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Speaker 1: Welcome to Huddle Up, brought to you by the Fields
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Speaker 1: and former Jaguar Bucky Brooks, and senior reporter JP Shatterick
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Speaker 1: bring you the latest on your Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Speaker 2: Huddle Up starts right now and welcome man. It is
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Speaker 2: Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 3: JP Shatrick with you from the Hyundai studios at the
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Speaker 3: afternoon to you. It's preseason week three at Long Last.
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Speaker 2: How are you?
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Speaker 4: I'm good, JP? What's going on?
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Speaker 5: I think week three of the preseason is really an
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Speaker 5: interesting time because you got guys who are i would say,
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Speaker 5: playing for their ball playing locks, and so it should
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Speaker 5: be a very.
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Speaker 4: Competitive situation to watch.
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Speaker 5: Once you get the ones off the field and you
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Speaker 5: look at the twos and threes that are playing, it
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Speaker 5: should be a different energy with guys kind of playing
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Speaker 5: with that desperation and urgency to make something happen, to
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Speaker 5: kind of keep the light on.
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Speaker 3: That's in the second half of the game. Doug Peterson's
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Speaker 3: approach in the first half of the game, let's hear
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Speaker 3: from him. Now, the starters are going to get a
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Speaker 3: lot of time in this one.
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Speaker 4: Third and final preseason game.
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Speaker 6: We usually let the starters play a little bit more,
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Speaker 6: you know, And again it depends on the circumstance and
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Speaker 6: the way the game goes, but you'd love to get
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Speaker 6: maybe two quarters, you know, out of them, you know,
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Speaker 6: But we do take a look at Lanta a little
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Speaker 6: bit and we simulate like game weeks schedule wise. Now
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Speaker 6: the camp is broken, and that's the probably the only reason,
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Speaker 6: you know, these weeks are are important to get the guys,
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Speaker 6: you know, no longer in the hotel, they're living at home,
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Speaker 6: transportation here, all that kind of stuff. Just it simulates
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Speaker 6: and sort of feels like a game week.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so they'll act like a game on Friday night
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Speaker 3: in Atlanta.
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Speaker 2: Bucky with about a half, maybe a little.
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Speaker 3: Bit less if things go well, I could see him
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Speaker 3: coming off a little bit earlier.
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Speaker 2: But what do you think of this approach for Doug.
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Speaker 5: Okay, So this approach is straight from the Andy Reid playbook.
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Speaker 5: And one of the things that Andy Reid has been
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Speaker 5: to do with the Chiefs, they've been able to get
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Speaker 5: out to really fast starts, and one of the reasons
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Speaker 5: they've been able to do it is because they go
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Speaker 5: through a rigorous training camp. They go through i would
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Speaker 5: say like a very repetitive preseason where they get a
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Speaker 5: lot of reps, they play, and they look to hit
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Speaker 5: the ground running. There's a fear factor that everyone has
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Speaker 5: when it comes to preseason and injuries, but there's also
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Speaker 5: the need to kind of get your team ready to
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Speaker 5: play football because when the regular season starts, it's the
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Speaker 5: first time that the team has gone into four quarters.
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Speaker 4: They don't not used to playing sixty minutes.
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Speaker 5: And if your team is not fully prepared at the
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Speaker 5: beginning of the regular season, you throw games that proved
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Speaker 5: to be cost in the back end because your team
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Speaker 5: wasn't fully ready to play football when the regular season
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Speaker 5: kicked off.
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Speaker 3: What about the Falcons from that regard, They're not going
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Speaker 3: to play much of anybody in this game.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what you have is you have guys
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Speaker 5: who come from two different coaching trees, and they've seen
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Speaker 5: both ways work. So Raheem comes from the Sean McVay
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Speaker 5: coaching free coaching tree, where Sean McVay routinely holds his
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Speaker 5: guys that are treat preseason games and practices and they
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Speaker 5: put everything into let's go to get to the starting
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Speaker 5: line with everyone healthy and.
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Speaker 4: Ready to go.
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Speaker 5: If we have all of our players, we're going to
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Speaker 5: be fine and we can knock off the rust on
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Speaker 5: the fly because it's more important for us to have
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Speaker 5: a healthy squad than a squad that has chemistry. But
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Speaker 5: we may have lost one or two players along the way.
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Speaker 5: It worked for Sean McVay, they won a Super Bowl.
