Jaguars Happy Hour: Wednesday, August 21

then seven o'clock with Countdown to kickoff. As always, our guest first guest today on the phone line joining us is always a part of Countdown to Kickoff and Jaguars post game. He's proud of the Jaguars running back and our good friend Fred Taylor. What's up Fred? How you doing? Man? I am great? Uh? First off, you know, uh, we live in a technology age. Yes, I know, we're live. Yeah, we got it's a bit different than the show sometimes. Oh but look man, ex Trinity, we gotta get it together.

We gotta get it together. My telephone line is out. Oh no, we're on the cell phone now and that's technology for it happens. It's fine, and we we're glad to have thanks for battling through. But you know, you're you're a consiment pro. You're able to make that adjusting. So I appreciate your boss, appreciate you coming on this program today. UM, I gotta start with the dress rehearsal week. As a former player, I mean back obviously when you were playing in the early days, especially um, you guys

played pretty much every week in the preseason. How much time did you need as a starting running back for you personally to be ready for the season. Every play was griffin and ripping. I tried to score a touchdown every time I got the ball JP and sometimes people didn't like that, but I wanted to in those first two preseason games, I wanted to be Look, let me show you what I got, Coach. I'm precy, I'm mid season ready. Take me out of the game, man, you know,

and uh, I really try to do something big. And I hope the lineman had, you know, created a couple of holes early so we can we can be on the sideline eating the sun flower season, sneaking, eating the hot dogs. You know, that's what we were after after the first first two preseason games, the dress rehearsals were a bit different. This is when you're completely locked in.

You're treating this game identically as it's a regular season game, because you want to go through everything that you tend to go through, you know, as a veteran, uh for for preparation for a regular season game. So for me, it's making sure I warmed up at the right time. UH, I had my the trainers stretching at the right time. I want to make sure I would get my back you know, stepped on in the in the locker room

at the right time. So I was going through my routine uh at the third preseason game, UH to start out, And but my visualization techniques was all about the same as what I would do during the regular season. So I really treated that game and and and the pre game part in the whole entire piece as if it's

a regular season game. And I attacked it that way once ball kicked off, and I really paid attention to, uh the situations of the game, you know, I mean, carries them, getting early tempo, when they hit it, when not to hit it, all that stuff. So if you're gonna be a pro. This game was a very serious approach and I needed it. I really needed it to make sure from a confidence standpoint, I was ready to

go for the regular season. What do you want to see out of Leonard for NET in Thursday Night's game? Since he hasn't played yet in the preseason? How much? How long? What do you want to see out of him? Well? I want to be able to see him hit that, you know, flip the switch because they haven't played. Now you go from you know, we're we're we're betting told that we're getting game like reps in practice? Are we really you know, are we doing in enough and practice?

I want to see him, you know, be able to fIF the switch and say, all right, this is fully live, being able to bend his knees, lowers his shoulder, pass, run through contact, you know, find those lanes that are gonna be there, uh, and create some when some aren't there. You know, I just want to make sure it's pat level is great. Uh, he's running through contact and getting his fields, you know, uh, getting his fields before the

regular season comes along in the next couple of weeks. Uh. And I want to be able to see him when uh, when he's in there in passing situations. Uh As, He's been in there a bit more through practices third downs, He's done some solid pass protections. I want to see be able to see a little bit of that because I'm pretty sure the Dolphin is gonna have a you know, they want to see their blitz packages, the ones. They want to see what they have on from the defensive sides.

