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Bucky: Not Losing Hope | Huddle Up Podcast · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Huddle Up by the Fields Total Group, Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Senior writer John Osher, NFL Network analyst and former Jaguar
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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks, and senior reporter J. P. Shatdrick bringing you
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Speaker 1: the latest on your Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Speaker 2: Huddle Up starts right now and welcome in.
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Speaker 3: It is Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks and his Wednesday
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Speaker 3: Week three, the Jaguars and the Texans coming up from
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Speaker 3: the bank this Sunday. Put it to get two on
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Speaker 3: this program a preview of that Texans Jaguars batch of
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Speaker 3: ANFC South showdown. The Jaguars offense has been in the
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Speaker 3: headlines this week after the performance against Kansas City.
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Speaker 2: When they were shut out of the end zone.
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Speaker 3: The new look Texans, what do they have to offer
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Speaker 3: lot a new head coach, quarterback, defensive end and then
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Speaker 3: it's on to London the next two weeks for this
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Speaker 3: JP Shadwick, John Oser, Bucky Brooks joining us from Los Angeles.
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Speaker 3: Good afternoon, and it's finally back to football after a
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Speaker 3: tough loss last week, Buck, what's up?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, tough loss. Tough, tough, tough loss. Really disappointing. Disappointing
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Speaker 4: because I think in two of the three phases special
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Speaker 4: teams and defense, you played well enough to win.
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Speaker 5: But offensively big disappointment.
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Speaker 4: Struggled up front, quarterback, didn't play well, didn't make enough plays,
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Speaker 4: and you had opportunities. So this is it's one where
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Speaker 4: you want to turn the page. But man, you may
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Speaker 4: look back weeks later and just wondered, man, how.
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Speaker 5: We let that one get away?
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Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and I think the thing to remember is division game.
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Speaker 6: This week is really it's really a bigger week for
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Speaker 6: a lot of things. Perception wise, last week was huge,
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Speaker 6: reality wise, this week is really huge to me because
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Speaker 6: this is the kind of game. And I'll see if
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Speaker 6: Bucky the analyst agrees with me. He's many things to
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Speaker 6: many different people. This is the one where good teams
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Speaker 6: that are going to win their division and be consistent
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Speaker 6: and be one of those power teams, they get this one.
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Speaker 6: They get it at home against a division team they
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Speaker 6: ought to beat. It's I want to say routine, but
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Speaker 6: it's decided. Going into the last seven minutes, you feel
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Speaker 6: like they've got.
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Speaker 7: Control of it.
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Speaker 6: They've really never been under this regime in this position before.
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Speaker 6: Remember late last season everything was sort of must win it.
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Speaker 6: There was clear urgency to everything at the end of
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Speaker 6: last season, and they weren't very good early. So this
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Speaker 6: is the first time going in as a team that hey,
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Speaker 6: they ought to get this one, it ought to be
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Speaker 6: at home, etc.
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Speaker 5: Etc.
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Speaker 6: I think it's a little bit of a test of
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Speaker 6: where they really are mentally, preparation wise, all that stuff.
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Speaker 6: I think it's a big measure on that one, sort
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Speaker 6: of in a similar way to the Chiefs.
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Speaker 4: It is a huge measuring stick game in terms of
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Speaker 4: that part of it. This is, you know, last year
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Speaker 4: we feel good about the team because we saw them
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Speaker 4: kind of check off those marks as a mature team.
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Speaker 4: But do they have enough maturity to bounce back from
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Speaker 4: a disappointing loss take care of business in a game
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Speaker 4: that everyone expects you to win. Great teams do that,
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Speaker 4: and they not only win those games, but they do it.
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Speaker 5: In impressive fashion.
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Speaker 4: If this team is what we talk about like a
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Speaker 4: championship caliber team, it should be one very early in
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Speaker 4: the game.
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Speaker 5: The executions at a high level.
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Speaker 4: You jump right on this team you don't give them
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Speaker 4: any life, and it's not like you're hanging on for
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Speaker 4: dear life. You take care of them and what I
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Speaker 4: would call a championship fashion right away, take care of it,
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Speaker 4: get it out the way, and go on to next week.
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Speaker 3: Well, the offense was unable to do that last week.
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Speaker 3: They had to settle for three field goals and the
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Speaker 3: loss to the Chiefs. They struggled in the goal line
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Speaker 3: situation late. They were zero for three in the red
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Speaker 3: zone for the day. The offensive line had issues with
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Speaker 3: the Chiefs defensive front throughout the game, but Trevor Lawrence,
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Speaker 3: Jaguars quarterback today speaking with the media set he's still
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Speaker 3: confident in that line and this offense bouncing back.
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Speaker 8: I know those guys are gonna we had some great
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Speaker 8: meetings this morning like we always do on Wednesdays, and
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Speaker 8: some of our protection stuff, and these guys are gonna
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Speaker 8: be just fine, not worried about it. You know, it's
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Speaker 8: all of us. It's all of us playing together and communicating.
