POSTGAME: The Jacksonville Jaguars EMBARRASS And EXPOSE Themselves In London Loss

POSTGAME: The Jacksonville Jaguars EMBARRASS And EXPOSE Themselves In London Loss

The Jacksonville Jaguars get embarrassed and exposed. Yeah, I said it. They got exposed in London with a 35 to7 loss. We’ll talk about it here on Locked on Jaguar. You are Locked on Jaguars, your daily Jacksonville Jaguars podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. All right, welcome to the postgame show here on October 19th. The Jaguars lose to the Los Angeles Rams uh 35 to7. I’m Tony Wiggins. I’m going to run you right through it. Uh let you know, give you a little bit of a road mapap what we’re going to talk about here. First and foremost, thank you for tuning in to Locked on Jaguars where it is your team every day. It is always us that thank you for making us your first listen. We do appreciate you. We do not take you for granted here. Also, wherever you find uh you find your podcast or like them, whether you watch or listen, make sure you tap into that location each and every day so you don’t miss an episode. All right, I’m going to run through it real quick. It’s not going to be nice, but it’s going to be precise. All right. Uh second half, we’ll talk about by week uh to make decisions clearly. Uh we’ll get this thing going though by talking about more questions than answer. They got embarrassed today, man. Y’all saw it. I saw it. And this has been building up to this point. This is the point where optimism uh for the fans is no longer a priority for me personally. I’m just going to be honest and tell you the truth. And the truth is the Jaguars have some major issues. The one major issue that they have is they have a quarterback who has tremendous talent, but he also has a tremendous amount of inconsistency. And there will be people that will look at his stats and tell me that it wasn’t on him, that he’s had all of these drops, that the offensive line gave up seven sacks. All of those things are true. And that’s why I said issues with an S. But the one thing that I can tell you is this. Trevor Lawrence has talent. That’s not the question. The problem is he’s inconsistent. And consistency once you get it becomes a talent. like some people are talented and they’re consistently talented. I said at one point that he would have to get away from the very things and the very the very feelings that we have about people like Jameus Winston. And I’ve always said that Jameus Winston has a a bit of a high variance for me in terms of does he have talent? It’s obvious you can see that. But he doesn’t have the consistency that allows you to have a game plan each and every week. That’s why we call it the Trevor Lawrence experience. Um, I don’t think he’s ever going to be consistent enough for this team to win. I’m just wondering if they have started to realize it because it actually just hit me. I was giving Trevor the benefit of the doubt and hoping that new coaches could change it and new coaches could make it better. They can’t. He is what he is. Maybe he wasn’t always this way. Maybe he was broken to be the type of player that he is. But there were people in the pre-draft process and I thought they were crazy. They would point out three games that Trevor had and they go in all three of those games he looked just alike. The three bad games that he had in college. Out of all the games he played, they say the the thing that disturbed them about him was that those three games he looked alike in each and every one of them. And that’s what he’s looking like week to week to week to week here. It’s not that he’s the biggest problem. It’s just that when you’re trying to figure out what the problems are, you’re looking for your quarterback to be your solution. Now, if you think about what they have said here, they have said that they are not trying to solve problems. They’re trying to find solutions, right? They’re continuing to try to find a solution with Trevor Lawrence, and he is not the reason. So, everybody wants to say about Travis Hunter and Brian Thomas Jr., Brian Thomas Jr., I I I don’t know what to say about Brian Thomas Jr. right now. I’m gonna start talking about Edgar Bennett. That’s right. The home team, the wide receivers’s coach here. You got Hall of Fame worthy players like Jimmy Smith questioning the technique of the wide receivers. And yet, still nothing is being done about it. I’m not saying that they need to listen to Jimmy, but what I’m saying is they need to at least address certain things that a guy like that will tell you is a part of the problem, like release points and all of that stuff. We can get to all of that a little bit later. Uh Travis Hunter did uh have uh a little silver lining of his best game as a pro. And these things go hand in hand with something that I’m going to tell y’all in segment