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Bucky on how the Chargers have changed since Week 3 | Huddle Up: Wednesday, January 11 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: The Fields on the Group proudly presents Huddle Up with
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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks, j P Shacker, John Oser and NFL Network
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Speaker 1: analyst and former Jaguar Bucky Brooks bring you the latest
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Speaker 1: going George Jackson Hill Jack Wars. Everything's got to be
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Speaker 1: about the future. It's gotta be about tomorrow and bringing
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Speaker 1: all that into focus as we you know, attack the season.
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Speaker 1: Huddle Up with Brooks starts right now. Welcome in. It
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Speaker 1: is Wednesday. It is the a f C wild Card
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Speaker 1: Playoff game coming up Saturday night at t I A
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Speaker 1: A Bank Field the Los Angeles Chargers in the Jacksonville
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Speaker 1: Jaguars and eight fifteen kickoff time. We've got plenty to
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Speaker 1: get to on this show today on Huddle Up, it's
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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks, NFL Network Analyst, Jaguars radio field analyst, joining
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Speaker 1: us as always senior writer John Osier, and of course
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Speaker 1: the playoff game coming up Saturday night. Limited tickets remain
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Speaker 1: for the Chargers and the Jags in the wild Card round.
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Speaker 1: Social media questions, it's been a buzz this week. Huddle
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Speaker 1: Up with Bucky Brooks brought to you by Fields Auto Group, Jacksonville.
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Speaker 1: Step up to Luxury Fields Auto dot Com Well. Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence at the podium earlier this week Tuesday, discussing the
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Speaker 1: atmosphere last week at the Bank in Week eight teen
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Speaker 1: and what to expect in a home playoff game. I
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Speaker 1: hope it's it's like that this weekend, and that's kind of,
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Speaker 1: you know what we expect. Our fans did a great
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Speaker 1: job last weekend. But for us, I mean that was
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Speaker 1: that was a playoff game last week. I mean, you
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Speaker 1: look at how everything ended up playing out if we
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Speaker 1: don't win. If we didn't win that game, we're not
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Speaker 1: sitting here today. You know, everybody's packing up going home.
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Speaker 1: So I mean, that was a playoff game for us.
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Speaker 1: So it's the same mindset this week. It's just official
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Speaker 1: now it's the first round of playoffs. But I mean
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Speaker 1: for us, that was kind of like the first round
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Speaker 1: of playoffs because we knew we had to win to
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Speaker 1: get in. So um, I mean, I think that helps
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Speaker 1: us kind of prepare for this week in the sense
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Speaker 1: of urgency and you know, the whatever you want to
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Speaker 1: call it, the hype around the game all that, especially
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Speaker 1: now that there's only there's less than half the team's
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Speaker 1: playing this weekend because the field just got little. Uh
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Speaker 1: that's the quarterback of course. The full press conference available
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Speaker 1: on Jaguars dot Com and Jaguars social media. John Oshan
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Speaker 1: with me here in Jacksonville. Bucky Brooks is in Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1: He'll be heading east and a couple of days time
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Speaker 1: with the Jaguars Chargers matchup, and and here we go, Bucky.
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Speaker 1: It is playoff football in Jacksonville. Here we are. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: a very exciting time in Jacksonville. It has been a
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Speaker 1: long time coming. Uh didn't think it would happen this
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Speaker 1: fast on the Doug Peterson but here we are, and
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Speaker 1: whatever is talking about is so great. Uh. You wanted
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Speaker 1: four teen teams in the tournament because you're in the tournament.
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Speaker 1: That means you have an opportunity to go to the
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. And so you want to continue to do
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Speaker 1: what the Jaguars have done and focus on the game
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Speaker 1: I hit. You know, you focus on getting this one
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Speaker 1: done if you're able to get this one, and you
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Speaker 1: focus on the next one. But uh, it's right there,
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Speaker 1: and so all anyone wants is an opportunity to kind
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Speaker 1: of play for the big one. When at the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: have an opportunity to inch one step closer to being
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Speaker 1: able to get that done. And it's thing you say
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Speaker 1: every year when there's sort of a surprise team in
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Speaker 1: the playoffs, which Jaguars qualifies that for most people. Um,
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Speaker 1: you feel like the Jaguars window is opening and it's
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Speaker 1: gonna be open for a long time. With Trevor Lawrence,
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Speaker 1: like Joe Burrows said this week, he believes his window
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Speaker 1: as long as he plays, and I believe that's gonna
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Speaker 1: be the case for Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars too.
