Jaguars Happy Hour: Tuesday, September 21

I was told there would be no math this week catch the last week today rule. Here's what's coming up on the show today and a busy program that was Jaguars analyst Jeff Lagaman. We'll take our final look at the loss to the Broncos. The era on the Cardinals are red hot offensively coming in. They escaped by the skin of their teeth this past Sunday on a missed

field goal by the Vikings. But there two and oh and right there in the that really really good NFC West Division, and they've got a great quarterback and receivers. They get a lot of things. We'll go through them Urban Meyer. Coming up on The Urban Meyer Show and the Jaguars Radio Network at five o'clock, we'll look forward to hearing from the Jaguars head coach J P. Shadrick, Jeff Lockman, and here we go another losing result logs. There were pieces of this game though, and very few,

but some pieces of this game felt better. The the operation from the sideline of the field, the getting the play in the right number of players in the huddle, those important pre snap things like first week it it was rough. Yeah, I mean really rough, and really not any excuse for that type of organization in a in

a game. And uh, I mean occasionally you might have an issue, but well, it was good to see that they did not have any of those issues and so offensively and defensively, it's not like you were starting behind the chains because of your own personal mistakes. At least you were able to compete on even ground. The problem is is that turnovers and giveaways continue to be an issue for a football team that's playing a young quarterback.

And I think what they do going forward jp to remedy that, I think it's gonna be very interesting because I think they've got to they've got to take a good long look at some of the things that they're doing as far as having balance, so that these going to give them the greatest chance at success is having ballots for two reasons. Two. Okay, Number one, you got a damn good running back and James Robinson, Okay, really

good football player. He was your best football player last year and he's arguably your best football player right now. That's not what one. Number two, The more of the James Robinson is total the rock. The less pressure falls on a young quarterback that is clearly in the learning phase of a young career. So what's wrong with that? Okay? And it'll be interesting and we're gonna ask Urban, Okay, how do you achieve more balance? Because I mean, that's

I think it is a very important question. How do you do that as a team because going back to the early part of when he was hired, he talked about having a good rushing attack and and having balancing. Right now, the score you can't use an excuse in this past game because the score was relatively closed, but you still didn't have a lot of balance. I gotta get that balance on offense. We'll get to the defense coming up as well. And we heard from a head coach,

Urban Meyer. Of course, after the game, he always speaks to us on Jaguar's postgame radio, the first word with the head coach and then with the media right after that, following whatever the result is. He also catches up with the media on Monday and he said, this team, this team is still fighting. There's a lot of fighting this team there. This team is gonna. There's fifteen games left and my goal, our goal is to have the strongest locker room that you can possibly have. I feel like

it's extremely strong right now. Players are pissed, players want to win, players are sticking it together, and that's gonna. That's the best part of our team. The best part of our organization right now is what's in that locker room. That's Urban after the game on Sunday and speaking with the media. Yeah, So the locker room, it's all about the players. Getting those guys to still believe and and

improve as the weeks go along. Here. They may not become a playoff team next week, but if you improve some of the things that you're trying to build upon, then you can you can have something in a few weeks. Well, one thing is for certain I understand where he's what he's trying to accomplish there, because if you're trying to fight back from losing, and if the locker room is not together and it's fractured, you have no chance of

getting better. And so what he's trying to do is to maintain a belief that, hey, look, we're continuing to work, we're continuing to get better, and give them the belief that we will be better so that they can continue to improve. And that's not easier to do once you get in the regular season of the National Football League. Typically the best way to do that is in the off season by getting better better players. But it's hard.

I mean, you're you have so many different limitations once you get in the regular season from a time standpoint to where most of the time is spent prepping for the game and installing a game plan and not so much working on basic technique and fundamentals. And so that's why it's very difficult for teams to make significant change during the season. Now, experience is a definitely a huge part of improvement, and that will help, especially with a

young quarterback, no doubt. JP. Let's hear from the quarterback who threw a couple of picks in that game last week, had an early touchdown on a beautiful opening drive. They converted three third downs on that drive, had another with penalty to to moving forward they got in the end zone, but later in the game those turnovers, Trevor Lawrence says, it's a work in progress. Who turnovers got to get better at that. Uh, certain made a great catch on the go ball, so that's one of those. It's like,

you know, he made a great play. It happens, But the other one was a bad decision by me. But just continually putting these drives together to stay in the game, because you can see we're that close today and just kind of got out of the game towards the end and they ran with it. But I think we're close. And obviously it's not what anybody wants to see, and it's frustrating and disappointing, but um, we're gonna stay together

