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- 0:01Speaker 1: Welcome to Huddle Up, brought to you by the Fields
- 0:05Speaker 1: Total Group, Jaguars Senior writer John Osher, NFL Network analyst
- 0:10Speaker 1: and former Jaguar Bucky Brooks, and Senior reporter JP Shaddrick
- 0:15Speaker 1: bring you the latest go on your Jacksonville.
- 0:17Speaker 2: Jaguars Huddle Up starts right now and welcome in. It's
- 0:22Speaker 2: a bye week edition of Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks. Wednesday,
- 0:25Speaker 2: November twentieth, JP Shadrick, John Oser, and of course Bucky Brooks.
- 0:29Speaker 3: The week twelve bye is upon us.
- 0:31Speaker 2: We'll have the aftermath of Week eleven, Ryons fifty two,
- 0:36Speaker 2: Jaguars six, and an early look ahead at what to
- 0:40Speaker 2: expect in the stretch run after the bye week, six games.
- 0:45Speaker 3: To go in the regular year for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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- 0:59Speaker 2: The bye week It's upon us, Bucky, good afternoon, How
- 1:04Speaker 2: are you?
- 1:05Speaker 4: What's up? Guys? How are we doing? How's everything?
- 1:08Speaker 2: It's going as good as can be expected after a
- 1:12Speaker 2: beat down like that in Detroit in Motown in week
- 1:15Speaker 2: eleven fifty two to six, there were all those reports
- 1:19Speaker 2: pregame Bucky and then it's been quiet after the fact,
- 1:23Speaker 2: and it's now just moving forward and trying to patch
- 1:27Speaker 2: things up here in the bye week and then get
- 1:30Speaker 2: to the stretch run. That's you know, it's a disappointing
- 1:33Speaker 2: end to the pre bye week schedule.
- 1:36Speaker 3: I'll say it that way.
- 1:37Speaker 4: That's for sure, Yes, the disappointing end.
- 1:39Speaker 5: And I feel like the report that came out probably
- 1:43Speaker 5: set everybody up to look for something to happen Sunday night, Monday,
- 1:48Speaker 5: even early Tuesday.
- 1:49Speaker 4: And you haven't seen anything happen.
- 1:52Speaker 5: And as distracting as it's been for fans and observers,
- 1:56Speaker 5: imagine the distraction that it's been for not only the players,
- 1:58Speaker 5: but what about the coaches, what about the people in
- 2:00Speaker 5: the building. You always know whenever you are in the
- 2:04Speaker 5: middle of a losing streak and you haven't had a
- 2:07Speaker 5: success that the team hasn't had in the last year,
- 2:10Speaker 5: you always know that things are going to come up.
- 2:13Speaker 5: But I would say just the volatile nature of the
- 2:16Speaker 5: report led you to believe something, and I think it
- 2:19Speaker 5: has had a negative impact on the team. Now that
- 2:22Speaker 5: doesn't excuse the performance that we saw on Sunday, but
- 2:25Speaker 5: you certainly feel like there's a black cloud hanging over
- 2:28Speaker 5: the team, and at some point you were like a
- 2:30Speaker 5: resolution one way or the other.
- 2:32Speaker 6: Yeah, And I guess I'm not shocked that nothing has happened,
- 2:37Speaker 6: because you're never he's've been doing this long enough to
- 2:40Speaker 6: never be shocked when the issue, when the question has changed,
- 2:46Speaker 6: when the question is what is an owner going to
- 2:50Speaker 6: or not? Do you just don't know because owners don't
- 2:56Speaker 6: usually talk.
- 2:56Speaker 7: About it a whole lot.
- 2:58Speaker 6: I think it would defy logic if if Shod wasn't
- 3:02Speaker 6: thinking about things. But what that means in terms of action,
- 3:08Speaker 6: h JP, You and I have been doing this together
- 3:10Speaker 6: for a long time. Yes, And I say with ownership changes,
- 3:17Speaker 6: don't think that you know what's going to happen because
- 3:20Speaker 6: it's up to one person.
- 3:22Speaker 7: That's so it leads to speculation stuff.
- 3:27Speaker 6: And then you know, there's no board, there's no you know. Uh,
- 3:33Speaker 6: it's not an election, it's what Shod decides.
- 3:37Speaker 7: Uh.
- 3:37Speaker 6: Timing details, action, Uh, we just don't know.
- 3:42Speaker 2: So Monday went along as scheduled, locker room was open
- 3:46Speaker 2: to the media, and then in the afternoon head coach
- 3:49Speaker 2: Doug Peterson visiting with the media. No changes, no changes
- 3:53Speaker 2: to the coaching staff either.
- 3:54Speaker 3: He explained why.
- 3:56Speaker 8: I think you gotta be really really careful when you
- 3:59Speaker 8: start pointing fingers at certain people.
- 4:02Speaker 4: It's a dangerous thing.
- 4:03Speaker 8: And I'm not gonna do that, not doing it, not
- 4:08Speaker 8: right now, because that's as a head coach in this
- 4:12Speaker 8: league that's going through what we're going through. You're you're
- 4:17Speaker 8: you're pointing a finger, and if it's going to be pointed,
- 4:19Speaker 8: it needs to be pointed at me to start with me.
- 4:22Speaker 4: Right.
- 4:22Speaker 9: So that's enough on that.
- 4:26Speaker 3: That's all I got to say about that.
- 4:28Speaker 2: And that's the head coach on Monday, Bucky, And all right,
- 4:32Speaker 2: that's that's saying.
- 4:34Speaker 4: It how it is.
