What a fun offense to be a part of. So far twenty eight and a half points a game. That sounds pretty good to me week to week, no question. I'll tell you it's something you can really really get used to. I hope we can keep it going. But you know, it's a new day every every week. But it would be nice to keep to keep to keep rolling, for sure, no doubt. And the tight ends obviously a big part of the offense, and they certainly were last week.
Seven catches for tight ends in the game last week, and that's a big piece of Jay Gruden's offensive attack, at least in the past, and it's starting to show that tendency again. That's good news for your room, no question. It's I'll tell you to to be involved. Um. The guys take a lot of pride in it. They they understand their importance to the offense for sure in the run game, but now that they're getting a few crumbs in the passing game, that puts big smiles on their
face also. So yeah, last week was good man. We got a few got a few targets. Um, guys made some plays. You know. It's like I said, hopefully we can keep it going. For sure. I mentioned the catches you've brought up the run blocking of this group here that a lot of folks who are just watching the game might not really look at that two end depth.
But it's certainly key for the tight end position to take us through the run blocking of those guys effort and it was Shaughnessy especially, and how that has helped a guy like James Robinson come through and run the ball effectively. They're not bruising blockers either, one of them. Um that they got a lot of effort, and they'll fight and they'll fight you, and they put a lot of strain into their blocks. Good thing about it also is they are too smart players understanding defenses and what
the role of the backers and defensive ends. Uh, if they have contained, well, if they widen, they landmark a little bit, that will get more movement. Um, get them to widen a little bit more. Um, those craftedness I'd say, you know, the pleasant I'm more pleasantly rides with efforts um blocking, then I expect I'm getting a whole lot more from him than I expected. And not that he couldn't do it or whatnot, but um, I'll tell you he hasn't backed away, not one bit. Sure. I don't
get me wrong. I know what his bread and buddy is. And you know, hopefully we keep getting him the rock or giving him those targets out there. But it's real nice to um to be able to put him in the game and defense is thinking that it's gonna be a pass and James Robinson run up enough for ten fifteen yards. That's a good thing, you know. So they take a lot of pride and being complete football players and that really helps Ron Middleton with a Jaguars tight
ends coach. Let's continue our conversation on effort here. He had his twenty fifth career touchdown last week and he's in his eighth year so on this Procester he is an elder statesman on this football team. He's been banged up a lot throughout his career, and we heard from the in the off season from him about the mindset of a lot of times being injured and missing a
lot of football games. He was finally on the field last year and he seems like he has that confidence back about him that he's gonna be able to go out there and and not worry about anything that's happened in the past. But only experience can help a guy like that, No doubt he I think he's come to the realization that some things are just out of your control. You can't dwell on it, you can't be scared of it. You just have to go out and and let the
chips far where they may. He prepares himself to have to play fifty six snaps a game. We definitely don't want him to play that many snaps. We're gonna We're gonna try to get the most out of his talents. But no, you can't worry about the injuries. Injuries are part of the game, and in his case, Uh, it's just been unlucky and unfair to a certain degree with with the injuries that he's had. Um, But no, we don't dwell on it. We we just go out and we work. I say, it's like death, you know, you know,
it's it's it's possible. But we're not. We're not gonna sit and dwell on it every day. You know, it's just just deal with it. Ron Middleton with us taking an interesting turn in this conversation. The Jaguars tight ends coach. He's the first founder for a reason. I think we'll find that out. He has that ability. It's just a matter of keeping him out there. Now. Another guy coming off entry coaches James O'Shaughnessy. Of course, had the knee
injury last year. He's in his sixth year and it's not like he hasn't had a lot of starting time over his entire playing career, but he has a huge role in this offense. How has he come back from the knee so far, and it seems like he's getting more involved now to last year. Let me start by saying last year when he got hurt, I thought I thought James was about to turn the corner into being
that that productive tight end in this league. Um. In fact, that game, that the Carolina game where he where he did get hurt. You know, he had I think a hundred yards receiving, had a couple of big catches and like I said, he was he was about to turn that corner and damn bam, he gets hurt. Well, that was the big question coming in this year's how is he gonna come back after the injury. Anybody in the in the training room will tell you that that he
busted his butt in the offseason. He busted his butt to get back to get back out there. He did everything they asked him to do and more. Um, just a a star star rehab her in their words, you know, and it's paying off for him, you know. Um, hopefully he can get to that point where he was last year when the injury came and and hopefully he can go farther and turn that corner to be the player that I think he's capable of being. Yeah, Ron Middleton with his final thoughts here with the coach. He got
a couple of puppies in your room too. And Tyler Davis who hasn't had a lot of practice time yet at least in the regular season with a knee issue, has been on the injury report, has not been up yet this season. And then Ben Ellison is on your practice squad. He has been up coming off the practice squad late in weeks. What have you seen out of those guys and how can you expect those guys to contribute as a move along? Yeah, it's all. It's all
been positive with those guys. I have nothing but positive thoughts, positive reports, um on those two my youngsters as I call him, Um. I think Ben is a little more polished than Tyler right now. I think Tyler is still learning the offense, excuse me, learning the position. Being is a tough, tough um guy with some tough player, with some technique. Um that this isn't his, This isn't the first time he's blocked anybody. Um. I think his route, his route running, he has some some it to his
route running. Um. He's not the fastest in the world, but I think he's I think he's got something that he can get open, and he has good hands. Tyler is a little bigger, a little faster, probably a little stronger, but not as polished as Being. You know, he's um, he hasn't played the position as long as as Being his. But the arrow is up on these guys now. The error is definitely up. We think a hell of a lot of both of them. You know, I think we're
gonna see Tyler pretty soon. Yeah, touch great stuff. Let's get some tight ends in the end zone. This let her boy, Let's go, Yes, yes, yes, no doubt