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Speaker 8: And you know, I don't think any any player on
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Speaker 8: offense played anywhere close to their best game on Sunday,
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Speaker 8: So it's not just those guys. We all got to
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Speaker 8: be better and we will be And I think we
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Speaker 8: have the group that recognizes that there's nobody that thinks
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Speaker 8: that they played great on Sunday and thinks that they're
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Speaker 8: above any anyone else. So we understand where we're at.
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Speaker 8: And I got a lot of confidence in those guys,
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Speaker 8: and we'll put together a great plan and be prepared.
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Speaker 8: And it starts today and they're gonna fly around. We'll
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Speaker 8: have a great practice.
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Speaker 3: So that was earlier today. He speaks before practice on Wednesdays. Now,
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Speaker 3: they were out on the practice field, John, We were
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Speaker 3: just in the locker room in there after, and you
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Speaker 3: can kind of sense a little more I don't know
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Speaker 3: if it's set, not tightness, but a little more maybe focus.
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Speaker 2: They know it's a big game coming up. They gotta
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Speaker 2: get this one.
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Speaker 7: It's a big game.
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Speaker 6: And I talked man that offensive players they know they
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Speaker 6: didn't play well. There's no panic. I talked to Evan
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Speaker 6: Ingram a little bit about that, and he says, now,
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Speaker 6: there's no panic because we know we can do it.
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Speaker 6: There's certainly urgency. And one thing Jpu and I talked
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Speaker 6: about rightfully show started. I'm surprised that the offense has struggled,
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Speaker 6: but I guess looking at sort of pulling back and
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Speaker 6: looking at at last season and where this team is,
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Speaker 6: maybe we shouldn't be shocked. We had such high expectations,
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Speaker 6: but this was not a consistent offense last year. The
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Speaker 6: biggest game in the franchise in five years, they got
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Speaker 6: one touchdown against the Titans last year, and so it
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Speaker 6: has been a unit that has had tremendous spurts, has
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Speaker 6: looked very good in spots, but has also been looking
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Speaker 6: for that consistency, been looking to take that next step.
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Speaker 6: I think it will and I think it's still searching
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Speaker 6: for that next step. There's no reason to panic. It
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Speaker 6: will find it. And I guess right now we're just
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Speaker 6: wondering when, well.
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Speaker 3: It feels like Bucky and correct us here. But you know,
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Speaker 3: the first two weeks defensive fronts for the opposition have
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Speaker 3: had pretty good days. So whenever they can figure out
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Speaker 3: how to block it or improve week to week or
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Speaker 3: get that settled, there's been so much change up front
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Speaker 3: and some new faces and things, you know, maybe that
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Speaker 3: is what it's going to take. Maybe Cam Robinson coming
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Speaker 3: back in the fold in a couple of weeks could
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Speaker 3: be maybe the next step.
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Speaker 4: Yes, whenever your offense is inconsistent. There are a couple
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Speaker 4: of things that are traditionally at play. Quarterback is inconsistent.
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Speaker 4: The quarterback is typically inconsistent because the offensive line is
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Speaker 4: unable to protect you. Look at those two areas, we've
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Speaker 4: had inconsistent play in both areas.
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Speaker 5: Trevor Lawrence hasn't been at his best.
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Speaker 4: He's had some misfires, he hasn't necessarily been great when
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Speaker 4: it comes to certain decisions, particularly down in the red zone,
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Speaker 4: and the offense is going to be a little up
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Speaker 4: and down when he's not playing at an a level.
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Speaker 4: Some of his wolves could be attributed to the fact
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Speaker 4: that the protection has not been good at the line
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Speaker 4: of scrimmage. You got a young guy and Anton Harrison
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Speaker 4: a rookie playing. You have Walker Little who's still a
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Speaker 4: young guy. You have a hodgepodge of pieces going in
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Speaker 4: and out of the lineup up front, so you're going
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Speaker 4: to get some inconsistency. And also remember this, the offensive
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Speaker 4: line is the toughest part to develop in training camp
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Speaker 4: because you don't really have a lot of padded practices,
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Speaker 4: and you don't have a lot of padded practices in
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Speaker 4: the regular season. So sometimes it takes five six weeks
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Speaker 4: before this unit comes together, because in spite of all
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Speaker 4: the work that they're doing, the spring OTAs and all
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Speaker 4: those workouts, without the physical element, you just don't know
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Speaker 4: how good that front five is. And so it's still
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Speaker 4: a work in progress. There's hope and optimism that they'll
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Speaker 4: get better. Right now, it just hasn't been good enough.
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Speaker 6: I also wonder, Bucky, if there's not some of that
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Speaker 6: also going on with Trevor and the receivers. I got
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Speaker 6: an email at some point this week, Sam, I'm really
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Speaker 6: surprised with all the work they do in the off
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Speaker 6: season that the continuity with the skill players isn't better.
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Speaker 6: But off season is a different speed than training camp,
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Speaker 6: is a different speed than preseason than regular season. So
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Speaker 6: I kind of wonder if you know, Calvin Ridley's there
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Speaker 6: and he's great, but does Trevor know in every situation
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Speaker 6: instinctively to go with him on the read and with
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Speaker 6: Christian as well.
