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Who stood out in first joint practice w/ Falcons? | Huddle Up w Bucky Brooks: Wednesday, August 24 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Total Up, Proud Puddle with Bucky Brooks, j P Shacker,
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Speaker 1: John Oser and NFL Network analyst and former Jaguar Bucky
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Speaker 1: Brooks bring you the latest and George Jackson Hills Jaguars.
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Speaker 1: Everything's got to be about the future. It's gotta be
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Speaker 1: about tomorrow and bringing all that into focus as we
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Speaker 1: you know, attack the season. Huddle Up Brooks starts right now,
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Speaker 1: and we welcome you in from Flowery Branch, Georgia, the
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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons facility, the Jaguars Falcons joint practices underway today.
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Speaker 1: J P Shadrick, John Osier, Bucky Brooks coming up. Its
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Speaker 1: Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks. Will hear from Bucky out
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Speaker 1: in l A coming up in a moment. We're live
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Speaker 1: at training camp today and of course level show tomorrow
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Speaker 1: the UM Happy Hour Show the Doug Peterson showed to
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Speaker 1: morow afternoon here at this preseason week three, plenty of
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Speaker 1: roster changes in the last day or so as the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars trying to churn some things before the final roster
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Speaker 1: cut this coming Tuesday. And Johnny, here we go one
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Speaker 1: day in the books here just outside of Atlanta, and
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Speaker 1: good to see these two teams going at it together. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was it. I thought it was a measured practice today. Uh,
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Speaker 1: in terms of there wasn't a whole line of hitting it.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes when people see, hey, they're gonna practice against each other,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna see them playing with their hair on fire,
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Speaker 1: trying to get each other out of practice. It really
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Speaker 1: wasn't that. But I do think they had an opportunity
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Speaker 1: to look and work against an opponent they hadn't seen before.
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Speaker 1: They would certainly benefit to that, and Trevor certainly seemed
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Speaker 1: happy with the work after practice. Let's bring in Bucky Brooks,
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Speaker 1: NFL Network analyst Jaguar's preseason TV analysts from Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Bucky. First of all, how are you? Uh?
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Speaker 1: U of my guess? How's everything down there in Flowery
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Speaker 1: Flowery brand. It's warm? And you were right about the mosquitoes.
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Speaker 1: I'll say they're out today. That's just kind of what
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Speaker 1: it is around here. Um. But it's training campus, Georgia.
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Speaker 1: That's what you expect. And I'll say this, Kyle Pitts
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Speaker 1: made a couple of big catches today, tied in for
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Speaker 1: the Falcons. He is a monster, Bucky, Yeah, he is
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Speaker 1: a monster. He's a matchup nightmare, and it's it's really
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Speaker 1: good that the Jaguards get a chance to do these
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Speaker 1: joint practices. I think it's interesting that uh, John made
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Speaker 1: these comments about like it wasn't as spirited maybe as
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Speaker 1: they would think. Uh. One of the things that you
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Speaker 1: want to do is you want to go to that line,
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Speaker 1: but not go over that line. And so the benefits
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Speaker 1: of your joint practices are you get the competitive work
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Speaker 1: against another set of starters, you get a chance to
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Speaker 1: put your starters, and basically a game plan environment where
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Speaker 1: you can work against the other team. But the injury
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Speaker 1: risks should be reduced because you're not necessarily going at
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Speaker 1: full speed. You're not taking guys to the ground. It's
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Speaker 1: more of a third tempo. So for coaches it's really
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Speaker 1: appealing because you get the intensity of maybe what you
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Speaker 1: get in the preseason game, but it's not quite as
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Speaker 1: out of control as a preseason game would be. I
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Speaker 1: think it's smart to JP they work the ones against
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Speaker 1: the ones, the two is against the two, the threes
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Speaker 1: against the threes, so you don't have have the third
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Speaker 1: guy from the falcon secondary trying to take out Trevor Law.
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Speaker 1: So all the first team guys, or most of them
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Speaker 1: should get Hey, we're here to get better. We're not
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Speaker 1: here to be historic and make a play. It's gonna
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Speaker 1: make me on the internet tomorrow. So I thought it
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Speaker 1: was interesting at James Robinson back did work with the
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Speaker 1: first team. I thought he ran hard and it looked
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Speaker 1: like he was about as back as you can be
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Speaker 1: and still heavy orange jersey and still the non contact
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Speaker 1: jersey on one of a handful of guys back today
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Speaker 1: as well, James Robinson on the offensive side. But then
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's uh, the linebacker from Utah,
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Speaker 1: Devin Lloyd, finally getting a chance on the practice field.
