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- 0:01Speaker 1: It is Thursday, January eighth.
- 0:05Speaker 2: This is Jaguars Happy Hours.
- 0:10Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hour is brought to you by Heritage of
- 0:14Speaker 1: North Florida and now a guy who prefers to only
- 0:19Speaker 1: date Bills fans because well they never expect a ring.
- 0:25Speaker 3: Oh ja p. Well then that's aggressive, bul Come in.
- 0:30Speaker 4: It is Jaguars Happy Hour presented by Heritage of North Florida,
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- 0:39Speaker 3: It is the AFC.
- 0:39Speaker 4: Wildcard playoff game this Sunday, one o'clock kickoff time of
- 0:42Speaker 4: the bank for the Bills and the Jaguars will get
- 0:46Speaker 4: into defending Josh Allen and James Cook, the Bills quarterback
- 0:50Speaker 4: and running back from the best rushing offense in the NFL.
- 0:53Speaker 2: Jaguars had the best rushing defense.
- 0:55Speaker 4: Will break down the matchup, how to attack the Bill's
- 0:58Speaker 4: defense good in past, I'm so good against the run.
- 1:03Speaker 4: We'll see what Mark Duckner thinks about it. Former Jags
- 1:05Speaker 4: linebackers coach and studio to give us a scouting report
- 1:08Speaker 4: on the Buffalo Bills. And then at five o'clock Jags
- 1:11Speaker 4: HQ on the Jaguars Radio Network with Selly and Gladstone
- 1:15Speaker 4: live in studio.
- 1:16Speaker 3: Coming up.
- 1:17Speaker 4: We're on ten to XL ninety two point five FM,
- 1:19Speaker 4: Jaguars dot Com, Jaguars YouTube, JP Shadwick, Jeff Logoman, former
- 1:24Speaker 4: Jags linebackers coach Mark Dufner. All right, the playoffs are here.
- 1:29Speaker 4: Don love absolutely, Happy New Year and everybody. But we
- 1:32Speaker 4: love it right now, are you kenning? The atmosphere here
- 1:34Speaker 4: is electric.
- 1:35Speaker 3: It's a lot of roof logs. Oh, it's you know,
- 1:39Speaker 3: going back to the days as a player, I remember
- 1:42Speaker 3: my first experience ever with the playoffs was in New York.
- 1:44Speaker 3: We didn't have a winning season and we went to
- 1:48Speaker 3: Houston and played That was a Kevin go'bride Buddy Ryan
- 1:51Speaker 3: punched his throne playoff game. And then came here and
- 1:55Speaker 3: it was different here because you know, we felt like
- 1:58Speaker 3: we had a good football team back in ninety six.
- 2:01Speaker 3: And what I really understood at that point was is
- 2:04Speaker 3: that you get paid to play in the regular season,
- 2:08Speaker 3: but when it comes to playoff time. As a player,
- 2:11Speaker 3: I would have played for free every single day and
- 2:15Speaker 3: four or five times on Sunday. To being playoff football.
- 2:19Speaker 3: It's the greatest thing ever if you're a football player.
- 2:22Speaker 5: No, And if you're a coach, it's the same thing.
- 2:24Speaker 6: Then you work all year long for that opportunity and
- 2:26Speaker 6: they're hard to get and that's what makes them so
- 2:28Speaker 6: attractive right now. I mean, there's nothing like that. And
- 2:31Speaker 6: I'm so pleased at this team, this organization. The town
- 2:34Speaker 6: is back to feeling what that's all about, and enjoin
- 2:37Speaker 6: what that's all about. It's tremendous.
- 2:38Speaker 3: They've earned it.
- 2:39Speaker 5: Yeah, they've earned it.
- 2:40Speaker 3: I mean they've earned the right. I mean congratulations. I
- 2:43Speaker 3: mean AFC South Champs. Eight consecutive wins, winning games you
- 2:47Speaker 3: should win, winning some games that maybe many people thought
- 2:50Speaker 3: you shouldn't, and right now arguably the hottest football team
- 2:54Speaker 3: in the NFL. Now that doesn't matter though, right the
- 2:58Speaker 3: reality is the balls on the team.
- 3:00Speaker 6: That's why does that matter now? Its single elimination, No,
- 3:03Speaker 6: it is. But what you just said was right. They've
- 3:05Speaker 6: beaten five playoff five teams that are in the playoff
- 3:08Speaker 6: attorney right now, they've beaten and again, when you see
- 3:11Speaker 6: some of the accomplishments his team has made collectively and individually,
- 3:15Speaker 6: it's really been impressive.
- 3:17Speaker 5: And that guy said, let's enjoy the hell out of it.
- 3:19Speaker 5: I hope they are.
- 3:20Speaker 4: Well, we'll dig into some of the matchups coming up, clearly,
- 3:23Speaker 4: but I mean from the Bills respect, they're talking to
- 3:25Speaker 4: some of the people in Buffalo this week. I mean,
- 3:27Speaker 4: they feel like this is the window for Josh Allen,
- 3:30Speaker 4: No mah Holmes. The last fourteen AFC Championship games have
- 3:33Speaker 4: had either the Patriots or the Chiefs in there, so
- 3:36Speaker 4: they feel like, at least looking at it from up there,
- 3:39Speaker 4: that this is a path to ascend to the top
- 3:42Speaker 4: of the AFC and return to the Super Bowl. Alas
- 3:45Speaker 4: they have not won a road playoff game since nineteen
- 3:47Speaker 4: ninety two in the AFC Championship Game when they beat
- 3:50Speaker 4: the Dolphins to go to their last Super Bowl. The
- 3:52Speaker 4: Jaguars are three to zero at home in the wild
- 3:54Speaker 4: card round in team history and have fared well here
- 3:57Speaker 4: at the Bank. You know, all that is history. But
- 4:01Speaker 4: the Buffalo perspective is that, Okay, this is now the
- 4:05Speaker 4: windows here for Josh Allen.
- 4:07Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, just because of the Patrick Mahomes issue
- 4:10Speaker 3: of the past four out of the last five years,
- 4:13Speaker 3: I mean, that's kind of been the reality. And look
- 4:16Speaker 3: if they think that having Patrick Mahomes out already and
- 4:21Speaker 3: it's going to be a cake walk coming down to Jacksonville.
- 4:24Speaker 3: You better buckle up because it's football teams for real. Now.
- 4:28Speaker 3: They play good defense, they play good offense, they play
- 4:30Speaker 3: really good special teams. This is probably the most well
- 4:34Speaker 3: rounded football team in the tournament.
- 4:36Speaker 6: I would challenge you to find some team that's any
- 4:39Speaker 6: better than what you just said. There is anybody right
- 4:41Speaker 6: now that can say they're top eight and scoring defense,
- 4:43Speaker 6: scoring offense, and have special teams like we have. So
- 4:46Speaker 6: what just Jeff said, there is no better balanced team
- 4:49Speaker 6: than we are right now.
- 4:50Speaker 3: How you got to play the game. You gotta go play.
- 4:52Speaker 4: And that's the next question is how do you handle
- 4:55Speaker 4: the added emotion of a playoff game. You still got
- 4:59Speaker 4: to go do the work. You got to do the
- 5:00Speaker 4: work all week long. You know what's coming. You're in
- 5:03Speaker 4: the tournament. There's only so many teams. But then you're
- 5:06Speaker 4: running out of the tunnel on game day or going
- 5:08Speaker 4: to the coaching booth on game day putting.
- 5:10Speaker 3: The headset on.
- 5:11Speaker 4: How do you manage the emotion of that moment and
- 5:14Speaker 4: still go execute your assignment.
- 5:15Speaker 3: Well, I think in some ways this Jaguars football team
- 5:18Speaker 3: has kind of had a little bit of that already.
- 5:20Speaker 3: I mean this past game, needing to win, to win
- 5:23Speaker 3: the divisions, kind of that atmosphere, right, big game atmosphere,
- 5:27Speaker 3: the last couple of games towards the end of the season.
- 5:29Speaker 3: I don't know if it's necessarily been that kind of way,
- 5:31Speaker 3: but you know, if you look back on it reflect
- 5:34Speaker 3: as fans, you sit there and go, well, they had
- 5:36Speaker 3: to win to keep ahead of the Houston Texans. But
- 5:39Speaker 3: I just think that their mindset is different. And here's
- 5:42Speaker 3: where I think this football team is very different. I
- 5:44Speaker 3: think they've got a really special, really special head coach.
- 5:48Speaker 3: I really do. I mean I'm talking like really special,
- 5:52Speaker 3: his ability to lead, his ability to connect to We
- 5:56Speaker 3: were just having this conversation a minute ago. Exemplary. I
- 6:01Speaker 3: was just doing an interview with Serious XM satellite radio
- 6:04Speaker 3: on the NFL channel and they're asking me and I
- 6:06Speaker 3: will tell them the same thing. I mean, I think
- 6:08Speaker 3: Liam is a special guy, but he can't do it alone.
- 6:12Speaker 3: You know, the structure of the organization itself, with Tony
- 6:16Speaker 3: Boselli at the EVP role of football operations and James Gladstone.
