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Jags Drive Time: Monday, August 27 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Jaguars. Did you don't Jack Jack Warris, did you know
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Speaker 1: Jaguars R Time Ryan Sex steps that John O's agent. Actually,
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Speaker 1: Jaguarris drive Time starts right now. I think I think
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Speaker 1: greatness with the team. I'm still gonna push this team
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Speaker 1: to get better and better and metal that makes that
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Speaker 1: everybody all right, we can do that. Hey, watch each
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Speaker 1: other tonight, protect each other. Well, have a job, get
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Speaker 1: yourself ready to go. I got a short turnaround. That's
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars locker room on a happy Saturday night. Jaguars
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Speaker 1: performed admirably against the Falcons on that field in the
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Speaker 1: final preseason warm up for at least the starters. And
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Speaker 1: it was a happy time. Obviously. The Marquis Lee injury
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Speaker 1: Castle Paul As people were worried about their teammate. Sunday though,
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Speaker 1: things changed in downtown Jacksonville. And look, you can turn
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Speaker 1: on a news station this morning and you probably did
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Speaker 1: yesterday and find out what happened at the landing. You know,
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Speaker 1: the investigation that continues at the landing, um our hearts
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Speaker 1: and minds, and you know we're residents of Jacksonville, we
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Speaker 1: are citizens of downtown and that we work here. We're
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Speaker 1: here all the time. The landing is a place all
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Speaker 1: of us have been um so we're concerned about it,
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Speaker 1: just like you. We're not going to spend a lot
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Speaker 1: of time on it this morning, because maybe this is
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Speaker 1: where you're getting a break from it. We do want
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Speaker 1: to share with you, though, the statement from Jaguar's owners
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Speaker 1: Shot Khan, who's very invested in downtown, and it says
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Speaker 1: right there, it's impossible to comprehend today's news. I'm heartbroken
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Speaker 1: for the families and friends of the victims and can
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Speaker 1: only express my deepest condolences as we try to understand
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Speaker 1: why and how this can happen, not only here but anywhere.
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Speaker 1: What I can say is I know today what lifelong
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville residents have known forever. We're resilient, compassionate, and remarkably
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Speaker 1: supportive of our neighbors and friends, particularly in the most
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Speaker 1: trying occasions. This tragedy will bring the best of all
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Speaker 1: of us, but I know we will respond. So again,
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Speaker 1: Downtown is a special place to us as well, and
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Speaker 1: our thoughts and prayers are with the families today, and
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Speaker 1: we move on to football this morning as they progress
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Speaker 1: with their investigation. With that good morning, Yeah, it really
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Speaker 1: want yesterday it was not a good day at all.
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Speaker 1: I wrote NEOs on this morning. I don't know how
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Speaker 1: to make sense this sort of thing, so uh and
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Speaker 1: not good enough to try. I know there's connections because
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Speaker 1: of Madden me because if it's downtown Jacksonville, US, But yeah,
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Speaker 1: no words, unfortunately. Yeah. The first thing I thought of
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Speaker 1: is was it a drag Wars event? And when I
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Speaker 1: found out it wasn't, I was relieved because we all
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Speaker 1: know people here in the events department who are out
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Speaker 1: and about in the community doing things like that. So again,
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Speaker 1: we promise you will focus on football this morning, but
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Speaker 1: to like you, it is on our mind. So let's
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Speaker 1: talk a little bit about football and we'll start with
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Speaker 1: um with big things this morning. In the big thing,
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Speaker 1: it's good, better and best. We know this team is good,
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Speaker 1: that's no question. We knew they were getting better during
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Speaker 1: training camp. But are they the best? Are they the best?
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Speaker 1: Like some of those people in the locker room are saying.
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Speaker 1: I spoke to Calais Campbell after the game against the
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Speaker 1: Falcons and asked him what his expectations are for two
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Speaker 1: thou eighteen and if they can be the best. Here's
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Speaker 1: what he had to say, I mean, I want to
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Speaker 1: take a one kind at a time, but this term
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Speaker 1: is very of one and at all a matter of preparation, execution,
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Speaker 1: and just starting in the government. You know, John, I
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Speaker 1: couldn't help. But as I watched, especially the defensive performance again, uh,
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Speaker 1: as strong as they were third down keeping, keeping the
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Speaker 1: Falcons with Matt Ryan out of the end zone and
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Speaker 1: forcing field goal attempts. They were good against the Saints.
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Speaker 1: They were better than Minnesota, and in Minnesota um and
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Speaker 1: then gosh, they got Jalen Ramsey and Dante Fowler back.
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Speaker 1: They didn't have a j boy and yet look at
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Speaker 1: what we saw from that first team defense. I mean,
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Speaker 1: Marcell Darus and Sean Gibson were out before the half
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Speaker 1: was done. So yeah, to me, that's the best defensive
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Speaker 1: roster in the league. I keep going back to something
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Speaker 1: I said early in training camp. When you talk to
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Speaker 1: these guys, there's a feeling. I'm not sure I've ever
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Speaker 1: been around a team quite with this kind of feeling.
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Speaker 1: When I covered the Colts, people sort of understood they
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Speaker 1: were good because they had star power that people knew about.
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Speaker 1: You always knew about Petency and New When I covered
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars in the nineties. Once they got good in
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Speaker 1: nineties six, it was nobody really doubted that that team
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Speaker 1: was good back then. So this team still feels a
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Speaker 1: little under the radar in a sense. And I keep
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Speaker 1: going back to the thought that this team can't wait
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Speaker 1: to get to the regular season so it can start
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Speaker 1: flexing its muscles, so it can show that they feel
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Speaker 1: like this is their year. They feel like they're capable
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Speaker 1: of something special. Um, they're so far ahead of what
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Speaker 1: they were this time last year. They were good. Last year,
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Speaker 1: I was they went to the FC Championship game almost wonted.
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Speaker 1: But yes, the defense and there's things they do. They
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Speaker 1: seem to have that ability even more than the last year,
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Speaker 1: to close the door on third down, to get things.
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Speaker 1: There are certain pressure points and games we have to
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Speaker 1: perform well. This team on defense especially seems to be
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Speaker 1: able to do that. But it's so much further ahead offensively.
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Speaker 1: When you see them be able to move the ball
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Speaker 1: the way they've been able to move it, I get
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Speaker 1: the intercession with the way forwards like it. It's gonna
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Speaker 1: be a topic, but and move all against Minnesota. Remember
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Speaker 1: on one drive and then on the next drive they
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Speaker 1: got out of their own underneath their own goal posts.
