JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS WEEKLY GAME RELEASE
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<strong>JAGUARS</strong> HEAD COACH GUS BRADLEY<br />
<strong>JAGUARS</strong> AT SAINTS<br />
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2015<br />
(Opening statement) “First of all, give credit to New Orleans and their gameplan. Offensively, I thought<br />
that they came out and did a really nice job. The first couple of series, I thought that the way that they<br />
changed their personnel groupings, and how they aligned in some of their shifts and motions, got us off<br />
base a little bit. They were looking for match-ups. There was a time where we had a third and long, we<br />
stopped them and they got to a fourth (down) and five, we miscommunicated a matchup, set a guy free,<br />
and allowed them to convert on a fourth-and-five. And then (there was) a second (down) and 21, I<br />
believe, and we are off playing off-coverage (against) a team that could run the ball or throw a screen<br />
right there, and we get beat on a, I don’t know, a 60, 70 yard pass, I’m not sure whatever it was, 80<br />
yards, and we are playing off-coverage. Those things like that took place all day.”<br />
(On needing to play with more precision) “When you are playing against an offense like this with that<br />
kind of precision, you have to be on the details. You have to be. There cannot be lapses in<br />
communication. And some of them are simple calls. Those things showed up today. I think that is a<br />
lesson for our team. You have heard me all year talk about precision. The word precision came when I<br />
was in Seattle and we faced New Orleans because I saw how that offense operated. I was like, ‘This is a<br />
precision league. And for us to get to where we want to be defensively, we have to play with that same<br />
precision.’ Hopefully, we learned a valuable lesson today. We can talk precision, but they just felt it.”<br />
(On the play of the Jaguars offense) “Offensively, I thought that we got it going late in the game. We<br />
moved the ball, but you can’t have turnovers against a team that has that type of offense as well. We<br />
made some decisions that were costly, gave them opportunities to work on a short field. We just didn’t<br />
execute in the second half. The effort, the toughness, the grit, that is there. This is precision now, this is<br />
precision (that we need to play with to win). It’s not just (like you can) go out there and study film, line<br />
up and play our techniques. When you have an opportunity to make a play, you’ve got to make the<br />
play.”<br />
(On what he will do to change the defense going forward) “As you go back and look at it, you find out<br />
the guys when their number is called and they are making plays. Then, we have to find out what we are<br />
asking out of positions and are we getting what we are asking. Hard decisions have to be made. We just<br />
have to look at it across the board. Guys have roles. Guys have certain traits. We’ve got to utilize their<br />
strengths. It goes on us as coaches, too. The players, when you ask them to do something and they line<br />
up and understand it, then they have to perform.”