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Speaker 1: Welcome to Huddle Up, brought you by the Fields Total Group,
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Senior writer John Oser, NFL Network analyst and former
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Speaker 1: Jaguar Bucky Brooks, and Senior reporter J. P. Shaddrick bring
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Speaker 1: you the latest on your Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Speaker 2: Huddle Up starts right now. Welcome Man Week thirteen.
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Speaker 3: Huddle up with Bucky Brooks on this Wednesday ahead of
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Speaker 3: the Texans Jaguars matchup. Busy show ahead, quarterback status. We
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Speaker 3: heard from Trevor Lawrence today. We'll see how he's feeling.
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Speaker 3: Texans Jaguars preview coming up here at the Bank this Sunday.
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Speaker 2: Bye week.
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Speaker 3: Adjustments out of the Jaguars change some things? What might
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Speaker 3: they change in the stretch run? I had six games
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Speaker 3: to go in the regular year. JP Shadrick, John Oser
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Speaker 3: from Hyundai Studios, the Miller Electric Center. Bucky Brooks joining
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Speaker 3: us in Los Angeles.
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Speaker 3: Fieldsauto dot Com. Bucky good Afternoon, Happy Thanksgiving?
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Speaker 4: How are you happy? Thanksgiving? To you guys? Look, I'm
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Speaker 4: good Man I'm good. Had a little break, had a
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Speaker 4: bye week off, didn't have to practice or do anything.
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Speaker 4: So I'm good, I'm refocused, I'm energized. I'm ready to
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Speaker 4: finish the season strong.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I checked the schedule. They're playing these games, so we
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Speaker 5: are into it. I think the players and the coaches
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Speaker 5: seem to have the right mindset today talking to him
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Speaker 5: about Look, they're trying to hold onto something, so two
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Speaker 5: and nine, texting seven and five. You're not technically out
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Speaker 5: of it if you win this game. So there's a
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Speaker 5: little bit of talk of that, and you know what,
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Speaker 5: talk about that until you can't.
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Speaker 2: I get it, absolutely true.
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Speaker 3: The big talk today though, was the status of quarterback
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Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence, and earlier today Doug Peterson said that the
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Speaker 3: quarterback would get some time practice today and a lot
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Speaker 3: of the first team reps and then a little later
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Speaker 3: before practice. Trevor Lawrence speaking about that left shoulder injury
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Speaker 3: and the process moving ahead.
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Speaker 6: They're a pretty difficult thing to gauge, honestly, of what's
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Speaker 6: the best path forward. Definitely something that I'm considering and
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Speaker 6: not off the table at all. So yeah, it's it's
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Speaker 6: something that we're going to have to just truly day
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Speaker 6: by day, week by week. You know, hopefully I'm able
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Speaker 6: to get back out there this week or as soon
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Speaker 6: as possible, and then it's going to be just every
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Speaker 6: week kind of evaluating it, seeing where it's at. And
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Speaker 6: obviously up until this point, I've been doing everything I
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Speaker 6: can to avoid that and want to be back out
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Speaker 6: there with my guys and finish the season. So that's
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Speaker 6: my goal. That's what I want to do with and
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Speaker 6: beyond that, I don't really always had a better answer
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Speaker 6: for you those don't rightly.
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Speaker 3: Know ye considering it, he was asked about possible surgery
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Speaker 3: in the off season on that left shoulder, John, but
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Speaker 3: he was getting some of the reps out there today.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I think he plays every all the body
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Speaker 5: laning the motion of the week, meaning he talked about
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Speaker 5: it when Doug was talking about it. He didn't say
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Speaker 5: it was absolutely gonna play, but you heard JP the
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Speaker 5: tone and the I guess the tense that he was using.
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Speaker 5: So he made it sound like he's going to play
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Speaker 5: unless something else happens. Otherwise, why would he have practiced
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Speaker 5: the last two weeks, why would it be on the
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Speaker 5: podium today. That's the plan and I don't know enough
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Speaker 5: about the injury or about whatever to know if he
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Speaker 5: should be having surgery.
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Speaker 7: Now.
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Speaker 5: My impression is with a left shoulder, he'd be fine
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Speaker 5: if it had if it happens after the season, he'd
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Speaker 5: be fine by the time OTA's rolled around. So bucky
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Speaker 5: to me, as long as he can play, as long
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Speaker 5: as he doesn't look like he did in the last
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Speaker 5: six weeks the last season, where it was clear that
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Speaker 5: he was fighting through something. I don't think you want
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Speaker 5: to put him back out there if it feels like that.
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Speaker 5: But beyond that, it's more interesting for us.
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Speaker 7: It's definitely more interesting.
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Speaker 4: And I'll say this, I think after a few weeks
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Speaker 4: with Mac Jones playing and the backup quarterback playing, I
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Speaker 4: think that's probably a great appreciation for Trevor Lawrence if.
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Speaker 7: There wasn't one, And I think this should be a
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Speaker 7: tremendous of appreciation for.
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Speaker 4: The fact that he's even considering playing, given where we
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Speaker 4: are in the season two and nine record. Look, the
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Speaker 4: odds are long for the team to make the postseason,
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Speaker 4: but to have your starting quarterback wanting to seemingly wanting
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Speaker 4: to take the ball, that's a testament to him his
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Speaker 4: football character. And those things for the team. What it does,
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Speaker 4: it gives them hope, It gives them a little energy
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Speaker 4: boost thinking. Okay, well that the franchise quarterback comes back,
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Speaker 4: and the franchise quarterback is how they may think he
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Speaker 4: is in terms of being.
