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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Jaguars broadcast. We can review podcasts presented
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Speaker 1: by t I A A Bank, J P. Shadrick at
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Speaker 1: Radio Row at the NFL Scott and Combine in Indianapolis.
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Speaker 1: And today we have the best of the week from
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Speaker 1: the Combine on Jaguars Radio and Jaguars dot Com, including
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Speaker 1: Jaguars head coach Doug Peterson making the media tour Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: plus NFL Network and ESPN analysts breaking down the Jags
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Speaker 1: options with the number one overall pick and more. Let's
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Speaker 1: begin with Jaguars head coach Doug Peterson. He spoke at
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Speaker 1: the main podium and later made multiple stops on Radio
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Speaker 1: Road Tuesday, including with Ashlan Sullivan and John Ozer talking
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Speaker 1: through the Jags roster and needs. There's talent on the
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Speaker 1: roster number one, and and we know that every year
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Speaker 1: we get to this part of the of the off
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Speaker 1: season and there's gonna be changes, right, There's always gonna
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Speaker 1: be guys that are gonna leave, guys that we're gonna add,
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Speaker 1: you know, through free agency. And we want to sign
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Speaker 1: all our free agents, right, I mean the guys that
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Speaker 1: were with the team or two ago, and and so
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Speaker 1: we're all everybody's kind of going through this. But when
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Speaker 1: I look at the roster, there's there's talent. Now do
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Speaker 1: we need help? Yeah, we need We need to keep
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Speaker 1: in acquiring talent, right, We need to fill in some gaps.
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Speaker 1: We need to make sure that Trevor has you know,
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Speaker 1: weapons and skill positions around around him and in the
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Speaker 1: offensive line and and things like that. We were we've
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Speaker 1: always felt strong about the defense and and and those
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Speaker 1: front guys and you know. But again, this is the
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Speaker 1: way we go through free agency and and the draft,
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Speaker 1: right is to continue to add and bring talent and
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Speaker 1: value to to the roster. The Jaguars head coach also
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Speaker 1: explained how the interview process goes for prospects in the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars room at the NFL scouting combine, We'll draw a play,
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Speaker 1: the position coach will go up, draw play, write the
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Speaker 1: terminology out, described the play in detail to the to
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Speaker 1: the player could be a receiver, could be you know,
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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, the quarterback or running back, whoever it might be.
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Speaker 1: Describe in detail to play at the beginning of the interview,
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Speaker 1: and then we'll erase the board and then we'll go
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Speaker 1: through the interview, go through tape, look at everything, and
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Speaker 1: then in the last two minutes or nine seconds, we go, okay,
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Speaker 1: get back on the board and tell us what you
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Speaker 1: remember the play, and he has to write it out,
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Speaker 1: he has to detail it. He's got a diagram all
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Speaker 1: you know, all five routes or whatever it is. And again,
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Speaker 1: that's a really good way of understanding how much they
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Speaker 1: know of football. More with Doug Peterson and general manager
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Speaker 1: Trent Bulky in the coming days on the team website.
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Speaker 1: Let's move to Jaguars Happy Our Radio. Thursday afternoon, CBS
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Speaker 1: Sports senior writer Pete Prisco joined Ashland and John here
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Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. The Jaguars are going without an executive vice president,
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Speaker 1: and we started Tuesday morning with the news that the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars have decided they will not hire an executive vice president. Thoughts,
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Speaker 1: I don't like it. I think they needed to bring
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Speaker 1: a guy above Trent Bulky and and let him have
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Speaker 1: some input into the way things are run, maybe not
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Speaker 1: have the final decision making hour, but also be a
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Speaker 1: guy who can add his insight into that, because where
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Speaker 1: are they now. You have Doug Peterson, who's in there,
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Speaker 1: but now you also have the general manager, who's the
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Speaker 1: same guy that was the general manager a year ago,
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Speaker 1: and so I think that's part of the problem here,
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Speaker 1: I really do. And I look, I've made I haven't
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Speaker 1: shied away from it. I think they needed to make
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Speaker 1: a change a general manager. I'm not as adamant about
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Speaker 1: it as the fans are, and nor do I think
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Speaker 1: shots a clown for not making that move. But they
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Speaker 1: needed to make a move. Just why didn't they just
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Speaker 1: start all over again? But as it is now, it's
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Speaker 1: all on Trent and and Doug Peterson to get along.
