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Bucky weighs in on Calvin Ridley trade | Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks: Wednesday, November 2 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: The fields on the Group Prods. Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks,
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Speaker 1: j P Shacker, John Oser, and NFL Network analyst and
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Speaker 1: former Jaguar Bucky Brooks bring you the latest on George
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Speaker 1: Jackson Hills Jaguars. Everything's got to be about the future.
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Speaker 1: It's got to be about tomorrow and bringing all that
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Speaker 1: into focus as we know, attack the season. Huddle Up
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Speaker 1: with Buck Brooks starts right now and welcome in. It's
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Speaker 1: week nine. The Jaguars and the Raiders coming up and
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Speaker 1: welcome into Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks, j P, Shadrick,
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Speaker 1: John osan busy show ahead. We'll preview that match up.
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Speaker 1: The game this week presented by CSX at the Bank.
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Speaker 1: The Raiders, they played in New Orleans last week and
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Speaker 1: have been practicing in Florida, I think down in sarah
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Speaker 1: Sota most of the week. They'll be up here for
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Speaker 1: the game on Sunday against the Jags. The Raiders at
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Speaker 1: two and five, the Jaguars at two and six. We've
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Speaker 1: got some social media questions. The Jaguars made another transaction
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Speaker 1: right before the deadline, trade for a player who'll be
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Speaker 1: here next year. We'll get to that coming up. Then
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Speaker 1: we walk to in Bucky Brooks now from l A
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Speaker 1: and good afternoon, Bucky. What's up here we are? It's
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Speaker 1: week number nine? You go week number nine, but we're
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Speaker 1: starting over his week number one, just trying to go
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Speaker 1: one and notice we get back on track. How about that?
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Speaker 1: How about that? Indeed we'll get to the game coming up,
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Speaker 1: John with the big news. At least the last day
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Speaker 1: or so at the trade deadline, the Jacks made one transaction,
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Speaker 1: of course of a week or so ago and James
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Speaker 1: Robinson going to the Jets. They made another one right
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Speaker 1: before the deadline, Calvin Ridley coming over from the Falcons.
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Speaker 1: He's been suspended since March and traded yesterday before the deadline.
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Speaker 1: He can apply for reinstatement in February of next year.
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Speaker 1: Twenty three is when he can reapply for I can
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Speaker 1: apply for regains statements. So a lot of questions around this, Bucky.
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Speaker 1: But if he's right, you've got a first round talent
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Speaker 1: on your team. Now moving ahead, If he's ready to
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Speaker 1: talk about the top ten, why every fiver on your hands.
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Speaker 1: You have to remember this dude is a true number one.
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Speaker 1: He stepped in and replaced Julio Jones, uh and did
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Speaker 1: it very very well for the Atlanta Falcons a couple
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Speaker 1: of years ago. Now we haven't seen him play in
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Speaker 1: two seasons. He missed last seasons due to personal reasons.
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Speaker 1: This year he's suspended by the league. But make no
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Speaker 1: mistake about it, this dude is someone who can do
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Speaker 1: it all. Outstanding route runner. Um kind of has sneaky
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Speaker 1: speed and quickness to be able to get behind the defense,
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Speaker 1: but he's very, very comfortable being the lead receiver. And
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Speaker 1: so when you think about the potential composition of the
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Speaker 1: wide receiver corps, where you have Calvin Ridley, you have
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Speaker 1: Christian Kirk, you have Za Jones, and even if Marvin
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Speaker 1: Jones is back available, you now have route runners. And
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Speaker 1: so to me, I think this is a perfect move
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Speaker 1: because your eye towards three. But what you're doing is
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Speaker 1: you're making sure that you give Trevor Lawrence a legitimate
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Speaker 1: number one receiver to anchor his passing him around. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and there's so much time to talk about sort of
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Speaker 1: the nuances of this deal JP and Bucky, But to me,
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Speaker 1: I kept going on it went over it last night.
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Speaker 1: I texted Bucky said, hey, uh, what do you think?
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Speaker 1: And he said, great move. Uh, So I trust that
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Speaker 1: because it's his show, right, Yeah, I mean it's what
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Speaker 1: choice do I have. But overall it it it feels right,
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Speaker 1: even beyond him being a one. Uh. In terms of
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Speaker 1: how you trying to build this roster, it feels right
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Speaker 1: because frankly, they're gonna have stuff to do next offseason
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Speaker 1: beyond just wide receiver. I think the consensus is they
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Speaker 1: need a one who can stretch the field. They need
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Speaker 1: the talent that really is gonna bring. But it also
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Speaker 1: feels like they're gonna need corner. It feels like they
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Speaker 1: need some other spots around the roster that really, if
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Speaker 1: you're gonna get premium, you're best off picking in the
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Speaker 1: first round. It felt like they were gonna need to
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Speaker 1: go first round wide receiver to me until this move.
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Speaker 1: So in terms of what they're trying to build roster wise,
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Speaker 1: if you can bring a guy like this in without
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Speaker 1: burn off a first round pick and have a pool
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Speaker 1: more or have one more in that sense, it's it's
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Speaker 1: a no brainer for really in terms of draft capital bucket,
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Speaker 1: very low risk in terms of what they gave up, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: very low risk, And there are a couple of things
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Speaker 1: to consider. You talked about the draft. Whenever you are
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Speaker 1: in charge your decision maker, one thing you do as
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Speaker 1: you look at who's available potentially on the free agent
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Speaker 1: market versus who could be available in the draft. This
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Speaker 1: year's draft does not have necessarily to stop power at
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Speaker 1: wide receiver that we've seen in recent drafts. The other
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Speaker 1: thing that I think we have to consider, Marvin Jones
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Speaker 1: is in the last year of his deal. And so
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Speaker 1: when we think about Marvin Jones being thirty two years old,
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Speaker 1: he'd be a restricted free agent. This now gives you
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Speaker 1: a natural replacement for him if he's not resigned. And
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Speaker 1: when you think about Marvin Jones and his skill set,
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Speaker 1: Kelvin Ridley has that skill set plus younger, more explosive,
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Speaker 1: more dynamic playmaker on the perimeter. So to me, this
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Speaker 1: is a move that protects against that while also ensuring
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Speaker 1: that if we don't like someone in the draft, we
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Speaker 1: have someone in place who I would say will already
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Speaker 1: to be better than someone that you could bring in
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Speaker 1: the draft. So to me, what you've done is you've
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Speaker 1: already upgraded your wide receiver record next year by getting
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Speaker 1: a player who's experienced that we've seen do work in
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Speaker 1: this league. I like to move. I think the main
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Speaker 1: thing is just making sure that Calvin Ridley is right
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Speaker 1: whatever issues plagued him doing his uh the last few
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Speaker 1: years in Atlanta. You want to make sure that all
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Speaker 1: that stuff is resolved, and then you're getting a good
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Speaker 1: football player. I will also say this because I'm personally
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Speaker 1: attached to him and Christian Kirk watching these guys grow
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Speaker 1: up in high school, having coached these guys at various events.
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Speaker 1: These are really really good guys and really good guys
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Speaker 1: that kind of fit on the squad. I just really
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Speaker 1: like the move because I think both of these guys
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Speaker 1: are going to benefit one another playing opposite each other.
