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- 0:01Speaker 1: The fields on our group proudly presents Huddle Up with
- 0:07Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks. JP Shadrick, John Oser and NFL Network analyst
- 0:12Speaker 1: and former Jaguar Bucky Brooks bring you the latest on
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- 0:28Speaker 2: Welcome into the Huddle Up Podcast. It is Wednesday, April nineteenth.
- 0:32Speaker 2: JP Shadrick with Jaguars dot Com Senior writer John Oser
- 0:37Speaker 2: and NFL Network analyst Bucky Brooks. And give us a
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- 0:49Speaker 2: to us. But we have so much other content available
- 0:54Speaker 2: on those pages. And here we are gentlemen players in
- 0:58Speaker 2: the building offseason program. And some players talked today, John, So,
- 1:05Speaker 2: I don't know how much meat we got out of
- 1:06Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence and Calvin Ridley and Foyer Loid kind of
- 1:10Speaker 2: we got a little bit. It was good to hear
- 1:11Speaker 2: from those guys really to get this thing going today.
- 1:14Speaker 3: Well, it's a tone setting day. So the story I wrote,
- 1:19Speaker 3: which unfortunately for you you had read.
- 1:21Speaker 2: I haven't read. I haven't read it yet. I mean,
- 1:22Speaker 2: you got to send it before I can read.
- 1:24Speaker 3: It's what you would expect with with Trevor and Foyer
- 1:28Speaker 3: more than Ridley, because Calvin wasn't here last year, talking
- 1:32Speaker 3: about the need to look forward, get back to work,
- 1:36Speaker 3: and you know, the twenty twenty two really doesn't mean
- 1:39Speaker 3: anything at this point, so that's what you'd expect them
- 1:42Speaker 3: to say.
- 1:43Speaker 4: Uh.
- 1:43Speaker 3: To me, it was the overriding tone of what they
- 1:46Speaker 3: were saying, and very much reminding themselves and speaking to
- 1:51Speaker 3: younger players. I'd say that to you talk about a
- 1:54Speaker 3: couple of team captains or guys in that role. So
- 1:59Speaker 3: I thought that was significant as a you know, if
- 2:03Speaker 3: there was a theme of the day, I thought that
- 2:05Speaker 3: was it. The news of the day was certainly Calvin
- 2:09Speaker 3: Ridley speaking Trevor. Lawrence also said some very interesting things
- 2:13Speaker 3: that to me were more secondary the Ridley story in
- 2:17Speaker 3: terms of how he sees the offense improving what they're doing.
- 2:23Speaker 3: Some things like that that you expected, but it's what
- 2:26Speaker 3: they're doing this week. It's behind the scenes stuff. Ridley
- 2:29Speaker 3: was as good at the podium, as honest and as
- 2:36Speaker 3: forthcoming as anybody who read his Player's Tribune piece would
- 2:39Speaker 3: expect him to be.
- 2:40Speaker 2: JP Right, we'll hear from all three of these guys
- 2:43Speaker 2: coming up, Bucky. But yeah, it's set the tone for
- 2:46Speaker 2: the offseason. There are some expectations from outside the building, Bucky,
- 2:52Speaker 2: but you know, Trevor said it, we'll hear from them
- 2:54Speaker 2: coming up. You know, they can't worry about the outside expectations.
- 2:58Speaker 2: It's about carrying what they'd did and moving on and
- 3:01Speaker 2: getting better week to week.
- 3:02Speaker 5: Yeah, it's always about that. It has to be an
- 3:05Speaker 5: emphasis on the Jacks. It can't be about anybody else.
- 3:08Speaker 5: This offseason has to be about finding a way to
- 3:11Speaker 5: be better than they were last.
- 3:12Speaker 4: Year, the last time we saw them.
- 3:13Speaker 5: And even though we can express satisfact in the fact
- 3:17Speaker 5: that they made the postseason they won the division, still
- 3:19Speaker 5: a lot of room to improve.
- 3:21Speaker 4: And so this year the bar will be raised.
- 3:24Speaker 5: I think Doug Peterson and company will certainly raise the
- 3:26Speaker 5: bar because this team has big time potential and so
- 3:30Speaker 5: now it's about pushing them to see if they can
- 3:32Speaker 5: realize their potential next season.
- 3:34Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence on the expectations from the outside and turning
- 3:37Speaker 2: them off last.
- 3:38Speaker 6: Year didn't in the way we wanted it to. So
- 3:40Speaker 6: it's you know, obviously it was a good year for
- 3:42Speaker 6: our team, for the City fits organization, but there's more
- 3:45Speaker 6: out there. I think we've set a new standard of
- 3:47Speaker 6: you know, who we're going to be, the team we're
- 3:48Speaker 6: going to be, and we got to start that way
- 3:50Speaker 6: this year, and so that's the mindset. I think we
- 3:52Speaker 6: don't really think about those expectations much because all we
- 3:55Speaker 6: can do is just try to keep getting better and we.
- 3:57Speaker 4: Know for us, we feel like that's the floor.
- 3:59Speaker 6: So I mean, that's really the only expectations we think
- 4:02Speaker 6: of that, you know, for ourselves. But I just don't
- 4:04Speaker 6: think it's good to pay attention to that stuff.
- 4:06Speaker 2: More from the quarterback Trevor Lawrence earlier on Wednesday, and
- 4:10Speaker 2: for the first time in his NFL career, he's not
- 4:13Speaker 2: having to learn a brand new offense this offseason.
