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- 0:01Speaker 1: Welcome to Huddle Up, brought you by the Field Total Group,
- 0:07Speaker 1: Jaguars Senior writer John Osher, NFL Network analyst and former
- 0:11Speaker 1: Jaguar Bucky Brooks, and senior reporter J P. Shatdrick bring
- 0:15Speaker 1: you the latest on your Jacksonville Jaguars.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Huddle Up starts right now. Welcome in. It is Wednesday
- 0:23Speaker 2: of Week three. It's Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks, j P. Shadrick,
- 0:26Speaker 2: John Osho. We've got a busy show ahead, our final
- 0:29Speaker 2: look at Jaguars Bengals. The Jags loss back in Week two.
- 0:34Speaker 2: Wide receiver and defensive back dynamics Brian Thomas Junior has
- 0:39Speaker 2: been in the news this week. Travis Hunter always is
- 0:43Speaker 2: in the news. Well see if he's gonna play a
- 0:45Speaker 2: little more defense moving ahead? Who knows? And then, of
- 0:49Speaker 2: course a Week three preview the Texans and the Jaguars,
- 0:52Speaker 2: a series dominated all time by the Houston Texans. The
- 0:55Speaker 2: Jaguars trying to win at home against Houston for the
- 0:58Speaker 2: first time in a long time. I'm Huddle Up with
- 1:00Speaker 2: Bucky Brooks. Brought to you by Field's Auto Group Jacksonville.
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- 1:07Speaker 2: Fieldsauto dot Com, JP Shadwick, John Osier. We're at the
- 1:11Speaker 2: Hunting Studios, the Miller Electric Center, Bucky Brooks is in
- 1:14Speaker 2: Los Angeles, California. It is Week three and it's divisional play. Bucky.
- 1:19Speaker 2: Are you ready?
- 1:21Speaker 3: I am ready. I'm excited.
- 1:22Speaker 4: I think this is the perfect game for the Jaguars
- 1:25Speaker 4: to get a bounce back. Playing a bitter division rival,
- 1:29Speaker 4: some familiar faces all day works.
- 1:32Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's a huge game. And look, I
- 1:38Speaker 5: get that fans may see this team right now and
- 1:41Speaker 5: see one in one and see whatever. But what they've
- 1:45Speaker 5: done in the first two weeks, I feel like they're
- 1:48Speaker 5: ready to go into a division game and where there
- 1:50Speaker 5: might be some pushing around and push back. It's my
- 1:53Speaker 5: thing this week. The Texans push, Jagwars going to push back,
- 1:57Speaker 5: and the Jaguars wybe they can push against anybody. So
- 1:59Speaker 5: I think this this is a huge game on that front.
- 2:01Speaker 2: And we'll dig into the opponent coming up here just
- 2:04Speaker 2: a little bit, the Houston Texas. Of course, the Jaguars
- 2:06Speaker 2: do lead the league in rushing yardage and takeaways on
- 2:09Speaker 2: defense as well, so some good things going on. Let's
- 2:13Speaker 2: get our last look at the Jaguars Bengals match up.
- 2:15Speaker 2: The aftermath of the loss, there was a lot of focus,
- 2:17Speaker 2: of course, on the performance of Brian Thomas Junior, four
- 2:21Speaker 2: catchers on twelve targets and Brian Thomas Junior in the
- 2:25Speaker 2: locker room today.
- 2:27Speaker 6: No, I wouldn't call it a slump. I mean, just
- 2:28Speaker 6: gotta go out there to execute, make the place. I
- 2:30Speaker 6: wouldn't say I'm in the slumper nines. I gotta my
- 2:34Speaker 6: name called my number. Gods, you gotta gout there to
- 2:35Speaker 6: XC make the play.
- 2:36Speaker 5: Is it you think it's an overreaction to a couple
- 2:40Speaker 5: of games.
- 2:41Speaker 6: Uh, I don't really. People look at it how they
- 2:44Speaker 6: look at it. People got their own opinions, so everything
- 2:46Speaker 6: so mean they you look at how you look at
- 2:48Speaker 6: however you want to look at I know what, I
- 2:50Speaker 6: know what I said, I know them Cable, I know
- 2:52Speaker 6: do uh So, yeah, everybody got the only thing.
- 2:54Speaker 2: So it is what it is, and it's Brian Thomas
- 2:56Speaker 2: Junior in the locker room today. Earlier today, the head
- 2:59Speaker 2: coach Liam Owen still has confidence in his wide receiver.
- 3:05Speaker 7: Just to think anybody on this team, nobody was pleased
- 3:07Speaker 7: with the outcome, right, and we have some good conversations,
- 3:11Speaker 7: really good conversations, and everybody was frustrated. But at the
- 3:16Speaker 7: end of the day, he's got a great opportunity to
- 3:19Speaker 7: bounce back, as does the rest of our team, and
- 3:21Speaker 7: feel really confident about that.
- 3:23Speaker 2: That's the head coach, of course. Trevor Lawrence spoke on
- 3:25Speaker 2: this as well that press conference at Jaguars dot Com
- 3:28Speaker 2: and Jaguars YouTube. John and Bucky It's it was. It
- 3:33Speaker 2: was a tough look honestly on Sunday, and I'm curious
- 3:37Speaker 2: how this bounces back. It's going to be a storyline,
- 3:39Speaker 2: it feels like until it's not. How does he kind
- 3:42Speaker 2: of snap out of this thing? As a wide receiver, the.
- 3:45Speaker 4: Best thing you can do is just kind of focus
- 3:47Speaker 4: play by play. You hope that Liam goes to him
- 3:50Speaker 4: early so you can build some confidence and kind of
- 3:53Speaker 4: move past it. But in anything, every time you have
- 3:56Speaker 4: a series of drops, you do lose a little confidence.
- 3:59Speaker 4: So the way he handles the early part of the game,
- 4:02Speaker 4: whether he catches one, where he drops.
- 4:04Speaker 3: One, how does he move forward with the next one?
