right now. I mean, as we said, coming into the year, they're
going to be the most dominant team. They're going to beat
the Chargers by 28.
Just don't go back and listen to our preseason predictions.
Although Chris has been very high on the Jaguar since he saw
him in the preseason and they looked awesome. And now
everyone's jumping on the bandwagon. Yeah, of
the Jacksonville Jaguars. We took a look at
the Jaguars offense against the Chargers defense here,
and I want to start just with the quarterback here. I know
it's not all about the court. Back. Yeah, but I think yeah,
of all players on the the Jacksonville offense. He is
a lightning rod because last year you were very critical
of Trevor when you're like, man. There's some red flags
here. It was Trevor Lawrence. Yeah, there was some worry.
Right. I mean, you know me, I had the was games where I was
just like, what the hell. Like, I don't think he threw one.
Good quality, football, the whole game.
I went. What the hell
is he just gonna stand there
and never move up in the pocket or feel the pocket at all
and, you know, added to that? And then,
you know, the things I told you
You know, I think I said it on the pot, a few times with some
people in the NFL were telling me and how he looked in pregame
warm-ups, right, where I was going. Damn, I mean oh my gosh,
and of course the Hall of Fame game. How? He looked in person,
they're served to started to change my opinion and then
the preseason games after that. You start to go. Whoa! He looks
really good. And here we are three games in and I go. Damn,
we might be, we might be onto something here, this might be
the new guy in the conversation. That's going
towards the you know, Elite quarterback. You know, he
certainly has that potential and he's starting to put it all
together three. It's Downs through the air.
He's also dangerous with the legs mobile moving around. So,
what did you see in this game specifically that made you go.
Wow, he's really turned a corner here. Or this is
a different player than I saw last year him specifically
specifically. He'd never
maybe miss one or two throws though, the the whole game.
Well and and
mean really the control and the ball, the power on
the football, you know, the the
the ability to see the field, he's not sticking onto
a receiver too long. All of that was really good. I mean, it's
beyond really good.
It is, and I just think he's become a little bit of
a machine, throwing the ball to him. Now, it's making his
decisions better too,
because I feel like last year it was affecting decision. See
what happens when you don't can trust yourself to control
the ball, you go, he's open. But I'd like him to be more open,
because I don't really trust where my ball is going to go
here right
now. He's going to always open by a foot. That's you
first down, right? So that's where he's great.
The in the pocket has gone through the roof. Good
stepping up sliding to the appropriate area making the throw or
what I say. Just get out of Dodge time like he's got
a great feel for okay wait one to nothing was open, it seems like
it's closing. Let me get out of here. I don't think anything
exemplifies that more than
his first touchdown passes A Jones, 14, yard pass, he's kind
of read into the left. He comes back to the right, doesn't like
what he sees. He starts running outside the pocket. Jay Jones
does a great job of adjusting to him
and he makes a great throw to him in the back of the end zone
for the touchdown and they never look back. To him
specifically. That's definitely the things that jump out to
you. So it maybe he's just a little bit more
comfortable in the offense this year than he was last year.
A little bit different offense but second year in the league,
what have you seen from Doug Peterson? And what he is doing?
Because we have a history with Doug Peterson, we know what he
did in Philadelphia was very successful form. A lot of times
got him to a Super Bowl
was different. It's not the same, it's not, it's not, it's
it's it's three weeks of me now. Just go, you know, I I was
at the End uninspired by Doug Peterson and some of the
offense, he was running in Philadelphia. I was just like, okay,
oh shotgun, oh, tight end to the left or see we left two
receivers to the right basic concepts just going. Damn.
All right, I mean, come on where did Doug Peterson of
the Super Bowl gear ago? And I just, I was, I wondered but
like now you see first off they have talent, we know that
that's a real thing. But forget all the talent. It's the
it's the
Mount or in variety of plays and schemes, they have now
that's impressive to me. It's the amount of,
you know, I'm big on priest at movement in motion.
Not only does it give Clues to the quarterback about what's
going to be played but it puts stress on the defense because
they're good defenses are trying to wait there in this
formation with Colin this defense but they went to
the other formation, we want to
check to the other defense
and if you're not great at communicating somebody
stop. So that's where they put real pressure on you and then
he He stays patient with the Run game on top of that,
which is something I else. I was also didn't like at the end
of Philly. I was just how many times we going to jam the three
yard pass in there. Can we just run the ball a little bit so
from all that stuff
it's just it's just more. It's more on
all facets of their offense and you couple that with
the talent, the way the quarterbacks playing, they put
you in a real bind and that's what they did to
the Chargers. They really did that they got the Chargers
to the Chargers want to At you in a passing game. So now we
can rush the passer
and I'm Brandon Staley and I got all these Cool Zone
coverages and man combination coverages and you you don't
know what you're getting right.
But they they took they overpowered them in the Run
game and because of that they made the Chargers have to play
the bear front on downs and distances. They probably didn't
want to,
and I'm Five Guys. Across the board on Five Guys, across
the board and that leaves two great, you know. Passing looks
to for Trevor Lawrence, so that was I think another big theme
of the game for me. You wrote wow in your notes and tough to
match up with Evan engram. Marvin Jones, Cristian. Kirk
Has A Jones who've
already mentioned here,
the to running back and also the running backs in James
Robinson in there is a game-changing play in the 2nd
half 4th and 150 yard touchdown to make it 9:37. What did you
see on that play? What did you like about the design? By Doug
Peterson on that on that? 50-yard touchdown butin
the the cool thing is first off
one of the Questions. I know I had about the Jag going
the years, the offense online, right, you know the right
tackle position was up for grabs, you know,
they're big left tackle,
I don't know why I want to say cam Thomas, but it's not cam
Thomas
cam Robinson, thank you, thank you Pete, there you go,
just go Davis. Yeah I don't know just go Davis and it might
be right, you know that but
the center position but then they draft a center whose damn
good and Luke Fortner, right? So he's done well, they get
Brandon sure. Irfan. Free agency
and you just look at all that stuff and you go.
Wow, they got something here. You know, they really do and
then the tackles are playing good off of that. So
that's the encouraging thing. Like, I worried about their
pass rush in this game, the Chargers on that group. That,
that wasn't a worrying. One was a little bit because of how
they played and they kept impatient and do all that and
ran the ball. But
that place specifically Ahmed,
you know, a weird alignment from the Chargers,
the Chargers. There was, you know, Course a goal line formation by
the Jacksonville Jaguars where there was three tight ends on
the end of the line of scrimmage
and the the
Chargers defense has
5 D lineman.
All inside the left, tackle of the offense, right? They're all
over there. So you got it,
you know, one in the gap between
the garden. The Tackle
one in the gap between
the garden, the center,
one in the gap between, or maybe even head up like a shade nose
between the center and the guard that way. And then, you
know, two more right down the line and the gaps there as
well, with a guy on the end of the line of scrimmage at
linebacker.
But the guys on the left, where you go. Whoa, there's a lot of
guys over there. They're all DBS, they're all so it's like
they were going
We're going to scare you with numbers so you won't run in
here and then you'll have to run it to the big guys and
the what I loved about it was Jacksonville said no no you
guys are 180 pounds like
you guys. We're running right over at those. Five hundred
eighty pound guys and we're just going to blow them off
the ball
and then they pulled a guard around and there they were in
a situation that the Chargers did not want to be and then that
would lead the James Robinson you
know, untouched for a 50-yard touchdown.