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- 0:02Speaker 1: Welcome to Huddle Up frocks you by the Field Total Brooks,
- 0:07Speaker 1: Jaguars Senior writer John Osher, NFL Network analyst and former
- 0:11Speaker 1: Jaguar Bucky Brooks and senior reporter J. P. Shatdrick bringing
- 0:15Speaker 1: you the latest on your Jacksonville Jaguars.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Huddle up starts right now. It is Wednesday. It is
- 0:23Speaker 2: Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks, J P.
- 0:25Speaker 3: Shaddrick and John Osier at the Hunday Studios at the
- 0:27Speaker 3: Miller Electric Center in Jacksonville. Bucky Brooks and Los Angeles
- 0:31Speaker 3: Busy show ahead the Ravens and the Jaguars coming up
- 0:36Speaker 3: on Sunday Night Football in week fifteen. The Jags defense
- 0:40Speaker 3: has its hands full this week against Lamar Jackson playing
- 0:43Speaker 3: at a high level. Obviously a quarterback Jags offense against
- 0:47Speaker 3: the Ravens front seven that will be a test. The
- 0:51Speaker 3: AFC playoff race is heating up and communication has been
- 0:56Speaker 3: the buzzword around the Miller Electric Center after last week's
- 1:02Speaker 3: game in Cleveland. I'd Up with Blucky Brooks is brought
- 1:04Speaker 3: to you by Fields Auto Group, Jacksonville. Step up to
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- 1:13Speaker 3: Afternoon how are you.
- 1:15Speaker 4: I'm good, that's what's going on.
- 1:16Speaker 3: Good. Same, We're all good. Getting ready for some football
- 1:19Speaker 3: this week. Big match up, battle of first place teams
- 1:22Speaker 3: in the AFC, the North and the South, and it's
- 1:26Speaker 3: gonna be a great matchup. And the number one seed
- 1:29Speaker 3: against the number four seed, Bucky. It doesn't get much
- 1:31Speaker 3: bigger in December than that.
- 1:34Speaker 5: No, it doesn't get much bigger than that. And I'm
- 1:35Speaker 5: gonna quit talking about seeding. I'm just talking about the
- 1:38Speaker 5: teams as they are. Baltimore is a good team to
- 1:40Speaker 5: ten and three. Came off a great dramatic win against
- 1:43Speaker 5: the Rams, and look.
- 1:44Speaker 4: We're coming in struggling.
- 1:46Speaker 5: After a couple of losses in a row, not really
- 1:49Speaker 5: playing well and so hopefully bright lights, big stage of
- 1:53Speaker 5: Sunday Night helps us get motivated and have the urgency
- 1:57Speaker 5: that we need to turn this thing around.
- 1:59Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:59Speaker 6: It's such a weird week, weird game to analyze because
- 2:02Speaker 6: you know, on the one hand, the Jaguars have lost
- 2:05Speaker 6: two in a row, which is never good. They haven't
- 2:07Speaker 6: played very well to lose those, and at the same
- 2:11Speaker 6: time they haven't they've been playing a couple of good
- 2:16Speaker 6: teams where you sort of say well, they had a
- 2:21Speaker 6: chance to beat them, so all's not lost. They're still
- 2:25Speaker 6: right in it. And yet they they haven't played the
- 2:31Speaker 6: last two weeks like what I thought they were for
- 2:34Speaker 6: twelve weeks. So it's easy to say, well, they're not
- 2:37Speaker 6: playing the way they are, but if they keep playing
- 2:39Speaker 6: that way, then it is the way they are. Does
- 2:40Speaker 6: that make any sense?
- 2:41Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, so it's big.
- 2:46Speaker 6: The Ravens aren't unbeatable and you almost sound like a
- 2:51Speaker 6: broken record. It's it's a chance for this team to
- 2:53Speaker 6: show that they are what they think they are. They've
- 2:57Speaker 6: done it a few times, not in the big games,
- 2:59Speaker 6: so it's it's fascinating. I think they're up against it,
- 3:02Speaker 6: but I don't think it's impossible.
- 3:05Speaker 3: Yeah go play. Yeah, that's what it's going to be
- 3:08Speaker 3: on Sunday night. And let's hear from the head coach today,
- 3:13Speaker 3: Doug Peterson discussing some of the communication issues. Really both
- 3:18Speaker 3: sides of the ball had a little of that. Doug
- 3:20Speaker 3: Peterson though on the focus needed, especially on defense.
- 3:23Speaker 7: You know, those things just just can't they can't happen, obviously,
- 3:26Speaker 7: and it really just does come down to those guys
- 3:29Speaker 7: just talking right and just having conversation on the field
- 3:35Speaker 7: and just staying locked into the game plan right and
- 3:40Speaker 7: just one play at a time mentality, and they don't
- 3:45Speaker 7: have to do anything other than that. Just just trust that,
- 3:48Speaker 7: you know, and trust their instincts and how they've been
- 3:50Speaker 7: coached this week to execute that game plan and they'll
- 3:55Speaker 7: be fine.
- 3:55Speaker 6: That's the head coach earlier today, John, I have a
- 3:57Speaker 6: question for the ex player all right, because I you know,
- 4:02Speaker 6: this has been an interesting day to me because both
- 4:04Speaker 6: Trevor and Doug talked so much about communication players in
- 4:07Speaker 6: the locker room communication. Doug was talking about focus and
- 4:10Speaker 6: he was choosing his words very carefully, trying to get
- 4:12Speaker 6: it across what he meant by it. So I've never
- 4:16Speaker 6: played at a high level Guess what, I've never played
- 4:18Speaker 6: football at high level JP, So you know, how tough
- 4:23Speaker 6: is it, Bucky? And you know, it really did seem
- 4:27Speaker 6: the other day like communication, glaring mental breakdowns really cost
- 4:33Speaker 6: him that game. You would think that's past him, but
- 4:35Speaker 6: I guess as a head coach, that's what you're always
- 4:38Speaker 6: pushing on, right.
