Jaguars Happy Hour: Thursday, September 2 - Hour 1

squad continues to be built. They added thirteen yesterday and reports of another ad today at the quarterback position. We'll get to that coming up. No official announcement yet from the team. We'll get to those reports in just a few moments. News of the week has been a busy week around t I A. Bank Field. The Jaguars were on the field today for the final time before Friday, Saturday and Sunday off network coverage of Jaguars Happy Hour at five o'clock today. Blogs will be on there and

we'll we'll hear from Bucky Brooks. NFL Network analyst John Osier will break down the wide receiver position. They originally kept five, added a sixth with a waiver claim, and they've got some guys stocked on the practice squad too, so plenty to get to today, Let's recap the week the Jaguars. We're back at it today on the practice field, the final on field work of the week. As we said, the team will have off Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Travis ET and Jr. Just tweeted a moment ago that quote,

surgery went great. Thanks to everyone for all the love and support. The road to recovery starts now. Hashtag blessed and grateful. Eat In went under the knife today and that's good news that it all went well, according to Travis, and we wish him the best in his recovery in the months ahead and let's get him back and ready to roll in twenty two. But an unfortunate loss with this Jaguars offense that just happened about forty minutes ago, so E t N tweeted that out the roster was

cut down to fifty three Tuesday at four pm. Immediately after that, head Coacherman Meyer met the media and discussed a few areas, including at the time a couple of position groups that were shorter than normal. That's concerned number one for me. You know, we got Dorset as danged right now. We brought in Devin Smith and he goes out there and makes it, you know, makes it catch that I told I haven't seen her guys make so.

But he's also had two a c l as he's an older player, but he gives you the top end of the he can knock the top off the coverage. That's my that's my biggest concern. And also three running backs with the E T M being out, So that's seven conversation as we continue. So the initial initial shot there was five receivers, three running backs, but the Jaguars had the top priority in the waiver claim order, of course, and they do. Through Week three of the regular season.

There was some speculation maybe they'll, you know, bring in three, four, five different guys. Possibly they ended up bringing in one

on a waiver claimed. Tyron Johnson, wide receiver from the Los Angeles Chargers, a young guy and undrafted free agent by the Texans originally in twenty nineteen out of Oklahoma State, spent some time in the Texans, Bills, Panthers, and Chargers practice squads that year, was on the active roster in Week four of last season for the Chargers, and of course the Jags just claimed him speed as his game.

Last year, he played in twelve games for the l A Chargers, twenty catches, just under four hundred yards and three touchdowns for l A. So something that the Jaguars needed. They needed a little more speed. Urban talked about that earlier in the week and they feel like at least they got that with Tyron Johnson now the sixth receiver on the fifty three man roster. At the same time they announced the waiver claim pick up thing announced the thirteen players at the time that were signed to the

practice squad. All of those were either waived or released earlier in the week, and it includes some familiar names of course at wide receiver, so Jeff Cotton Jr. Philip door Set, the second Josh Hammond, who had a good preseason is on the practice squad. Devin Smith had that long reception in preseason Week three, and then Lakwan Treadwell had his moments in camp. Those are the wide receivers. Running Backs Nathan Control and divine A Zigbo are part

of that group as well. So some some guys that with the flexibility of the practice squad this year, you'll be able to move guys up and down. They are familiar with the system, of course, after being in the off season program uh in a couple of instances throughout the year. Cotton and Treadwell have not been here the entire offseason. They came in a little bit later, but they have an idea of what's going on on offense

for sure. There are reports this afternoon the team is not an anounced it yet that the Jaguars, in fact, they just now moments ago announced it that they have signed two players to the practice squad, Matt Sokol, a tight end and quarterback Kyle Loletta, and they have placed Tavon Austin on injured reserve. The wide receiver Kyle Loletta.

If that sounds familiar to you, remember a week one of the preseason he was the quarterback for the Cleveland Browns and had a pretty good outing against the Jaguars, at least statistically. In that game, he was nineteen of twenty seven passing two hundred twelve yards two touchdowns a

hundred eighteen rating. Loletta fourth round picked by the Giants back in eighteen out of Richmond a wave by the Giants and final cuts that year was in the Eagles practice squad in twenty nineteen, the Falcons in twenty on the practice squad, and then the Browns practice squad last season from October through the end of the season. So

