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Huddle Up Podcast: Friday, February 4 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: This is the Huddle Up Podcast with JP Shadrick, Bucky Brooks,
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Speaker 1: and John Oshan. The Huddle Up Podcast starts right now.
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Speaker 1: Welcome in to a special edition of the Huddle Up Podcast.
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Speaker 1: On a Friday afternoon, February fourth, JP Shadrick, Jaguars dot
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Speaker 1: Com senior writer John Osier, and NFL network analysts Bucky Brooks,
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Speaker 1: we react to the hiring of Doug Peterson as the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars head coach. The announcement expected officially the presentation at
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Speaker 1: least on Saturday. At first, it's good to have the
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Speaker 1: band back together after about a month or so away. John, Well,
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Speaker 1: it's quite a band, and today will be again deferring
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Speaker 1: to our lead singer, Bucky brook Yeah, Bucky, you've you've
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Speaker 1: been all over the television lately, but welcome back. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's fun, it's fun to get back. It's fun to
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Speaker 1: have everything, I guess kind of tidied up, coaching search
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Speaker 1: wrapped up, so we can talk about the Jaguars and
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Speaker 1: where they going to, can kind of put the piece
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Speaker 1: of the puzzle together. Well, the one of the big
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Speaker 1: pieces of the puzzle is now a mystery no more.
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson now the seventh full time head coach in
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Speaker 1: Jaguar's history. We know his run in Philadelphia as the
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Speaker 1: head coach there after the season the Eagles won Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl fifty two. Peterson was out of football last year.
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Speaker 1: He's back in now, Bucky, and he brings a track
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Speaker 1: record of success in his numerous stops around the league. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he brings instant credibility to the job. Um. And I
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Speaker 1: think it's really important that, UM, when you when you're
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Speaker 1: thinking about the job and finding the right candidate to
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Speaker 1: feel the job that this was not necessarily um on
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Speaker 1: the job training, that it wasn't someone's first time first rodeo. Uh.
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Speaker 1: The job is a big job and you needed someone
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Speaker 1: who's kind of done it before. Uh. It helps that
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson has won a Super Bowl, so we know
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Speaker 1: that he has a plan that's been successful at the
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Speaker 1: highest level. And I think he's the right guy because
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Speaker 1: I think from a personality stamp point, he's a connector.
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Speaker 1: He's a great communicator. He doesn't dreak a great job
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Speaker 1: of really connecting not only like from coach to player,
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Speaker 1: but coach to coach and coach with others in the building.
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Speaker 1: I think given what we experienced last year. You needed
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Speaker 1: someone who could repair all of the broken trust while
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Speaker 1: also having a plan to get the football players to
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Speaker 1: play at a high level on the field. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: always dangerous in this situation, JP to say this is
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Speaker 1: the guy you wanted all along, because everyone goes, oh,
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Speaker 1: of course it was. And you know, I loved the idea.
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Speaker 1: Jim Calledwell because I knew him. But the two guys
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Speaker 1: that I talked about when this whole thing started was
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Speaker 1: Calledwell and Peterson because I thought they had a lot
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Speaker 1: of the traits and very similar, if you will. I
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Speaker 1: mean maybe the big difference was age. You know, Jim
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Speaker 1: called us six eight and Doug Peterson I think fifty
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Speaker 1: four in that range. Beyond that head coach calming influence, uh,
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Speaker 1: A knowledge of how this league works, a a grown
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Speaker 1: up in the room, if you will, all those things
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Speaker 1: that made so much sense the head coach experience. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, Doug Peterson, I think if the Jaguars had
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Speaker 1: hired immediately out of the gate, everybody would be like, Hey, fantastic,
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Speaker 1: this is exactly what we were thinking about. It went
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Speaker 1: on so long that there was so much chatter about everything,
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Speaker 1: about everything, But you know, I don't see any box
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Speaker 1: this guy doesn't check. And there's really nothing about the
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Speaker 1: higher that jumps out at you not to like to me.
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Speaker 1: So UM, I'm curious JPN, and we get into this.
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Speaker 1: I know Bucky played with Doug, I believe, and knows
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Speaker 1: him from Green Bay. And also Bucky I'm sure knows
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Speaker 1: him analyzing him as a as a coach over the years. Uh,
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Speaker 1: I'm sip on your toes, JP, But I'll asked Bucky
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Speaker 1: gut instinct, what kind of guy is this? Bucky? You
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Speaker 1: knew him well, A great guy, just a great guy.