- 6:20Speaker 3: I mean those three guys, I mean literally are like
- 6:23Speaker 3: tied together at the hip almost every waking moment of
- 6:26Speaker 3: their day. And so the old saying is it takes
- 6:30Speaker 3: a village. You know, it does take a village, but
- 6:33Speaker 3: you also have to have that guy Duff. I mean,
- 6:35Speaker 3: there's very few guys that can get in front of
- 6:36Speaker 3: the room and can lead an entire room of so
- 6:41Speaker 3: many different personalities. And you've been coaching a long time.
- 6:44Speaker 3: There ain't many that can do that.
- 6:46Speaker 5: Oh No.
- 6:46Speaker 6: And what I've seen and heard, in more importantly, what
- 6:49Speaker 6: I've seen on the field from that leadership has been
- 6:52Speaker 6: highly impressive. I mean again, his maturity level, his touch
- 6:56Speaker 6: is instinct, with his team's attitude, personality into working on
- 7:01Speaker 6: different situations with players that had to improve. He's had
- 7:05Speaker 6: kind of midas I might call him miightas. He's kind
- 7:07Speaker 6: of had the golden touch so far as far as
- 7:09Speaker 6: that's concerned. And dovetail a little bit about what Jeff
- 7:12Speaker 6: said getting this team ready for the playoffs. I mean again,
- 7:15Speaker 6: we talked about they've beaten five playoff teams. The atmosphere
- 7:18Speaker 6: in Denver was playoff. I mean, let's cut it. I
- 7:21Speaker 6: mean it was wild. It couldn't have been any better
- 7:23Speaker 6: as far as that's concerned. And they passed that and
- 7:25Speaker 6: then some and I just think that what I've seen
- 7:28Speaker 6: the confidence, the command, the consistency, the competitiveness that this
- 7:35Speaker 6: team's demonstrated over the last eight games, that they want
- 7:38Speaker 6: to row against quality opponents and difficult situations. That shows
- 7:43Speaker 6: me the makeup and the bark that you're going to
- 7:46Speaker 6: have to have to compete and win in the playoffs.
- 7:49Speaker 6: They've got that right now, and they've just got to
- 7:51Speaker 6: keep it going. We've got to go out and demonstrate it.
- 7:53Speaker 3: The one thing I think that I just love this
- 7:55Speaker 3: past game against the Titans. I mean you're talking. I
- 7:58Speaker 3: mean you know, you could have at any moment in
- 8:02Speaker 3: the beginning part of that game would have went, oh no, oh, no,
- 8:04Speaker 3: oh no, you know what are we doing. We're gonna
- 8:07Speaker 3: get tight, and then all of a sudden it could
- 8:09Speaker 3: have faltered. They never wavered, never wavered one minute. And
- 8:13Speaker 3: what I loved the most about that game was our
- 8:17Speaker 3: quarterback given it to Jeffrey Simmons going down the field.
- 8:22Speaker 3: I'm talking, Wait a minute.
- 8:24Speaker 2: Who's that sixteen guys?
- 8:26Speaker 3: That guy right? I mean, have we ever seen that before?
- 8:29Speaker 5: No?
- 8:29Speaker 6: No, But that's the impact of this head coach and
- 8:32Speaker 6: this offensive staff on the quarterback. I mean the confidence
- 8:36Speaker 6: and as you just mentioned, the competitivis and the toughness
- 8:39Speaker 6: that he's demonstrating is.
- 8:40Speaker 5: You know, that's what this team kind of came in.
- 8:42Speaker 5: What we're gonna be.
- 8:43Speaker 6: We're gonna be a tough, physical team, and the players
- 8:45Speaker 6: are representing their coach as far as that's concerned.
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- 9:02Speaker 4: Jaguars dot Com, Jaguars YouTube, JP, Shadwick, Jeff Logoman, Mark Duffner,
- 9:07Speaker 4: and the Jaguars face the Bills in the AFC Wild
- 9:09Speaker 4: Card playoff game this Sunday, and we take a closer
- 9:12Speaker 4: look now at the Buffalo Bills, and we start with
- 9:16Speaker 4: the Bills offense. The big storyline will be Josh Allen
- 9:20Speaker 4: and the quarterback matchups this week. That's just how it goes, certainly,
- 9:24Speaker 4: and Allen has been there. He's played in thirteen playoff games,
- 9:27Speaker 4: seven and six record in his career in the postseason.
- 9:31Speaker 4: But you know what, he's never been able to get
- 9:33Speaker 4: over the top because of Kansas City, mainly in the
- 9:36Speaker 4: way Josh Allen duel threat ability. Obviously the leading rushing
- 9:41Speaker 4: quarterback in the NFL this year, a bunch of I mean,
- 9:44Speaker 4: thirty six hundred passing yards. He's got the run game
- 9:47Speaker 4: to go with it. We'll get to that coming up.
- 9:49Speaker 4: But specifically about Josh Allen Duff, how would you stand
- 9:53Speaker 4: in front of a room and scout him out and
- 9:55Speaker 4: show him to your team?
- 9:57Speaker 6: Well, I mean, you just you gotta affect this guy.
- 9:59Speaker 6: I mean, and we got to affect him every way
- 10:01Speaker 6: we possibly can. We got to get a knock back
- 10:04Speaker 6: at the line of scrimmage in terms of the run game.
- 10:06Speaker 6: Let him feel you in the run game, feel you
- 10:09Speaker 6: and pass you know, condensed that pocket. As far as
- 10:12Speaker 6: that's concerned, I think we've got to get re routes
- 10:15Speaker 6: in terms of technique on their tight ends, receivers, all
- 10:18Speaker 6: that type of thing. Make him feel our defense right now.
- 10:21Speaker 6: You know, he's coming off of a game where he
- 10:24Speaker 6: got sacked five times. I'm talking to Philadelphia game. He
- 10:27Speaker 6: played one snap last week against the Jets, but he's
- 10:30Speaker 6: got sacked five times.
- 10:31Speaker 5: He got hit a bunch.
- 10:33Speaker 6: I saw him gimping quite a bit studying that film
- 10:35Speaker 6: from the right foot that's bothering him or ankle, whatever
- 10:38Speaker 6: the case may be. And he struggled not only in
- 10:40Speaker 6: terms of movement, but setting his feet and pushing off
- 10:43Speaker 6: and all the things that quarterbacks rely on heavily. So
- 10:46Speaker 6: it wouldn't bother me a little bit if he still
- 10:48Speaker 6: has a little acre or two as far as that's concerned.
- 10:50Speaker 6: But we've got to affect him with that as far
- 10:52Speaker 6: as that's concerned. And you know, the other thing is
- 10:55Speaker 6: he's he's had now two straight games where he hadn't
- 10:59Speaker 6: had a touchdown pass. So there's going to be a
- 11:02Speaker 6: little pressure as far as him wanting to get back
- 11:04Speaker 6: into the groove of consistent play. When he's playing on
- 11:07Speaker 6: the road, his completion average is touchdown passes is less.
- 11:12Speaker 6: He's been a better home player than he's been on
- 11:14Speaker 6: the road. So we got to take advantage of all
- 11:16Speaker 6: that type of stuff, and I think that that'll be
- 11:19Speaker 6: the objective of the Anthony and his staff will have.
- 11:22Speaker 3: He's a stud, he's the rating MVP, and you've got
- 11:29Speaker 3: to be on your game. You've got a plaster and coverage,
- 11:32Speaker 3: you've got to chase him down, You've got to finish
- 11:35Speaker 3: the play because he extends the play longer, maybe than
- 11:39Speaker 3: any other in the league this year. And that's what
- 11:42Speaker 3: makes them special because not only is he a threat
- 11:44Speaker 3: with that aspect of his game, but also the aspect
- 11:47Speaker 3: that he can take it and run it. I mean,
- 11:50Speaker 3: the number of rushing touchdowns that he has this year
- 11:52Speaker 3: as as you would think that he's a running back,
- 11:54Speaker 3: fourteen of them. Right, It's crazy.
- 11:56Speaker 5: It's off the charge, you know.
- 11:57Speaker 3: So it's not going to be easy, and you know,
- 12:00Speaker 3: the one good thing is that, Look, the pressure is
- 12:03Speaker 3: on them. I mean in a lot of ways. I mean, look,
- 12:06Speaker 3: Sean McDermott has been the coach on there's grumblings that,
- 12:09Speaker 3: you know it could he be out if he doesn't
- 12:11Speaker 3: win in the playoffs.
- 12:13Speaker 5: Hasn't had to win on the road in the playoffs.
- 12:16Speaker 3: And so look, I mean this is and look the Jaguars,
- 12:19Speaker 3: I mean, who thought they were going to be good
- 12:20Speaker 3: this year? Nobody did. I mean, so in some ways
- 12:22Speaker 3: they're playing free, you know so, but it's going to
- 12:26Speaker 3: be a challenging game and it's going to come down
- 12:28Speaker 3: to takeaways in this ballgame. I'm a big believer in that.