So I'm pretty sure a couple of blitz opportunities who arise, and so I want to see how to step in

there and and protect folds. Prior of the Jaguars running back A Taylor with us, the Jaguars offensive coordinator John d. Filippo gets his starters out there for the first time in this preseason, you know, and talking to him the other day and hearing his press conference, you know, he understands that the performance of this offense is not gonna really say what's gonna happen in the regular season, but

there's gotta be somewhere down in there. You you want these guys to perform and have some kind of move the ball, have some sustained drives on offense, and and show pretty well their first time out there. Of course, without a doubt. I mean, that's why they prepare they I'm pretty sure in a perfect world, they would like to go out there, you know, the first possession of the ball game and and and and hit a big play, hit a big run maybe to start the game, or

even a big play with vice versa. Whatever comes first, they don't care. They want to see it though, uh. And then they want to see it capped off with a touchdown. So something like the three or four play, big play, big play, decent run, uh, or a big player, big player, a nice nice pass pick up and a touchdown four or five places right. They would love to

see that, you know. And then in the second positions possession, they would probably want to see let us, uh have some sustained drives we were executing third down, because that's a big part of it. Let's see how well our our quarterbacks and our receivers, you know, let's see if they're on the same page with communications with audibles, if summarized,

and in a few third down conversions. I'm pretty sure they would love to, you know, come off the shield after the first two possessions with you know, twenty plays in the bag and fourteen points, uh, and and again, no matter how many plays they put out there, they want to see execution, you know, and crunched situations. But more importantly jp the thing that we haven't seen the first two weeks, the points. They want to see points more than anything in the world. They don't care. They

just want to see points. Offensive coordinator, get it on the board somehow in this game against the Miami offense and get some points. That's a that's a good one their friends offensive line. You know, it sounds like the list of players not playing did not include Cam Robinson, so by that it sounds like he's gonna get some time tomorrow night. I think I'll probably believe it when he runs out of the tunnel and he's you know, running out of the on the field to start the game.

But you want your five offensive linemen together at some point in the preseason. It seems like maybe not for long, but it seems like they might have that tomorrow night. How important is that for continuity upfront, not just you know, in the run game, but as an offense, to have those five guys together, it's pretty important. It's important formula, not only the offense, but you know, those those guys each guy, the guy next to I'm listening for a

speciftic voice, you know, a certain pitch. You know, these guys have to be able to communicate, especially uh at the opponent's home when when it's loud. You know, they have to be able to trust each other, know how Uh this guy is an overstepper on certain plays, or if this guy steps tight you know and and and shallow or tight and vertical uh in there you know pulls or zone zone stepping or maybe even their past set.

So it's one of those field things. Um, the gap space and you know back in the day, you know, pop one and you would have to two ft you know, two feet gaps between each lineman. You know, that's still a thing. You wouldn't think it would be the case in the pros, but these guys really gotta give each other space because because of the way they step, you know, little things like that that goes unnoticed to the fan,

to the naked eye. They're huge and and they're huge for the guys, and it's huge for the offense of success. And then you go from there. It's a confidence for the quarter back and for the running backs. If I would look up there and Butselly wasn't out there. I'm gonna want to trust the guy who's spilling in for him. But it's a different thing, you know what I mean. It ain't seventy one baby, you know what you're getting over there. So, uh, it's a confidence thing for the quarterback.

In the running backs more so then the receiver. They don't care. They just want the ball. They don't even care who's throwing it to him half the time until it goes in the dirt ten times in front of him. Then they cried. But it'll be a good thing to see all those guys back from a coaching standpoint, other guys on offense, looking around, just seeing the guys. But you know, the band, it's back in town and they want to be with each other. Man. That's what the

starters want to be with. The starters, Brian. The Jaguars running back Fred Taylor with us a few minutes left with you here, Fred, Let's flip it the defense. Now. Had we heard earlier on this show from Klaas Campbell when I asked him the other day in the locker room, how many reps? How many how much time do you need in this game? And he said well needs a strong word, and I don't really need any time. I

would want a couple drives here there. If you're Doug Maron Fred, we're gonna call you the head coach for this game. How long are you playing the front line? Defensive line starters in this game? And got Way Campbell guys like that, I'm gonna play him up until at least two possessions, two or three possessions into the third quarter. I mean, you've been on vacation, you know, the past couple of weeks. So I'm gonna see what I got out of the group. I want to see what my

