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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 Shatterick
- 0:15Speaker 1: bring you the latest on your Jacksonville Jaguars. Huddle Up
- 0:20Speaker 1: starts right now.
- 0:21Speaker 2: And welcome in. It is Wednesday.
- 0:23Speaker 3: That means it' huddle Up with Bucky Brooks and a
- 0:26Speaker 3: busy time ahead for the Jaguars. They've got Monday Night
- 0:30Speaker 3: football this week. Wednesday feeling like a Tuesday around here.
- 0:34Speaker 3: The Bengals and the Jaguars coming up Monday Night five
- 0:37Speaker 3: and six Bengals eight and three Jags, first Monday Night
- 0:40Speaker 3: appearance for the Jaguars since twenty eleven. The Jaguars offensive
- 0:44Speaker 3: line having some changes. We'll get to that coming up.
- 0:48Speaker 3: Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks brought to you by the
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- 1:02Speaker 4: J P.
- 1:02Speaker 3: Shadwick John Osier here in Jacksonville at the Miller Electric
- 1:06Speaker 3: Center Bucky Brooks is in Los Angeles, and tomorrow, gentlemen,
- 1:10Speaker 3: is the thirtieth anniversary of the announcement that the Jaguars
- 1:15Speaker 3: had received a franchise an expansion franchise. Thirtieth anniversary tomorrow, John.
- 1:21Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember it well. I was in the press
- 1:24Speaker 5: room at the University of Florida working for the Times
- 1:27Speaker 5: Union covering the Gators, and I heard it a little
- 1:32Speaker 5: earlier than everybody else did because Pete Prisco, my colleague
- 1:35Speaker 5: at the TU was on top of it and was
- 1:37Speaker 5: hearing pretty early that was going to happen. I called
- 1:40Speaker 5: my wife at the time, you know, still at the time,
- 1:45Speaker 5: still that we already married, and said, hey, this this
- 1:50Speaker 5: changes everything. I mean in terms of, you know, from
- 1:53Speaker 5: a personal point of view, media opportunities in this town.
- 1:56Speaker 5: It is completely different. And obviously that was a sliver
- 2:01Speaker 5: of the importance for the whole city. It mattered to
- 2:03Speaker 5: me because what's important for me, JP is what's important
- 2:06Speaker 5: for me. But but yeah, but ah, you know, for
- 2:13Speaker 5: people who weren't around, and you guys weren't, the feeling
- 2:17Speaker 5: of it was even though I had been hearing from
- 2:22Speaker 5: Pete for a couple of weeks that it looked like Jacksonville.
- 2:28Speaker 5: Nobody else believed it, even when Pete wrote it multiple
- 2:32Speaker 5: times in the tu that it was going to happen
- 2:35Speaker 5: and that league sources, uh, and they were good sources.
- 2:38Speaker 5: They were the Yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna reveal
- 2:41Speaker 5: them in thirty years later, but they were the real deal.
- 2:43Speaker 5: Nobody believed it because it had been a dream and
- 2:48Speaker 5: they seemed like an elusive thing for so long that
- 2:53Speaker 5: it just didn't seem like it was remotely possible. So
- 2:56Speaker 5: when it became official, even though I knew it already,
- 2:58Speaker 5: when it became official, it was still weird. And it
- 3:00Speaker 5: was people who were here parties at the landing which
- 3:04Speaker 5: is now gone, just a feeling of oh my goodness.
- 3:09Speaker 2: And it it actually happened.
- 3:10Speaker 5: Yeah, And uh, I get chills thinking about it now
- 3:14Speaker 5: because it was it was I had grown up when
- 3:16Speaker 5: it seemed no way and teams were flirting with the city.
- 3:21Speaker 5: It had becomes sort of a joke around the nation
- 3:24Speaker 5: that if you if you want a team, use Jacksonville
- 3:27Speaker 5: and get one. And for the the people who made
- 3:31Speaker 5: it happen, and there was a core people financially, a
- 3:34Speaker 5: core group that made it believed What a moment, and
- 3:37Speaker 5: it changed to me, It changed the city forever. It
- 3:41Speaker 5: was an unreal day.
- 3:43Speaker 3: Yeah, that'll be tomorrow, Bucky. What a what a moment.
- 3:46Speaker 3: And thirty years that's a long time.
- 3:49Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 3:50Speaker 5: Unfortunately, I was not that young when it happened, and
- 3:53Speaker 5: I'm really not young now.
- 3:57Speaker 4: But you hear though, So that's good. You're still around.
- 4:00Speaker 4: You made it.
- 4:01Speaker 6: You've been able to celebrate the thirtieth university, So that's
- 4:03Speaker 6: something to be said for that.
- 4:05Speaker 3: Where were you a ninety three Blucks College.
- 4:08Speaker 6: Nineteen ninety three? I was still running around for the
- 4:11Speaker 6: tar Heels. In fact, I think I might have been
- 4:14Speaker 6: around this time. We were getting ready for the Gator Bowl
- 4:17Speaker 6: against Sherman Williams and the Alabama crimson Ties.
- 4:21Speaker 4: Right, so I was. I guess I had a connection
- 4:24Speaker 4: to Jacksonville way back then too.
- 4:26Speaker 2: That was the last Gator Bol played in the old stadium,
- 4:29Speaker 2: I think, right before they tore down.
- 4:30Speaker 5: Right, I had to have been, because as soon as
- 4:32Speaker 5: they proved the team, that was one of the stipulations.
- 4:36Speaker 5: That was one of the sticking points is the city
- 4:38Speaker 5: really didn't understand yet how much had to be changed.
- 4:40Speaker 5: They had to go to a vote so that would
- 4:44Speaker 5: have been the last gatable and then they changed. You know,
- 4:47Speaker 5: I can remember driving across one of the bridges when
- 4:50Speaker 5: I was still covering Florida and looking up and seeing
- 4:53Speaker 5: what is now the top of this stadium, just that
- 4:58Speaker 5: they had torn that way every thing underneath it, and
- 5:01Speaker 5: it was one of the weirdest sights you'll ever see.
- 5:02Speaker 5: People remember it, but it was basically like a third
- 5:08Speaker 5: of where the stadium is now, or a quarter or
- 5:09Speaker 5: whatever on sticks on stilts, just sitting there waiting for
- 5:13Speaker 5: the other part of the stadium to be built around it.
- 5:15Speaker 5: So it was a memorable time, really cool, cool memories.
