Jaguars Happy Hour: Wednesday, December 4

John Osier. It's Wednesday of Chargers Week Week fourteen. The Jags and the Chargers coming up four or five kickoff time at t I A A. Bank Field this Sunday. The Jags at four and eight, the Chargers at four and eight. Here's where we're getting to on the program today. We'll have a preview of that NFL football game coming up Sunday, the Chargers and the Jaguars will pick our players to watch in this game. We'll have the uniform unveiling.

What will the Jaguars where this Sunday will hear from Jimmy luck To the head equipment manager here in studio and our regular co host Chris Conley, Jaguars wide receiver joins us in studio as always, and he'll have a special surprise guest from the locker room as he always does. Last week he brought Klais Campbell. Uh, this is who this week? Who knows who's gonna be? Hi? John, what's up?

How you doing? Yeah? Wednesday of Chargers Week, you get the new week started, You try to get the bad taste out of your mouth, and you're trying to move forward here. But the reality setting in at least is feeling around here that if it hasn't said it already, four games to go, playoff races out of the out of the question right now. Really you have to have a lot of help and do everything, and there's a quarterback change, and there's reports about the future the coaching staff.

It is it is not a good feeling. Well no, and and I'm fortunately I'm sure people watching this or thinking, well, it's not a good feeling, but it's a it's a familiar one, and you know, over the less seven or eight years they've had this feeling too much. That's why you're having such a you know, talk about all the outside stuff, and that's why it feels so dismal, is because it's a yet again situation. UM, I don't know

what's going to happen after the season. I don't think anybody does, except for shot Con And that is sort of the everything you say about the team right now is shrouded in that. That's that's coloring everything. It's on everybody's mind. He really thinks about this, and that's only human nature outside the locker room. I'm sure inside the locker room is probably some thought about that. Aby Jones

talked about a little bit today. Um, but from a day to day, hour to hour, what they have to do and what we're covering standpoint and Artaman she said it best. You know. He was asked today in his press conference, what do you want to do with the last four games of the season, and he said, oh, I can really worry about beating Sandy, I mean beating yeah Los Angeles Chargers. That's a cliche, it's what you'd expect him to say, but it's also the reality that

they operate in. So that's what we'll talk about and we'll we'll cover a game Sunday, And as Dougas said, often you know, at some point when you're around this, even if there's other stuff going on. You just want to win because it just feels so much better than the alternative, and you just want to get the taste out of your mouth. And uh, you know when you're walking around here, even at five and eight after a win, it just it's just better. It's like old It's like

old nucleuse set. You know, winning it's like better than yeah, yeah, five and eight is better than four and nine. I checked, maybe Calvin correct. Doug bron spoke today with the Jaguars media. Of course, was asked about the motivation for him and for the football team with four games remaining. You know, the players have have been fighting, um focused, practicing. Well, we just got to figure out a way to win games and get a good taste back in your mouth.

You know, it's such a bad taste, you know when things are going the way they are right now that you know you can't control what's gonna happen afterwards, but you know you can control everything while you're here. So you know, I'm trying to make sure that you know, we have a clear vision of what we have to do. We have a clear goal and what we want to accomplish and be able to stand up and motivate and

lead the coaches in this team every day. He wasn't asked specifically about that report of his future that came out earlier in the week, but he kind of addressed it there. When you don't know what's gonna happen, you can only control them now. Well. And he may not have even known about a specific report, but he's been around long enough. If you if you know anything from being around, uh, it's that he absolutely has a precise

idea of how this league works. He's not a he's not a guy who came into this job from college who was naive about the NFL. He knows that if you're out of the playoff chase in the NFL, unless you're you know, Bill Belichick or maybe Pete Carroll this time, you're guys who have been there forever one Super Bowls for their teams. If you're out of the playoff chase and there's a month ago in the season, uh, you don't have to go on Twitter to know what's on Twitter,

if that makes any sense. And I and you have to watch the NFL network, there's going to be people with reports about your job. So he gets that as well as any coach I've ever been around, and he deals with it. I believe him more than I believe a lot of coaches have been around when they say, I just don't read it, don't listen to it. I don't think Doug thinks about it very much. I am.

I am sure that when he does think about it, he probably thinks more about his assistance and about how that's affecting everybody, because you know, as a head coach, he's he's been doing uh seven or eight years. He gets it. He's in a situation where, you know, if he's not here next year, financially, he's fine. All that stuff. Assistance, you know, it's a different story for people Underdugs. So that's who he's concerned about more than anything. The big picture.