- 4:06Speaker 4: I think, if anything, a lot of it has to
- 4:09Speaker 4: be resolved on the practice field. Send a verteam going
- 4:11Speaker 4: through it, make sure your fundamentals are right, but at
- 4:15Speaker 4: the end of the day, he's right when his numbers called,
- 4:16Speaker 4: I got to.
- 4:17Speaker 2: Make a play.
- 4:17Speaker 5: Yeah, And I'm not going to belabor because everybody knows.
- 4:21Speaker 5: He's also got to go strong for the ball. I mean,
- 4:24Speaker 5: it was a bad look coming over the middle when
- 4:26Speaker 5: it looked like he shied away. Again, we're not going
- 4:30Speaker 5: to dwell on that, but.
- 4:32Speaker 2: It was there, so.
- 4:35Speaker 5: Like, I agree with you, but I also think you're
- 4:37Speaker 5: not going to get hit like that in the practice field.
- 4:39Speaker 5: So in a game he has to go up and
- 4:44Speaker 5: make strong plays for the ball. I think he will,
- 4:49Speaker 5: and I think I think the Jaguars, by the way,
- 4:52Speaker 5: the way everybody talked about it was exactly right. Let
- 4:56Speaker 5: it fade in terms of a topic as much as
- 4:58Speaker 5: it can, and if he goes out and plays well,
- 5:02Speaker 5: this will be a one week's story and in three
- 5:05Speaker 5: or three weeks people won't remember it or it'll be
- 5:08Speaker 5: I mean, okay, yeah, I don't remember. But he's got
- 5:11Speaker 5: to do.
- 5:11Speaker 3: That, buddy. Yeah, he does have to do it.
- 5:14Speaker 2: Now.
- 5:15Speaker 4: Because we were talking about the drops, I didn't even
- 5:17Speaker 4: mention the alligator arms situation, but that's.
- 5:19Speaker 3: What it is. I think there are a few different
- 5:21Speaker 3: things that are played.
- 5:22Speaker 4: When it comes to that one, he and like most
- 5:26Speaker 4: young receivers, they have to get used to catching with
- 5:28Speaker 4: their body when they're in traffic. As much as we
- 5:31Speaker 4: love kind of like the high school approach a catch
- 5:34Speaker 4: everything with your hands when you're in traffic, sometimes it's
- 5:37Speaker 4: better to catch with your body because what it allows
- 5:39Speaker 4: you to do is brace yourself or contact.
- 5:41Speaker 3: So he has to get used to that.
- 5:42Speaker 4: Those are things that have to be worked on in practice,
- 5:46Speaker 4: and he can do that with the jugs machine and
- 5:48Speaker 4: other things where they can get them comfortable with that.
- 5:51Speaker 4: Another part of it comes to Trevor. When you're throwing
- 5:54Speaker 4: the ball to a receiver in traffic, there are ways
- 5:56Speaker 4: that you can kind of put the ball on the
- 5:58Speaker 4: body of the receiver to protect him. So as much
- 6:01Speaker 4: as Brian Thomas Junior needs to protect Trevor, Trevor needs
- 6:05Speaker 4: to protect him with the placement of the ball in traffic.
- 6:09Speaker 2: The ball is.
- 6:09Speaker 3: High, he's exposed. All of that is.
- 6:12Speaker 4: Those are human reactions, no matter how courageous we want
- 6:15Speaker 4: him to be. So they both can tighten up in
- 6:18Speaker 4: some of those areas to make sure they don't have
- 6:20Speaker 4: those kinds of situations that showed up last Sunday.
- 6:22Speaker 2: Hey, Bucky, are they running different routes with him this
- 6:26Speaker 2: season in this offense than maybe when he was successful
- 6:28Speaker 2: last year? It does it feel different?
- 6:31Speaker 4: I mean, I mean the offense is different than what
- 6:34Speaker 4: it was, but the offense should.
- 6:36Speaker 3: Be one where he can be showcased. He's gonna have
- 6:38Speaker 3: to look.
- 6:39Speaker 4: Every receiver has to go in between the hashes and
- 6:42Speaker 4: deal with the boogeymen that are there.
- 6:46Speaker 3: And there are ways that you do it.
- 6:47Speaker 4: There are ways that they teach you how to run
- 6:49Speaker 4: routes to protect yourself. So for instance, I'm coming across
- 6:52Speaker 4: the middle, I need to work downhill as opposed to uphill,
- 6:56Speaker 4: because what it does is if I'm coming down on
- 6:58Speaker 4: the square end, now that the hits my back as opposed.
- 7:01Speaker 3: To hit me in a full frontal shot.
- 7:04Speaker 4: So it's understanding the little nuances of how to work
- 7:08Speaker 4: down my stem routes and all of that stuff. So
- 7:11Speaker 4: as a young receiver, he's still working through that. He
- 7:16Speaker 4: can't turn it down like you turned down, because then
- 7:18Speaker 4: what that does is that brings his courage into question,
- 7:23Speaker 4: and then every defender in the league now takes that.
- 7:26Speaker 4: And he talked about that and becomes a feeding frenzy
- 7:29Speaker 4: when it comes to trying to deliver a big shot,
- 7:31Speaker 4: even though they're always trying to deliver a big shot
- 7:32Speaker 4: on a wide receiver.