- 5:19Speaker 3: Another big story coming out earlier this week, fred Taylor
- 5:24Speaker 3: Hall of Fame semi finalist, fifth year in a row.
- 5:26Speaker 3: It's time to get him to the finalist room. Now
- 5:29Speaker 3: BACKI and get him in front of the selection committee.
- 5:32Speaker 2: That would be a great step for Freddie te.
- 5:35Speaker 6: You had to be a great step for pretty Tea
- 5:36Speaker 6: to be a great step for the Jaguars. Freddy Tea
- 5:38Speaker 6: is one of the more slept on running back to
- 5:41Speaker 6: the National Football League. When you look at his resume
- 5:43Speaker 6: and his history, he is worthy of wearing a gold
- 5:46Speaker 6: jacket and I could say this looking at Pretty tea
- 5:49Speaker 6: play from Afar physical dynamic, had big playability, had the
- 5:53Speaker 6: toughness and all that. And my take on him comes
- 5:56Speaker 6: from a lot of the conversations that I've had with
- 5:59Speaker 6: Mars Jones Drew in the past, and he just talked
- 6:01Speaker 6: about how fred t was the og, how he kind
- 6:04Speaker 6: of brought him in, taught him in for a while there,
- 6:07Speaker 6: that once two punch that it was Fred Taylor and
- 6:09Speaker 6: MJD was one of the more dominant duos that.
- 6:12Speaker 4: We saw in the backfield.
- 6:13Speaker 6: Freddy Te deserves its flowers and so hopefully this time
- 6:16Speaker 6: around he gets it.
- 6:18Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know that he gets in this time.
- 6:21Speaker 5: But getting to that fifteen JP and I've been saying
- 6:25Speaker 5: it for years and people are tired of hearing me
- 6:27Speaker 5: say it, probably, but twenty five and fifteen's a big
- 6:30Speaker 5: difference in this Hall of Fame process. Tony Boselli can speak.
- 6:33Speaker 2: To it as well.
- 6:34Speaker 5: Fifteen gets you in that room, as they say, and
- 6:37Speaker 5: it gets you being talked about seriously by the voters.
- 6:41Speaker 5: And the big theme I hit on with fred is
- 6:44Speaker 5: I think once he gets quote in the room and
- 6:47Speaker 5: the fifty people who really care about this, and they do.
- 6:49Speaker 5: They do a good job. These guys and gals. Once
- 6:55Speaker 5: they start discussing Fred and going back and looking at
- 6:59Speaker 5: the history of his career, looking at the highlights, and
- 7:03Speaker 5: his highlights are going to impress. And then once they
- 7:06Speaker 5: start talking to people who played against him, which was
- 7:09Speaker 5: really what accelerated Tony other great players who played against him.
- 7:14Speaker 5: Go talk to Ray Lewis about Fred Taylor. Go talk
- 7:16Speaker 5: to the players who played for the Steelers. Then if
- 7:20Speaker 5: you didn't stop him, you lost. And anybody on the
- 7:24Speaker 5: Steelers in two thousand would know this guy can outrun
- 7:27Speaker 5: angles to a weird degree in this league. The size
- 7:32Speaker 5: of the combination of size and strength that he had,
- 7:36Speaker 5: only a few human beings who've played that position have
- 7:39Speaker 5: ever had it. I think once he's in the room,
- 7:42Speaker 5: then you will see people look back and reappreciate his career.
- 7:46Speaker 5: And I think he will get in once he's in
- 7:48Speaker 5: the room, because you will talk to all these players
- 7:51Speaker 5: who say, hey, if he's not in, something's wrong. So
- 7:56Speaker 5: I do think he eventually gets in. I think it
- 7:59Speaker 5: might be a process, much like Tony Biselli's. That's not
- 8:02Speaker 5: always fair, but I think it'll happen for Fred, but
- 8:05Speaker 5: getting him from twenty five to fifteen is a big step.
- 8:07Speaker 3: Hey, Bucky, I got a question for the former dB
- 8:11Speaker 3: Bucky Brooks.
- 8:13Speaker 5: No, he didn't want to tackle.
- 8:14Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 8:14Speaker 3: When you see Fred and his size and his speed
- 8:17Speaker 3: break out in the clear and you think you have
- 8:20Speaker 3: an angle, all of a sudden you don't have an angle.
- 8:23Speaker 3: How fast does that happen? And your what's going through
- 8:26Speaker 3: your mind?
- 8:27Speaker 4: Well, there are a couple of things that go through
- 8:28Speaker 4: your mind.
- 8:29Speaker 6: When a guy like Fred Taylor breaks through the line
- 8:30Speaker 6: of scrimmage one, You're hoping that someone can slow him
- 8:33Speaker 6: down because making that one on one tackle is very,
- 8:35Speaker 6: very difficult because Fred not only has the speed to
- 8:38Speaker 6: juki and run away from you, but he has the
- 8:40Speaker 6: size and the physicality to run you over. And so
- 8:42Speaker 6: you're kind of there in no man's land if he
- 8:44Speaker 6: breaks through the initial wall of blockers and tacklers and
- 8:48Speaker 6: those things. And then when it comes to dealing with
- 8:50Speaker 6: him on the perimeter, is trying to calculate the right
- 8:53Speaker 6: angle and with Fred because he not only is fast,
- 8:57Speaker 6: but he also had a violent stiff arm and he
- 8:59Speaker 6: was physical, Well, you then have to figure out, how
- 9:01Speaker 6: do I want to go make this tackle.
- 9:03Speaker 4: If I'm going to tackle his legs, you.
- 9:04Speaker 6: Got to remember when you look at his leg man,
- 9:06Speaker 6: you see him running through all these arm tackles, So
- 9:09Speaker 6: it takes someone to really hit him solidly to make
- 9:12Speaker 6: him go down.
- 9:14Speaker 4: Very very difficult.
- 9:15Speaker 6: Back look makes you make a lot of business decisions
- 9:17Speaker 6: on the perimeter.
- 9:18Speaker 2: No, there's brock mary and chasing him right there and
- 9:20Speaker 2: no chance.
- 9:21Speaker 5: The acceleration on that play really spoke to what Fred was.
- 9:29Speaker 5: I was covering the NFL already, but I drove down
- 9:35Speaker 5: for Fritz Pro Day at Florida and it was really
- 9:41Speaker 5: I covered probably fifteen twenty pro days, just different stuff
- 9:45Speaker 5: you've been in cover with me JP. It was the
- 9:49Speaker 5: only time when he ran his forty and there were
- 9:53Speaker 5: head coaches, scouts. It was the only time I ever
- 9:56Speaker 5: heard reaction from the scout and coaches. There was whistling,
- 10:01Speaker 5: there was woe, There were people who didn't believe what
- 10:03Speaker 5: they had timed. He was that fast for his size.
