Jaguars Happy Hour: Thursday, October 1

Brown Stadium for this week's game. Will preview the matchup and should be a good matchup. We'll see um Joe Burrow on the other side. The defense needs a faster start, to say the least. We'll see how they can get that done. Offensive consistency a little bit of an issue certainly. Last equ we'll hear from the quarterback today James Robinson, who got a legal award today. Tony was Selli joins

us at four thirty and the Titans Steelers situation. They have postponed that game this week to a later date to be named because of COVID nine team positive tests will break that all down and discuss Thursday Night Football Tonight. Jeff Logoman from his home studio joining us. Happy October Logs, We're finally here. I love October, you know, and in in perfect fashion, we had a nice little cool weather snap, you know, to kind of bring us into the month

of October. Doesn't get any better than that, it does not. That means what dear seasons around the corner? Is that right? Uh? Yeah, that's always a good thing. Yeah, I mean, I cannot lie. But but most importantly, it's not just dear season, JP. This is football weather at its best. When you wake up in the morning, it's you know, sixty degrees fifty five degrees, and most people that are probably listening from North Dakota or Minnesota going, what are you talking about?

You know, football weather when you wake up and it's twenty and the daytime hives into forty. Well, in North Florida, that's not how it worked, you know. We like to see it about fifty degrees when we wake up and daytime highs around seventy. But it's absolutely football weather, JP. We'll take it, and we'll see if the Jaguars can get on the practice field this week and enjoy that weather, get ready for this week's game and logs we touched I touched on at the start of the show. Here.

The defense needs a faster start. It's been a talking point really the last two weeks, after giving up touchdowns in the opening drive week one, week two, and then three straight touchdown drives to open week three on Thursday night a week and go from tonight? How do they do that? Is it? Is it a mentality? Is it just playing better early in the game? How does the defense start faster and get off the field. Isn't it kind of fitting that we start with a faster start

by the defense here an happy hour? I mean, right, I mean that's the first topic. I mean, you know, and just like us, okay, if you're having a problem with a fast start, then you start working on having a better start and you can do that in practice, you know, as as coach Marone I'm sure has been doing this week. You have to have a practice that has better periods early in practice. From the period one in period two, you're simulating a faster starting the game. Boys,

we gotta have a faster starting game. We're gonna start right here with a faster start to this practice. And I think that's how you do it. You create awareness to it. And because it's not a matter of okay, guys aren't ready to play, or guys just you know, okay, we gotta get warmed up. No, I mean you warmed up, You got you got pregame warm up. You got all the ability in the world to get ready to play a football game and get ready for the speed of the game. So you've just got to be able to

change your mindset. That's all of it. It's a mindset change. And I don't want to hear any excuses. Oh, this is young football team. They need to learn how to start fast. No, if you if you create an awareness for it, and they're accustomed to having a fast start, they're customed starting faster and practice than they will have a fast starting game. And here's the other thing, JP, I'm so tired of hearing about should the Jaguars defer or should they take the ball off to start a game?

And that will make all the difference in the world. Are you kidding me? I mean, are we really talking about changing the destiny of a game by either deferring or taking the ball. I mean, come on, that's you know, for ESPN on Monday Night football. That should be the ultimate. Come on, man, come on, man. Doesn't matter the offense out there or the defense out there. You play ball and you start better, and I don't care. I don't care if you to start with a one on one

drill between coaches. You know, it doesn't matter. It's all about starting fast, weather, it's all offense, deepen, special team doesn't matter. Okay, I could tell yes, it's been a talking point this week, but I'm kind of with you though. Like you, if you're a head coach or a coach in the league, you've had this philosophy probably for a long time about getting the ball last in the first half and then starting the second half with the football and you kind of steal two possessions that way. Why

would you go change that now? Is a talking point because because wait, wait, wait, wait, what do you mean steal possessions? What are you talking if you if you defer that means you can try to play for the last possession of the first half, get points and then open the second half. I don't I don't buy that argument either. Okay From from a coach okay. And the reason I say I don't buy that argument is is who's to say that you're going to have the last

possession of the first half or not? Right? I mean, are we assuming that, okay, because you differ and the opponent starts on offense, that timing wise, you're gonna always have the last possession of the first half. No, No, it doesn't mean that, you know, so I don't buy that argument from a coaching standpoint either. You know, you work to have the last possession of the first half if you manage the clock correctly and your defense gets stopped and your offense possesses the ball and all those

things happen. But sometimes I don't care if you do everything else else perfectly, it doesn't work out that way, you know, So, so I don't buy that, Okay, we're gonna defer, because then that means that we're gonna we're gonna end up having the last possession of the first half and then we get the first possession of the second half as well, because it doesn't always work out that way, and to assume that it will, I think