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Speaker 7: I think that'll work out.
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Speaker 6: It got better continuity wise last year, and I just
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Speaker 6: wonder if if if they're still not sort of figuring
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Speaker 6: out roles, figuring out you know, bang bang one to read,
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Speaker 6: one to read. This is where I trust Ridley here.
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Speaker 6: So I don't know if there's if there's something to
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Speaker 6: that as well.
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Speaker 5: But there could be something to it. The difference is
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Speaker 5: in the offseason.
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Speaker 4: The off season, you don't have the offensive line and
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Speaker 4: play when it comes to seven on seven, one on
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Speaker 4: ones and those things, so you're more likely to have
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Speaker 4: timing and rhythm because the pass rush isn't a factor. Now,
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Speaker 4: when you put all eleven bodies on the field on
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Speaker 4: each side, it changes that aspect of how you're throwing
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Speaker 4: who you're throwing to. Trevor now has to throw around
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Speaker 4: passing lanes and those things as opposed.
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Speaker 5: To, Hey, I'm just kind of doing this on air.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I got some defenders there, but I don't have
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Speaker 4: anybody in my face this team, I mean, we're two
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Speaker 4: weeks in. It normally takes about four weeks for you
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Speaker 4: to kind of understand a little bit of what you have,
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Speaker 4: your identity to come through. Then it takes another four
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Speaker 4: weeks for the coaches to kind of make the adaptations
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Speaker 4: based on what you have.
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Speaker 5: This will be a team that is a work in progress.
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Speaker 4: You want to play your best football the last eight
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Speaker 4: to nine games of the season, but the expectations were
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Speaker 4: that this team offensively, we'll be able to be high twenties,
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Speaker 4: low thirty points per game, just based on the firepower
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Speaker 4: that you have on the premier.
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Speaker 6: It's harder when big guys are chasing in your face.
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Speaker 6: That's what I learned from that.
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Speaker 3: But imagine that right when they have bad intentions, it
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Speaker 3: changes the timing a little bit. A little bit later,
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Speaker 3: we'll get into this Texans defense and what they have
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Speaker 3: to offer, including a couple of rookies that are in
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Speaker 9: I tell you, these guys, they fly around, they play
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Speaker 9: with a lot of speed, enthusiasm and aggression.
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Speaker 2: It's just a it's.
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Speaker 9: A tribute to what Demko's doing down there. He's changing
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Speaker 9: that culture. And and you know, obviously young on offense,
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Speaker 9: you know the quarterback and everything, but he's a he's
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Speaker 9: a talented player, obviously dangerous out of the pocket, throws
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Speaker 9: well on the run. Good football team and you know,
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Speaker 9: a scheme that we're familiar with defensively, but they're they're
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Speaker 9: playing extremely well.
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Speaker 3: As a coach Doug Peterson, of course, earlier today. The
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Speaker 3: John Oser and Jacksonville at the Hyundai Studios at the
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Speaker 3: Miller Electric Center in downtown Jacksonville, just outside of the bank.
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Speaker 3: Bucky Brooks is in Los Angeles. We'll get to that
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Speaker 3: Texans defense coming up, but let's start with the number
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Speaker 3: two overall pick, CJ. Stroud out of the Ohio State University,
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Speaker 3: a two time Heisman finalist. That is all in the
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Speaker 3: rear view, Buck, He's two games into his career. What
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Speaker 3: have you seen on tape from the rookie?
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Speaker 4: A good player, man, good young player who is gaining
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Speaker 4: confidence each and every week, coming off his best performance
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Speaker 4: obviously Week two.
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Speaker 5: Just a really solid player.
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Speaker 4: When you watch him in Ohio State, he could throw
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Speaker 4: a touch, timing and anticipation. Probably of all the quarterbacks
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Speaker 4: in that class last year, the most natural thrower, meaning
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Speaker 4: the game is easy for him when it comes to
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Speaker 4: dropping back, making throws and doing that stuff. And as
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Speaker 4: he continues to settle in against confidence and develops that
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Speaker 4: synergy and connection with the receivers on the perimeter in Houston,
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Speaker 4: he's gonna be a problem.
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Speaker 5: We better take.
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Speaker 4: Advantage of the Houston Texas now because this is a
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Speaker 4: team that is on the come. And part of the
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Speaker 4: reason that there is a lot of optimism around what
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Speaker 4: the Texans will be is their young quarterback has.
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Speaker 5: A lot of talent and life promise.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, they evidently think they found their guy, and earlier
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Speaker 6: results would suggest that the thing that the Jaguars ought
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Speaker 6: to take advantage of this week. You are a good
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Speaker 6: defensive front. The Jaguars that has been getting consistent pressure
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Speaker 6: has been playing Stout, and you're playing a really beat
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Speaker 6: up offensive line. And Stroud hasn't thrown an interception, but
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Speaker 6: you can certainly pressure a struggling offensive line into making
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Speaker 6: sure his completions are shorter, maybe get one, maybe force
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Speaker 6: a fumble. Set He's been hit a lot. At some
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Speaker 6: point the percentages are when you're getting hit that much,
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Speaker 6: you're gonna make a mistake and throw the other team
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Speaker 6: the ball. So to me, this is where the Jaguars defense,
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Speaker 6: playing well so far, should have a chance to turn
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Speaker 6: in one of those performances where you feel like, man,
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Speaker 6: they hit that guy today.