- 10:09Speaker 5: And my favorite Fred's story. When I was covering the Colts,
- 10:13Speaker 5: this was a four. Mike DAWs had made a nice
- 10:17Speaker 5: play and forced Fred to fumble. Early in the season,
- 10:19Speaker 5: Mike DAWs was a safety for the Colts who went
- 10:21Speaker 5: to Ohio State, and he did some talking during the week,
- 10:27Speaker 5: and I was around Mike when he was making the comments,
- 10:30Speaker 5: and I was I had known Fred from covering him
- 10:32Speaker 5: for two or three years, and I kind of working
- 10:36Speaker 5: for the Colts at the time. I kind of I know,
- 10:38Speaker 5: I wish he hadn't. I kind of wish he hadn't
- 10:40Speaker 5: said that. Sure enough, this is del Rio's first year.
- 10:44Speaker 5: Jaggs went very good and the Colts were on their
- 10:46Speaker 5: way to the division title. Late in the game, Fred
- 10:51Speaker 5: breaks free, runs over Mike DAWs and does what many
- 10:56Speaker 5: Jaguar as Jaguars fans remember, sort of turned around. I
- 11:00Speaker 5: don't think he waved. I think he wanted to, but
- 11:02Speaker 5: kind of turned around, looked and it was it was
- 11:04Speaker 5: DAWs laying And I was root for the Colts, So
- 11:09Speaker 5: I can't say I was thrilled about it, but know
- 11:11Speaker 5: and Fred, I kinda I kind of laughed at myself
- 11:14Speaker 5: and went, yeah, that's yeah, that's what he did. He
- 11:18Speaker 5: was he was special, man, He was he was special.
- 11:20Speaker 2: Doug. Hey, let's come back.
- 11:22Speaker 3: We'll get into this week's game, Monday Night football. The
- 11:26Speaker 3: Jaguars haven't been on Monday Night since twenty eleven. All
- 11:30Speaker 3: that coming up, we'll hear from head coach Doug Peterson
- 11:33Speaker 3: as well and Bootleggers getting Ready. Luke Combs is bringing
- 11:36Speaker 3: two nights to the Growing Up and Getting Old to
- 11:38Speaker 3: Her to EverBank Stadium May third and fourth, with different
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- 11:44Speaker 3: Stadium dot com. This is Huddle Up with Buncky Brooks.
- 11:57Speaker 7: He's obviously a big part of that offensive line. It's
- 12:00Speaker 7: been been great to you know, after his suspension to
- 12:03Speaker 7: get back in there, and he does bring a lot
- 12:05Speaker 7: of energy and uh a level of physicality to the
- 12:08Speaker 7: offensive line and and he's been a he's been a
- 12:10Speaker 7: really big bright spot there. You know, if if he
- 12:14Speaker 7: can't go, obviously we're we're still we're still good.
- 12:19Speaker 4: You know.
- 12:19Speaker 7: Just like you saw yesterday, Walker Little bounces back out
- 12:22Speaker 7: to to left tackle and really my hat's off to
- 12:25Speaker 7: him and Ezra both, you know, to really extremely loud
- 12:30Speaker 7: environment on the road. You know, Walker got very few
- 12:34Speaker 7: tackle reps during the week and and you know has
- 12:38Speaker 7: to bounce out there and play tackle, and Ezra has
- 12:41Speaker 7: to go in and play left guard. Hats off to
- 12:43Speaker 7: both those guys.
- 12:44Speaker 4: And for what they did.
- 12:45Speaker 7: But again, if Cam, you know, if Cam can't go,
- 12:48Speaker 7: it's it's it's a loss. But at the same time,
- 12:50Speaker 7: we feel comfortable with the guys, you know, stepping.
- 12:52Speaker 3: Up, said coach Chuck Peterson earlier this week on a
- 12:56Speaker 3: media zoom call, and since then, Cam Robinson placed on
- 12:59Speaker 3: the reserve end list for a minimum of four weeks.
- 13:02Speaker 2: Welcome back.
- 13:02Speaker 3: It's huddle up with Bucky Brooks and be here Monday night,
- 13:05Speaker 3: the Jaguars taking on the Bengals at the Bank.
- 13:08Speaker 2: It's the mic calls Mike.
- 13:09Speaker 3: Cleat scheme and where black to help us black out
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- 13:17Speaker 3: cold nine oh four sixty three three two thousand and Yeah,
- 13:21Speaker 3: Bucky the offensive line, that's gonna be the setup. It
- 13:24Speaker 3: sounds like Walker a little little left tackle and Ezra
- 13:27Speaker 3: Cleveland left guard, and all right, here we go for
- 13:31Speaker 3: at least the next month.
- 13:33Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, look, you don't want to lose the
- 13:35Speaker 6: starter like Cam Robinson, but this gives us an opportunity
- 13:38Speaker 6: to see Walker little in action at left tackle. We
- 13:40Speaker 6: also get a chance to see Ezra Cleveland. He was
- 13:42Speaker 6: brought in for a reason. They felt like they could
- 13:45Speaker 6: show up some areas on the offensive line so he'd
- 13:47Speaker 6: get a chance to do his thing. What's the Yeah,
- 13:49Speaker 6: this combination worked. They did a pretty good job on
- 13:53Speaker 6: the fly.
- 13:54Speaker 4: You know.
- 13:54Speaker 6: Doug alluded to the fact that they were to jump
- 13:56Speaker 6: in there, didn't get a lot of reps in practice,
- 13:57Speaker 6: but they were to make it work, and we saw
- 13:59Speaker 6: Trevor laurn through from a clean pocket for most of
- 14:01Speaker 6: the game. If they're able to get this done, Look, man,
- 14:05Speaker 6: you talked about the importance of having quality depth as
- 14:07Speaker 6: you get down the stretch.
- 14:08Speaker 4: And get into the postseason.
- 14:09Speaker 6: This will be an opportunity to show that depth off
- 14:12Speaker 6: and to get ready for a stretch runs and some futures,
- 14:15Speaker 6: some very very I would say, some big games, some
- 14:18Speaker 6: memorable games as we get ready for it.