He knows. Um, but I just kind of kept thinking all day to day jp UM, listen to Doug, listen to Gardner. It's stuff you say at four and eight. They're all the quotes that we've heard around here before. There's stuff you have to say. It's fine, but there's not a whole lot of insight to be had right now. The coach is not going to mention all the reports going on the front office isn't gonna talk about things

that are going on. You're playing out this season hoping to win as many games as you can for the players and wondering what's gonna happen next. That's that. That's that's it. That's what it is. Yeah, I mean, I wish I had better insight, and I wish it wasn't more experienced with. I wish I wasn't as experienced with We've seen this a time or two. Let's yes, but

let's do talk a little ball this week. One of the prevailing issues from last week's game where the penalties sixteen penalties against this Jag seemed the second most in a single game and franchise history, and that you've seen now for the season there with the the offensive line, penalties have been and the question was more about Jowan

Taylor's season with the penalties he's had. There has been some good with Joan Taylor as well, but Doug Marone moving forward on that answer made it for the entire

team as well. You know, in order to be successful, you know, you can't and anything you do, you can't make the same mistake twice, you know, And that's the one thing and you know I told him before, I said, whether it be like the holding penalties or whatever, and I went through a couple of things with the team and I said, and anything in life, you just gotta learn from it, and you've got to you've got to go I've seen I've seen us learn and then go

back it's learned, and then go backwards, you know. And it's it's one thing, um, you know, after another. And that's the same with us as coaches. And you know that's that's that's my job. That's where that's where I haven't done a good job. Where you know, it's my job to make sure that we're help a lot more consistent than we've been. And we have it so others. Doug mor Own discussing the penalties mainly and and some

of the mistakes that keep happening week over week over week. Yeah, and uh, at some point you're just gonna stop doing him. That's the answered. I like that today. And I think there's been eight games with nine or more penalties at it twelve. Yeah, Maroon would argue he has said that, you know, the analytics would say that that doesn't you know, a lot of times winning and losing the penalties, but when you have sixteen people believes that that's gonna help

you lose it. And Doug, I've heard him talk about analysts quite a bit. He believes in a lot of things with analytics, and I know the one conflict that he's talked about having with it is this idea, the penalties don't hurt if if if you're purely analytics. Uh, penalties don't necessarily dictate wins or losses by percentages, And Doug I think Doug is probably correct on this one of You know, it may not say in the statue sheet that it's it's hurting you, but it just has

to when you're giving away yards. Yeah, and that's uh, you know, when you think about it, in the course of your average, a good offense in this league gets what four yards in a game? Four yards the game pretty good, right, a quarter of that? So you're you're giving away a quarter of your work that day. Yeah, that's they hurt. Holding penalties particularly hurt. I'm sure there's analytics to support this, but holding penalty in a drive h it just kills it. Maybe a false art doesn't.

Maybe a defensive hold is less damaging than an offensive hold. Because you can come back from the offensive, hold your ten yards back and here you go first. And yeah, so anyway, obviously sixteens too many, and it's a huge problem. I don't know reallytively. Yeah, it's gonna get fixed because we've been talking about it for you're really weeks. Even more than that. It's been an issue for this team during this regime, and it's a tough thing to get past.

Big story of the day, the quarterback. Gardner went to the second discussing things with the media today for the first time in a few weeks, back at the Helm today and back under center this week against the Los Angeles Chargers, and he suddenly learned some things when he was out the last few weeks. You've got a million different things that you're having to focus in on, um, and you kind of lose some of the bigger stuff. I guess I should say something smaller stuff sometimes, UM.

But when you when you're out of that role, you can kind of step back and see the little details and UM. It was a really good experience for me being able to be able to watch Nick and see how he does it. It is a great opportunity to learn and like I said, be able to step back and see it kind of from a different perspective. Found it interesting John that they changed some of the practice schedule to give him some actual reps, which is that rarely,

if ever happens for a backup. And by the way, to see the picture we had him from when he got here, has he just decided never to groom again? I mean the hair the must said, it's it's fantastic. I can't get away with it. But more power to him. Uh, it's interesting that they gave him the reps um. Doug talked about that today in in his presser and said, basically, I think got correctly his belief with a lot of times teams do a disservice to younger quarterbacks because if

you don't give them some reps during the season. I think some people don't realize how NFL practice work. During the regular season. It's all about getting your first team offense and the players who will play ready for what the opposing team will do that week, and that often dictates that the backup quarterback is a scout team guy, which means they never worked within the offense, never work

with other starters. Doug, I think probably based on some of what happened during the preseason with preparation and how Gardner looked with backups. Remember, uh, I think he wanted to make sure Gardner stayed ready, Uh, that he had a chance to develop. And it's unusual, it's not particularly surprising considering the situation, how well Gardner had played, So

I'm sure Gardener benefited from it. I think more than anything, what you're gonna see from Gardner um probably not anything tangible, but just stuff that and I and he talked a little bit about it today, when you are in a situation for the first time, even as mentally advanced as Gardener is, I can't imagine how fast things must have felt like they were moving for him, and not just

during the game, but everything. I'm sure when he looks back those eight weeks he started, he probably can't even remember some of the days because it's just coming at you so fast. You're trying to you keep breathing and figure out what you need to do at two o'clock on a Thursday. Well, I'm sure the two weeks out he had a chance to kind of look around and say, Okay, that's what Flip was saying about that play, that time. Okay, I get it. You know we've all had that after

a show. You know, Hey, I shouldn't have said this, I should have get I should have gone this direction. Well, I'm sure he had any number of situation like that, and even during a game where he saw Nixt do something said, okay, I see what you know? A war hoopy OPENSI flying coach was telling me about that read on that point. I get it. Now will we ever know exactly what you've earned? Probably because you won't go

