Jaguars Happy Hour: Wednesday, October 23

by the Fields Auto Group. JP Shadrick. That senior writer John Osan Hi John Happy Jets Week. It is Jets Wick and it's uh. I think it's it's it's an amazingly similar storyline. The last week, must win against the team that you should win. I mean, let's uh, when you're winning five, I mean even taking away Monday night and I think that was an outlier for the Jets. Everybody's gonna lock onto that. But it's a home game against the team that's that's uh, you know, not the Saints.

It's not the chart. You know, it's not a great team coming into you ought to win it, just like you should have won last week. But as we saw last week, if you let teams hang around, and the Jaguars let the Bengals hang around, uh NFL teams are dangerous. This is not college football where you can just sort of, you know, slide and gradually get away. You've got to earn your way away from teams. And that's a big topic this week. Red zone scoring cost him last Week's

gotta be better. Here's what's coming up on the program today here on Jaguars Happy Hour, Jets Week Underway. Of course, as we said, we'll hear from head coach Doug Morone and a couple of topics this week. Quarterback talk. There's a quarterback back on the practice field this week you might have heard of. There are some linebackers that you might not have heard of that are on the practice field this week. Some new faces at least the uniform unveiling.

Jimmy Luck to to join us at about four thirty five or so. Chris Conley due to join us in studio after meetings. That's a round four and he'll have a special guest to be named. They'll surprise us once again. He always does. The big topics today, really the injury bug going around this team, especially on the what do you what do you doing? John? I was looking for the special guest find No, Well, we're gonna have that at today. So, um, the big story today injuries and

of course late in the game. The linebackers really had some issues last week and the Cincinnati Bengals, and they had to go sign some guys off the street. A name, you know, Donald Payne who was around here before. That will help name. You also know um in the former Super Bowl MVP, who's now on this football team. And he, you know, just coming off the street though. You just don't know what's gonna happen there. Giles Harris coming off to practice squad. That's a lot of changes. Then you

throw in Marcel Darius who was not here today. It was in Philadelphia. Um with the core muscle issue. Um, Marquis Sleeve is coming off of an ankle. You've got the left tackle has got a toe issue. It did not practice today. There's there's a long list of guys not available for the Jags today. Yeah, it's it's a week. Uh. Most teams at some point during the season go through a week like this. The Jacks went through a lot

last year. Last year is what we called. But you're usually gonna hit a stretch like this where you've got some stuff that you hope it's not season ending. You hope you can get through it. I'm not sure I've ever quite seen a run on linebacker quite like this. I would anticipate Giles Harris getting a lot of reps because he's been around. This is a staff and a team that likes to go with what is familiar. So I would anticipate you seeing uh I a mile and

and uh and and I Harris on the field. But these guys who got brought in this week, they're gonna have to play. I mean, it's it's gonna be an amazingly quick turnaround. H You would anticipate seeing even more nickel than usual. If if Jacobs is down, you can alleviate that by just playing in your nickel package. Jared Wilson is basically uh A a linebacker at times. He played it last week some, so you can you get by with that. But it's tough. I mean, it's it's

you've got to get through it. Every's gonna focus on the Jets all week and how poorly they played against the Patriots, but considering the Jaguars injury lists, considering what they're gonna have to adapt to, UH, I don't think

it's gonna be closer gain that people think. I think uh, the Jaguars defense is going to be playing a motivated Jets team that has not been as bad most of the season with Donald as it was on day Doug Marone discussing the linebacker position earlier today and his Wednesday

press conference. To add a couple of guys, we switched out Perry and Joe Giles Harris from practice squad the roster, and then we brought Donald painback who be able to help us um know the system special teams wise, and and Malcolm Smith, another veteran player who's who's playing in the system. So obviously when you bring that many players in, I'd probably be listed as doubtful that any of those other three, you know, we'll be ready to play this week,

even though they're obviously gonna try. Not good on that list as well, of course for this Jaguars team. I spoke with Joe Giles Harris in the locker room today. He was on the practice squad the first seven weeks of the season, brought up to the active roster. He's fired up for sure. Oh, keeping up him up with book and doing everything, doing the little things while I've been here, you know, hoping i'd get this chance, and

I finally have it. So I'm ready to go. And like I said, and whatever capacity need, whatever they need man to play, I'll be ready to play. A lot of new faces out there today. Is that where it is where it's different. I mean, that's what the NFL is. You know, from the time I've been here, I've seen a lot of faces come and go, and it's it's kind of, you know, a crazy, crazy thing, but uh, you get used to it, and you know, you know, just talking, you get guys in who are committing to

a goal. So you know, we still got the core and you know, these new guys are gonna help us do what we've been doing. Miles Jack's still there, but a lot of new faces around. And that's what Jenna happens. And it's not just on the defensive side where this can affect things. I spoke with Josh Robinson in the locker room today. Special teams a cornerback, it can play safety too, but on the special teams here. You've got a lot of guys who may not have been around here. Now.

Things change week to week on special teams and assignments and all that, but it's still and that's kind of somehow sometimes how it happens on special teams that part of the roster churns all during season. Well, it does, and it's why special teams coordinator such a difficult job.

It's on a lot of teams, you're not getting guys even at the beginning of the season, uh, that you'll love, because some teams don't pay attention to This team does pay attention to special teams at the start of the season, so there's a priority on it. But this is the time of year where those guys have to adapt quickly. They have to put guys in spots that are really starters for them, uh. And they're playing with backups and guys who were just off the streets. So it's tough.