- 14:20Speaker 5: Yeah. I said it often when they went and got
- 14:22Speaker 5: Cleveland that they learned the last year that you needed
- 14:26Speaker 5: seven offensive linemen, not five, and they treat seven or
- 14:32Speaker 5: eight guys on the offensive line like starters, maybe more
- 14:34Speaker 5: than that in terms of the reps. Everybody's heard they
- 14:37Speaker 5: rotate these guys a lot. They needed both Shatleyan and
- 14:41Speaker 5: Walker to play at a high level. Last year they
- 14:43Speaker 5: don't make the postseason, so I think they looked at
- 14:46Speaker 5: it and said, we're going to need that same combination,
- 14:49Speaker 5: went and got Ezra and it paid off. It. This
- 14:55Speaker 5: is supposed to be the way they have things set up.
- 14:59Speaker 5: This is supposed to be ptty much as good an
- 15:00Speaker 5: offensive line as they have when Cam's not in. That's
- 15:05Speaker 5: that's how they plan it. It played that way last week.
- 15:10Speaker 5: Walker Little has done nothing at left tackle to make
- 15:12Speaker 5: you think he can't do that job, and Ezra Cleveland's
- 15:15Speaker 5: done that. So I think the significance is what happens
- 15:22Speaker 5: if one of these guys gets hurt, you know, because
- 15:24Speaker 5: this is now you're sort of on a thinner line
- 15:27Speaker 5: than you were before. Sure, So that's what I worry
- 15:31Speaker 5: about more than how they will perform. What happens if
- 15:35Speaker 5: one more guy goes down. You have Shatley to come in,
- 15:37Speaker 5: and probably not on the outside, so you're still protected
- 15:40Speaker 5: on the interior. But they feel like these six really
- 15:43Speaker 5: are their strong six, and now they're down to five.
- 15:47Speaker 3: That's just kind of part of the part of the
- 15:49Speaker 3: deal this time of year, though, right Bucket, I mean,
- 15:51Speaker 3: that's the numbers are what they are, and you've got
- 15:53Speaker 3: to go play and see who's available week to week.
- 15:58Speaker 6: Yeah, but John makes a great point when you talked
- 15:59Speaker 6: to having eight to play those five spots.
- 16:02Speaker 4: That's how most teams treat the position.
- 16:05Speaker 6: And when you think about game day, normally you dress
- 16:07Speaker 6: eight to nine guys, but they're no burger eaters that
- 16:10Speaker 6: are allowed in their group. Everyone has to be ready
- 16:12Speaker 6: to play because anybody could get thrown in the game
- 16:14Speaker 6: based on an injury or a different circumstance.
- 16:16Speaker 5: No burger, I think he's making stuff up. A burger
- 16:22Speaker 5: read at this point.
- 16:23Speaker 6: Oh so, so burger eaters guys that go on the
- 16:26Speaker 6: trip and eat all the snacks, do all the other
- 16:28Speaker 6: stuff in the hotel, but they never play, and so
- 16:30Speaker 6: they call burger eaters.
- 16:31Speaker 4: So when I was in college, that's what the college.
- 16:33Speaker 6: Coach say, Man, no burger eaters on this trip, guys
- 16:36Speaker 6: eating up all the food before the starters can get there.
- 16:39Speaker 6: But then they never make any contributions. So everyone that
- 16:42Speaker 6: dresses out has to be willing to make a contribution.
- 16:44Speaker 6: So you gotta be ready, got to be ready when
- 16:46Speaker 6: your numbers call.
- 16:47Speaker 5: One of my favorite Family Guy clips. My son I
- 16:51Speaker 5: used to watch Family Guy together for a couple of years.
- 16:54Speaker 5: There's this scene where Stephen King is supposedly pitching like
- 16:57Speaker 5: a new horror novel, and he goes completely off the rails.
- 17:01Speaker 5: It's nonsensical, and the guy looks at him goes, you're
- 17:04Speaker 5: just making stuff up at this point, aren't you. I
- 17:08Speaker 5: think he made up burger.
- 17:10Speaker 4: I think he's Oh no, no, no, my college coach.
- 17:12Speaker 5: I think that was like jazz of those guys.
- 17:15Speaker 4: No no, no no.
- 17:15Speaker 6: They used to say that on the trip in North Carolina,
- 17:18Speaker 6: like when you go on the road trip, because you
- 17:19Speaker 6: only have so many guys that can make the travel roster,
- 17:22Speaker 6: and so everyone who travels needs to be ready to
- 17:25Speaker 6: make a contribution. You can't be there eating all the
- 17:28Speaker 6: burgers and the snick of bars and taking extra desserts
- 17:31Speaker 6: and not be really to contribute when it comes to
- 17:33Speaker 6: game day. So everyone has to be in the right
- 17:35Speaker 6: frame of mind.
- 17:36Speaker 4: You got to be ready to play. You're just not
- 17:38Speaker 4: going on a mini vacation for the weekend.
- 17:40Speaker 5: I like it.
- 17:40Speaker 2: I like it. Hey, let's come back in a moment.
- 17:42Speaker 3: We'll touch on the Bengals and the different look they
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- 18:06Speaker 7: Mike has him playing obviously at a really high level.
- 18:08Speaker 4: They're playing fast.
- 18:10Speaker 7: Secondary did a nice job, you know, covering up guys
- 18:14Speaker 7: yesterday when when you know CJ went into scramble mode.
- 18:18Speaker 7: But but I just think that the the guys have really,
- 18:21Speaker 7: you know, bought into to Mike and his scheme, and
- 18:25Speaker 7: you know, we talked a lot about second year in
- 18:27Speaker 7: the system and playing with more confidence and playing fast.
- 18:30Speaker 7: I think that's a it's a credit to.
- 18:33Speaker 2: Mike and his dad, head coach Doug Peterson.
- 18:35Speaker 3: Earlier this week, welcome back and huddle up with Bucky Brooks.
- 18:38Speaker 3: On this Wednesday, it feels like a Tuesday. The players
- 18:42Speaker 3: are off today. They'll get back to work Thursday ahead
- 18:45Speaker 3: of Monday Night football at EverBank Stadium.
- 18:49Speaker 2: This week, it's Week thirteen.
- 18:50Speaker 3: The Cincinnati Bengals come to town JP, Shadrick John Oser
- 18:54Speaker 3: and Bucky Brooks, and hey, this defense not quite facing
- 18:59Speaker 3: the same idea that they thought about Cincinnati coming into
- 19:03Speaker 3: the game. Joe Burrow of course, with a wrist injury,
- 19:06Speaker 3: he's done for the year. So is Jake Browning making
- 19:10Speaker 3: his now second start for Cincinnati. He came in relief
- 19:14Speaker 3: of Burrow a couple of weeks ago, started last week.
