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us today. Here's what's coming up on the program. Falcons Week is underway. Yes, it is Jags and the Falcons coming up Sunday in week sixteen in Atlanta locker room reaction to the nfl p A letter. We'll hear from some guys today, including Abrey Jones, who had some notable comments that are exclusive to this show in just a few moments. In fact, Chris Conley in studio. I'm sure that topic will come up with him as well, and his two touchdowns in Oakland last week. And players to watch.

We will pick players that you should watch on Sunday.

That's all coming up. Hi, John, how are you Budd Hi, James Patrick, that's not the second ones, right, Um, this is um the eventful day obviously after all the news of the last day or so, the first time in the locker room hearing from these guys, and I think there were some notable comments from a bunch of different guys today, Yeah, there were, and autom were candid and uh, you know the fine thing, the NFL p a thing, it's it's it's a separate thing from what's going on

inside the locker room. I think, thank you saw in Oakland after that game. These guys are playing for each other, they're playing hard. It's not acting what's going on on the field, but it's it's it's a huge issue off the field, and uh, you know it's going to be a topic I think until the end of the season when the organization says here's what we're doing going forward. At that point, I assume more big players, shot, con higher ups, etcetera, etcetera, will address it at some point.

I think the feeling right now is now is not the time, even though it feels like a lot of people that it would be the time. But in terms of the team and getting this season done, it feels like Hey, we're not talking about right now. We're gonna talk about when when they feel it's appropriate. I feel like that's where we are. I would say, probably address it publicly. I'm sure there's addressed behind the scenes. Yeah, that question, I mean, you've got to hear from spinding

out here something down. I get the need to do that, but uh, you know, I would assume the thought is, hey, let's not take anything more than we have to away from what's going on in the field by creating, you know, more buzz by us saying something. Let's let it play out, and I will address it when again, they feel it's appropriate. Uh. I assume that's where they're at. Let's hear from head

coach Doug Morone. He got it started today and in his opening comments discussed what everybody was going to ask about anyway. You know, I made a conscious decision that I wasn't going to get myself wrapped up in this to learn everything about it to be able to speak about it. Um. But I do will tell you this that you know, I'm focusing on, you know, getting this team ready, trying to play, trying to you know, show that I'm deserving of a job. I mean that's the truth. Um,

and that's where my focus is. And like I said before, if if things happen at the end and I have time to look into it and find it, shoot, you guys know, I'll stand up here and I'll answer all your questions on it. But right now that that that's not my focus. I'm trying to save, save, save everyone, you know, the players on the coaches. I thought Doug Maron was was very very good today when addressing all this, because every question in the press conference after this opening

statement except for one, was about the p A letter Today. Well, and I think most people who watched this show follow this team extensively, so they they know that Doug has been put in a situation to talk about a lot of things this year that he really didn't have a whole lot of control over. So that has been an issue. Um. I think what Doug said about his focus, Uh, maybe some people who follow it casually may look at that and say, well, obviously he's talked to people about it.

You know, Doug, really, from the time of game ends to the time the next game ends, is the plate is full for a head coach. I do believe him when if he had spent Monday and Tuesday in meetings trying to talk to people and quote unquote get to the bottom of something. Regarding this well, all of a sudden, that's a huge chunk of his percentage of of pie time, if you will, um spent on this issue. That doesn't

do any players or coaches any good. So, while I'm sure there are conversations going on elsewhere around the building, people aren't involved in game day operation or in the preparation for a game. I believe Doug when he says, Hey, you know, I've only got so many hours in a day to sit in a meeting and try to get to the bottom of something that happened whenever I I do believe him when he says that would take so

much time away from what he's trying to get at it. Again, we're not really talking about the issue that people want to talk about. But as the quote we just played from Doug, any question, he's telling you up front how he's approaching it. All right, Well, we'll hear from some guys in the locker room coming up in just a little bit, including Avery Jones and a J boy. We'll take a time out though, come back with Chris Conley, a regular co host and a special guests from the

