Latest / The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network / Lessons of the season | Jags Drive Time: Tuesday, January 24

Transcript

Lessons of the season | Jags Drive Time: Tuesday, January 24 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

0:03
Speaker 1: Welcome to James Drive Time with John Hoosier Herson and
0:08
Speaker 1: Bryan Sex days six th, Jangs Drive Time starts right now.
0:16
Speaker 1: Good morning, Welcome to Jack's Drive Time, presented by car Shield.
0:20
Speaker 1: It's the Monday Show. We're doing it on a Tuesday,
0:23
Speaker 1: and we'll have the Wednesday show tomorrow on Wednesday, and
0:27
Speaker 1: then we'll sign off until after the Super Bowl. So
0:30
Speaker 1: today on Drivetime, we're gonna look back at Saturday afternoon's
0:34
Speaker 1: game in Kansas City and share some thoughts with you,
0:37
Speaker 1: and then tomorrow we'll go to the locker room and
0:39
Speaker 1: hear from the coach and put a bow on John.
0:43
Speaker 1: What was a a really good season, you know, I mean,
0:49
Speaker 1: which is not like you um unbelievable season. And I
0:54
Speaker 1: hope people watching this today, watching on the podcast as
0:57
Speaker 1: they consume this, have stepped away a enough from the
1:01
Speaker 1: understandable disappointment of not winning that day to realize a
1:06
Speaker 1: what a unbelievable thing it was that this team was
1:09
Speaker 1: playing in the last three minutes of a divisional four
1:12
Speaker 1: five minutes at divisional playoff with a chance to get
1:14
Speaker 1: to the a C Championship game against a what has
1:18
Speaker 1: become a legacy team one of the best teams in
1:20
Speaker 1: the NFL had won six in a row. Uh, you know,
1:24
Speaker 1: whatever the expectations were to clear it. Uh. Doug Peterson
1:30
Speaker 1: was asked yesterday if if you can have a successful
1:32
Speaker 1: season without winning the Super Bowl or something like that,
1:35
Speaker 1: can you feel a sense of accomplishment. Yeah, and boy,
1:39
Speaker 1: only one team wins it. But I've got to think
1:43
Speaker 1: that the fan base and the players and the coaches
1:47
Speaker 1: um deservedly feel as good about this as you can
1:52
Speaker 1: feel after an NFL season without lifting the trophy. So
1:55
Speaker 1: before we get into big things, just big broad picture here,
1:59
Speaker 1: and I think the season went so long and accomplished
2:04
Speaker 1: so much that it's tough to remember what you felt
2:07
Speaker 1: at this time last year. Right, they had just beaten
2:10
Speaker 1: the Colts, but it was just a miserable season and
2:13
Speaker 1: they hadn't hired a coach and that process was dragging on.
2:17
Speaker 1: The franchise felt like it was gun shy a year ago,
2:19
Speaker 1: like are we going to dig out of this thing
2:21
Speaker 1: with the quarterback or not? I think most people felt,
2:25
Speaker 1: and you know, you have different emotions at that time.
2:28
Speaker 1: For us, you know, there's always a little bit of
2:31
Speaker 1: fatigue because it's a long season. But I think overall,
2:35
Speaker 1: there was more of a feeling than I've ever had
2:38
Speaker 1: of whatever, you know, like, Okay, let's see it now.
2:42
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, and I don't. I don't wanna
2:46
Speaker 1: say I had that. I guess really not the way
2:49
Speaker 1: I approached things. But I know the fan base people
2:52
Speaker 1: who were writing me had a lot of them had this.
2:57
Speaker 1: You know what I'm I'm tired of getting up for
3:00
Speaker 1: every change. I'm tired of getting excited about everything. Show
3:05
Speaker 1: and show me a year later now, even having lost
3:09
Speaker 1: a playoff game over the weekend, there's they got everybody back. Man,
3:13
Speaker 1: they did, and you just couldn't have picked or predicted,
3:16
Speaker 1: I mean that Doug would be able to do that
3:19
Speaker 1: in year one. So let's roll right into big things
3:21
Speaker 1: here and get after it. And we'll start with proud
3:24
Speaker 1: and it's okay to be happy and smile about this
3:28
Speaker 1: team and this season. I just told him I was
3:32
Speaker 1: proud of him for the season that we put together.
3:34
Speaker 1: Nobody expected us, the Jaguars to be in this football
3:38
Speaker 1: game from the beginning of the season to today. And
3:41
Speaker 1: I just told him how proud I was of them
3:43
Speaker 1: for how they hung together all season long, how they
3:46
Speaker 1: how they battled, fought through a ton of adversity, um,
3:52
Speaker 1: you know, and just proud of the way they kept
3:54
Speaker 1: battling all season to get to this spot and really
3:57
Speaker 1: battling this game to come down to the you know,
4:00
Speaker 1: an on site kick to potentially you know, seeing what happens, right,
4:04
Speaker 1: And Um, I told him we were gonna, you know,
4:06
Speaker 1: we're gonna learn from this, We're gonna grow from this,
4:07
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, our expectation is to be in
4:11
Speaker 1: these games every year. I mean, that's where we're just
4:14
Speaker 1: you know, we're that's our expectation. And uh, um, you know,
4:18
Speaker 1: this was a good, good first year for all of us.