- 4:40Speaker 5: You are always pushing on it, And I'm gonna lean
- 4:44Speaker 5: on you and your experiences with the Indianapolis Coast Sonny
- 4:46Speaker 5: Tony Dune like, I think you share stories with.
- 4:48Speaker 4: Me, like after losses or after difficult games.
- 4:51Speaker 5: He always thought that you needed to reduce, to eliminate, simplify,
- 4:56Speaker 5: make it where the players can play fast, where they
- 4:59Speaker 5: can think freely, and then you'll get the best performance
- 5:01Speaker 5: out of them.
- 5:02Speaker 4: I think we're kind of at that point with the Jaguars.
- 5:05Speaker 5: Ultimately, what coaches like to do is they like to
- 5:08Speaker 5: at the beginning of the season think, hey, these are
- 5:10Speaker 5: all the things that we're going to be able to do.
- 5:12Speaker 4: This group is so good to dynamic. We got this,
- 5:14Speaker 4: so we're going to do X, Y and Z.
- 5:16Speaker 5: But the great coaches are able to look at their
- 5:18Speaker 5: team and evaluate where they are and say, hey, guys,
- 5:21Speaker 5: here's where we're at.
- 5:22Speaker 4: This is the kind of team that we have.
- 5:24Speaker 5: This is what we need to do to maximize the
- 5:25Speaker 5: talents of the team. When I look at this team,
- 5:28Speaker 5: and because it's been a theme, this team has a
- 5:32Speaker 5: lot of issues when it comes to the communication and
- 5:35Speaker 5: being able to take like communication and maybe schemes.
- 5:38Speaker 4: And execute it.
- 5:39Speaker 5: So now that you're in the final stretch, right the
- 5:41Speaker 5: final quarter of the season, if that's been a parent
- 5:44Speaker 5: in multiple films. Well, now you've got to reduce the
- 5:47Speaker 5: amount of stuff that you're doing. You have to put
- 5:49Speaker 5: the onus on the players to communicate what you're supposed
- 5:52Speaker 5: to do, make sure you know what you're doing, and
- 5:54Speaker 5: then do it. And I think we're at that point
- 5:57Speaker 5: because of the tone that I hear from Doug in
- 5:59Speaker 5: his voice. He's not going to say that outwardly to
- 6:01Speaker 5: the public, but I feel like the frustration has beached
- 6:05Speaker 5: the point where he's like, hey.
- 6:05Speaker 4: Man, here's what we're doing. We need to eliminate all
- 6:08Speaker 4: the fluff.
- 6:09Speaker 5: Let's just line up and play and see if we
- 6:11Speaker 5: can win a game by simply not beating ourselves.
- 6:14Speaker 6: Yeah, that's you know again, we know why it's his show.
- 6:18Speaker 6: That's a good h that makes a lot of sense.
- 6:22Speaker 6: And to simplify it, because really, three plays the other
- 6:24Speaker 6: day cost you, and it was three defensive breakdowns that
- 6:30Speaker 6: you know, again on paper, shouldn't have been hard. They
- 6:33Speaker 6: just got themselves completely out of position where if they'd
- 6:36Speaker 6: even been closer and give themselves a chance to play
- 6:39Speaker 6: another down if you will. JPF said multiple times this week,
- 6:45Speaker 6: the Browns are really good and they're eight and five
- 6:47Speaker 6: for a reason. You're playing on the road. But the
- 6:51Speaker 6: Jaguars turned it over four times and gifted them three touchdowns.
- 6:57Speaker 6: They're good, but you can't make it that easy on them.
- 6:59Speaker 4: Buck Now, you can't make it that easy on it.
- 7:01Speaker 5: And as much as like everyone would make the focus
- 7:03Speaker 5: on the defense, because the defensive communication flaws is easy
- 7:07Speaker 5: to see, to show a someone didn't cover David n Joku,
- 7:10Speaker 5: he runs down the scene, we have a fourth down,
- 7:12Speaker 5: we don't get a switch or who's lined up on who,
- 7:16Speaker 5: and so it's an easy completion for Joe Flaku ends
- 7:19Speaker 5: up being a touchdown and.
- 7:20Speaker 4: Some other things.
- 7:21Speaker 5: But I would tell you offensively, there have been a
- 7:24Speaker 5: bunch of miscommunications.
- 7:26Speaker 4: I can't tell you the amount of times that we
- 7:28Speaker 4: have broken the huddle.
- 7:29Speaker 5: We look around and we see Trevor Lawrence trying to
- 7:32Speaker 5: tell one of the receivers to get lined up in
- 7:34Speaker 5: a different spot, or two receivers looking at one another,
- 7:37Speaker 5: trying to figure out who's responsible for what route am
- 7:40Speaker 5: I running and all of those things, and it coincides
- 7:43Speaker 5: with a couple of those communication errors resulting in interceptions
- 7:48Speaker 5: because Trevor and the playmaker the.
- 7:50Speaker 4: Pass catcher is not on the same page.
- 7:52Speaker 5: So when Doug talks about the entire team communicating, that's
- 7:57Speaker 5: what it stems from, because there just been things that
- 8:00Speaker 5: should be very very simple when it comes to execution,
- 8:03Speaker 5: but they're not getting done because people don't know what
- 8:05Speaker 5: they expected to know, and then they're trying to communicate
- 8:08Speaker 5: it at the last minute and it's not getting done.
- 8:10Speaker 5: It's not getting relayed to all of the people that
- 8:12Speaker 5: need to know the information.
- 8:14Speaker 3: And there were a couple of instances where, you know,
- 8:17Speaker 3: they maybe got to play in late too.
- 8:18Speaker 2: They had a couple of delayed games.
