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- 0:01Speaker 1: It's thirty two degrees in Jacksonville, eighteen in kil Kenny,
- 0:06Speaker 1: fifteen in Waterford, Ireland, thirteen in Chester. This is Till Talk,
- 0:11Speaker 1: the official podcast for Jacksonville Jaquars in the UK and Ireland.
- 0:14Speaker 1: I'm Jay Lawrence and as far as I know, I
- 0:16Speaker 1: am still not related. Hello Key Ramsuin.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Hello j. You keep adding more and more destinations to
- 0:23Speaker 2: the list of temperatures every week.
- 0:25Speaker 1: The irony being is last week actually we had Brighton Beach,
- 0:29Speaker 1: didn't we And this week our very own co host,
- 0:31Speaker 1: Key ramsur And is actually coming from Brighton Beach. Can
- 0:34Speaker 1: we get an estimated temperature this time?
- 0:36Speaker 2: Estimated temperature thirteen thirteen degrees?
- 0:39Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we'll take it. We'll take it. Big
- 0:42Speaker 1: episode today actually because we are joined by our greatest
- 0:46Speaker 1: Tony BISSELLI I'm warning you, Key, I'm warning you. He
- 0:50Speaker 1: might be raged, he might be raging a little bit.
- 0:53Speaker 1: And we're also going to talk London visits. His life
- 0:56Speaker 1: is a Hall of famer, of course, and his days
- 0:58Speaker 1: in the Jacuars locker room, you know, and how he
- 1:00Speaker 1: would have responded as well to that lost in Buffalo
- 1:03Speaker 1: that we will speak about in a second. The UK
- 1:05Speaker 1: Jags super Fann Kieran joins us with the big question, fun,
- 1:09Speaker 1: big question actually this week plus we have as a
- 1:13Speaker 1: big do vour dispatches? Actually go put it out there,
- 1:16Speaker 1: Key right at the beginning. Oh, I've heard this before though,
- 1:19Speaker 1: biggest do our dispatches yet?
- 1:21Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay.
- 1:23Speaker 1: More tickets, more tickets to the Wembley Stadium, New England
- 1:29Speaker 1: Patriots facing the Jacksonville Jaguars if you're very quick. All
- 1:33Speaker 1: the information in the podcast a little bit later on,
- 1:36Speaker 1: as well as the locations for Jags meetups in London October,
- 1:39Speaker 1: and we'll have a look to the next game of course,
- 1:42Speaker 1: that Jacksonvill Jaggers playing against the Houston Texans in week four,
- 1:45Speaker 1: which I think it's fair to say, isn't it, Key,
- 1:47Speaker 1: that it's as close to must win as you can
- 1:50Speaker 1: possibly get in week four, after a bit of a beatdown,
- 1:55Speaker 1: beat down on Monday night football, Key, how are you?
- 1:59Speaker 3: You are? Not great? Not great?
- 2:02Speaker 2: Like Week two was hard against the Browns, but Monday
- 2:08Speaker 2: night was just oh my word, what is happening here?
- 2:12Speaker 2: But I did come up with some highlights if you
- 2:15Speaker 2: want him, Joe, oh uh.
- 2:18Speaker 1: All right, yeah, I'm not sure where this is going go.
- 2:20Speaker 2: And then my highlight is josh heinz Allen arriving in
- 2:25Speaker 2: a beautiful cream suit with a neon orange shirt and
- 2:30Speaker 2: matching orange handbag. Absolutely, what is he keeping in that bag?
- 2:37Speaker 3: Jay?
- 2:37Speaker 2: That's my question? What's in that?
- 2:39Speaker 1: I can't I can't answer that, And honestly, I think
- 2:41Speaker 1: it'd be a bit weird if I asked him that now.
- 2:42Speaker 1: To be fair as well, this is the moment actually
- 2:44Speaker 1: when if you're not listening, if you're listening on your
- 2:47Speaker 1: podcast to till Talk, you can actually watch this via
- 2:49Speaker 1: YouTube as well, so you can see the outfit in question.
- 2:55Speaker 1: And to be honest, if that was your highlight for
- 2:58Speaker 1: Monday night football, Key, I'm not sure what that says
- 3:02Speaker 1: about Monday night football, doesn't it?
- 3:04Speaker 3: Mate?
- 3:05Speaker 1: Forty seven to ten? Key, Look, we're not going to
- 3:08Speaker 1: touch on it too much because we've got Tony Biselli
- 3:11Speaker 1: does enough talking for both of us. To be honest
- 3:12Speaker 1: with you, Yeah, just.
- 3:14Speaker 2: Tell me little bit more about football than we do.
- 3:16Speaker 1: Well, I don't know, I know a lot about the
- 3:19Speaker 1: O line. Tell me how you felt watching that? Tell me,
- 3:25Speaker 1: just yeah, just tell me, just tell me, Key.
- 3:28Speaker 2: Okay, I've been a Jags fan for eleven years now.
- 3:36Speaker 2: Since twenty twenty two, since Doug Peterson came in as
- 3:40Speaker 2: head coach, things have felt very different. Things have felt positive,
- 3:44Speaker 2: and there's been hope, which for a long time before that,
- 3:49Speaker 2: there just hadn't been quite honestly, since the seventeen season
- 3:52Speaker 2: that was like, that was a standout season amongst many
- 3:58Speaker 2: seasons that weren't great as a Jags fan, and honestly,
- 4:02Speaker 2: Monday night felt more like that. It was really tough,
- 4:06Speaker 2: but incredibly familiar.
- 4:08Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. I didn't actually watch it live.
- 4:11Speaker 1: I didn't stay up for it. But what I did
- 4:12Speaker 1: do is I got up and I watched it, and
- 4:16Speaker 1: I didn't know the score beforehand, and I just watched
- 4:19Speaker 1: like the whole thing. But I did get a text
- 4:21Speaker 1: from somebody and it was from like one thirty at
- 4:23Speaker 1: night and all it said was or maybe like two
- 4:25Speaker 1: am or something, and all it said was, oh my goodness.
- 4:29Speaker 1: And I was like, all right, what does that mean?
- 4:33Speaker 1: Could that be good? Do you know what I mean?
- 4:34Speaker 1: It could be taken either way, can't it? Do you know?
- 4:36Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean?
- 4:37Speaker 2: I hang on, Jay, I fell asleep at thirty seven
- 4:39Speaker 2: ten What happened. I'm assuming the drags one.
- 4:43Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was really disappointing. And as they say,
- 4:45Speaker 1: Tony's going to talk about it more in a second,
- 4:47Speaker 1: but you know, it just felt like there were no
- 4:50Speaker 1: answers that had been previously positive. Wasn't positive?
- 4:53Speaker 2: Yeah, it looked like they were running through sand for
- 4:57Speaker 2: a lot of it. It looked heavy, it looked difficult,
- 5:01Speaker 2: it was sluggish. It didn't look great. But we said
- 5:05Speaker 2: it last week. They are better than that. I don't
- 5:07Speaker 2: think this represents what this team are capable of. And
- 5:11Speaker 2: I think surely it can't get any worse against the Texans.
- 5:15Speaker 2: It can only get better from here, right.
- 5:17Speaker 1: You know, credit to the Baffler Bills as well, because
- 5:19Speaker 1: they're a good team and you can't you can't look
- 5:20Speaker 1: past it.
- 5:21Speaker 2: But they were on fire, weren't they.
- 5:22Speaker 1: Yeah. I've said this before in the podcast. I think
- 5:25Speaker 1: I said it last week, didn't I that? Josh Allen is,
- 5:28Speaker 1: you know, one of my favorite players in the NFL
- 5:30Speaker 1: to watch, let's say, from Tony Biselli. But before that,
- 5:33Speaker 1: I just want to hear read this one tweet that
- 5:36Speaker 1: I saw, and maybe this sort of sums up how
- 5:39Speaker 1: you know, Jacksonville Jankuers fans are feeling because the owner
- 5:43Speaker 1: is feeling in a similar way.
- 5:45Speaker 3: Right.
- 5:45Speaker 1: According to jax dot Com journalist Demitrius Harvey, Shad Khan
- 5:50Speaker 1: was reportedly angrier than I had ever seen Khan. Now
- 5:54Speaker 1: that's before that's from a source close to Khan. If
- 5:59Speaker 1: you're feeling that way, fans, your owner is feeling a
- 6:02Speaker 1: similar way as well. Okay, let's hear how Jacksonville Jaguars
- 6:05Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Tony Basselli is feeling the morning after
- 6:09Speaker 1: the night before.
- 6:11Speaker 3: Well, it was a uh, everyone probably knows what everyone
- 6:15Speaker 3: knows by now, it was a bad night for to
- 6:18Speaker 3: be a Jaguar fan. And then to add insult to injury.