4:21
Speaker 1: Big thing too grateful, And the quarterback in the post
4:25
Speaker 1: game after the loss, with the disappointment still lingering, cut
4:30
Speaker 1: right through all of the gloom and pointed out the
4:33
Speaker 1: fact that this team accomplished so much that you had
4:37
Speaker 1: to take the time to feel so gratitude for how
4:39
Speaker 1: it all came together. Well, first of all, thank you,
4:43
Speaker 1: Thank you guys and all y'all that are in here
4:46
Speaker 1: that are Jacksonville people. Man, we appreciate you guys. Uh,
4:49
Speaker 1: A lot of ups and downs, even just this season,
4:51
Speaker 1: and it was a special year for for us, um
4:54
Speaker 1: for the city, for for everybody. And I couldn't have
4:57
Speaker 1: done it without all you guys supporting us. So we're
4:59
Speaker 1: thankful for you guys. Those last two home games were
5:02
Speaker 1: four games will never forget and just excited for that
5:05
Speaker 1: to be the atmosphere and the just the future for
5:09
Speaker 1: our team. And I'm really excited. And it's hard to
5:11
Speaker 1: even think about the next year right now because you're
5:14
Speaker 1: it's just still obviously this this loss is fresh. But um,
5:19
Speaker 1: we're gonna be back and this is the new standard
5:21
Speaker 1: and we set that and this is the bar, and um,
5:25
Speaker 1: we'll be back. So and finally big thing three focused
5:29
Speaker 1: and this football team was able to learn from the
5:32
Speaker 1: lessons week to week. That happens when you have a
5:34
Speaker 1: coaching staff that's dialed in and knows exactly what they're
5:37
Speaker 1: wanting to accomplish. But they had some lessons late in
5:40
Speaker 1: the year that middle linebacker Foyer Loukon believes will help
5:44
Speaker 1: them get to that next level next year. I mean,
5:48
Speaker 1: just this's the growth and we're going to continue to grow.
5:50
Speaker 1: It's just a start for them. It's only five years
5:52
Speaker 1: to get here. It's my fifth year. This taste in
5:55
Speaker 1: the playoffs and they got that experience in the first year,
5:57
Speaker 1: so now they know what it should look like. They've
5:59
Speaker 1: been a part of three in whatever it was, and
6:02
Speaker 1: they've been a part of the playoff run. So we
6:05
Speaker 1: they should know what what it looks like, practice preparations,
6:09
Speaker 1: energy level, what it should look like week in a
6:10
Speaker 1: week out. So any new people we bring to the squad,
6:13
Speaker 1: we know what to expect, the standard and there you
6:16
Speaker 1: have a big things and John proud, grateful, and focused
6:20
Speaker 1: are three good words to go into the offseason describing
6:25
Speaker 1: your football team. Brian, they won ten games from nineteen
6:30
Speaker 1: from one and they won ten this year. Uh, that's unbelievable.
6:37
Speaker 1: And I'm not a huge numbers guy, but I think
6:39
Speaker 1: those numbers show you where they were because they weren't
6:43
Speaker 1: just the worst team in the NFL the last couple
6:45
Speaker 1: of years. I'm not sure they weren't the worst team
6:48
Speaker 1: in the NFL by a fairly wide margin. Any team
6:51
Speaker 1: that picks number one's bad, but this team was. You know,
6:54
Speaker 1: I think it was ten double digit loss last double
6:57
Speaker 1: double digit losses last season. That it's as low as
7:00
Speaker 1: you can get without being windless, um pride, all the
7:06
Speaker 1: things we walked about the big things. One thing I
7:08
Speaker 1: didn't say at the top that I want to get in.
7:11
Speaker 1: We we have talked so much about nine because we
7:14
Speaker 1: were there for that and this, and there are parallels,
7:18
Speaker 1: but I think the biggest parallel is how the fans
7:24
Speaker 1: and the city now feel about the franchise. Remember ninety six,
7:28
Speaker 1: everything was fresh, and there was a love with this team,
7:31
Speaker 1: and there was an excitement and I alluded to it
7:34
Speaker 1: a couple of times during the run. I think that's back.
7:39
Speaker 1: It does feel fresh again, it feels new, it feels optimistic.