every detail. But I'm sure there's stuff like that that he'll benefit from, where he'll just be more calm and more ready for a situation tangibly. What'll that be, I don't know, but I expect him be better than he was in his first eight games. Let's flip into defense quickly. Here. Miles Jack out again today, So that's who knows moving ahead how this week is gonna go. But he did not play in last week's game. Donald Plane, of course made the startup middle linebacker that was a big story

with thirteen tackles last week. They're facing Philip Rivers this week, a guy who's ripped this franchise to shreds really over the years six and two record against the Jaguars all time. So we'll see if Myles can get back. What's your what's your gut here? Well my gut and I'm not a chance to talk to anybody about this, but he went limited Friday, and Dougs tone was that was better than he thought and maybe there'd be a chance. So

not particularly surprising or overly conserving. He'd be better for his practicing today, but not a huge surprise with the knee that I'm I understanding. By the way to clarify is this is not the the degenerative issue you from. I've had some questions about that. Is this the same thing my understandings, it's not that um that this is. You know, NFL players have knee stuff during the season. Rest of your team that comes and goes. So I think it's more that, But not surprising that he wouldn't

go today. If last Friday was a situation where he was getting close and just need a couple more days rest with him, why not rest him a couple more days and get it off there and see how it is Friday. I don't think he's gonna at this stage of the season learn that much benefit that much from practice, probably more benefit from the rest. All right, let's come back. We'll get our players to watch a little more on the Los Angeles Chargers as well, who've lost a lot

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John Osier. The Chargers Jaguars game this Sunday presented by Universal Orlando Resort four or five kickoff time the Los Angeles Chargers at four and eight the Jacksonville Jaguars at four and eight. Philip Rivers is still playing. I mean, this guy has been at it for a long long time, seventeen years now in the league. And his numbers this year, well, the interception numbers have spiked over the last three weeks

or so. He had I think, um seven interceptions in a two week span right before the BI week a couple of weeks ago, so that they got people up in arms a little bit in l A. It did. But well, wherever the Charger fans are, where the charge of fans are, um, you know, it's uh, it's interesting that all three of the two thousand four quarterbacks sort of reaching that point in their careers where you wonder how much longer they play, meaning Eli uh Bannon Rivers.

Rivers is the only one really playing, and he's had the run of interceptions, which worries you a little bit. I like Philip Priers. I watched him play, so I hate to see a situation where his career might be coming to an end. The other side with him, though, is he's a gun slinger who is not going to

play in such a way to protect his stats. Meaning there are some quarterbacks who, you know, rather than just throw it up for grabs in a situation, are going to be are gonna be smart travel with the interception. Rivers is at the point of his career if he has three sacks in the game and he's trying to throw him back into the game on the last series he's he didn't care about the fourth one. You know,

he's not worried about his numbers in that sense. So I'm sure some of those interceptions came at the end of games where he's already throwing a few and it's like, look, I'm just I'm just trying to get this team back in it somehow. If I risk any reception. Great. Also, with a guy like this who's as smart as he is, I don't think that he can't throw up three fifty four touchdowns and uh you no interception. So yeah, I don't think he's as consistent as he used to be.

He's gettable. My my concern with this defense playing Philip Rivers is can they stop Gordon and r enough to get Philip into situations where he's off balance throwing. Remember the huge interception that they had out here two years ago. Boys interception came when they had the Chargers under pressure, they were backed up against their own goalne Rivers was trying to make a play Boy made the play. It was. It was a situation where the Chargers sort of had

to throw. So that's where you get him in trouble. This Jaguars defense hasn't been very good at putting offenses into that situation, so that's where you're you think, well, maybe Rivers is struggling. Is this defense good or good? Right enough? Good? Enough right now to make him continually struggling. I don't know. Wasn't that the play where Boy nearly took it to the house and Philip tackled him like right at the goal line and get whacked on the

head with his knee or a couple of years. Yeah, and it was one where boy A sort of came off of another defender and Rivers really made the right read and Boy made a play above the xs and os. It's the kind of play that you make when you're going, well, that's that's right. And then only two times with the Jaguars have beaten Philip Rivers, where the last two Jaguars playoff teams. Think about that, oh seven and team, Yeah,

I need to break that trend. This team is not going to playoffs, but it would be good to beat Rivers. So it's yeah, it Uh. He's so savvy that you can't count on him being what he was two weeks ago and three weeks ago. You have to assume he's going to play well because he's smart enough to do it even if the arm is not there. Alright, let's get our players to watch for the Jaguars this week, and I'll start off this week since you started off

the last two weeks. Yes, we're keeping score here. I'm going first today and I'm going to Wan Taylor, Jaguar's right tackle. Doug Maron discussed him today in the press conference and was asked about his penalties this year. But there are some good things, and um Maron said, hey, really, the next four weeks will be a good barometer of where this guy is gonna go. That they still are very confident in him, and they like what he's done

this year for the most part at right tackle. But the penalty thing's got to go away at some point. A team high thirt team against Jowan Taylor, the rookie right tackle from Florida. I expect him to play well at the last quarter of the season. I talked to him briefly today. Um I like him. It seems like he cares about being good. It seems like he's focused

