Rams vs. Jaguars Matchup, AFC South Review – Live From the UK | Jags A.M. | Jacksonville Jaguars

Rams vs. Jaguars Matchup, AFC South Review – Live From the UK | Jags A.M. | Jacksonville Jaguars

[Music] Welcome to Jags AM. Kanani Stevens here. Brian Ston, John Oer coming to you live from Herfordshshire, England. Uh good morning to those in Jacksonville. Afternoon here in the UK, but we’re getting ready for another London matchup at Wembley. So, we’re going to get into our big things for you today. Brought to you by GAA, Government Employees Health Association. The first big thing is away we go because away we go. We left early this week to get out here, practice early. It’s a little bit different than traditionally maybe the team has done at certain points. We’ve been playing two games here in London the past couple of years, but Liam Cohen talked a little bit about what went into the decision-m it it was just something that when we talked about in the off season that this could be a possible opportunity for a new everything to maybe be together for an extended period of time. It just so happens I told the team that what a perfect time for this to come up that we’re coming off of a tough loss and we’ve got to face a little adversity as a team. Well, now we’re together for an extended period of time. um in a new setting in a different place. Um obviously this organization has had a lot of familiarity with making this trip and I think our ops travel everybody that is involved in it is you know really uh gets it. So obviously the location isn’t new. We stay at the Grove every year, but um coming early. I know the team has done both throughout the years, Brian, but Liam Cohen said, you know, that when they went through all the logistics, they wanted to kind of get out here early, get established, and take the time delay out of it. But two things stand out when when they would go on Thursday night, land on Friday, practice, then practice Saturday. They talked about getting, you know, that feeling back, feeling good on Sunday. Uh obviously coming early gives you a chance to feel good by the time you get to the practice field, uh a little bit later today. And the other thing is, and you guys probably noticed this too, you know, we get going through training camp in the preseason, and there’s people that we don’t know all that well, that we haven’t met on a new staff, players and support staff, and I, you know, at breakfast this morning, I was talking to somebody that I had really never talked to or met, didn’t know what they did. So, there’s something to that, waking up and and and walking down to breakfast and saying good morning where you normally wouldn’t, and being around people and getting to know them a little bit better. And when you consider we’re in week seven of this brand new program, there’s some value to that. Yeah. Nobody will tell you that it’s not a good camaraderie experience for the team. The only way it wouldn’t be is if they didn’t like each other. And you don’t get this idea from this team at all. Um I think Liam also this week really wants to take some time in practice and really work on the penalties, really emphasize uh that. I don’t know how much that’s going to be emphasized when they’re sitting around in the room talking to each other, but having everybody in one place, one focus, maybe a touch of a training camp uh feel, uh maybe the message will be a little more received on that front as well. Our second big thing today is staying put because while the team traveled on an overnight flight on Monday, uh Devin Lloyd, who was dealing with a calf injury, didn’t make the trip out here, which obviously he’s been having a tremendous beginning to this season, John, when you’re looking at, you know, even when he wasn’t able to play against the Seahawks, it was noted when he wasn’t out there. Um, is this concern long term? Well, I don’t think it’s a concern long term. I think what you’re looking at and uh Brian you and I I think talked about earlier in the week now you’re Devin Lloyd down Britain Strange down uh Quinton Morris who’s the backup tight end you’re sort of maybe still down Trayvven uh Trayvon Walker full effectiveness you were down Robert Hanyy the other night and I know this questions about Devin sorry um but you’re in a situation where that’s four or five key guys that aren’t going 100%. Uh this is next men up and they’ve really got to play well to get to the buy somehow get through this one, get some of these guys back, but they’re down some core guys right now. Yeah, I’m interested to see where Hany is. Obviously, we heard good things about what Jonah Manheim did last week, but Hany, you just get the sense he would have been an addition because of his knowledge of the offense again, especially against a team like Seattle that blitz so much. In the case of Devin Lloyd, you talk about your playmaker on defense. Five takeaways. Uh Ventro Miller comes in and he’s very good against the run. There’s no drop off there, but he’s not going to be the guy who gets you sacks and interceptions and and forced fumbles and things like that. I mean, maybe he grabs one or two. He’s not the same way. Um you know, you look at a team like San Francisco and they lose Nick Bosa early and and they lost Fred Warner this week. Do you have any doubt that they’ll find a way to stay relevant to play well? That’s what this team has to do. They’ve got to play well and and execute their assignment and find a way, as John mentioned, just to to to get to the by-week. And except for Lloyd, we’re really talking about some guys who are sort of subtly very, you know, I think Trayvon’s the best player on defense, and I think uh Brandon Strange