Latest / The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network / Doug Marrone Conference Call: Monday, November 19
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Gene, No, we're not going to do that. We are
- 0:03Speaker 1: looking at, you know, everything and how we can do
- 0:05Speaker 1: things from a better standpoint. I think that, you know,
- 0:08Speaker 1: it's obviously a position that gets a lot of attention,
- 0:12Speaker 1: but you know, at the same point, Um, you know,
- 0:15Speaker 1: I really think that, you know, I was gonna open
- 0:17Speaker 1: up with a statement saying that when I watched the game,
- 0:19Speaker 1: obviously you know, we played extremely hard. Um, we came
- 0:23Speaker 1: up on the short end of the stick. I think that, Um,
- 0:27Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna focus on, you know, playing with
- 0:29Speaker 1: that that same type of intensity and trying to put
- 0:32Speaker 1: a full game together. I think that, you know, for myself,
- 0:35Speaker 1: the coaches and everyone, Um, we just we just got
- 0:39Speaker 1: to do a better job, whether it's you know, putting
- 0:41Speaker 1: them in better position or them executing better. And I'm
- 0:44Speaker 1: talking about all around, Um, you know, for us to
- 0:47Speaker 1: go and get a win, and that's what we're gonna
- 0:49Speaker 1: focus on. All right, Thanks Jeane. We'll go to John Reid.
- 0:57Speaker 1: All right, we'll go to Mike dracco Oh, John gut
- 1:04Speaker 1: John coach, can you talk about, um, what what about
- 1:10Speaker 1: the situation with Malik Jackson and also the h you
- 1:14Speaker 1: kind of answered it about not making changing the quarterback,
- 1:17Speaker 1: but are you looking at other areas to try to
- 1:21Speaker 1: change things up? Are looking for different things to do
- 1:24Speaker 1: from what you're not getting in certain positions? Well, if
- 1:27Speaker 1: I don't, you know, I don't you know what Malik,
- 1:30Speaker 1: we just felt that, hey, this team was gonna come
- 1:31Speaker 1: in and and and didn't play that way. But you know,
- 1:35Speaker 1: we're gonna just try to you know, double team wear
- 1:37Speaker 1: us down on the inside. So we went there with
- 1:39Speaker 1: you know, the bigger, the bigger, the bigger guys on
- 1:42Speaker 1: the inside and normal down and distances and the bringing
- 1:45Speaker 1: um you know, Malik in for the passing situation. So
- 1:48Speaker 1: you know, he winded up getting probably about seven or
- 1:50Speaker 1: eight snaps less than what he normally gets. UM. So
- 1:53Speaker 1: hopefully we'll be able to change that because you know,
- 1:55Speaker 1: we feel that if you know, we can get those
- 1:57Speaker 1: big guys out there early. You know, we moved Tavan
- 1:59Speaker 1: around um a little bit yesterday. I think that you know,
- 2:03Speaker 1: he's shown that, you know, he's progressing, and uh, you know,
- 2:06Speaker 1: we're excited about that, you know, and and and what
- 2:09Speaker 1: he's doing. But we're also excited about you know, getting
- 2:12Speaker 1: Malik there, keeping them fresh so we can get more
- 2:15Speaker 1: rush out of out of our you know, uh pass
- 2:18Speaker 1: pass rush packages. But they hadn't reached a point where
- 2:23Speaker 1: you're looking at line up changing. I mean when you
- 2:28Speaker 1: when you say that, I mean you know a lot
- 2:30Speaker 1: of things you gotta you gotta see if someone you
- 2:31Speaker 1: put in there is gonna be better. I mean, that's
- 2:33Speaker 1: the point of what it is right now. And I
- 2:35Speaker 1: don't think that we've ever not looked at if we
- 2:37Speaker 1: can put someone in there that's gonna perform better. And
- 2:40Speaker 1: that comes during the week of practice, and you know,
- 2:42Speaker 1: if if someone can perform better during that week, you
- 2:45Speaker 1: know we'll be able to do that. But again, you know,
- 2:47Speaker 1: you can't just replace people, um, you know, just just
- 2:51Speaker 1: to replace them. You got to replace them with people
- 2:53Speaker 1: that you feel are gonna do a better job for you.