is is ridiculous in my opinion. And so for me, what you want to do is defer take the ball. It doesn't matter. And with you, if you're the Jaguars right now and you've been deferring and it hasn't been working out, your defense is not starting out, then just change it up, change it up, or coach or football team to do better on that side of the ball defensively, you know. So No, it's it's a it's kind of like a dog chasing its tail. JP. I mean, it's

it's it's just endless. It's mindless, and you just got to play better football. You've gotta make more plays happen early part of the game, whether it's offense or defense or special teams. That's right because at some point you're gonna have the ball. At some point they're gonna have the ball, and you're just gonna play football. Let's let's get to make more plays, make more plays. Better, be better. That's it, you know, work to be better, come out

of practice. It wouldn't have better in period one. It would help on defense to get better if they could find the pass rush on defense, they haven't had a lot of that this year and really not much of it at all. But this is a Bengals offensive line that has given up fourteen sacks this year. That's the most of any quarterback in the league. On Joe Burrow, he's been hit thirty one times, including eighteen quarterback hits

last week. It kind of feels like this is one of those matchups that the Jaguars, Hey, this is the week to to try to get right. We heard from Josh Allen today Jaguars defensive end, and he's ready to get things going on the defensive line this week. I'm not really worried about what everybody else is doing because everybody's gonna play different, everybody's schemes different. So I'm worried about how we prepare and how we're gonna come execute. Uh. So I know we got to do our thing, uh

this weekend. Um. I know they have given up a lot of pressures, which is, you know a good sign for us, but you know we still have to do jolly. Still gotta get up the ball. We still got a respips as much as we as much as we can and get them into situations where we can be able to rush the past as much as we want. So alright, als, obviously it's a defensive front thing, but it's a statistic up there. It's a full defensive issue. If you ask Doug Moron and Todd Wash there has to be a

little bit of coverage out there. So the quarterbacks not getting rid of it in the first or second read. Yeah, there, there's there's no doubt JP. But but let's put things in perspective here a little bit. Everybody is just saying, Okay, the Bengals, they've given up fourteen sacks, which is the worst in the league. They must be the worst team in the league at protecting the quarterback. Well, here's a little doser reality for you. They gave up eight sacks

against the Philadelphia Eagle. Okay, so prior to that game, they were giving up sick right, I mean, pretty simple math. There are three a game, three in a first week, three in a second week. If it was an average, well, the Jaguars have given up ten. So they were giving up that amount or basically the same type of numbers in the first three games. They had a bad game against the Philadelphia Eagle and they allowed eight sacks in that ball game. So would you like to have pressure

on the quarterback? Absolutely? Do the Cincinnati Bengals have issues with their offensive line. Absolutely, They have what is essentially a rookie left tackle and he is playing for the very first time. In Jonah william he has virtually no experience. Many people thought coming out that he should not be a left tackle. Many people thought that he should be

an interior offensive lineman. The right guard, Fred Johnson I believe his name is, had some issues in the game against the Eagles, and he was benched and then he put another guy in there. So yes, you would like to think that the Jaguars can get some pass rush

and successful pass rush against the Cincinnati Bengals team. But the thing I think that impresses me the most is that even though that Joe Burrow got pressured in this ball game, even though he took a pretty good cheap shot from former Jaguar Malik Jackson in that game against the Philadelphia Eagles, it didn't change it. It didn't change it. He didn't get skittish, he didn't get scared, he didn't start flinching in the pocket. And I give the rookie

quarterback a lot of credit for that. And I think the Bengals will be better also if they run the ball better with a very good running back in Joe mixing. I think their coach right now is a little pass happy, probably too much for a young quarterback Joe Burston the ball forty one times in three games. He's a rookie. I don't care if he's the first pick overall in the draft or not. He's still rookie. You can't put that kind of pressure on him. So I think it's

gonna be an interesting ball game. And then so you go back to the original question. You want to see the Jaguars pressure of the quarterback. Sure, okay, but right now the Jaguars aren't rushing the passer very well up front. Uh. In this pass game against the Minai Miami Dolphins, they didn't cover particularly well. And that's where Doug Moron is talking about you got to have both. And it's true, rush and cover go hand in hand. So you gotta cover well to be able to have time to rush

the passer. You also have to rush the passer to be able to give you better coverage in the back end to have arrant throws which lead interceptions and takeaways and such. So it does go hand in hand. JP and I think the coverage can be better. But the one thing that can tearned me. Concerns me is can

the pass rush be better? I think that's a big question mark in my mind, because pass rush you've got to have the guys to do it, and right now there has been a lot of guys that have contributed to pass rush in the past that are no longer here, and the guys that you have aren't playing particularly well. So can you generate pass rush just because it's the Cincinnati Bengals and they gave up fourteen sacks, not necessarily, but I hope that they can because it certainly would help.