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Speaker 1: I had a question for the GM, and I assume
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Speaker 1: Bucky will be at GM at some point. If you're
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Speaker 1: if you're trent Um, how tough is this move to
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Speaker 1: make me? I mean, it's it's there is some risk involved. Uh,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot that goes into it, and you are
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Speaker 1: trying to look at the future. You're trying to figure
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Speaker 1: out what you're giving up, what that might cost you.
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Speaker 1: How complex was this and how much of a I
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Speaker 1: guess gutsy decision is it. I mean, I think it's
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Speaker 1: it's a little complex only because of the unknown. Right,
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Speaker 1: you haven't seen the player play for two years, so
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Speaker 1: you just don't know where he's at in terms of
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Speaker 1: conditioning and skills and those things. And so that's part
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Speaker 1: of the other part of is what what what happened
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Speaker 1: in Atlanta? Like why did it go a ride in Atlanta?
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Speaker 1: Like the personal reasons like why did he leave? The
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Speaker 1: gambling incident or whatever, you can investigate. You get all
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Speaker 1: that information from the league, whether it's a careless mistake
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Speaker 1: or whether it's part of a problem that he's having
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Speaker 1: to deal with. All of that stuff you have to resolve.
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Speaker 1: I think the main thing is when you're Trent Balky
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Speaker 1: and you've gone down this path before, like you think
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Speaker 1: about having to take Alden Smith at San Francisco and
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Speaker 1: the success that came from that. You might be a
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Speaker 1: bit of a risk taker when it may come to
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Speaker 1: some players that some would deem to be character risk.
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Speaker 1: But in the right environment, with the right coaching staff,
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Speaker 1: in the right locker room, you can take a player
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Speaker 1: or two like that and have success maybe I won't
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Speaker 1: say rehabilitating the player, but being able to blend that
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Speaker 1: the player into the fabric of the team. Yeah, I think, Bucky,
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Speaker 1: that's something that hasn't been discussed a hot day or
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Speaker 1: I haven't heard it again. I will absolutely trust you
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Speaker 1: if you knew Calvin coming up, everything you hear is
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Speaker 1: that he's a good kid. Um so. But if you're
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Speaker 1: uncertain at all because the fact that he stepped away
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Speaker 1: from the game in one uh, it does raise that issue. H.
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Speaker 1: I think the Jazz Wars are getting more and more
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Speaker 1: confident in the locker room they've built in terms of
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Speaker 1: Christian Kirk's going to be in the room with him.
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Speaker 1: If you're follow me, I think overall, I never pretend
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Speaker 1: to know NFL players because we're only in the locker
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Speaker 1: with him a few minutes a week JP. But it
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Speaker 1: feels like a good locker room on that front. So
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Speaker 1: I do think there's a confidence level with Doug and
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Speaker 1: Trent of of being able to bring guys in and
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Speaker 1: trust that this environment is going to be I guess
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Speaker 1: a nurturing one for lack of a better award. Uh. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But let's even go beyond that, because you gotta remember
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson was heavily influenced by his relationship with Andy Reid.
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Speaker 1: Let's think about the things that Kansas City has been
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Speaker 1: able to do in terms of taking players who may
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Speaker 1: have been troubled players elsewhere, but they find a way
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Speaker 1: to be very, very productive for them. And so if
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Speaker 1: you're do Doug Peterson and you really stick to that
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Speaker 1: Andy Reid code and you feel like you're building your
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Speaker 1: team in a similar fashion, you have a locker room
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Speaker 1: that's very supportive and competitive, and you can bring out
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Speaker 1: the best in players, why wouldn't you enter saying that?
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Speaker 1: Because when we talk about the risk in this deal, uh,
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Speaker 1: the picks that you're giving up, I mean we're talking
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Speaker 1: about developmental picks at that that's what they're considered. And
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Speaker 1: so if it hits great, If it doesn't, yeah, you
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Speaker 1: lose the fourth or fifth round pick and those things,
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Speaker 1: but those aren't things that you necessarily lose sleepover. It's
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Speaker 1: the first and second rounders that you worry about. Now,
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Speaker 1: if Kevin really hissed, this is a big time move
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Speaker 1: because it upgrades your wife receiver corps and it gives
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence another experienced receiver around him to help him
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Speaker 1: develop into the player that everyone wants him to be.
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Speaker 1: All Right, that's the news for the three Jaguars will
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Speaker 1: return and discuss the two edition of the team and
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Speaker 1: their matchup this week against the Las Vegas Raiders. The
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Speaker 1: Jags have now dropped five in a row and how
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Speaker 1: can they snap that skid. We'll get into Buckey's head
9:49
Speaker 1: on that and discuss the Raiders coming up as well.
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars Digital Network. Remember when you gotta be honest,
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Speaker 1: you know, with the player, um, and and that's good
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Speaker 1: and bad, right, and you just you're up front with them,
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Speaker 1: and you gotta have constructive dialogue, you know, with with
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Speaker 1: him and with really of all your players and your team.
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Speaker 1: And and I never want to be someone that wants
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Speaker 1: to kind of sugarcoat anything. I think we have to
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Speaker 1: be honest that way, even even in my performance UM
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Speaker 1: as well, and you know, in taking that, I think
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Speaker 1: from what I learned in Philly during that time, it's
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Speaker 1: just just doing that, being being open and honest. And
10:39
Speaker 1: really sometimes you gotta have tough different you know, tough
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Speaker 1: conversations with with players and UM, you know whether it's
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Speaker 1: a quarterback or not, and you know it's it's we're
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Speaker 1: gonna work through everything together and and that's what we do.
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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, we we dig ourselves out of
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Speaker 1: whatever we're in and and you know, continue to improve.
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Speaker 1: That's the head coach of course. Earlier today, Doug Peterson.
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Speaker 1: The full press conference available on Jaguars dot com and
11:06
Speaker 1: welcome back. It's huddle up with Bucky Brooks. It's Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: it's week nine. Bucky is in the middle of your screen.
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Speaker 1: I'm on the left of the screen. John Osier is
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Speaker 1: on the right. The Jaguars have lost five in a
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Speaker 1: row after a two and one start to follow a
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Speaker 1: record of two and six. They'll come back home to
11:23
Speaker 1: face the Las Vegas Raiders, who were shut out last
11:27
Speaker 1: week in New Orleans. We'll get to the Raiders coming up.
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Speaker 1: But the comments here of Doug Peterson, Yeah, and key
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Speaker 1: moments still Trevor Lawrence turning the ball over down in
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Speaker 1: the first and goal at the one, the roll of
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Speaker 1: the right and just had to keep rolling and tried
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Speaker 1: to force it in there. And that was a huge takeaway.
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Speaker 1: In the second quarter of the game at Wimbley last week,
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Speaker 1: and then on the opening play of the two minute
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Speaker 1: drive to try to rally back, um threw a pick
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Speaker 1: as well, and on just a misfire out to the
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Speaker 1: right side, and Um, some of those things have to
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Speaker 1: get cleaned up. We we talked about that lot, Bucky,
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Speaker 1: but I was I was intrigued by his answer there
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Speaker 1: of how you just go right after it and and
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Speaker 1: you can't sugarcoat things with a quarterback, No, I think.
