Jags Broadcast Week in Review: December 3

begin with Monday's Jaguars Happy Our radio show. Pete Prisco, Tony Boselli and I reviewed the loss to the Atlanta Falcons. Then later on in the game they showed Brunel and what was that? One? Was the Falcons as the nineties six miss field goal? Morten Anderson rewind kind of deal. Okay, all all right, yeah, then we're back in time. I think they wish they could go back because that team would be favorite by a touchdown over this. Oh gosh, it's bad. It's bad. It's a bad team right now.

I mean, as we, I mean, you know, we the three of us exchange text messages every week, you know, in preparation for the show. And my comment was, I when you just said it, Pete, you know, same story, different show. I mean, it's just like I mean, at some point, I mean you could you know what we have said the last several weeks. It's pretty much the same thing. Outside of a couple of highlights, you know,

the past. You know, over the last month of where how the defense has played at a high level at certain times and for certain games it played great offensively. We can't score points, um, And Urban's right, there's no big plays, there's no consistency. Um. A lot was made up made about it in the week. I think Pete Urban must have listened to our show because he said, you know, after a thorough audit of the offense, there were the offense isn't very creative. I know that probably

put a smile on your face. And the reality is and then you know, Darryl Bebble came back and saying, well, creative is when you're moving the ball and scoring points. I mean, he's right too. It's amazing, you know, I mean, Pete, think back to Sean McVeigh. He was like the genius, amazing, creative offensive mind and the reason he was. It's because he had Todd Gurley, and they can run the ball as well as anybody a pla acould pass off of it.

You know, when you do certain things well, you can get creative and can do things, and when you have players that can make plays and you know, beyond the xs and oes, you look like a genius as well. Um. You know, fast forward a few years and the Rams can't run the ball very as well. They struggle to score points, you know at times, and they'll have an effective drop back passing game. You know, all of a sudden,

they're not as creative as they once were. So I get what Darryl Bebble saying, But the reality is, you watched this offense and I think, Pete, you and I've been saying from the beginning. I know I said earlier when they were you know, holding Trevor back, not wanting

him to run, which they're no longer doing. It doesn't feel like this offense was designed around Trevor Lawrence, Like, let's just put this kid in a place where he's comfortable what he did in college, build on those kind of concepts, and work towards getting him comfortable in the NFL. UM like if I asked you, like, what is the staple of their run game? Like what are the gap team or his own team? Like what do they do really well? Like what is their go to you know,

what is their go to consoles? What is what I mean right now, it's it's his own read is what they do? I mean that's it. Um So, I mean we can unpack all that. The bottom lines this team struggle score points, and the offensive struggling. The quarterback is inconsistent at time. Yesterday he looked amazing and made some big time throws. Other times he looks inaccurate. Um. They can't get in a rhythm. They don't get anything going. I think the biggest surprise for me, Pe you know,

of this game, I hate to say it. I was not surprised by the offense. I was not surprised by us not scoring points. We haven't scored points all year. Oh that was almost the Banand if they got one, if they got one more touchdown, lady, that's that's a

great game. Yeah. But what's shocking to me is that the defense got pushed around by a bad offensive line who's not physical and gave up a hundred and fifty plus yards of rushing to a team that averages seven point eight I mean seventy eight point six yards per game, which is thirty one in the league and their last in the league in yards per carry. And they gassed the Jaguars yesterday and that was that was shocking to me.

Jaguars Happy. Our radio Monday airs on Tin tin x l a M and Jaguars social media channels with a re air on Tin ten x l AM and ninety two point five FM and Jacksonville from eight to ten pm onto Tuesday, and The Urban Meyer Show, head coach Erman Meyer joined Jeff Lockerman and me to discuss the Falcons game. Yes, but the big topic of the day was the college coaching carousel. A couple of premium jobs were open and his name was rumored to be in the mix. Urban said, no thanks, He's in this Jaguars

build for the long haul. Let's start though, with all the big news around college football, and the head coaching carousel is spinning faster really than ever right now. Some high profile schools have changed coaches in the last forty eight hours, and the Urban Meyer name pops up right or wrong, And in these times it feels like is that flattering? Is it annoying? Is it distracting? What are your reactions when you see your name on these lists. I spent so long at college football that, um, you're