Aletta now a member of the Jaguars practice squad. And again just moments ago the team announced that low let Us signed to the practice squad and Matt Sokol the tight end and Tavon Austin, who was having himself a nice camp. He came in very late uh in camp and right away was making plays in the practice field. Had his moments in games. Felt like he could have been at least part of the solution to the Travis

c t in absence, maybe not the whole solution. There's not many guys that can do all of those things, but he's got some experience in the league. Unfortunately, he is on injured reserved after he was banged up on the practice field going into last week's preseason finale in Dallas. So that's the update on the practice squad. Let's move down to the offensive line, and earlier this week, George Warhop,

offensive line coach, spoke with the media. It was actually yesterday and it sounds like starting five should be available Week one against the Houston Texans. According to war Hoop, that's good news. Of course. Cam Robinson turned an ankle a couple of weeks ago. Left guard Andrew Norwell has

been battling through an elbow issue, nothing too major. They're a little knee issue for Brandon Lender and a j Can is still on the reserve COVID nine team list even today, but there are expectations that those guys could be back. There's also a lot of talk to this camp about Walker, little second round draft pick out of Stanford this year, and Warhops still has confidence in the young left tackle for the Jacks. I think Walker's performed right most rookies perform, I think um. I think in

some instances he's done really well. In some instances he struggled a little bit, and most of the struggles are really just putting himself in position to win right, and that's getting used to playing the game at this speed and at this level. Um I made the statement before about Walker, I think he's the most prepared young guy

I've had and I still stand by that. But there's still a process involved, right for a guy to come out of college, to come into this league and have to play left tackle unless you're, um, you know, a top five pick. And even though guys struggle playing left tackle, um you know, as a work in progress. And he hasn't played football and nearly two full seasons. He was hurt Week one of twenty nineteen. Remember that, of course, and we've seen a lot in the preseason. It is

a work in progress. There are still high hopes, as you heard, Warhops stay there. But the starting five that everybody thought was going to begin the season at least, that's the plan as of right now, is to let them start Week one against the Houston Texas. We'll see how the season goes. Attrition things can happen. At some point. You might see Walker a little in a game on the offensive line for the Jaguars. Who knows now on a quarterback, Trevor Lawrence, of course you might have heard

of him. He's the starter. He was the number one overall pick. C. J. Bethard now the backup for the Jaguars. After the trade of gardnerment to the second to the Philadelphia Eagles and beth Word spoke with the media Wednesday about coming into a new offense with the Jaguars after three seasons in San Francisco. Spring was trying to trying to get a feel four up for the offense, determinology, um, all that kind of stuff. You know, it's kind of

like learning a new language. You know, there's some carryover from you know, certain offices in the NFL, and there's a little bit here, but but it really is like learning a new language. So just kind of trying to speak that language with the coaches and get on the same page with them. And you know, I'm still you know, I'm still growing and learning and trying to do that as we're go, and I will be for the next you know, eever long i'm here. So but it's definitely

slowed down a lot this camp. As camp started to get going in preseason started to get gone, it's slowed down a lot, and and uh, you know, I feel comfortable in enough. Well. C. J. Bethard is from Franklin, Tennessee, and he has the beard to match, I think. But good to hear from Bethard this week. The third round pick of the forty Niners in seventeen out of Iowa.

Of course, signed in this off season, got some guaranteed money with that about two point to excuse me, two point seven million dollars, and played in nineteen games with San Francisco with twelve starts to ten record out there as a starter through for just under thirty five yards in that time frame, eighteen scores, thirteen interceptions. You know, And and he's a guy that has been around. Obviously, Trent Balky is here now was in San Francisco. Um

Bethard is going to be a good resource. I think for Trevor Lawrence as well. It's been in the league for a few years. Kind of gets it. Can at least so at what we saw in the preseason. Can is not scared to throw the ball down the field if he needs to. The consistency in the regular year, you know, here's the thing. You don't want to see him all the time. Obviously that means Trevor is not playing or you're up by forty and then you want to see him, and that'd be okay too, But there

it is. He's the backup quarterback and he understands the role. I think he totally gets what's going on and he'll be a good resource for Trevor Lawrence and this offense. Let's move to today. Now we heard from wide receiver d J. Chark Jr. And remember he saw for the hairline fracture in the middle finger on his right hand early in training camp. And obviously he has fired up, as he said today to be on the practice field this week and again next week to get ready for

a week one. Early on. You know, came out dressed at the day running on the side. Um, yesterday we had practice. It was my first time actually in breaking the hood today the saying and just moving forward doing that. Uh. You know running on the side is different from breaking the hoodle Uh, running against the dB resistant running things like that. So there's still ways to go, but you know, I have good faith in myself and my coaching staff to help me get there. You know it's you gott

