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Position Coaches Discuss Roster After OTAs | Jaguars Happy Hour · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Check and welcome in. It is Jaguars Happy Hour on
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Speaker 1: this Thursday, June sixth, the eightieth anniversary of D Day.
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Speaker 1: Welcome in, JP. Shadwick with you. We've got a busy
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Speaker 1: hour ahead as we wind down the off season program. Oh, yes,
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Speaker 1: the quarterback contract negotiations continue. We'll get to a conversation
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Speaker 1: that we had on the Huddle Up podcast earlier this
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Speaker 1: week around the Trevor Lawrence discussion that's coming up. Yes,
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Speaker 1: the off season program officially closes next week. OTA is
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Speaker 1: wrapped up today in a unique way. We'll show you
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Speaker 1: some of that on Jaguars dot Com coming up. The
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Speaker 1: assistant coaches for the Jaguars spoke with the media yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Jaguars YouTube, JP Shaddick with you flying solo today. Jeff
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Speaker 1: Loghman is out and he'll be back with us next
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Speaker 1: week and what will be our final show before the
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Speaker 1: dead period, the players out of here by next Wednesday
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Speaker 1: is the official last day of the mandatory mini camp.
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Speaker 1: But hey, it's been a little lighter tempo on the
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Speaker 1: field this offseason program. The Jaguars for at least the
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Speaker 1: last two weeks have been practicing, yes, but without helmets.
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Speaker 1: A lot of this time is about the teaching portion
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Speaker 1: of it, the classroom portion of the off season program,
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Speaker 1: especially on the defensive side, getting the new scheme and
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Speaker 1: players acclimated to the new terminology and things such as that.
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Speaker 1: And that has been the case again this week and
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson earlier this week explaining what this time of
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Speaker 1: year is truly all about for the Jags.
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Speaker 5: It's about development. It's about teaching, and it's about the fundamentals.
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Speaker 5: And I don't think so much that we're tinkering with
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Speaker 5: a lot of things, but at the same time developing
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Speaker 5: our young players and seeing what you have and can
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Speaker 5: they handle, you know, playing, you know, getting snaps with
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Speaker 5: Let's say it's you know, a young offensive lineman, can
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Speaker 5: he get the reps with the starters or a d
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Speaker 5: lineman can he get the reps with you know, your
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Speaker 5: starters the secondary guy. So if there's any tinkering that on,
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Speaker 5: that's probably where it's at right now with the personnel
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Speaker 5: and the growth and developing those young players.
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Speaker 1: So that's what the OTAs have been about for head
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Speaker 1: coach Doug Peterson and just getting some younger guys some time.
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Speaker 1: But you know a lot of instances, especially in the
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Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball. Once and they will never
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Speaker 1: admit this, you pretty much know who the starters are
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Speaker 1: in a lot of places on the offensive side especially,
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Speaker 1: So it's about getting those guys some time and getting
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Speaker 1: them out there at least on the field together and
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Speaker 1: on the offensive line perspective, about finding that one accord,
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Speaker 1: one heartbeat, as much Morse put it a couple of
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Speaker 1: weeks ago, and this is where that is really built
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Speaker 1: and the foundation of that begins in the off season program. Well,
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Speaker 1: the program is now winding down. The final OTA was
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Speaker 1: on the schedule for today, but Instead, the Jaguars took
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Speaker 1: it off campus. They banged the final OTA and went
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Speaker 1: bowling today main event on Phillips Highway on the deep
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Speaker 1: South side, and you know it's a team bonding, team
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Speaker 1: building event. That's the traditional final OTA. A lot of
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Speaker 1: places canceled the tenth and final when if things have
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Speaker 1: gone well on the first nine and put together some
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Speaker 1: kind of team building activity a couple of years ago,
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Speaker 1: I think it was paintball. They've been bowling before. If
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Speaker 1: you're watching on Jaguars dot Com or Jaguars YouTube. Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson was among that group bowling today. Eric Harmstead there also,
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Speaker 1: and some of the video games everything, and just kind
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Speaker 1: of the last group activity really before the break because
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Speaker 1: a lot of these players will not be back next week.
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Speaker 1: That's the way Doug Peterson has done it in the past,
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Speaker 1: and it feels like that's the case again next week.
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Speaker 1: The mandatory mini camp because it was so well attended
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Speaker 1: by a lot of these veterans having Ingram's here, Christian
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Speaker 1: Kirk's been here, All these guys have been here. Josh
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Speaker 1: Allen really the only one who has not been around. Well,
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Speaker 1: most of these veteran players will not have to be
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Speaker 1: around next week, so it'll be a lot of young players, rookies,
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Speaker 1: some other select players who need a little extra time
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Speaker 1: on task. We'll get that next week Monday, Tuesday especially.
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Speaker 1: We'll even see about Wednesday if that's shortened up or
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Speaker 1: what the case is next week, but the mandatory mini
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Speaker 1: camp is mandatory for only a certain select number of
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Speaker 1: players next week, not a lot of those veteran guys.
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Speaker 1: So today a last chance to really kind of get
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Speaker 1: together and then break up for about five or six weeks,
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Speaker 1: and then late July the Jaguars will be back in
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Speaker 1: training camp. Run tantenxl AM, Jaguars dot com, Jaguars YouTube
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Speaker 1: JP Shadwick with you on Jaguars Happy Hour. Another prevailing theme,
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Speaker 1: of course this week is the Trevor Lawrence contract negotiations.
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Speaker 1: They are continuing. Trevor Lawrence was asked about it after
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Speaker 1: Monday's practice this week.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, obviously I'm aware of what's going on, but I
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Speaker 6: try to keep my focus on, you know, doing my
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Speaker 6: job out here. You know, I have full belief that
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Speaker 6: that'll take care of it, and that's not something that
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Speaker 6: I need to worry about. You know, That's why I
6:03
Speaker 6: pay people and hire people to do that for me,
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Speaker 6: So that's not my job. But you know, obviously I
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Speaker 6: know what's going on. I'm aware of the situation. I
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Speaker 6: think that's important too, But yeah, I try to keep
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Speaker 6: all my focus and energy on being the best player
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Speaker 6: I can be to help us win.
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Speaker 4: Is it important to you to get done before camp
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Speaker 4: for the season or at all?
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Speaker 7: Do you have any timetable at all?
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Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, I think that would be That would
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Speaker 6: be ideal, you know, just to put it behind us
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Speaker 6: and and keep moving and feel good about that going
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Speaker 6: into training camp. But either way, like I've said before,
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Speaker 6: I have the same job, so you know, I can't
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Speaker 6: always control all those factors, but I have the same
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Speaker 6: job to do either way. But yeah, I mean I
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Speaker 6: would of course, that'd be ideal is to get it done,
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Speaker 6: you know, as soon as you can and kind of
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Speaker 6: move forward.
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Speaker 1: It's Trevor Lawrence of course, after practice on Monday, and
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Speaker 1: what could be is a final media appearance until training camp.
