JAGUARS SQUAD SHOW: Jaguars vs. Texans INSTANT REACTION

JAGUARS SQUAD SHOW: Jaguars vs. Texans INSTANT REACTION

the worst Jaguars loss of all time. There may be an argument to be had here today on the Jaguar Squad Show. That was a very, very tough game to watch. Loss to talk about here on the Jaguar Squad Show. Offensive and defensive line uh disappeared when they were needed most and they didn’t even give that kicker a chance because penalties. Do all it’s the Jaguars Squad. Everything Jacksonville Jaguars every week, breaking down all the big hits and gamechanging plays from the Sunshine State, the way only the Locked on Podcast Network can. Gear up. The Jaguars Squad Show starts now. Marquez Ogden, Tony Wiggins, Streamyard is telling me we only have 32 people watching live, but I can tell you this. All 32 of them have already left a comment, left a chat, left a question after what might go down as the most disappointing loss of the entire 2025 season. Not just for the Jaguars, but in the entire National Football League. Final score, Texans 30, Jaguars 29. As heartbreaking as heartbreaking gets. Welcome into the Jaguar Squad Show, powered, of course, by the Lockdown Podcast Network. And of course, today’s show is brought to you by FanDuel. Right now, new customers can bet just $5. And if your bet wins, you’ll get $300 in bonus bets to use across the app. Not only are we going to give our takes, our analysis on this loss, we want to hear from you guys. I I see the comments. Jags coast to coast. Ridiculous, ridiculous, ridiculous. Killer Tofu, I was watching Breaking Bad. I feel like Walter White right now. We’re here for it. We’re here to help you through this. Walk your way through the Jaguars fourth loss of the season and argue the most disappointing. I don’t know, T-wig, you’ve been doing the Lockdown Jaguars show for six years now. You tell me where this one ranks. Um, it’s pretty bad. This This is about as bad as it as it can possibly be because everything that you said or that I did say on the Locked on Jaguars Friday and crossover episode Thursday is this. They got to get off to a good start. In fact, before the game today, I put out a clip and said, “Get out to a 10- nothing start. Start running the football so that pass rush can’t catch up with you.” uh because I knew that that was gonna eventually be a problem if the the game dictated that it would become a problem and it actually did. And then you needed the Jaguars to do something that they had not done even though they had a 19-point lead and that is run the ball when you want to or when you need to. Both of those situations uh existed in the fourth quarter and prior to that last drive they had two yards of total offense and basically got Jake Browning just like I did not want them to uh to get. And uh it it it it it it kills you because of the opportunity that this team had uh with the Colts only being two games ahead. Now they’re done. I mean, they’re not going to win the division now. Oh, really? Okay, Marquez, you’re you’re you’re putting the hand to the face. You’re agreeing with T-wig. You think the division’s out of the question now? Well, I don’t think it’s out of the question. It’s nothing’s ever out of the question, but is it a lot harder? Yeah, absolutely. Literally, the Jaguars had a really stellar first half. Two takeaways, two sacks. They were really controlling the game. That third quarter was probably the best third quarter I’ve seen the Jaguars play in a long time. I mean, man, that opening third quarter drive, they had the ball for about eight, nine minutes, scored, came back on the second drive, about another eight or nine, about another six or seven minutes, scored. I mean, I was like, this game is going to be over. And what happened? They didn’t finish. They just didn’t finish. They took their foot off the gas. They said, “Oh, it’s David Mills. He’s not going to be a big time playmaker. He’s not going to make the passes when he needs to.” And let me tell you something. David Mills stepped up. I think it was three touchdowns, one interception, one rushing touchdown, four total. Again, and T-wick said it, we talked about on Wednesday. That’s the whole thing. Never ever underestimate a backup quarterback, especially one that’s been with that franchise his entire career. He knows the system. He know he I mean he knows the Mico Ryan. I mean, he knows what it takes to win. And again, Lord, like they were doing so many great and we talked this on Wednesday. They ran lots of TE stunts. They even ran a couple like TTE stunts in the third quarter. They were getting rid Mills off his rhythm. It was looking good. And then that fourth quarter, they started going back to vanilla pass rush. No stunts, no games. I was like, man, what are y’all doing? And next thing you know, Mills has got into his rhythm. That was all it took. Now there’s over 260 of you hanging out live with us on the Locked On Jaguars and Locked on Podcast Network. But for those of you who will be listening to this squad show on demand, let’s kind of walk our way from start to finish of this game and then we will address some of the biggest takeaways as well as your questions in the comments right now. So, keep them coming. I see a lot of great questions, a lot of great comments. We’re going to have a whole Q&A section as well a little bit later in the show. Let’s begin in the first quarter. The Jaguars strike first with a Jarian Jones interception, his first of the 2025 season. That puts the Jaguars in scoring position, but ultimately they settle for a Cam Little 32-yd field goal. And that was after Boys. Don’t forget, he initially hits the field goal. There’s a penalty on the Texans. And so Little gets another, excuse me, the Jaguars offense gets another crack at it. They can’t convert. And so Little has a little bit shorter of a distance to go, but the Jaguars again settle for three. Keep that in mind. Stick a pin in that. Later, the Jaguars are able to capitalize on a miscue by the Houston Texans and in turn are able to uh because that was the that led to the Trevor touchdown T-wig or not. What What was the reasoning? I’m forgetting. It wasn’t a three and out. It was definitely a sack of Davis Mills. I’m trying to remember exactly. Yeah, I I can’t quite remember it either. I was actually just looking at some stats to try to back up some It was It was It was the uh the muff fumble on the on the kickoff that Ventrol Miller forced and then Danny Stragau recovered it. That’s right. So Jaguars immediately get a short field. They’re able to convert on third and long with a nifty Parker Washington seven-yard touchdown grab from Trevor Lawrence. And the Jaguars look like they’re in business up 10 nothing. Then just when it felt like maybe Houston might be able to get something going. Bam. Parker Washington 73 punt return. His second punt return of the season to begin the second quarter. Houston would tack on a field goal to cut it to 173. The Jaguars would trade field goals with a Cam little score of their own. Finally, Woody Marks finds the end zone. First rushing touchdown that the Texans have had all season. You saw the stat consistently throughout the CBS broadcast. The worst red zone offense in the National Football League, but they found the end zone three times. Uh so that is that’s worth noting. Halftime score, the Jaguars up 20 to 10. As Marquez put it, one of the best third quarters we’ve seen from the Jaguars in some time. A field goal on the opening drive from Cam Little for the Jaguars. They of course had to settle again for a field goal followed by a Travis ETN touchdown. Jaguars up 29-10 at the end of the third quarter. Looking like that’s ball game. They