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Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks: Wednesday, December 29 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: The fields on the Route proudly presents Huddle Up with
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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks. J P. Shack, John Oser and you kind
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Speaker 1: of film network analyst and former Jaguar Bucky Brooks bring
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Speaker 1: you the latest on George Jacksonville Jaguars. Welcome. Huddle Up
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Speaker 1: with Bucky Brooks starts right now. It is Wednesday afternoon.
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Speaker 1: It is Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks. Busy show this Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: After this, the Jaguars get ready to head to Fox
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Speaker 1: bur on'm j P. Shadrick. We've got NFL network analyst
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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks coming up Jaguars dot com. The great senior
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Speaker 1: writer John Oser, a coaching candidate tracker. You can get
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Speaker 1: the full tracker on Jaguars dot com. Yes, there are
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Speaker 1: some names that have been reportedly linked to the Jags.
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Speaker 1: And we'll look ahead to week seventeen, the Jaguars and
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Speaker 1: the Patriots. John Oser with me here. Bucky Brooks is
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Speaker 1: out in Los Angeles and that good afternoon to you, Bucky.
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Speaker 1: What's up? What's up fella? That's how we're doing. Oh,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's week seventeen. Now the team's lost what
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Speaker 1: seven in a row of lost count now, John seven,
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Speaker 1: there's social media is not the place to be and
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Speaker 1: so beyond that, it's going just fine. Bucky, how are you?
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Speaker 1: I'm doing all right. I'm just focused on this week,
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Speaker 1: just trying to get through the weekends. Wen gonna win
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Speaker 1: against the Patriots. That would be a nice little capital
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Speaker 1: to the end of the year, start off the new year,
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Speaker 1: to be a good start to the new year, New
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Speaker 1: year two. You know, listen, I mean listen to this guy.
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Speaker 1: Did you not get the the zipper? Bucky? The quarters
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Speaker 1: of what is now? Here's what it is. So it's
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Speaker 1: part of a new thing because we're going into a
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Speaker 1: new era of Jaguars football. So what I want to
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Speaker 1: do is up to Annie personally to see if I
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Speaker 1: can change the luck down in Jacksonville. So maybe I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna take it up a nice So instead of maybe
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Speaker 1: wearing my sweatshirts and customary stuff like, maybe I'll kind
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Speaker 1: of go tom off in style and maybe suited and
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Speaker 1: booted a little more. It's a solo fight. Buck can
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Speaker 1: tell you that I'm even gonna put on my horse shoes,
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Speaker 1: my hars shoes on more my socks and make sure
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Speaker 1: I'm always appropriate. We're gonna make sure be sure five
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Speaker 1: minutes early for everything, all that other stuff. We can
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Speaker 1: go back. We can go all the way back and
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Speaker 1: turn solo flight. That's great. We'll get to all the
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Speaker 1: breaking news on the COVID nineteen reserved list coming up
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Speaker 1: in just a little bit. That they've added some names today,
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Speaker 1: no names taken off. We'll get to the fullest coming up. Well.
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Speaker 1: Plenty of coaching candidates have been linked to the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: over reports over the last two days. Yesterday they can
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Speaker 1: officially start reaching out to other teams and there are
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Speaker 1: eight names that have been linked to the Jags. You
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Speaker 1: can catch them all on Jaguars dot com. John Ozier,
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Speaker 1: you have put together a coaching tracker. There they are
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Speaker 1: in your screen. The eight names that have been linked
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Speaker 1: to the Jaguars. Bulls called well E, Refluce, Hackett left
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Speaker 1: with more Peterson and Quinn, and reports today that Dan
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Speaker 1: Quinn will not interview for the Jags. But as of
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Speaker 1: this morning, there you go. Sevens enough enough. Seven is good.
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Speaker 1: I'm fine with that, and uh I I like the list,
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Speaker 1: but I think we talked last week. I'm a calledwell guy.
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Speaker 1: I worked with him for ten years in Indy. Respect
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Speaker 1: everything he's about but that doesn't mean he's the only
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Speaker 1: good candidate. To me, it seems like there is a
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Speaker 1: clear leadership angle here. I think all these guys, from
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Speaker 1: what I know of, you've probably know him better than
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Speaker 1: I do, uh qualify with The one thing that I
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Speaker 1: want is a leader of men. Uh, somebody who the
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Speaker 1: players can look at and respect and can set an
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Speaker 1: organizational tone uh professional football. All these guys have been
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Speaker 1: in the league and around the league a long time,
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Speaker 1: at least a decade, I think, uh if you count
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Speaker 1: the playing time of left which and and uh more.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, so I I like the list. Anything stand
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Speaker 1: out for you, But yeah, there are a couple of
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Speaker 1: interesting names on the list. Um. Look, I'm on record
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Speaker 1: saying that I believe this is one that you have
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Speaker 1: to think about someone who has done the job before,
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Speaker 1: because this is gonna be a tough to have on
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Speaker 1: the job training with the depth of the rebuild, like
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Speaker 1: where you have to board the Jaguars out of particularly
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Speaker 1: to the last episode with quire Uh, Jim Will certainly
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Speaker 1: is a candidate that feels to build. Uh. Everything you
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Speaker 1: hear about him is outstanding in terms of like how
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Speaker 1: he is with players, how he is with people around
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Speaker 1: the building, his plans and the success that he's had. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Peterson is another one that is a good one Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl winner, a guy who certainly understands how to put
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Speaker 1: the program together, I think. But then you also have
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Speaker 1: to kind of try and see if you can connect
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Speaker 1: the dots, because if Trent Ballki is going to continue
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Speaker 1: as a general manager, what is the working relationship going
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Speaker 1: to be like with some of these guys. Ty Bowls
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Speaker 1: might be name that you want to keep in mind.
