Montaric Brown

Eric Murray left the game against Cincinnati.

We really don't know his status yet, uh, as far as short-term or long-term, and you can say the same thing about Buster Brown.

He tried to give it a go in Cincinnati, went through pregame warmups, did not go.

We'll see where he is.

You never know when injuries are gonna strike.

Nobody thought Buster Brown would miss this week, and then Travis Hunter played every single snap on defense, right? [sniffs] And then you wonder, okay, Jarrion Jones, is he gonna sit there and sulk because, uh, Travis is playing more defense, and Jordan Lewis came back, and he's eating up those nickel snaps, and Montario got a big contract extension? Uh, what, what would his mindset be? His mindset is that he's a starter, and he acts like that, so when he was put in that role this weekend, regardless of T.

Higgins' stats, if you really know and understand the game and look at all of the metrics, Jarrion Jones had a really, really good game.

So [clicks tongue] you look at Rayon Lane, who was drafted last year, played with Caleb Ramsaw being out.

Exposed is too strong, but it's just, I think it's, it would...

He's not at the level of, of productivity where he can overcome not having A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith and Saquon Barkley.

And, uh, so it's, it's probably some system as well.

It's unfair to put it all on Jalen Hurts, but it does seem like they're reaching the end of the line with the Jalen Hurts era.

Uh, he's not gonna get the takeaways maybe that Devin Lloyd got, but he's gonna blow people up.

He's better against the run.

And I will tell you, and I'm sorry, uh, Buster Brown got hurt, and he's gonna be a big part of their defense when healthy.

But Jarrion Jones and Travis Hunter together as physical man-to-man corners, boy, that's a pair now.

... we went and talked about him yesterday, really impressive.

I think another thing that goes underrated is the Jags didn't have one of their better cornerbacks in this game in Buster Brown.

Then they ended up losing, obviously, Caleb Randesav- Mm-hmm ... very early in the game-

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Uh, I think we all recognize that, and that's why we are scratching our heads when they play him two-thirds of the time on defense, Logs.

And they did have two corners down for this game in Buster Brown and Christian Braswell.

If they're back fully healthy, is Travis Hunter gonna remain 100% of the snap defensive player, or are they gonna go back to this cockamamie rotation?

I don't think they're gonna go back to what you would call a cockamani- cockamani rotation.

Now let's go and talk about a player who we thought was gonna play a lot of offense, but now he's just playing primarily defense, but he's been assigned a set of packages to maybe take advantage of his wide receiver skills, and that's Travis Hunter.

Travis Hunter, so as snaps increased, there was a injury that kept Buster Brown out, so you started with Travis Hunter and Jaren Jones.

And Travis Hunter, over the last two weeks, has really started aligning to the wide side of the field.

And the base coverage or some of these coverages that, uh, the Jags are running, like there's either quarters all across the board or quarter, quarter, half, where to the boundary side you have a cloud corner, means he's gonna jam, reroute, funnel the receiver inside, then sink back to 12 to 14 yards to be under any corner or any outbreaking route that is in his area.

It's interesting.

Because they didn't have Buster Brown, they really had to play Jarrion Jones and Travis Hunter every play.

That makes them a better man-to-man team.

Buster's a very good player.

So he's jamming, he's rerouting, he's more of a zone corner than a man corner.

So Travis is really settling in because in the last few weeks, when they talk about the rotation, he's got more reps.

Well, this was a game without Buster Brown.

There was no cornerback rotation.