And having success against the Bengals football team that is going to be hungry for a win, no doubt about that. And you know you mentioned the burrow and being a little pass happy on the offensive side up there will They've got the weapons outside too. They've got multiple receivers that have thousand yards seasons under their belt. Of course, A. J. Green is still there. He's back on the field this season. He missed twenty games in a row from through the

entire it's twenty nineteen season. First was a toe issue and then the last year had an ankle issue and missed all of last season. He's back. He hasn't really exploded yet. I think the longest passed to a wide receiver this year if there's twenty five yards. Uh, Tyler Boyd is there who can really really get some things done. He's had a good start to the season so far.

And yeah, that's the thing you mentioned mixing, But I think the narrative outside of you know, the talking points, outside the offense so far, Nixon hasn't really been in the conversation. He hasn't had a breakout game yet because they have been throwing the ball so much. He is capable, though, and that's why they paid him forty eight million dollars. Well, give him the ball, I mean, give him the ball more,

you know, when when it's meaningful, you know. And and to go back to the longest past, Jevanni Bernard has a forty plush yard catch that he had against the Eagles, by the way, which is their longest completion of the year. And A. J. Green is is a non factor. I mean, who would have thought that the great A J. Green who we all compared kind of a Jay Green and Julio Jones. And the argument always kind of persisted, who's

the better wide receiver? Well, right now it's Julio Jones, and Julio Jones has been a little bit beat up, but A J. Green has has not really done much in the last couple of years. You know. The the guy that that I think that I I would be more fear fearful of is Boyd or Tay or even Higgins. With the Cincinnati Bengals, I mean, they have a very talented group of wide receivers. Now it hurts them that they lost a tight end going a c l That

hurts a little bit. But Giovanni Bernard, who I just mentioned about having that long catch, He's a very good passing type down back. And then those three receivers that I mentioned besides A. J. Green, they're pretty good now. And uh, and I think this is gonna be a pretty stiff challenge for Jaguars defense because Doug's talked. Doug talked about stressing coverage to get better as pass rushers.

This is gonna be a big challenge in coverage this week because they are big, uh and they can run uh and uh and I think uh some of them are are capable big plays. I mean, ap remember Audent taking the game that he had last year or and uh it was right prior to the Jaguars playing him, and he was an absolute monster and he has the capability of being a big time player. So and in fact, when I was watching film of on tape for the very first time, I remember going, man at a J Green,

He's looking good, But it wasn't a j Green. It was all very similar number right, So, plenty of options for Joe Burrow and they are leaning on those heavily early in the season. Bengals looking for their first win and O two and one started the season. The Jags have dropped two in a row. They'll try to snap that skid. Coming up this Sunday. We're back in a moment and we'll flip it around to the Jaguars offense.

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hurt us. And we had a lot of formations and plays designed for him, and we didn't really know until Wednesday afternoon, late afternoon that he wasn't gonna be available to us, which really it's hard to change your game plan totally from Wednesday afternoon to Thursday night unfortunately, so that had a good impact, but we're not gonna use that excuse. Other guys have to step up um, and

unfortunately we didn't do a good job of that. But but DJ is definitely a guy that, uh, anytime he's not in a game, you're gonna miss them for sure. It's Jake Gruden, Jaguars offensive coordinator earlier this week. D J Shark absent from the game last week with an injury. Welcome back, Jaguars Happy Our j P, Shadrick, Jeff Lackerman, Tony Boselli's coming up at four thirty and then at five o'clock the Doug Morone Show on the Jaguars Radio Network.

I found that interesting logs that they had all these plans in case DJ was ready to go, but they found out for sure Wednesday afternoon before Thursday night game. Everything is compressed anyway in a short week. But I kind of threw a little bit of a wrench in the plans. It felt like, yeah, and I don't don't think he says, you don't want to use that as an excuse, but he but he kind of did. Uh uh.

I mean for me, if you have one guy that gets hurt in practice and all of a sudden, now you say you can't adjust a game plan, I mean I think that you've got to have another guy step up and just fill that role. I mean, look, it's not easy to fill the role of d J Charlie because he's a he's a marvelous player, and there's not any other player I don't think on the Jaguars roster that can make the type of plays that DJ does.

