Jaguars Happy Hour: Wednesday, October 2

That's John Osier. That over there is Joe Fortunato. Thanks for being with us today, John, have you figured out your chair yet? Are you having some misuse there? Back and forth everybody does. We've got quite a show to get to today. The news of the day. We'll get to that. Coming up. Panthers Week has started. The Jags and the Panthers coming up Sunday in Charlotte. Social media questions. If we get some coming in, we'll get to him. The bat signal has been sent out. We'll see if

anybody responds. Uniform unvailing. Jimmy Luck will join us in studio. We'll get some players to watch Chris Conley will join us with a guest to be day would be good. See if it's just Chris. Chris is great. Every he's been great. Yeah. We had Andrew Wingard last week and uh, he was fantastic, really good. All the guys have been good. Hating a week before that. We're good on the whole list. We don't need to we're all good. We're all good. We'll see who he braves. We'll see who he surprises

us with this week. That should be a good one. Let's get to the news. Oh the day. I guess the biggest storyline that nationally you'll see around this team was the Ramsey stuff outside of the building. He did not practice again today, and Doug Maroon said it's basically a day to day thing with Jalen um, what's your

what's your guest here? Well, it's interesting to me the jail and thing to see following it, what we all sort of know and feel up close compared to the national the Twitter, and oftentimes what happens is over time everything starts to feel like it's finally telling one story, and at first it felt like different stories, with people around here saying, well, trade probably not and nationally trade

probably so well. Today there were some stories that people nationally Adam schefter people you know, that it looks like Jayalen won't be traded. Well, it's been my feeling for a couple of weeks. Ever since the first initial breu haa haa, you know went down, there's been an overall feeling, Hey, look, this thing is gonna play out, but we're not anywhere to trade him. We haven't gotten any deal that it goes his way in why not? Has been sort of

feeling around here, what's our hurry to trade him? Um? So I think what's gonna happen is what I started sort of thinking and saying last week. Jalen is not getting traded during the season. I know what's gonna happen to the offseason. The back thing, by the way, is real. Everybody you know what rolls their eyes, and I get why they roll their eyes because he has created a atmosphere of skepticism. But the back thing is real. He didn't play wins suddenly because of the back. It's still real.

But over time I think we'll be it'll be proven out that when he is healthy he will play, and I expect him to play out of what twelve games left. I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV. But I think that will be proven out, uh to where he'll play went healthy and probably play tenny levenmore games is here. Yeah, it's we've said this a lot about him, and we know him from the building. We don't, you know, have have dinner with him or any that kind of said Max, Max, Mike. It's different on our

crew here. But my point is that as much as we know him around the building, he doesn't seem like the guy to just sit out out of spice. You know, well there's something real there. If he's really gonna sit out and his first ever football game ever, you right, Um, I would think he's a football player beyond anything else that you know about jail in that and he's a different guy, so reading him is difficult. Figuring out what he's thinking. He's difficult. I think it's about his I

think he likes that. But you don't doubt that he loves to play, and I've never doubted that he wants to be great. He wants to be known as the best cornerback in football. I'm sure somewhere inside he'd like to be known as the best quarterback, best cornerback of all time. That's and he works to that end. Well, you don't do that if you don't play, and I don't. I think he likes to win, and I think this thing going on right now is it is a positive

thing right now? Yeah, I think we've overthought it to the degree, probably based on some of the things he's done, and forgotten that he's under contract. He's under contract for two or three more years. He's a he's a Jaguar. He has played well in the past. Um. I just think in in a few weeks this maybe looked back at as a I don't say blip, because it's too big to be a blip, but it's something that's in the past and we're moving away from it and wondering why it got to be such a big deal in

the short term. Now, I have no idea what's gonna happen next off season. But for this year, twelve games, I'd be surprised if he hasn't played ten, be part of the and be as much a part of it as he's always been. Thinking about Jalen Is he's not team leader guy. He's not rally though, the guy that everybody's following. He's a cornerback, sort of a hired gun if you will, to point out that he's alienated from teammates,

but it's not. It's not like he's leading the charge in the locker room and setting the tone by by things. He says. He's a great player who I believe will play great for this team over the last three months of the season. And that's what we'll see. Thanks Forest um So well, we'll see what happens day to day here.

You know, it'll be uh as Doug Maron said, that will be how it goes this week with the back issue with Jalen Ramsey another one all that said, I have no idea if it plays Sunday because the back thing is real. Right, you just don't know, so all you want, but that's why it's happening right now. That's right. Gardner Minshew walked into his press conference today after practice, walk on the practice field with a brace on that

knee that was hit in the Denver game. He said, it's fine, he said, you know, after the game, he said, it's just football stuff. Don't worry about it. That's my son. And after the game he said, it's not you know, it's a little abnormal to have it. He's not used to it, but hey, he's playing through it, going out there and playing. So he was on the practice field today. Yeah, I think it's probably worse than he's letting on. I

think it's something that he'll be able to play. Theories he played through the other day and uh, I mean he's obviously Superman JP, so he can do anything. Why not At this point, I'm convinced that if he had to carry the leg out in like a guitar case and play on one leg, that he would find a way to do it because mins she made let me throw a touchdown And I'm being obviously way of reacting, but but he's a tough kid. He's got a magic to him. He played the other day with the knee.