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Speaker 1: But you know, even that said, you only get so
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Speaker 1: many opportunity at the playoffs. If if it's ten, you
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Speaker 1: only get ten. This is the first one. Uh, there's
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Speaker 1: no time like the present. There's no reason they can't
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Speaker 1: go win it. Uh, there's a reason I can't win
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Speaker 1: Saturday and keep winning. So go play, Go play the game,
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Speaker 1: Go play the game. Um, Bucky, you have a question
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Speaker 1: for the field analyst. Are you concerned with the offensive
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Speaker 1: production the last three weeks and and their ability or
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Speaker 1: inability to get back on track the way they were
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Speaker 1: about a month ago offensively? Is that a concern for
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Speaker 1: you going in the playoffs? Well, I mean, I think
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Speaker 1: the last three games have been challenging in their own regard,
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Speaker 1: but I think there were different challenges. When you're dealing
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Speaker 1: with the New York Jets, you're dealing with the defense
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Speaker 1: that really wants to take away the deep ball. The
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Speaker 1: weather wasn't great, and so you were trying to be very,
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Speaker 1: very conservative because the offense on the other side wasn't
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Speaker 1: good enough to really threaten you. Uh. The Houston Texans
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Speaker 1: were a little different because the weather conditions were ideal
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Speaker 1: because you're playing inside, but it was another offense that
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Speaker 1: couldn't threaten you. So once you got the lead, you
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Speaker 1: kind of played it close to the vest and you
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Speaker 1: were trying to make sure that you won the game
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Speaker 1: while getting your players out. Last week against the Tennessee Titans,
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Speaker 1: that was different because you wanted to see more production.
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Speaker 1: You felt like you had to get to a certain
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Speaker 1: point total to be able to win it. You didn't
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Speaker 1: get that done, and so I think that was more
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Speaker 1: of an issue where you more concerned about, hey man,
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Speaker 1: we gotta execute better. We have to find a way
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Speaker 1: to punch the ball. Then when we get into the
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Speaker 1: red zone, because now in the postseason, every point matters
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Speaker 1: and you have to make sure that you get seven
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Speaker 1: and SA settling for threes, particularly when you reached the
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Speaker 1: red zone. Yeah, I agree with pretty much anything Bucky said.
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Speaker 1: I don't think UM. I think you have to keep
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Speaker 1: the struggles in perspective. In this sense, they may have
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Speaker 1: been playing. Out of the entire seventeen games they played.
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Speaker 1: Those three defenses may have been in the top five
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Speaker 1: or six defenses they played all year. Probably put UH
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Speaker 1: Dallas really good defense up there, and Philadelphia really good defense.
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Speaker 1: But the Jets and the Titans, especially against the run
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Speaker 1: and UH and Houston the way they play gives or
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Speaker 1: Lawrence some trouble and they create turnovers. Those are three
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Speaker 1: really good defenses, and the Jets the weather was the deal.
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Speaker 1: I agree with Bucky. In Houston, once you got up,
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Speaker 1: there was no reason to really keep the pedal to
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Speaker 1: the metal, if you will. UM and the Titans, even
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Speaker 1: even the Titans game, I get that they're frustrated and
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Speaker 1: disappointed amount they scored UM, but I didn't feel like
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Speaker 1: the offense, even though they only had two in twenty
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Speaker 1: two yards, I didn't feel like it was broken down.
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Speaker 1: They had basically a red zone turnover in the first
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Speaker 1: half of the fumble and then Trevor missed a wide
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Speaker 1: open guy in the end zone. If those two things
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Speaker 1: go their way, that's eleven points left on the field.
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Speaker 1: So I don't think it was really broken down. I think,
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Speaker 1: like Bucky said, they were looking for once you get
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Speaker 1: to the playoffs, you have to convert those situations. I
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Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna have a huge problem. I would
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Speaker 1: be surprised if they have a huge problem creating those
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Speaker 1: opportunities for themselves against the Chargers. It's up to them
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Speaker 1: to get back to get excuse me, getting the red zone,
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Speaker 1: Uh four times, get a couple of touchdowns and two
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Speaker 1: field goals out of that, not four field goals. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I gotta find the end zone. Buck when when you
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Speaker 1: have those opportunities, Now, I'm gonna flip it around the
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Speaker 1: other side. Jaguars defense, Yes, they've been opportunistic, let's say
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Speaker 1: the last month or so, making big plays in big moments.
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Speaker 1: But the last three weeks have been even better than most,
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Speaker 1: at least against the last three teams on the schedule.
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Speaker 1: Right takeaways and key times, big plays. Um. But this
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Speaker 1: is a totally different level now of offense with the
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Speaker 1: l A Chargers in the last three weeks especially in
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Speaker 1: the quarterback room. I mean, Justin Herbert is ready to roll.
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Speaker 1: The last three weeks, opponents have had their own quarterback
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Speaker 1: issues of their own. This is a different field this week, Bucky. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Different feel for sure because the time I won the
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Speaker 1: top five quarterbacks in the league and Justin Herbert, Uh,
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Speaker 1: you can argue where you want to stack him within
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Speaker 1: the top three maybe. Uh. This has got his big
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Speaker 1: time arm talent. He's a prototype at the position, meaning
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Speaker 1: big outstanding arm talent, athletic enough to make plays inside
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Speaker 1: and outside of the pocket, and he's fearless. And when
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Speaker 1: you have someone who has all of those traits, it
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Speaker 1: makes it difficult because he can challenge you. Uh, and
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Speaker 1: it really makes you defend every blade of grass, whether
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Speaker 1: the sideline, the sideline or inline the inline because he
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Speaker 1: can push the ball down the field. He is willing
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Speaker 1: to let his guys make plays, and so this will
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Speaker 1: be I would say one of the biggest challenges uh
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Speaker 1: that the Jaguars are faced. And I'm saying that fully
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Speaker 1: aware that this team squared off against the Chargers early
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Speaker 1: in the season. The difference is the weapons that are available. Uh.