- 2:55Speaker 1: So we're always looking at those things. And when those
- 2:57Speaker 1: things come up during the course of the week and
- 2:59Speaker 1: how people practice, um, you know, we we we'll implement that.
- 3:04Speaker 1: All right. Thanks John, We'll go to the rock and
- 3:06Speaker 1: then Phil, Hey, Doug, you said, you know on that
- 3:10Speaker 1: final third down that there was some concern about the protection. Um,
- 3:14Speaker 1: but but what's your trust level in Blake being able
- 3:16Speaker 1: to make the play there and not only Blake, but
- 3:20Speaker 1: with the receivers as well well, you know, you know,
- 3:23Speaker 1: going back again and and and obviously watching a numerous times.
- 3:28Speaker 1: You know, my first reaction was I thought, you know, hey,
- 3:30Speaker 1: what's what's the best past we have because we haven't
- 3:32Speaker 1: been you know, we weren't doing a very good job
- 3:34Speaker 1: in the play action or the drop back to that point,
- 3:37Speaker 1: and obviously the runs were inconsistent. We were getting the
- 3:41Speaker 1: same looks, and you know, when we went to the
- 3:43Speaker 1: last play, the last play the game, the third or five,
- 3:46Speaker 1: you know, we had the option of either you know,
- 3:47Speaker 1: giving it to Leonard or you know, Blake pulling it
- 3:50Speaker 1: and running, which we thought was our two best options
- 3:53Speaker 1: at the time, two things that both those guys do well.
- 3:56Speaker 1: And a play that you know, we ran earlier in
- 3:58Speaker 1: the game and we're was very successful on and we
- 4:02Speaker 1: had it in our back pocket and it just didn't
- 4:05Speaker 1: work out. So Blake did have the option to pull
- 4:10Speaker 1: it on that play and take it himself. And just
- 4:13Speaker 1: to be clear, that's clear, yes, okay, yeah, I just
- 4:16Speaker 1: want to make sure. Thank you. Okay, all right, thanks,
- 4:19Speaker 1: We'll go to the Phil and then Daniel Popper, Hey, Doug,
- 4:23Speaker 1: just curious, do you think some Bortles has lost confidence?
- 4:27Speaker 1: Going back to the second and eight player early in
- 4:29Speaker 1: the fourth quarter where it looked like he had moncre
- 4:31Speaker 1: upon his plants, decided not to throw it, takes a
- 4:33Speaker 1: sack and you guys can knocked out of field. Will
- 4:35Speaker 1: Range just does he look like a guy who's playing
- 4:37Speaker 1: a little gunsight to you? But I don't know. I mean,
- 4:40Speaker 1: I think he can better, you know, answer that question.
- 4:43Speaker 1: I can't get into his mind. I know that they
- 4:45Speaker 1: were rotating weak and he did have to put his
- 4:47Speaker 1: eyes down for the play action pass and when it
- 4:49Speaker 1: came back up, um, you know it just didn't feel
- 4:52Speaker 1: comfortable doing it. And you know that we all have
- 4:55Speaker 1: to do a better job putting him in position where
- 4:57Speaker 1: he can feel comfortable and you can go ahead and
- 4:59Speaker 1: let her rips. That's what I'm saying, Well, we all
- 5:01Speaker 1: have to do a better job. And also the seventy
- 5:05Speaker 1: year touched on the brown, were you guys in some
- 5:07Speaker 1: sort of quarters coverage and what was the breakdown there?
- 5:10Speaker 1: So what happened was he ran a curl route and
- 5:12Speaker 1: we wounded up coming up to it. Ben looked right
- 5:14Speaker 1: to him and we came up to that curl route
- 5:16Speaker 1: and then Ben looked right, and then we lost the
- 5:18Speaker 1: coverage and and then he kept going, you know, through
- 5:21Speaker 1: the other side of the field. We should have just
- 5:22Speaker 1: tried to stay back and keep everything in front of us.
