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Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks: Wednesday, January 5 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: The fields on the Route proudly presents Huddle Up with
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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks. J P. Shacker, Sean Osher and kind of
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Speaker 1: Film Network analyst and former Jaguar and Bucky Brooks bring
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Speaker 1: you the latest on George Jackson, Kill Jack Warks. Welcome.
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Speaker 1: Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks starts right now. Welcome in
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Speaker 1: this Wednesday afternoon. It is Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 1: I'm J. P. Shadrick. We've got a busy show as
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Speaker 1: always on Wednesday, the final videos show of the regular
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Speaker 1: season on Wednesday. This will become a podcast only soon.
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Speaker 1: NFL Network candles Bucky Brooks coming up as always. Jaguars
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Speaker 1: dot Com Senior writer John Osher is full of energy
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Speaker 1: today and ready to bring the heat in Week eighteen,
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Speaker 1: reported reporting coaching candidates will go through the updated reports
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Speaker 1: of what has happened or what is going to happen.
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Speaker 1: We think looking ahead to week eighteen, the cults are
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Speaker 1: coming to town and we'll get our final thoughts before
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Speaker 1: week eight team coming up, Bucky Brooks. Good afternoon to you.
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Speaker 1: How are you? What's up? What's up? Guys? Season finale?
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Speaker 1: Ready to go? Ready? I told you One of no
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Speaker 1: mind said this week. J I told you that on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: I like that. Trying to finish it up the right way.
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Speaker 1: That's all you can do, John, is one game at
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Speaker 1: a time, and there's only one game remaining. Well, I
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Speaker 1: think Bucky just said I told you well, Yea, I
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Speaker 1: knew there was gonna be a game Sunday, Buck. It's
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Speaker 1: been on the schedules. It's like al efforts aside. They
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Speaker 1: are playing. They are playing. Uh, it is on the
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Speaker 1: schedule one o'clock kickoff time. The time did not change.
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Speaker 1: There was a possibility with the Colts still in the
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Speaker 1: playoff needing the game that you know, if you'reduring the game,
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Speaker 1: there's a possibility could have moved it later in the day.
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Speaker 1: But you've been out of it. They've moved And why
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Speaker 1: was I happy about week? So let's start off today
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Speaker 1: with the latest coaching tracker, John, You you have some
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Speaker 1: updates today and there's really not any new names to
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Speaker 1: be reported. Yeah. On the updates lately have been you know,
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Speaker 1: reportedly Jim Caldwell interviewed Tuesday, Uh, Doug Peterson interviewed last Thursday,
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Speaker 1: and Todd Bowles interviewed on Monday. Those are the ones
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Speaker 1: that have been reported as happening by what we would
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Speaker 1: consider legitimate, you know, respected outlets. Uh, there are others
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Speaker 1: in the works. And we had Tom Pellasaro on Bucky's Guy,
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Speaker 1: Tom Pellasarry NFL Network Brethren UM this morning, and he
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Speaker 1: made the point that a lot of the guys who
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Speaker 1: have delayed it, his understanding is, especially with the assistants,
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Speaker 1: the NFL tried to put in the rule this year
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Speaker 1: or or put in the rule that you get interviewed
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Speaker 1: during the regular season UM, and that feels like it's
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Speaker 1: clunkier maybe than originally anticipated. I don't know, you know,
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Speaker 1: one other factors might be contributing to them not interviewing,
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Speaker 1: but that has been a thing. You can interview on
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Speaker 1: zoom for two hours. I think it is an introductory,
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Speaker 1: uh interview. So Tom's thought was that a lot of
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Speaker 1: that has to do with it's just they're not used
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Speaker 1: to it. It's not part of your normal schedule. You're
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Speaker 1: in the playoff hunt, and they're just not it's just
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Speaker 1: not working. Uh As Maybe it might have and they
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Speaker 1: may readjust it at some point, I would think, well,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think the big thing is you're so
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Speaker 1: worried about your first impression. If it's uncomfortable for you
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Speaker 1: to present on Zoom in a two hour period, you
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Speaker 1: may want to just a postponent, wait after the regular
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Speaker 1: season when i can go into a full normal interview
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Speaker 1: that I've already either prepped for, I've done for. I
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Speaker 1: feel like I'm gonna be at my best. And so
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Speaker 1: maybe that's why some of the guys who are currently
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Speaker 1: with teams are saying, I'll just wait to after the
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Speaker 1: regular season. It's only a week. It doesn't seem like
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Speaker 1: things are going really fast for the Jacks, So maybe
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Speaker 1: that's why. But I do believe, like listening to your tracker,
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Speaker 1: it certainly appears to be a little bit of a
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Speaker 1: theme because the guys that you mentioned are guys that
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Speaker 1: this would be the second or third time that they've
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Speaker 1: had an opportunity to be a head coach, and so
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson, Jim Carl Will Toy Bowls have all been
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Speaker 1: head coaches before, and so maybe they were more comfortable
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Speaker 1: presenting in that manner because they already know what their
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Speaker 1: program is going to be about. They've done it, They've
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Speaker 1: had success in some way, shape or form doing it
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Speaker 1: a certain way, so they're very comfortable sitting in front
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Speaker 1: of ownership and saying, hey, here's the playing here's I
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Speaker 1: will proceed. If I was the Jacksonville Jaguars next head coach,
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Speaker 1: and the other thing, they may be playing into it
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Speaker 1: on on some level, Jaguars are the only team right
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Speaker 1: now interviewing because the Raiders are still in it, so
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Speaker 1: they've my understanding as they've decided not to do because
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Speaker 1: they're still in it. So from the assistance point of view,
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Speaker 1: if there were three teams doing this right now, where
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Speaker 1: the assistance or the people who were being interviewed thought well, hey,
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Speaker 1: I need to get ahead. I need to move because
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Speaker 1: the uh, what's the game? The musical chairs are gonna
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Speaker 1: start getting filled up. That's really not as much of
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Speaker 1: a fact that there's gonna be a lot of jobs
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Speaker 1: I think open up after the season, so they may
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Speaker 1: not feel the urgency to get started and may just say, hey,
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Speaker 1: we've always waited at the end of the regular season,
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Speaker 1: We're gonna do it this way now. Yeah, who knows.