- 6:21Speaker 3: As we got started heading after the game down to
- 6:25Speaker 3: the buses to get on the buses and go to
- 6:27Speaker 3: the plane, we were notified that there was a mechanical issue,
- 6:30Speaker 3: so we were gonna be stuck at the stadium for
- 6:32Speaker 3: about three hours. So we ended up I don't think
- 6:34Speaker 3: we took off to about three am Eastern and I
- 6:38Speaker 3: rolled into the house at seven am this morning. So
- 6:42Speaker 3: it's a it was a long night. It's it was
- 6:44Speaker 3: bad enough getting getting our tails kicked on national television.
- 6:49Speaker 3: But to make the trip home that like that. So
- 6:53Speaker 3: but that's it, that's the way it goes.
- 6:55Speaker 1: Well, we'll talk about we'll talk about the game. I mean,
- 6:57Speaker 1: we can't not talk about the game, can we. You know,
- 7:00Speaker 1: wasn't a close game against the Buffalo Bills. That's me
- 7:03Speaker 1: putting it in a nice way, isn't it.
- 7:05Speaker 3: That's like saying you know, you know, it's it's.
- 7:08Speaker 1: Like a British politeness coming out.
- 7:10Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd be way too nine. I mean, if you
- 7:12Speaker 3: were here in the US and doing a podcast or
- 7:16Speaker 3: on the radio, it would be you'd be saying that
- 7:19Speaker 3: was one of the worst performances in the history thirty
- 7:22Speaker 3: year history of the franchise.
- 7:24Speaker 1: Well, there we go, so we can go off that bit. Actually,
- 7:26Speaker 1: because I was listening to Happy Hour last week after
- 7:28Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns loss, and you were not scared of
- 7:30Speaker 1: being vocal when it comes to when it came to
- 7:32Speaker 1: that loss. So, I mean, after the Buffalo Bills defeat,
- 7:38Speaker 1: you've got to be feeling like that times one hundred.
- 7:41Speaker 3: Well, yeah, it's just it's it's very it's frustrating and
- 7:44Speaker 3: disappointing because it's listen, Buffalo is a good team. So
- 7:47Speaker 3: you knew that was going to be a tough game
- 7:49Speaker 3: in Monday night on the road. Good football team, you know,
- 7:52Speaker 3: win or lose. I mean, it's the NFL. It's week
- 7:54Speaker 3: to week, it's that's it's tough. But you got to
- 7:58Speaker 3: show up. You gotta some effort on the field, and
- 8:02Speaker 3: that shows that you're ready to play, that you're you're competitive,
- 8:05Speaker 3: that you know, you have a game plan, you understand
- 8:07Speaker 3: what's you know, and we just did nothing from the start.
- 8:11Speaker 3: It was clear that they had their plan. They had
- 8:13Speaker 3: a great plan against their defense. We had no answer.
- 8:15Speaker 3: We didn't make any adjustments. Guys didn't make plays. We
- 8:18Speaker 3: didn't We never got to stop at any point that
- 8:20Speaker 3: mattered in that game. Offensively, you knew that they had
- 8:24Speaker 3: a bunch of good pass rushers. We come out throwing
- 8:26Speaker 3: it and never established a run, which I thought we
- 8:29Speaker 3: had to, you know, which does multiple things, you know,
- 8:32Speaker 3: kind of calms everything down in a loud stadium and
- 8:35Speaker 3: keeps your defense on the sideline. You know, we keep
- 8:37Speaker 3: on going three and out. So it was like you
- 8:40Speaker 3: blink and you look at you're going, what the heck's
- 8:43Speaker 3: going on? And then you you know, you look up
- 8:47Speaker 3: it's twenty to three, and then you have one of
- 8:50Speaker 3: the worst interceptions that you know, you've seen in a
- 8:52Speaker 3: long time, just over airmailing a guy who's wide open
- 8:56Speaker 3: in the middle of the field with no pressure. And
- 9:00Speaker 3: at that point he's like, my goodness, what are we doing?
- 9:03Speaker 3: And you know, now you look up your own three
- 9:07Speaker 3: he's got blown out, embarrassed on national television. You're going
- 9:10Speaker 3: to your division rival in Houston, who's you know, two
- 9:14Speaker 3: and one, good football team coming off a bad loss.
- 9:16Speaker 3: You know they're gonna be ready. You know, you're at
- 9:19Speaker 3: a point in the season that there's nothing anyone can
- 9:21Speaker 3: do except for the fifty three guys in that locker room. Yeah,
- 9:25Speaker 3: the coaches. Coaches got to do their job, and they
- 9:27Speaker 3: need to do a better job. There's no, you know,
- 9:29Speaker 3: no doubt about that. And Doug said that after the
- 9:31Speaker 3: game last night. But you know, I'm a big believer.
- 9:34Speaker 3: It's about those guys in the locker room. Somebody in
- 9:36Speaker 3: that locker rooms got to make a decision. This is enough,
- 9:38Speaker 3: Like we're not doing this anymore. And I don't care
- 9:41Speaker 3: like win or lose, whatever, but go out there and compete,
- 9:45Speaker 3: go out there and put you know, be proud of
- 9:47Speaker 3: what you put on tape, and I don't think anyone
- 9:50Speaker 3: after you know, and I haven't watched the tape yet
- 9:52Speaker 3: because obviously I haven't barely slept, but I highly doubt
- 9:56Speaker 3: very many people on that Jaguars sideline are going to
- 9:59Speaker 3: be proud of that performance and are going to say, hey,
- 10:02Speaker 3: you know, let me show this at the Christmas dinner
- 10:04Speaker 3: to my family and what a great job I did.
- 10:06Speaker 3: And that's it's personal pride, it's you're a professional athlete.
- 10:09Speaker 3: You got to own it. You've got to make a difference.
- 10:11Speaker 1: Well, look, you mentioned the locker room there, and you
- 10:13Speaker 1: know what, what are you hoping is being said in
- 10:16Speaker 1: the locker room right now?
- 10:19Speaker 3: You know, in these situations, you know, to me, it's
- 10:25Speaker 3: less about I mean, you want individual leaders to step up,
- 10:29Speaker 3: but I think it's the it's the leadership. It's the
- 10:31Speaker 3: guys in the locker room to go show people what like,
- 10:33Speaker 3: this is what it looks like, this is what you
- 10:35Speaker 3: need to do. And I'm a big believer. You know,
- 10:39Speaker 3: every guy in that room gets paid to do a job,
- 10:42Speaker 3: and I think it starts with every guy looking in
- 10:44Speaker 3: the damn mirror and saying, am I doing everything I
- 10:48Speaker 3: can do? Am I doing what I should be? Am
- 10:51Speaker 3: I prepared? Am I studying? Am I getting my body ready?
- 10:53Speaker 3: Am I doing? Like? Am I doing my job? That's
- 10:55Speaker 3: what you're getting paid to do. So each guy, it
- 10:58Speaker 3: starts with each guy. And now you need leadership and
- 11:00Speaker 3: you guys, you know to you know, set the example
- 11:03Speaker 3: and everything else like that, especially for the young guys.
- 11:05Speaker 3: But you got a bunch of veterans. I mean, come on,
- 11:07Speaker 3: you're getting paid. This is your job. And the question
- 11:11Speaker 3: I would ask if I was in the locker room, is, hey,
- 11:14Speaker 3: everyone proud of what we put on tape? Because thirty
- 11:17Speaker 3: one other teams are looking at this, and guess what
- 11:21Speaker 3: if we don't make adjustments, If we don't change it,
- 11:24Speaker 3: we got fourteen more games and they're not canceling those games.
- 11:27Speaker 3: And nobody's gonna feel sorry for us if no one's
- 11:29Speaker 3: gonna take it easy on us. So we have a
- 11:31Speaker 3: choice as individuals. Forget about the record, forget about the playoffs,
- 11:35Speaker 3: forget about all that crap. We have the responsibility as
- 11:40Speaker 3: individuals to make a decision here and now of what
- 11:44Speaker 3: do we want to put on tape on Sunday? What
- 11:46Speaker 3: do we want to go when we step on that field.
- 11:49Speaker 3: What message are we sending to our opponents, to the
- 11:52Speaker 3: rest of the league, to everyone watching, of who we
- 11:55Speaker 3: are as individuals and as a team.
- 11:58Speaker 4: You gotta take it personal, like we're playing fourteen more
- 12:00Speaker 4: games and they're not. I mean those are coming, we
- 12:04Speaker 4: are going to Houston. So it comes down to that locker.