- 4:16Speaker 6: There's some I guess comfort in knowing that I already
- 4:19Speaker 6: know the system, and our guys, our core group of
- 4:21Speaker 6: guys already know, obviously, you know, you get Calvin and
- 4:23Speaker 6: some guys up front, and then you know some some
- 4:25Speaker 6: new running backs all that that need to get up
- 4:27Speaker 6: to speed. But that'll happen, and we have so much
- 4:29Speaker 6: time to do it. I think it was nice this
- 4:30Speaker 6: offseason being able to focus, you know a little bit
- 4:32Speaker 6: more just on the physical side of you know, training
- 4:35Speaker 6: and getting my body right, especially after a long year,
- 4:37Speaker 6: you know, with some just lingering, you know, maybe injuries,
- 4:40Speaker 6: little stuff from the season. So had a chance to
- 4:42Speaker 6: take a little break, help some of that heel up,
- 4:45Speaker 6: and then really just you know, work on my body
- 4:47Speaker 6: and obviously prepping and there's things you know, you watch
- 4:49Speaker 6: tape and you figure out some of the weaknesses from
- 4:51Speaker 6: last year individually as an offense, some of the strengths,
- 4:54Speaker 6: so you kind of figure out the stuff that you
- 4:56Speaker 6: want to work on. I was able to focus more
- 4:58Speaker 6: on that than already got a whole new system I
- 5:00Speaker 6: have to learn, and I don't really you have.
- 5:02Speaker 4: To kind of start from scratch.
- 5:03Speaker 6: So it was nice having that comfort and knowing, you know,
- 5:05Speaker 6: I know the system and that's not an ops. Well
- 5:07Speaker 6: I'm gonna have to really face this year. But now
- 5:09Speaker 6: it's just how do we take that next step, you know,
- 5:11Speaker 6: for myself and for.
- 5:12Speaker 7: The offense, Bucky, He's said a keyword there. Comfort. That's
- 5:16Speaker 7: a big step in the right direction.
- 5:17Speaker 2: When you can just walk into a place now you
- 5:20Speaker 2: have that comfort level and you can build upon things offensively.
- 5:24Speaker 5: Yeah, comfort is everything, and so being in the same
- 5:26Speaker 5: offense back to back years will certainly help him. The
- 5:29Speaker 5: familiarity in terms of the language, the familiarity with the
- 5:33Speaker 5: players around him and even the coaching staff that should
- 5:36Speaker 5: allow him to play better. And then the big thing
- 5:38Speaker 5: is nat that Doug Peterson knows exactly who he's working with,
- 5:42Speaker 5: what the strengths and weaknesses are. You now can begin
- 5:45Speaker 5: to expand the offense, making sure that you accentuate the strengths,
- 5:49Speaker 5: you minimize the weaknesses, and you always put number sixteen
- 5:52Speaker 5: in a position to succeed. This should be a lot
- 5:55Speaker 5: of fun to continue to see how they kind of
- 5:57Speaker 5: push the envelope over the course of the off season,
- 6:00Speaker 5: and so we have an opportunity to watch the final
- 6:02Speaker 5: product in September.
- 6:03Speaker 3: It doesn't grab headlines JP because we don't have proof,
- 6:07Speaker 3: but when you ask me, where can they improve the
- 6:12Speaker 3: most as a football team in the offseason, meaning you
- 6:15Speaker 3: talk about the draft, you talk about free agency, you
- 6:17Speaker 3: talk about Cummington goings, Jwan Taylor leaving other people coming
- 6:22Speaker 3: that improvement, the ability for this offense to go from
- 6:25Speaker 3: what they were to keep improving under Trevor Or, under
- 6:30Speaker 3: Trevor and Doug, that's where they're going to make their
- 6:32Speaker 3: biggest improvement. If this offense improves like you think it should.
- 6:38Speaker 3: The addition to Ridley will help. But Lawrence's growth, him
- 6:42Speaker 3: going from a year two quarterback to a year three.
- 6:46Speaker 3: They weren't that far from being Super Bowl champions last year.
- 6:51Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence taking a jump, being consistent, one more series
- 6:56Speaker 3: of game, six more points a game. That's where they're
- 7:00Speaker 3: really going to get better. The other stuff beyond the
- 7:02Speaker 3: quarterback position on this team. It's nice. You have to
- 7:05Speaker 3: support it. He's the story.
- 7:07Speaker 2: The league leading offense last year scored twenty nine points
- 7:10Speaker 2: per game. The Jaguars were about twenty three in change.
- 7:13Speaker 2: So there's the difference.
- 7:14Speaker 3: About twenty seven in the second half the season, right
- 7:17Speaker 3: when they started to come together. Bucky, I'd love to
- 7:20Speaker 3: hear from you. I've getting a lot of questions about that.
- 7:25Speaker 3: I know we've talked and if it's been on the
- 7:27Speaker 3: air or not, you think that six or seven point
- 7:30Speaker 3: jump is a doable jump. And this team's going to
- 7:33Speaker 3: be all in on offense. And that's what you're going
- 7:35Speaker 3: to see next year, right.
- 7:37Speaker 4: I think you have to you have to make it
- 7:39Speaker 4: a point.
- 7:40Speaker 5: Doug Peterson has to look around at the AFC and
- 7:43Speaker 5: know that the Cancit, the Chiefs, the Cincinnati Bengals, you
- 7:45Speaker 5: can throw the Buffalo Bills, and those are the teams
- 7:48Speaker 5: that you're chasing when it comes to trying to play
- 7:50Speaker 5: for the number one seed. And let's be honest, that's
- 7:53Speaker 5: what you want to play for because if you are
- 7:54Speaker 5: the number one seed, it takes two games to get
- 7:56Speaker 5: to the super Bowl, and so you want to put
- 7:58Speaker 5: that out there so the team understands you get a
- 8:01Speaker 5: chance to play two home games and there you are
- 8:03Speaker 5: in the super Bowl. And so the only way to
- 8:05Speaker 5: do that is you have to build a team that
- 8:07Speaker 5: can go to the shootout and win.
