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Bucky Brooks Reacts to Practice Performance vs. Buccaneers | Huddle Up Podcast · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Huddle Up, brought to you by the Field
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Speaker 1: Total Group. Jaguar Senior writer John Osher, NFL Network analyst
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Speaker 1: and former Jaguar Bucky Brooks, and Senior reporter JP Shatterick
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Speaker 1: bring you the latest on your Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Speaker 2: Huddle Up starts right now. Yes it does.
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Speaker 3: A Tuddle Up with Bucky Brooks on this Wednesday, August fourteenth.
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Speaker 3: Go to Fieldsauto dot com. Here's what's coming up on
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Speaker 3: the show today. Joint practices underway the Jaguars in the
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Speaker 3: Buccaneers at the Miller Electric Center. They got underway today.
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Speaker 3: Starters getting work and most of their work will be
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Speaker 3: in those two practices this week. And we are approaching
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Speaker 3: three weeks to kick off weekend to the National Football
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Speaker 3: John Good Afternoon, Bucky Good afternoon, what's up.
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Speaker 4: I'm here, Fellers, what's up. I'm really excited. I hate
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Speaker 4: I missed the joint practice.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you missed some action today. It was clean action,
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Speaker 3: no fighting, none of that stuff going on. It was
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Speaker 3: a lot both teams getting a lot of work done.
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Speaker 3: And you know, they've been working on this thing for
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Speaker 3: a long time. Doug Peterson, we'll hear from the head coach.
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Speaker 3: Let's hear from him right now in fact, talking about
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Speaker 3: the joint practices and what to expect. When did they
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Speaker 3: begin working on this process at least go all the
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Speaker 3: way back.
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Speaker 5: To the spring, when the when the you know, preseason
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Speaker 5: scheduling and and the games. You know, you're talking about
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Speaker 5: games and things of that nature. And you know, so
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Speaker 5: we've we've we've been talking since you know, May quite honestly,
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Speaker 5: and putting everything together and kind of sign off it,
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Speaker 5: you know, sign off on it back then. So that
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Speaker 5: now the coordinators can just get together and and do
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Speaker 5: the scripting and things of that nature.
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Speaker 3: And that scripting over the last week, week and a
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Speaker 3: half or so, they trade person groupings and then they
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Speaker 3: can work more.
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Speaker 2: Efficiently, Bucky.
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Speaker 3: And that's two staffs working together, two groups of players
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Speaker 3: working together to get better.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I kind of like what Doug Peterson talked about a
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Speaker 6: depressor when he talked about it's not really about them,
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Speaker 6: it's about us. It's about being able to get to
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Speaker 6: work in He was talking about the positives of working
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Speaker 6: against another team and a controlled environment. So you get
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Speaker 6: the benefits of playing in the game because the increased intensity,
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Speaker 6: the tempo, the physicality. But it's a controlled environment, so
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Speaker 6: you can protect the quarterback, you don't necessarily tackle to
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Speaker 6: the ground in every drill, and you get to dictate
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Speaker 6: the situation, whether it's two minute, four minute, third down,
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Speaker 6: red zone. You get to put all those things that
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Speaker 6: you want to see from your team, and you get
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Speaker 6: to do it on your term. So I love that part.
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Speaker 6: I know coaches love that. And then it allows you
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Speaker 6: to play your young guys in the game, to see
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Speaker 6: them in game action.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think Doug's approach makes sense, and I'm assuming
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Speaker 7: a lot of coaches take this. You know, you have
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Speaker 7: three preseason games now and people everyone's talking about the
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Speaker 7: preseason doesn't matter, but for evaluation. For Bucky's former World scouting,
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Speaker 7: it does make a difference in terms of evaluation and preps.
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Speaker 7: So Doug really takes these two practices and I think
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Speaker 7: it treats them as two games for the starters in
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Speaker 7: terms of the work they get in terms of valuation
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Speaker 7: and all those things. So they've sort of replaced one
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Speaker 7: of the preseason games with these two practices. And then, obviously,
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Speaker 7: as you said, JP, I don't expect any quote starters.
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Speaker 7: I expect there'd be thirty five guys, well man, that
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Speaker 7: many seventeen to twenty guys for the Jaguars who suit
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Speaker 7: up and don't play, and then they'll come back and
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Speaker 7: play in not preseason week three, but not on Saturday.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it would make sense to me.
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Speaker 3: It's the final work because there's what sixteen days between
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Speaker 3: the last game, fifteen days between the last preseason game
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Speaker 3: and the regular season opener, so that's a lot of
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Speaker 3: time to be sitting off to the side. There would
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Speaker 3: be some practices right before Labor Day weekend, but not
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Speaker 3: the same.
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Speaker 7: And you wonder what the approach would have been if
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Speaker 7: we were still at sixteen games, but yeah.
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Speaker 2: We are not.
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Speaker 3: Certainly day one review, you can tell this is a
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Speaker 3: talented Bucks team. Certainly on defense. They have all Pro
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Speaker 3: and Pro Bowl players at each level of the defense.