It affects things. And then when you turn it over even to the offensive sideways, now have two positions that are really depleted. You have tight end and you have linebacker that are way down from what you thought it would be. And even at the start of the season, Frankly, those were not positions that on paper looked like great positions of strength with the starters or with depth. They were huge question marks going in and now they're major

question marks. You've got a tight end position, now that is uh. You know you're counting on a rookie Josh Oliver to come back and play. You've got a linebacker position and where Miles Jack is frankly the one guy that any Jaguars fan would have heard of, Malcolm Smith, but you know at that point who had any relation to this team as of Monday. So it is uh. It is a tough situation that I usually believe you can get through certain injury spots without it affecting you much.

There to the point of those two positions where it will affect and they have to overcome with formances somewhere else on your screen there that they have. Of the active tight ends, only set to Valve has a catch and that's one catch this year. The other two guys, I mean, they haven't been on the rush yet. It's not like sets been putting up numbers. I mean, so it's just not really his role though that has been a bleed blocker and then an extra, I mean, a

tight end blocking. It's a lot to ask, but they need I would put the percentage is low at Josh Oliver making a huge contribution because it is just tough after being out ten weeks to come back as a rookie. You know, most rookie third rounders are trying to figure out the whole season. Now he's being asked to be like a focal point on Twitter, Josh Hollard, just Hollward Oliver.

That's a tough ask, but they've got to get something out of it because otherwise the middle of the field on this offense, they're having trouble finding something to get going there. It's affecting the offense. Uh, you gotta think some of the red zones stuff is not having a tight end that you can rely on. Nobody's fault really, but they've got to get some production out there, and it's it's gonna be interesting to see where that happens.

Now we've we're talking about news that will affect this game this week obviously, but some news that could affect the Jaguars a couple of weeks away. The quarterback position. Nick Foles back at practice today and head coach Jug Maron was asked, what if Nick Foles is not ready for a week of eleven, what would happen? I don't know, man, I really don't. I think that's why you have a

twenty one day window, you know what I'm saying. For when the guy goes back and he starts practicing, I don't think I'm as concerned like when John said, Hey, what are you expecting? What are you looking for? I think this is just week one back. So we're gonna take it back very slowly, and I'll probably be, you know, looking at it more so as we get closer, you know, to see to see where he is. And I think there'll be a lot of communication on you know, how

you feel and what's going on. Little by little there you'll see some scout teams from seven on well we won't see it, but he'll have some scout team works from seven on seven, and then as the weeks go on, the next couple of weeks, we'll do more and more reps. Yeah. And if you were slash reader may have heard me laughing there at Doug's comments. It's I laughed when he said it in the press conference. It's exactly right. Hey,

what's gonna happen a couple of weeks. I don't know, I mean, and that's exactly where we are in the whole story right now. What's gonna happen. This is still nearly three weeks out two games. I don't know if it's gonna be Minshew coming back. I mean, I'm just gonna be Falst coming back started over Minshew. I think right now, if I had to lean one way, my guesses that's what they'll do. It feels like that is more likely. But it's not like I'm talking to Chance.

I mean, I just think that's probably the way they go. Uh. You don't know about Minshew's healthy runs around a whole lot. You don't know about Fol's ability to stay healthy once he's back. So UM with this quarterback situation, and this is not just the case with Jaguars fans, it's every quarter situation always happens. People always want to who's going to start for the duration? Um, and that's what you

want ideally. But right now, the good news for the Jaguars is they have two guys who they like, who they feel good about. And if you feel like you can win with um, I think right now, the best thing to approach is really there's gonna be a debate on the outside, but realize that this is going to be something that they maybe figure out as they go and it becomes a decision after that by and uh

maybe not a wrong decision in there. So that uh, as I said a couple of times, isn't this just like the Jaguars jp to be choosing between a couple of good quarterbacks. It happens all the time. This problem is plagued this franchifix. Just get past that, then they can move forward. We did hear from quarterback Gardner Minshew today around all of the situation with Nick Foles back on the field. He likes it. Yeah, I mean I think we're they we're pretty good at quarterback. Nothing else,

you know, like we got hopefully that's that's the case. Um, you know, we love working together and let's see, it's gonna be a lot of fun. No, that's why, like we're all, like everybody in that room's worried about beating the Jets this week, and then next week is gonna beating the Texans, and then after that and they'll be and beating whoever else we play after the by So there's Gardner Minshew today and good spirits of course about

the whole deal. That's really nothing. Nick hasn't been around here, but it's just different seen in back on the field, and that's real. I mean it's it's every quarterback every time he's been a controversy throughout the history of time. Um, what Gardner just said has been what has been said publicly. Oh, you're all on the same page the room, we're all about winning. But with these two, I don't pretend to know Nick that well. He just got here in marching

