September 26, 2025 • 50 mins
J.P. Shadrick Jeff Lageman and former Jaguars LB coach Mark Duffner dive into the matchup against the 49ers on Jaguars Happy Hour, presented by Heritage Roofing. The crew preview the matchups on both sides of the ball and weigh in on how the Jaguars will fare on Sunday.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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five o'clock Jaggs HQ. At five o'clock on the Jaguars
Radio Network, We've got the Jaguars forty nine Ers preview
coming up. Jaguars defense trying to slow down Christian McCaffrey,
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dual threat running back for San Francisco, and the Jags
offense facing a forty nine Ers defense without the star
defensive lineman Nick Bosa. Coach More Duffner coming up in studio,
will get his thoughts on the match up as well.
On Tip to Next settlementy two point five FM, Jaguars
dot COmON Jaguars YouTube JP Shadwick, Jeff Logman.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Hi, Jeff, are you we sit? JP? Coach Mark Tuckner
with us as well.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Hey coach, Hey man, how are you doing.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
How's it going well?
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Terrific? Great to be two and one and anxious to
be three in one.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
You know, And and that's that's a positive place to be,
right And there's a lot to work on from last
week's game, but you can work on it after win.
We talked about that in week one. It's still the
same after week three. But two and one is a
really good spot.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Right now for this Absolutely, there's a whole bunch of
folks in the league I know would like to be
sitting in a noose chairs. So kudos to the staff
and the organization of being where we are right now.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I thought that was one of the most physical ball
games I've seen in a while. Yeah, I mean, just
like both sides. I thought, uh, you know, the Jaguars
trying to establish that physical identity this year. I thought
the Texans matched it, you know, for the most part,
especially with their defense. You know, I figured that, uh,
there's gonna be a lot of ice bags used this
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week by both teams.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Absolutely, they laid it out on the line, There's no
doubt about that. And you know, we stared at versity
in the face there in the second half and came
out with the victory.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
So again, great job by the group.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, as Liam Cohen said the other week, Yeah, lightning
delay is that adversity what they went through last week.
It's a little ward verse right where they giving up
a late touchdown and then having to take the ball
away twice and dropping the ball all day long. Again,
I mean that there's a lot going on in that
game in.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Sixty minutes, and they, like I said, they played it
and wanted at the end, so that's what matters.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yeah, what I think impressed me too was just the
way that they kind of persevered, you know, I mean
as a team, but you know, because they didn't they
weren't able to do that in Cincinnati, but how resilient
some individual players were. And you know, look, they can't
give up a fifty yard bomb all double move Tyson Campbell,
but he fought back, you know, and had a huge
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pass breakup that the last drive of the game and
then obviously caused the fumble that was a big part
of of winning that football game. And then Brian Thomas
Junior had I think it was three drops in that game,
and when they needed him the most. At the end
of the ball game, he comes up with a big play.
Darn near lost control of the ball as he was
switching hands, which is a little bit unnerving there, But nonetheless,
(03:17):
I mean, I thought it was a great example of
guys just just you know, buying in playing sixty minutes
and then finally getting it done. It's good stuff. And
I will say this, and Duff you could probably attest
to this. You've been around the league a long time.
When you're not a good football team historically, you're not
going to get any good calls. You're not going to
get any good breaks. The officials aren't going to do
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you any favors. There were a couple calls again just
like they were in Cincinnati. Okay, there were a couple
of calls, A hold on Walker Little, a hold on
McCary that you just trying to go. I mean, what
are you looking at? What are you looking at? But
the reality is, until you establish yourself as a good
football team, you're not going to get the benefit of
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the doubt. It's a bed football team historically, So no.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Question, I think, no question about that.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
The great thing about it was that we found a
way to win and everybody contributed defense, offense, special team.
So again big step forward by the club coach.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Mark Dufner in studio with us, how would you go
about the drop issue? I know you were a defensive
coach all your career, but there's a lot going on
last week and it seemed to kind of blossom into
something bigger for other players and a little contagious.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
How do you fix that?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Well, I think you drill it.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
I think it's just like if I'm struggling catching the
ball on defense, if I'm struggling tackling, if I'm struggling
protecting my legs, you go to the fundamental components of
catching the ball or of tackling, whatever the obstacle is
in terms of the fundamental. So I'm sure that the
coaching staff's got them out there catching the jugs, you know,
after practice, or catching live ball stand out with Trevor.
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You know, even tennis ball drills you know that they
can do in the classroom and they can do at
home and and uh, you know, I hand drills.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
I mean, it's just things that I think.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
It's just you know, you just focus on generally, you
get what you ask for, what you put focus on
and catching the football. I'm sure they're working on and
I think it'll come back in good way for us.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
I think you go the old school approach and that
you start institute in a fine pot, in a wide
receiver room. Every drops a grand wow.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
In the old day, the old days used to be
push ups. But now I can show.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
It talking anything you throw up a thousand dollars a
drop well, I mean it was like maybe you know,
fifty bucks or a hundred bucks. But I mean, you know,
the economics of today make it a grant.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Yes, it's made it go up.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Little ill guarantee that catches catch right, goes up.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I bet they'll catch anything thrown to them, not just footballs.
That's how that would work. And that would be just
a private pot.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
You know, at the end of the year, you can
take that money and do something collective.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Inflation, man, I mean there used to be one hundred bucks.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Now it's a thousands, you know what Jeff's talking about.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Teams have done those things and they've given that money
to charity or give it to the community. I mean
truly that that that's not a bad recipe for that.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
We actually we didn't give to charity back in the day.
We actually gave it to the charity of ourselves. Are
having a you know, a little celebration.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Point understood, and there's merit for that.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Also, Yeah, have a you know, nice steak dinner somewhere,
you know, a couple of cars take you there, and
oh yeah, you know, maybe even catch a movie or
I mean some something you know, I don't know whatever,
I'm sure.
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Speaker 4 (06:38):
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Speaker 3 (06:39):
Let's take our first look at the San Francisco forty
nine ers three and zero football team. Even with all
the injuries that are piling up this year for the Niners,
and they are significant, quarterback hasn't played the last two weeks.
Mac Jones has played there. They've had wide receiver injuries
as well. George Kittle hasn't touched the field at tight end.
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That's just on the offensive side and now on the
defensive side is starting.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
To bleed over as well.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Let's start, though, Duff with the forty nine ers offense,
and they've done just enough to win games here in
the first three weeks. When you have this Christian McCaffrey
back there, he kind of helps you do some things offensively.
What do they look like on tape offensively.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Well, they're a very sound run, play pass type team,
and I think that the head coach, Shanahan has done
a good job of marrying those concepts. That's kind of
what they've been known for. They're going to motion every
play and they try to capture your eyes with that
in terms of what the defense does. But I mean,
I think you've got to admire number one, what McCaffrey does.
I mean, first of all.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
He's I think he's leading the league right now with
most touches by anybody, both rushing in terms of reception. Yeah, yeah,
so he's right at the top as far as that's concerned.
And really their offense is going to go through him,
and most recently Piersall the Florida grad that it's a
number one they're wide receiver who's really playing pretty darn
good ball for him. Two But McCafferty, you've got to
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tackle him. I mean that guy has yak yar. He's
great with yak yard, which means yards after the catch
or the you know, he's hitting the ball in the run.
So this guy is obviously a real force.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
You got to know that.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
I think he had one hundred and I think in
his career against the Jags it's been almost one hundred
and ninety yards a game. So you know, again he's
been a major factor for them and everything that they do.
He's got twelve games with ten catches or more in
his career and one of them last week against Arizona,
So again, he'll be a very strong and prolific part
of what they're trying to do offensively. And then and
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then Piersoll right now is I think he's I think
he's leading the league in contested catches and he's had
two games over one hundred yards. So you've got an
explosive player there. Their issue in their running game is
they're they're they're struggling there the most. I think they're
twenty sixth in the league and rushing and averaging all
about three yards three and three point three yards of carries.
So we're gonna have to hammer that run game and
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get them into situations where again, now we can gang
up a little bit on what they're going to try
to do in the passion game.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yeah, when Kyle Shanahan offense is at its best is
when their running game is working, and right now, the
running game is not operating at a high level. The
interior guards for the offensive line are not great, and
I think that's a big reason as to why they're
not performing at a high level. Trent Williams getting little old,
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not as good in run protection as he is in
past protection. If you get the forty nine ers to
where they're dropped back passing, you got them out of
their groove, okay, because that's not what they want to do.
They want they want to move the quarterback, play action,
all those different kinds of things off of the run,
and the Jaguars have been very good against the run
so far, so if they can continue to do that
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against the forty nine ers, then I think you've got
a real solid chance to put pressure on whoever's playing
quarterback and stopping that offense. Again, you go back to
I remember the game here, and then you go back
to the game that was in San Francisco a while back.
They were running the ball like Champs against the Jaguars.
And when they can do that, they're hard to stop. Period.
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That's where it goes.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Yeah, and a coach, as Jeff was saying that in
terms of their offensive line, it's an old group and
it's also not a very big group. They're kind of
light as far as that's concerned. So again, we got
to take advantage, like always in every game, winning that
line of scrimmage.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Heinz Allen and Trayvon Walker playing really good football right now.
I'm looking forward to that matchup of Trent Williams, future
Hall of Famer, Like you said, get a little older now,
sixteenth year in the league. But I think Josh has
some ideas for him this week. It sounds like I'm
talking to him in the locker room.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Oh, I don't think there's any doubt. And like I said,
he's really a game wrecker. When you watch him and
Trevon right now, you feel him in the games, they're
forcing the issue, not always in the statistic end of
but they're affecting the quarterback. Was what you got to do,
and really, you know, depending not, I think we're gonna
get purty, but you know, if you look at what
Jones has done. He's had He's very effective with the
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short ball. I mean, I think he's like twenty one
out of twenty out of twenty one in short passes
those that are.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
In the air from zero to nine yards.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
So they're going to still use the quick game based
on our rush in terms of what our ends present
to them.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
That's gonna be a great matchup though, Josh versus Trent.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
It was a great chance for him to go against
a guy who's gonna be in Canton one day and
oh yeah, you know, Any's two sacks away from the
franchise record.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I mean, what's amazing to me is that Washington just
let him go. I mean.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
That it's hard to believe, what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
I mean that's of course, you know when Washington had
some ownership questions and some questions about the operation of
the organization. But you're talking about a Hall of Fame,
Hall of Fame player and he's getting up there.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Though.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Now sixteen years in the league and Josh is playing,
I think is as a as a top five edge
player in the league. Doesn't have the sack numbers to
back that up, but you know, game win play there
at the end of the ball game the other day
had a half a sack with Armstead playing really strong
against the run too. They had one play they tried
to crack him and he just essentially turns the wheels
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and makes the play. I mean, he's fun to watch.
