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Huddle Up | Cleaning Up Mistakes, Areas to Improve Before Week 7 vs. Rams · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Huddle Up, brought you by the Field Total Group,
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Speaker 1: Jaguars senior writer John Osher, NFL network analyst and former
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Speaker 1: Jaguar Bucky Brooks, and senior reporter JP Shatterick read you
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Speaker 1: a little latest on your Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Speaker 2: Huddle Up starts right now.
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Speaker 3: All right, I'm John Oser from the Grove northwest of London.
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Speaker 3: JP Shatterck is on assignment, and we have Bucky Brooks
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Speaker 3: from Los Angeles. And I never quite know what on
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Speaker 3: assignment means. I tend not to question a Bucky and welcome.
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Speaker 2: Thanks John. Yeah, I don't know what that is.
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to get JPR a time when we
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Speaker 4: talked to him next Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I want to be on assignment. If it means not
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Speaker 3: having to do this, I'll be on assignment. So the
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Speaker 3: Seahawks game was rough, Bucky. We're gonna get to that
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Speaker 3: in a minute. I'm curious as we go into this
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Speaker 3: London game. It seems to me it's the first time
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Speaker 3: that they've really faced adversity in the sense of I
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Speaker 3: think they could have won Cincinnati, probably should have won Cincinnati.
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Speaker 3: This is the first game that they sort of got
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Speaker 3: out played. It could be room for a little doubt.
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Speaker 3: How big is this on that front in your opinion.
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Speaker 4: As big on a couple of fronts. Anytime you lose,
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Speaker 4: you can lose a little confidence. And the way that
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Speaker 4: the Seattle Seahawks kind of dominated the trenches in that game,
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Speaker 4: you begin to question yourself when it comes to fancying
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Speaker 4: yourself as being a physical team or rugged team and
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Speaker 4: kind of bowing down to a team like Seattle. They
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Speaker 4: kind of had their way when it came to the
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Speaker 4: way they dominated the trenches on both sides of the ball.
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Speaker 2: That's it.
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Speaker 4: I feel like the team walks away more upset about
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Speaker 4: the self inflicted mistakes, the penalties, the mental miscues, the
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Speaker 4: drop passes, maybe the blown assignments more so than the
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Speaker 4: physical part of it, because they felt like my sense
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Speaker 4: in being on the sideline and being around the team,
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Speaker 4: they felt like, it's the Jaguars versus the Jaguars, and
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Speaker 4: if the Jaguars don't beat themselves, they got a chance
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Speaker 4: to beat anyone. So can they clean up the messes
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Speaker 4: from the previous week and have a much better performance
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Speaker 4: against the Rams team?
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Speaker 3: That's tough there, heavyweight, Yeah, Unsurprisingly, the focus on themselves
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Speaker 3: is a huge theme for Liam Cohen this week. I
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Speaker 3: think two bucket's significant to me. They're dealing with less
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Speaker 3: than one hundred percent or out from four guys who
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Speaker 3: I think are among the maybe their best ten players.
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Speaker 3: Robert Hainsey were not sure of Trayvon's playing clear nine
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Speaker 3: hundred percent and then you're down Strange and you're down
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Speaker 3: not Devin Lloyd. Now pretty beat up team, just wanting
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Speaker 3: to get to the by quickly. How much are those
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Speaker 3: losses hurting and how much does it just want to
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Speaker 3: get through this one to get to the buy.
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Speaker 4: I would say that everyone's hurting it this time of
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Speaker 4: year and everyone's dealing with injuries.
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Speaker 2: You can't make that excuse.
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Speaker 4: If you have a tough, hardened team, then you can
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Speaker 4: deal with that and you can overcome it. The loss
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Speaker 4: of some talent, though, is tough. Don't think that we've
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Speaker 4: reached that point. But yeah, like you don't have everyone
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Speaker 4: feeling great. It's not ideal, but it's never ideal in
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Speaker 4: the National Football League.
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Speaker 2: After you reach Week one.
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Speaker 3: Go to Fieldsauto dot com. That was my first read, Bucky.