It's it's not like a high ankle spring where you play through adrenaline with a knee. You know, if it had been bad enugh to keep him out this week, I think could have kept him out of that game last week and at the end, but he is uh, yeah, you know, we can do I feel the entire show with earlatives, but beyond everything else, smart he's obviously tough. I would be surprised if he doesn't play on Sunday, and I'd be surprised at this point I didn't play well.

He's done everything you can ask him him so far. I mean, he's he's done it in different situations. Rallied his team down the stretch in Houston when he had to and the offense hadn't done anything all day. Of course, the big win against Tennessee, and then you saw what happened in Denver on Sunday and he did it getting hit twelve times in that game. So taking a lot of shots, still making throws. Um that a lot of people, a lot of skeptics in the draft, thought he might

not be able to make in the NFL. He's making those throws and he made a lot of him on one leg in the last drive last week. So we'll see if you can carry that. When I found his answer to your question today, John interesting, when you asked him, how do you you know, separate the mania from the football, And he seems like he's got it pretty compartmentalized, like he has a pretty good way to go about that. I thought I wanted to do in the locker room day.

I wanted ask Gardner about that, and I expect with Gardner Gardner is is a professional quarterback in this sense. He knows how to handle the media. He knows he's gonna go in there. He's gonna make three or four MINSHEU mania jokes, self depreciating mustache jokes. Everybody's gonna laugh, and it's great. But when you actually ask him about anything sort of real about the other team, he's gonna he's gonna give the proper quarterback answer. He's gonna say

things professionally. So he said, yeah, I keep the Mania stuff separate. He's aware that it's out there. You can't not be aware, but that that's all what goes on on the field, um or what goes on outside the

locker room. What was interesting to me. I talked to James O'Shaughnessy Chris Conley DJ Chark about him in the locker room, and O'Shaughnessy was really interesting, and he said, what's really impressive about him is he said, when I came into the league, meaning I O'Shaughnessy came in the league, he said, I had trouble staying late to work on to work extra because I was so overwhelmed by being in the NFL and everything that was going on around him.

For this guy to be able to do this as a quarterback with everything a quarterback has to take in and with everything that's going on around him, and still work the extra and get what you need out of that work. It's one thing to stay and watch film. It's another thing to get what you need out of the work and be productive in this um. He said.

It's truly remarkable and it's a big reason why he's able to have the success that he has the superlatives in every area in terms of preparation what it takes to play quarterback in this league. Some guys come into this league jp their quarterbacks, but they don't understand what it takes to play the position well meaning film, study, preparator in the whole package. Again, I was around with Peyton for ten years, and he knew what he had to do every minute of the day to get to

a preparation level of Sunday. I don't want to put Minshew in that category because that's Hall of Fame stuff, but he's got those traits. He's got that ability to prepare and when you hear people around the building talk about him, it's like they're talking about an eighth year guy. H at the quarter position. You've been doing this a while now at the quarterback position. Hearing that about a rookie and seeing the results of it, it's ultra rare.

We haven't seen I haven't seen it here, yeah, you know, honestly, and first round quarterbacks and everything here. And the fact that you asked about his arm strength, he's shown in three games arm strength. Maybe he doesn't have the most powerful arm, but he made the thowd add the other day. When you can make that throw, that's the throw you gotta be able to make. He made it somehow, So he's got it. Uh, Physically, I'm not sure there's anything

he can't do. And when you make that statement, the fact that he's so good in the luck, I don't have any thing to make me think that he's not going to be really really good for a long time. And boy, nobody was saying that they thought he wouldn't be on the roster. Well you know, yeah, it's it's uh, the way he played in preseason. So funny how it works, right, It's really funny. You know. I'm interested tomorrow, and I'm sure we didn't. I don't think he spoke today in

the locker room. I had to leave a little bit. But Leonard, for that usually speaks on Thursdays, I think, And I'm curious to see his approach coming off of a monster game finally after having some struggles earlier in the season, not struggles, but being a little frustrated, I guess is the way he would say it. The first few weeks of the season, being on the field all the time, not really breaking through the breakout game. But he finally did that in the second half, especially last week.

Can he carry that onto the season here? Can Can he maintain that? Maybe not to that level? I mean, I get the two yards is a big ask, second best day in franchise history, but can this offense? Can he continue that running game momentum that they had in the second half, because when that thing was rolling, there

was really no way to stop it. For Denver, I don't know that they're gonna have that, I mean that that level production, but I think they're still gonna have some ups and downs with the running game because it felt it doesn't feel like the offensive line with all the penalties and all the all the up and downness the offensive line. So far, they were fantastic pass walking against Tennessee and bad running blocking. They reversed it against Denver.