talking about some great places. So when I start getting text messages or phone calls, you know, of course it's flattering. You know the respect I have for um that profession. But I have no interest. I I have a great relationship with the owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars. I love the nine oh four area and feel committed to these players. And I mean this is this Losing stuff will kill you. I mean it will kill you. But uh, we're all

committed here to turn this thing. And I speak on behalf of our players are coaching staff, and we are going to grind and work and work. And you know the vision of a full Bank t I a bank stadium and you know, a high flying offense and all that we have the quarterback. We have to just keep building and getting better. There's still confidence you can turn it this season with teams to go. What are we talking about, man, I mean you see it all the time, and you know, I know I see Jeff right there.

Not as head. Of course, you can we all beat the Buffalo Bills and play great defense. You know, we we've had some awful injuries at the fast you know, our speed at receiver and we and then now our fast tight ends out and but uh, it's don't don't tell us how deep the ocean is, because figure out how to get across it. So we're a My attitude is great, you know, I just I feel I feel for our fans, I feel for our former players, I

feel most importantly for our players. Let's go win. Let's go in and keep fighting and fighting and fighting, and uh, well, that's what you're gonna get is a fight and urban the game in the NFL, as you are learning and seeing, it's it's it's so tight, and any kind of mistake that you make or things that you might miss certainly can cost a football team in a big way. This past game, you had some mental areas that cost your football team, and when you clean them up obviously will

help in a big fashion. How do you go about making sure that you can clean them up to where you can give yourself to the best chance to win every week? That's the million dollar question. That's a question that uh, you know, for all of us that's been in this game forever. Uh. You try to figure out if it was wearing a Lucky T shirt or screaming at someone or pull them out of the game. You

do it. But when you think about, first of all, I I say this weekly, and I'd be transparent with you if I felt like our locker room wasn't wasn't all about the right stuff they are. When I see a mistake, it makes you very angry, but it also breaks your heart because you know, my gosh, you're just going as hard as you can. You look up and

I remember looking to say, what you're kid me? You know, our defense is off the field twice within a five minute window and you see two two penalties, you know, and uh or a ron route or a drop pass or something and and uh. But you know there's one answer, Jeff, you know what as well as anyone, and it's you know,

elbow grease and go to work. And one of the great things I think about you talk about a great locker room is you get really exceptional locker rooms when you get to the point where the locker room starts demanding of each other that those corrections are made and those mistakes are not made. Are you starting to see signs of that, because obviously this is a locker room that takes time to build. Not yet, you know, I see bits and pieces of it because we have some

really good leaders. You know. It was great to have Lender back, uh, but but not not to the degree or like you said. You know, that's when I studied the Patriots for a so long and I even brought William Guinniston or to talk to our team. I remember sitting up Mike, Mike rabol Bruski and um Uh Rodney Harrison back into the day and I and I even asked Coach Belichick about how do you handle this situation?

Looks at me because I don't have that situation. It never gets to me, you know, I was like, what are you talking about? And then I watched practice and I saw after practice who random meetings, the way it was done, and and that's where the culture we're trying to build here and go German Meyer with US Jaguar's offense last week, there were some positives later in the game trying to climb back in the thing and just

fell a little bit short in that one. There was all that talk last week about creativity and there was some run pass option things that came back in the game last week. The question for me here is what is your ideal offense urban and and how do you build that? Well, as I told, my entire career has been, what's your offense? Tell me who my quarterback is? You know what about your defense? Will tell me who our

defensive ends are. You know, I was enamored with the three four defense, but we were very fortunately kept recruiting these five star athletes that are four three defensive and so guess what defense we've played for three You know, when Dwayne Haskins was a quarterback, we dropped back fifty times a game and he threw fifty touchdowns in a very few interceptions. When you know J T. Barrett or Tebow was your quarterback, You're not gonna do that. You're

gonna run spread option football. So with Trevor Lawrence, you'd like to see a combination of what a little bit what you saw. I thought our offense at times looked unstoppable, you know, if you let him play his game in the gun. But you also and once again, James Robinsons is not himself yet, you know, and I love him. We all love him, he goes, So he's such a tough guy, but you can see just doesn't have that second gear, you know, the first gear that that he needs.