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Speaker 1: He was out there full today. Also Darius Williams, the
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Speaker 1: free agent acquisition this offseason who's been wearing that same
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Speaker 1: jersey that James Robinson is wearing. Lloyd no jersey anymore.
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Speaker 1: He's out there full today. He was fully cleared, according
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Speaker 1: to Doug Peterson before the trip up here to Atlanta
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Speaker 1: and Bucky that's a great sign. You'll see those two guys.
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Speaker 1: We'll see how Devin Lloyd responds after today's practice go
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Speaker 1: again to tomorrow. But Peterson said you might even see
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Speaker 1: him on the field a little bit this Saturday against
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Speaker 1: the Falcons. Yeah, a couple of things. I am curious
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Speaker 1: to see how that defense look today with Devin Lloyd
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Speaker 1: being inserted into the mix. And then two, I'm really
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Speaker 1: excited to see him play. I think it's important for
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Speaker 1: him to play a little bit in the preseason because
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Speaker 1: the game is so much different going from the practice
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Speaker 1: field to the game day, and so if you can't
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Speaker 1: give him that little buffer being in a preseason game,
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Speaker 1: the speed isn't quite what it's going to be like
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Speaker 1: when he takes the field against the Commanders, but it
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Speaker 1: will give him a nice run up to the regular season.
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Speaker 1: When we think about the season starting in a couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks at JP, I keep getting asked, will Lloyd
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Speaker 1: start the opener? Well, they're sure going to try to
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Speaker 1: get him started the opener. I mean, I think there's
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Speaker 1: any question they have been penciled in to be there.
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Speaker 1: I think it's very interesting too, Darius Williams and Devin Lloyd,
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Speaker 1: Bucky and it always talks about this. It really isn't
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Speaker 1: the case anymore. We have eleven starters and the NFL
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Speaker 1: on defense, you've got thirteen or fourteen and Darius Williams
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Speaker 1: is one of those guys. As good as the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: defense has looked in the in the preseason, it's looked
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Speaker 1: that way without Lloyd and without Williams. So, uh, these
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Speaker 1: are both guys that are going to factor in very much,
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Speaker 1: especially Lloyd. I mean, now we've talked about it. They're
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Speaker 1: dynamic upfront already without him. I think he's a beast,
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Speaker 1: a playmaker and above the exits and those guys maybe
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Speaker 1: the most above the exit and those guys they have.
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Speaker 1: How good can this bunch be if it's for real
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Speaker 1: what we've seen in the first two weeks, How good
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Speaker 1: can this bunch be? With Devin Lloyd, I'd be surprised
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Speaker 1: he hasn't played the open I like that good about there?
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Speaker 1: So what are you drafted him? Right? If he's healthy
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Speaker 1: and ready, Buck, you gotta play, yeah, I mean, look,
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Speaker 1: you want to. You want to put him out there
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Speaker 1: because if he's healthy and ready, you know he's going
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Speaker 1: to be in the mix. And you want to I
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Speaker 1: want to say, get the rust off, but you want
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Speaker 1: to get him acclimated to the way that the pro
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Speaker 1: game is going to be. He's gonna have some mistakes,
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Speaker 1: He's gonna have to work through some of those growing
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Speaker 1: pains that most Ricky's have to work through. But he
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Speaker 1: is so talented, talented, and he brings a different dimension
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Speaker 1: we have seen. And it's only the preseason, but there's
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Speaker 1: a reason to be very optimistic about the defense. We've
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Speaker 1: seen the defense kind of bully opponents. Now you bring
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Speaker 1: another player who has a bully mentality but a lot
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Speaker 1: of versatility and a lot of talent. I just liked
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Speaker 1: the potential that this Jaguars defense has displayed, and I
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Speaker 1: think he just adds to it well. As you and
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Speaker 1: Bucky know. I'm known from my keen eye and my
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Speaker 1: way with words. Devin Lloyd is fast jan he but
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Speaker 1: even today, first day back speed stands out. You know,
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Speaker 1: I was being sarcastic at the top, but he's he
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Speaker 1: plays fast, he looks fast. It stands out of the practice.
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Speaker 1: It's a good thing. The Jaguars did make a few
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Speaker 1: transactions the last couple of days as they continue to churn.
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Speaker 1: They've had the second roster cut already on Tuesday, down
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Speaker 1: to eighty players. The final roster cut at least cut
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Speaker 1: down to fifty three is this coming Tuesday. And then
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Speaker 1: there's near two weeks where they can go claim guys
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Speaker 1: and do whatever they need after that. But um the
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Speaker 1: notable moves. The Jaguars traded for offensive lineman Cole Van
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Speaker 1: Landing from the Packers, reportedly a seventh round picked. It
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Speaker 1: was the other way from the Jaguars to Green Bay.