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Speaker 1: They're like, I mean, come on, John, you you know
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Speaker 1: you know what's up. No, you don't know. So that's
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Speaker 1: the latest on the coaching tracker for the Jacksonville Jaguars
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Speaker 1: and you can follow that on Jaguars dot Com as well,
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Speaker 1: all the reporting in one place. Let's look ahead down
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Speaker 1: to the Indianapolis Colts earlier today. Dar Al Bevil trying
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Speaker 1: to keep the team is focused as he can. It's
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Speaker 1: tough for him though it's the last week of school.
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Speaker 1: Here's what I talked to him about today. I mean
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Speaker 1: I I talked to him about, you know, there's there's
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Speaker 1: still five days left in this season. Um, it's it's
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Speaker 1: our job to go out there and put our you know,
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Speaker 1: put five great days together. We're playing a divisional opponent
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Speaker 1: that's you know there has a shot to make the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: and you know, we want to do everything we can
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Speaker 1: to keep you know, the divisional opponents, um from doing that,
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Speaker 1: you know, and so um, they're also playing for the
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Speaker 1: name on their back, and you know they're like I've
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Speaker 1: told you, guys many times, everything that we do is
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Speaker 1: being evaluated. So UM, I think there's plenty to play for.
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Speaker 1: I think these guys are motivated. I do know that
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Speaker 1: these guys care. You know, I'm around him every day
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Speaker 1: and it's you know, this is an important thing to him.
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Speaker 1: So UM, you know, I think they'll be ready to go.
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Speaker 1: It's an NFL football game, Bucky, So you gotta strap
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Speaker 1: up and go play, or you'll hey, get blown out
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Speaker 1: of the water or be get hurt. I mean, those
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Speaker 1: are possibilities if you don't go out and play to
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Speaker 1: your best ability. You know, I don't think that would
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Speaker 1: be an interest. In terms of having the energy and
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Speaker 1: effort to play. You have so many young guys playing
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Speaker 1: that they're gonna be excited to get on the field
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Speaker 1: and kind of live out some of those dreams. You
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Speaker 1: also have a bunch of guys who understand what the
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Speaker 1: situation is for them, may not be on the contract
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Speaker 1: for next year, want to put themselves in a position
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Speaker 1: to have an opportunity to play for the Jaguars next
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Speaker 1: year played for another team. And as Darryl Belvo alluded to,
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Speaker 1: everybody is under evaluation. Every tape, every play will be
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Speaker 1: looked at by somebody whoever is the next coach of
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Speaker 1: the team. They're gonna look at the tape and they
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Speaker 1: can see who plays hard, they can see who gave effort,
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Speaker 1: who played well in the season finale when there's nothing
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Speaker 1: quote unquote to play for. And so it's important and
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Speaker 1: so guys have to understand that. And even though it's
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Speaker 1: weird that you have a band of independent contractors kind
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Speaker 1: of looking out for themselves, you're doing it within the
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Speaker 1: team aspects. So you might well win the game if
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to go out there and perform. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they do it as much as possible within the team aspect.
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Speaker 1: I kind of laughed. I mean, they absolutely will play
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Speaker 1: with professional pride because my experiences is it's what NFL
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Speaker 1: players do. I don't know that right now in this situation,
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Speaker 1: there's a collective we've got to keep the Colts out
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Speaker 1: of the playoffs. I mean, I don't know how strong
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Speaker 1: that motivation is. God bless Darryl for saying it and
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Speaker 1: sort of sticking to that, but there is a certainly
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Speaker 1: unfortunately JP we've been involved with a lot of these games.