rotations look like. And I want to see what's the best group that I can put out there, you know, when the team presents me with sub package, and I want to be able to drill the rookie, the rookie and and my second year guy and Tavin Bryant. I want to be able to put you know, find a nice personnel grouping in the rotation. Who can I put out there when this guy runs out tired after being out there, you know on a twelve played drive, who

cannot put out there? If they come out here and know how to officen you know, I just have to from a comfort level. I have to see these guys. Yeah it looks good on paper, but I need to see it. I need to see what level of energy I'm gonna get from the group, and what type of production, and who's gonna lead who when the real leaders aren't on the field, you know. So it's a because there's so many many dynamics to that group and so many different uh pairings that you could put together depending on

what the offense presents to you. I need to see it as a head coach, and I do agree with Kells in in a small sense that you know, he said he doesn't necessarily need it. I'm pretty sure he was being more sarcastic than than anything, because he's a if. No one else in the entire NFL isn't. He's a pro, and he's gonna need his fields. You know. He wants to go through that uh but like he said, he wants to get out there and get some snap because that's what needs to be done. He's been away from

the action. They've all been away from the real action, so they should all want it, you know. So I'm looking forward to seeing that group along with Josh Allen with the returning starters from a year ago. I can't wait to see him get excited running on that field with that, with the ones, the guys who are going to start. I'm ready to see what he's gonna bring to the table. Let's see some sacks, will see some

quarterback pressures, some heads. Let's get to the quarterback they we haven't been able to really do that in the preseason yet as a whole with the second and third groups here. Uh, Fred, Hey, thanks for coming on today, man, and we really appreciate It's always good to visit with you. And are you gonna be at the game tomorrow? Noight, you're in South Florida. You know, I might. I'm I'm thinking about it. Uh, you know, I might, but I guess if anything, Uh, I don't know. JP. I appreciate you,

you know, bringing me on. Man, it's live thing. You know. You kept me on the edge of my seat. I ain't used to doing live you know stuff. Well you didn't find you did the live post game every week. I don't know what you're talking about live. That's live, I know, but it's a little bit different, man. I mean, this is for the fanatics. This is you know, I don't know. I lose myself some kind It's okay. I thought you did a fantastic work today in this live program.

So well see that's how you know what. I just wanted to hear you say that. Baby, that's it. I'm right here that I set that up. I love it. Man. Always gonna talk to you. We'll catch up with you soon. Man. Likewise there he is proud of the Jaguars running back and UH an all around good guy. Fred Taylor joining us. Uh he's with us most postgame shows, Jaguars Postgame presenter,

my Smart Workers Pharmacy. We have a every week on the pregame show as well and countdown to kick off and uh always good to have Fred around for for fantastic analysis what goes on. I will be on the boards next week again as well for the Falcons game, the preseason finale a week from tomorrow. Here at t i A A Bank Field. We're back in a moment. Alex Marvez Serious XM Radio joins US and All Elite Wrestling as well. He's made a transition over to the

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well at Daily's Place dot com. Our next guest today from Sirius x M, NFL Radio and now All Elite Wrestling commentator and another all around great guy and a good friend, Alex Marvez with us. What's up, Alex? How are you today? Man? JP doing just great? Oh my god, what an incredible then you Daily's places. I absolutely love it, not just because it was the home for Fight for the Fallen, our last a e W event, but just

an incredible place to see a concert. If you've never seen a show there, I am telling you you have to go. It is that special. And Amphitheater one of a kind too in the NFL. No other stadium has an Amphitheater connected to it like the one that they do and at you know t I a Bank stadium. So I love the place. Love talking with you, hope everything as well as well. Man. And I can't remember I saw you at a show. Uh, this is probably a year or two ago and I was it too

Desky trucks. Yeah, they come through every year. I couldn't remember which one it was, which time it was, So it's been a little bit, but it's good too. Good to have you always. I appreciate your time as always.

Here we'll get to the wrestling stuff coming up. You mentioned the Fight for the Fall and let's start with a little football though, and you know there's a trend in the league now alex of the starter is not even seeing the field the first week especially, but a lot of times the first two weeks of the preseason in the in the Jaguars, um, look at it here, they're gonna go tomorrow night and probably not next week.