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Speaker 3: They've got a wide receiver group Bucky that can hang
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Speaker 3: with pretty much anybody. And uh, this is a talented
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Speaker 3: team down in Southwest Florida.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, really talented, really talented team.
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Speaker 6: And we saw firsthand last year when we got whooped
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Speaker 6: down the stretch how talented this team could be. From
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Speaker 6: a defensive standpoint, they do a lot, They bring a
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Speaker 6: lot of pressure at you. They really challenge your protection schemes.
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Speaker 6: And then they do a really good job of challenging
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Speaker 6: you on the perimeter, either be it man or in
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Speaker 6: zone coverage. And then offensively, Baker Mayfield and that I mean, look,
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Speaker 6: I'm gonna say, a big body crew of pass catchers. Uh,
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Speaker 6: they can make life miserable for young perimeter if you
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Speaker 6: don't have the guys that can really compete with those
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Speaker 6: supersized wide receivers Chris Godwin and Mike Evans.
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Speaker 4: So it's a really good team to go against.
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Speaker 6: Uh, this should be a lot of benefits to being
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Speaker 6: able to play against a team like this for a
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Speaker 6: couple of days before you play a preseason game.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, they have a Hall of Famer wide receiver Mike
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Speaker 7: Evans is is as good as there is. He's one
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Speaker 7: of my favorite players in the NFL to watch. You know,
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Speaker 7: the full disclosure, I had a battery trouble this morning
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Speaker 7: and made it for the very end of practice. Didn't
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Speaker 7: see anything JP. My understanding is the DB's played okay
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Speaker 7: against this spot.
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Speaker 2: It felt like I didn't get to see most of
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Speaker 2: the reps.
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Speaker 3: I was kind of on the other field a lot
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Speaker 3: of the times, but I think they held their own.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for the most part.
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Speaker 3: It's not like Mike Evans went off for like ten
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Speaker 3: catches and a bunch of scores and things. But I
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Speaker 3: was interested to see, you know, how Tyson Campbell held
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Speaker 3: up against a matchup like that in the new style
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Speaker 3: of defense they want to play. And we'll see some
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Speaker 3: more of that tomorrow. To be honest with you, all,
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Speaker 3: flip fields tomorrow and get a better look at the
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Speaker 3: dbs against the wide receivers.
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Speaker 2: Today. For me, it was.
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Speaker 3: Bucks defense against Jaguars offense, especially the Lions.
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Speaker 2: That's what's set out to me.
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Speaker 7: And for a reporting one oh one for people who
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Speaker 7: are listening to this, it is tough at a joint practice.
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Speaker 7: It sounds like, well, you would just watch practice, but
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Speaker 7: the reality is there's really two practices going on. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: there's offense defense and then defense offense on the other side,
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Speaker 7: So it's really impossible to watch if you're trying to
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Speaker 7: watch one on one pass rush, it's really impossible on
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Speaker 7: one day to try to watch that. Try to watch
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Speaker 7: seven on seven. It's particularly hard when you're not there
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Speaker 7: in me and Bucky's case.
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Speaker 3: But I mean, and so there's two fields. And to
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Speaker 3: your point, John, I mean, you got seven on seven
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Speaker 3: on one end of the field of each field, Bucks offense,
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Speaker 3: Jags defense, Jags offense, Bucks defense, and then the other
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Speaker 3: end of each field are the one on one pass
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Speaker 3: rush vice versa. I mean, so that's four hives of
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Speaker 3: activity and you can only be in one place at
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Speaker 3: one time, Bucky, but that's the most efficient way to
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Speaker 3: get it done, and they certainly take the time they
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Speaker 3: are allotted.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, not being able to do that, John, It is right,
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Speaker 6: And it was really a vivid description because that's what happens.
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Speaker 4: You have to pick which practice you're going to attend.
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Speaker 4: Do you want to follow the offense? Are you following
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Speaker 4: the defense? What matters?
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Speaker 6: But I think the defense, like the Jaguars defense, Like
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Speaker 6: that's the one that you're really curious to see, because
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Speaker 6: there's one thing to proclaim to, Hey, you can be
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Speaker 6: a man de man team.
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Speaker 4: You're gonna play man, man, you're gonna.
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Speaker 6: Take away the layups and the shots and force quarterbacks
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Speaker 6: to make these low percentage throws. It's another thing to
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Speaker 6: make sure that your actions match your words when you're
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Speaker 6: facing wide receivers that are in the upper echelne in
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Speaker 6: the league. So look, I give them credit, and I
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Speaker 6: really give the Jaguars defense, the defensive backs a lot
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Speaker 6: of credit because I would say they've surprised me. I
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Speaker 6: know it's only been practice, but I've been pleasantly surprised
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Speaker 6: by the way they've been able to.
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Speaker 4: Go nose to nose and hang in there.
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Speaker 6: And part of that is with an eye towards the
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Speaker 6: season opener when they have to take on the Miami
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Speaker 6: Dolphins and that track team that they have down the
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Speaker 6: South Florida.