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Speaker 5: Raheem Morris was there when they want the Super Bowl,
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Speaker 5: and it's worked for Andy Reid and Doug Peterson. So
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Speaker 5: I can't say that one way is better than the other,
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Speaker 5: but I think is what you're comfortable with and what
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Speaker 5: you've been exposed to.
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Speaker 3: Bucky, it will be the first time we've seen all
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Speaker 3: five starting offensive linemen in a game together for the Jaguars.
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Speaker 3: They've had three guys playing Week one nine snaps or something,
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Speaker 3: and then of course Ezra Cleveland and Anton Harrison played
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Speaker 3: last week's game a little bit. Is that oversold the
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Speaker 3: whole continuity thing, or in this day and age in
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Speaker 3: the NFL, is that a reality at all? On the
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Speaker 3: offensive line. You can strive for it and do it
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Speaker 3: all you want, but you know, it's just the nature
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Speaker 3: of the game. Guys are gonna go out at some point, right.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, But you still want the continuitian chemistry between the unit.
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Speaker 5: Because the offensive line is the only unit that operates
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Speaker 5: as one. All five players on that line have to
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Speaker 5: be on the same page. They have to be able
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Speaker 5: to finish each other's sentences. Their nonverbal communication is critical
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Speaker 5: because you can't always hear in stadium what's going on.
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Speaker 5: So the more refs they have together, the more of
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Speaker 5: a feel they have for how players will play in
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Speaker 5: certain situations against certain things. The Peterson had just talked
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Speaker 5: about the consistency and making sure that you're able to
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Speaker 5: get off the ball together and work together, and how
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Speaker 5: you protect a quarterback and how you move people off
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Speaker 5: the line of scrimmage.
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Speaker 4: For the running game.
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Speaker 5: It's important for these guys to play together because they
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Speaker 5: never really played together.
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Speaker 4: If you go back and look at last year, it
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Speaker 4: was always a revolving door.
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Speaker 5: At some point, you got to build the chemistry within
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Speaker 5: the group to have any chance of accomplishing some of
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Speaker 5: the things that we can talk about the Jaguars potentially
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Speaker 5: being able to accomplish.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna get the defense coming up in just a
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Speaker 3: little bit here. But one more part of this, obviously
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Speaker 3: is now the wide receiver group. Christian Kirtz got a
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Speaker 3: little calf thing going on. Sounds like he may not
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Speaker 3: go in the game Friday, but everybody else is out there.
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Speaker 3: What else do you want to see from the receiving
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Speaker 3: corps with Trevor Lawrence out there, I mean, what else
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Speaker 3: can they really show at this point that they haven't
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Speaker 3: shown already. They've had some moments already in this preseason.
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Speaker 4: Clean game, really good execution.
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Speaker 5: You want to feel like this team is regular season ready,
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Speaker 5: that they're moving in and out the huddle, there's a
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Speaker 5: tempo to their game, there's an urgency to the way
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Speaker 5: they're playing.
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Speaker 4: Young guys, old guys.
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Speaker 5: Whoever's on the field looks like they're playing at the
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Speaker 5: standard above the standard that has been established. And then
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Speaker 5: I want to see some of the young guys continue
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Speaker 5: to make strides. Right we talked about Tank Bigsby in
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Speaker 5: Park of Washington. Those guys have stepped up huge and
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Speaker 5: this training camp, this preseason, let's see to see them
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Speaker 5: continue to do that. The one thing that you're looking
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Speaker 5: for now, particularly young players, consistency. Where can we kind
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Speaker 5: of stack them at when it comes to how they're
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Speaker 5: going to perform each week. That consistent effort is what
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Speaker 5: you're looking for. Let's see if they can be consistent
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Speaker 5: and play at a high level, down after down after down.
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Speaker 3: I will come back in a moment and get to
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Speaker 3: the defensive side, obviously a new scheme and the startersill
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Speaker 3: be out there for a long time. Coming up in
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Speaker 3: this ball game on Friday night a little later. Yes,
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Speaker 3: we'll get to the second half of the football game, Bucky,
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Speaker 3: when guys are fighting for their NFL lives in the
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Speaker 3: final preseason matchup the Jaguars and the Falcons coming up Friday.
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Speaker 3: It's a seven o'clock kickoff time. And this is how
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Speaker 3: luck with Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 4: He's a good run player.