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Speaker 7: Special in his own way.
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Speaker 4: This might be enough to get them to play at
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Speaker 4: a higher level when we see.
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Speaker 7: Them take a field for the next time.
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Speaker 5: And Becky, I don't know that you know any more
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Speaker 5: about this than I do, but I'll ask the question
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Speaker 5: for I guess the discussion point if and when they're eliminated,
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Speaker 5: does that have to change the thought on Trevor Or
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Speaker 5: or is it just the fact that we don't really
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Speaker 5: know the severity of the shoulders so it's hard to
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Speaker 5: answer that question.
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Speaker 4: I'll say it might be a little hard to answer
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Speaker 4: the question without knowing the severity of it. But potentially
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Speaker 4: it could change everything if you're eliminated and there's no
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Speaker 4: opportunity for you to maybe advancing the postseason. Depending on
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Speaker 4: how serious and how long their rehab process will be,
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Speaker 4: you may shut them down and start that process before
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Speaker 4: the season ends. You may try and have surgery in
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Speaker 4: those things. If that's what he's electing to do to
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Speaker 4: get it going so you can have him available.
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Speaker 7: At the end of off season or before training camp
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Speaker 7: next year.
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Speaker 4: But right now, I think you deal with the here
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Speaker 4: and now, and the here and now is if he's
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Speaker 4: available to protect himself and he wants to play, franchise
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Speaker 4: quarterback gets every opportunity to play.
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Speaker 7: I think you hadn't the ball and you go with.
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Speaker 5: It and JP quickly. As weird as it sounds, I
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Speaker 5: get that you're two and nine, you win, and you
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Speaker 5: pull the Texans one more game back to you. We
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Speaker 5: all have sort of seen by now, the Texans have
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Speaker 5: the Chiefs, the Texans have a tough schedule. I guess
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Speaker 5: what I'm saying is you wouldn't want to have them
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Speaker 5: lose three and have you wonder, well, what if we'd
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Speaker 5: really gone after right? I mean, you don't want to
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Speaker 5: mail it in if they happen to lose three. And
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Speaker 5: as we saw last year, the teams can lead the
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Speaker 5: division lose late.
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Speaker 2: We've seen it two years in a row. Yeah, so
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Speaker 2: in this division.
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Speaker 5: I kind of get, as silly as it sounds, I
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Speaker 5: get playing it straight. That's not the right ward. You
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Speaker 5: know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: You play it until it's eliminated.
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Speaker 5: Until it's not so, I get it. It actually so anyway.
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Speaker 2: So that's where they are right now.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, they can pull the Texans back at a
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Speaker 3: game closer to them. The Texans have the bye week
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Speaker 3: next week, so you can gain a little more ground
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Speaker 3: if you can put a couple together.
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Speaker 2: Let's just get one and before we start talking.
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Speaker 5: About multiple or stay within forty seven.
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Speaker 3: Right, that would be helpful. We've got plenty ahead. Let's
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Speaker 3: come back and we'll get into the defense. We heard
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Speaker 3: from Ryan Nielsen today, Jaguars defensive coordinator. What do they
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Speaker 3: change after one of the worst performances, well, the worst
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Speaker 3: performance in Jaguars history last time out on the field
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Speaker 3: and the defense it's ranking near the bottom of most
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Speaker 3: every metric this year. That's all coming up. We'll look
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Speaker 3: at the Texans a little bit later as well. It's
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Speaker 3: huddled up with Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 8: You'll see a little bit different wrinkle. Look, we can't
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Speaker 8: change everything, and we are who we are, but there'll
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Speaker 8: be a few different wrinkles. We're at the part of
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Speaker 8: the season. You know, guys are done good job with
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Speaker 8: the volume and things like that, but moving some guys
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Speaker 8: around and bringing some guys here, pressuring a little bit, here,
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Speaker 8: playing some more coverage and these you know your self
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Speaker 8: s got it? You know where are we pressuring a lot?
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Speaker 8: Where are we playing coverage and things like that, And
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Speaker 8: so I think that'll be the biggest change.
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Speaker 3: Brian Nielsen, Jaguars defensive coordinator. Today the coordinators available a
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Speaker 3: day earlier holiday Thanksgiving. You might have heard of it.
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Speaker 3: It's tomorrow. Welcome back to huddle up with Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 2: Now get down to the bank.
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Speaker 3: Well a lot to adjust, Bucky. After a blowout loss
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Speaker 3: in Detroit last time out. They've had some performances this
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Speaker 3: year where the defense has kind of kept them closer
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Speaker 3: in games. The offense hasn't been able to handle some things.
