Jaguars Happy Hour: Wednesday, September 25

JP Shadrick, John Osier, Senior writer. Joe's intros are always pretty good because I guess when he had eight hours to stand on. I don't know what else he does all day. To be quite honest with you, Angel don't work for for two seconds some days. Some days it is um. We've got a lot to get to today. Here's what's coming up on the program. Jalen Ramsey talk. He did not practice today. Is back injury issue? And

when was it determined? Kind of the last hour or so has been some scuttle bud on Twitter, if you will. We'll get to that coming up. It's on to Denver though. The Broncos are next zero and three. The defense got home last week. Can they continue to keep that pace? Minshew Mania is still on fire. Some running a game adjustments on the offensive line, and as always, wide receiver Chris Conley joins us Andrew wingered safety. Special teams are

special team or teams are team special teams? Player, we'll join us, and of course Jim Lock, head equipment manager, will w U build the uniforms. So a lot to get to today. Let's start off with all this Ramsey business. He did not practice on Monday on a walkthrough with an illness. The players off day was Tuesday, and he did not practice today. He's on the injury list, at least pre practice injury list as not practicing today, he

was not out there with a back issue. And then the last hour or so the questions of when that injury issue was reported, Well then Dug Maron didn't have much of an answer for that in his press conference today. But now some national media types have talked to Ramsey's agent apparently, and they claim it was during the fourth quarter of the game on Thursday night. What do you make of all this? Now? Does it all matter? Does any of it? Does anybody really know what time it is.

It's at this point, I it feels like the story is going to evolve, change, be different day to day on everything. And I guess the bottom line is, you know, on Monday, I do know and for from good people, the sickness was real. I don't doubt that there's a back injury. Um, it's just you know, on on drivetime, right after the the sickness was reported, Brian Sexton and I both sort of, you know, reacted with skepticism and later got some emails saying, oh, you know that was rude, etcetera, etcetera.

But you know, it's sort of a little uh boy, you cried wolf a little bit and that's not exactly accurate. But when there's so much going on around you and you make the trade requests and then behave on the field, behave off the field, the story is coming out all different. There's going to be Skepticis is him now with whatever is said and whatever is done? And is it right? Is it wrong for us to be skeptical for fantasy skeptical?

I don't know, but that's the reality of it right now that it's it's such a confused, meandering storyline, is such a weird storyline that and there's not going to be facts involved, so you've got to speculate on what you hear, and it's a it's confusing meandering all those things. I think the bottom line is, I don't think Jalen is going to change his stance on wanting to be trade.

I don't get that feeling that's going to change. I don't get the idea that the Jaguars are planning to change their walk toward Hey, you're a player on our team. You have tears remaining on your contract, and players under contracts in this league play You're not gonna be necessarily happy. But you know what, a lot of people aren't happy. That's right. I mean a lot of walks of life. But you still go to your job and you do it.

And he's making light of his feelings on it. But the reality is the team has a job to do in preparing for a game and putting their team on the field. Jalen is under contract, and I don't there's sort of a good faith in the NFL that if you're under contract, you're going to play the best of your ability. I think that's what they're counting on, and I think he will because he's a pro and he's a great player who wants to be He loves football and wants to play for all that stuff comes off

of that track. I guess that's the track that I'm assuming it'll follow, And to give Jalen the benefit of the doubt on it, I think he'll follow that track. I think his back probably hurts enough for not to play. And if he doesn't play on Sunday and it comes out that it was anything other than a back ben, shame on him, well, then then that's a totally different

I don't think they'll be shame on him. You know, there was the tweet earlier today from Adam Schefter saying that basically it was he felt like it was a long shot of the plays this week paraphrase. I'm assuming that that's what it would be, that his back is so hurt that he can't play. But the gist of the tweet was basically is because of the standoff between the team and that's him, which is that's a shame.

But I don't see him just missing a football game over this of a squabble with the front office, because he's never missed a football game. Why would he miss a football game, if he's not hurt, well, if that's what it is, you know, maybe I'm just naive guy, j That's fine, but I think he plays enough to play place. And then if he and then if he doesn't and it's because of the standoff, then you deactivate

him til he's ready to play. Then that's then we're going down the path we haven't been down yet, best And you know, I think there's a school of thought that you as you deactivate him stil he's ready to play, you continue doing that. And if it turns into one week, two weeks, end of season next year, all right, let's move forward this jail Ramsey stuff today and that will be right. But tomorrow is a different day. Let's see what happens, you know, twenty four hours from now. Let's

Gardner Minshew, Jaguars quarterback spoke today. Always an interesting conversation with the Jaguars quarterback now who came in of course in Week one and relief of Nick Foles. And he's been the starting quarterback the last two weeks. And we'll be now for the foreseeable future, at least the next month and a half or so. For the Jacksonville Jaguars. You see his numbers there and what he did last

week and that win on Thursday Night football. He was already kind of taking over things in this city before last week on Thursday Night Football. Now it's started. The snowball of Minshew mania has continued since then. You know. Now, just hearing from him today, none of this stuff. I don't think he really phases him. I think he gets a kick out of it. I think he loves the fact that his dad gets interviewed now and does stuff nationally, and you know, people know his story and what it

took to get to this point. I think he could gets a kick out of all of it. But it doesn't. Don't let it distract from football now. This guy is locked into what he has to do on a day to day basis in this building. I'm not inside Gardner's head. Um, it's got to be what a scene, Um, But my impression and the way you approaches things, and this is just from sort of watching it from your ten ft away in the press conference. Isn't watching it as people do.