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Speaker 2: Travon is a good pass.
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Speaker 7: Rusher and rusher speed the mess. It's a good power
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Speaker 7: rusher in the run game. He can play hit up
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Speaker 7: a guy or he can play on the edge. So
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Speaker 7: there's a lot of things that he does really well.
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Speaker 7: So just the continuation of, you know, just taking his
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Speaker 7: game to the next playing a little faster, playing a
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Speaker 7: little bit more violent, you know, as we go with
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Speaker 7: the system, you know, his place and how he just
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Speaker 7: sees where he fits in in terms of and this
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Speaker 7: is how I set the edge or I rush or
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Speaker 7: those type of things. Just faster, more violent things like that.
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Speaker 7: But it's coming like he had a really good practice yesterday,
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Speaker 7: so look for.
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Speaker 4: That to continue on Friday.
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Speaker 3: Ryan Nielsen, Jaguars defensive coordinator, asked about Trayvon Walker in
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Speaker 3: our press conference earlier this week.
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Speaker 3: right so Trayvon Walker will get plenty of time Bucky
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Speaker 3: this Friday night against the Atlanta Falcons, he and the
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Speaker 3: entire starting defense, we'll have an opportunity to get out there.
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Speaker 3: And you know, we've talked a little bit about this
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Speaker 3: in this training camp a lot about the four down
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Speaker 3: linemen and the different scenario. And I talked to Trayvon
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Speaker 3: earlier this week and it's a conversational here on the
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Speaker 3: Doug Peterson Show coming up Thursday about conditioning themselves to
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Speaker 3: play with a little more weight. Josh Heines Allen put
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Speaker 3: on some weight, Trayvon Walker put on some weight. They've
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Speaker 3: got some big bodies in the middle. They're just getting
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Speaker 3: bigger and bigger. It feels like a question for the
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Speaker 3: former player. I don't know how much extra weight you
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Speaker 3: had to put on, but how difficult is that to
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Speaker 3: learn how to run and maintain it? And even though
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Speaker 3: it might be a ten pound difference, what does that
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Speaker 3: really mean?
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Speaker 5: It means on It really depends on how you put
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Speaker 5: the weight on. If his deliberate, intentional, it comes through
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Speaker 5: working out well. You can counterbalance some of the weight
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Speaker 5: game with some of the drills that you're doing to
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Speaker 5: retain your explosiveness. If it is one where you've been
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Speaker 5: laying on the couch eating chips and stuff with that's
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Speaker 5: a different kind of weight.
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Speaker 2: That's my kind of weight, Bucky, I know all about that.
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Speaker 2: That's not what I'm asking about. I'm an expert in that.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, So which Rayvon and Josh Heines allen like they're
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Speaker 5: They're ability to gain weight has been due to how
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Speaker 5: hard they worked in the weight room.
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Speaker 4: Maybe they've gone to hea heavier weights, fewer reps.
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Speaker 5: To kind of build the bulk and the strength and
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Speaker 5: the power. A lot of it depends on all of
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Speaker 5: those things. It has to be a collaborative effort at
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Speaker 5: the pro level between your dietitian and nutrition as your
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Speaker 5: strength coach, and then your position coach trying to put
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Speaker 5: it all together so you can be the best that.
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Speaker 4: You can be.
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Speaker 5: But yeah, it's it's It's definitely takes an adjustment to
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Speaker 5: deal with being a bigger body trying to run around
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Speaker 5: like a young guys used to.
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Speaker 3: And this is a I mean, all of a sudden,
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Speaker 3: this defensive line, most defensive lines are big. I get it,
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Speaker 3: But I mean you got al Rik Armstead six seven ninety,
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Speaker 3: you got of course, Devon Hamilton, who's three thirty five
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Speaker 3: listed sixty four. The Rookitos tackles three sixteen. He's not tiny.
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Speaker 3: Mason Smith has length and he's sixty five.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this.
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Speaker 3: Is is this bigger than a normal average defensive line
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Speaker 3: to you or is this kind of how it's supposed
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Speaker 3: to be.
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Speaker 4: This is how it's supposed to be.
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Speaker 5: But I would say they're probably in the upper percentiles
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Speaker 5: when it comes to heightweight, speed, size, stature, all those things.
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Speaker 5: And part of what you're trying to do is you're
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Speaker 5: trying to build a bully in your respective town. And
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Speaker 5: to do that, you're trying to knock off the top teams.