Pintendo and Gardener that well. But I never heard anything to make me think that those guys wouldn't be supportive of each other. It's probably about as as good as situation as you could have to have two quarterbacks in that situation. Folds has proven over the length of his career, especially the last couple of years, that he can handle being the backup if he were to be Minshow you know, you've been around and I can't imagine it being a

you know, they all want to play. Within the context of that being true, I think both these guys could handle it very well and be a positive. We'll hear from Leonard for that. He's scheduled to speak on Thursday, and it's all as we say each week, it's it's always interesting to see what he has to say. He's now leading the a f C and rushing and just talking to some of the offensive linemen today in the locker room, they feel like they have some little something

going in the run game now, especially up front. It took him a little bit to get going as an offense, I think with that, and Leonard said that last week that he just, you know, he was a little bit there was something the first few weeks to just didn't he he didn't say slap for good his wording on it last week in the locker room in Cincinnati, but it just wasn't as good as it was the last three or four weeks. And now they've broken through here and you see the numbers on your screen what Leonard

has done. But some of those guys up front said today, hey, we're finally starting to get in the groove. Even with some of the changes up front that they've had the rotating guards on the right side and Cam in and out of the lineup on the left side. It's just taken a little while, but it's finally starting to get moving on offense. Well, it would have struggled for a time. You had John Taylor's a rookie camerabin and didn't play last year, come off from a c L. None of

them played together during preseason. Even if they had played during preseason, they don't play enough games anymore to get continuity in the running game early. You also had a tight end situation. Swain was new, Oliver was new. Uh Swain I believe missed some time during the preseason if I remember, and so it was it was. It was foolhardy, if you will, to think they were going to come out and be as good Week one as they might

be in Week six or seven. Doug sort of hinted at this a couple of weeks back after I think it was after the week six after New Orleans, where he thought, you know, he was seeing stuff on tape that he liked. When there were breakdowns, it was one guy, not the whole thing. People kind of pooh pooed that and said, oh, well, you should be better. One breakdown is enough to kill a whole running game. All that's true, But Doug doesn't use the both smoke and stuff like that.

And you can tell in the results, you can tell how hard Leonards running. I said this a few times, JP. Somewhere during Minshe Mania. You remember you were caught up in Minshe Mania. Remember they were yeah, I mean, but you were out. You were out in the bars mish man uh. And then there was the Ramsey thing that

we were all caught up in. Somewhere during all that, for Net got really really good and became the player that they drafted, and they got back to being the team they wanted to be, which this seems always wanted to be a running team during all that other stuff. They they got the offense to what they wanted it to be. Now let's see I they can go forward

with it. But all of a sudden, he's the number four overall, picking the draft that you drafted, leading the a f C and rushing sort of the identity of the team. And before those two storyline started developing, you know, in week two when we went into that phase, you'd never thought that had been the case six weeks later. So while we weren't looking, he became the guy you weren't looking. J. I don't think anybody was. Everybody was

distracted by everything else. Yeah, credit to him because as we've gone over and over on this show, you would have never thought on August one that Leonard Fornett be leaving the league in rushing, that he'd be basically a team leader. Yeah, the team leader that I think they wanted him to be last year when he was captain. Uh, every sort of lampooned him being the captain last years, all the stuff he went through, Well he was the captain. Now you wouldn't blink an eye at You'd think good choice.

So he's the guy now that they hoped he'd be all along. And credit to him because I didn't think he could do plenty to discuss in this program. Will come back in a moment with the FC South standings and the schedule ahead of in the division. This week, we'll get our players to watch as well. We'll hear from Jimmy Luck. That's a little later. We'll get the unveil of the uniforms for this week, and Chris Connelly,

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players to watch. You know, you get all the guys we talked about to open the show for Nat and Menshew and d J Charksley and the a f C and Receiving and those are the big flashy names. Right, we're gonna dig. We're not dig a little deeper. We're giving some other players to watch. Actually no, because one of mine's DJ chark that's fine. Well, that's okay, or charr Right, you can pick one of the flashy guys if you can. That's the point. You can pick whoever

you want. So, John, who are yours? Well, I've always scored the lead DJ charks one, um uh, and I picked him because although you say he's flashy guy, and he is. Uh. He has been limited the last couple of weeks, uh by basically what happens in the NFL. He he had five good games, five really good games. Uh. Teams watched film and said, okay, we're gonna take this element of the Jaguars away. We're gonna take Shark's ability

to win athletically. We went with the speed. We're gonna double him over the top of the safety high wear on both sides of the field and take that away. Well, it's worked, and last week you saw the first inklings DJ Charks taking away what should happen. Chris Connery should start winning and d D Westbrooks, you have more opportunities. That happened. So now I would expect teams to realize that they have to take those things away too, And I would expect DJ Chark over the course of time

to start learning more how to beat that coverage. Uh, there are ways to beat any coverage. The great ones start beating it. So I would expect DJ to start bouncing back. And uh, I think this is a week where he could do that. That just takes repetition and doing it in games and and figuring it out. Somebody can tell it to you, obviously, you know, Keenan McCardell can tell him how to do it, but you just gotta go try to do it. It also, realistly takes

some patience. I mean it's it's as a young number. You know. It's why early on in the season with everybody said always the one heis and one he's and one, Well, it usually takes receivers three or four years to get to a point where they're a true one because you've got to get through phases like this. You've got to

learn how to beat these things. Um So I think what will happen is if they keep doing this defense, the Jaguars say, that's fine, we'll hit DJ a few times, keep Ryan, but we'll also take Westbrook and Connelly and we'll win there as well. So the team will be fine doing that, as they showed last week. So I expect DJ to start beating that a little more a little more each week, and to start benefiting from teams

looking at Connley and Westbrook defensively. I found this one fairly interesting because earlier in the year this guy was taking a lot of heat, and then he's turned it around a little bit as the last few weeks were gone. Yeah, it's it's Tavin Bryan who had his best game the other day, and most people who follow the Jacks would I realized what he did without Taven's pressure the unique and got way pick six doesn't happen. He forced that, but he also did other things. He had four or