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If it's laundry night, it's got to be tied. Welcome Back Jaguars Happy Hour presented by the Fields Auto Group, our regular co host with us. He's really the main host of the show. He really is. It's his show. We just work here. We're the co host. He's the man only. I'm only on here for ten minutes. Chris, it's just me. Well, you can be on as long as you ten minutes. It's your show. Hi, Chris, what's up? What's going on? You know, it's good to be here

again today after when it's a great thing. It's always a good feeling to be here and joined by none other than my co walker, the man himself, Ah, the Great White Hope. As they say, I appreciate you having me. Good to have you here, man, welcome in. Thank you. We heard a lot about this show. Have you have you really? The word spreads I think maybe been on from Andrew. Yeah, we've been on a lot of guys. There's been a lot of guys in our receiver room

have been on healing. Cole is adamant that he won't come on. He walked away from you when you were trying to bring him in. Yeah, I probably asked Helan probably five different occasions to what she said no and just literally walked off from me and not said another word the rest of the day. Remember that I was involved. That's probably or it might be me. It might just be me. So I don't know. We'll find out. We'll

find out, or we won't. We probably won't. And you know what, the sun is gonna come up in the east even if he didn't come on the show. That's true, that's hope. So let's start with the big news this week, the players Association and the letter that came down the first time to get in the locker room today to hear from you guys. What was your reaction when you saw that? Chris? Um, Wow, you guys are really going for it today. First question, UM, that is A. That's

a that's a very tough situation. And Uh, I have to be really honestly careful about how I answer this. Um. Some of the things in that report are not exactly

surprising to me. Um, if I'm being completely honest. Uh, you know, there are instances and and some things that that I've seen and and I've talked to people about that have gone on in this building that haven't really put the relationship between players and people in the best light h personally, speaking from what I've seen and from what I've heard from people that I've talked to who have been here. Uh, And that's not what you want.

That's not what you want. You don't want the NFL A coming in here and discouraging people from coming to this team and and it really helping you out. You know, free agency and getting talented players in here is is really the lifeblood of NFL teams because you know, the draft, you can you can get talent in the draft as much as you want, but you every good team has to have good vets and and free agency is very important.

You want to get you know, the vets that you want who are good for your locker room to come there. But those guys are gonna come there if this stuff kind of comes out. And so you know, I've had conversations with some people, um about that. You know, I had conversations with people when I was on my way in here, and they warned me about some of the things that have gone on, some of the disagreements that

players have had and things. And and if I get asked questions about that, I have to be completely honest because my name is attached to any recommendation that I make in this league. And I hold that before I hold you know, winning games. You know, I want my name and my word to be honest before I tell somebody something that's untruthful just to get him here to

win games. And so you know, they're there are relationships that need to be mended, and uh, you know, I can't really say anything about how things are dealt with. You know, that's getting into territory where I kind of gotta wrap up my answer to this, but you know it's it's a sensitive subject. It is. That's that's the big subject. So thank you for answering the question as best as I could. Yes, very good. Let's talk a little ball now. I will get to your touchdowns in

a minute. But you're getting some playing time at wide receiver these days. You started on the practice squad have moved to the active roster now and to get that opportunity is huge. Um. How fun is it each week to be out there and ready to roll. I mean, it's awesome to be out there with people like Chris and Keepening and everyone else in the wide receiver room.

It's it's an honor to be out there, and it's gotta keep grinding a little more than just returning kicks down to I mean that which which you know, that's obviously a lot of guys break in and special teams tell us about the kick return game him though for you, and that's kind of been It's been my game since college started. Microphone ett, thank you, co host started off.

Actually my freshman year in college started off doing kick return and it's kind of just been my kind of my little niche I've been doing and I'm happy to help out the team here doing that here too, So good stuff. Now you also you're part of the famous apartment with I got two roommates. I can't even imagine the scene over there. But um, you obviously know Gardner

and he still remains a topic, are you. I guess I tell us a little something about him that maybe people don't know, uh, that you can share on the air without getting me let me see here, Well there was handle what he's going to? Yeah, Well, I mean he's I mean, he's what everyone sees him as. You know, he's never skipped a beat. He's always been the guy. He's always coming in here on Monday's doing film. I mean I know you guys always hear the same old things.