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Speaker 1: Unless there's a deal that gets done. He might could
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Speaker 1: change things in that regard. He also sat down with
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Speaker 1: John Oser this week on the Ozone podcast, available in
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Speaker 1: the Official Jaguars podcast Network. So Trevor Lawrence making the
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Speaker 1: rounds this week before this summer break coming up, and
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Speaker 1: you know he was asked there by Mark Long, is
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Speaker 1: there a timetable in your mind? And you know it
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Speaker 1: was an honest answer. Would love to get it done
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Speaker 1: before training camp because that means it's behind everybody and
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Speaker 1: they can just focus on the game, which they would anyway,
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Speaker 1: I think, but it will be a storyline if it's
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Speaker 1: not done by training camp. And there is the feel,
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Speaker 1: at least in the past from general manager Trent Balky
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Speaker 1: in past instances like this, I don't remember him negotiating
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Speaker 1: a contract at least with the Jaguars mid season, maybe
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes. I don't remember one getting done. Josh
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Speaker 1: Allen didn't get done last year. It got done after
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Speaker 1: the season, and it got done earlier in this offseason.
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Speaker 1: So you know, if this thing goes up to training camp,
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Speaker 1: at what point do they say, you know what, this
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Speaker 1: is the deadline. We either do it by this date
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Speaker 1: or we don't do it and we wait until the
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Speaker 1: off season. I think that's a possibility that there's got
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Speaker 1: to be some kind of debt. You know, I don't
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Speaker 1: see this thing carrying over into the regular season, especially,
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Speaker 1: so we'll see things seem like and from all accounts
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Speaker 1: that we've heard that everything's on the up and up
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Speaker 1: and everybody's playing nice and the conversations continue, and that's
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Speaker 1: what this summer will be about still, I think between
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars and the Trevor Lawrence side of things. But hey,
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Speaker 1: it could get done. This thing could get done before
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Speaker 1: training camp and that would be I think ideal on
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Speaker 1: all parties. We talked about this though on the Huddle
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Speaker 1: Up podcast Wednesday, also available on the Official Jaguars podcast Network,
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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks and John Oser discussing the quarterback, including that
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Speaker 1: conversation that Johnny Yo had with Trevor Lawrence one on
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Speaker 1: one Tuesday, and we probably.
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Speaker 8: Talked about twenty minutes, and we talked something about the contract.
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Speaker 8: Maybe a couple questions were focused on that. I didn't
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Speaker 8: dwell on it because there's not much that a player
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Speaker 8: in that situation is.
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Speaker 7: Going to say.
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Speaker 8: What I did gather from him is it's if you
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Speaker 8: can put yourself in his shoes. He expanded a little
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Speaker 8: bit on it, and he said, look, I don't think
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Speaker 8: about it all the time, but during this time of year,
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Speaker 8: when you're on the phone with your agent talking about it.
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Speaker 8: You do take it very seriously because it's very important.
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Speaker 8: It's he didn't say quite like this, but you know,
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Speaker 8: it's the money that will define his life in a
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Speaker 8: very real sense.
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Speaker 2: It's a huge deal now with him.
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Speaker 8: If it happens not to get done next season, I
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Speaker 8: don't think it's a problem. I'm just sort of thinking
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Speaker 8: more if you can sort of close your eyes and
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Speaker 8: wouldn't we love this JP to close our eyes and
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Speaker 8: put ourselves in that conversation. Hey, hey, JP, you're either
9:56
Speaker 8: going to get sixty guaranteed or fifty five? Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 8: and and then you would be, you know, making plans
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Speaker 8: and nobody wants to know about by the way. So
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Speaker 8: just sort of how that at times must consume you
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Speaker 8: a little bit.
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Speaker 1: That' said.
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Speaker 8: I think it's getting done before training camp, so I
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Speaker 8: think it would be a problem. Overall the conversation it
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Speaker 8: was good. He was a little more open than he
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Speaker 8: was the last time we did this, which was last year.
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Speaker 8: I think the biggest takeaway I had was some of
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Speaker 8: the stuff that he has said on the podium about
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Speaker 8: how focused and how driven the team is right now.
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Speaker 8: You know, I feel about OTAs focused and driven whatever,
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Speaker 8: But there was something in his voice along the lines
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Speaker 8: of knowing that they need to set a tone.
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Speaker 2: He said, look, we all know what OTAs are, but the.
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Speaker 8: Focus, there's a limit to how much it can be
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Speaker 8: seen on the field.
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Speaker 2: But you get the idea that there's a core.
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Speaker 8: Of veterans on this team, young guys who are growing
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Speaker 8: up now, Evan Ingram, Christian Kirk, Trevor, all the guys
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Speaker 8: we've talked about year three in Doug Peterson's system. They're
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Speaker 8: more professional. They know what they need to get done
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Speaker 8: this time of year. They know what happened last year
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Speaker 8: can't happen again.
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Speaker 2: All that stuff.
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Speaker 8: He enunciated it better than I did, which is why
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Speaker 8: I had him on and wasn't just me talking about it.
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Speaker 2: But I think that's real. I do.
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Speaker 8: I did sense a real focus and a real maturity
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Speaker 8: from this core that I think will matter a lot
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Speaker 8: next year. And Bucky, I guess that's what you would
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Speaker 8: expect to hear. But I thought it was significant.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it is significant.
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Speaker 10: I love what Trevor has said about the contract stuff
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Speaker 10: or whatever it look it weighs over top of him.
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Speaker 10: There's a lot of pressure for him to get the
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Speaker 10: thing done so he can just focus on playing the game.
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Speaker 9: And look, the money is significant.
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Speaker 10: And they'll eventually find a way to get to a
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Speaker 10: middle ground because it's in the JAG's best interest to
11:53
Speaker 10: get the done the deal done sooner rather than later,
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Speaker 10: because the cost is only going to continue to go up.
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Speaker 10: For Trevor, once he has the security knowing that the
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Speaker 10: contract is done, then he can focus on playing ball.
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Speaker 10: And he's kind of been a lightning rod of criticism
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Speaker 10: over the course of the offseason because there are people
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Speaker 10: that are outraged at what the number is going to
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Speaker 10: be based on what he's accomplished, what the team is
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Speaker 10: accomplished or not accomplished with him at the helm. But
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Speaker 10: I think what you're doing if you're the Jaguars, you're
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Speaker 10: betting on the player.
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Speaker 9: You're betting on the guy. You're betting on.
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Speaker 10: Who he is, what he's meant to the team, how
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Speaker 10: he interacts with his teammates, what he does in the
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Speaker 10: locker room, and what he's shown in flashes on the field.
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Speaker 10: Once you get that done, it allows you then to
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Speaker 10: build the team around around him knowing what the number is.
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Speaker 10: Love the chemistry and the continuity that they have in place,
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Speaker 10: but there's been a lot of pressure on this Jaguars
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Speaker 10: offense to perform.
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Speaker 9: They have to perform at a higher level than they
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Speaker 9: did last year. And look whether.
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Speaker 10: Press Taylor, Doug Peterson, whoever's calling it, they got to
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Speaker 10: find a way to make the pieces of the puzzle work.
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Speaker 8: I guess I would ask fans and observers who in
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Speaker 8: this discussion. I try to avoid the discussion when i'm
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Speaker 8: out JP.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just well, you're a people person, John.
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Speaker 2: I'm a people person certain people.
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Speaker 8: But ask yourself this JP, and as Bucky as well,
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Speaker 8: he's in California. If you don't re sign Trevor, what's
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Speaker 8: the alternative? You'll blow it up and start over. I mean,
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Speaker 8: you've got a guy that you know. I think you
13:30
Speaker 8: know what the floor is. I think the floor is
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Speaker 8: really good. I don't know what the ceiling is yet.
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Speaker 8: I don't I don't know if the ceiling is my homes.
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Speaker 8: But I know that the worst is not bad and
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Speaker 8: not bad at all. And so I've used this analogy
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Speaker 8: probably on this show before. I don't know what Trevor's
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Speaker 8: going to be, and I know there are flaws that
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Speaker 8: he has to correct. I also don't want to be
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Speaker 8: standing in the parking lot waving goodbye when he drives
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Speaker 8: away for the last time. No, because then all of
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Speaker 8: a sudden, I go back inside the building and I'm
14:03
Speaker 8: trying to find another one, And I assume you think
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Speaker 8: I'm onto something there bout.
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Speaker 10: And as much as I would love the team to
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Speaker 10: be off, we're just going Draft one. We've seen the
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Speaker 10: challenges that teams have had and trying to identify a
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Speaker 10: franchise quarterback. Trevor Lawrence may not have been what we
14:20
Speaker 10: wanted him to be when we looked at him coming
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Speaker 10: out of Clemson, but he certainly hasn't been a flop
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Speaker 10: Forard Bus. He certainly has done enough to merit continue
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Speaker 10: to be the Jaguars quarterback. And the cost of doing
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Speaker 10: business is the cost of doing business. When it comes
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Speaker 10: to marrying a quarterback, and you pay him, you put
14:39
Speaker 10: it to bed, you become comfortable with the number, and
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Speaker 10: then you do everything in your power to put the
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Speaker 10: pieces around him that would allow him to play at
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Speaker 10: a high level. Because what we have seen, when the
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Speaker 10: quarterback plays at a high level, the team plays at
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Speaker 10: a high level.
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Speaker 9: And you get into the tournament and it gives you
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Speaker 9: a chance. And I have.
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Speaker 10: Tried to encourage people to think about it this way.
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Speaker 10: If Trevor Lawrence is on the field with Pat Mahomes
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Speaker 10: or Josh Allen or any of the other notable quarterbacks
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Speaker 10: that are regarded as elite, do you feel like you
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Speaker 10: have a chance at the game turns into a shootout?
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Speaker 9: And if you feel like you have a chance, then
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Speaker 9: you stroke to check.
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Speaker 10: If you don't, then you have to try and find
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Speaker 10: somebody else. But they're not many of those quarterbacks that
15:18
Speaker 10: come along, and you have to be comfortable going through
15:21
Speaker 10: an extended drought without a quarterback if you move on
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Speaker 10: from to me.
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Speaker 9: That's why it's a no brainer to get it done,
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Speaker 9: because it's easier to ask some pieces.
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Speaker 10: To elevate him at the level that he is than
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Speaker 10: to think about doing it all over again. It's really
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Speaker 10: as simple as can you close your as an envision
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Speaker 10: the confetti falling on Trevor Lawrence's shoulders because of the
15:40
Speaker 10: way that he played in the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 9: If you can do that, then you do it.
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Speaker 10: If you have a tougher time imagining him being a
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Speaker 10: guy that can do that, then you can't write that.
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Speaker 9: I feel really good about this team. I believe things
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Speaker 9: have somen swung so far in.
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Speaker 10: The other direction that the Jaguars are underrated and Trevor
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Speaker 10: Lawrence is undervalued. This would be a great opportunity for
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Speaker 10: him to kind of right those wrongs and show the
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Speaker 10: football world that, look, he is much better than he's
16:07
Speaker 10: given credit for and this team is much better than
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Speaker 10: people are expecting it to be going into next season.
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Speaker 1: That's Bucky Brooks and John Oser on the Huddle Up podcast,
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Speaker 1: available now on the Official Jaguars Podcast Network. We recorded
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Speaker 1: that yesterday about midday and a great discussion about the
16:26
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence situation and some reasons why it probably should happen.
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Speaker 1: The contract negotiations continue and we'll see what happens. And
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Speaker 1: of course John Oser's conversation with Trevor one on one
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Speaker 1: will be available soon, very soon, I believe later today.
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Speaker 1: yesterday jag Wars assistant coaches were made available to the media.
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Speaker 1: It happens around this time each and every offseason. Notable
19:08
Speaker 1: yesterday because many of the defensive coaches are new and
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Speaker 1: it was the first opportunity to get in front and
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Speaker 1: hear from some of these guys who are in charge
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Speaker 1: now and a lot of new faces, including Chris Richard
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Speaker 1: who is the Jaguars defensive backs coach, and a lot
19:26
Speaker 1: going on there. Some new faces in the second area
19:30
Speaker 1: as well, but some familiar faces are coming back, including
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Speaker 1: Andre Cisco and Tyson Campbell. Those guys have to adapt
19:37
Speaker 1: to a different defense and a different style of play,
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Speaker 1: maybe this year. So we heard from Rischard, the DB's coach,
19:45
Speaker 1: about that style of play, how veteran players might have
19:49
Speaker 1: to adjust, plus Campbell trying to bounce back from the
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Speaker 1: hamstring injuries of a year ago.
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Speaker 11: Everybody's been a part of their defense right or tried
19:58
Speaker 11: to play a particular style that's been really ci challenging.
20:01
Speaker 11: Right again, get up there, getting people's face, challenging, mathter
20:03
Speaker 11: line of scrimmage, you know, get get on the back,
20:05
Speaker 11: especially as a safety, right again, lock in key the
20:08
Speaker 11: quarterback and get get get get tuned in the key
20:11
Speaker 11: in the quarterbacks and tensions and seeing how they're trying
20:13
Speaker 11: to work us again and then how we're essentially trying
20:16
Speaker 11: to work our disguise is toward a quarterback and everything
20:19
Speaker 11: being relative from there.
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Speaker 9: So I think it's been a.
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Speaker 11: Really cool transition. I know, again, the guys have, We've
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Speaker 11: got a lot of buy in. You know, again, we've
20:27
Speaker 11: got really good guys there are really good athletes and
20:31
Speaker 11: really looking forward to seeing where.
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Speaker 9: We take it there.
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Speaker 8: Sure pressure has beneficing so far, and what kind of
20:35
Speaker 8: year could this be for him after what was a
20:37
Speaker 8: bit of a.
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Speaker 7: Difficult one last year.
20:39
Speaker 11: So it's the you know, the we don't control every circumstance, right,
20:44
Speaker 11: but we do control of every thought. And so the
20:47
Speaker 11: soft tissue injuries whatever again whatever it took place last year, right,
20:51
Speaker 11: and all that stuff has to be white clean, right,
20:53
Speaker 11: So it's a clean slate. I think he's one of
20:56
Speaker 11: the finer athletes that I've been around.
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Speaker 9: Out my coaching career here.
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Speaker 11: Uh, it's kind of just the way you know, he's
21:04
Speaker 11: able to run and transition. You know, he's got a
21:06
Speaker 11: he's got a bit of a perpetual motion thing. Obviously,
21:09
Speaker 11: again he's been a state champion here you know as
21:11
Speaker 11: one hundred meter runner ten three like that. That's incredibly valuable.
21:16
Speaker 11: And I don't know, it's just kind of weird, you know.
21:18
Speaker 11: So it's just like when you when you when when
21:19
Speaker 11: you're able to watch an athlete again in motion and
21:22
Speaker 11: things of that nature. Right Again, he's got that proverbial
21:24
Speaker 11: ball type.
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Speaker 9: Movement to where.
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Speaker 11: He's not he's not a like a hesitant, stiff type guy. Again,
21:31
Speaker 11: he's just rolling, you know, he's just rolling. So, uh,
21:34
Speaker 11: the big thing is always going to be and this
21:36
Speaker 11: for every every every everyone, a part of the secondary
21:38
Speaker 11: was covering right again, It's just gonna be again. I discipline, Uh,
21:41
Speaker 11: the level of intensity again once we figure out the
21:44
Speaker 11: direction of the wide receiver's going and staying true to
21:47
Speaker 11: that right again, so not allowing our eyes to come
21:49
Speaker 11: up and drift and keep the quarterback and.
21:51
Speaker 12: All that type of stuff.
21:52
Speaker 11: So again that in particular has just been going. It's
21:54
Speaker 11: training for everyone and not more in particular for him,
21:58
Speaker 11: but being able to watch a god against Saint right,
22:02
Speaker 11: so you see the profile here, height, length, speed, size,
22:06
Speaker 11: all that type of stuff. Man, it's getting him at
22:09
Speaker 11: the line of scrimmage. How many guys can actually run
22:11
Speaker 11: past him?
22:11
Speaker 9: That sort of stuff, you know.
22:12
Speaker 11: So just helping him, teaching him utilize his skill set,
22:16
Speaker 11: keeping his eye discipline again to stand true to his strength,
22:19
Speaker 11: and then watching him maximize.
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Speaker 1: Chris re Shard, the defensive backs coach for the Jaguars,
22:25
Speaker 1: joining the staff this year. The former defensive coordinator, a
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Speaker 1: co defensive coordinator of the Saints back in twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: two and of the Seahawks from twenty fifteen to twenty seventeen,
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Speaker 1: been in the NFL since twenty ten as an assistant coach,
22:43
Speaker 1: and attended Southern California where he played in the early
22:49
Speaker 1: right around the turn of the century. Actually ninety eight
22:52
Speaker 1: to two thousand and one is time with the Trojans,
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Speaker 1: So a good perspective there on some current players guys
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Speaker 1: that are coming back. But there have been a few
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Speaker 1: additions in the defensive secondary of this offseason as well
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Speaker 1: for the Jaguars, and they'll have to play a key
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Speaker 1: role in some position groups. Certainly, the Jaguars went in
23:13
Speaker 1: free agency and picked up a couple of veteran players
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Speaker 1: to come in and play not only outside at corner,
23:22
Speaker 1: but at nickel. They brought in Darby, they brought in
23:24
Speaker 1: Savage and free agency back in March fourteenth, that was
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Speaker 1: the official day of a free agency. Gregor Junior has
23:32
Speaker 1: been around some exclusive rights tender contract things with him
23:36
Speaker 1: in mid April, and then added a couple of defensive
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Speaker 1: backs to the depth of May sixteenth, Terrell Edmunds and
23:43
Speaker 1: Trey Flowers added to the team. So those have been
23:46
Speaker 1: the additions to the dB room and in this offseason,
23:51
Speaker 1: not to mention the draft picks as well. That they've added,
23:55
Speaker 1: of course Jarion Jones from Florida State DeAndre Princess, so
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Speaker 1: they'll have some competition there as well. So you could see,
24:05
Speaker 1: you can see Darby, you could see on the outside,
24:08
Speaker 1: you could see Adarian Jones competing for an outside but
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Speaker 1: maybe a nickel spot. And you got Antonio Johnson who's
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Speaker 1: going to be involved somewhere, whether it's safety or nickel.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're working on those kind of things right
24:19
Speaker 1: now in the defensive back world. And that's what OTAs
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Speaker 1: have been about, given guys different opportunities in different places
24:27
Speaker 1: to see what they have to offer. And that's what
24:29
Speaker 1: they've been doing really the last month month and a
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Speaker 1: half or so. The second level of the defense, the
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Speaker 1: linebacker level and middle linebackers. Coach Matt House joining the
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Speaker 1: Jags this year after a couple of years as the
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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator at LSU, and he talked about his group yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Fo Yer, Lucan, Devin Lloyd, Chad Mumma lead the way there.
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Speaker 1: But he was asked about when he knows if his
24:54
Speaker 1: group is ready to play, plus Devin Lloyd's transition going
24:59
Speaker 1: into another year.
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Speaker 12: I don't know that that constant that happens until you
25:04
Speaker 12: get into September. To be honest with you, and you
25:08
Speaker 12: know this league so often it's about who's who's available,
25:13
Speaker 12: you know, so that's what training camps for.
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Speaker 9: You talk about Devin gaining weight.
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Speaker 13: I was just curious, what do you think that that
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Speaker 13: does for him in terms of his strength and things
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Speaker 13: of that.
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Speaker 9: And I don't think it's necessarily weight.
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Speaker 12: I think it's been muscle mass or just but it's
25:30
Speaker 12: definitely gonna help him strike blockers. It's gonna you know,
25:33
Speaker 12: you talk about knock knock back tackles. When you get
25:36
Speaker 12: a guy that's explosive and can run like that and
25:39
Speaker 12: he's carrying a lot of you know, a lot of strength, obviously,
25:43
Speaker 12: that packs a bunch.
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Speaker 13: It seemed like over the first couple of years of
25:48
Speaker 13: his career, at least from the layman's terms are just
25:52
Speaker 13: from a casual observer, he could get lost sometimes. I'm
25:57
Speaker 13: curious from your perspective with this new scheme, how it
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Speaker 13: could probably help him just you know, do the things
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Speaker 13: that he needs to do.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I think you know, again, it's it's just the
26:08
Speaker 14: continued reputation, repetition of where I fit within the scheme
26:12
Speaker 14: and then how I fit with the offense attacking me.
26:16
Speaker 14: I hate to go backwards because you know I wasn't here,
26:20
Speaker 14: and to be honest with you, it doesn't do any good.
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Speaker 9: I could only speak.
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Speaker 12: To about where we're at right now, and I'm pleased
26:27
Speaker 12: with where he's at in the process.
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Speaker 1: Demetrius Harvey with the questions of Matt House, the inside
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Speaker 1: linebackers coach now for the Jacksonville Jaguars, an think yeah
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Speaker 1: and talking to Devin a couple of weeks ago. That
26:39
Speaker 1: conversation available on Jaguars dot Com. Yes, he he made
26:42
Speaker 1: it a priority in the weight room this offseason and
26:44
Speaker 1: it shows. I mean he is just physically a bigger,
26:49
Speaker 1: more imposing type of player. And we'll see what that means.
26:52
Speaker 1: Does that mean he's up on the line of scrimmage
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Speaker 1: a little bit more like he was a lot in
26:56
Speaker 1: college in his final couple of years at Utah. That
27:00
Speaker 1: remains to be seen. They weren't giving up many of
27:02
Speaker 1: those details in the conversation yesterday. Outside linebackers coach Bill
27:07
Speaker 1: Shoey was also available. He's one of the few to
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Speaker 1: return from the defensive side last year in the coaching
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Speaker 1: role on this good reason. His outside linebackers combined for
27:17
Speaker 1: twenty seven and a half sacks last year, But what
27:20
Speaker 1: is improvement from there? For Josh Allen and Trayvon Walker.
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Speaker 4: For those guys, it goes back to like when you're
27:29
Speaker 4: talking about the measurement of success that was in the
27:33
Speaker 4: sack number, right, And so from a sack standpoint, you'd
27:38
Speaker 4: like to see improvement always, right, And you might see
27:42
Speaker 4: that from other contributors or whatever else from you're looking
27:45
Speaker 4: at the totality of the position group, but from them,
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Speaker 4: you know, in the past rush standpoint, I like to
27:51
Speaker 4: focus on affecting the quarterback because I feel like they
27:53
Speaker 4: have more control over how they affect a quarterback than
27:56
Speaker 4: they sometimes do to the actual outcome, which may be
27:59
Speaker 4: the sack. But at the end of the day they're
28:03
Speaker 4: judged on sacks. I'll be judged partially on their ability
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Speaker 4: to get sacks, and so we don't want to completely
28:09
Speaker 4: just just we don't want to completely just push that aside.
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Speaker 4: That's real, But at the end of the day, I'll
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Speaker 4: focus a little bit more on their ability to affect
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Speaker 4: the quarterback and try to help the defense.
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Speaker 2: Did see Trayvon improve the most last year?
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Speaker 4: I think the way that he like. When I watch
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Speaker 4: him play, he's faster. It's not the processing of different
28:28
Speaker 4: things happened a lot faster. I think he understands, he
28:32
Speaker 4: understands the angles. He does a great job of understanding
28:37
Speaker 4: the small things. Now he's applying like you know, pre snap,
28:40
Speaker 4: he's doing a better job of understanding situations where the
28:42
Speaker 4: back is seeing little little indicators maybe from the offense
28:47
Speaker 4: where it gives him a little bit more of an
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Speaker 4: edge pre snap.
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Speaker 9: To help him.
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Speaker 4: And then I think as he continues to be able
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Speaker 4: to process things as he is right now during the play,
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Speaker 4: you know I'm talking about on a plague, and that
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Speaker 4: came with experience, right. I think his athletic ability, you
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Speaker 4: know is, will continue to take him to new heights.
29:08
Speaker 4: But again it's going to be difficult and he's got
29:10
Speaker 4: to continue to put into work with Like I said
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Speaker 4: to somebody earlier, like he is one of the hardest
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Speaker 4: working guys I've ever been around.
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Speaker 1: Bill Shey the outside linebackers coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Speaker 1: As we mentioned Alan Walker of course, combining for twenty
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Speaker 1: seven and a half sacks last season, and the pressures
29:26
Speaker 1: are what it's about. The sacks. Bring the dollars, ask
29:29
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. He got them in the right time, the
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Speaker 1: right year, in a contract year seventeen and a half
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Speaker 1: of those things a year ago. We're back in a
29:37
Speaker 1: moment plenty ahead, including the best of the offensive assistant coaches,
29:42
Speaker 1: a lot of familiar faces in that side of the ball,
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Speaker 15: We're still the same techniques, and that's what I'm telling
30:02
Speaker 15: our players is we're still using the same techniques. However,
30:06
Speaker 15: you still have a complete different blocking schemes. There's way
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Speaker 15: different angles and different situations of how do you get
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Speaker 15: to these blocks when they're only five yards away from
30:16
Speaker 15: each other? And so I'm learning every day. You know,
30:18
Speaker 15: we do a kickoff or kickoff return period. The very
30:22
Speaker 15: next day, I have Okay, guys, here's some new stuff
30:24
Speaker 15: we gotta do. Here's a coaching point I got for you.
30:27
Speaker 15: This is what I've learned. And I have players coming.
30:29
Speaker 15: I have great players that have great information. They say,
30:33
Speaker 15: coach is a little tougher to get to. What do
30:35
Speaker 15: you think about this? Great love it? But we're exploring everything.
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Speaker 1: Heath Farewell, special teams coordinator visiting with the media earlier
30:45
Speaker 1: this week, and welcome back and Shaguars Happy I are
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Speaker 1: That's a big change, obviously, and you know, it's made
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Speaker 1: for a busy offseason for special teams coaches around the
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Speaker 1: NFL and special teams players around the NFL because it
31:10
Speaker 1: is a totally new feel and look, there might be
31:13
Speaker 1: an occasional XFL or UFL player that has done something
31:18
Speaker 1: similar before, but for most accounts, it's a brand new scheme,
31:23
Speaker 1: brand new ideas, and we've not seen it at all.
31:27
Speaker 1: So at some point when football happens, real football happens,
31:33
Speaker 1: you'll start to see some adjustments on that front. Jaguars
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Speaker 1: YouTube JP, Shadrick flying solo today and reviewing the assistant
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Speaker 1: coaches who spoke with the media yesterday, and we get
31:46
Speaker 1: to the offensive side of the football. A lot of
31:48
Speaker 1: familiar faces, of course on this side, starting on the
31:52
Speaker 1: offensive line, that's been a group of focus in this
31:56
Speaker 1: offseason and how they take the next step. Offensive line
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Speaker 1: coach Phil Rauscher with the media yesterday, discussing the Mitch
32:04
Speaker 1: Morse addition at center and much more.
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Speaker 16: The defensive line as a whole, UH does a good job.
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Speaker 7: Of connecting with one another and helping each other.
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Speaker 16: With UH with that and and at the end of
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Speaker 16: the day, you know, Mitch is at a point in
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Speaker 16: his career where he's still playing really good football, but
32:24
Speaker 16: he could help younger players develop, not just Luke, but
32:28
Speaker 16: Cooper Hodges and UH and Vaughan and Stephen Jones and
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Speaker 16: the young guys. I think that they a guy like
32:35
Speaker 16: Mitch really helps UH bring the unit together even more so,
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Speaker 16: I don't you know, Luke has handled this like a pro.
32:44
Speaker 16: He's done a great job. And and we all have
32:47
Speaker 16: to play better, you know, we all have to do
32:50
Speaker 16: a better job coaching playing.
32:52
Speaker 7: For us to be successful.
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Speaker 16: So it was good to bring Mitch in and his
32:56
Speaker 16: leadership and whatnot. But we all, we all know that
32:59
Speaker 16: we to do things the right way.
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Speaker 17: About his Walker a little and kind of the contract
33:04
Speaker 17: year hasn't really had a shot at really locking up
33:08
Speaker 17: a starting job.
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Speaker 18: As tough as it for.
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Speaker 12: Walker, in the spot.
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Speaker 16: You know, Walker, Walker's done a great job with the
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Speaker 16: role he's been asked to do. But since I've been here, uh,
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Speaker 16: but that doesn't mean that the competition is locked up
33:25
Speaker 16: in any way, shape or form for this upcoming year.
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Speaker 7: He's done an excellent job in.
33:28
Speaker 16: OTAs so is so is uh, so is Cam and
33:32
Speaker 16: Anton really hasn't done much just because of of what's
33:35
Speaker 16: been going on with him.
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Speaker 7: So he's been he's been getting a lot of reps
33:38
Speaker 7: and showing what he can do.
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Speaker 16: And you know, Walker has uh has played a lot
33:43
Speaker 16: of positions for us, and and to his credit, he's
33:47
Speaker 16: he's handled that like a pro. But we're excited for
33:51
Speaker 16: the direction of where he's going because he is a
33:53
Speaker 16: really good football player. And uh, once we can get
33:56
Speaker 16: him settled in and playing one spot more, I think
33:59
Speaker 16: he's going to take off.
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Speaker 17: He seemed like le Rodgers was early heading in the
34:02
Speaker 17: right direction last year.
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Speaker 18: Injury kind of derailed him for a minute.
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Speaker 9: Has he picked up where he left out?
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Speaker 7: Coop has done a really nice job coming back.
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Speaker 16: I think that the first week or two he was
34:13
Speaker 16: a little bit how's my knee going, where's my knee going?
34:17
Speaker 7: Kind of thing?
34:17
Speaker 16: And now he's really he's in a position where he's
34:20
Speaker 16: playing some pretty good football. We've moved him around, he's
34:22
Speaker 16: playing both guard positions in center, and he's playing some confidence.
34:26
Speaker 16: He's doing some good things.
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Speaker 1: So it's Phil Rauscher, the offensive line coach, Jamal Saint
34:30
Speaker 1: Sierra of Channel four with some of the questions there,
34:32
Speaker 1: and yeah, what did the Jaguars change on the offensive line. Well,
34:36
Speaker 1: they signed Ezra Cleveland to an extension. He didn't have
34:39
Speaker 1: much time with the Jaguars on task last year. Blake
34:43
Speaker 1: can't signed to an extension, depth player in his past
34:47
Speaker 1: at least competing for some work. And then signed Mitch
34:50
Speaker 1: Morrison free agency to play center, tenth year player. They
34:54
Speaker 1: re signed Tyler Shatley mister Jaguar in mid April, and
34:59
Speaker 1: then Javon Foster the rookie contract signed in mid May,
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Speaker 1: the fourth round draft pick from this year. That's what changed.
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Speaker 1: Everything else is the same left tackle Cam Robinson who
35:10
Speaker 1: missed eight games last year. By the way, if you remember,
35:13
Speaker 1: he is back at left tackle. You got Brandon Sheriff
35:16
Speaker 1: hopefully can stay healthy. He's been fighting through injury for
35:20
Speaker 1: a couple of seasons. He's at right guard and then
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Speaker 1: Anton Harrison at right tackle, and of course the coaches
35:25
Speaker 1: have said there's really not a depth chart right now.
35:28
Speaker 1: Everybody's competing, but that's that's the case. I mean, Mitch
35:32
Speaker 1: Morris has got to be the lead horse going into
35:34
Speaker 1: training camp, at least they brought him in here for
35:36
Speaker 1: a reason. And Ezra Cleveland the same way. Left guard,
35:41
Speaker 1: Ken Cooper Hodges or somebody like that. Make a run
35:44
Speaker 1: sure at some point is that probably the future of
35:47
Speaker 1: the position. Most likely at some point if Brandon Sheriff
35:51
Speaker 1: is no longer around here at some point in the future,
35:53
Speaker 1: then they hope to have that next guy in the line.
35:57
Speaker 1: So this will be a focus third lesly short yardage situations.
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Speaker 1: Can they move people? Can they get a yard or
36:04
Speaker 1: two yards when they need it and they know you
36:06
Speaker 1: need it And they weren't able to do that a
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Speaker 1: lot last year, And that's been a topic of conversation
36:13
Speaker 1: in that meeting room, and it should be. Let's go
36:15
Speaker 1: to wide receiver now. Chad Hall, the wide receivers coach,
36:20
Speaker 1: added Gabe Davis to his room this offseason from the
36:23
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, a player that he coached in Buffalo before
36:27
Speaker 1: his move here. Plus how fast Brian Thomas Junior is
36:30
Speaker 1: fit into that group.
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Speaker 19: That's probably his first call.
36:35
Speaker 6: You know.
36:36
Speaker 19: We were lucky to have spent time together in Buffalo.
36:39
Speaker 1: Drafted him up there.
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Speaker 19: Another guy he's him and v Tier definitely the two
36:44
Speaker 19: smartest guys, you know, as rookies that I've had in
36:48
Speaker 19: my young career coaching.
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Speaker 7: So he's he's been a.
36:52
Speaker 19: Sponge as well as he's easy. He was easy to
36:54
Speaker 19: teach the offense too, and now he's just in his
36:57
Speaker 19: way leading the group even though he's, you know, coming
36:59
Speaker 19: back from aag.
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Speaker 2: Brian, that blend of size and speed.
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Speaker 13: Just how much can he threaten defenses just by being
37:05
Speaker 13: on the field.
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Speaker 1: You can't.
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Speaker 19: I mean you'll see it. I mean it's almost like
37:10
Speaker 19: he's got like that little Mike Vickson' drome where he's
37:13
Speaker 19: running but he doesn't look like he's running fast, but
37:15
Speaker 19: he is a movie you know. So I just told him,
37:20
Speaker 19: you know, Trevor a couple first couple of practices, we
37:24
Speaker 19: had a couple of go balls thrown and he either
37:27
Speaker 19: you know, caught it back shoulder, had to slow down
37:29
Speaker 19: a little bit, and I just told him, I go.
37:30
Speaker 9: Tell Trevor to try to outthrow it.
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Speaker 19: Yeah, I'll see if we can do that. See if
37:34
Speaker 19: he can do that. But you see it in college.
37:36
Speaker 19: He chases everything down.
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Speaker 8: He's fast and Doug's mentioned it, but I guess his
37:40
Speaker 8: route running that's something maybe he didn't get enough credit
37:42
Speaker 8: for him coming out of college.
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Speaker 19: I don't think they asked him to do too much.
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Speaker 19: But yeah, it's something we work on every day of releases.
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Speaker 19: We're oute running his break point mechanics. He can bend
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Speaker 19: well for a bigger guy. It's just trying to put
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Speaker 19: it all together.
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Speaker 9: So we're working on.
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Speaker 1: That as we speak. That's Chad Hall, the Jaguars wide
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Speaker 1: receivers coach Don Shipley of SI. With some of the
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Speaker 1: questioning there and a lot of new faces there, gave
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Speaker 1: Davis one of those, of course, Brian Thomas, junior first
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Speaker 1: round draft pick, two of the at least projected top
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Speaker 1: three starters are new to the offense this year, and
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Speaker 1: gave Davis really hasn't had time on task yet in
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Speaker 1: this offseason program, coming off an injury in the playoffs
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Speaker 1: last year. So at some point, you know, we come
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Speaker 1: training camp, he will have to get acquainted in live
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Speaker 1: reps in practice with Trevor Lawrence. But that'll come and
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Speaker 1: the question will be, you know, how many do they keep?
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Speaker 1: They added Devin Duvernet as well, who is a kick returner,
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Speaker 1: but he will make it. Of course. It feels like
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Speaker 1: he gave Davis Christian Kirk, you know, Brian Thomas junior.
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Speaker 1: After that. It could be a fight for a couple
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Speaker 1: spots if they decided to keep six players. Tim Jones
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Speaker 1: has been around here for a couple of years, the
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Speaker 1: Southern Mississippi product, undrafted player who's made it, been a
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Speaker 1: key special teams player for this group. There are some rookies,
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Speaker 1: undrafted players, younger players. Seth Williams one of those. Can
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Speaker 1: he make a jump? So we'll see. Training camp will
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Speaker 1: be huge for this group with new faces and a
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Speaker 1: couple of roster spots up for grabs. But the guy
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Speaker 1: throwing them the football is a focus, of course, Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence and Mike McCoy is the quarterbacks coach, former head
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Speaker 1: coach in the NFL. Lawrence improvement and team leadership. What
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Speaker 1: does he seeing out of number sixteen?
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Speaker 18: If you see what he's done out there this offseason program,
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Speaker 18: He's done a phenomenal job of running the show, and
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Speaker 18: I think right his biggest thing this offseason was really
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Speaker 18: getting to.
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Speaker 9: Know his new teammates.
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Speaker 18: I think you could see the progress he made the
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Speaker 18: last two years in our system and just how comfortable
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Speaker 18: he was of doing, you know, running the show last
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Speaker 18: year and.
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Speaker 9: Getting us in and out of play.
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Speaker 18: And the big thing is is the key this offseason
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Speaker 18: was really with the new players of just really learning
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Speaker 18: you know how you know, and just really talking with
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Speaker 18: these guys and how he wants them to run routes
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Speaker 18: and you know, certain adjustments he's gonna make and little
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Speaker 18: just little things we've worked on, you know that we've
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Speaker 18: talked about about, you know, how he can play better,
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Speaker 18: you know, come up.
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Speaker 20: This year, Don talked a little bit about kind of
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Speaker 20: making that transition for Trevor of going from learning, but
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Speaker 20: now he's practicing, right, he knows it like the back
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Speaker 20: of the sand, which is what you want in a quarterback.
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Speaker 20: Do you feel he's made that jump effectively and he
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Speaker 20: can kind of become that person that when anybody else
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Speaker 20: comes to him, he already knows what's going on.
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Speaker 18: Yeah, he's Trevor's really I mean, all the quarterbacks I
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Speaker 18: think have done a great job this off season. You know,
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Speaker 18: obviously Cjy and Trevor have been in it from day
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Speaker 18: one with us, but Trevor's done a phenomenal job of
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Speaker 18: just really going out there and you know the team,
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Speaker 18: and it's the more you play in the same system
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Speaker 18: with the same teammates, it's a lot easier to go
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Speaker 18: out there. The first year, you look at it and
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Speaker 18: it's you know, you're not you're learning the system and
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Speaker 18: you may not be executing it like you know in
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Speaker 18: the off season. You look at the first off season
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Speaker 18: program and you want to say certain things, but you
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Speaker 18: might be making a few mistakes and you're not comfortable
41:22
Speaker 18: or you may not be sure of all the little
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Speaker 18: details of everything because you're still learning. And now you
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Speaker 18: look at the year three and now he knows he's
41:30
Speaker 18: like another coach on the field and you see him really,
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Speaker 18: you know, whether it's in meetings or maybe it's just
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Speaker 18: be sitting downstairs in a general conversation. Something comes up
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Speaker 18: with somebody, whether it's sitting at and eating and someone
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Speaker 18: might come up and ask a question and it's just
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Speaker 18: so easy for him to spit out the answer. And
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Speaker 18: that's the way it's been, you know, through practice of
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Speaker 18: if a formation might come up and he might say
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Speaker 18: something depressed about, hey, can I run it out of this?
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Speaker 18: And it's just so easy for him to change because
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Speaker 18: he may want to see Gabe run a certain route
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Speaker 18: instead of have you know, he might know how Christian
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Speaker 18: runs this route, so he wants to switch him to learn,
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Speaker 18: just to kind of see how that his new.
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Speaker 9: Teammate runs it. And it's been great to see.
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Speaker 1: That's Mike McCoy, former Chargers head coach now Jaguars quarterback coach,
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Speaker 1: and on Jaguars dot com the year by year statistics,
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Speaker 1: well last year fourteen picks a bunch of fumbles. That's
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Speaker 1: been a focus and certainly will be in this offseason
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Speaker 1: program and then the training camp and beyond. Can Trevor
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Speaker 1: hang on to the football, protect it and cash it
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Speaker 1: in in the red zone. That's that's a huge key,
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Speaker 1: and we'll see what happens with the contract, of course.
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Speaker 1: That's that'll be a focus throughout the next month and
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Speaker 1: a half until the start of training camp at the
42:42
Speaker 1: quarterback all the availabilities on Jaguars dot Com from the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars assistant coaches yesterday, we're back at a moment with
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Speaker 1: the Microsoft questions and final thoughts, and we'll hear from
42:54
Speaker 1: an Aussie. It's Jaguars Happy Hour, brought to you by
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Speaker 17: A lot of fassroom work, but it's nothing compared to
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Speaker 17: what we're doing here at the Jags. There's a lot
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Speaker 17: more detail involved in this. It's a lot faster pace,
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Speaker 17: more explosive and as a new play in a new
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Speaker 17: news game each each rep. Whereas AFL the games, it's
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Speaker 17: a constant movement game that's also played fast and physical.
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Speaker 17: But yeah, a lot a lot more fast room work here.
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Speaker 17: It's a physical game, as I said before, So yeah,
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Speaker 17: just get the pads on and get a good taste
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Speaker 17: of what it's like. I've never run against defense before,
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Speaker 17: so during this OKAS periods and now has been the
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Speaker 17: first time I come down seven and sevens. So every
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Speaker 17: day I'm learning something new and it's been a good challenge.
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Speaker 1: Patrick Murtogg joining us earlier this week and Jaguars Happy
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Speaker 1: rules football at the highest level there for a number
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Speaker 1: of years. Was cut and then decided to make the
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Speaker 1: move to try for the NFL International Program. Did so,
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Speaker 1: Shadwick with you final moments of Jaguars Happy Hour on
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Speaker 1: this Thursday afternoon, and let's get to some Microsoft questions.
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Speaker 1: We put out the Cat signal earlier today on x
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Speaker 1: Here's the best we've come up with, and it involves
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Speaker 1: the International Pathway Program. This is from at gtr ZN
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Speaker 1: seventy one. Can you explain the International Pathway Program and
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Speaker 1: how it works? It sounds like it's just a free
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Speaker 1: agent pool of international players. How are they found and
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Speaker 1: who do they work with? It's a great question, and
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Speaker 1: it's a program that started a number of years ago,
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Speaker 1: back in about twenty seventeen by the NFL to give
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Speaker 1: elite international athletes it may not have even touched football before,
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to compete at this NFL level and proves
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Speaker 1: some skills and then maybe earn a spot. There have
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Speaker 1: been a few players that have come through the program
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Speaker 1: that have worked out are played on actual game day rosters.
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Speaker 1: Fa Obada one of those, Jordan Milatta, Jacob Johnson, all
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Speaker 1: over a thousand snaps in the NFL. So there are
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Speaker 1: some success stories with this program. It is, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's a work in progress. This is what it is.
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Speaker 1: I and these players get an opportunity and they're scouted
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Speaker 1: out and then they go to a combine it's been
45:44
Speaker 1: in London at Tottenham the last few years, and then
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Speaker 1: they're divvied up. Basically, I think there's a different division
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Speaker 1: each year that has an extra player that's available. And
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Speaker 1: basically the player does not count against your roster limit
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Speaker 1: in the off season and in the regular season. If
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Speaker 1: he clears waivers, he can join your practice squad without penalty.
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Speaker 1: If you note him as the international pathway player, you
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Speaker 1: can have an extra practice squad body. Basically is what
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Speaker 1: that is to give that player an opportunity to improve
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Speaker 1: his skill, or you can just have him as a
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Speaker 1: regular practice squad player, move him up and down. From
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Speaker 1: this perspective, on Murtalk, he's got the size. He's six
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Speaker 1: six two fifty he walks off the bus and you're like, oh, okay,
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Speaker 1: he fits in with all the other tight ends. But
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Speaker 1: as you just heard him say, the physicality thing is different.
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Speaker 1: He's never put on pads against the defender before, he's
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Speaker 1: never run seven on seven until the last three weeks.
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Speaker 1: So it gets real in a hurry when you're having
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Speaker 1: to move other NFL players, And we'll find out come
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Speaker 1: training camp what he has. But it'll be a fun
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Speaker 1: project to watch and maybe a year or two you
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Speaker 1: might have something or somebody might have something out of
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Speaker 1: Patrick Murtok. Next question at Dylan Kierton, when will the
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Speaker 1: throwbacks be unveiled? Well, I would say before that throwback game, yes,
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Speaker 1: at some point. I would guess probably later in the summer.
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Speaker 1: I don't think there's a huge rush right now. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot of football stuff going on, off season programs
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Speaker 1: about to wind up. There's putting a news right now.
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Speaker 1: I would guess when there's not a lot of news
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Speaker 1: going on and when you might want to have some news.
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Speaker 1: So think about the dead period, you know, like I
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Speaker 1: would say maybe julyish, maybe even leading into training camp.
47:38
Speaker 1: That's saying that seems like a good time but who knows.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Nobody told me, but just thinking through it,
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Speaker 1: I mean that would make sense to me. But I
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Speaker 1: know everybody's excited about it, and I think they're going
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Speaker 1: to look really cool. Next question, final one of the
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Speaker 1: day at Justin g O nine six eight zero zero
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Speaker 1: four nine. What do you believe will be the wide
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Speaker 1: receiver depth chart? Will this offense be capable of having
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Speaker 1: two thousand yard receivers? Just a Jags fan from Pennsylvania,
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Speaker 1: Thank you? You know what? Justin G zero nine six
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Speaker 1: eight zero zero four nine, Thank you. We talked about
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Speaker 1: this a little bit earlier. I think you have an
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Speaker 1: idea of the first three Christian Kirk gave Davis, Brian
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Speaker 1: Thomas Junior. Devin Dubernet's on that list? Is he more
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Speaker 1: of a gadget type player? He's gonna be a returner?
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Speaker 1: After that? I think it's wide open. Are they keeping six?
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Speaker 1: Who are the other two? That's a great question, Elijah Cooks.
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Speaker 1: They've they've been working on for a couple of years.
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Speaker 1: Has it quite really taken that next step? Can he
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Speaker 1: in this training camp coming up? It'll be a second
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Speaker 1: year in the NFL. Tim Jones been around for a
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Speaker 1: while now, fourth year in the NFL coming up a
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Speaker 1: special Teams contributor. I think that's where they are. We
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Speaker 1: got to wait and see on some of these guys
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Speaker 1: in the wide receiver room. Those are the Microsoft questions.
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Speaker 1: That is it for our program. The Jaguars practice Monday
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Speaker 1: and Tuesday. Next week. Wednesday's on the schedule as well.
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Speaker 1: It is mandatory mini camp, but there won't be many
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Speaker 1: veterans around. There will be a lot of rookies players
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Speaker 1: who need some extra work, and then the players out
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Speaker 1: of here officially Wednesday. We'll have another one of these programs,
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Speaker 1: the final one of the offseason program, next Thursday at
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Speaker 1: four o'clock right here. Our thanks to David cho Brent Reever,
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Speaker 1: Joe Fortunado, our entire crew today. A lot of extra
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Speaker 1: work for this program and thanks to you for listening.
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Speaker 1: I'm JP Shadwick. We will catch you next time. A
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