Is he understand that this mania thing is out there? Uh? He today? He answered, you were there forty seconds worth the questions on Minshi mania right in the press conference. Um My guess is from the time he landed from his trip back from Pullman until the end of the game on Sunday, that that thirty five or forty seconds is about what he'll think about Minshi mania. He says it, and he's a fun guy, So everybody else will talk

about it. They'll be clips, they'll be Sports Center, they'll be the mustache stuff our our marketing people will be mustache, you know, all that stuff. And that's all great. But once you know, I'm pointing to the hallway was where football begins around here. Once he's in there, I think the forty five seconds that he talked about it, answered a couple of funny questions are about as much thought as he gives it. And I think that's the way.

Remember this is not new to him. This is not a he was this guy in Washington h all of last year, Washington State all of last year. Uh So to him, this is just something that's risen up again. What's striking JP, what's the most fascinating I've ever been around in twenty five years doing this. It's almost like there are parallel universes with the Jaguars. Right now, there's

the weirdness that is Jalen Ramsey. And when I say weird, I mean he's weird, but that that story is bizarre, sure, and it's blown up, and that's blowing up, and it's this, it's this boy. Things are just a mess. Like nationally they think this is overwhelming the building. I don't feel like that's willing. Were willing to building all the jail Ramsey story. It's over willing the media covering it, But inside the building it's okay. Jalen is he He's always

been a little bit of a side show. Now it's just a little bit of a different level side show. But that's over here. And then there's the weirdness they this Gardner Minshew never the Twain shall meet. And I don't think either of them are actually affecting what's going on in the field that much, which is that for the last seven quarters this team has played as well as it's played in the year. That's a fascinating it's

a fascinating thing. What gets lost in all of it is that the team's playing well and I feel like they have a chance to win the next couple of games. And really get back into this thing. I think the team feels like it's playing well and these other two things are just things that people are talking about because it's fine to talk about and that kind of thing. Sometimes, I mean, what if that, what if those outside noise

things are what brings this team together inside? I mean because maybe ever since those things have happened, well, guess what, like you said, they've played really good football. They can keep that up some element among the players, especially on defense, of Hey, Jalen is going to do his thing, and that's fine, we love him, We want him on the field because he's great. But no matter what happens, we're good. Yeah, we still have to go out there and play the

rest of us. And this defense for the past seven course, a lot of it because of Jalen, but as much of it because of the past rest. The other night is playing at a level that matches for the last two games anything they've done in the last what at three or four years, and they've been really good. And I don't really think that they're affected by the whole Ramsey thing, except for the fact that when he's on the field, boy is he a lockdown corner at that

one spot. But I feel like they think they're pretty good, maybe great with them and near great no matter what. They have other good players back there too. Obviously not at that level. I'm not saying there at the level, but they have a whole there. Their defensive front as a whole. As good as Jayalen is, the defensive front in the line rotation is still the most important thing about this team, regardless of how good Jayn is, because

it helps that back in. I think whoever's back there, so if the defensive pass rush plays like it did the other night, it doesn't matter who's playing back there. Let's move on on offense now a bit here, And you know, the running game has been a big topic this week. How do you fix the running game? Well, Doug Marone earlier in the week said, it's really you know, it's not a lot with having to do with Leonard.

You know, he's doing what he can, but he doesn't have a lot of time to do certain things when defenders are in the backfield. And he had negative yard is before the long run of sixty nine yards late in the game last week on Thursday Night Football finished with the sixties six yards totally in that game, But when he's getting hit behind the line or at the line of scrimmage, it's hard to get any moment at them. But that starts up front on that offensive line. They've

got to figure it out in the running game. They've been good in pass protection. They're given Gardener time and all that, but to really make this thing sing over the next month or two, they've got to have a balance there. Gardener has got to have a run game to support him, to open up that defense a little bit, and vice versa. They get the run game going, they've

gotta continue to pass it. But it really it starts up front with that group, and they've they've had some guys coming and go in the last couple of weeks there he's he's missed the hold. Yeah, and he is not or has not shown to be the sort of miss ability type back that you would love. But when you're negative three fourteen carries that ain't on the back negative three for fourteen carries means you're getting hit in the backfield before you have a chance to get started

more often than not. So is it all the offensive line, No, But when you have that kind of stat things are getting blown up. I keep on getting these letters or these emails, Why don't they try another back? Um, because is not doing anything wrong. What I'm not sure Armstad is gonna make a guy missed when he takes the ball and literally is behind the line. So uh, I don't doubt the other two backs are gonna play at

some point and they're gonna play key roles. But this was there playing all along to have him play these downs. But and because they believe that him in the game, because he's turning into a very good third down back. The looks they can give when you put another back in, the looks that back tips off what they're gonna do. And I don't think there is good in the passing game or or in past protection. As fre Nett is with Leonard. It's much the same concept why teams often

go too tight ends. You're hard to read what they're gonna do. When Leonard's in, they can do anything in their offense they want to do and their balance. There's no key, there's no tip off based him being in the game. Um. So I just think there is a school of thought when they look at, Okay, who were going to play in there? Who's our best guy? Well, are we going to get something more from putting somebody

