Jaguars Happy Hour: Tuesday, October 5

through what the Jaguars owner had to say a little earlier. Today, we'll get our final look at the Jaguars loss to the Cincinnati Bengals, our first look at the Tennessee Titans, the division rivals, the division leaders are coming to town this Sunday. How did the Jaguars ignore the noise, move forward and move on to Tennessee. That's a big question

moving ahead. The Jaguars, of course, trying to snap the franchise worst losing skid now now nineteen games four straight to start this season, tied for the third longest in league history. That it's a big task this week against the Titan scene that can run the football and we'll

see if any receivers are back for the Titans. Then at five o'clock today, the Urban Meyers Show will air on the Jaguars Radio Network with head coach Urban Meyer joining us and we'll get his comments on the shod con statement that will come up at five o'clock today on the network, So stay tuned there. Of course, let's start with the biggest news of the week, urban Meyer apologizing Monday for video and photos that came out on social media over the weekend after the mini buy for

the Jags. I just apologize to the team and staff and for being a distraction. Is stupid, um, And so I explained everything it happened and owned it and you know, just stupid. Uh. Should not have myself in that kind of position. I stayed to see the grand kids, and we all went to dinner that night at a restaurant, and then there's a big group next to our restaurant and they wanted me to come over and take pictures and I did, and they're trying to pull me out

on a dance force, screwing around, and I should have left. Well, I've always been so defensive of them, you know, I remember when Trevor told me he's gonna go to Vegas for his batchelor party, and I mean, I was just my gosh, Man, be careful and surround yourself. And because I've seen this happen, and and I just so the team, the team. I spoke to a bunch of leaders one on one, spoke to all the players. They're good, they were focused on Tennessee. And I apologized again for being

a distraction, and Coach would not be a distraction. That was Urban Meyer, part of his statements on Monday to the media assembled here at t i A bank Field. Not long after that more was posted on Twitter, and today Jaguars shot Con issued a statement saying quote, I have addressed this matter with Urban. Specifics of our conversation will be held in confidence. What I will say is his conduct last weekend was inexcusable. I appreciate Urban's remorse,

which I believe in sincere. Now he must regain our trust and respect. That will require a personal commitment from Urban to everyone who supports, represents, or plays for our team. I am confident he will deliver. End quote. That's Jaguar's owner shot Con Jeff Loguman in with us now it's been an eventful couple of days, and it has nothing to do with football moving ahead here well, and that's

that's the problem. You know that it doesn't have anything to do with football, and and at in no way, shape or form do you want to coach to ever be a distraction. In fact, the coaches are the ones that are always preaching about players not doing anything to create a distraction. And this certainly has created a distraction.

And when you stand up in front of the team and you're asking for six months of laser focus and giving us all of you've got for six months and not creating distractions, and then all of a sudden you become part of that distraction. That's a problem. And I think that when that happens, then the confidence sometimes and the believability in the head coach and the respect kind of road. And that's the challenge that I think that Urban Meyer face is now going forward. Is that how

the locker room reacts from here on out. Yeah, everybody's human. Everybody has a cell phone these days as well, and most of the players are on social media. You can see what's out there, so you can say, you know, put the blinders on focus get ready for Tennessee. But you picked this thing up again and that's right there in front of you. You know, two things on that. One. One is that obviously I think we all have made mistakes before and and uh, and we're not nobody's perfect.

I was very surprised to hear that he's aid back and Cincinnati and didn't return with the with the team charter, because that's just how I've always known things to be done. Uh. I think the only thing that I would probably say, okay, that that that's understandable would be is that if a head coach had a sickness in the family of there was a death and attendant a funeral or something in

that nature. But JP is kind of it's kind of like that the captain always stays with the ship and uh, and it certainly just doesn't have a very good look to it. I'll say that, how do you you know we're going through the Shodgon statement here, and we're gonna hear from Urban Meyer coming up at five o'clock on the Urban Meyer Show today and get his thoughts on it. Obviously, um regaining trust and respect. We touched on it there a second ago. How do you think the head coach

has to go about doing that. What specifically can he do to regain that Well, first of all, he needs to use his own terms, which is own it, right. I mean we've heard that term many times being talked about throughout the year, and he would need to own it and to talk to the team and a team setting with the staff there and everybody present. I mean, I think that's what needs to happen. I don't know if that's happened yet or not, but that's certainly I

think the first step. And to apologize to to those that were affected by it. And you know this, this is not an easy situation to deal with JP. I mean I've never I've never really kind of seen anything

kind of like this. And you know, when you had the the press conference that happened, and then you know, the second video comes out, which certainly it kind of contradicts what was said, and so that's the challenging part of all of this, and I think that's why you had a statement that was issued by ownership, and that's not something that you want to have happened during the season. Playing football is hard enough, means incredibly hard. I don't

think you wanted anytime, but certainly not during the season. No, yeah, you don't want to at all. I mean, it looked playing football and when football games is hard. I mean, it looks this football team has lost a lot of games.