7:44
Speaker 1: But there's also I think a healthy add in of
7:49
Speaker 1: how hard it is to do and how special it
7:51
Speaker 1: really is. I'm not sure I've in currently for two
7:54
Speaker 1: years and then I went and I covered a bunch
7:57
Speaker 1: of Super Bowl you know all that. I didn't know
7:59
Speaker 1: how tough this was. I didn't know how bad it
8:01
Speaker 1: could be. I think the fan base gets that too,
8:05
Speaker 1: So there is an appreciation of what we have it again,
8:08
Speaker 1: this is what it's going to be. How fun is
8:10
Speaker 1: this going to be? And I do think there's a
8:12
Speaker 1: connection certainly that I hadn't felt with this franchise since
8:15
Speaker 1: I got back in two thousand eleven, and I think
8:17
Speaker 1: the things we talked about in Big three, the pride
8:19
Speaker 1: to focus. Fans felt what this team was doing and
8:25
Speaker 1: what it meant to him. This is how it's supposed
8:27
Speaker 1: to be. So one thought on that. Back in the
8:30
Speaker 1: early days, we were battling the Gator fans and the
8:34
Speaker 1: Seminole fans and the Bulldog fans. Right there were divided
8:37
Speaker 1: loyalties because you had fans of those teams and they
8:40
Speaker 1: were used to go to the King fans. Yeah, they're
8:42
Speaker 1: probably around there too. Um. Now, there are so many people,
8:47
Speaker 1: especially the last three years through the COVID pandemic, how
8:49
Speaker 1: many people have relocated to Jacksonville. There are more people
8:53
Speaker 1: who are more tied into just this franchise, who don't
8:56
Speaker 1: have the ties to the local colleges that always pulled
8:59
Speaker 1: them down to Gainsville on a Saturday or up to
9:01
Speaker 1: Athens on a Saturday afternoon. You have now people who
9:05
Speaker 1: are primed to take this fan base, not not just
9:07
Speaker 1: from a passionate one, but to a much bigger one.
9:10
Speaker 1: You included a lot of people who were not necessarily
9:13
Speaker 1: here in nineties six, or here in two thousand seven,
9:17
Speaker 1: or even a two thousand seventeen and you said, well,
9:19
Speaker 1: this is my town. Now, this is my team. And
9:21
Speaker 1: I'm getting that from a lot of people. My wife
9:23
Speaker 1: is a realtor. I've met a lot of these folks
9:25
Speaker 1: who have moved here, and they have become passionate about
9:29
Speaker 1: this team this year, and that will grow. You will
9:34
Speaker 1: have a fan base that will fill this stadium and
9:36
Speaker 1: it won't be Man, can they get that game on
9:38
Speaker 1: TV anymore? Yeah? And not that it has been for
9:41
Speaker 1: a while, but sure, it's a phrase. It's been used
9:47
Speaker 1: a lot, and I like it is. The game Saturday
9:54
Speaker 1: was the end of the beginning, so to speak. This
9:58
Speaker 1: is the beginning. And you know, I think it's gonna
10:01
Speaker 1: be a healthy franchise for a long time. I think
10:04
Speaker 1: healthy is a proper award because I don't know if
10:06
Speaker 1: it's gonna win Super Bowls. I can't predict that. It's
10:09
Speaker 1: hard to win one. Uh, but I think if, if, this,
10:16
Speaker 1: if this thing can get there this year. Because this
10:19
Speaker 1: was not one of the most talented eight teams in
10:21
Speaker 1: the NFL, I don't think um. I think I think
10:24
Speaker 1: it was. And it's a developing roster. To take a
10:28
Speaker 1: developing roster in a new situation before we get going.
10:33
Speaker 1: One stat that I thought was significant. Four teams played
10:36
Speaker 1: in the a f C this past weekend. Andy Reid
10:38
Speaker 1: ten years, Sean McDermott six years, Zach Taylor four years,
10:41
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson first year. They were beyond where they really
10:46
Speaker 1: should have been in terms of development. They were playing
10:49
Speaker 1: with three established going franchises. Jay Wards are getting going.
10:55
Speaker 1: This is, you know, the end of the beginning, if
10:57
Speaker 1: you will, If you can describe yourself in your life
10:59
Speaker 1: is out, grateful and focused, then you probably are in
11:02
Speaker 1: a healthy situation too. So I think healthy is the
11:04
Speaker 1: exact word, the perfect word to describe Shad Khan's franchise,
11:09
Speaker 1: the Jaguars as they head into the three season. We'll
11:12
Speaker 1: take a break, we'll head back and look at some
11:14
Speaker 1: of the highlights from Saturday afternoon with the proper perspective
11:18
Speaker 1: here on Jack's Drive Time on a Tuesday, presented by
11:22
Speaker 1: car Shield and rolling right along here on a Tuesday morning. Again.
11:31
Speaker 1: We're here today and we'll be back tomorrow, and then
11:34
Speaker 1: we'll take a couple of weeks off in return after
11:37
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. So let's get to the highlights from
11:39
Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon at Arrowhead stadium in Kansas City. And look,
11:44
Speaker 1: we knew going in you're gonna have the quarterback looking
11:48
Speaker 1: for the tight end. And they did it early, and
11:51
Speaker 1: they did it often. The Hoaks first drop back, County's
11:58
Speaker 1: first casey trow Travis Kelsey outs in the thirty five
12:02
Speaker 1: yard loss, three second and three sky more in motion.
12:06
Speaker 1: The pressure picked up. My homes right, Cock fights Kelsey
12:10
Speaker 1: right around midfield for me, but Holmes on the rug
12:15
Speaker 1: cotch in the middle, Coty touchdown. You know the familiarity
12:22
Speaker 1: that you spoke of everything, You see it there and
12:26
Speaker 1: you watch the two linebackers here on this particular play,
12:29
Speaker 1: or the linebacker in the corner, Watch how they just
12:30
Speaker 1: overrun Kelsey and Kelsey just sits down. Yeah, it's it's
12:36
Speaker 1: easy to say, and I understand people say this, Oh
12:39
Speaker 1: put three men on Kelsey. Don't let him beat you.