- 4:35Speaker 5: That's how he believes that is in and it is and
- 4:38Speaker 5: and and meanwhile, JP, while we're going through the podcast,
- 4:42Speaker 5: I'm looking at my notes from the spring and the
- 4:44Speaker 5: summer and the optimism and all of the things that
- 4:47Speaker 5: we expected from the team. And Uh, the reason why
- 4:50Speaker 5: I'm looking at is because coach talked about, you know,
- 4:53Speaker 5: not finger pointing in those things, and I just remember
- 4:56Speaker 5: like the comments and talked about familiarity, UH, players signing
- 5:00Speaker 5: with Doug because they kind of knew what the program
- 5:02Speaker 5: was going to be, how hard they worked in the offseason,
- 5:06Speaker 5: the chemistry and attention to detail was there, and the
- 5:08Speaker 5: urgency and how they talked about how tough the camp
- 5:11Speaker 5: was and those things, and it's amazing when you have
- 5:14Speaker 5: all of that conversation. It really didn't take but a
- 5:18Speaker 5: half for a kind of unravel and I would say
- 5:21Speaker 5: the first half, I would say the first game of
- 5:23Speaker 5: the season, the Miami Dolphins game, where the team was
- 5:26Speaker 5: up and really about the open a can on the Dolphins.
- 5:30Speaker 5: Travisy Tenn is really on the on the verge of
- 5:34Speaker 5: scoring a touchdown fumbles, and from that moment on, the
- 5:39Speaker 5: season has absolutely spiral.
- 5:41Speaker 4: And I am surprised.
- 5:42Speaker 5: I'm surprised that it has kind of been that because
- 5:45Speaker 5: the team talked about the toughness and the resilience and
- 5:49Speaker 5: bouncing back from a disappointing fish finish to last season.
- 5:53Speaker 5: That this team is sitting at two to nine, and
- 5:56Speaker 5: I would say, based on the feeling down on the sideline,
- 6:00Speaker 5: it felt pretty bleak and hopeless. I just can't believe
- 6:03Speaker 5: that the team feels broken like it does based on
- 6:06Speaker 5: the optimism that everyone in the building had heading into
- 6:10Speaker 5: the season.
- 6:11Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess I would say if if that causes this.
- 6:16Speaker 6: Then you weren't very good to begin with, ye meaning,
- 6:19Speaker 6: I mean, you know, if there's been plenty of seasons
- 6:23Speaker 6: start off with a loss. I mean, you know, my
- 6:26Speaker 6: favorite team growing up was the Washington team eighty three.
- 6:30Speaker 7: They lost to Dallas week.
- 6:32Speaker 6: One, and I'm going way way back, but it was
- 6:35Speaker 6: devastating and it went fourteen to two. One of the
- 6:40Speaker 6: best cold teams I covered lost to New England on
- 6:42Speaker 6: a Thursday night in heartbreaking fashion, won the division at
- 6:47Speaker 6: twelve and four, and Peyton through forty nine touchdowns. I mean,
- 6:50Speaker 6: it's it can't end like I mean, that can't end it,
- 6:54Speaker 6: and you Bucky's saying. I'm not saying what he said
- 6:56Speaker 6: is wrong because I think it's I give some truth
- 6:58Speaker 6: to it. But if that happened, you weren't mentally tough
- 7:01Speaker 6: enough to begin with.
- 7:02Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's reminded me a little bit of
- 7:04Speaker 2: the twenty twelve season. Right, first game of the season
- 7:07Speaker 2: in Minnesota, Jaguars take the lead twenty seconds to go,
- 7:11Speaker 2: Gabert to Shorts touchdown, then they give up a fifty
- 7:13Speaker 2: five yard field goal lose it over time, and it
- 7:17Speaker 2: was pretty much all over.
- 7:18Speaker 6: Yeah it can't. I mean, and I do think there's
- 7:21Speaker 6: something too. I mean, they were going in if Travis scores,
- 7:25Speaker 6: I think they win that game. But to me, that's
- 7:29Speaker 6: more of a what this team is than something that
- 7:33Speaker 6: caused it. Meaning thank if you look back over three seasons,
- 7:37Speaker 6: this team's a team that there's codd some deficiencies, because
- 7:41Speaker 6: in every one of these seasons they've had a couple
- 7:44Speaker 6: of games where they just got blown out of the building.
- 7:46Speaker 6: I mean Detroit and not twenty two started it. They
- 7:50Speaker 6: were still building at that point. But last year in Tampa,
- 7:53Speaker 6: I mean, you'll forget that game, but that was pretty bad.
- 7:57Speaker 4: Oh it's horrible then.
- 7:59Speaker 6: And then in I mean ninety two and twenty three,
- 8:05Speaker 6: they they had the ability to win close games. They
- 8:09Speaker 6: won close games. At the end of twenty two they
- 8:10Speaker 6: won ed it. They started twenty three, there was there
- 8:13Speaker 6: was a little bit of a confidence. I've been trying
- 8:15Speaker 6: to figure this out, so I'm kind of thinking about it,
- 8:18Speaker 6: a little bit of a confidence there for some reason,
- 8:20Speaker 6: they could get over the humping close games this year.
- 8:24Speaker 6: That's the element that's been missing.
- 8:25Speaker 4: And.
- 8:28Speaker 7: Bucky's the football. Yeah, hey, Bucky, your name's on the show.
- 8:31Speaker 3: We got questions for you, Bucky.
- 8:33Speaker 2: I mean it felt like they I think in twenty
- 8:36Speaker 2: two and this is just me thinking, Bucky, correct me here,
- 8:38Speaker 2: but they had a defensive swagger about him.
- 8:41Speaker 3: At least in twenty twenty two.
- 8:43Speaker 2: They had guys in the back end that could make
- 8:46Speaker 2: plays in big moments, interception returns. You know, they had
- 8:50Speaker 2: a little more obviously a lot more life than they
- 8:52Speaker 2: have right now on the defensive side.
- 8:53Speaker 3: I think that might have had something to do with it.