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Speaker 1: They're able to move the ball. You get the sense
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Speaker 1: that this team is going to be able to run
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Speaker 1: and do what they want to do. This team has
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Speaker 1: an identity, and it feels like they're gonna be able
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Speaker 1: to play to that identity at a high light. Let
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Speaker 1: me speak to that identity quick. Just just to share
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Speaker 1: a story, I was told by my brother in law
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Speaker 1: who had a group of buddies in college, guys from Chicago. Um,
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Speaker 1: they don't see this team very often, and yet they
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Speaker 1: were down on the field before the game and they
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Speaker 1: were in front of the defensive line. They knew every name.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you said star power. These guys were well
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Speaker 1: aware that they were watching the best defensive line of football.
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Speaker 1: And again, different conference, different division, different part of the country,
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Speaker 1: and this defensive line's reputation is league wide. I was
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Speaker 1: willing to have star power, which i've it's also no
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Speaker 1: thing to have all those guys be legitimately good. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: the NFL star power, you're a star, but you're at
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Speaker 1: the end of your career and not really producing. All
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Speaker 1: these guys who talked about with star power, and we've
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Speaker 1: talked about Brian They've got all these guys who were
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Speaker 1: doing were either in the Pro Bowl last year or
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Speaker 1: have been in the Pro Bowl. Even the guys who
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Speaker 1: have been the Pro Bowl who weren't there last year
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Speaker 1: two Sean Gibson, Marcel Darius that got it's not even
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Speaker 1: sivable they could be in the Pro And they're not
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Speaker 1: guys who are walking in here on their last legs.
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Speaker 1: They're playing at a high level. You've got eight nine
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Speaker 1: guys on defense who you could argue are among the
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Speaker 1: top three or four at their position in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: This is a perfect storm in terms of the ability
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Speaker 1: to put an elite, memorable defense on the field. Ashton
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Speaker 1: at any point in the preseason, we've seen guys on
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Speaker 1: both sides of the ball, especially number seven flash with
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Speaker 1: star power as he did it on a Saturday night. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: and I think when we asked the question good better
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Speaker 1: best be automatically just say the defense. But I liked
7:21
Speaker 1: what you said about this team has a reputation for
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Speaker 1: running the ball, and I think they're fitting for that,
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Speaker 1: especially that last preseason, which they just write a big
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Speaker 1: thing too. It does running wild. So we know that
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Speaker 1: this team had a great offensive standpoint with the Falcons,
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Speaker 1: especially with the running back Stunnen Maron introduced a multiple
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Speaker 1: running back formation against the Vikings. We saw more of
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Speaker 1: it against the Falcons. And here's the reasoning why. I
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Speaker 1: just think we're trying to get you know, playmakers on
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Speaker 1: the field, you know, the same thing with like you know,
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Speaker 1: Lendon be out there on third down a little bit more.
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Speaker 1: But you know t J we know can care to
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Speaker 1: load on first and second down, you know, and Corey
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Speaker 1: is a guy that has some speed. That's a really
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Speaker 1: good change up for those two. So we're just trying to,
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Speaker 1: you know, continue to look at ways that you know,
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Speaker 1: can help us move the football. Really, you know, I
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Speaker 1: really think, and we're gonna watch some of these plays
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Speaker 1: and four NET was just this This particular run was
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Speaker 1: just sensational um as you watch him cut back, and
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Speaker 1: you know there's Austin Seferian Jenkins who told Fred Taylor
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Speaker 1: and I on a Friday evening that he couldn't wait
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Speaker 1: to be out front blocking this tight end. Now, he
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Speaker 1: likes to catch the ball. Tight Ends like to be
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Speaker 1: a part of the offense um. But they had Corey
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Speaker 1: Grant and they put him in situations on that one
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Speaker 1: in particular, there was a fake to Leonard who ran
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Speaker 1: out into the flat as a receiver, and a handoff
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Speaker 1: to Corey, and this just placed the Blake bortal strength John.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's great at selling the play action. He
8:41
Speaker 1: may not be great at standing in the pocket and
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Speaker 1: firing the ball on a dime seventy yards down the field,
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Speaker 1: but this is what he does. Yeah, this team is
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Speaker 1: going to run, whether it's running well or not. I
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Speaker 1: mean we saw that last year. It's committed to the run.
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Speaker 1: It seems to be much the offensive players seem to
9:01
Speaker 1: have much more of an idea. You usually think about
9:05
Speaker 1: continuity and understanding of the offense is part of the
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Speaker 1: passing game because you think, well, the receivers know where
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Speaker 1: they're going. That's usually proceeded more to be the more
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Speaker 1: complex part. It seems like this offensive unit right now
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Speaker 1: understands what it wants to do running the ball. Maybe
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Speaker 1: it's because there was so much misdirection the other night
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Speaker 1: and so much Okay, we're gonna go this way, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna fake, we're gonna use Leonard and Corey, which are
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Speaker 1: different kind of looks, but they seem to have a
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Speaker 1: much better idea at this point than they did at
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Speaker 1: this point last year. What they want to do also,
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Speaker 1: I think something that's significant. You know, I get that
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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about Markis later in the show. Uh,
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Speaker 1: once he went down, including Marquis. The other night, they
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Speaker 1: threw to thirteen different guys. Now you might say, well
9:50
Speaker 1: that's the preseason, but eleven of those guys or ten
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Speaker 1: of m I counted up the other day, are guys
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Speaker 1: are gonna be on the roster and probably active. So
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Speaker 1: that to me is what this offense is gonna be passing. Uh.
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Speaker 1: You can say, well, Blake's not throwing the ball down
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Speaker 1: field or he's not doing this, but I think you're
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Speaker 1: seeing that this is gonna be an offense that includes
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Speaker 1: a lot of different guys. You could see a game
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Speaker 1: where O'Shaughnessy, Austin, Defari, and Jenkins, five receivers and three
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Speaker 1: running backs all touched the ball, not just running for
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Speaker 1: the running backs Faz receivers. You could see a lot
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Speaker 1: of games we have eight or nine receivers in the offense.