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Speaker 1: Kicker James McCourt claimed off waivers from the Chargers. He
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Speaker 1: was here today. I didn't see him kicking. He was
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Speaker 1: on a far afield. He didn't, at least that I saw,
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Speaker 1: have any field goal sessions today. We'll see about that tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: And then of course they've signed quarterback Jake Luton. They
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Speaker 1: didn't with the C J. Bethre not running really full
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Speaker 1: speed in last week's game. They just need quarterbacks to
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Speaker 1: get him through this preseason week three game. And that's
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Speaker 1: what it is for a guy like Luten Hoosters trying
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Speaker 1: to find his way in the league. Well, I haven't
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Speaker 1: talked to May about this, but I assume I'm a
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Speaker 1: court probably spent the last couple of days flying trying
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Speaker 1: to get to whoever he's going to be. I don't
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Speaker 1: know that you necessarily need to put him out there
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Speaker 1: and have him kick and have him strain something if
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Speaker 1: that's the word thing. Let him show what he can
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Speaker 1: do and get a fair chance to be healthy. Um.
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Speaker 1: Beyond that, the quarterback band, I think it's pretty clear
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Speaker 1: Jake Luton is here to come in and take some
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Speaker 1: snaps on Saturday, so that uh, Trevor Lawrence and C. J.
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Speaker 1: Betta don't have to all right, let's come back in
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Speaker 1: a moment, guys, Bucky will get your thoughts on that
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Speaker 1: coming up. A little more defensive conversation ahead and Huddle
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Speaker 1: Digital Network. James, he's not necessarily full clear, but he's
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Speaker 1: clear to practice. We're gonna increase his reps. You'll see
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Speaker 1: an orange jersey on him. I spoke with Arthur you
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Speaker 1: know Smith um this morning about that, you know, so
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Speaker 1: they'll be aware of him and just try to limit
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Speaker 1: the amount of touches. Darius Williams is full go. He's
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Speaker 1: been cleared, you know, for for everything, so I would
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Speaker 1: be exciting to get him out there. BT bad Oars
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Speaker 1: another one that's that's good to go. We'll try to
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Speaker 1: ramp up his reps throughout the course of the week. Uh, Devon.
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Speaker 1: You know, if the week progresses, you know, obviously in
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Speaker 1: his favor and our favor, then then he'll see some
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Speaker 1: time in this game, you know, and which is what
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Speaker 1: we need to see. That coach Doug Peterson before the
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Speaker 1: trip to Atlanta just the other day, and welcome back.
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Speaker 1: Its uddle up with Bucky Brooks, JP Shaddick, John osan
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Speaker 1: Flowery Branch, Georgia. Bucky is out in Los Angeles. That
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Speaker 1: indeed all happened today that he just spoke about. That's
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Speaker 1: the good news. One name not on that list is
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Speaker 1: fully fund A Cassie still off to the side. He
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Speaker 1: had the catfissue during the game John this past Saturday.
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Speaker 1: And I think you're just gonna be very cautious with him.
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Speaker 1: Give him as much time as possible to get ready
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Speaker 1: for the opening. He's a big key to that run defense. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you want him healthy for the opener. I haven't heard
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Speaker 1: whether they think he'll be ready for the opener. Won't
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Speaker 1: play Saturday because all all starters won't play. Uh, it
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Speaker 1: sounds like Shaq Griffin would be in that boat. But
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Speaker 1: you're not nearly is worried about Shack is as that
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Speaker 1: you would be about Funny Check was running around to day.
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Speaker 1: So that's good news, Bucky. He's he's back out there,
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Speaker 1: which is a good thing. And but yeah, you you
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Speaker 1: have this time. That extra week helps out in this scenario, Bucky,
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Speaker 1: where you can get guys healthy and then get to
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Speaker 1: the starting game of the season. Yeah. Number one go
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Speaker 1: from this point forward is to get to the regular
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Speaker 1: season open up with everyone intact. You want your number
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Speaker 1: one is available, You want your starters ready to go,
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Speaker 1: and you want them to be eager to play on
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Speaker 1: the eleven. And so if you do Peters in the staff,
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Speaker 1: you want to air on this out of caution. You
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Speaker 1: want to make sure that everyone gets the rehab work
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Speaker 1: in so that that game week they're available to prepare
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Speaker 1: and then you want to be able to start the
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Speaker 1: season one. And oh so a lot of the work
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Speaker 1: has been done. This is kind of like the cherry
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Speaker 1: on top of the Sunday in terms of this joint practice,
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Speaker 1: just to get the timing down without having to expose
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Speaker 1: the starters to game action. But yeah, everything right now,
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Speaker 1: as as as we say what future focus, future focus
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Speaker 1: on getting the game weren't ready to go right? Hey,
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Speaker 1: is this something? I mean, obviously a bunch of teams
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Speaker 1: access against each other, but are there any teams this
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Speaker 1: year that are doing multiple weeks of this against different teams?
