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- 0:00Speaker 1: Welcome in to another Jaguars media round table. I'm J. P.
- 0:03Speaker 1: Shadrick and the Jaguars face the New Orleans Saints this
- 0:06Speaker 1: Sunday at one o'clock at t I A A. Bank Field.
- 0:09Speaker 1: We've had a lot of different writers and broadcasters on
- 0:11Speaker 1: this podcast throughout training camp in the early parts of
- 0:14Speaker 1: the season, but we've got two of the newest guys
- 0:17Speaker 1: on the beat this year. And this is how the
- 0:20Speaker 1: business has changed, and we're going to podcasts and websites
- 0:26Speaker 1: and social media. Maven's here, I mean, no pun intended.
- 0:30Speaker 1: We'll get to that. Uh. Demetrius Harvard from Lockdown Jaguars,
- 0:34Speaker 1: what's up man? How are you? I'm doing great. I
- 0:36Speaker 1: appreciate you having for having me on. Um, it's been
- 0:39Speaker 1: an incredible experience so far being here coming the Jaguars. Uh,
- 0:43Speaker 1: it's pretty much a dream come true at least. Yeah,
- 0:46Speaker 1: it's it's been good to have you on the beat
- 0:48Speaker 1: for sure. John Shipley from Jaguar Maven, what's up man?
- 0:51Speaker 1: I doing doing good? I really appreciate you having me
- 0:53Speaker 1: on as well. And you know, just like Demetrius, you
- 0:56Speaker 1: know I got here. I was telling you just about
- 0:58Speaker 1: week one and it's been a all win, but it's
- 1:00Speaker 1: been an enjoyable win. Oh, there's been a whirlwind for
- 1:04Speaker 1: this Jaguars team. Let's touch a little bit out on
- 1:06Speaker 1: your background before we get to Jaguars football, because I
- 1:08Speaker 1: don't know, it's hard on social media to say hey,
- 1:11Speaker 1: I did this and put your resume out there and
- 1:13Speaker 1: do all this. But you guys do have a past though. Demetrius,
- 1:17Speaker 1: how did you get involved here with luck on Jaguars. Well,
- 1:20Speaker 1: I think it began a couple of years ago, probably
- 1:22Speaker 1: in two seventeen, right after I graduated from f a U.
- 1:25Speaker 1: I actually didn't graduate with anything in journalism or broadcasting
- 1:29Speaker 1: our communications. I didn't really know what I wanted to
- 1:32Speaker 1: do after, so I just started writing. I said, you
- 1:35Speaker 1: know what, I love football, I love sports. I just
- 1:37Speaker 1: want to, you know, actually put my thoughts out there
- 1:40Speaker 1: more than just on Twitter. So I met this guy
- 1:43Speaker 1: named Zach Goodall and he introduced me to Locked on Jaguars.
- 1:46Speaker 1: He told me to come on and it's gonna be great.