- 7:33Speaker 5: Yeah, clarify, I hear JP when I said at the top,
- 7:36Speaker 5: he's got to go up stronger. As I wrote in
- 7:39Speaker 5: the ozone this week, anytime you talk about this topic,
- 7:43Speaker 5: and it always gets talked about whenevery receiver doesn't quite
- 7:45Speaker 5: go after it. It's being talked about more because it
- 7:49Speaker 5: was a little more obvious the other day. But it's
- 7:52Speaker 5: always tough to you know, everybody in this day and
- 7:55Speaker 5: age wants to assign blame. Everybody wants to say it's
- 7:57Speaker 5: one hundred percent this or things or one percent. Anytime
- 8:02Speaker 5: a quarterbacks across the middle of receivers going after it,
- 8:04Speaker 5: there's two parties of play. The quarterback could have done
- 8:06Speaker 5: a little better, receiver has to go up. So I
- 8:09Speaker 5: don't know, you know all of what goes into that
- 8:12Speaker 5: because they've never gone across the middle like that. But
- 8:15Speaker 5: to Bucky's point, it can't continue to be a thing
- 8:21Speaker 5: that he's defined by. I don't think it has to
- 8:25Speaker 5: be something that he's defined by because it's only been
- 8:27Speaker 5: one game, but he he can't have a look like
- 8:32Speaker 5: that over and over and over again.
- 8:33Speaker 2: Spotlight. We'll be on it, moving ahead. That's the way
- 8:36Speaker 2: that's gonna work. You know. It feels like in the
- 8:38Speaker 2: building this week that you know, if this kind of
- 8:41Speaker 2: game were to have happened for the Jaguars in the
- 8:44Speaker 2: last year or two, the sky would fall. I woke
- 8:48Speaker 2: up on Monday morning and the sky was still up there, Bucky,
- 8:51Speaker 2: And that kind of has been the feeling in the
- 8:53Speaker 2: building this week. Hey, it's a loss, should have won.
- 8:56Speaker 2: Some mistakes we made as a team, and that's a
- 9:00Speaker 2: good sign that. Okay, nobody's freaking out yet, right, I mean.
- 9:06Speaker 4: Like all these games are learning lessons, right and early
- 9:10Speaker 4: in the year, what you're trying to figure out is who.
- 9:13Speaker 3: Do we need to be and who ought we be?
- 9:16Speaker 8: Like?
- 9:17Speaker 4: Who we want to be a certain team, we want
- 9:19Speaker 4: to play a certain way. But then you start playing
- 9:22Speaker 4: games and at some point you have to pivot and
- 9:25Speaker 4: you have to play to what the team is. Right now,
- 9:27Speaker 4: we're still in the discovery phase of our team. There's
- 9:30Speaker 4: some things to like love to talk about the turnovers,
- 9:33Speaker 4: the rushing game, Like when we talk about the commitment
- 9:36Speaker 4: to the running game, the fact that we're number one.
- 9:37Speaker 3: After two weeks, that's great.
- 9:39Speaker 4: The turnovers are coming in droves, the pass rush is
- 9:42Speaker 4: heating up. There's some really good things to like. The
- 9:46Speaker 4: part that we have to be better at when it
- 9:48Speaker 4: comes to winning games is really eliminating the mistakes that
- 9:52Speaker 4: really cause the game to unwrap, the turnovers, the penalties,
- 9:58Speaker 4: the big plays allowed when we one on one. I'll
- 10:01Speaker 4: say this, the Bengals dominated the kicking game. If you
- 10:04Speaker 4: look at field position to kickoff returns, they crushed it.
- 10:07Speaker 4: With the Jaguars struggle, those are things that are within
- 10:11Speaker 4: the control of our team, and if you just take
- 10:14Speaker 4: care of those things, you become a team that is very,
- 10:16Speaker 4: very difficult to beat. And you really don't even have
- 10:19Speaker 4: to do anything schematically to make those things happen.
- 10:22Speaker 5: Yeah, I think there's a couple of reasons why the
- 10:24Speaker 5: sky did In fact, it was falling, I think, and
- 10:28Speaker 5: I don't talk about leadership a whole locks I think
- 10:31Speaker 5: that becomes a little bit of a crutch in analysis sometimes,
- 10:36Speaker 5: But I do think this locker room believes in its
- 10:40Speaker 5: leaders like Jordan Lewis, Hainsey, guys who've been around a
- 10:44Speaker 5: little bit. I also think they believe in Liam Cohen's
- 10:47Speaker 5: message and his approach and Bucky. I think the fact
- 10:52Speaker 5: that they have run well and the offensive line has
- 10:54Speaker 5: played well, and I think if you watch these games,
- 10:59Speaker 5: you can see where that feels like it's going to
- 11:02Speaker 5: be around all year.
- 11:04Speaker 2: I mean, this does.
- 11:05Speaker 5: Not feel like a fluky leading the league in rushing.
- 11:09Speaker 5: And I also think the players are saying, you know,
- 11:12Speaker 5: guys are getting open, this offense is working, and there's
- 11:19Speaker 5: no real I think they think they're going to have
- 11:21Speaker 5: plenty of opportunities in every game and be able to
- 11:24Speaker 5: move the ball. I think they're confident that they are
- 11:28Speaker 5: going to be able to get to that identity that
- 11:30Speaker 5: Liam's talking about. I think they feel that, and I
- 11:35Speaker 5: don't know that every team that's one and one and
- 11:38Speaker 5: has lost one feels that way. I think there's a
- 11:41Speaker 5: real foundation being built there that I think they trust
- 11:46Speaker 5: that it's going to be there for him going forward.
- 11:49Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 11:49Speaker 4: I mean the credibility comes from your words and your
- 11:53Speaker 4: actions aligning. So when you talk to the team about
- 11:56Speaker 4: we're going to be committed to the run, your actions
- 11:59Speaker 4: have to show that you're to the run.
- 12:01Speaker 3: Through two weeks.
- 12:01Speaker 4: The Jaguars have been committed to the run, and I
- 12:04Speaker 4: would say they could be even more committed to the
- 12:06Speaker 4: run in some of those situations in Cincinnati. But the
- 12:09Speaker 4: success that they're having on the ground, the success that
- 12:11Speaker 4: guys are having in terms of getting open in those things,
- 12:14Speaker 4: even though the execution part of it may be faulty,
- 12:18Speaker 4: you can leave in the schematics, the philosophy, offensively and defensively,
- 12:24Speaker 4: everything that they've talked.
- 12:25Speaker 3: About doing, they've done.