12:42
Speaker 1: If you did, everybody else beats um. And I didn't
12:45
Speaker 1: think every play that Kelsey caught was a laugh by
12:48
Speaker 1: the Jaguars defense. I'm sure I haven't talked to Mike
12:50
Speaker 1: call I haven't talked to the Jaguars players by specifically
12:52
Speaker 1: jump pass wasn't but I'm sure there were times on
12:57
Speaker 1: Saturday where they got out schemed because you guess what
13:00
Speaker 1: Andy read in the Chiefs are gonna outscheae me right
13:02
Speaker 1: now and then. But I didn't. I didn't see them
13:05
Speaker 1: neglecting Kelsey. There were um multiple times. The first play
13:11
Speaker 1: he caught a two yard pass and turned into a
13:14
Speaker 1: four yard or five yard pass. I'm sure sitting in
13:16
Speaker 1: game plan meetings last week, they knew they had to
13:19
Speaker 1: give them something. And then Kelsey made a few plays
13:22
Speaker 1: and I could have done a better job. But guess what, Um,
13:25
Speaker 1: this was a Hall of famer and probably all of
13:29
Speaker 1: famer thrown to him. I'm homes going to the Hall
13:31
Speaker 1: of Fame. He certainly on that on the track playing
13:34
Speaker 1: against guys who aren't Hall of famers. Yeah, the Jaguars
13:38
Speaker 1: defense this year was not made up of guys who
13:42
Speaker 1: I think are gonna be wearing gold jackets. Uh, it's
13:45
Speaker 1: not a knock on him. Travis Kelsey is an all timer. Uh.
13:49
Speaker 1: He made a few plays that were all time. They
13:51
Speaker 1: probably got beat a couple of times. Um, that's just
13:55
Speaker 1: how it is. So the Jaguars falled down seven nothing,
13:58
Speaker 1: but fear not, they understood what they were up against
14:01
Speaker 1: and they couldn't fall into the hole as they did
14:04
Speaker 1: against the Chargers in the wild card game. Jamal Agnew sparked,
14:07
Speaker 1: there come from behind, run shut out, one ounce of
14:11
Speaker 1: rust off the line, drive return will kick here for Agnew.
14:16
Speaker 1: Very kid returned. Man Agnew's got an opening here on
14:18
Speaker 1: the sideline for the Chiefs have an angle past midfield.
14:22
Speaker 1: They do is out of bounce of a thirty nine
14:27
Speaker 1: and Lawrence losting it for Kurt got it from the
14:30
Speaker 1: touchdown first. Jim Kirk on terrific play, designed r out
14:34
Speaker 1: of the back field to the end. Zoe and the
14:36
Speaker 1: jack bars respond in time of the game. You know,
14:40
Speaker 1: I take away the disappointment of the loss because I
14:43
Speaker 1: know people are still disappointed all season. We look for
14:46
Speaker 1: signs of growth to respond in the postseason on the
14:50
Speaker 1: road and turn this into a tie game right here.
14:54
Speaker 1: Uh yes, they got great positions. They got great deal
14:57
Speaker 1: of position from Agnew. But I think about the first
15:01
Speaker 1: game of the season they drove and I think it
15:08
Speaker 1: was the wheel route that Trevor couldn't hit to E
15:10
Speaker 1: t n on almost the same play, and then all
15:13
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're down against Washington the whole game
15:15
Speaker 1: and you're just sort of not that was a sign
15:19
Speaker 1: of growth to me, that you get down seven nothing.
15:22
Speaker 1: I felt I felt all a long like the Chiefs
15:25
Speaker 1: were better. I've covered a lot of these kind of
15:26
Speaker 1: games where were playing a better team. I figured that
15:28
Speaker 1: game was gonna get to fourteen nothing early and then
15:31
Speaker 1: you're and you're gonna feel uphill the whole game. That's
15:34
Speaker 1: sort of what you do on the road against these
15:35
Speaker 1: elite teams when you're a young team. For them to
15:38
Speaker 1: come out and respond and get back to seven seven
15:40
Speaker 1: and keep this thing manageable the whole game. I thought
15:45
Speaker 1: that was growth. And I know people are gonna say, well,
15:48
Speaker 1: it's not time for growth, you're in the playoffs, But
15:50
Speaker 1: I thought that was a growth moment for the Jacks.
15:53
Speaker 1: Now they're down ten to seven and the Holmes is
15:56
Speaker 1: out of the game. This is where you felt like
15:59
Speaker 1: the Chiefs were a superior team. And of course, going
16:02
Speaker 1: to their fifth consecutive AFC Championship game, they're the better
16:07
Speaker 1: team and they showed to here on this drive with
16:09
Speaker 1: Chad Henny off the two yard line, third drive of
16:14
Speaker 1: his first half. Check out to the outside, but check
16:18
Speaker 1: out a face to the third line to check out
16:21
Speaker 1: about at the five yard love, perfect catching start on
16:31
Speaker 1: the touchdown. Look, Chad Henny is not a superior quarterback.