With that sort of inconsistency, until you see a consistent couple of weeks, I think you have to assume that it will be inconsistent. What hasn't been inconsistent is what we've seen at number twenty seven in terms of approach, I preparation, how he's handled himself even when asked. There was a lot made of the frustration comment last week, and I got some people in the ozone asking me, well, he's frustrated, shouldn't he point the finger at himself? And

I was around him when he made that comment. He was not pointing a finger in frustration. He was just saying, yes, it's frustrating not to be able to run because that's what I do. But his immediate comment afterwards, and the context of that was it's frustrating because he thought they were close. It's frustrating because there was the ability to do It's frustrating because the group hadn't had a chance because of injuries to play together during the preseason. So

it was still coming together. There was frustration of not producing, not anger at somebody's not doing a job. So he's um I said it last week. For a guy who has been criticized for all that he has not been off the field and all of the missteps, it is ultra impressive to see how he is carrying himself. I'm assuming that is falling over into preparation. Uh. And he's really been good in all four games, uh, including the Tennessee game. Doug made the point after the Tennessee game

his arts were Cary has been up all year. He hasn't had opportunity at times to do what running makes need to do, which is to get enough carries to make that look big. But he's been very good all year and I don't see any reason beyond health why that's going to change. Well, I guess we're gonna talk kickers now. I can't wait for that. We have to. He's the a f C Special Teams Player of the

Week Josh Lambeau. And you know, he's been perfect this year, to be quite honest, obviously with the numbers he was perfect to get on Sunday, the four for four on field goals, A couple of extra points and of course the game winner, which he's told me in the locker room today that he felt confident from sixty to sixty three in Denver. Now he could have got it there. How accurate have been He didn't know swirling wind, but that's the distance he felt comfortable with in Denver at elevation,

with the wind swirling and everything. Fortunately there was not a penalty at the end of the game to make it closer to that, and they got further down the field and everything happened, and uh, he drilled a thirty three yard So he's rolling right now. Man. It's it's easy to overlook kickers because there's not a lot to say about him when I'm writing. There's not a lot to write about him. If they make it or they miss it, and it and it, it's not a very

interesting topic. Lamb was an interesting kid, but not a very interesting topic, So it's easy to forget um. It's truly positioned where you only talk about him when they are struggling. Ah, his consistency since he got here has truly been remarkable, and I don't pay enough attention to it. I think I think a lot of people miss it

at times. Kind of when they were driving. Once they got to about the thirty, I I've got three or four stories that I work on during the game for Jaguars dot Com and I have to write him during the game because of the deadline and they've got to be up. Uh. I started writing them once they got to the thirty. I was writing win and all of the stories and changing everything with no worries that I'd be changing it after you never occurred to me that

he missed, So thank him. I should thank him, because boy, the tenants after game would have been difficult if he'd shanked that. And I know that's what he was concerned about, which is interesting, you know. And I asked him today, are there you know in a in a day like that where the winds swirling and its elevation for kick than people I think thought going into it. And do you I asked him, do you change your approach on different distances or different places? Do you change your swing?

Do you change I'm not a kicker. The technical terms I was awful with, but he cleaned it up a little bit and he said he did change the way he struck the ball a couple of times with the win to make the ball spin more and stay straight. Um, which is was interesting, and that some kickers have different approaches on a lot of different kicks. He doesn't. He keeps his swing and everything the same, no matter the kick, if it's fifty, if it's twenty, if it's an extra point,

whatever it is. But he decided to change it up a little bit because of the winds. And I would assume some of that is having been a soccer goalie, he probably has been in that environment to experiment with it at times. Um, that's about all. I stay back. That's right, let's go. Let's come back. Then, on that note, we'll come back, we'll previe the Carolina Panthers, and we'll

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all at the same time. Uh, the Carolina Panthers are two and two, and it's a it's a weirdly similar feel in Carolina because of their quarterback situation with Cam Newton down with a foot issue or who knows how long he said he hit it or didn't sell a full extent of how bad it was. So Kyle Allen's come in and one two football games for them. Well that helps he as Christian McCaffrey on the offensive side to lead the league in rushing and yards from scrimmage.

And it's just a pest more than anything all day long on that offensive side. Than their defense is very very good. Obviously, pass rush among the leaders, and sacks in the league. Um Mario Addison has five and a half, that's third most in the NFL. They've hit the quarterback more than any other defense in the league this year. So they get home on defense. They they're dangerous in spots on offense, and they're doing enough to get a

couple of wins. They went down to Houston last week and stuck away with that sixteen to ten win against the Houston Texans. So it's another road game. It's the team with some some talent on this group. Yeah, I mean I if I'm picking this game, I picked the Panthers. I would be pleasantly surprised if the Jaguars won. Not because the Jaguars aren't a team playing well, but because the Panthers right now are doing things by the Jaggars.

They're rushing the quarterback well, that was clearly an issue last week. They're playing at home, and they are a balanced team that plays smart. If the Jaguars commit penalty, the Panthers will take advantage of it. And Christian McCay free it is a tough out. He's on third down. If this team gets Panthers into difficult situations, he is a great bailout who can create things in space. Uh. That I didn't gon to be close, But if do

you think what the Panthers are done. They went on the road twice beat a Houston team that's really good, very similar to the Jaguars. Uh. When Cam Newton was hurt, the obvious theme was, oh, well, the Jaguars are going to play a team with a backup quarterback and that means they ought to go beat Carolina. This is not an autogo beat game for the Jaguars. This is if if they go get it, it's a big win coming back home. I think it's tough. It's tough going up there.