- 8:10Speaker 4: And so if you're able to do that, that gives
- 8:12Speaker 4: you a chance.
- 8:13Speaker 5: And so Calvin Ridley coming on board, that helps being
- 8:17Speaker 5: able to get Trevor Lawrence comfortable with all of the
- 8:20Speaker 5: piece round STAPs and the hug, Peter, the pushing everybody
- 8:24Speaker 5: on the offense, including number sixteen, to take their game
- 8:27Speaker 5: up justin Notch. Yeah, I think the pressure is on
- 8:30Speaker 5: the offense because that needs to be the unit that
- 8:32Speaker 5: is consistent each and every week. And whatever contribution you
- 8:35Speaker 5: get from the defense, that's gravy. But the expectation is
- 8:38Speaker 5: that you got to get close to thirty points on
- 8:40Speaker 5: offense each week.
- 8:41Speaker 2: It's Tuddle Up podcast, JP Shadwick, John Osier, Bucky Brooks.
- 8:44Speaker 2: We'll hear from Foyer luikon on defense coming up in
- 8:47Speaker 2: a moment, But Johnny, you mentioned it. Calvin Ridley and
- 8:50Speaker 2: his press conference today the first time the media in
- 8:53Speaker 2: Jacksonville's had a chance to visit with him. First of all,
- 8:56Speaker 2: he walked in, he shook everybody's hand, looked him in
- 8:58Speaker 2: the eyes, said hello. I was very warm, very gracious,
- 9:02Speaker 2: very excited to be back in the building. And they
- 9:06Speaker 2: asked him about having two years off and the expectations
- 9:09Speaker 2: on the field.
- 9:10Speaker 7: Can he get back to that level?
- 9:12Speaker 8: Man, if I'm being real, I'm being honest, It's like
- 9:16Speaker 8: I've been good at football all my life. Not to
- 9:17Speaker 8: be I'm trying to be humble, you know, Like I said,
- 9:21Speaker 8: I've been pretty good at football all my life. And
- 9:23Speaker 8: I not only been good, I also worked to be good.
- 9:26Speaker 8: And you know, they say two years off, But what
- 9:31Speaker 8: about the healing.
- 9:32Speaker 9: Process that I got to be with that time off?
- 9:34Speaker 9: What about what if I got faster? What if I
- 9:36Speaker 9: got stronger? Obviously I got wiser. Why can't I be better?
- 9:41Speaker 9: So I kind of look at it like that.
- 9:42Speaker 8: Obviously, you know, two years off, I gotta go through
- 9:45Speaker 8: I mean the tightness, the leg tightenness, I gotta go
- 9:47Speaker 8: through all the crap.
- 9:49Speaker 9: But I mean I see myself being a good player.
- 9:52Speaker 4: I do.
- 9:53Speaker 2: That's I think the money quote of the whole press
- 9:55Speaker 2: conference right there BACKI you know, yeah, why am I
- 9:58Speaker 2: all of a sudden not as good as I once was?
- 10:00Speaker 2: When he's always had time to do is sit back
- 10:03Speaker 2: and work. So in theory, he could be a better
- 10:06Speaker 2: player than before.
- 10:07Speaker 5: He absolutely can be a better player than before because
- 10:10Speaker 5: he's been in the league for a while, the game
- 10:12Speaker 5: has already slowed down.
- 10:14Speaker 4: Being able to watch the.
- 10:15Speaker 5: Game from afar, he's been able to pick things up
- 10:18Speaker 5: in terms of how to make the game even easier
- 10:21Speaker 5: for him. And I want everyone to understand this dude
- 10:23Speaker 5: is a number one receiver, something that we haven't had
- 10:26Speaker 5: a truemble one receivers.
- 10:28Speaker 4: Going to man double teams.
- 10:29Speaker 5: He's going to open up the field for the rest
- 10:32Speaker 5: of the guys. And he has the potential went healthy,
- 10:35Speaker 5: to be a dominant player, to be a guy that
- 10:39Speaker 5: you have to account for, to be a guy that
- 10:41Speaker 5: Trevor Lawrence can depend on critical situations. And so if
- 10:44Speaker 5: he is just back to where he was when he
- 10:47Speaker 5: left off, when he was a spectacular route runner who
- 10:50Speaker 5: took over for Julio Jones in Atlanta, and so I
- 10:53Speaker 5: think that also needs to be understood. He took over
- 10:57Speaker 5: the number one job for Julio Jones, who was one
- 10:59Speaker 5: of the game. As we talk about the prototype as
- 11:01Speaker 5: a number one receiver, So the pressure and all of
- 11:04Speaker 5: that other stuff that's not going to face him. And
- 11:07Speaker 5: so if Calvin Ridley is right, man, this offense has
- 11:10Speaker 5: an opportunity to go from good to great in a hurry.
- 11:13Speaker 5: And that's just not being positive on him because he's
- 11:16Speaker 5: a Jaguar. That's just being real in terms of how
- 11:19Speaker 5: good he was as a wide receiver. If he returns
- 11:22Speaker 5: to that form, look out because this office is gonna
- 11:25Speaker 5: put up firework.
- 11:26Speaker 2: And just the way he talked about it, John just
- 11:29Speaker 2: sounds like a number one alpha receiver in a room
- 11:33Speaker 2: like that. He explained the whole fourteen hundred yard type
- 11:36Speaker 2: receiver thing. It's like, yeah, I'm that type of receiver.
- 11:40Speaker 2: I had a broken foot, so you know, I couldn't
- 11:43Speaker 2: really get to the level. And now he's healthy. So
- 11:47Speaker 2: he explained all of that thoroughly, and just I thought
- 11:49Speaker 2: the approach kind of just it was just pure number
- 11:53Speaker 2: one receiver.
- 11:54Speaker 3: It's always, especially in this day and age, it's a
- 11:57Speaker 3: fine line with what you say. I'm sure people will
- 12:03Speaker 3: take what he said and take it as cocky. I'm
- 12:06Speaker 3: sure he'll get like some flak on Twitter, as people
- 12:10Speaker 3: do when you listen to how he said it. Though
- 12:14Speaker 3: his approach in that press conference clearly he wanted to
- 12:17Speaker 3: come in and tell the people of Jacksonville, tell the
- 12:20Speaker 3: Jaguars fans how he feels about things. I thought he
- 12:25Speaker 3: hit the moment out of the park because I thought
- 12:27Speaker 3: he was just being himself. Great NFL players and Bucky
- 12:32Speaker 3: can speak to this because he's been around him and
- 12:34Speaker 3: he played. Great players know they're good and they know
- 12:39Speaker 3: what they can do. I thought that's all he was
- 12:43Speaker 3: expressing today is Hey, I'm used to being good. I
- 12:46Speaker 3: expect to be good. He didn't say it with an arrogance.
- 12:51Speaker 3: He just said it with a confidence that those are expectations.
- 12:55Speaker 3: When he talked about in the Player's Tribute, he talked
- 12:57Speaker 3: about being a fourteen hundred yard receiver pretty good, saying, Hey,
- 13:01Speaker 3: I don't know what the stats will be, and that's
- 13:05Speaker 3: up to God in circumstance, et cetera, et cetera. But
- 13:08Speaker 3: in his mind he believes he's that caliber receiver in
- 13:13Speaker 3: this league, which basically means he believes he's as good
- 13:16Speaker 3: as any receiver in football. I have no problem with
- 13:20Speaker 3: him thinking that. I have no problem with the way
- 13:21Speaker 3: he said it, Bucky.
- 13:23Speaker 5: No, I have no problem with it, And I think
- 13:25Speaker 5: it's important for people to understand that kind of comes
- 13:27Speaker 5: along with it. The guys who are true number ones,
- 13:29Speaker 5: the guys who are alphas, they have that I call
- 13:32Speaker 5: it athletic arrogance.
- 13:33Speaker 4: That you can sense and you can feel.
- 13:35Speaker 5: And obviously, in that presser, everyone should have come away
- 13:38Speaker 5: with like, whoop. This dude has a lot of self belief,
- 13:41Speaker 5: but that belief comes from a place where he talked
- 13:44Speaker 5: about I know that I've always been good at football
- 13:46Speaker 5: because I've always worked at football, and so to me,
- 13:50Speaker 5: that is the culture in what Doug Peterson's tring trying
- 13:54Speaker 5: to establish. You talk about a team that is kind
- 13:56Speaker 5: of a blue collar team, a team that has kind
- 13:59Speaker 5: of put it together and they've worked to become the
- 14:01Speaker 5: team that they are.
- 14:02Speaker 4: Well, he's gonna fit right in.
- 14:04Speaker 5: And here's what I do know about a very competitive
- 14:07Speaker 5: wide receiver room. If Calvin really comes in and he
- 14:10Speaker 5: takes that approach that I'm gonna put into work, well
- 14:12Speaker 5: you know what that's going to do. That's gonna make
- 14:14Speaker 5: Christian Kirk and Zay Jones and Ingram worked. Because there's
- 14:17Speaker 5: one ball and there are a whole bunch of miles
- 14:20Speaker 5: defeat and if we're saying that we're gonna throw to
- 14:22Speaker 5: the open guy, when everyone is going to work like
- 14:25Speaker 5: the Dickens to make sure they're in a position to
- 14:27Speaker 5: get the rock.
- 14:28Speaker 4: And so it's a good problem to have.
- 14:30Speaker 5: But the competition is certainly going to make everybody in
- 14:33Speaker 5: that wide receiver room better.
- 14:34Speaker 3: And what an interesting situation it is, Bucky and we
- 14:38Speaker 3: talked about it a lot last offseason, but I think
- 14:40Speaker 3: it's worth three visit or last season after the trade.
- 14:44Speaker 3: It's really unique in that if he does come in
- 14:50Speaker 3: and he's the one and he's the Alpha, it really
- 14:53Speaker 3: doesn't change the roles that were being played last year
- 14:57Speaker 3: that significantly, because although Christian Kirk had the best numbers,
- 15:02Speaker 3: you can certainly envision Riddily having WR one numbers and
- 15:09Speaker 3: Christians still having almost the same role he had last year.
- 15:13Speaker 3: Because he can so easily be a slot guy and
- 15:17Speaker 3: work different routes as readily same as a Jones Evn Ingram.
- 15:22Speaker 3: He really doesn't have to take anybody's role on this team,
- 15:25Speaker 3: does he buck.
- 15:26Speaker 4: No, he doesn't. And here's the thing.
- 15:29Speaker 5: When Calvin talked about being wiser, I think it's really
- 15:32Speaker 5: important for everyone to know that he is an high
- 15:35Speaker 5: IQ football player, meaning that his ability to understand the
- 15:39Speaker 5: intricacies of not only his own position, but the entire
- 15:42Speaker 5: concept what this now gives the Jaguars a lot of
- 15:46Speaker 5: versatility because Christian Kirk is high IQ's a Jones high IQ,
- 15:49Speaker 5: Evan Ingram is high IQ. So that gives Doug Peterson
- 15:53Speaker 5: the ability to miss and match the personnel as interchangeable
- 15:58Speaker 5: pieces on the chessboard. So now one week Kelvin really
- 16:01Speaker 5: can play outside to the right, the next week he
- 16:03Speaker 5: can go in the slot, or you can do it
- 16:05Speaker 5: play by play, and so that prevents the defense from
- 16:08Speaker 5: really being able to hone in on who is the
- 16:12Speaker 5: go to guy. And because the Jaguars, even last year,
- 16:15Speaker 5: they kind of change each and every week, the hot
- 16:18Speaker 5: guy was somebody different. Well, now you add another dynamic,
- 16:21Speaker 5: high end playmaker to the mix with the capacity to
- 16:26Speaker 5: act as that interchangeable piece, or it becomes very different
- 16:29Speaker 5: fan this Jaguars office, which is why I'm optimistic they
- 16:33Speaker 5: absolutely can get the twenty nine plus points per game.
- 16:36Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not usually one to raid to wave the
- 16:41Speaker 3: Pom pom JP but Bucky where does this meaning? Kirk, Jones,
- 16:49Speaker 3: Ridley and Ingram? Who in the NFL has a better group?
- 16:55Speaker 5: I would say that the Chargers have a very dynamic
- 16:58Speaker 5: group because they have two guys in Mike Williams and
- 17:01Speaker 5: Keenan Allen that are terrific. But without even looking at
- 17:06Speaker 5: the rest of the league, the Jaguars are at a
- 17:08Speaker 5: minimum top five, and you can make the push that
- 17:11Speaker 5: they're going to crack the top three based in terms
- 17:14Speaker 5: of just the overall diversity of the group. When you
- 17:17Speaker 5: include Evan Ingram as a tied end, I mean, this
- 17:20Speaker 5: is a very talented, very talented group.
- 17:24Speaker 4: We've talked about petition.
- 17:26Speaker 5: I think John or JP we may have talked about
- 17:29Speaker 5: like this may be an opportunity where you have three
- 17:33Speaker 5: and one three one thousand yard receivers and a thousand
- 17:36Speaker 5: yard rusher and Travis Ntien. And when we think about
- 17:39Speaker 5: the teams, it's only been done a handful of times
- 17:41Speaker 5: in the National Football League, But when you think about
- 17:43Speaker 5: that kind of production, that kind of output, the points
- 17:46Speaker 5: come after that, and so as they're pushing to put
- 17:49Speaker 5: all the pieces in place and Doug Peterson and that crew,
- 17:52Speaker 5: they'll downplay it, but it's a very realistic option for
- 17:55Speaker 5: these playmakers over a thousand yards and for Travis Inntien
- 17:59Speaker 5: to be a thousand yard running back.
- 18:01Speaker 4: JP.
- 18:01Speaker 3: This reminds me so much of all those teams we
- 18:03Speaker 3: covered in the first ten years.
- 18:05Speaker 7: Well you know, we've had a lot of those around here.
- 18:08Speaker 7: Ye just racking up yardage, that's what they do.
- 18:12Speaker 3: To me. The to put this together with you're now
- 18:17Speaker 3: talking three or four acquisitions that all came in a
- 18:25Speaker 3: two off season period, all through the veteran market and
- 18:29Speaker 3: to piece them together.
- 18:31Speaker 4: Again.
- 18:32Speaker 3: I know I'm always on that train. I'm not sure
- 18:34Speaker 3: I've ever seen that sort of production considering the fact
- 18:38Speaker 3: that they are all still young players early in a
- 18:42Speaker 3: second contract. You haven't added a thirty one to thirty
- 18:45Speaker 3: two year old guy who you feel like, who you
- 18:48Speaker 3: feel like is on the downslide. Teams are usually willing
- 18:51Speaker 3: to let those guys go. To pick up four players
- 18:56Speaker 3: at that stage in their career, that twenty five through
- 18:59Speaker 3: twenty I'm not sure exactly what the age are, but
- 19:01Speaker 3: you know what I'm getting at. They're still in that
- 19:04Speaker 3: period where they're either ascending or peaking as players. It's
- 19:10Speaker 3: remarkable to have put this core together. I think Trent
- 19:13Speaker 3: Balky and the decision makers deserve a lot of credit
- 19:16Speaker 3: for that part of it.
- 19:17Speaker 7: It's rare, very rare.
- 19:19Speaker 2: Indeed, this is Huddle Up Podcast Shap Shadwick, Bucky Brooks,
- 19:21Speaker 2: John Osier. Let's flip it to defense and slowing down
- 19:24Speaker 2: opposing offenses and setting up this Jaguars offense in good situations.
- 19:30Speaker 2: Foyer aluik And today walked into the press conference with
- 19:34Speaker 2: a T shirt on it said think takeaways with a
- 19:38Speaker 2: photo of the sculpture the thinker from Rodin on the front.
- 19:42Speaker 10: Certain man, that's what the defense believes in. Right here.
- 19:44Speaker 10: We were down and out and then we started talking
- 19:46Speaker 10: about thinking takeaways. Coach Bob Sutton said, if you want
- 19:50Speaker 10: to become, you know, an effective defense in the league,
- 19:52Speaker 10: we got to take the ball away. So we all
- 19:54Speaker 10: came back this OTAs and this was in our lockers,
- 19:57Speaker 10: think takeaways, and me personally, I want more takeaway you know,
- 20:00Speaker 10: elevate my game, elevate this defense. And you gotta be
- 20:03Speaker 10: thinking it at all time. So you go to sleep
- 20:05Speaker 10: thinking that, you wake up thinking.
- 20:06Speaker 4: It's gonna happen for you.
- 20:07Speaker 10: So we're gonna get more takeaways. I think we was
- 20:09Speaker 10: top ten, top five in the league, maybe maybe number four.
- 20:12Speaker 10: We just went over takeaways. Man, get that ball in hands,
- 20:15Speaker 10: good things happen.
- 20:16Speaker 7: They did it well early in the season.
- 20:18Speaker 2: They went in a low mid season last year, and
- 20:21Speaker 2: they picked it back up in the last month.
- 20:23Speaker 7: Buckie.
- 20:23Speaker 2: But those takeaways they did finish tied for fourth in
- 20:26Speaker 2: the NFL and takeaways last year. That set up success
- 20:30Speaker 2: on the other side of the ball. Full team effort
- 20:33Speaker 2: on defense, yeah.
- 20:35Speaker 4: Four team effort.
- 20:36Speaker 5: It's the number one determined in fact, that who wins
- 20:38Speaker 5: or loses games in the National Football League the winner
- 20:41Speaker 5: of the takeover battle. And so when you talk about
- 20:45Speaker 5: turning it over, everything has to line up. You gotta
- 20:47Speaker 5: talk about it, you gotta practice it, you have to
- 20:50Speaker 5: be obsessed with it, and you not only have to
- 20:52Speaker 5: take it away, but you gotta take it away with
- 20:53Speaker 5: the intent to score. We saw how Josh Allen picking
- 20:56Speaker 5: up that fumble against the Tennessee Titans seal the game change.
- 21:00Speaker 4: However you want to describe it.
- 21:01Speaker 5: It's that stuff ray Sewon Jenkins being able to get
- 21:04Speaker 5: the pick six against the Cowboys. It's the obsession with
- 21:07Speaker 5: getting the ball, but not only getting the ball, but
- 21:09Speaker 5: turning your.
- 21:10Speaker 4: Defense into offense.
- 21:12Speaker 5: And so when you're a team that plays and lives
- 21:15Speaker 5: on the turnover, you may conceive some yards, but you're
- 21:18Speaker 5: always looking for that opportunity to take the ball away
- 21:21Speaker 5: via force funnel, via pitch off, a tip or overthrow.
- 21:26Speaker 5: All of those things matter. But yeah, like I think
- 21:28Speaker 5: it has to be the emphasis to take the ball
- 21:30Speaker 5: away because I don't know if as we're presently constructed,
- 21:34Speaker 5: we can be a shut him down defense, but we
- 21:37Speaker 5: certainly can take the ball away.
- 21:38Speaker 4: As people are chasing points.
- 21:41Speaker 5: Due to the prolific nature of the offense, you now
- 21:45Speaker 5: have an opportunity to create more takeaways because when you're
- 21:47Speaker 5: chasing points, you have to put the ball in the air.
- 21:49Speaker 5: That leads the sacks, that leads the interceptions and a
- 21:52Speaker 5: bunch of bad things.
- 21:53Speaker 3: Yeah, it probably plays into it, and maybe it's just
- 21:56Speaker 3: seeing it a different way. I also thought that last year.
- 22:00Speaker 3: I think this sort of the main key as you
- 22:01Speaker 3: go forward, having the belief that you're going to do
- 22:05Speaker 3: it and the self confidence even when things aren't going right.
- 22:10Speaker 3: I mean, there were points last year I thought where
- 22:15Speaker 3: you know, I guess the game again against the Cowboys
- 22:17Speaker 3: where ray Sewan got the pick in the second half
- 22:21Speaker 3: and Dewey Winerd got I think something happened with do
- 22:24Speaker 3: I think he either got a pick or force a fumble.
- 22:28Speaker 3: You know, they were getting rolled in that game defensively,
- 22:31Speaker 3: But they were a defense last year that in some spots,
- 22:36Speaker 3: even when the circumstances would have told them, hey, you
- 22:40Speaker 3: guys aren't very good, they kept sort of believing that
- 22:43Speaker 3: they were and kept believing that they were going to
- 22:45Speaker 3: get a turnover on the next series, even if they
- 22:47Speaker 3: give a touchdown touchdown turnover. That sometimes could wear on
- 22:52Speaker 3: a defense and they'll give up and not really be that.
- 22:55Speaker 3: But I thought the self confidence and a continued belief
- 22:59Speaker 3: that we just have to keep playing hard and the
- 23:01Speaker 3: turnover situations will come. I think it sort of plays
- 23:04Speaker 3: into what Bucky's talking about. But it was remarkable on
- 23:06Speaker 3: that front. I think that'll be key going forward is
- 23:09Speaker 3: continue to have the belief that they're a good defense
- 23:12Speaker 3: even when the stats the yards don't say it, but
- 23:16Speaker 3: they were third turnovers.
- 23:17Speaker 7: Yeah, so somewhere.
- 23:19Speaker 3: They were good at what they needed to be somehow,
- 23:22Speaker 3: And I think that'll be how they have to play
- 23:24Speaker 3: going forward.
- 23:25Speaker 5: Yeah, so I think about playing that so now it
- 23:27Speaker 5: becomes a complimentary approach offensively and defensively. And so if
- 23:32Speaker 5: you are putting more pressure on the offense to say, hey,
- 23:35Speaker 5: we need to be at twenty eight, twenty nine to
- 23:38Speaker 5: thirty points per game, that means defensively, you're building your
- 23:42Speaker 5: defense to play with leads, meaning early in games. And
- 23:46Speaker 5: you saw this a lot when you were with the
- 23:48Speaker 5: Indianapolis Coats. John the Indianapolis coach, with paid Man, they
- 23:51Speaker 5: put fourteen up on you quickly in the first quarter,
- 23:54Speaker 5: and so teams now spend the rest of the game
- 23:57Speaker 5: chasing those points.
- 23:57Speaker 4: So they abandoned their game plan. They don't really run the.
- 24:00Speaker 5: Ball because they're trying to throw the ball, and so
- 24:03Speaker 5: it puts pressure on the frontline, meaning Trayvon Walker, Devin Lloyd,
- 24:09Speaker 5: Josh Allen. They have to updandy when it comes to
- 24:11Speaker 5: the sacks because you have to be able to pressure
- 24:13Speaker 5: the quarterback. And then in the back end you have
- 24:16Speaker 5: to make sure we saw early in the year the
- 24:18Speaker 5: ball cannot fly over the top of the head. You
- 24:20Speaker 5: have to keep everything in front, and you have to
- 24:22Speaker 5: say that we're going to get our turnovers on tips
- 24:25Speaker 5: and overthrows. Keep the ball in front, make them lose
- 24:29Speaker 5: their patient because there is in points and the ball
- 24:32Speaker 5: is going to hit you, but then you got to
- 24:33Speaker 5: catch it. And so it's the complement of high powered offense,
- 24:37Speaker 5: take away upsts defense that'll.
- 24:39Speaker 4: Give you an opportunity to win a bunch of games.
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- 25:10Speaker 2: of what Trent Balke will say at the pre draft
- 25:14Speaker 2: media luncheon. Yeah, that's gonna be about it. That's a
- 25:19Speaker 2: next on the Huddle Up Podcast. Welcome back to the
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- 25:43Speaker 2: Bankfield dot com. So, as we mentioned, yes, the pre
- 25:47Speaker 2: draft media luncheon coming up on Thursday at the Bank,
- 25:52Speaker 2: and yes there's a luncheon. There's a conversation with Trent
- 25:55Speaker 2: Balky and Doug Peterson. The Jags have the twenty fourth
- 25:57Speaker 2: pick and as a tradition, John, you don't find out
- 26:01Speaker 2: much at all at these events.
- 26:03Speaker 3: Nah, and no GM wants to say a whole lot.
- 26:08Speaker 3: They're good to have because it gives the general management,
- 26:13Speaker 3: head coach a chance to if there are some loose
- 26:17Speaker 3: ends stories that the media is trying to gather, there'll
- 26:20Speaker 3: be information on those topics. It gives Trent a chance
- 26:25Speaker 3: to be very vague on a lot of different topics
- 26:28Speaker 3: when he's asked. So I don't expect much news out
- 26:33Speaker 3: of it. I'm sure he'll say it's it's it's a draft.
- 26:37Speaker 3: It's a draft where they feel like they can get
- 26:38Speaker 3: a lot of good players. Yeah, and that lets hope
- 26:41Speaker 3: they do.
- 26:42Speaker 2: They're prepared for all possibilities, Bucky, Yeah, I mean you
- 26:45Speaker 2: have to be prepared for all possibilities.
- 26:47Speaker 5: This draft is most of all the draft that we've
- 26:49Speaker 5: seen in terms of just the unpredictable nature of what
- 26:52Speaker 5: is going to happen over the course of next weekend.
- 26:55Speaker 4: And so if you're the.
- 26:56Speaker 5: Jaguars, you have to be ready because some of the
- 26:58Speaker 5: guys that you have ranked at the top of the board,
- 27:00Speaker 5: they may not be viewed in the same light by others,
- 27:03Speaker 5: and you have to be ready to look at some
- 27:05Speaker 5: of those guys and some of the surprises that may
- 27:07Speaker 5: happen within the top ten and how it may impact
- 27:09Speaker 5: you in terms of seeing a blue chip player sitting
- 27:12Speaker 5: right there at your face when it's time to pick.
- 27:15Speaker 5: And so they'll go through all the scenarios. Deale talk
- 27:17Speaker 5: about all the different things that could happen, could transpire
- 27:21Speaker 5: your set up some of the trades with calls ahead
- 27:23Speaker 5: of time. But really, when you're picking twenty fourth, you're
- 27:26Speaker 5: picking down at the bottom of each round, you kind
- 27:29Speaker 5: of have to wait and see what happens ahead of
- 27:31Speaker 5: you and then be ready to make some moves when
- 27:33Speaker 5: some of those players that you've targeted come available or
- 27:36Speaker 5: they're close in terms of being within range.
- 27:39Speaker 3: I mean, ask about that Buck. You said something interesting
- 27:44Speaker 3: that players that you have rated high may not be
- 27:48Speaker 3: viewed the same way by their teams. You talk to
- 27:51Speaker 3: many many more people around the league than we do, obviously,
- 27:54Speaker 3: is that the feel you're getting the like you can
- 27:57Speaker 3: call one team this year and they might have a
- 27:59Speaker 3: guy in the top ten, Another team might have them
- 28:03Speaker 3: X number of spots down. Is there that wide a
- 28:05Speaker 3: variance on how these guys feel about some players?
- 28:09Speaker 4: Well, so the big thing is this year.
- 28:11Speaker 5: In most years, John, they're eighteen to twenty four guys
- 28:15Speaker 5: that would be consensus first round picks, meaning no matter
- 28:18Speaker 5: what team you went to, if you looked at the board,
- 28:20Speaker 5: those eighteen to twenty four names.
- 28:22Speaker 4: Would be above the line.
- 28:23Speaker 5: Well, this year, you're probably talking about maybe fifteen blue
- 28:26Speaker 5: chip players.
- 28:27Speaker 4: And so when you have such a small number of blue.
- 28:30Speaker 5: Chip players, you got a bunch of good players, not
- 28:32Speaker 5: necessarily great players. Well, the league views the good players
- 28:35Speaker 5: in different lights based on your team scheme and cultural
- 28:39Speaker 5: fit in those things. And so because there's such a
- 28:42Speaker 5: wide disparity between player number sixteen and player number forty six,
- 28:48Speaker 5: who knows, sometimes some of those guys we may have
- 28:50Speaker 5: rated in the forties, they may go eighteen, nineteen twenty
- 28:54Speaker 5: in the first round. And so it just changes everything
- 28:58Speaker 5: when it comes to looks, and so you have to
- 29:00Speaker 5: nimble h in terms of being able to go, oh, okay,
- 29:03Speaker 5: we had this guy a little lower.
