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Breaking down the Cowboys through Week 14 | Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks: Wednesday, December 14 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: The fields on the group proudly presents Huddle Up with
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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks, JP Shacker, John Ojer and NFL Network analyst
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Speaker 1: and former Jaguar Bucky Brooks bring you the latest on
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Speaker 1: George 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, you know, attack the season. Huddle
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Speaker 1: Up with Bucky Brooks starts right now and welcome in.
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Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, It's week fifteen. It's Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks,
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Speaker 1: JP Shadrick, John Oser alongside busy program. Ahead of course,
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Speaker 1: we'll hear from the NFL Network candabs Bucky Brooks his
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Speaker 1: thoughts on the Jaguars win last week and the game
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Speaker 1: coming up against the Tenant three Cowboys. John Oser, Senior writer, Boy,
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Speaker 1: does he have some thoughts. We'll get to those coming up.
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Speaker 1: A preview of this matchup, meaningful game in December for
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars at home. We'll take a look at the
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Speaker 1: a f C playoff picture as well. The Jaguars are
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Speaker 1: in the hunt. There's still a lot of hunts left
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Speaker 1: to go. We'll find out how much in the hunt
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Speaker 1: they still are after Sunday. Coming up, It's Not Love
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Speaker 1: with Blucky Brooks, brought to you by Fields Auto Group, Jacksonville.
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Speaker 1: Step up to luxury Fields Auto dot Com. Let's start
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Speaker 1: today with head coach Doug Peterson. Well, it's week fifteen,
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Speaker 1: and from week one to now? Where are they as
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Speaker 1: a team? Does he like where they are? You know?
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Speaker 1: Yet as you said, wins and losses are different, but
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Speaker 1: but where the team is mentally, uh, at this time
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Speaker 1: of the year, where the team is physically this time
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Speaker 1: of the year, where the team is I think from
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Speaker 1: a health standpoint, this time of year, all those things
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Speaker 1: are pluses for us. And and you know, one of
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Speaker 1: the things that I think for me, it's just you
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Speaker 1: know that this group, the way we practice during the week,
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Speaker 1: the way they practice I should say, during the week,
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Speaker 1: how they prepare and and and get themselves ready to play. Um,
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Speaker 1: And that's what you want to see as a head coach,
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Speaker 1: right is guys aren't shutting down? Guys are you know
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Speaker 1: the games even we've ass for we're in into the
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter and and playing hard to the end. And um,
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Speaker 1: guys are disappointed when that happens. And and so for me,
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Speaker 1: you know, UM, I like where. I like where. I
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Speaker 1: guess the mental side of things we're at, you know,
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Speaker 1: with this football team right now. That's Doug Peterson. Earlier today.
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Speaker 1: The full press conference available on Jaguars dot Com and
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Speaker 1: Jaguars social media. The quarterback spoke after practice today. You
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Speaker 1: can hear that full press conference as well. We'll hear
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Speaker 1: from Trevor Lawrence coming up, John Osan Bucky Brooks with
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Speaker 1: us now. Bucky, good afternoon. How are you. What's up here?
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Speaker 1: We are? I'm good, guys. What's what's going on? You know,
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Speaker 1: meaningful football, That's what's going on. How about that in December?
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Speaker 1: I like that. I like the fact that we are
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Speaker 1: having meaningful games. I like the fact that Doug appears
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Speaker 1: to be very positive about everything. I like the fact
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Speaker 1: that my quarterback, Trevor Lawrence has a little it's a
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Speaker 1: little spice to him, you know, listening to everything, like
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Speaker 1: it all. I like everything that's going on right now. Well,
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Speaker 1: it's his team now. And if you didn't know it already,
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Speaker 1: you knew it. Uh, body language behavior, you know, the
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Speaker 1: whole motion thing the other day or you I mean, uh,
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Speaker 1: he's showing some mocks and I thought he was his quote,
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Speaker 1: and his availability was pretty good. Uh. Somebody asking what
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Speaker 1: you're doing that because of this, and yeah, uh, when
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Speaker 1: you're having some success, and he goes, well, you don't
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Speaker 1: look like a moron when you're doing it and you're losing,
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Speaker 1: you can't do so. But it all just sort of
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Speaker 1: feels like it's going in the right direction. And uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, he's turning into the guy that the Jag
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Speaker 1: Wars fans hoped he would be before our eyes every week.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know that Monday. I'm not sure Sunday
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Speaker 1: was a breakout game. I thought the Ravens was a
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Speaker 1: breakout game, but I thought Sunday was easily the best
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Speaker 1: game of his career. Duh. You know, I think it
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Speaker 1: was the best game in his career just in terms
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Speaker 1: of like the way that it felt like being on
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Speaker 1: the sideline and just feeling his energy and feeling the
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Speaker 1: way that he was in command of it, and also
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Speaker 1: feeling the way the team responded to him. Trevor was
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Speaker 1: not only in his bag like I mean, he was
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Speaker 1: throwing it all over the yard. We saw him have
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Speaker 1: a three yard game, He had three touchdowns, completed what
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Speaker 1: thirty or forty two all of those things were great,
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Speaker 1: but it was the way that it felt. It felt
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Speaker 1: like he was special. It felt like he was the
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Speaker 1: best player on the field, and years ago, a couple
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Speaker 1: of years ago, when he was taking number one. Overall,
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Speaker 1: that's what you're hoping to get. You're hoping to get
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Speaker 1: a player that gives you not only that optimism and hope,
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Speaker 1: but he gives you the opportunity to have the best
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Speaker 1: gown the field on your team, and you put the
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Speaker 1: ball in his hands and he makes it happen. Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence did that, and he's done it really the last
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Speaker 1: uh five or so games where you've seen him play
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Speaker 1: at a high level and you felt like his game
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Speaker 1: is kicked up a notch as he really settled into
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Speaker 1: this offense on the Dog. Peterson h an early question
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Speaker 1: for the analysts. Get it in early? Well like that.
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Speaker 1: I've heard a lot of things from fans this week,
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Speaker 1: so I'm about, Hey, you're over hyping him too early.
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Speaker 1: This is a team that's five and eight. Um, you know,
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Speaker 1: you know this is a team. It's only in the
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Speaker 1: playoff race because of X, Y and Z. But I
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Speaker 1: maintained Bucky in the last five weeks, they're three and
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Speaker 1: two with with the Raiders are up and down. But
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Speaker 1: the Raiders won three games during these last five weeks.