- 12:31Speaker 3: You know, you look at what's the common theme with
- 12:34Speaker 3: their losses this year, the five of them that they've had,
- 12:38Speaker 3: they're minus seven and turnover differential in those five games.
- 12:41Speaker 3: That's the one common denominator and the losses that they
- 12:44Speaker 3: have they don't win the turnover battle. And the Jaguars defense,
- 12:48Speaker 3: which they've been really good all year long at taking
- 12:50Speaker 3: the ball away. If they continue to do that against
- 12:53Speaker 3: Josh Allen and the Bills, they will win this football game.
- 12:57Speaker 3: Will he throw you a couple?
- 12:58Speaker 6: Oh yeah, he will. He will not often, but he will.
- 13:01Speaker 6: He've forced to play. He's a tough sucker to get down.
- 13:04Speaker 5: Just like what.
- 13:07Speaker 3: Well, you know how you get there. You got to
- 13:09Speaker 3: stop cooking with that number one run defense of yours,
- 13:11Speaker 3: you know.
- 13:11Speaker 6: Put him in that second and long, third and long,
- 13:14Speaker 6: and what Jeff said is important. We have to win
- 13:16Speaker 6: first down. You've got to win first down against this team,
- 13:19Speaker 6: against the team that runs it the most on first
- 13:22Speaker 6: and second down, either one or two in the league.
- 13:24Speaker 6: So you've got to win first down. Get him into
- 13:26Speaker 6: that third and long, and then on third and long
- 13:28Speaker 6: when you watch him, he'll hold the ball a little
- 13:30Speaker 6: bit longer. Well, that's a plus and it's a minus.
- 13:32Speaker 6: It gives you more time to get to him, but
- 13:34Speaker 6: you've got to cover him more too. So like Jeff said,
- 13:37Speaker 6: I mean, this guy is a stud, there's no doubt.
- 13:39Speaker 5: But I like our tack form.
- 13:42Speaker 3: You have you ever seen hero ball? Yes, you know
- 13:45Speaker 3: what hero ball is? Yeah? Yeah, Okay, when all of
- 13:47Speaker 3: a sudden, the pressure is on you do it well
- 13:50Speaker 3: because you know the the balance isn't there right, and
- 13:54Speaker 3: all of a sudden, all the pressure is on your
- 13:56Speaker 3: quarterback to start making plays because he needs to win.
- 14:00Speaker 3: Mahomes isn't in the playoffs. If you can get to
- 14:03Speaker 3: that point in the game where you're stopping the run
- 14:05Speaker 3: and then you're having success against Josh Allen, now you
- 14:09Speaker 3: might get him to throw you some. I mean you
- 14:11Speaker 3: go back to him early in his career. That was
- 14:14Speaker 3: a problem for him, is trying to do too much
- 14:17Speaker 3: with the ball at times. So you hope you get
- 14:19Speaker 3: some of them.
- 14:20Speaker 4: It's rushing attack, the number one rushing attack in the
- 14:23Speaker 4: NFL this year, James Cook the rushing champion this season
- 14:26Speaker 4: in the National Football League. How does it compare to
- 14:28Speaker 4: some other rushing offenses the Jags might have seen. How
- 14:32Speaker 4: do they design it, how do they run? It's what
- 14:34Speaker 4: does it feel like stuff.
- 14:36Speaker 6: I think it starts with Cook himself. I mean, the
- 14:38Speaker 6: guy is a rare back. I mean he can cut
- 14:41Speaker 6: on a dime. He's got probably the best speed cut
- 14:43Speaker 6: ability of anybody I've seen. And so the fact that
- 14:47Speaker 6: he also like he's first in the league. I think
- 14:50Speaker 6: in terms of yards prior to contact, he's got five
- 14:54Speaker 6: hundred yards before anybody gets contact on the guy. So speed, cuts, agility,
- 15:00Speaker 6: body control, all those things, balance, all those things are
- 15:03Speaker 6: huge as far as that's concerned. So you know that's
- 15:05Speaker 6: going to be a major factor for us. It's going
- 15:07Speaker 6: to come down again, physicality, the line of scrimmage, great knockback,
- 15:11Speaker 6: gap integrity or discipline in other words, holding gaps, but
- 15:14Speaker 6: getting off of blocks and then tackling this guy. Now,
- 15:18Speaker 6: I like where we are on that. We're the third.
- 15:20Speaker 5: Best tackling team in the league.
- 15:23Speaker 6: All right, We've had a tremendous job this year tackling people.
- 15:28Speaker 6: And the other thing I'd say to you is this,
- 15:30Speaker 6: they've struggled here as of late with him.
- 15:33Speaker 5: In the most recent game being.
- 15:34Speaker 6: The Eagles, that was their least rush productive game since
- 15:40Speaker 6: the first game of the season, they only averaged about
- 15:42Speaker 6: three six of carry. Well, some teams like that, but
- 15:45Speaker 6: that's down for them. That was the least they've done.
- 15:47Speaker 6: They only had one explosive run against the Eagles. They
- 15:50Speaker 6: had sixteen to four weeks before. So again, assignment football.
- 15:56Speaker 6: But tackling this guy swarm into the ball, that's going
- 15:58Speaker 6: to be critical components what we do.
- 16:01Speaker 3: And the other reason why he's so dangerous is because
- 16:04Speaker 3: he's got Josh Allen as his quarterback. You know, I
- 16:08Speaker 3: mean because two reasons. One, you got to respect Josh
- 16:12Speaker 3: Allen's arm, but then you also have to account for
- 16:16Speaker 3: Josh Allen as a runner himself. And if you look
- 16:19Speaker 3: at some of the top teams in the league year
- 16:21Speaker 3: and in year out, a lot of times it's the
- 16:24Speaker 3: teams that have a running quarterback that leads the league
- 16:27Speaker 3: in rushing. Look at Lamar Jackson and Derek Henry kind
- 16:30Speaker 3: of the same thing. It makes it very difficult for
- 16:33Speaker 3: defenses when you have a quarterback that's a legitimate runner,
- 16:37Speaker 3: you know, but it's a big challenge. And Duff is right.
- 16:40Speaker 3: Cook Cook is an elite back. He is an elite back,
- 16:44Speaker 3: and you got to you gotta slow him down some way, shape, shape,
- 16:47Speaker 3: or form. And here's one other thing that I will
- 16:49Speaker 3: mention here that I don't think we mentioned yet. The
- 16:52Speaker 3: Buffalo Bills are coming in a little fresh. Now. When
- 16:55Speaker 3: I say fresh, they didn't play in you know a
- 16:57Speaker 3: lot of guys in that Jets game. That's right. You
- 16:59Speaker 3: look look across the board, you know they had just
- 17:03Speaker 3: here's a couple examples. Dalton kin Kid and Dawson Knox,
- 17:06Speaker 3: their two tight ends played a combined fourteen snaps in
- 17:09Speaker 3: the last game of the season. The right tackle Spencer
- 17:12Speaker 3: Brown played three, their center played zero, their left guard
- 17:16Speaker 3: played zero. Dion Dawkon did what even active Shakira zero snaps,
- 17:20Speaker 3: Josh Allen one snap just to get the start out
- 17:23Speaker 3: of the way, and then Cook ended up having two snaps.
- 17:25Speaker 3: You know, the defense is the same way, you know.
- 17:28Speaker 3: So this group is coming in fresh a little bit
- 17:30Speaker 3: now for I don't want to say fresh as a daisy,
- 17:32Speaker 3: but pretty fresh. Right then?
- 17:35Speaker 2: How about that attention to details?
- 17:36Speaker 3: Right?
- 17:36Speaker 5: And that's awesome, well done.
- 17:38Speaker 3: That's an excellent point.
- 17:40Speaker 2: Now does that hurt rhythm?
- 17:41Speaker 3: Could?
- 17:43Speaker 5: So could?
- 17:43Speaker 6: I'm just going to pray to God that we got
- 17:45Speaker 6: to have the same scenario of the college playoff group.
- 17:49Speaker 6: Six of the seven teams that took a week or
- 17:51Speaker 6: two or whatever they did three weeks off, it's a
- 17:53Speaker 6: little bit different.
- 17:53Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right there, just ripping it right. I just
- 17:55Speaker 3: took that point I made and just like just sped.
- 17:59Speaker 3: I thought you on it. Perfect. No, No, let me
- 18:02Speaker 3: show that's teamwork right there. This is what you guys do,
- 18:06Speaker 3: what we do.
- 18:06Speaker 6: So I'm just but I'm just saying to you, you
- 18:08Speaker 6: know we'll shape You're right, well, yeah, I'm praying to
- 18:10Speaker 6: God that's when you start saying that ship, Oh got it,
- 18:13Speaker 6: gotta the team, please shine on us.
- 18:16Speaker 3: We're back in a moment.
- 18:18Speaker 4: We'll take a look at the Bill's defense and how
- 18:20Speaker 4: the Jaguars can attack with a red hot offensive attack.
- 18:25Speaker 3: The last two months or so, we're.
- 18:27Speaker 4: On tench XCEL ninety two point five f M, Jaguars
- 18:29Speaker 4: dot Com and Jaguars YouTube, and this is Jaguars happy out.