16:37
Speaker 1: We know what because he's thirty seven years old. He's
16:40
Speaker 1: a career backup. But you just saw the roster and
16:44
Speaker 1: the difference in the developed roster and how the Chief's
16:48
Speaker 1: offensive line. I don't want to too far. That's my
16:49
Speaker 1: big thing. How they dominated that drive because they had to. Yeah,
16:54
Speaker 1: I mean, I think most people who watched the game
16:56
Speaker 1: since this too, this isn't breaking news when you got
17:00
Speaker 1: to the on the drive before this and went backward
17:04
Speaker 1: and couldn't get points, and then they came out and
17:07
Speaker 1: drove this and everybody's everybody has pointed to the art
17:11
Speaker 1: and key play which happened on this drive, the wrecking
17:13
Speaker 1: the pastor. But the Chiefs pick up a first down
17:15
Speaker 1: on that play without that um ding the pastor, so
17:20
Speaker 1: they had you know, when this run happened down to
17:25
Speaker 1: the four, that's when I sort of sort of said, Okay,
17:29
Speaker 1: they're not gonna do it today because they had a
17:31
Speaker 1: chance to take advantage of the game and take the
17:34
Speaker 1: lead and momentum feeling wise watching the game, when when
17:40
Speaker 1: Mahomes went out for a little while you felt like, Okay,
17:43
Speaker 1: the Jackars have a chance to be up fourteen ten
17:45
Speaker 1: a half, when when you're down seventeen seven, it's a
17:49
Speaker 1: big switch. Credit them for staying in it and almost
17:54
Speaker 1: getting back in it late. But I thought the second
17:56
Speaker 1: quarter was the game. Let's go to the second half.
17:58
Speaker 1: Drags down seventeen to say Evan, but Trevor Lawrence has
18:02
Speaker 1: some guys he can count on second and done. We've
18:08
Speaker 1: got behind Marks clutching for Jils has got it. There's
18:11
Speaker 1: a flat down on the opposite side of the field,
18:13
Speaker 1: but St. Jiones is inside the five counting the outside
18:21
Speaker 1: cutch up and then for the touchdowns Travis e tm
18:26
Speaker 1: has made. There's a four point game, which one minutes
18:28
Speaker 1: to play in the fourth quarter. Boy, we're talking about growth. Ye, well,
18:33
Speaker 1: I thought this was a huge drive on that front, obviously.
18:36
Speaker 1: I mean, and I think plays like the z A
18:39
Speaker 1: Jones play. Uh I, We're shown it here. These kind
18:44
Speaker 1: of plays will happen more consistently as this team knows
18:49
Speaker 1: each other more. We're gonna talk about continuity a lot
18:50
Speaker 1: later in the weeks. I gonna get to it here,
18:52
Speaker 1: but that will happen more. That's the kind of play
18:55
Speaker 1: that happens when you're developed. Make me plays there. I
18:58
Speaker 1: thought the game also turned a little bit it early
19:00
Speaker 1: in the third quarter when the Jags you know, dude,
19:04
Speaker 1: I thought, a fairly superhuman effort. We're within seven twice
19:09
Speaker 1: with the ball and then couldn't go get points. It
19:13
Speaker 1: felt again, I just felt, and maybe I'm wrong, because
19:17
Speaker 1: my interpretation of the game was every time the Chiefs
19:21
Speaker 1: needed a big moment, they got it. And I thought
19:24
Speaker 1: the Chiefs stopped the Jag wars there twice when their
19:27
Speaker 1: offense was still getting back into it. My Homes sort
19:29
Speaker 1: of hobbled. Thought the Chiefs defense stopped the Jacks and
19:32
Speaker 1: they needed to, and then they went out and got
19:34
Speaker 1: the advantage again twenty to ten and kept keeping them
19:37
Speaker 1: at bay a little bit. So I thought there was
19:39
Speaker 1: an element of that on Saturday. Well, and if only
19:41
Speaker 1: the reverse was true, because after that et and touchdown,
19:43
Speaker 1: the Jags are within a field goal with twelve minutes
19:45
Speaker 1: left to play. You're thinking, Okay, what can the defense do. Remember,
19:48
Speaker 1: Mahomes is not able to move and be the magician
19:52
Speaker 1: that we all know he's capable of. So he did
19:54
Speaker 1: what great players do. They go back to what they
19:57
Speaker 1: do well, and it was the Kelsey drive. Second and
20:03
Speaker 1: ten right back to Kelsey troubled to hold onto it
20:06
Speaker 1: did pull it in. It will pick up a first
20:08
Speaker 1: down just across the thirty five yard like checking ten
20:12
Speaker 1: Jaguards show pressure and bring it. My Home types to
20:16
Speaker 1: stand Kelty again across midfield for the first down, don't go,
20:23
Speaker 1: and my Homes steps up trous to the back touchdowns.
