Latest / The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network / Earning the Postseason | Huddle Up

Transcript

Earning the Postseason | Huddle Up · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Huddle Up by the Field Shuttle Hook Jaguars
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Senior writer John Osher, NFL Network analyst and former Jaguar
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks, and senior reporter J. P. Shatterick bringing you
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: the latest on your Jacksonville Jaguarns.
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: Huddle Up starts right now. Then welcome on. It's Wednesday.
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: It is week sixteen, and it's Huddle Up with Bucky
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: Brooks JP Shattered John Oser for the Honday Studios in
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: Jacksonville to Miller Electric Center. We'll get to Bucky in
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: La coming up. It's week sixteen. The Jaguars and the
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a battle of first place teams in
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: the AFC and NFC South Divisions. Both teams tied for
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: first place and a lot of business to attend to
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: over the final three weeks. Trevor Lawrence will get an
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: update from the head coach, not much of one, but
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: he did not practice today, and of course the AFC
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: playoff race is heated up as much as can be
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: at this moment. How do a lot with Bucky Brooks
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: is brought to you by Field's Auto Group, Jacksonville. Step
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: up to Luxury Fieldsauto dot Com and let's start with
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: the status of Trevor Lawrence. Here's head coach Doug Peterson today.
• 1:14
  Speaker 3: You got to follow the steps, you know, and and
• 1:16
  Speaker 3: it's really based on symptoms, you know, and how he feels.
• 1:21
  Speaker 3: If if he can sit in a meeting and tolerate
• 1:23
  Speaker 3: a meeting, it's okay. If if not, then we we
• 1:26
  Speaker 3: we we don't put them in there, you know, because
• 1:29
  Speaker 3: you're you're stimulating the brain, right, So it's just based
• 1:33
  Speaker 3: on based on symptoms. But like if it's his knee
• 1:36
  Speaker 3: or his ankle, he's in those meetings and and he's
• 1:39
  Speaker 3: you know, he's getting the game plan, and he's he's
• 1:41
  Speaker 3: listening and and and.
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: All of that.
• 1:43
  Speaker 3: So you just you just got to do it really
• 1:46
  Speaker 3: case by case.
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence still in the concussion protocol. If he's not
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: able to go Sunday, CJ. Bethard would be ready.
• 1:53
  Speaker 4: To roll a lot of practice. I think, you know,
• 1:57
  Speaker 4: whether it's here or where you know, where I used
• 1:59
  Speaker 4: to be. I think the mindset as being my seventh
• 2:04
  Speaker 4: year in the league, it's just got a lot of experience.
• 2:06
  Speaker 4: Even even the games where you know the starter isn't
• 2:10
  Speaker 4: banged up or whatever, just preparing like, you know, you
• 2:13
  Speaker 4: might have to go into the game. That's just kind
• 2:15
  Speaker 4: of what you have to do. So at this point,
• 2:16
  Speaker 4: it's really just just a mindset. And you know, I
• 2:20
  Speaker 4: feel like this year I've actually, you know, you got
• 2:22
  Speaker 4: to gotten to practice a lot more than years past
• 2:26
  Speaker 4: as far as with the with the starters. You know,
• 2:29
  Speaker 4: when Trevor has missed a couple of practice here or there,
• 2:31
  Speaker 4: and it's so it's only you know, benefit of me
• 2:33
  Speaker 4: and helped me in the long run of just getting
• 2:35
  Speaker 4: rest with certain guys and that kind of stuff.
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: That's CJ Bether back up quarterback And of course in
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: the protocol, Trevor Lawrence not allowed to speak with the media.
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: Bucky Brooks with us now from Los Angeles, and he's
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: priority number one this week, the health of the quarterback.
• 2:48
  Speaker 2: He did not practice today, Trevor Lawrence. So we're just
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: waiting to see that five step process to get through
• 2:53
  Speaker 2: the concussion protocol.
• 2:55
  Speaker 5: Had good afternoon, Buck, Yeah, what's up, guys? Yeah, I
• 2:58
  Speaker 5: mean number sixteen is the main concern. You want to
• 3:01
  Speaker 5: see if your franchise quarterback is going to be available
• 3:04
  Speaker 5: for this weekend game and why you're doing that. You
• 3:07
  Speaker 5: also want to get CJ beth Or to backup ready
• 3:09
  Speaker 5: to play, because no matter what, they gonna kick the
• 3:11
  Speaker 5: ball off on Sunday, and whoever's taking snaps has to
• 3:14
  Speaker 5: be ready to play and ready to play at a
• 3:15
  Speaker 5: high level.
• 3:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and this feels again it's sort of washed Rents
• 3:19
  Speaker 6: repeat in the sense that CJ has been here before.