But you've got a good group of wide receivers, okay against the Miami Dolphins team that really struggled in the prior weeks and coverage and didn't rush the passer particularly well, you know, so it's not like, Okay, all of a sudden, you lost the only guy that you had that could beat the Miami Dolphins and man covered. You know, there was opportunities lost in that ballgame for other in multiple areas. Chris Connley had a couple of drops. Chris Connelly also

had a penalty on an offensive pass interference. He Mrs Black. He didn't have a very particularly good game. And then you also have a quarterback who aborted some plays a little bit early and also had some one on one opportunities that he either just didn't see or didn't choose

to throw at, you know. And the Miami Dolphins, given credit, they had been showing almost i don't want to say all, but the highest percentage of man coverage in the league up until this game on Thursday night, and they came out and they played some zone, you know, So give Miami Dolphins some credit, and that they don't want to say caught the Jaguars off guard, but they changed up some of the things maybe that the Jaguars were expecting to see. And as an offense, you've got to adjust.

You've got ad just on Wednesday, when you find out that DJ Chark is not going to be available, you still got a couple of days to be able to tweak a few things in the game plan. And then in the game part when you find out that they're playing a little bit of his own. You've got to be able to adjust. You credit the Miami Dolphins, they played a good football game. Jaguars had a great opportunity on the national stage and they just didn't play very well.

And I think the one thing about not playing well on a Thursday night JP, that's simmers on, you know, I mean, that's that's ten days. You've got to sit there and and chew on that. And so if we don't see a motivated football team going to Cincinnati, I would be shocked. One name you mentioned there was Gardner Minshew and maybe aborting some plays early, getting out of the pocket, running away from things. And I asked Gardner about that this week, the Jaguars quarterback about pocket presence,

and it's a work in progress. It's one of those things kind of for me, the rule of time I've always had is like, once you get through your progression, you know, then you look to make something happen. Um. You know, if you're skipping reads and getting out earlier, then that's an issue. And then sometimes you know, it just works out and then it's all good, and then

it doesn't work out and it's all bad. So you know that's a probably you know us as we're working on you know, week by week, week to week, and you know, is it something that a young quarterback can improve upon as this goes along too? Does your feel improve in a pocket? I'm uh, it sounds like it's something that can. According to Gardner their lives, well, it can. And I think part of it is on Gardner and

that he has to learn to trust the pocket. He has to have a better feel for when he needs to stay in and then also when he needs to abort. The other thing I think or category that it falls on, is the offensive line. I don't think they've played very well on Thursday night JP. I don't think the tackles played well. Uh, in a game in which the Miami Dolphins had Agba and and Shack Lawson. Who are I mean,

they're okay players, but they're not great players. I think the guy that they're gonna see this week, but the Cincinnati Bengals, the two of them are going to be better than what they saw on Thursday night. And in the Jaguars tackles I didn't think played very well. Will Richardson didn't play well when he came in for the ejective Cam Robinson. Uh here, here's the one thing I

think that that I'll bring up JP. You know, at right tackle, Juwan Taylor arguably was considered for the Jaguars to be drafted in the first round of last year's draft. But then all of a sudden, josh Adam was available and like, whoa wait a minute, we got a great player here, we gotta take him. But there was conversation

I guess that Juwan Taylor was going to be their pick. Well, if you think he's that talented, which I think he is, the expectation for him it's got to be higher, you know, because he didn't play at the level that he needs to be playing at. I mean, I expect Juwan Taylor to be in his second year to be a borderline Pro Bowl caliber player. That's what I expected of him.

I think he has that level of talent, and the way he a this past game to where he gave up some on the inside rush, where he gave up some on the outside, that's just not good enough for a Juan Taylor. I mean, it might be good enough for some other right tackles in the league, but the expectations for in my mind for Juwan and should be for in their minds, should be much higher because he's

capable of being better. And then with Will and Cam at the left tackle spot, Will Richardson did not play at all very well at all once he came in and Gardner was running for his life a little bit. So the offensive line has to do a better job to help Gardner trust the pocket to not abort it. I thought in the in the game against the Miami Dolphins, they gave him reason to think that he needed to

do abort early in some situation. And they've got to They've got to work better and play better so that Gardner can continue to develop and feel comfortable in the pocket and abort less. One of the positive notes on offense certainly this entire season so far is the play of undrafted rookie running back James Robinson. Three thirty nine scrimmage yards. It's an NFL record through three games for

an undrafted player in his career. Is fantastic, and today he was named the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Month of September. Fantastic accolades for Robinson, and he spoke with the media today and you know what, he's gonna keep on working. Um. I like to go about it like I don't want to be surprised by anything that I do, because then for me, I want to go out there and play the same or even better every time and helping out the team and just playing my role and

doing my job and helping my teammates out. Now, of course, he's a piece out of the backfield in the passing game. Two has been at least early in this season, contributing to those scrimmage yards. But there's moments where he's been able to run the bowl very effectively. Jake Gruden said that, you know, he maybe had come off the run a little bit early on Thursday night they were down in the game, and and Gruden put that on him and