- 1:47Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna have a podcast, we're gonna have
- 1:49Speaker 1: a website. You can write, you can learn um. Basically,
- 1:53Speaker 1: it's snowballed from there. A couple of years later this summer,
- 1:57Speaker 1: I just, I guess I took a leap, you would say,
- 2:00Speaker 1: and I applied for credentials. I wanted to come in
- 2:03Speaker 1: here and see exactly how it's gonna be. And now
- 2:06Speaker 1: I'm here. Pretty cool, man, Pretty cool. Now. The Jaguar
- 2:10Speaker 1: Maven stuff through Sports Illustrated is relatively new. And what
- 2:14Speaker 1: did you find out about that? Yeah, I think I
- 2:17Speaker 1: had first found out about, you know, Maven and Sports
- 2:20Speaker 1: Illustrator trying to get localized, you know, beat reporters with
- 2:23Speaker 1: each NFL team. I found out about that, probably didn't
- 2:27Speaker 1: right in the middle of the preseason, so it wasn't
- 2:29Speaker 1: long at all before the season started. And you know,
- 2:31Speaker 1: once once the ball got rolling. Actually coincidentally, the same
- 2:35Speaker 1: with him, Zach Goodal, I've known for years. I used
- 2:38Speaker 1: to write for sp Nations Big Cat Country and Zach
- 2:41Speaker 1: and I were co co co workers there and Zach
- 2:45Speaker 1: does Gator Maven for Sports Illustrating and he told me, hey,
- 2:47Speaker 1: you know, they need a Jaguars beat reporter. I know,
- 2:50Speaker 1: you know, you've kind of done the same thing in
- 2:52Speaker 1: the past. And he helped me get the ball rolling there,
- 2:55Speaker 1: and you know, it really has been you know, like
- 2:58Speaker 1: I said, kind of hundred my is an hour because
- 3:00Speaker 1: like you said, it is really brand new, but it's
- 3:03Speaker 1: it's been fun and uh, it's just the opportunity to
- 3:05Speaker 1: come in here and bring localized coverage for Jaguar fans
- 3:08Speaker 1: and stuff. I'm spokes illustrated. That's probably been the coolest
- 3:11Speaker 1: thing for me. A little bit different than Palacco. Yeah,
- 3:13Speaker 1: just a little bit, just a little bit basis, which
- 3:16Speaker 1: is good. Glad to have you guys here, and we're
- 3:18Speaker 1: looking forward to to reading and listening to you guys
- 3:20Speaker 1: throughout the season. Here. Let's get to football, shall we.
- 3:23Speaker 1: Obviously the big news nationally this week will be the
- 3:26Speaker 1: Jayalen Ramsey news when the owner says he's playing, the
- 3:30Speaker 1: injury report says he's questionable. We'll see. I guess what
- 3:34Speaker 1: Sunday brings. What is your guys gut on what happens
- 3:37Speaker 1: this week with twenty um it's it's it's kind of
- 3:41Speaker 1: hard to say, but it's not. At the same time,
- 3:42Speaker 1: I I really don't think he's gonna play, and I
- 3:45Speaker 1: don't think he's gonna play because each week it seems
- 3:48Speaker 1: like he's I guess, I don't know if you would
- 3:51Speaker 1: say progressing, but he's limited on Wednesday doesn't really do much.
- 3:55Speaker 1: Womened on Thursday doesn't really do much, Women on Friday
- 3:58Speaker 1: doesn't really do much. I I just can't see how
- 4:00Speaker 1: all of a sudden he's gonna turn around and then play, right,
- 4:04Speaker 1: what about you? Yeah, my gut when when I first
- 4:08Speaker 1: saw the shot Koun interview, my like, my initial thinking was, Okay,
- 4:12Speaker 1: I guess you know he is going to play what
- 4:14Speaker 1: you know, why else would really, you know, you make
- 4:15Speaker 1: that kind of statement. But the more time has gone on,
- 4:18Speaker 1: I'm kind of feeling, like you know as well, that
- 4:20Speaker 1: he's not gonna sit up on Sunday, just because we
- 4:23Speaker 1: especially you know, you saw Justina and with the ESPN,
- 4:29Speaker 1: she's one of the more plugged in people, especially with
- 4:32Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey, and you know she said kind of right
- 4:34Speaker 1: after like, hey, he's still gonna listen to his body,
- 4:37Speaker 1: And when you hear those kind of things listen to
- 4:39Speaker 1: your body, that kind of makes you think it's a
- 4:41Speaker 1: little bit of, you know, the player's call. So just
- 4:43Speaker 1: my gut is that despite that, I don't think he
- 4:46Speaker 1: plays on Sunday. But obviously it'd be massive for them
- 4:49Speaker 1: if you did this is this is the kind of
- 4:51Speaker 1: matchup you you draft Jale Rams before. Yeah, and you know,
- 4:54Speaker 1: the last three weeks with you know, his dask being questionable,
- 4:57Speaker 1: this is the most they've needed him, you know, Yeah,
- 4:59Speaker 1: no about it. We'll see and then if he doesn't,
- 5:02Speaker 1: then well then what you know, that's the big question
- 5:05Speaker 1: mark we have in the weeks ahead if if this
- 5:07Speaker 1: continues down the stretch when the owner comes out and
- 5:09Speaker 1: says he thinks he's gonna expects him to play exactly
- 5:12Speaker 1: and and you know, at one point, you know, I've
- 5:14Speaker 1: been thinking about is this wasn't something they could really
- 5:16Speaker 1: prepare for, you know, before the season. So you know
- 5:19Speaker 1: their backup plan of you know, Trey Harden and stuff,
- 5:21Speaker 1: that's something that it's a true backup plan, you know.
