Jaguars Happy Hour: Tuesday, December 28

nineteen list continues to pile up. The Jacks added some names earlier in the week. Over the weekend, and it's Tuesday. We'll look ahead to week number seventeen. The Jaguars faced the New England Patriots, and then at five o'clock, the Jaguars Radio Network takes over with the Jaguars Coaches Show. Interim head coach Darryl bebl will join us. Will talk through all the things. Let's bring Jeff Lagman night, Jeff, good afternoon. Hey, what's up. It's a lot going on?

You know, I think the everybody could use a happy hour drink right about now. And Jaguar Land did did you bring anything? I did not what it is two and thirteen record, seven game losing skid. There was a report that general manager Trent Balkey is being retained as the GM. So there's been a lot of reaction to that, of course on social media, a lot of strong reaction, a lot of reports of names now that are being contacted for potential interviews by Jaguars brass. So there's a

lot of news out there these days. Yeah, and uh, and we thought the drama was gonna end with the firing of bourbon Meyer, but it hasn't. And you know, you could actually say that the drama has been added on to over the last two weeks because you played two teams that are not very good football teams that had a major COVID issue as far as their roster goes, and this team couldn't be to either one of them.

I mean, that's that's also part of the main story that's going on right now, and that's and that's unfortunate. I really thought that this football team should have beaten the New York Jets. I thought that they should have played much better against the Houston Texans and should have beaten them with the number of starters that that that they had out. And uh, the one good thing, if there's any constellation to to these two games, is that Trevor Lawrence I thought played pretty well in New York.

I do, and his best overall feeling game in a while, well yeah, in a while. And his protection was really good. And the reality is the New York Jets were missing a ton of guys in their back end, so you felt like that it was a game that he should have had some success in. In fact, one of their safeties that was playing in the ball game would have been with the team for less than forty eight hour, So you you would expect a performance like that. So it was good. Look and when you expect it, you

it's good to see. I mean, it's just not good enough just to have it. So um so that was a positive, I mean, And that's and here's the reality. His day could have been even better if his wide receivers would make some place for him. In fact, I can't argue that you gotta you gotta drop in the end zone or near the end zone. I think that might have been in the end zone by Treadwell. You've got uh, an opportunity by Marvin Jones Jr. To make

a play. Uh drops the ball. Uh, there was contact made, but he could have avoided some of that made the timing up it better by coming back to the ball. He had some just plain drops that were just in their hands. It would have been minimal games but still it would have raised his completion percentage and uh and the overall success of the day. So and and he wasn't perfect, but at least, uh, at least it would have would have you would have had a better kind

of showing than what even saw. And defensively, they gave up two hundred seventy three rushing yards in the hundred yard rusher tied for the fourth most rushing yards allowed enfranchise history, by the way, a quarterback that nearly rushed for a hundred yards against them. And it was an embarrassing play on the fifty two yard touchdown run. Yes, I mean, there's no other way to describe it. I

mean that was that was an embarrassing play. I mean you smooched, got him into pocket, got gets out of balance in his rush lane and then Rudy Ford I have no idea what he was doing there when he had an opportunity to push him out of bounds, wingered with a poor effort at the end of the play. Uh, just a just a bad job overall. And that's the kind of play that kind of just sticks in your crawl and you go, come on, guys, got to be

better than that, way better than that. That's the one that sums up everything I think the last little while is that one right there, and defensive and then as a whole had been has been the group that had been hanging in there the last few weeks. You know what, given this team an opportunity if the offense had been doing anything to stay in some of these games they were playing okay, but that was jp that they gave up two seventy three yards rushing yards Zack Wilson, okay.

In the New York Jets were missing they're tuting two starting guards, Vera Tucker and du Rene du Renay Tardiff the left and right guard out. And then the center got hurt in the ball game and they had to do a little bit of shuffling to to their lineup. And oh, by the way, they didn't have their tight end they're starting tight end, nor their backup tight end available in the ball game, but yet they rushed for two hundred and seventy six yards or seventy three yards whatever.

Was Yeah, that's like, what do you come on, Well, if it's not for the offense, and then it's not for the defense, then you get to special teams. And there were issues there to kick off return and that was one of a few that went from a decent distance. Obviously that one went for a hundred and two and a touchdown, but it was it end up a hundred two d and then we changed it. Okay, it doesn't matter.

I mean, touchdown doesn't matter. No, But the reality is, and we're looking at it now in front of us, and those that are listening to us through social media channels are seeing it. Braxton Barrios, you knew he's a good player, he's a Pro Bowl alternate. He was not touched within three yards of him. He was not touched for the entire return, and that's disappointing. Somebody tapped his heel in the end zone. I think that doesn't count. The zone doesn't matter. Once he's Once he's in the

end zone, he can't be touched and have it count. Okay, but I mean that's a you know, Andre Cisco, not a very good job on that, Okay, a couple other guys. You know, look, you've got to be better than that. And that's two weeks in a row that you've given up a kick return for a touchdown and that's that's not acceptable at all. I mean, you can't. You can't.

