Jaguars Happy Hour: Thursday, August 26 - Hour 2

camp winding down this week. J P. Shadrick with you, Jeff Loghman alongside Jaguars analysts, former first round pick of the New York Jets, and a free agent signing with the Jaguars. For all those new to our network, and there are many of those this year, thank you for joining us on the network this season. So um hey,

they've named a quarterback Logs. Surprise, surprise, it's Trevor Lawrence. Yeah, and then it was just a matter of time before they made the announcement And totally get what Urban Meyer was thinking there. You gotta have player proven. It does good things for the locker room when players quote unquote earn a job. And uh and it was the obvious choice when you watched the body of work from practice to the preseason games. It was very clear, it wasn't

close that Trevor had all the elements. The only thing he's missing is inexperience, and it's gonna take some time. But there's make no mistake about it. The way he throws the football, the composure that he has in the pocket, the abilities that he has to raise, the abilities of others to execute the offense, these are all in favor of Trevor Lawrence. Let's hear from urban Meyer after he settled the quarterback position earlier this week, explaining the timing

of the decision. I did, but you know it is, uh, it's a three week preseason as opposed to be four. We do have the bye week afterwards, but I think, um, as we continue, it's uh a matter of a little bit of repetition now. So we wanted him to earn it, as we do with every position we felt he has. After the last nice performance was uh, it was good, obviously not great, but we you know, we didn't run

the ball very well. But but I kind of in my mind had that as after the second preseason that we kind of have to to get someone ready to play in three weeks three weeks away from kick off weekend the Jaguars in the Houston Texans in week one. Trevor Lawrence reacting to the news this week favorably as expected. Yeah, that was good man. We talked about our QB room and um Man, we just have we have a great group.

So I'm really excited for the opportunity. It doesn't really change anything though, still got the same task in front of us. Got to get a lot better um individually, as a team, as an offense. So just looking forward to going to work this week, you know, bring some clarity which is nice going forward. But it really doesn't change much. But yeah, I'm really excited for the opportunity, grateful for it. So Trevor was the starting quarterback for the Jaguars Lugs, so that means there's now a battle

for the backup spot. C J. Bethor Gardner Minshew going at it. Well, it feels like you know, I think the big question is how do you how do you grade them? How does the evaluation and the coach's eyes and the personnel guys eyes, how do they do it? Because if you're grading on a different scale, for example, let's say you put more emphasis on practice or equal emphasis on practices you do games, then you might say it's it's maybe a little advantage Gardner Minshew because he's

been pretty good in practice. But if you're pushing more of that weighted grade to the performance of the games, which ultimately that's what it's about, is game day performance, then c J. Bethard would have a higher grade right now because of the performance in the games. But then you also have to grade that to scale because CJ's played later in the reseason games. Gardner Minshew's played a little bit earlier against what you would assume would be

a little bit higher level of competition. So it's gonna be interesting. But I think the play of c J. Bethard in the last two preseason games has warranted him to have an opportunity to compete. And we'll see how that plays out. I don't know if if it's gonna play out or if that isn't truly in fact something that is open, but it should be. I mean, competition

is not over until it's over. But the most important thing I read a quote from Tom Moore, and like Indianapolis Colts, Tom Tom Moore, who is a long time offensive coach for the Indianapolis Colts under Peyton Manning, and he was asked one time, and Ron Drowski put this in his book. Ron Jorski was, you know, he's NFL analyst, former quarterback to Philadelphiagles. For those maybe that don't know, Jaws, Okay, Jaws.