his play calling. So if they can get that run established and give Robinson the rock logs, that's It's always been a pretty good strategy, at least earlier this season. Absolutely, and uh and and I agree with Jay that he probably didn't stick with the run early in the ballgame, But I mean, I also understand it. I mean, holy cow, your defense is just not stopping anybody, and the Miami Dolphins are are making a track meet out of it, and so you're trying to keep up, You're trying to

make something happen. You're trying to generate a little momentum, you're trying to generate a little positivity. And big chunk plays can do that for a football team and get them fired up. And uh, typically the big chunk plays come the passing game. So I think that any quarterback

needs a great ground game. That they're talking about the same thing in Cincinnati, and that they need a good running game out of Joe Mixon to take some pressure off of the quarterback, to allow them to have more balance and to make the offensive line better because they've got more manageable third downs. But you know, for for the Jaguars offensive pass game, I mean, it just it wasn't very good except for James Robinson. I mean, credit to him. He totally deserves the NFL Rookie of the Month.

He has done something that northern rookie has done before. He has been nothing short of fantastic. Every week he shows something that just makes you go wold and uh. And that's credit to him, undrafted guy, and also jp of credit to the coaching staff because you know what it took some courage to do what they did and releasing the fourth fourth overall, picking the draft and Leonard Fournette and going with an undrafted, undrafted rookie from Illinois State.

I mean, everybody was kind of sitting there going, oh, they're they're tanking, right. I mean, that was the conversation when they when they got rid of Leonard Fournette. The Jaguars are thanking. Well, guess what, They've got a really good back and James Robinson. Oh, by the way, he was the NFL Rookie of the Month, you know, so credit to him, credited to coaching staff, And yes, they need to get them more involved if they can. But at the same token, you don't want to make it

try to make it a one man show. You know. Seventeen touches last week, nine yards and two touchdowns. He was marvelous and in JP I think the one thing that impresses me about him his vision is is second to none. Uh. He just doesn't waste any movement because his vision is so good. And backs that typically have great vision can make a lot of things happen, whether it be in the passing game or in the running game. And I think it's it's it's probably gonna be hard

for Terror Robisky the running back coach. You know, they've got Chris Thompson on board, and they brought Chris Thompson on board to be a third down back. But when you watch James Robinson and you watch him as a as a receiver out of the backfield, you go, well, wait a minute. You know, we'll give let Chris Thompson get a few refs, but only just a spell James, because I think James is shown he's just so explosive and he has his ability to make something always positive happen.

It's there's a long season of course ahead of us, so that as a fantastic start for the undrafted rookie. And yes, that the scouting staff unearthed the gym. And as you said, the coaching staff and and personnel folks, whoa, whoa, Well, wait a minute, JP, The one thing you gotta remember now, you say the scouting staff unearthed Jim, you know it did. Uh, no doubt, there's no doubt. I mean, first of all, give the Jaguars credit for for I mean, but here's

the reality. If they thought he was that big of a gel, don't you might think that they would have drafted him, all right and fair enough, so I look, I mean I give him credit for first signing the young man. Okay, but uh, you know it's just like the Patriot. Okay. Oh, they did such a great job of getting Tom Brady in the sixth round. They are the only ones that knew, well they drafted him in the sixth round. If they knew that he was gonna be that good, do you think they would have waited

until the sixth round to draft him? No? Right, well they're finding out now, let's put it that way. Let's come back in a moment. Tony Vasselli joining us will continue the conversation. Jags Bengals coming up in week four. I remember protecting the team starts with you stay home if you don't feel well, and practice social distancing and remember masks are acquired at t i A. Bank Field this season when the Jags returned home. Visit Jaguars dot

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calendar year, told the sales I think we're looking. We're trying to get like twenty targets just for this because but now, I mean, I'm I think you always want to play good, play well against your old team. But you know, I don't want to. I don't want to be a distraction. I don't want to be to be about me or anything like that. I mean, this team we need to uh, we need to go in there and get a win and get this thing role in

the right direction. It's Tyler right for Jaguars. Tied End, who spent his entire career with the Cincinnati Bengals until this year. In free agency, he joined the Jaguars. Welcome back, Jaguars Happy Hour, j P Shadrick, Jeff Logerman, Tony Basselli joining us now for the last half hour of the program. The part we missed there was he said, you know, I think I talked to Gardner and I think what I'd like to have twenty targets this week gets the Bengals.

They kind of set a tongue in cheek there, but it's always good to go back and see your former team. Tony. What's up? How you doing? Man? What I'm good? Are you guys doing? We're hanging in there. Week four Jags Bengals game. The Jags need, certainly this week after back to back losing results. There, Um, you know, we we've touched on a few different things in the first half hour, Tony, but the fast start defense and all that. Logs is not talking about the coin toss or any of that

mess anymore. You gotta go play football no matter who gets the ball first, second, third, fourth. Well, he's right, because you don't control the coin toss. It's a proposition where they're gonna lose it, win or lose. And so you know, we've won the first three weeks, and we've deferred and we've started slow, and you know, I think Doug probably says, you know, I want to get the ball first. Well, if Cincinnati wins the toss and they want the ball first, it doesn't matter what you want.