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Speaker 1: Todd Bowls is a Bill Parcels disciple. Um when you
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Speaker 1: think about Barky, Barky has a relationship a tight relationship
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Speaker 1: with Bill Parcels as well. So maybe they see football
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Speaker 1: through the same UH vision and viewpoint. So that could
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Speaker 1: be something that naturally Byron left, which being a Jaguar
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Speaker 1: who understands the culture that's been around the Jaguars, has
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Speaker 1: been in the building, has played on that field, players
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Speaker 1: will certainly be able to relate UH to him. And
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Speaker 1: so I think it's a very very good list, and
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Speaker 1: you know, we just kind of see what it worked,
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Speaker 1: what it looks like after the first set of interviews
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Speaker 1: and after the Jaguars determined what is it that they
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Speaker 1: want in the next head coach. How do they want
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Speaker 1: to kind of build this out for the next era
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Speaker 1: of Jaguars football? And I j P. I think I can.
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Speaker 1: I can speak for you on this too. I feel
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Speaker 1: like I know Nate Hacket very well. The green bath
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Speaker 1: is a coordinator from his time here. I feel fortunate
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Speaker 1: that I was able to get to know Nate very
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Speaker 1: well in two thousand seventeen a little bit in eighteen. Uh,
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Speaker 1: he was sort of the one who came up late
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Speaker 1: like yesterday as the last guy on this list. But
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Speaker 1: I don't want to give him a short shrift. I
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Speaker 1: think he'd be an outstanding head coach. I think at
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Speaker 1: some point he's gonna get a job and do a
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Speaker 1: great job. He's a life for a few will His
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Speaker 1: father was Paul Hackett. Uh, Nate knows football as well
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Speaker 1: as anybody, and knows people as well as anybody on
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Speaker 1: this list. I can say that, So, uh, no problem
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Speaker 1: with Nate on that list either. How can I ask
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Speaker 1: can because I don't. I don't know Nate as well,
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Speaker 1: but I do know his dad. I played for his
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Speaker 1: dad in Kansas City and his dad, um, it was
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Speaker 1: a life for his dad was up on the Morty
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Speaker 1: Shottenhammer when I played for the Kansas City Chiefs. So
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Speaker 1: his dad certainly knows how to coach and lead a program.
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Speaker 1: And I know Nate was there obviously during the twenties
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Speaker 1: seventeen season, the last time the Jaguars were really prominent. UM,
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Speaker 1: give me a little more because I've seen him. I
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Speaker 1: was around him at Syracuse when uh he was with
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Speaker 1: Doug Moron and Dohos guys. But how is because you
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Speaker 1: talked about his preparedness, I just haven't been around him
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Speaker 1: enough to really speak on how good he would be
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Speaker 1: as a leader in that building, a place where he's
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Speaker 1: been before. I ain't pretty good as a leader. He
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the word is. He gets it
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Speaker 1: from talking to him on the side about football, uh,
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Speaker 1: when he was here, and he understands how the building works,
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Speaker 1: and he understands, uh that part of it. Would he
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Speaker 1: relate to defensive players? I guess I don't have anything
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Speaker 1: tangible on that, JP, It's just my sense. I've been
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Speaker 1: around a lot of coaches over seven years doing this,
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Speaker 1: and he just feels to me like a guy that
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Speaker 1: can relate to players. Yeah, a straight shooter. Uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: he Uh, I just know that two thousands seventeen, they
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Speaker 1: were not the most talented offense, ended up six in
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Speaker 1: the league in total offense. You know, people think of
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Speaker 1: that team is at as all defensive team. Uh. He
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Speaker 1: squeezed a lot out of Blake Bortles and a lot
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Speaker 1: out of the ability to get the most out of
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Speaker 1: that offense. And I never talked to any players who
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Speaker 1: didn't have a great deal of respect for him. I
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Speaker 1: guess being a coordinator, I don't have that much tangible
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Speaker 1: as far as leadership. It's more of a sense that
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Speaker 1: I think he would do a good job with it.
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Speaker 1: Didn't switch up kind of as the year went along.
