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Thank you. Well, the Jaguars are here all week because they play the Bills at Tottenham Hotspur next Sunday so it's the first time an NFL team will play back-to-back games in London. They were the home team at Wembley yesterday. That's always the deal the Jaguars have directly with Wembley Stadium and the Football Association but now they're going on the NFL's game next week at Spurs. So they're the road team against the Bills and yeah big win for the Jaguars yesterday and they needed it too. They were not playing really good football.

It wasn't the cleanest game yesterday but a win is a win and everybody in the division is now 2-2. Interesting that they're staying there and not coming back. So what will their week look like? Well, they've got a different hotel this week. So they were at the Grove Resort out in Watford when they arrived on Friday morning and they did a practice there, a walk through Saturday at Wembley and then played the game Sunday. After the game, they changed hotels to another resort up northeast of town a little closer to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

There's a field on site there. They can do everything they need in the meeting spaces. They've got all the film stuff and all the meeting rooms and whatever they need like normal, the food, training table, everything's there. So they're on site there pretty much all week long. I think the players officially have today off Monday coming up and then Tuesday it's back to work.

Kind of flip-flopping those two days. There's some community event things I think today planned around London. I'm going to speak with a couple of players at school. There's a couple of school visits today around town so we're doing that kind of thing today. Get us back to work Tuesday on the field Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Play the game Sunday and then fly home Sunday night after the game against the Bills. As best you can tell, how much do they like the opportunity or maybe mind the fact that they're completely out of what would be a normal schedule quote-unquote? Well, I think the team has done a really good job in the organization of making it as normal as possible.

It's tough because you'd be five, eight hours away to do it and it takes you a couple days to get right again. I mean Tyler Shatley's done this. This is now his eighth London game. He's a 10th-year player.

He was an active for one of them. Yesterday was his eighth game he played in London. That's the most whole time and again I fell. He said, it doesn't matter what you take.

It doesn't matter how you hydrate. The first day is just going to be awful. You just got to power through it and once you arrive here it's just going to be a bad Friday. Fight through and then by Saturday you're okay and you play the game.

That's what it is. Once you get past that, I think this week will be somewhat normal. Now we're in just a different environment but everything else you have is here and the organization has done a great job of making sure it's as comfortable as possible. From a team perspective, there's a lot going on and they just weren't playing great football. They just were out of sync on really all three phases last week. They just kind of needed a break.

Something to get away and I don't know if I necessarily buy all that. They're saying that at least because it worked out yesterday. They got it done and maybe the change of scenery is a good thing. JP Shadrick is with us from London as the Jaguars will be the first NFL team to stick around for two games in a row.

We'll see if they can make it 2-0 across the pond. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence here on CBS Sports Radio. You mentioned them not playing extremely well, not finding a rhythm and groove yet. What's been the struggle for them? A lot of it starts up front on the offensive line.

They've had some changes there. Anton Harrison's battling some injury things, the right tackle, the rookie out of Oklahoma and a shoulder issue, an ankle issue. He played good yesterday and he's just going to be out there fighting too. I think that's going to be the season for Brandon Sheriff's, a veteran right guard. The center's Luke Portner. He's a little stronger than he was last year. He's a second-year player but the left guard position has left a lot that he desired. Ben Bartz had not been playing exceptionally well the first few weeks so yesterday they made the change. Tyler Shatley made the start at left guard.

It was a little more of a sturdy presence there. The left tackle has been Walker Little who's now a third-year player out of Stanford. Next week is the first week Cam Robinson is eligible to come back from his suspension in the performance-enhancing drug policy.

He is on the trip. In theory, he could go in the lineup at left tackle. They could move Walker Little inside the left guard next week. That's really been the start of it because all of a sudden things are collapsing in front of Trevor Lawrence. The timing's a bit off and he hasn't been able to find his normal guys. Evan Ingram and Christian Kirk, they've just kind of been off sync and it felt like maybe the first week or two especially he was trying to force it to Calvin Ridley a good bit. New piece in this offense and it just wasn't working out. Last week Calvin had like two drops and two false starts.

That's unheard of. This week it felt like they got back to basics. Let's just get it out quick. Christian Kirk, let's get seven yards. Evan Ingram, let's get six yards. Keep the chains moving and then when you see Ridley open, get into the deep ball like you just started coming back from break.

That's what they were. They went back to basics on offense yesterday. What does Calvin Ridley mean to the offense when you're not feeling that disjointed connection when he's not dropping it or there's false starts? The potential we've definitely seen J.P. What can he mean for the Jaguars? He means when he's on, he's a true number one receiver in the NFL and the Jags really haven't had a talent like that. A true all-around number one guy I would argue since Justin Blackman. When Justin was right, he was that guy and then that went away fast. Allen Robinson had some flashes of that but Calvin is that guy.

He is locked in. He's a fantastic route runner. He can turn you around like at the bat of an eye and then he's got the speed to go over the top.

When it's in the air, okay he might not be the biggest jumper in the world but he'll go up and fight it. He just kind of gives you that extra added presence that you haven't had outside. Now they're without a couple receivers right now as well. Zay Jones has a knee injury and Jamal Agni did not play yesterday so they were short a couple of guys at the receiver spot. It was good to see Ridley get back in there and make that first catch the touchdown and just kind of maybe get in the groove again and not over force it to him and just kind of balance out this offense. He should be a piece of this offense right now and then build up to make him maybe a forward part of it as the season goes along.

They just got to work that in. I don't know how much the fans there in London can appreciate the nuance or maybe they don't cheer for defense as much as they cheer for offense but man Josh Allen had a pretty sweet game yesterday even as the other Josh Allen had five touchdowns. This Josh Allen had three sacks. Yeah this Josh Allen and Jacksonville had his second three sack game of the season. He had one week one as well so it's a big year for him.