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Speaker 1: They've beating the Ravens and the Titans. How well is
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Speaker 1: this team playing? And I know they lost to the Lions,
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Speaker 1: but over the rest of the NFL, this team is
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Speaker 1: starting to play pretty good. I don't think this is
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Speaker 1: a fluke. I guess that's what I'm getting at. No,
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Speaker 1: I don't think the way that Trevor is playing is
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Speaker 1: a fluke. I think the team has been up and down,
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Speaker 1: and I think you want more from like the defense,
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Speaker 1: for this team to be legitimately considered amongst one of
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Speaker 1: the up and comers, a team that has uh serious
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Speaker 1: playoff aspirations. But the quarterback gives you a chance because
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Speaker 1: what the quarterback can do is he can mask a
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Speaker 1: lot of your flaws with the way that he plays
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Speaker 1: and the way the offense operates. Meaning if the offense
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Speaker 1: is putting up thirty plus points um on defense, you
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Speaker 1: can just hope to get a stop or two when
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Speaker 1: you can win games. Because really, let's be honest, the
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Speaker 1: game against the Titans, they had a tough time slowing
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Speaker 1: down Derrick Henry until the offense got going and Shaquille
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Speaker 1: Quarterman eventually caught Derrick Ken. You hit him and the
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Speaker 1: game changed. And so I feel like this team is coming,
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Speaker 1: but it won't be I guess like people won't believe
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Speaker 1: in the team until they knock off a team that
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Speaker 1: is better than them and start putting together back to
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Speaker 1: back wins. And so this week against the Cowboys gives
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Speaker 1: them opportunity to check off both of those boxes. Cowboys
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Speaker 1: are top team in the NFC. Cowboys are coming into
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Speaker 1: their place, and it's gonna be a lot of Cowboy
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Speaker 1: fans in attendance. If the Jaguars can offer the Cowboys
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Speaker 1: in their building, then it kind of changes the narrative
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Speaker 1: and the respect begins to go to the team in
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Speaker 1: terms of their ability and potential to make the playoffs. Bucky, Um,
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Speaker 1: I've got a question for the analysts as well, John
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Speaker 1: earlier in the show, Um, how do the Jaguars run
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Speaker 1: the football better, more effectively, more consistently. Is it just
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Speaker 1: the way games have gone lately or is there more
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Speaker 1: to it. It's more to it. You gotta be able
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Speaker 1: to push the people off the ball. Uh. The Tennessee
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Speaker 1: Titans are front were stout you know, you have Jeffrey
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Speaker 1: Simmons and some of those other guys in front there.
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Speaker 1: They're not easy to move off the ball, and so
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Speaker 1: it takes a commitment to kind of grinding it out
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Speaker 1: being a more ground and pound team to be able
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Speaker 1: to do to do it. And it also takes a
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Speaker 1: runner that, you know, multiple runners that kind of have
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Speaker 1: some size to him, that can kind of lean on
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Speaker 1: the defense and um kind of wear them down over time.
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Speaker 1: That's it. I think Travis Antienne can be effective. And
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Speaker 1: I think the number one thing that you want to
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Speaker 1: see is the amount of carries that the or rush
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Speaker 1: attempts that the Jaguars have. If you get the rushing
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Speaker 1: attempts over twenty to thirty, at least it shows that commitment.
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Speaker 1: It makes the defense continue to honor the run and
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Speaker 1: then you're able to throw it. But hopefully this team
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Speaker 1: can win a variety of different ways. It's not always
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Speaker 1: throwing it all over the yard than it always ground
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Speaker 1: and pound on. Uh. They have a nice happy medium
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Speaker 1: where if the quarterback niece to step in and throw it,
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Speaker 1: they can do it. If you need Travis attend to
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Speaker 1: make me a place on the ground, he can do it.
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Speaker 1: As well. But isn't that a big thing in this discussion, Bucky.
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Speaker 1: Is something you said, uh during your last answer. In
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Speaker 1: this offense, especially in the NFL overall right now, but
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Speaker 1: especially in this offense, it's the threat of the run
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Speaker 1: is as important as actually running. And it seemed to
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Speaker 1: me they ran enough the other day carries. I think
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Speaker 1: it was um. It seemed to me the Titans continued
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Speaker 1: to believe that the Jaguars were going to try to
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Speaker 1: run and they had to play defense to honor it.
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Speaker 1: And in Doug system, I'm not sure he's that worried
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Speaker 1: week to week if he walks out and they've got
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Speaker 1: sixty yards rushing, if they have three eight yards passing,
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Speaker 1: I don't think he's that worried about it. No, I
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Speaker 1: don't think he's that worried about it, because I think
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Speaker 1: he still views a game running it through the quarterback
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Speaker 1: UM as true West Coast disciple, the running game is
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Speaker 1: secondary to being able to throw it. In a perfect world,
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Speaker 1: what you'd like to do is throw the ball early
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Speaker 1: to get the lead, and then in the second half
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Speaker 1: you accumulate your rushing yards as you begin to run
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Speaker 1: out the clock, and so the Jaguars have kind of
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Speaker 1: operated under that premise when they've been able to play
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Speaker 1: very very well at the beginning. Trevor Lawrence comes out,
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Speaker 1: throws it, they get on the board, they're operating efficiently
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Speaker 1: and effectively, and then you begin to see the running
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Speaker 1: game become a factor in the second half. So there
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Speaker 1: are a couple of different ways to skin the cat. Uh.
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Speaker 1: In a perfect world, you would like in Jacksonville, you
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Speaker 1: would like Trevor Lawrence to kind of do the heavy
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Speaker 1: lifting and then Travis Antienne come and finish it off
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Speaker 1: late Bucky Brooks with us. It's hunnle up with Bucky
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Speaker 1: Brooks on a Wednesday Jaguars defense. Now, there were some
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Speaker 1: changes in some guys moving around on defense last week.
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Speaker 1: So Trayvon Walker had his hand on the ground, A
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Speaker 1: good bet he's on the injury reporter Will be Uh
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Speaker 1: had a boot walking around an open locker room today
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Speaker 1: with a high ankle injuries. Doug Peterson called it, but he,
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Speaker 1: you know, was pretty effective in that spot for this defense.
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Speaker 1: And then Darius Williams playing outside at corner. Two big
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Speaker 1: changes last week. Yes, it's a running attack, tennessee all that,
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Speaker 1: but those are notable changes. We'll see what happens. You know,
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Speaker 1: I if tray Blon is not available, moving ahead, what
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Speaker 1: do they do up front? This is a Dallas team.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to Dallas coming up. But what did you
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Speaker 1: make of those changes last week? And and then Devin
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Speaker 1: Lloyd back in the lineup as well. I think what
10:29
Speaker 1: you're trying to do is you're trying to put the
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Speaker 1: players in the best position for them to make plays. Uh,
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Speaker 1: Darius Williams and some of the guys in the secondary
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Speaker 1: has struggled in their previous spots. And so you might call, well, you,
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson, you're trying to do two things. One, you're
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Speaker 1: trying to find a scheme and a set of coverages
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Speaker 1: that work for the team. Uh, what works? We want
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Speaker 1: to take away the big plays. How can we give
10:52
Speaker 1: ourselves a chance to eliminate some of the big plays
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Speaker 1: they were really hurting us to what personnel fits in
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Speaker 1: the way that we want to play. So if we're
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Speaker 1: going to play this umbrella style of defense where we
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Speaker 1: don't give up big plays, we played more zone, more
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Speaker 1: eyes on the quarterback. Who are the best guys that
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Speaker 1: can see it, rally to the ball and then make
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Speaker 1: tackles in space. I believe Dewey was going to have
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Speaker 1: a big game regardless of whether he started or if
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Speaker 1: he was playing nickel, because he's one of the smartest
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Speaker 1: players on the defense, he's one of the best tacklers,
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Speaker 1: and he's proven to be a little bit of a playmaker.
