Jaguars Happy Hour: Wednesday, September 16

plays last week. Uniform unveiling is always on Wednesday. Jimmy Luck, the head equipment manager, joins us and he'll unveil with the Jags. Will were on the road this Sunday. We're going to play big Game Jaguar once again, where we will pick a Jaguar to have a big game on Sunday. We'll touch around the league after Week one as well. Bucky Brooks. John Oshan with us. Now, Bucky, what's going on out in California? Excited one ad getting ready to

see the Jaguars take on another division opponent. Could be a great staff of the Jacks. John, It's Titans hate week, did you hear it? Yeah, interesting story in that regard JP. I can remember interviewing Fred in the and what was the media lobby. It's still the media lobby where Gus used to do his pressers down in that older ramp. And this was before JP. This was after after Fred's rookie season and the Jags had lost the game up I think they were still in Memphis, Tennessee, and this

is probably March or April. I was getting to do a big story on Fred's second year. He was kind of becoming a star, and I remember him city They're talking about that loss in Memphis already sort of hating Tennessee and said, you know what they want. I just can't give him credit for it. So it goes back even before that threesome in ninety nine. It runs deeper. Fred think never goes away. Bucky, right, I mean, I

don't know about you. I don't know if you have that that level of Tennessee hate being a former jack I mean, look, I certainly don't like any division rivals. And so when you think about the Tennessee Titans, who were the Houston Oilans when I was playing in Jacksonville, Yeah, that's not a lot of love loss. You want to own and dominate the division. So this is an opportunity for the Jacks to kind of put a vice grip on a division, something that I don't think many of

us thought would be possible. And yeah, yeah, well Bucky actually played in the game. It could have some similarities to this in the old Astrodome in ninety six, late ninety six, but I think there were twenty thousand fans that day where he was eerie. How quiet it was. To me, that's the closest thing I've ever been involved with is something like what we're seeing now with ten or fifteen thousand fans. It was quiet, you could hear all the signals. It was much like what this week's

games are. Absolutely it's a difference a real scene. Well, we'll find out this Sunday what it feels like in Nashville at Nissan Stadium, no fans and attendance this week. We'll get to this game coming up. It let's touch briefly on last week. Um, you know a Bucky a great team win. We talked about in the postgame radio show that you know, Doug Marone in the week prior to the game, I really liked this team's ability. He thought at least to handle adversity, and boy did they

have some in the game, especially early. The opening drive right down the field a touchdown, and the second drive they're knocking on the door again, but the fourth downstop kind of kind of stymies them. There. They get some big time defensive place set up some short fields, Gardner Minshew hits his targets, and all of a sudden, the Jags come away with a big all around team victory. I think that's the best way to describe last week.

That is the best way to describe it. Uh. Great teams are able to play complimentary football at the offense to defense, the special teams work together. Looking at those stats, two things stand out. The two takeaways are big that's the biggest determining factor, deciding factor in football. And then third down conversion, the ability to get off the field on third down. The Jags were able to do that. That's why they walked out the stadium with the win. Yeah, John,

it was. It was one of those where you you heard Doug in the post game. They didn't fold up and go home when things got bad. And I think he just likes the character of the group he has in that locker room, and it and it showed, it made him, made him right on Sunday. Yeah, i'llive him a lot of credit. He wanted his guys. Clearly, He's not gonna say this, but there are some guys who left that I think make this a better locker room. I don't think that's why they did it, but whatever

happened happened. He talked all leading up to that week about the resiliency, and you sort of rolled your eyes because you thought, how how resilient can a young team. They came back from four deficits seven nothing fourteen seven seventeen fourteen, and they played awful for about thirteen minutes, where everybody watching it thought this one's over there. Yeah. I don't know if they're tanking, but you sure thought they were gonna be in the Trevor conversation and they

never quit. From what I've heard on the sidelines, the communication was incredible, guys pumping each other up. And again, I know a lot of jaded NFL people roll their eyes. Yeah, it's all about talent, and I'm sort of one of those guys. But this is a team that clearly on Sunday pulled together, I would guess better than the last two Jaguars teams. Yeah, good start for sure. Um, let's let's start on offense with this with this team right now.