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Speaker 1: Typically there is a tremendous energy early for a team
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Speaker 1: in the Jaguars situation against a contending team, and then
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Speaker 1: second and third quarter it can it can sort of
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Speaker 1: start to get away from you, and that's when the
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Speaker 1: team in the Colts situation needs to get this thing
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Speaker 1: put away, because if it gets to the fourth quarter,
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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, the team in the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: situation starts saying, well, may as well I finished it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, and they are professionals, they can make play.
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Speaker 1: So if you're the Colts and and you are trying
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Speaker 1: to clench, their idea will be let's turn this into birth.
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Speaker 1: Let's get him out of here. You know, said that
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Speaker 1: they don't have any incentive in the second half, because
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Speaker 1: once it turns into the second half, then all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, you see bevill start pulling out the So
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Speaker 1: you start getting a situation where it gets a little
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Speaker 1: scary and a weirdness happens. I think the Colts will run.
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Speaker 1: I think they will try to take the life out
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Speaker 1: of the jag Wars and prevent any chance for second
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Speaker 1: half weirdness. So I will say the only way to
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Speaker 1: relate it personal experienced Jacksonville when we were trying to
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Speaker 1: get into the playoffs in nineties. We're playing on Atlanta
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Speaker 1: Falcons team that had nothing to play for and we
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Speaker 1: just needed to win the game. We win, we're in,
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Speaker 1: and I would say it was probably the hardest game
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Speaker 1: for us to play because the pressure is all on
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Speaker 1: the team that's trying to get in the postseason, and
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Speaker 1: so when you're the playoffs team and you're trying to
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Speaker 1: play perfect and you got a team that has nothing
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Speaker 1: to play for. But then you let them hang around
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Speaker 1: and before you know it, as as John alluded to,
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Speaker 1: you get in the second half and now it's a
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Speaker 1: bottle and they have nothing to lose. So you see
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Speaker 1: all the stuff on the back page his other playbook, reverses,
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Speaker 1: double passes, trick plays, they go for it on fourth down.
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Speaker 1: It's a very unconventional game. And so for the Colts,
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Speaker 1: the best thing that they can do is try and
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Speaker 1: handle business earlier, because if the Jaguars get an inkling
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Speaker 1: that the game is up for grabs, you will see
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Speaker 1: guys put a little more effortent energy into doing it.
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Speaker 1: And in Belbo, just let's use the back page to
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Speaker 1: the play sheet, let's get it on tape, see what
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Speaker 1: it looks like. And so all of those twenty three
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Speaker 1: scadoos and all that other stuff, it shows up because
10:29
Speaker 1: you don't have anything to lose when you're in the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars situation. Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks is brought to
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Speaker 1: you by the Fields Cadillac of Jacksonville and Fields Cadillacs St. Augustine,
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Speaker 1: members of the Fields Auto Group will return and the
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Speaker 1: year from. Trevor Lawrence, Jaguars quarterback, spoke with the media today.
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Speaker 1: It's ahead of Week eighteen, the Colts and the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: coming up, and this is hoddle Up with Bucky Brooks
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Speaker 1: on the Jaguars Digital Networks. I guess you can look
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Speaker 1: at it. You can look at both ways. I mean, um,
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Speaker 1: I guess I'll start by saying, I understand you know,
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Speaker 1: the fans that have been Jackson fans for a long time. UM,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure that hasn't hasn't been easy, and a lot
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Speaker 1: of a lot of die hard fans that, um, you
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Speaker 1: know this is I wouldn't say everything for him, but
11:29
Speaker 1: this is something that's very important to them as the Jacks,
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Speaker 1: and they've been a fan since the jack started. So
11:35
Speaker 1: you see that passion and you definitely respect that and
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Speaker 1: you wanna as players, I know, the feeling like we
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Speaker 1: wanna do everything we can to go win for this
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Speaker 1: city for these fans, um, And obviously we haven't had
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Speaker 1: much success this year, so that's that's frustrating for us
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Speaker 1: as well. So you know, I understand from a fan's perspective,
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Speaker 1: what I would I do that personally, you know I wouldn't. Um,
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that, But you know, fans feel how
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Speaker 1: they feel, and um it's hard. Uh. Like I said,
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Speaker 1: after this year has been disappointing for all of us,
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Speaker 1: Like we wanted to win a lot more games. So
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Speaker 1: I get the frustration. But um, for us, we're just
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Speaker 1: like I said, folcusing on going and finishing with a
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Speaker 1: win this season. As Trevor Lawrence earlier today, Jaguar's quarterback
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Speaker 1: and welcome back, it's huddle up with Buckey Brooks, j
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Speaker 1: P Shadrick John Osier here in Jacksonville. Bucky Brooks is
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Speaker 1: not in Jacksonville. He's out in l A. Well, that's
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Speaker 1: the quarterback for you, coming out again and answering the
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Speaker 1: question about the the fan base being upset with things
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Speaker 1: going on right now, and there he is, Bucky with
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Speaker 1: another another fantastic answers he would expect from him from
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Speaker 1: now on. Yeah, a lot of perspective. I feel like
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Speaker 1: he's probably aged in dog years over the course of
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Speaker 1: this one season. I mean, he probably feels like an
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Speaker 1: eight year vet having to deal with all the things
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Speaker 1: that he's done. But I think It's another example of
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Speaker 1: the maturity that Trevor Lawrence has and the leadership ability
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Speaker 1: that it continues to display each and every day. I
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Speaker 1: was in a very difficulty reason for him and for
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Speaker 1: the rest of the team, a lot of losses. And
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Speaker 1: I don't care what anyone says. Man, you don't pour
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Speaker 1: in what these guys have poured in and want to
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Speaker 1: walk away with the results? Did they walked away with
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Speaker 1: losing hurts? It's embarrassing. Um, No one wants to be
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Speaker 1: part of a team that is viewed as a laughing stock,
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Speaker 1: and so as a prideful professional, you want to change it.
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Speaker 1: And so he can understand and empathize with the fan base.
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Speaker 1: But look, man, these guys want to get that stinch
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Speaker 1: off of them. No one wants to be uh looked
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Speaker 1: as parential losers, and so they'll continue to give the effort.
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Speaker 1: They continue to pour in, regardless of the circumstances around him. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't know how much fans care about this, but
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Speaker 1: I'll talk about it because it's something to talk about. Um.
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Speaker 1: I haven't covered college football in a long time, but
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Speaker 1: I don't get the idea that Trevor had nearly as
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Speaker 1: many media obligations on a weekly hardcore basis at Clemson
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Speaker 1: as he does now. Maybe he did, Um, Certainly he
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Speaker 1: didn't go through the questioning and the the crisis points
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Speaker 1: and the difficult things to discuss at Clemson, and certainly
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Speaker 1: not when he was in high school, which just four
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Speaker 1: years ago. Yeah, I would say though, just to jump
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Speaker 1: in real quick, he was out there a lot, especially
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Speaker 1: the last two years. Um. But to your point, but
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Speaker 1: was it weekly? Was where you're having He's out there
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Speaker 1: a lot, and then you know, as the star power
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Speaker 1: rose after that freshman season, he was in the media
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Speaker 1: a good bit most every question usually, Hey, talk about
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Speaker 1: being great? Would be great? How about the thirty point?
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Speaker 1: When last week, right, that's exactly what you're talking How
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Speaker 1: great is it to be great? I mean, so he
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Speaker 1: hasn't really had that question, the ability to think on
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Speaker 1: his feet and to answer from a place of honesty,
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Speaker 1: which I always feel like when I'm listening to Trevor
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Speaker 1: that he's trying to put some thought into the answer,
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Speaker 1: articulates it very well, and just the you know, the
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Speaker 1: ease of which he handles it. All that doesn't matter
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Speaker 1: on the field, But what does matter in this situation
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Speaker 1: is he does a tremendous maturity and I keep saying
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Speaker 1: it right, and I believe in his off field work ethic,
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Speaker 1: I believe in who he is, how much he wants it,
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Speaker 1: and his maturity will get him through this difficult year. Um,
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Speaker 1: I don't doubt his mental makeup at all, which is
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Speaker 1: the If I doubted his mental makeup, I would be
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Speaker 1: concerned about his ability to get through this and about
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Speaker 1: his ability to still be great, because that's what would
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Speaker 1: destroy it. That's one thing I don't feel. I'm sure
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Speaker 1: about it all with him. So I think he's gonna
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Speaker 1: be fine. That's yeah my two look. Look, I think
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Speaker 1: it's a difficult part. I think he will be fine
15:43
Speaker 1: obviously for him because remember he's a ultimately competitive person.
15:47
Speaker 1: He's guy to want every level and it's not only
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Speaker 1: just a team success, but it's the individual success. He
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Speaker 1: hears the whispers and people talking about he doesn't look good.
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Speaker 1: I wanted about the bus potential in all that other
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Speaker 1: stuff that um, some of the people on the national
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Speaker 1: level maybe throwing out there about Trevor based on some
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Speaker 1: of the struggles from this year. And he also looks
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Speaker 1: around and sees like mac Jonsons some other guys having
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Speaker 1: success and so, um, no matter what anyone says, when
16:14
Speaker 1: you're in a draft class, you always want to make
16:16
Speaker 1: sure that you're the best guy. And when you're taking
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Speaker 1: number one overall, you always want people to understand why
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Speaker 1: you were taking that. And so I think a very
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Speaker 1: prideful and competitive Trevor Lawrence will be very determined to
16:28
Speaker 1: kind of get some of that stinch off his name.
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Speaker 1: Uh next season, let's come back in a moment. We'll
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Speaker 1: hear from Josh Allen, Jaguars defensive n outside linebacker. We'll
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Speaker 1: take a look at the latest reserve COVID nineteen lists
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Speaker 1: and changes today and early look at the Indianapolis Colts.
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Speaker 1: All that coming up. This is hoddle Up with Bucky
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Speaker 1: Brooks on the Jaguars Digital Network. I just want to
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Speaker 1: get to front to where we can just focus on football,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, That's the only goal we
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Speaker 1: can you know, really control. You don't change every man
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Speaker 1: come in here. We worry about one thing, and the
17:12
Speaker 1: goal is to win the Super Bowl. Like that's the
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Speaker 1: that's that's the goal that I have and that I
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Speaker 1: want as a team. And I feel like that's what
17:19
Speaker 1: we need. You know what I'm saying, we need to consistency,
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Speaker 1: that we need to just focus on one thing. You
17:26
Speaker 1: know what I mean. We don't need to be focused
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Speaker 1: anywhere else. We need focus our coach, who's players focus
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Speaker 1: on winning. And if everybody comes here and do their
17:33
Speaker 1: job to focus on that one thing, and I feel
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Speaker 1: like we can have that team, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: When we were focused and when we were all out in,
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Speaker 1: we showed really great results. But then when you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, we're dealing with so much other stuff
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Speaker 1: that guys, you know, a lot of guys can't really
17:48
Speaker 1: our coaches or whatever, can't really hone in because we
17:50
Speaker 1: focus on so much other stuff. That's Josh Allen's defensive
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Speaker 1: end outside linebacker. Earlier today and walking back huddle up
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Speaker 1: with Bucky Brooks, jap Jadrick John Osher the Jaguars faced
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Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts. Coming up, we'll take a look at
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Speaker 1: the latest reserve COVID nineteen lists and changes. Earlier today, Well, Bucky,
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Speaker 1: the Colts are on the verge of a Yeah, hold on,
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Speaker 1: let me let me talk about the Josh Allen thing,
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Speaker 1: because I think he's really telling what he revealed, Like, um,
18:22
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people always ask about NFL players,
18:24
Speaker 1: and I find that NFL players are no different than
18:26
Speaker 1: high school players and youth ball players. They kind of
18:29
Speaker 1: like your kids. They won't structure and discipline, They want
18:32
Speaker 1: consistency and stability. And I think that little clip right
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Speaker 1: there with Josh Allen, it really reveals the frustration that
18:40
Speaker 1: exists within the team at the circus environment that was
18:43
Speaker 1: going on around the team for the better part of
18:46
Speaker 1: the season. When he talked about how things were going well,
18:49
Speaker 1: when everyone was locked in and focusing those things, it
18:52
Speaker 1: is very apparent that if you go back to Week
18:54
Speaker 1: four and all the stuff that happened right after Cincinnati,
18:57
Speaker 1: it impacted the team and the team wasn't the same
19:00
Speaker 1: after that. I don't care about the wins or whatever.
19:02
Speaker 1: Early in the year, we didn't feel like this team
19:05
Speaker 1: was gonna finish like they finished. And so I think
19:08
Speaker 1: what all the players, Josh Allen and Trevor Lawrence, man,
19:11
Speaker 1: they just want to show up the work, can play football.
19:13
Speaker 1: They don't want to have to deal with all that
19:15
Speaker 1: other stuff. And so when we're talking about coaching candidates
19:18
Speaker 1: and those things, the number one thing that has to
19:20
Speaker 1: be on the list has to be professionalism. Someone that
19:23
Speaker 1: can just come in and do exactly what the NFL
19:26
Speaker 1: head coach is supposed to do. Get all the like
19:29
Speaker 1: shepherd all the cats and get them going in the
19:31
Speaker 1: right direction. Um, the other stuff will happen, but man,
19:33
Speaker 1: it just has to be a very professional environment for
19:36
Speaker 1: those guys to be able to maximize their talents. Yeah,
19:39
Speaker 1: you've got to get a leader of men. And I
19:42
Speaker 1: said for years and years and years, I always joke
19:45
Speaker 1: on the website and JP has to read it all
19:47
Speaker 1: the time, all the time. I always joke with fans. Hey,
19:51
Speaker 1: it's always coaching in the NFL. It's one of the
19:53
Speaker 1: things I always right in the other zone. And I'm
19:55
Speaker 1: sort of making fun a little bit when fans criticize
19:58
Speaker 1: this play call or this play call or this thing.
20:02
Speaker 1: All that stuff is is fine. It matters, but it
20:06
Speaker 1: sort of varies. It's the old thing with a play call.
20:09
Speaker 1: If you make the right call, you're a genius. If
20:12
Speaker 1: you don't, you're an idiot. What does absolutely matter from
20:16
Speaker 1: the head coaching position is that players believe in the man,
20:21
Speaker 1: and they believe and they want to follow it. As
20:23
Speaker 1: long as you have that, then you have a chance,
20:26
Speaker 1: because it keeps your locker room to get to me
20:28
Speaker 1: after after years doing this. If the coach has that,
20:32
Speaker 1: all else will follow. If he doesn't have it, it's over.