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Speaker 7: I have some thoughts on Brian Thomas Junior later because
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Speaker 7: understanding's he looks very good. I think he's looked really
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Speaker 7: good the last few weeks. But I people listening they
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Speaker 7: probably heard there's some stuff on Twitter about the offensive
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Speaker 7: line had its issues today against the Buccaneers front at times.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I would say most of that was in
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Speaker 3: eleven on eleven works right. I think in one on
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Speaker 3: ones for the most part, they were okay, but you
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Speaker 3: could tell there were a lot of times where Trevor
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Speaker 3: had either pressure to his face or would have been sacked.
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Speaker 3: They blew it dead, he threw it anyway, right, there
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Speaker 3: were a number of those that stood out today.
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Speaker 7: So my question to Bucky, first of all, considering the
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Speaker 7: Tampa Bay strength is the interior defensive line, I think
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Speaker 7: that's not unexpected that would happen. Also with offensive line play.
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Speaker 7: They're still working through this thing, right, Bucky, is it
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Speaker 7: or is there a reason to panic? Are you panicked
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Speaker 7: on the West Coast?
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Speaker 4: Bucky? I'm not panicked yet.
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Speaker 6: Like there could be times where, look, they're gonna be
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Speaker 6: overwhelmed from a personnel standpoint, the team elected to kind
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Speaker 6: of keep things status qull. You bring in Mitch Morris,
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Speaker 6: but you go back with Brandon Sheriff, and you're hoping
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Speaker 6: with Ezra Kreelan and Cam Robinson Anton Harrison that you're
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Speaker 6: able to kind of get the kind of performance that
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Speaker 6: you need up front to allow Trevor Lawrence and Travis
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Speaker 6: d Tenn and that permitter crew.
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Speaker 4: To get busy.
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Speaker 6: And there could be some days where you're outmatched and
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Speaker 6: can you find a way to either out effort or
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Speaker 6: out scheme those opponents who have superior personnel on the inside.
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Speaker 8: Today was kind of one of those tests where the coaches.
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Speaker 6: May have to whip the Buccaneers with the power of
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Speaker 6: the pen as opposed to relying on force at the
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Speaker 6: point of attack.
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Speaker 7: And my understanding for clarification, Cam Robinson and Anton Harrison
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Speaker 7: from people I talked to look fine today and the
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Speaker 7: interior struggled a little bit against Villa well most as
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Speaker 7: I said, yeah, I mean they join a long list
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Speaker 7: of people who struggled against that guy. So no reason
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Speaker 7: to panic yet some and to watch tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: We're back in a moment, we'll hear from Eric Armstead
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Speaker 3: and yes, a little later we'll get into Brian Thomas.
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Speaker 2: O'kay look for that at the office.
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Speaker 3: The Jaguars and the Buccaneers joint practice is underway today.
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Speaker 3: They'll get back at it tomorrow. And this is huddle
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Speaker 3: up with Bucky.
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Speaker 9: Brooks Myles to feel good.
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Speaker 10: It's to feel good and uh, you know, get off
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Speaker 10: to a good start in the season and prepare to
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Speaker 10: have a dominant season, but also at the same time
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Speaker 10: realizing that it's a seventeen game season. And you know,
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Speaker 10: when my my goal is always to be my best
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Speaker 10: when my best is needed, and I think I have
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Speaker 10: a great track record of that, and looking at a
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Speaker 10: season as a whole, I want to get off to
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Speaker 10: a good start, obviously, but also I want to be,
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Speaker 10: you know, there for my team when they need me
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Speaker 10: the most, in uh December, in January, in February. So
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Speaker 10: that's always been my goal.
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Speaker 3: Eric Armstead visiting with the media today, Welcome back and
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Speaker 3: suddle up with Bucky Brooks, j P Shadwick, John Ozier
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Speaker 3: in Jacksonville, the middle of Electric Center, the Hundai Studios,
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Speaker 3: Bucky Brooks out in LA. The full press conference from
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Speaker 3: Eric Armstead double A today.
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Speaker 2: Jaguars dot Com.
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Speaker 3: Activated off the physically unable to perform lists today but
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Speaker 3: did not practice in the team portion, and he'll have
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Speaker 3: more work. It sounds like John next week ahead of
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Speaker 3: the Falcons game and probably some time in that ballgame.
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Speaker 7: Yeah you think, I mean, I think he has an
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Speaker 7: acclamation period just like DeShawn does. Right, we have to
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Speaker 7: come back, So that would put him probably a couple
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Speaker 7: of days into next week. Would they put him out
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Speaker 7: there on Friday maybe for a couple of plays. I
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Speaker 7: don't think you need to have to push him back.
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Speaker 7: I think Doug stated several times, and it makes sense.
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Speaker 7: This is a guy who knows how to prepare after
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Speaker 7: ten years, you know, with a defensive end. I don't
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Speaker 7: know that you necessarily have to see a whole lot
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Speaker 7: of him. There's not you know, there's not that much
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Speaker 7: chemistry to develop compare to other positions. So I think
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Speaker 7: you just make sure that he's as physically ready as
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Speaker 7: he can be when it's time to start buck.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. No, you want to give him time to get right.