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Speaker 5: And you look at the top teams within the division.
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Speaker 5: You have to be able to combat what they do
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Speaker 5: really well. And so if you can't stack quarterback, you
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Speaker 5: need guys with link they're compared to ball down at
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Speaker 5: the line of scrimmage with the.
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Speaker 4: Jazz you can do that.
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Speaker 5: You need to have guys on the second level that
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Speaker 5: can run and chase and do those things. But it
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Speaker 5: starts up front and being able to control with the trenches,
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Speaker 5: stop the run. A game contained the aerial attack puts
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Speaker 5: them in a really good position and knock it off.
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Speaker 3: And then you move back to line packer and you
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Speaker 3: get a good idea a Foyer. He's been on the
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Speaker 3: side with a little bit of a hamstring issue this week.
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Speaker 3: We'll see what his status is for Friday's game, but
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Speaker 3: I don't think it's a long term concern, So might
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Speaker 3: see a lot more of Chad Muma out there to
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Speaker 3: having Lloyd of course, and you know who's had a
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Speaker 3: good camp though, even with his arm wrapped up, it's
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Speaker 3: Ventro Miller, right. I mean it looks like it feels
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Speaker 3: like at least in the games that he's played up to,
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Speaker 3: I mean he's played that's step one.
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Speaker 2: He didn't play it all last year, right, So he's
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Speaker 2: out there, but he's making plays.
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Speaker 3: So he may not be on the front line of
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Speaker 3: linebackers right now, but you know, at least they're getting
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Speaker 3: something out of Ventrail and it's a step in the
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Speaker 3: right direction.
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Speaker 2: I think that's probably a good way to look at it.
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Speaker 5: Great way to look at it, and for him to
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Speaker 5: get the opportunity to be the green dop player, to
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Speaker 5: be the communicator, to be the traffic cop, to kind
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Speaker 5: of lead the unit that's big.
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Speaker 4: And the significant comes in if boy.
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Speaker 5: You did happen to go to how they reshuffle the deck,
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Speaker 5: But then who are the next ones up?
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Speaker 4: And I would anticipate he'd being one of the next
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Speaker 4: ones up.
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Speaker 5: You love the size, you love the tanasty and toughness
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Speaker 5: just has to be available so he can get a
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Speaker 5: true look at what he is.
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Speaker 3: Of course, at the defensive back groove. Darneld Savage back
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Speaker 3: on the practice field this week. Bucky lost the red
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Speaker 3: jersey and always been on the practice field. He's able
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Speaker 3: to practice full, I guess is the way to say it.
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Speaker 3: You know, let's remind us what he brings to the
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Speaker 3: table when he's full going ready. It seems to add
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Speaker 3: to the versatility that Ryan Nielsen might have available to
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Speaker 3: him on the back end of this defense.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, when you think about this guy, he does have
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Speaker 5: the versatility that you love. He is a guy who
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Speaker 5: is super athletic. He has the ability to hit you
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Speaker 5: physically hard not to taste out your mouth, but then
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Speaker 5: his athletic enough and nimble to cover. He is a
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Speaker 5: unique fine because you just don't find guys who can
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Speaker 5: play in the slack comfortably but also play in the
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Speaker 5: high back half. He has all those things. He's willing
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Speaker 5: to athlete. He's a super athlete, and let's be honest,
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Speaker 5: he brings some maturity and some experience to the table
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Speaker 5: that you certainly want.
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Speaker 4: So I think I think it's a nice situation.
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Speaker 5: He comes from a winning program and it's one of
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Speaker 5: the things that the Jags were intentional about doing, bringing
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Speaker 5: winners to the program. He's another one of those winners
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Speaker 5: that they sought out and got this offseason.
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Speaker 3: Bucky, were you one to knock the taste out of
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Speaker 3: people's mouths?
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Speaker 2: Were you a hard hitter?
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Speaker 5: No, no, no, I said, I'll be called what is
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Speaker 5: a rap tackler?
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Speaker 4: I would wrap you up and get it down.
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Speaker 5: But it was a lot of physicality and thump coming
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Speaker 5: from b Brooks. But don't know, Savage has that ability.
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Speaker 5: And you know, we talked about the depth here because
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Speaker 5: it's been really quiet for Antonio Johnson, like how they're
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Speaker 5: gonna move the pieces around and do all this other stuff.
