Gus Bradley breaks down loss to Broncos and Sunday's matchup with Jaguars
Chargers defensive coordinator Gus Bradley breaks down last week's loss to the Broncos and Sunday's matchup with the Jaguars.
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00:00 Let's go back a week and just talk about the Denver game. So obviously guys like DJ and AP, good to have them out in the field.
00:09 I think DJ, we didn't know how many reps we were going to get out of him. He got a few more than we probably anticipated.
00:17 But it was hard to get him off the field. I know a couple, one time I think he came off.
00:21 But it was good to get him back out there. Just the things that you know about him, the energy he brings.
00:26 I think there's a lot of trust right when he gets on the field, what he's going to be doing and how he's going to do it.
00:31 So that part was good. Same with AP, made a big third down fly right away.
00:36 I think that was good for him to get a hit early in the game. So that part was good.
00:42 We went in the game with the mindset that we have to slow down the run.
00:46 They had 190 yards rushing the first game I believe, somewhere around there.
00:50 So a big emphasis on that. I thought we did a pretty good job with the run game.
00:54 We just gave up some big plays. We had a red zone area.
00:57 They had a third down and an eighth. It caught the pass on a pressure that we ran.
01:03 I don't think we did a good job on sudden change. You had two sudden change opportunities.
01:09 We gave up ten points. We'd like to keep them down more than that.
01:12 Just hold them to a field goal attempt at least. They got ten points off of that.
01:16 But I think our mindset of our players, I know on the defense side, you score 20 points on offense, we have to win.
01:22 So there's more things that we can do.
01:25 In the second half we did a good job. We got the ball back to the offense.
01:29 I think they had 11 yards passing, 27 yards rushing.
01:33 So stat-wise, we still didn't do enough. We've got to get more turnovers.
01:37 We've got one in the game, but really we're competing against their defense.
01:41 What we can do and how much more we can do.
01:45 There were some plays out there and we'll get that taken care of.
01:50 As far as this week, a great challenge. The quarterback is impressive.
01:54 Didn't know much about him. We haven't seen much cross game work with him.
01:57 But when he's playing, he's active. It's amazing some of these younger quarterbacks in the league
02:03 how well they're doing. They're coming in and doing a good job.
02:05 You've seen that. And with him, his ability to extend the play.
02:09 He's a guy that will look the defense off. He'll extend plays. He'll look one way.
02:15 He'll scramble. He'll come back. He'll flip it on the run.
02:19 There's just some unconventional things that show up that as a defense, you can't really plan for.
02:26 You've just got to be on those things. He's doing a really good job.
02:30 One of the games that we saw, I know when we look at points against the Jets,
02:34 they had 29 against Cincinnati. It was 27.
02:38 When he's playing, it seems like they're scoring more points too.
02:42 So they have the ability to do that. The wide receivers is a good group.
02:45 I think they've been impressive to us as well.
02:48 Some of them are having career years for him.
02:52 And then obviously the running back is always something to deal with.
02:56 Good, fast, hard runner. His running style is unique.
03:02 And then he's the leading receiver on the team.
03:05 So they've got some good weapons. It's a big challenge for us.