- 12:08Speaker 3: Room, those guys saying okay, enough enough, and you hope
- 12:12Speaker 3: that there's enough guys that do that, because that's the
- 12:15Speaker 3: only way it is changing. There's no magic speech a
- 12:18Speaker 3: Doug and give. There's no they're not There's no players
- 12:21Speaker 3: out there that you can go get or trade for,
- 12:24Speaker 3: or there's no magic pill you can take. It is literally,
- 12:29Speaker 3: it's no easy answer. It's those guys making a decision
- 12:32Speaker 3: that it's going to change. That's the only way it changes.
- 12:35Speaker 1: But are you're saying that this is is just as
- 12:36Speaker 1: much a mental thing as it is a as a
- 12:40Speaker 1: coaching play call situation.
- 12:43Speaker 3: Coaches need to do a better job. The coaching staff
- 12:46Speaker 3: needs to do a better job to make sure they're
- 12:47Speaker 3: prepared to have a good game plan and put these
- 12:49Speaker 3: guys in the best position they can. Okay, but they
- 12:54Speaker 3: can that's all they can do. It's the players have
- 12:57Speaker 3: to go execute that. And so, yeah, it's mental because
- 13:00Speaker 3: the human nature day and you know this, this is
- 13:03Speaker 3: everyone listening has a job out there, and human nature
- 13:06Speaker 3: is when it's going tough, a lot of people, you know,
- 13:10Speaker 3: just kind of crawl, you know, curl up in a
- 13:11Speaker 3: ball and you know, put the thumb in their mouth
- 13:13Speaker 3: and say, oh my gosh, I just hope it goes
- 13:15Speaker 3: away it's hard, or you want to quit, or you
- 13:19Speaker 3: want to go your discourage, you want to do something else.
- 13:21Speaker 3: I mean, that's you. That's the natural, that's.
- 13:23Speaker 1: The easy, that's the key thing.
- 13:25Speaker 3: Yeah, And so the question is are you going to
- 13:28Speaker 3: fight against that and say, no, this is hard, this
- 13:32Speaker 3: is difficult. But the only way through it is through it.
- 13:36Speaker 3: You gotta head go head first. And so it's mental. Yes,
- 13:40Speaker 3: it's physical. You have to make it, make a decision.
- 13:43Speaker 3: Once you make that decision mentally that now you have
- 13:45Speaker 3: to go go do it. You got to put the
- 13:46Speaker 3: work in, you gotta put it on the practice field,
- 13:48Speaker 3: you gotta wrap it, you got to do what it takes.
- 13:50Speaker 3: And then you got to go on the field and
- 13:52Speaker 3: execute it and play the right way. Mentally, be prepared physically,
- 13:58Speaker 3: give it everything you got, and if you lose, you
- 14:01Speaker 3: can live with it, but that last night is unacceptable.
- 14:06Speaker 1: Can you think of any situation in your career where
- 14:08Speaker 1: you've had to step up in the locker room and
- 14:11Speaker 1: have that difficult conversation with your teammates?
- 14:14Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I mean we've I mean I've been
- 14:15Speaker 3: on teams you have team meetings or player only meetings
- 14:18Speaker 3: and stuff like that, and guys speak up. I was fortunate.
- 14:21Speaker 3: I mean I was on a lot of good teams
- 14:23Speaker 3: where we had a lot of guys, espently when I
- 14:25Speaker 3: was a younger player and said hey, like let's go,
- 14:28Speaker 3: like here's what's in front of us. I've been, I've
- 14:30Speaker 3: been in those situations. I played a Sunday night game
- 14:33Speaker 3: against the Minnesota Vikings and we had our third string
- 14:36Speaker 3: quarterback and they were the best team in the league
- 14:38Speaker 3: and we got beat fifty five to ten. We got
- 14:41Speaker 3: blown out, and it was one of those things like, yeah,
- 14:46Speaker 3: we had a lot of excuses, and it was one
- 14:48Speaker 3: of the most disappointing games of my career because I
- 14:50Speaker 3: you know, if I'm honest with myself, you go back
- 14:52Speaker 3: and mentally you're going on that field you're with your
- 14:54Speaker 3: third string quarterback, your backup running back, a bunch of
- 14:58Speaker 3: backup off its alignment because everyone was hurt from the
- 15:00Speaker 3: week before. We already made the playoffs, but you went
- 15:05Speaker 3: into that game and we weren't ready. And after that game,
- 15:09Speaker 3: we had to make a decisions like, all right, let's go,
- 15:11Speaker 3: let's flush this down, let's get back because we have
- 15:12Speaker 3: the playoffs in front of us, we have another regular
- 15:14Speaker 3: season game. We gotta change it because this is not
- 15:17Speaker 3: good enough. And I was fortunate because I had a
- 15:19Speaker 3: bunch of guys played with a bunch of guys that
- 15:23Speaker 3: individually had a lot of pride in what they did.
- 15:25Speaker 3: And I think there's guys on this team. I know
- 15:27Speaker 3: there are, and it's up to those individuals. Maybe there's
- 15:30Speaker 3: some words that can be said. But you've got to
- 15:32Speaker 3: go demonstrated on the practice field. You got to go
- 15:35Speaker 3: demonstrated in the facility, how you prepare, you have to
- 15:37Speaker 3: go demonstrated in the weight room. You got to go
- 15:39Speaker 3: demonstrate it with your body language and how you talk,
- 15:41Speaker 3: in how you approach it. And so I think everyone
- 15:45Speaker 3: wants that raw rass speech. And those are goodther times,
- 15:49Speaker 3: and those are nice motivational things. But it's also it's
- 15:52Speaker 3: it's individuals have to again, I'm going back, look yourself
- 15:55Speaker 3: in the mirror, dig deep and make a decision. What
- 15:58Speaker 3: do you want to put on tape? Because Jame, the
- 16:01Speaker 3: interesting thing is this always haunted me all the time.
- 16:05Speaker 3: What you do as an NFL player is on tape
- 16:10Speaker 3: for everybody else in the league to see everybody. And
- 16:17Speaker 3: so what you do in the way you play, you
- 16:20Speaker 3: send the message of who you are, and that goes
- 16:23Speaker 3: for the individual, as the unit, and then as a team,
- 16:28Speaker 3: you are sending a message of who you are. And
- 16:30Speaker 3: for me it was always like, man, that's my reputet,
- 16:33Speaker 3: that's who that's who I'm As a players, this is
- 16:36Speaker 3: a player's league. The coach, like I said, coaches need
- 16:38Speaker 3: to do better, but the player's got to go execute it.
- 16:40Speaker 1: Can we take a take a step back and talk
- 16:42Speaker 1: Tony Piselli for a second. If you don't, mom, we
- 16:44Speaker 1: can put we can put the jacks to one side,
- 16:46Speaker 1: or current jacks to one side. So maybe maybe you
- 16:48Speaker 1: could have a little bit of a relief in that
- 16:51Speaker 1: side of things. Hall of Fame of Tony Piselli only
- 16:54Speaker 1: a couple of years actually ago that you received that
- 16:56Speaker 1: on a And I want to know what it's like
- 16:58Speaker 1: every morning when you wake up. Do you recognize do
- 17:00Speaker 1: you realize, ah, I'm a Hall of Famer or is
- 17:03Speaker 1: it something that you just don't You don't really think
- 17:05Speaker 1: about it, so someone brings it up when you're on
- 17:06Speaker 1: a podcast.
- 17:07Speaker 3: I mean, do I think about it every day? Probably?
- 17:09Speaker 3: I mean, probably not every day, but it's it's one
- 17:12Speaker 3: of those things, you know. Let me say it this way.
- 17:15Speaker 3: I grew up loving the game of football since I
- 17:18Speaker 3: can remember. I mean, this is what I wanted to do.
- 17:20Speaker 3: I mean, I love the history of the game. I
- 17:22Speaker 3: love what the game taught me, and the principles and
- 17:25Speaker 3: how it's played. I love the toughness and the physicality
- 17:28Speaker 3: of it and everything about it. And so I have
- 17:30Speaker 3: so much respect and for the guys who kind of
- 17:33Speaker 3: laid the foundation of football, and so to be included
- 17:37Speaker 3: with the greatest of greats and to be on that team,
- 17:42Speaker 3: that Hall of Fame team, is so humbling. And so,
- 17:47Speaker 3: I mean, all the time I go back to the
- 17:49Speaker 3: Hall of Fame all the time I'm around all those guys,
- 17:51Speaker 3: guys I looked up to, like Anthony Munos and Bruce
- 17:56Speaker 3: Matthews and the great offensive line I'm in and guys
- 18:01Speaker 3: that watch as a kid, you know, and then you're
- 18:04Speaker 3: sitting around talking with them and you're a part of
- 18:07Speaker 3: that group and understanding talking about the game and the
- 18:10Speaker 3: history of the game. So that's where it's like so
- 18:12Speaker 3: special to me those moments. And then obviously, you know,
- 18:16Speaker 3: when you get introduced to things and they say Hall
- 18:18Speaker 3: of Famer Tony Beselli, it's always like those little things
- 18:20Speaker 3: always go like, man, it's pretty damn But but you
- 18:24Speaker 3: got to also at the same time, at home, nobody cares.
