Welcome into tailgate Austin Gale here with Mike Renner in sunny Cincinnati ready to rip it up on our Thursday edition of the tailgate podcast

We're going to do our full NFL week two preview preview all 16 games coming up this week and also a college football week three prospect primer trivia back end of the show. Let's get it

Mike, we let the people down. We did not cover the Jacksonville Jaguars going on going against the Houston Texans in week one. We missed it in our week one review. It was the first time we did a full week one review on this podcast. So you got to get your lumps here, but can we give the people what they want and actually review this Jack Texans game? Yes, let us please start with Trevor Lawrence Trevor Lawrence. I said this. I think on another podcast or really hit

whatever it was those three interceptions were ugly. Some spotty accuracy. He had the highest percentage of uncatchable inaccurate passes of any quarterback in week one. But what you did see was the high end. You saw these flashy throws these darts on his tape that you saw at Clemson and the reason why he's still number one overall pick best quarterback drafted in this class. But some some spot in this that maybe people didn't expect to start. Yeah, I mean he had an all time bad interception. It was it was as if the linebackery through to gosh can remember exactly who it was. As if he thought he was not

off its player. Like he's looking to his right looking to his right comes back to Levis Kitchen Alt who's running kind of a seam post against zone coverage. And I don't know if he thought it was supposed to be a dig or what, but he throws a line drive into a linebackers chest where Levis Kitchen Alt's ten yards further downfield the world ball was caught. Like it was just pretty abysmal. That was kind of I don't say microcosm of this game, but it was just things he did that he never did at Clemson that are just an adjustment the comfort level. Not what we saw. And it's

going to get better. But you still saw the high end place, the seam touchdown, the kind of what was at the corner route. Erna actually wasn't corner up. It's just like the deep deep sideline route on the left sideline. That was just arm talent for days that I do think you'll be fine. But it was it was still a rocky start out the game. Anyone coming out of this game, thinking that Trevor Lawrence won't be fine. I think it's definitely overreacting. But will this Jags supporting cast be fine offensive line did not look good. Defense got shredded by

Taylor and a bunch of replacement, you know, like no names that we talk about all the Houston Texans were the butt of every single joke in the offseason. At one point, I think draft Kings had their win total like two and a half or something ludicrous like that. They go out win this game. I don't know. I do think that this Jaguars defense fell flat. And offensively, I would argue Urban Meyer company did not put him, you know, Trevor Lawrence, even though he had some concerns himself did not put him in a position to succeed. At what point do you see this Jaguar supporting cast turning around?

It's a tough part. It's you're relying on a lot of sort of young guys taking big next steps that, I mean, Caleb on chase on comes out 49.7 past Russian grade. That's in year two. Obviously, go it up against Larry tons a lot, but you would like a little bit better than that. CJ Henderson comes out 55.5 coverage grade in year two, your two first rounders from last year, not playing like first rounders just yet or not playing like the guys you thought they were when you drafted them, whatever 9th and 20th overall. So that to me is the concerning part.

Is that you're relying on so much youth and they had such like a rotation. I feel like at every single position, they were kind of rotating guys in and out, whether a safety defensive line and not a lot of guys really making an impact.

I'm not buying the Houston Texans. I'll say that. I don't think they're going to know this is not shocked the world. And when the AFC South, they still have the worst odds to win the AFC South of any team in that division. But I do think, you know, against bad football teams, they're going to get they're going to give them a run for their money because they have a lot of veteran talent.

I mean, there's a lot of veteran players on this team, regardless of whether you like the talent or not. It's not a lot of youth. It's not a lot of inexperience. And I think that's going to show up against teams that are inexperienced like the Jags.

Yeah. I mean, week one last year, the Jaguars beat the Colts. Shit happens. Bad teams, the Jets beat the who they beat last year, they beat a good team last year that towards the end of season gosh, they escaped me. But sometimes shit happens and the Browns, right? Was it the Browns? I'm not sure. I'm okay. I remember.

But actually ended up being two winning teams by the end of the year. So that like random things happened in the NFL to me. That kind of is what this felt like right. Let's get random things. I mean, it wasn't all that random to me. I was one who cashed in on the Houston, Texas. My line. I saw it coming. Anyway, let's go ahead and jump now to the NFL week two preview. We're going to break down some storylines for every game. And then you're going to give your deciding factor and picks for this game against the spread. The giants are going to Washington to play to your height. It beat the Rams.

And the Browns last year, the Jets did. That's who they beat Rams and the Browns last year for New York Jets randomness. As you would say, giants, Daniel Jones is facing off against the Taylor Heinecke of the Washington football team at home, football team favored by three, where I like to start is honestly a high level question on the New York Giants. How worried should we be about Daniel Jones?

I mean, you should have been worried the day they drafted on, honestly, not to like, not to really hammer home this point. But when you're out on a limb as an evaluator, number six overall, when every independent media, whatever is saying this guy is not a six overall pick, like some people were saying, maybe back into the first round, that's where they take them. But when you're on the limb saying six overall pick, you should be a little wary when you are disagree with the consensus.

And then he showed nothing into yours, my opinion, to change that. So I do think that you should be. And the more worrisome thing is that you spend all this money in Kelly, you got to use a first round pick on a wide receiver. You used a first round pick on a tackle last year. Now, Andrew Thomas actually played really well last week. But the situation hasn't gotten to the point where it's incrementally better, where you have what looks like a good situation for him to succeed. He was still under pressure, a ton in this past weeks, even with Andrew Thomas playing well.

Yes. So I mean, Nate's older looks like he's not a right tackle. He looks talk about the sort of the storyline of the season is left tackles flipping to the right side and looking like dog shit. It's happened to a lot of guys.

I'll have to fill in a wave a nasal in the preseason. Now you have Nate's older. A lot of guys just don't look like they belong on the opposite side line. And so I would be very worried because you're going to talk yourself into saying we still don't know.

And that's the scary place to be heading into your four. I couldn't agree with you more 49 combined fumbles and interceptions for Daniel Jones. It's 2019. The most of any quarterback in the NFL. And I say this a lot too. I think he looks good in games, except for these critical mistakes, but he has these critical mistakes more than any quarterback in the NFL. Like he looks good. Play to play. And then every time you're coming out, it's like, man, if you just didn't have this play or this play two or three plays the game, we're like, what the hell? Yeah, that's Daniel Jones for you though. That's the good that that's what's

been the problem with damage. I'm going to double down. I didn't I didn't have this one on our prep, but I want to come to you because you mentioned the first round wide receiver. Where are you out on the panic button with an area's Tony guy can't see the field.

Few touches in this game. I think I had an end around that went for five yard loss. He can't find a target playing on special teams. Well, so he, so what he had COVID and then some nagging injury. I'm not too worried because he was always going to be sort of a project. I said, like he was a guy who you need to develop rapport with. There's a reason why he didn't produce until a senior year at Florida is because kind of the way he runs routes.

Who he is as a playmaker is not your crisp by the book run a slant at five yards. It's a calls for a slant of five yards or a thing. So that's always that was always going to take time for him. But to me, it's more, you know, you never should have drafted for Jason Garrett's offense. That's Jason Garrett's offense. You know, Jason Garrett's I never trusted Jason Garrett to utilize a playmaker like that and create a fashion. So that to me was the scarier thing when you did draft them.

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