Obviously last week Gardner Minshew spread the wealth. He was nineteen of twenty. First of all, not a lot of deep shots down field. Um, but he spread the ball out too, Bucky. Ten different guys made catches for the Jaguars on Sunday. That tells you a little bit about the depth that's running around that they think they have. And he's gonna hit the open guy, and everybody on

this offense can contribute in a different way. Yeah, that's really scary when you think about preparing for a team when you look at the hits you and you see ten different receivers that have receptions. That makes it hard for the defense coordinate to figure out, Hey, who should be really focused on who should we take away? For me? It also tells me that Garner Minsh you is just going to throw the ball to the open guy. He

is not locked in on a particular player. When he sees someone combs open, he is going to get them the ball. Takes a lot of trust with Uh, the quarterback and his wife receivers to be able to do that, But I think that speaks volumes to go to missus leadership ability. How about Gardner today, John, what you to take from the quarterbacks conversation after the wind? You know? Not much? I mean, I I love Gardner, he's his personality, but if you really watch his press conferences, he didn't

give away very much. He's sort of this flamboyant guy with the hair, and you love his commercials, but he's also very much a football guy, and when he gets in front of the media, he gives very pat answers. When it comes to even himself, he doesn't want to give anything away. The only concern I had on Sunday was when you're nineteen of twenty and you have a hundred and seventy three yards, you haven't gone down field a whole lot. I know he can throw the deep ball.

I still kind of I still wonder a little bit at his ability to throw into coverage and make big, big plays, but I don't think it's what they're asking him to do. So I don't know how Bucky feels about that. I got the feeling the Colt took away a lot of what they thought he would do well, and Gardner stuck to what was there that work. I think that's the thing to watch or going forward with him when he has to make throws that he doesn't love, what's that gonna be? Yeah, John, you speak to something

that's really important. Because the way the Inn after his Coast played him, they didn't have any film on Garner Minshew. In j Gruten's offense, the Tennessee Titans will have film and they make adjustments and they will try to take away some of the sweet stuff that he enjoyed, the quick games, some of the screen games, some of the

movement passes that he was able to connect on. They're going to focus on taking that away, and they may force him to push the ball down the field to see if he has enough Armston to be able to get it done. In the first half of the game, he had a running game to really get him going to James Robinson stepped in. He was my pick by the way for big game Jaguar last week, and he came through with solid first half. They didn't run the ball all that much and all that effectively in the

second half, so Robinson's debut was was really good. Leavisca should not comes in and and he's lining up everywhere and showing a bunch of things, as you said, Bucky putting things on tape. Now, defensive coordinators have to think about those two guys especially and what you know, where Levisca is going to be, where is he going in motion? And what does that open up on the offense. That's a lot to think about. It is a lot to

think about. And Leviscus, you know, we we knew he had an opportunity to be a big time playmaker for this team. What he did at Colorado, we saw him do in that debut performance. I think the big thing is James Robinson. There were a lot of unknown uh factors in opinion on James Robinson because we hadn't really seen him undrafted free agent Illinois State, didn't know what he was going to bring. Nineties scrimmag jars on seventeen touches, that's big time. Didn't get the running game going in

the second half. We need to see more, but he certainly proved that he is at least a serviceable starter at this point. He stepped right in John and and didn't miss a beat off the opening opening drive. There they are in I formation. Here he goes James. Yeah, I thought he was really big early, not necessarily getting him point by giving him some confidence and some footing. When the Colts offense was sort of just drumming down the field and making it look easy, there was this

feeling of oh. But then when you thought back to the first drive, the one that got killed by the lender penalty that Jay Gruden said today he really didn't see, so let's get out that. Let's get that out there. But Robinson had run enough and well enough that I think it gave the team a little confidence of Okay, it's not going well yet defensively, but we've got something we can hang our hat on. I'm wondering to hear from Buckey. How much of the second half was just

the Colts taking that away. Was there a concern with him not being able to run. I've always thought that basically, as the offensive line goes, the running back can go, so I don't think teams really find out about a running back. But how much of that was that? But yeah, I think a lot of it was that John come and get into the game. Because James Robinson is an unknown commodity. You basically dare the Jackson the Jaguars to make them beat you with the undrafted free agent running back.