don’t convert on the two-point conversion. But ultimately, boys, the thought prevailing is all right. That’s the kill shot. That Travis ETN touchdown is what you needed to separate yourselves. And at the same time, the Houston Texans never gave up and scored. Yes, you are hearing this right. A touchdown with 1216 to go. Converted on the two-point conversion with a one-handed grab by Nico Collins. Then a Daltton Schultz touchdown. The two-point conversion failed. So the Jaguars leading by five, but once again responded by going three and out. Davis Mills with a 14yd rushing score to put the Texans ahead 30-29 with 31 seconds left on the clock. And then yes, as time expired, technically the back door cover. Sheldon Rankins with a pick six. Uh yeah, everyone’s nodding along. Everyone’s shaking their head. My like text phone is blowing up with stuff from Houston and from it’s I I get it. I get it. There’s a lot of anger going on right now. So T-wig, you you take the floor first. Like wh why why should you be even angrier or why should maybe everyone just like take a deep breath? Well, no. I I I believe this this is the time to be hyperventilating. You know, every time, you know, sometimes you have to do things in when you need to be doing them. And this is this is a problem. And the problem is it’s not the injuries. It’s not the guys that weren’t there. It’s a combination of a lot of things. Look, it’s a combination of looking like they trusted Davis Mills more than the Jaguars trust Trevor Lawrence to get you home. And the game’s not on him. But you got to understand, they had 213 yards total. They were doubled over by Houston. All the talk about Houston’s offensive line being so bad, they had way more rushing yards than the Jaguars. were gashing the Jaguars for 10 yards a carry. It looked like Alabama playing uh Kentucky Wesleyan or somebody. It was just it was just unreal. So, the things that bothered me are the line of scrimmage issues and then the the macro overall issue of just not being able to trust the quarterback. And I know sometimes that comes back to the line a little bit too, but you got to at the end of the game like before Houston got the ball back, I said all you got to do, they they returned a kick out to plus 40 yardd line. I said get two first downs, run some clock, kick a field goal, and go up eight. It’s it’s just that simple. They can’t do the small simple things that allowed them to get home and win the game. They got out Jaguars today. The Houston Texans played the way the Jacksonville Jaguars usually play real scrappy and go and gritty and go win the game and they got out gritted. And that bothers me because the line of scrimmage on the offensive on offensive side of the ball for Houston is supposed to be so bad. Marquez, we’re getting a lot of comments saying Trevor Lawrence is trash. How much of this loss are you putting on 16? I wouldn’t say that Trevor Lawrence is trash. What I would say is Trevor Lawrence did not make some of the big plays that were needed when it was time and it was really go time. Again, except that third quarter was immaculate. It was phenomenal football. It was great running, great passing, great, you know, mixture. Fourth quarter, a lot of things he did just were not in sync. They weren’t in rhythm. Again, at the end of the game, especially, the offensive line did not sustain. Again, it was very interesting. I watched the defensive line who actually played well in the first half that third and fourth quarter, man, they were getting gashed. And what I saw, there was a statistic. The Jaguars this year have had the best run defense. It’s like 89 yards per game, uh, a game for their entire, you know, history that they’ve had the best season stopping the run this year. But what happened in the fourth quarter? Like I said, the Texans did exactly what we said they were going to do, but we were hoping they couldn’t do. They were running the football up the middle. Seven yards to carry, eight yards to carry, 12 yards to carry. And what happens is when that happens, the defensive line gets gassed. And then what happens? The linebackers, it’s a lot more stressful. That’s what happened on the touchdown run. the linebackers were so much in space because they’re so used to having to come up because they said, “Well, hey, we can’t get this thing going. We got to play a little more, back off.” And again, what happens? They start playing on the receivers. They focused on that. And then Mills got the edge. Once he got the edge, that was it. And nobody nobody even close to him to hold him back from that touchdown. So, to that point, let’s let’s discuss, gentlemen, the Jaguars, big picture, their defense. What can they change in one week’s time? because you obviously the trade deadline has passed. I don’t think you’re going to be cutting half of the guys on the defense who who could who were questioned at different points throughout the juncture of this game. What can you do T-wig in one week’s time now with still what nine games still to play eight games still to play and these are the guys you have like the boats have been burned like or excuse me you know burn the boats whatever the line is that we love to say like this is who you got and so how can you work with what you have moving forward knowing that number one and we talked about this on Wednesday’s show which if you haven’t listened to it yet you should go listen on demand uh this is not a finished product Gladstone knows that Liam Cohen knows that. Tony Belli knows that. And while I know it’s frustrating for the fan to hear that because you want to be competitive right now and you want to win right now, at the same time, I can say, well, it’s not the end of the world cuz this is a learning lesson and this is a roster that is going to look different in one year’s time. But ultimately, you got to get through the next eight weeks and with the defensive operation that we have seen in the second half of games the last two weeks with this personnel group because I don’t think it’s all scheme. I think a lot of it is just one-on-one matchups. So, what say you T-wig in terms of how do you rectify this with just one week to go until the big bad Los Angeles Chargers roll into Duvall? Short short-term answer, you you hope to get both Jordan Lewis and Eric Murray back and think that they can make one play that somebody else couldn’t make because this was a close game. You know, I’m still going to look at it as being close. Although them being up 19 points in the fourth quarter makes it seem like, you know, it was just a colossal meltdown, which it actually was. But the game doesn’t, you know, the game isn’t just one in one quarter, it’s one early. And there are things that could have maybe happened earlier that would allow them to win the game. The other thing is you hope Devin Lloyd gets more acclimated and comes back and continues to play like himself. He got stiff armed today by a quarterback. And I’m sure have the Jack if the Jaguars had won that game, that would be something they would be on the plane picking at him about because that should never have happened. Trayvon had Davis Mills a couple of times in his sights and couldn’t close and couldn’t finish. They got to talk about that. Josh Josh is thought of and paid to play like 51 and 55 did for the other team and he just doesn’t. Those are the things that they have to understand and realize. The other thing is big picture wise they’re going to have to address obviously interior defensive line. They’re going to have to address uh pass rush even with those two guys that they have. But but I I tell fans all the time, you can’t do everything in in in one off season. You can’t