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Speaker 1: He has firepower, he has his people on the perimeter
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Speaker 1: and Keenan Allen, maybe Mike Williams, Josh Palmer, and DeAndre
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Speaker 1: Carter like so they can pose some problems on the perimeter.
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Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see how the Jaguars have left
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Speaker 1: the match up and what they decide they want to
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Speaker 1: take away and what they're willing to concede to the charges.
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Speaker 1: I think this is an interesting matchup for the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: because if you look at the body of work in
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Speaker 1: the last eight or nine games of the season, you
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Speaker 1: can make a strong argument that the Jaguars have become
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Speaker 1: a team that can win within in different types of games.
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Speaker 1: Meaning they wont shootouts against Dallas. I would consider Baltimore
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Speaker 1: shootout the Raiders a little bit of a shootout. Um.
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Speaker 1: I think they're equipped to handle that kind of a game.
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Speaker 1: They've also in the last in the last two or
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Speaker 1: three games, have been a team that can go win
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Speaker 1: sort of a grinded out game. Uh. You might make
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Speaker 1: the case while they weren't playing big time quarterbacks, but
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Speaker 1: that's usually the kind of game you're in if you're
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Speaker 1: not playing a big time quarterback. But I think this
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Speaker 1: week might be the biggest test of what I said
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Speaker 1: first Can they go win a shootout? Can they go
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Speaker 1: win a game where you've got to go get to
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Speaker 1: a certain number? I think seven points is what it's
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Speaker 1: gonna take. Um, are they truly that team that can
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Speaker 1: they can go do that in the big moments? I
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Speaker 1: think they are. But I think this tests that, Bucky, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: just tested. Uh. This is a major test. Is a
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Speaker 1: major test because the number one thing that I'm looking
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Speaker 1: at when you're facing the charges it is not only
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Speaker 1: the quarterback but the weapons on the outside. How are
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Speaker 1: you going to match up? The Jaguars have kind of
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Speaker 1: been I don't know, it's spending the wheel when it
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Speaker 1: comes to playing man or zone in different situations, trying
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Speaker 1: to find the right scheme to match the personnel and
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Speaker 1: talent that they have if they sit in the zone.
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Speaker 1: Primarily this week, justin Herbert's going to carve them up
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Speaker 1: because he's gonna find the open lanes and windows. He's
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Speaker 1: gonna trust these young guys uh to make place if
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Speaker 1: they played man demand. But now you have to figure
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Speaker 1: out who am I going to double team and how
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Speaker 1: am I going to get him double? Is going to
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Speaker 1: be Keenan Allen is going to be a real occasionally
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Speaker 1: sent a double Austin Neckler to make sure that he's
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Speaker 1: not an available safety valve or checkdown option. Are we
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Speaker 1: going to treat Mike Williams like he's the number one?
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Speaker 1: He's available? And so there are a lot of things
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Speaker 1: that Mike call will has to consider while crafting a
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Speaker 1: plan to generate pressure and also stop to run. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: this certainly isn't an easy game, uh for the Jacks,
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Speaker 1: but it's one that you certainly can win because they've
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Speaker 1: knocked this team off before. Alright, guys, we'll come back
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Speaker 1: in a moment and take a look at the Chargers
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Speaker 1: defense and the matchup there this week. Great pass rushers
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Speaker 1: on the outside for the l A Chargers, of course,
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Speaker 1: but a run defense that's been suspect this season. Limited
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Speaker 1: Everybody knows this playoffs song. So for the team seem
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Speaker 1: been in the playoffs before and pretty young guys now,
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Speaker 1: Like I just tried to tell them, like it's a
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Speaker 1: different ballgame. So I mean, nobody's out there playing, you know,
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Speaker 1: messing around. Might be regular season, might be having fun.
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Speaker 1: Us hm, we got all that teams, but you know
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Speaker 1: it's playoff team Knox. This is we got three games
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Speaker 1: ago to get to the ship and then we got
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Speaker 1: that next one to win. So I mean, focus is
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Speaker 1: that extremely high. So that's all worried about. That's Darius Williams,
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Speaker 1: Jaguars cornerback and welcome back. It's huddle up with Bucky
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Speaker 1: Brooks Wednesday ahead of the a f C wild Card
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Speaker 1: playoff game between the Chargers and the Jaguars is an
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Speaker 1: eight fifteen kickoff at the Bank, NBC and Peacock. Al
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Speaker 1: Michael's Tony Dungee on the call. Dungee was on Drive
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Speaker 1: Time this morning, John, you guys had him on there
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Speaker 1: and he was fantastic. So check out the archive of
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Speaker 1: that conversation. We'll run it again in pregame radio coming
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Speaker 1: up on Sunday as well. And Hey, this defensive matchup
12:41
Speaker 1: we've talked about the Jaguars defense there and you see
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Speaker 1: it on your screen what each defense is given up
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Speaker 1: so far this season on average, the Jaguars take the
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Speaker 1: ball away fourth, tied for fourth most takeaways in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: On defense, Chargers aren't that far behind Bucky. And that
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Speaker 1: brings us to our conversation about the l A defense.