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Speaker 1: And I asked. We had Doug on our our set
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Speaker 1: the other day and I asked him, I said, you know,
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Speaker 1: there's a the fans wanted him out. There were people
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Speaker 1: that didn't want to come work here with him. What
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Speaker 1: is your relationship with him? And have you paid attention
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Speaker 1: to that? And he said, look, I'm not looking into
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Speaker 1: the rear view mirror. I'm looking forward. So I understand
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Speaker 1: it from his standpoint, I just would have made a change. Pete,
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure you've been on our I guess the
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Speaker 1: channels is the word you use, right, that's this that's
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Speaker 1: the word of the kids use. Um. I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: we've talked to you much since the Peterson higher You
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Speaker 1: obviously no Doug from before. Uh talk about him, talk
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Speaker 1: about what he's gonna bring. What are your impressions? Well,
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Speaker 1: I think this was a job and I'm a big
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Speaker 1: Byron left which guy. I love Byron, I always have.
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Speaker 1: I've always had a great relationship with him. I don't
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Speaker 1: think this would have been a good job for Byron.
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Speaker 1: I think Byron is gonna be a great coach down
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Speaker 1: the road, but this wouldn't have been it. They treated
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Speaker 1: him poorly and Jackson, let's be honest about it, he
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Speaker 1: still had some bad blood about that. And I think
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Speaker 1: this was a team that needed a guy with skins
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Speaker 1: on the wall. And by that I mean a guy
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Speaker 1: who has the cash at the super Bowl ring you
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Speaker 1: can come in there and clean up the mess. And
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Speaker 1: it was a mess that's being left behind, and so
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Speaker 1: I think that's the most important thing. And he's a
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Speaker 1: good offense of mine. Oh you have to do you
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Speaker 1: have to do is look, you want a super Bowl
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Speaker 1: Nick Foles. I'm shocked. Oh my god, he want a
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Speaker 1: super Bowl with Nick Foles and just put him coaching
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame just for doing that. How will his
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Speaker 1: uh you know again, you study more other team schemes
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Speaker 1: and we get a chance to detail wise, how do
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Speaker 1: you expect the offense with Peterson to look? How is
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Speaker 1: this gonna look? Explain that to fans in layman's terms. Well, look,
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Speaker 1: it's not gonna be the wide zone that everybody you
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Speaker 1: don't want to which I think is the perfect offense
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Speaker 1: for a lot of quarterbacks. You know, where you run
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Speaker 1: the wide zone like the forty Niners do. It makes
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Speaker 1: it so much easier on them. The old Kyle Shanahan offense.
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Speaker 1: You know, we've seen them rush for three yards once
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Speaker 1: in a playoff game running that offense. It just makes
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Speaker 1: it easier on the quarterback. So this is gonna be
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Speaker 1: more of a pro style. Like we take Kansas City,
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Speaker 1: It'll be a lot like their offense, you know, the
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Speaker 1: Andy Reid pro style offense, which means it's gonna cater
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Speaker 1: to the quarterback. And if you looked at what Doug
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Speaker 1: did when he was in Philly, he cater to the quarterback.
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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz was an m d P candidate when he
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Speaker 1: was there, it was probably gonna win it. He he
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Speaker 1: not got hurt there, correct, And so it's perfect for
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. It's a quarterback eccentric offense. Now, there's always
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Speaker 1: been criticism of this offense that you don't run the
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Speaker 1: ball enough, and Andy Reid gets that all the time
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Speaker 1: he's got his entire career. But I think Doug will
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Speaker 1: be more much more balanced. I think, yeah, most of
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Speaker 1: the offenses that have had were most of the times
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Speaker 1: this offense has had a functional quarterback, it's performed at
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Speaker 1: pretty high level and even with an average play there.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, I don't think in this building
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Speaker 1: if the running back fumbles that they're going to yank
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Speaker 1: him out for the entire game either. So it just
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Speaker 1: key man, I'm getting it all out. And then when
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Speaker 1: I come back and do the thing with Pselli in
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Speaker 1: the fall, then we'll get it out even. Jaguars Happy
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Speaker 1: Moment Welcome back to the Jaguars Broadcast We Can Review
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Speaker 1: podcast presented by t I A A. Bank. Trevor Sikima
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Speaker 1: is a host, reporter and podcaster for Pro Football Focus.