do it at all at the trade deadline. And then the other thing is you can’t go to the store and buy something that’s not on the shelf. So you have to get the things that you need while they while you’re there. This isn’t the time after oneoff season to go and say, “Okay, well get whatever they have and we’ll make it work.” We’re not at the stage where we have to make lemonades out of a bag of onions. You you can still wait until the harvest comes for your oranges to show up. So, it’s going to be a slow process with that. But the immediate future, you want to get your dudes back. And then, you know what the old thing is? The coach got to look at them and tell them, “Ain’t no quick fixes. Y’all got to play better. You just got to do it. We can’t go out here and snap our finger and magically make somebody else appear.” No, you have to do it. And at some point, playing better is going to uh along with getting healthy, but playing better is going to be the solution. Marquez, before we hit our first timeout of the program, Jay Baby says five and 12. That’s what he thinks the Jaguars go. Winning no more games the remainder of the season. I had a friend text me that as well and say they’re going to win just one more game. I think that’s a little extreme. Hopefully no one is going to clip this and all takes exposed it down the line because ultimately I do think there’s talent and will to win and decent scheme. I agree with T-wig. I just think the defense didn’t win its one-on-one matchups today in the second half. What say you? So, I’m going to say this. If the Jaguars have trouble shutting down Dalton Schultz, who is not a bad football player, but he’s not a top tier, you know, phenomenal Antonio Gates, Tony Gonzalez type of tight end if you cannot. And again, Schulz, that touchdown in the back of the end zone. I mean, he made some plays over the middle. Number 81 for the Texans was open a lot and it seemed like the soft spot of the secondary was getting lit up. They have got to do a better job in coverage in zone coverage being more aggressive when they’re trying to cover their spots, right? I mean, literally like they call like the middle hook of the field was so open 81 was killing him. The backside on those on those drag routes for Schulz, that was killing him. That was where the touchdown came in. They have got to do a better job. And then for goodness sakes, you were getting a little bit of pressure running stunts in games. Why did you stop? Why did you stop doing TE stunts? ET stunts. I even saw a double TT stunt. Tackle down, tackle down, and all the way around. That’s slow developing. But again, if the quarterback holds for like a 5second, I mean, sorry, fivestep drop, you can get there and you can disrupt them. That’s exactly what the Texans did. They were not just going vanilla until the very very end when they knew they had to throw the ball. It was 55 on 72 551. It was 51 on on uh 55 511. And so this is what happens man. But the Jaguars just got away from what was working. Those screens, those trees coming out of the pocket, the roll off, those were doing well. Then you go into a drop back pass, that’s not a strength. you go into trying to run the football, you know, on first and second, then you’re not getting anything and you don’t go into any type of misdirection or anything. You just keep you kept it so vanilla. All the Texas had to do is keep contain. And then what was that? Was third and long, newest pass. Boom. They were coming after the quarterback. So, the Jaguars have got to got to have more aggressive play calling with their stunts and games, and they’ve got to do a better job stopping those tight ends in the soft spots of the zones. That is going to be a big thing going forward these last eight or nine games. Wes says, “Worth Florida football is a bleeping joke. We won’t show that. Didn’t realize there was an exploive there.” Um, to that point, Wes, as a wise man once said, “Scared money don’t make money.” Uh, and that is, I think, what Marquez is saying, and it’s certainly what I would echo. The Jaguars played to not lose in that fourth quarter as opposed to playing to their strengths. I know the emotions are running high. There’s a lot of takes to be had. There’s also some game balls to give away even despite a 30 to29 loss for your Jaguars. Let’s hit those on the other side right here on the Jaguar Squad Show on the Lockdown Podcast Network. Today’s show is brought to you by our friends over there at Pelaton. 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We’ve still got eight more weeks of this to go, boys, whether you like it or not. We noted this earlier in terms of total net yards. The Houston Texans doubled up the Jaguars. Not only did they outscore the Big Cats 20 to nothing in the fourth quarter, they had 412 total yards on offense compared to 213 for the Jacksonville Jaguars. And you can certainly point to the turnovers, the defensive turnovers that gave the Jaguars opportunities with a short field, the Parker touch Washington touchdown in the punt return game. But ultimately the Jaguars offense didn’t have a whole heck of a lot going and certainly a big reason for that was the tag team of Denil Hunter and Will Anderson who got after quarterback Trevor Lawrence in this one as they have so often. Five sacks tallying a total of 39 yards. Trevor Lawrence finishes 19 13 excuse me. Wow, that’s I my eyes deceiving me? No, that’s 13. 13 of 23. 158 yards, one touchdown. One interception technically, although I don’t know how we’re going to score that rankings interception when all is said and done. Davis Mills, meanwhile, threw the ball 45 times, dropped back 45 times, 27 of 45 for 292 yards, two touchdowns, a pick, and one rushing score. Was sacked only twice. Something tells me that that will come up here in just a second. But as I alluded to, boys, we do want to focus on the positive. We do want to hand out a game ball. So, we’ll go down the line, one of each of us. Marquez, we’ll let you get going first. Who would your game ball go to for the Jaguars following this disappointing AFC South loss? Parker Washington. That punt return was amazing. He had some big catches, you know, when need be for like possession, keep the chains moving, and that was just very impressive with everything he did. I would say definitely without a doubt. From my perspective, Parker Washington. T-wig, how about you? Um, well, that was my first shot. I’ll go with Cam Little though if Parker’s taken because uh he he he was making his stuff. And you know what? I felt like they got five more yards that he would have made another one that would have uh walked the Jaguars off and we’d be sitting there having an entirely different conversation. So, that means my confidence is back in him. Uh he took advantage of every opportunity he had today. So Cam Little, let’s hang on that for a hot second, T-wig. Just because number one, I want to give Logan Cook some credit as well. Even if the punt game wasn’t great, a couple of those snaps were a little high. And once again, some great crafty work by Logan in snapping or in catching the ball, laying it down for for Cam Little. I think that that is certainly a talking point in terms of where maybe Cam’s up and down 2025 has come into play. I would also like to note not to harbor on the Trevor Lawrence conversation for too long because I know we’ll get back to it throughout the program, but on that final drive, let’s let’s discuss that final drive because I agree with you Tony. I agree. I think that Cam Little would have been ready to hit a 60-yard 64 yard field goal. He was in position to do so. Trevor Lawrence, to his credit, scrambled for a first down, hits Parker