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Speaker 3: But let's touch on this defense. It's ranked thirty second
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Speaker 3: in the league overall, near the bottom and many of
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Speaker 3: the important metrics clearly, what do you adjust here? What
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Speaker 3: is he talking about blocky, How does this look different
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Speaker 3: now in the final six weeks, and how do they
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Speaker 3: make it look different with the personnel that they have
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Speaker 3: is not going to change.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, standard protocol is to go through all of the
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Speaker 4: film that you have before the bye week, looking the
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Speaker 4: good the bad, do a self scout, look at the tendencies,
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Speaker 4: the numbers, and the metrics, and try to come out
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Speaker 4: with a better plan. The last part of it, so
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Speaker 4: he talked about looking where they've been covering when they've
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Speaker 4: been blitzeing where they've been bringing the pressure from and
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Speaker 4: how successful it has or hasn't been, and then trying
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Speaker 4: to build a better plan. So, first and foremost it's
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Speaker 4: going to be some of the stuff that has already
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Speaker 4: been in the playbook. But maybe you feature more things
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Speaker 4: than you featured to this point because you haven't had
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Speaker 4: success feature in some of the things, So some of
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Speaker 4: those things will go.
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Speaker 7: To the back burner.
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Speaker 4: Then is looking at the personnel packages that have been
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Speaker 4: the most successful, who have been the guys that have
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Speaker 4: gotten the most pressures. Do we need to put somebody
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Speaker 4: else in the rotation that gives them an opportunity because
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Speaker 4: their production on paper maybe we didn't pay attention to.
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Speaker 4: Really if an evaluation of the scheme the players the
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Speaker 4: play calls to see what can we do with the
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Speaker 4: maximize the talent that we currently have, while also making
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Speaker 4: sure that the game remains simple for the players that
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Speaker 4: are going to be playing.
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Speaker 2: JP Shock. I can't wait to do.
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Speaker 5: This is not a knock on what they do. I'm
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Speaker 5: always a little skeptical when during the bye the team says, Okay,
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Speaker 5: we're going to go back and we're going to change
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Speaker 5: things up. I think it's really really difficult during the season.
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Speaker 5: I think the reality is the Jaghuars they to put
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Speaker 5: it nicely, they struggle on the interior, defensive line, they
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Speaker 5: struggle in past coverage. I think it's hard to switch
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Speaker 5: to something when I don't know that you're good enough
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Speaker 5: on the interior to stop it. So I think there's
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Speaker 5: stuff you can do to full them for the short time,
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Speaker 5: for the short term. I kind of wonder if this
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Speaker 5: is not just what they are because what we've seen,
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Speaker 5: and again it's sort of off topics. I know we're
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Speaker 5: talking about the changes. I think they'll as coach Neilsen
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Speaker 5: Sais Ryan said, they have done a little better over
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Speaker 5: the last few weeks of getting away from always playing man,
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Speaker 5: they switched some stuff up. They've done a nice job
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Speaker 5: that I think they'll continue to do it. I think
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Speaker 5: they get a break and then they're not playing the
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Speaker 5: Lions anymore. They're not playing teams that can dominate them
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Speaker 5: as much upfront, So I think some of the things
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Speaker 5: that they try have a better chance of working than
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Speaker 5: when they were playing the elite teams because they really
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Speaker 5: really good teams who have really good offensive lines at
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Speaker 5: times could do what they wanted to against this.
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Speaker 2: Team, no doubt.
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Speaker 4: I mean, like I mean, I think there's so many
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Speaker 4: things that you have to fix. It's hard to fix
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Speaker 4: them all at one time. And John is right when
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Speaker 4: you talk about like, look, you can't fix it in
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Speaker 4: the middle of the season. You can tweak and adjust,
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Speaker 4: but typically the way that you're going to play is
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Speaker 4: the way that you have to play and the way that.
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Speaker 7: You practice the entire offseason.
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Speaker 4: You can't pull the plug on the way that you
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Speaker 4: go about it just because you haven't had success. What
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Speaker 4: you want to do is be more efficient in your calls,
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Speaker 4: be more efficient in what you're doing, and try to
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Speaker 4: make sure that you're asking the players to do things
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Speaker 4: that are.
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Speaker 7: Within the strengths of their game.
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Speaker 4: Now, every coach would tell you there's a way that
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Speaker 4: you go into the season thing and how you want
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Speaker 4: to play, and then you get into the season you
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Speaker 4: realize how you have to play.
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Speaker 7: We've seen the Jaguars make those adjustments.
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Speaker 4: They went from being like Superman heavy to trying to
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Speaker 4: play a little more zone, trying to be a little
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Speaker 4: simpler when it came to it. But now you're in
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Speaker 4: the bi weekend. You got to last six games. You
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Speaker 4: got to do what's best for the team. I think
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Speaker 4: we'll see some different combinations and different things, but I
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Speaker 4: don't know if it'll be very very obvious to the
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Speaker 4: naked eye.
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Speaker 3: Jaguars have given up ninety two plays of fifteen or
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Speaker 3: more yards this year, second most in the NFL. We
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Speaker 3: saw the numbers there and most of the categories, but
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Speaker 3: only twenty one sacks this year. It's twenty sixth in
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Speaker 3: the league. Eight takeaways. Not enough impactful plays, not just yes,
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Speaker 3: stopping the run and the interior pushing all that, but
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Speaker 3: everything that comes on top of that as well. They
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Speaker 3: haven't been able to get anything really done on the
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Speaker 3: defensive side. Week over a week now on the offensive
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Speaker 3: side of changes during the bye week, Bucky, where do
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Speaker 3: you begin here? I mean, obviously it depends on the
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Speaker 3: quarterback play right, Trevor Lawrence? What's his Are there any
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Speaker 3: limitations for.
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Speaker 2: Him how he plays? But all right, where do you
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Speaker 2: begin on offense and in changing?