And so early in the game he showed it he could run a little bit, picked up sixty one yards. They say, okay, we need to slow down to running game. Let's put this game back on Garniment show shoulders, which is what they did. They took him away. I think the big thing for the Jaguars heading into week two how much more can they evolve this offense? We saw the basics. We saw them do the screen game and the quick game, and we saw the running game. What

can they do to add an element and dimension? When Sinnessee Titans know where they're facing this week, let's se get to a little bit of the preview of the Titans defense. How much of a difference is Jadeveon Clowney in Nashville Bucky who I mean, he partician, could be a huge difference maker. And I think what we have to do is we gotta get out of her head. What Jadeveon Clowney was at South Carolina because he's not

really that guy. What he is an explosive, disruptive and defender who is best against the run more so than the past. He's athletic, He's gonna slip through gaps. He takes chances. But man, when he when he guesses right, he blows up plays in the backfield. They're looking for jadeveon Clowney to give them a handful of disruptive plays that puts the Jacks behind the chains and allows their pass rushes to hunt guarder Mintion knowing that he doesn't have to run threat. Yeah, John, you and I were

at the Pro day in South Carolina. Was a long time ago, now, right, John, I think so it's been a long time. I you know, with your Dave on, I'm not sure why he's not a better sacked numbers guy, but somebody has followed this for a long time. I actually have more respect as a player for a guy who can do what Clowney does. I think he sets up, as Bucky said, Yeah, in order for most teams to rush the passer or most players rest to pass, you

need to be an obvious passing situations. Him behind the chains, Buck, he said, that's what Clowney does. Three or four times a game. You look up in its second and eleven because of a play he made that helps the defense so much more than staff doesn't necessarily get get paid, but it certainly helps your team. It does. Yeah, go ahead, Bucky. Sorry.

So Jake Gruden today mentioned when he was asked about this defense and watching tape that he was not able to sleep except for about an hour looking at all the blitz concepts from last year on this group. Um, what do they do so well in that department? Bucky and some other guys that stand out on this Titans defense. Look, they are a very, very physical team. The first thing that steps stands out to me when I look at him. Very physical team. They want to bring it to you.

They want to make sure that uh they make it a fist fight in their phone booth. Up front. Simmons is the guy that you have to watch, Jimmyson. This is a guy that coming out of Mississippi State, he was a dominant player, arguably one of the best players, if not the best defensive player in that draft. He is a guy that is disruptive at the point of attack, and so if he gets going, it really sets the table for the rest of the guys. Rosie Evans was

thrown out of the game on Monday. But that linebacker from Alabama sideline to sideline menace. He's tough and physical. And then in the back end Kenny Vaccaro, Kevin Bayer, guys that can pick off passes and do a bunch of different things. They are a very dynamic defense. They give you a bunch of different looks. Garner miss is going to have to be on his p's and ques to be able to understand and anticipate what they're doing

to him. Yeah, John, We've seen that back in uh pick off some Jaguars passes over the years here, and you know, it's just it feels like and we're gonna get to this on the offensive side for Tennessee and the Jags defense, but it's always that kind of physical type of football game. It really has that feel again, John Well, I mean, the Titans are what you want to be on defense. I don't know that they have an out and out superstar, but at every level they've

got guys who can really play. I think for them, Jackson being out this week is a little bit of a concern. It keeps their secondary very young. The question is, you know, can the Jaguars run well enough to get in some good situations to take advantage of that secondary. If they can't run early, then all of a sudden they're in obvious passing situations and have trouble getting to the secondary. But you know, the Jaguars want to be a physical team this year. J Gruden said it again

to do on the conference call. They want to be able to run, they want to depend on their offensive line, they want to control things offensive ways. It's what Tennessee wants to do. To me, this is a bigger challenge for the Jaguars offense certainly than the Colts were last week. Alright, So the matchup coming up this Sunday, one o'clock Eastern time in Nashville. The Jags and the Titans will come back and get onto the Jaguars defense. What they did

last week. Well, how they match up and defend Derrick Henry. That has been an issue certainly in the recent history of this series. We'll break it all down coming up, and we can't wait to be duv all together again.