Washington. If not for the Chuma Eidogga face mask penalty, the Jaguars are in Cam Little’s range. And so I do want to talk about that a little bit just because Marcus, I think you’re you’re nodding your head along. Do you feel like number one, the kicker, as we’ve already already said, was in place to hit a gamewinner. Do you feel like the offense was in a position there and it was just once again those self-inflicted wounds that came back to haunt them and not so much the play of the quarterback like so many in the chat are saying? And I’m not trying to defend him. I just think that it’s important to note because I I’m right there with you T-wick. I think that if if there is no flag on Truma Idogga, Cam Little hits a 60 some odd yarder and the Jaguars are winning this game 29 to or excuse me, they’re winning that game 32 to 30. Mhm. Yeah. I mean, I agree. And so I saw this. The Texans had I think it was uh seven no uh nine penalties for 70 yards or seven for 90 yards and then the Jags had eight for like 70 or 80 yards. You cannot get a penalty at that point in the game. Again, if a guy’s coming inside of you, for goodness sakes, all you got to do is alignment. If your hands in there, just bring it down. Like the refs are going to see if you’re trying to bring your hand down from the neck. And if they just see you making that motion down, right, Mia, right, Tony? They gonna call the flag. But if you leave your hand up there, you’re trying to ride them by the quarterback and you leave it there right around that neck area, they’re gonna call it. And so, you know, that they’ve been calling penalties in the game the entire game. So, I agree with me and you too, right Tony? If there’s no penalty there and it’s right there on the spot, Camel hits that field goal and they win 32 to 30 again. Trevor Lawrence, great scramble. Again, right guys, when you get outside the pocket and you break contain, great things happen. Trevor Lawrence, huge run. Davis Mills got the touchdown when he broke outside the contain. So, I agree. If they don’t get that penalty, Jags win 32 to 30. There there there’s an interesting part of that though that is the microcosm of the Trevor Lawrence experience. And what it is is while we give him credit for getting them back into range with that scramble, the other part of it is, and this may fall on Liam, and this may fall on them all, you cannot take a sack with one timeout with less than 40 seconds to go, right? When you’re almost where you need to be. The sack is going to cause you to use the timeout, which is going to cause you to not be able to throw the ball in the middle of the field, which is going to limit your routes. Okay? and you you’re already limited. Anyway, the other thing is is that was one play where they left the Neil Hunter one-on-one with Walk a little. And I’m thinking like at some point you do have to tell your dudes to compete and play even if they’re at a disadvantage. And if they can’t at the appropriate time, you find people that can. But you also want to win the game. So, it wouldn’t hurt for them to chip in my opinion to put somebody over there to help out because that that to me, if there was one thing that was going to scare me, it was okay, we need we need to hold this dude off with one play. If you ask me who versus who don’t you want, I would have said Walker Little versus Denil Hunter. We are going to talk offensive. Oh, go ahead, Marcus. You ready to go? One thing as a as a former offensive tackle and I watched that position. I watched him that last drive because I knew it was going to be him on him cuz they didn’t have right Tony. Unfortunately, when you need to get the ball down the field, you really don’t want to have a running back chip because you take away from a deeper route. And again, I’m not going to say Guil did a bad job. Everybody has to compete. But one thing I wish he would have done on that sack is just punch him. That’s it. Just punch him. He so he was getting in good position, but instead of punching and taking the fight to him, he kind of waited. He let Hunter get into his outside shoulder. And by the time he got to his outside shoulder, he had to lift his hands up to then kind of guide him around the quarterback. Hunter was so strong with his outside hand, chopped it straight off, ripped, and boom, was right around that edge. And what I tell my kids when I train as a tackle, you want to stretch the pocket. You want to punch and stretch. Defensive linemen want to collapse. They want to go 45 degrees and collapse your outside shoulder as a tackle because what they can do if they can then turn 90. When they turn, right, Tony, they’re at the quarterback. So, what you want to do as a tackle, you want to stretch him out 90 then run him 45 around the quarterback. But what happened is Walker Little just was not he didn’t punch. He was like trying to like use his body. And I get some people get afraid. But man, look, when that when game on the line, if you beat me and I try to punch the hell out of you and you beat me, whatever. This was one of the best people I played with doing that, right, Tony? Was Orlando Brown senior. If you beat Orlando Brown senior, he was going to punch the hell out of you. And if you beat him, you beat him. But just just be aggressive. Don’t be afraid to use your hands and punch somebody and get them off of your body. We’re going to get back to offensive line talk because this has been some great trench talk and I want to continue it on the other side. But first, our game balls so far have gone to Parker Washington, Cam Little, and I would also throw one. Jacobe Meyers’s way. Yes, indeed. The newest acquisition. Three catches ended up as the leading receiver because Parker Washington only finished with 33 yards. Also had a touchdown called back due to, wait for it, another Jaguars penalty on the offensive line. He do. Yeah. Yeah. Well, again, we’re going to talk offensive line here in a second. TWig, don’t you worry. We’re going to talk We’re going to talk offensive line. We’re going to talk changes that can be made in one week’s time on the offensive side of the ball since we already did defense. But Jacobe Myers, three catches, three targets. He’s from the ATL. He loves the Braves. Um, so that’s why I’m rocking a Braves hat right now because the newest Jaguars wide receiver was as advertised. And Marcus, you’re you’re fist pumping as I as I gave him the game ball because he did exactly what they brought in in to do, which is catch the football. Tony talked about this having a great veteran, a possession receiver. That catch he made, what was it? I think it was like the third 11 catch he made right on the edge. That was awesome. He just when the ball was thrown to him, he made the catches. He even fought for that extra like another like five to eight yards after he was like it was they called it out of bounds, but see he still kept fighting and turning and twist. And what did Tony talk about on Wednesday? yak yards after catch. Catch that football, tuck the football, and get up field. That’s what he did. And again, as a again, Tony said, as a possession veteran receiver, the Jaguars need leadership. They need toughness. They need grit at that position. And Myers brought that today. I was very happy to see that at the wide receiver position. uh waiting to go. Y’all got beat by a backup quarterback as Tony let off the show by saying not the first. Won’t be the last time that that happens for this franchise as it currently stands. Ryan Williams. No, I don’t think that Ryan Williams. Is Milm still hurt or just not good enough to get on the field. Would like to see him. We will discuss where the Jaguars third round pick was. 