- 19:19Speaker 3: It's fairly easy to say that this is a different
- 19:22Speaker 3: feeling Cincinnati offense with Browning pulling the trigger as opposed
- 19:27Speaker 3: to Burrow.
- 19:27Speaker 4: Buck Yeah, it's a different fill in the offense. But
- 19:30Speaker 4: I'm gonna say.
- 19:30Speaker 6: This, this is of very dangerous week for the jacksonthe
- 19:34Speaker 6: Jaguars because the natural tendency that you have when the
- 19:38Speaker 6: starting quarterback is out in the backup is up.
- 19:40Speaker 4: Everyone wants to take.
- 19:41Speaker 6: A collective deep breath and think that it'd be an
- 19:43Speaker 6: easier game because he's not as talented as the starter.
- 19:46Speaker 6: The thing about the Cincinnati Bengals, the perimeter players are
- 19:49Speaker 6: still as dangerous as they've been. Jamar Chase is a
- 19:51Speaker 6: top ten receiver, maybe a top five receiver in most years.
- 19:55Speaker 6: You still have Tyler Boyd, don't know what the Higgins
- 19:58Speaker 6: status is going to be. They got Joe Mixon in
- 19:59Speaker 6: the back, so they have talent around the quarterback. What
- 20:03Speaker 6: you can do is make the mistake of thinking they
- 20:06Speaker 6: won't find ways to get those guys the ball and
- 20:09Speaker 6: not be in the right frame of mind, not bring
- 20:11Speaker 6: the energy, the effort, the physicality that has kind of
- 20:14Speaker 6: been the hallmark of the defense. So Mike call, Will
- 20:17Speaker 6: Doug Peterson. If anything, they probably are going to be
- 20:20Speaker 6: harder on the defense this week to make sure that
- 20:23Speaker 6: they step into the stadium on Monday night really locked
- 20:26Speaker 6: in and focused, to make sure that regardless of who's
- 20:28Speaker 6: that quarterback, you give this team the same amount of
- 20:31Speaker 6: respect and you play with that urgency that shows them
- 20:33Speaker 6: how much you respect it.
- 20:34Speaker 5: Yeah, that was put better than what I've been trying
- 20:38Speaker 5: to say all week, which is that I think this
- 20:41Speaker 5: is a big trap game. And for that reason, I'm
- 20:44Speaker 5: usually not big on trap games because usually I think
- 20:47Speaker 5: teams come out and they play there again. But on
- 20:49Speaker 5: this one, I completely agree. I think there's a tendency. Okay,
- 20:55Speaker 5: they're five and six, Burrow's not there, and then you
- 20:58Speaker 5: hear everybody saying, ah, you know, it's not the same
- 21:00Speaker 5: Joey ball Game's not there. Teams like the Bengals, who
- 21:05Speaker 5: are a I want to say a store it because
- 21:08Speaker 5: they're not, but they have been there the last two years.
- 21:10Speaker 5: They have a lot of players who have played in
- 21:12Speaker 5: big games. They have six left or yeah, six games left.
- 21:18Speaker 5: My guess is they win two or three of those.
- 21:21Speaker 5: They're gonna get close. They're a good, tough team. They're
- 21:24Speaker 5: gonna get somebody at some point this season. You want
- 21:28Speaker 5: to make sure you're not one of those guys they get.
- 21:30Speaker 5: I do have a question about the Jaguars defense for
- 21:34Speaker 5: the analyst, right and I think we're on the same page, Bucket,
- 21:40Speaker 5: But I got some emails after that game Sunday from
- 21:43Speaker 5: people who were down on the.
- 21:45Speaker 2: Pass rush that.
- 21:49Speaker 5: Stroud was able to scramble, he had three hundred yards,
- 21:54Speaker 5: and that there were too many plays for these people's liking,
- 21:57Speaker 5: where he got outside, where they didn't stay in their lanes.
- 22:00Speaker 5: I thought Bucky, even beyond Josh Allen, I thought the
- 22:04Speaker 5: Jaguars pass rush because they it seemed to me like
- 22:07Speaker 5: they rushed with a plan of disrupting Stroud. Talk me through,
- 22:13Speaker 5: I think you thought they played very well. Talk me
- 22:15Speaker 5: through why.
- 22:17Speaker 4: I thought the defense played outstanding.
- 22:19Speaker 6: I thought, with the exception of a big play that
- 22:21Speaker 6: they hit Tank Dell over the top that was eventually
- 22:24Speaker 6: called back, they didn't allow the deep ball to hurt them.
- 22:27Speaker 4: They kept everything in front of the defense. Yes, CJ.
- 22:30Speaker 6: Stroud ran around and made some plays, but for the
- 22:33Speaker 6: most part, they didn't allow him to get comfortable in
- 22:35Speaker 6: the pocket and so Josh Allen, Trayvon Walker, even calebon Chason.
- 22:41Speaker 4: They made him get off his spot.
- 22:42Speaker 6: He had to run around and he was big play
- 22:44Speaker 6: hunting when he left the pocket. And you have to
- 22:47Speaker 6: make a decision on what do you want to take away,
- 22:50Speaker 6: And coming into that game, I felt like the Jaguars.
- 22:53Speaker 4: Wanted to take away the big plays.
- 22:54Speaker 6: They wanted to make the Texans drive the length of
- 22:56Speaker 6: the field, and they wanted.
- 22:58Speaker 4: To see if they could make CJ.
- 22:59Speaker 6: Stroud on comfortable and if he beat him with his legs,
- 23:02Speaker 6: they were willing to live with that. The one thing
- 23:04Speaker 6: they didn't want him to do is break containment and
- 23:07Speaker 6: beat him.
- 23:07Speaker 4: With a big play over the top, and they did
- 23:09Speaker 4: that for most of the game.
- 23:10Speaker 3: And Bucky, I mean, he was never a run first guy,
- 23:13Speaker 3: like even in college.
- 23:14Speaker 2: That's not his mo.
- 23:15Speaker 3: So if he's running around and being okay, you can
- 23:18Speaker 3: take that because he's not going to burn you up
- 23:20Speaker 3: for eighty yards on the ground. It feels like on
- 23:23Speaker 3: one play. That's just not Stroud's strength, at least at
- 23:27Speaker 3: least the way I see it.
- 23:29Speaker 6: No, that's not his mo and it's very similar. I'm
- 23:32Speaker 6: not saying this because I don't want this to get misconstrued.