You can't allow that, especially when you have safety tight players in that situation, so that if you do have somebody that can crease you, then you have a safety that can can make a play and you got you gotta get off a block. I mean, some of these guys were getting blocked and it wasn't even wasn't even good blocks. You know, it's just not a not a very good play. I can tell you that. And here and here's the reality. It doesn't get any easier in

the last two weeks. I can tell you that. And what I mean by that is is that you're not you're out of the playoff picture. You don't have a head coaching place for next year. You're right now the top pick in the next Springs draft, and you've got COVID going on sevens. You've got all this stuff that's going on to distract you from being at your best.

And and we talked about this a little bit before the game in New York about how even though you want to be intense and focused and all that kind of stuff and do your job, it's it's easier said than done. By the way, the Jaguars have just now made an announcement some more roster moves. Yesterday we saw what ten eleven guys placed on the reserve COVID nineteen list.

Here's the full list that has just come down from Jaguars pr and their announcement on injur deserve Logan Cook, punter on ir Now uh from Jacksonville's practice squad to the active roster. Defensive back Brandon Russknack signed to the Jags active roster from Buffalo's practice squad. Tight end call A Wearing signed to the practice squad for the Jags. A punter Joseph Charlton, and defensive end uh An outside linebacker Hercules Matafa and then on three have been placed

on the reserve COVID nineteen list today. Tight end j ap Pollish, Your, defensive tackle j To Filly, and linebacker Damian Wilson. Those are the moves today for the Jaguars. So no, no players have come off the COVID nineteen list today, not yet. Which if if a player is unvaccinated, then it doesn't matter. He's ten days on COVID regardless. If a player is vaccinated, and if he has consecutive

tests that are negative, then he can come off. I mean right now, if you look at it from an offensive standpoint, Levisca, I consider him a starter, and he missed last week's game. He is still on COVID. You have your three interior offensive lineman on COVID list, which is Norwell, Lender and BArch. BArch missed last week's game. Man Hurts the starting tight end, he's on COVID. Luke Farrell, your backup tight end, Dan Arnold, who was on the return Yeah he was gonna return. Are designated a return

Jacob Hollister. Now, the only tight end that you have on your roster that is not on COVID is James O'Shaughnessy. So that's a position much like the hurt last week. At the end of the game, he did it, much like the Jets got hammered at the safety position. From a COVID standpoint, and an injury standpoint. This that's the position that right now looks to be a problem. And defensively, starter wise, last week, Caleman Chasen was a starting outside

linebacker with along with Dawn Smith. So Caleban is now out, Miles Jack was out last week'st along COVID Davon Hamilton, Damien Wilson, Malcolm Brown. And so if you consider that Caleman is a starter, that's one, two, three, four or five six six starters on COVID. Defensively, if you count Calevan and Josh Allen still starters, I mean that's that's huge. Uh. Josh reports are that he may be unvaccinated is gonna miss this week regard list. So that's a tough situation

to be in. And last year, all these roster rules were put in place to prepare for this, but they don't prepare you for this. You still gotta go figure it out. They give you the idea to okay, we can move guys around on this that you still have to go figure out how do it? You know, offense, the tight end position is one that that that's hammered.

Look at the outside linebacking position on defense. Okay, Uh, the only guy that's not on COVID is Smoot because Josh Allen, Renty, McCrae, Caleman, Chase On and Jordan Smith, who hasn't been active for a game yet this year. He was probably gonna be up last week if he wasn't on this. Yeah, and so now you have one guy that's left, and that's Smoot at outside linebacker. Yeah, and they just who they just signed um to the practice squad one, so they get ready, Hercules, you're about

to be up there. Well and you uh, you claimed off of waiver Jamir Jones, linebacker from the Rams. I don't know if he's inside or outside linebacker. I mean we he may have to play outside. Just get out there and play. You talk about a game plan that would be extremely limited, extremely I mean because I know, use the example, the Jets played a lot of man coverage.

