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Bucky Previews Jaguars vs. Bengals | Huddle Up · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Huddle Up! Jaguar senior rider John Osher and
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  Speaker 1: NFL Network analyst and former Jaguar Bucky Brooks bring you
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  Speaker 1: the latest on your Jacksonville Jaguar. Huddle Up starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: All right, welcome in to Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks.
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  Speaker 2: I'm John Osher from the Hyundai Studios in Jacksonville. Bucky Brooks,
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  Speaker 2: I'm assuming, is in Los Angeles, as he always is.
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  Speaker 2: luxury auto group. Go to fieldsauto.com. And, Bucky, big one
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday. It's a huge win over New England. And
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  Speaker 2: I guess what I want to ask you first, I
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  Speaker 2: had a feeling that people, like, didn't notice this big
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  Speaker 2: win for the Jags. And I'm not talking about the
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  Speaker 2: respect thing. It was almost like once they got ahead
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  Speaker 2: and won it big, you almost assumed they were going
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  Speaker 2: to do it. There wasn't a lot of fanfare over it.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that's good. But do you know what I'm getting at?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely on the national scene.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't register the kind of response that normally would
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  Speaker 3: happen when the pages are taken down in a beatdown
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  Speaker 3: like that. And you wonder if it's a lack of
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  Speaker 3: respecting for... The Jags, is it a... We came to
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  Speaker 3: expect that because Drake May is struggling on the other side.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, but it's certainly just kind of fluent
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  Speaker 3: in the radar. Like, oh, ho-hum, 35-6, Jags win, on
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  Speaker 3: to the next.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think for that reason, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: follow the league more than I'm able to. But I
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  Speaker 2: don't care if Drake May's struggling. I don't care if
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  Speaker 2: the Patriots had a couple injuries. This team played in
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  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl last year, and I believe they're a well-coached,
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  Speaker 2: good team. And you not only beat them, you handled them.
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  Speaker 2: And I get there were a few plays in the
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  Speaker 2: first half, like any game, where things sort of rise
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  Speaker 2: and fall. It's a big moment league. But you dominated
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  Speaker 2: the game, and you've dominated now six straight home games.
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  Speaker 2: some level of competition, rise and fall. But these are
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  Speaker 2: things that good teams do. The Jaguars are doing them.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't care about the national recognition thing, but
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  Speaker 2: how important do you think that kind of win was
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  Speaker 2: where it's just you can now beat teams like that comfortably.
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  Speaker 2: That's a hard place to get to, I guess, is
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  Speaker 2: what I'm getting at.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, really hard place. We've talked about it. This league
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  Speaker 3: is a one-score league. Most games are decided in the
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  Speaker 3: fourth quarter. Most games are decided by eight points or fewer.
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  Speaker 3: So to have the kind of margin that the Jaguars
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  Speaker 3: had early in the fourth quarter, that is uncommon, particularly
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  Speaker 3: when it was a team that came in and people
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  Speaker 3: haven't talked about it. Look, they hadn't given up a
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  Speaker 3: lot of points. They might have been like the number
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  Speaker 3: one team in points allowed or whatever, like coming in.
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  Speaker 3: And so to put 35 points on the board, that
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  Speaker 3: should have drawn a lot of positive responses about the Jaguars.
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  Speaker 3: And we talk about controlling the game and the way
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  Speaker 3: that Trevor played and those things, not from a statistical standpoint,
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  Speaker 3: but from a feel. It was a dominant performance from
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  Speaker 3: beginning to end. That should have been talked about more.
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  Speaker 2: And I guess I'm so used to the lack of
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  Speaker 2: respect thing that it's almost boring. So, look, everybody else
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  Speaker 2: can talk about that.
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  Speaker 4: And.
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  Speaker 2: So I guess before we get into Jaguars 35 Patriots 6,
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  Speaker 2: I want to ask you from as objective as you
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  Speaker 2: can be, yes, they lost to Denver, but they beat
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  Speaker 2: what now appears what we all kind of thought was
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  Speaker 2: an okay Cleveland team. We were impressed with how they
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  Speaker 2: handled it, but you didn't know. After three games, what's
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  Speaker 2: your feel for this team? You're starting to be able
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  Speaker 2: to smooth out some of the highs and lows and
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  Speaker 2: see a couple of trends maybe? What's your feel for
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  Speaker 2: this team?
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  Speaker 3: I think we're a really good team. And I think,
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  Speaker 3: and I felt like this coming in, we have a
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  Speaker 3: much better team. I just don't know if the record
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  Speaker 3: is going to reflect how good we are. We won't
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  Speaker 3: really get a chance to see it until the postseason.
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  Speaker 3: That said, you think about the three teams that we played.
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  Speaker 3: The Cleveland Browns, everyone kind of chalked it up to
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  Speaker 3: being a gimme. But then you watch them play the
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  Speaker 3: last two weeks. Look, they knocked off Tampa. They come
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  Speaker 3: back and get a big win against the Carolina Panthers.