five plays where he really showed up. The reason I picked him for this is, I don't know. It seems doubtful with Marcel Darius going to Philadelphia for treatment today, it would seem doubtful that Marcel is a place Sunday he's a hundred percent, etcetera, etcetera. Uh, they have needed all along with Marcel contract indicating that there's a good chance he wouldn't be back next year. They need Taven to develop and become a force in the inside. It's

why he was drafted. Well now with him hurt, what an ideal time if what we saw last week is real, and sometimes it takes time for that to be consistent. But Tavin Bryan is important because if Marcel is not playing all of a sudden, you get a lot thinner there and you need playmaking there. Taven did it last week, needs to do it again. All right. You have DJ Track Taven Brian two very nice choices. Appreciate that I

like those. Miles Jack for me on defense, we could pict any of the new names if you wanted to, or Giles Harris, the rookie, But I'm one of Miles jack because he's gonna keep all that together. Um, there may the only other be one other linebacker on the field at one point in the where they play with a nickel and all that stuff. But for Miles to get these moving parts things in the right order. If for some reason they're more than that out there, then

he's going to get them in the right place. So for me, Myles Jackie had an interception last week on a fantastic play in Cincinnati. How can he keep this group going? I think it's a big focus. Clowning would be good at this point, I bounced off a couple of people. They say, a good idea. He's the only guy that you've heard of. It's healthy and uh so I agree with you. I think he's an important guy for a couple of reasons. Um, he hasn't played as

poorly as observers believe. He had a bad play against Carolina. It's like, oh, breakouts. A lot of his issue has been trying to make up for youth around him. Uh that went away a little bit. If you notice when Nazi Good was playing, all of a sudden, Miles started playing better. Well, now, he's back to where it's as difficult as part of the season has been. On that front form it gets even more difficult. So I agree with you. I was going to pick my miles and

tough out. You picked Myles for this because it's a it is very important that you play well. It's very important that he keep the people around him on the same page. And against a guy like Levy on Bell whose m o is patients, make you jump out of your lanes, defensively, make you miss, he really exploits what they have done poorly. At times. He can hurt you if you jump out of your lane. So is going to be up two miles to a stay discipline and

keep the people around him disciplined. The Jets, there's not that much they can hurt you offensively. That can can can pick you apart if you let him. And then other one we we kind of foreshadowed it earlier. The tight end position. Only one catch among the active tight ends right now Seth de Valve, and he's the fullback most times. Um and talking to him in the locker

room today. It's kind of how a lot of these, some of the tight ends in the League of gone and a lot of teams don't have a true fullback anymore, so you put an h back back there, and that's what Seth de Valve has been a lot of times for this team. But you have to be able to run the route tree as a tight end and block outside and block in the backfield, and you know, there's only a few guys that are really able to do

all of that in the league. Koyak has been around here for a bit, but he was signed off the street in Week six after the Oshaughnessy injury, and then Josh Oliver made his debut last week but was not targeted. He was fantastic in the offseason program, but he's been hurt the entire training camp and into the season. So he's back and he get moving after the Jeff Swain injured reserve move, We'll see. This is a big obviously, We've talked about it already. It's a huge question mark

for this offense. It would help in the red zone, it would help over the middle of the field and help balance things out if they can get some production in the passing game from these guys. Yeah, it's it's reached a point where it's glaring and it's reached a point where it feels like there's only one answer, and that's Josh Oliver right now, let's take a trade for somebody next week. Uh, it feels like that's the only answer. And I don't know if we have any idea what

that answer is yet. And it's a tough spot. I don't know where the improvement comes from, and if it doesn't come from Josh, and I think it's uh, it's almost unfair to him to expect him to lift something this heavy, no doubt. And so it seems like depending on what happens this weekend, depend on how he plays and what they can do, they may be in the

market next week, sort of out of desperation at that spot. Uh. It hasn't been there m O. But it's it's it's a really difficult spot that I'm not sure they dig out of without some outside help. They might might have to go make a move and do something and we'll see what happens with that. There's there are players to watch. I had Miles Jack and the tight end position, so I guess that's technically four guys, and you had d J. Shark and Tavin Bryan. Good choices. I was talking about mine,

but okay, let's yours were good to John. Let's take a look at the ANFC South standings. Where did the team stand after a week? Number seven? And the Indianapolis Colts are now in first place at four and two, Houston four and three, the Jags and the Titans in that order. Of course, the Jags get the Texans next week in London. All of these teams coming up this week though, as we look at the week eight schedule,

they're all at home this week. Broncos at the Colts, of course, Jets are here in Jacksonville, the Bucks of the Titans, and the Raiders at the Texans, all home games in the a f C South Broncos game. You know, they have the defense too, and some parts on that defense as we saw at times, to to do some things. The Buccaneers, if Jamis doesn't throw five interceptions, they can hang in there. And the Raiders are the Raiders, they

can hang in there too. Yeah. It feels to me right now like you've reached a point with the Texans and the Colts. You can't let them get further away. But if you're gonna reel them back in, you're gonna have to do it with your own fishing rody, you know you're gonna have to beat him. And uh. So with the Colts, I would say, don't lose, don't lose any more ground in the lost column. You've got them twice.