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Speaker 1: I haven't heard what you know. Would you be opposed
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Speaker 1: to that in the future, like doing two different joint
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Speaker 1: practices or is that too much? No? I actually like it.
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Speaker 1: I like it because now the people that watch preseason
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Speaker 1: games won't like it, because then that ensures that your
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Speaker 1: starters won't play in two preseason games. But I like
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Speaker 1: it because it gives you an opportunity to play fast
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Speaker 1: to get a competitive look. It also gives you another
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Speaker 1: opportunity to get a real evaluation of your players, not
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Speaker 1: only your hi end guys, but you're your guys that
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Speaker 1: are on their fringes. You get a chance to see
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Speaker 1: them in another competitive environment and that helps with the
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Speaker 1: decision making. If I'm a coach from in front office,
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Speaker 1: I would like to take advantage of as many of
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Speaker 1: these type opportunities as I could because it helps me
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Speaker 1: make the best decision as it relates to making the rouster. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I said earlier, I wondered sort of what the value
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Speaker 1: was of having these joint practices on the final preseason game.
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Speaker 1: Uh I said that somebody out in the field, And
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Speaker 1: the more I thought about it, I think what Bucky
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Speaker 1: said is the value. I don't know that this is
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Speaker 1: necessarily a week for the starters to shine or not
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Speaker 1: shine in this joint practice situation, but it's certainly for
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Speaker 1: a team like the Jaguars right now, who I know.
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Speaker 1: Doug said last week that THEFT three is sort of
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Speaker 1: set within a few but this gives those bottom fifteen, sixteen,
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Speaker 1: seventeen guys a real chance Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday to
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Speaker 1: have real action and to really prove themselves. So in
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Speaker 1: a year where you're trying to figure out what you
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Speaker 1: have where you don't have a lot of game experience
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Speaker 1: with these guys, for this coaching staff, this personnel staff,
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Speaker 1: this week does make sense. Because most teams know their
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Speaker 1: top twenty five or thirty. This is a good chance
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Speaker 1: for those other twenty three I'd to prove they belong here. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and if not here, Bucky, then somewhere else. Obviously that's
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Speaker 1: the old cliche in the league, but it's true. There's
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Speaker 1: thirty one other teams. There's other leagues now, I mean,
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Speaker 1: and then you in theory, you can see these guys
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Speaker 1: are getting down the road. If for some reason there's
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Speaker 1: an injury, things happen unfortunate, you can bring a guy
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Speaker 1: back who's already been in your system. Never give When
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Speaker 1: you're a team that has struggled for as long as
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Speaker 1: the jack wards of struggle, the bottom third of your
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Speaker 1: roster is always subject to turn over. And so these
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Speaker 1: joint practices are not on opportunities for you to evaluate
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Speaker 1: your own guys, but eventuay some of the guys on
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Speaker 1: the other team. And so as you think about churning
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Speaker 1: the last five to seven roster spots uh turning over
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Speaker 1: the practice squad, you're trying to begin to assemble a
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Speaker 1: short list of candidates that would fill out those respective spots.
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Speaker 1: And so this is another opportunity for you to narrow
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Speaker 1: the focus, figure out which guys are great fits for that,
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Speaker 1: which guys have developmental potential that may they may start there,
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Speaker 1: but eventually they have enough talented potential to maybe help
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Speaker 1: you by the end of the season. One thing he
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Speaker 1: gets lost to sometimes JP people talk about the fifty
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Speaker 1: three in reality, in the NFL these days, it's a
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Speaker 1: sixty nine, meaning you have sixteen practice squad spots, and
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Speaker 1: if you look over the course of the entire season,
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Speaker 1: usually you've got nine, ten, eleven of those practice squad
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Speaker 1: guys who wind up getting called up because of injury,
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Speaker 1: who wind up playing the second half the season, not
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Speaker 1: because of attrition. So you're seeing those bottom maybe twenty
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Speaker 1: that I talked about, but really you're seeing the bottom
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Speaker 1: thirty six. So except for the starters, this is a
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Speaker 1: big week. Yeah, no doubt about that. Hey, let's let's
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Speaker 1: take a time out. We'll hear more from Doug Peterson
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Speaker 1: coming up earlier this week. We've got to get into
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Speaker 1: some Trevor Lawrence comments as well. We heard from the
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Speaker 1: quarterback after practice. Will break some of that down when
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Speaker 1: we return. We're in Flowery Branch, Georgia at the Atlanta
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Speaker 1: Falcons facility and this is huddle up with Bucky Brooks
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Speaker 1: on the Jaguars Digital Network. I think we've got a
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Speaker 1: pretty good idea right now. But you know, um, I
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Speaker 1: told the team this morning, this is gonna be a
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Speaker 1: big week for for a lot of guys, you know,
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Speaker 1: and they also too, They gotta understand that not just
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Speaker 1: our team, but thirty one other teams are are are
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Speaker 1: watching you know, our roster as well and and seeing
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Speaker 1: who who's gonna make a fifty three who's not. There's
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Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of a lot of our players,
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Speaker 1: I think get picked up if if they're not here,
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Speaker 1: you know, but you know, it's it's a great opportunity
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Speaker 1: for for many players, you know, especially the young guys
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Speaker 1: to practice well and obviously play well in this football game,
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Speaker 1: you know, um, because they could end up end up
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Speaker 1: on a roster. It may not be here, but it
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Speaker 1: could be somewhere. It could be. And welcome back. It's
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Speaker 1: I love with Bucky Brooks, J P. Shadrick, John Osier
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Speaker 1: and Flowery Branch Georgia. Bucky is out in l A.