And of course Trayvon plays a game like a complete
bully and I love watching that. And mckivitz the right
tackle the forty nine ers. He better put some sandbags
in his drawers this week because I don't know if
he's got enough lead in his pants to take on
forty four. He's one of the light ones.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
He's one of the light ones, and Jeff's on it.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
I mean, both those tackles right now, eyes are biggest
spaghetti plays right now, knowing what they're going to face.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Jaguars linebacker play has been solid to of course we
know about Foyer Lukan, but Devin Lloyd has been flashing
early in this season.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Well, I'll tell you a couple of plays that he made.
He made an open field tackle for loss early in
the ballgame on I think a screen that was out
on the edge there.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
That was decisive confidence.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
That was one of the Nico Collins that's correct.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
And physical, and I mean he's all over the place.
And the other thing he's doing a great job of
that you may not see all the time is Anthony's
utilizing him in the pass rush. In terms of pass
rush games, he's punching the hole in their pass protection
to open up lanes for either himself or the adjacent
defensive lineman. And so what I mean by that he
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may attack the edge of the center to pick him
so that the tackle can come around to take a
rush rush lane away. So really impressive what his production's
been and his willingness to not only participate on defense
but special teams.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Yeah, I wanted to throw a little shout out to
defensive coordinator Campanelli because in that ballgame they utilize Devin
Lloyd as a pick on that player you're talking about inside,
But the one that really stood out was the sack
the Trayvon God. Okay, you got a rookie left tackle
and Arianta Ursrie for the Houston Texans, and so they
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send Devin Lloyd, you know, he's a linebacker position, and
he attacks the inside hip of the tackle and then
the running back is signed to block the linebacker. So
the running back obviously chases them. Devn gets a push
on the hip of the tackle, Trayvon plants his foot
and then comes underneath and it's like a pick play
in basketball, okay, and it's designed to get Trayvon free. Well,
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it actually got Devon free, but he missed the sack
and then Trayvon cleans it up. But I mean that's coaching.
I mean, that's you know, that's that's the x's and o's.
That's not Jimmy and Joe or Devon and Trayvon. I
mean that's that's a really good play design there at
a critical time.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
And one final thought on this Jaguars defense as well,
positive play from the secondary. Yeah, we know about the takeaways,
but in run support coming up, making physical tackles and stuff.
When you have that from your secondary, you got something,
and especially you're gonna need it this week against McCaffrey.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Absolutely, and offenses are gonna challenge your secondary. You know,
they always to determine what their run fits are going
to be and how tough they can fit in the
run game. Most of the time they want to run
at corners and guys are not going to be aggressive
in the run game. So again, kudos stat Group two.
They are showing up. You don't want them to show
up too much.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Now.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
We want to be able to handle them with the
front seven. But when they do, we want them to
make plays and tackles.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Travis Hunter coming up and run support making a play
and of course we know about the safety is what
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Speaker 7 (16:00):
At the same time, defenses are rotating guys, especially at
the defensive line position, so it's not like there are
no snaps from previous games where Bosa hasn't been on
the field, So do you expect things to be a
little bit similar a little bit different in some regards,
But it's not like losing a quarterback or something on
offense where your every single snap is a complete overhaul
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of the offense. Certainly, his loss will be felt because
he's such a phenomenal player, but you feel things out,
but you've seen a little bit of how the defense
looks without him out there.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
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with us It's Jaguars Happy Hour on ten to Excel
and ninety two point five FM. Also Jaguars dot Com
and Jaguars YouTube. Let's take a look at the Jaguars
offensive matchup this week against the San Francisco defense. And
you just heard you Ainski there talking about the loss
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of Nick Bosa, the fantastic defensive lineman for the forty
nine ers, out for the year with a knee injury. Duff,
What does this do for the attack on defense? How
do they overcome this? And what have they looked like
in the first three weeks of the season.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Well, they've looked pretty good on defense. I mean, shoot,
they're ranked well in defense. They're they're probably worst position
as far as that's concerned stopping the run, but they've
been pretty darn good in the rankings as far as
defense concern. This is a similar defense to Houston that
we played last week. Tamiko Ryans, Robert shal They're all
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in the same family, if you will, and so that'll
help us. They're a team that'll show a too deep shell.
They're going to be basically in a four man front
most of the time without Bosa. Now that's going to
be a factor for him, because when they have had
Bosa in the lineup and all down blitz percentage it's
about forty five percent. When he's not in the game,
it's dropped down to about twenty eight percent, So I
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think their coordinator, especially Salas, felt better when he's got
bos in the game. And also in terms of times
to pass. In terms of the passing game, there's about
another half second that they lose that the offense gains
when Bosa's not in there. As far as that's concerned,
he's been a factor there and even just their record
when he hasn't been in the game, they're like six
and twelve when he hasn't played. So he'll affect them
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in terms of their game plan. Him not being in
there will be affected by how much they blitz, by
how much time we have to throw. The guy that's
going to speak a spike up for them has been
Bryce Huff, a guy that had been with him salah
At with the Jets. Real hard play, effective players, an
edge defensive end type guy. I think he's got two
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sacks for the year, had a hit last a sack
last week at a critical one. So they'll try to
implement him quite a bit, and then I think you'll
see a little more in terms of maybe some similar
application of Fred Warner in the blitz game.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Yeah, and you know the thing, you said there. The
kind of is surprising. You said that the blitz rate
goes up when Bosa's on the field, which is weird,
it's kind of counterproductive. But I think you bring up
a great point and that a lot of coordinators would
be like, Okay, if we're going to send the blitz,
that means we don't want to cover as long and
we're worried about it, so we want to make sure
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that it gets home. So I think he just feels
more confident with Bosa on the field blitzing because the
blitz gets there faster with him, and he feels a
little more confident to do that. But a lot of
times you would think the opposite is not on the field,
we need to blitz because we don't have him on
the field. But it's that's a really interesting kind of
thing there, that that you point out Duff and you
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know you can't replace a guy like that. I mean, look,
you know Huff is a good player, but he's not Bosa.
I mean, Bosa is one of those once in a
lifetime kind of players. You know, he's he's right there
along the line to one of the guys we saw
last week fifty five. Oh yeah, Daniel hun Yeah, Daniels,
and he's, you know, a ten sack of year in
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his career type guy. And that's exactly what Nick Bosa is.
I mean, he's that kind of an impact player and
them not having him and obviously Kittle the tight end.
And you know, if you sit there and you compare
the roster of the team that came in here a
couple of years ago on Monday Night football with what
it is now, it ain't even close. I mean it's
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a completely different team. I mean it's they're almost going
through a bit, a bit of a rebuild or a reload,
whatever you want to call that.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
You know, but what you have to do now you
have to and that's right. I think you have to
recognize though they found a way to win in these
last three games. It beat a two to zero Arizona
team in the last game, and that's with all these injuries,
so and with a number two quarterback. So I mean
you're going to get this team, you know, charging ahead.
I think we'll get their best shot. I'm just glad
they've got a big game coming after ours too, which, right,
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hopefully me take a little bit of their vision off
of us.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Yeah, and they've won those three games with defense. Oh sure,
I mean that's you know, that's how they're winning it.
I mean it's not like Brock Purdy and Mac Jones
were just lighting it up with all these weapons on offense.
I mean, you know, the defense has given up about
sixteen points a game. That's winning football right there. So
if you can find a way to take advantage of
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the Bosa lists forty nine er defense, I think you
got an excellent chance of traveling to the West Coast
and getting a win. Coach, another name you mentioned earlier,
Fred Warner, linebacker, eighth year in the league, and just
what does he bring to the table as a leader
for that defense and then in terms of scheme, what
can he do well?
Speaker 6 (21:49):
He's a major impact in terms of a leader in
that team. And I think as he plays is how
they go. I mean he's high energy, high production, great physicality.
I mean you see him all the time, you know,
urging and congratulating his teammates, saw major personality and what
they do. I mean eleven tackles last week, two passes
defended a batter pass. He was a National NFL Player
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of the Week against the Orleans the week before they
played Arizona, So he's a major guy. And then the
other guy, this rookie, this ninety eight Michael Williams. You know,
he's been a pretty effective run defender for them. They
don't have a explosive run when he's been in the game.
In fact, their run percentage, people's run percentage is about
twenty five percent against the forty nine ers when he's playing.
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It spikes up to damn near seventy percent when he's
not in there. So he's been a major factor and
one will have to be aware of in the run game.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Something about those Georgia defensive vents. George Shortey just keeps
churning them out. Man, they do half defense. You need
a defensive lineman. Okay, go scout Georgia.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
You'll probably find four of them in Philly Right now.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
I think got one of the best statements I've heard
a long time, because that's right.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
You go to Athens if you're looking.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
For d line pretty much how that works?
Speaker 3 (23:01):
All right, Duff, let's get some keys to a Jaguars
victory against the forty nine ers. It would be the
Jaguars first win on the road against San Francisco all time.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
What you got.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Well, I think, you know, it comes back to kind
of what we've already said. I think, offensive, we've got
to run the ball, and that's what this is no
brainer statement. But control the football by doing it, take
their fans out of it, keep their offense off the field.
That'll be a big part of it. And I think
our quarterback using his legs that the forty nine ers
blitz considerably less against Arizona based on what they anticipated
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the legs of the quarterback that Arizona has and the
fact that he can scramble like it is. So I
think we if he uses his legs, if we use
our legs earlier quarterback position, that'll help us win first
down where we can have manageable downs as it goes on.
And then, just like every week, eliminate the penalties and
the drops. You know, let's get closer to playing as
clean and complete a game as we can. On defense,
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it's going to be again, you know, containing McCaffrey and
your saul in terms of what they add to the
run game and passing game collectively. When the takeaway and
explosive battle and affect this quarterback, you know, with our
coverage and rush, those are going to be the things
and and I didn't tell you anything that's cataclysmic here,
but but I do think it's a you know, that's
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the way to win. That's going to be the recipe
for success for us.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Oh, put one one out there. I think this is
the biggest one. Trevor's got to be better. And the
reason I say that is that, you know, the Texans
challenged you. They played a five men front, They played
bear forty six, and they said, go ahead and throw it,
go ahead, beat us, go throw it. Ye okay, So
the quarterback has to be able to respond. The wide
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receivers have to be able to respond to that type
of front and defense and make them pay. And in
that pass, this pass, Gin didn't make them pay. And
against the forty nine ers they play good defense. You
got to make them pay. And if you don't make
them pay, you're gonna have hard time win.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
A quarterback play gotta have it all week and always, Yeah,
not just this week, that's that's every week. One final
thing with you give us a tackling plan for McCaffrey.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
How do you go about doing that?
