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Jags Broadcast Week in Review: March 25 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Jaguars Broadcast Weekend Review podcast presented by
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Speaker 1: t I A A. Bank. It's Friday, March j P.
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Speaker 1: Shadrick with the best of the week from Jaguars Radio,
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Speaker 1: Jaguars dot Com, and all our streaming platforms Jags, Twitter, Facebook,
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Speaker 1: and YouTube. We start this week with the Jaguars Reporters Podcast. Monday,
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Speaker 1: John Ozer, Brian Sexton, Ashland Sullivan and I recapped the
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Speaker 1: arrival of the first wave free agent signings, including defensive
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Speaker 1: tackle fully Phookasi from the Jets. You know, hearing his
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Speaker 1: story the way he came through sixth round pick played
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Speaker 1: like one game as rookie season, you never know if
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Speaker 1: those guys are gonna stick or not. But that he
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Speaker 1: found a role and found a way and stuck with
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Speaker 1: it and kept working and battled through. Yeah, he was
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Speaker 1: by far the most emotional um telling his story, and
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Speaker 1: it was interesting. We got to the point where he
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Speaker 1: was really talking about leaving his hometown. He's from Queens
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Speaker 1: and you know New Yorkers, they're very proud of where
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Speaker 1: they're from. And he went to college around there and
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Speaker 1: then played for the New York Jets. He said, this
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Speaker 1: is really my first time leaving home, and I always
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Speaker 1: pictured when I left home it was because I've reached success.
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Speaker 1: And for him to reach the second contract is the
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Speaker 1: success that that he wished upon. It's the ultimate success story,
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Speaker 1: which coming to Florida. I mean, come on, that's not Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he said, you know, when I moved, I knew it
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Speaker 1: would be. It's because I made it. So you could
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Speaker 1: tell he was getting really emotional that he got the
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Speaker 1: second contract. Well, I'll have to home this because my
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Speaker 1: father told me I had to st story on that.
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Speaker 1: But I think what struck me about the seven was
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Speaker 1: I don't know whether they'll quote live up to their contracts.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how you do that when you're making
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Speaker 1: the kind of money that free agents make. But what
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Speaker 1: I do believe is that these seven, you're not going
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Speaker 1: to have any of those guys who say, Okay, well
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Speaker 1: I made the money, now I'm done. Right now, I'm
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Speaker 1: checking out. You got the idea that they will all
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Speaker 1: try to earn what ever is in the third year.
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Speaker 1: So and there are elements of that. We've had this
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Speaker 1: franchise before, way beyond for me, but you're not gonna
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Speaker 1: get a Jerry Porter out of this point. The Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Reporters podcast runs Mondays on this official Jaguars podcast network,
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Speaker 1: moving to Tuesday Morning and Jags Drive Time. NFL media
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Speaker 1: reporter Judy Batista joined Ashwyn John and Brian for a
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Speaker 1: review of one of the wildest openings to a league
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Speaker 1: here in league history. This seems to be one of
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Speaker 1: the craziest free agencies we have ever seen. To be Frank,
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Speaker 1: I think it's deep crazy. Um we've ever seen I
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Speaker 1: don't remember ever seeing anything like this, especially the quarterback movement,
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Speaker 1: which is um wild and unprecedented in the NFL. Judy,
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Speaker 1: let me ask you, Um, this was the topic we
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Speaker 1: were just talking about this U. The quarterbacks are the
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Speaker 1: tip of the iceberg on it, but so many big
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Speaker 1: names changing hands? Is this trend? Do you see this
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Speaker 1: being the way the league is going forward? Because Judy,
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Speaker 1: unfortunately and I have know each other a long long time,
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Speaker 1: so we're the old people in the room. With Brian,
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Speaker 1: I don't remember this young at heart. Young at heart?