You gotta go play and you gotta get out there and get it done. And this team has to start faster. Um. I know this week a lot of the fans and and are saying, okay, we can get right, get healthy. At Cincinnati. They're not very good and all the different things. But I don't know about you, Jeffrey. I've watched them twice. Um, he turned on the tape. They got an explosive offense

and they can hurt you a quarterback. They got a group of wide receivers that are really good, I think, and a young quarterback that does not look like he's a young quarterback, and he's a tough guy. I think he probably showed a lot of his teammates when he took that hit from Malik Jackson. And I think that's probably the most way that probably the most way, the easiest way you can impress your teammates is showing your toughness at the quarterback position. I think he did that

with that hit that he took from the leak. But here's the other thing. And Tony, you've you've watched him twice, you were able to work one of their games, and you watch the film this past week of the Philadelphia Eagles. They've been in three ball games, and and I'm talking they've been in three ball games. They could have won any of those three of those games. And with the young quarterback at the home who was throwing the ball

hundred forty one times, that's a lot. So if allso they can find a little bit of balance to take a little pressure off of their offensive line, it's gonna make Joe Burrow even that much better. And it's gonna make it a pretty scary situation. Oh, Jeff, you're right. And you look at the Eagles game last week. They sack them eight times, I think had eighteen hits. I mean something just. I mean, the guy took a beating, still threw over three hundred yards and was in the game. Um,

And we've chronicled and talked about that. The pass rush is something that the Jaguars struggled with, and I worry that if they can't get a rush and they can't affect the quarterback, um, that it could be a track meet. And you know one of those games that whoever has the ball last wins is assuming that the Jaguars offense can kind of get back to the first two weeks, the form they had in the first weeks. Yeah, how about that, Tony the the offense last week, you know,

they were down in the game. Jake Gruden said that he probably got away from the run a little bit earlier than he wanted to because of the way the game was going last week, and he put that on himself. Um, if they can get James Robertson going and get the run game going and balance things out, that could help things. I'm sure. Well absolutely, I mean the run defense, especially

the first couple of weeks, was not very good. I mean, wink two against the Browns was atrocious, but they were without Mike Daniels and Gino Atkins and Geno Atkins is back limited practicing. Uh. Mike Daniels played last week. I think it was a growing injury the week before he had so UM you would expect him to be a little bit better, but it's a it's something you have to take advantage of. You gotta be able to run the ball. UM. I don't think this team is good

enough just to drop back and pass it. UM. And the balance is critical. I think if you look at the first two games where they scored a bunch of points, they had nice balance. UM. They they kept it, they stayed in the rhythm. Uh, stayed out of a lot of third and long situations. Is one of the reasons they had the highest third down conversion rate in the NFL. For whatever reason, they got away from that. UM, the pace of the game whatever. Uh. You know when they

started throwing up more and Gardener had a tough day. Uh, and the receiver corps have a tough day with some drops, especially from Commonly and I you know, overall, as you know, even as I'm saying this, it's the Jaguars are a team that don't have a lot of margin for air, and so you gotta play well, and you gotta stay consistent. You've got you know, every down count, you know. I think JP we talked about it on Monday's show, that you look at a team like the Seattle Seahawks, they

drop it. You know, they have a shirt touchdown that DJ met Cappu messes up, but it doesn't even phase them. They keep on going. The Jaguars are a couple of big drops and all of a sudden they stall out and they can't score points. So um the margin farrest then, and I think it's a tough game. I think it's a tough matchup up up against the Cincinnati Bengals, just because they have shown that they're gonna be in every game and that they can score points with that young quarterback.

And one of the things you got to be able to do is you got to run the football, and you gotta run it well against this Bengals team. And

Tony talked about how they've given up some yards. I mean, the second worst team in the National Football League hat stopping the run and they're giving up five yards of pop, you know, so you got to find a way to take advantage of that, and then you can certainly have the ability to take some pressure off of your own quarterback and then you can have some balance on all offense, get some manageable third downs, and have an opportunity to compete.

