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Press Pass | Jaguars Coordinators Talk Prep for Wildcard Matchup vs. Bills
08 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What insights does Anthony Campanile share about elite players in the league?
How do you describe that guy? Really good. He's a great player. When I was in Miami for a bunch of years, we would play him at least twice a year. So one season there, we played three times. But he's a phenomenal player. Just every facet of what he does is elite. So he's elite in the pocket, elite thrower. Hard to tackle, obviously, in his career. But a smart guy, too.
He's kind of running the show up there, as you know. He gets them into great plays. I think he's got all the skill sets of any elite player in this league at that position. And he makes you stay up late at night to try and get it right, that's for sure. Facing the league's number one rushing offense with the number one rushing defense, what kind of opportunity does that present for you guys?
I think it's just an opportunity for us to play with technique and do our job. That's kind of the way we're looking at it. That's the way the guys in the room are looking at it. That's how I'm looking at it. They challenge you in so many ways with their run game. make everybody tackle. They do a really good job in their combinations, do a good job playing with their hands as an offensive line.
Really everybody, I would say. I think their perimeter does a very good job blocking. And that's generated a lot of the big runs for them down the field, even in the screen game, which are an extension of the run game. They've done a great job on the perimeter blocking. So it's a challenge at every level of the defense. And the running back obviously is Elite, I think he does a tremendous job.
Cook does a tremendous job of finding cracks. You look at some of the stuff on tape, there's nowhere to go, and he pops through there. So he's an elite back, and obviously the quarterback's an elite runner as well. But they have a bunch of good backs. So they've really given everybody fits at this point in the season and the run game. So it's a great challenge for us.
Yeah, he's a guy they move around quite a bit, but he's just so elusive. And in my opinion, he's got great stop start, you know, and that's what's really challenging about him. So in man to man, he's a challenge to cover.
And you got to know where he is really every down because he becomes an issue in terms of them, like you said, moving him around and them trying to get numbers issues in their favor in the run game too. You guys have been able to put Josh and Trayvon next to each other on pass rush downs a few times in the last couple weeks. Just what can happen to you guys next to each other like that?
Yeah, they work pretty well together, like even when we're running the pass rush games. And again, sometimes that's just trying to find the right matchup that we want in the rush. And I think that that's been pretty productive for us also.
So they've done a great job with that, those two guys, and it's something I think they enjoy doing as well, you know, working together, working right next to each other. I feel like we've asked you about Antonio Johnson quite a bit lately.
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Chapter 2: How does the Jaguars' defense prepare for the Bills' rushing offense?
Keep asking because every time you do, he keeps playing good. Looking at your chess pieces, you got a guy with his size, his speed, ball skills that you can put down in the box if you want. You can move him around the defense and he can excel.
He's done so much for us because of that, because he has a very unique skill set, because he's a big guy, big enough to play on the line of scrimmage, down on the line of scrimmage, like you said. Has really good coverage skills, so he can cover the skill guys and does a good job on tight ends as well. And he's got range when he plays in the post or plays in the half, so
His football intelligence is really high, to be honest with you. I think I've said in here before just how hard he's worked, doing the extra stuff, meeting with other guys on the team and coaches. He's improved so much, and he really gives us, to your point, gives us a lot of options with him in the game.
He'd be this week when you go against a team like the Bills that has a couple of really good tight ends. Yeah, he's important every week, but their tight ends, they have a very good tight end room, as you know. I think Knox has had a tremendous career. Kincaid's an elite athlete. They're doing a great job in the run game and in the pass game.
So it's a challenge, and Antonio's a guy throughout our season who's helped us a whole lot in that way. I think a lot of people had a huge influence on me. I'd say recently, obviously working with Jeff Halfley, I thought we had a very similar belief system and style. We see things very similarly.
And then Vic Fangio is probably a guy who, he had a tremendous impact on me, just in seeing certain things in the game. how you call the game, and even in terms of how you practice things. So he's been somebody that has been a great resource for me, was a huge help to me, and he definitely had a big effect on me as well. Jeff's one of those guys, and Flo, too.
Brian, Coach Flores, had a huge impact on me, and you can probably see a lot of the things that we do, they may show up for some of those teams as well. but when you watch that tape, is that a resourceful? Yeah, you're always looking at stuff where there's, if there's any similarity for sure.
But, you know, I've pretty much went through all the games and that's usually what is my process, you know, what I do. And I think that our coaches have done a great job, our assistant coaches have done a great job kind of raising points and looking at certain things. They've been a huge resource as well.
But, yeah, all the games, you know, usually you do that five-game breakdown, you know, five most recent, and then we kind of just have gone through everything. Liam mentioned yesterday that you made it hard on him to get you here just because of how close you were with some of your players up in Green Bay. How important is that relationship with the guys in this locker room for you as a coach?
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Chapter 3: What challenges does the Jaguars' defense face against the Bills' offensive line?
And if you care about people, you're going to want to see them be successful. And we have a great group of people here too. So I was like super fortunate, you know, to leave that. It was something I struggled with making that decision. But being here, there's been so many, you know, everywhere you go, you meet great people in this game. You really do. But this place is special.
We got a great group of guys and, you know, This place has certainly made it easy on me, you know, our players and coaches, because they're hard guys not to love being around. helpful can it be having a guy like Carter Bradley for a scout team quarterback? He's a star. He's awesome. I'm glad you asked me that because I had to cut you off for you and finish the question. I apologize.
Yeah, he's been so good for us in terms of giving us the exact look, even the communication of things at the line of scrimmage. He takes it so seriously. He's got great leadership qualities at the line of scrimmage, you know, and just you can see him driving the scout guys, you know and he's a he's a great He's a great help to me because I'm kind of like that in practice too.
You know, we want the thing going, want everybody going, flying around. And he really does a great job of controlling the tempo of the practice and giving us such an accurate look of what not only the plays are going to be, but the pre-snap process is going to be. He's been awesome. He's a stud. He's been awesome. I appreciate that. Sorry.
I assume that you had a little bit to do with Sean coming over here with you from Minnesota. Was that kind of the way it evolved? Did you ask for input about an offensive line coach? Did it work out that way? Well, funny enough, the process actually happened at the same time where Liam was in the search for an offensive line coach while he was also in look for an offensive coordinator.
So we actually came down together. Well, not together, but we were down here at the same time we were both interviewing. So it worked out really well where I was able to talk about Sean. I'm sure he asked questions to Sean about me during that interview process. And then Sean was brought on very shortly after I joined the staff. So I was super fired up to get to continue working with Sean.
It was great to have that experience and that background with him, but he's done a phenomenal job working with the O-line, working with our staff, a bunch of different things that he's managed and juggled. We've talked about the different guys at different positions at the offensive line.
That's not an easy task to have guys playing left tackle, right tackle, blocking run schemes that are gap scheme one week, wide zone the next week, tight zone the week after that, handling all that stuff. He's done a great job along with the rest of the offensive line.
lot stands out about the bills defense you're not going to be number one in past defense without having really a great group across the board that's highly coordinated plays hard great technique great fundamentals and they've really mastered that scheme they do a great job matching route concept passing different things off making it challenging not only post snap they make a challenging pre-snap they present a bunch of different looks for the quarterbacks
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Chapter 4: How does Antonio Johnson contribute to the Jaguars' defensive strategy?
I think we've just continued to try to build and find our stride at deploying improperly. Brian Thomas, is he a guy you've seen kind of take those same steps over the course of the season? Absolutely, absolutely. He's another guy, a lot of physical talent, and he's had some injuries earlier in the year, banged up here or there, and he's fought through and played through that stuff.
So I'm grateful for his commitment to sticking with us as we continue to try to find what he does best, what's our best way to use him. He's run a really wide route tree and lined up at a bunch of different spots. He's played different positions, been asked to do multiple things, and a lot of those things are things that he hasn't done in the past.
So it's only natural that with time, as he continues to get reps, continues to get practice at those things, he gets more comfortable. And you see him playing faster, rolling off the ball, attacking the ball in the air, and then making plays after the catch.
I think that's just a product of hopefully our work continuing to try to improve things, but really his work on the practice field continuing to improve and be comfortable. Active receiver tied in, called a pass last week. Just what kind of benefit is that when you have a roster where at some point everybody can do something? Yeah, it's a tremendous luxury.
It's the same situation as the offensive line in a sense. Having that versatility of guys who can go in there and play and make plays. De'Ami makes an awesome play on the slant at the end of the game, a contested catch. Guys are making catches outside the numbers, down the field, shallows, catch and runs.
So having a wide receiver room that can play different positions and you can mix and match guys and line up those guys at different spots. And then not only that, play with different groups of guys and compliment their release patterns or compliment their route spacing is a huge advantage for us. It's also a great testament to their preparation, their work ethic throughout the course of the week.
Because there are a lot of times guys go into a week and they don't know necessarily, I'm gonna get 40 snaps or am I gonna get two snaps? Am I gonna get 15? What's gonna happen? But you're always a play away. And that's a true test of a player's character, their preparation, their work ethic. When they're not expecting to play,
They're not going in there anticipating to play a certain letter position. They're not gonna be the X, they're not gonna be the Z this week, but they've done the extra work just in case. There's no guarantee of a reward, but they stick to the process anyway. So that's the type of stuff that,
That really lights me up that I love to see from those guys, and I'm glad they're able to get a catch when they do that. And then going back to probably training camp more so, but going against Coach Camp's defense every day, just how's that been? And how's that kind of influenced you and helped you improve as coaches? That's a great question.
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