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Speaker 1: I know him really well. UM. I'll eventually say that
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Speaker 1: we're not only former teammates. I would say that we're friends.
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Speaker 1: I can't say we're the closest of friends, but we're
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Speaker 1: pretty close, um, in terms of having conversations and interactions
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Speaker 1: and those things. And I will say that what Doug
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Speaker 1: brings is when you've been a part of two Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl champions, you know what it looks like. And the
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Speaker 1: first part of being a head coach is you have
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Speaker 1: to be a visionary. You have to be able to
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Speaker 1: convey the vision for how you want the team to
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Speaker 1: play to the players so they can understand it, but
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Speaker 1: more importantly, they can feel it. And so when you've
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Speaker 1: done it as a player and then you're going back
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Speaker 1: in all the players have seen him do it. As
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Speaker 1: a coach, he brings instant credibility when he stands in
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Speaker 1: front the room the very first time. And because he's
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Speaker 1: been able to do it, he's had some hard times
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Speaker 1: that he's had to overcome when it comes to kind
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Speaker 1: of building it and then falling apart and kind of
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Speaker 1: bringing it back. Um, those things are serving well as
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Speaker 1: a as a player, and because he's been a player
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Speaker 1: I think his relatability with players was certainly um be there. Um,
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Speaker 1: he's been able to stand in front the room and
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Speaker 1: he'll say, look, I've walked in those shoes. I understand
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Speaker 1: what it is. Yes, we're in the middle of the grind.
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Speaker 1: But here's how I'm going to take care of you.
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Speaker 1: And with players, particularly pro players, that means a lot.
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Speaker 1: And so because he's able to check off a few
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Speaker 1: different boxes in terms of being successful as a player
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Speaker 1: and as a coach, having been a successful player, all
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Speaker 1: those other things, I think when he walks in he
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Speaker 1: commands a level of respect that would give him a
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Speaker 1: chance to kind of put the plan in place right away.
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Speaker 1: This is not the day to slam on what went
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Speaker 1: before JP. But overall, I don't think you're gonna hear
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Speaker 1: very often about having to learn from an experience, which
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Speaker 1: we heard a lot last year, having to oh, I
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Speaker 1: now see what this is about. Yes, Doug Peterson knows
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Speaker 1: what it's about. He's been at sea and I think
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Speaker 1: that is a huge thing that, again based on Bucky
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Speaker 1: said the franchise went through last year. It's what they need,
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Speaker 1: it's what he is. Let's come back in just a
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Speaker 1: moment and get into his history working with certain quarterbacks.
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Speaker 1: This is the Huddle Up Podcast. Welcome back to the
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Speaker 1: Huddle Up Podcast. J P Shadrick, John Osier, and Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson announced as the Jaguars head coach. The introduction
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Speaker 1: schedule to come up on Saturday mid day or so,
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Speaker 1: we'll have it on Jaguars dot com. Well, we discussed
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Speaker 1: Bucky obviously his history as a player. He was a
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Speaker 1: backup to Dan Marino and two different stances, is a
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Speaker 1: backup to Brett Farve as a player in Green Bay
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Speaker 1: and then of course working with the quarterbacks in Philadelphia.
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Speaker 1: Donovan McNabb in his early days in Philly under Andy Reid,
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Speaker 1: then onto Kansas City. Alex Smith was there, and we
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Speaker 1: know the recent history with Philadelphia. The quarterback run in seventeen,
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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz gets hurt. Here comes Nick Foles. Jalen Hurts
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Speaker 1: is in the mix in his final year. Uh, he's
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Speaker 1: had some success with the quarterbacks and putting together offenses,
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Speaker 1: of course, and that's all it was priority number one
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Speaker 1: has to be for the Jaguars team with Trevor Lawrence
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Speaker 1: and the Jags offense. Yes, the top priority. But let's
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Speaker 1: go beyond that. I think when you dig deeper in
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Speaker 1: his coaching background, you'll see there was a very successful
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Speaker 1: high school coach and then talking to we've talked about
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Speaker 1: how they experienced from high school has served him well
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Speaker 1: as an NFL coach. He talked about when he was
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Speaker 1: in high high school coach. I think down to Streeport, Louisiana,
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Speaker 1: um Man, you have to take what shows up, you
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Speaker 1: gotta coach it up, you gotta figure out a way
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Speaker 1: to make it work. So there's a level of adaptability
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Speaker 1: and versatility in his coaching style and his schematics. And
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Speaker 1: when we think about the success that he's had with
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Speaker 1: so many different quarterbacks, he is being able to tailor
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Speaker 1: his offense to allow those quarterbacks to flourish. And so
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Speaker 1: the story about Nick Foles at the end of seventeen
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Speaker 1: when he takes over for Carson Wentz. The first couple
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Speaker 1: of games that we see Nick Foles, they look terrible.