- 18:36Speaker 7: Same ass man, same ass. That's what we talked about
- 18:39Speaker 7: this morning was Wan to O again this week. That's
- 18:42Speaker 7: especially you know we're in the dance now right, We're
- 18:44Speaker 7: in the tournament, so it is we got to go
- 18:46Speaker 7: one and know each week, but taking it week in
- 18:48Speaker 7: week out, and you know, I think that our players
- 18:52Speaker 7: have done a nice job of of you know, rising
- 18:55Speaker 7: to the level of competition and playing well in important games,
- 19:01Speaker 7: right and then no flinch, no blink mentality, the mindset
- 19:05Speaker 7: to you know, hey, we got to go take care
- 19:08Speaker 7: of ourselves, go play our best football, put our best
- 19:11Speaker 7: foot forward, and go compete our asses off and see
- 19:14Speaker 7: what happens. You know, I think we got enough guys
- 19:17Speaker 7: that have played in playoff atmosphere that know what it takes,
- 19:19Speaker 7: that know what it's about, that can help some of
- 19:22Speaker 7: these younger guys maybe talk through it.
- 19:25Speaker 3: That's said coach William Cohen earlier this week.
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- 19:34Speaker 4: Mark Dufner. I'm JP Shadwick from the Hyundai Studios of
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- 19:43Speaker 4: Wildcard Playoff game coming up Sunday at one o'clock at
- 19:47Speaker 4: Everbanks Stadium.
- 19:48Speaker 3: The six to three.
- 19:49Speaker 4: Game the Bills and the Jaguars and we take a
- 19:52Speaker 4: look now at the Bills defense. Very good in the
- 19:56Speaker 4: passing game, not so good in the running game. Du
- 20:00Speaker 4: stands out as reasons why.
- 20:02Speaker 6: Well, I think you know, they've lost at Oliver inside
- 20:05Speaker 6: Jordan Phillips, I think is out inside. There are two
- 20:07Speaker 6: big guys inside that have been disruptive players. So they've
- 20:10Speaker 6: struggled as far as that's concerned. And anytime you can't
- 20:14Speaker 6: really hold the line of scrimmage with any level of
- 20:16Speaker 6: physicality or consistency, you're going to have some trouble. I've
- 20:19Speaker 6: been impressed with the way they play against the past,
- 20:21Speaker 6: so that's for sure. I mean they're number one as
- 20:24Speaker 6: far as that's concerned, and doing a real good job
- 20:26Speaker 6: as far as that's you know, as far as that's concerned,
- 20:28Speaker 6: they've got active players. But when your safeties Warrior for
- 20:31Speaker 6: being one, or Poyer so I say, being one and
- 20:34Speaker 6: Bishop being one, guys that are pretty active, that also
- 20:37Speaker 6: can be a little bit of a telltale that you're
- 20:39Speaker 6: struggling up front in terms of being able to you know,
- 20:42Speaker 6: handle the run game.
- 20:44Speaker 5: So but they, to.
- 20:45Speaker 6: Their credit, they played a magnificent second half against Philadelphia.
- 20:49Speaker 6: They gave up i think eighteen yards total offense in
- 20:51Speaker 6: the second half of that game, and one that went
- 20:54Speaker 6: down to the final play a two point effort which
- 20:57Speaker 6: was short for Flow to win the game. So h
- 21:02Speaker 6: you know, that's been some of a concern as far
- 21:04Speaker 6: as that's concerned.
- 21:04Speaker 5: I think I would run.
- 21:06Speaker 6: You know what I hope and pray we do is
- 21:08Speaker 6: I know we're capable of this, We've certainly sown it.
- 21:11Speaker 6: I'd love to see us get the run game going
- 21:14Speaker 6: on offense, go right at them in the run.
- 21:16Speaker 5: Game and and and make it work.
- 21:18Speaker 6: And actually sometimes a ball control offense is your best
- 21:22Speaker 6: defense keeping you know, Josh Allen and Alan and they're
- 21:27Speaker 6: running back and Cooks and those people off the field
- 21:29Speaker 6: a little bit. But but I would really like to
- 21:31Speaker 6: see that be a spike. I'm sure it will be
- 21:33Speaker 6: as far as they're concerned.
- 21:34Speaker 5: And then and then us just keep doing what we're doing.
- 21:37Speaker 6: I mean, I think again, the confidence, the consistency, the
- 21:41Speaker 6: command that I've seen of both sides of the ball
- 21:43Speaker 6: they're of what their schemes are have been impressive.
- 21:45Speaker 3: Yeah, the balance is always great, especially against the defense
- 21:49Speaker 3: that that's pretty good because it just keeps them on
- 21:51Speaker 3: their heels, you know, And that's obviously something that you'd
- 21:55Speaker 3: like to be able to do against Buffalo and stuff
- 21:58Speaker 3: is right, they're not great against the run. The linebackers
- 22:01Speaker 3: are kind of light stuff. I know, if you were
- 22:03Speaker 3: coaching them, you'd probably have them at the feedback a
- 22:05Speaker 3: little bit longer during the lunch hours, and I'd probably
- 22:09Speaker 3: beat back with them too. But yeah, you know, I mean,
- 22:13Speaker 3: they're they're not like big hammer knockers. You know, they're
- 22:16Speaker 3: kind of light guys, kind of you know, kind of
- 22:18Speaker 3: strong safety issue.
- 22:19Speaker 5: That's right.
- 22:21Speaker 3: So yeah, you'd like to get the run game going,
- 22:23Speaker 3: and I hope that they do, because that's every offense
- 22:26Speaker 3: is at their best when they've got ballance. But I
- 22:29Speaker 3: said this in the game last week against the Titans
- 22:33Speaker 3: that I look, you'd like to see the Jaguars get
- 22:36Speaker 3: the run game going, but the way Trevor's playing right now,
- 22:38Speaker 3: I don't know if you need to necessarily have it
- 22:40Speaker 3: operating at a high level. That's how good the quarterback's playing.
- 22:43Speaker 3: And I think he can play well in this game.
- 22:46Speaker 3: I think the offensive line will give him time. They
- 22:50Speaker 3: got a Bosa, but Joey Bosa is not the Joey
- 22:54Speaker 3: Bosa that we knew of a few years ago. And
- 22:56Speaker 3: Rousseau is a good player, but I don't think of
- 22:59Speaker 3: as a great player.
- 23:00Speaker 4: All it takes is one or two snaps so in
- 23:02Speaker 4: a key moment right in late in the game for
- 23:06Speaker 4: Bosa to flash when it matters.
- 23:08Speaker 3: I'm confident in our tackles the entry report too. That's
- 23:12Speaker 3: the other thing.
- 23:12Speaker 4: Like Colvan Landon has a practice this week at left tackle,
- 23:16Speaker 4: was the right guard out there. He was limited both
- 23:18Speaker 4: days this week, so there could be another starting offensive
- 23:22Speaker 4: line combination.
- 23:22Speaker 3: Well, Walker Live's played left tackle before this year.
- 23:25Speaker 6: He's done well and and really really the job that
- 23:29Speaker 6: the coaches have done, the offensive line coaches have done
- 23:31Speaker 6: with again, multiple position moves, multiple players moves.
- 23:36Speaker 8: As far as that's concerned, different starting lineups that you're incredible.
- 23:40Speaker 6: Not just starting lineups though in terms of who's in
- 23:42Speaker 6: the game, but also different positions. Yeah, which is which
- 23:47Speaker 6: I think is exceptional. I'm talking about guys that are
- 23:49Speaker 6: tackles playing guards, guards that are playing tackle. I mean
- 23:52Speaker 6: a lot of teams are reluctant to do that. They've
- 23:54Speaker 6: done it here in a magnificent way. I'm I'm less
- 23:57Speaker 6: concerned about that, to be honest with you, I think
- 23:58Speaker 6: that this group will we'll hold up against that. And
- 24:01Speaker 6: and so again I feel I'm with jeff On on that.
- 24:05Speaker 3: By the way, Walker Little played his rear end off
- 24:07Speaker 3: last week all right, guard played really well, played really
- 24:10Speaker 3: well at guard, and so kudos to him. Because Jeffrey
- 24:13Speaker 3: Simmons plays both sides now, okay, And when Jeffrey Simmons
- 24:19Speaker 3: got over there on Walker Little last week, he got nothing,
- 24:23Speaker 3: he got nothing, he got he got nothing.
- 24:26Speaker 4: What about the matchup of the defensive backs corners, especially
- 24:31Speaker 4: against these Jaguars receivers. Are there any matchups there that
- 24:34Speaker 4: favor Jacksonville in your opinion?
- 24:37Speaker 5: Well?
