Landry Jones Report: Jags Sign Landry Jones as QB Insurance. Bortles is dealing with an injury to his non-throwing shoulder (NFL Network) Alec Nathan. Jones, who recently worked out for the Detroit Lions, was drafted by the Steelers in the fourth round of the 2013 NFL Draft out of Oklahoma. He spent six seasons in the league and owns a 63.9.
© TheWrap Caleb Landry JonesA version of this story about Caleb Landry Jones first appeared in the Race Begins issue of TheWrap's awards magazine.
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Rod Lurie's harrowing and heartfelt combat film 'The Outpost' is full of buff actors like Scott Eastwood and Orlando Bloom playing real-life members of the U.S. military – but it's the slightest, most timid-looking actor of the bunch, Caleb Landry Jones, who gives us the immersive film's everyman hero. As U.S. Army Specialist Ty Carter, makes us feel the terror of a harrowing Taliban attack but also the drive to save countless others while himself injured.
He took the role, he said, largely because of his brother, who is himself a wounded combat veteran. 'My agent sent me the script and I was taking a long time to read it,' he told TheWrap. 'Sometimes I'm not great at reading material. But my brother was in town, and he's an ex-Marine, so I asked him to read it before I even looked at it to see what he thought.' His brother, who'd met Medal of Honor winner Carter at a veterans' event, was succinct: 'He read it and said, 'Oh, you're doing this one.' I said, 'That good, is it?' And he said, 'You're doing it.' That's all he said.'
© Provided by TheWrap Caleb Landry Jones The OutpostWhile preparing for the role, Jones met Carter, who won the Medal of Honor for his actions during the 2009 Battle of Kamdesh in Afghanistan, which is depicted in the film. The two spent time together in Texas, where they both live, and Carter was also on the set for part of the shoot in Bulgaria, playing a small role in the movie.
'It's a strange one, playing a real person when they're there,' Jones said. 'It was important to me to get some of his feelings — how scared he was at different times, what certain actions would mean mentally — but at some point I had to forget that I was playing a person I could literally look over and see.'
Also read: Rod Lurie on 'The Outpost': 'I Will Never, Ever Do Anything as Important as This'
Still, he was happy that Carter didn't arrive on the set until shooting had been going on for a while, and neither did Jones' brother. 'I had a few weeks before they got there,' he said. 'So we went into it without them being there. And then when they came, it was too late to change a lot. But I did look at them after a take to say, 'Does it look right in the eyes, or is it complete horses—?'
Most of the final hour of the movie is taken up by the battle itself, in which hundreds of Taliban fighters attacked a small U.S. force trapped in a camp surrounded by mountains. The bulk of the combat sequence was shot in long, uninterrupted takes, requiring cameras to follow the actors through the carnage and chaos.
'It was probably much more complicated than it seemed to the actor,' Jones said with a laugh. 'I don't really know what went into making sure the camera got everything, I just know that from my perspective it felt no matter what happened, they'd get it on film. Even though there was a very precise set of movements to be made, it also felt pretty freeing at the same time.'
Asked about his biggest challenges in the role, Jones first mentioned the physical ones – 'I'm not that athletic' – but then moved on to the fact that the film is an unflinching depiction of a battle in which eight young American soldiers lost their lives. 'All of the scenes felt like there was a heaviness to them,' he said. 'It never felt like, 'Oh, that scene will be fun,' or 'That's just a fart in the wind.' Every scene had something tough about it, you know? I was frightened by them all.'
Landry Jones became the face of the XFL when the startup league made him the first signee. Jones missed last week's opener with a knee injury, so Sunday marked his first start in 777 days.
'It felt great,' Jones said in his postgame interview with ABC.
The Dallas Renegades (who play in Arlington) got their first win, covering the spread in a 25-18 victory over the Los Angeles Wildcats. Jones was . . . merely OK.
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Amd. Or in his words 'bad.'
'We are a gritty team, and I played about as bad as you can play, and I'm very, very thankful for the win and thank God that I got out of here healthy,' said Jones, whose last game came on Dec. 31, 2017, when he led the Steelers to a 28-24 victory over the Browns.
On Sunday, Jones completed 28 of 40 passes for 305 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions. He was better in the second half than the first, going 11-of-14 for 128 yards and a score.
He wasn't satisfied with anything other than the win.
'Just call a spade a spade. You know what I mean?' said Jones, who also had four carries for 13 yards. 'Let's not sugar coat things. That's the only way you're going to get better. We play in a public arena and for all the world to watch, so it's not a secret that I didn't play very good today. I'm sure I'm going to get on Twitter and have all kind of haters. A win's a win. It wasn't pretty, but we got it done.'