It's contract year. You know there's this crew that is running the Jaguars did not draft him so he's got to keep making an impression and he knows this is his moment to really do that. So yesterday was a big deal for him and this defense. They got three takeaways yesterday. They scored on defense right six from Darius Williams and then Josh Allen had the sack fumble at the end.

That was the third takeaway of the game. He's playing very well. Trayvon Walker is just getting better incrementally.

He doesn't have that flashiness that bend around the edge yet but he's a big skunk physical player and former number one overall pick of course from Georgia. So they're working on it and that's been highly criticized by Jaguars fans. The lack of pass rush. They missed I think this they had the stat internally like missed 27 or 29 sacks last year like had the hand on the quarterback or were within reach of him and couldn't get him to the ground for whatever reason.

So if they get half of those then they're okay. They're moving in the right direction. It's been a little slow it's been a little slow starting but Josh Allen has had a couple of games where you're like okay now he might be finding his rhythm and that's great for the CAG defense. J.P. Shadrick is a senior reporter with the Jaguars. He's with us from London.

It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. A couple things about the AFC South. Every team right now is two and two.

What are your impressions through the first month? Yeah well it's even Steven. That's fine. We'll take it. You know consider the way it started and the loss to the Texans for the Jaguars a couple weeks ago. I mean that was just a poor performance all around from the Jaguars. All three phases contributed to that and then all of a sudden the Texans come out and win again.

So hey C.J. Stroud solid performance last week. He's got a bright future down there in Houston it looks like and D'Nico's got those guys playing pretty well at least early playing hard. I mean that's a good football team. I think Andy will have their moments. I think Anthony Richardson can move around and he's athletic and he's a he can be a real problem for you.

The Jaguars had the Colts week one and we'll see about Tennessee. I mean it looked like Derek Henry got warmed up a little bit yesterday. You know he's we'll see how long that can last right. He keeps saying oh he's getting older.

He's getting older and all of a sudden he breaks off 60 yarder again. I mean we've had that interesting that firsthand before. So yeah it's two and two and the season starts now right. If you're all two and two everybody's even just go play some football and it's a big one this week for the Jags. I mean they you know they've already dropped a game to Kansas City right. They felt like there were the expectations after the playoff run last year that hey the Jags need to kind of match up with the Chiefs and the Bills and the Chargers because they expected to be in that playoff hunt and in the postseason most years. You've got to build your team to match those teams.

Okay this is the test. They had a chance against Kansas City. Held them to I mean under 20 and lost the game and now you've got a Bills team that has really warmed up obviously after last week.

So you better start your engines. It's going to be a heck of a game at Spurs next week. All right before I let you go JP how impressive is Bijan Robinson up close? Oh yeah that guy is something special.

It's amazing. There was a play and I forget when it was in the game. So he had a few the first touch I think was a pass. It was a out in the flat to the right and he had like three moves and Chad Moon went flying the other way and here he goes down the sideline.

That was impressive. There was another one where he kind of ran left. It was clogged up and I saw this hole open to the right from the side while I was calling the game and he just exploded through it and went for like 30 or something.

I mean at the drop of a hat. He's got that incredible vision. He's got moves to shake past anybody and he's not scared to shake a little bit and then run you over if you expect them to go by. So complete game so far for Bijan Robinson. A second 100-yard game of this season yesterday and I think it's built around him right now. He was their leading receiver coming into the game and leading Russia and that's what they have in Atlanta but okay they're going to be fine with him. Yeah it's kind of interesting to think about the possibilities in both the AFC South and the NFC South actually because both of these divisions right now are still there up for the grabs.

Though we're first month so no one wins a division in October. Well JP any fun plans for you since you are also there in London for a week? Work. It's all work.

Oh that's no fun. We've got jaguars.com and jaguars radio shows in the morning. They're doing it with the team hotel up north of town Monday, Wednesday, Thursday. Then we have afternoon shows that we're doing live in a pub here in London called the Pavilion and Pub near St. Paul. So we'll have a live audience. We'll take fan questions. It's going to be wild. So Monday, Wednesday, Thursday that and then game prep and I'm calling the game again on Westwood One on Sunday. So JAG stuff all week Westwood One Sunday.

It's work but it's a great place to do work. I'll say that. Have you noticed that there are still a lot of American football fans making the trip?

Oh yeah. It felt like that the other night. There was a Jaguars hub party at the same pub and I have to kind of MC or host or just scream into a mic basically and we did kind of a poll. Who's over from the US?

How many UK? It's about 50-50 in that place and it was jam-packed upstairs and downstairs. So there's a lot of people that come over from Jacksonville area. They make it especially with two games here this year. A home and a road game.

You know a lot of people came to the game yesterday and I mean more than a handful that I've talked to. We're going to either Paris or Amsterdam or over to Ireland for three or four days. Nice. Coming back on like Thursday. So making a long trip of it, seeing two games, seeing something else on the continent. That's an excellent vacation choice I'd say.

Yeah no doubt. All right well J.P. Shadrach he's got a full week of work but he is in London so he's not complaining. You can find him on Twitter at J.P. S-H-A-D-R-I-C-K. J.P. Shadrach senior reporter with the Jags. Also hear that voice doing play-by-play for both NFL and college football on Westwood One. Thank you for making a few minutes for us.

Enjoy your time across the pond. Oh we always do. It's always a pleasure to speak with you as well and you know not you know it's like what four in the morning there right now. I mean this is 4 37 eastern yes 4 37 Jacksonville time. I don't have to stay up till 3am to talk to you now. This is perfect. Perfect good.

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