else in right now? No, at what point? Though? The question for me is is this many reps for for Net a bad thing for for Net? Can he handle this kind of workload and how long can he handle it? Because I don't think he's ever had this kind of workload. No, but he's not getting an incredible number of touches yet. I mean, it's not like he's up around touches. He had what fifteen or sixteen the other night, So he's on the field a lot. He's not running thirty yards

each time. Fair question. I would expect it to wayne a little bit as time goes, because it felt like in the game he took some shots the other night, like in the passing game he took a couple of hits and was I don't know, it wasn't dinged up. I don't want to go there, but you could just tell there's a little frustration towards the end of that game. I think if I don't know if it had to do we haven't had a chance to talk to him

this week yet, who it had to do with. If you're getting hit to yours on my scument, you're gonna get frustrated to that's right. I mean he gets a little bit of it, but maybe I mean on the long run, you never see him get run down on a run like that, you know, And that had to be from from just a little exhaust to his credit, uh, I think this deserves to be said about him. It bubbled during his rookie year. It really blew up last year.

All the criticism of how this guy was off the field, his approach, all that stuff got called into question, his dealings with the media, et cetera. All it was either an underlying or fight out out there. With the statement from Coughing at the end of last season, Um, whatever the motivation and how long it lasts, he can't have approached things better this year. He has been professionally, has been a stand up guy, even beyond the dealings with us.

Everything you hear is that we couldn't have asked for a bit or approach in terms of how he's approaching things mentally as he is right now. There was no frustration after the game the other night. He didn't come out and say, hey, if my line had blocked better, we'd have done this. You don't get that from this guy. So Uh. As much as he's been criticized for these sort of things in the past, I think he deserves credit for how he's approached things this year. It's been good.

So it really has. And he stands there and answers the questions as dumb as they may be, right, but he stands there and answers him the best that he can far with to his credit, some guys come out and do that, and it's clear, I don't want to be here. There's really been no eye roll. There's really been and there was some of that in the past. Like when you're talking to him, he's he's on his best behavior and I have no reason to think that

that won't continue. And your credit to him, because that's probably wasn't a thing in the world for him today. But when he's in that mode, which he is now, he's a pretty engaging guy. If you sit there and talk to him, he's one of the I mean next to Minshew, who's like might have a career in stand up comedy. Uh, He's an engaging is and is as good interview as there is in the locker room when he wants to. Let's come back. We'll touch on the

Broncos what their issues may be. Well, I don't know if we'll figure them out, but we'll touch on some of the stars on that football team that don't have any sacks yet too. This is the defensive stars, it really is. We'll get to that and we'll take your social media questions that were asked a little bit earlier. Today we're often running It's Jaguars Happy Hour presented by the Fields Auto Group on the Jaguars Digital Network. You can step up to luxury now. Hello, I'm Dan Fields.

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time or not, he'll unveil the uniforms. Stickler for punch. He is, in fact, and we'll get those uniforms unveiled. UM. The Denver Broncos are oh and three the quarterback situation. They traded for Flacco. He's the guy there and they like lock but he's hurt right now, the young guy UM. And their defense has kind of been their strength over the last few years, obviously back to the Super Bowl run a few years ago when they had that run before Malie Millie Jackson, the Super Bowl run and all

that stuff, and Von Miller has been there. Some of those guys are still there, but they're not, you know, putting up the statistics they I think expect year over year. In Denver, they don't have any sacks as a defense. With Chubb and Miller on the defensive side. It seems they were a team that realistically knew this was going

to be something of the transition year. It's why you bring somebody like Flacco in you draft who you hope to be the quarterback, and you hope that by the end of this year, you've shown improvement and you feel like you're going a positive direction with possibly the new quarterback um. Their plan from Afar seems to be, uh, we have a really good defense that can create things when some close games or early stay in it and feel like you're gonna get going when you're intransicing. That's

what you hope to do. The plan sort of worked in the sense that they had the Chicago game in week to one and let us slip through their fingers. I think the one thing that it sounds like hasn't gone to plan with them. When that's your and you have this kind of a defense, you don't expect your

numbers to be zero takeaways and zero sacks. If those numbers were more what they expected, it feels like their season would have gone a little more as we would expective when you're counting on this thing that you have

elite players doing and get nothing out of it. By the same token, the old formula we talked about with this team all the time, their offense hasn't played well enough to get them leads, so they have not been in a lot of situations for sax and turnovers to happen, much as was the storyline around this team last year that we that gets overlooked because people want to blame

the defense for that. It sounds like the defense is still playing well enough to get those things not in a position to It's why JP I think the huge key for the jag Wars. It's always good to get up early because guess what, JP, it's better to lead than trail um. But against this sort of a team on the road, you do not want to have this team get some confidence to get ahead of you, be able to start rush the asser that gets them into what they do well. I think you'd rather have zero

zero for a while than get in a hole. You would take a stalemate for a while, right, then get in a hole against this team. Yeah, you get those past rushers formed up and going and pinning their ears and get him excited and all of a sudden, you know, oftentimes when you are struggling in an area, especially with saxon turnovers, you don't get him for a while. Then they come in bunches. So let him get none and keep that number of zero. We'll talk to Jowan Taylor

to the in the locker room rookie tackle. He knows. I mean, this is a not a fun match up, but it is a matchup that this is why you're in the NFL. H Blond. Miller's on the other side of the football. Yeah, it's it's it's fun until it starts, that's right. It stays fun. Yeah, sixty minutes of fun. It sounds fine because it could be fifty eight minutes of fun and then the last drive when you need to all of a sudden, here's fine Mill. We saw it here a few years ago. Yeah, he can, you know,

in a moment's notice, he can be there. As Doug said, he wasn't going to smoke about this. Uh. They have two pass rushers, and there's only you handful of in the NFL. They have a couple that can end games and can and can dominate games. You always have one in Calais. These guys that went in von Miller offensively, it's it's kind of weird seeing Joe Flacco in another uniform besides purple in Baltimore. Well, and I think there's the expected struggles of a new quarterback coming in new system.