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In his four seasons in Bob Stoops' offense at Oklahoma, Jones threw for 16,646 yards and 123 touchdowns. That's why the Renegades were a favorite to win the first XFL title.
Rod Lurie's harrowing and heartfelt combat film 'The Outpost' is full of buff actors like Scott Eastwood and Orlando Bloom playing real-life members of the U.S. military – but it's the slightest, most timid-looking actor of the bunch, Caleb Landry Jones, who gives us the immersive film's everyman hero. As U.S. Army Specialist Ty Carter, makes us feel the terror of a harrowing Taliban attack but also the drive to save countless others while himself injured.
He took the role, he said, largely because of his brother, who is himself a wounded combat veteran. 'My agent sent me the script and I was taking a long time to read it,' he told TheWrap. 'Sometimes I'm not great at reading material. But my brother was in town, and he's an ex-Marine, so I asked him to read it before I even looked at it to see what he thought.' His brother, who'd met Medal of Honor winner Carter at a veterans' event, was succinct: 'He read it and said, 'Oh, you're doing this one.' I said, 'That good, is it?' And he said, 'You're doing it.' That's all he said.'
© Provided by TheWrap Caleb Landry Jones The OutpostWhile preparing for the role, Jones met Carter, who won the Medal of Honor for his actions during the 2009 Battle of Kamdesh in Afghanistan, which is depicted in the film. The two spent time together in Texas, where they both live, and Carter was also on the set for part of the shoot in Bulgaria, playing a small role in the movie.
'It's a strange one, playing a real person when they're there,' Jones said. 'It was important to me to get some of his feelings — how scared he was at different times, what certain actions would mean mentally — but at some point I had to forget that I was playing a person I could literally look over and see.'
Also read: Rod Lurie on 'The Outpost': 'I Will Never, Ever Do Anything as Important as This'
Still, he was happy that Carter didn't arrive on the set until shooting had been going on for a while, and neither did Jones' brother. 'I had a few weeks before they got there,' he said. 'So we went into it without them being there. And then when they came, it was too late to change a lot. But I did look at them after a take to say, 'Does it look right in the eyes, or is it complete horses—?'
Most of the final hour of the movie is taken up by the battle itself, in which hundreds of Taliban fighters attacked a small U.S. force trapped in a camp surrounded by mountains. The bulk of the combat sequence was shot in long, uninterrupted takes, requiring cameras to follow the actors through the carnage and chaos.
'It was probably much more complicated than it seemed to the actor,' Jones said with a laugh. 'I don't really know what went into making sure the camera got everything, I just know that from my perspective it felt no matter what happened, they'd get it on film. Even though there was a very precise set of movements to be made, it also felt pretty freeing at the same time.'
Asked about his biggest challenges in the role, Jones first mentioned the physical ones – 'I'm not that athletic' – but then moved on to the fact that the film is an unflinching depiction of a battle in which eight young American soldiers lost their lives. 'All of the scenes felt like there was a heaviness to them,' he said. 'It never felt like, 'Oh, that scene will be fun,' or 'That's just a fart in the wind.' Every scene had something tough about it, you know? I was frightened by them all.'
Landry Jones became the face of the XFL when the startup league made him the first signee. Jones missed last week's opener with a knee injury, so Sunday marked his first start in 777 days.
'It felt great,' Jones said in his postgame interview with ABC.
The Dallas Renegades (who play in Arlington) got their first win, covering the spread in a 25-18 victory over the Los Angeles Wildcats. Jones was . . . merely OK.
Landry Jones Wikipedia
Amd. Or in his words 'bad.'
'We are a gritty team, and I played about as bad as you can play, and I'm very, very thankful for the win and thank God that I got out of here healthy,' said Jones, whose last game came on Dec. 31, 2017, when he led the Steelers to a 28-24 victory over the Browns.
On Sunday, Jones completed 28 of 40 passes for 305 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions. He was better in the second half than the first, going 11-of-14 for 128 yards and a score.
He wasn't satisfied with anything other than the win.
'Just call a spade a spade. You know what I mean?' said Jones, who also had four carries for 13 yards. 'Let's not sugar coat things. That's the only way you're going to get better. We play in a public arena and for all the world to watch, so it's not a secret that I didn't play very good today. I'm sure I'm going to get on Twitter and have all kind of haters. A win's a win. It wasn't pretty, but we got it done.'
Landry Jones Stats
Sam Bradford
In his four seasons in Bob Stoops' offense at Oklahoma, Jones threw for 16,646 yards and 123 touchdowns. That's why the Renegades were a favorite to win the first XFL title.
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But without Jones in the season opener, the Renegades lost to the St. Louis BattleHawks 15-9 last week.