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Speaker 3: I mean, they didn't do anything last week or last
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Speaker 3: time out in Detroit, So how do you do something?
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Speaker 3: At least move the football and stay on the field.
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Speaker 4: What Joe Madden in baseball used to say, do simple
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Speaker 4: better for us when you've been as bad as the
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Speaker 4: offense has been the last few times, just tried out there.
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Speaker 4: It really is about trying to do the simple things
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Speaker 4: really well. In a perfect world. I think this should
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Speaker 4: be the smallest play sheet that Press Tailoring Doug Peterson
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Speaker 4: carry into a game, because what you would like to
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Speaker 4: do is highlight what the team has done really well
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Speaker 4: over the course of the season. You may remix it
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Speaker 4: with some motions and some shifts and those things, but
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Speaker 4: really you want to do what the team is executed
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Speaker 4: really well, and that comes with the quarterback. This team
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Speaker 4: has struggled sustaining drives, staying on the field and putting
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Speaker 4: points on the board.
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Speaker 7: There aren't a bunch of.
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Speaker 4: New plays that you can put in to get that.
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Speaker 4: I think it's about being efficient. It's about making sure
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Speaker 4: that the quarterback, particularly if it's Trevor Lawrence, is comfortable
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Speaker 4: with what you're asking him to do. And I honestly
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Speaker 4: would say it. I would say, look, Trevor, how do
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Speaker 4: you want us to call this game? I would kind
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Speaker 4: of put more on sixteam's plate to lead us into
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Speaker 4: terms of how he wants this game to be called
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Speaker 4: and what plays he likes, as opposed to the coach
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Speaker 4: just randomly make an arbitrary play calls.
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Speaker 5: I'm going to vow that this is the last depressing
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Speaker 5: thing I say today because I'm trying to I mean,
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Speaker 5: I'm not trying to do this. I sort of wonder
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Speaker 5: the same thing that I wandered on on defense. For
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Speaker 5: this reason, they have really struggled for the duration. When
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Speaker 5: I say the duration, I mean really back when this
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Speaker 5: thing started to run when they needed to run, to run,
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Speaker 5: when they wanted to run. They've been able to run
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Speaker 5: when the matchup has been correct, you know, in situationally,
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Speaker 5: so when and it's gonna be better with Trevor back there,
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Speaker 5: there's no, I will say that for sure, I will
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Speaker 5: lock that comment.
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Speaker 6: So, but.
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Speaker 5: I wonder, Bucky, when you can't run as a play caller,
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Speaker 5: when you can't run when you need to run, and
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Speaker 5: then you are depleted at receiver where you you know,
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Speaker 5: I get the Gabe Davis, you hadn't been productive. Now
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Speaker 5: you're down Gabe and Christian. With Christians, there's a lot
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Speaker 5: of trust that's no longer there. I understand why it's
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Speaker 5: a small play sheet. I'm not sure that there's that
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Speaker 5: much that you feel great about just conceptually with that
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Speaker 5: combination of not having receivers that you trust and then
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Speaker 5: not being able to trust that offensive line in those
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Speaker 5: big situations. And again, that's that's my last Debbie Downer thought.
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Speaker 5: Everything else is upbeats. So uh, that's what I see.
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Speaker 7: It all though, it's a real thought.
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Speaker 4: I mean, like, let's be honest, like the team has
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Speaker 4: not been very successful on either side of the ball.
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Speaker 4: You don't really know what you can hang your hat
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Speaker 4: on because what works one week doesn't work the next week.
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Speaker 4: And the thing that is main consistent is this team
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Speaker 4: has a tough time in third and fourth and short
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Speaker 4: situations when you're unable to produce on those downs, it
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Speaker 4: really prevents you from not only sustaining drives, but you
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Speaker 4: can't you can never get to the deep part of
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Speaker 4: your call sheet because you're not on the field enough.
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Speaker 4: You don't have enough plays to be able to get
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Speaker 4: to it. So hopefully if you spent time this week
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Speaker 4: really working on those third and fourth and short situations
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Speaker 4: where you have a really good feel for how you're
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Speaker 4: gonna convert to third and twos and threes and those things,
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Speaker 4: and then you're really trying to work on the opening
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Speaker 4: script because we've seen it like the team have a
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Speaker 4: good drive early and that might be the last good
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Speaker 4: drive that we see in terms of like feeling like
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Speaker 4: the offense is in a flow. We have to figure
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Speaker 4: out how to keep the rhythm going for the offense
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Speaker 4: beyond the first two drives and beyond the first fifteen
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Speaker 4: that we've seen to play utilize the team utilized.
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Speaker 3: So instead of like a place sheet like this size,
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Speaker 3: you like a note card size.
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Speaker 2: So how are they going to cover their mouths when
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Speaker 2: they call the plays?
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Speaker 4: I mean, look, it doesn't have to be fancy. We
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Speaker 4: can keep it like super doesn't have to be anything elaborate, But.
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Speaker 7: We got to be able to get better. And so
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Speaker 7: we talk about like a little play card just like this,
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Speaker 7: see just like that lot.
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Speaker 4: You know, I've seen a lot of guys score a
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Speaker 4: lot of points with a little play sheet like It
18:13
Speaker 4: doesn't have to be fancy.
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Speaker 7: If you don't want, you can cover your mouth with
18:15
Speaker 7: your little note.