• 3:23
  Speaker 6: I don't think it's insignificant when he talks about he's
• 3:26
  Speaker 6: practiced more this year than he I would.
• 3:29
  Speaker 7: Think has in the first two years.
• 3:30
  Speaker 6: Maybe he practiced a couple of times after the Lions
• 3:32
  Speaker 6: thing last year, but he's got more practice, you know.
• 3:36
  Speaker 6: It's I think this is even more so. My sense
• 3:42
  Speaker 6: is players in the locker room are fully planning to
• 3:47
  Speaker 6: play Sunday with the idea that Trevor won't be out there.
• 3:50
  Speaker 6: Not that they didn't before, but to me, this is
• 3:54
  Speaker 6: would be far more surprising than either of the first two,
• 3:57
  Speaker 6: only because this one's not about his want to. This
• 4:00
  Speaker 6: is about tests, whether her passes or not. So this
• 4:04
  Speaker 6: is not where he can't be willis reed limping out
• 4:07
  Speaker 6: there on this one. It has to pass through. It
• 4:12
  Speaker 6: won't be about his desire, so Bucky, I think that's
• 4:14
  Speaker 6: their preparation mindset is we had figured out a way
• 4:17
  Speaker 6: to win this with CJ. And I kind of think
• 4:20
  Speaker 6: it's about what it would have been with Trevor, which is,
• 4:23
  Speaker 6: hold on to the ball, don't make mistakes on offense,
• 4:25
  Speaker 6: and see if you can win if you don't give
• 4:26
  Speaker 6: the game away.
• 4:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah. Look, I'm with you. I'm with you on that.
• 4:30
  Speaker 5: And we've seen so many teams have to deal with
• 4:33
  Speaker 5: this issue when it comes to the quarterback. I mean, look,
• 4:35
  Speaker 5: the last few weeks, we've seen backup quarterbacks kind of
• 4:38
  Speaker 5: come through for their respective teams. We'll go all the
• 4:40
  Speaker 5: way back to Cincinnati had to play with Jake Browning,
• 4:43
  Speaker 5: we had Cleveland playing with Joe Flacco. We've seen it
• 4:46
  Speaker 5: time and time again. The expectation doesn't change, I think
• 4:49
  Speaker 5: for this team, regardless of who plans quarterback, it doesn't
• 4:52
  Speaker 5: really impact the issues that take place. The communication issues,
• 4:56
  Speaker 5: the pre snapped penalties, turnovers, all of those things. Those
• 4:59
  Speaker 5: things to be cleaned up regardless of whether Trevor Lawrence
• 5:01
  Speaker 5: was starting or not. And so I think the focus
• 5:04
  Speaker 5: has to be on cleaning up those issues regardless of
• 5:07
  Speaker 5: who starts on Sunday.
• 5:09
  Speaker 6: And to sort of extrapolate on that, I guess, extrapolate
• 5:12
  Speaker 6: or if you.
• 5:13
  Speaker 8: Will, whatever big words you want to use.
• 5:15
  Speaker 2: You dropped Willis Reid on us a minute ago.
• 5:17
  Speaker 6: Now I don't have bucketism, so I have to I
• 5:20
  Speaker 6: have to pitch in where I can't. Uh, you know
• 5:23
  Speaker 6: it's I don't think it's absurd to think that the
• 5:27
  Speaker 6: Jaguars could have the same kind of opportunities offensively as
• 5:32
  Speaker 6: they did against the Ravens. Meaning would it surprise you
• 5:36
  Speaker 6: if against the Bucks, CJ put him in field goal
• 5:38
  Speaker 6: range a couple of times in the first half. Uh,
• 5:42
  Speaker 6: it got him in the red zone a few times
• 5:43
  Speaker 6: during the game, and they did the dad of the night.
• 5:48
  Speaker 6: And the problem is they couldn't close the drives, so
• 5:52
  Speaker 6: make field goals convert once in a while when you're
• 5:54
  Speaker 6: down there. I could see him getting twenty and I
• 5:58
  Speaker 6: think it will be a twenty three to twenty game.
• 5:59
  Speaker 6: We the other I think if the Jaguars play the
• 6:03
  Speaker 6: clean game that Doug's been talking about for weeks and
• 6:05
  Speaker 6: they haven't done, this would not be a mammoth upset.
• 6:11
  Speaker 7: It's it's a one point line. So I don't think.
• 6:14
  Speaker 6: It's because of the way they've played. I think there
• 6:17
  Speaker 6: are fans who think, well, there's just no way there,
• 6:19
  Speaker 6: you know, it's over, et cetera, et cetera. I don't
• 6:23
  Speaker 6: see it this I don't see it this way at all.