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Speaker 1: I think with players you have to be clear and
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Speaker 1: direct in your assessments. And I think great coaches whole
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Speaker 1: players accountable for the actions, but they also can praise
12:19
Speaker 1: them and give them the positives when they need to
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Speaker 1: do that. But I think for Trevor Lawrence, I think
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Speaker 1: Doug has to have that conversation because what happens is
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Speaker 1: if you don't have that conversation with the quarterback, if
12:30
Speaker 1: you don't hold a quarterback to a high standard, yet
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Speaker 1: you're holding everybody else on the team, it brings about
12:35
Speaker 1: a level of resentment in the locker room. And so
12:38
Speaker 1: if we talk about operating and playing to a championship standard,
12:42
Speaker 1: everyone has to play like that. When you fall short
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Speaker 1: at that standard, you have to be called out on it.
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Speaker 1: Now it doesn't have to be in a necessarily embarrassing fashion,
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Speaker 1: but you have to have those conversations. So for Dog
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Speaker 1: to sit there and talk about that, he understands that
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Speaker 1: he's been a super Bowl winner. He's also been a
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Speaker 1: player in this league. And the one thing, that one
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Speaker 1: thing that you want as a player is you want
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Speaker 1: to be told the truth. Because if you told the truth,
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Speaker 1: where you like it or not, the one thing that
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Speaker 1: you can see is at least they told me. I'm
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Speaker 1: not surprised by it. I know exactly what I'm stepping into.
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Speaker 1: I also understand my role. I think for Doug to
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Speaker 1: have that conversation with Trevor Lawrence and others, it's essential,
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Speaker 1: particularly at this stage of the season, when you're sitting
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Speaker 1: it to in six and you're trying to figure out
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Speaker 1: how to get out of this rut. You have to
13:24
Speaker 1: have open, honest, UH dialogue to try and figure out
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Speaker 1: the best way for this team to move forward. We
13:30
Speaker 1: also think there's a element of Doug knows this is
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Speaker 1: a long term thing. Uh, it's not. It is about
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Speaker 1: this season. You love to rattle off Niner Room getting
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Speaker 1: the playoffs, but there's also a tone you want to
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Speaker 1: say where you want to make sure players for the
13:47
Speaker 1: long term, meaning other players know that Trevor is gonna
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Speaker 1: be held to that same standard. Uh. And I think
13:53
Speaker 1: that is a lot of dougs. Messaging this year has
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Speaker 1: felt like it's about now, but the moves in the
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Speaker 1: message is also it's always about the future and how
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Speaker 1: you move forward. I have a question for the scout. Okay,
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Speaker 1: what h when you look at Trevor Um, everybody's everybody
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Speaker 1: wants to know. I mean every email I get this week,
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Speaker 1: if I get a hundred of him, there's eighty of
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Speaker 1: them wanted to be benched, which is absolutely ridiculous. Uh,
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Speaker 1: because's not gonna happen, nor should it. But what are
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Speaker 1: you seeing? Um? I guess that concerns you and the
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Speaker 1: counter What do you like overall? Because I still like
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Speaker 1: a lot of about what you're seeing overall, But you
14:39
Speaker 1: can't not say that there's not some concerning stuff right now. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: just like us, we gotta be honest about what we're seeing.
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Speaker 1: What we're we're seeing from the quarterback? What I like
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Speaker 1: about the quarterback? First and foremost, I think he's super talented. Um,
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Speaker 1: I think he has supreme talent. I think he has
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Speaker 1: the talent to be an elite quarterback in this league,
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Speaker 1: from his arm talent to his athleticism to the intangibles
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Speaker 1: that you need to have to be a franchise quarterback.
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Speaker 1: Smart tough Um does a great job of leading his team. Uh.
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Speaker 1: The things that you're worried about are too decision making,
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Speaker 1: particularly done in the red zone, because that requires situational awareness,
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Speaker 1: understanding how to live to play another down, and then
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Speaker 1: the accuracy issues that have popped up consistently throughout his
15:18
Speaker 1: time in Jacksonville. Uh, he misses a handful of throws
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Speaker 1: that you expected lead quarterbacks to be able to make consistently.
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Speaker 1: Now he turns around and makes them absolute dimes. Uh
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Speaker 1: like high end throws, high level throws that you want
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Speaker 1: to see from the upper echelone quarterbacks. But it's a
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Speaker 1: level of consistency with the ball placement that you would
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Speaker 1: like to see. So he can operate this offense efficiently.
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Speaker 1: But the one thing is the situational awareness and being
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Speaker 1: able to know, you know what, I probably should throw
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Speaker 1: this one away. I need to live to fight another down.
15:48
Speaker 1: I need to understand where the team is at in
15:51
Speaker 1: this moment and make sure I don't do anything to
15:54
Speaker 1: compromise the team's opportunity to score points and to win games. Uh.
15:58
Speaker 1: I will say this because sometimes it's overlooked in the
16:01
Speaker 1: scouting process. How many close games did Trevor Lawrence really
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Speaker 1: play in, not only in college but in high school
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Speaker 1: when you've won to the level that he's won. But
16:11
Speaker 1: if you may not have played in close games, you
16:13
Speaker 1: don't understand how valuable the ball is. So you can
16:16
Speaker 1: be a little careless and reckless in those things. And
16:19
Speaker 1: so we can say, look, man, the Jaguars have lost
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Speaker 1: nine straight one score games, six straight this year. He's
16:25
Speaker 1: had a hand in a bunch of those with his turnovers,
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Speaker 1: and eventually he has to learn, but he's learning on
16:29
Speaker 1: the fly. And sometimes, man, you have to touch the
16:31
Speaker 1: stove before you realize hot. At some point it's going
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Speaker 1: to click with him that when I'm in the red zone,
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Speaker 1: I can't make these bad decisions because I'm killing our
16:41
Speaker 1: team right hand off the stove. Job. Yeah, yeah, it's uh,
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Speaker 1: that's a good one. That's a good one. I can't
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Speaker 1: even follow that. J K pretty good that it does,
16:53
Speaker 1: you guys, what his names in the show. That's true.
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Speaker 1: It is helpful when you have a running game that's
16:57
Speaker 1: starting to get rolling again. And boy, Travis et N
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Speaker 1: was on a roll going into Wembley with three straight
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Speaker 1: games over one hundred scrimmage yard. Makes one hundred scrimmage yards.
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Speaker 1: Make it four in a row now as he explodes,
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Speaker 1: and it just it just felt a little different than
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Speaker 1: past running games for E. T. N. Buck. He just
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Speaker 1: the style that he ran and like he was putting
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Speaker 1: pads down and running through guys and he had that
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Speaker 1: added verse. He turned three and four yard runs into
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Speaker 1: seven and eight yard runs and that was a little
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Speaker 1: different feeling. Hello, man, this dude is the real deal. Uh.
17:35
Speaker 1: Travis et N has been a big time playmaker throughout
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Speaker 1: his time at Clemson, and we're seeing why people are
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Speaker 1: so fascinated and smitten by him in the draft process.
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Speaker 1: He has the ability to turn uh plays into big
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Speaker 1: explosive plays like this is a guy who was a
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Speaker 1: monster working between the TACs and getting on the perimeter.