- 5:24Speaker 1: I mean there's they have to roll that. You know,
- 5:26Speaker 1: there's no other real options. So this kind of a
- 5:28Speaker 1: curveball to them. So really the whole what do we
- 5:31Speaker 1: do from here? Thing? I think they're kind of doing it,
- 5:34Speaker 1: you know by really by here day by day. Well
- 5:37Speaker 1: he he he hasn't missed a game or hadn't missed
- 5:39Speaker 1: a game in his whole career until until a couple
- 5:44Speaker 1: of weeks ago, So there's no way they thought this season.
- 5:47Speaker 1: You know what, if we don't have Jalen Ramsey, I
- 5:49Speaker 1: could see maybe a j Boya because he's had the
- 5:51Speaker 1: injury history, and I'm sure they're a little bit confident
- 5:54Speaker 1: in Trey Hernon, but there's no way they anticipated that
- 5:56Speaker 1: he was gonna be a long term guy, especially this
- 5:59Speaker 1: early into the season. So this will be an interesting
- 6:02Speaker 1: story line that you know, either way you lean on it.
- 6:05Speaker 1: It's um, it's top of mine. It will be the
- 6:07Speaker 1: next few weeks. Demetrius Harvey from Locked on Jaguars, John
- 6:09Speaker 1: Shipley from Jaguar Mayven Twitter handles. Please my Twitter handle.
- 6:14Speaker 1: It's at Underscore John Underscore Shipley. Okay, thank you. At
- 6:20Speaker 1: Demetrius there you go, give him a follow. If you
- 6:24Speaker 1: haven't already, where have you been? They've been here for
- 6:26Speaker 1: months already. Um. The offense here, you know, the offensive
- 6:30Speaker 1: line took some heat last week. Andrew Norwell especially, and
- 6:33Speaker 1: on one of our programs earlier in the week, Tony
- 6:35Speaker 1: was he was defending him. It's only a couple of plays,
- 6:38Speaker 1: but guess what, they only had one hit on the
- 6:41Speaker 1: quarterback two sacks last week. The offense got five hundred yards.
- 6:46Speaker 1: This is a group that has taken some criticism. They've
- 6:48Speaker 1: had some injuries and stuff, Cam Robinson coming back and
- 6:51Speaker 1: the rotating right guards and a lot of moving parts
- 6:54Speaker 1: this year. But you know, for an offense is moving
- 6:57Speaker 1: the ball, it kind of starts up front, right and
- 6:59Speaker 1: there in the grand scheme of things, it hasn't been
- 7:02Speaker 1: that bad or my way off here. Absolutely, I mean,
- 7:05Speaker 1: at least in the first half of games, I feel
- 7:07Speaker 1: as though the offensive line has you know, struggled a
- 7:11Speaker 1: little bit. But in the second half they've been a
- 7:13Speaker 1: completely different animal. I don't know exactly what occurs or
- 7:17Speaker 1: you know, how they're going to um combat their first
- 7:20Speaker 1: half was, but for now they're they're improving at least
- 7:23Speaker 1: in the second half, especially in the past protection the run,
- 7:27Speaker 1: in the run game and and so on. So it's
- 7:29Speaker 1: striking how different it is, right it's and and you
- 7:33Speaker 1: would think it'd be the opposite, just in terms of,
- 7:35Speaker 1: you know, they're playing from behind most of these times.