- 18:29Speaker 5: So I know, I've been married twenty nine years and
- 18:35Speaker 5: she doesn't give you know, she doesn't give a crap
- 18:38Speaker 5: that I'm a Hall of Favorite.
- 18:39Speaker 3: You know, my kids, my kids love me regardless. They
- 18:43Speaker 3: loved me before, they loved me afterwards. And so as
- 18:47Speaker 3: a family, I mean, the fun thing, my kids get
- 18:49Speaker 3: a kick out of it, and they think it's fun.
- 18:51Speaker 3: And but as a family, it's it's pretty much the
- 18:55Speaker 3: same the same deal, uh. And so it's not like
- 18:58Speaker 3: I wake up and put the gold jacket on and
- 19:00Speaker 3: stroll out to get my coffee and and everyone and
- 19:03Speaker 3: my wife is serving me, you know, he's saying, mister
- 19:06Speaker 3: Hall of Famer, here's your breakfast.
- 19:08Speaker 1: No, it's you should go to Starbucks with it on
- 19:10Speaker 1: one day just to see what happens.
- 19:12Speaker 3: Yeah, but no, it's a huge honor and it's something
- 19:16Speaker 3: that you know that I obviously cherish and uh and
- 19:21Speaker 3: and and pretty excited to be a part of.
- 19:24Speaker 1: Which which Jags do you think you know? Are are
- 19:28Speaker 1: the next up on the on the list? Then for
- 19:30Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame.
- 19:31Speaker 3: There's three guys that I believed that from the Jaguars
- 19:35Speaker 3: organization that deserves to be in there. Tom Comflin for
- 19:37Speaker 3: what he did at the Jaguars and also New York
- 19:39Speaker 3: Giants and one of the greatest ever coach, Fred Taylor.
- 19:43Speaker 3: If you watched him and saw what he did as
- 19:45Speaker 3: a player, I mean, one of the greatest, if not
- 19:48Speaker 3: the greatest Jaguar of all time, and the numbers he
- 19:52Speaker 3: put up compared to other guys who played the game
- 19:55Speaker 3: at that position, in my opinion, he is a Hall
- 19:57Speaker 3: of Famer. He deserves to be. And then the third
- 20:00Speaker 3: is Jimmy Smith and again just go look at the numbers.
- 20:03Speaker 3: And then I always the test for me always is
- 20:06Speaker 3: go talk to guys who had to play against Fred
- 20:08Speaker 3: Taylor and Jimmy Smith. Go talk to the defenders who
- 20:11Speaker 3: tried to stop them. Go talk to the corners. Go
- 20:13Speaker 3: talk to the corners in the Hall of Fame they
- 20:14Speaker 3: had to play against Jimmy Smith and Fred Taylor, and
- 20:18Speaker 3: they'll tell you. I mean, I sat around a table
- 20:22Speaker 3: just last August at the Hall of Fame and with
- 20:24Speaker 3: a bunch of Hall of Fame Steelers who are Hall
- 20:27Speaker 3: of famers, and because we played against them twice a year,
- 20:31Speaker 3: and listen to them talk about Fred Taylor, Listen to
- 20:34Speaker 3: them talk about Jimmy Smith. Listen to the guys, and
- 20:36Speaker 3: to me, those guys are Hall of Famers. I hope
- 20:38Speaker 3: all three of them get an opportunity to get in
- 20:40Speaker 3: one day. I think both Tom and Fred will be
- 20:44Speaker 3: finalists of this year. My guests their finalists last year.
- 20:48Speaker 3: So they're right at the doorstep and I hope they
- 20:52Speaker 3: get in, and because I think they really deserve it.
- 20:54Speaker 1: Can we expect to see you ever in London.
- 20:57Speaker 3: I'll be there. I'll be there. I get there the
- 20:59Speaker 3: Friday fly out Thursday, so Friday before the first game,
- 21:02Speaker 3: the Tom game, it's the Bears, and they'll be there
- 21:04Speaker 3: all week leading up to the Patriots game at Wembley.
- 21:07Speaker 1: What's your what's your favorite thing about coming over to London.
- 21:10Speaker 3: Yeah, London's one of my favorite cities. It's funny, my wife.
- 21:14Speaker 3: I've traveled all over the world and most of Europe,
- 21:17Speaker 3: and my wife's say I have said multiple times if
- 21:20Speaker 3: we were to live, the one city I could for
- 21:23Speaker 3: sure live in outside of the US is London International City.
- 21:28Speaker 3: I like to eat, great food, great culture. It's just
- 21:32Speaker 3: a It's a fabulous place, the history and everything else
- 21:34Speaker 3: and the people, so I love it over there. He
- 21:37Speaker 3: for the last outside the COVID year. I've been to
- 21:41Speaker 3: London two or three times a year every year, and
- 21:44Speaker 3: I absolutely love getting over there, whether it's an off
- 21:46Speaker 3: season when we do our jag Uk tour or the
- 21:49Speaker 3: season when we play. It's a fabulous place. So I
- 21:51Speaker 3: look forward to getting over there visiting some of my
- 21:54Speaker 3: favorite restaurants.
- 21:55Speaker 1: And you got to share them, now, what are your
- 21:57Speaker 1: favorite restaurants?
- 21:59Speaker 3: It's more like I love Indian food, Yes, yes, and
- 22:03Speaker 3: I'm gonna I don't want to say which ones because
- 22:05Speaker 3: I'll butcher them because there's so many, but I will,
- 22:09Speaker 3: so I'll be there with eight nine days. I bet
- 22:11Speaker 3: you four to four of the meals will be at
- 22:13Speaker 3: a different Indian restaurant each night, and so it's just
- 22:18Speaker 3: it's great. It's a great place.
- 22:20Speaker 1: You mentioned that you went on the tour to to
- 22:22Speaker 1: those of different places around the UK as well. What
- 22:25Speaker 1: what what are your memories are, like, you know your
- 22:27Speaker 1: best memories of some of those places, and and tell
- 22:29Speaker 1: me about your memories of meeting some Jack spansmen around
- 22:32Speaker 1: the UK as well.
- 22:33Speaker 3: When you think of the UK, everyone obviously starts with
- 22:36Speaker 3: London and it's a great city. But I like getting
- 22:38Speaker 3: out and seeing you going. We've you've been up to
- 22:41Speaker 3: Manchester and Liverpool and uh and all over the all
- 22:46Speaker 3: over the UK, and it's great seeing in. My favorite part,
- 22:49Speaker 3: whether it's in London or some of the other cities,
- 22:52Speaker 3: is watching how much the game of American football has grown.
- 22:58Speaker 3: You know, coming over there for thirteen years is now
- 23:00Speaker 3: and the you know, the first couple of years, you
- 23:03Speaker 3: know people not knowing when to cheer and understanding the
- 23:05Speaker 3: nuances of the game, and and to now where people
- 23:11Speaker 3: understand it. And the questions I get are real, like
- 23:14Speaker 3: no different than questions I'd get in the US about
- 23:16Speaker 3: the game and they understand it, and you can see
- 23:19Speaker 3: the fan kind of the fandom growing in the UK,
- 23:22Speaker 3: and then what the Jaguars do with the jag Tag program.
- 23:26Speaker 3: So going around to see these young kids play and
- 23:29Speaker 3: actually some of them like, wow, they actually understand the game.
- 23:32Speaker 3: They like American football and going to camps and so
- 23:35Speaker 3: to seeing the growth of it is my favorite part.
- 23:37Speaker 3: And interacting with the people who really love the game
- 23:40Speaker 3: that I love, and because you know, obviously over there,
- 23:44Speaker 3: English football is the number one sport and that's what
- 23:46Speaker 3: everyone loves, which I've come to be honest with you,
- 23:50Speaker 3: I didn't know anything about it growing up, and now
- 23:52Speaker 3: I actually followed the English Premier League because you know,
- 23:55Speaker 3: I got to vested interest in follow them and follow
- 23:58Speaker 3: them and so I've love that game. But to see
- 24:01Speaker 3: the game I love growing and getting a fan base
- 24:04Speaker 3: and people coming more passionate, that's my favorite part.
- 24:07Speaker 1: I apologize, but we just had a nice talk about London.
- 24:10Speaker 1: But I'm going to have to ask you one last
- 24:11Speaker 1: question that might get your blood pressure rising again. We'll
- 24:14Speaker 1: speak about Jaggs Texans. As you mentioned earlier on they
- 24:18Speaker 1: dropped the game against the Viking Vikings. Now Jacks wanting
- 24:23Speaker 1: to be actually one game back if they won this weekend.