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Speaker 1: I really liked it. You know, we talked as they
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Speaker 1: moved the ball up and down the field, and they
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Speaker 1: did you know, I mean, especially that long drive where
10:30
Speaker 1: you had the Donte moncreef after the Marquis injury came
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Speaker 1: in with the thirty seven yard reception, and then you
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Speaker 1: had the twenty one yard run to set up the
10:39
Speaker 1: twenty one yard run. I mean, and how much better
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Speaker 1: do you feel as offense now that you've seen that
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Speaker 1: Donte moncrief play, especially considering Marquis so that that's why
10:48
Speaker 1: they signed him, and that's why I don't think they're
10:49
Speaker 1: gonna make a move at that spot. But that's what
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Speaker 1: he can do and they've got a good mixed receiver
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Speaker 1: to do that. They had three hundred four total yards.
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Speaker 1: I think it was a three or in three as
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Speaker 1: a first team offense, which means they had three yards
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Speaker 1: first half, the first series of the second That's a
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Speaker 1: lot of yards, Ashley. If you if you multiply three
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Speaker 1: hundred two, it's six and that's a lot of yards
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Speaker 1: in an NFL game. So it's uh. I don't think
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Speaker 1: the math has changed that much, but that's significant because
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Speaker 1: they got a lot of it running. They looked overpowering,
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Speaker 1: and they looked again. I keep going back to, they
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Speaker 1: look like they really know what they want to do.
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Speaker 1: All these things we talked about season, Well, what are
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Speaker 1: you gonna see because these guys are in their second
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Speaker 1: year in this system. What's that year of experience Doug
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Speaker 1: Marown has been around. I think you're seeing just a
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Speaker 1: team that looks a lot more ready going into the
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Speaker 1: regular season. Well, and look, they'd hack It is a
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Speaker 1: clever offensive mind. But last year he couldn't even open
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Speaker 1: up his entire playbook. He was just trying to get
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Speaker 1: the offense installed. You saw when they had t J
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Speaker 1: Yeldt and Corey Grant on the field at the same time. Right,
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Speaker 1: two guys who are excellent receivers out of the backeld,
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Speaker 1: but two guys that can run between the tackles as well.
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Speaker 1: That's when you start to see just what he is
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Speaker 1: capable of doing. So it'll be fun to watch this
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Speaker 1: offense this year as Nate Hackett gets deep into the playbook. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we've heard Doug Brown say all the time that he
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Speaker 1: wants to get playmakers on the field. He wants to
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Speaker 1: find a way, and it seems to be that that's
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Speaker 1: working all right, Big thing three wrap them in bubble wrap.
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Speaker 1: So we knew that the third preseason game was going
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Speaker 1: to be address rehearsal for these starters. The fourth preseason game,
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Speaker 1: you hope to see if very little, if not any
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Speaker 1: of them. And with Marquis Lee's injury, we're not sure
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Speaker 1: of the official word of his injury. We're gonna hear
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Speaker 1: from Doug Rowne at eleven o'clock on the official word.
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Speaker 1: You hope that he just stays healthy and that the
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Speaker 1: fourth preseason game we don't see any of these guys.
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Speaker 1: So you were there, Ashley on Friday night when Doug
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Speaker 1: was talking about how he just believed that the starters
12:43
Speaker 1: needed the time to play together, play fast and into
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Speaker 1: the third quarter. But he turned and said, nah, but
12:48
Speaker 1: don't you know, look, if we have a rash of injuries,
12:51
Speaker 1: don't be surprised if I changed my philosophy like that. Um,
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Speaker 1: he didn't, really, to be honest with you, I thought
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Speaker 1: after the Marquise injury he might pull a couple of
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Speaker 1: guys out. He didn't. I mean, Leonard play it into
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Speaker 1: the third quarter. So let's deal with the Marquis injury
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Speaker 1: and what we know. Obviously, Doug will address it in
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Speaker 1: a few hours. Um. Uh, it was ugly, you know
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Speaker 1: when you see it in replay and you're talking about
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Speaker 1: losing a guy who, Yeah, he's not been a thousand
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Speaker 1: yard or attend touchdown guy. However, in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the field, he is a guy who can make a
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Speaker 1: big play, catch a big first down, and as we
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Speaker 1: saw right there be explosive Yeah, he's just the veteran
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Speaker 1: guy as well. We see all these young wide receivers.
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Speaker 1: He's the guy that they've been looking to and you
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Speaker 1: still need that crunch when I see them. You lost
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Speaker 1: him on a play that he does so well, and
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Speaker 1: you lost him on a play that Blake Bortles feels
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Speaker 1: confident in him and that confidence he grew last year.
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Speaker 1: You also lost a guy who is uh a big
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Speaker 1: part of the offense. I hate to use the word spiritual.
13:52
Speaker 1: Bit is that's right. They like him. He rallied around
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Speaker 1: Blake early last year. Um, they also lost a guy
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Speaker 1: who is a very underrated downfield blocker. And when if
14:05
Speaker 1: you talk about blocking with receivers and people's eyes roll,
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Speaker 1: but with this offense, he bought into blocking, which helps
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Speaker 1: other receivers by into blocking, he was the leader in
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Speaker 1: that room. Um, the reality is you have enough depth
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Speaker 1: at this position where this is this doesn't feel like
14:25
Speaker 1: the killer that Alan Robinson felt like last year you
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Speaker 1: are still capable of being good at that position, but
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Speaker 1: you lost something. In terms of Brian, we've talked before
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Speaker 1: about I'm a big believer that quarterbacks need certain things
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Speaker 1: from receivers that they feel confident those receivers can do,
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Speaker 1: so that when they dropped back, they know, I'm sure
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Speaker 1: this guy's can be able to do this. I can
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Speaker 1: count on it. I can put the ball there without
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Speaker 1: thinking about it, Marquis on the crossing route, even Marquis
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Speaker 1: on on the little ball up down the sidelines. Blake
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Speaker 1: had worked with him enough where that felt comfortable. That
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Speaker 1: will be missed. I think all of us would be
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Speaker 1: stunned if we heard anything from Doug other than he's
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Speaker 1: lost for the year. Yeah, I mean judgment by the injury,
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Speaker 1: judgment by the way it is. I hope he plays again,
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Speaker 1: That's what all of us. I don't want to jump
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Speaker 1: the gun because I think he will, but it's it's
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Speaker 1: that kind of injury where you look at you go, boy,
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Speaker 1: I hope this is not a nerve damage situation. The
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Speaker 1: way it bent. You worry about that, but that's speculation.
