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Jags Drive Time: Monday, September 9 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Celebrating twenty five years of Jaguars football. Mark We're now
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Speaker 1: with a masterful run of twenty nine yards and the
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Speaker 1: cluck continues to run. Jaffuars. Did you Jack, Jack Warris,
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Speaker 1: did you go? Jaguars Drive Time? Ryan Sextexty Jock Ashlee.
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Drive Time starts right now. You know, I'm still,
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Speaker 1: you know, grateful I get to, you know, be a
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Speaker 1: part of this team. Obviously, I'll you know, have surgery, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, tomorrow, get this thing rolling, and you know,
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Speaker 1: trust and trust a good lord for you know, healing,
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Speaker 1: and you're ready to roll when I am. Quarterback Nick
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Speaker 1: Folds undergoing surgery on his broken clavicle this morning. We
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Speaker 1: wished him the best of luck as we welcome in
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Drive Time Within It by Jet Homelans Monday morning.
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Speaker 1: A four to twenty six lost to the Kansas City
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Speaker 1: Chiefs yesterday, A lot to talk about. A lot happened.
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Speaker 1: Watching back that game. It was almost mentally exhausting to
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Speaker 1: go through it again because so much happened every single quarter.
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Speaker 1: It seems like, what are you guys initial thoughts on
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Speaker 1: the game. I'm glad I didn't not watch it again.
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Speaker 1: It's uh, I'm gonna watch it together. Yeah, I mean
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Speaker 1: I will too. And it was a game that anything
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Speaker 1: that could have gone wrong went wrong. And I'm not
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Speaker 1: sure I've ever seen an opener, Brian where in the
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Speaker 1: first half you felt such a a roller coaster of emotions.
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Speaker 1: Here they were absolutely getting the doors blowing off of
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Speaker 1: the defensively to the point that you couldn't believe it
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Speaker 1: was happening. And then all of a sudden you get
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Speaker 1: this feeling of, oh, this is why Nick Foles is here,
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Speaker 1: and you think, well, maybe this is a new team
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Speaker 1: that can win this sort of game. I think that's
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Speaker 1: the feeling that everybody had when they saw that play,
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Speaker 1: and you know, okay, they're not out of a ten point.
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Speaker 1: In years past, if they were down ten, it was over.
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Speaker 1: When all of a sudden you're back in it, you're
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Speaker 1: feeling hope, and then you look and you know it's
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Speaker 1: this can't be real is what I wrote in the
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Speaker 1: other zone this morning. And yet this feeling of this
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Speaker 1: can't be real when you saw him staggering off me,
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Speaker 1: he's on the sidelines and you're like, is that real?
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Speaker 1: And it was, and you know, I don't want to
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Speaker 1: be the naysayer, but between the problems that this team
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Speaker 1: had defensively and then you pile on the folds being hurt,
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure we've ever seen an opener like that
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Speaker 1: and franchise. I think a stafe state is the worst
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Speaker 1: opener and franchise history where you lose the eight eight
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Speaker 1: million dollar quarterback. And we covered openers between two thousand
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Speaker 1: and twelve and seventeen. Yeah, it was for a lot
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Speaker 1: of reasons. One of which we you know, has barely
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Speaker 1: been mentioned because it's been lost in the folds is
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Speaker 1: how many Chiefs fans were here and how few Jaguars
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Speaker 1: fans were. Uh, it felt like a one to one
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Speaker 1: ratio in the in there. So it was it was
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Speaker 1: a bad look all around. Um, if you win, all
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Speaker 1: of that other stuff goes away. If you lose, uh,
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Speaker 1: it hurts. If you lose your quarterback, you're stunned, You're
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Speaker 1: you're punch drunk this morning, which I think a lot
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Speaker 1: of people are. Let's be honest. We had this conversation
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Speaker 1: about so they're gonna go with Garden Minshew is the
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Speaker 1: backup right up here? They are? And someone said to me, well,
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Speaker 1: I mean, why would they do that, why wouldn'ty go
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Speaker 1: find a veteran Hey there, it's not like veteran quarterback
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Speaker 1: or just sitting out there. The Chiefs lost Chad Henny
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Speaker 1: and they grab Matt Moore. Who right, they bring that
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Speaker 1: more out of retirement to be their backup quarterback. Uh
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Speaker 1: So that's the reason Number one. Reason Umber two is, look,
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Speaker 1: if you lose your starting quarterback. I mean, it's the
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Speaker 1: it's the disaster scenario for what happens if Ben Roethlisberger
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Speaker 1: goes down, What happens if Tom Brady goes down, what
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Speaker 1: happens if Drew Brees goes down? Your season is off
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Speaker 1: the rails, entirely, entirely, that's a throwaway line in the
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Speaker 1: off season. But now you gotta live and well, and
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Speaker 1: here's the thing, here's the here's the one little glimmer.
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Speaker 1: Because if we had seen the gardener Minshew that we
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Speaker 1: saw in the preseason be like this this morning, oh
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Speaker 1: my god, how are we going to go through fifteen
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Speaker 1: more games? And the coaches would be going, oh my god,
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Speaker 1: how are we going to go through fifteen more games?
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Speaker 1: And I said, well, and it was better than that, though,
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Speaker 1: I mean he was precise, he was under pressure. He
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Speaker 1: threw the ball better than I saw him at any
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Speaker 1: point during the preseason. The play that stood out to
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Speaker 1: me the one that makes me go, okay, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe they can do something, maybe if the defense can
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Speaker 1: play better than that. And we'll talk about that. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure the throat to Westbrook, right, and you saw he's
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Speaker 1: rolling and four net is in the flat. And for
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Speaker 1: a for a young quarterback under pressure, that's the easy throw.
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Speaker 1: Get rid of it. They probably said, hey, take the
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Speaker 1: easy stuff. Don't try to make you know, heroic plays.