like tim more days, so I'd be good. Remember early in the off season, d J. Chark Jr. Was challenged by Urban Meyer. I said he didn't play big last year and by size. Uh. He challenged to put on some mus so and he did that eight to ten pounds of muscle in this offseason, came back to the off season program much stronger and now in training camp, just hasn't seen a lot of the field, of course,

because of that finger injury. It's a huge year for charc It is a contract year for him, and you know, as a second round pick, this is the final year of his rookie contract and there are high hopes for Chark to be a big piece of this offense and the piece of it that you can stretch out down the field. They don't have a lot of that, at least proven here yet. They might have it on paper,

but they haven't really seen it. Chark is a guy that can do that, and it will It will be nice to see the full front line receiving group on the field during a game, I think for the first time in a while, if not at all in the preseason, Chart, Jones and Chennault didn't have much time together because of the injury to Chart and and working with Trevor Lawrence, with those three guys out there in a full arsenal, will be nice to see. Let's move to defense now.

Second year linebacker Shack Quarterman is put together a nice training camp Special teams star of course, but He's also loving the field. On defense. His defense is a player friendly defense for sure, you know. And that's one of the first things that the coaching staff you know, implemented when they came in. You know, they said, uh, you know, the way to keep good players good players is to give them, you know, uh, simple tasks allow him to play fans. So Coach Cullen has done a great job

with them. But in terms of when the light came on, I knew soon as I really got my opportunity to put my cleats on the ground, you know, I would definitely uh gain confidence and just knowing where I belong three four inside linebacker. He's a downhill player. Of course. He's right here from Oakliff High School in Orange Park. It's the second season now. He was the leading special teams tackler a year ago for the Jags and his rookie campaign and uh, one of the leading tacklers, I

should say, uh. And he'll be a big piece of that again, obviously on the special teams part of it. Will he play a little more of a role on defense depends on how they set up certain things. But obviously with Miles Jack and Damian Wilson, the front line guys in the middle. We'll see if he can touch the field on defense a little bit more. And part of the Joe Schobert trade, a piece of it at least, was their belief in chat quarterman and his ability on defense.

If not now, then maybe in the future. Moving along, let's finish with the kicker. Josh Lambeau met the media today. He had plenty to say about his season a year ago with that hip issue, a little bit of what's going on above the shoulders with him, but also the kicking situation this year and his status entering You know it, it takes a little bit of time, you know, I've I've never had this situation. I've never come off of

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Can I say that that was a decision maker was certainly in consideration. Heato turban Meyer earlier this week, Welcome back, It's Jaguars Happy Hour and veterans choose v A for the If it's you've earned visit choose dot v A dot CoV. Jaguars Happy Hour continues. JP Shadrick with Jeff Logaman on the desk with us now Happy Thursday. Logs on this weird preseason by week It's kind of odd, right, you know. It's like though, There's a couple of reasons

why I think I like it. One of those is, you know, after a long off season program and you know, training camp and things, everybody just gets a week two. Okay, take a week away, get your mind right, and get ready for a week one. Also for the football team. Second reason I like it those little nicks, those little injuries will turned ankle this or that. I think you'll have more of a full strength feeling week one around the league then I think you have in the past.

I'm not going to disagree with any anything you said, But the main reason I'm gonna say why I like it is because did we really want to watch the fourth prese easing game. I mean, dang, JP, I mean the fourth preseason game was painful, it was right, So instead of having a fourth preseason game, now we get one extra regular season game and a big picture. That's what this is about. That's a good thing. In two weeks is great to allow teams to focus on getting

ready for the opener. But also there's gonna be some interesting days, okay, because rosters are gonna be continue to be tweaked all the way up until the end of next week. That's the reality. And uh and so it's not gonna get quiet all sudden because now there's a bye week. I mean, there's still gonna be a lot of activity. You know. I think we just heard from urban Meyer there and that was the big headline all

that stuff. Well, here's what I think Urban could cut a ham sandwich quote unquote incorrectly and catch hell for it from the national media just because of his name recognition. First of all, I don't think you said anything incorrect. Well, the reason why it became a big stories because the Players Association Association came out and said they are investigating. That's what they said, Georgia type from the Players Association. So when the Players Association says we are investigating urber

Meyer's comments, what is there to investigate? Okay, the script is right there, the video can you can go to Jaguars dot com NFL p A and watch the video to do this thorough investigation. The reality is he didn't say anything wrong whatsoever. Every coach in the National Football League has a responsibility to their team to win football games. And how do you win football games. You get better players. You get better players that are available. Okay, that's right.