- 12:27Speaker 4: And when you get that credibility, it then leads to trust,
- 12:30Speaker 4: and trust is essential to be in a really, really
- 12:32Speaker 4: good team. So those things are steps in the right direction,
- 12:35Speaker 4: which is why this guy isn't falling in Jacksonville.
- 12:39Speaker 2: Let's come back and we'll put the rear view mirror away.
- 12:43Speaker 2: We're looking forward to Week three. The Houston Detectionans are
- 12:46Speaker 2: coming to town this Sunday celebrate Hispanic heritage and witness history.
- 12:51Speaker 2: The Jaguars will take the field for the first time
- 12:53Speaker 2: this season and the legendary Prowler throwback jerseys. Lock in
- 12:57Speaker 2: your seats. It's a one o'clock kickoff time. Go to
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- 13:04Speaker 2: two thousand. A look at the Houston Texans when we
- 13:08Speaker 2: return a tuddele up with Bucky Brooks.
- 13:13Speaker 7: There's a general confidence, I think from this group right now,
- 13:16Speaker 7: even after the result at the end of the last game. Frustrating, disappointing,
- 13:24Speaker 7: but a great learning lesson for us to be able
- 13:26Speaker 7: to go and say, hey, look, guys, we got to
- 13:29Speaker 7: take it out of it and we're not gonna get
- 13:30Speaker 7: a call, We're not gonna put it in other people's hands.
- 13:33Speaker 7: We got to go take it and it's on us
- 13:35Speaker 7: to go do that. Nobody else is gonna do it
- 13:36Speaker 7: for us.
- 13:37Speaker 2: William Cohen, Jaguars head coach, earlier today. As we move
- 13:40Speaker 2: forward to Week three, the Jaguars and the Houston Texans
- 13:43Speaker 2: coming up this Sunday at EverBank Stadium, And if you've
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- 13:56Speaker 2: could be the next band a win. Big Huddle Up
- 14:00Speaker 2: with Bucky Brooks continues JP Shadwick, John Oser, and Jacksonville
- 14:03Speaker 2: Bucky Brooks in Los Angeles, California, and we look ahead
- 14:08Speaker 2: to the Houston Texans. It's a series that has been
- 14:10Speaker 2: dominated by Houston for the most part, and they have
- 14:14Speaker 2: now a streak of games that they have won here
- 14:16Speaker 2: in Jacksonville as well. Texans, as you see there, lead
- 14:19Speaker 2: the series big thirty one to fifteen and have won
- 14:22Speaker 2: eighteen of the last twenty two meetings. Last Jags win
- 14:27Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, twenty twenty three. It was
- 14:29Speaker 2: part of that stretch run. And then of course the
- 14:32Speaker 2: last Jaguars home win was the twenty seventeen season. That
- 14:35Speaker 2: has been a while. So wow, at some point that's
- 14:37Speaker 2: got to change.
- 14:38Speaker 5: Bucky and John, well here, it's your show, Buck, But
- 14:41Speaker 5: I'll take this one off the top. I don't get
- 14:45Speaker 5: the idea that the players in this locker room feel
- 14:49Speaker 5: that graphic because of this. The Jaywars weren't good last year,
- 14:55Speaker 5: but they played toe to toe with the Texans here
- 14:58Speaker 5: and it wasn't like they we grow them off the field.
- 15:00Speaker 5: That was a close game. They beat him over there
- 15:04Speaker 5: in twenty two and twenty three and beat him, and
- 15:09Speaker 5: I get that it's not the same locker room anymore.
- 15:11Speaker 5: But guys like Josh Heinz, Allen and Trevor and those
- 15:13Speaker 5: guys were here and they went over there in a
- 15:15Speaker 5: big game in twenty three. It was really the last
- 15:17Speaker 5: big game they won under that regime, but handle the Texans.
- 15:22Speaker 5: So I don't know that this is a monkey off
- 15:26Speaker 5: the back, Oh we can't beat the Texans kind of game.
- 15:30Speaker 5: I will say, with this regime getting started, you want
- 15:34Speaker 5: to be able to beat your division teams at home
- 15:37Speaker 5: and feel like, hey, this is our house. All that stuff.
- 15:40Speaker 5: It matters very much in that regard. I don't know
- 15:44Speaker 5: that there's this feeling in the locker room. I can
- 15:47Speaker 5: see the Colts with the streak that they're on in
- 15:50Speaker 5: this stadium, having a weird feeling about the Jaguars. I
- 15:55Speaker 5: just don't know if if there's a feeling among the
- 15:58Speaker 5: guys in that locker room that there's a hecks involved
- 16:01Speaker 5: in this series. Maybe I could be wrong, but that's
- 16:04Speaker 5: just kind of my feel for it.
- 16:06Speaker 4: Well, probably not John, because some of these guys were
- 16:09Speaker 4: there in twenty three when they won, so they probably
- 16:10Speaker 4: don't see them as you know, the nightmares of those things.
- 16:15Speaker 3: But it is significant.
- 16:16Speaker 4: The last home win was a long time ago, twenty
- 16:19Speaker 4: seventeen forty five seven.
- 16:20Speaker 5: That is forever Ago had some bad years during that
- 16:23Speaker 5: with us to a lot of teams.
- 16:24Speaker 3: But they did. But that's that's a lot of that's
- 16:27Speaker 3: we see them every year. There's a lot of losses
- 16:30Speaker 3: in a row.
- 16:31Speaker 2: One of those too, the women. So it's not all
- 16:34Speaker 2: here a good point.
- 16:36Speaker 3: I mean a lot of a lot of losses.
- 16:38Speaker 2: Uh.
- 16:39Speaker 4: I think I think the big thing is not really
- 16:42Speaker 4: focusing on the texts and making it bigger.
- 16:44Speaker 3: Than what it is in the division.
- 16:46Speaker 4: More so, can we get back on track and play
- 16:48Speaker 4: our brand of ball. I think that's what you would
- 16:50Speaker 4: like to see.