- 8:20Speaker 3: The clock second, you're trying to communicate all of a sudden,
- 8:22Speaker 3: you either got to call time out or you get
- 8:24Speaker 3: the flag, and that adds on to it.
- 8:26Speaker 6: Yeah, eight pre snap penalties in the last four games,
- 8:29Speaker 6: I mean in the last two games. And maybe they're
- 8:33Speaker 6: not all attributed to what we're talking about, but it
- 8:35Speaker 6: seems it seems like a symptom.
- 8:39Speaker 5: All right, we've got yes, let me, let me let
- 8:41Speaker 5: me jump in because John, you mentioned something. Now, I
- 8:43Speaker 5: want to make sure that all of our listeners and
- 8:45Speaker 5: stuff understand this. So they're great coaches that talk about that.
- 8:48Speaker 5: Don't beat ourselves the dbos, your coaches talk about it
- 8:51Speaker 5: in a few different ways, and the DBOS it's three
- 8:54Speaker 5: of them. Number one is turnovers. Turnovers the biggest deciding
- 8:57Speaker 5: factor in games. If you lose the turnover about or
- 8:59Speaker 5: you're going to the game. The second thing pre snap
- 9:02Speaker 5: and foolish penalties, false stars, neutral zone infractions, things that
- 9:07Speaker 5: you can just you just need to line up so
- 9:09Speaker 5: you don't have a penalty. Those things you can control.
- 9:12Speaker 5: You can't do that. And then big plays allowed, not
- 9:15Speaker 5: allowing the ball to fly over the top of the defense,
- 9:18Speaker 5: not allowing it to run outside on the perimeter, those things.
- 9:21Speaker 5: When you look at the last two losses, the Jaguars
- 9:24Speaker 5: have violated all of those principles, which is why they're
- 9:26Speaker 5: owing to in the last two weeks. If they simply
- 9:29Speaker 5: just clean up those things, it's hard for teams to
- 9:31Speaker 5: beat you when you don't beat yourself. But if you're
- 9:33Speaker 5: gonna gift wrap it like we've gift wrapped the last
- 9:36Speaker 5: two games, even bad teams can take those things. Those
- 9:39Speaker 5: are the areas that you have to clean up, and
- 9:41Speaker 5: it's really on the Jaguars, not on the other team.
- 9:43Speaker 6: Yeah, JP Doug had a quote, I think it was Monday,
- 9:45Speaker 6: when he was talking, and sometimes when you're talking, you know,
- 9:49Speaker 6: you can say things a certain way. I'm sure people
- 9:51Speaker 6: hear it. He made the comment at the end. At
- 9:55Speaker 6: the end of it, he said, and let's just see
- 9:57Speaker 6: if we cannot lose any more games. I think a
- 10:00Speaker 6: lot of people took that to mean go four note
- 10:02Speaker 6: down the stretch. I took it to mean not lose
- 10:06Speaker 6: any games ourselves. And to me, that is what he's
- 10:12Speaker 6: feeling this week, and that's what he's emphasizing. So I
- 10:15Speaker 6: guess that's what he meant. And you do feel like
- 10:19Speaker 6: in the last four games, if they reduced Bucki's dbos
- 10:26Speaker 6: that bare minim, they go three and one to make
- 10:28Speaker 6: the playoffs and quote fix.
- 10:30Speaker 3: This, Yeah, and they'd have some energy going into the
- 10:33Speaker 3: playoffs at that point as well.
- 10:35Speaker 2: Bootleggers, Get ready.
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- 10:48Speaker 2: You're going to that, right, John, Yeah, Yeah, you'll be there.
- 10:52Speaker 2: It's just Mike, Yeah, you're going right.
- 10:53Speaker 6: I Mean it's two nights, so both nights you're gonna
- 10:57Speaker 6: go both nights by waiting, I may stay you well
- 11:01Speaker 6: as you go one, we can go both.
- 11:03Speaker 2: You have a cat right, Yeah.
- 11:06Speaker 3: Basically we're back in a moment. We'll take a look
- 11:08Speaker 3: at this Ravens defense. Really highly rated group coming into
- 11:13Speaker 3: the bank this Sunday, and this is huddle up with
- 11:15Speaker 3: Bucky Brooks.
- 11:32Speaker 8: The tape is usually never as good or as bad
- 11:34Speaker 8: as you think. So if you watch it and it
- 11:36Speaker 8: is what it is, there's corrections. Obviously, there's things that
- 11:38Speaker 8: we did in the game that are uncharacteristic and mistakes
- 11:42Speaker 8: you know, all the way around that we can't make,
- 11:44Speaker 8: but it is what it is, and you got to
- 11:45Speaker 8: correct them and move on. And same thing when you
- 11:47Speaker 8: feel like you played great, there's usually stuff on the
- 11:49Speaker 8: tape where you're like, eh, maybe I didn't play as
- 11:51Speaker 8: good as I thought I did.
- 11:52Speaker 4: I left a lot out there.
- 11:53Speaker 8: So you know, good or bad, you gotta assess it
- 11:55Speaker 8: and you got to look at it for what it is,
- 11:57Speaker 8: and you got to make the adjustments and corrections moving forward.
- 11:59Speaker 8: And he had a great start to the day today
- 12:01Speaker 8: and got frightened obviously here a little bit, and be
- 12:04Speaker 8: important to be sharp and just communicate and all those
- 12:06Speaker 8: things which we've already kind of, you know, fixed.
- 12:09Speaker 4: A lot of the issues.
- 12:09Speaker 8: So I feel really good about it.