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Speaker 5: Card from Friday night.
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Speaker 2: It could be.
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Speaker 4: I mean, there's some little things that we can do.
18:23
Speaker 4: But you're right, I think given the youth and experience
18:27
Speaker 4: that is going to be in the lineup, given the
18:29
Speaker 4: struggles that we've had, you got to find something where
18:31
Speaker 4: you can build some confidence. To me, this is almost
18:35
Speaker 4: like approaching like you with a preseason game, simple vanilla less.
18:40
Speaker 4: Just try and pick up some first downs to see
18:43
Speaker 4: if we can stream together enough first down that it
18:45
Speaker 4: leads us to be in scoring range where we.
18:47
Speaker 7: Can kick some field goals and eventually score some touchdowns.
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Speaker 3: All right, guys, we'll come back in a moment and
18:51
Speaker 3: we'll get into the Houston Texans, who, well they've lost
18:55
Speaker 3: some games recently, they're still in first place by two
18:58
Speaker 3: games in the division. We'll break them down when we
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Speaker 2: For fans, it's huddle up with Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 9: You kind of just go every single section. You spent
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Speaker 9: a lot of time in that early in the week,
19:26
Speaker 9: towards the end of the week. All right, let's get together,
19:27
Speaker 9: let's palk through it. Okay, what adjustments are we going
19:30
Speaker 9: to make in the back half of this season two?
19:32
Speaker 9: Or how are we gonna dive a little deeper into
19:34
Speaker 9: the things that we've done well and maximize more of that.
19:38
Speaker 9: And again, every game is its own. So there's some
19:40
Speaker 9: times where all right, we were really good at this
19:42
Speaker 9: this week.
19:42
Speaker 6: Well, who we're.
19:43
Speaker 9: Playing that just done line up this week? So you're
19:45
Speaker 9: trying to find all the different areas you can do those,
19:48
Speaker 9: dive into the things you do well, maximize those. Maybe
19:52
Speaker 9: there's certain things that we're not good at that. Okay,
19:54
Speaker 9: how do we get better? We need to do this,
19:56
Speaker 9: How do we get better at this? What situations we
19:58
Speaker 9: put people in versus Let's table that one for a
20:01
Speaker 9: while and let's move forward with something else.
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Speaker 3: Sherwood Press, Taylor Jaguars offensive coordinator. The full press conference
20:08
Speaker 3: press conference see at Jaguars dot Com and Jaguars YouTube.
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Speaker 3: It is huddled up with Bucky Brooks, JP, Shadrick, John Oser,
20:15
Speaker 3: and Jacksonville. Bucky out in Los Angeles, the Texans and
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Speaker 3: the Jaguars meeting for the second time this year. The
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Speaker 3: first time we didn't really go that well down in Houston.
20:25
Speaker 3: It was a back and forth ball game and then
20:27
Speaker 3: Houston had the football late, drove down the field, score game,
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Speaker 3: the game winning touchdown with eighteen seconds to play, Stroudo
20:33
Speaker 3: Gounbawale on a one yard touchdown to win it, but CJ.
20:38
Speaker 3: Stroud goes for three forty five. Nico Collins went off.
20:41
Speaker 3: Joe Mixon wasn't available in this game. He is now,
20:45
Speaker 3: so excuse me. And then so we'll see. That's how
20:47
Speaker 3: it went.
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Speaker 2: That was a long long time ago, Bucky.
20:51
Speaker 3: Now, the Texans team has lost for the last six
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Speaker 3: games after starting five and one. They still have a
20:57
Speaker 3: two game lead over the Colts for the division lead,
21:01
Speaker 3: and Stroud's started to throw some interceptions. Blocky, what's going
21:04
Speaker 3: on with the Texans offense?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're struggling it right now, and they've had some
21:09
Speaker 4: injuries that have impacted the rhythm of the offense. They
21:12
Speaker 4: lost Stefan Diggs earlier, Nico Collins has been in and
21:15
Speaker 4: out the lineup. They've had various injuries on the front
21:18
Speaker 4: line and all of that has impacted the way the
21:20
Speaker 4: quarterback has played.
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Speaker 7: Also, when it comes to CJ.
21:22
Speaker 4: Stroud experiencing a bit of the sophomore slump, some of
21:25
Speaker 4: that is just due to the film that is out there.
21:28
Speaker 4: One thing is that we don't give enough credit to
21:31
Speaker 4: when it comes to defense coordinators, their building to adapt
21:33
Speaker 4: and adjust. After watching CJ four years, they've come back
21:37
Speaker 4: with different things. They've taken away some of the things
21:39
Speaker 4: that he loves to do, and they're challenging him to
21:42
Speaker 4: beat them in different ways. Sometimes desk with more pressure.
21:45
Speaker 4: Sometimes that's with disguise and coveraging those things. But they're
21:49
Speaker 4: challenging the young quarterback to take his game up the
21:52
Speaker 4: notts and until he's able to defeat some of the
21:55
Speaker 4: taxtics that he's seeing, he is only going to keep
21:57
Speaker 4: seeing these things each and every week. Here's the thing
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Speaker 4: about their first game of the Jacks. The Jacks were
22:02
Speaker 4: kind of changing their style.
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Speaker 7: On the move.