- 7:37Speaker 1: You wouldn't think that rushing yards would pop off in
- 7:39Speaker 1: the second half like they have them, right exactly, So
- 7:42Speaker 1: like in the first half of games, in the you know,
- 7:45Speaker 1: the first five games of the season that they've had
- 7:47Speaker 1: a hundred eighty one yards rushing and total total, and
- 7:51Speaker 1: people look at that and they're like, well, what's going
- 7:53Speaker 1: on In the second half, They've had five hundred and
- 7:55Speaker 1: nine yards rushing. That's it's astronomical the differ princes between
- 8:00Speaker 1: the two. So, uh, they're doing something right in the
- 8:03Speaker 1: second half at least, what are they doing right? I'm
- 8:06Speaker 1: not sure. I guess, uh, grinding the tough yards out
- 8:09Speaker 1: in the first half and getting the the defense tired.
- 8:13Speaker 1: Maybe that's helping Winter from Net break off the big runs,
- 8:16Speaker 1: or you know, just performing better adjustments. That's interesting and
- 8:21Speaker 1: how the adjustments happened and all that, and if they
- 8:23Speaker 1: could they just make that a full game. And I
- 8:25Speaker 1: think that's part of how they run the ball though, right,
- 8:27Speaker 1: I mean they run in the line and Leonnard has
- 8:29Speaker 1: gotta hit some guys and you get two or three
- 8:31Speaker 1: yards and two or three yards and then all of
- 8:34Speaker 1: a sudden you get ten yards and forty yards and yards.
- 8:37Speaker 1: And that's really, you know, kind of been his calling card,
- 8:40Speaker 1: you know, even since going back to l s U.
- 8:41Speaker 1: You know, he's a powerful guy who will he's gonna
- 8:44Speaker 1: punish you on each tackle. So as the game progresses,
- 8:47Speaker 1: you kind of hope, you know, the defenses are a
- 8:49Speaker 1: little less willing to tackle him. And I think the
- 8:51Speaker 1: best example of that was the Denver game. You know,
- 8:53Speaker 1: you saw the second half. It just seemed like a
- 8:55Speaker 1: lot of these defensive backs did not want to tackle him,
- 8:58Speaker 1: you know, in space right, I wouldn't either. Let's flip
- 9:05Speaker 1: it around to the defense now, and we've we've we've
- 9:08Speaker 1: seen Unique and go Way battle through some hamstring stuff
- 9:12Speaker 1: luring the year. I was talking to Josh Allen today
- 9:14Speaker 1: in the locker room and he said he had Yahn.
- 9:16Speaker 1: Last week was really the first time he was a
- 9:17Speaker 1: hundred percent and showed up with a couple of sacks
- 9:20Speaker 1: and a tackle for lost. One of them was a
- 9:22Speaker 1: free sack and all that either way. He got home.
- 9:25Speaker 1: Um his hold out the start of the year, all
- 9:29Speaker 1: that stuff hasn't really been in the news lately. He's
- 9:33Speaker 1: just playing through this thing. But if it continues that
- 9:36Speaker 1: the track it was the first four weeks, then he
- 9:39Speaker 1: might not be happy once contract time comes around. It's
- 9:43Speaker 1: important in these next few weeks for him to really
- 9:45Speaker 1: crank up at least absolutely, especially considering the fact that
- 9:50Speaker 1: you know, he kind of took a bet on himself
- 9:52Speaker 1: coming into this season, you know, playing you know, on
- 9:54Speaker 1: that smaller deal, when reports are coming out that they
- 9:57Speaker 1: had had offered him a deal that you know, I
- 10:00Speaker 1: guess he did not think was appropriate for him. But
- 10:04Speaker 1: like you said, these next few weeks are really pivotal
- 10:06Speaker 1: because when you look at it, you look at the
- 10:09Speaker 1: snaps of the players that they have playing the season
- 10:11Speaker 1: that are not supposed to be here next season. He's
- 10:13Speaker 1: really the only one. Everybody else, like the the core
- 10:16Speaker 1: for next year's team is really here. The only real
- 10:19Speaker 1: question marks are Yonick because you know, he's his contracts