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Speaker 2: Kind of helped us. He have around him there, Bucky,
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Speaker 2: at least in skill positions.
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Speaker 4: I mean, he doesn't have a lot of high end playmakers,
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Speaker 4: but what he has is a workman like group that
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Speaker 4: can flash. Nico Collins will flash and make some plays.
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Speaker 4: They're getting so many young guys involved. They have a
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Speaker 4: tank Dell, who's a rookie who may play may plays
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Speaker 4: throughout the preseason. Mitchi is coming back and beginning to
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Speaker 4: kind of get into the mix on the practice field
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Speaker 4: and those things. So they have a lot of what
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Speaker 4: we call under the radar players. No one that is
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Speaker 4: necessarily a star on the perimeter. But in time, if
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Speaker 4: you give those guys time and allow them to work,
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Speaker 4: because you don't have a pass rush, they all can
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Speaker 4: get off from because they all the NFL receivers.
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Speaker 2: Any way, he's been hit nineteen times. Yeah, that's that's
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Speaker 2: a lot in two games.
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Speaker 5: It's a lot of two games.
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Speaker 6: And usually at some point that kind of pressure over time,
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Speaker 6: logic tells you that the balls will come out inaccurately
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Speaker 6: and the eventually have a chance again, especially a defense
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Speaker 6: that has shown in two games and you're really nineteen
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Speaker 6: games Undermight Caldwell, five of the takeaways this year have
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Speaker 6: been defense. That's what the Jaguars are. You would think
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Speaker 6: that that would add up.
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Speaker 7: To being able to get takeaways on Sunday.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, tied for second in the league so far through
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Speaker 3: two weeks, six takeaways for the Jaguar defense, where they
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Speaker 3: fourth last year. So often it could start again in
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Speaker 3: that regard this year. You know this Jaguars defense, you
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Speaker 3: know they're they're playing well, right, this is they're they're
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Speaker 3: not like the flashy Sack all that stuff, but they're
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Speaker 3: still playing good defense.
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Speaker 2: Bucky. You know we're talking about this, I think on
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Speaker 2: Monday Night with Prisco and Biselli. You might have heard
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Speaker 2: of those guys, John h Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's not a right now, at least a game
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Speaker 3: Wrecker on defense.
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Speaker 2: There's not a Chris Jones on this defense.
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Speaker 3: There's not a you know, there's guys that could be
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Speaker 3: that in time, but there's still a good defense. So
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Speaker 3: you can play good defense as a collective group. And
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Speaker 3: that's what they're doing.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you can't play good defense as a collective group.
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Speaker 4: It's called quote unquote team defense, meaning all eleven guys
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Speaker 4: have to be connected and playing on the stream because
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Speaker 4: you don't have that one guy that can uh kind
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Speaker 4: of tilt the balance of power on game day. And
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Speaker 4: because of that, everyone needs to be on and they
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Speaker 4: need to be ready to rock and roll because this
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Speaker 4: is one where you.
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Speaker 5: Can't count on a Josh Allen.
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Speaker 4: You're going to get four and five sacks and you
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Speaker 4: gonna kind of be our one man pass rusher today.
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Speaker 4: It has to be a little bit of Josh Allen,
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Speaker 4: has to be some Trayvon Walker, it has to be
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Speaker 4: some Calevan chasing and some of the other guys that
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Speaker 4: are kind of rotating in and out. It has to
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Speaker 4: be a joint effort where at the end of the
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Speaker 4: day we look up and we're like, oh, the team
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Speaker 4: has five sacks with everyone kind of pitching in a
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Speaker 4: half a sack or a sack to be able to
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Speaker 4: get this team to be as disruptive as they can be,
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Speaker 4: to create the turnovers that we've seen this team get
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Speaker 4: in our best games.
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Speaker 5: Our best games, we turned the opponent over.
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Speaker 4: Some of that is due to the pressure, but a
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Speaker 4: lot of it is due to the playmakers in the
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Speaker 4: back end. If you can ratchet up the pass rush,
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Speaker 4: then you'll see even more turnovers go into Jaguars faith.
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Speaker 6: I also think it's fair to point out that, you know,
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Speaker 6: maybe no superstar game wrecker, but if you go through
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Speaker 6: the eleven and there's more starters in the league now
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Speaker 6: than eleven, but just you know, each position, there's really
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Speaker 6: nobody also that stands out as an oh guy, meaning
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Speaker 6: you know, oh, this is Roberts and Harris Good, you
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Speaker 6: know fight COSTI playing well. You look up last week
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Speaker 6: and Rashawn Jenkins is knocking down passes. It attenant for
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Speaker 6: Travis Kelcey.
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Speaker 7: Sis, you know everybody.