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Speaker 1: And you know his style is i won't say a
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Speaker 1: little unorthodox, but it's not like smooth and a lighting
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Speaker 1: running style. This a little hercue jerky. But when he
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Speaker 1: puts his foot on in the ground and he accelerates man.
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Speaker 1: He has the ability to go from zero to sixty quickly. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And what we're seeing now is why some of those
18:12
Speaker 1: comparisons during the pre draft process compared at the end
18:15
Speaker 1: to Alvin Kamara, because it's not only his ability to
18:18
Speaker 1: make plays as a runner, but his ability to make
18:21
Speaker 1: things happen in the passing game that gets you excited.
18:24
Speaker 1: And whenever someone in college puts the ball into paint
18:28
Speaker 1: seventy eight times, they have a knack for the goal line.
18:31
Speaker 1: They have a nose for the goal line. He has
18:33
Speaker 1: that in each and every week. As he gets more opportunities,
18:37
Speaker 1: you're beginning to see why he's that franchise caliber back.
18:40
Speaker 1: I'm really excited about where he is. But I also
18:43
Speaker 1: wanted this as Doug Peterson is evaluating the team, and
18:46
Speaker 1: this is right around the time. When you do this,
18:48
Speaker 1: you're eight games in and there was a style of
18:51
Speaker 1: play that you wanted to utilize. Well, now we played
18:55
Speaker 1: eight games and then you know who your playmakers are.
18:58
Speaker 1: I do wonder as we continue to go, does he
19:01
Speaker 1: become the centerpiece of the offense and not sixteen Does
19:04
Speaker 1: it become a little more running back centric and not
19:07
Speaker 1: as much Trevor Lawrence centric as this team is building
19:11
Speaker 1: this offense and as they're trying to get back into
19:12
Speaker 1: the playoff race. Well, I think you've seen the answer
19:16
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. I think it seems it
19:19
Speaker 1: is gearing towards that, and I've said it the last
19:22
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. It's fascinating me. I really missed on
19:25
Speaker 1: E T And I thought during I mean, I guess
19:27
Speaker 1: it's it's fair because I only see him in O
19:29
Speaker 1: t as in football, I mean in the NFL, and
19:34
Speaker 1: I didn't think he was gonna be a major story
19:36
Speaker 1: this year. I thought he would be a supplemental story.
19:38
Speaker 1: I thought he would make some plays in no way
19:41
Speaker 1: that I think he would be the featured go to back,
19:44
Speaker 1: not just because the list frank, but he didn't. I
19:48
Speaker 1: was looking during O t as just see just blinding
19:51
Speaker 1: blazing speed like Tyreek Hill speed. And I really didn't
19:55
Speaker 1: see that. And I wondered where he was going to
19:57
Speaker 1: be effective because I didn't expect him to be this
20:01
Speaker 1: instinctive a runner. Uh, his vision is off the charts good,
20:06
Speaker 1: and then his ability to make plays off of what
20:10
Speaker 1: he sees his instincts. All those running back things on
20:13
Speaker 1: our Jaguars Drive time this morning. I I sort of
20:16
Speaker 1: raised the question a little bit tongue in cheeks so far,
20:19
Speaker 1: but maybe not. Is he a Rushmore Jaguars running back?
20:23
Speaker 1: Is that where he's headed? And the rushmore is impressive
20:26
Speaker 1: around here? I mean, Fred Taylor and Morris Jones Drew
20:31
Speaker 1: are franchise defining players, so it's obviously way premature to
20:34
Speaker 1: talk about that. But the way he runs, if he
20:38
Speaker 1: stays healthy, he he's a much better, more complete NFL
20:42
Speaker 1: running back. And his toughness is so impressive for a
20:47
Speaker 1: guy of his size because he doesn't feel huge JP
20:50
Speaker 1: but he runs hard and he runs smart. The only
20:54
Speaker 1: thing I questioned about how they can use him on
20:57
Speaker 1: the lines of what Bucky's saying. Are they gonna be
21:01
Speaker 1: able to use him big time in the red zone
21:04
Speaker 1: for power type stuff? I don't know if this offense
21:07
Speaker 1: is that, so I don't know if you can rebuild
21:10
Speaker 1: your red zone offense around that, uh, but they sure
21:14
Speaker 1: seem to be redoing how they think they're going to
21:19
Speaker 1: move the ball between the twenties and again, he's impressive.
21:22
Speaker 1: He He's his big as surprise to me for his
21:25
Speaker 1: level of effectiveness as I can remember around here. Okay,
21:28
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you the name, and I'm gonna give
21:29
Speaker 1: you who he is and who he may be for
21:31
Speaker 1: our offense, He's Jamal Charles. When Jamal Charles was in
21:35
Speaker 1: the prime of his career with the Kansas City Chiefs,
21:37
Speaker 1: I think Doug. I think Doug Peterson was there during
21:40
Speaker 1: that time. Uh. If you go back and you look
21:42
Speaker 1: at how Jamal Charles impacted that team, it was as
21:45
Speaker 1: a runner, and it was as a big time playmaker
21:47
Speaker 1: in the screen game and also on checkdowns, I think
21:50
Speaker 1: that's who Travis at the end is. He has the
21:53
Speaker 1: ability to really impact it in that fashion. Now, the
21:56
Speaker 1: thing about Travis which is funny because he's fast, but
22:01
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's that Chris Johnson fast that
22:05
Speaker 1: we talked about, like when Chris Johnson was really killing
22:07
Speaker 1: it for the Tennessee Titans. I don't know if he's
22:09
Speaker 1: that because he top ends out right around fifty yards
22:12
Speaker 1: where they kind of bring him down. He's a little difference.
22:15
Speaker 1: We talked about Fred Taylor. Fred Taylor takes those to
22:17
Speaker 1: the house. He cribs him all day. So when we
22:19
Speaker 1: talk about the Mount Rushmore, I do believe he's trending
22:23
Speaker 1: to that. We don't want to give away Teo jackets
22:25
Speaker 1: right now after a four game run that has been spectacular,
22:28
Speaker 1: But he certainly is Fred Taylor m j D. He's
22:33
Speaker 1: right there in terms of being a franchise caliber back.
22:36
Speaker 1: I think what you also see is why the Jaguars
22:40
Speaker 1: were okay moving on from James Robinson before, because the
22:44
Speaker 1: more opportunities that Travis has had, the more big plays
22:48
Speaker 1: that have started to come. And so I think with
22:50
Speaker 1: this offense and the way they want to operate it,
22:53
Speaker 1: it's not an old school ground and pound offense, but
22:55
Speaker 1: you certainly want to have a balanced running game that
22:58
Speaker 1: has some of that pop that he's been able to proprode. Well,
23:02
Speaker 1: you know me, JP were talking tough football. I think
23:05
Speaker 1: most running backs in the NFL these days are pretty interchangeable.
23:08
Speaker 1: I mean, uh, this kid does not fit into that category.
23:13
Speaker 1: He's I mean most running backs pretty much get you
23:16
Speaker 1: the yards that are there, and they might get a
23:19
Speaker 1: yard or two more. Uh. But Travis, you don't get
23:28
Speaker 1: a forty nine yard right, I mean, invest three games
23:30
Speaker 1: he's had a forty eight yard runs plus. Uh, you
23:34
Speaker 1: don't get forty eight yard runs, plus just running what
23:39
Speaker 1: the offensive line gives you. You have to create that
23:44
Speaker 1: kind of yards with your own ability and your own
23:47
Speaker 1: vision and that special stuff. In two thousand, it was
23:50
Speaker 1: two thousand, my last year covering the Jags for the paper.