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Speaker 3: I'm a big read guy when I host the show.
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Speaker 3: You know that, right.
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Speaker 2: I liked that. That was a nice read. You got
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Speaker 2: to it. That was nice.
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Speaker 3: I dig it well, I got through it. I fumbled
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Speaker 3: a little bit with apologies to Fields. We'll come back
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Speaker 3: to it. Let's go back to the Jaguars Seahawks, Bucky
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Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence. Obviously, this was a tough day for the
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Speaker 3: offense overall. I thought he played okay. I think he's
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Speaker 3: playing okay. I think he's better. I think he's playing
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Speaker 3: better than people think. Just as says Trevor a little
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Speaker 3: bit right now, through six games. Specific to Sunday, I.
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Speaker 4: Would say his toughness show through on Sunday and Sunday
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Speaker 4: was a real rough game for him in terms of
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Speaker 4: having to deal with all the chaos that he had
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Speaker 4: to navigate through. The offensive line was getting whooped and worked.
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Speaker 4: There was a lot of penetrations steadily. The pass rush
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Speaker 4: was always in his face, so it was constantly harassed
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Speaker 4: and he never got settled. What I like from him
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Speaker 4: the poise that he displayed the composure of the competitiveness.
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Speaker 2: All that was good.
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Speaker 4: When you look at the end of the game, the efficiency.
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Speaker 4: It was his best passer rating of the year to date.
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Speaker 4: You want to see him building on it. And for
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Speaker 4: all the good things, there's still some things that he
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Speaker 4: can clean up to make miss.
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Speaker 2: Down the sideline that would have been a bit playball.
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Speaker 2: I think that was the Diyamie Brown. If you put
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Speaker 2: him in.
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Speaker 4: Stride, that is an explosive play to This offense desperately
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Speaker 4: needs being able to help Brian Thomas Junior, someone who
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Speaker 4: was in breaking routes. It's a drop by Brian Thomas Junior,
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Speaker 4: but can you maybe put it right on his chest
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Speaker 4: so it becomes a catchable ball, maybe an easier ball
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Speaker 4: to catch. There are some things that you want your
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Speaker 4: franchise quarterback to be able to do. But overall, he
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Speaker 4: has done a really, really good job to this point.
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Speaker 4: And the more that he is operating within Liam Cohn's system,
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Speaker 4: the more comfortable I see him when he's on the
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Speaker 4: field in the huddle running all of the things.
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Speaker 2: That he has to run at the line of scrimmage.
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Speaker 3: I can't talk about this game without talking about the sacks.
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Speaker 3: I guess the question I've gotten all week is are
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Speaker 3: they the first five games offensive line or are they
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Speaker 3: the game six offensive line? And I'm assuming's somewhere in
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Speaker 3: the middle. Ought to sort of throw it out to
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Speaker 3: you like that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, look, I think there's somewhere in the middle. They've
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Speaker 4: been great the last few weeks. I mean pitch and shutouts,
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Speaker 4: not having anyone get close to the quarterback. You love
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Speaker 4: to see that, and you would like to live in
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Speaker 4: the world with that is true, that your quarterback never
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Speaker 4: gets touched and you always able to throw from the
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Speaker 4: grassy knoll in.
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Speaker 2: Those days, it's not gonna happen.
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Speaker 4: I think they ran up against a team that is
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Speaker 4: very athletic, very physical, very talented, and that talent overwhelmed
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Speaker 4: them at times. And you saw a team that was
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Speaker 4: overwhelmed when you saw the consistent breakdowns and protection.
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Speaker 2: That's it. It's early.
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Speaker 4: You can learn from these things if you take a
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Speaker 4: hard look at the tape and everyone is willing to improve.
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Speaker 4: The team has gotten better. It's not always reflected on
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Speaker 4: the scoreboard in terms of like the points those things,
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Speaker 4: but this team has consistently gotten better and this unit
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Speaker 4: has been a big part of it.
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Speaker 2: That offensive line.
