Latest / The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network / Jags Drive Time: Monday, October 21
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Celebrating twenty five years of Jaguars football. There's the staff,
- 0:06Speaker 1: the placement, the kick is I think he's on the way.
- 0:08Speaker 1: It's like college Jaffuars. Did you know what Jack Warris?
- 0:15Speaker 1: Did you go Jaguarris drive time? Ryan Sex steps to
- 0:21Speaker 1: John Oh, Actually, Jaguarris drive Time starts right now. That's
- 0:29Speaker 1: why when we played with the lead man, Uh, once
- 0:31Speaker 1: we get it, once we get up on the team
- 0:33Speaker 1: ra it's you know, it's gonna be hard to stop
- 0:36Speaker 1: our front four and plus our our box so our
- 0:39Speaker 1: front eight. Uh, you know, we just get after the
- 0:42Speaker 1: ball ground. We made a big invitence this week. God yeah,
- 0:44Speaker 1: turnovers getting that ball out game picks and we have
- 0:48Speaker 1: four today. That was the most we ever ever. Josh
- 0:53Speaker 1: Allen post game in Cincinnati talking about how this team
- 0:56Speaker 1: is tough to beat when they get the lead. We've
- 0:59Speaker 1: talked about it for weeks now. They emphasized it last week.
- 1:03Speaker 1: The team is good when they get a lead, and
- 1:04Speaker 1: we bring in our teel twins Brian and John beat
- 1:11Speaker 1: me over the head. I'm going to use it. Good morning,
- 1:14Speaker 1: Ashlyn Sullivan, Good morning. In a beige mood today is
- 1:18Speaker 1: that it is um Yeah, they they they The problem
- 1:26Speaker 1: with this team has been and it's it's directly related
- 1:28Speaker 1: to the rookie quarterback. Is they haven't played with the
- 1:31Speaker 1: lead much this year. Uh. They had it for a
- 1:33Speaker 1: brief period of time in Week three in Denver, and
- 1:39Speaker 1: then of course they led the entire game against the Titans,
- 1:41Speaker 1: but then they never held it really very early, I guess,
- 1:44Speaker 1: in the game in Carolina, not at all against the
- 1:47Speaker 1: Saint So the goal would be to play with the
- 1:50Speaker 1: lead with the exception of uh, and you're right, but
- 1:53Speaker 1: I'm gonna be more right with the exception that I
- 1:56Speaker 1: haven't game. Yeah, with the exception of the Tennessee game.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Entering yesterday, they had led for four teen minutes and
- 2:02Speaker 1: fifty two seconds. Never except against Denver was the only
- 2:05Speaker 1: time they held the lead, and they never quite got
- 2:07Speaker 1: They almost in that Denver game, if you remember, got
- 2:11Speaker 1: to the point where they were teeing off from the
- 2:12Speaker 1: quarterback and then they couldn't quite get an eight point
- 2:15Speaker 1: lead to make it and then I Denver had the
- 2:18Speaker 1: last drive. But except for that, they have been dominant
- 2:20Speaker 1: with the lead. The problem is you didn't know because
- 2:23Speaker 1: they had only been the Tennessee game against Tennessee. They
- 2:26Speaker 1: get a lead, they had nine sacks. Again, Cincinnati, they
- 2:29Speaker 1: get a lead, they get four turnovers. That's where the
- 2:32Speaker 1: defense has been missing. That's where it's been is. It
- 2:35Speaker 1: hasn't had a chance to have a lead. And uh,
- 2:38Speaker 1: we'll get to Josh Allen's that's one of the ozone questions.
- 2:40Speaker 1: But very quietly, really impressive the shack that he had.
- 2:44Speaker 1: I was standing in the end zone watching it. He
- 2:46Speaker 1: took the let the right tackle and literally picked him
- 2:50Speaker 1: up and put him on his heels and walked him
- 2:52Speaker 1: back before dumping him. And you were glad you were
- 2:54Speaker 1: in Andy Dalton at dead. It's hard to overstate just
- 3:00Speaker 1: how big Josh Allen is when he's got his arms out,
- 3:03Speaker 1: his long, long arms, big hands, big shoulders, and when
- 3:07Speaker 1: he took Andy Dalton down, it hurt hurt me way right. Yeah,
- 3:13Speaker 1: that looks good outfit pick. Guys. All right, let's get
- 3:16Speaker 1: into big things. Big thing one is must win. Yesterday's
- 3:19Speaker 1: game was a must win and it does not change
- 3:22Speaker 1: this week against the Jets. Coming off a short week.
- 3:24Speaker 1: Gardnerman she postgame talked about what went right and what
- 3:27Speaker 1: you need to work on this week. We moved the
- 3:31Speaker 1: ball all day. Um, you know at a bunch of yards,
- 3:34Speaker 1: ran the ball really well, control of the clock too,
- 3:38Speaker 1: care of the ball. So there's a lot of positive
- 3:40Speaker 1: to take from it. Um. You know, we clean some
- 3:42Speaker 1: things up in the red zone and you know they
- 3:43Speaker 1: is a close game, you know, so there's stuff we
- 3:47Speaker 1: can work on and stuff we're gonna work on. Big
- 3:50Speaker 1: thing too is bunches. Four takeaways yesterday, three interceptions, one fumble.
- 3:55Speaker 1: They talked about it all week. It's gonna come in bunches.
- 3:58Speaker 1: It came yesterday. D J. Hayden's keep them coming. Hey, turnover,
- 4:04Speaker 1: they come in bunches. You know, we had got one,
- 4:06Speaker 1: we got a strip and then they just started coming.
- 4:09Speaker 1: So hopefully we can keep it up, keep his momentum
- 4:12Speaker 1: rolling in the next week. And we got to that,
- 4:14Speaker 1: and we got to that, and we got that and
- 4:16Speaker 1: just keep you rolling. The big thing three is that
- 4:19Speaker 1: to do list this week. A few things you need
- 4:21Speaker 1: to work on. Number one is red zone production one
- 4:24Speaker 1: of six sevent third down conversion. They struggled bid time
- 4:28Speaker 1: yesterday past protection and you gotta get something out of
- 4:32Speaker 1: that tight end. We've been talking about it. We thought
- 4:33Speaker 1: maybe we'd see Josh Oliver. We didn't really see much
- 4:35Speaker 1: of him at all. I think he was targeted once passed,
- 4:38Speaker 1: was sort of low in a way going forward. That's
- 4:40Speaker 1: what you need to work on this week. I think
- 4:42Speaker 1: the interesting question is we talked about the to do
- 4:44Speaker 1: list in red zone production, is is it getting Nick
- 4:47Speaker 1: Foles back in the lineup? Did you see from Menshoe
- 4:50Speaker 1: yesterday a guy who was good enough to win, which,
- 4:54Speaker 1: by the way, for a rookie quarterback on the road,
- 4:56Speaker 1: I mean give him his credit twice in the No. No,
- 4:59Speaker 1: he's two on the road, he's three and three overall.
- 5:01Speaker 1: I mean he's there's a lot to like about where
- 5:04Speaker 1: he's at, except he looked a bit indecisive. Help the
- 5:06Speaker 1: ball just just long enough to miss on some things.
- 5:09Speaker 1: And in the red zone, you know, it stood out
- 5:12Speaker 1: even more so as good as they played, as dominant
- 5:14Speaker 1: and they were racking up yards. When the red zone
- 5:16Speaker 1: came around and you're one of six, the finger goes
- 5:19Speaker 1: right to the quarterback. Well it does, and I believe
- 5:23Speaker 1: the game would have been dramatically different had the fourth
- 5:26Speaker 1: and one work, because that as soon as they didn't
- 5:30Speaker 1: get that and at the fourth and one on the
- 5:32Speaker 1: first drive, I said, oh boy, I might be right.
- 5:35Speaker 1: And if you remember last Friday, you were saying no
- 5:37Speaker 1: way since and he can win this game. And you know,
- 5:40Speaker 1: sure enough, I never felt like they could still at
- 5:44Speaker 1: seven six and ten nine yesterday they had a shot,
- 5:47Speaker 1: They had a shot, but it still didn't feel as
- 5:49Speaker 1: if the Jaggers are going to lose that game, mainly
- 5:51Speaker 1: because they were thirteen people in the stands. But it
- 5:54Speaker 1: doesn't hurt, yeah, but I do. I do think there
- 5:59Speaker 1: are a couple of reasons for the big things we saw.