- 16:51Speaker 8: Uh.
- 16:51Speaker 3: You've seen it in spurts and flashes.
- 16:54Speaker 4: Got to see the run game be able to finish
- 16:56Speaker 4: games out in the fourth quarter, and got to see
- 16:58Speaker 4: the receivers close thing out when they have opportunities. And
- 17:02Speaker 4: then defensively, it's the same thing. We play zone all day,
- 17:05Speaker 4: but at some point, man, you got to drop your
- 17:07Speaker 4: neus and go for it. And Ken Tyson Campbell and
- 17:12Speaker 4: those guys hold up on the outside, Travis Hunter, Jerene James,
- 17:15Speaker 4: all of these guys they have to hold up in
- 17:17Speaker 4: Manda man coverage and those gotta have it moments. Otherwise
- 17:21Speaker 4: it's gonna be some long drives against us. It's gonna
- 17:23Speaker 4: be hard to close games out when you don't have
- 17:25Speaker 4: the ability to play any man.
- 17:26Speaker 2: Deamn. Let's take a look at CJ. Stroud, of course, say,
- 17:30Speaker 2: former first round pick, second overall selection in twenty twenty
- 17:34Speaker 2: three out of Ohio State. He's three and one against
- 17:36Speaker 2: the Jaguars all time, seven touchdowns. Is not thrown a
- 17:40Speaker 2: pick against the Jaguars of course. Now, this Jaguars defense
- 17:43Speaker 2: leads the league in takeaways through two weeks with six
- 17:46Speaker 2: of them. They'd love to get some of that going.
- 17:48Speaker 2: This is a similar, though, feel, at least early in
- 17:52Speaker 2: his career statistically, to what Joe Burrow has had to
- 17:55Speaker 2: go through with all the hits and the contact. And
- 17:57Speaker 2: they've had offensive line issues down in Houston. And what
- 18:00Speaker 2: kind of matchup is this for the Jaguars defensive line
- 18:03Speaker 2: this week? And obviously they're gonna stop the run to
- 18:06Speaker 2: earn the right to rush the passer. And when they do,
- 18:08Speaker 2: what can Stroud do in the pocket?
- 18:11Speaker 4: Look, man, the dude is phenomenal in the pocket. If
- 18:13Speaker 4: you give him a clean pocket, he'll pick your part.
- 18:15Speaker 4: He operates with surgical precision. He has great insuspation, timing accuracy,
- 18:20Speaker 4: ball placement is on point. It's about being protected when
- 18:23Speaker 4: you get him off the spot. He's athletic, but he's
- 18:26Speaker 4: not the greatest athlete. He's not a guy that flees
- 18:29Speaker 4: the pocket and is looking to really torture with his legs.
- 18:32Speaker 4: He wants to do his damage with his arms. The
- 18:34Speaker 4: Jaguars have to know where he's at. Rush to the
- 18:37Speaker 4: depth of the drop, not beyond it. Don't give me
- 18:39Speaker 4: any escape hatches where his legs become an issue. And
- 18:42Speaker 4: then is really you gotta tackle the big guys outside
- 18:46Speaker 4: Nicole Collins and company. They're good with the ball in hands,
- 18:50Speaker 4: you have to tackle it. If you tackle well, you
- 18:51Speaker 4: have a chance to get off.
- 18:52Speaker 2: Look.
- 18:53Speaker 5: I like Stroud a lot, and I think Texans made
- 18:58Speaker 5: a great pick. I think he's the guy that build
- 19:00Speaker 5: around He's not elite yet, not mature, elite yet where
- 19:07Speaker 5: if you get to him, I get that they haven't
- 19:09Speaker 5: picked him and they got to change that because you can't.
- 19:12Speaker 5: You're not going to beat very many teams this league
- 19:14Speaker 5: if you can't intercept their quarterback every now and then.
- 19:17Speaker 5: But I think he's still a guy who is having
- 19:24Speaker 5: to prove his way into that upper group. And I
- 19:28Speaker 5: think he still will make a play every now and
- 19:32Speaker 5: then in a game that gives you a shot at him,
- 19:35Speaker 5: and I guess every quarterback does. But I still think
- 19:38Speaker 5: he's trying to get there, Bucky, and I think this
- 19:40Speaker 5: is a big year for Stroud. He I don't think
- 19:44Speaker 5: accelerated last year like I thought he would. And again,
- 19:50Speaker 5: if you didn't play for the Texans, I'd say I
- 19:51Speaker 5: hope he does accelerate because I like him and I
- 19:54Speaker 5: like the way he plays, But I can't say I
- 19:56Speaker 5: hope he does. But I still think there is some
- 19:59Speaker 5: young quarterback stuff there that good teams can go get.
- 20:04Speaker 5: And I'm curious if the Genes can generate the pass
- 20:06Speaker 5: rush this week to take advantage of where he's still
- 20:10Speaker 5: developing to Yeah.
- 20:12Speaker 4: Look, I think there's so many different things to talk
- 20:16Speaker 4: about with CJ.
- 20:17Speaker 3: Stroud.
- 20:18Speaker 4: Like one, he did play phenomenally as a rookie, but
- 20:22Speaker 4: last year wasn't great. This year he hasn't get off
- 20:24Speaker 4: to the greatest start. The thing that always impacts you
- 20:27Speaker 4: as a coach, You remember when you remember when he
- 20:31Speaker 4: played that apless game against you, You remember him making
- 20:35Speaker 4: maneuvers to get outside the pocket and deliver darts down
- 20:38Speaker 4: the field. You remember all of those things, and even
- 20:41Speaker 4: though the personnel around him is different, man, it's still
- 20:45Speaker 4: a talented group. They have playmakers that can run the football.