and I really feel like we're we're close. You know, we've got good enough players to win these games, so we should. I keep going to work. Trevor to come and give us a pep talk here in the show before we go on the air. Every week, he got great attitude. He does. Yeah, he's got a great attitude. And you go back and you look at the interceptions and you never want to see him. But young quarterbacks

are going to have interceptions. I mean, Peyton Manning had I think it was like twenty seven or eight interceptions this rookie year, and which he only won three games. I mean, that's just that happens as part of the learning process. But I think one of the things that he will be taught is that, Okay, let's go back and let's look at the interceptions. How do we correct it. How do we make sure that we don't do this again. The first interception was right after a James Robinson strong run.

I believe it was a seven yard run. So you're essentially you've got a second and three situations. Second and three is kind of like a free down, so you don't put anything in the air that's gonna be risky on a second and three. If if you got a check down, take the checkdown. If you have to eat the football or throw it away, then then do so. And on that particular play, he was late on the decision making getting the ball to Ferrell his tight end and allowed Creem Jackson the time to get over the

top and to make the interception. And he's a veteran player, and he wouldn't have gotten there if the decision was made quickly to throw the ball, or if the decision was made to throw it to a check down to James Robinson. The second interception, you've got a first and fifteen. You had a penalty to set you back to the first and fifteen, and it's but it's first down, you know, so do you want to press the ball at first

and fifteen? No? I mean, sometimes you've got an underneath route which he had on that particular play that could have been a moderate completion. If it's really open, then maybe, oh absolutely, if it's really open, But it really wasn't open the dice, you know, maybe not. And I think I get the impression JP that sometimes Trevor Lawrence is trying to score fourteen points with one throw. You understand what I mean by yeah, just trying to do a little trying to do a little too much. And then

that's typical of young quarterbacks. That's part of the learning process that has to happen with young quarterbacks that they need to understand that the only way that they can score a lot of points is to hit the open guys and let some of those guys do something with the ball. But I appreciate I mean, look, he I appreciate eyes down the field and he's looking down the field, and then he missed some things down the field too.

D J char could post rout down the middle. That DJ had probably two or three steps on the defensive back and he misses him. I think he had Farrell at one point open and didn't throw to him either. Well, he had he had him open. It went to insert. Sir Tan had the interception and we called him certain and he he's learning still on that too. But one of the things that I would have, I think in that situation, because who's his intended target on the certain interception?

Do you remember? I do not. I think it was Tyron Tyron Johns. If I've got a decision, this is just me. If I've got a decision, that okay, I've got one on one because that's type of situation, right, And the coverage was tight. Coverage was pretty tight. Sir Tan was on them, so it's not like there was there was two or three steps and Trevor sees that separation and it kind of hip hip he yeah, he kind of hipped hip and he decides to make that throw. If I've got the great Jimmy Smith, okay, one of

the Jaguars all time great wide receivers, I'll make that throw. Okay. If I've got Tyron Johnson. I mean no offense to Tyron Johnson, but the guy wasn't even on a football team when when training camp started. And I think this is part of the the learning process because you know, maybe on the other side, if you've got DJ Chart and it's a single high safety, Okay, let me think Tyron Johnson, d J Chart, Tyron Johnson, d J Chart, there is a little more history, I guess with Chart

than there is with Johnson. Well, you know, more of his ability. You have you have to learn that there are some that you can trust and that there are some that you can't or that you're not ready to yet. Okay. And so that's situation because both of the vertical routes were essentially hip hip covered thrown underneath. That's first and fifteen. You know you got a six yard game. Look second to nine is okay? Okay, nothing wrong with that. Sometimes you can't be greedy, and I think in some cases,

I think he's getting a little bit greedy. But that again, that's part of the learning process for a young quarterback, and a lot of people maybe have the expectation that, well, he's the first to overall pick of the traffic. He's not going to go through it. No, that he's still got to go through it. It's just that's part of the growth, the growth curve. It's got to happen. Let's discuss a little defense now. The Jags, because of some of the offensive issues, were on the field defensively for

nearly thirty nine minutes in the game. Shot Griffin after the game on the play calling on the defensive side and how they tried to hang in there. Coach telling you an amazing job making sure that costs perfect. Feel like his play card was amazing his game, and I may shure I tell told man right after the game, you know that was every situation was great and that has to build off of. It has continue to build off continue to get this defense together. You know, uh,

he's starting to turn over. Continue helped offense out. You gotta get the ball. Josh Allen talked about that earlier in the season, like I just gotta figure out a way to get the football. Alan had a Sack nearly swatted the ball away from Teddy Bridgewater, slinging them around a couple of times that that didn't didn't come out, and then Shack Griffin again had the ball in his hands a couple of different times. It would have been an acrobatic interception. It would have been a circus catch.