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Marcus gave us a great breakdown of what Walker Little could have done going up against one of the league’s perennial press pass rush pros in Denil Hunter, but I want to talk big picture here because you have been banging the drum for and you said it in in this very show this idea of you are not going to build this thing overnight and you also can’t just settle for I need to push all my chips to the middle of the table and figure out a way to make the playoffs this year. this team is going to be built in James Gladstone and Liam Cohen and Tony Bell’s image for the long term. And so when it comes to that long-term image, what have you seen through 10 weeks, nine weeks technically, nine games of the offensive line that says to you, this is where they need to go. This needs to be coached better. This player maybe needs to be moved on from at the end of the year as of this writing or even ahead of next week. Um, that that’s a great question. I I think the main thing is they they really need to upgrade left tackle. I don’t you’re not going to find I’m going to tell you what you’re not going to find. You ain’t going to find a Pro Bowl 28-year-old left tackle in the in the free agency market. It just doesn’t happen. You’re not going to ever find one of them just walking around like you can just drive down the street and somebody’s having a yard sale and oh there’s a all pro tackle sitting there. You have to draft and develop those dudes and you have to use uh uh high I believe high draft picks on them. And if you don’t use high draft picks on them, then you’re just hoping to hit on somebody. That’s the first thing. The second part of it is while the interior three are good, I think Anton Harrison actually has a lot of blue sky, right? But while the interior of the line, they’re good, solid players, sometimes players you love and you’re familiar with because you know their names and you you’ve seen them win games and you’ve seen them have good games. Sometimes guys like that are just career backups and they should be depth pieces. It doesn’t mean they’re not good. There’s a difference between a dude that’s a backup on on a football team and a dude that just can’t make it out of training camp. There’s a lot of It’s hard to be one of those nine or 10 guys that are on an active roster. I understand that. But sometimes we elevate people in our minds about what they are based on what we hope. And I hear a lot of people talk about Ezra Cleveland. I hear I’ve been a big Patrick McCary fan. I’ve seen him play well for Baltimore for a number of years. Sometimes they’re just not good enough. And when you can’t run, when you can’t line up and run the ball when you want to in in the fourth quarter of a game when you’re up by 19 and then you’re up by 12, at some point you have to realize our guys are not good enough. And that’s what I mean by look, I know sometimes you got to ask your dudes to be guys like they asked Walker Little and he just didn’t do it. You can you they have to take a hard look at what they can fix and then what they’re realistically going to ask people to do. Can you imagine them over the next two years asking Walk a little to make that play over and over again and them hoping he can do it? I don’t think he can. Marcus, what say you in terms of the offensive line? What you’ve seen? What needs to change in a week’s time? What needs to change come the season’s end? Well, in a week’s time, they’ve got to do a better job from play calling. Stop with these five and sevenstep drops. It is not helping this offensive line. Three-step drops, roll outs, misdirection, screens, you know, all that. They need to continue to do more of that because unfortunately, this offensive line is not built for five and or sevenstep drop. This is going to sound a little bit funny and crazy, but it’s it could definitely work. Tony Belli needs to really get in with the coach, the O line coach, have a heartto-heart about what he’s teaching them. And then Tony needs to either go in there himself with his knowledge or bring in a consultant. I’m throw his name out there like a Jonathan Ogden or an Anthony Munoz and teach these guys some real highlevel technique because that’s what it comes down to. Offensive line is not a natural position like wide receiver or defensive end in or even like running back. You have to be taught that position. It’s your body going backwards angles working with people beside you. It’s camaraderie. It’s teamwork. It’s not just you one-on-one. It’s like pass blocking being a dog out there. It’s working together. So, I really didn’t see a lot of like the combo blocks, things like that weren’t being executed very well. that did see the Texans in that fourth quarter. Those double teams, the guards and centers combo up to the second level. They were moving the DTackle, getting up to the linebacker. Seven yards a pop, eight yards a pop, 12 yards a pop. The Jaguars weren’t doing that. So to fix these things now, you got to get in there and get some people and you got to change the scheme because you can’t run downhill. You got to go misdirection. This little beginning to see they were pulling they were pulling their tight ends running counter trays back. They were doing like sweeps. They were doing misdirection. They were killing it. So you got to be more creative with your play calling and stop these five to sevenst step drops. It’s killing your offensive line right now. Great segue, Marcus, to the question portion of the program. Zack, one of our first questioners. Why are we doing sevenstep drops when we can’t block Hunter? Um, yeah, go ahead. respond to that one, Marcus. Zach, you are 100% correct. Sevenstep drops are not supposed to be called when you have offensive tackles who struggle with speed to power rushers like Anderson and like Hunter. You’re just not supposed to do it because what happens is the tackles set the width of the pocket, right? They keep the pocket firm from a width perspective. Guards to center set the depth. Anytime you go sevenst step drop, if you have a guy who cannot stretch the pocket, a guy who cannot push a defensive end out 45 degrees towards the the sideline, all you’re doing is you’re going to spook your quarterback. He’s going to take his eyes off downfield because he thinks he’s probably going to get hit and it throws off your timing. When you have great pass rushers, sevenstep drives should never unless you need to like you need to score like you know in the game like it should almost never be called. Let’s hit another question. T-wig you take this one on the offensive line front from a Baker. Do you think Chuma Idogga gets benched after this performance? He has so many penalties at critical times for someone that doesn’t play often. To that point, Cole Van Lannon was starting at left guard, a position that he largely has never played in light of Ezra Cleveland’s injury that kept him out of practice all last week. And so Idogga became the eligible sixth offensive lineman when there was an eligible tackle in. And even when Patrick Mccari left the game briefly due to injury, it was actually Jonah Mannheim, the rookie center, the seventh round pick out of USC, not Idogga, not third rounder Wyatt Milm, who stepped in at right guard. And so T-wig, what say you to Idogga being benched and what would the Jaguars maybe do or is that as simple as Ezra comes back, Cole Van Lannon’s your sixth offensive lineman and you just keep it moving? Yeah, I think that’s what you’re hoping for because the thing is you can bench him all day, but if you ain’t got nobody better to play for him, it’s not going to do you any good. And because he has