- 6:02Speaker 1: First of all, red zone. I think it is going
- 6:05Speaker 1: back to the fact that as a rookie quarterback you
- 6:09Speaker 1: have less in your repertoire as you as you get
- 6:16Speaker 1: near the goal line, it gets harder. There's less you
- 6:19Speaker 1: do well, there's less you've seen before and a lot
- 6:22Speaker 1: of times that's experienced. That's the hardest thing offensively to
- 6:25Speaker 1: get through. As far as the takeaways, the reason they
- 6:28Speaker 1: come in bunches is simple, and Doug Moron said after
- 6:31Speaker 1: the game he thought that was b s it's a cliche.
- 6:33Speaker 1: It's not for this reason. When you get one turnover,
- 6:38Speaker 1: you're often taking the lead with it, or it gets
- 6:41Speaker 1: late in the game when Turner was coming bunches, they
- 6:43Speaker 1: come late like they did yesterday. Jaguars got up, they
- 6:46Speaker 1: got a break, they got to turn over, and all
- 6:48Speaker 1: of a sudden they knew the Bengals had to throw,
- 6:50Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you could tee off on.
- 6:52Speaker 1: But Myles Jack's interception was a big, big, big time
- 6:54Speaker 1: point because they were going in from the ten yard
- 6:56Speaker 1: line with an opportunity, and it was big time vision, athleticism,
- 6:59Speaker 1: all this stuff you want from him. He's not playing
- 7:01Speaker 1: as bad as people think. He's getting hammered right now
- 7:03Speaker 1: and he's really playing pretty well. The thing about it,
- 7:06Speaker 1: the Dragonars only got two sacks. They didn't get pressure
- 7:10Speaker 1: until after miles. I mean, they were getting rid of
- 7:12Speaker 1: the ball quickly, and they got into a little bit
- 7:13Speaker 1: of a rhythm in the second quarter, in the second half.
- 7:16Speaker 1: But Andy Dalton got spooked that one interception. All of
- 7:19Speaker 1: a sudden. Now he's feeling the pressure after Avery Jones
- 7:21Speaker 1: plants him, and he's wanting to get rid of the
- 7:23Speaker 1: ball as fast as he possibly can, and he made
- 7:25Speaker 1: some really bad decisions and really quickly. And did anybody
- 7:29Speaker 1: ever take advantage of a sack like Avery Jones did?
- 7:31Speaker 1: With a celebration. I kind of like that the what
- 7:34Speaker 1: was it kind of or planned out? I'm available for dancing. Also,
- 7:42Speaker 1: what are they going to do at linebacker? At one
- 7:44Speaker 1: point at the end of the game, you Jared Wilson
- 7:46Speaker 1: playing linebacker's Quincy Williams, nanj Good and DJ Alexander I'll
- 7:50Speaker 1: go out at one point in the game. Yeah, And
- 7:52Speaker 1: it sounded like at least two of those were turf toes.
- 7:56Speaker 1: Um if I was reading Doug Rider, maybe one turf
- 7:58Speaker 1: tail one foot Um, I think it was DJ was
- 8:03Speaker 1: immediately made doubtful to come back. That's usually not a
- 8:07Speaker 1: good sign. Turf toe is using not a good sign
- 8:09Speaker 1: because it that sounds like not a lot. But we
- 8:12Speaker 1: all know from you're on the league it can be
- 8:14Speaker 1: a two or three week injury. So you know, Quincy's
- 8:16Speaker 1: hamstring holds up, and uh, what do you do? You
- 8:18Speaker 1: go get guys. Yeah, you're gonna have to because Levon
- 8:20Speaker 1: Bell is coming in this week with the Jets and
- 8:22Speaker 1: he is a guy who puts a lot of stress
- 8:24Speaker 1: on the linebackers. Um, that's a big thing. One must win.
- 8:29Speaker 1: They got it done this week. The Jets coming off
- 8:32Speaker 1: a short week, it's a must win again this week.
- 8:34Speaker 1: The good news is they got it done. The bad
- 8:36Speaker 1: news is this game is tougher. I mean, you we're
- 8:38Speaker 1: gonna see we saw them last week against the Cowboys.
- 8:41Speaker 1: We're gonna see just how good they are tonight against
- 8:43Speaker 1: the Patriots. I don't expect them to win, but if
- 8:45Speaker 1: it's a close game, I mean, you're going to see
- 8:47Speaker 1: the maturation process in action with Sam Donald, who last
- 8:52Speaker 1: year kind of showed us what he was capable of
- 8:55Speaker 1: and in the Dallas game, man, he was fantastic. You
- 9:00Speaker 1: saw a team yesterday mostly because of the quarterback and
- 9:03Speaker 1: because of some aging players on the team that feels
- 9:07Speaker 1: like it's drifting until it figures out what it's gonna
- 9:11Speaker 1: do offensively moving forward, until the figure out exact Taylor
- 9:13Speaker 1: is gonna be the guy long term, and until they
- 9:15Speaker 1: figure out if a J you know, not not a J. Graham, Sorry,
- 9:18Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. Feels like the whole process is on its
- 9:22Speaker 1: last legs. You're gonna see the opposite on Sunday. They
- 9:26Speaker 1: were without Sam Donald for a couple of weeks. They
- 9:28Speaker 1: believe with Sam Donald they're good. They believe they're going forward.
- 9:32Speaker 1: So whatever the records coming gonna be and I'm assuming
- 9:35Speaker 1: they'll have one win coming in, but they're not going
- 9:38Speaker 1: to behave like a one win team, meaning when you
- 9:41Speaker 1: get them down, it's not gonna be like, oh, we're
- 9:42Speaker 1: not very good. They still have a lot to prove.
- 9:44Speaker 1: They still feel like they're in the beginnings of something
- 9:47Speaker 1: moving forward. Well. On the defensive side, they get C. J.
- 9:49Speaker 1: Mosley back, and he was one of their prime targets
- 9:51Speaker 1: in free agency to give a big check to bring
- 9:53Speaker 1: him away from the Baltimore Ravens. So they're getting healthier. Uh,
- 9:57Speaker 1: they were a team that had postseason aspirations or at
- 9:59Speaker 1: least challenge jing for them. So Sunday's game, if you
- 10:02Speaker 1: have three and four against one in five, people are
- 10:05Speaker 1: going to go gotta watch that game. But it could
- 10:07Speaker 1: be one of the best games on Sunday. With two
- 10:09Speaker 1: gun quarterbacks if they can both play well, and two
- 10:11Speaker 1: running backs by the way in for Net and Levy
- 10:13Speaker 1: on Bell and too, defenses that are capable of playing well.
- 10:16Speaker 1: There's a lot of reasons to watch the game on
- 10:18Speaker 1: Sunday and both something to believe it. But if you're good,
- 10:21Speaker 1: if you're going to the postseason, you gotta win. You
- 10:24Speaker 1: beat one win teams at home. Even if it's tough.
- 10:26Speaker 1: This is a half too. It's a should all right
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- 12:16Speaker 1: Oh definitely. Man. I was just happy to see those
- 12:18Speaker 1: those guys get turnovers. Ronnie d J. We were talking
- 12:21Speaker 1: about it since yesterday about you know, somebody getting to
- 12:23Speaker 1: turn over, and it just so happened that it was
- 12:25Speaker 1: a VB. So that's special, big day for that guy,
- 12:29Speaker 1: unique and gock Way picks six for him, four turner
- 12:31Speaker 1: verse for the Jaguars defense yesterday. As we get into
- 12:34Speaker 1: some highlights, we start in the second quarter, whereas John
- 12:38Speaker 1: liked to say, you gave the Bengals a chance. And
- 12:40Speaker 1: this is when you said the defense needs to step
- 12:42Speaker 1: up here, schucker down team John drives checks it to
- 12:54Speaker 1: the one be able to finish drive to this part
- 12:56Speaker 1: of the field, chucking down the gold touch John X.
- 13:03Speaker 1: So it it's safe to say that if if he
- 13:07Speaker 1: just if, if boy just makes the tackle, there it
- 13:12Speaker 1: different game. Yes, people are going in a half time.