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Speaker 6: You want to give him time to feel good about
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Speaker 6: what he's being asked to do.
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Speaker 4: Within the defense.
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Speaker 6: You want josh heinz Allen and Trayvon Walker to get
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Speaker 6: used to playing with him, and even though you can't
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Speaker 6: ramp it up to have like full contact stuff with
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Speaker 6: him consistently, you want them just to kind of begin
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Speaker 6: to develop the chemistry that they need. And we have
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Speaker 6: to understand that it may be a slow start for
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Speaker 6: Eric Armstread and this unit up front the first.
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Speaker 8: Three or four games, but you're hoping to accelerate some of.
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Speaker 6: That that process by getting them on the field, getting
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Speaker 6: them acclimated, letting those guys kind of work together and
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Speaker 6: play together to see if we can get off to
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Speaker 6: a really fast start the first month of to.
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Speaker 7: See I have a question for the national analyst, Wow
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Speaker 7: JP oh boy, because it's thirty.
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Speaker 4: How good is he? Bucky?
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Speaker 7: Look, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think what does he really bring?
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Speaker 6: I think he's really good. I think he's long. I
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Speaker 6: think the people were really familiar with Kaleis Campbell. He'll
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Speaker 6: be similar to that. Maybe not as good as Khalais
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Speaker 6: has been at his best, but I think he gives
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Speaker 6: you some of what Kalais would have given you on
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Speaker 6: the inside. Big long, rangy player on the inside, someone
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Speaker 6: that can command attention, to create double teams for the
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Speaker 6: guys outside. And when you think about the prospect of
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Speaker 6: having Josh Allen, Eric Armstead, Trayvon Walker all on the
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Speaker 6: field together, man, that is a supersized front line to
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Speaker 6: be able to deal with. So it's not only what
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Speaker 6: they can do on the pass rush, but how big
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Speaker 6: and how beefy they are when it comes to defending
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Speaker 6: the run.
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Speaker 3: Are there any concerns coming off an injury like this?
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Speaker 3: I mean he's a tenth year player, Bucky, so you
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Speaker 3: know that's always going to be in the back of
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Speaker 3: your mind. Moving ahead, right.
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Speaker 6: Oh one, I mean it's always going to be in
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Speaker 6: the back of your mind like it's an issue. It's
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Speaker 6: an issue because he's been injured and there's some concerns
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Speaker 6: about how how healthy he will be able to play
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Speaker 6: when it comes.
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Speaker 4: To playing seventeen games.
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Speaker 6: But if you're the Jaguars and you can manage his load,
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Speaker 6: what you're hoping to get is an experience, savvy veteran
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Speaker 6: that can help you make plays down the stretch.
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Speaker 8: We talk about the season being a marathon, not a sprint.
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Speaker 6: I think Eric Armstead his value is how we need
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Speaker 6: him to play the last eight games of the season
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Speaker 6: more so than the beginning of the season.
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Speaker 3: We're back in a moment and we'll get on back
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Speaker 3: to the offensive side of the football and Brian Thomas Jr.
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Speaker 2: A couple of highlights today.
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Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, Cortia, he'll.
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Speaker 4: A lot of these guys.
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Speaker 11: Man, I'm old enough to be some of these guys dads.
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Speaker 9: Man.
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Speaker 11: So some of these guys, man, I remember, God was
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Speaker 11: just like I used to watch you in seventh grade
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Speaker 11: and I was just like, men, don't tell me that
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Speaker 11: no more.
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Speaker 9: Man.
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Speaker 11: It's like I was in the sixth grade when you
15:28
Speaker 11: came in the league. So man, obviously, it's just it's
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Speaker 11: humbling that, you know, the respect that the guys have
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Speaker 11: given me since I stepped foot in this locker room,
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Speaker 11: and you know, obviously just being any sort of assistant
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Speaker 11: to these guys. Man, got a lot of great young players, man,
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Speaker 11: So I'm excited to just be able to give those
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Speaker 11: guys what I got physically and mentally for sure.
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Speaker 3: To Sean Gibson, Senior back with the Jaguars, thirteenth year safety,
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Speaker 3: thirty four years of age, welcome back. It's tundled up
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Speaker 3: with Bucky Brooks, JAP, Shadwick, John Hosier, and Jacksonville Bucky
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Speaker 3: Brooks out in Los Angeles. Gibson will miss the first
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Speaker 3: six weeks of the regular season the PD suspension, but
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Speaker 3: back with the Jags, a team he played for for
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Speaker 3: three years, and you know, he's just got to kind
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Speaker 3: of get up to speed here the first couple or
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Speaker 3: last couple of weeks of training camp in preseason and
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Speaker 3: then shut it down for about six weeks. But a
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Speaker 3: veteran player, in theory will be available middle of the season,
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Speaker 3: stretch run and the whole thing.
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Speaker 7: Well, I think there's something to that, having a guy
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Speaker 7: who will be available at the end of the season
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Speaker 7: in the last what seven eight weeks or what eleven weeks?
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Speaker 7: So there is some you know, at first, I guess
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Speaker 7: some of most people, well he's due, he's replacement. Well
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Speaker 7: not really, but you do need depth late in the season.