There's no reason that you can't beat that team. You've matched up even in years where you've struggled, you've matched up well against this team. Last year when the Colts were really hot, you beat him. Uh, you should have beaten him up there. So the Cults are not ungettable, but you've got to not let them gain any more ground when you're not in the same field with them. So Uh, with the a f C South, right after the Jags, uh win some games. You haven't played your

way completely out of it. You've got three games left against the leaders. Uh. You know you follow baseball JP. That's there's no magic numbers uh involved that you can still go get them to start winning, start winning your own games, and then let the season playoff as it will. Um, you're having our look around the a FC South in week number eight, coming up at Dailies Place. Busy schedule Bastille,

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it's time for Jimmy luck had equipment manager. What's happen? What's up man? How are you just getting ready a home game, A big home game, not a little one. Big it's huge because I mean, guess it's the last game in the stadiule that obviously, but it's the last game in the stadium for the Jaguars until December. Think about that for a while. You gotta take advantage of these home games. It's news for you. You'll be doing a lot of travel. Yeah, decided about that. There's a

bye week in there. I'm pretty pumped about. Yeah, so that bye week's coming up. But one, one week at a time. Exactly what's the hat this week? I see there's a crucial catch this week. Okay, pretty cool? Yeah like that. And they used to do just the breast cancer awareness. Now it's all so everybody has their own their own thing. That's pretty cool. And how much gear is they're involved within Now it's just hats now. Thanks. You used to be um have like the QB towels,

some gloves, some pleats, um sweatshirts. Although it may it may be a little warm for sweatshirts this week, but hopefully it won't rain. Because for a while, when it was first breast cancer awareness, it was mainly breast cancer. It was it was like a lot of paint. So I was thinking about this the other day. Um, on Sunday when the Niners played in Washington in the horrible rain conditions. In Washington is noted for not having the best surface around as the season goes on, especially but

in a swamp like that. As an equipment manager, I feel bad for those guys. Yeah, when you're going into that, anybody, you know what's coming, and but you have to get the team prepared as well. Different kind of cleats, different spikes explain the process of getting ready for a game like that and then the aftermath of a game like that, well it's not fun. Um. Actually, footing was was quite

an issue there. Um. We anytime we play on a grass surface, we take the screw ins um seven studs some people call them, but basically you can take the cleats out and adjusted. You know. However, the link there's a couple of different links. So many would that be? Would that be a set for every shoe you have with you? I mean, is it that many? Yeah? So what we we pretty much have them set up with because there's the low one which is a half inch,

and then there's five eights. We pretty much pack them in the trunk at five eights because if you're wearing half inch, you're probably gonna wear your molded your regular molded bottom shoes. So that's why we pull that out.

But there's some guys that will wear um maybe like a special pattern on there, like you know kind of we call the diamond pattern where it's more in the forefront, and say, I need to switch there's a guy screwing in the fleets, right, Yeah, So we got like a little pit crew with the gun of the uh the drill gun there and we get it going. So that's why how much time does it take to switch out?

Like is it? Um? It's it's pretty you know, I haven't timed ourselves late m Most guys don't like wearing them, but octually, when we got to London, that will be a big jo um. So we'll have them and you know, we try to encourage the guys to at least put the shoes on and wear them so that way, even if they adjust the link, as long as they have them on, that's a little bit easier switching them out than have to take it off, especially if they've taped up on the outside of their shoes. Like it takes

a little bit. So yeah, and you don't that you don't have that much time sometimes on the sidelines. That's right. Well, that's why we encourage them during pregame warm ups to go out there and test it and see what they got. There's always a couple that don't listen to you. Oh, there's no doubt that works. Sometimes you can take them to water, that's right. You can't make him drink it. Let's see, all right. So it's a home game coming up. It's week number eight. It's the last home game in

Jacksonville for a while. So with that mind, what will the Jaguars wear this week against the New York Jets? What you got for us? Jimmy who? We got the white pants. We've been wearing those a lot a little bit. And then we're gonna go with the teal Jersey teal at home again. We got the payer of the Special Player of the week. They're Jersey. He's been perfect this year and um he is the f C Special Teams Player of the Week. Like's bringing donuts in for us,

that's nice? Does he really tell? It's right there? Well? There, you know that's what that's what it takes to get the jersey on the show sometimes, right, teal Over White, I like it. Good home look for the Jacksonville Jaguars is week, Yes they do. Yes, it should be a nice, nice weather weekend, hopefully. I mean there's a little chance of rain, but maybe we'll hopefully just be partly cloudy, won't be as hot, cool it off a little bit

around Finally, it'd be nice. But I mean that I'm sure we'll still get an eighty five day here or there. Won't get that in London next week. I'll tell you that it'll be a little cool. Looking ahead a little bit, it looks like it's uh mid fifties as the high mid forties, as a low rain rain rain a little during the week during the week. See what happens on Sunday, Jimmy, thank you, always good to see you, teal Over White.

For the Jaguars at home this week against the New York Jets, there's a good look at D. D. Westbrook, who hopefully will get in the end zone this week. Yeah, the receiver's been playing well overall. Last week. They spread the wealth a little bit, a little touchdown to all right, he did, he did, and we're gonna hear from Chris Conley coming up, who had a big handed last week's Yeah, he had a big game, a big like forty seven yard or in the second half of the fourth quarter,

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Once meetings are done, they'll join us here in studio and we will get some thoughts on last week's matchup and look ahead to this week's game against the Jets. I'm interested to see what this as we talked about earlier, what this offense can do. And they put up fo sixty yards last week. It's not like they didn't move

the ball. They didn't have great starting field position early in that game in Cincinnati, they like their own sixteen in the first half was the average starting field position, and they just when they stalled out, they had to punt away and you know, they're out gaining by two yards of Bengals and ended up trailing at the half. And then they found a little bit more in the in the second half, and um, of course, the turnovers help when you get some extra possessions. So can they

get it established early? Can they do something early? It's been a talking point for a few weeks around here. If they can just get in the end zone early. They were a yard away from it on the opening drive last, And I think that's what you know when you analyze football like this, sometimes you sort of get into um. You're looking at things, you're saying, well, it felt like they were struggling in the first half. It felt like boy and I got out of tweets, Oh

they're they're playing lousy. What's wrong with this team? Well, it was really a different than one you hard was the perception of that game. Meaning you drive the length of the field in in a beautiful, efficient drive with the first drive, if you score there, if Leonard gains one in staid of loses one, you're up seven nothing. All of a sudden, when you get the field goal later on your ten nothing and you feel like you're in control rather than holding your breath in one play away.