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Speaker 1: And so I kept waiting for him to throw. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: his feet keep moving and he's watching down the field
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Speaker 1: waiting for Westbrook to clear the safety. That's a big
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Speaker 1: time throw for a young quarterback, you know. And he
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Speaker 1: kept him in position. So and then he came moved
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Speaker 1: him down the field on the opening drive at the
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Speaker 1: third quarter in at Fournette doesn't lose the ball on
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Speaker 1: that little screen. Maybe you gotta one score game midway
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Speaker 1: through the third right. Um, I'm interested in him, I'm
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Speaker 1: interested in where he can go. And people will go, well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: of course, because that's all you've got. Yeah, that's what
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Speaker 1: we got. But he showed you something yesterday with the
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Speaker 1: way that he played. That's not just a fluke. The
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Speaker 1: guy has some skill and there's something about him. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure we'll cover Gardner. You know. It's like we're gonna
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Speaker 1: have a long, long time. Um, we'll get into the
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Speaker 1: headband at some point. You'll wear one some game. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm about worn out with the head man. But it's his,
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Speaker 1: it's his thing. Um, it might be yours, yeah, Mr
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Speaker 1: Bobby Hunt. Um, the poise was impressive for him because
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Speaker 1: he came in in a situation. Let's not underestimate the heat.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you guys know more than me because you
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Speaker 1: were out in it. It was the kind of heat
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Speaker 1: that can affect how you're thinking your emotions. We saw that, Uh,
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Speaker 1: And the situation was unbelievably, unbelievably difficult. First opportunity. There
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Speaker 1: were a million reasons that he could have played poorly,
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Speaker 1: and he did that. He's going to start for a
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Speaker 1: length of time. He will come out and look like
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Speaker 1: a rookie six round pick. That's just the way that
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Speaker 1: this game goes. But in his first opportunity out he
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Speaker 1: at least gives the coaches something to go all right, Well,
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Speaker 1: what did he do well. What can we count on?
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Speaker 1: There are some things they can work with them, and
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Speaker 1: that leads us into big Thing one, which is QB one.
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Speaker 1: Folds is now out with a broken clavital. That means
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Speaker 1: Minshew is in. And like we said, he impressed us
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Speaker 1: twenty two for two D and seventy five yards. He
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Speaker 1: credits Nick Foles for keeping and calm on the sidelines.
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Speaker 1: There's never easy time to play NFL quarterback. That's that's
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Speaker 1: for sure. But you know, I feel like prepared all week,
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Speaker 1: did everything I could. I coach did a great job
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Speaker 1: getting me ready. Um Nick has done incredible job like
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Speaker 1: helping me every step of the way. Um we got
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Speaker 1: a really tight unit and a lot of trust in
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Speaker 1: each other, so that all that makes makes things easier
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Speaker 1: for sure. Big thing too is undisciplined. This defense frankly
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Speaker 1: fell apart a number of penalties. Ronnie Harrison gets an
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Speaker 1: unnecessary taunting call and Miles Jack suspended for throwing a punch.
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Speaker 1: He apologizes after the game and says this will never
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Speaker 1: happened again. First and foremost, I got to apologize to
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Speaker 1: my teammates, the city of Jacksonville. That's that's not how
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Speaker 1: we conduct ourselves in any way. Um, in the heat
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Speaker 1: of the moment, I just felt like, um, Sammy, Sammy Watkins.
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Speaker 1: He ran a route that wasn't around. He came and
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Speaker 1: hit me undneath my chin. I put my hands up.
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Speaker 1: He stood over me, says something, so I pushed him.
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Speaker 1: The next thing I knew I was getting pushed in
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Speaker 1: the back of the head. I didn't see any flague.
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Speaker 1: So at that point I just felt like I had
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Speaker 1: to defend myself in the heat of the moment. It's
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Speaker 1: a lot going on. It's about bad export we play,
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Speaker 1: which is no excuse for my actions. But um, at
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Speaker 1: the end of the day, I apologize for that. That
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Speaker 1: would not have ever happen again. I've never been ejected
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Speaker 1: before in the game, and that that won't come about
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Speaker 1: it ever again. I promise you that. So. And big
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Speaker 1: thing three finally is adversity. You're down your starting quarterback.
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Speaker 1: Realistically eight weeks, you have two division games in eleven days,
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Speaker 1: and your defense did not play well. Dug Rowing after
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Speaker 1: the game says, don't hit the panic button just yet.
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Speaker 1: You gotta lead. You know what I'm saying. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you know it's easy, you know to sit here and
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Speaker 1: what was me and all that. Um, I'm fired up
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Speaker 1: for the challenge, you know, I'm fired up to coach
8:11
Speaker 1: these players and fired up for the challenge. You know.
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Speaker 1: Obviously it's unfortunate, you know, I don't know if we
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Speaker 1: want to, you know, the empathy for Nick obviously, I
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Speaker 1: feel for me. You know, the guys put a ton
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Speaker 1: in you know. I mean, I don't I don't know
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Speaker 1: if that's where we're going with that, you know, But
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, unfortunately, I I you know,
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Speaker 1: I really, um, I really feel like we gotta step
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Speaker 1: up and go. And it's a great challenge. So guys,
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Speaker 1: let's go back to big thing too. It's gotten lust
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Speaker 1: lost in the shuffle, and it was because Nick Foles
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Speaker 1: obviously is the dominating story this morning. But that defense.
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Speaker 1: We've never seen the defense fall apart like that. And yes,
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs are a very very good offense, probably the
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Speaker 1: best in the NFL, but that was totally uncharacteristic of them.
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Speaker 1: We've seen it in spots. I mean, we saw it
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Speaker 1: in Dallas last year. There. They're always gonna be times
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Speaker 1: for that, but it was the it was the unbelievable
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Speaker 1: look of how to say it, being unprepared early. I
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Speaker 1: mean there were receivers running wide open from the very start.
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Speaker 1: He had a sixty eight yard touchdown on on the
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Speaker 1: third play of the game. That SAPs any hope whatsoever.