- 20:50Speaker 4: Nick Chubb showed up. They can give you problems and
- 20:52Speaker 4: put him in his comfort zone. I think the number
- 20:54Speaker 4: one thing that you have to do the Jaguars. You
- 20:56Speaker 4: got to stop the runs, so that's not an issue,
- 20:58Speaker 4: and then you have to figure out how you're gonna
- 20:59Speaker 4: have an enough defenders and coverage to not only keep
- 21:02Speaker 4: him from taking shots down the field, but to keep
- 21:05Speaker 4: him making those improvisational plays that he is prone to do,
- 21:09Speaker 4: even though he's not an A level athlete.
- 21:12Speaker 5: I'm gonna ask a question for the scout where I
- 21:17Speaker 5: get I get Nico Collins really good? How special are
- 21:23Speaker 5: they at receiver outside of him this year?
- 21:26Speaker 4: I mean, he's the one, right, He's the one that
- 21:29Speaker 4: they wanted to talk about. Christian Kirk is a good player. Obviously,
- 21:32Speaker 4: we had him for a few years. We know what
- 21:34Speaker 4: he can do. He's projected to come back where that
- 21:37Speaker 4: establishes their pecking order and to who's gonna get what?
- 21:41Speaker 4: How many bikes at the Apple, they're gonna get in
- 21:42Speaker 4: those things. The main thing with them, they're so young man.
- 21:47Speaker 4: Throw a blanket over Nico Collins. Don't let him be
- 21:50Speaker 4: the one. Don't get hit with the right hand like Canelo.
- 21:52Speaker 4: Don't keep getting hit with the right left over and
- 21:55Speaker 4: over and over again without making an adjustment. So hopefully
- 21:59Speaker 4: we'll make some adjustice, make sure we don't let Nico
- 22:02Speaker 4: Collins go crazy, try and find somebody else for them
- 22:06Speaker 4: to lean on. But they're still a very talented team.
- 22:08Speaker 4: Don't let their slump or the fall off on Monday.
- 22:13Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be easy. It's gonna be a
- 22:15Speaker 3: tough game for the Jacks.
- 22:16Speaker 2: You got a match up right, Let's return and take
- 22:19Speaker 2: a look at the Texans defense. Good group there on
- 22:22Speaker 2: all levels. We'll dig into that coming up. But if
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- 22:37Speaker 7: Brooks being in that division in LA with San fran right,
- 22:43Speaker 7: very very similar structure, the way that they come off
- 22:48Speaker 7: the rock, the way that they want to disrupt. We
- 22:51Speaker 7: have got to have another sound plan when it comes
- 22:53Speaker 7: to protecting the quarterback, but also in the run game,
- 22:58Speaker 7: you know, manufacturing different ways to manipulate those guys. Like
- 23:02Speaker 7: I said, it takes all eleven, but specifically the way
- 23:05Speaker 7: that they want to roll off and come off the
- 23:07Speaker 7: rock and play talented. Got a lot of respect for
- 23:11Speaker 7: the way that those guys play the game and can
- 23:13Speaker 7: be very disruptive.
- 23:15Speaker 2: Willam Cohen, Jaguars head coach, on the pass rush for
- 23:19Speaker 2: the Houston Texans. I'll have to face it this Sunday
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- 23:39Speaker 2: that pass rush led by Will Anderson, junior defensive end
- 23:42Speaker 2: for the Houston Texans Priority number one when slowing down
- 23:47Speaker 2: the first round pick who's picked the selection after they
- 23:50Speaker 2: traded up and got him right after CJ. Stroud in
- 23:53Speaker 2: the same draft. Four games. Ten tackles against the Jags
- 23:58Speaker 2: is not how to sack yet against the Jaguars, but
- 24:00Speaker 2: he's been in the backfield a little bit. Three quarterback
- 24:03Speaker 2: hits in his time, twenty career sacks. Now Bucky him
- 24:08Speaker 2: combined with Daniel Hunter and the big fellows on the
- 24:12Speaker 2: inside of the interior, it's the front line of a
- 24:15Speaker 2: really thorough defense. It feels like, what do they do best?
- 24:19Speaker 4: I mean they just get after it. I mean they
- 24:21Speaker 4: have a little salty group. They get after it. They
- 24:24Speaker 4: can do it with pressure, they can do it when
- 24:25Speaker 4: they have four man brushes. They are talented collection of
- 24:29Speaker 4: guys up front, and they're physical as it comes. And
- 24:32Speaker 4: when you look at that entire defense man, they can hit, run, covered,
- 24:36Speaker 4: they tack, or they bring it.
- 24:38Speaker 3: They make you play on their terms.
- 24:40Speaker 4: And the person who is enlisted, who is a guy
- 24:43Speaker 4: that can stir it up.
- 24:45Speaker 3: CHAUCEA.
- 24:46Speaker 4: Gardner Johnson Florida kid is gonna be jacked up to
- 24:50Speaker 4: be able to come back kind of close to where
- 24:52Speaker 4: he did his thing in college. He is going to
- 24:55Speaker 4: be a guy that can kind of spark the party.
- 24:57Speaker 4: He loves to talk, he loves to engage, and in
- 25:00Speaker 4: that defense, on that defense where he's playing, he's not
- 25:03Speaker 4: only a playmaker, but he has an opportunity to be
- 25:05Speaker 4: a punisher. This is a team just don't get at
- 25:08Speaker 4: they believe they did are bullies on the block within
- 25:10Speaker 4: a division.
- 25:11Speaker 3: They want to play a style that makes us back up.
- 25:14Speaker 4: So it'd be interesting to see how this version of
- 25:18Speaker 4: the Jaguars responds to the physicality and toughness that the
- 25:22Speaker 4: Texans typically like to impose on their opponents.
- 25:25Speaker 5: A story of the game, I mean, that's the theme
- 25:27Speaker 5: of the game, and to me, it's the theme that
- 25:33Speaker 5: will set the tone probably for the division this series
- 25:37Speaker 5: for the next couple of years. The Jaguars think that
- 25:40Speaker 5: they're a physical team that'll punch in them out. The
- 25:43Speaker 5: Texans think they're a physical team they'll punch.
- 25:45Speaker 2: In them out.