repped a lot, I saw him out there in training camp. Remember he was lined up at right tackle when they were trying to motivate Anton Harrison when when camp and and all of that broke. But he he can’t be the dude though that every single time something happens you go I bet it’s 55. I it’s almost like one of my kids man. I got great kids when they was in school I would see a 573 number. It was Duvall County and I’ll be like I just say what did he do? I knew which one it was. I knew who it was and him for him to get that penalty today. You talked about the touchdown that they that they threw uh to the wide receiver. It’s unbelievable. The play is a three-step drop slant to the opposite side and you’re eligible on the left and the play went to the right. What are you doing moving early? As a matter of fact, he would have caught a touchdown. I would have still been down in my stance. It had nothing to do with the play. And and you are the dude that moves. It’s just unbelievable. You took a touchdown off the board. You were the guy that moved and the play was a bang to the other side and it would had nothing to do with you. I just don’t get it. And yet here we are. In case you’re just joining us, final score, Texans 36, Jaguars 29. This is the question part of the program. So, let’s hit a couple more. This one, this one we’ll give to Marquez. This is from Dr. Coring. Is Trevor holding the ball too long? Dr. Coring, absolutely he is. And again, I don’t know if that’s because the receivers aren’t getting separation in their routes because again, the Oh, it was so crazy to see Mills, they were talking about this, right, Tony? How pockets were being roll out of the pocket, moving um uh out roll out passes, screens, timing again, like Nico Harris was running his um his uh hook route. Boom. As soon as he turned around, that ball was right in his face. And that’s what Trevor Lawrence was not doing today. I don’t know if that was lack of receivers, not getting separation, not getting open, not being where they’re supposed to be, but there were a lot of times where I saw Trevor pack the football. I’m like, uhoh. When I know he when I see him pat the football, I know right then and there he was supposed to throw the football and whoever he was looking to throw to either was covered, had was jammed, had or no separation. So, absolutely, he’s holding the ball too long because again, as a tackle, if you can’t keep a guy out or stretched out, a quarterback is holding the football, that’s going to kill you. But again, it comes down to the receivers, the timing routes, and again, Tony, I love your thoughts on this. They really need a I mean Myers is good and they’ve got some good play, but they need a true like a Nico has like a big physical wide receiver that can fight off the line that can not worry about getting jammed, get that separation, and they got to get that big playmaker going into the rest of the second half of the season. Yeah. And unfortunately, I like a lot of people thought it was Brian Thomas Jr. and that hasn’t manifested itself. So, uh, trying to replace that and trying to figure that out along with thinking that you’re just adding Travis Hunter to Brian Thomas Jr. and then both of those guys being out. I’ll give Trevor a little bit on a break on that. But what I will say about Trevor is this. While I don’t think today’s game was his fault, it’s also true that it’s not your fault, but it is your responsibility as the quarterback. It’s not it’s not you weren’t the reason they lost. It’s just becoming really really clear that you also can’t be the reason why they should win even when they should lose. And for me, that’s just an adjustment. It’s not blaming him for anything. It’s not picking on him. It’s it’s a realization. One of the things that bothers me is his inconsistent ball placement. Sometimes you throw the ball right at the receiver. Sometimes you throw it in front of the receiver. I just want to see consistency with ball placement. Even even though that was a great play by Stingley, I guarantee you if he throws the ball a half a second earlier and leaves the receiver, leaves Parker Washington, Stingley can’t get it because he would have to run through Parker to get it. And then in that situation, you kick a field goal and then you are up what that makes it 33 to 30. And that’s as close as the Texans could possibly have gotten. Game feel like that’s a logical place to take our next timeout. We have one more segment to go here on this postgame edition of the Jaguars Squad Show. Final score, Texans 36, your Jaguars 29. We’ll answer some more questions. We’ll also look ahead to once again the Jaguars week 11 matchup with the Chargers. What can they change in less than one week’s time in order to go up against big bad Jim Harbaugh and friends and possibly get a dub at Everbank Stadium? That’s coming up next right here on the Jaguar Squad Show on the Locked on Podcast Network. Hey guys, want to tell you about our friends over at Wait for it. Wait for it. Hold on. That’s right. Oh, wait. Where are they? There they are. That’s right. FanDuel. The NBA is back. And there’s no better place to get in on the action than FanDuel, the official sports betting partner of the NBA. Even if you missed the start of the game or want to ride that hot hand, FanDuel has live bets on everything from who will score next to fourth quarter comebacks. 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In one week’s time, what is the biggest change you need to see from the Jacksonville Jaguars and Liam Cohen’s operation? They have got to get more creative and consistent with their play calling on defense as far as the stunts, the games. I keep saying this, but again, if a team can run the football against you, you are already behind the eightball trying to win. Because what happens is if a team runs the football against you consistently and effectively, they’re going to eat up the clock. Again, that’s what happened in the fourth quarter. Tony said so beautifully. The three and outs, the not running the football, not having the first downs, not keeping the clock moving, gave the ball back to Houston. I was like, “Oh my goodness, they keep they this they kept going. They kept scoring.” I was like, “Oh my god, please run the football.” They didn’t do it. Three and out. Oh my god, they score again. Please run the football. They don’t do it. They score again. Next thing I know, like you got to run the football again. Nope. They throw the football out. Then Texas get the lead and then then they want to try to like scramble and then penalty and then game’s over. So, they have got to get better at stopping the run and they’ve got to get better at going back to what they did in the beginning of the season with this misdirection, creative things with the running game. Just get more innovative. Stop being so vanilla. And again, just when you’re up, you gotta finish. You can’t take your foot off the gas. This is the National Football League. I don’t care if it’s the second team or the guy the third team. It’s the best of the best in the National Football League. You got to finish what you start. T-wig, how about you? What’s the biggest change you need to see in six, seven days time? I think they just need to hold these guys accountable more and and it starts with themselves. Um, you hate to be up 19 winning a game in a division and say that everybody went to sleep, but sometimes you can play call guys to sleep. Sometimes those play calls and those football those situational football things, they could be like that little chime in that baby’s crib, you know, and it’s just ain’t nothing you and here’s the thing about it. Once you get sleepy and