He's usually a guy with the Ravens. They knew exactly what they wanted to do with him, and when he was right, they had a great defense. It took a lot of shots deep. He's a very accurate deep ball passer. Um, it's tough to just uh incorporate that quickly into an offense. Other things have to be going well. They want to be able to run, run well and have play accidents when he's at his best. Uh, they haven't been able to go down field very well. His yards per attempted

or his yards protempt is very low for him. So it just seems like they've had trouble getting the entire system into a place where it supports what he wants to do. He went to run game. They only have a couple of running backs. They lean on their Royce Freeman and Philip Lindsay two headed running back room there and then we're a little different than here right now. Well was a very good job stopping the run against Tennessee and it enabled their pass rush to get off.

They didn't do a great job against that in uh in Houston. This needs to be a game where they play on the date against Tennessee in order to get to Flacko. You got and they were not a great defense against run. The first two games were better on Sunday or on Thursday against the Titans. Against this team, much the same as with their defense. You don't want to have these running backs start getting into a rhythm early and feel like you can run, because that's what

they want to do. All right, we have a look at the Denver Broncos. Let's get to social media questions. Jimmy Luck coming up in just a few minutes. We'll get to the uniform unveiling. Let's go to our social questions that we had those earlier today on you know, social media, Twitter at John Osier, people like social media at J P. Shadrick. People like Twitter, some people do, some people don't. It's born that now, right. He had a day today on Twitter. By the way, this is

from cartag Future. Um. Why is Adam Schefter such an entitled little child that he continues to push his own narrative on the jailor Ramsey situation rather than simply you know reports. This is pretty interesting. After some of the tweets today the last couple of days, some fans are responding to Schefter here, Yeah, I have to admit I don't I don't track Adams every move I did. I

see what he's been tweeting. Made I assume that most of what the national guys Adam Ian Rappaport, they speak to the agents a lot and speak to team executives when they can, and the agents are usually the best source of information. So usually the agenda, as it were, is what the agent is telling them what's going on. So my assumption, until proven otherwise, is that's what's going on.

When you're a national guy and you're covering all thirty two teams, you report, you throw everything out there that you hear and let the winds blow. Information isn't may So I don't know that he has an agenda necessarily. I don't think he cares about the Jackwards one way

there enough to have an agenda. Um, my guess is it's being whatever the agent is pushing is uh, is what Adams reporting, And that's usually what reporters, did you report actually had something today with Jalen's agent on the record, actually mentioned him by name. Today is saying this or

that or this? Yeah, often in this situation. Yeah, It's it's so strange that you get tweets and then you get this reporter after this reporter has a tweet, and this reporter is is jumping out there and saying, Okay, now I need to push the story a little further and hund or forty characters. It's a it's a half a cent that pushes a little more. Well, I had

something you didn't. So this Jalen thing is going to play it as it plays out, there's going to be out of twenty tweets, there's gonna be three that have some misinformation in it that tilt the wrong way, and then it gets corrected over time. You'll get the idea

of the story. It's bizarre. It's a bizarre story that I get the feeling will go this way once, this way the next day, this way the next day, and up and down, and it's a It would be a different story if there was no social media right back in the old days. Yeah, I mean a different dynamic and things would calm down a little bit as it were. I just think it's gonna be weird. It's gonna be weird, and I'll believe that jail And doesn't play when I see it. I agree with that. One is the biggest

thing to keep an eye on. If he doesn't run out of that tunnel. That's one. I'll believe it. Yeah. And and again if he doesn't and he doesn't go onto the field and you know, then shame on him. But I don't think they'll have or he's hurt or is it could be absolutely right, right, But if he's not hurt and doesn't run out, then wet and that's a different thing altogether. And and that won't help him

in all this stuff and what he ultimately wants. All right, Next question at real Steve Hasson, this is a name we haven't heard from in a while. What are your thoughts on how the linebackers have been performing without Telvin Smith? Imagine that that's in this calendar year two. Everything that's going on in this season, we forget that the Telvin Smith's out of here anymore? Is there a are there a bunch of fake Steve Hasson's out there that I guess is that just this is like the Ohio State,

all these rampant, fraudulent Steve Hanson's out there. Hasson, I'm sorry, he uh, I ain't. They're fine without Telvin Smith. Linebackers are playing fine. Leon Jacobs played perhaps the best game of his where the other and it's it's a different position. Quincy Williams. He he can run, he can hit, he can chase the ball. I said all off season. I

think Telvin's a good player, made impact plays. But out of the many defensive players in this team who are key, although he was maybe the six or seventh guy on a list of players, they couldn't afford to lose. And and I'm not trying to criticize Telvin, It's just that the defensive line is so important on this team. Jail and a j boy, even Miles Key positions weak side linebacker. If you can run, hit and chase and listen with you middle linebacker, I can tell you you'll be okay.