- 13:14Speaker 1: Just make the tackle, Just make the tackle. For a while,
- 13:18Speaker 1: I thought I was gonna have to you started helping
- 13:21Speaker 1: Alex Aarrison write his Hall of Fame speech. I thought,
- 13:23Speaker 1: the greatest player I ever seen. Well, he got away
- 13:25Speaker 1: from Jack in the middle of field, which set up
- 13:27Speaker 1: that drive. And then you know, they get the Bengals
- 13:32Speaker 1: in first and fifteen and just like that, Boy has
- 13:35Speaker 1: him right to the sideline for five or six yard
- 13:37Speaker 1: game and he just misses. But that's the kind of touchdown,
- 13:40Speaker 1: kind of moment that when you have frittered away opportunities
- 13:46Speaker 1: early gets a team back. The Bengals played to the
- 13:49Speaker 1: formula that a a bad team has to do to
- 13:52Speaker 1: beat a better team. They just weren't good enough to
- 13:55Speaker 1: finish out the form to the point of that touchdown.
- 13:57Speaker 1: Before that drive started, they had twenty yards in the
- 13:59Speaker 1: first twenty one little thing changed it. They completely dominated
- 14:03Speaker 1: the game, the Jaguars, And that's the that's the best
- 14:08Speaker 1: formula for an upset. In that situation, when a team
- 14:11Speaker 1: dominates and can't score, and the team scores and comes easy,
- 14:14Speaker 1: usually the other team has a chance to get some
- 14:16Speaker 1: momentum and get away. And uh, you think it was
- 14:19Speaker 1: just just aren't good enough to do that right now?
- 14:21Speaker 1: The Jaguars played with fire yesterday, all right. See come
- 14:23Speaker 1: back at halftime. You have two hundred more yards an
- 14:26Speaker 1: offense in the Bengals, and you hold them to minus
- 14:28Speaker 1: two rushing yards. You're losing by a point entering the
- 14:31Speaker 1: third quarter in d. J. Hayden shifts all the momentum
- 14:33Speaker 1: towards the Jaguars. Bill setled down on twenty two outside
- 14:38Speaker 1: boy first catch here slips by hell and staggers are
- 14:42Speaker 1: hell not free. DJ Haydon made that and it's a
- 14:47Speaker 1: turnover and it's picked up. But exactly what they needed
- 14:52Speaker 1: right then. Ronnie Harrison was he was the guy yesterday.
- 14:55Speaker 1: He mene the interception and the fort the fumbled recovery.
- 14:59Speaker 1: He's quiet lee not so quietly yesterday. He's starting to feel,
- 15:03Speaker 1: you know, his spot in that secondary and and now
- 15:06Speaker 1: it's even more clear with the other guy gone. You
- 15:08Speaker 1: know that he's got to be that playmaker. Yeah, he does,
- 15:11Speaker 1: and U D J Hayden. I was thinking about this
- 15:16Speaker 1: last night as I was trying to put some stories
- 15:17Speaker 1: together A J Boy, D J Hayden, UH and Clays Campbell.
- 15:23Speaker 1: I can't put DJ quite in that category as a
- 15:26Speaker 1: nickel because they the two were so key to get
- 15:28Speaker 1: in the AFT Championship game that year. But DJ Hayden's
- 15:31Speaker 1: about to move into a group of some of the
- 15:34Speaker 1: best you know, free agent signings for this franchise ever.
- 15:38Speaker 1: I mean, he has been exceptional this year from the
- 15:41Speaker 1: nickel to the point where you know, you've got twelve
- 15:44Speaker 1: thirteen starters in the NFL. Really it's not eleven with situations.
- 15:48Speaker 1: But is is he the defensive MVP right now? I mean,
- 15:52Speaker 1: he might be playing as well as anybody in the defense.
- 15:54Speaker 1: It's hard from that spot to be that because there's
- 15:56Speaker 1: so many other impact plays. But he if he plays
- 16:01Speaker 1: poorly yesterday, they lose the game because his plays helped
- 16:04Speaker 1: turn the game in the fourth quarter. I know in
- 16:06Speaker 1: Carolina a few weeks ago, as he was trying the
- 16:08Speaker 1: foot out that there were coaches who were standing their
- 16:10Speaker 1: intent on trying to figure out whether he was going
- 16:13Speaker 1: to play. It wasn't just a head coach. The trainer
- 16:15Speaker 1: comes over and says, yeah, he's not gonna be able
- 16:16Speaker 1: to go to Todd Washing was standing out there with
- 16:18Speaker 1: his defensive staff watching him. He lost in last year's
- 16:22Speaker 1: troubles was the fact that he was going for that
- 16:24Speaker 1: long stretch with the toe as well, because they went
- 16:26Speaker 1: from having really good play at nickel with Aaron coleman
- 16:29Speaker 1: by the year before to not having really anybody fill
- 16:32Speaker 1: in that spot. And you know, I really like Darren Colevin,
- 16:36Speaker 1: you know, um, it was a very good player for
- 16:38Speaker 1: this team. DJ is a significant upgrade at that spot.
- 16:41Speaker 1: And that's hard to do because Aaron is really good.
- 16:43Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the fourth quarter. Biegals aren't
- 16:46Speaker 1: gonna cut it at this point. It's the best offensive
- 16:48Speaker 1: drive we saw from Gardner Minshoo yesterday. The touchdown to
- 16:57Speaker 1: little sucking a season to touch Tom Throll Sharks today.
- 17:12Speaker 1: A veteran move. If you see mensh you look off
- 17:14Speaker 1: to the right and then come right back and throw it.
- 17:16Speaker 1: I mean he just locked up the corner outside. He
- 17:19Speaker 1: couldn't double on Conmay And as soon as you talk,
- 17:21Speaker 1: you know, we go over and over the red zone.
- 17:23Speaker 1: Were trying to analyze the game, you go different directions
- 17:25Speaker 1: with it. Um as rough as it was in the
- 17:28Speaker 1: red zone for a lot of the game. Those were
- 17:30Speaker 1: two really good red zone plays. He's hitting it. I
- 17:32Speaker 1: forget what the first one out the past the hole
- 17:35Speaker 1: was at two yard or no, it was a little
- 17:37Speaker 1: bit longer than that, but he yeah, once you're inside
- 17:41Speaker 1: the center. But I thought it slipped out of his
- 17:42Speaker 1: hand because the sun in the press box. I was
- 17:46Speaker 1: sort of spoofing the play of Oh my goodness, what happened.
- 17:50Speaker 1: But it was a really good play in terms of timing. Um,
- 17:53Speaker 1: he's got some touch. I've got a hot take coming
- 17:56Speaker 1: up about the quarterback situation, so I'll save it this Um.
- 18:00Speaker 1: But he's still so interesting in terms of the way
- 18:06Speaker 1: you play. I don't think he's there yet. But then
- 18:08Speaker 1: he has moments like in the red zone late in
- 18:10Speaker 1: the game yesterday where he makes some plays that those
- 18:13Speaker 1: are It's hard to throw the ball into the end
- 18:16Speaker 1: zone from that close, and he did a nice job
- 18:18Speaker 1: two times in a row, and it really mattered. How
- 18:20Speaker 1: could he be there? Yet? We forget he was a
- 18:22Speaker 1: sixth round pick that showed us nothing in August, and
- 18:24Speaker 1: nobody thought that he was going to be a factor
- 18:26Speaker 1: at all. And now he's got this team at three
- 18:29Speaker 1: and four, he's three and three, he's two and two
- 18:31Speaker 1: on the road, he's one and one at home. And
- 18:33Speaker 1: this is the tough stretch for him right where teams
- 18:36Speaker 1: now all of a sudden have enough of a book
- 18:37Speaker 1: on him. The defensive coordinators can put things in that
- 18:41Speaker 1: he hasn't seen before. If I had said when Folds
- 18:43Speaker 1: got hurt, Brian would have leish that too. I don't
- 18:49Speaker 1: think I can hit that note like you do. However,
- 18:52Speaker 1: I do get I'm with you. I said to someone
- 18:54Speaker 1: last night. He could have this team four and four
- 18:57Speaker 1: going to London with a chance to finish the nine
- 19:00Speaker 1: games five and four with a winning record. He'd be
- 19:02Speaker 1: five and three is the starter if he win to
- 19:04Speaker 1: the next two before we have to make the decision
- 19:06Speaker 1: on the quarterback. And not only would teams take that
- 19:09Speaker 1: from a rookie backup, teams would take that from a
- 19:13Speaker 1: number one overall pick that you were starting off the
- 19:16Speaker 1: bat three and three, four and four. You hope if
- 19:20Speaker 1: you're playing a first round rookie quarterback that you get
- 19:22Speaker 1: eight and eight out of it, because usually it's disaster.