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Speaker 1: And they had talked, Todd wash had talked early in
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Speaker 1: the week about how good Andy Reid was at out
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Speaker 1: scheming you early in games. And you know it was
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Speaker 1: it was a landslide early and and uh the running
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Speaker 1: wide open part, looking like they had no idea what
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Speaker 1: was coming. Uh. I guess credit to the Chiefs, well
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Speaker 1: they are Look, they are really good. I would say
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Speaker 1: best offense in the league. And then we saw last
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Speaker 1: night what what's capable with the Patriots and they're still
9:49
Speaker 1: going to pick up another receiver as we all know. Um,
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Speaker 1: it's places like this where Kelsey was running open and
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Speaker 1: Watkins second touchdown, it's like no one even knew he
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Speaker 1: was on the field. He was so wide open. And
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Speaker 1: I guess that's unprepared. Here's my thought as I watched
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Speaker 1: these Jaguars play and for a large part of last
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Speaker 1: season two, I'm marveled at the talent they have on
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Speaker 1: the defensive side of the football. But they play like
10:13
Speaker 1: the old Raiders used to play right. The Raiders in
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Speaker 1: the seventies for people who can remember that, and the
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Speaker 1: Raiders of the eighties, they play stupid. They play stupid
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Speaker 1: football on defense, they do things that you don't expect
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Speaker 1: him to do. I think you're under playing the Raiders
10:27
Speaker 1: because they were. They came up bigging situation. Doesn't do
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Speaker 1: that right now. No, no, no, I know, but this
10:32
Speaker 1: is just not a very smart sense, not uh. And
10:36
Speaker 1: you can talk all you one about guys who play
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Speaker 1: on the edge and that you know and they're always
10:40
Speaker 1: out there. The Raiders were that way too. Um No,
10:43
Speaker 1: I know what the Raiders did. They won three Super
10:45
Speaker 1: Bowls and they were very talented on defense. But the
10:47
Speaker 1: Raiders would get stupid penalties, they would do stupid things
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Speaker 1: at times, and then they'd overcome it because they had
10:54
Speaker 1: such incredible talent. Well, this team hasn't been able to
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Speaker 1: overcome on the defensive side. When I watched the Bears
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Speaker 1: and the Packers last week, I watched the Bears defense,
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Speaker 1: and you knew, Wow, those guys are good. Not even
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Speaker 1: lose the game, right, but they held Aaron Rodgers to
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Speaker 1: ten points. They're really good. When the Jivers took the field,
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Speaker 1: esterday after the first series, I thought they're not in
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Speaker 1: the Bears class. You can go play by play by player.
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Speaker 1: You can go talent, you know, position by position and
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Speaker 1: see really good, really talented guys. But that Bears defense
11:23
Speaker 1: would not put a show up like this. So this
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Speaker 1: is on the players too. And Jalen Ramsey, to his credits,
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Speaker 1: stood there in the locker room. He was terrific after
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Speaker 1: the game. Uh, and you know you he's been bitchy
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Speaker 1: in performances like that's the only word I can used
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Speaker 1: to think about it when they didn't play well and
11:39
Speaker 1: he had to stand and answer questions. In the past,
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Speaker 1: he's been bitchy. Uh, he was not yesterday. He was
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Speaker 1: a matter of fact. He stood there like the leader
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Speaker 1: that he has become. And it's gonna be on him.
11:52
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to turn to his teammates and say
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Speaker 1: that's unacceptable. I don't care how wild you think you are.
11:56
Speaker 1: I don't care what an edge you play with. Um,
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Speaker 1: this de vents has it's gotta change. It's gotta change
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Speaker 1: because it's not good right now. Well, and I guess
12:05
Speaker 1: the only silver lining you can see is um there's
12:10
Speaker 1: a lot of talk and there's always forget because there's
12:13
Speaker 1: reaction people forget um and sort of a storyline among fans. Well,
12:18
Speaker 1: I have been good since you had in seventeen. There's
12:21
Speaker 1: talent on this defense. We saw it even at the
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Speaker 1: end of last year. It is capable even in difficult situations.
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Speaker 1: Because the end of last year was a difficult situation.
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Speaker 1: And in the last five games, with the exception of
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Speaker 1: the Tennessee games, they played very well. The last four
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Speaker 1: or five games this season. They didn't let that Dallas game,
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Speaker 1: which could have been absolute wheels off the rest of
12:40
Speaker 1: the year. That defense decided after that that it was
12:44
Speaker 1: going to be good the rest of the year. And
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Speaker 1: and and with one exception out of maybe six or
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Speaker 1: seven I'm forgetting the exact number, they were good. They
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Speaker 1: have to do that again. Let's touch quickly on big
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Speaker 1: thing three. You talk about the adversity and how they're
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Speaker 1: going to handle it. The next eleven days you have
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Speaker 1: two big time Division games. On Saturday, you have to
13:01
Speaker 1: get on a plane and go to Houston and face J. J. Watt. Well,
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Speaker 1: this is we talked about this, John throughout the course
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Speaker 1: of the off season. How would this team handle adversity
13:08
Speaker 1: because last year when things went bad, they didn't handle
13:11
Speaker 1: it all that well. Lennon Fournett acknowledged that in the
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Speaker 1: locker room yesterday and said that they believe that they
13:17
Speaker 1: have a group of players. And I just mentioned Jalen
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Speaker 1: and I'll say this. You know, Uh, Fournett is not
13:23
Speaker 1: a guy who would have stood around last year and
13:25
Speaker 1: waited to answer questions. And he was good yesterday. He
13:27
Speaker 1: was almost waving people over to him. He was ready
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Speaker 1: to talk. Jalen was terrific. As I mentioned, Uh, say
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Speaker 1: what you want about Miles, but he walked right over
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Speaker 1: there and stood and gave his explanation. Um, I think
13:41
Speaker 1: maybe something's changed in that locker room. They'll be able
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Speaker 1: to handle it. Well. It's uh. They were saying. It
13:48
Speaker 1: was hard to write this yesterday because they were saying
13:53
Speaker 1: basically the same things that they said ah last year.
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Speaker 1: They were saying the same things that every team is
13:58
Speaker 1: in this situation, says that you gotta believe, you gotta
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Speaker 1: come together. But I agree with you, Bryan. There was
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Speaker 1: a tone to it, and there was a they knew
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Speaker 1: how serious it was, and I think there's a want
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Speaker 1: to that maybe you didn't feel last year, but it's
14:15
Speaker 1: got to be real and it's got to be backed
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Speaker 1: up by performance. And this is a crisis point. I mean,
14:20
Speaker 1: these next two games. Fans of this team, as soon
14:24
Speaker 1: as I guess, tend to want to overlook the Texans
14:26
Speaker 1: for some reason. Jay was haven't beaten a good Texans
14:31
Speaker 1: team since I've been back in two thousand eleven. They
14:34
Speaker 1: beat a couple of bad Textans teams a couple of times,
14:36
Speaker 1: but when this team has been good, there's been very
14:37
Speaker 1: tough matchup for this team. This is a very difficult thing.