He was asked about, do you practice, you know, practice not having Peyton Manning, so do you put the backup in because they weren't repping the backup quarterback at that time. And Tom Moore was like, look, we're not gonna practice. Messed up. Okay, he goes, because if we don't have a team, we're messed up anyway. It's a good point. That's a really good point with Trevor Lawrence. He gives you your best chance and he is a future, without

a doubt, franchise quarterback. Get him the reps. He's gonna make those around him better. There are gonna be bumps in the roads, making no mistake about it, but get them the reps. Get them ready because it's gonna get faster, and it's gonna get a heck of a lot more involved for the quarterback position once you get in the regular season. He's one weapon short now on offense than he was last week. Travis e t N Jr. Is out for the year Liz Frank injury and his left

foot surgery, and he's on injured reserve. So it's a big blow for this Jaguars offense. And what did urban Meyer say? A punch to the jaw. And yeah, urban Meyer this week was explaining the situation with e t N and maybe what to do next? That was a shot jaw. That one, Um, there's really coming on in practice and we're you know, he saw his big playability and prag not in the game yet, Um, tough injury. How do we fill that? You know, we're still in

that conversation right now. That was earlier this week, that was actually on Wednesday. Yeah, that conversation could last for a long long time. You can talk about it all you want, but it's not going to change the fact that you lost a weapon. You know. And and and here's the difference for urban Meyer at Florida or at Ohio State. You lose Carl his hide, Ezekiel Elliott is your next guy. Okay, that's what he had in the

National Football League. That doesn't happen. Okay, there's no Ezekiel Elliott who is a freshman that you were just gonna kind of keep on the shelf until Carlos Hide graduates and moves on to the pros. It's different, and that's the hardest thing. And that's why you've seen kind of this evolution of the preseason UH in the National Football League over the last number of years, and why coaches have become hesitant to play some guys in the preseason because they know if you lose a guy, you lose

a guy. And it's not like you can just say, hey, we got this freshman and we're gonna just put him right in and we'll be okay. It doesn't work that way. So it's a shame. It's a it's a tough injury. Any kind of a foot injury for an athlete is always concerning because that's the one area you can't protect. You know, like if you heard a hand okay, you for example, d J. Chart, you know, yeah, right, had surgery or whatever. Yeah, what was he doing today running around?

Yeah he's not catching any balls or anything like that, but he's running around and he's doing things while staying in shape. This is healing, Okay, when you have a foot, that's not what it's about. I mean, you can't go and and practice anything football because pretty much everything football is involving your foot. So that's a shame. I understand he's gonna have surgery, or the reports are that he's gonna have surgery. Hopefully that will ensure the healium process.

When I say ensure, make it completely healed, and speed up that timetable a little bit. And obviously there's plenty of time for him to now heal and there's no reason to push it. But you hope that that makes it recovery percentage wise, because this was gonna be an absolute dynamic threat for this football team, a player that you would hold your breath on every time he touched the ball in space. In fact, when I was talking to Urban Meyer for the pregame interview last week, that's

one of the things I brought up. So you excited to see Travis c t n finally get the ball in space. And when I asked him the original question, he was like and it was like, like, yes, you know, we had we had that one in the first preseason game against Cleveland that sailed over his head and we didn't have it happen, but you could tell that he

wanted to see that. Putting more on this coming up, and maybe some options for the Jaguars to not fill the role that's nearly impossible, but some things they could do otherwise. A little bit later from Bucky Brooks. A little later, also Jeff Darlington of ESPN on Trevor Lawrence's interview before the Monday night football game. Check out the Official Jaguars Podcast Network and free subscription on Apple, it Tunes, Spotify,

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on my team. In the preseason, you know, there's not a lot of plays being called. Um you've got so many guys in so you just never you don't know who's here or who's not, you know. So it's just a filling out process right now. I it it's a huge difference from now to the regular season. I mean, wade a huge difference, you know. So, I mean, uh, we should think got some work to do, but at the end of the day, you know, we're still trying

to just fitting those missing pieces right now. And um, you know, preseason is a perfect time to do that. Rayshawn Jenkins, Jaguars safety earlier this week, actually after the game, on Money and Football and welcome back. It's Jaguars happy. I don't know. Jaguars Radio Network JP Adrick Jeff Flog, I been glad you're along with us. As the Jaguars prepared for preseason Week three of the Dallas Cowboys, await Sunday at a T and T Stadium in Dallas, Texas.