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Speaker 3: No takeaways the other day, Buck, But to me, I
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Speaker 3: thought it was a positive day for the defense in
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Speaker 3: this sense. Have too many big plays. They gave up
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Speaker 3: two that really cost them, but they stopped the run.
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Speaker 3: And it's a team that likes to run. It feels
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Speaker 3: like they're showing they can do that. I'm not sure
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Speaker 3: this is a great defense, but I think it's good
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Speaker 3: enough to stop the run and get into and get
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Speaker 3: offenses into bad situations. I think that's sustainable. But overall
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Speaker 3: this game, and I guess there's overall, where do you
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Speaker 3: think the defense is.
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Speaker 2: I think defense is trending in the right direction.
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Speaker 4: Then one thing that you want to be able to
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Speaker 4: do in the league is force turnovers so they do that.
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Speaker 2: Second thing you want to be able to do is
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Speaker 2: stop the run.
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Speaker 4: And the reason why you want to stop the running
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Speaker 4: because when you stop the run, the turnovers come because
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Speaker 4: now you're playing against a one dimensional offense.
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Speaker 2: That has to throw.
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Speaker 4: When you know they're throwing, it allows you to heat
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Speaker 4: them up, it allows you to play coverage and those things.
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Speaker 2: So those two areas have been great.
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Speaker 4: I would say the pass rush has been better than
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Speaker 4: expect Eric Armstead has been solid this year, three and
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Speaker 4: a half sacks, its twelve total tackles. He's been really
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Speaker 4: impactful being able to beat his man on the inside.
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Speaker 4: And for years we've been talking about man Trayvoron and
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Speaker 4: walker Josh Einzell and need one of the person to
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Speaker 4: lighten the load, to take some of this off their plate.
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Speaker 4: Armstead has been able to do that because he's been
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Speaker 4: able to make enough plays. Not that he consistently commands
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Speaker 4: a double team, but you do have to pay your
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Speaker 4: eyes on him. That means one of the edge rushers
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Speaker 4: gets a one on one and that's when you've seen
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Speaker 4: the feeding frenzy come from the.
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Speaker 3: Jaguars circle back to offense. Before we close this segment,
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Speaker 3: all the penalties created a lot of bad down and distance.
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Speaker 3: Couldn't really run that well either. My thought as I've
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Speaker 3: moved on from that game is that as rough as
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Speaker 3: the sacks were, those two elements probably created more difficult
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Speaker 3: situations for the line and put them in bad spots.
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Speaker 3: If they can run and reduce penalties, boy, that would
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Speaker 3: help the offensive line moving forward. They were in some
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Speaker 3: bad spots as well on Sunday.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, some coaches have ay they praise it man they'll
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Speaker 4: call them the dbos. Don't beat ourselves and the things
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Speaker 4: that are on that list turnovers, pre snaper, foolish penalties,
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Speaker 4: big plays allowed and then kicking game eras. Teams that
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Speaker 4: avoid mistakes in those areas are gonna win a ton
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Speaker 4: of games, and the Jaguars have tried to adhere to
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Speaker 4: that premise. The problem that you have when you have
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Speaker 4: so many pre snap penalties, particularly when it comes to
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Speaker 4: false snart, illegal formations, these things, these are controllable issues.
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Speaker 4: Everyone should know where the lineup. They should know am
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Speaker 4: I on the ball? Am I off the ball? Doing
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Speaker 4: those things? They should understand the snap count. We are
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Speaker 4: messing up and giving away yards on simple things that
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Speaker 4: should be day one of football. And until we clean
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Speaker 4: up that part of it, this team will be on
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Speaker 4: a bit of a roller coaster ride this year.
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Speaker 3: When we return, we'll look at the Los Angeles Rams.
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Speaker 3: three two thousand. All right, Bucky, Ronald Rams. As you mentioned,
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Speaker 3: this is a good team. They're a strikingly consistently good team.
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Speaker 3: It's been able to withstand from some things. They're also
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Speaker 3: at the Jaguars North Star. As Liam and James have
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Speaker 3: both acknowledged, this is a well. It's a team that
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Speaker 3: influences the Jaguars greatly. They're a very good offensive team.