Um became If you get it though, you're three and two coming back, Um, and then you're set up for the Saints coming in. That's a tough game. Obviously, even with Drew Brees out, we're looking ahead a little bit here, but UM, it's a tough, tough road game against a very good football team, even still in Carolina. UM, look quickly, who's been in this for a long time now, and he's got to be right there among the best linebackers

of football. He's right there at the top as the guy the jagg Wars came really close to drafting Uh back when he was drafting. It seems like for everybody think it was I think it was twelve. Uh. There were people in the building who really liked him, which is an easy call because he there was so much to like. Uh. It's interesting. He's been a guy who the last couple of years has almost been forgotten a

little bit because he's had some injuries. Because there was talk for a while for the concussions of wondering how long he would play Uh, but yeah, Doug mentioned earlier in the week. Uh, you know, a Wall of Honor type guy, hall of Fame type guy. He's a Hall of Fame level talent. He he's a position defining and his era kind of talent. And he's there's not that many guys in leaf in the middle linebacker spot anymore, who defined the defense, who takeover games, who are why

their defense is really really good. H He's one of those guys more than him right now. Though they really rushed the pastor well they they rush it consistently. Uh. There there are a lot like the Jaguars on many many fronts. I mean, I think Keikley is what Miles Jack aspires to be, meaning that really really smart can make place in the middle of the field, guy can anticipate quickly. Is the gold standard at that position right now or has been for White for the five seven

years or six seven years, five time first Team All Pro. Yeah, that's that's special stuff. Let's look at the AFC South standings. Of course, it's a four way tie at two and two a top of the division. The Jaguars, though officially are in third because they have the division loss. Houston and Indy do not have one yet, but you know this week you're looking at the schedule. This week, John, the Falcons go into Houston to face the Texans. Right, Um,

let's see desperate. They are very dangerous because if the Falcons lose, they're one and four almost out of it. Uh, that's a game the Falcons wing. The Bills are at the Titans this week. So the Bills are playing some good football. And who can figure out Tennessee at all the teams in the division, they're the type of to figure out the Jaguars. Uh, are playing well of one two in a row. Tennessee's gone places lost, they have won games they ought to loud. I mean, it's been

very strange. I think the Colts, Uh, they're playing prime time there at the Chiefs. Yeah, uh yeah, you you assume right now that games against the Chiefs or else. So you would think that we'd come back to the pack a little bit on the Jaguars with that one. So uh, it's so early to be talking about the rest of the division terms of who they play week

to week. Right now. The Jaguars have a schedule in front of them between now in London that you would think they should be no worse than five and four. To me, the Jaguars goal is make that six and three and come back from London with a division in your grass. They're not gonna talk about that as a goal, but that's an achievable thing right now. Uh, five and four would be what you ought to get. Six and three is what if you got it? Boy, would you

feel good? And I probably would have predicted that when Foals got hurt. Of course everybody did, right, I mean, that was the easy one. If now here's the question that's gonna be asked once that happens. If that happens, if they're five and four or six and three coming into the bye week after the London game against Houston, does the quarterback stay? Well, there's a lot to that. Obviously.

There's two answers. One is that, look, it's two and two right now, and there's still five games, so you go, you know, I mean, you got hit a lot the other day. Considering that they've both been banged up by this point, it could be good to have to going for all that stuff. Uh, but you asked the question.

You ask it into vacuum. I sure wouldn't pull him right now, Foals came back, and if it's I think they might now because it's tough though, right, I mean it would be tough now if if it's five and four. I mean, if it's six and three, there's no way to me as you pull him. And I get that if if the decision makers were in here right now, they'd be saying, there's not even a factor. This is not what this is. But at some point you have to acknowledge what this guy has done the level that

teammates believe in him. The tricky thing is, like I was talking to uh Joe person who covers the Panthers for the Athletic and he made the point with Cam Newton. Look, this has been Cam's team for a long time. There's belief in the locker rooms. There's commitment with the coaching staff of who this guy is, what he means to this franchise. Uh Foles is respected among the players, spect

on the coaches. But there's also the bottom line that even which you paid him all that stuff, he's played eleven play, there's not really this in the blood commitment knowing that he is the franchise and what would look without him, and how could you do this to this, so I think it's it's about as wide open as it could be, which sounds absolutely insane considering what we're talking about in August twenty seven. But I think just realistically, they may go with folds and say, hey, it was

never it was never consideration. We had to go full I I just don't think if Minshew continues to play this, well, you cannot ignore the magic. Yeah, the magic, the Minshew magic. That's right. I thought you're gonna pull out the mustache. Heay Ben Jimmy Lucks here he could head man a couple of weeks against. Yeah, we're gonna come back in a moment and Jimmy Luck will join us for the uniform unveiling. Didn't you imagine that's something else? Now it