- 23:35Speaker 6: It's very similar to the pass rush plan that you
- 23:37Speaker 6: take when you face.
- 23:38Speaker 4: Of Pat Mahomes. Pat Mahomes is athletic.
- 23:40Speaker 6: Pat Mahomes can pick up yards on the ground, but
- 23:43Speaker 6: Pat Mahomes doesn't want to finish with one hundred yards
- 23:45Speaker 6: of rushing. So what you're willing to do is you
- 23:47Speaker 6: got to give up something because you can't stop everything.
- 23:49Speaker 6: So what you want to do is you want to
- 23:50Speaker 6: take away the big plays. You want to make him
- 23:53Speaker 6: do things that are not necessarily to his strengths. And
- 23:57Speaker 6: then if he look, he hits you with a couple
- 23:58Speaker 6: of plays, a couple of runs, extends some drives. You
- 24:00Speaker 6: live with that because you know that that's not how
- 24:03Speaker 6: he really wants to attack the defense. And if you
- 24:07Speaker 6: can make him play left hand, which is what you're doing,
- 24:09Speaker 6: you got a better chance to win the game.
- 24:10Speaker 4: And at the end of the day, the Jaguars won.
- 24:12Speaker 6: They didn't give up significant points, they were able to
- 24:15Speaker 6: get it done.
- 24:15Speaker 4: And so it's a win. It's a good game plan.
- 24:17Speaker 3: They sacked him four times. They hit him seven total
- 24:20Speaker 3: times in the game. John, So yeah, effective.
- 24:23Speaker 5: I could understand people watching it at first and saying, well,
- 24:28Speaker 5: he got outside a couple of times. He was able
- 24:31Speaker 5: to run around and hit some big plays. After he
- 24:34Speaker 5: ran around, you know, why didn't they blitz more on
- 24:37Speaker 5: the early touchdown. I got that a little bit. And
- 24:41Speaker 5: you know, my thought on it was, this kid's good.
- 24:45Speaker 5: I mean, he's going to score some points. He's going
- 24:47Speaker 5: to lead them to some touchdowns. I thought they controlled
- 24:50Speaker 5: it and he never took over the game. And I
- 24:54Speaker 5: was with Bucky. I thought he felt uncomfortable most of
- 24:58Speaker 5: the game. Now, he's good enough to make plays when
- 24:59Speaker 5: you feel was uncomfortable, but I thought they certainly did
- 25:02Speaker 5: not let him define the game. I was kind of
- 25:07Speaker 5: amused when I read and saw some people talking about
- 25:11Speaker 5: how much CJ. Stroud out played Trevor Lawrence. I I
- 25:14Speaker 5: didn't see that at all. I mean, I maybe there's
- 25:17Speaker 5: a little Jaguars bias in my thought, but I you know,
- 25:20Speaker 5: I guess we're flipping over to offense. So I'll premise
- 25:22Speaker 5: it by saying I thought Trevor Lawrence was two inches
- 25:25Speaker 5: away from being AFC Offensive Player of the Week again.
- 25:29Speaker 5: You know, the Ridley touchdown the first half was a
- 25:32Speaker 5: terrific pass and this a Jones play almost put the
- 25:37Speaker 5: nail on the cough and almost you know, I was
- 25:40Speaker 5: looking for a buckyism but I couldn't find one. But
- 25:43Speaker 5: I mean, I thought Trevor in this matchup that was
- 25:47Speaker 5: hyped was subtly, you know, very very good. And I
- 25:52Speaker 5: know Bucky had some thoughts on that as well. So
- 25:54Speaker 5: I'll do the segue. JP. You can sit this one out.
- 25:58Speaker 5: How good was Trevor the other day?
- 25:59Speaker 4: Bucky? Look, I thought he was really good.
- 26:02Speaker 6: And I felt the version of Trevor that we saw
- 26:05Speaker 6: was very very chippy, very intense, very focused. I thought
- 26:10Speaker 6: this competitive arrogance kind of showed up. I noticed early.
- 26:14Speaker 6: Like I think I talked about this the coin toss
- 26:17Speaker 6: when he went out and they're meeting with the captains
- 26:19Speaker 6: and normally they're nice pleasantries exchange, Trevor really wasn't about
- 26:23Speaker 6: that business. He kind of dapped everybody up and he
- 26:25Speaker 6: was ready to go play. And I think he has
- 26:28Speaker 6: obviously heard the noise about c. J. Stroud and maybe
- 26:31Speaker 6: c J. Stroud being the best quarterback in the division
- 26:33Speaker 6: and YadA, YadA, YadA, And so the last.
- 26:35Speaker 4: Couple of weeks, I think he has played with that
- 26:37Speaker 4: chip on his shoulder.
- 26:38Speaker 6: And if this version of Trevor Lawrence shows up as
- 26:41Speaker 6: we get into the down the stretch and into the postseason,
- 26:45Speaker 6: the Jaguars is gonna be.
- 26:45Speaker 4: A dangerous team.
- 26:46Speaker 6: And it has taken us a while to see the
- 26:49Speaker 6: offense the.
- 26:50Speaker 4: Way that we envisioned.
- 26:51Speaker 6: I felt like the Houston game was maybe the first
- 26:54Speaker 6: time the offense looked like we talked about it looking
- 26:58Speaker 6: in the off season. Calvin Ridley been big part of
- 27:00Speaker 6: Christian Kirk getting it, Evan Ingraman and even Luke Ferrell
- 27:03Speaker 6: been a part of it. And Trevor Thorn for over
- 27:05Speaker 6: three hundred yards. This is the team, this is the
- 27:09Speaker 6: style of offense that we thought we were going to see.
- 27:11Speaker 4: Let's see if he can use that Houston.
- 27:14Speaker 6: Game as kind of like a launch pad for maybe
- 27:17Speaker 6: a strong run to close out the season.
- 27:20Speaker 5: Yeah, they really were. You know, sometimes when you're covering
- 27:23Speaker 5: a game or calling it, which JP does, you can
- 27:27Speaker 5: get sort of lost in the moment and not see
- 27:29Speaker 5: the big picture a little bit. Once I look back
- 27:32Speaker 5: at this game Monday, I said, you know, they were
- 27:35Speaker 5: an inch or two from hanging a number on that team.
- 27:37Speaker 2: Absolutely.