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Speaker 1: Offense was out of whack. Doug Peterson talked about going
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Speaker 1: into the film room and looking at all the stuff
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Speaker 1: that Nick Foles did under Chip Kelly and basically they
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Speaker 1: just installed the Chip Kelly offense as they made their
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Speaker 1: run through the playoffs. So when you think about that
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Speaker 1: kind of creativity, um that kind of humility to be
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Speaker 1: able to step back and say, hey, my system doesn't
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Speaker 1: necessarily work for this guy, but let me give him
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Speaker 1: something that works for him. Man, I think that's very encouraging,
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Speaker 1: not only for the entire team, but when you talk
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Speaker 1: about the quarterback Trevor Lawrence being able to take some
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Speaker 1: of the things that we've talked about, some of the
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Speaker 1: things he did really well at Clemson and put him
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Speaker 1: into play at the National Football League club, well, two things. JP.
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Speaker 1: It sounds like a certain high school coach in California
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Speaker 1: might be bucking for an NFL job right now. No,
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Speaker 1: I think that's where I sense that lead in go
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Speaker 1: and that works. But absolutely the adaptability so often, and
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Speaker 1: I let Bucky speak this as well, when you're looking
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Speaker 1: for when you're studying a head coaching search. When I
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Speaker 1: say studying, I mean when you're listening to what people
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Speaker 1: say about people, try to analyze it. You always hear, well,
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Speaker 1: this guy had had this offense when he was in
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Speaker 1: a certain spot. I've always thought, you know, that's all great,
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Speaker 1: but that tells me what he did with that personnel.
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Speaker 1: And it's not to say that that person can't go
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Speaker 1: succeed in another another situation, but it doesn't guarantee anything. Um. Again,
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Speaker 1: what I like about Doug Peterson beyond the schemes. I
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Speaker 1: love what Bucky's talking about with being a program builder,
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Speaker 1: if you will, a guy who can make the relationships
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Speaker 1: within the building work. Because again I said a million
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Speaker 1: times during this search, to me, that's everything in a
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Speaker 1: head coach. But the fact that he was able to
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Speaker 1: oversee a quick transition in Philadelphia working with different schemes,
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Speaker 1: going from whence two folds, Uh, you've got to be
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Speaker 1: able to adapt to your personnel in this league, because
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Speaker 1: really most offenses in this league have elements of everything.
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Speaker 1: It's just a matter can you take the elements in
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Speaker 1: that offense and fit them to what your people do well. Uh.
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Speaker 1: History tells us that Peterson is able to do that.
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Speaker 1: The other thing that's fascinating to me about Doug Peterson
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Speaker 1: if you really watch their those Philadelphia Eagles teams. Um,
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Speaker 1: there was one year where they had it going on. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they were thirteen and three, went to the Super Bowl. UH,
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Speaker 1: and they had adversity at the quarterback, but they were
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Speaker 1: pretty much the the NFC favorites or the NFC's favorites
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Speaker 1: all that year. Two other times they make the playoffs
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Speaker 1: by absolutely overcoming everything. Coming back when they were written
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Speaker 1: off in two other years shows me that within the
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Speaker 1: within the course of a season, UH, players believe in him,
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Speaker 1: even when maybe the outsiders say they shouldn't. Uh that
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Speaker 1: as much as any coach in the NFL. I think
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Speaker 1: he's got that reputation right now. That's key to me, Bucky.
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Speaker 1: And you know, like sometimes, man, you like to see
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Speaker 1: your coaches come in with some scuffs on them, meaning
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Speaker 1: that they've gone through some hard things that it hasn't
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Speaker 1: always been easy for them. This situation is difficult. There's
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Speaker 1: been a lot of losing that's taking place in Jacksonville
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Speaker 1: over the last decade plus, and so you have to
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Speaker 1: kind to eradicate all of that stuff, you know, all
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Speaker 1: of the woe with me, here we go again, all
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Speaker 1: of those things that tend to happen when things go bad.