on the right things. Yes, he's struggling with penalties, but everything about him, when you combine the physical makeup, which nobody would doubt that he has with he maybe reminds me a little of DJ Chark last year. He's playing

more than DJs. Maybe it's not a great comparison, But all you ever heard about DJ Chark was how hard he was working, how focused he was, And when you combine that with uh skill, which they both have, it's very rare for a guy who knows how to work, who also has a physical ability not to eventually turn that into something. And that's what Joan Taylor feels like. I get these committed to many penalties. Um, I just

can't believe that's going to continue. And he seems like the kind of kid who will grasp that I've got I've got four more games with this, I can either feel really good about myself after the season or he feel really lousy about myself after the season. Um, he seems like the kind who will work and have a better last four games. Plus, he had a really bad game last week, but except for the penalties, and you want to say that because penalties count. Except with the penalty,

he had played really well. He probably his worst game last week. There's no real statistical evidence there at the course of the season that he's gonna continue plays poorly Dight against Tampa. That feels like the outlier to me with Juwan Taylor, my other players plural to watch this week a position group, the linebackers, and you said, well, yeah, of course, right, Well, here are the linebackers on the current roster. Miles Jack who knows his status for this week.

He did not practice today, he missed last week's game. We haven't seen Jake Ryan on defense yet. He was just activated last weekly. On Jacobs has twenty tackles this year. Donald Paine started last week that thirteen tackles. That's um more tackles than he had defensive snaps in his career going into that game. Quincy Williams, we know he's the

rookie this year, the third rounder. And then Austin Calletro has had time at middle linebacker when needed, but only six tackles this year, and a guy who's played a lot of special teams. That's your linebacker group. So if Miles is down and for for some reason, Donald Payne you know, is not playing well or whatever happens, Calletro's in there. That's the linebacker group right now for this team. Yeah, and you know it's not news that we would like

to see Jake Ryan play. Take Ryan is interesting because obviously this season I haven't talked to him very much, but I'm sure he would even say it's being complete washed, very disappointed they had minuity back, but he he was a good player for Green Bay. So is this a guy that when you start talking about, Okay, what are they gonna do next year? Where are they? How strong

are they? Boy? They're miserable at linebacker. Maybe over the last four games Jake Ryan can oh that you need one less thing than you thought you need, Meaning if he plays well, then maybe you have some options in linebacker you didn't know you had. He he was signed to do that this year, hadn't been able to. Maybe that's a storyline you can look for overall, tough year for that bunch. Okay, I've got the Jowan Taylor and

the linebacking corps. John who you got today? I wanna be quick because Jimmy Luck just walked in and you know he waits for no man. I'll go with Josh Allen first. If they can get the runs stopped. This is a game where Alan can make a difference because you're trying to pressure Philip Rivers into mistakes and he's been the most consistent pass rusher. He's gotten home even when he hasn't gotten home, he's gotten pressures, So, uh, I would expect him. We talked about John Taylor earlier.

I would really expect that kind of at at at a Josh Allen of you know what, I una finished my rookie season strong. He cares about it from from listening, from watching him in the locker. I haven't talked to him in a couple of weeks. He doesn't seem like he's hit any sort of wall in terms of personality. He doesn't look like he's dragon. Probably on the field, he would tell you he has all all rookies do.

But he's still the same guy in the locker room, still looks like he's up, so so it's like he's into it. I think this kid's a special kid, and I think you'll finish strong. Josh Allen on defense, how about offense? John, I'm gonna go Deed Westbrook as a whole with the wide receivers, I think I went I think I'm at wide receivers as a whole last week. They need to make more of an impact than they

have the last two or three games. Some of it has been because the quarterback played for a couple of weeks wasn't exactly helping him they weren't helping each other. Uh d. D Westbrook is a guy who seems to respond when Minshews in the game a little bit seemed to last week, can make plays. Logically, he would be the guy who makes plays off scramble mode because DDT, I continue to work hard to get open the middle

of the field somewhere along the line. Skill players on this team have to start making plays above the XS and ose you need something right now to dazzle you. DD He's a guy who historically has been able to do that. So let's watch d D. Alright, let's do it. Let's do it. Yeah, You've got d U Westbrook and Josh Allen. I've got Jowan Taylor and the linebackers that were back in Rome with Jimmy luckin studio head equipment manager.

