December 22, 2023 • 26 mins
J.P. Shadrick walks through the biggest takeaways from the Jaguars' week of preparation following a tough loss to the Baltimore Ravens, and ahead of the intense matchup against the NFC South leading Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Christmas Eve.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is the Jaguars broadcast. We can review podcasts presented
by EverBank. I'm JP Shadrick with the best of the
week from Jags Radio, Jaguars dot Com, and Jaguars YouTube.
The Jaguars visit the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week sixteen,
kickoff Sunday at four oh five at Raymond James Stadium.
But first, a recap of the Sunday night football loss
to the Ravens in Week fifteen with Pete Priscoe and
(00:26):
Tony Vasselli on Jaguars Happy Hour Radio Monday. We're on
Tenjinexcel Amjaguars dot Com, Jaguars YouTube. JP Shadrick, Tony Bisselli
here in Jacksonville, Pete prisco down in South Florida and
missed opportunities zero for three in the red zone, two
lost bumbles, two miss field goals, pre snap penalties. And
that was just in the first half.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Pete, it was so bad.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I mean, my gosh, that's a game.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
At least you're in it.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
The field goal, Okay, he's supposed to be a good kicker.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
You make your damn field goals. We know that, you
guys know how I fel go about kickers. Make your
damn kicks. It's your only damn job in the game.
Go make your kicks. You stand out there all day
during practice, you lollygagger around, make your kicks.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
But the end of the half, I mean that's QB
coach one oh one, and they botched it. That was
so disappointing. You have to be able to look. I
know they say they go run a play, spike the
ball there, you get two shots into the end zone
and then then you kick your field goal. If you
don't spike the ball and you go make that play,
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you can't allow the guy to get tackled in bounds.
Look at that. That was thirty seconds or what was it,
twenty five seconds when he landed.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, four.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
It's ridiculous. It was just And Trevor cannot throw the routes.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I mean, if you go to the mirrored routes, there's
nowhere to go with the football. Throw it into the crowd.
It's just it's it was bad football at the end
of the half. I mean, inexcusable. Should never happen.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Good afternoon, Tony.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Yeah, I'm exhausted. I was thinking about coming about the
show today. Really, Yeah, because I'm not in a good mindset.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Because you normally don't think about it.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
You just.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
It's usually really good.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
It's a mistake, and now you've thought about this, which
is a mistake because that was a This is a
team that beats itself and it's not going to win
until it cleans that up. It's not good enough. The
fall starts, turnovers, the lack of football awareness, situational football mistackles.
(02:44):
I mean, just go. I mean it's you got to
be able to do the basics and not beat yourself
before you're going to be have a chance to be
a good team and win games. And the real frustrating
thing is in spite of all that, I mean, it's
it's it's ten to seven, yes, end of the third quarter. Yes,
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you know, Duants moot has a chance to sack Lamar Jackson,
to make it like third and forever or whatever it
was going to be. And instead it's a jump ball
that we have two guys and we don't get it.
They make I mean, give them credit, they made plays
we didn't. Then you get them the second way.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Get it up there. Collinsworth was going crazy for that play.
It was a great play to get away from Dwance moot.
Great play, but the throw should have been intercepted.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Yes, it should have been intercepted. And then you get
a penalty and you get him to first second and sixteen.
There's five Jaguars around one tight end. He sticks it
in there. Lamar played great, a good job. But it's just.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
You're talking about to touchdown likely right, Yeah, the one
in the middle.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Yeah, so it's just end to half Pete. I agree
with you. I would spike it. I don't think. I mean,
it's a He's still Trevor's still young quarterback. Obviously, we're
not in a situation where you can just say, just
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go do what they're trying to do. I mean, Doug's
thinking there is let's go fast, catch him off guard
and go I'm not like, he's not the only coach
who thinks that. I disagree with it, but that's fine.
That's a philosophical I would spat it.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I don't agree with it at all.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
I don't, but there's other people that. There's other people,
so I'm not gonna I mean, that's a and Doug
is won a Super Bowl I have not.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So, but you can still criticize him for it.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
No, I'm not I'm not going to criticize him doing it.
I disagree with that. What I criticize is if your
guy isn't ready to do it and doesn't understand and
the route combination makes no sense to me. Again, not enough.
It's a coordinator if anything rot routes.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
If you look at it, they were running.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
I get that.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
If anything, go like their man coverage. Go run a
pick if you want to, because you see all the
time in that formation, the outside guy runs up, makes
the corner bubble over the top, and you try to
hit that in the flat, and he turns the corner
into the end zone.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
If you hit that in the flat, there's always a
chance he's getting tackled in bounds.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Pete, My point is I wouldn't call it no matter what.
But if you're gonna do it, do that correct. And
but if they called the play, or whoever called the play,
maybe Trevor called, I don't know if that's the play.
It came in happen his.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Helmet as they came down the field. That must be
a signal for something.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
It must be like we're gonna.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Go yeah, because it's not like he's running down the
field motion and getting a play in his It must.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Be something prepped. You gotta throw it into the first
row the pools. It's not there, it's not open. You
cannot make that throw.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Jaguar's Happy Our Radio Monday, airs four to six pm
on ten jen xl an Jaguars dot Com. The big
story of this week, though, quarterback Trevor Lawrence in the
concussion protocol after self reporting symptoms following last week's game.
Lawrence was on the practice field Friday, and if all
comes back well Saturday and he's cleared by the independent doctor,
then he'll travel and play Sunday against the Bucks. In
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the meantime, this week, backup quarterback CJ. Bether took the
snaps with the first team Wednesday and Thursday, something he's
done a couple of weeks this season when Lawrence has
been battling other injuries.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
Yeah, no, it's I mean to me, it's the same.
I mean, I'm taking a lot more reps in practice
and stuff. But you know, prepared in the same way.