23:53
Speaker 1: Fred Taylor went on a run that year. I think
23:55
Speaker 1: he had nine straight hundred yard games, and the number
23:59
Speaker 1: of breaka a runs he had during that stretch was unbelievable.
24:03
Speaker 1: I'd never to me, it felt like I was covering
24:06
Speaker 1: Barry Sanders in his prime, and Fred's certainly proved to
24:09
Speaker 1: be that level of back. Um. Yeah, I'm not gonna
24:12
Speaker 1: put Travis on Fred's level, because Fred to me is
24:15
Speaker 1: top fifteen, top twenty of all time. But the consistency
24:19
Speaker 1: with which he makes plays that are explosive at that
24:22
Speaker 1: position in this day and age, it's really impressive. Again,
24:26
Speaker 1: I just didn't expect it. It's it's impressive. We've got
24:29
Speaker 1: plenty to get to. We'll come back. We've got to
24:31
Speaker 1: get to the defense. They've given up fourth quarter leads
24:34
Speaker 1: and they did it again at Wembley. Will try to
24:36
Speaker 1: get some answers from Buckey on how to slow that
24:39
Speaker 1: trend down, and we've got to talk about the Las
24:41
Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders, a team that's two and five and they
24:44
Speaker 1: got shut out last week. They still have some pieces
24:48
Speaker 1: on that offense certainly, and your social media questions coming up.
24:51
Speaker 1: It's huddle up with Bucky Brooks on the Jaguars Digital Network.
25:01
Speaker 1: We had a game just like that this season where
25:04
Speaker 1: where we held up, held a team to zero and
25:06
Speaker 1: then you know, next thing you know, they're over thirty
25:08
Speaker 1: points the next next time we play them. So each
25:11
Speaker 1: week is different, and each game plan is different, and
25:15
Speaker 1: the set of circumstances are different, and you you put
25:19
Speaker 1: the past in the past and you focus focus on
25:21
Speaker 1: the current. So um, I would expect a different you know,
25:24
Speaker 1: Raider team this weekend. That's said coach Doug Peterson today
25:28
Speaker 1: when I asked about the Raiders shutout loss last week
25:32
Speaker 1: and welcome back. It's huddled up with Bucky Brooks, j
25:35
Speaker 1: P Shadwick John Oser alongside the Jacks in the Raiders
25:38
Speaker 1: Game presented by CSX Sunday one o'clock. Yeah, the Raiders
25:43
Speaker 1: got shut out in New Orleans last week, but we're
25:45
Speaker 1: just talking about Travis c t N's run here of
25:49
Speaker 1: four games over one scrimmage yards before last week's game,
25:53
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs was on that kind of run for the
25:56
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Raiders and it was over hundred for three straight.
26:01
Speaker 1: And they still have Davontae Adams, Yes, they still have
26:05
Speaker 1: you know, the tight ends been banged up. We'll see
26:07
Speaker 1: if he comes back. But Jacobs is really off to
26:09
Speaker 1: a good start here Bucky on the ground for for
26:11
Speaker 1: the Raiders. Yeah, also an outstanding start. And you know,
26:15
Speaker 1: for a guy who has played a ton during the
26:17
Speaker 1: preseason because he was still trying to become one of
26:20
Speaker 1: Josh McGann was guys, he has become the foundation and
26:23
Speaker 1: the focal point of their offense. This is the guy
26:26
Speaker 1: you talked about four straight games where he was getting
26:28
Speaker 1: busy as the lead runner. He gives them a physical
26:31
Speaker 1: presence and I'll be honest, when they run the offense
26:34
Speaker 1: through him, they have very very difficult offense to stop
26:36
Speaker 1: because now you have to put an extra defend in
26:38
Speaker 1: the box, which exposes your coverage against Hunter Renfroe and
26:42
Speaker 1: Davontae Adams and Darren Wallett if he's available. Um. The
26:46
Speaker 1: thing about this team they lead in egg against the
26:49
Speaker 1: new one, the Saints, Josh Jacobs only got ten carries.
26:51
Speaker 1: Typically when you get smacked down and you have a
26:53
Speaker 1: disappointing effort like that, it's back to the basics. So
26:57
Speaker 1: I would expect to see a heavy dose of Josh
27:00
Speaker 1: Jacobs and the Jaguars defense has to be ready to
27:03
Speaker 1: stop the running game because you've gotta stop the run,
27:05
Speaker 1: and you have to do that to have any chance
27:07
Speaker 1: of being able to get Derry Carn the kind of
27:09
Speaker 1: situations that you want to to be able to get
27:11
Speaker 1: after him and force him into some turnovers. Yeah, I mean,
27:14
Speaker 1: it's it's worrisome on that front because as much as
27:18
Speaker 1: you like a lot of pieces of this defense, I
27:21
Speaker 1: mean the Jaguars defense, and as much as you like
27:24
Speaker 1: a lot of the extended time that they've played, or
27:30
Speaker 1: as much as you like the way they've played for
27:31
Speaker 1: extended periods, in the last four weeks, they've given up
27:34
Speaker 1: go ahead touchdowns in the last six minutes. And in
27:38
Speaker 1: the NFL, in this day and age, I've been saying
27:42
Speaker 1: for the last three or four years, it just feels
27:43
Speaker 1: like more and more you're ranking all that stuff, your
27:47
Speaker 1: total yards, even your points allowed. In a scoring league
27:51
Speaker 1: like it is now, defense is about what you do
27:53
Speaker 1: in the last quarter, and it's it's about getting off
27:55
Speaker 1: the field the big moments. Pressure in big moments, a
27:58
Speaker 1: turnover to break serve if you will, And this events
28:02
Speaker 1: has failed for four straight weeks at that And I
28:06
Speaker 1: don't quite know. Mean, I guess I'm asking the coach.
28:10
Speaker 1: You're all over the board on Bucky today. Uh, scout coach. Now, yeah,
28:15
Speaker 1: there's how do you break? And John to not to
28:18
Speaker 1: jump on top of you here. But those rankings get
28:20
Speaker 1: you to that point where it comes down to the end.
28:22
Speaker 1: He is it as simple as I mean? I look
28:25
Speaker 1: at it and and do you clearly have not to
28:29
Speaker 1: knock on Trey Herndon, But you clearly have it at
28:31
Speaker 1: one corner a tough spot. And then to me, that
28:36
Speaker 1: allows defenses to sort of feel comfortable throwing the ball
28:39
Speaker 1: sometimes quickly negating the pass rush somewhat. And I get
28:43
Speaker 1: the patches still us to get home. But is it
28:46
Speaker 1: that simple or at the end of games, is there
28:48
Speaker 1: anything you can point to? No, it's tough because I
28:53
Speaker 1: feel like this is a defense with mixed match parts,
28:56
Speaker 1: meaning the front is really solid. The front wants to
28:59
Speaker 1: have a man front so they can beat you up
29:01
Speaker 1: and stop the running game and when they've been able
29:03
Speaker 1: to hold up their end of the bargain. On the
29:05
Speaker 1: back end, they have shown the ability to beat people
29:08
Speaker 1: up at the line of scrimmage and eliminate the running game.