- 24:37Speaker 6: I like our matchups. I mean, yeah, I think they
- 24:40Speaker 6: favor us. Yes, they don't scare me at the corner
- 24:43Speaker 6: position at all, and not that they're not good players
- 24:46Speaker 6: and good pros and so forth. But I more importantly,
- 24:50Speaker 6: I like the confidence of production, the success that our
- 24:53Speaker 6: wide receivers are having. And when you look at when
- 24:56Speaker 6: when when you can line up with Myers, when you
- 24:59Speaker 6: can line up with Arker Washington, when you get BTJ,
- 25:01Speaker 6: when you can get these guys Patrick, all these guys
- 25:04Speaker 6: involved in the game coupled with strange and and that
- 25:08Speaker 6: our tight ends month and and then e t N
- 25:10Speaker 6: jeez Pete. As I've said week after week, what a
- 25:13Speaker 6: headache for the for Babbage on the other side, in
- 25:15Speaker 6: terms of who he's going to try to stop or
- 25:17Speaker 6: focus in on, well, they got tons, We got you know,
- 25:20Speaker 6: a lot of bullets flying. So I like where we
- 25:23Speaker 6: sit right now in terms of what we present personnel
- 25:26Speaker 6: wise and schematically to this group. Bobby, yeah, Bob Son
- 25:33Speaker 6: of Bob's right, who Bob was here?
- 25:35Speaker 3: That's right, right, that's amazing.
- 25:38Speaker 8: Right now, it's the play caller, and so you got
- 25:46Speaker 8: two head coaches kind of matching wicks here a little bit.
- 25:49Speaker 3: You know, it's play callers. That will be an interesting game.
- 25:51Speaker 6: It will be, and you got it. Hats off to
- 25:54Speaker 6: Sean McDermott and his staff. I mean, think about this
- 25:57Speaker 6: team right now. They are the probably the best comeback
- 26:01Speaker 6: team in the league. They've got five double digit comebacks
- 26:06Speaker 6: from halftime to wins this season. Their point differential differential
- 26:12Speaker 6: in the second half typically they've been it's like minus
- 26:15Speaker 6: thirty two in the first half, it's plus one h
- 26:18Speaker 6: nine in the second half. So they do a tremendous
- 26:21Speaker 6: job like our team has, like our coaches have of
- 26:23Speaker 6: halftime adjustments, but this is going to be a sixty
- 26:26Speaker 6: minute effort now. I mean, you know, we we can
- 26:29Speaker 6: be winning the game and so forth at the half.
- 26:31Speaker 5: It ain't over till it's over.
- 26:32Speaker 6: This group's got documented success of comebacks and adjustments in
- 26:36Speaker 6: the second half to make, you know, a victory a
- 26:39Speaker 6: sixty minute effort.
- 26:40Speaker 3: To counter that. Our quarterback, by the way, five game
- 26:43Speaker 3: winning drives this year, it's right, okay. And last time
- 26:45Speaker 3: I checked, you had a pretty good comeback win in
- 26:47Speaker 3: the playoffs.
- 26:50Speaker 5: And let me throw another one for you.
- 26:54Speaker 6: Our defense right now, fourteen takeaways in the fourth quarter,
- 26:57Speaker 6: the best in the NFL.
- 26:59Speaker 3: Counch time, baby, amen. Amen.
- 27:01Speaker 6: And since week eleven, I'll just throw in there, our
- 27:04Speaker 6: defense is forced the lowest passing rating, if you will,
- 27:09Speaker 6: for anybody in the league. Forty two is what they've
- 27:14Speaker 6: done since week eleven.
- 27:16Speaker 3: So killing it.
- 27:17Speaker 5: Yeah, let's keep it going.
- 27:19Speaker 4: Let's get some final keys to victory duff the AFC
- 27:22Speaker 4: Wild Card playoffs. Here, the Bills, the Jaguars. The bank
- 27:27Speaker 4: will be rocking. How did the Jaguars win?
- 27:29Speaker 6: Well, I think Jeff start off saying we got to
- 27:31Speaker 6: win the takeaway battle. I mean, and that's a that's
- 27:33Speaker 6: a Moses commandment came down when he brought the ten
- 27:36Speaker 6: down before you got to win the takeaway, that was
- 27:40Speaker 6: it for sure. But I think again, you know, successful
- 27:43Speaker 6: early down, winning first down on both sides of the football,
- 27:46Speaker 6: giving us the advantage. As far as that's concerned, you
- 27:50Speaker 6: got to protect Trevor. I mean, that's going to be critical.
- 27:53Speaker 6: He's playing so well right now, directing the team, making throws,
- 27:57Speaker 6: running the football, limit explosives.
- 28:00Speaker 5: You know.
- 28:00Speaker 6: I think we've done a good job of that this year.
- 28:02Speaker 6: I think we may be right at the top of
- 28:04Speaker 6: the league in terms of that top three or so.
- 28:06Speaker 6: And that's another component like takeaways to winning games. And
- 28:10Speaker 6: they will be trying to get back on course because
- 28:12Speaker 6: they didn't do it too well against Philadelphia. So Paul control,
- 28:17Speaker 6: keep the ball, run the ball, keep them off the field,
- 28:20Speaker 6: play the defense like we've been playing right now, and
- 28:23Speaker 6: play for sixty minutes confident. I feel good about what
- 28:26Speaker 6: I've seen. And it's not words, but I like watching
- 28:29Speaker 6: this team this last eight games and how as Jeff
- 28:33Speaker 6: has said, the balance that they've demonstrated not only on
- 28:37Speaker 6: I'm talking all three phases of the game right now,
- 28:39Speaker 6: and if they all contrite continue to contribute.
- 28:43Speaker 5: At the level they've had, we're going to be in
- 28:44Speaker 5: good shape.
- 28:45Speaker 3: I like that would I would say all four phases
- 28:49Speaker 3: were playing really well. And I add a fourth phase
- 28:52Speaker 3: because that's coaching in game man, what is the fourth phase?
- 28:56Speaker 3: It's coaching and game management, and that's a big part.
- 28:59Speaker 3: You know, a lot of times you keep all people
- 29:01Speaker 3: ever talk about is you know, offense, defense, special teams.
- 29:05Speaker 3: But coaching is a huge component of that as well.
- 29:09Speaker 3: And our coach has done a great job this year
- 29:11Speaker 3: of handling game managements and also the way that he's
- 29:16Speaker 3: handled this football team at big moments. So I think
- 29:19Speaker 3: we got well rounded across four areas.
- 29:23Speaker 6: I'm with you. You you two better than me, have
- 29:26Speaker 6: seen the evolution of this team this year. And coaching matters.
- 29:29Speaker 6: I mean, I've heard you say it, and I mean,
- 29:31Speaker 6: I mean it's a fact. I mean, as this team's
- 29:33Speaker 6: moved along this season, it's been it's been something to behold.
- 29:36Speaker 3: But I didn't like the decline of the penalty of Indianapolis.
- 29:39Speaker 2: Okay, that's fine, that's the one to merit.
- 29:45Speaker 6: I stand in full salute to what this coaching staff's done.
- 29:50Speaker 4: Great stuff is always have a great week and we'll
- 29:52Speaker 4: see at the Bank on Sunday, and I hope.
- 29:54Speaker 5: To see that place rocket.
- 29:55Speaker 6: It should be filled to the gills and then some
- 29:57Speaker 6: standing room only, parking room only. Everybody come out and
- 30:00Speaker 6: support victory for the Jacks.
- 30:01Speaker 4: It's gonna be a fantastic matchup. A weekly feature of
- 30:04Speaker 4: Jaguars Happy Hour. Former Jags linebackers coach Mark Dufner and
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- 30:27Speaker 4: it's Jaguars Happy Hour.
- 30:32Speaker 7: Slippery, elusive, smooth. He's just had a great feel for
- 30:40Speaker 7: mid zone, you know, for the zone game, and you
- 30:43Speaker 7: know the press combinations and then just like he has
- 30:47Speaker 7: such a great feel and then duo like if you
- 30:51Speaker 7: collapse at all, he's so he's fast enough to bounce
- 30:55Speaker 7: it and go one on one with a corner that's
- 30:57Speaker 7: got a crack replace and he's fast enough to run
- 31:00Speaker 7: around the edge and make that guy miss. And they
- 31:03Speaker 7: running us the Browns that has been all over the
- 31:06Speaker 7: place and it was ridiculous. They had two guys unblocked
- 31:09Speaker 7: in the hole and he just makes them both miss
- 31:13Speaker 7: and he's off to the races.
- 31:15Speaker 4: Love the Liam Cohen sound effects. Welcome back. It is
- 31:18Speaker 4: Jaguars Happy Hour. The full press conference at Jaguars dot
- 31:22Speaker 4: Com and Jaguars YouTube. JP Shadwick, Jeff Loggiman our thanks
- 31:25Speaker 4: to former Jags linebackers coach Mark Duffner. Joining us each
- 31:29Speaker 4: and every Thursday from the Honday Studios. We're at the
- 31:31Speaker 4: Miller Electric Center to in Toxl ninety two point five FM,
- 31:34Speaker 4: Jaguars dot Com and Jaguars YouTube of course talking about
- 31:39Speaker 4: James Cook in the running game for the Buffalo Bills.
- 31:41Speaker 4: County Stevens joining us now.
- 31:43Speaker 3: I kai, hello, gentlemen.
- 31:44Speaker 9: How are we?
- 31:45Speaker 6: Oh?