20:38
Speaker 1: Yeah and John, like, here's what's really important about it now,
20:40
Speaker 1: coming off to the most recent situation. Unlike the favor
20:45
Speaker 1: that the players gave coach Meyer when he came in,
20:48
Speaker 1: they won't give the next coach that same kind of favor.
20:51
Speaker 1: They will be a little more reserved in terms of
20:54
Speaker 1: their buying and belief until they know that the man
20:58
Speaker 1: in front of the room is actually living what he says.
21:01
Speaker 1: It's going to be different this time around. They will say, oh,
21:05
Speaker 1: now we're believe in him or whatever, But privately they're
21:07
Speaker 1: going to wait and see how he responds to the
21:10
Speaker 1: first line of adversity, to see if he really walks
21:13
Speaker 1: in likes he talks it. And so that's why this
21:17
Speaker 1: job it's not about xs and os and scheme and
21:20
Speaker 1: we can talk about developing the quarterback and all that. No,
21:23
Speaker 1: this job has to be who is the best leader,
21:27
Speaker 1: who's organized detailed, has the ability to galvanize a group
21:31
Speaker 1: and get them heading in the right direction. All of
21:34
Speaker 1: that other stuff is secondary. Ownership has to pick the
21:38
Speaker 1: best leader more so than the other stuff that people
21:42
Speaker 1: are talking about, the schematics and tactics and all that.
21:45
Speaker 1: It is a leadership position and it has to be
21:47
Speaker 1: the best leader who can convey that leadership in a
21:50
Speaker 1: very clear, um and concise fashion. This week's game, Week eighteen,
21:55
Speaker 1: the Indianafolis Colts have things going in the right direction
21:59
Speaker 1: or when in and they are in the playoffs. If
22:01
Speaker 1: they lose, they need a lot of help. Some other
22:04
Speaker 1: scenarios could get them in, but it's simple enough for
22:07
Speaker 1: them will win and they are in. And of course,
22:10
Speaker 1: on the offensive side, as we saw firsthand earlier in
22:12
Speaker 1: the season, Jonathan Taylor leads the way. Bucky the top
22:16
Speaker 1: rusher in all the National Football League over seventud yards
22:20
Speaker 1: on the ground. He could score from anywhere, and I
22:23
Speaker 1: think they'll He'll get a healthy dose of carries. On Sunday,
22:28
Speaker 1: I got a question for Buck and you know this
22:33
Speaker 1: kid is special. Jonathan Taylor healthy, Derrick Henry or Jonathan
22:40
Speaker 1: Taylor Right now, who do you take? Because it's a
22:46
Speaker 1: different answer to nowise in the beginning of the season. Yeah,
22:49
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor is a monster. Um Dick her dose size wise,
22:54
Speaker 1: just getting in the ring with a heavy weight over time,
22:57
Speaker 1: it just wears you down. I would give him the knowledge,
23:00
Speaker 1: but it's very close. I don't think anybody thought it
23:02
Speaker 1: would be this close. Um, Jonathan Taylor is the real deal.
23:05
Speaker 1: And like, here's what's so funny about it. And I know,
23:07
Speaker 1: like Pete Prisco shows up on another show, But Jonathan
23:11
Speaker 1: Taylor's impact as a second round pick is legit. And
23:17
Speaker 1: we can talk about running backs not being important and
23:20
Speaker 1: undervalued in those things, Jonathan Taylor exemplifies why you better
23:25
Speaker 1: have an A plus running back in the backfield. It
23:27
Speaker 1: changes the game, It changes the equation because if you
23:30
Speaker 1: had to rank the priorities in terms of what I
23:32
Speaker 1: fear the most for the Indianapolist coach, number one is
23:35
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor. Number two is their offensive line. Number three
23:39
Speaker 1: would be the defense, and then you get the Carson
23:41
Speaker 1: Wentz and the rest of the guys. It is about
23:43
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor, that offensive line and the running game. You
23:46
Speaker 1: better put on your big boy pass this week because
23:48
Speaker 1: if you don't slow them down, you have no chance
23:50
Speaker 1: of winning this game. No chance. By the way, Derrick
23:52
Speaker 1: henry Um is sixth in the league still in rushing
23:55
Speaker 1: attempts and yards and he's been hurt since November and uh,
23:59
Speaker 1: and he's set though. Mike Chapel from the Indianapolis Yeah,
24:03
Speaker 1: used to be the Indianapolis Starry. Now he's a Fox
24:04
Speaker 1: with Unine pointed out when I was talking to him yesterday.
24:08
Speaker 1: Taylor leaves the NFL by five. That's like Wayne Gretzky
24:13
Speaker 1: margin back in the day. I mean, where he's almost
24:16
Speaker 1: playing in a different league. And uh, you know the
24:19
Speaker 1: Jaguars we saw last year in the up there in
24:23
Speaker 1: the radio season finale. If you're not careful with Taylor,
24:27
Speaker 1: he can go for two fifty and he can set records.