20:33
Speaker 1: And that is the very definition of a great quarterback
20:36
Speaker 1: who can't move very well, getting the most out of
20:39
Speaker 1: his scheme. And right there, I didn't think they were
20:42
Speaker 1: ignoring Kelsey. He he made a play. He may pen
20:46
Speaker 1: in the next series and uh, I mean in the
20:48
Speaker 1: next highlight. I love my Homes as a player. I
20:55
Speaker 1: can't stand away as helmet sit it's my only knock. Okay,
21:00
Speaker 1: but he's a wonderful player. Again, I thought this showed
21:06
Speaker 1: where Kansas City is as a franchise, as a big
21:10
Speaker 1: moment franchise. This kind of drive is why they're playing
21:14
Speaker 1: in their fifth consecutive a C Championship game. It was
21:17
Speaker 1: a key moment in the game. The Jaguars were back
21:20
Speaker 1: in it, and the Chiefs went down and scored without
21:22
Speaker 1: facing a third down. Um, that's why I felt like
21:27
Speaker 1: somewhere it just felt to me like a game where
21:29
Speaker 1: the more experienced team was going to find a thing
21:33
Speaker 1: to do to win no matter what happened. I thought
21:35
Speaker 1: that drive personified that, and Doug obviously fought I thought
21:38
Speaker 1: the same way. He talked about how much his team
21:40
Speaker 1: would learn from a game like this. In the post game,
21:43
Speaker 1: We're gonna show you the final drive for the Jaguars. Well,
21:45
Speaker 1: not quite the final drive, but the drive that ended
21:47
Speaker 1: the game essentially right here five ago, off side free shot,
21:52
Speaker 1: Here for Lawrence, fast right around the twenty yard third
22:00
Speaker 1: and ten. Here comes the pressure, Lawrence getting away, scraffling,
22:04
Speaker 1: running for it. Trevor put your sol down, gets the
22:08
Speaker 1: first time at the nine yard lone none bigger than that,
22:11
Speaker 1: going quick from the Nie gets it out. It was five.
22:15
Speaker 1: How the fall four seas are there? There they were
22:20
Speaker 1: with the opportunity right the fumble. Notwithstanding, they were right
22:27
Speaker 1: there with an opportunity, which is why a lot of
22:29
Speaker 1: people are like, they blew it. But they got themselves
22:33
Speaker 1: into position. And and this has been a problem this year. Turnovers,
22:36
Speaker 1: especially over the last six or eight weeks, have multiplied
22:41
Speaker 1: and that was it. The play I wanted to highlight
22:44
Speaker 1: was third down to ten and the run by Lawrence.
22:48
Speaker 1: I mean, if you loved the video of him standing
22:51
Speaker 1: in the tunnel as people were leaving the field and
22:55
Speaker 1: showing his leadership, that run is the equivalent of that.
22:59
Speaker 1: What a what an incredible place, the one I probably
23:01
Speaker 1: will remember all seasons or all off season. And I'm
23:04
Speaker 1: talking about both of us, both sides of the mouth
23:06
Speaker 1: a little bit, because boy, if they had scored there
23:09
Speaker 1: with Agne, I understand why fans thinking why they could
23:11
Speaker 1: have gone on one, because all they would have needed
23:13
Speaker 1: was one stop, one third down stop, one turnover, which
23:18
Speaker 1: this team has gotten so often in the last six
23:20
Speaker 1: or seven games. I do understand Jaguars fans feeling like, hey,
23:25
Speaker 1: this team was going to make a play to go
23:27
Speaker 1: do it, and they might have. That's why when I
23:29
Speaker 1: was asked, um, do you think the Jaguars should have
23:33
Speaker 1: won or could have won? I thought they could have won.
23:36
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. I looked at that as a
23:37
Speaker 1: game that they should have I didn't think they blew it.
23:40
Speaker 1: I thought they had opportunities. I do think that the
23:45
Speaker 1: last two drives, the one where they might say last two,
23:49
Speaker 1: the one that ended in the E t N touchdown
23:51
Speaker 1: and the one that ended in the agnew drive. You're
23:55
Speaker 1: talking about pressure moments where I'm gonna say the order
24:00
Speaker 1: back first, the whole offense, but the quarterback led drives
24:06
Speaker 1: into one was a touchdown. I think the other one
24:08
Speaker 1: would have been a touchdown without the fumble. Those are
24:11
Speaker 1: big time, big moment drives. I would say that he'll
24:16
Speaker 1: learn from those, but I would also say that maybe
24:20
Speaker 1: the learning has already happened. Those are huge moments, huge
24:23
Speaker 1: postseason stuff. Um, I don't know that he does that
24:30
Speaker 1: three months ago. Uh. And then, as you said, it's
24:34
Speaker 1: funny the achilles heel for the first eight games of
24:39
Speaker 1: the season when they were struggling red zone turnovers. E
24:43
Speaker 1: t N out here against the Giants Houston Denver. I
24:48
Speaker 1: hadn't really thought about until I was watching it because
24:50
Speaker 1: you get caught up in it. First red zone turnover.
24:52
Speaker 1: I think it's the first red zone turnover since Denver.
