October 18, 2024 • 8 mins
Sky Sports NFL commentator Neil Reynolds discusses the European expansion of the NFL International Series including the Jaguars annual role in the London games and then previews the Week 7 matchup against the Patriots with J.P. Shadrick on Countdown to Kickoff.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Who better to sit in an English garden with than
Neil Reynolds of Sky Sports in the UK. Here we
are again. It's year eleven for the Jags, six and
six record now in London, but we're back and it's
good to see you again.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, a beautiful day, feels like it's summer. This is
like summer weather for us. So yeah, it's great. It's
great to have the Jags back in town. This is
seventeen years now since the NFL's played a regular season
game here. Obviously, the JAG's been coming since twenty thirteen.
You'd have seen it at Tottenham last weekend. It just
never gets old, and the passion is as fervent then
(00:39):
as you know now as it was then. It's incredible
to see.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
The growth, certainly. Is Jaguars has been a big piece
of that over the last decade or so. Certainly, And
you know it seems like at least last year, the
home and road back and forth two weeks here worked
out with two wins. We'll see the result of it
on the field, I guess coming up at Wimbley. But
from all accounts and everything else except on the end
(01:02):
the game this time around, it's been a success again,
So I mean that's been a positive. I'm sure Roger
Goodell from hearing from him the other day, he said
he learned a lot from having a team over here
for two weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, and if you look at what's happened over the years,
they've tried so many different things, playing three games in
a row, playing without teams having a bye week. It
always used to be that the bye week was an
automatic straight after a London game. Now teams can choose
when to have it because they feel comfortable getting in
and getting out. So yeah, it's one of the things
(01:34):
the NFL likes to do is see different ways that
this can run. And the Jags coming in now second
year in a row, back to back games, you know,
I think it's been it's certainly been well received by
the fans, the by the league. I think everything's worked logistically,
and it seems that, you know, from a team level,
certainly it's it's not been a bad thing for Jacksonville.
(01:56):
So yeah, I think it's I think it's been a
positive across the board.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Neil Reynolds from SkySports with us and from a Jaguars perspective,
I think it's the last year. The Wembley deal. Currently
it feels like that's going to come back around at
some point. Nothing's been announced as yet. So I mean
having the Jaguars as that base team in what could
be an expanding international series over the years, there will
always be Jaguars games at Wembley.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It feels like, yeah, and I think that's good to
have that. I think that's a foundation. I think when
you look at what the Jags have done coming back
year after year and then by extension, how many games
there have been in the UK, that is a comfort
blanket that allows the NFL to say, Okay, this is
how it needs to be done, this is what teams
(02:42):
are looking for, and no team's been tested more than
the Jags in terms of logistics and what it needs
to what you need to do, and that allows the
league to go to Germany, to go to Brazil, to
go to Spain next year and beyond. You know, we're
going to see games in Ireland. I think we'll see
games in France, We'll see games in it I think
(03:03):
we'll see games all over the world. I think this
is coming. I think this is this is only going
one way, but the fact that a team comes back
year after year and leaves happy. I'm not gonna use
the word happy, leaves content that everything worked because obviously
there's always a winner and a loser, but content that
everything worked the same as if they were in America.
(03:26):
That's allowed the league to really expand and spread its wings.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Let's get to the match up today under the arch
of Wimbley battle of one and five teams. We know
the Patriots are rebuilding group. They've actually said that out loud,
and they've put in the rookie quarterback now to be
a second start coming up against the Jaguars. So where
are the Patriots in your mind right now?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
So exactly that I kind of applaud Jared Mayo, the
head coach, for saying this season is not about wins
and losses. It's about which young players can we rely
on by the end of this season to go into
two twenty twenty five. So they clearly have holes in
their roster, but to me, they are thoroughly more watchable
(04:07):
and more dangerous with Drake may in the lineup. You know,
it wasn't perfect against Houston last week, but he gave
him life. You know, he threw three touchdown passes he's
a fearless player. So to me, that's where everything when
I think about the Patriots is all about that. It's
a quarterback league. We know that, we know it's a
(04:27):
quarterback driven league, and they have a guy they're going
to take a good long look at to see if
he can be what Mac Jones wasn't for them, and
that's the proper replacement for Tom Brady. So yeah, that's
where I start. I start with, I start with the
quarterback and yeah, with Jacksonville, I want to see I
want to see the response.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, no doubt about that. I mean arm bells the
size a big binner ring. And right now around the
Jaguars with all that was said after the game last week,
when when Andre Cisco says he saw a lot of
quid out there, when the head coach in his postgame
press conference talks about needing a culture change, those are
massive red flags. So the question is how do they respond,
(05:09):
how do they push back? Can they do it? Do
they have the guys to do it? These are all
huge questions. There's only week seven.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah, I mean that was the most alarming part to
me was that you talk about culture at this stage
of the season, because that should be established and shouldn't
be really questioned for that to come from the head
coach puts puts me kind of on alert. This is
a this is a must win game. This is absolutely
a must win game to turn this season around, and
(05:36):
it can be done. Look at how they started on
defense against the Bears for the first quarter. Look at
it felt like every good play last Sunday was followed
by a bad play, Like the completion to Evan Ingram
is a pretty decent game, then the balls on the ground,
so tidying that stuff up. We know there's talent on
(05:56):
this team. That's that's obvious. And I thought Trevor actually
had the exception was the interception when they're chasing the
game at the end. You know, Trevor made some great throws.
I mean he threw three touchdown passes on one drive.
It's just that two of them were dropped right and
then he finally got the touchdown at the end. So
it goes beyond like individual performances. This is a team response.
(06:19):
This is a this is a gut check game now
for the Jags, because win this one against the team
that you should be beating, to be honest and then
you've got something you can look to build on when
you get back to America. Lose this one, I don't
know where it goes from there.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, it doesn't go a good direction, that's for sure.
And the week at the month ahead, I mean it's
murderer's role. It's four strate NFC contenders coming up for
the Jags, so they got to get a win under
the belt here in Wimbley. How about your schedule, what's
been going on. I know you're busy around the NFL games,
but not for all of the games themselves. Your in
and out. What's to do?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah? So this this week has been a little bit quieter.
I finished the I write and edit the game day magazines,
so I printed at that one, went to the printers
this week for the Jags Patriots, and now I'm straight
onto Panthers Giants for Munich. Sunday is not a Sky game,
so I'm going to be back in our studio. I'll
be doing little pregame bits for the Jag So I'll
(07:15):
be at Wembley for a while. I try and drag
it out, try and watch a quarter of it. I'll
try and watch. The fan in me doesn't want to leave,
so I'll try and watch some of the game, but look,
it comes at the curtains, coming down on another three weeks.
Fantastic for us here in London. October is our Christmas.
And yeah, the game just doesn't slow down, you know,
it doesn't slow down. And like I spoke to the commissioner,
(07:39):
like you last weekend, you know, we're going to have
eight of these international games soon and as soon as
they go to eighteen regular season games in the US,
we're going to have sixteen international games played all around
the world. And one thing I stopped. I actually interviewed
the Commissioner last weekend and I set a new record myself.
(08:00):
Do you know what I did. I didn't mention the
franchise word. I think the franchise talk has gone away.
I think we're gonna see a Formula one version of
the NFL traveling around the world. Three games in London,
two in Germany, Spain, Ireland, Brazil, Australia. We're gonna it's coming.
We're going to have this traveling road show of NFL
international games. And I don't know if Sky have got
(08:23):
the budget to send me to all of them, but
I'm going to put my hand up and throw my
hat in the ring.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Sounds pretty good to be. How's your German and French
by
Speaker 2 (08:31):
The way, nine nine no, but you know I'll speak
the language of football, the international language of the gridiron
Who better to sit in an English garden with than
Neil Reynolds of Sky Sports in the UK. Here we
are again. It's year eleven for the Jags, six and
six record now in London, but we're back and it's
good to see you again.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, a beautiful day, feels like it's summer. This is
like summer weather for us. So yeah, it's great. It's
great to have the Jags back in town. This is
seventeen years now since the NFL's played a regular season
game here. Obviously, the JAG's been coming since twenty thirteen.
You'd have seen it at Tottenham last weekend. It just
never gets old, and the passion is as fervent then
(00:39):
as you know now as it was then. It's incredible
to see.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
The growth, certainly. Is Jaguars has been a big piece
of that over the last decade or so. Certainly, And
you know it seems like at least last year, the
home and road back and forth two weeks here worked
out with two wins. We'll see the result of it
on the field, I guess coming up at Wimbley. But
from all accounts and everything else except on the end
(01:02):
the game this time around, it's been a success again,
So I mean that's been a positive. I'm sure Roger
Goodell from hearing from him the other day, he said
he learned a lot from having a team over here
for two weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, and if you look at what's happened over the years,
they've tried so many different things, playing three games in
a row, playing without teams having a bye week. It
always used to be that the bye week was an
automatic straight after a London game. Now teams can choose
when to have it because they feel comfortable getting in
and getting out. So yeah, it's one of the things
(01:34):
the NFL likes to do is see different ways that
this can run. And the Jags coming in now second
year in a row, back to back games, you know,
I think it's been it's certainly been well received by
the fans, the by the league. I think everything's worked logistically,
and it seems that, you know, from a team level,
certainly it's it's not been a bad thing for Jacksonville.
(01:56):
So yeah, I think it's I think it's been a
positive across the board.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Neil Reynolds from SkySports with us and from a Jaguars perspective,
I think it's the last year. The Wembley deal. Currently
it feels like that's going to come back around at
some point. Nothing's been announced as yet. So I mean
having the Jaguars as that base team in what could
be an expanding international series over the years, there will
always be Jaguars games at Wembley.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It feels like, yeah, and I think that's good to
have that. I think that's a foundation. I think when
you look at what the Jags have done coming back
year after year and then by extension, how many games
there have been in the UK, that is a comfort
blanket that allows the NFL to say, Okay, this is
how it needs to be done, this is what teams
(02:42):
are looking for, and no team's been tested more than
the Jags in terms of logistics and what it needs
to what you need to do, and that allows the
league to go to Germany, to go to Brazil, to
go to Spain next year and beyond. You know, we're
going to see games in Ireland. I think we'll see
games in France, We'll see games in it I think
(03:03):
we'll see games all over the world. I think this
is coming. I think this is this is only going
one way, but the fact that a team comes back
year after year and leaves happy. I'm not gonna use
the word happy, leaves content that everything worked because obviously
there's always a winner and a loser, but content that
everything worked the same as if they were in America.
(03:26):
That's allowed the league to really expand and spread its wings.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Let's get to the match up today under the arch
of Wimbley battle of one and five teams. We know
the Patriots are rebuilding group. They've actually said that out loud,
and they've put in the rookie quarterback now to be
a second start coming up against the Jaguars. So where
are the Patriots in your mind right now?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
So exactly that I kind of applaud Jared Mayo, the
head coach, for saying this season is not about wins
and losses. It's about which young players can we rely
on by the end of this season to go into
two twenty twenty five. So they clearly have holes in
their roster, but to me, they are thoroughly more watchable
(04:07):
and more dangerous with Drake may in the lineup. You know,
it wasn't perfect against Houston last week, but he gave
him life. You know, he threw three touchdown passes he's
a fearless player. So to me, that's where everything when
I think about the Patriots is all about that. It's
a quarterback league. We know that, we know it's a
(04:27):
quarterback driven league, and they have a guy they're going
to take a good long look at to see if
he can be what Mac Jones wasn't for them, and
that's the proper replacement for Tom Brady. So yeah, that's
where I start. I start with, I start with the
quarterback and yeah, with Jacksonville, I want to see I
want to see the response.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, no doubt about that. I mean arm bells the
size a big binner ring. And right now around the
Jaguars with all that was said after the game last week,
when when Andre Cisco says he saw a lot of
quid out there, when the head coach in his postgame
press conference talks about needing a culture change, those are
massive red flags. So the question is how do they respond,
(05:09):
how do they push back? Can they do it? Do
they have the guys to do it? These are all
huge questions. There's only week seven.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah, I mean that was the most alarming part to
me was that you talk about culture at this stage
of the season, because that should be established and shouldn't
be really questioned for that to come from the head
coach puts puts me kind of on alert. This is
a this is a must win game. This is absolutely
a must win game to turn this season around, and
(05:36):
it can be done. Look at how they started on
defense against the Bears for the first quarter. Look at
it felt like every good play last Sunday was followed
by a bad play, Like the completion to Evan Ingram
is a pretty decent game, then the balls on the ground,
so tidying that stuff up. We know there's talent on
(05:56):
this team. That's that's obvious. And I thought Trevor actually
had the exception was the interception when they're chasing the
game at the end. You know, Trevor made some great throws.
I mean he threw three touchdown passes on one drive.
It's just that two of them were dropped right and
then he finally got the touchdown at the end. So
it goes beyond like individual performances. This is a team response.
(06:19):
This is a this is a gut check game now
for the Jags, because win this one against the team
that you should be beating, to be honest and then
you've got something you can look to build on when
you get back to America. Lose this one, I don't
know where it goes from there.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, it doesn't go a good direction, that's for sure.
And the week at the month ahead, I mean it's
murderer's role. It's four strate NFC contenders coming up for
the Jags, so they got to get a win under
the belt here in Wimbley. How about your schedule, what's
been going on. I know you're busy around the NFL games,
but not for all of the games themselves. Your in
and out. What's to do?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah? So this this week has been a little bit quieter.
I finished the I write and edit the game day magazines,
so I printed at that one, went to the printers
this week for the Jags Patriots, and now I'm straight
onto Panthers Giants for Munich. Sunday is not a Sky game,
so I'm going to be back in our studio. I'll
be doing little pregame bits for the Jag So I'll
(07:15):
be at Wembley for a while. I try and drag
it out, try and watch a quarter of it. I'll
try and watch. The fan in me doesn't want to leave,
so I'll try and watch some of the game, but look,
it comes at the curtains, coming down on another three weeks.
Fantastic for us here in London. October is our Christmas.
And yeah, the game just doesn't slow down, you know,
it doesn't slow down. And like I spoke to the commissioner,
(07:39):
like you last weekend, you know, we're going to have
eight of these international games soon and as soon as
they go to eighteen regular season games in the US,
we're going to have sixteen international games played all around
the world. And one thing I stopped. I actually interviewed
the Commissioner last weekend and I set a new record myself.
(08:00):
Do you know what I did. I didn't mention the
franchise word. I think the franchise talk has gone away.
I think we're gonna see a Formula one version of
the NFL traveling around the world. Three games in London,
two in Germany, Spain, Ireland, Brazil, Australia. We're gonna it's coming.
We're going to have this traveling road show of NFL
international games. And I don't know if Sky have got
(08:23):
the budget to send me to all of them, but
I'm going to put my hand up and throw my
hat in the ring.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Sounds pretty good to be. How's your German and French
by
Speaker 2 (08:31):
The way, nine nine no, but you know I'll speak
the language of football, the international language of the gridiron
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