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up man? Not much, just hanging in there, a little tired. So we got back late Monday and yeah, a little flight to lay, got back late, stayed up working with you the older you get, Yeah, no doubt, iron because you guys with the team landed at three am or something, right, Uh, yeah it was it was around three and then we come back and work for a couple of hours. I think we get back, so but it was good that when do you guys, I mean, I guess you never wrap up? When are you done with enough that you

can get out of there? After a four o'clock get home? Um, I think everybody kind of went home around um, around five thirty or six. I stayed for a little bit and do some stuff and then took a little nap on the couch. But you know, that's what we gotta do is get it done. There's another game this week. Here comes one o'clock Sunday sympathy, No, apparently not. What's the hat today? We got crucial catch this month? October is a crucial catch month. So this is the hat

us and the Panthers will be wearing. And a lot of teams around illegal We'll do it this week, starting this week all month. Very cool man, So our is our road game and then uh, I believe it's the Jets game is our home crucial catch game, same hat for each month. That's correct. Very cool. Alright, So Jags and the Panthers, and you know this would be a fun one to have throwbacks. You know, both teams came in the league together years. You know, I get to know about a year ago. No, I mean comes up

with the idea Thursday before. Oh yeah, let's do that. Come on, let's just make him right. It's not that hard. But you know, that's a kid. I remember the old ones, right, the old original uniforms, and I do believe this is Carolina's um. They're like, I don't know what they call it? Good? Color rush No, not color rush um, throwback no, not throwback alternate. No, it's like, now, it's where where we when?

You know, the first game we wore the white stuff, not the centennial but like, I don't know, everybody was celebrating, like your your classic game, ours is the Saints. Oh I see that your anniversary game or something like that? Got it? I don't. I didn't. I didn't referred to my big chart. Was this what every week is? Yet that's right, So that's cool. That should be this game, Carolina Jack even thought of that. It makes sense, makes a lot of sense. So Jimmy Luck, are you ready

to unveil the uniform? We're ready to do it. Let's see what will the Jags wear this Sunday in Carolina? So we had we're gonna go with the black pants okay, and since we had some good luck with it, we're gonna run it back with the same uniform as last week. You see what I did there, White over black for the Jaguars in Carolina and hopefully Leonard four Nette keep it rolling. Yeah, getting the end zone this time, that'd

be nice. But boy, THEO was nice last week to see that running game going and that was a huge, huge piece of that game. Man, it really was. Um So there you go, looking for that nice choice. Appreciate where to go, Jimmy, thanks a lot. We'll talk to you down the line here, all right. Appreciate thanks for he equipment manager, Jimmy luck with us each and every Wednesday to unveil the Jaguars uniforms white over black. Look at that? Is that wrapping paper? There's that a backdrop

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are in meetings. When those meetings are done, they will join us out with a special guest. We'll find out who arrives with Chris today. That though a little like shout out over the face with question mark. I like that idea. So that's kind of what we're doing today. I like it. Um. So we we're gonna hold off on when Chris gets here. Obviously, we'll talk all those guys. We're gonna pick our players to watch. We do this every week. It's a staple of sorts of this program.

Now players to watch. You know, it used to be deep down the roster. But we're not there yet. We're not there at all yet. We're picking guys to watch in this game. And John, would you like to start us off? Sure, I'll go. Uh My first choice is right graphic an update at DJ Chart jr. Um for all the talk about Minshew, which is warranted. Uh. I think the most improved guy on this roster, biggest impact,

biggest a surprise maybe the outsiders is DJ Chart. How close he was to having a touchdown catching every game so far this year, He's got three, should have had a fourth last week. Um, he is on his way to being a one, being a big time player. There's still some consistency, So I think he would tell you, would like to be more productive throughout each game. They can big plays. Would like to be a little more reliable, more of a go to guy in big third down

situations consistently. But you know what, that's a nitpick and that's comment. I think if the Jay was gonna win this game, they're going to need some explosion offensively that maybe they didn't have last week. They relied on the running game last week. I think they're going to need Gardner to step away from the rush a few times, get some big plays downfield. Uh. DJ Charks the guy who can do that, and he's been a remarkable story this year. It's been overshadowed, I think because of Ramsey

and mentioned he's been great. He's been great. He's always been right to to talk to about ball and he has a good focus on the game and understanding of everything going on. But it's finally showing up on the field this year. And when you have the quarterback that can put it on the right spot for him like that and he can go up and get it. It's a it's a beautiful thing to see, really is and starting to get some consistency production into the last couple

of drafts too. You think about, you know, you've got chart producing. This year's draft class is producing in a big way. Uh, almost without people watching a little bit. You're starting to see the guys who are going to be the core of this team in a couple of years. Uh. And that's encouraging maybe Minshi maybe so. Uh. Defensively, yeah, you've got the quarterback of the defense Miles Jack and Uh.