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your mike's not on yet. Stand there, it is Jimmy. Somebody's listening to me anyway. He's getting upset. I don't talk about myself in the third person. What's up? Man? You're kind of guy that guy that could be well, I could be on sign filed. I don't know if I could be the guy talks about myself a third person. So, um, here we are. It's four weeks ago. Um, it's the it's the it's a tough time a year, to be quite honest with you. And that's just how it is

in the in that locker room today. It's just a little you know, it's four games left. The playoffs are kind of out of the picture. It's a how's the feel like back behind the scenes there and equipment side of things. Players are coming through. Um, I'm sure you've been through seasons like this before, you know. Yeah, unfortunately we have. UM, you know a lot of the guys that are upbeat, guys always are still upbeat. Um, you know,

there's nobody's down. Um, you know, we we are a younger team, and so it feels like a lot of the young guys feel like, hey, there's a chance for me to put something on tape. UM, And so you know, I don't. I don't. I haven't felt anything back there, you know. I mean for us, we've we still got to do the same job whether we're winning or losing. UM. Obviously makes it funner when we're winning, but um, you know, we still got our stuff we gotta do. UM. You know,

we're kind of starting our preparations for Oakland. Um, you know we'll leave a day early for that. So just a few little things. But I haven't felt anything back there. When you're dealings with players, you know, when the media talks to which is when we see him a lot of times, it's very guarded. You guys know these guys year round, and it's a very professional and in a sense with a lot of guys I knew from experience,

it's very personal relationship. You get to know him, so there's a trust where I'm sure they act very normal around you guys no matter the situation. Whereas with the media when fans see them, it's a much different environment. No, there's definitely there's guys will come back there sometimes when sometimes when the media is in there as a little less gape, come out and hang out with us, see what's going on. Um. JB even comes down there sometimes,

you know, Faulds some towels. Yeah, it happens. Yeah, more you can do, you know, try just in case this this part doesn't work out, maybe I'll have something down the line something. Um. So, yeah, the the Oakland trips coming up, that's an extra day on the road. What does that do for you guys? Um, we'll just we'll practice Friday. Friday be a little hectic, so we'll practice

and then pack everything up and then head out Friday afternoon. Um. So you know, we'll leave some stuff dirty here Washington. We'll have somebody back doing that, and then we'll ride out you know, a couple of hours. More than a couple of hours I guess on the plane, like five or six maybe, Um, but you know, we'll get out there. Then we'll have walked through on Saturday, and then we'll

go to the stadium and set up. So but it's a nice bit at home this week back to back, you know, it's kind of nice feel like you get an extra day in there. I had forgotten the length of that fight to you, brother that I appreciate that. We'll talk more about that next week in the in the last game of the col seat and all that. One of those nice like layback seats, don't you though, Yeah, next question, that's right, the senior writer. You have happened upon a topic. But we'll move on. Let's get to

the uniform unveiling quickly. What are the Jaguars Jimmy going to wear this Sunday against the Charterers? At home, we're gonna go They had Jaguar Twitter, I mean the uniform guy, he's all on me. So we got black jerseys obviously at home there's a leek and the equipment sat. No, he's he's got it down though. Okay, Chris Colling, I'll give you a little store about that here in a minute. We got the black jerseys and then the black pants, so we'll go black on black when the last time

he did. I'll do this in London. Okay, that's right, that's right, that's right. So I got Chris Conley, his uh, his bulldogs beat up on my jackets. They stomped him. Actually pretty good clean, old fashioned. Hey, yea, so he got me, so I give him have to okay, you know, hey, tip of the hat to him. They gotta not really, I didn't was not super confident going. So what was the rebuilding year for the Jackets? So it is they're trying to get away from the stuff and then Georgia.

You know, they're playing pretty well this year. I hate Okay, they're in trouble this week. We'll get what we got. You know, Chris is coming in next segment. Well, we'll talk a little Georgia with him. You can tell him my game, a little tip of the hat. And he was giving me a hard time on the way in from practice today too. I'm sure he was. I'm sure he was there. You go black on black for the Jags this Sunday, four oh five, the kickoff time at t I A. Bank Field. Jimmy, thank you very much,

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got a special guest with him today. We'll let Chris introduce him. Might cause my cleats week as well. Chris, Good afternoon. How are you, sir? I'm doing well. I'm doing well. It's good to be here and uh to have some cleats on the table and to be joined by one of my all time favorite people, all time favorite people, the man, the myth, the legend. Abray Jones. Hi, Abrey, how you doing? Get closer to the mic? Oh yeah on this side. You know, you bring another Georgia person in.

You moved my host. The whole Georgia thing came up with today. No, it's not. It's wonderful yourself right now. Three touchdowns, l s U. The hate is rased, hated. See where's your school? Alabama? So you're just solve this a little bit, okay, A little salt refresh my memory. Did you guys ever cross passed at Georgia? Was there a year or now? We played two years, two years together. I was just reminiscing about Chris's freshman. You know, the DBS tried to get at him. He held his ground.

I was proud of Yeah, you know. I was like, all, you know, we had pretty good DBS and I was over on the so I was like, yeah, get the freshman probably just jumped and ran away from Well no, I didn't run away to try to grab me, but I grabbed back because I'm a little bigger than the typical Treshman receiver. So it wasn't it wasn't that bad. Well, let's get right to it. The cleats on the table,

my cause my cleats this week. They were unveiled yesterday the unboxing ceremony of of the different causes for all the players and Chris, what do you got for us here? I have some wonderful blue cleats that you can have for the low price of the highest bidder. Proceeds going to the Ocean Conservancy Organization. You know, they do a lot of work in legislation um to basically protect our

oceans and the life in them and the life on them. Um, and basically keep them clean, keep them safe, preserve them for our children and all the people in the ecosystems and communities that thrive off pretty neat. I like that. Those are good looking shoes to good man. The artists did a great job on those. Ye Do you do the beach pickups too? Uh? You know when I am on the beach and I see something, I pick it up. Um, you know, I haven't done since I've been in Jacksonville.