- 5:28Speaker 1: All right, Thanks Phil, We'll go to Daniel. Hey, Doug,
- 5:31Speaker 1: you touched on it briefly earlier, but you guys were
- 5:34Speaker 1: obviously able to establish the run in the first half,
- 5:38Speaker 1: so you didn't really run much play action off of that.
- 5:41Speaker 1: Based on what I saw, Was there a reason for
- 5:43Speaker 1: that that you guys didn't call or run and play
- 5:46Speaker 1: action off of the run despite establishing that early. Well,
- 5:49Speaker 1: we had to play action just like we was mentioned before,
- 5:52Speaker 1: you know, when we wanted to throw that slant um
- 5:55Speaker 1: get that in there, and then we had the too
- 5:56Speaker 1: play actions that we hit Leonard on, you know that
- 5:58Speaker 1: were big. So you know that's what that's what we
- 6:01Speaker 1: were looking at and trying to create that that separation.
- 6:04Speaker 1: We had a couple of things with some unders and
- 6:06Speaker 1: a couple of other routes, but you know, at the
- 6:09Speaker 1: same time, we felt were doing a really good job,
- 6:11Speaker 1: you know, running the football which we wanted to establish.
- 6:13Speaker 1: And then you know, obviously we've got to make some
- 6:15Speaker 1: plays off the play action game. All right, Thanks, We're
- 6:23Speaker 1: gonna go to Jason Wolf. Hi, Doug, Um, what is
- 6:27Speaker 1: your assessment of Marcel darius performance and his role on
- 6:31Speaker 1: this game compared to the player he was for you
- 6:33Speaker 1: and Buffalo? Well, you know, the Buffalo things a long
- 6:37Speaker 1: time ago. But I can only really, you know, talk
- 6:40Speaker 1: about right now. And he's doing a very good job
- 6:42Speaker 1: for us. I mean, you know, he's he's been a
- 6:44Speaker 1: big part of being able to stop the run, handling
- 6:46Speaker 1: double teams, keeping people off the linebackers. Um, he's done
- 6:50Speaker 1: a real good job in the locker room, real good
- 6:52Speaker 1: job practice and all those things. So really, right now,
- 6:56Speaker 1: everything that we're asking to Marcel we're getting out of him,
- 6:58Speaker 1: and and he's doing a really good up. Is there
- 7:01Speaker 1: anything special about returning the Buffalo fore of you guys?
- 7:07Speaker 1: I mean, I can't speak for anyone else. I mean,
- 7:08Speaker 1: I've been up there a couple of times already, and
- 7:10Speaker 1: you know, I've always had a great appreciation for the
- 7:13Speaker 1: fans and the way of your organization. Everything that happened
- 7:16Speaker 1: while I was up there is you know, I was
- 7:18Speaker 1: always you know, very grateful and very appreciative of it. So,
- 7:21Speaker 1: you know, it's been a long time now, we've played
- 7:23Speaker 1: those guys a couple of times, and uh, right now,
- 7:25Speaker 1: my focus is just on our team because obviously, um,
- 7:28Speaker 1: we've got to play well enough to try to get
- 7:30Speaker 1: a win. Thank you, all right, Thanks Jason. We'll go
- 7:34Speaker 1: back to Jean. I'm good. I'm good. Oh good, thanks Jane,
- 7:40Speaker 1: John or de Rock. You guys got anything? Yeah? I do? Yeah,
- 7:45Speaker 1: go ahead? Rock? Uh, Doug, can you evaluate the play
- 7:50Speaker 1: of Westbrook Schart mon Cree from yesterday? Um, and sort
- 7:56Speaker 1: of where your level of trust and those guys is
- 7:59Speaker 1: going board and being able to make some plays. Yeah,
- 8:03Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I obviously we put them out there,
- 8:06Speaker 1: we have a level of trust you know that they
- 8:08Speaker 1: can do the job, you know, but you know, make
- 8:11Speaker 1: no mistake about it. Early on, we were trying to
- 8:12Speaker 1: go out there and establish a physical mindset, knowing that
- 8:15Speaker 1: that's what we have to do to be the team
- 8:18Speaker 1: like Pittsburgh, who is a very good team, you know,
- 8:20Speaker 1: and run the football. You know. I think, you know,
- 8:22Speaker 1: obviously it's easy to go and you look back, you know,
- 8:24Speaker 1: I wish we would be able to you know, maybe
- 8:28Speaker 1: you know when you lose the game, you're always gonna question,
- 8:30Speaker 1: you know, hey, the play action. You know, could we've
- 8:32Speaker 1: done this better? So you're always gonna go back as
- 8:35Speaker 1: coaches and do that, you know, and question those things.