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Speaker 6: I sort of thought last year that Darius Williams was
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Speaker 6: maybe a little bit of a weak spot in Nickel.
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Speaker 6: I wasn't sure him moving out, But he's getting past
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Speaker 6: to play. I mean, he's playing well. I have a
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Speaker 6: little egg on my face. I wasn't sure how good
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Speaker 6: he was, and he's playing, you know, so everybody.
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Speaker 7: I don't know there's a weak spot either.
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Speaker 6: So consistent team defense, I don't know that I would
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Speaker 6: have expected to say that through two games coming into
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Speaker 6: the season, and I feel like I probably just missed
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Speaker 6: it a little bit. Yet, eleven starters coming back, everybody
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Speaker 6: played solid. If they stay healthy, I don't think this
18:03
Speaker 6: is going to be a weak unit at any point.
18:06
Speaker 6: I don't know if it's going to be considered one
18:07
Speaker 6: of the best in the league. But Bucky, we talked
18:10
Speaker 6: all off season it had to be good enough to break,
18:14
Speaker 6: serve some and be complementary. I think it's more than that.
18:18
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is more than that.
18:19
Speaker 4: I think conservatively you can say this is a top
18:23
Speaker 4: half of the league defense.
18:25
Speaker 5: The thing that prevents the.
18:26
Speaker 4: Jaguars from jumping in that top ten conversation, top five conversation.
18:30
Speaker 4: You don't have that proven and established pass rusher that
18:33
Speaker 4: you have a track record of ten plus sacks each year,
18:37
Speaker 4: and on most teams, championship caliber teams, you have to
18:41
Speaker 4: have at least two pass rushers that are proven, that
18:44
Speaker 4: are established, that can get you ten sacks because what
18:47
Speaker 4: that does is that changes the way the offense has to.
18:49
Speaker 5: Approach the front line, changes the protection.
18:52
Speaker 4: The protection now allows you to put more guys in
18:54
Speaker 4: coverage because it got everyone in. So that is what
18:57
Speaker 4: I would say the missing link, the final part of it,
18:59
Speaker 4: and what I want to see when we have teams
19:02
Speaker 4: that you feel better about the matchup in the perimeter,
19:06
Speaker 4: do we still continue to play zone or woill we
19:09
Speaker 4: deviate from that normal pattern and play a little more
19:11
Speaker 4: man demand to prevent CJ. Stroud from having the layups
19:14
Speaker 4: that allows bad teams to kind of stay in games
19:17
Speaker 4: because you're allowing them to get first downs because you
19:20
Speaker 4: don't want to give it the big play.
19:21
Speaker 5: To me, that's what I'm looking for early in the game.
19:24
Speaker 4: Can we cover the Texans because if we can cover them,
19:28
Speaker 4: then we can get out of a traditional zones and
19:30
Speaker 4: start heating them up bringing five man pressures because you
19:33
Speaker 4: know that you can hold up on the outside.
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Speaker 6: But yeah, I know they believed coming in meeting the
19:37
Speaker 6: Jaguars people, if you will, that maybe they didn't have
19:42
Speaker 6: the game wrecord, but that the front seven collectively was
19:47
Speaker 6: going to be able to play well enough to affect
19:50
Speaker 6: the quarterback consistently. It seems like they've done that. Even
19:55
Speaker 6: against Patrick Mahomes. He got some plays because he's going
19:58
Speaker 6: to and he got some running plays be going to,
20:01
Speaker 6: but it seemed like they affected him more than he's
20:05
Speaker 6: affected a lot. They seem to be backing that up.
20:08
Speaker 6: I guess is what I'm getting at, that they are
20:10
Speaker 6: a defense that collectively can make quarterbacks nervous enough that
20:14
Speaker 6: they don't get comfortable.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And talking to Tyson Campbell after maybe the first game,
20:19
Speaker 4: he talked about how they really worked hard on understanding
20:23
Speaker 4: who they are as a defense, really worked hard on
20:27
Speaker 4: understanding zone eyes, being able to react quickly, and they
20:30
Speaker 4: worked a ton on their tackling. It shows up because
20:33
Speaker 4: the first two weeks of the season, with the exception
20:35
Speaker 4: of a player too, they've done a really good job
20:37
Speaker 4: of tackling in space. And so if you're gonna be
20:40
Speaker 4: a great defense, it's not only about the pressure and
20:42
Speaker 4: stopping to run. It really comes down to can you,
20:45
Speaker 4: hey man, can you get off blocks and can.
20:46
Speaker 5: You make tackles?
20:48
Speaker 4: And the Jaguars have shown that they can do that
20:50
Speaker 4: and they're playing with great effort and energy pursuing to
20:53
Speaker 4: the ball. Even though coaches will always want a little
20:56
Speaker 4: more out of them. It's a nice foundation for what
20:59
Speaker 4: could be and maybe should be a slow and steady
21:03
Speaker 4: ascension of the charts for the defense.