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Speaker 1: The final thing you talked about Devin Lloyd. Devin Lloyd
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Speaker 1: had to play in place in chat Mma. I think
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Speaker 1: they're still trying to find the right spot for him,
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Speaker 1: and it's unfair for everyone to kind of criticize Devin
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Speaker 1: Lloyd for his play as an off the ball linebacker.
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Speaker 1: Win he didn't really play that spot in college. He
11:40
Speaker 1: was more on the edge as a pass rushing presence
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Speaker 1: who did some other stuff as opposed to be and
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Speaker 1: your your stand up linebacker that plays the traditional linebacker role.
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Speaker 1: And so he's learning beyond when most rookies would have
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Speaker 1: to learn and and adjust to as a pro the position,
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Speaker 1: and so in time he'll make plays. And I think
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Speaker 1: this was an coportunity to kind of put him in
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Speaker 1: a position where he can make plays even though he's
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Speaker 1: still trying to work through some of the struggles that
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Speaker 1: he's had. His Rickie season if the zone right now
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Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense to me, because I don't
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Speaker 1: think no, no no matter how you line these guys up
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Speaker 1: right now, I don't think they're gonna be a dominant defense.
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Speaker 1: Zone gives you the chance to face the quarterback and
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Speaker 1: get some interceptions if if things don't go right for
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Speaker 1: the offense. Uh. I particularly think zone makes sense this
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Speaker 1: week because Dallas struggled against it last week. So but
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Speaker 1: to me, this defense right now, I think it's gonna
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Speaker 1: give up three three and yards game and hope to
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Speaker 1: keep it around that level and hope that you can
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Speaker 1: supplement that with two turnovers the game. I think they
12:42
Speaker 1: get to two turnovers a game, they have a shot.
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Speaker 1: I think you've got to break serve a couple of
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Speaker 1: times against Dallas. And I said this multiple times this week.
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Speaker 1: What you don't want this week if you're a Jags
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Speaker 1: fan is to see a defender on the ground hitting
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Speaker 1: the ground because he just missed an interception. And I
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Speaker 1: say that a lot. But some games you can win
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Speaker 1: without doing that. But if they have a shot at
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Speaker 1: the ball, they need to catch it because Dad will
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Speaker 1: throw you a couple this year. They need to take
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Speaker 1: advantage of their moments because I think they are outmanned.
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Speaker 1: They take advantage their moments defensively. I think Trevior can
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Speaker 1: get him into points to win the game. Yeah, that's
13:20
Speaker 1: a really good observation. John, you talked about what the
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Speaker 1: Houston Texans did to slow down the Cowboys. They played
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Speaker 1: more zone, They didn't play their traditional two team zone.
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Speaker 1: They did a little bit of everything and kept the
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Speaker 1: ball in front, made them drive the ball to the
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Speaker 1: length of the field. Darry dak Prescott to be very
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Speaker 1: disciplined and detailed when it came to how he approached
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Speaker 1: the game the Jaguars and and talking to coach Peterson
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Speaker 1: off air, he's talked about, man, sometimes you have to
13:46
Speaker 1: figure out what your team is and sometimes you do
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Speaker 1: have to be a little more band, but don't break
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Speaker 1: focus your efforts on being great in the red zon
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Speaker 1: the scene and if you can make people kick field
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Speaker 1: goals as opposed to score touchdowns. But the one thing
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Speaker 1: that was undermining their chance to win, and we're giving
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Speaker 1: up the big plays, the explosive fifty yard pass plays,
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Speaker 1: the big runs and those things. Cut some of that
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Speaker 1: off and make people score it on ten plus play drives.
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Speaker 1: The suggested they'll mess it up, and so I would
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Speaker 1: expect to see the Jaguars play more zone. I would
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Speaker 1: expect to see them trying for is Dak Prescott to
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Speaker 1: take a lot of checkdowns and see if they can
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Speaker 1: beat the receivers and pass catchers up. Make them kind
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Speaker 1: of take their time to score points as opposed to
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Speaker 1: giving up the big plays the quick strikes. Another way
14:27
Speaker 1: to break service, John would say is they almost did
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Speaker 1: it last week. In fact, they did it. It was
14:31
Speaker 1: called back with the holding. Was a kickoff returned touchdown,
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Speaker 1: something we haven't seen this year. But Jamal Agnew certainly
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Speaker 1: has that ability that can flip the game in a heartbeat,
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Speaker 1: with Bucky Brooks and the Jaguars Digital Network. Welcome back.
15:28
Speaker 1: It's huddle up with Bucky Brooks. It's Wednesday in his
15:31
Speaker 1: Week fifteen. The Cowboys and the Jaguars coming up. J P.
15:34
Speaker 1: Shadrick with John Osier and NFL Network and Jaguars Radio
15:38
Speaker 1: field analyst Bucky Brooks from Los Angeles. Let's take a
15:43
Speaker 1: look at the Dallas Cowboys and the Jaguars series history.
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Speaker 1: This will only be the second time the Cowboys have
15:49
Speaker 1: come to Jacksonville to play a game. The last time
15:53
Speaker 1: these teams met as a Jaguars home game was in
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Speaker 1: London back in of course, the Jaguars dropped that ball game,
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Speaker 1: but they did win the game back in two thousand six.
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Speaker 1: It was Week one of that season. Cowboys leader all
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Speaker 1: time four to three, and they've won back to back
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Speaker 1: meetings in the head to head series. Of course, every
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Speaker 1: four years or so they'll meet in alternating places. This
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Speaker 1: is a Cowboys team. It's ten and three Bucky overall.
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Speaker 1: Before we dig into the individual players, where is this team.
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Speaker 1: Um and compared to maybe some of the other ones
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Speaker 1: in the past, and can they make a run? Are
16:32
Speaker 1: they gonna be a playoff run Cowboys team that's it's
16:36
Speaker 1: been a minute since they've been to the Promised Land.
16:39
Speaker 1: Has been a long time since they've been to the
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Speaker 1: Promised Land. Uh. This is a team that's good. I
16:43
Speaker 1: think they've had obviously better teams of late. This team
16:46
Speaker 1: has kind of found their identity and rhythm and kind
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Speaker 1: of raced out to a you know, at nine three
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Speaker 1: tenant three start. Uh. The big team when you're looking
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Speaker 1: at the Dallas Cowboys is understanding who are the explosive playmakers,
16:57
Speaker 1: the most supposed to playmakers on offense, Ceedee Lamb, Tony Pollard. Uh,
17:03
Speaker 1: those are the guys that kind of make it go.