- 27:39Speaker 5: You know, they didn't get seven at the end of
- 27:41Speaker 5: the first half. Ridley's draw and I shoul even call
- 27:47Speaker 5: it a drop. It'd have been a nice catch, but
- 27:48Speaker 5: probably should have caught. It gives you four more and
- 27:52Speaker 5: then they're at the forty one and couldn't quite convert.
- 27:56Speaker 5: You know, they're really close to being in the mid thirties.
- 27:59Speaker 5: I think they thought going into the game they would
- 28:01Speaker 5: be there, and that if they held the Texans to twenty,
- 28:04Speaker 5: which they did. I think they kind of felt like,
- 28:08Speaker 5: we owe the Texans to twenty, we're gonna be thirty
- 28:10Speaker 5: comfortable at the end. Didn't quite work out that way,
- 28:13Speaker 5: but three or four players in the locker room that
- 28:15Speaker 5: I talked to, they felt like they moved up and
- 28:19Speaker 5: down the field. They felt like it was a really
- 28:20Speaker 5: good offensive game, and I think it was. Evan Ingram
- 28:23Speaker 5: said after the points were a little frustrating because we
- 28:27Speaker 5: felt like we were in control and moving easy and
- 28:32Speaker 5: they didn't quite have the points. But I with Bucky this,
- 28:36Speaker 5: I kind of think with them now getting how to
- 28:38Speaker 5: use Ridley, which that feels comfortable for the first time
- 28:41Speaker 5: this year. Zay Jones back, they stay healthy. With the
- 28:46Speaker 5: skill guys, you can start seeing some numbers.
- 28:50Speaker 6: Let me wait realk quick JPM one. Jay Jones does
- 28:54Speaker 6: make this offense complete. It's so weird that a guy
- 28:56Speaker 6: with one catch for ten yards can kind of change
- 28:58Speaker 6: the dynamic of the offense.
- 29:00Speaker 4: But there's something about him being on the field that
- 29:02Speaker 4: allows this offense to kind of operate a little differently.
- 29:06Speaker 6: The second thing, Calvin Ridley's dropped, not being able to
- 29:11Speaker 6: punch it in at the end of the first half
- 29:12Speaker 6: when you kind of gifted three points, and then just
- 29:14Speaker 6: failing to kind of capitalize on some of those things.
- 29:17Speaker 4: John is right, it could have been a forty burger
- 29:19Speaker 4: very easily.
- 29:20Speaker 6: On the field, it felt like this team was dominating
- 29:24Speaker 6: the game, and so even though the score was closer,
- 29:27Speaker 6: when you're there and you watch it, they dominated the game.
- 29:31Speaker 4: And I actually am more.
- 29:32Speaker 6: Proud of the team for showing the maturity and the
- 29:35Speaker 6: resilience to bounce back from not cashing in on all
- 29:38Speaker 6: those opportunities but still having their wits about them to
- 29:41Speaker 6: finish the game the right way. I think we're just
- 29:44Speaker 6: scratching the surface on how good this team and this
- 29:47Speaker 6: offense can be. I think we'll look back at the
- 29:49Speaker 6: end of the year and talk about this game being
- 29:51Speaker 6: a defining moment for this offense, figuring out who they
- 29:54Speaker 6: are and how good they can play together.
- 29:57Speaker 3: Past teams around here. When they get gave up that
- 30:00Speaker 3: lead to fourteen thirteen would have wilted. The Jaguars offense
- 30:04Speaker 3: scored on their next two possessions. The Jaguars defense got
- 30:08Speaker 3: off the field on their next two possessions, and it
- 30:10Speaker 3: was a ten point lead in a hurry again for
- 30:12Speaker 3: the Jaguars.
- 30:13Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good I JP. I that was what
- 30:17Speaker 5: I was about to talk about. I thought that moment
- 30:20Speaker 5: where you were in control the first time they had
- 30:22Speaker 5: lost the lead. They've only lost the lead. It would
- 30:26Speaker 5: have been out of the lead twice in their last
- 30:28Speaker 5: seven victories. You lose the lead, you just threw a pick,
- 30:32Speaker 5: you gave away points, and then you said, okay, now
- 30:36Speaker 5: we're going to put our grip on this game and
- 30:41Speaker 5: took back control of the game immediately. That to me
- 30:44Speaker 5: shows when Doug talks about learning how to win last year,
- 30:48Speaker 5: right there in that moment to me was Okay, this
- 30:52Speaker 5: team's grown up, and it's not fair to say it's
- 30:55Speaker 5: doing it. It's been this all season. This is how
- 30:58Speaker 5: they've played. I stay playing great, but in the big moments,
- 31:02Speaker 5: making the big plays, coaching, maturity, whatever, it's there for
- 31:07Speaker 5: these guys right now.
- 31:08Speaker 3: All right, guys, let's come back Monday night football. First
- 31:12Speaker 3: time in a long time for the Jaguars. We'll get
- 31:14Speaker 3: to that when we come back and wrap it up.
- 31:16Speaker 3: It's Uddle Up with Bucky Brooks.
- 31:21Speaker 2: Welcome back.
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- 31:55Speaker 3: So at last, it's Monday Night Football for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
- 31:59Speaker 2: The last appearing.
- 32:00Speaker 3: This was December of twenty eleven. The Jags all time
- 32:04Speaker 3: record on Monday Night eight and seven. They won their
- 32:06Speaker 3: first five Monday Night appearances as a franchise, dropped seven
- 32:10Speaker 3: of the last ten, but the last appearance was when
- 32:15Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence was twelve years old. In twenty eleven, they
- 32:18Speaker 3: lost to the Chargers. It was a week after Wayne
- 32:21Speaker 3: Weaver had announced that he had fired Jack del Rio
- 32:24Speaker 3: and was selling the team, and then the next week
- 32:27Speaker 3: after that Monday Night game was shot Khan's first appearance
- 32:30Speaker 3: on the sidelines in Atlanta after the confirmation by the
- 32:34Speaker 3: Ellegue owners of the ownership change. It's a long time ago.
- 32:38Speaker 3: Mel Tucker was the interim head coach. John you were
- 32:41Speaker 3: the area. It was your first year back with the team.
- 32:43Speaker 5: I was there and it boy, it's been a long
- 32:46Speaker 5: time and those are some good memories. They beat the
- 32:49Speaker 5: Ravens that year on Monday Night, which was one of
- 32:51Speaker 5: the most amazing victories I've seen here in twelve years.
- 32:56Speaker 5: They did not come close to being the Chargers that
- 32:58Speaker 5: Monday Night.
- 33:00Speaker 2: Yeah, Philip Rivers went off like free touchdowns.