Speaker 6 (25:11):
I mean, he's he's made everybody miss and and you know,
Like I mentioned, the yardage after the after him getting
the ball, whether it be a catch or not, has
been tough. But it's going to be what what the
Jacks have already been doing. They've they've had really good
rally to the ball. They've done a good job of
being in position, uh and then and then grabbing cloth,
grabbing body parts when you get an opportunity to get
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the guy and hold on for dear life. I mean,
because this guy is a real force as far as
that's concerned. But I think that they just keep doing
what they've been doing. They've been tackling pretty well. This
guy will challenge as good as anybody.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Big game for Foy and Devons, Oh yeah, you know
with with McCaffrey, because I mean they're they're kind of
in a state of flux with all of their other weapons,
you know, in the passing game, wide receivers on ir
pup and the tight ends on injured reserves. So mcay
is a strong, comfortable player to throw the ball to
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for the quarterbacks. He's if you can stop him in
all aspects, you got a great chance of winning.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
You know, there's one other thing I was gonna tell you, Yeah,
and it's similar to a lot of teams, but he
has some tales. McCaffrey. You know, when he gets in
the shotgun, he gets you know, he's cheating out to
get out. He clearly gives you that. When he's going
to release, he gets behind the offensive tackle, and so
I know Foyer and Devin will be aware of that.
When he's wide in the shotgun, he's behind that tackle.
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He's getting out, cheating out to get out. When they
get in the two back sets, which they do some,
it's pretty strong in terms of the run game. Now
you're gonna get play pass, but it's a stronger run indicator.
And if I know I can get any edge there,
that's big. And then when he's the running back in particular,
but also Robinson, when he gets behind the quarterback we
call it at the home position or at the dot,
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that's a big run indicator. In play pass, which they do,
but I mean it's strong in the run game. So
awareness of where twenty three is will be big stars.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
And I know they've been schooled on that. So let's
get an edge on them. Let's get after.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Its funny brings out a lineman up going. I mean,
you go all the way back to the Dan Marino days. Okay,
Jim Jensen, remember the tight end slash. You know he's
like Austin player. Okay, war number eleven.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Yep, Okay.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
You sit there and you could watch his lineman if
he was, if he had his foot that will split
the feet of the offensive tackle past, he was getting out.
If not, he was staying in. And it was something else.
I mean, it was a total tell. Well, and this
is a tell here with Duffins.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Talking about but that's a Virginia educated player, University of Virginia.
So those guys pick up on those things. But those
little little nuggets make a difference in terms of your
awareness and your ability.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
To make plays.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Duffy the best. Always a pleasure to have you. We'll
do it again next week. Appreciate it, Appreciate them.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Glad to be here with you again. Look forward to
it again.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
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Speaker 2 (28:17):
Just if he was a receiver in general, he said,
this guy's a really good receiver, you know, and he's
a great back. So I think he's as good as
there is at that position in terms of catching the
wall at the backfield and presenting issues in the past game.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Yeah, he's special.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Anthony Campanelli, the Jaguars defensive coordinator earlier today, welcome back.
It is Jaguars Happy Hour from the Hyundai Studios of
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point five FM, Jaguars dot com and Jaguars YouTube. JP
Shadrick with Jeff logoman Our thanks to former Jags linebackers
coach Mark Dufner. Great insight each and every Thursday at
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four o'clock right here on Jaguars Happy Hour. And that's
a coach's perspective. A guy who grinds through the film
even still and looks for everything and some kind of
angle can go a long way for a football team,
especially on defense.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Yeah, you know, it's amazing. You go back, you know,
a couple decades and the tips were found on film
and now with analytics essentially running probabilities and statistical analysis
of formations and everything else, I mean, that's become a
huge part of game planning. It's changed the way that
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the games are called. And what Duff is talking about
about those little tips and things of that nature that
you can pick up. I mean, those things still exist
and if you can have those tips and then combine
that with the analytics. But you know, here's the I
think the thing you got to be cautious of is that, like,
as a coach, you want to give the players all
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the best tools in the world, but the last thing
in the world you want to do is to completely
fill their mind to where they line up and they're
thinking so much they can't even play ball, you know.
So it's a it's kind of a fine line that
you got to walk with how much you share with
a player of all the information that you really have
as a coach, and a.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Lot of that too as players doing all that work
on their own in the in the film room, right,
I Mean, you find some of that stuff when you
dig deeper into the into the film.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Yeah, when you watch the film, a lot of that
is watching how the opponents, how they play, what their
strengths are, what their weaknesses are. You know, as a
as a defensive end, you might watch Trent Williams and say, okay,
what does he do with his hands as I'm approaching?
You know, how are his sets? You know, based on
his stance. I mean, you look at all those things
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to help you give you the best plan of attack
of facing a guy like that, you know. And Josh
is you know, he's he was raised the right way
by Klayus Campbell, and he is a student of the game,
and and he'll be watching a ton of film on
Trent Williams. And also mckivtt's the right tackle time for
the Jaguars. Defensive coverage of the game presented by g
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e H A Government Employees Health Association benefits for federal
employees and retirees. And we focus this week, of course
on Christian McCaffrey. Why not, he's the number one.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Issue right now for the San Francisco offense for defenses
to cover. First round pick, of course, back in twenty
seventeen by the Panthers out of Stanford signed an extension
with the Panthers in twenty twenty that was traded over
in twenty twenty two to the forty nine Ers. Two
time first team All Pro and in two games against
the Jaguars two hundred and seventy one yards on thirty
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five carries in two games, two touchdowns and over one
hundred through the air as well with a touchdown. He
had a really big game with Carolina back in twenty nineteen.
That's where the bulk of his numbers against the Jaguars
came from. So McCaffrey is leading the league in touches
seventy seven. That means fifty two carries and twenty five
receptions this year and the most touches in the first
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three games in his career. That's a pretty remarkable start
for him. The question I have for you is House's sustainable?
Is that for San Francisco to keep feeding him and
seemingly only him The wide receiver has heads in play too,
and we've talked about it just a little bit with Duff.
What scares you the most about McCaffrey.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Well, first of all, the answer the first question is
it sustainable If you look at McCaffrey over the last
couple of years. Your answers, no, because he hasn't been
able to stay healthy. Seventy seven touches is a lot.
What the number that really jumps out out of all
those numbers is twenty five receptions. You know, you extrapolate
that out to a full season, you're talking one hundred
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and forty one catches on the season, which would be
a new record, which would break the old record that
he had with the Carolina Panthers. Well, I think it
was like one hundred and nineteen back in twenty nineteen
or something like that, whenever it was. But I mean,
that's that's crazy. And what that tells you is is
that the quarterbacks are not comfortable throwing the ball to
the wide receivers. They're very happy just to dump it
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down to the running back. So obviously he's going to
have to have a lot of attention in this ball
game unless the forty nine ers all of a sudden
get Jwan Jennings back. As he back, I don't know.
He missed last week with an ankle shoulder. Pierce All
was on the injury report, didn't practice yesterday with a
knee injury. It's gonna be interesting to see how all
of that plays out. But McCaffrey's going to be you know,
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he's target number one for their whole offense, whether it's
run or pass. So that's going to be a huge
concentration for the Jaguars defense as a whole.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Yeah, another guy that has been an issue so far
for defenses, Ricky Pierce, saw the wide receiver who's had
some play early in this season. A lot of those
guys are out, you know, so he's been getting the
bulk of the the at least wide receiver receptions for
this football team.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
And what's young player in the league. The crazy story
about him is remember last year and his rookie year,
he got shot in chest. I mean, how horrific is that?
But he came back to play and this year he's
i think third in the National Football League and yards receiving,
So he is he's kind of their number one target
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right now. But the secret is is again is stopping
twenty three on the ground and taking advantage of the
inadequacies that the forty nine ers have with their offensive line,
particularly those two guards. Kalais Campbell was whooping up on
both of them last week in that game, and Kalays
Campbell has some very long teeth. He's been around a while.
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It was a long long time he was crushing. In fact,
the play that gave them the lead on safety, he
got the pass rush over the rookie left guard for
the forty nine ers that led to the hold call
in the end zone, which is a safety. And clais
Is he's still a good player in times.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
He did it against this team last year week one, right,
I mean two hours before the game, he's in handcuffs
and then all of a sudden he has the first
tangle for the loss. We ran a sack on back
to back place first drive.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Yeah, he's he's a good player, and uh, this is
his last year kind of returning home a little bit,
and his playtime has significantly dropped with the Arizona Cardinals.
But it di's great to see him and I hope
he has a great year. Yeah, of course, he was
great to see him on film last week. Yeah, last
week against San Francisco. We've got plenty ahead. We're gonna
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come back in this moment and take a look at
the history in California for the Jaguars. Not good JP,
no cover your ears well pretty, but that's I do
know this. I do know this, good tream, good teams
travel well correct.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
We'll dig into that when we come back. We got
the injury report as well. The Thursday edition not out
until about seven o'clock tonight due to the time differences
between the teams. That will take a look at yesterday's
and see what we can pull out of that as well.
And then at five o'clock it is Jags HQ. We'll
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Speaker 8 (36:24):
We've got to attack the ball more, I think, with
our hands instead of letting them maybe get into the
body at times. We always talk about not trying to
let the ball cross our eyes. So if it's an
inbreaker or even an outbreaker, trying not to let it
cross you this way at all. There's a difference between
the ball being you know, here and going and getting
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it there. You know, that's just kind of the way
it's you know, that's how we're trying to coach it.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Liam Cohen trying to explain how to correct some of
the drops in the wide receiver core the last couple
of weeks. Welcome back, Jaguars Happy Hour, J P. Shadwick,
Jeff Logoman or thanks to Mark Duffner.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Earlier.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
We're at the Hundai studios at the Miller Electric Center
ten toed Xcel ninety two point five FN. We're about
fifteen minutes away from Jags HQ. We'll have Bisselli and
James Gladstone in studio with us at least schedule to
join us at five o'clock on the Jaguars Radio Network
and we'll dig into all that has happened this week
for the Jacksonville Jaguars coming up shortly time now.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
They let you know what.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
We'll get to the injur report in a second. The
drop issue there Liam going on on the podium earlier
this week, you know, going through putting his hands up,
explaining some ideas behind it. I mean, are we overthinking it?