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Speaker 1: Then Ezekiel Elliot kind of beat you up as the
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Speaker 1: runner between the tackles, and Michael Gallup can make some
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Speaker 1: plays on the back side away from Ceedee Lamb. This
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Speaker 1: is a team that is a little more connected dots
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Speaker 1: then explosive. In the past, they had a bunch of
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Speaker 1: explosive players that can hit you with big plays and
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Speaker 1: those things. This is one where they drive the length
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Speaker 1: of the field a little more. They're a little more
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Speaker 1: conservative and how they play, and they're winning really because
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Speaker 1: their defense uh is loaded with star players Michael Parrison
17:32
Speaker 1: and DeMarcus Lawrence and all those guys. The defense sets
17:35
Speaker 1: the table either with stops or generating takeaways, and then
17:39
Speaker 1: the offense catches it in by being able to take
17:41
Speaker 1: advantage of short fields. I asked this question of somebody
17:46
Speaker 1: today because I don't know the answer, So I ask questions,
17:50
Speaker 1: how do you trip these guys up? Meaning it seems
17:54
Speaker 1: on paper the Dallas is really really good and a
17:58
Speaker 1: complete matchup disadvantage everything they There's so many stories, but
18:01
Speaker 1: people are beating them. I'm assuming you stop the run
18:05
Speaker 1: and make Prescott make mistakes. Well, I mean, I think
18:07
Speaker 1: that's the recipe. I think it is changed because it
18:10
Speaker 1: used to be all about stopping Zeki or Elliott, but
18:12
Speaker 1: then you've got a factor Tony Pollard into the mix.
18:14
Speaker 1: You gotta keep your eyes on where twenty and twenty
18:16
Speaker 1: one are at all times. You take those guys away
18:19
Speaker 1: and make Dak Prescott make plays in the past the
18:22
Speaker 1: game and properly you you jam the middle of the
18:24
Speaker 1: field and make him throw it outside the numbers. Make
18:27
Speaker 1: him make the low odd low completion percentage throw and
18:31
Speaker 1: see if you can rally tackle force them off. To
18:34
Speaker 1: feel that way, the other thing that you have to
18:37
Speaker 1: do when you're facing the Cowboys on the offense, you
18:39
Speaker 1: gotta run it right at them. This is a team
18:42
Speaker 1: full of what I call like track stars. They want
18:46
Speaker 1: to put their hand in the dirt, they want to
18:47
Speaker 1: come off, they want to hunt the quarterback, and they
18:49
Speaker 1: don't really want to deal with the physicality of dealing
18:51
Speaker 1: with the running game. When you've seen teams commit to
18:54
Speaker 1: running the football at them, they've been able to not
18:56
Speaker 1: only control the clock, but they've been able to have success.
18:59
Speaker 1: And so um did Jaguars have to kind of look
19:02
Speaker 1: at what the Cowboys at But they're certainly vulnerable in
19:05
Speaker 1: some areas where you can attack and you can make
19:07
Speaker 1: it a game that you can swipe and swipe it
19:09
Speaker 1: home early in the game. I mean, I'm it feels
19:14
Speaker 1: to me like this is one where Jaguars need to
19:17
Speaker 1: score touchdowns early. And it's always good to score touch
19:22
Speaker 1: but if if they're in the red zone early I
19:28
Speaker 1: and it's close. I see Doug going forward a couple
19:32
Speaker 1: of times in the fourth down to get touchdowns right
19:34
Speaker 1: and feel I don't think you want to trail this team, uh,
19:37
Speaker 1: because they're in their past rush again, Dave Jack is
19:44
Speaker 1: done a good job overcoming deficits. They wrote this week.
19:47
Speaker 1: I think it's been the last three wins they've overcome
19:52
Speaker 1: deficits to win. I don't think this is a team
19:55
Speaker 1: that you want to get down against. Buck. No, you
19:58
Speaker 1: don't want to play from behind. And the reason why
20:00
Speaker 1: you don't want to play behind is the last thing
20:02
Speaker 1: you want is Michael Parsons knowing that as an obvious
20:05
Speaker 1: passing down and he is able to kind of get
20:07
Speaker 1: that track dance and go hunt to quarterback, whether he's
20:09
Speaker 1: going to hunt it off the edge of whether he's
20:10
Speaker 1: doing from a second level position in linebacker. You don't
20:14
Speaker 1: want him to kind of have free reign to go
20:17
Speaker 1: and the quarterback without worrying about the threat of the run.
20:20
Speaker 1: And so that's why it's important that, Um, if you're
20:23
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson, you called the game early to keep yourself
20:26
Speaker 1: in the game, to keep yourself within striking this and
20:30
Speaker 1: so you can try and have a level of balance
20:32
Speaker 1: that makes the other team, uh, I think, And so
20:36
Speaker 1: you cannot get into the a I'm gonna go knit
20:39
Speaker 1: for Knack. I'm gonna go toe to toe with Dak Prescott.
20:42
Speaker 1: This has to be one where we're gonna stick to
20:43
Speaker 1: the group. We're gonna stay within the game plan. We're
20:45
Speaker 1: gonna trust the process that we kind of each and
20:48
Speaker 1: come on and we're gonna see what it looks like
20:49
Speaker 1: at the end of it. They are second in the
20:52
Speaker 1: league in sacks as a defense as a whole. Yeah,
20:56
Speaker 1: you mean you saw right there. Of course, Parsons leads
20:58
Speaker 1: away twelve of them on the year, but they've got
21:00
Speaker 1: a few different guys that contribute as well. Armstrong, Lawrence.
21:04
Speaker 1: You mentioned those defensive ends. Hey it's Dante tell Or Junior.
21:07
Speaker 1: Hey Dante, he's on the list with five this year.
21:11
Speaker 1: He's still running around. So they get after Bucky, they don't.
21:15
Speaker 1: You don't want to be in that situation where you
21:16
Speaker 1: gotta throw it all day. Now, you don't want to
21:18
Speaker 1: be in that situation. This is a team that they
21:20
Speaker 1: they notorious for hunting the quarterback. But not only do
21:22
Speaker 1: they hunt them, but man, they get them and when
21:24
Speaker 1: they get them, they punish them. And so it's a
21:26
Speaker 1: physical football team as a team that's really brought into
21:28
Speaker 1: what dan Quinn is preaching. They don't give up many
21:32
Speaker 1: big plays. They're doing a better job of getting close
21:35
Speaker 1: on the perimeter. And then it's just about being able
21:37
Speaker 1: to kind of own the line of scrimmage and kind
21:41
Speaker 1: of beat you up at the point of attack. And
21:42
Speaker 1: so we'll see this is a tough task with the
21:45
Speaker 1: Cowboys because a tough task for the Jaguar because it's
21:47
Speaker 1: just a little different. Uh. The Cowboys aren't a true
21:51
Speaker 1: grinded pound team. They got some other stuff to him.
21:54
Speaker 1: But you've gotta be able to stop to run you
21:56
Speaker 1: have any chance to put it on the other guys, Bucky,
21:59
Speaker 1: I think you said it right the first time. This
22:00
Speaker 1: is a tough task for the Cowboys this week. That's right,
22:03
Speaker 1: they're coming into the t I a coming That's what
22:07
Speaker 1: happens when you're the team's getting better, right, Jaguars have
22:10
Speaker 1: some confidence now and hey, you're gonna come defend your
22:13
Speaker 1: home turf gets good football teams. That's how it works. Back,
22:17
Speaker 1: this is how it works. And did Jaguars need to
22:19
Speaker 1: win this because I'm hoping that it's a home game.