number two here because we only have two segments today. Travis Hunter actually had eight catches for 101 yards. Got his first touchdown. U and it seemed like somebody woke up and said, “We’re going to try him. We’re just going to try.” He He played the least amount of snaps he played on defense. the one that he did play on defense uh is where he matched up one-on-one with a Hall of Famer and he knocked the ball out of his hand, but uh and got the Jaguars off the field. Right. The thing that bothers me is it took them to get to this point to start using him heavily more heavily on one side of the ball than the other. This is what happens. I want to be very clear about something. I think Travis Hunter can eventually be one of the best wide receivers in the NFL. I also believe that he can be one of the best corners. And you ain’t even got to use the word eventually. I think if he played cornerback and spent all the all of his time in the cornerback room, he’d already be a top five corner in the National Football League. And he he can push for top three, maybe even get to number one by next year. That’s how good I think he is. The question has always been, can he simultaneously do both? And by trying to do both, is he going to be on boarded slowly enough to the point where it hurts him and it hurts the team? Well, they said from the very beginning, they didn’t know what it was going to look like. Well, now you going f a fo, you have found out what it looks like when you split a guy between two rooms. And maybe it’s what he wants to do. But I think sometimes you have to save somebody from themselves. Maybe now he’s caught up enough on offense or where and they realize they can’t rely on Brian Thomas Jr. where they’re going to force feed him. I don’t care if he’s playing the X, the Z, the Y, or the F. And they said that he’s only playing one position. It doesn’t really matter to me. It what matters to me is how’s it your job is to win. And you don’t have to win all the games right away. the first year. But you do, in my opinion, have to while you’re trying to do one thing. I don’t think that they’ve I think they’ve done right by him because they’ve done what he wanted them to do. But I don’t think that they Well, let me let me correct it. They’ve done the right thing by him, but they haven’t done the right thing for him. At some point, man, they’re going to get past promises that were made and have to do what’s best to help the team, which is which ultimately is going to be the best to help him. If you’re gonna make him your wide receiver, he has to be wide receiver one. He’s the best player you have on offense. If you’re gonna make him a corner, he has to be corner number one. If you’re gonna do both, fine. At this point, it might start looking better. But I do believe a lot of problems that he’ve had and they’ve had, even some of the penalties, which they were out of, I’m not blaming them on him. It’s for some people not being around or being where they’re supposed to be all the time with one room. And that was the thing that I worried about with this situation. So, um, we’re going to get to those penalties, too, because that’s going to be something that slaps right in the face of Liam Cohen, uh, of his coaching staff. It’s like are are they so busy worried about all of these other things that makes them great getting Travis done and how you do this instead of just focusing on the main thing being the main thing because I have never in my life seen a team so penalized. They did it again today. We’ll go through a couple of numbers from the box score but we ain’t going to choke ourselves and put ourselves in a headlock with stats because we already know stats don’t tell you the whole story. We’ll get to all of that in just a second here on Locked On Jaguars. All right, today’s show is sponsored and brought to you by Rippling. Uh, if you’re business owner, and here’s the truth. SAS promised to make work easier. 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Kurt Warner, I was glad he was on the call today. the Hall of Famer Curt Warner, quarterback Kurt Warner, because I kept getting into fans on social media about Travis’s performance and they were saying, “Well, he did the only thing that he could do.” Yeah, he did the only thing that you think and maybe I think because we’re not quarterbacks, but then when you have a Hall of Fame quarterback right there on the broadcast questioning decisions, questioning a reverse out, understanding that if a guy’s blitzing, it’s a hot and you got to get rid of the ball. Even if your dude ain’t looking, take it and throw it in his direction and throw it out of bounds. But what you can’t do is take a sack. And if you’re going to take a sack, you can go to your left, but back out, reverse out. Don’t turn your back. Trevor Lawrence has a bad habit of