Just kind of catch the football? Right?
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Is it that simple? Yeah? It's that simple. It's concentration,
it's tracking the ball with your eyes all the way
into the hands. And Liam brings up a good point
about not letting the ball kind of pass your body,
and that means essentially he's talking about attacking the ball,
going to get the ball instead of waiting for the ball.
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You know when you're going to get it. What happens
a lot of times is that you're going to get it,
so your focus is on the ball, not making a
move yet, and so when you're when you're kind of
letting it come past you, a lot of times you're
turning your head and moving your head to see where
you're going to go after the catch. But you know
that's got to be fixed. I mean, you got too
many drops with his football team right now, and it's
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impacting the offense overall. Brian needs to be obviously better.
Parker had a rough outing with a couple drops himself,
and Etn had one, which is on a swing pass,
which wasn't great. So I think there were six in
that game total. I'm not sure what the count is
on the year, but it's not pretty. You want to
make sure that that gets fixed. And today, you know
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they had some guys staying on the jugs machine after
the after practice, throwing balls, you know, after the completion
of a play, just working the catches, you know. So
that's all you can do, is you just work the
process and practice and continue to get better at it
and find a way to concentrate better, keep your eyes
on the ball all the way. I mean, all those things.
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I mean, it's a it's not a mystery as to
how you get better. You rep it, you get better
in practice. You make a concerted effort to improve on
it and to rep it. And then that's how you
get better. If you don't do all those things, you're
going to continue to do the same thing.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Yes, part of that is wide receivers dropping the football.
But Trevor Lawrence, as you referenced earlier, needs some better
overall play, consistent play. He has an interception now in
six straight games. It's the longest active streak in the
National Football League, and the passer ratings is right around seventy.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Back to the interception here for a minute before you
move on to a lot of numbers, because here's what happened.
If you go back and look at the sequence of
plays that led up to that, I think it was
like a drop drop interception. Okay, so now you get
a quarterback who has the drops and now he feels
like he's got to force something that wasn't there. Okay,
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that's not what you want. Okay, you want to be
able to have a quarterback that's not feeling like he's
forcing the ball, you know. And here's the fact of
the matter too. The ball placement can always be better.
You want the ball placement to be the best it
possibly can be. And so I'm not saying that Trevor
is completely absolved of any responsibility, but the majority of
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them are draw flat out drops. I mean, you just
gotta catch them. So everybody needs to be better on
that front. And again, you're gonna continue to get the
game plan that the Texans gave you. Every week. They're
gonna challenge your passing game because they're gonna load up
the box, stop the run, and say, Trevor Lawrence, try
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to beat us. And that's true. When I say Trevor Lawrence,
that's Trevor Lawrence, the wide receivers, the pass protection, it's
the passing game overall. And so strap it up, you know.
Here forty nine ers are gonna let Robert solid Gus Bradley.
They're gonna load the box, load blocks the box, and
see if Trevor and the passing game can make enough
plays to back them off and out.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
We'll see what happens with Jami Brown and his shoulder.
We'll get to the injury report coming up.
Speaker 4 (41:17):
But he got folded by the way they did him.
Had a great hit. I mean he folded him probably
a classic separated shoulder because it was like one of
those tuck and fold like you know we used to
do on quarterbacks when it was legal, Yes, and us
legal to do that on a runner wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
If he's not available, is it more for Travis Hunter?
And how do you get him involved a little further
down the field or is that going to be in player?
Speaker 4 (41:42):
Is he going to be a short catch and run guy.
I think you can involve him more. But part of
involving somebody else too is Parker Washington. He's got to
be able to take some of that responsibility. And it
makes sense he's kind of the next guy up. And
can you throw the ball more to Travis Hunt?
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (42:00):
Can you have him run deeper? Oute? Sure, he's got
to have more more than what he had target wise
this past week. But I will say this, I mean,
if I'm the quarterback, Travis has a pretty good catch
rate compared to Brian and compared to Parker after the
last week's game, I would probably feel comfortable to him.
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But here's the guy that I think it's time for
a dominant game and I'm not saying a breakout game,
and that's Brenton Strange. I think this is a big
game for Brenton Strange to where he can have a
huge impact in this game. He's already having a huge
impact on the game on a day to day basis
in the running game and the passing game. He had
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that one catch to where he had Kamari Lasser covered
him on a on essentially a deep out and it
was a great throw by Trevor, and Brenton continues to
show great run after catch and we're looking at one
play right there. We got whacked by three Texans defenders
and still kept his feet and got a few more
yards down the field. I mean, he's just he's the
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closest thing to George Kittle that's in the league right now.
And there's a lot of people that say, oh, he's
not George. I'm not saying he's George Kittle. I'm just
saying that he's the closest thing to George Kittle that's
in this league today. What I mean by that, George
Kittle is an outstanding blocker and he's an excellent receiver
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when he's playing. And this is that's the exact same
kind of player that Brenton Strange is excellent blocker and
an excellent receiver. And the more reps or the more
targets he gets, the more we're going to see out
of him, I think, and we're and there's going to
be more to love.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
Let's take a look at the injury report presented by
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Due to the time zone differences, the official report does
not come out for Thursday until about seven o'clock or so,
so four o'clock Pacific Coast time.
Speaker 4 (43:58):
But we'll go.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
Through Wednesdays players that were out, and as you would imagine,
the forty nine ers have a long list four five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen,
fifteen players on the injury report this week. Not to
mention the guys on injured reserve and the pup list,
including Kittle and I mean Bosa is still on this list.
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He's out for the season though with a knee issue.
We won't go through all of them. Juwan Jennings ankle
and shoulder issue. The wide receiver has not participated in
practice at least on Wednesday. Mac Jones with a knee
issue limited on Wednesday. McCaffrey was just resting, not a
big deal. Ricky Piersaw with a knee issue didn't practice.
The wide receiver who's had most of the wide receiver
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production for them. So with the other guy's hurt, Ayuk
has been out. Piersaw didn't practice on Wednesday with a
knee injury, so that could be big. Trent Williams was resting.
Mikel Williams was full. He's fine. So there's a long
list here. For the forty nine ers, that's been the
story of the season, but they have overcome in one
football game. So now for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Diammy Brown
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on Wednesday's shoulder injury, did not participate in practice. Ezra Cleveland,
a guard with an ankle issue limited. Mckerry, the guard
with an elbow issue limited Wyatt milem knee injury, limited
participation the guard as well, Brian Thomas Junior with a
wrist issue full participation Wednesday. Base shal Tooton running back
shoulder issue. Had the non contact jersey on at least
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today in the open period when I saw him limited
participation on Wednesday. He did play last week. So that's
the Jaguars part of it. San Francisco with a much longer,
longer list. That's a long list for early in the season. Yeah,
it's real long.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
By the way. The former Jaguar tight end Luke Farrell
is now the starting tight end for the forty nine
ers in place of George Kittle. He's no George Kittle. No,
he's not a blocking tight end, but he's a very
good blocking tight end. Loved him here. He did a
good job, kind of one of those inline blocking tight ends.
Good player. Pick.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
You know else is on this team is the former
Jaguar Jordan Jefferson defensive tax.
Speaker 4 (46:04):
Yeah, he hasn't been active yet in the game this season.
That's right. He's on the team though, And as if
you look at some of the former defensive tackles that
they were, you know the number that we kept last year.
I think it was ten because we were just so
deep and had quality death at that position. I don't
think one of them has had an impact anywhere else. Yeah,
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just kind of a just saying yeah, just saying Robert Salo.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
Of course, the defensive coordinator, former Jaguars assistant coach Gus
Bradley is on this staff as the assistant head coach
of defense, so that'll be an interesting And.
Speaker 4 (46:39):
The special teams coordinator for the forty nine ers is
former Jaguar special team great Brent Boyer, who when he
left the Jaguars and for many years after that because
he played here from ninety five. He was here with
me and Tony and everybody else at the very inaugural year,
and then he played until two thousand and then he
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was the leading special teams tackler for a long time
until montell Owens came along, and Bora was an excellent
special teams player. He was about five foot nine. I'm
just kidding. He was a little taller than that. We
used to joke with him about how tall he was.
But since twenty sixteen through last year, he was the
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New York Jets special teams coordinator, very well respected. Coach
has always been a great guy and it's gonna be
good to see him.
Speaker 3 (47:29):
Jaguars in California all time have not been good. Four
and eleven the all time record in the Golden State,
and they had some success in Oakland three and three
over the years. They got to win in twenty twenty
two in La ask the Chargers and beat the heck
out of the Chargers, and that game, of course beat
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him in the playoff game later that year at home here.
But they have never won at the forty nine Ers
once a candlestick in two thousand and nine and then
lost in twenty seventeen late in the LEVI.
Speaker 4 (48:01):
Everybody makes a big deal out of this West Coast thing. JP.
Pull up the Jaguars all time record, all time, all time.
Just give me the Jaguars all time record. Okay, I'll
look it up. Okay. And I'm not talking about all
time on the road record. I'm talking about Jaguars all time.
You can actually break it down in Jaguars All Time
record ready and Jaguars Road record. How about that.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
All time record two four and two eighty three, two
four up eighty You got a road record for me.
Speaker 4 (48:29):
I'm looking through it. I'd love to know what that
one is. That's great, okay, wow, because I guarantee you
it mirrors what what the road record is in California.
Because here here's the reality while you're looking for those numbers.
Good teams travel well. Bad teams don't travel well.
Speaker 3 (48:48):
All time regular season road record eighty wins, one sixty
three losses.
Speaker 4 (48:52):
Okay, so you've lost twice as many as you've won.
What's what's the California record? Four and eleven? Okay, it's
about the same. It's so it's California doesn't have this
something in the air that makes teams lose by traveling
to this couse smog, especially in La No, they got
a great sea breeze from the Pacific Ocean. But my
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point is is that good teams travel well, bad teams
travel poorly, and the Jaguars have not been great historically yet.
And so here's an opportunity, just like last week, of
changing the narrative in the AFC South. Here's a chance
to change part of the direction of the franchise and
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start winning on the road, because you're gonna have to
find a way to win some road games to be
able to stack enough wins to win the division and
qualify for the for the playoffs.