- 19:25Speaker 1: So credited the kid. Yeah, that Keeling Colt. We were
- 19:28Speaker 1: standing right there and we talked about it in rapid recap.
- 19:30Speaker 1: Brian and I let go of the ball. It's like,
- 19:32Speaker 1: oh no. But then Keelan Connor said it was on perfect.
- 19:36Speaker 1: It wasn't a true wheel route, it was an abbreviated
- 19:39Speaker 1: wheel rout. But he came underneath, he went right to
- 19:41Speaker 1: this body. Knew where the ball was. He absolutely and
- 19:44Speaker 1: he turned the cornerback around. Turned out to be to
- 19:47Speaker 1: be wheel important. You're on it today. This is this
- 19:51Speaker 1: is what we play with every Monday morning. So just
- 19:53Speaker 1: put this guy Monday morning. All right, let's go unique
- 19:56Speaker 1: in gock Way putting the game away for the Jacks.
- 20:05Speaker 1: He's got to see he struggled with that jump. That
- 20:13Speaker 1: was tough to get up there. Clearly he didn't decide
- 20:16Speaker 1: to jump until he was out of the end zone.
- 20:17Speaker 1: That was what that one was. Um. I don't know
- 20:20Speaker 1: if Tavin Bryan gets any credit or has gotten enough
- 20:23Speaker 1: credit for really making that play happen. They did a
- 20:25Speaker 1: little end stunt and he came around the end so
- 20:27Speaker 1: quickly and Dalton turns like who is this guy? And
- 20:30Speaker 1: had to loft the ball a little higher than he
- 20:32Speaker 1: wanted to and it's set up and got way perfectly. Yeah,
- 20:34Speaker 1: it was a It was a past when it first happens.
- 20:39Speaker 1: We saw a few gys from bordles um, but it's
- 20:42Speaker 1: a past when it first happens. To go, how in
- 20:44Speaker 1: the world did that happen? You know? But then when
- 20:47Speaker 1: you go back and look at it, you see, well,
- 20:49Speaker 1: it was the pressure that created it, and it was
- 20:52Speaker 1: an awful looking play. But you understood after you after
- 20:55Speaker 1: you watched the past, if you watched the rush from
- 20:57Speaker 1: tavn uh why it came off? Whatever accolades. Then Goquade
- 21:05Speaker 1: gets and he did his locker room yesterday. Most of
- 21:07Speaker 1: the credit on that play goes to Taven. He forced
- 21:09Speaker 1: the issue and Taban had a pretty darn good day.
- 21:11Speaker 1: Get four or five tackles. There was one where he
- 21:13Speaker 1: was on his knees and Joe Mixon ran his direction
- 21:16Speaker 1: and he reached out and just stone walled him. I
- 21:19Speaker 1: think Mixon ended up falling forward for a half a yard. Um.
- 21:23Speaker 1: It's worth pointing out the Bengals had twenty rushes for
- 21:29Speaker 1: thirty three yards. Andy Dalton had all thirty three yards.
- 21:32Speaker 1: He had four for thirty three. The other three people
- 21:34Speaker 1: who carried the ball, including Joe Mixon, combined sixteen rushing
- 21:37Speaker 1: attempts zero yards. Yeah, credit to the Jaguars for that.
- 21:42Speaker 1: On a side note, that's a real issue trend in
- 21:45Speaker 1: Cincinnati that people are wondering about. You had Joe Mixton
- 21:49Speaker 1: last year who was AFC's leading rusher, and they can't
- 21:51Speaker 1: even come close to get him going. Again. Credit the Jaggs.
- 21:54Speaker 1: We're doing what they did yesterday, but there's got to
- 21:57Speaker 1: be some questions offensively about what you're trying to do
- 22:00Speaker 1: if you can't get Jim Mixing involved. I do think though,
- 22:01Speaker 1: that there was a trend the Jaguars since giving up
- 22:03Speaker 1: all those yards to Christian McCaffrey and the Panthers. The
- 22:05Speaker 1: last or two weeks ago, they they held the Saints
- 22:10Speaker 1: and Alvin kamara uh to a hundred yards I think
- 22:14Speaker 1: a hundred and four yards, and then yesterday what they
- 22:16Speaker 1: did against Joel Mixon, and I get I mean Joel
- 22:18Speaker 1: Mixon the week before against the Ravens head eight rushing
- 22:20Speaker 1: attempts for ten yards. He's not the same guy he
- 22:23Speaker 1: was last year, but still the Jaguars have improved against
- 22:26Speaker 1: the run the last two weeks well. As we talked about,
- 22:28Speaker 1: as infuring as infuriating as it is for fans to
- 22:32Speaker 1: hear this when it's gap control stuff like it was
- 22:35Speaker 1: against Carolina, Historically, you can fix it with just better
- 22:39Speaker 1: discipline and it's usually not a wheels off sort of situation.
- 22:44Speaker 1: I also think Miles jack has benefited for the most
- 22:47Speaker 1: part from having nag Good next to him, a more
- 22:50Speaker 1: experienced guy. He was making up for some things that
- 22:52Speaker 1: he was trying to help Quincy do. Uh. Once Quincy
- 22:55Speaker 1: gets that worked out, I think you will see Miles
- 22:58Speaker 1: play better and new overall defense play better. It was
- 23:01Speaker 1: it was mostly Quincy early in that Carolina. Yeah, you
- 23:04Speaker 1: gotta keep it going because you have laby On Bill
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- 25:03Speaker 1: we see you, Reaverer. What a lovely Monday morning in Jacksonville.
- 25:07Speaker 1: We're back with Jags Drive Time Monday morning, brought to
- 25:09Speaker 1: you by Jet Home Loans. As we can into our
- 25:12Speaker 1: bernie Wood Fire grill hot takes Briant first, Okay, what
- 25:18Speaker 1: about the bernie Wood Fire. That's what I was grilled like?
- 25:22Speaker 1: Grill done? There we go right. Uh. Strange as this
- 25:27Speaker 1: will sound coming from me, because I have preached the
- 25:29Speaker 1: fact that Leonard for Nett is not the type of
- 25:31Speaker 1: back who will play sixteen games because of his physical,
- 25:35Speaker 1: bruising style. I watched him run out of bounce a
- 25:38Speaker 1: couple of times and not take the hit yesterday. He's
- 25:40Speaker 1: not been on the injury report at all yet this year.
- 25:43Speaker 1: I'm well, okay, if you believe in such things. Um,
- 25:47Speaker 1: he's averaging a hundred and two hundred three yards games,
- 25:51Speaker 1: so we've got seven and fifteen yards at that pace.
- 25:54Speaker 1: If he can play the remaining nine games of the
- 25:55Speaker 1: regular season, he will break the Jaguars single season rushing record,
- 26:00Speaker 1: which was set by Maurice Jones Drew in two thousand
- 26:02Speaker 1: and eleven when he had one thousand, six d and six.
- 26:05Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go right out here and say that
- 26:06Speaker 1: he will challenge for that title before this whole thing
- 26:10Speaker 1: is said and done. If he misses a game, he'll
- 26:12Speaker 1: still challenge because he'll get himself into a position where
- 26:14Speaker 1: he'll be close enough to go for it at the
- 26:16Speaker 1: end of the year. But the way he's running, he
- 26:19Speaker 1: made a couple of guys miss with his hips yesterday,
- 26:21Speaker 1: and I just I hadn't seen that him because he
- 26:23Speaker 1: was a guy who said, oh, you're in front of me,
- 26:25Speaker 1: let me run over you, let me introduce you to
- 26:27Speaker 1: my wheels. And yesterday he used his hips and made
- 26:30Speaker 1: guys miss. And that was kind of the knock on
- 26:32Speaker 1: him coming out of l Sue was he didn't have
- 26:34Speaker 1: a whole lot of flexibility in his hips. He wasn't
- 26:35Speaker 1: gonna make you miss. He's making guys miss. He's running
- 26:38Speaker 1: out of bounds where there is no more yardage to gain,
- 26:40Speaker 1: saving his body, and well like right here, just fine,
- 26:44Speaker 1: not gonna take the hip. And if he keeps doing that,
- 26:47Speaker 1: he'll challenge for the Jaguar single season rushing record. Yeah,
- 26:50Speaker 1: cople of things. It seemed like he quietly had a
- 26:52Speaker 1: hundred and thirty yesterday, And that's what it takes to
- 26:58Speaker 1: get up into that stratosphere of of great running seasons.