I don't want to say it's a big game because Keith is in at a side that's you know, the trite, but uh, they are going to need him to play well. To be aware because of the press since of McCaffrey, if you I would think that Miles will be responsible for him and in coverage some Uh with McCaffrey, if if you lose sight of him, he is going to get twelve yards on the play and maybe more. He's a guy who can turn a short past third and

seven into twelve yards very easily, consistently uh. He also is a guy that in space, as Doug mentioned today, very dangerous. Miles will need to not just have a good game, He'll need to make exceptional plays. I think for this team to win this game Sunday, I like it. D J. Chark Jr. And Miles jack York two choices today here mine Cam Robinson is my first choice on the offensive line. You know, this is a team that

ran the football well last week. Of course, the quarterback got hit a bit, of course, but they rallied and won the game. And Cam still kind of coming back from the knee issues floral that he's had over the last year or so. You know, he's worked his way back. He played half the snaps in week three, played the full game in Denver. We all saw it happened at the end of the game, he got all frustrated with the other side and how that kind of spilled over

the sideline a little bit. They need him to really play well again this week, and I think he has a big piece of what they do in the running game because he's a really good run blocker and can finish guys and do that kind of thing. When he's really on very good round blocker. I think he was big reason why they ran well last so keep that up.

But then obviously when you're in passing situations this week, this is a group that can get to the quarterback, so imperative for him to have a huge game this week. Cam Robinson is my first one. Quincy Williams would be my second. We're picking linebackers that you picked Myles Jack. I picked Quincy for pretty much the same reason. Who's gonna cover McCaffrey and where and which side of the where is he out on the field? Who can keep up with the guy? I asked Quincy in the locker

room today, who's really playing pretty well this year? Right for a rookie, not even for a rookie is playing well? Um, how do you approach a different style running back? Like if Derrick Henry is coming to see you, you approach tackling a little different. He's a downhill straight for runner. You just go hit the guy, don't let him get loose. Well, with McCaffrey, he could line up anywhere. He could line

up at right wide receiver. He can, he's shifty, he can move, and then once he breaks through, he's super quick. So I gotta have a multiple guys get to him, and you can't just go for the home run hit because he'll shake buy in and get past you for a huge game. So that was an interesting thought from

Quincy today. McCaffrey is a dangerous guy for Quincy because he's a pursuit guy, likes to run and hit and he will need to be aware, which for a guy playing in his fifth game, that would be his challenge and he'll do well with it, but that would be his challenge. And the last week he compared a little bit to Lindsay last week, the similar style, not quite this. I mean Lindsay's they're they're closer, They're not Derrick Henry. Let's put it that way. So the routes, covering routes

out of the backfield and stuff. That was a little bit of a hiccup for Quincy last week, he said, and he expects something similar this week with Christian McCaffrey. I get the idea it won't be nearly as much one guy trying to stop Chris McCaffrey. It'll be it takes a village type thing this week, because he's so good at making people miss that. Players on other assignments will have to be at least partially aware of of McCaffrey this weekend. Alright, our weekly co host is walking

into the studio as we speak. Jaguar's wide receiver Chris Connelly joins us each and every week on this program, and he's got a very special guest with him today. He's very special guest, Cam Robinson joins us. Chris, good to see you. First off, welcome to your show. Thank you, thank you. It's good to be back, and it's great to be joined by the ever so talented Cam Robinson. It's a large human being. Man. I don't think we've had any already that big in this seat this year.

Welcome back, you're right, I mean this year though, yeah, welcome in guys. I appreciate Yeah. No, it's good to be here, good to be back, Good to be here after kind of a close win, but when nonetheless makes it a little bit better, uh, you know, coming in here and talking to everybody, those are fun though, right. I mean, you're two deficits in the second half on

the road. That's tough to do in this league, it is, and it's also tough to hold the ball for almost eleven minutes really and so really really impressive work by the offense and the offensive line. Uh why we have Cam in here today to get a little insights from him into offensive line play from that game. But they were lights out in that second half. It had been a while camp since you guys got the running game going like that. You've been wanting to do that for

a long time. Uh what was the key? Oh? I think it was just that we just kept chipping early on. We came out and we weren't we wanted as christ as you wanted to be. We had some penoties we had um I think it was just I think we had a couple of muies to that was kind of keep us from um clicking on all senators, especially in the ring game. So we went in the O time

and we kind of just made some adjustments. Do we really want to lock in on what we were trying to do so we're able to be a little more successful, a lot more successful in the second It's a big focus all week. I mean, I know I asked you about it the week leading up to it and asking Leonard about it. When's the run game leg go on? How do you guys do it? It's almost like you guys have heard enough about that, right, I mean that this is what you guys do well as run the football.

I mean, yeah that too. I mean, and I think a lot of it is that we finally have um one unit kind of working together. I mean, just throughout the preseason and early on in the season we had we you know, we were dealing with injuries. We kind of had guys rotating them. But I think was huge for an offensive line is when you can kind of all play together, you can kind of start to form that that camaraderie and you know, you want to ultimately

be moving as one. Nice that was a great time for them to be moving as one because we really we had a little bit struggles going on in the past game and obviously needed the run game to pick us up as an offense. And not only did they pick us up, but they care us. They really carried us into that that fourth quarter and then we were able to get some past plays on that last drive when we needed it. But really the run game is what set that up. And how tricky is that? Man?