And I think the reason why the Jets played a lot of man coverage in that game is because how a lot easier to understand the rules of man coverage. Once you got a guy, you got a guy that it's cat coverage. I got that cat okay, And Joe doesn't like that term cat, but it's app appropriate and that type of situation that they actually had a safety the Jets did, and uh in his name, okay because I made a note of it. Will Parks, which is a guy that's been around the league for six years,

and then Kai Nukua. These guys were signed literally within forty eight hours of game time and played. Both of them were active. Nicol was a special teams guy. I think a couple of snaps on defense, and then Will Parks played I think the entire game on defense. Having been in the system less than forty eight hours. Can you imagine how sore he was, I mean off the street now, not like elevated from the practice squad. Well, I can say that he won't feel so bad when

the chech clears. I know that, Yeah, I bet. I mean, I look at a great opportunity for guys that don't have a job. But I mean, just think about this new variant that's spreading like wildfire. That's supposedly he's not not very damaging as far as the symptoms go. Is taking guys out just because you know we're they're testing

positive for that. I mean, at some point you've got to you start thinking, Okay, do we just not let guy you know, is it okay to play with a what the symptoms appear to be very similar to the common cold. I don't know. There's reports today that the Players Association of the league are working on some changes since the CDC had some changes this week. Well, you know, obviously, if that comes out in the next couple of hours, we'll get that to you. But who knows moving ahead?

Did you watch the Monday night game last night? By the way, Saints had a similar issue, had some guys down, they had the quarterback should book was starting and just getting just destroyed right all game long. It was just not a great football product, especially on Monday night football. Okay, but that and seriously, and you're dead on because of the quarterback situation, that makes it very apparent just like last year the Denver Broncos had to have a wide

receiver playing quarterback for a game. I mean, it's that's not entertaining football, okay, But as long as you have the quarterback. We saw two games firsthand that we're still very entertaining. And and and the teams did a good job, the Texans and the Jets, they functioned just fine. They figured against the Jaguars football team they did figured it out, okay, so and and I saw because of what happened last night, and and it was that's that's obviously, and you're right,

jp that's not a good display football. And in reaction to that, coaches are realizing now that, look, you better start taking some precautions with your quarterback room. And so a lot of teams are are because they're basically all the protocols and everything. Most of them are instituted by the team. For example, the Jaguars, with the number of players that they have, they have intensive protocols in place,

and a lot of those are self administered. And some teams have taken it as far as that they're not getting their quarterbacks in the same room or near each other at all unless it's practice. And even in practice, they're keeping them separated so that they don't risk exposure, so that they don't have what the Jaguars are have happening with outside linebacker and also the tight end potition. You don't want to have that happen to your quarterback room.

Carson Wentz went on the list today and he's gonna be out this week, and who knows about because he's been open about that cold sort of the playoffs. I mean they're right in the thick of the playoff race. And he's out for ten days now, that's right. So he misses this week and then next week he'll be question back the middle of the next week. We'll see, um, so do you have it? We'll come back in a moment.

We'll get to some of these names that are reportedly being asked by the Jaguars to be interviewed some a couple of games that are out of the league at the moment that can talk to anytime, and a little later we'll take a look ahead to the New England Patriots and week number seventeen the Baptist Health Injury Report as well. The full updated list of COVID nineteen for

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like we've had that confidence on offense. Um. But what was different about this one is just so close to down there in the two yard I mean with two yards away. Um. And obviously it didn't you know, be an execute cleaning therapy end Um. A lot of stuff to learn from the way we put that drive together, the way we stayed on schedule. Um, it was great.

And then even you know, Osha goes down, gets hurt, can't do anything about that, louse the last time out for us to just you know, keep our head in the game and really execute and put ourself in the situation get down there. Um. Really, I guess we spiked the ball, I don't know, fifteen seconds or show on the clock and have an opportunity to get a last playoff from you too. I mean, that's all you can ask for in the system. We gotta be better executed

on the same page. And um. Yeah, there's a quarterback Trevor Lawrence after the game Sunday in New York and welcome back. It's Jaguars Happy Hour, j P. Shadrick Jeff Flagaman coming up at five o'clock on the Jaguars Radio Network, The Jaguars Coach Show. Here from interim head coach Darald Bevil and get his thoughts on that Jets game. The COVID nineteen situation. That continues to add up for the Jaguars.

Three more names listed just a few minutes ago added to the list now eighteen if you don't count to E T N, So that's nineteen. Another practice squad players. That's twenty if you count those, and uh, you know it's gonna affect things for the foreseeable few days at least we'll see what happens if the changes happen. All that coming up. So yeah, five o'clock will hear from Darryl Bevill and get his early thoughts on the New