21:05
Speaker 3: And credit Mike Caldwell, I mean, he said that was
21:07
Speaker 3: priority number one that they needed to work on from
21:09
Speaker 3: last year. They missed a bunch of tackles last season,
21:12
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Speaker 3: defense what they have to offer, and Tobiko Ryants his
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Speaker 3: first year as head coach down in Houston to tuddle
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21:43
Speaker 9: They don't get a ton of work during the preseason.
21:46
Speaker 9: You know, It's why I play the starters, really, you know,
21:48
Speaker 9: I know it's limited in preseason, but it's why I
21:51
Speaker 9: do play the starters. That we try not to have
21:54
Speaker 9: too many setbacks as the season begins. But there is
21:57
Speaker 9: some you know, there is some uh, you know, some
22:01
Speaker 9: continuity that has to be worked through with that offensive line.
22:04
Speaker 9: There's communication that has to be worked through. You know,
22:07
Speaker 9: Ben's working himself back in as a as a starter again,
22:10
Speaker 9: you know, missing missing a few games from last season.
22:14
Speaker 9: You know, Walker's playing tackle for the first time kind
22:17
Speaker 9: of you know, full time over there right now. And
22:20
Speaker 9: and you know we got we got a young, young
22:23
Speaker 9: right tackle. So you know there's some there's some pieces
22:25
Speaker 9: that you know still need to work together, but they're
22:29
Speaker 9: coach well and they practice hard, and we'll work.
22:33
Speaker 5: We'll work through those.
22:34
Speaker 2: Of course.
22:34
Speaker 3: Head coach Doug Peterson earlier today discussing the offensive line
22:39
Speaker 3: and their improvement. Moving ahead and welcome back. It's tuddle
22:42
Speaker 3: Love with Bucky Brooks. Wednesday, ahead of Week three, the
22:46
Speaker 3: Texans come to town face the Jaguars j P Shadwick,
22:49
Speaker 3: John Oser and Bucky Brooks, and they'll be facing the
22:54
Speaker 3: Houston Texans defense. And you know, they got some new
22:58
Speaker 3: faces there, obviously the number three over I pick Will
23:00
Speaker 3: and Anderson on the edge. They've got a rookie linebacker
23:03
Speaker 3: as well. How is this group pound for pound up front?
23:07
Speaker 3: Let's start there, because that's the big storyline this week
23:09
Speaker 3: for the Jaguars, that offensive line and how they've handled
23:13
Speaker 3: the defensive fronts. The first two weeks, what are the
23:16
Speaker 3: Texans offer on the front.
23:17
Speaker 4: Four, Well, they offered the number three over a pick
23:20
Speaker 4: and Will Anderson, who is an absolute monster.
23:22
Speaker 5: We see the pressure percentages right out the gate.
23:25
Speaker 4: He has been productive, he's been effective, he flashes disruptive potential.
23:30
Speaker 5: He's been even.
23:31
Speaker 4: Better than advertised coming out of Alabama and landed with
23:35
Speaker 4: the texting he is a guy that will be the
23:37
Speaker 4: point on the sword. His energy, his ability to kind
23:40
Speaker 4: of create chaos at the point of attack.
23:42
Speaker 5: Well said the others up for opportunities on pass rush.
23:46
Speaker 6: Now point on the sword is that another one?
23:51
Speaker 2: I got a new bucketism got I love it.
23:54
Speaker 6: You know, week three you start to see who people are.
23:57
Speaker 6: We're seeing Bucky's coming into his own as well. You know,
24:03
Speaker 6: look the Texans up front are that's where they can
24:08
Speaker 6: disrupt you.
24:09
Speaker 7: They're beat up a little bit in the back.
24:11
Speaker 6: But to me, this game is more about in talking
24:15
Speaker 6: to guys in the locker room day, Evan Ingram talked
24:16
Speaker 6: about this a little bit too, and so do Christian Kirk,
24:21
Speaker 6: hitting on the theme that Doug talked about Monday with
24:23
Speaker 6: just sort of feeling on Sunday like everybody had to
24:28
Speaker 6: make the play, and everybody sort of had to be
24:31
Speaker 6: the player to make it in the moment, and so
24:34
Speaker 6: many of those guys talked about, let's just relax and
24:37
Speaker 6: let the offense come to them. I guess I would
24:41
Speaker 6: defer to Bucky the player. Yeah, how tricky is that
24:45
Speaker 6: to do? You know, when you've got a little bit
24:48
Speaker 6: of anxiety and you know you need to make the play,
24:51
Speaker 6: just letting it come to you. Yeah, how hard is it?
24:56
Speaker 7: Is that a real thing they're talking about.
24:58
Speaker 5: Yes, it's a real thing.
25:00
Speaker 4: It's that fine line between kind of pushing the envelope
25:03
Speaker 4: to make a play but really trusting that the ball
25:05
Speaker 4: is gonna come your way, meaning that the plays are
25:08
Speaker 4: eventually gonna come your way. If you just play within
25:10
Speaker 4: the scheme, it's gonna happen for you. But I mean,
25:13
Speaker 4: it's a playmaker's league. The guys who make the plays
25:16
Speaker 4: are the ones that get recognized in Even when you're
25:19
Speaker 4: a young player trying to figure it out, you understand
25:21
Speaker 4: that if I make a play, people gonna talk about me.