At one more offensive note before we dig into the defense, he logs it, we didn't really get to today yet. Tavon Austin went down today. There's no official word from the Jaguars yet on that one. But I made a catch on the field today it was an open practice to the media, and then was off on the side on another field. The athletic training staff came over. They were working on his leg and then Eran Meyer came over, gave him a big hug, patted him on the head.

They had a conversation. Uh, no word yet on Tabon Austin. That was one of the names that had kind of popped up after Travis et n Hey, maybe Tavan can do some of this stuff. He won't do all of this stuff. But you know, now we'll see we're waiting

to see what happens with Austin here. Well, it doesn't help if you work, you know, as a team, if you were considering using a Tavon Austin to replace some of the role that Travis Etn was and fulfilled, but I don't see that happening because E. T N is a talent that you were thinking it could be a

game breaker type of player. Is Tavon Austin that? I mean, he's bounced around, but like four teams, five teams recently the Cowboys for a bit, uh, with Green Bay Packers a little bit last year and you wouldn't even have known that because he didn't play and that was a team that went pretty far into the playoffs. He ended up I think on injury reserve with them. So uh,

that's the hard part of injuries. If if sometimes you have players that rise up that you know you just didn't know about, but then all of a sudden when they get the opportunity, you're excited about it. But that's that's not I mean, do you look at your running back room. There's nobody in the running back room that can do that nobody. It's just the way it is. Can somebody at the wide receiver position do that? I mean, you gotta go, you gotta you got three former for

you have. Chant is not a burner. Chanal is never when he gets the hands on the ball, he's physical. He's not gonna run away from people and be a home run. That's just not his style of play. He's a bruiser. He's a big, bumping bruiser that can overpower guys. But he can't run away from people. That's not what he does. Everybody's got a niche. That's not his niche because he can. Philip Dorset, I mean remember going all the way back when they signed and they talked about

how fast and how how much speedy. Has Treadwell another former first round pick like Tavon Austin. I mean, all these guys had had first round picked graves on them and they were selected in the first round. But they've bounced around. They've bounced around for a reason. When Treadwell first started camp, right, pretty good, right, Yeah, he's been okay in the practice field, looks pretty good, making some catch up in the last week and a half. What

are you seeing? They haven't seen that, Yeah, I'd say that it's my thing. I mean that, you know, there's a consistency and a level that you have to reach to be one of those players that you just go, yeah, this is gonna be a guy that makes a difference. Can Laviska make a difference? Yes? Can seventeen make a difference? Dark? Absolutely? Can thirty make a difference? Absolutely? But knowing those guys had the elite speed where they get in space, they can go. I mean, how many touchdowns a D E

T M score? Clemson the most ever in the A C C. Right, it was like, oh, I mean, I don't want the exact numbers, but it's ridiculous. Amow. So that's a tough loss. Let's go to defense now, and you know, what is your comfort level with what you've seen so far? On the defensive side of the ball. The starters are out there a little longer last week. Josh Allen is not available, he's on the reserve COVID nineteen lists. Other than that, pretty much everybody's out there

and contributing in the preseason. Where are you on the defense lives? First of all, I like it because I think they're gonna be really good. At the fundamentals of stopping to run, which you gotta you gotta start with that if you if you're not doing that, you don't have a chance. Last year, the defense couldn't do that, and it was one of the reasons why they were

one of the worst defenses in the league. Now, with the front three guys of royd Robinson, Harris Devon Hamilton and Malcolm Brown, those three guys are stout and they can they can push offensive lines back. Miles Jack and Damian Wilson are gonna be too physical linebackers. Hope they stay healthy because you don't have a whole lot of depth behind them, like the way they're playing your outside positions. Outside back of position, you're gonna have multitude of guys

that are gonna be playing in there. You hope that Josh Allen can raise his level of play up in the three four defense and find a level of performance that he hasn't even seen yet. Can he be a double double digit sack guy? I don't know now he was a couple of years ago, but you know what, j P there was a lot of guys around him that helped him. Get a lot of guys, so can Caleb and Chasan get better. I think those are all things that are left un answered. Can Smooth help him?