- 8:56Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, because the one thing that they could do
- 8:58Speaker 5: the last two years prior to this year, they could
- 9:00Speaker 5: turn the ball over, and the turnovers would kind of
- 9:03Speaker 5: create a fees, a feeding frenzy.
- 9:05Speaker 4: When it came to the energy, changing the energy in.
- 9:07Speaker 5: The stadium, the offense would kind of pick up on
- 9:10Speaker 5: the energy and you would see this team overcomes some
- 9:13Speaker 5: slow starts because the defense would make a player two
- 9:16Speaker 5: and then all of a sudden, it would spark like wildfire.
- 9:18Speaker 4: This year hasn't been the same thing.
- 9:20Speaker 5: And I mean, let's be honest, like the last three
- 9:23Speaker 5: years and the last two years in particular, we expected
- 9:26Speaker 5: the offense to be the part of the team that
- 9:29Speaker 5: would carry the team. The defense was supposed to be
- 9:32Speaker 5: the part that could close it out. We've since changed
- 9:35Speaker 5: our expectations where we expect the defense to carry the
- 9:38Speaker 5: weight when the offense has really been the unit that
- 9:41Speaker 5: is underperformed. The team is flawed, the team is not
- 9:45Speaker 5: playing well, the team lacks confidence. But it all goes
- 9:47Speaker 5: back to what John talked about, the mental toughness. So
- 9:51Speaker 5: the lack thereof has really shown through and has been
- 9:55Speaker 5: an issue because you don't finish the way that you
- 9:57Speaker 5: finish and you don't play or start the way this
- 10:00Speaker 5: season has started unless you lack a level of toughness
- 10:05Speaker 5: and grit and determination to get jobs done.
- 10:08Speaker 2: Let's come back in a moment and dig into the
- 10:12Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence future this season and beyond coming off a
- 10:16Speaker 2: left shoulder issue.
- 10:18Speaker 3: We're often running a tunnel up with Bucky Brooks.
- 10:35Speaker 4: I don't believe they're letting go of the road.
- 10:37Speaker 9: I don't. It is a good football team.
- 10:41Speaker 8: They are good, and they're gonna play for a long time.
- 10:45Speaker 8: I think this year, you know, I mean, that's that's
- 10:47Speaker 8: just without without question in the NFC.
- 10:52Speaker 9: I look at it and and.
- 10:55Speaker 8: Even visiting with guys today and seeing the guys today,
- 10:58Speaker 8: you know they are they're they're tired. It's it's been
- 11:05Speaker 8: you know, each week, each Monday, you know, we haven't
- 11:08Speaker 8: felt very good and that also weighs on it.
- 11:10Speaker 9: You're going into the next week.
- 11:13Speaker 2: Head coach Doug Peterson. Earlier this week the full press
- 11:15Speaker 2: conference at Jaguars dot com or the Jaguars YouTube channel.
- 11:19Speaker 2: Welcome back to huddle up with Bucky Brooks. Get down
- 11:21Speaker 2: to the bank. Sunday, December first, when the Jaguars go
- 11:24Speaker 2: head to head with the division rival Houston Texans.
- 11:27Speaker 3: It's the My Cause, My Cleats game. Lock in your seats.
- 11:31Speaker 2: It's a one pm kickoff nine oh four six three
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- 11:38Speaker 2: And yes, the Texans beat the Cowboys on Monday Night Football.
- 11:42Speaker 2: This week, JP Shadwick, John Osier and Bucky Brooks. As
- 11:46Speaker 2: we continue to huddle up on this bye week, Let's
- 11:50Speaker 2: get into this Jaguars offense.
- 11:52Speaker 3: And what are you laughing at?
- 11:54Speaker 4: Bucking Odo Man?
- 11:55Speaker 5: Like, I gotta say this because I think every Jags fan,
- 12:00Speaker 5: everybody who supports this team would be disgusted.
- 12:04Speaker 4: At the comment that Doug just made about the team
- 12:06Speaker 4: being tired.
- 12:08Speaker 5: I just think it's hard for civilians to really look
- 12:12Speaker 5: at pro athletes and say that, oh my god, they
- 12:14Speaker 5: lost a bunch of games in the row.
- 12:15Speaker 4: They're so tired, let's give them the week off. I
- 12:18Speaker 4: just think that's hard for a blue collar worker.
- 12:21Speaker 5: To identify with that, And if anything, it goes back
- 12:24Speaker 5: to what we're talking about the lack of toughness when
- 12:27Speaker 5: it comes to the team.
- 12:29Speaker 4: Yes, you lost some games.
- 12:30Speaker 5: In a row, but that should not impact your ability
- 12:33Speaker 5: to come to work and do your job. To me,
- 12:35Speaker 5: that's giving them a way out. Like we can talk
- 12:39Speaker 5: about the coaches, we can talk about the front office,
- 12:42Speaker 5: but at some point this also falls to the players.
- 12:45Speaker 5: And if they don't have the energy where they need
- 12:47Speaker 5: time off, or they just don't feel well and they're
- 12:49Speaker 5: down because they're getting their tails kicked, they ultimately determine
- 12:53Speaker 5: whether they get their tails kicked or not.
- 12:54Speaker 4: So I just don't understand why the coach would let
- 12:57Speaker 4: them off the hook.
- 12:58Speaker 5: I understand taking a bullet for your but hey man,
- 13:01Speaker 5: sometimes they got a walla wind, this muck, and for
- 13:04Speaker 5: them not to be on the practice field this week,
- 13:06Speaker 5: I just I don't know how you get better without practice.
- 13:09Speaker 6: Yeah, I thought the same thing Bucky when he said it.