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Speaker 1: He ran the ball out early in the season, and
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Speaker 1: then once late in November December came around. That's when
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Speaker 1: Blake got hot, and they kind of followed that trend. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: very much. I mean I respected me a great deals
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Speaker 1: and next as a nose guy, and I saw nothing
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Speaker 1: to make me think he couldn't handle the leadership role. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Maybe I'm cloud because I like the guy a lot,
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Speaker 1: but I sensed that out of him and that he'll
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Speaker 1: be able to do it. Yeah, here's what I know.
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Speaker 1: My experience with him was watching the work that he
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Speaker 1: did with Ryan Nassa at Syracuse when Doug Moron was there,
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Speaker 1: and I would say that Ryan Nassa, uh corterbad prospect,
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Speaker 1: was eventually drafted maybe by the Giants in the fourth round.
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Speaker 1: Wasn't necessarily the most talented, but they were. They found
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Speaker 1: a way to generate a lot of offense, and it
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Speaker 1: was very creative. It was a lot of smoke and
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Speaker 1: mirrors things that they did to maybe make him play
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Speaker 1: the level that wasn't his level. And so the reason
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Speaker 1: why that kind of stands out to me is when
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Speaker 1: you think about Trevor Lawrence been a young quarterback in
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Speaker 1: the system that Trevor Lawrence played in at Clemson, I
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Speaker 1: believe Hackett is not too far removed from the college
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Speaker 1: game to incorporate some of those concepts and ideas to
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Speaker 1: have Trevor Lawrence get going, because let's be honest, it
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Speaker 1: is about getting the young quarterback going while also building
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Speaker 1: get around it, and so there needs to be some
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Speaker 1: of that creativity available to be able to help the
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Speaker 1: young quarterback get going and bring about the other pieces
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Speaker 1: of the offense. So his name is an interesting name,
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Speaker 1: even though I can't personally vouch for him, having not
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Speaker 1: been in the building with him. Yeah, a lot of
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Speaker 1: the conversations I had with Nate and get anything. Await,
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Speaker 1: it's been four years. You know, we're about getting the
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Speaker 1: most out of these guys. Uh. I think he he
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Speaker 1: knew what Blake wasn't wasn't as a quarterback. I mean
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Speaker 1: most people did by then. Um, he was able to
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Speaker 1: get an awful lot out of that offense, a lot,
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Speaker 1: awful lot out of what Blake could and couldn't do.
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Speaker 1: And the same with a lot of the players. Um.
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Speaker 1: You know, for Nette was here as a rookie, and
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Speaker 1: I just recall him talking a lot about um being
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Speaker 1: able to use what those players couldn't couldn't do to
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Speaker 1: their advantage and within the framework of the way Doug
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Speaker 1: wanted games called, which they didn't want I mean, Doug
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Speaker 1: didn't want to at that point Blake throwing the ball
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Speaker 1: over the field. Uh, you know, they wanted to be
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Speaker 1: able to control within the system of what the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: were doing defensively. Well, yeah, I mean it was within
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Speaker 1: a tricky circumstance. I thought Nate got a lot out
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Speaker 1: of that team that year, and then it all kind
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Speaker 1: of blew up next year, and frankly I thought Nate
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Speaker 1: and ever thought Nate should have been fired. I Uh,
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Speaker 1: I didn't think that anything going on that year. It
11:06
Speaker 1: felt a little bit like they had to make some
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Speaker 1: change and Nate kind of drew the short straw, and uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, I was sorry to see him go at
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Speaker 1: the time. I'd love to see him back. Can I
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Speaker 1: mention one other guy because I didn't get a chance. Uh,
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Speaker 1: Matt eberflis from the Indianapolis Colts. What I would tell
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Speaker 1: you is, in watching his work and watching his work
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Speaker 1: over the years, one thing that I can respect about
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Speaker 1: him and what I know about people that have been
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Speaker 1: around him, He has a way of being able to
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Speaker 1: get his teams to play really, really hard, and because
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Speaker 1: he is into division, there's a level of familiarity that
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Speaker 1: might give him an edge over some of the others
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Speaker 1: when it comes to building out the Jaguars. I will
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Speaker 1: say that he has a Rod mary Nelli disciple. And
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Speaker 1: if you've been around Rob mary Nelli, Rob marrion nellis
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Speaker 1: a guy who has no nonsense when it comes to
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Speaker 1: high standards. High demands high levels of accountability and commitment
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Speaker 1: from the players, and in turn, they respond with a
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Speaker 1: player driven culture that performs at a high level. Just
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Speaker 1: keep an eye on him because there are a lot
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Speaker 1: of good things that people say about him and the
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Speaker 1: work that they've done in Indianapolis when he took on
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Speaker 1: a job where he's working with Frank greg who wasn't
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Speaker 1: a guy that hired him to be the defensive coordinator.
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Speaker 1: But yet this team has played really well with those
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Speaker 1: guys in leadership positions. Guys will come back in a
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Speaker 1: moment and take a look at the latest additions to
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Speaker 1: the Reserve COVID Night Team list. A few more names
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Speaker 1: added this morning and a few more names added this afternoon.
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Speaker 1: For the Jaguars who are out of the building working today.
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Speaker 1: with Bucky Brooks on the Jaguars Digital Network right now.