So this is kind of trending towards not having a lot of starters out there and the bang for the buck for the people coming to games and all that is this gonna are they gonna trim this preseason at some point? Where is this leading down the road here? I think too dangling that carrot in front of the NFL Players Association saying that we'll play fewer preseason games, you'll have a chance to make more money with more

regular season games. You know, there's an NFL Network report that you know there's a possibility three preseason games and then you add another playoff game, in other words, making it now where the number two seed, rather than getting to buy, would end up having a play that first week, uh, you know, and you'd roll from there, so it's you know, I'm very you know, and you'd add a seventh team essentially another playoff team in and you then have seven

against two, three against six and four against five, and so you'd have you know, to to two. You could divide the games, you know, three, you know, there's three on Saturday, three on Sunday. They've been floating on Monday night games, Friday night games, all these different things. But you know, again, do the NFL players is this something

that they want? So far, they've been reticent. They fill sixteen games is enough, and a lot of them believe, and I think rightfully so based upon the way that the coaches are handling the preseason, why do they need to add more regular season games? If they're not going to play in the preseason games, who care? Right, they'll show up, They'll stand around, they'll watch, you know, I mean,

and that's exactly what's been happening with the Jaguars. I don't know how to evaluate this team when I'm watching you know, four quarters of Gardner minshew, I don't really know. You can't, I mean, you know, and I'm not at practice every day, so I mean, I can't see the ones on the ones. But what's what they've found? And it's interesting talking to Bill Pollyon about this from serious X having. Of course, his son Chris works for the

Jaguars under Dave Caldwell. You know how he was a colts camp and what he found out, and I think it reaffirmed some things he suspected. But essentially, the people that do the tracking of player data in other words, like the way that a you know, number of snaps received and how much work are you getting, they've determined that you can almost get as much good work in a scrimmage as you can in a preseason game. So they found ways now, you know, and Matt Neggie did

it when Chicago scrimmage against the New York Giants. You know, they were able to get some really good work done to the point that he didn't feel he had to play his quarter you know, his starters, and he wasn't definitely gonna put Travisky at risk. What you do is when you got that quarterback in the non contact jersey, you you you know, eliminate really the risk of any sort of major injury outside of something flukey a lot of Teddy Bridgewater. So teams have found let's do this.

You saw what Cleveland baker Mayfield last week. They thought he got enough good working against the Colts, so they didn't play the starters. Now you see Frank Reich saying, you know what, and he said this earlier today, I don't think I'm gonna play my guys. So you're seeing it across the league. You still have some old school coaches, you know, Vic Fangio, Andy Reid. They're gonna play it where their guys go a little bit more. That's how

they run their programs. But an increasing number of coaches, especially newer coaches, just figure we're not gonna get much out of this work that we can't get in a scrimmage. Let's stick with the scrimmaging and try to mitigate injury risk. Yeah, and if you're a starting quarterback. You know Pete Prisco, you know him, you've heard of him. Told the story the other that he talked to Philip Rivers and they had a practice against another team where he got forty

throws in one of those practices. Well, in a preseason game that week, he would have probably had five throws, you know. So he's getting more. Not that he needs to work, but that's just an example of how much work you can do against the team on a practice field. And it's safe and then you're you know, because they're not gonna go a full quarter in one of those first preseason games as a starting group, right. I mean, but every team is different, right in terms of where

they're at. For example, a team like the Arizona Cardinals. You know, when it comes to Kyler Murray and trying to fast track his development, you love to get him into a game setting actually where there are some things that you're just not gonna be able to simulate. Teams that, I mean, that sounds goofy with teams with you know, special teams very rare. You have full speed everyone just hauling butt down field type special teams were in scrimmages.