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Speaker 1: It's not fair to put all that out there yea
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Speaker 1: Dougle tell us everything you know. It's about eleven o'clock,
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Speaker 1: So we go there. All right, We are wrapped up
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Speaker 1: by n c u A. Welcome back to Jack's Drive
17:03
Speaker 1: time on this Monday morning. There were some big moments
17:06
Speaker 1: and Saturday's went against the Falcons and we're about to
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Speaker 1: go over them. It started off really strong for the defense.
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Speaker 1: Malik Jackson. We're going to start off another dominant performance
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Speaker 1: from him, and he started off really strong from the gate. Okay,
17:22
Speaker 1: he was strong. Here we go do a little bit
17:24
Speaker 1: of pressure, get dropped, Belie, Jackson spun away from the
17:28
Speaker 1: offensive line. But you know it's funny. We we spent
17:31
Speaker 1: so much time talking about Calais Campbell. We've talked a
17:33
Speaker 1: lot John about Marcel Darius. He this guy kind of
17:39
Speaker 1: gets forgotten except on pay day of course. No, he
17:42
Speaker 1: doesn't forget paid either. Um. He's a little bit of pressure,
17:47
Speaker 1: a guy who's impressive. He started off last year, I think,
17:52
Speaker 1: not playing the way he wanted to and came along
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Speaker 1: and by the end was playing up to his Pro
17:58
Speaker 1: Bowl level. And he's a guy who adds the extra
18:03
Speaker 1: element and that you can get edge rush in this league,
18:09
Speaker 1: but in this division with mobile quarterbacks, and in this
18:12
Speaker 1: day and age of the mobile quarterbacks, a key to
18:14
Speaker 1: the past rush is to be able to get penetration
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Speaker 1: up the middle. Marcel Darius can do that more than
18:19
Speaker 1: most nose tackles. He's special on that level. But Malie Jackson,
18:23
Speaker 1: that's what he does. He gives you interior rush. When
18:26
Speaker 1: you put him alongside Claius when they're both rushing on
18:28
Speaker 1: the interior, It's really what makes the Jaguars pass rush different.
18:33
Speaker 1: A lot of teams can get edge rushed because they
18:35
Speaker 1: spend a lot of money there, but when you can
18:36
Speaker 1: do it on the interior, also, the guy has got
18:38
Speaker 1: no place to step up. A bigger part of the
18:40
Speaker 1: NFL game these days is that uh Malik's presence and
18:47
Speaker 1: his ability to beat his guy one on one quickly
18:51
Speaker 1: is a big part of why this defense especially and
18:53
Speaker 1: he is a big man who moves extraordinarily quickly and
18:59
Speaker 1: is very light on his feet for a defensive tackle.
19:01
Speaker 1: Most of the time we think about defensive tackles in
19:03
Speaker 1: this league, we think about guys that are shoving and pushing.
19:06
Speaker 1: He's shooting gaps and getting around guys. He also is
19:11
Speaker 1: a guy who came in here as a free agent
19:13
Speaker 1: and I think has been underrated. We gave a lot
19:16
Speaker 1: of credit to to clay As Campbell and boy A
19:20
Speaker 1: last year and and guys who came in, because when
19:23
Speaker 1: they came in, there was all of a sudden, this
19:26
Speaker 1: big rush of success. But it was really Malik who
19:29
Speaker 1: started this thing. Before Malik signed here, there was a
19:33
Speaker 1: perception that the Jaguars couldn't get free agents. He was
19:36
Speaker 1: really Now I'm not saying Malik looked at Jackson and said,
19:39
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go make that city great. He got paid
19:42
Speaker 1: to be here, no question, but it was a tough
19:44
Speaker 1: first season for him. And he never during that season
19:49
Speaker 1: when you would have thought a free agent coming in
19:51
Speaker 1: from a successful organization could have easily come in and
19:55
Speaker 1: started being a malcontent, could have started saying, hey, it's
19:58
Speaker 1: not me, it's not my fault. You never got that
20:00
Speaker 1: from him. He was always we're going to figure out
20:04
Speaker 1: a way to get this done here, um, and I
20:08
Speaker 1: think he should be lauded for that necessarily, But guys
20:10
Speaker 1: have gone a different direction, and he certainly never did.
20:14
Speaker 1: I think that's a big reason why it continued going
20:17
Speaker 1: in the right direction. So Aleik with a sack tackle
20:20
Speaker 1: for a loss Anna her he set the tone early
20:22
Speaker 1: for the game. We just talked about Marquis Lee going down.
20:24
Speaker 1: I think we all thoughts to ourselves. Someone's got to
20:27
Speaker 1: set up Dante Donte mon creef the just that Ordos
20:32
Speaker 1: looking he's got Moncrief's got group wants up the steam.
20:35
Speaker 1: He's across brick field. What preper move to the outside?
20:38
Speaker 1: Trints outsiders Aldo thirty seven yards there And we had
20:44
Speaker 1: seen some of that on the practice field. John, that
20:47
Speaker 1: was the first time we saw him with the first
20:49
Speaker 1: team offense really nake a difference. Yeah, and so often
20:53
Speaker 1: in preseason. I get it because I do it too.
20:55
Speaker 1: You you quick trigger analyzed the first two games, and
21:03
Speaker 1: then as you're sitting there watching the third game, you
21:05
Speaker 1: start thinking about logically, you realize, I just quick triggered
21:09
Speaker 1: a half of football, because that's really what the first
21:12
Speaker 1: two preseason games are. If you take the entirety of
21:14
Speaker 1: Dante Moncrease preseason, he's now played about a game. I
21:18
Speaker 1: think he's got eight catches for a hundred and not
21:20
Speaker 1: twenty three yards. We would be a good game. And
21:23
Speaker 1: so there is a tendency after those first two games
21:27
Speaker 1: say this guy had been in the offense, well the
21:28
Speaker 1: offense play been in the field for a half. It
21:30
Speaker 1: would be like writing a guy off because he didn't
21:33
Speaker 1: have a good half in the opening. So Dante Moncreeve
21:36
Speaker 1: I think has had a good preseason. He's shown what
21:38
Speaker 1: he is. There were glimpses early during training camp where
21:42
Speaker 1: he was beating Jalen Ramsey and he was making plays,
21:44
Speaker 1: and he was making plays physically going over Jalen. I'm
21:48
Speaker 1: not saying he was dominating Jaalen, but he was making
21:50
Speaker 1: enough to make you think this guy, if he's healthy,
21:53
Speaker 1: can be a go to receiver in enough situations they
21:57
Speaker 1: don't need him to be the go to guy. Well,
21:59
Speaker 1: he can certainly make plays when he has to make
22:01
Speaker 1: the Starting the season, d J. Chark, we thought was
22:03
Speaker 1: gonna be the fourth option, right, he's now going to
22:05
Speaker 1: buy the injury to Marquees have to move up a notch.