22:22
Speaker 1: I'm hoping it's not a blue out, uh in the bank.
22:25
Speaker 1: So Hopefully they can limit some of those cowboys taking
22:28
Speaker 1: some of the guys are coming in in the jerseys
22:30
Speaker 1: and all that making it feel like Dak Prescott is
22:33
Speaker 1: at home and you can have a real advantage. But
22:36
Speaker 1: outside of that, you have to be mature enough to
22:38
Speaker 1: play and winning these games. Uh. You know, people going
22:42
Speaker 1: spending entire time talking about how good Trevor is, how
22:45
Speaker 1: good they were last week and those things. But now
22:48
Speaker 1: can you take that and can you build upon it?
22:50
Speaker 1: And for Trevor, can you continue to build upon the
22:52
Speaker 1: last five or six weeks that you put up Because
22:55
Speaker 1: if you can, a lot of good things gonna come
22:59
Speaker 1: that way, like a good things come Jaguars ware, that
23:02
Speaker 1: would be nice. For sure, he is the a f
23:04
Speaker 1: C Offensive Player of the Week and then yeah, if
23:07
Speaker 1: he comes keeps going up from there, that's great news.
23:10
Speaker 1: Down the stretch, we're back in a moment with some
23:11
Speaker 1: social media questions and this is how lot with Bucky
23:15
Speaker 1: Brooks on the Jaguars Digital Network Situationally, we talk a
23:28
Speaker 1: lot about obviously third down, red zone, um, different stuff
23:32
Speaker 1: like that. And then you have a plan, you know,
23:34
Speaker 1: to start each game kind of what what which direction
23:36
Speaker 1: you're going to head the first few plays, so obviously
23:39
Speaker 1: you know that, but then third down, red zone, you're
23:41
Speaker 1: on the same page. We have our ideas of what
23:43
Speaker 1: we like and we talk about, you know, kind of
23:44
Speaker 1: the order we want. Obviously that can change based on
23:46
Speaker 1: the situation, so I can anticipate those, but as the
23:49
Speaker 1: game goes, I think more so we have I mean,
23:52
Speaker 1: we have a huge menu of plays to run, so
23:54
Speaker 1: it's not like I always know he's calling, but we're
23:56
Speaker 1: always in the same page in the situation and just
23:58
Speaker 1: the way we communicate what every situation is, Hey, this
24:01
Speaker 1: an opportunity to take a shot, or let's let's be smart,
24:04
Speaker 1: let's say a completion, keep like, keep the chains moving,
24:07
Speaker 1: whatever it is. He does a good job of kind
24:09
Speaker 1: of reminded me of some of those things. And now
24:11
Speaker 1: as it's gone more and more, he doesn't have to
24:12
Speaker 1: as much because we're on the same page. That's the quarterback,
24:16
Speaker 1: of course. Trevor Lawrence earlier today the full press conference
24:20
Speaker 1: available on Jaguars dot com and Jack's social media, and
24:24
Speaker 1: really good conversation also about that London game being not
24:28
Speaker 1: it might be a turning point for it. There was
24:30
Speaker 1: a conversation that Doug Peterson was on the Rich Eyesend
24:32
Speaker 1: show that was out on social media and Trevor Lawrence
24:36
Speaker 1: asked about that today, So check it out. The seventy
24:39
Speaker 1: eight tax Slayer Gator Bowl returns to t I A.
24:42
Speaker 1: Bank Field December ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish based off
24:47
Speaker 1: against the nineteenth ranks South Carolina game Cox. For more,
24:50
Speaker 1: visit tax Slayer Gator Bowl dot com. Bucky, who do
24:54
Speaker 1: you like in the Gator Bowl? Well, I like the swag,
24:58
Speaker 1: I like all that. I liked to fa that. Shane
25:01
Speaker 1: Beamer is gonna come. He's gonna put his little glasses on.
25:03
Speaker 1: He's gonna do a little suff he'sn do with a
25:04
Speaker 1: little crazy stuff and and brounce around and do all
25:07
Speaker 1: this little hips stuff and do all that stuff that
25:09
Speaker 1: they do with the game cock. So yeah, I'm all.
25:11
Speaker 1: I'm Beamer bored out. I'm going for South Carolina. Got
25:14
Speaker 1: South Carolina and just one okay being bad too. By
25:16
Speaker 1: the way, my son Jacob is a huge South Carolina fan.
25:19
Speaker 1: I don't know why I actually watched. I watched the
25:22
Speaker 1: little college football. I've watched the fourth South Carolina team
25:26
Speaker 1: games this year. They're a fun team watch. I think
25:27
Speaker 1: they got better as it went on too, by the way,
25:31
Speaker 1: a couple of games they got Yeah, and Notre Dame
25:34
Speaker 1: was right there to both teams eating four, So great
25:37
Speaker 1: matchup in the Gator Bowls, so check it out. So yeah,
25:41
Speaker 1: well you're making that before we get to social media questions,
25:43
Speaker 1: Bucky Um Trevor today was talking about that London game
25:47
Speaker 1: and the play at the goal line kind of stuck
25:50
Speaker 1: in him. And and since that point, I mean, the
25:53
Speaker 1: guy has been almost lights out eleven total touchdowns, ten
25:57
Speaker 1: through the year, no interceptions. He's been a differ guys.
26:00
Speaker 1: Since then, he has been a different guy. And you
26:02
Speaker 1: go on and listen to the press that you talked
26:04
Speaker 1: about letting the team down and the feeling that he
26:07
Speaker 1: felt in the locker room and how uh there might
26:11
Speaker 1: have been some sideways looks where he was trying to
26:13
Speaker 1: do too much in the turnover was just an egregious
26:16
Speaker 1: era where he's trying to play hero ball, and how
26:18
Speaker 1: he learned from that, and while he was learning from that,
26:21
Speaker 1: how he's taken note of all the voices and all
26:24
Speaker 1: the talk and describes and everyone that's written about him
26:27
Speaker 1: and talked about him being maybe a bust and not
26:29
Speaker 1: being up to par. He might even listening on some
26:31
Speaker 1: of our postgame things when he's driving home JP and
26:34
Speaker 1: heard some of the guys talk about playing c J.