And I know Urban mart was not at the home to lose all of the games that were lost, all nineteen games or whatever, but it's just it's not it's not what you want to have happened at this point in the season when you're getting ready to come home and face a division opponent, and for that matter, it doesn't I mean going anywhere. I mean, you just don't

want it at any point in the season. J P. Shadrick, Jeff Logan, the Jaguars Happy Hour and again coming up at five o'clock, we'll have an exclusive conversation with it go Jervan Meyer on the Urban Meyer Show on the Jaguars Radio Network. So stay tuned. We'll get his thoughts on Shotgon statement earlier today. So now looking ahead a little bit, we're gonna we're gonna look back to the

Bengals game also and then get into some football. Moving ahead here, let's start going back though, I mean, this was this was another game that the Jags had they had it in the back, it was to score game, could have been a three score game. And then the second half collapse happened again second week in a row. That's first it was. It was a fantastic football game.

I mean as far as the excitement level, I mean, this was you know, the Jaguars cut out to an early start and then you know you had some drama there at the end of the half where the Cincinnati Bengals stop him on downs. Bengals come out and score on their next two possessions. The Jaguars answer, I mean it was back and forth. I mean, this is as entertaining of a football game, primetime event. I mean, most of the primetime games that have happened in the National

Football League have been outstanding this year. I was gonna say, this feels like most other games we see around the NFL that the Jaguar game, well, that's the time. The games that we've been seeing prime time have been just like this. And uh, you know two number one overall

pick quarterbacks that that played really good. I thought Trevor Lawrence played his best football game yet and he showed some mobility, got his first rushing touchdown of his career, and the Jaguars were able to overcome some early injuries to A. J. Cann and D. J. Chart to still be able to do to produce. I mean, that was that was a strong, strong game, I thought by the offense in the first half and the defense as well.

And in the second half. The defense just once again, like the Arizona Cardinal game, they just they just seemed to struggle in the second half. And they struggled again against the Cincinnati Bengals in the second half. And give Joe Burrow credit and uh and look, they got their running game going in the second half, which they did not have at all in the first half. They did a great job on Joe Mixing in the first half and they had five carries from fourteen yards in the

first half. That was the big reason why you had success against the Bengals. And then they come out in the second half, hit some explosive plays, get Joe Mixing going.

It's the tail of two halves. I mean, opening driveway through a forty four yearlder to chase down the field past Campbell and that kind of opens things up and here we go, you know, and and it seems like there were moments where they kind of spread it out and exploited some of the matchups they felt they had some advantage is in in the Jaguars secondary in linebacker court. It worked out for them unfortunately. And then and look, Joe Burrow also kind of had the Tale of two

halves and so like that last night. I don't know if you watched the Monday night game, Derek Carr was like that. He was terrible. It wasn't very good in the first in the second half, and it until the tale end of the football game, but it kind of got them back in the game. And I think for me, so far, this National Football League gear has been unbelievable. I mean not not talking Jaguars specifically, but I mean

as far as the entertainment here too. For the game, yes, but but the but the the entertainment value of some of the national games that have been out thereby in the NFL have been nothing short of just marvelous. So let's have some more of those with the Jaguars involved, but with a winning result at the end of those.

That's and you know, the unfortunate thing is that where we're at now that you know you're trying to get past this this distraction to talk football, and I mean, this is not what you want to be talking about, which is on a Tuesday, because everything that's happened the last three or four days goes into the next three or four days. It doesn't end. It doesn't end. And because what does you want to move forward and say you're moving ahead to the Titans and all that, it's

still just a prevailing thing. Well, it's gonna float in the air. That's right, it's it's gonna be there. The one thing I think that's a little bit different, Yeah, now post COVID or during COVID, because we're still dealing with it. I guess you could say is that you

don't have open locker rooms anyways. Correct, They only have a certain period outside for certain tiered members of the media to be at the walkway up from the practice field right select players at the post A couple of years ago, you would you had the NFL had required open locker room. In the open locker room, basically the entire locker room was open to all media forty five minutes a day. It was Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and I believe some Mondays though Monday was kind of up in

the air. So yeah, so you don't have that anymore. So now the players are made available and which now you don't have because before, if you know, to go back in the day, Pete Briscoe would walk in the locker room and he could talk to one of fifty three guys anytime he wanted to, as long as the guys were in the locker room. Did that in too. That's one thing that happened when there was any kind

of scandals. And also in the locker room it was like roaches and the lights turned on like just if there was anything going on, you know, so we got lunch to eat or something. It's gonna be a little bit, a little bit, I don't want to say palatable. It's gonna be a little bit easier to deal with from that perspective. But nowadays with the players and social media and and everything else, I mean, it's it's out there

and it's not gonna go away. And so I think it's a great challenge for this team this week from a players standpoint, to to find a way to kind of tune some of the things out and to focus in on preparing for a football game against a rough and tough physical punch in the mouth offense that the Tennessee Titans have because this is just a division rival game.