And I think Quinzy Woims is fine. Yes, he's been very good. Real Steve Hasson, not the fake one, at the real one. Next question at Matt Curly Riser Jack struggle on the road out west. Why doesn't the team travel as far in advanced as possible to better acclimate themselves, especially in high altitude locations such as Denver. Surely they can find an available practice field. Well, I'll see this. You know the Jags are going early to Oakland they're

going a day and early. They sometimes will do the West Coast, you know, because of the time zones. FU. Yeah, I've never heard of going earlier to Denver though. No, not tackling a stuff to out. Yeah, I guess it wouldn't be a terrible idea. Uh. Typically, what teams want above all else is to keep their practice preparation routine for the players as normal as possible. It's it's why they try to leave as close to the tame at

the same time on Saturday. Uh. When when they went to London a few years back, everything was catered to try to keep that as normal as like home. Uh. So the thought processes, what can we do to have our practices be as good as possible in preparation and let the other things take care of themselves. So that's why you don't do Denver. I've never heard of Denver. Uh, And this team really hasn't Uh. I haven't gotten the

idea that they performed poorly into now. The Far West Coast has been a disaster for fifteen years, but Denver doesn't really fit into that. I don't think that's as big of an issue going out there. I don't feel the same passion as the reader. As I asked Calais in the locker room, Yeah, Monday, I guess how real is the obstitute thing. He's from Colorado, you know, and he hasn't been in Colorado for a long time. He's

been in Florida, Arizona for a while. Um. He said, you know, really, it's the first couple of drives of the game, your sucking wind a little bit, and then you get used to it, you play. Yeah. I at least that that's his experience. I'm not. It's not JP. I I am not a world class athlete. I'm a world class other things. But I've twenty five years ago, I went out there and I was I was running relatively consistently. I went out, I was in bolder actually

do a story on Tony when you was drafted. Went out and the first hundred steps my lungs were collapsing. Uh and sure enough they did. Um. Yeah. And it was a brutal It was a brutal difference. And I had dinner with Chris Hudson that night, who was also a rookie, and I told him the story and he laughed. He said, yeah, it's real, But I teams I've been around since then have not had near the issue. I think when Denver is really good, there's a huge home

field advantage. When they're not there, uh, it's not so. I haven't been around very many teams that have felt that was a huge impact at the end of the game, I guess. I mean, it would be the next closest elevation team in the NFL. I don't even know. Yeah, I mean and colleges teams out there like Wyoming's higher, but there's really not anything altitude wise. They compared their a mile high anything else, anything, there's anything that really know,

there's nothing that close even starts a conversation. Yeah, I don't know. I don't knowing to google Layer maybe we'll look into that. One final social question at do Good one. I feel like this may be the best draft class we've had. How do you feel it stacks up with other drafts? Um Three games in? Well, yeah, we'll take a look at the draft class too, But what do you think it's sure? It is sure showing the signs

of being really good three games in. I don't want to go overboard with it, but Josh Allen, he has done nothing to make you think he's not gonna be a huge star. We haven't seen Josh Allery yet. John Taylor is fine on the right side, I think to be really good. Um, it'll probably wind up turning on Minshew, which is what it will do with a quarterback. Yeah.

If if you look at last year's you know you started to come on DJ Chart, Tavin Bryan got a lot of heat, but playing better their last three drafts, really having a problem with solid drafts and and going back to sixteen. So uh, overall it I would say their last four draft has been very good. This one if Quincy, if Josh Olivers, what we think he's gonna be, looks so far like to me very good. There's nobody yet that you're thinking, oh, this is gonna this is

not gonna go well. Um, I think it's got a chance to be very very good because of Josh Allen. But it is early. We three games going into week four of this draft class. There you have a social questions. Ran We're back in a moment. Jimmy Luck, head equipment manager, joins, this will unveil the uniforms. What will the Jaguars wear

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It sounds like it's okay, It's okay Chicago. We're performing Sam's name. I know they can say that's okay. They'll be back to They've been back every year. Jimmy Luck who was with us every week, the equipment manager. If you hear this music, it's Jimmy lucktop. What's up man? Not much I know Chicago. I don't know much about the band. You know the songs a little bit, but I'm not from Chicago, so that probably hurts my chances. They originally Chicago Transing, really and they had a change

name because of the Chicago Transit. Oh, they didn't like it. Copyright deal down to Chicago. Thanks for that, appreciate that. Thank you all kinds of stuff today. So we got a long road trip coming up. The first off, so you know, a short week in the home game, primetime under the lights and all that, and players get off. Does the equipment staff get off over the weekend too? They get away? We got we got a little bit,

we got a little bit of time off. We did have we had some guys coming for treatments, so we were doing a few things here and there it was good because it was slow, so we got some good work done and and some time off, sleep in a little bit, stay up a little late too. So oh really no, you never never do that. And when you go home and you've got to do more along like your personal laundry. Yet it does because it took me all day Sunday. Even though Peyton Manning is trying to

push for laundry day is Tuesday. I did it on Sunday. Okay, more of this, so that long we're stripped to Denver. Um, what I mean, it's not cold yet in Denver you have to worry about that. What do you have to worry about differently in Denver? Anything besides that? I mean, it's a grass field, UM, so we'll take the screw ins like we normally have when we anytime we play on a grass field. Um, it's been pretty warm up there, so I imagine the at least the reports I've gotten

is the fields in pretty good shape. So, but I do know the weather can change pretty quick up there. Um. A couple of years ago when I was in Atlanta, we went up there and it was probably sixty degrees that kickoff, and by the time we were getting out of there. We were having a hustle because it was starting to snow. So jeez, but that will you know, that's it was a little later in the year, so but I mean, weather rolls in pretty quick out there.