But we do have a little funny story that the other night we actually had the cops ended up in our apartment room. I guess he he he had a little night terr or something. He had a little scare. Do we uh, I guess do. We might have been talking to the sleep I don't know what was going on, but he ended up calling the cops because he thought he was getting kidnapped or something. So we had four cops in our apartment room. Woke up at three thirty in the morning, four cops in our room. So, yep,

it's a story to remember. No, they actually well, they recognized him and shook his hand and stuff, and he admitted he called the cops. He messed up, but it was pretty it's pretty funny story. And it was Yeah, he didn't even look out for us. I had no text, no phone call, know nothing from him. He just kind of he just called the cops just to protect himself, barricaded himself in his room, put his dresser in front of the door. He said, I'm not sure where to go.

Well asked for a story. That's a good one. I don't know if that one for a while. All's well, although no house, nothing happened, Okay, we're all. He just sleep talks. Apparently, he sleep yells. He was saying that he was screaming in his sleep, saying like, don't do this to me, Like why are you doing this to me? He was screaming to the point where Gardner thought there was someone in there. And I guess he thought I was already dead or something. I don't know. He didn't

care about me. Yeah, I don't know. It was the team psychologists over here, right, we need to get them involved. It's been stuff, but it just got a little It is interesting. Um. Two touchdowns, two big touchdowns, fourth quarter touchdowns, including the game winner with about thirty one seconds to go. Um, for everything that had gone on the last month, and I have to finally come through getting the end zone a bunchet and and and when that football game was

big for this team. Yeah, you know, UM, I think that the biggest thing I took away from this Sunday is the difference in the way that the team approached the second half this time. Uh. You know, in the last couple of weeks, we've been down going into the second half and I sensed more of a feeling of of guys, you know, saying, hey, this needs to happen. Uh, this needs to happen. This change needs to be make you need to do this, This need this and that

and this and that. And rather than just coming in and saying, hey, like I believe in I believe in you, I believe in this team. We can do this. Just settle in, eliminate mistakes, and let's just go play. And that's what happened this weekend. There was more of a you know, on offense, we said, hey, the defense is playing great, let's just go out there, settle in, eliminate the mistakes, and let's just go play. Man, let's just

go play and we'll get back in this thing. And that change in and of itself and allow guys to go out there and play freely, not press and we got the results that we wanted. Is that something? And ipably kind to phrase this, but you've never really been through a season like this. Again, the city you had success every year. Uh so the teams you were on never really had to learn they had to learn how to win. Um My, my rookie year, we lost five games early in the season and it was a pretty

low place. And in those games, we lost a number of them by three or less points, uh, you know, one possession games, and we lost them early at the beginning of the season. And there was a time where we came in and we had a team meeting and everyone was told to look in the mirror and you know, really just evaluate themselves and what they wanted the season

to be. And we came out, you know, the next week, and and we put together a game and we won something like the game this weekend, and and we had a couple of those games where we just were behind, but we found a way, found a way to win, and we began to build this confidence and not only confidence, but this trust for each other and in the locker room to where we rattled off eleven straight wins after that, you know, ten in the regular season and then one

in the postseason. And people will say, oh, you know, that was just this great team, and you guys know, really the team learned how to win going through those adverse times. And I think that's really what this team is learning how to do. A majority of the NFL games are won by a possession or less, and so you have to find a way when you know stuff is hitting the fan and when all the chaos is going on, to really quiet things down and really go back to the fundamentals and not freak out and do

something differently. And this team is learning how to do that right now. All right, this is the time of the show where we invite you guys to ask each other some questions and well, we don't need another another story from the apartment before. I don't know if you top that last one, but you got any questions for Chris's got to step up at this point. Yeah, I guess you're gonna go surfing today today. I probably won't go today. I don't know what the forecast looks like today. Uh.