But I mean the ball, you know, it's close. It's as close as they got I guess on Sunday, and they still haven't reeled one in yet. And that's that's an issue. You know, if you look at the success or lack of success of this franchise, especially now in a seventeen game losing streak, you look at plus minus differential and you can't win unless you start to change

that stat I mean literally your chances of winning. And and we've talked about this before, and I don't know the exact numbers, but it's not great if you well, no talking about the numbers of turnover differentials. You know, if you're even okay fifty fifty, if you get one takeaway, your percentage probably jumps, you know, six somewhere in that range. If you get two takeaways, you or your plus two, then you're probability of win is probably in the seventy range.

If you go to plus three, it's probably in the range. I mean, it's that that's how it works. I mean, the better you are in turnover differential, and that's the single most determining factor in all of football. If you look at that stat that will tell you better than any other stat whether you're winning or losing is to

turnover differential. And since you're not getting any takeaways as a defense, and you have a young quarterback that's learning and figuring things out, and he's been turning the ball over, that's why you're not winning right now. And in order to change winning and losing, you need to change that number. Let's come back in a moment. Plenty of show ahead

here on Jaguars Happy Hour. We'll get a little deeper into the Jaguars offensive issues from last week and go through some of the wide receivers so far and see if they can get some balance with a running game. Also, and uh coming up a little later, we'll look at the a f C South as well and see what the rest of the teams in the division did in Week number two. Season tickets, single game tickets and group tickets are still available. Be a part of the new

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Schedules nuts as well. I'm gonna guess maybe we'll ask Urban this. I bet Urban's a Santana fan. Oh you think so. I mean Santana is one of the greatest of all time. He played Woodstock, That's yeah. I mean the guy he's got to be what mid seventies, right, It's a great question. He's been Internet is for exactly. Um. I've seen him once and he's fantastic. That was in a festival setting, and this apparently is just having his bands so they might go for a while tonight. He's

seventy four years old. Wow, still getting after it. That's pretty cool alright. And you never know who might come on stage with him tonight. So check it out Daily's Place dot com for tickets. Let's get back to the Jaguars Ring. I'm not going to be on stage tonight. Um, I'll be at the show most likely. Jaguars offense eight three yards on the opening drive, smooth as can be, but then things got rocky in a hurry. The next

three drives combined for seven yards. That's correct. They had a forty yard drive at one point, but missed a field goal right before half. They had a hundred six yards the rest of the day after drive number one, what in the world happened? Well, yeah, you had a lot of different things happened. I think that you had a quarterback that wasn't quite as crisp as the first drive.

From that point on, I thought he was trying to be a little bit too aggressive down the field instead of sometimes taking what the defense will give you, which sometimes is underneath. Sometimes he missed things that were opened down the field. He missed Dj Chark which might have been a touchdown pass going down to the deep middle, and DJ probably had two or three steps on the defensive back, and so then you had a protection issues

a couple of time that stall drives. But for the most part, I think the offensive line against a very good, dever Broncos defensive front, did very well. I thought, I thought it was good enough to win. And then defensively,

you weren't able to take the ball away. So when you're not very efficient at the quarterback position throughout the course of the game, and then you turn the ball over and then you don't get takeaways as a defense, and you allow some big explosive plays by Courtland Sutton and an easy touchdown by the tight end no fan and you allow Teddy Bridgewater to create more time in the pocket to get the completions and the efficiency. It's

hard to win that way. I thought. I thought that the Jaguars defense for the most part did okay against the run, and that's what I would say going back to the previous week in Houston. They did okay. Okay, Yeah, but the issue is is that for this defense because they're not generating a great pass rush, because if they were, they would have a takeaway by now, that doing okay is not good enough. You have to be really good

against the run. I think if your defense to give yourself the best chance that you need to have to be able to get after the passer j P. I mean, it can't be did okay this defense. If they want to be where they want to be in a in a stop the pass standpoint, you have to be outstanding against the run. And right now I don't think they've been outstanding yet. I mean, you look at what the young running back from the dever Broncos Javant to Williams did.