6:50
Speaker 1: We caught up Friday here at the Combine and he
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Speaker 1: explained what this week means and some of the top
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Speaker 1: names available in the draft. This is my favorite week
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Speaker 1: in the area about it. I mean, whether it's getting
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Speaker 1: to really get up close and personal with a lot
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Speaker 1: of these players, get to know them really well, the
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Speaker 1: medical rechecks, the athletic drills, then of course getting to
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Speaker 1: do stuff like this, talk to a lot of different
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Speaker 1: media members, get to meet a lot of people. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's just it's a great it's a great event. I
7:13
Speaker 1: love it for a lot of different reasons. So you're right,
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Speaker 1: this kind of is my super as a draft guy.
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Speaker 1: This is my super Bowl, alright. So a few days
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Speaker 1: into the combine there have been a couple of days
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Speaker 1: of unfield workouts. How much of that do you watch?
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Speaker 1: Do you go back and look at it later? Um,
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Speaker 1: and what can you kind of glean from the first
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Speaker 1: couple of days. I'm a draft nut, so I'm watching
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Speaker 1: this stuff the second it comes out. I mean, I'm
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Speaker 1: trying to make it to every single podium that I can.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to watch all the drills as they're coming out.
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Speaker 1: So I'm trying to digest a lot of this stuff.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I think I'm just like everybody else where.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate the entertainment aspect of it, especially the drills. Right,
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Speaker 1: we saw the wide receivers running those fast forward your dashes.
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Speaker 1: We're all sitting there at the bar, back at the
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Speaker 1: hotel kind of freaking out with everybody else's it's happening
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Speaker 1: and all right, So the official times are a little
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Speaker 1: slower than that, but still, you know, you enjoy the
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Speaker 1: spectacle and that's what makes this a lot of fun.
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Speaker 1: But there's a lot of you know, I think the
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Speaker 1: real work, if you will, about what we figure out
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Speaker 1: here is you watch how guys test. You watch their
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Speaker 1: measurements as they're coming in, whether it's to height, the
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Speaker 1: arm length, hand size, whatever it is. And then you
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Speaker 1: go back to the tape and you see, okay, do
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Speaker 1: those things show up? You know, for offensive lineman, if
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Speaker 1: he's got short arms, okay, well is he not able
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Speaker 1: to reach some of these longer edge rushers. Is he
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Speaker 1: getting exposed in that way? You know with the wide receivers.
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Speaker 1: You go, Okay, there's a guy who wanted to play
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Speaker 1: very much in the slot. I thought he was a
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Speaker 1: quick guy. I thought he wanted that way. So if
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Speaker 1: he runs a little bit slower and some of the
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Speaker 1: agility drills, you go, Okay, now I kind of gotta
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Speaker 1: go back to the tape and see if this is
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Speaker 1: really a strength that he'll have at the NFL level.
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Speaker 1: And you can take that as well for positives as well.
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Speaker 1: When a guy runs faster in the forward, you go,
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Speaker 1: all right, maybe he could be a little bit more
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Speaker 1: of a vertical threat than I thought he wants was
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Speaker 1: on tape. And so I think those are a lot
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Speaker 1: of things that you just are able to take away,
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Speaker 1: um from what a lot of these guys are doing
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Speaker 1: on the field that really helps Trevor. It's weird you're
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Speaker 1: gonna have the number one overall pick because there are
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Speaker 1: any real big quarterback prospects that a lot of teams
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Speaker 1: in the past would maybe try to trade up and
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Speaker 1: get that opportunity to pick a guy. So it feels like,
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Speaker 1: at least right now, unless there's something crazy that happens
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Speaker 1: in the next month and a half, that the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: will have that pick at number one overall. Know, most
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Speaker 1: marks have Evan Neil or Aidan Hutchinson. Start with those guys.
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Speaker 1: Evan Neil measured in and just looks incredible, just a
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Speaker 1: physical specimen when he walks out there. Yeah, I mean
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Speaker 1: Evan Neil showed at the podium and he told everybody
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Speaker 1: he looked three thirty five and he looked more in
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Speaker 1: shape than me, and I'm like one sixty five. So,
9:32
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know where he's carrying that way,
9:34
Speaker 1: but apparently the scale doesn't lie there. You know. He
9:36
Speaker 1: a couple of videos came out last summer showing just
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Speaker 1: how athletic this dude was in his jumps and his
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Speaker 1: flexibility and everything. And then you go and look at
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Speaker 1: the measurements, you go, wow, he's six ft seven sixty pounds.
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Speaker 1: How is he able to do this at such a
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Speaker 1: massive size? And that's what really makes him a great
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Speaker 1: overall prospect. Then what I love about his game is
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Speaker 1: that he's boring. Okay, when you watch his tape, he
9:59
Speaker 1: doesn't give up a lot. There's not a lot of red. Right,
10:01
Speaker 1: you're not highlighting these negative clips. He just does his
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Speaker 1: job really well. I think the other offensive tackles in
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Speaker 1: this class that a lot of guys are touting Charles Cross.
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Speaker 1: You like his finesse ability the Mississippi State offensive tackle.
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Speaker 1: It's a really great past blocker. He's had a lot
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Speaker 1: of pass blocking reps in that Mike Leach system. So
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Speaker 1: he's got a lot of experience there and he's got
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Speaker 1: a good UH athletic profile with it Ikey Kwana with
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Speaker 1: the offensive tackle from NSI Stay, he's a road grader man,
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Speaker 1: he's a maler. He's got some of the meanest finishes
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Speaker 1: that you will see when he gets out in space.
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Speaker 1: But Evan Neil, he's almost like that best of both worlds.
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Speaker 1: He feels like the most all around offensive tackle in
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Speaker 1: this class. There's just not a lot of weaknesses in
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Speaker 1: his game. When playing in Alabama, you play a lot
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Speaker 1: of really good opponents, and you face a lot of
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Speaker 1: really good edge rushers, whether it's speed guys, power guys,
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Speaker 1: whatever it is. And Emma Neel has had a lot
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Speaker 1: of experience and he's been fantastic this past year. And
10:48
Speaker 1: I think that he really showed that. Like I said,
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Speaker 1: best part about him is he's boring. You don't have
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Speaker 1: a lot of flashes that go up against him in
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Speaker 1: his state. See what happens in the next week or so,
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Speaker 1: if the Jaguars do something with Cam Robinson that could
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Speaker 1: change the idea number one overall of course, so then
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Speaker 1: that brings up Aiden Hutchinson as the defensive end out
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Speaker 1: of Michigan second in the Heisman voting. We all saw
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Speaker 1: him play. He's a fantastic star player out of Michigan,
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Speaker 1: So what what does he not have? What does this
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Speaker 1: game missing? Sure? And you know when I watch Aiden Hutchinson,
11:19
Speaker 1: what I appreciate the most from him is if you
11:21
Speaker 1: go back three years and that's what's important. You know
11:23
Speaker 1: a lot of people during draft classes they look at, Okay,
11:25
Speaker 1: well just show me the most recent year. That's the
11:27
Speaker 1: most recent tape. That's who they are. And yes, obviously
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Speaker 1: that tape is more telling of exactly who they are
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Speaker 1: in that moment, but how they got there is really
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Speaker 1: important too. You know, he's been a rotational player for
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Speaker 1: Michigan for the last three years, and if you go
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Speaker 1: back three years ago, he was really just kind of
11:40
Speaker 1: this long, kind of defensive lineman. You wasn't sure if
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Speaker 1: he was playing insider out or what he was doing
11:46
Speaker 1: when he was playing next to Quity Pay and Josh
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Speaker 1: h j and Maurice Hurst and all those guys, just
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Speaker 1: trying to find his way. And I think as the
11:51
Speaker 1: years have gone on, you've physically seen in his game
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Speaker 1: how he has been able to learn, and you know,
11:57
Speaker 1: when you look at him, I think that he's going
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Speaker 1: to test a lot better than people think Athletically, maybe
12:01
Speaker 1: he's not going to have the best forty yard dash.
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Speaker 1: When it comes to that speed getting up the arc,
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Speaker 1: I think he's got a great first step, but then
12:08
Speaker 1: it's kind of that second and third step. What's the
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Speaker 1: top speed that he has when he gets even with
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Speaker 1: offensive tackles, can you really blow by them from a
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Speaker 1: pure speed element. That's probably the biggest question mark of
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Speaker 1: his game. But I think he understands that, and he's
12:22
Speaker 1: really been able to mask or counter what might be
12:26
Speaker 1: his quote unquote weaknesses and still be really effective. And
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Speaker 1: that's when you saw this past year. That's when you
12:30
Speaker 1: get the kind of production that he had this past
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Speaker 1: year in Michigan. The first step is great, and the
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Speaker 1: hand used is great. He's really come along with some
12:37
Speaker 1: great moves, not just attacking the outside shoulder, but also
12:40
Speaker 1: his inside counter was deadly this year. So you pair
12:43
Speaker 1: all that with such a relentless motor that he has,
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Speaker 1: He's going and giving you what you would want Adam
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Speaker 1: an Aidan Hutchinson type player every single play. That's what
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Speaker 1: makes him so Lorian to go number one overall. Trevor
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Speaker 1: secondment with us from Pro Football Focus the wide receiver,
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Speaker 1: as you mentioned a moment ago, they put on a
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Speaker 1: show in the forty and the testing the other day here,
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Speaker 1: what kind of group overall is this wide receiver corps?
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Speaker 1: And it just feels like the Jags at thirty three.
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Speaker 1: You know, maybe they jump back in the bottom of
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Speaker 1: the first, but in that ballpark because they need some
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Speaker 1: wide receiver help in Jackson. Yeah, they do, and it's
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Speaker 1: it's a really good year to need a wide receiver.
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Speaker 1: Want to draft a wide receiver, whether it's around one too,
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Speaker 1: I'd tell you even three or four. And we're just
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Speaker 1: seeing that in football in general, where high school football
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Speaker 1: is going so spread out, there's so many wide receivers
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Speaker 1: on the field, and as a result, you're seeing so
13:36
Speaker 1: much of that in college as well, and now you're
13:38
Speaker 1: seeing that in the NFL. It's just a trickle down effects.
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Speaker 1: So with the seven on sevens and and everything that
13:42
Speaker 1: we've seen from offensive development, even at the high school level,
13:47
Speaker 1: wide receiver draft classes in the NFL are good every
13:50
Speaker 1: year and this is no exception. You talked about some
13:53
Speaker 1: options for the Jaguars. You mentioned it, they've got the
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Speaker 1: speed already. The quote was the ship has not sailed
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Speaker 1: on the Biscus, you alt, And I certainly it hasn't
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Speaker 1: because I really liked him when he came through as well.
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Speaker 1: So you know, I hope that, uh, I hope that
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Speaker 1: are obviously able to get the most out of the
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Speaker 1: guys that they have there, but they could definitely use
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Speaker 1: another player, and I think another big bodied player is
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Speaker 1: something that they would love. A true X receiver, if
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Speaker 1: you will, somebody that could be on the line of
14:16
Speaker 1: scrimmage playing the backside of formations really make teams stay
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Speaker 1: in those two safety looks with the safety helping over
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Speaker 1: the top on one side to open up some space
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Speaker 1: everywhere else. And a couple of guys that come into
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Speaker 1: my mind. I don't know where Drake Lendon's gonna end
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Speaker 1: up going. I think he's gonna be a first round pick,
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Speaker 1: but perhaps maybe he follows a little bit. Maybe the
14:32
Speaker 1: Jaguars have the opportunity to trade back in the first
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Speaker 1: round again him. I think he'd be fantastic. George Pickens
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Speaker 1: is a player from Georgia who really put on a
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Speaker 1: show this past week. I don't know he's gonna make
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Speaker 1: it to thirty two now at this or thirty three
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Speaker 1: now at this point with how well he performed Indianapolis.