- 31:45Speaker 3: We are fine?
- 31:47Speaker 9: Excellent.
- 31:47Speaker 3: The Jags are fine too. They're in the playoffs.
- 31:49Speaker 9: Sure are Football is fun?
- 31:50Speaker 1: I have heard and.
- 31:52Speaker 2: Imagine that this is what it feels like.
- 31:55Speaker 3: Fantastic. Yeah, this is more like it. This is what
- 31:59Speaker 3: I'm something we could get used to, but it takes
- 32:04Speaker 3: a lot of hard work and dedication. Man, kudos to
- 32:06Speaker 3: the players and coaches. They've worked their rear ends off.
- 32:09Speaker 3: And this is when the fun really begins. I mean,
- 32:13Speaker 3: the team's been having funnel all through the eight game
- 32:15Speaker 3: winning streak. And having a conversation with Parker Washington a
- 32:20Speaker 3: couple of thursdays ago, or I guess it was on
- 32:22Speaker 3: a Tuesday when we did the show for Christmas. Yeah,
- 32:25Speaker 3: thats strings and off the air, was just talking with
- 32:28Speaker 3: him and he said, you know, I'm just having so
- 32:30Speaker 3: much fun. I said, Winning's great, isn't it. And He's like,
- 32:33Speaker 3: I can't imagine how much fun it would be if
- 32:35Speaker 3: we running playoffs every year. I said, man, enjoy every
- 32:37Speaker 3: minute of it because it is special. This is the
- 32:39Speaker 3: time as a player. This is And I go back
- 32:42Speaker 3: to the old NFL Films clip from years ago, Bill Parcells,
- 32:47Speaker 3: you know, telling the guys, hey, man, that's why you
- 32:49Speaker 3: guys lift all these damn weights and train all that
- 32:52Speaker 3: time and the off season everything, and this is why
- 32:55Speaker 3: this is for for this moment right here, when the
- 32:58Speaker 3: tournament begins.
- 32:59Speaker 9: And I think not to get negative with it, but
- 33:01Speaker 9: when you realize how fun winning is. It makes you
- 33:03Speaker 9: hate losing a lot more and that's what keeps I
- 33:09Speaker 9: feel like. We talk about culture a lot, but you
- 33:11Speaker 9: also have to hate losing a lot, and I feel
- 33:12Speaker 9: like maybe that wasn't always the case, but now when
- 33:15Speaker 9: you realize how fun it can be the opposite side
- 33:18Speaker 9: of the coin, that makes you you know if you
- 33:20Speaker 9: do you know moving forward with this franchise is what
- 33:22Speaker 9: I mean. Like, obviously we're all very pleased to see
- 33:24Speaker 9: what they've done in one year, but going forward, there's
- 33:27Speaker 9: a new bar for success. Right It's not going to be, oh,
- 33:30Speaker 9: we're just happy to make the playoffs or whatever that
- 33:32Speaker 9: case may be. Now you want more.
- 33:34Speaker 4: There's a standard about how they go about their business
- 33:37Speaker 4: day to day as well now, which was not always
- 33:39Speaker 4: consistent in the previous years, and that adds up to
- 33:42Speaker 4: what is happening right now.
- 33:44Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't want to go back and comment on
- 33:46Speaker 3: the past year. That's a whole we could do like
- 33:49Speaker 3: a stil series podcast series. We'll probably have to be
- 33:53Speaker 3: on somewhere where it could be R rated plus. Yeah, Yeah,
- 33:57Speaker 3: I like that.
- 33:57Speaker 4: Yeah, let's get to the Jaguars defensive average of the game,
- 34:00Speaker 4: presented by GEH Government employees, Health Association benefits for federal
- 34:04Speaker 4: employees and retirees. The Jaguars defense against this Bill's offense.
- 34:09Speaker 4: The rankings, of course, both sides number one in the
- 34:13Speaker 4: run game. Bill's offense, Jags defense. We know what Josh
- 34:17Speaker 4: Allen can do. The quarterback for the Bills, of course,
- 34:21Speaker 4: has not been able to get his team to the
- 34:23Speaker 4: Super Bowl. The Chiefs have been in the way so
- 34:25Speaker 4: many times. The Chiefs are out of the mix. Now
- 34:27Speaker 4: there's a lot of confidence in Western New York that
- 34:29Speaker 4: this could be their year to make a run from
- 34:31Speaker 4: the wild card spot. The Jags might have something to
- 34:35Speaker 4: say about that. Certainly on the defensive side, these guys
- 34:37Speaker 4: have been fantastical year, second in the league in takeaways.
- 34:41Speaker 4: But it's only the tenth playoff game in league history
- 34:44Speaker 4: between the league's top ranked rushing offense and top ranked
- 34:48Speaker 4: rushing defense. The last time was three, and there's only
- 34:53Speaker 4: been three matchups in the last fifty seasons. The number
- 34:56Speaker 4: one rush defense has won all those.
- 34:58Speaker 3: Why would you.
- 34:59Speaker 2: Think that's just like circumstances?
- 35:01Speaker 4: I mean, or is there something to the rush defense
- 35:04Speaker 4: having some kind of edge?
- 35:06Speaker 3: What's the thing that they always.
- 35:07Speaker 2: Say defense wins championships.
- 35:09Speaker 5: There you go.
- 35:10Speaker 3: Yeah, defense travels. Defense wins championships.
- 35:15Speaker 9: You know, so, and you have to be able to
- 35:16Speaker 9: establish the run of the playoffs and if you can't
- 35:19Speaker 9: probably makes it a lot.
- 35:20Speaker 3: Harder, you know. And the one guy that we're having
- 35:22Speaker 3: on tonight at strings which is Foy Luke and has
- 35:25Speaker 3: been a huge part of that number one run defense,
- 35:30Speaker 3: and I got such a high level of respect for
- 35:32Speaker 3: him for so many different ways. The leader that he is.
- 35:34Speaker 3: Did you guys, by the way, happen to see Jaguars
- 35:37Speaker 3: dot com where Foy is given the speech to the
- 35:39Speaker 3: guys before the game.
- 35:40Speaker 9: But I mean he's always the hype man.
- 35:42Speaker 2: Yes, oh my.
- 35:43Speaker 3: God, I mean gave me goosebumps. And I'm like, I'm
- 35:47Speaker 3: approaching sixty time. I'm just like, I want to play
- 35:53Speaker 3: with that guy. I mean, that's kind of the feeling
- 35:55Speaker 3: that I got. And the way he plays the game,
- 35:57Speaker 3: uh just never quit, never stops, and has the stamina
- 36:03Speaker 3: of I don't know who, because I've never seen anybody
- 36:07Speaker 3: play the game like that, with the stamina that he
- 36:09Speaker 3: has at linebacker.
- 36:11Speaker 9: I think it's it's interesting for me to see what
- 36:14Speaker 9: the defense was last year and we know, lots of
- 36:16Speaker 9: issues not going back to that, but to have a
- 36:18Speaker 9: new system and a coach that in Campinelle who really
- 36:23Speaker 9: uses the best factor, the best assets of each player
- 36:27Speaker 9: and lets them kind of play to that strength and
- 36:30Speaker 9: doesn't try to make them do anything they're not good at.
- 36:32Speaker 9: And that's what we're seeing, Like you know, with Devin
- 36:34Speaker 9: Lloyd playing face up against the ball and he's you know,
- 36:37Speaker 9: leading tied with Antonio Johnson for interceptions. What he's been
- 36:41Speaker 9: able to do with Antonio Johnson in the backfield and
- 36:44Speaker 9: having veteran players back there, but also give him a
- 36:46Speaker 9: younger players playing time and as a linebacker, Fory Luken's
- 36:50Speaker 9: right in the middle of it, and that's you know,
- 36:51Speaker 9: you call him the quarterback of the defense because that's
- 36:53Speaker 9: what he is. And it's the communication so much better
- 36:57Speaker 9: and you just notice it compared to away things work.
- 37:00Speaker 9: You're like, oh, this is how it's supposed to be.
- 37:02Speaker 3: And I was getting my game board ready, you know,
- 37:06Speaker 3: and looking at some of the former Jaguar coaches that
- 37:09Speaker 3: are on the Buffalo Bill staff.
- 37:10Speaker 9: You know, yes, I saw some fun tweets about that.
- 37:13Speaker 3: Jason Revervich, who was his assistant defensive line coach for
- 37:17Speaker 3: the Bills now was here in same capacity. Rob Bors's
- 37:20Speaker 3: tight end coach.
- 37:20Speaker 9: There's an advisory might know, I believe as.
- 37:22Speaker 3: Well as Jordana Safety's coach, you know, was here a
- 37:25Speaker 3: little bit. And then I saw Ryan Nielson, senior assistant
- 37:30Speaker 3: on the Buffalo Bill staff, and I'm just sitting there
- 37:33Speaker 3: and I'm looking at that going, can Sean McDermott please
- 37:39Speaker 3: please let Ryan Nielsen be a big part of forming
- 37:42Speaker 3: the game plan this week. If so, the Jaguars are
- 37:46Speaker 3: being great shape.