I mean, he was, he's really good. There was that one run where he broke like three tackles. He's kind of keeping his balance and then and then the more of the game on, the better he looked. I mean, and so those guys, that's how it works for those

I want to have that happened the opposite way. As the game is wearing on, your defense is getting better and you're shutting them out and making it making it hard for Teddy Bridgewater with third and seven plus, and I don't think they accomplished that going to the secondary now when the ball is in the air. You know, there was that one long play at the start of the third quarter, but c J. Henderson was out of

the game at that point with the hip issue. Chris clay Brooks was in on that play and suddenly just kind of ran right past him. It felt like, well c J. Henderson was on the field on on the one um crossing route where he that gives up the touchdowns. I mean, so there's and it was a a poor job of trying to get across the field to cover it. I mean, look, there's traffic all the time. When you got man coverage, find a way to fight through it. And and it was almost like he was hesitant to

kind of fight through that traffic. And you can't be hesitant. You know, if you get knocked on your fannie trying to get there, get knocked on your fannie, but don't just kind of say whoa, whoa, whoa. You know, I can't get through that. No, see if you can. About the rest of the secondary this past week, I thought, I think Ray Shawn Jenkins has been a nice addition. So he's done a good job. You know. Week one, he missed an opportunity there trying to break up some

deep balls, and uh, I thought he was okay. This week, I thought that Andrew Wingered played a solid game. Everybody's been on Wingered or not everybody A lot of fans have been on Wingered. We didn't play well the first game, but yeah, I thought he played pretty well. He had sack, he was active, he didn't miss any tackles where he did the previous week. So yeah, I thought he was I thought he was okay. I thought he was okay.

Everybody's kind of everybody, I keep saying everybody. Some folks feel that Andre Cisco could see a little more time as the year progressive. Here, Um, okay, what maybe you can take off the field. Yeah, what if Winger continues to get better? Then great. But here's the thing. Andrew Winger didn't have fourteen or fifteen interceptions in twenty three career games in college, whatever that number was. In fact, let me look at it. Thirteen interceptions in twenty four

games at Syracuse. I mean, man, yeah, no doubt can wing or do that. We haven't seen it yet. Well, I mean I'm not. I'm not trying to, you know, be joking here. I'm just saying, is that. Look, when you have a guy that has the ability to take the ball away like that, and you're a defensive right now that has goose egg zero takeaways, you might want to get the guys on the field that can change that number. Right. So there's a guy and and here's

the one thing I do understand. Cisco is still on his way back from an a c L injury that he suffered at Syracuse. So is there a schedule and a a plan that they have in place to allow him to get back to be in full speed. I'm sure there is. I mean most trainers doctors always have a plan. But or is it that or is it Okay? We need to have him earn it and he hasn't shown us yet that he's earning the more reps when he starts playing, and he starts earning more reps, and

we'll give him more reps. I mean maybe it's some of that too. I don't know, but I know this. He's got ball skills. And I watched his college film. I watched this preseason performances. This guy can play some football and when he gets if he's anywhere around the ball, it's his That would sound pretty nice for this defense right about. Now. That's what you need, you know. And another thing is to shock Chack Griffin had his hands

on the ball. He had week one, he had an early one, and then he had another one this week that was would have been an acrobatic catch, but it would have been it would have been a crazy catch. But look, I mean sometimes that's you know, you gotta make them. I mean, make a crazy catch because there's gonna be some easy ones that you drop works, you know, so you gotta start making some some more splash plays as a defense, whether that's you know, pressure in the quarterback,

sacking the quarterback in a good job. Look, you got three sacks this pass game. And I like the production of gods is I think if there's a question do you have Tavin Bryan or Adam gots Is active on game day? I'm I'm choosing Adam Gotsis from now on. Yeah, the previous week they chose to have him inactive and Tavin Bryan was active. Adam Gotsis I think gives you more productivity. I think that's very obvious. And so if you're trying to put the best football team out there,

you put him, put him out there. Well, there was the one fourth down play that comes to my mind speaking of Tavin Brian where he ended up on his back side. Yeah, he got knocked those fourth and one one and a half went a fourth and shorty and it was a quarterback sneaking and Bobby Massey ended up taking him back and essentially putting him on his back at five yards deep. You know. And that's only one

playoff of the game. And look, everybody's had and will have their beer and kicked in the National Football League. That happened. But the plays that I'm referring to and and that that Gods has just has more awareness. He has more awareness for where the ball is and where he needs to go. So he has a better nose for the football and when you have a better from football, it's about making plays and then play them. We got a sack last week to plenty ahead, will come back

