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Huddle Up | Working Out the Kinks in Preseason, Relying on the Run Game · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to huddle Jaguars senior writer John Osha and NFL
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Speaker 1: Network analyst and former Jaguar Bucky Brooks. Bring you go
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Speaker 1: to latest go on, George Jacksonville Jaguars huddle up starts
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Speaker 1: right now.
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome in to huddle up with Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 2: I'm John Oser from the Hundai Studios and Bucky Brooks
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Speaker 2: in Los Angeles, and uh, Bucky, our little bird has
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Speaker 2: left the nest. So it's just you know, it's uh,
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Speaker 2: it's just all that entails. I gotta be honest, but
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Speaker 2: you know there's gonna be some uh, you's some wrinkles
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Speaker 2: to iron out today. I'm walking back from lunch, had
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Speaker 2: a little yogurt on my chin. It's training camp. I
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Speaker 2: would worry about that, Bucky if it was November, but
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Speaker 2: it's it's August. So I'll work that out. We'll work
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Speaker 2: this out and uh, at some point will be good
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Speaker 2: to go. But Bucky, Uh, I'm looking forward to this.
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Speaker 2: I think, uh, I guess you'd be good moving forward.
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Speaker 2: And I'm excited about it. Not excited to have Pea gaunt.
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Speaker 2: You know, we'll miss him in this format. He's been
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Speaker 2: part of us for what four or five years. But yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: so it's it's time for the little bird to fly away.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, a little birds flatterway. I've seen him the social post.
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Speaker 3: He's certainly taken to being a bird member. He's a
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Speaker 3: part of the Yeah, so we excited about that. We'll
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Speaker 3: eventually get a chance to get her with him down
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Speaker 3: the road. But it's a great opportunity for him, but
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Speaker 3: an even greater opportunity for us to chat more.
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Speaker 2: Jags ball, Well, we needs more ceremonies. There wasn't enough
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Speaker 2: ceremonies saying goodbye to JP. There wasn't enough pumping circumstance.
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Speaker 2: We'll let think a little more. So, all right, huddle
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Speaker 2: Go to Fieldsauto dot com and Bucky I think the
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Speaker 2: first thing to do. Obviously, the joint practice today was intense.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about that later, but you and I were
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Speaker 2: in New Orleans. We haven't talked about the Saints. It's
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Speaker 2: pre season week one, so I'm skeptical how much it matters.
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Speaker 2: But the Jaguars one twenty four to twenty. I thought
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Speaker 2: there were some good things out of that. I guess
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Speaker 2: the obvious theme. They responded to a rough start and
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Speaker 2: were impressive in the second half, young players making big plays.
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Speaker 2: You know. Overall, what were your thoughts coming out of Saturday?
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Speaker 2: I thought it was fine considering there was some rough start.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, rough starts.
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Speaker 3: One of the thing coaches always talk about is, hey,
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Speaker 3: let's make sure we don't beat ourselves. And a lot
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Speaker 3: of times John dead intel's a turnovers, pre snap penalties,
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Speaker 3: big plays allowed on blown assignments, and then eras in
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Speaker 3: the kicking game, and man, oh man, it's the Jaguars
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Speaker 3: didn't check off all the checks see like in the
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Speaker 3: first In the first quote, I mean right out the gate,
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Speaker 3: like a big kickoff return. They have a red zone interception,
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Speaker 3: they have a bunch of pre snap penalties, another interception,
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Speaker 3: they give them an explosive.
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Speaker 4: Play for a touchdown.
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Speaker 3: But the thing that I loved about the way the
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Speaker 3: team responded in the second half is, man, they got
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Speaker 3: down to business in the second half. It ran clean,
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Speaker 3: second half, ran the football effectively. They were very persistent
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Speaker 3: and look, preseason games don't count, but they certainly matter.
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Speaker 3: And even though a lot of the starters weren't participating.
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Speaker 3: There's a vibe that this team has, and you want
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Speaker 3: to see the young players continue on to meet that standard.
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Speaker 3: And I certainly felt like in the second half, in particular,
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Speaker 3: the effort, the energy, the toughness was up to the
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Speaker 3: Jaguar standard.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought, and again, you and I, it's so
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Speaker 2: hard because a lot of this doesn't translate, you know,
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Speaker 2: you know, the regular season, so you got to be
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Speaker 2: careful how much you draw from it. But I thought
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Speaker 2: there was a little bit of, I don't know, maybe
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Speaker 2: an identity thread in a third quarter when you know,
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Speaker 2: Liam and Grant probably felt like they were treading water
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Speaker 2: a little bit in the first half. Okay, they turned
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Speaker 2: to let's just let's just run. Let's just be a
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Speaker 2: power team. Now the guys on the field weren't the
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Speaker 2: same guys that were on the field. So I don't
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Speaker 2: know how much you can trust that, but I think
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Speaker 2: that's what they'd like to be when things get squirrely
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Speaker 2: in the regular season. You want to be able to say, Okay,
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Speaker 2: we're just gonna run now. And so I thought maybe
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Speaker 2: that was a little bit of a tell over what
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Speaker 2: they want to be.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, John, I've been playing a lot of golf of late,
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Speaker 3: and the thing that's're just going to figure out is, yeah,
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Speaker 3: when it when it goes a ride, like, how do
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Speaker 3: I get back on track? What club can I take
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Speaker 3: out the bag to get back on track? To get
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Speaker 3: back in the fair way, to find a way to
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Speaker 3: get into the scoring zone. And the thing that stood
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Speaker 3: out to me about the Jaguars is it's one thing
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Speaker 3: to talk about being a team that wants to run
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Speaker 3: the football right, It's another thing to do it when
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Speaker 3: things are hard. There was a stress that there were
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Speaker 3: no explosive runs, meaning runs over ten yards. It was
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Speaker 3: a lot of three and six and five and two's
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Speaker 3: and trying to grind it out. And they stuck with
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Speaker 3: it and eventually in the second half you start to
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Speaker 3: see more big plays or whatever. And look, regardless of
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Speaker 3: who it was, like we talked about Jamari Taylor showing
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Speaker 3: up and have a very effective game, having a heavy workload,
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Speaker 3: DJ Dallas being able to tote the rock. It was
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Speaker 3: more the mentality that I was impressed with, as opposed
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Speaker 3: to a man we're behind, let's start throwing it all
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Speaker 3: over the yard. They did a really good job of
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Speaker 3: sticking to the identity that they say they want to
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Speaker 3: established for this offense.