• 6:25
  Speaker 6: I do think this game will show us something about
• 6:27
  Speaker 6: this team. Do they have the you know, the maturity,
• 6:31
  Speaker 6: the the whatever it is that wills a team to
• 6:35
  Speaker 6: win in this situation? To me, Bucky, playoff teams have
• 6:39
  Speaker 6: that non playoff teams, don't. They have to show they're
• 6:41
  Speaker 6: that kind of a team.
• 6:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 6:43
  Speaker 5: I mean, we can talk about it, but in essence
• 6:46
  Speaker 5: is it's a three game season and if they take
• 6:49
  Speaker 5: care of business, they will be what we thought they were,
• 6:52
  Speaker 5: which is a division winner going into the postseason. It
• 6:55
  Speaker 5: may not have been as impressive as we would like it,
• 6:57
  Speaker 5: but it doesn't matter.
• 6:58
  Speaker 8: At the end of the day.
• 6:59
  Speaker 5: You want to be one of the sevent teams that
• 7:01
  Speaker 5: has a ticket to the dance, and if you earn
• 7:03
  Speaker 5: the right to get into the postseason, you get a
• 7:05
  Speaker 5: chance to reset the clock, you get a chance to refocus,
• 7:08
  Speaker 5: and you can rewrite the narrative on your season. This
• 7:11
  Speaker 5: is about them finding a way to be one point
• 7:13
  Speaker 5: better than Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday. No matter how
• 7:17
  Speaker 5: that gets done, whether that's the defense pitching the shutout,
• 7:19
  Speaker 5: whether it's the offense being able to score to forty
• 7:21
  Speaker 5: points or Jamal Agnam in the special teams leading away
• 7:24
  Speaker 5: all hands on deck.
• 7:25
  Speaker 8: It's an opportunity for this team to win.
• 7:27
  Speaker 5: And there's some positive signs that you could take out
• 7:30
  Speaker 5: of the last game against Baltimore that could lead this
• 7:33
  Speaker 5: team to play better against Tampa.
• 7:35
  Speaker 8: They just have to put it all together on the
• 7:37
  Speaker 8: main stage.
• 7:38
  Speaker 2: I got a question for the former player.
• 7:42
  Speaker 8: Bucky Okay, former player ready.
• 7:45
  Speaker 2: So we've seen it a couple of times, as you were.
• 7:47
  Speaker 2: Trevor's played through legacies, right a knee injury and then
• 7:51
  Speaker 2: the high ankle spring. This was a little different. But
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: you know what happens if he's clear and all of
• 7:58
  Speaker 2: a sudden Saturday, it's like light I mean, are they
• 8:02
  Speaker 2: doing two plans? And how does that affect an offense
• 8:05
  Speaker 2: when you've got to maybe figure out life without him
• 8:07
  Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden he's back, Like what happened?
• 8:09
  Speaker 2: How different would it look?
• 8:12
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, the one thing that you have with
• 8:15
  Speaker 5: Trevor is you have your full compliment of plays. The
• 8:18
  Speaker 5: offense has been built with Trevor Lawrence in mind, and
• 8:20
  Speaker 5: so you just go back to your normal game plan.
• 8:23
  Speaker 8: When you have CJ.
• 8:24
  Speaker 5: Bethard, there's some tweaks and adjustment that you have to
• 8:27
  Speaker 5: make to accommodate his talent, and what you want to
• 8:31
  Speaker 5: do is accentuate different parts of his game than you
• 8:33
  Speaker 5: would Trevor.
• 8:35
  Speaker 8: Coaches typically operate.
• 8:37
  Speaker 5: With both of those things in mind, because at any
• 8:39
  Speaker 5: point Trevor Lawrence could go down with the ankle sprain
• 8:41
  Speaker 5: in the midst.
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: Of a game.
• 8:42
  Speaker 5: You have to be able to call the game with
• 8:45
  Speaker 5: CJ on the field, so it won't change much of anything.
• 8:49
  Speaker 5: Your practice, those plays, some of the players are staple
• 8:51
  Speaker 5: plays that it doesn't matter who the quarterback is. But
• 8:53
  Speaker 5: this week you probably have called more plays and practice
• 8:57
  Speaker 5: that are.
• 8:58
  Speaker 8: Designed specifically for CJ. Bes.
• 9:00
  Speaker 5: But if Trevor plays, you go back to your main stuff.
• 9:03
  Speaker 5: And look, let's be honest, there may be a silver
• 9:06
  Speaker 5: lining in all of this. If Trevor does play, maybe
• 9:09
  Speaker 5: because of the way that he hasn't been able to practice,
• 9:12
  Speaker 5: maybe everything is smaller, a smaller menu, things that condense down.
• 9:16
  Speaker 5: They're kind of doing their day one day two installs
• 9:19
  Speaker 5: in training camp and maybe just maybe by cutting down
• 9:22
  Speaker 5: the volume, they'll get a better performance from the players
• 9:24
  Speaker 5: because everyone knows exactly what they're doing.