is best player on offense. But nationally, people don’t look at that and say, “Oh, the Jaguars are really injured.” But having those two guys down plus your playmaker Devin plus Hany. Uh this is the attrition time and after this week if they win, what’s everybody going to say? Oh, the buy’s coming at a good time, right? So you can get healthy, but they got to get through this one. The other side with Trayvon is, you know, from what I’ve been told that club is going to be on for a month, which means that by the time you get to Las Vegas, you know, other side of the by-week, perhaps he can be working from a splint, you know, from a brace and get back to himself. So, one more game where it would seem that he would be limited. Our final big thing today is going to be making moves. That’s with a question mark. We don’t know yet for sure. Obviously, James Gladstone not afraid to make any sort of trade or move in the season. We’ve already seen a couple, but Brian, I’m sure you’re keeping track of this. They’re they’re making cap space. They’re converting a lot of things into um bonuses, restructuring contracts. Most recently, Greg Newsome, but they’re giving themselves some space to make a move by the deadline if they have the uh ability to get someone they want. Newsome, um, Walker Little, uh, Deami Brown, three guys that they massage the contracts to create room because they were up against it. And I think we’ve all heard that we can expect more from Belli Gladstone and Cohen when it comes to moves. They’re not going to be shy about going and finding players. And and the question everyone has is, okay, who, right? But I think for our purposes, it’s more what? What position? Where do they need help? And you’d say somewhere on the defensive line. I guess you could say Edge as long as Trayvon is out, but you’re expecting to get him back. in tight end, you’re expecting Brent and Strange back, but I think you could use it help at safety, and we saw that last week. Uh, and I think you could use help against the run. They’re they’re pretty solid against the run, but you could use someone that can push the pocket a bit more than we’ve seen. Yeah, you’d really like to get uh more push stout up front. I think we’re back to a little bit where the edge rushers uh Trayvon being out hurts and then uh really nobody to take any double team pressure off Josh. Uh, somebody on the front needs to get more push and I’m always a little hesitant to say you can go get it. Um, you know, they went and got it with Newsome because they gave up something. Uh, how much can you go get right before the trade line uh a trade deadline? I’m always a little skeptical, but we’ll see. You got two weeks until the trade a little more than two weeks. Two weeks from Tuesday is the trade deadline. So, if there’s something that you really feel like you need coming out of the by-week, now’s the time to go get it. Absolutely. Stay with us here on Jags AM. 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Patrick McCary weighing in on Jonah Mannheim who got his first NFL start at center last week. Um as Robert Hany is dealing with an injury right now. Uh when we look back at the offensive line, obviously not a great performance as a group. Most sacks we’ve seen more than we’ve seen the first several weeks before that. Uh but Mheim himself, I don’t know if this is getting help from those around him, didn’t have a terrible day. It’s just the as a group they’ve really regressed a bit. Is it just the injuries, Brian? Well, that’s a that’s a tough one. Or did they face a very good team in Seattle? They face a very good team in Seattle and it other than injuries, Kai, I think we’ve seen inconsistencies, right? Um Walker Little has had a good game and then had a game where you thought, “Ah, come on.” I mean, why can’t we play the same level every single Sunday? And he’s not the only player that does that. We’ve seen Ezra Cleveland look strong and then he had injury uh and and then he’s had some issues as well. The change at um at center obviously doesn’t help. Uh Mari had the knee. So it kind of plays into it. You know, the best offensive lineman you’ve had is Anton Harrison and and so yeah, it’s I think inconsistency has been the first thing and then injuries the second. Well, I don’t think Brenton being out helped. Now, obviously, he he’s not contributing or his absence isn’t hurting you with sacks, but it does hurt you with an option, you know, to avoid sacks. Uh Anton’s been dealing with stuff, elbow, uh Ezra, this, you know, not but Mari. So, I think a little bit of the dealing with things. Uh, I also think if you recall the Seattle game was the first time that they were trailing second half. So all of a sudden it’s the first time they’re playing a really good defensive front and in a situation where that really really good defensive front knows you’re going to throw. They got back into the Kansas City game before halftime. So they never got out of running when they wanted to run. I think that had a lot to do with it, too. And uh look, Trevor held into a couple of sacks I thought a little bit. So I think a lot of circumstances I think they’ll be able to get the offensive line. I don’t think you’re going to have another seven sack game. No. Uh but I think it’s going to have to manufacture good P. I’m not sure it’s naturally a great offensive line. Uh I think it’s a good offensive line that’s going to have to play well to be good. Well, you have your hands full this week because Jared Verse and Young have been coming off the edge. They’re better edge rushers than we saw last week and they’re pretty darn good on the inside as well. So, you need a consistent performance. I I think you’ll