England Patriots as well. You know, there's all these reports coming out now because the Jaguars can begin reaching out to other teams to ask permission. As of eight o'clock this morning, I believe so. So we already heard had heard a couple of names that were not in the league currently, Doug Peterson and Jim Caldwell, guys who have experienced as head coaches in the NFL. But the names you started seeing. Listen to today and report Sunline Byron left Which and Todd Bowles, both of Tampa Bay the

offensive and defensive coordinators respectively, which I got. I got a lot of respect for for Todd Bowles. Uh when the job that he did, I thought, with the with the New York Jets, I think he needed more of a chance, more of an opportunity, and you need you needed they needed some time to get the personnel right, and that I think was a an opportunity. They're lost

by the Jets. You just needed to find better personnel because Todd Bowles is is as stable as measured, high quality guy, and the Jets needed that at that time, and they let him go too early. I thought, alright, so I like him. I mean, there's a there's a lot of looking. Here's the reality. In a perfect world, you'd like to have an offensive type of guy, because you know, you want to make sure that the offensive system states consistent with a young Trevor Lawrence. And that's

gonna be ultra important to whoever that you hire. But it's not. It's not the end all be all. You don't have to have an offensive coach. There's some really a defensive coordinators out there. I think that uh uh also a good defensive coordinator. Mattieberflus so the Indianapolis Colts highly respecting. He's on the list, Uh, Todd Bowle highly respected.

I mean, so there's good candidates, you know, the Jim called Wells and the other offensive guys, the former coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, Uh, Peter Doug Peterson is another day that you mentioned there. I mean, these guys that were at at one point viewed as great offensive minds. Jim calledwell I think it's about sixty seven years old.

Some view that is maybe a little bit of a negative, But I wouldn't necessarily view that as a negative because right now you need to get some a nice calming influence and and some great leadership with the football side of the organization. And and that's imperative, and you gotta you gotta do the right thing this time. And you've made a mistake last year. I guess I say this year because it happened earlier this year that didn't work out,

So you gotta get right. A couple other names that have been reportedly linked to the Jags Kellen Moore, Dallas Cowboys offensive coordinator and Dan Quinn on the defensive side. Yeah, and dan Quinn has been there, done that defensive guy head coach of the Atlanta Falcons, Kellen Moore Byron left, which I would put kind of them in a in a similar boat. As far as they've both been, they're still young um offensive coaches, and obviously both played quarterback.

Kellen Moore is a little bit younger than Byron Byron. There's a link to the organization. You know. I don't know how Byron feels about his time here in Jacksonville, but I don't know if he would view it as a real positive because things didn't go I think it's planned with him, but but nonetheless it would be a different situation with him being a coach and and is he ready? You know, I don't know that. I haven't been around Byron much lately, but I like Byron as

a guy. And uh, and I'm sure he's learned a lot having been with Tom Brady recently. And here's the other reality. Would he want to leave that? I mean, this is you're you're talking about an opportunity to continue to coach with the greatest player of all time. Do you leave that to take a job with a franchise that's been losing for a decade? I mean, that's and I'm not saying that to be funny. I mean, that's that's a realistic question of the matter because in theory,

stick with it until that train is run. It's trying to ask you this, if you're if you still have an opportunity, if you were Byron, would you leave the opportunity to coach Tom Brady, the greatest quarterback of all time? When when you know that you're still gonna have chances down the line, would you leave that opportunity? It would be hard, wouldn't be It could be tough. It would be really hard to do that. And uh and I don't know if there's any player that's ever played the

game that you would consider that with. But Tom Brady, that's different. So we'll see what he said. He just won his eighteenth division championship. I think about that. The Jacks have one hired Tom Brady run this team. This is what is this the twenty seventh season of Jack's football. He's won eighteen division titles. It's unbelievable. I mean, it's uh literally, I mean when I when I say that, I mean and when I say that about Byron, about

would you leave it? I mean, that's that's an all seriousness, now that would I mean, that's look, and I know there's only thirty two jobs and thirty two openings or not even openings, but thirty two jobs in the National Football League and in the in the pay for a head job is amazing. I get all that. But look, Byron played quarterback in the National Football League. Okay, he made money. Okay, he's been a coach ever since he stopped playing. Byron's bank account is not a need right

now as far as immediate need. I'm sure he'd like to be able to put about eight or nine million dollars a year into his bank account by being a head coach. But like I said, there's also something to be said for the opportunity to be able to coach the greatest of all time. And is he really coaching him. He's probably just working with him. I think that's a better way to put it. That's okay too, Absolutely, that's it's good for both sides apparently, because it's working out

well and he's a job. And I like Barron. I mean, I I like kind of ever since he was at Marshal, the whole leadership thing that he showed at Marshall. I like I like that about him. You know, what I do like about this whole thing is that it does start two weeks earlier than normal. They changed that rule with the owners, but JP, the rules, I don't care what the rules said. That stuff started long before the

two weeks rule has been instituted. I mean, and I guarantee that phone calls have already been made around the league for the openings that have been open. I mean, that's just that's just natural. I mean, look, who's to say that agents can't talk and well, you know, hey, look we're just having a friendly conversation here, JP, it's talking ball. You want a football team and you know, look I'm a coach and you know, and talk to my agent. Yeah we could, we could probably work something.