And the team actually put out a statement the next day about availability and the importance. And if you're watching on video, you can read the entire statement on Jaguars dot com. We won't go through it here, but look, here's the reality is the availability, which is we've heard general managers and coaches for years talking about that availability is way better than any other kind of ability that a player has. Simple because the player can't play, then

it doesn't matter. So you can't stick your head in the sand and act like that. A player's vaccination status is not of part of the decision making process. Sure it is the deciding factor JP. If I'm well, here's the fact, Okay, let me let me give you where it is. Okay from my standpoint, if I'm a general manager or not, or I'm a coach, Okay, and I've got player A, and I've got player B, player A and player B are about making the same amount of money. Player A and player B about the same as far

as potential. Wise, far as potential the ability to play, everything is equal the determining factory, right, there sways to one And if one's vaccinated and the the other one is not, I'm taking the vaccinated player. If everything is everything else is equal, that just makes sense. You have a responsibility to the team to get the best player you can for the team, and availability or possible availability, is part

of that factor. And I don't understand why, you know, and look, the media and some of the people that criticize that are saying, well, he should have just lied. Okay, Bill Belichick lied about Cam Newton and that's why he was cut. Well, we don't know that. And to sit there and say that that Bill Belichick lit I think it is ridiculous. That's a big assumption. Maybe it was, but you know, you don't know that. And so to sit there and go, Okay, well, we're gonna jump on

her remire. We're gonna call Bill Belichick a liar because they're not admitting the fact. Look, the reality is is that, Look that's a fact, and the players ought to realize that if and this is this is reality player and player B. Player A vaccinated, Player B unvaccinated. Equal. Okay, player A vaccinated, he stays, he gets cut, And now Be's on the street. What do you think best thinking, maybe I should get vaccinated because you know what, I'm

on the street and I need a job. And if I'm on the street, Okay, now there's player being, player C on the street, Player sees vaccinated, Be still stays unvaccinated. The team that needs a guy is going to go to see so once again Be gets bypassed. I mean, that's just it's just common sense. So but anyway, it's a it was an interesting cut. There was a defensive heavy roster. Yeah, I was gonna ask you were there

any surprise cuts? And here here's why it was not a surprise anywhere with the expanded rosters that you have there is is there really a shortage on one side of the ball or not? No, no, Becoman, because look at the practice squad that you as symble melt right, it's it's heavy with guys, you know obviously, And okay, quarterback, tight end, wide receiver, running back, wide receiver, wide receiver, center,

running back, wide receiver, offensive lineman, offensive lineman, wide receiver. Okay, you can pluck any of these guys up on game day, Okay, any of these sixteen guys up on game day and bring them up. So it's not anymore. It's not anymore. And when you're trying to formulate your roster, it's always about the fifty three. You're trying to keep the best fifty three most valuable guys that you can. And then

after that you have six team roster spots. I'm not calling it practice squad because in fact it's a roster spot because you can use them, okay four times for free, each player four times, and then after that, if you need, you're gonna have to activate them up to the active roster to be able to use him any any point after that. That's like having an expanded roster. The expanded roster doesn't make the cut to theft three all that you know of a wow moment anymore. Who are the

four that you think you would protect? And you can change that every week, and so people can't come grab your guys. Quarterback on this list, I mean, you always want to protect your quarterback. And I'm sure that the Jaguars tried to keep Jake Lewton, and they're not gonna come out and say that because then it's kind of offensive. Kyle Auletta, who the Jaguars did put a release out to say that they signed him to the practice they did. Okay, Um,

so you don't want to hurt anybody's feelings there. Always protect the quarterback because you've only got three guys. Okay, they're they're valuable that have obviously, um, looking at the rest of them. I mean to be honest with you, JP, I mean, they all got there, so it's not like there's you know, they're there for a reason exactly. So I mean, you know they'll figure it out. You pick four, I'll pick four. Joe could pick four. And here's the crazy thing you could take. You could take eight of

the Jaguars scouting staff and say give me four. They may come up with different fours every time, you know. But but the biggest thing I think you have to factor in is that where are you light at on your roster And if you're light in one particular position, like your little light maybe at wide receiver, maybe a little light at running back. So do you protect those guys just because the numbers. Okay, the numbers are consideration,

probably so. But from a talent standpoint, if there's a guy that you're sitting there going wow, we got to protect him because we think he's going to be really good. He ain't on the practice squad. Let's come back in a moment. No offense to the guys on the practice right, but there's you're not there yet, but you could be there. It's not the end of the world. No, that's that's a good place to be. You're not there yet. That that means that I'm not saying you'll never get there.