- 27:01Speaker 1: You're not always going to have the two head against
- 27:03Speaker 1: Denver where it's just unbelievable. Um, he's average a hundred
- 27:07Speaker 1: games and throughout the court. You know, a thousand yards
- 27:11Speaker 1: used to be the gauge for a great NFL rushing season,
- 27:14Speaker 1: and once you got the sixteen games, that sort of
- 27:16Speaker 1: went away. But but the gauge for greatness for a
- 27:19Speaker 1: great running back has always been if you average hundred
- 27:22Speaker 1: yards of game, if you were over fourteen when they
- 27:24Speaker 1: played fourteen games, whatever, you're having a great season. Um,
- 27:28Speaker 1: I'm surprised it's this good. I'm surprised it's this consistent,
- 27:32Speaker 1: and it's reached the point in the last two or
- 27:34Speaker 1: three games where you almost don't think about it anymore.
- 27:39Speaker 1: When he's running well and when the running offense is
- 27:41Speaker 1: going well, and what I still can't quite figure out
- 27:44Speaker 1: me it's the hot take for later in the week.
- 27:46Speaker 1: I can't figure out if the offensive line is any
- 27:48Speaker 1: good or not. I mean, well, no, they And I
- 27:53Speaker 1: guess what I meant by that is they're playing well
- 27:55Speaker 1: in spots, they're clear in holes when he's running, he's
- 27:58Speaker 1: got some holes, and then they turn around the next
- 28:00Speaker 1: play and there's a pass blocking breaker. It's still so inconsistent,
- 28:05Speaker 1: but it's it's healthy except for Cam. And you do
- 28:08Speaker 1: wonder are you seeing something where they're starting to put
- 28:11Speaker 1: it together and we're just sort of remembering some bad games.
- 28:14Speaker 1: The line is going to be intrigued going forward. I
- 28:18Speaker 1: wonder if they might be okay. And you wondered about
- 28:21Speaker 1: that in the opposite direction. Early in the season. Sure,
- 28:23Speaker 1: I thought the offensive plant at least played better. Oh
- 28:26Speaker 1: they did. I mean they struggled inside with one guy,
- 28:28Speaker 1: Gino Atkins, who has made a lot of people look fooler.
- 28:31Speaker 1: She had two sacks, and his success created the opportunity
- 28:34Speaker 1: for Sam Hubbard and I don't even know who the
- 28:36Speaker 1: other defensive end was who created pressure in a couple
- 28:39Speaker 1: of instances that made Gardner get rid of the ball
- 28:42Speaker 1: too quick. And what you wonder, I'm sorry, Brian Atkins,
- 28:45Speaker 1: does that what you wonder about the pass blocking in
- 28:49Speaker 1: this day and age, it's it's hard to get a
- 28:52Speaker 1: completely clean pocket where a quarterback just has time to
- 28:56Speaker 1: sit back there and brush the teeth and throw. I mean,
- 28:58Speaker 1: that's that's rare. So you wonder if some of the
- 29:02Speaker 1: pressure that we're blaming on the offensive line is because
- 29:05Speaker 1: Minshi is still young. He sort of dances a little
- 29:08Speaker 1: bit almost by instinct. So when Folds gets back and
- 29:13Speaker 1: that's sort of teas in mind, here we go. Um,
- 29:16Speaker 1: you wonder if that timing and veteran getting rid of
- 29:19Speaker 1: the ball that he has will help the offensive line.
- 29:22Speaker 1: And now it's time for John's what hot take? Okay? Um,
- 29:26Speaker 1: I was wrong. That's Arthur Fonds are rally by the
- 29:31Speaker 1: way for you, Ashlyn. Two weeks ago, Fonzie Ashland, Yeah, yeah,
- 29:38Speaker 1: we get two weeks ago. I said you gotta have
- 29:41Speaker 1: Minshew be the guy. All that I was caught up
- 29:43Speaker 1: and I was caught up in the wave and the
- 29:45Speaker 1: wave what it dumped me out on the beach and
- 29:47Speaker 1: now I'm just a mess laying on the beach in
- 29:50Speaker 1: a swim trunk. Because it's gotta be not speaks, it's homeless.
- 29:56Speaker 1: It's gotta be foals coming back. And Minshew might be
- 30:01Speaker 1: the m v P of the team right now. We
- 30:04Speaker 1: talked about earlier. He's gotten you three wins where you
- 30:06Speaker 1: didn't have any idea who's gonna get to three wins.
- 30:09Speaker 1: Any team in the league would take its quarterback back
- 30:11Speaker 1: up rookie coming in and getting you three wins, keeping
- 30:14Speaker 1: a float. If he wins on Sunday, he's definitely the
- 30:18Speaker 1: first half m v P. And yet I think you've
- 30:20Speaker 1: got to go back to Folds because you've got to
- 30:22Speaker 1: see if Folds in the second half of the season
- 30:25Speaker 1: is what you signed him for, minshe will have set
- 30:29Speaker 1: him up and it's almost like the relief you know,
- 30:31Speaker 1: by the middle relief pitcher handing off to close and
- 30:33Speaker 1: say go close it out. It doesn't mean that Minshi'
- 30:35Speaker 1: is not gonna have a great career, but I think
- 30:37Speaker 1: in this situation, there's no question. If it continues like this,
- 30:41Speaker 1: you've got to go back to neck Well. First of all,
- 30:43Speaker 1: a rookie sixth round pick who didn't flash at all
- 30:46Speaker 1: in the preseason comes in and keeps you within a
- 30:50Speaker 1: game of the lead in the division. Unh phenomenal. So
- 30:53Speaker 1: you're absolutely right. Um I thought yesterday went out at
- 30:58Speaker 1: on the field and I watched Nick Foles throw and
- 31:00Speaker 1: he was throwing to a collection of guys and he
- 31:03Speaker 1: was man, I mean, he was sharp. Um I. I
- 31:06Speaker 1: still marveled that a guy who's what five six weeks
- 31:09Speaker 1: from you know, collar bone surgery could look so good.
- 31:11Speaker 1: And all I could think of was if he had
- 31:13Speaker 1: played yesterday, the game wouldn't have been his place because
- 31:15Speaker 1: he would have taken advantage of those situations. So, you know,
- 31:19Speaker 1: we talked at one point about what do you do
- 31:21Speaker 1: if Minsho keeps playing well? Well, look, the Jaguars plan
- 31:24Speaker 1: before the season was Nick Foles. And it wasn't just
- 31:27Speaker 1: this season, it was next year and maybe the next
- 31:29Speaker 1: two years beyond that. Right, it was a minimum of
- 31:31Speaker 1: two seasons. You cannot abandon the plane, can't. You have
- 31:34Speaker 1: to go back to the plan. And you know, there's
- 31:37Speaker 1: there's a reason why you brought Nick Foles in. He
- 31:39Speaker 1: brings so much to the locker room. You know, with
- 31:42Speaker 1: with a personality like the other guy who's now on
- 31:44Speaker 1: the other coast has um. You know, the locker room
- 31:47Speaker 1: always had this sort of a serbic quality to it.
- 31:50Speaker 1: I can see Nick Foles taking over once he's playing
- 31:53Speaker 1: and the locker room rising in terms of the personality
- 31:56Speaker 1: of it, the character of it, everything about Nick said,
- 31:59Speaker 1: he your guy, and I think that this team should
- 32:02Speaker 1: be excited about it. Nothing against, nothing against, nothing against.
- 32:05Speaker 1: It's been phenomenal. But now if I'm the coach, I
- 32:07Speaker 1: stand up on a good look. He was unbelievable. Now
- 32:10Speaker 1: we're gonna give him a chance to learn from the bench,
- 32:12Speaker 1: and then you're back to that problem. This franchise has
- 32:14Speaker 1: always had too much quality at quarter va and you
- 32:16Speaker 1: deal with it, and you deal with it if and
- 32:18Speaker 1: when you have to, uh, and you might have to.