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Speaker 1: Is this how it's gonna be or if our team's
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Speaker 1: gonna have to see if it works? How do you
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Speaker 1: see this shaping up going forward? I do think, um,
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Speaker 1: this is likely to be the way things are for
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Speaker 1: a while, there's you know, if general managers have gotten younger,
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Speaker 1: and I think this wave of general managers is more
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Speaker 1: aggressive in team building. I mean, you're right, like, only
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Speaker 1: how many years ago there were never trades in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: We would sort of bemoan like, oh, we wish it
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Speaker 1: were more like Major League Baseball's trade deadline, right, We're
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Speaker 1: superstar players are moving all the time. That never happened,
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Speaker 1: and you certainly never saw a player for player trades.
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Speaker 1: And part of the reason why they would say, well,
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Speaker 1: you know, the salary cap makes it too complicated. Well
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Speaker 1: now we realized not really, they just didn't want to
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Speaker 1: do trades. Um. This wave of general managers seemed more
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Speaker 1: comfortable with with doing it, and so I think, um,
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Speaker 1: we are likely to see this kind of movement. Um. Listen,
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Speaker 1: you know we we just saw what the Rams did. Um,
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Speaker 1: and that's not for everybody. That's not everybody's cup of
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Speaker 1: tea the way they built their team, but it worked. Um,
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Speaker 1: And I think you're you know, I think you're going
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Speaker 1: to see a comfort level, particularly with moving star level players.
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Speaker 1: You know, Judy, I'm not sure what my question is here,
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Speaker 1: but when when you look at the Colts, right, Um,
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Speaker 1: the Colts for years had Peyton Manning and then Andrew
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Speaker 1: Luck and they had no quarterback instability at all. And
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Speaker 1: now what are they going into six straight years? This
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Speaker 1: will be with them with a different starting quarterback. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Part of that, I think it speaks to what you
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Speaker 1: were saying, and that is is that you know, you've
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Speaker 1: got guys who are willing to take chances. And the
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Speaker 1: other part of it is is that when there's not
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Speaker 1: someone out there, guys can move freely. It's just so
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Speaker 1: interesting Marcus Mariott is getting another chance, and Russell Wilson
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Speaker 1: moves to Denver, and so where does Baker Mayfield land?
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Speaker 1: Where where does this whole quarterback carousel stop? This year?
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Speaker 1: I think also just to add to what you were saying,
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Speaker 1: a contributing factor this year is the draft class is
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Speaker 1: not you know, there's just not this wealth of quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: that are really well regarded in this draft class. Maybe
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Speaker 1: that will turn out to be wrong, but at least
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Speaker 1: the analysis going into the draft is, you know, there's
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Speaker 1: no Trevor Laureance. So if you are a team in
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Speaker 1: need of that guy, you know the draft is sort
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Speaker 1: of pushed to the side. And if if you feel
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Speaker 1: like we're just a quarterback away, um, then you're gonna
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Speaker 1: go get one in free agency. To answer your question
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Speaker 1: about Baker Mayfield, you know, I don't I don't know
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Speaker 1: where he lands. Um. Certainly that you know, the seats
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Speaker 1: are filling up and the music is getting close to stopping. Um,
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Speaker 1: he apparently wanted was hoping for the Indianapolis called I
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Speaker 1: never thought that was going to be a great fit.
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Speaker 1: They apparently we're not, um, you know, really in on
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Speaker 1: him either. So uh, you know there are teams that
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Speaker 1: still need a quarterback Seattle, Um, you know, I can't
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Speaker 1: imagine they're going to be just settling Withdrew lock So
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Speaker 1: Seattle apostle ability. Um, maybe what are the Carolina panther
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Speaker 1: is going to do since they missed out onto Shawn Watson?
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Speaker 1: But you know the slots are closing up. I mean Atlanta,
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Speaker 1: you know, trades Matt Ryan and then signs Marcus Mariotta,
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Speaker 1: who is clearly their bridge quarterback. Maybe maybe he resurrects
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Speaker 1: his career, which would be tremendous, but you know, clearly
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Speaker 1: he is the bridge to either his own career resurrection
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Speaker 1: or to somebody else Um, you know, New Orleans brought
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Speaker 1: back Jamis Winston, which I think was the no brainer move. Um,
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Speaker 1: but you know the spots not just Stake or Mayfield.
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Speaker 1: What happens to Jimmy Garoppolo now, who I think we
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Speaker 1: all assumed would be moved by this time and his
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Speaker 1: shoulder surgery has really messed up his his movement. Jack's
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Speaker 1: Drive Time Tuesday's at ten am on Jaguars dot Com
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Speaker 1: and the Jags social media channels. We stay with a
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Speaker 1: quarterback talk, and this time from the NFL Network analyst
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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks on the Huddle Up Podcast. He spoke with
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Speaker 1: John Osan and me about the quarterback Pro Day week.
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Speaker 1: What do you like so far about the quarterback week
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Speaker 1: in the Pro Days? Bucky? Uh, you know, JP, I
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Speaker 1: think we have to kind of talk about it in
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Speaker 1: terms of the way that we're seeing the league shift.
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Speaker 1: We're seeing the size of me change in the way
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Speaker 1: people are treating the quarterback and that will have a
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Speaker 1: ripple effect on the college game and the college quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: that are in this draft. UM, We've never seen as
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Speaker 1: much turnover in movement up top of the National Football
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Speaker 1: League with um quote unquote elite quarterbacks changing teams still
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Speaker 1: in their prime, and that has led us to look
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Speaker 1: at the quarterback position a little differently. I think when
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Speaker 1: the money escalated and got to the point where it's
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Speaker 1: forty million dollars for um, your high end quarterbacks, I
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Speaker 1: think teams are now making decisions based on if I
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Speaker 1: don't have what I deemed to be an elite quarterback,
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Speaker 1: I'm not just going to pay them to keep them around. Uh.
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Speaker 1: There was a time where we were doing that. We
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Speaker 1: saw that even in Jacksonville, where maybe Blake Borders wasn't
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Speaker 1: a high end guy but still got paid like that.
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Speaker 1: And what happens upsets to apple cart and the locker
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Speaker 1: room teams, and they're going away from that. And I
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Speaker 1: think what happened in the postseason when you saw Pat
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Speaker 1: Mahomes and Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Matt Staffic where the
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Speaker 1: quarterback made plays, I think it raised the bar for
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Speaker 1: what we expect from the quarterback. And so now when
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Speaker 1: we look at these college guys in the draft, I
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Speaker 1: don't know if people are really fired up about the
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Speaker 1: class unless you have great tools. And so the entrigue
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Speaker 1: yesterday was on Malik Willis, and Malik Willis has tools
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Speaker 1: that will be reminiscent of what we saw from like
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Pat Mahomes and those guys where you're
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Speaker 1: almost doing like baseball scouting, where you kind of ignore
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Speaker 1: the performance and the production and you're you're making the
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Speaker 1: evaluation based on what they bring to the table physically,
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Speaker 1: raw arm, talent, uh, athleticism and that stuff, and then
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Speaker 1: you're hoping that you can coach them up and maybe
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Speaker 1: if it hits, you get one of those elite quarterbacks.
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Speaker 1: But I don't think people now are selling for mediocrity,
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Speaker 1: which really makes the conversation interesting when we start thinking
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Speaker 1: about how Trouble Lawrence needs to progress over the next
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Speaker 1: four years before you have to start doing that big,
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Speaker 1: big payday, and how you build your team around an
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Speaker 1: elite quarterback making big money. I'll say this leading into
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Speaker 1: a question for the scout, But what you just said, Bucky,
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Speaker 1: if I was a GM, which obviously I'm never going
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Speaker 1: to be a GM, I think you will sew yourself
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Speaker 1: short scouting a guy and drafting him high and thinking
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Speaker 1: that you're going to develop a guy because he has
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Speaker 1: tools and he's never shown it. The old man shouting
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Speaker 1: at at our clouds inside of me says that is
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Speaker 1: a risky way to get a quarterback as somebody who
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Speaker 1: sat in those rooms, as somebody who you know, Uh,
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Speaker 1: I think I could be a GM as yourself. Would
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Speaker 1: that not scare the heck out of you? Well? I
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Speaker 1: think if you if you look at it this way,
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Speaker 1: what we're talking about our prototypes. So there are two
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Speaker 1: ways to do it. Where you can look at the
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Speaker 1: prototypical guy who has the height, weight, arm, talent, checks
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Speaker 1: off all the intangible qualities and those things, and you're like, look,
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Speaker 1: the performance hasn't always been clean, but the odd suggest
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Speaker 1: that the elite quarterbacks have X, Y and z. This
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Speaker 1: guy has that, he just hasn't put it together as
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Speaker 1: opposed to the noodle arm quarterback that we know is
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Speaker 1: just a guy. But then we get him and we
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Speaker 1: get comfortable with him being the quarterback, and then we
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Speaker 1: don't want to move on because we're like, yeah, he
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Speaker 1: doesn't have this, but we don't want to go out
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Speaker 1: and search for better. I think what you're now seeing
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Speaker 1: is everyone is on the hunt to get a top
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Speaker 1: five guy, and if you're not a top five guy,
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Speaker 1: it's just not a birth right for you to be
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Speaker 1: the starting quarterback long term for a franchise. I think
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Speaker 1: that's the main shift. And so yeah, you don't necessarily
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Speaker 1: want to make those gambles. But what you do now, John,
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Speaker 1: is you swinging. You swing for the fences, and if
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Speaker 1: you don't, I can you move on and get the
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Speaker 1: next one. Before when we talk about drafting guys in
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Speaker 1: the first round, you draft to go in the first round.
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Speaker 1: You kind of married to him for a long time.
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Speaker 1: The Cleveland Browns moved off of Baker Mayfield he was
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Speaker 1: the number one overall pick and led him into a
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Speaker 1: post A playoff win, and they're like, yeah, we know
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Speaker 1: we need better to beat the other guys. That's where
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Speaker 1: we're seeing the bar is now going. They're raising the
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Speaker 1: bar for expectations for quarterbacks, and I like it because
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Speaker 1: that's how the bar was always raised for position players.
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Speaker 1: We settled with quarterbacks because we're like, yeah, we don't
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Speaker 1: want to bring you in competition, whereas we should always
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Speaker 1: want the best quarterback that we can find, like that
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Speaker 1: to golf, right, and then we can't get over the
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Speaker 1: humpless go get Matthew Stafford and it worked out for
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Speaker 1: them a super Bowl. Yeah, because now you have to
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Speaker 1: think about the position and talent and tools, and so
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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville we should feel better about Trevor Lawrence because
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Speaker 1: even though last year, the rookie year, like the numbers
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Speaker 1: weren't what we like, the talent and the tools deals
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Speaker 1: show up. The talent shows up, the tools. He's long,
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Speaker 1: he's athletic, he has great arm. Talent. You you gamble
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Speaker 1: on those guys, the guys who don't have that, you're
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Speaker 1: quick to move on because ideally, man, you want the
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Speaker 1: Brooks on the Huddle Up Podcast Wednesday. We took social
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Speaker 1: media questions this week, one of them about wide receiver
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Speaker 1: options for the Jaguars in the NFL Draft, especially with
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Speaker 1: the thirty third overall pick, the opening pick of the
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Speaker 1: second round. They're million of them. John Dodson could be
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Speaker 1: in the mix. Um sky More from Western Michigan could
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Speaker 1: be a guy UM that could ask some juice and
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Speaker 1: scissor to the lineup. UM. I guy that I like,
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Speaker 1: but I worry about his speed not being enough to
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Speaker 1: kind of change the or impact the wide receiver corps
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Speaker 1: would be David Bill from Perdue. Um. There are many
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Speaker 1: guys I would say keep an eye on this guy
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Speaker 1: from North Dakota State, Christian Watson. Uh. Not in the thirties,
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Speaker 1: but maybe late second round, early third round. Christian Watson
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Speaker 1: is a guy that dominant, has great size, great length,
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Speaker 1: and when we think about the success that Cooper Cup
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Speaker 1: hat game is not identical. But he could be the
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Speaker 1: next guy from a small school to kind of pop
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Speaker 1: as a as a big time pro. And Bucky, you
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Speaker 1: said it before, but for the purposes of this question,
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Speaker 1: you think it's possible in this draft to get a
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Speaker 1: long term, big time player white receiver. Right. Oh, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: Like that's that's that's where you want to be. You
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Speaker 1: want to be because someone So here's the thing, all
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Speaker 1: thirty two draft wars are different, um, and so someone
15:16
Speaker 1: is going to take a player that you deem to
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Speaker 1: be not necessarily a great player, and so there's going
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Speaker 1: to leave someone that's how on your board there in
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Speaker 1: the second round. So yeah, I think you can find
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Speaker 1: you can find guys. I think it might be an
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Speaker 1: opportunity to get um another offensive lineman. If you say
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Speaker 1: that you still need some more help there, you have
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to get any of your pass catchers that
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Speaker 1: you want. And I think you also can get a
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Speaker 1: corner you know. I mean, it's gonna be wide open
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Speaker 1: interviewed over fifty people for an upcoming PF podcast series
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Speaker 1: Hutchinson and his journey toward the NFL Draft. We've interviewed
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Speaker 1: over fifty people, right, We've inter over fifty people, talking
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Speaker 1: to everyone we possibly can to help tell Aidan Hutchinson's story,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of it has been awesome and so
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Speaker 1: consistent as well. Which is the type of player and
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Speaker 1: the type of human being Aidan Hutchinson is. I've interviewed
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Speaker 1: from much every member of his nuclear family, a lot
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Speaker 1: of media, a lot of draft analysts, a lot of
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Speaker 1: players that he played with, pretty pay um you know,
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Speaker 1: Julius welsh Off, his roommate there at Michigan. It's been really,
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Speaker 1: really fun just finding out who Aidan Hutchinson is, right,
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Speaker 1: because everyone talks about him. He's just projected number one
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Speaker 1: overall pick, potentially a future Jacksonville Jaguar, and I really
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Speaker 1: wanted to dig into the type of player he is,
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Speaker 1: the guy on and off the field he's had, you know,
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Speaker 1: a wild story. Comes to Michigan as a four star recruit.
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Speaker 1: We're in the same jersey his dad did at the
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Speaker 1: University of Michigan up to live a legacy with Hutchinson
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Speaker 1: as his last name, and from there plays right away,
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Speaker 1: does not burn a red shirt year, plays in that
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Speaker 1: Don Brown defense, up and down with with Shawn Gary Quitte, Pay,
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Speaker 1: Chased Winevitch, Josh h Cha finally has this opportunity to
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Speaker 1: be the guy on campus. In twoints tw COVID abbreviated season,
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Speaker 1: also gets her breaks his ankle six snaps into the
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Speaker 1: Indiana game and ultimately was gonna make a decision to
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Speaker 1: go to the NFL Draft instead. With the injury and
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Speaker 1: with the COVID abbreviated season, knew he had more to
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Speaker 1: prove came back in one for his senior season, and
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Speaker 1: well the rest is history. But he probably made himself
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Speaker 1: a lot more money Austin and uh and by the way,
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Speaker 1: out of all these fifty interviews that you conduct, by
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Speaker 1: the way, you know, this is really kind of a
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Speaker 1: vetting process. If you find out any blemish whatsoever, please
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Speaker 1: let us know so that we can pass that on
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Speaker 1: to the people here that make those decisions. Because when
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Speaker 1: you invest the kind of money that the Jaguars are
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Speaker 1: gonna invest in the first overall pick, you gotta know everything.