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Speaker 3: I'll start with Stafford. Who strikes me is you never
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Speaker 3: really list him among the guys at the position, and
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Speaker 3: yet he's one of the guys at the position. How
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Speaker 3: good is he?
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Speaker 2: He's really good, man, He's really good because now.
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Speaker 4: At his age and his experience level, he knows how
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Speaker 4: to kind of insert himself into the game and become
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Speaker 4: a playmaker or whether to just operate as a game manager.
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Speaker 2: And with that.
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Speaker 4: Experience and expertise. He gives the Rams whatever they need
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Speaker 4: at that moment. This offense is very creative and dynamic
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Speaker 4: and explosive offense, but it's still kind of created with
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Speaker 4: the blue collar mentality. They want to run the football,
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Speaker 4: they want to set you up to take shots.
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Speaker 2: I'll play action.
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Speaker 4: They're going to do it creatively with snug splits and alignments,
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Speaker 4: mister rection and fakes, but they still want to push
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Speaker 4: the ball down the field while retaining control of it
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Speaker 4: through the ground attack. With Matthew Stafford, you have someone
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Speaker 4: who can call it outside the lines if needed. If
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Speaker 4: the offense isn't going according to script, he can kind
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Speaker 4: of break free from that. They can get into a
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Speaker 4: drop back passing game and attack you there.
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Speaker 2: He is so good that.
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Speaker 4: Look, he's destined to be a gold jacket player and
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Speaker 4: this is going to be a huge.
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Speaker 2: Test for the Jaguars.
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Speaker 4: Look, outside of Pat Mahomes, this might be the best
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Speaker 4: quarterback that they faced on the schedule.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting, You're talking about pretty egoless player. He's
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Speaker 3: going to give you what you need, but not necessarily
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Speaker 3: have to go make a name for himself. He's well
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Speaker 3: past that, so I think it's pretty interesting, interesting guy
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Speaker 3: to watch. Tell me this, Bucky. The Jaguars fans have
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Speaker 3: been watching this offense for six weeks now watching the
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Speaker 3: Jaguars offense. Do they know what to expect based off that?
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Speaker 3: What are the differences?
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Speaker 4: Look, there are a lot of obviously schematic similarities, and
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Speaker 4: I would say that what liam Con is running is
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Speaker 4: maybe the first iteration of the Rams offense when they
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Speaker 4: had Jered Goff. They were doing a lot of things
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Speaker 4: when it came to snug alignments, they were using fly
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Speaker 4: suee motion.
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Speaker 2: And doing some various things.
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Speaker 4: We haven't seen that, But I think part of the
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Speaker 4: reason why we haven't seen that enough we had so
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Speaker 4: many issues with the penalties that he may not be
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Speaker 4: able to get in his bag and really fully build
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Speaker 4: out the bills and whistles for this offense.
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Speaker 2: That he wants to do. But very similar. I would
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Speaker 2: say the three receiver sets, the kind of receivers.
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Speaker 4: That they have reminds me of those original days when
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Speaker 4: they had Brandon Cooks and Robert Woods and Cooper Cup
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Speaker 4: and they were really doing some creative things. Now, Todd
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Speaker 4: Gurley was in the backfield, and I won't say that
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Speaker 4: Travis Ittien is that, but we have seen Travis Atienne
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Speaker 4: put big plays up.
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Speaker 2: Look, they talk about that North Star.
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Speaker 4: If you squint, you can see visions of the Rams
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Speaker 4: in the Jaguars offense, and I think that's exactly what
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Speaker 4: Liam Poren would like to build up.
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Speaker 3: Defensively. Again, I think a lot of Jaguars fans, probably
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Speaker 3: myself included, you know, don't follow the Rams or Seahawks
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Speaker 3: enough to know the details of it. But similar to
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Speaker 3: compare the Seahawks defensive line to the Rams defensive line,
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Speaker 3: the Rams defensive line has big time pass rushers. Similar matchup,
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Speaker 3: or there's subtle differences, a.