It's just that you're not there yet. Plenty ahead. Let's talk defense when we come back. They kept a bunch of dudes on defense guys, but they did have the one subtraction Daniel quality, So they gonna less one dude, one less dude. Yes, we'll break all that down coming up. Check out of the Official Jaguars Podcast network of free subscript in an Apple, iTunes, Spotify, wherever you get your pods. Give us a comment in a five star rating. It's

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by Vice Start Credit Union Logs. We were going through numbers, right, and you know, the initial fifty three had many more defensive players in offense, even we discussed some of that. They Originally it was one and then since you just had Daniel a quality cut and you acquired the wide receiver from the Charges, now it goes to defensive players,

two offensive players, and then three specialists. Bunch of defensive linemen quite quite quite a bit and obviously with their teams, but but I mean here you're you're talking about seven positions, right if you count the outside linebacker guys, if you're talking bigs, but in reality, if you're thinking in terms of okay, the National Football League is now of nickel, it goes down to that's now four positions, right, Um, yes, okay playing four four one four two right, playing nickel

or dime. So from that standpoint, yeah, I thought that number was kind of high. I thought maybe in my mind, I thought Sidney Jones was gonna make it, and that they would have one less defensive lineman, possibly because you'd want to have the corner corners are hard to find. But you gotta you gotta a draft pick for a guy that you never gave up anything to get in the first place. I mean, that's positive. He didn't have a great preseason. You've got burns on the practice squad.

Who's a young guy, that the reason he's there. Do you think maybe he can turn into something? And then I think there's also the possibility because I will say this, they used the term fluid, Yeah they did, and that that's the right term because things could change in five minutes. Okay, you could end up cutting two defensive lineman and adding a wide receiver or running back and then maybe a defensive player at cornerback. So you just don't know what's

gonna happen. That's why there's gonna be There's gonna be a lot of watching the news release, press release, you know, reading all the different media outlets, following Twitter. I know you big Twitter guy? As are you a huge Twitter guy? Jeff log at logs five and then yeah, and that's right at at logs fifty six, tweet all the time, NonStop, NonStop. Yeah, it's a problem. I'm just knee deep in it. We needed to talk to you about that. I got a problem.

I need some help. Quick, sweeting cold turkey. Just stop. So, I mean, it's it's definitely gonna be interesting. I'm glad that they got the third wide wider, I mean, the third quarterback. I mean, that's a positive. It didn't surprise me about the lower number of the wide receivers we got. We got excited about a lot of guys at different times. But was there anything that may did you continue to go, oh yeah, oh yeah the next week oh yeah, Door said,

oh yeah, tread well, oh yeah. They all had moments. They had moments. Okay, moments ain't what the game is about. Consistency is what the game is about. And that's why these guys have bounced around a little bit, and can they provide you with some big plays at some point? Hopefully because they're on a practice squad, they're probably gonna have to play for you at some point. But did

they warrant being on the active roster. No. The concern though, is that the guys that you have on the active roster, there has not been a whole lot of continuity because they all haven't been practicing this well. I talked about it earlier with Shark's been out, the starting three really haven't been on the field together, and then the other three guys are on the roster, but they've kind of

come and gone. It's yeah. But the good thing is as we saw you played the DJ interview early on and we heard that we heard him say that he's practicing now, So I mean that's a positive. And can you do developed chemistry and in a short amount of time. That's difficult to do it really is, It's really difficult to do. So I feel like they had some of

the offseason though, sharking those guys. It's a long time ago. Yeah, but you know what JP think about it in terms of of the greatness that we've witnessed in the league when there where there's real chemistry between guys, I mean real chemistry, and I when I always sit there and I go, okay, what's greatness? Well? Who do you look at? Tom tom Brady? And who do you listen to? Tom Brady?

And he takes this rookie draft pick that he's got over there in Tampa Bay this year and he's taking this guy every where he's going because he said, look, I gotta I gotta count on this guy. He is gonna be a contributor for us. Because the Tom Brady that we've seen before, which we had the opportunity to watch it firsthand up in New England when the Jaguars went out there to practice, if you're not if you're

not one of tom Brady's guys, you don't practice with him. Yes, okay, because he doesn't want to build chemistry with some guy. Okay that's not gonna be around. I thought you're gonna say something else there, but I thought you're very being nice to better. Yes, okay. He wants to practice with guys that he's actually gonna play with because he wants to build chemistry with those guys and So with Trevor Lawrence, this is gonna be a little bit of a challenging

year because he's a rookie. And on top of that, how much time has he had to build chemistry with the starters. That's that's gonna be an interesting watch. But he's a talented player, and I'm sure he's gonna figure out the best way that he can and the fastest way that he can to develop chemistry with him. Jaguars kept five safeties, all good players, Cisco for Jenkins, Thomas, and Wingered all good players, all good players. I like