I haven't done a beach pick up since I've been in Jacksonville. I probably need to do one. But actually, you know, like where I'm at on the beach is actually not that bad. People are are pretty you know. They want the beaches clean here, and they do a really good job of picking up after themselves on the beach here. All right, that's a great cause. We like that good stuff. Hey, what are your what's yours of mine? These glorious things right here? Where's the camera? Let me

get these right here? Okay, right here? Yeah, so these glorious things right here. You see they have the military fatigue with the fighter jet mouths, with the numbers in the front I'm a firm supporter of Wounded Warrior. I've been that pretty much since we started the my cause my cleats. Uh, both my parents are both in the

Army military. My dad so served over in Iraq and then when he came back, he was like, uh Airborne first Rangers and when he came back, he had jumped out of a plane, broke his foot, had some little troubles, you know, stuff they come back with. They really helped him with his getting his mental to stability back and things like that. So big shout out to the people

down to the Via Hospital in Dublin, Georgia. Uh, they take care of my mom now and now that she was retired, so they do a lot of things with the wounded warrior. I used to stay in the DC area, used to really go see how it really was. And I just want to give all the support back to the men and women that go out and sacrifice their limbs and the mental forward to just for us to come out and where are these cleats to support them

for a day. I mean, definitely think there should be a little bit more support besides just the players and what we do. But I mean, whatever little we can do that reaches out to them they see greatly. I'm glad forward a window passionate answer. Not every community initiative is built alike, I guess, but this one, to me has been remarkable in the way it's taken off, the way it's had staying power. And for you guys, you really do put a lot of thought and heart, and

I think most players do. This is a really cool one, isn't it. I Mean, I guess cool may not be the right word, but most of these guys when they do the cleets, it's something you guys truly care about. Yeah, I think the lead to a good job because I mean, guys were pretty much just wearing any typically they wanted to, and it was putting finds with stuff. But you know, some people got enough money for the find they really don't care. But you know the kind of you know.

I like how the league accepted it and said, Okay, we're gonna put a positive spin on it, because I remember when the Leak was here, every week he had a he had a different cleet for a different undation. He was always giving back and he was just saying like, well, you know, as long as I donated to somebody, I can wear the cleet. So if a guy wants to go out there and be fashionable and then do good cause at the end of the day, I feel like it's a win win for us in the league. Yeah.

I think it's an letting players pick, you know, what they want to be involved and things that are near and dear to their heart. Is one of the reasons why My Cause and My Cleats is so widely participated in and why it's so effective. Uh, And I mean it's just an awesome experience to walk out on the field and see just all these guys and the artwork, and uh actually asked them about what it is that they're passionate about and then just hear them go off

about why that's so important to him. You know, you just saw that with Avery. Um. But there's a lot of goodwill that's out on the field on this Sunday, and um, we're excited to be a part of it. Why is it so important to you, Chris? I know you're a surfer, you know, but is it is it just something beyond that that you are so passionate about this?

I mean, just if you look at the percentage of the world that is affected by our oceans, whether it's their community is thriving off of uh it for business, for food, uh, cosmetics and medicine. UM. And just like the wildlife that we have that we know of and that's undiscovered uh in the ocean. I've had my eyes opened so many times on dives. UM. I like to

scuba dive. My eyes have been opened so many times by the things that I could see down there that I could read about in a book, but seeing it with your your own eyes has just been given me this this overwhelming sense of thankfulness and just you know, being good stewards. I firmly believe that, you know, God wants us to be good stewarts or the earth while we're on it, and uh, you know that's just one of the things that we can do that is going to highly affect the lives of our children, you know

while we're here. Good stuff. Let's talk a little football now, Fellas, what is the mood in the building this week? Four and eight? Record four ago? Quarterback? Change? All the media and stuff around the team right now? What's the field in the locker room right now? Chris, you know you can't let things become a circus um. If you want to go out there and and practice and put in a game plan and give your best effort to go out and win a game. You can't let things become

a circus. There's a lot going on in the building. There's a lot going on outside of the building that people are trying to bring in the building. Uh, And you've got to just eliminate as best as you can those distractions and eliminate that noise and focus in on the task at hand. Um. You know, put in your game plans, study those game plans to a t, and get ready to go out there and execute with whoever it is. Andy, But you stay in the locker room today.