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Speaker 4: Very similar matchup in terms of what you're gonna deal
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Speaker 4: with in terms of energy, physicality, and relentlessness. The Rams
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Speaker 4: are a team that prize themselves and look, it's not
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Speaker 4: the talent, it's the toughness and tenacity. It's how they
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Speaker 4: go about doing their business where they wear you out.
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Speaker 4: They have really good players, but it's how hard they
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Speaker 4: played that really shows up on tape. This is gonna
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Speaker 4: be a challenge because coming off of the heels of
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Speaker 4: the performance against Seattle, where let's be honest, man, up front,
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Speaker 4: they really whipped us.
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Speaker 2: Can we settle in.
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Speaker 4: Can we handle that relentless approach that you're gonna face
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Speaker 4: from a very young athletic defensive line. Didn't handle it
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Speaker 4: well last week, but hopefully that prepared us to handle
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Speaker 4: it better against the Rams team that's really good on defense.
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Speaker 3: What's the key to McVeigh being such a good coach?
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Speaker 3: We like and I guess I'm phrasing this like this
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Speaker 3: they've been able to withstand. I know, let's sneeze a
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Speaker 3: good gym, it's organizationally good. But to me, McVeigh has
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Speaker 3: been the forefront of almost redefining the league. I think
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Speaker 3: you know you have your eras the era moving forward
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Speaker 3: is gonna be based on a lot of what this
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Speaker 3: guy does. But beyond scheme, what makes him good?
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Speaker 2: I think it is a clear vision for the team
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Speaker 2: that he wants.
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Speaker 4: And what's unique about Sean McVay someone who is viewed
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Speaker 4: as an offensive wizard, his philosophy is still deeply rooted
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Speaker 4: in old school principles, run the football, toughness on both
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Speaker 4: sides of the ball, the culture part of the team
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Speaker 4: really really matters, and he is a great developer and
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Speaker 4: maintainer of those standards. He is a great coach, because
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Speaker 4: I think he is one of the best communicators in
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Speaker 4: the business. He tells you exactly what he expects. He
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Speaker 4: does his sugarcoat things. He has a care factor that
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Speaker 4: endears him to players while also being able to hold
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Speaker 4: them accountable, and a lot of things that we are
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Speaker 4: privy to witness in the building in Jacksonville. Those things
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Speaker 4: came from La in terms of the feel that we
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Speaker 4: currently have in Jacksonville, where everyone feels connected, everyone feels
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Speaker 4: like they matter, but they are high standards and expectations.
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Speaker 2: The best thing about.
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Speaker 4: McVeigh is the way that he is the gatekeeper of
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Speaker 4: the Rams expectations and how they don't make excuses for
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Speaker 4: their shortcomings. They line up, they played with who they have,
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Speaker 4: and they don't make excuses.
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Speaker 2: One way or the other. I love that about them.
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Speaker 4: And in the last two years, think about this, John.
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Speaker 4: Last two years they started one and four made the playoffs.
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Speaker 4: You've been around teams in Jacksonville that to get off
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Speaker 4: to the slow start in by week six is already
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Speaker 4: trying to figure out when's moving day, when we're gonna
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Speaker 4: get the U hauls or whatever. To have your team
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Speaker 4: bounce back from those kinds of starts man. That's the
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Speaker 4: toughness of the coach that is revealed in the players
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Speaker 4: that reflect.
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Speaker 3: employees and retirees. All right, Bucky, we're going to get
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Speaker 3: back to Matthew Stafford. It shows you my inexperience as
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Speaker 3: a host. We've already talked about Matthew Stafford, but we'll
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Speaker 3: talk about him some more his career overall, Bucky, I'm
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Speaker 3: intrigued by it because it felt like early on with
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Speaker 3: the Lions, probably not headed to gold Jacket. And yet
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Speaker 3: as soon as you say that huge numbers always and
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Speaker 3: probably brought down by the team that was around him
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Speaker 3: at that point. You said earlier gold jacket guy. Some
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Speaker 3: fans may hear that and go, really, I agree with you,
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Speaker 3: Why is he a gold jacket guy?