14:41
Speaker 1: And oh and too you know, uh, I think this
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Speaker 1: is must win. Yeah, and there in a lot of
14:46
Speaker 1: troups they don't win this year. Well, then you're coming
14:47
Speaker 1: back against Tennessee and we saw what they did to
14:49
Speaker 1: Cleveland yesterday. So, um, we were in the locker room
14:53
Speaker 1: last year, and I think it's fair to say, I'll
14:56
Speaker 1: say it, this team last year would not have handled
15:00
Speaker 1: that loss the way that they did. So if you're
15:02
Speaker 1: looking for reasons to be optimistic this morning, the quarterbacks
15:06
Speaker 1: play is one of them. And the way that the
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Speaker 1: defense handled the situation yesterday. Those players stood there and
15:11
Speaker 1: took it and Calais Campbell didn't talk in the locker room,
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Speaker 1: so normally he's the guy that you hear from. There
15:16
Speaker 1: are some reasons to think that they can pull out
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Speaker 1: of this. How high I don't know. I mean the
15:22
Speaker 1: quarterback is done for a while. We don't know how
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Speaker 1: long he's having surgery this morning. That's the overriding story.
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Speaker 1: It's the overriding concern. Yeah, did talk by the way
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Speaker 1: he talked late, But the other guys were the first
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Speaker 1: ones in the standing up and I think that's your point.
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Speaker 1: Well that last year he would be the only one
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Speaker 1: in the first one. All right, when we come back,
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Speaker 1: Drive Time. Monday morning after a Kansas City Chiefs loss,
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Speaker 1: we have some highlights to go over, some good, some bad.
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Speaker 1: Got a lot to talk about. All right, let's go
17:43
Speaker 1: right into it. Not even two minutes into this game,
17:45
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins and Mahomes exposed this defense. It's a short
17:48
Speaker 1: pass that turns into a sixty eight yard touchdown on
17:53
Speaker 1: third and three. They shared the hill in motion. Mahomes
17:55
Speaker 1: looks that way. Now we'll fire at hitters Man at
17:58
Speaker 1: the forty. All look out. Sammy Watkins takes it all
18:04
Speaker 1: the way exclusion in Checksonville. But this was a wake
18:09
Speaker 1: up call. That's Ronnie Harrison and I didn't talk to
18:12
Speaker 1: him in the locker room. You stayed, was he going
18:14
Speaker 1: for the bowlder because he wasn't going for the receiver. Yeah,
18:17
Speaker 1: it's hard to know what they're going that play. Jalen
18:19
Speaker 1: kind of froze. Um, they hit it. It happens early
18:25
Speaker 1: in the game sometimes when you're too fired up. It
18:27
Speaker 1: was like Ronnie was too fired up going after the play,
18:29
Speaker 1: made a mistake. Um, one of these wouldn't have bothered you, Yeah,
18:34
Speaker 1: because you knew but that quickly. But they you know,
18:39
Speaker 1: last year they scored in their opening possession as well.
18:41
Speaker 1: They had a big play to Tyreek kill on their
18:43
Speaker 1: opening possession. I wasn't stunned that they scored in their
18:45
Speaker 1: opening possession. I was stunned that they didn't have to
18:47
Speaker 1: work a little bit more for it, right, But you
18:49
Speaker 1: did think when that happened, Okay, defense will respond, offense
18:52
Speaker 1: back on the field. This is still in graphs, Everything
18:55
Speaker 1: is still okay. A one point. They did respond, you know,
18:57
Speaker 1: and they hadn't gotten beat deep on that play. It
18:59
Speaker 1: was it was the last for one guy. When you're
19:01
Speaker 1: in zone, which I think they were on that play,
19:04
Speaker 1: when one guy makes a mistake, it'd bust the whole way.
19:08
Speaker 1: Shouldn't have been a big deal. All right, let's stay
19:11
Speaker 1: in the first quarter. We're talking about this team responding.
19:13
Speaker 1: This highlight shows exactly why Foles was brought here. Unfortunately,
19:17
Speaker 1: this was the last pass of the game for him.
19:19
Speaker 1: Shot them for Foles, folds steps deep and Zoe touchsdown
19:28
Speaker 1: d ch Chart the over the shoulder crap. Incredible throw
19:33
Speaker 1: um and you know not to pile on. But that's
19:36
Speaker 1: not a throw that the quarterback who's been here the
19:37
Speaker 1: last five years could have made. That was a pinpoint pass.
19:40
Speaker 1: In my two comments to fred, I was sitting next
19:43
Speaker 1: to Fred Taylor up on the north end zone deck one.
19:46
Speaker 1: What an amazing throw, how patient he was in the
19:48
Speaker 1: pocket waiting and waiting for the moment to throw it,
19:51
Speaker 1: and too Why didn't you throw a flag on Chris
19:53
Speaker 1: Jones because you can clearly see that he drove him
19:55
Speaker 1: into the ground when you see the field level shot
19:59
Speaker 1: of that, that what they're trying to prevent. Trying to prevent, right,
20:02
Speaker 1: the body went on the quarterback. We've seen that before.
20:04
Speaker 1: Should have been a fifteen yard penalty. Yeah, I agree
20:07
Speaker 1: with penalty um and you can get into his penalty
20:10
Speaker 1: all day. It also looked like maybe he was knocked
20:14
Speaker 1: a little off balance right before they had Chris Jones,
20:17
Speaker 1: Nick Foles getting the glass Campbell had done that to
20:21
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. I completely agree. My point is it's the
20:26
Speaker 1: kind of call that probably should be given the benefit
20:28
Speaker 1: of the doubt, but usually isn't. So why not on
20:31
Speaker 1: the Jaguars In that case, there's no good afterwards because
20:34
Speaker 1: the quarterback's done right. But the reality of it is
20:37
Speaker 1: is that that's a play that they're trying to prevent.
20:39
Speaker 1: In the league two years ago, it was a point
20:41
Speaker 1: of emphasis that you were going to get a flag.