- 32:21Speaker 1: You never know, right, And it will benefit Gardner watching
- 32:24Speaker 1: from the bench the second half of the season if
- 32:26Speaker 1: that does play out for the case. We've all been
- 32:28Speaker 1: around him enough to know he's not going to take
- 32:31Speaker 1: that personal way. I don't think so. All right, Brian,
- 32:34Speaker 1: you're gonna like this hot take, all right. The Jaguars,
- 32:37Speaker 1: they need to get something done with Unique and Dockway,
- 32:40Speaker 1: and I decided this would be my hot take because
- 32:42Speaker 1: he was given it to me yesterday in the locker
- 32:44Speaker 1: room post game when he said, Brian, well you said
- 32:47Speaker 1: I was undersized, and I haven't changed my opinion on that. However,
- 32:53Speaker 1: well you go ahead and finish, and then I have
- 32:54Speaker 1: a hotter hot take, which means that, yes, Unique Dockway
- 32:57Speaker 1: is a loyal viewer of Jaguars Drive Time and indeed
- 32:59Speaker 1: did here Brian Sexton call him undersize a defensive and
- 33:05Speaker 1: but let me get to my hot and I say,
- 33:08Speaker 1: they have to get something done because after watching the
- 33:11Speaker 1: Prime Time call yesterday with Jalen Ramsey and how poorly
- 33:15Speaker 1: that was handled on Jalen's party, if you haven't seen,
- 33:16Speaker 1: it's gonna be all over Twitter saying how I'm trying
- 33:19Speaker 1: to go the whole show without saying his name part
- 33:21Speaker 1: of the hot tap the other guy. Yes, the Rams
- 33:24Speaker 1: training staff apparently is great, his backs all better, everything's great,
- 33:27Speaker 1: And I can't help but think Unique and Gockway has
- 33:29Speaker 1: handled this so well because he's not quiet about wanting
- 33:33Speaker 1: a new contract. We all know he wants it. He's
- 33:35Speaker 1: honest in the locker room, but he doesn't make it
- 33:38Speaker 1: known across all social media platforms and across the country
- 33:41Speaker 1: that he wants a new contract, and he's upset about it.
- 33:43Speaker 1: We all know he is, but it's business first. He's
- 33:46Speaker 1: handled this so well. He's not a guy that's going
- 33:48Speaker 1: to change. I think when you pay him, I think
- 33:50Speaker 1: it will elevate his game even more so. And it's
- 33:53Speaker 1: time to get it done. All right. Let me ask
- 33:54Speaker 1: a couple of questions, help me to set the record straight.
- 33:57Speaker 1: Did I ever say they shouldn't pay him because he's
- 33:58Speaker 1: not any good? No? Okay. Did I say they shouldn't
- 34:01Speaker 1: pay him because you can't afford to pay everybody? Yes? Okay.
- 34:04Speaker 1: Did I say that they should keep the money to
- 34:06Speaker 1: pay Jalen Ramsey? And once Jalen Ramsey made his intention
- 34:09Speaker 1: to get out, did I say, now pay this guy? Yes.
- 34:12Speaker 1: I would make a little posted card and give it
- 34:14Speaker 1: to him, just and and and he smiled about it,
- 34:16Speaker 1: and we had a good conversation about it later. The
- 34:18Speaker 1: fact of the matter is is that um the oversized corner,
- 34:21Speaker 1: which is what the other guy is against, the undersized
- 34:24Speaker 1: defensive end, especially when you drafted an oversized defensive and
- 34:30Speaker 1: that's just logic that's just business, and Unique gets it.
- 34:32Speaker 1: Now you're in a position where you've got a dynamic playmaker.
- 34:36Speaker 1: I still don't think they give him twenty million dollars
- 34:38Speaker 1: a year. I think you should have taken the deal
- 34:40Speaker 1: they offered him. Um, but you'll get your money Unique,
- 34:44Speaker 1: And I did say he deserved to get paid from somebody.
- 34:47Speaker 1: I just didn't think this team should. With Jalen Ramsey
- 34:50Speaker 1: sitting at that said it, I wish you hadn't have
- 34:53Speaker 1: said it the other guy. He's now gone. You don't
- 34:55Speaker 1: have to worry about it. Okay, three things. I hope
- 34:58Speaker 1: I can remember them all because very good memory. First, No, no,
- 35:03Speaker 1: I didn't mean that. Um. First, I don't know if
- 35:10Speaker 1: they'll be able to reach the deal with Yon. I
- 35:12Speaker 1: think would be harder than people think, because they felt
- 35:15Speaker 1: like they win as high with Joan as they could.
- 35:18Speaker 1: I don't necessarily think it was all about Jalen, but
- 35:22Speaker 1: I still wonder if it's gonna be as easy as
- 35:24Speaker 1: just pay the guy. Second, I hope it is for
- 35:29Speaker 1: this reason. And I only have two thoughts. Um, he
- 35:33Speaker 1: produces despite whatever other stuff there is about undersized, and
- 35:40Speaker 1: he's not fraudulent. He's real When he says that he
- 35:44Speaker 1: loves the game and loves his teammates and wants to
- 35:47Speaker 1: win first. He goes out and he means it. The
- 35:50Speaker 1: other guy. Give me a break with the stuff of
- 35:55Speaker 1: if Jalen was really mad about what Tom Coughlin's said
- 36:00Speaker 1: about being here in the off season, grow up? How
- 36:03Speaker 1: much did that really hurt anything? I get that never
- 36:05Speaker 1: probably shouldn't have said it about the about the being
- 36:08Speaker 1: here in the o t so Mada. I'm spitting um it.
- 36:14Speaker 1: When's the last time an NFL player, any kind of
- 36:16Speaker 1: a football player, never got reprimanded by a coach, never
- 36:20Speaker 1: got yelled at. People get yelled at all the time.
- 36:22Speaker 1: John yells me every day. If that's the reason you
- 36:24Speaker 1: abandon your teammate, then I would rather pay Yon double
- 36:29Speaker 1: whatever I was gonna pay jail. I think now the
- 36:33Speaker 1: other guy on the other coast has been exposed to
- 36:36Speaker 1: the rest of the league. We all know who he
- 36:38Speaker 1: is and what he's about. You tolerated it when when
- 36:42Speaker 1: he was in your locker room because he's such a
- 36:44Speaker 1: great player. But now that he's gone, you can see
- 36:47Speaker 1: the distinct benefits to your cap, to your draft compensation.
- 36:53Speaker 1: And I think to the character the locker room overall,
- 36:55Speaker 1: because I think when Nick goes in there, he'll fill
- 36:57Speaker 1: that space. And he's a high care your guy. Let's
- 37:01Speaker 1: give you need credit, high character guy. Right. The way
- 37:04Speaker 1: he's handled this situation coming in and playing you said
- 37:07Speaker 1: genuine remarkable. It is remarkable, and I smiled yesterday and
- 37:10Speaker 1: we're kind of going back and forth about it, but
- 37:12Speaker 1: the fact is now he's that next guy you pay.
- 37:15Speaker 1: But you're right, he wants to be paid that rarefied
- 37:19Speaker 1: air money and you you can't just write the blank check,
- 37:23Speaker 1: but you know it's equally important to him truly being
- 37:25Speaker 1: great and playing football. He's going to be unique. You're
- 37:30Speaker 1: going to be fabulously wealthy. Fabulously wealthy, whether you're oversized
- 37:34Speaker 1: or undersized. Who goes through life without being yelled at
- 37:41Speaker 1: doing We're both gonna yell at at Ashland about something
- 37:43Speaker 1: here in the next break to see how the youngster
- 37:45Speaker 1: responds because she's part of that millennial generation. Come back, Christ,
- 37:48Speaker 1: you guys are so mean. Could you do that high
- 37:52Speaker 1: pitch thing again? Now I'm gonna go be someone else's reporter.
