September 25, 2025 • 41 mins
J.P. Shadrick and John Oehser bring on Bucky Brooks take a final look at the Jaguars' Week 3 divisional win over the Texans, the dominant defense and areas to improve in the passing attack. Finally, an analysis of how the Jaguars matchup against the 49ers. This and more on Huddle Up, presented by Fields Auto Group.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Huddle Up, brought you by the Fields Total Group,
Jaguars Senior writer John Osher, NFL Network analyst and former
Jaguar Bucky Brooks, and Senior reporter J. P. Shatterick bringing
you the latest on your Jacksonville Jaguars. Huddle Up starts
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Welcome in.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
It is Wednesday of week four, and it's time for
Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks. We've got a busy show ahead,
of course, the final look at the Texans Jaguars, the
aftermath of the Jaguars Divisional win last week seventeen to
ten over the Houston Texans. A first look at the
Jaguars matchup against the San Francisco forty nine Ers this
Sunday at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara. Quarterback Play under
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the Microscope will dig into Trevor Lawrence's season so far
and the defense of course, playing well and leading the
league in takeaways and getting a lot of pressure on
the quarterback. Also from the edges. Huddle Up with Bucky
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Fieldsauto dot com JP Shadwick John Oser. We're at the
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Hundai studios at the Miller Electric Center. Bucky Brooks is
out in Los Angeles and it is Wednesday. Bucky, you're
with us again, and here we are. The Jags are
two and one after a win over the Houston Texans.
It's good to be a winning team right now.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, good to be a winning team.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Great after about the Jaguars to get that dub and
you know, it wasn't necessarily pretty at all times, particularly
on offense, but defensively they stood up.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And when you think.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
About the Jaguars and what they could be, there's a
reasonable argument that you can make they should be undefeated.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Three and zero going to the West Coast to.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Take a team that should be what is considered a
measuring stick game, a game to kind of see where
we are, how we stack up against some of the
teams that others would regard as the elites in the league.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Yeah, they could be three and oh they played two
tight games. And I said, it is two and one
and could be three and zero, And I'm with Bucky
to me and JPU, we've talked about it. I think
the fight they've shown in the first three games the
way they won that Texans game really important, really impressive.
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And I heard from people around here for a month,
two months, three months leading into the season that they
were going to be a team that fought, that played tough,
that was in games, that was going to be well coached,
it was going to give themselves a chance in most games.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
And that's what we've seen.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
And I think that's what you've got to be in
the first year of a new regime, and then you
can build later on and start being a dominant team
as you grow.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Get better, get used to it. But this is how you.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Start climbing out of four and thirteen toward where they
want to be. I don't think you get too great
without grinding through some of these. And I'm impressed.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, absolutely wanting to get to of course, on the
offensive side here, a lot to work on on that
side of the ball, but the defense really leading the
way and keeping this team of floating games at least
a couple of those games, certainly this past week. You know,
the nine takeaways, three of them this past week against
the Texans, and there's pressure from the edge rushers.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
It's funny.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
We were in the locker room today and as Josh
heinz Allen. You know, you guys are getting pressures. One
of the best pressure duos in the league, you and
tray Von. But what's the next step for you? He's like, what,
why don't you just ask me how do we get
more sacks?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
JP wants more sacks, BUCkies. He's not happy with the pressure,
but he has a high standard.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
The pressures are there, that's the next step, right, is
getting home on the quarterback bore.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I mean, yeah, but that's really a collective effort. It's
not just them. Is being able to have tighter covers
down the field to buy the extra beat him a
second to allow them to get home. It all works together,
and surprisingly because you would think at as much zone
as we're playing that the ball would come out quicker
and that teams would be able to slow down the
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pass rush by really throwing quicks and bubbles and screens
and those things. The Jacks have been really good tackling
on the perimeter, so they've negated that strategy, and when
they've had to jump into some tighter coverage, some match coverage,
some Manda man, they've really been snug and that and
that has given them the opportunity to get more sacks,
more pressures, even though the stat line doesn't always reflect.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah, and I think one of the hidden things in
this defense is how well they're tackling. It feels like
that is enabling them to be in better down in
distance situations, that has enabled them to have more pressure.
But you know, I agree with Bucky and I sort
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of agree with Josh. Not to go against you, j
but the pressure that Trayvon, Josh Heinz on these guys
are putting on pressure is sustain able, and uh, sacks
aren't always sustainable, so the pressure is really important. And
uh you know so, yeah, I am signed with Josh
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on this, but I am I am team Josh on
this one, not team JB.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You always reference one of the past rushers in Indianapolis
who said his best pass rushing season was when he
had like two sacks.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Who was Yeah, that was Franny and uh, you know it.
His point was, it's very circumstances. You can control pressures
as a defensive end, uh two degree. I mean, sometimes
teams get the ball out or they or they roll
away from you can't always control it. But I smooth
right before the podcast last week, I asked him the
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same question. I said, am I reading this wrong? And
he said, no, Sacks usually happen when you get multiple
guys rushing well in the same play and then one
of you will get a sack. Sometimes you're gonna get
a guy where you just beat a guy off the edge.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
And sack them.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
But those, if a great pass rusher gets four or
five those a year, it's a lot. It's it's usually
three or four guys rushing well. Guy gets flushed toward
one of the guys rushing well, and then he gets
the sack. That's how a lot of sacks come. And
that's why they always talk. Josh Allen for five or
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six years has talked about rushing is a unit and
Russian cover and that's if you're playing well within that,
your percentage are going to go up and you're gonna
be a sack guy within that concept.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yeah, it all works together, Josh Allens Allen, it sounds
like is relating to John the way that the coverage
and the front work together to get sacks.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
If the coverage is.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Good on the back end, then it allows the front
end to be able to get after and vice versa.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
If the rush is great. Then it allows the back
end to begin to.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Get turnovers and takeaways off tips to flections and passes
because the quarterback is under the rest. The one thing
that I believe is underrated and hasn't been talked about
enough is the reason why Josh einz Allen and Trayvon
walk had been more effective is because there's a legitimate
pass rush presence on the inside. Eric Arms did making
disruptive plays on the inside has created more one on
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one opportunities for those guys on the outside and the up.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
The middle push.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
The push in the middle of the pocket forces the
quarterbacks to flee to one of those guys and I
guess kind of run into their waiting.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Arms, as they would say, if you're a romantic JP I.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Am, Eric Arms said today, of course, said in the
locker room, and he's not really thinking a whole lot
about the good return to San Francisco. There's some some
feelings there, but hey, he's playing football, he's been around
it for a long time. You know what helps a
pass rush having a lead late in games. The offense
has to do some of their part as well, and
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it has been a struggle some this season. Of course,
last week, you know, couldn't get my done. Offensively, they
were having trouble catching the football. They missed a couple
of deep shots down the field from the quarterback. And
so far this year, Trevor Lawrence is twenty ninth of
unqualified quarterbacks and passer rating seventy point three, and in
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the second half of game's bucky it's even worse fifty
six rating. So far when it really should matter, you
got to make big plays in big moments late. How
does the quarterback Trevor Lawrence get on track here offensively?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I think it's a few different things.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
One, his stadline is reflective not only of his work,
but the performance of those around him. And the wide
receivers are not being good. They weren't good last Sunday.
Too many drop passes, too many miscommunications where people on
in the right spot. Trevor's missed his fair share of throws,
but all of that doesn't fall on him. I would
say the way that Trevor can improve upon dead is
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he and the wide receivers got to spend extra time
to make sure that everything is on the same everyone
is on the same page, everyone knows exactly what they're doing,
and when you get your opportunity to have the ball
hit in your direction, you have to catch it.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I mean Trevor can do a lot of things.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
He can't walk it to him and put him in
the brad basket and tell them okay, now you take
it and go run with it. These guys have to
catch the football, and it's one of the more disappointing
things that we've seen. Our guys have not consistently caught
the ball. So Lim Cohen has to make a choice.
Trevor Lawrence has to make a choice. If you're throwing
the ball the guys and they're dropping it, then the
ball has to go to your most sure handed players,
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and right now, that's bread and Strange, and that's Travis Hunter.
I would expect them to get more touches because they're
the ones who had been the most consistent when it
comes to the catcher sentage.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Yeah, Bucky, they've.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Just shown about four or five of the drops on
this and I got I got questions all the time.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
You know, is Trevor throwing the ball too hard?