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Speaker 4: They went from me in a very aggressive team, a
22:07
Speaker 4: lot of Manda Man to end that game. They played
22:09
Speaker 4: a little more band but don't break. Even though it
22:12
Speaker 4: didn't work out in their favor. They got the game
22:14
Speaker 4: into the fourth quarter. They had opportunities to win the game,
22:17
Speaker 4: they didn't close it out. Curious to see if Ryan
22:21
Speaker 4: Nilson would take a similar approach where they concede yards
22:24
Speaker 4: in front of the defense, but they rally and tackle
22:27
Speaker 4: and try and make this a red zone efficiency game
22:29
Speaker 4: where look, the game is ultimately decided by who performs
22:33
Speaker 4: better in that twenty yard box in the red zone.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's We've all talked the stats so much and
22:39
Speaker 5: I've ended a million times, you know, the six losses
22:43
Speaker 5: by five points or less and sort of de find
22:47
Speaker 5: the season well. Outside of Miami, the Houston game may
22:51
Speaker 5: have been the game that absolutely got away. I never
22:55
Speaker 5: thought watching that game that the Jaguars were like a
22:58
Speaker 5: significantly better team than in the Texans. But that was
23:02
Speaker 5: the game where Trevor miss two wide open receivers. I
23:04
Speaker 5: mean he had Christian Kirk running open, and I think
23:07
Speaker 5: it was Brian Thomas Jr. If I'm remembering right up
23:11
Speaker 5: by three in the fourth quarter or either late in
23:14
Speaker 5: the third or fourth, you hit either one of those,
23:17
Speaker 5: and it doesn't matter if you're the better team or not,
23:19
Speaker 5: you probably win the game. So I think there is
23:23
Speaker 5: an element I've always thought in the league that if
23:26
Speaker 5: you think as a collective unit, if you kind of
23:30
Speaker 5: look at a team and you see it, hey, we
23:33
Speaker 5: play we play well against those guys. They beat Houston
23:36
Speaker 5: last year late in the season. They sure feel like
23:40
Speaker 5: they should have beaten them. So I think the Jagg's
23:43
Speaker 5: gonna win the game. I mean, I you know, I'm
23:45
Speaker 5: not locking it but at all, but it wouldn't surprise
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Speaker 5: me at all the way the league works coming off
23:51
Speaker 5: the bye. As bad as they played, Houston hasn't had
23:53
Speaker 5: their bye. If the Texans had one four of six
23:58
Speaker 5: coming in, if they weren't sort of on high alert,
24:01
Speaker 5: I definitely think the Jaguars would be ripe for a
24:05
Speaker 5: new TEP said them. So don't forget just because it's
24:13
Speaker 5: that long ago, how well on some levels they match
24:16
Speaker 5: up against this team for some reason.
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Speaker 7: Is my point?
24:20
Speaker 5: A long winded point.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all right, Hey, you got there. Scenic Rout's
24:23
Speaker 3: all right, it's good. We like the view the Texans defense.
24:28
Speaker 3: I mean, this is a Texans team bucket that's blown
24:30
Speaker 3: four second half leads this year and it's the tide
24:34
Speaker 3: for the most in the NFL. But it's a defense
24:38
Speaker 3: that does a lot of things. Well, they're sacking the quarterback.
24:41
Speaker 3: They put Levis on the ground eight times last week
24:44
Speaker 3: all the first half. I think they've got takeaways on
24:47
Speaker 3: the back end. They've got linebacker play. They've got pretty
24:51
Speaker 3: much everything you want. And you know, where are they
24:55
Speaker 3: on defense now? And where do you start if you're
24:58
Speaker 3: if you're pointing out guys to it used to be
25:01
Speaker 3: jj Watt right, Well, there's not a jj Watt there,
25:04
Speaker 3: but there's multiple guys that can hurt you over there.
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Speaker 7: It feels like, yeah, multiple guys that can hurt you.
25:09
Speaker 4: They have a unique ability to be able to create
25:13
Speaker 4: pressure and chaos with their guys off the edge.
25:16
Speaker 7: Daniel Hunter is one. He's an all time great when.
25:19
Speaker 4: It comes to being able to pressure the passer off
25:21
Speaker 4: the edge, and then Will Anderson on the other side.
25:23
Speaker 4: He also can re havoc and so when your Dimiko Ryans,
25:27
Speaker 4: you've been able to get away with really just bringing
25:30
Speaker 4: four and utilizing a bunch of simulated pressures where it
25:32
Speaker 4: looks like a second level defenders is coming, but then
25:35
Speaker 4: someone else is dropping out, and so it's a four
25:37
Speaker 4: man brush for seven behind it. The Texans are one
25:41
Speaker 4: of those teams that are gritty, they're feisty like their coach,
25:44
Speaker 4: but offensively they haven't been able to run away. This
25:47
Speaker 4: game should be right there for the Jaguars to win
25:50
Speaker 4: it in the fourth quarter if they simply.
25:53
Speaker 7: Just play the right way. Then it comes down to
25:55
Speaker 7: making plays.