get it from Anton Harrison. You hope that this is a week where you get it from Walker Little and you’ve you know, you’ve got to just keep working those combinations and try to figure it out. Sometimes, too, in that kind of a game when they do get you time, you got to hit it when it’s there. We’ve seen that before. and they didn’t take advantage of the times where you did have a clean pocket, didn’t take advantage of with big plays. Um, so I think it’s going to be incumbent on on the offense to get some points to get into a rhythm, get up so that you’re not playing against the chains the whole other thing too, right? We didn’t mention seven offensive penalties. Every one of those puts you in bad down at distance. That’s terrible for an offensive line trying to block for the pass. Let’s do a little this or that. I’d love to get your guys’ opinions on this. We mentioned both of these guys already. Robert Hany and um Brenton Strange who are both dealing with injuries right now. Brenton, we know will be out at least a couple of weeks. Robert Hany working on coming back, but who’s the bigger loss right now? Because I feel like they both play such a crucial role. We’ve talked a lot about Brenton’s pass catching and blocking is a huge both of feels like almost two people have to replace him with, but also Hy’s calming presence in the center at center position obviously or in the center of the line, but I feel like the consistency and and I think maybe just mentality is something that was missing as well. like I don’t think no knock on Mheim whatsoever, but just the experience and having that in there, which one is a bigger loss to you and and I guess in terms of getting this team back on track on offense? I think it’s strange. Um nothing, you know, against Hany. I I don’t know that the drop off is as big between Hany and Mannheim, who’s a talented guy who the Jaguars really liked coming out of the draft as it is between Breton Strange and Hunter Long. I mean, Hunter Long has a role on this team, no doubt. Johnny Munt has some things he can do as well. But without Brettton Strange, it’s tight end by committee. Whereas with Brettton Strange, you’ve got perhaps the second best tight end in the league. You know, when you look at the best all-around tight ends in the league, the first one is Greg KD. I’m sorry, George KD. Uh the next one is Brett Strange. Yeah. And uh I agree. Uh, I think you miss Hany a lot because of the veteran and being able to get you in the right calls and he communicates very well with Trevor. So, I think there are some there’s a lot of intangible things physically they don’t miss Hany as much because of Manheim. But Britain Strange is really good and really high level and there’s nobody on the roster who can do what he does. When could you get them both back? I know. I would like them both. John, I was going to say as well, I feel like we’ve talked a little bit about it, but the run game was so successful right out of the gate and then without Strange in the game, I’ve noticed a drop off and I feel like he played such a big role in that that maybe you think, oh, it’s mostly the offensive line, but Bren Strange’s role in that was so huge, it’s been hard to replicate without him. Well, for probably since early last year, anybody around here has told you he’s their best run blocker regardless of position. And maybe that’s changed with some people this year. Uh that also contributes to the pass protection problems because they’re not as good and reliable a running team without Brenton Strange. And when you don’t run as well and and you’ve got penalties uh flying up, then all of a sudden you’re in third and 13. Uh Brenton Strange creates a lot more the loss of Brenton Strange creates a lot more long down and distance. It all goes together when you lose. I think they would tell you Hany and Strange are maybe two of their best three or four offensive players. And when you lose both of them, you’re down a lot. You go back to the Texans game and um and Travis’s 70 yard run. I mean, it was it was Strange who came in with a wham block and and sealed that. It it it feels like in every game that he played, there was a block or two that got Travis beyond the line of scrimmage and got him, you know, one-on-one where he could make a move and gain, you know, 13 yards or 22 yards, whatever it was. And that’s been missing without him because he’s that guy who gets to the second level and makes a key block. Um, and that’s that’s what Long and Munt don’t necessarily give you. Yeah. Think about what um the lack of footing, if you will. You feel like you’re on sure footing going out there defensively when Trayvon’s on the field and offensively when Breton’s on the field. When you don’t have that, you lose part of your foundation and really part of your stoutness and toughness. This wants to be a physical team. Without those two guys, they’re not as physical a team. Absolutely. Um let’s talk a little bit about the Rams, the opponent coming up. Obviously very familiar to our new head coach and our new GM, James Gladstone, coming from that organization. Uh Liam Cohen obviously was there twice, two different stints with McVey. When you’re playing against a coach or an organization that you previously worked with and are kind of the same tree, do you feel like this just a personal I’m curious what you guys think. Do you feel like it’s a pro or it’s a con? Cuz they almost know everything. You all you know everybody’s little secret tricks what you’re kind of getting into and then do you try to outsmart yourself to the point where you’re undoing what you would normally do on game prep? You know, my favorite story about this uh goes all the way back to