I mean, that's that happens. That stuff happens all the time. It's like free agency tampering. And they have this legal tampering period two days. So now what they do is they actually they violate the legal tampering period to tamper before that, you know. So I mean it's just look, I mean, people talk, and that's not gonna change. We'll come back in just a moment. We're gonna look forward logs. So a trip to Foxborough Nember ward of that, can't wait.

Jackson never won there, just like I was looking forward to my trip on Christmas Day to go to New York and then the day after Christmas to sit in an airport for about five or six hours. Well, we'll come back and talk ball when we returned. The New England Patriots and the Jacksonville Jaguars coming up. Of course at five o'clock. It's the Jaguars Coaches Show. We're here from interim head coach Gerald Bevil ahead of that game against New England. This is Jaguars Happy Hour on the

Jaguars Digital Network, Jaguars Happy. I was bucked you by t I. A. A. Banks Sharon Potenseil into progress and public where shopping dis to play. Yeah, we just didn't line up correctly at the beginning. Um, and then you know we had we had a motion that went along with it, and the you know the once you know once are we weren't all set. We were we were down the flock a little bit, so we were trying to move the guy who was in motion and we

never all fully got set. So, um, you know, not something that that should happen at that moment in the game and something we gotta get corrected. That's Darryl Bevil yesterday recapping the final play for the Jaguars offense and the loss to the Jets and an illegal shift and the game was over. And welcome back to Jaguars Happy Hour j P. Shadrick with Jeff Logerman coming up at five o'clock. More from Darryl Bevil, interim head coach on the Jaguars Coaches Show. We'll break down that Jets game

some more. The COVID nineteen additions. Will have the full list coming up in just a moment, but we'll hear from Darryl and what that does for the organization and preparation and just meetings and are you think in general was I've been shaking up this week around the Jaguars organization. All that's coming up in just a little bit this week though, Logs Week seventeen. Shake it off and get ready because you're headed to fox Fur, last week of

the season, No two more to go. This is the final road trip, uh and it's Gillette Stadium, Foxboro against the Patriots team flatting for playoffs and what it is that's a good question, because we got we got really lucky this past weekend in New York. It was it was absolutely beautiful. I mean it was a little a little cool, but for New York standards, pretty decent. And and then win wasn't even terribly bad either because typically coming across the swamps of New Jersey, that wind can roll.

It picked up a little bit. You could probably hear of people that were watching on television when the mic, when the mike was turned on by the head official, you could hear a little wind whipping into it. But but for the most part, I mean, you couldn't ask for a better day. So looking at six chance of rain and a high of fifty five Sunday at Gillette Stadium, chance of rain Saturday, so you never know, that can

shift a little round around a little bit. But in the mid fifties, yeah, I do know that we were Actually, I think the entire East Coast was expecting a little bit of a frontal system to come down cool things off at the beginning part of next week. And so I'm sure that that's part of some of the same thing that we'll be going through up there. But yes, if it's in the fifties and rain. That's miserable. That's like the worst thing you can play in his rain

low of twenty nine that day. The next day the highest thirty one low of nineteen. Uh Doppler blogs here weather Man, right, a weather man, you are. So the Patriots, Let's start with their defense. This is a defense that's among the best groups in all the NFL. Statistically, they are third in total defense, third in passing defense. They have a couple of guys that are going to the Pro Bowl corner in j. C. Jackson and that Judean who can rush the passer. But you know, they kind

of spread the wealth. There's a lot of guys that can play their part in this defense. Who they've got some guys that they've got guys on covid D have to check the rest of the list. You're just kind of curious because, I mean, the guys that really have stood out from from what I have watched so far. J C. Jackson obviously a really good player, fourth year player out of Maryland. Judeon is uh is a beast. I mean, whoever has to block him is gonna have

their hands full. I really and for years, Donte high Tower has been an excellent player. He's a big kind of a thumper in the middle. Uh. Jwan Bentley I think is a very active player. And so they've got some good players, and they've got some guys that fill some roles like Dietrich Wise, Lawrence, guy got yall and then the rookie Christian Barmore obviously an Alabama guy JP you know him, you know, but uh mccordy in the back end has been there forever. They've got a really

good unit overall. And the crazy thing is they spend a ton of money in free agency on the offensive side of the ball, a little bit of money on the defensive side of the ball, and they do a great job. And they do not have a named defensive coordinator, which is kind of odd. They have a senior uh uh advisor, which is Matt Patricia, who was the longtime defensive coordinator there before he left to go to be the head coach of the Detroit Lions. They supposedly have