- 37:55Speaker 1: You guys are mean, all right, mail bag time, here
- 37:58Speaker 1: we go. We got mbe moves to my song. I
- 38:10Speaker 1: thought the day would never come. J T. Fort Worth,
- 38:15Speaker 1: he must have been listening earlier. Definitely think the team
- 38:18Speaker 1: goes back to Folds once he's healthy. Menshoos holding it
- 38:20Speaker 1: down though for now well and I included this in
- 38:23Speaker 1: this because of the holding down the fort. And yes,
- 38:26Speaker 1: in a sense he's held down the fort, but as
- 38:28Speaker 1: we've discussed, me to stay on the top for long,
- 38:31Speaker 1: he's done so much more than hold down the fort.
- 38:34Speaker 1: Any team from it would take three and three from
- 38:37Speaker 1: any rookie quarterback, no matter where drafted. Uh, he has
- 38:40Speaker 1: been remarkable. They should give him a big fat bonus.
- 38:45Speaker 1: Sorry shot um, but you know, for a job well done.
- 38:49Speaker 1: And uh but I think everybody was you have to
- 38:52Speaker 1: act Folds. But what a remarkable story he has been.
- 38:56Speaker 1: And if he can win one of the next two,
- 38:58Speaker 1: I think he might win both of the next new
- 38:59Speaker 1: But if he wan't, we if we can be one
- 39:00Speaker 1: of the next two, will have overachieved to a remarkable level.
- 39:03Speaker 1: I have to say. I turned to Fred when Minshew
- 39:06Speaker 1: took the field against Kansas City. Was sitting with Fred
- 39:08Speaker 1: Taylor in the north end zone and I said, we're screwed.
- 39:11Speaker 1: This kid did nothing in August. This team is in trouble.
- 39:15Speaker 1: I thought this team was headed for Bengals. Right, there's
- 39:18Speaker 1: talent all over it, I get it. But that kid
- 39:20Speaker 1: didn't show me anything in August that led me to believe.
- 39:23Speaker 1: In fact, I think I've said this three or four times.
- 39:25Speaker 1: Doug Morow told us in our Wednesday television preseason production
- 39:29Speaker 1: meeting that Shelen and I were in that he hadn't
- 39:32Speaker 1: even heard the backup spot concretely yet, right. So to
- 39:36Speaker 1: do what he's done is phenomenal. But Foles needs to
- 39:40Speaker 1: be back in the starting lineup because you built your
- 39:42Speaker 1: plan not just for this year, but for the next
- 39:44Speaker 1: few years around him and financially and otherwise. You cannot
- 39:48Speaker 1: abandon that. And the number one the number one trait
- 39:51Speaker 1: for Minton. He showed it again yesterday. The short memory
- 39:55Speaker 1: they talk about is absolutely phenomenal. He platokay in spots,
- 40:01Speaker 1: but going into the fourth quarter he could have lost
- 40:04Speaker 1: confidence hadn't got in the red zone and etcetera, etcetera.
- 40:07Speaker 1: But you never watch him thinking he's in the tank,
- 40:10Speaker 1: and for a young quarterback, that's remarkable. He has a future,
- 40:14Speaker 1: He has a future here in Jacksonville. It's just not
- 40:16Speaker 1: the immediate president. Well, it's the immediate president. It's it's
- 40:19Speaker 1: the short term word. Nick comes back. Stick to the plan,
- 40:24Speaker 1: stick to the plane. All right, what do we got, Glenn? Well,
- 40:28Speaker 1: then John looks like sexting got one right, Unique for
- 40:31Speaker 1: six Jack. This hurt. I mean on a level, I've
- 40:36Speaker 1: lived a tough life, Sharna, and I've I've seen heartache.
- 40:41Speaker 1: This hurt because Brian was right, and I forgot all
- 40:43Speaker 1: I read this this morning that I had said that
- 40:45Speaker 1: he might that's because you were saying stuff at the law.
- 40:47Speaker 1: Of course, he forgot. That's what we do. That's what
- 40:49Speaker 1: we do. We throw things. Here's what might right. I
- 40:51Speaker 1: just I got the feeling over the last couple of weeks.
- 40:53Speaker 1: Though he was close. He was close to a couple
- 40:55Speaker 1: of sacks. He was close to a couple of strips
- 40:58Speaker 1: um And if I didn't like Unique, I wouldn't have
- 41:01Speaker 1: picked him for this. So and I smiled at him
- 41:04Speaker 1: and made that point to but it just felt like
- 41:07Speaker 1: he was gonna was do for a big play. I
- 41:08Speaker 1: didn't know whether it was going to be this, but
- 41:10Speaker 1: I guessed, and I guessed right. Folks, sometimes you choose
- 41:13Speaker 1: black when you're at the roulette wheel, sometimes you choose red.
- 41:17Speaker 1: I chose red and I won always black. What deed
- 41:22Speaker 1: do I say red? Because he plays angry? I love
- 41:26Speaker 1: that about it. All right, let's go Anthony from Columbia. John,
- 41:31Speaker 1: all of this attention on Jalen Minshew for net in
- 41:34Speaker 1: d J. Chark is causing my man to be overlooked.
- 41:38Speaker 1: He has five sacks in the last five games. Yeah,
- 41:40Speaker 1: and it's obviously about Josh Allen, and he's exactly right. Somehow,
- 41:47Speaker 1: there's a pass restaurant this team who has five sacks
- 41:50Speaker 1: in five games. I think the stat that Tad Dickman
- 41:53Speaker 1: sent out was that that's the most through seven games
- 41:56Speaker 1: since Henderson in Well, when you're up in a league
- 42:00Speaker 1: with John Henderson, when you're up in a league with
- 42:03Speaker 1: any of the pass rusher, you know, when you're setting
- 42:05Speaker 1: pass rushing records on this team, there's been enough flashes
- 42:11Speaker 1: of it where that's impressive. Um. The impressive thing is
- 42:17Speaker 1: five sackson five games. That's one a game. Uh, he's
- 42:21Speaker 1: only scratching the surface. And when you're doing this as
- 42:24Speaker 1: a rookie, Uh, he's already starting to draw some doubles
- 42:27Speaker 1: are starting to think about him. It's an absolute home
- 42:31Speaker 1: run pick. And uh, I'm excited about watching this guy
- 42:36Speaker 1: develop and I'm encouraged by what I've seen from him
- 42:40Speaker 1: on and off the field about him truly being a
- 42:42Speaker 1: guy you can build a franchise around well and one
- 42:44Speaker 1: of positions where it's okay to do it. One of
- 42:46Speaker 1: the reasons why if you're not going to have Jalen
- 42:48Speaker 1: you have to pay Unique is because you're gonna need
- 42:50Speaker 1: someone opposite him, right, You're gonna need that pass rush
- 42:53Speaker 1: threat he gives you, and then there's Unique, and then
- 42:56Speaker 1: you better go draft another young one because you can
- 42:58Speaker 1: never have enough of these guys. Um, but Alan him
- 43:03Speaker 1: sitting there at seven was such a gift to this
- 43:06Speaker 1: franchise now they have that. I don't want to put
- 43:09Speaker 1: him in Tony Bracken's category, but when he rushes sometimes
- 43:12Speaker 1: I'm looking and I'm watching Brackens with his link and
- 43:15Speaker 1: his power on that rush. If you go back and
- 43:17Speaker 1: watch it, it was a classic speed to power move
- 43:20Speaker 1: where he got off with an explosive burst and then
- 43:22Speaker 1: turned into the body to throw the tackle off and
- 43:25Speaker 1: then go get the quarterback. UM. Not a lot of
- 43:28Speaker 1: guys around here who have been able to do it
- 43:30Speaker 1: like that since t Brack was here. So he is. Um,
- 43:34Speaker 1: he's an absolute cornerstone. What you have to remember is,
- 43:36Speaker 1: especially at that position, there's some positions you come in
- 43:38Speaker 1: and and you get it right away. Running back, there's
- 43:41Speaker 1: not an incredible amount to learn beyond pass blocking. Past
- 43:46Speaker 1: rushing is incredibly technique experience, learning your moves, learning what works.