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Speaker 1: And you know it starts with those pass rushers. Well,
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Speaker 1: they also have struggled against the run this year, in
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Speaker 1: the regular year at least. Why is that? What are
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Speaker 1: the issues against the run? Is that somewhere Travis CTN
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Speaker 1: can gain some ground and get something done. Yeah, you
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Speaker 1: hear my dog in the back and just said, hey,
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Speaker 1: you gotta run the ball. That's what she's saying. She's
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Speaker 1: saying you need to run the football against this defense
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Speaker 1: because where Brandon's Staley wants to do is he wants
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Speaker 1: to play with two I safeties. They are intent and
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Speaker 1: committed to taking away any deep ball and so what
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Speaker 1: happens is they're daring you to run the football because
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Speaker 1: they believe it's a it's a slow death that you
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Speaker 1: would die if a team can run the ball as
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Speaker 1: opposed to allowing you to throw it over their head.
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Speaker 1: The issue that the charges have When teams have been
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Speaker 1: committed to running the football and have made it a
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Speaker 1: very physical game, that's not really their cup of tea.
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Speaker 1: And so the Jaguars are not necessarily like that old
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Speaker 1: school slug it out want to grind it like the
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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans want to, but they've certainly shown a commitment
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Speaker 1: to run it. With Travis Etienne, I think this is
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Speaker 1: a game where he has to be a big factor
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Speaker 1: because if he can have success on the ground, it
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Speaker 1: forces him to take one of those safeties out of
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Speaker 1: their comfort zone and drop him in the box. Derwin
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Speaker 1: James will probably be that guy that's in the box
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Speaker 1: more and then you can attack him with the one
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Speaker 1: on one on the outside. There's some favorable matchups on
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Speaker 1: the outside, but the running game has to be a
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Speaker 1: big part of the plan because you want to make
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Speaker 1: them defend everything and you want to dictate the terms
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Speaker 1: and keep the charges offense on the sideline as well. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and I think it goes back to what I was
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Speaker 1: saying in the last segment. Jaguars have have shown this
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Speaker 1: year for a young team that's building, a remarkable ability
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Speaker 1: to win in different ways. When Bucky lays that out
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Speaker 1: like that. I can easily see a scenario where Travis E.
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Speaker 1: T N runs a hundred and fifty yards and he
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Speaker 1: has shown the ability to do that. I don't think
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Speaker 1: it's gonna happen every week for this team, but when
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Speaker 1: the defen it presents itself. Doug Is is perfectly willing
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Speaker 1: to let Travis C. T N run carries. They'll do
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Speaker 1: it every week, but he hasn't done it every week
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Speaker 1: for the last few weeks. I think he's ready for
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Speaker 1: that sort of load. Um. I would be surprised if
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars don't farewell offensively this week, because I think
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Speaker 1: they're balanced enough to do it. Yeah, and run the ball,
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Speaker 1: don't get in those long situations obviously, and let BOTHA
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Speaker 1: and macpend their years back. And I mean, if they
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Speaker 1: happen to be in those situations, well, it's a spotlight
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Speaker 1: game for the tackles, right. I mean, we know about
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Speaker 1: Jowan Taylor in the season he's had on the right side,
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Speaker 1: but Walker little in the last month or so after
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Speaker 1: Cam Robinson went down. I don't know if it was
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Speaker 1: you that said this, but it's not quite It's not
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Speaker 1: quite Bruce Smith Baselli, but hey, guess what it's. It's
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Speaker 1: his equivalent of that, Bucky if he can get something done. Yeah,
15:56
Speaker 1: it is his equivalent of that. Because it is a
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Speaker 1: big game when you think about Khalil Mack Joey Boson.
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Speaker 1: If Joey Bosa is able to play, it changes the
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Speaker 1: dynamic a little bit. But Khalil Mack is not what
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Speaker 1: he once was, and he still can flash every now
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Speaker 1: and then. He still can get to the pastor but
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Speaker 1: he's not necessarily the dominant player that he was where
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Speaker 1: you really feared him and committed a lot of resources
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Speaker 1: to take him out. You have to be aware of
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Speaker 1: where he is. But hopefully you're saying that work a
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Speaker 1: little or uh, you know, ju Wanta Taylor can hold
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Speaker 1: up and take car business on that side, and then
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Speaker 1: you really can focus on Joey Bosa if he's available. Uh.
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Speaker 1: The thing about it and going back and looking at
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Speaker 1: the first game, James Robinson had a hundred yards. Now,
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Speaker 1: some of that came in garbage time when the game
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Speaker 1: was away, but the Jaguards ran for a hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty one yards on them, And the best way to
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Speaker 1: stymy this pass rush is to run it right up
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Speaker 1: to gut at their interior. And so if you're able
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Speaker 1: to run the football, then it makes them play both ways.