20:43
Speaker 1: If you lowered your shoulder and drove the quarterback into
20:46
Speaker 1: the ground using your body weight. That's clearly what Chris
20:48
Speaker 1: Jones did. Yeah, it showed so much about foals two.
20:51
Speaker 1: As he said in the press conference after the game,
20:54
Speaker 1: that it was a throw they really hadn't even practiced.
20:57
Speaker 1: But he read the defense, he sensed how the Chiefs
21:00
Speaker 1: were covering and through the past that neither he nor
21:04
Speaker 1: DJ had worked on together. And it worked because he
21:07
Speaker 1: understood why the ball needed to go there. It's everything
21:10
Speaker 1: you signed him for. And then two seconds later you're
21:12
Speaker 1: looking down going and it's crazy. Probably you all saw
21:16
Speaker 1: it from high above, but everyone on the sidelines didn't
21:19
Speaker 1: even know Folds was hurt. You were caught up in
21:20
Speaker 1: the commotion of d J Chark in the end zone.
21:22
Speaker 1: You turned around. Why is Minshu throwing up? Warming up?
21:27
Speaker 1: All right? Well, I didn't even see. I didn't see
21:29
Speaker 1: Fools walk off the field. I had turned and I
21:31
Speaker 1: was making notes, and when Minshew came in, I thought,
21:33
Speaker 1: was this a gadget? What are we getting creative? Early on? Yeah,
21:37
Speaker 1: And I didn't have a pair of binoculars up there,
21:38
Speaker 1: so I couldn't scan the sideline and see where Fools was.
21:41
Speaker 1: Of course I wouldn't have seen him, and that would
21:43
Speaker 1: have been the clue. All right, let's go to Gardner
21:45
Speaker 1: Minshew second quarter, Jags down by ten minshow to chart
21:48
Speaker 1: and impressive throw and it shows that Gardner Minshew definitely
21:51
Speaker 1: has some talent, right Like you basically said that you
21:54
Speaker 1: want to leave the country cast Minshop Chart for the
22:02
Speaker 1: stiff on the Lord Chark is still going so impressive
22:07
Speaker 1: to watch the accuracy with which both of these quarterbacks
22:10
Speaker 1: performed with yesterday, and he had a historic number, but
22:14
Speaker 1: just he put the ball where only Chart has a
22:16
Speaker 1: shot to run underneath it. Um. We talked about not
22:19
Speaker 1: seeing Gardner with the ones and and how it wasn't
22:22
Speaker 1: a fair evaluation of what he is. They told us
22:25
Speaker 1: when they drafted him. Here's what you're gonna like about
22:27
Speaker 1: this kid. He's smart, he's tough, he's precise. He'll take
22:31
Speaker 1: the game plan from the practice field to the game field.
22:34
Speaker 1: That's what I saw yesterday. Yeah he does. Here's a
22:36
Speaker 1: sound of credit. I mean, we're gonna talk adnas about
22:39
Speaker 1: him over the next few months because it looks like
22:41
Speaker 1: he's gonna be the guy. Um, but he is going
22:46
Speaker 1: to give you a chance. He's gonna lose some games
22:49
Speaker 1: because that's what rookie quarterbacks do. But he showed yesterday
22:53
Speaker 1: at least that he can do the things mentally. Uh
22:57
Speaker 1: so much more impressive than many young quarterbacks would have
23:02
Speaker 1: been in situation. He was not overwhelmed by anything. He
23:06
Speaker 1: showed a stronger arm than I thought he showed it
23:08
Speaker 1: in the preseason. And maybe that's because he's getting the
23:11
Speaker 1: ball out quicker, maybe some more confidence, but you know,
23:15
Speaker 1: all the all the no arm strength stuff. Uh, he
23:20
Speaker 1: made it. He made a throw. It was about a
23:21
Speaker 1: twelve yard throw with a receiver and he had the
23:26
Speaker 1: receiver I forget where it was d D. Westbrook. It
23:28
Speaker 1: was for a first down and the defender was all
23:30
Speaker 1: over him. He had to put in a really tight wins. Yeah. Yeah.
23:33
Speaker 1: When he made that throw, I went well because I
23:35
Speaker 1: had not seen that sort of zip. By the way,
23:37
Speaker 1: for folks who don't know, look, anybody can throw the
23:39
Speaker 1: deep ball. Any quarterback can put the ball deep, right,
23:43
Speaker 1: But the guy who can throw that twelve yard paths
23:45
Speaker 1: and that's an NFL throw. First time I had seen
23:48
Speaker 1: it from him. Again, it's one of the reasons why
23:50
Speaker 1: I go Okay, let's see what you got kid. Besides
23:52
Speaker 1: the fact that that's all we can say, all right,
23:54
Speaker 1: let's go to the third quarter. At least me, this
23:56
Speaker 1: was the point when I thought the game became out
23:59
Speaker 1: of reach. And you can make these type of mistakes
24:01
Speaker 1: when you're playing the Kansas City Chiefs miner. They're tossed.
24:08
Speaker 1: The fall is three, that's scooped up. Bland has got
24:12
Speaker 1: it for Kansas City. Yeah, you're thinking, here you are,
24:15
Speaker 1: you know, opening drive third quarter, But what six minutes
24:19
Speaker 1: that it had taken to get down to this point.
24:21
Speaker 1: Chewing up the clock, you're shortening the game, and you
24:24
Speaker 1: got a chance to make it a one score opportunity
24:26
Speaker 1: here and then that bumble And that's kind of when
24:28
Speaker 1: you realize, okay, if we're gonna turn it over now,
24:31
Speaker 1: there's no hope of making a game out of it.
24:33
Speaker 1: Here's a thought make a stop. That's I mean. Now
24:37
Speaker 1: they hadn't done at that point, but that was the problem.
24:40
Speaker 1: You felt like there was no way they were going
24:42
Speaker 1: to get this team off the field at that point.
24:44
Speaker 1: They had thirteen, they went down and get in their touchdown.