in a moment and look aheadlogs. The Arizona Cardinals are coming to town in Week three. One of the hottest offenses in football and it and then they have arguably one of the most entertaining all offenses in the National Football League. Let's hope not this week. I hope not. We'll bring it all down when we come back. Check out the Official Jaguars Podcast network and free subscription and appley Tunes, Spotify or wherever you download your pods. Give

us that five star rating. As always, it's Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Networks. And I think I'm processing it as good as you can. Obviously, you want, you want to win, and like I said, you work all week to win and when you're going it's disappointing. But I feel like I'm in it. I'm in a good spot. I'm the same, I'm the same person, same mindset, nothing's changed. So making sure I keep my confidence every week is big and I think I have that, So um,

we're gonna get better. We're close. You know, it's obviously last week and this week doesn't look great when you look at the numbers, but I really do like we're close and we just gotta make some more plays and stay together. There's the quarterback, Trevor Lawrence after the game Sunday and welcome back at Jaguars Happy Hour on a Tuesday afternoon, j P. Shadrick with Jeff Loguman, Joe Fornado on the audio, Brett Reever on the video side on Jaguars dot Com, The Urban Meyer Show coming up at

five o'clock. We'll hear from the Jaguars head coach, as we always do on Tuesday's get his final thoughts on the previous week's game, and then an early look at week number three. And our early look at week number three begins now, and you don't need to look much further than Kyler Murray, the quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals. He is among the league leaders in a few passing categories early this season. It's a dynamic playmaker, gets out of the pocket. He's a former baseball player who's a

round pick as an outfielder for the Oakland A's. He's just got a different style about him when he runs around and then can throw the ball down the field at different arm angles and twisting and turning and fading away, and it always seems to be, you know, like fifty yards down the field and not the money somehow sometimes how does that work? Well? Not all the time. I

mean he will throw some interceptions. Now, So this week, if there was any week to break the lack of takeaways is a defense, this is the week because he will throw you one and you've got to make sure that you catch it, and he might throw you too if he does three or four. Come on, it could be,

could be. It just depends on how well your offense performance, what the score differential is, and where it's, what side of the fence that is lined on, because if you put there is a little cardinals in a situation where they've got to play a little bit of catchup, then that would be better for your defense. But the one thing about Kyl Murray is it's like it's like a video game. He's all over the map, but he's running around and and then all of a sudden he'll stop

and throw it down the field. He scores with his legs. He's a kind of for nine touchdowns as a quarterback so far, which probably is one of the best in the league, if not the best. And I seriously when I when I say this, you might want to put as much speed as you have on the field when he's out there, because he will extend plays, and the more speed you have, the less likely possibly that you are going to give him more talk. Do you have

a spy for lack of a better turn? Do you have somebody just follows him around on you can I've seen that done before. I mean, if you have somebody that is exceptional at extending the play, and I've seen it done before to where a team might rush three instead of four, and then the fourth guy is not uncover ridge, but he basically just stays right there at the line of scrimmage. And it could be your fastest

defensive end rush or whatever. It could be your fastest linebacker for example, if you put Telvin Smith out there or Miles Jack I mean thinking about fast linebackers in Jaguars history, those were probably two of the fastest. Like those type of guys, you would say, okay, you stay here, and then once he decides to go left, right or up the middle, you're on them. And uh, when I was in New York one time, I remember we had we had a defensive back in that role. It didn't

work very well, but we tried it. That was one of one of Pete Carroll's early trial and error type of defenses that he had. The error. Yeah, it definitely didn't work. Huh. So of course when you have a quarterback like that, it helps when you have some weapons down the field, and they have some. Certainly in Arizona, DeAndre Hopkins is there, former Texans wide receiver and we we know, oh well, what kind of player he is. Though in his career against the Jaguars, he's played in

fourteen games, only six touchdowns. But you know that was over you know, the time with the Houston Texans to one yard games in that time. But if you let off him at all, even if you cover him with a guy or double covering, we've seen him makes some incredible catches, certainly in his time in Arizona so far. He is Uh, he's got great hands, great hands, does a great job with contested catches. He's not a burner anymore. I think he's a he's essentially a a possession receiver.