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Speaker 2: Well, there's any truth in this league about the run
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Speaker 2: game is if you get four or five, three, two,
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Speaker 2: at some point you're gonna get twenty five. So and
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Speaker 2: usually you have to get you know, more often than not,
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Speaker 2: you have to get those runs like what you're talking
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Speaker 2: about to eventually get the burst. So I got so
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Speaker 2: many emails, Bucky, and I'm sure you get you know,
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Speaker 2: whatever thoughts you got from Jaguars fans. I'm always amazed
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Speaker 2: every year at the panic that sets in from a
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Speaker 2: preseason game. And I was actually talking to a buddy
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Speaker 2: of mine who said, yeah, that was so typical Jaguars
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Speaker 2: in the first half. They come out and they get
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Speaker 2: a guy hurt, and they came and you want to
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Speaker 2: shake him and say, hey, hey man, haven't you watched
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Speaker 2: enough preseason games to know that that's not going to translate.
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Speaker 2: I think the best example is, and you know, so
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Speaker 2: many people have forgotten this. Remember this time of year ago, Bucky,
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Speaker 2: we were talking about the defense not being able to
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Speaker 2: get lined up against the steel Remember that was a thing.
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Speaker 2: Ye we got to get rid of camp. I mean, everybody,
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Speaker 2: this defense doesn't know what's going on, you know. And
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Speaker 2: it was such a lesson of what preseason really is.
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Speaker 2: I told somebody this week, you have to remember that
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Speaker 2: preseason games are practiced with uniforms and they do not,
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Speaker 2: you know. And it's hard for people to remember that
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Speaker 2: because you you turn on the TV and you see
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Speaker 2: teams lining up, and you see a graphic that tells
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Speaker 2: you it's a game and it is practice, and you know,
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Speaker 2: above anything else. I can't tell how many Colts teams
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Speaker 2: I covered Bucky they would lose thirty five to three
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Speaker 2: in the preseason and come out and start six and
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Speaker 2: up the scores and the results. Now, if you're bad, okay,
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Speaker 2: well that can translate. But for good teams, this is
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Speaker 2: a lot of times what preseason is is it's sort
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Speaker 2: of clunky, trying to figure stuff out, working with stuff.
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying you shouldn't pay attention to it. I'm
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Speaker 2: not saying a team doesn't want to perform well. But
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Speaker 2: as Iverson said, it is practice.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is practice, and you are working through some things.
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Speaker 3: And every team takes a different approach to the preseason.
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Speaker 3: There's some teams that attack it like a regular season game.
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Speaker 3: Because they're trying to build momentum and they're trying to
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Speaker 3: infuse their team with confidence.
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Speaker 4: There are other teams.
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Speaker 3: That approach it like a developmental opportunity to put the
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Speaker 3: young guys out there, to give them game reaps and
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Speaker 3: game experience, not only to see how they respond to
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Speaker 3: playing under the lights, but are they a player that
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Speaker 3: can be maybe counted on down the stretch if they
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Speaker 3: have to be elevated into a more prominent role. The
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Speaker 3: Jaguars are operating under that premise, and talking to Lim
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Speaker 3: before the game, he had talked about, Hey, the goal
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Speaker 3: is to get to Week one fully healthy, with all
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Speaker 3: your stars ready to go.
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Speaker 2: And stop right there in terms of goals, Bucky, because
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Speaker 2: anything else is a distant It's not even a B
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Speaker 2: and C. Anything else is a deep I.
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Speaker 4: Mean, that's what it is, and that's the way they
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Speaker 4: approaching it.
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Speaker 3: That's why you're seeing a greater emphasis with the joint
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Speaker 3: practices and those things. And even though it can be
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Speaker 3: frustrating for the coaches at the time to see some
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Speaker 3: of the inconsistent execution from the backups, the greater goal
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Speaker 3: is to make sure your starters are ready and that
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Speaker 3: you give these guys plenty of opportunity in various situations.
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Speaker 3: In the event that they have to play later in
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Speaker 3: the season, they're ready for it.
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Speaker 2: Somebody asked me how much winning matters in the preseason,
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Speaker 2: and you could tell. I mean, there was a real
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Speaker 2: reaction when they want to on Saturday. It's cool and
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Speaker 2: it matters a little bit, right, Then it matters a
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Speaker 2: little bit on the bus, on the way of the plane,
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Speaker 2: and then when the plane door shuts it doesn't matter
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Speaker 2: so much anymore. Yeah, I mean, it's a good feeling.
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Speaker 2: It's probably best explained. It's it's really it's really cool
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Speaker 2: and a good feeling. If you win, it doesn't matter
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Speaker 2: so much.
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Speaker 4: If you lose, Yeah, I think it just depends on
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Speaker 4: how you lose.
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Speaker 3: If your team just losing, if you're losing playing bad ball,
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Speaker 3: where like a lot of turnovers, penalty to execution is a.
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Speaker 2: Real it's systemic, right right.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Now, if you're winning, and I do believe that there
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Speaker 3: are habits that can be formed, but if you're winning
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Speaker 3: doing it the right way, meaning hey man, we're not
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Speaker 3: going out of pocket, we're not over.
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Speaker 4: The game planning to win these games.
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Speaker 3: We're winning because the execution is great, the effort is great.
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Speaker 3: We're playing with the level of physicality and toughness that
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Speaker 3: you want to see. Then you feel great about it
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Speaker 3: because it's translating into what you want the bottom line
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Speaker 3: to be. But it's still process and progress over the outcome.
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Speaker 3: But it's very important that you kind of stacking the blocks,
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Speaker 3: the building blocks together, that you got the right habits
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Speaker 3: that will eventually translate the wins when we get to
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Speaker 3: the regular season.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna move on to joint practice in the next segment,
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Speaker 2: but I want to ask you about a couple of
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Speaker 2: guys the other day. Jamari Taylor, to me, looks like
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Speaker 2: a guy. I'm not sure he's on the fifty three Bucky,
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Speaker 2: but I've always thought you you want a running back
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Speaker 2: on the practice squad that you're not scared to call
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Speaker 2: up if you have to have a guy play, And
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Speaker 2: to me, Jamari looks like that. I mean, you want
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Speaker 2: somebody who you can trust and who you feel like
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Speaker 2: if you turned around and handing the ball, he can
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Speaker 2: run and he might be more than what I just described.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, now I'm gonna say this because this is a
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Speaker 3: theme that is beginning to show up. When you look
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Speaker 3: at the Jaguars roster. Jamar Taylor was a former walk on.
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Speaker 3: He's a guy that played at North Carolina Central for
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Speaker 3: four years before he went to Virginia. He kind of
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Speaker 3: got it out the mud in terms of God it
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Speaker 3: the hard way, and what you're seeing is a rugged
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Speaker 3: player who is really relishing the opportunity to take the
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Speaker 3: lead back in preseason, and when you see someone have
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Speaker 3: over twenty carriers, you see the way that he continue
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Speaker 3: to get stronger as the game. With on, there's certainly
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Speaker 3: a lot to like about what he brings to the table.