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Speaker 1: We're still working through um a time of the COVID
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Speaker 1: stuff that we got that have going on here. We
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Speaker 1: added a couple more guys today and um, you know,
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Speaker 1: we're still with the main focus right now is just
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Speaker 1: is being able to field the team, get to get
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Speaker 1: these guys out on the field, and um, you know,
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Speaker 1: we'll have to see later in the week how the
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Speaker 1: how the new ruling is gonna be able to affect us.
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Speaker 1: That's Darryl Bevil earlier today and welcome back and tuddle
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Speaker 1: up with Bucky Brooks, J P. Shadrick and John Oser. Yes, John,
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure I've ever heard and I'm not trying
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Speaker 1: to overplay this doing this over two and a half decades,
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure I've ever heard of a real or
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Speaker 1: press conference. Darlevelgade was there and that puts your antenna's up. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that was real and what wasn't necessarily entertaining. Most people
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Speaker 1: won't notice it, but it's real. I don't think he
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Speaker 1: has any I mean, I don't think he has any
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Speaker 1: idea what the team's gonna look like. And they're not
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Speaker 1: sure what to do. They added They added two to
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Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen list this morning, one on the active list,
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Speaker 1: one on the practice squad list, and then added some
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Speaker 1: more this afternoon, so five total to day, So twenty
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Speaker 1: five total players combined between the active roster, practice squad,
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Speaker 1: and injured reserve are now on the COVID nineteen lists
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Speaker 1: associated with them, they're on your screen. There many of
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Speaker 1: these guys I think can come off right. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: if they, if they, if they swabbed and were negative
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Speaker 1: or positive over the weekend like Saturday Sunday, then that
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Speaker 1: that clock kind of starts. Then. Now because of the
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Speaker 1: new rule change, you might see some of these guys.
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Speaker 1: You might see some of these guys coming back, but
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Speaker 1: you might not if there are symptoms. Bucky, who knows
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Speaker 1: who's gonna be out there and ready? And this is
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Speaker 1: an incredible challenge for a Jaguars interim coach and staff
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Speaker 1: trying to put things together because otherwise Bucky I thought
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Speaker 1: they had him this week. If it an for COVID,
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Speaker 1: I thought, yeah, if not for this, I mean like it.
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Speaker 1: It looks just as big of a challenge for the Patriots,
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Speaker 1: not knowing who is going to run out the tunnel
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Speaker 1: and do those things. They gotta figure out who those
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Speaker 1: new numbers are that could be running around. Let me
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Speaker 1: say this though about Bevil. Look, he is in a
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Speaker 1: tough spot and he's been a tough spot for the
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Speaker 1: second year in a row. He took over Man Patrician
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Speaker 1: Detroit he now takes over for coach Meyer in Jacksonville.
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Speaker 1: In the situation certainly hasn't been perfect. Obviously it's not perfect.
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Speaker 1: That's why he's been elevated to the position. But I
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Speaker 1: think it's refreshing to have someone who has a level
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Speaker 1: of professionalism to the job that you can respect. And
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Speaker 1: I don't know where he goes from him, but I
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Speaker 1: certainly think that he will earn a level of respect
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Speaker 1: from his peers around the league because this is not
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Speaker 1: an imvitable situation and for him to try and get
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Speaker 1: the team to not only play and play hard, but
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Speaker 1: to maybe figure out a way to play well. If
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Speaker 1: he's able to get them to have some semblance of
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Speaker 1: success on Sunday Man, he deserves to standing ovation because
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Speaker 1: I don't know how anybody can get a team ready
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Speaker 1: to play in these circumstances that the Jacks are currently
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Speaker 1: dealing with. This would rank JP with Again I'm not
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Speaker 1: hyperbole guy, but be one of the biggest episodes in
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Speaker 1: the last decade decade. Now, I mean, maybe ever if
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Speaker 1: this Jaguars team, it would have been huge anyway, But
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Speaker 1: this Jaguars team with the COVID nineteen playing motivated Patriots
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Speaker 1: team in Fox. I mean, come on, it's a yeah,
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Speaker 1: you never say never in the NFL, but you can
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Speaker 1: say never. But they're off the street and practice squads today,
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Speaker 1: like it's that will probably have to play if if
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Speaker 1: some of these guys aren't available. It speaks overall, Bucky,
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Speaker 1: and you have a better perspective on this than I do.
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Speaker 1: I cover the Jaguars, I mean it all the time.
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Speaker 1: I watched a few games on TV other than that,
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Speaker 1: But I guess we're just being immersed locally into a
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Speaker 1: story that's been going on, uh in the last couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks, and I think the NFL is just scrambling
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Speaker 1: and sort of limping to the finish here. I don't
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Speaker 1: particularly blame them, is I'm not sure how else you
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Speaker 1: do it. You've got to get the season in there,
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Speaker 1: trying to get it done. But it's as it, this
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Speaker 1: feels more chaotic and loose by definition than than the
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Speaker 1: end of last season. Wise, I don't know if you
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Speaker 1: feel that too, Bucky. Yeah, I feel it because it's
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Speaker 1: a different set of circumstances. Like last year we felt
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Speaker 1: like that okay, we're able to get control of it. Um,
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Speaker 1: you had a level of understanding on how it's gonna go.