22:08
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. Marquis is a nine million dollar guy.
22:11
Speaker 1: This year, you're replacing him, we assume, right, we'll find
22:14
Speaker 1: out at eleven with a nine million dollar guy. Not
22:17
Speaker 1: many teams have that luxury. Last year, they certainly didn't
22:20
Speaker 1: have that luxury when they replaced Alan Robinson with Alan
22:24
Speaker 1: Hearns and Marquise and they didn't have that guy. What
22:28
Speaker 1: the guys there, well, This is why I mean, this
22:31
Speaker 1: is why you don't cut good football players, because it's
22:37
Speaker 1: a league of attrition. You have to expect that you're
22:40
Speaker 1: going to have an injury like this. It's the only
22:43
Speaker 1: sport where an injury happens on legal plays. Now, he
22:46
Speaker 1: got penalized the other night, But in baseball, basketball usually
22:49
Speaker 1: injuries are mistakes or their court. It happens in this sports,
22:54
Speaker 1: you have to prepare for it. They're probably better prepared
22:56
Speaker 1: wide receiver than another position, including defensive line, in terms
23:00
Speaker 1: of if somebody got hurt they could replace. Because I
23:03
Speaker 1: think this will mean Rashade Green and Jadad Makin's on
23:06
Speaker 1: their roster. You feel fine with with Rashad Green is
23:09
Speaker 1: your fifth guy. What's funny. I was at breakfast with
23:12
Speaker 1: my dad Sunday morning. He goes, you gotta call des Bryant,
23:15
Speaker 1: you gotta call him. You gotta get a big guy
23:16
Speaker 1: in here. And I was like, Dad, you don't they
23:18
Speaker 1: have guys, They have the roster the depth to do it.
23:21
Speaker 1: To your Dad's that guy? Oh he's that get him
23:23
Speaker 1: in here. Yeah, we don't need him in here, all right.
23:26
Speaker 1: So Dante Moncrief, we know he stepped up. We talked
23:28
Speaker 1: about the running back packages. Corey Grant had himself a
23:31
Speaker 1: big day. Here's one of his big runs. Corey Grant
23:33
Speaker 1: checks in with Leonard Burnette. Now Gretti emotion. Here's they
23:36
Speaker 1: had all the court. Grant with sweet he's got un
23:38
Speaker 1: look at it, got side. But to want such an
23:42
Speaker 1: electrifying player, we watched him last year with punt return
23:46
Speaker 1: in Baltimore against Baltimore, London punt return here against the Chargers,
23:51
Speaker 1: and the guy just has that quality of finding the
23:55
Speaker 1: open field and getting to his top gear so quickly.
23:58
Speaker 1: It's funny when you look at his from the combined
24:01
Speaker 1: his speed from you know when he ran track, he's
24:03
Speaker 1: got Fred Taylor speed. He's not quite as big as
24:06
Speaker 1: Fred obviously, but he's got that Bam. Here I go
24:09
Speaker 1: give him the ball. John just find ways to get
24:11
Speaker 1: him the ball. Well, he's gotten to the point now
24:14
Speaker 1: where UH teams have to game plan for him, and
24:19
Speaker 1: that's significant because if you're going to have him in
24:21
Speaker 1: the game on these packages, especially when you have it's
24:26
Speaker 1: why it makes a lot of sense to have him
24:27
Speaker 1: in the game. With Fournett the last year and Corey
24:31
Speaker 1: Grams in the game, teams would look would I assume
24:33
Speaker 1: would look at it, but not worry about because they
24:37
Speaker 1: hadn't seen him before. Now, when he's in the game,
24:39
Speaker 1: if you send him in a direction, you better have
24:42
Speaker 1: two or three guys running that way, because if he
24:44
Speaker 1: beats one guy, he's gonna score. Uh. You would think
24:47
Speaker 1: that that's going to give them an advantage when they
24:49
Speaker 1: go back the other way with four neett It's it's
24:52
Speaker 1: a reason I expect to see Corey Grant on the
24:54
Speaker 1: field a lot. He may not get the ball enough
24:57
Speaker 1: in some games to satisfy fans because he might he
25:00
Speaker 1: drawn the defense the other way. Teams have to have
25:02
Speaker 1: guys in the field that other teams have to game
25:04
Speaker 1: plan for to move the defense and directions to allow
25:07
Speaker 1: things open up for the rest of the players. All Right,
25:10
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna end our last highlight with Leonard
25:13
Speaker 1: for of course in a great way for him to
25:15
Speaker 1: go out of the preseason in style. Well, it's twenty
25:18
Speaker 1: one yard line. There's four nan of the two years
25:20
Speaker 1: started going down pets back looks were a great and
25:22
Speaker 1: he's got one. He's on the ruggle that had his team.
25:24
Speaker 1: He's criminal to pass on letter for that for twenty
25:27
Speaker 1: one yards out of the Jaguars have their first leave.
25:30
Speaker 1: You know, the great run, and we obviously know what
25:33
Speaker 1: he's capable of. But the part that I loved was
25:35
Speaker 1: watching Austin's Defari and Jenkins out there waving him on,
25:38
Speaker 1: let's go, because he's gonna tackle him. He told us,
25:41
Speaker 1: He told us on Friday night because one of the
25:42
Speaker 1: reasons that he really was excited about coming to Jacksonville
25:45
Speaker 1: was the chance to block for this guy. He was
25:48
Speaker 1: ready for it. How many tight ends say I can't
25:51
Speaker 1: wait to block? Um? A lot of him say it.
25:54
Speaker 1: A lot of them don't mean it. Marcus Pollard, who
25:56
Speaker 1: I cover for a while, Hell I said it. He
25:57
Speaker 1: didn't mean it. Um. But I'm assuming that whoever says
26:01
Speaker 1: it needs a conversation. Yes, he's gonna make a difference there.