- 10:22Speaker 1: up after this year, and then obviously Grammy's gonna be
- 10:25Speaker 1: a question mark until we get a resolution there. But
- 10:27Speaker 1: for him, I can't think of a player that these
- 10:30Speaker 1: next you know, really eleven games are more important for
- 10:33Speaker 1: on this team. Didn't gock Way, because you know, if
- 10:35Speaker 1: he plays like he did against the Carolina Panthers, he
- 10:39Speaker 1: could end up being, you know, that happy guy that
- 10:41Speaker 1: you mentioned at the end of the season. And I
- 10:43Speaker 1: think honestly that his whole thing with battling through the hamstring,
- 10:47Speaker 1: I think if anything, that earned him more favor with
- 10:50Speaker 1: the team. Then you know, some fans might think, you know,
- 10:53Speaker 1: you saw a lot of fans asking, you know, where's
- 10:54Speaker 1: that production and stuff? But the team, the coaches, his teammates,
- 10:57Speaker 1: they've seen a guy that's you know, out there grinding
- 11:00Speaker 1: it out regardless of injuries. Remember Calaius told me after
- 11:03Speaker 1: the Tennessee game that he was basically playing on one
- 11:05Speaker 1: leg and how much they appreciated that, you know, as
- 11:08Speaker 1: a as a teammate. So I think, you know, while
- 11:10Speaker 1: some fans may look at a production and ask, you know,
- 11:13Speaker 1: what's going on, I think the people inside the building,
- 11:15Speaker 1: I think they appreciate, you know, what he's brought more
- 11:17Speaker 1: than a lot might understand. And he's an ultimate team player.
- 11:21Speaker 1: He Uh. I went up to him yesterday and I
- 11:24Speaker 1: asked him, you know, how does it feel to break
- 11:26Speaker 1: the seal so to speak, you know, with the sacks
- 11:28Speaker 1: you know you've got one got too, And he just said,
- 11:30Speaker 1: I'll gore to God. And he thinks that he thinks
- 11:33Speaker 1: is his Uh, his teammates were putting him in that position.
- 11:36Speaker 1: So just just seeing the differences in him and like
- 11:39Speaker 1: maybe some other players, it's it's amazing how how much
- 11:43Speaker 1: he's improved. And and how much his teammates respect him.
- 11:46Speaker 1: And and and it just goes to show how much he
- 11:48Speaker 1: respects his teammates. And I don't think he's a guy
- 11:51Speaker 1: that's thinking for himself like, oh, I have to get
- 11:53Speaker 1: ten more sacks or I'm not gonna get this contract.
- 11:55Speaker 1: I really think that he just as an ultimate team player,
- 11:58Speaker 1: just wants to get better. And when and when actually
- 12:01Speaker 1: wrote an article, yes, you know, saying how much you
- 12:03Speaker 1: know they value his team first mentality after both a
- 12:06Speaker 1: Dug Morown and Todd Wash talked about this week, and uh,
- 12:09Speaker 1: at one point I made in there was this is
- 12:11Speaker 1: the guy that was a third round pick a few
- 12:12Speaker 1: years ago, and he's basically has done everything right in
- 12:15Speaker 1: those four years and he's coming in here and playing
- 12:17Speaker 1: through an injury. That's kind of the you know, best
- 12:20Speaker 1: case scenario for when you take a third round guy.
- 12:22Speaker 1: You know, he's productive, he does everything right, he gets better,
- 12:25Speaker 1: and he's a team first guy. So I think, really,
- 12:27Speaker 1: you know, when you consider you know, home run draft
- 12:30Speaker 1: picks that aren't obvious, I think he's one of has
- 12:32Speaker 1: to come to buy. He said the fantastic He's always
- 12:34Speaker 1: been that guy, even from the day he walked in
- 12:36Speaker 1: the door after the draft, and he's always been in
- 12:38Speaker 1: a locked in football player, loves the business. I think
- 12:42Speaker 1: he just loves being around in this building and loves
- 12:45Speaker 1: football every day. Bigger concern for the Jaguars defense Camara
- 12:50Speaker 1: in the run game or Michael Thomas in the passing game.