24:46
Speaker 1: If you had told me they were going to get
24:48
Speaker 1: nineteen points when the game mattered, because the last one
24:51
Speaker 1: they got nineteen points when the game mattered, had no
24:54
Speaker 1: short fields to do it with. I would have thought
24:56
Speaker 1: minimum you get ten points off short fields, defensive touchdown,
25:00
Speaker 1: nineteen points from the offense, and that should have been
25:03
Speaker 1: twenty nine points for the team. That should have been
25:05
Speaker 1: enough to win. Didn't stop offense didn't cost team that game.
25:07
Speaker 1: They didn't stop him at all. They didn't make him punt.
25:10
Speaker 1: They gave up five yards they scored in their first
25:12
Speaker 1: seven possessions. They had five forty plus yard completions in
25:15
Speaker 1: the first They didn't stop him. It was asked, the
25:17
Speaker 1: defense didn't even show up. Your point is well taken.
25:20
Speaker 1: One thought on Leonard though, he's not a fumbler, and
25:24
Speaker 1: on that play he's the first want to tell you
25:27
Speaker 1: get home on the ball's running backs job. But he
25:30
Speaker 1: caught it and immediately the arms, So it was it
25:35
Speaker 1: was a It was a play on which you could
25:39
Speaker 1: understand why the fumble happened. It didn't strike me as
25:42
Speaker 1: carelessness or not think about what was going on. It
25:44
Speaker 1: was it was a bad break. At some point. When
25:46
Speaker 1: you handle the ball as many times as he does,
25:48
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a fumble. Um as much as we
25:51
Speaker 1: criticize him, as much as scrutiny he's under I don't
25:54
Speaker 1: think this one there. I can understand why that would happen.
25:59
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Speaker 1: off this very pleasant ozone snapshot from Sam from Jacksonville.
27:59
Speaker 1: Taunting when you are literally have not made one stop
28:02
Speaker 1: all game is a really bad look. I'd hope the
28:04
Speaker 1: captain would police unacceptable behavior like that, but he was
28:08
Speaker 1: ejected already for losing his mind. Why are we still
28:10
Speaker 1: dealing with such a complete lack of composure. Yeah, so
28:15
Speaker 1: I could explain it. It's because they're not embarrassed by it.
28:19
Speaker 1: I mean, let's be honest, when these when these players
28:21
Speaker 1: are embarrassed by their own actions. They'll change them. But
28:25
Speaker 1: right now, whether it's the social media world and ESPN
28:29
Speaker 1: that thinks, hey, it's cool to be a complete jerk
28:31
Speaker 1: on the field, well let's do it. The truth of
28:34
Speaker 1: the matter is is there's no good answer. There's no
28:37
Speaker 1: reasonable answer from a player until they're embarrassed by it.
28:41
Speaker 1: Until the coach is embarrassed enough to do something about it,
28:43
Speaker 1: nothing's changing. They better be embarrassed by it. It's a
28:46
Speaker 1: bad look. Stop last night at the gas station, at
28:48
Speaker 1: public this morning dropping someone off at school. I'm tired
28:52
Speaker 1: of it. I'm embarrassed about it. Yesterday was my game
28:55
Speaker 1: with this franchise. I got a lot invested in this thing.
28:57
Speaker 1: I'm pissed. I don't want to see that. I want
28:59
Speaker 1: to see these guys on defense start playing like professional
29:02
Speaker 1: football players about And it truly is on the player
29:07
Speaker 1: because they have fined guys for stuff like this. You
29:10
Speaker 1: find them, but finding doesn't really take when you made
29:14
Speaker 1: a kind of money they do. So the problem is
29:17
Speaker 1: taking playtime away is the way to do it. But
29:20
Speaker 1: can you take your best players off the field? That's
29:22
Speaker 1: always Beau, see what I do. Miles dropped that seedback
29:25
Speaker 1: on my desk this morning. I take it away immediately
29:28
Speaker 1: right Last year we talked about Leonard in the way
29:29
Speaker 1: that he acted it, and I love Miles. I think
29:32
Speaker 1: he's a great kid, and I think he should be embarrassed,
29:34
Speaker 1: and I think he is embarrassed. And I've met his
29:36
Speaker 1: mom and I'm sure she's embarrassed by it as well. Okay,
29:39
Speaker 1: but you cannot be a captain on this football team
29:42
Speaker 1: and have that ce. So we want to see back
29:44
Speaker 1: this morning. The only captain right now is going to
29:47
Speaker 1: be Calais. We'll see who earns it next week. No,
29:49
Speaker 1: I think that's completely fair, especially after the injection when
29:52
Speaker 1: he wouldn't willingly walk off the field and you're delaying
29:55
Speaker 1: the game and you're making it all about you. That
29:57
Speaker 1: that was even worse of a bad look, I think
29:59
Speaker 1: than the injection. I'd be surprised that happens again. One thing,
30:02
Speaker 1: and this is not in Miles defense. I do think
30:06
Speaker 1: that the play was miscalled from the beginning when they
30:09
Speaker 1: called him for legal contact. If you watch it, it
30:14
Speaker 1: was a ridiculous move by Sammy Watkins where he basically
30:17
Speaker 1: did run over him. It should have been a penalty
30:20
Speaker 1: on Watkins, except it's hard to call it, so I
30:23
Speaker 1: think once that kind of went against and then there
30:25
Speaker 1: was some driving into the ground and watching this part,
30:29
Speaker 1: I get why they believed that it was the wrong
30:32
Speaker 1: call initially, but the reaction was too far over the time.
30:35
Speaker 1: It was absolutely the wrong call. But you're a professional
30:37
Speaker 1: football player. You have to deal with it. You have to,
30:41
Speaker 1: and the coach, by the way, has to demand that
30:44
Speaker 1: they act like professional football players must demand it. All right,
30:49
Speaker 1: let's visit with Aaron on ozone snapshot. Remember when we
30:52
Speaker 1: said off season didn't make a difference to assignments in
30:54
Speaker 1: the secondary. I know everyone was in shape Sunday, but
30:57
Speaker 1: they still have an issue with assignment football. Yeah, you
31:00
Speaker 1: know this is gonna be a topic because they didn't
31:03
Speaker 1: play in the preseason and I get that, Um, how
31:08
Speaker 1: much was that the fact that they got out schemed
31:11
Speaker 1: by Andy Reid, who's really, really, really good. Yeah, this
31:16
Speaker 1: could easily the assignments missed. Unfortunately happened in weeks six.