- 12:11Speaker 3: There you have at the quarterback, Trevor Lawrence speaking today
- 12:15Speaker 3: earlier and welcome back. It's huddle up with Bucky Brooks
- 12:18Speaker 3: on Wednesday, heading to week fifteen, and the Jaguars and
- 12:22Speaker 3: the Ravens get it on Sunday Night, a twenty kickoff
- 12:26Speaker 3: time at the Bank under the Lights Sunday Night Football
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- 12:52Speaker 3: I don't know if you're aware of this. I'm sure
- 12:53Speaker 3: you might be. This time of year is John's favorite
- 12:58Speaker 3: time of year. He loves the holiday season. He is
- 13:02Speaker 3: full of cheer.
- 13:04Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, Krema like that. That's good to know. That's
- 13:08Speaker 4: good to know.
- 13:08Speaker 5: I'll make sure did I come with some candy canes
- 13:11Speaker 5: and like a little stocking for John to make sure
- 13:14Speaker 5: that he's happy, has a great holiday.
- 13:16Speaker 6: Well, spreading joy is really what I.
- 13:20Speaker 4: Like that.
- 13:22Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a priority year round, but especially especially christ
- 13:27Speaker 6: I bring my a game.
- 13:28Speaker 2: During when the games matter. John steps up.
- 13:31Speaker 4: I appreciate you turning the postseason.
- 13:34Speaker 6: It's already the post season for spreading cheer.
- 13:37Speaker 4: Okay, let's do it all right.
- 13:40Speaker 3: So the Ravens coming in here with a highly rated defense,
- 13:45Speaker 3: and of course, last week the Browns had the number
- 13:47Speaker 3: one defense in terms of total yardage allowed per game,
- 13:51Speaker 3: and the Ravens are right there behind them number two.
- 13:53Speaker 3: They're number one in a lot of different areas. They
- 13:56Speaker 3: have forty seven sacks, that leads the NFL. There fantastic
- 14:00Speaker 3: in the front seven bucket, and they really kind of
- 14:02Speaker 3: spread the wealth, it seems like. So what has made
- 14:04Speaker 3: them so effective defensively.
- 14:09Speaker 5: Coordinated to Mike McDonald does a really good job of
- 14:11Speaker 5: creating opportunities for his players.
- 14:12Speaker 4: They have a very balanced front line, meaning they have
- 14:16Speaker 4: a lot of really good players.
- 14:18Speaker 5: I wouldn't say that they necessarily have a great or
- 14:20Speaker 5: dominant player like we talked about with Miles Garrett, but
- 14:23Speaker 5: they have really good players and he does a great
- 14:24Speaker 5: job of creating one on one matchups for them. They
- 14:27Speaker 5: would do a thing that is very popular at the
- 14:29Speaker 5: collegiate level where they do a lot of what they
- 14:31Speaker 5: call simulated pressures, meaning that they'll.
- 14:34Speaker 4: Move people around.
- 14:35Speaker 5: Guys at the linebacker depth will look like they're blitzing
- 14:39Speaker 5: but then fall out and in essence it's only a
- 14:42Speaker 5: four man rush, but trying to figure out which four
- 14:45Speaker 5: guys are rushing complicates and muddies the picture.
- 14:48Speaker 4: For the quarterback.
- 14:49Speaker 5: The hesitation then leads to free runners hitting him in
- 14:52Speaker 5: the back and that's where the turnovers come.
- 14:54Speaker 4: So this would be a game where Trevor Lawrence and.
- 14:57Speaker 5: Doug Peterson and Press Taylor that have to be on
- 14:59Speaker 5: the same page to figure out and determine how they
- 15:01Speaker 5: want to attack this defense, because if you get them
- 15:03Speaker 5: blocked up, you certainly can get after them because they're
- 15:05Speaker 5: not what they've been in the past and the secondary
- 15:08Speaker 5: but really people have had a tough time blocking them
- 15:11Speaker 5: up front because of all the kind of smoke and
- 15:13Speaker 5: mirrors things that they do.
- 15:14Speaker 6: Yeah, defensively, you know the Ravens, you worry about this
- 15:18Speaker 6: matchup with the Jaguars, I guess for the same reason
- 15:22Speaker 6: you worry about so many matches right now. The Jaguars
- 15:25Speaker 6: having such trouble running that it really limits what they
- 15:29Speaker 6: can do once they know, you know, decide they want
- 15:33Speaker 6: to throw. They're in so many long distance situations and
- 15:35Speaker 6: they're having trouble converting because they can't rely on the
- 15:38Speaker 6: running game. And it's tough to get that fixed when
- 15:43Speaker 6: you're playing dominant defenses because those defenses typically stop the run,
- 15:47Speaker 6: so it's hard to get in any sort of rhythm.
- 15:53Speaker 6: I guess I'm talking more about the Jaguars running game
- 15:55Speaker 6: than i am the Ravens defense. But the Ravens scare
- 16:01Speaker 6: me overall because they're so balanced on both sides of
- 16:04Speaker 6: the ball. I mean, they're balanced offense and defense, and
- 16:07Speaker 6: then the two units are also balanced. I don't know
- 16:11Speaker 6: where the weakness is that the Jaguars can exploit. Bike
- 16:14Speaker 6: if you if you're the Jaguars, what are you trying
- 16:16Speaker 6: to do to them defensively?
- 16:19Speaker 5: Well, I mean I think thenem one thing is you
- 16:21Speaker 5: want to do things that the quarterback and the playmakers
- 16:24Speaker 5: are very comfortable. We saw last week Evaning had a
- 16:27Speaker 5: big game touched the ball a ton, So I think
- 16:29Speaker 5: before you can even think about how you want to
- 16:31Speaker 5: attack them, you want to get your guys right and
- 16:33Speaker 5: comfortable when you have so many struggles like we've had
- 16:35Speaker 5: the last few weeks.
- 16:36Speaker 4: It's really more about us than them.
- 16:39Speaker 5: But as it relates to what the Ravens want to do,
- 16:41Speaker 5: is they want to stop the run early now and
- 16:45Speaker 5: force you to throw against kind of that that smoke
- 16:48Speaker 5: and mirrors package that they utilize to make life miserable
- 16:52Speaker 5: for the quarterback. So you got to be able to
- 16:54Speaker 5: run the football, and running comes down to like the
- 16:57Speaker 5: execution at the point of attack.