It just usually does. It's hard to simulate that. I think for some veteran teams, teams that are acclimated with a certain system, maybe you have familiarity with a coach, it's one thing, but there's others. If you're a team with a first time coordinator, you know, you want to

be able to work on something. So I think there's no one size fits all answer, But I do think teams are moving more towards let's scrimmage together and and we'll roll from there and then we'll use the preseason games, you know, judiciously if you will, to try to see talent. And of course, when it comes to the fans, I feel for people who buy season tickets because you're essentially being asked to pay for two games where you're seeing a subpar NFL product. I understand that it's an incredible

evaluation tool for some teams. I understand careers around the line. I respect the game, I respect the talent evaluators who can't get enough film to watch people. But when you charge people full price for these types of things, it's a tough pill to swallow for Elite that claims its fan friendly, you know. I just hope that there's maybe some remedy in the future where the amount that's charged for these games is greatly reduced compared to having to

pay for regular regular season price in the preseason. Alex Marvez with us from Serious x M, NFL Radio and All Elite Wrestling. New offensive coordinator, new quarterbacks, and new faces on offense around here, Alex, what is this offense going to look like Week one against in the City.

What can you expect from from fulls and some of the new faces and d Filippo and because there's really hasn't been an idea of what it's going to be like that, well, I think it's gonna be a lot of Leonard Fournette if if you would, you know, if you continue to read the press clippings and you sort of see where this is going for Net out of the backfield, for Net being a workhorse, you know type

running back. This was the vision for the previous Jacksonville Jaguar's offensive coordinator, but it never came to pass, and that was largely because of Leonard Fournette with injury, you lack of professionalism on his part, lack of preparation, all of those things, you know, running off the bench and getting into a brawl up in Buffalo, you name it. I mean, these types of things. It's not you know, we love fighting in a ew not so much when it comes to getting a guy ejected so we can't

play the following week. So does Martin? Does you know? Leonard Fournette realized what a pivotal season it is for him in and he told serious x M on the training camp tour that he's you know, eliminated some of the influences some friends that maybe you know, he didn't. You know, he realized these aren't positive people in my life, so let me, you know, move on from them. How serious does he take this sport, because he's really on the verge of being out of Florida's first coach. To

my opinion, things don't work out this year. You're not going to see a rookie option get picked up, and you'll see the Jaguars go in another direction. And it's a painful loss to have to write off if this is the case, because this is a Jags team that that passed on Patrick Mahomes, that passed on Deshaun Watson, two quarterbacks readily available at that number four overall pick. Instead they go with Leonard for Nett and he has yet to live up to what they drafted him for.

You know, I don't know what John d. Philippo learned on the job last year with the Minnesota Vikings. This offense was so out of out of whack in Minnesota, and talking to the people up there, they just believed that they believe. For example, Dalvin Cook was healthy second half of the season, he just wouldn't call running place. He got very past happy and that's not and That's what's so strange about the hiring of John D Philippo under Doug Morone. You look at a team that says

we want to be a smash mouth type team. They base their signings in the two thousand and eighteen offseason with that Andrew Norwell at left guard, I mean, one of the premier run blockers in the NFL. You look at a team that they just wanted to pound the rock and then you hire the guy who pounded the rock the least of anyone in two thousand and eighteen. Did John D Filippo evolve as a play caller? And we'll find out. You know, I like Nick Foles. I like him a lot. I think that he's a leader.

I think you can do a lot of things that that Blake Bortles can't. And I mean I like Blake personally. I just realized he was limited as a quarterback. I just think there's just a lot of questions about, you know, guys, are they going to step up their game? And you look at some of the at the offensive line right now, Cedric of bwiehe at right tackle, and then Cam Robinson, you know, in his recovery, is he going to be

ready for the start of the regular season. Are you're gonna be playing someone else at the left tackle spot. I just I don't worry so much about the defense. I mean, they're gonna be solid all the way around. They I don't think there were a special unit last year JP. I think they really you know, that was the one thing. They were a good unit, but everyone got spoiled in and expected the stars in the moon

from this group ineen, and it just didn't happen. I think the pieces are there to have a really good year on defense, but again, this offense too many questions for me to tell you that the problems are fixed, and again I don't know exactly what to expect based upon the history of the people involved. It sounds like, by the way, offensive lin Jawan Taylor is going to get that right tackle job for the Jaguars the rookie.

