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Huddle Up | Trevor on IR, Titans Matchup & A Look Around the League · 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 J. P. Shaddick bring
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Speaker 1: you the latest on your Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Speaker 2: Huddle Up starts right now. Welcome in.
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Speaker 3: It is Wednesday, December fourth, Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks
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Speaker 3: going into week fourteen, busy show ahead, a last look
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Speaker 3: at the Texans Jaguars, the loss of the Jags, the
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Speaker 3: loss of the quarterback, the first look at the Jaguars
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Speaker 3: Titans matchup this week in Nashville, and of course, the
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Speaker 3: Jaguars eliminated from playoff contention. Huddle Up with Blucky Brooks
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Speaker 3: We start with the breaking news just minutes ago, the
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Speaker 3: team announcing the Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence has been placed
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Speaker 3: on injured reserve with a concussion and a left shoulder injury,
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Speaker 3: officially out for four weeks. There are five weeks left
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Speaker 3: in the regular season. The Jaguars are eliminated from playoff contention,
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Speaker 3: So it appears that Trevor Lawrence's season is done. JP Shadwick,
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Speaker 3: John Osier, Bucky Brooks joining us as well, and hey,
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Speaker 3: this seems like Bucky, it was trending this way.
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Speaker 2: With the team.
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Speaker 3: Mathematically eliminated, you've got to look for the long term.
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Speaker 2: Future of the quarterback and his best interest as well.
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Speaker 4: Good afternoon, Good afternoon.
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Speaker 5: Not the best circumstances, obviously, hearing about the franchise quarterback
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Speaker 5: going on ir but it's sensible given the situation. Team
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Speaker 5: is eliminated from postseason. Trevor's dealing with two injuries, one
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Speaker 5: a concussion to the shoulder, and so it's an opportunity
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Speaker 5: for him to start.
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Speaker 4: A process of recovery. And the number one thing that
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Speaker 4: you want is Trevor Lawrence to be fully healthy and.
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Speaker 5: Available in twenty twenty five. And given the situation, why
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Speaker 5: not put him on the shelf and let's start thing
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Speaker 5: about next year.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's uh.
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Speaker 7: I I wouldn't have been surprised had he wanted to
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Speaker 7: try to come back, because you you don't know.
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Speaker 6: The concussion protocol. I've always said, look, if.
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Speaker 7: If a player is not safe to return on's cleared,
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Speaker 7: then they should change the protocol, right, I mean, because
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Speaker 7: that's supposed to be what it is.
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Speaker 6: But the fact that they.
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Speaker 7: Were eliminated and you had the left shoulder and it
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Speaker 7: was all just sort of off the rails.
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Speaker 6: Anyway. I do think there was.
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Speaker 7: A many factors in the discussion, one of them being
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Speaker 7: what's the point? What's no I mean it's fair, what's
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Speaker 7: worth the risk? And the answer to what's the point?
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Speaker 7: There are there are answers to what's the point, such
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Speaker 7: as hey helping Brian Thomas Junior get better. I said
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Speaker 7: during the left shoulder issue last couple of weeks, Trevor
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Speaker 7: shouldn't play unless he doesn't look like he's playing through
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Speaker 7: something like he did in the last six games last year.
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Speaker 6: I thought it looked on Sunday a little bit like
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Speaker 6: he was playing through.
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Speaker 7: Something off target in that sense, you know, I there
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Speaker 7: was no reason if there was gonna be something else
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Speaker 7: among that that you felt like he was playing through.
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Speaker 7: We saw last year it never looked right. You didn't
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Speaker 7: want to play him if it didn't look right.
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Speaker 2: Makes sense to me, Lucky, Yeah, it makes sense.
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Speaker 5: And I think also as we're learning more about the
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Speaker 5: franchise quarterback. Those are things that you have to consider
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Speaker 5: when he does get banged up and when he is
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Speaker 5: injured or working through something. He's not one that plays
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Speaker 5: really well without a lot of practice time, and so
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Speaker 5: you have to take that into consideration if he does
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Speaker 5: or through a major ailment going forward, you need to
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Speaker 5: have a good backup quarterback in place that can step in,
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Speaker 5: because Trevor is not one that plays at a high
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Speaker 5: level when he doesn't have enough time to fully prep
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Speaker 5: and put himself in the best position to play well.
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Speaker 3: Well that the breaking news is afternoon Trevor Lawrence on
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Speaker 3: injured reserve at least four weeks, but essentially his season
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Speaker 3: is over and the concussion came on a hit from
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Speaker 3: his ease, Al Shair, the linebacker for the Houston Texans,
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Speaker 3: who has since been suspended for three games. An appeal
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Speaker 3: is coming. We'll hear the results of that fairly soon.
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Speaker 3: But what more could have been done? The Jaguars retaliated,
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Speaker 3: of course, there were a couple of skirmishes on the field.
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Speaker 3: Doug Peterson today was asked about that, why not more retaliation.
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Speaker 2: From the Jags.
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Speaker 8: We're not out to hurt anybody We're not out to
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Speaker 8: ruined careers. We're out to win a football game and
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Speaker 8: play hard within the rules. That's our job, and that's
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Speaker 8: that's how we coach it, and that's how we play it.
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Speaker 8: You know.
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Speaker 9: Do we take it to the line.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, we take it to the line, But more
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Speaker 8: often than not, these games come down to just a
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Speaker 8: couple of plays and and you know, it was just again,
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Speaker 8: it was the case on Sunday. You know, we didn't
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Speaker 8: make enough plays to to really help our team win.
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Speaker 4: I mean.
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Speaker 8: We're not again, we're not if if if they're if
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Speaker 8: they're asking or suggesting that we go after something, we're
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Speaker 8: not doing that. Flat out, we are not doing It's
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Speaker 8: not how I coach it's not how I'm gonna coach
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Speaker 8: these teams these players. We're just gonna go out and
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Speaker 8: do our jobs. Play hard, play fast, play physical, within
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Speaker 8: the rules.