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  Speaker 2: They're not a bottom feeder. is what you're getting at.
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  Speaker 3: Not a bottom three. Everybody kind of thought that. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So the Denver Broncos come back and knock off the
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  Speaker 3: LA Rams, much like they came back and knocked off us.
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  Speaker 3: But another good team, another team that you expect to
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  Speaker 3: be in the postseason. And then this Patriots team, who
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  Speaker 3: we always celebrate, Mike Vrabel being one of the top
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  Speaker 3: coaches from a tactical and strategic standpoint. Look, the quarterback
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  Speaker 3: was MVP runner-up a season ago. They had a lot
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  Speaker 3: of good players. And I didn't hear about the injury
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  Speaker 3: situation until after the game, not really prior to the game.
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  Speaker 3: And we handled them. And we had our way with
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  Speaker 3: them running the football, throwing it efficiently. To me, look,
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  Speaker 3: it was a really good performance. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: say this, John, like when you look at the tape,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't an A-plus performance. We didn't play above our head.
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  Speaker 3: We just had a solid game based on how we prepared.
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  Speaker 3: And so this is what good teams do. They take
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  Speaker 3: care of business. They win their games at home. And
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  Speaker 3: they're okay messing up with top teams because you get
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  Speaker 3: used to playing top teams each and every week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Buck, you already got into it a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: but I wanted to ask you about a stat that
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  Speaker 2: I didn't really notice maybe on Sunday night, and then
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  Speaker 2: after I thought about it a little bit, it really
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  Speaker 2: struck me. A, five red zone touchdowns. And I'm to
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  Speaker 2: the point now where– I just think Liam can really
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  Speaker 2: call red zone offense. I mean, I think he is
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  Speaker 2: a master at drawing those things up. You couple that, Bucky,
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  Speaker 2: with a good, efficient running game, but they got, what,
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  Speaker 2: 140 yards, I think. It was around that. But there
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  Speaker 2: weren't any explosives, and there weren't any explosives in the
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  Speaker 2: passing game. The running game is really interesting to me
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  Speaker 2: because usually– 100-plus games are often built on a 35-yard
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  Speaker 2: run mixed in. So it's just an efficient game, an
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  Speaker 2: efficient performance to me, Bucky, against a team that tries
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  Speaker 2: to take your efficiency away.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is one of those things that we
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  Speaker 3: know to be true when it comes to, one, a
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  Speaker 3: Mike Vrabel team. For all those years, we had to
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  Speaker 3: deal with the Tennessee Titans and also something that has
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  Speaker 3: been a hallmark in New England forever. They're going to
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  Speaker 3: try and make you play left-handed. So they're going to
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  Speaker 3: take away what you do really well. They're going to
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  Speaker 3: limit the explosives. They really want to bottle up the run,
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  Speaker 3: and they want to make you throw against their loaded coverages. Normally,
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  Speaker 3: they came in being a heavy man-to-man team. This week,
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  Speaker 3: for whatever reason, they played more zone, didn't want to
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  Speaker 3: let the ball go over the top, kept everything in front.
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  Speaker 3: And to Trevor's credit, he was very patient. He took
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  Speaker 3: the check down. He worked the underneath areas of the field.
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  Speaker 2: That's a big thing you're getting to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: To me, what you're saying is a big deal.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, they methodically work the ball down the field.
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  Speaker 3: And the same thing in the running game. And so
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  Speaker 3: you know, and Liam always talks about it, how hard
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  Speaker 3: it is to score points when you don't have explosive plays.
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  Speaker 3: Explosive plays, runs over 10 yards, passes over 20 yards.
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  Speaker 3: It is hard in our game to drive it on
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of 5, 6, 3, 7, 3, 2, down
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  Speaker 3: the field. It's just hard. I'd say you can have
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  Speaker 3: a penalty. You can get thrown behind the chains. You
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  Speaker 3: have a turnover. You're just not going to be able
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  Speaker 3: to complete the drive. And for the Jags to do that,
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  Speaker 3: to me, speaks to the growth of the team. But really,
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  Speaker 3: it speaks to Trevor finally doing what I would say
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  Speaker 3: great quarterbacks do. Great quarterbacks have the ability to do
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  Speaker 3: that delicate dance between being a game manager and a playmaker,
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  Speaker 3: given what the situation is. Sometimes, hey, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: This is a game where I just need to distribute
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  Speaker 3: the ball, manage the game. I don't need to insert
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  Speaker 3: myself in forced plays. Other times, hey, got to put
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  Speaker 3: it on my shoulders. I'm going to have to make
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  Speaker 3: big plays. But the thing is, you have to be
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  Speaker 3: both people in the same game sometimes. Trevor does that
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  Speaker 3: when you see him throw a dart to Parker Washington
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  Speaker 3: on a third and forever go-to-go situation. He comes back
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  Speaker 3: and throws another one to Josh Cameron, like, over and
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  Speaker 3: over again. So it's there, but in this game, he
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  Speaker 3: was comfortable taking the check down. And no matter what
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  Speaker 3: defensive coaches say, because, look, being in those meetings, we
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  Speaker 3: always say, make them throw the check down. They won't
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  Speaker 3: stay with the check down. But what happens is every
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  Speaker 3: completion changes the defense. Because for so long, if you
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  Speaker 3: see guys throw it to the back or whatever, all
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  Speaker 3: it takes is one undisciplined defender to run up, and
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  Speaker 3: then you hit the 15-yard dig right behind him. And
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  Speaker 3: so it's understanding that chess match, Trevor's beginning to understand it.