26:37
Speaker 1: Bethort and who's the next coming, And so he's taking
26:39
Speaker 1: that all in and it's become a very personal deal
26:42
Speaker 1: for him, and so some of the swag and some
26:44
Speaker 1: of the stuff that we're seeing is Trevor Lawrence turned
26:47
Speaker 1: into corner. But also remembering how many people doubted him,
26:50
Speaker 1: because I would say this, it's probably the first time
26:52
Speaker 1: he's ever been doubted in his life, in his quarterbacking life,
26:55
Speaker 1: where people didn't believe that he was going to be
26:58
Speaker 1: a great player, and so for him to kind of
27:00
Speaker 1: work through some of this adversity and maybe come through
27:03
Speaker 1: it on the other side, he absolutely is ready to
27:06
Speaker 1: go next level, and he may let his critics know
27:08
Speaker 1: a little bit while he's doing it. For the record,
27:11
Speaker 1: those were callers that wasn't using for the record, but
27:14
Speaker 1: he was calling for cjn My flag firmly planted in
27:22
Speaker 1: the number sixteen soil. So no, I don't I don't
27:25
Speaker 1: worry about c J. Beth or anybody else that they
27:27
Speaker 1: were talking about. However, there have been some callers. They
27:30
Speaker 1: were saying, maybe he needs to sit down, and maybe
27:32
Speaker 1: we're protect him in those things. And so I'm glad
27:35
Speaker 1: that he's turned it. But now now we want to
27:38
Speaker 1: see him go even next level. We want to see
27:40
Speaker 1: him go from being like a good player to now
27:43
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about being a star quality player, because
27:45
Speaker 1: when you get a star quality player at quarterback, it
27:48
Speaker 1: changes the fortunes of the franchise. I mean, but I get.
27:52
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's not like there weren't reasons why
27:56
Speaker 1: people were upset. I mean over all the course of
28:00
Speaker 1: this season. I think a lot of the Trevor naysayers,
28:06
Speaker 1: when you really look at the big picture of the season,
28:09
Speaker 1: it seems kind of ridiculous. There was there was really
28:12
Speaker 1: one bad game in Filling in the Rain, and there
28:14
Speaker 1: were two really bad interceptions. Uh outside of that, if
28:20
Speaker 1: you couldn't see arrow up on the guy, then you
28:23
Speaker 1: were sort of blind. But um, in the last five
28:26
Speaker 1: weeks since that Denver game, it's unusual, and I'm writing
28:31
Speaker 1: about it for for Quick Thoughts and a couple of
28:34
Speaker 1: other spots for tomorrow's website. Um, it's unusual for there
28:39
Speaker 1: to be such a moment where it kind of comes
28:42
Speaker 1: on and I think he was improving anyway, but I
28:45
Speaker 1: think that moment in Denver really drove home I don't
28:49
Speaker 1: have to do it all and this league, turnovers really matter.
28:56
Speaker 1: I don't know if it had been beaten into him
28:59
Speaker 1: over the course of his life life because he had
29:01
Speaker 1: always played in situations where Okay, he throws a red
29:04
Speaker 1: zone pick, Okay, I'll just throw three touchdown because I'm
29:07
Speaker 1: will be back in there five more times. So yeah,
29:09
Speaker 1: because I'm good and my talent, you know, when saying
29:14
Speaker 1: this to himself, but you feel it. I'm so good
29:18
Speaker 1: that I can make up for a mistake. Um, in
29:22
Speaker 1: the NFL, that's hard. It's a lot harder to make
29:24
Speaker 1: up for a costly red zone error because all of
29:27
Speaker 1: a sudden, if you did, if you're in the NFL,
29:29
Speaker 1: you've got to go make up for that twice. You've
29:31
Speaker 1: got to go down and get a touchdown to make
29:34
Speaker 1: up for it and then get another score. And these
29:37
Speaker 1: games run out quick. So uh, very interesting that that
29:41
Speaker 1: one moment has caused such a turning point. But I
29:44
Speaker 1: think we know now that it did. Yeah. I think
29:47
Speaker 1: the other thing we have to think about is this
29:49
Speaker 1: might be the first time in Trevor Lawrences football life
29:52
Speaker 1: that he's playing on a team that is a quote
29:54
Speaker 1: unquote underdog. You have to remember when he was in
29:56
Speaker 1: high school, he played on the team that always won.
29:59
Speaker 1: He goes to Climps and he inherits a team that
30:01
Speaker 1: have been to the national title not too long ago,
30:03
Speaker 1: and then they go and win another one. So he
30:05
Speaker 1: has always had a wealth of weapons around him. So
30:09
Speaker 1: maybe you can be a little more careless when you
30:12
Speaker 1: know your team is better and you know that you're
30:13
Speaker 1: going to get the ball back and prime opportunities to score. Well,
30:17
Speaker 1: now you're talking about a Jaguar team where every point matters,
30:20
Speaker 1: every possession matters, because you don't necessarily have a level
30:25
Speaker 1: playing field when it comes to the talent, and so
30:28
Speaker 1: there's a different there's a different mentality that you have
30:31
Speaker 1: to have when you have a team like that and
30:33
Speaker 1: you don't have the margin for error that maybe he
30:36
Speaker 1: operated under when he had his high school team and
30:40
Speaker 1: then his collegiate team. And so it's Trevor Lawrence learning,
30:43
Speaker 1: but also believe it's him adapting and really beginning to
30:46
Speaker 1: understand what Doug Peterson wants from him. As the director
30:50
Speaker 1: of the offense and how Doug Peterson has built the
30:53
Speaker 1: offense and the play calls around WHI Trevor Lawrence does. Well,
30:57
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to a couple of social media
30:59
Speaker 1: questions quickly. Well, you put out the cat signal earlier today.
31:02
Speaker 1: There's the best we came up with, Bucky right here. Uh,
31:05
Speaker 1: this is at Tony B's henchman. I guess that's Tony Bosell.
31:11
Speaker 1: Why can't this defense stop passes the running backs out
31:14
Speaker 1: of the backfield. It seems like every week we give
31:16
Speaker 1: up a big play to a checkdown. You notice that, Well,
31:19
Speaker 1: I don't know if I notice you give it to
31:21
Speaker 1: a checkdown, But I think you gotta pick your poison
31:23
Speaker 1: in terms of what you're trying to stop. For so
31:25
Speaker 1: long this team cannot stop anybody from pushing it down
31:29
Speaker 1: the field man and man his own, and so then
31:31
Speaker 1: you make a considerative effort to stop the deep ball
31:33
Speaker 1: and make up throw the checkdown. We're rallying tackle and
31:36
Speaker 1: then it takes some time to adjust to the angles
31:39
Speaker 1: of the tackles that you have to make on running backs.
31:41
Speaker 1: And I think people have to understand that when you're
31:43
Speaker 1: a zone team, Uh, you have to live in zone.
31:46
Speaker 1: You have to practice a line in zone so your
31:47
Speaker 1: guys can master the angles when it comes to pursuit
31:51
Speaker 1: and coming up and tackling the checkdown and all those things.
31:54
Speaker 1: If your team like the Jaguars were, where you're mixing
31:56
Speaker 1: in man and zone and those things, you do a lot,
32:00
Speaker 1: but you never really settle in and get great at anything.
32:03
Speaker 1: And so I think what you've seen is the simplification
32:05
Speaker 1: of the scheme to allow guys to get better about
32:08
Speaker 1: just constantly reping it, and through repetition you begin to
32:12
Speaker 1: gain the experience and the expertise to be able to
32:14
Speaker 1: execute at a high level. Yeah, I think the realities
32:18
Speaker 1: they're gonna give up some things in this defense. Uh,
32:22
Speaker 1: and you'd rather have a checkdown than a long pass.
