J.P. Shadrick, Jacksonville Jaguars Senior Reporter

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Get six times longer lasting freshness plus odor protection with Downy Unstoppables in wash scent beads. It's JP Shadrach. How are you? I'm well. Great to be with you tonight and great to be in week 18 with still an opportunity to win the AFC South. Who would have thought that with a four game losing streak in December. That usually doesn't bode well for a team's division title hopes but somehow they persevered and got a win last week and now a win and they are the champs. Well JP you talk about that losing streak. I mean yeah who the hell goes to the playoffs losing to Cincinnati and obviously Cleveland. Ain't nothing to shake a stick at but they've had to deal with Flaco and then you got Tampa Bay, you got Baltimore. They're one of the best teams in the league. And somehow some way the Jags do they have momentum as they are enthusiasm surrounding the team.

What's the deal? Well I think the enthusiasm was always there. I mean I think it was always there on the practice field. The problem is they didn't really show up sometimes in key moments in games and against good teams and they played three straight against the AFC North and lost them all.

That's what happens. You can't have any mental gaffes or mistakes or turnovers and they had all of those combined in a lot of those games that cost them those football games. So they've always had a confidence. I think that's partly because of the coaching. Doug Peterson will not let them get too far down. He knows how to keep a team up and in it and motivated and ready. It feels like so.

OK. That's fine. There's going through a lull but it feels like now that they have survived it and they shut out Carolina last week like you're supposed to do against not so good football teams and they did that and kind of got their sea legs back underneath them. The defense is healthy now. There's no defensive players on the injury report this week which is great.

The question obviously now is on the offensive side. Will Trevor Lawrence be ready and will some of these weapons be ready. They haven't had their four arsenal of wide receivers on the field since the Monday Night Football Cincinnati game and that lasted one play when Christian Kirk went down. So they could have all those guys back. But can they flip the switch and get that offense back coming again.

That's a big question. J.P. Chadrick is here with us. Jaguar senior reporter you talk about Trevor Lawrence and we saw what happened Christian to Christian Kirk right out of the gate in that game.

And then I mean Trevor Lawrence. So at one point in time we thought that he might have been done for the season the way he slammed his helmet down on the floor. What is the status of his health.

Is he at full strength as we try to make a fight towards the postseason. No I don't think he's he hasn't been really full strength I don't think a lot of the back half of the seasons fourth time he's been on the injury report this year. The first time out was the left knee injury and he played on a short week on Thursday Night Football in the Superdome against the Saints with that bad left knee and led the team in Russia. So OK that wasn't so bad apparently bad enough to still have a brace for the next few weeks and then the high ankle sprain that was the fortunate one the one you're talking about where he got rolled up twisted up like a pretzel and crawling and couldn't walk. That would look bad but high ankle sprain but not obviously bad enough for him to have to sit out and play the next week again and then was in the concussion protocol.

And that's one you just can't really control obviously because of the protocol itself. So he cleared that though and played against Tampa didn't play especially well either the last two times out. This was different those throwing shoulders so it may see joint sprain and it can't throw the ball.

I mean there's no you know what else can you do. So that's why I didn't go last week. Today on the in the open media period which is about 20 minutes at the start of practice he actually threw a football a few times. How much velocity was on that.

I don't know. I mean I feel like he was really kind of letting it fly but then they shoot us out of there. So he didn't throw it all on Wednesday in the portion we were out there. So maybe put a little bit today build it up some. It's my opinion that he needs to practice though to play his best on Sunday. We've seen it where he hasn't practiced in many plays and he doesn't play well. So is that the best opportunity for the Jags. I don't know. Let's see how healthy it is.

If he's healthy and cleared he's playing. That's that's the bottom line. He's the franchise quarterback without a shadow of a doubt especially to cement their way on into the postseason in the playoffs if they go ahead and get this win against Tennessee. If we take a look back at last year the Jaguars went nine and eight.

We know about that big old comeback in the choke job that the Chargers had beating them 31 to 30. Are we looking at deja vu like it feels like the Jaguars in whole are stagnant. They haven't taken that full step. Why do you think that's been the case and what needs to change not just for these remaining games however many are left but into next season as well. It's a great question and this was supposed to be an offense heavy team and they were talking in training camp about scoring 30 points per game.

They out like publicly and that was kind of the goal and that just hasn't really come to fruition for a number of different reasons. Some of the injuries are part of the reason why they've had inconsistency on the offensive line guys in and out of the lineup there and just no way to really they've had like nine different lineup combinations of the offensive line as part of that. But that's just Trevor about playing well times and making dumb mistakes and throw it into coverage and bumbling the football. I mean that's that's really the big quarterbacks turning it over not just throwing picks but you know on a running play just letting it drop.