- 13:14Speaker 6: I related to what he was saying, because Bucky, you
- 13:18Speaker 6: and I before a couple of games I've expressed to you,
- 13:21Speaker 6: I said, I wonder if this is the game where
- 13:24Speaker 6: that stamina we talked about, you know, I forget which
- 13:28Speaker 6: game it was, maybe Philly or you know, and I
- 13:33Speaker 6: thought it might catch up with him in Detroit where
- 13:36Speaker 6: they had that kind of a game, because the Lions
- 13:38Speaker 6: are the kind of team that can sort of take
- 13:40Speaker 6: that and really test it and then you can fall apart. Right,
- 13:44Speaker 6: But look, this is the widest margin of the total
- 13:51Speaker 6: yardage since what seventy nine? Yeah, there's been plenty of
- 13:54Speaker 6: tire teams in the NFL in the last what forty
- 13:56Speaker 6: five years?
- 13:58Speaker 7: So I don't know. I kind of agree with you.
- 14:01Speaker 6: Yes, I think they are a mentally tired team, and
- 14:04Speaker 6: I think this kind of a season can wear on you.
- 14:06Speaker 6: But it goes back to what we talked about at
- 14:08Speaker 6: the beginning of the show, right like, if if you
- 14:11Speaker 6: can't recover from that, if you can't push through this,
- 14:14Speaker 6: they're not very good. And that's sort of it feels
- 14:17Speaker 6: like maybe the same thing, and I'm not getting into
- 14:19Speaker 6: it very well, Bucky.
- 14:21Speaker 4: No, it is what you said.
- 14:25Speaker 5: Okay, So part of why you have a tough training camp,
- 14:28Speaker 5: because remember everyone talked about how tough training camp was,
- 14:31Speaker 5: like Trevor Lawrence, they talked about having the joint practices
- 14:33Speaker 5: with Tampa Tampa talking about how tough things are. We're
- 14:36Speaker 5: part of the reason why you put your team through
- 14:38Speaker 5: a tough camp is to prepare them for the tough
- 14:41Speaker 5: stretches of the season that are.
- 14:42Speaker 4: Inevidently going to come. And if they are not able
- 14:45Speaker 4: to push through the adversity.
- 14:47Speaker 5: Part of the season, how could they ever be a
- 14:49Speaker 5: championship type team. And so to me, it's flawed not
- 14:53Speaker 5: only in the building process, team building, camaraderie, building, whatever
- 14:58Speaker 5: you want to say, it's flawed in terms of the
- 15:00Speaker 5: type of people that you have because of the team
- 15:02Speaker 5: is not prideful enough to try and bounce back from
- 15:05Speaker 5: those moments and what kind of team do we have?
- 15:08Speaker 5: What kind of players are you bringing in if they
- 15:10Speaker 5: don't want to go. Ultimately, this is a very competitive
- 15:13Speaker 5: game and competitors have to show up, and so the
- 15:16Speaker 5: fact that the team is saying, oh, we're tired we
- 15:18Speaker 5: don't feel good, we're discouraged, we don't. It's just hard
- 15:22Speaker 5: for me to say, let them off the hook with that,
- 15:23Speaker 5: give them a week off and they're gonna bounce back,
- 15:25Speaker 5: and everything's gonna be magically fixed.
- 15:27Speaker 2: By the way, they didn't wear pads the second day
- 15:28Speaker 2: against the Bucks in practice, that was just the first day.
- 15:32Speaker 4: It's a lot of time. Yeah, it's just what it's crazy.
- 15:36Speaker 6: That's particularly good because look, but I don't I don't
- 15:43Speaker 6: be the old man here, but even tougher now are tough? Yeah,
- 15:48Speaker 6: I mean, and I'm not saying I could do it.
- 15:50Speaker 6: I'm saying within the context I'm fifty eight and I
- 15:54Speaker 6: could have don them as twenty four. But within the
- 15:56Speaker 6: context of professional football, come on.
- 16:03Speaker 4: It's look, man, it's it's apparently it's not tough.
- 16:07Speaker 5: And even if we talk about let's just say like
- 16:09Speaker 5: toughness just in the terms of like what the current
- 16:12Speaker 5: state is, right, the teams that are at the top
- 16:15Speaker 5: of the list, when we look at the teams that
- 16:16Speaker 5: are flourishing right now, the Detroit lines, we just saw
- 16:19Speaker 5: their identities built on toughness and physicality. We look at
- 16:22Speaker 5: the upstart La Charges, Jim Harbough came in, talked about toughness,
- 16:26Speaker 5: physicality the Pittsburgh Steelers, who may not I would say,
- 16:29Speaker 5: I don't know how talented the Pittsburgh Steelers are, but toughness, physicality,
- 16:33Speaker 5: all of that stuff.
- 16:34Speaker 4: There appears to be a trend that the teams are
- 16:36Speaker 4: successful in this.
- 16:37Speaker 5: Lead are tough, minded, grizzled, heartened teams were. We obviously
- 16:45Speaker 5: don't have that if we're unable to respond to a
- 16:48Speaker 5: little adversity. And so it's look, man, everyone is to
- 16:53Speaker 5: blame for that. Players, coaches, front office, everyone gets some
- 16:56Speaker 5: of that. But I'm saying from the players standpoint, you
- 16:59Speaker 5: just may not have the right composition to players in
- 17:01Speaker 5: the locker room if they can't bounce back from some
- 17:02Speaker 5: of these tough moments.
- 17:04Speaker 2: All right, guys, let's come back and we'll get into
- 17:07Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence and what the futures are for him after
- 17:11Speaker 2: the bye week. A lot of the plate today during
- 17:16Speaker 2: a bye week at two and nine, that's what happens.
- 17:20Speaker 3: It's huddle up with Bucky.
- 17:21Speaker 9: Brook I'll say this, and I told the team this today.
- 17:36Speaker 9: I told to him after the game.
