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September 11, 2025 12 mins
Lauren Brooks from 1010 XL/92.5 FM in Jacksonville joined us to talk about the Jags since, well, they play the Bengals on Sunday.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Do on ESPN fifteen thirty.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
It is twenty minutes after three o'clock. This is ESPN
fifteen thirty. Moegger on location today third time this week.
We're broadcasting from the LPGA Tour Kroger Queen City Championship
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They have been very gracious hosts to us, Chad Brendle
and the Bearcats. A little bit later on this hour

(00:29):
Bengals and Jags Sunday at one Pregame coverage on ESPN
fifteen thirty from the Holy Grail begins at nine oh
five on Sunday morning. Lauren Brooks is a host on
a terrific sports talk radio station in Jacksonville ten ten
XCEL ninety two point five FM. She is one of
the hosts of Helmets and Heels on that radio station.

(00:51):
Does a terrific job. That station is really really good.
She knows everything there is to know about the Jaguars,
So it's good to have you, Lauren. Jacksonville wins the
first game season twenty six to ten. What do we
learn about the Jags on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Well, first, thanks so much for having me on and
all the kind words about the radio station on the
show as well.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
But yeah, we go from a cat fight to cat
fight when you're a Jaguars fan.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
And the Panthers are a team that I think had
higher expectations than what I think their season is going
to end up, at least the way Game one went
Bryce Young and that offense was futured. They basically had
three points for most of the game until kind of
a garbage time touchdown.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Towards the end.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
But on the flip side that the Jaguars defense, where
you expected the sacks to come from, there were none
from Trevon Walker and josh Heinz Allen and so that
was a little surprising. And then on offense, Trevor Lawrence
missed some throws, which we've known him to do now.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Going into year five in the system.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
But the play caller in Jacksonville I believe is a
top ten, if not top five play caller and Liam
Cohen the new head coach, and they did a really
good job this offseason of assembling some free agents that
have already made a difference in just one week, and
so obviously not quite sure how much take from this
Panthers team. I don't even know that they'll get to
the five wins that they got last year. But certainly

(02:07):
the Jaguars offense was in a rhythm. They got three
defensive takeaways, it was almost four with a pick six
that ended up getting called back, did a defensive holding,
and then as far as just overall, you walked away
from EverBank Stadium on Sunday, at least I died thinking, Okay,
this team has a legit chance to be around five
hundred this year.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
You mentioned Liam Cohen and his play calling, and folks
listening to this conversation who love UK football could attest
to that because he was there on two different occasions.
He never stays in one place for more than one year.
I assume that that is going to change in Jacksonville.
But where give me an I hear you give me

(02:48):
an idea of kind of where he has already put
his fingerprints on this organization.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Sure, and by the way, like you mentioned the Kentucky fans,
they know that he's a really good coach because he
made Will Levis look good and we saved them to
get drafted in the NFL. But either way, William Cohen
the first and foremost thing that he did, and this
regime in totality, I feel like it needs to be
talked about because Tony Biselli was named the EVP of
football Operations, and then they also brought in James Gladstone,

(03:16):
the general manager who came from the Rams organization and
ended up working under Left Sneed. And we know how
well they've drafted, but them as the triumvirate, have done
something that has been lacking here in Jackson will still
quite sometime and that does make this team physical.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
And again it's only week one. I don't know how
many times this.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Week I've already said that, but we do have to
remember it's just it's not sample size. But the offensive
line allowed zero sacks against the Panthers, and this team
rushed the football for two hundred yards total, with just
Traves E TN getting one hundred and forty three yards
on the ground.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Travis TN hadn't had one hundred.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yard games since twenty twenty three, also against the Panthers,
ironically enough, but that in and of itself is light
years different from the Dug Peterson era. The last three
years they were much more of a finesse team. Even
in twenty twenty two when they were winning, it was
way more about the weapons like a Christian Kirk and
a Evan Ingram and certainly Trevor Lawrence playing well.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Than it was about the trenches.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
And so right off the rip, they said we are
going to be a fast and physical team, and so
they definitely added speed as well.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
You add Dianmi Brown, you add Travis Hunter.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Who's obviously playing cloth sides of the ball, and then
you add the running back Baseial Tutan, who had the
fastest time forty time at the combine. And so the
fast speed, that physicality, all that is something that Liam
Cohen wanted to be kind of his brand of football.
And then, like I mentioned, the play calling, I mean,
it's just so much more creative.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
The Jaguars went for it.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
By the way, this is Liam Cohen's opening the Jaguars
opening drive, So.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Liam Cohen's opening drive, first time ever as a head coach.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
They get the ball on their like twenty, they come out,
get a first down, and then they ended up it
became fourth and one on their own thirty seven, okay,
and he decided to go for it.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
It was silent in that stadium.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
I think everyone was like, oh no, because Doug Peterson
would always go for a down, but he was terrible
in short yard situation, so that was terrifying, and they
end up getting an in around at Jammy Brown gets
the first down, very similar to a play call they
had against the Steelers in the first preseason game. But
right off the rip, you know, like this guy, he
already told us he wants to have a physical football team,

(05:24):
and he's a really good play design guy. So all
of that he's brought a lot of also, I think
just needed energy and a little bit of like edge
that also was not here under Doug Peterson.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Lauren Brooks is with this Jack Sports Radio ten ten
XL ninety two point five FM. I know the answer
to this question if I ask it here right. If
you ask any Bengals fan about Joe Burrow, he walks
on water. If I asked the average Jags fan how
they feel about Trevor Lawrence, what are they going to say?