But you know, we'll take everything we need. You will have the rain jackets. Hopefully it won't ring. You know, that would be nice. It would be nice the rain Um. Okay, let's get to it. You're ready to unveil the uniform. Jimmy Luck, he equipment manager. What will the Jaguars wear Sunday? And they're going with the black bridges, okay, and the

white jerseys white over black. And there's Klaas Campbell, the captain himself, the captain from the from Colorado, and yeah, and a FC defensive Player of the Week all that. It's a good look on the road. He's got to be one of the better guys for equipment to deal with it. He's pretty easy. I mean, he's got them. He's got a pretty big foot. He's sixteen. But we just ordered a bunch of them and we you know, we keep him in there. We stretch them out for him,

and uh, yeah, he's he's pretty low maintenance. So he's a good guy. Takes care of us, all right. White over black the Jags in Denver. That is a good look and look good with a W beside it too. About that, by the way. Three time captain for the Jacksonville Jaguars and going back home to face those Denver Broncos. His the team that he liked as a kid. Hey, Jimmy, good to see you. Thanks man, appreciate than appreciate it. Yeah, thanks for the education on Chicago. There's more come by

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Memphis Blue like the heads. Thank you really much. That's all right. Let's let's get to our players to watch. Chris Conny coming up. Andrew wingered schedule to join us as well. Are there meetings so when meetings are done, they'll come join us meantime. In the meantime, we'll get our players to watch this week, John, do you want to go first this week? I went first last week? Yes, I will go first. And if you throw up the graphic, ill yeah, tell people who at one is that d

D Westbrook And I guess I'm not sure after your day. Yeah, what his injury status is, I'm gonna assume he's gonna play for this segment. Probably had his most difficult game in the NFL since he really got going last week. Uh No, he didn't play like he wanted to. Um, I think about him, He's got a body of work that shows you that's not really who he is. He has not been as productive early in the season as he would have liked, mainly because they've been going to

d J Chark, going to our guy Chris Connolly. Uh. At some point de D is going to take off and have the same kind of year he did last year. Uh, if not better. And so when he gets back in the line of assuming it's this week, I think he will start being more productive than he has been. And I don't worry about last week affecting moving forward. So d D was one of those and the other one you go to the cornerback room. Yeah, and uh, because everybody's been talking about that Jalen Ramsey so much, I

think it's easy to lose sight. And this isn't really a matchup thing with Denver so much as uh A j Boy I thought against the Titans played about as well as he's played since maybe the regular season of two thousand seventeen. UM. I don't know what Jalen status is going to be moving for the rest of the season. I think it might be a week to week weirdness kind of thing. Maybe he misses some games because of

the back, maybe it's whatever. But if all of that's going down the other side, boy A getting back to what he was in two thousand seventeen and after last year. I wasn't sure that he would, but he played very well on Thursday. If he's got to be the lockdown corner, I don't want to say that he'll be as good as Jalen on the other side, because that's tough. I mean, Jaalen's out the worldly, but a j Boy at his best was an All Pro in two thousand and seventeen.

If he can get to that level, they will feel the Ramsey thing a lot less than they ordinarily would have. I think he's gonna be keep moving forward. Okay, you've got Westbrook and here mind this week, I'm gonna start with the Jaguars offensive line. I know that's broad, but we picked the whole defense, So I'm narrowing it down a little bit, at least by six down to five. Well, you see some of the stats last week, they had eight accepted offensive holding penalties on the offensive line alone.

I believe they're eleven total in the game on the Jags or on the season. For the season, there's been eleven holding penalties on the Jags as a team, eight of those accepted on the offensive line. That has to improve, certainly. Um the rush yards per game has been a topic all week. How do they run the football effectively up front? It starts there on the offensive line. Can they get that push? Can they make the holes? Can Leonard find

the holes? All that together, but at least get into the line of scrimmage before contact, that's all five guys across the front there, and keep him out of the backfield and continue what you're doing in past protection. That's what Joan Taylor told me in the locker room today that hey, we're keeping the quarterback pretty pretty clean here. It's just a matter of getting that push in the run game. So that's a big focus this week for

this offense. Some of the holding early on, I think he got caught up in the wash of it was way too much league. Why there was a conference call on on Saturday night and it it came back down to Earth got in a normal number by Sunday. So I think some of the holding will take care of itself. Uh, you got a run block better. If you had to choose, you'd rather keep the quarterback clean and run block because he's a rookie quarterback. But they would be on the point.