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Speaker 7: And this is a thing where and Bucky you can
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Speaker 7: probably speak to it more than I can. If you're Trent,
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Speaker 7: you like the idea of, hey, there's gonna be injuries
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Speaker 7: on the team, probably so so this is a guy
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Speaker 7: who will be healthy coming off the suspension. You've got
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Speaker 7: eleven weeks. You don't have to worry about him being prepared.
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Speaker 4: You have.
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Speaker 7: You worried about him ready And a GIP is a
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Speaker 7: good smart player. He was a good player, and he
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Speaker 7: was here. He wasn't the most touted guy on those
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Speaker 7: sixteen to eighteen defenses. But every one of those defenses
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Speaker 7: was really good, and he played sixteen games in all
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Speaker 7: of them, really smart, and I think it's a good
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Speaker 7: safe move.
17:30
Speaker 4: Bucky. Yeah, No, this is an old school move.
17:34
Speaker 6: Like so this is a move that Ron Wolf would
17:37
Speaker 6: make routinely in the middle of the season to bring
17:40
Speaker 6: a veteran for the stretch run. What the Jaguars are
17:44
Speaker 6: able to do. And some of this is also the
17:45
Speaker 6: new rules when it comes to practice squad and those
17:48
Speaker 6: things where you can carry veterans in those things. Not
17:50
Speaker 6: saying that Gibson is going to end up there, but
17:53
Speaker 6: down the stretch when it gets really thick and the
17:55
Speaker 6: pressure rises and you may have injuries, but you may
17:59
Speaker 6: just need a season veteran to be on the field
18:03
Speaker 6: in some capacity just to settle all the.
18:05
Speaker 4: Young guys down.
18:07
Speaker 6: Last year because of the way everything finished, I think
18:10
Speaker 6: the Jaguars are being proactive and making sure they have
18:13
Speaker 6: enough veterans with winning pedigrees to help steer this team
18:18
Speaker 6: to the winner circle if it becomes a very tightly
18:20
Speaker 6: contested deal down the stretch. Gibson gives them that, so
18:24
Speaker 6: the sick game suspension doesn't matter.
18:26
Speaker 4: As much.
18:27
Speaker 6: Much like I talked about with Eric Armstead, the last
18:29
Speaker 6: eight games matter, Gibson is that I think this is
18:33
Speaker 6: the team because we've heard Doug talk about change and development.
18:37
Speaker 6: To develop the team is not just developing the young guys.
18:40
Speaker 6: It's having older guys in the fold to kind of
18:43
Speaker 6: be the elders in the locker room, to talk about
18:46
Speaker 6: these experiences, to show the young guys how to act,
18:48
Speaker 6: how to prepare, how to handle these big pressure games.
18:53
Speaker 6: I think they're doing a more intentional job of stockpiling
18:56
Speaker 6: the locker room with veterans who played in these games
18:59
Speaker 6: to give the team a better chances to perform well
19:01
Speaker 6: down the stretch.
19:02
Speaker 3: From the oldest guy on the roster to one of
19:05
Speaker 3: the newest ten youngest guys Brian Thomas, junior Jaguars wide
19:09
Speaker 3: receiver here on huddle up with Bucky Brooks today.
19:12
Speaker 2: There were a couple of highlight plays for him.
19:15
Speaker 3: You'll see them on social media pop up, and you know,
19:18
Speaker 3: I think that just carries over guys from the performance
19:21
Speaker 3: in the game. He might have needed a long reception
19:25
Speaker 3: a big play in that game last week, which he
19:28
Speaker 3: had on that first throw from CJ. Bethard down the
19:31
Speaker 3: field forty one yards making the leaping catch and contested
19:35
Speaker 3: and the whole thing and the bench goes wild for him.
19:38
Speaker 3: It was a little bit of a slow beginning of camp,
19:41
Speaker 3: let's say, for him, but I think he started to
19:43
Speaker 3: find his way. And how much do you take out
19:45
Speaker 3: of that game for Brian Thomas Junior, that catch in
19:48
Speaker 3: that game last week, carrying over to the practice field
19:51
Speaker 3: and maybe building the confidence of a young player just
19:54
Speaker 3: trying to find his footing.
19:56
Speaker 4: I think it matters a lot.
19:58
Speaker 6: I think it matters a lot because as a young player,
20:01
Speaker 6: you're looking for that welcome to the NFL moment. Sometimes
20:04
Speaker 6: it happens in preseason, sometimes it happens at the beginning
20:06
Speaker 6: of the regular season.
20:08
Speaker 2: But for Brian.
20:08
Speaker 4: Schomas Junior to come in and this is a misse
20:10
Speaker 4: amount of.
20:10
Speaker 6: Pressure on first round picks, and particularly now in the
20:13
Speaker 6: social media age, everyone is able to voice those expectations
20:18
Speaker 6: directly to the player, So regardless of whether he says
20:20
Speaker 6: or acknowledges it, he has to feel that pressure.
20:23
Speaker 8: So to get the big play out the way it matters.