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Speaker 1: You have to be able to work through that. And
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Speaker 1: because Doug has gone through some tough stuff and has
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Speaker 1: come through on the other side, that will help him
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Speaker 1: have a plan. Now, it still means it's gonna be very,
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Speaker 1: very difficult and challenging for him to turn it around,
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Speaker 1: given the way that last year kind of fell apart.
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Speaker 1: But I'm certainly optimistic that he is the right guy
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Speaker 1: to get it done. I think the most important higher
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Speaker 1: outside of like a who eventually is like the quarterback
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Speaker 1: coach or the o C the defensive coordinator, because the
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Speaker 1: way Doug operates is typically two head coaches on the team,
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Speaker 1: it is Doug Peterson who is the head coach of
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Speaker 1: the offense. He oversees all that and he gives a
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Speaker 1: lot of leeway and autonomy to his defensive coordinator. Watching
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Speaker 1: that higher is the big higher because can he bring
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Speaker 1: in someone who can really get this defense going and
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Speaker 1: not where they're surviving, but man with they're thriving and
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Speaker 1: flourishing with a bunch of young players still learning how
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Speaker 1: to play in the National Football League. When we come back,
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Speaker 1: we'll get names out of Bucky for some of those
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Speaker 1: jobs and we'll talk through the process of what has
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Speaker 1: just happened over the last month or so. This is
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Speaker 1: the Huddle Up Podcast. Welcome back to the Huddle Up Podcast.
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Speaker 1: J P Shadwick, John Osier, and Bucky Brooks reacting to
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Speaker 1: the hiring of Doug Peterson as the Jaguars head coach,
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Speaker 1: will be introduced Saturday at t I A bank Field.
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Speaker 1: John and I want to ask the scout something because
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Speaker 1: you know time is valuable with Bucket. I don't know what.
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Speaker 1: I don't get a chance to talk to him again.
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Speaker 1: Good point, Um, But Bucky, you know this may be
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Speaker 1: a touch off topic. I think fans are interested in it.
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Speaker 1: It's a little granular. But the defense play three four
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Speaker 1: last year? Do they have to hire a coordinator who's
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Speaker 1: a three four guy? Uh? Can this can this personnel
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Speaker 1: go back to a four three? Talk me through that.
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Speaker 1: If you are how big of a concern. That is,
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Speaker 1: it's not a major concern, it's not amazing concern because really, um, John,
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Speaker 1: what you're talking about is whether in a three four
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Speaker 1: or four or three you're only talking about early down
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Speaker 1: you spend seventy percent of the game and some kind
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Speaker 1: of sub package meaning U unickel personnel with five dbs
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Speaker 1: or you're downing personnel with six dbs on the field.
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Speaker 1: You pretty much played that seventy percent of time because
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Speaker 1: offenses are an eleven personnel, one back, one tied in
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Speaker 1: three wide receivers the overwhelming majority of the game, and
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Speaker 1: so it's a matchup deal. What you would like to
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Speaker 1: have as a defensive coordinator who's able to look at
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Speaker 1: the defense and the pieces that he has now and
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Speaker 1: fit those pieces into whatever scheme or build the scheme
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Speaker 1: around the talents that they have. And you know, you
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Speaker 1: have to also have a bit of an imagination. Okay,
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Speaker 1: what can we get in the draft? Where do we
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Speaker 1: need to get it in the draft if we want
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Speaker 1: to ideally get to being able to play this style
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Speaker 1: of defense. Yeah, so I don't think it necessarily matters
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Speaker 1: because in Philly, um he was always more of the
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Speaker 1: fourth three. Um proponent Jim Schwartz was a big part
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Speaker 1: of it. Um. We'll see how he elects to kind
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Speaker 1: of operate this time with a personnel that we currently
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Speaker 1: have in place names Bucky, we want names. Who's it
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Speaker 1: going after? Well? I mean with the name that I've
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Speaker 1: seen already kind of floated out. There has been might
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Speaker 1: call Will, who's linebackers coach for the um tam Bay Buccaneers. Uh.
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Speaker 1: He played on the Doug in Philly. He worked on
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Speaker 1: the Doug in Philly, and so because of that, like
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Speaker 1: there's a natural trust. I think when you're Doug Peterson
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Speaker 1: and maybe you feel like you've been burned um your
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Speaker 1: first go around, I think you see a lot of
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Speaker 1: names that have some kind of connection to him. Because
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Speaker 1: Lloyd's is gonna be very important, it might call Will.