26:05
Speaker 1: I also thought you saw Safari and Jenkins start to
26:09
Speaker 1: show the first wrinkle of what he's gonna mean with
26:12
Speaker 1: the fifteen yard reception where he's such a big target
26:16
Speaker 1: and they haven't had that as much as for Net
26:19
Speaker 1: and he was impressed with the other night. Um. It
26:23
Speaker 1: was very encouraging that on that run, Brian, and on
26:27
Speaker 1: several other runs that you saw that muck that was
26:31
Speaker 1: always there in the interior of the line last year
26:34
Speaker 1: didn't seem to be there as much. And when I
26:35
Speaker 1: say that, I mean not defenders at these guys feet
26:37
Speaker 1: when they get started. That was the idea of getting Norwell,
26:41
Speaker 1: having Lender, who didn't play the other night, but a
26:44
Speaker 1: j can as well. If aj is playing at as
26:47
Speaker 1: high levels he seems to be in training camp and
26:50
Speaker 1: Norwell is what we think we saw the other night.
26:53
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, those runs happened more. I don't
26:55
Speaker 1: I don't think it's coincidental that all three of those
26:57
Speaker 1: running backs the lowest yards pacary average was a point
27:00
Speaker 1: six the other night, and they all had at least
27:02
Speaker 1: four carries. I want to say, uh, one of them
27:06
Speaker 1: is over five, one of them over six yards to carry.
27:08
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get that during the regular season, but
27:10
Speaker 1: the threat of that, the fact that that is what
27:13
Speaker 1: you're capable of, is going to open up everything else.
27:15
Speaker 1: There's the guy I mean yelled at just has been
27:18
Speaker 1: at another level this summer, and having him play that
27:21
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29:22
Speaker 1: to pont avidra Beach. Rob has a question for Zone.
29:26
Speaker 1: Does Marquis Lee's injury to the scale towards Rashad green
29:29
Speaker 1: sor as he is a more serviceable receiver. I'm not
29:33
Speaker 1: sure it tells a scale. I think he needs to
29:35
Speaker 1: makes the team. Um, And I'm sure the question was
29:37
Speaker 1: in reference to all the talk we've had about Jadon
29:40
Speaker 1: Mickens and Rashid and uh green sor Um. I think
29:45
Speaker 1: they both make the team. I think it. It gives
29:49
Speaker 1: them the chance to have Jaden Mickins as your return
29:52
Speaker 1: or feel great about it not have to force d
29:55
Speaker 1: D into that role. Not that you were forcing it,
29:57
Speaker 1: but they wanted him, you know, wanted him to win
30:00
Speaker 1: that battle. Well. I think they wanted him to win
30:03
Speaker 1: it for the roster spot. I don't think that anything
30:05
Speaker 1: against uh Mickens, because I think Mickens has done it well.
30:10
Speaker 1: Um Rashad Green, I don't think it's necessarily going to
30:13
Speaker 1: be a mega explosive guy, but he's what you need.
30:17
Speaker 1: I had kind of thought for a little while that
30:19
Speaker 1: Rashad Green, what might happen is that he might get
30:22
Speaker 1: released because of the numbers game, and then he might
30:25
Speaker 1: be a guy who if there was an injury in
30:27
Speaker 1: September that you'd feel comfortable bringing him back because you
30:30
Speaker 1: knew he was going to know it. If if he
30:31
Speaker 1: would even be available, he might have gotten picked up.
30:34
Speaker 1: But he was I thought he might have a chance
30:36
Speaker 1: to be that guy. Now I think he's on the roster.
30:39
Speaker 1: I think you feel fine about it, um, and he's
30:42
Speaker 1: done enough where you like having that guy around. I
30:45
Speaker 1: don't think you want him starting necessarily, but if somebody
30:49
Speaker 1: gets hurt as a punt returner. You have no qualms
30:51
Speaker 1: about sending him in and you feel good about it.
30:53
Speaker 1: It's another example of this team being at a point
30:55
Speaker 1: in its development where they have unusual depth. Well and
30:58
Speaker 1: you know it as well as I. He is the
31:00
Speaker 1: most suited to be a slot receiver, the most natural
31:02
Speaker 1: slot receiver that they have. Westbrook runs a lot of
31:06
Speaker 1: the same routes that Markus does, So all of a sudden,
31:09
Speaker 1: now you can see where Westbrook's game load would It
31:12
Speaker 1: would seem to take on more guys into the slot.
31:17
Speaker 1: I've seen Moncreef playing some in there. I think, um,
31:21
Speaker 1: but Markis isn't a slot guy, and neither was Westbrook.
31:24
Speaker 1: So you can pay where Westbrook is going to take
31:26
Speaker 1: over some of Marquises load other than Green. When they
31:29
Speaker 1: move guys into the slot, you feel like, well, they're
31:32
Speaker 1: putting him in there for a few but you know
31:34
Speaker 1: they're having to do it. They're asking him to do it.
31:36
Speaker 1: They're getting that out of him. Green's the guy who
31:38
Speaker 1: can do it and feel very natural there. All right,
31:41
Speaker 1: let's keep in Pontodra beach Bill. Any of Blake Bortles
31:44
Speaker 1: detractors know how many picks he threw in the red
31:46
Speaker 1: zone last year. They should look it up. Well, this
31:50
Speaker 1: was one of about I think thirteen thousand Blake Bards
31:53
Speaker 1: of the emails I got, and you know, I that
31:57
Speaker 1: speaks to what I think people have to remember is
32:00
Speaker 1: when the lights were on last year, he made plays
32:05
Speaker 1: far more often than not in the situations where they
32:08
Speaker 1: needed him to, he did what they needed to do. Um,
32:11
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not thrilled with the three interceptions. You
32:14
Speaker 1: don't want to see that coming back. It's not how
32:16
Speaker 1: he wanted to go into the regular season. But I
32:18
Speaker 1: think last year he showed that he's very capable of
32:27
Speaker 1: doing the right things, not giving the ball away in
32:29
Speaker 1: the red zone when a matter. I'm saying, I'm never
32:32
Speaker 1: have any reception this year in that situation. But I
32:34
Speaker 1: don't think that's going to be his tendency. And again,
32:37
Speaker 1: I'm not overly worried about Blake. I say overly because
32:41
Speaker 1: I don't love the interceptions, but I just don't think
32:45
Speaker 1: that that's going to be a thing that overwhelms this
32:47
Speaker 1: team this year. Yeah, I think we have to wait
32:49
Speaker 1: till regular season to really judge that. Zero's the answer.
