The following material is the copyrighted property of Jacksonville Jaguars, LLC. The material is not being made available to, and is not to be used by, any individuals other than members of the media that have been accredited by Jacksonville Jaguars, LLC. The materials may be used for the purpose of providing limited amounts of quotable excerpts for use in connection with news reports and articles created by such members of the media. Any other use is strictly prohibited. The material is not to be shared with any third parties. The material may not be duplicated, reproduced, published or distributed without the prior written consent of Jacksonville Jaguars, LLC. <strong>JAGUARS</strong> HEAD COACH GUS BRADLEY <strong>JAGUARS</strong> AT SAINTS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2015 (Opening statement) “First of all, give credit to New Orleans and their gameplan. Offensively, I thought that they came out and did a really nice job. The first couple of series, I thought that the way that they changed their personnel groupings, and how they aligned in some of their shifts and motions, got us off base a little bit. They were looking for match-ups. There was a time where we had a third and long, we stopped them and they got to a fourth (down) and five, we miscommunicated a matchup, set a guy free, and allowed them to convert on a fourth-and-five. And then (there was) a second (down) and 21, I believe, and we are off playing off-coverage (against) a team that could run the ball or throw a screen 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 yards, and we are playing off-coverage. Those things like that took place all day.” (On needing to play with more precision) “When you are playing against an offense like this with that kind of precision, you have to be on the details. You have to be. There cannot be lapses in communication. And some of them are simple calls. Those things showed up today. I think that is a lesson for our team. You have heard me all year talk about precision. The word precision came when I was in Seattle and we faced New Orleans because I saw how that offense operated. I was like, ‘This is a precision league. And for us to get to where we want to be defensively, we have to play with that same precision.’ Hopefully, we learned a valuable lesson today. We can talk precision, but they just felt it.” (On the play of the Jaguars offense) “Offensively, I thought that we got it going late in the game. We moved the ball, but you can’t have turnovers against a team that has that type of offense as well. We made some decisions that were costly, gave them opportunities to work on a short field. We just didn’t execute in the second half. The effort, the toughness, the grit, that is there. This is precision now, this is precision (that we need to play with to win). It’s not just (like you can) go out there and study film, line up and play our techniques. When you have an opportunity to make a play, you’ve got to make the play.” (On what he will do to change the defense going forward) “As you go back and look at it, you find out the guys when their number is called and they are making plays. Then, we have to find out what we are asking out of positions and are we getting what we are asking. Hard decisions have to be made. We just have to look at it across the board. Guys have roles. Guys have certain traits. We’ve got to utilize their strengths. It goes on us as coaches, too. The players, when you ask them to do something and they line up and understand it, then they have to perform.”
The following material is the copyrighted property of Jacksonville Jaguars, LLC. The material is not being made available to, and is not to be used by, any individuals other than members of the media that have been accredited by Jacksonville Jaguars, LLC. The materials may be used for the purpose of providing limited amounts of quotable excerpts for use in connection with news reports and articles created by such members of the media. Any other use is strictly prohibited. The material is not to be shared with any third parties. The material may not be duplicated, reproduced, published or distributed without the prior written consent of Jacksonville Jaguars, LLC. (On losing Jared Odrick early in the game) “That is challenging. The run game (of the Saints), you saw that they were able to run the ball a little bit better on us because of that. They ran with heavy personnel, which we would like to have Jared in for, which we weren’t able to have in there so we weren’t as able to get as big as we wanted to in some of the personnel groupings.”
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