- 8:37Speaker 1: But uh no, I don't. I don't. I don't feel
- 8:40Speaker 1: that way. We've got to go out there and you know,
- 8:42Speaker 1: we've got to put a complete game together and figure
- 8:45Speaker 1: this thing out where you know, you can come out
- 8:48Speaker 1: there and you can physically run the ball like that,
- 8:50Speaker 1: you know how, you're gonna create some explosive plays in
- 8:52Speaker 1: the passing game if you're doing that, or if you're
- 8:54Speaker 1: gonna come out and try to create some explosive plays
- 8:56Speaker 1: in the past games set up the run. You know.
- 8:58Speaker 1: Right now, we we just gotta do a good job
- 9:00Speaker 1: as coaches and players of putting all that together and
- 9:03Speaker 1: going out and executing it. Jalen said, you you came
- 9:08Speaker 1: up to him briefly and talked to him before the
- 9:10Speaker 1: game yesterday after that report came out about potential trade.
- 9:13Speaker 1: I'm just curious, would you mind sharing what you told
- 9:16Speaker 1: him and how that conversation went. Well, I'm not I'm
- 9:19Speaker 1: not you know, I'm not going to talk about the
- 9:21Speaker 1: personal conversation. But you know, I have a very good relationship,
- 9:26Speaker 1: at least from my end, you know how I feel
- 9:27Speaker 1: about Um Jalen, and I thought that, you know, when
- 9:32Speaker 1: that stuff goes on, I think that's very difficult for
- 9:34Speaker 1: any player, not just not just a player like Jalen,
- 9:37Speaker 1: you know, and you kind of look at it. That's
- 9:39Speaker 1: really kind of an unfair thing to do, you know,
- 9:42Speaker 1: right before a game and how that comes out. But
- 9:45Speaker 1: the one thing that I will say about Jalen was, uh,
- 9:48Speaker 1: the one thing I admire was, you know, he that
- 9:50Speaker 1: didn't get to him. He was had a laser like
- 9:53Speaker 1: focus to him. And Um went out there and played
- 9:56Speaker 1: extremely well against an outstanding football player and Antonio Round
- 10:00Speaker 1: and the other players that he had to cover during
- 10:02Speaker 1: the course of that game. So you know, it's it's
- 10:04Speaker 1: a tough situation. It's it's a disappointing situation, you know,
- 10:08Speaker 1: when things like that come out prior to the game UM.
- 10:12Speaker 1: But again I thought, I thought he and his teammates
- 10:14Speaker 1: they all did a great job of handling it so
- 10:16Speaker 1: they could just focus on the task at hand, which
- 10:19Speaker 1: was to go out there and play well against Pittsburgh.
- 10:22Speaker 1: From from your perspective, how do you think he's handled, Um,
- 10:25Speaker 1: all the attention he's getting every week. You know, it
- 10:28Speaker 1: seems like every week he's playing a guy that you know,
- 10:30Speaker 1: he criticized in in the g Q articles the beginning
- 10:33Speaker 1: of the year, and all that stuff keeps getting brought up.
- 10:35Speaker 1: How has he been able to maintain focus and handle that?
- 10:38Speaker 1: In your eyes? I think you know, it's it's it's
- 10:43Speaker 1: something again, you know. In my eyes, I'm expecting the
- 10:46Speaker 1: player to go out there and be focused like like
- 10:48Speaker 1: any other player on our football team. So you know
- 10:51Speaker 1: he's played, Um, he's a heck of a football player.
