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Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks: Wednesday, December 8 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Fields on the route Proud Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 1: J P. Shack, John Oser, and kind of Film Network
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Speaker 1: analyst and former Jaguar Buckey Brooks bring you the latest
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Speaker 1: on George Jacksonville Jaguars. Welcome. Huddle Off with Bucky Brooks
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Speaker 1: starts right now. Welcome on this Wednesday afternoon, It's Huddle
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Speaker 1: Up with Bucky Brooks. I'm j P. Shadrick. We've got
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Speaker 1: a busy show ahead. Here's what's coming up. Of course,
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Speaker 1: NFL Network analyst Bucky Brooks joins us every Wednesday afternoon,
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Speaker 1: as does Jaguars dot Com seene writer John Oser. We'll
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Speaker 1: look at the week fourteen the Jags and the Titans.
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Speaker 1: The Jaguars had not one in Nashville since they'll try
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Speaker 1: to snap that losing skin up there this week. Running
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Speaker 1: back conversation has dominated the headlines the last few days.
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Speaker 1: Five games to go in the regular season and social
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Speaker 1: media questions. A busy show, John Oser with me. Bucky
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Speaker 1: Brooks is not with us. He's out in Los Angeles
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Speaker 1: somewhere along the roadside. Where are you right now? Bucky?
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, you have no idea. So I'm waiting
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Speaker 1: to watch my daughter Priss Sock for game. I am
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Speaker 1: outside of a local Starbucks outside because in l A
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Speaker 1: you have to mask up when you're inside, and so
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Speaker 1: I couldn't do a show from inside. It's what did
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Speaker 1: you order? That's the next question. Oh it would be
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Speaker 1: a vanilla? Okay, Well that's how you know what. Blucky
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Speaker 1: gets it done. He gets the job done, no matter
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Speaker 1: what it takes. He makes the air, we do the show.
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Speaker 1: That's what we do. John around here, it's a good man.
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Speaker 1: That's why it's his show because I mean, if it
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Speaker 1: was my show, I wouldn't be doing that. That's why
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Speaker 1: the decision was made back and on. Now we know
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Speaker 1: John would not go to a Starbucks. You're gonna give
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Speaker 1: Bucky the show now we know for sure. Let's get
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Speaker 1: into it today. Of course, the Jaguars back to practice today,
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Speaker 1: getting ready for the week fourteen game against the division
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Speaker 1: rival Tennessee Titans. The Titans are in first place, they're
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Speaker 1: battling for the number one seed in the a f C.
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Speaker 1: They're coming off bye week. All the above. The big
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Speaker 1: story of the week, though, the running back conversation and
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Speaker 1: what happened to James Robinson in last week's game. Well,
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Speaker 1: we heard from Urban Meyer on the Urban Meyer Show
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Speaker 1: yesterday on the Jaguars Radio Network, and he was asked
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Speaker 1: how to bring everyone back on the same page, coaches
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Speaker 1: and players alike when it comes to running back. Obviously
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Speaker 1: we're dealing with James. It's not full speed. He's not
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Speaker 1: practicing Wednesday and Thursday. Ah, he practiced someone Friday. It's
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Speaker 1: a I mean, no one's ever He's the toughest cator.
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Speaker 1: That's said that every week. But you know he's also
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Speaker 1: in the last two games we've had twice the balls
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Speaker 1: on the ground and then Carlos goes in the balls
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Speaker 1: on the ground. Uh. Darry had an ankle issue in
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Speaker 1: the second half of the game, so he was unable
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Speaker 1: to go in the game. So you only have three
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Speaker 1: running backs up. Um, and then I once again don't
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Speaker 1: Microman's a rotation of the running backs. Um. You know,
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Speaker 1: one thing you do, you come out of the game
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Speaker 1: if there's a fumble, and when you go back in,
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Speaker 1: that's that's up to you know, the coaches and and
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Speaker 1: go back in the game. UM. So as far as
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Speaker 1: being on the same page, you know, taking care of
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Speaker 1: the football as a premium uh, and that's always going
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Speaker 1: to be a premium here and I mean everywhere. I
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Speaker 1: can't imagine someone say it's not that important. And James
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Speaker 1: is historically outstanding take care of the ball, So you
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Speaker 1: have to ask yourself why, Well, it's fundamentals, and you've
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Speaker 1: got to make sure that we're getting some work in practice.