And then other that practice tomorrow. I don't like to go before we have rough days of practice. Um, because although I'm not taxing my legs, I do to surf for a very long time. You know, some some surfers go out there and they'll do an hour session, hour and a half. I probably average three and a half hours, three and a half hours out in the water. Yeah, I I overdo it every time. But um, I think

that's just me being an endurance athlete. I just kind of just stay out there and forget track of time getting Are you surfer surfing not just fishing that's just a little yeah, no surfing. There's not much surfing on the goal. It's pretty pretty flat. We'll get much opportunity, maybe a little skinboarding. But so if you had a chance here to to get out, you know, That's what I was talking to him today to Fish. Yeah, yeah, I've had a chance of fish. It actually brought us

out all the rookies. We did a little charter. It's pretty cool. And then I know the nutrition is Steve Fish is a good amount. So looking to look with him one of these off days too, so very nice, love it. What do you got for him? Uh? Michael and yeah. In this first year, you've seen a lot of stuff gone um on the field, off the field, in the building. What have you been able to take away from this season the good the bad? Uh, in the games, on the field, practice squad to active roster.

What have you been able to take away? What is different about the NFL than what you thought going in? Honestly, coming in, Um, I was used to you know, Boston College was I don't know, coaches kind of had a big I don't know. I don't know how to explain it. Coaches were had a lot of control over the players obviously in college, and here it was just a little it was a little different for me realizing that players can kind of, you know, do what they do what

they want at times, you know what I mean. Coaches don't necessarily have to stay over everything the player wants to do or can do. And just seeing that here and I'm sure that happens all across the league too, and just seeing that and in the building and stuff, and just understanding that was definitely a big, little difference for me from college of the NFL. A little bit of an adjustment of being a pro having kind of have more take ownership. You gotta be a professional, you

gotta be a problem. It's all about, yeah, handle stuff you're on. Do you see the paion? Can you see rookies like Michael So, I mean, is it sort of a pattern that they go through in terms of they get in their wide eyed and by the end of the season, Oh, I get it, the rockie wall, but the rookie growth. It's first the rocky wall, for sure.

I think I think the rookie wall is real, But Uh, you know, I think there there is a pattern and and uh that people have to go through coming into the league learning, oh, wow, I'm not the best player on my team anymore, wondering wow, I might not be the best player on the field anymore. But that doesn't take away from the fact that I can still affect this game. And that's something that you learn over time getting out there is your opportunities might be fewer, but

they are of greater importance. But then also learning how to prepare during the week. How do you prepare your mind? How do you prepare your body? What steps can I take to maximize those small opportunities? Very nice? I like that. So what happens the next time Gardner called the what's gonna I couldn't tell you. I couldn't tell you. Hopefully it's not the next time. Hopefully it's not a next time. That interesting. That might have been the best story we've had.

It might be very well might be number one that Michael, thank you for coming to appreciate you a walker Jack's wide receiver. Chris Connlelly with us eat and every week. Appreciate your time and congrats on the touchdowns and the wind guys, appreciate it, and let's get Let's get one in Atlanta this week. There we go, and then another against Dandy the week after that. Bring it off. Let's let's just stick with Atlanta. You know you start going two weeks down the road. You may always on this.

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What's happening? I thought, I like, you had the Tide commercial right before I came on. You gotta keep your uniforms clean. That's right, Yes, that's right. You don't want to do it on Sunday, that's the bit right now. Yeah. It was the early Monday morning last week, right after

the long trip back and everything coming across. So all right, here's let's go back to Oakland and after the aftermath of that football game, the Jacks of One and it's starting to descend into a little bit of uneasiness in oak Let's say they ended up clearing the field and getting all the media people, they wouldn't let them back on the field apparently. So for you guys for JAG's equipment getting everything going, at what point do you start putting things away and getting them out of there and

getting just in case whole hell breaks. Um. Well, we had a little bit of a plan in place, um to possibly start moving some things early, um off the sideline, and we did, and we sent a few things from the locker room too, because a lot of logistics there at Oakland is this isn't the greatest you have the elevator. You gotta go up and down, you can't you know, there's no ramps or anything, and it's kind of a pain.