- 17:39Speaker 8: That the team that was out there yesterday that was
- 17:42Speaker 8: not us. That's not who we are, that's not who
- 17:44Speaker 8: we stand for. There's enough pride in that locker room,
- 17:48Speaker 8: enough pride on the coaching staff.
- 17:50Speaker 9: To whether we win, you know, whether we win the
- 17:55Speaker 9: game or not.
- 17:55Speaker 4: Right how we performed, it's not who we are.
- 17:58Speaker 9: It's not who we are.
- 17:59Speaker 8: It's not it's not how I coach, it's not how
- 18:02Speaker 8: we prepared during the week. It's not how the players
- 18:04Speaker 8: practice and what they put their bodies through.
- 18:08Speaker 2: Head coach Doug Peterson earlier this week and welcome back,
- 18:11Speaker 2: AND's Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks.
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- 18:29Speaker 2: It's the bye week edition of Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks.
- 18:33Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence left shoulder injury, has missed the last two weeks,
- 18:38Speaker 2: and I guess we'll find out after the bye week,
- 18:42Speaker 2: maybe on Monday, probably later than that, if he is
- 18:45Speaker 2: getting a green light to go play, or if there
- 18:48Speaker 2: are bigger issues, Bucky. But this is where it gets interesting.
- 18:52Speaker 2: With the franchise quarterback making as much money as he
- 18:55Speaker 2: is for the next six years after this season, the
- 18:58Speaker 2: balance of long term hell to competing and playing if
- 19:03Speaker 2: he's healthy enough to play right now in a season
- 19:06Speaker 2: that is essentially lost. This is a big organizational decision
- 19:10Speaker 2: coming up. And I mean, we'll see how Trevor responds.
- 19:12Speaker 2: Maybe he comes back healthy, Bucky.
- 19:14Speaker 4: Who knows he shouldn't come back healthy?
- 19:16Speaker 5: I think, I mean he shouldn't play like I mean,
- 19:19Speaker 5: why tried him out there when, like you're not playing
- 19:23Speaker 5: for the postseason.
- 19:26Speaker 4: Why risk an injury to your franchise player.
- 19:29Speaker 5: And I understand the locker room, and I understand how
- 19:32Speaker 5: we want all.
- 19:33Speaker 4: Players to be created equal, But he's the quarterback.
- 19:35Speaker 5: He's your franchise quarterback, and you're locked in to him
- 19:39Speaker 5: at fifty five million annually for a long time. So
- 19:43Speaker 5: why not let him rest and rehab, allow him to
- 19:48Speaker 5: be fully healthy when it returns next offseason, whether it's
- 19:51Speaker 5: OTA's training camp or whatever. To have the opportunity to
- 19:55Speaker 5: put forth your best team in twenty twenty five. To me, like,
- 20:00Speaker 5: I don't know what benefits there are to try to
- 20:04Speaker 5: number sixteen out there.
- 20:05Speaker 4: If he has an injury that is going to require
- 20:10Speaker 4: more evaluation, more rehab recovered, Let's start it right now
- 20:14Speaker 4: so he can be ready to go next year. Let's
- 20:15Speaker 4: not prolong it.
- 20:17Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess it depends a little to a degree
- 20:20Speaker 6: on the time frame, like if it needs surgery, if
- 20:24Speaker 6: it can get if he can get back by whatever
- 20:27Speaker 6: is April fifteenth, whenever that starts. There's part of me
- 20:34Speaker 6: I'd like to see Trevor play through that, because I'm sure,
- 20:37Speaker 6: knowing him, he wants to. But if it, as Bucky said,
- 20:43Speaker 6: if it does anything at all to if you think
- 20:48Speaker 6: you're unduly risking anything that affects that timeline or him
- 20:53Speaker 6: not being back raring to go as they say, then
- 21:00Speaker 6: I agree with you, And I guess I just don't
- 21:01Speaker 6: know because we don't have any firm knowledge of severity
- 21:07Speaker 6: and how much it'll affect potential return. To have the
- 21:13Speaker 6: facts make the statement, I agree, But if it affects
- 21:16Speaker 6: it at all, if the risk is higher than if
- 21:19Speaker 6: this wasn't going on, then I think he said.
- 21:22Speaker 2: Well, what's the reward if he you know, let's say
- 21:26Speaker 2: he's out there right and.
- 21:28Speaker 7: Well, he's still developing quarterback.
- 21:30Speaker 2: Okay, yes, and but how many of the weapons are
- 21:33Speaker 2: going to be around for the long term. Brian Thomas Jr. Right,
- 21:37Speaker 2: Evan Ingram is still under contract for another year or so.
- 21:40Speaker 6: Right, I would say this, he has to be healthy
- 21:44Speaker 6: enough to benefit from what he's doing right, Right, And
- 21:50Speaker 6: I guess what I mean Bucky is last year, in
- 21:52Speaker 6: the last six games when he played five, it didn't
- 21:56Speaker 6: feel like he was healthy enough to be improving at
- 22:00Speaker 6: that point or to be playing at his highest I
- 22:03Speaker 6: think he was healthy enough that they thought he was
- 22:05Speaker 6: a better option than the backup. And I think I'm
- 22:09Speaker 6: saying that verty well, but if he's just struggling through
- 22:14Speaker 6: to gut out a win, then I don't think you.
- 22:18Speaker 6: I absolutely don't think you're playing right.
- 22:21Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 22:21Speaker 5: Now, look, here's the thing, Like, after watching two games
- 22:24Speaker 5: of the offense with Mac Jones, it is clear in
- 22:27Speaker 5: the parent that Trevor Lawrence is needed for this team
- 22:29Speaker 5: to score points. Trevor Lawrence is needed to get the
- 22:32Speaker 5: rest of the team hope that they can win a game.