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voter registration and key deadlines this fall. Welcome back this Jaguars Happy Hour on a Wednesday, presented by the Fields Auto Group, JP, Shadrick, John Osier, and Jacksonville from our home studios. Bucky Brooks out on the West Coast at his home studio. Glad you're along with us today. The Jaguars defense last week had some big time places. They gave hup some yardage right, but in key moments of

the game made big plays. The fourth down stop early really kind of slowed things down, and when it could have gotten away from them early, the two interceptions later in the game. The DAGs scored ten points off those turnovers in a seven point final, so those are obviously huge. And we saw the debut of the new look linebacker corps and both of those guys played very well. So Bucky, there was a lot of positive. I know there was some yardage, but there was a lot of positive that

came out of Sunday's game. On the defensive side, yeah, a lot of positive. JP very impressed with the defense, not necessarily in terms of the amount of YRD surrendered, but two things popped me, uh, their effort and their physicality. This is a team that played hard. Uh. Whenever the play ended. US saw eleven guys running to the football meeting at the ball and they tackled very very well for their first game out. I think the guy who led the team and tackles doesn't get enough credit for

what he can add to this defense. Josh Jones look. Being able to get him, smart, tough, physical player gives them a third level defender that can thump. I think he's a key addition, and this week he's really gonna be needed because they're going to need him to be involved in the run game because they have to get

the big fellow down. I'd say, so we'll get to Derrick Henry coming up john him the addition of Jones and then Joe Schobert stepped in and that gave Miles an opportunity to slide over, and you saw that second level for the Jaguars defense really step up and play well. Yeah. I thought Shoulberg maybe made the most interesting and important point after the game when he talked about what happened early and he said, Yea, they just hadn't hit, They

hadn't done anything since December. They had a light training camp, and as a result, it just sort of looked, you know, frankly soft early. The good news is and and the hope that you kind of grasp onto is that they got so much better after that. And I thought they were after the Abrey Jones stopped. It was a defense that you know, the yards evened out after that, and I thought they were the best team in the field

after that. Um, Josh Jones, show Bert and Miles Jack And I'm gonna consider Miles Jack and new part because he's in a new position. So it's dramatically different improving those three spot. I talked last week about this defense maybe not being dominant against the run, but better because

they allowed fewer breakout plays. That's gonna be tested this week because guess what, JP, Derrick Henry is still running from a few breakout plays the last couple of years, so he's harder to stop than most backs once he gets into that back seven. But that will be tested this week. Even as bad as it was the last couple of years in Tennessee, if you keep ninety nine and seventy four yard runs to ten, we're not talking about the asked for. There was the run defense, stop

the big plays, you know, offense. Yeah, John, it's funny that you talked about it because what you described is exactly what Dick Geron used to talk about years ago. If you can be a top defense, you have to be strong right down the middle in any sport. And so when you think about being good at defensive tackle, mic linebacker, and safety, you have to have playmakers at each of those spots to be a good defense. Right now, we've seen the Jaguars gets solid contributions from the players

of those spots. Derrick Henry has scored ten total touchdowns against the Jaguars all time. One of those reception, nine of those on the ground. The average yardage of those ten touchdowns guys thirty four point three yards, and that includes a sixty six yard reception on a little screen in seventeen and then those big runs of four and seventy four and a lot of those are when he

gets outside. Though. I know we're talking about being strong up in the middle, but when Henryett exput nine eighty or whatever he is, it's out on a cornerback, Blucky. That's not fair. No, it's definitely not fair. And so this is a game where in the first meeting, tad Watch has to say, all hands on deck, guys, put on your big boy pads. You're going to have to put your minus amount of pressure on the running back, and the best way to stop Derrick Henry is to

not let him get started. Penetration in this game would be critical because he's a strider, a big down here running back. When he gets his momentum going, he's tough. The best way to stop those kind of backs you gotta get him in the backfield before they get it going. John. Of course, Now, if if they do get that run game going a little bit against the Jack's defense, and

you gotta watch out for the play action game. And I think the Titans guys they have some some guys on the outside that can make plays in this offense and a quarterback that can get it to them when necessary. John, That's that's something to watch out for. Two. If everybody's bucks in to stop Henry, here goes some some throws over the top. Yeah. I spoke to Jim Wyatt, my counterpart in Tennessee, about this, and he made a good point.