You gotta prepare as if you're going to be going
and then you know, hopefully you know, Trevor Clear's crushing
protocol by the end of this week for sure.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
How've be balanced figuring out just how to do that.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
Over the course of your career, I had a lot
of a lot of practice head I think, you know,
whether it's here or you know, where I used to be.
I think the mindset as being my seventh year in
the league, it's just a lot of experience. Even even
the games where you know the starter isn't banged up
or whatever, just preparing like you know you might have
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to go into the game and that's just kind of
what you have to do. So at this point, it's
really just just a mindset. And you know, I feel
like this year I've I've actually, you know, you got
to gotten to practice a lot more than years pass
as far as with the with the starters. You know,
when trev has missed a couple of practice here or there,
and it's so it's only you know, benefit of me
and helped me in the long run of just getting
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rest with certain guys and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 9 (07:33):
Significant.
Speaker 10 (07:34):
Is that just getting those reps in the week as
opposed to maybe coming off the bench cold like you
did against Cincinnati.
Speaker 8 (07:39):
Yeah, I mean it helps a lot. Uh, you know,
you can't really simulate throwing you know an out route
or go route to Calvin. You know, with the speed
he has in a way he runs routes, so uh
definitely helps getting getting routes with with the starting guys
in there.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Lawrence was unable to speak with the media this week
due to the protocol rules. Now to the ozone podcast,
John Oser visited with defensive tackle Devon Hamilton, who's played
only in three games this season, after suffering a mysterious
back injury in training camp. This week, Hamilton explained the
exact reason for the concern and much more.
Speaker 11 (08:14):
It was a spinal abscess. I got kind of formed
up into my back, and yeah, it was a major infection.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
And very much out of the blue. It was when
we were all in Detroit. Yeah, and just sort of
came up quick, and I assume kind of a scary thing.
Speaker 11 (08:28):
Yeah, I say, a lot of stuff was going on,
a lot of side effects was going on. So I
was kind of just in a weird place. This isn't
really a normal illness people get, or normal infection people get.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
So as a football player, you're used to fighting through stuff.
It's in your nature. But all of a sudden, this
is something that that's not an option, not at all.
Speaker 11 (08:47):
Yeah, it was very strange. Yeah, a lot of side effects.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Like I said, if you're comfortable, how serious was I
mean my understanding is it was very serious, and I
assume you feel sort of fortunate right now.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (08:59):
I felt very fortunate. It was very serious. There's a
lot of stuff that really could have happened. I could
be not playing football right now permanently. So I'm just blessed,
incredibly blessed man to be back where I am, and
I'm just so thankful for the guys is supporting me
through this.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Tell me what.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
Emotionally, obviously that's difficult. But when you sort of compounded
with it happening right when it did, which is right
at the start, you've geared up, you've just signed a contract,
you're a core guy. This happens right when you're gearing
up for that first season.
Speaker 11 (09:32):
It was very It was unfortunate. You know, I would
rather been playing from the very beginning of the season
than now, and you know, working out through some things,
but you know, I mean, this is guy's way for me,
and you know I can't ask for any other way.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
Yeah, in terms of coming back, I came back earlier
in the season. I assume different even coming back from
something like that than coming back from an injury. You've
probably come back from hurts before, but how much different
was it to come back from this just in terms
of gaining strength all that stuff that I'm not quite
sure how to get at.
Speaker 11 (10:05):
You know what I'm saying it was. It was very strange.
It was kind of difficult and longest process just because
there's no real set like recovery time the.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Right the trainers can't go, hey, we've seen this before,
so here's what's going to happen.
Speaker 11 (10:17):
It's very rare, not to me, people have had it,
so it's really I mean not to me regular you
know people have it, let alone with athletes. So it
was just really, really really strange as far as a
recovery standpoint.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
I guess first AVOUE question is how do you feel now?
Do you feel like pre infection? Devon Hamilton?
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (10:37):
I feel great, you know, I feel like I'm back
to my normal self. I felt like I'm playing better
now and you know this guy's limit right now.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Yeah, how much of a process is it when you've
missed because it was late August and then just not
been on the field playing, getting used to being a
player and being in football shapes I speak.
Speaker 11 (10:56):
That takes some time, right, Yeah, it was definitely more
of as especially from the beginning. You know, we have
camp where you get to learn and work on those
fundamentals a lot, and then to come back mid to
EL eight season and you know, practices are cut down, right,
which you're supposed to learn is cut down. You know,
people have been doing the same plays over and over
throughout the week, so you're kind of just getting back
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in the loop of things, getting back in the flow
of things. So that was probably the more challenging part
of getting back to where I am today.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
The ozone podcast now on the Official Jaguars Podcast Network.
We move along now to the Huddle Up podcast from Wednesday.
Bucky Brookes, John Oser and I went through the Jags
running game and how it needs to improve this week
against the Buccaneers defense. I asked Travis etn Junior in
the locker room a little bit ago, you know what
stands out the most against the about the Buccaneers defense.
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The first thing he said, Bucky was Vita Vea. That
guy is huge, so that's number one. And then front
seven they've got some veteran guys, and this is a
group that's been at it for a long time really overall.
Speaker 12 (12:03):
Yeah, I mean, look, it's a real veteran laden group.
They have talent at the point of attack along their
front line, which is the front seven linebackers in D line,
and when you can't move them off the ball, it's
hard to find increases in the run game. Videvea is
a freak show at three hundred and fifty pounds if
you can imagine that. The look the run stopping Menace
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was a running back in high school, like they actually
gave him the ball as a heavyweight, high to ninety runner.
He has light feed, he's athletic, He's gonna be a problem.
And then when you think about the linebacker corps, Levonte
David veteran with experience, Anoine Winfield coming from safety, being
able to kind of dial it up and really diagnose
plays really well. It's just a really rock solid front.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
That you have to contend with.