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Speaker 1: That to our point of at last a few minutes
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Speaker 1: of our program here, the you know, the bottom third
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Speaker 1: of the roster really trying to fight for spots here.
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Speaker 1: And we always say it John Bucky, special teams are key.
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Speaker 1: If you can contribute there, if they trust you enough
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Speaker 1: in some of those roles, you might be able to
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Speaker 1: crack a roster spot. Yeah, you might by trade be
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Speaker 1: a linebacker or a defensive back, but in theory, you're
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Speaker 1: not gonna be playing those positions a whole lot. You're
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Speaker 1: gonna be out there and hopefully in the four course
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Speaker 1: special teams. Well, if you're not in that group I
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Speaker 1: talked about, which is UH in the top fifteen sixteen
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Speaker 1: on offense, on defense, and you usually are making the
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Speaker 1: roster on special teams. Occasionally a wide receiver maybe an
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Speaker 1: exception to that. There might be exception somewhere on the roster,
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Speaker 1: but for the most part that's the case, or an
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Speaker 1: offensive linement. So beyond that, you better be able to
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Speaker 1: play teams and UH. That will be watched intensely tomorrow
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Speaker 1: and Saturday. That is interesting to watch Heath Farwell at practice, Bucky,
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Speaker 1: because you know, on like a kickoff, drill or whatever.
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Speaker 1: Didn't happen today, but the past weeks he's running down
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Speaker 1: the field like he's on the coverage team still like
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Speaker 1: he was playing, and he gets a good look at
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Speaker 1: it that way, so it's it's he's right on top
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Speaker 1: of the action there. As a special teams coordinator. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's a special skill. One to coach special teams, but
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Speaker 1: two to really play and exhale at it. Um. No
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Speaker 1: one goes to college expecting to be a special teamer.
17:17
Speaker 1: Everyone was a four or five star coming out of
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Speaker 1: high school. Everyone was a starter and demand on their
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Speaker 1: respected collegiate squads. And then they get to the National
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Speaker 1: Football League and they're asked to do a role that
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Speaker 1: they never participated in, and so you learn a new
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Speaker 1: set of skills. You're trying to figure out. I'm a
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Speaker 1: wide receiver who's never had a tackle. Now I gotta tackle.
17:34
Speaker 1: I have to do different things, but I have to
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Speaker 1: do it because I need to be great on special
17:38
Speaker 1: teams to give myself an opportunity to get a jersey
17:41
Speaker 1: on Sunday when you think about dressing out only forty
17:45
Speaker 1: or forty seven guys. I have to earn my way
17:48
Speaker 1: up to being a core special teamer. So maybe I
17:51
Speaker 1: can be the fifth or six wide receiver that they
17:53
Speaker 1: keep up. And so if these guys had big picture perspective,
17:57
Speaker 1: they are really trying to find a way to kind
17:59
Speaker 1: of create an opportunity for themselves to be on the
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Speaker 1: starting units on teams because that enhances their opportunity to
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Speaker 1: be able to get him the field as a regular
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Speaker 1: position player. And there's no better example of that than
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Speaker 1: the guy in the Jaguars. Rudy Ford, who is a
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Speaker 1: guy who if I mean the Jaguars beleeve strongly in him.