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Speaker 4: I mean, look, at one point he had the most
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Speaker 4: comebacks and get when he drives a beniactive player. And
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Speaker 4: then you couple that with the fact that he's a
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Speaker 4: Super Bowl champion. He is someone who has hit all
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Speaker 4: the benchmarks when it comes to yardage and touchdown totals.
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Speaker 4: As a passer, you look at his talent, former number one.
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Speaker 2: Pick who has accomplished all those things. Normally it's a
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Speaker 2: writer of passage.
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Speaker 4: If you do those things, you go to Kenon and
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Speaker 4: I just think there are so many people that will
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Speaker 4: vouch for him, particularly his move to LA and how
19:26
Speaker 4: he was a hired gun and he set out to
19:30
Speaker 4: win a Super Bowl and he did that. To me,
19:32
Speaker 4: I just think that he is he is going, and
19:34
Speaker 4: the more he plays, the greater the appreciation for his game,
19:38
Speaker 4: his toughness and what he really embodies. To me, man,
19:43
Speaker 4: he is the quintessential franchise quarterback. Like you talk about
19:46
Speaker 4: an ego list, I mean he does have ego, he
19:49
Speaker 4: does have swag, but in terms of an egoist approach,
19:51
Speaker 4: a team first guy.
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Speaker 2: To me, he embodies that.
19:54
Speaker 4: And when we talk about the North Star and how
19:58
Speaker 4: the Jaguars used to rams for that, that's the kind
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Speaker 4: of leader that you want in the front, someone who
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Speaker 4: has all the talents and those things to be kind
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Speaker 4: of the cocky franchise quarterback, but is willing to keep
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Speaker 4: that in check to make sure that he always puts
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Speaker 4: the team interest first. To me, that's how I see
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Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford in LA.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, seventeen seasons instill a high you know, doesn't strike
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Speaker 3: you as a guy playing out the string at all.
20:26
Speaker 3: Liam said something interesting when he was talking to media today,
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Speaker 3: don't trust his eyes and meaning, this guy can look
20:34
Speaker 3: you off, He's going to fool you. That's obviously seventeenth
20:38
Speaker 3: year veteran stuff that he's doing. How good is he
20:41
Speaker 3: at that?
20:42
Speaker 2: He's really good?
20:43
Speaker 4: And so what Liam is saying and for the fans
20:46
Speaker 4: to understand, the Jaguars are his zone based team. And
20:49
Speaker 4: one of the things that you will hear is vision
20:52
Speaker 4: and break vision on the quarterback. Break on where the
20:55
Speaker 4: vision of the quarterback is leading you you get an
20:57
Speaker 4: early jump on the ball, and that's how you place.
21:00
Speaker 4: Think about a runner leading off first base to steal
21:03
Speaker 4: a base, to steal second. Well, the problem with Matthew
21:06
Speaker 4: Stafford is Matthew Stafford will look one way but have
21:09
Speaker 4: the ability to come back the other way, or he'll
21:11
Speaker 4: look one way and.
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Speaker 2: Throw a no look past the other way. So when
21:15
Speaker 2: you have.
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Speaker 4: To be in zone, you have to kind of trust
21:19
Speaker 4: yourself more than kind of buying into like, oh he's
21:23
Speaker 4: looking this way, I'm an run. You kind of have
21:25
Speaker 4: to stay true in your area and kind of wait
21:27
Speaker 4: for the ball to come out. You can get picks,
21:30
Speaker 4: but it'd be different this week than in other weeks
21:33
Speaker 4: because a lot of times guys will take you to
21:35
Speaker 4: where those picks are going to happen. Matthew Stafford, you
21:37
Speaker 4: got to stay true to your landmarks in your areas,
21:40
Speaker 4: and you have to break quickly on the ball after
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Speaker 4: his throne, as opposed to being able to anticipate and
21:45
Speaker 4: maybe gain a step or two on the throne.