you ain’t waking right, you can’t wake back up and go back to being where you can’t turn that thing on and off. And it just appeared to me like, okay, at some point I said, all of these things have to happen for them to lose this game. It ain’t going to happen. And they started happening one by one by one. And I’m thinking like, I know they ain’t about to go three and out. Oh yes, they did. They went three and out. And I’m like, they can’t make this two-point conversion. And guess what happened? And then all of a sudden, I’m like, they ain’t gonna go three and out and again. And it’s like, well, there you go. They’re not going to score this touchdown. That ain’t a pass interference pen. Yes, it is. Ain’t no way they going to get sacked here, man. All they need is 10 more yards for a field goal and it burn their time. What? They got every single thing that could go wrong went wrong. And every single thing that you hoped would go right, not one of them happened. And they got to address why. And that starts way before the game starts. That starts with who you are, who you want to be, how you going to play, not only as as players, but as coaches. Are you going to be aggressive? Are you going to have to continue to play play call around weaknesses? And and my man Marcus said it best. We just heard them say that they had to simplify their offense a little bit a couple of weeks ago because guys just weren’t catching. So, they simplified it. Now, they got to be more creative. At some point, it ain’t going to matter what you do if you don’t have the dudes out there to do it. So, they got to get Britney Strange. They got to get all of these guys back and hopefully when they come back, they’ll start playing better. Real real fast. Me and Tony, I you know, I’m so I I I’m a keynote speaker by trade now. I speak for Fortune 500 companies all across the, you know, country, the world. I’m very very fortunate, very blessed. It’s doing this for 12 years. Every time I speak, every time I have this as part of my speech to corporation, sports team, I don’t care who it is. It was what Jack Del Rio told us in 2003 when we were all the rookies right before our first camp with the veterans. He said, “Guys, if you want to be successful in life, be your own CEO. Be your own chief executive officer. Don’t have me wait to tell you when to get here, how to stay late, all this stuff. Be your own self-starting individual. And I love what you said, right, Tony? These guys have to be accountable to themselves. As Jack said, be a self-inspired, selfstarting individual. And I say that every time I talk, I don’t care where it is, who it is. I always say because Jack was my favorite coach. I say Jack told us that in 2003 and I’ll never ever forget it. And it’ll be interesting to see who is on the field to the point of holding guys accountable to the point of Brettton Strange coming back T-wig the next time we see the Jaguars on a game field next Sunday Marcus because I would like to believe knowing that he is eligible to come off IR next week that the thirdyear tight end could be eligible to return. We’ve seen him at practice working off to the side. Maybe they do want to wait a week’s time for that quad injury, but ultimately that run game looks like an entirely different operation with and without him, but that’s no excuse as Marcus noted because you need to take o your ownership for everything you do. And that’s perhaps the issue right now. I would like to note one name that we have really not discussed on this program so far on this postgame episode. This is from our friend Vincent. It’s really hard to wait on Josh Hines Allen to show up. This is a business to Marcus’s point and right now he is a bad product. Twig, what say you? Because I know sitting on the couch Kevin looked at me a couple times and he was like, “Where’s 41?” Well, because 44, which we also haven’t discussed him, 44 had a couple of sacks, including one that was negated by one of the most bogus penalties of the year. I would also I would also throw the PI call on Jarian Jones in the final game-winning. That was horrible. Both of those two calls I would So those two calls I I forgive the the fourth year Trayvon Walker the third or excuse me the third fourth year third year I can’t keep track. Trayvon I give a pass to on that play on the roughing the passer because I think it was BS. I don’t know what else he could have done. And then Jarian Jones on that PI on Christian Kirk that clearly was hand fighting and Christian Kirk was had an extended arm. But 41 doesn’t have that excuse. And again, we’re not here to make excuses because everyone’s their own CEO and these are professionals. And so that’s where I point to the Jaguars lead highest paid edge rusher. I’ve been saying where’s 41 for years now except you know the one year when he had the 17 sacks and this people got to understand these comments have nothing to do with who they are as people. That’s he he’s a Hall of Fame person for me. My point is is you you you’re sitting and you’re watching it, right? You’re looking at the game. They’re doing what you think your guys are supposed to do. Denil Hunter signed a two-year deal for $49 million and Josh Allen got five years and some odd million dollars. I even made a suggestion that when Denil Hunter was a free agent that the Jaguars trade Josh Hines Allen for a second round pick and use the money to sign Denil Hunter and I got crushed for it. So now you see the difference. The difference is you’re not sitting there wondering if he’s going to make a play. You’re just sitting there waiting when you’re waiting when they have a rookie. Arante Ursery is a rookie who was projected by a lot of people to be a right tackle when he came out of college. He’s at left tackle. That’s not Larry Tonsel in his prime. Where was 41? I didn’t see him doubling him because Dalton Schultz was down the field somewhere. Right. So, my thing is is it’s right there in your faces. I I don’t know why people can’t see it and haven’t been seeing it. He’s a good player. He I think he’s just not that twitchy dude. Maybe he should be the number two. Like I heard years ago somebody who was in charge over there said he’s a number two. He’s not a number one. So maybe we have to revisit the the what our expectations are. Not that he’s a bad player, but stop expecting orange juice from if he’s not a if he’s not an orange, stop expecting it. I say the same thing about Trevor. I’ll say the same thing about him. And when we talk about leadership, those are the two dudes I’m talking about mainly to tell their team, “Come on, let’s go. Let’s get us home. I got you.” They didn’t do it, and they never do it. It’s very hard for a player who doesn’t have the quote unquote star power, the name recognition, and is on the field enough as those two are to be the one in the locker room. Correct me if I’m wrong, Marcus, to say, “Hey, this is not acceptable. Hey, this is what we have to do. And while both those guys are self-admitted, not the rah rah in-your-face type of leaders, the Jaguars need to get it from somewhere. If they are to take ownership of their situation, I’d be remissed if I didn’t mention this one comment from Kevin Bold. Um, when Josh changed his name, I knew that he was gone. Um, yeah, I I had to I had to give you guys a laugh here on the Jaguar Squad Show postgame. All right, here we go. Let’s wrap up, boys. Um, Chargers come to town next week. They will play tonight, Sunday Night Football on NBC against the Pittsburgh Steelers. So, we don’t know the exact situation when they roll across the country, what sort of vibe Jim Harbaugh’s outfit will be in. But, I can tell you this, Marcus. Um, they’re going to