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: Plenty ahead. We'll come back in a moment and flip
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: into the Jaguars defense against this Bucks offense and Baker
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: Mayfield and Mike Evans and Godwin and they're playing some
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: pretty good football down in Tampa these days. A little later,
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: a Bucks linebacker and a Jaguars staffer have a connection
• 9:51
  Speaker 2: from way back. We'll get to that a little bit
• 9:53
  Speaker 2: as well. Bootleggers, get ready. Luke Combs is bringing two
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: nights to the Growing Up and Getting Old Tour to
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: EverBank Stadium, May third and fourth, twenty twenty four different
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: special guests each night. Tickets on sale now. For more,
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: visit EverBank Stadium dot com. This is Huddle Up with
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: Bucky Brooks.
• 10:23
  Speaker 3: He's gotten better the season has gone on. Some of
• 10:27
  Speaker 3: his you know, statistical numbers. He's getting the ball out
• 10:30
  Speaker 3: of his hand extremely fast. It does slow down pass rushman.
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: You can do that, you know, especially in the third
• 10:37
  Speaker 3: and short medium range. And you know he's he's he's
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: trusting his guys you know, down the field and they're
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: making plays for him. So and he's not turning the
• 10:47
  Speaker 3: ball over, you know. So all those things are in
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: his favor and are helping, and he's playing playing.
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: Good have it. The Jaguars head coach Doug Peterson earlier
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: today and his normal Wednesday press conference, it's huddled up
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: with Bucky Brooks. And that's Baker Mayfield last week a
• 11:05
  Speaker 2: perfect passer rating, the third quarterback in the NFL this
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: year with a perfect passer rating in a game, I
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: mean efficient as can be for touchdown passes. And on
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: the season he's over thirty three hundred yards now touchdown
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: to interception ratio strong. And Baker's got some guys around
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: him as well. J P. Shadwick, John Oser here in Jacksonville,
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: Bucky Brooks in Los Angeles. The perfect holiday gift is here.
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: Grab your Jaguars Holiday pack and get a Jags blanket
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: and ticket to the Panthers game Sunday, December thirty first,
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: starting at just seventy eight bucks. Get your holiday pack now.
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: Call nine oh four six three three two thousand. This
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: is John's time of year. It's only five days away.
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: You've got your Mary Grinchmass Cup Today, John in the
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: studio with it. What do we got here.
• 11:53
  Speaker 7: Do you think at first in the microphone please, it'd
• 11:56
  Speaker 7: be great, But.
• 11:57
  Speaker 6: It actually says Mary Grinchmass. It's a play on words. JP,
• 12:03
  Speaker 6: who's the dog?
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: Is that part of the Grinch deal?
• 12:06
  Speaker 7: It's Max the dog.
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: Max. I haven't seen the Grinchen forever. Obviously.
• 12:11
  Speaker 6: Well, you're missing it because again you think it says
• 12:13
  Speaker 6: Merry Christmas, and you get up closer, it says Mary
• 12:16
  Speaker 6: got me.
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: This is what we deal with every day, Bucky right here?
• 12:21
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, certainly dealing with it. But I appreciate him
• 12:24
  Speaker 8: being in holiday mood.
• 12:26
  Speaker 5: I think everyone should be excited about the holidays this
• 12:30
  Speaker 5: time of year, even in the midst of a three
• 12:32
  Speaker 5: game losing street.
• 12:32
  Speaker 8: Hopefully there's a little cheer around the bill.
• 12:34
  Speaker 7: Hey, Christmas is the gift getting season.
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: It is? It certainly is. Hey, you don't need to
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: give Baker any gifts. He's earning him on his own
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: right now, Bucky? And why is he playing so well?
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: Why is this offense playing so well in Tampa?
• 12:47
  Speaker 5: Well, I think Baker has a lot of confidence because
• 12:50
  Speaker 5: debate the offense has been Taylor made to fit his talents. Uh,
• 12:54
  Speaker 5: Drew can nalyis coming over from Seattle, has has looked
• 12:58
  Speaker 5: at how Baker performed first in the Rams offense and
• 13:01
  Speaker 5: has done a lot of the stuff that they were
• 13:02
  Speaker 5: doing there. It's a combination of some of the movement
• 13:05
  Speaker 5: stuff that is associated to the play action passing game
• 13:08
  Speaker 5: that people that subscribe to that Shanahan system like to utilize,
• 13:12
  Speaker 5: but they've also made it Baker friendly by spreading it
• 13:15
  Speaker 5: out quick rhythm throws, things that he did really well
• 13:18
  Speaker 5: at Oklahoma. And it's worked because Baker has finally kind
• 13:21
  Speaker 5: of grown comfortable in his own skin and in the
• 13:25
  Speaker 5: style of play that he has to utilize to be
• 13:28
  Speaker 5: effective in the National Football League.