29:10
Speaker 1: The issue that you have is Mike Call, Will and
29:13
Speaker 1: the coaching staff is trying to figure out what's the
29:15
Speaker 1: best way to play with the pieces that we have
29:17
Speaker 1: assembled on the perimeter. Trey Herndon, Tyson Campbell, Uh, you
29:21
Speaker 1: think about Cisco and Claybooks and some of the other
29:23
Speaker 1: guys that are kind of jumping into rotation. When you
29:26
Speaker 1: play man deman, the speed deficiencies are exposed. Trey hern
29:30
Speaker 1: is not a fast guy in coverage, and we've seen
29:33
Speaker 1: when he gets locked up too often in man demand,
29:36
Speaker 1: the quarterback finds him and they get the big play
29:38
Speaker 1: over top of the defense. The issue is when you
29:42
Speaker 1: go to zone, you don't necessarily have guys who are
29:45
Speaker 1: what I call ball hawks, guys that can play in
29:48
Speaker 1: space because they have great feet and instincts and diagnostic
29:52
Speaker 1: skills and those things. And so when you're Mike Call,
29:54
Speaker 1: when you're trying to figure out the coverage to pair
29:56
Speaker 1: with the pressure, you're spinning the wheel because you don't
30:00
Speaker 1: no if I can play uh an overabundance of man
30:03
Speaker 1: coverage because I know I have some deficiencies. If I
30:05
Speaker 1: play too much zone, then they're nickeling down the ball
30:07
Speaker 1: down the field and we never get home, just like
30:10
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts. And so you're tough, You really struggling
30:13
Speaker 1: because you're trying to figure out how can I help
30:16
Speaker 1: my players but still get the tight coverage that I
30:18
Speaker 1: need to be able to pressure the quarterback and knock
30:20
Speaker 1: him around and to me, some of that and this
30:23
Speaker 1: could be just you know, dead wrong, but it feels
30:26
Speaker 1: like you give up drives late because at some point
30:31
Speaker 1: play the game, play the game, play the game, the
30:33
Speaker 1: other offense sort of figures out. It felt like the
30:35
Speaker 1: Giants sort of figured it out by the second half
30:38
Speaker 1: what the Jaguars really couldn't do that day to stop him.
30:42
Speaker 1: Uh I felt a little bit of like that against
30:44
Speaker 1: Denver as well, you know, really good early and the
30:47
Speaker 1: Broncos kind of figured out. Russell Wilson, a veteran court
30:49
Speaker 1: I kind of figured out some of the things that
30:51
Speaker 1: he could get done against that defense. Um, I hope
30:56
Speaker 1: that changes. I'm not sure where I'm going with that,
30:59
Speaker 1: but that's what it's teams like, and that's what they've
31:01
Speaker 1: got to get fixed. Well, that's the reality of it.
31:04
Speaker 1: The reality of it is when we've been victimized, it's
31:06
Speaker 1: been man to man coverage. And the thing is the
31:09
Speaker 1: athletes that you've assembled on the perimeter, they're built to
31:11
Speaker 1: be man to man cover guys, but they haven't been
31:13
Speaker 1: able to get it done consistently. Uh. Man to man
31:16
Speaker 1: coverage is great because you have tighter coverage. Uh, you
31:19
Speaker 1: you forced the quarterback to make lower percentage throws. But
31:22
Speaker 1: the issue is if you don't have guys who are
31:24
Speaker 1: outstanding uh speisters that they don't have great ball skills.
31:27
Speaker 1: You see the ball fly over the top of the
31:29
Speaker 1: defense when you go zone is man, are you patient
31:33
Speaker 1: enough to deal with the constant barrage of nickel and
31:37
Speaker 1: dimes and checkdowns and short passes going up and down
31:40
Speaker 1: the field and Matt Matt Ryan looking like m VP
31:43
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan only get benched the week later playing somebody else.
31:47
Speaker 1: And so it is the challenge of Mike call Well
31:50
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what can I do to get
31:52
Speaker 1: the pressure that I want to get home but I
31:54
Speaker 1: can't cover. And the league has changed because the ball
31:56
Speaker 1: is coming out so quick that it's hard to get
31:58
Speaker 1: to the quarterback unless you have dynamic cover of guys
32:01
Speaker 1: on the perimeter. Where the issue really is is the personnel.
32:06
Speaker 1: Tyson Campbell is a solid number two corners. The guy
32:08
Speaker 1: who was expected to be your number one, Shaq Griffin,
32:12
Speaker 1: has underperformed. And so now the hope that you had
32:15
Speaker 1: going into the year, you can't play the way that
32:18
Speaker 1: you want to play because you have a guy that
32:20
Speaker 1: can't play to that level. And so it hears you yeah,
32:22
Speaker 1: and he's on I R. So all of a sudden,
32:25
Speaker 1: you gotta backfill that also, and there there's some questions.
32:28
Speaker 1: And by the way, kJ Hamlon runs a four three,
32:30
Speaker 1: so um in that moment, hey run past the guy
32:35
Speaker 1: and we'll throw it to you. That's what happened on
32:37
Speaker 1: the opening drive of our the opening play of that
32:40
Speaker 1: drive for Denver in the fourth quarter. Let's come back
32:42
Speaker 1: in a moment and your social media questions and will
32:45
Speaker 1: wrap it up. It is huddle up with Bucky Brooks
32:48
Speaker 1: on the Jaguars Digital Network. Can we play the Raiders
32:54
Speaker 1: this week? I'm just wondering. I'm just wond I mean,
33:00
Speaker 1: the game up Sunday we're talking about a player that
33:02
Speaker 1: won't be here for hopefully for months. You know. That
33:07
Speaker 1: is head coach Doug Peterson about fifteen minutes into his
33:10
Speaker 1: press conference today, by the way, when they kept asking
33:13
Speaker 1: him about Calvin Ridley, who will be here and hopefully
33:17
Speaker 1: in three welcome back. It's untle up with Bucky Brooks,
33:20
Speaker 1: J P Shadrick, John Oshan and we look outside as
33:23
Speaker 1: always we're in the cave here in the bank underneath,
33:26
Speaker 1: but outside it's a nice beautiful day in the low eighties.
33:31
Speaker 1: And there's a look at the Midller Electric Center moving
33:34
Speaker 1: along very nicely. And the roof structure on the grand
33:39
Speaker 1: stand has gone up since we were to London and back,
33:43
Speaker 1: so um, we're moving along. It will be open and
33:45
Speaker 1: ready for business for training camp of next year three.
33:50
Speaker 1: And Calvin Ridley will have a locker in that place.