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Speaker 1: And then the way the season started, it was as
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Speaker 1: if like, hey, we're back, Fans are back in the stands,
17:28
Speaker 1: teams are going, yeah, we have some of these protocols,
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Speaker 1: but it wasn't that big of a deal. And then
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the season and explosion of outbreaks
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Speaker 1: and cases and these things here and so now everyone
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Speaker 1: is is scrambling, and what it is doing it is
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Speaker 1: not only testing your ability to get your frontline players
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Speaker 1: ready to play, but it's testing how have you built
17:47
Speaker 1: the team in terms of managing the practice squad, how
17:50
Speaker 1: have you prepared your young players who made out of
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Speaker 1: play But are you still getting them ready to play?
17:56
Speaker 1: Because we come to the end of the year, you're
17:58
Speaker 1: young guys. Are those the heralded guys that were kind
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Speaker 1: of dismissed earlier this season, They're now the ones that
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Speaker 1: you're counting on to win games. And it's not only
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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville, but it's for some of these playoff teams.
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Speaker 1: They need to win games and they're counting on guys
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Speaker 1: who I mean, they may have been in the building
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Speaker 1: for two weeks. It is unlike anything that I've seen.
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Speaker 1: And it's even a bigger challenge than it was last
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Speaker 1: year because of the way that it exploded in the
18:21
Speaker 1: middle of this season. The Saints on Monday Night had
18:24
Speaker 1: a tackle and not played since who got in the
18:27
Speaker 1: game in the fourth quarter. It has a slight parallel
18:31
Speaker 1: to the eighties seven replacement games. Not I get it's different,
18:37
Speaker 1: but I remember I was a fan that year, my
18:39
Speaker 1: last year of college, so I'm old, but it, uh,
18:43
Speaker 1: you know, there were teams that had some players, teams
18:45
Speaker 1: that didn't have some players. Uh, the Washington football team
18:49
Speaker 1: was the only team that didn't have anybody cross. You know.
18:52
Speaker 1: It's different. I get that, But the last week of
18:55
Speaker 1: that strike season had that same field where you know,
18:59
Speaker 1: is that Fame game where the Cowboys and the Washington
19:01
Speaker 1: football team play. The washingtontball team beat them, and they
19:04
Speaker 1: had replacement players coming across, but it was chaos. Um,
19:08
Speaker 1: this feels a lot like that, And it's uh, yeah,
19:11
Speaker 1: I don't know if the quality of plays that great,
19:13
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be interesting. Yeah, it's it's on television.
19:18
Speaker 1: Will be interesting, you know. I think Bucky made the
19:21
Speaker 1: point that year the Joe Gibbs team wound up winning
19:26
Speaker 1: it all partially because they handled the strikes so well, um,
19:31
Speaker 1: because they had three games that they won because of
19:33
Speaker 1: that and got home field whatever. These last few weeks.
19:36
Speaker 1: You get the idea that organizations that handle it well
19:39
Speaker 1: and then the jag Wars it won't matter because they're
19:41
Speaker 1: out of it. But the organizations that handle it well
19:43
Speaker 1: at the top, they could benefit from circumstances that hurt
19:48
Speaker 1: teams that aren't prepared. So it's my two cents. They uh,
19:51
Speaker 1: let's take the time out. We'll come back and take
19:53
Speaker 1: a look at the New England Patriots. Speaking of well
19:56
Speaker 1: run organizations there, they've done some things pretty well over
20:00
Speaker 1: the years. This is huddle Up with Lucky Brooks on
20:03
Speaker 1: the Jaguars Digital Network. It had some challenges for sure. Obviously,
20:09
Speaker 1: if you'd rather have everybody together, it makes things easier.
20:12
Speaker 1: You get more time with your guys and to be
20:16
Speaker 1: together and to talk about different things and to go
20:17
Speaker 1: over the game plan. But um, everyone's kind of going
20:20
Speaker 1: through similar things, maybe not at the same time, but
20:23
Speaker 1: through this whole season, everyone's kind of been faced with
20:26
Speaker 1: the same challenges. So, um, just managing that obviously be immature,
20:30
Speaker 1: um handling it, but the way you're supposed to handle
20:33
Speaker 1: it and um, take care of your business and just
20:34
Speaker 1: counting on everybody to do that. Obviously it's hard when
20:37
Speaker 1: if you lose a lot of guys and you're not
20:39
Speaker 1: sure who's going to be back for game day. That
20:41
Speaker 1: that is more challenging, i'd say, than than the zoom
20:43
Speaker 1: aspect of it. So we're working through that right now.