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  Speaker 3: And when he's patient and disciplined, man, this offense looks terrific.
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  Speaker 2: Final question before we move on to the defense. I've
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  Speaker 2: been trying to ask people about this and getting close
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  Speaker 2: to the answer. It felt the other day like the
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  Speaker 2: running offense is starting to get to where Liam visions it.
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  Speaker 2: And I didn't watch everything that he did with the Bucs,
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  Speaker 2: but the balance, the being able to run with power, the,
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  Speaker 2: the play where they pitch it out and then sort
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  Speaker 2: of run back to the middle uh yeah i mean
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  Speaker 2: it's it's uh when we talked all off season about
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  Speaker 2: this about them wanting to be a more efficient you
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  Speaker 2: know effective running game and that it might not have
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  Speaker 2: the explosives that it have a travis etn Or H-E-N,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Does it feel like they're stepping toward that vision?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny. Listen to his presser throughout the week.
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  Speaker 3: He talked about the run game, the efficiency of the
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  Speaker 3: run game, how they put a lot into it. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's funny, right, man? And this is why, like,
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  Speaker 3: the judgment of draft picks and those things immediately after
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  Speaker 3: they're selected.
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  Speaker 2: Is really silly.
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  Speaker 3: But that's you. That's what you do. That's your game.
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  Speaker 3: It's really silly. I hate it, but it's one thing
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  Speaker 3: you do. But now let's think about what has really
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  Speaker 3: changed with the offensive line and the offensive front. Nate
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  Speaker 3: Borkature comes over to solidify the edges as a blocking
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  Speaker 3: tight end. Emmanuel Pregnant is inserted at left guard to
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  Speaker 3: give them a physical force. Both of those picks were
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  Speaker 3: panned when they made it. But when you think about
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  Speaker 3: the collective and how the unit is operating now, you
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  Speaker 3: see the vision. They wanted to be a power unit.
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  Speaker 3: running team they wanted to be able to be able
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  Speaker 3: to get dirty when it came to the run game
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  Speaker 3: run between the tackles impose their will on opponents and
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  Speaker 3: you're seeing that and we can say this now that
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  Speaker 3: travis hn is gone they wanted a little more of
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  Speaker 3: a physical presence a little more of a rugged running
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  Speaker 3: game and for all the great things that travis was
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  Speaker 3: when it came to the explosive plays there was a
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  Speaker 3: feeling inside that maybe there was a little more meat
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  Speaker 3: on the bone We're trying to get that accomplished with
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  Speaker 3: guys who may not be as heralded, but they certainly
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  Speaker 3: fit the system, and that's why the offense is having
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  Speaker 3: success on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk a lot about the defense in
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  Speaker 2: a future segment, so let me ask you one thing.
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  Speaker 2: I think I saw on Sunday what you've been telling
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  Speaker 2: me Travis Hunter is on that play, meaning reacting to
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  Speaker 2: the ball in the air, a moment-type player, Just kind
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  Speaker 2: of talk about him. Any thoughts on Travis Hunter?
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  Speaker 3: Look, I give Travis Hunter a lot of credit, right, man?
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  Speaker 3: The noise was so loud. And I know you're in town.
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  Speaker 3: You can hear it. You can hear it on talk radio.
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  Speaker 3: I see it on Twitterverse, everything. Like, it was crazy
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  Speaker 3: about Travis Hunter and how he got to play. And
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  Speaker 3: there was a lot of pressure on him to make
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  Speaker 3: a play, even though he's 10 games really into his career.
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  Speaker 3: What I saw, a couple things. I saw a team
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  Speaker 3: that finally understands, like, hey, here's how we're going to
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  Speaker 3: play our cornerbacks, including number 12. It's my observation, but
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  Speaker 3: I felt like he was playing to the field. I
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  Speaker 3: looked at some of the coverages that they were using
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  Speaker 3: against New England. They felt like they matched up better.