31:21
Speaker 1: The offense played really well even though they hadn't played together,
31:23
Speaker 1: So you know, I get there. Everybody's gonna jump on
31:27
Speaker 1: the assignment thing because of the preseason. I do think
31:31
Speaker 1: that the missed tackles, which there were a lot of,
31:34
Speaker 1: definitely stemmed from preseason. But that's also something that's been
31:38
Speaker 1: going on for years early in the season, and it's
31:41
Speaker 1: going on all around the league. So I don't think
31:42
Speaker 1: that was just about the Jaguars. Um. I just it's
31:47
Speaker 1: too early to say this, I think. But it's tough
31:49
Speaker 1: for me to say that that game was because of
31:51
Speaker 1: how they handled the preseason. Well, okay, but I hope
31:53
Speaker 1: it was. It's too early. It's early. We'll fight out
31:56
Speaker 1: in a couple more weeks. However, the Ravens play their
31:59
Speaker 1: starters lot in the preseason, and I know they were
32:02
Speaker 1: playing the Dolphins. I get it. The Dolphins aren't any good.
32:05
Speaker 1: They're tanking, if you will, but they look pretty sharp
32:08
Speaker 1: in many respects. They looked very good. They went on
32:10
Speaker 1: the road, it was just as hot down there as
32:12
Speaker 1: it was here, and they executed. Um. I think maybe again,
32:18
Speaker 1: it's early. I think that's one in that you should
32:20
Speaker 1: play in the preseason. Yeah, boy, I hope that's what
32:22
Speaker 1: it was. All right. Let's wrap it up with ed
32:26
Speaker 1: a very very positive ed zone based on Marone's inability
32:30
Speaker 1: to preserve or maintain locker room cohesion in the face
32:33
Speaker 1: of adversity last year. Would you take the over or
32:36
Speaker 1: under for October implosion this year? Well, and you know,
32:43
Speaker 1: I get the premise of this, and I think it's
32:44
Speaker 1: a fair question because it was a bad situation last year.
32:48
Speaker 1: It's like this happened. I included this question because it
32:52
Speaker 1: ain't something that needs to be acknowledged, and I think
32:57
Speaker 1: that's the team's task right now not to have that
32:59
Speaker 1: happening again. I think that's what you'll watch for. I
33:02
Speaker 1: think we saw a good signs, as you mentioned the
33:06
Speaker 1: top of the show, Brian, about the locker room seeming
33:09
Speaker 1: to handle this better than it did last year. But
33:12
Speaker 1: that's definitely what it has to do. To me, that's
33:15
Speaker 1: a huge storyline going forward, and I think it would
33:17
Speaker 1: determine the outcome of this season. I think they're better equipped,
33:20
Speaker 1: but I gotta see it. Okay, So the buzzword around
33:23
Speaker 1: here has been accountability. Let's see it, right, They have
33:26
Speaker 1: to hold themselves accountable for their behavior on the field
33:29
Speaker 1: and off the field. Uh, that's where I think taking
33:31
Speaker 1: the sea is the coach's way of saying, you will
33:34
Speaker 1: be accountable week to week in here, right, you're not
33:37
Speaker 1: cutting Miles jack right, But guys, you don't want to
33:40
Speaker 1: sit Miles Jackie's terrific player. If you didn't know that,
33:43
Speaker 1: look at his contract, right, They paid him because he is.
33:46
Speaker 1: But you have the best. Players must be accountable. Jalen
33:49
Speaker 1: Ramsey must be accountable. Calais Campbell must be accountable. And
33:53
Speaker 1: the only way that you do that is say, here's
33:55
Speaker 1: the line you crossed it give me the sea back.
33:57
Speaker 1: You hope everyone looked at themselves in the mirror and said,
34:00
Speaker 1: now give me the sea back. It also sends a
34:02
Speaker 1: message to your fans. You're not happy about this, neither
34:04
Speaker 1: a week. We're not putting up with that kind of behavior.
34:07
Speaker 1: We're not going to be the Raiders of the seventies.
34:08
Speaker 1: We're gonna play discipline football, and if you don't, you
34:10
Speaker 1: won't get to see. No matter how much money you get,
34:13
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. Will be an interesting week, all
34:16
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Speaker 1: your suite to day. All right, a lot happened in
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Speaker 1: the league yesterday. You can look at every team and
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Speaker 1: there's a headline. But you look at last night's Sunday
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Speaker 1: night football game Patriots and Steelers. The Patriots they were rolling.
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Speaker 1: Can I just tell you. I went upstairs at like
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Speaker 1: eleven fifteen to turn off my son's TV. Had fallen
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Speaker 1: asleep in front of it, and it was onto the
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Speaker 1: Steelers Patriots game, and I saw the score thirty three,
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Speaker 1: and I went, who, actually the only team that's going
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Speaker 1: to have something to talk about tomorrow? The only one
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Speaker 1: having a bad day that that Steelers team thought that
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Speaker 1: they were going to be able with Connor replacing Bell,
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Speaker 1: had a good season last year with Juju Smith Schuster
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Speaker 1: thought that they'd be explosive on offense again. I guess
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Speaker 1: they weren't. Yeah, not to mention that Antonio Brown is
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Speaker 1: now coming today, and Brady after the game said, I'm
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Speaker 1: a million percent in Brown can live with me in
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Speaker 1: Giselle until he gets settled. That's how much chomming. Having
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Speaker 1: watched them last watch, ye oh that would be a
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Speaker 1: great reality. Uh, I'll just say this, I don't know
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Speaker 1: that it's worth a risk. I mean, you saw he
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Speaker 1: just the Raiders are decimated by that. They gave up
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Speaker 1: draft picks and guaranteed money. They put him out front,
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Speaker 1: uh and made him a centerpiece of their last year
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Speaker 1: in Oakland, getting ready to go to Vegas, big time playmaker,
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Speaker 1: and he left them with the Raiders franchise in ashes. Right,
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Speaker 1: they may rise from it, but right now they're decimated.