- 16:59Speaker 4: Can we move them off the and can the running backs.
- 17:01Speaker 5: Hit the hole that's designated and can you get four
- 17:04Speaker 5: or five yards every time you run it? Because the
- 17:07Speaker 5: negative plays in the running game put you behind the sticks,
- 17:09Speaker 5: and you don't want to be behind the sticks against
- 17:11Speaker 5: this defense, not necessarily because of their personnel, but the
- 17:14Speaker 5: combination of their personnel in their scheme makes it really,
- 17:17Speaker 5: really hard to.
- 17:18Speaker 4: Dig yourself out of those holes when you have long situations.
- 17:23Speaker 3: So we'll come back in a moment and flip it around.
- 17:25Speaker 3: On the other side, you mentioned both sides of the ball. Well, yeah,
- 17:29Speaker 3: they can do it on offense too, with Lamar Jackson
- 17:32Speaker 3: the quarterback. We'll get into that matchup for the Jaguars defense,
- 17:36Speaker 3: the communication a little bit more and much more ahead.
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- 18:04Speaker 7: A lot of confidence downstairs, meaning you guys are excited
- 18:08Speaker 7: for this week. It's a you know, two good football
- 18:10Speaker 7: teams coming together to top four right now in the AFC,
- 18:14Speaker 7: you know, playing and obviously it's great for the NFL,
- 18:17Speaker 7: great for great for fans and and you know, these
- 18:21Speaker 7: are the games. Again, it goes back to what I
- 18:22Speaker 7: expect our players to get used to, right playing in
- 18:26Speaker 7: moments like this, in games like this. Baltimore obviously has.
- 18:31Speaker 7: But the confidence is high, you know, and the confidence
- 18:34Speaker 7: is great. I mean again, it just it just we
- 18:38Speaker 7: have to turn it internally and just focus on us
- 18:41Speaker 7: and make sure we are doing everything that we can
- 18:43Speaker 7: in our power to be to be prepared for these games.
- 18:46Speaker 7: But the confidence is uh, the confidence is there.
- 18:51Speaker 3: That's the head coach of course, Doug Peterson earlier today.
- 18:55Speaker 3: Confidence with the month to play in the regular season,
- 18:58Speaker 3: welcome back and huddle up with Bucky Brooks, Jap, Shadwick,
- 19:00Speaker 3: John Ozier and you guessed it, Bucky Brooks in Los Angeles.
- 19:04Speaker 3: Pro Bowl voting is now live through December twenty fifth.
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- 19:22Speaker 2: I read them how they're written.
- 19:24Speaker 6: That's my fault. Hey, Bucky, you have a question for
- 19:26Speaker 6: the analyst?
- 19:28Speaker 4: All right?
- 19:29Speaker 6: And you know I was gonna ask you then Doug
- 19:32Speaker 6: basically said it, so I just may ask you if
- 19:34Speaker 6: you agree with him. To me, there's a couple of
- 19:37Speaker 6: teams in the NFL right now. Maybe San Francisco stands
- 19:42Speaker 6: out above anybody else. I think Baltimore is the best
- 19:44Speaker 6: team in the AFC. But like right now, I think
- 19:49Speaker 6: if an average team or you know, I'll say, like
- 19:53Speaker 6: the Jaguars, if the Jaguars played the forty nine ers,
- 19:56Speaker 6: I don't know that that matchup. Even the Jaguars played well.
- 19:59Speaker 6: I think the forty nine ers could win. Doesn't it
- 20:02Speaker 6: seem like if the Jaguars play well, I don't think
- 20:06Speaker 6: that Baltimore is ungettled. Do you follow what I'm saying?
- 20:09Speaker 4: I absolutely follow what you're saying. And here's the thing.
- 20:13Speaker 5: I tweeted about it on Monday night after watching the
- 20:16Speaker 5: Miami Dolphins fall to the Tennessee Titans. The number one
- 20:19Speaker 5: thing in the tournament. If you get into the playoffs,
- 20:21Speaker 5: everybody has a chance to go to the super Bowl.
- 20:23Speaker 5: And so as much as we're over here fredding about
- 20:25Speaker 5: the Jaguars not playing up to the stand and not
- 20:28Speaker 5: playing well, the hope is, man, if you can just
- 20:31Speaker 5: fix the issues over the next four games, you get
- 20:34Speaker 5: into the you get into the playoffs, you can win
- 20:36Speaker 5: the thing. And so I am excited to see what
- 20:39Speaker 5: they look like on Sunday night against the Baltimore Ravens,
- 20:41Speaker 5: because to me, that has a game that is kind
- 20:44Speaker 5: of like a launch pad game, Like if they win
- 20:46Speaker 5: that game and play well, that could give them the
- 20:48Speaker 5: kind of confidence that they could roll through the rest
- 20:50Speaker 5: of the regular season and then get into the tournament
- 20:52Speaker 5: and do some serious damage. Look, the Chiefs aren't what
- 20:56Speaker 5: they were a couple of years ago. I mean you
- 20:59Speaker 5: look at the rest the teams at the top of
- 21:01Speaker 5: the charts. I mean, look, you have to take your
- 21:03Speaker 5: chances that if.
- 21:03Speaker 4: Jacksonville plays well, they can beat anybody.
- 21:05Speaker 5: So not like the Niners are dominant team in the NFC,
- 21:09Speaker 5: but they got to worry about their own side of it.
- 21:11Speaker 5: But for the Jags, look, there's a path for them
- 21:14Speaker 5: to get to where everyone wants to see them. It's
- 21:17Speaker 5: a matter of fixing the issues so you can play
- 21:19Speaker 5: their best because if they play their best, they can
- 21:21Speaker 5: beat anybody.
- 21:22Speaker 6: Yeah, and to me, launch Pad game makes sense. It
- 21:25Speaker 6: could go one in two ways. Obviously, if you lose it,
- 21:27Speaker 6: it's not you beat the Ravens. The Ravens schedule is
- 21:33Speaker 6: pretty tough. In those last three games, you beat the Ravens.
- 21:36Speaker 6: In the Jaguars schedule, you have Tampa, Carolina and Tennessee objective.
- 21:41Speaker 6: People will look at those and call them winnable games.
- 21:45Speaker 6: Jaguars went out with Baltimore seeming to be the toughest
- 21:50Speaker 6: of that. The number one seed is there, oh sure,
- 21:53Speaker 6: and so it's not unattainable and some team is going
- 22:01Speaker 6: to get hot in the AFC and run the table.
- 22:05Speaker 6: If the Jaguars win this one, it's gettable for them,
- 22:08Speaker 6: I think.
- 22:09Speaker 4: So.
- 22:10Speaker 6: Now, I'm not saying the way they've played last two
- 22:11Speaker 6: weeks you can't predict that, but weird things have happened.
- 22:16Speaker 3: If you're into like the percentage chances of that, I
- 22:18Speaker 3: think I saw on NBC it's like five percent chance
- 22:22Speaker 3: of the Jaguars being the number one seed, but it's
- 22:24Speaker 3: not zero.
- 22:25Speaker 2: Yeah, and.
- 22:27Speaker 6: To me, if you win Sunday, that number changes a lot.
- 22:31Speaker 6: Oh yeah, number would be sure, but it's just it's
- 22:35Speaker 6: just hard. If you've watched them play the last two
- 22:37Speaker 6: weeks with the errors you make, those kind of errors,
- 22:41Speaker 6: Baltimore's gonna roll you.
- 22:42Speaker 2: So those team beat you.
- 22:44Speaker 6: Yeah, So it's it's a yeah. I guess Bucky. What
- 22:48Speaker 6: I said somebody yesterday really plays into this. This is
- 22:52Speaker 6: what contending in the NFL looks like.
- 22:54Speaker 4: Usually.
- 22:56Speaker 6: There's there's some years where you're the forty nine ers
- 22:58Speaker 6: where you feel like, hey, we're the best team. We're
- 23:00Speaker 6: gonna go after it. But usually when you're contending, you're
- 23:03Speaker 6: playing December games where you can look at the Ravens.
- 23:05Speaker 6: That's gonna be hard. This is what it's usually like.
- 23:08Speaker 6: And I think we're just sort of not used to
- 23:10Speaker 6: it because we haven't covered it in.
- 23:11Speaker 2: A long time. Yeah, really ever, No.
- 23:14Speaker 5: No, no, think I think there is something to that,
- 23:16Speaker 5: and you have to get used to that part of it,
- 23:18Speaker 5: you know. I laugh because the Jaguars are sitting at
- 23:20Speaker 5: eight and five, and I remember for years just being
- 23:23Speaker 5: desperate for the Jaguars to have a winning team. And
- 23:25Speaker 5: so they've already gotten to that point where they're winning,
- 23:28Speaker 5: and now it's about winning at.
- 23:29Speaker 4: A higher level.
- 23:30Speaker 5: But to do that, they have to learn the process.
- 23:32Speaker 5: And it's really hard to go from good to great,
- 23:35Speaker 5: and they're learning how difficult that that is because it
- 23:38Speaker 5: requires a level of consistency and a high level of
- 23:42Speaker 5: attention to detail, and right now we're not seeing the
- 23:44Speaker 5: consistent attention to detail.
- 23:46Speaker 4: That's it.
- 23:47Speaker 5: There's still time to turn this thing around, and you're
- 23:50Speaker 5: hopeful that over the course of the practice week. Like
- 23:53Speaker 5: listening to Trevor watching him at the presser one he
- 23:56Speaker 5: looks upbeating optimistic, he talked about fixing some of those things,
- 24:00Speaker 5: and then listening to Doug talking about, hey man, we
- 24:02Speaker 5: want to get used to playing in these kind of games.
- 24:05Speaker 5: All of the ingredients of there is about it coming
- 24:07Speaker 5: together and look up so hopefully that they can figure
- 24:10Speaker 5: it out and get it together and hopefully to start
- 24:11Speaker 5: this Sunday.
- 24:13Speaker 3: Well, this Sunday, Lamar Jackson is making the trip down
- 24:17Speaker 3: for the Baltimore Ravens. Of course, the quarterback, former MVP
- 24:21Speaker 3: and a guy who's doing it both ways. He's their
- 24:24Speaker 3: leading rusher in terms of yardage six hundred and forty
- 24:27Speaker 3: four yards on the ground this year. Guy who's had
- 24:30Speaker 3: over a thousand yards rushing a couple times in his
- 24:32Speaker 3: career already, and he's going to surpass three thousand passing
- 24:36Speaker 3: yards for the season most likely this Sunday, with only
- 24:39Speaker 3: sixty six yards to go to get to three thousand.
- 24:44Speaker 3: So Lamar, you know, we know about his skill set, Bucky,
- 24:49Speaker 3: his ability to run and extend plays. Is he a
- 24:54Speaker 3: different Lamar Jackson though now than he was a few
- 24:58Speaker 3: years ago?
- 24:58Speaker 4: Is he?
- 25:00Speaker 3: Is he standing in there a little bit more? What's
- 25:02Speaker 3: the feel with Lamar these days?
- 25:04Speaker 5: It's a different style offense than the one that we
- 25:06Speaker 5: saw the last time he came in.
- 25:08Speaker 4: When he came in last.
- 25:09Speaker 5: Year, they were still running that heavy power rpo option
- 25:14Speaker 5: based offense where he was the primary ball carrier and
- 25:17Speaker 5: doing everything. It was a mix of a collegiate style
- 25:20Speaker 5: offense with some pro elements, but it was very successful
- 25:23Speaker 5: for the Ravens because it was different.
- 25:25Speaker 4: No one really had a good handle on how to
- 25:27Speaker 4: deal with it. Now he's in more of a traditional pro.
- 25:30Speaker 5: Style offense, but they're still utilizing his athleticism to create
- 25:33Speaker 5: plays on the perimeter. He'll do it off food legs,
- 25:36Speaker 5: he'll do it on occasional design quarterback runs, but a
- 25:39Speaker 5: lot of the runs that he's having on scrambles and
- 25:42Speaker 5: those things. The one thing that they've done is they've
- 25:45Speaker 5: expanded their passing game.
- 25:47Speaker 4: They pushed the ball down the field. They have more
- 25:49Speaker 4: weapons available to him.
- 25:51Speaker 5: Even though Mark Andrews is out, so you got to
- 25:53Speaker 5: deal with Zay Flowers and Rashad Bateman and OBJ and
- 25:57Speaker 5: those guys, and so it's a better crew around him
- 25:59Speaker 5: and differently, but it's still a very dynamic and explosive offense.
- 26:03Speaker 5: I would say in Baltimore they probably find it maybe
- 26:06Speaker 5: a little more fun because the ball is in the
- 26:08Speaker 5: air more so than it was on the ground.
- 26:10Speaker 4: But look, they still pose the same challenge that they
- 26:12Speaker 4: always did. As long as number eight is in the backfield.
- 26:14Speaker 4: He is a handful who can score from anywhere on
- 26:17Speaker 4: the field.
- 26:17Speaker 6: Yeah, and so much of it still is about defenses
- 26:21Speaker 6: have to worry about his run so much that it
- 26:25Speaker 6: opens up and it prevents you from being able to
- 26:28Speaker 6: leave as many guys back in the situations you normally
- 26:31Speaker 6: like to. Again, there's so balanced. There's number one running
- 26:35Speaker 6: team in the NFL, and they know they can rely
- 26:38Speaker 6: on that. That gives them great security and balance and
- 26:46Speaker 6: something to rely on if their passing game is not working.
- 26:51Speaker 6: This to me, without Mark Andrews, it still feels to
- 26:54Speaker 6: me like an offense that if you're the Jaguars, you
- 26:58Speaker 6: go into this game thinking they shouldn't get away from us,
- 27:02Speaker 6: meaning they if we play our game defensively. Jaguars believe
- 27:06Speaker 6: they're a good running team. They believe they create takeaways.
- 27:09Speaker 6: They should believe that they can keep the Ravens in
- 27:12Speaker 6: that low twenties at the most and create a couple
- 27:14Speaker 6: of takeaways. You wouldn't think they're going to hang a
- 27:17Speaker 6: thirty number on you if you play well defensively, which
- 27:20Speaker 6: should keep you in the game enough to win it.
- 27:21Speaker 6: So they're very good offensively. I don't know if they
- 27:27Speaker 6: if the Jaguars play well, they shouldn't be great offensively,
- 27:30Speaker 6: if that makes sense.
- 27:31Speaker 2: Yeah, it does make sense.
- 27:32Speaker 6: Well, thank you, JP.
- 27:33Speaker 4: I appreciate that. That's a well stated point.
- 27:37Speaker 2: We're back in a moment.
- 27:39Speaker 3: We've got plenty ahead our final thoughts ahead of this
- 27:42Speaker 3: match up on Sunday Night Football, the Jaguars and the
- 27:48Speaker 3: Ravens coming up. This is huddle up with Bucky Brooks.
- 28:03Speaker 7: There's a lot of things nowadays too, or this late
- 28:06Speaker 7: in the season, where you know we might we might
- 28:10Speaker 7: talk about them in meetings, and sometimes you don't get
- 28:13Speaker 7: that live rep during the week because there's just not
- 28:16Speaker 7: enough practice reps right now to go around because you're
- 28:19Speaker 7: trying to keep guys healthy and fresh for game day.
- 28:21Speaker 7: And so we'll have conversation and dialogue and a meeting.
- 28:26Speaker 7: But as coaches and players, we expect those things to
- 28:30Speaker 7: happen during the game, right, even though you don't get
- 28:32Speaker 7: that rep during the week of practice.
- 28:35Speaker 4: But we've covered it.
- 28:36Speaker 7: Right, So those are the things that I think have
- 28:40Speaker 7: kind of kept us back just a little bit.
- 28:43Speaker 3: That's quarter that's the head coach, not the quarterback. He
- 28:46Speaker 3: is a quarterback, I guess by trade. And Doug Peterson.
- 28:51Speaker 6: Yeah, I think Bucky in there is maybe a little
- 28:54Speaker 6: bit a little bit about what you're talking about, maybe
- 28:59Speaker 6: simplify out of that a little bit where if you
- 29:02Speaker 6: haven't repped it, you know, you lean toward not not
- 29:07Speaker 6: running it because you just want to make sure the
- 29:09Speaker 6: execution's there. And I don't know if that's right or not,
- 29:12Speaker 6: but it just strikes me that so much of our
- 29:14Speaker 6: conversation today is about that, is about just being on
- 29:18Speaker 6: point every play and the mental energy that that takes
- 29:22Speaker 6: and the focus that it takes. And it was, frankly,
- 29:26Speaker 6: in an ordinate amount of Doug's press conference today was
- 29:29Speaker 6: spent on that and just his I don't call it frustration,
- 29:34Speaker 6: but his focus on it. And you can just tell
- 29:37Speaker 6: that to me, he firmly believes that's the number one
- 29:41Speaker 6: thing with this team right now.
- 29:43Speaker 5: Well, it seems like, yeah, he's grown annoyed, but maybe
- 29:47Speaker 5: too many play calls are seeping into the game plan.