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, that's such a polarizing topic down here.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
It's fascinating because you have the people who leave Trevor
Lawrence is a wasted draft pick. He's a bust already,
and he should not play quarterback in the NFL starting.
Then you've got the people who, not certainly not the
way that Engles fans feel about Joe Burrow, but the
people like and I'm probably in this latter category of
I've seen Trevor Lawrence make throws that are very difficult

(06:19):
for most quarterbacks to make. He just doesn't always go
through his progressions quickly enough. And he I don't know
if that's because well, I know he's working hard. Don't
don't ever take it as like a lack of work
at fictate, But I think because he was always so
talented at every level of football, it all came so
easy to him and everyone around him, certainly at Clemson
was such a talented athlete too that they were better

(06:41):
than everybody that they were playing against.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
And so has he.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Figured out how to read NFL defenses quickly enough and then,
like I said, make that decision making go his way.
That's the part with now year five that everyone's trying
to figure out, right, And that's where certainly Liam Cohen
came in and right off the bat he said, we're
going to change Trevor's fool work I want him to
have his right foot in front of it, or he
naturally has his right foot in front of the other.

(07:05):
I want him when he drops back to have his
left foot in front of his right foot. So immediately
he made those changes, and so I think it's going
to take Trevor a little bit of time to get
the footwork exactly where he wants it and those mechanics,
and then to obviously also have every single detail of
that playbook completely under his belt to where there's no
hesitation at.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
The line and things like that. I do think by
the end of.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
This year, we are going to say this is the
generational so to speak, quarterback that we predicted.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Coming out of Clemson. Right Like, he has all the
physical tools.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
We know that, and Liam Cohen, I think, is working
with him to get those mental tools. But yeah, the
average fan, it really could go either way. But I
think the majority of fans are hopeful that Liam Cohen's
going to bring it out of him because we have
seen him be very successful in this league.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
It was the first year under Doug Peterson. That just
feels like so long ago now.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
It sure does. Yeah, you know, I was thinking the
Jags were here that Urban Meyer year. That feels like
forever ago one more.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Oh yeah in Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeahs he stayed. Yeah, he's stayed in Cincinnati, went up
to Columbus.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Which is un heard of. The national picture went viral
of him at the bar. Look, I graduated from University
of Florida, so I have a whole.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
We had here a lot of fun with that. For
for what it's worth, I I love Travis Hunter because
I went up to Boulder last year to watch, uh,
the Cincinnati Bearcats play Colorado, and I walked away from
that saying, that's legitimately the best college football player I've
ever seen. I'm reading a little bit of a heavier
workload on defense this week. By the time we get
to the middle of the season. What's his role?

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah, that's such a good question because there are people
that have watched him, you know, every snap in training
camp in the preseason, and you don't know, Like I'll
put myself in the category, I still don't know what
the plan is going to be. If you were to
watch him in college, you would say he's a natural DV.
I think you know, he's corner first, wide receiver second.

(09:13):
That's kind of the impression I've gotten in watching him
this last few weeks or the last two months basically now,
but it seems like the plan, and that's what they've.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Told us, is he's going to be receiver first, corner second.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
I do think by halfway through the season we'll start
to see probably more of like a fifty to fifty
to where he's getting you know, snaps on both sides
of the ball around. Even this first week, it was
way more on offense and defense. But I just think
that's also dictated by the teams that they're playing against.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Obviously the Bengals with the receiving.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
Core that they have, like, they may need Travis hinter
Way more on defense this week, and then that may change,
you know, the next week when the Texans come to town.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
But to me and watching him, I think he is a.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Phenomen in a cornerback like especially too, because he's played receiver,
he knows the nuances of that position and so it
allows him, I think, to really mirror those those receivers
really well. But what does this team need more from him? Like,
do they need Trevor Lawrence to have another weapon in
addition to Brian Thomas Junior and Deanmi Brown or do
they need him to play corner? Darian Jones has been

(10:20):
playing lights out and so opposite Tyson Campbell. And then
he brought in Jordan Lewis from the Cowboys who had
an interception last week, and he is just a game changer,
So do they feel better about their secondary? But if
a guy gets hurt, you know, that's certainly a question there.
But obviously that's the same conversation on the offensive side too,
if a guy gets hurt.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
So it really is going.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
To be fascinating to see each week what it ends
up looking like. We all in the press box on Sunday,
the moment I saw number twelve running out on.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Defense, I was like, is there is?

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Like, yeah, I feel like they made wait way longer
than I expected. They knew that they had this carrot
that they were dangling in front of us, and we've
all been.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Excited to see it.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
But yeah, he is an unbelievable freakish athlete.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
And it's funny too.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
He has such personality but in the interviews he's kind
of quiet, like you can tell that, like he does
not want to really say much when he's being interviewed.
So it's just a it's a fascinating, like I said, storyline.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah, I can't wait to follow it as the season unfolds. Lauren,
I cannot thank you enough. Awesome insight. I appreciate the time.
If the Bengals and Jags crosspaths anytime beyond Sunday, I'll
make sure to bother you. Thanks so much.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Oh that would be excellent because that means playoffs obviously.
So that was great. Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
You got it, Lauren Brooks ten ten XL in Jacksonville.
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