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Speaker 1: But he's another guy that I really like, Christian Watkins
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Speaker 1: from North Dakota State. He's has the same type of
14:49
Speaker 1: mold that there's just big bodied wide receivers and so
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Speaker 1: I really feel like that kind of a mold is
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Speaker 1: something that could really round out what they have in
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Speaker 1: the passing attack in Jacksonville. And um, yeah, like I said,
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Speaker 1: it's a great wide receiver class and they're gonna be
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Speaker 1: able to get one wherever it is. Give Trevor Sikama,
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Speaker 1: at Daily's Place dot com. Friday, I had a chance
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Speaker 1: to catch up with ESPN analyst Ryan Clark. He played
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Speaker 1: thirteen seasons in the NFL as a safety, mostly with
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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. He recently signed a new extension at ESPN,
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Speaker 1: the network that brought him on in twif the day
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Speaker 1: he retired from professional football. Clark also hosts The Pivot
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Speaker 1: with Pride of the Jaguars running back Fred Taylor. Plenty
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Speaker 1: to discuss with Ryan Clark of ESPN. It was one
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Speaker 1: of those things, you know, when you get to work
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Speaker 1: for a network like ESPN, you want to continue those things,
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Speaker 1: but you also want to be utilized in a way that, uh,
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Speaker 1: that promotes what you can do and the thing that
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Speaker 1: you bring to the table. When they've done that, and
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Speaker 1: I appreciate them and you're you're doing all sorts of
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Speaker 1: different things as well. The Pivot is a new thing
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Speaker 1: with Fred Taylor. We know Fred very well. How's that
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Speaker 1: going so far? Man? It's going excellent. Man. You know,
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Speaker 1: with Tony Boselli went into the Hall of Fame or
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Speaker 1: was selected. The first question I asked him on the
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Speaker 1: Pivot like are you next? You know, and and he
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Speaker 1: was like, well, you know, I showed damn hope. So, uh,
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Speaker 1: Fred is is an awesome guy. Man. Fred is a
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Speaker 1: dude who you know, I enjoy being around, I enjoy
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Speaker 1: working with. Obviously, Channing Crowd is also there. He's the
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Speaker 1: wild card um of what we do. And you know,
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Speaker 1: you're in the media, so you understand it's about expansion, right,
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Speaker 1: It's about branding, and it's also sometimes you have to
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Speaker 1: show people what you're capable of before they can believe it.
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Speaker 1: And it's cool to have an opportunity to host a
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Speaker 1: show like that Ryan Clark with Us. The last year
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Speaker 1: obviously has been one of the lowest times for the Jaguars,
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Speaker 1: and in a lot of low times in the last
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Speaker 1: decade and fifteen years. But now trying to build out
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Speaker 1: of that. The hiring of Doug Peterson as head coach,
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Speaker 1: a guy who's done it before in the NFL, has
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Speaker 1: a skin on the wall. That's the start of it.
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Speaker 1: How long does it take to turn around a culture
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Speaker 1: and organization in the NFL? I think culture can be
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Speaker 1: changed immediately, right, And like so they think about the
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Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. They sucked this year. They weren't a good
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Speaker 1: football team, but you can tell the culture teams changed, right.
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Speaker 1: You can see the way that they competed. You can
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Speaker 1: see the way that they believe that the fight that
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Speaker 1: was in that team, and that was because they took
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Speaker 1: on the character of Dan Campbell right there. They followed
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Speaker 1: what their coach was. And I believe when you have
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Speaker 1: a guy like Doug Peterson, who's won a championship, who
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Speaker 1: in two thousand and seventeen had Carson Wentz playing at
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Speaker 1: the highest level in the league, but also won a
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Speaker 1: championship with Nick Foles. And now you look at Trevor Lawrence,
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Speaker 1: right you want someone that can tutor him, you want
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Speaker 1: someone that can build a relationship with him, but you
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Speaker 1: also want to see him reach the height of his potential.
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Speaker 1: This is a kid I watched at seven team play
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Speaker 1: seven on seven football, and you could see the elite traits.