24:29
Speaker 1: He's to sixty six away from two thousand. Yeah, and
24:33
Speaker 1: that will be interesting to me because I don't think
24:37
Speaker 1: I'm breaking anything any news here when I think the
24:40
Speaker 1: Colts are gonna win on Sunday, and I think they'll
24:42
Speaker 1: probably be up early because that's been that's been the mma. Okay,
24:47
Speaker 1: Bucky can pick the Jags. I'll I'll give him that
24:51
Speaker 1: negative the Colts poll Taylor. If Taylor has a hundred
24:56
Speaker 1: fifty at half time and they're up, do you leave
25:00
Speaker 1: men to good for two thousand? No? No, because if
25:04
Speaker 1: they win during the postseason, I think you got bigger
25:06
Speaker 1: fish to fry. Um. I think this is a game
25:09
Speaker 1: if I'm if I'm framed right, and the way that
25:11
Speaker 1: I'm approaching this, a man, let's cut the fluff. I
25:15
Speaker 1: wanted small, I wanted whatever the little Menia don't want
25:18
Speaker 1: to get in trouble with sponsorship, but I want a
25:20
Speaker 1: very small menu. I want to Jonathan Taylor right, left, middle,
25:25
Speaker 1: over and over again so you can be able to
25:27
Speaker 1: lead and then you get him out of the game. Yeah.
25:29
Speaker 1: I don't think you complicate this one at all. This
25:31
Speaker 1: is a very straightforward approach when it comes to it.
25:35
Speaker 1: A pre fixed menu of of sorts, right, it's already
25:37
Speaker 1: pre for you. Yeah, yeah, everything John does it. It's
25:43
Speaker 1: a little too much for John long season bucks eight weeks.
25:49
Speaker 1: I'm not used to it. J p JP spends those
25:53
Speaker 1: big dollars when he goes out. If you're talking about
25:55
Speaker 1: a price fixed menu, he's talking about three three course meal.
25:58
Speaker 1: He's talking about the advertising mistake, the dessert. Um, maybe
26:03
Speaker 1: a little bottle of vino. The whole point is, it's
26:05
Speaker 1: all set up for you. It's already set I want
26:08
Speaker 1: that and it has five things on it. Boom, there
26:10
Speaker 1: you go. That's what it is, John, That's what they had,
26:14
Speaker 1: Golden crowd, All right, yes, yes, uh, let's come back
26:23
Speaker 1: in a moment. The reserve COVID nineteen list has been
26:26
Speaker 1: updated earlier today. We'll touch on that and get our
26:29
Speaker 1: final thoughts. I had a week eighteen and this is
26:31
Speaker 1: huddled up with Bucky Brooks on the Jaguars Digital Network.
26:46
Speaker 1: Welcome back and huddle up with Bucky Brooks. Final moments.
26:49
Speaker 1: J P. Shadrick, John Osan an NFL Network analyst, Bucky Brooks.
26:52
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at the reserve COVID nineteen lists
26:55
Speaker 1: after health injury report, and well, let's narrowed down a
26:59
Speaker 1: little bit. There are still twelve names on the reserve
27:02
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen lists plural, the active roster list and then
27:07
Speaker 1: the practice squad list. Jared Hawker the lone practice squad
27:10
Speaker 1: player on reserve COVID nineteen for the practice squad, and
27:14
Speaker 1: then eleven players are still on the active list, including
27:20
Speaker 1: Ben Bart's chaise On Ford Chat, Griffin Lender, McCrae, Dylan Moses,
27:26
Speaker 1: Cam Robinson, the punter, J K Scott, Dwan Smoot, Andrew wingered.
27:30
Speaker 1: Scott was added today, so we'll see if he can
27:34
Speaker 1: the workers way back. With some negative tests to be available,
27:36
Speaker 1: that can be an issue come Sunday. John. Just to
27:40
Speaker 1: clarify for those who may not have heard it, Bevil
27:45
Speaker 1: was asked about this on in his in his media
27:48
Speaker 1: availability today and he sounded pretty confident that they expected
27:52
Speaker 1: to get a lot of those guys back for this weekend.
27:55
Speaker 1: He obviously can't predict the future. He's not a doctor,
27:58
Speaker 1: so he can't say who, but it certainly stunted from
28:00
Speaker 1: his quote like they expect to be I think his
28:03
Speaker 1: quote was close to full or very close. So makes
28:07
Speaker 1: it feel like a lot of those guys who went
28:08
Speaker 1: on last week, the offensive Lineman, particularly BArch Robinson, Lender, Lender,
28:15
Speaker 1: maybe even Shaq, Griffin and Smooth who went on last week,
28:18
Speaker 1: sort of felt from listening to Darrel like they expected
28:21
Speaker 1: h the majority of those guys back, which it would
28:26
Speaker 1: be good, that would be good. It was striking last week,
28:28
Speaker 1: Bucky to see twenty seven names during the show pop
28:32
Speaker 1: up on the screen. Look, man, it was hard. It's
28:35
Speaker 1: hard to roll out there when you're playing with the
28:37
Speaker 1: JV team. And like, I love the guys on the
28:39
Speaker 1: practice squad and those things. But sometimes you have those
28:42
Speaker 1: guys are necessarily ready to get an action. They certainly
28:44
Speaker 1: are ready to be counted on to play key roles.
