Speaker 1: NFL network analysts and Jaguars Happy Our co host Jaguars
Speaker 1: Scoreboard show co hosts Lucky Brooks joining us now and uh, Bucky,
Speaker 1: thanks for taking the time. You know, it's it's a
Speaker 1: strange week obviously in Jaguar's Twitter land and on sports
Speaker 1: talk radio and local media here in Jacksonville. There's a
Speaker 1: fan base that loves to see Trevor Lawrence on the
Speaker 1: television screen then in the stadium. But there's a football team,
Speaker 1: the players and coaches that want to snap a thirteen
Speaker 1: game losing skin. That's quite a balance to to deal
Speaker 1: with this week. Yeah, it is a balance, and it's
Speaker 1: a balance because it's a bit of a distraction from
Speaker 1: the coaches because the coaches and the players they obviously
Speaker 1: want to win. No one wants to I mean, Endo
Speaker 1: her thirteen straight losses and potentially looking at fourteen, and
Speaker 1: so as a coach and as a player, you're doing
Speaker 1: everything in your power to put yourself in the winning column.
Speaker 1: That's it. You're you're looking around the fan base and uh,
Speaker 1: I mean even in the front office is like there's
Speaker 1: a bit of excitement because you see what could potentially
Speaker 1: be around the corner and what's behind door. Number one
Speaker 1: is a terrific prospect, a guy who was a transcendent
Speaker 1: talent and a game changer. And so I can't blame
Speaker 1: the fans for being excited about the prospect of um
Speaker 1: a quarterback from Clempson Trevor Lawrence potentially being the number
Speaker 1: one overall pick if the Jaguars finished with the number
Speaker 1: one pick. But Bucky, there's all this talk about you
Speaker 1: know what, bench guys tank do it right, But that's unethical.
Speaker 1: You have to go play the game still at some
Speaker 1: point because that would affect the Bears of the NFC
Speaker 1: playoff race as well. There's a lot going on here
Speaker 1: with that game. So you you want to pick, sure,
Speaker 1: but you go out and play. It just happens that
Speaker 1: this team is probably not good enough to win anyway.
Speaker 1: We saw what happened last week when everybody was out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and the thing I think that's that's scary
Speaker 1: about it, right, because you can sit here and say, um,
Speaker 1: they're not good enough to win. But we're seeing any
Speaker 1: given Sunday, any given Monday, we said, and they saw
Speaker 1: the Jazz knock off, the Rams, we saw since the
Speaker 1: NATI beingo Palm of the Pittsburgh Stillers, and so you
Speaker 1: just don't know, And I think it is their duty
Speaker 1: as coach and his players to get ready to play,
Speaker 1: to put them the best performance that they can put
Speaker 1: on in between the lines, and then you just kinda
Speaker 1: have to see what happens. But I do understand the
Speaker 1: anticipation and the excitement of potentially having the number one
Speaker 1: overall pick because you see this quarterback who has been
Speaker 1: lightened up for years at Clempson, who has led them
Speaker 1: to a national title, who has this team back in
Speaker 1: the football playoff. I mean, there is a level of
Speaker 1: entry because you're just saying, man, if you get a
Speaker 1: player like that, what could that do for the franchise?
Speaker 1: As you think about this branchise having to undergo a rebuild,
Speaker 1: it's a huge piece. Of course, there's still a lot
Speaker 1: of other things to do, but you get that quarterback
Speaker 1: and it changes a lot of Bucky Brooks with us
Speaker 1: NFL Network analysts, speaking of quarterbacks, this football team this
Speaker 1: week had a quarterback competition in Week sixteen, Mike Glennon
Speaker 1: and Gardner met show. I don't think I've ever heard
Speaker 1: of that, especially at a one in thirteen football team. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I've never I've never heard of that, and I don't
Speaker 1: how you do that in practices that are scripted in
Speaker 1: those things. But everybody is always under evaluation. I think
Speaker 1: for Doug Moron, he's trying to figure out, man, who
Speaker 1: is the best guy that can give me an opportunity
Speaker 1: to win when they've charted out Mike Lennon, he has
Speaker 1: been fine at times, but the more that he played,
Speaker 1: the more that he kind of showed who he is
Speaker 1: as a player. And if we're going to ment you
Speaker 1: who started out as a starter, I think everyone knows
Speaker 1: exactly who he is. And as a coach, you're trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what is the right combination uh at
Speaker 1: the position to allow us to play our best in
Speaker 1: the potensity knock off a Bears team, Um that has
Speaker 1: been playing pretty well, all right, Bucky. On top of
Speaker 1: all that, general manager interviews reportedly have started this week,
Speaker 1: I don't know. On Jaguars dot com this week you
Speaker 1: had some writing about some of the candidates and what
Speaker 1: they bring to the table. Let's go through them. Let's
Speaker 1: start off with Lewis Riddick, who has been reported to
Speaker 1: have interviewed with the Jaguars Monday, Night Football analysts tell
Speaker 1: us about his past. So Lewis Ridick is funny because
Speaker 1: Lewis and our teammates with the Oakland Raiders back in
Speaker 1: the day. And I would say is one of the
Speaker 1: brightest minds in football. Obviously, you hear how he conveys
Speaker 1: and teaches the game to fans on Monday Night Football
Speaker 1: during the telecasts and also on ESPN. He certainly gets
Speaker 1: it from a big picture perspective. He has been influenced
Speaker 1: the right way having played in Cleveland under Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: and Nick Saban. He understands how football should be played.
Speaker 1: He is more the type that we're leaning towards an
Speaker 1: old school tent in terms of smart, fast, physical football.
Speaker 1: He wants to have a team that is strong down
Speaker 1: the middle, and I think he has said that on
Speaker 1: numerous occasions when he's had the opportunity to talk about
Speaker 1: team building on TV. And so he is obviously someone
Speaker 1: who has worked in a couple of different front offices,
Speaker 1: the Washington Football Team, the Philadelphia Eagles as a pro director,
Speaker 1: and so what he doesn't have and top end experience,
Speaker 1: he makes up for in his expertise and how he's
Speaker 1: been influenced by those who have been very very successful
Speaker 1: in the league. Next name, I'm Trent and Bunky. He
Speaker 1: is the in the house option at least at the moment,
Speaker 1: the interim GM right now. He came on in January
Speaker 1: of this year. We know his track record with the
Speaker 1: forty Niners. They had some success when he was there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had a lot of success. He is a guy
Speaker 1: who kind of worked up the ranks as a scout.
Speaker 1: He has been with a few different organizations, the Jets
Speaker 1: Washington before making his way to San Francisco. Uh really
Speaker 1: worked with the guy that I'm really uh familiar found
Speaker 1: within that's Scott mccloyin and they built that forty Niners
Speaker 1: team into a juggernaut. Um. You see some of the
Speaker 1: picks and some of the things that they were able
Speaker 1: to do the way they played. They certainly, um were
Speaker 1: a star studied group who had a lot of success.
Speaker 1: And I think uh if he had an opportunity to
Speaker 1: really put his inmfort on the Jackson Jaguars, I think
Speaker 1: you would see some of those things play out. Big
Speaker 1: and strong in the trenches. Defense that really has pass
Speaker 1: for uss as just able to control it fast at
Speaker 1: the second level on defense and then if you flip
Speaker 1: the offense, playmakers, running game, quarterback, that's dynamic. He understands
Speaker 1: how to build that. And so if he had his opportunity,
Speaker 1: with all the picks and the things that are set
Speaker 1: up for whoever takes over the role UM, he certainly
Speaker 1: would be able to build this team in the vision
Speaker 1: of a fast, physical football team that should have a
Speaker 1: lot of success, Bucky. The final name will discuss today
Speaker 1: that has been mentioned as an interviewee is Rick Smith,
Speaker 1: the guy we know well in the a f C
Speaker 1: South with his time down in Houston. Yeah, Rick Smith
Speaker 1: has been very, very successful as a general manager UM.
Speaker 1: In twelve seasons in Houston, he had eight teams that
Speaker 1: were five hundred better. Uh they won four division titles,
Speaker 1: three or four playoff mark and then I think when
Speaker 1: you look at the draft record, the draft record is
Speaker 1: pretty impressive. J. J. Watt, Deshaun Watson, Jadevian Clowney, uh
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins all were guys that came in were cornerstone
Speaker 1: players for their franchise. I think with Rick Smith, what
Speaker 1: you're getting is a very experienced guy who is a
Speaker 1: great communicator. I think if you look at his relationships,
Speaker 1: not only with scouts, but with the head coaches. He
Speaker 1: has been able to get along and try and create
Speaker 1: a cooperation that allows the team to kind have one
Speaker 1: voice in one vision. And so when you look at
Speaker 1: the Jaguars in the situation with the number of draft picks,
Speaker 1: the sellary cap space, the young talent that's available, I
Speaker 1: would like to think that Rick Smith would be able
Speaker 1: to hit the ground running, particularly because he has a
Speaker 1: familiarity with the division that should give him an edge
Speaker 1: over some candidates. Great stuff is always Bucky. This is
Speaker 1: just the beginning, So get ready. Moving back with you
Speaker 1: a lot in the coming week. So we'll talk to
Speaker 1: you in the post game. How about it? How about it, man,
Speaker 1: Let's do it.