So I'm not diminishing. In fact, they didn't score in the red zone. They must do that better, because in this league, if you don't get out, if you don't get points out of your opportunities, you leave yourself open to getting beat. But this was not a case of the Jaguars being dysfunctional for sixty minutes offensively against a lesser team. It was a matter of then struggling on

a few plays in the red zone. They had what four hundred and seventy yard for I mean somewhere in the fours, and they had I can think of at least three or four long drives and didn't field goal. Well, the bad news is you didn't score touchdowns. But the good news is you were moving efficiently. They were running. They had hundred and thirty yards uh rushing. So I don't think it was as atrocious and offensive effort as some of my email or some of our closet analysts

tend to think. Is not a bad day at the office. Yeah, so let's not go overboard and think, oh my goodness, there's a lot of deficiencies right now. Offensively, they couldn't do anything. It's a bad they struggled in the red zone, and that was the difference between you feeling great this week and you're being concerned. You've got to get that fixed, but the tools are there to fix it. I'm really impressed with the wide receivers on this team, JP, and

I know we talked about that. When Chris gets in here, they've gone Yeah, they've gone from being a team that you wondered what was going on a wide receiver in the offseason to now, Um, the bad news is they've taken Chart away for a couple of weeks. Well, the good news is the other day you had two guys step up in his place, and all four of the wide receivers in that game made plays. You remember Cole caught the touchdown, Westbrook obviously had a hundred yard day.

Conny sets up the game winning or the game I go ahead touchdown, catches a two point conversion, and even DJ when he shut down, has a play that goes and sets up a field goal, the one where he got tight ropes down the sidelines. Um, I don't know that you can remember that many games since we've been here together, JP where you had four receivers make big plays and feel like they were all capable of doing

that on a given something. You know there they're okay at receiver and as they get better, I think you're gonna see them. Remember you're only seven games into the scheme. You're still playing with young quarterbacks. If they had a tight end, boy wouldn't they be uh efficient in that area. But the receivers, I think have a chance to keep taking steps and they feel more reliable than I thought

they would during the off season. I'm just trying to think through that that comment you just made there about since we've been here. I've been here since you were a year before that, and the closest I can come was Cecil Shortz and Justin Blackman. But I can't remember anybody else of that caliber. You know that that that balanced before right now that you feel pretty good about it. And I know Chris had a couple of games in

a row where he hadn't done much. But you know, again, a lot of what's been going on early there's still a small sample size to seven year. You know, now you're getting to the point where there's a sample size, and early on you gotta remember they're playing with a quarterback. When Gardner first went in, they had no idea what he could do. What he did well, They didn't know what the They were just hoping to put a game

plan together that the could gets the first downs. That for you know, that's realistically when you've got a rookie quarterback you know anything about. So it's only now that they're getting in to a situation where okay, here's what these guys do well, Here's what Chris does well, Here's what they do well together. They don't have any uh institutional memory on that yet, so they're just developing that so interesting group, the wide receiver, and I'm curiously what

they can do over the next month. The other duo obviously Alan Hearns and Allen Robinson, but there wasn't really a third hurt now. Yeah, so it's interesting. Our regular co host teaching every Wednesday on Jaguars Happy Our presented by the Fields Auto Group, is Jaguars wide receiver Chris Conley. Hello, Chris,

how are you. I'm doing well, doing really well. Uh you know, I had a wonderful guest for the show today and he just decided to walk out of the building and, uh, you know, not come on the show today. So I apologize if I throw a lot of shade in his direction today. But you know, he he had a great game this weekend, really clutch catch, you know, the only one of you know, the receiving touchdown of the game, and it was just it was a big play,

a lot of momentum. You know, I won't name his name, but you know he likes to make acrobatic one handed catches, and you know he's a fan favorite, and you know he might wear the number eighty four, and you know, you know his name might Ryan with right. Okay, but you know he walked out just about like thirty seconds ago. I couldn't I can't put my finger on it. I don't know. You know, at this point I've probably forgotten

who it is too. That's okay, maybe another time, maybe maybe the good news here JP, this is a week where if Chris had come in and said, I'm bringing Chris Connley is my guest you've been happy with? Yeah, because a big game the other day for you. Well, I guess thank you. I appreciate that. I thank you, thank you for justifying this. You know, I'm kind of bumped. I'm a little bummed. We were never bummed to have

you here, so we don't need for a little bit. Yeah, I know this was It was a good getting back on track week for us. I think it was good getting on back on track week for the whole team.