Super Bowl 14. Bud Carson, who had been the defensive coordinator for the Steelers for years, was now the coach of the Rams. And Terry Bradshaw got to the line of scrimmage and barked out the first audible and the Rams adjusted. Terry called timeout and went to Chuck Null and said, “They got them. They got the signals.” Um and and so there is some of that, right? There’s that idea that Liam understands what the talent looks like and what they like to do. uh and that McVey can understand what Liam wants to do uh based on what they do on on uh Sunday. I I personally I think it’s a pro to have a coach from the Shawn McVey tree. I went and looked and between 2004 and 2016 the Rams had four coaches, three interim coaches and one 500 season. That’s it. Then McVey comes in. He’s in his eighth year. And in the previous seven seasons, John, six playoff appearances, two Super Bowl appearances, and a Super Bowl championship. Liam was there when they won. And more importantly, they had one losing season after the Super Bowl. He was there for that as well. So, he’s seen how McVey operates, how he puts the team together, how the game plan comes together, how he adjusts through difficulty. I I just think the overall advantage for the Jaguars is to have a coach from that Shawn McVey tree. Well, there are coaches who shape the league. Joe Gibbs and Bill Walsh did it for a long time and everything followed for a long time off that. Shawn McVey is is shaping the league. When you listen to Liam talk offense, uh I’m learning things about offensive football that, you know, I’m not going to say I thought I knew, but I’ve never covered anything from this tree. So, a lot of what I knew before is anticated. uh what we saw last year is sort of leaving the league a little bit. Andy Reid’s tree, that West Coast tree, it’s changed over time, but it’s a Shawn McVey driven league. Uh now, what does that mean for this game? I think it’s a little bit if there’s a motivation edge, you know, score that for the Jags. And I think it does help for Liam Cohen to be able to defensively if they’re asking, hey, why are they doing this? He can tell them not necessarily Rams tendencies, but things that that offense does in that situation, how Shawn thinks. Now Shawn’s going to know that. Yeah. So that’s where the chess game begins. So um I think it’s a cool game uh for that reason. You almost wish it was in the States so you’d be concentrating on that more. Um because they called it the Northstar. I mean this is the first measuring stick against the Northstar for the Jaguars. It feels like I don’t know if you guys know the Spider-Man meme where they all are pointing at each other because it’s like I know what you know, but you know what I know. And I’m I’m excited to see how it plays out. We’ll talk a little bit more exactly about the Rams matchup on tomorrow’s show, but just some food for thought. Well, listen, you covered you covered a distinctly different culture than either one of us have when you were covering the New England Patriots. Um, and obviously you were with Tony Dunie, so we all kind of seen different things. This one stands alone and and if if Shawn McVey is responsible for the culture that we’re seeing in the building, I mean, it feels like like football heaven. I mean, these guys are all about the ball, and I just like the way that they do things. And I know that they’ve got to improve the roster a bit there. There’s some areas they’ve got to show up, but it just feels going into this matchup against the Northstar, as you said, John, like Liam is really dialed in and really excited about this. Absolutely. Motivation will be there. Stay with us on Jags AM. After the break, we’ll talk a little bit about what’s going on in the AFC South. [Applause] [Music] Since 2014, there’s been only one official home builder of the Jaguars, Dreamfinders Homes. 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And in Tennessee, we’re seeing just that where you’re getting a new GM but keeping a coach and then getting rid of a coach who just drafted a quarterback and then you’re going to get a coach in here with a quarterback that didn’t draft. So it’s just interesting to watch it go down in a different way. Well, so it’s Callahan’s second season, right? So, and obviously the Titans said to Boronzi, Mike Borgonzi, who is the new general manager, “Hey, we’d like to see what he’s got.” But Boronzi came from the uh Andy Reid tree. He came from Kansas City where he had been for most of his career. And Brian Callahan came from Zack Taylor who came from Shawn McVey. And sometimes it it just it doesn’t match up. Callahan’s a guy who said to be terrific with quarterbacks. So, how much progress did you really expect in the first 6 weeks with a roster that wasn’t that good? To your point, Kai, they if they were going to make the move in week six, they should have just swept it clean at the beginning of the year and given Burggoni a chance to bring in a guy that fits his persona, the team that he wants to build with Chad Brinker, the new vice president of football operations for them, and just started it clean because we like Mike McCoy. I mean, I think Mike McCoy is a good coach. He’s worked with good quarterbacks, Payton Manning, um, and Philip Rivers, but now you’re putting him in a position of having to show a lot of progress, and you’re six weeks in, and you kind of know what you are at this point. Yeah. It’s, uh, it doesn’t have to be in lock step if the if if the people make it work, if if you hire the right people. But if it uh if it’s not, it makes it very tough to get the timing right, especially with the quarterback dynamic in the league right now. Meaning now you’re five