20:27
Speaker 6: A couple of days ago, or maybe yesterday, Press Taylor
20:29
Speaker 6: was talking to the team and I think it's I
20:32
Speaker 6: think this makes sense. Once I referenced this, he talked
20:35
Speaker 6: about how he's been with places where the wide receiver
20:38
Speaker 6: corps is built like a basketball team. And I grew
20:42
Speaker 6: up in a scouting world where we talked about the
20:44
Speaker 6: wide receiver corps like a basketball team. And when I
20:47
Speaker 6: think about our team, I want everyone to kind of
20:50
Speaker 6: envision like the Golden State Warriors when they were at
20:53
Speaker 6: their best. Right, So you had Kad and Steph who
20:55
Speaker 6: were kind of like the go to guys.
20:57
Speaker 4: They're the scores.
20:58
Speaker 6: Everything that you do offensively is designed around them getting loose.
21:01
Speaker 6: And so that's Evan Ingram and Christian Kirk because we've
21:04
Speaker 6: heard the team talk about how this offense works inside out.
21:08
Speaker 4: When it comes to the.
21:08
Speaker 6: Passing game, well, Klay Thompson was available to kind of
21:11
Speaker 6: stretch the defense to give those guys more opportunities to
21:15
Speaker 6: go one on one. In the past, the Jaguars didn't
21:18
Speaker 6: have anybody that can stretch the defense so they could
21:21
Speaker 6: collapse and condence the field. Well, now with Brian Thomas Junior,
21:24
Speaker 6: with Gabe Davis, you now have these three and d
21:27
Speaker 6: guys that can stretch the field create more space. So
21:30
Speaker 6: now the horizontal passing game works with the vertical.
21:32
Speaker 4: Passing game on the outside.
21:34
Speaker 6: I would say the emergence of Parker Washington could be
21:38
Speaker 6: that six man, that guy that brings energy off the bench,
21:41
Speaker 6: that gives you something different. Jamal Agnew did it, but
21:44
Speaker 6: Parker Washington has an opportunity to be a better player,
21:47
Speaker 6: and so you have him and then also Devin Duvernet.
21:49
Speaker 4: Who showed up with the big catch.
21:51
Speaker 6: I will say this could be the most dynamic and
21:55
Speaker 6: most versatile wide receiver court that they've had, and that
21:58
Speaker 6: could be problematic for opponents really trying to slow down
22:01
Speaker 6: an offense that should be very balanced, very versatile, and
22:05
Speaker 6: very dynamic if the protection up front is Souf and Bucky.
22:09
Speaker 3: To your point, Parker Washington continued that today, I mean
22:11
Speaker 3: there were a few contested balls that he had today
22:14
Speaker 3: that he went out there and made catches, guys on
22:17
Speaker 3: his back making plays, John, and that's a really a
22:20
Speaker 3: great step in the right direction for a guy.
22:23
Speaker 2: Now on your two.
22:23
Speaker 7: Yes, I thought they were in good shape honestly when
22:26
Speaker 7: they had Evan and Christian and Gabe Davis, because historically
22:32
Speaker 7: I expect nothing out of rookies. Well, Brian Thomas has
22:36
Speaker 7: changing that a little bit, because now all of a sudden,
22:38
Speaker 7: every day you look up and he's making a play
22:41
Speaker 7: in practice that's difficult and you think maybe could translate
22:45
Speaker 7: to the game. I think it was yesterday's practice he
22:48
Speaker 7: had a nice where he sort of climbed the ladder
22:51
Speaker 7: and went up and caught one from Trevor Lawrence. If
22:55
Speaker 7: he does that once or twice a game, keeps sticks
22:58
Speaker 7: moving as part of a bigger receiver corps, then that's
23:01
Speaker 7: a big deal. I thought the biggest thing the other night.
23:04
Speaker 7: And you know me, JP, I usually make very little
23:09
Speaker 7: out of this kind of stuff. But the way the
23:12
Speaker 7: teammates went crazy over that catch, oh yeah, showed me,
23:16
Speaker 7: I mean, and it showed me that they like this kid, right,
23:21
Speaker 7: and you know, it shows me that he's fitting and that,
23:25
Speaker 7: and that they're enthusiastic about each other. And I'm not
23:28
Speaker 7: going to get into what it was last year, because
23:30
Speaker 7: I never got the feeling that there was a problem
23:32
Speaker 7: last year in that respect. But remember how special it
23:36
Speaker 7: was between the receivers in twenty two, meaning those guys
23:39
Speaker 7: talked every week about how Christian zay Evan and I
23:46
Speaker 7: I'm drawn a blank. Marvin Jones. Yeah, they didn't care
23:50
Speaker 7: one iota who got the ball to any degree that
23:53
Speaker 7: receivers can actually mean that, right, I mean, obviously they
23:56
Speaker 7: want the ball. But it feels like that again, and
24:00
Speaker 7: it sure felt like that when the kid caught the
24:02
Speaker 7: ball the other night. That's not everything, and I'm the
24:05
Speaker 7: old cynical hack who thinks that means nothing, Bucky, But
24:10
Speaker 7: it feels like that means something for this sponge.
24:13
Speaker 4: I absolutely believe it means something.
24:15
Speaker 6: And to me, you know, the reaction with Brian Thomas
24:19
Speaker 6: Junior is not only just him, but I mean it's
24:22
Speaker 6: very similar to in baseball.
24:23
Speaker 4: Everyone chicks did the long ball.
24:25
Speaker 6: Right, so when you see the explosive part of the
24:28
Speaker 6: offense come out when you see the big ball, and
24:30
Speaker 6: so it becomes contagious. So then Brian Thomas Junior has one,
24:33
Speaker 6: then Devin Duverne has one.
24:35
Speaker 4: So now it.
24:35
Speaker 6: Becomes about delivering those explosive plays and it changes the
24:39
Speaker 6: way the defense has to attack the Jaguars. I think
24:44
Speaker 6: the team should be commended, and I don't know what
24:46
Speaker 6: it's gonna look like when the regular season plays out.
24:48
Speaker 4: Wreck wise, I.
24:49
Speaker 6: Think the team has been intentional in a couple of
24:52
Speaker 6: different areas. They've been very intentional about how the pieces
24:55
Speaker 6: of the puzzle fit together in terms of skill wise,
24:58
Speaker 6: but I think the biggest intent has been personality wise.
25:03
Speaker 6: This team fits and the personalities in the locker room
25:07
Speaker 6: are those that mesh well together in all areas.
25:12
Speaker 4: I think the.
25:12
Speaker 6: Offensive personnel meshes well with the quarterback.
25:15
Speaker 4: Trevor Lawrence and his leadership style.
25:17
Speaker 6: And then I think defensively, all of these guys are
25:20
Speaker 6: on the same page in terms of what their individual
25:23
Speaker 6: agendas are within what they want to accomplish as a team.
25:26
Speaker 7: And just one more thing to add to that after
25:29
Speaker 7: the game. You probably saw it JP when when Brian
25:32
Speaker 7: Thomas was speaking to the media on Saturday night, Gabe
25:37
Speaker 7: Davis came over and had his arm around him. Well
25:40
Speaker 7: but he too, yeah, yeah, right, whatever it was. These
25:46
Speaker 7: are guys who've known each other about a minute and
25:48
Speaker 7: a half, right, so, and it didn't feel fake, right.
25:53
Speaker 7: It feels like Gabe Davis likes this kid, wants to
25:55
Speaker 7: see him do well, obviously making an effort to make
25:58
Speaker 7: the young kid feel at home. But Gabe Davis barely
26:01
Speaker 7: feels at home. So to see that happening again, I
26:05
Speaker 7: think it's you know, you lock onto some storylines in camp,
26:11
Speaker 7: the things you start see happening that to me feels
26:15
Speaker 7: like one that makes it feel a little bit like
26:17
Speaker 7: it felt in twenty two.
26:19
Speaker 3: Not a bad thing at all. We're back in a moment.
26:22
Speaker 3: Final thoughts will here from Press Taylor as well. Jaguars
26:24
Speaker 3: offensive coordinator had a different vantage point last week and
26:28
Speaker 3: will again this week. It's huddle up with Bucky Brooks.
26:43
Speaker 12: There's a difference just in terms of what you see.
26:45
Speaker 12: You know, obviously up in the box it's more sterile.
26:48
Speaker 12: It's just a calm environment and you can kind of
26:50
Speaker 12: spread out your call sheet, look around a little bit,
26:53
Speaker 12: and then on the field there's more emotion that could
26:56
Speaker 12: be involved. Probably not in the preseason game, but in
26:58
Speaker 12: the regular season games there's there's a lot more emotion
27:01
Speaker 12: that goes into it. But it's nice to be able to,
27:03
Speaker 12: you know, look guys in the eye when they come off,
27:05
Speaker 12: talk to him on the on the side, go sit
27:07
Speaker 12: next to other coaches as you get going with things
27:09
Speaker 12: and hitting through your next run list, which that's all
27:11
Speaker 12: stuff we did through the headset, but now just go
27:13
Speaker 12: and having that face to face interaction.
27:15
Speaker 9: That's nice as Well.
27:16
Speaker 3: That's Press Taylor offensive coordinator and welcome back. It's huddle
27:19
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27:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, a different vantage point, John, with Press Taylor on
27:34
Speaker 3: the sideline for the first time calling plays last week,
27:37
Speaker 3: you said it's gonna happen again this coming Saturday night
27:40
Speaker 3: and heard the reasons why, and you know, different perspective.
27:44
Speaker 7: I laugh at some things in the NFL and JBO
27:47
Speaker 7: and fans who I love, Right, I've had some fans
27:53
Speaker 7: who are just convinced that moving Press to the sideline
27:58
Speaker 7: will be the secret sauce. Right, this is going to
28:03
Speaker 7: be it. Well, to show you how things mean sometimes, Bucky,
28:10
Speaker 7: There's been a lot of Super Bowl champions and a
28:13
Speaker 7: lot of good offenses for that guy sitting in the
28:15
Speaker 7: booth calling plays. Yeah, it's purely to me a preference
28:19
Speaker 7: thing where the guy's comfortable. Tell me please that I'm
28:24
Speaker 7: right on that, Bucky. It's purely a preference on a
28:27
Speaker 7: coordinator where he colls plays well.