- 33:02Speaker 5: Yeah, it was. It was one of those Some games
- 33:06Speaker 5: are closer than the score indicator, not that one. Yeah,
- 33:13Speaker 5: it's it's funny. I was talking to somebody who I
- 33:15Speaker 5: talked about the Jags quite a bit and he was like, man,
- 33:19Speaker 5: I can't wait for you Monday night fired up. Yeah,
- 33:21Speaker 5: Monday I fired up. And I said, yeah, makes that
- 33:24Speaker 5: Tuesday get up tough. And he goes, yeah, it is tough,
- 33:27Speaker 5: he is.
- 33:27Speaker 2: But that's awesome.
- 33:28Speaker 5: So you put Tuesday aside and you come out and
- 33:34Speaker 5: you know, I always prefer a nice one pm Sunday game,
- 33:39Speaker 5: but we're getting an eight to fifteen Monday game, and
- 33:42Speaker 5: it's gonna be a scene. It's gonna be fun.
- 33:44Speaker 4: We think, Buck, Look, man, this is fun. These games
- 33:47Speaker 4: are fun.
- 33:48Speaker 6: They're really fun for players because the players know that
- 33:51Speaker 6: they're a handful of games where all eyes are on you.
- 33:54Speaker 6: Thursday night games, Sunday night games, and Monday night games.
- 33:56Speaker 6: You get to really be the center of attention international
- 33:59Speaker 6: football leagu world. And so this brings about little extra energy,
- 34:03Speaker 6: little juice because for the Jaguars, for a lot of them,
- 34:06Speaker 6: it is the first time that they would have been
- 34:07Speaker 6: seen by the Pro Bowl voters and all this other stuff.
- 34:12Speaker 6: So this would be one It shouldn't take Doug Peterson
- 34:15Speaker 6: a lot to get the team going as exciting, so
- 34:18Speaker 6: the electricity energy should be different. I would be shocked
- 34:21Speaker 6: if the Jaguars don't have a higher level of intensity
- 34:24Speaker 6: and enthusiasm playing on Monday Night.
- 34:27Speaker 3: Since the last Monday Night Jaguars game, seven head coaches,
- 34:31Speaker 3: including two interims including Mel Tucker. That year, four different
- 34:37Speaker 3: gms or vps of football operations. Nine different players have
- 34:42Speaker 3: started at quarterback for the Jaguars. That's a long, strange
- 34:46Speaker 3: trip for the organization, but it's a long time coming. Hey,
- 34:48Speaker 3: you got to fight through that stuff, and TV audiences
- 34:53Speaker 3: and TV executives and league executives look for things that
- 34:57Speaker 3: will draw viewers and the Jaguars for a long time
- 34:59Speaker 3: wor not that they are certainly now with a quarterback
- 35:03Speaker 3: and the head coach the way they finished last year,
- 35:05Speaker 3: very much deserving of this Monday night football appearance.
- 35:09Speaker 5: And they're earning it. I meaning they got these games
- 35:14Speaker 5: based on last season. They got a couple, They got
- 35:18Speaker 5: one primetime game after the seventeen too, and they got
- 35:22Speaker 5: flexed out of it. Now, anybody who's saying, well, you
- 35:27Speaker 5: know you've come back after a division title and you're
- 35:31Speaker 5: eight and three, you're tied for the fewest losses in
- 35:33Speaker 5: the AFC. Nobody can say you don't deserve to be there.
- 35:36Speaker 5: And they have the added element of they have a
- 35:41Speaker 5: kid who's becoming a big time quarterback and they have
- 35:44Speaker 5: a chance on Monday to show the nation, hey, we're
- 35:49Speaker 5: not only good, we're fun because this is a team
- 35:51Speaker 5: that whin it gets going can be fun. They've got weapons,
- 35:54Speaker 5: they've got personality. So I talked earlier Am this or
- 36:01Speaker 5: that this morning on Jaguars Am, the other show that
- 36:04Speaker 5: I do was is it an opportunity or is it
- 36:06Speaker 5: a trap game? I think it's both. I don't think
- 36:08Speaker 5: it'll try to be a trap game. I think it's
- 36:10Speaker 5: an opportunity to show, Hey, a lot of y'all saw
- 36:12Speaker 5: us against San Francisco not very good. This is what
- 36:15Speaker 5: we really are, and Bucky, I think I would be disappointed.
- 36:20Speaker 5: I wasn't surprised that the San Francisco game was a loss.
- 36:22Speaker 5: I'd be a little disappointed in this team if they
- 36:26Speaker 5: don't play well and take advantage of this.
- 36:29Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm with you on that.
- 36:31Speaker 6: And you know, I go back to the first Houston
- 36:34Speaker 6: game where it was kind of that, oh man, we
- 36:37Speaker 6: can mail this one in. This is a good one.
- 36:39Speaker 6: I think they've learned from all those things along the way.
- 36:41Speaker 6: The Kansas City and the San Francisco games taught them
- 36:43Speaker 6: how to play against big time teams. They Doug talked
- 36:46Speaker 6: about after each of those games, how they have to
- 36:48Speaker 6: bring a different level of urgency and intensity to those
- 36:50Speaker 6: matchups with those heavyweights. I think you have to treat
- 36:53Speaker 6: Cincinnati in the same light. Two years ago, this team
- 36:56Speaker 6: was in the Super Bowl. Last year, this team was
- 36:58Speaker 6: right on the precipice of being able to go back.
- 37:00Speaker 6: And so this is an opportunity for the Jaguars to
- 37:04Speaker 6: look stack up in the national stage that everyone see
- 37:07Speaker 6: that they're legit. This should be a fun when there
- 37:09Speaker 6: should be a lot of excitement around the city on
- 37:12Speaker 6: Monday night.
- 37:12Speaker 4: I'm excited to be there to be in the bank.
- 37:14Speaker 2: Bucky, We will see you at the Bank on Monday.
- 37:18Speaker 2: Have a safe tripod man.
- 37:20Speaker 4: It should be a lot of fun.
- 37:21Speaker 3: That's Bucky Brooks, Seohan Oser, David Choe, Brent Reever, Joe Fortunado,
- 37:26Speaker 3: I'm JP Shadrick. Monday Night Football, the Bengals Jaguars game
- 37:29Speaker 3: presented by Florida Blue, the official Health Insurance Solutions, partner
- 37:33Speaker 3: of the Jacksonville Jaguars. This has been huddled up with
- 37:36Speaker 3: Bucky Brooks