25:56
Speaker 4: Which quarterback can make, the critical plays, which playmaker on
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Speaker 4: the perimeter can make, the plays that tilt the field
26:02
Speaker 4: in their team's direction. Look as the players League, in
26:06
Speaker 4: the players game, and regardless of the record, that's what
26:08
Speaker 4: is gonna come down to.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, these teams, except for the record, are fairly similar
26:15
Speaker 5: in the sense that the interior offensive line on both teams struggle,
26:20
Speaker 5: and they both have tended to give up big plays
26:22
Speaker 5: and key moments. So we sort of saw it and
26:25
Speaker 5: Trevor couldn't quite close the deal on it. But the
26:28
Speaker 5: Texans have given up a lot of huge plays. It's
26:31
Speaker 5: what is defined to them. It's hard in this league
26:35
Speaker 5: to sack the quarterback eight times in the first half
26:38
Speaker 5: and lose, so it shows you that there a team
26:45
Speaker 5: has some issues. If they sacked the quarterback that much
26:50
Speaker 5: and aren't hugely up, it showed. It sort of defines
26:54
Speaker 5: how much they're struggling right now. To me, they desperately
26:57
Speaker 5: need this game, and I'm sure there's a little bit
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Speaker 5: of pressure among their fan base, their narrative whatever you
27:04
Speaker 5: call it, of hey we're seven and five, we got
27:07
Speaker 5: to get this one and get to eight and five
27:11
Speaker 5: because they're looking at three or four straight games that
27:14
Speaker 5: are tough, and all of a sudden that just like
27:17
Speaker 5: last year, right, it was once the Jaguars didn't get
27:20
Speaker 5: that Cincinnati game. Now, all of a sudden, your eyes
27:23
Speaker 5: turned to the schedule and you started trying to figure
27:25
Speaker 5: out where the next one was coming from. It feels
27:28
Speaker 5: like that. It feels like that kind of game for
27:31
Speaker 5: the Texans.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Texans have the Dolphins, Chiefs, and Ravens in the
27:35
Speaker 3: next three weeks coming up after the bye week.
27:38
Speaker 2: So that's murderer's row almost.
27:40
Speaker 5: And you can tighten up on the bat a little bit.
27:42
Speaker 2: Yeah.
27:43
Speaker 3: That and you mentioned the eight sacks. They also had
27:45
Speaker 3: to pick six in the game and lost.
27:47
Speaker 5: It's eight, it's almost impossible to lose.
27:50
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's not working in their favor for sure.
27:54
Speaker 4: And it's one of the things where the Jacks can't
27:58
Speaker 4: think too far.
27:58
Speaker 7: They can't get too forward this.
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Speaker 4: But when you show the standings and you're sitting there
28:02
Speaker 4: looking at the schedule that is ahead for the Texans,
28:05
Speaker 4: you can just sit there and say, man, they're gonna
28:07
Speaker 4: come back to the pack.
28:08
Speaker 7: Now.
28:08
Speaker 4: The Jaguars have to take care of their business and
28:10
Speaker 4: the only thing that they can control is how they
28:12
Speaker 4: perform in this next game. They have to keep a
28:14
Speaker 4: singular focus on that. But when you get your starting
28:18
Speaker 4: quarterback back in Trevor Lawrence and you begin to paint
28:22
Speaker 4: the picture. If your coaches, hey, guys, it only takes
28:25
Speaker 4: us get in that first one.
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Speaker 7: Don't let us.
28:27
Speaker 4: Get one because that confidence could lead to something else.
28:31
Speaker 4: And so if you're Doug Peterson, the rest of the
28:33
Speaker 4: defensive staff, the rest of the coaching staff, that's what
28:36
Speaker 4: you're selling to the players. Man, if we get one,
28:39
Speaker 4: we can get on a roll and we may be
28:40
Speaker 4: able to kind of sneak into the playoffs. You got
28:42
Speaker 4: to keep that pilot dot on, got to keep the
28:44
Speaker 4: flame flickering, even though it's a long shot for that well.
28:48
Speaker 3: Come back in a moment our final thoughts and take
28:52
Speaker 3: a look at a little bit of that road ahead
28:54
Speaker 3: after this week's game. The Texans and the Jaguars coming
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Speaker 10: You know where we are, and six games left.
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Speaker 8: I mean these are all sort of must game, you.
29:19
Speaker 10: Know, must win games, I mean in order for us
29:21
Speaker 10: to even have a shot. So you know, they just
29:26
Speaker 10: happen to be division games, right four the last six,
29:29
Speaker 10: So you know, we've got to take each one week
29:32
Speaker 10: by week. And and we've got a good you know,
29:34
Speaker 10: Houston team. You know that's that's coming in here. You know,
29:39
Speaker 10: we understand what happened last game, you know, down in Houston,
29:42
Speaker 10: and we just got as a team. I think we
29:45
Speaker 10: just got to learn to to finish and and you know,
29:48
Speaker 10: do some little things a little bit better and strain
29:51
Speaker 10: and and all of that. And but yeah, it doesn't
29:54
Speaker 10: get any easier. I mean, you had you know, I
29:56
Speaker 10: think Tennessee's playing playing good big win last week. Eventually
30:00
Speaker 10: they're playing an outstanding you know. So it's it's tough,
30:04
Speaker 10: it's tough sled, but you know, we just gotta go
30:06
Speaker 10: one at a time.
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Speaker 2: That's the head coach, of course, Doug Peterson.