Speaker 5 (09:50):
I'm not going to say he's never in his career
had issues where he could have shown more touch, right,
But JP you're watching these long me there's not a
single pass net.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
It's too hard. And if it is, I mean, and.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
I don't think anymore football, right, Parker Washington and Brian
Thomas Junior, the guys who were showing the drops, I
don't pretend to know them. You know that well, but
I know I'm well enough to know they're not going
to blame Trevor.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
For those drops.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Look, Trevor is not one of the best four or
five quarterbacks in the league right now, but he's also
not number twenty nine. Reflective of that. And if you
the drops the other day were weird, like it was
almost like it got in the water. Yeah, he he
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is not. Like whatever stat you want to use against him,
his quarterback rating this year is not reflective of how
he's playing it. And I would say it's far more reflective,
as Bucky said, far more of a result of.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
The drop passes.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
I mean, Jammy Brown drops one against Cincinnati long pass
down the sidelines. It was a tough catch, but BTJ
has to make it.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
The other day.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Let's see what the rating is if you factored all
those into catches, not twenty nine years.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
And it's not a pressure issue. Either the offensive line
is actually, for the most part, Bucky kept him up
right this year.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, their offensive line has been look more effective than
I think anybody would imagine based on the questions and
concerns that we had going into the year. So they've
done their job up front. He hasn't taken an extraord
amount of hits in those things. We can talk about
the wide receivers and their drops in those things. I
would say the one piece where Trevor has to get
better is decision making in crucial moments, meaning in the
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red zone.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Can't put the ball in harm's way.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
We have some mistakes that have really hurt us because
you turned the ball over in those times. He also
has to resist the urge to try and fit the
ball into tight windows when it's not necessary. Meaning understand
time score situation. There's a time and a place when
you have to try and squeeze the ball in the
tight windows because it's a guy to have it down.
But on some of these downs, if the window is tight,
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that means someone else is open and you got to
get to them in their progression. So it's a little
bit of Trevor Lawrence. There's a little bit of pieces
around them. They just haven't got together. But you're still
hopefully and optimistic that this group is too talented to
continue to struggle like they've been struggling. You just hope
that we can fix it and fix it soon.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Yeah, there's three or four game.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
I mean, I just kind of spent them my last minute.
I guess defending Trevor how you went to phrase that,
But there's three or four game where you're like, what
in the world is going on? But I've been in
the last couple of weeks the drops have been more
of the storyline. They have been to the point where
last week, oh sure, Yeah, at one point I dropped
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my pan and I said, what is going like?
Speaker 6 (12:53):
This is weird?
Speaker 5 (12:55):
But I will say this through three games, Bucky, and
I'm gonna get you thought on this. I'm more optimistic
that what they're doing on offense, They've gotten guys open
every week. There have been more than you know, this
offense is functioning. The play calling or the whatever, the
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opportunities are there, and I'm more convinced after Sunday that
this is going to be a good running team all season.
They had the deal where JP asked me about it.
You weren't there, Bucky, But JP asked me about it
before the pregame, as it's going to be interesting today
to see what happens to the Jaguars when the Texans
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stopped the run, because usually at some point in the
first three or three games, if a team wants to
stop you running, they will figure out a way to
do it. They can scheme that. And I thought in
the second half, when Liam figured out a way to
get that running game going, that showed me that throughout
the course of the season over seventeen games, I don't
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think they're going to have very many when you look
at the status sheet and it's twenty two yards and
they just couldn't do anything. I believe more in this
running game after Sunday than I did the first two weeks.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Yeah, you know, I think the running game the test
that the Texans presented not only the physicality, speed, toughness,
their commitment to defending the run. It really tested the
patients and the discipline of Liam Cohen. And what we
saw was someone who figured it.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Out at halftime.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
And what are the things that you're always evaluating on
the head coach and the offensive and defensive coaches.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
How quickly. Can they adapt and adjusts.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
What are the changes that they have already in the
hoster in anticipating how a defense may defend them.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
What are they going to go to? What's next on
the plan?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
And Liam has done a really good job of kind
of finding the answers, and he talked about it. Hey,
it took us a little while, but at halftime we
kind of figured it out. We have some answers and
solutions that were able to get the running game untracked
in the second half. And as long as that running
game is a steady eddie press for this team, the
big players is gonna.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Be there in the passing game.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
It's just a matter of making sure all aspects of
the offense are operating at a high level, particularly down
the stretch, because that's when your team has a chance
to really make a run. They can go from good
to great and they can kind of shape themselves into
being a legitimate contender because you have all of the
pieces of the offense working together.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Saric JP, we talked a couple of weeks ago about
Liam and he's as advertised, he can coach offense and
he can really coach the running gay. I would be
very surprised if this is not. I even know what
they're ranked, but I'd be very surprised if this is
not an efficient offense that once they start.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Catching the ball. I think they're gonna be better in the future, like.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
In future years, once they get it right and get
you know, but I think they this year. I believe
this offense is gonna be very productive throughout the course
of the season.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Look, there's plenty ahead. We'll come back. We'll see if
it's productive. This week in San Francisco, we'll check out
the San Francisco forty Niners sides of the football. They're
three and ozero and they have a slew of injuries.
We'll get to all those coming up. Monday Night football
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Speaker 7 (16:41):
And say you're going to get greedy at some point
you're going to get bored at some point of kind
of playing the twelve to you know, fifteen an in game,
right because they do play a ton of quarters lead
the NFL. I believe in shell coverage and quarters and
cover six quarter quarter half variations. We'll see if that
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holds true this week for sure, but that's definitely what
they've wanted to do through three games, and it just
makes you, as a play caller and as a quarterback
have to be patient and meticulous and just keep taking
what they end up giving you. And then, yeah, we
have to take advantage of the ops that we do
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get down the field that we didn't take advantage of
this past week.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Head coach Liam Cohen.
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senior writer and Jaguars field analysts Bucky Brooks in Law,
S Angeles and that conversation there. I think John you
asked that question of him the patients down the field.
It takes against this forty nine ers defense that you
know Robert Salas in charge out there again, we know
him well, and they've got some injury issues, certainly on
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the offensive side, but now it's creeping over to defense
as well. Nick Bosa the big loss, of course on
the defensive line. You've got some younger players in there
that'll roll in and play defense.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
To see on your screen all.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
The injuries, maybe not even all of the injuries, but
a good bit of the injuries for the forty nine ers,
including Rock Perdy who didn't play the last two weeks,
and the marsh former Jaguar. There a couple of defensive
guys on that list. We'll start with the defense here, Bucky,
what stands out the most when you look at the
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forty nine ers on film defensively.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Well, I mean, look, what stands out the most is
Nick Boston not being there creates a huge hole for
them when it comes to pass rushing. He's a dominant
pass rusher. He's a disruptive presence. He is someone who
can take over the game and without him it changed
the dynamic of the rush. Now they'll figure out a
way to get some young athletic players. Mikhel Williams may
have an opportunity to play a role. They have some
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other guys that can play a role, but no one
that's just like Nick Bosa. And if you're the Jaguars,
it means that you don't necessarily have to direct your
protection in.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
A particular way to double team or chip.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
A player that should free you have Trevor Lawrence to
have more time, more time to attack. But as Liam
Going kind of warned everybody, this is a game of patience,
and this is a game where the quarterback and everybody
has to be patient. It's going to be rare that
those big play opportunities are there, and you're going to
have to drive the ball to the left of the field,
taking dink and dunk plays, and they want to see
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if you're patient and disciplined enough to do it, because
they're betting that you will get bored or distracted and
you will trying to fit a ball into a tight
window that leads to an interception off her tip or overthrow.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Yeah, I think it's a big game for Trevor for
that reason. The Texans clearly, you know, stack the line
and dared him to beat them and played a similar
way that the Niners will play. The Niners play it
at a high level. Trevor does need to answer he's
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had four or five throws a game that you're like, what, Well,
the way the forty nine ers play, they're assuming that
if they have a twelve play drive that he'll have
one of those plays most series. So I think it's
a huge game for Trevor to just eliminate some of
those and show that he can be the patient, dink
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and dunk, be accurate short some of the things that
I think he can do but hasn't done at a
consistent level yet this year.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
I don't want to say.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
It's Trevor's game to win or lose, but I think
maybe more than any game yet, how he plays will
dick to how they do.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah, it will.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
But I take a lot of confidence from the fact
that typically Trevor Lawrence has played well against Gus Bradley's defense.