33:53
Speaker 1: It's nice. I hope I have a locker. I would
33:56
Speaker 1: like to lock in the office in their place. That
33:57
Speaker 1: looks nice. Now apparently he's getting locker. Yeah, I mean, Bucky,
34:03
Speaker 1: while they're building a boob I ask you see, like
34:05
Speaker 1: the worst thing they can say is no, just like
34:07
Speaker 1: a little locker were like, you know a little BB
34:09
Speaker 1: in little twenty two in the corner. Maybe some minities
34:12
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. That's all it would be, Like Marina,
34:14
Speaker 1: they just put like a like a case. Yeah, I
34:20
Speaker 1: was surprised they didn't do that. It was lucky when
34:22
Speaker 1: he left here in the nineties, was wheel it over
34:24
Speaker 1: to the new place and put it in the Hall
34:27
Speaker 1: of Fame or whatever. Yeah, like that. You know, gotta
34:31
Speaker 1: ask for it, never know, that's true. That is true. Hey,
34:34
Speaker 1: let's get to social media. We put out the catch
34:37
Speaker 1: signal earlier today and everybody wanted to talk about Calvin Ridley.
34:40
Speaker 1: So here we go. The first question that Dr Cliffy
34:44
Speaker 1: thoughts on Ridley trade and the fact that we spent
34:46
Speaker 1: so much in free agency for wide receiver talent and
34:48
Speaker 1: the first thing to do is go for a wide receiver.
34:50
Speaker 1: Is it a sign of free agency failure or just
34:53
Speaker 1: a good risk reward acquisition. Let the offseason and draft
34:56
Speaker 1: off commence. Well, that last part, Buck, I don't think
34:59
Speaker 1: internal really agree with. There's still nine games left, they're close.
35:03
Speaker 1: They feel like if they make a couple of plays
35:05
Speaker 1: here there, they can fight back. Yes, look, I know
35:08
Speaker 1: it's his show, but let me cut in here. Uh,
35:11
Speaker 1: First of all, it's not time for draft talk. You
35:14
Speaker 1: know my policy JP Senior Bowl. I talked about the
35:17
Speaker 1: draft when against the Senior Bowl or when the team's
35:19
Speaker 1: officially eliminated, that there's enough. There's enough time for that.
35:25
Speaker 1: We've got four months. I mean, part of the problem
35:27
Speaker 1: with the draft is you've got to listen to the
35:29
Speaker 1: Bucky brooks Is of the world for four months with
35:32
Speaker 1: with Jeremiah on the moving the sticks and all that.
35:35
Speaker 1: It's great, but all his lists and top five ranking,
35:40
Speaker 1: Buckey will rank something in in April for you. Now.
35:42
Speaker 1: Don't think he won't. But um, oh, hey, Bucky talking
35:48
Speaker 1: a second. Um. I don't think at all that it's
35:52
Speaker 1: a commentary on free agency last year, Bucky. I think
35:55
Speaker 1: with free into you last year, you were trying to
35:58
Speaker 1: do as much as you could with what was available
36:01
Speaker 1: in free agency and what you thought were gonna be
36:04
Speaker 1: long term fits. I don't think they thought that they
36:07
Speaker 1: were signing a big time number one X in free
36:11
Speaker 1: agency last year. I think they thought they were getting
36:13
Speaker 1: a couple of guys in Za, Jones and Kirk who
36:15
Speaker 1: could help. And I think the long term plan was
36:18
Speaker 1: always at some point we're going to try to find
36:22
Speaker 1: this x number one stud receiver. But you can't force that.
36:27
Speaker 1: If you try to force that, then you're gonna bust
36:30
Speaker 1: out on it because you're gonna go try to force
36:32
Speaker 1: the wrong guy. I think they wanted to get good there,
36:36
Speaker 1: and then when it came about, when the pitch came
36:38
Speaker 1: to him, if you will, JP's old world, they were
36:41
Speaker 1: able to hit it. I think they waited for their
36:45
Speaker 1: pitch on this one and they hit it. But I
36:47
Speaker 1: don't think it's a commentary on Christian Kirkins A Jones. No,
36:50
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a commentary on Christie Kerkins A Jones.
36:52
Speaker 1: I do believe it's a risk reward scenario. I think
36:56
Speaker 1: what you're doing, if you're tryin baking, you're trying to
36:58
Speaker 1: mitigate the risk um of losing Marvin Jones as a
37:02
Speaker 1: free agent. You also are trying to reap the rewards
37:04
Speaker 1: of maybe Calvin Ridley is a little better than we think.
37:07
Speaker 1: Worst case, you come in thinking, hey, could this dude
37:10
Speaker 1: be our number three receiver? If it's Christian Kirkins A Jones,
37:13
Speaker 1: is Calvin really good enough to be our number three?
37:15
Speaker 1: Just based on him being rusty or anything like that?
37:18
Speaker 1: Best case scenario, maybe he comes settles in in Jacksonville,
37:23
Speaker 1: shakes off the rust, and becomes the player that he
37:25
Speaker 1: was the last time we saw him play a full season,
37:27
Speaker 1: which was a high end number one receiver that stepped
37:31
Speaker 1: in under a pressurized environment and replace Julio Jones. And
37:35
Speaker 1: so whether he's a one, whether he's a three, there's
37:38
Speaker 1: some value to having that player. And it also prevents
37:41
Speaker 1: you from having to maybe overspin to keep Marvin Jones
37:46
Speaker 1: uh overdraft a receiver in the first round who may
37:49
Speaker 1: not be up to stuff where it may take some time.
37:52
Speaker 1: So to me, it's just an insurance policy because there's
37:55
Speaker 1: not a lot of risk involved. To me, it's all reward.
37:58
Speaker 1: If Cavin Ridley is anything like the player that we
38:01
Speaker 1: saw the last time he was on the four on
38:03
Speaker 1: the field four time. Yeah, JPS. You know, GM is
38:07
Speaker 1: like nothing better than they had the depth charts sort
38:10
Speaker 1: of in place before the draft where they don't have to,
38:15
Speaker 1: you know, reach and draft for need. And I think
38:18
Speaker 1: this certainly puts them in a situation where they don't
38:21
Speaker 1: have to be desperate in the draft for wide receiver
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Speaker 1: next year. And I frankly thought that they were going
38:26
Speaker 1: to be that if they hadn't made I mean, not desperate,
38:30
Speaker 1: but I think it was gonna be hard for them
38:31
Speaker 1: not to go after a one to help Trevor if
38:34
Speaker 1: they hadn't made some sort of move like that. And
38:36
Speaker 1: they may have felt differently about that, but that was
38:38
Speaker 1: sort of the outside view of it. By the way,
38:41
Speaker 1: if one of the Jags get for James Robinson a six,
38:46
Speaker 1: that could be a fifth, right, Okay, this is what
38:49
Speaker 1: a fifth the signs and it just keeps going up
38:52
Speaker 1: if the performance and everything indicates. And I get that.
38:55
Speaker 1: A lot of people listening to this love James Robinson,
38:59
Speaker 1: and I get it. But if you can make that
39:02
Speaker 1: trade for top running back or top wide receiver in
39:10
Speaker 1: the NFL these days, you take top wide receiver all
39:14
Speaker 1: the way to Sunday the UM. One more question from
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Speaker 1: at Trevorville Underscore. Rank Calvin Ridley among the top wide
39:21
Speaker 1: receivers in the NFL. It's been a little while since
39:24
Speaker 1: you've been out there, Bucky. But when he was right,
39:27
Speaker 1: where was he? When he was right, he was a
39:30
Speaker 1: fringe top ten receiver. I mean, you go back and
39:32
Speaker 1: look at the numbers, and numbers are ridiculous of Calvin
39:34
Speaker 1: Ridley and what he put up as a Falcon's number
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Speaker 1: one receiver, and that Falcons team wasn't great, but he
39:40
Speaker 1: was still able to do it, and he did it
39:42
Speaker 1: without Julio Jones being on the other side, and so
39:44
Speaker 1: to me, it proved that he could handle the responsibilities
39:48
Speaker 1: of being a number one because we all kind of
39:50
Speaker 1: throw around the number one wide receiver label and those things,
39:53
Speaker 1: and I think for our franchise and Jacksonville, we always
39:56
Speaker 1: think about Jimmy Smith and Keena mccarthel. I love in it,
40:00
Speaker 1: but there's a difference in Keena McCardell and Jimmy Smith.