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Speaker 1: You want him to be comfortable, you want him to
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Speaker 1: be respected, but you want him to be coached toughly,
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Speaker 1: and Doug Peterson to do that. And when you coach
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Speaker 1: a guy like Trevor Lawrence in that way, I believe
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Speaker 1: the rest of the team follows. And so I think
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Speaker 1: this is a great move for the Jacksonville Jaguars. And
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Speaker 1: also I believe the culture would change fast. But you
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Speaker 1: got to get the people to do the work, and
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Speaker 1: I believe he'll get that done, but it may not
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Speaker 1: necessarily result in winds right away. Ryan Clark with US
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Speaker 1: you mentioned Trevor and seven on seven time when he
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Speaker 1: was a young guy. The spotlight has been on this
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Speaker 1: guy from when he was thirteen fourteen years old, A
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Speaker 1: lot of people kind of had him as a big
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Speaker 1: time prospect going into college, and of course that worked
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Speaker 1: out then the number one pick. So I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: what will phase Trevor Lawrence. He's been through this his
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Speaker 1: entire life. Having this type of pressure on him has
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Speaker 1: to be somewhat normal for him. I mean, I mean
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Speaker 1: it's normal, but it's also about the process, right, It's
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Speaker 1: also about understanding that even though these expectations are heaped
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Speaker 1: on me, I don't have to fold under the expectations,
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Speaker 1: but at some point I have to produce. And we
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Speaker 1: saw flashes of that last year. You can see some
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Speaker 1: of the talent, you can see the athleticism, but that
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Speaker 1: has to be consistent and I think that's gonna be
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence's challenge, right, understanding that I have the baseline
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Speaker 1: skills to be as great as any quarterback that's ever played,
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Speaker 1: but it's about putting it on display every opportunity I
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Speaker 1: get on game day. I think Trevor Lawrence can do that.
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Speaker 1: I think he will do that, But it's bro it's
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Speaker 1: when when people start comparing you to Peyton Manny and Andrew. Look,
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Speaker 1: before you take a snap in the NFL, that's extremely difficult, right,
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Speaker 1: But this guy has dealt with that since the eighth
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Speaker 1: grade and I think he understands that and he embraces that.
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Speaker 1: But he's going to have to show the love for
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Speaker 1: the game in the adversity and that's going to take
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Speaker 1: him to the next step. Also Friday, host of NFL
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Speaker 1: Live on ESPN and SEC Nation um SEC Network, It's
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Speaker 1: Laura Rutledge continuing the conversation about a culture rebuild in Jacksonville,
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Speaker 1: because they think you talk about rebuilding teams and that's
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Speaker 1: more personnel based, right, but rebuilding culture is a little
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Speaker 1: bit more difficult. I think the reason why it won't
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Speaker 1: take long is because you have Trevor Lawrence as your quarterback.
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Speaker 1: And when you talk about a culture guy, a guy
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Speaker 1: who through all the turmoil that you mentioned, remained so steadfast,
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Speaker 1: didn't throw people under the bus, remained classy, can tendue
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Speaker 1: to impress. I mean, what an what an incredible young man.
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Speaker 1: And having covered him in college and watching his success,
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Speaker 1: I've always been a fan um and I really felt
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Speaker 1: for him with everything that was going on, and it
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Speaker 1: just felt like Wow, I mean imagine the number one
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Speaker 1: overall pick and that's great, but then you end up
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Speaker 1: in that type of situation and having to operate through that.
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Speaker 1: I think Doug Peterson is absolutely the right higher and
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Speaker 1: and will be able to get this thing right. It. Um,
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Speaker 1: I love to see it when that's the direction that
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars went. But you know, I would say there's
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Speaker 1: obviously gonna be some patience required, which Jaguars fans were
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Speaker 1: like seriously retired of that, you know. But I think
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Speaker 1: even you look at the Bengals and the turnaround that
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Speaker 1: they had so quickly bringing in a guy like Joe
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Speaker 1: Burrow and getting the right staff in place and trusting
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Speaker 1: in that staff to build and grow and get better. Um,
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Speaker 1: that's a good model for what the Jags can do. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I would say patience is wearing a little bit thin
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Speaker 1: than Jacksonville these days. What's your best Trevor Lawrence memory
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Speaker 1: college or now in in the in the pros? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: one of my favorite. I mean this one is probably
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Speaker 1: one that other people bring up, but that national championship
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Speaker 1: that he won when he beat Alabama as a freshman.