- 24:26Speaker 1: If my maths is correct, how and this might seem
- 24:30Speaker 1: like a stupid question, how critical do you think this
- 24:33Speaker 1: game is?
- 24:35Speaker 3: Well, if you just look at the numbers, I think
- 24:38Speaker 3: it's less than three percent of the teams who start
- 24:42Speaker 3: owing three make the playoffs. And I think it's only
- 24:45Speaker 3: one team since twenty twenty has made the playoffs after
- 24:49Speaker 3: starting zero and three. So your risks, your odds of
- 24:53Speaker 3: making the playoffs after being over three are pretty low,
- 24:56Speaker 3: and I think they obviously go down even more if
- 24:59Speaker 3: you're owing. For like you just from a maths standpoint,
- 25:01Speaker 3: you're running out of room. And so this is a
- 25:04Speaker 3: game that I really think I go back to what
- 25:06Speaker 3: I said earlier, as you can't even think about the playoffs,
- 25:09Speaker 3: I mean, like who like that is so far out
- 25:12Speaker 3: of everyone's mind it should be right now, you're just
- 25:15Speaker 3: trying to find a way to win a game, like
- 25:18Speaker 3: don't worry about anything else. And this is the key,
- 25:20Speaker 3: because it's gonna be really noisy and a lot of
- 25:23Speaker 3: voices and you know that, and you're gonna be hearing,
- 25:26Speaker 3: and as a player, you've got to put ear muffs on.
- 25:29Speaker 3: You got to put the blinders on. It doesn't matter
- 25:32Speaker 3: what they're saying on podcasts, on the radio with the fans,
- 25:35Speaker 3: with the Riders, were your family's saying, you better ignore
- 25:38Speaker 3: it all because it's nothing but poison. And so really
- 25:42Speaker 3: it's about figuring out how to win one game. And
- 25:44Speaker 3: you're going to Houston and they got a good football team.
- 25:46Speaker 3: They're better on defense than they were last year. Obviously,
- 25:49Speaker 3: they got a bunch of weapons on offense. We're a
- 25:52Speaker 3: heavy man team. We better figure out if you're gonna
- 25:54Speaker 3: play a man because their receivers are better than the
- 25:57Speaker 3: Buffalo Bills receivers. Now, they don't have a quarterback. I mean,
- 25:59Speaker 3: see Streds a good quarterback, but he's not Josh Allen.
- 26:02Speaker 3: But this is a huge test and if you don't
- 26:05Speaker 3: get ready, if you're not ready to play, you're gonna
- 26:07Speaker 3: get embarrassed again. Because that's a Houston team that felt
- 26:10Speaker 3: like they played really poorly offensively, turnovers, penalties and everything
- 26:14Speaker 3: else they you know, led to that embarrassing performance against Minnesota.
- 26:19Speaker 3: So they're gonna be dialed in. They got a good
- 26:20Speaker 3: head coaching, Dabeika Ryan, and they're gonna be ready to go.
- 26:24Speaker 3: And if you're if you don't match that in that place,
- 26:27Speaker 3: because it's gonna be rocking and they don't like the Jaguars. Boy,
- 26:30Speaker 3: it's gonna get ugly again. And so that's that should
- 26:32Speaker 3: be your only focus as as a Jaguar this week.
- 26:36Speaker 1: Honey, thank you so much. We see you in London.
- 26:38Speaker 3: Yeah, wait, looking forward to it.
- 26:39Speaker 1: Thanks Jay Jacksonville Jackie was Hall of Famer Tony Bassetti
- 26:42Speaker 1: there talking about the Bills, talking about the Texans game,
- 26:45Speaker 1: and more importantly, talking about his love for two things,
- 26:49Speaker 1: Indian food in the UK and wearing his Hall of
- 26:53Speaker 1: Fame jacket and Starbucks. At least, I'm trying to make
- 26:55Speaker 1: it a thing, trying to make it a thing, key,
- 26:57Speaker 1: trying to.
- 26:58Speaker 3: Get him just to walk around match.
- 27:02Speaker 1: That's why. That's why, you know, you know, actually I
- 27:06Speaker 1: don't know if they still do it, but you know,
- 27:07Speaker 1: like when you go get a coffee and they say,
- 27:08Speaker 1: oh can you can we take your name and then
- 27:10Speaker 1: they shout your name?
- 27:11Speaker 2: Do you think it's all pro left tackle Hall of
- 27:14Speaker 2: Famer Tony on the That's what I'm saying. That's what
- 27:17Speaker 2: I'm saying.
- 27:18Speaker 1: That at that would be, that would be a really
- 27:22Speaker 1: good like advert, like a commercial. So all I'm saying
- 27:25Speaker 1: Starbucks or any other brand you know, get in touch,
- 27:29Speaker 1: not that I have anything to do with it. Lovely guy,
- 27:31Speaker 1: and obviously you've got to know him on the tours
- 27:34Speaker 1: as well. Key, you don't anything you can tell us
- 27:36Speaker 1: about him.
- 27:36Speaker 2: I can tell you that Tony loves to play a
- 27:40Speaker 2: hand of cards every now and again, and that he
- 27:44Speaker 2: doesn't have the same taste in music as his daughters.
- 27:48Speaker 1: What does that mean?
- 27:50Speaker 2: We were asking everyone what kind of music they're like,
- 27:53Speaker 2: and every time his daughters mentioned someone, Tony would be like,
- 28:00Speaker 2: really disapproving.
- 28:02Speaker 1: Look forward to meet him. I've not met him before,
- 28:04Speaker 1: first time speaking to him, so I'll be meeting him
- 28:06Speaker 1: in just a few weeks time, of course, when he's
- 28:07Speaker 1: over for the London game. It's time to do with
- 28:11Speaker 1: our dispatches. And I feel like the last couple of
- 28:12Speaker 1: weeks have been literally us going it's coming, honest, there's
- 28:15Speaker 1: gonna be some news. There will be news that you're
- 28:17Speaker 1: interested in. But actually, today, how long can you dangle that?
- 28:20Speaker 1: Garrett Forger? Yeah, but actually today is really good. Actually,
- 28:24Speaker 1: today's really exciting. We've been teasing with the possibility of
- 28:28Speaker 1: more tickets and yes, more information this week. A limited
- 28:32Speaker 1: number of tickets have become available. They'll be released at
- 28:35Speaker 1: eleven am Wednesday morning. Details of how to access the
- 28:40Speaker 1: tickets can be found on our social channels and obviously
- 28:44Speaker 1: apologies if you've downloaded this podcast late and have thus
- 28:47Speaker 1: missed out on the tickets. Feel very awkward about that one, Keith.
- 28:50Speaker 1: I've also got more information on game week activations. Can
- 28:52Speaker 1: now confirm as well. Drum roll please, we are hosting
- 28:59Speaker 1: two Jaguars pub parties at Goldwood on Old Jewelry Street
- 29:04Speaker 1: in Central London both Saturdays of our London games. So
- 29:07Speaker 1: that's the twelfth and the nineteenth. Say it for the
- 29:09Speaker 1: million of the time. This is not far away.
- 29:11Speaker 3: Now.
- 29:11Speaker 1: You can head down from four pm to join fellow
- 29:13Speaker 1: Jags fans. You can meet the roar of the Jaguars
- 29:18Speaker 1: and have pictures with Jaguars alumni plus our very own
- 29:20Speaker 1: JP Shadwick as well. It's the place to be for
- 29:23Speaker 1: any Jags fan in London for the games. If that's
- 29:27Speaker 1: not enough, key, there's also going to be some retail
- 29:29Speaker 1: signings in central London locations on both Saturdays. I've have
- 29:33Speaker 1: more updates on those for you next week. And one
- 29:37Speaker 1: final note, I don't know if you've heard about this key,
- 29:40Speaker 1: have you heard about what we've been doing the Jacksonville
- 29:43Speaker 1: Jags have been doing over the grid iroon Grant. Yeah,
- 29:46Speaker 1: it's amazing. This it's fresh this week for students at
- 29:49Speaker 1: universities and colleges around the country. So it's amazing to
- 29:51Speaker 1: be able to share this year's recipients of the grid
- 29:54Speaker 1: Iro and Grant who have just embarked in their respective courses,
- 29:57Speaker 1: fully funded by our value partner LGT Wealth Management US.