want to pound the ball. They’re going to want to run the ball. They’re going to want to be a physical outfit, which is what I thought the Jaguars wanted to be, and I think they were through three quarters of this game until the final quarter of play. How does that shake out next Sunday, one week out in your estimation? Again, I love love love what Tony said about finding really great offensive linemen. So, the Chargers drafted Slater, they drafted Joe Alt from Notre Dame. They have done a phenomenal job at drafting high highlevel uh draft picks at the offensive line position, grooming them and taking them up the chain. And now they’re doing exactly what they’re supposed to do. And that’s how it’s done because opposite linemen like really great ones you’re not gonna get on the open market. I mean it’s just not gonna happen. I mean my brother played 12 years for the Ravens his entire career. The Ravens are going to let go of Jonathan. You kidding me? The Bengals never let go of Anthony Muno. It’s never going to happen. So you got to really draft those guys and bring them up the I call up the ladder up the chain. So the Chargers are a very good football team. Very physical. Herbert’s playing amazing at the quarterback position. They run the football well. Harbaugh, former player, understands schemes, schematics, how to play to strengths and weaknesses. Unfortunately, I think the Chargers get the W. It’s going to be a close game, but I think it’s going to be the Chargers unless the Jaguars get some pressure and move him out of the pocket. It’s going to be a long day, which T-wig, we do know, no Joe Walt the rest of the way for Los Angeles. They are down to their fifth or sixth tackle at this point. traded for Trevor Penning, a failed project out of, of course, you know, you needed an Iowa reference in every program. A failed prospect project out of Northern Iowa with the New Orleans Saints. I mean, but hey, if Ursery could have his way with 41 today, I’m not banking on the Jaguars getting pressure against the Chargers next week. And neither are you. No. And and and even if they do, I hope when they do, they’re not in man because Herbert can run and and and he does that very very well. Uh, I think they’re going to have their hands full because I think even with injured players, Jim Harbaugh, there’s no doubt at who and what they are and what their identity is and they’re going to play their I think they’ll do a better job of playing to who and what they are than the Jaguars will because I think the Jaguars are still trying to figure it out and and that’s the thing. We’re having to adjust because of injuries, but we’re also having to adjust based on a lack of production. There is no Jacobe Myers if Brian Thomas Jr. plays the way he’s supposed to play. That trade was going to happen whether he got an ankle sprain last week or not. It was because of his play. Uh we they have to have just more consistency. And I hope fans realize something. As much as we love Parker Washington and Mia, you you you’ve been in training camp with me for five, six years and people fall in love with that one dude, right? Those dudes are the third and fourth receiver for a reason. There’s a reason they’re not a number one. And so you see now when you need a play made, you can’t get it made. And the bottom line is I go back to expecting people to do something. Everybody always talks about these superpowers when it’s working in their favor. But now you’re actually asking people to do things that’s not their superpower. Those guys are complimentary football players. They’re not leaders. So I think fans need to keep that in mind when they fall in love with these dudes, thinking that these dudes can actually be the star when they can’t. There’s a lot of, as Daniel Jeremiah of the NFL Network has pointed out, a lot of green chip, not green dot, green chip players on the Jaguars roster. There’s not a lot of blue chip, blue dot players on the Jaguars, which is why they went and got Travis Hunter because they knew that, right? That’s why that’s why you go do that. And Travis Hunter was never going to be regardless of the injury, he was never going to be the game-changing, oh my goodness, he’s going to play every single snap his rookie campaign. And so I think it’s unfair once again and I know the comments are yelling at us saying stop making excuses. I can’t speak for how James Gladstone’s feeling right now but I know this he Liam Cohen and Tony Belli took this job and said this is not going to be fixed in a year and we are going to create an outfit that is tough and is callous and has experienced adversity and maybe that requires some change of personnel. Maybe that requires some difficult conversations. We are in it for the long haul. We are in it for the long haul as well. We will be back on Wednesday. So, if your question didn’t get mentioned here on tonight’s Squad show, rest assured, we will be back Wednesday at 4 p.m. with a live show and it’ll be in your feed wherever you get your Locked on Jaguars podcast immediately afterwards. And so, any final thoughts, Tony and Marcus, before we get on out of here? I have one, but Tony, please go first. Uh, real quick, uh, same as always. uh postgame uh 15minute post game for locked on Jaguars. We’ll hit that as soon as we’re done here. We’re going to address all of that stuff on Monday. But yeah, uh you guys hit it spot on. Everybody hit everything dead on the head. This is a very very disappointing loss. Me and you said that at the beginning when you teased it. Is it the worst ever based on expectation and being up 19 points? Yeah, it’s right there. It’s right there. Mia, Tony, I’ll say this and everybody, I don’t make excuses for anybody. The Jaguars should have won this football game. They had a great start. They had a phenomenal third quarter in the fourth quarter on the offensive side of the ball, the defensive side of the ball. They didn’t show up. He didn’t get it done. So, there’s no excuses. If they want to win now, they have got to fix their play call because unfortunately, you can’t go out and change your roster. So what can you change your play calling off the side of the ball this direction all these things stunts games you can change that but you are going to have to play with the players that you have on this roster and do the best you can. So, if they want to win, they got to get creative. And again, somebody in that locker room has to step up and be like a Red Loose type of a guy or when I played with uh Jackson, a Fred Taylor type of a guy. Somebody that you know if you don’t do your job, that player’s going to call you out. Fred Taylor was great at that. You know, I played with John Henderson, Marcus Stra. I mean, like those guys, you didn’t want to not do your job because those guys would have your butt if you didn’t do your job. And forget Del Rio at the end of the game. Those guys would have your butt in the locker room. So, they need to have somebody on this team step up and start making these guys accountable to the plays, doing their job, and finishing at the end of the day. No excuse to everybody. They lost. They shouldn’t have. They want to win. You got to finish what you start. Doesn’t matter how you start, it matters how you finish. We are finished with this first edition of the Jaguars Squad Show postgame. And of course, if you haven’t already, be sure to subscribe, like the Locked On Jaguars YouTube channel, and of course, follow us on the Locked On Jaguars podcast, wherever you find your podcast, part of the Locked On Podcast Network. Appreciate you guys hanging out with us. Until Wednesday, we will catch you later.

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