- 37:49Speaker 4: Quarterback plays at a premium for the Jaguars this week, certainly.
- 37:54Speaker 4: As you know, history says that if you're gonna beat
- 37:57Speaker 4: Josh Allen in the playoffs, you gotta have a good quarterback,
- 38:00Speaker 4: and it's usually Patrick Mahomes sixteen touchdowns, no interceptions in
- 38:05Speaker 4: the six starting quarterbacks to beat Josh Allen in the playoffs.
- 38:07Speaker 4: The seven quarterbacks to lose to him in the playoffs
- 38:10Speaker 4: ten touchdowns, seven picks.
- 38:12Speaker 2: So you got to protect the football. Trevor Lawrence has
- 38:14Speaker 2: been doing that at.
- 38:14Speaker 4: A high level. Didn't do it in the playoffs in
- 38:17Speaker 4: twenty two in the first game, won the game anyway.
- 38:19Speaker 4: In the first round. He's been really really lights out
- 38:23Speaker 4: and that continues. That's a good sign.
- 38:25Speaker 9: Trevor just feels like almost a different person at this point,
- 38:28Speaker 9: because you know, in the past, we'd always see the
- 38:30Speaker 9: great throws and some crazy things that only a couple
- 38:32Speaker 9: people can do, but then he'd make a really poor
- 38:34Speaker 9: decision and you'd just be like so frustra you know,
- 38:37Speaker 9: just so silly of a decision that you just get
- 38:39Speaker 9: so frustrated with it. And it's not that he's playing
- 38:42Speaker 9: safe by any means now, because he's more confident than ever.
- 38:45Speaker 9: But if there is a mistake, okay, move on, like
- 38:48Speaker 9: it's not such a it doesn't feel like it's such
- 38:50Speaker 9: a crushing blow anymore. And he's not turning the ball over.
- 38:53Speaker 9: But you know, say miss a pass or you know
- 38:55Speaker 9: they stall out on a drive.
- 38:56Speaker 2: It doesn't feel like Ridzone two weeks ago.
- 38:58Speaker 9: It doesn't feel like the end of the world anymore.
- 39:00Speaker 3: You're talking about the Colt fred Zone play. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 39:03Speaker 3: But here's the thing. If I had the same play
- 39:06Speaker 3: and do or I tell Trevor to throw it again.
- 39:08Speaker 2: That's what I mean.
- 39:08Speaker 9: Because a lot of these throws are anticipatory, right, Like
- 39:10Speaker 9: he's trusting Parker Washington, who nine times out of ten
- 39:14Speaker 9: goes and gets it. It's against the linebacker, right, Like,
- 39:16Speaker 9: that's not a terrible it is what you live with that,
- 39:19Speaker 9: right because you think most of the times that'll work out.
- 39:21Speaker 9: And I think that's what a lot of this now is.
- 39:24Speaker 9: He's playing so confident, he's anticipating where his wide receivers
- 39:27Speaker 9: are going to be, and he's so in control of
- 39:31Speaker 9: the way that the offense is moving you trust it more.
- 39:34Speaker 9: And he's confident in what he's doing. He doesn't feel
- 39:36Speaker 9: like he's hearing something and then trying to run someone
- 39:38Speaker 9: else's offense feels like it's his.
- 39:40Speaker 3: Now. If you look at the numbers that Josh Allen
- 39:43Speaker 3: has been able to compile in the playoffs, he's played
- 39:46Speaker 3: winning football in every game. For the most part, it's
- 39:50Speaker 3: been kind of the what's going on around him and
- 39:53Speaker 3: his football team that really hasn't been there for him,
- 39:57Speaker 3: you know. I mean, look at the numbers. I mean
- 39:59Speaker 3: they's got four inner in thirteen playoff games. That's it,
- 40:03Speaker 3: you know. So winning the takeaway battle is huge. But
- 40:06Speaker 3: at the same token, if you just play good team football,
- 40:10Speaker 3: you can beat this Buffalo Bills team just like, you've
- 40:12Speaker 3: beaten good teams this year already, you know so. But
- 40:17Speaker 3: Josh Allen presents a lot of unique circumstances that you're
- 40:20Speaker 3: going to have to deal with, and that's always a challenge.
- 40:23Speaker 4: Jaguars All Access Television Tonight, Stream Sports Brewery in Springfield,
- 40:28Speaker 4: seven o'clock, Fox thirty four.
- 40:30Speaker 2: Y a Oluiken, linebacker Jaguars.
- 40:34Speaker 9: He'll be there.
- 40:34Speaker 3: He'll be there. He'll be there.
- 40:35Speaker 2: We'll be there too.
- 40:36Speaker 9: Yes, I think there's an extra show afterwards as well,
- 40:39Speaker 9: so the party continues.
- 40:40Speaker 2: Yes, Brent Martinos, Oh, I thought you were double dipping it.
- 40:45Speaker 9: We may make a cameo, but.
- 40:46Speaker 5: I don't know.
- 40:47Speaker 3: We're being told to stick around for a few Oh
- 40:50Speaker 3: how about that? Yeah, so we'll see.
- 40:52Speaker 9: What's on, playoff, postseason surprises, what happens there?
- 40:56Speaker 3: Double Wings. Fred Marto is going to be there. He's
- 40:58Speaker 3: going to pick up the bill this week. He's going
- 41:01Speaker 3: to He may not know if I might have to
- 41:03Speaker 3: come down there. Come on down. If he's picking it up,
- 41:06Speaker 3: We'll let Brent buy you a beer. Jacb I like that.
- 41:10Speaker 3: How about that? That's never a bad thing? No ever, No,
- 41:13Speaker 3: they got good beer there, they do. It's a brewery
- 41:15Speaker 3: they do. I try not to drink over five and
- 41:17Speaker 3: I'm just kidding. They make it there and everything in
- 41:19Speaker 3: fire they have really good. So I'm gonna have me
- 41:23Speaker 3: a older of wings walking out.
- 41:24Speaker 2: I figured you probably would. That's what happens, Yes, Kai, Thanks,
- 41:27Speaker 2: Thanks Kay.
- 41:28Speaker 4: Stevens joining us as always Jaggs fans. If you want
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- 41:39Speaker 4: for fans. Injury reporters come down. We'll get that to
- 41:42Speaker 4: you when we come back. Then at five o'clock, JAG's
- 41:45Speaker 4: HQ will have Tony Boselli and James Gladstone in studio live.
- 41:50Speaker 3: It's Jaguars Happy Hour. You just can't make it bigger
- 41:56Speaker 3: than what it is.
- 41:57Speaker 10: I feel like some guys who haven't been necessary and
- 42:00Speaker 10: might get to there and just kind of just confused
- 42:03Speaker 10: that anxiety with nervousness when you're just really excited to
- 42:07Speaker 10: just do something you love, you know, and like just
- 42:09Speaker 10: have the opportunity to just be in a prontome game
- 42:12Speaker 10: having everybody know what the whole football is gonna be
- 42:15Speaker 10: watching this.
- 42:15Speaker 3: So I feel like it would be very exciting.
- 42:17Speaker 10: So now we get opportunity in the chances people who
- 42:20Speaker 10: haven't been seeing as we get to show them who
- 42:22Speaker 10: we are. And so I feel like it just people
- 42:24Speaker 10: confuse that the anxiety for nervous is when they really
- 42:28Speaker 10: decided for the moment.
- 42:30Speaker 4: Travis et and junior Jaguars running back led the Jags
- 42:33Speaker 4: with two hundred and sixty carries just over eleven hundred
- 42:35Speaker 4: rushing yards this year, seven scores on the ground, but also.
- 42:40Speaker 2: Six receiving scores.
- 42:42Speaker 4: You only running back in the league to lead the
- 42:44Speaker 4: team their team in receiving touchdowns. Welcome back in Shaguars
- 42:47Speaker 4: Happy Hour, JP Shatterick, Jeff Logman or thanks to coach
- 42:50Speaker 4: Mark Duffner joining us each and every week former Jags
- 42:53Speaker 4: linebackers coach and NFL defensive coordinator giving us a scouting
- 42:57Speaker 4: report each week on the opponent.
- 42:58Speaker 3: And this week, of.
- 42:59Speaker 4: Course, the Buffalo Bills face the Jaguars in the AFC
- 43:02Speaker 4: Wildcard playoff game. All right, thanks to count Annie Stevens,
- 43:05Speaker 4: Jaguars reporter, joining us as always, and you'll have an
- 43:08Speaker 4: interview by the way, with Trevor Lawrence sat down with
- 43:11Speaker 4: a quarterback this week for about ten minutes and an
- 43:13Speaker 4: off the field interview that will come up I believe.
- 43:16Speaker 3: For Friday, tomorrow.
- 43:18Speaker 2: Or Saturday on Jaguars dot com.
- 43:20Speaker 3: So check that out.
- 43:21Speaker 4: You'll hear some of it on pregame on Sunday as
- 43:23Speaker 4: well on radio on Countdown to Kickoff and the Public's
- 43:26Speaker 4: Tailgate Show, and really great stuff in a conversation with
- 43:31Speaker 4: a quarterback.