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Speaker 1: They have to play the run and the past. He
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Speaker 1: can't really tee off and get those track stances and
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Speaker 1: come after Trevor Lawrence. Uh. This has to be a
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Speaker 1: game where I think Doug will have a few things
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Speaker 1: up his back, but look for the running game to
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Speaker 1: be a big part of the equation. May I happened early,
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Speaker 1: but he's gonna get back to it like he always
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Speaker 1: does in these games where he knows that the run
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Speaker 1: is important. Yeah. The first game also showed the other
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Speaker 1: h part of the Jaguars balance, which I think makes
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Speaker 1: them tough to defend. Remember all three wide receivers had
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Speaker 1: a touchdown not reception in that game. It was Kirk
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Speaker 1: and Kirk started it off and then they went to
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Speaker 1: Day and then Marvin Joe's at the end. Um to me,
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Speaker 1: in this game, their balance offensively is the key to
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Speaker 1: them having a chance, or the key to being a
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Speaker 1: very level matchup. No no, no, no, no, no no no
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Speaker 1: no no no, don't say level matchup. We win the game.
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Speaker 1: We win the game. We played the game the right way, Like,
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Speaker 1: don't get all spooped and scared John because it's a
17:44
Speaker 1: playoff game like this is one the one thing about
17:47
Speaker 1: it and no one wants to talk about it. When
17:49
Speaker 1: you beat a team like they beat them thirty eight
17:51
Speaker 1: to ten, regardless of who they played, that leaves some
17:54
Speaker 1: scars and some damage. The Jaguars walk into this game
17:57
Speaker 1: knowing that they can beat the Charges, regardless of what
18:00
Speaker 1: people to stay on the outside, particularly the way they
18:02
Speaker 1: attacked their defense. Yes, they have to make some adjustments
18:05
Speaker 1: because joy Bolson went out of the game, wasn't available
18:07
Speaker 1: a whole time, but clil Mac and those guys were there.
18:09
Speaker 1: So now they just have to attack them the right way.
18:12
Speaker 1: And if they take care of the football, they will
18:15
Speaker 1: be fine because they're gonna run it. They'll find a
18:17
Speaker 1: way to run it, and they'll create some big plays.
18:19
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit here and make the Charges out
18:20
Speaker 1: to be like one of the heavyweights. They're a really
18:23
Speaker 1: good team, but we've knocked them out before and I
18:24
Speaker 1: think we can knock him out again. Well, fear is
18:27
Speaker 1: a big part of my life, but I'm not scared
18:30
Speaker 1: of this game. I do, however, think it's a game
18:33
Speaker 1: where I would have been surprised last week had the
18:37
Speaker 1: Jaguars lost, I thought they were the more talent team
18:40
Speaker 1: with more uh, the superior quarterback. I think the game
18:45
Speaker 1: will be decided on quarterbacks this week. I think they're
18:48
Speaker 1: pretty equal. I think it's a toss up. But that
18:52
Speaker 1: does mean I'm scared. Necessarily, Not in this situation. Am
18:55
Speaker 1: I scared? Uh? But I think it's it's remarkably evenly matched.
19:00
Speaker 1: The game for the first round of the playoffs. Old
19:03
Speaker 1: Barky Brooks over there says, run the football, Yeah, says
19:06
Speaker 1: running football. The other thing that she's over here saying
19:09
Speaker 1: I just heard she was like, you gotta make it physical. Uh.
19:11
Speaker 1: This would be a game where in the playoffs, head
19:14
Speaker 1: coaching matters, like you're here a lot leading up to
19:17
Speaker 1: this game about playoff experience, and neither of these teams
19:19
Speaker 1: have been in the playoffs for a while. But it
19:22
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily matter about the players. But for the coaches
19:25
Speaker 1: it matters because the stage is bigger. These decisions have
19:29
Speaker 1: more weight and gravity to him, and so you have
19:31
Speaker 1: to be able to handle these situations and circumstances, and
19:36
Speaker 1: you can't get out of character. So the key will
19:38
Speaker 1: be is Doug Peterson able to be more closer to
19:42
Speaker 1: his true self as a play caller than Brandon Stately,
19:45
Speaker 1: we say, and Brandon Stately make some missteps and mistakes.
19:48
Speaker 1: Um being aggressive and managing the game. The battle is
19:52
Speaker 1: really between Doug Peterson Brandon Stately and which one can
19:54
Speaker 1: stay in the moment and make the decision to put
19:57
Speaker 1: his team in an advantageous situation. But he had if
20:00
Speaker 1: this is a fair question, but you just accuse me
20:01
Speaker 1: of being scared, so I'm not gonna be fair. Um,
20:05
Speaker 1: I how a great like UH, both of these coaches
20:09
Speaker 1: are known for being very aggressive. I you know, how
20:15
Speaker 1: does that factor in in the postseason or I guess
20:18
Speaker 1: that's what you just said. That'll be the fascinating thing
20:21
Speaker 1: to see about this game, want it is how each
20:24
Speaker 1: of those UH coaches takes that aggressiveness into the postseason. Yeah,
20:31
Speaker 1: I mean, like, the one thing that we've seen from
20:32
Speaker 1: Doug is he's true. Now. It made us queasy last
20:37
Speaker 1: week against Tennessee Titans when he ran the reverse when
20:39
Speaker 1: it seemed like the offense was beginning to have control
20:41
Speaker 1: of the defense very early turned it over and then
20:44
Speaker 1: it was an uphill climb the remainder of the game.
