Jacksonville Jaguars star defensive end Josh Hines-Allen joins Inside Coverage with Jason Fitz with news of his son Wesley’s battle with leukemia and his ‘Four One For Hope’ campaign supporting pediatric cancer non-profits.
Josh and Jason also discuss the Jaguars’ upcoming Sunday night matchup at home against Patrick Mahomes and the visiting Kansas City Chiefs. Hines-Allen leads the Jaguars’ stout defense as the Jags hold a one-game advantage over the Chiefs so far this season.
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Josh Hines-Allen joins Inside Coverage on behalf of the ‘Four One for Hope’ campaign. Learn more and donate at https://41forall.rallyup.com/pledge.
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Video Transcript
All right, we are hanging out now with Josh Heinz Allen, the Jags defensive superstar, joining us.
Really incredible cause that obviously you’re part of 41 for all, uh, for cancer, for childhood cancer.
Uh, let’s start there.
How are you?
How’s your family?
This obviously is so impactful because of your son.
How are you guys holding up?
Uh, we’re in a very positive space right now.
Uh, he’s in full remission.
We rang the bell.
Uh, so now the only thing left we had to do was just his, you know, his monthly meeting, his monthly checkup with his doctor, and, um, but for him, he’s healthy, um, he’s at school and he’s just thriving the way he’s supposed to right now, and mom and dad are, you know, we’re, we’re, we’re pushing along, we’re, you know, doing what we need to do as parents and as husband and wife, and we’re still growing as well.
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It seems trivial to talk about football, but we’ve got you here and we’re gonna do that.
Let’s have a little fun talking about the season you’re having right now because I know Jags fans that will say, hey, the Jags don’t get enough attention.
Y’all got a chance on Sunday night to get the whole world on notice against the Chiefs.
What do you see in that matchup?
What are you looking forward to?
Um, uh, opportunity to showcase who we are, you know, as a unit.
Um, again, it’s about, it’s about the Jacksonville Jaguars.
At the end of the day, um, you know, they’re a good team, good players, obviously one of the best players in that league, which is, which is awesome, uh, it’s a good way to, to let us know that it’s not a fluke.
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Uh, we really do play really good football over here, uh, physical, physical brand of football, and, uh, not get pushed around.
That’s, that’s one thing that we harp on, uh, each week is we’re gonna be the most physical team out there, and I think once we set that standard early and throughout the game, that just gives us more confidence.
Um, so again, it’s about us.
Shout out to Kansas City, whoever we play against.
But I think if we come out, I know if we come out there, You know, with that mentality that we’re gonna whoop these boys, we can whoop these boys.