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Speaker 5: You get a sense from the team that they want
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Speaker 5: veterans in the back end. They don't play the young guys.
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Speaker 5: Obviously they're there, but you can just tell they're kind
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Speaker 5: of shuffling the deck chairs around trying to figure out
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Speaker 5: what's the combination, the best combination to put on the
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Speaker 5: nickel and the dime package.
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Speaker 3: And of course the safety depth now a little bit
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Speaker 3: of a question with Andrew wingered out for a little
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Speaker 3: bit with a knee issue and then Daniel Thomas with
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Speaker 3: a heel issue he's battling through right now. That one
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Speaker 3: doesn't feel like it's his long term. But you know,
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Speaker 3: every injuries minor. If it's not happening to you, I suppose,
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Speaker 3: so you might have some other guys get some opportunities
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Speaker 3: in what their roles could be this week. Let's come
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Speaker 3: back in a moment, Bucky and Plenty ahead. Of course,
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Speaker 3: we've got to talk about this roster.
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Speaker 2: Bill.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if we'll cut the roster today on
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Speaker 3: this show. That seems like a Pete Priscoe kind of thing.
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Speaker 3: He likes doing that on Mondays. But we'll talk about
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Speaker 3: how you would build a roster using these pieces.
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Speaker 2: We'll do that when we come back.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, those guys are really showing up. You know, they're
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Speaker 6: making making plays all over the field. And he saw
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Speaker 6: Tank the other night just how how powerful he can
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Speaker 6: be running the football and and just improving, and uh,
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Speaker 6: he's going to be a great addition for for the
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Speaker 6: run game. And as you mentioned, you know, Ventreel getting
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Speaker 6: those getting those reps. Foyer is not there, so he's
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Speaker 6: getting be able to step in and do some do
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Speaker 6: some great things. And you know, and really this is
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Speaker 6: his kind of his first year, you know, because he
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Speaker 6: missed last year. But he's done a great job. Braswell
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Speaker 6: has done a great job. You look at all these
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Speaker 6: guys second year players that are just getting opportunities and
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Speaker 6: and as part of that developmental theme, you know, are
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Speaker 6: just developing your roster and and letting these guys perform,
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Speaker 6: and uh, it's it's it's benefiting them.
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Speaker 3: Head coach Doug Peterson earlier this week on second year
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Speaker 3: players on this roster and welcome back is Houddle up
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Speaker 3: with Bucky Brooks, Shaky Shadwick from the Electric Center the
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Speaker 3: Hundai Studios No John Osier this week and Bucky Brooks
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Speaker 3: is out in Los Angeles ahead of this preseason Week
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Speaker 3: three matchup the Jaguars and the Falcons. Mercedes Been City
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Speaker 3: of Atlanta, the site coming up, seven o'clock kickoff time.
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Speaker 3: And okay, Bucky, it is that time. The cuts come Tuesday,
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Speaker 3: four o'clock. You must have the roster down to fifty
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Speaker 3: three players. You know, I could be that guy and
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Speaker 3: ask you to make the cuts right now on the air,
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Speaker 3: but I won't do that. I know you've been, you played,
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Speaker 3: You know this is a tough time for a lot
17:36
Speaker 3: of guys. You know, that's a Pete Prisco discussion for Monday.
17:39
Speaker 3: We'll save that for Monday coming up. However, philosophically, knowing
17:46
Speaker 3: the personnel that this team has in this preseason in
17:48
Speaker 3: training camp.
17:51
Speaker 2: Where do you lean?
17:52
Speaker 3: Where's the Where are the toughest cuts to you on
17:56
Speaker 3: this team going to come from?
17:57
Speaker 2: What position? Groups?
18:00
Speaker 4: Man, let's see.
18:02
Speaker 5: I think the dbs are going to be tough to
18:04
Speaker 5: cut because I think there's some guys that are really
18:06
Speaker 5: taken well to this system. I think you have some
18:10
Speaker 5: young guys that have come on, like game Busters. I
18:11
Speaker 5: think Christian Braswell has been good. I think Buster Brown
18:15
Speaker 5: has shown in moments and we talked about the safety
18:18
Speaker 5: rotation and number of guys that are kind of in
18:21
Speaker 5: and out there, how.
18:24
Speaker 4: Do you settle in on that spot?