20:46
Speaker 1: But that's how he's been the entire year. So I
20:49
Speaker 1: think for him, because he's been in these games, because
20:52
Speaker 1: he has led a team to our Super Bowl, I
20:54
Speaker 1: think there's a comfort to knowing the pressure that everyone
20:58
Speaker 1: was experience because, making no mistake about it, you can
21:00
Speaker 1: deny there's pressure to these games because of the urgency
21:03
Speaker 1: due to the finality of the situation. If you lose,
21:07
Speaker 1: is over, is done, and so every call matters, and
21:10
Speaker 1: so it is magnified, and so you just wonder, how
21:13
Speaker 1: is Doug going to hand d situations versus how is
21:16
Speaker 1: Brandon state they're going to hand of the situations when
21:18
Speaker 1: it's his first time that he is being tasked with
21:20
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Speaker 1: This is Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks on the Jaguars
21:53
Speaker 1: Digital Network. I think often needs to have a better
22:00
Speaker 1: game than the other night. Quite frankly, uh, we didn't
22:04
Speaker 1: do enough. I mean, you know, we had opportunities obviously
22:07
Speaker 1: missed some opportunities in the game that you know, we
22:10
Speaker 1: need to learn from. But sometimes that's that's the way
22:12
Speaker 1: games go. Tight games like that, it's gonna come down
22:14
Speaker 1: to a you know, let's could be a defensive battle
22:17
Speaker 1: or something of that nature. Special special teams did a
22:19
Speaker 1: nice job, but I think overall, you know, offensively, um
22:24
Speaker 1: as a group, um, you know, coaches included need to
22:27
Speaker 1: need to do a little better. As the head coach,
22:29
Speaker 1: of course, Doug Peterson the full availabilities from the week
22:32
Speaker 1: on Jaguars dot Com. He has spoken twice already and
22:37
Speaker 1: we'll speak again tomorrow. It's huddle up with Bucky Brooks,
22:40
Speaker 1: j P Shadwick, John Osan along with Bucky, and you
22:44
Speaker 1: know that's the head coach's perspective. What's hear from the
22:46
Speaker 1: quarterback on the offensive performance against the Titans last week?
22:51
Speaker 1: You know, but I think minus a few plays, I
22:53
Speaker 1: think if a few plays go differently, you know, for
22:55
Speaker 1: a little sharper or in my case, you know, hit
22:58
Speaker 1: a couple of throws, game looks a lot different. So
23:01
Speaker 1: you know, you always take a few plays, and I
23:03
Speaker 1: think we've just had a few more than we need
23:06
Speaker 1: the last two weeks of those negative plays or bad
23:09
Speaker 1: plays or mrs or whatever it is. You know, we've
23:11
Speaker 1: just had a few too many of those. But um,
23:15
Speaker 1: you know, I still think our offense is in a
23:16
Speaker 1: great spot and the progress we've made is still there,
23:19
Speaker 1: and um, just continue to build off of it. Obviously
23:22
Speaker 1: there's some there's some things, and then it's tough. You know,
23:24
Speaker 1: it's tough to be a team twice too. You know,
23:25
Speaker 1: Tennessee had a really good plan. They did some stuff.
23:27
Speaker 1: They gave us a little bit of trouble, and um,
23:29
Speaker 1: you know, we tried to adjust the sidelines and do
23:31
Speaker 1: some things that helped us. And you know, they got
23:33
Speaker 1: they got good coaches, good players too, So you know
23:36
Speaker 1: that's a good team and you've got to give them credit.
23:38
Speaker 1: They had a good plan coming in and you know,
23:40
Speaker 1: we didn't execute at the highest level that that we
23:42
Speaker 1: can and um, thankfully our defense definitely stepped up and
23:46
Speaker 1: had our backs. So there's a quarterback of course, Trevor
23:50
Speaker 1: Lawrence is availability on Jaguars dot Com. All right, so
23:54
Speaker 1: um moving along now to the l A Chargers. It's
23:56
Speaker 1: time to get to social media questions. We put out
24:00
Speaker 1: the cat signal earlier today. Here's the best we've come
24:03
Speaker 1: up with. This is at Rainus Joe Hanson. We've struggled
24:08
Speaker 1: to defend screens at times this season. How do we
24:11
Speaker 1: step up to limit the games for Eckler the running
24:15
Speaker 1: back Bucky Well. I think the differences in some of
24:19
Speaker 1: these other weeks, the running back wasn't a major factor,
24:21
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like, Uh, you don't pay close
24:24
Speaker 1: attention to him. You don't track your whereabouts like you
24:27
Speaker 1: attract Austin Neckle. Austin Neckle is a big time playmaker
24:30
Speaker 1: for them. So when they break the huddle for your
24:32
Speaker 1: Louis Khan is always gonna point and make sure that
24:34
Speaker 1: all eyes are on him. You know where he's at. Uh,
24:37
Speaker 1: you know where he likes to get the ball. You
24:38
Speaker 1: know the screen game is on second and third and long,
24:40
Speaker 1: So you're paying closer attention to him. Uh, those previous weeks,
24:44
Speaker 1: you may be willing to concede those things because the
24:46
Speaker 1: guy in the backfield wasn't his dangerous and that even
24:49
Speaker 1: means Derry Kenry because Derrick Kenny wasn't a past catcher.