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Speaker 1: He is still a relatively young player, great player, UM,
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Speaker 1: and I showed tape actually we met earlier today and
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Speaker 1: I showed about a fifteen play tape of against him
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Speaker 1: all in the same game the Titans and UM when
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Speaker 1: we played him before, and he was, you know, I
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Speaker 1: think one of the top running backs in the NFL
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Speaker 1: at the time and very well. Uh, as far as
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Speaker 1: you know, we call it chin chin chin and it's
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Speaker 1: uh clot Luckett. Clampet is the sound bites that are
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Speaker 1: running back uses, and he is outstanding at it. For
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Speaker 1: some reason he hasn't been and we have to get
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Speaker 1: back to those fundamentals. So that Srban Meyer on the
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Speaker 1: Urban Meyers Show yesterday some similar thoughts today in a
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Speaker 1: press conference, Bucky. But you know, right after the game
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Speaker 1: it sounded like it was injury. They weren't sure. And
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Speaker 1: now it's about ball security and the ball has been
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Speaker 1: on the deck a little bit too much lately at
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Speaker 1: running back. But there's the answer from the head coach. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So there are a few different things to take out
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Speaker 1: of that sound bite. One urban is right. Three fumbles
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Speaker 1: within rushing attempts is far too many times the ball
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Speaker 1: is on the ground. Secondly, when you have a player
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Speaker 1: that is dealing with an injury, sometimes they compromise their
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Speaker 1: fundamentals because it's hard to focus on doing your job
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Speaker 1: when it's compromised based on an injury. And so James
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Speaker 1: Robinson may not be the type of player that can
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Speaker 1: play through a significant injury and still have the kind
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Speaker 1: of production that you want. So you then have to
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Speaker 1: have the conversation with your coaching staff. Is it better
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Speaker 1: for us to just sit him out, put somebody else in,
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Speaker 1: let him heal up, and when he's ready to fully
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Speaker 1: play and function at a high level, let's do that.
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Speaker 1: Because the way that he's performing now it's not good enough,
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Speaker 1: and so you might be better served to sit him
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Speaker 1: down and just give it to somebody else, whoever that
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Speaker 1: is Carlos Hide Dorry, somebody else. Somebody has to perform
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Speaker 1: at a high level of running back right now, James
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Speaker 1: Robinson simply can't do that. Yeah, I kind of wish that. Um,
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Speaker 1: the fumble as it relates to practice, which the way
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Speaker 1: he explained it on the show yesterday, to me makes
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Speaker 1: some sense. Um, I kind of wish that had been
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Speaker 1: in the forefront from the beginning. I think a lot
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Speaker 1: of the misunderstanding would have been cleared up. It makes
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Speaker 1: sense to me hearing that, Okay, he's fuming a couple
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Speaker 1: of times in the last couple of games. What's the commonality,
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Speaker 1: hasn't practiced A whole lot of fundamentals are going different.
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Speaker 1: Let's get back to those fundamentals. That to me makes
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Speaker 1: some sense when you mix it in with the injury thing.
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Speaker 1: I think what's confused fans. That's a difficult thing to tweet,
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Speaker 1: if that makes sense, and we're in a Twitter era
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Speaker 1: where people want to know exactly why they want black
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Speaker 1: and white. That's a little bit of a gray area
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Speaker 1: nuanced thing. It makes sense. Uh So he was practicing today,
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's a focus. Now, maybe you focus on figuring out, Okay,
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Speaker 1: this has to be the priority now, this is you know,
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Speaker 1: this is a thing. I just think the communication on it,
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Speaker 1: include the communication to James based on some comments he
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Speaker 1: made this week that hadn't been clear and that had
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Speaker 1: been muddied. Uh So maybe now some of the focus
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Speaker 1: gets back on that area. I don't know. It's as
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Speaker 1: I've written, it's been a very difficult thing to explain,
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Speaker 1: to analyze and a very difficult in a very weird situation.
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Speaker 1: Let's hope JP that they get back on the same page. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: no doubt, because you're gonna get back on there pretty
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Speaker 1: quick if you're going to Nashville Bucket. Yeah. So I'll
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Speaker 1: say this because something else came out of about that.
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Speaker 1: He talked about not micromanaging the running back situation. To me,
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Speaker 1: that is not something that the head coach can't kind
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Speaker 1: of remove himself from. He is the head coach. He
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Speaker 1: ultimately dictates who plays, and so, yes, the assistant coach
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Speaker 1: has an opportunity to maybe make some rules that if
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Speaker 1: your phone when you come out of the game, But
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it is on the
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Speaker 1: head coach to make sure that the best players are
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Speaker 1: in the game. And so he can have that conversation
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Speaker 1: with Bernie Parmerley, they can talk about it. Bernie Palmy
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Speaker 1: still has to run that by the head coach, because
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Speaker 1: no one just operates an a silo as an independent
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Speaker 1: contractor doing their own thing. As it relates to the team,
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Speaker 1: the communication is an issue coach to coach, coach, the player, player,
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Speaker 1: the player, everybody has to be on the same page.