Steve Belichick the outside linebackers coach. He's calling plays and his brother Brian Belichick is the safety's coach. Um. So interesting, I mean that you don't have a name defensive coordinator there certainly is. By the way, the Patriots added Matt Judon and Jolan Bentley to the reserve COVID nineteam lists is yesterday. They joined Romandre Stevenson, Diatrick Wise. You see her Durant and Harvey Langy on the lists. So yeah, Rmander Stevenson is a talented running back. I mean he's

a really good running back. I like it. And then Kendrick Boorne was on the list last week early missed all three practices but still played in the game. He tested back in. So they they've had some issues. It's not as deep as of right now as the Jaguars issue. I mean it's uh, it seems like it's like it's everywhere now. I mean, how many friends that you know and family that had Yeah, it's uh, it's definitely different, and thank goodness for the most part, it's it's not

hampering or hammering a lot of people. This this latest strain, you know, I don't know, did you have a chance to read how some of it has impacted the guys And I'm taught talking about the Omicron strain, but the other ones, I mean, heck, the Jaguars have that. Did you read the story about him this past week. Of course they signed uh right, Armstad And I remember last year he was on COVID like the entire year, all season long, and then at one point Doug Morolan was like, yeah,

I don't expect him. Yeah, he's not gonna be back. And I guess myo kard itis for some information with the heart and all that kind of stuff. Man, it's just good to see him back playing football after after dealing with something like that. Uh. The the other latest report a guy that just came out because he just got off the COVID list, Allen Robinson, former Jaguar draft pick out of Penn State, had COVID. He said that he lost about ten pounds. He's not even close, he said,

to be him back to a percent now. So, I mean it's impacting some of these guys in a in a in a pretty big way, but for the most part, it's not impacting anybody that much. So so I mean that's good. Yeah, let's and let's see again. Um if the league changes some of the standards to get back that's kind of the work in progress. According to some reports earlier today, the New England offense Mac Jones rookie overall picked this past year. He's not really pushing the

ball down the field. He's got a high for centage. Now, I mean I keep hearing people say this, and and look mac Jones, he but he pushes the ball down the field enough trust me, Okay, because here here's one way to know. Okay, yards per attempt. Okay, that's typically a great measure of how far players pushing it down the field. He's at seven point two, Trevor's at five point nine. So who's pushing the ball down the field. What's the high point in the league? I would wonder, like,

I mean, it doesn't matter. I mean, my point is is that you know, we're pretty close. We're not saying that Trevor Lawrence is just checking it down, right, I mean, oh, you haven't had a deep ball here most season long, for the most part. But I'm saying that we're not saying that he's just checking it down. I mean, that's the first thing that people kind of want to say about Matt J's Well, he's just checking it down and he's throwing screens and all like, no, he's throwing the

ball down the field. To turn on the film, the guys throwing the ball down. He's not throwing go routes every time. He's not doing that. But I mean it's not like he's you know that they put him in this kind of kid garden level passing attack. I mean, the guy's the guy's an NFL passer, and he's a good player, and he's accurate. I mean, that's very apparent. He's the top ten accuracy guy. And uh but I mean I think that's kind of demeaning to say, oh,

he's just a dinker and a dunker. That's that's not that's not him. And I will say that the Patriots have done a much better job than this team as far as managing their quarterback. First of all, they have a better supporting cast around him, and number two, they have managed the amount of attempts that he's had so far in the season. They have limited his exposure and that's and I think that's a great way. And when you have a very good surrounding cast, you can have

that ability a little bit more. And I mean, look at the attempts and he's had and has he missed any games this year? Zero? Zero? Okay, Trevor missed any games zero? Okay, and and obviously with the Patriots winning nine games, I think is what were they nine games now that they've won that they have been able keep a score and what the score is tight or they're winning, than they have the ability to run the ball a

little bit more. But I mean, just looking from a from an attempt standpoint, you know, Matt Jones and attempts four hundred sixty one attempts on the season. Trevor Lawrence has five hundred and forty three. It's a lot more. And that's kind of my point is that you know, when you manage a young quarterback, you want to kind of limit the exposure that the quarterback has, so you rely more on the running game. You rely more on

the controlled passing attack. They were forced to rely on the running game three weeks ago in Buffalo, and which was all fifty degree snowing and blowing three attempts in that game three he was two or three passing, and I don't even think he wanted to go three passes. I think Belichick would have run the ball game. That is awesome. That changed a little bit. I watched some of that game and that was that was truly impressive. Yeah, I mean, Harris is around the ball. He had three

touchdowns last week over a hundred yards. They've got good got two tight ends obviously to free agents. Yeah, Hunter Henry John hu Smith are two good players. I really like their wide receivers. I think that they do all the dirty work. And that's the one thing that I think the Patriot wide receivers have always done. And that's kind of always a little bit of a trade of a Bill Belichick offense is that the wide receivers always

do the dirty work. They're good blockers. Um, They're not the Keyshawn Johnson types that say, oh yeah, I gotta get the ball, which was which made Randy Moss the one, you know, or the limited amount of time that he had in New England so interesting because that's typically not what you have with the New England Patriot types of guys, you know. And but I like their wide receivers. I

think they they're they're very good. The one guy that they had as a high pick a couple of years ago that doesn't get a ton of balls as Harry and kill what uh and kill Harry? The wide receiver? He was the first round pick, wasn't he Okay? I like him just because he's a big dude. He doesn't get the ball a lot, but uh uh, not a ton anyway. But I like him just as a blocker.

He's a big dude too. But Jakobe Meyers born Aglar, I mean, they do a really good job of spreading the ball around with that offense, and and their offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels does a really good job. Now I'm not a big fan of him as far as you know, being a head coach because he hadn't done a very good job and what happened with the Indianapolis Colts doesn't kind of leave a real positive taste in your mouth

about him as a potential head coach. But making a mistake about it, he's a very very very sharp offensive mind. Harry thirty second pick in the first round and big dude. Have you seen him? I mean he's like two pounds, yeah, I mean big. So let him in la Visco lineup. Is uh, they've Both of those guys should be these hybrid wide receiver h back. Seriously, I mean they should

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the Jets game of course. Uh, there's all the reports online of Trent ball keeping retained as GM. And then the names of the coaches that have been or are going to be contacted and asked to be interviewed that are around the National Football League currently a couple of coaches that have already been in the league before who are out currently on that list also, but so a lot of a lot of things going on behind the scenes, and then he got football game to get ready for

and you've got the Yeah. The Baptist Health Injury Report Baptist Health Changing health Care for Good features so many names on the reserve COVID nineteen list, and this is uh, including today, they've added three this afternoon. J two Felly added to that list today, um h. Damian Wilson was

added today. Uh, here's the other one. And then Jacob Hollister tied in adding today Josh Shallen, Dan Arnold, Ben Barr, Malcolm Brown, Caleb and Chase On, Luke Farrell, Devon Hamilton Hollister, Miles Jack, Brandon Winder, Chris Mannerds, Laurentie McCrae, Andrew Norwell, Leviscus Chanel, Jordan's Smith, Jake two Felli, johad Ward, Damien Wilson. Travis Eton Jr. Is also on the list, but obviously he's on I R. There's a practice squad player on the list on the practice squad, so do you have it?

That's twenty not to mention that, I guess what these players are around other folks in the building too. There's a lot going on right now. So so you have twenty and uh, just give people an idea of numbers. Okay, that's a fifty three active rosters. You got twenty out of fifty three. You have sixteen on your practice squad, which are all eligible to be elevated for a COVID emergency. So as of right now, you've got sixteen potential to take care of twenty, But it doesn't mean that you

have enough to take care of every position. So that's gonna be a challenging situation because on that list you have an inordinate amount of tight ends and an also outside linebackers. So that's a that's a major concern. Like if you had, you know, kind of if it will sprinkled around your roster, you'd be like, Okay, we can, we can weather the storm. We got a guy we can.

You know, because typically on your practice squad, if you look at the makeup of most teams practice squad, you have you know, a couple offensive lineman, a couple of defensive lineman. You got a cornerback, you got a safety, you got pretty much a the the the the entire

mini sample of position groups on the practice squad. And but when you have a position that's been hard hit, like tight end and the outside linebacker, it might be difficult to recover and to the point where you're gonna bring guys onto your roster from elsewhere, which they did a little bit of that today. They started in that departiament. At least they signed from the Buffalo practice squad call Holliday wearing tight end um and then a defensive end

and outside linebacker who the practice squad Hercules Matta. Sure about that, well, I mean that's I think I got it close. We got a week to figure it out, so that that's where they are. And well, then we'll see is the days move ahead. If the vaccinated players get two negative tests, they can be on the same day, they can be at the same time. But if they're two separate tests they come back negative, then they're cleared.

But the practice starts tomorrow to get ready for the game. Yeah, and here here's the hard part is that you don't know if they're gonna clear. I mean, so you have to prepare as if none of these guys are gonna clear. And so from a roster management standpoint, it's not like, for example, let's say, okay, you got how many did you say on COVID now from the active roster? Eighteen? Okay, so he got eighteen, he got sixteen guys on the

practice squad. Well, if if you want to add somebody the active roster, do you have to cut somebody or does on the COVID list If they're on the COVID list, so they don't count and then they come back, you gotta get rid of that. I mean, it's just how are how are they going to do that? I mean, here's the thing. I mean, every team, every team has fifty three plus sixteen plus however many that they have on injured reserve. I mean that's I mean, so where

are they getting some of these other guys from. It's just because if they're on the street right now, and they've been on the street for a while and had the Saints last night, had a tackle come in the game that had not played in the game since and was signed a couple of days in the week, a couple of days beforehand. Yeah, it's a it's gonna be interesting to see how they handle this and and this

is where you're your personnel. Guys really have to to earn their keep, so to speech, because that's you gotta have a rollodex. It's pretty deep. And that's I think that's obviously changed dramatically. I mean, in the past, you know, if you were thinking about bringing a guy onto your roster, you would bring him in, have him, you know, work out.