You know, really, uh we we had some good plays made across the board, defense with the turnovers, spectacular day offense, starting the game off fast with some rhythm moving the ball, not necessarily scoring, but moving the ball um down the field and really setting the tempo for the day and overcoming some questionable fuel position starts to really get going eventually and UM and finish finished on the day. UM. So it was it was a you know, not necessarily pretty,

but it was necessary for us. You know, we were just talking about this, John and about the depth of the receiver room here and comparing it to some past receiver rooms we've had around here at least, And the only kind of do I could think of a while back was and since we've been here eight years or so, UM was blackman with cecil shorts. They both had big years, but it wasn't really a third or fourth guy. And then Alan Robinson and Alan Hearns, but Marquis was hurt

back then a lot. Now it's if DJ has covered up, you're here, obviously d DS here, Keelan Cole can step in and catch a touchdown and contribute. It's a it's a a group that in the training camp we wouldn't really see it yet on the field, now you're starting to see across the board guys in this receiver room can make place. Yeah, you know, I think that guys in this room really had a lot of faith in the talent in the room. We had a lot of faith in the speed in the room. We have a

lot of faith in the coachability of the room. You know, as the season goes on, offenses have to change because defenses pick up keys, they start to double people, they do things differently, and you have to be able to adjust on the fly. And we've really been uh high on the fact that even though it's a young group, these guys can adjust, They can adjust quickly, and they can adjust during a game and still be effective given

whatever situation the defense presents us. I thought the other day, Chris, that you're forty seven yard reception obviously a big play because of the length, But when play happened, I thought to myself, this is why you bring a veteran receiver to a team to make a play in that situation when the team absolutely needed it. Um, does that kind of thing go through your mind at all before a play like that or in a moment like that of aga, I'm the veteran, it is ball comes to me, I

gotta step up? Or are you always just think about making a point? Does that does that resonate with you? I think a little bit of that resonates with me. One of the things that was being set on the sideline for like five to ten minutes before that play actually took place was Keenan mccardo was walking by our bench and saying, Hey, it's gonna come down to us. You know, the game was close and was pretty tight, and saying, hey, someone's gonna have to make a play.

There's gonna be a play that's gonna really get the ball rolling for us, and it's gonna change the momentum of this game. Um. And so that was in the back of my head saying, you know, if there's an opportunity, we gotta make a play, we gotta make a play. Whoever it is in our room has to make a play. It starts and ends with us in the receiver room. And then the other thing that's in my head is,

you know, there's not that many opportunities out there. You know, it's some some offenses they throw the ball all game and you know guys can get seven catches, eight catches, you know, ten targets a game. But that's just not the case here. Still let the ball pass up exactly because you know, you you know you might get a couple.

I had three, and Um on each of those, I'm thinking, catch this ball, secure it and run and get as many yards as you can because you know, they just you know, sometimes they come in bunches and sometimes there sparse And it seemed on that play as soon as you caught the ball, I know you're always thinking about it, I want to turn this into more, but on that play there was it was a determination to turn it into as much more as you could. Yeah, you know, I just saw the defense in the way that they

were shifted. I knew I was singled up everybody else on the other side of the field, and I saw there was a gap. Um was able to squeeze through it. Great ball by Garner. Awesome play call. Uh, you know we've been that's the perfect look for that play call. You know, there's a really a run pass option, UM, and he pulled it through it. Glad that he did, and we were able to get the ball down into the red zone inside the tent. So you know, it

was huge play for us. But in that situation, you know, the only thing on my mind is make it count. And now that we're seven or eight games into gardener um with some perspective on what he's done. How big of a challenge and a transition where those first few weeks when you're trying to get used to a kid who's coming in you've been working with Nick basically, I assume you didn't have much rep uh many rest with

Gardener during the training camp. How big of a transition with was that for the receivers for maybe those first two or three weeks just getting used to that and knowing what he was going to do, well, you know it was it was an adjustment for some of us. You know, I hadn't gotten any reps with Gardner until he was in that game. You know, I had thrown with him in warming up and really that was about it. But up until that point I really thought of it

from this angle. I thought that most of the adjusting was gonna take place on his end, and so the way I approached it was saying, Hey, if there's anything that I can do to make this kid feel comfortable, and you know, you saw some of that in the first game with Kansas City, Just give him an outlet when he doesn't know where to go with the ball. Just be able to dump it off to somebody and make something positive happen. And we're able to make some

of those plays happen. And then you know, you see the developing relationship with d J. Chark and with d us Brook and he begins to get comfortable with people around him. But really that was our our approach to it, was like, Hey, this young guy is going to be thrown into some situations that he might not have been prepared for. But in that in those situations, make up the slack form be there. If the timing is off on something, make it up. If he's not really sure

about something, make it happen, make it work anyway. And I think the guys in the receiver room did a really good job of that. And now, um, you know, we have all the confidence in the world. And kid Chris Kinnley with a Jaguars wide receiver each Wednesday, I'm