them all. And you know what uh and Urban actually said they they felt all eight safeties that were in camp are gonna be NFL players. I thought I thought that Jared Wilson this was worthy of a roster spot. I'm not. I wasn't a big fan of Josh Jones. I just he's been around the league a minute. Yeah, well, I mean there's he's had some things in the past that's affected his ability to be an effective player and has not been a smart player at times. And but

the safety I mean, these guys are good now. And and here's I think one thing that I think Trent Balky gets because you have two weeks. Okay, now you've got this window, and what can still happen? Okay, fluidity, right absolutely, and fluidity means cut a guy, claim a guy, trade a guy, okay, and trades certainly are a possibility. And so when you get down to fifty three, you're

trying to protect because you have two weeks. You're not thinking quite yet about game that you are in the back of your mind are but it's still a little ways out. But and if you still you still got a little time. So I think in the front of your mind, if you're a general manager in the National Football League, now this year, as opposed to other years, you're thinking about where's the value at who can I keep that's gonna give me? So so even safety, and

the safety is a perfect example. Okay, you've got five guys there, and in reality you had six. You could have kept all six, and you could have said, hey, I got six guys here, and all these guys are worthy of a roster spot. Somebody may want one of my safety because this is where we're pretty good at. And I've got a week to figure things out. I've got a week to make some phone calls put some feelers out that maybe I can I can help my running back position out, maybe I can help my wide

receiver position out. Because this guy, some of these guys that I have at safety, I think some teams are gonna want them and and be a trade. So I think from that standpoint, I think it almos would change how general manage would approach this year's final fifty three a little bit. And now you're gonna make sure that you protect your best fifty three. Okay, I got my arms around all my fifty three guys because I know I like these guys and I covered them, and these

guys got value. I'm not quite ready for my my game day roster. You know, I know him a little week at running back. I know him a little week at wide receiver. Okay, that's okay, because I got two weeks because I like these guys. They got value. And then I might take one out because somebody else is gonna take one out of theirs, you know, so you might make a little little swap. So stay tuned Fluidity for those listening on radio and not watching this, he

Jeff is quite a dramatic actor. I'll say that I was like, he's bringing all the chips into his side. Yeah, but I would taking chips. You know, I was thinking like food, I'm keep protecting my food, growling at people, get away from my safetys. I'm plenty to get to. We'll come back in a moment with the injury reports.

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Checksonville Jaguars Well Back. It's Jaguars Happy Hour on a Thursday afternoon. It's an early bye if you will. J P. Shadick with Jeff Logaman. Let's take a look at the Daily's Place schedule. There aren't many bye weeks left for Daily's Place. It's about to get hot and heavy. Logs tomorrow. Chris Tomlin Carry Job and Bethel Music Tour. Rod Waves September nine, Sam Hunt September ten, Trippy Red September eight.

Alice Cooper's on the schedule a little later, Santana. We've got Zack Brown Band tickets at Daily's Place dot com. I wonder if, like on the September twelve, when the Saints and the Packers are gonna be playing here at t I bank feel okay, yes, could they put the Jaguars Texans game on like a big giant screen inside Daily's play Good question, yeah, because it's the one and

then the same and Packers. I mean, if if I was a Jaguar fan and they had if they said, hey, look we're putting the Jaguars game up in the stadium at different places, I'd be like, all right, cool man, I'm gonna go watch the Jaguars play in Houston at the stadium here in town, and then after we partied up and watch them, then I'm gonna go watch Aaron Rodgers take on the New Orleans Saints. Right. Interesting, interesting idea. Yeah,

I wonder, well, let's look into that and see. I think that'd be a pretty cool day to what, uh you know, double head or football. I mean, of course, you know you have all the monitors with updates and stuff from all the other zone. If you had a dedicated big giant screen to the Jaguars game inside Deli's Place. Man, I'm I'm, I'm gonna find me a seat. Let's take a look at the injury report presented by Baptist Health changing healthcare for good and the Dylan Moses on the

active non football injury lists. That seems like a longer term play and to deserve updated a moment ago, Travis E. T N Jr. And Terry god wouldn't done for the year. Tavon Austin was added today with a quada issue he

went down on the practice field last week. And different categories for those guys, Okay, okay, because E t N and Godwin are on i R for the year, correct the i R before the fifty three was made, Okay, Tavon Austin was a part of the final fifty three and now he was put on it after the fifty three was determined. So now he is gonna be on what what I call a short term I or he can play in a couple of weeks. Okay, So that's

a good thing. And an a j Ken obviously once he comes off the COVID list, they will have to release somebody from the roster to open the spot back for him because he does not count against the final fifty three being on the COVID list right now, So there are some changes to come whenever that happened. Fluid it is right. That's the definition of fle with That's what we have right now. There's your injury report, presented by Baptist Health Changing Healthcare for Good. You mentioned the