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Speaker 1: If they didn't, there would be fifteen or twenty teams
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Speaker 1: lining up to get him. He's that good. And if
18:23
Speaker 1: you look at last year, he's a guy who stayed
18:25
Speaker 1: in the league because of special teams and showed last
18:27
Speaker 1: year that in the right spot he can make an
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Speaker 1: impact on the defense. So uh, if these guys don't
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Speaker 1: believe that, just as Rudy Ford right, and you know
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Speaker 1: he wants to play defense, she will be motivated to
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Speaker 1: do that. But the fact that he's probably not gives
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Speaker 1: him maybe a little added juice on teams fifty six
18:44
Speaker 1: year now, which means he's making up a million for
18:46
Speaker 1: being that guy. I'll change my role JP for a million,
18:51
Speaker 1: I'll come over here and good teammate, Good teammate Buck.
18:55
Speaker 1: He's this guy very much, very much. So I think
18:59
Speaker 1: I think Rudy Ford is a great example as a
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Speaker 1: veteran player who's kind of figured out his role. It
19:04
Speaker 1: may give him an opportunity to eventually be a tenure
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Speaker 1: player because he figured out if I could be a
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Speaker 1: dominant player on special teams, I'm invaluable to my current team. Uh.
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Speaker 1: He does get snaps occasion on defense because if there's
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Speaker 1: an injury to happen, your special teamers hopefully are good
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Speaker 1: enough to get you out of a vine. Uh in
19:21
Speaker 1: a situation if you have to use him as a
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Speaker 1: position player. Alright, one guy on this roster that has
19:26
Speaker 1: probably I'm going to guess never in his life played
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Speaker 1: a special teams down and never will is Trevor Lawrence,
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Speaker 1: Jaguars quarterback. He was out here today, of course, after
19:37
Speaker 1: practice speaking with the media. He's from Cartersville, Georgia, just
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Speaker 1: north of Atlanta. It's sow Gosh, probably thirty minute drive
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Speaker 1: away from here, So the Atlanta media came over. They
19:47
Speaker 1: wanted to talk to him about being back in his
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Speaker 1: home area, his home state. He had plenty to say
19:52
Speaker 1: about that, had plenty to say about his progress as
19:56
Speaker 1: camp has gone along, and there's still a little work
19:58
Speaker 1: to be done here John to to get ready for
20:00
Speaker 1: week one. I'm a little worked up, JP. Um, I'm surprised,
20:07
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna bring the scout in from Los Angele
20:09
Speaker 1: all the way from Los Angeles. Bucky helped me out
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Speaker 1: here every day. Right now, I'm getting emails from people
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Speaker 1: picking Trevor Lawrence apart, worried that he's not the guy.
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Speaker 1: You know. We haven't talked a whole lot buck, but
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Speaker 1: I've seen nothing in this preseason or training camp to
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Speaker 1: make me concerned about Trevor. If anything, it's the opposite. Um,
20:29
Speaker 1: what are you seeing? Help me out with my argument
20:32
Speaker 1: because I'm perplexed and I'm a little angry. Yeah, I'm not.
20:36
Speaker 1: I'm not salty like you are. I'm I'm feeling very
20:39
Speaker 1: easy in like having taken some yoga early today. But
20:42
Speaker 1: I will say what I like about I can't afford
20:44
Speaker 1: yoga classes. YEA, all right, go ahead on the computer.
20:49
Speaker 1: You can google it. It's all free and available YouTube.
20:52
Speaker 1: With some of these other uh searchings, you can find that.
20:55
Speaker 1: But for Trevor Lawrence, what we're going to find as
20:58
Speaker 1: a guy who was more decisive, more cough, and more
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Speaker 1: accurate than we saw last year. This offense I think
21:03
Speaker 1: fits his game because Doug Peterson is willing to mold
21:07
Speaker 1: the offense to the strength of his game. I think
21:09
Speaker 1: early we should be encouraged by the way he's performing
21:11
Speaker 1: in these preseason games. We've seen them utilize his athleticism
21:15
Speaker 1: his movement ability, uh one, as a as a quarterback
21:19
Speaker 1: executing his own read. We've seen him on these movement
21:22
Speaker 1: and bootleg passes. I believe there's a synergy and connection
21:25
Speaker 1: between him and his veteran receivers. I just can't wait
21:28
Speaker 1: to see it in regular season action. So what I
21:30
Speaker 1: would tell everyone who has really been nitpicking his game
21:33
Speaker 1: be patient. It's the preseason. We've seen some good things.
21:37
Speaker 1: We're seeing some things that you want to see better.
21:39
Speaker 1: But man, that while plays certainly outweighed the negative plays,
21:45
Speaker 1: I think there's a reason to be very, very optimistic
21:47
Speaker 1: about how the offense will perform and how Trevor Lawrence
21:50
Speaker 1: will eventually playing this sophomore season. And I repeat myself
21:53
Speaker 1: a little bit, Bucky here, bit I look at it.