24:55
Speaker 1: I think it was. And so there you go. So
24:57
Speaker 1: we all SHO should point out by the way that
24:58
Speaker 1: the defense did come out with fourth down stop on
25:01
Speaker 1: the following drive that gave them the chance to get
25:03
Speaker 1: the ball back. They showed so much this year, they
25:07
Speaker 1: just didn't have more than Kansas City. On Saturday afternoon,
25:10
Speaker 1: we come back Hot takes here on Tuesday morning. Jack's
25:14
Speaker 1: Drive Time presented by car Shield. If your cars out
25:23
Speaker 1: of manufacturer's warranty, don't get stuck with expensive mechanical and
25:27
Speaker 1: computer screen repairs called car Shield. Now Brian and John
25:32
Speaker 1: Vacky with you on a Tuesday. We'll be back on
25:34
Speaker 1: Wednesday where we'll look forward. We're looking back today. Um, John, Well,
25:40
Speaker 1: it's uh. I think the overwhelming feeling is sadness, and
25:46
Speaker 1: that's okay. And when I say that, I mean among
25:50
Speaker 1: the fans, and I want to say this right. I
25:53
Speaker 1: think the fans, many of them who are writing me,
25:59
Speaker 1: talked more about being sad that the season was over
26:03
Speaker 1: than they did being mad about the loss. And they're
26:05
Speaker 1: mad about the loss and frustrated. But and I think
26:08
Speaker 1: the reason for the sadness is I think people are
26:14
Speaker 1: going on on Friday and Saturday. I think they're going
26:19
Speaker 1: to miss turning on their TV and watching at the
26:22
Speaker 1: Jags play because I think they fell in love with
26:26
Speaker 1: this team. And I don't think they fell in love
26:29
Speaker 1: with the results. And when I say this, I don't
26:32
Speaker 1: necessarily think the fans are sad that they're not going
26:35
Speaker 1: to be watching them in the a f C Championship,
26:37
Speaker 1: gaming in the super Bowl. I think they're sad that
26:40
Speaker 1: they won't be watching them in a Week three game
26:44
Speaker 1: because I think they loved watching this team. It was fun. Well,
26:48
Speaker 1: that was it. You built your week towards the weekend
26:50
Speaker 1: the last six weeks, and the players were getting to watch.
26:54
Speaker 1: There's a picture Brian on Twitter h of Doug and
27:00
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. I think I think it's after after charges him.
27:03
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but you can tell that Doug was
27:08
Speaker 1: going to one direction and saw Josh and there's this
27:10
Speaker 1: look on Doug's face after after a win, and he
27:16
Speaker 1: looks ridiculous, but it's a year old man having the
27:21
Speaker 1: time of his life and the pure joy of the moment. Unexpected.
27:28
Speaker 1: We did it, and it feels to me like fans
27:32
Speaker 1: connected with that as much as the victories, and they
27:36
Speaker 1: loved it. And I think fans are gonna miss that.
27:39
Speaker 1: And the reason I say that's okay, the connection with
27:42
Speaker 1: this team and the fan base is real. It's kind
27:44
Speaker 1: of like when you run out of your Netflix series. Right,
27:47
Speaker 1: you can't wait for the next season. Here we go. Wait,
27:49
Speaker 1: it's over. I don't got to watch one very done,
27:53
Speaker 1: same feeling, except this real people and you fell in
27:56
Speaker 1: love with it, and it's it's it's uh again to me.
28:02
Speaker 1: Fans love winning, so I think they. I think they
28:04
Speaker 1: love the seventeen team. But I've said before that team
28:09
Speaker 1: felt angry. Well that's it. You had so many years
28:11
Speaker 1: of losing. That team was given it back to the league.
28:14
Speaker 1: But this team, the love that these guys share for
28:19
Speaker 1: each other and a connection with the fans. The five
28:21
Speaker 1: straight wins out there, uh something special that you don't
28:25
Speaker 1: experience all the time. I think fans are gonna miss
28:27
Speaker 1: it all right. My hot take is looking forward a
28:29
Speaker 1: little bit. The Chief's offensive line is the standard. Hey,
28:32
Speaker 1: look when Mahomes left the game and they were pinned
28:36
Speaker 1: at their two yard line and they had Chad Henny
28:38
Speaker 1: thirty seven years old and a journeyman back up behind them,
28:42
Speaker 1: you could see that Creed Humphrey in the middle of
28:43
Speaker 1: that line just took over. They sealed every block, They
28:46
Speaker 1: protected their quarterback. They didn't let there be free hits. Um.
28:51
Speaker 1: Their offensive line is really, really good. They were powerful
28:55
Speaker 1: and strong, and you don't have to be an expert
28:57
Speaker 1: on football to know that they took over the ball game.
29:00
Speaker 1: The Jaguars offensive line took a big step forward this year,
29:03
Speaker 1: played really well. But they've got to get a lot
29:06
Speaker 1: better on the interior of that offensive line and particularly
29:09
Speaker 1: gonna get stronger. Luke Fortner is a smart guy. He's
29:12
Speaker 1: a tough guy. Um, but he's a rookie and he's
29:14
Speaker 1: playing at the end of his string. Um. They have
29:17
Speaker 1: got to be more consistent. Hey, Tyler Shatley played since
29:20
Speaker 1: Week five when Ben Bartch went out, and Tyler Shatley
29:23
Speaker 1: in his career, has been a consistent backup plug and
29:26
Speaker 1: play guy when you need him. And he played his
29:29
Speaker 1: best football all season long, gave you everything he had.