Jaguars happy. Are yes, John? We should ask him some questions as Keel and Cole, Oh yeah, that's a grand so he and I hope you're watching Solan you uh the the ball that was thrown for a touchdown your way, It looked like he came back to it give us an idea of what you saw when the ball was in the end. Well, you know, I was running a corner route, simple high low read off the corners and the inside safety. You know, Cincinnati actually switched switched the playoff,

you know, instead of playing man. If it was man to man, we probably would have thrown the ball underneath, but they switched it off. So it was me on a corner with outside leverage. I was able to get around him. And you know me, I really like to catch stuff with one hand, but that was a really tough situation and I had to catch him with two. So you know, next time, I'm hoping that Garner gives me a better ball so I can reach back and catch it like that. But I gotta do what you

gotta do. Healing. Should you be playing over Conny? You know what I think I should be. I think I know all the answers to everything, but I mean, I'm not gonna say that out loud. Um in all seriousness with him. Uh, he seems to have been a guy this year playing as the fourth receiver. You don't get his many reps the other guy, but in a couple of situations he has come up big when it was needed and made a cup a really big place for you guys. Yeah, you know that's the That's a tough

position to be in, uh, fourth receiver. I I have been in every position in a receiver room. You know, I've I've played number one, I've been the two, I've been the three, I've been the four, I've been the fifth receiver. And you know, the fourth receiver is a really tough spot because if you're the fifth receiver, you have a larger role on special teams, so you know what your day is gonna look like on Sunday at the fourth receiver, h your job on special teams is

a little bit more murky. Your job on offense is even murkier. And you have to be ready to be able to you have to be able to be plugged in in any situation in an offense and really make whatever play. You might not have repped it one time the whole year, but you get put in in a clutch situation and you've got to make the play, and you do that cold you come off the bench cole, you know, playing what five snaps before that and then having a touchdown and a key moment of a game

thrown to. You got to make the play and Keeland has done a great job of that this year, and I was gonna see this too. It's always struck me for a receiver, especially that you know you caught a two point conversion the other day. Now you're in the end zone, it's got to be the same sort of feeling as a touchdown. Not at all, not at all, not at all, And but it sort of should it shouldn't, but it doesn't. Two point conversions don't count for anything.

You don't count for anything, count for two points. They don't count for anything. My stat line after the game set three catches for eighty three yards. The two point conversion was a fourth catch. It didn't even count. Right, you don't get it. We don't hurt your average anyway, but it's almost does still be six. Two point conversions don't count for anything. When you go to the bargaining table against the team, you say, hey, I scored uh

two point conversion. That doesn't count. They're not gonna pay you for that. Love So all right, Home game Sunday, and it's the last game in this stadium until December. One. Think about that for a while. Because of the London home game coming up next week, and then buy and then a couple of road games. So, as we said last week, that was the game you're looking at Cincinnati. You had to have that game to get things turned

the right way. This one against the Jets is kind of the same field, right you get back to five, everything's back to where you guys felt it could be. Once again, reiterate the same thing that I said last week. This week is the most important week. This game is the most important game. I sound like a broken record when I say it, but when you live and operate with that mentality in this league, good things happen. And I'm hoping that everyone in the locker room agrees with

me on that. If we can really just focus in on this game, make sure that we can get just a little bit better at some of the things from last week. Um, you know, the defense, if they could get a little bit better than four turnovers, that would be great. If the offense, if we can score when

we have opportunities in the red zones, especially early. You know this, this oftense scored points last week, but if we can get some of those points on the first half, on the early end of the game, that can change momentum and help it swing. If we can save some field position, uh and make some more big plays on special teams. You know that that would be big for

us this week. So if we can lock in and focus, it'll do us wonders before we have to become world Warriors've been playing obviously five or six years in this league. The difference in just tone and of the confidence, but situational football that you play the rest of the half, tide zero zero after the first drive doesn't happen or up seven nothing, it's a mammoth change and how you

approach the rest of the game right huge. Situational football is so important, and it's one of those things that you really you try to get as much work of it as you can without, you know, taking time away from something else that's necessary, but trying to teach guys who haven't necessarily played or been in a lot of those situations for that long, how a game can change with those points. And you don't want to get into percentages and say, oh, you know your percentage drops to this,

uh if you don't score here. But you know those numbers are real, but you don't want to you don't ever want to tell somebody, hey, it's not possible, because this game is is full of impossible. But when you can score early like that and you can create a lead, you allow your defense to pin their ears ears back and go after a quarterback and a secondary to play

like that, it changes the course of a game. And really, once you get to the end of the half and end of the game, in two minute situations, you minimize the chances and percentages of a quarterback, a really good quarterback coming back into the game late. I heard you had some surf time this week, Is that right? We had a yeah, a little bit, a little bit, you know, with you this week. It was it was disappointing that the one day that the camera crew decides to come

out and serve there's nothing out there. We were sitting We're sitting basically on a lake. We were sitting on Jacksonville Lake for a good hour out there when we thought that there was gonna be just a little bump. We thought there was gonna be a little tiny longboard wave. Nothing. Now, well, you wet suit once the winter really comes, or oh yeah, I'm already halfway there. I'm wearing I'm wearing a wet suit top. Already. I have fully converted to being allergic

to the cold since being here. When I got here from Kansas City, I remember going out when people were wearing wet suits and I was wearing nothing. I was just wearing trunks. I was like, this is great. Everybody's like you're crazy. But now, oh no, I'm I'm converted, man, completely converted. Cover me up, Chris, good to see you, Keiling, thanks for coming. Oh thanks Ling. Can we get the camera over there? Can we get the camera over to Keiling?

Cole Man, Keiling, You're you're just looking great today. Man, my god, my guy. Hey, everyone on Twitter, make sure that you go and tweet at Keilan and tell him, man, you were great on the show today. Oh man, he is. Chris. Good luck to you this week. Man. Thank you. Chris Connley, Jaguars Wide Receiver with us every Wednesday. Thanks for our entire crew, Jimmy luck for John Ozier and Chris Connley.

I'm JP Shatrick. We'll see you next time. Jaguars Happy Hour presented by the Fields Auto Group on the Jaguars Digital Network