But that to answer your question, a combination of both. And I see teams across the NFL do it. I know we can do it, and um, we just have to keep building. The Urban Meyers Show is Tuesday's at five o'clock on the Jaguars Radio Network. Let's hear from the quarterback, Trevor Lawrence. Now he spoke with the me You in his regular Wednesday afternoon press conference, and there was plenty of discussion this week about the quicker tempo and the Jags offense last week. Yeah, it helps a

lot when you can play with tempo um. It obviously slows down the pass for us. You know, guys get tired eventually, and it just helps us keep the defense on their heels. It's harder to dial things up when you're you're playing against the tempo team. You know, you don't get set, you don't always get your call in, so a lot of times, you know, you go back to your basic call or whatever that is. So that helps. They're a really good defense. So we got our hands

full with that, but we're excited for the challenge. You know. Obviously we've got a good plan that we we're putting together a great day to day. Um. But yeah, tempo was was good for us last week. So we'll keep you know, expanding on that and um do what we need to do to put us in the best situation.

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quarterback Trevor Lawrence. Now time to hear from Jaguars offensive coordinator Darryl bevil A. Quicker tempo was one talking point this week. The other the read option game for the Jaguars quarterback. How does the read option help a play caller? Well, I think there's a lot of things, you know, to like about it. It's just just the options that you

have on it. And uh, you know there's you know, I go back to my Seattle days and we kind of talked about free yards, you know, where you can get the quarterback on the edge and you know there's there's clearer space and um, you know there's you're not having to make a guy missing the whole, you're not having the safety to you know, receiver have to come dig out of safety and make some tough blocks. You can get it out there in space and some better

things can happen when you're out there. The press conferences from the entire week available on Jaguars dot com. We moved now to defense and rookie cornerback Tyson Campbell had a strong game last week, three tackles, three passes defense, including his first career interception. He joined me on the Crown Royal water break this week. Take us through the interception. You came off your man, you went back and undercut the route. Go through it. Well, we're just playing COVID

to uh doing my doing my job. Make a shot reroute Uh to receive what I was in front of me and makes I did with in depth Uh for any you know, outbreaking or deep outbreaking routes. Talking about Tom for the half safety to get over top man. You know how sawball and our got ball. Yeah, and this gotta be a great feeling, right, I mean that's something you look forward to your drafted What am I gonna get my first interception? Nearly had two of them in the game. No, you finally got that first one.

What did you do with the ball? Did you take it to the house with you? Yeah? I took it home. Uh. You know the equipment guys, you know you know wrote the date, um wrote interception in my jersey number on it. So it's pretty special. You know, I got to do it in front of the home crowd and in front of my family. But you know, Whiskey Camert with with the wind though. You know, early in the season there were a couple of balls that you know, we're kind

of passed you over your head. You had been with the man and then it felt like as the season is going on, that's improved for you, your your ball skills when the balls in the air and in urban My earlier this week said that something you've been working on on the practice field. What have you done to improve with the ball in the air as the season is going on. I'm staying with the course. Um, just

doing extra stuff at the practice. Um, you know, watching film and trying to make fine little things I can get better at. You know. So I think no that over time, staying consistent with that, uh, just just lead to better results and having faith to myself, Um, having faith in God and just trusting The full conversation coming up Sunday in the Public's Tailgate Show, or check social media this weekend for the Crown Royal water Break. Let's

wrap this week with Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks. Wednesday afternoon, As Bucky, John Osher and I looked ahead to the Los Angeles Rams since they put the All Star team together, Bucky they are over three. Yeah, it hasn't gone according to script out here in l a UM. They are not uh necessarily playing great and a lot of their problems no necessarily to them from all the new faces. It kind of stands from their style of play right now.