So with about I guess right before, right before Derek Carr slid for the clock stoppage, UM, I said, okay, that's I think that's it. Go ahead, And I had some trunks inside. I told the guys go ahead and take them out to the truck. Um. George, one of my assistance is on the field. He's sending some stuff up, um, you know, just to get it out of there's things that were easier so that somebody just couldn't run by

and grab it and run off. So he's sending a few things up and then uh, next you know, we get the ball and we started driving and I'm like, oh my goodness, we better not kick a field goal here and go to overtime, and George's thinking the same exact thing on the field, and then when we scored, it was like, okay, good, like all right, field goal, Like no overtime. It's either yeah or nay here now. So but then obviously we won and it was great, and things did get a little crazy down there on

the sideline packing up. Um. I think one of the guys that was helping with the headsets got hit with a water bottle, and then I think that was when our guy said, okay, that's it, we're done, and they finished up and then ran off got out of there. But to have stuff maybe a little yeah, we did, yeah, yeah, there was a few things. Yeah, So and then getting out there as a hurt, he was trying to call Joe. I'm like, Joe, you're ready, We're trying to get out of here. He was still on the air. I think,

so I don't know. It was just kind of because it was a couple of years ago. We almost left Joe before. Getting in and out of that press box is a different thing then it is the most stadiums because there's always a line of the press box. It's invariably you're waiting, and then you know, it's it's a tricky state. And there's a reason that it's older. Nine sixty six that place open. And then I don't think they've touched it since nineteen sixty six. It's the last

time I was out there. They added the seats on Mountain Davis and that's probably about it. Let's get to this week. This is your old place. So going to Atlanta, I mean the team goes to Atlanta a lot for preseason games, but um, the regular season game, I'm sure you'll see some old friends on the side of yeah, we'll see some old people up there that I just hang out with, trying to see some family and stuff.

Kind of in and out quick though. Um, you know, we get there late afternoon and then we're out of there right after the game, so not a whole lot of time to spend, but you know, we get to see some folks Hello, So it works in man, it's within worse than having to see people you know on the road. It's awful. You're you're a social butterfly, John, I really tell you. You get around. Let's take a look at what the Jaguars will wear this week against

the Atlanta Falcons in week sixteen. So we're on the road obviously, so we're gonna go with the white we got, uh Josh Dobbs here, he's from Atlanta, Alpharetta, number number one, number one, number one. And they told you all about being number one last week in Oakland, didn't. We saw that quite a few times. Okay, what you got? And then for the pants, we're gonna go with the teal pants. Look at that look curve ball so white, George. People have been finally clamoring for that, and is that the

first combination of this this season? The first time the teal pants? Okay, and um, my phone may have a message when I get back, but that's where we're going with. If it changes, let's take it to the man. No, that's not, that's not that's totally a joke there love um, but now we've been been kind of wanting that all year. So cool well you get it down. Week sixteen the Jags and the Falcons. The Jaguars have white jerseys and teal pants this week in Atlanta. Always good to see

a Jimmy appreciate for him. M Yeah, an equipment manager and he can gotay had himself a game last week. That's what he'll wear in Atlanta on Sunday back and all the players to watch. We'll hear from some guys in the locker room as well, and we'll wrap it up as Jaguars Happy Our presented by the Fields Auto Group on the Jaguars Digital Network. You can step up

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up so fast. Remember there are plenty of other days of the week, and Tied is America's number one detergent for all of them. If it's laundry night, it's got to be Tied. Welcome Back, Jaguars Happy Hour presented by the Fields Auto Group, JP Gadrick, John Olerjan We've got a show today. Oh good when yes, I had a good show. Chris Connelly and Mike Walker was great with a great story of working his way onto this roster

from the practice squad. And we have to find what's going on in that apartment that is that's something else that he just became my player to watch. That's really it's amazing. Yeah, let's hear from some guys in the locker room today, and you know it's it's the first time we've had a chance to go in the locker

room to hear from some of the players. After the NFL p A put that letter out the other day, I had a chance to sit down with Abrey Jones, Jaguars defensive tackle, and here's what he had to say, I know why we would do something like that when it's clearly in the rules and things like that. And then especially you know, guys really loved the all season time. I want to get back to see family and stuff

like that. So obviously, I don't know how you do something like that, and I think it's not gonna come back on you, especially when and then you're taking money out of somebody's pocket and things like that. So that just confuses me. While we would do things backwards when we're trying to show that, you know, we're a good organization, we take care of our players and things like that. And secondly, that's just not a I feel like it's not a good look for our team. I mean, you

look about how this year it's gone. It's been a very disappointed year. And then the one way to get better is to bring people in. That one way is to draft, but it was mostly rookies and some Brookies have with media impact, you know, things like that. But another way is to bring in top free agents. And I mean, I don't know how many free agents will see that and still think Jacksonville is attractive place to go to it. I mean, on top of we've been losing.

I mean, we've been losing. That just happened. I mean, I really don't know what else we really got to offer besides no state tax. So hopefully to the outside world other players they know that the front office recognized their mistake. We're gonna correcting as players here, we knew nothing about it. There's a definitely no we got a type of players this. I'm not gonna stand back and let another player be fine for you know, for some

nonsense things like that. So we know about it and we're gonna be more on top of it in the future. Abery Jones with a real in depth answer to that question today, sat down with him the exclusive there on Jaguars dot Com, and he'll pretty much tell you how he sees it. He's not gonna hold any punches. Well, and what Chris said, what a city is that? Right? You know, whatever's gone on, whatever has happening moving forward, the perception of that has to change, the reality of

it has to change. And you you can't have the league and players in the league believing that's what this is. So um, it's something that I'm sure shod Khan is strongly considering what he's going to do after the season and how the tone is going to be set. I don't know what is going to happen with the higher ups. Only Shot Kan knows that. I think it's obvious that would be considering when when every decision is gonna get made, and realistically we have to wait probably ten days before

we find out. I would expect this topic to be a major topic the next time Shot speaks, and I wish I had more insight into what was going to happen, but I think there's probably only a few people who do know, and time will tell. But there's no question that the last sentence of the nflp A thing when they cautioned players and they say you should consider this. You know, I don't necessarily know. Uh. People have asked me was it appropriate for the nfl p A to

do this, So yeah, I don't know. I know it's unusual, But the reality is, at some point they felt there was more of an issue in Jacksonville. Then they felt like there wasn't it at other teams. So whatever the story is, whatever happened in this case, unfortunately, perception will be reality and a lot of players and it's up to the Jaguars to somehow change that perception or else. Free agent is gonna be tough, all right, jaguarris and

the foul. It's coming up this week the Atlanta Falcons with the same exact record five and nine, the Jags going on the road one more time in nineteen. Let's get our players to watch for this game. I'll start off, why not Cam Robinson left tackle. I had a bit of a struggle in the first half in last week's game, and then second half this offense finally got something going.

I've got a couple of pass rushers in Atlanta, like Beasley is one of those guys, and Cam's gotta have I think a better overall consistent game from start to finish. He didn't have that last week, if you know, especially if they're gonna have to pass too to get back in games and do all that. So for me, Cam Robinson on the offensive side, you know there's questions now. You know you gotta get big people on the offensive line in the future for this team. Well, is that

a left tackle at some point? And we talked on Monday night on on this program with the Prisco and Boselli, do you do you move him around and put him in the interior or something like that. If you're talking

like that, then things from not going exceptionally well. Yeah, I've been Uh, I've read about Robinson in the ozone quite a bit this season, people asking he's not playing as well as you want him to, And I think what will have to be gleaned And I excuse me, I doubt he will say this, but in the off season conversations and and uh, with doctors left to be gleaned. How much of it was knee the after effects of that.

It's always tough, toughest the first year after an a c L. He's been on the injury report with a knee injury. It has looked at times like he's favoring it. How much of it is that when that gets a percent right sometimes takes You can get back on the field in a year with an a c L, but it sometimes takes longer than that to be right. That needs to be determined. How much of this is after effects?

How how good can he be um because that's a huge obviously a huge position, but you don't want to give up on him too soon if it's knee related. Uh So, I think that has to be a major or offseason issue of you know, where is he how much was the knee? What can he be moving forward? Is a huge topic defensively for me, Unique and Goquay. He had a big game last week, five tackles, two sacks, four tackles for loss, good all around game for Unique and Gockway. You know what I mean. He's he's been

healthy this year. He's playing for that contract coming up in the off season wherever that is, and hopefully it's here. We'll see. Um it's a huge couple of weeks for him to finish up strong. UM, get some more numbers. Really, they'll be quite frank with you, and then stay healthy and go into this offseason. So for me, Unique and Gockway is starting to to really come uh into at the end of the season, really starting to make his his case, not that he didn't already, but I think

a really stronger case for what he wants. It's a tough year for a guy like Unique because he is a sack guy first, and when you trail as much as this team has, there's there's not many opportunities for that. For I'm kind of a broken record on this. For Josh Allen, and you can get a way to have combined for eighteen considering you had five straight games where

you're losing by seventeen. There's been a lot of games, you know, if if you count Um this game the other day and the Denver game, some of their wins even they've only led late in the game, so teams really aren't having to pass against him for you need to have eight sacks, and the impact he's had, he's had a really good year. If it was turned around and they were leading, and if you reverse that, he'd probably have thirteen or fourteen sacks. So good year, I'm

sure from his perspective. Get one in East's last two games and get to double digits, and you kind of put this season in the category of, Okay, not my best year statistics wise, but you know, got the ten sacks, had a good year. Let's move on. I think he'll be with the team next year, either under the tag or Um signed to a new deal. The challenge will continue to be how you use unique, what scheme you're going to play to get the most out of him. Is he a true defensive end in most schemes? Could

you get more out of him? And Josh Allen as more hybrid backers and a three four. Uh. We won't know that until direction the franchise is determined, but UH, they need to figure out some way to keep him use his talent, even if it's not at the exact position they're using him now. Cam Robinson unique Conock with my two players to watch, John, who you got this week? I believe I had the two safeties Jared Wilson and Ronnie Harrison. I don't know that this is the obvious

matchup that it was last week for these guys. Waller's obviously a huge name with the Raiders tighten. I mean the Falcons at really have that level of tight end. But it was clear in the first half last week that the Raiders we're going after the safeties, and they did anyone to Trey Hernton too. They went for the secondary, but the safety struggled in that game early, seemed to get better late. Uh. Safety is a position that has

been up and down for the Jaguars this season. So I think based on the tape last week, I'm sure the Falcons Matt Ryan's capable of going after whoever he wants to, so I'm sure they'll go after the safeties in this game. It will be a big game for them, Alright, safeties on defense there and offensively, you're going to a guy who wasn't playing last week. Yeah, and uh, it's really a way to talk about the entire receiving group.

They're obviously better with DJ Chark in the field. Those impressive last week that Chris Conley in a game where he was needed to step up, Chark wasn't there. Did what they paid him in the off season. He came in, he had a couple of big catches Chris, So I didn't really want to use in this category. They've gotten their money's worth in Chris com Yeah. You obviously. I think he has four touchdown passes or four time reception

about seven yards. Uh. If Chart gets back in, he gives them the element that they don't have without, which is a big play element somehow. The Jay Wars need to score this week and M I say score, I mean get to four, not to be coming from behind. Charts still their hope to do that, charts their hope to get leads. What do you mean nice to have a lead? JP? It would when's the last lead? New York The Jets, I mean, there was like a three three nothing or something the last time you felt like, Okay,

they're in control of this game. That Chark is the key for them if he plays to be able to get control. He's a dynamic playmaker. I don't think he's necessary team that's going to string together four or five long touchdown drives in a game they did last week late. But overall this Falcon's even just playing really well. Dj is the kind of guy who can turn a couple of plays into points and get them to lead early.

All Right, You've got the safeties Harrison Wilson and d J Chark Jr. I've got Cam Robinson and Unique and got wits a lot watch in week sixteen, the Jags and the Falcons coming up our thanks to our guests, our co host Chris Conley, Michael Walker, Jaguars wide receiver, Jimmy Luck, head equipment manager. Uh you too, John. I hope Michael Walker gets some sleep then, so too for the whole apartment there apartment's sake for everyone involved. I'm

j P shattered. Thank you for watching. Well, I'll catch you next time. Jaguars Happy Hour presented by the Fields Auto Group on the Jaguars Digital Network,