- 10:54Speaker 1: I have all the confidence in the world with him. Uh.
- 10:56Speaker 1: If I go we go out there and we got
- 10:58Speaker 1: to line up, I'm I'm bringing him out there with me,
- 11:00Speaker 1: you know. So that's how I feel. I think he
- 11:02Speaker 1: might be better at at you know, speaking about that,
- 11:05Speaker 1: because you know, when we talk, we're always talking about
- 11:07Speaker 1: you know, focus, the opponent, what we're doing as well
- 11:10Speaker 1: as I That's what I do it mostly mostly every player.
- 11:14Speaker 1: All right, thanks ro John. Did you have one you
- 11:16Speaker 1: want to get in? Uh? Yeah, let me get one. Uh.
- 11:23Speaker 1: How much has this been very difficult for you? When
- 11:26Speaker 1: you go six weeks thin not getting to win and
- 11:29Speaker 1: one thing kind of you fix one thing, another thing
- 11:32Speaker 1: go wrong. Let's getting your question, Well, I think I
- 11:37Speaker 1: think you know, well, first of all, you know, you
- 11:40Speaker 1: know John having unfortunately having gone through this, you know,
- 11:44Speaker 1: it's kind of you know, it's just like it's like
- 11:47Speaker 1: deja vu sometimes, you know, with you know, the questions
- 11:51Speaker 1: you get and the things that you you think about,
- 11:53Speaker 1: you know, when you're on your own or you're watching
- 11:55Speaker 1: the film and it's like, you know, hey, we're emphasizing this,
- 11:58Speaker 1: we get this. You know, we're not getting as much
- 12:00Speaker 1: as we want with that, or you know, where are
- 12:02Speaker 1: we doing a poor job? And and and when you
- 12:04Speaker 1: don't win, you know, you look at all the different things,
- 12:06Speaker 1: you know, turnovers at one point, uh, you know, giving
- 12:10Speaker 1: up big plays at another point, um, you know, not
- 12:13Speaker 1: being able to finish and put it together for four quarters.
- 12:17Speaker 1: And what happens is, you know a lot of time
- 12:20Speaker 1: you get you just get focused on you know the
- 12:24Speaker 1: you know, sometimes it's the play calling. Sometimes you know
- 12:27Speaker 1: it's the execution. Um. You know, but first have to
- 12:30Speaker 1: start with you know the mentality of the the team, knowing
- 12:32Speaker 1: that if we continue to work hard, you know, we
- 12:34Speaker 1: continue to work together to figure out this formula that
- 12:38Speaker 1: we need right now, you know, for us to go
- 12:40Speaker 1: out there and get a win. But um, you know,
- 12:44Speaker 1: are you disappointed? Yes, you know I always worry about
- 12:48Speaker 1: that word frustration because you know, frustration and you know,
- 12:53Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't want to get to I
- 12:55Speaker 1: just look at it as hey, if I get frustrated,
- 12:58Speaker 1: what type of production could I have? And you know
- 13:00Speaker 1: everybody's looking to me, you know, for the answers and
- 13:03Speaker 1: what we have to do. So I'm continually gonna keep,
- 13:06Speaker 1: you know, working through that, trying to find the best
- 13:08Speaker 1: way whatever it is, the scheme, the plays, the execution,
- 13:13Speaker 1: the players, you know, because you know, when things like
- 13:16Speaker 1: this go on, you know, I expect, you know, these
- 13:20Speaker 1: questions and and all those things. But at the end
- 13:23Speaker 1: of the day, you know, I've got to lead this
- 13:25Speaker 1: team through, uh, this tough challenge of this, you know, adversity,
- 13:30Speaker 1: and we've got to continue to go out there and
- 13:32Speaker 1: play with the same type of emotion, play the same
- 13:34Speaker 1: as the same type of level of enthusiasm you know,
- 13:38Speaker 1: with each other. And if we keep doing that and
- 13:40Speaker 1: working a way, we'll find a way to win all right,
- 13:45Speaker 1: thanks John. We'll go to two more questions. We'll go
- 13:47Speaker 1: to Daniel Popper and then finish with Phil at the
- 13:51Speaker 1: end of the first half there he picked that ball
- 13:54Speaker 1: off you got took over in territory, uh, and then
- 13:58Speaker 1: proceeded to throughout three times in a row. And then
- 14:00Speaker 1: you have to pub Were you okay with the play
- 14:02Speaker 1: calling there, even though you only needed like eight yards
- 14:05Speaker 1: to get into Lambe's range for a field goal? Yeah?