And he probably won't agree to that. And he makes bigger plays than most possession receivers as far as the multitude of him. But the speed is not a factor with him anymore. He's not gonna run by anybody. I feel like this is probably gonna be his bulletin board and his locker this week. Jeff, he cares what I say. You think he cares what I know. He doesn't care what I say, But I mean that's what he's become. I mean, look at his career stats. I mean as

as receiver's age, that's kind of what happened sometimes. Yeah, it hasn't happened with a j. Green And he's on the team too, Julio Jones. What is he in like your twenty Yeah, I guess you're right there, he goes. I mean that some guys still got it and that's just not DeAndre Hopkins game. But I can tell you this, for a quarterback that runs around a lot and creates six what we call scramble rules plays or broken plays, you might not have a better receiver than DeAndre Hopkins

on the on the planet. Because he's creative, he invents things, and when the quarterback throws it up to him. The quarterback trust that he's going to catch the ball, and at the very least he's not gonna let the opponent catched the ball. Octoberen ross A Stadium, West Lafayette, Indiana, under the lights, per Due upset number three Ohio State twenty. It was Urban Meyers thirty second and final college loss.

In that game, Rondale Moore had twelve receptions, a hundred seventy yards and two touchdowns for the boiler Makers and an upset win, the only loss of the season for the buck Eyes. They went on to win the Rose Bowl, but not the National Championship. Rondale Moore now with Arizona leading the Cardinals in targets, catches, and yards, which which is amazing. He played Perdue. How State lost the Purdue, Yes they did. They stormed the field that night at

ross A. How do you do that? Well, that's that's what has when guys like this put it together, those kind of performances State has likely it was an upset. Dwayne Haskins in that game, by the way, side, note through the ball seventy three times for the buck Eyes that night. What seventy three and they only scored twenty points. How many times did they run it? I don't know, but it was, Yeah, it was. It was a heck of a night. Let's put it that way. Reason why passes, Yes,

I mean it's a lot. How's his arm not fall off? Well, I mean, I don't know. In the NFL, if you get seventy plays, you're lucky, right, I mean exactly. I'd say the average number of plays in the National Football League is probably right around right around seventy, maybe sixty seventy, someone right in that range, right, Yeah, because the clocks moving all the time, and you're you know, up and at it, the play clocks a little shorter. Yeah, yeah,

that's but anyway, that's that's crazy. But more as a guy who stepped in this year's a rookie second round pick, and it's really been a nice addition for the Arizona offense. And he's like five ft seven by the way, he can go play. He is what seven five? He is? I anybody, I haven't. I haven't watched a ton of him yet. You need to, but I will. And here's the one thing I will say about the Cardinals. They got a lot of single digit guys. You know, every team,

you know, kind of jumped on that bandwagon. They want to do a bunch of single digits. And nobody seems to like the number two except for a quarterback in New York. Why is that? I don't know. But Chase Edmonds has number two. You got Kyler Murray at one, Chase Edmonds was wearing two. Nobody likes three. I guess Rondel Moore is four. Nobody likes five. If you were going to pick a single digit to wear JP and you played, and you were playing ball, regardless of position,

what number would you want to wear? That's a good one. I don't know. Eight, it's kind of I don't know. I have no idea, any particular reason why. Joe, what number would you wear? Joe would wear number five, you'd be number one. I'm not big fan of the number one. That's kind of a look at me number. I'm just saying, I don't know. I'm not saying anything like about Kyler Murray, but I was gonna say that's on his bulletin board now the way to go. I know. One thing is

that John Ward where's number six? Yeah, he's he kind of shook the tree last night. He kind of shook the tree on social media last night. What did he do? Apparently he said something regarding the Ravens they were on and he apologized to Jaguars fans today. Okay, let's put that way. Okay, hopefully it's water under the bridge. But anyway, I hope brought his name Uppe. Okay, so now I'm gonna like want to go to Twitter and find out what he said. But anyway, if you're six ft five,

is that what do you have? Six five six six something like that and two hundred and ninety pounds, a single digit number just doesn't work, you know what I mean. It's allowed, though now see they change it. It's like it's like wearing stripes, okay, and you're really wide and you wear horizontal stripes. Makes you look wider. Okay, So if you're a big man, stick with the double digits. It makes you look better in a jersey. When you wear a single digit number kind of makes you look

a little portly. And I'm not saying you it's a little portly. I'm just saying is that it makes you look not quite as felt. I think you just did the late Lewis Knicks the third at Notre Dame wore the number one, the big nose tackle. Yeah, it did look good on him. That's uh, that's one of those. Let's come back in a moment. We've got plenty ahead. Well, we'll touch on the Cardinals defense. Couple of veteran names