32:25
Speaker 1: I think that's you would hope that that's what they're
32:29
Speaker 1: seeing now or or that's what we're seeing from them now.
32:33
Speaker 1: I think you'll give us some checkdowns to avoid giving
32:35
Speaker 1: up that over the top shot on more social media
32:38
Speaker 1: question today from Twitter, and it's still on defense at
32:41
Speaker 1: Dylan Underscore Karen in cant one be the answered outside
32:45
Speaker 1: Corner Office thirty two. Could forty four play the big
32:48
Speaker 1: end role in a four three, get forty one back
32:50
Speaker 1: in the role he shined as a rookie, and get
32:52
Speaker 1: our three taled linebackers on the field together. Thirty three
32:56
Speaker 1: fits the will profile better than middle linebacker fifth the
32:59
Speaker 1: scheme of the players, not the other way around. How
33:02
Speaker 1: many tweets did that take? Wow? I don't know how
33:04
Speaker 1: many characters that is, but it might have been the
33:07
Speaker 1: maximum Bucky. That's a lot. But I think we touched
33:10
Speaker 1: on this earlier, thirty one being Darius Williams outside, forty
33:13
Speaker 1: four being the first Trayvon Walker. Yeah, so let me
33:17
Speaker 1: process this because this is like a big old word problem,
33:20
Speaker 1: trying to make sure I get everything answered. I don't
33:22
Speaker 1: know if thirty one can necessarily be the answer at
33:24
Speaker 1: outside corner long term, but I think you can play
33:27
Speaker 1: him outside if it's a zone team, because when I
33:29
Speaker 1: look at Darius Williams and I think about some of
33:32
Speaker 1: the Cover two and some of the basic zones, he
33:34
Speaker 1: certainly can keep the ball from flying over his head
33:37
Speaker 1: outside he doesn't have to match up and play man
33:38
Speaker 1: to man. In terms of Trayvon Walker playing the big
33:41
Speaker 1: end role in the forty three, yes, I think that
33:44
Speaker 1: makes a huge difference. I think him being a based
33:47
Speaker 1: in men and he goes to the run heavy side. Uh,
33:50
Speaker 1: he deals with stacking tight ends and owning the line
33:53
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. He can do that and forty one being
33:56
Speaker 1: on the week's side, being able to take on the
33:59
Speaker 1: quick tackle one on ones on the left tackle. I
34:01
Speaker 1: think that works for him. Devin Lloyd playing world linebacker, Yeah,
34:06
Speaker 1: it's a better profile than mic linebacker because he doesn't
34:08
Speaker 1: have all the responsibilities. It's the playmaking position in most defenses,
34:13
Speaker 1: and so you put them there. We can see ball,
34:14
Speaker 1: get ball, make plays. Devin Lloyd is going to have
34:17
Speaker 1: more success. And so what you have though, like enlisting
34:20
Speaker 1: off that you see the delimited might call well has
34:23
Speaker 1: because some of his personnel is better suited to be
34:25
Speaker 1: in a base defense where the league is saying, no,
34:29
Speaker 1: you have to play nickel defense because we've got three
34:31
Speaker 1: wide receivers on the field. Do you want to line
34:34
Speaker 1: up and say, hey, we're gonna do what we do
34:35
Speaker 1: and not worry about matching up to the personnel or
34:38
Speaker 1: are you a matchup team that oh eleven personnel trust
34:41
Speaker 1: on the field. I want to make sure I have
34:43
Speaker 1: my nickel package. Those are some of the things that
34:45
Speaker 1: might call well and the coaching staff has to work through. Yeah,
34:48
Speaker 1: and it really feels like they're sort of stuck in
34:50
Speaker 1: that for the last four or five games. I mean, yeah,
34:53
Speaker 1: you love having Muma, Lloyd, Lukan, Alan Trayvon on the field. Um,
35:01
Speaker 1: are are there Nickel packages though, Bucky where all five
35:04
Speaker 1: of those guys are playing? I mean I don't necessarily
35:06
Speaker 1: know that there are, uh, but you sure want Josh
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Speaker 1: Allen on the field. And Devin Lloyd Shire has ball
35:12
Speaker 1: in stings that you like him around the ball. So
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Speaker 1: I think it's there's a lot to look at on
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Speaker 1: those fronts in the off season, and I think you're
35:19
Speaker 1: just I would say piece meal with it. Did a
35:21
Speaker 1: good job the other day, but I think you're just
35:23
Speaker 1: sort of trying to figure out what might work for
35:26
Speaker 1: these last four to eight games. I like that, John,
35:30
Speaker 1: I like the optimism. Absolutely. We're back in a moment.
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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks. Let's get into this one of course, meaningful
36:57
Speaker 1: game in December is both ways. Let's start with the
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Speaker 1: NFC playoff picture, and the Dallas Cowboys are certainly right
37:04
Speaker 1: there in the midst of that. The Eagles are the
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Speaker 1: best team in the NFL this year right now, twelve
37:09
Speaker 1: and one, they lead the way, of course, and then
37:12
Speaker 1: the Cowboys at ten and three would be a wild
37:14
Speaker 1: card at the moment. Those two teams play each other
37:17
Speaker 1: next week, but the Cowboys are trying to get at
37:22
Speaker 1: least lined up for that big match up with the
37:24
Speaker 1: Eagles in two weeks. Maybe they're looking at head Bucky.
37:26
Speaker 1: I don't know. It could be coming off a struggle
37:30
Speaker 1: against the Houston Texans. And let's be honest, man, this
37:32
Speaker 1: team is a bit of an enigma. Even though they're
37:34
Speaker 1: ten and three. They play up or down to the
37:37
Speaker 1: level of competition and depending on if their focused, uh,
37:40
Speaker 1: you can catch them on an off day. To think
37:43
Speaker 1: about this game, where the Cowboys are weak, it might
37:47
Speaker 1: not be necessarily Jaguars strength. This is a Cowboys team
37:50
Speaker 1: that has struggled against the run, and the Jaguars are
37:52
Speaker 1: not necessarily a ground and pound team. That that doesn't
37:55
Speaker 1: mean that Doug Peterson won't switch it up and try
37:57
Speaker 1: and probe the defense with runs the Travistys in it
38:00
Speaker 1: just means that it's not necessarily what the Jaguars want
38:04
Speaker 1: to do naturally. And then on the other side, the
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Speaker 1: the offense that the Cowboys played man when they run
38:10
Speaker 1: it at you, uh, it says a play action passes.
38:13
Speaker 1: It says a big stuff and forced you to play
38:14
Speaker 1: man to man because you've got to deal with Ezekiel
38:17
Speaker 1: Elliin and Tony Pollard. And it's been a delimit that
38:19
Speaker 1: we've talked about the entire show. What is Mike call
38:21
Speaker 1: Will going to do because the way that you have
38:24
Speaker 1: to play may not work with who you have to play,
38:27
Speaker 1: and so there's some tough decisions that he's gonna have
38:28
Speaker 1: to make. Game planning. Yeah, I think the big storylines
38:31
Speaker 1: are if the Jauarys can get turnovers, um whichever, of course,
38:36
Speaker 1: if they get turnovers, but against this team, they've shown
38:40
Speaker 1: it all year. When this team gets turnovers, it feels
38:42
Speaker 1: like a defense that can at least hold its own
38:47
Speaker 1: in most games. And I don't think they're gonna run
38:50
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys, you know, thirty three times for three
38:53
Speaker 1: point eight yards and get But if they can get
38:57
Speaker 1: back to what they were doing for their is part
39:00
Speaker 1: of the season, which is Travis etn popping one or two. Um.