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Speaker 1: I guess Bill Belichick figures I got Tom Brady, what
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Speaker 1: do I care? But why would you invite that risk
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Speaker 1: in when you clearly don't need it. Philip Dorsett, who
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Speaker 1: was a bust with the Colts, look like a star
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Speaker 1: last night. And I didn't know if Josh Gordon would
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Speaker 1: ever get back on the field again last night. Now
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure I'll ever get off of it. I
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Speaker 1: think that plays into what the page. When you have
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Speaker 1: a culture like theres they hate to use that worry.
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Speaker 1: That's what it is. And they have the equity among
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Speaker 1: their fan base and among there are other players to know, Okay,
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Speaker 1: they to bring this guy in. Uh, it's acknowledged everywhere.
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Speaker 1: They're just it's a short least. I would expect it
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Speaker 1: to be one strike and out sort of thing um.
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Speaker 1: And if it doesn't work, they can just get rid
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Speaker 1: of and they know they're good. They gave nine million
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Speaker 1: guaranteed dollars. They don't feel as hosses as I'm sure
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Speaker 1: the Raiders do. Oh my goodness, we need this guy
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Speaker 1: to succeed. They've already proven they can win without them.
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Speaker 1: What an epic mistake by the by the Raiders. They
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Speaker 1: had to know alright, if the Steelers give up on you,
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Speaker 1: that's a problem. Alright. Some key injuries roll too many
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Speaker 1: to talk about even, but some key ones are definitely
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Speaker 1: Besides this game, you had Tyreek Hill going off with
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Speaker 1: a shoulder injury had to be treated at a trauma
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Speaker 1: center in Jacksonville. Did you do Smith Schuster last night
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Speaker 1: and Sunday night football hurt his toe is week to week.
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Speaker 1: You know how things can linger all season long. Joe
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Speaker 1: mix In, running back, sprained his ankle, and Ree Jackson
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Speaker 1: carted off the game. The Bengals were surprisingly competitive with
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Speaker 1: a new coach out there in Seattle. No one was
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Speaker 1: quite sure Andy daltons for four hundred yards and and
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Speaker 1: and mix into big part of it because they use
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Speaker 1: play action so strong. Yea, yes, it's it's a physical,
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Speaker 1: dangerous game. Guys are gonna get hurt. It looks like
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Speaker 1: you've got to lead where there's a couple of teams.
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Speaker 1: Chiefs Patriots certainly are are are two of those. They're
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Speaker 1: going to be separate early, and a lot of stuff
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Speaker 1: around the middle. Let's hope that the Jaguars are around
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Speaker 1: the middle and they just got beat by really good
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Speaker 1: team US well, and let's hope that Gardner Minshew can
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Speaker 1: come in and that the defense can play better, and
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Speaker 1: that they tighten things down to the point that they
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Speaker 1: can somehow hover around five hundred until the point that
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Speaker 1: maybe you can talk about whether Foals is going to
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Speaker 1: return or not. Aaron Rodgers has had this injury twice
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Speaker 1: in the last four years. Uh miss six weeks once
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Speaker 1: and eight the other and you can't really compare him
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Speaker 1: because you don't know the severity of the injury. But
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Speaker 1: you're thinking maybe the bye week, if he heals quickly,
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Speaker 1: you could talk about getting him back. Well, Nick's had
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Speaker 1: one before and he said this is worse. So it's
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Speaker 1: it felt worse. I know I saw him say that.
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Speaker 1: I want to give credit to Kansas City. Um, you
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Speaker 1: were looking at the Chargers of the seventies. You were
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Speaker 1: looking at the Redskins with Joe Eisman of the eighties,
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Speaker 1: who were powerful, high scoring offense. I know you know
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Speaker 1: that you're looking at the Rams. You are looking at
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Speaker 1: one of those generational offenses. And you were looking and
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Speaker 1: people they question me when I said this last week,
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Speaker 1: you were looking at Brady Breeze. You're looking at the
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Speaker 1: best young quarterback in football and maybe the best quarterback
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Speaker 1: in football. He's terrific, terrific. Lived up to all the hype.
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Speaker 1: That's for sure, exceeded it exceeded. He's something else in
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Speaker 1: talking about hype. The first overall picked looked like the
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Speaker 1: first overall pick. Kyler bounces back a little shaky at first.
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Speaker 1: That overcame an eighteen point deficit to tie the game,
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Speaker 1: with forty three seconds left and force over time. Didn't
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Speaker 1: start off great, but what to come back for him?
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Speaker 1: I saw one throw that he made, just one and
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Speaker 1: it was a beautiful throw about fifty yards down the
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Speaker 1: field to Larry Fitzgerald on the boundary. And the ball
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Speaker 1: was thrown with accuracy. It was thrown with force. I
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Speaker 1: mean that ball was on a rope. Uh, and it
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Speaker 1: was right on on the target. The kid has an
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Speaker 1: amazing arm, patient in the pocket and so quick you
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Speaker 1: can get away from trouble. It's just one game, but
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Speaker 1: so far there's a lot of reasons to turn the
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Speaker 1: TV on where the Cardinals are playing. It was impressive,
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Speaker 1: it was, and you talked about We talked about it
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Speaker 1: last week's show. The Browns and the hype of that
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Speaker 1: one team in the off season that everyone's paying attention to.
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Speaker 1: Shaky start for them, for sure. I think I called
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Speaker 1: that Friday. You did? You did? You were absolutely right? Uh?
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Speaker 1: Did Mayfield get knocked down? Did you knocked out of
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Speaker 1: the game? Rest injury? Offseason? Hot team is a dangerous team. Uh,
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Speaker 1: put your money behind They've got some combustible personalities in
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Speaker 1: that locker room. To Sheldon Richardson on the defensive side
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Speaker 1: stands out, O b J. You know that's a team
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Speaker 1: that if things go south, watch out. Yeah. We'll see
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Speaker 1: how they handle adversity, for sure. Absolutely, And the people
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Speaker 1: in Cleveland are not the most patient fans. Season they
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Speaker 1: were good and now they have to prove it again.
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Speaker 1: They still might be. Yeah, we'll see, all right. We
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Speaker 1: will hear from head coach Dug Round this afternoon around
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Speaker 1: two o'clock. I'm sure we'll get an update on Nick
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Speaker 1: Foles and how the surgery went, and we'll be back Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: right here on Jaguar's Drive Time