What they have is um kind of the limit. The way that the quarterback plays UM is great for him, but it doesn't work for everybody else. This has been a team that has traditionally been able to run the football through off play action, have a lot of big plays off deception in this direction. Matthew Staff for as a quarterback that is more comfortable in a dropback scenario where they're kind of spreading it out empty formations and

he's working uh isolation routes in those things. The problem is their offensive line doesn't protect well in in in that kind of system, and so what you have is a very disjointed offense that doesn't look like the offense that we've seen from the Rams uh for the last few years, and they're struggling because of it. And the final part is this is not a very physical team. UH. The teams that have had the most success against the Rams of late have been the ones that have sucked

them right in the mouth and they haven't responded well. Now, I would like to say that Jacksonville can do that, but we just haven't seen that when it comes to a physical running game and a very physical defense. But the calling car for Rams, you gotta hit the faces they get up. Yeah, and that's why you know San Francisco has so much success. They can they can line up and do that. John against the team like l A. I'm curious, Bucky, is there any element to this? Um?

You know, you've got a lot of stars, but they don't strike you as an overly deep team. And I only see them, you know, and maybe that's what you're talking about with the physicality. But you've got all these stars and you wonder after a while if they're drafting the depth to be a young team that plays the way they want to play. You know what I'm getting at. I do know what you're getting at. Uh, depth is a concern. Uh. Their frontline stars are outstanding though, like

the talent that they have assembled is terrific. The issue that you have is not only like trying to put all this together, from a chemistry standpoint to coach in the locker room. But remember, you have a new defensive coordinating Ryany Morris, who wasn't UM. He's not necessarily running the same defense at Brandon Stately's running. You have Sean McVeigh trying to figure out how to call plays for a different quarterback than the one that he had for

the previous three or four years in Jerry Goff. All of those things kind of working together UM has been a challenge, and it's been a challenge as the tape has circulated around the league. The first four or five weeks of the season, it was great because no one has seen the Rams operate like this, But now the tapes are lads. People see how defensive coordinators are having success against them. They put those same game plans to see if Sean McVeigh has an answer, and they have it.

And so it's one of those things that will be interesting to see on Sunday. What kind of game plan do the Jaguars put together on offense and on defense to take advantage of some of the vulnerabilities that this team is shown on both sides of the ball. So UH coach Bucky Brooks defensive coordinator Bucky Brooks shot Griffins on the injury reports still at least through the day to not practiced today. How are you covering Cooper Cup? Who? That's a tough one. It's a tough one because, uh,

Cooper Cup is Matthew Stafford's go to receiver. And then the thing about it is he can have a ton of catches but not have a major impact on the game. The other guys Van Jefferson, Odell Beckham Jr. They tend to have a greater impact in terms of delivering big plays. So what you have to figure out one when you're the Jaguars. Okay, what are you living to live with? Are you willing to live with Cooper Cup having ten catches for maybe a hundred and ten yards but no touchdowns?

Or are you willing to really double team him take him away? But you may give up a big play to Odell Beckham Jr. Or Van Jefferson or Tyler Higbee. That is the big thing. From philosophical standpoint, Well, Matthew Stafford has struggled with He has been good with the blitz of late, but he also hasn't been good When you sit back and make him throw into coverage because

he's big play hunting. He wants to let the ball go and fly down the field, and when you take that away, he is struggled being disciplined enough to take the checkdown. I think you have to have a little of a ride in the game plan and kind of see which Matthew Stafford shows up on game day. Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks airs Wednesday at four thirty on

Jaguars dot Com and Jack's social media. Coming up Sunday, the Public Seilgate Show airs at one o'clock PM on ten ton XL Radio in Jacksonville and the Jaguars social channels. Then at three o'clock it's Countdown to kick Off on the Jaguars Radio Network, Pete Frisco, the guys in the Booth, Fred Taylor, and of course we'll have the final word before kick off with head coach Urban Meyer. Then after the game, Jaguars Post Game with Fred Taylor, followed by

the Scoreboard Show with Bucky Brooks. Kick Off with the Jacksonville Jaguars in the Los Angeles Rams at SOFI Stadium in Los Angeles is set for four oh five Eastern. Enjoy the game Sunday. Thanks for listening, I'm J. P. Shad. We'll catch you next week on the Jaguars Broadcast Weekend Review Podcast presented by t I a A Bank