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Speaker 3: Their best receiver in Nikoup questionable. I haven't heard or
21:53
Speaker 3: seems like he could be questionable this weekend. How different
21:58
Speaker 3: is their offense with them without them. How dependent are
22:02
Speaker 3: they on him?
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Speaker 4: Well, what I would say is like Pooko Nakoy is great,
22:06
Speaker 4: and before that they had Cooper Cup who was great,
22:09
Speaker 4: and before that they had other route runners that are great.
22:11
Speaker 4: One of the things that are prerequists in this system,
22:13
Speaker 4: you have to have a great route runner on the outside.
22:16
Speaker 4: When they made the move this offseason and signed Davante Adams,
22:20
Speaker 4: they did it to make sure they had another route runner,
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Speaker 4: another playmaker, another guy who would win one on one matchups.
22:25
Speaker 4: I think the last time that the Jaguar squared off
22:27
Speaker 4: against Davanta Adams, he might have had one hundred yard
22:29
Speaker 4: day in the bank playing for the Jets. What happens
22:32
Speaker 4: is they'll just shift their attention and the ball to
22:35
Speaker 4: atoms more. They'll throw it to other people and make
22:38
Speaker 4: sure that they have it, and you just got to
22:40
Speaker 4: make sure that you keep it in front.
22:42
Speaker 2: But it's a it's a really good offense.
22:43
Speaker 4: It's an offense that's first on and they'll just find
22:46
Speaker 4: other players to be able to get it, whether it's
22:48
Speaker 4: Tyler Higbee or too two at Will or some of
22:50
Speaker 4: the other playmakers the Jags have to play. I would say,
22:53
Speaker 4: you got to play the quarterback and react to the
22:55
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22:57
Speaker 4: the driving force of that offense. You got play him,
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23:02
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Speaker 3: How big is this one? Buck?
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Speaker 2: Look?
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Speaker 4: I think it's big in terms of, like we've gone
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Speaker 4: through this gauntlet, and let's be honest, when we saw
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Speaker 4: it on the schedule, this four game thing, we worried, like,
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Speaker 4: might have been the toughest part of their schedule in
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Speaker 4: Going to the BI week, you have to feel really
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Speaker 2: It's big in that regard.
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Speaker 4: But even if there's a hiccup, the Jaguars have positioned
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Speaker 4: But man, they're really set up nicely to be able
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Speaker 4: to do it, and you would love to see them
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Speaker 4: go overseas, knock off the Rams, and have a lot
27:13
Speaker 4: of momentum going into the bye week where you can
27:15
Speaker 4: clean up some of the things that will really hurts
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Speaker 4: you in the first part of the season.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, a chance to get to five and two.
27:24
Speaker 3: You know, four and three is like I think anybody
27:28
Speaker 3: would have taken four and three coming out for the season,
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Speaker 3: particularly this four game stretch. To me, was actually a
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Speaker 3: five game stretch. I get to Houston's two and three,
27:38
Speaker 3: but you also beat Houston on the front end of that.
27:40
Speaker 3: The three game winning streak really defined this early part
27:44
Speaker 3: of the season.
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Speaker 4: Yeah one and being able to get that knock off Houston.
27:50
Speaker 4: If you're able to put another pillow on the wall
27:52
Speaker 4: with the La Rams, you feel great about the team
27:55
Speaker 4: and what could be. Now you got to stay healthy
27:57
Speaker 4: and you want to continue to improve. But right the man,
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Speaker 4: I think everyone would have to say, so far, so
28:02
Speaker 4: good for debut season. As you're trying to build an
28:06
Speaker 4: establish culture and expectations. I would love it, and that's why. Look,
28:10
Speaker 4: I expect the Jaguars to play well on Sunday. It
28:13
Speaker 4: is a very difficult game, but the expectation.
28:16
Speaker 2: Is going to be the same.
28:17
Speaker 4: I look for them to get a big win over
28:20
Speaker 4: there and to be able to celebrate, get back on
28:22
Speaker 4: track for a week, and they come back and attack
28:24
Speaker 4: the last half of the season.