20:46
Speaker 1: You know, today we did as much as we could. Um,
20:48
Speaker 1: had a good had a good mental day, moved around
20:50
Speaker 1: a little bit, um and just trying to get whoever
20:54
Speaker 1: whoever can play, all all those guys ready and had
20:56
Speaker 1: a good start today as Trevor Lawrence to day of
21:00
Speaker 1: course and welcome back and suddled up with Bucky Brooks,
21:02
Speaker 1: j P, Shadrick, John Osier, the Jaguars face of New
21:05
Speaker 1: England Patriots this coming Sunday, it's on the schedule. The
21:09
Speaker 1: Jaguars have twenty five players on the reserve COVID nineteen list.
21:12
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence is not one of those. He spoke with
21:15
Speaker 1: the media today. One more of those pre game next
21:18
Speaker 1: week and then all of a sudden the season's over. John, Um,
21:25
Speaker 1: you're deep in thought here, Well what's wrong? Can you imagine?
21:29
Speaker 1: And I say this with I have an incredible respect
21:33
Speaker 1: for Trevor Lawrence at twenty two years old what he
21:35
Speaker 1: has handled this year. But can you imagine every once
21:38
Speaker 1: in a while when he gets in the car on
21:39
Speaker 1: the way home, what he must think in terms of
21:44
Speaker 1: what he's going through right now. He's been asked to
21:47
Speaker 1: be the spokesman the organization at twenty two years old,
21:51
Speaker 1: which I get that he's the number one pick, but
21:54
Speaker 1: he's still a kid. And haven't you put in the
21:56
Speaker 1: responsibility if you must be the spokesman, must handle it
22:00
Speaker 1: all with maturity. He went through the urban stuff, he's
22:04
Speaker 1: going through his rookie year, and now COVID is exploding
22:09
Speaker 1: around him. He's got to speak to that. At some
22:12
Speaker 1: point he was walking the door of Marissa and just
22:13
Speaker 1: put his head on the shoulder and just cry. I
22:16
Speaker 1: mean I would, And again I'm tryna be funny with that,
22:20
Speaker 1: but Bucky, credit this kid for how he has handled
22:25
Speaker 1: and continues to handle. Is it unprecedented, I don't know,
22:30
Speaker 1: but it's got to be up there in the rushmoores
22:33
Speaker 1: of weird rookie seasons. Oh absolutely. And that's why I
22:37
Speaker 1: think we have to ignore the outside noise from those
22:39
Speaker 1: who are taking shots at Trevor Lawrence about his rookie season,
22:43
Speaker 1: like his one thing, if just two issues, if he
22:45
Speaker 1: was just focusing on ball and having to do all that,
22:48
Speaker 1: and then the numbers came in as they were. But
22:50
Speaker 1: I mean he has had to deal with a circus
22:52
Speaker 1: act for most of the season. I mean, the guy
22:55
Speaker 1: is twenty two years old, he's the number one overall pick.
22:57
Speaker 1: He doesn't really get named the starter until the middle
22:59
Speaker 1: of of training camp. I mean really the second or
23:03
Speaker 1: third preseason game he gets that, and then three weeks
23:07
Speaker 1: later he's having to kind of answer an address for
23:10
Speaker 1: circumstances that aren't within his control. And then you have this,
23:14
Speaker 1: you have him taking over as the leader, you have
23:16
Speaker 1: his coach being fired. He takes over, and he has
23:19
Speaker 1: all the other stuff swirling around the organization, and he's
23:23
Speaker 1: expected to play at a high level. It's one thing
23:26
Speaker 1: to be an NFL play. We all can deal with distractions,
23:30
Speaker 1: but what he has been tasked with it is unprecedented.
23:33
Speaker 1: I mean, he he can't even get to the ball
23:35
Speaker 1: part of it because he's dealing with all the stuff
23:37
Speaker 1: that happens away from the field. I'll just be happy
23:40
Speaker 1: if next year Trevor Lawrence is just able to focus
23:43
Speaker 1: on football and just being able to throw the ball
23:46
Speaker 1: from point A to point B on a spiral, on
23:49
Speaker 1: on time and on target. That's what I hope for
23:52
Speaker 1: him because this year he is not supposed to handle
23:55
Speaker 1: all the stuff that he has on this play. You
23:57
Speaker 1: have the new coach and he's telling j Vegan, goest sleep.
24:03
Speaker 1: When you wake up in a couple of months, we'll
24:05
Speaker 1: talk just I mean, I remember Bissally. I'm sure you've
24:10
Speaker 1: heard this story from Tony talking about his last day
24:13
Speaker 1: the day after the last rookie game in his his
24:19
Speaker 1: his uh his rookie season, he said all he wanted
24:23
Speaker 1: to do was get away from football, get away from Tom,
24:25
Speaker 1: get away from everything. Wasn't Tom, but it was just
24:27
Speaker 1: that it had been so much well but silly didn't
24:30
Speaker 1: go through anything and compared to this game. So that's
24:35
Speaker 1: the spirit of a lot of a lot of players
24:38
Speaker 1: have that at the end of a lot of seasons.
24:40
Speaker 1: But for Trevor, just get away, relax, you're fine, come back.
24:44
Speaker 1: We'll talk football when you come back and your ready.