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Speaker 3: And when we're looking at practice squad guys, you're looking
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Speaker 3: at guys who not only have developmental potential down the line,
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Speaker 3: but guys that can be I don't say satisfied in
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Speaker 3: their role, but guys that can handle that role without
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Speaker 3: disrupting the team. Meaning, hey man, i may not be
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Speaker 3: on the team right now, but I'm gonna bust my
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Speaker 3: tail in this role and I'm to handle everything that's
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Speaker 3: on my plate in the event that I'm able to
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Speaker 3: get more. So I can be a good practice squad player.
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Speaker 3: I can be a great teammate. I can find a
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Speaker 3: way to stay around until I get a chance to
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Speaker 3: do something that allows me to be on the fifty
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Speaker 3: three watching him play, watching how hard he played, watching
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Speaker 3: how the team rally behind him.
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Speaker 4: He absolutely gives.
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Speaker 3: Off those said, Look, if he has to go into
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Speaker 3: practice squad, he'd be a great practice squad player, And
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Speaker 3: if he's able to stick around long enough, he could
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Speaker 3: be one of those guys as a third or fourth
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Speaker 3: running back that eventually could help you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I may be too, may be too close to it,
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Speaker 2: but it seems like there's a handful of guys in
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Speaker 2: the practice squad. It feels to me like more guys
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Speaker 2: than they've had in a while.
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Speaker 4: There.
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Speaker 2: You kind of got to see how it plays out,
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Speaker 2: but that's how it feels to me. So when we return,
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Speaker 2: we're gonna look at preseason week two, including Wednesday's joint
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Speaker 2: practice with the Carolina Panthers on huddle up with Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 5: That's kind of what we challenged them with a little bit,
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Speaker 5: you know, to come out and you know, set a
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Speaker 5: tone and come out and play fast instead of all right,
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Speaker 5: we gotta get punched in the mouth and then we respond.
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Speaker 5: So that was nice to see us be able to
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Speaker 5: come out and start fast, all.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks. I'm John
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Speaker 2: Oser and Bucky is still in LA. He didn't have
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Speaker 2: time to get here during the first segment. And that
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Speaker 2: press conference is available on Jaguars dot com or the
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Speaker 2: Jaguar and the Jaguars YouTube channel. It was pretty good today.
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Speaker 2: Leam was pretty good after practice because I thought he
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Speaker 2: was in a in a pretty fired up I don't
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Speaker 2: say satisfied, but I think he got what he wanted
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Speaker 2: out of practice, and I thought that sound bite at
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Speaker 2: the top was exactly what the practice was. He wanted physicality,
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Speaker 2: and Bucky, you weren't here, so I'll sort of go
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Speaker 2: over it with you a little bit. It was a
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Speaker 2: practice that you sort of expect joint practices to be.
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Speaker 2: It was a practice, Bucky that I think you would
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Speaker 2: have recognized because there was some hitt into the ground.
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Speaker 2: I mean it was there were guys on the ground,
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Speaker 2: and there were even plays where you didn't hear coaches
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Speaker 2: yell at him to stay up, which you don't see
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Speaker 2: very much anymore. But today felt to me more like
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Speaker 2: real football than I've seen yet this training camp. I'm
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Speaker 2: not knocking what they've done, but a lot of times
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Speaker 2: you see thudding, it's hard to get a lot out
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Speaker 2: of it. I thought it was clear that he had
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Speaker 2: gotten with can Allison said Hey, we need to get
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Speaker 2: this work, and Dave was like, okay, let's do it.
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Speaker 2: There were some pops in the secondary, Antonio Johnson, Jalen
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Speaker 2: Husky knocked guys down after catches. I was watching the defense.
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Speaker 2: I didn't see the offense, but I'm told of the
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Speaker 2: same thing over there. I guess the theme is Liam
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Speaker 2: Cohen wanted better and more intensity. Feels like he got it.
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Speaker 2: I know you weren't there, but how important is that
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Speaker 2: to get out of that right now? It felt to
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Speaker 2: me like after New Orleans last week. Again, I don't
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Speaker 2: play that much into the importance of training camp because
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Speaker 2: I think you can always still get better. But for
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Speaker 2: what they wanted, they got.
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Speaker 4: It absolutely Now.
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Speaker 3: One of the things that Liam talked about last week
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Speaker 3: is you want to see clown clean football. You want
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Speaker 3: to see a fundamentally sharp team. You want to see
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Speaker 3: violence and physicality. Based on the conversation that I had
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Speaker 3: with guys coming off of the heels of the joint
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Speaker 3: practice last week, he didn't see that the game was
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Speaker 3: a little clunky, got better, but it still wasn't the violent,
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Speaker 3: physical persona that he wants this team to play with.
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Speaker 3: It appears that he certainly got that to day and
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Speaker 3: in this league. Man, he said it, you get what
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Speaker 3: your demand. So I am sure that those first couple
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Speaker 3: of days of practice there was a lot of conversation
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Speaker 3: about a more violent, more physical, got to have more edginess.
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Speaker 4: It's time to kind of turn it up.
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Speaker 3: And if we're using the old model for what the
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Speaker 3: preseason is and the way that you stack it, this
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Speaker 3: is the game. This is the week where we need
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Speaker 3: to see our guys begin to get that game like
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Speaker 3: feel because next week Game three, that's for the young guys,
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Speaker 3: is a the Hayes in the barn when it comes
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Speaker 3: to the team building, this is the game. This is
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Speaker 3: the week where you want to see and get a
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Speaker 3: sense that your team is ready. So it appears that
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Speaker 3: the team responded to his words.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll try to get a little more specific into
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Speaker 2: some practice stuff in a minute to know that's what
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Speaker 2: people want to hear of it. I've thought in a
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Speaker 2: lot of huddle ups, Bucky, we've talked about how physicality
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Speaker 2: with this team. I think because they were so effective
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Speaker 2: offensively and because they maybe didn't get as much out
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Speaker 2: of the running game in the second half the season
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Speaker 2: than they wanted. And you told me a couple of
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Speaker 2: times what people miss about this team is it is
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Speaker 2: a physical team, and other teams feel it maybe more
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Speaker 2: than the observers see it, if that makes any sense.
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Speaker 2: And again, in the second half of that game the
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Speaker 2: other day, you saw them get physical when it was
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Speaker 2: you know, when there was crisis. And today I was
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Speaker 2: watching the defense again, but every time I looked over
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Speaker 2: it looked like they were running well base sheell toot
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Speaker 2: and got a pops. My understanding is Chris Rodriguez ran hard,
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Speaker 2: got what they wanted to front, what they want out
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Speaker 2: of him. It feels like they got. If this team
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Speaker 2: is thirteen and four, right, it's hard to find where
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Speaker 2: they're going to take a huge step. Where where is
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Speaker 2: their room to gain? But physicality, Chris Rodriguez running when
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Speaker 2: you want to run, if you're looking for checkboxes that
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Speaker 2: they didn't get to check last year that they might
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Speaker 2: check and add to being a good team. It feels
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Speaker 2: like that's where they might find it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, they will find it there.
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Speaker 3: And it's a big piece of the offensive puzzle because
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Speaker 3: as you're looking at a division that is going to
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Speaker 3: be an extremely physical division. The reports coming out of Tennessee,
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Speaker 3: Robert solid what they're building there, the way that they
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Speaker 3: think enjoyed practices with the forty nine ers last week,
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Speaker 3: how physical it was. We know whether Houston Texas and
17:58
Speaker 3: bring and how they know try to make everything a
18:01
Speaker 3: bit of a street fight in a phone booth. And
18:03
Speaker 3: then the Inneapolis Colts are underrated for their physicality. The
18:07
Speaker 3: number one rule in building that team and building that contenders.
18:09
Speaker 3: You got to be able to build a team to
18:11
Speaker 3: win your division. And so physicality toughness has to be
18:14
Speaker 3: a big part of what the Jaguars do. I love
18:17
Speaker 3: what we're seeing, I love what we're building. I think
18:20
Speaker 3: you've got to continue to press on and make sure
18:22
Speaker 3: that each and every week we play to that standard
18:26
Speaker 3: when it comes to the violence and physicality at the
18:27
Speaker 3: point for time.
18:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mentioned Liam's presser at the top today and
18:31
Speaker 2: if people want to grasp and Bucky you already know this,
18:35
Speaker 2: but if you want to listen to it.
18:36
Speaker 4: You may.
18:38
Speaker 2: If you want to grasp Liams approached off intove football.
18:43
Speaker 2: He talked some about yo, Yes, it's a passing league.
18:46
Speaker 2: You have to be able to throw and catch. You
18:48
Speaker 2: have to be able to protect the quarterback. He knows
18:50
Speaker 2: that at his core. But he also talked about how
18:54
Speaker 2: there are moments you've got to be able to run.
18:56
Speaker 2: You can't just do that stuff. And I'm paraphrasing a
18:59
Speaker 2: little bit here, but you can't just be a passing team.
19:02
Speaker 2: You got to be able to run at some point.
19:04
Speaker 2: You gotta be able to commit to it. I've told
19:07
Speaker 2: people since last season, I've never seen a play caller
19:11
Speaker 2: be as devoted to the run even when it wasn't
19:16
Speaker 2: there as Liam was last year. And I thought that
19:18
Speaker 2: if he could do that last year when it wasn't working,
19:21
Speaker 2: how much better it will be when he gets the
19:23
Speaker 2: pieces that he wants. So it's a really insightful comment
19:31
Speaker 2: from him about how he approaches football. So, you know,
19:34
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what you can add to that, but
19:37
Speaker 2: there was some meat there on the bone.
19:39
Speaker 4: Today.
19:40
Speaker 3: I will say this about the running game and why
19:42
Speaker 3: it is so important. Look, recently, there was a lot
19:45
Speaker 3: of conversation about teams need to quit running the ball,
19:48
Speaker 3: they need to throw it like play action works. Whether
19:50
Speaker 3: you have an effective running game or not. YadA, YadA, yadad.
19:53
Speaker 3: That was a conversation. But at the end of the day,
19:55
Speaker 3: this game is about physicality and toughness, and when you
19:59
Speaker 3: get to the late stages of the season, particularly when
20:02
Speaker 3: you have to play in inclement conditions and the weather
20:04
Speaker 3: isn't to your favorite, you have to be able to
20:06
Speaker 3: run the football. You have to be able to run
20:08
Speaker 3: the football to win games, to close games out. More importantly,
20:12
Speaker 3: if you want to explosive plays, particularly where the league
20:15
Speaker 3: is going to more two high safety looks, the only
20:18
Speaker 3: way to get people out of those two ice safety looks.
20:21
Speaker 4: You got to run them out those looks. If they
20:23
Speaker 4: have light boxes.
20:24
Speaker 3: You got to be able to run the ball and
20:25
Speaker 3: run the ball effectively enough that you force them to
20:28
Speaker 3: drop that safety into the box and then you can
20:30
Speaker 3: take advantage of the one on one situations on the outside.
20:34
Speaker 3: The run game is a counter to the soft defenses
20:38
Speaker 3: that we're seeing to defend the passing game, and it's
20:40
Speaker 3: the reason why the Jaguars and many others around the
20:43
Speaker 3: league are loaded up on heavy personnel. They're loading up
20:46
Speaker 3: and making a renewed commitment to the running game because
20:49
Speaker 3: you cannot get the explosive plays until you force the
20:53
Speaker 3: defense to respect the run.
20:54
Speaker 4: That is why you're hearing the Jaguars talk so much
20:56
Speaker 4: about it.
20:57
Speaker 3: That's also why I say uptick and run game and
21:00
Speaker 3: heavy personnel around the league. You got to use the
21:02
Speaker 3: threat of the run to create the enclosive opportunities in
21:05
Speaker 3: the passing game.
21:07
Speaker 2: Let's look quickly at Friday. Liam said today Bucky that
21:10
Speaker 2: he's still trying to figure out if he wants to
21:13
Speaker 2: play starters. He had said Monday very as definitively as
21:18
Speaker 2: he's going to yeah, he's gonna play him. Today he said,
21:22
Speaker 2: I just got to check it. I got to check
21:24
Speaker 2: the tape from the day and figure out if it's
21:27
Speaker 2: needed or not. And this ties into the other thought
21:31
Speaker 2: I wanted to talk about here, which was the offensive
21:33
Speaker 2: line with you know, uh, it's not an emergency, but
21:37
Speaker 2: they don't quite have the guys that they want you
21:39
Speaker 2: to line up right now. First of all, should they
21:43
Speaker 2: play them, meaning the starters? And how tricky is this
21:47
Speaker 2: offensive line situation? Most of these guys gonna be back
21:50
Speaker 2: except maybe McCary by week one, but trying to get
21:55
Speaker 2: lined up right now is sort of their task.
21:59
Speaker 4: Yes, very difficult thing.
22:01
Speaker 3: It's just been hamstrung right now with the number of
22:03
Speaker 3: injuries that they have, and so you can't put out
22:06
Speaker 3: an offensive line that has enough continuity that you.
22:09
Speaker 4: Feel great about.
22:10
Speaker 3: That also could be a reason why we talk about
22:12
Speaker 3: the Hymen and han in terms of playing the starters.
22:14
Speaker 4: The one thing that you don't want to.
22:16
Speaker 3: Do is to put a hodgepodge offensive line up out
22:19
Speaker 3: there were number sixteen behind it.
22:21
Speaker 2: Right, That's what you talked about today, where he gets.
22:23
Speaker 4: Hit in one of those things and you have an
22:25
Speaker 4: injury of those things.
22:27
Speaker 3: Some of the moves that you make the forty five
22:29
Speaker 3: to depth is just because you see it play out
22:31
Speaker 3: in full time, like, oh man, like an injury here,
22:34
Speaker 3: injury there. We are really really shorthanded when it comes
22:37
Speaker 3: to playing the style that we want to play. One game, yeah,
22:41
Speaker 3: and you know, like it's funny because these guys are
22:46
Speaker 3: expected to come back in week one. But one of
22:49
Speaker 3: the things that a general manager and a team builder
22:51
Speaker 3: does is you always got a plan for worst case scenario.
22:54
Speaker 3: What if there is a hiccup that prevents these guys
22:56
Speaker 3: from getting back. Can we spot the ball and have
22:59
Speaker 3: a lineup can play? I've heard you talk about it.
23:02
Speaker 3: We've had private conversation we talked about. Bill Polon always
23:04
Speaker 3: would talk about I got to have a team that
23:07
Speaker 3: if the season started today and we put the ball down,
23:10
Speaker 3: are we good enough to roll it out and go play?
23:12
Speaker 4: And some of.
23:12
Speaker 3: These moves late are can we feel the lineup where
23:16
Speaker 3: if we had to play today we would feel good
23:19
Speaker 3: about our chances. And so sometimes if you don't feel
23:22
Speaker 3: good about it, you have to make a move to
23:24
Speaker 3: fortify the depth that you have. And then maybe a
23:27
Speaker 3: position of weakness eventually becomes a position of strength.
23:30
Speaker 4: When everyone is back and healthy.
23:32
Speaker 2: Will be back in a moment and talk a little defense.
23:35
Speaker 2: This is huddle up with Bucky Brooks.
23:39
Speaker 6: I really believe that we're getting better. I think we
23:44
Speaker 6: were a lot better today than we were last week
23:46
Speaker 6: when we went against the Saints. I thought we had
23:48
Speaker 6: a lot more energy. We got after it. I thought
23:51
Speaker 6: just brought the juice every play. We ran it really good.
23:53
Speaker 6: We were really physical. So there were some big improvements.
23:56
Speaker 6: But there's football is such a I mean, there's such
23:59
Speaker 6: a fine line. There's so many details, so I think
24:01
Speaker 6: that there's gonna be plenty on the tape to learn
24:02
Speaker 6: from and I know, you know, I need to get better.
24:04
Speaker 6: So it's not necessarily satisfied, but definitely believing. And I
24:08
Speaker 6: know that these guys, all our guys out here, are
24:10
Speaker 6: getting better every day and that's what we're working towards.
24:14
Speaker 2: All right, Welcome back to huddle up with Bucky Brooks
24:16
Speaker 2: and Bucky. I thought there was some realness to that
24:20
Speaker 2: SoundBite with Trevor. You know, sometimes when people talk at
24:25
Speaker 2: the podium, they're just sort of saying stuff, but it's
24:28
Speaker 2: sort of fit with what practice was today. It just
24:32
Speaker 2: felt like they got their teeth into training camp. I'm
24:36
Speaker 2: not gonna say for the first time, but they really
24:40
Speaker 2: got into it today. And I think there was a,
24:43
Speaker 2: you know, a good feeling from these guys walking off
24:45
Speaker 2: the field of oh Okay, that was football and we
24:48
Speaker 2: just played some football and had a pretty good day.
24:51
Speaker 2: And again I'm not saying that hadn't happened before, but it
24:54
Speaker 2: happened in a joint practice after what happened last week.
24:58
Speaker 2: It just felt solid.
25:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'll say this, and man, it's so great
25:05
Speaker 3: being around the team last week and being around them
25:09
Speaker 3: in the lunch room and kind of seeing how they interact. One,
25:12
Speaker 3: I'll say it's a really good team in terms of
25:13
Speaker 3: good guys to really like one another.
25:15
Speaker 4: Two. It's a very competitive group.
25:17
Speaker 3: It doesn't mean anything but watching these guys play uno
25:20
Speaker 3: and space and just how winning matters to them.
25:24
Speaker 4: It's a very very prideful group.
25:26
Speaker 3: And when you take that to the field and you're
25:28
Speaker 3: challenged the way that Liam Cohn appear to challenge them
25:31
Speaker 3: this week in terms of up in the ante with
25:33
Speaker 3: the physicality, the toughness to execution, and more importantly being
25:37
Speaker 3: able to play to the standard. I love how the
25:39
Speaker 3: team responded. And look, we don't know what it's gonna
25:42
Speaker 3: look like when the regular season kicks off, but what
25:44
Speaker 3: you're trying to do is build some positive momentum so
25:47
Speaker 3: when Week one gets here against the Cleveland Browns, when
25:50
Speaker 3: you run onto the field, you feel great about your
25:52
Speaker 3: chances of being able to get that first win. That's
25:55
Speaker 3: what you're ultimately building, and then you're constantly beginning to
25:59
Speaker 3: adapt in aj to what the circumstances are.
26:02
Speaker 4: But right now, so far, so good.
26:04
Speaker 3: This response coming off of the heels and maybe a
26:08
Speaker 3: disappointing performance against the Saints that we could go speaks
26:11
Speaker 3: volumes about the team, and it speaks volumes about how
26:13
Speaker 3: they can bounce back, and it tells a little bit
26:16
Speaker 3: about their competitive stamina when it comes to it.
26:19
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26:32
Speaker 2: Bucky's I kind of held this off of when we
26:35
Speaker 2: were talking about the Saints because I wanted to get
26:37
Speaker 2: to know Jabar Mohammad and some of the pressure up front.
26:42
Speaker 2: Mainly we'll talk about the pressure up front because bj Green,
26:46
Speaker 2: Danny Strigau, Durfy, Brian Thomas Junior, Brian with why you know,
26:56
Speaker 2: I don't want to do cartwheels over the young pass
26:58
Speaker 2: rushers because pass rushing is so it's a regular season
27:01
Speaker 2: thing and until you see it when it matters, it
27:04
Speaker 2: still does potential. But they got four or five guys
27:08
Speaker 2: who look like out of those five, they're going to
27:13
Speaker 2: be able to get something real out of a couple
27:15
Speaker 2: of them this year. That's what it feels like to me.
27:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, John, this is part of a trend that we're
27:23
Speaker 3: seeing around the league.
27:24
Speaker 4: Right.
27:25
Speaker 3: So everyone will talk about Josh enz Allen and Trayvon Walker,
27:28
Speaker 3: and everyone will put a great emphasis on those guys
27:31
Speaker 3: getting fourteen, fifteen, sixteen sacks, but if you really look
27:35
Speaker 3: around the league, it goes, for instance, Seattle, it's about
27:39
Speaker 3: having six, seven, eight guys that have five to eight sacks.
27:43
Speaker 3: And so what you do is you start totaling those
27:46
Speaker 3: up and your team gets over fifty sacks and you
27:48
Speaker 3: have an effective pass rush and you do those things.
27:51
Speaker 3: But a couple of things have to happen for that
27:54
Speaker 3: to come to fruition. One, you got to stop the
27:55
Speaker 3: run on early down so to give yourself pass rush opportunities.
27:58
Speaker 3: And the second part of it is you got to
28:00
Speaker 3: have those young guys that can develop enough skills that
28:04
Speaker 3: they can be effective in spots. Because we know when
28:07
Speaker 3: opponents play the Jaguars, they're gonna pay their close attention
28:10
Speaker 3: to number forty one.
28:11
Speaker 4: And number forty four. So those other guys have to
28:14
Speaker 4: be good enough that.
28:16
Speaker 3: They can win their one on one battles because they
28:18
Speaker 3: don't get plenty of one on ones. And if they
28:20
Speaker 3: can develop into competent, complimentary pass rushers. That's when you
28:24
Speaker 3: begin to see the totals kind of pile up and
28:26
Speaker 3: you begin to see multiple guys have six or more
28:29
Speaker 3: sacks over the course of the season.
28:31
Speaker 2: He didn't have a sack last week, Bucky. But you know,
28:35
Speaker 2: one of the gurgling storylines of a training camp has
28:40
Speaker 2: been BJ Green and if you're watching them, it's sort
28:43
Speaker 2: of tracks stats during camp. But he's making an impact.
28:48
Speaker 2: He did a little bit last year. He continues to
28:52
Speaker 2: flash am I overstating it to say that out of
28:56
Speaker 2: the bunch behind Trayvon and Josh, that he looks like
29:00
Speaker 2: the guy who could accelerate. And that's with apologies to
29:04
Speaker 2: the others, because a lot of guys are accelerating, but
29:07
Speaker 2: he looks like he might be the real deal, at
29:10
Speaker 2: least in terms of a contribute.
29:12
Speaker 4: Yeah, he absolutely appears to be the real deal.
29:14
Speaker 3: Conversation with Liam, he talked about bj Green band really
29:18
Speaker 3: dominant throughout the course of the camp and being one
29:20
Speaker 3: of those guys who eventually, as he said, he wants
29:22
Speaker 3: to be one of those guys that coachested through out.
29:24
Speaker 4: Practice because he's so disruptive.
29:26
Speaker 3: The thing that shows up he's consistent, he's physical, and he.
29:29
Speaker 4: Gives great effort. Now here's what everyone knows when he
29:32
Speaker 4: steps on the field. He's undersized.
29:35
Speaker 3: So for him to be effective as a pass rusher,
29:38
Speaker 3: he has to be able to hold his own against
29:40
Speaker 3: the run game.
29:41
Speaker 4: And surprisingly, he's been very disruptive against the run.
29:45
Speaker 3: When you go through and you look at the practice
29:46
Speaker 3: tape and you hear people talk, he has been very
29:49
Speaker 3: effective holding the edge. The battles with him and Nate
29:52
Speaker 3: Borkatchier has gotten attention. The more that he can do
29:56
Speaker 3: to get on the field on a every down basis,
29:59
Speaker 3: the better is going to be for the Jaguars because
30:02
Speaker 3: it allows them to get into some of those exotic packages.
30:05
Speaker 4: They can do more things with the personnel.
30:08
Speaker 3: And then the fun happens when they can use their
30:10
Speaker 3: creativity to create chaos.
30:13
Speaker 2: It's interesting they've in the last two off seasons and
30:17
Speaker 2: I'm not saying darts at a board in an insulting
30:19
Speaker 2: way to these kids, but they have thrown a lot
30:22
Speaker 2: of darts at the board with young pass rusher meaning dirty,
30:25
Speaker 2: oh yeah, you know, and not just darts because they've
30:30
Speaker 2: all got skills, they have all flashed, they all have
30:34
Speaker 2: things that look like. So just from a philosophical standpoint,
30:37
Speaker 2: I think they're playing into what you talked about at
30:39
Speaker 2: the top of this segment. Let's get a bunch of
30:41
Speaker 2: guys and at some point two or three of those
30:45
Speaker 2: guys are going to start giving us four or five
30:47
Speaker 2: sacks where you have to worry about them. We can
30:49
Speaker 2: move them around. So they signed uh Ogba last year
30:55
Speaker 2: sort of is a okay, let's get us through this
30:57
Speaker 2: year until some of these guys develop. This really seems
31:00
Speaker 2: like their approach and they spent very little draft capital
31:04
Speaker 2: on it, so it fits into what they're trying to build,
31:08
Speaker 2: and they seem like they're right at the start. It's
31:11
Speaker 2: tough for a young, undrafted pass rusher to have huge
31:15
Speaker 2: impact as a rookie. I covered Robert Mathis, who I
31:17
Speaker 2: think was a fifth round pick. He had three as
31:19
Speaker 2: a rookie and then really accelerated second year. It's just
31:22
Speaker 2: hard at that spot. It's usually a second or third
31:26
Speaker 2: year acceleration. But it looks like some of these guys
31:28
Speaker 2: are gonna a chance to do it this year.
31:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems that way, And you know, it's funny,
31:34
Speaker 3: like listening to Josh Einzellen talk last week and one
31:37
Speaker 3: of our production meetings for the telecasts. He talked about
31:39
Speaker 3: watching the young guys and how the young guys are
31:42
Speaker 3: continuing to grow, and how he just loves how Wesley
31:45
Speaker 3: Williams is coming on on how Striggall continues to kind
31:48
Speaker 3: of make his mark, how BJ Green brings the energy
31:51
Speaker 3: each and every day, and he talks about as a
31:53
Speaker 3: veteran challenging those guys, trying to figure out which one
31:56
Speaker 3: of those guys kind of has the metal to be
31:58
Speaker 3: able to take it to the le And not only
32:02
Speaker 3: is that room extremely competitive, it appears to be one
32:04
Speaker 3: that they're sharing ideas and really kind of pulling for
32:08
Speaker 3: each other to be the best versions of themselves. And
32:11
Speaker 3: I don't know who's going to emerge as the third
32:14
Speaker 3: or fourth pass rusher that we can count on, but
32:17
Speaker 3: it certainly appears that they have plenty of options.
32:19
Speaker 4: Right now we're talking about BJ Green being the lead.
32:21
Speaker 3: Horse, but who's to say that those other guys can't
32:24
Speaker 3: close ground quickly and kind of jump into the rotation.
32:27
Speaker 4: I'll say this, the.
32:28
Speaker 3: More the burier, the more the better, because it just
32:31
Speaker 3: gives camping nearly so many more options to be able
32:34
Speaker 3: to do so much fun stuff, to not only attack
32:37
Speaker 3: the offense in a different way, but to preserve your
32:39
Speaker 3: best players for that stretch run where you know you're
32:41
Speaker 3: gonna need them.
32:42
Speaker 2: Well, you also have two ideal guys to lead a
32:44
Speaker 2: room in Trayvon and Josh in terms of just approach, unselfish,
32:49
Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. So when we return, we're gonna
32:52
Speaker 2: have some general thoughts and wrap this thing up on
32:54
Speaker 2: training camp with Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks.
33:00
Speaker 5: From a technique and fundamental standpoint, at least just from
33:03
Speaker 5: a fall, you know, from not watching the tape and
33:05
Speaker 5: seeing it all, I felt like we were a little
33:09
Speaker 5: bit cleaner up front and not you know, you got
33:12
Speaker 5: a guy sustained or position blocked and you have them
33:15
Speaker 5: and then technique is losing him right, Like, yes, it's
33:18
Speaker 5: effort and strain, but it's also you know, refitting your
33:21
Speaker 5: hands properly, getting back your leverage and creating angles. And
33:25
Speaker 5: so I think that showed up a little bit better today.
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33:41
Speaker 2: to huddle up with Bucky Brooks. And again Bucky just
33:45
Speaker 2: a make sure the right word, But I would say
33:50
Speaker 2: happy because Liam is not really very happy after practice
33:52
Speaker 2: because he's so intense and focused. But clearly a coach
33:56
Speaker 2: who saw things that he liked today.
34:00
Speaker 4: Yeah, like you can tell by the.
34:02
Speaker 3: I won't say the enthusiasm because that's not sure right word,
34:05
Speaker 3: but maybe the positive, upbeat demeanor that he certainly liked
34:10
Speaker 3: what he saw. Now he'll look at the tape and
34:11
Speaker 3: he'll find things to criticize and poke holes and things
34:15
Speaker 3: that need to be corrected. But I think the overall
34:17
Speaker 3: vibe is exactly what a coach wants.
34:20
Speaker 4: And we've been out there.
34:21
Speaker 3: There's a time when you walking on the field and
34:22
Speaker 3: you can just sense that a your team is kind
34:25
Speaker 3: of making progress to begin to play the way that
34:27
Speaker 3: you want him to play, and so you feel good
34:29
Speaker 3: about that. And as we're talking about training camp and
34:33
Speaker 3: building towards the regular season, you want to see them
34:35
Speaker 3: begin to stack those kinds of days on top of
34:38
Speaker 3: each other. So it appears that the joint practice was
34:41
Speaker 3: a step in the right direction.
34:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had some final thoughts written down here. Travis
34:46
Speaker 2: Hunter had a nice PBu today and again I always
34:53
Speaker 2: I try to look for stuff in practice that looks
34:56
Speaker 2: like it'll translate to games, you know, And he made
35:00
Speaker 2: a break on the ball. All the things you've talked
35:02
Speaker 2: about with him, the hand eye coordination, the ability to
35:06
Speaker 2: play it in the air. Maybe it's just a tenth
35:10
Speaker 2: better than the guy he's playing, but that tenth is
35:13
Speaker 2: the reason he's touching the ball and the guy and
35:15
Speaker 2: the guy he's playing isn't. And he had and he
35:19
Speaker 2: had another one of those today and it I don't
35:22
Speaker 2: know if he's going to be a you know, take
35:24
Speaker 2: away the whole side of the field guy, but you've
35:26
Speaker 2: always told me his ball playing ability in the air,
35:31
Speaker 2: that ability we saw today is what's going to make
35:34
Speaker 2: him matter.
35:35
Speaker 4: He absolutely is going to matter. And it's funny.
35:37
Speaker 3: I had a conversation with a former teammate, Eric Allen,
35:41
Speaker 3: who's in the Hall of Fame, and we talked about
35:43
Speaker 3: what do you value most guys that can pick off
35:46
Speaker 3: fastes or guys that are shut down corners. You can
35:50
Speaker 3: take it away, yeah, because at the end of the day,
35:53
Speaker 3: turnovers and pick six is mattermore because they changed the scoreboard,
35:57
Speaker 3: and in Travis Hunter, I see so one who potentially
36:00
Speaker 3: is going to be a turnover magnet. His ability to
36:03
Speaker 3: play in zone, his ability to read and instinctively find
36:07
Speaker 3: a way to sort through routes and make plays on
36:09
Speaker 3: the ball. It's gonna make a difference for the Jaguars.
36:11
Speaker 3: And I know we're kind of a sign where everyone
36:14
Speaker 3: is hoping for the guy that can lock down one
36:17
Speaker 3: half of the field, But I don't think that's necessarily
36:19
Speaker 3: gonna be his game. I think he is going to
36:21
Speaker 3: be a guy that eventually has a great feel we
36:24
Speaker 3: can play the cat and mouse game on the quarterback,
36:26
Speaker 3: and those interceptions that he make are going to be
36:28
Speaker 3: calculated guesses that really.
36:31
Speaker 4: Changed the game and changes it in the favor of
36:33
Speaker 4: the Jaguars.
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Speaker 2: Yet, I don't know how much this translates into some
36:37
Speaker 2: of the fans can see, but I mentioned on Jaguars
36:40
Speaker 2: Am this morning, when he's in his availabilities, he just
36:44
Speaker 2: seems more comfortable. I like to use the term over
36:47
Speaker 2: his feet. He just you know, he knows where the
36:50
Speaker 2: bathrooms are in the NFL. Now, all those things I
36:52
Speaker 2: always say about like rookies, they're just not quite settled.
36:56
Speaker 2: Yet he seems in a very good play and I
37:00
Speaker 2: think that can translate into what you're talking about, you know,
37:03
Speaker 2: the ability to be who you are on the field
37:07
Speaker 2: as well. Again, I don't know how to tell people
37:10
Speaker 2: tangibly how to see it, but it seems like it's
37:13
Speaker 2: going to be there for Travis. You see a lot
37:14
Speaker 2: of good things from him. Give me a guy, Bucky.
37:18
Speaker 2: I mean, out of all the guys, what did you
37:22
Speaker 2: like that you saw last week? Maybe somebody we haven't
37:25
Speaker 2: talked about that you'll like what you see from them
37:29
Speaker 2: that you're encouraged by.
37:30
Speaker 3: Right now, let men, I like a lot of what
37:34
Speaker 3: we've seen from the guys that we talked about. I
37:35
Speaker 3: love the running back we talked about Taylor defensively. I
37:40
Speaker 3: think it's just continuing to see these guys kind of
37:43
Speaker 3: step up and make place. To me, the interesting conversation
37:47
Speaker 3: is in the back end, who are going to be
37:50
Speaker 3: the safeties that can emerge? We know Eric Murray and
37:54
Speaker 3: Antonia and Johnson are going to be there, but which
37:57
Speaker 3: one of the guys that we're going to be able
37:58
Speaker 3: to kind of raim Lane Ranshaw, who is going to
38:02
Speaker 3: be that third safety that come in because I think
38:04
Speaker 3: people have to understand when you lost Dewey, you lost
38:08
Speaker 3: a valuable backup who could.
38:10
Speaker 4: Jump in at a moment's notice.
38:12
Speaker 3: Who is going to be the guy that if you
38:14
Speaker 3: have an injury, you have a weird situation that you
38:16
Speaker 3: got to put in that third safety.
38:18
Speaker 4: To me is really really interesting.
38:20
Speaker 3: And I'm looking to see who is going to be
38:22
Speaker 3: able to handle those responsibilities because it's a very important
38:25
Speaker 3: and critical situation.
38:28
Speaker 2: It seems like for the veterans at least, training camp
38:33
Speaker 2: sort of ends in a week, meaning preseason week three.
38:37
Speaker 2: Obviously the game you get two practices against the Bucks,
38:41
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit of times. You got about three
38:45
Speaker 2: moments left for these guys in terms of preparation. Where
38:49
Speaker 2: are they at as a team?
38:53
Speaker 3: Look, man, I think no one really knows, right because
38:56
Speaker 3: you can't really get a speel for it, and that's
38:57
Speaker 3: why the first month of the season is so crazy.
39:00
Speaker 3: I feel like they're in a great spot in terms
39:03
Speaker 3: of offensively, the passing game and what it looks like
39:06
Speaker 3: on the perimeter. Parker Washington, Travis Hunter, Brian Thomas, Junior,
39:09
Speaker 3: britainst Those guys are good. I think there's some uncertainty
39:12
Speaker 3: about the offensive line in the running game that we
39:14
Speaker 3: won't know until we start playing in Cleveland. Defensively, I
39:18
Speaker 3: feel like this defense is gonna pick up where it
39:20
Speaker 3: left off suffocating the run and getting better and better
39:24
Speaker 3: about being sticky in coverage. But to me, I think
39:28
Speaker 3: ultimately the way this team rises and falls would depend
39:33
Speaker 3: on the offensive line in the running game, because if
39:35
Speaker 3: they're able to run the football the way that they
39:37
Speaker 3: want to run the football, it's gonna be a team
39:40
Speaker 3: that challenges not only the record that they had last year,
39:43
Speaker 3: but can they challenge for supremacy in the AFC. That's
39:46
Speaker 3: how strong that I feel about the team and the
39:48
Speaker 3: connection that's saying we don't have major injuries though, sure
39:51
Speaker 3: the running game is what will determine the ceiling for
39:54
Speaker 3: the Jaguars.
39:55
Speaker 2: Am I too close to it in thinking that the
40:00
Speaker 2: offense might be just really really good and and it
40:04
Speaker 2: was good at the end of last year, but maybe
40:11
Speaker 2: there's just more meat to it this year. Maybe it's
40:13
Speaker 2: just more reliable and solid because of what we're talking
40:16
Speaker 2: about the running And it's hard to say that to
40:18
Speaker 2: be better because it was scoring thirty points a game
40:20
Speaker 2: at the end of last season and it wasn't smoking mirrors.
40:24
Speaker 2: There was there was nothing phony about it. It was real.
40:28
Speaker 2: But it almost feels like there's going to be more
40:32
Speaker 2: to rely on, Like he'll like, he'll have more tools
40:36
Speaker 2: in the bag this year. Maybe it's what I'm getting
40:38
Speaker 2: at and therefore be more reliable, if that's possible, because
40:43
Speaker 2: it was really reliable at the end of last year.
40:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think in a different way right now. I
40:47
Speaker 3: think there is something to seeking to be able to control.
40:53
Speaker 4: The game, you know, That's what I'm getting right, Yeah.
40:56
Speaker 3: And and the way to control the game, because the
40:58
Speaker 3: great teams are able to control the game where you
41:00
Speaker 3: look up, it's the fourth quarter, you got a three
41:03
Speaker 3: point lead, there's six and a half minutes left, and
41:07
Speaker 3: the other team never gets the ball back, right because
41:09
Speaker 3: you decide to go on a twelve fourteen play drive
41:12
Speaker 3: with eight to nine runs mixed in a couple bootleg
41:15
Speaker 3: passes that allow you to salt it a way, I
41:17
Speaker 3: think the desire is to get to that point where
41:20
Speaker 3: whenever the storm is coming, that a you always have
41:24
Speaker 3: the comfort of leaning into the run game and knowing
41:26
Speaker 3: that that can kind of stabilize the offense and really
41:29
Speaker 3: allow us to play the kind of confimentary football that
41:31
Speaker 3: we want. We'll see as we continue to build it
41:34
Speaker 3: going into the regular season. But I certainly feel good
41:37
Speaker 3: about where the team is, and I think Liam would
41:38
Speaker 3: tell you that privately.
41:40
Speaker 4: Hey man, we're trending in the right direction.
41:42
Speaker 3: I just got to stay on these guys to make
41:43
Speaker 3: sure that they feel the urgency that you need going
41:46
Speaker 3: into Week one.
41:47
Speaker 2: Bucket, I'm still started working off a ten plate from
41:49
Speaker 2: JP and he says it's time to say goodbye, So oh,
41:54
Speaker 2: say goodbye to Bucky Brooks. This has been a huddle
41:58
Speaker 2: up with Bucky Brooks. Buckey, we got through it, and uh,
42:01
Speaker 2: we will see you on Friday. And thanks for Brett Reever,
42:06
Speaker 2: Joe Fortunado and Dave de Candice in the whole game.
42:08
Speaker 2: This has been huddle up with Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 3: Kah