- 25:46Speaker 5: And it really it matters when the Jaguars and defense
- 25:50Speaker 5: the Texans too. But it's really to me this running
- 25:54Speaker 5: game that is really impressive. Can they run against the
- 25:58Speaker 5: Texans teams that thinks it'll stop it. I'm ready for
- 26:04Speaker 5: Sunday one o'clock. Yeah, we'll talk about the game in
- 26:09Speaker 5: the rest of the week, but that's really what it is.
- 26:13Speaker 5: The Titan I mean, the Texans will push can the
- 26:17Speaker 5: Jaguars push back?
- 26:19Speaker 4: I mean, look, this is what it is, right. We
- 26:22Speaker 4: talked about the record thirty one and fifteen. This is
- 26:26Speaker 4: almost like the classic bully story. We keep going to
- 26:29Speaker 4: the cafeteria, they keep taking our lunch money, they keep
- 26:31Speaker 4: doing the stuff, and at some point we either have
- 26:33Speaker 4: to respond or we keep giving it away. And I
- 26:37Speaker 4: feel like this version of this team, look, it's gonna
- 26:40Speaker 4: be a fight. It's gonna be a cafeteria fight. Now,
- 26:43Speaker 4: hope nothing breaks up. We don't have a freak us.
- 26:45Speaker 4: But if it's going to be about the physicality, and
- 26:47Speaker 4: we've talked about having an edge and a physicality to us,
- 26:52Speaker 4: the Rubber's gonna meet the road on Sunday, so we're
- 26:54Speaker 4: gonna have an opportunity to see who we are and
- 26:56Speaker 4: what we're really about.
- 26:57Speaker 3: I guess the physical.
- 26:58Speaker 4: Team that is going to throw up amiere and let
- 27:00Speaker 4: us know exactly who we are.
- 27:02Speaker 2: And of course there's all of the history of the
- 27:04Speaker 2: last season's game here where Trevor Lawrence got knocked out
- 27:08Speaker 2: of the game and there were two ejections in the game.
- 27:10Speaker 2: Al Shire and Jarian Jones with the Jaguars got ejected,
- 27:14Speaker 2: and we're gonna watch it again. It's been a little while.
- 27:16Speaker 2: If in case you haven't forgot, that's what happened late
- 27:20Speaker 2: in the season and Trevor Lawrence never played again in
- 27:23Speaker 2: twenty twenty four.
- 27:25Speaker 5: M Yeah, I mean it's look, they're not going to
- 27:29Speaker 5: emphasize that play publicly.
- 27:31Speaker 3: The Jaguars.
- 27:32Speaker 2: They tried to bait them in the locker room a
- 27:34Speaker 2: few times today and they weren't really going there.
- 27:36Speaker 5: And I do think, you know, they shouldn't emphasize it,
- 27:41Speaker 5: and they really shouldn't emphasize it inside the walls because
- 27:44Speaker 5: you have to concentrate on your job at hand. But
- 27:49Speaker 5: if they're pushed this weekend, I think they'll push back.
- 27:53Speaker 3: So I think that I.
- 27:54Speaker 4: Believe I believe the pushing will start from the top.
- 27:58Speaker 4: Two believe the first people in there are the people
- 28:02Speaker 4: at the head of the program. I think there's an look.
- 28:06Speaker 4: Liam talked about the rivalry between.
- 28:10Speaker 3: The Rams and the Niners.
- 28:12Speaker 4: Living in LA I can tell you how contentious that
- 28:15Speaker 4: rivalry is. So I think rather than run away from
- 28:19Speaker 4: that tension, I think you run towards it. And everyone
- 28:22Speaker 4: has to know, hey, man, this is what it is.
- 28:24Speaker 4: It's Texans Week, and this is what it's going to be.
- 28:27Speaker 4: And it's going to continue to.
- 28:28Speaker 3: Be like that. That's what it has to be.
- 28:30Speaker 4: It has to be a physical affair on both sides
- 28:32Speaker 4: of the ball.
- 28:33Speaker 3: They hit our quarterback, we got to hit their quarterback.
- 28:35Speaker 3: Simple as that.
- 28:37Speaker 2: Let's come back. We'll get our final thoughts ahead of
- 28:41Speaker 2: this Week three matchup the Houston Texans and the Jacksonville
- 28:45Speaker 2: Jaguars coming up for the tunnel up with Bucky Brooks communication.
- 28:54Speaker 8: You know, whether it's making sure I'm really clear in
- 28:57Speaker 8: the huddle of all the different tags and formations and adjustments,
- 29:00Speaker 8: and then also guys just staying in the huddle for
- 29:02Speaker 8: the entirety of the call and making sure we're hearing
- 29:04Speaker 8: all the little additions, especially on the road that was
- 29:06Speaker 8: our first you know, road test, and you get some
- 29:09Speaker 8: noise and a little easier to let some little things
- 29:12Speaker 8: slip as far as details go in the huddle. So
- 29:14Speaker 8: I think it's just a good reminder for us that
- 29:16Speaker 8: we got to be sharper and then just overall operation
- 29:21Speaker 8: moving a little quicker so.
- 29:22Speaker 3: We have more time at glance, scrimmage or not.
- 29:24Speaker 2: Russian Trevor Lawrence, Jaguars quarterback, asked about all the pre
- 29:28Speaker 2: snap penalties last week and shifts and a lot of
- 29:32Speaker 2: flags and last week's lost to the Bengals. That was
- 29:35Speaker 2: his answer today at full press conference at Jaguars dot
- 29:38Speaker 2: com and Jaguars YouTube. The Jaggs had what six legal
- 29:42Speaker 2: shifts all were declined, but that was the topic of conversation.
- 29:47Speaker 2: They were the quarterback Huddle up at Bucky Brooks, brought
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- 29:56Speaker 2: We take a look at the AFC South standings through
- 29:58Speaker 2: two weeks, and of course it's the Texans Jaguars game.