If you love the game, this is where you show it, right, Yeah, I mean because every day, you know, you hear people say all the time, I'll play this game for free. That's just how much they love it. So, I mean, we have nothing to play for. You just gotta go out there and just give you a love to the game, which is gonna be shown to the fans, is gonna be shown to a teammates based upon how know, how

hard you play. And then you know, just listening to Chris talk, he said everything perfectly and I think, you know, if you really need something to play for it besides the love of the game and your teammates. My thing is we go and run, we live. Win all our last couple of games, and we finished in eight Nate and a Nate. Probably not to a lot of people, you know, on this team that first got here. You know,

it's not the playoffs, it's not nothing. But someone that's been here for seven years and only got one winning record on this But I'll take a Nate. I'll take a night on seven. You know what I'm saying, Like, well, I can't get non sef, but I'll take an eight name, you know, just to show that we want to fight, that we don't want to give up. That just because we didn't meet our aspirations and our goals doesn't mean what You're gonna come out here and just take it,

you know what I mean. We have a lot of guys, have a lot of pride. We have guys with families that have to go out there and play to make sure they still have a job. I mean, we all do. I mean, it's been bad, whether it was a new coaching staff or the same whoever is here. You gotta prove it to them that when Tims was tough, you was it rise up. And I think with some observers sometimes I don't grasp this isn't the NBA, where there's

eighty two of these things. You work all off season and you never know going into a season if you're gonna be injured or not. Every opportunity to play this game. You know, most players I've talked to over the years have said, there's only so many of these chances you get. There's not that many opportunities. And every single day, whether it's at practice, whether it's in the weight room, whether it's in your meeting rooms or walking down the hallway,

you are being evaluated, constantly being evaluated. Uh. You know, there's the people here that everybody knows. You don't even know that. You don't exactly know what they do, what their job title is, you don't exactly know why they're in the building, but you know that they're watching you. And those are the people who evaluate their personnel people and they want to see, hey, does this person really love the game? Is this person locked in? Or has

this person checked out? And um, you know that's just the they call the NFL, not for long. They say that it stands for not for long, because there are only a limited number of opportunities to strap on that helmet, to put on a jersey, and to go out there and play. And so each of these games is vital, Uh, not only to uh your potential to continue your career, but for your legacy as well. Who do you want to be remembered as? What kind of player were you

when tough times came? Did you fold? Or did you rise up? And did you did you? Were you always a fierce competitor in any situation on the field. Final couple questions here for you guys, um quarterback situation this week? Garnments you're starting? How's Nick doing? I know you're close with him? And what do you expect from Gardner this week? First time back in or back in a starting role? You know, the first thing I would say is I

expect Garner just to go out there and and be himself. Uh, don't put telling him not to put too much pressure on himself. Be yourself, go out there, prepare uh, and with that preparation, have the confidence to go out there and play your game. Uh. Nick's doing all right? Uh? You know you had you know, it's a rough, rough situation to be in, and and not necessarily the decision to to be moved around. Um. But you know, it's never fun to be boot off the field. Uh, it's

never fun to be bootoff field. Uh. You know, people see your performance or what you do on the field, they don't see the hours of preparation, and they don't see the things that your family go through, the sacrifices that you make for the city. And when that's the reception that you get, it's tough. It's rough. And so whenever I talk to people about that, I just try to encourage him to, Hey, let's be better. You know, let's just be better and let's not do that if

we're disappointed, let's be disappointed. But we can show it in different ways. Um. But you know, he's he's he's doing well, um, all things considered, and he's prepared to do whatever it takes to help his team succeed. Uh. You know it's I say this time and time again,

he's better man than me. Uh. You know the way that he handles stuff, um, because you know, there's there's any number of ways that you can respond to it, but he's he's choosing to be, uh, the leader, and he's choosing to be consistent, and he's choosing to be there for his teammates and to try to help us get that win defensively. Abory Um, you know the four games left and this one this week against a guy who has been the Jags a lot over the years,

and Philip Rivers here he comes again. And you know, the numbers the last few weeks aren't great for him, but he's still Philip Rivers sixteen years in the league. That's a lot of experience on the other side of you guys this week. Yeah, I mean, he's just an old, wily veteran. I mean, he's gonna find a way to beat you. I mean we played him over a couple of years, uh, you know, playing still the similar defense. I mean, he's gonna go back in his old notebook

and just check things off and stuff like that. But I feel like for us, we just got to come back, come out defensively, and we're gonna have to make him one dimensional. I mean, biggest thing. You know, it's no secret we gotta stopped to run. They have two great running backs and two great wide receivers and the great quarterbacks. I mean, we gotta find somewhere to win to help us out in the game where we can game planet

better for us to make plays. So I mean we're gonna have to find a way to you know, take someone out of the game and the wide receivers are running backs. Hopefully both were having a great day then, but I mean that's really is gonna come down to, you know, take one out. Then we played chess game with him. Now, we'd be remiss, especially with these two, if we didn't give you a chance to ask every something. And he is the co host. Yeah, you'll get your

opportunity as well. Fear not, you already have a good question. Go ahead, go ahead, every first. I don't know how many people know this, fans when not, But Chris was in school, he was big into film when you made like the Star Wars and stuff like, Okay, I thought you were going to go in a different direction. Right, that's a locker room joke. Gone, that's a locker room one. You know what we're talking about. Um, So you know in college, Chris was big in the film and I

see you got your whole ocean things. I was one of you gonna make like a movie or film about the ocean and like what's down there? You know, I've thought about it. I've thought about it. This is about time. I had like a pattern, um, and every year I tried to do something, I either try to shoot something in the off season or the next offseason. I like to do like a job shadow or like a director shadow.