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Speaker 1: You might have an opportunity to play um. Some of
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Speaker 1: the defense that they played in Philadelphia with the wide
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Speaker 1: nine techniques where they really had the ends kind of
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Speaker 1: spread out, gave them a really a launching pad and
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Speaker 1: a runway to go a tech quarterback. But if cold
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Speaker 1: would has also come from Champion, you can see some
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Speaker 1: of that aggressive uh stuff that you see from the
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Speaker 1: Tambay Buccaneers with a lot of his own pressures, a
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Speaker 1: lot of um aggressive blitz is to try and force
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Speaker 1: turnovers in disruption and Bucky, this is me, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: way out of my depth because I don't know Tampa's
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Speaker 1: defense intimately, but I've read a little bit about it
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Speaker 1: today and and uh trying to learn a little bit
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Speaker 1: what called Well might bring. Uh. Todd Bowl is obviously
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Speaker 1: one of the best coordinators in the league and seems
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Speaker 1: to have that ability to make a three four a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a hybrid at times. I guess all
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Speaker 1: coordinators are doing that these days, you have to, especially
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Speaker 1: in Nickel, but Tampa's ability to do that, Uh, I
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Speaker 1: guess called Well could bring that if he's the guy. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he certainly can bring that. And I think a lot
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Speaker 1: of a lot of coaches have that ability to look
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Speaker 1: at personnel and say, hey, I know we're traditionally a
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Speaker 1: were man front, but if we have three or four personnel,
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Speaker 1: we can use this in as a legal or an
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Speaker 1: elephant kind of a hybrid defensive end linebacker and kind
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Speaker 1: of still do some of those same things. And so
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Speaker 1: we have to think about all the pieces that are available.
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Speaker 1: You think you have to think about Josh Allen. You
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Speaker 1: have to think about what is the future with Caleban Chason.
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Speaker 1: Is there a role for him on the edges the
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Speaker 1: guys that you have on the inside, Miles Jack, where
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Speaker 1: does he fit ideally as your micas he will those things.
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Speaker 1: I think whoever comes in has to assess that and
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Speaker 1: then assess what's the best way to play with the
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Speaker 1: guys in the back end. Because we can sit here
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Speaker 1: and say, hey, man, it'd be great for them to
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Speaker 1: play zone. Some corners aren't built to play zone because
16:40
Speaker 1: they don't necessarily have the technique and refinement to be
16:42
Speaker 1: able to play in space and track the ball and
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Speaker 1: those things. And so it'll be a work in progress.
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Speaker 1: But I will say this, and I'll kind of base
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Speaker 1: it off the teams that we see in the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: The one thing that you have to do is you
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Speaker 1: have to commit to get one side of the ball
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Speaker 1: right in your one So whether that's building up the
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Speaker 1: offense or the offense can hum with Trevor Lawrence, so
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Speaker 1: is that the defense holding the score down until the
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Speaker 1: offense can figure it out. You have to commit that
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Speaker 1: one side needs to be playing really well this year.
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Speaker 1: So you can kind of put it all together a
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Speaker 1: year two. Alright, guys, let's put a bow on this
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Speaker 1: Huddle Up podcast today and circle back. Okay, offensive coordinator
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Speaker 1: the name of here's Press Taylor. Because of the obvious
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Speaker 1: connection he's been with Doug. It is he the overall
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Speaker 1: obvious choice, Buck or who else would you like to see? Well,
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Speaker 1: Press Tail there has been with him for a long time.
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Speaker 1: But even when Frank right was that you had all
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Speaker 1: those guys in the room. I think the reason why
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Speaker 1: Doug would be comfortable with Press Taylor being the offensive
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Speaker 1: coordinator is I would anticipate Doug calling his own place.
17:44
Speaker 1: I know he really likes that. And even though Frank
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Speaker 1: Wrych was in Philadelphia with him and is very well
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Speaker 1: respected now as a play call it, Doug Peterson called
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Speaker 1: the place. And so when Frankwright got a lot of
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Speaker 1: the credit for Carson Wentz, that's people on the outside saying,
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Speaker 1: oh man, Frank Frankby, you got him right now. Peterson
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Speaker 1: called a place. I would expect him to call the place.
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Speaker 1: Press Taylor will probably handle the management of the day
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Speaker 1: to day stuff, organizing, installing, making sure he gets the
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Speaker 1: scripts and all that to all the players and the coaches.
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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, when it comes
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Speaker 1: game day, I would expect to see Doug Peterson with
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Speaker 1: the play card making a place. Now, let's put a
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Speaker 1: bowl on it. The Jaguars had a lengthy process. Some
18:23
Speaker 1: would say there are still a few teams out there
18:25
Speaker 1: that have not hired a head coach yet, But there
18:28
Speaker 1: has been a little criticism on social media. I'd say
18:31
Speaker 1: of the length of process here about fifty days since
18:35
Speaker 1: the Jaguars fired Urban Meyer to when they have hired
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson. But Bucky, at the end of the day, long,
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Speaker 1: short process, whatever the process, Doug Peterson is now the
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Speaker 1: head coach. And that's not a bad thing at all. No,
18:48
Speaker 1: it's not a bad thing at end. Today. Man, it's
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Speaker 1: about getting the right guy, and I think you have
18:51
Speaker 1: to get the right guy for that situation. When we
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Speaker 1: started on this journey, we talked about two guys that
18:57
Speaker 1: seemingly fit. One was Jim called Well, the otherwise Doug Peterson.
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Speaker 1: For similar reasons. We wanted someone who is a professional,
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Speaker 1: who could command the room, someone who had done it
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Speaker 1: before and done it successfully, someone who could probably ridge
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Speaker 1: the gap in the building, uh from all the staffs
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Speaker 1: like the football development staff and all the business people
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Speaker 1: and all the other stuff, the right personality and temperament,
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Speaker 1: someone who could build up the team and get them right,
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Speaker 1: and then someone who had the tactical acumen to be
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Speaker 1: able to put together a product that really allowed the
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Speaker 1: players to play at their best. Doug Peterson is the guy,
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Speaker 1: and so now that he's in the fold, um, I
19:33
Speaker 1: think it's great. There's still some other things to kind
19:36
Speaker 1: of figure out what is going to happen when you
19:38
Speaker 1: hear the rumor mill and those things, But I think
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Speaker 1: you got the right head coach. Now. I'm curious to
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Speaker 1: see what the infrastructure looks like going for I'm not
19:46
Speaker 1: going to dwell on the whole uh criticism of the
19:50
Speaker 1: coaching search and optics and all that. Look it was
19:53
Speaker 1: it was a long process, but I think jp these
19:57
Speaker 1: processes feel longer than they used to because there's so
20:01
Speaker 1: much reaction on Twitter every day we're in seven world.
20:05
Speaker 1: Every single report is nitpicked to death. Well and and
20:09
Speaker 1: so for fans out there, I'm speaking to the fans
20:12
Speaker 1: now because I interact with a lot of every day
20:14
Speaker 1: in the Ozone. I know a lot of them who
20:17
Speaker 1: are saying well of course you're gonna say it's a
20:19
Speaker 1: good higher. I don't know if Doug Peterson will work out.
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Speaker 1: Nobody does, uh, but he feels right on a lot
20:26
Speaker 1: of levels, and in terms of the optics and the
20:29
Speaker 1: search and criticizing it. If if he works, if he's
20:34
Speaker 1: the right guy, those optics and all that stuff will
20:38
Speaker 1: fade very very quickly. And I always go back to
20:40
Speaker 1: the Frank Reich situation in Indianapolis. If people have read
20:43
Speaker 1: the ozone, they're tired of reading about it about now.
20:46
Speaker 1: Frank Reich was not the first choice. He was probably
20:49
Speaker 1: as well publicized not a first choice as maybe there's
20:52
Speaker 1: ever been. Uh, they had to circle back. Um you
20:56
Speaker 1: know there was egg on their face for a little
20:57
Speaker 1: while or or whatever all that is. Do you remember
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Speaker 1: it that way now? JP? No, No, they've had success. Right,
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Speaker 1: So he was the right guy at the right moment.
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Speaker 1: It sometimes takes a while to get to that, longer
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Speaker 1: than fans in seven era might like. If it's the
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Speaker 1: right choice. It's the right choice, and it'll be proven
21:17
Speaker 1: out going forward whether it is. It is a new
21:19
Speaker 1: era of Jaguars football. Bucky, thanks for hopping on with us.
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Speaker 1: Always good to talk to you. And we'll do it
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Speaker 1: again very soon on a weekly basis. Moving ahead, Hey man,
21:28
Speaker 1: let's do it. Thanks Buck, Bucky Brooks, out of your
21:31
Speaker 1: NFL network, analyst, John Ozier, Jaguars dot Com Senior writer,
21:35
Speaker 1: and I'm J. P. Shadrick. Thanks for listening. This is
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Speaker 1: the Huddle Up Podcast.