Maybe for both of you guys, you know, this was a new scheme anyway, coming in you had flip coming in. It was designed around folds a lot, and now all of a sudden you're still trying to get continuity on the line and doing it with a new quarterback, with a new coordinator. To get any production in this environment is good. But I guess where are you in terms of the development the offense and how difficult has it

been with the circumstances. I think this offense isn't a place where we've gained some confidence moving the ball and and finding some success and scoring. But there's so much more that this offense is capable of. I think if you ask anyone who's in that meeting room, watching the film of the performance that we put on tape this past Sunday and thinking about us moving forward, I don't think anyone single guy will say that this offense has made it, or that it has even tipped any of

its potential. I think that there are a lot of points that we've left out there, a lot of points that we can put on the board. I think our time of possession can be even better, uh than it's been. I think it can be. I think it can be even better if we if we get if we get some key first downs and we left a lot of third downs on the field. You know, we're still not

doing great on converting third downs. If we get better in that aspect, our time of possession goes up even more, and some of the points that we opportunities that we get for points, it's it's even greater. So you know, that's just some of the stuff that you got to think about. This offense can be better than it has been. Cam's like, give me some oxygen or something over. I definitely need some play drive over thee. So that's a

tough one. But that once you guys are rolling like that though, If you're on the field and you you've got the momentum and you're you're dominating the line of scrimmage, that's that's the one you want to stay out there. While you're on the field, you don't notice it as much because you, I mean, you're moving the ball and you want to keep you want to keep um doing what you're doing. Want you get to the sideline and you sit down and it's kind of like how many

players was that? But now it's always fun when you out there and you get going, you're kind of getting that groove and um, you like you said, you want to stay on the field just so we can kind of keep that momentum going. Car You've been through so much, the a c L last year, the injury coming in. Uh. I know fans want to know where are you at and your comeback or is it still a comeback? But where are you and how are you playing? UM? Well? Last week me personally, I feel like I played like crowd.

But I mean it's always wronging to grow. UM just getting that last week it is my first full game back. UM, so we we just we just me personally, I'm still just trying to um building, you know, continue to polish things. And I'm still kno gonna rushed off. But UM us as a unit, I think we just one thing we

want to do is um play clean football. And that's when I say that, I mean pertaining to the penalties we we we we heard ourselves with a lot of penaly the and UM I think if we clean that up, UM that this got, this got could be the limit fool we can do. Offense. I mean sometimes penalties happened, thought, I mean there's football, you know, it's just a matter

of the ones that you can control. Right. The false starts and things like that, right, and I think, um, I mean, you definitely just want to when you want to feel we always kind of stay control what you can control, and that's what you wanna do. You want to be locked in on the small thing. You say, you're not um wasting plays and you know what saying false starts, Uh, I gotta I gotta touchdown called back with like a hands I'm sorry, guys, I know I'm not.

I know, I know, I know. Um, but yeah, man, we just I think ultimately when it comes to things we need to do better. I think it's just playing more clean, just playing clean football so we can knock those penalties out and we can just get up and down the shield. When they wrote the rule on hands to the face, that was what they had in mind. I think that wouldn't that happen with yours on the touchdown that was as clean of a hands to the face is actually yeah, that was that was takes book.

You know, we don't want to take away the aggressiveness. We don't want to take the way they aggressive. It just it just happened, you know, the dominant O line play. We want to keep that. You guys share the same walker area. If people don't know they're in the same I'm sure you've got in the no cam a little bit. What's your best question? What do you want to ask him? On? Um? What do I want to ask cam? Uh? Is it's

where the trophies? Man? Where where the trophies? You know, you know, outline trophy, Jacob's blocking trophy, you know, maybe like a national championship ran from college. Just all these all these accolades that this guy has and such an empty locker. Why is that you can put in there? Yeah? I mean why why is this locker so so empty? I want to see some of that? Where's the bling? Man? Um, you're probably going to fight with My mom's about most of it because she mean out there we win stuff

like that. I just give it to my mom. She kind of keeps it fun. Um. I don't know if that's a fight you're willing to, you're willing to get into the career. I take it back. I take it back. You know, I'm okay, we're gonna be but but no, it's it's my mom. I mean, well, I mean we got a lot of accomplishments for stuff we didn't in college, and um, my mom, Mom, just my mom keeps it especially. The only other thing that people don't know is because Cam has a corner locker on a very prominent corner

in the locker room. Uh. The worst spot for Cam Robinson because he's about the biggest guy on this team and when he sits in his chair, his legs swing all the way out into the walkway where everyone has to come into the locker room and you either have to walk and step over him or risk bumping into him and not having a great day. Exactly. H very nice human being, but you don't want to bump into Cam Robinson. Don't do that. I'm a nice guy, man. I think you're giving off the vibes. You know, I'm

I'm a nice guy. We turn about is fair play? What's your question? Oh? Yeah, oh man, this is this is my show, show Two Way Street. Yeah. I should have warned me. Man, Oh, don't do that questions for Chris, Okay, keep it clean. I'm trying to all right, since you got injects. WHOA, what's the what's your favorite place to eat? My favorite place to eat? Um, that's yeah, that's a very alignman question of you. I think the place that I've eaten the most since I've been here in Jacksonville.