32:51
Speaker 1: By the way, he did not throw reds in interceptions.
32:54
Speaker 1: I don't get to that very the lead. UM, but
32:57
Speaker 1: I was I hoped you waited for me to be so.
33:00
Speaker 1: And I'll go back to you. Thank you. You're very
33:02
Speaker 1: good at that. UM. I go back to you know,
33:06
Speaker 1: they're the play with Grant and for Ned in the
33:08
Speaker 1: backfield where he play action to Leonard as Leonard went
33:13
Speaker 1: out into the flat and then turned and gave the
33:14
Speaker 1: ball to Corey. I think the misdirection. I think that
33:17
Speaker 1: sort of pocket stuff. The presidence he is has part
33:20
Speaker 1: of me that he bears this part of who he is.
33:22
Speaker 1: And UM, I'm not worried about some interceptions. There's still
33:26
Speaker 1: a little going on. And you know, even the other
33:30
Speaker 1: night they hadn't used those packages a whole lot before.
33:34
Speaker 1: So there is still a process where they are putting
33:37
Speaker 1: in things to see if they work. There's still new
33:40
Speaker 1: things and there are still things that will be coached.
33:44
Speaker 1: Doug made reference to that in his press conference. There's
33:46
Speaker 1: still things that they are coaching out of it. And
33:50
Speaker 1: often these interceptions aren't just on one gap. You know,
33:53
Speaker 1: here's the other thing with the interceptions. If he was
33:54
Speaker 1: throwing pick sixers, which he did, earlier in his career,
33:57
Speaker 1: then I might worry a little bit more. At this point,
34:00
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about it. We'll wait and see what
34:02
Speaker 1: happens in the regular season. That was with a defense
34:05
Speaker 1: like this, you don't worry about you used to. Absolutely not.
34:08
Speaker 1: All right, we're not ending on a positive note. But
34:10
Speaker 1: that's okay, Mr arrogant from Utopia. I saw a player
34:14
Speaker 1: to in an exhibition game that weren't perfectly executed. Consequently,
34:17
Speaker 1: I've decided some players suck and should be replaced by
34:20
Speaker 1: whose names I have heard before. Otherwise this team will
34:23
Speaker 1: lose an inordinate number of games. You're welcome, fans everywhere.
34:26
Speaker 1: I knew you'd want to know. I think he nailed it,
34:30
Speaker 1: nailed it. I mean, that's Mr Arrogant, You're right, and
34:34
Speaker 1: that's what you get in preseason. And I get that,
34:36
Speaker 1: but that's what um you follow your team so closely
34:42
Speaker 1: in the preseason, and but that I mean, fans, everybody
34:45
Speaker 1: that you pick up part little things and everything that
34:49
Speaker 1: happens bad you want, well, why don't we get this guy.
34:53
Speaker 1: This is the team, and this is a good team,
34:55
Speaker 1: and it's it's not flawless. It's not going to go
34:58
Speaker 1: sixteen and O. But boy, when you saw what they
35:03
Speaker 1: did the other night and we talked about the top
35:05
Speaker 1: of the show, boy, do they look like a team
35:08
Speaker 1: that is going to be one of the teams that
35:10
Speaker 1: has a shot? And that's what you want to be
35:12
Speaker 1: at the end of the year. I probably say this
35:14
Speaker 1: every week. The sheet, the call sheet, the play sheet,
35:18
Speaker 1: the notes that Doug works from in the preseason game
35:20
Speaker 1: are completely different than a regular season game. I want
35:23
Speaker 1: to see Dante Moncrief in the slot in the third quarter,
35:27
Speaker 1: you know, I mean I want to see Blair Brown
35:29
Speaker 1: lined up as strong side backer in the fourth quarter.
35:32
Speaker 1: I want to see if this player works in the red.
35:34
Speaker 1: Absolutely so trying different down and distant situations. They're trying
35:38
Speaker 1: to put guys in situations in play, in live actions
35:43
Speaker 1: so that when they get to the regular season they know.
35:46
Speaker 1: So if a guy, if a guy is playing in
35:48
Speaker 1: a position that he normally doesn't write I don't mean position,
35:50
Speaker 1: but maybe in the slot or lined up instead of
35:53
Speaker 1: being an off the ball backer is put on the
35:55
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage of the strong side. They're working through
35:57
Speaker 1: some things. Yeah, I love the other night when he said,
36:00
Speaker 1: you're saying something about running the two backs, and he said, well,
36:04
Speaker 1: we wanted to put it in a night because it
36:05
Speaker 1: put it in the raular season. It didn't work, you guys,
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Speaker 1: and wonder why we had that crap in. And it
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Speaker 1: was really sort of telling about how he goes about things.
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Speaker 1: He thinks about it in a very meat and potatoes
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Speaker 1: kind of way. It's like, well, if we're gonna run
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Speaker 1: that in the regular season, we probably better see if
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Speaker 1: it works. And that's a lot of what they do
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Speaker 1: in the preseason. And understand that if that's what they're
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Speaker 1: showing you in the preseason, that it's just the tip
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Speaker 1: of the iceberg of what they've got play. Well. That's
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Speaker 1: what's intriguing about the two backs stuff is you know
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Speaker 1: from his time in Buffalo that Nate and Doug, who
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Speaker 1: were together in Buffalo, have that in him. They know
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Speaker 1: how to run two bad, they know how to run heavy.
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Speaker 1: They led the league in rushing attempts one year in Buffalo.
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Speaker 1: That's what they are, uh now that they're comfortable with
36:48
Speaker 1: what these backs can do again, it's not a coincidence
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Speaker 1: that they went out and got Norwell last year, you know,
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Speaker 1: and gave up Allen Robinson. This team wants to be
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Speaker 1: able to do what it was doing the other night.
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Speaker 1: looking back to Friday at Players we wanted to watch, right,
40:14
Speaker 1: and you Joe's wisely, That's what I do every dart
40:21
Speaker 1: hits the board. I chose Andrew Norwell and Parnell and
40:25
Speaker 1: it wasn't exactly rocket science to note that you were
40:27
Speaker 1: gonna have to look at them, but I thought that
40:31
Speaker 1: what they showed and what the Jaguars offense showed again,
40:35
Speaker 1: was that they're going to be able to drive people
40:38
Speaker 1: off the ball. They're we want to get movement and
40:39
Speaker 1: it's so key for what they're gonna want to do.