21:57
Speaker 1: You've had seven offensive series with the first team, if
22:01
Speaker 1: I remember my stats right, They've had a first down
22:03
Speaker 1: on every one of them except one. They've had points
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Speaker 1: on five of them. I get the red zone worries,
22:09
Speaker 1: but just from you know, a ten thousand feet view down,
22:14
Speaker 1: doesn't it seem like this offense is moving bucket? It
22:18
Speaker 1: to me? It does to me. They went up and
22:21
Speaker 1: down the field when the ones were in the game
22:23
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. The biggest issue has been converting those rids
22:26
Speaker 1: on opportunities in the touchdowns because ultimately death that's always
22:29
Speaker 1: the last thing to come. Yeah, that's going to decide
22:33
Speaker 1: whether the Jaguar is able to win games. You can't
22:35
Speaker 1: settle for three. You gotta get sevens. But as you
22:37
Speaker 1: talk about, the reason it's the last part to come
22:40
Speaker 1: is because that's the part that requires the most timing
22:42
Speaker 1: in the passing game. Tighter windows, conde space. Uh, you're
22:46
Speaker 1: working in really the the tightest area of the field,
22:50
Speaker 1: and so everything has to be very precise. But in
22:52
Speaker 1: time you get develop the trust that you need with
22:54
Speaker 1: your receivers where they happen. And also remember this Doug
22:58
Speaker 1: has talked about and some of these prec and games,
23:00
Speaker 1: he's made a concerted effort to work on various parts
23:03
Speaker 1: of the Jacksonville Jaguars offense. He said, I wanted to
23:07
Speaker 1: run the ball in the red zone because I know
23:09
Speaker 1: eventually we're going to have to run the football in
23:12
Speaker 1: the red zone to score points. A lot of people
23:15
Speaker 1: get caught up in winning and losing in the preseason,
23:18
Speaker 1: but remember every coach operates in the preseason, but the
23:22
Speaker 1: different agenda. Doug has wanted to put things on tape
23:24
Speaker 1: so they could evaluate it so I wouldn't freak out
23:27
Speaker 1: about how the office had performed, because I actually feel
23:29
Speaker 1: like the ones have been great. I just get more
23:32
Speaker 1: worried about the backups learning how to win as opposed
23:35
Speaker 1: to the stuff that the starters are being able to do.
23:39
Speaker 1: Four or five years into my tenure with the Colts JPD,
23:41
Speaker 1: the Colts were out of sight in the red zone.
23:44
Speaker 1: Somebody has Peyton manning. You know, why was it working
23:47
Speaker 1: that year and nine years past? He said, it's hard
23:50
Speaker 1: down there, Pelist, That's what it is. I mean, it's
23:55
Speaker 1: the hardest place to score. They finally had continuity. They
23:58
Speaker 1: had a bunch of guys been together for a long time.
24:00
Speaker 1: It got easier, but it takes time. As Aaron Rodgers
24:04
Speaker 1: once said, R E L A X. Relax, it's coming soon.
24:09
Speaker 1: We're backing them all. In our final thoughts ahead of
24:13
Speaker 1: those preseason Week three game coming up Saturday, and tuddled
24:16
Speaker 1: up with Bucky Brooks on the Jaguars Digital Network, it's
24:23
Speaker 1: it's impressive, you know that part of it you like, um,
24:26
Speaker 1: you know, and and and obviously the consistency is what
24:29
Speaker 1: you look for, uh in in kickers and and uh
24:32
Speaker 1: you know it'll be a good opportunity for you know,
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Speaker 1: and then and then for us just to keep keep
24:37
Speaker 1: going through the process. We get still got a little
24:38
Speaker 1: bit of time here before before you know, kicks mean something,
24:42
Speaker 1: but they had to be a good opportunity for That's
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson discussing the kicker James McCourt. They claimed him
24:49
Speaker 1: off waivers just the other day when he was cut
24:52
Speaker 1: from the chart, waived from the Chargers, walking back and
24:55
Speaker 1: tunnel up with Bucky Brooks, JP Shadrick, John Osier, Bucky
24:58
Speaker 1: Brooks and if he makes the roster and plays in
25:02
Speaker 1: a game, he'd be the first Irish born player in
25:04
Speaker 1: the NFL since Neil O'Donoghue, kicker for the St. Louis Cardinals.
25:11
Speaker 1: That was his last year in the Loogue. While you know,
25:16
Speaker 1: people who watch these shows or read me in the
25:19
Speaker 1: ozone know how much I like Doug Peterson because he's
25:22
Speaker 1: an NFL coach. And I loved his comment when somebody
25:25
Speaker 1: asked him how concerned he was about the kicker situation.