I spent a lot of time at the beach, uh and when I leave the beach, I feel exactly. I feel very exhausted and feel like I've done a lot physically, so I can eat whatever I want. So I spent a lot of time in mellow mushroom on the beach because I just feel like you can't go wrong. And there's something in that ranch. I don't know what it is. It might be a drug, it might not, but I'm

hooked now. I know. You get deity into surfing, right, and you chance to getting a big I think we could, but that that would be a really big board, a really really really big board, and they make boards that big, but don't for me. I'm just I'm just gonna it's just gonna be a really big board and a really big person on top of a really big You don't like the beach, you don't like the ocean, the surfing, the sharks, what is it? Charts? I wouldn't. I didn't want to say it his own dang man, I guess

I'll just for the bottom of whatever. Whatever you go in the water, you are the visiting team. Remember that every time. Remember that. Yeah, but when we go into someone else's house, we always take over this. Yeah, I guess one more question, I mean a couple more questions here, You guys, appreciate you coming on. What What can Gardner means you not do right now? I mean, he's got to have the confidence of his offense wholeheartedly. Now, He's

done pretty much everything right. So, as far as I know, Gardner can't see through walls yet. I checked yesterday and he couldn't. But I will check again tomorrow and I'll let you guys know. But in all reality, there's this a lot of confidence around that guy. Uh, in this locker room and on this team, and everyone believes. And I think one of the things that as confidence is when you can go down the field in the fourth

quarter and have a game winning drive. Not only does it build confidence in your offense, yes, it builds confidence in your huddle, but it builds confidence in a defense to know that, regardless of what the score is in the fourth quarter, if we get a couple of stops, we're in this game and we can still win. That's huge. He was going to Bama to coach, Yeah, and it was was we talked one day and he actually told me that and I had no idea, called me completely upguard.

I was like, wait what and then um, we talked about yeah, Um, I didn't. I had no idea You're going to like four different four different colleges or something like that. So it was it was crazy like his journey just to get to this point. Have you ever seen anything like this in the league here alone? But that not that much of a no, most I mean, I haven't, I haven't. Um, he came. I mean, I think what I like most about him is when he came in, he didn't blink. Um. He came in and

he didn't he didn't flinch. Um. He had all the confidence in the world and this in himself. UM. And I think that that kind of showed. And know what I'm saying. In the first game, he was able to come in and um, play pretty well and he didn't blink, he didn't flinch, and he he hit it. Pulls me to hit Alright, final thought, here guys coming up Carolina Sunday at one o'clock, Bank of American Stadium went uptown Charlotte. It's a good football team in Carolina. Guys, but it's

a good football team coming up in Jacksonville too. What's your feelings about this matchup in the In the chances here this week is all about ignoring the outside noise. You have a team that has a dominant win on Thursday Night football. You have a team that's coming here and had a fourth quarter drive to win a game. The amount of noise and praise and smoke that's being blown at this team right now out is huge, you know. And oh and to start you win two games in

the first quarter of the season. You made it to five hundred. You guys are trending in the right direction. You have to ignore the noise. This This week is about ignoring the noise. It's about coming in, watching the tape, preparing in such a way that says, hey, you know, this team is going to give us their best shot. But we have to go out there and give our best shot because we're fighting for we're fighting for a postseason here, we're fighting for just being consistent. Good teams

are consistent, and so really just ignoring the noise. Um offensively, defensively, special teams. Everyone's gonna patch you on the back, but there's a lot of work that still needs to be done to get to where we want to go. I like it. Yeah, I mean I think just kind of picking and I think, um, you know, Chris, did it hit the nail on the head. I just piggyback en off what he said. I think it's just kind of you know, staying locked in on what we need to

stay locked in on. UM's gonna be a lot of talk, like Chris said, starting up and two, um coming back again into you know, to two big wins for us, and uh, everybody's on the outside kind like pen you on the bag telling you, you know what I'm saying, how good you were coming in, how much we're turning in the right duration. I think, Um, once you start to listen to that, that's kind of when complacency not really complacency, but I mean that's that's that's what it is.

It kind of starts to sit in. So I think it's kind of a mom in our mind, like we haven't done anything yet. We just want to keep keep chopping wood and keep building on what we have done. A good pass rushing team, right, no, no, most A good defense in general, yes, a good defense. You know that this is gonna be, in my opinion, the best defense we faced thus far. Tough challenge coming up this Sunday, one o'clock. Guys, good to see you, Good luck to you. Can.

I'm going to see you coming in. It's good to see you. Thanks for coming on your show today, Thanks for having us, Thank you for allowing me to be here on my show. That's his show. He could do whatever you want to have, a good guys for John Ojan entire grew up. JP Shaddrick will see you next time. Jaguars Happy Hour presented by the Fields Auto Group from the Jaguars Digital Net the