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Speaker 1: I haven't found a blemish yet. I'll say that it's
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Speaker 1: been tough to talking to his dad for an hour
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Speaker 1: and a half, his mom for an hour, all these
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Speaker 1: different draft analysts, all these coaches. Right, Some of the
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Speaker 1: more fascinating interviews that I've done have been talking to
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Speaker 1: coaches that have coached against him. I talked to the
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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator for the University of watching that he went
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Speaker 1: toe to toe within week two and said, I don't
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Speaker 1: know what to do. You talked to Western Michigan who
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Speaker 1: played him in week one, was watching Baltimore Ravens film
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Speaker 1: to get a read on the defensive porter to Mike
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Speaker 1: McDonald's offense or defense, and he said, I didn't know
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Speaker 1: what to do. We tried to run away from We
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Speaker 1: try and chip, we try to do all these things,
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Speaker 1: and he's a very difficult player to game plan for.
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Speaker 1: And that's what I found out time and time again
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Speaker 1: talking to these opponent coaches. I think my favorite interview
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Speaker 1: has probably been Penn State offensive line coach Philip trout
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Speaker 1: Wine talking to him about what are you telling your
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Speaker 1: offensive tack us to do when you're get in these
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Speaker 1: situations with Aiden Hudson's They don't block him one on one, right,
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Speaker 1: You're gonna need a tight end, You're gonna need a
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Speaker 1: running back. You're gonna need to run the football far
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Speaker 1: and far away from Maiden Hutchinson. Yeah, Austin, you know,
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Speaker 1: I played the position somewhat because he's a stand up
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Speaker 1: more of a stand up type of a guy. And
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Speaker 1: when I was in college, I was a stand up
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Speaker 1: middle linebacker. But when I was in the pros, I
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Speaker 1: was a defensive end. So I watched that position with
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Speaker 1: great interest and and watching the film on Aidan Hutchinson,
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Speaker 1: I can't find as a guy that played that position,
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Speaker 1: I can't find anything that he does not do well.
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Speaker 1: I don't find any weakness. I don't see any weakness.
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Speaker 1: He's got a tremendous motor. He uh excels in every situation,
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Speaker 1: whether it's something that requires speed, stamina, strength, he does
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Speaker 1: everything exceptionally well. And so many different people probably want
19:56
Speaker 1: to type cast him into a four or three or
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Speaker 1: a three four at PFF. What do you guys think
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Speaker 1: he is gonna be or where he should be. I
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Speaker 1: think he can play both positions really well. Whether his
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Speaker 1: hands in the ground or it's off, it's kind of
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Speaker 1: up to him and the team that wants to play him.
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Speaker 1: Talking to his agent and talking to Aiden specifically, so
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Speaker 1: he kind of prefers playing with his hand out of
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Speaker 1: the ground, but he said, I'll do whatever it takes.
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Speaker 1: I'll play nose tackle in the NFL if that's what
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Speaker 1: I have to do, if that's the team asked me
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Speaker 1: to do. I do think he's best on the edge
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Speaker 1: and being able to pin his ear back and pin
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Speaker 1: his ears back and rush the pastor with a hand
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Speaker 1: out of the ground. I think that's what's been really
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Speaker 1: really where he's had the most success. Right, He did
20:30
Speaker 1: a lot of that in that bersility. I think you're
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Speaker 1: a hunter per set right, you hit the nail on
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Speaker 1: the head. I'm just like the type of player he is.
20:36
Speaker 1: He's a complete player. Talking to head coach Jim Harbaugh,
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Speaker 1: he just checks every single box athleticism, intangibles, production, measurables,
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Speaker 1: all these different boxes you need to check to be
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Speaker 1: a numbered overall pick, to be a top five pick
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. It's exactly what Aidan Hutchinson checks. There
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Speaker 1: at the University of Michigan, there strength and conditioning coach
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Speaker 1: Ben Herbert, who's been there since, has molded Aidan Hutchinson's body.
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Speaker 1: They test forty one different key key performance indicators or
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Speaker 1: KPI is like neck inflection, hip abduction, all these different things.
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Speaker 1: He is a plus across the board, the best they've
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Speaker 1: seen over the last two years. Aidan Hutchinson is the
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