- 29:51Speaker 4: That have him been repped on the practice field.
- 29:53Speaker 5: And as much as you expect the players to be
- 29:55Speaker 5: able to pick that up and oh we talked about
- 29:57Speaker 5: in a meeting, we did it in a meeting.
- 29:58Speaker 4: Well, maybe this collection of players has to walk through it.
- 30:02Speaker 5: They have to physically experience it before they can execute.
- 30:05Speaker 4: It in games. Some years you have veteran players.
- 30:08Speaker 5: You have older players, players who are just able to
- 30:11Speaker 5: take it from the board to the field without repping it.
- 30:13Speaker 4: Other years you have players who need a ton of
- 30:16Speaker 4: reps before they get it.
- 30:18Speaker 5: It appears that he says, Hey, where we're at right now,
- 30:21Speaker 5: we can't do a lot of board to the field stuff.
- 30:23Speaker 4: Let's make sure that.
- 30:24Speaker 5: The players that we call, we give our players enough
- 30:27Speaker 5: reps to know it so they feel good about it,
- 30:31Speaker 5: so they have mastered it, and then they can.
- 30:32Speaker 4: Execute it at a high level.
- 30:34Speaker 5: Right now, the Jaguars needs execution more so than trickery.
- 30:38Speaker 4: And I believe that we'll see a very scale down
- 30:41Speaker 4: version of the game plan.
- 30:42Speaker 5: And play call sheet this week on both sides of
- 30:45Speaker 5: the ball, so the guys don't have as many mess ups.
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- 30:54Speaker 4: We're in the final.
- 30:54Speaker 3: Stretch of the regular season, of course, only two home
- 30:57Speaker 3: games remaining for the Jags and still host the Ravens
- 31:01Speaker 3: on Sunday. Grab your teal and help teal out the stands.
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- 31:12Speaker 3: the pregame light show again, so opt in for that.
- 31:15Speaker 4: That was cool.
- 31:16Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll be QR codes when you come into the
- 31:18Speaker 3: stadium again, so they're trying to replicate that again during
- 31:22Speaker 3: the introductions and should be. Should be a fantastic matchup
- 31:27Speaker 3: of course, the Ravens and the Jaguars in December when
- 31:30Speaker 3: it matters two division leading teams. Bucky and hey, I'm
- 31:34Speaker 3: excited for this one. This is We're gonna find out
- 31:37Speaker 3: a lot about this Jaguars team. I think by about
- 31:40Speaker 3: eleven o'clock on Sunday night.
- 31:44Speaker 5: Ah man, Look, I think this team is going to
- 31:46Speaker 5: play well. I think everybody's on the same page. And
- 31:49Speaker 5: I think Doug Peterson is a little ornery and prickly,
- 31:53Speaker 5: and I think he's probably conveyed that message to the
- 31:55Speaker 5: players and coaches how he wants this team to go.
- 31:58Speaker 4: I think you go see them play and.
- 32:00Speaker 5: Utilize their best plays, the plays that have been their
- 32:02Speaker 5: day one place they can work on execution as opposed
- 32:06Speaker 5: to all of the fluff.
- 32:07Speaker 4: And other stuff.
- 32:08Speaker 5: I don't think you'll see a lot of the tricks
- 32:10Speaker 5: and gadgets and oh this is cute, let's do this
- 32:13Speaker 5: to get four yards. I think you will line up
- 32:15Speaker 5: and see them line up and play, and if they
- 32:17Speaker 5: do that, they're gonna have a great chance to win.
- 32:18Speaker 5: And I think they will win because they all understand
- 32:21Speaker 5: what's at stake. And I think they all sat there
- 32:24Speaker 5: and watched on Monday night and we're able to look
- 32:26Speaker 5: at the Miami Dolphins falter and look at the Green
- 32:28Speaker 5: Bay Packers lose to the Giants and say, guys, each
- 32:30Speaker 5: and every week, these are seven point games, and if
- 32:33Speaker 5: we play well, we can win them all.
- 32:35Speaker 4: I think it's time for the Jaguars turn the point.
- 32:37Speaker 4: I speci to see it on Sunday.
- 32:39Speaker 6: I again, a lot of these games here have been fascinating.
- 32:44Speaker 6: This one, to me is fascinating. As Bucky said, launching
- 32:47Speaker 6: pad game is sort of stuck in my mind from
- 32:49Speaker 6: this show. It's got a chance to be. How much
- 32:54Speaker 6: different do you feel as a fan and observer of
- 32:56Speaker 6: this game if you walk out of that stadium on
- 32:59Speaker 6: Sunday night with the win and you're what nine and
- 33:01Speaker 6: five and everything's in front of you them, then you're
- 33:05Speaker 6: one of the you know, you're again one of those
- 33:09Speaker 6: teams that deserves to be talked about the way you
- 33:11Speaker 6: want to be talked about.
- 33:12Speaker 4: I just gotta go out there and do it.
- 33:13Speaker 3: And they've got the opportunity on Sunday night on NBC
- 33:18Speaker 3: and the Jaguars and the Ravens coming up.
- 33:20Speaker 2: Bucky, have a great week. Well we'll talk to you man.
- 33:23Speaker 2: Have a goode.
- 33:24Speaker 4: No, it should be fun.
- 33:24Speaker 3: Me looking for to all right, Buck, Bucky Brooks out
- 33:27Speaker 3: of here, John Osier, out of here.
- 33:29Speaker 5: J P.
- 33:30Speaker 3: Shadwick. Thanks for our entire crew. Yeah, I'm still here.
- 33:32Speaker 3: I got a few things to get done here. Joe Fortunado, David, Joe,
- 33:37Speaker 3: Brent Reeber, our entire crew.
- 33:39Speaker 2: Thank you for watching. It's huddle Up with Bucky Brooks.