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Bucky Brooks on the Start of OTAs | Huddle Up · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Huddle Up Podcast. Today
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  Speaker 1: is Wednesday, May twenty second, JP Shadwick, John Oser from
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  Speaker 1: the Hundai studios at the Miller Electric Center.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks is with us in person this week.
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  Speaker 2: Bucky, how are you come on?
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  Speaker 3: If you know? I'm gonna be it, you know, because
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  Speaker 3: I really believe practice makes perfect and so I want
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  Speaker 3: to make sure that I was here for that.
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  Speaker 2: See how these guys are practicing.
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  Speaker 4: Digging.
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  Speaker 2: We're digg into some most days because it matters.
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  Speaker 1: We need some stats from day one, two stats.
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  Speaker 3: We just we just need to make sure that everyone
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  Speaker 3: looks to part. We want to be really excited about
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  Speaker 3: those those guys and how they're looking.
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  Speaker 4: It was a great first day.
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  Speaker 2: Little rainy for my taste, Little too rainy for my taste.
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  Speaker 2: Them too, they went inside. Yeah, little too rainy for
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  Speaker 2: my taste. But I'm trying to get used to that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's hear from head coach Doug Peterson before practice, what
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  Speaker 1: do they need to get out of the next few weeks?
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  Speaker 2: Stay healthy?
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  Speaker 5: Look this this next phase is it's good to be
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  Speaker 5: able to do a little competition, to compete against each other,
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  Speaker 5: but you know, within the rules it's we got to
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  Speaker 5: make sure we protect each other. You just don't want
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  Speaker 5: the injuries. We're still again, we're still teaching and learning
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  Speaker 5: and developing and you know all of that. So you know,
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  Speaker 5: I don't really go into it with a lot of
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  Speaker 5: depth charts in mind, you know. I mean, we're trying
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  Speaker 5: to get everybody opportunity to put them on you know,
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  Speaker 5: put them on film and see what we do have.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that was his first answer. We heard the
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  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator later a couple of times say there's no
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  Speaker 1: depth charts. I think three or four times we heard
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  Speaker 1: that before going out.
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  Speaker 2: So clean slate, clean slate, wide open.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, before we can get to competing, we got
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  Speaker 3: to make sure that we're teaching and learning.
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  Speaker 4: And it played to that, didn't it. Bucky were standing
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  Speaker 4: on the sidelines, especially on defense, it really did look
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  Speaker 4: like they were trying different combinations and there were times
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  Speaker 4: where you couldn't quite tell, Hey, is is the quote
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  Speaker 4: first team in the second team in Uh, maybe I'm
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  Speaker 4: exaggerating a little bit, but it did feel like they
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  Speaker 4: stuck to that approach.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it looked like musical chairs out there, particularly when
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  Speaker 3: you watched the linebackers and stuff like who's who were No,
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  Speaker 3: who's on first?
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  Speaker 2: That's what it was like. I mean, you're trying to
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  Speaker 2: figure out was he Sam Isy Mike? As you will?
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  Speaker 3: Same thing in the secondary guys playing corner and nickel
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  Speaker 3: and those things, and what you would like to do
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  Speaker 3: when you have a new defensive staff coming over and
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  Speaker 3: a chance to really hit a reset on the program. Hey, guys,
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  Speaker 3: whatever happened previously doesn't matter. We're gonna just open it up.
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  Speaker 3: We want to treat this part of the off season
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  Speaker 3: program where we're just learning.
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  Speaker 2: You're getting developing your mastering the techniques.
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  Speaker 3: When we come back for training camp, that's when the
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  Speaker 3: competitive part kicks in, and that's when you'll be evaluated
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  Speaker 3: on your production and your performance and those things. But
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  Speaker 3: right now, let's focus on learning what you need to learn.
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  Speaker 3: So when we come back, we compete and compete at
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  Speaker 3: a high level.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think too, though, Bucky, that it's a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of a product of how they are going to
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  Speaker 4: play it, meaning it's not gonna be as hard fast
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  Speaker 4: as we are a four to three four and then
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  Speaker 4: we are a nickel with a nickel safety coming in
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  Speaker 4: replacing one guy on third down, you fall because JP
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  Speaker 4: and I have talked about it a lot off season
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  Speaker 4: as of you just the difference kind of looks they're
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  Speaker 4: going to have. So maybe that's part of it too, right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, part of his learning the player. Just one thing
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  Speaker 3: to know the player from tape. It's another thing to
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  Speaker 3: watch them perform on the grass and you can have
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  Speaker 3: these ideas and theories on how you want to play,
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  Speaker 3: and so.