Because of the playoffs last year, everybody thinks this team is Derrick Henry, and I get that, but Corey Davis, Bryan Tanner, you know they have the ability to throw and there were games last year where they threw their way to victory. It's ah, you can't just stop Derrick Henry. Now for the Jaguars, that's the first step, because they found out that if you don't, it's all over. So it's a double edged sword if you will. And I do think that the Jaguars will do a better job

stopping Henry. I've gone back to this point all week when they got rolled the last three or four years up there, they didn't get rolled in the last game of the season, and seven team they got rolled three of their times when their season was basically over. It's a lot of harder to get going and tackled Derrick Henry when there's nothing on the line, and all of a sudden it gets to be out. What's going on anyway? Why bother? I don't think they're gonna have that this week.

I anticipate a much better defensive game from the Jaguars this week. In three of the last four we've seen in Tennessee. Yeah for for first place on the line this week overall in the a f C South of those skill guys outside, who do you like the best for Tennessee? Bucky Corey Davis a guy like Humphries, A J. Brown, even the tight end John new Smith can contribute there.

You know it's funny because it's tough. A J. Brown and John new Smith are the guys when you look at the tape, those are the ones that pop, especially when Ryan Tannehill throws off play action. Is A J. Brown and John NU Smith? Look, those twose guys ranked in the top five in terms of yards after catch off play action a season ago. So we gotta contain those guys if we want to have a chance. You commend a lot of bodies to the box, so you've gotta be able to hold up in one on one coverage.

It's Uh, it's the challenge this week for the Jaguars defense. But you know, um, they came out and played well last week. Let's see if they can get a plan together for Derrick Henry this week. Uh. These are John, These are fun. This is what it's about, right, battled for first place in the a f C South. Who would have thought this outside the building a few weeks ago? Well, you said fun. I haven't had a whole lot of fun in Tennessee last three or four years, JP, But

I get your point. It's uh, you know, and stire wasn't fun for the guys trying to tackle Henry, But overall, absolutely it's it's uh. Nobody or very few people outside the building thought this is gonna be for first place. But I do think what I went back to in the last nice topic, the fact that they're going to Tennessee early in the season and not late when it's cold. It's always cold in nash but always feels like it's raining. It's always gray before the game. You know, that's no

fun to play in if you're out of it. To me, the fact that this game is up there. Remember the jag Wars won this matchup last year and nobody thought they would, so it's not like the Titans have owned the whole series. They've owned up there. Later in the season when it's over, I think this is gonna be a much different game. I don't know that the Jaguars win, but I think this feistein adversity overcoming bunch the duck team thought about. I'd be surprised if they don't fight

the whole game and make this interesting in the fourth quarter. Yes, you talked about that, you talked about gearing up for this and how tough it can be. I think the big thing is the change of mentality and the change in playing style, in my estimation physical To deal with the Tennessee Titans, your team has to be committed to playing a physical brand of football, and it appears that the Jaguars are buying into Doug Morole's approach. This will be the test. This will let us know how physical

the team is. But if they step up in welcome the physicality that the Titans bring, yeah, this certainly could be a game that's very, very competitive until the end. I'm just tired of seeing those draw strings flapping off Henry's pants when he's running down the field and the hair thing flopping. We've seen enough of that over the last few years and highlight reels and on commercials on an NFL network daily basis. Let's come back, we will

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it's your money. All loan subject to approval, insured by n c U. A welcome back Jaguar's Happy Hour presented by the Field's Auto Group every Wednesday j P. Shadwick, Buckey Brooks, John Osier and that music each week means it's time for James Carl Luck the fourth. Jimmy Luck, head equipment manager, joins us. Jimmy, good afternoon. You've got some splaining to do too. Mr Osher, I think, yeah, that was a cheap shot. He couldn't defend himself, so

I apologize. You know, it was I enjoy our back and forth that we have and that we weren't, you know, together right now. You know, I just I kind of missed it, and I felt like I needed to poke you a little bit. I'm sorry. I was reading this, this incredibly fascinating, compelling book and you know, you know what, Jimmy, you come at me a little bit. Here's my bet. Dad Hendy was wearing his hat back in like fifteen or sixteen. This is my last jag Wars hat. So

you know what, you know, you know what? Who are you pointing me? I love me some, Jemmy. That's funny around though? Is it just a picture book? Words? There you go, there's words? Okay, all right, well sorry here something show. Sorry, it's so okay. No. I listen to you guys all day, bicker back and forth. So all right, Jimmy, A week one in the books and now it's the first road trip. Does anything change with you in terms

of logistics? I know, I'm gonna talk to Hans a Mind a little later in the week about the travel situation. But in terms of COVID and everything going on, how different is that in your world? Um, it's a little different. We uh, like toiletries and stuff we don't we won't put out like uh, you know, common deodorant and toothpaste and stuff like that. We'll have a bunch of like individually packed little um like travel kits with all that

in it. We'll do some extra cleaning on our own, um like some spraying of the stuff where the players get there. But it's still pretty normal. I mean, it's we're still playing football. You gotta get everything set up and put out and go and and you know, so it's it'll be a it will be a pretty normal trip,

just with a few extra little things. What about the feeling on the sideline Sunday, Jimmy and No Very one of the only two places in the league with fans first off, which was great, but then the little adversity early and things picked up as the game went on and they stuck it out for a win. That had to be a pretty happy sideline. I'm sure, yeah, it was. It was pretty cool out there. Um. You know, there's a couple of times the fans actually got pretty loud,

um for not having many people there. You could hear them. They're kind of the third quarter, things got kind of exciting. Um, you know, during warm ups, it did kind of feel like that fourth preseason game that you know, with not having many people in the stands. But once the game kicked off, you know, it felt pretty normal. Um, you know, and then when we you know, obviously played well, the fans reacted and so it was cool, like it wasn't

two notes. Well, now, I think it will be definitely different this week with having you know, very little fans even fewer, so that that may feel a little different this week. You know, no fans allowed in Nashville for the game this week, the Jags and the Titans coming up. Uh, is the uniform police still a thing before the game? Is that still a deal? And and how does a new player We've got so many young guys on the team obviously, how do they adjust to something like that?

It's uh, yeah, it's we still have the uniform police. They go around and check pregame. Uh, make sure everybody's wearing what they're supposed to, no unauthorized logos and things like that. Um. They do a little presentation during training camp that talks about a lot of that stuff and like the fine system if you're you know, wearing something wrong or or whatever. And the young guys, like you know, they now that they're getting paid. They here, oh, you

get fine for not wearing that? Right, then they'll go Okay, Yeah, well we'll wear it right, and then the vets will kind of get in their ears out don't worry about it.

So it's it's a little bit of a balance. Um. But most of the guys don't like giving away money, so uh so they'll they'll they'll pretty much listen and we kind of get up a warning to him before they they'll give me a list with guys, hey, his knees or show on or you know, he needs to pull his kneepads down or something, and we'll go around and tell him and for the most part, they'll fix it. As long as there's nothing crazy, they really won't get

in trouble. Now we've seen some in the past two you know what, here's the fine and here's the one for next week. To let's get to this week's game, Jimmy, and what this is the the segment every week where we present you present what the Jaguars will wear. So if you would, sir, what will the Jaguars wear this Sunday at Nissan Stadium in Nashville. All right, so we're going with the white pants, okay, and then we are

wearing black jerseys. You know, you're kind of unusual. Sometimes teams where uh white at home early, like we did, and so we get to bust out the blacks and and you know who knows it's probably gonna be Chhark week again, would be it could be, we think, Johnny, Oh, I like it if they warned that combination in Tennessee before, Jenny, Oh, you got me. Uh, the last couple of times we've done color Rush are like a mono up there. Um, A lot of people were thinking we were going to

wear the white jerseys in the black pants. So kind of tricked them there a little bit. You gotta change something up up there, somebody. Sometimes I think I don't know that the Jaguar uniform tracker, he's pretty good on on what we're gonna wear, so I actually checked with him first. So this means Tennessee's wearing white jerseys. Then, yes, they're wearing their white Okay white at home, Bucky, what do you think of that? Look? The black over white

for the Jags man? How clean the uniform is anyway? But like white don't black? I think I think that's a winning combination. Jimmy, Yeah, Jimmy, good job, good job. Let's get another one this week Jimmy, We appreciate your time as always. We'll talk to you a little later. Manute, All right, appreciate guys. Thank you. Jimmy. Look got him will win last week with the white on white combination. Let's see if he can get him a win on

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Josh Allen, and I had James Robinson. So I'll say I think Bucky might have been the closest to spot on. What do you think the defense? The defense came through. We can get it right this week. I got a good Philip Okay, I like that Josh Allen fighter. They didn't have a sack, but he had some freshures. I mean, he's you're always safe picking, he's ever gonna have a

bad game. That's a good point. That's an excellent point considering the pick that's about to come up from yours truly here in a few minutes, Bucky Brooks, who you got for us today? Okay, so we understand that we have to stop Derrick Henry said. That means C. J. Henderson is going to have a lot of one on one matchups with A. J. Brown and Corey Davis. He showed last week did he could hold his own against

t Y Hilton. I'm counting on the young fellow to hold his own because if he does it, it enables us to keep another defender in the box. Now, what a game he had last week and his debut five tackles, interception, three passes defense. He ended the game on the on

the fourth down play on the sideline against Hilton. And remember he left the game he was out being evaluated for a concussion at one point, came back in the game and finished that way, John, That tells you a little something about c J. I thought, what struck me. He was sort of Doug Morons approached personified in a way. And I keep going back to the series where he had the intercept. He gets beat early in that series by T T Y Hilton, and if I remember I

he just turned him around. Well, the next play out he gets a past defense later he ends the drive. Young players and even any cornerback in this era, you're gonna give up play and they're so it's so geared towards the past. Now, if you're gonna look bad at times, it's gonna be how you respond. He never missed a beat, comes back. I don't wanna say he turned the game around, but they got the tying touchdown off his pot. You know, he obviously has the mental approach of you've got to

put the last play behind you. I thought that was really encouraging for him, not necessarily that he had the stat but that he was able to overcome getting beat early. Now that doesn't happen a lot for youngsters. Fucking no, it doesn't every Zio you see you playing on the aland is tough to develop. And the fact that he had it in his debut performance that Bowls will We'll see how he continues to act when when people are targeting him. But right now I feel really good about c. J.

Henderson on the Island. Okay, John, who do you have for big game Jaguar this week? I'm going with Miles Jack and I. You know, I said all offseason, and I got emails telling me I was crazy. Even got an email early in the game tell me I was crazy. I thought his demise last year was the most overrated story on this team. His problems last year were trying to make up for others. He was fine at Metal. He's better on the week that I said on Jaguars

Drive Down this morning. He may have a Pro Bowl season. I don't know if he's gonna go to the Pro Bowl because of all the popularity involved, but he looked big time the other day. I think he's gonna be key. You know, he's a Chase guy, so I don't know if that really fits stopping Derrick Henry. I just think most games out of the box this year, he is going to have big time games. I think he's gonna be key in this game. At some point he's gonna start picking up big plays like he did in the

playoffs in seventeen. Miles Jack is my pick to have a big game this week, to be maybe the breakout player, that comeback player of the year or whatever. I think he's gonna be big time this year. Bucky. Doug Moron today said you could argue he was the best player on the field this past Sunday, Man, I can't dispute it. He was all over the place, levin tackles, one sack, three quarterback hits, did a great job of just being

disruptive and active. And the more that he settles back into his old position of being the world linebacker, the more players we're gonna continue to see Miles Jack may alright, So Miles Jack is Johnny O's pick. C J. Henderson for Bucky, I'm gonna go with Josh Allen. You know, um, as you said, John, it's never a bad pick when Josh Allen is your pick. But I think for a few of those similar reasons, you know that he's gonna

be in there a good bit against that run. And yes, I know they want him to to rush the passer and do all that, but he's gonna be out there in those key situations too. And Derrick Henry on first and second down is running the ball at him. Let's see how he stands up. He's got the stoutness to do it, I believe. And it's a big week for this Jags defense. So I'm gonna go with Josh Allen. It's never a bad pick. I think that's the reason why, John,