- 30:03Speaker 1: Now two winners selected each year and the only criteria
- 30:06Speaker 1: for replying is that you must have participated regularly in
- 30:09Speaker 1: one of our jag Tag programs. So this year Michael
- 30:13Speaker 1: Gary and Danieller Youboa are the worthy recipients. Michael will
- 30:17Speaker 1: study business at UWE and Danieller started at Nottingham University
- 30:22Speaker 1: studying medicine. Amazing congratulations to both of those. We're actually
- 30:26Speaker 1: going to catch up with you know, both those students
- 30:27Speaker 1: throughout the season to see how they're getting on. And
- 30:29Speaker 1: a big thank you to LGT Wealth Management US who
- 30:33Speaker 1: make this happen year after year. It's incredible stuff. You
- 30:37Speaker 1: know what I'm going to put it out there. Key
- 30:39Speaker 1: life changing stuff, dude.
- 30:40Speaker 2: I love it, man. I'm really fortunate I've managed to
- 30:43Speaker 2: meet a few of the people that have been received
- 30:47Speaker 2: the grid Ion grant, and honestly, life changing is the word, dude.
- 30:50Speaker 2: It really does make such a difference to these people's lives.
- 30:55Speaker 2: It's great. I can't say enough good stuff about it.
- 30:57Speaker 6: Man.
- 30:59Speaker 1: Now woke about this a little bit last week as well,
- 31:02Speaker 1: and I don't know if you've had any more thoughts
- 31:04Speaker 1: about possible restaurants or possible bars that you could you
- 31:07Speaker 1: could go to with this key, I'll give you a second.
- 31:09Speaker 1: Jaguar's UK have partnered with Elite Sports Travel to bring
- 31:12Speaker 1: you the best possible game weekend during Week fifteen of
- 31:16Speaker 1: the season versus the New York Jets. Four night trip
- 31:19Speaker 1: runs Thursday of the twelfth to Monday the sixteenth of December.
- 31:22Speaker 1: Hotel accommodation and tickets to the game on Sunday the
- 31:26Speaker 1: fifteenth of December as well. I was a fun Friday
- 31:29Speaker 1: Evening social event hosted by Sky Sports. Neil Reynolds very
- 31:32Speaker 1: nice guy met him in the other week for the
- 31:34Speaker 1: first time. Very nice guy, a Q and A alongside
- 31:37Speaker 1: of Jacksonville Jaguar's legend, and you can spend you know, Saturday,
- 31:41Speaker 1: you know, relaxing by the on the beach, go into
- 31:44Speaker 1: some bars and restaurants anymore recommended.
- 31:47Speaker 2: So here's my ideal way to spend an afternoon and
- 31:52Speaker 2: evening in Jacksonville. That wouldn't be going to see a game, obviously,
- 31:55Speaker 2: outside of seeing a Jags game. It would be spend
- 31:58Speaker 2: the afternoon on the beach. Must get in the ocean
- 32:02Speaker 2: because the water doesn't feel like it does in the UK.
- 32:05Speaker 2: It's wonderful, one hundred percent recommend doing that. Then go
- 32:08Speaker 2: to Hawker's get Asian street food, and then you can
- 32:12Speaker 2: finish up at Lemon Bar, which is owned by the
- 32:16Speaker 2: guy that owns that football team in Jacksonville. Really good bar,
- 32:20Speaker 2: that's football team.
- 32:22Speaker 1: Yeah, oh that took me way too long. I was like,
- 32:27Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know which football you're referring to.
- 32:30Speaker 2: Mister Kahn also owns a bar on Atlantic Beach, like
- 32:34Speaker 2: right on the beach. It's it's pretty cool, so I
- 32:37Speaker 2: would say check that out as well.
- 32:40Speaker 1: Of course you can go do there. You go play
- 32:41Speaker 1: some golf. That's why those people play golf, don't they
- 32:43Speaker 1: When they're over in game day will provide or that
- 32:47Speaker 1: the NFL's famous for. Is so much going on to
- 32:49Speaker 1: give you the best possible experience. You can find out
- 32:51Speaker 1: more by visiting Elite Sports Travel dot co dot uk
- 32:56Speaker 1: and stay tuned for all the exciting activity planned for
- 32:58Speaker 1: game week across all of us SO channels, and if
- 33:01Speaker 1: you haven't already go subscribe to the Union Jack's newsletter
- 33:03Speaker 1: on Jaguars dot co dot uk. There's always as well
- 33:08Speaker 1: the show Jagger's Weekling on Sky Sports NFL. Key Ram Suran,
- 33:11Speaker 1: what's going on this week?
- 33:13Speaker 2: This week we have VP of UK Operations Maria Gigante.
- 33:18Speaker 2: We have a five minute interview talking about growing the
- 33:22Speaker 2: sport over here and investing in the future in Ireland
- 33:28Speaker 2: as well. Really good. And then Tony of course, like
- 33:31Speaker 2: we do every week, Tony's back on the show as
- 33:34Speaker 2: well to talk about the upcoming Texans.
- 33:36Speaker 1: Game and where and when.
- 33:37Speaker 2: Well, actually, this week's episode is on Thursday nine pm,
- 33:42Speaker 2: Sky Sports NFL.
- 33:44Speaker 1: I watched last week's episode, Key, well done on putting
- 33:47Speaker 1: that all together.
- 33:48Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 33:48Speaker 2: We very disappointed not to be in it.
- 33:50Speaker 1: Joy, Yeah, I was going to say, I'm very disappointed
- 33:52Speaker 1: you didn't include both of us at the end of it. Again,
- 33:55Speaker 1: I'm assuming that's a time thing. It was literally just
- 33:58Speaker 1: the time thing of his quality thing.
- 34:00Speaker 2: Obviously, I'm including a good seven minutes of us in
- 34:03Speaker 2: this week's because I don't want to show the highlights.
- 34:06Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, it's time for the big question. This is
- 34:12Speaker 1: where we get a Jacksonville Jakubis fan from the UK
- 34:14Speaker 1: or island. Well, they're going to come and ask is
- 34:16Speaker 1: a big question. It's a self explanatory name of a feature.
- 34:19Speaker 1: To be honest this time around, Hello, Kieran, Kieran, what
- 34:22Speaker 1: is your big question?
- 34:24Speaker 6: My big question is what are your favorite traditions or
- 34:27Speaker 6: game day rituals that you do as a Jags fan.
- 34:29Speaker 1: That's a really good question. Oh okay, very good question,
- 34:32Speaker 1: and I love the fact that you're bringing in almost
- 34:33Speaker 1: like a every Sunday sort of thing. Aren't your Kieran,
- 34:37Speaker 1: You need to answer first? That is That's what I've
- 34:39Speaker 1: decided for today.
- 34:40Speaker 6: So a big one for me is putting on all
- 34:42Speaker 6: the merch that I own, including a little baseball cap
- 34:46Speaker 6: jersey if it's winter, t shirt over jersey, and then
- 34:49Speaker 6: hoody over that I don't wear both pairs of socks
- 34:51Speaker 6: that I own. I think that'd be a bit too much.
- 34:53Speaker 1: Then would be excessive. I'm not going to lie to
- 34:55Speaker 1: your kieran, do you I mean you literally wear like
- 34:59Speaker 1: if this is going to sound like t M, I like,
- 35:04Speaker 1: if you're like naked, and then you put on as
- 35:06Speaker 1: much as you can.
- 35:07Speaker 2: Jay Jay, where are we going?
- 35:09Speaker 3: Mate?
- 35:11Speaker 1: Sound weird? I meant like we're talking like everything.
- 35:16Speaker 6: So if it's cold enough and I'm not going to
- 35:18Speaker 6: be roasting to death, I will put on as much
- 35:21Speaker 6: as I physically can.
- 35:22Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, Wow, that's that's really good to be fair.
- 35:29Speaker 1: And that means that if anybody meets you on a
- 35:30Speaker 1: Sunday and they don't know who you support, then that
- 35:33Speaker 1: you've only got them to blame, you know what I mean.
- 35:36Speaker 1: I've actually me and Key have actually had conversations everyone
- 35:38Speaker 1: recently Key about how my Sunday setup is pretty poor
- 35:42Speaker 1: at the moment. So I feel like I'm not the
- 35:44Speaker 1: best person to answer this. I can't quite work out
- 35:47Speaker 1: how to watch stuff that makes me feel comfortable. So Key,
- 35:50Speaker 1: have you got a have you got a tradition?
- 35:53Speaker 6: Do you know what?
- 35:53Speaker 2: I don't have one for every Sunday? Do you know
- 35:58Speaker 2: what I will say every every before every game. I will,
- 36:02Speaker 2: and I don't know why I have. I've never thought
- 36:05Speaker 2: of this as a tradition, but maybe it is. I
- 36:07Speaker 2: will before every game starts.
- 36:09Speaker 1: Got go on trev on trev.