• 13:30
  Speaker 8: So the ball is out quickly.
• 13:31
  Speaker 5: He trust his playmakers because they do have really good
• 13:33
  Speaker 5: playmakers around him, and Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, Rashad
• 13:38
  Speaker 5: White has kind of stepped up and done some things.
• 13:41
  Speaker 5: And so this team and this offense and everything fits.
• 13:45
  Speaker 5: So the system fits the player, which is why the
• 13:47
  Speaker 5: player is playing so well.
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 13:49
  Speaker 6: It also, you know, we're talking about Baker, but there's
• 13:54
  Speaker 6: only one Hall of Famer in this game, and he
• 13:56
  Speaker 6: plays for the Bucks. Yeah, I mean, and other guys
• 13:58
  Speaker 6: might eventually make it it. Mike Evans the guy if
• 14:02
  Speaker 6: he quits. Now he goes to campon so well, I mean,
• 14:07
  Speaker 6: I can't imagine they're not being in.
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: He said a thousand yards every year of his career.
• 14:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean he's an elite player who all I
• 14:15
  Speaker 6: know is every time I watch highlights on a Sunday night,
• 14:19
  Speaker 6: I watched Mike Evans scoring and so that's to me is,
• 14:23
  Speaker 6: you know, in games like this late where I expect
• 14:26
  Speaker 6: this to be a close game in the fourth quarter,
• 14:30
  Speaker 6: he's the guy you got to keep from making a
• 14:32
  Speaker 6: play and beating you, and it gives them a chance
• 14:36
  Speaker 6: when you have a Hall of Fame guy.
• 14:39
  Speaker 7: In the skilled position on the other team.
• 14:41
  Speaker 6: So that that worries me against the Jaguars defense that
• 14:45
  Speaker 6: is in the bottom five of the league against the past,
• 14:48
  Speaker 6: and has been beaten up in the secondary and has
• 14:50
  Speaker 6: given up it's share of big plays in recent weeks.
• 14:53
  Speaker 6: Didn't do it last week, but it's share a big play.
• 14:57
  Speaker 6: So I'm not afraid to make I'm scared JP Mike.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Evan's scares you. And then that opens up
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: god one who last week Bucky put up numbers.
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he put up numbers, you know, like he's kind
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: of the beneficiary of the squeaky wheel getting a little grease.
• 15:15
  Speaker 8: He didn't touch the ball much the previous week. Wife
• 15:18
  Speaker 8: complained a little bit, and lo and behold, he.
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: Had a big he had a big week, and so
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: he's motivated. He's back involved in the game plan. And
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: they have two guys that can give you a lot
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: of problems. Both of them are size guys with the
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: ability to win the fifty to fifty balls down the field.
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: So the matchups would be everything, and who's available in
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: the secondary could go a long way to determine how
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: Mike Calwell has to play. But let me say this,
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: because this comes on the heels of last week. There
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: were a lot of people upset and I heard like
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: people being critical of the defense because they finished with
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: the Ravens finished with over two hundred yards on the ground.
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: Lamar Jackson had almost one hundred yards on the ground,
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: But some of that was by design. They wanted to
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: allow them to kind of do whatever they wanted to do.
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: Between the twittings, they played really good defense in the
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: red zone and for the look most of the game,
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: they did that because the point told the twenty three points,
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: that's enough for you to be able to win if
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: your defense doesn't serve up big plays and doesn't give
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: up points offensively, we haven't matched yet. I think they'll
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: adopt a similart strategy against the Buccaneers. Won't give up
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: the big plays, keep it underneath, rally and tackle, and
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: you hope when the ball gets to the twenty yard
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: line you can force threes instead of sevens.
• 16:27
  Speaker 8: And if you do that, you should be able to
• 16:28
  Speaker 8: get enough points to win.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:30
  Speaker 7: I thought that game. I completely agree with that.
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: They for three quarters, you had them at ten, and
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: had you gave them one when you turn the ball over,
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: so I the defense gave him a chance to win.
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: And had they gotten twelve points that were right there
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: for the taking in the first half, then you're up.
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: It doesn't always play out this way, but theoretically, then
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: you're up nineteen to ten at least when Agne hits
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: the big play. Now you're midway through the third quarter,
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: and now the Ravens have to have two scores, so
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: they're playing uphill. They're not able to play the way
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: they love to play. And then I think, you know it.