- 43:31Speaker 3: When does the next edition of The Hunt come out soon?
- 43:35Speaker 3: It's got to be soon today, it might be. I
- 43:40Speaker 3: think it's coming up. It is tonight. Yeah.
- 43:42Speaker 9: Yeah?
- 43:42Speaker 3: How cool? Is that?
- 43:44Speaker 2: That's pretty cool?
- 43:45Speaker 3: It's so cool I that I think that show's cool. Yes.
- 43:51Speaker 4: Insight that you can't get anywhere else. No, no, no, can't
- 43:53Speaker 4: no access that you can't get anywhere else.
- 43:55Speaker 3: It's fantastic. Can't beat it.
- 43:57Speaker 4: Hey, it's time now for the injury report, presented by
- 43:59Speaker 4: you Health, the proud healthcare partner of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
- 44:02Speaker 4: We start with the Jaguars fairly short list, but there
- 44:06Speaker 4: are some key names on it. Monteric Brown, with the
- 44:09Speaker 4: neck issue, has been limited both days. The cornerback for
- 44:12Speaker 4: the Jags, cornerback Jarion Jones was ill and missed Wednesday's
- 44:17Speaker 4: practice was limited on Thursday, so that's a good step
- 44:20Speaker 4: in the right direction. Patrick mcarry, the right guard with
- 44:24Speaker 4: a back injury, limited both Wednesday and Thursday, and of
- 44:27Speaker 4: course missed the last two games of the regular season.
- 44:30Speaker 4: We'll see if he can get back in there for
- 44:32Speaker 4: the playoff game this Sunday. Greg Newsome, cornerback with a
- 44:36Speaker 4: shoulder problem, limited both Wednesday and Thursday. Danny Strigo defensive
- 44:41Speaker 4: end elbow and ankle problems, limited both days. Cole Van Lannon,
- 44:46Speaker 4: the left tackle with a knee injury, did not practice
- 44:49Speaker 4: Wednesday or Thursday. That's the one to keep an eye on,
- 44:53Speaker 4: and if he cannot go, the most likely Walker Little
- 44:56Speaker 4: moves to left tackle. We'll see what McCarey's status is.
- 45:01Speaker 4: So hey, this is what they've dealt with on the
- 45:02Speaker 4: offensive line all season long, Guys coming and going out
- 45:06Speaker 4: of the lineup, even mid game, flipping sides of the line,
- 45:09Speaker 4: and they've been able to handle it the right way.
- 45:12Speaker 4: Now to the Buffalo Bills, they have a longer list.
- 45:14Speaker 4: We'll get to the ones that are not full participation
- 45:17Speaker 4: because the's a lot of guys on the list that
- 45:19Speaker 4: have practiced full both days, including the quarterback Josh Allen
- 45:22Speaker 4: with a foot issue.
- 45:22Speaker 3: Something to watch.
- 45:24Speaker 4: Treil Bernard linebackers not practice, calf injury. Cold Bishop safety
- 45:28Speaker 4: has been fine this week. Joey Bosa with the hamstring's
- 45:31Speaker 4: been fine. Maxwell Harston the cornerback, has not practiced yet
- 45:34Speaker 4: with an ankle problem. Damar Hamlin safety pectoral injury limited
- 45:39Speaker 4: both days. A running back Tyd Johnson an ankle injury
- 45:42Speaker 4: is not practiced either day. De Kwon Jones defensive tackle
- 45:46Speaker 4: calf problem limited both days. Dalton Kincaid tight end knee
- 45:50Speaker 4: injury limited. Matt Milano was sick and did not practice Wednesday,
- 45:56Speaker 4: was full on today's practice. Josh Palmer, why receiver, has
- 46:00Speaker 4: been out both days with an ankle problem. Jordan Poyer
- 46:03Speaker 4: hamstring issue safety with the limited participation both days. They've
- 46:08Speaker 4: got kicking problems. Matt Prater right quadriceps issues. Not practiced
- 46:13Speaker 4: on Wednesday, but did practice full on Thursday. What does
- 46:16Speaker 4: that mean for a kicker? Who knows, but he was
- 46:19Speaker 4: out there full officially. T J Sanders defensive tackles on
- 46:23Speaker 4: the report, but he's fine. Shaq Thompson linebacker, neck injury
- 46:27Speaker 4: limited both days. The long list A few things to
- 46:30Speaker 4: watch for the Buffalo Bills. There's the injury report.
- 46:34Speaker 3: By the way, Congratulations to Trevor Lawrence and Cam Little
- 46:38Speaker 3: for being the AFC Offensive Player of the Month and
- 46:42Speaker 3: Special Teams Player of the Month. Yeah, I'd say, cool
- 46:44Speaker 3: stuff right there. It makes sense to me. Yeah, I
- 46:46Speaker 3: mean those two guys played this month. I was sitting
- 46:49Speaker 3: there wondering because you know, when they announced the AFC
- 46:52Speaker 3: Special Teams Player of the Week and it wasn't Cam Little.
- 46:56Speaker 3: After he drills one from sixty seven and then score
- 47:00Speaker 3: how many points did he score in that game against Tennessee.
- 47:02Speaker 3: I mean it was well like two field goals, multiple
- 47:06Speaker 3: extra points and Drill's NFL second longest field goal. How
- 47:12Speaker 3: can I ignore him? And then I saw that he
- 47:15Speaker 3: was the SC Special Teams Player of the Month and
- 47:17Speaker 3: I said, aow, that's how they could ignore. That's why
- 47:20Speaker 3: they were going to recognize him as that for the month.
- 47:23Speaker 2: And Fairbaron hit five field goals I think for Houston.
- 47:26Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, but two of them, like three or
- 47:28Speaker 3: four of them were chip shots and there was one
- 47:30Speaker 3: that was from plus fifty still fifteen points. Yeah, I know,
- 47:34Speaker 3: I mean points scored, but I mean he ain't kicking
- 47:36Speaker 3: him from sixty seven. JP, I know that, you know,
- 47:39Speaker 3: not many are, by the way, I hope he gets
- 47:41Speaker 3: the chance to bang one frohim beyond sixty. I saw
- 47:44Speaker 3: and you probably did too, that there has not been
- 47:47Speaker 3: a field goal in NFL playoff history from beyond sixty.
- 47:53Speaker 3: That makes sense too. That would be cool to see. Cam.
- 47:57Speaker 2: It'd be cool if they just scored touchdowns every time.
- 48:01Speaker 3: I'm I'm with you on that, but I mean certain
- 48:02Speaker 3: would be cool certain moments, just like at the end
- 48:05Speaker 3: of the half this past game where they got an
- 48:07Speaker 3: opportunity to send them out there on sixty seven when
- 48:11Speaker 3: Tennessee went forward on fourth and then didn't make it,
- 48:14Speaker 3: and they turned it over on downs and Jaguars got
- 48:16Speaker 3: the ball right there in field goal. Well can Little's range?
- 48:20Speaker 3: Not any normal human beings range. But that was cool.
- 48:24Speaker 4: Wild Card playoff game, Bills and Jaguars meeting for the
- 48:27Speaker 4: third time in playoff history, of course, nineteen ninety six
- 48:31Speaker 4: up there, twenty seventeen here in a ten to three game,
- 48:36Speaker 4: and now it's twenty twenty five.
- 48:37Speaker 3: What's your gut in this game for the Jags? Oh,
- 48:39Speaker 3: I feel good about it. I mean, I think it's
- 48:41Speaker 3: going to be a toss up game at the end.
- 48:43Speaker 3: I really do, And I think the Jaguars are going
- 48:46Speaker 3: to have their hands full and the Buffalo Bills are
- 48:48Speaker 3: going to have their hands full as well. Now predicting winners,
- 48:51Speaker 3: you know, Look, I wear two colored glasses and so
- 48:54Speaker 3: you know where I lean when it comes to that.
- 48:56Speaker 3: But I think it's going to be a very tough,
- 49:00Speaker 3: hotly contested, dynamite game. I really do.
- 49:03Speaker 4: Two great quarterbacks looking forward to that, and yeah, playoff football.
- 49:09Speaker 4: It's gonna be an epic atmosphere myway. This is going
- 49:12Speaker 4: to be overflowing.
- 49:13Speaker 3: I love playoff football and there's nothing better than playoff
- 49:17Speaker 3: football at home. I mean, it's just it's fantastic in
- 49:21Speaker 3: the atmosphere that it creates, and that the experience that
- 49:25Speaker 3: people have, and especially when the team plays well, it
- 49:29Speaker 3: becomes an ultimate high.
- 49:33Speaker 4: Coming up JAG's HQ Tony Boselli, the EVP and GM
- 49:37Speaker 4: James Gladstone live in studio ahead of the AFC Wildcard
- 49:41Speaker 4: playoff game between the Bills and the Jaguars, or thanks
- 49:44Speaker 4: to coach Mark Duffner, Kai Stevens for Jeff Logoman. I'm
- 49:47Speaker 4: JP Shadwick and thanks to you for listening to Jaguars
- 49:50Speaker 4: Happy Hour,