And so this past offseason I did a shadow, uh for a week on Modern Family, And so this offseason would be the offseason that I write and shoot something. And so I've been toying around with different ideas of things to shoot, and it has crossed my mind to do something involving the beach and involving the ocean. It's just you know, that's just the production costs factoring some of that stuff, and could be could be a little high. But you know, at this point, I don't know. I

don't know. I could um, I could think of a couple of things, but I haven't really quite had an idea that's really like that's made me go, oh, this is it, this is it. And so we'll see eventually, eventually it will be something having to do with the ocean and something having to do with the sea. You could produce the defensive line dinner thing. Oh yeah, that guy set down real quick stuff happening. It was good

at Smooth Totals. It was too and he bleeps and he couldn't use the video so it was a little bit too It's a little bit too natural. It happens. Now, what do you got for Avery? Um? You know, I I gotta I gotta ask you a question and and it it really has to do with that jacket that you're wearing right there. You know, as one non biased, you know, media representative and reporter, I would love to

know your thoughts on Georgia going into this weekend. You know, I I have no no shoe in the game at all. I really don't care who wins. But who do you have in that game? And what kind of game do you think it's gonna be? Well, first of all, Chris, I don't want to thank you. I just love how the media has questions about Georgia. They come to me, so you know, you know me, I love my school.

I mean to go off the path a little bit, Chris, I just want to thank you for doing a great job getting here and also Terry doing his double in the press squad and stay with the squad, so we keep our numbers high. Yeah, because you know, usually SEC championship comes by it's just me, exactly me versus a gang of Bama people. You know, I'm not gonna mention other schools. Everyone in there talks trash. But it's always past three years been my school and the SC championship.

So I'm just happy to celebrate with somebody. But now that's where the game. Girls, I'm very confident in us. Feel like we can run the ball. You know, we've got a little wide receiver problem, but like I said, little as two guys. I mean there's a lot of wide receivers on there. And I know this is where the great Chris Connelly came from, So I'm not worried. I've seen L s U games and I've seen our defense, and you know, our defense is way better than Badl's defense.

Um so yeah, I mean we haven't given up twenty points probably like once or twice maybe, and there was one it's it's us in one other school. I think we gave them like what one Russian touchdown? That was the boat next to Auburn quarterback shout the boat knicks. You know, cool story, I know, Bo's granddaddy was my high school coach, So salth to both thank you for that, dub Um. So what I think. I think it's gonna be a good game. I think we're gonna win by

like seven, you know. I feel like it's gonna be a good defensive matchup and then the Georgia muscles just gonna show the difference. We're gonna run over some people, We're gonna stop some plays, and we're gonna, you know, I guess, take out this higman leading quarterback who lost his job to our backup, who lost his job to our starter. So it all comes full circle. I mean, I'm just glad that George always has a preath of of quarterbacks to give out. We gave l s U

a quarterback one time that didn't work out. Was that Man Burger. Who else we gave a quarterback. We gave quarterback. They almost got a title. I mean, hopefully doesn't go to well for Ohiwse State, and we just stay good state of quarterback man. We're just we're just giving him out. And I always stay next to Ja Jake Farm. Now he's from one of Robin's Georgia, one of rocks, and what will you be doing Saturday J J apparently watching that?

Who you want to win? I mean, I guess you probably want, don't really, I don't have a dog hunt that. It's not weird. It's weird to not have them involved. Yeah, just so I don't have to hear this anymore. L s U is free touchdowns? Oh man, that's a hate for Georgia's real. I never understood why people are always so against us and then against I mean, I'm just saying I never heard this talk about L s U or Florida. I just don't think Georgia can score with L s U. I know your defense is good, I

just don't think it would score well. I mean that's why they're not gonna score that much. Okay, well soon, I mean what they win versus who? I don't know. We're going down long past. Oh, I know the roads getting long. What's the bet with for Nette this week? I currently don't have a bet with him yet. I got one with DJ. I got one with DJ. I'll talk to Leonry probably tomorrow and do that. But I'm always I'm always down to L I'm always down to wrap my team. You feel me, even if we're having

it down here. I always I don't know. I've seen his bets this week and they're not the same as mail. He might be a little free, but you will not wear other teams. I will not wear other teams. I mean those schools missed their chance when I was coming to high school, didn't chose. I'm not gonna put it on now. Good. I will never put a guy in a Georgia jersey. I mean, I'll never just spent my school like that. Wow. You know we've had a lot

of good guests this year, Chris, but this is another one. Man, this is another guest you realize you can's from. You realize where he's from. Only the best of the best. Georgia Bulldogs, great cleats. Guys. Will look forward to seeing those on the field this week. Um So check them out all the guys we wear them this week and then they'll be later available for auction. Good stuff is always the cause. Abrie. Always going to see you, Good stuff man, Abrey Jones, Chris Connley, Well done. We'll talk

to you guys next week. Chris Conley, John Ozier, Abrey Jones, I'm JP Shatter'll catch you next time. Jaguar is happy hour presented by the Fields Auto Group on the Jaguars Digital Network m