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: The yards didn't bother me at all the other night
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: on defense, I thought to put themselves in a position
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: to win. I have a question for the game planner,
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: which and I'm usually not big on Okay, this guy
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: was on this staff, so this matters this whatever. But
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: Mike Caldwell, obviously the Bucks know how he thinks defensively,
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: anything to that any advantage there for Tampa and just
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: sort of knowing how he likes to attack.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: I think the thing will be because he wasn't the
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: defensive play called in Tampa.
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: He's a disciple of that.
• 17:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah, he's a disciple of that system.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: I think if anything, it probably helps the Jaguars more
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: so than it helps the Buccaneers. Old Will worked on
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: the Tie Bowles Toy Bowles still call that defense. Mike
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: Callwill knows the ins and outs of not only the scheme,
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: but he knows how the play caller thinks.
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: He should be able to relay that information to Doug
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: and Press and to be able.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: To give them very kind of clear ideals on how
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: ty Bowles likes to approach red zone situations, third and long,
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: What does he like to call when the game is
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: on the line, what does his pet call, what does
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: he want to go to?
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: How does he think about certain things?
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: I think it's a little more mysterious for Todd Bowles
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: trying to figure out his disciple because he never had
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: to work with Mike Calewell calling the game, so he
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: may not have the same feel that Mike Callwell should have.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: For Tye Bowles, I have a question about that process.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, is that a meeting you have like in
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: the off season when you see the schedule come out,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: or I mean it seems like it might be too
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: busy this week to go through that. I mean, when
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: do they talk about this stuff?
• 18:56
  Speaker 8: I mean, I think it's a refresh.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: I still think you game plan independently of what Calwell's
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: thoughts are, but I think he can add context too well.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: Why would they call this like we see this blitz
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: show up sometimes on third down?
• 19:08
  Speaker 8: Why does he like to do that? And he can
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: tell him A and third and long. He's thinking more.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: Zone dogs than man dogs because zone dogs he wants
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: the ball to come out, but he wants to have
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: visions so he can rally and tackle these situations. He
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: wants to play more man demand because of whatever the
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: philosophy is, it's more context to trying to fill in
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: the gaps for some of the things that will show
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: up on tape.
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: It won't necessarily be able to give them.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: The predictor, but will it will allow them to kind
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: of build the game plan having a better understanding of
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: who they're facing from a play calling standpoint.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Zone Dog that's actually John's nickname.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: It really is zone Dog, zone whatever, just different variations.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: We're back in a moment. We'll flip it around to
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: the Jaguars offense against this Bucks defense. And yes, a
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: connection of sorts between a Bucks linebacker and a Jaguars staffer. Jaggs.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Fans want customized Jags furniture for your home. Checkout zipchare
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: dot com and browse all customizedable options ZIP Chair furniture
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: for fans.
• 20:14
  Speaker 9: This is Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: You know, now we've introduced a new player, right with Ezra,
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: you know, to our scheme, not a not a not
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: a rookie, but a veteran player, but new to our scheme.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: And Walker's playing, you know guard, he's been tackled and
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: he's bounced around, and it's hard for those guys to do.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: It's like it's kind of hard to get in a rhythm, right,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: So I think that's that's where it that's where it starts,
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: you know, uh there and then and then secondly, it's
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: just I think our ability to finish blocks and sustain
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: blocks where we're you know, and look, it's been no
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: shortage of good defensive fronts either, So we're playing some
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: good teams. But it's no excuse for us not to
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: continue to sustain and move people.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: That's the head coach, of course. Doug Peterson earlier today
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: discussing the Jaguars run game and some things they might
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: be able to do down the stretch, and it'shuddle up
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: with Bucky Brooks. Hey p Shadwick, John Oser and you
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: guessed it, Bucky Brooks in Los Angeles Pro Bowl. Voting
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: is now live through December twenty fifth. Be sure to
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: cast your vote for which Jaggars players you'd like to
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: see there by going to Jaguars dot com Slash Pro Bowl. Well,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: that's that's one side of it, obviously, the offensive line
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: and moving people. As Doug put it. I asked Travis
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: etn Jr. In the locker room a little bit ago,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: you know what stands out the most against the about
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: the Buccaneers defense. The first thing he said, Bucky was
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Vita Vea. That guy is huge, So that's number one,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: and that front seven, they've got some veteran guys, and
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: this is a group that's been at it for a
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: long time really overall.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, look, it's a real veteran laden group.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: They have talent at the point of attack along their
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: front line, which is the front seven.
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: Linebackers in D line, and when you can't.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Move them off the ball, it's hard to find increases
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: in the run game.
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: Vita Vea is a freak show at three.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: Hundred and fifty pounds if you can imagine that. The
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: look the run stopping Menace was a running back in
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: high school, like they actually gave him the ball as
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: a heavyweight, high.