All right. We'll come back in a moment logs, and speaking of that, we will get into this Tennessee Titans offense and you, my friend, will tell us how to stop Derrick Henry. We want answers today, that's what we want. That's not an easy one. The handle. I can tell you that. Plenty ahead, we're off and running. The urban Meyers joke coming up at five o'clock, the head coach we will join us and discuss shotguns. Statement from earlier today.

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on the eighth. Alice Cooper Logs October nine Pitbull October twelve, three Doors, three Doors down in the fourteenth of October. Ticket to Daily's Place dot com. Alice Cooper Man, did you know that he is one hell of a golf incredible golfer. Apparently Ace Freely is playing with him that night From Kiss Guitar Player. First of all, how old are they? Um, let's just say they've seen some things. That's all I'll say on that front. There's there's certain guys.

First of all, Alice Cooper, I believe years ago got off of the bad things that a lot of rock and rollers were on. But it's just amazing how some of those guys have persevered. Guys like Keith Richards, they just they just made it, And you go, how in the world did they even survive? Alice Cooper is now seventy three years old. Did you ever think JP then could be going to a concert that was headlined by

a seventy three year old rocker? Yeah, named Alice Cooper. No, but good for him and they put together a fantastic tour. Looking forward to seeing those shows coming up at Daily's Place. Also looking forward to this game on Sunday. I know that sounds weird, I'm looking forward to it because it is one of the great challenges every well twice a year to face the Tennessee Titans running game, and how

do you defend it. It seems like, you know, at least the trend has been once a year the Jaguars defense plays it, okay, and then the second game usually Derrick Henry runs for two and twenty yards and three touchdowns. Well, let me just say this too, that when when you say you're very much looking forward to the game, and so am I, And I think that's one the beauty of the game is that the game sometimes it takes you when when you're playing it you think about nothing

but the game. Your blinders are on and so and for some players that are dealing with whether it be personal issues or or you know, you've had this distraction that's created and created this week. Um, when you get to the game, now it's it tunes that out somewhat. And I think from a player's standpoint, sometimes it's nice to to immerse yourself in the game so that you're not talking about everything else that doesn't have anything to

do with the game. Okay, Then now that you're in the game, yes, you have to deal with trying to find a way to stop the best running back that the NFL has and arguably one of the most physical running backs that the league has ever seen. You know your point just a moment ago. Remember the the Baseball movie For the Love of the Game, Kevin Costner is a picture for the Detroit Tigers and he on the mound, he clears the mechanism and everything just down quiet. That's exactly,

and that's what that's what football does. I mean, you hear a lot of guys talk and that may be going through some type of I'm I'm not saying like personal issues, like you know, what's what's happened here with with the Jaguars, but I mean any type of thing. But let's say it's a family sickness or a death

in the family. For example, there were games that some great NFL players, Hall of Fame type players, Brett Farve loses his dad and then plays one of the most incredible games that he's ever played in the black Hole, and he talked about how it's just took him to a different place and allowed him to kind of tune out everything for just that three hours. And that's and I think some players will get to that point this week because you know, here, here's the reality that they're

gonna be. There's gonna be a lot of conversation this week that has nothing to do with Derrick Henry, that doesn't have anything to do with the Titans defense or special teams or the rest of their offensive players. And that's where I think the players are. You know, they've got to find a way to pull themselves together and uh and and get the focus back. Well, when that conversation does turn to Derrick Henry, how the hell do

you stop this guy? I've always heard coaches have different terms for it, but I will tell you this, it's not easy. And there's a lot of different ways. People say, well, you gotta get him before he gets started. Well, yeah, that's easy to do, but he gets started. I mean, he's a great back and you got to tackle him low because you gotta avoid the stiff farm. Well you know what, he's stiff arm guys down to the ground. Well, you gotta make him go outside. He's not a speedper

Oh yes he is. In fact, the Titans a lot of their game plan and their design is to get him to the outside so that he can get on the forced players that might be smaller defensive backs or safeties or whatever. So there is no easy answer. The answer is this, you need to play good sound football and you need to make sure that everybody's flying to the football because it takes more than one to bring him down. Because he's a great back. He's a great back.