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  Speaker 2: You actually see the players that you have.
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  Speaker 3: This gives them an opportunity to look at the players
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  Speaker 3: on the grass in the scheme and then try to
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  Speaker 3: find is there a better position to put this player
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  Speaker 3: to maximize who we can be and how he can
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  Speaker 3: help our team. I just think it's you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: interesting when you talk to players and you talk to
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  Speaker 3: guys and they just talked about how clear the plan is,
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  Speaker 3: how clear the teaching and instruction has been. When you
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  Speaker 3: talk to Ryan Nilson on the side and he said, look, man,
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  Speaker 3: we were intentional about the coaches that we hired.
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  Speaker 2: We wanted really good teachers.
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  Speaker 3: And maybe there's a feeling that there's look, there's more
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  Speaker 3: juice that can be squeezed out of this orange, that
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  Speaker 3: some of these players have more talent that they can
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  Speaker 3: give up. And if we can find a way the
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  Speaker 3: team and make sure that we make it clear for them,
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  Speaker 3: maybe they can play fast and with faster play it
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  Speaker 3: leads to more performance.
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  Speaker 1: Is obviously on the defensive side, that's all happening, But
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  Speaker 1: what about the offensive side. I mean, there's some new
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  Speaker 1: faces there offensive line. It's hard to tell right now
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  Speaker 1: because there's no contact going on. One of the new
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  Speaker 1: receivers is not practiced yet. And gave Davis, you got
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  Speaker 1: the rookies out there. From an offensive perspective, how does
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  Speaker 1: this go?
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  Speaker 2: No, I think there's some of that too.
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  Speaker 3: I do still think that last year, given the issues
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  Speaker 3: that we had amongst the receiver corps, some of the
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  Speaker 3: young players not appearing to know what was going on,
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  Speaker 3: that maybe the entire off season been dedicated and let's
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  Speaker 3: clean the picture up for everybody. Let's try and like
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  Speaker 3: because people think when you simplify that you're really cutting down.
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  Speaker 3: It's not necessarily simplifying the concepts you're using. But can
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  Speaker 3: we make the instruction streamline so everyone understands what we're doing.
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  Speaker 3: And I do believe that on both sides of the ball,
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  Speaker 3: and even in the kicking game, they're trying to do
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  Speaker 3: simple better?
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  Speaker 2: How can we make what we're doing as simple as possible.
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  Speaker 3: Let's do it the best that we can be, and
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  Speaker 3: let's just see how talented we cannot talent when executing
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  Speaker 3: simple schemes? Can that lead to more wins and more
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  Speaker 3: consistency on Sundays, I.
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  Speaker 4: May be asking you the question you already answered, but
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  Speaker 4: you've always talked to me about how the Doug Peterson offense.
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  Speaker 4: One of the traits is if there's four receivers on
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  Speaker 4: the field, in theory, all four of those receivers could
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  Speaker 4: run all four maske chairs. Yeah, is it possible to
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  Speaker 4: be simple if that's the base of what you do.
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  Speaker 2: So there is possible to be simple.
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  Speaker 3: But then it goes to the type of players that
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  Speaker 3: you bring inky, and so in the off season we
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  Speaker 3: have seen a concerted effort to bring in I would say,
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  Speaker 3: emotionally mature, veteran players, guys who have high IQ's, high
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  Speaker 3: football IQ's, and those things. I think now it's probably
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  Speaker 3: apparent to the Jags like the type of players that they.
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  Speaker 2: Want for Doug Peterson.
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  Speaker 3: After after two years, he probably he has a clear
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  Speaker 3: sense like, hey, here's what we need. We need high
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  Speaker 3: Q guys, guys that are professional guys that really love it,
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  Speaker 3: so they're going to put the time in to know it.
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  Speaker 3: But then here's what we need to do as coaches.
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  Speaker 3: Let's make sure we're putting them in a situation to win.
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  Speaker 3: Let's eliminate the gray. Let's make it very black or white.
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  Speaker 2: You're either doing this or that.
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  Speaker 3: But don't give the player too many options, because the
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  Speaker 3: worst thing you can do to a player is put
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  Speaker 3: doubt and uncertainty.
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  Speaker 2: In his mind.
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  Speaker 3: And if you can just streamline that, make it clear,
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  Speaker 3: but they know exactly what they're doing, then you see
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  Speaker 3: a faster player. And then you'll see some of the
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  Speaker 3: mistakes that plagued us last year.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe those will be eliminated.
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  Speaker 1: Back in a moment, we'll take a quick glance at
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  Speaker 1: the schedule. I know you guys did that on jags
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  Speaker 1: Am earlier this week, and then we'll.
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  Speaker 2: Get you out of here. Bucky, how about that?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, whatever you want, I mean, you know, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Huddle Up Podcast. JP Shadwick, John Oser,
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  Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks from the Miller Electric Center in the Hyundai Studios.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you's guys still got to put it together on
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  Speaker 1: Let's hear from a new face for the Jaguars, Mitch
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  Speaker 1: Morse Center for the Jags. You know, it's not really
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  Speaker 1: a physical time of year. There's no contact, so it
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  Speaker 1: can be difficult on the offensive line. But I asked
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  Speaker 1: him after practice, you know, when do you know that
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  Speaker 1: it is a physical group?
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  Speaker 2: Where does that begin?
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  Speaker 6: I think it can be as physical as you want,
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  Speaker 6: but all you have to execute on everyone's going to
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  Speaker 6: be on the same page. Some of the best offensive
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  Speaker 6: lines I've seen have been physical, yes, but they've all
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  Speaker 6: worked in unison together, so it'll all be kind of
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  Speaker 6: working as I don't know, one heart beat is kind
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  Speaker 6: of thrown around a bit, but all having the same
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  Speaker 6: one heart beat and kind of working together. And that's
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  Speaker 6: what the great thing about it to you is we
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  Speaker 6: got to figure out how to do up all right.
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  Speaker 1: So he's a new face as of Cleveland played one
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  Speaker 1: game right last year. We'll call him a new face
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  Speaker 1: as well. And that's where this is the time of
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  Speaker 1: year comes in. Handing for an offensive line, you get
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  Speaker 1: the timing down, you get used to the surroundings on
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  Speaker 1: the line, and because everybody's physical at some point, as
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  Speaker 1: Doug Peterson said the other week, it's the physical game.
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  Speaker 1: It's the NFL. It's just a matter of how you
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  Speaker 1: do it a little bit better.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to do it a little better.
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  Speaker 3: And this time you certainly can't bring the physical element,
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  Speaker 3: but you can talk about it, and talking about it
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  Speaker 3: you can kind of create the mindset they want to
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  Speaker 3: be physical and everything that you do. But it's also
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  Speaker 3: acquiring guys that are naturally aggressive like that, guys that
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  Speaker 3: like mixing it up, kind of like guys like pigs
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  Speaker 3: getting a slop, like guys that kind of like waddling around,
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  Speaker 3: and that kind of atmosphere and environment. But as it
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  Speaker 3: relates to the offensive line, all five guys have to
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  Speaker 3: be on the same page. It's the only unit where, man,
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  Speaker 3: you have to be connected. Everyone has to play on
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  Speaker 3: the string. And the only way that you can do
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  Speaker 3: that is by getting reps together where you can understand
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  Speaker 3: and kind of feel and finish each other's sentences because
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  Speaker 3: you have that kind of chemistry and continuity.
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  Speaker 2: It is really important.
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  Speaker 3: Given look the revolving door that we saw at the
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  Speaker 3: offensive line, that those guys can learn and grow together,
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  Speaker 3: but more important that they can stay on the field
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  Speaker 3: together by avoiding injuries in those things.
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  Speaker 4: This time of year does matter for the offensive line.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's that's progress.
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  Speaker 4: About two out of ten because of it. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: sit here and say how important it is for the
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  Speaker 4: offensive line to be here, and it is because they
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  Speaker 4: are learning. And then on August first, I'm gonna interview
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  Speaker 4: on the offensive linemen and they're gonna say, yeah, we
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  Speaker 4: really couldn't find anything out until today when we hit,
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  Speaker 4: so you gotta they need this time to get ready
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  Speaker 4: for the time that really matters for the offensive line.
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  Speaker 2: That's circuity.
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  Speaker 4: Me Be and me I get that. We're gonna sit
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  Speaker 4: there and talk about how important it is. And then
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  Speaker 4: on July twenty ninth, the day before pads, all the
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  Speaker 4: offensive line are gonna tell us, Yeah, nothing really mattered
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  Speaker 4: until right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, now it's real.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's real. I mean you have to do that.
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  Speaker 3: But like we're building up, like every day is very
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  Speaker 3: very important. It's very important that you maximize your time
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  Speaker 3: that you have on the field together. How you look Ultimately,
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  Speaker 3: the way that you play is gonna be the way
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  Speaker 3: that you practice, and all those things in the off
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  Speaker 3: season matter, conditioning, getting the techniques right, all of that stuff,
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  Speaker 3: and so we can dismiss it, but it's going to
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  Speaker 3: matter at some point in the season.
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  Speaker 2: How we got together in the off season.
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  Speaker 4: Would say it's particularly important for the offensive line this
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  Speaker 4: year because there's a new center and because for him
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  Speaker 4: to get some continuity with the guys around him matters.
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  Speaker 2: It matters a lot.
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  Speaker 3: The neighborhood matters that offensive line. Neighborhood matters. You got
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  Speaker 3: to know your neighbors, right. You got to know your people.
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  Speaker 3: You got to make sure that you have like those
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  Speaker 3: little those barbecues and cookouts, to know everybody.
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  Speaker 2: In the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 4: Community watching where you fall, guy catches you.
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  Speaker 3: Community community wise, yes, community wise, yeah. Trust we talked
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  Speaker 3: about trust falling. Yes, that's important to do some of
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  Speaker 3: those things. I would anticipate them maybe doing a little
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  Speaker 3: laser tag, little paintball, trying to bring some of that
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  Speaker 3: stuff up. Yeah, bowling all that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Las this week on the hunting soon matters.
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  Speaker 1: We know what who this part of the year is
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  Speaker 1: really four Who's really excited about it. And it's Bucky
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  Speaker 1: Brooks because he flew all the way from Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: and we appreciate you being here.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. Look it matters a lot, you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Dismissing just final thought on what you saw out there
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  Speaker 4: this week.
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  Speaker 2: Final thought, Okay, I am really excited. I think I
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  Speaker 2: talked about it. The vibe is a little different.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like after being embarrassed last year, even though
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  Speaker 3: the record is exactly the same as the previous year,
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  Speaker 3: I think there was a level of embarrassment after going
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  Speaker 3: eight and three and falling apart down the stretch. I
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  Speaker 3: feel like there's more energy, more enthusiasm, but probably more
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  Speaker 3: of a serious approach that we saw from the team.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like the team is probably a little more
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  Speaker 3: professional given some of the additions that were brought in
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  Speaker 3: in free agency and in the draft. And I will
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  Speaker 3: say that when I watch both sides of the ball
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  Speaker 3: and the special teams operate, they're operating with a purpose.
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  Speaker 3: To me, it's very clear that the ug Peterson went
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  Speaker 3: into the off season wanted to re establish the brand,
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  Speaker 3: how they go about their business, how they go about practicing, preparing,
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  Speaker 3: and ultimately the way that they play. He is disappointed
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  Speaker 3: that this team hasn't taken that next step. And I
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  Speaker 3: think what you're seeing in the off season are a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of little things to kind of set a table
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  Speaker 3: for this team to bounce back in a major way
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  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 4: So there's a plan, and they follow the plan.
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  Speaker 2: Does a plan You always got to follow the plane.
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  Speaker 2: You got to make the plan in the next two plan.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you talk about grades, the great out
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  Speaker 3: as a and hey, yeah, because you talk about following
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  Speaker 3: the plan, that's that's how you do draft grades. We
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  Speaker 3: got a plan, we follow a plan. We stuck to
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  Speaker 3: the plan. We got it, got all the thing that
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  Speaker 3: we needed. A Hey, that's it, simple, simple grading.
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  Speaker 2: Have a safe flight, Bucky. We'll see you next time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, next week, Bucky Brooks, Shodd Ozer, J P. Shaddick
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  Speaker 1: or thanks to Brent Reever. Thanks to you for listening
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  Speaker 1: to the Huddle Up Podcast.