- 22:34Speaker 4: Like that's the feeling in the sense that I get
- 22:36Speaker 4: when I'm on the sideline.
- 22:38Speaker 5: They don't believe that there's a path to victory if
- 22:40Speaker 5: Trevor Lawrence is not at quarterback.
- 22:42Speaker 3: That's it.
- 22:43Speaker 4: Part of your job.
- 22:44Speaker 5: At the top is to make sure you protect your franchise, asset,
- 22:48Speaker 5: your franchise quarterback. And despite the competitiveness that Trevor may
- 22:53Speaker 5: exhibit and wanting to play, risk reward, what are the
- 22:57Speaker 5: rewards of risking putting him out there, even if us
- 23:01Speaker 5: as non throwing show in those things, what are the
- 23:03Speaker 5: potential rewards of doing that. Okay, you win a game
- 23:06Speaker 5: or two, you fall out of maybe the number one position,
- 23:10Speaker 5: to now you fall to number three in the draft.
- 23:12Speaker 5: To me, I don't know if that is enough to
- 23:15Speaker 5: risk putting number sixteen out there. And as the leader
- 23:19Speaker 5: of the franchise or whatever, like, someone needs to say, hey,
- 23:22Speaker 5: look he wants to go, he can do it, but
- 23:24Speaker 5: we just want to make sure that we have number
- 23:26Speaker 5: sixteen healthy and ready to go, and we want to
- 23:28Speaker 5: make sure we protect his long term interest and we
- 23:30Speaker 5: just play out the string because that's what it is.
- 23:33Speaker 5: I don't know how much is going to change over
- 23:35Speaker 5: the next few weeks, whether Trevor plays or not. I
- 23:38Speaker 5: just want to make sure that you protect a franchise
- 23:40Speaker 5: by protecting the quarterback.
- 23:42Speaker 3: Guys, let's come back.
- 23:43Speaker 2: We'll try to salvage the defense when we return, and
- 23:46Speaker 2: we'll get our final thoughts to huddle up with Bucky Brothers.
- 24:01Speaker 4: Very disappointed, very very angry. Today was not our day at.
- 24:07Speaker 10: All, no phase of the game, and we got a
- 24:11Speaker 10: lot of work to do, especially going well. We got
- 24:13Speaker 10: it by week, so everybody hopefully give give first come
- 24:16Speaker 10: back divisional game, come back im fourth one.
- 24:19Speaker 4: We gotta win. But right now, man, the feelin's are
- 24:22Speaker 4: you know, be angry? And uh so we got a
- 24:27Speaker 4: got a bye week.
- 24:29Speaker 2: Josh heinz Allen after the game at Ford Field, Detroit,
- 24:32Speaker 2: Welcome back. Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks is brought to
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- 24:43Speaker 2: John Osier and Bucky Brooks defense second most yards the
- 24:49Speaker 2: Jaguars have ever allowed in a game, most in a
- 24:51Speaker 2: sixty minute game. The overtime loss in Houston and twenty
- 24:55Speaker 2: twelve was the most to go allowed and then the
- 24:58Speaker 2: most yardage in the ninety five year history of the
- 25:01Speaker 2: Detroit Lions organization. And their ninety first year in the
- 25:05Speaker 2: city of Detroit. That includes the years in Portsmouth, Ohio
- 25:08Speaker 2: in their early days. That's a lot of football to
- 25:10Speaker 2: be played. To give up six hundred and forty five yards.
- 25:14Speaker 2: Jaguars is going into that game where the worst defense
- 25:16Speaker 2: in the league overall, bottom or near the bottom in
- 25:19Speaker 2: most every major metric, the lowest blitz rate in the league.
- 25:24Speaker 2: What is there to salvage the rest of the way here, Bucky,
- 25:27Speaker 2: mister defensive minded guy, what do you got?
- 25:32Speaker 4: I don't know where you can salvage.
- 25:33Speaker 5: But what you're trying to do is you're trying to
- 25:34Speaker 5: take the butt by week And I heard coach Peterson
- 25:38Speaker 5: talk about they're gonna look at everything, look at all
- 25:41Speaker 5: the tactics, to personnel, the rotations, all those things, and
- 25:44Speaker 5: see what they can do to put a better product
- 25:46Speaker 5: on the field the last six weeks. I think if
- 25:48Speaker 5: you're Ryan Nilson and the coaching staff, you have to
- 25:49Speaker 5: look at everything that you've done.
- 25:51Speaker 4: Who are the players that you put on the field.
- 25:53Speaker 5: Does the scheme put them in the best position to succeed?
- 25:56Speaker 5: If not, what are the things that can change. It's
- 25:59Speaker 5: hard to do a major overhaul of the personnel. So
- 26:01Speaker 5: what can you do from a X and O standpoint
- 26:04Speaker 5: to help the players play better. We've seen this team
- 26:07Speaker 5: go from being I would say an aggressive, man demand
- 26:10Speaker 5: team to trying to be one that is a little
- 26:12Speaker 5: more ban but don't break.
- 26:13Speaker 4: But both approaches have not yielded the results that you want.
- 26:19Speaker 5: I think what you have to do is look at
- 26:20Speaker 5: the strengths of the players, put them in a position
- 26:22Speaker 5: to play to those strengths as much as possible, and
- 26:26Speaker 5: you just got to live with the results.
- 26:28Speaker 4: But what you want to do now is.
- 26:29Speaker 5: You have to become a process oriented group more so
- 26:32Speaker 5: than a results driven group, because as a coach, you
- 26:35Speaker 5: got to assume that I'm gonna be here beyond this year.
- 26:38Speaker 5: Let me lock in and figure out what I can
- 26:40Speaker 5: fix to help us build some momentum down the stretch.