- 43:54Speaker 1: He doesn't have any of that yet. And if he's
- 43:56Speaker 1: productive now, once he starts being able to take what
- 43:59Speaker 1: he's hearing from Klaus, spending offseason working on it, Um,
- 44:04Speaker 1: you get five sacks as quickly as a rookie, you
- 44:07Speaker 1: you are a destined unless something goes wrong, having a
- 44:10Speaker 1: huge career, and he might be on his way to
- 44:13Speaker 1: a Von Miller type of status. And that's as lofty
- 44:16Speaker 1: as he gets. But he has a chance to be
- 44:20Speaker 1: a defense franchise defining type pass rush. Well. I was
- 44:23Speaker 1: joking with him yesterday before the game. I said he
- 44:26Speaker 1: had four sacks and I said, hey, Javon curses rookie
- 44:28Speaker 1: rukie rookie sack record. Easy for me to say is insight,
- 44:33Speaker 1: go get it. He goes all I need his ten
- 44:34Speaker 1: and a half more. I mean, he knew what it was.
- 44:37Speaker 1: I love that about him is that he knew what
- 44:38Speaker 1: it was and he got one yesterday. There's nine more
- 44:40Speaker 1: games might be insight too. He is a terrific talent.
- 44:45Speaker 1: If this team can get leads, h he can throw
- 44:49Speaker 1: up numbers. Yeah. Remember that when Javon Curse was a
- 44:52Speaker 1: rookie and had fourteen and a half sacks, a guy
- 44:54Speaker 1: named Kevin Carter was on the other side. It made
- 44:56Speaker 1: it really easy for javan because Kevin Carter was still near.
- 45:01Speaker 1: That's the rare. Usually the great pass rushers, you're on
- 45:03Speaker 1: a team, but they're the only guy. We're the only guy.
- 45:05Speaker 1: And that you've got Calais and you've got Unique, who
- 45:08Speaker 1: are both sitting there, and they would both give the opportunity,
- 45:11Speaker 1: will draw some of the attention away, so that if
- 45:14Speaker 1: he stays healthy, Allen will have a chance to push
- 45:16Speaker 1: for it. We do look ridiculous, by the way, with
- 45:19Speaker 1: the deal. You guys look identicals. I told you, I
- 45:23Speaker 1: said I'll wear the blazer, you wear the shirt. Thank
- 45:27Speaker 1: god you finally noticed. I've been thinking about it all show.
- 45:29Speaker 1: I didn't want to say, hey, I'm a twin. I
- 45:31Speaker 1: know it it's like to be dressed ridiculously like another
- 45:33Speaker 1: human being. All right, when we come back, we wrap
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- 47:26Speaker 1: here on Jack's Drive Time. As we go into some
- 47:28Speaker 1: NFL headlines, Yes absolutely, here I go. What's the hurries?
- 47:34Speaker 1: Where we start? And that's Drew brees Um. He's supposed
- 47:37Speaker 1: to be out about three more weeks after the thumb
- 47:39Speaker 1: surgery to repair the ligament, yet he wants to practice
- 47:42Speaker 1: this week and potentially play against the Cardinals on Sunday
- 47:46Speaker 1: in New Orleans. But the hurry is why Because Teddy
- 47:49Speaker 1: Bridgewater's five. And oh, people in Jacksonville feel good about
- 47:52Speaker 1: their backup situation. Uh, they should feel real good about
- 47:55Speaker 1: it in New Orleans. I don't know why Breeze is
- 47:57Speaker 1: currying to get back because he's old and you only
- 48:00Speaker 1: got so much time left way in the NFL. All right,
- 48:04Speaker 1: you answered the question. How about this one for you?
- 48:06Speaker 1: Uh see if you can answer you this equation ready,
- 48:09Speaker 1: it is UM sixty times three equals one. He's kicks
- 48:15Speaker 1: sixty three sixty yard field right, He's the first player.
- 48:18Speaker 1: Brett Maher, the Cowboys kicker, is the first kicker in
- 48:23Speaker 1: NFL history with three sixty plus yard field goals on
- 48:28Speaker 1: his resume. Yesterday he kicked day or last night he
- 48:30Speaker 1: kicked a sixty three yarder, which tied Tom Dempsey's. Is
- 48:33Speaker 1: not Tom Dempsy's anymore. Matt Prater has a sixty four yarder,
- 48:35Speaker 1: but Tom Dempsey's record that stood forever as a sixty
- 48:38Speaker 1: three yarder. He had a sixty two yard or the
- 48:41Speaker 1: week before. So in the last two weeks he's got
- 48:43Speaker 1: two sixty yard field goals and he had one last
- 48:45Speaker 1: year against the Eagles. So that's three sixty yarders. UM kickers.
- 48:50Speaker 1: I guess you can find him anywhere. Hunh. And it
- 48:51Speaker 1: shows you how much has changed. When Dempsey hit it,
- 48:53Speaker 1: it was an outlier like Jesse Owens leap. I mean
- 48:57Speaker 1: it was Tom Dempsey had half a foot too. It
- 48:59Speaker 1: took thirty Uh you know, you're thirty years to break it.
- 49:03Speaker 1: Now you get the idea that Praters is going to
- 49:06Speaker 1: get broken. Praters was in Denver. That's the interesting part.
- 49:09Speaker 1: Tom Dempsey kicked his at sea level, which with half
- 49:13Speaker 1: a foot off the ground, it was likely. That part
- 49:17Speaker 1: is probably still the most impressive. Yeah, sixty three yard
- 49:19Speaker 1: although we watched Jason Needlan kicked a sixty three yard
- 49:22Speaker 1: and nine against the Jaguars that was in Denver too,
- 49:24Speaker 1: So Dempsey's won the game. Yeah, which is interesting. It
- 49:27Speaker 1: was not a halftime field goal, and Dempsey's won the game.
- 49:30Speaker 1: And it was such an outlier that the Lions who
- 49:34Speaker 1: he beat couldn't even believe they were lining up for
- 49:37Speaker 1: the kick. It was field was a pipe cream at
- 49:40Speaker 1: that point, and now it's almost got into the point
- 49:42Speaker 1: where its routine. And uh, you know, this kid's was
- 49:45Speaker 1: as good as any at sea level to sixty three
- 49:48Speaker 1: yarders in a sixty two yarder and it said back
- 49:50Speaker 1: to back weeks with a sixty plush yard field goal. Um, wow,
- 49:54Speaker 1: that's about enough on kicking. Yeah, I do have one
- 49:59Speaker 1: more red light in Cincinnati and that is a J Green.
- 50:03Speaker 1: Yesterday it was asked the question, this team needs you
- 50:06Speaker 1: there oh and seven. By the way, you just couldn't
- 50:07Speaker 1: help but watch that offense and think if he's in
- 50:10Speaker 1: the ball game, how much different it is for Andy Dalton.
- 50:13Speaker 1: But he's not, and he is not going to speed
- 50:15Speaker 1: up his recovery. Last week he felt like he was
- 50:18Speaker 1: a week or two away, and he said he'd wait
- 50:21Speaker 1: to get on the practice field this week and see.
- 50:22Speaker 1: But he he wasn't going to react to the O
- 50:25Speaker 1: N seven start and assume he was going to play
- 50:28Speaker 1: this week when the Bengals go to London to play
- 50:30Speaker 1: the Rams. Yeah. I mean I don't blame him. Oh yeah,
- 50:33Speaker 1: I don't know. I thought with me, I'd want to
- 50:35Speaker 1: play because I want to go against the other guy.
- 50:37Speaker 1: The body slammed him here. A couple of years ago,
- 50:39Speaker 1: the um one of the Bengals reporters was Tommy that
- 50:42Speaker 1: they think best case scenario after the bye week, it's
- 50:44Speaker 1: more realistic with an older guy like that you want
- 50:47Speaker 1: to give him enough time to make sure he's healthy.
- 50:50Speaker 1: And they may be trying to trade him. You don't
- 50:51Speaker 1: know if anybody offered him them a high pick for him,
- 50:56Speaker 1: and the forty is reportedly or in the market for
- 51:00Speaker 1: a wide receiver. If they would come calling with a
- 51:03Speaker 1: good offer, they might be willing to move because they're
- 51:06Speaker 1: totally they're they're tearing that thing down and rebuilding it
- 51:09Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. All right, And that is our show this
- 51:11Speaker 1: Monday morning. Yeah, it's been an hour. Where have you been?
- 51:16Speaker 1: Things move faster about here. Yeah, stay tuned Jaguars Happy
- 51:19Speaker 1: Hour later on this afternoon. We'll be back Wednesday morning,
- 51:22Speaker 1: right here on Jaggs Drive Time.