Speaker 7 (12:51):
It is, and yet they haven't been great this year
as a defense. So I know White has not quite
had the year that he has before, but Antoine Winfield
is playing an extremely high level obviously, so.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
It's gettable.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
What I don't know really, and I guess is a
question for Bucky, who's wears many hats. Is there anything
that can be done to jumpstart the running game or
I kind of think I kind of hate even asking
the question anymore because I've kind of taken the approach
until we see it. There's really not. They have declined
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running the ball for a month, any hope there, because
that's that'd be your logical with CJ out, I mean,
with Trevor out and CJ in. You'd like to be
able to run consistently, Bucky, Yeah, you would.
Speaker 12 (13:42):
Like to be able to run consistently, not only for CJ. Betha,
but for Trevor Lawrence and whoever's that quarterback. Because when
you run the football, what it does is it creates
some one on one opportunities that allows it for you
to pass more efficiently, meaning that no longer can they
place split safety coverage with two safeties either on the
hashes playing cover too deep or quarters where you have
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like four cross spinning the field and twenty five percent
like respectively. You now have to do some eight man
fronts one on one coverage. It allows your guys Calvin
Ridley and others to work in advantageous situations. So they
need to run the football to make the Buccaneers respect
to run, so they can dictate the terms on these
early downs, so they maybe can set up a shot
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or two to Calvin Ridley or Evan Ingram going down
the field.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
I mean, Bucky, you know to run on first down?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Ideally you want to get about four yards right at
least that makes it second and six. But just explain
to maybe the casual fan the difference between second and
six and like second and nine. How big of a
difference is that for a play call.
Speaker 12 (14:53):
Well, it's a huge difference because as a play caller,
everyone wants to get to what they call mixed downs,
So mixed downs on set and that would be anywhere
from second and three to second and six. It's a
mix down because now the defense has to respect the
run and the past because you just don't know how
the offensive coordinator will mix it up. When you get
to these longer yardist situations where you can predict that
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it's more than likely a pass coming, well, now you
can start doing the junk stuff, the exotic blitzes, the stunts,
the movement, the bluff in the skies because you know, hey,
let's take the run off the table. They're going to pass.
How can we best disrupt the passing game. That's why
it's really important when you hear offensive coordinators and coaches
talking about staying on schedule. On schedule means that at
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each down in situation, we now have an opportunity to
have a mix down. Because we're on schedule, we can
run it or throw it based on what we wish
as opposed to what the defense is dictating to us.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
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you'd like to see there by going to Jaguars dot
com slash Pro Bowl. Jaggs Bucks coming up Sunday in
Tampa in Week sixteen. Jaguars defensive coordinator Mike Caldwell was
the Buccaneers inside linebackers coach from twenty nineteen to twenty
twenty one and worked under Bucks head coach Todd Bowles.
Coldwell reflected this week on the impact Bowls has made
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on his career.
Speaker 13 (17:17):
He's been special for me in my career. He's a
great friend, and when we first got together, it was
funny because we looked at defense the same way as
far as secondary wise, and then being with him so
long kind of just looking at how he sees the
game and that influenced how I kind of see the game.
And then the other guys that I've coached under or
coached for, he was one of the ones that really
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I guess they took me under his wing just being
with him for so long, understanding how to look at
a defense, how to take away something from offense, and
you know, just being multiple, I've kind of put my
own imprint on the defense.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Also this week, the Jaguars likely will be without Christian
Kirk and Jay Jones at wide receiver. Offensive court made
a press Taylor this week on who should be able
to step in.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
It's a rotation of everybody. I mean really going into
the tight end room, the running back room of you know,
each personnel grouping on each play is specific to you know,
who we think does each thing well. Uh, you'll lean
on a little bit more of you know, ag Tim
Elijah Parker, that kind of rotation of young guys stepping
into their role. Ideally getting Briton back healthy would help
us out. Luke has continued to come on in all
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aspects of the game. So, uh, you know, it's kind
of by committee of everybody stepping in and filling those roles.
That that's kind of what you expect week to week
in the NFL.
Speaker 14 (18:33):
Anyways, I know you said it's by committee, but Calvin
just is Are you guys going to need him to
be that best version of him the guy that you
guys see on tape?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Absolutely, I mean Calvin and Evan obviously the mainstays that
have continued to stay healthy and be available to us,
and we'll do everything we can to utilize our best
players all the time.
Speaker 10 (18:57):
Different combinations and different faces on the offensive line, you
think has played a big part of their run game.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
How big that is a factor to you?
Speaker 11 (19:04):
Just to continue to along that line.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
Yeah, I think that's a big part. I think having
comfort of who you're playing next to, how they communicate,
how you guys play together, is a factor. But at
the same time, we expect whoever is in there and
whatever combination of guys to produce, play well, communicate, effectively
do their job at a high level. We got to
continue to put them in the best possible position to
do that.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
Even Trevor like a lot of the same things, and
he didn't think that would mean having to overhaul a
lot of stuff to you as a play caller and
just putting together gameplay.
Speaker 11 (19:33):
How holpeful is that to you?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Just if they you know, kind of operate the.
Speaker 9 (19:36):
Same time a way, that's a big deal. I mean,
obviously we spend a lot of time in that room
talking through the entire plan. So we've been doing this
now for two years of building plans, talking through concepts
all the time from training camp all that, so good
feel for what they each like individually, but then both
like collectively. And I think a lot of it's too
conversation about using the pieces around you of this guy
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does this really well. I'm confident in this, how he runs,
how he sees this. So it's putting guys in that position.
And then regardless of the quarterback, they both kind of
they think very similar in that aspect, and I think
that's part of what he was getting at.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
All the press conference in locker room. Sound from the
week available at Jaguars dot com on jags Am. Thursday,
Kai Stevens, Brian Sexton, and John Noser picked standouts for
the week for the Jaguars in Tampa.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
We're back here on jags Am getting in our final
previews of the matchup against the Buccaneers. A very important game,
so we're kind of looking at who we think will
make a big difference in that one because they need
a win in the worst way.
Speaker 15 (20:31):
I'm going With Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 16 (20:33):
You know, I was out in the practice field yesterday's
the end of practice, getting ready to do with some
radio interviews, and it was his birthday and the way
that the whole team reacted to him and saying him
happy birthday, and the guys in the locker room we're
saying happy birthday.
Speaker 15 (20:45):
There was an energy about him anyway. But I think
and watching him walk off the field with CJ. Bethard,
I think he's really dialed in. I think he's grabbed
a hold of this rule of having to be the
guy and especially to help the backup quarterback. So I
think he'll have a big day. I don't know that
it will necessarily translate into one hundred plus yards or
three touchdowns, but I think he'll make catches that make
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the difference. And I think he might be, you know,
in the mode of one of those show me games, right.
I mean, everybody that you talk about, they're like Calvin Ridley.
We thought he do more based on training camp, So
good where is he? I think he's got big games
in him down the stretch. Here challenged to prove it,
and I think he might.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Yeah, I still think he's very underappreciated by fans. I
get that there's been some miscues and the production hadn't
been there. I can also point to three or four
games and I'm not sure they win if he's not
on the field, and I think this might be one.
You're right, and we're both thinking sort of the same way.
Brian looking for something offensively that they can count on,
So I went with tight end Evan Ingram. He will
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be critical to the game plan because there's really no choice.
You have to use both him and Calvin and have
him integral, not that he already hasn't been, but without
Zay Jones and Christian Kirk, the passing game has to run.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Through those two.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
He won't have big yards down field. That really hasn't
been his.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Role this year.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
To me, guys, it feels like they have almost substituted
some of their lack of running game with short passes.
Devin Ingram, There's been many cases where I felt like
second and nine, it's been a hero Evan, get us
seven and get us back around the sticks. And he's
been incredibly value, incredibly valuable to that he might be
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the guy in the red zone this week when they
really need points that they have to depend on. He
started that he has three red zone touchdowns in the
last three games, so he started moving in that direction.
They need somebody to step up. So it's either my guy,
Evan or Brian's guy Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 15 (22:54):
And you know that the Bucks defense is gonna be
looking at both of those guys, So indeed, it may
be another player. I mean, it could be Parker Washington,
it could be Elijah Cooks, whoever they put on the field.
Those two guys are going to have to make some plays,
but someone else is going to step up to do
you have that person?
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Is that yours?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
I'm going defense because I think they are going to
need a big effort from the defense and can help
from the defensive side of the football if they want
to win this game. And I'm going with Josh Allen
because he's a game wrecord in every game, so I
think he's going to actually get the sack record this week.
That's something that's been kind of over his head the
last couple of weeks, and I know he says he
doesn't focus on it, but then it won't be over
his head for the rest of the season going forward.
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Once he gets to that point, I think he might
be able to will this team to a win with
his presence. When he's on, he can just really wreck
a quarterback's day. And as you mentioned, Baker Mayfield sacked
five times in their last matchup, so Josh can certainly
get to the quarterback. I'm hoping that either a strip sack,
some sort of turnover force turnover will help get some
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short field and make things a little bit easier on
this offense.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Jags a Am Monday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings on Jaguars
dot Com and Jaguars YouTube. Now the cap off the
week the Doug Peterson Show, where the head coach explained
the idea of playoff football in December and how a
team responds. Hey, it's playoff time now, right. Both of
these teams, the Jaguars and the Buccaneers, tied for first
in the respective divisions, and it's playoff football on Christmas.
Speaker 10 (24:16):
Week it is, it's playoff playoff atmosphere, playoff football.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
You know, backs against the wall. You got to come
out and play your best.
Speaker 10 (24:23):
Football, and you know it's one of the things that
we haven't done in the last say three weeks. But
you know, we've we've got some things to correct. Guys
have been guys have been focused and still doing the
right things and looking forward to going over to Tampa
and playing the game.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
With the With the sky falling, how do you maintain
that positivity?
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Yeah, that's what it is, right the sky is falling.
Speaker 10 (24:44):
I mean, the positivity is the fact that we're still
in first place, we're still fourth in the AFC and
and everything is still right in front of us. You know,
our goal when we started the season was to win
the AFC South and and that goal has never changed
and it hasn't changed, and so you.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Know that's the positive tivity right there.
Speaker 10 (25:01):
And then at the same time, just continue to coach
our players hard, continue to push them, and you know,
we we are getting some guys healthy this time of year,
which is good. Uh, so you know we need to
be making our our move at this time.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Coach, how do you keep a team a building from
being tight in this type of moment when there is
pressure and and everything going on to perform and play
at a high level on all levels of the organization.
How do you keep a team from tightening up this.
Speaker 10 (25:30):
Way, I think, and I truly believe it starts with me.
If they if I'm tight, then they're gonna be tight.
If I'm loose, they're gonna be loose.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
And you know, I.
Speaker 10 (25:39):
Believe that they'll they'll feed off of that and to
kind of feed off of that energy. But at the
same time, they got to understand that that, you know,
there's accountability in this business, and we got to make
sure that we hold each other accountable, myself included. And
and uh, but at the same time, let's go out
have fun at practice. When it's time to work, it's
time to work. Uh, let's go enjoy these moments. These
are you don't get many of these, and again and
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we're in the conversation at the end of the year,
right for postseason and all that, and that's what you want.
And so that gives you a little juice and motivation
here this last month.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
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Speaker 6 (26:25):
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Speaker 1 (26:27):
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The Jaguars visit the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week sixteen,
kickoff Sunday at four oh five at Raymond James Stadium.
But first, a recap of the Sunday night football loss
to the Ravens in Week fifteen with Pete Priscoe and
(00:26):
Tony Vasselli on Jaguars Happy Hour Radio Monday. We're on
Tenjinexcel Amjaguars dot Com, Jaguars YouTube. JP Shadrick, Tony Bisselli
here in Jacksonville, Pete prisco down in South Florida and
missed opportunities zero for three in the red zone, two
lost bumbles, two miss field goals, pre snap penalties. And
that was just in the first half.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Pete, it was so bad.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I mean, my gosh, that's a game.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
At least you're in it.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
The field goal, Okay, he's supposed to be a good kicker.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
You make your damn field goals. We know that, you
guys know how I fel go about kickers. Make your
damn kicks. It's your only damn job in the game.
Go make your kicks. You stand out there all day
during practice, you lollygagger around, make your kicks.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
But the end of the half, I mean that's QB
coach one oh one, and they botched it. That was
so disappointing. You have to be able to look. I
know they say they go run a play, spike the
ball there, you get two shots into the end zone
and then then you kick your field goal. If you
don't spike the ball and you go make that play,
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you can't allow the guy to get tackled in bounds.
Look at that. That was thirty seconds or what was it,
twenty five seconds when he landed.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, four.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
It's ridiculous. It was just And Trevor cannot throw the routes.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I mean, if you go to the mirrored routes, there's
nowhere to go with the football. Throw it into the crowd.
It's just it's it was bad football at the end
of the half. I mean, inexcusable. Should never happen.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Good afternoon, Tony.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Yeah, I'm exhausted. I was thinking about coming about the
show today. Really, Yeah, because I'm not in a good mindset.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Because you normally don't think about it.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
You just.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
It's usually really good.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
It's a mistake, and now you've thought about this, which
is a mistake because that was a This is a
team that beats itself and it's not going to win
until it cleans that up. It's not good enough. The
fall starts, turnovers, the lack of football awareness, situational football mistackles.
(02:44):
I mean, just go. I mean it's you got to
be able to do the basics and not beat yourself
before you're going to be have a chance to be
a good team and win games. And the real frustrating
thing is in spite of all that, I mean, it's
it's it's ten to seven, yes, end of the third quarter. Yes,
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you know, Duants moot has a chance to sack Lamar Jackson,
to make it like third and forever or whatever it
was going to be. And instead it's a jump ball
that we have two guys and we don't get it.
They make I mean, give them credit, they made plays
we didn't. Then you get them the second way.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Get it up there. Collinsworth was going crazy for that play.
It was a great play to get away from Dwance moot.
Great play, but the throw should have been intercepted.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Yes, it should have been intercepted. And then you get
a penalty and you get him to first second and sixteen.
There's five Jaguars around one tight end. He sticks it
in there. Lamar played great, a good job. But it's just.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
You're talking about to touchdown likely right, Yeah, the one
in the middle.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Yeah, so it's just end to half Pete. I agree
with you. I would spike it. I don't think. I mean,
it's a He's still Trevor's still young quarterback. Obviously, we're
not in a situation where you can just say, just
(04:21):
go do what they're trying to do. I mean, Doug's
thinking there is let's go fast, catch him off guard
and go I'm not like, he's not the only coach
who thinks that. I disagree with it, but that's fine.
That's a philosophical I would spat it.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I don't agree with it at all.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
I don't, but there's other people that. There's other people,
so I'm not gonna I mean, that's a and Doug
is won a Super Bowl I have not.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So, but you can still criticize him for it.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
No, I'm not I'm not going to criticize him doing it.
I disagree with that. What I criticize is if your
guy isn't ready to do it and doesn't understand and
the route combination makes no sense to me. Again, not enough.
It's a coordinator if anything rot routes.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
If you look at it, they were running.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
I get that.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
If anything, go like their man coverage. Go run a
pick if you want to, because you see all the
time in that formation, the outside guy runs up, makes
the corner bubble over the top, and you try to
hit that in the flat, and he turns the corner
into the end zone.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
If you hit that in the flat, there's always a
chance he's getting tackled in bounds.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Pete, My point is I wouldn't call it no matter what.
But if you're gonna do it, do that correct. And
but if they called the play, or whoever called the play,
maybe Trevor called, I don't know if that's the play.
It came in happen his.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Helmet as they came down the field. That must be
a signal for something.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
It must be like we're gonna.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Go yeah, because it's not like he's running down the
field motion and getting a play in his It must.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Be something prepped. You gotta throw it into the first
row the pools. It's not there, it's not open. You
cannot make that throw.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Jaguar's Happy Our Radio Monday, airs four to six pm
on ten jen xl an Jaguars dot Com. The big
story of this week, though, quarterback Trevor Lawrence in the
concussion protocol after self reporting symptoms following last week's game.
Lawrence was on the practice field Friday, and if all
comes back well Saturday and he's cleared by the independent doctor,
then he'll travel and play Sunday against the Bucks. In
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the meantime, this week, backup quarterback CJ. Bether took the
snaps with the first team Wednesday and Thursday, something he's
done a couple of weeks this season when Lawrence has
been battling other injuries.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
Yeah, no, it's I mean to me, it's the same.
I mean, I'm taking a lot more reps in practice
and stuff. But you know, prepared in the same way.
You gotta prepare as if you're going to be going
and then you know, hopefully you know, Trevor Clear's crushing
protocol by the end of this week for sure.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
How've be balanced figuring out just how to do that.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
Over the course of your career, I had a lot
of a lot of practice head I think, you know,
whether it's here or you know, where I used to be.
I think the mindset as being my seventh year in
the league, it's just a lot of experience. Even even
the games where you know the starter isn't banged up
or whatever, just preparing like you know you might have
(07:09):
to go into the game and that's just kind of
what you have to do. So at this point, it's
really just just a mindset. And you know, I feel
like this year I've I've actually, you know, you got
to gotten to practice a lot more than years pass
as far as with the with the starters. You know,
when trev has missed a couple of practice here or there,
and it's so it's only you know, benefit of me
and helped me in the long run of just getting
(07:31):
rest with certain guys and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 9 (07:33):
Significant.
Speaker 10 (07:34):
Is that just getting those reps in the week as
opposed to maybe coming off the bench cold like you
did against Cincinnati.
Speaker 8 (07:39):
Yeah, I mean it helps a lot. Uh, you know,
you can't really simulate throwing you know an out route
or go route to Calvin. You know, with the speed
he has in a way he runs routes, so uh
definitely helps getting getting routes with with the starting guys
in there.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Lawrence was unable to speak with the media this week
due to the protocol rules. Now to the ozone podcast,
John Oser visited with defensive tackle Devon Hamilton, who's played
only in three games this season, after suffering a mysterious
back injury in training camp. This week, Hamilton explained the
exact reason for the concern and much more.
Speaker 11 (08:14):
It was a spinal abscess. I got kind of formed
up into my back, and yeah, it was a major infection.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
And very much out of the blue. It was when
we were all in Detroit. Yeah, and just sort of
came up quick, and I assume kind of a scary thing.
Speaker 11 (08:28):
Yeah, I say, a lot of stuff was going on,
a lot of side effects was going on. So I
was kind of just in a weird place. This isn't
really a normal illness people get, or normal infection people get.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
So as a football player, you're used to fighting through stuff.
It's in your nature. But all of a sudden, this
is something that that's not an option, not at all.
Speaker 11 (08:47):
Yeah, it was very strange. Yeah, a lot of side effects.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Like I said, if you're comfortable, how serious was I
mean my understanding is it was very serious, and I
assume you feel sort of fortunate right now.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (08:59):
I felt very fortunate. It was very serious. There's a
lot of stuff that really could have happened. I could
be not playing football right now permanently. So I'm just blessed,
incredibly blessed man to be back where I am, and
I'm just so thankful for the guys is supporting me
through this.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Tell me what.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
Emotionally, obviously that's difficult. But when you sort of compounded
with it happening right when it did, which is right
at the start, you've geared up, you've just signed a contract,
you're a core guy. This happens right when you're gearing
up for that first season.
Speaker 11 (09:32):
It was very It was unfortunate. You know, I would
rather been playing from the very beginning of the season
than now, and you know, working out through some things,
but you know, I mean, this is guy's way for me,
and you know I can't ask for any other way.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
Yeah, in terms of coming back, I came back earlier
in the season. I assume different even coming back from
something like that than coming back from an injury. You've
probably come back from hurts before, but how much different
was it to come back from this just in terms
of gaining strength all that stuff that I'm not quite
sure how to get at.
Speaker 11 (10:05):
You know what I'm saying it was. It was very strange.
It was kind of difficult and longest process just because
there's no real set like recovery time the.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Right the trainers can't go, hey, we've seen this before,
so here's what's going to happen.
Speaker 11 (10:17):
It's very rare, not to me, people have had it,
so it's really I mean not to me regular you
know people have it, let alone with athletes. So it
was just really, really really strange as far as a
recovery standpoint.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
I guess first AVOUE question is how do you feel now?
Do you feel like pre infection? Devon Hamilton?
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (10:37):
I feel great, you know, I feel like I'm back
to my normal self. I felt like I'm playing better
now and you know this guy's limit right now.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Yeah, how much of a process is it when you've
missed because it was late August and then just not
been on the field playing, getting used to being a
player and being in football shapes I speak.
Speaker 11 (10:56):
That takes some time, right, Yeah, it was definitely more
of as especially from the beginning. You know, we have
camp where you get to learn and work on those
fundamentals a lot, and then to come back mid to
EL eight season and you know, practices are cut down, right,
which you're supposed to learn is cut down. You know,
people have been doing the same plays over and over
throughout the week, so you're kind of just getting back
(11:17):
in the loop of things, getting back in the flow
of things. So that was probably the more challenging part
of getting back to where I am today.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
The ozone podcast now on the Official Jaguars Podcast Network.
We move along now to the Huddle Up podcast from Wednesday.
Bucky Brookes, John Oser and I went through the Jags
running game and how it needs to improve this week
against the Buccaneers defense. I asked Travis etn Junior in
the locker room a little bit ago, you know what
stands out the most against the about the Buccaneers defense.
(11:46):
The first thing he said, Bucky was Vita Vea. That
guy is huge, so that's number one. And then front
seven they've got some veteran guys, and this is a
group that's been at it for a long time really overall.
Speaker 12 (12:03):
Yeah, I mean, look, it's a real veteran laden group.
They have talent at the point of attack along their
front line, which is the front seven linebackers in D line,
and when you can't move them off the ball, it's
hard to find increases in the run game. Videvea is
a freak show at three hundred and fifty pounds if
you can imagine that. The look the run stopping Menace
(12:26):
was a running back in high school, like they actually
gave him the ball as a heavyweight, high to ninety runner.
He has light feed, he's athletic, He's gonna be a problem.
And then when you think about the linebacker corps, Levonte
David veteran with experience, Anoine Winfield coming from safety, being
able to kind of dial it up and really diagnose
plays really well. It's just a really rock solid front.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
That you have to contend with.
Speaker 7 (12:51):
It is, and yet they haven't been great this year
as a defense. So I know White has not quite
had the year that he has before, but Antoine Winfield
is playing an extremely high level obviously, so.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
It's gettable.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
What I don't know really, and I guess is a
question for Bucky, who's wears many hats. Is there anything
that can be done to jumpstart the running game or
I kind of think I kind of hate even asking
the question anymore because I've kind of taken the approach
until we see it. There's really not. They have declined
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running the ball for a month, any hope there, because
that's that'd be your logical with CJ out, I mean,
with Trevor out and CJ in. You'd like to be
able to run consistently, Bucky, Yeah, you would.
Speaker 12 (13:42):
Like to be able to run consistently, not only for CJ. Betha,
but for Trevor Lawrence and whoever's that quarterback. Because when
you run the football, what it does is it creates
some one on one opportunities that allows it for you
to pass more efficiently, meaning that no longer can they
place split safety coverage with two safeties either on the
hashes playing cover too deep or quarters where you have
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like four cross spinning the field and twenty five percent
like respectively. You now have to do some eight man
fronts one on one coverage. It allows your guys Calvin
Ridley and others to work in advantageous situations. So they
need to run the football to make the Buccaneers respect
to run, so they can dictate the terms on these
early downs, so they maybe can set up a shot
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or two to Calvin Ridley or Evan Ingram going down
the field.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
I mean, Bucky, you know to run on first down?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Ideally you want to get about four yards right at
least that makes it second and six. But just explain
to maybe the casual fan the difference between second and
six and like second and nine. How big of a
difference is that for a play call.
Speaker 12 (14:53):
Well, it's a huge difference because as a play caller,
everyone wants to get to what they call mixed downs,
So mixed downs on set and that would be anywhere
from second and three to second and six. It's a
mix down because now the defense has to respect the
run and the past because you just don't know how
the offensive coordinator will mix it up. When you get
to these longer yardist situations where you can predict that
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it's more than likely a pass coming, well, now you
can start doing the junk stuff, the exotic blitzes, the stunts,
the movement, the bluff in the skies because you know, hey,
let's take the run off the table. They're going to pass.
How can we best disrupt the passing game. That's why
it's really important when you hear offensive coordinators and coaches
talking about staying on schedule. On schedule means that at
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each down in situation, we now have an opportunity to
have a mix down. Because we're on schedule, we can
run it or throw it based on what we wish
as opposed to what the defense is dictating to us.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
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Tampa in Week sixteen. Jaguars defensive coordinator Mike Caldwell was
the Buccaneers inside linebackers coach from twenty nineteen to twenty
twenty one and worked under Bucks head coach Todd Bowles.
Coldwell reflected this week on the impact Bowls has made
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on his career.
Speaker 13 (17:17):
He's been special for me in my career. He's a
great friend, and when we first got together, it was
funny because we looked at defense the same way as
far as secondary wise, and then being with him so
long kind of just looking at how he sees the
game and that influenced how I kind of see the game.
And then the other guys that I've coached under or
coached for, he was one of the ones that really
(17:39):
I guess they took me under his wing just being
with him for so long, understanding how to look at
a defense, how to take away something from offense, and
you know, just being multiple, I've kind of put my
own imprint on the defense.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Also this week, the Jaguars likely will be without Christian
Kirk and Jay Jones at wide receiver. Offensive court made
a press Taylor this week on who should be able
to step in.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
It's a rotation of everybody. I mean really going into
the tight end room, the running back room of you know,
each personnel grouping on each play is specific to you know,
who we think does each thing well. Uh, you'll lean
on a little bit more of you know, ag Tim
Elijah Parker, that kind of rotation of young guys stepping
into their role. Ideally getting Briton back healthy would help
us out. Luke has continued to come on in all
(18:26):
aspects of the game. So, uh, you know, it's kind
of by committee of everybody stepping in and filling those roles.
That that's kind of what you expect week to week
in the NFL.
Speaker 14 (18:33):
Anyways, I know you said it's by committee, but Calvin
just is Are you guys going to need him to
be that best version of him the guy that you
guys see on tape?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Absolutely, I mean Calvin and Evan obviously the mainstays that
have continued to stay healthy and be available to us,
and we'll do everything we can to utilize our best
players all the time.
Speaker 10 (18:57):
Different combinations and different faces on the offensive line, you
think has played a big part of their run game.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
How big that is a factor to you?
Speaker 11 (19:04):
Just to continue to along that line.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
Yeah, I think that's a big part. I think having
comfort of who you're playing next to, how they communicate,
how you guys play together, is a factor. But at
the same time, we expect whoever is in there and
whatever combination of guys to produce, play well, communicate, effectively
do their job at a high level. We got to
continue to put them in the best possible position to
do that.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
Even Trevor like a lot of the same things, and
he didn't think that would mean having to overhaul a
lot of stuff to you as a play caller and
just putting together gameplay.
Speaker 11 (19:33):
How holpeful is that to you?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Just if they you know, kind of operate the.
Speaker 9 (19:36):
Same time a way, that's a big deal. I mean,
obviously we spend a lot of time in that room
talking through the entire plan. So we've been doing this
now for two years of building plans, talking through concepts
all the time from training camp all that, so good
feel for what they each like individually, but then both
like collectively. And I think a lot of it's too
conversation about using the pieces around you of this guy
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does this really well. I'm confident in this, how he runs,
how he sees this. So it's putting guys in that position.
And then regardless of the quarterback, they both kind of
they think very similar in that aspect, and I think
that's part of what he was getting at.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
All the press conference in locker room. Sound from the
week available at Jaguars dot com on jags Am. Thursday,
Kai Stevens, Brian Sexton, and John Noser picked standouts for
the week for the Jaguars in Tampa.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
We're back here on jags Am getting in our final
previews of the matchup against the Buccaneers. A very important game,
so we're kind of looking at who we think will
make a big difference in that one because they need
a win in the worst way.
Speaker 15 (20:31):
I'm going With Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 16 (20:33):
You know, I was out in the practice field yesterday's
the end of practice, getting ready to do with some
radio interviews, and it was his birthday and the way
that the whole team reacted to him and saying him
happy birthday, and the guys in the locker room we're
saying happy birthday.
Speaker 15 (20:45):
There was an energy about him anyway. But I think
and watching him walk off the field with CJ. Bethard,
I think he's really dialed in. I think he's grabbed
a hold of this rule of having to be the
guy and especially to help the backup quarterback. So I
think he'll have a big day. I don't know that
it will necessarily translate into one hundred plus yards or
three touchdowns, but I think he'll make catches that make
(21:08):
the difference. And I think he might be, you know,
in the mode of one of those show me games, right.
I mean, everybody that you talk about, they're like Calvin Ridley.
We thought he do more based on training camp, So
good where is he? I think he's got big games
in him down the stretch. Here challenged to prove it,
and I think he might.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Yeah, I still think he's very underappreciated by fans. I
get that there's been some miscues and the production hadn't
been there. I can also point to three or four
games and I'm not sure they win if he's not
on the field, and I think this might be one.
You're right, and we're both thinking sort of the same way.
Brian looking for something offensively that they can count on,
So I went with tight end Evan Ingram. He will
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be critical to the game plan because there's really no choice.
You have to use both him and Calvin and have
him integral, not that he already hasn't been, but without
Zay Jones and Christian Kirk, the passing game has to run.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Through those two.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
He won't have big yards down field. That really hasn't
been his.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Role this year.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
To me, guys, it feels like they have almost substituted
some of their lack of running game with short passes.
Devin Ingram, There's been many cases where I felt like
second and nine, it's been a hero Evan, get us
seven and get us back around the sticks. And he's
been incredibly value, incredibly valuable to that he might be
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the guy in the red zone this week when they
really need points that they have to depend on. He
started that he has three red zone touchdowns in the
last three games, so he started moving in that direction.
They need somebody to step up. So it's either my guy,
Evan or Brian's guy Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 15 (22:54):
And you know that the Bucks defense is gonna be
looking at both of those guys, So indeed, it may
be another player. I mean, it could be Parker Washington,
it could be Elijah Cooks, whoever they put on the field.
Those two guys are going to have to make some plays,
but someone else is going to step up to do
you have that person?
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Is that yours?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
I'm going defense because I think they are going to
need a big effort from the defense and can help
from the defensive side of the football if they want
to win this game. And I'm going with Josh Allen
because he's a game wrecord in every game, so I
think he's going to actually get the sack record this week.
That's something that's been kind of over his head the
last couple of weeks, and I know he says he
doesn't focus on it, but then it won't be over
his head for the rest of the season going forward.
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Once he gets to that point, I think he might
be able to will this team to a win with
his presence. When he's on, he can just really wreck
a quarterback's day. And as you mentioned, Baker Mayfield sacked
five times in their last matchup, so Josh can certainly
get to the quarterback. I'm hoping that either a strip sack,
some sort of turnover force turnover will help get some
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short field and make things a little bit easier on
this offense.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Jags a Am Monday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings on Jaguars
dot Com and Jaguars YouTube. Now the cap off the
week the Doug Peterson Show, where the head coach explained
the idea of playoff football in December and how a
team responds. Hey, it's playoff time now, right. Both of
these teams, the Jaguars and the Buccaneers, tied for first
in the respective divisions, and it's playoff football on Christmas.
Speaker 10 (24:16):
Week it is, it's playoff playoff atmosphere, playoff football.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
You know, backs against the wall. You got to come
out and play your best.
Speaker 10 (24:23):
Football, and you know it's one of the things that
we haven't done in the last say three weeks. But
you know, we've we've got some things to correct. Guys
have been guys have been focused and still doing the
right things and looking forward to going over to Tampa
and playing the game.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
With the With the sky falling, how do you maintain
that positivity?
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Yeah, that's what it is, right the sky is falling.
Speaker 10 (24:44):
I mean, the positivity is the fact that we're still
in first place, we're still fourth in the AFC and
and everything is still right in front of us. You know,
our goal when we started the season was to win
the AFC South and and that goal has never changed
and it hasn't changed, and so you.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Know that's the positive tivity right there.
Speaker 10 (25:01):
And then at the same time, just continue to coach
our players hard, continue to push them, and you know,
we we are getting some guys healthy this time of year,
which is good. Uh, so you know we need to
be making our our move at this time.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Coach, how do you keep a team a building from
being tight in this type of moment when there is
pressure and and everything going on to perform and play
at a high level on all levels of the organization.
How do you keep a team from tightening up this.
Speaker 10 (25:30):
Way, I think, and I truly believe it starts with me.
If they if I'm tight, then they're gonna be tight.
If I'm loose, they're gonna be loose.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
And you know, I.
Speaker 10 (25:39):
Believe that they'll they'll feed off of that and to
kind of feed off of that energy. But at the
same time, they got to understand that that, you know,
there's accountability in this business, and we got to make
sure that we hold each other accountable, myself included. And
and uh, but at the same time, let's go out
have fun at practice. When it's time to work, it's
time to work. Uh, let's go enjoy these moments. These
are you don't get many of these, and again and
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we're in the conversation at the end of the year,
right for postseason and all that, and that's what you want.
And so that gives you a little juice and motivation
here this last month.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
The Doug Peterson Show each Thursday at five on the
Jaguars Radio Network and check out the Official Jaguars Podcast Network.
You can subscribe on iHeartRadio, iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you
download your pods. And of course we love the feedback,
so leave us a comment and a five star rating.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
We have arrived at week sixteen.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
The Jaguars visit the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sunday, December twenty fourth.
We're on the air on our flagship station in Jacksonville
ten ten XCEL Sunday at one o'clock with the public's
Tailgates Show. Then at three pm it's Countdown to Kickoff
on the Jaguars Radio Network. The official kickoff time set
for four oh five pm at Raymond James Stadium, Tampa.
Thanks for listening and Merry Christmas. I'm JP Shadrick. We'll
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