They gotta update that depth chart man. That's right, and it's week three, so you might get an updated one after next week. Alex Marves serious XM Radio with his final football thought here. Uh In Gockway had, if you hear the story right, had a contract offer and didn't sign it. So it sounds like He's playing for his fourth year contract number this year. Miles Jack's contract is coming up. Jalen Ramsey at some point is going to

have to get paid by somebody. Where would you prioritize those three if you're the Jaguars in got way one, Jack two and John Kound of Jalen Ramsey. Guy in terms of Jalen looked, he's he's I think when you show up to camp the way that you did with the whole Brinks truck thing, I just you know what I mean. And he didn't have a great year last year.

That's the whole thing. It's one thing. If Jalen Ramsey would have played up to Jalen Ramsey's potential, I mean that's you know, gay, then that's fine, and the Jaguars don't want to pay you, I get it, you know, But he didn't. A. J. Boye was the best cornerback on the Jacksonville Jaguars last year. Jalen Ramsey didn't live up to that. And that's the thing that's frustrating because he can be one of the great players in the NFL, not just cornerbacks, I mean one of the great players.

I think it's smarter of the Jaguars to not make that investment in him. Right now, let's see how serious he takes this, How serious does he take this season? Does he get back to playing at the same level that he does? I think in Yannick and Gotqua's case, turning down a contract depending upon the numbers and I didn't see him, But how do you make back tens of millions of dollars over the course of your NFL career if you turn and down an extension in two thousand?

So what it comes down to, right? I mean if that first number starts with a two, and I'm talking twenty million dollars a year on the average, because that's where we're at, even nineteen million dollars a year, I mean, how do you make back that type of money playing on a contract for a third round pick that is paying you what about a million dollars in base salary this year about to and change to and change. That's it. I mean, how do you make that up over the

course of your career? And you know, we know what the injury rate is in the NFL. I knock on wood, nothing happens to him. But man, how do you even begin to you know, do you take that risk because you're not going to be able to make that type of money back probably over the course of your career. So you have that and I listen, Miles Jacket is an extremely valuable piece of this defense. I just think though,

and got Way has got to take precedence. We'll see what what's up with Miles Jack too, because the mic linebacker market. The New York Jets by paying C. J. Moseley as much as they did, blowing out the salary slot, and there is a triple down effect. The highest paid admit and MIC linebacker in the NFL previously was Luke Kickle at twelve point three million dollars a season, and then the Jets pay C. J. Mosley seventeen million dollars a season. You see what Bobby Wagner gets from the

Seattle Seahawks. Is there a team that says, Okay, we have this money available, now we'll pay seventeen million dollars a year for a MIC linebacker or eighteen million dollars a year. Do you feel that good about him? And the one thing that I don't know with Miles Jack And because it's interesting because it's faded as a story.

Remember he lasted until the second round because everyone said that he had an arthritic knee condition or a problem that was going to be affecting him and shortening his career. No one's talked about that for a long period of time.

Was the medical was the medical diagnosis wrong? Or indeed, is there a concern signing him to a big money deal because potential potential knee problems I could surface starting in year four of his career something to follow with the Jackie something And yeah, you're right, we haven't heard that around here in a while. It has seemed to have been an issue for for Miles in his first

few seasons in the league. Here Alex Marvez with US Serious x M, NFL Radio and All Elite Wrestling, the new venture they time family involved in that, of course, and you were part of the commentary crew for All Elite Wrestling. How did this all get started with you, by the way, and how fun has it been so far for you? It has been amazing. And you know, Tony conn and I have struck up a friendship outside of the Jacksonville Jaguars. I mean, just look a brilliant guy.