28:47
Speaker 1: And so the Jackguards had to go over to New
28:49
Speaker 1: England and play with a shorthanded squad. Uh. They competed,
28:53
Speaker 1: but the results certainly what weren't what you would want. Well,
28:56
Speaker 1: now that you have maybe a full complimented guys back,
29:01
Speaker 1: see what it looks like. All right, John, how are
29:04
Speaker 1: you feeling for Sunday? Well, I mean I don't. I
29:08
Speaker 1: can't sit here and pick him to win. I guess
29:11
Speaker 1: it's in the context of what we're talking about. What
29:13
Speaker 1: you can pick whatever you want fifty to ten last week,
29:17
Speaker 1: where it never I had I been picking a score
29:21
Speaker 1: last week, I probably have picked. So I wasn't very
29:26
Speaker 1: surprised by the result last week. If they get guys
29:29
Speaker 1: back playing at home, UH, with a little bit of insanta,
29:34
Speaker 1: I don't be an absolute route. I expect the Colts
29:37
Speaker 1: to win by a couple of touchdowns because that's how
29:38
Speaker 1: the season has been going, and the Colts want this
29:42
Speaker 1: game worse than the Jaguars will want it. So seventeen
29:47
Speaker 1: something along those lines would be a nice effort. Considering
29:53
Speaker 1: for the record, I didn't ask for a score. I
29:55
Speaker 1: just said, how you feeling about Sunday? There you go, Bucky,
29:59
Speaker 1: how are you feeling for today? I mean t I
30:03
Speaker 1: A Bank Stadium is the house of horse for the Colts, right,
30:06
Speaker 1: they haven't won, They haven't won in their place with
30:08
Speaker 1: five years generation generation. Yeah, so like this, this, this
30:14
Speaker 1: might be the one, John. It might be an opportunity
30:17
Speaker 1: for us to like finish it the right way. I
30:21
Speaker 1: can see Darrell rob the shoulders of the players. Likes
30:25
Speaker 1: to win one for the Gippers speech all that, you know,
30:29
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if that can happen,
30:31
Speaker 1: though I would like it to happen, but I don't know.
30:34
Speaker 1: If you Yeah, look, I think it'd be a more
30:40
Speaker 1: competitive game than it it had been UM last week.
30:43
Speaker 1: I think guys are private. Anytime you get beat down
30:45
Speaker 1: like that, UM, normally you kind of respond. I think
30:48
Speaker 1: a lot of it would depend on some of the
30:49
Speaker 1: young guys to get opportunity to play Andre Cisco and
30:52
Speaker 1: that crew. Um. I look for a closer game. I
30:54
Speaker 1: can't say that Jaguards will win, but if they let
30:57
Speaker 1: him hang into the second half, the Jaguards are winning.
31:00
Speaker 1: If the Jaguars are within a teschdown going in a halftime,
31:04
Speaker 1: I think they can win in a second half. Wow,
31:06
Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah, he's almost locking it. That's almost
31:09
Speaker 1: a lock. We do locks on Monday, and that sounded
31:12
Speaker 1: really similar to a lock. That would be fun. The
31:16
Speaker 1: coolest scenario would be get that thing to three points
31:19
Speaker 1: at halftime, and maybe you gotta show in the second
31:22
Speaker 1: half that that would be a fun way for these
31:24
Speaker 1: fans of close out this season, being able to cheer,
31:26
Speaker 1: being able to be into it. That would be cool.
31:29
Speaker 1: That would be cool. You gotta make it four fifteen
31:32
Speaker 1: minute games, so you gotta break it into four little increments.
31:35
Speaker 1: You gotta tell Derebella hey man, just focus. We can
31:37
Speaker 1: focus on this fifteen minutes. Do whatever you gotta do
31:39
Speaker 1: to get out of this quarter into the next quarter,
31:41
Speaker 1: and then kind of see what it looks like. I
31:44
Speaker 1: like it. I want to see it. I like it.
31:45
Speaker 1: I think we all do. Bucky, have a great rest
31:48
Speaker 1: of your week, and we'll talk to you on Sunday.
31:51
Speaker 1: All right, man, you guys have fun. Bucky Brooks, NFL
31:54
Speaker 1: Network analysts out of here. Joe Fortunado on the audio side,
31:57
Speaker 1: Primp Padilla on the video oside for John Oshan. I'm
32:02
Speaker 1: j P. Shadrick and this is Huddle Up with Bucky
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