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Visit choose dot v A dot gov. Let's take a look at the injury report presented by Baptist Health, Changing Healthcare for Good. A few names on it, and rban Meyer updated some of the status sees Status is that STATI status status is gave us the status of a few players. On Monday. A. J. Ken, the right guard with the hamstring. Urban said he'll probably play this week. C. J. Henderson with a hip wait and see Trey Herndon with a knee issue. Well, he could be back in the

practice field this week. That'd be good news and a boon for the second year if he's available. James O'Shaughnessy with a high ankle sprain. It's gonna be a few weeks at least for him. And Labisca Chenult Jr. With the shoulder issue last week in the game, but Urban said he should be a fine for practice and we'll see how the days go. But at least that's a good start for Labisca. Moving ahead, there's your Baptist Health injury report. Baptist Health Changing Healthcare for Good. I wish

that Lavisca had not had those two drops in the game. Yeah, they were big, they seemed, and they kind of stole a couple of drives. Well, when you're when you're losing, the mistakes obviously are magnified. And because that's what you have to do, you have to work on correcting the things that you are not doing well. And drops and both the first and the second game have been an issue.

It has a been a hundred of them, but it's been enough to where it's affected the rhythm and the way that the offense is playing and you've got to try to find a way to correct that. And with the type of player that Levisk is and a lot of people say, wow, he really didn't have two drops, that one would have been a tough catch to make. Well,

he's a tough guy. That's the type of catch and the type of player that I think Lavisco Janalt has to be for this football team so that he is not afraid or or unwilling to go across the middle and and knows that at times when he catches the ball, he's gonna get hit and he still has to make the catch. That's the type of player that he has to be. For this football team. Let's take a look around the a f C South and touch on all the team's activity and week number two, and let's start

off with the Houston Texas. They had a lead on the Browns. Tyrod Taylor been suffered a hamstring injury. Baker Mayfield was banged up in the game but stayed in came back in the Browns rally to win one. It's a short week and Dave Mills could get the start Thursday night, which he was the Texans top draft pick and I believe he was a third round pick. It's amazing, right, which I ought to tell you that the Texans are always away from building that team back into a winner,

but they play on Thursday night football too. So you're gonna have a rookie that is thrust into the lineup on a short week because of an injury to Tyrod Taylor, which is gonna miss I think a couple of weeks with the injury that he had. So and man Derrick Henry of the Tennessee Titans, what are you kidding? What a second half for Tennessee as they beat the Seahawks thirty three thirty. He's speaking of you. We're talking about

backs to get warm as the game goes along. When Derrick Henry starts to roll and then all of a sudden he's turning up a little yardage, it just goes and goes, and then forget about it. He has I think this is a very unique trait and it didn't happen the first week, but typically he has it. He has his trade that he can start off slow in a game and he finishes extremely strong and a lot of people think he's and never thought that he was

a burner. Watch him on game day. He runs away from people do and he's what do you think he hightway six four? I bet he's to sixty to fifty. What if I had to guess six four to fifty. I will tell you what the official height and weight they tell you it is. Yeah, accurate can be different. Actually, they don't even listed on the Titans website. M six two fifties about what they've called him in the past.

But he might be bigger than that. I mean he's he's a big guy because he stands next to offensive line and you're like, he's not that much. He looks like a defensive end. I think it's the easy way to describe it. He looks like a defensive end in the National Football League that is uh or an out side linebacker in the National Football He's playing a three four defensive end playing a four three. He's big dude. And then finally the Indianapolis Colts, Carson Wentz hurt both

ankles somehow in the game and the Rams beat the Colt. Yeah, and that's that's that's gonna be an issue. And Carson Wentz has had a hard time staying healthy and and I hope you know that he has success, you know, not against the Jaguars, but I hope that he is has can find a way back to the player that he once was, which we thought he was the next great up and comer. Injuries have just ruined his career.

So and then you know, the wheels kind of fall off, and next you know he's he's traded and the Eagles game and extension and everybody was thinking, this guy is gonna be an Eagle for life. He's gonna be a great quarterback for the Eagles. He's gonna lead them to the to the playoffs every year. And now he's just trying to stay healthy and stay on the field. For a different football team. So that's going to be an interesting watch how that works out through the end of

the year. Who's the backup and Indy by the way, Yeah no, not the it's a two years ago. Kobe Procet's the backup for the Miami Dolphin. That's right. I mean, the merry go around continue. Once you're you're kind of in the club that at least for the next a few years, you can kind of stick around. Now you have to look around the a f C South. Let's wrap the show today with some news that came out

late last week about an original Jaguars employee. Dan Edwards joined the Jaguars organization in nine four in the communications department, worked his way up became the senior VP of Communications in for the team. He is retiring at the season and has spent a long time is almost his entire professional career in the National Football League started in the

league office in nineteen eighty three. He was an intern in New York alongside another intern named Roger Goodell and hell of course, now the commissioner of the good NFL. He spent a year with the Miami Dolphins. The year the Dolphins went to the Super Bowl, and then the year after that ended up with the Pittsburgh Steelers in five through the nineteen nine three season, and then ninety four came down to Jacksonville when the stadium was being built.