And now you're you're bringing guys on, signing guys side unseen just because you need you need the body you need to be able to play game, and you might end up having the situation where as offensive coordinator. Okay, well, let's say the tight end group is banged up. Guess what we're playing three wide baby or uh, you tell one of your backup offensive lineman study the tight end book because you're playing tight end this week. Walker little did go out, by the way, which he got no

separation whatsoever. I'd be curious. I thought about this yesterday. What was the last time an NFL game had two different touchdowns by offensive I don't think it's ever happened, has it? I don't know. I have to a research project.

I don't know if that's ever happened. And there was another one in the league yesterday to Lane Johnson scored right right and and and I know that, uh, A lot of his teammates were happy for him because he had some mental issues that he was kind of attending to this year and and all that kind of stuff. So I'm good for him. What offensive lineman in one week score? Every offensive lineman wants to catch a pass.

The Jaguars tried to get it to Malcolm Brown last week, you know, in a little flat pass and and or this past week also against the Jets, and it didn't work out. I mean it's uh, I think it's all fine and dandy, and it's cute, but at the end of the day, you know, their offensive lineman for reason. Let's not get carried away. Well Malcolm Brown, by the way, by the way, macolm, Malcolm Brown got smoked. Playing fullback. Yes, you can go out of the routes and such, but

you still have to block occasionally. And you got put in as rear there there was in this play. Uh, And I talked about it in our broadcast. And the Jets have a linebacker Jared Davis. Where's number fifty two? And if anybody wants to go back and watch the

TV copyer or whatever copy that they can find. Malcolm Brown was coming downhill and he's a big de sensive tackle and he weighs he's listed at what does he listed at JP like three somewhere in that range, and he's coming downhill and Jared Davis came downhill and hit him under the chin and literally did the what we call the dead roach in the air. He was his back was parallel to the ground, and he didn't just get knocked down, he got knocked back and was doing

the flying dead roach in the air going backwards. And you can see him kind of laughing a little bit going back to the sideline. Because here's the reality. If you haven't gotten your rear end kicked in the in the National Football League, then you have not played long enough. I can assure you of that. And Malcolm Brown got he got crushed. So if you go on Pete Prisco's Twitter about five tweets down, he's got it. He's got it up, and it's uh lights him up for sure.

I felt that one. Let's take a look at the a f C South standings and yes it is still a division race. Tennessee can clinch it with a win this week though ten and five record Indy at nine and six. But there without the quarterback Carson Wentz Houston four and eleven, they're on a winning streak. All of a sudden, what do they score? How many points this past week? Something? Something ridiculous? Yeah, and then the Jaguars are two and thirteen Tennessee. I mean, what a great

game that they had against San Francisco. And Mike Rabel tremendous job. He's doing a really good job. And that that's a kind of thing you want to find here in Jacksonville, that you know, that partnership between general manager, head coach that's gonna work. And John Robinson and Mike Rabel seemed to have really good chemistry. Mike Vrabel, I think is one of one is the finest young game day coach that there is in the National Football League. I really believe that. What do you mean by that?

Just as far as handling personnel, handling the roster, handling game situations, the time out's intentional penalties. UM, I don't want to and I'm not trying to say that he is as good as Belichick, but he reminds me a little bit of Belichick just while he played here. I don't understand about he just reminds me because there's there's very few details that he's not prepared for in a game. And that's impressive. And that's what you wanted to coach.

By the way, put that down as like item number five thousand on the list of traits that you wanted to head coach, the long list, and the Jaguars are going through that, I would guess as we speak. Coming up in about a minute, the Jaguars Coaches Show will here from interim head coach Darryl Bevil. I'm curious what he has to say about all this COVID nineteen stuff. I mean, this is just turn the organization upside down. Within the last week, since we last spoke on last Tuesday,

it all changed. It's definitely changed. And uh, you know when you when you sign up to be a head coach in the National Football League, you know you know that you're gonna have issues to deal with, right man, But all these issues as the neuim coach, it's a lot. Wow. I hope they gave him hazard pay. I mean it's he's earning it, that's for sure. I'll say that. Jaguars trying to get it done this week in Foxboro. Coming up the Jaguars Coaches Show with interim head coach Darryl Bevil.

Joe Fortunato on the audio, Britt Reber on the video for Jeff Lockerman. I'm J P. Shadrick. This is Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network.