28:29
Speaker 4: I think it's a combination.
28:31
Speaker 6: I think the coordinator first, but I think sometimes players.
28:34
Speaker 4: I think it depends on communication with the players.
28:38
Speaker 6: Some guys prefer to have that face to face, eyeball
28:41
Speaker 6: to eyeball interaction when it comes to how do we
28:44
Speaker 6: fix things, how do we solve.
28:45
Speaker 4: Problems in those things?
28:47
Speaker 6: Whereas in the other day, Back in the day, some
28:49
Speaker 6: people used to like to be on the phone to.
28:51
Speaker 4: Be able to do it.
28:52
Speaker 6: Listening to Press kind of explain the communication piece and
28:56
Speaker 6: how they're trying to put it all together, because there
28:58
Speaker 6: are times where Duck has to go and pay a
28:59
Speaker 6: time into to the defense or the special teams, and
29:02
Speaker 6: how do they keep everybody in the loop. To me,
29:05
Speaker 6: it was more than just one person making the change
29:08
Speaker 6: to go down to the sideline. It switches the responsibilities
29:11
Speaker 6: of a few different people to make it where Press
29:14
Speaker 6: can be on the sideline and do those things. But
29:17
Speaker 6: on the sideline, I do believe Press can get a
29:20
Speaker 6: better sense, for a how's.
29:22
Speaker 4: My quarterback really feeling.
29:23
Speaker 8: You can look him in his eyes, you can look
29:24
Speaker 8: at the body language.
29:26
Speaker 6: It's different than being up top, even though up top
29:29
Speaker 6: in the box allows you to lay out all your papers,
29:32
Speaker 6: put all your stuff together and do that.
29:34
Speaker 4: It allows you to be more.
29:36
Speaker 6: Cerebral and analytical, whereas on the field you have to
29:41
Speaker 6: be able to display more composure and poise while interacting
29:44
Speaker 6: with the players and all of that other stuff.
29:46
Speaker 4: So it takes a little bit of an adjustment.
29:48
Speaker 2: We'll take a look at that again this week.
29:51
Speaker 7: I just learned a little something there. That's why you
29:57
Speaker 7: paid Bucky the big Bus.
29:58
Speaker 2: That's why his name is on the show.
30:00
Speaker 7: That's right, it's Bucky Brooks showing John certainly is.
30:03
Speaker 3: It's the Buccaneers and the Jaguars coming up Saturday night.
30:06
Speaker 3: It's a seven thirty kickoff time this week, Bucky, and
30:09
Speaker 3: you know Doug Peterson, at least in the past is reference. Hey,
30:13
Speaker 3: you know, starters, most of their time will be in
30:15
Speaker 3: practices this week. We'll see how many, if any, get
30:18
Speaker 3: on the field this Saturday night. But it could be
30:22
Speaker 3: a big night for those guys trying to make that roster.
30:24
Speaker 2: The bubble spots a lot of starts.
30:26
Speaker 3: For some of those guys. All those your two guys,
30:28
Speaker 3: guys that are trying to make the team. And this
30:31
Speaker 3: could be Mac Jones getting a start in his hometown,
30:34
Speaker 3: so we'll see.
30:35
Speaker 7: And Bucky, is this I mean, does this make like
30:39
Speaker 7: the new format, does it make this preseason week two
30:44
Speaker 7: game the biggest game for young guys. I mean I
30:48
Speaker 7: kind of sense they make their mark now and then
30:49
Speaker 7: they sort of confirm things in the second half next week.
30:54
Speaker 6: Yeah, John, I'm with you and Dad, Like it's changed
30:56
Speaker 6: so much, like just removing the one game changes every
31:00
Speaker 6: but yeah, like this is where you have to make
31:01
Speaker 6: your mark. You already see that teams make quick decisions
31:05
Speaker 6: after that first playoff game, you get the first exposure.
31:07
Speaker 6: If it doesn't look right, you're bringing in veterans, adding
31:09
Speaker 6: different pieces to the puzzle and those things. But yes,
31:12
Speaker 6: this is the evaluation for those guys that are hanging
31:15
Speaker 6: on the bubble. You're trying to make you where the
31:18
Speaker 6: last game is the one where you can play your
31:20
Speaker 6: weight onto the squad, but you have to continue to
31:23
Speaker 6: check off the boxes in week one and week two.
31:25
Speaker 4: This is a huge week for a bunch of young players.
31:28
Speaker 2: We're looking forward to it.
31:29
Speaker 3: Hope you'll be there Saturday night, seven thirty kickoff time, Bucky,
31:34
Speaker 3: have a great rest of your week.
31:35
Speaker 2: We'll see you here on Saturday.
31:37
Speaker 4: I mean see fellas all right, Doc Brooks.
31:39
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31:46
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31:48
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