- 26:43Speaker 6: First of all, some of those Portsmouth teams could hang
- 26:45Speaker 6: a number on you, so discount that absolutely. I thought
- 26:51Speaker 6: I thought, I thought they played ben but don't break.
- 26:55Speaker 7: The other day.
- 26:56Speaker 6: The problem was the Lions offensive line was so good
- 27:02Speaker 6: that once you got down into the point where you
- 27:04Speaker 6: would normally stop bending, the Lions could just break you.
- 27:09Speaker 6: I mean, so that that approach makes sense except when
- 27:15Speaker 6: you're completely overmatch with the line of scrimmage. So that
- 27:19Speaker 6: was just kind of a thought that didn't was very
- 27:21Speaker 6: able to do with your question, what do they do?
- 27:24Speaker 6: I I think they'll play better defensively going forward. I
- 27:29Speaker 6: think they can get back to when they're playing lesser offenses,
- 27:32Speaker 6: which pretty much any offense in the league right now
- 27:34Speaker 6: is gonna be lesser than Detroit because they match up
- 27:37Speaker 6: so well against Jacksonville, meaning their front being that overpowering.
- 27:44Speaker 6: You worried beforehand, Bucky, that they would expose what we
- 27:48Speaker 6: all sort of felt was the Jaguars weakness the interior,
- 27:52Speaker 6: and that if they couldn't get off the field, they
- 27:54Speaker 6: were gonna be able. They were gonna be able to
- 27:55Speaker 6: impose will opening up everything. I'm not sure any other
- 27:59Speaker 6: team can white do that to that degree this year.
- 28:04Speaker 3: But yeah, let's look at the schedule.
- 28:06Speaker 6: I mean, I'm saying they're saying that that doesn't matter
- 28:09Speaker 6: because it shows you how far behind you are elite
- 28:11Speaker 6: right now. And I got off track, But that's that's
- 28:16Speaker 6: too bad.
- 28:17Speaker 2: To your point, John, Texans, next Titans, after that, Jets, Raiders,
- 28:22Speaker 2: Titans again, and then the Colts.
- 28:25Speaker 4: That's the remaining six games.
- 28:26Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, so you can get some traction and
- 28:31Speaker 6: not be as bad as they were the other day.
- 28:34Speaker 6: But the goodness, they were as bad as you can
- 28:37Speaker 6: get the other day. So I don't know if that
- 28:38Speaker 6: traction makes any difference get worse.
- 28:40Speaker 4: Yeah, But we weren't.
- 28:41Speaker 5: We weren't surprised because I remember JP asked the question
- 28:44Speaker 5: in the pregame talk about where, uh where, if anywhere,
- 28:49Speaker 5: does do the Jaguars hold an advantage over the Detroit liance.
- 28:52Speaker 5: And I couldn't give an answer. I couldn't give a
- 28:54Speaker 5: positive answer like offense, defense, O, line, D line, secondary nowhere.
- 28:59Speaker 5: And that's a problem just from a personnel standpoint. And
- 29:03Speaker 5: then when you try and match the tactics to the personnel,
- 29:06Speaker 5: what you're trying to do is accenuate your strengths and
- 29:08Speaker 5: mash your deficiencies.
- 29:10Speaker 4: But the problem the way the team.
- 29:12Speaker 5: Is constructed right now, you're not dominant on the interior.
- 29:15Speaker 4: You have two pass rushes in.
- 29:17Speaker 5: Trayvon Austin Josh einz Allen, but you have to have
- 29:20Speaker 5: more to be successful in the league. At linebacker, we've
- 29:23Speaker 5: had problems when we've been forced to match up in
- 29:25Speaker 5: man demand so you want to play more zone, but
- 29:28Speaker 5: when you are a defense that is not as fast
- 29:31Speaker 5: as the opponent, zone leaves too many holes and voids
- 29:34Speaker 5: and the catch and run stuff can get you. And
- 29:37Speaker 5: then on the outside we're still having I would say
- 29:40Speaker 5: communication issues when it comes to the coverage. Where am
- 29:43Speaker 5: I supposed to be, who do I have? How do
- 29:45Speaker 5: we play this? And those things. So everyone is to
- 29:49Speaker 5: blame coaches, players, front office in terms of the the
- 29:52Speaker 5: pieces of the puzzle not matching up. But I will
- 29:55Speaker 5: say this, what you try to do is you try
- 29:57Speaker 5: to sell the team on Let's play these next six
- 29:59Speaker 5: games the best that we can do. Let's reset everything
- 30:03Speaker 5: when we come back on Monday and see if we
- 30:05Speaker 5: can build game plans that gives us an opportunity to
- 30:08Speaker 5: win the majority of these six games, and if we
- 30:10Speaker 5: can build some positive momentum, maybe we can realize some
- 30:13Speaker 5: of the potential that we thought that we had as
- 30:15Speaker 5: a team heading.
- 30:16Speaker 4: Into the season.
- 30:18Speaker 5: Easier said than done, but I think from a mental standpoint,
- 30:22Speaker 5: that's what you have to do.
- 30:22Speaker 4: If you're Doug Peterson the company.
- 30:24Speaker 6: Yeah, I think the same thing applies to the other
- 30:26Speaker 6: side of the ball, too, But I mean every email.
- 30:29Speaker 6: I get it keeps them talking about how quote predictable.
- 30:32Speaker 7: The offense is.