And this is a mammoth difference to me. In past Jaguars teams against the run back when Telvin Smith was here, the Tights used to run right at him because he was a hundred and seventy five pound linebacker. I'm exaggerating. He said he was a light linebacker. Yeah, I'm not. It's not a secret. The Unique was a much better past the past rusher than run defender, and Unique made plays in the run game, but he wasn't stout in the run game. Josh Allen is more much more capable

of playing big end type football. He's not the big end, but he is much stouter, much better against the run. You know, I think Miles is much better against the run than Telvin was meaning much better to hold up those two spat and Telan wasn't here last year. But the point being they're a bigger, more physical front I think that starts with Josh Allen. Yeah, they're thicker. I mean to your point, John and Bucky, they're just bigger guys. And the big guys play football well for the most

part if they can move and do all that. Bucky, Yeah, Like, you have to have big guys up front. You can't have guys that can get knocked around a pinball. And this team, the Tennessee Titans, will test your ability to be stout at the point of attack. And so we will see. We felt like there were some improvements in upgrades, but now we'll see what that front line looks like. Can they hold there all? That is really the key to the game. Are they physical enough to go toe

to toe with the Titans? Alright, So big game Jaguars in this week. C J. Henderson is Bucky's pick, Miles Jack for Johnny go and I've got Josh Allen all defensive players because of that matchup against the Titans run game and that offense in Tennessee. One final thought here before we get going, We're gonna introduce something fairly new here, Bucky, curious about your thoughts on this, how what was the biggest NFL story or performance in Week one? What stood

out the most to you? And and maybe who's the m v P of Week one around the National Football League? Of the games you watched, well, if you had your hear to the street, there's been this movement in the Pacific Northwest talking about let Russ cook and so the Seattle Seahawks led Russell Wilson throw the ball all over the yard thirty one completions out of thirty five pass attempts, three fifty yards, did a great job at four touchdowns. This guy has been in the conversation for m v

P for the last three or four years. This may be the year where he finally walks away with some hardware. Yeah, Wilson, the big numbers, John, and the development over the years is what's you know? Fascinating too? And I know we're close to Pete Prisco and early in Russell little a run as a professional player, Pete was on him a little bit, but he gave him credit that he's developed as the as time has gone on and has improved as a passer, John, Well, he's what you have to do.

It's it's much more possible as a young quarterback to win with your legs running around buying yourself time. But history shows that the legs only last so long in terms of your ability to get in trouble. The great ones changed. He obviously can still get out of trouble with that, but he's his field vision everything you want. I agree everybody's talked about Lamar Jackson. Russell Wilson certainly has a chance to be m v P this year. He's only could be. In the conversation it maybe even

a little overdue. Sometimes those m VP awards you get lost a little bit in it because there's only one of them to get out. He is an m v P caliber player. Yeah, there's a lot of quarterbacks playing at m VP levels around the league, that's for sure. And but yeah, good start for Russell Wilson. And that'll do it for our show today. We've we've got a division matchup on Sunday in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bucky, it's a big one. It's for first place. How do you

see this game going physical? Physical matchup as it usually is I'm sure. Yeah. Look, I think the Jaguars have a great chance to walk away with the win. The Tennessee Titans didn't play great against the Denver Broncos. The Broncos put some things on tape that I think Jacksonville can steal. I wouldn't be surprised to see the Jaguars pull off their second upset in the second insecutive week two. And oh, Jaguars going into a home Thursday night game, John,

that sounds pretty good to me. Yeah. The key for this team all season. I don't think a team this young is gonna have a whole lot of margin for air, and the Jaguars have to play with it against the colt when turnovers to uh minimize penalties, and above all, they have to take advantage opportunities. They were two for two red zone touchdowns last week. They also scored when they were at the twenty two you line. That's how you win games when you only have two forty yards

and fifty yards total offense. This team is going to have to be opportunistic and be good when the situations call for it. All right, we'll see what happens. One o'clock Eastern time kick off at Nissan Stadium, Nashville, the Jags and the Tennessee Titans. Bucky, we will talk to you in the post game show after the game with phone calls again. Let's do it. Let's do it after win. That sounds great to me, Bucky. I will see you on Sunday. John, we'll talk to you a little later

in the week. For our entire crew, I'm J. P. Shadrick and thank you for watching. It's Jaguars Happy Hour on a Wednesday, presented by the Fields Auto Group on the Jaguars Digital Network.