You know, because Tony is You're right and that you know, this football team is not good enough to be able to go to Cincinnati or anywhere for that matter and not play well and expect to be in the ball game and be competitive. This is a young football team that's gonna have a lot of growing pains and they've got to play well to compete. And that's just the way it is. And every week they've got to they've got to find a way to compete and find a

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I don't want to say it's the worst, you know, because obviously, um, you know, things could get worse, you know, as far as what may happen or may not you know, down the road. So I don't want to speculate towards that. But I really believe that the way the league has set up the protocols and the contact tracing and everything from that nature, you know, has at least given us the ability to, um, um, go ahead and continue to

play these games. I think that, uh, this is a great opportunity right now for for all of us you know in this league, coaches, players, support staff, you know, to remind ourselves of, um, you know, with a lot of these openings that are going on, of our awareness of once more outside the ability and what we're doing. And you know, knowing that that you test every single day, UM, that doesn't mean that you're not going to be exposed

to it. Head coach dug More own earlier this week after news of the Tennessee Titans having a number of positive cases of COVID nineteen and welcome back Jack. It's happy our j P. Shadrick Jeff Loguvant, Tony Boselli. Yeah, let's get to this. Obviously, the big news was all the positive tests for Tennessee. They were scheduled to play the Steelers this week, and there was hope originally that they were maybe going to push the game back to

Monday or Tuesday. But since that idea, they have had more positive tests come through in both personnel and on the roster, so the most like that, so they've postponed the game to an alternate date. The most likely scenario, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN, is moving the Steelers Ravens game from Week seven to Week eight. Steelers and Ravens would have a buy in Week eight currently, and then moved the Steelers Titans game from this week to

week seven. That's the most likely scenario if there are no other positives for the Vikings, and that would have to shuffle some other things around, and as of right now, the Vikings have not had any positive tests since that game, So Tony, that a big change, But you know it's one that we you kind of saw it coming at some point in this season. It just happens to be in Week four. Yeah, outside of going to do what the NBA did, which is just a complete bubble and

trying to lock everything down. I mean, you figured sooner or later there will be some positive tests. Now the concern is, I mean, just a few minutes ago, I was reading on Twitter another positive test for a Titans player, and you wonder how long does this go and how um, because you know, I think there's like a five to six day incubation period where these things can come up. And so what you worry about is a number of these players getting COVID nineteen. Hopefully they don't get very sick,

but how long has it taken to recover? Does it affect them going into next week's scam as well? UM? So those are all things we don't know. I think the NFL is doing the best they can and kind of managing it the best they can, UM. And so hopefully this is an isolated case and they can do what you said JP in week seven a week eight and kind of get these games in. But I'll be

shocked if this is the situation we have, UM. And there's gonna be a lot of finagling and a lot of moving around of games and scheduling and everything else. And it's gonna be a fluid process until the end, and let's just hope we get all six team games in and get to the playoffs. Yeah, I don't know how that's gonna happen. I mean, I think at some point you're gonna be juggling another situation again. And here's

the challenging part. Now that you're moving a game for three different teams, essentially because of the situation in Tennessee. Now you've lost the flexibility to maybe do some things with that team later on in the season. You know. So hopefully, first and foremost, everybody is gonna be okay that has has tested positive. I know that Mike Rabel said that some of the people that have tested positive are experiencing significant symptoms. And hopefully everybody is gonna be

okay there first and foremost, you know. But the one thing also that you know, you read that comes out not too long not too long after the announcement was made about the Tennessee situation. You read about how Derek Carr and some Ookalan Raider players were at like some kind of charity event and we're out and about you go, what are you doing right? No, masks? Yeah, I mean

that's I mean, that's that's shocking. Uh, you know, and Derek made some kind of statement about how well, you know, we wanted to have a night out, want to support our teammate, and oh, wait a minute, what's your teammate doing having a charitable event where you're you're out amongst

the public, you know, when you're trying to too. I don't want to say self quarantine because you're not totally being quarantine, but you're trying to to do the right thing, and now you're putting your team at risk, your teammates at risk, and to me, that's just it's crazy. I mean,

I just don't understand that thinking. And uh, I hope the Tennessee situation and will bring back how serious this issue is to others in the National Football League, because I think, you know, things have been going so well for the league, so well, whereas colleges had to deal with cancelations, et cetera. The league, though it's been it's

been impeccable and virtually no effect impact whatsoever. And I think that when you have that thing's going so well well the players that I think certain staff members or whatever might also become a little lack And I don't know if that was the case with Tennessee. I don't know if if that's the case with the Oakland Raiders. Were all sudden, Okay, now that things have been going so well, we're okay to be able to do this

little event. But this is a very serious issue. If you're gonna pull off the season, all hands on deck have to be exactly exact. And as far as the decision making that they make and the way they conduct themselves in a way that they carry themselves in public and around certain situations. Well, And and the thing I'd add Jet is um, I mean the NFL has has

put in some flexibility within the scheduling. I mean, this is one of the weeks actually there's no division games, with the thought that they condense the season if they need to. And I think there's a couple more of those um throughout the season. And also there's plans and I'm pretty sure that they could push the Super Bowl back a few weeks. So don't be surprised if, as you see the shuffling off, if this continues, And and my guess is I agree with you Jeff, that this