That's before the franchise. Seven years with the franchise, it's pretty incredible, and Dan's gonna hang it up at the end of the season. And I know we all in our department here in the broadcast world are incredibly close to Dan and he's done so many things for us personally and professionally over the years. We're gonna miss having him around these hallways and being able to pick his brain and um, because he's seen a lot of things.

Things in those twenties seven years here is certainly everything that has happened, but just league knowledge and general just good around, good, good, all around people are hard to find, and you got all that combined in one guy. And Dan Edwards. Well, I've always appreciated damn twenty seven years with the franchise. I think it's like thirty eight years in the National Football League and twenty two years he's been my boss and uh, which is a very long

time and couldn't have atched for a better boss. And I've always loved and appreciated his wisdom through the years, and I will still count on and rely upon that wisdom for many years to come because he's a friend. And uh and I considered Dan a great friend. And he's gonna be missed and an unbelievable family man. Um late wife and the four kids and now grandkids are coming along and he's gonna spend a lot of time

with him. And you know, he's got two sons that are in the NFL and PR department right now, um, and then a daughter that's at Florida and Communications at the at the moment, So there's a there's a lot of future Edwards to be around. They're not going anywhere in the NFL. They always say this, This kind of goes back many years that they always say is that

the greatest thing you ever accomplishes your kids. And I've always said this that the kids are always a great reflection on the men and the women that raised them. And Dana, Patricia, his late wife, raised an incredible family. And uh, yeah, and it's gonna be. It's gonna be. We gotta find a way to keep Dan coming back. You know a little bit where we can see them, and I don't know, maybe we need to come up

with like a Saturday night beer nights. I'm gonna say there might be a six pack in bath at some point if we tell them, hey, Dan free bud light, I think we might get them there. Maybe maybe so, but we got we got a little time left with the Dan Edwards in the office every day and that's a great thing for us. We're January January when he is officially retired, right. There might be a point where he's not around, but he's still working revotely as as

they say. But well he'll be around, which is which is probably gonna take advantage of a six leave that he has built up seven years. He's probably got a little bit. I think there's probably some in the in the Hopper forum. So congratulations to Dan on a fantastic career. We've got some time left with him. So the Jaguars and the Denver Broncos game has done. The Jaguars at the Arizona Cardinals. This week, we're about to hear from

Urban Meyer coming up. The Urban Meyers Show is next, and I'm curious what Urban thinks of the effort and overall performance last week. It kind of looked better overall. We'll get his thoughts on that coming up well. And I think the other thing too, is that how are you going to handle Kyler Murray? And And I'm sure that you know it's Tuesday and we're talking to him on Tuesdays, and I know Tuesdays are the day in which they're still trying to formulate game plan ends. Tuesday

is a big game planning day. So he's gonna have all the answers for us. No, but you would share anyway anyway. I don't think so. But that's gonna be the big challenge this week is Kyler Murray and and they've got some weapons on that defense. And then how are you going to block this pass rusher this week? Now he's he's a challenge. Now there's y's to him, Chandler Jones and J. J. Watt. You know, he's getting more. He's been banged up for few years. The new environment,

I'm not buying it, you know, Champ. Chandler Jones is a great player, and it's still a great player age. J. J. Watt is not is not a He's not a great player anymore. He's a good player, but he's not the J. J. Watt that we've watched from the the AP Defensive Player of the Year anymore. But no, but he can still if he's I can tell you this, the guy is going to be walking into the Hall of Fame. Sure, not trying to down him or anything, but father time

is caught up with him a little bit. You're just you're throwing bulletin board material everywhere today for the Cardinals. I'm just I'm just look JP. I mean, I'm not here to blow smoke. You're telling it like it is. I'm here to tell you what I see. Splitting the front seat. That's what Logs does on this show. No holds barn. Logs just lets it fly every now. We like that. Well here from a head coach Urban Meyer.

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