doing that. And there’s nobody on earth that coaches quarterbacks that will ever tell you you need to do that unless you’re Michael Vic or uh Randall Cunningham or perhaps Lamar Jackson, but anybody else, you don’t need to be doing that. Right? So, you get into it with people and it’s not what he did, but it’s what he fails to do that continues to be the problem. He’s just not going to ever lift this team up, man. And the offensive line, they they got loose. I don’t think he has pocket awareness that the pocket awareness that he needs. I’m not going to put it all on him, but what I am clearly telling you is that he is never going to be the solution here for Jacksonville. And I think they’re they’re realizing that. Now he has that contract. Doesn’t mean he can’t be good. Doesn’t mean they can’t be a playoff team. Kurt Cousins took teams to the playoffs. He’s never going to be a Super Bowl winning quarterback that’s going to stand up there and be one of the seven or eight quarterbacks in the NFL. In my opinion, I don’t think he ever will be. Trevor is a problem. Uh Walker Little is an issue. They’re both uh I think in their first year contract extensions, by the way. Josh Allen. He might be the biggest piece that you have. You notice how quiet I got. He might be the biggest piece you have when it comes trying to think about who you going to move. Um Dewey Wingard should be a backup and a good spirit guy, but he is not a free safety. And you saw that over and over today. Had one penalty that shouldn’t have been called, but he had another penalty that was absolutely awful. Okay. Brian Thomas Jr. I can’t tell you what it is, but whatever it is, we don’t like it. I would make Travis Hunter my number one receiver, unless you’re gonna make him your number one corner. It doesn’t seem like they’re going to do that. So, lot a lot to unpack here with this team. U there are people that are just confused. Now, I’m confused because see, that’s what not knowing the process and not knowing what to expect gets you. When it works, fine. When it doesn’t, you get this kind of criticism, right? The kind of criticism is is are by trying to do for Travis what you promised him and you and everybody else you would do, have you actually hurt him? Have you stunted him a little bit? Now, I believe Travis Hunter has to be your number one receiver. The way this team looks right now, he has to be your number one receiver because that’s going to be the only way. Scoring touchdowns and putting pressure on the other team is going to be the only way you’re going to be able to save any kind of face and justify whatever it is you think you’re trying to do with him, right? Uh, and then maybe you can spot I I’ve I’ve been very very clear. I thought he should have started at corner number one and then them then spot him on at wide receiver. Now from where we are now, he needs to be your number one wide receiver. You need to spot him on DB uh at corner and hope hope it works out where he can just guard and do manto man at critical junctures of the game. Uh that’s what’s going to have to happen in my opinion. I don’t know if they’ll do it, but there’s a lot of people on this team that you counted on, including the kicker and the punter and everybody else that I just mentioned. You did not have them on your bingo card as being reasons why this team wasn’t good, right? Uh Deami Brown or Dami Brown is is slowly morphing into Dante Monree, and anybody that’s been around here long enough knows they paid a one-year deal to Dante Monree for $10 million, and it was absolutely not worth it. I’m not going to even say Tory Ho because at least Tory Hope was a champion who was an allp protype wide receiver. This did not work. James Gladstone and the crew, I know they did well with BL tootin and all of those, but how well how well are those just because you pick guys late or find diamonds in the rough and they’re better than people think. Is that still good enough for the position that you’re going to put them into? I don’t know that yet. Uh, but there’s a lot that has to be fixed for the Jacksonville Jaguars. We now have to realize that no matter how enthusiastic we have been and no matter how happy we have been about the things that they have done to change the culture from what it used to be, that it all was going to work in one year. It started out with a bang. It looked like, okay, maybe these dudes were just way better than the last regime said. Well, it’s almost like now everybody’s kind of watched the take and not watched it from a play calling standpoint, but watched the take from, okay, he can’t do this and he can’t do that. There’s a reason why these dudes are who they are. There’s a reason why Walker Little is who he is. Even Pat McCary had a couple of penalties today. There’s a reason why that’s who he is. Uh, I really would like