Packers Saints game. The Saints earlier today put out the ticket information for that game. Saints are still running the game from away. I understand that the Jaguars staff are helping them um as the primary ticket sales force here in uh in the in the stadium, pre sale is open for st season ticket holders and Saints and Jaguars Suite holders right now. Pre sale for the Saints priority wait list is at seven o'clock tonight Eastern time. General public on sale tickets for this game in week one

here at t I A. Bank Field. That's tomorrow eleven o'clock Eastern time. Purchase at ticketmaster dot com that's the preferred method, or you can call the Jaguars ticket office nine oh four six three three two thousand. The Saints in their announcement today said, you know, there's so many people Saints ticket holders affected in New Orleans area obviously, and may or may not have access to internet or

ticketmaster dot com or their phone. But if you have a way and want to come to the game, you can still call the Jaguars ticket office nine oh four six three three two thousand. Parking will be available first come, first served, but it's thirty dollars per vehicle, and the lots associated with t I a bankfield. There's gonna be I think Saints and and Packers fans coming from you know, four mile radius. I mean, and I think it's gonna

be awesome. I mean, what a great opportunity for them that, uh, you know, instead of driving all the way to wisconstant. If somebody's living and let's say, you know Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina or whatever, like, hey man, let's go let's go check a game out. It's right down there in Jackson. But I think it's it would be a lot of fun. And and again, if you can tune into the Jaguars game somehow, if if that that's gonna be in the stadium at a place and and gonna be dedicated to

the Jaguars game until kickoff happens. With the Saints and the Packers, I would make it, I think a very attractive opportunity. I'll say this, the Saints and Packers only rule through here once every four years, right the rotation Aaron Rodgers Rodgers last year in green, but many more chances may you get to see Aaron Rodgers in a

Packers uniform. Okay, and let me just say this, kudos to the Jaguars for offering up the stadium and the city and helping the Saints out, because I mean, wow, I mean, what a what a tremendous uh uh tough situation that the Saints staff, the Saints fans are in with Ida having gone through there and and created a lot of havoc, and I mean, it's just it's a It's a great gesture on behalf of the Jaguars because they're helping do this. And there's a lot of staff

members on the Jaguars that are gonna help this work. Okay, They're gonna be putting in some moti to help the Saints organization and help people see football and now that's it to them, and kudos to the that's that's ticket sales. Like we just mentioned that the staff here is the primary sales staff for the Saints for this game. And

then uh in in stadium entertainment people as well. I mean there they there was a big call today to figure out how and who's gonna run what, And it's still those conversations will go all the way through next week too, but it'll be interesting. But I mean, the way I read it, um, the league wanted the game in an NFL stadium because of especially because of the instant replay they have to have the wire to Yeah, that's they they want to have all games in NFL stadiums.

And remember in Katrina. The right after Katrina, this is obviously two thousand four or five, Um, they played a game at Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge at one point, and then went to San Antonio and played in the Alamo. Done. They were moving around a bunch of different places. And now you know, we'll see what happen. They only have one more home game in the next six weeks, the Saints, so we'll have to look. I haven't looked at this idea, but they're just trying to get through a week one.

I think it's pretty pretty unique opportunity, no doubt. So the Jaguars that week will be in Houston against the Texans. First start ever for a guy by the name of Trevor Lawrence. I've heard of him. Uh, it's going to be a big day for Jaguars fans that they've been We've been waiting on this for a long long time around this organization, just to see somebody like that suit up and run out of the tunnel. I mean, he looked good in Dallas, I mean really good. And that

was when Urban talked about prior to the game. He said, you know, we want to try to get a taste of success, experience success, find rhythm, get tempo, all these things that you're trying to do leading up to the first regular season game. And I think the confidence from a confidence standpoint, and you know, a lot of people say, well, you know, some of the guys that I work with, Oh, well, you know, the Cowboys didn't play thirty, guys didn't dress thirty.

