Jaguars Coordinators on Player Performance, Expectations for Week 7 | Jacksonville Jaguars

Hey, coach. Uh, what what are your how do you temper your expectations or alter your expectations for what you’re going to get out of Trayvon with that club? Um, you know, I think he’s been progressing. I see a little bit more um, you know, he’s just able to do a little bit more uh, right now than he was early on, you know, and I know he he practiced toward the end of the week when we played Kansas City. Um, and you could see like, all right, there’s a little bit of a, you know, going to be a little bit of a curve here for him. Um, and he’s really done a good job progressing along since that point. Um, so it’s really just trying to use him in in probably similar ways to the way we did last week. And then, you know, little by little we can get him in there more and more um as he gets back to normal. But, um, he’s he’s done a good job out here so far. uh a little bit more uh I think just comfortable over over the course of last few days. Thank you. Hey coach, thanks for doing this. Obviously Devin’s made a lot of plays this year. Won’t have him this week. Just what do you like about Ventrell and what’s your confidence level with him? Yeah, I have a ton of confidence in him. I I thought he had um a great summer, a great spring. Um and he’s really just done a good job. He’s he’s a pros pro, you know, in terms of staying ready um and being aware uh of everything within the system and the scheme. He’s a physical dude, man. I know you guys have seen him play uh over the years. He’s just really a tough tough uh offthe-ball football player for us. So, um I’m excited for him. I’m excited for his opportunity, you know, to get out there and and play a bunch. Um and he’s done a good job up to this point. He’s done a good job out here this week. Um, and Ben Trell also, I think he’s got some really good leadership qualities, too. You know, the guys love playing with him. Um, and we all really enjoy coaching, love coaching him, so I’m excited for him. Thanks, coach. You bet. We’ll go Ryan followed by Justin. Hey, Cap. I got two for you. Uh, in the game the other day, you rushed four for most of the game and decided to dial something up late in the game. Um when when you go against a veteran quarterback, what is that mental gymnastics like if you as a play caller, whether to really send extra guys or play for rush for and play coverage? Yeah, there’s there’s uh you know, a fair amount that goes into that. We probably pressure that may not even have shown up a little bit more on some of those early downs, whether we were firing other guys in there. Um, but I think there there is always a little bit of a chess game with that with the guys who really do a great job um evaluating pre- snap, you know, and do some good pre-nap indication stuff, which I think the Rams do a great job of as well. Um, but yeah, there’s always a cat and mouse with that for sure. Hopefully I’m answering your question. Um, no, you are. No. Yeah, sorry. But uh, but yeah, definitely I thought the guys did a good job with that as the game progressed on. uh with would get in pressure as we were sending more pressure um to help the pass rush and and stop some of the runs in there. Second one for you. My Terk Brown has made some plays on the ball against Seattle. What have you uh thought of his play since he got back from injury? You know, a few weeks ago, um I was talking about Buster where I felt like he really had a good spring for us. He got hurt the first day of summer camp which was unfortunate but um we had been excited to get him back because he made a ton of plays on the ball over the course of the summer as well um or the spring I should say and he’s kind of jump right back in where he left off. Um he’s a really really competitive guy and um he’s I said that about a pro too man. He really does all the extra uh off the field and really has a great football has great awareness and a great football IQ. So, uh, I’m really, really happy with how he’s playing right now. Thank you. Thanks, Ryan. Hey, coach. Uh, Liam said yesterday that he kind of sat down and watched film with you and the defensive coaches. Um, do you think that familiarity with the Rams offense and all of that, is is that an actual thing or are we making too much of it? No, I think anytime you’ve been somewhere and you’ve been in a system, it’s it’s always a positive. um you know and it’s advantageous to be able to sit and communicate with uh someone who’s been in the trenches there and and uh you know understands the system and uh that’s always something that as coaches I think you you try to utilize as much as you can um when you have guys who have been in places and have a familiarity. So yeah coach is always super helpful with that. uh and and there is you know a lot of the systems uh there is some carryover you know because that is a big tree where all these guys have come from uh you know in uh different places and they all kind of branch out and know each other a little bit so that’s always helpful with Mark next followed by Shipley yeah camp I just wanted to ask you about Newsome and his his progress what is what do you expect from week two with him yeah I think anytime you just get to spend and more time. Um, you know, there’s more of a familiarity for Greg and and um, you know, he’s he’s a really bright guy. Um, and he’s working hard at it. So, for him really, we we’d love to see his progression, you know, and and obviously get some more snaps in there because I think he has a much better feel of it. Obviously, more than he would have would have after two days, but but, uh, you know, um, he’s done a great job with that, man. like he’s been in there with Ron Mileus, Julie Scary, and Coach Perkins. He’s been grinding and and really with the other players. The players have done a great job. Uh, and he’s been really, really professional and doing a ton of work. So, I’m excited about getting him some more ops, too. Coach, uh, Liam said yesterday that, you know, he’s been telling the defense, don’t trust Stafford’s eyes. How do you kind of coach that up? The way he kind of manipulates defenses to no look passes. How do you kind of prepare a defense for that? Yeah, I think it’s hard to simulate that, but you you uh really have to have some stuff queued up so they can really get a feel and an understanding for how good he actually is at that. Uh whether that’s TV copy so they can literally see him doing that. Um or just other instances or other angles of him doing it. Uh cuz he could be like Magic Johnson back there. I mean, might look one way and dish it the other direction. So he he’s uh as about as good uh as there’s ever been doing that tremendous, you know, manipulating and obviously identifying coverage and then manipulating people, moving them with his eyes and throwing the ball in the opposite direction, which you know, super impressive to see. Thanks, coach. You bet. You uh played your first game without Brenton Strange last week. What kind of uh benefit was that just the discovery of not having him and how you can adjust now going into game two without him? There was certainly an adjustment period. So, it’s nice to have those reps to look back on and see what you’re missing from a game standpoint. You have an idea of what you’re missing going into it just because of how much value he provides in the run game, in the past game, play pass, all those things that we talked about, but it’s certainly nice to get a feel for what the rhythm between the tight ends is like actually playing out there from series to series or down to down to have Hunter in, Johnny in, and those guys go back and forth. you saw Quinton in there at times and really feel what it’s like to have those guys take on that added responsibility. So, we evaluate everything, make the adjustments accordingly, and I think those guys have really embraced the role, the added role really of taking on those things that are missing now without Britain. Uh, second one for me was uh Byron Young, number zero for the Rams. Um, what makes him such an effective pass rusher? There’s a lot of things. The thing that makes really all of those guys up front such good pass rushers is they have such balanced attacks rushing. They they can get off the ball. They can use speed. They can use power. They’re great with their hands. So, they really have a really wide toolbox and the variety of moves that can attack guys up front. Then you add in the twist games that they have off of that. Whether they’re rushing one-on-one themselves or working with each other, they’re well coordinated in their rushes. So, it makes it difficult to manage in a one-on-one matchup. But then you add in the layer of there’s picks, there’s twist, they’re lined up in different spots that makes it difficult from a team perspective of trying to attack them in protection. Right. Thanks, bro. We’ll go Drock followed by Shipley. Hey, Liam talking the other day about getting Travis some more plays where he’s more of the primary option. Is that a matter of like adding more stuff to his plate or is it more just getting you he’s been in those plays before that’s been part of the game plan. It just hasn’t worked out. It’s a little bit of a balance. There are certainly plays in the game plan that the ball might not go to him where he was the primary. There are also certain plays in the game plan that you have designed for them that you don’t get to or aren’t able to call because the right situation didn’t arise or the right coverage didn’t dictate getting into that look. So, I think it’s us trying to narrow down and find what are the things that he can do well, put them in the game plan, and then try to find a way to ensure that those opportunities arise throughout the course of the game. We never want to force somebody the ball, but he’s certainly a guy who can make things happen when he has the ball in his hand. So we try to be deliberate every single week about making sure guys are in the best possible position for success whether it’s a skilled guy or an offensive lineman and he’s no different. So we will continue to work from now really probably even through the end of the season hopefully beyond to try to make sure that we have opportunities for him to touch the ball and that we can dictate to defenses those opportunities to make sure he’s getting the touches where we see fit. How has the offensive line responded this week or is that not something you’re going to know until game day? There’s certainly opportunity to respond within the week when you just come in and evaluate the film and the accountability that guys take watching the film, looking at their mistakes, looking at the areas that they can improve, which has been great to be able to get back to work with those guys and see their attitude and effort. There’s a nice balance between that as well where you’re trying to to make those corrections and fix those mistakes and also move on because you got to start to prepare for a difficult opponent, excuse me, upcoming with the Rams. So, we try to address that as much as we can only really to to learn from that and grow from that rather than to dwell on the past. And the guys have done a great job of trying to take those adjustments, learn from those mistakes, learn from the things that came up in that game and then improve from it moving forward. Thank you. Thanks. Hey, Grant. Thanks for doing this. Obviously, Chris Schuler’s been in Los Angeles for a long time, coordinator last few seasons. What are kind of the trademarks of his defense and the different things that they might throw at you? You see the roots of the defense going back for the different coordinators that he was with in his time there in LA. But really over the course of these two years of them calling it, you’ve seen that defense evolve and it’s continued to evolve. Part of that’s probably due to the personnel changes, they’ve had older guys that he was with in previous years when he wasn’t the coordinator and then they’ve gotten younger guys and new guys come through there. And they’ve done a phenomenal job of really adapting and modifying that scheme and that defensive structure to do what those guys do well. And I think that’s part of the reason why they are such good defense is he’s continued to evolve, continued to find new ways to attack offenses. Whether it’s just in a coverage or front standpoint or whether it’s a pressure standpoint, they see different things on third downs. They’ve evolved even from the beginning of last year to the end of last year, from the beginning of this year to this week. And I have no doubt they’ll have some new wrinkles and adjustments for us and probably will all the way throughout the entire season. So there’s been some similarities kind of in that structure from where you see how guys are lining up where you say it’s a base three four defense but there there’s so many differences when you look at the accumulation of all the changes that he’s made and they’ve made as a staff over these past two seasons. Thanks Grant. Thanks Sean.

Jaguars OC Grant Udinski and DC Anthony Campanile meet with the media on Thursday ahead of the matchup against the Los Angeles Rams in Week 7 of the 2025 NFL season.

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