29:33
Speaker 1: The Jaguars have to get better. The offensive line was good.
29:36
Speaker 1: It's got to take another step for the Jaguars to
29:38
Speaker 1: be able to match what the Chiefs do. Yeah, I
29:41
Speaker 1: think it's important to note that Brandon Sheriff was basically
29:43
Speaker 1: playing without a core uh, and you know had had
29:48
Speaker 1: made a big deal out of it. I haven't talked
29:50
Speaker 1: to him about it, but my understanding was, Uh, the
29:53
Speaker 1: Adaman injury he's on the injury report every week after
29:57
Speaker 1: about wasn't able to really practice on Weddes nine or ten. Uh.
30:01
Speaker 1: I have no core Brian, but I I would imagine
30:05
Speaker 1: for somebody with one, not having one to play in
30:08
Speaker 1: the NFL would be time. Well, I didn't. I didn't
30:10
Speaker 1: mention him because I knew he was playing that way.
30:12
Speaker 1: But I guess you get him back healthy. Yeah, you
30:15
Speaker 1: get Fortner a year in the weight room to get
30:17
Speaker 1: bigger and stronger, and then you get Ben Bartch back,
30:19
Speaker 1: or you draft another young guard to compete at that spot.
30:23
Speaker 1: That's how you get better. You've got to get better
30:25
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. The Chief's offensive line set the
30:28
Speaker 1: standard in that ball game. And I think if you're
30:31
Speaker 1: Phil Rousher, you're gonna pull that tape out and watch
30:34
Speaker 1: it in the offseason and figure out how do we
30:35
Speaker 1: get as good as they are. That's just one thought.
30:39
Speaker 1: As we come to the close of this show, we'll
30:41
Speaker 1: take a break and come back and wrap it up
30:43
Speaker 1: on a Tuesday morning. After this, we'll move the freight
30:53
Speaker 1: with Magellan Transport voted the coolest office space in Jacksonville.
30:57
Speaker 1: You can apply online at Magellan Logistics dot com. Back
31:01
Speaker 1: to wrap it up. We're here tomorrow, and tomorrow we
31:04
Speaker 1: will look forward uh and talk with some of the
31:07
Speaker 1: players and coaches through the locker room until we already
31:11
Speaker 1: have gotten to but to John, this team, and it
31:15
Speaker 1: can't be understated, in no way, shape or form, were
31:18
Speaker 1: they supposed to be where they were right We talked
31:21
Speaker 1: all through the preseason and back into the summer about
31:24
Speaker 1: six or seven wins would be a big step, monumental
31:28
Speaker 1: step forward for this team because it would set them
31:31
Speaker 1: up for three and beyond. To get where they are
31:35
Speaker 1: right now was way beyond my expectations. Yeah, and you
31:39
Speaker 1: lose perspective on that when you're winning or when you're
31:43
Speaker 1: around winning late in the season. Hey, any one more,
31:47
Speaker 1: one more of this, one more of that? Um, he said.
31:51
Speaker 1: The best top of the show to go from where
31:53
Speaker 1: this team was last January last year, this time, the
31:58
Speaker 1: mess that it was and it wasn't man and then
32:01
Speaker 1: you're you're looking for a coach trying to make sure
32:04
Speaker 1: you get it right, the guys in the locker room,
32:07
Speaker 1: all the trust building, all that. It's um, I understand
32:12
Speaker 1: that Brian Dable is winning some of the Coach of
32:16
Speaker 1: the Year and credit to Shanahan out in San Francisco.
32:21
Speaker 1: I've never seen a head coach do a better head
32:24
Speaker 1: coaching job than Doug Peterson did this year. If people
32:27
Speaker 1: took more time to look into it, and they won't.
32:30
Speaker 1: It's easy in New York, it's easy in San Francisco,
32:32
Speaker 1: and those guys are certainly deserving. Um, but if you
32:35
Speaker 1: looked at the totality of what this was and what
32:38
Speaker 1: it is, because the head coach is not just what
32:40
Speaker 1: you do on week one, it's how you build this thing.
32:44
Speaker 1: The he's he's the heartbeat of your franchise. It's remarkable
32:49
Speaker 1: and uh, maybe he didn't win the award, but for
32:54
Speaker 1: what he did to build this franchise, it's a remarkable.
32:59
Speaker 1: John's good a coaching job as I've seen in almost
33:02
Speaker 1: thirty years, certainly in Jacksonville. All right, that I'll do
33:05
Speaker 1: it for this show. We'll be back tomorrow. Lots ahead,
33:08
Speaker 1: big things will go through the locker room. UM, got
33:12
Speaker 1: a lot to talk about and we'll wrap up the
33:14
Speaker 1: season with tomorrow's Jags Drive time. Thanks for joining us, everybody,
33:18
Speaker 1: have a great day.