- 14:08Speaker 1: I mean it's the same thing that you're you're going
- 14:10Speaker 1: around on. You know. It's like you know when you
- 14:13Speaker 1: when you run it and you're successful, you're good, and
- 14:16Speaker 1: you know when you throw it, you're good. And you
- 14:18Speaker 1: know here, you know, we're trying to change some things
- 14:20Speaker 1: up and you know, throw the football and it's I think,
- 14:23Speaker 1: is is that is that the one that well we
- 14:27Speaker 1: got sacked twice? Now it's Blake through two picks or
- 14:32Speaker 1: third two incompletions, I should say three in completions, I
- 14:35Speaker 1: say there were no sacks on the series, right, Yeah,
- 14:38Speaker 1: I mean I just think yeah, we uh was trying
- 14:42Speaker 1: to remember the exactly over DJ on the sideline after
- 14:46Speaker 1: he rolled out to his right, right, right, right, right, Okay, Yeah,
- 14:49Speaker 1: yeah again. You know, it's it's one of those things
- 14:51Speaker 1: when you think about, hey, you know we're running the
- 14:53Speaker 1: ball well, the playing a run we want to take
- 14:55Speaker 1: you know, you know, take it up top, and you
- 14:58Speaker 1: know we don't. We don't. We're not able to convert
- 15:00Speaker 1: or execute. And I think it's one of those things
- 15:03Speaker 1: I think when you don't play well and you lose, um,
- 15:05Speaker 1: you know, all those things come into question. You know,
- 15:08Speaker 1: why did you run it? Why don't you pass it?
- 15:10Speaker 1: You know, why why did you do this? Why did
- 15:12Speaker 1: you do that? You know, we just felt at that
- 15:13Speaker 1: time that you know, we can get an explosive play
- 15:17Speaker 1: and get ourselves uh you know, to build on a
- 15:19Speaker 1: lead and take advantage of it. Just to be clear,
- 15:23Speaker 1: are you considering any changes to your staff again? You know,
- 15:29Speaker 1: I think I think in times like this, that's you know,
- 15:31Speaker 1: people who are gonna ask those questions and we're continually
- 15:33Speaker 1: trying to work together or try to figure out a
- 15:35Speaker 1: way to do to put this complete game in you know,
- 15:38Speaker 1: to do a better job from my standpoint, to the coaches,
- 15:41Speaker 1: to the players. So um, you know right now, No,
- 15:44Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not I'm not thinking about changes as
- 15:47Speaker 1: far as you know, moving people here there. My focus
- 15:50Speaker 1: right now is trying to figure out a way to
- 15:52Speaker 1: win a game. All right, Thanks Dan, um fincial Phil.
- 15:58Speaker 1: He do give an update on a j N. Yeah,
- 16:01Speaker 1: I think you know, you know, he had the hamstring
- 16:04Speaker 1: injury yesterday. Um, you know, it was the same one
- 16:07Speaker 1: that was kind of bothering him. So I think we're
- 16:09Speaker 1: gonna probably, you know, we'll hold him out tomorrow. He'll
- 16:12Speaker 1: go through walk through and everything and then um, you know,
- 16:14Speaker 1: obviously we have to have Chris Reid ready, so I'll
- 16:16Speaker 1: know more as the week goes on. All right, thank
- 16:22Speaker 1: you guys, look forward to seeing everybody tomorrow. I appreciate it,
- 16:24Speaker 1: all right, see you guys, Thanks, thank you, thank you.