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Jags Drive Time: Tuesday, March 19 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Jeffuars, did you Jack, Jack Warris? Did you Jack Warres?
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  Speaker 1: Drive Time? Ryan sex Sex that Jodo says it Actually
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars Drive Time starts right now. Ultimately, we bought back
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  Speaker 1: our our free our right to free agency, um by
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  Speaker 1: paying back the bones because we wanted to be free. Um.
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  Speaker 1: We felt like it was that time in our life too,
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  Speaker 1: you know, pursue leading a team, and but Jacksonville was
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  Speaker 1: always right there. I mean I was intrigued. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you never know what a team is gonna do. But um,
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  Speaker 1: it was a team that I've always watched from Afar
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  Speaker 1: and always thought highly of. It was quite an eventful
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  Speaker 1: day around here last Thursday. Good morning, Welcome to Jack's
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  Speaker 1: Drive Time. Brian Sexton along with Ashlyn Sullivan. We're here
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  Speaker 1: for the next half hour or so to share some
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  Speaker 1: thoughts from the last Thursday and all the ensuing transactions
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  Speaker 1: that have the Jaguars to where they are right now.
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  Speaker 1: I just caught up with Jake Ryan, who signed his
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  Speaker 1: contract moments ago with the Jaguars nuts ago. We'll have that.
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  Speaker 1: I think moments is better because it's like been liked.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, How are you? I'm good? How was your weekend?
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  Speaker 1: It was good. It was extended. We were off yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: so we're kind of getting into the Monday feel here.
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  Speaker 1: How are you what day? It's Tuesday, which is why
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  Speaker 1: we're on the air right now, right drive time to absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed the TPC weekend. What a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks it's been around here. You the Gate River Run,
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  Speaker 1: the opening of free agency, and a TPC and this
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  Speaker 1: week the n C Double A Tournament is here on
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  Speaker 1: Thursday and on Saturday. So very very busy this is
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  Speaker 1: It's not quite the sports center of the world. I
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  Speaker 1: think you gotta have an a team, yeah or exactly,
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  Speaker 1: but it feels that way with the Jaguars, they have
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  Speaker 1: been very busy in recent days. Um, why don't we
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  Speaker 1: jump right into big things and share some thoughts. Big
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  Speaker 1: thing one is St. Nick. This picture on Twitter went
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  Speaker 1: viral in Philadelphia. It's a billboard in Philly that says
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  Speaker 1: thank you and good luck St. Nick on the side
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  Speaker 1: of the highway. And it shows just how we loved
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  Speaker 1: this guy. As I mean, we've been hearing Brian so much,
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  Speaker 1: going to publics or going anywhere. It's just everyone is
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  Speaker 1: such a fan of this guy. And then when we
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  Speaker 1: met him on Thursday, we could all see why just
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  Speaker 1: a good guy, good leader, um can't have enough with
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  Speaker 1: this thing to say about. Hey, Max Hawkman, can you
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  Speaker 1: fire up a shot of Joe real quick and and
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  Speaker 1: to box him and get him on. We we need
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  Speaker 1: we need to have a little conversation with Joe about this. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: there are lots of Philadelphia areas right there, speaking of
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia's own South, Philadelphia's own Joe Fortunato, Hey Joe, how
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  Speaker 1: are you? Good morning? Good morning? So he signed last
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  Speaker 1: Thursday morning, and you said you were standing right next
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  Speaker 1: to my area over there, and you you said, when
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  Speaker 1: he comes through, it's gonna sound corny. But do you
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  Speaker 1: remember what you said? It was so long ago. No
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  Speaker 1: Joe said, I'm going to thank him for bringing a title.
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  Speaker 1: And that's kind of been the resounding thought from a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the Philadelphia people that I've encountered over the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of days. And it's it's been at least
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  Speaker 1: a dozen people with ties to the Eagle, whether they
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  Speaker 1: were walking their dog past me on the beach or
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  Speaker 1: whether it was in the line at Public X. People
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  Speaker 1: wanted to talk about fools, And I was astounded at
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  Speaker 1: how many people said how much they loved him for
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  Speaker 1: being the title guy who brought the championship to the
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  Speaker 1: city of brotherly Law. Yeah. I don't know why Jacksonville
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  Speaker 1: is the place, But do you remember in and when
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  Speaker 1: they were doing surveys on how the NFL was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: perceived here, the Eagles were the number one team with
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  Speaker 1: the people of jackson Well, that's that survey that you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about. Came out in ninety two and they were
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  Speaker 1: doing it before expansion to find out who was the
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  Speaker 1: most popular team. And people thought, well, Miami, the old
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  Speaker 1: Redskins network used to run up and down the coast.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe Cowboys America's team, but it was Philip And there's
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  Speaker 1: a strong presence of Philadelphia in Jacksonville because of the Navy,
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  Speaker 1: the Naval Yard up in Philly and obviously made for
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  Speaker 1: It's brought a lot of people down here. Um, would
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  Speaker 1: would you hang a sign on your window there and
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  Speaker 1: welcome St. Nick? I want to tell him personally, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Fortunato, you're coming with a song. You have a
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  Speaker 1: song about saying no no, I'm gonna say we have
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  Speaker 1: a song. This is a big week. I'm I'm a
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  Speaker 1: little I'm more than a little curious. So here's my
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  Speaker 1: initial thought. And I had never met him before, um
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  Speaker 1: had never been around him. I had someone that I
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  Speaker 1: know and trust told me that he is polpus Lesnie right,
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  Speaker 1: And when he walked into the locker room because I
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  Speaker 1: did an interview with him and John D. Philippo, his
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  Speaker 1: former quarterbacks coach now his offensive coordinator that will come
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  Speaker 1: up this week. Total a personality, I mean a total
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  Speaker 1: and you saw it there in that clip. Uh driving
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  Speaker 1: the boat. Uh, he's in charge. His presence is large.
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  Speaker 1: The Jaguars have had a lot of quarterbacks over the years,
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  Speaker 1: Mark Brunell, Byron Leftwich, Blaine Gabbert, like Bordles. All of
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  Speaker 1: them have their qualities, none of them had this presence, Uh, commanding,
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  Speaker 1: commanding the room, clearly command the room. So I was asked,
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  Speaker 1: how long will it take for the you know, the
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  Speaker 1: room to respond to him immediately? Based on what I
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  Speaker 1: absolutely here's here's a guy that comes with a Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl ring, Super Bowl MVP. Everyone seeing that iconic photo
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  Speaker 1: of him holding the trophy up the rumors should respond
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  Speaker 1: to him immediately. I wasn't sold on the move before
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  Speaker 1: I met him, and after meeting him. Absolutely understand why
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  Speaker 1: they did it, and I'm excited to see imply. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think he sold the entire building. What I took
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  Speaker 1: from it is we interviewed him right after he signed
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  Speaker 1: the contract and I asked, you know, what's the most
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  Speaker 1: important thing. What are you most excited about getting out
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  Speaker 1: of this team? He says, the relationships. I can't wait
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  Speaker 1: to meet all these guys in the locker room. And
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  Speaker 1: he kept stressing that the team is first, It's not
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  Speaker 1: about him, even though this entire day was about him.
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  Speaker 1: But he stressed the importance of getting to know these
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  Speaker 1: guys and he wanted to do it immediately. He had
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  Speaker 1: a message. He stayed on the message. He couldn't be
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  Speaker 1: lured off of it. Um. I just boy an impressive,
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  Speaker 1: impressive man. Absolutely, and he is very very similar Paul
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  Speaker 1: pa doesn't he he? I think he's a little more
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  Speaker 1: outspoken that Paul because he's got to be because he's
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  Speaker 1: you know, Paul was that silent leader that would speak
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  Speaker 1: when you talk to him. This guy walks into the
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  Speaker 1: room and has something to say. Uh So, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's fair for me to say, since I've seen every quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: knowing every quarterback the Jaguars have had, They've never had
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  Speaker 1: one like this, So hopefully that translates to the field
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  Speaker 1: and what he did in those last eleven starts over
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  Speaker 1: the last two years with the Eagles' is where he
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  Speaker 1: is going forward. I think it is fair to say
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  Speaker 1: though he mentioned, you know that he has to be
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  Speaker 1: a leader because he's quarterback, But he also said, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to preach what this team has to do.
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  Speaker 1: I know that I have to go on the field
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  Speaker 1: and win games and perform well for this team to
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  Speaker 1: respond to me. So it's a little bit of both
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  Speaker 1: because we always say the leadership thing. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: can pump your chest and give a great speech, but
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  Speaker 1: if you're will performing on the field. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: starting to be a pastor when he's finished with football.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's going to preach. I think he is.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, look, there was an element in that
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  Speaker 1: locker room last year that none of us felt comfortable with.
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  Speaker 1: It just it didn't feel as if the room was tight.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like it was way too loose. And obviously
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  Speaker 1: people know that, you know the stories about different guys
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  Speaker 1: who were problematic in that locker room last year, and
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  Speaker 1: as the season went out, it became more pronounced. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I think that Nick Foles is the antidote to that.
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  Speaker 1: And again I spent twenty minutes with him, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you the presence that he brought into the room
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  Speaker 1: was significant and strong. So it was Klaius like. And
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  Speaker 1: we always said that Calais was that one guy that
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  Speaker 1: brought everything together, but he couldn't do it all on
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  Speaker 1: his own. Especially someone on offense needed to be like, right,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about there not being an alpha dog on
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  Speaker 1: the offensive side. There certainly is now there certainly is
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  Speaker 1: needing more of them, and and and we're about transition
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  Speaker 1: to big thing too, but this is all about relationships. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: big thing too is free agency. Jeff Swain, Cedric oh
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  Speaker 1: Bay he one. He've been working on that since the
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  Speaker 1: TPC did four times, Chris Conley, Jake Bryan that you
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  Speaker 1: just cut up with all bringing in free agent weapons
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  Speaker 1: for Nick Foles. We said, that's a huge importance this
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  Speaker 1: off season. They're getting it done in these past few days.
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  Speaker 1: So what you have here is in Jake Ryan who
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  Speaker 1: just signed, and Chris Connolly, uh, two guys for whom
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  Speaker 1: Nick Foles lobby to them, right, Uh, he just got done.
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  Speaker 1: Jake did telling me we'll have that interview just a moment. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: That he and Nick have known each other for a while.
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  Speaker 1: They have the same agent. Chris Connley said in the
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  Speaker 1: newspaper over the weekend, the Folds was lobbying him, so
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  Speaker 1: can we get this deal done? Two players who came
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  Speaker 1: with him. He talked about relationships. He's bringing some of
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  Speaker 1: his own relationships to Jacksonville. And what I think is
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  Speaker 1: interesting is that they had some needs. They needed a receiver.
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  Speaker 1: John has been saying, I don't think you're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: the receiver. Well, they needed a receiver. They need a
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  Speaker 1: vetteran receiver. Clearly Nick Foles wants this guy, he's here. Um.
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  Speaker 1: They needed a tight end swayin fills that, oh boy,
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  Speaker 1: the right tackle. They needed a tackle. They needed more
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  Speaker 1: offensive lineman, and they needed a linebacker because I think
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  Speaker 1: we all believe that Myles jack was much better when
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  Speaker 1: he was playing outside and when he slid inside. So
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  Speaker 1: they went after needs with players who bring value. These
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  Speaker 1: are moderately priced, young veteran players who have plenty of
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  Speaker 1: tread on the tire, meet on the bone, whatever you
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  Speaker 1: want to call it. Guys, who can rise. There is
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  Speaker 1: not a sixteen year veteran and they didn't go sign
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  Speaker 1: Frank Gore. In other words, these are all young players
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  Speaker 1: coming into their prime, and at least two of them
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  Speaker 1: we know of have relationships with Nick and still fit.
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  Speaker 1: The cap, which was a huge topic of conversation last
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  Speaker 1: week is you've got to get guys for cheap, not cheap,
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  Speaker 1: but you can't go sign a frame. I mean, kudos
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  Speaker 1: to Dave called Well's team over there, John zick And
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  Speaker 1: and Tim Walsh uh And and Dave obviously who negotiated
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  Speaker 1: the contract to get the number low enough that they
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  Speaker 1: had room to play. Now they don't have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of room because they're gonna have draft picks they have
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  Speaker 1: to sign, but they've got room to get a few
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  Speaker 1: players in guys who are young heading into their prime
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  Speaker 1: relationships at foals, and they have money to maneuver with.
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  Speaker 1: There was a year round here where they didn't have
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  Speaker 1: money to pay bonuses to undrafted rookie free agents back
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  Speaker 1: in the early part of the two thousands of problem. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: well then you're not going to get the rookie free
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  Speaker 1: agents that you want. So they've got money for that.
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  Speaker 1: They've got money in case there were injuries. They've got
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  Speaker 1: flexibility with their salary cap which they might not have had.
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  Speaker 1: Right And you mentioned earlier the relationship and how important
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  Speaker 1: relationships are the folds that we have a graphic of it.
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  Speaker 1: Max's Chris Connley on Twitter and it's one of the
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  Speaker 1: sports anchors in Chicago saying that they overpaid fools. And
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  Speaker 1: this is before Chris Connley was even talks of him
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  Speaker 1: coming here, and he's saying. All I'm saying is Nick
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  Speaker 1: can play and you should see the way people react
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  Speaker 1: in a huddle. He's the real deal. Again, my interaction
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  Speaker 1: with him in the locker room told me there's something
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  Speaker 1: about this guy. Uh, you know, maybe it wasn't there
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  Speaker 1: early in his career, maybe the last two years. And
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  Speaker 1: this is a conversation well obviously have with him over time. Um,
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  Speaker 1: he was composed like a first round draft you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, Like a guy that should have been
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  Speaker 1: top of the draft. Um, he was a fourth round pick.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously he's evolved and he's a Super Bowl m
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  Speaker 1: v P with ring on his finger. And what he
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  Speaker 1: did this year in Chicago and nearly was able to
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  Speaker 1: do in New Orleans in the playoffs. I just can't
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  Speaker 1: imagine that this team is not going to respond to him.
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  Speaker 1: It seems that way for sure so far, and especially
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  Speaker 1: from just you see the players reacting on social media.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's so excited to bring them in. And they had
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  Speaker 1: their their love for Blake and you know, best of
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  Speaker 1: luck to Blake. But as soon as Falls came in,
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  Speaker 1: the whole shift was all right, the start, new guy right.
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  Speaker 1: And that brings us to the third big thing, which
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  Speaker 1: is the draft. Right. And we've always said, you know
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  Speaker 1: that this team needs so many offensive picks, but you've
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  Speaker 1: now addressed that in free agency. You have a thing
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  Speaker 1: that's saying they're going to defense. Well, no, I guess
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  Speaker 1: what I thought was they needed players, right, They needed
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  Speaker 1: guys who could play an offensive line, at tight end
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  Speaker 1: and wide receiver. Um. It sets up for them to
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  Speaker 1: be able to go best player available, and yes, Juwan
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  Speaker 1: Taylor the right tackle probably be there. Probably best player
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  Speaker 1: available at seven, uh t J. Hockenson the tight end. Again,
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  Speaker 1: you'd like to get young, hyper talented guys in here.
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  Speaker 1: But this may be a rare draft when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to the defensive line, and next year you still have
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  Speaker 1: some heavy salaries on the defensive line, some aging players
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  Speaker 1: on the defensive line, and so you may need to
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  Speaker 1: draft a defensive lineman high in this draft because they're
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  Speaker 1: that special. If a what if a Josh Allen falls right,
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  Speaker 1: it's happened before someone gets quarterback crazy and jumps up
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  Speaker 1: for Kyler Murray jumps up for Dwayne Haskins. It's entirely
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  Speaker 1: possible that there could be a defensive lineman sitting there
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  Speaker 1: at number seven that you just can't pass up. You
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  Speaker 1: can't pass the value up. Well, now they don't have to.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't seen their board, have you right,
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to know. But they are set up
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  Speaker 1: now to be able to take the best player available,
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  Speaker 1: whether that's offense defense, whether it's a lineman or a
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  Speaker 1: pass rusher or a tight end. They can do what
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  Speaker 1: they want. That's the kind of flexibility. What you didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to do, ever, is be stuck in a position
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  Speaker 1: and saying we have to have a tight end at seven.
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  Speaker 1: We have to have a tight even if he's not
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  Speaker 1: that as, you gotta take him. Yeah. And it's interesting, Um,
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  Speaker 1: we were at the combine, John and I we're having
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  Speaker 1: a live show, and we asked you no favor. Are
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  Speaker 1: you going to take best player aaib He said absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we always do. So even now, I think
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  Speaker 1: now that you have all these offensive weapons, they were
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  Speaker 1: always going to take best player available. But now that
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  Speaker 1: you see that they've checked some boxes, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: everyone's going to freak out if they take someone on defense.
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  Speaker 1: They've maintained flexibility with their cap and with their roster,
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  Speaker 1: and as tight as they were up against the cap
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  Speaker 1: there for a little while, they were able to get
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  Speaker 1: to a position where they have to feel pretty good
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  Speaker 1: about it. All right, we'll take a break. When we
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  Speaker 1: come back, we'll hear from Jake Ryan, the newest member
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  Speaker 1: players immediate you um, and there's a lot of fans
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  Speaker 1: on social media. UM. I think they're ready for a
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  Speaker 1: change of quarterback obviously because of the results, but I
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  Speaker 1: loved the person and what he stood for, how he
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  Speaker 1: great guy and if he has to play, we've all
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  Speaker 1: This has been one of the better defenses in the
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  Speaker 1: I can. Obviously, you're excited to be back in the
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  Speaker 1: NFL after a year, but just thoughts on this organization,
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  Speaker 1: bringing in folds where they're at, the expectations they have.
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  Speaker 1: What do you see? I think it's huge, Nick. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a great addition to this program. And um,
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  Speaker 1: actually no, Nick, and we actually have the same agent
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  Speaker 1: and everything, so um, knowing what he brings to the table,
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  Speaker 1: I think he's a great fit for this this organization.
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  Speaker 1: And um, I think the guys are gonna love him.
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  Speaker 1: He said no, Nick, and I thought he said no neck.
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  Speaker 1: Which is it looks looks like a middle linebacker. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: former fourth round pick towards a c L last dog
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  Speaker 1: has spent the year out of his return and his
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  Speaker 1: addition here should allow the Jaguars positional flexibility with Miles Jack,
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  Speaker 1: who excelled in outside. Um, just you know, connecting dots
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: reading tea leaves everyone of paraphrases. This is a guy
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: that looks like he fits. Yeah, And we were saying,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if they were going to address one position
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: on defense this off season was going to have to
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: be linebackers, and here they are doing that same thing. Well,
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  Speaker 1: and now we have to wait and see how the
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  Speaker 1: dear Mr Roser, who's not here. Now that we have
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  Speaker 1: our quarterback, would it be a good idea to move
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  Speaker 1: down in the draft for more picks and then we
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  Speaker 1: might get a good offensive tackle and a good tight end.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think it could happen? Sure it could. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: that's a great plan. But as we have said for years,
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  Speaker 1: round and into the second. There are a good offensive
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  Speaker 1: linemen in the second round that you can get now
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  Speaker 1: that you have away he right talk about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: positional flex ability. There's a bunch of guys that you
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  Speaker 1: could find near the top of the second round that
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  Speaker 1: you could use the extra picks on. Yes, more picks,
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  Speaker 1: always more picks. However, who's going to be sitting there
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  Speaker 1: that someone wants bad enough? Right? So maybe someone loves
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  Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins and Haskins gets by the Giants because Dave
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  Speaker 1: bonus and it's gonna be Eli Mannings team. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe he's sitting there and you decide look at because
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  Speaker 1: Folds is not a one or a two year option.
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  Speaker 1: He's thirty years old. I mean, if you're looking at
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  Speaker 1: this objectively, with the number of quarterbacks that play beyond
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  Speaker 1: their mid thirties, you don't need a draft quarterback this year.
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  Speaker 1: So does somebody want Haskins bad enough? Right? Or let's
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: say the Giants really want him and they jump up
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  Speaker 1: right and they feel like they've got to jump up
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  Speaker 1: and get ahead of somebody else, or someone jumps up
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  Speaker 1: to get Kyler Murray and the Cardinals come back. You
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  Speaker 1: could see a good player that maybe didn't look like
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: he was going to slide down the board be sitting
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: there at seven based on who's jumping around you. So
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  Speaker 1: then maybe if there's a defensive player guessing, you could
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: try and trade back there. It's hard to do, especially
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: in a draft that's is deep and defensive lineman. It
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  Speaker 1: has to be a special player to bring someone up,
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  Speaker 1: and at seven, that special player is usually already gone. Right,
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  Speaker 1: and you talk about best player available. If you're sitting
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: there at seven and there's a guy that is a
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  Speaker 1: talent and you want him, you're not going to trade
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  Speaker 1: back because you want player available. Well, that's true. However,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: if you let's let's use Hawkins in the tight end.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Let's say the Jaguars have their sights set on him,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: and there's a defensive lineman that's sitting there, you have
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: to decide, all right, I don't want to take him
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  Speaker 1: at seven if I can grab an extra second round
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: pick or third, So how how far back can I go?
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Where do I think? And these guys have they can
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: nail where a guy is going to go most of
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: the time. There's always that outlier. But they can say
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: that all these mock drafts value players differently than teams do.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: We've got them going between twelve and sixteen. Maybe you
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: can fall back into that sweet spot, have him sitting there.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: You can massage it and maneuver it. That's the flexibility
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: of signing a tight end, a tackle, a receiver, and
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  Speaker 1: a linebacker. You've got the ability to do that. It's
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  Speaker 1: a great plan and one they would love to have
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  Speaker 1: come to fruition. They want more picks, especially when you're
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  Speaker 1: up against your cap, which they will be right. More
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  Speaker 1: picks guys come in play for a lower number to
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  Speaker 1: fixed rate for a couple of years. More picks always
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  Speaker 1: get me more picks on draft day. But easier to
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  Speaker 1: say than to do. Absolutely to tangle. Like let's go
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Mark from Florida. If the Jaguars draft a left tackle
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  Speaker 1: a number seven, do you think they would then moved
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Cam Robinson to right tackle or would they just have
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: him be depth of first year or play right tackle. Well,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: it depends on who they draft. So the left tackle
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: at the top of the draft is Jonah Williams at
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: this point, but because he doesn't have the longest arms,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of folks talk of the combine right talking
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: to exactly, he was not happy with that. You have
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: have put him inside a guard and think he can
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: be a Quintin Nelson kind of maller. Okay, So then
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the next left tackle that you start hearing about is
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Quentin Dillard from Washington State. If they were to take
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: him at seven and he's a left tackle only then
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I could absolutely see then moving Cam Robinson to the
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  Speaker 1: right side, although left tackles make more than right. Robinson
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  Speaker 1: probably wouldn't be happy about that, but yeah, they could
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  Speaker 1: do that. Um, if they took Jonah Williams and and
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: they thought, well, the heck with it. Jonah Williams is
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: a guy who could be a left tackle, a left guard,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: a right guard, well, then maybe they do that too.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: If they take Jowan Taylor, Johann Taylors, your right tackle,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: he's a mahler, He's a run blocking tackle. Everything you
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: read about him, if you watch the tape, you see
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: a guy whose footwork is good enough but not quite
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: elite left tackle material. So it depends on who they draft.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Who's there, who they take, if it's a tackle, how
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: they move him around? And we also haven't seen Cam
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Robinson on the fields. It's his injury another huge factor, right,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: and so asking him to then make the position move.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: You know, if you take a guy and you move him,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: you're weakening yourself at two. Piss because now you're putting
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: a rookie in at one and you're moving Cam over
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: and making him essentially a rookie right tackle because he
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: didn't play much last year exactly. That might not be
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: the best decision. So what you're probably looking at is
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: them taking an offensive lineman who can play the right
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: side makes sense to me, just an observation. Remember there's
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: a new offensive line coach, George Warhop. We haven't had
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: a chance to talk to him yet. I got to
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: figure out what, you know, what he thinks about each
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: of these guys. Right, Let's go to Brian from Gainesville,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: good old Gator Country. Josh Wells and Tyler Shatley should
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: both be re signed, right, Both those guys played well
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: the Jaguars um. Every team has guys like Wells and Shatley,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: guys who come in as undrafted rookies, which both of them.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Do guys who jump in there when Brandon Linder gets
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: hurt or last year in the case of Wells, play
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: on the left side, play on the right side, battle injuries.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: And then they get to free agency, and what they
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: find is it's tough to get a job for more
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: than a year or two. It's tough to get a
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: job in March. You're waiting to see how things roll
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: out with mini camps and O t a s. You're
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: generally waiting for a job in August. The cold reality
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: of it is, there are new Josh Wells and Tyler
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Shatley's because they're not frontline starters. They're not going to
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: compete to come in and be a starter. And most
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: team already have their's. Most teams already have their guy.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: So what you're you're suggesting, or what I'm suggesting, is
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  Speaker 1: that teams are going to go with and develop new
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  Speaker 1: ones because that's just the life cycle of those guys.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: These guys come in and I think one one one
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  Speaker 1: is the minimum salary for a guy in their position
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: right now, it's tough to get that. It's it's teams
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: just have their own and these guys, keep in mind,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: they were undrafted rookies for a reason. They came here
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: and they've been with um Doug Marone for their entire career.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: They fit his system. They don't necessarily fit everyone else's system. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: to get it, I mean massive respect for the way
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