probably isn't the last we see of it. That there is flexibility in the schedule for things to be moved around, And don't be surprised. I wouldn't be shocked at all if they extend the Super Bowl, start the playoffs a little bit later, and try to get the games they need to get done. Uh. Sometime at the end of the season, they condense the season take away weeks and have teams makeup games that they missed their um So there's flexibility that they built into the schedule. I'm interested

to hear. We'll hear from Doug Moron coming up at five o'clock on The Dug Moron Show. But you know, obviously, as as Lounge as you said, you want everybody to be healthy and find and come through this thing. But at some point you gotta get back to football and and get back to your business and go back to work. Like the Titans building is closed right now, everybody's away from there, and Tony, as you said, they have a game next week on the schedule. So at what point

do you get back in the groove. How quickly does that process happen? I guess you just got to kind of roll with it. If you're the Titans right now, Well, yeah, I mean it depends on how how severe, How severe are these guys who get sick, um. I mean, God forbid some of them get sick. We're's a two to three week recovery. How many of them get sick? Um. I mean, I think there's so many unknowns. We just

can't take anything for granted right now. It's really a week to week, moment to moment, you know, person to person, based on how they handle it and how uh this disease spreads throughout the Titans organization or any other organization for that matter. So a lot of unknowns. Um. I think we all knew that coming into this that there's gonna be situations that you just can't control. And even if you do the best you possibly can, there's still a chance. Because they go home to their families, they

have kids who are in school. Uh, they have you know, probably teenagers that go out and do things. I mean, it's it's hard, um. But the one thing you can't do is what Jeff mentioned. You can't be a player who purposely does things at a charity event or other places that really opens yourself up, um, because that even makes is going to make it even more difficult to get through this, no doubt. It's it's certainly a problem

now for the Tennessee Titans. And we'll see the official word whenever it does come down from the League of when that Steelers Titans game will be rescheduled. But as we said, the most likely scenario is Week seven, a few weeks from right now. Now, let's get to Thursday night football. It's a battle of oh and three teams tonight, guys, Sam Donald and the hempless New York Jets, entertain Brett Rippon and the Denver Broncos. Somebody's those gotta go. And

let's say, tie where you got tonight? Are you are? Are you going to watch the game tonight? I'm not sure I turned it on. I hate to say that. I mean, I love the NFL, I love football, but my goodness, there's I mean, maybe I'll want his background noise and as I'm doing something else, but this is one of the this is a bad matchup. Well, it's a bad matchup that I mean, You've got a who mean, who's playing quarterback for the Denver Broncos? Is it ripping tonight?

And then you got okay, got Brett ripping? And then you have damn Donald who. I don't know if it's all him, or if it's Adam Gaze, or if it's their football team as a whole. But I mean, the Jets are just bad, just bad. Yeah, Um, it's going to be something to work, Pete. Who who do you think is gonna win? Yeah? I don't think it's gonna be the Jets. I'll say that this year. Yeah, but the Jets, the Broncos. At least the Broncos will play some decent defense. So I don't think the Jets have

a chance. And uh, and I know the reports of I mean here here, here's how bad the Jets are. There. There's already been rumors and talk about could Adam Gates get up fired, end up getting fired after this game? And and here's the reality. Could he? Yeah? He might because you know what, I haven't been very good so far. And he's supposed to be this offensive guru, right and what has he done for the Jets offense? What has he done for Sam Donald? Done? Done? Nothing? Well? Also,

I'll go out on the limb. I think the Jets win. Oh oh, what what are we betting on that? I'll bet you dinner? All right, dinner, all right? We gotta we got a dinner. Bet you got the Jet just because your FC guy, and then you're totally you're totally abandoning your hometown team. I can't believe that. Well, it's you know, I want them to I'm gonna go for the Jets because I want you to buy me a

nice steak dinner. And I also want to be able to call my dad, who's a big Bronco fan, and kind of give him a hard time after they lose. But I mean, what if, what if Blake Bortles comes in off the bench and leads him to victory? Guys, he might I like my chances? Okay, all right, fair enough, it's not I mean, he's brand new there. I don't think the Broncos are any good. We'll find out who's who's worse, I guess tonight the Jets and the Broncos coming up, Tony. We will talk to you on Sunday

for the Jags and the Bengals coming up. We appreciate it, all right, see you guys. All right, Tony Boselli out of here. Logs stick around. The Doug Morone Show is coming up next. We'll hear from head coach Doug moron. All right, thanks to our entire crew, and thank you for watching and listening to Jaguars Happy Hour on this Thursday, ahead of Week four, the Jags and the Bengals coming up in Cincinnati this Sunday at one o'clock. And this is the Jaguars Digital Network