25:24
Speaker 5: How can I do that?
25:25
Speaker 4: How can I kind of toe the line with being
25:27
Speaker 4: that playmaker while playing within the confines of the scheme
25:31
Speaker 4: That is something that everyone struggles with offensively defensively. How
25:35
Speaker 4: do I do that and still remain a team guy?
25:37
Speaker 4: Is to battle that every player kind of kind of
25:40
Speaker 4: struggles with. It's really on coaching to reinforce those proper habits.
25:44
Speaker 4: Hey man, run to the ball, do the things that
25:46
Speaker 4: we ask you to do. Focus on the process. You
25:48
Speaker 4: focus on the process, the result is gonna end up
25:50
Speaker 4: being what you want.
25:50
Speaker 6: I guess that gets even trickier when y'all, I don't
25:53
Speaker 6: want to say the offensive line has been awful, but
25:56
Speaker 6: when you're not quite sure each play if it's gonna
26:01
Speaker 6: hold up, if it's gonna have to roll out, if
26:02
Speaker 6: the play's gonna look like it's supposed to, then all
26:05
Speaker 6: of a sudden, that maybe goes up a little bit
26:07
Speaker 6: of Okay, we got to make it on this play
26:10
Speaker 6: because we're getting a little bit of pressure.
26:11
Speaker 7: In the backfield of time.
26:12
Speaker 6: So I would think that would play into it as well.
26:14
Speaker 3: Yea, on the back end of this defense something. They've
26:17
Speaker 3: got a couple injuries there. Shaq Griffin's on this team,
26:21
Speaker 3: Derek Stingley's back coming off an injury last year.
26:25
Speaker 2: I think he had a hamstring injury. Throughout the year.
26:27
Speaker 3: But and he had the interception off Trevor in the
26:30
Speaker 3: end zone last year in that first meeting, which is
26:33
Speaker 3: a tough memory to bring them.
26:36
Speaker 2: You know, how are they on the back end, Bucky?
26:40
Speaker 4: They're young, but they're talented. Stanley comes back. Is them
26:42
Speaker 4: a high end player? They win got Jimmy Ward in
26:46
Speaker 4: the offseason. You think about Jalen Petrie and what Jalen
26:48
Speaker 4: Petrie has been able to do.
26:50
Speaker 5: In his career.
26:50
Speaker 4: I mean, they have some young, talented players, got to
26:53
Speaker 4: rotate in and out, and depending upon entries in those things,
26:55
Speaker 4: they're gonna be a very formidable secondary. They might be
26:58
Speaker 4: a little limited in turn of how much Demko Lions
27:01
Speaker 4: wants to expose him to pure man coverage, but he's
27:05
Speaker 4: gonna have a good plan. He's one of the best
27:06
Speaker 4: defensive minds in football, and he has a talented young
27:09
Speaker 4: group of.
27:09
Speaker 5: Playmakers that he can work with.
27:12
Speaker 4: This could be tricky for the jag because they can
27:15
Speaker 4: throw a few different looks at you and kind of
27:16
Speaker 4: find a way to batri into c stake.
27:18
Speaker 7: Yeah.
27:18
Speaker 6: I think these games are always tricky because even though
27:22
Speaker 6: early in the season, I think over the course of
27:25
Speaker 6: the season, the Jaguars are going to be a better
27:27
Speaker 6: team than the Texas. But early in the season, you've
27:31
Speaker 6: got a quarterback who doesn't believe that his team's bad,
27:37
Speaker 6: you know, I mean, so they continue to play hard,
27:40
Speaker 6: they continue to play with belief. So the early moments
27:43
Speaker 6: of these kind of games, especially earlier, always think it's
27:46
Speaker 6: so important because the longer you let him hang around,
27:48
Speaker 6: longer they believe all those old cliches.
27:50
Speaker 7: But he's playing well enough where.
27:55
Speaker 6: If they get some stuff going early, then all of
27:58
Speaker 6: a sudden they believe they're gonna win it until the end.
28:00
Speaker 6: So early in this game I think is important.
28:03
Speaker 3: How is Demiico Ryan so far kind of handling the spotlighty,
28:08
Speaker 3: It's a quick ascension through the defensive ranks in San Francisco.
28:12
Speaker 3: Guy who played for a long time in the league though, Bucky, Yeah, he's.
28:15
Speaker 4: Played for a long time in the league. He's a
28:18
Speaker 4: smart guy. When you talk to the people from the Niners,
28:20
Speaker 4: they just raved about his ability to get that defense going.
28:23
Speaker 4: You now put him in the big, big chair where
28:26
Speaker 4: he's the decision maker. It's very similar to the way
28:29
Speaker 4: that he ran his defense. This is a team that
28:32
Speaker 4: trying to add playmakers. They have physical team they practice, well,
28:35
Speaker 4: he's gonna make it where they muddy the pitcher for
28:38
Speaker 4: the quarterback and they're gonna try and make it a brawl,
28:41
Speaker 4: make it a physical affairency if they can kind of
28:44
Speaker 4: win by playing harder, being a tougher team in those things.