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: To ninety runner. He has light feed, he's athletic, He's
• 22:48
  Speaker 8: gonna be a problem.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: And then when you think about the linebacker corps, Levonte
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: David veteran with experience, Antoine Winfield coming from safety, being
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: able to kind of dial it up and really diagnose
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: plays really well, some really rock solid front.
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: That you have to contend with.
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: It is and yet they haven't been great this year
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: as a defense. So I know White has not quite
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: had the year that he has before. But Antoine Winfield
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: is playing an extremely high level obviously, so it's gettable.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: What I don't know really, and I guess this is
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: a question for Bucky, who's wears many hats. Is there
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: anything that can be done to jumpstart the running game
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: or I kind of think I kind of hate even
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: asking the question anymore because I've kind of taken the
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: approach until we see it. There's really not They have
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: declined running the ball for a month, any hope there,
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: because that's that'd be your logical with CJ out, I mean,
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: with Trevor out and CJ in. You'd like to be
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: able to run consistently, Bucky, Yeah, you would like to be.
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: Able to run consistently, not only for CJ.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: Bethort, but for Trevor Lawrence and whoever's that quarterback. Because
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: when you run the football, what it does is it
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: creates some one on one opportunities that allows it for
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: you to pass more efficiently, meaning that no longer can
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: they play split safety coverage with two safeties either on
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: the hashes playing cover too deep or quarters where you
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: have like four cross spitting the field and twenty five
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: percent respectively. You now have to do some eight man
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: fronts one on one coverage.
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: It allows your guys Calvin Ridley and others to work
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: in advantageous situations.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: So they need to run the football to make the
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: Buccaneers respect to run, so they can dictate the terms
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: on these early downs, so they maybe can set up
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: a shot or two to Calvin Ridley or Evan Ingram
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: going down the field.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, Bucky, you know to run on first down?
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Ideally you want to get about four yards right at
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: least that makes it second and six. But just explain
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: to maybe the casual fan difference between second and six
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: and like second and nine. How big of a difference
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: is that for a play call.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: Well, it's a huge difference because as a play caller,
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: everyone wants to get to what they call mixed downs.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: So mixed downs on second that would be anywhere from
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: second and three to second and six. It's a mix
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: down because now the defense has to respect the run
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: and the past because you just don't know how the
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: offensive coordinator will mix it up. When you get to
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: these longer yardist situations where you can predict that it's
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: more than likely a pass coming, well, now you can
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: start doing the junk stuff.
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: The exotic blitzes, the stunts.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: The movement, the bluff, and the skies because you know, hey,
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: let's take the run off the table. They're going to pass.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: How can we best dis ru up the passing game.
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: That's why it's really.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: Important when you hear offensive coordinators and coaches talking about
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: staying on schedule. On schedule means that at each down
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: in situation, we now have an opportunity to have a
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: mix down. Because we're on schedule, we can run it
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: through based on what we wish as opposed to what
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: the defense is dictating to us.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Levante David we saw him on that list a moment
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: ago of player second on the team tackles. He's been
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: at this thing for a long time now. Obviously, you know,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: great player for a long time in the league. Twenty
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: twelve draft pick. He's been with the Bucks his entire career.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: He finished his college career at Nebraska, but he started
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: how about this connection. He started his college career in
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: community college Fort Scott in Kansas. Guests who played against
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: him in community college offensive coordinator Press Taylor was the
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: quarterback at Butler Community College. They played against each other
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: in two thousand and eight Bucky. In the regular season,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Press Taylor's team, Butler won twenty four to seven and
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: went on to their second consecutive Junior college national championship
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: that year. But Leavonte David was on the Fort Scott
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: team along with Jason Pierre Paul on that team, that's
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: a heck of a lineup on the other side, and
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Press Taylor smoked him. How about that?
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Press Taylor, you're talking about bull The bullet was
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: always has always been a juco power, So I'm not
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: surprised that Press Taylor was on the winning end of
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: that situation. But it's kind of crazy, man, small world,
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: How thing comes how things come full circle when it
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: comes to the guys that you play against you ultimately
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: end up coaching against, or you know you're coaching he's
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: playing one of those other things.
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: It's a unique situation though.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: You gotta remember Press is thirty five years old.
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: You know, at first you think it says Merry Christmas,
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: but then it says Mary. Yeah, I mean it's a
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: small world.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's come back. I thought you'd have more for that, John,
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: It's great, thanks a lot. I have a feeling this
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: is pre planned because I know you I know people
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: around you. We're back in a moment our final thoughts.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Thank goodness.
• 28:00
  Speaker 10: This is Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Welcome back. It is Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks' final moments.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: On this Wednesday afternoon, I had of Week sixteen the
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Jaguars and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Raymond James Stadium, Tampa.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: What was that road Dale, Mabrey Dale, Mayby, Yeah, where
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: the stadium is down there. So that's Christmas Eve four
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: h five kickoff. On the way back from Tampa, you
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: might pass some rain deer in the sky.
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: Just make sure you don't hit the sligh.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's important.
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: Make sure that pie. And as you're talking about doing
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: the break, Japey, look, you sent some frustration from Jaguars fans, disappointment, whatever.
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: But what Doug said on Monday's right. The reality here
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: is you're in first place with three games to go,
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: and and no matter how you've gotten there, I guess what, JP,
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: we've only covered two division champions around here. This is
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: only the third time since we've been doing it together
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: that they've been in first place at this time. Yeah,
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: only it's only happened seven or eight times. In franchise history,
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: so as as disappointing you maybe with the way they've played.
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: If you're a fan following this an observer, this is
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: still why you're in it. And teams have gotten to
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: the postseason in weirder situations than this, more beat up
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: than this, more so records. This can be where some
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: of the best memories you're created. Hey remember that time CJ.
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: Bethard came out. You know, this can be where history
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: is written too. So in that sense, these are so
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: very interesting and the Bucks game is really really big,
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: and maybe they win it, that's mine out.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: They went, oh you hear that? Got a maybe got
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: a Johnt.
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: I know, Buck, you'll lock it because he's the eternal optimist.
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: But I can't lock this.
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean I can't necessarily lock it, but I
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: am optimistic that it will find a way to get it,
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: to get it done.
• 30:14
  Speaker 8: I do believe, you.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: Know, Like the funny thing about the season, it takes
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: all these twists and turns, but then you end up
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: having like a three game season to determine whether you
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: get into the tournament. And at the end of the day,
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: the only thing that really matters in the NFL is
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: can you get into the tournament Because it resets you
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: then have an opportunity to kind of make it what
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: it is that you want to happen in terms of
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: being a super Bowl team in those things. And so
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: when you really look at it, Tampa is a solid team,
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: but it just as up and down as any team.
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: In the National Football League.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: They had a great performance last week against the Green
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: Bay package team, but that package team lost to the
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: Giants the week before. So I say all that to say,
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: who knows man on Sunday, The Jaguars just need to
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: be the best team in the stadium. We don't need
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: to make it bigger than what it is. They just
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: need to play well. If they play well, most teams will.
• 31:01
  Speaker 8: Have a tough time knocking them off. It's just been
• 31:04
  Speaker 8: a long time since we've seen the Jaguars play well.
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: But if you look and try.
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: And find some silver linings from how they perform defensively,
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: they played a pretty good game against the Baltimore Ravens
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: take away the stats special teams wise, they had big
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: players from Jamal Agnew did a really good job covering
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: and doing those things you got to fix.
• 31:25
  Speaker 8: Brandon McManus in his situation.
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: Missing those two field goals kind of changed some of
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: the momentum in the game, and then you just need
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: the offense to can be more consistent. Hadn't been able
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: to run the ball, but did a pretty decent job
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: of throwing it around.
• 31:39
  Speaker 8: Just got to put it all together. Hopefully we can
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: put it all together on Sunday.
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: Only Super Bowl champion I ever covered was two thousand
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: and six Colts. They lost three games in December to
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: three division teams on the road that didn't make the playoffs,
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: and they won the Super Bowl.
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: So I just got to get in.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you get in.
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: You play well in the last couple of games, and
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: better about yourself. I'm not saying I don't think this
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: seems super Bowl team, but point being, that was the
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: team that gave up three in City Foord three and
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: centy five yards rushing out out here in Indianapolis. Thought
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: their season was over. Me and the fans, they thought
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: it was a disaster. It was terrible, and he won
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: the Super Bowl. So you can pull out of these funks.
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: You just have to do it, and you have to
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: eliminate your mistakes.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Hey, Bucky, I don't know if you heard, but John
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: used to work for the Colts.
• 32:27
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I did, I did. I did hear that.
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: It's the only time that we made reference to that
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: this podcast, but normally we kind of try and get
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: that into at least once.
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: Sure a podcast.
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: Wouldn't go back. We're not shamed of it.
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: All.
• 32:40
  Speaker 7: My skeletons are out there.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: That's what it is, all right. So Jaguars Bucks Christmas Eve,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: four oh five, Eastern Time, big game, battle of first
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: place teams. Of course the Bucks type for first in
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: the NFC South. Bucky, you have a great week and
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: we'll talk to you this weekend.
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: Man, looking forward to looking forth to a big win
• 33:03
  Speaker 8: all Sunday, big.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Win, big win. I just win by one and I'm fine.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: It is John Ozier, Bucky Brooks, our entire crew, Joe Fortunado,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Brent Reever, I'm JP Shadwick. Thank you for watching it.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Tuddle up at Bucky Brooks.