- 36:13Speaker 2: Every Sunday without fail. But the actual answer that I
- 36:17Speaker 2: was going to give is for one for Wembley, which
- 36:21Speaker 2: is before the games start at Wembley and before the
- 36:25Speaker 2: fans start to arrive, I like to stand up at
- 36:29Speaker 2: the Tube station and just spend five ten minutes taking
- 36:33Speaker 2: it all in, watching all the Jags fans arrive and
- 36:37Speaker 2: just taken in all the atmosphere. So that's actually like
- 36:40Speaker 2: a Wembley tradition.
- 36:43Speaker 1: That's a good one actually, because I was going to
- 36:44Speaker 1: give a Wembley tradition as well to celebrate the fact
- 36:48Speaker 1: that who's going to be doing the duval at Wembley Stadium.
- 36:51Speaker 2: I don't know, Jay, You've never talked about it.
- 36:54Speaker 1: Wembley Stadium and whom the Patriot Jacksonville Jaguars I'll be
- 36:57Speaker 1: doing the douval to start the game. I actually what
- 37:00Speaker 1: I've been doing over the last few years that I
- 37:02Speaker 1: really enjoy doing, and actually this really like makes the
- 37:05Speaker 1: London games for me is that I go out and
- 37:09Speaker 1: you know, for social media and just for fun. Really
- 37:11Speaker 1: is I go out and speak to like loads of
- 37:13Speaker 1: fans out before the game. And what you get then
- 37:16Speaker 1: is you get such a like a you get so
- 37:19Speaker 1: much like atmosphere, Like you so cut the atmosphere. Obviously
- 37:22Speaker 1: you've got the game atmosphere, but when it's actually is
- 37:25Speaker 1: everything beforehand, which I really love because everybody is starting
- 37:29Speaker 1: to feel that excitement, you know what I mean. So like,
- 37:31Speaker 1: as much as I think I need to work on
- 37:33Speaker 1: my traditions, feel pretty good about how I deal with
- 37:37Speaker 1: my Sundays when it's the London games, I go out
- 37:40Speaker 1: and I just try and soak up as much atmosphere
- 37:42Speaker 1: as possible.
- 37:43Speaker 2: You can feel as good as you want. Jake Kieran
- 37:45Speaker 2: wins this round. It's as simple as that.
- 37:48Speaker 1: Kieran does win this round every single time. Kieran. How
- 37:51Speaker 1: did you become a Jags fan?
- 37:53Speaker 6: Actually, about three four years ago now, my girlfriend introduced
- 37:57Speaker 6: me to the lovely world of American football, and I'd
- 38:01Speaker 6: watched a Netflix show that I can't remember the name
- 38:03Speaker 6: of previously, but one of the characters was like a
- 38:05Speaker 6: huge Jaguars fan.
- 38:06Speaker 2: So that was the first team.
- 38:07Speaker 1: That it's a good place.
- 38:09Speaker 6: Yes, that's it.
- 38:10Speaker 1: That's it.
- 38:11Speaker 6: And now I am knee deep in Jacksonville Jaguars merchy
- 38:15Speaker 6: every birthday, every Christmas, every anniversary. It's just a new
- 38:18Speaker 6: Jaguars piece, and I'm running out of body parts to
- 38:22Speaker 6: put things on.
- 38:23Speaker 1: Do you know what? That's so funny that the Good
- 38:25Speaker 1: Place got you into the Jags because I remember like
- 38:27Speaker 1: watching it at the time, being like, it's so bizarre
- 38:31Speaker 1: hearing someone shout Blake Bortles on like a like on
- 38:36Speaker 1: a comedy TV show. But I never thought that actually
- 38:39Speaker 1: some people will become fans because of that. So what
- 38:44Speaker 1: was it? Was it just like you just heard them
- 38:46Speaker 1: talk about it, and you thought, what if I'm going
- 38:47Speaker 1: to be an American football faner, I might as well
- 38:49Speaker 1: support this team.
- 38:51Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I already knew at least one important figure. Yes,
- 38:56Speaker 6: Jason was my favorite character. So I just thought, you know,
- 39:00Speaker 6: in for a penny, In for a pound, are.
- 39:03Speaker 1: You going to be in the London games? With Wembley
- 39:05Speaker 1: game in particular this year?
- 39:07Speaker 6: I am indeed looking forward to it. It's become my
- 39:09Speaker 6: yearly tradition. I've actually started collecting you know, the flags
- 39:13Speaker 6: that they leave under seats.
- 39:14Speaker 1: Love it. I've got one somewhere. Yeah, yeah, I've got.
- 39:17Speaker 6: Four of them now, one from I think my oldest
- 39:19Speaker 6: one is from twenty fourteen. I keep scattering them on
- 39:23Speaker 6: the eBay as well. Really it's a bit obsessive at
- 39:27Speaker 6: this point. I think for last Christmas, my mum got me.
- 39:30Speaker 6: My mum actually got me the twenty fourteen flag and
- 39:33Speaker 6: a Jacksonville Jackie Wars backpack, which is now my daily
- 39:37Speaker 6: driver for everything.
- 39:39Speaker 2: Here and give me your favorite current Jags player and
- 39:42Speaker 2: your favorite of all time.
- 39:44Speaker 3: Yes, good question.
- 39:45Speaker 6: Oh current, I'd say probably Evan Ingram.
- 39:50Speaker 1: Nice.
- 39:53Speaker 6: You know, I just I love his I can't really
- 39:57Speaker 6: vocalize it. I love his style of play. No, I
- 40:00Speaker 6: think he is a really big aid out on there
- 40:02Speaker 6: in the field. He was my third pick this year
- 40:05Speaker 6: for Fantasy football.
- 40:07Speaker 1: Third pick.
- 40:09Speaker 2: Third pick.
- 40:10Speaker 6: I don't pick very well though, I'm usually a bit
- 40:12Speaker 6: all over the place. I think my I think I actually.
- 40:15Speaker 1: Think I.
- 40:17Speaker 2: Picked him third, but I'm terrible.
- 40:22Speaker 1: App thinks I'm terrible, so I.
- 40:25Speaker 2: Don't believe it for a second. Dude, I think that's
- 40:27Speaker 2: such a great shout. He's his attitude is exceptional. Like
- 40:31Speaker 2: he's he's he's a brilliant player. But when you hear
- 40:34Speaker 2: him talk about the locker room and being a leader
- 40:38Speaker 2: and all of that sort of thing, I just love
- 40:40Speaker 2: that guy. Man, that's a really good shout. I like
- 40:42Speaker 2: that a lot.
- 40:42Speaker 1: He was, Yeah, it was a really nice, really nice guy.
- 40:48Speaker 1: And and you know, I don't know if you caught it,
- 40:50Speaker 1: but he did say that he has a celebration lined
- 40:53Speaker 1: up if he is if he catches a touchdown at
- 40:56Speaker 1: Wembley Stadium. I just want to getting back on the field,
- 41:00Speaker 1: to be honest. Yeah, you know, but yeah, looking forward
- 41:05Speaker 1: to it though, And Kieran will see you soon a
- 41:07Speaker 1: few weeks, not long til not long to Wembley now.
- 41:11Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll be looking out and listening out for your
- 41:13Speaker 6: duvall Ah.
- 41:14Speaker 1: Yes, I don't know. Can you take a video for me?
- 41:19Speaker 1: That's not even a lie?
- 41:19Speaker 3: Can you?
- 41:20Speaker 1: Can you film it? I want to try and get
- 41:21Speaker 1: people to film it. Thank you. I appreciate that. Before
- 41:24Speaker 1: you go, Kieran, we've got to do predictions for the
- 41:26Speaker 1: next game, which is obviously the Jacksonville Jaguars playing the
- 41:30Speaker 1: Houston Texans, and we've been taling it up key, how
- 41:32Speaker 1: have we been doing.
- 41:36Speaker 2: Your zero. I know that much. The fans are on zero.
- 41:39Speaker 2: I can't remember my thing.
- 41:42Speaker 1: Something says to me that you're on zero as well.
- 41:44Speaker 1: They're Key, and look, we haven't been doing brilliantly. We've
- 41:49Speaker 1: said that the Jags we're going to win every single week. Kieran,
- 41:54Speaker 1: what is your prediction this time around?
- 41:57Speaker 6: I don't want to chink anything, but I really do
- 41:59Speaker 6: think the Jags have it this time. Okay, I'm predicting
- 42:03Speaker 6: it's a Jags win, and if I'm gonna put numbers
- 42:05Speaker 6: out there, I'm going to say probably seventeen to six
- 42:09Speaker 6: or seven.
- 42:10Speaker 2: WHOA, I'm confident. I'm confident confident in that d okay, which.
- 42:16Speaker 1: Is a sentence that you should never say again, Key,
- 42:22Speaker 1: what is your what's your prediction?
- 42:24Speaker 2: Based on the last three weeks and getting three of
- 42:27Speaker 2: them wrong? I'm going to stick with the Jags and
- 42:31Speaker 2: I'm going thirty four to ten, thirty four ten, thirty
- 42:36Speaker 2: four ten. Literally everything changes in the space of a week.