- 12:55Speaker 1: That's a tough one. Um. Last week they were horrible,
- 12:59Speaker 1: I guess he would say so, so this week you
- 13:08Speaker 1: have to think that they're gonna shore up that part
- 13:10Speaker 1: of the game. The major focus this week will be
- 13:14Speaker 1: our Michael Thomas, his ability, his uh, what's the word,
- 13:19Speaker 1: his his strength going against these corners. If Jalen Ramsey
- 13:23Speaker 1: doesn't play, going against a j boya, he's not really
- 13:26Speaker 1: a physical guy. Going again, straight Herndon, He's kind of
- 13:29Speaker 1: a physical guy. But you know he's only a second
- 13:31Speaker 1: year player, undrafted. That's gonna be definitely the person to
- 13:36Speaker 1: watch for Sunday. Thomas hasn't dropped a ball year. That's
- 13:40Speaker 1: amazing to think right now. I mean, you look at
- 13:42Speaker 1: his numbers, even with you know, Drew Brees missing most
- 13:45Speaker 1: of the season, his numbers haven't really dropped off at all.
- 13:48Speaker 1: You know, with Teddy Bridgewater, he's still going out there
- 13:50Speaker 1: and dominating games. But I'm actually a little bit on
- 13:53Speaker 1: the flip side. As dangerous as Thomas is, I still
- 13:55Speaker 1: think Kimara is the guy that the Jaguars are gonna
- 13:58Speaker 1: need to hone in on. I think it's easy Zier
- 14:00Speaker 1: to isolate the damage that a receiver can do versus
- 14:03Speaker 1: the damage that a running back can do. And just
- 14:05Speaker 1: considering the fact that he hurts teams both as a
- 14:07Speaker 1: runner and a receiver. You know, he doesn't have many
- 14:10Speaker 1: true one yard rushing games, but he has a lot
- 14:12Speaker 1: of games where he has over a hundred, fifty hundred
- 14:15Speaker 1: and sixty yards of offense, just because he can hurt
- 14:17Speaker 1: you in both areas, and just due to the fact
- 14:19Speaker 1: that he presents a lot of the same things that
- 14:22Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey gave the defense problems with last week. You know,
- 14:24Speaker 1: he's elusive, he's tough to bring down space, he kind
- 14:27Speaker 1: of just bounces off of guys, and he's a guy
- 14:30Speaker 1: that if you give him that one, you know, a
- 14:31Speaker 1: little sliver space, he's going to break it off for
- 14:33Speaker 1: a big play. So I think when you look at
- 14:36Speaker 1: those two, both of them, obviously you know a causes
- 14:38Speaker 1: for concerns. But regardless of if Ramsey's out there on
- 14:42Speaker 1: Thomas or not, I think Camara is going to be,
- 14:43Speaker 1: you know, the bigger, bigger problem. I'm kind of with you,
- 14:46Speaker 1: I'll be honest with the way they played against the
- 14:47Speaker 1: run last week and the way this guy can play.
- 14:49Speaker 1: I mean, he is tough to stop. Don't get me wrong.
- 14:53Speaker 1: He Kamar Kamar is definitely a three. But but you know,
- 14:58Speaker 1: I mean, what just what kind of luck is that
- 15:00Speaker 1: a Christian McCaffrey one weekend and Camarata next. We every
- 15:06Speaker 1: week it happens. So this week the Saints come to
- 15:08Speaker 1: town to face the Jaguars a one o'clock kickoff time.
- 15:10Speaker 1: Demetrius hard to you give him a follow at Demetrius
- 15:13Speaker 1: eighty two on Twitter from Locked on Jaguars. John Shipley
- 15:16Speaker 1: from the Jaguar Maven through s. I underscore John underscore Shipley,
- 15:22Speaker 1: I get it right? How about that? There we go, John,
- 15:29Speaker 1: Good to see you. Appreciate you man, good Jeah, thank
- 15:31Speaker 1: you Truth. Great to talk to you as well, and
- 15:34Speaker 1: thanks for coming on. I appreciate you. Good to see
- 15:36Speaker 1: you guys. Thanks j