24:46
Speaker 1: That leads us into a polar opposite situation for a
24:50
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback. And that rookie quarterback is mac Jones in
24:53
Speaker 1: New England. They've got the parts around him, They've got,
24:57
Speaker 1: of course, an established coaching staff. Um, they've got everything
25:01
Speaker 1: kind of going the right way around mac Jones, and
25:03
Speaker 1: his production is really been strong because of that, Bucky.
25:09
Speaker 1: You see the numbers there on your screen. Six passing,
25:13
Speaker 1: some touchdowns, twelve interceptions, but you know there's been moments
25:18
Speaker 1: where he's really stood out and played well. What do
25:20
Speaker 1: you think of mac jones rookie season and it is
25:23
Speaker 1: the sixth I think it's the success of the group
25:25
Speaker 1: around him that kind of he doesn't have to do
25:28
Speaker 1: it all by himself. Yeah. I think when you look
25:31
Speaker 1: at Trevor Lawrence and mac Jones, I think it's the
25:34
Speaker 1: nature versus nurture debate. Uh, the natural talent the guy
25:38
Speaker 1: is the more talented guy is Trevor Lawrence, but the
25:40
Speaker 1: environment around him is not allowed him to really flourish.
25:44
Speaker 1: Mac Jones, meanwhile, is in a perfect environment in terms
25:48
Speaker 1: of he has a great coach, he has a great
25:49
Speaker 1: coaching staff, he has an organization that has stability. Uh,
25:53
Speaker 1: the pieces around him have handled the responsibility of playing
25:57
Speaker 1: well and making it very very light on him. Mean,
26:00
Speaker 1: he's been asked to really manage the game, and there's
26:03
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with being a game manager, particularly when your
26:05
Speaker 1: team wins games. And this is how the Patriots have
26:08
Speaker 1: operated for years. Uh. To thing about mac Jones is
26:11
Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks as we get closer
26:13
Speaker 1: to the postseason, what great teams do is they forced
26:16
Speaker 1: teams to play left handed. And what teams are being
26:20
Speaker 1: able to do is they've been able to take away
26:21
Speaker 1: the running game at times. Uh, they've been able to
26:24
Speaker 1: attack the defense, and they put it on mac Jones
26:27
Speaker 1: to have to play quarterback and he hasn't been able
26:30
Speaker 1: to do it at a high level. And so some
26:32
Speaker 1: of that might be mac Jones hidden the rooky wall
26:34
Speaker 1: because this is a marathon, it's a long season. And
26:37
Speaker 1: another part of that is, hey man, this is where
26:40
Speaker 1: he is and he doesn't have the superpowers to play
26:44
Speaker 1: the game on his own a court where he has
26:46
Speaker 1: to improvise and do some of those other things that
26:49
Speaker 1: some of the elite quarterbacks are able to do with
26:52
Speaker 1: their talent. And so it'll be interesting to see which
26:54
Speaker 1: Matt mac Jones shows up against the Jaguars on Sunday. Yeah,
26:59
Speaker 1: that was what I was going ask Bucky as a
27:00
Speaker 1: matter of fact, was the last couple of games, Uh,
27:04
Speaker 1: a little bit down to earth and that you would
27:08
Speaker 1: expect that considering that he is not an above the
27:11
Speaker 1: excess and his quarterback this year. Uh, it would be
27:15
Speaker 1: fascinating to me to see how not this week. I
27:18
Speaker 1: think we find this week is I'm not sure that
27:20
Speaker 1: jam Was hanything to fool him with. But as the
27:23
Speaker 1: playoffs go on, does he make plays by the X
27:26
Speaker 1: and os or do you see more of the fourteen
27:27
Speaker 1: and thirty two zero touchdowns, two interceptions. I don't think
27:32
Speaker 1: he's that guy. But where is he going to be
27:33
Speaker 1: in the middle of it? Um? He has really benefited
27:37
Speaker 1: from being in an outstanding organization this year. Sure they
27:39
Speaker 1: can run the ball, they got all all kind of
27:41
Speaker 1: stuff going on for them. Yeah. No, it'd be interesting
27:44
Speaker 1: because if I'm a Jack Was, I'm a Joe Cohen,
27:46
Speaker 1: I'll throw everything at him. I come at him with everything,
27:49
Speaker 1: Because the easiest way to get young guys like the
27:52
Speaker 1: guys that he's going to be tasked with the play
27:54
Speaker 1: is man, you might as well doutlook blisses and make
27:56
Speaker 1: it very very simple in the back end, Hey, man,
27:58
Speaker 1: we're gonna play cat defense. You've got that cat run
28:00
Speaker 1: with that guy all over the field. We're gonna bring
28:02
Speaker 1: fresh and bliss and we're gonna see if Mac Jones
28:04
Speaker 1: can hold up, uh, trying to do something else where.
28:07
Speaker 1: You're gonna fool them with zones and disguise and all
28:11
Speaker 1: that other stuff. You're playing into his hands. I think
28:13
Speaker 1: you gotta be aggressive and come after him because look,
28:15
Speaker 1: no one expects that Jaguars to win and keep this
28:17
Speaker 1: game close anyway, so you might as well take your shot.
28:20
Speaker 1: I mean, you may knock him out so he was
28:23
Speaker 1: available for the Jaguars. Also, that could change who knows
28:26
Speaker 1: what and win on both sides of the football. The
28:30
Speaker 1: Sunday little too early to tell on that. On this Wednesday,
28:33
Speaker 1: Let's come back. Hey, final thoughts straight ahead, and I
28:37
Speaker 1: know there are many. John has some thoughts, Bucky certainly does.
28:42
Speaker 1: I'm out of thoughts. This is Jaguars, Uh, this is
28:45
Speaker 1: Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks on the Jaguars Digital Network.
28:54
Speaker 1: We're back final moments of Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks JP, Shadrick,
28:58
Speaker 1: John Ohs. You're the Jaguars in the New England Patriots
29:00
Speaker 1: coming up in Gillette State, even Foxborough, a place the
29:03
Speaker 1: Jaguars have never won. Bucky, they'll try to snap that
29:05
Speaker 1: skid this week. Yeah, I got bad memories up there.
29:09
Speaker 1: Last time I played us there was the NFC Championship
29:12
Speaker 1: game when we went up there and it was fridging
29:15
Speaker 1: and cold, and we had a couple of turnovers that
29:17
Speaker 1: costs US a shot at that uh super Bowl Smith,
29:20
Speaker 1: So I would love for us. Yeah, oldis Smith picking
29:23
Speaker 1: one off and going back, we blew a couple of
29:25
Speaker 1: reds on opportunities. I think Tom might have swiped the
29:28
Speaker 1: play card from your bron and take over and cost
29:33
Speaker 1: plays and all that other stuff. So you know, you know,
29:39
Speaker 1: it's so silly about that, like, oh shoo. I don't
29:41
Speaker 1: know if you ever got perspective on that. But that
29:43
Speaker 1: was a day in which, uh, class Simmons and the
29:45
Speaker 1: guys were like, hey man, we're gonna show them how
29:48
Speaker 1: tough we are. Today's a no sleeves day. We're gonna
29:50
Speaker 1: go out there and play with no sleeves. And so
29:52
Speaker 1: my silly self goes out there with no sleeves trying
29:55
Speaker 1: to return to kick, and I would tell you I
29:57
Speaker 1: have never been more distracted in the game. The only
30:00
Speaker 1: thing I thought about for the first half was how
30:02
Speaker 1: I can either sit on the hot bench, stand beside
30:05
Speaker 1: the heater, or put on the big jacket. That is
30:08
Speaker 1: the only thing I thought about for about thirty minutes.
30:10
Speaker 1: And then at half time I put on appropriate gear
30:13
Speaker 1: and I actually felt like I could concentrate on the game.
30:16
Speaker 1: But priord of that, I was not concentrating on veteran leadership.
30:20
Speaker 1: Let you down, Wow, tough, Bucky over here, piece smart,
30:30
Speaker 1: don't let equipment beat you. That's what I will love.
30:33
Speaker 1: Be dressed warmly. Don't out of the number of things
30:36
Speaker 1: you'll worry about this weekend, Bucky, don't worry about me
30:39
Speaker 1: not being warm. And I I mean, I think I
30:43
Speaker 1: saw you a little bit in New York. You look
30:45
Speaker 1: like you were appropriately attired. I expect you to be
30:49
Speaker 1: fully equipped for this one because that uh that cold
30:54
Speaker 1: and Foxburgh is a little different. Yeah, yeah, no doubt JP. Yeah,
31:01
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be um not crazy cold. Though
31:05
Speaker 1: it's rainy. I think I think the chance yea Sunday
31:08
Speaker 1: fifty two rain the next day, that kind of it
31:11
Speaker 1: gets a little colder. I'll be honest with rain in
31:15
Speaker 1: theemic conditions. That's not really for me. I'm a degree sunny.
31:21
Speaker 1: You live in Los Angeles, now, that's why I am.
31:24
Speaker 1: But even in Jacksonville, like, hey, I like it. I
31:26
Speaker 1: like it. I like it nice and warm and hot.
31:28
Speaker 1: I'd rather deal with that than the other stuff. I
31:31
Speaker 1: want ball to be played where it's not. It's not
31:34
Speaker 1: um something that is holding us back from being able
31:36
Speaker 1: to maximize our potential. So no, no cold weather games
31:39
Speaker 1: for me. They're gonna play some ball this week. J
31:43
Speaker 1: they are, they are China. They're gonna tee it up
31:47
Speaker 1: one o'clock Sunday and Bucky will talk to you a
31:50
Speaker 1: little later in the week. Hey man, that's that fun
31:53
Speaker 1: to do it. But well, the well dressed as always,
31:55
Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks joining us on approgram not so yeah, that's
32:00
Speaker 1: John Osier, I'm j P, Shadrick, Joe Fortunado, Brent Reaver.
32:05
Speaker 1: Have a good one. It's huddle up with Bucky Brooks
32:07
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