25:27
Speaker 1: Because he's an NFL guy, he understands it a lot
25:29
Speaker 1: of times kickers. I don't wanna say it, but there
25:32
Speaker 1: there can be an interchangeable element here. And he said
25:36
Speaker 1: they tried out six week one in Philadelphia in two
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Speaker 1: thousand and seventeen. The winner of that job was a
25:42
Speaker 1: winner in the Super Bowl. He's not worried. He knows
25:45
Speaker 1: this will work out. And the fans angst over this
25:49
Speaker 1: does not line up with Doug's angst that what fans
25:52
Speaker 1: do Bucky fans fan sometimes, Yeah, there's a nastural inclination
25:58
Speaker 1: to freak out about the kid situation. Now. I am
26:01
Speaker 1: not certainly uh happy about the way that is played
26:05
Speaker 1: out so far during the preseason, but you want to
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Speaker 1: get it right, and the only time you have to
26:08
Speaker 1: have it right it's by the time to regular season
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Speaker 1: kicks off. So hopefully we'll get a resolve. Hopefully mc
26:13
Speaker 1: court come in and do his thing and knock it out.
26:15
Speaker 1: If not, let's go our the waiver wire. We'll make
26:18
Speaker 1: a trade to make sure we get one. But it'll
26:20
Speaker 1: work yourself out, and I think Doug has the perspective
26:23
Speaker 1: on that. Um, you do want to have a nails kicker, though,
26:26
Speaker 1: because it changes the way that you call the game.
26:29
Speaker 1: If you have someone who is automatic from UH forty
26:32
Speaker 1: nine in but now it changes how you call plays
26:35
Speaker 1: and if you have someone who is also a long
26:37
Speaker 1: distance specialist. Now you talked about just needing to get
26:40
Speaker 1: to the thirty five yard line to score points. New
26:43
Speaker 1: ball game comes from the play called them when you
26:45
Speaker 1: know if I get to that point, I'm guaranteed three points. Yeah,
26:48
Speaker 1: So so it makes it difference. So you do want
26:50
Speaker 1: to get a kicker that solid. Let's see if we
26:53
Speaker 1: can find one eventually. Huddle up with Bucky Brooks. Brought
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27:01
Speaker 1: the Jaguars and the Falcons coming up with a happy
27:04
Speaker 1: Hour radio tomorrow at four o'clock and then the Doug
27:06
Speaker 1: Peterson showed five o'clock right here in Flowery Branch. But Bucky, um,
27:12
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a deep down the depth chart
27:14
Speaker 1: game coming up Saturday in Atlanta. It will be deep
27:18
Speaker 1: down the depth chart. But I will say this, UH,
27:20
Speaker 1: I have fond memories of the ninety seven preseason playing
27:24
Speaker 1: in the final preseason game with a lot writing on
27:27
Speaker 1: the game. UH. The intensity level for a lot of
27:30
Speaker 1: these guys that will have the opportunity. It will be
27:32
Speaker 1: their own mini super Bowl, and so I am looking
27:36
Speaker 1: forward to watching a bunch of guys go for it
27:38
Speaker 1: because for some of these guys be the last time
27:39
Speaker 1: they put on pads in the NFL uniform, so they're
27:42
Speaker 1: urgency and desperation. We'll leave this maybe an epic performance
27:46
Speaker 1: of two. So I'm excited to see it. We see
27:47
Speaker 1: how plays out for the starters. Uh, it's a great
27:50
Speaker 1: day to have your hat, maybe slides on the sideline
27:53
Speaker 1: and relax and shoot your teammates one. But it should
27:56
Speaker 1: be a good game. What's the memory, Buggy, have a
28:00
Speaker 1: pick touchdown something? I did have an interception in a game.
28:05
Speaker 1: I did have an interception. Uh, covering Mike Hanes, I
28:08
Speaker 1: picked off a pass and uh, it was it was
28:10
Speaker 1: a good time last preseason. Maybe I can dig down
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Speaker 1: into it when no one was watching. I like that up.
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Speaker 1: It's gotta be in the TV broadcast Saturday. We're gonna
28:21
Speaker 1: show that play. I don't know. You gotta you gotta
28:25
Speaker 1: dig deep into archives to find that. One of my
28:29
Speaker 1: best watching. It's a great catching the step marks better
28:32
Speaker 1: each year. It sounds like, right, Hey, Bucky, have a
28:35
Speaker 1: good one. Appreciate the time man. As always, we'll talk
28:37
Speaker 1: to you. Hey man, we'll see you this weekend. It's
28:40
Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks. He'll be on television this Saturday in Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: That's John Osan. He's on Jaguars dot Com, coming up
28:47
Speaker 1: very soon with his coverage today's practice and for our
28:49
Speaker 1: entire crew. I'm J. P. Shadrick. Will catch you next time,
28:52
Speaker 1: but huddle up with Bucky Brooks on the Jaguars Digital Network.
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