28:48
Speaker 4: But Demic o'bryan's is a good coach and look, I
28:51
Speaker 4: would expect him to do that. Learn from next same
28:53
Speaker 4: down in Alabama. He played for the Texan and the
28:56
Speaker 4: Texans were successful. He has a lot of that winning
28:59
Speaker 4: pet agree in him. He's just trying to kind of
29:02
Speaker 4: add his own spin to it to get this franchised
29:04
Speaker 4: back on track.
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Speaker 2: Our final thoughts when we come back, should we have
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Speaker 3: It's huddle up with Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 2: We're back. It's Huddle up with Bucky Brooks.
29:38
Speaker 3: Wednesday, Week three, the Texans and the Jaguars coming up
29:41
Speaker 3: from EverBank Stadium, and the Jags are one and one,
29:45
Speaker 3: through two weeks, as are many other NFL teams j
29:49
Speaker 3: P Shadrick, John Oser, Bucky Brooks.
29:52
Speaker 2: You gotta remember that.
29:53
Speaker 3: Part, right, I mean, it's it's two weeks in. Doug
29:56
Speaker 3: Peterson said that a couple of times. We're one and
29:58
Speaker 3: one or we want it's fine and we're in a
30:00
Speaker 3: good spot. We could be better, Sure, we could be worse.
30:03
Speaker 3: You're gonna get better, and there's fifteen games to go.
30:06
Speaker 6: It's it's such a hard league, and it's it sort
30:09
Speaker 6: of comes full force on weeks like this. It's yes,
30:15
Speaker 6: it's only week three. At the same time, this is
30:18
Speaker 6: a game that you sort of as Bucky like say
30:20
Speaker 6: that you circled for the season. Okay, that's one you
30:23
Speaker 6: ought to get. And then the Falcons are next week
30:26
Speaker 6: and they're unbeaten.
30:28
Speaker 5: Oh, there we go.
30:28
Speaker 7: We're looking ahead, and then the Bills are good. You know.
30:31
Speaker 7: So it's just a hard league, Buck, it's a hard league.
30:36
Speaker 7: You know, you played a bit.
30:38
Speaker 4: We're over here, books on tape and we're skipping ahead.
30:42
Speaker 4: We're not just staying on task, like we're not process oriented.
30:45
Speaker 4: We over thinking about the results. But you're right in reality,
30:49
Speaker 4: when you think about the next three games just went
30:51
Speaker 4: into two there each quarter.
30:53
Speaker 5: You would like to be three and one. We have
30:56
Speaker 5: to admit it. Because of the seventeen game season.
30:58
Speaker 4: This has to be one that you get and then
31:00
Speaker 4: look ahead to the Falcons and the Bills. You would
31:02
Speaker 4: like to take care of business at least one of
31:04
Speaker 4: those and if it's optimistic, two of those. But this
31:07
Speaker 4: is one that you have to This one should be
31:09
Speaker 4: put in pinned. Like when we were talking about the preseason,
31:12
Speaker 4: when you're kind of picking wins, this is one that
31:15
Speaker 4: you're kind of put in pin This should be a
31:17
Speaker 4: w particularly the team that we're playing, get playing at home, even.
31:21
Speaker 5: Though they've been a thorn in outside the last few years.
31:24
Speaker 6: It's great to circle those, but then you also got
31:28
Speaker 6: to go play.
31:28
Speaker 2: That's right.
31:29
Speaker 6: So yeah, and that's again it's why it's a hard
31:32
Speaker 6: league and take the w' where you can get them.
31:34
Speaker 3: What does Barkie Brooks think about it? In the background
31:37
Speaker 3: there we hear Barkie, But yeah.
31:40
Speaker 4: I mean, Luna is very disappointed. She's trying to get
31:44
Speaker 4: over our total eight by Wednesday. We got to turn
31:46
Speaker 4: the page. She's still disappointed about last week, but I
31:49
Speaker 4: told her we're gonna be optimistic. There's some treats on
31:53
Speaker 4: the horizon if we take care of business on Sunday.
31:56
Speaker 5: So that perked up. That's what you heard. We've made
31:59
Speaker 5: that agreement. We talked about it. She was kind of
32:00
Speaker 5: negotiating what she deemed to be appropriate treat score.
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Speaker 3: When we'll see if she gets better or not this week.
32:08
Speaker 3: That would be a nice bonus. Hey, I think that'll
32:12
Speaker 3: do it.
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Speaker 7: Jaguars too, good ship, good football ships.
32:16
Speaker 2: Bucky brought it today.
32:20
Speaker 4: Of this sword, pointed the sword except for like a
32:23
Speaker 4: minor foux pile when it came to the Mekranz in
32:25
Speaker 4: the same paper safe most of nobody.
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Speaker 2: Okay, hey it happens. That's Bucky Brooks, that's John Oser.
32:31
Speaker 2: I'm JP Shaddwick.
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