Gus Bradley was in Indianapolis, he had a lot of success
because he knew going into the game that it was
going to require a lot of patients. He put on
his little patient's hat and he dictated the terms taking
the dink and dunk. Now that he knows going into
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this that Robert Sola's defense is a variation of what
Gus Bradley does, he also knows going in, hey, this
is a week where I really have to take the checkdowns.
The more that I take the checkdowns, the more likely
I'm eventually going to get something at the intermediate level
that I want. But going into it, I would think
Travis ccien, the running backs man, they may combined for
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ten or more receptions because this run everyone off the field,
get the back, dump it off, let him get the work.
I think Travis Hunter could be in line to have
a big game. We seen him run those five yard
end routes that are nice for him because he can
catch it in knife up the field. To me, all
of that is in play, and it literally is about
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Trevor not only being patients in the twenties, I think
where his patience has to pay off. Can't he be
patient enough in the red zone to not try and
fit the ball in to avoid making the hero throws
and allow the offense to work for him. And then
the final part of it is the Jaguars have to
get sevens in the red zone. They can't consistently settle
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for threes. I think depending on who the quarterback is
on the other side, whether it's Mac Jones a brock pretty,
there's a magic number that will exist.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Now magic number may.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Be twenty twenty one points, so however you have to
stack it you get above that because for all the
things that the Niners are, I don't know how explosive.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
They will be on offense.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
If Mac Jones is a quarterback this week, and that's
not being disrespectful to him at all.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Yeah, if what you don't want to see in this
game is in the first half you look at the
stats sheet and you see a bunch of stars next
to the drives, because that shows you it's a red
zone drive and those drives ending with the forty nine
ers happy and you know with a pick and they're
going to break and they're showing the Niners in front
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of that screen. If you see that, then they've given
away opportunities. And also, Bucky to me, this is I'm
righting about it for later this week. I thought before
the season that if this offense was gonna be really,
really good, it was gonna have a lot more big
plays than last year. It was gonna have and you know,
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so it feels like they have to be patient, Like
I Trevor can't force it. But at some point on Sunday,
Travis Hunter's got to break a tackle and go, like,
he's got to turn one of those short passes into.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
A break and make a move and go.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
You're gonna need some sort of special from BTJ and
or Travis because I don't know, like, if I just
want to hold them the long drives, the Jaguars have
to trump that and have one of their making h
one or two of those guys make a big play
that goes against that, I think for them to win.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Yeah, this is where the scripted winners come in. I
would say the X factor in this to me is
Liam Coin's experience with the Rams, having seen the Niners
a lot, having seen the success that Sean McVay has
had against the Niners, understanding that kind of taking some
of the mystique that the Niners can have in some
stadiums against some of those teams and coaches that shouldn't
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exist for Liam because he's seen and been a part
of teams that have really beaten the Niners, and they
understand everything that goes along with beating them in their place.
To me, this could be a game that becomes sneaky
explosive for the Jaguars because Liam is so confident in
his scheme and he's seen Robert Solad's defense so much
that they have some things on the menu that are
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scripted winners that if completed, it really changes.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
The outlook of the game.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Now it's a matter of we got to catch him
when they're there, and we've got to make sure the
throwers there. But there're gonna be some opportunities where he
draws it up where he can be home run plays
for the Jaguars.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
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Speaker 2 (25:02):
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Speaker 5 (25:03):
That's exactly why why it's the huddle up with Bucky Brooks.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
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Speaker 7 (25:39):
We've got to attack the ball more, I think, with
our hands instead of letting them maybe get into the
body at times. We always talk about not trying to
let the ball cross our eyes. So if it's an
inbreaker or even an outbreaker, trying not to let it
cross you this way at all. There's a difference between
the ball being you know, here and going and getting
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it there. You know, that's just kind of the way it's.
You know, that's how we're trying to coach it.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
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Speaker 2 (26:34):
Can I nominate myself?
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
You can't, I think so.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Probably I'm going to a website see if I don't
know how many times, John, would you nominate yourself to
go to the Super Bowls?
Speaker 5 (26:44):
The fans can say that's like when I was in
high school, I always voted.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
For myself and never won. So I mean, as mi amo,
that's how it goes.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
It's okay Jaguars defense this week, facing in the San
Francisco forty nine ers. Of course, in the quick first question,
Marcus who's playing quarterback brock Perty has not been ruled
out yet. Mac Jones was on the injury of port.
He had a PCL issue pop up from the summertime
last week and limited with that knee issue today party
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also limited, So we'll see what happens as the week
goes along. You know one person who will be out there, though,
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this season so far seventy seven total, fifty two carries,
twenty five receptions, and it's the most through three games
in his career. Is this sustainable and how do you
slow him down?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Bucky?
Speaker 4 (27:50):
I mean, look, he's one of the best running backs
that we've seen in NFL history. Let's talk about someone
who's in rare clubs one thousand, one thousand, one hundred.
When it comes to rushing yards and catches, he's done
it all. When it comes to that, he is the
guy that drives their offense. And when he is going
as a runner or as a receiver, it spells doom
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for the defense. I think the one thing that you
have to understand is where he is at all times.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
You got to make sure you get multiple bodies to him.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
You have to be aware of him on these screen
down situations, second and long, first of drive, first time
you enter the red zone, the screen could come to him.
So just being aware of him at all times. This
is a game where you got to make somebody.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Else beat you.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
You have to make one of their guys on the perimeter,
make somebody else have a big game to beat you.
It has to be all odds on twenty two. Let's
limit him and limit his opportunities.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Yeah, I also think you can't get overwhelmed by them early.
Every time I've seen a Shanahan.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
Team play.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
This team is only a couple of times. It started
feeling like an avalanche fast and maybe it was game circumstance,
but you know they're gonna get because he schemes so well,
they're gonna have some success at times early.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
And Josh Allen, Josh Heines Allen said in the locker
room after after JP uh and he went at it talk.
It was a little sparring, but uh, but he said,
you know, you can't lose confidence when you play them.
You can't get what word he use, but basically that
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you've got to stay calm and realize, Okay, they're doing
some stuff with motions with you.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
Know that we have to adapt to.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Let's take a deep breath and adapt to it, and
it's okay, we're gonna get this right. So I do
think against the Shanahan offense, that's staying poised, which I
do believe these guys will, and not getting overwhelmed his key.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yeah, no, that's a big part of that.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
And at their place it can be an overwhelming environment
environment and so it's trying to avoid the feeding frenzy
that is the Bang Bang Niners game, meaning when they
get it going on defense, and they start making plays
and that offense get going, and then the crowds get
into it. It does have this overwhelming effect, and so
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we have to avoid the avalanche. That's why it's really
important for Trevor Lawrence and the guys on offense take
care of the ball, don't give the ball away. Let's
avoid the self inflicted mistakes that have kind of hurt
us the last few weeks. And then on defense, it's
doing what they've really done. The Jaguars done a really
good job of taking away the explosive play, forcing the
team to drive the lens of the field on ding
and dunk plays, and then you have to rally and tackle.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
It is the same thing.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Take away the deep ball, tackle in space, make them
kick field goals. If the Jaguars do that, it potentially
could be hard for the Niners to put up enough
points to knock the Jaguars out of the game.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
The Niners are three and oh bucky, but they don't
feel dominant yet. And I'm not saying they're not good,
because I really like this team in organization. I think
they're one of the best in the league. But have
they got it going or are they Is this a
time where the Jazz can get them on that front,
because they're not. It doesn't seem like they're running fine
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tuned the way they often do. I think they will,
but it doesn't know what they have yet.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Well, look, man, they've been hurt with injuries.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
A lot of the players that they're counting on to
be their difference makers right now on the sideline. You
talked about Bowsey, Kittle, Brandon now Yuk hasn't shown up.
Brought pretty is a game time decision, so they don't
have their squad. I think it speaks to the depth
of their roster that they've been able to run out
to a throndo start regardless of who they play. This
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is a team that has a championship pedigree. They have
high standards and expectations each and every year, and they
play up to that. That said, they're not the boogeyman.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
You know.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
You have to go in there. You have to be
able to deal with their physicality and toughness. You got
to be able to whether the storm that is coming.