- 29:04Speaker 4: So that means someone good is going to fall to us.
- 29:07Speaker 5: And this year, more than any other year in recent
- 29:10Speaker 5: history that I can remember, this year, the volatility is
- 29:13Speaker 5: going to lead us to kind of watch a roller
- 29:16Speaker 5: coaster ride starting this Thursday and then there's.
- 29:20Speaker 2: The of course, very important and you know a lot
- 29:24Speaker 2: of eyeballs that watched the top five prospect rankings at
- 29:27Speaker 2: each position by Bucky Brooks.
- 29:30Speaker 7: It's three point zero.
- 29:31Speaker 2: It came out today, and Bucky has shifted at quarterback forever.
- 29:37Speaker 7: He had CJ.
- 29:38Speaker 2: Stroud at number one. Now Bryce Young is the number
- 29:41Speaker 2: one quarterback prospect.
- 29:42Speaker 7: You're you're going with.
- 29:43Speaker 3: The chalk now buckets to maybe how much better he
- 29:46Speaker 3: got in the last month.
- 29:46Speaker 4: Buck he did, he did get better.
- 29:49Speaker 5: But I can go back, and I can pull out
- 29:51Speaker 5: my notebook in here's the issue that I had, and
- 29:54Speaker 5: this this goes all the way back I had having
- 29:57Speaker 5: played in Green Bay on the wrong Wolf and having
- 30:00Speaker 5: worked under a bunch of guys who is disciples, it
- 30:03Speaker 5: was ingrained in my head that if you draft an exception,
- 30:06Speaker 5: you end up having a team full of exceptions. And
- 30:09Speaker 5: so I was in the league when Drew Brees was
- 30:11Speaker 5: all everything coming out of Purdue. But because he was
- 30:14Speaker 5: right at six foot, no matter how good he was,
- 30:16Speaker 5: we put him at the top of the second round.
- 30:19Speaker 5: And so now fast forward, even though Caller Murray has
- 30:21Speaker 5: shown and Baker Mayfield has shown that you can be
- 30:24Speaker 5: right at that six foot mark and still be a
- 30:26Speaker 5: number one overall pick. Bryce Young's size is unprecedented when
- 30:30Speaker 5: it comes to his frame, and so this debate for
- 30:33Speaker 5: me at quarterback was the prototype versus the performer.
- 30:37Speaker 4: C J.
- 30:38Speaker 5: Stroud is the prototypical quarterback that has played in our
- 30:40Speaker 5: league for the last twenty.
- 30:41Speaker 4: Five to thirty years.
- 30:42Speaker 5: Tall, great arm, mechanics, great pocket presence, throws the ball naturally,
- 30:47Speaker 5: everything is perfect and precise.
- 30:51Speaker 4: Bryce Young is the performer. You can't look through his tape.
- 30:54Speaker 5: There is not a bad game that you can find
- 30:56Speaker 5: during his time at Alabama, very consistent, high IQ has
- 31:00Speaker 5: some special stuff to him. The only thing that you
- 31:02Speaker 5: can really DM him on is the slender frame.
- 31:05Speaker 4: And so it took a while for me to get
- 31:07Speaker 4: over the fact.
- 31:08Speaker 5: That, Okay, man, you can take a guy that is
- 31:11Speaker 5: this small if they're exceptional when it comes to processing
- 31:14Speaker 5: and intangibles to go with the arm talent, and he
- 31:18Speaker 5: has that, which is what led me to kind of
- 31:20Speaker 5: finally make the move to put Bryce Young over top
- 31:22Speaker 5: of CJ.
- 31:22Speaker 4: Strout.
- 31:23Speaker 2: There you go, Bucky makes a move and they we're
- 31:27Speaker 2: only a week away from the NFL Draft. That's what
- 31:29Speaker 2: happens sometimes it's okay. We'll look for that on NFL
- 31:33Speaker 2: dot com and of course look for all the press
- 31:35Speaker 2: conferences from Trevor Lawrence for you, a little Calvin Ridley
- 31:39Speaker 2: on Jaguars dot com, and Bucky will talk to you
- 31:42Speaker 2: next week before the draft. It's here, Finally, it is here.
- 31:46Speaker 5: It's a little bit of the super Bowl for all
- 31:50Speaker 5: the evaluators and scouts. There's a lot of buzz and
- 31:52Speaker 5: energy and the scouting community. And you know, the only
- 31:56Speaker 5: thing that's better than the draft JP, what's that, Bucky?
- 31:59Speaker 4: The any camp that follows. I was gonna say, it
- 32:03Speaker 4: is like it is like Christmas. You get a chance
- 32:05Speaker 4: to unwrap the gifts. And so that's.
- 32:08Speaker 5: Why I can't wait for John to get out there
- 32:10Speaker 5: with his little notepad and chart everything and report us
- 32:13Speaker 5: and tell us how to look ays look how those
- 32:15Speaker 5: new presence look.
- 32:16Speaker 2: So he's talking about the Yeah, I know he's talking
- 32:19Speaker 2: about the rookie minim.
- 32:20Speaker 7: Yeah, it's true.
- 32:21Speaker 3: The only thing I dislike more than a mini camp
- 32:23Speaker 3: is a rookie.
- 32:28Speaker 7: That's Bucky Brooks, John Oser, I'm J P. Shaddick.
- 32:32Speaker 2: Are thanks to Joe Fortunado and Brent Reeber, and thank
- 32:35Speaker 2: you for listening to the Huddle Up Podcast. We'll talk
- 32:37Speaker 2: to you again next week.