And I just know I'll never forget when the Jaguars drafted t at t J. Yeldon and JP will remember this, and I believe they drafted him in the second round, and I remember thinking to myself, I can't believe they just drafted the guy who was the starter, because every time they put in his backup, the backup was better than him, which the backup was Derrick Henry. I mean, over the last ten years in Tuscaloosa, you could throw them all in a pot and they're all just gonna

start at some point. They're all starters. They all roll in there and play sure. I mean, Josh Jacobs didn't even play running back, mutch and he's the first round pickers of running back and he's a great back with the Raiders. He's one of the best Alabama backs that's in the league. Right. Yeah, Like seventy of his touches or something touchdowns. It's impressive. I mean, first of all, Derrick Henry, I think even though as much as Jaguar fans would like to hate him, he's a local guy,

you can still dislike the guy you can dislike. Let me begin, I'll start with this. You know what I dislike is I dislike the hair thing flopping and the draw strings flapping when he's running down the sideline uncontested. I hate that, spoken like hate, spoken like a true bald guy. I don't know. It's just jealous that Derrick Henry. I'm jealous running for seventy yard touchdowns on the Jaguars defense.

That's what I'm jealous about. Ike And I know he's some Julie and I know he's and he's probably a nice guy. I've never met him, but we don't care that with your jealous Yeah, I said, that's no secret. It's what it is. Man, What do you want me to say? I can't believe it. Oh, JP is jealous of Derrick Henry's locks. Yeah, well, I mean, you know what, And I'm tired of seeing it from behind when I'm sure our defenders are too or seeing it from the

ground looking up at him when he's stiff armed. Five guys. I just remember because you go back and uh. And obviously I think it was him and Fred Taylor's son and Derrick Henry if I remember correctly, Derrick Henry is the nation the nationwide all time high school rushing yards leader, correct And then Fred Taylor's son, who was somewhere close to Derrick Henry Taylor and Kelvin Taylor, and they were having games on ESPN, so they played each other in Yuly the last year. Last year, I guess it was

Derrick Henry's senior year. I didn't go to the game, but they were like half the Jaguars team went to the game and on the sideline. It was a Friday night ULI and it was like the most crowded game you could ever think of. I remember seeing the highlights of the game and Henry's running for touchdowns down the field as he always did, four hundred yards or something, and all these scores, and then Kelvin Taylor bounces back and runs a big one. It was like that game,

That's why they went. And which which was the first of all but arguably one of the greatest high school games of all time by two great players and one of them goes on to win the Heisman And now is the best back in the National Football League. And that's not even debatable. There's nobody even close to him. And one thing also two factor in JP, Derrick Henry is now not just a runner. He is also a receiver for the Tennessee Time. See, he never really did

anything against the Jaguars in the past game. He only has one receiving touchdown against the Jacks and it was a little little screen to the left and at the end of seventeen and he took it sixty six yards down the seam. After that for a touchdowns, it was all run. It isn't like catch and run. Derrick Henry is the second leading receiver for the Tennessee Titan Drive. It just gets worse. The hits keep on coming. Man, what is that? And his locks are getting longer? Yours

are not. Nine will never But he's obviously first in the league in rushing attempts person the league and rushing yardage and first tied for first and rushing touchdowns with four of those. The question is going to be, I think is the years go on and I think a lot of people will have the same question about Derrick Henry's career moving ahead. He takes a lot of shots. He does because people take their shot at him when

they can, so he does take some licks. Now, how will be he be able to handle the long term grind of this? How many years are left in this big body of his? Well, JP, I mean, so far he has shown zero signs of slowing downs. He does a great job off the field. He's six ft three ish, okay, and he's two fifty pounds, and that's a legitimate two d fifty pounds. He reminds me a little bit. When I was in high school. We were in uh our

playoff games, and I believe I was. I was a junior in high school, and so we're in the playoffs and we're playing I can't remember the name of the team, was somewhere high school football team that was somewhere from the southwest corner of Virginia. And we go to this playoff game and and they've got this running back and he's about two hundred and sixty pounds and he was just a you know, big roly poly kind of guy,

but he could run. And I'll never forget the coach, coach Ed Scott, who was our great head coach at Parkview High School and Sterling, Virginia, and he's talking to the team and he's telling everybody about how our you know, are tackling plan. You know, we're gonna we're gonna take him low, and we're gonna knife his legs out from underneath of him, and we're gonna make sure we fly to him and get as many people as we can get there to him. And he turns and looks me, Jpenn.

He goes, he doesn't want everybody to go low except for you, Jeff. He goes, I want you to hit him right in the mouth. Get in the game, like this guy is like a tank. So I mean, you'd like to have somebody that can hit Derrick Henry in the mouth. But I'm gonna tell you now, it's not gonna end up so good if you try to hit him in the mouth. No, because he's gonna hit you in the mouth with a stiff arm and you're gonna go flying about three yards if you're a smaller guy,

especially plenty ahead. There's a lot more to to talk about on the Titans offense. We'll get to that coming up just real quick. Yeah, nobody wants to make the Derrick Henry stiff arm highlight reel. It's long already for Flaire's talk about it. Yeah, I mean, that's how good Derrick Henry stiff farm is. They literally have drills with

opposing teams have drills for Derrick Henry stiff arm. You remember in years past and then they're in the Jaguars and years past, weren't the only teams that had that. They literally practice on knocking the stiff arm down to get into the framework of the body of Derrick Henry.