That's that's a bad sign. So there's all that combined on the offensive side the defense. So it really led the way they they've been really good against the run for the most part got the last couple of times a few times out has been not great. I mean Baltimore is going to run on anybody and a couple of games around that not ideal in the past Russia starting to get a little warmer right Josh Allen's playing better. Trayvon Walker is playing better. So that's been a good pretty constant group this year.

So that's where they are. It's really about the offense. Don't turn it over. Gosh don't turn it over anymore. It's been doing it's out. You see you've seen a lot of them. Well let me ask you this.

I remember being here in Georgia. I would hear it just nonstop about Trevor Lawrence the next big thing. And then he goes on to Clemson and then you hear oh my God wait until he goes to the NFL the next big thing. Well he's he's been here for for quite some time now he's still young.

I don't even think he's passed 25 years old if that's right. Is there still I mean obviously he can still grow but is he going to grow to be like top three top four top five as a QB. I think there's still hope for that.

Yeah I mean that's certainly what the franchise hopes he can still be. And you know it's the end of year three. I know you know the first year as rookie season was Europe admire debacle. That didn't go well.

So OK. Can I mark that one off. And then they reset everything and put a group around him that you know that can help him think like he was supposed to think as an NFL quarterback with Peterson and Mike McCoy is a quarterback coach former head coach of the Chargers. And that press Taylor Young up and coming offensive coordinator. So they have that in place it's just a matter now of going out there and he has moments right. I mean you'll have a great game and he'll have you know pinpoint accuracy and he's running off that and he can balance it. But then he'll have others where it's just not a good performance and he's got to balance those out. He's got to really kind of settle in a little bit more. I think the weapons in and out of the lineup have hurt him. You know you don't have Chris and Kirk for four weeks.

Guess what. I mean he's one of your go to guys. Calvin Ridley has been a little inconsistent this year I'd say that was one they were hoping.

OK it's a one off let's try it. As long as he's not gambling we're good. Well yeah and he hasn't. So like he's been out there and you know it's just a matter of get him on track and then Zay Jones has been hurt.

So that's where Trevor is. He's not going anywhere. I mean he's the guy he's going to be. They're going to give it all they get to. There's always always talk in the off season about how they can negotiate with him after this season and get a deal done. Well let's tap the brakes a little bit. I think at some point they will but they need to see something here this week and in the playoffs I think to really be able to have full confidence in that I think going into this offseason. Well JP to start to wrap things up here. When you think about what's going to take place against the Titans when you think about what might take place in the postseason what's realistic. Are they are they one round and done. I mean are we looking towards some help in the draft.

Well what do you think is going to happen over the next weeks and several months. This team can beat any team in the league. They could also lose anything in the league. I mean that's where they are right now. They were the scores might have been not really telling the whole tale of some of these blowout losses but they fell to that Baltimore game. There were a couple of plays away from at least getting it into the fourth quarter and then OK then you see I'm not saying they're going to go beat them nine times out of 10. That's not what I'm saying. But they feel like on any given Sunday they can line up and not be outdone. You know they're going to have the weaponry for the most part it's healthy to go out there and compete.

So that's fine. And in a playoff setting that's all you want because how many teams right now really have that. You know once they get in you know it's just a different feeling and we saw what happened in the wildcard game last year. There was no way. There's just no way. And then they just kept playing and got a touchdown before half. Got a little confidence and the Chargers helped him out and you know threw the ball and it all kind of worked out. I don't know if that's sustainable.

I don't think so. But hey you know that's what it takes. This team does have some resilience to it. It's just a matter of bringing that resilience out each and every week and that's been the problem spot after Thanksgiving.

Yeah. Let's see if they can go on a one game improvement from last season. I think they will.

And then let's see what happens when they get into the postseason. Hey JP I appreciate you joining us. Where can people follow you and keep up with you on all the wonderful work you do covering the Jags. I appreciate it.

Yeah. Jaguars dot com the official team Web site and on X I suppose at JP Chadwick a lot of our content goes out there. We've got it seven days a week pretty much. And certainly if the Jaguars win this week it'll be back to back division titles for the first time for the Jags since 1998 and 99. That has not happened. That would send a nice message I think to the rest of the division and maybe propel them to bigger and better things than they even had last year.

So looking forward to it. Wow we got to go back to Brunel and Coughlin days and we got to go back to almost the beginning. I mean that's a few years in and the cell he was out there. I mean Jimmy Smith's on there. We played Taylor's in there. Those are some good teams now. But that's that was an AFC Central.

So this division didn't even exist then. So a lot of the guys are pushing towards Social Security now at this point. Pretty much. I mean yeah they've got like different body parts and things. Now it's just kind of what it is. They're a little older.

But yeah that's what it is. It's a history defining moment I think for the Jags franchise. It'll be nice and hopefully Trevor Lawrence can continue to move on as well. Hey JP thank you again for joining us. OK. Hey have a great night. Appreciate it. So listen to and follow We Can Do Hard Things, an Odyssey podcast available now for free on the Odyssey app and everywhere you get your podcasts.