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  Speaker 3: So you did see some man-to-man. You did see some
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  Speaker 3: what they call cover six where they cloud one side
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  Speaker 3: and the front side has some man-match principles. You did
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  Speaker 3: see man-to-man, but two-man where you had two safeties over
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  Speaker 3: top so those guys could get to it and put
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  Speaker 3: their hands on them. And all of those things played really,
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  Speaker 3: really well for Travis Hunter. But the big thing that
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  Speaker 3: we saw is You can't teach coach instincts, awareness, and
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  Speaker 3: ball skill. You can't. He has it. It's just a
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  Speaker 3: matter of can we keep him ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Bucky was freezing up there. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to go to break. I thought Travis's instincts on that
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  Speaker 2: play and the awareness were high, and we'll get to
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  Speaker 2: Bucky after this. This weekend's Jaguars-Bengals matchup, though, is presented
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  Speaker 2: Jacksonville Jaguars. When we return, we're going to look at
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  Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Bengals on Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks.
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  Speaker 5: Talk about any lockdown corner in this league, and it's still, right,
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  Speaker 5: he's still going to get his. I don't know what
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  Speaker 5: he had exactly stat line against Houston, but we all
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  Speaker 5: know Derrickson is a really good player, and he's going
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  Speaker 5: to get his. Like, it's very fun. difficult to say
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  Speaker 5: like he's just not gonna catch balls this week right.
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  Speaker 2: All right welcome back to huddle up with bucky brooks
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  Speaker 2: i'm john osier and that full press conference is available
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  Speaker 2: at jaguars.com or the jaguars youtube channel cheer on your
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  Speaker 2: jacksonville jaguars as they travel to cincinnati to take on
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  Speaker 2: the bengals this sunday at the official away game watch
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  Speaker 2: party at mr chubby's west side location indulging the best
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  Speaker 2: wings in town with appearances by the roar and jackson
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  Speaker 2: deville get the chance to win autographed items and game tickets,
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  Speaker 2: all while soaking up the lively atmosphere with fellow Jaguars fans.
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Chubby's Wings, proud partner of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Bucky, Liam
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  Speaker 2: was talking about Jamar Chase. I don't think anybody who
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  Speaker 2: follows the NFL is surprised to hear those comments. He
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  Speaker 2: says potential future Hall of Famer. I think Jamar Chase
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  Speaker 2: is going to the Hall. He's one of those guys, after...
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  Speaker 2: after the game last year, right? He had 14 for
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  Speaker 2: 180 or something absurd. And I talked to Buscelli the
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  Speaker 2: next day and I said, you know, sometimes Hall of
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  Speaker 2: Famers beat you. And there was a lot more to it,
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  Speaker 2: but sometimes Hall of Famers change games. He changed that one. Him, Burrow,
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  Speaker 2: I guess there's other pass catch guys that are as good,
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  Speaker 2: but I can't think of any.
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  Speaker 3: No, he's terrific, man. He's a triple crown winner. He
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  Speaker 3: has done that. Liam in that press conference talked about
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  Speaker 3: his lower half. He was talking about Parker Washington, but
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  Speaker 3: he just talked about how those guys break tackles, how
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  Speaker 3: you have to hit them solidly to take them down. But,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's going to get his, and you have
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  Speaker 3: to know that. I think the big thing is you
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  Speaker 3: want to limit the explosive plays. Even going back to
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  Speaker 3: last year.
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  Speaker 2: When you saw him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he got him a couple times. He was kept
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  Speaker 3: in check for most of the day, and then a
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  Speaker 3: couple times he leaked out and got behind him. And
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  Speaker 3: I think if you can just make him earn it,
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  Speaker 3: Don't give him anything cheap, nothing deep. Make him earn
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  Speaker 3: it on a bunch of intermediate catches and those things.
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  Speaker 3: That's the best that you can do because he is
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  Speaker 3: a really good player. He is going to find ways
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  Speaker 3: to do it. And look, Zach Tate is going to
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  Speaker 3: find a way to make sure he touches it. But
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  Speaker 3: you want to minimize his impact by not allowing him
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  Speaker 3: to have those explosive plays.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Bucky, they're also a team that, as you recall
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  Speaker 2: last year, Jaguars kind of had him down. And Chase and...
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  Speaker 2: Higgins fits this too, but it feels like Chase sort
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  Speaker 2: of defines it where I think the Jaguars, this is
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  Speaker 2: a game in the second half. If you're up 10 offensively,
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  Speaker 2: you still better be pushing because the Bengals are just that.
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  Speaker 2: They always believe that as long as one's on the field,
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  Speaker 2: that they can go score fast, get back in it.
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  Speaker 2: They're probably going to get a fourth quarter touchdown on
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  Speaker 2: you if you're up 10. You know what I'm getting at?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're relentless offensively. Some teams, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: can sort of, okay, we're up. This team's going to
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  Speaker 2: keep coming at you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're going to keep coming at you. And I'll
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  Speaker 3: say this because I believe this impacted the game last year.