24:52
Speaker 1: He's more of a checkdown option. I think there's a
24:54
Speaker 1: height and awareness of Austin Eckler based on how important
24:57
Speaker 1: he is to their offense, particularly as the receiver out
24:59
Speaker 1: the Aviel. I have nothing to add because my phone
25:03
Speaker 1: went so he shook Bucky. He's going to assume that
25:08
Speaker 1: Bucky was correct. But obviously that's a huge point in
25:13
Speaker 1: terms you're always paying attention to him, whereas with most
25:16
Speaker 1: running backs you're not paying as much attention. That's my
25:18
Speaker 1: insight on that, and and now my phone's fixed. We
25:21
Speaker 1: can move on to the next question. John the leading
25:24
Speaker 1: target this year by the way, because of all the
25:26
Speaker 1: injuries at wide receiver. Next question social media on Twitter. Um,
25:32
Speaker 1: this is at Tony B's henchman. How much is the
25:35
Speaker 1: short passing game helps Trevor gain confidence and rhythm in
25:38
Speaker 1: the offense? And can we expect to focus on running
25:41
Speaker 1: the football this week against the Chargers. We've gone through
25:44
Speaker 1: that part of it, so yeah, what about this short
25:46
Speaker 1: passing game? Bucky? I think that's his wheelhouse, and I
25:50
Speaker 1: think that's also the whillhouse at Doug Peterson. When it
25:52
Speaker 1: comes to the way the offense operates, he runs a
25:56
Speaker 1: variation of the West Coast offense. UH. Doug and I
25:58
Speaker 1: played together in Green Bay. Mike Hogran believe that you
26:01
Speaker 1: use some of those short passes as replacement for the
26:04
Speaker 1: running game. It's a high completion percentage offense because when
26:08
Speaker 1: you have to when you're doing that, you have to
26:10
Speaker 1: complete a bunch of passes. And so for Trevor Lawrence
26:12
Speaker 1: has been great because they've layered in a bunch of
26:15
Speaker 1: layups for him so he can stream together completions and
26:19
Speaker 1: when it's going UH, it's the thing of beauty. Keep
26:22
Speaker 1: an eye on the number of what wide receiver screens
26:26
Speaker 1: that the Jaguars throw. It has been a big part
26:29
Speaker 1: of their offense. Throwing into Evan Everybody, Evan ingram Z Jones,
26:33
Speaker 1: Christian kirk Um, everybody has been a part of that
26:38
Speaker 1: UH screen game offense. UH is good because it's a
26:42
Speaker 1: way to get on the perimeter. You're basically playing three
26:44
Speaker 1: on two, two on one, and if you have a
26:46
Speaker 1: guy that can break tackle, now you're beginning to see
26:49
Speaker 1: these short passes in the resulting in long games. Yeah, Bucky,
26:52
Speaker 1: you and I have talked a little bit, so maybe
26:54
Speaker 1: he's still in your thunder on this when he will
26:57
Speaker 1: talk about the year to jump under a head coach,
27:00
Speaker 1: which I believe Trevor is gonna make next year. Um,
27:03
Speaker 1: to me, that's where he'll make the jump, is I
27:09
Speaker 1: I've got to believe that there will be more uh
27:13
Speaker 1: you know, twenty five yard downfield play actions stuff next year,
27:18
Speaker 1: as Doug gets more confident in Trevor, as they understand
27:22
Speaker 1: each other more, As Trevor gains more confidence in the
27:24
Speaker 1: offense doing more with the line of scrimmage to set
27:27
Speaker 1: up those kind of passes, he started to do that more.
27:30
Speaker 1: I've got to believe that the deeper stuff is where
27:34
Speaker 1: you're going to see the huge development of Trevor Lawrence.
27:36
Speaker 1: I think I think Doug did a masterful job this
27:37
Speaker 1: year of after the first two or three games, figuring out, Okay,
27:41
Speaker 1: this is what I've got, this is what he does,
27:43
Speaker 1: this is what we're gonna emphasize. But to me, that
27:46
Speaker 1: deep stuff is gonna come along next year. Yeah, the
27:48
Speaker 1: deep stuff is gonna come along next year, partially due
27:51
Speaker 1: to Trevor Lawrence's development, but also in tweaking and adding
27:56
Speaker 1: to the personnel. There's one thing that I think that
27:58
Speaker 1: Jaguars still need and that is a a a speed receiver. Uh,
28:02
Speaker 1: it's hard to generate the explosive plays when I look
28:06
Speaker 1: at what we have and most of our guys are
28:08
Speaker 1: chain movers, like they're not necessarily the dynamic stretch to
28:12
Speaker 1: feel type. And so if you want big plays in
28:14
Speaker 1: the passing game, you have to do it a few
28:16
Speaker 1: different ways. One speed receiver just blows past everybody and
28:19
Speaker 1: you throw it over top of the defense. The second
28:22
Speaker 1: part will be more play action. We've seen play action
28:25
Speaker 1: this year, but it's been a lot of bootleg uh
28:28
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram and others sliding to the flat with across
28:32
Speaker 1: the coming behind it about ten to twelve yards one. Now,
28:35
Speaker 1: if you're able to add in like that deep play
28:38
Speaker 1: action pass where you're faking the stretch, you have rollout
28:41
Speaker 1: and now you're taking shots to the deep receiver, then
28:44
Speaker 1: you'll see more of the twenty plus plays show up.