18:26
Speaker 5: And so I think the secondary came into the came
18:29
Speaker 5: into training camp viewed as a weakness. I think it
18:31
Speaker 5: might end up being one of the strengths. And I
18:33
Speaker 5: think there's gonna be some good players that can play.
18:36
Speaker 5: For instance, like a Trade Flowers. They may not be
18:38
Speaker 5: in Jacksonville, and look, it happens, and that's just the league.
18:42
Speaker 5: I think they've done a really good job of bringing
18:44
Speaker 5: prototypes in for some some of those situations where it's
18:47
Speaker 5: gonna be tough, I think the secondary is gonna be one.
18:50
Speaker 5: I also think the defensive line, in terms of the
18:53
Speaker 5: terry kind of make the decisions on who's going to be around.
18:57
Speaker 5: It is gonna be tough because you can count in
18:59
Speaker 5: Arms did and Halmlton and you know Rod Robins.
19:03
Speaker 4: Harrison has been paid so he appears to.
19:06
Speaker 5: Be in there, but he's playing when other guys are
19:08
Speaker 5: sitting down, So you wonder is there something you want
19:10
Speaker 5: on there?
19:12
Speaker 4: But I think it's gonna be tough. I think Delon
19:15
Speaker 4: Room in the secondary is gonna be tough for sure.
19:17
Speaker 2: Yeah.
19:17
Speaker 3: Well, we'll check that out, and then you know, the
19:20
Speaker 3: offensive line, there's always questions about or at least recently
19:25
Speaker 3: have been questions about that group. We just haven't seen
19:27
Speaker 3: him together in a game yet. We've seen him on
19:29
Speaker 3: the practice field some. But as it went last year, Bucky,
19:33
Speaker 3: there were a lot of guys that played on the
19:35
Speaker 3: offensive line and the depths there and what the future
19:38
Speaker 3: might hold for some of these interior positions, and are
19:42
Speaker 3: there veterans that stick around and a guy like Cole
19:45
Speaker 3: Van Lannon who's the fourth year players had a really
19:47
Speaker 3: good camp, rated highly at PFF. All that stuff comes
19:51
Speaker 3: into play this time of year. So where are you
19:53
Speaker 3: on the offensive line? Are you keeping nine to ten?
19:57
Speaker 2: What's the what's.
19:58
Speaker 5: The feeling numbers is typically nine, you know, And the
20:03
Speaker 5: thing is having an opportunity to see to start is
20:06
Speaker 5: this weekend is gonna be huge because you can kind
20:08
Speaker 5: of see where they are in terms of the chemistry development.
20:11
Speaker 5: You also, though, have to account for guys who've been hurt,
20:14
Speaker 5: who routinely are hurt, Brandon Sheriff and Cam Robinson who
20:18
Speaker 5: the next ones to go in those respective spots.
20:20
Speaker 4: Those guys need to be able to play, so.
20:22
Speaker 5: You talk about walk a little being in in the building.
20:26
Speaker 5: Maybe Cooper Hodges, like who else is kind of locked in.
20:30
Speaker 5: I think that has a lot of like competition, and
20:34
Speaker 5: I think that competition for some of those backup spots
20:36
Speaker 5: will come from outside the building, not necessarily inside.
20:39
Speaker 2: Really, you don't think they're done.
20:43
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
20:43
Speaker 5: I think you want to continue to scour the waiver wires,
20:46
Speaker 5: to scour the trademarket.
20:48
Speaker 4: Like think about you.
20:49
Speaker 5: You plugged Ezra Cleveland at the end of like the
20:52
Speaker 5: trade deadline, and it helped.
20:55
Speaker 4: He helped, And a lot of it is being able
20:57
Speaker 4: to kind of step away and.
20:58
Speaker 5: Objectively look at your team and say, do we need
21:01
Speaker 5: better if this happens, do we need a better option
21:04
Speaker 5: to go in? And if you feel like that, you
21:06
Speaker 5: have to make a move some of the young players.
21:09
Speaker 5: And we traditionally are the organization that hangs on the
21:13
Speaker 5: young players because we drafted them. At some point though,
21:16
Speaker 5: they need to flash enough where you feel good about
21:19
Speaker 5: bringing them back in eventually resigning them.
21:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that's that's where they are right now,
21:25
Speaker 3: and that's the nature of the week ahead. After the
21:28
Speaker 3: cut on Tuesday, then the waiver wire happens, and you
21:32
Speaker 3: can sign guys to the practice squad and free agents
21:35
Speaker 3: and everything can can get wild in the week going
21:37
Speaker 3: into the first game.
21:39
Speaker 4: It can.
21:39
Speaker 5: And I think JP anyone who listened to Doug Peterson's
21:42
Speaker 5: breast conference, he talked about the family evaluation, like it's
21:45
Speaker 5: pretty much done in terms of the fifty three. Right now,
21:48
Speaker 5: guys are buying for practice squad spots sixteen when yeah,
21:52
Speaker 5: when you hear when you hear that, I mean you
21:53
Speaker 5: go into it. I mean, look, Friday night is always
21:56
Speaker 5: like this, the last preseason game.
21:58
Speaker 4: It's always a bit of a battle of home games.
22:00
Speaker 5: But it's gonna be bananas like because some of these
22:03
Speaker 5: guys talk about musical chairs. Only sixteen can stay around,
22:07
Speaker 5: and all sixteen may not be on your training camp roster.
22:10
Speaker 5: You got to find a way to make a player too,
22:12
Speaker 5: to kind of at least give yourself a practice squad
22:15
Speaker 5: spot and with the hopes of being elevated later in
22:18
Speaker 5: the year.
22:19
Speaker 3: So to that mentality of a player going through that
22:22
Speaker 3: you want to play with aggression and be decisive and make.
22:27
Speaker 2: Plays, but you don't want to go too far. I
22:29
Speaker 2: mean there's.
22:30
Speaker 3: A and then all of a sudden you're out of position,
22:33
Speaker 3: you're getting beat. So there's a fine line there of
22:36
Speaker 3: wanting to do a whole lot but doing too much.
22:39
Speaker 5: There's a fine line, But that's also part of the evaluation.
22:42
Speaker 5: Who can handle the pressure of knowing all of this
22:46
Speaker 5: hinges on this performance and still play within the confines
22:50
Speaker 5: of the offense of the defensive schame because guess what
22:53
Speaker 5: jp when you get to the postseason, there's a lot.
22:55
Speaker 4: Of pressure and you got to perform.
22:58
Speaker 5: And if you can't perform in the preseason with the
23:00
Speaker 5: pressure of making the roster hanging over your head, how
23:03
Speaker 5: you're going to perform in the postseason when there's a Super.
23:06
Speaker 4: Bowl berth on the line? Can you hold up?
23:09
Speaker 5: So as much as we all love the physical, the
23:13
Speaker 5: mental part of it is what you're really evaluating. How
23:16
Speaker 5: do people handle the pressure and stress that comes along
23:19
Speaker 5: with playing get a high game? You've seen it, man,
23:22
Speaker 5: When you're a good team, all of your games are
23:24
Speaker 5: pressurized because it's hot looks, it's Markeee visibility, it's primetime games.
23:30
Speaker 5: You got to be able to deliver when everyone in
23:32
Speaker 5: the football world is watching.
23:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, you like it. Some of these guys have to
23:36
Speaker 4: deal with this pressure, it's new to them.
23:38
Speaker 3: Is it just in general you think it's a good
23:41
Speaker 3: thing that they've they're kind of talking like, hey, we
23:43
Speaker 3: got our fifty three now, or is it are they
23:47
Speaker 3: better because of that?
23:48
Speaker 2: Or are we looking? Am I thinking too much into that?
23:52
Speaker 6: Uh?
23:52
Speaker 4: Nah? I mean I think we all have biases.
23:54
Speaker 5: Like when you're a team, like a lot of times
23:56
Speaker 5: you're bias with the picks that you have, Like some
23:58
Speaker 5: teams have a full where when you draft, when you
24:01
Speaker 5: draft somebody like they're gonna bet the team at least
24:03
Speaker 5: the first year unless they're just bad because you're believing
24:07
Speaker 5: in your process of evaluation over the long haul as
24:11
Speaker 5: opposed to the six weeks of exposure that you might
24:13
Speaker 5: have gotten with him at training camp.
24:15
Speaker 4: But you always are kind of working with the fifty guys.