I haven't choose. You've got a run block better than you have the first in the last two games, okay against Kansas City, in the last two games they struggled, has not been good. Then my other one is on the other side, on the other defensive line, and the defensive line thinking got quit. You know, you could feel a little bit last week coming back off of his first game missed in the National Football League in week two. He came back last week on Thursday Night football, and

he just didn't have that that finish. You know. The hamstring I think might have still been a little bit of an issue. But he wants to play football and he wants to be on the field and help this defense out. And I think with considering who's on the other side this week, a guy that all these pass rushers look up to and Bond Miller, wouldn't be a bad thing for him to get out there and play well this week. I think he'd love to do that. And you see what happens with Josh Allen and the

other when when Allen was out there playing well. So in Gokway still has everything to play for. Certainly, Um the contract thing is gone for now, so he's playing on this deal and he still wants to be on the field. He's not gonna let an injury try to slow him down. But this is a big week for him to see how he can step back after I think the hammy was still there a little bit last week. What's your thoughts on Remember he missed the Houston game, So to think that four days later the hamstring was

automatically gonna be percent. You don't go from not playing to day he played. He get it out. I the other thing, you know, Um, everybody handles things how they handle things. But it should be said that for all the criticism that Yan took for I've been here during

a he's not being here during camp. All the concern or what he would be what he wouldn't be um when you deal with Yawn and when you watch him, Uh, if you didn't know there was a contract thing going on, you wouldn't know there was a contract thing going on. He is handling it exactly like a pro handles it. And I'm not saying Jalen hasn't because so far I haven't seen anything to made me think that he's not from Jalen's actions, meaning how well he played last week

being there. So I'm not saying Jalen hasn't done that. But Yon sure has behaved professionally and approached your professionally, and he always has when he first came back. Uh, there's always you know, Twitter is what he was always wishes, Well, what's he gonna do? He has been, you know, nothing but a pro. You haven't seen anything in him to make you think that the contracts affected him. Once he got inside the building, He's Yahn and credit to him.

So your choices this week D D. Westbrook and A J boy By choices this week the Jags offensive line and Jaguar's defensive end. Our normal guest host joins us now Chris Conley, Jaguars wide receiver and his special guest today Jaguar's Safety Andrew Wingered Chris, what's up? Good to see you. How you doing. Welcome to the show, Welcome to your show. It's good to be here. It's good to be back and to join you guys again, and to be accompanied by Thor himself, the man, the myth legend,

Andrew Winkar. So this is Thor? Where does store come from? Uh? Pretty self explainatory. I'm just ask no, no, no. He does cut his hair though in the new one. So will you be cutting your hair? I've been thinking about it on Sam. Really, I would say there is a there are a lot of fans who are attached to your hair already. Well, I I kinda screwed myself if I ever wanted to get a haircut, because I grew my hair out at Wyoming and I just left it and now it's this and it's kind of just my

kind of my brand. So um, maybe it gives me some mystical powers or something, and that's why I've made it this far. So if I cut it, I would I would lose all my power. I will say, from a guy who does not have hair anymore, Keep it as long as you can for as long as you can. I've I've heard that. Um, you know, once you cut it it, you miss it. But we'll see. I don't know. No, obviously we know why thorpe, but who first came up with it? It just happened of organically. I think Maron

took credit forward at one point. I think it was coach Moron. Honestly, give him credit if he wants. I've had the most nicknames though I've ever had here. Okay, it's Thor, do we do? He has been my main nickname, So I'm either Thor, Dewey or Sunshine, sun Shine such whatever you want to call him. And most a lot of people call me Andrew too. No one really calls me by my first name that much, but here I got those four in it four names here, so it's

a weird. And usually the only person that calls me Andrew is my mom when she's like pissed at me or something. But other than that, yeah, we'll stay away from that. We'll reserve that for mom. Chris, you were in a long weekend, right, I mean, so the short week is can be tough, the quick turnaround for a game on Thursday night. But you guys played well, got the win, and then you have a mini by weekend. You spent your bye weekend in Athens, Georgia. I did,

You were signing autographs at the bookstore. Yeah. I went back to Athens to check out the dogs play Notre Dame and they won, not in the fashion that we really wanted. You know, we wanted more of a statement game. But you know, these guys gotta learn some things. But they got they got some talent, They got some talent. But it was a good weekend for us. You know, bye weekends are so much better after a win, and

so you know it's I can't overstate that. It makes it so much better being able to go home after you secure a win. But now we have a long week again where we can get back to the base six and prepare for another road game. And you misspoke, you said bye weekend. But that's really how you guys feel about it, didn't it. I mean, oh, yeah, I call it a bye weekend for you. That's what it feels like. Yeah, no, that's what That's pretty much what most people call it. After a Thursday night came, they'll

call it a bye weekend. Just because a lot of teams will give players you know that time off to go see family, get their bodies right, and get prepared for another week. You get a bonus day sometimes, but yeah, bye weekend now. I talked to you late Thursday after the game, asked you about the injury and you weren't sure. It sounds like you've gotten better news about it. Yeah, you know. I'm in a good place. I feel good

right now. Just listening to the doctors and the staff and uh, I'm gonna do what they tell me, trust them and hopefully be ready for Sunday. Andrew thor I'll see you. The nicknames, there's two or three others. M let's go with Dewey. Do we go with Dewey? If you? If you will? How are you holding up so far? I mean, you're a rookie in the NFL, you made the team, You're contributing on special teams, You're getting some defensive snaps. How you holding up? How are you playing

so far? I think I'm doing well. Um, I'm just enjoying all this, you know, I'm not. I'm not getting too high, not getting too low. Just being able to go out and make plays, help the team out, get some turnovers. Uh, set up the offense. That's that's what I'm trying to do. I'm not I guess I'm not trying to do too much. I'm just going out and doing my job and when plays come my way, you know, go make him. So I think you that is such a good answer. That is such a good like. I'm

proud of you. I didn't even brief him on that before coming in here. That's a great answer. But you can tell that that's the way that he approaches the game each day in practice, the way that he approaches each of his plays out there on the field. There's not a lot of opportunities, but he's making the most

of them. And you know, you're you're no stranger. You're no stranger to Colorado because that's where you played your high school football and so you've you've dealt with altitude and you've dealt with you know, the things that they say could hamper football players. What do you think is necessary for guys going from the beach to mile high. I actually Wyoming was worse than Denver was. Wyoming was set.