28:48
Speaker 1: And so personnel driven and then a little more comfort
28:51
Speaker 1: in the scheme will allow you to be more aggressive
28:52
Speaker 1: with the play action part. You have a social media
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Speaker 1: season is what it is in a healthy respect, you know,
29:34
Speaker 1: obviously if you take care of business there in order
29:36
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Speaker 1: And if we want to keep treading the new narrative
29:42
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29:53
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Speaker 1: answer from Zay Bucky was um to a question about, Hey,
30:39
Speaker 1: these are legacy defining moments really for everybody in that
30:43
Speaker 1: locker room, everybody on the coaching staff and organization. Playoff
30:47
Speaker 1: games it's where you really make hay on that legacy
30:50
Speaker 1: and they can start with a win this week. Yeah. Absolutely,
30:54
Speaker 1: you have an opportunity to make hay and kind of
30:56
Speaker 1: kind of changed the narrative not only of your game,
30:59
Speaker 1: but the team and all the other things that are
31:02
Speaker 1: around it. Uh. And that's great because I think as players,
31:05
Speaker 1: you live for these moments. You live for the opportunity
31:07
Speaker 1: to play on the biggest and brightest stages, and you know,
31:12
Speaker 1: make a mistake about it to think about the playoffs
31:14
Speaker 1: that make it special. Everyone has to tune in. You're
31:17
Speaker 1: not distracted by the eight or nine other games that
31:20
Speaker 1: may be on during a certain time period. It is
31:22
Speaker 1: the only show in town. Everybody's watching. Everybody remembers these
31:26
Speaker 1: moments because so many eyes are fixed to the TV,
31:29
Speaker 1: and so this should be a great opportunity for a
31:32
Speaker 1: bunch of players to make their mark. And so I think,
31:34
Speaker 1: if anything, you get excited about it. Uh. People talk
31:37
Speaker 1: about the speed and the energy being different. Is different
31:41
Speaker 1: because everyone knows what's at stake, And to me, I
31:43
Speaker 1: think that's the best part of playing for pro football. Yeah.
31:45
Speaker 1: I usually when a team I cover go to the playoffs,
31:49
Speaker 1: one of the stories I write that week is usually
31:51
Speaker 1: the speed of the game changes. Uh, it's always fascinating
31:55
Speaker 1: to me here players talk about it. But when I
31:58
Speaker 1: talk to players this week about it, I think they
32:00
Speaker 1: correctly said. The game the other night was a playoff game,
32:03
Speaker 1: and I think it had the energy. And from talking
32:06
Speaker 1: to Christian Kirk's A Jones arden Key, some guys who've
32:10
Speaker 1: been there before, they said, you know, it definitely changes
32:14
Speaker 1: in the postseason. But that game the other night, the
32:17
Speaker 1: young players who hadn't been through it before, they've been
32:20
Speaker 1: through it now. Uh, there's a there's a difference at all,
32:24
Speaker 1: It's minimal. Uh, the sense of urgency, all those things
32:27
Speaker 1: you need in the playoffs two seize the moment. They've
32:32
Speaker 1: already felt it. So uh, if there's an advantage, you know,
32:36
Speaker 1: the Chargers haven't been through that. They were in it
32:39
Speaker 1: last year in the final game of the season, lost
32:41
Speaker 1: to their areas. They haven't been there this bunch of Chargers,
32:44
Speaker 1: So maybe that's advantage Jacksonville. Yeah, let's let's let's pick
32:48
Speaker 1: up on that, because the great thing about it, like
32:50
Speaker 1: arden Key and those guys talking to the guy young
32:52
Speaker 1: guys in the locker room, there's a heightened sense of
32:55
Speaker 1: urgency that just played. And I would never remember just
32:58
Speaker 1: coming into the league, and at time I was in Buffalo,
33:01
Speaker 1: but Bruce Smith and Thurman Thomas talked about its four speeds.
33:04
Speaker 1: You got preseason, regular season, post seasoned in Super Bowl,
33:07
Speaker 1: and each time you advanced to one of those different
33:09
Speaker 1: segments it becomes faster, far more physical, and the mistakes
33:14
Speaker 1: are magnified. And so in making that run, even back
33:17
Speaker 1: in nineties, I do remember having to adjust on the
33:20
Speaker 1: fly to the physicality in the speed of the game.
33:24
Speaker 1: Playing the wild cart round is different than playing in
33:26
Speaker 1: the divisional round, which is even different than playing in
33:28
Speaker 1: the championship game. And so even though the young guys
33:31
Speaker 1: got a chance to experience that win or go home
33:34
Speaker 1: game last Saturday, is still to be ramped up even
33:38
Speaker 1: more uh this weekend. But they should be ready for it.
33:41
Speaker 1: But it should be a lot of fun because the
33:43
Speaker 1: team that settles in the quickest will have an opportunity
33:46
Speaker 1: to create separation early in the game. It should be
33:49
Speaker 1: a great scene again, of course, to the bank. It
33:51
Speaker 1: certainly was last Saturday night. Let's do it again this week. Bucky,
33:55
Speaker 1: We will see you in just a few days time
33:57
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