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Speaker 2: That's the head coach today, Bucky.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, here, obviously you see what's coming here, what
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Speaker 3: happened with the bootleg roll left and there's the hit,
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Speaker 3: and we see what happened of course after the fact
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Speaker 3: as well.
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Speaker 4: Buck.
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Speaker 2: But you were one of those, right, Bucky, that was
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Speaker 2: expecting a little bit more.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: So, and and I'll address this because I've said it
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Speaker 5: on Twitter and I talked about like there being a
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Speaker 5: code and that you have to hear to, and I
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Speaker 5: want to be very clear when it comes to it,
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Speaker 5: I was not advocating that a fight or whatever breaks out.
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Speaker 4: But what I am always.
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Speaker 5: Going to advocate for is you got to protect your quarterback.
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Speaker 5: And so when someone takes a shot at your quarterback,
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Speaker 5: then it's your job as the team to protect your brother.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 5: If we always talk about culture and brotherhood and those things,
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Speaker 5: then this look job number one to make sure that
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Speaker 5: no one takes a pot shot a dirty shot at
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Speaker 5: the quarterback.
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Speaker 4: That doesn't mean that.
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Speaker 5: It becomes a melee or brawl at those things, but
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Speaker 5: it does mean that when it gets to that line,
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Speaker 5: and we talk about taking it to that line, yeah,
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Speaker 5: the intensity rises. Those things happen, and if you have
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Speaker 5: an opportunity to begin to issue licks and physicality and
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Speaker 5: all of that other stuff, it goes to that. But
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Speaker 5: there is a way to do these things while playing
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Speaker 5: within the lines. Look, football is a physical sport, it's
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Speaker 5: a violence sport. It's contact sport. And when Trevor laid
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Speaker 5: it on the line by leaving the pocket like, those
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Speaker 5: are some of the things that happens.
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Speaker 4: But it's also your job.
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Speaker 5: As his teammate to protect him from a dirty shot.
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Speaker 5: If this was a shot that was like, not a
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Speaker 5: dirty shot, not one where he's sliding.
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Speaker 4: Look, man, you can live with it.
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Speaker 5: But the fact that he was sliding and giving himself
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Speaker 5: up and the guy not only hits him with a
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Speaker 5: form and a shoulder, but cole cox him to the
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Speaker 5: point that.
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Speaker 4: He's injured and put out the game. Look, man, I.
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Speaker 5: Disagree with the take. I disagree with Doug's take. I
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Speaker 5: disagree with some of the takes that have come out
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Speaker 5: of there about fines and suspensions in those things.
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Speaker 4: At some point you have to protect your guy. No
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Speaker 4: different than in.
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Speaker 5: Baseball, when someone hits a player, you know that the
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Speaker 5: next batter for the opposite team is going to get hit.
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Speaker 4: In hockey, if someone high.
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Speaker 5: Checks the star, the goons are going to come out
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Speaker 5: and make sure that they protect them. They are unwritten
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Speaker 5: rules in sports that allow you to handle some of
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Speaker 5: those things. I expected to see a little more intensity.
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Speaker 4: From the Jaguars after that situation went down.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess I go a little bit the other way.
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Speaker 7: I didn't expect to see much more what I've minded
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Speaker 7: seeing much more. Maybe not, but I guess that's you know,
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Speaker 7: I thought the response right after the play was pretty intense,
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Speaker 7: and I thought that it felt different than a lot
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Speaker 7: of NFL fights I've seen, meaning a little more intensity,
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Speaker 7: a little bit more of a street fight feel than
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Speaker 7: the usual NFL fight where like there's three guys and
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Speaker 7: they all realize within about five seconds that they were
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Speaker 7: wearing pads, so they kind of stop and it looks silly.
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Speaker 7: The response didn't look silly to me, and I thought
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Speaker 7: there was intensity on the player's part. Should they have
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Speaker 7: tried to injure Texans players in the second half, there's
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Speaker 7: probably a line between what Bucky and I are talking
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Speaker 7: about that I wouldn't have minded seeing. You know, it's
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Speaker 7: not a great answer, but echo the whistle stuff. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: sort of trying to injure. And I used to have
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Speaker 7: to tell guys to go out and try to injure.
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Speaker 7: So no, no, and so like he maybe right, you know
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Speaker 7: what I'm saying.
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Speaker 5: I want to be real clear because I'm not saying
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Speaker 5: or advocating to go injure another player deliberately. But what
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Speaker 5: I am saying, is okay, like we all have a
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Speaker 5: gentleman's agreement when we play the game, right, so on
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Speaker 5: the outside, wide receivers and dbs kind of agree not
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Speaker 5: to cut one another.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 5: Wide receivers aren't going to take chop blocks at defenders
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Speaker 5: on the perimeter because it's beIN the rules. But it's
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Speaker 5: one of those things that you don't do. But if
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Speaker 5: a wide receiver takes that on himself where he's going
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Speaker 5: to cut, well, now he said, hey, game on, and
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Speaker 5: so you respond accordingly. And so for me, I'm just saying,
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Speaker 5: when it comes to that point where we're playing to
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Speaker 5: the line and maybe a little bit beyond the line,
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Speaker 5: it's our job to match that intensity and that physical
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Speaker 5: The other thing that I would say, and I'll just
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Speaker 5: say this because we know great quarterbacks around the league,
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Speaker 5: just close your eyes and imagine if disease you're here,
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Speaker 5: put that same shot on Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Patrick
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Speaker 5: Mahomes and what the reaction would have been league wide
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Speaker 5: to that kind of hit. Imagine the reaction within the
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Speaker 5: stadium to that kind of hit to the franchise quarterback.
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Speaker 5: To me, that's what I'm saying. Those things wouldn't happen
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Speaker 5: because those teams are known to protect themselves, and so
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Speaker 5: for me is just more so of establishing a culture,
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Speaker 5: creating a brand where people know it's not okay to
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Speaker 5: get away with that, and if you do that, there
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Speaker 5: can be consequences that come with those actions within the.
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Speaker 4: Rules of play.
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Speaker 2: Final thought on this will move on.
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Speaker 3: What about the Texans response and the excuse me in
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Speaker 3: the last couple of days from the head coach in GM.
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Speaker 3: Obviously they're trying to support their player for the appeal
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Speaker 3: and all this stuff, But to say the Jags went
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Speaker 3: too far in retaliation, Tomko, what's going on?
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Speaker 2: Well, look, I mean, come on.
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Speaker 6: Right, there were two things said.
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Speaker 7: One was so Sario's comments, which once I listened to
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Speaker 7: Knick's comments that those were more about the wording of
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Speaker 7: the league's statement, and well, I was not going to
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Speaker 7: play it on here. Once I got through the emotion
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Speaker 7: of it, I kind of got what Nick was saying.
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Speaker 7: It's like, Okay, that didn't bother me. The fact that
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Speaker 7: he's going to defend his guy, et cetera, et cetera. Dimiko,
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Speaker 7: I don't know, Dimiko, but the overreaction thing to say
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Speaker 7: the Jaguars overreacted. I assume he knows better than that, Bucky,
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Speaker 7: and I'll leave it like, obviously it wasn't an overreaction.
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Speaker 7: Obviously any team in the league would have reacted at
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Speaker 7: least that way. You may know, Dimiko, Bucky, he obviously knew.
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Speaker 7: He obviously knew that wasn't an overreaction, and he would
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Speaker 7: have reacted the same way had he been playing.
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Speaker 5: I would hope here's gonna say you either coaching or
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Speaker 5: you're allowed to happen, all right, And so obviously he
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Speaker 5: is okay with players playing like that. So I'm just
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Speaker 5: saying that if a similar situation happens to their player
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Speaker 5: Cjstride when he leaves the pocket, he's okay with it.
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Speaker 5: That's what he put down and that's what he says.
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Speaker 5: So everyone knows where the lines are when it comes
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Speaker 5: to it. Oh, it was a lake slide, like, It's okay.
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Speaker 5: He knocked Trevor Lawrence out. It's one thing to hit
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Speaker 5: a player. He knocked him out. And I can never
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Speaker 5: get the visual out of my head of Trevor Lawrence
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Speaker 5: laying there with his arms frozen.
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Speaker 4: They call it fencing and those things, but man, so.
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Speaker 5: Like if you can't acknowledge or empathize with the player
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Speaker 5: laying down like that and just being like, oh, this
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Speaker 5: is an overreaction. That's what they think about you, that's
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Speaker 5: how he thinks, that's how his team goes about their business.
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Speaker 5: And so my thing is everyone just needs to respond
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Speaker 5: accordingly within the rules. You just kind of understand what
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Speaker 5: it is and every player and look, fans know there's
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Speaker 5: certain teams that you play that you understand and anticipate
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Speaker 5: what kind of battleists going to be. And I would
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Speaker 5: just say from here on out, when the Jaguars played
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Speaker 5: the Texans, it should be a very testy and acrimonious
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Speaker 5: affair in a Division game.
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Speaker 4: And there's nothing wrong with that, that's all.
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Speaker 7: Here's what's lost in it. And I haven't seen a
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Speaker 7: whole lot of people talk about this. There was focus
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Speaker 7: when Demigo Rans was talking about the timing of the slide.
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Speaker 7: The slide has nothing to do with the issue. Had
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Speaker 7: he hit, had Trevor Lawrence been running full speed, had Frankly,
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Speaker 7: had it been Evan Ingram, had it been any player,
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Speaker 7: and a defender hit in the face of the helmet
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Speaker 7: with his forearm, it would have been a fifteen yard
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Speaker 7: penalty and the intent.
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Speaker 6: So there's been a lot of focus on whether he
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Speaker 6: slide on time. He wouldn't.
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Speaker 7: To me, it doesn't matter because you led with the
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Speaker 7: forearm to a defensive to a player, flag's going on.
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Speaker 7: You can't tackle in the NFL with your forearm or
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Speaker 7: a helmet. You can't do that to a defensive end
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Speaker 7: much less.
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Speaker 5: And I'm calling him out on like, oh, it was
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Speaker 5: a late slide and so he didn't have time to
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Speaker 5: adjust what he was doing or whatever, nothing to do
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Speaker 5: with So let's just say, let's just say Trevor wasn't sliding,
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Speaker 5: he was gonna hit. So that means that, as he's
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Speaker 5: ask here, was going to take Trevor Lawrence out as
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Speaker 5: his knees, because that's basically what he's saying. I was
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Speaker 5: going low when he slid, and it just happened to
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Speaker 5: get into my hitting range because it was such a
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Speaker 5: late reaction.
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Speaker 4: You can't just say that.
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Speaker 5: But then why the forum, why the extra stuff if
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Speaker 5: that's what we're doing. So I don't believe that there's
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Speaker 5: a way to do the flyover where hey man, you're
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Speaker 5: getting late, you do it. I really equate it to
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Speaker 5: playing baseball and we're trying to turn to and I'm
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Speaker 5: the shortstop, you know, and the guy's coming in and
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Speaker 5: it's a late slide.
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Speaker 4: Well what does the short stut do? He kind of
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Speaker 4: submarines it, so the guy gets down.
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Speaker 5: I get that, and I would have been okay if
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Speaker 5: he flew over Trevor just to let Trevor know, hey,
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Speaker 5: that was a little late. But you can't hit the
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Speaker 5: quarterback like that. Everyone knows there's no way to get
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Speaker 5: around it. And if he didn't have a history where
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Speaker 5: we've seen him hit Kayler Williams on the sideline, knock
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Speaker 5: Tony pollod out, put a choke holt on Tom Brady,
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Speaker 5: then I could live with it. But come on, man,
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Speaker 5: everyone knows what it is and they're okay with it
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Speaker 5: because that's a part of their defensive brand.
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Speaker 3: And now they'll be without a star defensive player during
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Speaker 3: a playoff run in December for at least a little
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Speaker 3: bit of time.
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Speaker 2: That's it for this topic.
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Speaker 3: Of course, Trevor Lawrence on injured reserve about fifteen minutes
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Speaker 3: ago the team put it out, so essentially his season
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Speaker 3: is done. We're back in a moment, and we'll take
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Speaker 3: a look ahead to the Jaguars Titans matchup in Nashville
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Speaker 3: this Sunday in week fourteen, and we're off and running.
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Speaker 3: Its huddle up with Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 8: One of the best all year. Quite frankly, they're big,
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Speaker 8: they're powerful. The two tackles, you know, Jeffrey Simmons is
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Speaker 8: one of the best tackles you know in the NFL.
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Speaker 8: Sweat's another one that's it's a rookie, but he's he's learned,
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Speaker 8: he's a he's a load. And we know Arden is
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Speaker 8: a very athletic and speed rusher and plays with a
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Speaker 8: lot of energy. But this uh, this front is it's
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Speaker 8: gonna be one of the better ones we've seen.
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Speaker 3: Has Doug Peterson today discussing the Tennessee Titans defensive front.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back, it's huddle up with Bucky Brooks, j P,
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Speaker 3: Shadrick John Oser and yes, you guessed it, Bucky Brooks
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Speaker 3: Mike Garrafollo and Ian Rapaport reporting in the Jaguars have
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Speaker 3: played veteran wide receiver Josh Reynolds off waivers from the Broncos.
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Speaker 3: He was shot earlier in the year and then waived
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Speaker 3: this week. Bucky, So he'll join this group on offense,
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Speaker 3: injury riddled group. Couple of starters are down for the year,
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Speaker 3: and we'll see what he has down the stretch here
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Speaker 3: for this offense going up against the Titans defense this week.
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Speaker 3: All of a sudden, who knows if he's ready this week.
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Speaker 3: But I mean it's a group that's the second to
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Speaker 3: the league in total defense number one against the past.
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Speaker 3: They have some really high metrics. They don't have the
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Speaker 3: wins and losses to show for it, though Bucky.
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Speaker 5: No really sawt he grew up in part of reason
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Speaker 5: why they haven't won is because they haven't been able
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Speaker 5: to play company reoffense. But defensively, this is a team
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Speaker 5: that gets after it. They're built the right way. They
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Speaker 5: can play hard. They have a physical brand of football. Look, man,
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Speaker 5: this is gonna be a very testy affair, and you
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Speaker 5: already know what the robbery is and so throw out
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Speaker 5: the records and that stuff. Look, two teams that don't
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Speaker 5: really like each other, and this defense though led by
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Speaker 5: the Nard Walker, the defensive coordinator there, they're trying to
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Speaker 5: establish themselves in terms of how they want to play,
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Speaker 5: how they want to build it, and how they want
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Speaker 5: to establish the brand that is the Tennessee Titans defensive
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Speaker 5: brand of ball. So it's gonna be a good one.
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Speaker 5: It's gonna be a tough challenge for the Jaguars. Mac
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Speaker 5: Jones is gonna have to play well, But really it's
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Speaker 5: gonna start in the trenches in terms of dealing with
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Speaker 5: those two big monsters on the inside.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't think you have to be very much
18:44
Speaker 7: convincing and convince them to throw out the records. Yeah,
18:55
Speaker 7: Titans Eavens is really good. It's really good up front.
18:59
Speaker 7: It's a trick matchup for the Jaguars because they're really
19:03
Speaker 7: good in an area where the Jaguars often struggle, which
19:07
Speaker 7: is the interior the offensive lot. So I I expect
19:13
Speaker 7: them to pressure Mac.
19:14
Speaker 6: I mean I shouldn't say that.
19:17
Speaker 7: Jaguars have done a nice job of protecting the quarterback
19:19
Speaker 7: for the most part this year, So they protect Mac Jones.
19:23
Speaker 7: We saw a little bit in the second half the
19:25
Speaker 7: other day that they got a little something going, So
19:28
Speaker 7: maybe that's the formula, but it's it's awfully hard to
19:35
Speaker 7: predict success right now.
19:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Jags have been inconsistent in the wrong game
19:39
Speaker 3: yeah late, So.
19:40
Speaker 6: This is a hard team to gain consistency against.
19:43
Speaker 7: And if there's been a flaw on this team, it's
19:47
Speaker 7: been it remains the inability to pick up short yardage,
19:50
Speaker 7: and the Titans front is a tough team to pick
19:53
Speaker 7: up short yardage. Again, So I think this is a
19:57
Speaker 7: I think the record makes this feel like quote.
20:01
Speaker 6: Unquote winnable game.
20:01
Speaker 7: It's winnable for the Jags, but I think there's a
20:03
Speaker 7: few elements that really make this tough matchup for the Jaguars.
20:07
Speaker 6: But there's more to go.
20:11
Speaker 5: There's gonna be tough regards to who's playing, just in
20:13
Speaker 5: terms of the strength of their defense kind of falls
20:16
Speaker 5: in line with the weaknesses of what we have on
20:18
Speaker 5: the offense and how do you scheme around it? And
20:20
Speaker 5: so this is gonna be a game where Doug Peterson
20:22
Speaker 5: pressed that they're gonna have to be on their a
20:24
Speaker 5: game when it comes to avoiding the blue chip players
20:28
Speaker 5: that the Titans have and trying to find other areas
20:30
Speaker 5: of the team to attack. But it's a really good
20:32
Speaker 5: defense of salty defense that man, they're gonna bring physicality
20:36
Speaker 5: to the table, so you got to make sure you're
20:37
Speaker 5: ready to put a party.
20:38
Speaker 7: Well, there's also the element jp of Look, the Titans
20:41
Speaker 7: have a quarterback and Will Levis, who I think rightly
20:45
Speaker 7: believes in these last five games that these last five
20:49
Speaker 7: games can determine whether he's the guy, right like, if
20:53
Speaker 7: he comes out and plays well, that might change their outlook.
20:58
Speaker 6: So there's a lot of for that.
21:02
Speaker 7: I know Mac Jones really wants to be a great
21:05
Speaker 7: quarterback in the NFL, but I don't think realisticly Mac
21:07
Speaker 7: Jones is thinking, Hey, I'm gonna be a franchise quarterback
21:12
Speaker 7: here moving forward. So that's a dynamic that the Titans
21:15
Speaker 7: are playing for.
21:17
Speaker 6: And they're also playing for our first year head coach,
21:19
Speaker 6: who there's.
21:20
Speaker 7: Really no question I don't think that he's gonna be
21:22
Speaker 7: the guy. So those players still believe they're moving in
21:26
Speaker 7: a direction something to play for. I think it's there's
21:33
Speaker 7: a little more doubt in the Jaguars mind on that
21:36
Speaker 7: front because you're in year three and there's talk about stuff.
21:40
Speaker 7: So I think those elements make this a really tough
21:42
Speaker 7: You know, if the Jaguars go up there and win,
21:44
Speaker 7: it's an impressive win considering those circumstances.
21:46
Speaker 3: To me, Yeah, let's talk a little bit about this
21:48
Speaker 3: Titans offense. Bucky and Levis, and when they've had a
21:51
Speaker 3: couple of receivers that aren't available for them anymore. One
21:53
Speaker 3: they got rid of in Hopkins and Trailon Burks is
21:56
Speaker 3: no longer available, and so they've got Ridley still that
22:00
Speaker 3: we know all about, who's actually playing fairly well this year.
22:03
Speaker 3: And then Nick Westbrook, a kine all of a sudden
22:05
Speaker 3: can't stop catching touchdowns, a tight.
22:08
Speaker 2: End that can play a running game, and Pollard.
22:10
Speaker 3: They have some parts to it feels like what stands
22:12
Speaker 3: out the most about this Titans offense.
22:15
Speaker 5: Look, man, the pieces around the quarterback are solid enough
22:17
Speaker 5: to win. It just depends on which version of the
22:19
Speaker 5: quarterback shows up. Will Levis is a bit of a
22:22
Speaker 5: double agent at a position. He'll help the Titans, but
22:25
Speaker 5: he also is going to help the Jaguars some of.
22:28
Speaker 4: His poor decisions.
22:30
Speaker 5: And what you have to do is you got to
22:32
Speaker 5: speed up his clock by bringing pressure and then you
22:34
Speaker 5: got to catch the opportunities that he gives you, because
22:36
Speaker 5: he's going to throw two or three balls in the
22:39
Speaker 5: traffic that should be turnover worthy throws, and so.
22:42
Speaker 4: We got to make sure we cash in on that butt.
22:44
Speaker 5: Look, it's a talented team that just hasn't been able
22:47
Speaker 5: to kind of figure it out consistently under Brian Callahan.
22:51
Speaker 4: But you can't sleep on this offense.
22:53
Speaker 5: They can explode at random times and a lot of
22:56
Speaker 5: it depends on how streaky the quarterback is.
22:58
Speaker 7: And a Yan goes back to what I believe that
23:00
Speaker 7: the Tides are playing for it. In the first year
23:03
Speaker 7: of a regime, it can take time for the players
23:06
Speaker 7: to get it, for them to get going. They got
23:08
Speaker 7: going enough to beat the Texans. They went on the
23:12
Speaker 7: road a peaking or a desperate Washington team, he will
23:19
Speaker 7: that needed a game to snap a streak. So you
23:23
Speaker 7: figure at some point they're going to start getting some
23:25
Speaker 7: cohesion offensively. And the Jaguars have been a defense that
23:30
Speaker 7: has allowed teams to do that.
23:31
Speaker 2: They can do almost anything they wanted.
23:33
Speaker 3: So how Bucky do the Jaguars defense carry over any
23:37
Speaker 3: successes from last week?
23:38
Speaker 2: And they had some.
23:39
Speaker 3: I mean, they obviously two field goals in the first half,
23:42
Speaker 3: and then some things they lost the game.
23:45
Speaker 2: I get it.
23:45
Speaker 3: But what stood out about the defensive performance for the
23:49
Speaker 3: Jags last week that they can at least maybe carry
23:51
Speaker 3: forward and build upon.
23:54
Speaker 5: You know, I don't think there's any carryover from last
23:57
Speaker 5: week to this week. I think the bigger thing is
23:58
Speaker 5: nanature out of the post. And what is the approach
24:01
Speaker 5: for Ryan Nilson and the coaching staff. Do you get
24:03
Speaker 5: the young guys up and have them ready to play
24:06
Speaker 5: and get them some experience as you seem to look
24:08
Speaker 5: as you begin to look towards next year, or you're
24:11
Speaker 5: trying to play out the string with the talent that
24:13
Speaker 5: you have.
24:14
Speaker 4: To me, it should probably be a mix of young
24:16
Speaker 4: and old.
24:17
Speaker 5: Try and do the same things, Try and keep the
24:19
Speaker 5: fundamentals the same, try and keep the game plan fairly simple.
24:23
Speaker 4: But this is an opportunity for guys to play.
24:25
Speaker 5: You want to win, but you also want to get
24:27
Speaker 5: the young guys in there because you don't want to
24:28
Speaker 5: waste an opportunity to build their experience up as.
24:31
Speaker 4: They begin to cast an eye towards twenty twenty five.
24:34
Speaker 7: Well, I think it's imperative that you play Mason Smith,
24:37
Speaker 7: Jordan Jefferson, I want a full glass of Ventrel Miller.
24:42
Speaker 6: Yeah, full glass, full glass.
24:45
Speaker 7: Well, look, I can't compete on this show. I can't
24:52
Speaker 7: compete with Lingo and I'm a distant second, and I
24:58
Speaker 7: will concede the Bucky on the jargon in front. But yeah,
25:01
Speaker 7: I mean, you know Monteric Brown. You know I'm using
25:06
Speaker 7: out a guy who says, oh, play all the young kids,
25:09
Speaker 7: because usually you can't find those kids because the way
25:11
Speaker 7: the team's built.
25:12
Speaker 6: But on defense, they have kids to play, and it's time.
25:17
Speaker 3: We had Double Agent and full Glass in the same segment.
25:20
Speaker 3: Let's come back in a moment and we'll get into
25:22
Speaker 3: these playoff races. Neither one of these teams will be involved.
25:25
Speaker 6: In I can't wait, but these other teams.
25:28
Speaker 3: Will be and we'll discuss both the AFC and NFC
25:31
Speaker 3: as they stand right now going into Week fourteen. Jags
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Speaker 8: Hello, because that's that's up to me. That's up to
25:58
Speaker 8: me to make sure that these guys, don't, you know,
26:02
Speaker 8: throwing a towel white the way you know, wave the
26:04
Speaker 8: white flag.
26:05
Speaker 9: You know.
26:05
Speaker 8: So that's on me to make sure that that doesn't happen.
26:08
Speaker 8: And I won't let that happen. And two, you know,
26:11
Speaker 8: we got great leadership, you know in that locker room,
26:14
Speaker 8: and I'll lean on those guys to help me in.
26:16
Speaker 3: That Doug Peterson, when asked about the final five games
26:20
Speaker 3: stretch of the team now out of playoff contention and
26:23
Speaker 3: welcome back, huddle up with Bucky Brooks on this Wednesday
26:26
Speaker 3: of week fourteen, Jap Shadwick, John Osier, and Bucky Brooks.
26:30
Speaker 3: Is how in Los Angeles, John and I here in
26:32
Speaker 3: the Hyundai studios at the Miller Electric Center. Trevor Lawrence
26:36
Speaker 3: placed on injured reserve at four o'clock today, some thirty
26:39
Speaker 3: four minutes ago. Technically four games at minimum, but likely
26:45
Speaker 3: his season is done with a concussion and a left
26:48
Speaker 3: shoulder injury. Well, it's not done for a lot of
26:51
Speaker 3: teams in this playoff race. We started the AFC where
26:56
Speaker 3: everybody's chasing Kansas City. Surprise Surprise eleven and one Buffalo
27:01
Speaker 3: is looking like the best Buffalo team in a wild
27:03
Speaker 3: ten and two. The Steelers are there at nine and three.
27:06
Speaker 3: The Texans of course leave the AFC South eight and
27:08
Speaker 3: five current wild card teams the Chargers, the Ravens, and
27:12
Speaker 3: the Broncos, and then a few teams in the hunt,
27:14
Speaker 3: most notably the Indianapolis Colts Bucky. Is this how this
27:19
Speaker 3: will shake out or what can you expect over the
27:23
Speaker 3: final five weeks?
27:25
Speaker 5: No, I think those are the teams, the teams that
27:26
Speaker 5: are in the above the line.
27:28
Speaker 4: I think those are the teams that are in the field.
27:29
Speaker 5: The numbers may move around in terms of the seeding,
27:32
Speaker 5: but no, I think those are the best teams in
27:34
Speaker 5: the AFC when you look at it.
27:36
Speaker 4: The crazy thing is how well the Buffalo Bills are playing.
27:39
Speaker 5: The Chiefs have mastered the art of winning, so even
27:42
Speaker 5: though they're not playing their.
27:43
Speaker 4: Best football, they're there.
27:44
Speaker 5: But to me, it's the teams that are kind of
27:47
Speaker 5: like the dark horses, the LA Chargers playing smart discipline
27:50
Speaker 5: football under Jim Harbaugh, the Broncos playing well under Sean Payton.
27:55
Speaker 5: To me, what it does it gives you hope that look,
27:58
Speaker 5: some of these teams struggled a year ago and this
28:00
Speaker 5: year they're right back. So turnarounds can happen quickly if
28:04
Speaker 5: you have the right set of guys who believe in
28:06
Speaker 5: the right set of stuff.
28:06
Speaker 2: I'll tell you about John. That Monday night game Broncos
28:08
Speaker 2: Browns was fun to watch.
28:10
Speaker 7: Yeah, all over the Uh yeah, the Broncos. Every year,
28:15
Speaker 7: there's sort of quiet contenders, right, The Vikings are sort
28:18
Speaker 7: of quiet in the NFC. They keep winning in your
28:22
Speaker 7: never consider them great, and then all of a sudden
28:23
Speaker 7: they have ten wins. The Broncos feel like that. It
28:26
Speaker 7: feels like they're going in the right direction. You know
28:28
Speaker 7: that Sean Payton knows how to keep a team contending.
28:34
Speaker 7: He's one of the better situational coaches in the NFL.
28:36
Speaker 6: So, uh yeah.
28:40
Speaker 7: There's a couple of things of teams of that graphic
28:42
Speaker 7: that are intriguing to me. Every week I do my rankings,
28:45
Speaker 7: which are just critically important.
28:48
Speaker 2: I don't know how you get through the week without them.
28:50
Speaker 6: Well you don't.
28:51
Speaker 4: That's why doing That's why you're doing it every week.
28:54
Speaker 7: If you could get by without them, they wouldn't be
28:56
Speaker 7: done than the raven every week, Bucky, I always right.
29:04
Speaker 6: This team should be better than this, but they kind
29:07
Speaker 6: of keep losing games. I mean, it's.
29:11
Speaker 7: They feel real dangerous, and I kind of assumed they
29:14
Speaker 7: were going to have a chance to win it, and
29:16
Speaker 7: yet you sort of wonder if the flaws are going to.
29:19
Speaker 6: Be too much.
29:21
Speaker 7: And as soon as you say that, they always They
29:23
Speaker 7: also strike me as one of those teams every few
29:25
Speaker 7: years as that team makes a Super Bowl that was
29:28
Speaker 7: predicted before the season, didn't quite do it, and then
29:32
Speaker 7: in the playoffs, all of a sudden they were a machine.
29:35
Speaker 7: They still strike me they could be that sort of
29:37
Speaker 7: team that could go maybe on the road, and the
29:40
Speaker 7: whole theme is going to be everybody counted us out
29:43
Speaker 7: or they said Lamar couldn't do this. It still feels
29:45
Speaker 7: like it might be their year. Maybe you know what
29:47
Speaker 7: I'm getting at.
29:48
Speaker 9: Yeah.
29:49
Speaker 4: No, they're good enough to get hot and they're able
29:51
Speaker 4: to win games.
29:51
Speaker 5: The thing that bothers them like their team that appears
29:54
Speaker 5: to kind of lose focus when they're playing against the
29:56
Speaker 5: teams that they should win against, and look in the postseason,
30:00
Speaker 5: there's a lot of pressure on them because they haven't
30:02
Speaker 5: maximized their talent or their potential, particularly Lamar Jackson, so
30:06
Speaker 5: that'll hang around their neck like an albatross.
30:08
Speaker 4: The other team that I look at.
30:10
Speaker 5: I look at the Pittsburgh Stillers, and I look at
30:12
Speaker 5: Russell Wilson and how different Russell Wilson is in Pittsburgh
30:15
Speaker 5: than he was in Denver.
30:16
Speaker 4: And when you look.
30:17
Speaker 5: At what he can add to an offense as a
30:19
Speaker 5: deep ball thrower with a running game and a dominant defense.
30:23
Speaker 4: They're tough out. The AFC field is interesting.
30:26
Speaker 5: Because matchups really will dictate everything. But I think there's
30:30
Speaker 5: a common theme, a common denominator that you're seeing from
30:33
Speaker 5: all of these teams. Really good quarterback play, the ability
30:36
Speaker 5: to run the ball when you need to run it
30:38
Speaker 5: in each of these teams that in the playoff field,
30:40
Speaker 5: they all play really good defense.
30:42
Speaker 3: Had to had matchups between these teams in the top
30:45
Speaker 3: two lines as well coming.
30:46
Speaker 7: Up, and it's an interesting dynamic. And you guys both
30:49
Speaker 7: know where I'm going with it as soon as I start.
30:52
Speaker 7: The Chiefs somehow, as the two time champions three times
30:58
Speaker 7: in five years and the best record, feel overlooked, right.
31:06
Speaker 7: It's almost like everybody is assuming, well, they're winning close games,
31:11
Speaker 7: so Buffalo is gonna beat them, or so it's a.
31:14
Speaker 6: Right now, they're still the best team.
31:16
Speaker 7: And you know, somehow they're being overlooked and they're on
31:21
Speaker 7: pace to have home field, and they've won two Super
31:23
Speaker 7: Bowls in a row. So don't count those guys out
31:27
Speaker 7: until somebody beats them.
31:28
Speaker 5: Right, No, it's because their style is different, right, Like
31:31
Speaker 5: we are an offensive centric culture, Like we love seeing offense,
31:37
Speaker 5: We love seeing balls flying off the yard. We loved
31:39
Speaker 5: him when they were scoring a bunch of points with
31:40
Speaker 5: Travis Kelcey and Tyreek Hill. They've changed their way since
31:44
Speaker 5: they let Tyreek Hill walk, and this year the offense
31:47
Speaker 5: is more pedestrian than it's ever been. But I was saying,
31:50
Speaker 5: watching them and watching them closely, the veteran players DeAndre
31:54
Speaker 5: Howkins Travis Kelsey are still good enough to carry them
31:57
Speaker 5: to the postseason. And when you have a quarterback Pat
32:00
Speaker 5: Mahomes where all you need to do is be in
32:02
Speaker 5: the conversation in the game in the fourth quarter because
32:05
Speaker 5: he can win it.
32:06
Speaker 4: It just makes them a tough out. And we've seen
32:07
Speaker 4: it time and time again.
32:08
Speaker 5: You don't win fourteen straight one score games without mastering
32:12
Speaker 5: the art of winning. They've mastered the art of winning
32:15
Speaker 5: because they can win in various ways.
32:16
Speaker 6: Somehow they're gonna be standing there with the trophy.
32:18
Speaker 3: It feels kind of inevitable, doesn't it. Let's go to
32:21
Speaker 3: the NFC. Speaking of tough teams, the Detroit Lions, the
32:25
Speaker 3: number one seed, eleven and one. Philly boy, Siriani, he
32:29
Speaker 3: just keeps on winning games. They're ten and two. Running
32:31
Speaker 3: back helps Seattle seven and five in a week West
32:34
Speaker 3: Atlanta boy a week South six.
32:36
Speaker 2: And six leads away. But you mentioned that, John, the Vikings.
32:39
Speaker 3: They are ten and two, The Packers are nine and three,
32:43
Speaker 3: Washington surging now eight and five.
32:45
Speaker 2: They needed to win, They got it.
32:46
Speaker 3: In a few six and six teams that need some
32:48
Speaker 3: help down the stretch. Bucky, Detroit's to lose, but Philly's
32:52
Speaker 3: knocking on the door.
32:54
Speaker 1: Yeah no.
32:55
Speaker 5: Look, I think the lesson and the lesson that we
32:57
Speaker 5: as Jaguars fans can can look at the Detroit Lions.
33:00
Speaker 5: The Philadelphia Eagles are really built in an intriguing way,
33:04
Speaker 5: really good at the line of scrimmage on both offensive
33:07
Speaker 5: and defensive lines, really dynamic on the perimeter. But yet
33:11
Speaker 5: they both hang their hat on being able to run
33:14
Speaker 5: the football.
33:15
Speaker 4: In a variety of ways.
33:16
Speaker 5: These teams may be on a collision course, but I
33:19
Speaker 5: will say this, if the Philadelphia Eagles get home field.
33:23
Speaker 5: It's gonna be hard to go into that stadium and
33:25
Speaker 5: beat them when it's cold. The way they can run
33:27
Speaker 5: the ball, the way they can push you on both sides,
33:29
Speaker 5: really good team.
33:30
Speaker 4: And Detroit has a lot of injuries.
33:32
Speaker 5: At some point the attrition begins to impact the way
33:36
Speaker 5: that you perform.
33:37
Speaker 7: Yeah, this is the year where boy done, don't you
33:41
Speaker 7: hope And again, fans by the teams don't hope this,
33:44
Speaker 7: but as a fan of the league, you sort of
33:47
Speaker 7: hope that both the Lions and the Eagles can get
33:50
Speaker 7: to the playoffs healthy because with apologies to the Vikings,
33:57
Speaker 7: it just feels like those are the two power teams.
34:00
Speaker 7: Those are the two teams that deserve it. You know,
34:02
Speaker 7: in the NFL doesn't work that way. Injuries are part
34:05
Speaker 7: of it.
34:05
Speaker 2: But let's been the year of those two teams.
34:07
Speaker 7: But it's the year of those two teams, and they're
34:09
Speaker 7: both really good, and you feel like, I mean, I
34:14
Speaker 7: like the Bills, the Eagles and the cheap and the
34:18
Speaker 7: and the Lions are the three best teams. You'd like
34:21
Speaker 7: to see one of those three teams win it if
34:24
Speaker 7: you But the playoffs are going to be really interesting.
34:28
Speaker 6: This year for a lot of reason.
34:29
Speaker 4: Absolutely certainly here in the NFC as well.
34:32
Speaker 3: Let's come back in a moment our final thoughts ahead
34:34
Speaker 3: of this Jaguars Titans matchup Week fourteen in a place
34:38
Speaker 3: that Jaguars have not won a lot, especially as of late,
34:42
Speaker 3: have won really anywhere right some of these years. Don't
34:45
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34:47
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34:59
Speaker 9: The people that only you know.
35:01
Speaker 10: I love this game, love that fun, and I feel
35:03
Speaker 10: like I did times on Sunday, and I'm going to
35:05
Speaker 10: carry that to the next you know game here and
35:08
Speaker 10: hopefully the guys around around me know that. I think
35:11
Speaker 10: since I've been here, just they know when I'm in
35:13
Speaker 10: the huddle, it's about having fun and letting it loose.
35:15
Speaker 9: So that's what I'm gonna do again.
35:18
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35:36
Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence placed on injured reserve today, essentially ending his
35:40
Speaker 3: season with a concussion and a left shoulder injury. So
35:42
Speaker 3: Mac Jones will get the start for the Jaguars in
35:45
Speaker 3: Nashville this week, a place where they've won two times
35:49
Speaker 3: in the last thirteen trips to Music City, and the
35:54
Speaker 3: wins in that span, of course in twenty twenty two
35:57
Speaker 3: and twenty thirteen. There's bars in the last twenty to
36:01
Speaker 3: twenty five years up in that place, and it's just
36:04
Speaker 3: kind of what it is. So both teams are struggling, certainly,
36:08
Speaker 3: the Jaguars two and ten eliminated. The Titans are on
36:10
Speaker 3: the verge. They're three and nine, and here we are,
36:14
Speaker 3: John going into Nashville again.
36:16
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's gonna be cold.
36:17
Speaker 7: It's uh feels like when the Jaguars and Texans play,
36:21
Speaker 7: they could play in July and it would be cold
36:23
Speaker 7: and gray.
36:24
Speaker 2: Titans.
36:24
Speaker 6: Yes, I'm sorry they say Texans.
36:26
Speaker 9: Is it?
36:26
Speaker 6: I got Texas on the brain.
36:27
Speaker 7: When the Jaguars Titans play in Nashville, it could be
36:31
Speaker 7: mid July and it's gonna be gray and cold, and
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Speaker 7: I expect Derek Henry to play.
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Speaker 2: That's the one thing that will not happen.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So you don't need you don't need Mike Keith
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Speaker 3: screaming sack or ninety we just says that would be
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Speaker 3: an old timer just to play Bucky. It's gonna be
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Speaker 3: third fifty three and fifty five percent chance of rain
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Speaker 3: the press box down on the field.
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Speaker 4: Ready for that. I mean, yeah, you have the choice.
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Speaker 4: I mean, we gotta play. We got a kid, you
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Speaker 4: gotta get them play like whatever it is.
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Speaker 5: Look, I just think right now, we're so desperate for winning,
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Speaker 5: like have we got to play wherever we gotta play,
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Speaker 5: whomever we have to play. We got to figure out
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Speaker 5: a way to get this done. And against the Titans,
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Speaker 5: a team that is just as vulnerable as we are,
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Speaker 5: there should be some some some confidence that we can
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Speaker 5: go and get this done. We're don't have to play
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Speaker 5: well though, like make them mistake. We are going to
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Speaker 5: have to play one of our better games to be
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Speaker 5: able to pull this off.
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Speaker 4: And so hopefully we can get that done with Mac
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Speaker 4: John's and quarterback.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, the players and coaches haven't talked like this,
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Speaker 7: but there's been a feeling of Boy, the schedule has
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Speaker 7: been brutal and schedule has been brutal?
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Speaker 6: Well has it though?
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Speaker 5: Is it like, has it really been brutal or we
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Speaker 5: just didn't play well?
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Speaker 4: We feel like he's been like crazy.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's uh, are in contention right, NFC teams NFC
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Speaker 3: North that there's three teams on the playoff graphic from
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Speaker 3: the NFC North.
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Speaker 7: Well, I'm saying if the schedule has been that brutal,
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Speaker 7: now it's easier then go win, all right, But again,
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Speaker 7: the players and coaches have not talked like this. I'm
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Speaker 7: just saying it's been sort of a narrative. The tough schedule.
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Speaker 6: Well, yeah, three and nineteen.
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Speaker 2: Everybody has a schedule. They just have to get.
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Speaker 6: Everybody that a schedule that's tough. That's quite a the NFL.
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Speaker 6: That's supposed to be easy.
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Speaker 4: No, it's not.
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Speaker 3: Anybody would do it, Bucky, all right, Bucky, a lot
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Speaker 3: happening for a team that not a lot's happening for.
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Speaker 3: But they'll try to make it happen on Sunday and
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Speaker 3: we'll see you then in Nashville.
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Speaker 4: Yes, should be fun.
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Speaker 5: Let's even get a Dubs, you even get win number three,
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Speaker 5: win number three.
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Speaker 2: That's tough to hear. Win Number three is December fourth Man.
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Speaker 6: Yes it is, it is.
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Speaker 3: That's Bucky Brooks, John Osier, I'm JP Shatterger. Thanks to
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Speaker 3: Brent Reever, Joe Fortunado, William pas Our entire crew. Thanks
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