AFC South preview with Lindsay Jones - Titans, Colts, Jaguars & Texans
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🗓️ 8 September 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Robert Mays continues the division previews on The Athletic Football Show with a deep dive on the AFC South with The Athletic's Lindsay Jones. What can we expect out of Trevor Lawrence in year one? What are the Colts betting on Carson Wentz's success? Can the Titans pull it together in 2021 and make a Super Bowl run? And what the heck is going on with the Houston Texans??
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:05.4 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.1 | Today is Wednesday, September 8th. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm Robert Mays. Joining me today is my good friend Lindsay Jones. Lindsay, how are you? I'm all right. We made it through Labor Day weekend. We're here to week one. And I'm pretty pumped about that. I'm just excited for it to be real football. I'm excited for it to be real football. I'm just not ready. The idea that the season is starting in two days, I'm definitely not ready for that to happen. |
| 0:40.3 | Oh, I'm ready. It just feels wild that we're already here. I'm just not ready. It feels like it has snuck up on me. I feel like I have 10 million more things to do and things to plan and get us ready for Sunday night and all of that stuff. But I'm very excited for it to happen. |
| 0:54.9 | Yes, absolutely. |
| 0:55.9 | So let's get into the AFC South. |
| 0:58.3 | We are doing the AFC South today. |
| 1:00.6 | Just a bizarre division. |
| 1:02.5 | It's just even the last couple months of news going on with that. |
| 1:06.9 | All the Colts injuries and there's so many things to chew on here. Let's start with the Tennessee |
| 1:13.7 | Titans, who I think are, I guess, the favorite in this division. Obviously, the Colts probably |
| 1:19.6 | have playoff aspirations as well, but with all the injuries that they've dealt with and the Titan |
| 1:23.3 | success over the last couple years, I feel comfortable saying that they have the best shot |
| 1:27.5 | of winning the AFC South as we get going. |
| 1:30.6 | Last off season, the Titans bet big on the success they had in 2019. |
| 1:36.0 | They paid Ryan Tannahill. |
| 1:37.2 | They paid Derek Henry, and they hoped Arthur Smith to kind of make this thing sing all over |
| 1:41.6 | again. |
| 1:42.4 | And they were right. |
| 1:43.5 | They were fourth in offensive DVOA. |
| 1:45.3 | Their offense was as good as it was the year before when Ryan Tannahill was under center. And that snuck up on some people. And they're really going to try to do this again. You know, the Julio Jones trade kind of sends a message, like, we're all in. We know we need to do this right now. But I have my concerns about how that's |
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