But at the end of the day, to me, this
is about let's get the game in the fourth quarter
and slug it out with the team that is always
one of the elite teams in the league.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
I think the point Bucky made JP that I hadn't
thought about is the fact that Liam's coached against him
so often, and the teams in the West do tend
to play the Niners sometimes tougher than a lot of teams.
I mean, it's true of most inter division stuff. But
I think there's something to that. It's gonna be interesting
thing to watch on seting.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
By the way, Ricky Piersaw, their leading receiver right now,
is not practicing today with a knee issue. He's on
the injury report all of a sudden, and a guy
they've relied on a.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Lot the season.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Former first round pick out of Florida, the third in
the league in receiving yards. We'll have to watch that
this week to add to the long injury list for
the forty nine ers.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Bucket.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
Yeah, they always overcome it. They're always hurt and always
overcome it. They're an impressive organization that way, Bucky, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
That is something to that, though.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
They are always beat up, and I do know they
themselves and men the bullies on the block.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
They're a very physical team. They go about their daily
math is in practice.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
They're a very physical team in terms of practice, and
that carries over the games and those things, but they
are always forced to play with backups in those things.
In Ricky Pirosow's case, he is an outstanding route runner.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Loved him when he was coming out. He's the perfect
person to feel.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
The void that they had on the perimeter when they
got knocked out by the Kansas City Chiefs and the
Super Bowl a couple years ago. A lot of their
issue was their inability to separate from man coverage.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Inter Piersol.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Outstanding route runner, someone who can cover get away from
tight coverage, can do all the intricate and exotic routes
that Kyle Shanahan prefers. If he's available, man, it's a
tough guard. It's a tough cover, and you have to
make sure that you got multiple hats around him when
he catch the ball, because he's also a pretty good
run after the catch, all right.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
The matchup is on the Jaguars and the forty nine
Ers this Sunday at Levi Stadium, Santa Clara. We're back
in the moment. Final thoughts including the Jaguars history in
the state of California, I.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
Bring that out.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Uh yep, well you gotta do it. We'll do it
after this, it's huddle up with Bucky Brooks.
Speaker 8 (34:17):
They're a pretty simple scheme. They're not trying to really
trick anyone. But they've always had a good defense and
this scheme has always been really good and tough to
play against because they are so consistent and they are
really disciplined. They play most things top down. You know,
they fly around sideline, the sideline as far as just
the D line and the linebackers, so they make a
lot of plays with that front group there, and then
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on the back end. I think they're really disciplined, they're
really smart. So it's just we'll have some opportunities down
the field, but it's really taking that profit every time
and being able to check them ball down. And they've
made you know, they've they've played really well with that
scheme of just banking that you're not just gonna you know,
take the small gains all the way down the field
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and put together nine, ten, twelve, play drive and go score.
And they're also really good at taking the ball away.
So when you do put the ball in harms way,
whether it's a throw or just carrying the ball. They're
really good at punching, causing fumbles, all those things, so
you can tell it's a really well coached group. They
fly around.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
That's the quarterback.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
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moments here. The Jaguars in Santa Clara this Sunday, only
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their second visit to Santa Clara, only their third visit
ever to play the forty nine ers on the road.
They've been a bunch of the Bay Area, of course
when Oakland was still in the league before they moved
to Vegas, but only their second trip to Levi's Stadium.
The Jaguars historically in the state of California have not
fared well. On your screen there four and eleven all
time in the state and two at the Niners. You
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see the two losses there Candlestick IT nine and Levi
Stadium in twenty seventeen that was late in the year
and twenty seventeen around Christmas. I believe it was Christmas Eve,
maybe I remember.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
The seventeen Oh yeah, they got rolled. They got it
was Steamroll, the really good team.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
It wasn't even that close.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
No, it was.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Niners got way way up early and Jack's actually the
nice up coming back for a little bit in the
first half, and then it.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Was just uh cooked.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
Yeah, it was probably the worst loss of that year
for that seventeen teen and.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Then you see the rest.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
They've had horror stories against the Chargers both places. At
the Rams once and at the Oakland Raiders they had
mixed success. So this has got to be part of
the new era of Jaguars football to put all this
in the rear view. And then they haven't played this
Jaguars team.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
Yeah, I mean, this is something that.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
When I was covering the team in the nineties, this
wasn't a thing because it was so young. But since
I've been back in eleven, you know, for fifteen years,
every time you go West, no matter what era, this
is the topic. And every era has said, hey, it's
not us anymore, and it has been so I'm right
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later this week, this is not a must win game
by any means but it is very much a chance
to show you can go win out there a second,
go beat a team like this that's a good team,
no matter how many guys are hurt. They're three and zero.
And I think most people in the league know what
the Niners are. Bucky, They're respected. The Niners are the
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kind of team that it's tough for a team that's
in the Jaguars position, just starting out. It's tough for
them to go beat them, but you know what, you
can go beat them and show that.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
This is different. So I think it's I think it's
a big chance for this bunch.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Yes, it's a huge opportunity.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
And in fact, as someone who lives in California, I
always say we need to play more games in California.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
That's the only way to even the recor out.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
You got to have more bites at the applet, right,
So maybe we could do something like that to kind
of till the playing field back in.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
The Jaguars take your place. But oh, I mean yeah,
we can do that, Like come on, I mean why not.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
What I will say is the Niners have always been
an organization that has high standards, like they have a
championship pedigree, It was established with Bill Washed and it's
continued from coaches time after time, and so there's a
way that they operate. They kind of know winning, the
embrace winning, and for an upstart team, a team that
is learning how to win, they take advantage of your
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mistakes because they know that you're not consistent enough to
be able to do it down after down, quarter after quarter.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
For the Jaguars, I think if you're Liam Coin, I.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Think in a way, you break this game down in
the quarters and play each fifteen minute quarter on its own.
Hey guys, let's get through the fourth quarter. Be right
there in the second quarter. Let's get the halftime and
make sure we're in range. Third quarter, we're here, fourth quarter,
let's go win it. If you do those things and
kind of take the the broader thing out of it,
where you kind of focusing on an individual process that
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you break up, I think that'll give the Jags a chance.
And it appears to listen, like listening to Trevor Lawrence
when he talks about the defense, it appears to understand
what they're up against. And when you do that and
you have a heightened sense of awareness, you know who
you're playing, not in terms of being intimidated, but just
kind of knowing what's out there. I think we're gonna
see the Jaguars respond with the best game of the
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season thus far.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Yeah, that's sort of talking around the same issue the
red zone. You don't want to give away an opportunity
there because then they're running off the field telling each other, yeah,
we were waiting for that. So I mean, that's exactly
what I think. It's why it's such a mental test
I think for the Jaguars this weekend to sort of
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approve to this forty nine ers team that'll be waiting
for them to make those mistakes and that's not us.
So it's I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated by this team.
Speaker 6 (39:57):
First of all.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
I was fascinated going to the Texans game. How they'd
respond to that. I think they'll respond, well, I don't
know if they'll win any It's a tall ask for
them to win this game, but then they're gonna have
a chance, and we're learning a lot about the toughness
of this team. I think everything else you can say
about the Jaguars, I do think they're a mentally and
physically tough team, which is interesting to watch.
Speaker 6 (40:17):
After what we've seen here for a while.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
And the forty nine ers are so banged up as well,
this would be a good time to get them well.
While that's going on, Bucky, no time zone jumping for
you this week. You get to stay in the Pacific
time zone.
Speaker 6 (40:28):
You can ride your bike down, Bucky, is that what
you're doing?
Speaker 2 (40:31):
I mean maybe, you know, I mean, I mean I might.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
I might try and keep it green and just kind
of do something light work, don't you know.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Make sure I take care of the people. It should
be fun.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
I'll make sure I take take care of you and
see if I can find you a nice little spot
to eat and feel good enjoy someone.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
This California living, you know.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
I look forward to it. California.
Speaker 5 (40:49):
I am kind of a California guy. Bucky lives there,
but spiritually I'm a California guy.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
I could see that John. I can see John.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
I can see John fully embracing all of that. I
can see him as a beach work for me, you know.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Yeah in San Francisco, though, I mean this is northern California.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
It's different.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Yeah, yeah, Northern California's a little chillier. But go now,
we can we can figure it out. We can we
can make it right for.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
You, Bucky. We'll talk to you later in the week. Man,
appreciate it. Man, Let's go Bucky Brooks out of here.
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Welcome in.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
It is Wednesday of week four, and it's time for
Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks. We've got a busy show ahead,
of course, the final look at the Texans Jaguars, the
aftermath of the Jaguars Divisional win last week seventeen to
ten over the Houston Texans. A first look at the
Jaguars matchup against the San Francisco forty nine Ers this
Sunday at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara. Quarterback Play under
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and the defense of course, playing well and leading the
league in takeaways and getting a lot of pressure on
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Hundai studios at the Miller Electric Center. Bucky Brooks is
out in Los Angeles and it is Wednesday. Bucky, you're
with us again, and here we are. The Jags are
two and one after a win over the Houston Texans.
It's good to be a winning team right now.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, good to be a winning team.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Great after about the Jaguars to get that dub and
you know, it wasn't necessarily pretty at all times, particularly
on offense, but defensively they stood up.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And when you think.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
About the Jaguars and what they could be, there's a
reasonable argument that you can make they should be undefeated.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Three and zero going to the West Coast to.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Take a team that should be what is considered a
measuring stick game, a game to kind of see where
we are, how we stack up against some of the
teams that others would regard as the elites in the league.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Yeah, they could be three and oh they played two
tight games. And I said, it is two and one
and could be three and zero, And I'm with Bucky
to me and JPU, we've talked about it. I think
the fight they've shown in the first three games the
way they won that Texans game really important, really impressive.
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And I heard from people around here for a month,
two months, three months leading into the season that they
were going to be a team that fought, that played tough,
that was in games, that was going to be well coached,
it was going to give themselves a chance in most games.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
And that's what we've seen.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
And I think that's what you've got to be in
the first year of a new regime, and then you
can build later on and start being a dominant team
as you grow.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Get better, get used to it. But this is how you.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Start climbing out of four and thirteen toward where they
want to be. I don't think you get too great
without grinding through some of these. And I'm impressed.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, absolutely wanting to get to of course, on the
offensive side here, a lot to work on on that
side of the ball, but the defense really leading the
way and keeping this team of floating games at least
a couple of those games, certainly this past week. You know,
the nine takeaways, three of them this past week against
the Texans, and there's pressure from the edge rushers.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
It's funny.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
We were in the locker room today and as Josh
heinz Allen. You know, you guys are getting pressures. One
of the best pressure duos in the league, you and
tray Von. But what's the next step for you? He's like, what,
why don't you just ask me how do we get
more sacks?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
JP wants more sacks, BUCkies. He's not happy with the pressure,
but he has a high standard.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
The pressures are there, that's the next step, right, is
getting home on the quarterback bore.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I mean, yeah, but that's really a collective effort. It's
not just them. Is being able to have tighter covers
down the field to buy the extra beat him a
second to allow them to get home. It all works together,
and surprisingly because you would think at as much zone
as we're playing that the ball would come out quicker
and that teams would be able to slow down the
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pass rush by really throwing quicks and bubbles and screens
and those things. The Jacks have been really good tackling
on the perimeter, so they've negated that strategy, and when
they've had to jump into some tighter coverage, some match coverage,
some Manda man, they've really been snug and that and
that has given them the opportunity to get more sacks,
more pressures, even though the stat line doesn't always reflect.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah, and I think one of the hidden things in
this defense is how well they're tackling. It feels like
that is enabling them to be in better down in
distance situations, that has enabled them to have more pressure.
But you know, I agree with Bucky and I sort
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of agree with Josh. Not to go against you, j
but the pressure that Trayvon, Josh Heinz on these guys
are putting on pressure is sustain able, and uh, sacks
aren't always sustainable, so the pressure is really important. And
uh you know so, yeah, I am signed with Josh
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on this, but I am I am team Josh on
this one, not team JB.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You always reference one of the past rushers in Indianapolis
who said his best pass rushing season was when he
had like two sacks.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Who was Yeah, that was Franny and uh, you know it.
His point was, it's very circumstances. You can control pressures
as a defensive end, uh two degree. I mean, sometimes
teams get the ball out or they or they roll
away from you can't always control it. But I smooth
right before the podcast last week, I asked him the
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same question. I said, am I reading this wrong? And
he said, no, Sacks usually happen when you get multiple
guys rushing well in the same play and then one
of you will get a sack. Sometimes you're gonna get
a guy where you just beat a guy off the edge.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
And sack them.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
But those, if a great pass rusher gets four or
five those a year, it's a lot. It's it's usually
three or four guys rushing well. Guy gets flushed toward
one of the guys rushing well, and then he gets
the sack. That's how a lot of sacks come. And
that's why they always talk. Josh Allen for five or
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six years has talked about rushing is a unit and
Russian cover and that's if you're playing well within that,
your percentage are going to go up and you're gonna
be a sack guy within that concept.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yeah, it all works together, Josh Allens Allen, it sounds
like is relating to John the way that the coverage
and the front work together to get sacks.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
If the coverage is.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Good on the back end, then it allows the front
end to be able to get after and vice versa.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
If the rush is great. Then it allows the back
end to begin to.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Get turnovers and takeaways off tips to flections and passes
because the quarterback is under the rest. The one thing
that I believe is underrated and hasn't been talked about
enough is the reason why Josh einz Allen and Trayvon
walk had been more effective is because there's a legitimate
pass rush presence on the inside. Eric Arms did making
disruptive plays on the inside has created more one on
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one opportunities for those guys on the outside and the up.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
The middle push.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
The push in the middle of the pocket forces the
quarterbacks to flee to one of those guys and I
guess kind of run into their waiting.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Arms, as they would say, if you're a romantic JP I.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Am, Eric Arms said today, of course, said in the
locker room, and he's not really thinking a whole lot
about the good return to San Francisco. There's some some
feelings there, but hey, he's playing football, he's been around
it for a long time. You know what helps a
pass rush having a lead late in games. The offense
has to do some of their part as well, and
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it has been a struggle some this season. Of course,
last week, you know, couldn't get my done. Offensively, they
were having trouble catching the football. They missed a couple
of deep shots down the field from the quarterback. And
so far this year, Trevor Lawrence is twenty ninth of
unqualified quarterbacks and passer rating seventy point three, and in
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the second half of game's bucky it's even worse fifty
six rating. So far when it really should matter, you
got to make big plays in big moments late. How
does the quarterback Trevor Lawrence get on track here offensively?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I think it's a few different things.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
One, his stadline is reflective not only of his work,
but the performance of those around him. And the wide
receivers are not being good. They weren't good last Sunday.
Too many drop passes, too many miscommunications where people on
in the right spot. Trevor's missed his fair share of throws,
but all of that doesn't fall on him. I would
say the way that Trevor can improve upon dead is
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he and the wide receivers got to spend extra time
to make sure that everything is on the same everyone
is on the same page, everyone knows exactly what they're doing,
and when you get your opportunity to have the ball
hit in your direction, you have to catch it.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I mean Trevor can do a lot of things.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
He can't walk it to him and put him in
the brad basket and tell them okay, now you take
it and go run with it. These guys have to
catch the football, and it's one of the more disappointing
things that we've seen. Our guys have not consistently caught
the ball. So Lim Cohen has to make a choice.
Trevor Lawrence has to make a choice. If you're throwing
the ball the guys and they're dropping it, then the
ball has to go to your most sure handed players,
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and right now, that's bread and Strange, and that's Travis Hunter.
I would expect them to get more touches because they're
the ones who had been the most consistent when it
comes to the catcher sentage.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Yeah, Bucky, they've.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Just shown about four or five of the drops on
this and I got I got questions all the time.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
You know, is Trevor throwing the ball too hard?
Speaker 5 (09:50):
I'm not going to say he's never in his career
had issues where he could have shown more touch, right,
But JP you're watching these long me there's not a
single pass net.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
It's too hard. And if it is, I mean, and.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
I don't think anymore football, right, Parker Washington and Brian
Thomas Junior, the guys who were showing the drops, I
don't pretend to know them. You know that well, but
I know I'm well enough to know they're not going
to blame Trevor.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
For those drops.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Look, Trevor is not one of the best four or
five quarterbacks in the league right now, but he's also
not number twenty nine. Reflective of that. And if you
the drops the other day were weird, like it was
almost like it got in the water. Yeah, he he
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is not. Like whatever stat you want to use against him,
his quarterback rating this year is not reflective of how
he's playing it. And I would say it's far more reflective,
as Bucky said, far more of a result of.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
The drop passes.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
I mean, Jammy Brown drops one against Cincinnati long pass
down the sidelines. It was a tough catch, but BTJ
has to make it.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
The other day.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Let's see what the rating is if you factored all
those into catches, not twenty nine years.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
And it's not a pressure issue. Either the offensive line
is actually, for the most part, Bucky kept him up
right this year.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, their offensive line has been look more effective than
I think anybody would imagine based on the questions and
concerns that we had going into the year. So they've
done their job up front. He hasn't taken an extraord
amount of hits in those things. We can talk about
the wide receivers and their drops in those things. I
would say the one piece where Trevor has to get
better is decision making in crucial moments, meaning in the
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red zone.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Can't put the ball in harm's way.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
We have some mistakes that have really hurt us because
you turned the ball over in those times. He also
has to resist the urge to try and fit the
ball into tight windows when it's not necessary. Meaning understand
time score situation. There's a time and a place when
you have to try and squeeze the ball in the
tight windows because it's a guy to have it down.
But on some of these downs, if the window is tight,
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that means someone else is open and you got to
get to them in their progression. So it's a little
bit of Trevor Lawrence. There's a little bit of pieces
around them. They just haven't got together. But you're still
hopefully and optimistic that this group is too talented to
continue to struggle like they've been struggling. You just hope
that we can fix it and fix it soon.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Yeah, there's three or four game.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
I mean, I just kind of spent them my last minute.
I guess defending Trevor how you went to phrase that,
But there's three or four game where you're like, what
in the world is going on? But I've been in
the last couple of weeks the drops have been more
of the storyline. They have been to the point where
last week, oh sure, Yeah, at one point I dropped
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my pan and I said, what is going like?
Speaker 6 (12:53):
This is weird?
Speaker 5 (12:55):
But I will say this through three games, Bucky, and
I'm gonna get you thought on this. I'm more optimistic
that what they're doing on offense, They've gotten guys open
every week. There have been more than you know, this
offense is functioning. The play calling or the whatever, the
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opportunities are there, and I'm more convinced after Sunday that
this is going to be a good running team all season.
They had the deal where JP asked me about it.
You weren't there, Bucky, But JP asked me about it
before the pregame, as it's going to be interesting today
to see what happens to the Jaguars when the Texans
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stopped the run, because usually at some point in the
first three or three games, if a team wants to
stop you running, they will figure out a way to
do it. They can scheme that. And I thought in
the second half, when Liam figured out a way to
get that running game going, that showed me that throughout
the course of the season over seventeen games, I don't
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think they're going to have very many when you look
at the status sheet and it's twenty two yards and
they just couldn't do anything. I believe more in this
running game after Sunday than I did the first two weeks.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Yeah, you know, I think the running game the test
that the Texans presented not only the physicality, speed, toughness,
their commitment to defending the run. It really tested the
patients and the discipline of Liam Cohen. And what we
saw was someone who figured it.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Out at halftime.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
And what are the things that you're always evaluating on
the head coach and the offensive and defensive coaches.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
How quickly. Can they adapt and adjusts.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
What are the changes that they have already in the
hoster in anticipating how a defense may defend them.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
What are they going to go to? What's next on
the plan?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
And Liam has done a really good job of kind
of finding the answers, and he talked about it. Hey,
it took us a little while, but at halftime we
kind of figured it out. We have some answers and
solutions that were able to get the running game untracked
in the second half. And as long as that running
game is a steady eddie press for this team, the
big players is gonna.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Be there in the passing game.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
It's just a matter of making sure all aspects of
the offense are operating at a high level, particularly down
the stretch, because that's when your team has a chance
to really make a run. They can go from good
to great and they can kind of shape themselves into
being a legitimate contender because you have all of the
pieces of the offense working together.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Saric JP, we talked a couple of weeks ago about
Liam and he's as advertised, he can coach offense and
he can really coach the running gay. I would be
very surprised if this is not. I even know what
they're ranked, but I'd be very surprised if this is
not an efficient offense that once they start.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Catching the ball. I think they're gonna be better in the future, like.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
In future years, once they get it right and get
you know, but I think they this year. I believe
this offense is gonna be very productive throughout the course
of the season.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Look, there's plenty ahead. We'll come back. We'll see if
it's productive. This week in San Francisco, we'll check out
the San Francisco forty Niners sides of the football. They're
three and ozero and they have a slew of injuries.
We'll get to all those coming up. Monday Night football
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Speaker 7 (16:41):
And say you're going to get greedy at some point
you're going to get bored at some point of kind
of playing the twelve to you know, fifteen an in game,
right because they do play a ton of quarters lead
the NFL. I believe in shell coverage and quarters and
cover six quarter quarter half variations. We'll see if that
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holds true this week for sure, but that's definitely what
they've wanted to do through three games, and it just
makes you, as a play caller and as a quarterback
have to be patient and meticulous and just keep taking
what they end up giving you. And then, yeah, we
have to take advantage of the ops that we do
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get down the field that we didn't take advantage of
this past week.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Head coach Liam Cohen.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
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senior writer and Jaguars field analysts Bucky Brooks in Law,
S Angeles and that conversation there. I think John you
asked that question of him the patients down the field.
It takes against this forty nine ers defense that you
know Robert Salas in charge out there again, we know
him well, and they've got some injury issues, certainly on
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the offensive side, but now it's creeping over to defense
as well. Nick Bosa the big loss, of course on
the defensive line. You've got some younger players in there
that'll roll in and play defense.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
To see on your screen all.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
The injuries, maybe not even all of the injuries, but
a good bit of the injuries for the forty nine ers,
including Rock Perdy who didn't play the last two weeks,
and the marsh former Jaguar. There a couple of defensive
guys on that list. We'll start with the defense here, Bucky,
what stands out the most when you look at the
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forty nine ers on film defensively.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Well, I mean, look, what stands out the most is
Nick Boston not being there creates a huge hole for
them when it comes to pass rushing. He's a dominant
pass rusher. He's a disruptive presence. He is someone who
can take over the game and without him it changed
the dynamic of the rush. Now they'll figure out a
way to get some young athletic players. Mikhel Williams may
have an opportunity to play a role. They have some
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other guys that can play a role, but no one
that's just like Nick Bosa. And if you're the Jaguars,
it means that you don't necessarily have to direct your
protection in.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
A particular way to double team or chip.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
A player that should free you have Trevor Lawrence to
have more time, more time to attack. But as Liam
Going kind of warned everybody, this is a game of patience,
and this is a game where the quarterback and everybody
has to be patient. It's going to be rare that
those big play opportunities are there, and you're going to
have to drive the ball to the left of the field,
taking dink and dunk plays, and they want to see
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if you're patient and disciplined enough to do it, because
they're betting that you will get bored or distracted and
you will trying to fit a ball into a tight
window that leads to an interception off her tip or overthrow.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Yeah, I think it's a big game for Trevor for
that reason. The Texans clearly, you know, stack the line
and dared him to beat them and played a similar
way that the Niners will play. The Niners play it
at a high level. Trevor does need to answer he's
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had four or five throws a game that you're like, what, Well,
the way the forty nine ers play, they're assuming that
if they have a twelve play drive that he'll have
one of those plays most series. So I think it's
a huge game for Trevor to just eliminate some of
those and show that he can be the patient, dink
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and dunk, be accurate short some of the things that
I think he can do but hasn't done at a
consistent level yet this year.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
I don't want to say.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
It's Trevor's game to win or lose, but I think
maybe more than any game yet, how he plays will
dick to how they do.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah, it will.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
But I take a lot of confidence from the fact
that typically Trevor Lawrence has played well against Gus Bradley's defense.
Gus Bradley was in Indianapolis, he had a lot of success
because he knew going into the game that it was
going to require a lot of patients. He put on
his little patient's hat and he dictated the terms taking
the dink and dunk. Now that he knows going into
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this that Robert Sola's defense is a variation of what
Gus Bradley does, he also knows going in, hey, this
is a week where I really have to take the checkdowns.
The more that I take the checkdowns, the more likely
I'm eventually going to get something at the intermediate level
that I want. But going into it, I would think
Travis ccien, the running backs man, they may combined for
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ten or more receptions because this run everyone off the field,
get the back, dump it off, let him get the work.
I think Travis Hunter could be in line to have
a big game. We seen him run those five yard
end routes that are nice for him because he can
catch it in knife up the field. To me, all
of that is in play, and it literally is about
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Trevor not only being patients in the twenties, I think
where his patience has to pay off. Can't he be
patient enough in the red zone to not try and
fit the ball in to avoid making the hero throws
and allow the offense to work for him. And then
the final part of it is the Jaguars have to
get sevens in the red zone. They can't consistently settle
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for threes. I think depending on who the quarterback is
on the other side, whether it's Mac Jones a brock pretty,
there's a magic number that will exist.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Now magic number may.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Be twenty twenty one points, so however you have to
stack it you get above that because for all the
things that the Niners are, I don't know how explosive.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
They will be on offense.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
If Mac Jones is a quarterback this week, and that's
not being disrespectful to him at all.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Yeah, if what you don't want to see in this
game is in the first half you look at the
stats sheet and you see a bunch of stars next
to the drives, because that shows you it's a red
zone drive and those drives ending with the forty nine
ers happy and you know with a pick and they're
going to break and they're showing the Niners in front
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of that screen. If you see that, then they've given
away opportunities. And also, Bucky to me, this is I'm
righting about it for later this week. I thought before
the season that if this offense was gonna be really,
really good, it was gonna have a lot more big
plays than last year. It was gonna have and you know,
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so it feels like they have to be patient, Like
I Trevor can't force it. But at some point on Sunday,
Travis Hunter's got to break a tackle and go, like,
he's got to turn one of those short passes into.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
A break and make a move and go.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
You're gonna need some sort of special from BTJ and
or Travis because I don't know, like, if I just
want to hold them the long drives, the Jaguars have
to trump that and have one of their making h
one or two of those guys make a big play
that goes against that, I think for them to win.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Yeah, this is where the scripted winners come in. I
would say the X factor in this to me is
Liam Coin's experience with the Rams, having seen the Niners
a lot, having seen the success that Sean McVay has
had against the Niners, understanding that kind of taking some
of the mystique that the Niners can have in some
stadiums against some of those teams and coaches that shouldn't
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exist for Liam because he's seen and been a part
of teams that have really beaten the Niners, and they
understand everything that goes along with beating them in their place.
To me, this could be a game that becomes sneaky
explosive for the Jaguars because Liam is so confident in
his scheme and he's seen Robert Solad's defense so much
that they have some things on the menu that are
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scripted winners that if completed, it really changes.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
The outlook of the game.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Now it's a matter of we got to catch him
when they're there, and we've got to make sure the
throwers there. But there're gonna be some opportunities where he
draws it up where he can be home run plays
for the Jaguars.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
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Speaker 2 (25:02):
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Speaker 5 (25:03):
That's exactly why why it's the huddle up with Bucky Brooks.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
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Speaker 2 (25:16):
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Speaker 7 (25:39):
We've got to attack the ball more, I think, with
our hands instead of letting them maybe get into the
body at times. We always talk about not trying to
let the ball cross our eyes. So if it's an
inbreaker or even an outbreaker, trying not to let it
cross you this way at all. There's a difference between
the ball being you know, here and going and getting
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it there. You know, that's just kind of the way it's.
You know, that's how we're trying to coach it.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
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Speaker 2 (26:15):
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Speaker 2 (26:34):
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Speaker 5 (26:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
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Speaker 3 (26:37):
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go to the Super Bowls?
Speaker 5 (26:44):
The fans can say that's like when I was in
high school, I always voted.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
For myself and never won. So I mean, as mi amo,
that's how it goes.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
It's okay Jaguars defense this week, facing in the San
Francisco forty nine ers. Of course, in the quick first question,
Marcus who's playing quarterback brock Perty has not been ruled
out yet. Mac Jones was on the injury of port.
He had a PCL issue pop up from the summertime
last week and limited with that knee issue today party
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also limited, So we'll see what happens as the week
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field all the time. He leads the league in touches
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this season so far seventy seven total, fifty two carries,
twenty five receptions, and it's the most through three games
in his career. Is this sustainable and how do you
slow him down?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Bucky?
Speaker 4 (27:50):
I mean, look, he's one of the best running backs
that we've seen in NFL history. Let's talk about someone
who's in rare clubs one thousand, one thousand, one hundred.
When it comes to rushing yards and catches, he's done
it all. When it comes to that, he is the
guy that drives their offense. And when he is going
as a runner or as a receiver, it spells doom
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for the defense. I think the one thing that you
have to understand is where he is at all times.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
You got to make sure you get multiple bodies to him.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
You have to be aware of him on these screen
down situations, second and long, first of drive, first time
you enter the red zone, the screen could come to him.
So just being aware of him at all times. This
is a game where you got to make somebody.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Else beat you.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
You have to make one of their guys on the perimeter,
make somebody else have a big game to beat you.
It has to be all odds on twenty two. Let's
limit him and limit his opportunities.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Yeah, I also think you can't get overwhelmed by them early.
Every time I've seen a Shanahan.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
Team play.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
This team is only a couple of times. It started
feeling like an avalanche fast and maybe it was game circumstance,
but you know they're gonna get because he schemes so well,
they're gonna have some success at times early.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
And Josh Allen, Josh Heines Allen said in the locker
room after after JP uh and he went at it talk.
It was a little sparring, but uh, but he said,
you know, you can't lose confidence when you play them.
You can't get what word he use, but basically that
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you've got to stay calm and realize, Okay, they're doing
some stuff with motions with you.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
Know that we have to adapt to.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Let's take a deep breath and adapt to it, and
it's okay, we're gonna get this right. So I do
think against the Shanahan offense, that's staying poised, which I
do believe these guys will, and not getting overwhelmed his key.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yeah, no, that's a big part of that.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
And at their place it can be an overwhelming environment
environment and so it's trying to avoid the feeding frenzy
that is the Bang Bang Niners game, meaning when they
get it going on defense, and they start making plays
and that offense get going, and then the crowds get
into it. It does have this overwhelming effect, and so
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we have to avoid the avalanche. That's why it's really
important for Trevor Lawrence and the guys on offense take
care of the ball, don't give the ball away. Let's
avoid the self inflicted mistakes that have kind of hurt
us the last few weeks. And then on defense, it's
doing what they've really done. The Jaguars done a really
good job of taking away the explosive play, forcing the
team to drive the lens of the field on ding
and dunk plays, and then you have to rally and tackle.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
It is the same thing.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Take away the deep ball, tackle in space, make them
kick field goals. If the Jaguars do that, it potentially
could be hard for the Niners to put up enough
points to knock the Jaguars out of the game.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
The Niners are three and oh bucky, but they don't
feel dominant yet. And I'm not saying they're not good,
because I really like this team in organization. I think
they're one of the best in the league. But have
they got it going or are they Is this a
time where the Jazz can get them on that front,
because they're not. It doesn't seem like they're running fine
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tuned the way they often do. I think they will,
but it doesn't know what they have yet.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Well, look, man, they've been hurt with injuries.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
A lot of the players that they're counting on to
be their difference makers right now on the sideline. You
talked about Bowsey, Kittle, Brandon now Yuk hasn't shown up.
Brought pretty is a game time decision, so they don't
have their squad. I think it speaks to the depth
of their roster that they've been able to run out
to a throndo start regardless of who they play. This
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is a team that has a championship pedigree. They have
high standards and expectations each and every year, and they
play up to that. That said, they're not the boogeyman.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
You know.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
You have to go in there. You have to be
able to deal with their physicality and toughness. You got
to be able to whether the storm that is coming.
But at the end of the day, to me, this
is about let's get the game in the fourth quarter
and slug it out with the team that is always
one of the elite teams in the league.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
I think the point Bucky made JP that I hadn't
thought about is the fact that Liam's coached against him
so often, and the teams in the West do tend
to play the Niners sometimes tougher than a lot of teams.
I mean, it's true of most inter division stuff. But
I think there's something to that. It's gonna be interesting
thing to watch on seting.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
By the way, Ricky Piersaw, their leading receiver right now,
is not practicing today with a knee issue. He's on
the injury report all of a sudden, and a guy
they've relied on a.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Lot the season.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Former first round pick out of Florida, the third in
the league in receiving yards. We'll have to watch that
this week to add to the long injury list for
the forty nine ers.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Bucket.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
Yeah, they always overcome it. They're always hurt and always
overcome it. They're an impressive organization that way, Bucky, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
That is something to that, though.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
They are always beat up, and I do know they
themselves and men the bullies on the block.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
They're a very physical team. They go about their daily
math is in practice.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
They're a very physical team in terms of practice, and
that carries over the games and those things, but they
are always forced to play with backups in those things.
In Ricky Pirosow's case, he is an outstanding route runner.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Loved him when he was coming out. He's the perfect
person to feel.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
The void that they had on the perimeter when they
got knocked out by the Kansas City Chiefs and the
Super Bowl a couple years ago. A lot of their
issue was their inability to separate from man coverage.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Inter Piersol.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Outstanding route runner, someone who can cover get away from
tight coverage, can do all the intricate and exotic routes
that Kyle Shanahan prefers. If he's available, man, it's a
tough guard. It's a tough cover, and you have to
make sure that you got multiple hats around him when
he catch the ball, because he's also a pretty good
run after the catch, all right.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
The matchup is on the Jaguars and the forty nine
Ers this Sunday at Levi Stadium, Santa Clara. We're back
in the moment. Final thoughts including the Jaguars history in
the state of California, I.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
Bring that out.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Uh yep, well you gotta do it. We'll do it
after this, it's huddle up with Bucky Brooks.
Speaker 8 (34:17):
They're a pretty simple scheme. They're not trying to really
trick anyone. But they've always had a good defense and
this scheme has always been really good and tough to
play against because they are so consistent and they are
really disciplined. They play most things top down. You know,
they fly around sideline, the sideline as far as just
the D line and the linebackers, so they make a
lot of plays with that front group there, and then
(34:38):
on the back end. I think they're really disciplined, they're
really smart. So it's just we'll have some opportunities down
the field, but it's really taking that profit every time
and being able to check them ball down. And they've
made you know, they've they've played really well with that
scheme of just banking that you're not just gonna you know,
take the small gains all the way down the field
(34:59):
and put together nine, ten, twelve, play drive and go score.
And they're also really good at taking the ball away.
So when you do put the ball in harms way,
whether it's a throw or just carrying the ball. They're
really good at punching, causing fumbles, all those things, so
you can tell it's a really well coached group. They
fly around.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
That's the quarterback.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
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(35:36):
their second visit to Santa Clara, only their third visit
ever to play the forty nine ers on the road.
They've been a bunch of the Bay Area, of course
when Oakland was still in the league before they moved
to Vegas, but only their second trip to Levi's Stadium.
The Jaguars historically in the state of California have not
fared well. On your screen there four and eleven all
time in the state and two at the Niners. You
(35:58):
see the two losses there Candlestick IT nine and Levi
Stadium in twenty seventeen that was late in the year
and twenty seventeen around Christmas. I believe it was Christmas Eve,
maybe I remember.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
The seventeen Oh yeah, they got rolled. They got it
was Steamroll, the really good team.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
It wasn't even that close.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
No, it was.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Niners got way way up early and Jack's actually the
nice up coming back for a little bit in the
first half, and then it.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Was just uh cooked.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
Yeah, it was probably the worst loss of that year
for that seventeen teen and.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Then you see the rest.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
They've had horror stories against the Chargers both places. At
the Rams once and at the Oakland Raiders they had
mixed success. So this has got to be part of
the new era of Jaguars football to put all this
in the rear view. And then they haven't played this
Jaguars team.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
Yeah, I mean, this is something that.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
When I was covering the team in the nineties, this
wasn't a thing because it was so young. But since
I've been back in eleven, you know, for fifteen years,
every time you go West, no matter what era, this
is the topic. And every era has said, hey, it's
not us anymore, and it has been so I'm right
(37:10):
later this week, this is not a must win game
by any means but it is very much a chance
to show you can go win out there a second,
go beat a team like this that's a good team,
no matter how many guys are hurt. They're three and zero.
And I think most people in the league know what
the Niners are. Bucky, They're respected. The Niners are the
(37:33):
kind of team that it's tough for a team that's
in the Jaguars position, just starting out. It's tough for
them to go beat them, but you know what, you
can go beat them and show that.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
This is different. So I think it's I think it's
a big chance for this bunch.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Yes, it's a huge opportunity.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
And in fact, as someone who lives in California, I
always say we need to play more games in California.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
That's the only way to even the recor out.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
You got to have more bites at the applet, right,
So maybe we could do something like that to kind
of till the playing field back in.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
The Jaguars take your place. But oh, I mean yeah,
we can do that, Like come on, I mean why not.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
What I will say is the Niners have always been
an organization that has high standards, like they have a
championship pedigree, It was established with Bill Washed and it's
continued from coaches time after time, and so there's a
way that they operate. They kind of know winning, the
embrace winning, and for an upstart team, a team that
is learning how to win, they take advantage of your
(38:34):
mistakes because they know that you're not consistent enough to
be able to do it down after down, quarter after quarter.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
For the Jaguars, I think if you're Liam Coin, I.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Think in a way, you break this game down in
the quarters and play each fifteen minute quarter on its own.
Hey guys, let's get through the fourth quarter. Be right
there in the second quarter. Let's get the halftime and
make sure we're in range. Third quarter, we're here, fourth quarter,
let's go win it. If you do those things and
kind of take the the broader thing out of it,
where you kind of focusing on an individual process that
(39:04):
you break up, I think that'll give the Jags a chance.
And it appears to listen, like listening to Trevor Lawrence
when he talks about the defense, it appears to understand
what they're up against. And when you do that and
you have a heightened sense of awareness, you know who
you're playing, not in terms of being intimidated, but just
kind of knowing what's out there. I think we're gonna
see the Jaguars respond with the best game of the
(39:25):
season thus far.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Yeah, that's sort of talking around the same issue the
red zone. You don't want to give away an opportunity
there because then they're running off the field telling each other, yeah,
we were waiting for that. So I mean, that's exactly
what I think. It's why it's such a mental test
I think for the Jaguars this weekend to sort of
(39:48):
approve to this forty nine ers team that'll be waiting
for them to make those mistakes and that's not us.
So it's I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated by this team.
Speaker 6 (39:57):
First of all.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
I was fascinated going to the Texans game. How they'd
respond to that. I think they'll respond, well, I don't
know if they'll win any It's a tall ask for
them to win this game, but then they're gonna have
a chance, and we're learning a lot about the toughness
of this team. I think everything else you can say
about the Jaguars, I do think they're a mentally and
physically tough team, which is interesting to watch.
Speaker 6 (40:17):
After what we've seen here for a while.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
And the forty nine ers are so banged up as well,
this would be a good time to get them well.
While that's going on, Bucky, no time zone jumping for
you this week. You get to stay in the Pacific
time zone.
Speaker 6 (40:28):
You can ride your bike down, Bucky, is that what
you're doing?
Speaker 2 (40:31):
I mean maybe, you know, I mean, I mean I might.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
I might try and keep it green and just kind
of do something light work, don't you know.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Make sure I take care of the people. It should
be fun.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
I'll make sure I take take care of you and
see if I can find you a nice little spot
to eat and feel good enjoy someone.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
This California living, you know.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
I look forward to it. California.
Speaker 5 (40:49):
I am kind of a California guy. Bucky lives there,
but spiritually I'm a California guy.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
I could see that John. I can see John.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
I can see John fully embracing all of that. I
can see him as a beach work for me, you know.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Yeah in San Francisco, though, I mean this is northern California.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
It's different.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Yeah, yeah, Northern California's a little chillier. But go now,
we can we can figure it out. We can we
can make it right for.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
You, Bucky. We'll talk to you later in the week. Man,
appreciate it. Man, Let's go Bucky Brooks out of here.
John Ozier. I'm JP Shaddicker. Thanks to Joe for Junano,
Brent Reba, our entire crew, and thanks to you for
watching its huddle up with Bucky Brooks.
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