It was was it the Josh Norman when where he kind of lines it up, he's running wide, he sees Norman coming and kind of keeps his arm in and then Norman's kind of get in there, and then he throws him across into the sideline and they're all on his face. Anyway, all right, let's avoid that this week. We're back in a moment plenty more ahead on the offense of the Titans. They could have a couple of receivers back, and not just any receivers, quarterbacks playing well.

They've got we've got a lot of options and a little later we'll get into the Titans defense and what the Jaguars can do this week on the offensive side of the football, and again coming up in about thirty minutes five o'clock, it's the Urban Meyer Show on the Jaguars Radio Network. Head coach Urban Meyer will join us and address the shot con statement from earlier today. Check out the Official Jaguars Podcast Network a free subscription on Apple, iTunes, Spotify,

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say the least. All that coming up at five o'clock on the Jaguars Radio Network. Hope you'll stick with us right here on Tinton Excel and ninety two point five FM. Also here in Jacksonville to day in on Jaguars social media. Let's finish up the Titans offense. You know, I don't know about the hairstyles of Julio Jones and A. J. Brown and those guys like I know Henry and that's because you're in Alabama what it is. But Julio Jones is one of the best to do it in the NFL.

He was out last week, as was Brown. And if those guys are back, then that balances everything out and you give Tannehill some other weapons down the field, and that can be a real dangerous issue for this Jaguar team. Well, and it could be a dangerous issue because I mean, we saw this Jaguars team have a hard time dealing with some big plays against the Cincinnati Bengals. We saw

that with the Arizona Cardinals. Now, for example, the Cincinnati game, he had a forty four yard of Jamaar Chase and Boyd had a couple of big plays, explosive plays that happened the week before against the Cardinals. I'm trying to remember the name of the wide receiver that wasn't even a main guy, but A. J. Green had a couple of big plays against the Jaguars, So it doesn't get easy.

You know, the only good thing maybe about where the Titans are at right now is that their passing game is not hitting on all cylinders and that Okay, Julio Jones didn't play last week, so is there gonna be a little bit of a ramp up time needed for him to kind of hit a stride? And you know, how good is a j Brown? What's the chemistry like with Tannehill? But I can tell you this, Tanny Hills not off to his best start as a In fact,

he's off. He's off the mark. And when you have a great back, the one thing that always is a threat is play action. That's where explosive plays come. Probably sev the explosive plays in the league come off of play action. And if you've got the best back in the league, there's your opportunity for having those explosive plays. And so that's why I've always said this that, especially with this Jaguars defense, because they're not doing a very

good job right now affecting the passer. They have to be really I mean not just okay, they have to be top notch against the run if they're gonna try to impact the passer, because that's what something that's an areay're struggling in right now. Yeah, I gotta slow that down. And then um, yeah, and then where's the what's the answer to that? Is? Is it? We talked about this on a Monday show with Pete and Tony. You want to know the answer to that? I can't wait to

hear this. Okay, here here's the answer. And I'm a firm believer in this. JP playing defense in the National Foot pau League, stopping the run is about attitude. Stopping the pass is about talent and that if you're doing a good job against the run, because that means you're committed to it and you can scheme it up. To stop the pass, you have to have the guys that can rush the passer, and you have to have enough guys that can cover the receivers that make plays on

the ball. Talent and I will always believe that, and I think that they're they're working on it, and they added a lot of guys in free agency to address the best they could. But the reality is you're not gonna find a great pass rusher around every free agent corner because teams just typically don't let them walk. Oh. You could argue that a lot of the work they did in free agency and the offseason was to stop the run. That was priority number one. If they then

they can't do anything. So Malcolm Brown and Robertson Harris and all those big guys in the middle, and let me let me add this to I mean they added in free agency, but I also will say that the one guy that I think is playing really well up front right now for this Jaguars football team, Adam Gotsis. Last year, I thought he was dragging the one leg that he was coming back from an injury, and I

think it was an a c O possibly. You know, this is a guy that was the second round pick of the Denver Broncos, and you could see clearly at the beginning of the year last year that he just didn't have the power in the leg. Was the season war on He started to get better. This year. He looks like a little bit of a different player to me. I think he's impact in the game in a nice way. He's stout, very stout against the run. He had to sack this past game. He's got two sacks on the

season now. But they need to find a way to get more people to affect the passer. Josh Allen needs to raise the level of play. Miles Jack needs to raise his level of play. Shaq Griffin, Ray, Shawn Jenkins and these guys need to raise their level of play, because that's the only way that you can get better. Is it by individuals taking care of their job and improving on the performance of their job. I was flipping

around outlogs. You think back to the Titans of about four or five years ago on defense, and Darrell Casey pops in your head. You know, he was kind of their big guy up front. He was a big guy with the teenies cans you've ever seen. But he was always an issue, right he had calves like this big a round and it was weird. I was like, how does a guy that's a defensive tackle that is, you know, close to three and he's got calves as big as who do we got skinny? But no, he was an issue.

But now he's no look around here. So Shaun Evans is their leading tackler linebacker, right, Harold Land he's there. He's an outside linebacker. I mean, but who else is on the Simmons Simmons is up Simmons is a good player, and he's a he's a force, can be a force in the middle um. But they just, you know, there, that's a defense that it was kind of similar to the Jaguarson that they're They're still trying to find more talent and some of the talent that they have had

has just kind of been okay. And they've trust me, They've they swung many times at and I think John Robinson does a really good job with that football team, the general manager there. I like some of the things that he's done. I think he does a pretty good job. And uh, but sometimes it takes time to build talent. And much like here with Trent Balky and Urban Meyer taking over, they can't change this defense instantly by the snap of a finger in one year of a draft

and free agency. It takes a little bit of time. You've got to have free agent guys impact, and you also have to be able to address your defense through the lifeblood of any franchise, which is the draft. And right now they haven't gotten a lot of production out of the defensive pick yet, and hopefully in the future those guys will all continue to get better and improve and start having an impact for this defense. The Jaguars offense mixed in some more that read option run with

Trevor Lawrence. Last week, of course, hand the ball off a bunch to to James Robinson in the first half against Cincinnati. They got away from it in the second half a little bit and couldn't run the ball effectively in the in the second part of that game. But you know that that feels like it's what it's gonna be. I mean, Trevor's I think running the football now about six, eight, nine,

ten times a game. Ten might be a little heavy, but just to mix it in there and kind of keep him comfortable and keep the defense off balance that read option, maybe an option down to their goal line, but maybe not on fourth and one. Again, you know that I think that's going to be. It is moving ahead at least that's the feeling just seen at the last couple of weeks. Mixican and more and more with

Trevor Well. I mean, first of all, it's it's always it can always be good, and it makes it easier for an offensive coordinator if the quarterback has the threat of mobility, because it makes them account for the quarterback as a runner, which is the whole purpose of the read option. A lot of times in the national football if you have a classic drop that quarterback that doesn't have the ability to run, Okay, now you're not accounting for him being a runner. And it's different when when

because Trevor has the ability to run the football. And it was I think a season high far as the number of carries goes against the Bengals, and he did a good job for the most part. You know, when he had that touchdown rushing on that drive that he had, I was I think I was a seven yard touchdown run. That was a really good one on one move that he had against the defensive ental How State got Hubbard He's sliding around and it was. It was an excellent play design and a great one on one move that

Trevor had. In fact, we're gonna me drawing this one up. Oh yeah, I like it. For baby, I love it. Tomorrow night like Jack's Ward and then on Jack's Wired Jags Ward. That's on Fox Fox seven seven seven, on Fox thirty tomorrow, thank you, thank you. Dave de Camp would be tomorrow so uh and then on Thursday for Jaguars All Access. We're actually gonna take a look at James Robinson's first touchdown. If I was to give you

seven guesses of who got the key block? Seven guesses jp who got the key block on James Robinson's first touchdown run? Go? Uh? The new tight end, Dan Arnold, Cam Robinson? Uh, Trevor Lawrence? How about the right tackle, Jawan Taylor? Give me, Marvin Jones, give me Jamal Hagney. You actually got it on the fifth really, Marvin Jones, German Jones, all right, gets the key block on a j rob touching? Does what he gave it to you in your ear? No, not at all. That's honest truth.

That's the honest truth. No. Never. Brent Reaber would not. He didn't thank you. Okay, he got it, he got it, got it. But I mean he's a he's a team guy. You know, you need a guy to do everything. He's a good route runner, he's the reliable security blanket for the quarterback in the passing game, and he's running run blocking. Now, tune in and Jaguar is all access to see it. I love it. I can't wait to see that. We're back in a moment plenty more ahead the injury report.

A couple of guys, go on I R for the Jags. This week one comes off the COVID list and we'll take a look at the a f C South standings and the results from the division this past weekend and week four. And if you're looking for the m v P of the truck game, then look no further than Ford F one fifty. It's loaded with impressive capability and designed to dominate, work play and everything in between. And

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Final moments of Jaguars Happy Hour coming up at five o'clock ten minutes or so from now the Urban Meyers Show, the Jaguars Head Coach will join us and discuss the comments from Jaguars owner shot Con and his statement earlier today veterans, choose v A for the benefits you've earned. Visit choose dot b A, dot CoV J P. Shadrick, Jeff Logman. Glad you're along with us. You know. During that commercial time out, there was one that ran from Alert Today Florida Right the walking Safely on the Road

and bicycle safety on that. We did a an event today. It was walked to School Day with the Jaguars at Biscayne Elementary School. It was a virtual event where we go in on zoom in these in the classrooms. It's kindergarten, the second grade. And it was myself and Ben Bartch Jaguars now right guard. Who's going to get significant playing time with the A J can going to I R. He will be the starting right guard. And Ben was

fantastic with the kids. He's if you've ever had a conversation with him, you're gonna hear from him a little bit more. Now it sounds like moving ahead with what's going on with A J. Cann and now in the second year, trying to come along and this is a way to come along, jump in the lineup. Well, he was a small college guy St. John's and in fact had a conversation with general manager Trent Balky back in

the preseason about it. He thought that he was vastly improved, and I was not quite the believer yet at that point, but Trent felt very confident and Trent's been right. I mean he I think he's played very well so are he had an issue last year At times Ben Bartch did with his feet trying to keep up with everything, and that when he would make contact. Sometimes sometimes we always say, hey, you gotta be able to walk and

talk and chew gum at the same time. Well, when you're being an offensive lineman, you have to be able to use your hands, and then your hands maybe in one position, but your feet need to continue to move. And sometimes Ben's feet kind of just stopped and then that got him into trouble. But he has improved vastly and I think he has made a big stride forward and I think he's ready for this. Let's take a look at the Jaguars injury report presented by Baptist Health

changing Healthcare for good. These were Monday transactions. Walker Little activated from the reserve COVID nineteen list. That's good news. And then the wide receiver d J Chark Jr. And A J can the right guard placed on injured reserve. They do not have to place a designation on the i R. It could be to return, it could be for the year. It just depends. It has to be

three weeks least. So Chart it sounds like it's a bit more than that with a fractured ankle a J. Cann with an mc L issue according to Urban Meyers. So there you go. You gotta have somebody step up with receiver and and then Bart steps in it guard and was a knee correct and then Chart, I mean fractured. I mean typically six to eight weeks is what you're talking about. And that's I mean, that's just kind of a standard fracture. So I mean, I'm not a doctor,

but I play one on television. Sometimes you do. You've you've been cut out enough times to might have more knowledge than that. I have not very broken knock on would because I might walk out of this room. And I broke my right tibia in college in a practice and I got leg whipped and I had a cast from the toes all the way up to the to the growing and uh we had at the time at the University of Virginia one of the greatest hand surgeons in the country and very highly respected, the late doctor

Frank mceugh, who was unbelievable, unbelievable surgeon. And uh, I ended up getting my cast and then they took me to his house where I stayed for a couple of days and his wife would feed me. I mean, I I was hurting. So, I mean, I hope DJ is okay, because I mean, when you break a bone, I mean I can that can hurt now, I mean that hurt bad. I don't know if if it requires surgery. I mean, I haven't heard anything of that nature. But unfortunately got

rolled up on from behind. He's, you know, he's trying to block and here comes, you know, the pile of people, the massive bodies chasing I think it was James Robinson, and they all fall on the back of DJ Chark and uh, it didn't look good when the car came out. Hate it for him, obviously, it's a contract year for him in a big moment. He was trying to get things going in the passing game too, and then it was a little slow starting there. So let's let's get

him healthy and then figure out what happens. I think it's a great question is now, now, what what do you do? You have you have guys that are on the active roster. Can they fulfill the role of DJ? Not that DJ was lights out, but I mean this was a guy that Trevor was hoping that he could start to develop more chemistry with. Trevor felt that Marvin Jones Jr. Was already considered a quote security blanket because they worked together. Laviska coming off his best game and

and he's nicked up a little bit. You can tell it looks like maybe an ankle that's bothering him a little bit, and so who can fill that role? Can Tavon Austin does do they elevate somebody? They've got five wide receivers on the practice squad. It's Tyron Johnson is around two. Who hasn't Yeah, I mean they've got you know, they got guys on the active rosters about something that say they We've been told that they can run, but it's far hard for us to tell because we haven't

seen much of them. But I mean that's a very position heavy load on the practice squad when you have five wide receivers out of what is it a sixteen man practice squad with COVID rules, that's a lot. I mean, that's nearly a third of your practice squad are wide receivers. That ought to tell you what they think about that position group as a whole. That's the look at the

injury report presented by Baptist Health, changing healthcare for good. Now, let's look at the a f C South standings through week number four, and the Tennessee Titans lead the way at two and two, Houston at one in three, indian one and three, the Jaguars at the bottom at oh and four. And how about this, If the Jaguars win Sunday, they're a game out of first place. Think about that for a while. Yeah, it's a big game, though, I

mean it's a big game away. I'm just saying. Indianapolis got their first victory the this past Sunday, and a lot of question marks with with them in their quarterback in Houston and has a rookie quarterback play and so you know that the air is not exactly pointing up for them. And so yes, if the Jaguars take care of business this Sunday at home against the Tennessee Titans, you at least get back in the conversation, and that

would be a great thing. If not then continues, it would be twenty in a row for the Jags and all and five starts, So let's think positively. I'm looking at these other divisions. It's like the FC North, Pittsburgh stinks and everybody else is three and one, and Pittsburgh still has players on their team. Right, it's not looking great. Well, wait a minute, I mean Ben Roethlsberger is not playing well,

that's right. And I've watched the film on them, and a lot of people may attribute that that they're not that good around him anymore. I can tell you this, it's not. I mean, that's not the only issue. Ben Roethlsberger is not playing well. And I'm looking at the a f C West. You've got Chargers, Denver, Vegas all three and one, now Kansas City at two and two. And that's a great division right there. That that division right there is is the the elite I think of

the AFC conferences. Yeah, and then we can go to the NFC. But Arizona is kind of leading the way in the West. That's another good battles. Tampa Bay and Carolina both three and one in the NFC South and there we go. NFC East actually has a team with a winning records, so you see how long ago? How about them? How about them? Zekiel he has gotten on

a role. So uh, it's uh, it's gonna be. So far, it's been a great season, I think as far as like from watching the league from a league standpoint, and uh, and I just hope that this Jaguars football team can can break the streak so that that's a one o'clock kickoff time the Titans and the Jaguars Sunday at t I a bank Field two and two Titans and first place,

he going four Jaguars. Also in the division Sunday one o'clock kickoff time in Houston as the Texans host the Patriots, both teams at one and three to start the season. The Indianapolis Colts play on Monday Night Football next week in Baltimore, the Colts and the Ravens. The Ravens at three and one. That's an eight fifteen Eastern times start on Monday night. Yeah. I don't think Colts will be

able to do much. And that's so confident in that no, no, and Tom Brady is gonna take the Texans to school. I mean, after having I Tom Brady the Patriots was the Patriots are going to Patrick. I thought you said, where's Tampa going. You said, I don't know's not in the division. I thought you said the Bucks were going somewhow They're hosting the Dolphins. They're not in the a f C South. I still confused, Tom Brady, and were you not let me ask you a question for real

when you were watching the game on Sunday night? Yeah, were you not confused a little bit? It was a little different. It was weird. You couldn't watch any of the build up to the game, not knowing who Tom played for it who used why I didn't watch any of the build up. And of course I'm I'm rooting for Mac Jones because you know, he's a he's a local guy and watched him play high school football and so it was rooting for him. But it was just weird. I was like, wait, seeing Tom Brady and then you're

thinking he's in the Patriots uniform and he's not. That That was different now, I mean I was you're asking me if I'm confused Sunday night. I was confused. It turned out to be a fantastic football game, though it wasn't the high scoring up and down pinball machine game, but you know, they came down to fieill go at the end that hit the upright field goal at the end.

And then it was good to hear that Belichick and Brady had a moment in the locker room after the game, because life is too short to have any kind of issues between people, and those two had a beautiful relationship for twenty years. And I know that there are some things that were recently said by Tom Brady's trainer and a lot of things that have been insinuated, and that Belichick never told Tom Brady goodbye kind of in person,

which is a damn shame. But I'm glad to see that those two, just like Jimmy Johnson and Jerry john john it's good to see. Life's too short for those kind of things. It's great to see those guys on the desk together at the Hall of Fame and trim and ceremony and all that and going through all the great Cowboys days. So, uh, there you have it. We are about a minute away or so from the Urban Meyers Show, and plenty to discuss today with the head coach logs, well, I mean it's uh, it's been a

little bit embarrassing for the organization. I mean there's no way around that, and uh, and there's a lot of work to do, I think from that standpoint, and make no mistake about it, there's plenty of work to do, plenty of work and some time to get it done. The Jaguars, though the clock is ticking for this Week five game against the Tennessee Titans coming up Sunday at t i A a bank field, a lot to get through.

They'll be back on the practice field tomorrow and we'll discuss all of that coming up with head coach Urban Meyer in just a few minutes. Thanks to Dave the Candice for stepping in today. Joe Fortunado did are open from a remote location. Brent Reaver on the video side for Jeff Lagaman, I'm J. P. Shadrick. Thank you for listening to Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network. The Urban Meyer Show coming up next on the Jaguars Radio Network.