to get to some of these questions. I see a lot of comments. Um, if the questions and comments are kind of redundant to what I’m really really saying, you know, I ain’t going to I ain’t going to. So, there there are some people that that say you should make him the number one corner and the number one wide receiver. I understand that. I think if they focused on him being the number one wide receiver, he can be that. And they focused on Travis being the number one corner, he could be that. But my problem is is you’re adding to the the problem that I said was the problem in the first break. How do you onboard him to do that and get him up to snuff? Football is not basketball. You can’t just throw a dude out there and say, “Go play.” He has to actually learn stuff and other people have to learn it with him. And then when the other people that have to learn it with him, they’re struggling, too. That makes the fact that he ain’t in there all the time even worse. So, I get that he should be both. I think the word shouldn’t be should. The word should be could. He could be both, but that doesn’t mean you have to make it happen. And then how do you make it happen is what got us to this point. He ain’t the reason they’re winning or losing. Just he he might be part of the reason why they look like they don’t know what the hell they’re doing sometimes. And this goes to Liam Cohen. And I’ll give you this for the last minute of the show. You have to join me on Locked on Jaguars uh starting on tomorrow for the rest of it. They better start getting down to the details. Even if it means them not being as friendly to people, they better get down to the nuts and the bolts and the details of blocking, tackling, lining up, understanding where you need to be, what you need to be doing. It seems like right now, man, it’s almost like club med. Everybody’s worried about the quality of the life of everybody and everybody’s worried about being nice. Even if you if even if it means them being not nice to me and the rest of the media, I don’t care. You know, you at some point you got to channel that inner that that inner dad and and you have to channel that leader, that part of you that says, “We ain’t taking excuses. You either get it done or you can’t. You either get it done or you can’t.” So, I expect them to bring in some kickers. I expect them during the bye-week to look for whatever they need. Everybody says they need an interior defensive tackle. I’ve even said they need a nose tackle. No, they need more than that. And we need to learn something from our past. The past is let’s stop blaming it on one obvious thing and realize there’s a whole bunch of things that have to happen for a team to not look like that mess you saw on TV today from London. They need to get it all straight. I’m not one of those people that say, “Hey man, they’re four and three after seven games. I take that.” This ain’t about that. This is about where they going. This is this is about who are they right now and are they being the absolute best that they can be? And if they aren’t, then they need to change the pieces that they have in order to be able to do that. Make sure you check me out on Locked on Jaguars and Locked on NFL, both shows uh each and every day, wherever you find your podcast, make sure you tap in. Bad loss. Sorry we got to do this, but it is what it is, man. They got two weeks to try to get this thing right and get it back going. And if anybody wants to uh hit me up on social media and tell me we stop panicking, don’t worry about it. It’s going to be all right. Uh save your time because I might end up blocking you or muting you because it just doesn’t make any sense that you you could hear what I said and then just go off doing something else. The Jaguars need fixing and they need to do some soularching. Not only from a personnel standpoint, but from an attention to detail standpoint. They got to line up better. They got to stop getting penalties. And for God’s sake, come out and actually look like you have some life when these games start and don’t look like you’re just out there going through the motions. All right, we’ll get to all of that uh this week. Lots to talk about, lots to dissect, of course, out here with Liam and the players have to say, and then we’ll do our show tomorrow based on that. Until then, you guys take care. It is always a pleasure for you to join me here on Locked on Jaguars. Thank you. We’ll see you next time.

In the worst game they played all season, the Jacksonville Jaguars suffered 35-7 loss to the L.A. Rams that exposed fatal flaws that make the now 4-3 record seem like nothing to be proud of. Silver Lining: Travis Hunter got loose on offense with his 1st NFL TD. Bt, Lye week.iam Coen and staff have major work to do during the bye week.

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