So here's the thing. I honestly, I really don't think the altitude really affects guys that much because we played. Now nothing affects him because San Diego we played San Diego State, Fresno State, when I played at Wyoming and they all came up and they were fine. They beat us, so but um, I just think you know, the beat juices big time. Just the like they were talking. Coach Maron was talking about iron levels, stuff like that, making sure you know the oxygens in the blood and just

stay in hydrated, stay in hydrated. It's huge. Um. You know when I was working out at Exos out in California for my for the combine and stuff, and I went back to Laramie from my pro day and I could definitely feel it. Um you know, I wasn't definitely wasn't hydrating enough. So as long as you stay hydrated and uh you know, in through the nose, out through the mouth, I don't think it really affects people as much as they say. So now are you caught up?

And what I'm sure you referred to as roommate mania. This has been crazy, not only for just Gardener, but for me and Mike Walkers, our other roommate. Like, Gardner has packages coming in every day with just random stuff and he's like throwing clothes and hats on my bed, like, hey, hey man, everyone's sending me all this free stuff. You want someone like, uh, absolutely I do. So it's been

crazy though. It's getting the way of the pile of free stuff that you're receiving is that I wouldn't say I'm getting as much free stuff as Gardner, but you're getting it. Yeah, I'll take it. So it's been crazy though, Like we were after the game on Thursday, we were just hanging out and checking Gardener's Instagram and within like you check it every hour and he's gaining like ten thousand new followers, like every thirty minutes. You wake up

the next day, it's like two thousand followers. It's crazy. But it's been super cool, just because I played against Gardner in college. Um came through an O t as. He was one of the first friends I made. And you know, he was a six round you know, six round late round, you know, undrafted guys. You know you kind of you know, sure a bond together, like hey

man't we we're gonna make it? You don't know. Um, and he's just kind of to see him go from you know, kind of the you know, backup six round late guy to where he's at right now has been super cool. And I guess is he hasn't changed a big none. Was like the kind of guy completely unaffected by it. And you can speak to this unaffected and I think that's what will help him so much, is he's not, like I said, he's not getting too high, just even keel and I think watched that a little bit.

Hey has the young kid responding to it? Yeah, because I mean it seems okay. I've seen guys get get that and they can go a completely opposite way. But I think Conder's done a really good job of remembering what got him there and remembering that work ethic and uh, staying consistent, you know, coming to work every day and not letting the media attention and the attention of everyone else outside affect the way that he works in this building.

You know, he still is probably the most humble guy in that huddle because he knows he's he still knows he's rookie, and I think that that's awesome. You know, he can he can take command of the huddle, call to play and say, hey, this is what we need to do, but at the same time still have the humility to say, hey, help me, and I think that's awesome. How did you do against Gardner in college? By the way, uh, he torched us. I'm not gonna lie to you because

we went into the game. It was his first game. He was a transfer from East Carolina, and we're going in like, oh, they gotta they got a grad transfer quarterback. We know they're going to run air ade, you know, Micha Leach offense. Let's let's let's go get after this guy. And it was the crazy thing is it was like twenty to nineteen with like eight minutes left to go in the game, and we ended up losing, like Gardner,

just Gardner, just so I definitely gained. You know, I I respect all the guys I play against, but I'm not gonna lie. I went into that game like, all right, let's go, let's let's get some picks on this guy and get him rattled stuff like that. But he's a he's a really good player. Not gonna lie to you. He And I think that's how some of these other teams, um, you know, you don't you don't look at the quarterback that's you know, six foot whatever and say, oh, you

know this guy. This guy ain't anything. And that's I think, how how he's had so much success. Obviously he's a really good player, but he's getting people by surprise for sure, and he's he's gaining in that respect that he deserves. Final thoughts here, guys, a big game coming up. I mean, this is a team still with some confidence, certainly with some confidence now after a win on Thursday night football

against the division rival one and two. Records go on a couple of time zones west up in the altitude a little bit. But now looking at I don't know how far you look ahead on the schedule. I know you're gonna say game to game week. Do we honestly have no idea who we played next after Denver? Yeah? I know. I honestly, like have not looked at his schedule. Um, I typically don't, uh, and I don't really get excited excited for anything. Everybody's like, oh, did you like Circle

Kansas sitting on the calendar. Yeah, because they were the first game, But like there's I honestly don't know who we played next. I don't really care. I know that Denver is a team that has a lot of pride, that's an organization that has a lot of pride. They've won football games, they've won championships, and they know how to bounce back, and that confidence is still there, and so we can't take this game lightly in any respect. You know, both teams are gaining some confidence right now

moving forward. Both teams have stellar defenses, Both teams have offensive that are making adjustments, and so I think this is a great test for us going up against the program with that kind of tradition. I love it should be a great game on Sunday in Denver. Good to see you guys, Andrew for Dewey, thanks for having me, for having Chris, well done, Thanks man, Thanks for having me for always you're you're the co host. We're not having you. You're part of the show. I haven't gotten

used to me yet, but we'll get there eventually. It's only we. Thanks for having You're welcome. I wouldn't rather be here with anyone else. Retired through if you shattered, can see you next time. Jaguars Happy Hour presented by the Field's Auto Group. When the Jaguars Digital