games in on on Cam Ward. Uh and you’re going to have an interim coach with Cam Ward and then next year the story lines up there will be well it’s really his rookie year, you know, and so the time frame can get away from you. They’ll be judging Cam Ward now next year. Well, is he a second year at quarterback? Is he a first? How much progress? So, it it it has become a timing league where you almost think you got to hit reset and hope that you that you get GM and head coach in a year where you had the right quarterback at the top of the draft. So, it’ll be interesting to watch because that sort of we’ve seen that with Trevor coming up when they can get in lock step. It feels like lock step now, but it took a while, you know. Um, I asked Liam before the Kansas City game about Momes and and and and the standard for, you know, having that that knowledge of the system to be able to make all the changes, how long it takes. And he went right to Trevor and said, you know, this Trevor’s on his third head coach. He’s on his third offensive system. You got to have consistency. So, I guess it depends on how you look at it. Bonzi may have known that he was going to blow this thing up and he didn’t want too many systems and too much time to to pass or you’ve created a a Trevor Lawrence sort of situation here for them now. and we’ve seen firsthand how it’s taken him through some ups and downs and still working to get this offense down. So, I think they’ve lengthened their their timeline with Cam Ward. U but that may not matter because the timeline is so long with a quarterback. We’ll see what it looks like as this will be their first week with a different interim coach. Elsewhere, the Colts are sitting at top the division and I know we’ve talked about this every single week, but they continue to to see success. battled back, got a win over the Cardinals this week, and uh we don’t play them until later in the season. So, a lot of this is just kind of watching from afar, but John, they’re the real deal. They’re getting their wins up there. It’s going to be it’s going to be hard to get at if they continue on this pace. Well, you never want to let a team get too far away. They’re um the positive for the Jags with the Colts in first place is if you stay within two, you’re going to have a chance to reel them back in really fast. So, the division uh should not get away. Uh the Colts have not played a great schedule. The the counter to that is they are running the ball very well. And Daniel Jones in his first year there is looking consistent enough that they’re five and one. So, you start doing math, it’s it’s hard to see them the way they’re playing with Daniel Jones getting them consistent at quarterback. You would think they’re at least 500 down the stretch, which puts you at 11 and seven or 11 and six, whatever. My math is not great, but somewhere in there. So, it it will it means you’ve got to win more than that to catch them. So, uh you don’t want to let them get two or three games up because then all of a sudden every win for you is a hold your breath. I don’t think they’re a great team, but I think they’re playing really good football. Um Shane Stiken has a a nose for he came from Philadelphia for the running game and and I mean I’ve been open about my admiration for Jonathan Taylor who I think is just sensational and now that he has a legitimate quarterback under center you have got to be worried about what he can do. Their defense has not been as good. However, they do have some talented players. Deorest Buckner still can play at a high level. Lu Lu is a young pass rusher they drafted last year that they like very much. They’re susceptible at corner where they had a veteran uh Xavier Howard retire suddenly on them. But if Jonathan Taylor’s controlling the tempo, the Colts defense can play with the lead, which they have a lot in the first six weeks and they’ve been good. Um, it’s a fun dynamic and I think if the Jaguars can keep within a couple of games like John just mentioned, the AFC South’s going to have a little respect running into the month of December and people aren’t just going to be able to say, “Well, that’s the worst division in football.” Well, what if you got an honest to goodness race between a a a Colts team and a Jaguars team and one of them’s going to end up as a wild card if not the division winner. That that’ll be fun. Good for us. It’s going to be fun down the stretch with all the divisional games the Jaguars have towards the back half of the season. That’s for certain. That’s what’s up with the AFC South. Stay with us. We will tell you what’s coming up the rest of the week for the Jaguars here in London. 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Um I do think uh the players will be better adjusted and I think the positive of the camaraderie thing I do think is real. I think uh people think of teams um as always getting to know each other and really they don’t get that chance outside of training camp because you come to the facility Brian and you’re in your position groups and you’re in your routine and every day is sort of the same from the time training camp ends the regular season. So the fact that they’re here and they see each other in the hallway and it’s like you know it’s like going to basketball camp when you’re a kid which I used to do. So there is an element of that that I think is a positive. when you have that extra time. I mean, in the evening when they’re done, they they you know, they can go down. I saw a bunch of guys the other night, uh, you know, playing cards, right? So, they’re they’re getting that time together. There really is something to it. 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