Countdown to Kickoff: Fred Taylor - Jaguars vs. Texans

O'Brien after an old and four start. In your experience around and seeing this in the league, this might be one of the earliest in a long time in the NFL. But how does a team respond to something like this? Is there a boost that comes to a team that maybe everybody kind of has their act together a little bit more? Man, and you you in the perfect world, that's what you hope and look for. Coach Cornell, who who's stepping stepping as from coach is his overall record

as a head coaches and impressive at all. I started eight and fifty five, so I don't think that posed as much of a threat. So really it comes down to the guys getting out there. Uh and making plays, making things happen today. Uh, and it really for me. JP is is gonna start with our offense playing well. Uh. Coach O'Brien used to play caller. They didn't put up a lot of points. They don't put up twenty points a game while giving up thirty one points a game,

so I can understand why they they fired him. But the defensive coordinator who steps in as the head coach now he wasn't impressive either, So I mean on that side of for the texts, they have some issues. It's perfect timing for the Jaguars and hopefully translate to a W so we can stop this light uh and get get out of the L column and put something in win. College have three straight losses for the Jags. We'll get back to the Shaguars team coming up in a moment.

But around the league this week, some more COVID nineteen positive tests spread. A handful of teams had more positives this week, and it brings up obviously you nique challenges and logistics for the NFL moving ahead. What is your confidence level right now of how the league has has handled it so far and what to expect moving ahead. I guess besides the unexpected. Really, I'm very impressed to

how they handled it to date. I mean, going through camp, keeping the numbers down because they're they're they're micromanaging tons, tons and tons of players. You're talking about the administrators, staff, coaching a lot of people in and out of the buildings, the players, you know, even the young guys that excited to be in an NFL for the rookies, you know, and and a lot of guys that can have an extremely high immaturity level. You know, they're telling them you

can't do this, so the protocol is tight. I'm really impressed by how the teams have managed. I think on a big skeller thing, if there is a fifteen players in the in the International Football League, the percentages are really small. Going forward, I'd like to see football. I'm sure everyone around the would like to see football. But going forward, you know, it's sketchy. I know they just released a new protocol. You know, I still keep in

touch with Mercedes Lewis. The Packers are on the bye week. Uh. They can't leave town. You can't leave your your city for for bye week. Uh. And I know when I play uh. And even now, a lot of guys want to get out of town and sort of hit that refresh button. They have to test every day during the bye week, so that's extremely tight. First missed test is the dollar fine. So the NFL isn't playing around. They're taking this thing extremely serious, and if the number spiked,

we might not see football. I hope we can avoid that, you know. I hope we can follow strict quarantine rules much like they have been so we can continue to enjoy the best board in the world. Fred Taylor with US proud of the Jaguars running back Well said, Fred, let's get to the Jags last week. The Jaguars defense struggled in the second half, especially played pretty well the st half, gotta turnover in the end zone, but then in the second half, Joe Mixon ran all over them.

They had some frontline guys go down with injury. That brings younger and actually more just inexperienced players on the field. How did they work out of this? On the defensive side, they shouldn't have a big issue against the run. They don't even average and hundred yards a game. That's awful, and they have a running quarterback, so you would think they would implement some plays to get him in both after paying him that much money. But their issues are

their issues. Let's talk about the defense. Our defense. You know they're they're not playing great. They are out there with the young guys that they have out there trying to make some things happen. Last week, I expected them to be able to get after quarterback, a guy who had been hit so many times in two weeks, hit so many times and sacked just as much. This week, it's a different field because you have a guy who's

gonna run the ball if the play breaks down. Burrow, he he didn't move move about, he didn't scramble a ton I should say. But this week you have a guy You're gonna have to be a lot more discipline. You're gonna have to play in your lane. Uh, you're gonna have to react, You're gonna have to get after him. So I think strip drills this week are important for the defensive guys um the secondary. Uh. The Texans hadn't

done a whole lot in the area either. It could be a week for the Jaguars to get a win to to fine tune some some play on the back end of the defense as well as upfront. So hopefully those go guys can go out there and execute, create some opportunities for the offense and thrill position. Fred Taylor with US James Robinson is a weekly segment of this interview, and he deserves he's playing well and it's a big week for him after four weeks of really stellar play

for the rookie. Yeah, you know, I again, I was looking up his numbers. JP sixty carries to eighty five, four point seven yard average and three touchdown. The four point seven yard is what I'm most impressed with. Uh, you know, he has some good runs early eight yard, four yards, seven yard. They had to go away from it after interception. They tried to come back to it. Unfortunately, they're not able to sustain because they find themselves down

at some point during the game. So I believe that if we can get him going early, you know, and and put up some points in the process in the first quarter, in the third quarter, because that's where the offense has been pretty bad in the first and third quarter.

If we can get him going and being able to sustains and drives, put some touchdowns on the board, and if the defense can get a stopper two early on then I think it gives him an opportunity to get you know, fifteen carries, uh, twenty carries even I would love to see what he can do with twenty carries. The first game of the year, he got stronger, you know, against the Titaness. He got stronger when he had an

opportunity to get the ball in his hand. So this is an opportunity for the Jaguars offensive line of the play caller to say, we're gonna commit to this. You know, hopefully the defense can stop some drives and give us an opportunity to commit to this and uh see what we could do. Because it'll be a good thing to put it on tape because I think this young guy, he's definitely a bright spot on the offense along with

DJ Chart, Fred Taylor with us. You mentioned the Jaguars star wide receiver who returned to the line up last week, Fred with two touchdowns too spectacular players really the toe drag in the back of the end zone and they ripped the ball away from the defender on the second one. And he makes a difference. Obviously. When he's back in the lineup, you can spread some things out and and do some different things as a play caller offensively, Yeah, it'll be good to get him going. DJ Chart going on.

It helps out Robinson and vice versa. Much like myself, Jimmy Keenan. Those guys out there, you know you played off each other. But I really think that if they can come out get Chart going early, makes some connections early in the first quarter, I would like to see them feed the ball to enforce those targets. He's a big guy, you know, worst k' you know. Allow him to jump ball opportunities so he can fight for maybe even get some passing appearances the Texans secondary, but they've

they've been good, but they haven't been great. I should say DJ involved early, get Gardner, you know, um in a position where he's confident that his guys are gonna bring in those catches, and then I think it will open up the run game and the team will come back home with a victory. Good stuff, Red. We will talk to you in the post game, hopefully after the

Jaguars snapped this three game skid. How about it? As always, JP man, I stay looking forward to it, but this week I want to have some fun with him, and I want to have some manager and that only happens if we win. Coming up the final word with head coach Doug Moron the Jaguars and the Texans coming up at one o'clock in Houston, and this is count Out the kickoff on Jaguars Radio