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dual threat running back for San Francisco, and the Jags
offense facing a forty nine Ers defense without the star
defensive lineman Nick Bosa. Coach More Duffner coming up in studio,
will get his thoughts on the match up as well.
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Speaker 4 (01:11):
Hi, Jeff, are you we sit? JP? Coach Mark Tuckner
with us as well.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Hey coach, Hey man, how are you doing.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
How's it going well?
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Terrific? Great to be two and one and anxious to
be three in one.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
You know, And and that's that's a positive place to be,
right And there's a lot to work on from last
week's game, but you can work on it after win.
We talked about that in week one. It's still the
same after week three. But two and one is a
really good spot.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Right now for this Absolutely, there's a whole bunch of
folks in the league I know would like to be
sitting in a noose chairs. So kudos to the staff
and the organization of being where we are right now.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I thought that was one of the most physical ball
games I've seen in a while. Yeah, I mean, just
like both sides. I thought, uh, you know, the Jaguars
trying to establish that physical identity this year. I thought
the Texans matched it, you know, for the most part,
especially with their defense. You know, I figured that, uh,
there's gonna be a lot of ice bags used this
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week by both teams.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Absolutely, they laid it out on the line, There's no
doubt about that. And you know, we stared at versity
in the face there in the second half and came
out with the victory.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
So again, great job by the group.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, as Liam Cohen said the other week, Yeah, lightning
delay is that adversity what they went through last week.
It's a little ward verse right where they giving up
a late touchdown and then having to take the ball
away twice and dropping the ball all day long. Again,
I mean that there's a lot going on in that
game in.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Sixty minutes, and they, like I said, they played it
and wanted at the end, so that's what matters.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yeah, what I think impressed me too was just the
way that they kind of persevered, you know, I mean
as a team, but you know, because they didn't they
weren't able to do that in Cincinnati, but how resilient
some individual players were. And you know, look, they can't
give up a fifty yard bomb all double move Tyson Campbell,
but he fought back, you know, and had a huge
(02:53):
pass breakup that the last drive of the game and
then obviously caused the fumble that was a big part
of of winning that football game. And then Brian Thomas
Junior had I think it was three drops in that game,
and when they needed him the most. At the end
of the ball game, he comes up with a big play.
Darn near lost control of the ball as he was
switching hands, which is a little bit unnerving there, But nonetheless,
(03:17):
I mean, I thought it was a great example of
guys just just you know, buying in playing sixty minutes
and then finally getting it done. It's good stuff. And
I will say this, and Duff you could probably attest
to this. You've been around the league a long time.
When you're not a good football team historically, you're not
going to get any good calls. You're not going to
get any good breaks. The officials aren't going to do
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you any favors. There were a couple calls again just
like they were in Cincinnati. Okay, there were a couple
of calls, A hold on Walker Little, a hold on
McCary that you just trying to go. I mean, what
are you looking at? What are you looking at? But
the reality is, until you establish yourself as a good
football team, you're not going to get the benefit of
(04:00):
the doubt. It's a bed football team historically, So no.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Question, I think, no question about that.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
The great thing about it was that we found a
way to win and everybody contributed defense, offense, special team.
So again big step forward by the club coach.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Mark Dufner in studio with us, how would you go
about the drop issue? I know you were a defensive
coach all your career, but there's a lot going on
last week and it seemed to kind of blossom into
something bigger for other players and a little contagious.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
How do you fix that?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Well, I think you drill it.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
I think it's just like if I'm struggling catching the
ball on defense, if I'm struggling tackling, if I'm struggling
protecting my legs, you go to the fundamental components of
catching the ball or of tackling, whatever the obstacle is
in terms of the fundamental. So I'm sure that the
coaching staff's got them out there catching the jugs, you know,
after practice, or catching live ball stand out with Trevor.
(04:57):
You know, even tennis ball drills you know that they
can do in the classroom and they can do at
home and and uh, you know, I hand drills.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
I mean, it's just things that I think.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
It's just you know, you just focus on generally, you
get what you ask for, what you put focus on
and catching the football. I'm sure they're working on and
I think it'll come back in good way for us.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
I think you go the old school approach and that
you start institute in a fine pot, in a wide
receiver room. Every drops a grand wow.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
In the old day, the old days used to be
push ups. But now I can show.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
It talking anything you throw up a thousand dollars a
drop well, I mean it was like maybe you know,
fifty bucks or a hundred bucks. But I mean, you know,
the economics of today make it a grant.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Yes, it's made it go up.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Little ill guarantee that catches catch right, goes up.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I bet they'll catch anything thrown to them, not just footballs.
That's how that would work. And that would be just
a private pot.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
You know, at the end of the year, you can
take that money and do something collective.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Inflation, man, I mean there used to be one hundred bucks.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Now it's a thousands, you know what Jeff's talking about.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Teams have done those things and they've given that money
to charity or give it to the community. I mean
truly that that that's not a bad recipe for that.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
We actually we didn't give to charity back in the day.
We actually gave it to the charity of ourselves. Are
having a you know, a little celebration.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Point understood, and there's merit for that.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Also, Yeah, have a you know, nice steak dinner somewhere,
you know, a couple of cars take you there, and
oh yeah, you know, maybe even catch a movie or
I mean some something you know, I don't know whatever,
I'm sure.
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Speaker 4 (06:38):
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Speaker 3 (06:39):
Let's take our first look at the San Francisco forty
nine ers three and zero football team. Even with all
the injuries that are piling up this year for the Niners,
and they are significant, quarterback hasn't played the last two weeks.
Mac Jones has played there. They've had wide receiver injuries
as well. George Kittle hasn't touched the field at tight end.
(07:02):
That's just on the offensive side and now on the
defensive side is starting.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
To bleed over as well.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Let's start, though, Duff with the forty nine ers offense,
and they've done just enough to win games here in
the first three weeks. When you have this Christian McCaffrey
back there, he kind of helps you do some things offensively.
What do they look like on tape offensively.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Well, they're a very sound run, play pass type team,
and I think that the head coach, Shanahan has done
a good job of marrying those concepts. That's kind of
what they've been known for. They're going to motion every
play and they try to capture your eyes with that
in terms of what the defense does. But I mean,
I think you've got to admire number one, what McCaffrey does.
I mean, first of all.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
He's I think he's leading the league right now with
most touches by anybody, both rushing in terms of reception. Yeah, yeah,
so he's right at the top as far as that's concerned.
And really their offense is going to go through him,
and most recently Piersall the Florida grad that it's a
number one they're wide receiver who's really playing pretty darn
good ball for him. Two But McCafferty, you've got to
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tackle him. I mean that guy has yak yar. He's
great with yak yard, which means yards after the catch
or the you know, he's hitting the ball in the run.
So this guy is obviously a real force.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
You got to know that.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
I think he had one hundred and I think in
his career against the Jags it's been almost one hundred
and ninety yards a game. So you know, again he's
been a major factor for them and everything that they do.
He's got twelve games with ten catches or more in
his career and one of them last week against Arizona,
So again, he'll be a very strong and prolific part
of what they're trying to do offensively. And then and
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then Piersoll right now is I think he's I think
he's leading the league in contested catches and he's had
two games over one hundred yards. So you've got an
explosive player there. Their issue in their running game is
they're they're they're struggling there the most. I think they're
twenty sixth in the league and rushing and averaging all
about three yards three and three point three yards of carries.
So we're gonna have to hammer that run game and
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get them into situations where again, now we can gang
up a little bit on what they're going to try
to do in the passion game.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yeah, when Kyle Shanahan offense is at its best is
when their running game is working, and right now, the
running game is not operating at a high level. The
interior guards for the offensive line are not great, and
I think that's a big reason as to why they're
not performing at a high level. Trent Williams getting little old,
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not as good in run protection as he is in
past protection. If you get the forty nine ers to
where they're dropped back passing, you got them out of
their groove, okay, because that's not what they want to do.
They want they want to move the quarterback, play action,
all those different kinds of things off of the run,
and the Jaguars have been very good against the run
so far, so if they can continue to do that
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against the forty nine ers, then I think you've got
a real solid chance to put pressure on whoever's playing
quarterback and stopping that offense. Again, you go back to
I remember the game here, and then you go back
to the game that was in San Francisco a while back.
They were running the ball like Champs against the Jaguars.
And when they can do that, they're hard to stop. Period.
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That's where it goes.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Yeah, and a coach, as Jeff was saying that in
terms of their offensive line, it's an old group and
it's also not a very big group. They're kind of
light as far as that's concerned. So again, we got
to take advantage, like always in every game, winning that
line of scrimmage.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Heinz Allen and Trayvon Walker playing really good football right now.
I'm looking forward to that matchup of Trent Williams, future
Hall of Famer, Like you said, get a little older now,
sixteenth year in the league. But I think Josh has
some ideas for him this week. It sounds like I'm
talking to him in the locker room.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Oh, I don't think there's any doubt. And like I said,
he's really a game wrecker. When you watch him and
Trevon right now, you feel him in the games, they're
forcing the issue, not always in the statistic end of
but they're affecting the quarterback. Was what you got to do,
and really, you know, depending not, I think we're gonna
get purty, but you know, if you look at what
Jones has done. He's had He's very effective with the
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short ball. I mean, I think he's like twenty one
out of twenty out of twenty one in short passes
those that are.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
In the air from zero to nine yards.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
So they're going to still use the quick game based
on our rush in terms of what our ends present
to them.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
That's gonna be a great matchup though, Josh versus Trent.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
It was a great chance for him to go against
a guy who's gonna be in Canton one day and
oh yeah, you know, Any's two sacks away from the
franchise record.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I mean, what's amazing to me is that Washington just
let him go. I mean.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
That it's hard to believe, what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
I mean that's of course, you know when Washington had
some ownership questions and some questions about the operation of
the organization. But you're talking about a Hall of Fame,
Hall of Fame player and he's getting up there.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Though.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Now sixteen years in the league and Josh is playing,
I think is as a as a top five edge
player in the league. Doesn't have the sack numbers to
back that up, but you know, game win play there
at the end of the ball game the other day
had a half a sack with Armstead playing really strong
against the run too. They had one play they tried
to crack him and he just essentially turns the wheels
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and makes the play. I mean, he's fun to watch.