40:03
Speaker 1: Jimmy Jimmy Smith quickly having covered him in practice, there's
40:11
Speaker 1: a difference. There's a difference. Um, Jimmy Smith could anchor
40:16
Speaker 1: the passing game, could handle the double team or whatever. Now,
40:19
Speaker 1: Kennan was a nice compliment, high end number two, did
40:23
Speaker 1: a great job of work in the middle of the field,
40:24
Speaker 1: and those things. There's a difference. And so what you
40:27
Speaker 1: want is to make sure that the receivers that you're elevating.
40:30
Speaker 1: Because when we signed Christian Kirk and I still think
40:33
Speaker 1: it's a great signing, we were asking him or anticipating
40:36
Speaker 1: him elevating from number two, number three to number one.
40:41
Speaker 1: Sometimes that can be a hard jump because you're dealing
40:44
Speaker 1: with a different thing. Because when you're the number one,
40:46
Speaker 1: the expectation is that you produce all the time, regardless
40:50
Speaker 1: of coverage you put the numbers up, doesn't matter if
40:52
Speaker 1: you've got a double team, doesn't matter if you have
40:54
Speaker 1: a high end corner facing you. The expectation is you
40:57
Speaker 1: get open early and often and the ball comes to
40:59
Speaker 1: you and you all finished with a hot number of catches.
41:01
Speaker 1: That's what the number one does. He tilts the coverage
41:04
Speaker 1: in his direction. One final question for the scout. Okay,
41:08
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wrap up. Um. You know, for people who
41:11
Speaker 1: don't study the falcons, I'm what is Ridley meaning? You know,
41:20
Speaker 1: I know he's fashion, can run, but can he go
41:24
Speaker 1: get the ball in traffic? Is he? You know? What
41:27
Speaker 1: can fans expect when he does get here? You know?
41:31
Speaker 1: It's it's funny because there's been a bit of a
41:34
Speaker 1: renaissance at the position. There was a time there where
41:37
Speaker 1: we went through the wide receiver position. It was all
41:40
Speaker 1: about bigger, faster, stronger. How fast were you, How explosive
41:43
Speaker 1: were you? How dynamic and all of those things. And
41:46
Speaker 1: I think where we're at now, the guys who are
41:49
Speaker 1: winning on the outside are guys who are route runners.
41:53
Speaker 1: I would say that his game is more like the
41:57
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson type than the Jamaal Chase type. I mean,
42:01
Speaker 1: he's more of the route running. He's more precise, he's
42:04
Speaker 1: more crafty and tricky and has all the little things
42:08
Speaker 1: in his toolbox that enables him to get open. Not
42:11
Speaker 1: maybe the fastest, but finds a way to consistently get open,
42:15
Speaker 1: Whereas a guy like Jamar Chase is a bigger, faster,
42:18
Speaker 1: stronger athlete who you just get the ball too when
42:20
Speaker 1: he makes it happen. And so when I go back
42:22
Speaker 1: and I look, and I was just looking at the
42:23
Speaker 1: stats um over thirteen hundred yards, nine and so touchdowns
42:28
Speaker 1: during that year where he really took over. I mean,
42:32
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see if he can get back to that.
42:34
Speaker 1: But when he was at his best, this dude was
42:35
Speaker 1: a very very skilled playmaker who found a way to
42:38
Speaker 1: consistently move the chains and put the ball in the paint.
42:41
Speaker 1: All Right, the Jaguars and the Raiders coming up this
42:45
Speaker 1: Sunday at t I a bank field in week number nine.
42:48
Speaker 1: The Jaguars have lost five in a row. The Raiders
42:51
Speaker 1: are two and five, the Jaguars two and six, trying
42:54
Speaker 1: to get back on track here this week's game presented
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43:01
Speaker 1: Now that I think this is a tough one just
43:03
Speaker 1: because the Raiders are gonna be smart enough to getting
43:05
Speaker 1: shut out against the Saints. They're practicing at i MG,
43:08
Speaker 1: so they didn't go back to the West Coast. They
43:10
Speaker 1: stayed out east, and so I would think that josh
43:13
Speaker 1: Fin Dangers is probably gonna simplify the game plan to
43:15
Speaker 1: allow this team to play fast. That's it. They're two
43:18
Speaker 1: and five, we're two and six. If you take away
43:21
Speaker 1: the running back and make Derek Carr throw against the
43:23
Speaker 1: pass rush, he could be got because their offensive line
43:26
Speaker 1: is a bit of a problem. And so to me,
43:28
Speaker 1: this is a game where we talked about the big sumbre.
43:31
Speaker 1: Who has to wear it? It has to be upfront
43:33
Speaker 1: the D line. If the D line can stop the run,
43:36
Speaker 1: the Jaguars certainly can get after them on defense, and
43:39
Speaker 1: then it's about Trevor Lawrence. Trevor Lawrence has to play well.
43:42
Speaker 1: He plays well, the Jaguars win. It sounds eerily familiar
43:44
Speaker 1: in the last week's denver A team. Right, that team
43:47
Speaker 1: was two and four and had some offensive line issues.
43:51
Speaker 1: And guess what, same thing, you know, same deal, close game.
43:54
Speaker 1: Could have blown them out early, could have put them
43:56
Speaker 1: to bed early, Avenge if you get the chance. Now,
43:59
Speaker 1: if their first and goal and it's two scores. They
44:02
Speaker 1: had four defensive penalties on that drive, and then they
44:05
Speaker 1: let him off the hook. John, How did Jacks get
44:07
Speaker 1: this one? Yeah, because I don't think many people think
44:10
Speaker 1: they will, so I think they'll go against the grains
44:13
Speaker 1: over the Jay Teal kool aid. I think it's what's
44:22
Speaker 1: in there, Jaguar juice. How tidy over there? That's probably
44:28
Speaker 1: so Hey, it's okay. It's a good thing. They're gonna
44:32
Speaker 1: break it at some point. Why not at home. They're
44:34
Speaker 1: wearing old teal by the way, on Sunday. That was
44:37
Speaker 1: just announced on social media, so we'll look forward to
44:39
Speaker 1: that as well. Bucky, you have a great week. We'll
44:41
Speaker 1: see you on Sunday. For sure. It's Bucky Brooks. He's
44:44
Speaker 1: out of here. John Osier thanks to Brent Reaver on
44:47
Speaker 1: the video side. Joe Fortunato. On the audio side, I'm
44:49
Speaker 1: JP Shadrick. We'll catch you next time. It's Huddle Up
44:52
Speaker 1: with Bucky Brooks on the Jaguars Digital Network d