Some of the guys you work with, you and Sally and Dempsey, Urban Meyer he's said that too. Well, I mean here's the thing. I don't care if you're playing against guys that okay, they sat thirty of them. Confidence is a good thing. Urbans said that also, and so to to and even if you're playing against what was the high school you went to, Hewett Trustville High School, Hewett Hewitt Okay, even if you're playing okay, if you're playing the Huskies, I don't care. If you're playing them,

you have some success that it builds confidence. And so that's good for the Jaguars offense. Heading in the regular season. I think the defense continue to do some solid things and probably less impressive because there wasn't as many weapons out there, and it was very obvious that the quarterback play for the Cowboys was not very good. That was partly due to the Jaguars defensive performance. But to see the offense of the Jaguars have some rhythm and have

some success was really good. In fact, JP, He's going to the helmet, folks, there was if you're watching on Jaguars dot com, he's pulled a helmet off the shelf behind him and it is in front of him and he's about to demonstrate something. Well, and what the reason I put this up here and for those that are just listening on the radio, I get it. Okay, So Jaguars helmet that has two pieces or two stripes of athletic tape going down the middle from the forehead to

the back of the head like a mohawk. Yes, okay. And the reason that I have this up here is that the Jaguars quarterbacks actually throughout training camp actually wore this on their helmets. They had two pieces of athletic tape like a mohawk stripe going down the helmet. The reason that they had that is because, and I give the Jaguars coaching staff credit, I have never seen, seriously, and I'm not joking. I've been in the National Football

League since nineteen nine. I've never seen coaches do this on a helmet in the NFL. Never. And what does it mean? What is it for? A lot of people may be asking, Yeah, a quarterback's eyes are not everything, but they're a big part of the game. And there's two plays that I was able to watch on film that were extremely impressive and that you could tell that the focus and concentration on this white stripe of the

helmet in practice paid all for Trevor Lawrence and the jacket. Okay, and I drew one of them last night and that played on wired. Okay, remember the long passed the TV show? You remember the long past to Philip Dorset, and it

was to Trevor Lawrence. Is right, yes, it was. If you watch on film, when Trevor Lawrence is getting the ball in his hands, the first thing he does, because they're kind of showing cover two, the first thing he does is to stare at the one safety that's buzzing back to the middle third to play a single I safety. Why is he staring at him? He's trying to get him to move back into that deep middle, and so he uses his eyes to move that safety into the

deep middle. What does that do? It left room for the one on one with Philip Dorset against the corner on the right side. And so what Trevor Laurs does He gets the snap, he drops back and he's staring at the safety right down the middle field. He's wanted to draw him into the middle of field. He knows where he's going. He doesn't need to look over there to the right. He wants to make sure that that

safety is not going to be a factor. Stares him down right in the middle, brings him into the middle and then turns once he hits his back foot, turns the right, sees that okay, he's got a little step on him, and he launches the ball to the right and he drops it halfway between the numbers and the boundary, which is the only place that his wide receiver can make a play out of the outstretched arms of the cornerback.

So a couple of things. One guiding the safety with his eyes, and that relates to this helmet thing because he's making sure that he moved the safety, but then balls placement. It's a great job, I mean, and that's what this isn't tonight. On Jaguar's All Access. There was another play that he used his eyes also. It was the the touchdown to Pharaoh Cooper. Okay, and on that

play he uses his eyes. He drops back okay, and he stares down Farrell Cooper to the left okay, And you can see the head turned on the left from the end zone view behind Lawrence okay, and the stripe is not wearing it okay, but visually, yeah, we're we're thinking we're seeing a stripe. He's staring Farrell Cooper down the safety actually sees him staring Farrell Cooper down, so he actually starts to run up towards that wide receiver.

And then the corner saw Trevor Lawrence staring down Farrell Cooper as well, but he takes his eyes off of Trevor immediately because he saw the stair down. Now he's looking at the wide receiver. Cooper runs an out route. Okay, now Cooper's eyes actually come into play. He turns to look back at Trevor Lawrence. When he does, he tries to undercut the out route. What happens next the fake

pump by Trevor Lawrence, which the corner doesn't see. But it doesn't matter because Farrell Cooper turns up and it's an out and up. It was a total set up him. And now the real trick is going to be putting that kids size helmet on your head right now. I'm not gonna do this. Is that possible? No, this this will not fin was the last time you wore a helmet? I want to we want to see this on Jaguars

dot com. It was back and when I when I wore a helmet JP that which is nineteen since and that one you know I wouldn't I wouldn't recommend that one for but seriously, and and all joking aside, Yes, I've been in the league, okay in some way, shape or form since ninety nine, and I've never seen coaches use this stripe on a helmet to really work on a quarterback's eyes. And I think that that's fantastic. It's a great way to teach, and it's a great way

to teach a young quarterback. Good stuff. We'll come back in a moment. The network hour of Jaguars Happy Hour is coming up next, and this is Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network.