- 30:36Speaker 6: My experience is that typically when play callers feel like
- 30:43Speaker 6: the players that they have are somewhat limited, that tends
- 30:49Speaker 6: to limit what they call offensively because they're trying to
- 30:52Speaker 6: put these guys in situations where they can succeed. And
- 30:56Speaker 6: it feels to me like that's a little bit of Okay, well,
- 31:00Speaker 6: we don't really want to call this set of plays
- 31:03Speaker 6: because we feel like that puts us at a disadvantage
- 31:06Speaker 6: and not being able to execute it, So we're going
- 31:08Speaker 6: to stick to these. It gets predictable because there's not
- 31:11Speaker 6: that many things you feel confident in. And again, I
- 31:14Speaker 6: may not be saying that that well, but I think
- 31:17Speaker 6: I think Mac clearly the arm there limits a little
- 31:22Speaker 6: bit of what they're going to call downfield. That's just
- 31:25Speaker 6: how it feels to me. And then the fact that
- 31:27Speaker 6: you don't feel confident that you can establish the run,
- 31:32Speaker 6: then all of a sudden, there's a limit to what
- 31:34Speaker 6: you can call in this, which I think is sort
- 31:37Speaker 6: of the offensive version of what you're talking about.
- 31:39Speaker 4: Buck.
- 31:41Speaker 5: Yeah, Now, let's be honest, because it starts with the
- 31:44Speaker 5: quarterback first, right, the one thing that every team will
- 31:47Speaker 5: tell you is what you hope for is the quarterback
- 31:50Speaker 5: that is in the game gives.
- 31:51Speaker 4: You hope that you'll be able to get it done.
- 31:53Speaker 5: When the defense believes in the quarterback, what they do
- 31:56Speaker 5: is they spend their time saying, hey, if we can
- 31:58Speaker 5: just get the ball back, I can lead us down
- 32:00Speaker 5: the field. Offensively, wide receivers run a little faster. They
- 32:05Speaker 5: give a little more energy and effort to getting open
- 32:07Speaker 5: because they know if I win my route, the ball
- 32:09Speaker 5: is gonna be right there for me and I'm gonna
- 32:11Speaker 5: be able to make a play. Same thing for the
- 32:13Speaker 5: offensive line. If we give right I got time, we
- 32:15Speaker 5: can make it happen. And unfortunately, right now, mac Jones
- 32:18Speaker 5: is not played well enough to inspire that kind of
- 32:21Speaker 5: hope on either side of the ball. Now he's trying to,
- 32:24Speaker 5: like as hard as he can to be that guy, but.
- 32:27Speaker 4: Right now it just hasn't worked.
- 32:29Speaker 5: That then forces the coaching staff to kind of shift
- 32:33Speaker 5: gears and try and figure out how can we win
- 32:35Speaker 5: working around.
- 32:36Speaker 4: Some of the things that he's struggling with. Can we
- 32:38Speaker 4: run the ball more?
- 32:39Speaker 5: Can we do some different things screen passes, quick game
- 32:43Speaker 5: rhythm throws, play action, all of those things, and so
- 32:46Speaker 5: you're spending the wheel trying to find the right combination
- 32:49Speaker 5: of plays and concepts to help the quarterback, and then
- 32:52Speaker 5: helping the quarterback you help the rest of the team.
- 32:55Speaker 5: But I'll be honest, the offensive line hasn't been good
- 32:57Speaker 5: enough to run the football successfully. We've had the same
- 32:59Speaker 5: issue the last two years in terms of being able
- 33:01Speaker 5: to convert third and fourth in shorts. On the outside,
- 33:05Speaker 5: we're not winning consistently outside of Brian Thomas Junior to deserve.
- 33:09Speaker 4: To have the ball go in their direction more often.
- 33:13Speaker 5: And then when it comes to the quarterback, we just
- 33:14Speaker 5: haven't been accurate enough to be able to put the
- 33:17Speaker 5: ball on the playmakers when they do win. So it's
- 33:19Speaker 5: just been a failure in every aspect when it comes
- 33:22Speaker 5: to the offensive plan.
- 33:24Speaker 2: Well, other than that, everything's going fine here in Jacksonville.
- 33:27Speaker 2: The bye week, you know, I'm real positive about it's
- 33:32Speaker 2: gonna happen moving ahead. After this show today, Bucky, I
- 33:35Speaker 2: must say, hey, Bucky, do you have a bye week?
- 33:37Speaker 4: How does that work? It is a bye week. It's
- 33:41Speaker 4: been kind of crummy. So the good thing is being
- 33:43Speaker 4: able to kind of reseaid, you know what, I'm gonna do.
- 33:46Speaker 5: I'm gonna take a queue from Doug Peterson and the
- 33:48Speaker 5: team and I'm just gonna reset.
- 33:50Speaker 4: I'm a little tired.
- 33:51Speaker 5: All of these games have made me tired, so I'm
- 33:53Speaker 5: gonna try and rest and recharge and make sure that
- 33:56Speaker 5: I come back next week on Huddle Up fully ready
- 33:59Speaker 5: to go back to the positivity, trying to go one
- 34:01Speaker 5: and on next week. So yeah, I'm I'm gonna do
- 34:04Speaker 5: like the players, I'm gonna take some time off and
- 34:06Speaker 5: I'm gonna try and get it right next week.
- 34:08Speaker 4: So that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna enjoy the
- 34:09Speaker 4: rest of the week and make sure I'm recharging, ready
- 34:11Speaker 4: to go.
- 34:12Speaker 3: It's a long stretch.
- 34:13Speaker 6: Run Joe on top that tough too. I'll do the same.
- 34:19Speaker 6: I will take the rest of the show off.
- 34:20Speaker 4: I will.
- 34:21Speaker 2: I will do it just because that's what we do
- 34:24Speaker 2: during the bye week. Bucky will talk to you next week.
- 34:27Speaker 2: Appreciate it all right, man, looking forward to it. Bucky
- 34:30Speaker 2: Brooks joining us from Los Angeles. John Ozier, I'm JP Shattercker.
- 34:33Speaker 2: Thanks to Joe Fortunato, Brent.
- 34:35Speaker 3: Reaver and our entire crew, and thanks
- 34:37Speaker 2: To you for watching Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks,