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  Speaker 1: Welcome to huddle up jaguar senior writer john osher and
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  Speaker 1: nfl network analyst and former jaguar bucky brooks bring you
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  Speaker 1: the latest on your jacksonville jaguar huddle up starts.
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  Speaker 2: Right now all right welcome into huddle up with bucky
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  Speaker 2: brooks i'm john osher from the hyundai studios in jacksonville
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  Speaker 2: and bucky brooks is i'm assuming is in los angeles
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  Speaker 2: because that's where he usually is uh and uh Huddle
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  Speaker 2: Go to fieldsauto.com, and Bucky, I cut you off there,
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  Speaker 2: but here we are. Here we are, week three, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy. The league is such a marathon, but
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  Speaker 4: so many things happen so often. Just think about How
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  Speaker 4: many teams are up at arms right now just trying
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  Speaker 4: to figure out their quarterback situation with all the injuries
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  Speaker 4: and those things?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we are coming off a loss. But, man, we
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  Speaker 5: are positioned so much better than so many of these
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  Speaker 5: other teams.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get into the details of 20-13.
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  Speaker 6: On Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: But we were talking a little bit right before we
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  Speaker 2: came on, Bucky. I think we hit on something interesting
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  Speaker 2: that I want to get to. Jaguars, it was a tough,
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  Speaker 2: out-of-sync game. I keep calling it clunky. when I was
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  Speaker 2: sitting here trying to write about it, usually I've been
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  Speaker 2: doing this long enough to sort of identify a theme,
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  Speaker 2: and I can kind of figure out what happened, or
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  Speaker 2: at least what I think happened. And there are some
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  Speaker 2: clear threads, right? This one, I thought Liam summed it
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  Speaker 2: up in the postgame. Sort of everybody took a turn.
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  Speaker 2: You couldn't quite figure out why they, you know, beyond
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  Speaker 2: the offensive defensive line, obviously when you get beat, which
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  Speaker 2: I thought both groups got beat, then, then everything turns clunky,
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  Speaker 2: but it wasn't even one reason for that. And then
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  Speaker 2: they get the lead and you feel like, okay, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to grind their way to it. And then they didn't, um,
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  Speaker 2: it just felt out of sync. I mean, I thought
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  Speaker 2: Liam said it best and that's what it felt like.
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  Speaker 4: It did feel like that, but I believe, um, if
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  Speaker 4: we kind of play the game from back to front,
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  Speaker 4: meaning if we go back fourth quarter, third quarter, there's
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  Speaker 4: a kind of like a three possession sequence where I
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  Speaker 4: feel like the game turned.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So it's, it's 13, 13, three, they get a field goal,
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  Speaker 4: make it 13, six. We turn it over. They come
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  Speaker 4: back down and tie it. It's 13, 13. We go
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  Speaker 4: down the field. We miss a field goal. And then
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  Speaker 4: they go, I just think the cumulative effect of all
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  Speaker 4: of those body blows at the end, I just don't
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  Speaker 4: think emotionally we handled it well in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 4: And for a team that prides itself in terms of
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  Speaker 4: being able to do things in the fourth quarter, close
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  Speaker 4: games out, we didn't close that game out. And we
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  Speaker 4: will regret not being able to close out a winnable
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  Speaker 4: game because that game was in our grasp. That game
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  Speaker 4: was like at the point where we were ready to
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  Speaker 4: blow them out and we just didn't take advantage of
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  Speaker 4: the opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got notes here to talk about responding, which
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we've talked about all week.
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  Speaker 6: It's sort of obvious.
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  Speaker 2: But something you and I were talking about just before
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  Speaker 2: you came on the air is really interesting to me. Look,
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  Speaker 2: the Jaguars are a good team. I don't think Sunday
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  Speaker 2: changes the fact that they're a good team. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like they're going to contend. I feel like they're going
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  Speaker 2: to be able to beat teams this year that are
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  Speaker 2: not moving in one direction. And by that, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: The Broncos know how they want to play. The Patriots
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  Speaker 2: know how they want to play. They're veteran good teams.
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  Speaker 2: I think the Jaguars can get teams. I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to call them bad, but they aren't ready to be
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  Speaker 2: there yet. And I think they'll get back to handling
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  Speaker 2: them just like they did late last season.
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  Speaker 6: Now, I don't know that, but they did against the Browns.
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  Speaker 6: But there is.
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  Speaker 2: Another level here, which is what they couldn't do against
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  Speaker 2: the Bills. Couldn't do Sunday. Now, they did it against Denver,
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  Speaker 2: so you can do it. But getting that clunky win
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  Speaker 2: where I don't think if they'd won that game 20-13, Bucky,
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  Speaker 2: they wouldn't have come out and told you, hey, we
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  Speaker 2: played great.
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  Speaker 6: But you've got that shot.
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  Speaker 2: You haven't played great, but you've kept them out of
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  Speaker 2: the end zone late in the first half, and then
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  Speaker 2: you get up.
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  Speaker 6: You've got a chance to go up 17-13.
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  Speaker 2: I felt at that point like it was going to
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  Speaker 2: be a game where I was going to be writing, hey,
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  Speaker 2: didn't play their best. But this is a veteran team
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  Speaker 2: that found a way to win.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: They're not that yet.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I can say they're not that yet because
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  Speaker 2: they haven't done it the last couple of times. But
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  Speaker 2: isn't that sort of the next step where you can
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  Speaker 2: grind this thing on Sunday?
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  Speaker 5: 100%. I think that is the next step.
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  Speaker 4: And I think the big thing in looking at that
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  Speaker 4: game and breaking down the game in terms of what
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  Speaker 4: I saw, looking at the tape and then looking at
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  Speaker 4: the stat sheet, I don't think we played Man, I
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  Speaker 4: don't even think we played like a B plus, B,
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  Speaker 4: B minus, a B game.
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  Speaker 5: I felt like we were just all out of sorts
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  Speaker 5: from the beginning.
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  Speaker 6: Out of sorts, go ahead and put it, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: On defense. No pass rush.
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  Speaker 4: Leaky coverage. Got some critical stops early. The goal line
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  Speaker 4: stand early was good. Helped them to a field goal.
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  Speaker 4: Had another goal line stand where we had an interception.
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  Speaker 4: But if you really dig deep, they were moving the ball.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, second quarter was getting away from you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but we were stiffening up and we were making plays. Then,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we kind of work our way down, find
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  Speaker 4: a way to take the lead. It's 10-3. Things are
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  Speaker 4: going our way. We get it coming out to half.
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  Speaker 4: We drive it down the field. And the ball is
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  Speaker 4: on the three-yard line first and goal. And in those moments,
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  Speaker 4: we talk about the good teams. Good teams find a
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  Speaker 4: way to get to seven. Because a 17-3 game, It
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  Speaker 4: forces them out of the comfort zone that they wanted
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  Speaker 4: to live in with Bo Nix.
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  Speaker 5: It eliminates the run game.
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  Speaker 2: What's the difference? And I tried to explain to him,
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  Speaker 2: the difference in 10 and 14 in the NFL these days, situationally,
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  Speaker 2: the way coordinators, which call plays, is a mammoth difference.
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  Speaker 6: And I interrupted you. Sorry, go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: No, I mean, what you're saying is that It is
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  Speaker 4: a huge difference because when you're down two touchdowns, you're
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  Speaker 4: in a go-chase-points mode. Whereas when you're only down 10,
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  Speaker 4: you're still playing the game honest.
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  Speaker 5: You're still trying to run the ball. You're still willing
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  Speaker 5: to do bootlegs.
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  Speaker 4: You still have a belief that the game will come
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  Speaker 4: back to you. When you're down 14, there's a heightened
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  Speaker 4: sense of urgency that if we don't score a three-score.
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  Speaker 5: Game, donezo. And so that's where it changes, that urgency
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  Speaker 5: that you play with.
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  Speaker 2: At that point, you're leaking into the third quarter, and
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  Speaker 2: if the Broncos get the ball, their analytics are telling them, hey,
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  Speaker 2: the Jaguars are going to at least get a field
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  Speaker 2: goal the rest of the game. So we have to
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  Speaker 2: get three. They're probably calling plays like they need three
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  Speaker 2: scores somewhere. Because you're assuming in the NFL these days
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  Speaker 2: a team is going to get a field goal every
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  Speaker 2: two or three times they have the ball at least. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this person tried to argue with me a little bit. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it wouldn't have made that much of a difference. It's
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  Speaker 2: 10 and 14.
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  Speaker 6: I agree with you.
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  Speaker 2: They would have felt like they were playing uphill and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, throwing more into coverage. You're more prone to mistakes,
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing. So let's go from there, Bucky, into
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  Speaker 2: a detailed last look at the Broncos 2013 over the Jaguars.
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  Speaker 2: I guess what I want to get into off this game, Bucky,
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  Speaker 2: is offense only had one touchdown.
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  Speaker 6: That breaks a.
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  Speaker 2: Streak of, what, 11 games with 23-plus. It was a
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  Speaker 2: tough day for the offense. Trevor has no TDs for
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  Speaker 2: the first time since, I think, week three of last year.
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  Speaker 2: Was it all the offensive line struggles, or where do
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  Speaker 2: you sort of look at with the offense?
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  Speaker 5: I'd say it's a couple of different things.
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  Speaker 4: I would say up front, right from the beginning, it
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  Speaker 4: reminded me so much of last year's game where they
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  Speaker 4: got pressure on Trevor Lawrence early, disrupted the rhythm of
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  Speaker 4: the offense. But man, we were running the football effectively.
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  Speaker 4: It seemed like we were able to run the ball
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  Speaker 4: and kind of do what we wanted to do. Early
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  Speaker 4: in the game, Parker Washington was a big factor. Had
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  Speaker 4: some plays early and those things. And like, John, you've
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  Speaker 4: been around the game long enough to kind of understand
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  Speaker 4: this when I say it. So there's a thing in
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  Speaker 4: football called the toxic differential.
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  Speaker 6: It's turnovers and explosive plays. Here we go.
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  Speaker 5: It's really from Brian Billick, so I can't take credit
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  Speaker 5: for it.
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  Speaker 4: But it's the combination of the two biggest factors in
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  Speaker 4: winning games in the league, turnovers and explosives.
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  Speaker 5: We only had five explosive plays in this game.
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  Speaker 6: And it seemed like they had them all day.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and the thing about the explosive plays early in
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  Speaker 4: the game, it directly relieves the points. In this league,
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  Speaker 4: typically when you get an explosive play, at the end
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  Speaker 4: of that drive, there's some kind of point opportunity, whether
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  Speaker 4: it's a field goal, a touchdown, and those things. And
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  Speaker 4: so early in the game, we had a drive where
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  Speaker 4: we had a Parker Washington play. We turned around and
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  Speaker 4: had another play where Jacoby Myers made a play. We
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  Speaker 4: did those things. And so we were getting these explosive plays.
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  Speaker 4: It is too hard in this league to just kind
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  Speaker 4: of grind it out over the course of a like
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  Speaker 4: an 80-yard drive to think you can get fives and
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  Speaker 4: sixes the entire time meanwhile on the other end denver
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  Speaker 4: had 10 explosive plays 10 i mean and three of
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  Speaker 4: their runs and explosive play by definition is run over
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  Speaker 4: 10 Pass over 20.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 6: To you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: In the fourth quarter, it was all the run game.
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  Speaker 4: So for us, we have to be able to generate
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  Speaker 4: more explosives. And the only way you can do that
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  Speaker 4: is you got to protect and then you got to
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  Speaker 4: defeat coverage. And I'm going to say this because I
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  Speaker 4: do believe personally our boogeyman is when a team decides
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  Speaker 4: on the perimeter to lock us up and play man
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  Speaker 4: to man and they have the ability to do it
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  Speaker 4: without bringing pressure. The Broncos were able to use a
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  Speaker 4: four-man rush. Zach Allen was a monster on the inside.
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  Speaker 4: We had a tough time dealing with him on the inside.
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  Speaker 4: And that made it uncomfortable for Trevor Lawrence. And because
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  Speaker 4: the Broncos were able to play like some two-man and
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  Speaker 4: some different things, we.
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  Speaker 5: Just couldn't escape.
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  Speaker 4: And I know this, and we'll talk, I'm sure we'll
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  Speaker 4: have a conversation about Brian Thomas Jr.
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  Speaker 5: And the wide receivers and those things.
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  Speaker 4: But for this team to realize this potential, they are
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  Speaker 4: going to have to show consistently that they can get
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  Speaker 4: open against man coverage. If not, it's going to be
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  Speaker 4: tough when we play the elite teams.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that's probably a thread that runs
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  Speaker 2: through Buffalo and this.
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  Speaker 6: A little bit.
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  Speaker 2: So I feel like Parker Washington is going to be
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  Speaker 2: a version of what he's been in the last couple
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  Speaker 2: of games.
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  Speaker 6: I feel good about that. I think he's a guy.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if he will– be a guy who
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  Speaker 2: if the opponent says we are going to bracket and
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  Speaker 2: take away that he's going to dominate.
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  Speaker 6: That, that's hard to do. So, you know, with BTJ,
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  Speaker 6: with a couple.
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  Speaker 2: Of drops, I don't think Brian would tell you that
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  Speaker 2: he played his best game the other day. So it's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, start there.
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  Speaker 5: He didn't play great. He didn't play great.
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  Speaker 4: But here's what I think people have to be careful
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  Speaker 4: of because I feel like there was this faction of
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  Speaker 4: the fan base that's just been waiting for him to
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  Speaker 4: drop a pass so they could go, hey, I told
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  Speaker 4: you so.
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  Speaker 5: He's right back to what he was last year. I'll
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  Speaker 5: say this.
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  Speaker 6: This was not Cincinnati last year.
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  Speaker 5: No. Of the drops, first drop was egregious. Gotta catch that.
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  Speaker 4: The second one, everyone sees the end of the clip
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  Speaker 4: where they see the ball hit his hands, but the
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  Speaker 4: comeback that he ran was right in front of me.
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  Speaker 4: I gotta tell you, the difference in Trevor Lawrence this
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  Speaker 4: year and the end of last year and previous years,
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  Speaker 4: Trevor Storm with more timing and anticipation than he's ever done.
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  Speaker 4: That ball was well out before Brian Thomas came out
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  Speaker 4: the break.
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  Speaker 6: Now, is this the fourth quarter you're talking about?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, like he's doing the comeback. It would have been
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  Speaker 5: a big play.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, I think it was on the possession where
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  Speaker 4: we end up missing the field goal. And he comes
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  Speaker 4: out the break. The ball is right up on him. Now,
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  Speaker 4: high-level professional receiver, you do expect him to catch that.
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  Speaker 4: But it certainly was not as easy. As the social
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  Speaker 4: clips are making it. Look how early that ball is.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that ball is out. Now, it's on the money.
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  Speaker 6: This one?
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  Speaker 5: He has to get his head around.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: You got to catch that ball, Buck. Come on.
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  Speaker 5: I'm with you, but that's a catch. But he has
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  Speaker 5: to get his head around quicker.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 5: That's on him.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm just saying, when people just show the end
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  Speaker 4: of it, I think you just have to understand. The
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  Speaker 4: ball jumped on him, but he has to know that.
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  Speaker 4: And that comes from reps and practice knowing. Look how
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  Speaker 4: early that ball is out. That is a great throw.
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  Speaker 4: He has to catch that, but he has to make
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  Speaker 4: sure he gets his head around and he's prepared for that.
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  Speaker 5: He has to make those plays. Now, the other one
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  Speaker 5: that they're talking about with Pat Sertan, that's.
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  Speaker 3: Not a drop.
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  Speaker 6: That's a tough catch. Yeah, I agree with you.
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  Speaker 4: That's not even a drop. The ball didn't even get
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  Speaker 4: to him. They hit the back of Pat Sertan's helmet.
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  Speaker 4: Those two drops are drops.
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  Speaker 2: I would say this on the Sertan play, though. I
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  Speaker 2: think you got to... It's a really, really tough play
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  Speaker 2: to make.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Sometimes you got to be above the X's and O's
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  Speaker 6: and go get it. I would say.
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  Speaker 5: So look at where the ball hits.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you're right. You're right.
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  Speaker 5: It's just such a tough thing. Now, the other two, 100%
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  Speaker 5: dead drops.
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  Speaker 6: I got you.
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  Speaker 5: That's a harder one. But regardless, here's the thing with
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  Speaker 5: Brian Thomas Jr.
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  Speaker 2: Also, you got one of the best cornerbacks in the
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  Speaker 2: league covering you. So it's not fair to call that
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  Speaker 2: one you, quote, should have gotten.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but, and he's done this because he raised the
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  Speaker 4: bar for himself his rookie season. When you play at
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  Speaker 4: a Pro Bowl level, when you play at the level
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  Speaker 4: that his rookie season, we were having these conversations that
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  Speaker 4: he might be the best one we've seen since Jimmy
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  Speaker 4: Smith in this uniform, there's.
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  Speaker 5: No time for a regression.
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  Speaker 4: Because as a first-round pick and a guy who has
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  Speaker 4: earned accolades, you expect him to be the number one.
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  Speaker 4: And at some point, he has to deliver on that promise.
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  Speaker 4: I love Parker Washington and all that, and I do
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  Speaker 4: love the fact that he has kind of grown into
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  Speaker 4: being the number one. But this offense will never realize
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  Speaker 4: its potential until Brian Thomas Jr.
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  Speaker 5: And at some point, Travis Hunter, begin to.
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  Speaker 4: Make the plays that we expect high-level players to make
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  Speaker 4: week after week after week.
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  Speaker 5: Gotcha.
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  Speaker 2: This week's game, Bucky, is presented by UF Health. UF
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  Speaker 2: And when we return, we will look at the New
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  Speaker 2: England Patriots. We'll look at the Jaguars' defense a little
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  Speaker 2: later in the show. This is Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks.
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  Speaker 7: We don't have enough time to waste looking back. We
• 15:50
  Speaker 7: have a darn good opponent that played in the Super
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  Speaker 7: Bowl last year coming into town that we know they're
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  Speaker 7: going to be very well coached, disciplined, darn good football
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  Speaker 7: team with a good quarterback. And, you know, you I
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  Speaker 7: think our guys, they talk into them thereafter the game,
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  Speaker 7: on the plane, when we got back. A lot of
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  Speaker 7: guys understood kind of what took place and the areas
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  Speaker 7: in which we need to improve on, and it's all
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  Speaker 7: of us in it together, and that's the best part
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: of it is we have the opportunity now to respond.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back to Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks.
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: I am John Ogier.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: You can hear that full press conference on Jaguars.com or
• 16:29
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• 16:34
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• 16:37
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• 16:42
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• 16:45
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• 16:51
  Speaker 2: very quickly we'll get in. All the talk has been
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: about responding. That can be a little, you know, eye-rolling
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: to fans because they hear it all the time but
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: i have said all off season all pre-season that i
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: think this team does have a strong ability to do
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: that i think uh liam's ability to push the lever
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: and get what he needs to out of players uh
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: you know you would say well they do it every
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: week and you win 17 games that's you know But
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm getting at. I think he's really
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: good at that. I think they'll respond. I'm not sure
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: that they didn't show up the other day. Whenever you
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: lose in the NFL and you think you're good, fans
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: want to say, well, they didn't show up.
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: Well, they quit. I don't really believe that.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I think they played hard, just didn't play well. I
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: think they'll play hard on Sunday, and I think they'll
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: play better because I think they'll be in sort of
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: the same situation the Broncos were in.
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: I don't want to.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Say desperate, but urgency after a loss, I think that'll
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: matter on Sunday to them.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: And sometimes it takes a loss to get your team's attention.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: Like Liam talked in the presser early in the week
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: where he talked about like there was some of the
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: practice things have been sloppy. The attention to detail might
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: have slipped. And you're having success, but as a coach,
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: sometimes it's hard to get their attention when you say, hey, guys, we're.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: Just a little off on the details. But you're looking
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: at the one loss column and you're winning.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: After a loss, everyone is a little more open to
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: taking the corrections and the criticisms. They're a little more
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: open to applying the lessons that have been learned and
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: shown during the film session and trying to get better.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: This could be a great thing if handled the right way.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: Nick Saban always talked about don't waste an opportunity at failure.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Don't waste a failure. Don't waste an opportunity.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: To learn from the failure.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: So if we learn from it, there's a lot to
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: be gained. Now let's say this, let's be honest. As
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: bad as it was, because I don't think we played
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: a great game. You're talking about a seven point game
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: on the road against a team that I believe we
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: all think is going to be one of the teams
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: in the tournament.
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  Speaker 6: Broncos lost three games last year, Buck.
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: They weren't going to lose eight this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: And so for us, you just have to be able
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: to pick yourself up, look at exactly what it is
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: and go. And I like what Liam talked about. He said,
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: everything is under evaluation. You look at the game plan,
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: You look at the touches. You look at the targets.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: You look at the coverages and the schemes. And what
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: you eventually end up doing is you flesh it all
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: out and say, what are the basics? I've learned this
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: from you, leaning on your experience with Tony Dungy. After
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: a loss, what would Tony Dungy do? Oh, let's cut
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: all this down.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: We're doing too much.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: Oh, we start running one play.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: Let's get back to the basics. And we're going to
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: be good at this this week. And if we get
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: a little better, then we'll add something else. I think
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: for us, I think it would be a deep dive.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: And let's just make sure that the things that we're
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: doing are the best things for us to do.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: Make sure we have the best play calls for the week.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he alluded to that. either Wednesday or Monday. I'm
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: not sure which day, but when he said it, I
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: was thinking, okay, he's going to simplify. And that's, uh, no,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, and that's always get the muck out and
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: start doing what you do. Well, let's talk about a
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Patriots team that Bucky, I believe is very good. I'm
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: obviously in a Superbowl last year, so I'm not breaking
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: news there. Uh, Drake May, um, is a interesting story
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: because he's a young quarterback and, young, good quarterbacks go
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: through stuff like what he's going through right now, meaning
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: he's still obviously really good, but when you throw three
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: picks in the open, the whole thing, where is he?
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: What do you think?
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: Still a really good player, but I still think he
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: is impacted by the way he played in the postseason.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: I think he still is.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Dealing with those ghosts or those things that are hanging over.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: He still has a bit of a hangover, and he
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: isn't quite the confident player that he was for most
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: of the last season. That said, when you're playing a
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: player who is as talented as he is, man, you
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: certainly don't want him to get on the roll early
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: because if he gains his confidence, it can be a
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: long day for the defense. So what you want to
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: do is make it hard on him early, find a
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: way to make it where he's not able to stream
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: together those completions, and then maybe, just maybe, He'll do
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: what he's done the first couple games, which is turn
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: the ball over, make bad decisions, and not play like
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: the MVP runner-up that he was a season ago.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: I have this vision of them, Bucky, because I don't
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: really get a chance to see most other teams, obviously,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: mention that I do the Jaguars. I have this vision
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: of them as like this dominant running team with him
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: functioning as a quarterback, but I don't think that's necessarily right, right?
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: What are they offensively? I know A.J. Brown's out, obviously.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: What are they going to count on? How are they
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: good offensively when they're good?
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: I think it's a combination of things. I think it's
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: the overall operation. It's funny because without A.J. Brown, they're
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: a little bit like they were last year without a
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: true number one. And so this is an offense where
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: the system creates opportunities more so than these guys winning
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: on their own. And so when you operate like that
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: and you operate where the system really matters more than
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: the personnel, it's about everyone being on the same page.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: And then it's about the.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Distributor, the point guard, the quarterback, making sure that he
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: trusts the progressions, doesn't try to get outside himself and
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: make the plays, kind of force the plays. He just
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: has to let the system work, and the system will
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: eventually create the opportunities that he can cash in on.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: I covered so many Patriots games back in the day
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: when it was Patriots, Colts, Big Rock, you know, when
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: the Patriots were a dynasty. This feels very much like
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: a very similar operation to that, which isn't surprising because
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: that's where Vrabel got a lot of his football DNA.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: It just feels like a team that's going to beat
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: you in ways that frustrate you at the end, and
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: you walk out of the stadium saying, we should have
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: won that game, and they won it instead, which was
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: a lot– I mean– Everybody remembers Brady with those great
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Patriots teams and he was obviously the guy. But they
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: won a lot of games that way where you didn't
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: think they were better than you and then they beat
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: you at the end. Always dangerous when teams win like
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: that because they're well coached, disciplined, and they beat you
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: at the end.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: Patriots defense.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I thought of this last night when I was sort
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: of looking at them a little bit. To me, their
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: front seven feels like seven Vrabels. In the sense that
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I don't know who the star is. I don't know
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: that you're sitting there circling one guy who's going to
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: beat you. But I also know that when I'm playing
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: them on Sunday, there's going to be seven guys, all
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: of whom can affect the quarterback and disrupt, and they're
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: always going to play hard for 60 minutes.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, that's what they do.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: They hang their hat on how hard they play, and
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: they hang their hat on their high.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: Level of execution. They don't do a lot.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: If you really study these Patriots, this is the way
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: the Patriots have played for the last 20, 25 years.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Mike Rabel has kept it simple.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: He kept the best parts of what they did successfully
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: under Bill Belichick, and they just recycle it. They are
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: a big physical team. They are a team that is
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: simple by design, but, man, they do it very, very well.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: They want to play man coverage on the outside to
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: take away the easy opportunities that you can get on offense,
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: and then they want to make you drive the length
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: of the field. There is nothing complex about what they do.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: they think over a 60 minute game, they can now
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: execute you. They go out, hit you and I'll execute you.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: And they feel like if they do those two things,
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: they can win the game.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: As well said, I said it, what I was trying
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: to say better than I said it, which is why
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: your name's on the show and not mine. Um, so
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: how good is Christian Gonzalez? And as the X scout,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: tell me X's and O's wise, why he's so good.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Really good.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: He's, um, Tall, long, athletic. He is really refined as
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: a technician. He has a versatility to his game, meaning
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: he can play press.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: He can play off. He is hyper-competitive.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: He's added physicality to his game from when we last
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: saw him at the collegiate level at Oregon. Just a
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: really sound player from top to bottom. And what he's
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: going to do is he's going to make you work.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: And I think a lot of times.
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: People think that... It's kind of the whole defense, right?
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: I mean, it kind of reflects that.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: I mean, they are a blue-collar, hard-headed on lunch bell defense.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: They're going to make you work. And whoever he aligns on,
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: whoever he matches up.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: With, it's going to be a long day where you're
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: going to have to compete and you're going to have
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: to love the competition of it and how ugly it's
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: going to be because when you play a team that
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: operates like they operate with press coverage.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: Man-to-man, they're going to win some, you know, and you're
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: going to win some.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: But, man, you've got to stay with it because what
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: they're hoping is that they can just wear you down
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: to the point that you just kind of give up
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: because it's tough sledding early in the game.
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: That's a great way to put it.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: And that's why I consider them a really, really tough
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: team to beat because you've got to beat them.
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: Meaning some teams, if you get up on them.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: They're going to deflate a little bit and give you something.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: And they're going to believe that, well, yeah, this team's
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: better than us. To me, the Patriots are a team
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: that you have to beat them every quarter. You have
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: to beat them and keep beating them. Sort of like
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: when Vrabel had Derrick Henry and they would get behind
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: with the Titans and he'd keep running. It was one
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: of the few teams I've ever seen that could run
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: their way back into a game. But I think it
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: reflects what Vrabel's, you know, the identity of his teams is, is, hey,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: we don't care what outsiders say about the way we
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: should play. We're going to play to our strength. We're
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: going to believe this is going to work, and we're
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: going to keep doing it the entire game. And, man,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: those teams are the hardest teams to beat. It doesn't
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: have to be Vrabel's style, but when a team knows
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: how it wants to play and keeps doing that for
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: 60 minutes and doesn't stop, those are hard teams to beat.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: And the Patriots are maybe right now the best team
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: in the league at that.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and there's a confidence in the way that they
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: operate in terms of– What you're talking about is the
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: persistence as a coach.
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: The stick-to-itiveness to just stick to the plan.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: Don't deviate from the plan no matter what it's looking like.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: I just think about all those Tennessee Titans teams that
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: we played that didn't have nearly.
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: The talent to match up.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: But what he's a master of doing is he will
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: manipulate the game to get it to the fourth quarter.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: And what he's hoping is that your team is not
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: fundamentally sound enough to not give the game away. And
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: that's what they want to do. And so You'll see
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: them bleed the clock. You'll see them play great situational football.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: We've talked about the physicality and the workmanlike approach that
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: they make you take.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: That's what they're going to do. And they just feel
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: like over 60 minutes, you can't endure. You can't last.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: They're going to outwork you, and they're going to outlast you,
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: and they're going to be the last team standing.
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: That's well said. Again, while your name's on the show.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Back in a moment in a battle of, I think,
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: strong defenses, this is Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks.
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: And they have a really good interior pass rush specifically,
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: you know, and then they mix it up like three
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: man rush, four man, five man, heat you up, play
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: man coverage, play fire zone. So, you know, you look
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: at really the history of, of, you know, coach Vrabel
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: and the defenses and how they've played. I mean, it's,
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: very similar in a lot of ways to their style
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: of play, and they're usually a game plan. There's going
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: to be a big game plan element. They double guys
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: if they feel like they need to and take advantage
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: of matchups.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back to Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: defensive coverage of the game presented by GEHA, Government Employees
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Health Association, benefits for federal employees and retirees. And, Bucky,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: we've talked, I think, about the Patriots' defense, and Liam
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: talked about it. so I think we've covered why they're good.
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: Jaguars defense, I'm going to talk.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: About Travis Hunter and the rotation stuff next, but before
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: we talk about that, five sacks in the opener, none
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: on Sunday. I guess a point I've been harping on
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: all week, and It's sort of obvious, again, not breaking
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: news here. If you can't affect the opposing quarterback in
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: the last seven minutes of a game, it's hard to win.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: And there's nuances of that pressure you can bring. But
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: you can stop the run, and the Jaguars are great
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: at stopping the run, but you've got to affect the quarterback.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: And they didn't on Sunday, and they have to on Sunday.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: And a lot has been made about that. I think
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: the Jaguars, over the course of the game, only had
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: six pressures.
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: And it sort of felt like that. Sometimes that doesn't
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: add up, but that's how it felt.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, couldn't win, couldn't get home, couldn't get in the paint,
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: didn't get anywhere around Bo Nix. And look, man, it's
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: the limit that you have when you're a defensive coordinator.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: And part of the conversation throughout the offseason, and I
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: hate using the word because everyone's tired of using the word,
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: sticky coverage versus vision and break.
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: But basically... the Jaguars were trying to make a decision.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: Do they want to be a vision and break team
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: where they sit off, they play zone, they rely on
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: a four-man rush to get the pressure, and then their
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: DBs or second-level defenders, look at the quarterback, cue the quarterback,
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: react quickly, and eventually, over time, you get your interceptions
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: off their mistakes, tips and overthrows, and those things. The
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: problem that you have when you play that style is, man,
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: there are a lot of Underneath the rows that are available,
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: and if it's a disciplined quarterback, they can move the.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: Ball down the field.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: Well, when you elect to go sticky coverage, more man-to-man,
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: and those things, yes, you take away the free access,
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: but you're more susceptible to the big plays. And in
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: that game, 10 explosives are a lot of explosives. Jalen
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: Waddell on his own had three explosive plays, big plays
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: that changed the game.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: They flipped the field. They put you in scoring positions.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: Change the game.
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: You're right. Change the game.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: Defensive pass interference on Travis Hunter. Double move that Jalen
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: Waddell did on Jordan Lewis, which is a great route,
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: but it's an explosive play.
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: Big play.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: What are you willing to risk to try and make
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: more plays? Are you willing to hit on 17 playing blackjack?
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: Are you okay just staying and trying to play the odds?
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: At some point, Anthony Campanile has to make a decision hey,
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: how do we want to play?
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: What's best for the personnel that we have?
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and sometimes in the course of the game, you
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: call it and it doesn't come up.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: So I guess the anecdote to that, what you're talking
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: about is that's why pass rush is so important because
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: it disrupts and takes the pressure off of the situation
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: you're talking about, which they didn't do. I mean, it
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: was a tough day defensively on that front. I guess
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: the solution is rush the passer better. And That's something
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: you're not going to find the answer to on Wednesday
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  Speaker 2: at 4. You're only going to find the answer to
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: it on Sunday at 1.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's– I mean, look, it's the same question.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, the personnel is the personnel.
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  Speaker 4: The hard thing is when you are 41 and 44,
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: Josh Hanzala and Trayvon Walker, for them to really get loose,
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: you've got to have one other person on the inside
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  Speaker 4: affecting it.
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  Speaker 6: And that did not happen on Sunday.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: Eric Armstead is the one that everyone points to, just
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: given 41 sacks. But he's only had seven and a
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: half sacks since he's come– Can he impact the game
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: as a pass rusher on the inside? Or are they
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: going to have to mess with the rotation, mess with
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: the personnel thing where maybe you kick Trayvon inside and
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: somebody on the outside comes? Whatever it is, it is
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: a hard day for the secondary to hold up when
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: you don't impact a quarterback at all. And it just
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: makes it really, really hard on the play caller to
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: always have to blitz to get pressure. That is just
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: hard because at some point, You're going to get got.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: And ultimately, the Jaguars got got a few times against
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: the Blitz.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know how much there is to add to
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: rotation gate.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean, I've talked about it so much that
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know how much there is for me to
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: add on this show.
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: So I'll just throw it to you. Thoughts on it.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: You know, I'll just open it up to our best analyst.
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  Speaker 3: OK, so.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: Everyone is really upset about this. Why isn't Travis Hunter
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: playing the entire time? Why are they rotating other guys in?
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: Does it make sense? Why are they playing four corners
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: when he was the second overall pick? He should be
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: playing all the time. Number one, I have no idea
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: what he feels like in terms of his physical health
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: coming off of the knee injury.
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: Are they easing him back?
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: Is this a slow acclimation into the starting lineup where, hey,
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: let's make sure he's right before we put all of
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: that on him. Two, How well is Travis Hunter playing
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: within the defense in terms of understanding what is being
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: asked of him and executing and doing exactly what is
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: asked of him? Three, how good do you feel about
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: the four guys who are rotating in? Travis Hunter, Monterey Brown,
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: Jordan Lewis, and Jarrion Jones. Coming out of camp, there
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: was a sense that, hey man, we have four guys
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: that are capable of starting on the island. Well, sometimes,
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: not normally in pro football, but sometimes if you have
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: guys that feel like that, Let's roll them in so
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: they all are playing.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: They all have the experience.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: We can shuffle and change everything, particularly early when you're
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: trying to, I don't want to say ease into the season,
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: but trying to get into the season so it makes sense.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: I understand why fans are so upset about the Travis
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: Hunter thing. He is a playmaker. He was a playmaker
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: in Colorado. There was a hefty investment made to bring
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: him over. But at some point, the cost of doing
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: business does not impact who plays. And so, without knowing
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: if he's doing all the things that he needs to
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: be doing to stay on the field, at some point
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: I've got to trust the coaches. There has to be
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: a plan in place, and if there's a plan in
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: place for him to be a 100% corner, then he
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: would be there, unless there's something that's taking place that's
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: preventing them from making that full-time commitment to him being
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: a corner.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, one of the pillars of this team since this
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: regime took over has been the guys are going to
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: play regardless of equity invested in them to be here.
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: Uh, so.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: They're never going to change that. And I think there's
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: a factor here of when Travis is, is playing and
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: doing everything you're talking about at, at the level that merits,
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: then a hundred percent of the plays will be there.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: And so I, I do think that there is a,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: a feeling of he's only in his ninth or 10th
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: game in the NFL. And I, He will build toward
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: that level that we're talking about. I know there's confidence
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: in that. I've gotten nothing from anywhere in the building
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: that there's any worry that he's not going to be
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: a high-level cornerback. So I don't know how much more
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: there is to go in that. And when we return,
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: we're going to look at the AFC South and close
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: the show on Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks.
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: We'll be right back.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: The office is going to run through everyone at some
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: point though. It's not just a one man show. And
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: I think everyone on our team knows that Parker knows
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: that all the guys know that, that we need everybody. And, um,
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: it's going to be everyone's time at some point. All right.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to huddle up with Bucky Brooks. Huddle up
• 37:30
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• 37:34
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• 37:36
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• 37:41
  Speaker 2: that's a huge theme. I mean, uh, getting the ball
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: spread out a little more in the offense. I expect
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: that will happen organically. I'm not sure after two games
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: you can say they're going to one guy or the
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: other too much. That usually is a matter of everything
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: still finding its footing. People don't realize this, but the
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: first three or four or five games of the season
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: is still a lot figuring out what you are, what
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: defenses are going to do to attack you. There's still
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: adjusting going on at this point.
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: Yes, 100%. There's a lot of adjusting going on.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: And I think everyone has to understand when the league
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: changed the way they operate during preseason, I don't want
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: to say that you have to throw these early games
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: out because the good teams are taking advantage of the
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: teams that are slow starters, but you won't really know
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: who your team is until about four games in. And
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: so this is the process where you go into the
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: season thinking, hey, this is who we're going to be.
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: And then you play some games and you're like, oh,
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: this is who we gotta be based on what it is.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: And so the best made plans, sometimes they go by
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: the wayside because your team is not ready to do
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: the things that you were hoping to be able to do.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: This is still a discovery process. I still feel good
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: about the team. I just think as we continue to
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: play these early games in the month of September, it's
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: a fact-finding mission that eventually going to help us down
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: the stretch. And I tell everybody, hey, think about the
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: way this team was last year. and how things change
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: right after the bye week. Because you take all of
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: that information early, you sit down and you say, okay, here's,
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: here are the playmakers, here are the plays, this is
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: what we're doing to maximize the talent on our team.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: We're still trying to figure that out because every team
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: is different, every year is different.
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: And to your point, good news is they still lead
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: the division.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: You've got to stay afloat during this fact-finding time and
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: be ready to make your run.
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: So they lead the division. They're 2-0.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sorry, they're 1-1. Everybody else is 0-2.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Final Jaguars topic before we have one closing thought on
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: the Patriots, biggest thing they have to improve this week
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: to win.
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: Biggest thing, got to take care of the protection up
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: front with the quarterback. Because even if the defense plays bad,
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: Trevor Lawrence is playing at such a level.
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: That if we can protect him, we'll find a way
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: to score.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: But if we don't protect him, if he gets beat
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: up and we're not able to run the ball, it's
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: a problem. So to me, the offensive line has to
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: step up and do those things. The other part is,
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: who is going to be the guy that consistently wins
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: on the perimeter? We talked for a long time about
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: Christian Gonzalez. But, man, they got some other guys, Colin
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: Davis and some other players on the perimeter, Marcus Jones,
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: that are really good at what they do in coverage.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: Who can win their individual matchups? To me, this is
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: a game where your best players have to dominate their box.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: They got to be able to dominate their one-on-one matchup.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Give me a vibe for how this game feels and
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: what you think it'll look like on Sunday.
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: I think it feels like all the other games that
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: we used to play with the Tennessee Titans.
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: It is a ugly.
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: For three and a half quarters until you finally get
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: a breakthrough. And in these games, look, it sounds silly.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: It comes down to the fewest mistakes. And so last year,
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: last week we violated the don't beat ourselves principles, the turnovers,
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: the penalties, Liam got a penalty, the big plays allowed.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: And then the kicking game errors. No one talks about
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: the kicking game error, the missed field goal. And then
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: the box kickoff return where we get the ball at
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: the 20 instead of the 35 in the fourth quarter.
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: Those things are critical against good teams.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: And so to me, it's about making sure we have
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: the fewest mistakes so we can give ourselves the best
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: chance to win.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you do that against good teams and you're sitting
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: there going, oh, no. Like there's that little feeling of, OK,
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: these some teams don't make us pay for that.
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: They're going to make you pay every time.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's 60 minutes. I mean, again, like I said,
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: the Patriots are one of the teams that make you win.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: They're not going to lose. So that's it for this
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: week's Huddle with Bucky Brooks. Thank you to Brent Reber,
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: Jewel Fortunato. I'm John Ogier, and the name on the
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: show is Bucky Brooks.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks, Buck. Thanks, Brent.