I think smooths a good football player, plays hard. Can give him a lot of different reps and a lot of different places. You can play outside back or defensive end. He can rush from three technique. Is that where he's gonna make Hay all the time? Probably not, but he can do it. So, and that's the nice thing about this defense. You have a lot of guys that can fill a lot of different roles. So when this team lines up, I think there will be a little bit

of an element of confusion. Okay, what are they gonna run? Well, here, they got him and him and him. But wait a minute, they lined up in a for three wave and three four? What is this? You know? So that's kind of what they're gonna be able to do because Smooth can play multiple positions. Devon Hampleton and play knows he can play defensive end, he can play defensive tackle. That they mean

there's guys that can do different things. Jahad War a guy that can play three technique, defensive vent, outside linebacker. I mean that's good. I mean you can maybe some prize some teams a little bit and make it harder on them from a blocking stay in points. So I like that. The one thing though, that has shown that you want to try to figure out a way to get better. You gotta make some impact plays to get off the field. And impact plays are pressuring the quarterback, Sacks,

cause fumbles. These are big plays that set an offense back, you know, because you always talk here about coaches on offense talking about we need to stay on pace. We need to make sure we don't get behind the down and distance. In other words, avoid the second and fifteens, the second and twelves, you know, lost artist plays. Those are all good plays, game changing place for a defense, and you gotta find a way to make some more

of them as a defense. And I think that's gonna be the challenge for this defense until you can get maybe, uh, you know, one more dominant corner presence and also a dominant presence on the interior to pass rush. Let's get our weekly update on the strong safety battle lugs. They're code for code number ones on the depth chart again this week. Josh Jones, Jared Wilson, Rudy Ford, Andre Cisco.

Where do you stand now? Preseason Week three. First of all, Rudy Ford made the tackle on the opening kickoff, and that's exactly what they brought him here to do, was to first of all lead the way on special teams. I think if he has to play safety, I think he'll give you a solid player. And also they played him at a linebacking position when they went to nickel, but it was more of a dime one and so uh, that was cool to see. And that was his first game action, So what what they designed him to do,

he did exactly that. That was good to see. He he was my person to watch in the pregame show, which which was very nice. My person to watch, unfortunately was Travis e. T n Well, we watched him unfortunately, but it wasn't long. But the safety position, I'm serious when I say this. If you wanted to start Rudy Ford, Okay, you want to start Jared Wilson, Okay, you want to start Andre Cisco, Okay, I'm good with you want to start Daniel Thomas. I think they've got good safety depth. Now.

I think that Josh Jones has some limitations, but I still think he's a SAT He's an NFL caliber player. So this is gonna be, in my opinion, this is gonna be where other teams in the league are really focusing in on to watch this team, which will make this, in my opinion, the most interesting position that they have to cut because there are some good players in there. I'm not saying there's greatness in there. Maybe there is with a Cisco, but it's too early to tell. But

there's some really good players in there. Let's come back in a moment. The final opportunity for guys to make a roster this week, the final cut coming up this coming Tuesday, down to fifty three Jaguars Game Day broadcaster presented by Vice Star Credit Union, and this is Jaguars Happy Hour on Jaguars Radio. We paid how much for those lessons? She's doing great? Oh yeah, totally. Can you pass me a pepsi zero sugar? Great job, honey, Oh look at that. That's not the end, no way. Now

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told them. I'm looking for fighters, and I'm looking for competitors. We will have a locker room full of competitors, and I think we got a bunch of them. Um, but I'm learning a lot about them, like you're a lot to learn a lot about us. Keep swinging, baby, it's Jaguars Happy our j P Shadrick, Jeff Flagaman. That was Urban Meyer, Jaguar's head coach. Gotta keep swinging her. And you're gonna looking for fighters slogs, but not people that

will literally swing. We don't need people fighting on playing hockey. No, and we're not. Can't do That'd be pretty cool, though, wouldn't it. What he's just got a five minutes met or something like when your penalty boxing football, you like just you know, you play penalty box and you play eleven on ten power play. The Jaguars are on a filling the blank sponsor power play, right right. I like it. I think it'd be pretty cool. Not if you're a

penalty there will be some guys that would. I can tell you if it was legal in football, you wouldn't see any of these quarterback masks being worn by defensive lineman anymore. You'd be seeing the old full face mask thing coming way down to protect from the uppercut. Final chance for a lot of guys this Sunday, heading to Dallas, a T and T Stadium, the big What's Hockey comes to football Springley. Maybe that is the next one coming up, big game of course for a lot of guys. It's

eighty men on the roster right now. It's got to go down to fifty three next week on Tuesday. So here we go an opportunity for a lot of guys here in Urban Talk earlier this week. You know, guys that aren't game ready yet are going to go out there and play. It feels like so you'll have some starters in this game, certainly earlier in the game, but the second half it's guys that are on the bubble a lot of times here or or the other. The other way to look at it, blogs and maybe you can,

you know, give us your expertise on this. If you're on the roster, maybe you don't go out there in the second half. If you're a guarantee making the roster guy and not want to risk it. Now, tell me why would that happen. Let's say there was a guy who's not a starter that you you don't want to put out there in second half. Give me a reason. Okay, if he's not gonna be on your roster, maybe you want to hide him, get him to the practice squad

through waivers. That's that's another thing that you have to consider. I think as a coaching staff, and that you know, we always kind of assume we don't really can we We don't think of it from that perspective, but I think you do in some respects because as a fan, you'd be might be saying, hey, look, you know I

might want that. Why come they won't play Joe Joe schmoo that you know that Let's say left hack even though I'm just making up obviously, and uh, the team's thought process might be, Look, if we play Joe Schmo left tackle in this game and he gets good film and they all the other teams see how good he is, we're not gonna be able to sneak him on the practice squad. So maybe we ought to play Johnny because

we know we don't want Johnny. Hey, we want to keep Joe Schmo, So we're gonna play Johnny instead of Joe Schmos so we can hide Joe Schmo. Maybe that happens in the last preseason game so that teams don't get good tape out there on some guy so that they can find him away to keep on practice squad.

And remember the practice squad is important again this year because the practice squad is essentially a part of your roster that you can elevate them from the practice squad to game day three times for any reason you want to at that time, and you have to make a decision to make him active on your active roster or the two per game right. No, No, well, I'm just saying there's one person can be elevated three times during

the season. Then if you do that, after that they have to be moved up to the active roster so or subject and what Once you they are brought up, then they can be grabbed at any time off of your practice squad if they are on practice squad. So that's something to consider in the last game, I think from the standpoint of okay, because this is something that

irwen Meyer hasn't had to worry about. I mean, this is something that Trent Balky has really not done before because Trent Balky hasn't been a general manager in today's NFL. He was a few years ago with forts and so, I mean, but he's kept up with all the building, so he's a little bit. He's more he's familiar with it. But push the button. So they got sovice is kind of new, and so they're gonna have to talk through

that process and what they want to do. From the standpoint of okay, hey, look, we really need to look at it and get more of an evaluation on players C, D and E. Because we need we only can keep two of them, So let's let all three of these guys play and let the best man win. Or do you say, you know what, Well, we got C, D and E. And we want to be able to get eat of the practice squads and let's and we're gonna keep C and D. So let's just play C N

D and eat and play. I mean there's things like that that have to be worked out prior to the game kicking on, yeah, because that's coming up at one o'clock. But most importantly it was said this year, and it's dead on the money by coach. She said, Look, to get better, you have to practice football. You have to play football. And this team needs to continue to get better, especially as an offense. So Trevor Lawrence and his offensive mates need to play a little bit. I'm not saying

they need to play the whole game. Some people say, oh, we don't put them at risk. No, they gotta play. They gotta get better, they gotta find more chemistry. And I think the more that you and narrow down the people that Trevor Lawrence are working with from a skill position standpoint, the better it will be for him. Just like we saw remember Tom Brady, I've heard of him, yes, but remember when we watched him up in New England. Yeah,

con training camp. The one thing that's stuck with me from watching him, first of all, his work ethic is unbelievable. The practice organization of Bill Belichick is second to none. But when Tom Brady steps on the field, he doesn't step on the field with anybody at the skill position. There are certain guys that he will work with, and only certain guys. You have to earn the right to work with him in his mind and also the coach's mind.

And the more you work with the people that you're gonna be playing with, the more chemistry that you develop with them. So the faster that they make the determination of who they're gonna keep and who's gonna be playing, the more and and sooner that they get them working with Trevor Lawrence, the better for Trevor Lawrence. Tonight, Jaguar is all Access TV here in Jacksonville. Martineau, I've heard

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Brint Martineau, Tony Boselli alongside tonight as well. Earlier this week, the Jacksonville City Council approved they're part of the plan for the Football Performance Center just outside t I A Bank Field, sixty million dollars of the one million dollar project, and in the council meeting on Tuesday night, they read through the amendments again the there was no discussion, and then opened the ballot. It was a seventeen nothing vote

in favor of the plan. The entire process Tuesday took about three or four minutes, but the work in the months leading up to that vote was deep, along tedious nights for a lot of folks on the staff from the planning part to the community events to explain the plans for both the shipyards and the football performance center all around the community. That happened to the financial part

of course. Um, but this is it feels like a moment you'll look back in ten, fifteen, twenty years and realize the importance of that vote Tuesday night, solidifying the Jaguars commitment to downtown and Northeast Florida, and it begins the process of looking at the stadium of the future for the Jacksonville Jaguars, for the city and for the organization and the the ideas now and the commitments of the city and the organization are aligned with this vote.

It's going to be a fantastic facility, obviously, a new football building, offices, m lunch room, meeting rooms, athletic training space, a permanent locker room for the team at least in their building there and then to practice fields outside one inside that will be built as well. And it is going to be a football factory. Shot Kan says he wants it to be, and that's what it will be.

It will be fantastic. The goal is to have it opened and ready for the training camp, so the idea is to start construction right after the football season is over this year and about an eighteen month turnaround if all things go well, to get that ready to go for three and beyond. But the first step was Tuesday night and a good step. And that's it's a really

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Still the same cast of characters coming up tonight at seven, So check that out on Fox thirty here in Jacksonville. Travis, E. T and Jr. Done for the season. We've discussed it earlier. The rookie running back out of Clemson plenty of discussion this weekend. Who could fill those roles on offense. A conversation yesterday on Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks on Jaguars dot Com, John Ozan and I got into Bucky's head

about what the Jaguars lost. It's one of those things where you have big plans for a guy who's an explosive player, a big plate threat, and you're not able to use him, and you know, he's spent the bulk of the offseason kind of planning a lose game plan with number one in mine and now he's not here. Where do you make up that production? Where do you

make up that closeness? You know, one of the things that the Jaguars could do is everyone's gonna talk about the running backs and now they could feel it there I think he provides more opportunity for the viscus Chant to be a bigger factor in the offense, in the game plan utilizing his skills because he was able to do a bunch of different things that Colorado that the

Jaguars said yet to tap into. And I think it also creates a little bit of an opening for Tavon Austin if he is able to find his way onto the roster. He has some unique versatility things that you can do, maybe putting them in the backfield, maybe using him as a gadget guy. I think we could create some opportunities for some other guys to kind of take some of the load that was going to be designated

for traps at the end. Well at the risk of repeating exactly what Bucky just said, because I couldn't agree more. And I uh tavan Austin when when Urban was asked about him, I didn't Urban didn't say, hey, he's on the team. Sure made it sound like, yeah, it's gonna opportunity to von Austin. Chennault is an interesting fit for this.

It's been interesting JP all off season. It felt like E T n and Channal we're sort of coming at the same job in from different directions, meaning Chanal was sort of the big guy wide receiver who could sort of be hybrid running back and wide receiver. E t N was the lightning quick running back who also could

sort of sort of do both. The interesting thing with Channal that position has always been in urban Meyer's offense speed and win one on win one on one matchups by being able to lightning quick your guy and go all the way. I don't know that that's Chennalt particularly, He's not really jitterbuggle like that. But can they use him in a way that's still effective in that role. I think they can, and I do think it will on our opportunity for Channalt to be in that role.

It'll look different than it would have with e. T N. But you can get some effectiveness. But as we talked about for the show JP, I don't think you just realistically go out and get Travis e t N level talent. They drafted him because they thought he was special, really really special. If they didn't think he was really really special and above the exs and others, you shouldn't have drafted him where you drafted him. So let Urban's comment

about him a blow to the jaw. The final thing in that comment he said, we're still discussing how to read how to address it. Those aren't could be happy discussions because I don't think you can find that. And you know there's always talk about the the waiver wire, Bucky and all that they do have the first in the order of the waiver claims the first three weeks

of the regular season. But there's a reason why those guys aren't on other teams anyway, right, I mean, there's only a limit to so much talent he was find there.

And also, let's keep him mind, James Robinson had a very productive rookie season and so it may look a little different offensively than it would have looked with Travis Itsen, meaning it's more of a grinded out attack when James Robinson is bearheading the attack, and when you have he and Carlos has somehow sharing the load, you don't get the explosive plays, but you could get the steady Eddy production in the running game if the offensive line, if

they're doing their job. The X factory is who can make up for what traps et n would have provided in the passing game, not just the short passes coming out of the backfield. But what about the screen game, because the screen game was going to be a prominent part of whether Jaguars did offensively, And so is that Tavon Austin coming in is just a buy committee approach where you utilize the viscus chanal Tavon Austin, maybe even Philip Dorset in some capacity. A lot to figure out.

But the great thing is after this last preseason game, you have an extended period of time to kind of put it together and figure it out. And so heading into week one, did Jaguars still should be able to put a nice plan in place for the first four games of the season to begin to kind of figure out what their offensive identity is and what it will be. That's from Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks hearing Wednesdays at four on Jaguars dot Com and Jack's social media. Of course,

since that show aired. Today, Tavon Austin went down on the practice field and parts of the athletic training staff were over there looking at him, sitting down the ground, looking at his leg, and then urban Meyer came over gave him a big hug, pat on the head, a

long conversation, he walked off with the training staff. No further update as of right now from the Jaguars on Austin's condition, but I did not see him return to practice today, So a big question still, of course, how will they feel that void And we might not have an answer for a little while. They may not be able to in fact at the running back spot and the position they had in mind for Travis eats again. We're back in a moment and Jeff Darlington of ESPN

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in Jacksonville on Fox thirty. Quarterback, of course, the talk of the town this week. The number one pick, of course, in many ways is the talk of the NFL. Some others in the draft this year outside Trevor Lawrence have some god of your stats in the preseason, but Lawrence has shown why at times he's the number one overall pick. Of course, and on Jaguars Drive Time this morning on

Jaguars dot Com. ESPN's Jeff Darlington visited with Ashman Sullivan, John Osan and Brian Sexton to discuss the quarterback and how it could look around here in year one here in the building, we always talked about how confident, how poison really just how normal Trevor Lawrence is. Dropped the spotlight on him, did did you get the same impression? Yeah, that's a great way of putting it, um and it's

it's exactly the way I felt. That was my first time, um, meeting Trevor Or, being around him, and you know, when you actually get the chance to be in his presence, you feel this very refreshing vibe, this very kind human, very humble human, but at the same time a guy who really does have a presence about him. And you can say, well, every all quarterbacks in the NFL probably

have that, it really don't. Um, there's something about Trevor that is this quiet confidence that um, I mean, I dare say that the closest that it reminds me of. This is gonna feel like hyperbole, but it's Tom Brady, a guy who is so kind, so warm and friendly. But at the same time you're like, damn, that's Tom Brady.

You know, you feel that with Trevor. You feel his his presence, and I think that that that's meaningful not only in an environment that we were in, but more meaningful in a locker room or a meeting room where you're going to get the attention of your emmates the second you walk in that room. What are your thoughts on the Jaguars, Jeff, I mean we talked about Trevor. I know you haven't gotten into them over here training camp, but you've seen him a little bit. What are your

thoughts over all in the season. Well, I'm very glad that he is now um named the starter. Um, I think that was slightly overdue in terms of just getting the first team reps. I felt that, you know, talking to Trevor when we were sitting down, one of the things that he said was, UM, I think that we can win faster than I think. I think it doesn't take us long to get there as maybe other people do. And I've talked to Urban a lot about that, how

we're gonna win, and we're gonna win fast. We don't need to be on a five year plan, and that starts with the quarterback. Well to that, I would say, and we now see it like Okay, let's get there. If you're gonna get there, you gotta get those first team reps. You got to get that cohesiveness with the the first team offense. You've got to get that chemistry. That is more important to me than the benefit of UM pretending to try to convince the guy that he's

got to earn the job. Trevor Lawrence earned that job the second he was drafted first overall, and I know we're past that. It's not a debate anymore. He's now the starter. I guess my point is when it comes to the Jack's offense, now we can start to see them get the chemistry that they're going to need to get the identity. And again I'm not overly worried about that either. I think that that is what this time

of year is for. I can't tell you how many times I've seen a team look good in the preseason the opposite of this, and then and then they look like crap in the regular season. It's like you showed all you were so worried about trying to look good in the preseason, and it's like, just get to the regular season, then show your cards, then create your identity. And sometimes that takes time too. It's a new NFL head coach, it's a new quarterback. These things take a

little bit of time. And uh and I think that that's okay. That's Jeff Darlington, ESPN, former NFL Network reporter, the beat writer for the Dolphins, for the Miami Harold back in the late first decade of the two thousand's. So oh six to eleven and very good at his job, of course, Jeff Darlington, he had that interview with Trevor Lawrence right before Monday Night football. I got to sit down with the Jaguars quarterback and he was on Jaguars

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T and T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. We'll go in the air on the network at twelve noon with countown to kickoff. We'll hear from Fred Taylor, We'll hear from head coach Urban Meyer. The final word with the head coach before kickoff and plenty of analysis is getting you ready for that football game. Let's going on this week. Of course, Trevor Lawrence, if you've just joined us, has been named the starting quarterback for the Jaguars this season

by Urban Meyer. That happened officially on Wednesday, and Meyer said, you know, it's three weeks to the regular season. It felt like the right time. That was kind of always in his head. He said that this would be the time to do it, making a competition early in camp, give Arner Minsho an opportunity to work with the first team. Still.

He gave him that his word that he would do that, and they followed through and did that, and you can tell though after the first couple of preseason games the difference, and Trevor Lawrence is now the quarterback. So you can move forward and game plan this week and get ready and put that first team offense out there or most of it at least, and try to get something positive going early in the game and hopefully find the end zone. They haven't done that as a first team offense yet,

and they have some positivity going into the final game. Now, of course, it is the final game. So the final cuts are Tuesday, from eight down to fifty three, and there are a lot of anxious guys on this team that might have their last opportunity, maybe not just here, but maybe in the NFL. It's the way it works. The old cliche is there thirty one other teams that watched the tape, and that is absolutely true. Johd Ward

said it best. Really, there's no such thing is a fifty three man roster because you can slide to the practice squad. Guys come and go all year long. But it is a big moment coming up Sunday. Our thanks to Joe Fortunato on the audio side, Brent Reaper on the video side, Trent Padilla as well Jeff Flaghman joining us earlier on the program. For everyone involved, this is JP Shadrick. We will catch you Sunday ahead of the

Jaguars and the Dallas Cowboys in preseason Week three. Thanks for listening to Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Radio Network.