- 42:41Speaker 2: The offense is on fire, the defense is stopping everything.
- 42:46Speaker 2: Thirty four to ten to the Jags.
- 42:48Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I'm going to sound like the bad guy here.
- 42:50Speaker 1: The Houston Texans are a really good team. They're a
- 42:53Speaker 1: really good team. Before the season, if you said the
- 42:57Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars, you know they're going to lose to the
- 43:00Speaker 1: Houston Texans. I feel like, as frustrating and as Annoyd
- 43:03Speaker 1: you might be, you could understand that the Texans are
- 43:05Speaker 1: a really good team. But I think that what's really
- 43:08Speaker 1: doesn't help is the three losses before this mean that
- 43:11Speaker 1: it's a it could be an extremely big problem. The
- 43:15Speaker 1: Houston Texans twenty seven Jags twenty four. Oh like a
- 43:20Speaker 1: bad guy? Am I a bad guy?
- 43:22Speaker 3: Jay?
- 43:22Speaker 2: I feel like you're giving up the right to host
- 43:25Speaker 2: this podcast.
- 43:26Speaker 1: I'm changing my mind changing The thing is right. The
- 43:29Speaker 1: thing is is.
- 43:30Speaker 2: That you said Jags twenty seven, Texans twenty four, Right.
- 43:33Speaker 1: That's what I say that I said, Yeah, well, I
- 43:37Speaker 1: it's just after Look, look we are recording this on Tuesday.
- 43:43Speaker 1: I is it is literally hours after Monday Night football.
- 43:46Speaker 1: You heard Tony BISSELLI earlier on you know it's it
- 43:50Speaker 1: was a difficult, difficult game, And that's a nice way
- 43:52Speaker 1: of putting it. The Texans are a really good team
- 43:55Speaker 1: twenty seven, twenty seven to twenty four, But I would
- 43:58Speaker 1: love to be back here. Week's time talking about how
- 44:02Speaker 1: much of an idiot I am.
- 44:03Speaker 3: Jay.
- 44:03Speaker 2: I hope you still have a zero this time next week, Mate,
- 44:07Speaker 2: me too.
- 44:08Speaker 1: Okay, so do I do? You know what I don't.
- 44:11Speaker 1: I feel like I'm a bad guy. I feel really bad. Okay,
- 44:15Speaker 1: you guys can go. You guys can go.
- 44:17Speaker 2: Go with your heart. Go with your heart, no matter
- 44:21Speaker 2: how much it hurts.
- 44:22Speaker 1: Hier and thank you so much for joining us. And
- 44:25Speaker 1: I apologize if you hate me now.
- 44:29Speaker 6: I wouldn't say I hate you, but thank you so
- 44:30Speaker 6: much for having me.
- 44:31Speaker 1: Both you we'll see in a few weeks in cheers.
- 44:36Speaker 2: Thanks mate.
- 44:38Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I feel like we should preview the next
- 44:41Speaker 1: game on the Jacksonville Jaguars schedule, and actually it's a
- 44:44Speaker 1: really important I mean now obviously, but this is particularly
- 44:47Speaker 1: big Week four. I went three. The Jags are right
- 44:50Speaker 1: now and they faced a vision opponent and actually potentially,
- 44:54Speaker 1: you know, one of the hottest teams in the NFL
- 44:57Speaker 1: right now, granted they just lost against the Vikings Houston
- 45:00Speaker 1: Texans at NRG Stadium. It's gonna be a tough one. Key.
- 45:06Speaker 1: Can you give me the maybe your key matchup?
- 45:08Speaker 2: I think my key matchup after the Debarkle of last
- 45:14Speaker 2: season's kickoff return would be Cam Little against the Texans fallback.
- 45:21Speaker 1: Yeah, what happened last year.
- 45:22Speaker 2: Last year there was some weird moment where like there
- 45:25Speaker 2: was a kickoff and then it went to their full back.
- 45:28Speaker 2: Their full back like bobbled it but then managed to
- 45:30Speaker 2: pick it up and return it a ridiculous amount of yards,
- 45:34Speaker 2: like ninety yards or something silly. So that's my key
- 45:37Speaker 2: matchup is Cam Little not hitting their fullback on the kickoff.
- 45:42Speaker 2: That's the key to this.
- 45:44Speaker 1: I think it's going to be really tough though, because CJ.
- 45:47Speaker 1: Stroud has been has been a consistent over his year
- 45:50Speaker 1: and a bit now in the NFL. He has been consistent,
- 45:54Speaker 1: and it's going to be tough because this is the
- 45:56Speaker 1: part where the Jags need to do what they didn't
- 45:59Speaker 1: do against the Bill, which is unsettled that quarterback. Yeah,
- 46:03Speaker 1: and make sure that he doesn't have enough time to
- 46:06Speaker 1: get the ball away, because when he gets the ball away,
- 46:10Speaker 1: he is an accurate quarterback. He is a very talented man.
- 46:13Speaker 1: And the likelihood is with the wide receiver options that
- 46:16Speaker 1: he has as well Stefon Diggs, Tankdale, Nico Collins, there
- 46:21Speaker 1: are going to be options it's a talented Houston offense,
- 46:26Speaker 1: and the Jags defense need to really show what they're about.
- 46:29Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 46:29Speaker 2: I mean we saw it on Monday night. The defensive
- 46:33Speaker 2: line was just not there at all. They were pushed
- 46:37Speaker 2: around and it was really hard to watch. There were
- 46:39Speaker 2: massive gaps in the secondary. If they can address all
- 46:44Speaker 2: of that and get it fixed, they should be a really,
- 46:46Speaker 2: really good contest because they're capable of doing it. They
- 46:51Speaker 2: just need to fix that stuff. But when C. J.
- 46:54Speaker 2: Stroud performs, Man, that kid's good. I like him a lot.
- 46:58Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean that's why it's quite straight. That
- 47:00Speaker 1: is in the same division, isn't it.
- 47:02Speaker 2: Then it's after that as well. So it's two divisional
- 47:05Speaker 2: games back to back, isn't it.
- 47:06Speaker 1: Yeah? Man, And that's what and that's why I think, Look,
- 47:10Speaker 1: maybe you know, I know that I spoke about before,
- 47:12Speaker 1: thinking that this is going to be a really hard game.
- 47:15Speaker 1: The Texans are going to be the favorites, there's no
- 47:17Speaker 1: doubt about that. But the Jags they managed to to
- 47:22Speaker 1: win last year in Houston. If they are able to
- 47:25Speaker 1: do that, if they're able to beat the Colts, well, look,
- 47:28Speaker 1: two and three isn't the worst thing in the world. Right,
- 47:30Speaker 1: it's not the worst thing in the world. And it
- 47:32Speaker 1: also means that they're two games against other teams in
- 47:36Speaker 1: the AFC South and that can't be overstated how important
- 47:39Speaker 1: that is.
- 47:40Speaker 2: Absolutely that all counts. And also let's not forget they
- 47:44Speaker 2: will have an advantage going into the games in London
- 47:47Speaker 2: if they can get a couple of victories under their
- 47:50Speaker 2: belt coming into the London games. I feel confident that
- 47:53Speaker 2: they'll leave London with a positive record.
- 47:55Speaker 1: I think the key thing is here is they need
- 47:57Speaker 1: to get that lead. You get that lead early and
- 48:01Speaker 1: settle down.
- 48:03Speaker 2: Settle down, Jay, That's that's it. Settle down. Everything's okay
- 48:08Speaker 2: that they can do it. They can do it. They
- 48:10Speaker 2: have the skill, they have the capability, they can do it.
- 48:13Speaker 1: Settle down. Okay, let's be back next week, same time,
- 48:18Speaker 1: same place. Key hopefully the Jags with a one and
- 48:22Speaker 1: three record with a win against the Houston Texans. Are
- 48:26Speaker 1: you going to be watching it at home? What's your plan?
- 48:29Speaker 2: I shall be watching it from Brighton again, and it'll
- 48:33Speaker 2: be a double screener. It'll be red Zone on one
- 48:37Speaker 2: Jags game on another big Dog right next to me
- 48:41Speaker 2: daughter other side.
- 48:43Speaker 1: Yeah, I was little for a second, there. I thought
- 48:44Speaker 1: you were referring to your daughter as big dog, and
- 48:46Speaker 1: I thought, I'm not sure how she's going to take that,
- 48:47Speaker 1: to be honest with you.
- 48:53Speaker 3: There we go.
- 48:54Speaker 1: Okay, we'll be back, same time, same place. If you
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- 49:08Speaker 2: The YouTube comments day I love yeah nice.
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- 49:24Speaker 1: UK and Ireland. See your after Week four