40:42
Speaker 1: I'm it's getting interesting to see how people often think
40:48
Speaker 1: of the running game is being boring right, Well, the
40:52
Speaker 1: way Nate hack It runs it, I think it's going
40:54
Speaker 1: to be very creative. I think we saw it the
40:56
Speaker 1: other night, and as you said earlier, if that's what
40:59
Speaker 1: we've seen during preseason, I can't imagine how it's gonna
41:03
Speaker 1: look and the rain calls that you're gonna see during
41:05
Speaker 1: the regular stage and moving forward to its struck out girl, Yeah,
41:09
Speaker 1: I'll get better next week. I picked Ronnie Harrison, who
41:12
Speaker 1: did not play, but you know what, that's okay. We
41:14
Speaker 1: probably don't see him play much this week either, but
41:17
Speaker 1: after talking to guys in the locker room, to Shaan
41:18
Speaker 1: Gibson and Buried Church, they think he's going to have
41:21
Speaker 1: a huge regular season, So stay t impactful player for sure.
41:24
Speaker 1: I took Dante Fowler Jr. And we didn't see a lot,
41:27
Speaker 1: but I saw one pass rush that was all I
41:30
Speaker 1: really needed to see, and it was against Matt Shop.
41:33
Speaker 1: They were driving late in the ballgame in the fourth quarter,
41:37
Speaker 1: and he came off the edge, just exploded up and
41:40
Speaker 1: got in. He was so high that he blocked the
41:43
Speaker 1: field division and then he came right down on top
41:46
Speaker 1: of Shop. It was a great move. I get it. It
41:48
Speaker 1: It wasn't against the first team offensive line, but he's
41:50
Speaker 1: a guy that can do that. So you know, he's
41:53
Speaker 1: only got a little time. I don't know how much
41:55
Speaker 1: is gonna play it at all. I'd play him in
41:56
Speaker 1: Tampa this week. Doug hinted last week. I think it
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Speaker 1: was that that would be a question for this week.
42:02
Speaker 1: So it's a possibility not on the roster for the
42:06
Speaker 1: first game because of the suspension. So if what I
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Speaker 1: saw from him is what we're going to get, you
42:12
Speaker 1: wonder if if if Tavin Bryan might play, who was
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Speaker 1: another guy that we were all watching that we didn't
42:17
Speaker 1: mention in the segment. Looked like he got penetration. Looks
42:21
Speaker 1: like he's everything that they're hoping he'll be. And again
42:25
Speaker 1: with these rookies that we're all talking about the way
42:28
Speaker 1: this team is built right now, they're gonna have a
42:30
Speaker 1: chance to come along and be guys. We're all of
42:32
Speaker 1: a sudden in the third week, you're looking at the
42:35
Speaker 1: play count sheet and saying, well, this guy is playing
42:37
Speaker 1: a little more each week, a little more each week.
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Speaker 1: It looks like Brian and Sharks certainly and perhaps even
42:43
Speaker 1: Harrison have a chance to fit into that. But you know,
42:46
Speaker 1: we talked about the first three obviously, but um logan
42:49
Speaker 1: Cook hit the first point with thirty five yards, but
42:51
Speaker 1: the other two were high and they hung in the air.
42:54
Speaker 1: And the reason that's important is because if he can
42:57
Speaker 1: flop the field like that with this defense, then he
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Speaker 1: really is an impactful rookie because the field position that
43:04
Speaker 1: he gains won't be lost as often as if you
43:07
Speaker 1: have a poor defense. But an important guy in that sense,
43:11
Speaker 1: you're here to make sense of things. We also didn't
43:14
Speaker 1: mention Dante Foller Junior Jalen Ramsey in the locker room.
43:16
Speaker 1: I thought Dante Fowler especially handled himself very well. He
43:19
Speaker 1: said he tried to set the tone. He said it
43:21
Speaker 1: a little too much, and I thought he acted like
43:23
Speaker 1: an adult and a professional. Well, again, he's in a
43:26
Speaker 1: contract here, and not only are the things that are
43:29
Speaker 1: on tape for others to see, which he mentioned, important,
43:32
Speaker 1: but the things that he says that are on tape
43:35
Speaker 1: or in the printed material are going to be things
43:38
Speaker 1: He's going to be judged by by teams that say,
43:40
Speaker 1: has this kid grown up enough for us to give
43:42
Speaker 1: him a huge contract? Dante off the field with us.
43:47
Speaker 1: There was the initial press conference this year where he
43:50
Speaker 1: was very quick, was in and out, wasn't in the
43:53
Speaker 1: mood to be there. That I think for some people
43:56
Speaker 1: painted Dante in a bad light. For three or four
44:00
Speaker 1: years around here, Dante has been nothing but very pleasant
44:05
Speaker 1: with the media people covering this team, usually smiling, very
44:09
Speaker 1: accommodating that um, but you gotta Kurt is not what
44:16
Speaker 1: Dante is. No. No, but part of the growing up,
44:18
Speaker 1: the maturation process is understanding you're in front of the
44:20
Speaker 1: cameras even though I don't feel like being here, I
44:23
Speaker 1: better be myself. I better be that nice kid that's
44:26
Speaker 1: been around here, because you know, the perception of people's
44:29
Speaker 1: mind is the videos the elevator, uh, the the issue
44:33
Speaker 1: in South Florida, the issue in St. Pete, and then
44:35
Speaker 1: the video of him standing there going nope, yep, nope,
44:38
Speaker 1: not in jail, am I and and walking out, Well,
44:40
Speaker 1: that doesn't show a maturation process at all, and people
44:43
Speaker 1: need to see that if he's gonna get paid, he's
44:45
Speaker 1: gonna have to be able to prove to some degree
44:47
Speaker 1: that he's not going to be a complete liability off
44:49
Speaker 1: the field. You know he had paid, but I totally
44:52
Speaker 1: agree that, but to get what he wants. But it
44:56
Speaker 1: was promising to see him back for him. He is.
44:58
Speaker 1: He is a fun to be around, all right. That'll
45:02
Speaker 1: do it for the show. John Ozre, Ashlett Sullivan, Joe
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Speaker 1: Fortunata with a Hey Joe coming up tomorrow. We're told
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Speaker 1: cannot wait. Max Hackman back in the studio that has
45:10
Speaker 1: no camera and no windows. Thank you so much. We
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