39:05
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to control clock in the
39:06
Speaker 1: first three quarters, but if he can have some of
39:09
Speaker 1: those runs that he was the best in the league
39:11
Speaker 1: at for a while, then I think they can run effectively.
39:15
Speaker 1: Uh pop one. And I've got to think that's what
39:18
Speaker 1: they're trying to figure out down there right now. How
39:21
Speaker 1: to get Travis loose two and three times and established
39:26
Speaker 1: that momentum big play that energy in the crowd. Because
39:29
Speaker 1: I'm like Bucky who doesn't believe in these fans here.
39:32
Speaker 1: I think the Jaguars fans are gonna show. I think
39:34
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a no matter how many the star brings,
39:39
Speaker 1: the star on the helmet spring. I think this Jaguars
39:42
Speaker 1: fan base is going to be ready for this game,
39:44
Speaker 1: and I think they're gonna blow the Dallas fans out. Wow,
39:49
Speaker 1: I just heard what I heard. I mean, look, I
39:52
Speaker 1: am duval till I die. I get it. I love
39:55
Speaker 1: it all that. However, also know and sitting in the stadium,
39:59
Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of opposing teams colors dot the stadium,
40:03
Speaker 1: and I also know how the Cowboys travel, and there's
40:06
Speaker 1: a lot of little closet Cowboys fans in Florida that
40:09
Speaker 1: are waiting for the opportunity to see their favorite team.
40:12
Speaker 1: And so I would like to send all those guys
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Speaker 1: home with their little smiles upside down, with little frown
40:18
Speaker 1: faces and all that. But I know they're going to
40:20
Speaker 1: be in the building. My hope is that we rise up,
40:23
Speaker 1: we find a way to get them, get a win,
40:25
Speaker 1: and all those guys can mope out of the stadium
40:28
Speaker 1: with the heads down there, little cowboy hats tucked between
40:30
Speaker 1: their legs. Another reason why it should be Jaguar heavy
40:35
Speaker 1: this Sunday is because the Jaguars are on the graphic,
40:38
Speaker 1: the a f C playoff picture. Yes, there they are
40:41
Speaker 1: in the hunt. They've got some work to do that,
40:46
Speaker 1: but they are on the graphic. Of course. Uh. The
40:49
Speaker 1: way in is to win the division, though, so they
40:52
Speaker 1: got to overtake Tennessee as long as they're within a game. Obviously,
40:56
Speaker 1: going into the last game of the season, a win
40:59
Speaker 1: would be a tie. They would have the tiebreaker over Tennessee.
41:02
Speaker 1: But a lot of business to attend to between now
41:05
Speaker 1: and them the other way in though you know they've
41:08
Speaker 1: got to win over the Chargers, they still play the Jets. Um.
41:12
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they're gonna make it as a wild card,
41:15
Speaker 1: but you could see things shake out weird where at
41:19
Speaker 1: the end they've got the tiebreaker over the Chargers. Yeah,
41:22
Speaker 1: I mean so I doubt that. But the key is
41:27
Speaker 1: to me, they've got a shot at it no matter
41:29
Speaker 1: what happens Sunday. When Sunday, then I think they have
41:32
Speaker 1: a real shot at it. I think, you know, even
41:35
Speaker 1: if they don't, if the Titans also lose they're playing
41:38
Speaker 1: the Chargers, and they're playing the Chargers, then I think
41:42
Speaker 1: it's still shakes out to where the Titans still have
41:45
Speaker 1: to go to Debt or So's to play host to
41:47
Speaker 1: Dallas and the Jags go up and play the Jets. Uh,
41:51
Speaker 1: you know it can still shake out. Well, it's not
41:55
Speaker 1: over Sunday, but if they win Sunday, man, I mean
41:58
Speaker 1: it's Uh, if they win Sunday, then now you've got
42:04
Speaker 1: three quality wins in a month. It almost sounds like
42:08
Speaker 1: a backdoor guaranteed that you're kind of putting out there,
42:10
Speaker 1: doesn't It kind of sound like I'm not gonna pay,
42:12
Speaker 1: You're gonna lock it, like it's a Monday night thing.
42:15
Speaker 1: We usually lock, don't lock. You know, Tony locked the
42:17
Speaker 1: playoffs on Monday. I don't know, John, if you're ready
42:20
Speaker 1: for that. I'm not gonna lock the playoffs. So I'm
42:23
Speaker 1: sure lock Sunday because I don't think they'll win, because
42:26
Speaker 1: I think Dallas is really good and playing with something
42:29
Speaker 1: getting ready for the Eagles. I'm not sure they're ready
42:31
Speaker 1: to beat a twelve win team yet, but I don't
42:37
Speaker 1: think remotely that the cause is lost as long as
42:41
Speaker 1: Tennessee loses to Alright, So now, John, you end in
42:46
Speaker 1: the building, You're gonna have Trevor all mad at you
42:48
Speaker 1: because he hears everything. He's listening to the Huddle Up
42:51
Speaker 1: podcast on the way home, and he hears you doubt that,
42:55
Speaker 1: uh the guys and Till can get a win. Might
42:58
Speaker 1: be frosty in the building, might be for seeing the
43:00
Speaker 1: building when he comes on the Ozon podcast. I'm just
43:02
Speaker 1: saying you kind of the frosted that relationship a little
43:07
Speaker 1: bit because you're over there doubting number sixteen and the
43:10
Speaker 1: magical power did he bring to the table each week? Hey,
43:13
Speaker 1: t Law knows where to find you put it out.
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Speaker 1: He knows where I am will be a battle of Titans,
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Speaker 1: that's for sure. M Bucky, you have a great week.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you this weekend. We'll see you for
43:24
Speaker 1: the holiday party. You get a little thing going on
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Speaker 1: Friday night. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm ready. I'm ready for that.
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Speaker 1: I'm ready. I've been practicing. I'm up all night practicing
43:31
Speaker 1: and getting my swing right. I'm ready. I'm ready. I
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Speaker 1: can't wait to see it. Bucky Brooks from Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1: That's John Osier. You too. John. By the way, I
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Speaker 1: guess well, yeah, I mean, I'll see you every day,
43:43
Speaker 1: but I guess I'm looking forward to seeing you Friday.
43:45
Speaker 1: Also might be there, might might not. I got a
43:48
Speaker 1: lot of stuff going. Yeah, you're a busy guy. Joe
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Speaker 1: Fortunato on the audio, britt Reaver Uh and others on
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Speaker 1: the video, thank you for watching. I'm j P shadricket
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