1: love the quarterbacks this week, Mike. I gotta be honest
51:51
Speaker 1: with you. Okay, that's a little fantasy talk between you
51:53
Speaker 1: and me right over their heads. John, I'm sure, but
51:59
Speaker 1: I'm going with Uh. I'm gonna go with Hopkins versus Cleveland. Okay,
52:04
Speaker 1: you get Hopkins as your wide receiver. I'm gonna go
52:07
Speaker 1: with the Jared Goff and everybody else had used him,
52:11
Speaker 1: so I got him versus Detroit, and I'm gonna go
52:13
Speaker 1: with tyreek Hill. Everybody else had used him as well,
52:16
Speaker 1: so I will fill in with that. John need a quarterback, Uh,
52:20
Speaker 1: give me Wilson versus San Francisco. Okay, Russell Wilson at home.
52:24
Speaker 1: Ashland need your tight end here, Olson, and same for you,
52:28
Speaker 1: Brian and Joku. Okay, you've got it all right. Here's
52:31
Speaker 1: what we've got, Deshaun Watson, Christian McCaffrey, Davante Adams and
52:36
Speaker 1: David and Joku for Brian, Ashland as Cam Newton, Todd Girley,
52:39
Speaker 1: Julio Jones and Gregg. Also, John went with Russell Wilson,
52:44
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt, DeAndre Hopkins and George Kittle. And I've got
52:46
Speaker 1: Jared Goss, Sae Kwon, Barkley, tyreek Hill and Cameron bred
52:50
Speaker 1: and still plenty of time. I'll tell you what. Let's
52:53
Speaker 1: just let Brian use Melvin Gordon again this. I just
52:57
Speaker 1: put him on their roster having there for moral support.
53:00
Speaker 1: How about Austin Ekeler since he's going for come on,
53:07
Speaker 1: I didn't play well enough. Uh, and I didn't play
53:10
Speaker 1: well It happens. I'm just taking Blake Bortle's line from
53:13
Speaker 1: the other day. I did this to myself. It's a
53:15
Speaker 1: team after a guy. Yeah No, in this case, it's
53:19
Speaker 1: all on one guy. Okay, Thanks Mike, appreciate it. Thank
53:22
Speaker 1: you very much. Thank you John for coming in and
53:24
Speaker 1: bringing your wit and humor to the show this morning.
53:26
Speaker 1: I do it, I can. Yeah right, it's yeah exactly.
53:30
Speaker 1: So that'll do it for our show for Ashlyn. Joe
53:33
Speaker 1: and mad Max in the other room will say good
53:36
Speaker 1: morning to you. Enjoy the day. Looks like it's going
53:39
Speaker 1: to be a nice one here on the First Coast.