a win for the Jags in the so-called
preseason dress rehearsal but it came at
a price in the first quarter wide
receiver marques Lee went down with a
left knee injury it's pretty badly had
to be carted off the field Jalen Ramsey
blaming the NFL rulebook for this injury
saying after the game you know you have
to be mad at the NFL not mad not mad at
them but that is how this rule is people
are scared to tackle normal because I
guess they don't want to do helmet to
helmet and get flagged joining us this
morning for a Monday Morning Quarterback
segment news for Jax Jaguars analyst
Mark Brunell I'm sure you have a lot to
say about about that comment and do you
really think that that is where the
blame should be defensive backs and and
linebackers are put in a difficult
position because listen nobody out there
is it wants to be malicious you don't
want to hurt anybody
if you hit somebody in the head with
your helmet you're going to get fine
there's gonna be a penalty someone's
gonna get hurt if you decide to go low
then you're gonna you know there's
somebody's knees can get hurt too it's
it's really a no-win situation that's
what happened you I mean you see it
right there and it's defensive back so
you got to play by the rules the rules
are have changed and they are putting it
in a tough tough position no question so
I'm sure that you've got the update on
Lee can you share with us what things
are looking like it just doesn't look
good I don't know specifically but but
it looks like he's gonna be out for the
season and and that's the worst part of
this game is when a teammate gets
injured like that when they're out for
the season Marquis is such a big part of
this team continued to be that the
number one receiver for the Jaguars
Blake's go-to guy and it's just hard to
see that whether it's preseason or
regular season you never want to see
when your teammates go down and I know
in the postgame interviews Blake was
saying that now some of the other guys
are really gonna have to step up let's
talk about Blake for a moment because
two big things that happens you know
that we saw again in this game was that
he threw two interceptions pretty early
on and that's unfortunate in pre-season
offensively you want to score a lot of
points you want to establish the run
game have some big big passes like we
saw all of that the line look good Blake
had some good plays
Leonard ran well which we'll talk about
of course but you just can't have the
interceptions tip balls happen it
doesn't matter who's
they are Mickey whether receiver runs
the wrong route or a ball gets tipped or
or something like that you just you you
got to take care of the ball if you
don't take care of the ball
you're gonna lose football games the
good thing is that we have a very good
defense that's opportunistic that will
get us the football but turnovers lead
to losses in the regular season and the
preseason has time to kind of get those
out of the way so you hope that Blake
has gotten that out of his system he's
gonna make better decisions but I will
say this he has proved proven himself
enough to me last year in the playoffs
in two to give me confidence that he's
certainly the guy can take that can take
us all the way absolutely you said that
consistently and I know that that's
something really fans really want to
hear
now that you've you know been through
some of the practices we have three
preseason games under our belt is this
the team that you think everybody is
hoping for I think it is now we have a
tough schedule we have to stay healthy
the injury to marques hurts us injuries
hurt us last year Nicky one of the
reasons for our success was that we we
stayed healthy throughout the season but
I like our offense Leonard fournette
looks good he came out of preseason
healthy I think Blake is is is the guy
and the defense is absolutely dominant
all the ingredients you need to have a
championship football team now a lot of
things have to happen Nicky we have to
stay healthy as I mentioned and of
course we've got to get on a roll play
our best football in December get a few
breaks here and there but it could
happen let's talk about Leonard a little
bit more because he had a good game on
Saturday night he did and listen he's
he's a tough physical back very good
vision he understands the offense his
teammates love him he's a good leader I
mean he's got all the qualities that go
into being a great running back and this
is just your - for him the run he had as
you see there was it was very impressive
good patience good vision letting the
line you know establish those lanes for
him I mean you're seeing a guy that's
that's you know he's just in a second
preseason he looks like it got it's been
around six or seven years I mean he is
the workhorse for this offense he's the
key and I'd be fun to watch him mache
and really when you think about that
this is only a second year really
doesn't feel like you know he's almost
veteran status at this point alright
thank you so much for coming in and
talking about this and you know you can
hear
more from mark and colpepper they're
gonna have analysis from Saturday
night's game tonight on the Mark Brunell
show you can actually go see them live
at sneakers at Jacksonville Beach or you
can watch at 7:00 p.m. tonight on cw17
Scott