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Speaker 1: And it doesn't appear that that is the case right now,
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Speaker 1: that's fair, I mean, that's uh yeah, end Bucky's you know,
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Speaker 1: and every position coach is the guy typically in the
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Speaker 1: NFL who's making that call during the game on a
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Speaker 1: quick trigger basis, meaning you know, James Robinson running back
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Speaker 1: coach is going to generally dictate that. But in in
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Speaker 1: this situation, it is the it's the responsibility of the
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Speaker 1: head coach to make sure that's being done right. And
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Speaker 1: and you can't not say that if you're the head coach.
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Speaker 1: Let's move along, guys. To Trevor Lawrence, who spoke today
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Speaker 1: with the media as always on Wednesday, he was asked
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Speaker 1: about James Robinson and said, you know, you know, coaching decisions,
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Speaker 1: but he's the best, one of the best players we
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Speaker 1: have and used to be on the field. They've addressed it,
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Speaker 1: and uh, they're going to move on, at least as
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Speaker 1: an offense. Pretty strong comment by Trevor there. He did
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Speaker 1: a nice job and he is a guy who does
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Speaker 1: not mind saying this is the way it ought to
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Speaker 1: be supported the teammate. I thought it was an impressive
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Speaker 1: answer from Travior. He also discussed what he's looked four
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Speaker 1: down the stretch, five games to go in his rookie campaign. Man,
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Speaker 1: just like I've always said, keep getting better. UM, I
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Speaker 1: really just want to go go play free, go be me,
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Speaker 1: make plays. UM, And I think just having a great
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Speaker 1: week of practice, trusting the game plan and then just
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Speaker 1: one game day comes letting it rip. That's something that UM.
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Speaker 1: As this season's gone on, obviously there's been like we
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Speaker 1: set ups and downs and a lot of stuff going on,
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Speaker 1: and UM, that's the one thing I need to be
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Speaker 1: consistent on and just go out there and play and
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Speaker 1: just be myself. And that's something I want to do
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Speaker 1: a better job of. UM, don't play in a box.
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Speaker 1: I just go play free. And that's something I really
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Speaker 1: really want to do, especially finishing out this season. Build
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Speaker 1: on something. UM, like you said, go stack some wins
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Speaker 1: and feel good about the year. Obviously didn't go exactly
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Speaker 1: as planned, but still we can we can finish well.
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Speaker 1: And have something to to build on for next year. Lucky.
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Speaker 1: If you're Trevor Lawrence, how do you not play in
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Speaker 1: a box? And how do you go play free to
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Speaker 1: that have a stretch? I mean, I think if you
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Speaker 1: takeaways one, Trevor is very transparent and I appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: I think we all can sense the frustration. Um, he
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Speaker 1: doesn't throw anybody on the bus, but I think he
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Speaker 1: he is frustrated by the way he is either playing
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Speaker 1: or being asked to play. And so when he talks
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Speaker 1: about playing in a box, to me, it feels like
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Speaker 1: he feels like he has these restrictions on him in
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Speaker 1: terms of how he's playing, whether it's real or imagine.
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Speaker 1: That's what he's saying. The other thing he's saying is, look, man,
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Speaker 1: the year didn't go the way that I wanted. But
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Speaker 1: what I can't control is I'm gonna rip it. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna let it play, and I'm a build upon the
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Speaker 1: last five games to use it as a launching pad
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Speaker 1: for next year. And so I kind of think like this,
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Speaker 1: this is a thing amongst players. Sometimes you have to
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Speaker 1: play around the coaching, you know, and not taking a
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Speaker 1: shot at anybody who was involved with the offensive game
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Speaker 1: plans and those things, but sometimes the best players have
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Speaker 1: to put it on themselves to make plays, regardless of
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Speaker 1: what that looks like inside and outside of the game plan.
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Speaker 1: I feel like Trevor maybe a little more of the
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Speaker 1: Gunslinger Trevor Lawrence in the coming weeks, because this way
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Speaker 1: that he's playing right now certainly doesn't suit the way
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Speaker 1: that he has always played, and we're losing games anyway.
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Speaker 1: I think Trevor is about the letter rip. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: tough because I agree with what a lot of Bucky said.
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Speaker 1: And then there's also the element you try to put
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Speaker 1: yourself in the kid's shoes, meaning your twelve games in.
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Speaker 1: You've never gone through this before, and you've gone through
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Speaker 1: the process. Remember how it was when you first got
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Speaker 1: here JP. You didn't know what was going on around here,
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Speaker 1: didn't know where the bathrooms were. You had to depend
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Speaker 1: on the other zone for that is what you did. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but the point being, you know that first year in
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Speaker 1: anything is a transition. So Trevor, I think has probably
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Speaker 1: spent a lot of this year just trying to figure out, Okay,
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Speaker 1: this is what the NFL is about, this is what's different.
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Speaker 1: Um he said something later in the press conference that
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Speaker 1: was interesting to me where he talked about, uh and
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Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing it, Okay, there are times during the rookie
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Speaker 1: season that you're figuring out what's going on, You're figure
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Speaker 1: out what you have to do in this situation, and
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Speaker 1: then you sort of come out of that and you're like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm done working on that fundamental I've I've pushed through that.
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Speaker 1: And then I think he was talking about the focus
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Speaker 1: coming back a little bit of Okay, that was the learning.
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Speaker 1: That was a week where I was trying not to
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Speaker 1: throw an interception. Okay, I'm starting to get it a
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Speaker 1: little more now, and you can sort of hear that
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Speaker 1: in his voice of I've I've gone through some lessons,
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Speaker 1: I've gone through some learning. Now he feels a little
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Speaker 1: more ready to just go play with the stuff that
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Speaker 1: he's already learned. So you hear a lot of quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: talk about that. A lot of rookie quarterbacks talk about it,
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Speaker 1: and that's what the free stuff is. Um. It would
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Speaker 1: be cool in the last five games to see that
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Speaker 1: come to fruition and to see him play loose and
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Speaker 1: to do the things that he's talking about. I hope
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Speaker 1: that what we heard in that becomes reality. That would
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Speaker 1: be cool. John, Well, I mean when I say that,
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Speaker 1: I mean he's been through a lot and he's learning.
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Speaker 1: He's taking some heat the talents there, and there have
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Speaker 1: been times this season, Bucky where you looked at him
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Speaker 1: and thought, this is a kid who's playing I don't
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Speaker 1: say tight, but still trying to figure it out. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's still like you're driving on ice a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Don't want to make a mistake here, doing a mistake there,
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Speaker 1: in this, in this This was the first time today
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Speaker 1: that I had heard him talk about Okay, I think
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Speaker 1: I'm getting it a little bit. I've learned some lessons
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Speaker 1: and now it's time to just go use that stuff. Yeah, John,
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Speaker 1: to even taking a step further. Um, I think what
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Speaker 1: Trevor is realizing the NFL game is so much different
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Speaker 1: than the college game in terms of how players and
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Speaker 1: coaches interact. Like, yes, there's a little subservient nature to it,
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Speaker 1: like when you're in college, like, hey, the coach says this,
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Speaker 1: I'm the player. I just go do whatever the coach says.
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Speaker 1: I feel like he's kind of growing into what franchise
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks eventually do. Franchise quarterbacks. It's more of a partnership
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Speaker 1: than a dictatorship from head coach there. It's a partnership
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Speaker 1: between the coaching staff and the quarterback to figure out
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Speaker 1: what's best for him in the offense. And I feel
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Speaker 1: like Trevor is kind of looking around the league and
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Speaker 1: seeing how some of the top quarterbacks are playing, looking
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Speaker 1: at how some of the rookies are playing, particularly Mac Jones,
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Speaker 1: and there's a competitive street desk. Hey, man, I can
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Speaker 1: do the same stuff if I'm giving the freedom to
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Speaker 1: do that, or if I find a way to be
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Speaker 1: free enough to do it. I think he wants to
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Speaker 1: kind of let it go so we can have some
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Speaker 1: of the success and some others that happen. Well, he
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Speaker 1: can darn shirt throw three times a game. He can't
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Speaker 1: do that now. And and and final thing, the gun
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Speaker 1: slinger thing and the playing free. JP and Buck you
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Speaker 1: both watched the game last week. It felt like that
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Speaker 1: flashed a couple of times last week where he guns
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Speaker 1: and passes in he just through. Uh, And it felt
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Speaker 1: like there were some moments there last week where he
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Speaker 1: just did it physically again, and Uh, maybe he's yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't play too much psychoanalysis analysis, but um, maybe
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Speaker 1: that's playing into a little bit too. Hey, I just
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Speaker 1: gotta throw the ball lay. Yeah. I think I think
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Speaker 1: that's some of that. And I'm sure he is probably
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Speaker 1: saw a council inside and outside the building, and I'm
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Speaker 1: sure the advice that people are saying at some point, dude,
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Speaker 1: hey man, just let it rip. You're good rip interceptions, interceptions,
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Speaker 1: be darn just let it rip. Because what a lot
15:33
Speaker 1: of people didn't realize about Pat mahomes first year when
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Speaker 1: he was on the practice field, Andy reading those guys
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Speaker 1: encouraged him to make every throw in the book, interceptions
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Speaker 1: and not so you can figure out what you can
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Speaker 1: and what you can do in this league. And I
15:47
Speaker 1: think there comes a point where Trevor Lawrence where hey man,
15:49
Speaker 1: you don't want to make the interception or whatever, but
15:51
Speaker 1: at some point you want us figure out what can
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Speaker 1: I fit in and what can I do? So then
15:56
Speaker 1: going into next year, I can play the game a
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Speaker 1: little close such to the edge of the line, we're
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Speaker 1: off and running. Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks has brought
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Speaker 1: to the Tennessee Titans when we return and huddle up
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Speaker 1: with Bucky Brooks on the Jaguars Digital Network, Jackie, everybody stood, then,
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Speaker 1: you know you're talking about this season that we want
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Speaker 1: to have the season that we haven't had yet. You
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Speaker 1: know we're going to continue to play everybody with the best.
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Speaker 1: They're simply that. So I think the names, the accolades,
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Speaker 1: I think all that is out the door now is
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Speaker 1: at the point where you're gonna come out there and compete.
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Speaker 1: I don't care who they dressed up, but who's playing.
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Speaker 1: I don't matter. I'm gonna treating nady to that's out there. So, um,
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Speaker 1: haven't really even did deep into what person there though,
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Speaker 1: Who's They're gonna have a little bit plans have each
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Speaker 1: other come back. It's yes, it's so many unanswered questions.
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Speaker 1: But like I said, man, we got a point now
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Speaker 1: we gotta pay great football. I don't care who's out there,
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Speaker 1: but who's going. Let's Shakill Griffin, Jaguar's cornerback, and welcome
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Speaker 1: back to huddle up with Buck you Brooks on a
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Speaker 1: Wednesday afternoon J P. Shadrick, John Oser and Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 1: The Jaguars faced the Tennessee Titans. Titans are eight and four,
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Speaker 1: they're fighting for the number one seed in the a
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Speaker 1: f C. They lost it the other week. They've had
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Speaker 1: the week off on the bye week this past week.
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Speaker 1: The Titans are three and oh after the bye and
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Speaker 1: the Mike vrabel eras head coach since eighteen, The Jaguars
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Speaker 1: since eighteen are oh and six against teams coming off
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Speaker 1: their bye week. Trying to snap those trends this week
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Speaker 1: against Tennessee, a team that they haven't beaten in Nashville
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Speaker 1: since and a place the Jaguars have only won five
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Speaker 1: times all time since n in that stadium and you're
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Speaker 1: looking at him on your screen right now, oh four,
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Speaker 1: oh five, oh seven, ten and thirteen the only five
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Speaker 1: Jaguars wins at Nissan Stadium in downtown Nashville. So Buck,
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Speaker 1: we got that going for us, say, trying to break
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Speaker 1: all that history this week against the team that's a
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Speaker 1: little deplete, Bucky. The top three yardage players on the
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Speaker 1: team have been out lately, including Derrick Henry, and it
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Speaker 1: kind of changes the way they go about things. It
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Speaker 1: does change the way they go about things because when
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Speaker 1: you don't have Derrick Henry, who is kind of the
18:15
Speaker 1: centerpiece of the offense. It changes everything. And so they've
18:18
Speaker 1: been having success running the ball with a hodgepodge of
18:21
Speaker 1: running back. It's kind of getting it done, but it's
18:23
Speaker 1: just not the same King Henry is a difference make
18:26
Speaker 1: of the best in the league. And then you don't
18:27
Speaker 1: have a j Brown who will come back Julio Jones
18:29
Speaker 1: and schedule to Returnber we'll see if he plays. And
18:32
Speaker 1: so minus your top two receivers, your talk running back,
18:35
Speaker 1: this offense doesn't look like the offense there was really
18:37
Speaker 1: thriving at the beginning of the year. And then the
18:39
Speaker 1: running backs who did play two weeks ago fumble the ball.
18:42
Speaker 1: They had a bunch of fumbles, but balls on the
18:44
Speaker 1: ground all day against New England. Yeah, they ran effectively
18:48
Speaker 1: that um. And and then that's just scary a little
18:52
Speaker 1: bit if you're a Jaguars observer, because this team hasn't
18:54
Speaker 1: stopped the run like they did early in the season.
18:57
Speaker 1: I look, it is not the same Titans team that
19:01
Speaker 1: was eight and two at one point. But the thing
19:05
Speaker 1: that concerns you as a Jaguars matchup when you're trying
19:08
Speaker 1: to find the matchup. They're still gonna run, They're still
19:11
Speaker 1: gonna be physical, it's still gonna be cold, They're still
19:14
Speaker 1: gonna keep doing it and doing it, doing it. I
19:18
Speaker 1: I am anxious in this game to see how the
19:21
Speaker 1: Jaguars play in the second half. Uh. Is this a
19:26
Speaker 1: team that's going to be willing to continue to hit,
19:29
Speaker 1: to continue to play hard against a physical team. There's
19:32
Speaker 1: been times jp you've seen the games, there's been times
19:35
Speaker 1: up there in the past where you felt like they
19:37
Speaker 1: weren't willing to hit in the second half. And you
19:43
Speaker 1: want to be watching for that this week because that's
19:45
Speaker 1: a big storyline of me. I think it is a
19:48
Speaker 1: big I think it's a big storyline, John, because here's
19:51
Speaker 1: the thing about the Tennessee Titans, their superpowers, their physicality
19:54
Speaker 1: and toughness. If they can make it a wreck backyard,
19:57
Speaker 1: bro Uh, the game goes there way because that's that's
20:01
Speaker 1: kind of like their only path to victory, even when
20:04
Speaker 1: they have all their weapons intact. They want to beat
20:07
Speaker 1: you up. They want to take you to the deep water,
20:09
Speaker 1: and they want to drown you in the fourth quarter,
20:11
Speaker 1: and so the Jaguars have to show that they're willing
20:13
Speaker 1: to engage in that kind of battle, and a lot
20:16
Speaker 1: of times teams collapse and fold in the third and
20:20
Speaker 1: fourth quarters because they don't want to endure that kind
20:23
Speaker 1: of beat up physical session. So I happen with the
20:26
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill, So I happened with the l A. Rams
20:28
Speaker 1: dealing with the Tennessee Titans. We'll see if the Jaguars
20:31
Speaker 1: want to deal with that kind of game and the
20:34
Speaker 1: challenges when you're too inten and you haven't had a
20:37
Speaker 1: lot of things go your way, something good has to
20:41
Speaker 1: happen early for the Jaguars to fight the good fight.
20:43
Speaker 1: For sixty minutes, JP Bucky just dropped an analogy where
20:47
Speaker 1: somebody who was being taken to the deep water and drowned.
20:52
Speaker 1: I'm not I was thinking, and maybe we hang out
20:57
Speaker 1: the senior bowl of me and but again, I'm gonna
21:00
Speaker 1: have somebody else there with me. Think again, like he's
21:03
Speaker 1: going solo. It's been a long season for but yeah,
21:07
Speaker 1: he's had enough to in Tennessee. Man. Yeah, man, it's
21:16
Speaker 1: it's been bleak over here. Good guys, have a yeah, right,
21:22
Speaker 1: I'll cheer you out, by the way. Weather forecast Sunday
21:25
Speaker 1: in Nashville. Low of thirty, high of fifty two and sunshine.
21:28
Speaker 1: There's some rain in the forecast Saturday, so of course
21:31
Speaker 1: that could slide. So not as cold as it has
21:34
Speaker 1: been over history. There, let's come back. We've got some
21:36
Speaker 1: social media questions. When your turn, We'll here from urban
21:40
Speaker 1: Meyer again today. He spoke with the media on Wednesday,
21:43
Speaker 1: and this is Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks on the
21:44
Speaker 1: Jaguars Digital Network. Maybe decision that we're gonna do that
21:56
Speaker 1: at all positions. So we started special teams with about
21:59
Speaker 1: a fifteen play highlight us an incredible hundred nine yard
22:02
Speaker 1: kickoff return, a hundred yard kickoff return, great efforts and
22:07
Speaker 1: um so if I just feel a better sent better
22:09
Speaker 1: fuel right now and going into the last five games
22:11
Speaker 1: is five games season to approach you're going to have
22:14
Speaker 1: and uh, let's everybody give your best effort because your
22:17
Speaker 1: best version of yourself is really good. Our best our
22:20
Speaker 1: worst version of ourselves fairly bad. But that's really that's
22:24
Speaker 1: in all walks of life. Let's haid coach Urban Meyer
22:28
Speaker 1: today and welcome back. It's out of up with Bucky Brooks,
22:30
Speaker 1: j P Shadrick, John Osier and NFL Network analyst Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 1: The inaugural Jacksonville Barbecue Festivals coming up this weekend December
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22:51
Speaker 1: I think it's safe to say that if we saw
22:54
Speaker 1: you at the barbecue fest, that might be the worst
22:57
Speaker 1: version of you or or the best version of myself.
23:03
Speaker 1: Depends on your outlook. Yeah, depends. Let's go to social
23:09
Speaker 1: media questions and most people are their best on social
23:13
Speaker 1: media's Yes, yes, we know that. UM. Social media question
23:17
Speaker 1: number one today from at Ratus Johansson. What could the
23:22
Speaker 1: treatment of James Robinson over the last couple of games
23:24
Speaker 1: do for the rest of the locker room and how
23:26
Speaker 1: can the coaching staff reverse any negatives from this buckey.
23:31
Speaker 1: I mean, look, it can make the rest of the
23:33
Speaker 1: locker room looks out when he's at the coaching staff
23:35
Speaker 1: and just trying to figure out what's going on. Why
23:38
Speaker 1: wasn't it being communicated. So it's really important that Coach
23:41
Speaker 1: Meyer clears all of that up with the players and
23:44
Speaker 1: the Sas about a new protocol, so everyone understands how
23:47
Speaker 1: those things are going to run in terms of chain
23:50
Speaker 1: of command, playing time rotations, all that that needs to
23:53
Speaker 1: be cleared up. And then going forward, I think for everybody,
23:57
Speaker 1: when you're losing right now, when you have five games left,
24:00
Speaker 1: I think coaches evaluating players, players are evaluating the coaches
24:03
Speaker 1: trying to figure out who's going to be around going forward.
24:07
Speaker 1: And so look, I think it's one of those conversations
24:10
Speaker 1: where coach Mike has to have a very transparent conversation
24:12
Speaker 1: with the team, the team has to be receptive, and
24:14
Speaker 1: everybody has to go on the same direction board. For Yeah,
24:17
Speaker 1: I mean it's uh, As I said earlier, clearly there
24:22
Speaker 1: was some level of disconnect between j Rob and the coach,
24:25
Speaker 1: so clear that up not have that be for the
24:29
Speaker 1: last five games. Uh, In the NFL, there can be Uh.
24:34
Speaker 1: Five weeks is a long time. I think about where
24:38
Speaker 1: the Jaguars were five weeks ago. So yes, something like
24:42
Speaker 1: this can feel much different at the end of the
24:44
Speaker 1: season than it does now. Let's move along. Social question
24:47
Speaker 1: number two today on Twitter busy place these days that
24:51
Speaker 1: Zack Bierman, given the challenges we have with skill position players,
24:55
Speaker 1: how difficult is it to assess Trevor's progress? Additionally, what
24:59
Speaker 1: should we be looking for from Trevor the last quarter
25:01
Speaker 1: of the season to show he's moving in the right direction.
25:06
Speaker 1: It's really hard to assess whi Trevor is. I think
25:08
Speaker 1: there are a couple of different things. Um, when you're
25:11
Speaker 1: evaluated looking at Trevor, you look at the natural arm talent,
25:14
Speaker 1: you look at the natural ability and those things. Then
25:17
Speaker 1: what you're trying to figure out is how impact is
25:20
Speaker 1: he by the players around him? Does he have enough
25:23
Speaker 1: uh speed on the outside where he can push the
25:25
Speaker 1: ball down the field and he's not pushing it because
25:27
Speaker 1: he doesn't have that. Can his guys consistently separate and
25:30
Speaker 1: get open? What is he lacking? What would help him
25:33
Speaker 1: get better? And then the final part of it, you're
25:35
Speaker 1: looking how is the scheme helping him play the game
25:39
Speaker 1: in an easier, more comfortable fashion. Are they doing things
25:43
Speaker 1: for him to make it easy? And so when you
25:46
Speaker 1: do all of those assessments and evaluations, first thing that
25:49
Speaker 1: the coach has, Coach Meyer has to assess this, Okay,
25:52
Speaker 1: what kind of players do we have to get around
25:53
Speaker 1: him to allow him to get better? And then the
25:56
Speaker 1: other thing is what can we do schematically to maximize
25:59
Speaker 1: this sound as a franchise quarterback. Yeah, in terms of
26:03
Speaker 1: how difficult is it, it's brutally difficult to try to
26:05
Speaker 1: figure out. Uh, he's not as accurate as he needs
26:09
Speaker 1: to be his decision making. I don't think it's quite
26:12
Speaker 1: as quick as it was early in the season. But
26:16
Speaker 1: that also feels scumulative to me because it was quick
26:18
Speaker 1: early in the season, So that leads you to think, uh,
26:23
Speaker 1: you know, not on the same page and not having
26:28
Speaker 1: the weapons to go make the plays has had with
26:31
Speaker 1: a you know, accumulati effect, a domino effect. I think
26:34
Speaker 1: it all ties in together, but I don't know how
26:39
Speaker 1: the coaches certainly have to assess and do the things
26:41
Speaker 1: that Bucky's talking about. From an observer's point of view,
26:45
Speaker 1: I think it's really difficult to truly assess where Trevor
26:48
Speaker 1: Lawrence is. Right now, let's get one final social question
26:51
Speaker 1: in question three that Dandon Thomas, since the playoffs are
26:57
Speaker 1: mostly out of the question, do you play the younger
27:00
Speaker 1: guys like Little Cisco and Smith? Now, yes, yes, yes, yes,
27:08
Speaker 1: and it should have happened earlier in the season. That's
27:11
Speaker 1: scout guy talking Wow, that's the scouting play play the guys,
27:17
Speaker 1: let him get experienced. The only way you get good
27:19
Speaker 1: at football is by playing football. I don't know what
27:22
Speaker 1: we're saving them for, like playing them the last five games.
27:25
Speaker 1: I would expect to see war a little on the field.