I mean, he he raises my game when I hang out with him, let me put it like that, and we you know, he he knew of me, you know, because I had a background reporting on professional wrestling, and you know when when he and his family first bought the team, you know, he introduced himself and he told me that I'll never forget I met him doing a serious XM you know radio show, you know, previewing the Jaguars camp and who was in the old locker room,

you know, before the neon lights. That was your suggestion, by the way, I know that, and you know so so we talked about wrestling, but then as time went along, we became closer friends. You know, we went to a New Japan pro wrestling show and Long Beach together. Were actually all over the TV show when you saw New Japan's debut in the States on Access TV. And he's told me confidential that, look, I'm thinking about starting up a pro wrestling company. I'd love for you to be involved,

and I'm not going to turn that down. So that's where things started with All Elite Wrestling. And it's a true passion of Tony. It doesn't diminish the amount of time that he's spending, you know, on the Fulham soccer team, or you know with the Jacksonville Jaguars helping with the analytics and things like this. It's just something that that he's loved for a long period of time. He has an incredible vision for where he wants our company to be.

And I mean already even before our first match on t NT coming up October two, eight to ten Eastern time, every Wednesday night, I mean, he has already made a huge impact on the wrestling business. W w E has it's the panic button because they don't want to give us any momentum. They've added Wednesday night programming that's coming up on another cable network because they're afraid of us making inroads. They've signed their talent to longer contracts worth

more money because they're worried about all Elie wrestling. I mean, it's been it's been fascinating to watch, you know, the way the way that the competition has reacted to this upstart company. But I think we just are going to stay in our lane. We're gonna produce a quality product. We're going to produce great wrestling and with a lot of fresh faces, people that you haven't seen every week on TV that are burgeoning superstars or had the potential

to become that. Combined with some really good veterans, it's a very exciting time, you know, for this company for professional wrestling. For a e W comes along at a perfect time and and Wednesday night, it's going to be very interesting head to head wrestling wars starting once again. I guess, being back on t NT with pro wrestling for the first time in twenty years or so, that's a propos because that's really what the genesis of of TNT getting involved in primetime wrestling to begin with those

old w CWWW E wars. That's the good old days right there of wrestling for sure. Here's the schedule coming up for a e W all Out at the Series Center in Chicago August thirty one, and then the A E W ON T and T schedule starts in October, as you said, October two in Washington, Boston, a week after that, Philly, Pittsburgh, Charleston, West Virginia down the Pike as well. One final question about this, Alex before I

let you go today, I appreciate your time always. Um, how different is it a coaching, reporting and commentating on wrestling than it is reporting on and interviewing people for football, and how how different are the two. Oh no, it's it's completely different. And listen, I'm swimming in deep water, okay. I mean we're talking about Jim Ross and Excalibur, the announcing partners that I've had. I mean, these guys have broadcast literally thousands of matches and among the very best

in their field before all elite wrestling. In the debut show Double or Nothing, my experience was O point oh as far as any sort of call, play by play, etcetera. So definitely a learning curve. I feel like I've improved, you know, quite a bit from you know, Fight for the Fallen when I announced that to Double or Nothing. I hope to have opportunities in the future to continue to grow in that regard. But it is completely different. You know. The nice part is I'm not reporting on

professional wrestling anymore. I talk about it. I have an incredible background in professional wrestling in terms of all the things that I've written about it in the past, but I don't have to do that, you know, put pen to paper and covered as a legitimate enterprise anymore, which is nice. I'm actually part of the show at this point, doing a lot of things for aw some things behind the scenes, some things like called by the Numbers for our road To series online which previews the next show,

like road to All Out that, things like that. I mean, so it's been an incredibly challenging thing at this point in my career. JP. It's my twenty fifth season uncovering the NFL in some form of fashion, whether as a writer, whether doing TV reporting like I did for FS one

or or announcing for Serious x M NFL Radio. And you know, to be able to have the chance to learn something new and do something different on top of that, at this point in my life, at this point in my professional career, it's been extremely challenging, extremely rewarding as well. I wouldn't change it for a minute. And I mean the best is yet to come. I mean, every week I'm gonna have a chance to be involved with a pro wrestling show on television, on cable television in a

different city around the country. What an incredible opportunity for me, and I'm greatly appreciable the con family for giving it to me. Excited to see you on that as well. Alex is always good to have you and we always appreciate your time. Man, thanks a lot, Thank you, Jeff, be good by the Alex Marvez, Serious x M, NFL Radio and All Elite Wrestling. Good Man right there to join us for Back in a moment with some final