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Speaker 1: You know, we were there and um, just being on
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Speaker 1: the field and watching the incredible precision with which he
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Speaker 1: operated through that game was one of the most magnificent
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Speaker 1: performances I've ever seen. And for him to be doing
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Speaker 1: it as a freshman, it was it was a wow moment.
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Speaker 1: It was all inspiring me. You just sit there and
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Speaker 1: you say, how is this even possible for this guy?
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Speaker 1: And yet you know, and so much of that conversation
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Speaker 1: that year had been around Alabama's great defense and you know,
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Speaker 1: to a tongue of byloa and all that, and then
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Speaker 1: yet Trevor Lawrence is like, all right, I got it.
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Speaker 1: I'm totally fine, I'm good to go. And so that
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Speaker 1: that's one of my favorite memories of him. I think
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Speaker 1: so much of that celebration, even post game, was everyone
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Speaker 1: was having a good time, even you know, Christian Wilkins
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Speaker 1: is doing splits on the field and whatever. But Trevor
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Speaker 1: was very measured, which he always is. I think it's
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Speaker 1: because he expected to win. And that's what you're getting
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Speaker 1: in this guy. I mean he is. He is the
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Speaker 1: ultimate franchise quarterback, the ultimate guy to build your your
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Speaker 1: team around, and so, um yeah, it's gonna be fun
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Speaker 1: watching him have those celebrations at the NFL level. One
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Speaker 1: of these days, Laura, I can barely hear you with
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Speaker 1: the bench press going on behind us, Laura Rutlets from
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Speaker 1: ESPN with us all right, um, Jaguars have the number
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Speaker 1: one overall picked for the second straight year. There's some
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Speaker 1: business to attend to the next week or so. The
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Speaker 1: franchise tag deadline coming up in free agency begintting the
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Speaker 1: start of the league year. That aside, that's gonna determine
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Speaker 1: what it can happen at number one. I get it.
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Speaker 1: Are you apt to go O line or D line
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Speaker 1: at number one? I want to go O line, And
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Speaker 1: there's some great options. Evan Neil's really talented, even Kim
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Speaker 1: and Kawana who yesterday it was like, I wouldn't be
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Speaker 1: surprised us that everyone pick him, Like, yeah, man, I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised either. You know, it's really really good
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Speaker 1: offensive line, and I think when you think about protecting
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence making this offense better, they showed some flashes
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Speaker 1: at times even the last season. Right, You're bringing in
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Speaker 1: Mike McCoy as a quarterbacks coach, I think is a
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Speaker 1: great mix with with Trevor. We just gotta get a
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Speaker 1: good old line going and I think there's enough defensive
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Speaker 1: prospects later that they could grab somebody there to fortify
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Speaker 1: some needs on that side of the ball. But I
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Speaker 1: would go O line then again, like even as I
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Speaker 1: say it, I'm like, wait, you're gonna pass on Aidan
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Speaker 1: Hutchinson and cabe On Thibodeaux and some of these absolutely
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Speaker 1: incredible freaks of nature on that side of the ball.
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Speaker 1: But um, I think it's so need based and and
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Speaker 1: if that continues to be such a strong need, they
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Speaker 1: should get it at that number one. Pick more of
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Speaker 1: the conversation with Laura Rettligi and Ryan Clark later next
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Speaker 1: week on Jaguars dot Com. Let's wrap this week with
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Speaker 1: CBS Sports and NFL Network analyst Charles Davis. He sat
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Speaker 1: down with Ashelan Sullivan and John Osier earlier this week
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Speaker 1: on Radio Row. Although I'm extremely bullish on Doug Peterson,
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Speaker 1: I do think there's more talent Jacksonville that people give
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Speaker 1: credit for. Now you just have to harness it and
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Speaker 1: turn these kids loose, because I think last year really
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Speaker 1: hurt them psyche wise because of everything they went through.
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Speaker 1: But they have anything that makes success early you can have.
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Speaker 1: You can have a nice little leap out of this team.
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Speaker 1: I really believe that. The full conversation with Charles Davis
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Speaker 1: available on Jaguars dot com. That's it from Indianapolis. Full
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Speaker 1: coverage from the NFL Scott A combine available on the
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