27:27
Speaker 1: I'll expect to see Andre Cisco and any other newbie
27:31
Speaker 1: that's out there. Put them on the field, because the
27:33
Speaker 1: only way you're gonna know what you have and how
27:36
Speaker 1: they can get better over the offseason is you gotta
27:38
Speaker 1: get him in the game. You can't be afraid to
27:40
Speaker 1: play the young players. I'll put on my coaching hat now, Buck,
27:43
Speaker 1: because you know, the coaches feel a little differently than
27:45
Speaker 1: the scout there. Uh and I get it, but it's
27:50
Speaker 1: tough for coaches to play guys if they don't think
27:53
Speaker 1: they're the best guy available. I'm with you on this
27:56
Speaker 1: right right now. But with five games to go, I
27:57
Speaker 1: think you play the young guys. But you also know
28:00
Speaker 1: that there's that pushing poll there. You know what I
28:03
Speaker 1: would say if I was a scout in the room,
28:05
Speaker 1: I would ask the coaches, how's that working for you?
28:08
Speaker 1: How is it working playing those other guys playing? How's
28:11
Speaker 1: he working? Was sitting in two and ten hey man
28:13
Speaker 1: play the young guys because we could a young guys
28:16
Speaker 1: playing is not that much of a difference. It's why
28:21
Speaker 1: he's a former Scott. I think probably come back in
28:26
Speaker 1: a moment final thoughts ahead of the Jags of the Titans,
28:30
Speaker 1: A tuddle up with Bucky Brooks and the Jaguars Digital
28:33
Speaker 1: Network Welcome back final moments of huddle up with Bucky Brooks,
28:42
Speaker 1: the Jaguars and the Tennessee Titans. Ryan Tannehill the one
28:48
Speaker 1: of the big names still available for Tennessee. Derrick Henry
28:52
Speaker 1: is out. We'll see about Julio Jones, J J. Brown's
28:55
Speaker 1: out well. Tannehill six and two in his career against
28:59
Speaker 1: the Jaguars with a one six team passer rating. That's
29:03
Speaker 1: what this time with Miami and with Tennessee and the
29:05
Speaker 1: Jags defense will try to get it going this week
29:08
Speaker 1: against Tennessee, the first place team in the ANFC South
29:11
Speaker 1: and the team fighting for the number one seed. Tough
29:15
Speaker 1: place to play, Bucky for this franchise. What you what
29:18
Speaker 1: do you think this is going on Sunday? I think
29:22
Speaker 1: it's a tough battle obviously, just because the Tennessee Titans
29:25
Speaker 1: are coming off to bye week. They have a lot
29:26
Speaker 1: ahead in them. Uh, they need this game because the
29:30
Speaker 1: ANFC is really tightened up at the top, so they're
29:33
Speaker 1: gonna be at their best. I think the thing for
29:35
Speaker 1: the Jaguars is, if I'm urban, my everything is about
29:38
Speaker 1: just trying to figure out a way to win the
29:40
Speaker 1: first quarter, because if Jaguars can win the first quarter,
29:42
Speaker 1: that told give them a little shot shotow light doing
29:45
Speaker 1: into the rest of the game. Right now. Look, it's
29:48
Speaker 1: been tough. It's been tough because defensively, they don't believe
29:51
Speaker 1: in the offense. The offense hasn't scored enough points to
29:53
Speaker 1: kind of keep them in games. I think everything has
29:55
Speaker 1: to be pull out all the stops in the first
29:58
Speaker 1: quarter to see if you can get the game to
30:00
Speaker 1: the second quarter, and maybe then at halftime you have
30:03
Speaker 1: a chance, and then you just kind of try to
30:05
Speaker 1: figure out a way to finish the game. Yeah. I mean,
30:08
Speaker 1: they haven't led since uh beating the Bills. I believe
30:14
Speaker 1: in the last four games they haven't led. Uh, They've
30:17
Speaker 1: trailed by double digits in the first half of each
30:19
Speaker 1: of those games. Fought back twice, but coming back from
30:25
Speaker 1: double digits, it's a tough way to make a living,
30:27
Speaker 1: and uh so I agree with But see if somehow
30:31
Speaker 1: you can be in the game in the second quarter
30:33
Speaker 1: and then see how your defense is really playing. People
30:36
Speaker 1: criticizing the defense right now, I wrote on on Sunday night,
30:41
Speaker 1: this didn't feel like a defense to me the other
30:43
Speaker 1: day that had quit. It felt like a defense that
30:45
Speaker 1: did all its could all it could and then there
30:49
Speaker 1: was nothing left to give. Give them a little more
30:51
Speaker 1: to play for and second half and see what happened.
30:53
Speaker 1: It would be nice, Bucky, and enjoy your latte. I'm
31:00
Speaker 1: looking forward. I'm looking forward to it. We'll talk to
31:03
Speaker 1: you soon. Man, Bucky Brooks out of here. NFL Network
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