- 30:03Speaker 2: Could be a really big swing. If the Jaguars can
- 30:06Speaker 2: get a win, then that would mean they're a couple
- 30:09Speaker 2: of games clear of the defending champs of the division.
- 30:12Speaker 2: The problem right now, though, is the Indianapolis Colts, all
- 30:14Speaker 2: of a sudden, have not punted yet this season.
- 30:17Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a it's an interesting spot for.
- 30:21Speaker 2: The Texans.
- 30:23Speaker 5: Look, they want to be playing the Jags, don't get
- 30:25Speaker 5: me wrong, because it's a good chance for them to
- 30:27Speaker 5: get back into the division. But they have desperate team syndrome,
- 30:32Speaker 5: which often in the NFL means a lot when you
- 30:34Speaker 5: are desperate and clawing and clawing your way out. And
- 30:39Speaker 5: if if they were playing a team in a different situation,
- 30:42Speaker 5: if they're playing a two and zero team, I would
- 30:45Speaker 5: say Texans had an edge. But the Jaguars, I cannot
- 30:51Speaker 5: imagine that this will not be the most motivated and
- 30:55Speaker 5: the most ready this team has been this season for
- 30:57Speaker 5: this game. I mean, the jag has a big game
- 31:00Speaker 5: feel for the Jaguars, So I guess what I'm getting
- 31:03Speaker 5: at BUCkies. I don't know that desperate team syndrome, which
- 31:06Speaker 5: I do think is real in the NFL. I don't
- 31:08Speaker 5: know that plays into it as much because I feel
- 31:10Speaker 5: like the Jaguars are gonna play that way too.
- 31:12Speaker 4: Yeah, normally in division games is the heightened sense of urgency.
- 31:16Speaker 4: Let's get to it. We know what it is. We
- 31:19Speaker 4: win a division. It guarantees us a ticket to the dance.
- 31:23Speaker 4: Let's make sure we take care of business. Normally, you
- 31:26Speaker 4: talk about the record, You're just trying to be three
- 31:29Speaker 4: and one every quarter. That'll give you not only a
- 31:34Speaker 4: guarantee of a playoff, it probably puts you in the
- 31:37Speaker 4: mikes to have home field advantage and all that other stuff.
- 31:39Speaker 4: For the Jaguars, you drop one. You got to get
- 31:41Speaker 4: right back on track. It just so happens that it's
- 31:43Speaker 4: Houston Texans. But when you look at the Texans and
- 31:46Speaker 4: you watch how they game played out against Tampa, there's
- 31:49Speaker 4: some things that really work out well.
- 31:52Speaker 3: For the Jaguars.
- 31:53Speaker 4: We have to make sure that we just take care
- 31:56Speaker 4: of our business. If we don't beat ourselves, the game
- 31:59Speaker 4: is gonna be right there in the end for us
- 32:01Speaker 4: to win it. It doesn't matter of making sure we
- 32:03Speaker 4: control with the turnovers, the penalties, the big plays, and
- 32:06Speaker 4: we've got.
- 32:06Speaker 3: To make sure we dominate the kicking game. We do
- 32:08Speaker 3: that truck up to debt.
- 32:10Speaker 5: I think for the Jaguars two JP, I think it's
- 32:12Speaker 5: a team speed game. We haven't quite seen the speed
- 32:19Speaker 5: on offense that we sort of know is there have
- 32:24Speaker 5: a big play like it's mattered, it's played into a
- 32:28Speaker 5: base sell tuitin it is the real deal. But it
- 32:31Speaker 5: feels bucky like they're gonna get an explosive at some
- 32:35Speaker 5: point where that's speed. Maybe it's a Bayhell tuting on
- 32:38Speaker 5: a screen or something. They're gonna break one for a
- 32:42Speaker 5: touchdown at some point. With that team speed, I kept
- 32:45Speaker 5: saying they were gonna benefit from explosives in the preseason,
- 32:48Speaker 5: they haven't really the benefit of being a really good
- 32:51Speaker 5: running team even without the explosives. But it feels like
- 32:54Speaker 5: at some point they're going to go They're going to
- 32:58Speaker 5: take one to the house, and this is the kind
- 33:00Speaker 5: of game where that can sort of tilt it.
- 33:03Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, trpbo ticket went to the house and how
- 33:06Speaker 4: it get tilted. I just think it's important that in
- 33:09Speaker 4: these games that are robbery games that are gonna be
- 33:12Speaker 4: big and our fans are gonna be there and they're
- 33:14Speaker 4: gonna want to see blood sport, we still got to
- 33:18Speaker 4: focus on the execution, the effort in those things. You
- 33:21Speaker 4: can't make it an ego game where you try to
- 33:24Speaker 4: prove a point to the opponent in those things. As
- 33:27Speaker 4: a Jaguars, stick to the script, execute offense, defense, special teams,
- 33:32Speaker 4: really keep it simple and make it about, hey, let's
- 33:34Speaker 4: just see what it looks like. If we are able
- 33:36Speaker 4: to execute at a high level regards to the opponent,
- 33:39Speaker 4: is they'll handle detections, but they also will begin to.
- 33:43Speaker 3: Build the kind of team that can make some noise.
- 33:46Speaker 3: As we get later in the.
- 33:47Speaker 2: Year, Bucky greats off as always another show in the
- 33:51Speaker 2: books and We'll see you here in Jacksonville on Sundays.
- 33:54Speaker 2: Safe travels man, all right, Bud, I mean thanks, all right, guys.
- 33:59Speaker 2: Bucky Brooks fired up for a divisional game this Sunday,
- 34:02Speaker 2: the only divisional game for the Jags in the first
- 34:05Speaker 2: nine weeks of the season. Coming up this Sunday for
- 34:08Speaker 2: Bucky Brooks. John Ozier, I'm JP, shatterck Ore. Thanks to
- 34:11Speaker 2: Joe Fortunato, Brent Reaver, David Chow and thanks to you
- 34:13Speaker 2: for watching Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks.