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J.P. Shadrick Podcast: Week in Review · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the j P. Shadwick Podcast. Today Friday, April
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  Speaker 1: and it is the end of the busiest week of
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  Speaker 1: the off season so far. The players were back in
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  Speaker 1: the building this week, Paul was Lesnie retired, a couple
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  Speaker 1: of the Jaguars met the media to start the off
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  Speaker 1: season program. Thursday was the State of the Franchise, and
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  Speaker 1: Friday the Jags football leadership held the annual pre draft
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  Speaker 1: media luncheon. That's all that happened this week. Let's start
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  Speaker 1: back on Monday. With the players back in the building
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  Speaker 1: for the start of the off season program, it was
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  Speaker 1: the perfect day to hon a retiring linebacker, Paul pas Lesnia,
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  Speaker 1: team favorite and a fan favorite. The team room was
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  Speaker 1: packed with media, business office representatives, former and current players,
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  Speaker 1: and Jacks coaches all came to hear pause one final time.
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  Speaker 1: Who better to introduce pazz Lesnie than current linebacker Telvin Smith,
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  Speaker 1: who ended up stealing the show. We could talk about
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  Speaker 1: the exactly reason and all of that, but the most
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  Speaker 1: proud I've ever seen him is when he found out
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  Speaker 1: he was becoming a father. That changed him and opened
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  Speaker 1: him up a little bit more. To us and to everybody,
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  Speaker 1: there are conversations that we've had that that would affect
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  Speaker 1: me and that you all see when you see growth
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  Speaker 1: in me. Forever and ever and ever. His his legacy
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  Speaker 1: will live on through what he's done here. I love him,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate him. I couldn't even it's nothing, man. Even
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  Speaker 1: the words that I'm saying is the words came up
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  Speaker 1: with somebody else that I'm using to describe my feelings
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  Speaker 1: for you and the respect that I have for you. Mhm.
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  Speaker 1: But just no, I've never met a better man, did you.
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  Speaker 1: I've never had a better teammate, did you. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I've ever been able to say someone loved me
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  Speaker 1: who I didn't do something for. Did you? And I
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  Speaker 1: promise you, I promise you. I promise you I won't
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  Speaker 1: let you down. And I feel like that last game
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  Speaker 1: we let you down. So I diddicate this next season
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  Speaker 1: to you, and I promise you. Quite A powerful introduction
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  Speaker 1: from Telvin Smith for paulpas Leslie, two guys that became
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  Speaker 1: incredibly close over the last few years. Once was Leslie
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  Speaker 1: took the stage, it was pure pause, professional, thankful, humble,
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  Speaker 1: but he made one thing clear about his retirement decision.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to do this. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: retire right now. I want to I want to keep playing.
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  Speaker 1: But what was more important for me was I didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to go back out on the field and be
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  Speaker 1: a step too slow or or miss a play. You
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  Speaker 1: know that if I'm out on the field with Telvin
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  Speaker 1: and Miles and there and they expect me to do
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  Speaker 1: something and I missed that play because I held on
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  Speaker 1: a year too long, I don't know how I how
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  Speaker 1: I look at them, you know what I mean, So
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  Speaker 1: that that was unacceptable to me. And with that in
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  Speaker 1: my mind and knowing that I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, but I but there's a but it could be,
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  Speaker 1: there's a higher probability, and I know that's right around
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  Speaker 1: the corner. And once it hits, it hits, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: not there's you don't, you don't stop it. Um avoiding
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  Speaker 1: that what was the was the most important thing, where
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  Speaker 1: I said, it's just it's it's my time because I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I love the game too much and I
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  Speaker 1: respected too much to not have to not be able
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  Speaker 1: to physically do everything that I've done in years past.
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  Speaker 1: And if that's a year too early, Uh, maybe I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna regret it, but rather be a year too early
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  Speaker 1: than than than one play too late. We haven't seen
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  Speaker 1: the last of Pulp is Les day. I can guarantee
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  Speaker 1: you that, as he said on Monday, finding something to
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  Speaker 1: replace football will be difficult and as many former players say,
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  Speaker 1: it is nearly impossible. On to Tuesday, and coming off
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  Speaker 1: a run to the a f C Championship Game a
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  Speaker 1: year ago, expectations are high around the Jaguars fan base
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  Speaker 1: and yes, even in the building, quarterback Blake Portals understand
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  Speaker 1: the bar has been raised. You know, the expectations are different, um,
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  Speaker 1: coming in years past. You know, even coming into last
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  Speaker 1: year after the previous year three games or whatever we want,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with with Coughlin and coach Moron coming in,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the expectations had changed, but it was kind
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  Speaker 1: of like, you know, we still just won three games
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  Speaker 1: last year, Like how good can we possibly be? And
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  Speaker 1: to be able to go through the season that we
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  Speaker 1: went through last year, Um, the camp that we went
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  Speaker 1: through and you know kind of see everything that happened.
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  Speaker 1: I think, Um, I think guys are coming back this
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  Speaker 1: year with a totally different attitude and kind of a
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  Speaker 1: uh you know, a hunger to to rese final game
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  Speaker 1: and go win for a defense that was among the
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  Speaker 1: league's best in and has most of the pieces back
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  Speaker 1: for this season. All Pro defensive lineman Clayer's Campbell knows
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  Speaker 1: they cannot live in the past. Yeah, it's important. I mean, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in the NFL, it's a lot of turnover
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  Speaker 1: every year, you know, uh, and this year, obviously we
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  Speaker 1: have some turnover, but for the most part, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're bringing a lot of people back and you know,
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  Speaker 1: the culture staff standing the same. It's crucial, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because now we have some continuity and that's always good
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  Speaker 1: to have, you know, going to a new year. But
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  Speaker 1: we still have to start back from ground zero and
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  Speaker 1: kind of you know, develop it again, you know, build
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  Speaker 1: the chemistry. You have to start back at ground zero
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  Speaker 1: row and didn't build. You know, hopefully we can get
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  Speaker 1: further along by the time the season starts. Then we
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  Speaker 1: were last year, but you definitely have to start back
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  Speaker 1: at zero. We group and then kind of just take
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  Speaker 1: it one day at a time. But hopefully, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with our leadership and a lot of guys returning, you know,
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  Speaker 1: no one as system being familiar with everything, you know,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully it goes a litt last the long so the
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  Speaker 1: off season programmers underway. Let's clarify some of the rules
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  Speaker 1: per the Collective Bargaining Agreement. Phase one, that's what we're
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  Speaker 1: in now. It consists of the first two weeks and
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  Speaker 1: it's limited to strength and conditioning and rehab only. Phase
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  Speaker 1: two follows the next three weeks, when on field workouts
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  Speaker 1: can include individual player instruction and drills and team practice
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  Speaker 1: on separate basis, so no live contact or team offense
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  Speaker 1: versus defensive drills. None of those are permitted. Phase three, though,
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  Speaker 1: consists of the next four weeks that includes the ten
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  Speaker 1: days of organized team activities and again no live contact
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  Speaker 1: is permitted, but seven on seven, nine on seven, and
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  Speaker 1: eleven on eleven drills are permitted. The mandatory mini camp
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  Speaker 1: pre veenteran players comes during Phase three, and for the
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  Speaker 1: Jags this year, it's June twelve through fourteen. Now to
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  Speaker 1: a cornerstone event of every offseason for the Jaguars, the
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  Speaker 1: State of the Franchise. It was held Thursday in the
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  Speaker 1: US a Sure Club East at EverBank Field. A packed
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  Speaker 1: room of politicians, special guest sponsors in front office staff
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  Speaker 1: watched in person and thousands watched along online. Jaguar's president
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  Speaker 1: Mark Lamping took a look back at the last year,
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  Speaker 1: laid out some challenges with this Jacksonville market, and made
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  Speaker 1: announcements that will shape the franchise for the future. Some
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  Speaker 1: of those announcements included ever Bank updating the name of
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  Speaker 1: the stadium to t I A A Bank Field, a
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  Speaker 1: change set to take place officially June four. Camp Grunt
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  Speaker 1: Style will take over the north end zone deck of
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  Speaker 1: the stadium on game days, and yes, Pet Paradise will
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  Speaker 1: have the first ever dog park in an NFL stadium
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  Speaker 1: that's in the south end zone deck. Most Jags fans,
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  Speaker 1: they'll wanted to see and react to the updated uniforms.
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  Speaker 1: That was the final presentation on Thursday, and in our
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  Speaker 1: postgame show, If you Will, Jacks owner's shot con explain
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  Speaker 1: the process of getting to this point. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: love them. I think especially with the season we have,
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  Speaker 1: it really defines the new team, simple, powerful, agile, winning.
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  Speaker 1: We started looking at it right after Tom got here. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and what do we have to do? It's a new
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  Speaker 1: beginning for us and how did we define it? And
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  Speaker 1: obviously Tom is a very classic guy, old fashion, old
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  Speaker 1: school which includes winning and uh, so you know, we
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  Speaker 1: articulated to division and I had obviously Nike work with us,
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  Speaker 1: uh to come up with something we think to find
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  Speaker 1: the new team. Another part of the presentation included artists
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  Speaker 1: renderings of the sports complex and with the Jaguars in
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  Speaker 1: vision for the future of the area around the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Lamping announced Baltimore based Cornish Companies as the developer for
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  Speaker 1: what will be a two point five billion dollar investment.
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  Speaker 1: Lots of questions are still to be answered, but for
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville me or Lenny Curry, one question is easy to answer.
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  Speaker 1: What a development like this would do for the city. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think you we've heard shot in Mark
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  Speaker 1: say it. And the first thing is jobs and economic development,
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  Speaker 1: opportunity for people. Jobs are the core of everything. So
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  Speaker 1: job creation, uh demonstration that uh, you know, new capital
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  Speaker 1: the Cornish group was announced today, So the interest of
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  Speaker 1: new capital coming into Jacksonville. Uh, and from those jobs
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  Speaker 1: and income creates entertainment and uh just a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun and density in our downtown. And finally, the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars announced a major music event at the stadium for
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  Speaker 1: Labor Day weekend. Kid Rock and Jason al Dean will
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  Speaker 1: play with Jacksonville's own Leonard Skinnered. It is expected to
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  Speaker 1: be their final Jacksonville area show on the Last of
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  Speaker 1: the Street Survivors farewell tour. Lead senor Johnny van Zandte,
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  Speaker 1: the brother of original lead singer Ronnie and longtime guitarist
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  Speaker 1: Ricky Medlock, both Jacksonville natives. Well they hit the podium
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  Speaker 1: during the announcement and then came on set with us
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  Speaker 1: on Jaguars dot Com after. One of the highlights today
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  Speaker 1: of the presentation was you guys at the podium, massive
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  Speaker 1: tags fans, definitely, you know what, the Waivers brought this
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  Speaker 1: team here and you know it's gone on to the
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  Speaker 1: new owner here. And hey, last year I was so
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  Speaker 1: proud to be a Jacks fan. Or your kidding me,
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  Speaker 1: I was like yes, and hey we were real close.
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  Speaker 1: We were a real close. This next coming year we'll
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  Speaker 1: go all the way. So you know, hey, no matter
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  Speaker 1: why we were winners here, you know we've come a
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  Speaker 1: long ways, Ricky he said on the stage. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you guys are on the road a lot, so during
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  Speaker 1: the fall you don't get to see the Jackson Well,
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  Speaker 1: here's the funny part to watch them. We don't get
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  Speaker 1: to personally be in the game. But it's so funny.
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  Speaker 1: Man riding on the bus, you'll see the TV on Man,
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  Speaker 1: and the TV's on all the time on the on
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars game. You know. Seriously, We've been going to
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  Speaker 1: shows before and the Jacks have been playing on you know,
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  Speaker 1: the TV, and I'm like, I'm gonna be a little
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  Speaker 1: late today. The opening group a little longer, you know, longer.
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  Speaker 1: So a huge event. Mean, you guys have played with
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  Speaker 1: with Kid Rock and Aldeen before. You guys a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times go around in different circles like that, but
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  Speaker 1: this is a huge event, and this is something close
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  Speaker 1: to you guys because as you said on the stage,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't know we're we're in jacksonvill You wanted to
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  Speaker 1: play the last two right, So it is in the
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  Speaker 1: bull It couldn't be no bigger, you know, it couldn't
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  Speaker 1: be no bigger. And with the Jags for the success
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  Speaker 1: they had last year and the new coach. We love
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  Speaker 1: the new coach too. By the way, it's good to
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  Speaker 1: see Doug back. I mean, uh yeah, Tom back, Sorry Dougs,
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  Speaker 1: Doug is here for the first year. Yeah, getting them
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  Speaker 1: mixed up, folks, but you know what, it's a good city.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great city. I'm glad to see. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I live a little bit of ways out out of
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  Speaker 1: the actual city and to come down here. Me and
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  Speaker 1: Ricky took in the whole stadium to day. We went
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  Speaker 1: over to Daily's place to Amphitheater, you know. So you
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  Speaker 1: know we're gonna be like a bad rash folks. We
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  Speaker 1: ain't going away. It's a big chase of the old
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  Speaker 1: gaterbull days around. They're not kidding. Well. I was in
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  Speaker 1: the Gator Bowl, the old Gator Bowl, when it was announced.
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  Speaker 1: They had a big function to going down here, invited
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  Speaker 1: everybody in the city to come down to hear the
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  Speaker 1: new announcement. And I came down and heard the new
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  Speaker 1: announcement in the old Gator Bowl. That's yeah, man. The
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  Speaker 1: full stay to the franchise broadcast archive is available on
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars dot com. Check it out. Finally, on Friday, the
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  Speaker 1: pre Draft media luncheon a yearly tradition. The Jaguars brass
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  Speaker 1: sits in front of the media at a luncheon, of course,
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the draft, and usually they don't give
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  Speaker 1: up too much. Executive Vice President of Football operations. Tom
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  Speaker 1: Coughlin explained what goes into the process of finding the
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  Speaker 1: kind of players they want. Well, there's investigation. The scouts
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  Speaker 1: that are there first, and they're really the way the
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  Speaker 1: scouts operate is trying to be a year ahead of
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  Speaker 1: themselves all the time. And so that process of asking
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  Speaker 1: questions and gathering information and and being aware of things
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  Speaker 1: and uh is all all goes into the the whole
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  Speaker 1: package as you evaluate the player. Obviously, the guy's gotta
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  Speaker 1: be a football player and you've gotta you know, rank
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  Speaker 1: him and evaluate him based on his position and what
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  Speaker 1: you feel this important parts to his game are. But
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  Speaker 1: you take into consideration the academics, the off the field stuff,
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  Speaker 1: type of citizen that he is, what kind of leader
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  Speaker 1: is he, How is he in the community, how's he thought?
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  Speaker 1: What what do his teammates think about him? What do
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  Speaker 1: his coaches think about him? So there's a there's a
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  Speaker 1: massive amount of information that comes to allowing you to
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  Speaker 1: make a decision on a player in terms of whether
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  Speaker 1: he fits you or not. Next week on this podcast,
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  Speaker 1: a pre draft media round table, Mark Long of the
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  Speaker 1: Associated Press, Mike Dorocco of ESPN, and Hays Carline of
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  Speaker 1: ten ten XL Radio. We'll all sit down and discuss
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  Speaker 1: and debate what the Jags could do with the number
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine overall pick of NFL Draft. The draft is
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  Speaker 1: right around the corner and we've got plenty of coverage
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  Speaker 1: ready for you. Will break it all down in next
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  Speaker 1: week's podcast. Remember the register for free tickets to the
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  Speaker 1: uniform launch and Draft Party. That's Jaguars dot Com slash
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  Speaker 1: Draft Party eight team that'll be at Daily's Place Thursday
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  Speaker 1: night thanks to Jacks Manager of Radio Joe Fortunato. And
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  Speaker 1: we'll catch you next week on the j P. Shadrick
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  Speaker 1: Podcast