28:27
Speaker 3: I got a question for the NFL analyst before we
28:29
Speaker 3: get out of here. They know each other so well,
28:35
Speaker 3: meaning Cohen knows who McVeigh is, McVay knows who Cohen is.
28:41
Speaker 3: Can you outthink yourself with that? To me, it's got
28:44
Speaker 3: to help Liam a little bit because he can look
28:50
Speaker 3: at Sean and he can know the Rams offense and
28:53
Speaker 3: there's not a whole lot of mysteries to what they're
28:55
Speaker 3: trying to do philosophically? Does that I mean, I guess
28:59
Speaker 3: how much which is there to that?
29:02
Speaker 4: I think it more so helps not the x's and oo's,
29:05
Speaker 4: but more so just the mentality.
29:07
Speaker 2: How does he feel after turnovers?
29:08
Speaker 4: If the team is struggling, what is his immediate response
29:12
Speaker 4: typically like how does he get the quarterback back on track?
29:15
Speaker 4: If Matthew Stafford is having a tough time early, what
29:18
Speaker 4: about the run game? What are the fixes that he
29:20
Speaker 4: normally goes to. We all are creatures of habits. We
29:23
Speaker 4: all have tennessees and things that are a part of
29:26
Speaker 4: who we are. The more you know the person, the
29:29
Speaker 4: more you can anticipate some of the things that they
29:31
Speaker 4: will go.
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Speaker 2: But it is that there is that fine line.
29:34
Speaker 4: Where you don't want to spend your entire time guessing
29:37
Speaker 4: about what he's gonna do. You want to react to it,
29:39
Speaker 4: play it in those things and look, Mike Tomlin says this,
29:44
Speaker 4: and in a way it has to be true for
29:46
Speaker 4: Liam and the Jaguars coaches that, particularly those with ties
29:48
Speaker 4: to the.
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Speaker 2: Rams, nameless great faces.
29:52
Speaker 4: Like you can look over there and treat that place
29:55
Speaker 4: as the north Star. But when we get closer to
29:57
Speaker 4: the game, you can't get caught up in who's on
30:00
Speaker 4: the other side. You have to still make your focus
30:02
Speaker 4: on us, our team, what do we need to do
30:05
Speaker 4: to get better. But naturally there's gonna be some emotions
30:08
Speaker 4: that tie into it. It's about keeping those emotions in
30:11
Speaker 4: check and really focusing on the task at hand.
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Speaker 3: He's a personal side. I think you would agree with me, Bucky.
30:17
Speaker 3: They just flashed a graphic of people who have connections
30:21
Speaker 3: Liam Cohn, Chris Snee, James Gladstone, Chris Driggers have known
30:25
Speaker 3: forever there's some good, good people running these organizations, and
30:29
Speaker 3: I think that speaks to Uh, I think why both
30:33
Speaker 3: are so successful. So just a thought, Uh, Juggie, I'm
30:38
Speaker 3: with you there saying good Bucky, You're.
30:41
Speaker 4: Say I would say, like, if you talk about a
30:44
Speaker 4: north Star an organization, I can't think of a better
30:47
Speaker 4: one to patting yourself after. Because when you think about
30:49
Speaker 4: the consistency and the different iterations the Rams have trotted
30:52
Speaker 4: out and still want that's what.
30:55
Speaker 2: You want in Jacksonville. Like, it's unreasonable to think that
30:57
Speaker 2: your team can go to the.
30:58
Speaker 4: Super Bowl every year, but man, you would love to
31:01
Speaker 4: be a team that is always in that conversation. I
31:04
Speaker 4: think if the Jaguars can get to the point where
31:05
Speaker 4: they're always in the conversation year after year, I think
31:08
Speaker 4: everyone in town would be happy with that.
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Speaker 3: I think you're right. This has been huddle up with
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Speaker 3: Bucky Brooks. Bucky, thank you. We'll see you Sunday.
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Speaker 2: Hey man, we'll do have fun.