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  Speaker 3: The Jaguars took a collective deep breath when Joe Burr
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  Speaker 3: went out that game last year. The backup came in.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't have film on him, but I think the
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  Speaker 3: natural tendency and inclination is, hey, the backup is in.
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  Speaker 3: He's not going to be as good as the starter.
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  Speaker 3: We should have our way. This game is over. And
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Browning came in, and in the second half, he found
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: his rhythm. They found some big plays. We talked about
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: the controversial PI call on Travis Hunter, but they found
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: their way in the second half. But there was a
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: lot that this team learned from that. They talked about
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: closing the game out, being able to take care of
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: business when it's right there to do. We'll see a
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: much better effort. But my expectation is the same way
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: that this team handled them last year early, I think
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: we can do it and continue to do it for
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: 64 minutes.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, last year it felt like I just remember that
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: entire game I had this impression of, oh, watching it
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: and realizing at the Carolina game the week before hadn't
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: been a flick. That was the game where I thought, okay,
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: as long as they keep playing to Liam's style, which
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: I didn't doubt that they would, I came out of
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: that game knowing this team was going to be competitive.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: I didn't think it would be 13-4. I thought, okay, 10-7,
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: they're going to get their games. Talk to me about
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: the Bengals' offense. Everybody knows Chase. Everybody knows Burrow. Everybody
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: knows Higgins. What else are they?
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, those are the guys. I mean, it runs
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: through those playmakers on the outside. They'll try and run
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: the football. The offensive line has improved, but Marius Mims
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: is playing really, really well. So we'll be challenged on
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: the edges in terms of Josh Hines-Allen and Trayvon Walker
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: trying to get to the quarterback. But look, man, this
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: is a team. They're going to throw it all over
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: the yard. They'll try and run it to close it out,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: but they're kind of one-dimensional. They're Mariano Rivera. They're going
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: to throw the cutter, and you've got to be able
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: to deal with the cutter. I mean, that's just what
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: it is. And so if we do a great job
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: of not giving up the explosive plays. If we allow
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: them to have some yards between the 20s but make
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: them kick instead of score sevens, man, we'll do what
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: we want to do and we'll win the game. I
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: have confidence that as accurate as Joe Burrow is, at
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: some point, man, when you're unable to generate that big play,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: you begin to force it, and that's when you have
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: to take advantage of it.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: I think people, most people who watch this and listen
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: to this, watch enough NFL, they can kind of close
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: their eyes and see what the Bengals' offense is.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: If you close your eyes and think about the Bengals' defense,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: you're probably thinking about the past, which isn't necessarily what
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: they are. They're in their second season under coordinator Al Golan.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: They've added pieces. Is Dexter Lawrence the key to the improvement?
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Is he everything? Tell me about the Bengals' defense.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been a big addition for them, right? And
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: coming over, the All-Pro knows they've had a lot to prove.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: He was coming off a disappointing year in New York.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: They traded a 10th overall pick to bring him over,
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: and he's been exactly what they wanted, dominant playmaker on
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: the inside. He kind of sparks it up because he's talkative.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: He likes to get into it. He likes to engage.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: He can be intimidating and menacing, but what he has done,
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: he and Jonathan Allen, they've given them a presence on
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: the inside. And then when you think about what they've
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: added on the outside, Cassius Howell, who they drafted this year,
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Boye Mafe, who they got as a free agent, heading
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: into last week's game, they were leading the league in
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: sacks with eight. They stopped the run on early downs.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: They want to bring a four-man pressure, four-man rush, and
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: they want to play maximum coverage behind it. And when
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: they're able to get it on their terms, they're tough.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: The thing about this is we must be able to
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: run the football effectively. Not saying that it's going to
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: be a 100-yard day, but you have to run the football.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: You cannot let Dexter and those guys force you into
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: a one-dimensional game plan without at least being tested. And
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: then there can be some shots down the field with
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: their corners and those things. You got to catch the
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: lottery ticket. If we get those shots, we got to
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: make them pay because that's the only way to bring
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: them out of some of those soft-shell looks that they
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: want to play.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Liam talked about that a little bit
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: in his presser today, that it's going to be a
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: game where they've got to make plays. And it's a cliche.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Everybody talks every week it's a playmakers league, et cetera.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: But maybe more so than last week, Bucky, it's about
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: when the opportunities are there, you've got to hit them.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Whereas last week felt like, is it harder to be
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: methodical against this team, I guess, than it was for
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: the Jaguars last week?
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: I would say this, John, without fully hearing your question
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: because some technical issues.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Is it harder to be methodical against the Bengals than
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: the Jaguars were able to do last week?
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: No, I think last week, one, the Patriots did a
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: really good job of throwing that umbrella over the coverage.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: They were not going to do it. They played very soft,
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: different than normally what you would expect from them. I
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: think this, it's easy to be methodical against the Patriots
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: because when I was on the sidelines, I couldn't in
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: my mind imagine them scoring more than 24 points. I see.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: I feel like the magic number was 24. The Bengals, man,
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: that number is going to be 34 that you're going
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: to have to get to just to comfortably understand where
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: they're at. So you're going to have to be more
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: aggressive in terms of, hey, I can't just completely take
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: the air out of it. I got to continue to
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: play offense. I got to continue to find ways to
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: steal points and those things. And it's a change, but
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: I think it's a change that Look, I am not
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: sitting here ready to say that the Bengals are the
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: best defense that we've seen. I am willing to say
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: that when Dexter Lawrence is on, he can change the
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: game against the run game. But you've got to get
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: him blocked. You've got to be able to run it.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: And then you've got to find a way to take
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: advantage of these, I would say, favorable matchups on the perimeter.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: I have one more question I wanted to ask you
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: about the Bengals' defense, and then we'll move on. I
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: guess it's more about the Jaguars' offense, really. It seems
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: like maybe more so than last year, maybe it's because
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: of the running game, maybe we've already discussed it, that
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: they have more or that Liam has more answers to
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: more questions than he did last year, meaning more ways
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: they can play offensively and feel good about it. And
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: I feel like they're being forced there. Am I reading
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: that right?
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: I think you are right. I think we have more talent.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: For sure. I think if we go back this time
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: last year compared to what we had this year, I
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: think the development of our players has made us a
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: more talented unit. But I really believe it's about Liam
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: as a play caller. And he said this, and I
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: understood it when he said it, and he said this
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: maybe after the Denver Broncos game. He talked about, he
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: was using college football as a reference. We're not Ohio
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: State where we force feed the ball to Jeremiah Smith.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: And I have to remember that I am at my
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: best when I just get the ball to everybody. And
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: whoever has the hot hand happens to have the hot hand.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Sort of a hallmark in Tampa, right?
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Yes. We are going to spread it around and those things.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: But I believe he says this, and I also believe
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: he's very sensitive to the guys that he has in
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: that room. But I think it's very obvious. The big
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: three are Parker Washington, Jacoby Myers, and Brenton Strange. When
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: the ball goes to those guys, good things happen. Brian
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Thomas Jr. has a role. He's a vertical playmaker. He's
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: a big play specialist, all those things. You throw the
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: check downs to the running back. But to me, it's
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: not a coincidence that last week, there were 29 pass
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: attempts from Trevor Lawrence. 18 went to that trio, Myers, Washington,
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: and Strange.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Pretty good percentage.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: And interestingly, going into the game, Parker Washington was the guy,
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: he had the second most target percentage behind JSN. It
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: was like at 34, almost 35%. Last week, it came
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: down to 18%. This team is better when it operates
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: as a we as opposed to a me. When it
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: operates as a group, they're better. I can't say that, hey, look,
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: it's the best wide receiver core. We take all the
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: individual talents, but collectively, when they play together, it's a
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: very dangerous and complimentary set of pass catchers that can
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: give people problems.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Good, deep, and versatile. We'll be back in a moment
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: to further discuss what It's going to be a battle
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: of strong defenses. This is Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: You can tell their linebackers are so much more patient.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: They're not biting quite as hard on play action as
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: maybe they did at times last year. When you have
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: a front disruptor like Dex.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: It makes everybody's job easier. He's essentially handling multiple gaps
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: on his own. It's challenging to back block him. It's
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: challenging to, obviously, when you get him in a zero,
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: nose to one-on-one block him, whether it's on a run.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Or a pass.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a reason why he lines up so close
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: to the ball.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back to Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks.
• 26:12
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• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Employees Health Association, benefits for federal employees and retirees. And, Bucky,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: you were talking about Dexter Lawrence there. We talked about
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: him quite a bit. Not sure how much more there
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: is to go into. Want to talk to you about
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: the Jags defense a little bit. Leading the league in
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: scoring defense, high in rushing defense. It's not quite number one,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: but I get the feeling that's going to trend toward that.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Once again, good in takeaways. It feels a lot like
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: last year's defense, which is very positive. Leading the league
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: in scoring defense, it's early, but it's kind of reflective
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: of the way they're playing, isn't it?
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, when you look at that stats, if we keep
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: it up, the only thing that really matters in the
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: National Football League, points allow takeaways. Those are the only
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: things that matter. You can give up all the yards
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: and all that stuff, but if you don't give up
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: points and you take the ball away, you're going to
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: win a ton of games. Now, what goes with that
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: are the stats that are right beside that. Third down,
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: can you get off the field? Yes. Tied for third, 29%.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Red zone, what do we look like? Second. That's why
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: we're at the top of the charts in points allowed.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: This team is playing the kind of defense that Liam wants.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: We talked about it. We'll give up yards. Doesn't matter
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: where they're at in yards. They're going to stop the run.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: You're going to have yards between the 20s. But at
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: the end of the day, this team is going to
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: make you kick field goals, and they're going to turn
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: you over. And they just believe if they play sound
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: and if they don't bust coverage– which is why last
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: week's practices were so good because they felt like they
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: had too many mental errors, missed assignments. They get lined up.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: They played. They simplified everything. They go keep the ball
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: in front, and they just believe over time something good
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: is going to happen for the defense, whether they turn
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: it over off a tip or an overthrow. They punch
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: it out. You drop the snap. Something is going to
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: happen because they feel like good things happen when you
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: run to the ball.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Everybody's talking about the quote, lack of pass rush. I
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: think we're still figuring that out in terms of just
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: where it is. But from what you've seen of this,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: it's three games, so it's still a small sample size.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: How does what they're doing translate over the course of
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: the season? It feels solid enough to be sustainable to me,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: meaning you have a lot of consistency, veteran at a
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: lot of different spots. You have D-Ham, who clearly is
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: a guy you can depend on. How dependable is this
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: performance when you stretch it out over 17 games?
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: I think you can count on it. However, I would
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: say some things still need to happen. You've got to
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: have a pass rush to eventually impact the quarterback because
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: what happens is the better quarterbacks, particularly the ones that
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: are disciplined, they are going to take the underneath stuff.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: They are going to take the check down over and
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: over and over again, and they are okay moving the
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: ball down the field in a very methodical fashion. So
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: you have to be able to generate a pass rush
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: So they can't just get comfortable settling for the underneath stuff.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: You got to quicken the clock there. That said, you
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: saw for a long time in Indianapolis, the Indianapolis Colts
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: had a lot of success playing what I would deem
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: a bend but don't break defense where they stopped the run.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: They let you throw it out there. But when the
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: field condenses, you get three additional defenders, the two sidelines
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: in the end line to play with your 11 and
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: you are going to have a tough time throwing it
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: into the end zone. The Jaguars have found a way
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: to be like that. And all of the conversation over
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: the offseason where they talked about wanting to be tighter
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: and those things, it is balanced by the fact that, hey,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: we don't want to give up big plays because we
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: sat here and talked about it. If you go back
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: and I challenge anybody, go back and look at the
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: play-by-play drives of any NFL game. Normally, There has to
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: be an explosive play for that team to score points.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: There has to be either a big run, a big pass,
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: something that is a chunk game for you to put
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: points on the board. So if you on defense cannot
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: give those things up, more times than not, you can
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: win a lot of games.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to go inside football, my little
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: segment with the inside football guy. Why is Devon Hamilton
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: arguably the best nose tackle in the NFL right now? Nose.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Not necessarily pass rush, but stop in the run. Break
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: him down for me.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Look, man, he is heavy-handed. He's a load. One, I
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: think everyone has to understand, you got to look at
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: him and look at his stature. The way that he's built,
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: he's like a fire hydrant. You can't move him. And
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: when you can't move him off the spot, it just
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: changes everything because you want to be able to combo
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: block one of those guys at the point. Well, you
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: can't move him, and so he makes it hard for
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: you to gain positive yards because he's in the way. Secondly,
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: he has great uh, shed and disengage ability because he's
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: strong with his hands. He can work off blocks and
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: he makes plays. And then I'll say this, man, the physicality,
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: the toughness, the effort, the energy, he brings all of that.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: And he has gotten so much confidence in knowing, man,
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: I'm one of the best at doing this. And he
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: relishes the opportunity to do it. And he flashed a
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: little pass rush ability the other day. He had a
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: half a sack. So you got to like that. He
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: was around the ball. That's why he was on Sunday hero. Yeah.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Such a good dude. I mean, he's, uh, Just really is.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: I want to ask you about his sustainability, meaning he's
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: sort of deep in his career. If he played running back,
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: you'd think, okay, well, he's nearing the end. At that position,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: you know, there's a feeling around here he's just entering
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: his prime.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, because now you're beginning to understand how people
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: are playing you, how they're blocking you. You've mastered some
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: of the tricks of the trade. you're fully mature in
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: terms of your body, you've grown, you can throw people off. So, yeah,
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: I still think, man, his best, his next three, four
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: years are going to be the prime years of his career.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: And if he continues to do what he's been doing
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: for the Jags, yeah, they're going to sing his praises
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: as a Pro Bowl caliber player.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. When we return, we're going to look
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: at the AFC South and get out of here, huddle
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: up with Bucky Brooks. We'll return in a moment. We'll
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: return in a moment.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: It's definitely something that when you're going into this game
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: that you think about. I mean, you're not sitting there
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: thinking about it every second of the day and all week,
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: but I've thought about it. It's a team that we
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: haven't beat, and we lost a tough one there earlier
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: in the season last year, and that's one that we
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: definitely want back. And I think that's all those things.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: You think about it, and you move on, and you've
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: got to put your energy towards something that actually does
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: something for you, which is preparing and getting ready to go.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: put together a great plan to win the game. That's
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: what we're going to do, and that's what our plan is,
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: and we've got to put our energy towards that.
• 33:04
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• 33:19
  Speaker 2: not having beaten the Bengals. He was pretty good on it,
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: so I included it in the show. To me, I
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: thought he played great two or three years ago against
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: this team in the primetime game. I think I got
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: hurt late. They played fine last year. This is not
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: a Trevor Lawrence can't play against the Bengals thing. There's
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: been some pretty good games with some weird circumstances. That's
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: why they lost. The other one was like third or
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: fourth game of his rookie year where he was trying
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: to figure stuff out. So anyway, I don't really believe
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: that has that much to do with it. Although, you know,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: The factor here is you play these guys a lot
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: because they're in your conference. They're a good team in
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: your conference. So, you know, everybody pointed toward Denver and
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: New England. Cincinnati's a good team that you want to get,
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: you know, you want to beat them, you want to
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: get ahead of them, and you want to have a
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: tiebreaker over them because you think you're a contending team.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. And this is a team that has kind of
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: had a little thing over us, so we want to
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: get rid of that. We don't want a team to
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: beat us what it's been two times in a row,
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: three times in a row. We lost a primetime game.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: We lost last year. Then we get them again. Now
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: we want to make sure we take care of that.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: But to do it, we're going to have to finish
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: it off. And I think offensively, we have to use
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: our offense as our best defense. Liam is very transparent
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: and very clear. They're going to get theirs. They are.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: To think that we're going to hold them to seven points,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: that's an unrealistic expectation. But what we certainly can do
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: offensively is we can control the tempo. We can dictate
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: the terms. We can score every opportunity we have to
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: make them have to go chase a high number against
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: a defense that may concede yards. But we're not going
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: to give up the big plays. So this has to
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: be a complimentary football game. Trevor's going to have to
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: kind of weigh, do that dance between playmaker and manager.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: But I think if he does it well, I think
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: we'll be very, very happy and satisfied with the result
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: on Sunday night.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: All right, quickly, Jaguars 2-1 in the South. Colts are 1-2.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Titans and the Texans are both 0-3. Obviously, I think
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: the 0-3 Texans sort of stand out as something to discuss.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Any thoughts on the division at this point? I know
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: it's early, but it still matters.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, man, we just want to keep stacking dubs and
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: keep moving away from those competitors. The schedule's tough for
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: the guys, particularly the Texans. They're playing the Cowboys. this week.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Then they got another tough one before we get a
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: chance to take care of them. You know, you want
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: to put them out there misery early. The Colts are
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: going to be there. They're scrappy and feisty and competitive,
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: but we're going to have to control what we control.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: And I just don't know if the Tennessee Titans are
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: ready yet. Quarterback is struggling to the point where they're
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: talking about, maybe they got the wrong one. So there's
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: a lot of angst and turmoil going on there. To me,
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: it's the Jaguars versus everybody else. If we handle our business,
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: it won't matter what these other guys do because they
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: won't catch us. They're not as good as us.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: I feel like we've gone into Sunday pretty heavily, but
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: anything that we haven't discussed that strikes you about this game?
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Any thought that there's a key?
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: Look, I think the main thing is Liam talked about
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: Jamar Chase getting his, but I think you cannot talk
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: about their passing game without the other guy on the
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: other side, T. Higgins. As much as Jamar can take
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: over the game, T. Higgins is a big play threat
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: who also can do it. I am curious about the
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: cornerback rotation and the matchups. How are they going to
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: match up with these guys on the outside? Are they
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: going to designate Montarek Brown on one side and Travis
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: on the other side? Are they going to play it naturally?
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: Or are they literally going to shadow designated people? It
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: appeared to me in the last game, Montarek Brown played
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: the boundary corner, always into the short side of the field.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Some of that might be because the way some of
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: the coverages are constructed, he can be the zone player
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: to the field side. it becomes a little more man-to-man like,
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: which might play the Travis Hunter strengths. I want to
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: monitor that early to kind of see how we're using
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: them as Jarrion Jones also rotates in and out of
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: the game.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Give me a feel for how you see this one
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: playing out, the style overall.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Look, I think it's going to be more scoring than
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: we've seen like the last week or so. But I think, look,
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: it's going to be very, very tight in the first half.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: The one thing I know, having been in so many
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: of those halftimes with Liam, they do a great job
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: of adjusting in the second half. There are not many
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: times that I've watched a game or gone into halftime
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: and not seen this team play different in the second half,
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: typically for the better. I think it'll be that, and
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: I think we'll end up walking away at the end.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: I think it's a 7-10 point victory in favor of
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: the good guys.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: That'd be good. That'd be a good thing. Winning is
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: better than losing, Bucky. For Bucky Brooks, for Joe Fortunato,
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: for Brent Reber, I'm John Ogier. This has been Huddle
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Up with Bucky Brooks. Good job, Buck. We'll see you Sunday.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: All right, man, we'll see you.