24:22
Speaker 5: In mind that you know are probably gonna be there,
24:24
Speaker 5: and then they're like a handful of spots that may
24:26
Speaker 5: be available, sometimes due to poor performance, sometimes due to
24:29
Speaker 5: surprise production. But yeah, like when we talked about now
24:34
Speaker 5: I appreciate and being transparent. Yeah, like a lot of
24:37
Speaker 5: this to Haze in the barn. When it comes to
24:39
Speaker 5: the evaluation, you're just trying to figure out who do
24:41
Speaker 5: you want around to execute the stuff you know on
24:46
Speaker 5: your practice squad and eventually develop into someone that can
24:49
Speaker 5: play and be a contributor.
24:51
Speaker 3: A lot coming up in the next three four days
24:54
Speaker 3: for this Jaguars team. Every team in the NFL, including
24:57
Speaker 3: pre season Week three, will come back with our final
25:00
Speaker 3: thoughts ahead of the preseason finale. You Tuddle up with
25:03
Speaker 3: Bucky Brooks.
25:09
Speaker 2: Wrapping up.
25:09
Speaker 3: Huddle up with Bucky Brooks on this Wednesday ahead of
25:12
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25:16
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25:34
Speaker 2: Looking forward to this one.
25:34
Speaker 3: Bucky starters out there may not see many for the Falcons,
25:38
Speaker 3: that's their decision. But the Jaguars starters are out there
25:42
Speaker 3: and that'll be you know, exciting to see how they perform.
25:45
Speaker 3: And you know, and this is one thing, right I think,
25:50
Speaker 3: how much do you overreact to a performance when it's
25:53
Speaker 3: against a second team group? For the falcons. Do you
25:57
Speaker 3: you just want to see some operational things right, or
25:59
Speaker 3: do you take Hey, if they don't perform, well, are
26:02
Speaker 3: you ringing the alarm bell?
26:04
Speaker 4: No, you don't want to go too crazy.
26:05
Speaker 5: But I think the coaches kind of outlined exactly what
26:08
Speaker 5: the expectations were. Press and Ryan Neilson both talked about
26:13
Speaker 5: lightly game planning for this one. Talk about going through
26:15
Speaker 5: the process of a game schedule week. This is really
26:19
Speaker 5: a dress rehearsal for the regular season opener, so you're
26:22
Speaker 5: gonna treat it as such. You want guys to understand
26:24
Speaker 5: this is how we get ready over the course of
26:26
Speaker 5: the week.
26:26
Speaker 4: Here's how we ramp it up on weekends with the walkthrough.
26:28
Speaker 5: Hey, let's go and get on the hope, get on
26:31
Speaker 5: the flight, get to the hotel. Here's our normal process
26:33
Speaker 5: and routine, so it's not foreign to them when you
26:36
Speaker 5: have to start doing it in the regular season. To me,
26:39
Speaker 5: this is an opportunity to continue to remind guys the
26:43
Speaker 5: expectations on the daily culturally, on the field, off the field,
26:47
Speaker 5: how you want them to go. And then from a
26:49
Speaker 5: football standpoint, it's about let's really worry about us. We're
26:54
Speaker 5: not deeply into the game planning, but we're gonna put
26:57
Speaker 5: some things together where we can start figuring it out
27:00
Speaker 5: have some success. This is a great opportunity to do
27:02
Speaker 5: that with the ones playing into to the end of
27:05
Speaker 5: the first half, maybe into the beginning of the second half.
27:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, I expect to see them play.
27:10
Speaker 5: Play well. You want to get off the field. They
27:12
Speaker 5: should dominate the backups for the Falcons. If they're playing,
27:15
Speaker 5: you can build upon that confidence. But if you struggle, yeah,
27:18
Speaker 5: maybe a little tough to bounce back.
27:20
Speaker 4: But this is one where you want to dominate.
27:22
Speaker 3: Dominate. Love that, Bucky. You dominated this program as always.
27:27
Speaker 4: Today it was just me and you, JP, like you pass,
27:30
Speaker 4: I have to shoot it. There's no other option. I'm
27:33
Speaker 4: the shoot a shooter only.
27:35
Speaker 3: All I do is assist. That's it. We just set
27:37
Speaker 3: it up for you, Bucky. We'll talk to you a
27:40
Speaker 3: little later. Have a great call on Friday night. That's
27:43
Speaker 3: Bucky Brooks. I'm JP Shadrick or thanks to David, Choe,
27:46
Speaker 3: Joe Fortune out of our entire crew, and thanks to.
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