30:09
Speaker 3: Earlier today, all the press conferences at Jaguars dot Com
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Speaker 3: Osier from the Honday Studios Miller Electric Center in Jacksonville,
30:26
Speaker 3: Bucky Brooks in Los Angeles, and yeah, let's take a
30:29
Speaker 3: look at the games coming up for the Jaguars. Six
30:32
Speaker 3: to go of course, the Texans this week at home
30:35
Speaker 3: at the Titans, Jets at home at the Raiders, Titans
30:39
Speaker 3: at home at the Colts. It is, by the way,
30:43
Speaker 3: the second easiest remaining strength of schedule in the NFL
30:47
Speaker 3: entering Week twelve, a three thirty eight win percentage. So
30:51
Speaker 3: in theory on paper, okay, there it lightens a little bit. However, Bucky,
30:57
Speaker 3: we know this. It's all about the Jaguars and how
31:00
Speaker 3: they perform. It doesn't matter really. On the other side
31:02
Speaker 3: of things, if they don't perform up to a certain standard.
31:05
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter which team's helmet runs out there.
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Speaker 7: It doesn't.
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Speaker 4: But let's honestly look at that schedule and how could
31:13
Speaker 4: not be optimistic. If you're the Jacks, if you are
31:17
Speaker 4: a coach, you be Doug Peterson. One of your jobs
31:19
Speaker 4: is to be a great salesman to the team. You
31:23
Speaker 4: can tell them, hey, look we're heading down a stretch.
31:25
Speaker 4: We have six games and we only could take them
31:27
Speaker 4: one game at a time. But if you look at
31:28
Speaker 4: the schedule, guys, there's an opportunity for us to make
31:31
Speaker 4: a run. And in theory, in a way, you kind
31:34
Speaker 4: of control your own destiny because you play so many
31:36
Speaker 4: division games. So let's really lock in and focus. Whatever's
31:40
Speaker 4: been done has been done. But we certainly can put
31:43
Speaker 4: forth a better effort going into this game against Texans,
31:46
Speaker 4: and if we happen to win one, then man, maybe
31:49
Speaker 4: you get hot. And so I think you have to
31:51
Speaker 4: continue to sell the team on that. Part of the
31:53
Speaker 4: bye week is to reset, refocus and talk about it
31:56
Speaker 4: being a new season where it's a new season there
31:59
Speaker 4: where you just want to take it one game at
32:00
Speaker 4: a time.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, if the Jaguars wins six, there's a
32:05
Speaker 5: decent chance they win the division. Yeah, I mean, but
32:10
Speaker 5: you've watched this team for eleven games or ten games?
32:13
Speaker 5: How many days it's eleven, Hey, eleven. It's hard to
32:18
Speaker 5: see them making the plays at the end of six
32:21
Speaker 5: games to win these games. But if they do it,
32:24
Speaker 5: I'll say it. If they do it, they get it.
32:27
Speaker 2: Yeah. I didn't believe it in twenty twenty two either. No,
32:29
Speaker 2: I did well, and then they did it.
32:33
Speaker 4: We got the precious gift for the present. We all
32:35
Speaker 4: to get focused on what we have right now. Can't
32:37
Speaker 4: worre too far in advance. You got to focus on
32:40
Speaker 4: what we have today. Hopefully they had a good practice.
32:42
Speaker 4: They focus on that they get this win this week,
32:45
Speaker 4: and then you go to next week. But you got
32:46
Speaker 4: to take it one game at a time. Nothing matters
32:48
Speaker 4: if you don't win this week.
32:49
Speaker 7: So you really got to put everything into winning this game.
32:53
Speaker 2: Be where your feet are. That's right, and they're right here.
32:56
Speaker 3: In Week thirteen, and got jacks favorite Thanksgiving food buck.
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Speaker 7: Ooh. I have an affinity for two things.
33:05
Speaker 4: One would be sweet potatoes of all types of regular
33:08
Speaker 4: sweet potatoes, sweet potato pie.
33:10
Speaker 7: And then I got this thing, man. Cranberry sauce is
33:12
Speaker 7: like my favorite little stuff in with cranberry sauce on
33:15
Speaker 7: the side. Like, cranberry sauce is the thing that gets me.
33:18
Speaker 5: What could you get in North Carolina that you have
33:21
Speaker 5: trouble getting in California Thanksgiving?
33:24
Speaker 6: What?
33:25
Speaker 7: Uh? Well? You know?
33:26
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, Like I hate to share this about my mom,
33:29
Speaker 4: and my mom is gonna be so mad, but I'm
33:30
Speaker 4: gonna share a little family secret, the.
33:32
Speaker 7: Brooks family secret on cranberry sauce.
33:35
Speaker 4: It wasn't until I was in my twenties did I
33:36
Speaker 4: figured out what the ridges were in the cranberry sauce.
33:39
Speaker 7: That's when I discovered.
33:41
Speaker 11: That my mom had can cranberry sauce because I always wondered, man,
33:46
Speaker 11: this is a cool little design in the cranberry sauce.
33:49
Speaker 11: I didn't really know a genius, right, I like that?
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Speaker 3: Oh man, enjoy Happy Thanksgiving to you and the family bucking.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk to you this week.
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Speaker 3: An hey man, how fun we're talking you guys Brooks
34:03
Speaker 3: in La. Ready for the cranberry sauce. So it's John Oser,
34:07
Speaker 3: I'm J. P. Shaddwick. Thanks to David Joe, Brent Reab
34:10
Speaker 3: Joe Fortunado. Look copy our entire crew, Happy Thanksgiving, and
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Speaker 3: it's tundled up with Bucky Brooks.