And of course Trayvon plays a game like a complete
bully and I love watching that. And mckivitz the right
tackle the forty nine ers. He better put some sandbags
in his drawers this week because I don't know if
he's got enough lead in his pants to take on
forty four. He's one of the light ones.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
He's one of the light ones, and Jeff's on it.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
I mean, both those tackles right now, eyes are biggest
spaghetti plays right now, knowing what they're going to face.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Jaguars linebacker play has been solid to of course we
know about Foyer Lukan, but Devin Lloyd has been flashing
early in this season.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Well, I'll tell you a couple of plays that he made.
He made an open field tackle for loss early in
the ballgame on I think a screen that was out
on the edge there.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
That was decisive confidence.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
That was one of the Nico Collins that's correct.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
And physical, and I mean he's all over the place.
And the other thing he's doing a great job of
that you may not see all the time is Anthony's
utilizing him in the pass rush. In terms of pass
rush games, he's punching the hole in their pass protection
to open up lanes for either himself or the adjacent
defensive lineman. And so what I mean by that he
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may attack the edge of the center to pick him
so that the tackle can come around to take a
rush rush lane away. So really impressive what his production's
been and his willingness to not only participate on defense
but special teams.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Yeah, I wanted to throw a little shout out to
defensive coordinator Campanelli because in that ballgame they utilize Devin
Lloyd as a pick on that player you're talking about inside,
But the one that really stood out was the sack
the Trayvon God. Okay, you got a rookie left tackle
and Arianta Ursrie for the Houston Texans, and so they
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send Devin Lloyd, you know, he's a linebacker position, and
he attacks the inside hip of the tackle and then
the running back is signed to block the linebacker. So
the running back obviously chases them. Devn gets a push
on the hip of the tackle, Trayvon plants his foot
and then comes underneath and it's like a pick play
in basketball, okay, and it's designed to get Trayvon free. Well,
(14:15):
it actually got Devon free, but he missed the sack
and then Trayvon cleans it up. But I mean that's coaching.
I mean, that's you know, that's that's the x's and o's.
That's not Jimmy and Joe or Devon and Trayvon. I
mean that's that's a really good play design there at
a critical time.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
And one final thought on this Jaguars defense as well,
positive play from the secondary. Yeah, we know about the takeaways,
but in run support coming up, making physical tackles and stuff.
When you have that from your secondary, you got something,
and especially you're gonna need it this week against McCaffrey.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Absolutely, and offenses are gonna challenge your secondary. You know,
they always to determine what their run fits are going
to be and how tough they can fit in the
run game. Most of the time they want to run
at corners and guys are not going to be aggressive
in the run game. So again, kudos stat Group two.
They are showing up. You don't want them to show
up too much.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Now.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
We want to be able to handle them with the
front seven. But when they do, we want them to
make plays and tackles.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Travis Hunter coming up and run support making a play
and of course we know about the safety is what
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Speaker 7 (16:00):
At the same time, defenses are rotating guys, especially at
the defensive line position, so it's not like there are
no snaps from previous games where Bosa hasn't been on
the field, So do you expect things to be a
little bit similar a little bit different in some regards,
But it's not like losing a quarterback or something on
offense where your every single snap is a complete overhaul
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of the offense. Certainly, his loss will be felt because
he's such a phenomenal player, but you feel things out,
but you've seen a little bit of how the defense
looks without him out there.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
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another fan, and you can do it right now. Welcome
back JP Shadwick, Jeff Logman, coach Mark Duffner, and studio
with us It's Jaguars Happy Hour on ten to Excel
and ninety two point five FM. Also Jaguars dot Com
and Jaguars YouTube. Let's take a look at the Jaguars
offensive matchup this week against the San Francisco defense. And
you just heard you Ainski there talking about the loss
(17:15):
of Nick Bosa, the fantastic defensive lineman for the forty
nine ers, out for the year with a knee injury. Duff,
What does this do for the attack on defense? How
do they overcome this? And what have they looked like
in the first three weeks of the season.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Well, they've looked pretty good on defense. I mean, shoot,
they're ranked well in defense. They're they're probably worst position
as far as that's concerned stopping the run, but they've
been pretty darn good in the rankings as far as
defense concern. This is a similar defense to Houston that
we played last week. Tamiko Ryans, Robert shal They're all
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in the same family, if you will, and so that'll
help us. They're a team that'll show a too deep shell.
They're going to be basically in a four man front
most of the time without Bosa. Now that's going to
be a factor for him, because when they have had
Bosa in the lineup and all down blitz percentage it's
about forty five percent. When he's not in the game,
it's dropped down to about twenty eight percent, So I
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think their coordinator, especially Salas, felt better when he's got
bos in the game. And also in terms of times
to pass. In terms of the passing game, there's about
another half second that they lose that the offense gains
when Bosa's not in there. As far as that's concerned,
he's been a factor there and even just their record
when he hasn't been in the game, they're like six
and twelve when he hasn't played. So he'll affect them
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in terms of their game plan. Him not being in
there will be affected by how much they blitz, by
how much time we have to throw. The guy that's
going to speak a spike up for them has been
Bryce Huff, a guy that had been with him salah
At with the Jets. Real hard play, effective players, an
edge defensive end type guy. I think he's got two
(18:55):
sacks for the year, had a hit last a sack
last week at a critical one. So they'll try to
implement him quite a bit, and then I think you'll
see a little more in terms of maybe some similar
application of Fred Warner in the blitz game.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Yeah, and you know the thing, you said there. The
kind of is surprising. You said that the blitz rate
goes up when Bosa's on the field, which is weird,
it's kind of counterproductive. But I think you bring up
a great point and that a lot of coordinators would
be like, Okay, if we're going to send the blitz,
that means we don't want to cover as long and
we're worried about it, so we want to make sure
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that it gets home. So I think he just feels
more confident with Bosa on the field blitzing because the
blitz gets there faster with him, and he feels a
little more confident to do that. But a lot of
times you would think the opposite is not on the field,
we need to blitz because we don't have him on
the field. But it's that's a really interesting kind of
thing there, that that you point out Duff and you
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know you can't replace a guy like that. I mean, look,
you know Huff is a good player, but he's not Bosa.
I mean, Bosa is one of those once in a
lifetime kind of players. You know, he's he's right there
along the line to one of the guys we saw
last week fifty five. Oh yeah, Daniel hun Yeah, Daniels,
and he's, you know, a ten sack of year in
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his career type guy. And that's exactly what Nick Bosa is.
I mean, he's that kind of an impact player and
them not having him and obviously Kittle the tight end.
And you know, if you sit there and you compare
the roster of the team that came in here a
couple of years ago on Monday Night football with what
it is now, it ain't even close. I mean it's
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a completely different team. I mean it's they're almost going
through a bit, a bit of a rebuild or a reload,
whatever you want to call that.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
You know, but what you have to do now you
have to and that's right. I think you have to
recognize though they found a way to win in these
last three games. It beat a two to zero Arizona
team in the last game, and that's with all these injuries,
so and with a number two quarterback. So I mean
you're going to get this team, you know, charging ahead.
I think we'll get their best shot. I'm just glad
they've got a big game coming after ours too, which, right,
(21:04):
hopefully me take a little bit of their vision off
of us.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Yeah, and they've won those three games with defense. Oh sure,
I mean that's you know, that's how they're winning it.
I mean it's not like Brock Purdy and Mac Jones
were just lighting it up with all these weapons on offense.
I mean, you know, the defense has given up about
sixteen points a game. That's winning football right there. So
if you can find a way to take advantage of
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the Bosa lists forty nine er defense, I think you
got an excellent chance of traveling to the West Coast
and getting a win. Coach, another name you mentioned earlier,
Fred Warner, linebacker, eighth year in the league, and just
what does he bring to the table as a leader
for that defense and then in terms of scheme, what
can he do well?
Speaker 6 (21:49):
He's a major impact in terms of a leader in
that team. And I think as he plays is how
they go. I mean he's high energy, high production, great physicality.
I mean you see him all the time, you know,
urging and congratulating his teammates, saw major personality and what
they do. I mean eleven tackles last week, two passes
defended a batter pass. He was a National NFL Player
(22:12):
of the Week against the Orleans the week before they
played Arizona, So he's a major guy. And then the
other guy, this rookie, this ninety eight Michael Williams. You know,
he's been a pretty effective run defender for them. They
don't have a explosive run when he's been in the game.
In fact, their run percentage, people's run percentage is about
twenty five percent against the forty nine ers when he's playing.
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It spikes up to damn near seventy percent when he's
not in there. So he's been a major factor and
one will have to be aware of in the run game.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Something about those Georgia defensive vents. George Shortey just keeps
churning them out. Man, they do half defense. You need
a defensive lineman. Okay, go scout Georgia.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
You'll probably find four of them in Philly Right now.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
I think got one of the best statements I've heard
a long time, because that's right.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
You go to Athens if you're looking.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
For d line pretty much how that works?
Speaker 3 (23:01):
All right, Duff, let's get some keys to a Jaguars
victory against the forty nine ers. It would be the
Jaguars first win on the road against San Francisco all time.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
What you got.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Well, I think, you know, it comes back to kind
of what we've already said. I think, offensive, we've got
to run the ball, and that's what this is no
brainer statement. But control the football by doing it, take
their fans out of it, keep their offense off the field.
That'll be a big part of it. And I think
our quarterback using his legs that the forty nine ers
blitz considerably less against Arizona based on what they anticipated
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the legs of the quarterback that Arizona has and the
fact that he can scramble like it is. So I
think we if he uses his legs, if we use
our legs earlier quarterback position, that'll help us win first
down where we can have manageable downs as it goes on.
And then, just like every week, eliminate the penalties and
the drops. You know, let's get closer to playing as
clean and complete a game as we can. On defense,
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it's going to be again, you know, containing McCaffrey and
your saul in terms of what they add to the
run game and passing game collectively. When the takeaway and
explosive battle and affect this quarterback, you know, with our
coverage and rush, those are going to be the things
and and I didn't tell you anything that's cataclysmic here,
but but I do think it's a you know, that's
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the way to win. That's going to be the recipe
for success for us.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Oh, put one one out there. I think this is
the biggest one. Trevor's got to be better. And the
reason I say that is that, you know, the Texans
challenged you. They played a five men front, They played
bear forty six, and they said, go ahead and throw it,
go ahead, beat us, go throw it. Ye okay, So
the quarterback has to be able to respond. The wide
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receivers have to be able to respond to that type
of front and defense and make them pay. And in
that pass, this pass, Gin didn't make them pay. And
against the forty nine ers they play good defense. You
got to make them pay. And if you don't make
them pay, you're gonna have hard time win.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
A quarterback play gotta have it all week and always, Yeah,
not just this week, that's that's every week. One final
thing with you give us a tackling plan for McCaffrey.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
How do you go about doing that?
Speaker 6 (25:11):
I mean, he's he's made everybody miss and and you know,
Like I mentioned, the yardage after the after him getting
the ball, whether it be a catch or not, has
been tough. But it's going to be what what the
Jacks have already been doing. They've they've had really good
rally to the ball. They've done a good job of
being in position, uh and then and then grabbing cloth,
grabbing body parts when you get an opportunity to get
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the guy and hold on for dear life. I mean,
because this guy is a real force as far as
that's concerned. But I think that they just keep doing
what they've been doing. They've been tackling pretty well. This
guy will challenge as good as anybody.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Big game for Foy and Devons, Oh yeah, you know
with with McCaffrey, because I mean they're they're kind of
in a state of flux with all of their other weapons,
you know, in the passing game, wide receivers on ir
pup and the tight ends on injured reserves. So mcay
is a strong, comfortable player to throw the ball to
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for the quarterbacks. He's if you can stop him in
all aspects, you got a great chance of winning.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
You know, there's one other thing I was gonna tell you, Yeah,
and it's similar to a lot of teams, but he
has some tales. McCaffrey. You know, when he gets in
the shotgun, he gets you know, he's cheating out to
get out. He clearly gives you that. When he's going
to release, he gets behind the offensive tackle, and so
I know Foyer and Devin will be aware of that.
When he's wide in the shotgun, he's behind that tackle.
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He's getting out, cheating out to get out. When they
get in the two back sets, which they do some,
it's pretty strong in terms of the run game. Now
you're gonna get play pass, but it's a stronger run indicator.
And if I know I can get any edge there,
that's big. And then when he's the running back in particular,
but also Robinson, when he gets behind the quarterback we
call it at the home position or at the dot,
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that's a big run indicator. In play pass, which they do,
but I mean it's strong in the run game. So
awareness of where twenty three is will be big stars.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
And I know they've been schooled on that. So let's
get an edge on them. Let's get after.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Its funny brings out a lineman up going. I mean,
you go all the way back to the Dan Marino days. Okay,
Jim Jensen, remember the tight end slash. You know he's
like Austin player. Okay, war number eleven.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Yep, Okay.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
You sit there and you could watch his lineman if
he was, if he had his foot that will split
the feet of the offensive tackle past, he was getting out.
If not, he was staying in. And it was something else.
I mean, it was a total tell. Well, and this
is a tell here with Duffins.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Talking about but that's a Virginia educated player, University of Virginia.
So those guys pick up on those things. But those
little little nuggets make a difference in terms of your
awareness and your ability.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
To make plays.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Duffy the best. Always a pleasure to have you. We'll
do it again next week. Appreciate it, Appreciate them.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Glad to be here with you again. Look forward to
it again.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
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Speaker 2 (28:17):
Just if he was a receiver in general, he said,
this guy's a really good receiver, you know, and he's
a great back. So I think he's as good as
there is at that position in terms of catching the
wall at the backfield and presenting issues in the past game.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Yeah, he's special.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Anthony Campanelli, the Jaguars defensive coordinator earlier today, welcome back.
It is Jaguars Happy Hour from the Hyundai Studios of
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Shadrick with Jeff logoman Our thanks to former Jags linebackers
coach Mark Dufner. Great insight each and every Thursday at
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four o'clock right here on Jaguars Happy Hour. And that's
a coach's perspective. A guy who grinds through the film
even still and looks for everything and some kind of
angle can go a long way for a football team,
especially on defense.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Yeah, you know, it's amazing. You go back, you know,
a couple decades and the tips were found on film
and now with analytics essentially running probabilities and statistical analysis
of formations and everything else, I mean, that's become a
huge part of game planning. It's changed the way that
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the games are called. And what Duff is talking about
about those little tips and things of that nature that
you can pick up. I mean, those things still exist
and if you can have those tips and then combine
that with the analytics. But you know, here's the I
think the thing you got to be cautious of is that, like,
as a coach, you want to give the players all
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the best tools in the world, but the last thing
in the world you want to do is to completely
fill their mind to where they line up and they're
thinking so much they can't even play ball, you know.
So it's a it's kind of a fine line that
you got to walk with how much you share with
a player of all the information that you really have
as a coach, and a.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Lot of that too as players doing all that work
on their own in the in the film room, right,
I Mean, you find some of that stuff when you
dig deeper into the into the film.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Yeah, when you watch the film, a lot of that
is watching how the opponents, how they play, what their
strengths are, what their weaknesses are. You know, as a
as a defensive end, you might watch Trent Williams and say, okay,
what does he do with his hands as I'm approaching?
You know, how are his sets? You know, based on
his stance. I mean, you look at all those things
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to help you give you the best plan of attack
of facing a guy like that, you know. And Josh
is you know, he's he was raised the right way
by Klayus Campbell, and he is a student of the game,
and and he'll be watching a ton of film on
Trent Williams. And also mckivtt's the right tackle time for
the Jaguars. Defensive coverage of the game presented by g
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e H A Government Employees Health Association benefits for federal
employees and retirees. And we focus this week, of course
on Christian McCaffrey. Why not, he's the number one.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Issue right now for the San Francisco offense for defenses
to cover. First round pick, of course, back in twenty
seventeen by the Panthers out of Stanford signed an extension
with the Panthers in twenty twenty that was traded over
in twenty twenty two to the forty nine Ers. Two
time first team All Pro and in two games against
the Jaguars two hundred and seventy one yards on thirty
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five carries in two games, two touchdowns and over one
hundred through the air as well with a touchdown. He
had a really big game with Carolina back in twenty nineteen.
That's where the bulk of his numbers against the Jaguars
came from. So McCaffrey is leading the league in touches
seventy seven. That means fifty two carries and twenty five
receptions this year and the most touches in the first
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three games in his career. That's a pretty remarkable start
for him. The question I have for you is House's sustainable?
Is that for San Francisco to keep feeding him and
seemingly only him The wide receiver has heads in play too,
and we've talked about it just a little bit with Duff.
What scares you the most about McCaffrey.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Well, first of all, the answer the first question is
it sustainable If you look at McCaffrey over the last
couple of years. Your answers, no, because he hasn't been
able to stay healthy. Seventy seven touches is a lot.
What the number that really jumps out out of all
those numbers is twenty five receptions. You know, you extrapolate
that out to a full season, you're talking one hundred
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and forty one catches on the season, which would be
a new record, which would break the old record that
he had with the Carolina Panthers. Well, I think it
was like one hundred and nineteen back in twenty nineteen
or something like that, whenever it was. But I mean,
that's that's crazy. And what that tells you is is
that the quarterbacks are not comfortable throwing the ball to
the wide receivers. They're very happy just to dump it
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down to the running back. So obviously he's going to
have to have a lot of attention in this ball
game unless the forty nine ers all of a sudden
get Jwan Jennings back. As he back, I don't know.
He missed last week with an ankle shoulder. Pierce All
was on the injury report, didn't practice yesterday with a
knee injury. It's gonna be interesting to see how all
of that plays out. But McCaffrey's going to be you know,
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he's target number one for their whole offense, whether it's
run or pass. So that's going to be a huge
concentration for the Jaguars defense as a whole.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Yeah, another guy that has been an issue so far
for defenses, Ricky Pierce, saw the wide receiver who's had
some play early in this season. A lot of those
guys are out, you know, so he's been getting the
bulk of the the at least wide receiver receptions for
this football team.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
And what's young player in the league. The crazy story
about him is remember last year and his rookie year,
he got shot in chest. I mean, how horrific is that?
But he came back to play and this year he's
i think third in the National Football League and yards receiving,
So he is he's kind of their number one target
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right now. But the secret is is again is stopping
twenty three on the ground and taking advantage of the
inadequacies that the forty nine ers have with their offensive line,
particularly those two guards. Kalais Campbell was whooping up on
both of them last week in that game, and Kalays
Campbell has some very long teeth. He's been around a while.
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It was a long long time he was crushing. In fact,
the play that gave them the lead on safety, he
got the pass rush over the rookie left guard for
the forty nine ers that led to the hold call
in the end zone, which is a safety. And clais
Is he's still a good player in times.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
He did it against this team last year week one, right,
I mean two hours before the game, he's in handcuffs
and then all of a sudden he has the first
tangle for the loss. We ran a sack on back
to back place first drive.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Yeah, he's he's a good player, and uh, this is
his last year kind of returning home a little bit,
and his playtime has significantly dropped with the Arizona Cardinals.
But it di's great to see him and I hope
he has a great year. Yeah, of course, he was
great to see him on film last week. Yeah, last
week against San Francisco. We've got plenty ahead. We're gonna
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come back in this moment and take a look at
the history in California for the Jaguars. Not good JP,
no cover your ears well pretty, but that's I do
know this. I do know this, good tream, good teams
travel well correct.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
We'll dig into that when we come back. We got
the injury report as well. The Thursday edition not out
until about seven o'clock tonight due to the time differences
between the teams. That will take a look at yesterday's
and see what we can pull out of that as well.
And then at five o'clock it is Jags HQ. We'll
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Speaker 8 (36:24):
We've got to attack the ball more, I think, with
our hands instead of letting them maybe get into the
body at times. We always talk about not trying to
let the ball cross our eyes. So if it's an
inbreaker or even an outbreaker, trying not to let it
cross you this way at all. There's a difference between
the ball being you know, here and going and getting
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it there. You know, that's just kind of the way
it's you know, that's how we're trying to coach it.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Liam Cohen trying to explain how to correct some of
the drops in the wide receiver core the last couple
of weeks. Welcome back, Jaguars Happy Hour, J P. Shadwick,
Jeff Logoman or thanks to Mark Duffner.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Earlier.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
We're at the Hundai studios at the Miller Electric Center
ten toed Xcel ninety two point five FN. We're about
fifteen minutes away from Jags HQ. We'll have Bisselli and
James Gladstone in studio with us at least schedule to
join us at five o'clock on the Jaguars Radio Network
and we'll dig into all that has happened this week
for the Jacksonville Jaguars coming up shortly time now.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
They let you know what.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
We'll get to the injur report in a second. The
drop issue there Liam going on on the podium earlier
this week, you know, going through putting his hands up,
explaining some ideas behind it. I mean, are we overthinking it?
Just kind of catch the football? Right?
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Is it that simple? Yeah? It's that simple. It's concentration,
it's tracking the ball with your eyes all the way
into the hands. And Liam brings up a good point
about not letting the ball kind of pass your body,
and that means essentially he's talking about attacking the ball,
going to get the ball instead of waiting for the ball.
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You know when you're going to get it. What happens
a lot of times is that you're going to get it,
so your focus is on the ball, not making a
move yet, and so when you're when you're kind of
letting it come past you, a lot of times you're
turning your head and moving your head to see where
you're going to go after the catch. But you know
that's got to be fixed. I mean, you got too
many drops with his football team right now, and it's
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impacting the offense overall. Brian needs to be obviously better.
Parker had a rough outing with a couple drops himself,
and Etn had one, which is on a swing pass,
which wasn't great. So I think there were six in
that game total. I'm not sure what the count is
on the year, but it's not pretty. You want to
make sure that that gets fixed. And today, you know
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they had some guys staying on the jugs machine after
the after practice, throwing balls, you know, after the completion
of a play, just working the catches, you know. So
that's all you can do, is you just work the
process and practice and continue to get better at it
and find a way to concentrate better, keep your eyes
on the ball all the way. I mean, all those things.
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I mean, it's a it's not a mystery as to
how you get better. You rep it, you get better
in practice. You make a concerted effort to improve on
it and to rep it. And then that's how you
get better. If you don't do all those things, you're
going to continue to do the same thing.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Yes, part of that is wide receivers dropping the football.
But Trevor Lawrence, as you referenced earlier, needs some better
overall play, consistent play. He has an interception now in
six straight games. It's the longest active streak in the
National Football League, and the passer ratings is right around seventy.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Back to the interception here for a minute before you
move on to a lot of numbers, because here's what happened.
If you go back and look at the sequence of
plays that led up to that, I think it was
like a drop drop interception. Okay, so now you get
a quarterback who has the drops and now he feels
like he's got to force something that wasn't there. Okay,
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that's not what you want. Okay, you want to be
able to have a quarterback that's not feeling like he's
forcing the ball, you know. And here's the fact of
the matter too. The ball placement can always be better.
You want the ball placement to be the best it
possibly can be. And so I'm not saying that Trevor
is completely absolved of any responsibility, but the majority of
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them are draw flat out drops. I mean, you just
gotta catch them. So everybody needs to be better on
that front. And again, you're gonna continue to get the
game plan that the Texans gave you. Every week. They're
gonna challenge your passing game because they're gonna load up
the box, stop the run, and say, Trevor Lawrence, try
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to beat us. And that's true. When I say Trevor Lawrence,
that's Trevor Lawrence, the wide receivers, the pass protection, it's
the passing game overall. And so strap it up, you know.
Here forty nine ers are gonna let Robert solid Gus Bradley.
They're gonna load the box, load blocks the box, and
see if Trevor and the passing game can make enough
plays to back them off and out.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
We'll see what happens with Jami Brown and his shoulder.
We'll get to the injury report coming up.
Speaker 4 (41:17):
But he got folded by the way they did him.
Had a great hit. I mean he folded him probably
a classic separated shoulder because it was like one of
those tuck and fold like you know we used to
do on quarterbacks when it was legal, Yes, and us
legal to do that on a runner wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
If he's not available, is it more for Travis Hunter?
And how do you get him involved a little further
down the field or is that going to be in player?
Speaker 4 (41:42):
Is he going to be a short catch and run guy.
I think you can involve him more. But part of
involving somebody else too is Parker Washington. He's got to
be able to take some of that responsibility. And it
makes sense he's kind of the next guy up. And
can you throw the ball more to Travis Hunt?
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (42:00):
Can you have him run deeper? Oute? Sure, he's got
to have more more than what he had target wise
this past week. But I will say this, I mean,
if I'm the quarterback, Travis has a pretty good catch
rate compared to Brian and compared to Parker after the
last week's game, I would probably feel comfortable to him.
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But here's the guy that I think it's time for
a dominant game and I'm not saying a breakout game,
and that's Brenton Strange. I think this is a big
game for Brenton Strange to where he can have a
huge impact in this game. He's already having a huge
impact on the game on a day to day basis
in the running game and the passing game. He had
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that one catch to where he had Kamari Lasser covered
him on a on essentially a deep out and it
was a great throw by Trevor, and Brenton continues to
show great run after catch and we're looking at one
play right there. We got whacked by three Texans defenders
and still kept his feet and got a few more
yards down the field. I mean, he's just he's the
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closest thing to George Kittle that's in the league right now.
And there's a lot of people that say, oh, he's
not George. I'm not saying he's George Kittle. I'm just
saying that he's the closest thing to George Kittle that's
in this league today. What I mean by that, George
Kittle is an outstanding blocker and he's an excellent receiver
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when he's playing. And this is that's the exact same
kind of player that Brenton Strange is excellent blocker and
an excellent receiver. And the more reps or the more
targets he gets, the more we're going to see out
of him, I think, and we're and there's going to
be more to love.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
Let's take a look at the injury report presented by
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Due to the time zone differences, the official report does
not come out for Thursday until about seven o'clock or so,
so four o'clock Pacific Coast time.
Speaker 4 (43:58):
But we'll go.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
Through Wednesdays players that were out, and as you would imagine,
the forty nine ers have a long list four five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen,
fifteen players on the injury report this week. Not to
mention the guys on injured reserve and the pup list,
including Kittle and I mean Bosa is still on this list.
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He's out for the season though with a knee issue.
We won't go through all of them. Juwan Jennings ankle
and shoulder issue. The wide receiver has not participated in
practice at least on Wednesday. Mac Jones with a knee
issue limited on Wednesday. McCaffrey was just resting, not a
big deal. Ricky Piersaw with a knee issue didn't practice.
The wide receiver who's had most of the wide receiver
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production for them. So with the other guy's hurt, Ayuk
has been out. Piersaw didn't practice on Wednesday with a
knee injury, so that could be big. Trent Williams was resting.
Mikel Williams was full. He's fine. So there's a long
list here. For the forty nine ers, that's been the
story of the season, but they have overcome in one
football game. So now for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Diammy Brown
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on Wednesday's shoulder injury, did not participate in practice. Ezra Cleveland,
a guard with an ankle issue limited. Mckerry, the guard
with an elbow issue limited Wyatt milem knee injury, limited
participation the guard as well, Brian Thomas Junior with a
wrist issue full participation Wednesday. Base shal Tooton running back
shoulder issue. Had the non contact jersey on at least
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today in the open period when I saw him limited
participation on Wednesday. He did play last week. So that's
the Jaguars part of it. San Francisco with a much longer,
longer list. That's a long list for early in the season. Yeah,
it's real long.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
By the way. The former Jaguar tight end Luke Farrell
is now the starting tight end for the forty nine
ers in place of George Kittle. He's no George Kittle. No,
he's not a blocking tight end, but he's a very
good blocking tight end. Loved him here. He did a
good job, kind of one of those inline blocking tight ends.
Good player. Pick.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
You know else is on this team is the former
Jaguar Jordan Jefferson defensive tax.
Speaker 4 (46:04):
Yeah, he hasn't been active yet in the game this season.
That's right. He's on the team though, And as if
you look at some of the former defensive tackles that
they were, you know the number that we kept last year.
I think it was ten because we were just so
deep and had quality death at that position. I don't
think one of them has had an impact anywhere else. Yeah,
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just kind of a just saying yeah, just saying Robert Salo.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
Of course, the defensive coordinator, former Jaguars assistant coach Gus
Bradley is on this staff as the assistant head coach
of defense, so that'll be an interesting And.
Speaker 4 (46:39):
The special teams coordinator for the forty nine ers is
former Jaguar special team great Brent Boyer, who when he
left the Jaguars and for many years after that because
he played here from ninety five. He was here with
me and Tony and everybody else at the very inaugural year,
and then he played until two thousand and then he
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was the leading special teams tackler for a long time
until montell Owens came along, and Bora was an excellent
special teams player. He was about five foot nine. I'm
just kidding. He was a little taller than that. We
used to joke with him about how tall he was.
But since twenty sixteen through last year, he was the
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New York Jets special teams coordinator, very well respected. Coach
has always been a great guy and it's gonna be
good to see him.
Speaker 3 (47:29):
Jaguars in California all time have not been good. Four
and eleven the all time record in the Golden State,
and they had some success in Oakland three and three
over the years. They got to win in twenty twenty
two in La ask the Chargers and beat the heck
out of the Chargers, and that game, of course beat
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him in the playoff game later that year at home here.
But they have never won at the forty nine Ers
once a candlestick in two thousand and nine and then
lost in twenty seventeen late in the LEVI.
Speaker 4 (48:01):
Everybody makes a big deal out of this West Coast thing. JP.
Pull up the Jaguars all time record, all time, all time.
Just give me the Jaguars all time record. Okay, I'll
look it up. Okay. And I'm not talking about all
time on the road record. I'm talking about Jaguars all time.
You can actually break it down in Jaguars All Time
record ready and Jaguars Road record. How about that.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
All time record two four and two eighty three, two
four up eighty You got a road record for me.
Speaker 4 (48:29):
I'm looking through it. I'd love to know what that
one is. That's great, okay, wow, because I guarantee you
it mirrors what what the road record is in California.
Because here here's the reality while you're looking for those numbers.
Good teams travel well. Bad teams don't travel well.
Speaker 3 (48:48):
All time regular season road record eighty wins, one sixty
three losses.
Speaker 4 (48:52):
Okay, so you've lost twice as many as you've won.
What's what's the California record? Four and eleven? Okay, it's
about the same. It's so it's California doesn't have this
something in the air that makes teams lose by traveling
to this couse smog, especially in La No, they got
a great sea breeze from the Pacific Ocean. But my
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point is is that good teams travel well, bad teams
travel poorly, and the Jaguars have not been great historically yet.
And so here's an opportunity, just like last week, of
changing the narrative in the AFC South. Here's a chance
to change part of the direction of the franchise and
(49:35):
start winning on the road, because you're gonna have to
find a way to win some road games to be
able to stack enough wins to win the division and
qualify for the for the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (49:44):
That's Jeff Logiman. I'm JP Shatterger. Thanks to former Jags
linebackers coach Mark Dufner, is winning us each and every
Thursday at four o'clock on Jaguars Happy Hour. Coming up,
Tony Vasselli and James Gladstone scheduled to be in the
studio with us. JAGGS HQ is next to the Jaguars
Radio Network and thanks for listening to Jaguars Happy Hour.
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