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presented by the Fields Auto Group. Final moments the Jags and the Dolphins coming up Tomorrow Night's eight fifteen. The official kickoff time schedule for eight o'clock, but the national television broadcast so eight fift told meats leather tomorrow with the Jags and the Dolphins. Some final thoughts here in the segment. Each Wednesday, we John Osan and I usually pick some players to watch. Usually it'd be deep tracks, but we're not really doing that right now in the preseason.

We're gonna pick two players to watch for tomorrow night, and they're barely clear. First of all, for me, Cam Robinson tomorrow. If he goes, it sounds like he could get a little bit of time to our night. It's his third NFL season, of course, coming off the knee injury. He was just back on the practice field two weeks ago for the first time, trying to get some more teamwork.

At some point, we think, and it sounds like he's not on the list of players not going, at least Doug Maron had yesterday that we'll see if he trots out there with the opening group tomorrow and how much time he gets on that knee. He's been working with a brace on the knee and practice the last week or so. At least the periods we've had open to see he did not have the brace on the first week. He came back when he was doing individual and walked through only, So that has been a little bit of

a little bit of a change for him. He said he doesn't really like it, but he understands why he has to wear it. That's what he told us in the locker room the other day. We'll see if he gets time. That's a big part of this Jaguars offense this year. If they can get their left tackle back and ready to go for Week one, it is a tight schedule of him coming back. That's somebody to watch on offense tomorrow night. And on defensive side you heard

from earlier today. For me, it's Miles Jack, fourth year linebacker. Uh, he's controlling this defense. Everybody has raved about his training camp and preseasons or not. The preseason he hasn't played in the game yet, but the training camp so far, he's controlled that defense, getting guys in the right spot, giving him the good looks. And see it in a game tomorrow the first time with the starters on the defensive side of the football. Let's see what Miles can

get done in his fourth season. Big one contract here for the former second round picking. You heard Alex Marvez there say, you know, everybody kind of forgot about those alleged knee issues that dropped him down in the draft. Um, we'll see as the year goes on here and his play continues. If you know, at some point he's either gonna become a free agent or he won't. What happens with the Jaguars with that, that's on down the line. Let's see a little football tomorrow night from Miles jack.

Our schedule tomorrow on Jaguars Radio, It's busy. It starts at five o'clock with the Public's Tailgate show on Tin ten XL and ninety two point five FM and Jacksonville. Also on the at Jaguars page, on Twitter and on social media Jaguars dot Com, as well seven o'clock Countdown a kickoff on the Jaguars Radio Network. You'll hear from Fred Taylor, Doug Moron, and Pete Prisco. All that coming up at seven. The official kickoff time at eight fifteen

tomorrow night for the Jags and the Dolphins. Of course, right after the game is always Jaguars Postgame for senter by Smart Workers Pharmacy on the network, and then an hour after that the scoreboards show with your calls on Tin to Excel two point five FM, Jaguars dot Com and Jacks Social Media. Are thanks to Tony Smith for coming in today from Tint to Excel to join us, help us with the audio today, Brent Reverer on the

video side. Our entire Jaguars dot Com crew. Our thanks to Fred Taylor prior to the Jaguars running back for joining us, Alex Marvez from Sirius x M, NFL Radio and All Elite Wrestling. For our entire crew, I'm JP Shadrick and going enjoy the game tomorrow night the Jags and the Dolphins down in Miami. And this is Jaguars Happy Hour presented by the Fields on a group on the Jaguars Digital Network.